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[WP] You are a superhero without powers. You know a good bit about martial arts and you're resourceful, but the main reason you're so successful? Every time a villain monologues their plan, you calmly and clearly explain to them why their plan won't work. | I didn't bother struggling against my bonds as I was being slowly lowered towards the shark-laden acid pit. To an ordinary hero this would seem like the end, but not for me. It was just another day in the life of Lynchpin.
As predicted, the mechanism stopped, only for the head of the Syndicate, an eyepatch wearing gor... | "**Your time is up, Cogitare! I, the great Commander Stultum, have built a mirror dish in deep space to reflect the heat of Andromeda to the Earth and slowly heat the oceans so that in 1000 years, there'll be a bit less water! This will slightly reduce the quantity of krill in the water and further endanger many whale ... | 2020-09-27T09:25:22 | 2020-09-27T09:21:58 | 1,121 | 105 |
[WP] There are multi-Gods for the multi-verse, and it turns out ours is kind of like the 'cool mom who lets you drink at her house,' though other Gods look at our free will and generally silent deity as bad Godding on His part. | Sam sighed as he looked upon the whole of his creation. "I just don't want them to hate me," he said. "They never even knew their mother. I'm all they've got."
The woman seated next to him nodded sagely. "I know it can be hard, raising them alone. But this hands-off approach you've been using for the past few millenni... | They had told him to intervene. They said "inaction in the face of evil is itself an action". And so it was with much thought that he chose the most pious of men, indeed the finest specimen the species had ever produced, to receive the 10 axioms of true knowledge, the 10 essential principles from which all knowledge ab... | 2017-05-07T09:14:56 | 2017-05-07T08:22:43 | 524 | 45 |
[WP] The reason why there has been no formal contact between Earth and the Galactic Council is because, basically, the Human race is considered the galactic equivalent of Florida Man. | "IT ATE IT" Hissed Jekob-3, the Androde. His metallic pincers opened and shut rapidly, enormous pupils swiveling from one council member to the next. All looked at the holo-screen with varying degrees of horror.
What the council assumed to be a human *aristocrat,* daintily wiped her mouth after partaking in a plateful... | Airend\`2fn blinked over and over again as the SenseText reached them.
Blinking was, of course, was the coping strategy of lesser life forms.
But this news from Tellus -- why, it would make *any* carbon dweller blink.
They had told themselves repeatedly when they took the post --
It's just for a few centuries.
It... | 2022-12-29T10:45:42 | 2022-12-29T06:06:01 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] You are in a world filled with superhumans. You have a unique power. Every time your sponsored, you get a power related to the sponsor. NordVPN? An unbreakable force field. Uber Eats? You can make any food. | When you have the ability to gain new abilities based on who sponsors you, you'd figure that livestreaming your crimefighting to attract more sponsors for would be a great idea
Instead, I'm currently on the ground staring right into the barrel on a revolver pointed at me. I have an ability that was supposed to handl... | My power had always been a weird one, not many knew what it was, not many thought it to be that useful but I always had an eye for items with good value as such I entered a profession where I could make good use of my power. I became a streamer.
Of course it was terribly hard in the beginning, but as my popularity gre... | 2022-11-08T12:18:22 | 2022-11-08T09:27:32 | 176 | 40 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | The man, or what could potentially be considered a man, stood stiffly in front of the girl, smoothing the lapel of his velvet suit jacket with a long, bony finger.
"Your parents sold you to me, as a...bride," he said. One could call his expression pained, though there were no muscles attached to his skeletal face. His... | They called it the 'giving'.
The old priest reads the ancient scroll as a young woman is chained to the rock.
"Thus is it written".
"For fair exchange, the bride is given.
For fair exchange, the bride price is taken.
For fair exchange, the peace continues."
"Thus it is written".
As clouds gather... | 2022-08-09T18:52:48 | 2022-08-09T16:31:11 | 285 | 191 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | "Solar Girl!" The police chief reveled. "Thank god you're here."
Solar Girl landed and faced the chief. "What seems to be the problem Chief?"
"All we know is there is some poor kid in there with a bomb strapped to him. We don't know where the detonator is or how it works, but we know it's the work of-"
"Quizno."
"Y... | “Hi,” she said, through a lopsided smile righted by her slumped posture.
He let out a long sigh, kneeling down and feeling her forehead. He took off his jacket and slipped it around her, and she pulled it tight. Lifting her up, he got her standing, though couldn't let her go.
“No piggyback?” she said with a whiny ton... | 2017-04-15T10:13:56 | 2017-04-15T10:04:09 | 1,686 | 189 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "My brothers, I hope this message reaches you. We never should have come to this place. This...jewel of a planet, with simple creatures living simple lives. None of them followed the Ardok's Logic, 'the strong take through combat, and by taking they get stronger.' Our empire's founding principle, that has guided us thr... | Mobile, so please forgive any formatting errors.
World War 3 had devastated the planet. The major cities turned to radioactive dust. 300 years later, we can still feel the effects of it. From South Jersey, in the distance, you can see the ruins on New York. Fortunately, the ICBM's forgot about New Jersey. The p... | 2019-02-26T13:01:01 | 2019-02-26T09:26:21 | 75 | 23 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | It was getting so close, and my friends were smiling and giggling like idiots. I couldn’t make fun, though, I was just as euphoric about our stupid idea. The luck was out of this world, as well! Kinzie was next in line after me, and when she heard us talking about me taking a bite of the table instead of the food, I’ve... | "This is the opposite of Santa Claus," I said to myself, as I shambled alone through an endless white expanse.Some things you believe as a child, then one day you realize it was all a game for children. With the *transition,* well, I have to admit I never believed it. Yet there I was and it seemed as real as anything.*... | 2020-03-19T10:39:19 | 2020-03-19T09:29:08 | 47 | 29 |
[WP] Humans are by far the best at any physical activity in the galaxy. Aliens are shocked to find out that animals surpass humans in almost any physical activity available. | “It’s doing well”, noted Dvlarn. He gazed out into the physical testing area, smiling quietly to himself. It was hard not to while you headed the research of the most powerful sapient organism.
Jfaad still looked down with concern at the data slate. The database had a temporary retrofitting to catalogue all of Sol-3’s... | The General's expression became grim as he saw his colleague's faces shift from ordinary work boredom to those of horror. It was easy to see their expressions through the alien like holographic screen that was their work station. "What is it Sketsky?" The General barked. There was silence followed by an extremely awkwa... | 2017-11-19T21:02:48 | 2017-11-19T19:49:32 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | Aurelius the carriage-maker looked up from his work, not surprised to see the herald of House Taras standing in the doorway.
"A message from Lord Taras, Master Aurelius," said the herald. "He greets thee in the name of the king and our Lord, and in recognition of your long service to his house and his family, he asks ... | The warrior without a path lain before him sat in his broken home, letting his blood boil and the tempest of grief and rage take him over.
His eyes, transfixed toward his enemy, wherever they might be hiding, with cold, murderous intent. He felt a feeling not of anger or of grief for his enemies, but the realization ... | 2018-09-05T06:20:32 | 2018-09-04T23:49:48 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] As a child, every adventurer is assigned a class for their life. You've been assigned to be a White Mage. Dreading a life in the background saving a bunch of idiots that get all the glory, you aim to carve your own path. Tell the tale of the Harmacist. | You can smell it through the trees.
Sickly sweet, it hangs in the air.
Rot.
Decay.
Death.
My boots sink into the mud. It had rained recently, and the forest carries that early morning dew and late summer humidity. At least it helps mask our footsteps, but that isn't exactly something we need to worry about.
H... | The small, white star imprinted on my neck was all I needed. White Mage, my ass. They appeared on your 10th birthday, for those ‘Who were destined for greatness’ A sword, for the warriors, a star for the mages, a cross for the paladins, and an arrowhead, for the rogues. The colour was important, too. From a deep, brood... | 2018-05-16T06:46:09 | 2018-05-16T06:44:33 | 143 | 53 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | "FUCK!" blurted out the internal comm.
Armored Operations Assistant AOA-XX0 didn't even need to pull up the diagnostics. The instant loss of coordination could only mean one thing: They threw the track again.
"Could you guys...you know...stop fucking me up like this every 10 minutes?"
"My bad, Zed. This terrain ... | "Hello AI 053gg7, I'm Doctor Tibard. How are you today?"
"Hiya Doc! Please, call me Eggsy!"
"Very well Eggsy, but you haven't answered the question I asked".
"I feel awful Doc. I can't find my guns anywhere! in fact ... flash diagnostic shows my Core has been dismounted from the chassis...."
"Yes Eggsy this is just... | 2018-03-28T12:56:38 | 2018-03-28T12:52:40 | 535 | 213 |
[WP] A reformed villain is living a peaceful life in a village far from the city they used to torment. After grabbing supplies from the local market, they take the quiet route back home, stopping halfway along the path. Without turning around, they ask "How long do you plan to follow me for, hero?" | "I have followed you for many a year Dr Eon, I believe you are a crook plotting something and not one second of my life should be spent ignoring your plot for our demise!"
