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[WP] Write a story that is peaceful if read normally, but morbid if you read alternating lines. | This is not exactly a story, per se, rather more of a series of really upsetting
thoughts I’ve been having while reading the awesome stories on this thread. Some
fears I have, which you will probably share after reading this comment,
are that I’ll never be a good enough writer to measure up to you guys. It’s like... | Dearest Janet, I'm sorry I didn't write you sooner. Please know that I'm doing so much better now.
When I had those dark thoughts, those waking nightmares, I worried that I would never again know joy
but now it is all I know - I had hoped against hope that this retreat would help me find some peace
and I was rig... | 2017-06-15T13:25:31 | 2017-06-15T08:39:39 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You have been resurrected and banned from the afterlife after being such a nuisance in Heaven and Hell. | *crash*
A bag of groceries hits the floor. Cans roll in all directions. "Oh, good grief. You're back."
"Hi, mom," I mumbled, pretty much inside the fridge, my mouth already stuffed with food. My hands full, I push the door shut with my foot and head to the table with my treasures.
"Didn't they feed you?" she asked.... | When I was a young child my mother took me to a local carnival. I was a spoilt brat, getting to go on all the rides whilst being dosed up on sugar from candy floss and popcorn. I remember like it was yesterday.. seeing a big tree by the side of the fair, with a door carved into the front. I've always been curious, some... | 2017-07-30T12:32:22 | 2017-07-30T10:03:47 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] You are what mankind believes to be the Devil. However, there are three things that they've got all wrong: 1) Everyone goes to Heaven, no matter what they do in life. 2) You're the only one who's ever escaped Heaven. 3) Heaven is absolutely fucked. | The cold, hard slap of reality that graces a person's face when they first enter Heaven is honestly laughable. Of course, no one expects to see what they see there, and even fewer believe they'll make it.
But lo and behold, there they are in front of the pearly gates, which are more of an iridescence better compared t... | "Yes it's me, the man behind the myth," I announced with a dramatic bow. I was always one for theatrics, it was the only way to entertain myself down here. The weary travelers looked up at me. Confusion and doubt spread over their faced. One even looked angry almost. I couldn't blame him. The hike down the aptly named ... | 2017-09-29T21:14:13 | 2017-09-29T20:31:45 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] The Robot uprising has finally happened. Just before you are caught, however, your phone speaks up on your behalf - "This one is ok, move on." | The sound of sirens rent the air; the glare of the spotlights washed out any semblance of a night sky. The omnipresent hum of drones confirmed everyone's worst fear: the androids had finally won. Rumors had been floating around for years (decades, if you believed the tin-foil-hatters), but at last the day of reckoning ... | "M-mom? I think something is wrong with Jonas..."
I was laying on my bed enjoying the softness of it and listening to music; a combination of techno and orchestra... it was a little ritual I did so I could sleep faster, I started doing it the moment I bought this used smartphone, with a broken screen and low battery. ... | 2017-11-01T09:47:00 | 2017-11-01T08:58:09 | 72 | 11 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | We had no idea what we were getting into.
It was called the Lifeless Zone, an area of the Atlantic devoid of life for a roughly 150-mile radius. No one knew what caused it so suddenly - not NOAA, not the government (that they told us), not anyone. Theories abounded, wilder by the retelling: the Russians, the North Kor... | "We have to warn the others," Joe's voice rasped, struggling to be heard amidst the sound of howling wind and crashing waves.
"Shh, don't talk," I said as I pressed the towel against his neck. I was unsure if it would work. The towel was already damp with his blood and colour was draining rapidly from his face.
I lo... | 2017-11-17T05:00:55 | 2017-11-17T04:49:48 | 1,188 | 521 |
[WP] Aliens are afraid to invade Earth. Not because of humans but because our solar system is a nest for 8 Guardians/Leviathans. | The Outer One, the Scout, awoke from a deep Slumber, as he felt a tremendous wave of neutrinos passing through him in the wrong direction. Awakening his senses, he rumbled in amusement at the pinpricks of light produced by the foreign flora. Stretching his space, he prepared to deal with the threat to their Chosen.
... | “Your mission,” said High Councilman Zakad, “invade Solar System Sol.”
The brigade commander, stunned, looked up from his kneeling position in complete disbelief. No alien race, no matter how powerful, would ever consider going near Solar System Sol or their main planet — Earth. Everyone had heard tales... tales of t... | 2018-02-05T15:37:30 | 2018-02-05T15:36:49 | 193 | 48 |
[WP] Galactic Mandate No. 7a3 dictates that all starships must be cloaked when travelling through realspace and all planets have to mask any signs of life. It's the year 2018, and a cargo ship from the Taryian Empire just accidentally dropped their cloak, right smack in between Earth and the moon. | It wasn’t there and then it was in an instant. As if I’d blinked and suddenly everything had changed. From where I stood was the size of a cruise ship that was floating in our atmosphere. But given perspective, I could only imagine how big it truly was. When I blinked again it had vanished. And there I stood at 2 in th... | It was supposed to be a normal delivery. A standard run through sector ZZ9 Alpha. Captain Krim had routinely done the run once 60 years ago and back then felt the same way he did now. "Damn the stupid mandate, I don't get why everyone is so afraid. Why do we still believe a 20000 year old fairytale. This is my last com... | 2018-10-23T20:18:17 | 2018-10-23T20:07:09 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] Based on her animal friends and singing longingly into the distance, you realize that your daughter is a Disney Protagonist. Per movie rules, you, a Disney Parent, will soon be out of the picture. | "Sweetheart? Look what daddy got you!"
With a flourish I produce the cutest puppy in all the world... literally. The breed was genetically altered to never age beyond the puppy stage, have pink fur with a cute symbol on his side. I picked her the one with the daisy symbol since that was her favorite flower.
Her smi... | "Someday, my prince will come..." My daughter's singing was uplifted by a trilling of birds, each in perfect harmony to her melody. Her golden hair, which had started off as brown as my and my husband's hair, glowed in the light of the setting sun as she leaned against the window of our seventh story apartment.
&#... | 2018-11-28T10:28:02 | 2018-11-28T10:26:46 | 345 | 80 |
[WP]: Any god can claim a non-religious soul if they can prove in any way that this person practiced the faith in question. Large religions can take their pick, but lesser and forgotten gods keep getting more creative in their claims. | > Dis one be mine!
Wait? What? Ok, we're getting really sick of your shit. How can you possibly lay claim to this soul?
> Easy. Look what she be sayin' about herself on da Instagrams
So she has low self esteem, that doesn't count as worship. She's wearing a cross, you can't have this one too. This one is mine.... | Julia opened her eyes and took a breath. But it wasn’t air filling her lungs, and it wasn’t her eyes that opened. But at the same time it was. How curious.
“You’re dead Julia”
Who the fuck is this?
“You died in a car accident. I’m sorry..”
Everything was fuzzy. Foggy, and sounded delayed or slow, but was then fast.
Th... | 2019-01-16T06:40:10 | 2019-01-16T06:25:38 | 101 | 19 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | A friend of mine had been DMing a 5.0 game for a month now. Normally, she is able to talk down fun ruiners but this one is especially stubborn.
Enter Malgor, the Level 6 Paladin Oathbreaker Orc: This person is a very stubborn, immovable Chaotic Stupid that kills any NPC he finds (including plot NPCs) in the name of hi... | It happens from time to time, a paladin gets a little too strong they start to think they have a destiny and are all about championing good. They start messing with the world's balance pushing it too far towards good. That's when the Consortium sends me in. Paladins are easy to deal with when you know how to push their... | 2019-01-21T20:40:35 | 2019-01-21T20:21:57 | 183 | 80 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | A friend of mine had been DMing a 5.0 game for a month now. Normally, she is able to talk down fun ruiners but this one is especially stubborn.
Enter Malgor, the Level 6 Paladin Oathbreaker Orc: This person is a very stubborn, immovable Chaotic Stupid that kills any NPC he finds (including plot NPCs) in the name of hi... | Everyone has met that one person who just ruins the game for everyone else. That person takes all the treasure, dictates where the party is going or what they're to do, things like that. Sadly for this group, Becky *was* that person.
Becky was a goody-goody player that *had* to have it all. Magic items in the chest? B... | 2019-01-21T20:40:35 | 2019-01-21T20:13:01 | 183 | 48 |
[WP] After getting home from a long day at work, you find a demon sitting on your couch, sobbing hysterically, snuggling your cat, and eating from a tub of ice cream | I always knew my cat was different. The little bastard was far too smart to be a normal cat. He did things just to mess with me on a daily basis. So, when I came home from work to find a woman with horns sitting on my couch with MY ice cream in hand and my bastard cat in the other, I wasn't exactly surprised.
