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[WP] You’re an obscure, ancient god who had resigned yourself to slowly fading away. One day, an inventor whose sibling is an archaeologist names a new type of tech after you. As the tech becomes wildly popular and ubiquitous, you find yourself growing in power vastly beyond what you had ever known. | It happened in an instant. One moment we were all in the board room getting ready to discuss the release of our next big product, and the next, we were in a dark cavern, all seated around a table like before, but the table was stone. Renee, our VP of Operations was seated directly opposite of a glowing figure that la... | In ancient Rome, Sol was the Sun God.
In modern times, Sol was the name of a powerful reactor which harnessed the energy of the sun.
Sol thought he had been forgotten by humans. No one worshiped him, no one gave him offerings. Thanks to this thing called 'science' he didn't even have to drive the sun anymore. His pow... | 2022-02-04T06:21:30 | 2022-02-04T06:00:19 | 60 | 38 |
[WP] It didn't take long to translate the first ever alien message, after the realization that the language used wasn't alien, but rather a "dead" human language. It began: "Greetings. We have chosen to transmit this message in the native language of the human most qualified to lead your species." | The message was first received as a huge blast of AM radio traffic. That blast continued repeating for a week. It only took a few hours to realize it was a data signal. It stopped as soon as it began, then started on the FM bands but more nuanced. It started at 88.1 and slowly moved up all the way to 108 before endi... | The large, round table was surrounded by the world representatives and they were trying to decipher the first alien message they had received.
“This must be an alien language. I can’t translate it.” said the representative of Brazil
“Maybe it’s Egyptian.” suggested the representative of Norway
“No, I don’t recognize... | 2021-06-03T06:04:09 | 2021-06-03T04:36:06 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | The courtroom fell silent as the judge took the stand.
“The disciplinary hearing of Genie Juthus will continue,” his Honor said. The judge was the most massive genie Juthus had ever seen, evidence of his advanced age. “The defendant will take the stand.”
“Yes, your honor,” Juthus said, his voice steady. He float... | It's not every day you encounter a genie in a lamp, especially not when that lamp happens to be a crappy desk lamp purchased at a garage sale. But the moment Arthur put a bulb in and connected the plug, a silver mist enveloped the room before coalescing into a form not unlike that of a tax accountant. Complete with che... | 2014-06-05T08:58:45 | 2014-06-05T08:50:25 | 79 | 28 |
[WP]: Children are named by the traits they are fated to have - Brave, Serene, Deeply Caring, Unmoved - and of course your lovely daughter, Bites People. | Mistress Gentle led the way down the hall. Our footsteps pattered on the linoleum; I was shocked at how *quiet* it was in here. I would have expected an orphanage to be full of the usual noises of children: laughing, crying, screaming, etc.
“And you’re sure you want to adopt, Mr…” Mistress Gentle gulped before saying... | "I just don't understand why you named her 'Bites People'."
"Because I thought it would be funny. OK? There's the truth of it. There's the truth of the situation, Leanne. I thought: 'Fuck it, everyone else has boring names. My kid is going to be named 'Bites People' and guess what? She is going to bite people. All the... | 2016-11-17T06:04:28 | 2016-11-17T04:39:24 | 4,482 | 626 |
[WP] A vampire knocks on your door, seeking permission to enter in order to kill you as their next meal. As a house-bound ghost, however, the prospects of a guest after so many years intrigues you. Smiling darkly, you welcome them inside. | A knock on the front door caught Jenny’s attention.
When was the last time that somebody was actually bold enough to approach the house, let alone knock, or ring the doorbell?
Was it weeks, months, decades even? Her sense of time was screwed since time was only a third dimensional concept.
Not having a body anymor... | The Vampire came across towards the dark desert highway. He approached a shimmering light. That led towards a hotel. The vampire rang the bell and the door opened. He saw a lady holding a candle but could not recognize the scent of blood that he would normally pick up. Intrigued he asked if he could enter. She said “ W... | 2022-08-01T09:29:12 | 2022-08-01T07:30:57 | 324 | 77 |
[WP] Your friend tells you he can't get past the captcha screen that prevents robots from proceeding. As you watch him, you realize that the reason he can't is because he actually is a robot. | "Just fucking do it, Andrew," I laughed, shoving him with my shoulder. We were sitting in our usual spot, in his rich uncle's basement with the amazing man-cave set up. His uncle had been in Australia on business for the past year and left his place to Andrew, who he claimed was always reliable. As far as I'd seen, And... | I turned to look at him, noting his perfectly rhythmic breathing. His eyes moving across the screen in a perfectly synchronized pattern, like he had been trained to do this. His eyes turned to me, and then his head followed, less than a second later.
"Thomas, I Cannot Fathom Why It Is You Look At Me In Such A Way. Mi... | 2017-01-26T17:13:01 | 2017-01-26T16:31:57 | 243 | 39 |
[WP] You were an "evil" king who has been dethroned by conquering heroes for your "horrible tyranny". It takes less than 2 years for the people of the kingdom to be begging for you to be reinstated as king. | He wiped the sweat off his brow before picking up his plow. This year's harvest would be meager, but with hard work the land would flourish again. He was lucky that he was simply exiled, and not executed as was promised.
Peter swung his plow into the ground. His back ached, and his clothing was soaked in sweat. If he... | He was beheading people! Killing them left and right! You couldn’t say a thing wrong without worrying the king’s men might overhear and cut your tongue out. No I never saw it happen but I heard about it! My cousin told me it happened to his friend and he would know. Course, now you gotta worry about your tongue getting... | 2021-03-30T16:53:11 | 2021-03-30T10:59:37 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] You have a power. Everyone thinks this power is completely lame. They are wrong. | This is my first time writing for a prompt, so any criticism/critique is welcome.
Edit: Some grammatical corrections.
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You can typically imagine a person's opinion on their ability, and by some extension the type of person they are, by what they call it. Some call it "superpower", some c... | It was half past eight, almost time for the prime minister to get lunch, well before his guards were expecting. I waited patiently for the little man to step through the thick mahogany doors. Here he comes! I centered my scope just below the man's thick toupee and squeezed the life out him. I methodically put away my e... | 2016-05-28T11:32:12 | 2016-05-28T04:29:18 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | 3-3 came back, gave me a slight nod. It was done, good. Wife, kids.... They weren’t our job, not my responsibility. That’s what I told myself, how I justified it.
How I kept justifying it.
The man in front of me, pleading for us to take his family too, he is my responsibility. The reason my team, or what’s left of i... | With a click, I hear the bolt slide on the door. Two locks are next. I can hear them turn and engage, but my side of the door is featureless - not even a door knob on this side.
A short bit of scuffling, then heavy footfalls as he retreats slowly down the basement steps. A short pause - he must have reached the b... | 2020-04-26T08:58:38 | 2020-04-26T08:35:57 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] You've died and despite living a fairly honest life, you've been sent to hell for all the terrible things you've done in video games. You're offered one way out. Prove you wouldn't do any of those things in real life by clearing the nine circles of hell like a dungeon, without being terrible. | **First Circle (Limbo)**
"Who are you?" I ask the man, suddenly waking in a small wooden boat.
"Acheron," the old man above me said as he pushed a long pole into the water. I looked up and saw nothing but a black river around me, the water was boiling and steam was rising up in thin tendrils. I could feel the heat of... | I walked through the second layer, master sword in hand. Temptation races past me. I can barely control myself.
I wipe my sweaty hands on my green latex suit. "Hiyaa" i yell as i kill another demon of the dark lord.
I am on my last bomb as i approach the level boss and i am desperately low on rupees. A merchant is s... | 2021-03-07T15:20:52 | 2021-03-07T14:07:01 | 465 | 99 |
[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. | 28, 34, 21, and 54.
I remained where I stood, nodding to the guests in silent affirmation that they were allowed in. As they trudged past me and through the door of Barney's Strip Club, I reached into my pocket, fumbled for a cigarette, and stuck it in my mouth. Now where was my lighter? It would be so much easier i... | It was a day like any other
Deflect the young,
Accept the one
But before my eyes,
A double of a 12, 1212
And then I knew:
I always thought children would joke
That it was just the writers
Making fluff and fun merry for views
And before my eyes,
A pair of kids, stacked like dishes
Wobbling about
And a guff... | 2017-09-01T23:18:34 | 2017-09-01T22:38:31 | 189 | 13 |
[WP] Every time you sneeze you find yourself in someone else's body. It's usually no real problem; you change back in 60 seconds. This time when you sneeze you find your tied up. In front of you is guys with guns. "Alright Franky, you got 30 seconds to explain why we shouldn't kill your ass" | I've had to improvise before. My condition lands me in dire straits more often than not - a CEO giving a presentation, a construction worker handling heavy machinery, a pilot landing a plane - things like that.
I've learned how to handle everything it throws at me, more or less.
It started when I was 10. My brother... | "What the fu..." you say out loud, quickly realizing your mistake as one of them raises their gun, pressing it firmly against your forehead. The cold tip of the barrel pushes your head back slightly as you subconsciously try to avoid what is coming.
