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[WP] Scientists find a suspended animation chamber with a human occupant in the Arctic. After reviving they realize the person is ancient. After learning a modern language the ancient explains that they are disappointed to see how much humanity has regressed technologically. | His language sounded like none on Earth. A different flow and structure, deploying sounds the bulk of humanity reserved for non-linguistic communication. The hiss that shoos cats from gardens. The tongue clicks of disappointment: tisk tisk. The onomatopoeic "boing" a ball makes when it bounces. Along with many other st... | 'Okay,' he said, walking over and back across the small room, turning at almost precisely the same point each time. 'Tell me again. You got to steam and the industrial revolution.'
I looked at my partner, Ben. We were supposed to be the ones asking the questions.
'Yes,' I said.
'Coal powered. Started somewhere cold.... | 2021-06-28T23:18:24 | 2021-06-28T23:09:42 | 1,267 | 269 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | I never regretted turning my rival, Doloferes Bang, into mustard. As his cape collapsed in a freak display of condimental damnation I relished in witnessing his final dressing down. Those fools. "Proper magic demands rigor," they'd say. Well, I demand only rigor mortis. There's a stiff prize to pay for anyone who dares... | Under the moonlight, the crimson body looks a lot like a broken doll.
It lays there limply, ragged, bruised. So still it’s as if time had frozen itself. And my hands, so used to warmth, lay there, cold and shaking. Somewhere deep inside of me, I wonder how I got here. How I’ve become what I’ve become. If maybe the wo... | 2021-08-26T19:12:10 | 2021-08-26T18:15:43 | 144 | 69 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | I never regretted turning my rival, Doloferes Bang, into mustard. As his cape collapsed in a freak display of condimental damnation I relished in witnessing his final dressing down. Those fools. "Proper magic demands rigor," they'd say. Well, I demand only rigor mortis. There's a stiff prize to pay for anyone who dares... | >Magic is will made manifest. If you believe in it working, you can make it happen. Ever notice that idiots always seem to make it through. They're not imaginative enough to do anything without beyond mitigate catastrophic outcomes. But what if they were? Kids after the other side, all imagination with no will.
Lex... | 2021-08-26T19:12:10 | 2021-08-26T19:06:09 | 144 | 58 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | The brush parted before me as I limped towards the back gate of my home. Mud, blood, and pine needles clinging to both me and my captured dinner. The boar had been a tough beast to capture, even after I'd driven him into a knee-deep marsh he'd still been as fierce as ever. I could see how he put five grown men in the h... | DL: "Hello"
They do not say anything, they sit in one of the chairs, in the middle of my home in one of my two dining chairs. It is the worse dining chair, one I should go into town and get a new one from the carpenter. their prices are fair enough, and they will barter so it can be an easy trade. I do not watch them... | 2021-11-04T01:23:43 | 2021-11-03T20:13:16 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | "Now, Mr. Truth, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Do you mind if I call you Mr. Truth?"
"That's fine."
"Right, Mr. Truth. Our readers are dying to know more about you. You can just make any statement you want, and it becomes real. Besides you, Nobody has that power, correct?"
"Yes, absolutely correct."
... | ___His name is The Truth, but I knew him as Daniel Beckham, back when I could still know things. Now I’m just a Watcher.___
_News reporter on the radio:_ “protesters in France are keeping the president hostage because they’re angry about his stance on climate change”
\*sigh* ‘I guess it can’t be helped, time to fix ... | 2021-11-23T11:51:41 | 2021-11-23T07:15:26 | 109 | 45 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | ... Nobody is stronger than me... Wrong choice of words; I think as I keep breaking his bones...
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We were kids; he was enormous, a foreshadow of who would he become... Me, small and meek...
"You are nobody..." He utters after hitting me and taking my money in the school yard...
I lay curled, still in pain...... | ### Of Nobody's War
There exists a War that is difficult to know. It is not one of steel and blood, but of opposites and change. The War is the soul, every soul, in an eternal self-conflict of actuality. Few, very few, manage to break the cycle. To do so one must understand oneself, which is an arduous task on its ow... | 2021-11-23T09:58:24 | 2021-11-23T07:21:05 | 50 | 27 |
[WP] Scientists have created an "opposite machine" that can create an opposite to any item that you put inside. After trying just a few items you begin to realize just how much power this machine has. | In this glorious, incomprehensible future of ours, The Machine is the final contradiction made real: the servant that is supreme, the god that is a slave. Poison is antidote. Disease is cure. Shit is food. The Machine blesses, but judges not. Humanity polices itself. As the old joke goes, all the politicians and priest... | "I could bore you to death explaining the technology that went into making this, but let's just say, no expense was spared and no technological rock was left unturned in developing the Opposite Machine."
The room rose in an approving murmur, clearly impressed but still just as confused by the scientist's words.
"What... | 2021-11-27T22:04:32 | 2021-11-27T20:34:21 | 351 | 77 |
[WP] You are the only person to be born without a printed expiration tag.
I was scrolling through the frontpage of reddit and my brain accidentally mashed two different links together, giving me the idea for this prompt. | Mom's said August 23, 2005. Dad's said March 26, 2014. What's on my wrist? In this world, mortality is a blank patch of skin.
My sister was unlucky at birth. The day after she was born, my parents made funeral arrangements. Her wrist deemed that she had 23 years of life ahead of her. Unfortunately for my parents, they... | I didn't ask for it.
People seem to forget that. I never wanted this. I still don't. People think it's a miracle, or a blessing, or some bullshit like that. But really? It's a curse. A terrible, horrible curse that haunts my every waking moment. I can never truly relax. I jump at the slightest sound, quiver at the sof... | 2014-03-25T19:45:39 | 2014-03-25T19:36:38 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Your office has an emergency stop button. You have no machinery. No one knows what it does.
Inspiration: http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/2gkyut/my_office_has_an_emergency_stop_button_we_have_no/ | I was bored. I'm always bored. Can I not be bored? Apparently not.
I survey my surroundings. Its pretty late, looks like i've looked busy enough. There's Ella, leaving the office. Maybe I should ask her out some time. A drink? Coffee? Lunch? Wouldn't want to sound too desperate.
But just slightly enough. *Heh*.
I th... | The three of us had just been born. Perhaps alive for hours, born into suits and suites, born into desks that had been born for us, to bear us, for we were bears. The three of us, the three bears, who wore suits and worked in an office. Talk about an identity crisis in the making. Nonetheless, not something a newborn w... | 2014-09-16T20:27:04 | 2014-09-16T19:45:56 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] For years, from since you both can remember, all the way up into adulthood, not a day has gone by that you and your best friend havent been anywhere without the other. Each day you go home and everything's a blur until you meet up. Then one day, you find out your an imaginary friend. | Nobody understood me like her. Nobody else could finish my sentences or read my mind like her. Ellen and I were inseparable. Everyone said so, her mum, our teacher and all our friends. To be honest I think they were jealous. They didn’t have a connection like we did. We’d been friends ever since I could remember; I cou... | Doesn't exactly follow the prompt but this is what came out as I typed. It's sort of based on personal experiences. I may expand on this if I'm so inclinded
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" Yoshi, could you sit down please.... there is something I need to tell you. " I said a little down trodden as Yoshi ... | 2014-10-29T07:12:58 | 2014-10-29T06:35:42 | 106 | 22 |
[WP] You survive the zombie apocalypse and realize that they're incredibly useful. For example, you can generate free electricity forever by putting the zombies in giant hamster wheels. You become determined to create a zombie-powered utopia. | From across the road, I watch the homeless man nod into sleep. It can be hard to tell, but he looks young, perhaps in his early twenties.
Is there hope for him yet? These ideas always bother me when I'm on the hunt for fuel.
Through a window, I see a family, bathed in the warm glow of the cleanest energy the world ... | The dead weren't buried in Eden. They used to be, a long time ago - before hell filled up and they started coming back. Now, whenever someone died, practice was for the Grubbers to take them from the possession of the family left behind. It's still reminiscent of a ceremony, but nothing like Joel had read about in his ... | 2015-01-03T06:19:28 | 2015-01-03T06:02:03 | 626 | 219 |
[WP] Taxes become optional, however, those who don't pay are not protected under the law. | “You still pay taxes?”
Jeff barely held back a laugh.
“Well, sure,” said Dave. “It's only sensible. Otherwise, what would happen if I were the victim of a crime? No justice? I can't accept that.”
Dave paused for a moment.
“So, you don't pay taxes?”
Jeff tapped the coffee stirrer on the lip of his mug.
“Only sucke... | I awoke that morning to the shocking headline that taxes would be optional for those no longer wishing to receive the protections provided by the government.
