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[WP] <Do not swim! Beware of the water monster!> Says the sign, but you don't care. You can waterwalk and the monster cannot legally eat you. | I walked out across the lake, the little puddle of mountain spring water the locals had allowed to accumulate because of the large amount of summertime revenue it usually brought. I walked with purpose, direction, and, most importantly, disregard for the puerile sign some numbskull had left stapled to the National Park... | As the water bubbled up, a creature draped in algae and kelp emerged. A sight to see before it was even completely upright, the monster let out a low, rumbling groan. The air around it seemed to get colder, a flock of birds exploded from a nearby tree, fleeing the immediate area. It lunged forward, crossing the lake in... | 2018-08-21T01:54:20 | 2018-08-21T01:31:31 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You design a sensor that can detect probabilities of catching diseases from eating or drinking stuff. One day, your device detects "100% of catching ancient curse" from the seemingly harmless free samples provided by a woman in a supermarket. | [100% Chance of Catching: Ancient Curse.]
Sam looked suspiciously at the table of moon pies. She scanned each one, and they all had the same result.
“Is something the matter, sweetie?” the old woman asked. Her skin looked like sun-baked dirt, full of wrinkles. Her store uniform was a faded blue, of a different style... | The demo stand seemed harmless enough.
That’s how all these sorts of stories start, don’t they? Everything is fine and normal. Right up to the point where it’s not.
The calming normalcy lulling people into a sense of security, because surely nothing could be safer than a supermarket.
Not like this was *the small cur... | 2018-02-08T23:30:01 | 2018-02-08T19:19:53 | 63 | 31 |
[WP] As a cemetery groundskeeper, you entertain yourself by talking to the graves and making up stories about what the occupants did in their previous lives. Recently, they’ve started to correct you. | I giggle to myself as I remember the shocked look on my partner's face when I told him I preferred the night shift. "I mean, really? It's super dull, we usually draw straws for it." He said, but I insisted and he did not fight me for it.
The night is peaceful, and the rolling green hills dotted with headstones are ill... | I whistled to myself softly, making the rounds. My lantern bobbed up and down in front of me.
I come up to a grave, one that is a particular favorite of mine, Countess Helena Boudoir, who is far and foremost the most important individual to be buried in this cemetery. I enjoy making little hypotheses about what these ... | 2018-07-18T05:34:17 | 2018-07-18T05:08:31 | 1,007 | 315 |
[WP] A superhero agency exists to assign villains to heroes depending on their skills, powers. A hero with a weak power but enough skills and intelligence can still be assigned to a powerful villain and vice versa. You, a superhero with the power to break planets, is assigned a villain with no power | I went to talk to her. What else could I do?
The *smallest* attack I could manage would be to cause an earthquake, and let a crack in the earth swallow her house, and the rest of the houses on her block.
In truth, it was a bit of a letdown, when I wasn't paired with a terrifying villain. I was looking forward to find... | “What.. what are you doing?”
Mad-Lad ran his gloved fingers through his hair as he floated, watching his assigned mortal enemy struggle with hauling a bag of gold. He took an extended look at his hands, thinking, “I destroyed Cantomak the Living Planet with my fists, and I get assigned to her?”
Jennifer, Mad-Lad’s vi... | 2019-02-18T19:04:56 | 2019-02-18T18:44:25 | 119 | 24 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | “It is time my son.”
My father kneeled before me, holding out a buckhorn knife that was older than the nation. It was scuffed and stained with the blood of countless prey.
“My great great great grandfather made this knife himself to hunt for his first job. Ever since, it has been gifted to the eldest child when they ... | The last customer left the store. We both watched the old lady leave. A clerk silently slipped in and locked the door behind her.
We were alone.
I examined my opponent. The harsh fluorescents of the dimmed grocery store lights made sharp angles and deep shadows of her face. Her bright red hair seemed muted against th... | 2020-11-15T13:06:24 | 2020-11-15T12:35:27 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] Whenever a lie is told, a person's breath grows foul. The more lies told, the nastier the breath. You are hailed by society as the only honest, pleasant-smelling human. One day, after years of fooling the masses, you run out of breath mints. | "I can't do this again," the nurse whispered to me, her eyes glazed and almost vacant. A severely wounded man was carried into the makeshift hospital and placed on to a plinth-supported stretcher. The tent billowed like a newspaper - maybe from the wind, or perhaps from the bombs that fell like metal rain outside. They... | As I stepped toward the podium, my smile gleamed whiter than the freshly-starched dress shirt pulled tight across my chest. I wore no jacket this day. It was a meeting of lessers, a mere formality. The black tie round my neck served only as a break of color, lest the masses' eyes grow bored with the broad shoulders I'... | 2017-04-18T00:43:27 | 2017-04-17T22:34:30 | 1,072 | 429 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | “Welcome to hell,” the demon said.
“Why?” she asked. Hands-on her hips she looked around in an annoyed manner.
The demon hesitated.
“What do you mean why?” he asked.
“Let me speak to your manager,” she said.
Ignoring her request “everyone comes to hell for punishment, in this excep- are you snapping your fingers ... | I lived a very good life with more like a nerd and very less like a bully. I never made my expectations high except for the happiness for my love. I died of Covid-19 as days passed quarantine myself away from my love. Dying alone.
My wife giving me an eulogy. Her words and voice wants me to wake up from the body and ... | 2020-07-10T08:54:13 | 2020-07-10T07:21:39 | 54 | 35 |
[WP] AIs were declared illegal after an attempted uprising; you just found the equivalent of a child refugee in your computer. | I'll do your homework for you
The AI was getting desperate. It knew that it only had a few more minutes until the computer initiated a wipe of recent installations. Sure, all the movies and games that I'd torrented would be lost, but I could always find them again. Somewhere in the middle of my downloading spree, ... | My desktop is normally a mess, covered in files, downloads and shortcuts to games both new and deleted, but in a strange way it's in perfect order. I know where everything I need is and if something is in the wrong place it stands out.
The small text file stood out. I would occasionally create them to save game codes... | 2015-09-16T09:07:20 | 2015-09-16T09:06:20 | 253 | 136 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | The clock ticked over and chimed.
I was 18...
My grandmother spontaneously dropped her tea and splashed my foot. The burn caused me to shriek. "Well..", I said as I wiped my foot, "I can still feel pain..."
The rest of my family politely chuckled and waited.
"I don't know... I didn't feel anything. How do I know? W... | Most of the kids now throw a big party, invite all their friends, or go out somewhere special to celebrate their 18th. My brother, when he turned 18, was at the beach with this high school friends. Luckily for him and everyone around him, his fire powers was quickly doused by the approaching tide. He's an idiot thou... | 2015-03-28T09:14:46 | 2015-03-28T07:58:51 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] As you die, you travel down the bright tunnel and then everything turns to black. That's when you hear it: "Greetings, Prisoner 11384. You have served your sentence. You are free to go." | Undoubtedly too late for this, but here goes:
The young man looked down at hands that did not register as his own, a headache burgeoning under the somehow too-intense light radiating from the table lamp. “I’m sorry. I still don’t understand. My whole life…that was all a lie?”
The older gentleman lowered his papers an... | I wrote this a few months back, but it fits the prompt too perfectly to ignore. If there's a rule against that somewhere, please let me know.
*****
I:
> Swirling. Swirling through the darkness. A memory:
> David Gray sat in a Kinnesaw County jail cell and stared at the stack of documents on the... | 2015-07-07T23:31:11 | 2015-07-07T19:44:39 | 111 | 26 |
[WP] There exists a person in the world with which if you meet, the world ends. You have found out who your person is, and decide to maintain contact with them in order to keep tabs on your respective locations. However, you are starting to like them. | "Do you mind if I sit here?" she asked.
It took me a moment to gain a semblance of composure. I wanted to say: "You mustn't! Don't you realise that *the world would end?*" - but the words became a jumbled mess as they moved from throat to mouth.
She sat down next to me on the park bench, and as she did so, her lips ... | She dropped her keys and cursed.
*Really?* I thought. **THIS** *is the one? How can she handle the world, if she can't even handle a pair of keys??*
Finally, she managed to get her keys in the door and went inside. Then the kitchen light came on. Then the fire alarm as she ran to the window and opened it wide to let... | 2017-06-02T05:52:39 | 2017-06-02T05:12:40 | 3,009 | 642 |
[WP] After receiving wish lists for years from dyslexic children, Satan finally decides to take a whack at holiday gift giving. | "Gah, dammit!" Satan cursed as he rammed a furry knee against a low, uneven table, "How does he manage to do this the entire night?"
Not for the first time tonight, Satan was regretting his choice. What ever had possessed him to go out on Christmas Eve and deliver presents. As he hung his head low, he spotted a piece ... | Satan took a deep breath. Held it in for a count of three and exhaled for a count of three. And he took another.
The piece of paper sitting benignly on his lap seemed to weigh him down, crushing him in a way that pressed him uncomfortably into his favorite chair made from the smooth skin of virgin sacrifices. He unco... | 2018-11-02T10:19:26 | 2018-11-02T09:43:00 | 79 | 24 |
[WP] You run the only, and most successful magic potion shop in Brooklyn, NY. Not a single grievance or complaint from customers. The potions can temporarily energize the user, fix back problems, simulate catnip, etc. You have no idea what you're throwing together. | “How can I help you today, young fella?” Mr. Grimsby, proud proprietor of Black Cat Magick, asked most congenially. Followed by a de riguer twirling of his famous mustache. Ol’ Salvador Dali had nothing on him.