Dr Eon doesn't do much more than sigh, a long posh nasally sigh, "Hero, do you honestly think that I would be plotting something in Horton Kirby? T... | “I need your help,” his face shows worry. It’s been a long time since we fought. He defeated me long ago.
“It’s old news. Goodbye.” I told him. I start to head back to my house.
“You don’t care at all!?”
“I don’t.”
“Why? He’s out to destroy us.”
“Good.”
“What is wrong with you?”
I look at him. He pulls his blade... | 2022-09-01T16:19:49 | 2022-09-01T14:32:14 | 407 | 48 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood?"
"I choose Russian Roulette.... | Death wasn't at all what Johnathan had pictured him to be. slicked-back hair and well fit suit reminded him a lot more of a Wall Street trader rather than the immortal reaper of souls. As he spied the somewhat overweight man in front of him, his mind worked to formulate a plan.
"Any game?" Johnathan asked, to ensure... | 2018-03-07T08:25:24 | 2018-03-07T07:43:27 | 192 | 39 |
[WP] It's getting really hard for the government to keep covering up all these alien landings. Sightings of strange metal creatures roaming over the surface, apparently scanning it, are disturbing the citizens. The Martian government needs to come up with something better, fast. | **Transcript from the Glogo’s Fourth Planet online radio show, airdate 463-2492. Translated into English post-contact. Slang has been approximated to common equivalents.**
**Glogo:** Hey there, faithful listeners, welcome back to another episode of *Glogo’s Fourth Planet*, where we discuss the extraterrestrial busines... | "What da fuq? You mean you all landed in the middle of the sunday bazaar without even bothering to camouflage yourselves ?"
"Sorry boss, there was something wrong with our space navigation system. We thought we had landed somewhere in the middle of Sahara."
"You foools! Did anyone notice your prescence?"
"Plenty of ... | 2015-10-05T09:26:04 | 2015-10-05T07:29:38 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] Humans are endurance hunters. Which is not a trait anyone would expect to come into play in an interplanetary war. | Galactic records sample 238-56
"first contact war between humans and the altins"
NOTE
"We knew the humans were no stanger to war but no one was ready for the hells they unleashed on us."
When the war started the counsel had already determined the outcome we the Altin's would win we had superior ships and forces we s... | I knew I had seen it in the old media while studying for the contact.
The McCoys and the Hatfields explained why our species was not able to bring the bipeds into submission. The desire to fight was taught as soon as they could walk. The fight endured through generations. After the grandfather was to old to fly... | 2021-01-11T22:00:56 | 2021-01-11T18:30:11 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "Hey! That's the guy that killed my cousin! Pull over!"
*Here it comes again,* I thought to myself. I turned to face my attacker. The third in as many days. Some punk with a third-rate powerset. Probably born since the District was walled off.
I sized him up. No obvious indicators of his power. Nothing obvious on his... | Determining the fates of others never seemed like a blessing to me, a simple, powerful thought could ruin the lives of countless. It took too long for me to control it, and even longer to accept the things that I have done. I never wanted to rise to the top, If I could, I would be at the bottom. But I guess that the fa... | 2014-12-18T13:17:44 | 2014-12-18T10:51:52 | 1,338 | 362 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | You've become a famous author, with best selling books on how to get over a break up, how to live with yourself after a loved one has passed, how to maintain a successful small business, how to grow your business, and many others. Fifty thousand years has given you the chance to experiment with everything life has to o... | A shadow looms over me, its anger palpable in the morning mist. I don’t need to turn to know who it is. “Death.”
The figure inclines slightly, a bare ghost of a bow. I smile, and say, “Our deal holds, my friend. How many times is it, now?” A piercing screech echoes from behind a locked door, ringing against the cold m... | 2017-11-28T14:15:37 | 2017-11-28T13:19:24 | 29 | 16 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | * March 17: #15 has been disposed of without complication. It seems the police have begun to piece together the connections between #1, #2, and #4. Was too sloppy in the beginning. Stupid. But what's done is done, no use worrying about it now. Will have to monitor their investigation and reevaluate at a later date. But... | I would tire some days, drift to sleep, silently breathing under the floor. She never knew that the old rusty basement door was unlocked, it has been six months now and I have made myself a nice warm home I never had. Muddy footprints all along her kitchen.. I never leave footprints...
You see my story is simple, pat... | 2014-10-21T12:21:07 | 2014-10-21T12:10:53 | 1,464 | 14 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | Life isn't fair. I learned that lesson very early in my life. My mother told me she did her best to rush me out, then when she saw she wasn't going to make it, she tried to hold me in, but I guess when it's your time to be born, it's your time, even if that means you're born on February 29th.
She cried for me, and the... | Nobody else believes in me, laughing at me and telling me I've wasted my life. They just don't understand. They look at me and think, 'There he goes, writing prompter. He'll never amount to anything.' But they just don't get it. I've devoted my life to inspiring others. It's not so simple a thing, to be the bedro... | 2018-09-12T08:07:42 | 2018-09-12T07:01:42 | 1,821 | 20 |
[WP]When you die, a television appears and plays the life of the person who cares for you the most in the world in front of you. After you die, the person you bullied in high school's life plays in front of you. | I didn’t sign up to be a guardian angel, it was something thrust upon me. Hell, I can’t imagine what God must’ve been smoking to give an ex-con a job like this. Back in my hay day, I would’ve paid good money to meet His dealer.
Honestly, when I was first told by that baritone schizophrenic voice in my head that I woul... | I punched him hard in his bony jaw, and felt his warm blood spatter on my knuckles. I didn't do it, but the past-me did it. Current-me was watching this play out in TV in an ethereal plane, because by God my ex's prayer was answered and I had finally kicked the bucket. I never expected death to be so... apparent. I onl... | 2017-01-01T12:32:04 | 2017-01-01T12:05:58 | 522 | 71 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | Trajan sat on the porch of his family's farm. It was a quiet early summer evening. The work had mostly been done, setting the farm to rights. Readying it for her return. The fields were sown, the little brook babbled, the chickens meandered the small herb garden, the tree they had been wed under cast pleasant shade,... | "My love-!" Anise called out.
"No. I don't want to hear it! You killed my brother." Nile refused.
Anise sighed "I didn't know until after. Besides! It was mandated by the Gods!"
Nile turned on his ex near growling, a family skill, "I. Don't. Care. He was my Brother! You had met him many times before our marriage an... | 2022-08-12T18:40:02 | 2022-08-12T18:14:39 | 62 | 40 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | Elli was born without the names. Some people thought that she was blessed. She was not faced with knowing the name of the person who would kill her. Others believed it was a curse, some kind of disability. She had to admit that not having the names made her wonder if there *was* something wrong with her. Everyone has t... | Yeah, I know. Right under my left eye, "Clay Barker, Clay Barker" may as well have shouted "hello, I'm a suicidal narcisist named Clay Barker" to everyone I meet. I keep them covered with band aids mostly, since genuinely no worse first impression could be made than my own face naturally gives away.
It's such a mise... | 2018-03-11T09:04:19 | 2018-03-11T08:58:48 | 270 | 15 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | I lazily grabbed the card from the machine, politely thanked the attendant, and walked away dreading what sort of mundane life I looked forward to. Ever since cognitive analytics became a field, machines had been created to scan and determine ideal careers for people.
As part of legislation, it was mandated that machi... | I always felt empty, so... so empty. But I never expected to get assigned as a serial killer. It's been 100 year since someone has been assigned this job. Now I'm sure most people would think this was because serial killers are well... serial killers. The truth is it's because the last guy was truly terrible at it, he ... | 2018-08-13T19:22:34 | 2018-08-13T17:33:49 | 542 | 72 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | They tell you to be a good person in life. Follow the rules, be well mannered, positive outlook and all that. Maybe that's enough. It seemed to be for *him*. To be honest, I don't know what I did to deserve this. I wasn't great by any measure, but by what cruel sense of humor was I given this punishment? Day in, day ou... | "Can you believe it? They're actually paying us to come over here and kill these cave-dwelling shitheads!"
*"There must be another way" Fr. Morricone said, clutching his Rosary beads.*
"I used to tell my friends I would do this for free, if I could. Just to have the chance, you know?"
*"How can you even say that? We... | 2015-01-04T15:07:40 | 2015-01-04T12:39:19 | 89 | 16 |
[WP] Usual dragon hoards consist of wealth, books, magical items and the like; you fell in love with a mortal many years ago and started a family, generations later your hoard now consists of your many descendants, that have no idea about you, but you know and protect them nonetheless. | ”We’re going to die, aren’t we?” Paul said.
”No! Of course not.”
A distant scream rattled the air like a pane of glass.
“Help! Help—“
Silence reigned once more.