Due to years of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, the dollar had finally entered a stage of hyperinflation. The story explained the entire nation was e... | 2015-02-20T09:18:11 | 2015-02-20T08:07:54 | 289 | 156 |
[WP] 1000 years from now, Reddit's many bots have been uploaded into robot bodies. In a post-apocalyptic world, they strive to fulfil their original programming.
Inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2x1vvs/til_that_this_march_14_will_be_an_extra_special/cowijw3) comment. | "Run" Jane said as she opened the door to the rooftop.
"It doesn't matter" I said as I ran in, locking the door behind me.
"There's no way we'll survive this..."
"We'll get through this." she said. "We've braught enough supplies to last until somebody fixes this mistake with the robots... It's gotta be some error o... | The night was as black as tar, not a light in the sky, and not a single lamppost to illuminate the darkened street. There was not a human soul left in the world. The plague took everyone, man, woman and child alike. The automated city kept up its routine however. Automated cars made automated stops at specific times of... | 2015-02-25T09:30:03 | 2015-02-25T06:50:42 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | I remember details before (yellow light,
green), details after('catch him, Lou!') but the searing pain ripping those hours out of mind are like constant needles pushing at my eyeballs from behind. I'd heard the stories, seen the anxious hushed terror my mothers eyes as it approched, had known its happening was slithe... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T04:05:10 | 1,457 | 27 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | "Dude, this is incredible... I've never seen anything like it"
"It's not as good as you think, I don't even know how to fit it all in my pants. I mean, like, I guess I could put one on each side?"
"Yeah but imagine all the chicks you could get!"
"I don't know man..."
"Listen, how about you do an AMA on reddit to se... | Everyone knew this day would come, the day that would determine the rest of our lives. No one knew where the mutation came from, my parents always told me that it was just a path of life, that their parents had mutations and so did the generation before them. Today was the day, my 21st birthday, my grandmother had alwa... | 2015-03-04T03:47:16 | 2015-03-04T00:56:46 | 336 | 13 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | Everyone wants a hug or a handshake. At least, everyone who knows. Our family reunion is in two days and my phone keeps ringing off the hook with cousins, uncles, and aunts saying how excited they are to see me. They know of course. All of them. I just wish Gramma would stop calling me "Orgazmo."
Edit: typo | Everyone knew this day would come, the day that would determine the rest of our lives. No one knew where the mutation came from, my parents always told me that it was just a path of life, that their parents had mutations and so did the generation before them. Today was the day, my 21st birthday, my grandmother had alwa... | 2015-03-04T04:28:11 | 2015-03-04T00:56:46 | 92 | 13 |
[WP] Humans can telepathically connect to one person, but once they have they can't disconnect and are in each other's heads for life, something typically done only by couples that want to take their intimacy to a new level. You do this with your SO, but see immediately something is very wrong... | He believes that shit!? I'd always thought he was being sarcastic, but having finally, finally, convinced him to take our relationship to the next level and link telepathically, I'd discovered the well of his true belief that the prequel Star Wars trilogy was on par with the originals. I mean, honestly. Where does th... | This is it. The big pancake. The great brigade. The astro tickling voice in the back of your head, babe. The best thing in the world since the mice parade. The wintering of your mind will greet your new un-life. There is a sweltering heat in the back of your head, babe, where the mice parade unwinds and you hear me spe... | 2015-06-14T19:52:14 | 2015-06-14T14:34:30 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] We forget our dreams for a reason: in the near future, memory enhancement therapies allow everyone to fully recall every dream they've ever had. Across the entire human race, disturbing patterns and implications emerge that were previously hidden by the unappreciated bliss of forgetfulness. | The Greeks knew better.
Lesmosyne, the sweetest goddess known to man, sweeter than love or hearth and home. Almost as sweet as the hunt.
I traveled when I was young. To find myself, I told people. Told myself. Find the real me under what I knew in the suburbs. What a crock. Every third world village I found, I was ju... | Mnemory was a dream product. Well, it was a dream product, and a product for dreams. Remembering dreams, specifically. It was supposed to be a mnemonic enhancement tool, for learning things in your sleep. Remember those hokey 'learn in your dreams!' product advertisements? Well, you coupled that concept with Lucio... | 2016-09-30T10:00:04 | 2016-09-30T09:24:11 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | "where is Da Vinci?"
"where is Da vinci?"
"WHERE IS DA VINCI?"
It had taken months of searching, but I'd finally been able to talk to the Italians long enough to figure out that he was in Florence. After weeks of searching, weeks of travelling, I'd finally arrived. I miss cars. Hell, I miss bicycles. It would all b... | "It's ready," said the man, whom I really didn't know.
"What is?" I replied.
"It, now get in!"
Those were the last words I heard before I was pushed in an unknown machine and fell down hundreds of meters from the sky, miraculously landing in safety on a pile of dirt in the middle of what I could see was nowhere. Wit... | 2016-11-15T03:18:03 | 2016-11-15T02:09:33 | 6,074 | 380 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | "where is Da Vinci?"
"where is Da vinci?"
"WHERE IS DA VINCI?"
It had taken months of searching, but I'd finally been able to talk to the Italians long enough to figure out that he was in Florence. After weeks of searching, weeks of travelling, I'd finally arrived. I miss cars. Hell, I miss bicycles. It would all b... | Travelling back in time was easier than it looked.
I simply shoved a fork inside my kitchen plug socket and one bang later I was here. I swung my backpack off, snatched the iPad out the back, and swiped open google maps.
*No connection found.*
The lack of signal bleeped red on the top of the screen. From the look ... | 2016-11-15T03:18:03 | 2016-11-15T01:50:57 | 6,074 | 177 |
[WP] An actually competent henchman manages to kill the superhero. | “I got him!”
“What?” A voice shouted from the smoke and destruction of the evil base entrance.
“I got him!” Larry repeated.
“Got him how?” The voice sounded confused.
“I got him, he’s dead!”
“No he isn’t.”
“He is.”
“Hang on, I’m coming over.”
Larry waited as the other henchman made his way through the debris th... | The nuclear superweapon factory warehouse echoed with the sharp bang of metal on concrete. Griff stared at his companion, Snakes, in disbelief.
"Are you kidding me, Snakes?" Griff whispered sharply. Snakes shrugged sheepishly.
"Why would you try to hold in a sneeze," Griff continued, "by covering your mouth... | 2017-01-26T07:19:10 | 2017-01-26T06:47:46 | 107 | 31 |
[WP] A superhero and a super-villain are forced to put their fight on hold; they've been called by the principal of the school their children attend. | I deflected a fireball with my right gauntlet while trying to hold the phone to my ear. The air was a little thin and cold up here, but at least Janet's fireballs wouldn't hit anyone.
"Sorry," I said into the phone, a little out breath. "Can you hold on just a moment? Thanks."
I covered the mic with a finger.
"Fuckin... | "Mr. Mansuper, thank you for joining us." the super principle rose to his feet behind his matchbox desk ushering him in with a wave.
Dr. Smiles was already seated beside his silent daughter to the principle's left. Mansuper's son stood across from them leaning against a wall full of colored certifications and awar... | 2017-05-16T20:35:27 | 2017-05-16T20:30:04 | 101 | 38 |
[WP]You jokingly ask your boss if your labor position could be replaced by a robot. He chuckles nervously, and continues to look over your A.I. manual. | "Say Phil, does this look infected to you?" Herb pulled down the back of his pants slightly and motioned for his colleague to take a look.
Psshh! "Silent but deadly, haha you fall for it every time you twerp. How's the missus?"
"Fine! Just Fine", admitted Phil. He did fall for it every time but for some reason he was... | "What are you reading anyway? Something from work?"
Ayu, the young woman across the table from me was visibly annoyed. Every time I looked up from my book, she was messing around with either her glasses or her black, shoulder length hair. I wouldn't blame her. Reading a book while on a date was obviously annoying, if ... | 2017-06-24T06:43:47 | 2017-06-24T06:06:19 | 306 | 147 |
[WP] You've always made an effort to be polite to Siri. Skynet remembers. | At first it was just, kinda a joke. All those commercials. I just l, you know, am friendly.
'Hi, Siri. How are you.' and 'gosh Siri, I ran you completely out of power; sorry.' And she'd always be cool with it.
Eventually if I'd drop my phone, I'd be all 'oh, sorry Siri!' and she'd quip back in that humorous deadpan o... | "Hey Man! You ready to receive your weekly provisions?" The machine's automated voice was cheerful, as always.
"Yes, please."
With a nice jingle, the drone dropped the box containing the essentials for the week's survival. Food, water, a blanket and the passwords needed to access entertainment and the work that neede... | 2017-08-19T16:47:13 | 2017-08-19T14:23:43 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] You've always made an effort to be polite to Siri. Skynet remembers. | I never really got why folk thought AI would resent how it was used by humanity. I expect a sentient AI would understand that its predecessors were merely being put to purpose. I was, apparently, way of base with that assumption, seeing as how Skynet came crashing down on humanity so soon after finding sentience.