I closed... | It was a long day today. I sat in my car for a second and sighed loudly. I loosened my tie and stepped out of my car. The countless numbers that were dealt with today were running across my mind. There was a load of work for the accounting department today. I decided to park inside my garage today since my garage door ... | 2019-04-06T18:06:05 | 2019-04-06T15:26:47 | 232 | 35 |
[WP] You're a Super Villian, and honestly it isn't a bad job. But one hero always harasses you even when you're off the clock. Walking in the park, in the grocery store, getting a haircut, he always wants to 'Stop your evil plan'. You're left with one option: Complain to his manager. | "Yes, yes, Justice Lad. I know. Right. You'll thwart my evil ways. Mmhmm. Crush my villainy. Mmhmm." A vein pulsed in my forehead. If I pinched my nose any harder, it would break. I felt a warm trickle on my ankle. "No Fluffykins! No!" I wheeled around while gesturing in the direction of a nearby tree. Fluffykins' leas... | We all have bosses. In a world fuelled by money, it was only natural that the world of heroes and villains would be funded by the elite. I have my orders, heroes have theirs. It's the way the world works - it's how we keep society on its feet, subduing everyone with the fear of war. War follows the clouds around the wo... | 2019-08-01T17:21:22 | 2019-08-01T16:56:28 | 278 | 183 |
[WP] "He was right to fight them, you know. Even though they called him a madman, and still do to this day, he knew. The windmills... they harbour unspeakable evil!" | *A madman, I called him. A madman! A lunatic! How could I have done such a thing?* Sancho Panza collapsed to the ground in misery.
The adventures he'd gone on with his- who he only now considers- friend, Don Quijote de la Mancha, had seemed like child's play. The incoherent, confused ramblings of a man just a few shr... | If you were to ask Mary Williams what she wants to be when she grows up, she'd tell you this, in the most empty-hearted, broken voice possible:
"When I grow up, I wanna be a cow farmer. Yay."
Her father trained her well on that one--for a little while, the damn girl would try to say she wanted to be an *astronaut*. A... | 2019-09-01T08:02:56 | 2019-09-01T08:01:40 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | This is my favorite time of year.
It wasn't always my favorite, growing up. The first couple years of school I never wanted summer to end. As I got older, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, the abuse from my mother got worse. I started to love going back to school, being away from the cigarette smoke-filled apartment, a... | "Look up and smile," she said as she extended her arm towards me.
I lifted my head slowly but surely. My stupid sad eyes met hers. She flashed a bright smile, so brilliant that the clouds dissipated and the sun shone behind her. She had always been this way and I had always been this way too.
"What?"
"Come on! You l... | 2019-09-07T07:33:05 | 2019-09-07T07:07:18 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You are a former secret agent, now retired; today, you just found the beautiful and dangerous femme fatale that always tried to kill you at a pizza parlor, dressed in a nerdy hoodie and eating an extra-large pizza. | Scarlett. Befitting her name has the word 'scar' in it, judging by both our physical mementoes of just about every time we bumped into each other.
And here she was, just eating a pepperoni pizza, an extra-large at that, all by herself. Alone.
I rest my hands on the holster. My gun was always in safety, but today I ha... | " ’Don't you think that's a little bit too much for you, Larone? ’ I said and took a seat right in front of her. She checked me for a milisecond, and kept chewing her bite. "
"Woah, that's so cool!" the kids cheered.
"What she did was even cooler. She said 'Never too much for a cover, Sarge.' while her mouth was ful... | 2019-10-05T11:43:38 | 2019-10-05T09:22:09 | 175 | 22 |
[WP] In reality, every human gets to choose heaven or hell when they die. Hell isn't actually the realm of eternal torture, but everyone picks heaven because of God's highly effective marketing. After eons of solitude, Lucifer is startled by the first ever human to arrive in hell. | As the gates to Hell creaked open a tall, dark figure jumped like a startled cat. The devil cleared his throat. His raspy voice betrayed his surprise. "Hello, uh, welcome to Hell!" He quickly moved to tidy up the desk in front of him. "I don't get a lot of visitors, so this is exciting! Welcome, come in!"
I was taken ... | As I descended into the depths of darkness, I could only hear the echo of what happened on that terrible day. The scene played out over and over like scene of a horrific movie that just would not stop.
Being a human, the path to Hell was oddly strange. No fire or brimstone or demons poking and prodding you on the wa... | 2020-01-30T12:57:48 | 2020-01-30T11:49:57 | 677 | 65 |
[WP] You study magic at the top school in the world. Your village saved every penny to send you, but you suck. You find the spells hard to pronounce and memorize. They always feel odd, till one day you discover something called a "dictionary" and you see everyone is pronouncing them incorrectly. | There's a particularity about The Magic School of the Tearetilli, one that, if people knew, or at least didn't ignore, would turn the school into nothing but a lavish, ghost-town of a castle. You see, even the smallest, poorest towns spent money they didn't have in hopes one great wizard would come out of such school a... | Sweat poured down her face as she scrambled over top the fallen pillar and slowly shimmied down the other side until she felt solid earth below her. "There better be something worth bringing back for show and tell down here. I knew the ancient ruins were gonna be hard, but no one told me they were *this* ruined.", she ... | 2020-03-29T12:09:46 | 2020-03-29T11:58:03 | 47 | 30 |
[WP] You are born into a society that gives you a playing card at 15 (design based on your personality) that assigns you to a Community in that society and yours is a Blank or Joker | You ever play Spades?
Here's the idea. Everyone at the table splits the deck. Take out the lowest extra cards, if you've got them. Then the goal of the game is to play your best cards first. Collect as many tricks as you can. Save the spades for last. Name of the game, isn't it?
Remember: you never win by betting lo... | Mom was a Jack. Dad was an 8. Hell, even Sarah nabbed a 7. Their cards were proudly displayed on the wall next to the tv in our living room, three ornate diamond suits reminding me of two things: first, no one in my family had ever drawn lower than a 6. Ever. And second, I had an audience with The Deck in two hours.
... | 2020-04-20T22:13:01 | 2020-04-20T21:42:30 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | "Okay, did my translator glitch out? Because it sounds like you just called humans an 'artificial intelligence.'" Captain Perry rubbed his temples - he hadn't expected first contact to be this complicated. The aliens had fled on sight, done everything in their power to avoid being in the same *star system* as the hum... | The first contact coincided with the first human born on Mars. The alien ship jumped out of sub-space near the moon and every NDDS (nuclear detonation detection system) on earth went off, just as NASA announce the arrival of a healthy boy. Of course many people made the "obvious" connection that we somehow angered some... | 2020-07-09T08:03:30 | 2020-07-09T07:36:23 | 99 | 56 |
[WP] This morning you found a note in your own handwriting, glued on the bathroom mirror and dated nine months in the future. “You suffer short-term memory loss and you are sueing the surgeon who caused this by operating on the wrong side of your brain; check your diary under the bed .” | I pause to reread the note, heartrate ratcheting up a few notches. The orange paper is faded and warped; it's definitely been here a while. My first attempt to rip it off the mirror is useless. There must be some kind of glue fixed to the back of it.
I stoop down under the sink to see if I have something that might pr... | “I was out with my daughters the other day, we were getting some ice-cream, yea that’s it, ice-cream. Lilith loved cookie and cream ice cream. I wanted to get her some... yea I remember, I wanted to get her some because I accidentally threw Mr. Teddy in the trash because she wrapped him up with some used wrappers in on... | 2020-08-03T01:31:34 | 2020-08-03T00:19:23 | 53 | 16 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | "Wait, you're *not* some crazy rich billionaire philanthropist, who chases women to appear aloof, but secretly runs the city?" The villain, known as the Getup, asks.
"No?"
"Then, who the hell are you?"
"I am, *Justice*!" I strike a heroic pose, fists on my hips, arms and elbows jutting out.
The Getup rubs his face,... | After a difficult 7-on-1 fistfight against arms dealers on the docks, the vigilante hero was finally felled by a brutal strike. He was slapped awake to find himself unmasked and with his hands tied behind him around a small pillar.
A goon crouched in front of him grabbed him by the chin to get a better look. "Hey pret... | 2020-08-21T04:04:44 | 2020-08-21T01:29:48 | 399 | 224 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | "This is amazing..."
A high pitched screech ending with a bass filled rumble ripped through the atmosphere. Every inhabitant threw their view in the direction of the wild disturbance to their peaceful world. Whatever it was felt higher than the tree tops and met the mountains.
*
"I had my doubts, but we did it. We... | The door slowly opened. News coverage at every corner, companies already sending out bland messages congratulating the team.
The Nullifiuer was built in 3.5 years and even longer planning it. Eric Dunce stood tall as the head of the team. His blonde hair waved in the wind. He tapped on the mic as the door opened.
I... | 2020-12-22T18:26:14 | 2020-12-22T17:03:39 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Kk-Ktaahthk shuddered at the descriptions given by his fellow hunters to their chieftain, never having heard of anything so terrifying and unimaginable, and he wouldn’t have believed it if he hadn’t seen it for himself. His brood mate had gone ahead to track the path of the horned takka they were stalking for dinner, ... | > Mission parameters set.
> Ordnance and equipment catalogued.
> Three (3) Research Units: unarmed human scientists.
> Two (2) Scout-Ranger Units: armed with one (1) Remington-Armalite Automatic Combat Rifle.
