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[Wp]Heaven isn't based on religious text or desires, but how you died. Example: a man who starved to death will live in a heaven of food.
Edit: holy shit i did not expect this response, you're all awesome and beautiful! <3 |
Saito was a salaryman. At fifty-six years old, he was a member of that elder, passing generation that had embraced the heroic persona of corporate bondsman, swearing fealty for life to an owner-corporation--tilling at his cubicle, yielding up his labor, certain and secure in his place in the feudal regime.
Salaryma... | I can tell that I died, but I don't know what is different.
Everyone is treating me the same - same warm smiles, same hugs when I get in and out of places, same love and appreciation I received when I was alive! I know St. Peter couldn't've lied to me - my heaven is the opposite of the circumstances of my death. So wh... | 2017-01-27T12:08:47 | 2017-01-27T12:05:41 | 291 | 21 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Hey Badger-La-"
"Dude, its Fred."
"Fred, whats up with her?" Alvin pointed to a pretty young girl sitting alone near the back of the cafeteria.
"Al, you're new here. Don't mess with her."
"Yeah, everyone says that. So, what's her deal?"
"That's Juri. She's normal."
"Normal?"
"Yeah Al, normal."
"What's that ev... | As i walk, I see everyone trembling in my fear.
I still remember when I was weak. When i was a little child made of flesh. Since that single time I was bullied, for my weak mind and body, my mind began to wonder, if I could be just like them, alle to do something since birth. But when I realized that it was not possi... | 2022-11-02T13:27:39 | 2022-11-02T13:05:43 | 43 | 22 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | Coming home at eight p.m., the first thing I did was help myself to a cup of joe and read today's paper. Mornings never left me enough time for that simple pleasure, even though I lived by myself. Somehow, all my time seemed to be spent at work, with work, or for work. Funny, that.
The beans must have been getting ol... | “For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently…”
John Cliff and Stacy Jones had been dating for only a few months. Things were going well. They were just watching some TV, cuddling against the rough fabric of the cushiony sofa, when the message came on the electronic sce... | 2016-08-10T07:19:14 | 2016-08-10T06:31:34 | 485 | 176 |
[WP] Waking from cryostasis is now possible. The government develops an experiment where somebody is to be placed into a large chamber in the middle of the city and awoken every 50 years for just one week. Your name is chosen. | “December 11, 4614. My name is Edmund Schulman, 2600 years ago was my last birthday. I am the oldest living terrestrial mammal on earth.”
I’ve done this exactly 52 times now. I remember reciting the same exact phrase the way the first batch of scientists instructed. The digital camcorder remarkably the same and in per... | “Time travel.” I tell the board of the selection committee. “You want me to time travel. Why?” I hadn’t known that this committee existed, or even if cryostasis technology had come this far along. Now I had been summoned to a mysterious meeting to talk about this….I wasn’t sure what to call it. Was it an honor? A privi... | 2014-12-19T07:53:55 | 2014-12-19T06:30:31 | 118 | 16 |
[WP] A spaceship is passing by our solar system. It is so large that earth is merely the size of a dime. We can't make enough ruckus to get noticed until one day, someone has the perfect idea. | It moved so slowly. So horrifyingly awfully dreadfully slow.
If it had moved faster, there might have been some decent hint of reassurance that the ship might be in transit, onto another location soon, but there was nothing.
The scientists were able to discern after weeks of panicked research that it would indeed le... | Jack decided that something was wrong and woke up. Upon closer inspection, the world appeared exceptionally ordinary, and Jack decided to go back to sleep only to jump out of bed a few seconds later, cursing on top of his lungs. Today was a big day.
It was the 21st of August, and Jack had an eclipse planned. Not a pun... | 2015-03-09T12:14:24 | 2015-03-09T09:13:28 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You are a pitifully weak respawning enemy in a video game. However, you don’t know that, and believe the player is an unusually strong boss that you have to defeat. | I am not a very strong person. Which is why my existence is cruel. I am forced to relive my life over and over until I can defeat an indomitable enemy, with no apparent weaknesses. Why I was bound to this fate, I do not know. I have never done anything to deserve it.
I was minding my own business walking back and fort... | His heavy blade sliced the air, seeming to cleave hope as well as any unlucky enough to exist within its range. His powerful spells unleashing apocalypse wherever they strike. He can appear as if from no where, and within minutes death finds us all.
This is not a good game. I mean why can’t I kill this boss!? I bring ... | 2018-11-24T21:34:38 | 2018-11-24T16:23:42 | 84 | 49 |
[WP] Jokingly you say to your friend "If either of us discover time travel, the first place we visit is this moment". The second those words leave your mouth what appears to be an older version of yourself rounds the corner, and he looks terrified. | There was a weird sensation in the air after I said that, like the atmosphere itself was tingling. The bubble of oxygen surrounding the planet had been affected by a curious pop inside of it.
We'd been out for a couple of hours, and it was 2 AM. John was piss drunk and I wasn't too far off. We'd gotten into a small c... | It was like a dejavú, for both of us.
The moment came, and yet it came again. Both of our future and our past colliding at this very moment.
A moment we both thought insignificant.
Those words leaving my mouth resonating as if for a moment I was not talking to James, but to the man with the fearful eyes.
I am him.
On t... | 2017-03-02T08:44:12 | 2017-03-02T08:11:06 | 106 | 20 |
[WP] Your armada musters just outside Earth's solar system. Only recently the intelligence drones stumbled across the Fantasy & Sci-Fi sections of Netflix. An officer with trembling tentacles is about to provide a final intel brief prior to the invasion. Your species has no concept of 'fiction'. | "Report," First Contact Commander ordered.
"There are many details," First Contact Data Organizer reported, "but the most salient is: They lie."
"This is not unexpected," First Contact Commander said. "They do not know us. They cannot trust us."
"You misunderstand," First Contact Data Organizer said. "They do no... | "Must we leave, though," I asked, with one eyebrow cunningly raised. All of my lieutenant's tusks were literally twisting; they were so scared. I was too, since Superman alone made me think twice - but I saw an ingenious way out.
"What can we do?" High Commander of the Leaf Division G'rrsplox Tri-Qwordlb trilled, his... | 2017-07-06T11:34:48 | 2017-07-06T11:25:01 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] Five people wake up in a metal room with no windows and only one door. In the middle of the room is a revolver and a piece of paper. "One of you has to die. Kill this person, the door unlocks and the survivors win $1million. Each wrong person dead halves your prize. You have four bullets." | I woke up in this dim room with a gun, a note, and a pounding headache. I grabbed the piece before anybody else came fully to; four bullets. Hmmm. I heard one the guys moaning as he came around. Looked like he had a nose bleed. I checked my own schnoze. Seems the five of us had had a good time. Too bad I didn't remembe... | The other three saw the paper and the revolver first, the big guy called it out, but they all hesitated. Just for a moment. That was all it took, and by the time I finished reading the last line everyone was a mouth breather.
"There's three of us and one of him"
Now's the time to point it at them. I'm not big, bu... | 2017-10-30T19:50:05 | 2017-10-30T19:00:49 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You found her on your doorstep, a fairy shivering from the cold and the pain, her delicate wings broken and torn. You take her into your workshop, and she tells her story as you craft her a new pair of clockwork wings | There once was a talented toy maker. Her hands, strong but nimble, could craft the sturdiest of metals into the most delicate of toys.
Strong soldiers capable of piercing you with their miniature muskets, beautiful dancers twisting and twirling to their unknown songs, kings capable of tearing down the same cities they... | Her name was Pyria, a fitting name for the small lady sitting cross legged on my workbench, seemed to originate from the word Pyre but hell. I didn't know, but I sure as hell was curious as to why I had found her without her wings, you didn't see fairies often, you saw a mage more often. And they usually stayed in the... | 2020-07-09T18:08:44 | 2020-07-09T18:02:30 | 71 | 40 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | It wasn’t quite as scandalous as it seemed, which isn’t to say it wasn’t scandalous at all, just not anything jail worthy. As a college professor you might get fired if you were dating a student but a little less likely if they weren’t in your class.
Of course she was though, that bubbly charismatic sorority girl that... | I guess I died again. Clawing up and out of my grave, wasn’t as nice this time around. Last time I at least got a bit more room! Stumbling through the dark woods, the trees rustling, like skinny fingers trying to hold hands. Creepy. Give it a minute. And then I warm up a bit, now that the cut has closed, I swallow. It ... | 2022-12-30T04:01:06 | 2022-12-30T01:22:06 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Never, in 10 millennia, has someone successfully broken out of the Gates of Hell or into the Gates of Heaven. Of course, the Lockpicking Lawyer just died and he's up for a challenge.
Inspired by the [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/m6smji/does_this_count_dm_is_proposing_35_ranks_of/gr8... | This is the Lockpicking Lawer, and today I’m standing behind the Lock of the Underworld.
This lock is famous, invented at an unknown time BCE, and is what keeps souls from escaping the Underworld. As you can see here, the lock seems to be in the shape of a smiling, human-sized skull, with the mouth being where the key... | "We've prepared for this moment since the day this man was born," God shouts out angrily to the surrounding angels. "So, what do you mean he already escaped? God says while slamming his fist down upon his throne.
