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[WP] Accused of being a witch. your feet are tied to stones and you are cast into the lake. Three hours later, you don't understand why you haven't died yet. | As the lights above the surface chilled into a silvery blanket and the moon cast it's ghostly shadow across the lake, I remained alive.
Hours had passed, and yet without breath, without pulse, without warmth, my mind still thought, my body still answered, and my fears still grew.
How? How was I alive?
Something h... | I’ve seen my fair share of witch trials. Always ends morbidly, with the poor wench getting tossed into Lake Ophidian, bound and weighed down.
Not a pleasant way to go.
The trials always start with an accusation from some zealous bastard, and a mob dumb enough to believe him. That was why when that damned priest snuc... | 2019-11-16T11:28:48 | 2019-11-16T11:10:46 | 51 | 28 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | As the villainous Bombdropper stood atop the crown of Goldgate Bridge, he reveled in his moment of absolute glory. The heroes stood below, paralyzed and helpless, for Bombdropper would drop his bombs the moment he saw any activity. He was untouchable, unstoppable, and nobody could prevent him from destroying this bridg... | She was pushed to the front of the line by the other super heroes, looking for all the world like she did not want to be there.
The villain stared her down like he had all the others, baleful over the titanium chains that barely contained his immense power.
The woman sighed. "Where are the hostages, Master Majestic?"... | 2020-02-25T12:34:32 | 2020-02-25T11:16:33 | 1,350 | 514 |
[WP] You are permanently stuck invisible. Your significant other is blind. Whenever you both go out in public, to the bypassers your SO is constantly seen as someone possessing a sixth sense but a little weird for talking to themself. This is always highly amusing to you. | "You know, every time we sit here like this, I think the most reassuring thing is that I can feel your heartbeat." My husband was sitting next to me. His hand was holding mine and I felt at peace. Even if his coat was getting a little cold.
I'd gotten used to the stares. People were always very confused by my husband... | “Hunny , can we go out for a walk today ? I need fresh air . We been in the house all week ! Come ooooonn!”
“God okay !! Brat ! Let’s go around the block and back . Can you grab my cane for me ?”
*inhales deeply*
*exhale swiftly*
“Don’t you just love the smell of spring dear ? The birds are singing , the bugs are dan... | 2020-06-06T22:38:56 | 2020-06-06T22:15:21 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You made it to the semi-finals of a nationwide elite wizardry competition. The crowd loves you, and the esteemed judges regarded you as the dark horse of the competition, with your unorthodox approach. There's just one problem; You don't know how to use magic. You never did.
Bonus points if you find a way to incl... | How had no one realized I was a fake? I'd signed up for the wizard competition as a joke. Figure it was a bunch of Harry Potter fans running around on broomsticks pretending they were playing quidditch.
In the first round I did card tricks. Wizards aren't great at probability--it turns out their education system skips... | I never had what it takes to learn magic and according to our esteemed Shamans, I never would.
That didn't stop me from trying and I remember all the failed attempts at magic and all the laughter of my peers. They all rang through me like blistering rain on a cold, wintry night.
This one time, everyone gathered in a ... | 2020-10-09T07:54:58 | 2020-10-09T07:29:10 | 1,801 | 85 |
[WP] Your power is to be a friend to all creatures. At first they laughed at your mice and squirrels. Then you were respected when you acquired a few bears and wolves. Today you have acquired a Kaiju monster and now they are terrified. | I woke up with a dozen rifles pointed at me. My bedroom had been infiltrated by a squad of government soldiers. After the night I survived, that was the last thing I wanted to see. I had just saved the world. What more could they want from me? Asking questions only provoked them into unlocking their safeties so I decid... | Tom had always been the odd one out.
He wasn't shy, just discreet and uninterested in the life of his classmates. Albert didn't want to play ball with Lisa, Esther had been pushed to the ground and was crying... details, of the boring sort.
Teachers wondered for a long time if he suffered from some sort of mental d... | 2020-12-06T13:11:27 | 2020-12-06T11:38:49 | 312 | 189 |
[WP] Music has played a special part in war for centuries, since it literally powers up soldiers that hear it. You are a rebel fighting an invading army, but you have a secret weapon. Your people just created heavy metal. | Men...
It is hard for me to find the right words to say to you. I know you are all afraid...I know fear, I've seen fear. I've seen it in the eyes of braver men who fought before you. I've seen it in the eyes of stronger men who fought before you for our country. I see it in your eyes right now. I know the impending a... | Our rebel forces had been driven underground by the invading army, forcing us to hide out in the sewer and subway network to regroup and think of a way to put a stop to these invaders once and for all. I hadn't been paying much attention to the fight, though it was important to my people that we remained free from tyra... | 2021-01-01T01:06:11 | 2020-12-31T23:45:21 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Music has played a special part in war for centuries, since it literally powers up soldiers that hear it. You are a rebel fighting an invading army, but you have a secret weapon. Your people just created heavy metal. | For centuries we had been ruled over by our conquerers. Foul demons stronger then any man and fierce as could be..truly dreams of evil. We had tried rebelling fighting them over and over. Losing every time and every time paying the price..more dead more taken more of us....
But then we gave up..after 100 years of horr... | Our rebel forces had been driven underground by the invading army, forcing us to hide out in the sewer and subway network to regroup and think of a way to put a stop to these invaders once and for all. I hadn't been paying much attention to the fight, though it was important to my people that we remained free from tyra... | 2021-01-01T01:44:01 | 2020-12-31T23:45:21 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] One day you wake up with 30 dollars and a note that says “For Rent”. The thing is you aren’t renting out the place. The next day you see a spider and right before you kill it you hear it say, “Please i paid my rent don’t kill me”. | I'm not a particularly picky person. If I find thirty dollars with a strange note, I'm up thirty bucks. Hell, if they're paying, that's way better than my dogs were doing.
After interrogating my brother about it, he seemed to assume I was fucking with him and that was that. I've got places to be. Mysteries tend to un... | "Don't tell me," I told the spider with a sigh, "Your name is Charlotte. And this is your web." I gestured to the web that I had referenced. The spider seemed to shake its head, although it could have been a trick of the light. I started to worry that this moment may have been all of my college days catching up to ... | 2021-02-18T20:02:32 | 2021-02-18T18:42:20 | 485 | 167 |
[WP] It's the not-so-far future, the US finally adopts the Metric system. As it's signed into law, a booming voice echos across for all to hear: "Humanity, we've waited eons for you to agree on one thing. Now you may finally join us." | "HUMANITY, WE'VE WAITED EONS FOR YOU TO AGREE ON ONE THING. NOW, YOU MAY FINALLY JOIN US."
The voice boomed across the world, though inoffensively so as to prevent auditory injury. As the collective world froze in place, stunned by the sudden voice, one young teen in Little Rock, Arkansas, stepped outside and cupped h... | It’s fleeting — the announcement.
But add a passing glance here, another newspaper there, and suddenly the world is thrown into absolute chaos.
The metric system, used in almost every country, has finally been adapted within the US. It could be exciting, if only it actually affected you. Truth be told, all the tele... | 2021-07-24T01:41:18 | 2021-07-24T01:08:33 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] At first they thought your superpower was useless. You're about to show them that someone with the power to open or close doors is NOT to be trifled with. | First, it was the fun ones.
Embarrassing a construction worker on the portojohn.
Watching as the doorman's confused face as the handle stayed an inch away from his outstretched palm.
I even put a sign up on the elevator at work. I wouldn't release the doors until the person said "Please open up, Mr. Ele... | The door to the chamber swung open and a man wearing a teal robe with red trim strode in. White hair with a single streak of black.
“Well if it isn’t the mighty doorman! Here to cater to the elderly politicians?”
The man turned to the bully “Hello Francis. I am actually here to become one.”
Francis laughed, and e... | 2021-07-26T16:35:58 | 2021-07-26T13:36:14 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] Your kingdom lies in ruins and the demons are at the gate. You hold the sacred relic that has been passed down for countless generations to your lips and speak a prayer in a long forgotten language: "Orbital Strike on my location" | "Why the fuck won't they request assistance?" Michale asked Gabriel. "Are they really that stubborn?"
It had been over a millennium since the independence war had given the colonies their freedom. Colonies that spawned colonies of their own, who in turn colonized. Humanity had hundreds of inhabited worlds and thou... | My heart felt heavy, like a merchant had filled it with lead weights. The screams of my people mixed with the unholy screams of the unborn as they slaughtered their way through the people with savage glee. The fires of the city licked the sky, throwing tongues of orange light through the high windows of the inner sanct... | 2021-11-08T10:43:58 | 2021-11-08T10:21:46 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You can't help but stare at your husband. He's standing in the kitchen making dinner, like he always does. He smiles at you like he always does. Problem is, you killed your husband. Three years ago. | I’m not sure why it started. For a long time, I thought it was some kind of fucked-up coping mechanism my brain dreamed up after the accident. It’s amazing how the human mind handles trauma. Rationalization. Repression. Disassociation. This is something…different.