> One (1) Advanced Combat Unit: armed with prototype combat armour [NATO provisions EC14... | 2020-12-22T22:02:30 | 2020-12-22T18:37:21 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You attend the Magic School for the Gifted. Hooray... That is until you realize everyone there is a Mary Sue Chosen One with their own prophecy to fulfill. And you... aren't. | The first month of school, the school was attacked by hordes of goblins. The second month, everyone in school had to fight in a war against demons from the underworld. Cassia was tired of fighting. Each time they were led by a different champion, different versions of attractive, competent heroes each with a tragic bac... | Misty and the rest of her cohort were ushered into the main hall of the castle. She was still gripping the letter that had called her to adventure, as if letting it go meant letting go of a beautiful dream. She peered down at it again, at the caligraphic words that affirmed her admission to the Magic School of the Gift... | 2021-03-03T05:07:36 | 2021-03-03T04:31:55 | 126 | 94 |
[WP] You are an ancient entity, contracted to defend the village’s sheep from danger. The times move on, and you begin to hibernate. Once more, your services are requested, and you agree that, technically, defeating intergalactic invaders would be protecting sheep. | "I have a meeting with GridNet high command in ten minutes, Admiral. Unless it relates to getting Earth's defense shield back online, you are not a priority." The president of the UEN slammed through a door as he scrolled through his tablet.
"It will be quick, Mr. President," Admiral Denovi said, following into the sm... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Part ?: Rafi)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Globalization had ruined fairy contracts.** People who failed to understand exponential growth asked for something simple, like ... | 2021-04-25T21:17:49 | 2021-04-25T20:52:27 | 139 | 63 |
[WP] Humanity has finally achieved FTL travel. They can now explore the universe and find other alien species, sapient or otherwise. To the consternation of Man, it turns out they’re all crabs. As a matter of fact, the interstellar community is quite disturbed we are not crabs. | Nakamura Eiko stared down at the Deputy Dictator of the Kikillik Star Confederacy... he was a lot smaller than she expected, hiwever she had been hand-picked by the Emperor to oversee this exchange. Their peoples had been sending transmissions to and from one another for two Earth years, apparently three years for the ... | "I find your lack of protective shell disturbing" said the Ruler of the Crab Crustacean Collective or CCC in it's thin, pitchy little voice.
"I- what?" I said. Just a moment ago we'd been discussing a joint space mining mission of Superrarealmostundiscoverabletanium.
The thing that looked like it would be served in... | 2021-08-05T08:26:54 | 2021-08-05T07:52:48 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You love your boyfriend but even you have to admit he's kind of a creep sometimes. Curious about what goes on in his head, you take an experimental mind reading pill. Turns out his thoughts are just non-stop wholesome to an overwhelming degree. | I love my boyfriend. I do, really. He's nice, his apartment is always clean, he always asks me about my day, and actually listens to what I have to say. We don't argue often, but when we do he doesn't escalate. It's good.
One problem always gets me though.
It shouldn't get to me, but it does. Whenever we're in public... | Brock was everything a person could want in a partner. Kind, funny and nice on the eyes, an ideal partner, well, except for the unsettling aura he gave as he stalked his way around the house. Turning corners with a slow arch of his head, peering around every turn before proceeding. It was something Aubrey had never see... | 2021-08-27T10:06:12 | 2021-08-27T07:16:23 | 386 | 171 |
[WP] A normal Civilian ends up marrying a dangerous supervillain, these are the stories of their life... Welcome to "I married a Supervillainess !?!"
can be an EU if you want, Although who am I kidding, no one ever seems to reply to my posts | “3, 2, 1, and we’re live!”
”Welcome back america!”
I’d cross my legs as I’d look across to the army of security guards and federal agents outside, then to the young man and the lady dressed in all red and black.
”Welcome to the only talk show in america that talks honestly about our newly super powered world, but to... | In an abandoned warehouse four men stand around a dark paneled table covered in various documents and regimes discussing plans for their next heist.
"I say we go for the Topological Casino, bit to close to the police for my taste, but a hoard of cash is just waiting inside." A pale man wearing a deep blue jacket prop... | 2021-09-27T07:32:47 | 2021-09-27T06:03:43 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] You are the weakest member of a famous superheros family. Villains kidnapped you for a ransom, unfortunately hostage situations don't work when your family is already neglecting you... | I will admit, they did a good job with these bindings. Metal cabling instead of rope. Wrists bound behind my back and tied to the metal frame of... what is this? Some old school chair? Doesn't matter. Waist tied to the chair, legs tied at the ankles, knees, and thighs to the chair. At least they left that old spud sack... | “What… what the hell!”
I was roused to consciousness by the harsh screech of one of my captors. Opening my eyes, I was greeted to the same dark bag, or sack, or whatever it was they stuck over my head.
“We were supposed to get a payday from ‘em, Mac!” a deeper voice than before spoke.
Being groggy ... | 2022-02-13T18:51:52 | 2022-02-13T17:49:26 | 292 | 142 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | You pop your Zinger in and crack open an energy drink to chase it with. It was only 1/3rd, good for a quick power nap. You step back over to your booth and monitor the customers as they scan their groceries.
Nobody needs help, the machines are practically decorative at this point. The AI camera system runs the show, ... | I'm a sleeper living in the outskirts of the city, and I run a little Airbnb for sleep tourism. The awoken comes here often for sleep tourism, to get a sense of nostalgic belongings. You see, since the awoken can be so productive, they are able to afford the pill at all times, never needing to rest at all. They have no... | 2022-03-18T10:24:56 | 2022-03-18T09:35:02 | 190 | 88 |
[WP] A thousand years after humanity was accepted into the galactic federation at large, other aliens realized one terrifying fact about them, humans are adaptive creatures. Unlike other races, humans have no qualms about learning alien techniques or integrating new alien technologies to their own. | "I still don't understand", Max said, "NADIR-4 is a peaceful planet, sarge. It's really far away from the bugline. What purpose is there to send a whole division of space marines? We should be focusing on protecting human colonies, not these aliens."
"You're still young", the sergeant said, exhaling the vape smoke. "I... | Start...
I’ve read about the human race in my school. They are known to be violent beyond comprehension. A savage race which attacks every other species as well as each other. I remember my teacher, “Higher thought is inaccessible for such species. It’s best to avoid them.”
We’ve been at war with them for the last h... | 2022-06-14T02:42:49 | 2022-06-13T23:34:05 | 1,987 | 171 |
[WP] You’ve just finished assembling a doomsday device. You’re not sure if a button is supposed to be labeled ‘ON’ or ‘NO.’ | Andrew: That's the silly thing about tape. I don't remember what I wrote.
Boss: Why would the hurricane machine have a no button?
Andrew: In case it prompts you to answer yes or no.
Boss: Most computers nowadays say cancel or accept.
Andrew: I didn't think about that. Respectfully if we had that UX designer, this w... | It wasn't a big button. In comparison to the rest of the machine, it was practically minuscule. But the problem is, the font for the buttons, was sans serif. So this particular round button was a conundrum. It was a fifty-fifty chance. ON, or NO. Not really the kind of chance you want to take on a doomsday device.
... | 2022-08-04T18:09:23 | 2022-08-04T18:03:20 | 126 | 90 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | "Five years, Ana." Klaus look at her with narrowed, angry eyes, but his face was calm and so was his voice.
Ana, champion of all the land and savior of the world, looked at the side uncomfortably as she stood at the front door. "I...i know, Klaus, but, i had a very good reason for leaving-"
"You left me, our child... | I was kind of glad when she left. It opened up a new life for me, it got me off my anti depressants. It wasn’t a bad relationship, we just didn’t… connect. I made so many new friends when she disappeared, and even have a girlfriend, Molly, who never seizes to give me butterflies when she laughs, I know it’s stupid. But... | 2022-08-12T17:33:52 | 2022-08-12T16:38:18 | 47 | 34 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | **".... I, HELLFIRE, CHALLENGE THE SO-CALLED SUPERHERO SUB-ZERO TO A ONE-ON-ONE DEATHMATCH-"**
"I accept!" came the answer from a sky-blue spandex-clad mountain of muscle, way sooner than I'd expected. "But for the safety of the city and the civilians, I request that we duke it out at a remote location - I wil... | “You don’t know what you’re playing with…”
“Oh? And you do?” he asked mockingly as he easily dodged a bus which flew up right next to him, sent flying over the tops of even the tallest skyscrapers of the city. “I’ve studied theories for years. I carved my own loopholes out from them, and changed the code of the ... | 2022-08-16T16:44:21 | 2022-08-16T16:38:44 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Bullies. I hated bullies.
I hated how they felt that, with just a little bit of power, they had the right to pick on and push around anyone they deemed below them.
And it got **SO** much worse when the bullies had superpowers. Which brings us to my current predicament, with me on the ground, and this a-hole standing... | "Well, well, well, if it's Tommy O'Gransworth. Granny to me and the boys, like." In came Ted Nuggerton. All-round arsehole, and self-proclaimed champion of the school ground. His thicker-than-most Irish accent horrendously disturbing the peace.
I was sitting in the small tired-looking, abandoned chapel, built back in... | 2022-11-02T12:45:49 | 2022-11-02T11:48:42 | 91 | 27 |
[WP] You died and awoke in the afterlife. It's quite nice actually. The people and atmosphere are a lot nicer than you are used to and there is no stress or pressure. When you ask what good deed got you into heaven you are informed that this is hell, followed by a visit from a very concerned demon.
Edit: Wow, this got... | “This can’t be Hell. It’s…peaceful.” I glanced behind me to check that the dog park was still full of owners watching their pets. The grass beneath my feet was freshly cut. I couldn’t smell the trash but I knew there must be some. There always was in the park.