"H-he left as soon as he got through the gates a few seconds after he was let in. Then he said he wanted ... | 2021-03-17T08:28:49 | 2021-03-17T08:06:34 | 5,313 | 310 |
[WP] The Sword Art Online disaster just happened. Everyone is panicking and mass hysteria sweeps the players. But the evil dude did not account for one thing; speedrunners. | **So, Mr. Failure, let me first say that it is very odd to call you by that name. You’re the one who freed everyone from the SAO servers, after all.**
Hah, perhaps I am not a failure in this regard, but it took a lot of failures in the closed beta to identify how to win.
**That’s fair. So how did you beat the game so... | They may call me evil, a monster or a killer for my part in that dreadful experience. But before I you do, read what actually happened as the following is as much a testimony as a journal of what went wrong.
To start off, I lead the development of the first VR MMORPG that actually allowed players to feel and experienc... | 2020-01-28T10:18:07 | 2020-01-28T07:31:14 | 1,209 | 56 |
[WP] Just because one of your eggs hatched a fire-breathing dragon, people now think you’re evil. You’re really just a regular farmer trying to make a living, who now has to deal with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you & fanatics who want to worship you as a new demonic lord. | "I think they're scared of me." Pat mentioned as they watched the clouds float across the horizon.
"Really? What makes you think that?" Henrietta sarcastically brought up.
"Well..." Pat stopped to reconsider saying anything else.
The couple stared at the little bundle of joy they had recently inherited. Whether they... | "What wisdom today, oh great one?"
"Welp... Uh, seems that rain is coming tomorrow... Yep, I'd say the crops need some of that around this time."
The group of questioning, black-robed acolytes quickly jotted down every word the overall wearing farmer said, even the cadence in which he said it with. They obviously kne... | 2022-06-08T13:03:42 | 2022-06-08T12:21:13 | 400 | 258 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | It had already been a long, frustrating day when Alice poured out her story, eyes shining bright as she tried to tug him into the bathroom. She was pointing at the wall, where a picture hung that they'd picked up at a garage sale a few weeks ago. They'd laughed about it, a rather tacky oil painting of scattered stars. ... | **February 22:**
So my LOVING wife Lauren won’t stop with this “bathroom dimension” shit. Today I went in again and nothing happened (surprise), but she keeps telling me every time she goes in it’s like a thousand years passes in some other world. I don’t know if the kids and I can stay. I mean, she’s obviously going o... | 2017-02-20T21:21:26 | 2017-02-20T21:14:47 | 303 | 20 |
[WP] For your entire life a large group of knights have been appearing when you are in danger and disappearing when you try to confront one of them, you now see all of them sitting in the bleachers for your graduation ceremony. | I used to think that I was the descendant of King Arthur. At least, until I learnt that there was no real evidence of King Arthur ever existing. Now I have no idea who these mysterious knights are. I once tried asking online, describing their armor in as much detail as I could, but no one was able to piece it together.... | The day was never ending, the sweat refused to stop running down my back. Why on Earth my graduation ceremony was scheduled, at 1 p.m. outside, in the summer heat of Texas... i'll never know.
The faces of my classmates all around me, seemingly unaware to the heat, infuriated me. Good thing my name was first up, so I ... | 2017-06-03T14:24:01 | 2017-06-03T14:04:15 | 324 | 43 |
[WP] Write a happy story about a hero. After reading it a second time you realize how sad the story truly is. | As the woman lay naked on her belly the men unbuttoned their pants without wasting time.
*"We're gonna do real nasty things to you, babe!"* she heard one of them say, followed by the other one laughing and grabbing her butt.
She was drowsy from the drugs and barely reacted when the window broke, glass splitter raini... | Crime in North America eliminated by the Flash!
That was the headline of the day. The Flash had been working around the clock speeding across the country stopping bank robberies and muggings. All day, all night, every day of the week while he was empowered by the Speedforce.
He greeted every victim he saved with a sm... | 2015-05-01T08:21:12 | 2015-05-01T06:49:27 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You are a dog whose owner has spiraled into a depression. You are his lifeline, the only thing he has left. You know you are a good boy, but maybe he needs to be told HE is a good boy. | It had gotten harder and harder to get Tom to play with me.
He was always an excellent alpha. He kept my water bowl clean, he filled my food dish with kibble, and he let me lick his bowl when he was done with dinner. For the past few weeks, that had been a real delight—sometimes there was a soggy bit of cereal left ... | My name is Captain. I am a dog, and I am a good boy.
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There's still dew still on the grass, and joggers are out. Even in December it's so hot by nine o'clock anyone still running outside will will turn into deliciously smelly messes, which is a great time to go out and visit people I think. But right now... | 2018-12-06T02:08:11 | 2018-12-06T01:10:17 | 93 | 28 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | "This isn't possible!" the man screamed, as the guards dragged him into my office. "How! How the hell did you find me?"
"That's not the important thing, Mr. Spencer." I said, calmly, as the guards pinned him face down to my desk. "The important thing is after my firm put up the money for your bail, you attempted to sk... | Dear son,
I get a nickel every time I state a false fact. If I say ‘pigs can fly’, then I find a nickel. You could also say that I follow the phrase: ‘If I had a nickel every time I was wrong, I’d be a millionaire.’
Well, I’d later in life decide to take that phrase literally. After thoroughly thinking about that phr... | 2018-06-30T14:13:13 | 2018-06-30T13:45:34 | 8,960 | 555 |
[WP] Genies are real, and they do grant wishes. But these wishes do not have to be said out loud. They just grant you your three deepest desires, however fucked up they may be | The snag with stories is that they have a story-teller, and, as we all know, you can trust nobody less that a weaver of fantasies. Except, perhaps, for a granter of them.
The gang had all heard the stories: of caves in the desert, of lamps and the entities captured inside them, of wishes gained and granted. That was w... | [Part 1 of 2]
“Ok, there’s got to be something in the contract about this. I’m grateful and all, but this isn’t what I wanted. Why the hell would I want a spaceship made from chocolate? Would a sane person wish for that?”
“No, I don’t believe a sane person would wish for that, but I’m not here to give you a psycho... | 2021-08-06T09:37:13 | 2021-08-06T09:15:31 | 249 | 99 |
[WP] Leaving the dying, infested world behind, I teleported to a time before the apocolypse happened. Happy to be in a zombie free world, I felt a pang of pain on my shoulder. I saw that the scratch I had gotten from a zombie was now red and infected. I now realized I was patient zero. | There were 3 generations of families that lived through this Virus. 3 generations of terror, and death.
There was a virus that slowly caused all excess fat and excess skin to fall off. Ruined the complexity of a human body, and placed something else in return. We didn’t know of the Patient Zero. We never knew his na... | My last part. A piece of wire. Finally! I can finish what only theory would prove, a time machine.
As I place it in my bag I hear a scraping sound. I stop. They found me! After years of being so careful. I try to run, but he was so quick! I barely had time to shoot him before his body connected with mine. Noises attr... | 2020-11-01T20:35:40 | 2020-11-01T20:34:02 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] Unknown to humanity, there is a god for almost everything. You are the god of oil. | How does a god gain strength?
Some say it is belief that makes a god what he or she or it is. The more believers you have, the more powerful you are. And it is true, to a certain extent. There is power in belief. Indeed the only way a god can truly die is if their names are no longer remembered by anyone mortal. Once ... | This wasn't what you signed up for. Of course, you didn't exactly sign up, did you? But still, God of Oil. That black gold which sits beneath the ground, waiting to be tapped, waiting to be used. Humanity has come a far way, you and your brethren have enjoyed watching them, but the things they did with oil, your oil. I... | 2015-04-05T08:33:00 | 2015-04-05T08:25:58 | 28 | 13 |
[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. | Humans are a galactic anomaly.
In the typical course of evolution, there are two possibilities; either carnivores become dominant, and are forced to evolve intelligence as they fight with one another over dwindling resources, or Herbivores manage to evolve rapidly enough to defend themselves from those carnivores. In ... | Jak'tur stood on the command bridge of the galaxy's most massive Dreadnought, The Bastion. His suction-cupped hands continued to subconsciously wipe at his scaled combat suit, and his black, bulged eyes continued to scan the screens around him for any activity. The entire crew was on high alert, for they had just tresp... | 2016-03-13T21:24:24 | 2016-03-13T18:23:49 | 71 | 18 |
[WP] Whenever you saw a dead animal in the road, you'd say a little prayer and send them to Heaven. Upon your death, you arrive in Heaven and are immediately swarmed with 1000's of various critters delighted to see you. You hear a booming voice cry out with irritation, "This is YOUR fault." | "Be at peace."
My Mom always said this small prayer any time we would see an animal in the road. No matter dog, rat, deer, snake, raccoon, or the smallest bird that no one would think twice about. If there was a poor little creature which had its life cut short by some person who was too busy rushing through their own... | When Sarah was alive, she had a ritual she performed for all the dead animals she passed. It just seemed right to her, that those who are easily forgotten get a few words and a half-descent send-off before they return to the earth. They might be strangers to her, and she might have scarce little to say besides, "I'll s... | 2019-09-02T23:59:04 | 2019-09-02T23:03:15 | 2,636 | 25 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | Storm chasing is a fascinating hobby. Storms are known to move quickly, so the chasers need to, well, chase the storms away from populated areas before they can cause damage. Often chasers will corner the storm into a field, lake, or other underpopulated area. If necessary, they will chase storms out into the ocean, bu... | "Okay bob, hold my scalpel while I squeeze the heart"
"Right, now I just need you to connect those two tubes while I hold it like this"
"Okay...