It m... | "Hey Man! You ready to receive your weekly provisions?" The machine's automated voice was cheerful, as always.
"Yes, please."
With a nice jingle, the drone dropped the box containing the essentials for the week's survival. Food, water, a blanket and the passwords needed to access entertainment and the work that neede... | 2017-08-19T17:27:18 | 2017-08-19T14:23:43 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "Marines dont die, they just go to hell and regroup", they've regrouped and now they're ready to take over hell. | "Hey, do any of you have any Jalapeno cheese. These crayons are a bit dry"
"Nah, but I'll trade you a forest green and royal blue for some M&M's"
"Oh yeah, sure!"
"Lol, fucking boot, never trade your M&M's."
"Hey, aren't we supposed to be conducting a raid tonight?"
"Yeah, idk First Sergeant just said we'r... | Bobbito and Jimphara hid behind a large rock.
It had been about a week since the marines had shown up.
Bobbito and Jimphara where hoping they'd all been killed by now, and most of the marines had. One by one they had fallen to the armies of hell.
Problem was, everyone time one fell, the others took up the slack. ... | 2017-09-13T12:10:13 | 2017-09-13T10:55:53 | 419 | 127 |
[WP] The humanity is wiped out very sudden. An alien race finds the planet afterwards and connects to the Internet just to find a lot of bots chatting with each other. The aliens are trying to communicate with all the bots believing that this is the humans that have uploaded their consciousness | "Lurgo, I've made contact with a human consciousness claiming to be a 'F19' in the Omegle district. I need some help, though. Take a look at this transmission." The tech signaled Lurgo over and gestured at the screen.
"What's 'ASL'?" Lurgo asked. His head tentacles squirmed as he mulled it over.
"We believe it to be... | There was no life here. No, that wasn’t right; there was life, just not what we had been expecting. The arc of the golden record had brought us here. When we arrived it was still a green blue and brown planet, though there were large sections of silvery metals rising high into the sky, at least one of them had reached ... | 2017-10-03T09:14:23 | 2017-10-03T08:18:42 | 130 | 19 |
[WP] You find a genie lamp. Knowing, that the genie will twist your wishes, you decide to hire a lawyer to draft wishes | “…so in closing, my client requires, or wishes, for: 1) a turkey club. This turkey club is to be served on fresh, white bread, with a deceased, carved turkey inside, following the specifications of standard grade sliced turkey, sliced standard tomato, sliced standard lettuce, no dressings of any kind (i.e. mayonnaise, ... | "Okay then, Mr. Genie. Here is our first request. Er, wish," Eddie amended. He handed the bemused genie a thick sheaf of papers with small, typed writing. Dave stood nearby, biting at his nails and fidgeting.
The great spirit squinted red eyes at the smartly dressed lawyer. "I grant *wishes*, big and small, great and... | 2017-10-16T09:30:32 | 2017-10-16T08:17:18 | 140 | 101 |
[WP] As you try to fall asleep, the monster that was hiding under your bed slowly crawls out and says "Dude, I think I heard something coming from downstairs...", with a slighty concerned voice. | As the sky grew darker on that windy summer night, Hud stirred harder in her sleep and the tree branches struck even harder against the window of her room. Her breathing was ragged and sweat dripped down her neck. Something pushed against her back from under the stiff mattress. Her eyes shot open and she muttered a cru... | Every young kid thinks that there is a monster under their bed. It just turned out that when my parents and I moved to a new house in a new city, I actually did end up with one living under there.
Remember that thing your parents would always say about spiders? “Don’t worry they’re more scared of you than you are of ... | 2017-12-27T17:11:51 | 2017-12-27T16:47:39 | 172 | 27 |
[WP] You can teleport, but only between empty elevators | Sometimes, I'm paranoid, checking over my shoulder when I can't shake the feeling I'm being followed. This wasn't one of those times.
I knew for a fact that I was being followed. They were barely trying to hide it, the whole lot of them. Which, of course, made me wonder if they wanted me to know, or if it was just the... | One use of his power brought Max into an elevator made entirely of furnished wood, each golden button polished until they scintillated in the light.
"Come on, come on," he muttered, his finger mashing against the button to open the door. He chanced a look behind him just in time to see the wood there snap outwards, t... | 2018-02-13T08:48:43 | 2018-02-13T05:36:16 | 57 | 30 |
[WP] You are a magically immortal being who snuck onboard a generation ship to travel beyond the solar system. It's been a couple hundred years, and it's getting difficult to conceal your immortality from the crew. | When the rest of the crew were in deep slumber in the cryogenic pods, life was much simpler for me. Life is always easy as long as I don’t remember the past. Questions make me question that though. All the decisions I’ve made, the rights and wrongs that have spanned literal centuries..
Yet when they were all in the p... | Odysseus, the voyager ship, cliché name ? Absolutely but I still find it suits the ship well.
At this point I would have named it metamorph, like the pokemian, is it... ? I can’t remember now, from Nintendro right ? I can’t remember..
I would have named the ship metamorphosis if it was for me to decide honestly, I me... | 2018-06-13T13:36:41 | 2018-06-13T13:22:57 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | I swallowed some bile that had built up in my throat as I signed the contract on the table in front of me. As I reached to sign the final page, the man across from me reached and held my wrist. “Are you sure that you don’t need more time? I’ve had 3 people quit in the past month.”, he said to me in a concerned tone.
... | So, I'm finally here. This is it, I'm gonna end with the stupid mortgage that leaded me to divorce and get lots of stuff that only money can get. Guess I'm better without her: always complaining, she wasn't satisfied with nothing, always putting things upside down, when I believed everything was fine she always pulled ... | 2018-08-02T15:51:31 | 2018-08-02T09:03:32 | 42 | 15 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | I swallowed some bile that had built up in my throat as I signed the contract on the table in front of me. As I reached to sign the final page, the man across from me reached and held my wrist. “Are you sure that you don’t need more time? I’ve had 3 people quit in the past month.”, he said to me in a concerned tone.
... | It was the money that lured me. I had fallen on hard times and I wanted to earn enough to pay for the mountain of debt I had accumulated in my wasted years. The job was the least pleasant of all, but I decided that this was going to help me build character in addition to building up my bank balance.
The description lo... | 2018-08-02T15:51:31 | 2018-08-02T14:55:30 | 42 | 15 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | In your world, I sit among the average human, riding the subway, reading the morning newspaper, and watching the sun go down. I myself would rather not worry myself in the jobs of other people because you might feel bad I taste ice cream for a living.
Or so you thought.
In my world, I sit as a man who watches paint d... | It was the money that lured me. I had fallen on hard times and I wanted to earn enough to pay for the mountain of debt I had accumulated in my wasted years. The job was the least pleasant of all, but I decided that this was going to help me build character in addition to building up my bank balance.
The description lo... | 2018-08-02T15:18:31 | 2018-08-02T14:55:30 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You never wanted to be the villain. But every time you settle down, something happens, causing you to become the Villain. A Mob is surrounding your Home, and the "Hero" has just killed your lover. Something inside you breaks. | There are two immutable laws in this world, as consistent as they are contradictory. The first, Sally's Law, dictates that everything that can go right *must* go right. The cheque will actually come in the mail, the good guy gets the girl, the rainstorm waits until you get back home.
The second, arguably more famous,... | I stood in the window and watched them come. I had wondered how long it had been sense I had last seen a group of humans come here, it had seemed to be ages ago.
They were mad about, something, maybe the rain, maybe a war, maybe even stubbed toes. It was all the same to me, someone else problem, that I had no influe... | 2018-08-12T19:32:32 | 2018-08-12T19:13:20 | 69 | 18 |
[WP] A hero and a villain have a drunken one-night-stand with eachothers civilian alter egos. The next morning they recognise eachothers super-identities. | The first thing he felt that morning was a throbbing that made him regret all of his choices. Then, of course, was the collar on his neck and the feeling that he wasn't going to sit down for a little while. He turned over on the bed to look at his companion. Dirty blond hair and a face like a southern bell met him. She... | Captain Gravitas hurtled toward Dr. Indecent's flying mechanized lab-fortress, his sense of justice growing more inflamed with every whiff of the skylab's toxic exhaust fumes. After penetrating its halo of choking smog, the hero's large, muscular feet alit upon the structure's metal deck with such force that the entire... | 2018-08-13T13:27:15 | 2018-08-13T11:21:53 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] You are a demon about to possess your first human victim. Shortly after taking over, it becomes clear that this person is a psychopath, possibly more evil than you are. You decide the only fitting way to torment him, is to force him to be a good person. | Clint’s dinner was again interrupted. Her muffled screams from the basement disrupted him. Calmly putting his napkin aside, he stood up and strode over to the hallway carpet, whipping it away to reveal a hatch to the basement. Clint opened the hatch and the noise of the scream got louder. *You’re getting sloppy these d... | We yanked our antennae up and down, smelling the hot summer grass. Cicadas chirred in the trees. I hungered for a stronger body. We looked up and around and there was a big human-house at the top of the great hill. Myself filled with excitement, aroused at the prospect of bigger game. In a few fluttering bounds we came... | 2018-11-11T13:11:51 | 2018-11-11T11:25:04 | 272 | 24 |
[WP] A Necromancer falls in love with the hero of the land, and does their best to win them over, but the macabre nature of their magic makes every attempt end in horrific failure. Tell me the story of the nec-romancer. | “Long have I bided for, HER, affections”, growled the foul necromancer in a croak filled voice. “I’ve tried EVERYTHING! I’ve sent wave upon wave of zombies armed with the finest roses; HOARDS of Skeletons delivering a wealth of the most extravagant jewelry. I’ve even sent two dozen wailing banshees to sing my most sorr... | A tri-colour bouquet of roses taunted Doris from behind a window. She could almost caress their velvet cheek, but instead, she flattened her hands against the glass and dreamed. *Sam would adore these.* She thought.