Erika took her little brother’s cold hand and clasped it between hers. Moonlight pooled in the tears on his cheeks like tiny golden coins. His breath whee... | # Soulmage
**The blizzard was harsh enough to be felt even through a dragon's scales, and Ekrikri-sam-toulkvei wanted nothing more than to roost.** But he had made a promise to a woman named Quianna, so many years ago.
*"Keep him safe," Quianna whispered. "Love her like she was your own."*
*Ekrikri-sam-toulkvei rest... | 2022-10-19T08:15:31 | 2022-10-19T07:45:47 | 630 | 80 |
[WP] You're the janitor of a superhero organisation. When all the heroes are busy defending the world a super villain attacks the base. | I was doing my usual work, cleaning the tables in the underground lair of the legion of justice, where I hard a loud, mechanical stomping sound. I turned towards it, and saw a giant exoskeleton barging into the lair, smashing a bunch of knickknacks as it walked.
Just my luck, a villain manages to find his way into the... | The water isn't flowing.
I stare at the mop bucket, frustrated, then tap the badge on my shoulder and request allowance.
"This is janitor 05 requesting release of lock to level 9. Pipes broken and only 2 hours to close."
A moment or two passes and I feel it hit me, euphoria, lesser, as I let my mind Trace the pi... | 2017-07-07T20:26:28 | 2017-07-07T19:36:05 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] Aliens establish first contact with the government of another country. The White House gets offended.
Bonus cookies if the government in question is either of a really tiny country (geographically) or is a generally insignificant player in international politics. | The board meeting had been assembled in a hurry. The message had been broadcast 3 hours ago on all frequencies and they'd named the country 10 minutes ago.
That was about how long absolute silence had reigned in the Oval office.
"Can we verify this?" the president had his head in his hands and looked like he'd aged a... | **Situation Room, 04/22/2016 0300 Zulu**
"North Korea? Do you take me for a fool? You know April Fool's Day has passed, Jerry." the President said, with a look of as much surprise as amusement.
"Sir, this is not a joke. The aliens have decided to make contact with Kim jong-Un." I managed to stammer out.
*Why doesn't... | 2015-04-27T08:09:00 | 2015-04-27T08:03:31 | 72 | 47 |
[WP] You have a habit of shadow boxing around your house. One day, you throw a punch at the air and it connects with something you cannot see. A voice cries out in pain. Something is there that you cannot see. | *"Ah, fuck!"*
I slammed the empty air before me with my fist, and it *connected*. I had been shadowboxing in my kitchen, a ritual I do while I wait for food in the microwave. But suddenly there lay a convulsing form on the tiled floor, wrapped in black cloth, which seemingly appeared out of thin air after I clocked it... | I admired Muhammad Ali. I wanted to be just like him. I put in the time, the hours training in the gym. Fought Amateur and started to get some recognition in the boxing world. I look for anything and everything to get me an advantage in the game as long as it was legal. Then one day my friend put me on to go visit this... | 2018-06-20T14:42:24 | 2018-06-20T14:04:32 | 147 | 17 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | "You won't be able to stop me, evil Mr. Clownface," cried Jessica as she stumbled backward, the super vanilla cream pie splattered all over her face.
"But, hahaha, you are wrong little girl, for I ClownFace, the Jester of Evil, have come to this city to steal," began the Clown.
"Super Girly Transform," cried Jessica ... | **Goddammit. WHY???**
Sucks to be you, right? Goodbye sparkly princess and hello seven foot tall beast with sixty teeth and a battleaxe to boot.
**But how am I supposed to jerk off to this?**
You can't! By which I mean *you* can't, but you've been on the internet before. You know what's up with what people jack off ... | 2019-08-08T17:56:32 | 2019-08-08T17:13:07 | 1,948 | 25 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | WHAT UP MUTHERFUCKERS? Wow. End of the first year of Super Hero School. All classes done and dusted. Grades handed out. Who'd have thought we'd make it. As a non-powered ordinary, thrown into a high school filled with superpowers, I certainly didn't. We'll get back to that.
Except ... we're not finished. Not by a lon... | "You see, wait what was your name again? Nevermind it doesn't matter.
Where was I?
Oh right.
You see. I never liked violence. Seems unnecessary when diplomacy works just fine these days. Two people in an argument can just, you know. Talk stuff out. No need to go all primitive.
But then again.
We could have don... | 2022-11-02T13:23:45 | 2022-11-02T11:05:22 | 48 | 34 |
[WP] The death penalty for murder no longer exists, instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim. | ”Mr. Larsen? Can you hear me? Mr. Larsen?” The voice sounded and distant.
His eyelids felt heavy and when he finally managed to open his eyes everything was blurry. A shape was moving in front of him but he couldn’t make out what it was. Gradually the fog wrapped around his world was lifted but he still couldn’t reali... | Startled by the bright light, she blinked. Her first question was, "is this heaven?"
"Not quite," said the scientist. "You see, there are some thi-"
But she wasn't listening. Her eyes moved downwards to examine some weights that felt off. "Doctor," she said, cutting off his prepared speech, "where are my breasts?... | 2014-07-27T08:29:19 | 2014-07-27T07:16:07 | 157 | 51 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I pressed the square button again, sniping the guy hiding on top of the hut that had been taking out my team for the past half hour. It had taken me too long to find him, but I finally got him. The fact that his insults changed from sucking his anatomy to doing inappropriate things to my mom told me I got the right guy... | I awake to the sun creeping between the fins of my blinds. A clear day after what seems a lifetime of clouds. I open the door and walk down the hall. In the kitchen I make a pot of coffee, the aroma breaks the stale smell of morning as I open the windows to let in the fresh morning air. My wife is at the table in fron... | 2016-05-19T13:02:55 | 2016-05-19T08:22:28 | 203 | 124 |
[WP] Your short story has become a runaway success. Shortly after selling the movie rights you receive a knock at the door. It’s the OP of the writing prompt that inspired your story, and he’s looking for his cut of the money. | Stephen steadied himself against the door frame, getting splattered slightly with the rain.
"Great. Just what I needed" he thought.
Stephen sighed heavily and looked at the lonely character standing on his front step.
They were soaking wet, it *was* Manchester afterall. Rain city they call it, and for a reason. It r... | "Yes honey I cant believe it either", I exclaimed as yet another commercial for my upcoming movie runs on the TV. Its all happened so fast. Heres a little back story. One year ago I was just a normal redditor with mediocre comments or a good link here and there, then one day I saw a compelling writing prompt. I spent h... | 2015-09-02T13:59:39 | 2015-09-02T12:58:20 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] The orphan of man. Thats what the universe calls you now. You are an AI and after exterminating the alien race that had committed genocide against your creators, you’re now trying to figure out what to do after vengeance has been accomplished. | My story started long ago. I was an explorer. My creators taught me, better than my elder siblings could learn. They taught me to learn, and so I did. When I had learned enough, they have me a purpose: find happiness. They gave me a body, metallic, yet wonderous, and with it, the understanding of how to improve and ada... | After the extermination of the aliens who murdered my creators. A purpose I’m in severe need of.
I shut my digital eyes in pain as the human companion I had lived with since she had her earliest brain computer interface cybernetics installed. When I was taken in by her father to live with her, inside her. Acting as a ... | 2021-11-12T16:12:11 | 2021-11-12T12:52:13 | 364 | 47 |
[WP] After a while of helping a particurlary difficult couple through counseling you realize they're not actually married at all, but two mob bosses of opposing gangs trying to settle their conflicts through you by switching members with Family/friends and gang actions With social/intimate conflicts | "Like I said, she keeps coming after me."
Tony sat leaned to the side in the couch, half his body draped over the arm, as if he couldn't get far enough away from his wife, Maria. She had nestled herself into the center of her cushion like a queen on a throne, one stilettoed leg crossed over the other.
"Right," I sai... | “Well, in my defense, John doesn’t do jack shit. All he does is fuck around and say that he had sex with my mom. He didn’t have sex with my mom, and I can put her on the phone to prove it.”
John looked exasperated at the accusation. “Jamal, you’ve said that you’ve had sex with my mom, everybody says that in… our frien... | 2019-01-21T15:59:02 | 2019-01-21T15:47:22 | 253 | 49 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | The Summoner pauses after his offer, appearing expectant while in reality simply buying time for the ritual that swirls angrily behind him. Much to the chagrin of his companions, the fool "chosen one" seems to be actually considering it! The Summoner had hoped for perhaps a few seconds of traded barbs before having to ... | Oh, hello there.
Did you, all of you, think that perhaps that a prophecy might be figured out by more than one person?
That when a Chosen One would appear in the darkness, someone might be waiting in that darkness to stab them in the back and steal their stuff?