You suddenly realize that your face, neck, stomach, every part of you... | 2018-11-15T13:48:47 | 2018-11-15T13:32:17 | 353 | 79 |
[WP] PVP has been turned off for years. Everyone now knows, that no blade can pierce the skin with the INTENT to kill or harm. You are at the doctor getting a shot when the needle bends upon touching your upper arm... | I hate flu shots. I have a bit of a fear of needles, if we're being honest. All my work in construction, welding, and general contracting, I have no problems. I've had Jeremy shoot that damned nail gun into my forearm on his second damn day (he's damned lucky to be my wife's nephew, or I'd have fired him for showing... | I don't remember it happening. How could I? I was just a baby at the time. My mom tells the story all the time though.
"There he was, my precious little baby," Mom would start. I always rolled my eyes when she told the story. Gave a long suffering "Mooooooom" to show my annoyance. Mom's don't care, they think it... | 2016-08-31T08:29:47 | 2016-08-31T08:23:16 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | The other races of the Milky Way cared very little about the blip of a race. You see the galactic population was less unified than one might think. Many races didn't perceive time, speech or thought in the same way. But the one thing they did all understand was matter. Every being was made out of physical matter so tha... | We try to be peaceful, try to by pacifist, try to be the good neighbor... and what does that give us? Trillion death, thousands of world burned... Again and again we begged them to stop, to see reason and stop the bloodshed... The Council turned a blind eye toward our plight, our allies abandoned us... Humanity stood o... | 2019-12-19T05:08:25 | 2019-12-19T02:49:29 | 52 | 36 |
[WP] "Before I cure your wife, you must promise to give me the child." "What do you want with our child?" "Who said I wanted your child? You're feeding a pregnant woman magic cabbage, that's going to have an effect on the baby. I need to raise it incase they breath fire or something." | **The Giant's Song**
My first birthday nearly ended the world.
I'm twenty now, and every year, to celebrate my birthday, gangs of people search through the woods hoping to find me. Hoping for blood-soaked revenge.
But it’s not me they should be after – it’s the wizard Ikore. Or the giant Caneus, who farmed cabbage. ... | "It's your fault my family is in this mess." The man barked in anger.
"On the contrary," I responded, cooly, "you see vegetables growing in perfect rows with markings and even posts and don't think to check that they belong to someone... maybe knock on the door in the damn tree the vegetables are conveniently planted ... | 2022-01-04T18:22:24 | 2022-01-04T17:38:41 | 869 | 99 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | It was a curious solution and nobody expected it to be as easy as it was. Fifty years of isolation.
Nobody knew who fired the first shots. Some said it was the Chinese, some said it was the North Koreans, others said it was the Americans. In the end, it really didn't matter, because everyone ended up involved in some ... | ' they're... they... oh. Is that a-a... mule?...'
It's easy to forgive Jake, the millenial inner-city kid who's only seen a cow on a soymilk carton. Not so easy to forgive Jake the West Point graduate and Marine recon company commander. He's sitting in his Fox IV submersible hovercraft, 12 miles off the coast of what ... | 2018-01-18T02:39:17 | 2018-01-18T02:34:57 | 129 | 42 |
[WP] You have just been abducted by a UFO. While you are figuring out what just happened to to you, a frantic alien bursts into the room. "You have no idea how many rules I'm breaking, but my Human Studies final is tomorrow and I need help." | One moment he'd been stargazing and the very next he was among them. He hadn't noticed it happen initially. William had been seated next to his brother Waylon on the hillside as they usually were on Tuesday nights, smoking and snacking as they talked about the cosmos. The two of them had always had a fascination with t... | Ren blinked at the announcement.
A few minutes prior, ahe6 had been sitting at her computer, trying to finish dinner. And now?
Inside an alien spaceship helping some type of teenager with a school assignment. Ren hoped that it would be a few questions that could be verbally answered, but…
The hostile nature of th... | 2021-01-22T09:55:54 | 2021-01-22T08:54:29 | 1,825 | 74 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | As the hero enters the throne room of the Dark Lord, he finds the throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin, "Well, this has been delightful, but I'm afraid the fun is now over."
 
Adjusting his chat headset, Hudson sighed. “Dude, we’re so close. Can’t you stay on just another hour?”
&n... | “Well, this has been delightful, but I’m afraid the fun is now over.”
“Rover? You can talk?” My one-time master’s last words faded into silence. I shook his throat back in forth in my teeth, then let go, satisfied.
I barked, signaling my human attendants to come and dispose of the body. Then I trotted over to my comf... | 2018-01-23T23:07:13 | 2018-01-23T17:21:17 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] Inexplicably, the planets are disappearing one by one. It started with Neptune going all the way to Jupiter. You're the Head of NASA and you've just watched Mars disappear. | I was rubbing my eyes when the analysts came in.
"Do we have precise timings?" I asked the statistician.
"Neptune's disappearance was reported first, and we know that to within about five minutes. We got Uranus's time within about half a second, thanks to amateur astronomers using Internet-connected cameras. And of c... | The chairman sat in his chair quietly contemplating the news. "So it's Mars now too?" He frowned. "Can we still see the Asteroid belt?"
The lead scientist nodded. "That's what's peculiar. At the rate of expansion it should have been consumed already. The same with Pluto, it was unaffected and hasn't even had it's orbi... | 2018-06-06T13:33:40 | 2018-06-06T12:17:43 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | The time had finally come. Saying his farewells, the soldier left the safety of his friends and marched into the center of the battlefield, alone. He could see the opposing forces staring him down, but he did not falter. Then, one of them, a foot-soldier much like himself, stepped forwards. "Look at that fool, standing... | Today's the end of The Month. It wasnt surprising but we all knew it was coming. It lasted too long but we didnt want it to seem like it had come too soon. There are 12 of them yet this one was different. It was almost like the rest seemed dull and ugly while this one was meaningful and gave us momentary happiness righ... | 2017-08-30T07:33:21 | 2017-08-30T04:51:45 | 284 | 13 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | "*Today, on the anniversary of her passing, we commemorate the life of Silent Light, the single greatest hero of recent times. Born in 1985, her civilian identity unknown, Silent Light joined the Super Guard Team in february 2001, being mentored by The Captain as the new heavy assault member of the team. Her voice, whe... | *This time* it had to work. It couldn't be like that time the duct tape broke in the torture chamber, releasing the bar that kept Doctor KingKitty from morphing into her feline form and escaping. Or like the time my blaster cannon had no ammo while I finally had WhipWorm in the scope. And most certainly never like the ... | 2022-11-29T02:42:13 | 2022-11-28T14:15:34 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | -Replay that last segment, if you will, Preceptor Xithis-
A thought-command to the mitris-orb and the holographic images reset themselves. The bipedal alien - the 'human' - sat motionless in front of a vid screen of the most primitive make. In front of it was a rectangular pad covered with buttons, almost all inscr... | May our children forgive us; for we choose servitude over annihilation. Is it not better to be second among equals, lower only to them and above the rest? Is it not better to watch the fleet of those who would enslave you burn, to watch their planets fall and their cities crumble than to see your people massacred, your... | 2014-12-26T17:56:23 | 2014-12-26T10:50:07 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You have all the advantages, and disadvantages, of a video game hero. You can punch out elemental gods, but you cannot open a locked box. You can suplex a battleship, but a child can block you from walking down a hallway. You backflip-dodge bullets, but you can't jump over knee-high fences. | I figured it out when I was about 8.
My mom had been on some health food kick, constantly feeding me kale. Passionfruit. Acai. Superfoods or something. I don't know, I was 8 years old.
What I DID know was that every time I ate a full serving of said food a number up in the right hand corner of my Star Wars: Revenge... | I load in. The Tunnel. The bright Light. I don't remember why I saved here. I barely remember the accident that caused me to delete my other saves. I had been in such a hurry, my finger slipped. All of the other saves, gone. Now I'm here. The Tunnel. The Light. The Horn. *Danger*, it says. *Move*, it says. I can't. Sto... | 2019-05-06T13:44:06 | 2019-05-06T13:21:30 | 302 | 60 |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Those of us who volunteered to go to Mars were seen as brave individuals conquering the final frontier by some and idiots with a skewed perception of what life away from everyone would be like.
In reality, it was somewhere in between. The loneliness is worse than it seems. On earth, we would be isolated for maybe a f... | I remember seeing Jerry's face through the window in my hibernation pod. He was slamming his fists onto it and although he knew it was soundproof, he knew it would trigger the auto awaking cycle. I blinked a few times, maybe thinking it was a dream. I tried to tilt my head to the right, forgetting i was strapped down c... | 2015-06-29T19:43:23 | 2015-06-29T19:20:07 | 81 | 35 |
[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. | God sat down on his lumbar support, swivel desk chair and leaned back. He adjusted his headset, and turned on his desk top computer. As he heard the fan spin to life, God nervously sipped at a diet coke, anticipating the machine loading up. He hadn't checked up on his world in a couple decades, and he wasn't looking fo... | They had been playing for nearly 14 billion years now and God had barely advanced his Humans enough to begin exploring their solar system. The other gods had already started transmitting their culture across the cosmos. So much so that the god Marlinius and his race of gorlarmi had completely dominated Roman culture on... | 2016-04-09T08:50:39 | 2016-04-09T07:01:46 | 331 | 63 |
[WP] Aliens have finally reached Earth and, per Intergalactic Law, have sent their most average champion to win the planet. A device is sent to find the most average human to accept the challenge and duel for the fate of Earth. It's you. | "What do you mean I'm the 'most average' human?"