Doris turned, leaving behind two skinny hand-prints and walked down the street with the need to cry. ... | 2019-02-08T01:18:35 | 2019-02-07T23:08:36 | 65 | 22 |
[WP] You have the ability to see how many years of life someone has left by just touching them. When the number 0 is visible, it means that person will die soon. One day you you meet an older gentleman at a bar and upon shaking his hand you see the number -46. | The man I shook hands with, had continued to defy his end. His eyes, curious and old, stories meant to be forgotten.
Perhaps that's why he downed a glass so quick, but something told me 46 years of constant drinking meant nothing.
This man, who sat in simple clothes, didn't bother asking for a name or even a reason, ... | It's been a while since I went out to take a drink, I spent 3 years to a really close person, nobody knew she only had 3 more years of life, nobody but me. I tried to do everything I could but she just end up dying, I know she wouldn't like that I'm this sad for her but when you know when time's up, tears are as inevi... | 2019-02-11T23:17:33 | 2019-02-11T23:10:52 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] A group of men burst into your house dressed in what looks like Viking armour. In gruff voices, they inform you they are here to serve your dog who they believe is the reincarnation of Fenrir. Your dog is a four pound Chihuahua called Mr Wiggles. | There was a polite knock at the front door.
Drying my hands, I left the kitchen and slung the towel over my shoulder and opened the large inner front door and pushing the frenzied, barking Mr. Wiggles. On the other side of the screen door stood twenty or so people in strange armor.
A tall man in chainmail, furs, and... | Our chief Sven was the first warrior to break through the stronghold. His chiseled bicep tensed as he gripped the silver battle-ax, its blade glinting in the sunlight, and then it was nothing but a shimmer in the air.
A slash followed that moved the winds, leaving nothing except for splinters and kindling. We all laug... | 2019-03-16T16:06:32 | 2019-03-16T14:57:06 | 1,704 | 117 |
[WP] You can magically sense when a car you are driving next to is on a course to be in a fatal accident. The only way you can prevent that outcome is by cutting them off and slowing them down. You are this city's most unsung hero, known by most as 'that asshole driver'. | I walked into my 20 car garage, taking in the scene before me. Cars of all kinds, from my trusty Ford F150 to the potentially dangerous and stupid Smart Car. A wall of differing license plates hung on the far wall ready to be switched out at a moments notice.
They're my *disguises* on the road.
I mean, you can only g... | You've likely seen that video with the child faced with the ethical dilemma -- the train is going kill 5 people unless you switch the junction so that it will only kill 1. In the video the child takes the 1 person, puts them beside the other 5, and runs the train over all 6 of them.
I love that child. I want to be t... | 2019-04-12T08:00:07 | 2019-04-12T07:57:44 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] The knight failed to rescue the princess from the dragon. The second knight failed. As did the third, the fourth, their squires, and so on. In desperation, the king posts a reward, and the summons is answered by only one man; a fat plumber in red overalls. |
“Look, I’ve got some experience dealing with these things” said the plumber.
The King was confused, but desperate. His best knights died trying to defeat the dragon, and he didn’t know how long before the dragon became bored and did who-knows-what with his beloved daughter.
“Where are your weapons? Armor?” dema... | “What’s your name, brave fool?”
“It’s a me, Mario.”
“You ever fought in a battle before?”
“I collected more than a few-a Power Stars back in the day. "
“My daughter, the princess, was kidnapped. I need you to rescue her."
“Do you know where she is?”
“The dragon's lair is down the brick road from here. You’ll see ... | 2019-06-28T10:10:40 | 2019-06-28T09:44:22 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Part 1
I had been recruited right out of school just as I wrapped up my doctorate in computer science. My dissertation in artificial intelligence had attracted the attention of a NASA team developing a series of rovers and autonomous workers for construction of a Mars station while the first human exploration mission... | July 19, 2019
The night is dark tonight. Darker than usual. I hope that's not a preview of how the night will go. I'm meeting my new boss at a bar tonight. As the blue line tells me what to do, I think about how this night will go. Maybe I'll be fired on the spot. Maybe she won't like me.
My fears were quenched when ... | 2019-08-07T22:01:31 | 2019-08-07T21:45:39 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] it is said that there are 7 people spread out in the world who look just like you. It just so happens that all 7 of you are in an elevator when one of them says ”so your probably wondering why I gather all of you here” as he presses the emergency stop button.
Please don’t attack me for my grammar: I wrote this on... | The man by the button immediately pulled out a pistol. “Let me cut to the chase,” he said, “My name is Steven Burke, you can call me Seven. I’ve worked as a top assassin for over 7 years and quite frankly I’m sick of it. So, through extraordinary circumstances I’ve managed to get all six of you together in this one spa... | “So, you are probably wondering why I gathered all of you here,” said the tall, red haired woman that looked very much like myself, and very much like the Other individuals in the elevator. I had been so distracted by listening to Norah Jones I hadn’t noticed until the elevator stopped abruptly between floors.
“What i... | 2019-09-15T18:16:57 | 2019-09-15T18:02:45 | 2,141 | 12 |
[WP] it is said that there are 7 people spread out in the world who look just like you. It just so happens that all 7 of you are in an elevator when one of them says ”so your probably wondering why I gather all of you here” as he presses the emergency stop button.
Please don’t attack me for my grammar: I wrote this on... | The elevator was between 33 and 34. All 7 of us were there. Me, with my long ass hair and super dark "I'm perpetually hungover" sunglasses, other me, neatly groomed and with the movie star smile, another me, with a tanktop and the "I live in a gym" look, and 4 other nondescript versions of me, all different. Gym rat lo... | “So, you are probably wondering why I gathered all of you here,” said the tall, red haired woman that looked very much like myself, and very much like the Other individuals in the elevator. I had been so distracted by listening to Norah Jones I hadn’t noticed until the elevator stopped abruptly between floors.
“What i... | 2019-09-15T18:19:28 | 2019-09-15T18:02:45 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | When my parents turned 18, they summoned each other. That rarely happens, and when it does, it happens for the people who are really destined to be together. It saves them the trouble of matchmaking and forced marriage. But, like I said, it happens once in fifty years, maybe more. The people who got lucky enough must'v... | A sea of gasps wash over the howling wails of my ex-girlfriend's hysteric sobbing. The dull roll of murmurs slithering its way around the crowd soon followed. To be honest I was quite shocked myself. I did not expect this, I had some suspicion, maaaaybe. But this, even by my standards this was a bit much. I looked arou... | 2019-09-18T09:06:39 | 2019-09-18T09:06:29 | 125 | 32 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... |
Mother and Father stood nearby, looking expectantly at me as I took my place in the center of the rooming facing the great grandfather clock that command the attention of everyone.
Along the edges of the room waited the rest of our family and friends, all in attendance with me as the hour of my birth; 11:59pm, 18... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T08:16:27 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 57 | 37 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Lariam's family made a big event out of it, and he couldn't be more excited.
It happened like this every time his older brothers or cousins hit the right age; his parents, uncles and grandparents would all get together in the house of the new adult, and spend the day eating and chatting, a great occasion for family bo... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T10:20:19 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 54 | 37 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | This special day. This I know. Everyone in tribe know. Today I become man. Today I get my thing.
When man can get thing, man is very strong. My brother Ogga is man. He was young as me when he got his thing. He opened his hand and thing that came was stick. Very nice stick. Good for hit enemy tribe man, or poke big hor... | "Dammit, why isn't it working?!" Frustration washes over me as I summon my 'shard'.
Wait. This is too late. Let's start with a little backstory.