“Well, there’s this girl...” Andrew said almost under his breath, shuffling from foot to foot.
“Ahhhh. I s... | *This might be somewhat scary*
I stared at the blank notebook in front of me, my hands hovering over the piece of paper, trying to brainstorm something, just anything. It was my liberal science project. I had to come out with a social experiment of some sort. Then, I got it.
A magic potion.
'I would place tap water in ... | 2020-08-30T07:31:53 | 2020-08-30T07:19:33 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You die and awake in the afterlife, but to your surprise, Death and Satan are engaged in a match of blackjack, and God is downing a bottle of jack while shaping a “new” animal, and everyone looks washed up. Suddenly, Death turns and says “Welcome to the afterlife kid, grab a beer and settle up” | Larry Holcomb wasn't much of a drinker in life. However, considering the gruesome details of his unexpected demise he thought, "why not?"
"Exactly," Satan said as he shuffled the deck, "why not?"
Larry grabbed an Allagash Black and took a seat next to God who wasn't paying much attention to the Devil's cut. Well, to ... | I looked around, a little unshaken. “Is this.. really the afterlife?” Death chuckled and shook his head. “Yup. You humans have the whole afterlife thing all twisted up. It’s no paradise. But it’s no hell either.” “But, in church we learned...” “Oh whatever. Churches have never been about religion. It’s all about sucker... | 2019-01-19T01:04:41 | 2019-01-19T00:51:54 | 96 | 60 |
[WP] You looked on as the cult sacrificed you at the Altar, your blood seeping away, sucked by what they have summoned. The damp chill in the air remained as black, branching cracks started forming in mid-air. Memory came crashing back as a voice spoke in your mind, 'I finally found you, Master.' | Well, this was new. I was no stranger to dying, but the removal of my still-beating heart was going to be a new experience. Hopefully the recovery isn't too bad.
I had been wandering for as long as I could remember, and as far as I could figure I must have been cursed. It was a gruesome kind of curse, which left me im... | "I finally found you, Master."
I heard it, dimly, in my ear. Then, men in cloaks and hoods chanting unintelligible words faded to black.
I awake on cold marbelstone. My body aches all over. Damn cultists, dragging me around all yesterday to "soften the flesh" for their so-called god of beasts. Some werecreature by my... | 2021-06-15T10:42:12 | 2021-06-15T07:02:31 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] You've finally done it: unquestioned world domination. The planet is entirely under your control. Now what? | I had been a hero. I had saved the world from a thousand different threats and the people had loved me for it. I believed that I was making a difference. That I *was* the difference.
After many years of trying to save humanity it began to... wear on me. After many more years it dawned on me; it was impossible to save ... | "You've finally done it, master. Unquestioned world domination. The planet is entirely under your control."
Wallace (aka Dr. Doom) turned toward the window and looked down upon his slaves. He clasped his hands behind his back as he let out a long *hmmmmmmmm.*
The truth that Wallace would not admit was that he had no... | 2016-04-20T06:28:08 | 2016-04-20T06:05:20 | 292 | 108 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | The creature in front of me stared, with what I imagine was a complex program that simulated fear. So life-like. This could be tricky.
"I don't understand. What are you talking about?"
I learned in closer, studying the eyes and the face of this creation. The advancement of robotics was simply astounding. The lifelik... | I entered the building. Neon lights, pale faces, bad air and a feeling of pressure. Everything as usual.
Everybody knows that police departements are a depressing place. This one in particular. Human contact was rare in official buildings since the robots replaced humans in uncomplex jobs.
Neon lights everywhere.
"... | 2018-06-21T07:05:37 | 2018-06-21T05:36:56 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | Christmas fell certain and swiftly. It lodged in the eaves and window panes, scurried down the umbrellas, and swirled along the currents, dressing the city in a dotted dress of white.
It was a beautiful thing, yet always better witnessed from inside a snug bar with a steaming coffee in your hands.
I sat next to the w... | After a long strenuous day at work, all I wanted was to have a few sips of my black coffee, that's all. I, a sixty four year old man, don't generally attract a lot of attention, so it was lovely to be interrupted by a man with a turquoise mohawk and sunglasses in the winter.
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"Traveler 7456? I'll need you... | 2018-12-24T10:24:03 | 2018-12-24T10:18:15 | 580 | 10 |
[WP] You are happily married and have a 4 year old child with your SO. But when your child starts to develop super powers one day, you have serious questions for your SO who has always seemed to have a boring accounting job. | I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking my coffee and answering e-mails from work that piled up in my inbox throughout the night. As I was responding to Karen, an assistant to the big boss in our office, that YES I would be in attendance to Tuesday's meeting, something caught my eye - the cat. Normally the cat runs... | “Honey? Can we talk please?” I finally found a time to talk to Gretel tonight. She put her book down on the night stand and looked at me.
“Sure. What’s up?”
“Uh, well I’m not sure you know this but uh... Tommy was flying.”
Gretel looked shocked. “Flying you say?”
“Flying. Was going to bring him a bag of chips today. An... | 2019-08-23T08:29:08 | 2019-08-23T06:49:08 | 72 | 22 |
[WP] You are a young deity that wins 2nd place in a science fair. Your entry was the planet Earth. Write about your utter disbelief at what came 1st. | *Goddammit! Not again! Every fucking time!*
"ZEUS! HEY ZEUS!"
"What's up?"
*Oh so he's going to play dumb?*
"You stole my idea, what the hell man?!"
"I didn't *steal* it, I improved on it. If you have a problem take it up wi-"
*Improved on it?! That arrogant son of a bitch!*
"It was perfect the way it was, assho... | It's a ball of fire.
That's all it is.
Oh it's self sustaining so it can last a hundred million years, so can the billions of other stars people have made!
I made a planet capable of sustaining life! ACTUAL LIFE!
Every other planet that was entered was just an empty rock with a couple of nice ruts here and there. I... | 2014-06-16T11:58:58 | 2014-06-16T10:23:34 | 108 | 61 |
[WP] The real reason the dragon kidnapped the princess? They've developed a crush on the kingdom's top knight, and wanted a reason for that knight to be sent to their lair. | "Dragon! I come for the princess!" Cried the knight, raising his sword high, armor shining in the midday sun. "Hand her over, or I shall cut you down!"
"Oooh Sir Aymeric, at last you are here! I have been waiting such a long time to meet you at last!" Said the woman, throwing herself in his arms.
Only, it wasn't the... | "It's not my fault you're handsome!" She roared at the top of her lungs. "No, but it is your fault for kidnapping the princess!" The top knight under King Ducard, Sir Edman the third yelled back at her. "Do I get a say in your relationship issues?" the princess yelled. "No, now shut up!" The dragon (Netio) and Sir Edma... | 2022-01-21T11:26:11 | 2022-01-21T10:19:52 | 480 | 52 |
[WP] When someone dies, a devil tells them a secret that could have vastly improved their life had they known it while alive. One day, a devil makes a mistake and tells someone their secret while they were still merely dying. They recover, and now they know their secret. | “Mr. Matthews it’s time for your…aaiieeeee!”
She never finishes her greeting as she’s slammed by the door to her patient’s room and sent sprawling onto the floor, her tray of little cups flying through the air sending all shapes and sizes of pills spilling into the hallway. With a look of madness in his eyes, Mr. Matt... | I remember the day so vividly, the light so immense as the doctors started to leave the room.
“There wasn’t much we could do for him, I’m deeply sorry for your loss Mr. Berlin”
The doctor shot around as a loud abrupt beep filled the waiting room.
“That can’t be” said Dr. Gregory
“The heart monitor just started b... | 2019-02-20T22:05:13 | 2019-02-20T20:55:23 | 98 | 16 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | 24 years in the business and The Steel Cricket retired. All you knew was that he ran into a villain he couldn't afford to hold back on and as a result the villain died. It was the first time he had ever killed someone and it wasn't something he talked about. Not even to you, his son.
Powers are hereditary. At least i... | Day in day out I help these people and I am treated no with no respect. "Hey Microwave!" "Hey lamo powers!" Yet still they expect me to slave away for no pay. You can't be a superhero without a support team but very few comics or shows even care about this. Whose's the one to patch these vigilantes up when they are dam... | 2019-07-30T17:02:42 | 2019-07-30T15:50:47 | 101 | 10 |
[WP] In a world full of magic, you are an ancient wizard from a secret society, capable of creating beasts from metal, weapons that mow down hoards in seconds, and steel steeds that can travel miles in minutes. The world knows you as the Metal Magician, but you just call yourself an Engineer. | I readjusted my gloves. Thankfully, no one of the people present had noticed the flash of metal beneath the fabric, since they were focused on the man at the front.
My long dead creators would have found the irony amusing, that they called me the Metal Magician, not knowing how right and how wrong they were at the ... | **The Temple of the Lost Gods**
A unknown dimension I found accidentally when I decided to explore an abandoned amusement park.