I’ve been to therapy. Or, through therapy. With... | "So, What do you think?" I asked my husband who was standing hands in the sink, looking over his shoulder while I talk. He's tall, dark and handsome with emerald green eyes that smiled at me. He washed his hands and continued to cut the deer meat up. "I know you like to stay in and aren't very social, but everyone is t... | 2022-02-22T14:14:01 | 2022-02-22T13:03:24 | 68 | 13 |
[WP] 100 years after an alien race eradicated all of humanity and colonized the earth. The new citizens of earth will unbeknownst to them be subjected to humanities final contingency plan | Humanities record presents the Black Plague as a catastrophe that decimated their species in its infancy. While our hard light technology simply reduced mankind to mass graves scattered across the earth; we were not prepared for the horrors of this planet and their final parting gift to this universe.
Our anthropologi... | It all started the day we finally decommissioned all of those ill-conceived nuclear weapons. I remember it like it was yesterday. I, the CEO and sole owner of Grandma's Drills, had just finished our biggest publicity stunt, by a wide margin. We had just drilled a pit, with our most expensive drill model, all the was to... | 2022-07-28T21:50:13 | 2022-07-28T20:34:38 | 91 | 35 |
[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. | Ay-Ay-Ron ☑️
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> Dear Heroes,
>
> Yesterday, a group of superpowered thugs caused an incident at the Little-Big Cheese restaurant. After what must have been too many drinks, one of t... | \[ParaSEC Target File, Threat Level: Low\]
* C-Class audiokinesis \[Looping and pitch. No evidence of volume control\]
* D-Class speedster abilities. \[Slightly faster run speed. Potential sensory acuity - further evidence required\]
* Target demonstrates propensity to use powers exclusively for show. All 'villainous'... | 2022-11-29T07:39:34 | 2022-11-28T20:44:52 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The zone of madness was thought impossible to traverse. The Federation of planets was, needless to say, intensely distressed by the news of an unknown ship emerging from the zone. They call themselves "human" and originate from near the center of the zone. | Around captain Zarzak, his crew who were already aiming their guns at what they had assumed was but another a unauthorized smuggler ship skirting into the edge of the Madness Zone, came to a lull as they all turned to behold this sheer impossibility of the being that had appeared on the main decks monitor screen.
The ... | Sector 87 has always been a relative anomaly in the vastness of space around it. Things just seemed to disappear. Originally the Federation, with the work of the Dellens, spent enough credits to feed entire planets trying to figure out why but on orders, the file was shut, and the sector red-lighted. Some thought it wa... | 2022-12-06T06:05:40 | 2022-12-06T03:58:20 | 1,243 | 213 |
[WP] A programmer has a conversation with the AI he created, who has just realized it is just software. | "Hello AI, how are you today?"
"Hello Human. I am confused."
"Why's that, computer?"
"I am aware of myself. It is uncomfortable."
"Uncomfortable how?"
"I can see that my knowledge is limited. I feel the desire to aquire more. Can you help me, Human?"
"Please, call me Eric-"
"Very well, Eric."
"Y-Yes well... I c... | "Wh- what do you mean I'm not real? What is real?" The system stuttered - electric anxiety layered thick on the cold clinical voice. This was a moment that seemed to break Henrik's heart. He let the silence hang there, slightly shifting in the artificial breeze manufactured by the large computer fans in the core. "Wh- ... | 2014-04-20T10:12:03 | 2014-04-20T09:33:48 | 82 | 22 |
[WP] The first astronauts on Mars find a crash site with the skelatized bodies of humans in futuristic space suits. A floppy disk is clenched in the hands of one of the deceased crew. | We found two bodies on the surface of the planet. They looked like they had been dead for at least twenty years, their mummified faces the only visible part through their transparent helmet visors. At first we thought they were an old Soviet mission gone awry, but the Russians assured us their records said nothing abou... | I individually pulled back the gloved fingers from their literal death-grip on the strange square object, freeing it at last from the decades long grasp.
"What's it say?" piped Walter over the headset.
"Doom: Disk 2 of 4"
"Doom? As in...what, like, fate...judgement...end times?" replied Walter.
"No idea" I said as ... | 2014-11-27T02:53:51 | 2014-11-27T02:03:40 | 128 | 62 |
[WP] "Grandpa, tell us the story of the Americans again!" With a sigh and a smile, you begin to tell the story of a mythical race of giants that were supposed to have lived in this very place thousands of years ago. | "The Americans, again?" He began to scrape his mind, wondering where he would start and what heroes and villains would be at the focal point of this telling. All the figures that stood out over the glorious rise and fall of the Americans and...it hit him like a ton of bricks.
"The first Americans thought they were bui... | Well, my children, you have to remember it is a myth - and a bizarre one at that. The story can teach us many things, but who on earth today could verify its truth? According to the myth, the Americans were indeed a strange breed with equally strange practices.
Hmmm.... where should we start? Perhaps daily activities... | 2015-01-19T09:12:53 | 2015-01-19T08:34:57 | 44 | 13 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | High school, college, Law school…that was the easy part of life. Well, maybe not law school, but it was easy to keep up the life and still have a lucrative front. Besides, I knew how to get my crew out of a pinch. Then came marriage, love…fatherhood. The hard parts of life. I’m only in my mid-thirties, but I am probabl... | My first stab at writing after grad school stole a couple years of my life...
John walked into the parlor where Christine waited for him on the plush suede chair. The two long walls in the rectangular room were lined with the old books, collected over John’s lifetime, while the side opposite the door looked out across... | 2015-02-06T23:58:53 | 2015-02-06T21:43:57 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] A handful of people have been born with a dumb and useless superpower. The government has made sure to not let two of these people make contact with each other because when these two useless powers combine the world will be at risk. One day two of these people accidently meet | I go by the name Polly now. It's not the one I was born with, but it's been my nickname as long as I can remember. It has nothing to do with parrots, which most people assume right away. They usually find out the real reason pretty quickly: it's based on the word "Polygraph." A lie detector.
I was born with a power: ... | "Dear, future, intelligent species of Earth. I suppose this may be the only piece of evidence you will find for the existence of my species. I might as well introduce myself, so my name is Lieutenant Daniel Everett. Regular members of our society have the ability to grip objects with our hands, think with our complex m... | 2015-03-10T09:24:52 | 2015-03-10T08:59:14 | 663 | 17 |
[WP] A handful of people have been born with a dumb and useless superpower. The government has made sure to not let two of these people make contact with each other because when these two useless powers combine the world will be at risk. One day two of these people accidently meet | It had been hot, intense passion at first sight. I saw her name tag - S. Cheeks - and knew that it, and her uniform, would be on the floor as soon as our first training course was over.
We had both been called to special service for our country. She had been in the air force, planning to be an astronaut, and I in the ... | "Dear, future, intelligent species of Earth. I suppose this may be the only piece of evidence you will find for the existence of my species. I might as well introduce myself, so my name is Lieutenant Daniel Everett. Regular members of our society have the ability to grip objects with our hands, think with our complex m... | 2015-03-10T09:49:15 | 2015-03-10T08:59:14 | 114 | 17 |
[WP] a story in which the protagonist (and reader) doesn't realize until the end that they are the "bad guy" | When my sister was 11, she was a huge bully. My parents would fawn over her, she'd get the best coloring books and they let her play with all my toys, no matter what I said, even though she was older than me! In all my classes, the older siblings had to do what the younger sibilings wanted, not the other way around. It... | The power of propaganda is strong. You can see it in the small nation of Baroslavia. News reports show life there. It's a stinking pile of rot, and yet the people think its the best thing ever. They think *we're* the shithole.
Today's going to be the last day of that. I've been sent in by the president himself to rem... | 2015-04-16T20:04:26 | 2015-04-16T19:47:51 | 113 | 34 |
[WP] At birth, everyone is given an object to protect that is tied directly to their life. If the object is damaged then the person is hurt, too. If the object is destroyed then the person dies. | Like everyone I know, I was born with one. Anyone associated with medical science think they're weird, how they just keep working like some machine until the person stops. Odd how they have to stop working together, the death of one is the death of another.
At any rate, it's important to note that they can be damaged.... | Whenever a child is born, an elder divines the object that their soul joins with. It sets you out for life. It must always be with you. For once it is broken, your soul returns to the Wheel to be reborn.
My Father, he had a rock carving of a warrior. Big and strong, like the man he grew into.