The alien's translated response was notably flat. "The selection committee analyzed 43 different parameters such as economic status, social standing, age, physical fitness, intelligence, etcetera, of all observed members of the human species at the exact moment of your ... | Growing up I had heard the adage "The tallest blade of grass is the first cut." I had graduated without honors. My professors never noticed me as I pulled a solid "C" but when the Swarm arrived at the United Nations in New York it was then the entire planet looked to me as their first and last hope.
"Humans it is wit... | 2016-05-17T10:40:42 | 2016-05-17T09:34:20 | 106 | 12 |
[WP] You're a psychic doing a game show. Unlike the other contestants, you're the real deal. They bring you all to a house where a crime happened in the past. When it's your turn, a ghost appears and tells you: "That's him, that's the one who killed me." Pointing towards the host of the show. | “No one is going to believe you...” the specter said matter of factly.
I replied in my head with a sigh and the ghost nodded in solidarity.
“You know they put an innocent man away last season”, I thought to the both of us.
The fraud who claimed to figure out who the killer was made a lucky guess from a cold read ... | ######[](#dropcap)
Angela stared at the young girl, trying to hide the expression of pity that threatened to show on her face. The shimmering form of the ghost was that of a girl no older than fourteen, and despite the fact that her eyes were a pale white, she was no scarier than her own fat tabby cat at home.
"He l... | 2018-11-15T14:36:11 | 2018-11-15T14:29:32 | 2,831 | 113 |
[WP] Humanity was excited to explore the cosmos, and what do we find? Bottom of Venus, crabs. Alpha Centauri, crabs. Andromeda, intelligent crabs. Floating in the middle of nowhere? Space crabs. | “Bloody hell, I’ve got crabs again.” Captain Marvis shouted; her words followed by childish giggles from her crewmates.
“You know they have treatments for that, don’t you, Marvis?” Alex retorted, earning more laughter from the crew, some even hunching over to hold their stomachs. One might think the joke would have... | The first time we saw the space crabs, we thought they were harmless. They floated around in the nothingness, bumping into our ship and each other. But then we started to notice that they were getting inside. They would sneak in through the vents and crawl into people's beds while they were sleeping. We would find them... | 2022-04-12T20:43:06 | 2022-04-12T19:20:01 | 70 | 21 |
[WP] Humanity is in space, yet we are just a mediocre boring race lost somewhere in the background not important to the main story | "Humar? You don't look like a Humar!"
Allen sighed. This happened at least once a week. "No, HumaN. Nnnn, at the end."
The administrator looked down at his computer screen. "Oh, I see now, sorry. OK, let's see, Human....Planet Earth Capital world, Sol system, does that sound right?"
"Yup, that's us."
"And are you..... | A Draxian, A Homitar, and a Human walked into a bar and ordered drinks.
The Draxian finished his drink and looked at the other two and said, "I bet another round that neither of your species are more renowned than mine." The other two agreed to the bet, and the Draxian started up again, "My people are known throughout... | 2017-01-16T09:34:46 | 2017-01-16T09:00:44 | 72 | 23 |
[WP] You're a Seer; you can see the future. You speak in such vague terms that its rare to understand you before the prophecy happens. Others think you do this to protect the future; but honestly, you just like fucking with people. | Addie stared up at the ceiling from her high back pearl white chair. She had one leg up over the armrest and slouched the rest of herself down into the seat. Her hand dangled down onto the floor and her other hand rested on her face. She looked like a puppet with no puppeteer. But she didn’t need her strings to be pull... | You ever have that joke that goes on a little too long? Maybe you joked you were allergic to fish and now cannot reveal the truth for fear of what repercussions you might face from your prawn eating family members. Or maybe you joked about being able to see the future and now must keep up the charade or face execution.... | 2021-01-25T21:06:03 | 2021-01-25T18:53:41 | 70 | 30 |
[WP] There exists a service where an individual can watch a 30 second video of themselves in the future. There is no context to the video, and no telling how far in the future the video takes place. You decide to watch your video. | The first video Mick received showed a beautiful brunette waking up next to him. It only took those thirty seconds to fall in love with her. He watched it over and over, memorizing the way her nose scrunched up when she smiled at him, the way the sunlight picked up the soft blonde tones in her hair. She wore a faded gr... | "Here goes nothing." I murmur to myself and click the video.
I sit back and the video starts playing.
The scene starts with me getting up from my chair that I'm sitting on right now.
I look very worried, why is that?
I hurry to my closet and grab a big box and open it.
My survival box? This is bad, I don't seem muc... | 2017-04-21T23:02:27 | 2017-04-21T21:50:30 | 155 | 32 |
[WP] A character in a RPG with an intelligence stat high enough to know he's a character in a RPG | "No- look, haven't you ever wondered why nothing in this world makes any damn sense?" I asked hotly, slamming my tankard down on the table with a thud. The men sitting across from me looked confused.
"What are you on about now?" One of them asked. I scowled at him.
"Take blacksmithing as an example," I replied. "A ma... | "Life is hell. Especially when you know it's not real." I blurted out, reaching for the next full cup of mead. I was sure it was mine but had my doubts after it was wrenched out of my hands and a near empty one placed into it. I might also have had my drink stolen. Whatever, anything to get me drunker. I drank what was... | 2016-12-19T04:25:56 | 2016-12-19T02:17:57 | 88 | 58 |
[WP] Hell is an RPG, complete with skills levelling and save points where the damned grind their way to Heaven. A newly dead scrub on level one, you decide to play through like you do in other RPGs and invest at least 1 point in Luck every time you level up. | Nobody chooses luck. Luck is intangible. Luck is choosing to be weaker, just to see if something cool happens. Luck is "maybe that would have happened anyway, without wasting my points on Luck." Luck is a gamble, but not when I play.
I spent my whole life playing games. I can hear my mother's voice now: "You'll never ... | Lucifer had taken some cues from the humans recently; honestly, he was fascinated by Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, and all RPGs. From pen and paper and dice to the mutliperson worlds created by minds and shared and set free on the internet, Lucifer was enthralled. Even Michael hadn’t noticed... | 2018-04-16T20:42:17 | 2018-04-16T12:01:46 | 87 | 28 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the devil in exchange for immortality. You never age but you can still be hurt/killed. He figured you would be killed in an accident eventually. After thousands of years he is getting impatient, and decided to send the elite demon death squad to collect your soul. | Having lived for thousands of years I had gathered all of human knowledge. This had helped me not to injure myself in any way. I lived a very cautious life, most of the time, reading. I had zero human contact, it was not worthy to meet other humans, as they would just die sooner or later. Yes, I was a loner. Ater havi... | "Dudes, I've been preparing for this day for millennia. Why else do you think I on a barren moon?" You say to the hulking figure.
"Ha! And what hope does a puny mortal has against the elite of the Frozen Circles?" The figure laughed, before flicking you in the head and knocking you on your ass.
"A N.O.V.A." you reply... | 2019-07-30T13:19:27 | 2019-07-30T12:54:09 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Lucas was floating in a starry void. Above him, a vortex of light swirled like the sun while below a whirlpool of darkness churned, gradually tugging at him like a current. Somehow, without words, Lucas knew that to go up was Heaven, and to go down was Hell. So he waited to be pulled into one of the options. After seve... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, my soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, I chose the path of perpetual torment. In my ravenous hatred I found no peace; and with boiling blood i scoured the Umbral Plains ... | 2018-08-13T10:50:13 | 2018-08-13T09:33:03 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Pennywise wakes up after his 27 year sleep to find that four giant turtles and a rat have taken over the sewers. | It woke up slowly. It had not been in a gentle rest, but it had been floating at the top of the bodies of It’s victims. Looking down, he saw them. Countless children, broken and torn apart, floating above the dirty, wet floor of the sewer. They were no longer fresh. 27 years had taken its toll on the bodies, which were... | A raucous sound reverberated throughout the sewers. To say that 'It' had woken up would not be entirely grounded in reality. Its consciousness was omnipresent in the sewers It called home, but no threats would ever present themselves that It would deem worthy of investigation.
Until now.
It knew there were still thre... | 2017-09-28T10:58:18 | 2017-09-28T10:50:03 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] Your job is to take away the powers of supervillains as they're admitted to jail. For a few years, you've been reselling these powers to interested bidders on the side - no questions asked. Today, a prisoner showed up with a power so unusual, you've decided to take it for yourself. | His machine was proprietary, and it had been no mean feat to keep it that way.
"Keep still," he instructed the struggling prisoner, who was barely held down in his chair by iron clamps and two caped heroes.
"Stop! I command you to not use that *thing* on me!"
Michael chuckled, sounding much closer to the mustached ... | Being able to steal powers seems like a route to success. A power to trump all powers. But when the hero's of the world find out you have it... Well, then your just someone who takes the powers of villians. Everyday I just sit in a prison taking the powers of villains. I am allowed to sell them to others whitch is nice... | 2021-06-26T09:16:15 | 2021-06-26T08:12:32 | 1,240 | 76 |
[WP] In the late 2040s, a supernova killed humanity so suddenly that Death simply gave up on processing them all. Centuries later, aliens are extremely weirded out when they contact an entire starfaring society entirely comprised of ghosts. | Entered the nebula today. Scanners are mostly blind, so we should finally be safe from the FedCom cruiser that's been hounding us. We're still on edge, though. It'll take three days for our jump bridge to be ready, and there's always a chance they get lucky with a probe, so we're random-walking and keeping an eye on... | 'Captain, do you still wish to proceed?'