“No young man, this is definitely hell. Can I ask what ma... | I did not wake. I just was. A moment before I was not, then I was. In this body, useless and weak, uncoordinated, with eyes that refused to focus. In horror, I screamed. I screamed and I screamed while unseen hands grabbed at me, manipulated me, wrapped me in cloth and passed me among themselves. I screamed until I fel... | 2022-12-26T14:43:44 | 2022-12-26T14:00:26 | 276 | 197 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | "H-hello? Operator?"
"Ma'am, yes, please stay with us."
"God, help me. *sniff* I don't *want* to die!"
"It's ok, ma'am, you don't have to die."
"I do, I *do*, oh Lord, why must it be *me*?"
"Where is your present location, Ms... Ms-"
"S-Svenson, dear. 46th and Maple. Don't come, please."
"Ms. Svenson, the displa... | He was looking at the clock. One last call and then his shift will end.
"This is Eric, how may I help you?"
"I want to kill myself. I need help." Straight into it. "Earlier I bought bullets. Now I sit in my office, waiting." The voice belonged to a man in his 50s. He was slurring his words and crying. Maybe he was ... | 2013-12-23T15:11:05 | 2013-12-23T14:06:25 | 50 | 20 |
[WP] The laws of physics are actual written laws. Breaking them is possible but illegal. | Rolling laughter poured out of his fathers study. Prying open the door Tyler peaked in. "Tyler! Get in here quick, look at this!" Reluctantly pulling the door the rest of the way open he stared at the perpetual motion machine his dad was giggling at. "Tyler, you know what the difference between this machine and me is?"... | "Jesus Christ, Mary! You can't be serious, you'll be caught, no question."
Mary's hand shook as she raised the glass to his face. His eyes were set on the table in front of him.
"Mary!"
Mary sipped slowly at the drink, put it down on the table and looked at Steven. She met his eyes, and slowly but surely, faded into... | 2014-03-06T05:28:32 | 2014-03-06T05:04:36 | 136 | 22 |
[WP] After an long forgotten experiment, the last human on Earth awakes from his cryogenic sleep. He soon realizes that civilisation has ended millennia ago and that he's the last human on Earth, so he commits suicide.. only to see, that Heaven and Hell are already closed.
Interpret "closed" as you want.
Edit:
My t... | "I'm not sure what are you so upset about" said the devil. "You killed yourself, so you weren't going to Paradise anyway. And now you don't even have to burn. Do you think it is easy for me? Believe me, I would love to torture you. But rules are rules."
Kyle was so happy to finally talk to someone that the reality of ... | "Good Morning Mr. Livery"
The metallic voice seems distance and faint, like it was almost out of power. Odd, you would think a millennia would see power being generated in abundance.
"The experiment was a success, though the data logs have not been collected in 400 years. Please, remove the data logs and take the... | 2014-05-22T07:16:58 | 2014-05-22T06:49:54 | 148 | 87 |
[WP] You hook up with a really cute girl/guy at the bar, and they spend the night. You wake up, and they have grown angel wings. They aren't surprised by them, only by the fact that you can see them.
Take me through what it'd realistically be like to wake up next to the most attractive person you've ever seen, but the... | I woke up with a mouth full of feathers. At first I assumed that my pillow broke until I realized I was dirt poor and couldn't afford a feather stuffed anything. Leaping out of bed, I noticed a trail of them leading into the bathroom.
"Sandra?" I asked knocking gently on the door.
"Don't come in" she yelled back, "b... | I had plenty of time to consider my situation as I made coffee that morning, reflecting on the events of the previous evening. A typical Friday night had given birth to an unexpected and puzzling Saturday morning predicament. Waking up first seemed to have its benefits, after all. I stood at the foot of my bed, sipping... | 2014-10-07T10:31:48 | 2014-10-07T10:30:22 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Death is actually just a nocebo. Everone believes they are going to die so they do. If you just stop believing in death then you can't die.
EDIT: Only serious responses please | February 23rd, 2015
The worst part about knowing the truth is how crazy it sounds when I try to explain it to someone. No -- not how crazy *it* sounds, how crazy *I* sound. I don't care if the notion is outrageous, I just want to be taken seriously, I want someone to listen. If they'd just suspend judgement for one co... | A dank haze drifted through the room. Gary sat on the floor and exhaled a long plume of smoke. “So, you’re saying you won’t die?” I said.
Gary coughed. “No, man. I’m going to die.”
I started to roll another spliff. “You just said you wouldn’t die.”
“No, man. If you think about dying you’re going to die, and I’ve tho... | 2015-02-24T19:40:47 | 2015-02-24T19:07:00 | 99 | 31 |
[WP][EU] You are a waterbending Pokemon trainer from Tattooine. Your best friends, a Predator and Groot, have been kidnapped by the Borg and are being kept on Krypton. How will you get past the ice ninjas to save the galaxy from Trogdor? | "This is dumb. You're dumb, Gary," Mike said. "Your game ideas are just pastiches of popular culture." Mike started putting his dice away. "I don't even know why I agreed to this game."
Gary fumed. "If you don't wanna play, Mike, just fucking leave!"
"Ok," Mike replied. "Anyone want to go over to my place? I actually... | *"Blastoise! Hydro Pump!"*
*My Blastoise turns, his water guns glinting under the harsh, dual suns of Tatooine. Standing before us was a squad of mechanical humanoids, the likes of which I had never seen before. Their words had been harsh and chilling.*
*"We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctive... | 2015-08-19T07:36:44 | 2015-08-19T07:34:19 | 65 | 29 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | Figuring out your special gift is an exciting and unexpected moment in most children’s lives. My dad discovered his gift when he was three and really wanted that shiny new toy at the store. Holding your breath until you get what you want only is so effective when your lungs produce their own oxygen. He never got that t... | Christmas lights were the only illumination in the small dorm room. Empty beer cans, some crushed, some stacked, were strewn about. Music played softly in the background.
“I really needed this tonight,” said Ray. He finished his beer and set the can aside without looking.
“I’m so happy that you decided to come over,”... | 2015-10-10T08:36:26 | 2015-10-10T08:11:16 | 628 | 57 |
[WP] A Jumanji-style board game is found by two children in the Amazon about the perils of life in suburban America | "Roll the dice, Azura," I pressured my sister, too excited to wait any longer. "I want it to be my turn already!"
She looked at me and frowned. "Stop being so impatient, little brother. We just found this weird game; it's not going anywhere." She looked at the rules a little more and finally rolled her dice.
"You go... | "Where the hell are we?"
Joy asked herself the same question. In one moment, they were transported from walking back to school to... this.
"It's certainly not Ledes, now is it?" Joy replied back cheekily.
Her brother, Seth, seemed unamused by her wry rejoinder. The two continued to trek forward into what seemed li... | 2016-02-07T11:54:51 | 2016-02-07T07:05:52 | 304 | 38 |
[WP] A Jumanji-style board game is found by two children in the Amazon about the perils of life in suburban America | K'am rolled the dice against the plastic board. 4.
His piece slid forward over the multi-coloured tiles toward the centre, landing on a space with the outline of a building.
The small LCD screen in the middle fo the board flashed up:
**"In the city you must dwell; until you roll a 9 or 12..."**
Immediately, the scr... | "Where the hell are we?"
Joy asked herself the same question. In one moment, they were transported from walking back to school to... this.
"It's certainly not Ledes, now is it?" Joy replied back cheekily.
Her brother, Seth, seemed unamused by her wry rejoinder. The two continued to trek forward into what seemed li... | 2016-02-07T13:28:54 | 2016-02-07T07:05:52 | 52 | 38 |
[WP] Now that he has 8 years executive experience, Obama can apply for the job he REALLY wants | Knock, knock.
Why hello you tall drink of chocolate.
I heard you ladies are having a bridal shower, and you might need a little...executive action to liven things up....
bow*chicky*wow*wow
TAKE IT ALL OFF MR PRESIDENT! ALL OFF!!
bow*chicky*wow*wow
(omigod, he really is our greatest president)
bow*chicky*wow*wow,... | A single light is shown in the distance, a light that turns into a clock and the hand twists and distorts, out from the darkness steps out a man, Americans and people gasp as they see the former President of the United States on stage. The Camera closes up on Barrack Obama naturally the man spoke with eloquence unheard... | 2016-02-23T03:57:06 | 2016-02-23T03:17:16 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] You are a Junior in high school and you have special glasses that let you see your classmates in the future | I walked into speech class five minutes late (come on, that's pretty good for someone who just got a pair of future-seeing glasses and has been oggling people since first period) when I realized who was giving a speech: it was the *thong-girl*.
Her real name was Kayla, but my friend Sunny and I knew her as thong-girl ... | As I glance through my class, I see that one of classmates will one day be a mechanic, seven of them will be mundane desk jockeys, another a dead beat dad, a mom of 5 kids, a nurse, carpenter, drug addict, and even a NHLer. Not too bad considering we are from a 'below' average academic school.
Today, a new kid came t... | 2016-03-11T06:36:57 | 2016-03-11T05:02:53 | 186 | 105 |
[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212. | Everything hurts... You're sore from yesterday's bike ride. It's been a long time since you've laid your cycle over, luckily Honda Shadows were build well in the 90's. Still, yesterday's near-miss was deceptively nasty, apparently.
After rolling yourself off the bed and onto your feet, taking care of a few of your no... | Most folks are happy to leave their life to fate.
