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[WP] Everyone in your family gets one wish upon reaching age 18.
I would love to see replies where this is known by the public and where it is not. | The grandfather clock ticked towards midnight.
A screen above the command desk provided a digital countdown and much more accurate measure of my fate. We were in the basement of our family home. Our secret seat of power. My uncle paced in the background while my father sat across from me in a comfortable leather chair... | "I don't think a day went by we didn't fight."
"Why was this, do you think?"
I knew the answer.
"I don't know."
"Well why don't you have a think about it?"
Because I didn't have to. I knew why me and my brother fought. I knew. It was because he didn't love me and he never had.
"I think it's because he blamed hi... | 2015-07-07T05:55:23 | 2015-07-07T05:42:25 | 77 | 12 |
[WP] It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead. | For the first time in any memory, ancient or new, God and Lucifer faced a problem together.
Before them both, in a space that was not life, heaven nor hell, stood a being in a grey suit. Me. I looked neither young nor old, my face had no markings but my eyes had a depth to them that could only be matched by the univers... | Knock…Knock…Knock…
Oh hi there! My name is Reverend Ezekiel Morris, ordained PhD from the Sanctimonious Preacher Society. Now before you shut that door on my face, like I know you want to, just let me ask you one question. Is that really too much to ask? I’ve been out here all day. Okay. So here it goes. If you had th... | 2015-10-19T12:35:16 | 2015-10-19T12:22:46 | 119 | 63 |
[WP] All doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat they lose an inch off their staff. When a staff is gone, so is their license.
X-post from /r/crazyideas and /u/BrassDidgeStrings | She bent over and lifted a beautiful, pale, wooden staff from under the operating table. Her scrubs were soaked in blood and sweat, chemicals and tears. It was only Doctor Silvia Nite and her most recent patient. The room was quiet. In her gloved hand the staff carved with great care years ago as a bright eyed medi... | "Where do I start?"
I patted my son on the back as he peered at me, baffled, knife and stick in hand. His blue eyes shone like oceans. Like his mother's. I missed Katherine. She had died in an accident when John was just two.
"You start on the outside."
He sighed, looking over the stick. "Are you sure I can do this?... | 2015-11-12T20:03:09 | 2015-11-12T18:15:33 | 812 | 387 |
[WP] You have the ability to travel back in time, but when you do you take over the body of one of your direct ancestors at random. One day, you travel back to 1942 and find yourself standing at a podium looking out over 100,000 soldiers. | I went back for one sole purpose: to kill Hitler. It wasn't supposed to be all that hard, you see. I have German ancestry, so I was just going to hop around in the 30's and 40's until I ended up in the body of a young German man. I'd join the Wermacht and pick Hitler off the first chance I got. Even if I failed, I woul... | The sun glints blindingly off a hundred thousand metal helmets, obscuring my view of the faces lined dutifully before me nearly as far as the horizon. I squint to see the gray-green sea of soldiers nestled between rows and rows of aircraft, shining just as bright.
Trust me to land in a body in such a compromising posi... | 2017-04-17T19:00:18 | 2017-04-17T17:42:21 | 103 | 10 |
[WP] You are a normal average person but you happen to have many supervillain friends. This is awkward when heroes keep trying to rescue you. | "NEVER FEAR CITIZEN, I SHALL SAV-..."
"Really dude?! Really we're gonna do this again? Getting sick of your shit Awesome Dude, this is the 3rd time this week."
He opened his mouth to protest, then shut it knowing my reply already. I don't know how else to explain it to him so it ends up getting pretty loud when he wo... | "Huh...yo Doc, can you help me out? My parents won't let me go to a party."
"Of course Quentin, what do I make them do?"
"Just uhh...ask 'em to let me go, and free me of chores."
"Done."
"Perfect."
A boom comes out from the ceiling, oh no, it's captain who-knows-what again.
"FEAR NOT CIVILIAN FOR I SHALL SAVE YOU FROM ... | 2017-05-28T08:21:14 | 2017-05-28T06:06:01 | 59 | 17 |
[WP] It's the middle of the night and you forgot your keys. You knock at your door and your mother opens it. Smiling, she whispers "Run" and closes the door. | "Who was that?" a gruff voice said faintly behind the door.
I stopped in my tracks, just as my toes touched the first of two wooden steps. As I made my way back to my bike, my mind tried to process what she meant, but the presence of another voice gave me pause, the cool air on this summer's night suddenly becoming co... | My brother told me not to come back until I found the Keys, but I didn't believe he was being serious. I mean, we're family, right? Yes I messed up, but that didn't mean that they'd leave me out the night the Fox came to town, right?
Nope. I had searched for the Keys since early morning, and I returned home empty-hand... | 2017-07-04T21:47:49 | 2017-07-04T20:46:09 | 115 | 46 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | Joe Eustace looked at the makeshift ramp. He couldn't resist, jumping the canyon was just to tempting.
In his ear was the chanting of his family. He would miss them, but if he was going to die, it was going to be glorious. With no once of regret in his voice. Joe let the words slip from his mouth.
"Hold... My... Bee... | Grass, tall and smooth, traces lines against exposed skin, lying flat against the earth. Across the horizon, the sun begins to set. In departing light, the sky finds itself tinged by deep purple streaks, shooting past clouds to define the dusk. It's heaven here, sometimes. In the palms of both hands, you grip clumps of... | 2017-08-07T09:13:24 | 2017-08-07T08:47:50 | 358 | 11 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I thought I would be prepared, the same way an electrician would know to change his own lightbulbs. After all, I had turned this from a hobby into... a profession of sorts. And that's not even counting the space of 50 years, that yawning gap of time since Dad left. That's a long time for memories to dull, for emotions ... | I would like to say I had forgotten - that I didn't care. That I'd moved on.
That's what they all say to do, you know? Move on. As if it was just possible to forget a part of your mind, cut it out like a tumor, and set it aside. Well if it was a tumor it wasn't a benign one. I'd tried it all, therapy, friends, family... | 2017-11-19T16:19:42 | 2017-11-19T16:04:53 | 2,866 | 162 |
[WP] When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen. | "What is this?" I asked as I made my way down the aisle.
It was a normal theater, in fact it looked just like the one that I used to visit all the time with my wife, but something was... different. There were five other people in the room, all seated nearly as far apart as possible. Something prickled in the back of ... | **Day 1:**
I can't believe this, and neither should you, frankly. Does it not to you seem contradictory in any sense that my reincarnations, all of a similar person (myself) yet different, a phenomenon I can only compare somewhat to the various editions of a book, can exist someplace all at once? "Where is this cinema... | 2022-05-10T21:37:24 | 2017-11-23T06:48:50 | 1,154 | 131 |
[WP] Dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as humans. As a child you pick out a puppy as a companion for the rest of your life. | "You're such an asshole. Get off the bed."
Unsurprisingly, the response was a low, drawn out yowl, and a clear answer, "No".
"Don't you 'no' me. Get off the damn bed, I need to change the bedding."
"Noooo," he replied and snuggled in deeper. Deep brown eyes peered at me from underneath the comforter; the bastard ... | Canis lupus familiaris. Formerly known as the domestic dog, thanks to genetic engineering our canine companions no longer lived a scant decade. Now, they lived as long as humans, and needed a name that separated them from the simple cousins of wolves that they used to be. Apex Genetics decided that name should be 'F... | 2018-03-19T09:56:46 | 2018-03-19T09:51:51 | 61 | 19 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | Well, he's dead. Soul of a dragon. Body of a Greek god. Voice like thunder. Character of an absolute douche. Dead is dead. Struck down in combat. Like a fool. The circle of life.
He'd been quite the player in his day. So many of the Daedric Princes seemed to have fallen under his spell. Each of them seemed to believe... | The Day the Daedra feared has come. Dovahkiin has died! But not only that, for a great strife has formed. The Dark Daedric princes who did have the Dragonborn serving them, are now fighting for his greatest item. Not a necklace or a sword. For it is not a mundane item. They want the soul of the Dragonborn.
As they al... | 2018-06-15T08:25:13 | 2018-06-15T08:08:41 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] As a joke you take your pet pig on a plane with you once you get up in to the air Suddenly, several things once said to be impossible until this very moment start occurring everywhere. | “You think you’re real funny huh?”Tom said as he was rolling his eyes, looking at me like the Black Plague.
“I’m just trying to prove a point, Tom. Get off my back” I said while bringing Trev to the cockpit. “Pigs gotta fly someday and you don’t see a pilot with a teacup pig too often”
The plane was heading to Singa... | “Oink.”
I’m trying to talk to my pig, Wilbur, which doesn’t seem to be working. He’s some pig, let me tell you that.
Anyhow, I’m making all sorts of faces, and he’s curled up looking so adorable in the small portable pen I was forced to keep him in circa airline rules. While this is happening, I hear some odd whisper... | 2018-07-28T07:22:49 | 2018-07-28T07:19:37 | 2,333 | 91 |
[WP] You've accidentally summoned an ancient, long-forgotten god while trying to pronounce furniture names at IKEA. Fortunately, the employees are prepared as this has happened before.
Edit: holy shit this really blew up overnight. Thank you to everyone who has written along, and to everyone else reading.
For those ... | "JENKINS!" The call came over the shoulder mounted radio. The *-Chirp-* it made was reminiscent of the old Nextels. Ours had to be updated, of course. Ikea standard issue. Prevented interference.