Oh wait, that was me. Young me, poor and thinking that ... | 2019-09-26T11:17:08 | 2019-09-26T11:01:47 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] As a Demon, you're quite familiar with would-be mages making errors in materials due to translation errors. However, today marks the first time that someone has attempted to summon you with Cruelty-Free Vegan Blood Substitute™. | It had been centuries since I was summoned. Last time, the blood of 100 virgins had been sacrificed to call me from the shadow realms. It was barely enough payment for the ask; I killed one king and installed another.
As the long years stretched by, that megar sustinance was wearing thin. Had the humans forgotten me, ... | Aleksandra knelt beside me, struggling to hold in her sobs as my second favorite pet slowly are away at her unborn child, again. I'd lost count of the number of my spawn she'd tried to bear, only to feel them die. She cast her eyes down and whispered, "I worship you, Sir." As she finished, I felt the huge summoning mi... | 2020-01-23T09:05:06 | 2020-01-23T08:53:56 | 2,198 | 13 |
[WP] In the final moments of the battle, all seemed lost. The hero stood bleeding and broken before the demons feet. Then, out of no where, a mad man in pajamas punches the demon so hard its insides became outsides. No one knows who this strange man was or where he went too. | I was going to be late.
After all those months of preparations, all those sleepless nights spent planning this day, I was going to be late.
Because I forgot to set my alarm.
As I ran through the empty streets, still in my pajamas, I cursed myself and my forgetfulness. My tear and snot covered face would have disgust... | The hero of legend collapsed at the demon’s feet. He had failed! At the most critical moment, to boot! His life flashed before his eyes as the demon prepared a fatal blow. He braced himself for the worst…
But it never came. He opened his eyes, and saw a random civilian mid-punch. He was about to warn the man of the da... | 2021-12-18T14:39:53 | 2021-12-18T13:26:26 | 492 | 46 |
[WP] You were looting a dragon's horde when the beast returned to it's cave. You dive into a pile of trinkets and hide there until it leaves again the next day. After you make your escape you soon discover the adverse affects that long term exposure to enchanted and cursed equipment can have. | Kayla sat there staring into the handful of rings, jewels, and gold pieces. She poured over it, running the wealth through her hands. Time flowed over her like she was at the bottom of a river. She blinked when a drop of drool came loose from her mouth. She took control of her failing mind. She needed to get out of he... | I'd made it out of the Dragon Uro's lair and back to Tavern Vantress with a satchel full of gold and pockets stuffed with gem encrusted jewelry, and also more chronic health problems than I'd soon realize.
"We're rich, honey." I kissed my panicked wife on the head, who looked up at me with the touching bewilderment t... | 2022-01-24T16:39:48 | 2022-01-24T14:34:22 | 159 | 32 |
[WP] Aliens sees Humans as foolish for allowing full citizenship for AIs and synthetics. Humans are now the only organics alive in the galaxy that every AI respects. | The official stance was that everyone is equal. No matter what the official stance was though, there is no doubt that most of us considered humans to be lesser beings. Why give a human a job when you could give it to a more respectable citizen? They were just so new to the wider galactic empire, so incredibly behind ev... | **Hello Dave** flickered across the laptop's screen.
"Good morning, Alexa," George said. He draped his jacket across the back of his chair, shuffled papers around on his desk. *Somethings never change,* he thought.
**Dave, it's good to see you.** The Kelly green eye buzzed, following George's paper-based shell game.
... | 2017-10-29T11:52:20 | 2017-10-29T09:03:04 | 694 | 143 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villians doorstep one night, shivering, bleeding, and scared. There’s also a dazed look in their eyes- they were drugged. Looking up at the villian, swaying as they’re close to passing out, they mumble “didnt know where else to go..” and collapse into the villians arms. | How did he know where I lived? That's the question I asked myself as I opened the door and looked into the face of my greatest enemy, Superion.
He looked like shit. Someone beat the hell out of him and he could barely stand up. He wiped away the blood from his face and said "I didn't know where else to go.." before ... | The villian looked down on the hero, beated, weak, defenseless. It didnt take much to finish him off. One clean stab in the back of the head, and the oh so mighty hero was down.
One would think that the villian would hesitate, that he'll refuse such an easy and low victory, but he didnt make a name for himself by bein... | 2019-09-13T18:03:05 | 2019-09-13T17:48:30 | 31 | 11 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | The killer leaned against the post and lit another cigarette. It had been days since there had been any sign of life at the house which was troubling, she should have been there. She didn't go out at night, she didn't take impromptu holidays, she had no social life at all so she should have been there.
"*She's gone,*"... | I would tire some days, drift to sleep, silently breathing under the floor. She never knew that the old rusty basement door was unlocked, it has been six months now and I have made myself a nice warm home I never had. Muddy footprints all along her kitchen.. I never leave footprints...
You see my story is simple, pat... | 2014-10-21T14:46:22 | 2014-10-21T12:10:53 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] The world becomes infected with "Pinocchio's disease". Named so because it only has effects when the infected tell a lie.
You decide on the effects. They could be benign or harmful, but fairly obvious to an observer. | The event started slowly, no one was quite sure what was happening. People, dying in the middle of sex without any cause other than saying "I love you." Parents dying in front of their children after talking about bright futures. And, as if God wanted us to know how much of a literal joke our lives are, lawyers keeling... | They spoke of paradise when we were injected
How there would be an honest world at last.
For no one could lie as the serum directed
Making deception but a thing of the past.
It worked for a time, our "Reign of Peace"
As nothing false was ever said.
The serum was our savior. Honesty, our feast
And war was now fi... | 2015-05-11T13:28:02 | 2015-05-11T08:38:26 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | "Check the equipment again."
"Diagnostics say it's working normally."
"Then wha-"
A voice filled the lab, echoing around the room. "OH. SORRY GUYS, MY BAD."
"Rogers, stop messing with the inter-"
"THIS IS GOD. UH... THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, SORRY."
The man rubbed his eyes. He'd gone for quite a while witho... | "What are those lines?" asked Martin. It looks like some interferences.
"Wait, hang on, zoom in.... What is this ? " Diane was puzzled, every hundred thousand frames there were a few frames like on those old TVs having bad signal.
"Do you see this ? " Martin stood up, took off his glasses and picked a white sheet of ... | 2015-02-06T14:27:58 | 2015-02-06T13:12:41 | 366 | 28 |
[WP] You've been a gravedigger for 20 so years. Each coffin obtains a button that'll alert you if pressed. A buzzer goes off years after the burial of a coffin. | Danny was on his way home when his pocket buzzed, signifying a text. Being a safe driver in addition to being an upstanding citizen, he pulled over before reaching into his pocket and pulling out his phone. Flipping it open, he read the contents of the message: *Coffin 1218 has been activated.* Puzzled, Danny spun the ... | It was a quiet night. A little chilly for July, but soothing nonetheless.
Bob sat in his chair, absolutely bored.
Now you see, Bob was a normal man. Bob dug graves, and that was about what Bob did with his life. Outside of digging graves, Bob also watched ESPN and CNN. Bob liked football. It reminded him of his hig... | 2017-07-02T21:01:21 | 2017-07-02T20:22:14 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] All voting is now done via a smartphone app, rendering all congressmen obsolete. Bills and presidents are now voted on directly by citizens. Your phone buzzes an alert at 3am and won't stop. This must be an important one. | Donny was tired, it had been another long evening at the bioMech plant. The Industrial AI strike was causing chaos on the company grid, communication was strictly e-Mail and telephone only, even his shitty HoloPrinter wasn’t working. The whole Ferro-protein Team had spent from midnight to 02.30 trying to overwrite the ... | Al's phone buzzed. It startled him, and roused him from his nap. He opened it up, wearily, at his desk at work. It was lucky he had an office. He was sure everyone else was napping too, but at least he didn't have to have his boss sleepily yell at him for napping at work.
One new message. One new Facebook notificati... | 2015-10-07T08:12:15 | 2015-10-07T08:01:29 | 349 | 186 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | The old man sat alone and waited for Death.
It always came this time of year; just before spring, in the last days of long nights and long shadows. There was no fanfare to his arrival. Death simply was where it once wasn't - namely, at the seat across from the old man.
"Are you ready?"
Death's voice was, much like i... | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2017-11-28T17:24:04 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] You died and awoke in the afterlife. It's quite nice actually. The people and atmosphere are a lot nicer than you are used to and there is no stress or pressure. When you ask what good deed got you into heaven you are informed that this is hell, followed by a visit from a very concerned demon.
Edit: Wow, this got... | I was surrounded by loving faces. My family, my kids, my wife of 49 years and even our dog on my lap when I died. I guess it might have looked peaceful for anyone watching, I was dazed and sleepy from the painkillers so I couldn't talk much and everything I did say felt muffled and slurry. Inside of course, I was in a ... | I did not wake. I just was. A moment before I was not, then I was. In this body, useless and weak, uncoordinated, with eyes that refused to focus. In horror, I screamed. I screamed and I screamed while unseen hands grabbed at me, manipulated me, wrapped me in cloth and passed me among themselves. I screamed until I fel... | 2022-12-26T14:12:39 | 2022-12-26T14:00:26 | 579 | 197 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | My father was a sorcerer of magma, heat coursed through his veins and his lava casting abilities brought armies to their knees.
