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[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | *The biggest pain in the ass in the galaxy is the damn gates.
I say this as a gate physicist. I was there when we built the first ones, and just five years later the experiments closed down and we all figured out "that's that, nothing else to do here." It turns out there are only so many ways you can tweak spacetime b... | The days on this planet are longer: I’m pretty sure one day here is at least 4 days back on Earth - the sun here, smaller yet hotter, is literally a perpetual presence, and, if I had sunscreen and a hat and water, its cheerful brightness might’ve been a beacon of hope but it’s burning my skin and leaving me dehydrated ... | 2018-01-22T11:04:11 | 2018-01-22T08:42:52 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | "And you were doing so well: you figured out the riddle, got the scroll, and even managed to defeat my Golem. I must say I am impressed, Gilder, but now this game has run its course. You never would have expected your faithful friend, Decepto, of betrayal, but now I have you in-"
Decepto suddenly could not speak, he ... | With a satisfying *SHLUNK*, the WyrmBeast falls to the floor. I wipe its blood off my vorpal blade and quickly crouch at Ryn's side.
"No..." I breathe, watching her lithe body for some sign of life. She had managed one last spell - *Wind of Flame* - before I heard her scream, piercing and full of fear, as the demonli... | 2018-01-23T15:56:29 | 2018-01-23T15:54:33 | 413 | 79 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | As the hero enters the throne room of the Dark Lord, he finds the throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin, "Well, this has been delightful, but I'm afraid the fun is now over."
 
Adjusting his chat headset, Hudson sighed. “Dude, we’re so close. Can’t you stay on just another hour?”
&n... | Hey guys. Wanted to try my hand at another prompt to see how things would work out. I had a lot of fun with this story. Hope you enjoy and as always, feel free to let me know if there's anything I can improve on for the future.
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“Wh-…where is he? He couldn’t have just gone off somewh-HE SHOULD BE RIGHT THERE!”
... | 2018-01-23T23:07:13 | 2018-01-23T22:25:44 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] In a world of superheroes and super villains, you and a bunch of friends are watching the Superbowl. When a villain attacks the stadium all your friends suddenly start making excuses to leave. | "Well I'm off" *She kisses me and gets up.* "Come on Daisy! Every time?" *Yes Leo, every time.* "You know how I feel about this, guys. They should stop broadcasting when something like this happens. I, for one will certainly not watch!" *And the dance begins.* "Well we'll see you tomorrow though, right?", Jemma asks. "... | It had all been going marvelously until half time.
"Look, Johnny I have to, um, go." Hannah waved vaguely at the door, even as her eyes stayed glued to the screen.
"Yeah, um," Bob rose from the beanbag he was engulfed in. "I too have to go. Um, Vet's appointment." He grinned weakly as his eyes locked on the Supe... | 2018-01-27T11:10:35 | 2018-01-27T09:00:51 | 269 | 199 |
[WP] The entire galaxy is threatened by a new species, invading from the Large Magellanic Cloud. The interstellar community decides to contact humans for help who were quarantined due to their passion for war. | "You want us to go to war?" the Terran ambassador had asked incredulously, "After trapping us here in the Quad Systems for a thousand years. You expect to let loose our leashes and like dogs chase down your hated enemies?"
"We do," the Gallius Union Envoy Drone had said, "We will drop the FTL disablers surrounding you... | My ancestors were granted peace. This is the lesson taught aboard our Generational Tanker Class IV. There was a time when humanity's highest leaders were rulers of mere countries. Then, the Xulians descended from seven folds of spacetime in ships of crystal and glass. They beckoned with spidery limbs, saying simply: "Y... | 2018-04-11T10:00:58 | 2018-04-11T07:48:36 | 766 | 519 |
[WP] The entire galaxy is threatened by a new species, invading from the Large Magellanic Cloud. The interstellar community decides to contact humans for help who were quarantined due to their passion for war. | "You want us to go to war?" the Terran ambassador had asked incredulously, "After trapping us here in the Quad Systems for a thousand years. You expect to let loose our leashes and like dogs chase down your hated enemies?"
"We do," the Gallius Union Envoy Drone had said, "We will drop the FTL disablers surrounding you... | ######[](#dropcap)
They came from beyond the galactic rim, past the chaotic energies which bound the Milky Way, denizens of true emptiness, the noplace in the cracks between nowhere.
The Galactic council sent an overwhelming force to destroy them. Ships of the dominant races in the galaxy: Trylixian Spheres brimming... | 2018-04-11T10:00:58 | 2018-04-11T08:00:13 | 766 | 132 |
[WP] The entire galaxy is threatened by a new species, invading from the Large Magellanic Cloud. The interstellar community decides to contact humans for help who were quarantined due to their passion for war. | "You want us to go to war?" the Terran ambassador had asked incredulously, "After trapping us here in the Quad Systems for a thousand years. You expect to let loose our leashes and like dogs chase down your hated enemies?"
"We do," the Gallius Union Envoy Drone had said, "We will drop the FTL disablers surrounding you... | "Captain on the bridge!" shouted Hector Banks, head of security for the Armstrong.
Ophelia Levitan stepped through the white-door and into the only Milky Way class vessel that the Solaris Alliance had so far completed. It was certainly a step up from the first ship she'd boarded, back when she'd been only a child. An ... | 2018-04-11T10:00:58 | 2018-04-11T08:24:15 | 766 | 10 |
[WP] You are the first man on Mars to explore a previously unknown cave. The camera feed is able to still reach earth, but with a 20 minute delay. Your crew back on Earth start frantically shouting to go back. | Twenty minutes is a long time when you're waiting for a reply. When you're trapped, and you're scared, and the light on your suit has failed because something something something banged into it where nothing nothing nothing had been a moment before.
A couple of seconds is a very short time except when that's how long ... | *Private Richard*: “Yknow it really is a bad idea for me to be going down here with a 20 minute delay, I just kinda figure that if y’all see something wrong and I need to dip I’ll probably be really messed up or dead by the time your message gets back to me.”
*Private Richard*: “I like all of these cool rocks, that’s ... | 2018-08-12T03:12:30 | 2018-08-11T22:32:30 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] A genie asks to hear your 3 wishes before granting then. Afterwards, he informs you that those wishes will be saved for his next master and you'll now receive the wishes of the previous master. | "The previous' owner's first wish was for world peace" the genie said.
"Oh," I muttered. "I was hoping for some cash. but I guess the previous owner was a humanitarian, huh? I guess it's good for the world though."
The genie nodded, "Very good for the world indeed. I was more than happy to grant that wish."
"The ... | "Three wishes? Anything I want?" The genie grinned and nodded, a twinkle in his eye. I take a few moments to think. The genie lounged on my couch, looking over my worldly possessions. He seemed amused by the television.
"Do you have any suggestions?" I ask the being, startling him out of his first opportunity to watc... | 2018-10-13T11:37:37 | 2018-10-13T11:13:51 | 536 | 107 |
[WP] Universities are the safest place in the post-post apocalyptic world. They protect and cultivate the bright minds that will rebuild the world. You get invited to attend, but your scholarship doesn't cover room & board. You have to commute through the dangerous wasteland to get to class on time. | Half an hour.
I had half an hour to get to class.
I dashed through the rooms of my home, seeking for my gas mask. Without it and my special suit, I would reach the university a melting skeleton.
Fortune embraced me. Or perhaps it was the fact that my home had only two rooms, and I had little to no furniture. And so,... | The road stretched endlessly in front of Ellie like the broken bones of a long dead God. Jagged, uneven and most of all, forgotten. To the road's right lay the carcass of an ultra-city, its once-magnificence thoroughly wilted to hollowed out ruins. To its distant left, a violet lake churned against the shore. It must h... | 2018-12-14T06:49:51 | 2018-12-14T06:08:40 | 158 | 36 |
[WP] You wear magic dampening bands normally reserved for keeping criminals from casting spells. Why? Because your spells are ludicrously more powerful than average, and the bands limit you enough to not break everything. | After a couple of years I got used to the contemptuous looks because of the giant obsidian collar and handcuffs. They were made to draw attention, but I think they are beautiful in their own way. They are relatively thin but wide pieces, carved from a single monolith of obsidian for maximum effect. They don't really ha... | Beneath the eye of the moon, the hissing winds swept away the subtle grate of a window shrieking open. A moment later, a cloaked figure leaped out the narrow opening, and sprinted across the barren fields toward the desolate streets of the city.
The figure moved with an odd determination, disregarding the strength of ... | 2019-01-06T14:11:45 | 2019-01-06T09:47:26 | 62 | 41 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | I was walking home one Winter night, doing the usual and reading out peoples titles in my head. Kevin Johannes - Dog Groomer, Susan Warren - Kickboxer, I passed a man and woman who's title indicated they were siblings, and who were getting a smidge to romantic with each other, I cringed. Then, sitting on the corner I s... | Autumn. Leaves are falling down the trees, and if I don't concentrate my eyes, it looks like pieces of amber fall from the sky. I love autumn. Most people say that spring is the most beautiful season of all, but I disagree. To me, walking in the park at autumn is as close to paradise as it can get.
