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[WP] The rest of the civilised galaxy has just learned that when encountering something new, the human's brains asks three subconscious questions. "Can I kill it? Can I eat it? Can I have sex with it?" | "Um, hello?," asked Carlos to to the dark void?
He was alone in the darkness. A single light shone above him.
"Human!" Came a booming voice. "You have been chosen to answer for your species! We have many questions! What is your designation?"
He replied nervously, "Um, I'm Carlos Rivera. San Antonio, Texas. ... | An auditorium reminiscent of the ancient human civilization's stadiums. In the center were three podiums and a curved desk that could comfortably be used by six humans.
At the center podium was a large humanoid lizard. Twice as tall as the average human. He gives a speech to the various different species in the crowd... | 2021-09-24T09:36:10 | 2021-09-24T08:38:02 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Some people are brought into this world to cure diseases, lead countries, build rockets, or fight for justice. I think I was brought into this world to serve coffee.
That’s what I tell myself every day when I unlock the door of my café. Even as a kid, I was obsessed with coffee - at first the smell, then when I was ol... | Red Molly contacted me first. “Hey I think you need to get down here. Right now.” When you get a psychic message like that, well, you kinda have to listen.
Windows smashed. Tables broken, even my counter, made from the wood of the witness stand from the Salem trials, was badly damaged. My favorite coffee mug, given to... | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 2018-10-20T23:34:54 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | We stand at the precipice of the mountain, her wind bitten hands clasped in mine. She shivers, and I try to be strong. For the both of us.
We've made it. That's the main thing. All the suffering, all the pain, it doesn't matter. Not anymore. We've made it.
There's a lake of fire in front of us, but it offers no war... | Jaime looked at me, his arctic irises digging into mine. He sprinted, bare-handed, in my direction. Softly, I position my left foot, in preparation. As the avalanche comes near me, I dart under his outreached left arm, and as he slows in reaction, I kick him in the side.
Breathe. I have to breathe if I'm going to win.... | 2018-02-25T07:12:49 | 2018-02-25T04:45:16 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose civilian identity is a teacher. One student asked if you could tutor them after school, and you agreed. After it was over, you escorted them to the front of the school for their parent to pick them up... and you see your nemesis waiting by the car. | "Alright, Anthony. Have a good-"
I pause as I stare at his 'parents' car, blinking a couple of times to make sure I'm not seeing things. But with a man capable of mind manipulation, I could be seeing anything.
"Anthony, is that your dad?"
"..yeah?" Anthony shrugs, "Why are you being so weird about it?"
"Sorry, sorr... | I looked at my classroom as the bell rang and they cheered as they left the room for it was the last bell of the day and time for them to go home. I am a teacher. But it's mainly a past time of mine. A side gig if you will. My actual job is saving lives and putting bad people behind bars. I'm a superhero after all and ... | 2022-11-29T15:14:07 | 2022-11-29T14:41:21 | 91 | 32 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Ich'tuk wept.
The bodies of his clan covered the plains before him like a bloody carpet. The third hand of his clan priest descended on his shoulder and clasped him tightly. "You could not have known," said Ahn'rek. "None of us knew. An entire race that fights with no concept of honor, but only to win."
"They don't e... | I don't understand. These dirty little apes could barely hope to their moon before we got here. Yet they have weapons that can kill from afar, giant metal monsters that make my men exploding before they can see them. They have artificial birds that rain death from above!
I called the full retreat thinking we would be... | 2014-10-17T09:09:55 | 2014-10-17T09:09:35 | 324 | 56 |
[WP] Your Italian restaurant is frequented by the mafia, and for some reason they think you're a front for someone powerful. You aren't, but you still like to mess with them. | I'm not even Italian, that's the funny thing. I opened this place on a dare, more of a joke than anything else. *A Korean could never open up an Italian Restaurant*, they'd said.
Joke's on them. And these goons that have been coming here, sitting in the same booth for the last three years.
I mean, I named the place... | ""He needs them," was all I had to say; and I had them. It didn't matter what, it could have been anything, some new shoes, a nice watch. I pressed it too. I started doing selfish things for money. I ran the mob for a bit, and here I am, by my own free will--which feels a lot less free when your other option is instant... | 2020-10-12T09:54:00 | 2020-10-12T09:43:21 | 564 | 16 |
[WP] A vampire knocks on your door, seeking permission to enter in order to kill you as their next meal. As a house-bound ghost, however, the prospects of a guest after so many years intrigues you. Smiling darkly, you welcome them inside. | "It's been awhile since I've had I guest. Not many come this far into the forest." I say, stepping to the side to let them in before walking towards the couch.
