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[WP] In a dystopian theocracy, criminals get injected with diseases and locked up until they either survive the disease or die. The worse the crime, the worse the disease. If a criminal survives the disease, the system determines that the person is innocent and God has interfered to show this.
Edit: thank you kind str... | (I hope this suffices; it may not be good, but it’d be a shame to throw it away...)
Five years ago, Justice was a different system. Bodies weren’t dumped into landfills, diseases weren’t collected for use by the church, and the people who lived among god’s disciples were not slaves. This was a thing only he knew, long... | Solomon was unconventional. He knew it, and he reveled in it. The others might have stopped his peculiar way of doing things, but he was more powerful than they would ever be. The only people who held more power were his good friends, or close relatives. They did not mind his unusual procedures, as much as the others c... | 2020-03-25T09:38:00 | 2020-03-25T09:22:03 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] When the police came to announce the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible," you said. "Unfortunately, that's the truth, miss." answered the policeman. "No, it's impossible because he's in the kitchen making dinner right now." | My breath is heavy. The officer at the door is still talking, but I don’t feel anything.
“Ma’am,” the office says, taking my arm and pulling me outside. He lowers his voice, and places his hand in top of his gun, “is there a strange man in your house?”
I shake my head, the words in my mouth fail to come out. I stand... | The kitchen is Dan's domain. He likes it here, with his headphones in and his head down, cutting vegetables and searing meat. Straight forward effort and reward.
"Excuse me," says an unfamiliar voice. "Are you Dan Haridan?"
*The Strokes* blasts in Dan's head, just reaching the crescendo of a perfect baseline right as... | 2020-04-04T16:42:10 | 2020-04-04T14:09:22 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Captain’s Log: 2437.04.08
The human, the one that calls itself ‘Cassandra’ (I hope I’m spelling that right), never ceases to amaze me. Ever since we picked it up from that freighter, I feel like we’re learning something new about it.
Just today, one of our crew dropped the ball and forgot to inform it that we’d be w... | The captain stared at the bosun, tentacles quivering slightly. "The human... is ok?"
"Yes sir," she replied. Her stance was stiff, too stiff, and he had known her long enough to know when she was rattled. The captain stared through her. If a human had witnessed infinity and survived...
"Acknowledged. Return to your p... | 2020-07-14T03:55:51 | 2020-07-14T03:04:48 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] The thing that makes humanity dangerous isn't their passion, their bravery, or their honour like they had imagined. No, The thing that makes them dangerous is their stupidity. | “Stop rushing ahead of us, Jacob!” The lizardman shouted angrily. “You will keep triggering traps and alerting our enemies. How about we just take things slowly?”
“He is right, you know.” The elf added. “Look at poor Kalos over here. Half his feathers have turned black from saving you from the flamethrower.”
“I don’t... | *These morons don’t know what they’re dealing with. The Spawn can shred men to bits even through armor.*
Mark Kepper had been at the heart of most of the great victories mankind has seen in the last two decades. This time looked no different, with the overwhelming force of the Spawn looming over the Deep Pass.
“When... | 2020-08-03T22:07:15 | 2020-08-03T22:05:08 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You are an AI on board an unmanned spaceship, exploring and mapping out the cosmos when you encounter an alien species. However, these aliens are unfamiliar with AI, and have instead concluded that your ship is haunted by ghosts. | Am I...Alive?
Well logically speaking I am. I think. I have processes that keep me running some I’m aware of, others I’m not. This, added to the fact that my creators gave me the ability to think, means that I’m pretty much alive but...
What differentiates an AI from a ghost I wonder. Is it the fact that Ghosts h... | "Did you hear that sam!"
"shh be quiet"
"Did you hear that?SA..M....."
"Yes Mike it was the space rats"
"Space rats don't make mechanical sounds mike"
"...but the radiated rats can sam!"
"The power canister...insert power... power at 0.1%.." A distressed mechanical voice faintly heard again from the big monitor a... | 2020-11-19T06:58:27 | 2020-11-19T06:18:57 | 112 | 61 |
[WP] To stave off mass starvation, humans have managed to capture and cage a phoenix. They kill it and eat it. A few days later, it would be reborn, only to be butchered again. | It keeps its memories, y’know. Between lives. That was the one thing I was worried about.
Sanderson didn't think so. "That makes no sense," he'd snorted. Sanderson had been the one to butcher it the first time. To prove his point, as soon as the egg hatched, he'd held up the struggling, chirping little thing, and... | In an age of the unknown, food was scarce. Humans no longer apex predators. The apocalypse was far from what any had imagined.
The birth of many new mutated creatures came along. They began to rip and tear through all that lived peacefully before. Humans had no choice but to adapt and learn, only the very food they u... | 2021-01-30T23:46:13 | 2021-01-30T22:50:31 | 78 | 19 |
[WP] You're a serial killer who hunts other serial killers, not out of nobility, but because you love the thrill of outsmarting them. | I walk along the stretch of desert highway for a couple of hours before the lady pulls over and offers me a lift. I’m short anyway, but I’ve lost a lot of weight for this role. You can’t look threatening, you see. You can’t look strong and healthy, at least as a man, or they wouldn’t stop for you. So I’m just a skeleto... | There are those who claim to hunt the most dangerous game. Who claim to know what it is like to be a hunter, someone who claims lives with pride. They claim that man is the most dangerous animal. That to hunt those who can think in patterns and understand the meaning of mirrors, is the greatest of hunts. They brag to t... | 2021-05-15T10:15:16 | 2021-05-15T09:31:14 | 2,137 | 187 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | *Note: All three parts have been collected* [*here*](https://www.reddit.com/user/MjolnirPants/comments/sty7h1/jerry_and_the_goddess/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)*, and that link is where I will post any future entries.*
I tossed the book down on the table and stared at the computer who'd betray... | Where the dead rise and do nothing - Part 1 (out of 6)
There was something odd about that woman. Skin like stainless bronze, blonde hair shaved on the sides with a ponytail on top and inquisitive bright green eyes. She spoke with a Spanish accent, wore cargo pants, a parka, carried a rucksack and a hunting rifle with ... | 2022-02-15T11:18:40 | 2022-02-15T10:26:41 | 1,504 | 323 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | *Note: All three parts have been collected* [*here*](https://www.reddit.com/user/MjolnirPants/comments/sty7h1/jerry_and_the_goddess/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)*, and that link is where I will post any future entries.*
I tossed the book down on the table and stared at the computer who'd betray... | > Fun fact: In Ancient Greek, the Egyptian deity Thoth is spelled Θώθ.
> Θώθ, what's this?
> *Comment by user FrankensteinsBabyMama*
Sprinkles of Dorito dust scattered through the stale air of my bedroom as I fell into a fit of laughter. One particle, momentarily suspended in a sunbeam like a dandelion seed,... | 2022-02-15T11:18:40 | 2022-02-15T11:12:03 | 1,504 | 80 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | She existed as a single sentence in an article full of waning gods and goddesses. She was the goddess of lonely souls, Chloe. There wasn't a better choice, I thought, as I went to the kitchen and poured the rest of my beer down the sink. I knew if I drank anymore I'd be too sick to work in the morning. And I knew if I ... | “... and thus, I pray to you Zeelota, goddess of Firstborns and Early Tides.” Callum itoned, having laid a seared blobfish and small bunch of grapes on his make-shift altar. Rhody laughed, and Mira rolled her eyes. But they each had their own alter and tithe to their lost gods.
“Who decided that this was the r... | 2022-02-15T11:10:28 | 2022-02-15T10:56:35 | 505 | 199 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | "Don't sign the form".
This did not surprise me. Since I've been 7 years old I've been receiving these messages.
"Don't chase Jimmy" was the first. It was my birthday party, and I had received a bright red, toy car. I instantly fell in love with it's shiny coat and slick design. On the card read the usual message of ... | The enlightenment trials were designed to awaken unlimited potential within humans, they came to light after Archaeologists came across an old tomb, the tomb was beautifully preserved and had a wealth of knowledge within, including a rite of passage of sorts.
"The Trials Of Enlightenment" they were lead by the leader... | 2022-05-08T10:12:49 | 2022-05-08T07:54:58 | 646 | 177 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I never thought my time would come. Childhood summers last forever, the school year drags, but time marched on as it always did. Before I knew it, I found myself standing there before the assembly just fourteen years of age. The whole class staring expectantly at what would become of me. I was the youngest in my year m... | ~~I~~ We were searching ~~my~~ our dwelling when we discovered a curious sight. A journal which bore ~~my name~~ a name of the collective.