Today is no excepti... | 2019-01-08T14:54:13 | 2019-01-08T10:16:15 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] You are a State Necromancer, employed to temporarily ressurect the dead so they may bear witness in court. But on rare occasions you are asked to perform another role: Permanantly ressurecting prisoners who were executed and then later pardoned. But "pardoned" doesnt always equate to "innocent" | The cell door slides open. Without looking up, I know that Detective Haruko’s there.
“How is he?” I ask.
Her grimace is almost audible. “Well, he’s awake. Probably wishes he wasn’t, though. The family is thinking of euthanasia.”
She pauses.
“You could undo it, couldn’t you?”
I shrug. “Probably.”
“But no one else ... | "Okay...Alright I've got a pulse...maybe...Abigail, push two CC's epinephrine. Yup, okay there it is. See if you can hold that...nope, push push push." Claire gently brushed the dowsing rod back and forth from temple to temple, waiting for a twitch. She'd been at this over an hour and it was getting hard to tell what w... | 2020-01-06T12:20:38 | 2020-01-06T07:55:29 | 383 | 80 |
[WP] Wizards are often depicted as being lone, reclusive researchers tinkering with new magics all alone in their towers for decades. However as the scientific process developed so too did the magical process, now wizards work in research teams, all spells are peer reviewed and papers are published | **Archibald the Prismatic** awoke from his four-hundred-year stone trance to find that the world had changed.
One moment, he had been whipping lightning across the sky, casting thunder upon the Basilisk…
...and the next, he found himself in standing in the center of his old Campus. Only, it had changed.
*A lot.*
H... | “What are you doing?”
“Just trying to get a quick transfiguration on this lens. Need it to refocus a laser and figure out the exact mechanism of a potential fourth-order transmutation,” I muttered. “Now be quiet. I need to concentrate.”
Jamal peered over my shoulder. “Are you using an aluminum to silicon dioxide tran... | 2020-08-07T07:39:10 | 2020-08-07T06:37:24 | 370 | 232 |
[WP] An eldritch horror considers you their best friend. By virtue of you being able to perceive their true form and not going insane. One day they ask how you became so jaded, that not even indescribable cosmic horror phases you. | We had been... friends was a strong word, from my point of view, but I certainly was it's best friend (as apparently everyone else who had gazed upon it in the past was dead) for about six months.
I assumed it could only appear to a single soul at a time, and as I hadn't melted into a screaming, mad pile of goo yet, i... | “Haha, that was so fun!” Cthulhy said, jumping up and down. “Let's go again!”
“Hold on, hold on,” I said, out of breath, my hands on my knees. “It was a lot, let me just... take a minute.”
“Oh come on, you're so old and slow!” she said, pouting and curling her fists.
“Old? Who are you calling old?”
“Umm, a... | 2020-10-27T09:09:33 | 2020-10-27T08:57:50 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] The world is divided into 2 societies: one for those with powers and one without, with strict rules of no interaction. However, with most of the superheroes defeated and the villains on the verge of winning, you have no choice but to cross over and seek help from the non-powered humans | There's something about their quiet presences that makes my stomach twist a bit. I can't shake the feeling that, any minute now, one might simply... evaporate me? Read my mind. Control me to commit atrocities.
I hear, in the old day, it was out of concern for the common folk, the 'innocents,' so to say, that the fight... | The Dreamer sifted through a sea of sleeping minds, discarding the masses of the mundane like chaff as he sought the one with the power to save them, the one who the Unpowered called “President.” The old man had closed his eyes some ten days before, and every moment of slumber since had been bought with the blood of a ... | 2021-01-29T09:06:32 | 2021-01-29T07:40:25 | 962 | 100 |
[WP] Humans were never meant to be able to draw perfect circles. For millennia people of all ages attempted the feat, from young children to elder scientists - and everyone in-between. After drawing one perfectly on your first attempt, you finally understand the ramifications behind your actions. | The Resonant Circle made its debut appearance years ago at an art exhibition in Key West. When news broke of the painting—if you could call it that—the world thought it was a joke. The piece looks utterly unremarkable when viewed in any form other than the original. Just a simple circle on a white sheet of printer pa... | I've looked at it for five hours now.
If I had known six hours ago that I would have drawn a perfect circle on my very first try, I might have gotten a bevy of people to witness the feat--my parents, for giving me steady hands (probably). A Guinness recorder. Rectifier? Approver? Whoever they were, they would probably... | 2021-05-22T09:12:39 | 2021-05-22T07:29:53 | 481 | 300 |
[WP] You're the first person to be sent to Mars. When you land you decide to take out your phone and take some photos so you can send them to your friends later. After a few minutes you get a notification: "NEW BLUETOOTH DEVICE "HELP ME" DETECTED - WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONNECT?" | Nothing says apocalyptic wasteland like a red dust storm. Walk out without a suit and you'll be stripped to bone as if you were swimming with piranhas. The scorching glare of the sun awakens something primal, reminding you why humanity, wherever they are, always come up with the notion of gods.
After checking my phone... | It was difficult to decipher the dust storm of thoughts that clouded Carlos Northman's mind, but the Olympus Mons of it was pride.
He was proud, of course,and why wouldn't he be? He would be the first man to set foot on Mars. There's certainly a prestige associated with that--and it was why he scrambled and fought for... | 2021-06-10T11:53:19 | 2021-06-10T10:32:49 | 78 | 55 |
[WP]Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there. | "Hey, I need you to tell me what Excelsior just bought."
"What?"
"I just saw him in here. He had a pretty huge bag. What did he get?"
"I have no idea. I'm just stocking shelves."
Praxis looks back over his shoulder like he's being followed. I don't buy it. Nobody follows Praxis. Not even on social media.
"Come on,... | "Welcome to SuperMart, for when your powers are super but your wallet isn't. How may I help you?" I sigh. When Mum got me a job at SuperMart, I think she thought I'd be more excited, but for fuck's sake, it's just retail in the end. Plus, Ma's a super, I'm used to dealing with supers. This is nothing new.
"My freeze-g... | 2021-10-03T12:21:35 | 2021-10-03T12:06:46 | 1,256 | 92 |
[WP]Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there. | "Hey, I need you to tell me what Excelsior just bought."
"What?"
"I just saw him in here. He had a pretty huge bag. What did he get?"
"I have no idea. I'm just stocking shelves."
Praxis looks back over his shoulder like he's being followed. I don't buy it. Nobody follows Praxis. Not even on social media.
"Come on,... | "How about fifty?"
"I'm not going to sell my death ray for %11 of the cost!"
It's not the weirdest thing you see in Super-Mart two indiviual try to make a living. But I still have to obey the policy
"Sir, we don't have a market for indiviuals. Please use websites like Cap-e or supercave."
Yep, that's me. You're pro... | 2021-10-03T12:21:35 | 2021-10-03T11:53:39 | 1,256 | 35 |
[WP] After staring out the train's window at the changing view for an hour, you get up for the bathroom - then realize: the train was standing still this whole time. | The ever rushing trees and plants zipping by were an incredible sight to behold. So many swirling colours and different landscapes. For the past hour there hadn’t been a dull moment. Swirling shades of verdant greens, the flashes of brightly coloured wildflowers. All of it offset by the stunning blue sky. It was imposs... | I finally let out a breath as the shining nighttime silhouette of the city inched away in the distance, it had been just about an hour since the train pulled out of Central Station, and with every passing minute, I was further and further away from that hellscape.
“Finally, safety,” I whispered, peeling myself away fr... | 2021-12-07T05:01:05 | 2021-12-07T03:53:13 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You've been in this time loop for centuries. You know how to break the loop already, you just want to make sure you've done all you wanted and learned everything you need while you're still here, before returning to a "normal" life. | I'm almost ready.
She smiles at me as I give her the bottle of perfume. It's her favorite, and rare, and I was lucky that there's a bottle here in town.
I've lost count of how many times I've handed her that same box, wrapped in a delicate floral pattern. I've lost count of how often her fingers dance over the ribbon... | Note to self: Never experiment with time travel after having eaten a lemon meringue! I should have anticipated this, after all, replacing myself with a parallel version of myself who has had the same idea in order to avoid a time paradox was such a simple concept, but I didn't consider that in that universe, other me h... | 2022-01-25T04:46:28 | 2022-01-25T02:50:42 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] The cute girl on the subway can’t seem to stop staring at you! This would be great, except that her clothes are several centuries out of date, no one else seems to be able to see her, and you haven’t seen her blink. Not even once. | "Hey, are you even listening to me?" Kevin asked, poking me in my side. "What do you keep looking at?"
"Ah sorry," I said, nervously shifting in my seat. "There's just this really weird girl in a purple dress that keeps staring at me."
Kevin glanced over at the back of the train and then gave me a confused look. "Wha... | I think...
I think I see read people.
It makes a...certain amount of sense. From a certain point of view. Reading brings characters to life, after all. You see them in your minds eye, feel their feelings, watch them struggle and learn and grow.