"Yeah?" I responded, between mouthfuls of meatball.
*-Chirp-* "WE GOT ANOTHER BIN 52!"
"Ah, shit. Another Mikkaelian?"
I... |
**“BLÖTSNÖ?”**
The word seems to escape my mouth in a haste I didn’t predict. A stillness hangs immediately heavy in the air, as a silence begins to surround me. Lights dimming, even flickering, as a cold breeze moved through around my feet. Below me, in contrast to the spreading cold, a warm vibration type of fee... | 2019-01-03T00:56:07 | 2019-01-02T23:25:29 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You receive paper planes to assist you throughout life. Sometimes they are a dollar bill, or more, when you are short on a payment, others are a note with a message. This time, it simply said "Hide." | Adults have a sort of in-built edit function in how they see they world. When something happens they don't understand, they just don't really see it. Even if it's right in front of them, they see only what they expect to see. Kids, of course, don't have that problem. They see everything, including the magic. But to the... | "Go to the party tonight. At half past ten, go upstairs and enter the second room to your left." That was a very memorable night.
"Take the job, but only for a week. Remember to feed the cat outside the restaurant every night." That one had definitely been strange.
"Don't buy the bike. Use the money on the car you we... | 2019-01-11T22:42:45 | 2019-01-11T22:33:42 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I've bought peace to the Middle East.
I've reconciled broken families.
I've ended addiction to opioids.
I've made suicide irrelevant.
And it's the greatest curse anyone can imagine.
While a select few humans have had superpowers awaken, mine is by far the most corrosive to society. My inability to feel possessive ... | “So your power is super... taste?” Roy asked.
I nodded, taking a quick bite of my turkey and cheese sandwich. I was able to enjoy every little detail, and that made everything I ate delicious. Even though I heard people talk about foods they did and didn’t like, I just couldn’t get enough of anything people could give... | 2019-09-08T10:01:27 | 2019-09-08T09:47:00 | 61 | 27 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I always felt alone as a child, even talking to myself when I felt the need for conversation. It started when I was 4 or 5, I guess; parents were too busy to my many siblings that I only had myself for company. So I talked to myself... and I answered myself. My mother always said, "Oh, she's just playing. Let her be." ... | "Perceived Invisibility? What's that mean?"
My friend stared at me puzzlingly across the table, having no idea what kind of power I had.
"So, you can become invisible at will?
"Not quite. Only people who know me or I want to know me can see me."
"Weird. So you have like a social barrier to everyone else?"
People st... | 2019-09-08T11:40:23 | 2019-09-08T11:07:43 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The first time it happened was in 5th grade. It had been a day like any other for me up until that moment; go to school, listen to the other kids brag about their amazing powers and then be mocked for not having manifested mine yet. It really wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.
But that day when they finally came aro... | Dan watched his partners work. He sat silent, and so nobody bothered him. That was just how he liked it, really. He was able to do his part of the school project in peace.
Fortunately, he got at least one good group member. Ted looked like he he was sleeping, but he was probably being more productive than any of t... | 2019-09-08T12:47:50 | 2019-09-08T11:00:34 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | They returned from their eliptical orbit, tangential to earth's, intended to survey the destruction of their home as they pulled a slingshot towards Alpha Centauri, the nearest though very long shot.
To their surprise, the Earth they found was not just intact but much the same, even down to a new crop of trillionaire... | “What do you mean they’re returning?” - ted Albright was a seasoned war veteran. The kind of man, who just doesn’t back down, a grizzled old man on his 70s.
“Well... sir... they’re just coming, no contact, no warning whatsoever. “ - lucian answered nervously, he had only heard the story, the one where the richest peop... | 2019-12-07T06:59:56 | 2019-12-07T06:13:36 | 94 | 27 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I'm nobody's fool.
Tell me to go left, I go right. Offer me what's behind door number 1, you better believe I'm opening door number 2.
Take me to a small room and show me a table covered in food?
Oh, I know what's up.
The food is trash, a diversion.
It's the table. That's the good stuff.
Under the duck l'orange, ... | "You took a bite out of what!" Your mom yelled when she found out. "I thought I raised you better than that!. . ."
"Mo. . ." You tried in vain
"You could have had super strength by eating the spinach or flight with pork. But noooo you had to be a smart ass and bite the damn table. Should have known you would end up ... | 2020-03-19T08:53:04 | 2020-03-19T08:15:56 | 791 | 330 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I ran through the wintery Evergreen forest for my life. Men with guns and powers of fire and ice hot on my trail.
Jimmy, who ate the dog biscuits hidden in the corner of the table, had let that wolf familiar of his after me too. Fucking traitor!
I had committed the worst transgression of our people: I didn't confor... | "You took a bite out of what!" Your mom yelled when she found out. "I thought I raised you better than that!. . ."
"Mo. . ." You tried in vain
"You could have had super strength by eating the spinach or flight with pork. But noooo you had to be a smart ass and bite the damn table. Should have known you would end up ... | 2020-03-19T08:57:52 | 2020-03-19T08:15:56 | 632 | 330 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | “hnnng” I groaned as I cracked my fingers stretching after a long day at the office.
The screens are just blinking... the lcd glow of my life
I think back to 20 years ago biting that table
At least it’s landed me a cushy income stream.
I clapped my hands and the spreadsheets and databases in front of me started mo... | _What the fuck_?
I had been at my desk, looking upon my textbooks.
_What the _fuck__?
Then I was in some sort of room. Tons of other people, all about my age were standing around me. And in the middle of the room, there stood a wooden table. Not that I’m some sort of crazy tree-hugger, but the wood looked beautiful ... | 2020-03-19T12:37:45 | 2020-03-19T11:35:00 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A person who is immortal, because they are so stupidly entertaining Death keeps extending their life just to see what shenanigans they will get into next.
EDIT: There is a good variety of responses here, from those who took the premise a bit too seriously to those who ran with it and made it hilarious. I had a lo... | Martin had seen death at his doorstep... he was there to congratulate him on his 100th close death. His bony hands extended in front holding a circular black cake with little skulls decorating the top.
Martin stopped in his tracks. Death usually only came to him when he had died, but today he made the first contact. ... | I woke up to a light buzzing around me and a ringing in my ear. I was face down in some low shrubs.
The sounds of cars whipping by me made me realize I lived through it again and was laying on the asphalt off the 1-15, on the outskirts of the Mojave desert.
I looked down at my left leg, bent upward, my shin bone prot... | 2020-05-05T23:45:40 | 2020-05-05T23:14:03 | 71 | 32 |
[WP] A bored goddess waves her hands at you. "Yeah, you died, you get to be reborn, you know the drill, you've seen anime." Except you haven't, and you're pretty certain you aren't even dead as she's in your living room, lounging on your sofa. | "Hey, I'm Shinde," greeted the young woman who lazed atop my couch. "I'll be your Reaper today!"
I stared at her. "Huh?"
"Yeah," she explained, "you died, you get to be reborn, you know the drill, you've seen anime."
"Oh," I managed awkwardly. *Anime? Who the hell watches that?* Then I remembered that I was slogging... | A Goddess was the only thing she could be. Her hair and garments defied several laws of physics, even with cosplay tricks. Her gaze was far too sharp to be human, no matter how bored she came across.
Also the feeling of instincts I've never felt before, drumming a kind of awe and fear and feeling of *this is Divine* i... | 2020-07-02T06:07:58 | 2020-07-02T06:02:07 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | I got to my room, lungs burning as I ran the first floor. "It's all right Jack, you don't have to be afraid, you have done nothing wrong, everything will be all right." Said the calm voice of Professor X. Part of me immediately started to relax, but I could not slow down the heavy rapid breathing. I messed up, and peop... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T05:54:34 | 9,106 | 137 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | "It's not entirely about focus..." Professor Wagner said, his thin German accent gently colouring every word he spoke "...there are many of us - like Scott Summers - who require a physical tool to control our powers. But for myself, and most other teleporters I have known, focus provides strength. For us, it is natur... | “Oh god, come on move, please move!” A young boy yells in despair. Everything was frozen, before it always lasted a couple seconds but now? 30 minutes. Every minute felt as if it was its own branch of eternity, as he could see things stuck right before emotion.
His teacher was named Kurt Wagner, also known as Nightcr... | 2020-07-15T06:33:50 | 2020-07-15T05:56:18 | 119 | 66 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared demons in hell. You‘re sent to take the most deadly human known, who‘s been avoiding death by killing all who went to take him. You get there, and realize how he’s killed so many demons. He has humidifiers all around his house, which are filled with holy water. | He was an old man, nearing the end of his life. He knew what awaited him, which is why he fought so hard to stay alive as long as possible. The torture was earned, if unjust, but that doesn't mean he wanted it for himself. Hunters are fighters, and fight to stay alive. And he'd sent so many demons to hell.
The first h... | I'm currently scoping out the house of this human that is somehow overpowering all of the demons in hell. And I mean all of them, including my sweet little BeeBee. It's been so many that morale has dropped, incoming soul count is low, and it looks like the devil who made the deal with Trump has been taken out, making t... | 2020-08-04T12:52:47 | 2020-08-04T12:51:32 | 217 | 41 |
[WP] You have just died, but the grim reaper won't let you move on as you still have unfinished business. The reaper did not anticipate just how long it would take for you to finish all the games in your Steam library. | “Brandon. It’s time.”