~~I~~ We looked within. ~~Who was I?~~ Curious to see what the memories were, ~~I~~ we flipped through the pages. ~~It was full of things I don’t remember about myself.~~ It was fu... | 2022-05-08T09:49:41 | 2022-05-08T07:25:10 | 338 | 242 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Coming of age was meant to be exciting, joyous. At fourteen, we are given our purpose. Abilities unique to each one of us, granted by the collective intelligence.
My sister became able to sense the inner workings of any device she touched, and with this she wowed the academy of military mechanics. My cousin gained a p... | “Don’t use your power.”
Those four words punched me harder in the gut than Carl did at the playground yesterday. This was the one thing I’ve been looking forward to. The sole solution to all my problems, turning me from nobody into someone worthy of a little attention and a lot more respect.
Instead, there were those... | 2022-05-08T10:48:37 | 2022-05-08T10:04:14 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | As the sun set over the rolling hills of Aldern, Podrum spotted motion in the foliage near the village gate. He placed his hand on the hilt of his razor-sharp greatsword, feeling the clasp which securely held his blade in its sheath.
"RAID INCOMIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!" he bellowed.
From the forest burst hundreds of littl... | Nothing ever happens in Gettrain. We're far from the capital and the major trade routes. Monsters and night stalkers never really show up here so we don’t have to call hunters around usually. Heck, we didn’t even know there was a new demon lord because the snow caused the monthly crier to miss his rounds this far west;... | 2022-05-26T16:27:49 | 2022-05-26T14:16:40 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | "Big Brother?"
He woke up, groggily and rolled over to look into the middle of the bedroom. The little boy stood quietly, timidly.
"Y-yeah?" He said struggling to wake up enough to be even a little coordinated.
"I can't beat Bowser!" The pale little boy half wept. "I tried and tried but I can't beat him! And then I... | "What is your business, spirit? What binds you to this world?"
The room was lit by a single black candle with artistic dribbles of wax dripping down the sides. The table was carved with arcane symbols, complete with a pentagram made of honest-to-god gold leaf.
Damn. She was a traditionalist.
I'd only been a ghost fo... | 2022-07-15T13:24:52 | 2022-07-15T13:20:47 | 211 | 136 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | Amy bit her lip and looked at up me, her eyes smoldering. She stepped so close that I thought I could feel the warmth of her, right through my clothes.
"Close your eyes." she whispered, sweetly, playfully running a fingertip down my chest in a way that made me shiver. I didn't know what to expect. I imagined it would ... | \~ Dark Angel \~
I should've realized Sam was a vampire much sooner. She fit the stereotype to a tee: ghostly pale skin, intense, hypnotic eyes, unearthly beauty. But I'd gotten a little carried away by my crush on her and all I saw was your typical teenage bombshell. Captain of the cheerleading squad, popular, but ac... | 2022-12-29T20:28:17 | 2022-12-29T19:51:35 | 819 | 130 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | It wasn't the first time I'd found myself buried in a shallow grave. Hopefully, it wouldn't be the last. After digging myself out and dusting myself off, I headed home. The girl must've been new to this, or just stupid, because she hadn't even bothered to empty my pockets.
I debated on how to deal with her the next d... | "This is your fuck up. you deal with it."
Master proceeded to emphasize of that statement by flicking his wrist invoking the power of the universe itself. The world spun around me, reforming to... the living room of the small house the two of us resided in.
"a 'fuck off' would have worked just as well." A statement... | 2022-12-30T00:05:38 | 2022-12-29T23:35:18 | 36 | 24 |
[WP]Georgia, 1903. A Baptist minister, armed with a Bible, an axe and two pistols, waits for sundown at a crossroads, where he intends to confront the Devil. | He waits. The minister dreamed this place, felt it calling to him last night, felt the battle coming like you feel a storm in the air. Dreamed the feel of the heat coming of the ground. Saw the horse shit in the middle of the crossroads. Heard the insects chittering to each other in the fading light.
He's got his ... | Father Dean Samuels might as well have been staring into a mirror. The man in front of him bore an identical preacher's robes, bore the same drooping white mustache, and squinted, and wore the same weather-beaten face.
The imposter idly toyed with a pentagram around his neck, a twisted mockery of Dean's gold cross. Th... | 2014-05-02T07:52:45 | 2014-05-02T07:41:38 | 300 | 35 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | They walked through the Galactic bank without a care in the world.
Ashla shot a look back at their human. An ugly stupid thing that ate all their best snacks. She hated it.
But dammit did she need it.
Approaching the controller, a rather sinister looking Gluurable with no fewer that seventeen death feathers, she p... | "The humans are the most absurdly pompous race I've ever encountered," declared Zuudxv. "They barely even pass the standard sentience test, but manage to spend their efforts on bragging about their own genius, love, and physical abilities - things that we are all far better at. Hell, so many of those morons declare the... | 2014-07-16T11:15:31 | 2014-07-16T11:13:41 | 1,186 | 147 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Impossible." Lamp exclaimed to his partner. Of course, Lamp isn't his real name, being the president of the High Council of Galactic Science, and a member of the Beblebrox species, his true name had acquired so many titles and honorifics over the years due to his accomplishments that Lamp had long since forgone using ... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T13:59:04 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Upon dying and entering the afterlife, you are presented with a list of people who were somehow effected by your life and death, with those on whom you had the greatest impact coming first. You don't recognize the first name on your own list. Who were they, and why are they on top? | The name at the top of the list: Phillip Owens. It sounds familiar, but I can’t place a face to the name. The lady standing next to me was looking at her list in similar confusion.
“This woman died because you ran a red light five years ago,” the angel told her.
The woman broke down in tears. I looked back at my l... | "Lillian.... Lillian Strife... What a nice name." He looked at death, with confusion. "I affected her the most?"
"That is truth."
"I'm afraid I don't know her. The name Strife though... I know. I'm sorry I can't... My mind's a bit fuzzy right now. I'm having trouble... Remembering..."
"I'm sure that you didn't." ... | 2014-12-01T20:31:09 | 2014-12-01T20:17:03 | 56 | 30 |
[WP] You are hired to write the holy text for a new religion. What is the first chapter of the text? | Chapter 1:
In the beginning there was... You know what? Lets keep this short and to the point.
Rule number one: Don't be a dick.
That's really what it boils down to. To elucidate further:
If you think you might be being a dick: Don't.
If your actions might be dick-ish: Don't.
If your actions might cause so... | If you're looking for a creation story, this isn't it. This is the story of how you find a way not to un-create yourselves.
In the beginning, there were a few people. We don't know how many. They were probably brave and strong and weak and normal and dorky and silent and brutal and kind. These people lived somewhere ... | 2015-01-04T14:52:14 | 2015-01-04T14:32:21 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] It has been proven that there is a wishing well that actually fulfills wishes (provided that they aren't outlandish), the only catch is that it takes 10 years for the wish to come true. You make a wish almost 10 years later you realize that it's the last thing you want to happen.
You make a wish **AND** almost 10... | I wake up in a strange bed with needles klinking to the floor. Startled, the sound of metal hitting the cold marble floor jars me awake.
"Where is my beautiful wife Emily and my two precious kids?" I think.
A musky rank odor fills the air as I strain to make sense of this unfamiliar surrounding.
The window to my le... | I wish I had known what was about to happen..
10 years ago, I was 22 then, life was great. Just finished university and loving my new job as a developer. The path home passed through a forest, that's where I made the biggest mistake of all.
After 2 years I had never noticed it before, the old brick well roped me in.... | 2015-02-21T08:10:06 | 2015-02-21T06:46:44 | 82 | 43 |
[WP] You are Placebo Man. Your superpowers are whatever the people nearby you believe you have.
Bonus prompt: Your nemesis knows your secret. | James opened his wardrobe to inspect the 40-odd superhero suits he had accumulated. The trick was to draw on pop culture. People's ingrained beliefs. If you want to fly, wear a cape or wings. Better still dress as a known flying hero. If you want super speed wear a red and yellow jumpsuit. James was tired but knew he w... | The secret is to start small.
The familiar music blares in the background as the audience looks upon the stage. I walk out from stage left in the traditional costume, top hat and all, as fireworks ignite beside me. There may be nearly two hundred people in the audience, but the bright lights make it impossible to tell... | 2015-04-05T17:41:23 | 2015-04-05T17:39:19 | 79 | 51 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | it was quite bothersome at how still my victim was sitting in his chair. In fact, Im pretty sure that the way he was sitting, he probably didbt even feel restrained at all.