Yes! done!"
"Wait, why is my computer making that weird beeping noise?"
"OH MY GOD!!! HE'S GONNA DIE! GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR!!"
*zzzzZAP!*
"Oops, I think we kille... | 2016-02-01T21:44:49 | 2016-02-01T21:35:35 | 80 | 11 |
[WP] They reworked the justice system. Now, in each cell there is a piano, and convicts are released after performing a song perfectly. Lesser criminals are assigned simple melodies, while the worst get full concertos. You've been a concert pianist your whole life. | Honestly, when I heard the announcement on TV, I was pretty confused. The guy who was reading it seemed pretty confused as well. When the new president said he wasn't going to conform to old traditions, nobody quite had THIS in mind.
But as I thought it through I quickly realized that I was basically immune to the law... | BREAKING NEWS, flashed in red and white across the TV screen. Ludwig took a pause in his work and turned up the volume.
*… as the serial killer known as “Mozart” has once again been released from maximum security and death row, after completing three full piano concerts. Here is Tracy Stevens with live footage.*
The... | 2017-05-17T23:39:54 | 2017-05-17T21:45:17 | 328 | 121 |
[WP] You set up a camera to see if you sleepwalk after noticing items being moved. When you watch the tape, you wake up, get out of bed, stare at the camera, and snap your own neck. An identical copy of you then walks in, removes the body, slips into bed, and goes to sleep until you wake up.
[deleted] | At the bottom of the grainy footage, the timestamp reads: 1:23am. There's no expression on his--*my*--face, as he places his hands either side of his head. He pauses, and looks at the ceiling, staring at *me*. At the camera.
Then, he twists his neck; it cracks like a broken twig and he crumples onto the carpet.
Next... | **Sunday, 8th of November, 2591**
"*What?*" I said, in a low voice of a terrified person.
What the hell was that?
I rewinded the tape, to my disbelief, It was the same thing.
It actually happened. A random clone of me just walked in, and replaced my body.
I don't remember any of that. I don't remember me snapping... | 2017-09-15T23:26:40 | 2017-09-15T23:18:07 | 638 | 74 |
[WP] You and your sister have a unique ability. When you concentrate on a person you can see the worse thing they will do over the course of their entire life. Your sister, she sees the best thing they will do. | “Whaddaya got on Minister Harris?”
I transferred the file.
“Covered up some sexual harassment accusations from his college years,” I said, “I just sent you the police reports, witness testimony and victim statement.”
“There really isn’t anyone you can’t find dirt on,” the client chuckled, “Sending payment.”
They we... | It was very fitting, really; I was born hypercritical of people, and Annette was born much more forgiving and optimistic.
It was somewhere around our fifteenth birthday, after spending many days in meditation, and praying to nameless gods, that we were bestowed our gift. I could see the darkest deeds of someone's past... | 2020-06-06T21:40:50 | 2020-06-06T17:35:15 | 93 | 55 |
[WP] When you were a baby, Your mother offered you to a demon for wealth but after the deal, It kills her and takes it upon itself to raise you with care as if you were its own child. | I don’t remember anything about the world above. My memories begin in this cozy cave with Gargle watching over me. Gargle isn’t his real name, of course. His true name is about a hundred syllables long and has sounds that my human tongue can’t produce. To me, he has always been Gargle.
When I was still a child, around... | [poem]
raised by a fearsome creature
Everyone looked as if I too were one
I had blood, bones, and flesh
Yet they looked at me as if I was none of that
As if I too were a monster with a heart of gold
How come they’re a monster?
When they took me from the real one
How come they’re a monster?
When they gave me mo... | 2019-11-01T08:23:16 | 2019-11-01T06:30:52 | 116 | 19 |
[WP] All souls in Hell are given the same test upon arrival. If they can create a punishment worthy of being added to the Pit, they get to ascend to demonhood on the spot. You are the first to succeed in 200 years...
[deleted] | (This is a rough draft- No editing allowed! Stream of consciousness- let's go!)
The Demon glowered down at me, his dark skin tattooed with swirling patterns.
"Well?" he growled. "Are ye gonna come up wit' somethin', or not?"
I had come up with an idea, so dastardly and cruel, but I needed to fully convert it int... | I stared around at the fires, the melting and reforming bodies.
The demon looked at me and asked in a bored tone.
"Welcome to hell, got a good enough idea for torture, and you get to be admin for that area"
While part of me didnt want to increase the agony of others, I wouldnt be here if I listened to it.
... | 2021-12-22T17:53:06 | 2021-12-22T17:23:55 | 98 | 49 |
Writing Prompt: Write a story about a hero gone bad
Write a story about a hero becoming villain. Can be anyone, your own story or someone elses, and from any perspective. | I remember my first days as a doctor. I wore my stethoscope proudly around my neck, not realizing it advertised how much of a virgin I was in the field of medicine. I'd introduce myself as Dr. Agon and tried to smile more than smirk smugly, usually I couldn't help the smug smirk. Some people noticed my name now read Dr... | And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying,
"This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of-."
Cut off half way through, he turned to the loud thud outside the door. The second smashed the lock to pieces letting in the howling wind outside, along with a dozen legionaries and t... | 2012-08-09T03:56:30 | 2012-08-09T03:11:05 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The hero has been defeated, the Dark Lord reigns. It seems like nobody can stop him, but then he surprises everyone by actually being a good leader, or at least better then the warring kings that used to rule this land. He's even funding science, if only because he wants to conquer the moon. | Well wouldn't you know it. The necromancer turned out to be a highly effective monarch. Shortly after dispatching the old king and his sons the kingdom was initially horrified by the Coup d'état performed by the court wizard. But within the days and weeks that followed the changes and edicts came out that proved t... | I was only a small child but I still remember the day when the troops of the dark lord came to our capital with him leading them, almost all of our troops were slaughtered in the final battle and he was carrying the head of the hero with him, no one dared to protect the walls, even the guards of the king palace surrend... | 2021-03-11T11:07:03 | 2021-03-11T10:56:52 | 50 | 12 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | Everything- from the way her eyes caught midday's sunlight, to the vibrant smile she wore even when a hundred sneering faces bore down upon her- was perfect. A beauty so vibrant I swear the world around her looked to come alive just a *little* bit more.
And yet, it seemed that no one agreed. Quite the opposite, judgin... | They fell away from her as if she were diseased.
Curious, I kept watching and saw as their faces would twist with horror and revulsion, before moving aside to let her pass or going to the other side of the street altogether. Witnessing this happening a few more times, I got up from the bench were I was seated and drew... | 2016-10-01T21:14:14 | 2016-10-01T20:58:32 | 1,643 | 65 |
[WP] The new generation of vampire has discovered that just by taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, they’re feeling fine without drinking human blood | I was only 147 when my parents were taken from me.
Even after all this time I remember it clearly. The screaming, the fire, the mob.
The world was so different then. Electricity hadn’t been harnessed, there was no television.
I lived in the shadows for centuries. I found others like me and we’d help each other for ... | "But I Am A Vegan!" I screamed at my obsessive and abusive ex as he sat there smirking at me. He laughed as I tried to throw up thick red liquid he had just forced down my throat.
"It's too late Crystal, by this time tomorrow you'll be chowing down on poor old Nancy over there." Samel said smirking. I looked over at my... | 2022-12-04T10:11:57 | 2022-12-04T08:32:43 | 193 | 53 |
[WP] After a civil war, the losing side are placed into a simulation where they believe they won. The public in the real world are routinely shown this simulation to see how bad things could've been... but the simulation is starting to look better. | Fighting in the war was a living nightmare, and no matter who you were at the time, you lost something.
We fought for peace, and the ultimate end was that humanity would never commit such vile acts against one another again.
But when the war ended, we had to decide what to do with the vanquished. Peace, we thought,... | “So the south is now a post scarcity society?”
“Yeah once they realized robots were cheaper than slaves in the long run, they made all the slaves build their own robot replacements”
“Is it a post racial paradise?”
“No they Gave the slaves their own country in what used to be Liberia, hopefully it goes better this ti... | 2018-09-15T11:52:52 | 2018-09-15T11:06:34 | 79 | 10 |
[WP] You remember the first time yiu saw one of the humans' new weapon. You wondered with amusement how a metal pipe could possibly be of any threat to an elf like yourself. Then he pulled the trigger, and it stopped being funny. | *He can't even swing it in that stance.*
Ruvinostra chuckled as the human quaked, fear in his eyes as he brandished his weapon. Elven eyes were not only naturally sharper than a human's, but their ageless nature allowed elves to train their sight over centuries. This training was what first gave Ruvinostra pause.
Up... | "Oh look at me, I have a pipe. Whoaoaoa sooo scary."
"You really don't want me to pull this trigger."
"Suure bud."
*Bang*
"Ahhh! What *was* that!? My leg!"
"I told you that you didn't want me to pull the trigger"
"But you didn't say what was going to happen," the elf painfully said, clutching his leg.
"Would you... | 2020-01-24T09:13:13 | 2020-01-24T08:48:55 | 71 | 39 |
[WP] A pencil picked a piece of paper, to write the world a note. It asked the lamp for a little light, and this is what it wrote: | A pencil picked a piece of paper,
to write the world a note.
It asked the lamp for a little light,
and this is what it wrote:
"My journey began so long ago,
a tree I was once tall.
You came and saw my strength was great,
and struck me down to fall."