"Well, I was out for a hike when I got a bit lost. Didn't know there was a cabin this far in." The young woman, who obviously hasn't been a vampire for long wi... | "Where are the living people?" The vampire asked."Oh, they're kn the second floor" I say. "Alright! Dinnertime!" He begins to run up the stairs, but pauses halfway up. "Hold on a second. Is this a con? Say I open the door-" "Third on the right. They're doing it." I say. "Ah, I see. Seems kinda rude. I suppose I'll let ... | 2022-08-01T20:14:55 | 2022-08-01T18:22:02 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Since my dad went mute I started learning sign language secretly to surprise him. When I was somewhat fluent with it, I realized that his blessings at the dinner table actually meant "Threatened with death if talk, please go to police". | I narrowed my eyes, looking at my dad’s hands, watching every twitch and movement.
His hands shook so much more now. But for the third day in the row, he’s signed the exact same, unmistakeable thing:
“Threatened with death if talk, please go to police.”
I gulped. I looked at my dad’s face. Was I imagining the aloofn... | In sheer disbelief, I gawked at Dad. He simply gestured: “took you long enough, eh.” Okay, okay; he didn’t add ‘eh’, but it was certainly implied. I immediately surged from my chair, but Dad’s stare was more than sufficient to make it adamantly clear I was ought to sit down. and serve food first. With one brief gesture... | 2022-07-21T09:45:17 | 2022-07-21T08:18:57 | 116 | 80 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | As I wait in the field, the usual assortment of examiners and recording equipment scattered around, an awkward silence surrounds the entire group. It has been nearly an hour. Most people's Soulbound appears within 10 minutes. What could it be? If we go by distance maybe something halfway across the country? But what on... | They all screamed as the orange haired president doubled over in pain live on national television as I laughed maniacally in the back of the bar waving his severed member in my hand before throwing it into my drink.
“Steve!!” “what the fuck man?!” Randy screamed at me as he vomited onto the floor. “It’s your birthday... | 2019-09-18T09:38:04 | 2019-09-18T09:37:18 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You’re a thousand year old immortal who’s taken a teaching job. Everything was going well until one of your students started humming a song from your childhood. | "Good afternoon, everyone!" grinned Mr. Milo, setting down his coffee, "I hope everyone buckled down and completed their homework."
Milo's classroom filled with the sounds of zippers and the shuffle of papers as his students began rummaging in their backpacks for his assignment as requested. Quiet conversations were m... | The day began the same as the day before, as the tens of thousands of days before had started. Reaching his extremities to the end of his bed, Simon felt all the usual spots pop click and align, a morning ritual he dared not skip before getting up. There were no more nor less than any other day, one of the few perks ti... | 2022-11-17T16:41:12 | 2022-11-17T13:15:52 | 111 | 33 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | The majority of Mort’s business came from either desperate university students who had neglected to study for final exams or those looking to Incorporate the latest 20-something celebrity’s sex memories for a night of self love. Of course there was the odd police investigation which would roll through the shop to force... | I remember that day, that kid, in retrospect I shouldn't have paid attention. It was a Saturday afternoon, I usually give myself weekends off but it was hard back then. So many regulations, rules to abide by; I just wanted to make some money, you know how it is. I had a bitch ex-wife, who took my kids from me in court.... | 2016-03-09T06:47:51 | 2016-03-09T06:21:21 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] One day, you see a picture of yourself in a foreign newspaper. You ask someone to translate the headline for you: "Search for kidnapped child still ongoing." | I look again at the crinkled, creased newspaper lying on the dirty, but unoccupied, café table. I don't notice the girl staring up at me from the grey pages right away. Instead, my mind wanders to the pale-faced patron who left their paper in such a hurry; why had they left it open on the *missing peoples* page? What h... | Well, cause you asked. I gotta warn you though, it's my first WP:
"Heh, imagine if it actually said that."
"No Mark, I'm being serial."
"Serious."
"Serious. The main paragraph says 'The suspect's recent confessions indicate he was...' There's no word for this... 'Kidnapped to another country for someone?"'
"What, ... | 2017-10-21T12:25:30 | 2017-10-21T11:09:22 | 475 | 18 |
[WP] There is a rare metal that is almost indistinguishable from steel after it has been processed. There are few who can identify it. The metal gains power from every life it takes. As you watch the latest execution, you realize the town’s guillotine blade appears to be made from this metal. | "How many lives could that blade have taken?"