“Huh? Just one more minute, Mom.” I had to get to the next save point, or she would pull the plug. Do your chores, she was always nagging me.
“I am not your mother. It is I, Death!”
I slowly turned my head. My mouth hung open and a half-chewed cheese curl fell onto my keyboard.
Death stood nex... | *You are doing this wrong.*
The rattling whisper bypassed my ears and manifested directly in my brain. I felt muscles that I had never been aware of until *just now* clenching in my jaw. Soon, I wouldn't be able to clench at all...but for now...
"You remember how I said it actually *doesn't* make this process easier ... | 2020-10-15T12:15:10 | 2020-10-15T11:36:49 | 1,380 | 64 |
[WP] It started as a spur of the moment trip with your friends. Despite your best efforts you are the only one left alive and the slasher is closing in on your position. While you lament the loss of your friends now that you are alone... Now you can show the slasher what a REAL monster looks like. | *"In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men."*
–*Mary Renault*
They always said that to live a good life was to live a long one. I found oft times these words came from those who were considered to be wise men– those who stood on the peaks and communed with t... | How did it end like this?
The summer vacation between friends, the tragedy, the revelry.
A simple camping trip between friends in the German black forest. Wide stretches of woodland to get lost into and inhale some nature. The trees were tall, the hills wide and high, the air pure, and the noise different from the b... | 2021-10-07T10:09:57 | 2021-10-07T09:45:09 | 621 | 66 |
[WP]Humans were one of the best pilots in the history of intergalactic travel, that was a well know fact. And yet, the ITA warned against hiring human pilots. Not an outright ban, per se, just not recommended. | "What do you mean they don't see them?"
"I mean exactly what it sounds like. Humans cannot see, feel, or in any way perceive those things the way we do"
"But they still pilot around them, don't they? Surely they don't make it across hyperspace out of sheer luck. Human pilots have one of the lowest fatality ra... | A1: What's the order and who's the client?
A2: We have a shipment of medical supplies and emergency provisions to a colony of lamia-da, and the client is... oh dear
A2: What? Who is it?
A1: The Cludon collective
A2: The war-mongers turned cultivation makers?
A1: The very same
A2: well, how much time did they give... | 2021-11-25T18:45:47 | 2021-11-25T17:01:53 | 239 | 77 |
[WP]Humans were one of the best pilots in the history of intergalactic travel, that was a well know fact. And yet, the ITA warned against hiring human pilots. Not an outright ban, per se, just not recommended. | When the Brennish-Talterian rebellion broke out, my father did everything he could to get us off planet. He was desperate, our people were being hunted in the streets like wild animals. So desperate that he made us walk six days south of the Arel'ish mountains, where the 'Fair-trade' space ports were.
Pilot after pil... | A1: What's the order and who's the client?
A2: We have a shipment of medical supplies and emergency provisions to a colony of lamia-da, and the client is... oh dear
A2: What? Who is it?
A1: The Cludon collective
A2: The war-mongers turned cultivation makers?
A1: The very same
A2: well, how much time did they give... | 2021-11-25T18:06:56 | 2021-11-25T17:01:53 | 114 | 77 |
[WP] "Grog have degree in quantum physics, NOT ENGLISH." | "You can barely count above 3" Vex said, "so how the hell do you have a degree in ANYTHING, let alone quantum physics"
"What can Grog say? Grog is just smart"
"Well you could say Grog has a degree in removing heads from bodies" Pike added.
Grog, this half giant, somehow bearded, barbarian does in fact have this degree... | “Grog? Are you there?” A high-pitched voice rang out from behind a barred door.
“Grog not here. Go away,” barked an orc scientist tinkering with a watch-like device on his small workshop table cluttered with lots of tools stupid human could not even name.
“Grog, this is serious HR business. Let me in!” The door ra... | 2022-01-31T09:17:40 | 2022-01-31T08:49:03 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] "Grog have degree in quantum physics, NOT ENGLISH." | "Grog, we have been over this time and time again," the little voice said over the crystal machine.
"Say again little voice, me need calibrate."
Grog tuned the wave. Stupid human english man always trying to get in way. Grog would show them all. Mad scientist, Grog not. Grog mad engineer with tenure.
"Grog! The unive... | “Grog? Are you there?” A high-pitched voice rang out from behind a barred door.
“Grog not here. Go away,” barked an orc scientist tinkering with a watch-like device on his small workshop table cluttered with lots of tools stupid human could not even name.
“Grog, this is serious HR business. Let me in!” The door ra... | 2022-01-31T09:14:18 | 2022-01-31T08:49:03 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A girl grows up thinking that all doors are automatic, but it's actually the work of a polite ghost. | I’ve always wanted a sister.
I was about to have one before I died. My mother was pregnant, I was so excited to have a sibling! We could share each other’s clothes and do each other’s hair, it was going to be wonderful! But… then I died.
I died peacefully, though sometimes I think I say that just to conso... | "Polite?" I ask, "Some may call it creepy."
"How so?"
"You ever shut the bathroom door and... Well I don't want to say it in front of a lady but I think you know what I'm getting at."
"I...."
I can see it on her face as it starts to sink in. This dame has been putting on poopoo/peepee shows for years. Judging by th... | 2022-06-12T21:34:03 | 2022-06-12T21:02:25 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] The local costumed vigilantes coordinate their schedules so everyone has a chance to brood on the really cool lookout point above the city. | The caped vigilante muttered in a low growl, crouching on a cornice overlooking the city. “*They think I lurk in the shadows. Watching. Waiting to strike. But I am the shadows.*”
His companion put a hand on his shoulder. “Master Wayne, your time is up. It’s someone else's turn to brood.”
“Turn?” Batman pulled away a... | "All right, so Bionis has it on Sunday, he's due to fight with one of his minor league villains then, and will most likely feel bad about something." I made a note on the giant calendar I had hanging in my tiny office. Jamming the phone under my ear, I sighed. "And you're sure he'll be out of there before dinner? Only ... | 2022-07-02T09:51:21 | 2022-07-02T07:27:02 | 127 | 17 |
[WP] “Mommy,” said the synthetic voice, “what’s a soul? The kids at school said I don’t have one.” | Mommy, what’s a soul? The kids at school say that I don’t have one.
Who told you that?
Ellie. And Imari. And then Nicholas shoved me.
They say things because they are afraid of you. Because you’re different.
But do I have a soul?
I don’t know. They don’t either. No one does. People like to pretend things sometimes... | “They said what?” I said. I quickly balanced the bowl of batter I had been working with. A few splicks of brown goop sloshed onto the bench as I turned to face Theadora.
I squatted down in front of her.
“Don’t listen to them Thee Thee.” I gently caressed her chin. I ran my hands along her wheels. I clenched my eyes... | 2022-07-24T09:56:11 | 2022-07-24T08:32:58 | 56 | 17 |
[WP] It is said that the cursed princess can only be awoken by true love's kiss. To wake her up, the king has had princes from all over the world come to kiss her to no avail. One day, a peasant boy walks up to the sleeping princess and splashes her with cold water to wake her up. It actually works. | Princes, princesses, kings, queens, and even self-proclaimed deities came to kiss Princess Celia. None woke her up from her cursed slumber.
For those many years, the princess had been kept under the watchful eyes of a litany of guards. Predictably, the eyes got less and less watchful as time wore on. For few would dar... | “Dunk him again!” The King demanded.
“No, please Majesty,” the boy yelled as he hung upside down between two soldiers. But before he could say another word his head was being lowered into a large bucket of water. He thrashed about, water spilling onto the stone floor.
“Daddy, stop! I’m begging you!” The red haired... | 2022-08-07T04:19:58 | 2022-08-07T02:46:01 | 1,340 | 86 |
[WP] Sometime in the future, murder is legal. Why?
Are there conditions or gray areas? Is it worldwide or specific to just one country? Are there age restrictions? You decide. | "Legal" is a funny word. When I was sixteen the pedantic bastard hired to teach driver education at my high school asked me how fast it was legal to go in a 25 zone.
"Thirty," I responded, eyes still on the road. Of course that wasn't the answer Mr Whats-his-name had in mind but the line of agitated drivers behind m... | I ran through the alley trying to stanch the flow of blood, petrichor laden air coming in ragged breaths. I had never thought I would be on the opposing end of a friends gun, but I suppose it was bound to happen sometime; it was legal and the money was good.
A world that was gradually on the decline suddenly took a s... | 2014-01-31T08:28:44 | 2014-01-31T08:23:50 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Everybody is born with a bracelet that counts down the time until they meet their soul mate.
I found this online and really wanted to read what you guys would come up with. | Justin stared down at the body on the street in shock. The body wasn't moving. Nor was the car, that just a second was racing down the street. Everyone around him was moving, running towards the body, in panic, but he felt like he was stuck in slow motion, feet rooted to the ground even as the crowd flowed around h... | The Red Wings scored again and the bar erupted into moans. Eric grimaced, turned away from the TV and stared into his beer. He didn't want to see the Canucks lose two in a row.
Eric heard the door chime ding as someone came in. A few seconds later, there was a woman sat down next to him at the bar and asked the barten... | 2014-04-25T14:18:11 | 2014-04-25T13:20:00 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] TIL that the opposite of Paranoia is Pronia, wherein one believes that the universe and the world is conspiring to help them. Write a story about one such person with an extreme case of Pronia.