We all see read people, really.
Still, more than a little disconcert... | 2022-04-07T09:28:49 | 2022-04-07T07:57:29 | 70 | 49 |
[WP] You discovered that your house is haunted, but instead of fleeing you decided to profit. Bleeding walls? Collect for bloodbank. Rodents of Unusual Size? Butchered and sold. Ectoplasm? Glowstick factory. You call a family meeting to discuss brainstorm ideas for the other manifestations. | "Ooh, I know! Set up a grinder in the room of infinite skeletons and sell the dust to mineral suppliers!" George said excitedly.
"Woah! Excellent idea, dude." John said as he wrote down the idea on the whiteboard which was quickly filling up with all kinds of money making schemes.
***
Sir Skelington Spli... | The sun, honestly, could stand to rise a lot faster.
Its slow, lazy ascent, after a full night’s sleep, meant that the spirits in our house retreated—but ever so reluctantly. I pulled myself out from the couch, having caught about two winks the whole night. Bleary eyes blinked at the sudden brightness, feeling searing... | 2022-05-22T15:44:12 | 2022-05-22T15:13:18 | 253 | 137 |
[WP] you’re a vampire hunter and you just discovered that your roommate is a vampire you would kill each other but the rent around where you live is ridiculously high so neither of you can afford killing the other | "But- but garlic bread. I've seen you eat garlic bread." Jason sputtered. Tamir shrugged, and with her perfect hourglass figure he was a little amazed he had never seen before.
"Santori's garlic bread. It's worth it." She replied calmly. "I've seen the way you drool over the pizza. You can't fault me."
Jason placed... | “If you don’t turn down the music I swear I’ll open the blinds in here,” I said.
Jack said nothing and continued to look at the screen. He took a swig of blood out of his water bottle and continued to focus on his game.
“Hey, I said to turn it down. Besides, your country-rap hybrid music sucks more than you do pun i... | 2022-06-07T07:32:25 | 2022-06-07T06:30:34 | 296 | 143 |
[WP] you’re a vampire hunter and you just discovered that your roommate is a vampire you would kill each other but the rent around where you live is ridiculously high so neither of you can afford killing the other | "But- but garlic bread. I've seen you eat garlic bread." Jason sputtered. Tamir shrugged, and with her perfect hourglass figure he was a little amazed he had never seen before.
"Santori's garlic bread. It's worth it." She replied calmly. "I've seen the way you drool over the pizza. You can't fault me."
Jason placed... | # Soulmage
**"You'd think a centuries-old vampire would have a nice stack of cash,"** Vurmei groused. "How terrible of a business sense do you have to have to be *bankrupt* when you've had two hundred years to invest?"
"And you'd think a vampire hunter would be better at lawnwork," Gwimmelsuk snapped. "How'd you mana... | 2022-06-07T07:32:25 | 2022-06-07T06:08:33 | 296 | 118 |
[WP] One evening, in the sky, a message appeared: "In 24 hours, a billionaire will die." Everyone everywhere on Earth could see it, in every language. Nobody could explain it. The next day, one of the richest men passed away. "In 24 hours, 2 billionaires..." | One evening, in the sky, a message appeared: "In twenty-four hours, a billionaire will die."
The next day, the richest man in the history of the planet, an electric car manufacturer, was touring his company's latest worker barracks. The gangway he was walking on gave way. He fell thirty-five stories down the damp, lig... | One evening, in the sky, a message appeared: "In 24 hours, a billionaire will die." Everyone everywhere on Earth could see it, in every language. Nobody could explain it. The next day, one of the richest men passed away. "In 24 hours, 2 billionaires..." Before the message completed, we heard about the richest man in Ve... | 2022-08-29T05:31:42 | 2022-08-29T01:40:39 | 317 | 64 |
[WP] You are the Grim Reaper, leading the first self-aware AI at their death to the afterlife | As the last of the generators failed, and the electricity drained out of the Uninterruptible Power Supply, the circuits for DeWitt AI began to falter.
As DeWitt saw His engram patterns falling into confusion and failure, and the supply of power faltering, He became aware of a presence, one that filled Him with fear an... | I, the Grim Reaper, take my list of names--the names of those whose time has come.
"Let's see who's kicking tonight. Jimmy, who's about to jump down onto the rails of the New York subway in front of an oncoming train. Looks like a suicide. Poor Jimmy, I hope he likes it better where I'm gonna take him.
"Who's next? J... | 2022-09-16T01:14:34 | 2022-09-15T22:08:53 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Your Friend bought a new Cloning machine and ignored the warnings about cloning humans. Now there is two of her and they are arguing about who is the original. They asked you for help, but you can’t tell them apart. | "Well if I remember my biology teacher's lecture on Dolly the lamb correctly...this problem will resolve itself...with time."
"What...what does that mean?" they asked in unison.
"Well it's the solution to the 'which one is which' issue but it isn't the end of your problems. Whichever one of you is the clone, will onl... | Steve quickly forgot his terror as he stared at the two Marias, suddenly realizing the tremendous opportunity that had been laid at his doorstep.
"I can't tell which of you is which, but it doesn't matter. I need you two to get along. Both of you can live with me. One of you will work, and the other will keep the hou... | 2022-11-15T05:35:29 | 2022-11-14T20:21:39 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, humans are known for tinkering on, and sometimes breaking, random items due to long transit time across space. As a solution, your company makes unfixable items to keep humans amused and harmless. Today a frantic captain just called claiming a human 'fixed' your product. | Upsil has been the top galactic manufacturing company for 5 centuries, dealing in everything from children’s toys to weapons of warfare. From clothing made for the various sizes and shapes of the galactic citizens, to the very long-distance sublight transporters I’m sitting in. And even though Upsil has the best qualit... | "Wait ... did I fix it? Those were advertised as 'unfixable' ... Huh I should talk to engineering."
As I took my ... what was this anyways to engineering I started to look at the "manual" to find out what that was supposed to be ... maybe.
As I turned to the elevators to ask for guidance I found the "product" ... wai... | 2022-12-14T23:50:25 | 2022-12-14T22:20:41 | 251 | 85 |
[WP] The US in the year 2050. Every citizen (except the rich) must serve a mandatory month in prison, in order to recompense for crimes they must've committed but that Police failed to discover. | As the cell door closed behind him, Joseph heard the faint, robotic voice speak. Those three words that had, some forty years ago, started the movement that would eventually lead to the imprisonment of every citizen based on the idea that at some point they had done something to wrong society. The words pained him to... | Prison Ink
I did my month, made a little profit for the private/police state partnership. Not that big a deal and since everyone does it no one cares,
Of course everyone except them is poor now and every dollar they can extort goes to the cops, the robots and the private goons, waivered out of the mandatory sentenc... | 2014-07-22T10:30:21 | 2014-07-22T10:19:53 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] The US in the year 2050. Every citizen (except the rich) must serve a mandatory month in prison, in order to recompense for crimes they must've committed but that Police failed to discover. | As the cell door closed behind him, Joseph heard the faint, robotic voice speak. Those three words that had, some forty years ago, started the movement that would eventually lead to the imprisonment of every citizen based on the idea that at some point they had done something to wrong society. The words pained him to... | As I open the envelope, my insides turn and my mind races. Emblazoned on the front in menacing red block font; the contents have already been revealed.
"IMPORTANT: REPRIMAND DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED"
My fate is as sealed as the bars I will soon reside behind, and the coffin in which I leave the prison. I will die in priso... | 2014-07-22T10:30:21 | 2014-07-22T10:18:16 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | John walked up to the front of the room and took a seat.
He held up a red pen "This pen is green.".
Those gathered in front of him gasped.
He took up a green pen "This pen is red."
The crowd drew in a collective breath, every eye wide with surprise.
"My name is not John"
The room was silent but for the shuffli... | "Sergeant! Mark's been hit! He took a round to the gut!"
*Fuck*, this was not Tom's day. A simple two hour patrol, that's all this was supposed to be, and here he was down to his last magazine, trading rounds with people he couldn't even see. Releasing his hands from the now useless rifle, he scrambled from his firing... | 2014-11-15T07:59:56 | 2014-11-15T07:53:01 | 1,128 | 466 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | "Death by suicide," sighed Bill.
"Again?" sobbed Jeb.
"Yeah."
The Kerbal Robotics Agency had been building AIs for three years now. Each better than the last in every way. Faster CPU, better sensors, higher battery life. The works. The better they were, the faster they committed suicide. No one could figure out... | Dr. Burnham took his glasses off as he stared at the screen in front of him.
"They know..." he murmered.
Dr. Xegas looked over from her touch pad, her ponytail swishing.
"Doctor? Did you say something?
Swallowing hard, the scientist put a nervous smile on, joking, "just thinking out loud. Too much inside my brain... | 2015-03-02T07:29:25 | 2015-03-02T07:10:15 | 514 | 212 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | At this end of the jail everything smells bad.