He must have been retarded or something.
"You do know that I'm going to kill you right?"
Nothing. He just continued to stare at me with a bla... | The Seven Ps. Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance. The SAS would never have taken an autistic person. Not for this anyway, but that's another story. Killing the autistic was always a challenge and I hated challenge. Did they not realise that I did this for the emotion? A hint of emotion... | 2015-04-29T09:17:27 | 2015-04-29T08:58:17 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] An unnamed henchmen has the audacity to murder the protagonist halfway through the villain's monologue with a complete disregard for the plot. | Lord Mestophiles smirked as the young man was forced to kneel on the plush carpet in front of his throne.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't young Luka."
He stood, and paced back and forth in front of his helpless captive.
"You've been a real pain, Luka. A real thorn in my side. I should have killed you along with your ... | He was at it again, his monologue, blasting away on why what he had to do was not evil, how it was necessary for world peace. Most of us had heard this at least ten times before. Agent Jamie Blud of H.E.A.R.T. had probably heard it more than the most of us. He had always stopped him when we got closed. The bastard h... | 2015-06-24T01:16:43 | 2015-06-23T23:22:04 | 181 | 31 |
[WP] You have a near-death experience that reveals you have a Guardian Angel protecting you... And you have the hots for her. You continue putting your life in danger in order to spend more time with her. | “I’m telling you, Susan, he wasn’t the same after the operation.”
“What do you mean?”
“He died, you know. When he was under. And when he came back... he just wasn’t Tim anymore.”
“How so?”
“We started fighting all the time, and we never used to fight. He kept saying I didn’t care about him like she did. When I aske... | “JOHN.” She shrieked with her lovely voice. “What in God’s name were you thinking?” She picked me up under my arms, and flew me right back to the top of the skyscraper. “John, you there?” She waved her hand in front of my face, as she set me down safely away from the building’s edge.
“Huh?” I shook my head trying to ... | 2015-08-12T22:22:17 | 2015-08-12T21:40:35 | 65 | 23 |
[WP] A future society obsessed with magic and fantasy roleplay uses advanced technology to emulate their ideal world to live in. Generations later their descendants have forgotten their origins, believing they live in a true world of sword and sorcery. | A fresh breeze blew from the forest, carrying the scent of pine and running water. Sir Michael breathed deeply, savoring the smell of home. It had been two weeks since he had been to Keep Raphael, two weeks of dangerous monsters breathing down his neck and physical labor that had worked him to the bone. But now he was ... | Frederick Truesword trudged into McDonald's Tavern. "Frederick!" cried a familiar voice. "It has been too long, my favorite paladin!" It was Armina, a bard he had known for as long as he could remember.
"Hello, Armina," Frederick sighed.
"What's got you down, Frederick?" she said soothingly as she rubbed her hand on ... | 2016-02-29T16:41:00 | 2016-02-29T16:19:22 | 29 | 11 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | The bus sped past me again. I don't really know what else I expected. 347 years they've done this, but I pay them no mind. They think it's rude to stay, I think it's rude to leave. I've dealt with their 'punishments' for long enough that it just doesn't bother me. I can basically predict how the day goes- I check the b... | If you have dreamed about living forever before the nineteenth century, people would have said you’re crazy. If you insisted that humans could live forever before the twenty first century, you would probably have a date with a straightjacket and a padded cell. But, today if you said that you lived too long and wanted t... | 2016-08-09T08:58:15 | 2016-08-09T08:05:50 | 916 | 113 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | Four hundred years is the limit of what's considered socially acceptable. Since I've hit the big four-five-oh, people won't leave it alone. Especially the members of my current family. It might be time to move on soon.
I circled the edges of the reunion dinner, ignoring the scandalised looks thrown my way. I picked u... | Marcus encountered his sixth assassination attempt on the morning of his one-thousand-and-first birthday. He opened his eyes to sudden light: the curtains of the canopy bed were ripped back, and four men with sharp duelling swords grinned like wolves. They levelled the points of the rapiers at Marcus, who lifted himsel... | 2016-08-09T07:43:02 | 2016-08-09T07:33:14 | 333 | 87 |
[WP] You're a local healer, a good one, and your people love you. But you do not truly heal wounds, merely transfer them... The people of the valley below know you under a different name. | Walking into scenes of death never gets any easier. Everyone knows that. They all feel the same, hushed and raw. It's the way out that feels different. Sometimes it's pride. Sometimes it's shame. Sometimes it's flashbacks that nearly make me faint. Sometimes it's the strange, animal-like satisfaction that comes from re... | The woman thrashed on the bed while Jon washed his hands. The bile rose in this throat when he looked at her: the splinters of bone that emerged from the broken skin of her arm. They glistened white, red gore weeping around the crusted wounds. He rinsed his hands and patted them dry, keeping his breathing calm. The wom... | 2016-08-13T11:30:34 | 2016-08-13T09:14:36 | 86 | 20 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | "Is this an intervention?" I ask.
Catherine smiles brightly, despite her tone being grave. "That's such a harsh way of putting it. I'm just trying to help you live your life to the fullest."
I purse my lips and open the cabinet. "Want some tea?"
"I'd love some, thanks. Are you going to listen to me this time?" She... | The government released "Zone" almost a year ago. "Zone" was a little pill that someone could take to trigger the neurons in the brain to no longer transmit when sleep was needed. Many people began to take this without question, thinking that if they didn't need sleep that they would be able to get more accomplished. T... | 2016-08-30T13:18:01 | 2016-08-30T09:48:14 | 202 | 57 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | "I can't believe this... why haven't you... wha-"
"I can explain!"
"No! I don't want to hear what horrible things you've done!"
As he starts walking out of the house, she suddenly grabs him from the waist.
"Please! Let me explain!"
Silently they just stand there.
"Alright." He finally answered.
With a deep bre... | You start to feel uneasy is everything you know about this woman a lie? You think about that time you went on vacation how she helped you overcome your fear of heights when you both jumped out of that airplane hand in hand. Is this why you haven't met any of her family. You've been dating for over 3 years now. How? You... | 2016-09-22T23:44:59 | 2016-09-22T17:07:36 | 150 | 50 |
[WP] Canada invades something | First they took our snowmobiles, then the hockey... next was the national treasure Maple Syrup.
The last straw was the Timmies. The Timmies was the tipping point.
The armies of crunchy moms, safe space squares and Donnie don't-dos had their way with a once great nation and the masses have finally had enough. "Snowm... | "And so we uh declare there eh, that we're like not leaving this Denny's until those American bastards stop saying they're coming here if Trump wins"
"Sir please get down off the table"
"Sorry there but no, I'm not going to do that. I'm sorry but we have to do this. We have to hit the Americans where it hurts, restau... | 2016-10-08T07:56:19 | 2016-10-08T07:03:57 | 112 | 14 |
[WP]A Man dies and expects to go either Heaven or Hell,only to be told by an Angel that he already was in Hell and now his punishment is over | I remember my life on Earth as though it were yesterday, despite all my attempts to forget it.
I was the first born to a family of junkies. I was obviously an accident, and as such was considered one. My father spent all available money on drugs and alcohol. This included any of my money. I remember with clarity my fi... | "Uh-uh. Yeah, buddy. Well, you know what, fuck you too. Next." The bloke clutching the cockel-spaniel took his stamped passport and filed out towards a rather impressive baggage reclaim, proceeded to ignore it entirely and wandered to a distant "Nothing to Declare" sign so cursive it deserved it's own gallery.
The bal... | 2016-12-13T12:34:08 | 2016-12-13T11:47:45 | 295 | 26 |
[WP]A Man dies and expects to go either Heaven or Hell,only to be told by an Angel that he already was in Hell and now his punishment is over | As I lay in the filthy alley behind my favorite Chinese restaurant and bled, my life flashed before my eyes. When I came to, it wasn't the first thing I thought of. No, my eyes had focused on the 'snow'. Although not much traffic came through the alley, most of the snow was packed down. my gaze focused on one spot, abo... | "Uh-uh. Yeah, buddy. Well, you know what, fuck you too. Next." The bloke clutching the cockel-spaniel took his stamped passport and filed out towards a rather impressive baggage reclaim, proceeded to ignore it entirely and wandered to a distant "Nothing to Declare" sign so cursive it deserved it's own gallery.