'Yes, admiral. I care not for radiation levels, we've come too far to stop.'
'Very well. Proceed with thrusters.'
I wasn't much, nothing more than a speck of dust amongst the cosmos, navigating the trials and tribulations that life through my way. It never really mattered, ma... | 2019-12-16T14:53:37 | 2019-12-16T14:38:09 | 80 | 20 |
[WP] A sorcerous villain has prepared for a long time and has finally managed to freeze the movement of all living things inside the kingdom's capital. Now they're about to begin their offensive but one person seems to be unaffected by the spell and is moving about as if everything was normal... | The sorcerer leaned forward on his old oaken staff, his entire body racked with pain. He felt the sting of age, as he imagined he would, and forced his eyes open– to close them could mean his demise. He wasn't about to shuffle off of the mortal coil, not on the day that he finally bested his hated enemy. He coughed int... | Anya had been planning this attack for five years already. Everything was perfect, all the nobles reunited inside the city and the spell ready to be unleashed. It would take a lot of energy but in the end it was worth it.
As she finished pronouncing the last incantation an eerie stillness wrapped around the city, as ... | 2022-10-21T23:37:09 | 2022-10-21T22:52:22 | 92 | 13 |
[WP] For years, there's been a room in your house where time stops. You can stay in there for as long as you possibly want without aging, and not a single second passes outside of the room. One day, while in the room taking a nap, you're awoken by the sound of furious knocking at the front door.
This was inspired by a... | When I bought this house, the old man who was the previous owner had been oddly skittish and very nervous when him and the estate agent were showing me around. I could even hear him muttering under his breath sometimes. At the time I just put it down to him getting old and not being entirely there in the head.
Now tho... | "This house is amazing!"
The realtor smiled at the couple. "So, is this the one? Do you want to make an offer?"
"I think so, but can we see that room first?" Amy pointed past the realtor's shoulder at the single door they hadn't been through.
The realtor's smile faded away. Completely serious, she said, "It's just a... | 2020-10-04T08:57:56 | 2020-10-04T08:50:24 | 134 | 31 |
[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 sun was falling quickly behind the mountain, darkness rapidly enveloping the forest around me. The fall air crisp and chill, my breath visible every time I exhaled. A small doe draped over my right shoulder, my bow gripped in my left, I trudged towards my small hut on a seldom used game trail.
As I neared my hut t... | I sat by the fire, waiting for him to walk through the drapes. It wasn't easy tracking him down, despite all my connections.
I spent my entire life working towards bringing this monster down. I was born into his tyranny, and when soldiers came to raze my village, I decided then and there to to pry his fetid corpse fro... | 2021-11-03T14:10:12 | 2021-11-03T12:14:52 | 269 | 120 |
[WP] The magical races enslaved magic-less humans centuries ago. To expand their empires, the magical races travel and conquer different dimensions. They soon stumble across and try to conquer a magic-less world full of humans. It did not go well. | Technology, when sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic. Technology, when sufficiently different, is also indistinguishable from magic. The paper thin line that divides those with magic and those without exist only in ignorance. Those who *know,* know magic. Those who don't, well, they are humans. Magic... | A highly advanced technological world is only possible with enormous amounts of the substance known as steel or in the parlance of the alchemists "cold iron". In magical realms the substance is rare and can only be made from meteoric iron. However, in one cursed land, humans have found ways to mass produce the stuff fr... | 2022-08-13T11:36:17 | 2022-08-13T11:32:52 | 42 | 28 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | Christmas fell certain and swiftly. It lodged in the eaves and window panes, scurried down the umbrellas, and swirled along the currents, dressing the city in a dotted dress of white.
It was a beautiful thing, yet always better witnessed from inside a snug bar with a steaming coffee in your hands.
I sat next to the w... | “He sat down at the stool next to me and slid an envelope in front of me as he did. He said it didn’t matter if I looked inside the envelope or not, I wouldn’t understand what it was for some time. He place a small folded piece of paper on top of the envelope.
‘I need you to deliver this.’ He said.
With that, he go... | 2018-12-24T10:24:03 | 2018-12-24T10:04:15 | 580 | 50 |
[WP] Aliens establish first contact with the government of another country. The White House gets offended.
Bonus cookies if the government in question is either of a really tiny country (geographically) or is a generally insignificant player in international politics. | Caveat Emptor- I haven't written anything in decades. What follows is imperfect in grammar and punctuation. It's an off the cuff musing, an insignificant "what if". My first attempt so for what it's worth.
"Icelandic? You mean the aliens are from Iceland?" a very upset President bellows. Thinking to herself "this is... | **Situation Room, 04/22/2016 0300 Zulu**
"North Korea? Do you take me for a fool? You know April Fool's Day has passed, Jerry." the President said, with a look of as much surprise as amusement.
"Sir, this is not a joke. The aliens have decided to make contact with Kim jong-Un." I managed to stammer out.
*Why doesn't... | 2015-04-27T09:28:12 | 2015-04-27T08:03:31 | 75 | 47 |
[WP] Aliens give you a camera and say "only those you photograph will live." You have one year.
All of these responses are so diverse! This was really a great read. I like to imagine that all these different stories are from alternative universes, playing out different roles. Some men rule the World, some men are titl... | Alien abduction, let me tell you, is nothing like the movies. So if you were expecting a story of flying saucers, of bright blue beams of light and levitation, you are set to be rather disappointed.
It began with the sudden appearance of a black, metallic dodecahedron about the size of a garbage truck in my back gard... | "Only those you photograph will live. You have one earth year to comply."
That was 364 days ago. I... I need more time. I'm only one person. I tried everything I could think of. I posted on every chat room, every forum, every social media that I could think of. I tried to warn them, I really did. Why won't anyone beli... | 2017-01-27T11:56:04 | 2017-01-27T11:55:35 | 479 | 116 |
[WP] You, a religious person, saved a girl from getting hit by a truck. One day you get killed and instead of Heaven, you wake up in Hell. Satan walks up delighted and says "Welcome to hell and thank you so much for saving my daughter!, Let me know if you need anything!"
Edit: Wow! So many comments! Tonight after work... | *Ah,* I thought, *I must be in the hospital.*
It wouldn't have been the first time. Once, when I had collapsed from hunger, thirst and a medley of other everyday ailments, a good Samaritan had me checked into a hospital. I couldn't stay long, not when they discovered I had no money, but for a while, I had food, it was... | Satan. The adversary. El Diablo. The incarnation and representation of everything every god-fearing person wanted nothing to do with. But there he was acting like a good man, thanking me like a good friend, welcoming me to his home and...
There I was, wanting to take his help, because, hell, if they were going to sen... | 2017-07-17T22:57:39 | 2017-07-17T20:24:08 | 2,201 | 11 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus inside every single human. Centuries into the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | When the first aliens came down, hitch-hiking on the meteor of 2039, it looked like that was it for us. Only a few dozen people died in the impact, in a sparsely populated area of Eastern Europe.
The problem was, they didn't *stay* dead.
The parasites that had been frozen inside that big hunk of interstellar ice and... | The contorted mass of flesh slugged towards his bewildered opponent; belowing screeches suffocating the battlefield.
The gaunt look of fear and disgust grimaces on his commanders face as he turns round to see his unit flee in horror, tramlping over the eviscearated remains of other Exo troops.
Grubo makes his final ... | 2022-09-13T21:47:38 | 2022-09-13T19:49:36 | 2,293 | 57 |
[WP] You stumble upon an old megaphone in an antique shop and jokingly pick it up and say, "Everybody listen up!". Later that night, the news headlines read, "We're all listening for what the voice has to next say next!" |
“stairs, bloody stairs!!”
As I raced down the stairs that had always been here since I moved in three years ago I came to the conclusion that someone had been here in the last few minutes and tampered with them. They must have. They were no longer the same size! Some were now bigger, some smaller and they were uneve... | I stood staring at the tv as I picked up the megaphone once more. I spoke softly into the megaphone and said, hello. This set off a chain reaction of people praying to the almighty voice from the heavens. I then proceeded to tell the people of earth how they must welcome me with open arms as I begin my decent from spac... | 2018-02-15T23:22:43 | 2018-02-15T20:57:23 | 72 | 38 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | The room was silent. No-one ever spoke at these things. The text message had been sent forty-three minutes ago. A location, a time. One by one we trickled in each of us with some grim purpose. At the door everyone showed three items to gain entrance: their button, their license, and the back of their left hand. ... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T20:28:24 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | It had been a busy week and I was kicking off Friday with a brew. My teenage nightmare of a Friday had turned into my adulthood goal, a quiet night in and video games until too late in the evening.
I set the beer down on the end table, turned around to flop down on the couch when the air was instantly filled with smok... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T09:09:01 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 556 | 21 |
[WP] Set in a dangerous city in the early 1900s, Zeus, the corrupt mayor, Poseidon, who owns the ports, and Hades, kingpin of the back alley drug trade, run the city unapologetically. All are vying for more power in this Greek pantheon film noir setting. (From popular demand from r/books!) | Olympus City was warm of weather but cold of heart. Gold leaf plated virtually every surface, serving as a stark reminder of what the city really was—gilded on the outside, rusted, dull and rotten just underneath. In the City there was no survival without compromise. Compromise of safety, integrity, and standards. ... | “You’re looking well as always, Zeus,” Hermes said as he pulled out a golden cigarette from the inside of his suit pocket and lit it, “Hate to say it, but with what I’ve heard today, I’m not sure your good times are gonna last.”