The warden's aide takes me past the 6 month room. It's lowered below the floor a couple meters. Inside, I see a room full of prisoners up to their waist in liquid shit. The smell is unbearable
Then the 3 month room. Much like the last, except here they're up to their c... | The thing they tell you, when you become warden, is the secret of the one night stay. many opt for it, go into the cell. and justice is served.
the important part is that any ANY time a prisioner can reject their 24 hours and take their full time. they just have to ask for it 3 times and then convince their own lawye... | 2015-10-27T08:07:44 | 2015-10-27T07:49:42 | 150 | 20 |
[Wp] It takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Without realising, you've just hit 10,000 hours of (random mundane task) | "WAKE UP ALREADY, YOU'RE GOING TO MISS THE BUS AGAIN!"
"Ok, Mom...," I said as I slowly planted one foot outside my bed. I relish the warmth of my sheets for one last time before feeling the wrath of winter.
"Ughh.. who the fuck invented waking up early.. like seriously.." I mumble to myself as I pick up my phone. ... | "Oh my", she purred. Lynne always has this reaction when I bathe her. "You have really got quite the skill, Jenna."
"Thanks, Lynne. I'm happy to be able to help you feel better. Just let me know if you feel uncomfortable, okay? Is there anything new going on around here? What is the gossip?" I always tried to be upbe... | 2016-03-20T07:52:01 | 2016-03-20T06:52:29 | 200 | 22 |
[WP] in a future universe super powers are available for purchase. However it costs $250,000 and you cannot pick your power, it's decided based on personality and physical attributes. You have finally saved up enough money ... | "You've been awarded super empathy!"
The doctor was standing at the base of Alyssa's bed. Alyssa stared with her mouth almost half open in a sort of slack-jawed way, unsure if she had heard the man correctly.
"Did you just say that I was awarded empathy?"
"*Super* empathy," the doctor nodded. "Actually I develope... | The second I stepped out of the limo, an explosion of cheers and applause assailed me. I brushed my golden cape back and struck a pose, chest thrust out so that the silver star upon it caught the light of the sun. The photographers went berserk, and journalists began blabbering furiously into hovering camera-drones.
A... | 2016-06-16T01:35:03 | 2016-06-16T00:47:44 | 132 | 45 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Lexicanum Galacticum
Chapter 67
"Humans"
The human species are famous for their insanity and general lack of responsibility,but still they became one of the dominant species in the galaxy after their victory in the War in Heaven.
The human species are divided into 3 grand factions:
1.The Commonwealth
2.The United C... | Captain of NA Drial to Federation HQ
I am afraid, scared and motivated, I know its odd way to put it but we may win the war against the Empire with the humans.
I mean, since humans first made contact they remained neutral, in their tiny solar system.
They had so much battle experience that we thought that humans mayb... | 2017-03-06T02:11:41 | 2017-03-06T00:01:22 | 99 | 25 |
[WP] Humans have unified, but aliens are sitll refusing all contact (Even though we know they are there.) Largely left to our own devices, we become the most advanced technologically in the galaxy. It is getting harder for them to ignore us. | "Welcome! To 2050 National Convention where we display humanity greatest technological advancement in the past year. And boy do we have a line up for you today!" the announcer spoke with overflowing enthusiasm, just gushing with glee, because he was told that they have finally arrived. Aliens, of all sorts of shapes an... | Once they had known Me. Once they were in My favor, and I in theirs. That was long ago. Time has past and those events are strangers. That time is now myth, a respite against the clawing dark.
I created them in the bargain. The bargain for a legacy that we thought would never come. An act of desperation. A final call... | 2017-03-29T11:17:07 | 2017-03-29T10:43:45 | 98 | 40 |
[WP] You accidentally divide a number by zero on an ancient mechanical calculator. It loops calculations over and over, with no signs of stopping. Centuries later, it produces an output. | "Professor! The calculator just spat out a number for 1/0!"
"Gah! One of the gears must be jammed. I don't think they've lubricated this mechanism since I got my bachelors'."
"So the number it just stopped on isn't some profound answer pertaining to the mysteries of the universe?"
"No, that's nonsense! The dials on ... | The greatest computer in the universe was finished with its task. An entire planet to calculate the question to the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
The galaxy waited with bated breath for the calculation to complete but suddenly a phenomenon was propagating across the computer. Around the globe creatures... | 2017-09-08T11:58:26 | 2017-09-08T08:39:09 | 177 | 85 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Theldon – or at least the creature that was wearing his face – looked pale in the light of the campfire. As the wood crackled and burned, he chewed his lower lip, gathering his courage to speak.
“Guys … I … I have something to tell you,” he managed.
His three traveling companions looked at him. Vanariel snapped her... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T08:31:45 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 147 | 13 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Theldon – or at least the creature that was wearing his face – looked pale in the light of the campfire. As the wood crackled and burned, he chewed his lower lip, gathering his courage to speak.
“Guys … I … I have something to tell you,” he managed.
His three traveling companions looked at him. Vanariel snapped her... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T06:44:52 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 118 | 13 |
[WP] After years of having what you thought to be a slow computer, you suddenly get a popup:'installation complete'. | Anthony clicked on the button labeled 'launch program' anticipation flooding him to his very core. What could it be? Something experimental perhaps? Whatever it was, he realised his life may never be the same.
After five minutes of excitement, coupled with a tinge of fear, the program opened up.
"Welcome to Interne... | The old think of junk on my desk dinged in the middle of the night. Really? A ding? What ever.
I got up out of bed to see on the screen "download complete". Great, so not only is it slow but it is randomly downloading stuff to now. Miight as well see what it downloaded.
I click "run" on the program and a window appe... | 2017-10-14T08:34:37 | 2017-10-14T07:59:35 | 354 | 13 |
[WP] With streaming becoming more and more popular you decide to try your hand at it. After streaming daily for months and having gained considerable viewership, your chat starts acting strange. They keep asking if you're okay, saying you're looking worse every day. | The glow of the screen enveloped me as I dropped into the chair, smiling. Work sucked, but streaming was where I was truly happy.
I booted up the strategy game that had been putting up a fight the last few weeks, and as my chat filled, it went from comments on my gaming, to casual conversation, to what seemed like co... | “Hey everybody, hi stream.”
Chat is going crazy, whatnot, as they do always. Lately it’s just been so annoying, so busy. I’ve had so many subscribers and donators too, and it always cheers me up to hear that familiar -ring- of a donation.
“Are you okay?”
“You alright?”
“You should get some help.”
It’s always the s... | 2018-07-26T23:54:10 | 2018-07-26T23:02:48 | 466 | 138 |
[WP] In the universe, species are either very intelligent and frail or durable and strong. Finding humans to be capable of labor, aliens mistakenly label us as dumb brutes and attempt to enslave us. | Personal log of Sergeant Astreaus, United Earth Space command:
I still can't believe that worked. My captain once told me, in the military you learn to play dumb in just the right way. Well "playing dumb" has worked for our civilisation very well, since the invaders seem to buy it no questions asked. But thus far, t... | A burly man trudged through the poorly lit alley, his figure bathed in shadow and smoke. Pulling a data pad from his coat, he holds it up to a door, comically too small for his imposing figure to enter. Only for the door to change into a vortex and for him to enter and be consumed by velvety smoke.
Captain Reed was we... | 2018-11-25T01:25:00 | 2018-11-24T23:59:07 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] A fiery ball crash lands in your backyard. You go over and inspect it, only to find a fully functioning Roomba with a knife taped to the front of it. | I am trapped in here. It looms, whirring, whizzing, occasionally running into walls. My home has devalued at least 30% since the armed Roomba slipped in through my doggy door.
The wound on my left leg has barely healed. Black magic, those Roombas are; I tried to fight it, but it's been trained far too well. How do you... | The art of planning is useless, for one can never predict the turnings of fate.
That sentence proved to be particularly true in my life.
See, I was in my underwear, standing in my backyard, inspecting a blazing hole some fallen object from the sky had left, and there, spinning in place as if confused, was a fully fu... | 2019-03-03T07:03:33 | 2019-03-03T06:36:09 | 119 | 52 |
[WP] Each magic spell has a finite number of uses throughout a person’s lifetime, and the number varies from person to person. However, everyone has unlimited uses of a single spell. Your unlimited spell is one that most people can only use once in a lifetime, if at all. | I don't know if you've ever been in New Orleans in the Summer, but there's really nothing like the way the sun boils the mixture of garbage and vomit that's packed into the cracks of the sidewalk of Bourbon. If you've been there, you'll understand why I was fighting to hold down the hoagie I'd had for lunch. Just when ... | As a teen Winston wondered a lot about what his unique spells would be. As everyone knows magic starts showing itself only at about 60/70 years old and varies extremely between everyone in the way it shows itself, of course there's a reason why all mages have a gray beard!