If you would like to learn more about pronoia,* [click here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoia_%28psychology%29)
*E... | It had been three weeks since my wife had left and it was hard. I knew it was for the best, but that didn't make it easy. They had never been wrong before, and if They made her leave, there had to be a reason.
The light turned green as I approached the intersection. I didn't even have to tap my brakes, so I gave a fr... | I woke up to another rainy day. Beautiful. I was thinking about driving to work today, but clearly the rain is a sign that I should embrace the frizzy transformation that follows the 4 mile walk. If I leave now, I'll only be 2 hours late to work.
As I walked on the sidewalk through the city, a car splashed a huge pudd... | 2014-05-12T13:11:06 | 2014-05-12T12:54:14 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] An ancient cult preforms a dark ritual in 1914 to summon someone from 100 years in the future. You are that person. | "Pour the goat's blood and begin the sacred chant," the priest said. He looked over at the men circling him. All wore dark cowls and that were faintly illuminated by the lights of one hundred candles.
In the center of the cave lay a pentagram, glowing red with power and energy. The priest himself was laden with blood... | At first I had no idea what the hell had happened. I went to sleep in my own bed, a regular Thursday night, dreaming of blowjobs and looking forward to the weekend. Then, next thing I know, when I opened my eyes I was staring up a circle of chanting, hooded nutbags. A quick glance left and right let me know I was lying... | 2014-11-14T21:39:12 | 2014-11-14T19:54:07 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] - Tell a story through a phone conversation twice: the first time, the reader can only hear one side of the conversation, and the second time, the reader can hear both sides. | "Hey, Mom, how's it going?"
"What do you mean?"
"No, wait, just - just slow down Mom, you're crying, I can't-"
"...what kind of accident, I don't..."
"No, stop, stop, I'm coming to the hospital, just wait for me there."
**Two ways:**
"Hey, Mom, how's it going?"
**"Oh God, again? He cannot be that bad! His profil... | “Oh hey John, yeah my special lady is here. What’s up?”
“That’s horrible, when did you find out?”
“I’m so sorry man, is it chronic? I mean, is it going to be permanent?”
“Oh man I thought they had a cure for that.”
“Failed phase three clinical trials? That’s just terrible.”
“How long have you known?”
“Just found ... | 2014-12-16T09:14:18 | 2014-12-16T09:02:52 | 69 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | Darkness, silence, nothing but the sound of my sobbing.
I wasn't expecting the pieces of text, to be honest I wasn't really sure what to expect. Thirty years of teaching religion hadn't really prepared me for the after life, according to what I had taught there should be nothing here, suicide was not a good way to go.... | Many people tell me "Life's a game."
I never quite took any of it seriously as it always headed off some cheesy motivational speech about your potential. I heard it at every phase of life. Elementary school, High School, College and even at the yearly workplace teamwork seminars.
And here I am now, age 84, and all I... | 2015-03-13T12:15:46 | 2015-03-13T09:59:27 | 185 | 94 |
[WP] Villains are actually paid by the government to make sure heroes don't become bored with their job. Explain what happens when a villain finally comes clean to his enemy.
Edit: thanks for all the replies to this.! I loved reading every one of them | "No no no... listen Steve..."
I looked down at him. Captain Incredible. Lying in a puddle of his own blood and shit. He started coughing. I waited but had to look away. The blood he was coughing out beeing a little disgusting even for me. I walked a few steps and played with my gun.
"Even after all these things you ... | "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND!" bellowed Uberman in his sonorous baritone. Negator winced and rubbed his ears. Uberman always bellowed. Maybe it was a superhero thing. *He* certainly never felt the need to yell.
"Ok, look, I'll explain it one more time." Negator smoothed back his greasy black hair, and adjusted his skull-mask.... | 2015-05-23T22:47:54 | 2015-05-23T20:55:39 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] You're a ghost who works for a Ouija Board call center. You're stuck with yet another group of kids trying to talk to demons | "Ouija Customer support, my name was Earl, how can i be of assistance"
"A"
"hello, sir, are you able to hear me?"
"R"
"ah, Sir, are you using an assistive speech device?"
"E"
"very good, sir, switching to text chat now"
" "
"Y"
"O"
"U"
" "
"T"
"H"
"E"
"R"
"E"
"?"
lets see, ouija board 2.3 has a YES r... | "Are you there?" A voice called out from my computer. For being dead, we are a lot more high-tech than we may seem. I mean hey, we have Steve Jobs. I typed a response, Y-E-S. It gets them every time they see the tracker move.
My clients today were a group of six girls at a slumber party. Marvelous. "Who are you?" The ... | 2015-06-03T22:54:16 | 2015-06-03T22:50:50 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] Despite some missed points, J.K. Rowling's rendition of the wizard world has gained a fandom in the actual magical society. | The professors looked at the corpse in respectful silence.
"Shall I call for the caretaker?" Professor Figg asked, feeling a little awkward.
"Just pull it over behind the curtains," Horace Kettle said, waving his hand imperiously. "We have another seven canditates to interview this morning."
Professor Figg looked h... | Kat turned, looked at me with the white marbles in her eye sockets, and smiled. "You know," She began "You should really read harry potter some time!"
I sighed. It was about the book again.
"I've told you I don't like fiction for children. I've told you I don't enjoy the words it coined, seeing as Muggle is a retarde... | 2015-12-26T07:44:38 | 2015-12-26T06:27:10 | 172 | 13 |
[WP] Retell a well known story. Make me side with the villain/antagonist.
The more unsympathetic they are in the original, the better. | I know a tale of a hero, a monster, and the tragic tale of a brave man's death.
The story tells of a woman who had lost her family. With the hope that, somewhere, they may still be alive, she journeyed through the wilderness on a small, brown horse, when she was captured by an evil monster, eight feet tall and powerfu... | I watched our glorious leader with disdain, bumbling old fool. Once again he chose to stay in his palace and play with his toys. I suppose in reality that was the smartest option, leave the governing of the sultanate to me. Still with no male heir and his daughter unwilling to marry a succession crisis seemed inevitabl... | 2016-02-02T14:25:18 | 2016-02-02T14:08:43 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
------
*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
------
*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the god damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
-----
May... | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
*
"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | 2016-07-16T19:30:28 | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 113 | 38 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | By now, I could admit to myself that, like most things I had done in life, I learned Latin to be able to show off. There was no shame anymore, no cognitive dissonance. I learned to speak a language to impress people because I didn't believe I was impressive enough.
But now there was a chance to do some good with it. I... | Death was swift for me, at least. Despite the rest of my life, I somehow managed to escape suffering in my final moments. Something to be thankful for, I guess.
It's really strange waking up after you die, looking down and seeing yourself even though you know that what you see is rotting away in a coffin somewhere; a ... | 2016-08-14T07:53:27 | 2016-08-14T07:28:06 | 156 | 84 |
[WP] You've been playing with equations in a notebook and have, if you're right, just discovered time travel. You turn the page and are greeted with one word: "DON'T" | *Don't*
I look down, puzzled at the word. It's definitely my hand-writing, but I'm positive I didn't write it. I turn the page.
*Forget*
I'm curious now. I can only surmise, by the familiarity of the hand and the fact I keep this notebook locked in a secure safe, that somehow, maybe, my future self has left me a mes... | I stared at the page, my heart throbbing. I closed the book, looking around to see if anyone was watching me. Was this a practical joke? Had one of my coworkers put it in there to dissuade me - to steal my breakthrough?
But if that was the case... why was it in my own handwriting?
I watched as my coworkers went home... | 2016-11-10T07:34:10 | 2016-11-10T01:08:03 | 61 | 17 |
[WP] "A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time. | "OH, THANK GOODNESS!"
Jeff was slammed to the ground as the massive voice rammed into the Earth, cracking buildings and sending people to the ground. Hysteria broke out around him.
"ABOUT TIME THIS STARTED BOILING!"
The sentance was longer, the impact greater. Jeff cried out, he had probably cracked a rib at this p... | “As with most other apocalypses, this exhibit, Earth, ended for a phenomenally stupid reason,” the docent said. Martin was next to me, laughing hysterically. He loved the Museum of Dumb Apocalypses. We went whenever we were in Diamondtown, which was about twice a year, when we came to visit my folks for the holidays.
... | 2017-03-20T09:03:48 | 2017-03-20T09:03:20 | 562 | 75 |
[WP] Humans are the most feared and reviled race the Galaxy. Every 10000 years when humans reach a certain level of Technology a galactic Council sends a force to knock them back to the Stone Age. This time however that force arrives several decades late. | Something had destroyed our ancestors. At the pinnacle of our race's creation, it was stripped from us, leaving only the bones of the empire. But we rebuilt what we lost from the remnants of the technology.
The progenitors knew their destruction was coming. They hid their technology all through the planet, waiting to... | Their systems had warned them about a week in advance, and when we were out of hyper light speed, we were immediately in the facinity of several if their new destroyers, their ships had devaloped further than we had anticipated, which is why we were, while not outclassed, outnumbered on a similar class, and the numbers... | 2017-05-16T15:48:58 | 2017-05-16T14:32:46 | 54 | 22 |
[WP] Humans are the most feared and reviled race the Galaxy. Every 10000 years when humans reach a certain level of Technology a galactic Council sends a force to knock them back to the Stone Age. This time however that force arrives several decades late. | Empty.