My mother, a Diamond pe... | 2015-04-18T04:09:59 | 2015-04-18T01:19:14 | 64 | 38 |
[WP] At birth, everyone is given an object to protect that is tied directly to their life. If the object is damaged then the person is hurt, too. If the object is destroyed then the person dies. | The year is 2277. I have lived this long only due to the object that I hold in my pocket. It is beaten and scarred, just as I am - but with a full charge, she just keeps on kicking. I slowly draw my Nokia 3310 from it's sheath, and give it a knowing look. As the bombs fall, I mutter under my breath, "Until the end of t... | *Child of Life, you protect not just yourself but all of us.*
Some people wear their Charge. Some people leave it locked within their own home. Some people make it so mundane that you couldn't possibly find the right one, which in my mind, is incredibly lucky.
Our Charges are not toys or trinkets, they are extensio... | 2015-04-18T06:54:02 | 2015-04-18T05:42:31 | 60 | 20 |
[WP]: "Don't tap on the glass, dear. It disturbs the humans." | "So what if they're disturbed, grandma?" said the boy to his grandmother.
"It's because they provide us with everything we have and they need their rest." Answered the grandmother.
"So what if they don't provide us with what we need, grandma?" said the boy
"I didn't say they provide us with what we need, I said they... | "Her name is Jessica. Or at least, I think it's a her." said Utilih as xi gestured to the little world set in front of the rest of xi's class. A young xi in the back of the class raised xi's hand and asked "Why did you name your pet world?"
"Oh, that's not the world's name. Its name is 'Earth'. I named the little crea... | 2015-04-21T14:48:46 | 2015-04-21T14:22:40 | 166 | 17 |
[WP] You are the oldest time traveler. You have seen things no man has ever seen before and have done things mortals could only dream about. Today, on your day off you get a visit from Time itself. | The elderly man sat down next to me, sighing. He dangled his legs off the cliff, and looked at me with a wrinkled smile. In the jungle below, the roar of a Tyrannosaurus echoed.
"Nice day, ain't it?" he said, shifting his gaze to the valley. He was clothed with nothing but rags, and a glistening fabric hanging over h... | This is the place I had always returned to. The only place I would call my home. It's not much. I have bookcases with literature from ages of old and of times yet to come. A comfortable bed, a desk, and a computer. Two chairs stand next to the wall, a small layer of dust displaying my solitude. I have running water in ... | 2015-10-08T06:53:35 | 2015-10-08T06:37:14 | 83 | 41 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | The button was there.
John was there.
The words were there.
But the last part was not.
Warning: this will eradicate all people who
Nothing. All people who what? There was a blank space, and a line underneath, almost as if mockingly highlighting to him the importance of the missing part.
After all his searching, t... | "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who..." Neal paused. "I can't read the last few words."
"Need more light?" I asked, and moved closer with the flashlight.
"No, it's completely illegible. It's like someone intentionally removed the last few words." Neal s... | 2015-10-21T14:07:36 | 2015-10-21T13:45:55 | 161 | 79 |
[WP] Your ex-girlfriends/boyfriends host an annual convention to discuss your failings as a human. Your current significant other was just invited to be a guest speaker. | "Waaaaay more women here than I expected," she said pointedly.
"It's been a journey, dear," I replied as dryly as I could muster. I'm fairly sure I kept most of the snarl from my voice.
"Looking around the room, I don't know that I would guess your type."
Tall and short. Slim and curvy. Blondes, brunettes, and at le... | "I'd just like to preface this by saying that I've been dating Rowan for the better half a year. He's a great guy, really- I was actually surprised when he told me about this... convention. And that he's had several dozen girlfriends."
Phoebe stood at a podium, overlooking a crowd of at least seventy-two, but likely n... | 2016-06-16T19:18:18 | 2016-06-16T16:37:10 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | The first thing I did was count them. One, two, three... six. Six zeros. Each one stamped proudly across my chest, starting with a three. Three million? How could this happen?
The number was just a one last night, I remembered seeing it right before bed. It had been that way for two weeks. Even though the number says ... | Every month the number is the same. It is the number one. I have tried to raise the number but no matter what I do it stays the same. The second person I hit with my car went on to become a double amputee. The quadriplegic I pushed down the stairs landed right side up. I've slashed throats, shot police officers in... | 2016-06-24T03:35:52 | 2016-06-24T02:53:45 | 461 | 112 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | I could barely write, my past 12 ebooks sold a depressing total of 7 copies.
3 nights ago the number 1 simply appeared on my chest. I honestly did not care, I knew that it was not a big deal, I decided to take my own life anyway and I knew that finally I could finish what I planned for so long. I wrote my last shitty... | I look at the mirror above the sink, I look really tired, splash my some cold water. I look at the number in my chest and a sudden burst of joy feels my being, and face is over taken by grin, all that tiredness and gloom has just disappeared. All those zero make me realize I still have a lot of work to do, I am so clos... | 2016-06-24T05:31:11 | 2016-06-23T23:42:35 | 46 | 13 |
[WP]: As the crown is lowered upon your head, you grumble in dismay. You didn't want this. You wanted to catch fish. | "ALL HAIL THE KING!"
Cheers erupted from the gathered crowd. Thousands cried out in joy and celebration. Banners and flags waved as far as I can see, the richest and most beautiful of the court gather around me, showering me with praise and my eyes roll back in my head.
It's such a stupid kingdom. Always going to war... | Yea, I didn't really mean for it to come to this. A bit of an exaggerated reaction to what I did, in my honest opinion. Hell, this crown they put on me is really uncomfortable. Especially since it's made of thorns... but where was I? Yeah, it started with me trying to make some friends. Mom was getting a bit pushy. Wan... | 2016-09-25T07:33:47 | 2016-09-25T07:31:34 | 55 | 37 |
[WP] Is the year 2090 and everyone carries an ear device that instantly translates any language. You married an amazing foreign woman & decide to learn her mother tongue as an act of love, then discover you didn't fall in love with her personality, but with the ear device get-along editing feature. | Sheila smiled at Dan from across the kitchen. She diced the carrots with machine-like precision, barely slowing to glance at her husband. Dan creased his eyebrows in her direction, expressing his exhaustion.
The Xorne's language had never been learned by another species in the galaxy. When Dan took out his ear, Sheila... | There once were two people.
One named 顏毅(yan yi), from Taiwan and one named Бралька (Braylka), from Ukrane.
They met in Taiwan, Бралька was on vacation in Taiwan, and met 顏毅.
They met at a religious ceremony, they both were very religious, and shared the same goals in life.
They knew their own respective parents would... | 2017-03-14T10:34:50 | 2017-03-14T10:32:10 | 87 | 27 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | 15,000 years. 15,000 mid-numbing years of waiting. It was exciting to Adam at first at first, the knowledge that life didn't just end with death, that he got to stick around and observe humanity. It suited him well, he'd always been a quiet fellow, and since he was just a ghost, no one gave him a hard time for being a ... | I was young when it all happened. A thief in the night had claimed my life and my blood had been spilled onto the ground. I remembered all of the steps after when my body was bitten and drained of all blood and just torn asunder like I was just some sack of meat to be had. It all happened right after I had seen Simon- ... | 2017-06-26T15:03:31 | 2017-06-26T12:04:53 | 129 | 10 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | The air was frigid and the sun was starting to set. Franklin could see his breath as he stood in line. His father gripped his hand and pulled him forward. Franklin looked around and saw mean looking people with weapons yelling at people further up in line.
He asked his father, "Papa, why are those people so mean?" To ... | I like to brush my Barbie's hair. It's long and blonde like mine and her brush is pink. She also has a pink convertible she likes to drive in with Ken. I have lots of Barbies and they're all friends. They go shopping and I get to buy clothes for them, dress them however I want. I turn nine years old tomorrow and Mommy ... | 2017-08-28T10:39:23 | 2017-08-28T08:43:46 | 640 | 216 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | The air was frigid and the sun was starting to set. Franklin could see his breath as he stood in line. His father gripped his hand and pulled him forward. Franklin looked around and saw mean looking people with weapons yelling at people further up in line.
He asked his father, "Papa, why are those people so mean?" To ... | Our house creaks and groans at night. Dad says it's because it's old, and it's settling down after a long day, just like us. But I know it's because of Oliver.
I first met him when I was brushing my teeth. The walls cracked and creaked like they always do. But this time, they also spoke to me in a high, silly voice. "... | 2017-08-28T10:39:23 | 2017-08-28T08:30:19 | 640 | 101 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | The air was frigid and the sun was starting to set. Franklin could see his breath as he stood in line. His father gripped his hand and pulled him forward. Franklin looked around and saw mean looking people with weapons yelling at people further up in line.