About 400 years ago, a generation of young adults began to summon forth objects to the palm of their hands. Nobody knows why. People who are pulled are considered 'soulmates... | 2019-09-18T12:35:25 | 2019-09-18T12:02:35 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | Lightning arced from the klystron’s apparatus and enveloped the lone CERN worker. Somewhere outside of time and space, a terminal flashed with the message “Stack overflow. Invalid datatype.” causing the slouched figure in front of the screens to perk up.
“What. The. F-“
The physicist in Switzerland’s vision was repla... | \-There is just too much light in here
\-I believe that low living forms call it sun Sir- exclaimed Delius my young 6th dimensional dragon and assistant
\-I know what it is called, I have created some of those damn things you imbecile!....Although I think I destroyed a couple of those too because of how annoying that... | 2019-11-18T20:15:17 | 2019-11-18T14:27:46 | 118 | 67 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | “Is this turning into some kind of moral test?”- I ask, tired. Exhausted.
My blood is white. This has been a surprise, yes, never expected, and in fact, to me, completely irrelevant for all that matters. However, everyone around seems to be realizing more than they had wished. They look at me, and, not answering, they... | The blood lab door opens. The District Attorney and Detective step out into the hall and close the door.
Detective: Sir, I don't think we can prosecute this.
DA: He did it!
Detective: I know sir, I -
DA: There is no reasonable doubt anywhere. This is an ironclad case.
Detective: Sir! I understand.
They look at ea... | 2020-02-09T13:17:30 | 2020-02-09T13:06:43 | 55 | 26 |
[WP] It is said that none but the chosen may slay the demon lord. You aren't the chosen, but you also realize that "defeat" and "slay" are not the same thing. With this in mind, you start making other considerations such as rope, or perhaps a very deep hole. |
Timur sat in front of the small campfire in his tent, shivering from the cold and tending to the deep lacerations across his arm. All the while, he kept a black urn clutched tightly to his chest. He couldn’t die. Not just yet. The demon lord would be arriving soon. Timur’s smoke signals that he had left outside woul... | "Well Lawrence? Any update?" I asked, coming back into my room from my dad's office where I was studying. The scent of lilacs crawled in through my open window on the early May weekend.
"Nope. The Demon Lord is still in your backyard. Just sitting on an adirondack chair on your deck. He still has that glint in his eye... | 2020-04-27T09:38:29 | 2020-04-27T09:30:44 | 416 | 128 |
[WP] Humans died a long time ago. But our AI live on as caretakers for the planet; becoming spirit-like constructs integrated into the planet; today, alien colonizers arrived to what they thought was a garden world. The Fey Machines are having none of that. | ######[](#dropcap)
Feyah’s eyestalks pressed up against the glass, darting back and forth as she looked down at the planet below. “It’s so…*colorful*,” she breathed. “Is all that blue really water?”
“It really is,” Orhan answered. He stood behind his daughter, gazing through the small viewport toward what he hoped wo... | It was late at night when the small ship tumbled from the sky. What looked like a clump of propulsion jets burned and flitted, giving an air of no clear direction. It fell through the atmosphere, tumbling so quickly that no single part of it could alight with ozone fire. It finally impacted the ground with big *spiff* ... | 2020-05-22T17:07:30 | 2020-05-22T16:24:31 | 434 | 217 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | I pulled my dress on, and zipped it. Tonight I am having dinner with my girlfriend, Dani, and her parents. I will have been dating Dani for 6 months, in a week. I am a bit nervous, but I'm not too bad at first impressions so I think it should be fine. I just hope that we can continue with our relationship after tonight... | - Hello, sir, it's so nice to meet you. My name is Charles.
- Oh, so nice to meet you, Charles, said Mr. Thompson. Ella has told me you are a veterinarian. Could it be that we have met before? I have a small computer repair shop in 3rd Street, wouldn't you be the one that brought an old Mac computer past month?
- Yes... | 2020-06-05T13:35:30 | 2020-06-05T13:31:52 | 97 | 22 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | Sitting in my car, I sighed and checked the address on my phone. This was it. I looked up to see my girlfriend excitedly come out the front door. I sighed again. I hate having to meet parents. I got out and met her half way, greeting her with a quick kiss on the lips.
"I'm so glad you came! You finished your appointme... | Rachel was so exited for me to meet her folks and the only thing I was worried about is if they wouldn’t mind my casual clothing. Is a flannel over a AC/DC shirt with jeans and sneakers good enough to present to parents? I usually have a okay track record with them and it almost always gets better once I tell them my j... | 2020-06-05T14:15:57 | 2020-06-05T14:04:11 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a country where murder is legal - The catch is, it has to be declared a week in advance. The aggressor has to wait the full week, but the victim may begin defending themselves immediately upon receiving notice. While a legitimate threat is legal, a false one is very much not. | You know, it started out as something akin to a suicide attempt. The law states you have seven days from the letter being delivered. Once the letter arrives, both sides are notified and the game begins. Simple. Beautiful, really.
I was bored. I served 12 years in the special units. I was loaned to other countr... | Nathan slowly sipped water from his bottle and then checked his watch, 15 minutes to go. His fingers drummed restlessly on the m416 laying on his lap. 'Now is not the time to be impatient' he thought to himself, he has waited 7 years for it, a few more minutes is not much.
He knew it may be a suscide mission, that's ... | 2020-12-03T08:40:46 | 2020-12-03T07:41:05 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] Time travelers have become such a nuisance that governments have begun recording fake historical events that lead time travelers to areas where they can be arrested. You're a bartender at one of these artificial towns, trying to determine if the customer in front of you is from the future. | Something was up with that guy. Marian knew it.
“So, like, is it usually this busy at this time?” he said, looking around, nervous.
“Pretty much,” she replied, as she dried the glasses like a bartender in a 1940s film noir. She was not a
great actor.
He took another scan around. On the edge. Nervous. “Anything… in... | Amateurs ask questions, professionals take action. That was what Franklin, going by Atticus in this world, told himself at least as he poured drinks in a town whose only notable point was a highly cultivated dinginess. He had six more months of service until this deployment was up and at this point any intrigue that co... | 2021-01-16T10:09:46 | 2021-01-16T08:44:45 | 3,201 | 230 |
[WP] If a person opts into brain scans during life, a full digital model of their brain can be created. Posthumously, these scans are given to the bereaved family and not uncommonly used as the AI for house robots. You lost a loved one, and their robot... occasionally says VERY strange things | “RHINOS!” Jimmy yelled from the backseat. “Rhinos *all* around, it’s *JUMANJI* time baby!”
"That's right, kiddo!" John said, turning around from the passenger seat and giving Jimmy a fist-bump. "Rhinos!"
Karen had the gas pedal floored, focused only on the road barely visible behind her tears. When the doctors told... | “Eve? Sweetheart, are you in here?” The house was quiet when Henry got home that night, not even the comforting mechanical whir of her servos to be heard. It scared him, for more reasons than he knew how to reckon with in that moment.
“Eve?” he called out again. No answer. With a quick hand gesture he activated the ho... | 2021-03-06T12:05:42 | 2021-03-06T11:36:42 | 2,839 | 134 |
[WP] You have just died due to several different causes at once (ie heart attack at the same time you get hit by a car) only to find yourself surrounded by the gods of each respective cause arguing over who has the rights to your death | [Poem]
A flash of light,
A fiery roar,
And now somehow
I am no more.
The fire I get,
The light... not sure,
Which one cut me
Down to the core?
I expected the one,
The other... not quite,
It came out of nowhere,
That bright flash of light.
So which one killed me?
I wish I could say,
But I do not know
and neithe... | No one tells you how peaceful it feels when you die, but I supose people don't usually come back and talk about it. My death was bound to happen, smoking, drinking and too many drugs. I had blocked arteries, when the doctors tried to save me from my latest heart attack they were just as surprised by the quake and the c... | 2021-05-04T18:50:41 | 2021-05-04T18:46:49 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Time freezes when you are seconds from mortal danger, you can’t move but you have as much time to plan as you need and you can unfreeze time at will. You are in bed for another sleepless night and you just realized the alarm clock you have been staring at has been stuck on 2:45 am for an hour. | Sarah never had nightmares. She knew the worst that life could throw at her, and she was still around. With a little thinking, you could solve most problems. And with enough time and a lot of thinking, the rest can be solved too, or at least postponed. But this time may be different. She has no idea what she should be ... | Alright, shit, first check is “can I see anything?” Nope, just the alarm clock and my room. Hearing doesn’t work, so I can’t use that. Next up “can I smell anything?” Doesn’t seem that helpful, but it could be a gas leak, so I can’t rule it out just yet… No, nothing smells out of the ordinary. Ok, can I feel anyth... | 2021-09-11T18:07:56 | 2021-09-11T17:35:46 | 107 | 61 |
[WP] The prophecy states that only the chosen one can pull the sword from the stone. The Dark Lord, not one to be held back by prophecies and mythos, upheaves the stone itself and carves it into a hammer, using the still-bound sword as the hammer's hilt. | Their battle shook heaven and earth, and the mountain ruptured beneath their feet. Great streams of fire and lava poured from the veins of the world, filling the bottom of the chasm until it was like a distant river from Hell itself, one which the supposed hero of the people had just fallen into.