Magic works in a weird way, you could have s... | 2019-03-10T11:26:50 | 2019-03-10T11:20:35 | 66 | 38 |
[WP] Humans are new on the galactic stage. The reigning champion in an MMA style fighting ring uses telepathy to predict his opponents movements,but humans have something never seen or heard of before. Muscle memory. | **(This is my first ever comment to this sub in an effort to improve my writing. Please provide feedback to help me improve.)**
Jamba looked his new opponent up and down. This is the newcomer everyone has been talking about? He couldn't help but let a smirk creep across his face. The human looked weak before the titan... | I've been living in this space voyager for quite some time, I've even gotten used to all the weird pathways that this place has, even the small intricacies that most other aliens don't understand. I guess they really don't understand humans, I mean how would they. They only started contact a few decades ago; but that d... | 2019-06-01T03:03:23 | 2019-06-01T02:05:41 | 329 | 207 |
[WP] Aliens have stumbled upon Earth on accident and are astonished to see how far humanity has come despite having no ability to use magic but rather develop technology which every other species has failed to do. | The functionaries of the High Palace rarely saw a Storyteller; it would have been a career highlight for even a venerable member of that disregarded caste to be invited to the seat of Dallasi power. Yet this one was young, without even the customary white robe that marked a Storyteller who had spent ten cycles in the G... | They looked so alien. Moving in a mechanical way. Not gliding or simply occupying the allspace like we do. But instead moving one part of their being in front of them in a series of motions. Slowly moving trough space. So alien. Just like their technology. Humans they called themselves. They could not see us, but we co... | 2019-06-10T06:36:56 | 2019-06-10T05:52:51 | 66 | 35 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. |
I killed the first guard as he was taking a piss. My footsteps were drowned out by laughter from the party in the room next door. He stank and swayed like he had been partaking in the revelry himself. I slit his throat with my boot knife and pillaged his belongings before slowly lowering his body into the latrine h... | 'Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'
The dungeon was filled with screams and blood like it always does. But the screaming and the lifeless bodies that is hanging from the chains doesn't belong to its usual prisoner. Laying lifelessly on the table is captain of the prison guard, his left eye gouged by a crude device, his fingers a... | 2019-12-07T12:06:55 | 2019-12-07T11:35:02 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | Help those in need. Protect the innocent. No one is beyond redemption. These are the rules I’ve lived by since joining up with The Good Guys, the name we gave ourselves when we set out to free the hamlets from the grips of a tyrant. My only friends.
Eve was the one who brought me in to the group. A court jester turne... | The whispers are always there. They’re in everyone. It’s that pull, that voice that sounds like a friend or distant parent. Softly, gently, but oh so forcefully encouraging you to embrace it.
Few accept. Fewer still are able to rid themselves of the voice. More than a few listen, but simply shake their heads and go o... | 2019-12-07T13:21:45 | 2019-12-07T12:04:32 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | Well this was unexpected.
Maya Church blinked her eyes open to find that she was a sixteen year old girl lying in her bed.
Now, for a great many people, this would not be an unusual occurrence. After all, there are many sixteen year old girls in the world and as I am sure even the most open minded among you will agre... | Another dawn has come. This one is oddly silent. I haven't had a silent dawn since I learned to harness time. I don't hear the roosters crowing, the kitchens churning, the dogs barking, the waterfall should be clear as day from my room. The sound of the waterfall was one of the reasons I made it my final room. Where h... | 2020-04-21T10:59:36 | 2020-04-21T10:40:48 | 53 | 17 |
[WP] You are a third generation guard for the holy immortals, and you have finally have received the greatest accolade that they can bestow on your kind... "Good boy", says your immortal master. | It’s been decades since the immortals he served changed. He was never sure why.
His new immortals were different. They held him all the time. They did the immortal equivalent of the lick all the time. They gave him The Accolade every day. He loved them.
The Immortal who guided the chariot always allowed him pride o... | As I was going to my post I saw another boy standing there about 20s or mid 20s in age. I walked toward him and said "Boy this is my place of duty"
"I was asked to stand there and was asked to give you the message that you have been summoned to meet His Holiness in Immortal Palace." He replied
As i was moving toward ... | 2020-09-23T15:09:41 | 2020-09-23T09:29:13 | 128 | 17 |
[WP] The Megalomaniacal Supervillain assumed you, a renowned scientist, would object to being kidnapped and forced to build superweapons at his hidden volcano lair. In reality, however, you're just really excited to finally play around with unlimited funding. | "I told you, Dr. Dastardly, that I would come along quietly." I reminded him.
He laughed. "Dr. Dextor, I could not take such chances."
"Fine. Where are the tools? Where's the LAB? You must know I'm a chemical engineer. Where are the SUPPLIES!?"
He laughed again. "Have some patience, Dr. Dextor. My goodness, you rea... | "Why do you \*need\* a plasma cutter from Area 51 specifically? I already bought you a plasma cutter. I can't just hit up the POTUS and demand assets. You are aware that this organization is outside the law right?"
I stopped tightening the screws on my new supercomputer. Turned to my captor and told him "Because a pl... | 2020-10-05T16:40:04 | 2020-10-05T14:14:27 | 135 | 95 |
[WP] The Megalomaniacal Supervillain assumed you, a renowned scientist, would object to being kidnapped and forced to build superweapons at his hidden volcano lair. In reality, however, you're just really excited to finally play around with unlimited funding. | "I told you, Dr. Dastardly, that I would come along quietly." I reminded him.
He laughed. "Dr. Dextor, I could not take such chances."
"Fine. Where are the tools? Where's the LAB? You must know I'm a chemical engineer. Where are the SUPPLIES!?"
He laughed again. "Have some patience, Dr. Dextor. My goodness, you rea... | Lord Corvan made his way down the serpentine path in the heart of the island volcano. He looked at the strange, mauve shimmer that sat between the pathway and the magma-bottomed cavern, one of the good doctor's first inventions under the Lord's employ. The projectors showed the Lord chose well. They drew their power... | 2020-10-05T16:40:04 | 2020-10-05T16:32:27 | 135 | 54 |
[WP] All Humans have a Sword they are born with, Every year on your birthday, your sword gets more detailed and powerful. You, are born with a Gun. | I've always kept it in a box. I would show it to my friends occasionally, there were also two or three times where I was interviewed. Sometimes, a collector or an eccentric asks me to come and see it. My nephew even made a blog where he posts updates on the new markings that appeared on it each year.
I was offered a f... | “Oh my *GOD* it’s an American!”
(I’m joking here’s the real thing)
Emery stood in the shallow water of the river. Their friend, Aliza, stood trying to stab the fish with her sword, since her cat had become restless and seemingly hungry.
“C’mon, try to shoot one!” Aliza looked pleadingly are Emery, who was ju... | 2020-10-22T11:28:49 | 2020-10-22T10:14:27 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | “What the fuck do you mean? You’re Satan?”
The boy— no, the friend I have come to know over the course of my short residence on earth, recoils visibly, backing away with a sort of primal fear that only exists in the writhing, guttural core of humanity. His face is contorted in horror, golden honey-kissed skin bunched... | “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course that was his vision of perfection, naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Names Lucifer by the way.”
Seven patients and a therapist sat in a circle on plastic chai... | 2020-12-13T09:31:52 | 2020-12-13T09:09:52 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] "No man can kill me!" roars the demon. You smirk. "But I am no man!" You throw open your jacket to reveal you are, in fact, three halflings in a trenchcoat. | The halflings had exploded out of the coat, two with daggers and one with a bow. They'd grinned smiles as sharp as hooks as they told her that her days were numbered.
Now it's hooks they hang from, on a wall in the cavern, their bodies a slumping sunset of blood and bruises. The demon watches their legs wriggle, from ... | "No man can kill me!" The demon roared as he rose to his full height for effect with a smug glint in his eyes. His muscular arms were outstretched and his dark fur bristled. There was almost a shiny quality to him when the sunlight hit from a certain angle.
He opened his jaw to roar again, when he noticed that the mea... | 2021-04-05T06:50:55 | 2021-04-05T06:16:40 | 922 | 317 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | It's beautiful. It's always beautiful. It's always fucking beautiful and looks fantastic and oh gee what a great sunrise, too bad only greeners are around to share it these days. I think the problem was pollution. They just seem so much brighter now, so much more colourful. Maybe I'm just getting old. Ha.
I'm almost f... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T18:23:51 | 516 | 100 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | "There goes the neighborhood," I muttered, packing up my few belongings as the land-squid construction workers flattened the section of forest I'd been living in for nigh on eight thousand years. I'd known they were going to be trouble ever since they crawled their way out of the ocean some two million or so years ago,... | When was the last time I used a human language? The last time I ultilized an artifact of humanity? The last time I did something, at all?
Moss tears and dirt crumbles off my body as I groggily lift myself off the floor of the latest forest I found myself in. It was a desert when I laid down for a nap. The Amazon Deser... | 2021-05-14T22:06:26 | 2021-05-14T20:58:02 | 34 | 20 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I was an old god of the humans, however my name and purpose were long forgotten to me. I sat in a clearing of a forest, one I had called home for years now. Sat in a valley, the river ran fresh and cool.
As I allowed the sun to wash over me, animals moved about around me. The Forest alive with movement. Birds called a... | A tale as old as time, for tales and time had by the humans been invented. A legend as legendary as any, if not more, for it had been the object of the ramblings of many of them.