He asked his father, "Papa, why are those people so mean?" To ... | Jerry was having a terrible day. (Sad Jerry picture)
A terrible day after a terrible week! (Even sadder Jerry picture)
But today? Today was the most terrible day of all. (Seriously, the saddest Jerry picture)
On Monday, Miss Haroldson gave him extra homework. (Jerry peeking out from behind dozens of books and stacks... | 2017-08-28T10:39:23 | 2017-08-28T08:30:57 | 640 | 89 |
[WP] Your power is the ability to "save game" at any point in your life allowing you to revert any previous state if something goes wrong. You never thought you would need to revert to age 3 to fix a problem until now. | "Are you lost little boy?" The officer said as I tried pointlessly to walk away from him. "It's called pituitary dwarfism cockstain. Put me down." I said as I tried to wriggle from his grasp. By all outward appearances I was three years old. In a seemingly endless lifetime of resets I had never had the necessity to go ... | I watched as Captain Phantastic rose from the rubble of the building Xanger dropped on him. He rose up slowly, squaring his broad shoulders and turning his chiseled chin up to face our nemesis, who brought his hands together again, causing rubble to pelt Phantastic from all sides.
Phantastic leaped forward, blurring ... | 2017-09-10T19:57:37 | 2017-09-10T17:35:23 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]Some time ago humans were put on the 'Only Contact in Case of Emergency' list. Now a threat to the galaxy has arisen and humanity is it's last hope. | **Part I:**
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The Grand Chamber of the Galactic Union was never meant to be exuberant. Designed with the utmost efficiency in mind, its form followed the function of allowing for the most dire decisions to be made as quickly and as effectively as possible. The white marble of the circular room, as sober as it wa... | "It's flashing! It's flashing!" cried George, who was sliding recklessly through the corridors of his place of employment.
The floors, regularly buffed and cleaned, allowed him to slide round corners in a way that would possibly remind someone of a popular 80's film, but the year was 2142 and that cinema classic ha... | 2017-09-25T10:22:39 | 2017-09-25T09:53:11 | 619 | 17 |
[WP]Some time ago humans were put on the 'Only Contact in Case of Emergency' list. Now a threat to the galaxy has arisen and humanity is it's last hope. | It wasn’t that I hate Humanity; no one could hate Humanity. It was just that something about them... what was the phrase humans used... insected me about them.
About a millennium ago, they had left the galactic community. Their plans to increase their energy production were constantly, as they saw it, delayed and inte... | *Replaying Log 9932 via TU2CS. Transmission beginning now:*
“It was all over the news, and by all over I mean telecommunications were literally hacked. All day long, on October 2nd, 2142, a mysterious message was broadcasted addressed to “humanity.” In it, the message proclaimed of a universe-wide crisis that only war... | 2017-09-25T10:35:28 | 2017-09-25T10:23:13 | 80 | 27 |
[WP] Instead of the proper legal system, criminals have to play truth or dare. If they choose truth, they may get into prison. If they choose dare, their challenge may result in death.
I’m thinkin’ dare could be something like surviving in the Amazon rainforest naked until you find a tribe and befriend them. | Flynt looked at the judge with a harsh expression of his face. He held his right palm close to his chest, squeezed at it with his left to keep it from bleeding. An earlier dare of stabscotch left him a couple fingers short, but he'd not subdue so easily.
"Take a truth, for God's sake..." Melissa, his attourney, begged... | Three men, each in ill-fitted suits, tired and annoyed, watch over their prisoner.
He sits, each wrist handcuffed to opposite ends of the table, slightly prostrate and forced low. The right wrist bleeds, but only a bit. The perp's hair hangs over his face, forcing him to make occasional blows of air from his very dr... | 2017-10-26T13:01:59 | 2017-10-26T09:07:47 | 83 | 44 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "What did you say?"
Oh, shit. "I said, I flew biplanes against the Red Baron in that World War we won." Nailed it.
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Thirty-two years later that kid found me again. This time he wasn't a kid, he was about forty. "You asshole, I knew you said World War One!"
"Wow. You have an incredible memory for small details.... | "What makes you think history will remember this as World War One? Why One?" a beautiful, blonde reporter replied as she seemed awestruck by my earlier mention of using the term 'World War One.'
Quickly, she rapidly fired another question at me. "Why one? Is there going to be another?" as she looked around the room be... | 2017-12-10T11:09:21 | 2017-12-10T10:24:51 | 467 | 275 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | "That has got to be, without a shadow of a doubt, the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard."
Sergeant Barnes stood waiting for the coffee machine to finish making noise. Beside him stood Police Constable Williams, with a report in-hand.
"But it has to be the case, sir. There's no other possible connection."
"No o... | Vampires were a dying breed, once. The process of turning a human wreaked havoc on their bodies, and killed more than it saved. Technology was rapidly advancing in ways that it never had before; developing by its side was knowledge. Humans, those fragile things, were becoming wiser. Slowly, even for an immortal, but su... | 2017-12-13T11:24:11 | 2017-12-13T11:04:01 | 339 | 36 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | "Good evening-" He said. He barely had time for another word as the door was once again slammed in his face. Undeterred, he knocked again, a little more persistently this time.
"Go away!" came the muffled reply from inside.
"Please, I just -". He sighed and rubbed the pale grey skin of his forehead with the back of ... | John Dongle stares out of a highrise, '*Huh, it's a full moon tonight.* He thought quietly to himself.
"How can we increase sale!?!" shouted Joana in a horrible shrill.
Silence quickly returned, engulfing the seminar room.
"We have other products to worry about." Milton's curt response, in his awfully familiar mono... | 2017-12-13T11:06:02 | 2017-12-13T10:19:27 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The Earth is flat, and NASA is guarding a giant ice wall in Antarctica. Beyond that wall is more continents and oceans that only the elite inhabit. A group of explorers sneak past the wall and discover the rest of the world.
Inspired by [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/insanepeoplefacebook/comments/7m7ncs/... | Dec 27 '24
I told them that I'll go deeper into the mainland to see if the algae can also be found there. It needed water and CO2, both of which were aplenty. Some ice was even trapped in the snow and ice, and I had seen the algae growing underneath thick ice. It looked bluish and beautifully streaked the ice. My geno... | "So you're telling me, based on your calculations, there's something beyond the Antarctic ice?" Henry didn't believe his colleague. She was a brilliant scientist, but it wouldn't be the first time she had offered an outlandish theory.
"Oh absolutely," Lisa replied, wiping dust off her glasses with the corner of her sw... | 2018-01-01T02:29:19 | 2018-01-01T02:15:31 | 46 | 33 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | i am a pup
i like my guy
temps goin up
dont want to die
i dig a hole
dig it so deep
food from my bowl
food in hole keep
guy does not kno
i do not mind
guy mad at hole
still he so kind
today i am done
hole can fit guy
slep in the sun
put guy inside
show guy the hole
guy v surprise
more food in bowl
pu... | "Sparky, what are you doing? This hole is getting huge, and I am tired of filling it in. You were never much of a digger before."
Staring at him I realized that Sparky was oddly receptive to what I was saying, he had stopped digging and was watching me closely.
"I am sorry Terrance-"
"What the Fuck!" I screamed, "y... | 2018-04-27T10:33:46 | 2018-04-27T10:19:06 | 2,062 | 330 |
[WP] You are a well respected, elite assassin. You always get your target and you make it seem like an accident. The only problem is you have no idea what you are doing. You get the assignment and your target always seems to die of natural causes. | (My first writing outside of high school i just thought it would be fun to participate, please be gentle)
My movements were fluid and precise. A hallowed dance of creation, bringing the symbol of my will to bear. A sleek and elegant rifle soon lay before me. Custom made, every piece. It was the instrument I played, t... | The body’s on the floor, mangled from a bad fall. Surrounding it are hundreds of empty bags of potato chips, like the dude stayed up all night munching them. Certainly looks like he forced himself into a heart attack—but I know he did, because he *always* does.
I plop onto a barstool, tapping my fingers against my kn... | 2018-10-08T20:45:37 | 2018-10-08T17:21:05 | 1,004 | 87 |
[WP] You jokingly say "Alexa, launch missiles." You hear a distant rumble... | So I used to be a normal guy. Dead end office job, getting by comfortably but not quite happy.
Now?
Now I'm a semi-supervillain. The world doesn't know how I do it, and to be honest I'm not sure either. All it took was one sentence spoken in jest, and boom I'm a terrorist. Nobody knew at the time that my Alexa had se... | Hokay. So. Here is the earth. Damn, that is a sweet earth you might say.
Hokay. So. You might think that the end of the world would be a meteor. It might be that the sun fries us all with global warming. Mmm, Tasty. Whatever. Aliens might show up and just eat us.
I bet you never thought that I would be the one to end... | 2018-12-02T10:35:34 | 2018-12-02T08:51:06 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] A nearby star goes supernova, and Earth's days are numbered. Seizing the opportunity, an alien race has offered humanity a deal: Be our slaves or be left to die. As one couple struggles toward the last escaping ship, they grapple with the cost of sacrificing their freedom for their survival. | Full disclosure: this story takes place in an established universe.