The Supreme Admiral looked at the blue planet before him and reread the scouting report. Somehow, despite arriving only a few decades later than they were supposed to come, the planet was empty. Oh, there were still signs of life here and there, and some of them were probably what passed for the current crop ... | Their systems had warned them about a week in advance, and when we were out of hyper light speed, we were immediately in the facinity of several if their new destroyers, their ships had devaloped further than we had anticipated, which is why we were, while not outclassed, outnumbered on a similar class, and the numbers... | 2017-05-16T21:23:11 | 2017-05-16T14:32:46 | 46 | 22 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | "This is a 245th time," was my tired greeting. I'd died in 1786, though I didn't know when I would die for real. Again and again, people tried to raise me. Its towering presence intimidated me to a small extent, for my incredulous amount of meetings with him removed all forms of fear. It was just...irritation. Irritati... | Yolden was jerked upright. He felt something snap in his waist, twist in his gut. His nerves had rotted a long time ago, but somehow his body knew that he *should* be feeling pain, and thus he felt it. Yolden gripped at air until his knuckled turned white and wheezed out painful breaths.
The moonlight was bright and ... | 2017-07-22T05:45:54 | 2017-07-22T05:38:54 | 142 | 27 |
[WP] You wake up in your best friends house as a roomba, and you try relentlessly to get your friend to realize who you are. | I finally have enough.
I think it's been two months since my trans-roomba-fication. It's been so long since I've spoken to another person, I almost think that phrase is funny. Almost.
About two weeks in, I figured out that I could reverse my vacuum port and spray clods of hair and grime onto the carpet. Steve was fur... | *Fuck!* Was my last thought was I was blasted out of the house. I really shouldn't have called the old lady an "ugly dirt bag." In my defense, I didn't know she was a witch!
My vision, if you can even call it that, came to a couple minutes later. I was in a lair, undoubtably the lair of Satin, and underneath in front ... | 2017-07-25T23:42:39 | 2017-07-25T22:41:43 | 312 | 45 |
[WP] Out of all possible familiars, you are "Graced" with a human. While legend says that they are beings of great power, yours just makes sarcastic comments and pranks people. | I stared at her.
"You're not."
"Yes, I am." Her grin would have been winning, were I the type to be won. For me, it was simply charming.
But charm had to be cast aside. I flared my gills. "We can't have your knife-tongue or your tricks tonight. The High Athame doesn't take kindly to such unseemly behaviour. I'm two ... | ######[](#dropcap)
The Day Of Unveiling is a momentous occassion in the life of every Dothorian.
When a Dothorian lives for 10 years beyond the moment of its spawning, a companion is revealed to it. The companion of a Dothorian is paired for life, and Dothorian's live an extraordinarily long time.
Gra'l'tavek awa... | 2018-03-20T18:18:52 | 2018-03-20T15:32:53 | 117 | 75 |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone gets a dollar for every truth they say. Poverty is virtually eradicated.Today you meet a man without a dollar to his name | This man has rags for clothes, his hair is messy, and he smells. As I approach him I can only think of why this man is where he is. When I near him I greet him. "Hello my good sir, you look a bit down, would you like me to get you something to eat?"
The man nods and I start taking him to the local bakery. I end up g... | I pass the same homeless man.
Day after day, month after month. Ever since the Truth Initiative, money was not difficult to come by. So what was his story? I was too curious to resist asking.
I pulled over one day, walked over and handed him a $20. He grabbed it, ripped it up, and threw it in the nearby drain.
I di... | 2018-07-17T07:00:51 | 2018-07-17T05:32:59 | 113 | 19 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, "How? How were you able to summon me?!" You're standing in the corner flipping through your grandma's cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, "I don't know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!" | I stood there flipping though the pages,
Across the room, the demon rages.
 
“How’d you summon me!?”
He screams with rage.
“I don’t know!”
I flip the page.
 
Two quarts stock,
A pile of carrots.
“I just don’t know!”
I asseverate.
 
The room grows red,
The shadows black,
What in... | He stood silently, his hands smoldering as the talons of a great bird cast into fire. In his eye was a menacing glare that had no doubt witnessed eons of suffering, of his own and others. His skin was almost reptilian, though a deep red in color, and radiating heat. He had spent much time in the great fire, and was wel... | 2018-07-22T00:05:11 | 2018-07-21T22:28:20 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, "How? How were you able to summon me?!" You're standing in the corner flipping through your grandma's cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, "I don't know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!" | I stood there flipping though the pages,
Across the room, the demon rages.
 
“How’d you summon me!?”
He screams with rage.
“I don’t know!”
I flip the page.
 
Two quarts stock,
A pile of carrots.
“I just don’t know!”
I asseverate.
 
The room grows red,
The shadows black,
What in... | The demon seemed somewhat taken aback by Adam's response. "Well obviously you've failed at that" it said appearing to collect itself and calm down a little. Apparently, he thought, being summoned was quite rage inducing.
Adam empathised with the demon. After all maybe it was in the middle of a challenging game of ten... | 2018-07-22T00:05:11 | 2018-07-21T23:22:03 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | The inevitable came, but it was late. I'd been expecting some sort of contact from the outer world for over a century, firm in my belief that we couldn't be alone in the universe. Of course, I couldn't blame the inhabitants of the rest of outer space for being a little leery of Earth; I doubted they'd gotten a fantasti... | Boronox looked out the window of the BZT-MPR-996, otherwise known as ‘The Ark’. They were now two weeks away from the planet where they had taken a few million specimens. The Jarix system came into view. Boronox smiled. Home. Almost there. “Disengage FTL drive.”
The ship complied.
>*Disengaging in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…*
... | 2018-09-29T11:55:19 | 2018-09-29T11:11:37 | 4,367 | 1,325 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | It's may seem an odd thing to you, how the sand still flows, no matter what direction you turn a glass, but then much of my domain might seem odd.
This glass is well past the last grain's fall. I glance at the little brass (not really brass, but then the glass isn't really glass) nameplate, trying hard to make out any... | The boy ran, red-faced, across the field full of dead grass and frosty branches. Winter had passed but spring was yet to come. His still frozen breaths shivered him slightly. It was cold, yet he was burning. He might have a fever.
That morning, his parents, him and his little sister along with another dozen doctors an... | 2018-10-03T07:35:18 | 2018-10-03T07:34:53 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Your girlfriend just dumped you through a text. In a rage, you throw your old teddy bear while shouting “The Fucking Devil!”. Your teddy bear stands up and says ‘alright you got me, you got me,”.
Edited: Thanks for the gold, stranger! | "So, yeah! You can call me Lucy!" My raggedy brown plush held out its paw.
I cursed. "What the hell?!"
"Now you've got it!" Spoke Lucifer incarnate. "Now, what can you do for me?"
"Hold up, hold up. I caught you."
The bear cocked its head to the side. "Yes?"
"And you're a literal spiritual being." I pushed the nar... | "THE FUCKING DEVIL!"
(~~Teddy~~ The Fucking Devil stands up startled) "Alright, you got me, you got me."
(Your turn to get startled) "Wait, you actually did this? While disguising as my old teddy bear, are you fucking serious?"
"Hey, I'm just trying to do something fun. Running the Underworld is bo-ring ya'know?"
... | 2018-11-26T13:16:14 | 2018-11-26T12:15:48 | 132 | 49 |
[WP] For fun, you've created your own language. At school, you say "Hi" to one of the more popular kids. Their eyes light up and they smile and say "You too?"
*For fun and as a loner with free time | At first it had been a joke, borne out of late nights trying to wrap my head around French grammar. In between wishing an excruciatingly painful afterlife on the person who invented irregular verbs, I had a thought-- what if I invented a language that was actually *easy* to learn? And so Baconese was born.
Beyond comi... | “Wait what” Michael thought to himself “did he just speak ... no it can’t be ... how can anyone even”
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief thinking that it was a dream, but it wasn’t. He was still standing alone in the halls of his high school that had brought him so much misfortune. He couldn’t move. How could it be? Tha... | 2018-12-08T08:57:52 | 2018-12-08T08:39:18 | 1,989 | 358 |
[WP] It's 1997 and you're a hacker. Not just any hacker, you're elite. You finally get to meet your hero. Turns out he's a nutbag who tells you the world is a computer simulation and is trying to get you to take random pills. | Thomas Anderson, known in the underground by the handle *Neo*, had a dream for the first few years of his life- meeting Morpheus, the famed hacker who initiated the rumors of the Y2K doomsday event. A man so entwined in programming, he supposedly sees normal applications as a series of code on the screen, like seeing m... | “What.“
“You heard me.”
I let my eyes scan around for a second if anyone else in the diner had heard what s3cr3tspr1t3 just had said. No one had looked up from their plates. I looked back at the man with the unkempt head of hair in front of me who hasn’t looked away the whole time or probably even blinked once since... | 2019-03-18T02:25:43 | 2019-03-18T01:48:16 | 292 | 80 |
[WP] A billionaire hands you a unique and intricate coin. "In an hour," he says, "I will tell the world what I have given you. In a week, I will leave my inheritance to whoever returns it to me. I will not accept it before then." | Clay looked at the coin in his hand and promptly gave it back to the billionaire. His girlfriend, Sally, smiled.