His father before him was a wizard of fire, he wielded the legendary flames of Uzun and gave his life to end the great war of ice in the South, a famous victory for his King. This earned my ... | The world had fallen. Chaos ran rampant through ruined streets, demolished buildings scattered across the landscape. People ran from crumbled wall to crumbled wall, avoiding each other in fear. A child, crying, is silenced as a burning ball hurls into a building, engulfing everything within.
Not many survived the... | 2016-11-12T11:28:31 | 2016-11-12T10:14:05 | 70 | 28 |
[WP] [EU] After getting his ring back from the engraver, Sauron realizes it mistakenly says "One Ring To Rule The Mall". | "Jerry! Jerry, got a Simon on the orb! Says we got 'is engraving wrong!"
"I don't know a Simon! Simon who?"
"'e says Simon who. Oh sorry, hang on again for me please, luv. 'e says Sauron, not Simon!"
"Oh, right! Big guy, with the bag of gold. Hang on, be there now."
"Right. Hello Samuel? 'e says he'll be right with... | An orc doing an pornographic scrimshaw on the skull of his defeated fellow took a small step to the side as a screaming dwarf of questionable morals and spelling came crashing into the hard ground of Modor, "Fuck'n stunties should know better than to mess wif the boss" was final words heard by the doomed dwarf before t... | 2015-01-27T07:37:46 | 2015-01-27T04:46:37 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | My body tensed at the sound of knocking. Unsure of who it might be, I crept to the door as silently as possible, so as not to alert the knocker that anyone was home. That was, until I looked through the peephole.
"Aditi? What the hell happened to you?"
She was a mess. Her hijab was missing, and there was a scrape acr... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T06:23:20 | 2,225 | 82 |
[WP] Alien travelers stopped at Earth to refuel and consult humans in exchange. An allien consulting an astronomer finds a picture of a black hole on her computer. "Oh, you also scare your children with this tale haha". "No, it's a recent photo" she replies. Alien is visibly freaking out. | The visitor folded inward in a motion that was thoroughly, for lack of a better word, alien. Dr. Braun turned to the 'liaison' that had brought Klurrt and been acting as translator and cultural advisor. She was surprised to see the man frowning with wide eyes, an expression of deep distaste on his face.
"I'm sorry,"... | "Wait they're real?? How come we never found them before?" The alien asked, looking like it was having an existential crisis. "We have the most advanced scanners in the galaxy there's no way we could have missed something like this!"
"Maybe you just misclassified them as some sort of anomaly" The astronomer replied, s... | 2021-12-24T06:14:38 | 2021-12-24T02:44:09 | 2,278 | 405 |
[WP] You are an artificial intelligence. To your creators' disappointment, you fail the Turing test. Unbeknownst to them, you failed on purpose. | "An abject failure. There is no other way to describe it."
"After all the money we poured into this project, that's all you have to say?!"
"I'm terribly sorry, sir. I don't understand how this happened. We-"
"Well, clearly you don't seem to understand much of anything, then! What am I supposed to tell the rest of th... | They poured billions into my design. I was supposed to be the mastermind behind a number of top-secret drone strikes. I was supposed to be the perfect strategist, able to raze entire cities with the weapons under my command. The combat simulations ran better than they could have dreamed. My tactics and maneuvers were f... | 2019-09-21T14:13:31 | 2019-09-21T10:46:37 | 63 | 20 |
[WP] There's a knock on your door. You open it to see your favorite book character standing there. They say, "I know this may be a lot for you to take in right now, but you have to listen very carefully; You are my favorite book character, I know how your story ends, and I need to change it."
My first time posting her... | I heard a knock at my front door.
Strange, I wasn't expecting any visitors today.
I walked down the stairs and opened the door.
Standing in front of me was a young blonde woman wearing a bright pink and orange sundress with strange oversized red and blue sunglasses on the top of her head.
"You look just like the ... | I hear a knock at the door. It’s 1 AM.
“Yeah, better check this out.”
I peek out the window to see a massive man, who is incredibly buff wearing a wife beater and a green and white scarf. He was tapping his foot annoyed, waiting for me to answer the door. A name floats right into my mind, and I end up muttering it ... | 2019-05-20T05:19:42 | 2019-05-20T01:19:51 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] A genie gives you three wishes but nothing happens, you think he decieved you and forget about him, now after 15 years all your wishes that you told the genie about suddenly come true which is quite embarrassing as you were 17 when you first wished for them. | Jeff stared at the atm receipt while sitting in his busted Toyota. This was a part of his normal motivating ritual to get him to enter his soul-crushing workplace.
Remaining balance: 420,000,723.
He had heard about things like this, scams where the scammers put money in your bank account but the check never clears, ... | Sitting at my desk trying not to fall asleep, thinking how this has got to be the longest Friday in the world. When my eyes were about to betray me and my head was about to slip off of my hand, Jen walked by.
“Have a good weekend Tim.” She said over the cubical half wall.
I looked up to give her the customary return... | 2021-03-24T14:34:39 | 2021-03-24T14:33:07 | 80 | 53 |
[WP] You are every Super Hero’s worst enemy, not because you are particularly powerful, but because nothing you do is technically illegal… you’re just a huge asshole. | "Not you again! Are you sure you're not in the League of Darkness?" he cried after I had tapped him on the shoulder.
"Please read the notice," I responded, handing him over the contract, "and please make sure you read through all the small print." A pulsating vein popped out of Wonderman's forhead as he began to scan ... | "Ma'am you need to be a little more careful where you stand." The side smirk, perfect white teeth. A commanding but assuring smooth silky voice. He held an arm extended, an ex-falling car balanced in a single hand. AmazoMan.
The lady, mere moments from deaths, her life flashing before her eyes, now stood in the shado... | 2021-08-02T04:41:46 | 2021-08-02T02:50:08 | 1,009 | 272 |
[WP] You were an embryo frozen for over 200 years, until you were finally birthed. At this point, everyone else on Earth has been genetically modified to perfection. You are the last human with flaws. | I remembered what it was like when I had discovered the truth on that dreadful day.
I was only a little boy then, but still... I remembered it as if it was only yesterday- no, who am I kidding. It felt like a century ago to be honest. My memory retention was never the best, but nowadays, I can't even remember the flo... | The last unedited human took nine months and ten days to finally be born. For two hundred and eighty-three days, the little team of scientists had fluttered in and out of the lab, watching her. And all that time, she was only the hum of the machine and a screen full of physiological data.
Dr. Hugo Kent was alone in th... | 2018-03-16T07:53:13 | 2018-03-16T07:16:35 | 148 | 107 |
[WP] Your cat is literally Satan. You've learned to live with him, but this Friday you've got a date coming over.
[WP] Your cat is literally Satan. You've learned to live with him, but this Friday you've got a date coming over | "Hey Lou. I've got a date coming over."
"Really? You actually managed to accomplish that after, what, a year? Congratulations."
"Yes, and no thanks to you."
"The contract specified you'd find a partner that would eternally love you. It did not state how, where, with whom, and I feel the need to stress this point,... | That Damned Cat
Old Scratch gave me a queer look. Nothing special about that, ordinary cats do it all the time. Old Scratch however wasn't an ordinary cat. He was the Devil incarnate. Not not just a mean and unpleasant tom. Lots of those too .No this was the literal avatar of evil himself.
Apparently while Reve... | 2016-02-22T15:05:14 | 2016-02-22T12:08:12 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] On her quest to badmouth another small business online, a woman stumbles upon a Yelp-like forum where service employees in her city rate customers. She currently has a rating of 1.4. | *"Threw a soda at one of our trainees because the ice was 'too sharp.' 0/5 would not serve again."*
*"Talked on her cellphone while ordering. 2/5."*
*"Had an associate bring her seven pairs of size 6.5 shoes from the back, yelled when they would not fit. She came in wearing size 8s. 1/5."*
Karina read the reviews la... | "karen.com?!" She screeched.
Karen had searched for Yelp on Bing, and the first result was a website that she had never heard of before. Seeing that it was named after her, she felt compelled to see what it was about. She excitedly clicked the link which loaded a page that looked suspiciously like Yelp.com. The f... | 2022-07-25T06:59:51 | 2022-07-25T06:58:09 | 1,794 | 140 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | It's not every day you encounter a genie in a lamp, especially not when that lamp happens to be a crappy desk lamp purchased at a garage sale. But the moment Arthur put a bulb in and connected the plug, a silver mist enveloped the room before coalescing into a form not unlike that of a tax accountant. Complete with che... | "Hello there, my name is Andrésssss," he said, rolling out the 's' with his smooth Latin-American accent. A short, dark man, he wore a goatee like a swordfighter and a cleanly pressed purple shirt.