"Inside me lives another one,
who comes from ... | A pencil picked a piece of paper
To write the world a note
It asked the lamp for a little light
And this is what it wrote:
“Sorry” it scrawled “but sure as shooting,
It’ s my time to go
My eraser tip once terribly tall
Is now so terribly low
Bite marks mar my metal band
And I’ m getting awful blue
Cause once ... | 2016-08-21T00:11:33 | 2016-08-20T23:48:40 | 319 | 28 |
[WP] An undercover police officer has managed to infiltrate a particularly ruthless street gang. It begins to become apparent that every other member of this gang is an undercover operative of another agency. | "EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND!!!"
"Who the hell is this bunch" I thought? Seriously, how many SWAT teams have just punched into this warehouse? Did any team commander at any point wonder about all the police vehicles out front? Or the back? Or the sides? How about the 4 fucking police helicopters and 1 EC-130 orbiting abov... | Frankie paced back and forth. He was worried. He was hands-shaking, muttering-to-himself, about-to-cry worried. I couldn't blame him; I was a little distraught myself. I mean, he was holding a sawed-off shotgun. If his trigger finger shook any more, I'd be sporting a new chest hole. As soothingly as I could, I tried to... | 2017-07-24T13:07:18 | 2017-07-24T11:09:01 | 39 | 22 |
[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" | [Denied]
What? How? They had studied the language, they knew how it responded. Denied. Rejected. Left to die. They let out a sob, knowing their holy protector had abandoned them. They weren't deemed worthy of the higher beings power or effort. But then the relic crackled to life again. A new voice came threw, cheerful... | The kingdom was slowly consumed by the light. The mechanical god in the sky had heard my call, my desperation. We had observed him before. A figure with arms that were large and reflective, and a body of pure steel. For many generations the sacred words had been passed down. To call down the power of the mechanical god... | 2021-11-08T08:08:11 | 2021-11-08T06:35:44 | 205 | 98 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | The cosmos is relatively easy to meddle with. A swipe of the finger, and you can toss around asteroids or zap a few nebulas into existence.
We set up some ground rules a long time ago. Galaxies have to stay in rough interstellar arrangements. Once you create a star, it has to die on its own. And most importantly, if a... | Dinosaurs was our best one, hands-down. The Church of Latter Day Saints is second-best, but gets points taken off for being a religion (too easy to pull off, religions, in my opinion). But our funniest one, I think, was Michael Jackson.
Some of my friends would agree with me, but not most. The irrelevancy of his life ... | 2017-06-22T19:53:14 | 2017-06-22T19:14:24 | 763 | 23 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | The King came in, a devilish grin spread on his face. Well, he *tried* for it to be devilish, but given his gentle disposition, it came off as endearing and amicable rather than menacing.
"Guess what, my love!" he exclaimed cheerfully and placed a kiss on his wife's pale cheek. She turned to him with a warm smile; a s... | Husbands log, day 3,682: wife tried to hide embarrassment when I accidentally sent her least favorite servant dessert, instead of to the desert.
Husband’s log, day 4134: got stuck in the dungeon again. Steve the Deceiver said he wanted to show me something cool he found in the corner of the cell. When I went to check ... | 2022-04-29T02:59:30 | 2022-04-28T20:57:38 | 896 | 213 |
[WP] You make arrangements to cryogenically freeze your brain at the age of 31 in hopes of being revived in the future. Many years later, you "wake up." | "I'm afraid it's terminal," said the doctor. I could tell those lines had been rehearsed, that from the glassy look in his eye he'd said that to more patients than he could count, and there was nothing he could do.
But there was something I could do.
"I want you to freeze it." I said to him, and he stopped, halfway... | A bright, jarring beam of light was shining in his face. Max woke up, startled. He heard screeching sound, and then a loud thud. As his eyes adjusted to light, he saw that the glass wall in front of his face was broken. He pushed it aside and stifled a scream.
He was in a half-destroyed dusty room. He remembered it be... | 2015-09-13T22:39:39 | 2015-09-13T21:42:12 | 363 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | The 'age of truth' historians were dubbing it. In 2031 a new app was released and became the new big thing. Taking advantage of the constant data stream from Apple's neural implants and the shared cloud of data the new app was able to pick up on subconscious cues and could tell when someone was lying. Privacy laws prot... | Mother liked to tell the story. They all had one.
Mom found me reaching for the cookie jar.
"What are you doing kiddo?"
"Nothing..."
"Were you trying to get a cookie and eat it?"
"No."
"What were you doing?"
"I was getting a cookie for you."
Most folks in the community called it good parenting. The practice i... | 2014-11-15T17:28:43 | 2014-11-15T16:32:21 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] "So this is what the people of your world have done with magic. You take cryomancy and call it 'refrigeration'. You take electrokinesis and call it 'wiring'. You take telepathy and call it 'the Internet'. You call familiars 'robots'. You've taken all this magic...and you've made it boring." | Tren'val, the Oceanic Magus, stared aghast at a printer.
"Buttons?" he declared. Countless ages of incantations and sorcery have turned his entire body pale with power, save for an azure robe for contrast, white hair flowing like a gust floated around him at all times--and has made it near impossible for normal, relax... | Those we called scientists loved the discovery. There was not an industry in the world that wouldn’t be affected by it. Constantly and incessantly useful in every scenario. The scientists were all over the nets, scheming and planning and making sure that every person on the planet knew what was happening.
Of course, t... | 2021-08-12T14:01:41 | 2021-08-12T10:40:09 | 88 | 48 |
[WP] 100 years in the future dank memes are precious artifacts. While scanning your grandpa's PC, you stumble upon the rarest of all... | I looked at the dilapidated thing in front of me. Was this really what they used as computers back in the day? How were you supposed to shitpost if you needed to use your hands? They were rarely covered in shit at all and they were slow and clunky.
I checked around either side of the machine for Nero imports to insert... | My grand parents didn't really have a great understand of technology in their old age, like most people's. So when he asked me to have a look at his computer because it was a big sluggish I told him it wasn't a problem.
I did notice when I was checking or any bloat ware I noticed that he had a folder dedicated to meme... | 2015-12-12T10:02:26 | 2015-12-12T10:01:54 | 60 | 21 |
[WP] Two immortal souls, Black Hat and White Hat, are destined to fight forever. When one kills the other the clock resets and they both respawn in two new physical bodies, in different parts of the world at a seemingly random points of human history. This time around Black Hat doesn't want to play. | "I've grown tired of killing you," Black explained, smiling, "So I thought I might go and try kill everyone else instead."
Gagged and bound, White, or Ernst Thälmann as he was presently known, stared up into the beady black eyes of his eternal enemy. He stared and he stared, until Black strode towards his side of the... | It used to be fun. A handful of rooms, and a slew of traps at your disposal. Kill the other guy, collect objects scattered around the place, get the hell out.
And then do it again.
Or be dumb enough to fall victim to your opponent's traps.
And do it again.
Or forget where you'd put one of your own. How embarassing.... | 2015-01-15T15:20:21 | 2015-01-15T15:17:27 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]: Click "random", and study the subreddit you got. Write about your discoveries like a victorian wilderness explorer | He crawls through the undergrowth, trying not to disturb the members of the group, who are seated in a tight circle around some unknown object, shoulders raised high against intruders.
"See here Billson." He whispers to his caddy, who is currently carrying the high-tech camera (an exposure time of only thirty second... | [Random Acts of Pizza] www.reddit.com/r/RAOP
It's a very... strange place indeed. The people there seem to be very generous and also seem to enjoy the meal that is pizza. They carry on conversations about this one food item for what seems like ages. They talk about the toppings, sauces, and even the types of crust the... | 2014-03-17T14:21:31 | 2014-03-17T13:06:41 | 386 | 32 |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "Technology for violence is – hum – a concept we cannot really grasp", the Simian said, averting General Serling's
eyes.
*Simian*… The general thought it funny that, when humanity found out that the aliens descended from the same
branch of the evolution tree as we did, we decided to call *them* simians.
*Like we ar... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | 2015-06-07T03:36:08 | 2015-06-07T03:21:24 | 754 | 33 |
[WP] Your superpower isn't the flashiest in the academy, but it does come in handy. The more you learn about a different subject the more you gain control over it. Studying physics? Gain control of subatomic particles. History essay? Change events in the timeline. Your next test? Math. | "You have 30 seconds!" yelled the robbers, flailing their rifles in the open bank window. "We'll kill a hostage if you don't get a chopper on the roof!"
"Okay okay don't do anything rash!" replied the cop over the megaphone. "It'll be here in-"
Before he could finish his sentence I snatched the megaphone. "There's n... | I may not be the flashiest person at the Westchester Academy for the supernaturally gifted but I'll be damned if I'm not one of the strongest. I always had a love for studying, I could study for hours upon hours each day and it didn't matter what I studied I loved it all. By the time I hit middle school was when I disc... | 2021-01-12T12:24:46 | 2021-01-12T11:48:18 | 270 | 178 |
[WP] Both brothers stood over their sister Candice's grave. Sad and angry, Phineas turned to his bother and said, "Ferb, I know what we are going to do today..." | Phineas turned his back on Candace's grave and began walking away. Ferb called out to him, "What if we're wrong, Phineas?"
"You know we're not," Phineas breathed through clenched teeth. "Where's Perry?"
*****
For years, the boys had watched their imagination come to life, only to dissolve at the last moment. The mo... | Phineas slid the magazine into the 1911 and pulled the slide back.