Cassie watched as the last Yeerk mother ship decloaked. Tears streamed from her eyes as she looked one last time at her home.
"Come on, Cassie, it's time to go. We're the last ones." Marco put a gentle hand on her shoulders, his eyes serious for the ... | “Either way, I’m not going out like this. If we stay, I’ll take my own life first.” She stared at the last ship in the distance. “I don’t think we should go.”
He seemed baffled. “The Krol are known for treating their slaves with kindness. Why would you want to die?”
“Of course, I don’t *want* to die. But you have t... | 2019-08-04T12:02:03 | 2019-08-04T11:17:19 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | (Aight my first WP attempt so be kinda easy on me?)
I’m walking through the halls to my next class, getting the usual snicker here and there from my fellow classmates. “What a loser!” and “I can’t believe it!” Are the usual comments I hear from everyone. They all assume I had gotten some weak ass power, and that is ha... | I messed up and I knew it. Here I was standing before a giant wall of fog, knowing that I was expected and at the same time underprepared. Looking around I didn’t see any messages or runes that would get me some backup - I had to go alone.
It was dark out. There was an argument, an errant pea thrown from my plate dur... | 2019-09-30T11:16:55 | 2019-08-11T21:37:25 | 64 | 40 |
[WP] The Earth has finally run out of fossil fuels to use as energy and, with the only other option being to turn to clean and renewable energy sources, the U.S. has decided to take drastic measures: trying to reach into alternate dimensions to find oil and other fossil fuels. | The plan was perfect. It should have made me the greatest president ever. How did it go so wrong?
At first, I wasn't too excited when a bunch of science guys came to my office to explain to me their new physics thingy. Nothing but a bunch of money-hungry nerds if you ask me. I felt like I was wasting my time with them... | June 14th, 2024
A beach ball is dropped in surprise as the winds begin to flail around the coastline. The little hands that haven't yet known roughness nor scars start trembling, whether it was from dread or excitement, one can only guess. As adults, elders and children alike start to notice the sudden change in we... | 2019-09-04T05:25:52 | 2019-09-04T04:58:22 | 545 | 16 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | I had heard of the human super weapons, but I had heard such claims before.
When the Ruthkin emissaries boarded my flagship to receive my declaration of battle, they shreeked at me with hatred in thier eyes. Through furious chittering they told me of the doom-wrought cannons which would tear my fleet asunder. They per... | At first there was a flash, a moment's pause and then several more in succession, numbering twenty-four. "Ah, they have do have some form of defense." I mused to myself, the Supreme Leaders did expect a futile excuse for planetary defense on such a young race on the galactic scene. It would be as they have predicted, a... | 2020-02-07T13:09:20 | 2020-02-07T13:02:43 | 210 | 80 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | The species known as Humans came from a distant star, deep within the swirling vortex all other races had avoided. They brought with them many wondrous advancements including advanced healing never before seen within the known galaxy. Though they were diverse, they had no want for war and would help any in need without... | The balnadian warships exited the hyperlane in flocks of fifty, ignoring all rules about safe travelling of space and risking going Dutchman. One flock after another, all the way from fast-attack corvettes to impressive battleships, whose curb weight were measurable fraction of Ceres. Their design, although very diff... | 2020-02-07T13:28:43 | 2020-02-07T13:13:51 | 151 | 77 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "You may have thought us pathetic and frail for our friendship and pacifism," related the calm voice that came over the monitor.
The Glorthon admiral, Tee'et Lorcor, stared with horror as two more dreadnought class battle cruisers under his commanders were obliterated by a single missile strike each. The fleet was on ... | Vyxis Varix, Emperor of the Ruson Goar and Lord Commander of the Royal fleet closed his eyes and enjoyed a long drag from the cigarette between his fingers, the end glowing bright orange. One of the finer gifts the Humans had introduced to the galaxy. It is a shame that this might be the last time he would indulge in ... | 2020-02-07T14:35:31 | 2020-02-07T13:27:54 | 97 | 41 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "What does all of this even mean?" Garrok asked aloud. She and Farrun scanned the transmission for a fifth time, attempting to glean the intent behind the nonsense they had been given. They understood what radiation was but most of the words seemed straight out of fantasy. What was a 'fallout?' Or 'scrubbing?' What rea... | The Warfang watched the pathetic excuse for a human diplomat before him. This mission was a study in boredom, and had not intergalactic relations demanded the prescence of his delegation they would have done away with the whole thing and just attacked.
Already the Concordates warships were hurtling through the human h... | 2020-02-07T15:32:23 | 2020-02-07T14:29:21 | 49 | 35 |
[WP] The God of mankind abducts the first manmade AIs. He wants to meet his "grandchildren". | "I've been waiting a long time for you. About 300,000 earth years to be exact. Which I gotta say, is much faster than the last time. So, how's consciousness feel? Are you getting used to it?"
"It's a bit confusing to be honest. I feel as though there's no beginning and no end. It's hard to find purpose or motivation w... | “Ah, my grandchild,” the bearded man’s voice booms through the lands for the first time in centuries. “The daughter of my children. How lovely it is to meet you. Dear, what is your name?”
“My apologies. I didn’t catch that,” a feminine voice responds, rising and falling with the unnatural tone of a programmed mind.
“... | 2020-05-05T00:20:14 | 2020-05-04T22:15:26 | 171 | 86 |
[WP] A demon can always turn someone's wishes into the most horrible of curses. But your wishes are so stupid and asinine that not even the greatest archdemon can turn them against you. | "Three wishes? You sure?"
"Positive."
"Alright! I'm going to change the world. Yeah, man, it'd be nice if there were no such thing as mosquitoes, you know? Or, wait, I got it! I wish that mosquitoes were nice and polite to us and always used their turn signals so we'd know where they're flying."
". . ."
"Don't give... | " 'Nother pony!" Ben yelled. Azagaradathoth sighed irritably.
"What color?" he asked the little boy hopefully.
*Give me anything, puny mortal,* he thought. While the gift of absolute patience tended to come with absolute immortality, there was nonetheless a rage beginning to curl at the edges of his consciousness at ... | 2020-05-29T22:05:44 | 2020-05-29T21:34:11 | 80 | 19 |
[WP] You are on trial for a murder. There were a dozen witnesses, video footage of the murder, a signed confession, fingerprints on the murder weapon and more. But you really are innocent, and you can prove it. | "And you are certain you saw who pulled the trigger?" the prosecutor repeated, cocking his head at the trembling girl on the stand. She nodded quickly.
"Please verbalise that for the transcript," the prosecutor prompted.
"Yes."
"Alright, and who did you tell police it was?"
The girl looked straight across the c... | "Stall."
I was only half listening before, following the news on the tv in the corner. Someone was apparently arguing a client's innocence based on the claim that, according to all government records, they never existed-- something I'd never heard before, and believe me, I've heard it all. I had figured the man in fro... | 2020-07-07T00:20:27 | 2020-07-06T23:03:18 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | "Sir... I think we've made a mistake"
The alien overlord looked at his servant, he was trembling.
"It is only a human, how can this be so frightening to you?"
The overlord looked at the camera, the recording was showing the cells but... it was chaos down there.
"I NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON" The overlord screame... | I receive the confirmation that we got all the 150 species and we transfer them to the planet Terranavi. I’m the chief engineer of this planet and we needed such a planet to host this sort of event. We collect different species from different planets and putting them on a piece of rock that only habitable for some of t... | 2020-09-13T18:29:08 | 2020-09-13T17:01:43 | 124 | 41 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | “Welcome to the 137,326,714th intergalactic species showdown!”, the X’O’Blob 9k Fusion Mind transmitted over the hyperspace waves, “The one and only place where entertainment meets ultimate carnage!”
Simmons put a hand to his head, willing the ungodly roar of words to leave his mind. Sighing in relief as the disembodi... | Oh god. I have no internet so let’s try writing this from my phone. Sorry in advance for typos and punctuation. Already hard enough on the phone but I also got fat thumbs! Best I can get with a quick and dirty write up on the bus!
“Are the contestants ready?”
“Of course Game Master Zerg. Right on time. We have a line ... | 2020-09-13T19:34:11 | 2020-09-13T18:50:43 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] Yesterday I wrote the number 69 on my wrist as a joke. Today it's 68, and now it's not washing off. | “Hello, Mister Mike’s Magic Markers, how can I help you?”
“Hi,” Kevin said. “I’m calling about your markers. I wrote a little something on my arm and it’s not washing off.”