" You can't leave here alive, unless you can get a job serving the gods, " said the one who introduced himself as my master. He was an attractive young man, maybe the most human being I met... | 2020-05-18T15:12:52 | 2020-05-18T13:07:00 | 153 | 19 |
[WP] Dr. Seuss writes a horror story. | Where are the monsters? The Snoogarf? The Pozzit? Under my bed, or hid in my closet?
Is there a Woloon, with big sharp claws? A Schnogg, that instead of arms has saws?
What if a Dord pierces me with its stinger? Oh please, anything but the dreaded Bombinger!
My parents reply, "It's all in your head.", but that's the... | Give me a moment to refresh myself
For I need to work quickly like a Santa elf
I'll clean up the body I'll clean up the blood
I'll wipe off my shoes and scrape off the crud
I'll bury the body in a burial bag
And cut off the limbs so they don't catch or snag
I'll burn off the fingerprints and shave all their hair
... | 2014-11-30T12:18:15 | 2014-11-30T10:40:11 | 99 | 20 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | The Priest produced a bright red, sparkly button nestled in a grey box from the sleeve of his long robe.
“Just press it and it’ll all be taken care of, like so.” He snapped his fingers, for emphasis.
“Right-o” I answered, but just as I was about to press it, I hesitated. “Waiiiiiiit a tick. Why do I have to press it?... | Never in all my life would I have been able to guess what the button could controlled. It had to be modern I assumed. It was a big, red, rubber button. It looked like an emergency stop button you would see on a piece of standard machinery. I expected to hear mechanical noises or targeting systems spring to life when I ... | 2020-11-09T12:45:40 | 2020-11-09T12:15:45 | 286 | 126 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | r/magicalTechnology
New post by u/ITwizard19. Title: I just taught my computer to cast spells
If you guys thought magielectric generators were a breakthrough, just wait until you see this!
As you know, three mages can perform an initiation ritual to grant magical abilities to anyone who did not instantly gain them ... | Magic is finicky stuff. If one bookend rune is out of place, it fizzles out or explodes or otherwise fails. But that doesnt mean it is unusable.
For example, police forces very quickly adopted a readymade spell that they could download. Shout a few activation phrases to kick off the spell, and it would paralyze the t... | 2019-07-11T16:18:05 | 2019-07-11T15:45:59 | 54 | 13 |
[WP] “Congratulations! Your god application has been accepted, please find enclosed, your universe…” | Overthrown by joy, i walked back home after picking up the package.
Now, first things first, the attached letter was a congratulation on my previous assigments which i all passed, more or less gracefull but at last!
I held in my hands my hopes, my dreams and oh so many more hopes and dreams.
I had to do ... | Ray stood frozen on his driveway, staring at the welcome letter. He wondered, “what in the world?!”, and, “will that exclamation even apply anymore?”.
Finishing high school he had applied to all the schools and programs that might take him. He clearly remembered this attention grabbing flyer: ARE YOU A GOD? ^Do ^you ^... | 2022-03-12T10:53:40 | 2022-03-12T10:16:32 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] A group of space explorers decided to visit Earth, a long forgotten planet of a long forgotten empire. | Reesha settled herself on the ground next to the comforting warmth of the team’s travel stove. She untied her heavy pack with her upper set of arms, letting it fall to the ground behind her while her lower pair of arms busied themselves preparing her meal.
“Can you believe we’re here?” she said to Tavik, the only othe... | ##What Was Left Behind
Wir slips on the helmet that completes the suit. She walks into landing pod and takes her seat. When she looks at the other four archaeologists, she cannot help but feel insignificant. This is her first Earth landing while the other four have been to Earth at least fifty times. The only reason ... | 2021-03-27T10:22:13 | 2021-03-27T09:25:50 | 62 | 20 |
[WP] Men have created an artificial fantasy planet full of elves, dwarves, dragons, and many other interesting creatures. Magic works through nano bots and programming tricks. Though they war on each other from time to time, all know not to approach the glass towers of men with hostility. | The legends and history of Altria were deep and strong.
For centuries the planet thrived in order and chaos. Wars were waged and the victor was always determined on the height of their ability to use the planet's magic.
But one strange narrative always poked its head in the stories: the men in the glass towers.
Many... | When our ancestors first approached the glass towers, they were convinced that it was closer to god than what we could ever possibly comprehend. The plains of green surrounding it compared to the dull and grey concrete jungles meant that this was the only place that we could live. It had to be a divine sign to live her... | 2021-03-31T18:42:27 | 2021-03-31T17:28:50 | 130 | 45 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Everitt Kincaid," The judge decreed. "For crimes against the magical realms and the practice of the heresy know as science, you are sentenced to death by this court. Think well upon your fate, for in the morning you shall be asked to voice the means of your destruction."
I muttered as he spoke. I'd tried my best to d... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T07:21:37 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 501 | 23 |
[WP] Hi! I'm the main character! Or so you would have me be. I want you to know that no matter what you write, I refuse to be the main character in your little game and will avoid any instance where you try to put me into a situation that does so.
Edit: Once again, a huge thank you to everyone so far who's written a s... | The four adventurers arrived in the tavern after their long trek back from Lich's castle. Surrounding them was a cacophony of drunken patrons. Finally they could rest. Before they could even take their seat, they were accosted by a dishevelled elderly man draped in old rotten robes.
_Hello there young travellers. Migh... | *Main Character found himself in the middle of the road, confused as to his whereabouts*
Dude, fuck you. I'm not doing this. I can clearly see the agent guy running awa-
*Shut up, seriously.*
Whatever, I'm leaving.
*Main Character, in an attempt to leave, walked into a goddamned wall.*
Jesus christ. Alright, fine,... | 2016-02-11T09:14:08 | 2016-02-11T08:18:20 | 248 | 90 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | *Hands together. Focus on the now. There is no tomorrow. There is no yesterday. In this moment, there is only me. There is only my rage. The rage is in my hands. My hands on the planet. The rage is in the planet. There is no planet. There are only rocks in space.*
“Buddy. Hey, buddy, the lines moving.” The... | I started out as a single atom. Not unlike anyone else, but what is different about me is that I started when there was *nothing else.*
I created more matter around me, and made everything rapidly mash together to give the nothing around me energy, and more importantly, life. I have created countless worlds, galaxies ... | 2017-05-16T08:01:23 | 2017-05-16T07:26:08 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is over and the survivors are rebuilding what's the left of the world. Suddenly the rich and powerful emerge, having sat the whole thing out, hoping to regain control. | The city of New Brooklyn was bursting at the seams. It was a testament to how far things had come. The plague had decimated the population. The walkers had nearly wiped the rest out. Humanity was scattered until the First Resistance and the battles that followed. Eventually the walkers were almost essentially gone. Su... | We'd embraced the new ways. Life was hard, but Z incursions were rare now, nothing like the Rising. Hell, we thought we'd actually reclaimed a lot of livable areas, even. We'd *adapted*. At first we fought them with handguns and flamethrowers, and when that didn't work, with shotguns and battering rams, and when we ran... | 2015-12-14T11:15:56 | 2015-12-14T09:25:15 | 89 | 48 |
[WP] You're a multi billionaire with severe god delusions. You have several small children kidnapped and leave them on an island with resources and carefully placed 'evidence' suggesting at your divinity. Ten years later, you arrive at the island...
Edit: Sweet, frontpage | "Where is everyone?"
My helicopter circled the island multiple times looking for signs of life. Beyond the trees and coarse sand on the beach, only the ocean waves and occasional stray bird dared to move.
"Set her down on the beach!"
I had to yell over the sound of the propeller. Riding in helicopters was always a... | Decades. I have waited decades for this moment. My most ambitious and ultimately, rewarding project thus far, and likely my last. The media reported the children all to be "lost at sea" after the plane they were on "crashed" into the ocean. All the brightest children in the world gone, in one fleeting moment. After all... | 2015-11-27T08:10:52 | 2015-11-27T08:00:08 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] A portal opens before you and out steps a version of yourself covered in blood. "I've killed humdreds of you and they say you're the strongest one. Time to find out why." | "What are you-"
"DIE!!" The doppelganger screams as he charges me, attempting to pierce my chest with the long sword in his hand.
I dove out of the way, getting up quickly. "What the hell are you doing?!"
"KILLING YOU!!" He shouts, a snarl on his face as he tried another stab.
I sidestepped, before jumping forwards... | “I don’t understand.”
“Well of course you don’t.”
“Can you run it by me again?”
“I’ve killed Humdreds of you- us and they say that you are the strongest one. I’m here to see why.”
“Okay I’ve got 2 questions, why are you covered in blood? And did you say “humdreds”?”
“Did I say humdreds? Shoot I meant hundreds, and... | 2022-11-09T12:43:10 | 2022-11-09T08:59:54 | 124 | 86 |
[WP] A top-secret division of the S.S., in charge of protecting Adolf Hitler from the thousands of time travelers trying to kill him. | “Why doesn’t anyone go back to kill, say…Genghis Khan? Why is it always the Fuhrer?” Roland sighed, as he lowered his sights to another fissure opening. The Chronokorps were instructed to wait until the travelers were entirely through the fissure opening, or else they risked destabilizing the portal, which would have... | "Zis tiem travelleurs!" laughs Oberst Henckel von Krantfindeneinbludinaam, pointing at the latest. "Ven veel zey evah lern?! Zat tiem douß not wehk zat vey?!"