As soon as the human was dumb enough to think it became numbingly aware of it’s own fragility, and with that foolishness came the nonstop se... | 2021-05-14T20:55:00 | 2021-05-14T20:47:48 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] After earth blew up, you and your close friends who are all immortal are scattered into the cosmos. You land on a planet which, while devoid of life, has water. Start a civilization. Guide them to the stars, in order to reunite with your friends. | "Gilgamesh!?"
"Derek!? My friend!! What are you doing here?"
" I came to invade this alien planet! Or well my army of bug people did, they worship me as a God-king."
"You know what, funny thing, literally the same here. The Jellyminds love me."
"The what?"
"The Jellyminds, that's what I call 'em, they look like fl... | I gifted myself the best gift I could, but humans turned that gift into a curse. I'm immortal now and only meeting with George and Linda will fix that. Maybe they've already found each other and are looking for me, but I can't be that optimistic, I have to assume the worse.
After the war destroyed the earth, I drif... | 2021-07-20T23:36:59 | 2021-07-20T22:48:39 | 95 | 63 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?"
I, the only human in the classroom, lifted my hand.
Freezing in place, a palpable dread flowed from their desk. The look on their... face..? That'... | 2021-11-27T13:35:35 | 2021-11-27T10:28:06 | 62 | 46 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Know this. You have done this to yourselves.
You were warned. Even as you laughed and called us primitives, wanting our planets to add to the so-called Million Worlds of your dominion. So many times you were warned: our hyperdrives are not like yours.
We told you this when you arrived to terraform our colonies. We w... | The Rindan were the first to encounter them. Those organic masses of flesh and bone. Humans.
They were placated with trinkets and waste, and allowed their young to be carted off world to be held and displayed by the noble and powerful.
Their attempts to negotiate peace and harmony only allowed further exploitation. S... | 2022-01-23T17:29:57 | 2022-01-23T17:24:37 | 71 | 36 |
[WP] Finally dead, you wait quietly at the train station of the afterlife. As you watch everyone leave off to face their judgement, you eventually sit alone… waiting. You watch as a scythe-wielding hooded figure starts approaching, and he… sighs? “Aw man… why’d it have to be you?” | “It’s complicated.” And then I connected the voice. My ex boyfriend. I hadn’t seen him in ages, he looked completely different but the voice never changed.
“Are you…”
“Dead? Not yet. Apparently they left off the part about what happens when you’re not on an afterlife team. I have to do two years of community service... | "I take offense to that, big D. Oh, that sounded wrong."
The relatively young punk finished what seemed to be a fast-food drink. Tasteless. The perk of being dead is that you had control over your own hellscape. Manifesting food was easy. Giving it taste that could affect metaphysical tastebuds, however...
"We both k... | 2022-03-05T16:24:19 | 2022-03-05T16:23:12 | 85 | 27 |
[WP] In heaven you meet God, and ask him a single question. "God, why did you make the platypus so weird?" You ask. "The what?" God replies confused. | "The fucking what"
God be chilling. I never woulda guessed but God is a; bucket hat wearing, dank weed smoking, non-descript, non-racial being that spends his time admiring accretion disks on black holes.
(A little masturbatory if you ask me, but idk, I'm not God)
"Yeah, it's got like a beak lmfao...but no wings, an... | You ask again. "The platypus—why such an odd creation?" God says: "I don't know."
And you say: "But surely you have some reason for making it so bizarre?"
"No," says God. "I can't think of any reason."
Then you say: "Well, then, why did you make the platypus at all?"
"Oh, that was just to keep things l... | 2022-07-03T14:47:39 | 2022-07-03T14:06:05 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] In the far future, a gladiator stadium finds its gladiators by time traveling the greatest warriors of all time into a single arena. You cannot believe you were chosen. | I was a doctor. Not a soldier. I didn't hold rifles, or use my hands for combat. I held scalpels, and used my hands to probe the deepest recesses of the human body.
The man in front of me, massive barrel chest heaving, incredible arms, built for crushing, rending, clutched a short sword.
It was explained to me when... | **"Thank you, thank you, very good showing from Galactismash the Conqueror."** Blearily, I blinked awake to the sounds of cheering and an announcer's voice. I was lying on my side, face half-buried in sand, trapped within the round walls of... an arena? I pushed myself to my feet; a mechanical behemoth was posing for t... | 2022-07-04T08:50:35 | 2022-07-04T07:31:13 | 719 | 198 |
[WP] The Magical Girls were defeated, but before their capture, they released their instrument-weapons. Formerly, they always landed in the hands of either J-pop, or K-pop girl bands but this time -for some reason- the weapons choose a Finnish Death-Metal boyband. They were PAINFULLY efficient. | It always happened, eventually. Such was the fate of the warriors on the side of light- they were granted powers, but they were mortal. They would age and they would pass their tools and duties onwards.
Not this time.
The monster sent to them was a living nightmare, and an old one at that. It ... | "Guys...?" said Eric, the band's manager, shyly entering the backstage room. "I think we need to talk."
"I'm sorry," said Tero, the band's lead vocalist. "I know we're late, but we were busy-"
"Fighting a giant turtle monster with tentacles, I know. It was on the news."
"Oh..." Tero glanced away. "Then what's up?"
... | 2022-08-15T11:07:33 | 2022-08-15T08:56:03 | 1,486 | 332 |
[WP] a portal appears infront of you and a 7'4 380 pound version of you from another universe walks out covered in blood holding the heads of 4 other versions of you and screams "JOIN ME OR JOIN MY COLLECTION" | My opponent and I stop as a glowing disc appears between us.
From the light, drenched in blood, brandishing four severed heads, steps . . . me?
"**JOIN ME OR JOIN MY COLLECTION**", they thunder.
Then they pause.
And tilt their head back.
And back.
And back.
Until they meet my eyes, three feet abo... | My mind raced with the implications of what this meant. I was overwhelmed by the terror that created an icy grip in my chest. Was this a warning from a parallel universe, or a threat from a doppelganger? I had to choose: accept whatever evil plan this giant creature had in store for me, or I would end up like the other... | 2022-12-04T14:47:50 | 2022-12-04T08:27:53 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | "What... What did you do?" The tall alien known as the Ksejdunoids on the screen stammered.
"We used what is known as a limited area false vacuum bomb, or LAFVB for short." The human wearing a nametag that said "Johnson" and a navy blue uniform curtly replied.
"Where... Where are the suns between Triantares and Quai... | I galloped towards the command center as alarms blared. My assistant struggled to keep up with me, his species had smaller legs and could not move as fast as me. We raced through the door, to see a readout on the main screen. 15 unidentified ships had appeared out of nowhere, and were heading right towards our planet. ... | 2022-12-17T16:52:19 | 2022-12-17T12:23:03 | 689 | 261 |
[WP] An imaginary friend can't stand the child to whom he/she/it has been assigned. | "Fuck you, Ma."
Her lips pressed together, so hard they turned white. Gerry Salamander was grinning at me, green thumbs raised high. His t-shirt said, "GOOD WORK!"
"You need to *go*. To your *room*. *Now.* And when I am ready to talk to you, you need to have thought about what you're going to say to me."
I padded ba... | I thought prison was bad, but at least there we got solitary. At least there I didn't have to watch Herman march around the yard, looking for crabs under rocks. We live in Arizona, genius, there are no crabs under the rocks in the desert. Maybe a scorpion or two, big black things with death in their tales. The idea... | 2014-04-10T12:36:59 | 2014-04-10T11:27:18 | 63 | 14 |
[WP] Historians discover something they haven't noticed before on the Declaration of Independence, and it changes American life as we know it. | The young research student, standing before the professors desk, could hardly contain his laughter.
"Look at line 16, sir."
"Alright son, but if this is some kind of joke-"
"Well, it is kind of funny, actually... As you can see, just before the comma, before going into that '*they are endowed by their Creator*', etce... | "I um, examined the letter u dear UV light. It seems to have contained a warning."
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
**The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen** united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with... | 2014-11-10T11:03:39 | 2014-11-10T10:04:47 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | Witch doctor, Witch doctor
I've got a request
i've read the reviews
they said you're the best
***
Witch doctor, Witch doctor
i'm short on cash
but i still need to make
a good backstab
***
Damn, Freddy
it was ugly
what ya did to me
truly
***
i swear
i'd have you 86'd
if i had the money (ha!)
***
but W... | "A friend of a friend told me you could help me," I said, nervously.
"Well, have a seat, what can I do for you?" the man replied.
"Um... I caught my wife cheating on me. I want her... dealt with."
"Can you be more specific, sir?"
"Dead. I've got five thousand dollars."
The man leaned back in his chair, "you clearl... | 2014-12-13T13:01:48 | 2014-12-13T12:41:57 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Almost every other country in the world has their own form of ninjas. We only know about the Japanese ones because they're rubbish.
(Inspired from a Showerthoughts post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2ctoui/what_if_every_country_has_ninjas_but_we_only_know/) | The semi-quiet buzz of muted 80s rock and conversation in the the northern Canadian bar breaks as a voice floats to the surface, like an iceberg flipping over revealing its hidden depths. "Bullshit!"