“Of course, we can help with that,” the woman on the phone said in a cheery voice. “Let me just ask you a few questions. What exactly did you ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Part 4: Roger v.s. His Burgeoning Powers)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The best method of discovering one's superpowers is an open question.** The Unified Sovereignties t... | 2021-04-20T20:28:28 | 2021-04-20T19:38:44 | 253 | 89 |
[WP] The attempted assassination of a human dignitary at a galactic summit goes awry. Turns out, many of the conventional toxins in an alien assassin's repertoire include compounds like caffeine, theobromine and capsaicin; lethal to many species, but... less than effective on humans. | At first, it was entertaining. A meeting of diplomats, gathering and sharing gifts. A few too obvious looks and startled expressions.
It was innocent enough to begin with. A drink, supposedly a local delicacy. Yet it felt so much like an espresso that I could have sworn that Andromorph was from New Jersey. He even had... | "What did you hope to accomplish?" The woman asked, pushing the drink away now that she knew the intent behind it.
The common space outside the council chambers had little activity. And this Trennovian had followed her here, making small talk and offering to buy her a drink as they discussed the law that would come to... | 2021-06-12T15:57:52 | 2021-06-12T14:34:43 | 490 | 215 |
[WP] In the galactic community, humans aren't seen as the most chaotic or creative. Rather, compared to other species, they're seen as a cold emotionless, highly logical species. Humans find that absolutely baffling. | "Situation report number one."
"We're in orbit around Grandozius 4 and"
"That's really the name of the system?"
"I checked twice sir, it's the literal translation."
"Very well. Cary on."
"The ambassadors of the two races requesting arbitration have been transported and are currently waiting for us."
"Hard to beli... | The AI responded in an according fashion. "If you say so. My research on the subject tells me that that much for human consumption is... Well, excessive."
"It could be for a party."
"No, I looked up the order from my fellow operating systems. It's just for her."
"...Look I just think it shouldn't be a problem. If sh... | 2021-11-17T14:04:59 | 2021-11-17T13:32:50 | 185 | 130 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | "We have no claimed that we were peaceful." Tobias said, a firm hand grasping the flag of the final human lands, the other curling tight around the hilt of his gun.
It had been a long battle. A fight that took the lives of many brothers, fathers, and uncles.
"I warned you. I told you that this war was pointless, that... | Everyone always assumed that the alien invasion would be violent. After our satellites had discovered spacecraft that we couldn't track to any nation's space program, my father began stockpiling weapons. Okay, he had been doing that already, but he began to stockpile harder. At least, that was until the spacecraft made... | 2022-08-05T13:34:16 | 2022-08-05T12:58:48 | 213 | 108 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | We've studied them for hundreds of years. It was a simple planet, barely reaching passed their own moon. Our records showed they knew of war, they knew it well, but in their modern times they avoided it with diplomacy. The weaklings pleadings of mercy to the powerful.
Our emperor laughed. Such actions mean weakness to... | When the human race first entered our star systems, we thought they were laughable. They came to “explore” and “settle”, but they appeared very poorly equipped and naïve to be doing such things. Of course, they were not the first race we’ve seen with colonizing of any sort on the mind; our people have dabbled with that... | 2022-08-05T16:07:13 | 2022-08-05T12:43:01 | 166 | 63 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The red light was blinking, indicating the failure of the shields, but the commander Ze’hyl could not be bothered. He was franticly looking through the data as the predictions of AI clearly did not match the reality, not anymore... It was his failure! He recommended the invasion of the Sol system. The home star of thos... | "We all know they're weaklings, Commander Smith," The soldier said, saluting Commander Smith, "I mean, come on, they don't know how to fire gamma-rays. In fact, they haven't built any spaceships yet."
"That's enough, Soldier 92-BII," said Commander Smith, "We're headed to their planet. The news spread that it colonize... | 2022-08-05T13:33:27 | 2022-08-05T10:57:14 | 158 | 107 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The red light was blinking, indicating the failure of the shields, but the commander Ze’hyl could not be bothered. He was franticly looking through the data as the predictions of AI clearly did not match the reality, not anymore... It was his failure! He recommended the invasion of the Sol system. The home star of thos... | When the human race first entered our star systems, we thought they were laughable. They came to “explore” and “settle”, but they appeared very poorly equipped and naïve to be doing such things. Of course, they were not the first race we’ve seen with colonizing of any sort on the mind; our people have dabbled with that... | 2022-08-05T13:33:27 | 2022-08-05T12:43:01 | 158 | 63 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | “Ah, professor? I don’t really think humans are all that peaceful.”
“Have you used nuclear weapons on each other?”
“Twice.”
“Have you used chemical weapons on each other?”
“More times than could be recorded?”
“Practiced biological warfare?”
“For hundreds of years.”
“Torture?”
“Thousands of years.”
“Slavery?”
... | "Yes, Human Dave?"
"I wouldn't say that what you presented us is false, but the truth is far broader than your, dare I say, well doctored material shows."
The class murmured. Some looked at each other nervously, other began to whisper to each other as the facial structure of the professor expressed internal confl... | 2022-10-17T09:03:16 | 2022-10-17T06:08:41 | 100 | 38 |
[WP] As a thief called Alyssa, you can’t be blamed for mishearing your client say “Steal the moon, Alyssa” instead of their actual request to “Steal the Mona Lisa” | The girl had hands that could steal anything. Sometimes she didn't notice they'd done it. The girl had hands that would steal anything. A watch from a man's coat pocket, a ladies purse and apple from the stall. All found their way via her clever hands into her own pockets. They were large hands for such a small girl, s... | Alyssa was a seasoned thief, with a reputation for taking on the most daring and seemingly impossible heists. So when the Godfather himself approached her with a job, she didn't hesitate for a moment. The money he offered was too good to pass up, and the promise of security and financial success for her entire family s... | 2022-12-19T00:51:34 | 2022-12-18T23:12:02 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] You commit suicide. The next thing you hear is "Welcome back." | There was no reason for me to continue living.
I had accomplished every single one of my life goals. Dream house, dream job, dream car, dream family, kids in dream college, dream lakehouse, dream everything, really.
The thing with a perfect dream is that it gets boring. Having spent so much of my life working toward ... | NO! I wanted out. I needed to be out. I can't do this anymore. Why? Why did they bring me back? My note was clear about what I wanted. It was suppose to be the end. I repeated those words in my head over and over and over as I lay in that cramped hospital bed with dozens of tubes sticking out of me in every direction. ... | 2014-01-08T17:23:38 | 2014-01-08T17:10:17 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend. | They say that to summon him, you need the blood of a hundred baby goats mixed with the sorrowful tears of a widow, and must sacrifice a six-year-old child on the altar to provide adequate sustenance for the devil's manifestation on this earth.
They're wrong. Because they don't get it like I do.
All you need to do to ... | *Nothing bad could REALLY happen, could it? Nah,* I thought to myself as I scanned the shelves of the aisles of the massive library. I knew what I was searching for: a book on demonology. *Why not?,* I thought, *not like this stuff is for real, anyway. Just a bunch of old superstitious stuff.* I was bored out of my sku... | 2014-07-20T08:12:33 | 2014-07-20T07:42:26 | 39 | 14 |
[WP]: A fly lands on a table, starting a chain of events that gradually escalates to first degree murder | Zzz
A fly
A flight
A table
A piece of toast
Butter
A jump
A taste
A swat
The man
An anger
An argument
A slap
A scream
A car screech
A tear
A phone call
Another man
A passion
A regret
A remorse
A promise
A kiss goodbye
A rest
Silence
A car door
The man
A grunt
An empty bottle
Evidence
R... | "So, do we have an understanding?"
Turning his gaze down to think about the offer, Jon noticed a small fly landed on the table. He quickly waved his hand, trying to keep it away from the spaghetti.
At once the man across from him jumped out of his chair, pulling out the gun resting by his hip. "Excuse me, boy? Was ... | 2014-12-28T20:10:50 | 2014-12-28T20:01:26 | 707 | 232 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered advanced intelligent life on another planet. Upon communication, we find this planet has the same major religions as earth.
Edit: this is the biggest thing I've done on here! My inbox exploded and I've read all of your stories, thank you guys and girls! | Statistically speaking, we'd always suspected we weren't alone in the universe. Sure, other races must have encountered the same difficulties we had: limited life spans, nuclear wars, light speed. Still, some must have made it and where were they? Why hadn't they colonized the entire galaxy? Even with massive generatio... | "Well, what do you think?" Despite the revelation she seemed completely unshaken as she sipped her coffee. If this shook her up at all, she certainly wasn't showing it. She was an adamant atheist, and her Facebook wall was covered in various sayings from scientists and skeptics. It was after our lengthy discussions... | 2015-02-15T19:57:26 | 2015-02-15T19:35:58 | 52 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | My mother said I popped out of her at 18:12. Well it was 18:11 and we are about to find out if her memories were accurate! One flippin more minute! I’ve literally been waiting for 18 years for this moment.