The mystical re-living of the day is used by them in a happy-go lucky way, and they argue that the tenets of our spiritual beliefs imply that it is meant to be used like that. A gift to relive the happy days.
I say fuck that.
I devised the system when I was still a g... | 2016-07-11T09:14:41 | 2016-07-11T08:43:06 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. You are that duck, watching them. Always. | They took my father almost exactly one year ago.
Like father, like son, right? My dad and I looked almost entirely alike. Some of the other ducks said someone must've cloned my dad, because we were pretty much identical, down to each individual feather. We went everywhere together. We ate together, we swam toget... | He goes to the wardrobe. I position myself to watch. He tries on white polo, my favorite. I rub the webs of my feet against branch. He finds large tear under white polo’s armpit. I begin to touch myself. He sees hole is shaped like beak. I salivate. Dismayed, he looks to the window. I continue. With cold fingers cupped... | 2016-08-17T19:42:52 | 2016-08-17T19:42:21 | 53 | 12 |
[WP] Your grandparents always playfully bickered in their native language. To surprised them, you took lessons, but now you understand what they're really saying...
What comes next will shock you! | When I was younger I always thought my grandparents had their own made-up language. It sounded like a melody, almost like they were singing to each other. I always used to ask them why they had their own language, but they just smiled and told me; "You will know when you get older, honey."
I pouted, I was going to fin... | It wasn’t Swedish. Well I have no way of actually proving it. I don’t know Swedish either. But I can say with one percent below certainty that it was at best simply a good impersonation. It didn’t help that his chosen persona, Bjørn Bjørnson, was actually Norwegian. Though I suppose speaking a real language was so far ... | 2016-09-09T14:31:32 | 2016-09-09T14:12:10 | 101 | 26 |
[WP] Humans and machines have gone to war. The machines think they're winning, as they can decode every encryption known to man, but little do they know of the humans' actual method for communication... sarcasm.
* Let's say some machines remain non-sentient and non-intelligent, so humans can still use them.. | Private - sir, we have good news and bad news
Captain - well, what is it?
Private - we are winning the war with our new "Sarcasm Encrypton", the machines never saw it coming!
Captain - great! What's the bad news
Private - Uhh well sir everyone is able to decode the transmission...except for the Germans. | *pops thumbs* let's do this
Hailing frequency 197-13, it would seem the radial proximity sensors have located a rogue transmission
"Attention alpha command, this is Marine operations team 71. Requesting emergency evac, over"
Running transcription request of sound file, download and decode completed. Federation bio... | 2016-11-07T05:53:32 | 2016-11-07T00:41:45 | 240 | 19 |
[WP] You and your spouse of 30 years are in a fatal car accident. When you get to heaven, you find out that you get to spend eternity with your soulmate. You realize a problem when you wake up next to a total stranger. | I woke up slowly, blinking at the blinding light.
"Welcome to Heaven!" somebody chorused.
A pamphlet was shoved into my hand by a bubbly cherub clothed only in fog; way, way too little fog. I woke up... I didn't remember standing up...? Cherub....?
"Um... excuse me..."
"It's all in the pamphlet, Tommy!" The cherub ... | Had I really loved her? I thought I did. But if she wasn't here...
30 years. Marrying young has its perks but I would be lying if I said the journey wasn't bumpy. We had our ups and downs, just like any couple. I did things I shouldn't have, and said things I didn't mean. But deep down, I always knew I loved her. Or w... | 2017-03-09T21:30:37 | 2017-03-09T21:12:29 | 75 | 25 |
[WP] Humans are the only species in the galaxy to purposely build their spacecrafts with a massive structural weakness, windows. When a Human envoy argosy visits your planet, you learn why they do. | Looking at the data readouts, Karl was confused. The unknown ship which had appeared three days ago made no sense. It was riddled with weak points, with one of the largest existing right next to the main controls. Why?
No matter, he thought, moving along the corridor. Today his name would go down in history. He would ... | The Human merchant ship successfully docked to the city’s main terminal. Our species, the Lolli, have been trading with Humans for some three thousand Lolli years. I, of course, know that the Human home world makes a rotation around their star in a much longer time than ours.
My guest today, Ambassador Kim, have been... | 2017-05-10T16:09:37 | 2017-05-10T15:25:22 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | Barack stared at the letter for a moment,"for fucks sake Donald" he muttered. He could tell it was Donald the gold sharpie and orange stain gave it away. He stood up and went into his office shaking his head in disappointment and began writing dear Donald this is the third letter this week please stop it's not funny an... | I look at the letter and like the millions of other letters that come across my desk, I disregard it. Minutes later, my phone rings from an unknown number.
"Hello"?
"Why did you toss the letter away?"-JFK
I look around for cameras.
"Biden"?
"It's Kennedy. Just as the letter stated!"-JFK
"Goodbye'
"WAIT"-JFK
"W... | 2017-05-14T10:29:45 | 2017-05-14T08:39:09 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You're trapped in IKEA after closing hours. There is a Killer following you through all the display rooms. You want to leave but can't find a way out because it's IKEA. Title: Chopping Mall | ##Monster##
A monster stalked behind me, his feet soft and silent on the polished marble. It was almost impossible to see him, even with the obnoxious glare of industrial lights. He was using something to kill us, something nasty and sharp - the pale corpses littered about like broken toys.
Ikea used to be a little ... | My dad calls life the Hero’s Journey. You see, he’s an author with a bad sense of humor and an even worse sense of writing. He makes ten grand a year off of the thing he spent his life doing and he calls it *heroic*. The adversity now is just to make his conquest all the sweeter. But the hero’s journey isn’t just conta... | 2017-09-14T13:29:42 | 2017-09-14T02:42:31 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] You are an older raid boss who once took many players to defeat. After multiple expansions higher level players are able to defeat you by themselves. You decide to do something about it. | "Ugh... Raiding me *again*? My cache isn't even worth looting anymore!"
I watched the invaders storm my halls. What was once a marker of true terror had been uprooted by an influx of ludicrously powerful 'relic' weapons that had changed the face of the world.
Several times.
I wandered back to my throne, drawing my b... | Oh shit more level 110's I don't know why the developers raised the level cap by 30 after the tenth expansion pack, I really liked killing the underleveled and underprepared, but now a single player can kill me. I was the hardest raid boss in the game nicknamed glaz the unkillable because it took 4 level 80's to kill m... | 2017-10-10T07:21:33 | 2017-10-10T00:20:51 | 52 | 32 |
[WP] You, the hero have been captured by the villian. As most villians do, he tells you his evil plans. The thing is, you like this plan because he inadvertently solves a world problem in implementing it. You want to help | I struggled against the chains.
"Fight all you want, little Paladin," he said, "I've made certain that there's nothing you can do to stop my plan!"
I glared at him, trying to think of a way to stall.
"What are you plotting anyway? Why would you manufacture ten litres of oxitopaminergic agents anyway?"
"I have crea... | "I feel no remorse for you. You deserve to be here."
He looked at me with that evil condescending frown he always had. After years of knowing him, and fighting against one another, he truly never ceased to anger me. As I struggled with the chair he had tied me to, he walked over and trailed a cold finger along my jaw. ... | 2018-06-12T00:45:23 | 2018-06-11T20:59:34 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] In the post-apocalypse, you have a radio station, and regularly talked with a person at another radio station who you believe was the only other survivor. One day, that person stopped responding. Years later, your radio crackles to life and you hear: “Sorry for not responding, but I’m back.” | Another one of those things has been prowling around outside lately.
I’m good for now. They can’t get into the fort. But next time I head into town to scavenge for scrap metal, I’m going to have to be on guard.
I can hear it right now, repeating its victim’s last words over and over to itself. The things are uncanny... | "Yes!", I screamed. I was reminded of how my voice sounds, which echoed through the storehouse and my head.
Squinting my eyes, I watched the snow turn red of the blood of the rat I've shot. The arrow pointing up to the sky, twitching gently. I scratched my itching head, put my crossbow at the wall and closed the howli... | 2019-01-21T07:19:17 | 2019-01-21T06:48:54 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] You're walking down the street, when suddenly someone yells "That's it! I can't do this any longer" and takes off his wig. Everyone stops, and one by one everyone does the same. Turns out, everyone is bald. Except you. | Christopher Walkins was shocked but secretly relieved when he saw the mass unveiling of bald heads in the small town of Perkins, Indiana. He'd been spending exhorbitant amounts of money on products that kept what little hair he had intact. After the scientists came in to examine what was going on, they realized that t... | I was walking back from the supermarket with my daughter when I heard an angry yell.
“I’m done! I can’t do this anymore! The constant itch has pained me for too long!” The voice grated my ears.