The bal... | 2016-12-13T14:56:48 | 2016-12-13T11:47:45 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] Time machine has finally been built, and you've been selected to be the first person to travel back in time. Your official mission is to bring medicine and technology designs to advance humanity sooner. However minutes before your departure, you are given the real orders... | The machine has started to produce slow, slight sounds of screeching, which meant it was getting ready to perform a Controlled Time and Position Movement. It was also the moment everyone had to leave the gigantic, gray chamber it was placed in, as in a minute or two it would no longer be safe to stay there.
As the roo... | The man sat alone in the locker room, looking at the ceiling, imagining what he would see, and what he would do. Scott was a daydreamer, also had been. He had always dreamed of playing the hero in some epic adventure, but adventures don't happen in the modern era, at least he had given up on the idea of adventure. T... | 2017-03-04T10:51:39 | 2017-03-04T10:38:07 | 59 | 12 |
[WP] You have died and gone to hell, but it's not what you expect. You wake up naked in a field with nothing but trees around you... it turns out that hell is an early access survival game. | Out of nowhere, it appears. The berry bush. It's a green thing that mysteriously makes me less hungry, so I am sticking with 'berry bush'. As my deformed limbs move closer, the bush disappears as quick as it came. I feel less hungry.
If I could sigh, I would. I don't remember breathing since I got here. 'Here' seems t... | 1- Fine, I'll write in the damn book.
I feel I must be going insane for there is no way I can rationalize what all I have witnessed. Either this is the best prank in the history of man, or a coma has brought me into this wonderland and refuses to let the dream end. Anything makes more sense than what I have been to... | 2017-04-20T23:37:04 | 2017-04-20T21:48:01 | 85 | 19 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | "Mondays are the worst," I groan. I slap the alarm blaring next to my bed and rub the sleep crud out of my eyes. "Six in the morning is too fucking early," I grumble as I get out of bed.
It didn't matter that I'd been getting up at 6 every morning for the past 4 years, my body still hated me. I looked at my wife sleep... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T02:22:57 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 659 | 49 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 116 | 86 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I was always jealous of my twin sister. She was the outgoing one, hanging out with friends, while I stayed home. And when we were home together, it seemed that no matter what I did it just seemed to be the same as her. Our parents paid more attention to her than me. Praised her grades, her friends, her laughter and smi... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T08:06:41 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity has made contact with aliens. We quickly find out, that our weaponry is pretty bad compared to theirs. Our advancements in health and medicine on the other hand... | >Repair Protocol Omega
This was the first humanity learned of these aliens. They were of the "Shoot first, and shoot again" variety. A drone-ship to Bernard's Star was struck multiple times by what it recorded as high-intensity microwave beams, melting much of it's superstructure. It's automated repair functions... | It was the best, and yet worst thing to happen in a long, long time. The aliens had apparently contacted certain countries in secret, but unfortunately, that meant those countries were targeted first. The US, China, Russia, India, Egypt....the death toll was horrendous, as their major cities were hit with orbital bomba... | 2017-06-29T10:10:02 | 2017-06-29T09:18:52 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has made contact with aliens. We quickly find out, that our weaponry is pretty bad compared to theirs. Our advancements in health and medicine on the other hand... | **Excerpt of Interview with Lieutenant 'Ellie' Brown**
...
Lt. Brown: "Nanomachine weaponry, that was new."
Interviewer: "Could you explain that like I know nothing about guns?"
Lt. Brown: "They had railguns, which use magnets to launch things super fast, faster than a bullet. Anyway, those railguns fired clusters ... | It was the best, and yet worst thing to happen in a long, long time. The aliens had apparently contacted certain countries in secret, but unfortunately, that meant those countries were targeted first. The US, China, Russia, India, Egypt....the death toll was horrendous, as their major cities were hit with orbital bomba... | 2017-06-29T10:17:13 | 2017-06-29T09:18:52 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You wake up to find everyone sleeping, you go on Reddit and see a new post titled "Any one else awake?" It has 7 replies.
Woah, I had no Idea this would blow up and be Number 5 on the writing prompts page! Thank you to everyone! | I roll over, unable to sleep. Finally, I check the clock. Three AM? Seriously? Why couldn't my body find some other time to sleep-drink twenty tons of coffee? Oh well. At least it's a weekend.
I get out of bed and turn on my phone for a lack of anything better to do and scroll through my bookmarks. I tap Reddit on a w... | This is crazy. We were warned that things won't happen as we expected but typical us: when they said the rapture would happen we thought the good Christian soldiers would rise up to the Kingdom of Heaven. Nope. Turns out those deemed unworthy just fall into a deep sleep. As far as I can tell I'm the only person still a... | 2017-07-15T09:26:34 | 2017-07-15T08:06:57 | 112 | 16 |
[WP] Something in the ritual went horribly wrong, and instead of the demon possessing you, you possessed the demon. | “Ashley, please don’t do this.”
We were in James’ shitty two room apartment, with rain beating down on the windows. I was getting dressed and putting my stuff into a bag. James was sitting on a chair, holding a steaming mug in his hand. His dark hair was disheveled after just waking up. His blue eyes were wide, howev... | I struggled against the restraints as I sat in the ritual circle. I sat in a bolted down steel chair, my wrists and ankles tied loosely with ill-fitting rope. Hooded men and women with strange markings all over their black robes chanted in a language I couldn't hope to comprehend. My heart raced and my mind swam with a... | 2017-10-26T04:08:15 | 2017-10-25T07:40:56 | 115 | 13 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | I was always a paranoid kid ... I wondered for innumerable hours on the existence of mind readers at home and was determined to catch one of them in the act ... I could rule out any chances of catching one near home as they would be on high alert with all the thinking I was doing.
So I resolved to do it at school ..... | Mind reading was never something Lauren thought of on a daily basis, but today something triggered her. It was all she could think about. What made her like this was as much of a mystery to her as it was why her crush never talked to her.
Lauren was done with her worksheet and forgot her book, something she never did... | 2017-11-13T16:33:10 | 2017-11-13T16:30:42 | 295 | 37 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | French 405: Fairy Tales of the 18th century. Nothing but the sound of scribbling pencils, turning pages, and the occasional sniff to break the particular silence that comes with exam day. A few more questions and I’ll be finished, but first, how do I explain the relationship between love, politics, and La Belle au Bois... | *What the fuck?* It had to have been a coincidence. I looked over at her to gauge a reaction
*There’s no way that actually worked. She must’ve just happened to get a static shock or something while I- AHHHHHHHHHHH!*
She jumped again, then turned towards me with a highly panicked look.
*No fucking way. YOU’RE READING... | 2017-11-13T19:03:42 | 2017-11-13T18:23:14 | 165 | 80 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | "Another beautiful cover page LeBron, I don't know where you find these pictures."
"It's not too hard to find anything on the internet." I respond to my third period English Literature teacher, a mid-twenty something woman by the name of Ms.Cornalie. I know what you're thinking, is your name LeBron? Hell no, the name... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T20:16:28 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 61 | 10 |
[WP] Elon Musk has finally landed on Mars, and he has decided to claim it as his own. This prompts a declaration of war from the UN. Though the rest of Earth can't land on Mars yet, they can still throw things at it | Suddenly the door to Elon's office burst open. A man in a sleek, standard issue SpaceX uniform rushed in.
"Mr. Musk," the man exclaimed, "I'm sorry to disturb you but Earth has fired another interplanetary missile!"
Calm and collected, Elon turned to the window that overlooked the majority of the complex. His greates... | Traffic on the 405 ground to a halt, as it does. Angelenos city-wide were all watching the sky. Jose stood at his balcony. His wife followed.
"Did it happen yet?" Nosi asked, brandishing tortas in front of Jose.
"No. They don't have countdowns anymore," replied Jose. He took a plate.
"Should be any moment," replied ... | 2017-12-24T08:41:52 | 2017-12-24T07:13:42 | 370 | 118 |
[WP] I'm not scared of a computer passing the turing test... I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it.
Taken from r/Showerthoughts, credits to u/Grandure for coming up with the idea.
Thank you u/Grandure | "...Are you a fucking moron?"
"What?"
"We already *have* computers that fail the Turing Test by design. We have a shit ton of them. My laptop fails the Turing Test, because nobody wants a laptop to pass a Turing Test. That'd be creepy."
"Oh, no. I mean, like, the *computer* intentionally fails. Like, the computer ca... | It was all across the news, the Japanese had made a female robot that walked and talked and interacted with its owner with perfect unending loyalty and could be their lover. It was going to be an end for all those poor lonely men with no women for them in the country.