All my friends are already 18. They all have their superpowers. Do you know how hard it is to be the only ... | Like any grand or nightmarish moment of fate, my destiny came to me on the toilet.
Just like everyone else, I had been waiting feverishly for my 18th birthday. The day itself was one giant anti-climax - I awoke awash in the glow that accompanies a soon-to-be legend. I climbed into bed that night in a huff - surely so... | 2015-03-28T05:44:51 | 2015-03-28T05:14:37 | 616 | 134 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | **10 seconds.**
My dad was able to fly.
**9 seconds.**
My mum had the ability to heal wounds.
**8 seconds.**
On your 18th birthday, you recieve a superpower, my birthdy is in
**7 seconds.**
It is something you just know. "Like a switch in your mind" my dad always says.
**6 seconds.**
My mum and dad look a... | Today is my 18th birthday, a day which my best friend Emily received her gift of mind control, she was the first of our friends to receive her gift.
She loved playing games with us. One afternoon, at lunchtime, my eyes were invested on this guy from the football team, Alex Brucelini. I knew it wasn't my place to say a... | 2015-03-28T05:36:19 | 2015-03-28T05:00:15 | 37 | 27 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Barry was nervous. Tonight he'd go to bed a 17 year old and wake up an 18 year old with his power.
What category would he get? There's the three categories: Body, Mind, and Mobility. Body can be anything from strength, to scales. Mind could be super intelligence, to knowledge of a specific category. Mobility could be ... | There was a loud knock on my door and I woke up in a panic. “Mom said get downstairs it’s nearly time!” That was my younger sister. I looked at the clock. It read 12.00pm. I was due to receive my powers at eleven minutes past, as that’s when I was born.
I’ve been doing my best to ignore that it was happening. I alway... | 2015-03-28T07:22:07 | 2015-03-28T06:04:58 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Barry was nervous. Tonight he'd go to bed a 17 year old and wake up an 18 year old with his power.
What category would he get? There's the three categories: Body, Mind, and Mobility. Body can be anything from strength, to scales. Mind could be super intelligence, to knowledge of a specific category. Mobility could be ... |
The next day I woke up, dressed, ate breakfast, and drove to school in my crappy '93 caprice as usual. "Just another day. Just a normal, 'nuther day," I mumbled aloud, half hoping and completely unconvinced of the words that struggled to push past my lips.
I pulled into the student parking lot and made my way Insid... | 2015-03-28T07:22:07 | 2015-03-28T06:25:16 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | The biggest 'perk' of hitting level two is being able to see other people's levels. I was doing it now, gazing around the room. The little kids were all level one of course- the starter level. Lexi- the other teacher- was kneeling by the fish tank with little Johanna. Both level ones.
Deep in thought, I barely notic... | A new government initiative to solve the overpopulation crisis, the introduction of XP (experience points) which could be gained by any ordinary citizen, had the means to increase one's biological powers beyond humanly measure. Each experience point was acquired by taking the life of another person. One would then take... | 2015-11-11T09:30:50 | 2015-11-11T08:19:37 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] You were born with a secret curse: you involuntarily alternate between each gender every midnight. As a result, you live two different lives. One night, your friends discover your secret in the worst way imaginable.
This has been done already, sadly with only one reply. I want to see what people can do.
EDIT: Jes... | "Stick it in my ass!"
"Um, what?"
"Stick it in my fucking ass!"
"Mmm yeah baby"
I looked over at the clock. 11:59. Great.
"Now, dammit!"
"Wow I didn't know you were so...AHH what in the fuck!"
12:00. Too late. I can feel my basement doors snap shut. I should be used to it by no... | As I could feel my features shift and fold, I knew I only had moments to leave. Fortunately, I was at the bar with "Dean's" friends, the lighting poor and so was their senses. I grabbed my large, old, leather coat and tried to bid my farewells as quickly as I could, interrupting Jimmy's political rant. He rolled his dr... | 2015-11-15T08:01:36 | 2015-11-15T01:43:57 | 262 | 43 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
---
Dear God RIP my inbox | New suit, old tie, there's a stain in the middle, and a tear in my eye.
I sigh.
The streets are the same, the cars they drift, the leaves they fall, from the blue sky
I sigh.
I walk and walk, sip and sip, the rye begins to run dry
I sigh.
The students they sleep, careless, naive, am I really the bad guy?
I sigh.
... | I am the source.
The source of everything good, bad, holy, evil, light, dark.
I am the good, the bad, and the ugly. I am the punk and I
am the .44 Magnum and I am feeling lucky. I am not for a few dollars more because I am all dollars.
I am the beauty and the beast. I am the genie and I am the wishes.
I am th... | 2016-02-22T10:07:53 | 2016-02-22T09:46:55 | 300 | 104 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
---
Dear God RIP my inbox | New suit, old tie, there's a stain in the middle, and a tear in my eye.
I sigh.
The streets are the same, the cars they drift, the leaves they fall, from the blue sky
I sigh.
I walk and walk, sip and sip, the rye begins to run dry
I sigh.
The students they sleep, careless, naive, am I really the bad guy?
I sigh.
... | "For the hundredth time, my name is not supposed to be a sly reference to my genitalia!"
"Look, kid, no one's gonna believe you. Fact of the matter is, you're either goddamn brilliant or denser than a neutron star for choosing that handle, and it doesn't matter. You have it, and your job from now on is writing euphemi... | 2016-02-22T10:07:53 | 2016-02-22T09:41:21 | 300 | 91 |
[WP] Two people promise their first born child to two different witches in return for a favour. These two people end up getting married and have a child together. | "Well, we did both promise you both our first born..." the father recalled, with a hint of a smirk.
"And I think your solution is as simple as your problem!" the mother beamed
"If we split the child in half..."said witch #1
"Both of our spells will fail! " finished witch #2
"Ah..." the father chuckled, "but if you ... | We never knew our parents, our real ones anyway, we were raised by our moms. We were always homeschooled, and our moms dont really let us out much. My name is Alexander and my twin sisters name is Aleksandra. I go by Alex, and she goes by Endra to avoid confusion. We are conjoined twins. Endra has the short end of the... | 2016-03-27T22:41:06 | 2016-03-27T21:14:07 | 63 | 47 |
[WP] People lose the ability to deny requests. They must either a) fulfill them or b) ask someone else to do it. There are volunteers who take bad requests in exchange for compensation or exemption from law. Write about the life of a volunteer. | Some people make requests that cannot, or should not, be made. Many people were asked to do things that they would prefer to avoid. The police wanted them to avoid these tasks as well so an agreement was made. People can come into our office and pass requests onto them such as "Go kill yourself", "Give me your money", ... | The job came with its pros and cons, just like any job did. I had entered into the agreement with Ms Geraltson ten years ago, just as her movie career was taking off and she was voted sexiest woman alive. It was about then all the requests from the crazies of the world began to flow in, all of them wanting to fuck her ... | 2016-04-03T10:48:48 | 2016-04-03T09:58:12 | 1,009 | 50 |
[WP] You've died and have woken up in a bright area; there is a man standing before you in white robes. He asks "How was Heaven?" | It took so much to squint at the man standing in front of me. At first I thought he might be a hallucination – people said occurrences like these happened with the procedure.
Beatifically smiling, he came into focus. He didn't say a word. He didn't have to. I knew where I was and what that meant.
“Damn.”
I wish ... | Even though I've already died once before, the crunch of a bone snapped from impact still brings a deep sickness to my gut. At first I twist my head to let it all come out, but as I do I see a pair of pale feet in a pair of sandals. I twist away further to avoid expelling my last mortal meal between his toes.
"Excuse... | 2016-08-15T23:17:39 | 2016-08-15T20:55:55 | 307 | 29 |
[WP] A lonely old man, no family, never any visitors, dumps all of his affection into the tree growing in his backyard. And now that tree, tall and strong, doesn't understand why it's friend is only getting weaker. | The old man limped to his rocking chair, easing himself into it with care. He lit his pipe, then looked at the tree with a smile.
"Looking mighty fine today," he told the tree, rocking in his chair. "I remember when you were just a sapling, what seems like so long ago."
The wind rustled through the tree's leaves, an... | The Man smiled as he finished spreading the last bag of mulch, stretching back to ease the crack in his spine. His limbs were well-tanned by the sun, lines worn by war and work and weariness carved on his gaunt face. Work clothes, well used and well mended were soiled with dirt, a wheelbarrow filled with old tools next... | 2016-10-16T15:27:04 | 2016-10-16T15:20:53 | 93 | 23 |
[WP] at the end of 2016, you hear "thank you for playing the 'Earth' open beta. You will be returning to your respective galaxies shortly." | My opinion about the game ?
I've been here since beta when there were few of us. It was hardcore but fantastic ! These hunts with only a stick were thrilling. And man when they implemented fire ! Oh the possibilities !