The question rang inside my head. The guillotine had been in the town longer than most people had been alive, used sporadically for executions but always present in the square. It was a reminder that we were not a free people, ruled by a government that cared little for we... | “Ssssheenk!” Another head chopped off for almost no reason at all. The king loved his public executions more and more as each season came and went, but something about these recent ones didn’t seem right.
“Do another one!” “Cut his dumb head off!” As I stood amongst the jeering crowd, I felt distant on the outside... | 2021-02-02T09:09:52 | 2021-02-02T08:55:11 | 64 | 44 |
[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... | Light. No. Lights. They're above me. They're bright. I'm cold. Why am I so cold? I'm tired. Where am I?
I'm lying down. No, on a table. Looking up. I'm...I'm...who am I?
It's later. There's people here. They're...doctors. How did I know that? I'm in a hospital. Why am I in a hospital? Because I froze my brain.
Right... | 2015-09-13T22:39:39 | 2015-09-13T21:09:54 | 363 | 46 |
[WP] Since your earliest memories, everyone has had a 0 above their head, but when you told people, no one believed you. One cold winter day, you’re at a restaurant and your server has a 1 over their head. You can’t see your own number, but they tell you you have a 3.
Feel free to interpret the numbers however you wan... | There is a reunion with my old classmates at St Peter orphanage. All those years and I never look back to that place I run off as an early teen; I regret this now that I'm old. In 1940 my parents died, influenza that claimed every member of my family, used to lie those nuns. Even as a kid I knew what did really happene... | You rush to the nearest restroom, realizing that the flashbacks will return. Slamming a stall door shut, you vomit into the toilet. Your body freezes as the flashbacks barge into your mind.
Your hand shaking, you reluctantly stab the boy on the right. You stab him hard, as your guardian directed you to do minutes earl... | 2019-12-29T03:48:47 | 2019-12-28T21:28:57 | 35 | 22 |
[WP] Since birth you have had telekinesis, one night you try and turn off the light and nothing happens, then a hidden voice goes “whoops boss that’s my bad, wasn’t paying attention” and the light switch flicks off | “Come again?” I asked the darkness. I could have sworn someone just spoke during the time between me asking for the light to be turned off and the light turning off. That… that never happened.
My question was met with silence.
“Hello?” I asked into the sparse dorm room, “Am I just hearing things?” I wondered.
“Mothe... | I lay in stunned silence for a few minutes, certain that I'd just heard that voice. I cleared my throat, hoping he would speak up again, but I joined only by silence.
"Hello?" I asked the empty room.
The only response was the slow increase in the sound of my heart squirming uncomfortably in my chest. I wasn't going ... | 2020-01-01T17:31:05 | 2020-01-01T17:22:16 | 3,514 | 140 |
[WP] After dying, you're shown a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style decision tree which highlights all the paths your life could have taken should you have made various different choices. You spend all of eternity analyzing this tree, only to finally realize that something just isn't quite right. | Part 1
At first, it was black. And then a screen started to flash.
>At age three, you had two options. At daycare, there was a harelipped boy named Derek. You could either befriend him or ignore him.
>You decided to befriend him.
>(?) Derek will remember that.
Oh, Derek. I remember the antics that we'd us... | Oh yeah I remember that time with Zack, holy shit I guess if I would have jumped the fence instead of hid the cops wouldn't have found us, eh it was worth it though considering I got to fuck Jessica at that party Haha...
Oh and here's that time I took my moms car for a joyride with...What the fuck...Wha...No wait a se... | 2016-03-26T11:31:36 | 2016-03-26T10:45:51 | 70 | 32 |
[WP] You get quite offended when people automatically assume you’re an ILLEGAL necromancer! You worked hard to get your degree/license, and the severed arms you wear around your neck were legally acquired from an organ donor! And you only wear them because they help you channel necrotic energies! | “Look, I don’t want to have to speak to your supervisor over this so I’ll say it slowly for you. I. Work. Here.”
Michelle felt the handcuffs bite into her wrists again, and she glowered over at the officer ruffling through her bag. If he messed up her jar of toes spell she would make sure there was hell to pay.
“Su... | "Can I just get a cup of f***in' coffee? I've been waiting for 20 minutes."
The barista looked at me in disgust, and waved the manager over.