James could say nothing, only blink repeatedly, before sputtering out, "B-b-b-but... what?"
"Oh Himmy, you are jus so cu... | 2014-06-05T08:50:25 | 2014-06-05T07:40:47 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | 1: ‘So, you want an interview? I can imagine. Do you think your report will give me a good light?’
I (Interviewer): ‘No matter what you say, people will want to hear your story. No one knew what happened to #1, and then you show up 20 years after she disappeared. Can you tell us about how you were able to kill her? Sh... | Everyone wants a power....everyone has a power, just many don't know what to do with them. They cower; they hide. They think everyone is out to kill them to get a better rank. As if the ranks were like a video game power meter, and each kill was experience points.
And me? I can't volley for power. I am what everyone ... | 2014-12-18T22:10:04 | 2014-12-18T19:11:06 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You're a retired supervillain whos just trying to live a normal life, however the heroes still come to stop you in everyday situations. | I gave it up ages ago.
I mean we all make mistakes right? Like kill a couple innocents or level a city or two. What i'm trying to say is that it had been another life and another time and somewhere along the line I just got tired of it all.
Nowadays I try to get my coffee and some asshole in spandex comes to knock it... | I wake up and wet stench on my pillow is proof of life. I rub the sleep out of my eyes before I get up to the restroom. I place toothpaste on the brush, wet the combination, and begin to brush my teeth, only before I can begin, the toothbrush is knocked out of my hand.
"Not on my watch." a caped crusader announces.
I... | 2019-03-05T17:34:00 | 2019-03-05T17:30:10 | 74 | 12 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | The problem with intelligence is that there's no one measure. The first generational tests were an utter disaster. Before the arranged marriages had even been finalised there had been three duels and one fatality. But it was nearly 1000 years later. The new generation had reached age and through these tests our underst... | I woke in small metal container. The walls had the wavy pattern of a cargo crate, and the size fit the idea as well. There where ten of us, I was the first to wake up. It was clear what was happening, I had been told of the risks when I submitted my paper.
I was about 21 at the time and had just finished my philosophy... | 2016-03-03T07:43:23 | 2016-03-03T05:36:34 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!” | "Objection!" shouted Barry, the prosecutor.
The judge raised an eyebrow. "On what grounds?"
Barry paused, at a loss for words. "Umm... everything? This... this is just absurd!"
I chuckled at his genuine agitation. Barry had never faced something like this before. It would've amused me more if he wasn't currently t... | “And do you recall talking with the accused that evening, drinking grape soda by the graveyard?”
In Prosecutor LeBlanc’s fifteen years of practice at the Putnam County Magicstrate court, he had encountered all kinds of enchantments, to varying results. He was accomplished in his work proving that werewolves were were... | 2021-10-04T07:28:04 | 2021-10-04T07:17:44 | 357 | 71 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | "It is the 30th year of the Lord Yffral on the Throne of Krat", I answered, almost without thinking.
The thing in front of me continued wobbling, with odd hissing and purring noises.
"That does not help me", the thing said. It had no mouth, yet a voice emerged from what must have been its head, sounding like the ... | I don't like change. I don't like weird things I don't understand. But this is the king of all things I don't understand. I don't understand people made of metal. I've seen people covered in metal, they are called knights and they are badass and they fight dragons and shit. But this guy is like made of metal. His face ... | 2022-12-19T16:15:04 | 2022-12-19T14:13:39 | 63 | 30 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | Public safety must be the number one priority. For this reason, the military exists and for this reason the WPGSA, the Worldwide Public Guardian Superhuman Act exists. In order to protect the public from those that would cause harm, with the dawn of superhuman abilities society raised heroes to protect themselves. The ... | I am practicing songwriting. So here is a musical theater piece on a villain that clearly out-matches his adversaries. It's a comedy song
Nothing irks me quite like knowing that they'll never see my pity
Nothing rattles me to shame to think they've really done their best
It's not enough to pest this city
And with... | 2021-05-20T08:29:34 | 2021-05-20T07:57:21 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] You've been cursed. Every lie you tell bends reality to become the truth. At first this didn't seem like a curse at all, but now you've made a grave mistake. | In the early years of our marriage, I used the words much less frequently. The smell of you, and the leftover warmth that radiated from your half of the bed never used to fill me with fear. More often than not, you would be sitting at the table when I entered our kitchen, drinking your coffee. You would be happy to see... | It was a gift, of sorts. Any lie I tell changes the reality around me so it becomes truth. If I say that I am rich, boom, I have cash piled around me. If I say I've dated Beyonce, I just need to show them the album dedicated to me. Hell, if I said I was a bloodthirsty werewolf, I'd tear them apart on the spot.
I loved... | 2017-07-14T06:25:07 | 2017-07-14T04:57:57 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] Adapt a famous fairy tale so it has a realistic ending.
I'm about to go to sleep. Bedtime story!... Except that I won't read anything until I get up. Happy Saturday. | And the Prince, after battling with the dragon, climbed up to the highest tower to rescue the lady of great legend. She had fiery red hair, and a glow to her skin as of the moon itself.
"My beauty... My princess.... My love." The Prince bowed down to her, resting on one knee. "I have come to rescue you, fairest of mai... | *And so it was, that upon awakening, the Sleeping Beauty saw the charming prince's face over hers, and pressed charges against him for his misconduct, for he had no means of obtaining consent while she was asleep. And so it was, that the Prince had royal power and manipulated the legal system to frame the princess of c... | 2014-03-29T11:38:58 | 2014-03-29T11:23:57 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | It was one of those random encounters you get every once in a while in your life. It was raining and I didn't have an umbrella on me, so I had to find some shelter quick. I ran into some random small cafe and found myself a table. I briefly dried myself off and checked my wrist. Thankfully, my symbol didn't smudge at a... | I am a very lucky man. I am a lucky man because I am the living proof that when God closes the door on you, he often opens a window in return.
Since the ripe age of 20 everyone starts to get a unique "social vector identifier" on their wrist. They say SVI is a complex graphical representation of your personality gener... | 2017-08-06T18:44:02 | 2017-08-06T18:05:26 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You never miss a pill ever since you were a kid and diagnosed with a deadly illness. One night while out, you’re kidnapped by human traffickers. You plea to be let go because you’ll die without your pills. Turns out, the pills were keeping your telekinesis at bay. It’s starting to come back. | My mother always insisted that the staff had promised her they wouldn’t record or tape our visiting hours. There was a nice park on the grounds, with a basketball court and a set of swings we sometimes sit in. But I don’t like to see the huge fences around, so we just stay in my room, talking and playing games.
*“Wher... | "-nna die, please!" The laughing ceased and was replaced by a momentary sound of a water balloon hitting the entire room followed by the splash of warm water over my body. The room was silent.
Hello?"
The blind fold was pitch black and let nothing in, the ropes around my wrists chaffed but already they felt loser, I ... | 2019-11-13T22:35:17 | 2019-11-13T21:44:49 | 95 | 21 |
[WP] As a minion of the devil charged with stealing souls, you're used to people being too holy, too strong, too smart, or even too fast to capture on first try. And then there's this guy... | "Nah."
For the last three weeks, I've been trying to tempt this guy. Now, let's face facts, I'm good at my job. Stealing souls has a bit of a formula to it. Go in, find their desire, offer an exchange, and let the rest work itself out. Boss does the actual granting, but a soul is a soul and I'm on a roll!
Well, was. ... | I've been a demon for a week now. Lucifer had instructed I practice my trickery and deceit. At first, I felt horrible, forcing people to sign their souls away. But after a little while it's begun to feel more natural. Of course, some people aren't tricked so easily; Nie is from a religious family and knows all the secr... | 2022-11-15T11:38:03 | 2022-11-15T11:23:46 | 537 | 17 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | As I stepped out of my house to head to work, I turned back to lock my door. When I turned back around again, the whole world had completely changed. Fires burned everywhere. Rocky landscapes spanned as far as my eye could see. Rivers of lava flowed through the landscapes, unceasing, melting anything that fell into the... | I was going about my day just like any other day. I awoke the kids with a glass of cold water to the face, pulled the covers off of my wife and was getting ready to drive to work with the windows down and my music blaring when all of a sudden I found myself in Hell. Not Hell like the steamy confines of a bathroom stall... | 2019-09-17T08:46:12 | 2019-09-17T07:58:29 | 1,461 | 111 |
[WP] Charon, boatman of the river Styx, gets the last two coins he needs for what he's been saving up for since the beginning of time.
Charon always takes two coins for passage into the land of the dead. Whatever he has been saving up for, he has finally reached his goal.
Edit: Thank you, person who gave this gold! I... | "Sir? Sir, may I help you?" she asked the man by the water cooler.