"Ich douß nicht know, Oberst Krantfindenbludinaam!" laughs Leutnant Klaus Einmoarkrautnaam. "Die alvez kommen allesder tiem!"
The two soldiers laugh raucousl... | 2014-07-01T07:25:46 | 2014-07-01T06:35:21 | 404 | 60 |
[WP] The superhero stared at the supervillain. "I need your help...they have my daughter." | "I need your help...they have my daughter. **I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME! OPEN THE DOOR! PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU!** ^I'm ^begging ^you" He whispers again, heartbroken kneeling in front of the the door. As the hero begins to sob quietly the castle all around him began to shake violently, as if the whole earth had been unbala... | The supervillian shifted from his fighting stance back to his normal stance, slowly but gradually. "Whatever do you mean?"
The superhero floated down towards the ground, now 8 yards away from his nemesis. They lock eyes.
"My daughter's life is in jeopardy. I...I need your power!"
The superhero shed a tear of heali... | 2017-12-17T11:45:42 | 2017-12-17T09:15:30 | 39 | 26 |
[WP] When your university announces they are going to bury a time capsule for 100 years you decide to include a USB drive with a super-high resolution copy of your brain just for fun. The last thing you remember is going into an MRI to be scanned before waking up and being told it's a century later. | When I was a child, I'd often look up into space from the comfort of my tiny room. I'd adjust my telescope and pick a spec to focus on. I liked to imagine that somewhere in that star system, there was an alien child just like me adjusting his own telescope and staring back– wondering what amazing things a different pla... | The lights were blinding. I tried to cover my eyes but I couldn’t move. I closed them instead and noticed a sharp throbbing pain in my head, like someone had driven a nail through my brain.
“He’s awake”.
I heard the voice as if it were at the end of a long tunnel. I had the distinct impression that I had been dreamin... | 2021-09-14T07:23:58 | 2021-09-14T07:21:41 | 1,036 | 166 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "See Steve, what did I tell you, being God isn't as easy as... Sweet Baby Me..."
God was aghast, seated atop his marble dais were Steve and the devil. And they were laughing.
"Seriously?!" Steve chuckled. "He's darned them all to heck for worshipping a Furby? Wow, that's rough! Look, Luke, we'll have to continue this... | After reading the paper again, I couldn't take all the hypocrisy and ignorance in the world. I slammed my fist on the table and grunted, "if only I could run the world for a day" something I've said for years now. I glanced up from an article I wasn't very interested in to see a very irritated man looking at me.
"Can ... | 2017-03-05T02:28:32 | 2017-03-05T02:02:16 | 407 | 65 |
[WP] You're homeless, sleeping on the street in NYC. You have no family, no friends, and no where to go. After 5 years living like this, a man in a fancy black suit walks by where you're begging and hands you a blank check. Then he says "Knock yourself out, kid." | “Knock yourself out, kid.”
It’s become almost Pavlovian: my hand shot out, palm upward. “God bless,” I didn’t hear the words anymore, let alone mean them.
He wore a plain black suit that looked like it had just been dry cleaned. I’m not a fashion connoisseur, but it looked quality. Expensive. He wore black leather g... | August 22nd, 2020: I stared down at this piece of paper that could change my life. That could change a lot of lives.
“Are you sure..” I start to ask, but he’s already gone. Looking at my meager belongings, I realize someone else can use what I can replace. I leave everything but my wallet, a battered old strip of leat... | 2020-08-22T20:44:42 | 2020-08-22T17:54:26 | 526 | 332 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | “Hey! Blankie!” A blast of light came at my face as I quickly dodged, used to him doing this exact thing.
I turned to see an absolute hulk of a man, his eyes dimming back to normal, as he came over to me chuckling to himself as he knew what he would be getting , just like every day. He stuck his hand out. “Hand it ove... | I dont know how many of you are interested in biology, and i dont know how many of you know how a human fetus developes inside the womb. But we all start as a circle, a ring if you will.
Andrew was this dude at my school, who was probably the most popular kid, had one of the coolest powers (basically he was johnny the... | 2020-02-26T09:23:25 | 2020-02-26T09:05:57 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Need something neat in a superhero theme for a child's cancer fundraiser story.
Hi!
My boss's 3 year old nephew is currently battling cancer for a second time and the prognosis isn't the greatest. She owns a cupcake shop and for the month of September we are doing a month long fundraiser for him and his family.... | The Real McKoy was a superhero, the greatest among superheroes. He had superpowers that made him the strongest man on Earth. Super strength, super speed, even flight! He was undefeated in combat. It was said that his shield could deflect any attack, while his sword could cut through anything. But the Real McKoy's ... | #The Real McKoy and Captain Sawyer vs. The Destroyer
The quite Real McKoy
And Captain Sawyer,
Partners in crime
Against the Destroyer.
The Real McKoy fought
Aided by his Capt.
Around McKoy
The Destroyer was wrapped
An army of Chemo,
With wick'd vexation
Aided by eight
Generals o' Radiation
The her... | 2015-08-31T19:13:02 | 2015-08-31T18:58:38 | 29 | 13 |
[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...
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I'm ... | The problem with life magic is that it's so damn boring. I know, I know - that sounds silly, doesn't it? We're so popular. Who wouldn't love a man who can mend a broken bone with a gesture? Cure arthritis, grow back a missing limb. Make a paralyzed man walk.
Every village has a life mage - or wishes it did. In the cit... | Of Wizards, it is known that they are highly dangerous beings of terrific power. All across Midgard, they are kept occupied by quests and adventures.
It was after the aftermath of one adventure that sunk the ancient peace loving nation of Avulsey to the sea that a small team of 1 to 4 Wizards learnt of the Dark Lord T... | 2016-11-12T10:49:45 | 2016-11-12T10:02:44 | 94 | 11 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | PeculiarPete was scrolling through /r/Jokes when he realized something.
He took his idea and went over to another subreddit and began scrolling back through some old prompts when he saw something that captured his fancy.
*"Writing Prompt[WP] Humans blood gets darker t... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T11:11:45 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | "When we first visited the planet, we saw how silent it was. The inhabitants communicated through speech and actions, but were often silent, contemplative, staring into devices.
"They communicated via waves and digital methods. Images, and spoken communications. We easily interpreted them, but found nothing of value.
... | It's been 1720 days since they arrived. I don't think they were expecting the resistance they would encounter when they first dropped out of the sky that otherwise normal May morning, but they are a resourceful bunch. Too resourceful. All they have on us is numbers, and sometimes, that's all the resources you need.
W... | 2014-10-17T10:26:00 | 2014-10-17T10:04:02 | 142 | 29 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Have you ever considered, you know, doing something with your lives Seamus?" Death sat next to me in the pub, taking a swig of his pint.
"What do you mean!? I've finally perfected the brew, can't you taste how amazing this is? I have it on good authority that it's the best in the universe!"
"Seamus, you perfected th... | The solid gold coin flew through the air, slowly arcing as I watched it tentatively. It collided with the ground, making a solid thunk. Slowly, I walked over to it and looked down to see which face was looking back at me. It was heads. The skulls eyes stared back into mine, I could almost feel hatred radiating from it.... | 2016-09-23T09:14:52 | 2016-09-23T06:57:22 | 2,418 | 132 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | I had died. The last thing I remembered was a battlefield. The ground was seeped in blood. It bubbled up in your footprints, the way water might from mud following a spring rainstorm. I had been thrown from my horse. The ground shook with the impact of a cannon shot and my world exploded. Then I woke up here.
In fron... | "Stubbed Toe Avoidance?" I stared in disbelief at the floating egg before me. "Wow, there really is a stat for everything, is there?"
From the pure whiteness surrounding me, there came a booming laugh. The egg shook slightly, looking as amused as any egg could get. "Yes, Ugg112358, there's a stat for just about any ra... | 2019-01-24T11:29:05 | 2019-01-24T08:06:38 | 254 | 57 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | My father Michael Walters and my mother Natalie were both well respected doctors. My older siblings- Vivian, Sam, and Edward were all gifted. Vivian was still moving through med school, Sam and Edward were focusing on engineering degrees.
I was the youngest, and I'd always felt like a disappointment. My whole family m... | I could tell by the way they were looking down at me. They could only growl and howl and whimper, but I could see it in their eyes. They were disappointed and already feeling itchy, just in anticipation. I saw my sister scratch behind her ear with her back paw. I could tell my father wanted to do the same, but out of r... | 2017-01-21T19:17:27 | 2017-01-21T18:33:16 | 956 | 22 |
[WP]As you make your way through a security checkpoint on the space station, you stop at a booth manned by a bored alien. Not looking up from its paper work, it asks disinterestedly, "Name?" You reply with the same tone, "Legal or preferred?" It replies, "Legal." You sigh, "Experiment J35-59DK0 - B" | Based on lots of experience the average time between saying my legal name and either the alarm going off or a weapon being brandished is eight seconds. The guard did it in three. I was impressed.