Zeus leaned his massive frame forward over his enormous mahogany desk, his chiseled face ... | 2021-03-03T09:54:58 | 2021-03-03T09:45:49 | 67 | 37 |
[WP] You're the wizard's apprentice, and of course the first few years involve running errands and doing other tasks. He hands you a daily schedule, but to your confusion the total hours for the different tasks add up to more than 24. "Figure it out" He says, "I chose you for a reason." | " So, let me get this straight." the innkeeper said, looking quite concerned. " If I don't wash all these cauldrons in exactly this manner every Tuesday for the next year and a half, the great and powerful wizard who has lived outside of our village for decades is going to rain down fire and brimstone on everyone withi... | Being the White Wizard’s apprentice is an honest days work.
Still. I didn’t spend 7 years and $350k in tuition to spend my days skinning newts, grinding herbs, and swiping right for the White Wizard Elon Musk.
“Elon. I’ve never let you down. But today’s list is impossible.”
“Fucking millennial. Siri could do your jo... | 2019-01-14T15:25:08 | 2019-01-14T13:24:49 | 79 | 10 |
[WP] You're the master of the worst weapon, one made as a joke, to be ineffective, hard to wield and a danger to it's user. Just to become good with the weapon takes as long as it would take to master any other. But the thing is, nobody knows how to counter the weapon once you get good enough. | General Mccallister walked behind me- clearly in awe of my presence. He side eyed me in an attempt to seize me up but found nothing alarming. He must have been shocked that the most dangerous man on planet earth could be someone that appears so ordinary.
“Do you have the weapon ready Mr. Cul?” asked Mccallister... | Few dare to challenge the master of the curved barrel, for none know how to counter one who is a master of the Krummlauf. Despite it being a completely horrendous weapon, with the thing itself shattering after every few hundred rounds. Yet what stops you from carrying so many that it doesn't become a problem, so that y... | 2021-10-21T06:56:54 | 2021-10-21T06:55:01 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Welcome to Boston Dynamics here is your all-access pass and the standard 12 gauge shotgun, remember if anything non-human starts asking questions you shoot it. | Marcus downs the rest of his coffee before slamming his fingers against the buttons. His eyes are strained and bloodshot, brain racing around his skull. He’s been trapped in this lab for two full days cramming to finish this, and while everyone might think he’s crazy, he knows they’re also intrigued. *Maybe jealous,* h... | Wait, what?
I had never held a gun before in my life. Now here I was, holding a gun that was a lot heavier than it looked in the movies. Maybe that was the difference between plastic and metal. The all-access passed hung around my neck as the elevator continued to go downwards. On top of the metallic doors of the elev... | 2018-10-21T09:12:29 | 2018-10-21T08:46:48 | 2,511 | 23 |
[WP] In the future, illiteracy is the norm and implanted digital assistants convert text to audio. A child, who had his implant temporarily deactivated, learns to read. When the implant is reactivated, he realizes that what it reads to him is drastically different than what the text actually says. | "Can your implant perform this conversion, son? I want you to try again, okay?" Jimmy asks, his finger pointing at the block of text on the crisp white sheet on the table.
Little Jonathan lets his horrified eyes scan every inch of the sheet. He carefully runs his eyes over every letter, waiting for the voice in his he... | In years after the final war, when Google glasses became artifacts from an ancient civilization, men stopped reading and began to read through their ears, per say. They no longer look for themselves, but only listened.
But this changed when Google's servers failed, a rebel with no implant had began to learn, and to ... | 2019-04-15T21:04:52 | 2019-04-15T18:05:09 | 342 | 22 |
[WP] People hear about fallen angels all the time. You're somewhat more rare; an ascended demon. | Pt 1:
Earth is a well-oiled machine, it turns out. From angels to humans to demons, everything has its place. But that’s not to say there aren’t bugs in the machine.
My death was reasonably young, but I’d done enough to tilt the scales, even though I remember little of it at this point centuries later. It was enough ... | The immaculate society of the flawless illuminates purity amongst the angels. They sit on their clouds of endless boredom, watching the lives of god’s chosen. They speak as an unanimous choir, dare not to strive from the gospel of their preaching.
News of ascension spreads amongst them like gossip in a high school. J... | 2021-02-11T15:01:52 | 2021-02-11T14:34:24 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | The suite on the sixth floor of the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C., was decorated in chestnut and tan. The headboard of the king size bed was carved as if it was a coat of arms of some legitimate monarch, and was trimmed with fake gold, which poorly matched the Kremlin red, velvet throw pillows. Like the ... | Chapter 1:
Two birds with one stone.
Those were grandfather Elon's last words.
He hadn't whispered them, no.
He had invented them... and engraved them onto the side of the titanium sphere.
It was no secret that our family had been part of the revolution. Grandpa's effect on the world had been as far reaching anyone... | 2022-06-27T06:31:08 | 2017-11-21T23:06:17 | 4,450 | 44 |
[WP] Humanity has always thought itself very smart for figuring out how to ride a giant explosion into space. Turns out there's a much easier way and the rest of the galaxy thinks we're insane. | Part 1 of 2
Xandar was fuming. 20 smismars he'd been waiting in the bowels of that horrible assembling of junk and metal the humans proudly called their *flagship of intergalactic friendship*. It was bad enough when those hairless pink monkeys made it to outer space but now they had developped a functioning FTL drive ... | *Patent 52894-14A*
Name: *Trebuchet Mark II*
Date Filed: *15th of October, 1482 (Earth Time)*
Description: *A trebuchet capable of firing a 9500 kg projectile over 300 000 meters. The projectile is accelerated in a circular motion by a lever attached to a weight. The weight is accelerated by an electromagnetic field... | 2019-01-21T06:36:01 | 2019-01-21T05:47:56 | 62 | 27 |
[WP] When you die, three options appear in front of you: "New Life", "New Life+", and "Credits".
In video games, New Game+ allows you to replay the game keeping some of the items and/or abilities you acquired in the first play through. | Sometimes, during long trips, I liked hitting random at the root of my music library and seeing just what forgotten song would come up over my bluetooth radio. "...I'm not gonna be an optimist about this~" I sang along to Bastille's *Pompei* a song I loved thanks solely to the fantastic chanting going on during the cho... | I look at the options before me and sigh.
It's been what feels like weeks, staring at this menu and thinking of what to do. If I pick New Life, everything I was, everything I did, means nothing to me. Everything in my life goes away.
If I pick New Life+ I'll remember my wife, and the joy on her face when we got mar... | 2016-03-18T18:17:02 | 2016-03-18T17:28:04 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | I killed them. I know I did. I admitted it.
During the trial I tried to convince myself that it was an accident. That I was still a good person who just made a mistake.
I lied to myself over and over again, but I failed. I chose to pick up the keys. I chose to get behind the wheel. I chose to drive while I was drunk... | It was only supposed to be one day. I made that choice easily. One day versus fourty years of prison? Who would pick otherwise?
I was worried at first that I'd be subjected to the worst possible torture. But they assured me I'd merely have to test a single experimental invention. Some mumbo jumbo about "manipulating s... | 2015-10-27T08:39:34 | 2015-10-27T08:23:43 | 293 | 11 |
[WP] All humans are immortal until they find their "soulmate," after which they age regularly. You, however, have been around since the Ice Age... | I adjust my cushions again, all these Inane questions do get tiresome after 6 to 7 hours a day. But i grin and bear it and share my "wisdom" with all the new couples coming through the museum on their honeymoons and what not.
"So what was the Renaissance like? It must have been so romantic."
"ROMANTIC?!" no longer a... | The rule sounds simple enough. But it's really a bit more complicated than it first appears to be and, if you ask me, a bit of a headache for everyone involved.
We all know that we don't age until we find our soulmate. But when do we *stop* aging? After all, if we never aged a day, we'd all be tiny little babies, and ... | 2017-05-22T12:06:23 | 2017-05-22T11:35:42 | 60 | 10 |
[WP] You're an immortal who lives at a beach resort. You have many summer flings with mortals on getaways. One day you see someone you had a hot romantic night with 50 years ago. They look exactly the same. | She walks over and takes the lounger next to mine. We both smile. Our hands reach out instinctively. Fingertips brush. There's electricity. We settle in and enjoy the sun without fear. We drink what we like, not what we must. Hers looked like a wine cooler, which immediately struck me as odd. I didn't think they made t... | Immortality sounds fun on paper. Never being able to die, there’s no reason to fear…..anything really. You can just give your problems to time and eventually the problems will go away on its own, gradually, slowly.
But the same applies for feelings too. With time they fade, they become memories, then soon, ... | 2022-11-25T21:43:00 | 2022-11-25T21:05:49 | 195 | 53 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Bullies. I hated bullies.
I hated how they felt that, with just a little bit of power, they had the right to pick on and push around anyone they deemed below them.
And it got **SO** much worse when the bullies had superpowers. Which brings us to my current predicament, with me on the ground, and this a-hole standing... | "You see, wait what was your name again? Nevermind it doesn't matter.