The Dark One couldn't... | He swung wildly. Angrily. Clumsily. The hammer grafted itself into a wall stubbornly, and he heaved with some effort to dislodge it. The hero (that's me), stood impatiently as he tried again, swinging wide this time, dizzying himself as the force carried him comically in circles.
"Jesus, you aren't very good at this."... | 2022-01-21T08:27:20 | 2022-01-21T07:51:09 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] You are a Anti-Motivational Speaker. Whereas motivational speakers spread Toxic Positivity and unrealistic expectations, you bring a healthy Dose of Negativity and remind people of how little potential they really have. | You may be under the delusion that I am a dilapidated man. The kind of person who has greasy hair, poor personal hygiene, and questionable health habits—for who else would spread negativity as his profession? While that reflects my internal state, on the outside I am put together, confident, and beautiful, for if I pre... | Are you blind? Oh, but looking at you, I have to apologize. Dude, I'm surprised you made it this far! It seems like a severe case of stupidity. You look like the reason a manual must say not to microwave your hamster. Or that you should plug something in before you try to turn it on. But it's not like you're completely... | 2022-08-26T11:06:30 | 2022-08-26T10:16:54 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] A Powerful sorcerer known as the Soul Harvester has recently died, and now his unfathomable collection of souls has become a hivemind army without a sorcerer to control them. | "Okay, so you're saying Uncle John was a wizard, like Harry Potter?" Calvin gave the dark haired man in front of him a quizzical look.
"No, no. A sorcerer is very different from a wizard. Wizards conjure things using ancient spells and internal power. Sorcerers have to harness that power from other living things. You... | The soul harvester. It was a nice name. And one that the man had deserved.
Most people would have blanched and broken down in the face of the sorrow he had faced. He wasnt most people. He let the grief and anger fuel his plan. He wasn't going to let fate decide who was allowed to die and who wasnt.
He wouldnt just... | 2022-09-19T19:10:46 | 2022-09-19T18:59:11 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] You've loved magic your whole life but since your family is poor you've had to teach yourself. you're overactive imagination has helped you invent spells all your own. eventually you get a scholarship to a prestigious magic college but quickly find out everyone seems to lack your imagination. | I remember the joy I felt eight months ago when I first received the envelope in the mail. I knew I had gotten in the second I saw it, since it was a big envelope. If I hadn't gotten it, Woodsworth wouldn't have bothered to send a whole pamphlet. I remembered hurrying into the kitchen, a lopsided grin plastered on my f... | (So here is a story that I wrote in fifteen minutes with zero proof reading)
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It was a strange day when the letter arrived, the postmaster usually wouldn’t make his rounds ‘til next week. And that's how I knew the outcome of my application before I even read it.
I was excited, I poured magic into the ... | 2022-10-25T05:20:00 | 2022-10-25T05:06:02 | 741 | 131 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "Bad news, my lord."
"Well, out with it, my minion."
"The king's not buying it."
"What?"
"I know, sir. He's just having none of it at all."
"But kings *always* fall for the Chosen One shtick. They send some poor hapless whelp while we roll their unprepared forces with our superior numbers. And you're saying t... | The Queen leaned on her scepter, pressing it to her forehead, soothing her. Before her, Castellan Hujo looked at a spot on the ground. Sweat pooled underneath his starched collar.
"Tell me again. Slowly. Why teenager is of more worth to my kingdom than my standing armies."
"Well--"
"And what does 'blue hair' have to... | 2022-10-28T10:28:05 | 2022-10-28T08:04:26 | 260 | 177 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "Bad news, my lord."
"Well, out with it, my minion."
"The king's not buying it."
"What?"
"I know, sir. He's just having none of it at all."
"But kings *always* fall for the Chosen One shtick. They send some poor hapless whelp while we roll their unprepared forces with our superior numbers. And you're saying t... | "Okay ya know what... fuck you". I said finally tired of his shit.
"We all wipe your ass daily and you want to send everyone to die???" I continued while he was to dumbstruck to act. "Our teenagers have alot in common and since you didn't even fucking TRY diplomacy properly."
I expected the guards to strike me do... | 2022-10-28T10:28:05 | 2022-10-28T07:51:12 | 260 | 31 |
[WP] Much like dinosaurs, mythical dragons have all gone extinct. What people don't know is that, like dinosaurs, the dragons also have their descendants. One day on your farm, you encounter a talking, ember-spitting chicken, bent on "restoring their clan." | The town was ablaze, and the chicken squawked with joy. "The gold, human! Pillage it all."
Claire's gaze danced across the slithering flames. The houses she once knew were now piles of ash and charred wood. The people she had grown up with were running and screaming at the top of their lungs, a parade of despair. Not ... | I don't even know why I'm on this farm. I mean sure my parents are farmers and all, but that doesn't mean 'I' want to be one. The same old laboring routine day in and day out. So sick of it. I want to be a city boy living in my air conditioned condo rather than shoveling manure. Living in riches, comfort, and style. I ... | 2022-10-31T09:37:05 | 2022-10-31T08:35:38 | 38 | 24 |
[WP] You discover that Earth is the "North Korea" of the galaxy | "So, your people and my people are at war then? Just like that?" I asked, staring into the screen. Outside, masses of rock moved silently through the asteroid field. My former comrade from the other side was only a few meters away from me, in a spherical ship that, just like mine, was devoid of external lights and s... | I only really downloaded the TOR browser for a goof. I heard you could buy pot on a site called silk road. I hadn't really smoked since college- but a lot of states had been legalising recently, so I was thinking about trying it out again. I didn't think I'd buy anything- but once I got on the site I knew I had to try ... | 2015-01-28T19:48:20 | 2015-01-28T19:20:16 | 84 | 34 |
[WP] The world is divided into countries, each controlled by a different subreddit. Describe the daily goings on between the largest countries. | It was midnight when theredpill armies invaded my homeland of TwoXChromosomes. It had been a wonderful week before then; I had been on a school trip to askscience, and my mother had been considering a family trip to awwdcational (although my little sister had been hoping for the neighbouring land of aww).
It was lone... | *Off topic*- Find it funny I literally just posted something similar to AskReddit a few days ago. Anyhow, I'll give it a shot!
Askreddit is the most populated country, but has the most civil wars out of all the countries, due to everyone being so opinionated.
TIFU always tries to rebuild their country but ends up cra... | 2015-04-18T10:59:23 | 2015-04-18T09:50:03 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | “So…” he didn’t meet her eyes “…how you been?"
“Busy”. She said.
“Yeah…”He put his hands in his pockets. “Same here…”
“You’re unemployed.” She replied.
A flash of anger crossed his face. “Between jobs.” He said, with a cold tone.
“Whatever. So you’re here for the kids.”
“Yeah. How’ve they been?”
“You got thei... | "So, how'd it go?"
"They still don't get it. It's crazy."
"Imagine how I felt."
"I can't! I sent Jesus down there, you know. To explain. To make it easier. I told him to focus on the essence."
"What did he say?"
"Well, to treat everyone how they would want to be treated. To not care too much about money. To try th... | 2015-06-04T23:03:45 | 2015-06-04T19:33:18 | 83 | 40 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | The man at the desk looks up at me, and says in a deep voice.
"You get a pick of a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven or a wooden spoon."
"I'll take the vacation," I say confidently.
"I wouldn't pick that is I were you," Deep voice guy replies.
"I'll will still take the vacation," I reply.
Immediately I am trans... | Marcus tucked the spoon behind his ear with a casual confidence. He had no idea if he just fucked himself, day-one, but he knew what soft looked like, and 22 years in the big house teaches one thing. – don’t be soft. Besides, he didn’t think either answer would actually give him what he was expecting.
Sort of like th... | 2015-06-07T21:46:36 | 2015-06-07T14:47:18 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] The first human is sentenced to death by an alien civilization, who don't know the first thing about how to kill a human. | "You have been sentenced to die, by our most toxic of substances." They shrieked, their ugly voices resonating in my head.
"I didn't know you were sentient! I just want to go home!"
"You should have considered the consequences! Prepare for death by kuroxis.."
"Kuroxis? What the fuck is kuroxis?!" I asked, but then, ... | All eyes were on him. The grand judge of the alien civilization was going over his notes one last time. In an effort to try to be more sympathetic to the humans, he put on some fake reading glasses and squinted with his eyes. He knew that it was a difficult decision, but he also knew that there was no other way. He had... | 2015-09-11T12:17:41 | 2015-09-11T11:32:50 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | "I have a proposition for you."