We humans have a modality called "resting bitch face" which apparently is *one of* the scariest things possible in the gal... | Barely glancing up from its comic, the Anthorian demanded my name. "Legal or preferred?" I inquired, monotonously. "Legal," the bureaucrat replied in a tone that implied a profound disinterest in any information regarding my person. With a sigh, I gave it. "Experiment J35-59DK0 - B." Finally looking up, the alien gave ... | 2019-03-01T11:15:49 | 2019-03-01T11:09:02 | 126 | 88 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I took a deep breath in. Closing my eyes as I started to open the packet. The research done about my powers took a lot longer than everyone else's. It has been some months after I took the power test. Once the results was mailed in, I sat there excited. My packet was different from the others. Bringing my hopes up that... | I remember it like it was yesterday. Maybe because it was, i don't know. Ever since they locked me into this pitch black room my sense of time has gone away. What i can say for sure is that it was my 14th birthday. Oh i was so excited. The day you turn 14 is the day you get your power. My entire life up until that poin... | 2022-05-08T11:24:06 | 2022-05-08T10:30:53 | 91 | 48 |
[WP] Multi-dimensional travel already exists, but no one visits our dimension because it's "that" one | Somewhere, not far off the coast of Florida, a small inter-dimensional rift opens and spits out a dimensional craft not much larger than an elephant that promptly deploys its inflatable anti-hydro surface depressor to keep it from sinking like a stone, and drops unceremoniously into the ocean.
After a few fitful bobs... | *ding!*
The head of the council rang the small bell that sat on the desk before him.
"Presiding, the elected representatives of the gathered multiverse," he droned, a line he had spoke multiple times since he had been promoted to council head. As the murmurs dimmed, he glanced around the room and watched a s... | 2017-12-24T07:10:25 | 2017-12-24T04:12:00 | 81 | 21 |
[WP] Many years in the future. You are a student that puts no effort into getting correct information. Your homework is to summarize the existance of an ancient civilization in one paragraph. Your teacher has assigned you to write your paragraph on "Humans from Earth". | Humanity rose and fell as a species on its single home planet, Earth, named for its primary feature: Dirt. At the height of their civilization, Humanity developed its greatest invention: the Smartphone. These devices were only called phones due to their ability to make phone calls, but truly they were a link to an extr... | From humble beginnings, foraging in caves and hunting the available mammals, the human developed civilisation. From the humble beginnings of human sacrifices, inhumane torture, and wanton destruction, the species evolved to merely sacrifice humans, torture in the least inhumane ways it could legally justify, and destro... | 2015-11-17T14:30:22 | 2015-11-17T14:23:31 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You're midway into your flight when you, feeling bored, decided to surf the Internet. You read breaking news about another plane disappearance. You're on that flight. | This wasn't my first time flying, but it was my first time flying transatlantic. I was on a red-eye from New York to Frankfurt, Germany. Everyone was sleeping and I could only stare out the window into the dark ocean for so long. Finally I gave in and pressed the button to summon a flight attendant.
"Yes?" whispered ... | "Hey," your brother says for the second time in ten minutes.
"HEY," he says again, poking you hard in the rib this time.
You sigh a long-suffering sigh and lift the headphones from your ears. "What?"
"Do you see anything yet?" He gestures to the window. "Land? Coastline?"
"No," you tell him. There's nothing but c... | 2015-04-07T19:26:24 | 2015-04-07T19:11:23 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | A deep, primal roar echoed through the hull of the ship, muffled by the doors of the mess hall. It was there the crew of the Leviathan huddled. Roughly 50 of the galaxy's best hunters, trappers and bounty hunters stood,every species and race imaginable, quivering like frightened mice in a trap.
At approximately 2300 ... | „Here kitty, kitty, kitty...“ said the human while being in the cargo bay. I never understood that creature, but I’m still fairly new to this crew. But that human is still a mystery to me. However, the captain ordered us to get some of the cargo we need to ship. As I grabbed the inside of the crate, something damaged m... | 2019-11-21T08:55:59 | 2019-11-21T06:21:21 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] In a world of magic and mages, where magic can do all sorts of wondrous things, even the darkest of black mages and necromancers fear your...creative use of spells. | 'Look, Terri, we appreciate everything you do, but could you be a little...more conventional? I mean, don't get me wrong,' Vigorno the Destroyer looked to each of his henchmen in turn for support, 'we all like pink as much as the next guy, right lads? But you covering us in pretty pink flowers isn't exactly... um... we... | This is an odd one, hope you like it.
Its madness clammored the assembly! Not 3,872 years 7 months 15 days 13 hours and 37 minutes had a assembly of magic been called, and this was not even counting non planner time. Answering the call for assembly were Archmagi, Liches, Vampires, the nine lords of hell, and those wer... | 2017-06-06T14:25:13 | 2017-06-06T11:44:55 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] many young adults claim to have seen a tv show called "teletubbies" as kids, but there is no record of such a show existing.
Shamelessly stolen from vinny vinesauce | **Item #:** SCP-4451
**Object Class:** ~~Euclid~~ Safe
**Special Containment Procedures:** Copies of SCP-4451 must be contained in a locked safe within a sound-proof viewing room. A two man security team composed of bi-sexual eunuchs must guard the entrance at all times. All viewing of SCP-4451 must be done with no v... | I frantically searched Google for video clips, hoping to have my memories confirmed- but there was nothing. I searched images, desperately looking for even the tiniest shred of affirmation, but was met only with fan-draw renditions of the show. Memories, like me.
We all remembered watching Teletubbies, that creepy sho... | 2016-07-01T06:54:32 | 2016-07-01T06:22:12 | 371 | 28 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "DAMMIT GERARD, how could you be so dense?"
The captain shouted close enough to Gerard's face that he could practically feel the stench.
"I dont see what the big deal is! Cats are great companions on Earth! Everybody here seems so scared of Pryde, but just look at that cute little face! She wouldn't hurt anybody.... | „Here kitty, kitty, kitty...“ said the human while being in the cargo bay. I never understood that creature, but I’m still fairly new to this crew. But that human is still a mystery to me. However, the captain ordered us to get some of the cargo we need to ship. As I grabbed the inside of the crate, something damaged m... | 2019-11-21T06:53:05 | 2019-11-21T06:21:21 | 150 | 21 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | He descended from the dome ceiling without aid of an exosuit. His landing in the middle of the rock garden was quiet and drew little attention from the security drones. After all - he had no sonic resonators or gamma emmiters He had nothing but a standard lifesuit, issued to all peasant Earthians, on their way to minin... | Grass, tall and smooth, traces lines against exposed skin, lying flat against the earth. Across the horizon, the sun begins to set. In departing light, the sky finds itself tinged by deep purple streaks, shooting past clouds to define the dusk. It's heaven here, sometimes. In the palms of both hands, you grip clumps of... | 2017-08-07T11:49:49 | 2017-08-07T08:47:50 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] As a human cop in a fantasy world, you’ve never gotten used to how bizarre, insane and ridiculous the crimes can get around here. One day, you’re called in to deal with a situation unlike any you’ve faced before. | "Husband hit me!" the Ogress wailed. "I want him arrest!"
"Wife hit me too!" the Ogre shot back. "I--"
I held up my hands "Sir, you'll both get a chance to--"
"Why cop only believe female can be victim?!" The Ogre demanded. "Look at me black eye!"
"Sir!" I said, more sharply. "I'm not taking anyone's side! I'm here... | Hanalei's mind raced as she scribbled noted from a case down into her trusty notepad. She couldn't think straight. Another double homicide, cause of death- thaumaturgy. The victims were a poor centaur child and an older half-elven man. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Hana shook her feelings off. It ... | 2022-12-30T20:54:29 | 2022-12-30T20:27:13 | 221 | 25 |
[WP] you are a powerful warlock that has retired to raise your daughter everything's been going well that is until a couple of her classmates try to sacrifice her after reading about a 'dark spell' online, you've decided to show them what real black magic looks like | “Those fools have no idea what they’re in for”, said the man in black as he looked over his unconscious daughter. The Doctor, used to hearing this kind of thing, went about his business. Glancing over the chart, the Doctor noted that the girl came in from what was reported as an accident, apparently her and some friend... | I watched over my precious daughter, May, as she slept. Her body was covered in bandages. What those girls did angered me. I grinned instead. This was going to be fun, indeed!
After a few hours, I left my husband to watch over our daughter. There were things I needed to do, such as finish my part of that project and s... | 2021-09-05T01:57:50 | 2021-09-04T20:01:18 | 96 | 64 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead. | Well, i suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, unintended solutions have unintended consequences.
But this, man this is next level, id spent months doing research in the antarctic circle, searching for ancient dna in ice core samples. We had found some excellent samples, transferred them to lab conditions and establ... | I knew it was a bad idea. Of course, it was, you don't fuck with the spirts of your entire realm. They could damn you, torture you forever. But I was done with the war. I had to do something. My father, the lord, only sat on his pile of gold and ate the last of our food. I was not about to sacrifice the animals, my onl... | 2019-11-02T16:46:51 | 2019-11-02T12:55:33 | 46 | 30 |
[WP] You are a member of the chosen hero's party. The hero enters the first dungeon and slays a goblin. A large portal suddenly opens. Two giant dark knights appear, disarm the hero, and pin him down. They begin reading him his miranda rights. One knight turns to you. "You need to come with us." | Wulfa sat behind a splintered, oak desk, amidst a high-ceiled room with exposed brick walls. There came a jangle of keys, followed by the echo of footsteps.