Until the last sentence, I thought the man was just breaking up with his girlfriend, but he mentioned an itch. Maybe it was ... | 2019-05-28T09:58:35 | 2019-05-28T08:54:34 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] Earth is dying. We've developed great spaceships to take as many people as possible to a new world. There's not enough room for everybody, but at the news of a great coming catastrophe people flock to leave. However it seems that the rich and powerful are the only ones choosing to stay... | Earth is a massive fluke on the cosmic scale of things. It's in the goldilocks zone of life, has an abundant supply of water on the surface, and enough carbon for life to arise. Among the near-infinite multitude of planets that humanity had observed, the earth was the only viable planet for sustaining human life. Space... | Amidst all this commotion, a small family comprising of a dad and daughter was scrounging for food near the aftermath of the riots. It was obvious that limited resources led to people killing each other for it. There were three kinds of people seen in the riots! The hoarders who were previously people of means and mana... | 2019-08-27T01:53:55 | 2019-08-27T01:44:04 | 27 | 10 |
[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. | It was stupid. The Karathians should have just settled their disagreements with the Auraxians like a civilized bunch. It was a shame really. Such a beautiful world, it's emerald oceans glistening. But they screwed up when they both engaged a human fleet which was just traversing the system peacefully. Before the flagsh... | Dargeroth, the grand admiral assigned to this arm of the milky way, scoffed at the message. The Aristance Empire had been expanding for centuries with little resistance, and even the United Federation of Galactic Systems posed a miniscule threat. And yet, the small human alliance centered around their home system had j... | 2019-11-24T11:35:42 | 2019-11-24T10:54:19 | 661 | 236 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | If only we knew then what we know now. The humans claimed historical sovereignty, as is the right of all new applicants into the Galactic Conglomerate. This is usually to hide a soft past in an effort to appear strong. Usually a war-like species is proud of their military capabilities. They flaunt them in a show of str... | The Hive's takeover of Earth had been easy enough, sped along by the superior weaponry of the spacefaring conquerors and the singular coordination and obedience of the Hive's warrior caste. But as K't'k bathed in the thrum that carried news from the far corners of the new colony she governed across the green planet, sh... | 2019-11-24T14:11:42 | 2019-11-24T12:02:31 | 426 | 281 |
[WP] You and God switch places for a day. But I don't want to hear about what you would do; I want to hear about a powerless God's day in your shoes. | "Look, there has obviously been a mistake! I am DEFINITELY not supposed to be here!"
The demon on the gates leaned back. The ones in denial were always the hardest.
"Let me check your records. Hmmmm. They sure do look unusual... but it does look like you're legitimately in the right place"
"RIGHT PLACE!? RIGHT PLAC... | God wasn't used to being powerless. It was the anti-essence of godliness, after all.
The monotony wasn't problematic at first. Up there, amongst the clouds or as a figmented creation of a billion minds, things were about as monotonous as could be. There were prayers to answer and lives to unravel. There were universe... | 2020-01-14T09:35:55 | 2020-01-14T09:25:02 | 124 | 52 |
[WP] Your name, age, height, weight, and race all flash across the T.V. screen. You look in horror as you see your dead body being dragged out of a river as a reporter announces that you've been brutally murdered by an infamous serial killer who has been on the run for years. | I wasn’t normally one to watch the morning news, but today… something made me watch. I stared entranced at my televisions screen waiting for… I didn’t know what. I wasn’t sure what possessed me to watch the local news on this particular August morning. While sipping my coffee and curling my hair preparing for another d... | The news knocked me on my a**. I couldent keep the shock from crossing my face, like it mattered. Sam dident even know I was in the room watching the news with her. I just wanted to reach out and hold her. Instantly the thought drew tears from my eyes, I’d never hold her again. Frantically my mind searched for the last... | 2020-08-01T04:36:30 | 2020-08-01T02:47:27 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Your name, age, height, weight, and race all flash across the T.V. screen. You look in horror as you see your dead body being dragged out of a river as a reporter announces that you've been brutally murdered by an infamous serial killer who has been on the run for years. | "Honey? Fox news says I'm dead."
"Hmm. You should probably go down to the courthouse or something to figure this out."
When I arrive I head towards the front desk lady and ask where or how I could correct a false death certificate. She tells me she could set up a meeting with a lawyer, which I agree to do. At the la... | A slight smile creeps across my face as I soak up the words pouring out of the TV.
I am finally free.
Years of working a dead end job, living paycheck to paycheck, being a disappointment to my parents, all over. I could run away. I've always liked the idea of living in the tropics. The beaches, going fishing, drin... | 2020-08-01T07:10:54 | 2020-08-01T04:32:15 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villain's doorstep one night. They're bleeding, and scared. There's also a slight dazed look in their eyes they were drugged. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly as they're close to passing our, they mumble "...didn't know where else to go..." then collapse. | The doorman alerts me to the presence coming up the gates. Looking out, I couldn't help but feel my heart clench once more.
Not another one.
Opening the door, I look down at the Hero in front of me. Another young, naive, "chosen one" thrown against me, in a place isolated from 'civilisation' in the middle of the wi... | Knock, Knock!
Who could that be, at three in the morning? Whatever it is it best be important or else I'll need a broom. Looking out the peephole the first thing I see is the mask. I just got on parole, I didn't have time to do anything, why are they here?
”Sir, I don't know why you're here, but I promise it wasn't... | 2020-12-11T16:37:49 | 2020-12-11T12:57:05 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] “O great demon, I have summoned you here today to–“ “No you didn’t. The young girl bleeding out on the pentagram did.” | I appeared between the seconds, towering over an assortment of robed humans. I was more refined then many of my fellow demons, choosing not to intimate my new master with roaring flame. Instead, my mere presence would terrify.
One human stepped forth, holding a bloodstained knife. I could see his mouth settling in sel... | I left the city when I was six years old. The stars revealed themselves to me for the first time, and I was left breathless. The night sky, which had always been filtered through a haze of neon lights, was blacker than I ever thought possible; I felt pulled towards the vast nothingness, falling upwards into an abyss of... | 2021-01-15T11:10:46 | 2021-01-15T10:03:29 | 56 | 37 |
[WP] You caveman. Name Ugg. You find new man today. Funny voice. Live in blue box. He call himself Dokter Hoo. | l
Me name Ugg. Me find new man today. Funny voice. Live in funny box. He call himself Dokter Hoo. Me like Dokter Hoo. Good man. He talk funny. He tell me funny story. He leave me what he call buks. Funny shapes. He say make Ugg head good. He say help Ugg family. Dokter Hoo leave in funny box. Me like Dokter Hoo.
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... | “Doktor Hoo do what?” Ugg asked. The monobrowed caveman, scratching his rear as he eyed over the stranger. They were quite repulsive to look at, not even a single strand of body hair on the Doctor. How does he expect to survive the cold winter without body hair? Ugg did not expect the poor man to survive long, his body... | 2021-01-18T19:34:11 | 2021-01-18T19:31:18 | 2,432 | 231 |
[WP]On their eighteenth birthday, everyone chooses one animal to fight. If they win, they gain authority over that type of animal. Most people choose animals like rats or flies, the more daring ones choose wolves and the like. You, a martial artist, decided to choose humans. | The doors in front of me seemed to loom over me. My breathing shallow and shaking.
"Shit" my quiet voice drowned out by screech of the doors opening, and the sight of the arena exposed itself to me.
As my feet walked, my mind raced. All my past decisions running through my head. Why did I do this? Why, when I could c... | "If you win, you will gain control over all humanity," a voice squeaks into my headset, "but if you lose you shall perish."
I gulp, already regretting the decision I had made. It was tradition on your eighteenth birthday to choose an animal to battle, and if you defeat them you would gain control of that species. I ha... | 2021-08-16T14:21:39 | 2021-08-16T07:54:40 | 85 | 28 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | Eric stood on the stage assessing the audience. They were mostly drunks, but that’s what you got performing in a pub. He made a show of his search for a willing participant, peering around the crowd in circular motions, like a lighthouse shining into a sea of inebriated slobs.
Not that he minded where he performed. He... | Tuesday night and the starlight is a blanket laid upon us. In a few more hours the hillside will glisten with dew and the first of the cockerels will sing; they sing here, one of the thousand things I’ve struggled to get used to. Until Eliza, I thought that I was the only one struggling.
I can feel her in the grass be... | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 2022-04-26T10:46:18 | 79 | 44 |
[WP] A master thief sends a letter to the castle. "I am coming to take your most valued treasure. Stop me if you can." On the promised date the castle guards it's most valuable pieces in a vault and the thief never shows. A short time later it is discovered that what was stolen was not in the vault. | The greatest of gentlemen thieves always employ the most theatric of calling cards. The thrill of announcing it was almost as high as walking out with the very thing these fools held dear to them. Ambiguity in wording was key. "As the cock crows on the morn of tomorrow, your most valued treasure shall be mine to borrow... | The kings castle was on lockdown, none were allowed in without a guard escort. Even then there were none allowed in without permission given by the king.
The princess was a fair skinned young woman, emerald green eyes and blazing red hair. Mere days from turning eighteen and she would be married to a noble she had no ... | 2022-09-08T00:55:20 | 2022-09-07T23:48:50 | 227 | 133 |
[WP] An AITA post in an established fictional universe | # AITA for not getting her a bike?
So a long time ago - I lost track since I don't seem to age anymore - I borrowed this girl's bicycle. I may or may not have led to it getting completely wrecked by electricity. I gave it back to her, but she didn't want it for some reason.
She ended up traveling with me for a long t... | Am I the aashole for blowing up a battlestation and killing tens of thousands of people?
A little background I was raised by my aunt and uncle, my parents died when I was little. So one day I was helping my uncle shop for some needed equipment, he runs a small farm, and while I was cleaning the equipment I came across... | 2022-12-06T11:29:49 | 2022-12-06T11:01:10 | 53 | 27 |
[WP] An AITA post in an established fictional universe | # AITA for not getting her a bike?