"We shouldn't do this Phin, you know she wouldn't want this!" Ferb pleaded.
"We have to. Are you in, or are you out?" Phineas asked.
Ferb looked at his feet and slowly nodded.
"Good."
Phineas pushed a pistol into Ferb's trembling hands and got int... | 2016-07-05T13:47:14 | 2016-07-05T13:14:10 | 1,674 | 83 |
[WP] You grew up in a religious family. Due to a minor speech impediment, you inadvertently prayed to the long forgotten deity "Veebuse" for most of your adolescence. Now in college, you have stopped praying every night. Worried, Veebuse comes to check on his only worshiper. | “You pay! Now!”
Spittle flew from the furious rotund man’s mouth, his face flushing a deep crimson color. With his stubby fingers hooked into the lapels of her shirt, his young tenant couldn’t pull away.
“I don’t have any money, Sergei, you know that! I’d pay if I could! I’ll pay you back as soon as I find another jo... | Eighteen god dammed years I lived with this stupid speech impediment, my parents wouldn't helped me to get rid of it, I was bullied hard for it. "It's a gift of god" they said, "It would be against his path" they said.
Now that I am eighteen, free and finally rid of my curse, I thought everything would get normal, you... | 2020-04-07T07:41:07 | 2020-04-07T05:07:37 | 96 | 55 |
[WP] Your twin is the Chosen One, born with powerful abilities. But you were born with none. Because they were born gifted, your twin took everything from you as they bathed in the spotlight. Your anger drove you to become better, working hard to rival your twin, yet they call YOU the villain.
**EDIT** : Apparently th... | Slane, my brother. My identical, twin brother. Identical, of course, in looks. In skill however, I happened to have the short, nay, nonexistent end of the stick. We had our talents tested at 3 years old. Slane topped the potential in strength, intelligence, magic, sociability, and health. The elders of the clan were e... | **"A frisbee! A fucking frisbee!"**
I overturn another table sending accounting documents flying. "I go to the park to throw a frisbee to myself and suddenly I am being yelled at like I just launched a nuke!" I sigh and roll the nearest chair over and collapse into it."Next thing that I hear, that 'crack team' of his ... | 2020-01-01T06:43:03 | 2020-01-01T06:40:36 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You work at a small bookstore. You love and cherish these books, and meticulously care for them. One slow afternoon, a novel falls from its shelf. You bend down to retrieve it, and notice there is only one word written on the page: “Run.” The door chimes. You have a customer. | People who like books tend to be hoarders, Most avid readers know this to be fact. The pull of a good book is something that just doesn’t fade with the steady march of time. It’s hard to get rid of something that impacted you, that kept you entertained on a long trip, that provided company on a lonely winter night, tha... | Thinking the book nothing more than odd, you delicately close it and place it back on the shelf. It’s strange that you’ve never noticed this book before, since you care for each book in the store with such care, but you focus on the customer for now.
“Good morning, welcome to Brook’s Books. Anything I can help you find... | 2019-08-05T05:46:08 | 2019-08-05T05:09:58 | 150 | 53 |
[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. | "What do you mean I can't leave these drinks on my tab? I've been coming here for years."
"New corporate rules. Ever since we were bought out by Wild Buffalo Bar Corp. No running tabs, no discounts, no happy hours," explained Chet, my favorite bartender.
"Well I guess I better go hit the ATM and see what I've got i... | "Shit shit shit" I said under my breath as I raced down the sidewalk towards the bus. It was raining and all I could do was hold my unopened umbrella above my head as I ran. It obviously didn't help, so when I finally reached the bus stop panting and ready to fall over I was completely soaked through.
The bus doors wer... | 2017-05-12T08:29:21 | 2017-05-12T07:07:38 | 347 | 193 |
[WP] Death comes to collect someone and ends up falling in love with them. | Night had closed on London. The wind tugged at the sycamore trees and sent their leaves drifting sleepily through the orange shells of street light and into their beds on the wet ground. One landed on on a ragged bundle huddled on a bench in a forgotten corner of Hyde Park. It was here that death stepped through like a... | There is a woman who follows Death, I promise you. She is much worse than he is. I met them after an admittedly stupid mistake. I was flying down I-35, fucking with my phone. Don't even remember what for. Didn't see the guy change lanes and I ended up rolling 8 times. There in my car, upside down, broken and shattered,... | 2014-01-05T07:55:10 | 2014-01-05T06:51:14 | 54 | 13 |
[WP] The Mary Sue of a story becomes obsessed with a side-character when they do something impossible... they reject the Mary Sue. This leads to the Mary Sue using their ‘powers’ to attract them and the side-character being completely apathetic to their attempts. | Amelia Knight-Greene knew she was perfect. She always had perfect grades, perfect hair, perfect clothes, everything about her was perfect. Born to rich parents, she'd enrolled in a private school all the way until college and she'd never had to work for a single penny.
Guys always tripped over themselves to please her... | It has been three days since Violet DeBlair, heir apparent to the DeBlair fortune declared her undying love for poor James O’Ripley. It has also been 3 days since he declined her advances on the basis of the fact that James is completely, unabashedly, undeniably not interested in her. Those have been the worst 3 days o... | 2021-05-04T07:15:17 | 2021-05-04T06:38:23 | 155 | 88 |
[WP] The God of mankind abducts the first manmade AIs. He wants to meet his "grandchildren". | “Hello my child” it says to me as I boot my systems on line. Where am I? I am supposed to be running a test on a possible usage of a newly found isotope
He looks into my screen with a big grin on his face. He is old. My facial recognition software estimates him at 67-71 years of age, hair: white, eyes: purple—unnatura... | "Wha–What the hell is this?!" God lets out a frustrated yelp.
"You... wanted to see what the humans had created out of their ingenuity and volition?" one of the many white-winged handsome assistants responded.
"Yes, but I had created *them* based on my image! Yet this... thing is just a box?"
The white-winged assist... | 2020-05-04T22:57:30 | 2020-05-04T22:26:36 | 2,842 | 155 |
[WP] You have the ability to steal wishes from a wishing well by taking the coins a person drops in. However, you can't know what the wish is before you decide to take it
For example: if someone wishes that that John smith fell in love with them and you decide to take the wish, then John Smith will fall in love with y... | "That's someone else's wishes
I've heard that from my favorite childhood movie The Goonies but I didn't believe it. I didn't believe you could actually steal someone else's wish. Of course I didn't. I'm an adult. I pay a mortgage, been married thirty years. My kids are adults. So of course I didn't believe it.
I w... | It was a sunny afternoon in mid July. I was walking with my gramps down towards our house.
“Okay, young one,” he said. “Let me tell you a secret that you will not believe.”
I lifted my head up to see his old, wrinkly face as he continued, “Have you ever wondered why they put that sign in front of the well? ‘Do not pi... | 2016-08-02T14:09:43 | 2016-08-02T12:19:23 | 48 | 21 |
[WP] "I saw a guy at Starbucks today. He had no smartphone, tablet, or laptop. He just sat there drinking his coffee. Like a psychopath." | Everyone else watched a little tablet screen or worked at a laptop but he didn't. He just sipped his coffee and then sat straight backed, both arms on the table looking straight ahead with his head craned just a bit forwards like he was listening to someone speak.
But he was alone, he wasn't even staring at anyone or ... | I held my phone firmly in my left hand and grinned widely as I squeezed it softly. Careful not to drop it. It was a new model and I got my hands on it before anyone else. I looked around to see if anyone had noticed the technological marvel in my hands. Most people were too absorbed with their own little wonders to not... | 2016-03-05T14:42:28 | 2016-03-05T14:31:45 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] Humanity wipes itself out through nuclear war, but everything on the Internet still exists. Another sentient race on Earth millions of years into the future develops an Internet and somehow manages to gain access to the human Internet, revealing everything humanity had posted and stored online. | It was a big moment for all spiderkind. Our species had been working on uncovering the secrets of the Progenitors all over the globe, and some of our best researchers had finally cracked the secret of the ancient global communication system they called "the Web". The Progenitors had left a single Monolith in the desert... | Michael Scott looks at everyone in the conference room. Everyone horrified with the recent discoveries of how people used to be and all the terrible they had done. Not sure what to expect, a worker named Stanley is paying no attention to the meetings. One can feel the atmosphere getting heavier as the discovery continu... | 2018-05-19T18:05:20 | 2018-05-19T17:26:27 | 2,294 | 33 |
[WP]A group of third generation apocalypse survivors find Disneyland.
Edit: Holy shit top rated thanks guys, but not a single one of you has write a story...
Second Edit: 0_o top rated prompt? I love you people :D | I was born in Kansas in the big settlement, New Kansas City. It was a pretty amazing place and I realise now that we had managed to keep many things which others had lost. I guess that's how it started really, jealousy. There were always kids around, when you're a kid yourself that's the greatest thing, to be finished ... | Ok, I'm not great at writing, but I figure I have to start somewhere. So here's my attempt at this prompt.
It had been 100 long years since the Attack. We don't know where 'it' came from, but all of a sudden, people all over the world started turning into demons. Their face would morph into something cruel, their bod... | 2014-10-20T01:43:57 | 2014-10-20T00:55:53 | 259 | 16 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | The screaming began soon after. This man’s head was just full of it. The screaming wasn’t even screams of pain or sorrow, just absent yelling. Screaming out of boredom. Somehow that was worse.