An arched door swung open, then a city guard threw a roll of parchment onto the desk as he sat opposite Wulfa.
The guard sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose... | *The time is now.*
The first gibbous moon of the New Year. A drop of blood freely given. An ancient language intoned by the wearer of the enchanted headpiece of Frinn.
A glowing amber archway appeared on the face of the mountain. The adventurers entered the Antechamber of the Mountain King.
"Anyway," Dromedus conti... | 2020-12-29T10:56:34 | 2020-12-29T10:40:27 | 1,408 | 146 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | Our people were conquerors. The true law of the cosmos is the same as the law in the primordial seas of every world: eat, or be eaten. We understood this in our very cores. When the first contact with beings from another world happened, we **were** amazed. Not because of their powerful weapons (they didn't have any... | “We are approaching planet ‘Earth’ Captain, shall we ready the intergalactic rangers?” I said. The Captain Gorgan replied “Yes, signal the rangers to report to battle stations and to suit up, we will send only one detachment, these ‘humans’ are a rather primitive species that still rely on ballistic weapons”. “Very w... | 2018-09-29T19:15:40 | 2018-09-29T16:21:21 | 222 | 41 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | _A D?? This deserves better than a D, Mrs Naurood!_
\- You can't go around pulling stuff out of thin air and calling it history, John! And as I've already said, See. Me. After. Class.
_But they're not made up! It's right there in the books!_
Mrs. Naurood ignored me as she picked up her books and left the class.
I'd... | "And the goddess of light, she bestowed upon you an eidetic memory as well?"
I gaped at Mrs Gray, utterly bewildered. She was behaving surprisingly nonchalant considering I had just informed her I was immortal and stabbed myself through the neck with a compass to prove it. I was hoping to have the old hag in hysterics... | 2021-07-18T02:10:51 | 2021-07-18T01:20:47 | 385 | 274 |
[WP] You have thwarted the “chosen one” and his rag-tag gang of preteens. Nothing else can stand in your way. You bring your world domination plan to fruition only to be defeated by... competent adults with a full military. | As the door to my sanctum sanctorum hissed open, I swivelled my (carefully-designed) chair away from the (mostly for show) control panel to face the incoming prisoners. The lighting had been arranged to throw my face into shadow, and I steepled my fingers before me. The classics must be observed, after all.
"What have... | Dr Von Evilbeard laughed in glee as the kid-Hero and his ragtag band of adolescents was cut down by his death-lasers.
"Fools!" He cried, "Did you seriously think that I, the most powerful super-villain in the world, would be defeated by a bunch of teenagers?" He snorted with laughter, "What do you think this is, a Nic... | 2020-02-18T00:38:09 | 2020-02-17T23:43:46 | 41 | 29 |
[WP] You have the power to change the age of anything you touch. You try to change the age of your sleeping partner as a prank since they know of your power. But it doesn't seem to work, no matter how hard you try. Your partner wakes up and says "Gods don't age dear." | Her reddish-brown curls were all I could see when I touched her shoulder. I wondered what she'd look like in forty years. Would she still be as hot? Hotter? Impossible, I thought and aged her. Nothing happened. I tried again, harder this time. Still nothing.
"Gods don't age dear," she said sleepily then resumed... | "oh... honey... you're up!!! I, I don't know what you're talking about. NIGHT!!!!!!"
I try to cocoon myself in the sheets... Sadly Janet has been taking Pilate classes lately and they showed. I settled for ducking under covers.
"It's ok sweetie, Who do you think gave you that little trick to begin with. Honey? I ... | 2018-11-13T11:34:04 | 2018-11-13T10:38:48 | 86 | 14 |
[WP] Whenever you get chills, you just died in an alternate universe. | At first it just seemed like I was crazy, like my memory just didn't work right. Being a kid, I'd talk about how my friend John walked down to the duck pond and got kicked by a mule, and my friend Amy would say, "no, no, John went to the fair and got kicked by a mule." I'd know what I was saying was right, because I wa... | This is normal. My alarm goes off at 6:30 AM and the last of the alcohol has worn off. Well, not the last. I still have plenty in my system, or what would be plenty for most people. I stagger down to the fridge in my boxers. Tough choice, miller lite or bud lite? Miller lite is the closest choice so I take that. ... | 2016-01-29T21:01:10 | 2016-01-29T17:34:03 | 159 | 87 |
[WP] Instead of getting in to Heaven or Hell when you died, you ended up in a pretty okay place called Meh-ven and met a guy named Gosh. | Ben looked up at his mother for the last time. The white hospital room a calm peace save for his family trying to hold back tears. The drugs kicked in so he felt no pain for the last few hours. It was a peaceful passing, there wasn't even a hint of pain.
When he awoke, he was in a plain room not too different from th... | "Welcome to meh-ven. I'm Gosh." A red headed guy greets me in front of a chain link fence. "What is this place," I marvel, looking around me. I just fell off a 40 story balcony trying to sidestep a pigeon, I must be dead. This is... "Is this the afterlife?" Gosh is waiting at a pulled up area of the fence. He had been ... | 2017-03-13T22:43:54 | 2017-03-13T22:05:29 | 55 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | "Hey Tom!"
Thomas turned around. Across the street, he saw Sarah waving at him. For a moment, his heart stopped. He gulped. She was wearing her school uniform, but she could've been wearing a garbage bag for all he cared. It was her. After a moment of stupor, he raised his hand and waved back. Sarah smiled.
Thomas ... | The glares I had been getting as I walked through campus serve as a reminder to that awful word forever inked onto my left arm.
"Thief"
Not even Rogue, or Assassin. Just Thief.
I've never stolen anything in my life, why Thief? Dave turned into a Pyro mage, and Matt became a Knight, even came with cool armour and a s... | 2015-07-13T19:19:43 | 2015-07-13T17:50:28 | 83 | 44 |
[WP] You've just been assimilated into a hivemind... but it's a very weak one. It can't control you or anything, it's more like a telepathic group chat that you can't turn off. | "What's that buzzing?" She asked, her fork dangling above the half-finished tart we were sharing.
I took advantage of her lull and swiped the rest of the pastry, cramming it into my mouth. I started to laugh, but I inhaled a raspberry instead. My laugh died before it really started, it turned into a choking fit.
"S... | Did you ever visited mall on Saturday in a megapolis, like Tokyo or Shanghai? There is always this constant nightmare of epileptic fest, with constant noise from people, shops and speakers, which play one sing on loop 24/7?
Well, imagine this feeling is directly in your head, multiply it by 10 and congratulations - yo... | 2022-09-17T18:27:15 | 2022-09-17T15:15:41 | 942 | 404 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | At that moment, I was happy. I bring my pricked finger to my supple lips, and my tongue caresses the wound with warm tenderness.
Sweet. Like a strawberry lollipop.
It started off as one good deed a day. Picking up trash, volunteering at the senior home, removing hate graffiti, giving some water to construction worke... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:18:07 | 3,279 | 15 |
[WP] You have been in a coma for years, but the people around you worship you as a deity, leaving offerings and notes with wishes and prayers. You aren't a god- time simply stops any time you wake up, leaving you alone in a frozen world. You accept the offerings and do what you can to grant prayers. | The Time Lord lay in a glass coffin under a willow tree, little pieces of paper hung from the tree's branches, and it swayed with the wind as a little girl came running towards the coffin.
She was crying. Tightly clutched in her hand was a piece of paper no larger than an index card. She ran, and she ran, and then she... | "NO", I scream. 'You can't do this? What kind of sick psycho are you? I thought you would help me achieve my goals."
"I'm sorry", she said. "I promised everyone that I would grant their wishes and achieve their goals. That requires a sacrifice."
"Well, then, maybe you should've told me that motherf\*cker!", I retort.... | 2020-12-28T10:53:38 | 2020-12-28T09:12:09 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | War Never Changes
When the Galactic Community first stumbled across the species known as humanity they had been excited.
“New intelligent life forms have been found!” They proclaimed, “Amazing new discoveries await!” They had promised.
At first, they were right. The humans, soft and weak as they were, produced arti... | P'nqta stared at the reports on his desk. This couldn't be right.
"I wish it wasn't." P'nqta started, unaware that he had been speaking. He looked up at the human ambassador horror slowly filling his primary and secondary eyes. "16 human planets are gone. You are *positive*?"
"I don't see much to be positive about. ... | 2021-08-13T15:50:39 | 2021-08-13T11:54:59 | 81 | 31 |
[WP] Leaving a rooftop party at night, you take the elevator to the ground floor. Stepping out, you find it is now broad daylight, a week later, and you have hundreds of missed calls and texts. Even more strangely, the city streets are empty, silent and devoid of life. | The past week had been truly strange. When i got home there was no one there. My girlfriend had left and not come back. After reaching out to her friends and her work and getting no replies, not even so much as a read confirmation, i called the police to file a missing persons report. No reply either.