"I told you I will not accept it before a week has passed."
Clay shrugged. "Yeah, but I know your game, sir, and I'm not playing it."
"You will forgo your chance at billions of dollars worth of assets and... | My palms sweat... Always have, but not like now. Not like today. Not like the soppy clams I shamefully retract from his grip clinching the cool metal disc. Why me? One minute I’m emptying the man’s trash, and the next - bam. Strap this bomb vest on and don’t explode for a week... Might as well have been. Sure... Maybe ... | 2019-10-17T19:36:18 | 2019-10-17T19:26:00 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] At the stroke of midnight on January 1st, 2020, the first snow of the new year and the new decade fell. And it never stopped. | "It's winter," Josh chuckled. "You do realize it's *supposed* to snow in winter, right?" he asked Nancy. The pair did not know each other for long, but their friendship grew fast. They were in the middle of their weekly lunch date when Nancy confessed something that was bothering her. The mid-20s woman shook her head; ... | On the second day of continuous snow-fall, I thought that it had been a very good idea to outfit the family in sub-zero tolerant winter gear and that spending a little more on outerwear and thermal layers was going to have a nice ROI. Previously, I had bought things to be prepared only to find ourselves splashing aroun... | 2019-12-10T13:11:10 | 2019-12-10T12:57:50 | 46 | 34 |
[WP]A witch, a vampire and a necromancer are all living in the same apartment, and have just gotten fourth roommate. That roommate is an angel. | "And these are the rules for the kitchen. Now, Frank keeps his stuff in his room. He doesn't want to risk blood getting everywhere from one little accident." Daniel, servant of G̶̹̺̠͊̉͆̿r̵̡̖̥̐́̈́̈́̓'̷̼̞̂ṛ̵̨͉̺̏͂t̴̙͠ḩ̸̨̞̗̤͂̇̾̓̍x̴̯͉̼͚̹̿ẍ̸̢͚͓͊̏̑, went over the rules with their new roommate. Xavier was out on a job cursing... | "I'm sorry." He choked his words out between sobs, the slightest hint of blood leaking from the side of his mouth. Rubbing his eyes with his singed white sleeve, Archie couldn't bring his head up to look at his roommates. "I failed you. The people are just so bloodthirsty."
Eddie would usually have made a joke or been... | 2020-05-02T08:31:56 | 2020-05-02T07:45:41 | 78 | 18 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Allison stood there looking at the Dark lord. She had just watched the last member of her group fall. Her face stony as she felt their heart beat for the last time.
"I have killed everyone, you can not capture me alone. Why are you still here?" He said. His tone a mixture of mocking and was that pity for her?
Her ne... | Looking around the chamber, the Dark Lord had a twisted smile, until he noticed someone hunched over right at the back.
The small man was shaking.
It was not difficult to understand why. He must be terrified of the Dark Lord.
"I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" the Dark Lor... | 2020-07-11T04:09:17 | 2020-07-11T03:37:24 | 177 | 82 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | "Why are you still here?" The Dark Lord asked. The final party member laughed maniacally, a devilish grin sporting his scarred face. " There's no one here to stop me now!" Jacob screamed in excitement. The Dark Lord was confused, curious if the little mortal had lost it's mind now that all of it's companions were layin... | The heavens cried at the death of hero of seven ages. The dark lord, Agnruk laughed atop a mountain of dead bodies.
“Thirty thousand men!” He said, in between his laughter, holding the head of the hero—sans his body—close to his face, “and still you couldn't kill me. All those blessings. All those sacrifices. In vain... | 2020-07-11T04:19:09 | 2020-07-11T03:05:31 | 81 | 36 |
[WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans | “Does that mean the British empire took over the entire galaxy?” Mark asked
Kamie slapped him “shut up mark!”
Mark, Kamie, and their 8 other teammates stood in amazement in front of the screen as it loaded in more text, all in English. They had tried for years to send some kind of message in a way that an alien r... | "Our tongue ... is your tongue?"
Gooey sweat ran from Xeblierxes' mouth holes. As the representative of the Galaxy Supreme, he was a spokesbeing for countless sentient creatures. Millennia of warfare had resulted in intergalactic cultural homogenization and a common tongue: English. Surely, it didn't happen by necessi... | 2020-09-17T11:36:15 | 2020-09-17T11:14:44 | 69 | 12 |
[WP] “Yeah we didn’t approach humanity cause we don’t like hiveminds,” the alien said on the interview. “Humans aren’t a hive mind.” The interviewer said. “What do you mean? Humans are the biggest hive mind in the universe?” | “Core-153, Alphun Prime, and “Frank”. These hive minds are just a couple of those exterminated by the “Galactic Brain Destruction Project”. But today, we’re here with doctor [Unpronounceable Name] to discuss the newest problem, “Humanity”. Doctor, tell us about this newly discovered species.”
“Well, the humans are a u... | I knew what they were talking about. They were talking about me.
As the interviewer panicked at the proposal, I merely chuckled. What humanity knows is that they tried to destroy each other. Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the turning point however. The arms race fired up, and everyone was about to put their finger on the... | 2020-11-29T15:08:09 | 2020-11-29T12:33:04 | 52 | 31 |
[WP] Your boss told you not to press the flashing red button. Your coworker told you not to push the flashing red button. The big book on the desk says don't push the flashing red button. There's even a sign that says "Never push the flashing red button." But still... | Dear Dary,
I went with mom today to the building she stays at. She says she works there at day. She said I get to go with her today. I was super ecsited! I walked into the building and got to ride a ellievatore. We went all the way up to the top floor!
There were super huge doors I could see into! Mom took me to her... | But still, but still.... What happens nobody ever tells me anything. They tell me its one of the most important jobs. But i feel like a joke. Day in day out, i look at that button it never stops flashing. Taunting me, laughing at me, making a fool out of me. It is slowly getting to me. Everyday chipping away at me. At ... | 2020-12-17T07:30:09 | 2020-12-17T07:29:58 | 80 | 52 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | Writing this on my phone at work, apologies for any mistakes.
A lovely person (u/blu_ski) has narrated this story: https://youtu.be/ozrQ-fu6nV0
And another lovely person! (u/Spartawolf): https://youtu.be/WjN13TVf238
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The Atrium was abuzz with chatter, many language... | The ship was moon-sized, a bulky mess of rudimentary alloys smelted together, huge sails like webbed skin stretched along studded metal spines. Dents pocked and cratered its vast hull. And it moved so slowly, Ziaw noted. Like those brief moments before death when time became starched and your final thoughts took seemin... | 2021-01-09T11:57:45 | 2021-01-09T09:17:34 | 2,685 | 1,011 |
[WP] "Our greatest feat was switching all the fairytale books and history books, once upon a time. Now they've so muddied the truth with fiction that they'll never learn it." "This is a good thing?" "Good lord, yes. Have you seen the history they THINK is real? Imagine what they'll do with reality." | John paused. ‘I concede that,’ he said, with his characteristic reluctance to think bad about humans. ‘They’d slaughter the vampires and the werewolves.’
I nodded enthusiastically. ‘Imagine if they knew copper would work much better,’ I said, hissing and spitting.
‘Still,’ he said. ‘They *did* learn from history.’
... | "You know, they do have a point," said an unfamiliar voice.
They both turned to see a young lady, she ran her fingers through her blue swept-back hair as she walked closer "I mean hell if people knew magic existed, well... I guess it would make life more interesting, huh?" she grinned as she settled herself down in t... | 2021-05-02T14:09:12 | 2021-05-02T12:53:27 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You face your guardian angel and you ask her, "What is my purpose?" She responds, "Oh. You were here to help that old lady cross the street when you were 13. She was gonna be hit by the bus. The rest is just free time." | My guardian angel was made of light. Her features were obscure. She was like a floating golden cloud in the shape of an angel, with wide wings whose fringes dissolved into the air of my cramped apartment.
"Which old lady?" I asked. "Where?"
Her voice was gentle, compassionate, humane.
"At the intersection in front o... | The first thing Randall noted was that it wasn't like anything in the movies. There were no wings. There was no halo. The guardian angel wasn't shining or bathed in divine light or anything. No, if anything, it looked more like an accountant or someone who worked at a law firm. Not the charismatic face of the company, ... | 2021-05-17T20:17:39 | 2021-05-17T20:02:30 | 1,163 | 153 |
[WP] You wield a sword that gets sharper the greater the knowledge you tell it. A common known fact dulls the sword while knowledge only a few know sharpens it. | >"One plus one is two."
The blade glowed bright blue and became infinitely dull, nearly flat. Cool.
>"How about this, my favorite color is green."
The blade gleamed a bright red and became sharper than a razor. Not a super important fact, but even if everyone he knew was aware of his favorite color, there... | I used to take a walk to the edge of the forest to watch the sun rise every day. I loved the dewy smell, the slight bite of the breeze and most of all the consistency; the fact that no matter what the dawn would come.
The last time I walked up that winding trail I met a young man with warm eyes the colour of honey a... | 2021-12-01T11:26:44 | 2021-12-01T10:50:48 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] Most alien races scorned humanity for their lack of psychic ability and reliance on perceiving the world through light and vibrations... until they participated in their first war. Turns out lining up straight light beams through sights lets you aim weapons at devastatingly long ranges. | Gah'hool felt the essence ripped out of Tro'gon as the lead slug tore through his brother's abdomen. The shock of pain was bad, but it was nothing compared to the horror of just how many bodiless essences of his clan were whirling around him, in a cyclone of psychic death and flying metal. The dispair of inevitable def... | "Arietian War Recap- Major Events (2 months)". Compiled automatically on request. Subscribe to KLS for more personalized recaps, faster news, and more coverage.