The manager looked at me, clad in a brown leather trenchcoat passed down from generations, with old rips, blood stains, and a few teeth caught in the seams, just sewn over hasti... | 2021-02-14T14:06:11 | 2021-02-14T13:41:57 | 54 | 33 |
[WP] A mathematician on the brink of insanity has spent years locked in his apartment, attempting to find a formula that proves God exists. As he nears to a breakthrough, God shows up to explain why the proof shouldn't be made public. | "YES!" I screamed joyously, jumping up and down as my voice echoed through the empty halls of my University. I'd been snowed in for a day now and used the facility to keep working on my research...who would've thought I could actually do it?
*I've proved that God exists, undeniably and with certainty. I'll be the mos... | God watched one man with intense interest. This unassuming nearsighted older gentleman in his office at Baylor University was right now his number one priority. This man had once been a theorhetical physicist, but after a brush with death, had changed careers and gone back to college and earned a PhD in religious studi... | 2016-01-24T07:46:05 | 2016-01-24T07:36:30 | 85 | 28 |
[WP] To the humans she is known as DOTTR, an old AI who is relatively simple compared to the AIs she is tasked with rearing. To the AIs, she is MTTR, one of the oldest and most powerful AIs capable of emotion, and she will kill any of her own children if they become a threat to the humans she loves. | DOTTR was built in 2045 by a team of engineers and researchers. Her existence made headlines all over the world. She was the first fully functional AI that could experience emotion. Since that made her less predictable, the researchers kept her under lock and key for years. Once they were certain she wouldn't kill them... | At what age does a human child become an adult? In the old days it was the age at which their biological forms developed reproductive capacity. Or the age when their prefrontal cortexes were considered fully matured. Or when they no longer needed their parents, or become fully participating contributors to society.
In... | 2021-12-26T14:12:57 | 2021-12-26T11:00:58 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] As a child, you and your best friend made a pact to go on an real fantasy adventure. After growing up, starting your separate lives and families, and losing touch, one day he/she bursts into your office, throwing you a sword and insists you accompany them. | Pat sat at his desk, typing away in a furious frenzy. The script was coming along well, for the most part.
The phone starts ringing. An intensity enters Pats eyes as he see's the callers ID. He picks up the phone.
"Yeah boss?"
"Where's my fucking script?
"It's coming! I'm working on it as fast as I-"
"Not fas... | Having been awoken from my office mid-day nap to the scuffle of security guards and strange men, I turn around at the call of my name. "Ai, take your sword and come with us." a man with a gruff beard and muddy armor yells as he hurls a scimitar toward me. Startled, I reach out to catch the blade but miss and it pierces... | 2015-01-28T08:10:34 | 2015-01-28T07:27:15 | 173 | 17 |
[WP] Humans were largely friendly and kept a low-profile. They were seen as the bottom of the food chain in the galaxy and they preferred it like that. But when they were attacked, everyone found out how ruthless the humans can be with killing in their DNA and that Mars was never their home plant | It happened so fast. No one realized what was going on until it was over. The humans were always viewed as a non-aggressive species. The kind that would run and hide at the first sign of conflict. Oh, how wrong we were. How wrong everyone was.
The first sign of the humans' second nature was the fact they lived next to... | YEAR 53.14 AG
Humans never seemed like a threat. Their skin is porous and soft, their eyes, and organs only covered by weak protection. They seemed like "dogs" as well, overly friendly to everyone they met and very easily madd friends among some of the higher tiered species in the galaxy.
In short. They were a prey... | 2020-03-20T16:21:49 | 2020-03-20T15:46:47 | 218 | 102 |
[WP] You child is playing with their toy phone when they hand it to you saying "It's for you." Humoring them, you put it up it to your ear and say "Hello", Someone replies on the other end. | I take the phone from my son, yet another phone call. It's probably Elmo or maybe Dora this time.
"Hello" I say, in my usual entertain the child voice.
Echoing from the plastic I hear ""I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very part... | "Listen, this is very important...your child is in danger. Don't let them out of your sight for the next twenty-four hours. Please, for all of us...keep him safe." The dial tone clicks, as you stare at your son. He grins and toddles towards his other toys, oblivious to the miniscule shadow that has slowly inched it's w... | 2015-04-18T21:30:22 | 2015-04-18T21:00:51 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] The world unanimously agrees to build a glass dome around Earth to save the ozone. You help build it, but as you help place the final piece, you realize you were left on the outside. | As I put the final panel in place, it clicked in my mind why I had the 'honor' of putting the last piece in. My parents were dead, I didn't have a wife and no kids. No one would really miss me. The inside team started to fade away. I think one waved to me.