Where was I?
Oh right.
You see. I never liked violence. Seems unnecessary when diplomacy works just fine these days. Two people in an argument can just, you know. Talk stuff out. No need to go all primitive.
But then again.
We could have don... | 2022-11-02T12:45:49 | 2022-11-02T11:05:22 | 91 | 34 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | “One creamy deluxe chocolate cake for the little princess,” I say, my water clone smiling at the little toddler sitting in her booster seat. The family looks up at me all smiles.
“Thank you so much!” says her father. “Look Alice, your cake is here!”
She starts to cry. See, that’s the problem with my ability. Though I... | (It's been a while since i've last written here, hope i'm not *too* rusty.)
-[fuck off]
Sound resonated through J.'s mind. It wasn't like the echo of the dark alley behind the small shop, but more the echo of his skull, a easily-resonating chamber for a psychic. J. was used to dealing with supers, getting them on the... | 2022-07-31T15:29:05 | 2022-07-31T14:16:20 | 51 | 37 |
[WP] After you die, you find out that reincarnation is real, however, there is an error and your memories are still intact upon reincarnation. | Amanda looks at me and smiles, the same crinkly smile with the little curl on the left hand side that I have been used to for nearly fifty-three years. I can’t speak now, the doctor explained that the tube in my throat was necessary and make talking impossible, but I try to smile back and she seems to understand.
I’v... | Ten thousand years and not a single original idea. At least, it *feels* like that long. God only knows how long it actually is. God doesn't know or care about me, and the others like me - the carriers of human knowledge.
The Buddhists had it right. Everyone is reincarnated upon their death - though I'm not sure if som... | 2016-07-19T02:58:59 | 2016-07-19T02:44:53 | 350 | 60 |
[WP] You are known as the Prison Necromancer, feared by inmates all over the world. Contrary to rumours, you are just a healer. Your job? Keep those punished with multiple life sentences alive and 'sane' for their entire sentence. | The healer works quickly and efficiently. He was long familiar with the crooked bone and twisted sinew of his patient. His hands glows, briefly but bright in the dark cell. For a moment, shadows deepen the hollow depths of the broken body before him. He lays in a bed, chains pooled around its base. His hands and feet a... | Debt To Society
How does one repay a debt to society for the most heinous of crimes? With their life of course. How does one truly give their life in a world you could be resurrected by a cabal of warlocks looking to make a quick buck? That is where I come in.
Inside Imperial Prison System, I am called the Prison Nec... | 2020-03-02T14:16:40 | 2020-03-02T14:02:30 | 62 | 27 |
[WP] During a global catastrophe, a company offers to cryogenically freeze people so that they can “skip” unpleasant circumstances. Clients can stipulate specific global conditions that must be met before they are unfrozen. You awake to find that all of your conditions are satisfied. | "I'm fucking tired of your shit Nikky, I can't take this anymore!"
"Really, you're so fucking tired of me that you're crono-freezing yourself till I'm dead? Really? That's an all-time low for you James!"
"Does this face look like it gives a shit?"
"It looks like it-"
"You know what, don't answer that. I'll just te... | The world is dying. Global warming has began to intensify greatly. A company starts to use cryogenic freezing capsules as a way to keep people safe and make money. The capsules are expensive so you choose a lower end one to fit your financial situation. As you sign up, you are asked to name all your conditions. You say... | 2020-04-14T01:46:41 | 2020-04-14T01:21:32 | 685 | 344 |
[WP] You managed to retrieve a cursed treasure from a tomb. Instead of spending your newfound wealth, you donate all of it to charity. The spirit that was going to ruin your life now has no idea what to do. | Honestly, I was pissed. Like, maybe that's terrible or whatever, but come on. I've been lying in wait for all of seven thousand years and now that I finally get my chance to harras and harangue someone til they commit to an untimely death... and it's this fucko.
Maybe if, just say, a terrible fate were to befall those... | I'm not one of those sheeple who's gonna let those politicians run their lives. I look out for me and mine, and the government can keep their noses in their own damn business.
Some county officer came around here last week and tried to tell me I couldn't put up a pool on my own property. You hear that? My property. My... | 2021-01-19T09:44:01 | 2021-01-19T09:07:41 | 2,204 | 239 |
[WP]It's physically impossible to tell dad jokes unless you are a dad. One day you bump into a stranger and they say "I'm sorry". Without realizing it you answer "Hi Sorry,I'm dad" | I didn't think much of it back then. I opened a door, next thing I know I'm flat on the ground, my coffee spilled
all over my shirt - thankfully the cold weather had cooled it enough. He looked horrified. He grabbed my arm, helped me get up, all whilst repeating "I'm so sorry" numerous times. And without hesitation, I... | The stranger gave me a murderous look and replied with "ye, real funny" and continued on his way.
It took me two whole seconds to process what had happened and my face go from a content smile to a dumbfounded stare. I was a father, plain and simple.
But how...? It should be impossible... unless - no! I have been trick... | 2018-01-20T09:58:00 | 2018-01-20T09:32:43 | 196 | 21 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Theldon – or at least the creature that was wearing his face – looked pale in the light of the campfire. As the wood crackled and burned, he chewed his lower lip, gathering his courage to speak.
“Guys … I … I have something to tell you,” he managed.
His three traveling companions looked at him. Vanariel snapped her... | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | 2017-09-15T08:31:45 | 2017-09-15T08:30:05 | 147 | 37 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | Inquisitor Jacobus listened to the sobbing man's tale of a monstrous divinity that had descended upon them in the battlefield. A being of bright lights and animalistic fury had appeared before the pagan army, and with heretic chanting from the barbarians echoing in the cold morning air, the beast god attacked. The fait... | The conflict had been going on for years. Battle after battle and we still could not breach their lands. Men on all sides dying, often agonising, lonely deaths. But we did not fear death. We knew that our God, the True God would be waiting for us. Congratulating us on fighting for his cause.
How could such a backwar... | 2021-02-10T02:27:41 | 2021-02-10T02:11:10 | 95 | 47 |
[WP] One day, while your bored and home alone, you start looking up and pressing pressure points on your body. After you hit one behind your ear, a strange board appears in front of you. You’ve just opened the Character Menu. And there’s a lot of settings you didn’t know about... | 'It's not like these are fatal right?' I thought to myself as i looked up "non-fatal pressure points to help relaxation" and was surprised by the sheer amount of videos and threads. I chose one at random and applied pressure to the ones that seemed simple enough to find.
My hands, feet, neck, and now finally my ear. F... | I guess I just wasn't really aware of how mundane we all are. We all were. They. Im going to need to start saying they. You experience a lot of things in life that make you smarter, wiser, or stronger. All the little things that made you who you are, that's all your experience. Every heartbreak, interaction, deci... | 2018-10-22T01:56:21 | 2018-10-21T21:59:31 | 54 | 31 |
[WP] As a means to protect themselves after making First Contact, humanity pretends to be an ancient and technologically advanced species that was stranded on Earth eons ago. Unbeknownst to them, the rest of the galaxy still remembers the first rise of humanity. | As I sit at the table in what the Terran Ambassador calls an "Italian Restaurant", I worry if I'm doing enough to conceal my fear.
As I place an order of "fettucine alfredo" with the "waitress", I have to be sure that my manner of speech does not betray my mild distaste for humanity.
As our waitress returns with a bo... | In mission control of NASA, 100s of the worlds greatest minds were bickering loudly whilst a single word sat on the main screen [GREETINGS, FRIEND? NAME?].
It has been 6 hours since this astonishing message was first received and decrypted. Ever since the message had been received, the finest minds along with the most... | 2016-10-20T14:17:14 | 2016-10-20T12:28:25 | 81 | 14 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | "Weren't you suppose to take that blow?"
I looked at this irritating woman incredulously. Was she serious?
"It is good fortune you didn't, but I thought that Xavier Longwood would have protected Kane even if his men had abandoned him."
"So you know of me?" I couldn't help but respond. I looked at the trio of misfit... | I was angry. I spent the last decades of my life doing what I had to do to rise to my powerful position. Then, my son had to come along when I was so close to finishing my perfect plan. I wish he had just joined me and we could combine our powers. Sadly, my life energy is going out after I had to help my son defeat The... | 2017-03-12T13:26:11 | 2017-03-12T09:58:04 | 124 | 47 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | Ada's eyes shot open as she woke with a start, interrupting her fairy dream. Something was happening. Daddy and Mommy were shouting again, but it was different this time. They weren't arguing, they were afraid. Hesitantly she slid out of bed pulling a much-loved teddy bear by the ear.
Ada shuffled to the door, hugged ... | Trashcan
That piece of shit Dave came out from his house and went to the trash can again. Mike made this the eleventh time but he had only started counting when the repition of the sound of the trash can lid being pulled open seemed to come up from the background noise of the usual hub-bub of his suburban street.
Jus... | 2016-08-30T14:27:13 | 2016-08-30T11:14:14 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] The . . . creature . . . has been following you for weeks now, but nobody else can see it. It just sits there, staring, grinning. Then one day you look across the coffee shop and see a young woman with another one right behind her. Your eyes meet . . . | (Sorry if its not good. Pretty new to writing and it's like 1 am. Took over an hour to write so hope you like it)
I sharply turned back to my coffee, puzzled and a little freaked out. Could it be possible that it was actually real? The way she looked at me... It was like she saw it too. I thought it was just a halluc... | Alexa's going crazy. There's no other possible reason for it. She doesn't even know how it happens.