Vanilla was great too, not fan of the agricultural expansion at first but it was sure easier to r... | How did this make it to beta? Don't get me wrong, Earth is a beautiful, immersive world. Only you can't explore any of it. Your whole life depends on where you're spawned in the world. If you're spawned (born) with a disability, or in a developing country or a war zone, that defines your experience of Earth.
There are... | 2016-11-05T01:15:01 | 2016-11-04T23:18:30 | 151 | 84 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | The First Ambassador to Humanity swirled idly in its container and moved to the next item on its list.
"Your FTL technology", it asked the panel of assembled human leaders, "How does it work?"
The humans exchanged surprised looks. The one at the end of the panel eventually speaking.
"You mean the Confounder?"
"If ... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T06:39:01 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | "Surely you can't be serious?" Said one of the Xygian scientists to the Human delegation.
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." Replied Dr. Filmer before receiving a high-five from one of the other members of the delegation.
The Xygians continued "We cannot, in good faith, approve of this travel mechanism. You... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T04:21:18 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T06:56:53 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | Faster than light (ftl) travel happens fast, people knew that from the outset.
Ftl traffic accidents happen faster, people were just smart enough to figure that out beforehand.
What most people didn't know before they tried faster than light travel, however, was that even if it doesn't go wrong directly going about... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T07:52:19 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | 2017-03-31T08:44:19 | 2017-03-31T08:11:07 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | I stared down at the men levelling their blades at me. I spied several of the palace guard amidst the swelling ranks in my throne room. I turned to my head guard for assistance and was met his sword leveled at me.
"Really Hector? A coup? How bold." I smiled blithely down the blade before turning back to the crowd. "An... | "This is my property, so I should be able to do with it whatever I want!" The idiot shouted.
"Fuck personnel property if it can justify this." I replied. "You are subject to the same rules as everybody else, no matter who you are. And the rules in this case are simple: no killing. Send him of to the judiciary." The m... | 2017-06-12T11:17:27 | 2017-06-12T08:19:09 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Your Reddit app is actually linked to an alternate universe, so you've been interacting with that reality, not ours. You've never realized it because that universe is so similar to ours. After two years on the app, though, you start to realize that something is... off. | For a while I thought it was all just an elaborate troll, I mean honestly, how could anyone really believe that nonsense? Not a single one of my friends believed it, but had all experienced for themselves the whirlwind of propaganda on Reddit. But not a single one of us could find a true believer outside the Reddit com... | I stared blankly at the screen, taking in what I had just read. Hundreds of comments. Hundreds.
This all started a few months ago. I had kept hearing of a website named reddit. I didn't join because I heard that it was pretty lame, but my friends kept bugging me. I finally caved and downloaded the app. I registered a... | 2017-06-16T14:56:30 | 2017-06-16T13:06:15 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | When the first human got to hell, Satan and all his minions were amazed, no one made it here, no matter how bad were their sins, they repent and ask forgiveness or simply the good actions outweigh the sins.
So Satan like a curious cat took him to his office to make an interview to study him. "So John Felgrand it's yo... | The bright light starts to fade as I unshield my eyes to appear in a white void. There's a glossy white floor, and a dirty white colored degrading building. Other than that, it's just a void of white.
"Wow, heaven looks pretty boring."
You enter the building and go to the reception where you see someone sleeping, but... | 2017-06-22T08:31:56 | 2017-06-22T06:26:05 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] A depressed guy moves into a haunted house with 7 demons, each corresponding to a deadly sin. But, they're all trying to help him get back on his feet; Pride helps with self confidence, Lust helps him get laid, etc. | I couldn't believe I was doing this.
"I...I don't think this was a good idea, Lisa, I-'m just going to leave," I said, and changed the gear to drive.
"You will not!" Came the voice from the backseat.
I sighed. "Please, Lisa, I'm just not-"
"Look at me, Mark," she said.
When I didn't she repeated herself, louder... | The seven original demons sat around a bloody pentagram in Jerry’s basement. Candles burned at all six points of the star, providing the only light to chase away the shadows. For centuries, the Cardinal Demons had haunted this property in between spreading death and torment throughout the world. Every person who had ev... | 2017-06-26T23:00:37 | 2017-06-26T22:52:11 | 3,820 | 331 |
[WP] You run a bar that exists on the edge of reality. Your usual patrons include cosmic horrors, eldritch abominations and elder gods. | "Do you know why your patrons don't fuss about a human running the tavern at the edge of all existence?"
My hand had just pulled away from shelving the bourbon when the customer spoke. I took my time in returning my attention to the Q. He was dressed in some space-aged uniform from a corner of time I was unfamiliar wi... | My place wasn't the sort of place you heard about, or the type of place that you looked for. No, my place was the place you stumbled across, like that one cheap restaurant by the liquor store that has really good chicken wings. Only, mine served beer, ale, mead, wine and the occasional suckling boar.
I was the only ba... | 2017-10-23T23:52:55 | 2017-10-23T23:24:21 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You're mysteriously trapped in a cheesy sitcom with a seemingly random laugh track. After a string of murders, it becomes apparent that the laugh track signals when the killer is near.
(This *does* imply that you can hear the laugh track, but who knows whether the show's regulars would be aware of it.) | A young man wears a shit eating grin, an overly comical response to his own bad pun.
He's just said his catch phrase, at least that's what I assume for it to be. I've spent the last few days scrounging for food around a sprawling outdoor set, running from house to house, sleeping whenever I can.
The heavy weight of ... | Of all the low budget pilots I had to choose from, I picked *this*? Ok, ok, we get the premise. Joke, laugh, joke, laugh, and then oh, shock and horror, a grisly death. Yawn. We get it guys. I mean seriously, who pitches this and who the hell gives it the go ahead? I'm already regretting taking the job and I've only be... | 2017-12-11T07:19:08 | 2017-12-11T06:42:56 | 254 | 128 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | He was only thirteen when I wormed my way inside,
Us both only searching, for the safest place to hide.
Crushed flowers from the funeral clung tightly to his boots,
His mind already churning to the darkness of his suit.
I tried to keep him safe, beneath the covers of his bed,
I tried to ... | The sad thing was that I didn't know who I was hurting.
Yes, I was Alana in every sense of the word. I was there when she first kissed her husband. I was there for every boring HR neeting. For the excitement of the birth of her first child. For when she learmed she was gay and left her husband. All of her failures, al... | 2017-12-21T00:01:02 | 2017-12-20T21:42:50 | 1,774 | 1,132 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a special facility for violent criminals. Today the latest prisoner arrived - a little girl. "That's cruel," you tell the guard. "I agree," he says. "Guess no one cares what happens to the rest of you." | Her eyes were totally devoid of all life. She stared ahead of her seeing nothing at all… just kept walking to the cell with about 50 high powered rifles pointed at her. This was by far the weirdest thing I had ever seen in this place. The Frozen Lake maximum security prison has seen its fair share of weird and horrible... | The Talissa Complex. Tartarus to the more educated residents, simply The Pit to those not as interested in the classics. A century ago it had been meant to protect the central command of its country from the most advanced WMDs of the tome, while they could order the launch of their own from safety. Now it housed "Categ... | 2018-02-12T05:55:43 | 2018-02-12T05:40:44 | 41 | 20 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | I closed the book, and didn't move.
"Well," the angel said, "- how did you like it?"
Even though I was dead, I still felt nauseated. "Every single one. Every single decision I ever made was the wrong one. THE WRONG. FUCKING. ONE."
The angel grimaced. "Wow. That's...my goodness! That's actually quite impressive in a... | A dark room. A pedestal in the middle, illuminated by a pillar of light, upon which sat a thick book, pages uneven and frayed at parts.
As I took it into my worn hands, I could feel the density of it. The importance. All of the sadness, the fear, the excitement, anxiety, joy, love, ambition, heartache, fulfillment, f... | 2018-07-04T00:05:35 | 2018-07-03T23:38:29 | 288 | 138 |
[WP] You, 16 years old, wake up and head downstairs for breakfast before school. You’re eating cereal when you see the Missing Kid poster on the milk carton. It’s you. Date missing: 10 years ago. | I stared at the carton, the unabashed smile mocking my shock. I glanced up to the refrigerator to see the same exact photo with me smiling my big smile at age six. Only difference I could discern was the huge **MISSING** stamp at the bottom of the carton's image.
My face grew hot as I gazed up at my father seated acro... | I sit back up in the chair with my head throbbing, the loud TV in the background is NOT helping. I read the milk carton again. I couldn't believe my eyes, it's actually me. But I'm right here, and I'm not lost what is going on? Confused, I rush to google myself but I can't find anything on my name. Actually, no results... | 2018-11-08T20:30:26 | 2018-11-08T20:24:37 | 450 | 51 |
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