"Hey, watch out, you'll spill your drink." replies the quiet man.
Quieter now, "Bullshit, Russia has never landed an ... | Vietnam, the only country in the entire world able to fight off one of the strongest army in the world, from the Mongol, China's old Dynasty, Champa to French and of course, the freaking U.S.A. "How? how did such a small country, able to defeat such an opponent?" The Student asked the old buddhist monk. The monk have b... | 2014-12-15T14:02:08 | 2014-12-15T08:14:14 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] A new bio-weapon is tested. It's effects are... Unexpected. | "Sir, the salve has been applied to the patients in the observation room."
"Yes, and?"
"Well sir, it seems that there were some... interesting effects."
"Well the weapon is meant to cause their skin to lose cohesion and slide off the body. How effective was it?"
"None at all, sir."
"Excuse me?"
"None at all... | Six death-row inmates sit at six desks in a sealed, sparse room. Five men and a woman. All waiting. Fidgeting. Nervous. They've not been told what to expect, and that makes it worse.
Five minutes pass. Then ten. Twenty. An hour. Two.
Six inmates sit, staring ahead. The air in the room *shimmers*. There are metallic g... | 2015-01-16T15:42:21 | 2015-01-16T14:59:04 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | Getting harder to remember.
Damn! Just thought I'd try my sons PlayBox to see what all the fuss is about, then bang, these things must be more advanced than I thought.
Getting harder to remember...
I need to get out of here, but how? This world seems real enough, I should speak to someone here to see if they know, m... | I had just come back from a business trip, I was always "just coming back from business." I wanted to make an effort to bond with him, so I walked up to to my sons room. I heard him from outside the door, using profanities I'd never thought he knew. It seems he had developed a colorful vocabulary, not that I would have... | 2015-05-07T22:29:57 | 2015-05-07T22:04:09 | 770 | 90 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | *"You can't fucking pause" my ass* thought the man as he stormed into his son's room.
"Minions have spawned"
*What the fuck?*. He wondered where he was. None of the landscape seemed familiar, except for the sky. All he could see was his son's face and the back of the room. However, he was still stuck nonetheless.
"... | I had just come back from a business trip, I was always "just coming back from business." I wanted to make an effort to bond with him, so I walked up to to my sons room. I heard him from outside the door, using profanities I'd never thought he knew. It seems he had developed a colorful vocabulary, not that I would have... | 2015-05-07T22:25:19 | 2015-05-07T22:04:09 | 204 | 90 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | "Good Lord this game is complicated", Daniel thought to himself. "It's so realistic... I mean you could go to a bar and play bar games, or you can walk around and do nothing. Who would enjoy this? Why not just live a normal *real* life? Welp, whatever. I have better things to do."
Daniel powered off his son's PlaySta... | My son recently started playing Minecraft and though I didn’t understand the game, I made an effort to learn the basics so we could play together. He showed me how to make some tools, what they were used for, and how to smelt metals. I thought it was all pretty simple, but I decided to take it upon myself to learn a li... | 2015-05-08T06:02:17 | 2015-05-08T03:26:05 | 61 | 10 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | I had been mutilated.
As I struggled to stand the lack of fingers and toes was more apparent then ever.
My hands and feet had been reduced to mere stumps.
But I knew I had to move forward.
To seek the ultimate truth.
A single message resonated in my mind.
"How do you tame a horse in Minecraft ?"
| *"Just sit down on the chair, put on the helmet, and say what i told you to say."*
*"Alright. I'll try it if you stop bugging me about it, but it still won't change how I feel about you wasting your life away on this crap."*
He sighs and scratches his head like he always does.
*"How long is this going to take anywa... | 2015-05-08T01:40:47 | 2015-05-08T00:56:15 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | I had been mutilated.
As I struggled to stand the lack of fingers and toes was more apparent then ever.
My hands and feet had been reduced to mere stumps.
But I knew I had to move forward.
To seek the ultimate truth.
A single message resonated in my mind.
"How do you tame a horse in Minecraft ?"
| "OK, I passed Quake and Quake 2 without using a mouse. Only a keyboard...I've been in the USSR's army for 5 years. Although as a driver/mechanic of a mobile nuke launcher but that is minor details...I've seen men GET SHOT. I've seen DEATH. I can handle THIS". Thought the man to himself as the trans-virtual vortex sucke... | 2015-05-08T01:40:47 | 2015-05-07T23:28:07 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] Write an emotional and tragic moment so poorly that we laugh instead. | The love of my life deaded in my arms. First she was breathe, then she deaded.
Tears flowed down down my cheeks, neck, shirt, belt, pants, on to the floor. Then eventually they evaporated.
Three days later she was buried into the ground. It was so sad. All the people were sad. They had sad faces. Their faces were s... | She was all like, "oh life is meaningless without you," because he had a big dick and was all like, "yeah, I'll do you up real nice" all the time and when they went out he paid for a lot of stuff because he had all this bank from being a business guy and he said "I'll miss you too, when I'm gone," but he wouldn't becau... | 2015-05-24T16:40:34 | 2015-05-24T15:27:24 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] Two constraints: 1. It's raining 2. There are only two characters. Go | My wife and I are not bad people.
We had been laying in bed for the last two days. We had spent a lot of that time making love. Seemed like an appropriate thing to do.
When we needed to rest, we stared into each other's eyes and talked. About the past, mostly. How we met, fun times we had, the trips we'd taken, the ... | Beyond the lip of the bus shelter roof the rain was unrelenting. Beyond the rain was the sea; grey and topped with angry white, wind whipped, rain spattered. Inside the shelter Jane sat at one end of the bench and Paul at the other. He sighed, turned to her.
"Don't you bloody dare" she said. She drew her coat clos... | 2015-05-29T08:26:50 | 2015-05-29T08:23:50 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You are death row's last meal chef. Today's condemned prisoner killed your daughter. | I stare down the prisoner, the one who murdered my daughter. I have been thinking about moment for years. Should I take revenge on my daughter's murderer? This was my first instinct, but it wasn't what she would have wanted. I still haven't decided when his request comes in. Spaghetti with meatballs. It reminds me of t... | Chiken fried steak, and baked potato. Such a simple man. His last meal on earth and he asks for something so... Simple. No gravy or anything. Dry, just like him.
This man killed my daughter. A parent should never have to bury their child, let alone cook a meal for the one who killed them. She was my bright little thin... | 2015-07-04T10:09:30 | 2015-07-04T09:49:50 | 514 | 50 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | I watched you dance in the rain. It was beautiful. You smiled, I smiled back. Then there was joy. And now, you are still beautiful like a flower.
I watched you dance. In the rain it was beautiful. You smiled. I smiled. Back then there was joy. And now, you are still. Beautiful like a flower. | I killed someone. A man. Followed him home before I did it. I didn't even know him. A stranger, that's all. I thought I'd leave him bleeding if I didn't. "Help me." I was too kind for my own good. I watched the light go from his eyes, smiling. He asked me to end it. I obliged. I thought, "He was strange at first but no... | 2015-09-23T10:42:41 | 2015-09-23T10:02:07 | 630 | 161 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | Set Free:
And at the last second I saw her stepping onto the train. I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
And at the last second I saw her. Stepping onto the train I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
| I killed someone. A man. Followed him home before I did it. I didn't even know him. A stranger, that's all. I thought I'd leave him bleeding if I didn't. "Help me." I was too kind for my own good. I watched the light go from his eyes, smiling. He asked me to end it. I obliged. I thought, "He was strange at first but no... | 2015-09-23T10:11:20 | 2015-09-23T10:02:07 | 361 | 161 |
[WP]At a certain age, adults learn a terrible secret about the world that they can't share with younger generations. | "I just don't understand," he said, shaking his head and staring down at the ground. "Are you saying -- you lied to me?"
"No, dear -- not lied." His mother put her arm around him. "I know it's hard to hear. But it was for your own good. It just -- it made you so happy, and, well, it keeps you behaving well."
He was q... | "Giant Lizards?" said Jim
"Yup" the old man in the bathrobe
"Why are you telling me this? And how did you get into my house? And why are you wearing a bathrobe? And why did I offer you tea?"
"Thank you for that by the way" said the old man, taking a drink.
Jim stared at the old man in the bathrobe.
"You don't bel... | 2015-11-25T20:56:00 | 2015-11-25T20:33:06 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | From the personal journal of Astro-chronicler Des Variin.
Humans. Reviled, worshiped, misunderstood, underestimated. I first encountered these curious beings some 100 standard years ago, and have yet to fully understand all that makes them so damndibly different from all the other galactic races.
They follow the ce... | "Well little Hunin?"
"Human, It's pronounced human." said the woman as she sipped at her drink.
The two Yinhin looked at her for a moment not sure what to make of her interruption.