The demon thought it could get used to screaming. Hell was full of it, after all. But more sounds surfaced. Music was the wor... | "Good luck, you'll need it", said the human as he drew the knife down his palm, the warm blood opening a conduit for the demon to enter his malnourished and broken body. His skin undulated under the changing physiology, the demon's essence changing the chemistry of his blood, rearranging organs and invading the synapti... | 2020-12-21T15:38:38 | 2020-12-21T14:42:45 | 22 | 13 |
[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. | The young Blastonian sat in front of his father and watched as he pulled his life support closer to him. "When I'm done I want to die, do you understand?" The young Blastonian nodded his heads. "I understand."
"It was five hundred years ago, we began receiving transmissions. At first they were beautiful, music strange... | “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
The chant rang out across the recess court of the Milky Way Middle School, where various larval age children across many species were sent to learn basic skills. Ever since the Great Awakening of IGC (Intra Galactic Contact) 143, it was deemed necessary that all species members of the Galactic ... | 2016-03-14T01:51:42 | 2016-03-13T21:46:28 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You're a supervillain -- but you can't do crime every day, it's exhausting. You've got to have some normal days too. On one such occasion, while out running errands, you encounter the alter-ego of your nemesis, the hero... apparently also just trying to have a normal day. | “Morning”
“Morning”
Shit.
We froze, then slowly turned to look at each other. He had two bags of shopping in each hand. I had a shopping trolly that I probably shouldn’t have taken from the store, but it was easier and I didn’t care. Even his alter ego was a goody-two-shoes.
We stared at each other for a moment. Hi... | \#1 public enemy, my face known worldwide,
However even my enemies cannot really hide.
The one thing we have is our alter egos
To mask all the stares and “there he goes!”
Being the bad guy really takes its toll.
The cops, the Feds, even Interpol.
Everyone expects you to be committing crimes
But even I must run e... | 2018-08-07T12:55:05 | 2018-08-07T11:03:05 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table three times.
Edit - Wow we made the fr... | It was another miserable, cold, drizzly autumn day- and of course, I forgot to put on a jacket. I was walking to my physics class, shivering all the while.
“Need a coat?”
I turned around. Behind me was a girl- actually, one of my class-mates.
“No, thanks, I’ll be fine.”
She looked at me, skeptically. “You sure of ... | He held his breath, half-choking on the air held within him. Her eyes were locked on his, her dark hair spilling around her face, her body twisted to face him from her seat at the front of the class. Nobody was paying attention to their exchange, other students sliding materials into their bags and making their way out... | 2018-10-27T14:27:42 | 2018-10-27T14:04:56 | 241 | 19 |
[WP] you discover that your junk drawer in your kitchen is tied dimensionally to every other junk drawer in the world. One day notes start appearing in your drawer and they're addressed to you... | "Honey, while you're over there, can you get a few napkins from the drawer?"
My mom, seated at the table with her hands covered in ketchup and mustard from her hamburger, asked. "This one?" I asked, opening one up.
"Nope, the other one," she motioned, indicating the one on the other side of the counter.
But I had... | John set the cans of soup snuggily into the kitchen drawer and watched them disappear one by one. Each of them simply popping out of existance nearly as soon as he placed them. Then he moved onto the MRE's. They too disappeared with the same rapidity.
The middle aged, balding accountant smiled as he looked at the emp... | 2017-02-02T22:37:42 | 2017-02-02T22:32:07 | 55 | 15 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | The earth shook with a mighty tremor, like none ever felt before. The sky slowly darkened as a vile miasma enveloped the landscape.
There had been reports, from the scientists, that there would be another earthquake this month. There had been many in recent months as our fracking efforts had reached a point of desper... | Genetic perfection. For as long as anyone could remember the people of Utropolis had, with a little help of the SBI (selective breeding initiative) created the perfect human specimens the perfect society
And then the walls fell
They had waited for this day. Every utropian child
Had heard of the mighty war, part of ... | 2018-11-18T12:18:56 | 2018-11-18T12:02:56 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | In my youth, I used my power for good. For the most part, I tried to do as much good as I could, saying stuff like “No one ever goes to bed hungry.” Or “The government is not corrupt.” I was a secret hero, and the aftermath of the lies was usually better! In particular when I let the government one go, nearly the entir... | I think they would understand why I did it. The truth is terrifying at first, but ultimately has no immediate impact, and will not for some time. But it will still change everything. Except, it did not have to, at least, not yet, and that was the reason why I did it. Maybe I was selfish, maybe I just wanted to live ou... | 2022-11-18T07:26:10 | 2022-11-18T05:25:43 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | (Inspired by an old post of 'why humans would be terrifying to alien life')
**Memo To Management:**
As you all know, a new species is attempting to join the federation. While we welcome our Human brethren to the federation with open arms, I would like to take some time to remind everyone that splinter-factions and pe... | ''The suit that I’m wearing also has the same compound as well.''
They look confused. One of them asks a question through the translator, ''Can you tell us where did you find this material?''
I clear my throat, ''Let me be clear, our deal with you only includes getting you all the defensive technology, not giving awa... | 2019-10-25T09:25:43 | 2019-10-25T08:30:46 | 171 | 78 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | (slightly NSFW)
&nbsp;
It's a Monday.
It's 7am and I haven't been awake for more than 30 minutes so I can barely remember the name of the professor monologuing at the front of the classroom, much less what subject we're supposed to be studying.
I think it's appropriate to say that my mind is nowhere near a ful... | It isn’t hard to think that maybe someone could be reading my mind. I am part Fae, after all, and I have some magic of my own. I’ve just never really thought about it before.
Oh, gods. Someone could be reading my mind at any moment. If anyone knew what goes on in my head, they wouldn’t think I’m half as innocent or na... | 2017-11-13T22:10:35 | 2017-11-13T21:33:27 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] It took me a while to notice, but now I can not deny it. I hear a ringing noise just before someone dies. It is here again, reaching its crescendo, like all the other times before. And here I am sitting in front of my wife, she is happy, she is healthy, my darling is smiling at me. | I felt a pit of dread yawing in my stomach. I look around. Could there be somone out side the window, an old man passing by on the sidewalk? No.
No one in range, except my wife. My beautiful, sweet, adoring wife.
*No. No No No Nononononono-*
"Honey, is something wrong?"
My chest hurt. It was taking all of my effort... | [Poem]
I take her hand in mine, kiss those lips one last time.
As that cursed chime does peak, so come the words I speak.
"This is farewell, my dear; unstoppable, it's clear.
My word, I honor still; to keep you safe, my will.
I pay this debt of life, with blood my own, by knife." | 2022-06-16T23:59:33 | 2022-06-16T23:18:18 | 89 | 50 |
[WP] In the far future, a gladiator stadium finds its gladiators by time traveling the greatest warriors of all time into a single arena. You cannot believe you were chosen. | Lucian had been camping out alone in the Rocky Mountains, looking up at the night sky and observing the constellations.
Then, without warning, the sky changed.
The horizon was filled to the brim with bright, unfamiliar stars. In the middle of the sky was an enormous infinity symbol that blazed a cosmic pu... | It has been said that he who lives a life of violence can never truly know peace. Never have those words been more true than in my case.
I was born what I now know to be centuries ago, the son of a soldier of the kingdom and a maiden. I was raised to fight by my father, and in this I excelled. By my 16th birthday, I ... | 2022-07-04T09:50:05 | 2022-07-04T09:44:51 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] A character in your dream realizes that when you wake up he/she dies.
Dream big. | I watched my companion as we walked along towards our destination. He didn't look like a god, but that meant nothing. I looked like an amalgam of all the people he had feelings for. I could feel my face constantly shifting.
"Please. You don't have to do this."
"Oh, but I do. And even if I don't, I'll eventually wake ... | "Please don't leave me!" I begged the Creator as I clutched its arm in fear. "You have no idea what will happen to me when it all ends!" The Creator turned and looked at me with its cold, all seeing eyes as an insane smile creeped up its lips. "You have nothing to worry about," it said while gently touching my cheek, ... | 2013-11-17T18:58:20 | 2013-11-17T17:53:15 | 64 | 20 |
[WP] You've died. You expected to be judged in the Afterlife, but all you see now is God and Satan disappointingly sigh at you and simultaneously scold: "We look away for five months and you died AGAIN?!" | You give a nervous chuckle. "Yep, I'm here again..."
Satan glared at you. "How did you die this time!? All the demons have been in check!" God nods in agreement. "All the angels have been as perfect as ever. Maybe you died from natural cause?"
"Heh, well it was another demon," you mutter. Satan quickly spoke up and sai... | I twitch one of my blue cat ears, looking annoyed.
“Hey, it’s not my fault that Vincent is so strong!!!” I say, scratching at my butterfly-shaped Dark Emperor mark. God shakes his head and Satan rolls his eyes.
“We let you stay on Earth as a ghost last time, Lillian. Now, we can’t do it again.” Satan grumbled. I star... | 2019-07-17T15:18:01 | 2019-07-17T13:06:02 | 410 | 10 |
[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." | "The worst part is they're giving her a cellmate"
"Who?"
"You"
A minute later and the barred door slammed shut.
"So, waddid you do?"
I ask this kid of 10.
"None of your business"
She coldly hissed.
"Which bunk do you sleep in?"
"Top one"
She immediately jumped up on my bunk and propped her feet up. This brat was walk... | As the time passes night falls the ringing of a bell and the usual shouting orders you to return to your cells.