One day she wakes up, only to see a ghoul like creature staring back into the depths of her soul. It doesn't resemble anything, just a vague black shape, with a hood covering it.
It must have eyes, for it follows her... | 2022-11-26T03:09:35 | 2022-11-26T00:59:59 | 87 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | **"Thomas!"**
My head shot up off my desk. My eyes struggled to adjust to the light. My right arm was asleep where I had been laying on it.
"Huh, what's up?" I mumbled.
My classmates laughed as I wiped the drool residue off the corners of my mouth. I smiled along with them to appear less embarrassed.
"If you're fin... | There were rumblings. Only rumblings, though, people said. And if he did come back, they would be ready for him.
After all, they had their talents: many were stronger than oxen, others could shoot a target from three miles, and some could sweet-talk the robe off of a supreme court justice. They were a city of mammoths... | 2016-12-30T09:07:06 | 2016-12-30T08:06:34 | 690 | 58 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | [Unfortunately I didn't have time to write the entire story I was imagining, but I liked this prompt so I had to get something out! The basic premise would have been that humanity just won a dramatic military victory and they are punishing both the aggressors and the corrupt member species of the galactic council who ... | Starlog:210x August 24th
Our plans ,to invade Earth, thwarted by Humans again!No matter how hard we try, there always seems to be a collection of heroes sticking their ugly heads into our business.Last weeks invasion made us extraterrestrials look as weak as a bag of sticks!Outrageous!
....What went? wrong?Everything... | 2016-03-14T02:07:46 | 2016-03-13T19:47:12 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Scientists discovered that vegetables and fruit have a conscience. Vegetarians and Vegans go crazy. | There are a many kinds of vegans. Most handled the news pretty well. But I'm not a real vegan.
Sandra is an ethical vegan. She was the one who first linked me to "Earthlings" years and years back. She isn't exactly what you'd call crunchy, but she does cross the street to give money to bums and for Christmas asks... | "Your eating salad again?" said the carrot to the vegan
"Yeah"
"What it wasn't enough to kill just one of us? You mix us all in together?"
"Hey man you're being really judgemental"
"Hey I subsist off of nutrients. But that's just because I care about the world" said the carrot.
…
"Yeah so like, we grew these orga... | 2015-12-06T11:32:45 | 2015-12-06T08:13:15 | 114 | 51 |
[WP] When offered one wish, you jokingly said that you want to fire proof. You are disappointed to discover that fire still burns you. When you accidentally lit the company breakroom on fire, your boss just laughed it off and you began your new career as the person who can't be fired, ever. | Day One: A long walk back to the office. Anger at myself. Anger at the unfairness of language. Anger at everything. I went to the bathroom and had a long sit in the atalls, just time to think.
Except that I accidentally sat in that stall. The one that never completely flushes. The one that's backed up three times. We'... | **Entry 1, Day Unknown**
I found this journal on the body of some poor sap who died here earlier. I decided that between the regular torture sessions I would catalogue just how I ended up here, Well ---
*The Journal entry abruptly closes here*
**Entry 2, Day Unknown Plus 4**
Nearly got caught with my Journal, Had ... | 2019-03-01T14:51:59 | 2019-03-01T13:18:46 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | INTERCEPT OF QUANTUM FLUCTUATION COMMUNICATION PATTERNS
TRANSLATION SERVICES PROVIDED BY UNITED EARTH SIGINT SERVICES
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TRANSLATOR NOTES:
USG refers the Universal Substrate Gaia.
Disconnects is their slang term for non-magic users.
Czyraks are a type of pet on most planets.
Soltrap is some sort of mag... | 200 years ago, humanity discovered that the new elemental material, Unductindenium, could be refined into a light warping spacecraft shell, allowing humans to travel faster than initially thought, by transferring energy that was being carried by quantum particles, we could now bend physics to our will.
And at first th... | 2019-01-18T11:08:22 | 2019-01-18T10:08:27 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” |
"So where is the backup?" the one with the blonde hair asked. He seemed nervous. I swear the only thing stopping him from fidgeting with his hair was the black USP he was holding in both hands. At least he held it competently, so the odds of him accidentally shooting someone seemed low.
"There is no backup" the old g... | Looking up from the hands of the aged and weathered quarterback the doctor could not fathom the pain. 52, fifty fucking two and this fucking maniac was till tossing bullets with better aim than a rookie just getting his chest hair.
Leaning back and taking In the living fossil, for this game to be Honest, he gasped as... | 2018-07-15T08:38:32 | 2018-07-15T08:19:45 | 207 | 27 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | He placed another strip of tape over the last, ensuring the petite woman could no longer scream. He worried, for a moment, that hanging her upside down like this and taping her mouth closed might cause her to suffocate somehow. He wasn't sure how dangerous it was. He contemplated her for a moment, watching her wispy, w... | “...you looked at the Armageddon Protocol?” The black armored villain spoke to a crippled young team. Various shapes, powers, some seemed human others gremlins.
“Y-yeah boss...it was crazy, it was like they forgot their no kill ru-“ The armored villain turned back quickly, fired a red blast from his armored hand, maki... | 2020-07-12T12:00:23 | 2020-07-12T11:12:41 | 52 | 36 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil many years ago. Today he gives it back to you and says, "I need a favor" | "Hey there, we just closed up for the night," Tom said to the tall man. The bookstore had been empty for the last 2 hours, so it was a bit of a shock to hear the bell ring over the front door as the man entered.
'Well, haven't counted the register yet, so I guess if this is a quick sale...' Tom thought. "If there is ... | \[Poem\]
While the time stood still in hourglass of existence,
I was conjured to witness the end of a burning rope,
As the fallen prince has something of mine ,
Soul laced with eternities but blemished with hope;
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His right hand to sky and another on to ground,
Tears of wax smears his never seen sadn... | 2021-01-22T22:07:58 | 2021-01-22T22:04:52 | 236 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity is capable of living thousands of years, provided they can get past the larva stage, which ends at 150 years old.
What sort of world would we live in? What does a human pupate into? Was this a natural phenomena, or was it something introduced by advanced medicine? | "Colonel Sandown, they're ready for you." The pretty blonde assistant's head peeked out of the door as she beckoned me to enter the council chamber. I could feel the nervous energy buzzing around my body. This was it, no going back now.
"Thank you." I mustered a smile and gathered my my folders from the wooden bench. ... | If I had known what Project Eternity was capable of doing to a human specimen, I would never have volunteered in the first place. When the information was first globally broadcasted, it was as if people thought they were joking.
"Enlist and become a member of a bigger, better America!" it championed. To apply, you ha... | 2015-01-01T19:11:50 | 2015-01-01T18:02:30 | 96 | 41 |
[WP] An powerful ancient being has been held captive by an interstellar civilisation. After eons of being held captive, it has accidentally freed by humans, who've not been to the "galactic stage" for long... | The first anomalies in the cosmic microwave background were detected by sub-sentient AI programs monitoring humanity's deep space telescope networks. The anomaly became a question, and then a mystery, and then a shocking realization, as subsequent analysis with orbital telescopes and gravitational interferometers confi... | As the entity threw itself in futility at the barrier, it suddenly passed through it. Its confusion and surprise turned into a deadly glee at the foreign beings that held it captive for countless years.
It phased through and reached out to the first consciousness it could find, seeking a way to control it.
/ / / /... | 2022-08-23T12:35:23 | 2022-08-23T12:23:30 | 457 | 90 |
[WP] When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room. | The last few months have been agonizing, and I know that I don’t have much time left. About four years ago, I developed a cough that wouldn’t go away. I ignored it as men do, but finally, Nelly, my grandaughter, convinced me to go to my doctor. And Dr. Shah was concerned, so the testing started.
Initially, the ca... | 98 years without a hint of the red dress the voice spoke of.
9.8 y.e.a.r.s
Ever since I could remember, this nagging voice occasionally came into my life and whispered the same thing.
"Follow the women..."
At first I was curious. Who was this women? Why was there a voice that spoke to me? My parents dismissed it as... | 2019-11-07T09:19:08 | 2019-11-07T08:52:01 | 4,904 | 11 |
[WP] when you die, every time someone thinks of you, you get a signal telling you that you have been just remembered. Everyone around you gets a couple of signals every day. You passed away a year ago. Still nothing. | Every day, I have to pretend. Through observation I have learned to mimick everyone else when they get a signal. I have to do this thing where I space out for a second and freeze. Then I have to fake tears of joy or a smile... fucking ridiculous. The things I have to do to avoid being an outcast.
Martin nearly caught... | Nothingness. That's all I felt. Was I so unwanted? It felt like a lifetime ago since I jumped, thinking everyone would be better off, apparently they are.
The only thing I have here is the small light that blink off in the distance, It keeps getting brighter. Only thing I can think is that's where we all go after this... | 2016-11-20T10:43:27 | 2016-11-20T08:19:44 | 200 | 11 |
[WP] "Choose your last words wisely," sneered the villain. The hero shakily lifted their head, "I love you." | It's hard being someone's other half. "Other half." That's the term the bards use to describe lovers, but twins know different. We twins, we're the only ones that have shared a womb, a heart beat, a singular birth. And in some instances, a singular destiny.