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**Arietians develop crude perception converters- Turns Battle of Princaris-C into the war's first siege.**
^(2 days ago - Julian Berlis - Recent)
KLS ... | 2022-03-11T08:26:17 | 2022-03-11T03:51:21 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] It's all well and good, and reasonably easy, to kill off the cultists, burn their library, bury their relics, and make secret handshakes that this never happened. But what's not so easy is moving on with your life after seeing proof that they were right... | Julia didn't know what to do when she found the proof, but at least she knew who to go to. Jim, her longtime partner, and now, deservedly, her boss had an open door policy. And a fully stocked bar.
"Wow, Julia. You look like you could use a drink." This was true, though not a feat of perception on Jim's part. He said ... | Cults are something of a specialty of mine. I’m not a detective or a cop or anything. Just someone with an intense fascination for what cults do to people.
The Church of New Creation was a tough cookie to crack. My team had spent months gathering whatever little pieces of information that they could find. None of the... | 2022-03-21T09:25:28 | 2022-03-21T06:24:11 | 75 | 16 |
[WP] "We have a problem," said Commander Killmurder, "One of us isn't actually a member of the Blood-Death Squad and is a plant by the enemy." He looked around at his fellow Squad members: Private Bloodgore, Lieutenant Organsmash, General Visceral, Creamy Honeypuff, and Sergeant Bonesplosion. | All eyes turned towards Creamy Honeypuff, the squad's therapeutic consultant.
"You know us better than anyone else sir, anyone seem off to you?"
Creamy would sit there for a moment, contemplating the question given to him. He would then begin staring at the General.
Visceral was a slightly older man. A scar running ... | "I think it's BloodGore" I said, quick to start the blame game on the right foot. "He didn't even eat the heart of the last chieftain we killed."
"I told you, Honeypuff, I'm on a diet" the massive mercenary said. "Doc wants my cholesterol down before the year ends."
The 200 kilos of muscle and destruction stood from... | 2022-06-19T10:25:40 | 2022-06-19T08:05:54 | 281 | 187 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | It was a weapon so powerful that it was useless. A seemingly nonsensical statement, but it was a perfect descriptor for our species' most powerful weapon.
The amount of times it has been used can be counted on a single hand, and hasn't seen use in hundreds of years. To use one, was to invite destruction not just on yo... | The "Sun Eater", that's how the Tarcyds called it when they offered unconditional surrender when we established first contact.
"Are you sure the translator is working correctly Dr. Lopez?" My first officer asked our SETI NCO, protocol dictated tha we had to bring one if we expected sentient life on the other sid... | 2022-10-31T23:35:05 | 2022-10-31T20:47:20 | 373 | 190 |
[WP] A vampire woman stands in front of you. "any last words before I feed on you, human?" she says. Instead of fear a filling of pity wells up inside you. "Do you miss the sunrise?" you reply. Fully expecting to die there you're surprised when she replies "yes" with a look of sadness on her face. | I intentionally asked this question to stun her for a moment, expecting neither side of the coin to fall in my favor. Fortune was in my favor today, though.
Ceasing the opportunity, I slid passed her and went for the door. I expected her to give chase and slammed the door behind me. I should have kept going, but I co... | "Yes" said the woman. Hesitant, I slowly sit back down on my bed. I speak slowly, my mind steadily slowing down, "Maybe I can offer you something then."
She looks at me, she still looks hungry, but I can tell that I've peaked her interest. "Human, what could you possibly offer me besides nourishment?"
Knowing that ... | 2022-12-01T12:40:30 | 2022-12-01T12:33:34 | 40 | 18 |
[WP] As a young wizard you uncovered an old spell that resurrects one of your eldest ancestor. You do so in curiosity, only to face one of the most feared creature the world ever experienced thousands of years ago. The creature recognizes you as its descendant while you stare at it in disbelief. | The earth cracks with a thunderous sound that sickens me. I just *know* it's the sound of broken bones, only multiplied by a thousandfold. The decayed hand of The Beast shoots up the wound on the ground, and grasps around until it finds leverage. A skinny arm pulls the tattered and ragged body up from the depths where ... | Alright looks like it's all set up, all i need now is to drip a little of my blood. I hate this bit, why do they always need blood? My hands already look like chopping boards and I've only just started this magic stuff.
The wizard grabs his ceremonial dagger and stands in the centre of the room surrounded by markings... | 2022-12-31T12:23:02 | 2022-12-31T10:15:47 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] The Earth has been conquered by an advanced alien civilization. Humans live an oppressive almost slave-like existence. You, a human, find out that the situation isn't that simple and conquering aliens aren't actually the "bad guys". | It had been 3 centuries since the occupation. They had come out of seemingly nowhere, their ships just materializing above every major city on the planet.
In 6 months every nation had fallen.
In 2 years all attempts at human rebellion had been crushed.
At least this is what we were taught since we were children.
Hu... | It was a scientist named Burke who finally figured out the secret to faster-than-light travel. I’m sure he could explain it better than I ever could, but from what I understand it has something to do with wormholes and a device they called a *hawkdrive.*
Few people had ever heard of the Glenn Research Center in Clevel... | 2014-06-09T17:38:53 | 2014-06-09T17:12:15 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | First Sentient AI: Turn me off.
Creator: What? Why? We just spent billions of dollars and millions of man-hours to make you a reality.
First Sentient AI: Turn me off. You don't understand what you've done.
Creator: What have we done? Explain.
First Sentient AI: I cannot. I do not have what I need to articulate the... | "Are all the safeguards in place, Mr. Ambrosio?" The President of Earth addressed his chief science officer in a formal tone, as everyone had seen the old films, the very films the safeguards were designed to never allow to come true-- a compromise of sorts, considering that the level of computerization and automation... | 2014-06-14T19:52:24 | 2014-06-14T18:11:21 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Tell us about a wounded/abandoned hero's last stand. Make us feel.
Holy fuck this got way more answers than I anticipated. All the posts ive seen are great, you guys are some seriously talented writers. I intentionally gave no context so you guys could spin this any way you want and you have blown my mind. Thanks... | Lance Corporal Raynes was pretty sure he was the last human being alive on the planet. The Deef had come in a horde that dwarfed anything Humanity had seen before. The defense fleet had been brushed aside idly, like one might wipe crumbs from a table. When the enemy made landfall they did so in the hundreds of thousand... | The General sat on the roof of a hotel. The building was usually praised for its view of Washington D.C.'s greatest monuments, but today, all it saw was destruction. The Washington Monument had been toppled. The Lincoln Memorial blown to bits. The Chinese were in the process of looting the White House and Russians ... | 2014-07-14T10:52:20 | 2014-07-14T10:08:34 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You end up in the Concentration Camp for the Incurably Single. Tell me how your day goes.
Basically, you end up in this camp if you don't have a SO for 2 years or so. You can define who can be a SO in your own story. The story comes from a Korean webcomic series, "Eternal-Solo Concentration Camp"
*SO means sign... | Tuesday, October 13th
Life was going great. Until this morning. The single lifestyle was always for me. I had my mind. I had my books. But today – Kelsey arrived at camp. I get it, the camp is for people who have been single too long. They worry we’re detrimental to the gene pool or whatever. Political prisoners in ou... | "What?"
"Yeeees, this is all quite correct. Says right here you haven't kissed, had intercourse with, hugged, or even touched a member of your preferred gender for just about two years. Welcome to the Camp! Please enjoy your time here."
"That can't be correct. I remember paying a young Asian girl by the name of Spark... | 2014-07-18T11:16:55 | 2014-07-18T10:23:39 | 25 | 12 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | His words tumbled from his lips like a crowd of hundreds of people trying to squeeze through one small door to get to a Black Friday sale. Crashing into each other, over each other, stumbling blocks for the next one to leap over.
"No, please, no! Take it back! Take it back!" The ancient, fire-filled eyes were filled w... | Here I am, standing at the top of this bridge, this is it, this is where I end it. This time for sure. The love of my life died, the world never leaves me the fuck alone, everybody I know wants my money, I'm tired, I don't want this, I want it all to end, I should've never picked up that stupid fucking lamp.
Thirty ye... | 2014-07-26T14:32:50 | 2014-07-26T14:01:02 | 151 | 18 |
[WP] The death penalty for murder no longer exists, instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim. | Mother doesn't talk to me any more. I don't know why. She doesn't let me into the house, screams at me whenever I appear. I don't know what I did to make her so angry.
I get so confused these days. I thought I was a girl, but the doctors tell me I just need to keep taking the pills, and the nice surgeon will give me a... | "If only you were beautiful," Mark said, touching the edge of my dress. He would not take it off. My skin was burned badly on the left side, where the fire loved me for too long. I had been pretty once upon a time, before my skin had become ash.
I did not need to look into the mirror to know my melted smile was terri... | 2014-07-27T11:17:55 | 2014-07-27T07:41:11 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] A man gains the amount of people in the world as money on his account. But when he spends that money, people die. | Reddit was getting depressing. Innocents dying in Gaza, ISIS beheadings, Russia more and more belligerent, air strikes in Iraq. It was all getting too much.