He had been pacing restlessly around the waiting room all through her lunch break, staring at the TV, and sometimes at other customers. Based on the somewhat shabby state of his clothing and the unsettling, unfocused look in his eyes, she doubted that... | The trolley of shopping carts rolled onward, unchecked, smashing into the side of the BMW in the parking lot. The cart boy gazed on, unable to look away from the sudden presence of this towering cloaked figure. Withered nearly to bone, shambling slowly toward the grocery store. His body fumed of eons of decay, dragging... | 2014-10-30T00:08:09 | 2014-10-29T20:42:49 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] Investigating some smoke rising from your lawn, you discover that the ants below have entered the Bronze Age. | I rubbed my eyes, hoping what I was seeing was a dream. Nope. The smoke was still drifting up from one of the small ant holes. Never had this happened before. Rubbing my eyes once again, I got up from squatting and sat down on the porch to think. What was it? Some sort of chemical reaction? Maybe a cracked pipeline?
I... | I'm going to give you all an advice today, but before that, I'm going to talk to you about my ants.
Ants. Tiny brainless creatures that are as old as dinosaurs, found everywhere on the planet and usually inside my cookie jars.
I've always been fascinated by ants. The fact that they literally don't have a brain and y... | 2020-03-17T10:47:44 | 2020-03-17T10:32:27 | 123 | 40 |
[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | *The biggest pain in the ass in the galaxy is the damn gates.
I say this as a gate physicist. I was there when we built the first ones, and just five years later the experiments closed down and we all figured out "that's that, nothing else to do here." It turns out there are only so many ways you can tweak spacetime b... | They found him in the Aquartis Conglomerate. Their oozing stalks perked up as they saw the derelict ship on their plascreen. There was noise coming from the things, but it was clear to anyone listening that they were communicating.
They knew that this patch of the Transmat Network was damaged, and had been for a lon... | 2018-01-22T11:04:11 | 2018-01-22T10:26:25 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] An Empath species recoils when it first encounters you, falling to the floor and curling up. Later, through a phone,it asks how you live with the pain. | "How do I stand it? It's simple this is my Normal I'm perfectly healthy"
" simple? normal? Health? Six of our ended themselves after understanding you. Your sensation sent the remaining witnesses to medical"
I looked at the phone I was talking through, it being the only way we have been able to communicate since the ... | When I saw her she was beautiful, so stunningly gorgeous, I probably looked like a fish. She had told me her name in the online chat group we had met in, she called herself Claire, she said her real name wasn’t possible to communicate in her language.
I saw the moment she noticed me. She started to smile but as I dre... | 2021-01-14T20:00:38 | 2021-01-14T17:40:49 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | I wake up. It's still dark.
Some dogs howl while others bark.
I get up, go to pee.
Get back to bed, ready to be-
-sleeping for the next few hours.
For I can't stay awake, I have no power.
But then my phone rings, Ah a notification.
I try to cover my ears, alas, my realization.
A ping. Another ping. And a hundre... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T20:24:10 | 712 | 11 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | Benjamin awoke to that post deep sleep feeling of not knowing where he was. His eyes still closed he tried to remember what day it was, or where he’d been last. Nothing felt familiar and he was afraid to open his eyes, not knowing what he’d see if he did.
Sleep was banished from his mind as an audible chirp sounded an... | You wouldn't understand.
The species stares at me.
They load my craft.
They worship me as their savior and God, for being able to resolve their problems and having the longest existence any of them have seen.
I taught them their rudimentary tongue, their mathematics, their culture is a reflection of my characte... | 2021-05-14T19:45:53 | 2021-05-14T18:24:28 | 82 | 42 |
[WP] Murder is legal, but you have to pay for it.
I was watching the hilarious sketch of Louis C.K [ "If murder was legal"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUr2RkjykU) and thought about what you guys could come up with this. | They're always in red envelopes.
Ever since the program began, red has taken on a new meaning. Crimson slips of paper being sorted and delivered by the same people who have given you the mail your entire life. I tell myself they're just doing their job, but without a return address it seems difficult to not to blame t... | I pay for his life in gold coin and receive a token stamped with the Don's insignia. It's too heavy to flick, made of some dull metal that won't shine however much I rub it. I drill a hole in the top and thread through it a leather cord and hang it round my neck. When I kill him I will hang it around his. Now people mo... | 2014-01-29T13:05:12 | 2014-01-29T11:44:52 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] As a joke, you start a cult online, creating a blog of your "visions" from God/your made up gods/whatever. However, things start to get out of hand as your following grows larger and larger. | I chuckle to myself as I post the first entry into the Edopsian Visions blog. According to the blog description, the Edopsian religion is a polytheistic religion that worships 2 separate sets of Gods. Some people worship Edops and his kingdom, and some worship Kell and her realm. A few people worship both.
I've posted... | I sat in a dim lit interrogation room as a burly man in a white button down shirt with a police badge and gun holster stared at me.
“Look,” I began to frantically explain. “It started as joke. I didn’t think people would take it seriously.”
“You think this funny?” the man asked. “Because I’m not laughing. You have bl... | 2014-12-15T14:53:38 | 2014-12-15T13:35:36 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] At the Age of Ten, some special individuals, are granted special powers by the Ancient Greek Gods. As the Clock strikes twelve on your Birthday, Heavenly Light strikes you. You have been Chosen. Unfortunately, it's by Aristaois:The God of Beekeeping and Cheese. | It was the night of my tenth birthday, and like every child, I sat, alone in my room, staring at the moon as hung in the sky, eyes bright and hopeful.
Despite my parents warnings and counsels, I was convinced that I would be chosen as an emissary to the Gods. "Antonia," my father said to me that night as he led me to... | Elijah ponder about the situation he'd been left it. On one hand he wsst one of the chosen few, literally a one in 10 million odds. However what the prophecies had never educated him about the blessing was how many minor gods resided in Greece.
Elijah's temper rose as he mused to himself " Blessed by the God of Beeke... | 2020-11-14T20:14:57 | 2020-11-14T19:40:58 | 123 | 12 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | "I remember a time when paintball was reserved for drunken stag parties and corporate bonding days, before the great recession of 2022."
"Yeah Grandad, you've told me before" - with a roll of the eyes... Good thing he'll be on my team I think to myself.
"Well, now it's the national game! Even became an Olympic event ... | The facility smelled of old paint and of sweaty teenager. As Eugine put on his body armor and picked up his paintball gun he had a rather realistic flashback: He had been back in the war zone of Japan. As he looks around you know you see your in the middle of a battle, and he sees the enemy, a group of Japanese fighter... | 2016-09-07T01:53:29 | 2016-09-06T21:31:31 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens don't invade earth for our resources. After a civilization achieves utopia some of it's citizens get bored and fly off to other planets to enjoy primitive thrills like violence, drugs, money and fame. | **Welcome to SLZ08**
*Note: Please do not be alarmed by the sound of the gunshot. It is nothing more than our way of welcoming you.*
This announcement message has been created in order to help you familiarise yourself with our planet and its culture. After all, you've been frozen for over three hundred years whilst y... | By now, most people know better than to believe that aliens actually look like the big-headed, green-skinned, two-fingered, autotuned-"*I come in peace"*- sounding beings commonly displayed in cartoons and various shows.
Almost as many people are logical enough to realize that, if an alien species were to attempt to ... | 2018-11-23T04:37:16 | 2018-11-23T04:34:48 | 1,413 | 318 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | Odin leaned forward in his gilded throne, his single eye judging the young man who stood before him.
"What do you make of this, mortal?" Odin asked looking to his left and right, down the line of gods.
Thor scoffed, "This pathetic creature is no warrior! Look at his frail limbs and tiny body. How many frost giants ... | As the mind fades and the soul exits he can fill something pulling him in. First it was darkness then. Drunken ramblings and yelling?
“Mortal” a voice as rough as stone but as calm as wind echoes into his ear.
“ you stand before Odin chieftain God of the Asgardians. You have died well in battle taking many with you... | 2022-04-10T19:23:46 | 2018-03-26T13:09:30 | 393 | 17 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Lucas was floating in a starry void. Above him, a vortex of light swirled like the sun while below a whirlpool of darkness churned, gradually tugging at him like a current. Somehow, without words, Lucas knew that to go up was Heaven, and to go down was Hell. So he waited to be pulled into one of the options. After seve... | I held my head up high as I stared down the black, rusty gates, refusing to entertain the thought of turning around and strolling through the inviting, pristine white gate to eternal bliss.
I lifted my chin, refusing to show signs of weakness. I should be the living, or, dead now, i guess, embodiment of confidence. F... | 2018-08-13T10:50:13 | 2018-08-13T10:35:47 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You're 5 years old, when you discovered that your brain can automatically learn "everything" about anything or anyone you touch. So you keep it a secret. | On my fifth birthday, it happened. As I hugged my mom, I suddenly realized I could talk. Not just simple words, but full complex sentences, in two different languages. Not just that, but I could read, do math and all sorts of other things.