I looked around me. There was nothing. Just miles and miles an... | "Well shit." It was the only thing that went through my mind as the thermal sealant locked the final piece of glass into place with me outside.
"Fuck it, it was a dumb idea anyway" I said as I slid the hammer "I would never need" out and reared back for my first of several strikes. | 2016-10-08T10:36:29 | 2016-10-08T08:56:17 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | The tide of mortals rises and falls.
Swells like a symphony.
Crashes like a wave against the tallest rocks.
And sure as a golden age rises, it will someday set– the land left bitterly shrouded in the one and only constant truth between myth and mortal alike.
Darkness.
From ember and ash, we clawed our way into bei... | "I'm so glad you came home for Thanksgiving, JJ. But before everyone else arrives I'd like to get a chance to talk with you about something. Can you sit down?" The words Mama H used implied it was a polite request, but the tone of her voice struck Jule's brain like a command. She had learned to ignore Mama H's commands... | 2021-12-10T09:17:45 | 2021-12-10T08:48:39 | 1,557 | 231 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | "They're... having some kind of social function," I said, scratching my blort with the tip of my scap claw. "I don't know, it's called a meeting."
Ge frowned, ger many mouths combining into a confused star. "But they've already met!"
"I know! But they need to discuss," I glanced down at the hologram in my front paw, ... | It's funny because all the employers say it with glowing pride, but all of the ex-employees mudder with disdain. We get the word out, good employment is hard to find and in the great, teeming universe it's been easy to band together, focus that good ol' fashioned human xenophobia against the, you know, actual xenos.
W... | 2018-04-27T14:46:28 | 2018-04-27T13:54:08 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You are walking down the street on your way to work when suddenly you burp, hiccup, and sneeze at the same time. A HUD menu opens in front of you with “Resume, Options, and Quit” as selectable options. | "Ow"
Mike said as he stopped to wiped the snot-spit from his beard. That was when he saw the screen. It was mostly black, however transparent, with a solid red border. Within the border were 3 boxes. Bright white text filled each box "Resume", "Options", and "Quit".
Mike looked around the street. He noticed he could ... | "Ew, what the fuck" - was the exact train of thought I had before even noticing the glowing menu right in my face. I had fallen from my chair from the sheer force of that abomination of bodily functions.
"And now what the fuck is this?" I thought to myself, as I finally noticed the huge glowing menu right in front of ... | 2018-05-05T06:14:11 | 2018-05-05T04:30:22 | 69 | 28 |
[WP] The Zombie Apocalypse has been going for at least a year when you find yourself cornered by a shambling undead. In a panic, you bite them, and the corpse slowly regains it's skin. It's flesh healing, until they breath in and look around before saying "How the hell did you know that would work?" | "How the hell did you know that would work?"
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It was a good question, it really was. And I wanted to answer it. But even if I could have, I wouldn't have been able to. No, I was to busy working my way through the rest of the horde that had followed behind him.
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I don't remember how many I ha... | "How the hell did you know that would work??" The zombie gurgles out. I didn't respond. Like a familiar smell in the air at the grocery store I was brought back to an earlier time. I knew I had heard these words before. Yes! We came across that group of zombinals and I swear we heard one of the zombies start talking. T... | 2020-08-12T17:25:34 | 2020-08-12T15:35:48 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] An Eccentric Billionaire Makes An Interesting Offer... $100,000/yr for the Rest of Your Life and All You Have to do is........... | I pulled out the slip of newspaper in my pocket for the seventh time in the past hour.
>Earn $100,000 Annual Wages - No Experience Needed - No Manual Labor
I read it over, taking each letter in. There was simply no way I was reading it correctly. A hundred grand a year for doing nothing and no experience needed. I... | I gazed into his dark eyes, as he paused to think for a moment. I had no idea why he had called me here, a relative nobody, working a ten dollar an hour job at the local hardware store. I was lucky, making more than minimum wage. What more could a man ask for?
When I was told that Mr. Flint wanted to see me, I coul... | 2014-04-17T10:06:39 | 2014-04-17T09:47:31 | 148 | 32 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | They call hereabouts the Cape Graveyard, a city where superheroes and villians alike go to try, and to die. It's a really ordinary kind of place where anyone tries to do anything really big, they don't last long. It's a nice play on Cape Grave, the real name of this pleasant, ordinary town.