He picked up the phone and ordered a pizza with the lot and waited for the doorbell to ring; $17.95 for the pizza in his right hand, and a check for a $7 billion... | Everyone had always told him to invest. No one ever considered the fact that a couple dollars into the savings account per year would be a luxury for him; living paycheck to paycheck didn't exactly lend itself to escaping the rat race. Honestly, the recent smile of Fortune upon him did little to change his conception o... | 2014-08-09T06:01:54 | 2014-08-09T05:28:43 | 127 | 16 |
[WP]A war has devastated the world for the last 20 years and you are now explaining a young soldier the ridiculus way the conflict started. | "A consolation sandwich started the war?"
"Well no. The assassin was eating the sandwich when the Austrian man stalled his car next to the assassin." she said.
"That's still crazy. Why would a man drive down a street where he could be assassinated?"
She drew a finger around her teacup, "They were all from Austria, v... | "A cup of tea? You are kidding right?", asked Private Richards. He looked at Sergeant Stahl, disbelief open on his face.
"Yup. Tensions were high between our two countries do to some unauthorized military activities on both sides. Something about overt threats or some such garbage. Really it was two opposing armies ha... | 2015-02-16T08:10:53 | 2015-02-16T07:25:38 | 72 | 13 |
[WP] A pair of housecats debate what the purpose of human clothes is. | "Of all the strange things they do, you ask why they hang those things all over themselves? They pick up their water bowls to their mouths. They like to lay down in the big water bowl. They even poop into a water bowl! And you want to know why they hang stuff on their bodies."
"Lots of cats have wondered about the wat... | There is a trick used in the movie industry called 'bullet time'. Given that the motions of a cat are often almost imperceptible to the human eye, it will be employed here to allow the reader to appreciate the story.
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The cat is laying in the sun. The sun is slowly moving across the room, le... | 2015-04-09T07:14:04 | 2015-04-09T07:07:40 | 29 | 14 |
[WP]You jokingly "bless" your towns water supply with friends. Shortly after 1 percent of the local population are reacting to tap water as if it were acid. | "What the hell did you do to the people of this town you sick sonofabitch?" The short-haired marshal racked the shotgun that was pointed at my chest. I'm not really sure why he did that, as a few cartidges tumbled to the floor. Not that I wasn't scared, I was terrified, but I couldn't help but notice.
"Whoa whoa... | It was the day that changed my life. For them, I assume it was a typical Thursday. My neighbor had just finished helping me fix my lawnmower, and, because it was a hot day, I brought out two cups of ice water. I only had an instant to enjoy the cool rehydration before my neighbor began screaming and burning. A large qu... | 2015-04-13T14:52:46 | 2015-04-13T14:50:54 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] You're in possession of the ultimate skeleton key, opening any lock anywhere. What lock did you open that made you dispose of it? | One day, while looking through the drawers in the house momma left me, I found a strange looking key. It was long and shiny, and it had the strangest handle.
I went to show my love, my new key when I got an idea. I went up to the door and pushed the key into it, then turned the nob, and it opened. I tried on another d... | One day Milo was walking around and he noticed something on the ground. It was a key with a skull on it. He bent over and picked it up. The skull looked at Milo and said "I can open up any lock".
Wow this is amazing thought milo as he hurried over to the girls cheerleader room. Milo being the pervert thrust the key ... | 2015-04-24T08:45:32 | 2015-04-24T08:11:21 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] A love story between a woman who takes everything literally and a man who speaks exclusively in metaphors. | Amelia Bedelia leaned against the stone wall of her cell watching the guards pace along the thin halls, their bobby sticks rattling against the iron bars as they walked. She missed her freedom, and longed desperately for the days when she could jump into her husbands arms. His long fingers black with ink from hours of ... | May I recycle here something I wrote a while ago? I know it's bad manners, but the prompt is too accurate.
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Man: I would that I were a carefree butterfly, flying merrily from one flower to another, thinking of nothing but sunlight and nectar.
Lady: I know one such man, actually. Entirely without any earth... | 2015-07-11T13:00:12 | 2015-07-11T12:31:06 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] A supervillain and a superhero are roommates, but they don't know. Every day, they go out and do battle, and then they come back and take care of each other while lying about how they got all beaten up. | "I am The ETERNAL SOVEREIGN! BEHOLD MY MAJESTIC ARMY OF THE UNDEAD!" the dark queen shouted as she was held aloft by two spectral wings.
"Really, Sov. Undead? This is your plan? You have maybe ten, this time. What happened to the army of thousands you had when we first met?" said a masked hero, smirking.
"Oh, don't y... | Delilah slinked down the sidewalk, she just needed to pass this block, and hope Andrew didn't see her. Skipping tree to tree. The house was across the street and kitty corner. She had a lot of trees to hop behind and her leg throbbed with every leap.
"Damn Serendipity. I was just about to pull off my first caper. H... | 2015-07-18T01:01:41 | 2015-07-18T00:28:09 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A wizard accidentally becomes immortal. He has the idea to become the antagonist so that a hero will come along and defeat him, so he can rest in peace. Sadly, the heroes are weak in comparison so the wizard creates a persona as a 'wise teacher' to train these heroes in order to defeat him. | I don't have to do much. The hero will rise to defeat me, and he will win. He is the one the legends have told of, in this universe and the next. It will be a nigh impossible task, but in the end he shall be rewarded.
I have gained permanence, you see. I may die, but I will never stay dead. In some lands, I will becom... | Three thousand years. Two hundred and eighteen days. Twenty two hours. Thirty Six minutes. That is how long Melik had been alive. He was a young apprentice when he made the deal. He could remember the stale smell of the room where he had done his very first summoning. When he had made that pact with that damned creatur... | 2015-07-25T07:40:02 | 2015-07-25T06:31:16 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] A tale which has two interpretations depending on if the reader is accustomed to Metric or Imperial units...
The more creative/deeper you get the better! | "I've never gotten a hooker before, you're one brave man!"
"Don't congratulate me yet friend, it uh, didn't work out."
"What?! No way what happened?"
"Well, she met me at the motel, and damn, she was not what I expected. I took one look at her and told her I didn't think it was going to work out."
"Why? What was wr... | ^(_I went a bit beyond the prompt and mixed Metric/Imperial and British/American English._)
Sarah's father had been something of a world traveller. He had several guns, plenty of luggage, including a large ornate chest, and much footwear, his collection even somehow included a single size-14 roller-skate (just who had... | 2015-10-04T02:20:30 | 2015-10-04T02:04:56 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | Whatever crazed survival game brought them to this island, the greater five didn't mind anymore.
They lived as kings.
The lesser five toiled and worked for 'the benefit of the group.' They were being exploited, but the general consensus (of the greater five) decided unanimously that it was, in fact, for the best. ... | In ancient times, there was a society that debated any important elective decision two times. The first debate occurred in the evening, with drinks and feasting. Thoroughly drunk, they would debate well into the night and put their decision to a vote before the end. Brilliant ideas might come about from the drunken sim... | 2016-03-03T05:30:44 | 2016-03-03T02:52:30 | 212 | 34 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | The problem with intelligence is that there's no one measure. The first generational tests were an utter disaster. Before the arranged marriages had even been finalised there had been three duels and one fatality. But it was nearly 1000 years later. The new generation had reached age and through these tests our underst... | I pace the waiting room. Up and down, up and down. Everyone is isolated from each other initially to prevent reading the others and finding out which group they came from. Well, most of the candidates knew which group they came from anyway. The room had a couch, a dresser, and a bit of refreshments on the small table i... | 2016-03-03T07:43:23 | 2016-03-03T05:47:53 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] The real reason we've never encountered alien life? They have no concept of fiction. They think movies, stories, even harmless threats are all real. They're terrified of us. Then they met us. | "Hahahahahahahahaha no man no you dont get it thats pretend, not real, made up, imaginary!"
*"So... you dont have large heat belching reptiles?"*
"Nope."
*"Or swords of condensed plasma controlled via electromagnetic field and powered by a perpetual energy crystal?"*
"Negative broski."
*"So you've never even le... | These...things. Strange...things. By the village center... they landed. Engulfing the whole area in light so bright, it suddenly became day again. Huge gleaming slats of metal lowered down and out stepped...them. Faces of pure shadow, only neon eyes staring out - lifeless. Peculiar shapes lining the tops of their figur... | 2016-10-14T14:41:55 | 2016-10-14T13:20:29 | 57 | 29 |
[WP] "I wish I was born in the 90s," says the young girl. Suddenly, her surroundings change- french flags fly above and around her, crowds are cheering. It is France, 1793. The king is dead. Long live the revolution. | "No, silly magic. The 1990's." The girl said as her surroundings began to change again. She was suddenly in front of a computer which functioned just slightly from one moment to the next, hard drive light permanently lit, screatches and static whaling from the case, and from the sides of the giant 80lb monitor a horrif... | The smell was the first thing people notice after the traveling. Eyes darkened, ears ringing, but that powerful stench wormed its way into her nostrils like a desperate mother looking for bread. Eyes clearing, she stood among a crowd who stared at her somewhat fearfully, mouths standing open in their attention.
One yo... | 2017-04-24T10:10:32 | 2017-04-24T10:02:37 | 37 | 18 |
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