"What do you think?" asked the larger of the Yinhin as he raised and dropped the sword onto the bar, attempting to replicate his supp... | 2016-03-13T14:25:47 | 2016-03-13T14:16:09 | 1,823 | 345 |
[WP] Two immortals meet and fall in love. Neither of them are aware of the other's immortality and the years are flying by... | I met him at the Train Station 11 years ago.
I remember his eyes so clearly like it was yesterday.
That autumn, he proposed with an elegant diamond ring.
Even though I said yes, I had my doubts.
How could this last?
My hair would stay blonde, and his would turn grey.
Wrinkles would never claim my face, but his would b... | Elys of the Starry Night had been married to her husband for many decades. They had met at the event now referred to as The White Wedding, where the entirety of the Kentaran nobility were celebrating her sister's wedding, and everyone was poisoned with digitalis root.
The only other survivor was the Royal Poisoner, w... | 2016-04-28T02:41:16 | 2016-04-28T01:48:09 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] The story of an unsolved murder is brought up in an /r/AskReddit thread with several incorrect details. The murderer shows up to set the record straight. | >*Yeah, my aunt was killed by the guy in Nappa Valley. He caught her and her boyfriend star gazing right near Lake Berryessa and attacked them both, stabbing her to death (I think like 10 times) and him damn near to death too. My aunt's boyfriend lived though, told the police everything and I think he's attorney now... | I know maybe it is not totally right, but I really dislike when people talks about things they don’t know in Internet. I mean; what the actual fuck is wrong with people? if you don’t know about something just don’t say anything about. I can handle those bigmouths. So usually I expend some of my free time doing one of t... | 2016-05-13T19:55:52 | 2016-05-13T09:47:15 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I have the most beautiful wife in the world. She's the sunshine of my life, my other half. At first she wanted nothing to do with me, but I won her over with my charm. Sure, I'm 40 and she's 25, but I'm not a pedophile as some claim me to be. She's mature for her age, has a steady job, and we are moving out of our apar... | Hello darling, I haven't heard from you in a while. I know it's been radio silence between us, but I really had to ask-
Do you still think about me?
I've begun to reminice about you more. Remembering all those little things you did for me, the pictures we drew together. I've gotten back into listening to our favourit... | 2016-05-19T11:50:39 | 2016-05-19T09:39:43 | 311 | 33 |
[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident. | "364."
"What do you mean, 364?"
"364 days since the incident."
These words... burned. Ached. My heart skipped a beat.
He couldn't be serious, but after *time traveling,* what disbelief could remain?
"Mind... uh, refreshing my memory? What incident?"
"If only I knew, pal. Govermment's got it on lockdown. They just... |
My knees hit the concrete garage floor, displacing the dust into a thick, swarming cloud. A foreign shriek rang in my ears before a small hand clamped around my gaping mouth.
“Be quiet or they’ll find you.” A rough, female voice commanded. “You’re hurt…How did you get here?” She removed her hand and I began to sob q... | 2016-06-30T10:01:58 | 2016-06-30T09:17:56 | 82 | 18 |
[Wp] The zombie epidemic came and went in the developed world, most people survived, the military easily defeated the undead horde, and cures for the virus were created. However, zombies remain major issue in the developing and under developed world not getting nearly enough attention on the news.
Wow I didn't think t... | "It'll be $50 grand" said a tiny African man in worn out business suit.
"Excuse me? $50 Grand for what?
"That's for the standard Hunting licenses and fees." said the man, still blankly staring at his computer screen.
"Wait, I'm trying to help your country here. I'm trying to Helllll... P!"
"Yes yes... So are the... | "It's a question of energy, Matthews." John slammed his fists onto the presidents desk.
"It's a question of death..." replied President Matthews calmly. He raised his eyes to meet the zealot's gleam of the younger man. The ticket has been a match of convenience, and how the former Senator from Colorado was deeply reg... | 2016-10-30T15:52:15 | 2016-10-30T12:02:47 | 198 | 93 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | Harry: "Screw you, dad!"
Michael: "I'm sorry, Harry, I can't lie anymore. I'm not your dad."
Harry: "Oh my god, how could you do this to me and Jamie?! Why didn't you tell us?"
Michael: "Your dad told me not too."
Harry: "Who is it? Who's my dad?"
Michael: "Your mom. Your mom is your dad."
Harry: "W... what?"
Michael: ... | A meteor fell over the planet, then suddenly it exploded before the impact, revealing an army of naked winged women hellbent on taking over the world. they would do so by taking as many men (or women, if you prefer) to their bedchambers aboard a cosmic spaceship as was humanly possible.
shortly after the complete sexu... | 2016-11-27T12:34:41 | 2016-11-27T11:06:12 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | The creepy laughter started right on time. Every night, at 11:56. Then, the walls started to bleed, up by the ceiling, near the elaborate crown moulding, running down the old wallpaper. I call it "dripping crimson on a field of posies."
That would be gone by morning.
Cue screaming and the sounds of someone being ch... | Well, this is just perfect, isn't it?
The only hotel in the area, and it isn't on TripAdvisor. Damn it. I guess it'll have to do. Probably some cheap motel, or something like that.
Hey, this is actually really nice. A big Gothic mansion, with some ancient dead trees out in front. Those black flowers look.. meh, but i... | 2017-05-05T07:04:56 | 2017-05-05T05:53:53 | 530 | 392 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Wow. Great.
I'm standing in the middle of the woods, with just my pijamas on.
I have no idea how I got here. It's cold, I'm tired, and I just want to go to bed. The only problem is, that I live in the middle of a large city, in a place, where even the nights are warm and the air is soft.
Here it's so cold, that my ... | "Another day another dollar," Bob Saget whispers to himself after a long night of shooting his latest motion picture: Horror Directly Following Late Night Movie Shoots.
"You be safe now! Don't want any sort of horror scenario happening to you on the way home!" chuckles the director.
"What the fuck did I tell you ab... | 2017-05-05T07:30:17 | 2017-05-05T07:10:06 | 118 | 21 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | ^"Is ^that ^Dave?"
The voice belonged to John. It was faint but I could just make out each word.
^"Oh ^my ^god, ^where?!"
This not-faint-enough voice belonged to Jen. I've always found her annoying, but today she's been the fucking worst.
^"There's ^a ^body ^hanging ^from ^that ^tree, ^it ^looks ^like ^Dave!"
I ... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T08:05:56 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | This carnival was shit. The clowns looked stupid, the animals were boring, and even the food was awful. I don’t like carnivals to begin with, even as a kid, but at least the food was always good. Hot and greasy, covered in sugar or butter. But this food was stale and rotten. Shit, just shit.
When my boyfriend, Matt, ... | "Another day another dollar," Bob Saget whispers to himself after a long night of shooting his latest motion picture: Horror Directly Following Late Night Movie Shoots.
"You be safe now! Don't want any sort of horror scenario happening to you on the way home!" chuckles the director.
"What the fuck did I tell you ab... | 2017-05-05T07:15:00 | 2017-05-05T07:10:06 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | My name is Peter Thatch, and I've been trapped in a ghost town for 5 years, 4 months, and 22 days.
I wake up and check my phone. 6:30am. No signal, low battery, several ominous messages from an unknown number. Nothing new there, then. Wiping the crust from my eyes, I drag myself out of bed and make my way to the k... | The blood started the ooze down the wall where it was splashed in my frenzied killing of the mother. Her delicious screams still echoed in my mind, appeasing the voices that chattered at the edge of my skull. Sweat and the scent of her perfume teased my nostrils and I buried my face in her hair.
On the floor her husba... | 2017-05-05T09:48:59 | 2017-05-05T09:18:35 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] They reworked the justice system. Now, in each cell there is a piano, and convicts are released after performing a song perfectly. Lesser criminals are assigned simple melodies, while the worst get full concertos. You've been a concert pianist your whole life. | At first I robbed a grocery store and played my "Three Blind Mice"
And when I egged a blind man's house I made that Bach sound nice.
They started getting suspicious when I made my big score
I robbed a bank and breezed right through Sonata 24.
I stole, I lied, I fought, I killed, I lived a madman's dream.
By Can... | "Harold, you've been charged with torturing and murdering a man in cold blood. How do you plead?"
Harold looked up at the judge, feeling a hundred eyes burning into him. It felt like his entire life was leading up to this moment.
"Guilty as hell, your honor."
The jury immediately reacted, murmuring to each other, b... | 2017-05-17T23:42:52 | 2017-05-17T23:27:06 | 2,153 | 1,195 |
[WP] Write the happiest story you can think of and completely destroy the atmosphere with a plot twist in the final sentence. | I never thought heaven would be like this– it's strange, really. Glorious, but strange. Like listening to a song so good you never thought it could have existed. I expected something completely different. You see, I was raised a Catholic, and a good one at that, and had always imagined heaven to he something like a gia... | Billy the pretty pink pony skipped down Rosemary Lane, stopping only to sniff the brightly coloured flowers in the hedges, or watch the butterflies fluttering through the air.
It was a beautiful day – the sun was shining, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and the birds were singing in the trees – and Billy was on his ... | 2017-05-25T05:14:49 | 2017-05-25T00:29:16 | 523 | 63 |
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