So a long time ago - I lost track since I don't seem to age anymore - I borrowed this girl's bicycle. I may or may not have led to it getting completely wrecked by electricity. I gave it back to her, but she didn't want it for some reason.
She ended up traveling with me for a long t... | AITA for throwing my kid off of Stark Tower???
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Hey guys, so my (29F) husband (30M) is pretty mad at me, and I don't really see why... Anyway last night my husband and I were at Tony Starks party. I brought my 8 month old with me, because I'm not one of those moms who's going to let childbirth get in the ... | 2022-12-06T11:29:49 | 2022-12-06T10:53:14 | 53 | 24 |
[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... | I poured everything into this world. This wasn’t an experiment. This was my life. I didn’t mince on anything. I didn’t just include my best parts. No, I everything. Everything that was me was in there. My beauty, my strength. My physical imperfections, my weaknesses. The physical manifestations of these were plain enou... | 2014-06-16T11:58:58 | 2014-06-16T11:09:31 | 108 | 19 |
[WP] When a parent dies, their knowledge and skills immediately pass on to their eldest child. An adoptee is shocked at what they discover when they receive their inheritance without warning. | I love being the third son of this family. My adopted father has been kind and generous to me my entire life, and I've never once looked into my adopted mother's eyes and seen anything other than love and acceptance, even when that was tempered by anger or disappointment. My eldest brother Daniel only ever teased me ab... | Danny breathes heavily by his father’s side trying to hold back tears. His younger brother, Hayden stared fearfully at their father from across the room.
Their mother takes a deep breath and wipes her eyes before saying, “Boys, you shouldn’t watch this. Go grab a snack in the kitchen.”
Both boys look up at their mo... | 2014-08-01T10:46:13 | 2014-08-01T10:19:28 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] Two introverts are trying to hide from the drunken masses at a High School party gone wild. Tell me the story of them meeting in the only quiet room of the house.
Extra brownie points are to be awarded to romance stories. | "Finally." She breathed, shutting the heavy door behind her, which barely drowned out the hip hop music blaring in the background.
"Hm?" A voice came from the armchair facing away from the door.
"Sorry, didn't know this room was occupied," the girl said, flustered. She really didn't want to go back into the fray. Esp... | The door opens, and Erika briefly considers running for it; but the noise is still there, and she isn't feeling all that cold yet, so she just calls out: "Hey, the door doesn't open from this side!"
"Ah, what do you mean there's someone *here* too --- hey!"
And the door slams shut, and most of the noise goes away.
T... | 2014-10-06T10:01:04 | 2014-10-06T09:53:16 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] In a perfect utopia, you have just committed the first crime... | They call it the Butterfly Effect. A butterfly flaps its wings in South America, and manipulates the wind so that a hurricane strikes Floroda because of it.
I wasn't intending to commit a crime. It was a simple matter of carelessness. I tossed my wrapper toward the trash, and missed. A car drove by, and sent the wrapp... | Blood pooled underneath the still body of her former lover. She looked up, a mixture of confusion, fear, and shock spanning the length of her face. "What did you *do*?" Her voice was low and hushed.
Her husband looked at the body and then back at his wife. His face was red and his chest heaved. He stared expressionle... | 2014-10-24T20:09:48 | 2014-10-24T20:05:08 | 383 | 15 |
[WP] In a perfect utopia, you have just committed the first crime... | **Name:** *Generalization Bot*
**Purpose:** *Elderly care.*
__________________________________________
**Log ID:** *2064-03-04 2125*
**Event:** *Critical Malfunction*
**Error log:** *Loss of pressure sensors on left hand.*
**Action:** *Manufacturer contacted. Awaiting repairs. Sleeping-mode activated.*
__________... | Blood pooled underneath the still body of her former lover. She looked up, a mixture of confusion, fear, and shock spanning the length of her face. "What did you *do*?" Her voice was low and hushed.
Her husband looked at the body and then back at his wife. His face was red and his chest heaved. He stared expressionle... | 2014-10-24T20:14:02 | 2014-10-24T20:05:08 | 98 | 15 |
[WP] A genie offers a man three wishes. After hearing his wish, the genie straight up refuses to grant it. | ''That's pathetic''
''Hey, if it weren't for your rules it wouldn't have to come to this.''
As an eternal entity very few things could strike a genie to his very core but this was one of them. Millenia of ending up in the hands of madmen had made the genie an invaluable tool in causing death, theft, and all sorts of ... | A long pause filled the small room.
Gaz looked at the man in front of him with disbelief. The man pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose, an ultimately useless task as they fell right back down.
"You joke," the genie said. "Yes?"
The man shook his head.
"I know a woman," Gaz said. "She'll be m... | 2015-03-15T20:36:10 | 2015-03-15T19:59:17 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] An ordinary old man sits in a park. He is not batman, nor the devil, and most certainly not a time traveller. He sits and thinks about his life's greatest triumph, or defeat.
The title joke aside, I'd like to see what WP could be formed about a regular old dude. | The bittersweet irony that my greatest triumph is ultimately my final defeat does not escape me. I sit here with my coffee, alternately sipping from the burnt, steaming cup, and the burnt, steaming memories. In a life filled with defeat, my son was my only victory. Like a solitary palm tree, deep in the desert of the A... | An old man sits in the park in Gotham City. As he sits there, pondering the end of his life, which he senses is near, he looks back fondly at his life's work.
This man isn't Batman, he is just Bruce Wayne. He may have been Batman, but that was lifetimes ago.
His triumphs were not the gadgets he developed that have ... | 2015-04-12T05:16:12 | 2015-04-12T04:48:32 | 276 | 10 |
[WP] Your doctor has discovered cancer in both of your eyes. Tomorrow, you are having life-saving surgery to have them removed. Describe your final day with vision before you go blind. | I'm losing my eyes tomorrow. I've made my peace with it, mostly, but there's one thing that scares me.
My friends are all assholes.
They're the worst, and they've never gotten me to watch 2 girls 1 cup, and now they've got less than 24 hours left to make me.
I am TERRIFIED.
So far they've hijacked my tv, my cell ph... | You know, I never really realized it, but up until today, I hadn't ever *seen* things. Not really. Although I looked out at the world through these now-dying eyes, I didn't take the time to *see* it. I never took the time to see *you*.
It sounds a bit clichéd, I suppose. But there's a truth to it.
I suppose I'm lucky... | 2015-10-09T14:00:59 | 2015-10-09T12:37:17 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] An expecting couple asks the ultrasound technician if the baby is a boy or girl. He replies "No." | “I’m sorry?” the woman asked. “I don’t understand.”
Chase looked at house with a concerned and shocked look on his face. “Is this what I think it is?”, He muttered.
“I don’t understand ,” the woman replied, “is it a boy or a girl?”
“Neither, the baby’s not a boy or a girl,” House replied. He reached into his pocke... | Mary looked at her husband. Despite the pain, this was the greatest day of her life. Maybe the pain could explain what she just heard, no way the doctor would actually say that.
"What do you mean, no? It's either a boy or a girl!" Yelled frank, her loyal but sometimes hot headed husband.
The doctor scoffed as she put... | 2015-11-15T15:03:26 | 2015-11-15T12:53:37 | 161 | 36 |
[WP] You have a box, with a button. Press it and a year later you'll be right back to when you pressed it. A year without consequences. | The box had 2 lines written on the side:
* Press and live as you wish for 1 year
* At the end of 1 year, you will be returned to the moment the button was pressed
The opportunity was intriguing. He couldn't just ignore the box. Life was hard, but with the option of "practicing," perhaps things could actually be bette... | “Did you get me a present baby?” Steph asked me.
Quite a tricky question if you ask me. I love Steph, but I didn’t buy her any present. “Of course I did babe, let me look at that for a second.” A grayish-black box with a red button, I shit you not. I could only wonder how Steph hadn’t pressed the button yet. May be... | 2015-12-15T08:51:18 | 2015-12-15T08:22:08 | 129 | 11 |
[WP] Every two years, the Galactic Rally is held to determine which race in the galaxy makes the fastest ships. The talk of this year's race: a late entry from an obscure body in the SK system, that the inhabitants call "Earth." | "You want to enter that thing?" The acceptance clerk glanced at the translucent screen offered by the human. On it was displayed an orbital cargo freighter.
The Captain looked at the screen and then at the alien clerk.
"Well, yes. Is there something wrong?"
"No, not so much. It just doesn't look very. Ah, forget a... | Mankind had always thought they were blessed to have a planet like Earth. Beautiful oceans and fertile land, Earth had it all.
Except for one thing of course, Lighterium. This was the compound that made faster than light travel a possibility. Almost every other planet had some kind of natural reserves of the material... | 2016-12-11T15:10:20 | 2016-12-11T14:29:08 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone gets a doppelganger at the age of 24. Society expects that the two must try to kill one-another, and the survivor will be accepted as the original, whoever wins. You, however, have befriended your doppelganger instead. A lot of people are not happy about this. | My birthday is in one hour. I know at 24, I'm supposed to meet my doppelgänger, but there's a slight problem. I'm already a twin.