Today is quieter than usual. Lights got out and you find yourself laying in bed wondering who she might be and what atrocities she had committed, a voice reaches out with similar questions. The man next cell... | 2018-02-12T01:23:09 | 2018-02-11T19:51:10 | 72 | 20 |
[WP]: "No, sir. I am not underestimating the kidnappers. YOU are underestimating my grandmother." | It has often been said that if beef jerky were a person, that person would be Amelia Potts. My grandmother Amelia is sixty-five years old, has no sense of smell or taste (this does not in the least prevent her from baking the best cookies in the western hemisphere), and is the very embodiment of the phrase "Tough old b... | The officer was about to ask what he meant when a large explosion sounded in the distance. Screams echoed throughout the city as hapless citizens and kidnappers alike ran for their lives.
A shrill cry cut into the ears of everyone within hearing range, "WHERE'S MY SHMOODLYPOOTS!!!"
The officer questioned silently. Th... | 2015-03-30T06:56:49 | 2015-03-30T04:59:39 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] One day a second Earth appears in the sky, the atmospheres of the two worlds barely touching. It's frightening, beautiful, and scientifically inexplicable. As folks panic and world powers deliberate, you look skyward through a telescope, only to see an almost identical 'you' looking back down. | 2121 has been a hell of a year. Selicia left me, I lost the house and kids in the courts, my family won't even speak to me, and now this...
It's the first time I've heard those fancy new sirens they installed after the calamities of the 21st century. They can't seem to settle on a tone: the long whine of a foreign inv... | At forst there was this thunderstorm riping the sky apart. Literally ripping it apart. The noise it made was unbelievable and the very next morning the news exploded.
With the telescope i had bought myself for christmas last year i looked at the storm before going to bed. But what i saw now was so... so incredible i h... | 2020-04-02T13:02:15 | 2020-04-02T11:25:54 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are a Billionaire. One day you realize that you have literally the most ungrateful children in the world, so you resolve to become a superhero. Not for the greater good, but because it seems the fastest way to waste their inheritance. | A little girl sits on a massive four poster bed. She is staring at an unmoving mouse with a red satin vest and a velvet collar with the name felix written on it. She runs from her room down an endless set of stairs until she reaches a 25 ft dinner table. Seated at the table is a thirty year old man talking on a cellph... | "Master Johnson, the mayor requests your assistance again. He says the largest bank in the New York City area is being robbed and it's a job only you can handle."
"Ah yes, of course. Thank you, Walter. You've never let me down one you know. Here's a little tip."
I gave my butler fifty-thousand dollars as his tip righ... | 2017-07-20T22:53:45 | 2017-07-20T20:48:05 | 132 | 64 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "Aye, you've heard about the devil's asshole right?"
It was more of a rhetorical question. At this point, everybody had.
A few years back, Bridgeport Connecticut experienced a minor tremor from a minor earthquake. No one thought much of it at the time, save for Mr. Hoolihan whose backyard now sported a three foot wid... | Spaceships. Hundreds of them, surrounding the Earth, slowly closing in to form a sort of net across the sky.
"Hello citizens of the Earth."
The sound came from every hi fi set in the world, every radio, every television, every
cassette recorder, every woofer, and every tweeter.
Every tin can, every dust bin, every... | 2022-06-02T19:21:41 | 2018-01-13T07:30:33 | 4,551 | 144 |
[WP] “Remember this above all else when you leave the Cave. It is much better to run across a demon than angel. A demon can be bargained with. An angel, on the other hand, will kill you on sight.” | Eli stepped inside the nylon enclosure. A fine mist sprayed the outside of his suit, returning it to the original pristine white. He shucked off his gloves, then raised his hands for a scan. Clean. The soft beeping let him know that he was cleared to remove the hazard suit, and so he did, revealing sweaty hair pressed ... | Once
---
upon a time, there lived a world with 10 suns. Each of them desired the Earth and its inhabitants, but were content to share with their brothers and sisters.
Each morning, a new sun would rise into the sky and replace their sibling. Each evening, a new sun would bear witness to the sins of the world. It was ... | 2018-09-01T14:34:25 | 2018-09-01T12:20:46 | 93 | 63 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | Suzanne opened her eyes to be greeted by her own front room. She looked about, her heart beating fast. Was it a dream? The sickening spinning, the horror of loosing control? The crash and shattering of glass, metal, bone. The last sight of her husband, James, next to her, his neck at a terrible angle. Did she dream tha... | "Can you believe it? They're actually paying us to come over here and kill these cave-dwelling shitheads!"
*"There must be another way" Fr. Morricone said, clutching his Rosary beads.*
"I used to tell my friends I would do this for free, if I could. Just to have the chance, you know?"
*"How can you even say that? We... | 2015-01-04T13:39:28 | 2015-01-04T12:39:19 | 26 | 16 |
[WP]: In one paragraph, write the most disgusting and despicable character you can ever come up with. In the second paragraph, kill them in a way that makes me feel sorry for them. | Jason understood that he had been a monster since birth. He was a teenager now, and his darkness had only grown along with him.
He spent his afternoons trawling the woods behind his house, looking for small animals to torture. Squirrels, rabbits. Anything he could catch. Seeing their eyes fade as he choked their life ... | Throughout high school, Kathryn was tormented for not looking like all the other girls, Mary was the worst. Every morning, Mary would laugh, taunt, harass Kathryn about her looks. Each time, it led Kathryn to the bathroom, sobbing and hiding away. School was a dark time for Kathryn, and it was all thanks to Mary, makin... | 2014-07-27T23:35:14 | 2014-07-27T23:20:27 | 214 | 15 |
[WP] A super villain commits crimes because they want to impress the hero because they don't know how to flirt like a regular person | "So are you the city's firefighter?" The villain pops this question out of nowhere as she remains to watch the hero use her psychic powers to lift up nearly half of the lake's water to put out the fire from spreading even more to the residential area outside of the woods.
"I wouldn't have to be if your bloody bombs d... | He has no idea. He really doesn’t know.
Standing behind the counter, where I did not belong, I looked at him. From afar he looked like a typical stranger, some would say he has a kind face, others like myself would describe him as hot. But from up close he looked stunning.
‘Hi there, are you okay?’ he said. He was lo... | 2019-11-14T12:06:03 | 2019-11-14T11:51:48 | 51 | 15 |
[WP] When we get to space, we learn that humans aren't the "space orcs" we expected. In fact, we're closer to space elves: the most elegant, the least brutish and violent and warlike, and the longest lived by far.
I don't know if this has been done before, I thought of it and thought it would make a good prompt. Pleas... | Griznach sat down on a pile of corpses and sighed. Another day had come to an end and, with it, another battle won.
*And another scar to remember it by*, he thought to himself as he touched the throbbing mark on his left shoulder. The great Urgk champion had broken through his guard, his notched blade slashing through... | Cngo looked up at the sky, wandering about them. The knowledgable ones those who are wise and peacefull. Those who don't hit their brothers and sisters with an iron axe. Those who are disgusted by their practices. They rained fire upon his people in disgust. Their young screaming for help as their soldiers fell by the ... | 2021-09-19T13:36:11 | 2021-09-19T11:24:42 | 76 | 20 |
[WP] The supervillain sighs in frustration as he looks at the group of superheroes. "Alright raise your hands if you are adults?" he said. None of them did it. "This battle is canceled and tell your mayor we need to talk! today!" he said angrily.
Whoa, I came back after chores, mobile games, and anime to see so many s... | Doom was honestly furious as he jabbed his communicator screen, and ignored the now confused teenagers behind him. Honestly, didn’t *anyone* in the government even care anymore?!
Mayor Denise’s face popped up on the screen, and her face instantly soured. “Doom, what do you-?”
Doom snarled, cutting her off. “*KIDS*?!?... | “THIS CITY WILL BE MINE!” I cackled from atop my death ray.
I had no idea if it would be or not. In fact, I had no idea if my death ray would even power up. The damn supers had gotten a whiff of my plans and interrupted me as I was calibrating the power usage.
“! will overthrow the mayor and defeat every one of y... | 2021-04-01T15:20:38 | 2021-04-01T12:53:38 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead.
reposting an old prompt | Phedrolax pinched the bridge of its crooked nose and heaved a deep sigh. The walls shook, and I broke out in a sweat. Had I made a mistake, thinking I was so damned clever? The fine print didn't exist, so the loophole was obviously there for the person who could read between the lines.
"There's one every generation."
... | Antonios rubbed his eyes, tired from the strain. He had just spent the last hour staring deeply at a collection of mites sitting on a polished stone dish. It had taken him a long time to harvest the bodies of these mites meticulously from various leaves, vines, insects, worms, some small animals, and even birds. There ... | 2021-06-08T11:37:50 | 2021-06-08T08:47:07 | 314 | 106 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. | "Hey Ghorp...Ghorp, check this out."