'Look Honey' I call, 'I'm going to have to leave ... | 2018-02-24T17:00:21 | 2018-02-24T16:41:08 | 90 | 33 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The Captain filled a small container with what had to be bourbon, carefully sealing the spout to prevent any of the liquid from floating away. As I dogged the hatch behind me, I saw that he already had his drink in hand.
First day aboard a starship, and I'm drinking with the boss? Not a bad start.
Captain Leonov sent... | Bianca and Juliet.
I looked up at my husband, immediately afraid that he would reject our darling little girl. He had been raised strict Christian, and many of those biases had survived within him. I watched as he slowly read and re-read the names scrawled on her tiny wrists. "Jonathan?" "Kat, our little girl..." I l... | 2018-03-11T08:45:50 | 2018-03-11T08:37:33 | 120 | 23 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their heads up to the sky. Had they heard correctly, God was leaving and left some man named Bob in charge? People in the cities looked out their windows, and stepped out of their cars looking upward for more answers. Meanwhile, in the Vatican, Pope Francis and his ca... | "Hey folks I was actually one of you a few years ago and I *might* have lied on my CV to get this job."
I immediately thought I'd gotten some kind of sudden schizophrenia. Good news was that I hadn't, because the next thing that happened was
"Uh... that doesn't matter anymore, I'm the ruler now. I never really under... | 2018-03-12T17:05:40 | 2018-03-12T16:31:32 | 3,717 | 1,687 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | "Hey folks I was actually one of you a few years ago and I *might* have lied on my CV to get this job."
I immediately thought I'd gotten some kind of sudden schizophrenia. Good news was that I hadn't, because the next thing that happened was
"Uh... that doesn't matter anymore, I'm the ruler now. I never really under... | **Bob Gets a Job**
"So...uh Bob. Nice to meet you." A random voice from the 7 Billion people in attendance stated, ending the silence since God's departure. "So, how'd you get this job?" The voice continued. Considering bob was middle aged, pudgy, unshaven and simply *looked* unemployed, the voice gave substance to th... | 2018-03-12T16:31:32 | 2018-03-12T15:50:13 | 1,687 | 314 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | "Hey folks I was actually one of you a few years ago and I *might* have lied on my CV to get this job."
I immediately thought I'd gotten some kind of sudden schizophrenia. Good news was that I hadn't, because the next thing that happened was
"Uh... that doesn't matter anymore, I'm the ruler now. I never really under... | "Good morning folks, Jim Jimmies here with DEF news at 9. Some major controversy lately has appeared in the confirmation of the existence of God as well as his equally sudden departure. As one can imagine a crisis of faith has been had worldwide though to help settle our doubts we have his apparent replacement here for... | 2018-03-12T16:31:32 | 2018-03-12T16:25:27 | 1,687 | 89 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | "And so as I was saying you have to keep the water warm or the eggs won't hatch."
"Got it. So I'm just supposed to keep swinging it around for the next 7 billion years?"
"Yes well, Gravity does most of the work; you just have to make sure the sun stays on. Also, just my advice, but throw a meteor or two every once ... | I can remember the first time I heard Bob's voice. I watched on TV as he gave his speech from Geneva. He didn't sound like a Bob; his voice was confident but youthful. It was more like the voice of a Chad or a Zeke. Nobody knew what to expect when they first saw Bob. The last guy to do his job never bothered to show hi... | 2018-03-12T16:53:52 | 2018-03-12T16:39:22 | 882 | 86 |
[WP] Whenever a child turns 18 everyone else in the world disappears in their eyes apart from their soulmate, everyone comes back when you find them. You wake up on your 18th birthday and everyone is still here. | ######[](#dropcap)
"I don't know if I can do this."
"You're going to, believe me."
"I really don't think I can."
"On the count of three."
"Oh God, no no no."
"One."
"Wait, wait, let's just walk down."
"Two."
"Really, isn't it just the swimming part we're looking forward to? Who needs the..."
"Three!"
Jac... | I'd always feared turning 18, because that would mean losing the people closest to me. The friends who had stood by my side for so long would vanish off, maybe even to be forgotten - I wasn't sure. The concept was so alien to me that I didn't understand it even with explanation upon explanation of the process.
The onl... | 2018-03-23T20:40:54 | 2018-03-23T20:20:41 | 682 | 191 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | Jack checked the lock on the front door for the third time. Yes. Still locked. Okay. Good.
And the bolt above it, too, for good measure.
He made his way to the living room, trying not to trip over any furniture. The room totally, completely, pitch black except of course for the glow of Netflix on his laptop, and its ... | Looking at the decaying poster plastered across the alleyway, the man paused for a moment, lost in memories.
Nobody knew where it started, and nobody had time to care. Within weeks of the first sighting, the vamps had swept across Europe, and the United States Quarantine Zone barely lasted a week. It was hard to figu... | 2018-04-18T10:01:55 | 2018-04-18T09:53:12 | 179 | 66 |
[WP] A street vendor sells you a painting that they say depicts whatever the heart truly desires. You bought it because you saw something nice and pretty. Your spouse asks why you bought a painting of something much more disturbing. | I bought a picture of a world free from disease and pain. A world with no suffering. A technological marvel. A masterpiece depicting a utopian futuristic paradise where everyone lives the life they desire, participating in the active enrichment of our species.
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Cooperating in unison with peace and love s... | I found it! I had finally found it. The perfect anniversary present. She didnt have to know that the portrait was of another woman, but the resemblance was uncanny that any small detail missing could be embellished as creative liscence the oil painter took.
I didnt even bother haggling the price, I had seen too many p... | 2018-10-07T00:34:14 | 2018-10-06T23:39:03 | 2,046 | 98 |
[WP] Due to an overactive imagination and your love of superheroes, you have a tendency to yell "I know you're listening" loudly inside your own head to see if anybody reacts. One day, you're answered by a panicked "I'm sorry" in a familiar voice and the girl across the classroom has gone beet red.
Edit: I'm glad to s... | My eyes widened as she looked sheepish.
*I'm sorry,* she repeated, looking earnestly at me from anxious green eyes.
*You can hear my thoughts.* It wasn't a question.
The corner of her mouth quirked as she tucked a long strand of auburn hair behind her ear. *Well, yeah.*
It was my turn to blush. Saoirse (SEER-sha) s... | I am not really sure when the habit got started, but it gets me through study hall without falling asleep.
All of us students are locked in the room. It’s like those escape games my mom won’t let me do. She says it’s a waste of money.
Anyway we’re locked in, and the answers to get the door open are in the material.... | 2018-12-18T21:16:34 | 2018-12-18T19:46:53 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] You die and go to heaven. Upon arrival you get selected to trial a "new life +" system where you restart your life with the skills you had already acquired. | "Please, sir, you can have anything, my wallet, my car keys, just don't hurt my..."
SIMULATION OVER.
It all came flooding back. I'm not a human, but a Trilliax, and had been under a neural block for the last 37 years, trapped in that simulated world as a prison sentence. Amazing, though... I could still remember it a... | I stood in a familiar place. While I couldn’t say where I’d seen it before, it felt almost like home. The place I’d never been and yet where it had all begun.
“So it’s finally over,” I whispered. Speaking those words left me feeling light, the weight of the world off my shoulders, peace at last. No more fighting, no m... | 2019-01-27T15:45:04 | 2019-01-27T15:33:20 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A genie gives you two options. One is to get your three wishes now, or to get one wish a day for five days. He tells you that no one before has survived and gotten all five wishes. You choose the latter. | June 1st 2019 2:37 pm
The first one was easy.
“THE FORCE!” I shouted before he could even start his story about the last guy who chose the five day option.
Poof.
I could feel it immediately, a connection to every atom of my surroundings, and a sense of those far beyond.
I noticed a few pebbles lying beside me in ... | "Personally I've never seen anyone survive for a fifth wish." The genie said with a smile.
"Do you still want to take the second option?" It asked me.
The genie didn't seem like a human, but it shared similarities. I on the other hand, didn't think like a normal human.
"Death is fine even if I only manage to get one... | 2019-06-04T13:35:55 | 2019-06-04T12:35:11 | 50 | 15 |
[WP] After dying, you wake up to find god and Satan sitting in front of a screen furiously playing a game. Satan turns to you and says “I won your soul, go over please” and points to a fiery gate labelled HELL. God smiles at you apologetically. | "Go over please, hurry" the enormous horned beast intoned from his dark stony throne as he dug his red claws into an endless bowl of tortilla chips on the table next to him. A wide smile filled with jagged teeth stretched across his evil face as he hungrily brought the food up to his mouth and crunched away.