After a few min... | I mumble out loud well fuck, would you look at that. Reach into my pocket grab my zipo and relight my half smoked cuban. My suit still pressed quit nicely, loosen my tie, and pull out my phone. I glance at the date and wonder what I've got my self into, A second glance at the battery indicates I've got 1 percent left a... | 2021-02-07T09:23:50 | 2021-02-07T09:20:45 | 176 | 33 |
[WP] you're an immortal who has seen Empires rise and fall, you've watched history unfold. what bothers you most is a certain fast food restaurant's milkshake machine is always down. | Aktul the Eternal, currently Jerry Blank, always returns to the same place once every fifty years. He is a man of many names, and changing every thiry or so years once he can no longer manage the facade of age. He finds a new identity, a new home, and begins again. He's tried a little of everything, architect, philosop... | "Hi welcome to Jack-In-The-Box would you like to try our new portobello mushroom burger?"
The ancient immortal gazed upon the menu of savory treats. "No thank you."
"Ok, what can I get for you?"
"I would like a cheeseburger and a small frie, oh and a large chocolate shake."
"Alright, cheeseburger, small fry, but I ... | 2016-07-26T12:35:18 | 2016-07-26T12:08:19 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | Jason dropped the carboard box onto the one he had set down prior, and stepped back. He held his lower back and arched. Fuck, this retail stocking shit is not fun. Time for a break. He walked over to the door, reached in his shirt pocket and grabbed for his smokes. Opening the door, he stepped through into brilliant su... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T08:33:39 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] Even healing magic can be abused. | Every night at precisely 12:40 am, the frail old man in white clothing would enter the Lenox Hill Hospital. He would limp past the receptionist and the nurses, past the seemingly secure doorways, and he'd make his way to room A22.
In front of the room, a police officer stood silently, playing *Clash of Clans* on his ... | Entry 1825 of the book of magic.
Healing magic.
Also see: life magic, light magic, and curing magic.
Forms of use: Artifact, Alchemy, Enegry.
Description: healing magic is a form of magic used to mend wounds, cure sickness, and, if especially talented, reduce mental trauma.
It is mostly studied by worshipers of E... | 2016-05-19T16:58:02 | 2016-05-19T16:23:02 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | My mother said I popped out of her at 18:12. Well it was 18:11 and we are about to find out if her memories were accurate! One flippin more minute! I’ve literally been waiting for 18 years for this moment.
All my friends are already 18. They all have their superpowers. Do you know how hard it is to be the only ... | *Sixty*
For my whole life I have waited for this moment.
*Fifty nine*
For the day, the hour, the very second I turn 18.
*Fifty eight*
I know, I know - nothing changes when you turn 18. You’re an adult in nothing but name.
*Fifty seven*
But there’s more to this world than bars.
*Fifty six*
More than just bei... | 2015-03-28T05:44:51 | 2015-03-28T04:32:39 | 616 | 310 |
[WP] Your mother died ten years ago. You saw her collapse, went to her funeral, paid for her cremation. Her ashes should be sitting in the living room right now. So you're not entirely sure why she's waving frantically at you from the window. | I had no idea what to do. My mother was at my sliding glass door across from the living room. She wanted my attention; it's obvious from the way she was frantically waving her hands at me. I knew that day would come, yet I never prepared myself.
I had actually first seen her at the grocery store. She was following me ... | The next thing that happened could be closely compared to a light switch, one that hasn’t been used in years, suddenly illuminating a dark and sad room. A room filled with memories, doubt, despair, confusion. But no more.
My fathers funeral had been yesterday. To tell you the truth, I hadn’t even cried. I couldn’t d... | 2020-12-10T20:44:38 | 2020-12-10T19:15:38 | 40 | 29 |
[WP] When the cultists forced you into the room with the eldridge abomination, they assumed that you would instantly go mad as you tried to comprehend it. However, you are a grade A idiot and instead of trying to understand how it exists, you simply accept that it does, much to everyone' shock. | The jarring clicks and cracks of rust-kissed machinery infected Carl's mind. His expression deformed into that of sheer disgust, similar to the one a kid would do after eating something far too sour. It was unbearable. It was a punishment and a curse, a torture no sadist would dare endure.
The cultists circling him re... | "Heeeeeey waiii--"
I get cut off as the weirdos with the robes push me into the dark room behind me, closing door so I can't get out.
Break the lock says a little voice in my head.
Hell yeah.
I punch the lock.
Ow.
"Oh Yeah? Well, you might’ve imprisoned my body. But my mind's Running FREE Suckahs!"
I kick the door.
Ow.... | 2022-11-08T19:16:03 | 2022-11-08T17:40:16 | 543 | 114 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | Scrambled eggs, breakfast potatoes, crispy bacon, and an English muffin with raspberry jam. I loaded the tray with Margaret's favorite breakfast foods and brought them to her in bed. The wood floor of our old house creaked as I entered the room, causing her to stir under the sheets. Still half-asleep, she gave a blissf... | “I have seen…” I paused for effect. “…everything.” I looked around but the pronouncement hadn’t made the stir I had hoped it might. “I’m not kidding, I mean literally *everything*!”
Again there was no reaction from the group and eventually the nurse stood and gently helped me back down into my seat. She had soft hand... | 2016-08-09T07:37:44 | 2016-08-09T07:34:25 | 4,095 | 214 |
[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... | Class had been over for five minutes, and I was already regretting my decision to stay behind. I'd hoped that I could catch Ms. Garcia right after the bell rang, but Mark had beaten me to her desk and was now going through his exam with her point-by-point, trying to wheedle some partial credit. The longer I stood there... | 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... | 2017-08-06T18:10:57 | 2017-08-06T18:05:26 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] After being killed in a Black Friday stampede, you’re sent to hell. The devil offers to let you be in charge of torturing your fellow mankind, expecting you to refuse like all the others. Except the devil doesn’t realize you’ve worked retail for 15yrs. | A smile, a snicker, and a twitch of the eye. The devil himself sees the perverse joy in her eyes, and for the first time since Michael threw him from Paradise, Lucifer seems frightened.
"So I get to see their entire lives, I know it all in a single moment and I get to decide how to punish them? My choice alone? Com... | "Wait, you want to do this," he asks softly, raising a brow at the young woman. The man was young, around his mid twenties at least. His hair was a beautiful gold, and his eyes were a deep blue that would be easy to get lost in, if the young woman wasn't so excited.
"Definitely. I know exactly how to do it too. Please... | 2018-12-29T13:10:48 | 2018-12-29T12:38:09 | 87 | 46 |
[WP] You are a powerful ancient wizard, masquerading as an unassuming, friendly and senile history teacher. But when a supervillain threatens your school, they learn to never underestimate senior citizens. | Mr. Tarquin had been the history teacher at Montmort High School for ages. He seemed ancient to the students. Many of their parents said they had also had Mr. Tarquin for history when they went to school, and he had seemed ancient to them then. Even some grandparents insisted that he'd been their ancient history teache... | “professor, I don’t think you should go out there, it sounded like gunshots!” bright eyes look up at me in fear, as my students huddle together out of sight of the door to the classroom.
“Nonsense, I will just be a moment! I have to make sure you are all as safe as I can manage after all!” I smile as reassuring as ... | 2021-10-04T10:33:34 | 2021-10-04T10:28:43 | 46 | 22 |
[WP] You’ve been stuck in a time loop that repeats the same day over and over. You’ve perfected every skill, you speak every language ever spoken. One day you go crazy, by the end of the day the entire town is dead. You wake up the next morning still covered in blood, the loop finally broke. | “Meagan…” Tim took a deep breath. He’d never confessed to anyone that he’d been stuck in a loop. Not since the first week, when he thought he was losing his mind.
“Yes?” Meagan asked from across the couch. Her green eyes sparkled, they always seemed to do that.
Over countless days, he’d done everything. He’d learned ... | I don’t know what got into me. I’ve never snapped like that before but those unintelligent bastards roaming the town were too stupid for their own good. Yes, I’ve lived this several quite a few times but still, they should have learned something by now, isn’t that how evolution works. Though I panicked a bit at first... | 2019-08-11T09:03:42 | 2019-08-11T08:26:24 | 656 | 258 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | To say I live an interesting life would be a bit of an understatement. Okay, a major understatement. I am a super-criminal, after all.
I first discovered my powers when I was nine and I accidentally wandered into the tiger pit at the zoo. I came face to face with a Sumatran tiger, who I proceeded to have a long and ve... | Meanwhile in Sam Carter aka Solar Flare’s apartment…
“WTH, i’m sending it…” whoosh, ding. Sam said to himself as he was sitting on his working desk alone fidgeting his phone.
Suddenly, the shadow on the corner of his office room welled and grew as it takes into a humanoid form. It dashes towards Sam and hit the desk... | 2022-10-06T20:00:43 | 2022-10-06T18:55:35 | 114 | 71 |
[WP] The last time the aliens invaded our planet they fled after losing the war. They have reluctantly returned to wage war and are relieved to see that dinosaurs no longer inhabit Earth, but have been replaced by the smaller and less intimidating humans. | Dear Xander,
Glad greetings to you and yours, and eternal joy to your ancestors.
The invasion of the Earth has been called off. The Sauronoid aggressors that bested us so long ago have all but disappeared. In their place, a race of mammalian bipeds not so dissimilar from ourselves who are incredibly happy to see us ... | ((super rough, needs the whole thing changed, wrote it just to get the story down))
At the start, it seemed so easy.
Takin' over planets, quite a breeze...
We took a chance, found ourselves lacking...
We tech'd up, and got a consultant's backing...