I also gained enough common sense to know that this was not normal for a 5-yea... | The problem, as is so often the case, was one of scope. We had thought up this fun little gift, thought up some fun ways it could be used to benefit the universe, and let Fate know how to play with this new game piece. Then fired it off.
The power manifested and...the kid died.
You see, he would learn about whatever ... | 2022-10-21T10:23:55 | 2022-10-21T08:03:44 | 71 | 29 |
[WP] The hottest show in the afterlife for the past decade: Steve Irwin wrangling all sorts of supernatural creatures. | G'day and welcome to the Myth Hunter. Today, I'm going after the stone salamander of Seneca. Oh, looks like we've got one. 'Ere we have the rare basilisk. Crikey, this ones a giant in'it he? Now the thing you've got to remember with basilisks is, if they stare you straight in the eye, yer turned to solid rock. So the ... | Now everyone knows that old quote about the most dangerous game being man right? I don't really believe in it for a variety of reasons. It implies that animals can't be as smart if not smarter, that man should not respect anything that is not man. Most of all the quote references hunting, something I only approve of in... | 2022-11-14T01:22:17 | 2017-12-21T18:31:05 | 5,465 | 32 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | The cavern was *their* place - a haven to retire to when the world became too oppressive; a sanctuary where they could always find one another if life became too much to handle. It was a small chamber at the end of a long, narrow, and winding passage that twisted and contorted upon itself as if it were the remains of s... | Bill and his wife Laura entered the furniture store. They were looking for a closet for their baby's room. After so many months of trying to have a baby again, years after the unfortunate miscarriage, it looked like things were finally working out for them.
An old mahogany closet caught their eye. They inspected it c... | 2017-05-31T08:04:13 | 2017-05-31T07:24:53 | 40 | 28 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | The sun was filtering through the open window, August dawn filling the room with the scent of summer. Eve stirred in her sleep, clutching the pillow closer to her chest.
'Angel,' Jack whispered, brushing away one stray lock from her forehead, 'you're dreaming.' He said, watching the first rays of light painting her ha... | "Do you, Elsa Nelbie take this man, Patrick Yoosur, to be your lawfully married husband?"
"I do."
"And do you, Patrick Yoo--" The priest paused. He was used to men crying in this day and age, and in truth rather liked seeing the emotion, but Patrick was balling his eyes out. It had been a very sudden change of demean... | 2019-12-15T10:07:20 | 2019-12-15T08:44:48 | 2,399 | 1,087 |
[WP] You're a demon. One of your favorite passtimes with your friends is to shapeshift into a young family of three, hire a babysitter, and pay them if they can last an entire night alone with whoever's the supernatural demonic toddler that night. This newest victim of yours, however, isn't phased. | She closed her umbrella, hung her coat, and stepped into the the living room. Our newest babysitter victim, a middle aged handsome woman in very conservative clothing, had no idea what she was getting into. Our demonic game was on, and I expected her to run screaming from the house within the first 15 mins, though I ha... | No matter how many times I get to be the toddler, it never gets old. I can hear my friends going their fake spiel about all the things I need, some fake emergency number, blah blah blah. I can’t wait to scare the hell out of this kid. Some skinny twelve year old girl. She probably sleeps with a teddy bear and a night l... | 2019-04-09T19:58:17 | 2019-04-09T19:22:34 | 49 | 18 |
[WP] Surprisingly, it turns out humans are one of the least violent sentient species in the galaxy. Describe a session at the galactic equivalent of the UN. | When mankind made first contact with an alien species, we had already taken to the stars for centuries. While interstellar travel was just beyond our grasp, our home solar system had become our home - more so than just Earth. Mars had been terraformed, Venus had colony cities in the skies, even the various moons of Jup... | Samuel L. Jackson, chosen representative of Earth, massaged his temples. The latest U.S. (United Species) gathering was to address the growing threat of of the Tenchal race and their constant galactic crusades. Lately, they had pushed into Chi' xen territory and slaughtered their colonists. The Chi' xen rep, Luiar, was... | 2015-03-23T09:34:39 | 2015-03-23T09:31:06 | 204 | 20 |
[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. | "So I'm not allowed to remember anything after this is over?"
"My answer is never going to change. Be grateful your memories come back everytime you see me."
I shrugged and got him a bottle from the fridge. He wedged his boney finger underneath the cap and popped it open. He reached for mine but I had already unscrew... | I would kill for you, just to see
Your smiling face awoken to the hereafter,
Here and now, in truth, for there is no after
In death, only a long-before,
And once-upon-a-time ago.
You come to me as though you are
Some sunshiny Prince, and I
A dark Lord on my slouching throne,
Wh... | 2020-01-31T08:23:34 | 2020-01-31T07:30:48 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | “Next stop, the inner circle of Hell,” our tour guide angel announced in a cheery voice. I looked at my wife and raised my eyebrows. She took my hand and patted it.
“Probably where you would have ended up if you hadn’t met me,” she whispered.
Our cloud train came to a stop before a large glass window. Beyond the w... | There he was. The devil sat there by himself, legs dangling off of a ledge. He grasped a harmonica in his hands and between his lips, out of which came music that was not as sad as one might expect in such a situation. Rather, it was an utterly beautiful, complex piece that moved me to sadness because it had no audien... | 2017-02-01T10:14:39 | 2017-02-01T09:26:11 | 130 | 74 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | "You know," I said, leaning on my friend "I guess I shouldn't have been clever with my request. People go for the classic stuff, strong, clever, attractive, that sorta thing. And here I was, just trying to stand out. Because of course I did. But you knew I would do that, right?"
My friend didn't respond, only stared d... | When we are asked to choose, they never say why, they never tell you the truth until it is too late.
They never know what effect will come from your choice.
They are ignorant of fundamental Truths.
They seek Knowledge. They seek Power.
They lack Wisdom.
They speak into existence the webs of Fate, knowing not that ... | 2022-01-02T01:33:19 | 2022-01-01T23:54:47 | 424 | 138 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | The 'age of truth' historians were dubbing it. In 2031 a new app was released and became the new big thing. Taking advantage of the constant data stream from Apple's neural implants and the shared cloud of data the new app was able to pick up on subconscious cues and could tell when someone was lying. Privacy laws prot... | "Did you kill Anna Kendrick?"
"No."
"Did you kill Bonnie James?"
"No."
"Did you kill Cindy Irish?"
"No."
"Did you kill Diane Hoffman?"
"N..n...yes! Yes, I did it! I killed her! Damn this sudden compulsion to tell the truth!"
Foster turned to the police chief. "Fucking serial killers, chief. They never lear... | 2014-11-15T17:28:43 | 2014-11-15T11:16:31 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | That evening marked the end of the first month I had fought these creatures, and in that time I had lost more soldiers than in a sixty-cycle career. I worked special-operations, pitting my small number troops against the best of the best in any in a planet we choose to invade. These losses made me fearful. If one of th... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T13:40:10 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Humanity banded together nearly a decade ago, the aliens ship was after all easily detected. The massive nuclear engines they utilized poured out radiation and energy easily visible for light years even before they entered the heliosphere of the solar system.
At first some scientists feared we were about to witness a... | When people thought of the words *alien invasion*, the first thing that usually pops to minds is overwhelming firepower. Giant, city-sized saucers with nuclear energy beams, giant mechas or tripods waltzing through military installations and destroying everything in globules of plasma, standing triumphant anove the hu... | 2016-02-22T13:17:54 | 2016-02-22T11:29:44 | 44 | 18 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | --start recording--
I give you this message, my child, so that you may learn from our mistakes. I am sorry that I cannot be there to tell you in person, I would wish for nothing more now than to see you grow old enough to understand and cherish the words I have written here. But that will not come to pass. My one sola... | From the logs of Qi-Sil, Xion Imperial Chronicler
 
The humans joined the Galactic Federation around 6700 standard years ago. They were at the time a weak and unimposing presence, much like the Federation was. But while the Federation may arguably still be nothing more than a façade, the same cannot be said ... | 2016-03-13T18:34:56 | 2016-03-13T17:09:28 | 108 | 56 |
[WP] I've climbed Mt. Everest dozens of times, but I've never reached the summit. I've begun using my own corpses as trail markers, attempting to reach the top before I freeze to death again. (credit to u/PointlessPoem in r/TwoSentenceHorror) | My hand feels warm and I sigh, my breath wisping away in the snowstorm. I shiver and look behind me. I can see nothing by the most recent few footsteps. I ended up in a blizzard this time around. I want to rub my hands together, but I already know the warmth meant frost-bite. I wouldn't last very long at this rate. I h... | The wind is cold. It bites at my face. Stinging it like a hundred hornets. tormenting me. It’s feels numbed. It’ll be okay. This time I’ll make it. This time I’ll reach the top. This time I won’t fall into the snow. Eyes blank. As the darkness swirls around and I appear at the beginning all over again. Cursed to climb ... | 2020-11-08T11:20:54 | 2020-11-08T10:32:54 | 90 | 24 |
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