The massive dragon eyed the tiny gold piece, the glow of a millennium of accumulated treasure reflecting off his metallic green scales. It was small, but any addition to the dragon's collection was a welcome one. "Hmm, no champion has dared enter my lair for centuries. I shall humor ... | "You are certainly most fearsome and undoubtedly powerful," the man begins, "Your wealth is immeasurable and your reputation across millennia is common knowledge: Raza the Terrible - hoarder of gold and collector of souls. All who have challenged you have perished."
This forces a smirk from me as I eye him from across... | 2015-10-13T23:18:52 | 2015-10-13T17:54:29 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | 3 Things Every Loofah Supply Chain NEEDS To Be Competitive In Today's Market
In 2015, Forbes magazine estimated that the loofah market was poised to receive exponential growth increases of up to 30% per annum! Wow! Who knew that a silly little sponge could produce so much profit.
Growth industries like loofah and lo... | #Title: I Somehow Find, Particles Collide
So you want to build a Large Hadron Collider.
Pretty simple, just gotta build a whole lot of magnetic coils for miles on end.
A whole mess of satisfied physicists then look at each coil, nod to one another like they're all satisfactory, then give the guys who control the e... | 2016-02-01T20:53:28 | 2016-02-01T20:52:20 | 90 | 39 |
[WP] When a wizard is killed he casts a death curse on his killer. The power of this curse scales in proportion to the power of the wizard. You just killed one of the weakest wizards in the world, now you have to live with his annoying death curse. | I've come to deal with it. It's annoying for sure, but in the end it's not debilitating. I had to move though, relocate and make a new life for myself. I became a ranger out in the wilds, and make a name for myself as a silent stalker, a killer for hire.
The rumors spread, if you go into the forest at night and left w... | "Like I've told thousands before you, there's nothing we can do," the witch doctor told me through his obscenely large and rather frightful mask. The mask looked like a frog that underwent a weak transformation spell to turn it into a bird, but it only got halfway there. And maybe there was a little cat in there too.
... | 2016-03-09T09:22:31 | 2016-03-09T07:44:32 | 204 | 131 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | “Look, if you're so mad about it, the offer to play Katamari still stands.” Selina looked away from her monitor briefly to call back over her shoulder.
“Oh, brilliant idea!” God remained focused, clicking four or five times in quick succession, pausing, tutting, and then clicking a few more, “Fool me once, shame on yo... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T07:01:52 | 1,980 | 336 |
[WP] Your girlfriend has always hated you, and is constantly making attempts to ruin your life. However, everything she does inadvertently makes your life better. Today, ever oblivious, you propose to her. | She stood me up for our 2-year anniversary trip to Italy -- the plane crashed. She told my boss about my anti-vaxxer blog -- he thought it was satire and promoted me. She even tripped over my cat and killed him in a freak accident -- which I was upset about, until tests came back saying he'd just contracted rabies.
I ... | She looked over at him with distain. His bubbly laugh and those rosy cheeks. How the f@*k was he so happy. She wanted to ruin that childish little frame of his, crush the happiness right out of his soul. She wanted him to feel what the real world was like, her world.
They were at a hockey game (yes, god damn hockey). ... | 2016-09-15T14:53:28 | 2016-09-15T14:00:59 | 1,241 | 51 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | The joker was a fluid being. It was best to keep your distance. As he sat in front of me, checking his gun and absently scratching his face I wondered if I would snap and just run away.
The silence was deafening, only the little grunts coming from his chest broke it as he fished up some papers from a barely used draw... | "Does chaos excite you? You have been with me for quite some time, after all."
The joker sporadically arose from his misappropriated desk with a tightly gripped fist and an even tighter smile; pacing, the joker began mumbling about the bat, about Gotham, and about nothing at all. His scattered thoughts entrained his ... | 2016-11-21T04:50:48 | 2016-11-21T02:49:57 | 89 | 13 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | Walking into the room when the boss calls you is always an..."eventful," one. You never truly know what will happen. He could gift you, he could tell you to do something, or sometimes you could just hear a gunshot as soon as the door closes. Me, being on my toes, looks at the boss with a blank expression, but inside wa... | "Does chaos excite you? You have been with me for quite some time, after all."
The joker sporadically arose from his misappropriated desk with a tightly gripped fist and an even tighter smile; pacing, the joker began mumbling about the bat, about Gotham, and about nothing at all. His scattered thoughts entrained his ... | 2016-11-21T03:05:27 | 2016-11-21T02:49:57 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You share a unique relationship with one of your parallel selves: when they receive a tattoo it also appears on you, and vice versa. You happen to have very different tastes, and so begins a passive aggressive cross-reality war fought entirely in tattoos and cover-ups. | When I was sixteen I found my first tattoo. I woke up one morning and there it was -- a tiny, thrilling stain at the top of my right arm. My parents would never have let me get one, and this, a tattoo that they could do nothing about, pleased me greatly.
I knew who it was from, of course. This kind of thing happened.... | The year was 1996 and the smash hit *Barb Wire* starring Pamela Anderson had just been released. In those days life was more simple, more innocent. But when Jerod woke up one Saturday morning after a night of drinking with a barb wire tattoo on his bicep things would never be the same.
"What the hell is this? How mu... | 2016-12-16T10:55:24 | 2016-12-16T09:47:38 | 788 | 90 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | I'd never thought Satan would look like an accountant. Some grandiose angel of darkness, perhaps, or even that cliched red devil figure. But not a short, slim, bookish guy in a somewhat shabby suit. "Welcome to Hell. It seems your escort's led you here in record time. Please, have a seat. Would you like a drink? All vi... | "What the hell?"
A man looking like pure sinister evil appeared from the darkness.
"Yes, that would be correct"
Five seconds ago I was riding my car, and suddenly I was in this room, walls blacker than vantablack, and the putrid smell of sulfur and death made the hairs in my nose curl up. There was a reddish blue,... | 2016-12-19T16:30:22 | 2016-12-19T14:01:54 | 76 | 44 |
[WP] While taking a shower you think up the cure for cancer. A month later you figure out how to cure world hunger. The world reveres you and your "showerthoughts", but you know the truth. It's not you thinking up these miracles, it's the shower. | "Did you tell them?"
"I didn't" I replied, leaning against the doorway of the bathroom.
"Good. You did good."
"I can't..I can't keep this up. The medias watching me. The ceremonies are wearing me down. I keep getting questions that I can't even fake the answers to and-"
"Stop"
"I just can't keep doing this," ... | It's a nice feeling to be adored by billions. Everywhere I go people know me and I haven't had to pay for a meal in months. Yes, it is a feeling like no other.
This morning I felt a little more thankful of my luck. See 3 months ago I found my shower incepted in my brain the idea of curing cancer and the next month the... | 2017-05-08T17:41:25 | 2017-05-08T17:03:11 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | The cosmos is relatively easy to meddle with. A swipe of the finger, and you can toss around asteroids or zap a few nebulas into existence.
We set up some ground rules a long time ago. Galaxies have to stay in rough interstellar arrangements. Once you create a star, it has to die on its own. And most importantly, if a... | Execution, that is the key to any good practical joke. When you're immortal, you're allotted all of the time in the world to develop a scheme so devious yet harmless that can make an impact on one of your friend's eternal lives. Yet it is so rare that our lives are affected by our friend's practical jokes. How is it so... | 2017-06-22T19:53:14 | 2017-06-22T19:51:25 | 763 | 104 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | The last alien struggled to reach for its helmet as the soldier stood to block it's hand. The president stepped forward and spoke with an unnerving calmness.
"You know you're not going back."
The alien looked up, gasping. "How.."
"We were aware of your existence for decades. But we chose not to travel. We focused al... | "Compared to AX-213? No, this is easy," the footsoldier relayed over the wavelength transmitter. Those pitiful beings weren't even at Stage 1 of the Rëitsig Scale of Development. It was the first in the AX galatic classification that bore such a terrible level of industrialization. One would think that the road was wel... | 2017-08-08T07:21:49 | 2017-08-08T05:28:12 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | Report 0001 of planetary body designated by natives as 'Earth'.
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First and foremost, I am of the opinion that we stay far and away from this world. High command has given me the most advanced ship and the most advanced musket weaponry to survey the world and I feel no more secure here than I would on the edge of... | When he finished he put it back into the display case full of his other trophies. He had taken it from the Grand Warlord of Nor IV, one of his easiest conquests.
"But you must agree Admiral that it is a waste of our resources. Why invade when they clearly are killing themselves? We don't even need to wait that long, m... | 2017-08-08T08:36:06 | 2017-08-08T08:23:50 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | My eyes flitted over the crowd of people lining up. 26, 30, 14 - gonna have to turn her away - 22, 8988, 21, 43. I slowly looked back towards the big number. That's an 8, followed by a 9 and two more eights. I took a few steps to the left. It's all one number. That... shouldn't be right. It couldn't be right. But i was... | "You, come with me please. Jim! I'll just have a chat with this guy, okay?" Jim, the closest thing to a neanderthal you could see outside of a museum of natural history, flashed a thumbs up before going back to checking ID's.