Our parents named us Rowan and Oak, the two trees that ma... | The door opened. And just like that, Julie Deneuve found herself staring down the wrong end of my trusty silenced CZ-75.
Then, everything went as if it was scripted. The familiar expression of surprise, turning into terror a blink of an eye later, as her feeble mind slowly started grasping the situation. Had it been ... | 2020-05-11T14:47:41 | 2020-05-11T14:23:47 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] You find an antique gold compass with the words ”Moral Compass”. It will automatically point to the most morally good person within a 100 meter radius. You are on jury one day and when you look at the compass, it points to the convicted serial killer. | "...find the defendant guilty."
The courtroom erupted in a cacophony of noise, as the families of the murdered children burst out into tears, shouts of vindication, and screams of retribution. Flashes of light overtook the fluorescent brightness of the lights embedded into the ceiling above; the cameras were blinding ... | I can’t disclose where and how I found it for reasons I also can’t reveal. All I could reveal is how it works. I pull it out and I watch it point to the person who it deems the most morally good. By what standards, I don’t know. All I know is that it works. I’ve met my lovely husband, whom I am eternally grateful for. ... | 2019-09-10T20:58:55 | 2019-09-10T20:06:43 | 281 | 132 |
[WP] Your best friend goes missing while on an expedition. They are assumed dead. In reality, they are alive and message you on their phone like a diary to help their loneliness. One year later, their phone gets signal and the messages send.
Just imagined this scenario out of nowhere while daydreaming. Thought it'd be... | When Beth went missing, we scoured near every inch of that forest. She was all over the news, blue-eyed and smiling, her dark hair pulled up in a prim ponytail. Sometimes they showed her doing what she loved: forty feet up in the open air, clinging to a rock wall, nothing between her and death but a harness and a few n... | Diary Text message, 364 "It's been a while since I last was home, if I didn't have my phone with me, I would of lost track of how long. It's been nearly a year now, I can't believe that I haven't seen you, or my family for so long. It's been hard. Thank god I had extra supplies, and my extra battery packs for my phone,... | 2018-02-10T20:41:21 | 2018-02-10T20:02:40 | 2,176 | 119 |
[WP] Youre a wizard in the Imperial Army. Most wizards are very ritualistic in their tactics and that is very highly respected but doesn’t give many victories. So you decided to ignore all the long chanting and nonsense and simply immediately kill your opponents with your spells instead. | Being sold off as a seven year old child isn’t usually a good start in life. Though the severity is usually determined by where you live. If you’re sold in one of the northern kingdoms, slavery is your fate. If you’re sold in the west, you’ll most likely become a snack for one of the barbarian tribes. But luckily, I wa... | I was always a bad scholar. The teacher told me to quit, because I was not fit to learn the spells and ritual. If only the hab known I had awaken during this time and just waited until now to retaliate. „Unter den Talaren, Muff von 1000 Jahre“ says an old German proverb.
I was around 15 years old when a dog bit my ha... | 2020-08-15T03:57:44 | 2020-08-15T01:24:27 | 100 | 21 |
[WP] It turns out that luck is genetic. As underground research labs begin to appear, scientists across the globe set traps to capture lucky humans so they can be traded on the black market. It’s now recommended that people avoid casinos, night clubs, and Ireland. | I didn’t think my discovery would change anything.
People with good genetics were always considered lucky. The only thing my research proved was that our perception of the phenomenon had been backwards. They didn’t get good genes because of their luck; they got lucky *because* of their genes.
I had always been fasci... | "It is very difficult work you see," Says underground research scientist Hans Buglefort. Agreeing to show us his lab under the condition of anonymity, Mr. Buglefort states "we are only able to work with a small subsection of the population. There are those who are unlucky enough to be captured, in some cases by mistake... | 2022-08-04T06:20:11 | 2022-08-04T06:03:15 | 498 | 277 |
[WP] You are a forgotten god just days from fading into the void, when all of a sudden you hear a whisper the first prayer you’ve had in years. With this in mind you stumble out of your death bed and investigate this. | **I'm gonna edit the question and make this more like american gods, where it's not the prayer, just the simple act of remembering**
I heard the whisper. The first one I had heard in longer than I remember. It was so stunning, so unusual, I reflexively exclaimed:
"Wait...who the fuck? What....oh God damn it are you s... | Ixtal lay alone in his bed of stars. Underneath him, he had the most comfortable and majestic nebula, it shone in bright colours with intricate patterns ever changing. It was said that even the gods could stare into it and get lost in thought and reflection over themselves. A fitting bed for someone who had once been t... | 2020-10-18T15:28:56 | 2020-10-18T14:53:12 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] Alcohol has been banned throughout most of the Galaxy due to its corrosive nature towards organic life, in the near future when first contact is made with humans the aliens are horrified that humans not only mass produce alcohol, they also consume it for pleasure. | "Sir, the report from planet X-2K-9 also known as Earth, has been transmitted and received, along with a representative from their planet."
"Thank you private." Admiral Grod replied.
"Um- but sir?"
"Yes private."
"Theres something strange on the report."
"Well out with it private, what is it? I'm meeting with the ... | "At artificial concentrations, the simple organic the humans called ethyl alcohol was known to denature many basic proteins, and then dissolve fatty membranes, or just destroy similarly structured energy reservoirs. Many of the first intergalactic species have a very low lethal dose to the substance. In concentrations ... | 2019-11-07T07:47:28 | 2019-11-07T07:08:02 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | “Its how fast?” David asked, a skeptical tone in his voice.
“Okay, I’ll try to put it in layman’s terms.” Gavin replied, his coffee going unnoticed on the table in front of him, “Let’s say a normal camera runs at something like 24 frames per second. Ours runs much faster than that. Much, much faster. A couple hundre... | "What are those lines?" asked Martin. It looks like some interferences.
"Wait, hang on, zoom in.... What is this ? " Diane was puzzled, every hundred thousand frames there were a few frames like on those old TVs having bad signal.
"Do you see this ? " Martin stood up, took off his glasses and picked a white sheet of ... | 2015-02-06T14:36:31 | 2015-02-06T13:12:41 | 241 | 28 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | I had to admit, this trap was more effective than many of Dr. Inconvenience’s usual attempts. I hadn’t been lucky enough to have flight as one of my powers, so I was stuck trying to carefully walk my way out of the circle. I thought I was almost there when another invisible banana peel sent me to the ground again.
“Ha... | Poopy Man continued explaining his new evil machine, which would turn all apples into bananas, and all bananas into apples, confusing everybody in the world. Next to him the corpse of The Dread Monster lay with his tongue hanging out of his mouth.
Just 10 minutes ago I was alerted of Poopy Man plotting a new dumbass s... | 2022-10-13T18:07:40 | 2022-10-13T15:08:13 | 327 | 181 |
[WP] You are Functionally Immortal, however your life force is connected to a cat that can die to anything but old age. You must protect the cat to stay alive. Having lived alongside the cat for centuries, one day it disappears. | The moment I woke up I knew something was wrong. My hand reached out, and landed on empty bedsheets.
"Mittens?" Maybe she'd just gotten bored; walked out of the room. But I knew I was lying to myself. After centuries of living with a cat, you realized how much they were tied to routine. She bullied me if I didn't ... | "Mrs. Tibbles?"
I crept along the edge of the wall, shaking a bag of her favorite treats. Once, sometime in late 1990s, she'd managed to get inside the walls while a contractor was replacing the microwave. Mischievous girl! I'd spent hours looking for her, convinced that death was just around the corner for both of u... | 2022-08-07T18:31:54 | 2022-08-07T17:38:46 | 1,077 | 82 |
[WP] "Why do you call me stupid, Human?" "Because you came here alone, asking for our surrender while your armada is still 15 years out, and you brought us a prime example of your species technology, including fusion power and faster than light propulsion. You see where you messed up yet?" | (1/2)
I despise humans. Now that I am finally face to face with one in the flesh, it only confirms my detest. “You are the one that came to our planet, alone,” I said. “The remainder of your fleet is 15 light years away. We’ve captured you and your ship. The technology of which we will use to improve our own and final... | The alien ambassador sitting across the table fell silent, a few moments went by as it stared forward motionless seemingly pondering what the human general had just said.
The aliens face began to rapidly turn a bright yellow as it immediately began taking in quick shallow breaths of air. Suddenly the attendants stand... | 2021-03-26T05:03:22 | 2021-03-26T04:03:20 | 199 | 124 |
[WP] You discover a library with a biography for everyone on Earth. While reading your own, you notice that whenever someone else is mentioned, there's a footnote showing where you can find their biography. Its odd how someone who was only a sentence in your book has a whole chapter for you. | 2 February, 2067. The massive computer filled the laboratory, a mass of cables and circuitry which towered over Dr Dane Langley. His team had already adjourned to the pub off-campus to celebrate their success, but Dr Langley wanted a quiet moment with his creation before the government took control of the project the n... | With a growing curiosity, I fell back into my chair and looked at the book in front of me. "Lisa Matherson. The Autobiography." Nope. Definitely never heard her name before. The contents displayed three chapters. Unreal. A chapter I can kinda understand, but two hundred pages? Insane. "To James. My sun and my moon," i... | 2017-12-04T04:55:10 | 2017-12-04T03:12:19 | 599 | 25 |
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