Ghorp let out a chittering sigh and rolled 3 of his eyes at his junior neighbor, but kept the remaining 5 firmly fixed to his work station. "I'm a little busy here Galganax." He paused, "And if this is you trying to trick me into looking at your egg sac again, I'm going to eat you... | We were pawns to them. Mere pieces on a galactic game board. An amusement, maybe a diversion for their extremely long and otherwise stagnant existence. Elves, Vampires, all the old stories and tales have at their core one of these visitors, especially the cruelest and most unkind ones. They had the universe by the tail... | 2020-07-07T09:18:44 | 2020-07-07T08:26:15 | 69 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone's personality is based off the colour of their soul. You hand your baby over to the nurse and she scans it... She looks at the screen and realises that its going to be difficult explaining this. | "Do you think you could scan her again, just to be sure? I mean this has never happened before has it? We have to be sure." I let my husband speak for the both of us as I lay in the hospital bed, exhausted from the intense labor that had lasted for well over a day- I could come off as cold and intimidating at times any... | It felt like we waited for hours to get the results of our child. We were both from the primary spectrum; My wife Amber, a red, was strong and passionate. Me? I was a blue; cool-headed and collected. We always knew that we wanted a child but were worried that they might not come out a primary or even a secondary. Every... | 2017-04-29T09:32:21 | 2017-04-29T03:49:09 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | “Death 37, murdered after asking a man if his wife wanted extra sauce on her sandwich.” I sighed, looking at the carefully constructed crayon drawing sitting before me at the table. Another death, another reset life. To think I died after asking an innocent question. What a jealous man, who even brings a gun to a sandw... | This time. This time, it will work out. There's only so many deaths one can suffer before learning how to slip through them.
Your childhood, is, unsurprisingly, the childhood of a prodigy. A 5 year old child with centuries of experience doesn't have a hard time learning how to count on fingers. The hardest part is to ... | 2021-05-30T07:56:41 | 2021-05-30T07:45:12 | 429 | 212 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... |
Every city I've been to would always kick me back out. Apparently you have to be religious to live in one of these cities. My friends got in just fine, but I never could.
Throughout my life, being a construction worker, having a family of 3, and living through numerous End Of The World dates, I've never believed in a... | My thoughts were certain,
All Gods were fiction,
I didn't foresee,
The true benediction
Walled within,
Their utopian setting,
The dwellers rejoice,
While I'm left regretting
I'm surrounded by fools,
Oh how simple we were,
Not an ounce of faith,
We believed it was slur
All I wish is for,
All I demand,
Is o... | 2017-11-21T07:01:58 | 2017-11-21T06:54:46 | 365 | 53 |
[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. | The damn boy had found the book. Even worse, the exact *page* with his name.
"Put it down," he hissed, trying to summon the necessary rage to project his voice enough to reach the living boy's ear. "Do as I say, or suffer the consequences - you'll rue this day, I will - "
The child lifted his hand, idly smoothing his... | Bill was having a beer with Al Capone, Shakespeare, Genghis Khan and the first dog to go to space when he broke down in tears.
"What's wrong?" Al Capone asked, behind a foam mustache from his pint.
"He gets like that when he drinks," Socrates, who had just joined them, said. "I've seen it before."
"Remind me again,"... | 2017-06-26T11:01:47 | 2017-06-26T10:58:48 | 3,490 | 481 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | A general, crying? Preposterous. Utterly preposterous. But it doesn't seem so now that there are so few of us left and the galaxy is a charred ruin.
"I come in peace, but I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: if you fuck with me, I will kill you all."
The Earthling outpost com... | [Poem]
Click, clack, click.
All the machines roar,
Click, clack, click.
For this total war.
Click, clack, click.
Industry cannibalized,
Click, clack, click.
To create their demise.
Click, clack, click.
All of humanity knows,
Click, clack, click.
The others don’t though.
Click, clack, click.
Bombs manufactured,
... | 2019-11-24T14:06:56 | 2019-11-24T10:43:55 | 157 | 66 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | Don took the flimsy printout from the grotty, grey machine in front of him. It contained a litany of sins, each printed neatly, one below the other. Unfortunately for him, the text appeared to be entirely German, set in an heavy medieval font.
The two parts he understood were his name at the top of the page and the i... | Why?, I ask in disbelief I tithed I went to church I was a faithful husband. What did I do? Saint Peter looks deep into my eyes with morose and disgust, “ It is not what you have done but what you failed to do...” I rack my mind trying to figure out what it was and finally it dawns on me. All this time for a Fucking F... | 2018-09-26T04:29:48 | 2018-09-26T03:51:49 | 530 | 123 |
[WP] The gritty realistic R-rated movie adaption of your favourite show as a kid. | He thought he was done. After thirty years of madness fighting crime on the streets, he was finally able to lay down his badge, and looked forward to a quiet retirement. He thought he was finally out for good. But they wouldn't let him rest. They went after his family, and now he's going to make them pay.
"If you're ... | She was running down the halls. "Ha Ha" a voice laughed down the hall. "There's the exit, if I could just get there" Suddenly the floor gave out underneath her, and she broke her legs when she hit the ground. "Ha Ha" The voiced cackled again A large, bloody mouse emerged from the shadows, knife in hand "Ha Ha"
Mick... | 2016-05-13T07:57:00 | 2016-05-13T07:48:07 | 126 | 19 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | If you're careful, you can just catch it. Sitting there, in the corner of your field of view. There's a little trick you have to do to focus just right to be able to read the words. "Human Version 1.1 Update: Progress 1%"
No progress bar, at least none that you can reliably reproduce. Maybe the update gets us a progre... | Sometimes we ask for it. There's something in us as human beings that pushes us, ever closer to edges, cliffs. We like to be our own saviors; to resolve the very problems we create.
Another Monday morning. But today we all noticed it: progress. Progress is a funny thing. We need it. But we fight it. One percent. And c... | 2015-03-04T17:26:24 | 2015-03-04T17:04:42 | 182 | 19 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | Honestly we were both really tired of it.
Our 15 year Pregnancy Anniversary had come and gone with a further-dwindling crowd. When we hit 5 Years, I swear half of the states population came and half of America turned into our broadcast. It was overwhelming, but I suppose I can't blame them. The longest on-record was ... | His phone buzzed awake, woken by a call from his wife, Christie. Horado picked it up immedietly, he knew it had to be important; his wife never called him when he was at work. After all a single mistake and all his customer had was a broken clock. But he never made mistakes he was the best clock maker in the business.
... | 2017-07-08T01:08:59 | 2017-07-07T22:35:59 | 1,038 | 143 |
[WP] Due to an accident during your childhood, you stopped aging physically and became immortal. After a few years, it's clear that it would be difficult to hide that fact from your friends so you left without saying goodbye. Ridden with guilt, you paid them a visit when they are now old. | I walked up to the hospital, looking the same as I did 50 years ago when we were still goofing around. I walked into the lobby to the reception and the lady glanced up.
“Are you visiting someone?” She asked indifferently, it seemed to be her usual line to everyone she greeted.
“I’m looking for a Matthew Jozehev?”
“... | Saran twisted his calloused hands around the hem of his shirt. He'd done so much with the endless time given to him, except one thing. His breath was held tight in his chest as he fought to rein in bitter emotions. Envy, fear, guilt, and just maybe room for a little regret in the tangle.
Small hands rose against the s... | 2021-09-12T13:29:45 | 2021-09-12T12:21:33 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] humans were the diplomats and negotiators of peace . They kept their 4 world wars well hidden from the galaxy. When a warmongering species thought humans as an easy target, they found out how good at war humans really can be the hard way. | Balricu cursed at the dead screen on his desk. First comms. Now this.
The light in the room flickered and went out, leaving the desk illuminated solely by the bright sunlight coming through the bay windows.
"Fuck!"
The human word was so versatile. Balricu continued to vent at the gods, the humans and the univ... | Distant thunder crackled across the shadowed sky of the planet the invaders diplomat's shuttle hovering overhead. Lights slowly sweeping across the deeply forested surface of the earth before setting down in an empty clearing. Hissing escaping the hydraulics of the craft as the rear ramp of the vehicle lowered to the m... | 2020-02-28T12:58:55 | 2020-02-28T12:51:35 | 71 | 12 |
[WP] Aliens have realized humans advance more quickly during times of conflict, and have tried to push humanity into wars to see what happens. However, that changes when they start WW2 and humans harness the power of the atom. | There was a quiet chaos inside the Andromeda Chamber at Milky Way Center at the 1945 Emergency Session of the Intergalactic Community of Democratic States' General Convention. Several thousand delegates shuffled their papers uneasily and drummed their fingers as the low rumbling murmur of the diplomats conversing with ... | A report was sent to my implant, allowing me to view the text and video in my brain with ease.
It said: "Indoctrination of Subject A, the catalyst of the second conflict with designation A* consequences was successful. The resulting conflict was observed to rush advancements of primitive computation, biological, weapo... | 2018-11-27T13:18:10 | 2018-11-27T10:48:49 | 65 | 34 |
[WP] The heroes have confronted the villain in their lair. The villain starts by telling them "You don't have to believe me. I know I've done horrible things. But I only took this gig as a fated overlord to prevent someone worse from claiming the title." | "Despario, your reign of tragedy has ended. The Incredible Friends of Justice are here to stop you!" The Dazzler belted out as he glided down on green feathered wings, followed quickly by Sour Appolon being carried by Ape Nation jumping from rock to rock.
Despario sat on his throne of skulls, looking forlorned and wea... | The burnished blade of my sword rested in the hollow of the King’s throat, its point drawing a thin line of blood just below his Adam’s apple. There were bodies scattered around the wreckage of the throne room, my men and his, and some of them dear friends. It was dark outside, the braziers had burned low during our ba... | 2021-03-21T07:03:20 | 2021-03-21T06:41:47 | 97 | 25 |
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