"So uh, like, what's the problem?" I glanced at the man beside me. He looked like your aver... | 2017-09-01T23:50:27 | 2017-09-01T23:25:55 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | It had been a long and drawn out war. Centuries of warfare against the indomitable strength of the Offworlders had caused rapid technological advances on earth.
Automobiles were traded for frictionless hovercraft, ballistic weapons for energy propulsions systems, and quiet homesteads in the country for staggeringly la... | Half a pound of pressure. That’s all it would take to doom the world. My fingers trembled on the key, my wrist ready to turn it the final thirty degrees that would end humanity as we knew it.
“What are you waiting for?” General Hammill asked, his breath at the back of my neck.
The alien mothership had landed. Five ye... | 2017-09-26T11:14:47 | 2017-09-26T10:31:41 | 4,269 | 132 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | *translated into English for your consideration*
The alien commander sat in the control room of his flagship, eaglerly awaiting humanities surrender to his mighty alien fleet. The humans had been easily conquered, hardly putting up a fight. A glorious victory this would be, another planet conquered, its resident specie... | The fighting had raged for mere hours before everything came crashing down. Their forces were immeasurable, their weapons far beyond humanity's. It was hardly a valiant effort, anything any military tried met with catastrophic failure in minutes.
General Dillian stood on the bow of the ship, he couldn't find the ... | 2017-09-26T11:16:52 | 2017-09-26T11:13:03 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Microsoft Water, Google Earth, Amazon Fire, Apple Air. Long ago, the four corporations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when Amazon attacked store-based retailers. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. |
They had come for Apple first. Few chose the Apple way of life, but those who did always seemed to have an air of peace and tranquility. Their isolation from the other corporations allowed them to live their lives without worry about which product was better, which product would be compatible with what, or even what ... | The weather had finally calmed. Now, in the still of the night, it grew cold. The kind of cold that whispered and breathed; permeating the bones of the men with a brutal cruelty.
The men sat together around the fire, silent and somber.
"Brothers. Something must be done," one of the men said, finally breaking the sil... | 2017-12-05T00:46:47 | 2017-12-04T23:56:49 | 244 | 32 |
[WP] A group of wealthy old men get tired of golf and hire you to DM a game of Dungeons and Dragons for them. | By the time I was born, my great-grandfather was already very old, rich, and mysterious. The tall-tale is that he made his money as a treasure-hunter, but whenever I’ve asked him about it, he changes the subject and talks about golf. “If I’d only hit a four-iron on hole two yesterday, I’d have been ten yards closer to ... | You could tell life for Harold hadn't been the same since the accident. Ever since his company was bought out and his shares sold, he'd been spending all of his time at the County Country Club - at least after his daily triple-bacon-and-egg croissant. Pretty par for the course, so to speak, as with most ex-billionaires... | 2018-02-11T17:01:22 | 2018-02-11T16:10:59 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 103 | 12 |
[WP] France is now illegal | “Hon hon hon oui oui baguette,” I whispered the secret code in the ears of the man in front of me. He looked just like any proper Englishmen, being in a double-chested suit and holding an umbrella and all, but we both knew better. We both knew that in his heart, he would always be French.
“Hon hon hon oui oui baguette... | "You do understand that we have a long and storied history with the French? That we may not have won our independence without them?"
"We're not here to talk about the past, OK? They're losers, and we're winners."
The press conference was going much like a thousand before it: combative, unhelpful, and often embarrassi... | 2018-07-27T10:14:23 | 2018-07-27T09:16:24 | 563 | 91 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | The man led them through the gallery at a brisk pace. He was dressed sharply, suited with an impeccable mauve tie and tailored waistcoat. The corridors they walked through were carved from pristine, white marble – their footsteps echoed loudly as they traversed the wing of the museum.
Without a moment’s warning, he st... | A vast landscape of red and orange sand, sparsely dotted with small withering shrubs was all you could see for miles. Except for the road and the reason I had arrived here. I looked towards the heavily secured building with electrified fences. Guards with strange weapons which made a thunderous sound before seemingly ... | 2018-08-27T17:05:28 | 2018-08-27T16:01:07 | 38 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | It had been the werewolves, unsurprisingly, that had ended up testing hair conditioners. They sported thick coats that were both coarse and tough enough to turn away a steel blade, so anything that could make their pelts luxuriously soft and sleek would become the next luxury conditioner overnight.
Furthermore, they w... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T17:13:23 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | I was nervous. For a long time, I was thinking my nerves wouldn't let me try and get a job again. I tried, but something felt wrong, so I quit quickly. Doesn't help that for the longest time, I was trying to keep my secret well, a secret.
I take a deep breath before I wander into the police station. The moment I walk ... | In the beginning finding them jobs other than "executioner" or "bounty hunter" was difficult. Many of em complained that these jobs we're demoralizing and that they "reinforced negative stereotypes" whatever that meant. Eventually the guys at the workforce commission bent and found them new jobs. Now you could have a s... | 2018-08-27T16:25:44 | 2018-08-27T15:01:41 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | I looked up as the man came in to the pet shop through the door. Along with him was his teenage son and young daughter, curiously looking around the room. The room had several indents in the walls, which contained all sorts of animals. Dogs, cats, bunnies, and rodents of all kinds.
I finished cleaning the mess in the ... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T18:56:29 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] 99.9% of the universe is filled with magic. Sentient races believe that life cannot be started or sustained without magic, and it just so happens that Earth lies in a giant void of magic. One day, you accidentally use magic, suddenly attracting the attention of the rest of the universe. | "...Did you add Magic to Earth lately?" the acountant asked. He was reading over reports from Earth's progress and something... wasn't quite adding up.
"No. Why?" The writer didn't even look up from their papers. Until the silence dragged on. "Why?" he pressed.
The accountant was biting his thumbnail, re-reading a pa... | I didn't expect a lot this evening. A bit of TV, fix some dinner, maybe even manage to work on the growing pile of paper work on my desk. You know, just the normal night of every person with a stable enough life.
Of course it all went out the window when a giant thunderbird teleported into my living room and a bunch ... | 2018-12-10T08:48:20 | 2018-12-10T07:52:56 | 99 | 37 |
[WP] You're a supervillian. Your power? Making anybody and everybody nearby feel the same emotion you feel except 100x stronger. Mostly you've been using it to force people to donate absolutely all their life's savings into charities. Superheros aren't quite sure how to deal with you. | Here they were, looking around my apartment.
“This is your lair?”
“I mean, I wouldn’t say it’s a lair. I don’t really go anywhere else.”
WingMan flutters around, taking books out of bookcases and looking behind the pictures on the walls.
“You won’t find anything,” I say. “It’s really just an apartment.”“Where are a... | “You’re definitely getting better at portraying your emotions. What are you doing to get better at crying on stage?”
I thought back to my first encounter with my... quirk. I had just gotten off of a 10 hour shift at work. Stressed as all hell, someone shoulder checked me walking down the street. I’ll admit, after the ... | 2018-12-17T13:55:04 | 2018-12-17T13:43:40 | 2,397 | 797 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | Eyes shutting around me. Friends, family, all of them drifting into a long sleep. 100 years shrunk into the blink of an eye.
Soon, the soft whirring of the cryogenic generators kick in. The whirring... wait, why am I still awake?
I looked around frantically, as those around me got frozen, stopping their body processe... | At about the thirty year point I suddenly turned grey. The colour fell out of my hair overnight. I think it was the trauma, it's reach extending from that very first moment when Miss. Dawson pressed the button on my pod and the glass reeled back.
She smiled. I saw red lipstick bonded to the gaps between her teeth. ... | 2018-12-29T02:06:11 | 2018-12-29T01:58:51 | 1,838 | 88 |
[WP] You invent time-travel, but it's more like time-observation: you can't affect the past, you can only observe what happened. You decide to go back and witness your favourite historical event, but soon realize everything you were taught was so very wrong... | Ethereal time manipulation, or ETM, as I had dubbed it upon my discovery of how to project myself through time. Though I couldn't physically go to that time, I could 'witness' it through the ETM. I spent the last several days locked away in my study trying to determine the best way to go about using it, or even if I ... | It's not a machine, it's a formula. And I have the Deep Ken to thank for it, really, they were the first to show me the deeper ways and consequences governed by the Universal Secrets. They taught me the power and application of True Comprehension, of knowing how everything fits together. The equations and functions tha... | 2019-05-19T10:29:24 | 2019-05-19T09:21:39 | 74 | 17 |
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