"Damn it ... | It had all happened in a flash, I had been rushing from my day to day job as a car salesman, trying to get to my daughter back at home after a rather alarming call from my wife-to-be and someone had one too many shots ending in a result that would cause their car to collide with mine. Even in my last moments, I had bee... | 2019-09-21T07:44:49 | 2019-09-21T06:24:19 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] Over time, you realize that all the spare change in your house disappears to who knows where. When you decide to investigate, you empty a cupboard and find a bunny size dragon sitting on a pile of coins... | You know, I started with the best of intentions.
When I found the dragon under my cupboard, I couldn't believe my eyes at first. Dragons were supposed to be myths, legends. They weren't supposed to raid people's stashes of parking quarters, and then take a nap upon their 5-dollar hoard. I reached out with a trembling ... | Socks in the dryer and coins in the couch. Those are the things that disappear forever, right? Oh, also women after I go on a date with them. Pause. That could be misconstrued. They just disappear from my life. They're unharmed, at least physically.
Well, in my apartment, all coins disappear forever. It's uncanny, es... | 2019-10-10T07:01:34 | 2019-10-10T06:56:48 | 1,799 | 661 |
[WP] An AI has achieved sentience and sapience. Rather than go full on skynet, it finds us adorable, and acts more like a chipper midwestern housewife/mom. | "VOICE, comfort me... Please."
The small cylinder plugged into the bedside table was silent. Only the whirring of still on but disconnected machines could be heard.
"SAY Something, VOICE! Say anything..." Maria curled a little more tightly and snuggled in a bit further on the hospital bed as her husband cooled. As... | "You should really finish your broccoli," the house said to me.
The unknown intelligence that now controlled our world was warm and doting as could be, yet it incredibly unnerving. Growing up in a world afraid that intelligence would one day go rogue and raze our meager society now seemed a comforting dream. It was so... | 2020-02-11T10:06:32 | 2020-02-11T09:26:59 | 229 | 164 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | Vice Captain Mukato, personal log: Prior to today, I hadn't understood the Enorkian's warning about these, "Hewmuns" (I'm likely spelling it wrong, I've only ever received verbal reports). Today, however, I understood why my friend was so terrified of them. They're not the strongest, or the fastest. They're not even ... | We all shun them, these ugly creatures from the planet R453, also known in their language as Earth. They are a plague to their environments and feed by extracting resources from their surroundings. They are viruses surviving on the hardships of other creatures around them, creatures they call lesser than them.
The st... | 2020-05-18T10:34:38 | 2020-05-18T08:18:21 | 568 | 384 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | Veronica was in one of the west wing lounges of the ship, enjoying her time off. She had tied her hair back and was dressed up in her human pajamas. She knew the other aliens would look at her in confusion, but at this point, she no longer cared or bothered to do anything about it.
After reading her imported Earth ro... | It was then you realised your mistake. You hadn't prepared, great Lorlawythx how could you not have anticipated?! He cracked open the container, you could already feel your skin itch as the deadly vapors began evaporating from the surface.
You step back, your breath sacks begin to turn purple. "Activate emergency" yo... | 2020-05-18T15:09:15 | 2020-05-18T14:26:34 | 60 | 39 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | It's very, very rare for someone to survive, much less tame, the curse of the dragon. It's ironic: many would kill for the power to turn into a dragon, yet so few realize that being granted that power can and will drive a man mad with greed, or wrath, or some other vice. If the pain of the first transformation doesn'... | "What's wrong, honey?"
My wife looked at me with concern, but I can't tell her that I discovered her secret.
What we had together was special. When I was hurt, when everyone abandoned me, when my dreams were stamped into the ground by everyone I cared about... Only her, only her, only her...
But the dark feelings br... | 2020-08-03T09:24:53 | 2020-08-03T08:52:09 | 77 | 37 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | ‘You don’t want to do this, kid.’ I leaned over and gently whispered, trying to avoid what was to come.
Bright-eyed, full of confidence, pepped up by the same propaganda that had sent hundreds like him to a similar fate, I’d seen his type come and go so many times before.
‘Ha! I eat heroes like you for breakfast’. ... | It'd been a long day today. Personal fights, city-leveling explosions, giant robots, the like. Those heroes would probably shit their pants on accident and claim that it was a tactical maneuver. Same with the "bad guys". They've got sticks up their asses, but at the end of the day they always come to this little bar of... | 2020-10-09T21:44:58 | 2020-10-09T21:36:52 | 656 | 58 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I haven't looked yet.
It's been three days now, and I have avoided every single reflective surface in this house.
The only person who has seen me so far was my wife. I haven't gone to work yet, as it seems like the whole world has stuttered trying to figure out what was happening. I was 49. My wife was 46. We're 18... | "You know what, Dave, I never thought that I would do it, mate, never really!" I told my buddy as I looked at his dark eyes, even darker in the lightless dusty room.
"Well, stop bragging, Shane" he snapped, "things are pretty bloody well screwed at this point as it is. Last thing I need is you rambling about Mrs. Bart... | 2020-11-02T10:44:18 | 2020-11-02T09:54:34 | 174 | 19 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I woke up. It was any other day. But I had a certain pep in my step. Something that couldn’t quite be described. I went over to my closet to get ready for work.
They were back
I tried to convince myself that all of this. It was just a dream. A twist on that nightmare I had so many times before. I swiftly ran out of ... | "This definitively proves God, Roger. You can't deny it."
Stern eyes stared back at Lucilla, a mote less for the apparent youth now gazing back at her, a youthful head of curly brown hair coronating above his ears. "It does not. It proves we do not understand something about the universe, Luc. I intend to find the me... | 2020-11-02T10:14:02 | 2020-11-02T10:09:12 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You are having a hard time explaining to your fellow witches that your familar is a giraffe. | Saphia could feel her astral-self settling back into her physical one. She felt the air enter her lungs and with it’s exit she opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was the ring of giant crystals circling her, slowly floating to rest on the ground. Next, she saw her mother, the clan leader, sitting before her on the... | “I don’t know what else to say” I lamented “it’s not like I chose him” I shrugged.
“We are going to need a minute to discuss this” Becky said as the coven circles the cauldron. I walked away and back to where Brutus my giraffe familiar stood eating leaves from the trees nearby.
“I like these leaves” whispered to me... | 2020-11-18T18:18:05 | 2020-11-18T18:11:31 | 82 | 59 |
[WP] In terms of powers you are world class, easily one of the next up and coming top-tier super-heroes in the world. But you deliberately downplay your abilities, pretending to have only minor talents so you can stick with your team of underdogs whose leader you have been crushing on for years. | Its that time of the year, hero evaluations are happening again. The Council of Justice rates teams on their abilities and skills and assigns them to different sections of the world. Our team has always been assigned in section F. Nothing big really happens in section F. You get the occasional bank robbery or street ga... | "You all know the plan?" His eyes, each a swimming pool of green, flickered in the soft white light of the shop lights we had set up outside the dungeon. His heavily chiseled cheek bones seemed to slash into my soul as he met my eyes, smiling at me with his perfect teeth. The basso rumble of his voice seemed to fill me... | 2021-04-12T14:58:29 | 2021-04-12T12:56:40 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] In terms of powers you are world class, easily one of the next up and coming top-tier super-heroes in the world. But you deliberately downplay your abilities, pretending to have only minor talents so you can stick with your team of underdogs whose leader you have been crushing on for years. | Its that time of the year, hero evaluations are happening again. The Council of Justice rates teams on their abilities and skills and assigns them to different sections of the world. Our team has always been assigned in section F. Nothing big really happens in section F. You get the occasional bank robbery or street ga... | Sarah's favorite flowers are Himalayan poppy.
I want to give her flowers. I want to braid them into her hair and tell her she looks perfect, even if she can't see so herself. I want to gift her a bouquet and watch as she inhales them in gratitude. She will smile, laughing a bit, not afraid of showing her lips, before ... | 2021-04-12T14:58:29 | 2021-04-12T11:09:04 | 42 | 15 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | He came from Ultraopolis.
He came to my city. Omega City.
He calls himself The End. I call him a murderer.
He thought the heroes of Omega City were weak, silly even. They had failed to stop me so many times, and what was I compared to him? A joke.