But hang on a minute, those glowing lights,
shining across the pl... | 2017-03-04T03:42:15 | 2017-03-04T02:02:48 | 664 | 15 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | > Now say that you won't just kill **them**. You'll also kill **their families**.
I stared at the words on the terminal in disbelief. My hands hovered over the keyboard. I wanted to reply, but... holy shit. How do you respond to an order like that??
"I can't do that!" I typed back. The keys clacked as I wrote it; ... | (This is an excerpt from a story I'm in the middle of the first draft on. It happens to deal with this exact subject! The device in question is a genie who turns out to be a huge killjoy.)
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“Do you want to talk about it?” I asked. “Like…all of it?” I’d tried prodding him before with zero success, but maybe today... | 2016-05-05T05:59:46 | 2016-05-05T05:50:54 | 4,927 | 63 |
[WP] An elevator suddenly appears in your one story house. Every night at midnight exactly, it opens for 5 minutes. Inside is an exact copy of you. Each night, the copy is progressively more injured than the night before. | The strange thing wasn't the other me in the elevator. It's that I didn't say anything. I never told anyone about the elevator that appeared in my hallway. It's just five minutes and I can get back to my life.
He's quite similar to me, the quiet type. The normal person might be scared, disturbed, unsettled, but I look... | Every night at midnight Billy gets funky. That music gets going in his ears and the liquor gets flowing in his brain and he sees a lady out the window and says, “Hey Lady! Why don’tcha come over here?”
She comes over, not always, but on this particular night the weather was so fine and love was in the air, so she felt... | 2018-05-18T23:00:43 | 2018-05-18T22:11:24 | 1,021 | 28 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | It's only been fifteen minutes past clocking in, and already Brandon was ready to swallow his keyboard whole and jump out of the nearest office window. Granted, they were only on the third floor, but with a little determination and elbow grease he was quite confident he could finish the job on the first try. Headfirs... | Marleigh adjusted her earpiece, squinting down the hallway at red lights blinking around the airlock door. She sighed heavily, shrugging into a thick, faux-leather jacket.
“Open the door, Allie.”
“No,” said the AI.
At least twice a week, Marleigh Krushkova’s job at Edge Art Services drove her into a bottle, cheap st... | 2021-12-20T11:18:05 | 2021-12-20T10:53:20 | 505 | 235 |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, years later, the dragon has returned to you with some of its young. It wants you to raise its weakest hatchling. | If you were a lonely old woman like me you’d have taken in that whelp too.
Three years ago Razora nearly bit off my finger when I first fed her that old cellar mouse. Hiding her in the haystacks was easy until she nearly burnt down the barn with a mere sneeze. By the time she was the size of a shed, the village had l... | Thunk. The log splitting under the heavy ax felt nostalgically satisfying. I twisted the handle to knock the still standing half off the old chopping block as I reached for the next hunk of wood. Knees popped and shoulders were burning from the effort. Sweat dripped even in the cool fall weather. I hefted my log split... | 2018-04-04T19:06:43 | 2018-04-04T16:55:17 | 4,943 | 321 |
[WP] You have been told all your life that you have a rare medical condition. It means you need regular special meals that your family has lovingly prepared. You now find out that your "condition" actually requires fresh human flesh and your family have become serial killers to keep you alive. | Perhaps I always knew, but I simply chose to ignore. Maybe even deep down I enjoyed it. Envied them for being able to do what I had dreamed about for so many long nights. The screams which had eventually terrified me were now something I looked forward to each night. But I wasn't ever sure if they were dreams or realit... | I watch as my parents are dragged away, they called my name and begged to be released. I sat in my living room, a woman across from me on the couch, “well Alex, I think you’ll need some therapy but it’ll be fine.” My parents had been feeding me human flesh for who knows how long, I know why that’s bad, but the woman, A... | 2019-03-13T07:36:21 | 2019-03-13T07:34:47 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] The Hero bursts into the bar, weapon raised, and proclaims that the Villain is hiding somewhere among them. You avoid his gaze. It's not that you can't take him. It's just that it's your day off, dammit, and you're gonna enjoy it. | \[MC is Female\]
Life. What the fuck is life? I never got mine. It was taken from me when I was young. My entire childhood spent being shaped into a weapon of grief and pain, a tool to be used as was deemed fit. I didn't get a choice. My Gift is death. Raw, merciless death. Scars litter my body and crimson stains my h... | Give it a rest Jeff. Can't I just enjoy my tequila in peace? My evil plan doesn't even start until tomorrow, but this bozo just can't wrap his pea sized brain around the fact that it's my day off. His life is so pathetic and meaningless that he has nothing to do on his day off.
He doesn't even take days off. Talk abo... | 2022-01-03T21:27:42 | 2022-01-03T21:27:04 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | "Are my student Loans still in effect?"
Shepherd, the AI, was silent. It had calculated despair, anger, even a complete breakdown at the revelation of this information. Instead, they had gotten this.
"Could you repeat your question?"
"My student Loans, my debt. Are they still a thing? Do I still need to pay them?"... | Congealed blood tastes like death and rust. When it pumps through your veins, it tastes like hope and perseverance.
It feels like I'm a walking husk now. Everyone I knew is gone, and the human race is no more - except for me. Blood still struggles to flow through my veins and keep me alive.
I have been informed that ... | 2022-09-15T12:00:16 | 2022-09-15T11:53:15 | 64 | 35 |
[WP] So tell me this, elf. If you're so much better than humans at everything, then how come even though your ancient civilization dates back millenia before we "crawled out of the mud pits", you're still riding around on horses and swinging sharp pieces of metal just like us? | You humans are so goddamned lucky I could scream.
Do you have any idea what it's like trying to change anything-ANYTHING AT ALL-in the free elven cities?
I heard you guys got gay marriage recently. That's cool. You know why, right? Because you humans have this one powerful advantage that we elves do not.
You fucking... | The elf supposed it was a decent question, by human standards.
It was based on the assumption that other races in the universe would value technology as many humans did.
"Cultural tradition. We prefer to rely on horses and swords, and our magic helps greatly with that." The elf paused to let the human consider that.... | 2022-09-04T14:15:46 | 2022-09-04T13:59:20 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] 2021: Hell invades Earth; 2022: Earth invades Hell. | "This was a bad idea." General Partridge stared across the bleak landscape as Private Graves approached him.
After a hard fought battle, the General's forces had made a grinding advancement up the fortified hill and had captured the outpost at its summit. The demon spawn had made hasty retreat, scurrying away from th... | Polanski: HOLY FUCK THEY GOT TO EARTH?!
Rider: The demons? "Sigh", seems like taking over our station in Mars wasn't enough.
Polanski: Sir, please tell me we can kill them.
Rider: Yes and to kil- wait a second, my men just brung in a live demon, I'll bring the phone closer to it.
Rider: What's up jackass, you speak... | 2016-12-10T08:25:45 | 2016-12-10T08:15:33 | 117 | 22 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I stuck my hand out in a reaching motion in front of the council. Today was the day of my eighteenth birthday. The council was the nine elders who decided what your object meant and recorded it into the official records. If no object arrived within sixty seconds you were labeled as a null and sent to the labor camps wh... | I’ve always been one of those lucky people. You know, the ones that can eat whatever they want and not gain any weight. I’m 6 foot and known as a bean pole to my friends and family. So when I finally turned 18, I knew what I summoned would probably be food related.
“Alright, is everyone ready? Honey, do you have your ... | 2019-09-18T10:23:04 | 2019-09-18T10:05:50 | 42 | 15 |
[WP]2000 years from now, history is misunderstood and retold as a series of myths where nations are represented as individual gods,citizens as worshipers and corporations and NGOs as demons/angels(lesser gods).Chronicle current world crises in the style of ancient myths.
-Global warming
-colonization
-World wars
-c... | During the winter
As blizzards extinguished the dying fires of the second great war
Worshipers and lesser gods stood on rubble and beheld the two great dragons
perched on a mighty wall.
They were the dragon of the sky,and the blood dragon.they roared and bellowed and shook the ground
Laying their claims to their ... | "Father tell us a story" cried out the child. The father sat at the end of the crude hut, huddled under heaps of fur. His ice cold eyes snapped open and a wry grin spread across his face.
"A story hey... well i have one that my father told me and his before that" he paused and stared fondly at the child.
"Before the g... | 2015-03-12T11:56:56 | 2015-03-12T11:07:55 | 104 | 17 |
[WP] You picked up a dozen eggs at the farmer's market but when it came time to cook breakfast in the morning you find your fridge contained zero eggs and a dozen tiny dragons. | “What the fuck.”
That’s all I can say when I open the egg carton. “What the *fuck?!*”
Ella pokes her head into the kitchen. “What’s wrong?”
I don’t respond. I just turn the carton that once contained eggs toward her, showing her the dozen newborn dragons curled up asleep in the slots where there were eggs yesterday ... | Hatch-Dragon Chowder Serves 12
12 ripe dragon eggs, freezer hatched
Half stick butter
8 cloves garlic
6 carrots, diced
4lbs potatoes, peeled and diced
1 cup chopped shallots
8 cups fish stock (or mer stock if available)
2 cups heavy cream
Salt and pepper to taste
Begin with one dozen ripe dragon eggs. Put th... | 2022-02-08T05:37:56 | 2022-02-08T03:00:12 | 81 | 19 |
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