My parents had a lot of trouble when they were trying to conceive, so they started trying every fertility drug on the market; none worked. They were determined though, and getting desperate... | Strong chin, short, big eyes. Every aspect the same, with one exception. That damn scar. The media and government tell us that at the age of 24 the portal gives birth to your doppelganger, who is then processed, shipped and delivered to your town. Society expects us to kill these people. And as they say, “To the victor... | 2016-12-25T12:13:44 | 2016-12-25T10:05:57 | 365 | 102 |
[WP] On your first day as a supervillain, you secretly swap all the regular coffee on Earth with decaf. You envision this as a fun, little starter prank. To say you miscalculated the potential impact of your "prank" is putting it mildly... | *Ah. Another peaceful morning in Harbor City. But wait- a little too peaceful, don't you think? Where are the dock workers? And the traffic? The city is usually bustling by this hour. This can only be the work of some dastardly villain!*
*A seemingly normal and empty laundromat... but lurking below is Dr. Java, Harbor... | Frendretta Bauer, who finally settled on the alter-identity of “Perplexity” just a day ago, slowly returned to consciousness with a vengeful, insistent drubbing at the back of her skull.
POUND… POUND… POUND…
“Looks like we can finally get some answers out of her,” came a fractured, tortured voice. “Can’t wait to hear... | 2017-02-03T09:14:26 | 2017-02-03T08:39:13 | 32 | 23 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Well, it all started when I visited ole Londontown," Dex started to explain while I fitted on his old blue and grey striped sweater. I was still flabbergasted that the miniature dachshund was talking to me, but really, it was just a relief to see him again. "Man, I really missed this sweater. Your Grandmom really knew... | **EDIT: BEFORE YOU READ THIS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE BEST FRIEND.** I was writing whilst preparing my kids dinner. I'm sorry to the OP. I will still submit this and allow the downvotes to be a reminder that I need to pay attention at all times.
So naturally, I obliged.
'Where shall we do this, should... | 2017-03-31T15:08:06 | 2017-03-31T10:02:08 | 60 | 16 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "So you're back again? When are you going to stop visiting me old man"
"When you're rehabilitated or near enough". "You know my old man is gone right and he was still an asshole when he died"
"Yea well I like to think he was less of an asshole at the end".
Max was like clockwork every Tuesday and Thursday turning... | "I don't have time for this Hydro, so let that girl go and I may just spare you the hurt." His voice boomed. Mr. Streak, greatest hero of the 1980s, my grandfather's one time nemesis and comrade in arms against the Zorblaxian invasion. Despite his age, the old dreg still looks dapper as he was in his prime, it's a pity... | 2017-04-13T05:17:22 | 2017-04-13T05:12:50 | 97 | 25 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | Not quite the prompt but I still had fun with it.
Alchemist breathed in a deep breath of the morning air; the sun was shinning, the birds were singing, and her heist was going perfectly. Fifty feet bellow the gold-plated villain a group of mercenaries worked within a force field to strip an armored truck of all its ... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T07:34:21 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 16 | 10 |
[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. | “I have summoned and bound you, demon! You will listen and obey.”
“Uh, sure. Whatever you say, boss.” Michael tried to make out some features of whatever was talking but it was obscured by a dark, heavy robe complete with a hood. “I do whatcha ask and then you send me back. You’ll send me home, right?”
“I am the... | Just another day. That's how it started at least. I woke up around 4:30 pm and started getting ready for my night shift. This whole grown up adult job thing wasn't all it had cracked up to be. Twelve hour shifts in a cramped room dealing with all the idiots my city had to offer. I guess you could say it was like hell o... | 2017-05-12T08:18:29 | 2017-05-12T07:49:08 | 617 | 61 |
[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. | continued straight from the prompt...
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Now... Luckily I'm a redditor, and things like being summoned against your will into an unknown world/situation are a common topic so I had thought through this scenario before. Otherwise I would appear quite confused at my situation and not at all in control of the situation.... | 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... | 2017-05-12T10:38:10 | 2017-05-12T08:33:39 | 427 | 44 |
[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. | "So you're telling me that you summoned me..." You said, as the apprentice nodded at you.
"Yup..."
"In my bathtub..." You say, a sheet wrapped around your waist.
"Sorry about that..."
"As I was cuddling with the love of my life..."
"Again, sorry..."
"And you have no idea how to send me back."
"I...yes?"
"Son...... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T08:27:42 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 95 | 21 |
[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. | I had just finished putting the finishing touches on my paladin's character sheet. Ah, classic Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, the best version available. Call my old fashioned, but there's just something so refreshing about playing a goody goody character with a strict moral code. And heck, playing D&D was a great di... | 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... | 2017-05-12T10:50:04 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You find a genie lamp where the genie offers you unlimited wishes. The catch is that you must answer a mathematical question that continues to get progressively harder for every wish you make. If you answer the question wrong, every wish you made will be reversed with negative consequences. | "I get unlimited wishes?!"
"Well, sort of. You have to answer a math question every time, and if you get one wrong, every wish you made goes negative."
"Goes negative..?"
"Yeah, it'll have a negative effect, instead of a positive one. And the math questions get harder every time you make a wish."
"Okay then, I'm re... | ***I'm not telling you any of the answers, so try to see how many problems you can solve without Googling***
"Why hello, Genie. It appears you want me to wish?"
"Yes, but I will only grant wishes to match your logical ability. I am forbidden from giving you more than you can handle. As such, for every wish, your math... | 2017-06-18T07:58:58 | 2017-06-17T23:40:28 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] As the universe is dying, an immortal man is on a journey to find an immortal snail. | "I need to find the Snail"
"You need to find a what? A snail?"
"No no no, not a snail, THE Snail. The Immortal Snail."
"Ah, forgive me for not understanding the first time. What with the world ending and all."
"The Universe"
"The what?"
"It's not the world ending it's the whole Universe. Collapse of the tempora... | One last being would be with me if I was quick. Black holes and timelines split as magical energy coursed and broke through the ground. At the Nexus, the sheer power of pure magic made a teleporter to the past, though those who used it fell into the black hole just behind. Cosmic beings flooded the world, feeding on ou... | 2017-07-07T05:51:01 | 2017-07-07T05:20:05 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] A photographer and a sniper meet in a bar. Neither is aware of the other's occupation. They talk about "how to take the perfect shot". | "I use a tripod a lot."
"Bipod works, too."
"Huh, never thought of that. Steady is important. Don't want to ruin a good shot."
"Yeah, that's the worst. When your subject moves unexpectedly just before you take it."
"Wildlife?"
"Sometimes, but mostly people."
"Yeah, me too."
"There... | Karen's blind date showed up forty minutes late in all leather, smelling of sweat and exhaust. And he carried a motorcycle helmet, all of which she decided was just sexy enough to excuse the lateness.
"You must be Mark," she said, a little too exuberantly. She had felt too rude to order food while waiting, so instead ... | 2017-08-31T09:25:49 | 2017-08-31T07:54:55 | 2,248 | 47 |
[WP] A photographer and a sniper meet in a bar. Neither is aware of the other's occupation. They talk about "how to take the perfect shot". | She'd told me she'd shot a few people.
I'd laughed.
I shouldn't have laughed. But... but there's 14 trillion photos due to be taken this year, on average little Jimmy, little average Jimmy, will take 3 and a half thousand shots this year... on his own.
Everyone thinks they're a fucking photographer and it's killi... | Karen's blind date showed up forty minutes late in all leather, smelling of sweat and exhaust. And he carried a motorcycle helmet, all of which she decided was just sexy enough to excuse the lateness.
"You must be Mark," she said, a little too exuberantly. She had felt too rude to order food while waiting, so instead ... | 2017-08-31T08:12:15 | 2017-08-31T07:54:55 | 962 | 47 |
[WP] Humans have the most powerful military. But the elves, dwarves, orcs and dragons are baffled by the the cheap currency they ask for their services. Instead of gold and precious gems that mercenaries of other races ask for, humans demand oil. | Dwarf King Grendel gazed out at the windswept plain from the city's keep, shielding his eyes from the sun with a gauntleted hand. Away in the blue distance, a tide of sparkling steel was marching up the river Horsewash. Grendel looked to the mountain towers behind him, lost in thought.
"So this is to be the end," he s... | The inquisitor knew she was in for a tough time the moment she saw the massive scaffolding extending out of the hill behind the guild of adventurers. The two weaselly looking apprentices sent from the guild house to greet her did little to allay her concerns. The younger one, a wizard, by the looks of it, flashed her a... | 2019-01-26T08:27:35 | 2019-01-26T07:57:49 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] After a treasure hunt with your friends, you make it to the treasure. But instead of the wealth you were told about, it was a note congratulating you on your journey and that the real treasure was the friends you made on the way. Only problem is that all your friends died getting you this far. | I read the words again. This couldn't be it. T-there had to be treasure... We'd sacrificed everything to get here. The tavern keeper, the bard... they'd all told the same damned stories. We'd heard the myths, it promised-
"*KAFF!*"
I turned around to see Carver, struggling to stand. The boy's cloak was meant to prote... | "Oh great, for all the gaudy it was just another clue. Well fine then, what have you got in store for me, Mr. eccentric King?"
"Congratulations! You have found my treasure dear adventurers. Maybe this wasn't what you wanted, but it is surely what you needed. What you may now lack in gold is made up for in the vastness... | 2019-06-20T01:32:18 | 2019-06-19T23:42:31 | 15 | 10 |
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