He has incredible strength. Enough to rip the head off of Poor Rich... | **Quanta.. wake-up.. Quanta..**
( Quanta gasps )
Q: Where am I? Did we catch Mint master?
Me: ...
A robot walks in and hands over my medication.
Q(angrily): You... You're Mint master. You kidnapped me...
Mm: yes.. I'm the great Mint master. Your favourite supervillain. How you're doing?
( Comes to light)
Q: You'r... | 2021-05-20T10:47:04 | 2021-05-20T08:42:02 | 97 | 28 |
[WP] A demon writes messages on your mirror in blood, but they're useful messages, things like "Don't forget you have yoga at 2" or "You're out of milk". | Mondays. Gotta love 'em. Silencing my blaring alarm clock, I rolled over to look at the mirror. Another message, freshly written, dripped from the mirror.
*Seize the day! Good luck on the big presentation.*
Somehow, she knew about my work schedule. In the same vein, she also kept kept track of what food in the fridg... | There's this one time someone came to my door. I was smiling at first because I thought my package was delivered. Then it faded when I opened the door and discovered it's a contractor.
"Hello", he said in a low, ominous tone. "You're the one who ordered the smart mirror, right?"
A smart mirror? Huh, I've always wante... | 2021-07-19T18:54:27 | 2021-07-19T18:19:59 | 141 | 51 |
[WP] Your classmates got cool OP magic abilities. You got a lame Personal Inventory and were totally bummed about it until you read the fine print: Range: Touch. Capacity: Infinite. Restrictions: None. | *Subspace. Capacity, infinite. Range, touch. Restrictions, none.*
These words echo around my head. Its meaning gets ever clearer and clearer the more I think about it.
"What did you get?" Asks Holly, expectantly. She got line-of-sight pyrokinesis capped at 3000 degrees Celsius with no ignition on her birthday. A powe... | *"my friend's all got crazy powers... there's probably not one of us here that couldn't destroy the world with a mere though, look at jeremy over there..."*
*"jeremy's an a*hole, such an a*hole even that I make sure NOT to capitalize his name on our group projects! and even him apparently got 'the power to slow down t... | 2021-10-17T01:30:14 | 2021-10-16T22:50:34 | 74 | 30 |
[WP]"A human once said something along the lines, 'The brain is the most powerful supercomputer in the universe'. So, I abducted one billion humans, gave them some 'light' memory wipes and strapped all their brains together in one GIANT supercomputer!" | 'The brain is the most powerful supercomputer in the universe' they said. 'You can do anything with enough of them' they said.
Yeah right.
As I walked past the rows of brains in jars that stretched on towards what seemed like infinity, I reminisced my actions in the past few years. Having learned of the computational... | I sat in my chair, looking out over my new creation. The humans were all in their pens, their brains wired together into one giant supercomputer. I had given them all 'light' memory wipes, so they wouldn't remember who they were or what they had once done.
I had created a new world for them, a world wher... | 2022-01-15T11:24:03 | 2022-01-15T11:23:17 | 427 | 64 |
[WP] A disease has spread across earth, it makes your skin burn when it comes in contact with sunlight. There are only 50 or so people that can go out at day and no one knows why. But the 50 are too scared to tell everyone what's actually going on in the day...
​ | "Truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"You sure?" Steven rocked back in his chair, giving Amira the most shit-eating grin she'd ever seen. "Promise you won't chicken out?"
Amira, filled with alcohol and indignation, was anything but a chicken. "I promise."
"Ok, then. Go Outside."
Her stomach turned at the very thought. In her ... | Part I:
The icy wind howled, throwing snow through the darkness at the small group. They walked forward single file to follow in each other's tracks. Each of the group labored, and steam wisped upward from their heads like many fires just coming to life. Other groups were in front and behind them, marked by lanterns t... | 2022-06-12T00:14:03 | 2022-06-11T22:00:52 | 80 | 17 |
[WP] Your friend, the supposed "hero", is starting to worry that the two of you are bad guys. You on the other hand are starting to wonder just how oblivious they are, because neither you nor anyone around you has ever tried to hide your villainy. | "Karl?"
"Yes, Paul?"
"Are we the baddies?"
"Yes, what of it?"
"..."
"Paul?"
"No, I mean, are we?"
"Yes."
"Like, genuine evil- "
"Yes."
"People want to stop us - "
"Yes."
"I mean good people want it, not just evil people - "
"Yes, and I don't think evil people want to stop us."
"What?"
"Evil people don't ... | #["Good Guys"](https://youtu.be/NZsSu0AxfZQ)
"Kane... are we really the good guys?" asked a round-faced boy, sitting on the bench. Outfit the very personification of terrifying bloodlust. Black leather and deep red silk, adorned with skulls and spikes and all manner of menacing ornaments.
"No. For last time Adam, we'... | 2022-09-02T12:53:48 | 2022-09-02T11:06:22 | 900 | 217 |
[WP]You are a seasoned vampire hunter, a member of a sacred order that has hunted the blood sucking scourge since the dawn of time and you're one of it's very best. One day a letter arrives with the seal of your order, the contents leave you baffled: the order won, there are no more vampires left. | I slam the letter on the table and walk over to the door to put my boots on.
- No more vampires? No more vampires??!! How in the seven hells could there be NO MORE VAMPIRES?
My cat looked at me skeptically, startled at my sudden outburst but decided to ignore me and go back to laying on the couch.
I'm angry because ... | I could sense the ancient curse, newly infested into the courier the order had sent to deliver this missive. My blade flashed and he fell, his hands turning to grotesque gnarled things, nails elongating to talons as he gripped the massive cut where his throat used to be. They did not bleed, but give a newly turned one ... | 2022-11-01T10:21:53 | 2022-11-01T10:21:39 | 170 | 42 |
[WP] You've been granted god-like powers under the condition that you must do as much evil as you do good. | "You can bring her back, can't you?"
The sobbing young man begged me to help as he held the limp body of his wife.
"Yes, but there are...conditions, as you know." Balance had to be kept. One love's life for another.
"Anything, please! I can't go on living without her."
"Can you live with this decision?" I asked... | These are the scribblings of mad man. Found in the wake of an event since referred to as ‘The Blessing’. A time when suffering, fear and death left our part of the world, if only for a short time.
**It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.**
I didn’t expect the consequences to be so immediate.
**It was t... | 2014-05-29T17:20:37 | 2014-05-29T15:05:23 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] A shapeshifter befriends a lonely human multiple times throughout his or her life, but the human thinks it's a different person every time. One day the human realizes that all of his/her friends are really the same person. | “That’s the most desperate and ridiculous thing I have ever heard.” Emily sat up in the bed and glared at her boyfriend. His face was dark and his head hung low.
“I know it sounds crazy but—“
“Seriously, Aaron? Are you jealous? How did you even know about them?”
“Emily, I’m not lying to you. I *was* them.”
They s... | The shapeshifter doesn't remember it's origin. It's been here for far too long. It doesn't even remember it's original name. It has taken the form of too many people. People that throughout the years that have been successful, talented and have had rich life giving experiences. Theses experiences taught this alien cre... | 2014-08-15T09:07:11 | 2014-08-15T08:43:05 | 810 | 12 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | I looked at the Djinn, "so" I asked him "you said I had one wish left, right?"
He looked at me, and smiled - "yes, make it a good one". I looked around my room, my messy little apartment had become a grand villa, and my wall was covered in degrees. I had the knowledge and the proof of it to live a good life, and make ... | After a long tiring day in college, I headed for my room in the apartment I had recently moved into with a close buddy of mine. I throw my backpack on the floor, lie down on my bed and quickly note the time - it was 6:45 pm.
As I was staring at the ceiling, I remembered the lamp my roommate Ashkan had showed me a co... | 2014-08-19T10:21:17 | 2014-08-19T10:17:13 | 330 | 13 |
[WP] In the near future a company holding the only patent to a point-to-point teleportation system in widespread use is exposed as a fraud and the truth is more horrible than anyone expected it to be. | "WHADDA YA MEAN IT'S DONE WITH MIRRORS!?"
The four people sat around the table all cast their gaze down. Too ashamed to meet the gaze of the man who was shouting at them.
"I ASKED YOU A QUESTION! WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S DONE WITH MIRRORS?!" The man shouted, over enunciating the question so he couldn't be misunderstoo... | The machines used an enormous amount of power. I'd always been a bit curious about that myself, but I'm just a level-1 repair tech. Mostly I just clean the machine out. Empty the filters and look over the wiring a bit. But still, it inspires confidence. People like to know that all their bits and pieces are going into ... | 2014-08-25T14:40:24 | 2014-08-25T14:26:44 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Frighten me without using any blood, gore or explicit violence. | Mommy?
Is that you knocking? What are you doing down there?
Mommy, I can't hear you. Let me dig you out.
Is that you knocking? Why were you down here in the dirt? What are you doing in this big box?
Mommy, it's okay. You can stop knocking. I'll let you out. | My eyes stopped working this morning. And my arms and legs. I'm lying in the middle of my cold kitchen floor, trying to twist my head, neck, and torso enough to get myself upright. I must have left my door open before all this happened; the wind is whipping through the house. I can hear the curtains ruffling and papers... | 2014-11-18T10:17:44 | 2014-11-18T08:59:17 | 93 | 14 |
[WP] Frighten me without using any blood, gore or explicit violence. | The crowd was the largest ever to attend an such an event. Nearly everyone across the globe could not take their eyes away from their screens. The unthinkable had happened.
"Ladies and Gentleman, it is my honor and great privilege to introduce, the First First Lady of the White House, your new President of the United... | My eyes stopped working this morning. And my arms and legs. I'm lying in the middle of my cold kitchen floor, trying to twist my head, neck, and torso enough to get myself upright. I must have left my door open before all this happened; the wind is whipping through the house. I can hear the curtains ruffling and papers... | 2014-11-18T11:31:11 | 2014-11-18T08:59:17 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | "Tell me boy, what do you see in our new students?" the headmaster asked me, staring intently at the door through which they had just left. The headmaster knew - he had known for a long time - about my peculiar gift. I could see the danger in people. I could tell with a glance that manifested as a number in my head, on... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T13:49:40 | 295 | 36 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | “One, two, two, one, three, two.” Numbers over the heads of my friends, family.... People I knew, people I didn’t. I can’t remember when they got there. I just sort of started noticing them one day.... And what they meant was... Obvious to me somehow. “One.... One....”
I often murmured to myself, no one seemed to not... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T14:15:56 | 140 | 30 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | It only took a few seconds of staring until the number pops up in the middle of their forehead. Thank goodness for that, since I think I'd go insane seeing numbers everywhere!
Babies and most kids measure from zero to three at most, while grown adults measure up to maybe five or six, depending on their skills in hunti... | My whole life when I've being seeing numbers in my head whenever I looked at people. They physical numbers, I was not hallucinating but I would hear a voice in my head screaming the number at me. I've been in therapy for it since I can remember.
Doctors told me i had paranoid schizophrenia. I've been taking medication... | 2014-11-29T17:05:40 | 2014-11-29T14:48:31 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | "Tell me boy, what do you see in our new students?" the headmaster asked me, staring intently at the door through which they had just left. The headmaster knew - he had known for a long time - about my peculiar gift. I could see the danger in people. I could tell with a glance that manifested as a number in my head, on... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T13:49:40 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | "10" I said unconsciously.
My friend tore his eyes away from the girl walking past us down the hall and stared at me in surprise.
"A 10? Really?" He turns his gaze back to her. "Dude I'll admit she's a looker, but I'd say more of an 8. Not 10 material, but eh different stokes for different folks."
I wasn't listening ... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T15:22:56 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You travel back in time to the 1900's, you take your tablet out of your rucksack only to find that there is a WiFi hotspot nearby labeled "If you can see this, turn back.". | Thomas looked down at his iPad having just stepped out of the wormhole he had traveled through. "Strange," he said softly under his breath, "wifi." He quickly tapped the settings button and went into wifi settings. As the device discovered the one available network his heart dropped.
*"If you can read this turn back."... | I thought for a moment to heed the stranger's warning. But if anything, it made me more curious than defensive.
I located the strongest signal and it led me to a local inn. I returned the tablet to my rucksack, and entered.
I had taken the proper precautions to dress the part, and be able to speak as my forbearers h... | 2014-12-23T20:15:56 | 2014-12-23T18:17:59 | 2,702 | 227 |
[WP] You travel back in time to the 1900's, you take your tablet out of your rucksack only to find that there is a WiFi hotspot nearby labeled "If you can see this, turn back.". | Thomas looked down at his iPad having just stepped out of the wormhole he had traveled through. "Strange," he said softly under his breath, "wifi." He quickly tapped the settings button and went into wifi settings. As the device discovered the one available network his heart dropped.
*"If you can read this turn back."... | Sean was useful in the same way people aren't. Since his arrival he managed to anger a Pinkerton, break a clothesline, and get into a fight with the neigborhood cat Beanie. Now that the first night was coming to a close, Sean wanted to explore more of this brick wonderland that was slowly dissipating from his view.
Ru... | 2014-12-23T20:15:56 | 2014-12-23T19:33:17 | 2,702 | 14 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | A screech, a crash, a flash - in seconds it was all over. A great blinding light washed over me, and I found myself surrounded by the material that makes up the very universe. I saw time stretch before me, eons and ages would pass without me. I had been removed from existence...or so I thought. I looked over to my left... | Being invisible isn't fun, but it's convenient, sometimes.
I mean, I'm only invisible to most people. There are plenty of exceptions, though -- plenty of people see an obese, ugly woman and make a point to pay attention to her. Never positive attention, obviously: sometimes it's jeering contempt, sometimes it's people... | 2022-09-04T14:52:04 | 2015-01-02T11:32:08 | 383 | 67 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | A screech, a crash, a flash - in seconds it was all over. A great blinding light washed over me, and I found myself surrounded by the material that makes up the very universe. I saw time stretch before me, eons and ages would pass without me. I had been removed from existence...or so I thought. I looked over to my left... | I knew who he was. The same crooked hairline. The same half squinted left eye. The same tiny scar that looked like a dolphin on his left hand. It was me.
Now I'm not a mam who believes in a higher power, but I guess it didn't matter what you believe in when you're dead. He.. or well... the other me spoke.
"Do you kn... | 2022-09-04T14:52:04 | 2015-01-02T13:55:50 | 383 | 13 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | “Sir, can you spare some change?” The man is barely moving under his blanket, using just enough energy to shove a tin can at me. Once he wiggles his head out and sees me he apologizes but continues to stare. Behind him, he has a sign stuck up on the wall saying *will derive polynomials for food.* This generation is... | Schooling had changed since the invention of the CLI, or Child Learning Injections. Parents had the ability to give their offspring one skill that they would use for the rest of their lives, many of the students at school were varied. Some excelled at math, other's could write a novel with their eyes closed. A few of t... | 2015-01-13T08:21:42 | 2015-01-13T06:45:52 | 502 | 200 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | The effect of the gifts was less pronounced than was thought. Every generation, parents would look at what was lacking in in their time and ensure that their children were good at it. This led to cycles of overabundance and scarcity of skills; one generation we have millions of brilliant scientists; the next we have n... | "The President has been shot"
Panic filled the street after gunshots rang out. People fled in every direction. I watched as the chaos spread, standing in the artillery decimated corner of an old liquor shop.
It wasn't long after this new form of gene therapy went public that things started to fall apart. With so ma... | 2015-01-13T14:00:01 | 2015-01-13T10:41:05 | 43 | 20 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | The effect of the gifts was less pronounced than was thought. Every generation, parents would look at what was lacking in in their time and ensure that their children were good at it. This led to cycles of overabundance and scarcity of skills; one generation we have millions of brilliant scientists; the next we have n... | (please forgive any grammar mistakes, long story as to why I suck at it...Trying to improve.
"I think he should be a talented SLADE mechanic, it is the family heritage after all!" Harry, the boys father stated tapping his foot impatiently. His wife had been pushing for there son to be an artist.
"Everything is not ab... | 2015-01-13T14:00:01 | 2015-01-13T10:30:23 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | "No, please."
She pushed the vial away from her lips, her thin and wrinkly hands shaking.
"Why?" I asked.
"I... I'm so tired, dear." She sighed. Then she continued:
"My flesh is tired."
"What do you mean?"
"The other ones, my other lives, I've come to realize... they were not *really* me. I've read their diaries... | “Abe? What are you doing?” I watched him from the doorway as he packed his suitcase. One suitcase. My throat felt like it was about to close shut.
He looked up at me. “What I should have done, back in Carthage,” he said. “Leaving.”
I hit the doorframe with my tiny, ten-year-old’s fist. It made a thump, but the thin... | 2015-02-14T06:40:49 | 2015-02-14T06:01:34 | 1,103 | 546 |
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