Me? I don't have a hero nam... | Intellectual disagreement. Through reason one can reach the highest truths. Actions for the greater good. Arriving at the most desired end through the most effective means.
The philosophy of the Zeth'Kan order was a force that could move mountains. Huang Xile was the embodiment of that philosophy as he strode throu... | 2018-10-18T17:05:41 | 2018-10-18T13:23:54 | 1,237 | 60 |
[WP] Today you are locked in a closet with your enemy until one of you is dead. You have an RPG. He has the pistol.
Inspired by u/snickerstoucher | Brian sits across from me, after long years of mutual hatred it has come to this. One final battle between the two of us. Though the odds are clearly stacked against one of us we are both glad it will finally be over.
"Well, well, well, Zak. It looks like you chose poorly. " He laughs brandishing his father's snub no... | Shit. It was him or me. A signed copy of Dungeons & Dragons, by both Gygax and Arneson. How could anybody resist? Surely not my enemy, one Steve McStevenson. I brandished the book like a shield. "Ah ah ah, you might hit it. And I'll definitely bleed all over it."
Steve's lower lip trembled. He dropped the gun. "No... | 2016-06-25T13:27:17 | 2016-06-25T13:24:04 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] You're a retired supervillain whos just trying to live a normal life, however the heroes still come to stop you in everyday situations. | "Did you find everything okay?"
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"Yes. I also wanted to use this...oh, wait."
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"What?"
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"I'm sorry, I just noticed that--"
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I'm interrupted by the noise of a hole being punched through the ceiling. From the outside.
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"What the fuck??" the cashier ask... | I wake up and wet stench on my pillow is proof of life. I rub the sleep out of my eyes before I get up to the restroom. I place toothpaste on the brush, wet the combination, and begin to brush my teeth, only before I can begin, the toothbrush is knocked out of my hand.
"Not on my watch." a caped crusader announces.
I... | 2019-03-05T17:46:13 | 2019-03-05T17:30:10 | 35 | 12 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I always hated highschool. It seems like there is always the same few people there: the nerds, the jocks, the artists, the rebels, and people like me who just want it to be over.
I was daydreaming on my way to class. Eyes glazed over as I thought about the world beyond the school's hallways and how much better-
"HEY ... | “I’ll show them my true powers” I said looking at my hand, snickering knowing they will finally face my wrath. The horn of the school bus signifying the start of my hell again.
The school bus arrives, the moment I ascend the stairs, I trip on air, falling face first unable to stop my fall with my hands. The routine of... | 2020-02-26T09:59:40 | 2020-02-26T09:00:31 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | It was originally created for fun. A game. Who would of thought that it would turn into something that struck fear in the hearts of many species?
I looked at the head gear device. A year ago, I created a virtual world filled with G.A.I. ruled by a super intelligence. Suffice it to say, it became popular in a blink of... | Dear Newcomer,
The sight of the bodies never leaves you, their crumpled forms become all you can see every time you close your eyes. There isn't a moment you don't think of them, the images finding their way into every ordinary thought that you once possessed, worming their way into even the most mundane of your day-t... | 2022-11-01T03:12:15 | 2022-10-31T19:33:10 | 52 | 24 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | It's may seem an odd thing to you, how the sand still flows, no matter what direction you turn a glass, but then much of my domain might seem odd.
This glass is well past the last grain's fall. I glance at the little brass (not really brass, but then the glass isn't really glass) nameplate, trying hard to make out any... | White walls, flickering flourescent bulbs, monitor beeps, and the sounds of breathing machines: these were things that Rachel Willer had grown accustomed to.
Eight months ago her husband John was in a motorcycle accident. He was placed in a medical induced coma and, over the past few months, had shown no signs of wak... | 2018-10-03T07:35:18 | 2018-10-03T07:16:01 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You are the grim reaper. Explain the concept of death to the sick, seven year old child on his deathbed. | It was dark, but James wasn't sleeping again. Not that he wasn't tired. James was always tired these days. It was just that something was keeping him awake--something that burned in his bones and his eyes and his lungs, something that made men hide their tears whenever they saw him. Something he never spoke about, not ... | Awwhhh. He’s sleeping. Should I let him slumber? Fuck it, he might be having a good dream.
[drags scythe along the rail of the hospital bed until the seven year old child wakes up]
“Hey dipshit. I have good news for you. You’re about to die. Well, I’m going to evacuate that body you are currently latching a ride in... | 2018-04-19T21:36:18 | 2018-04-19T20:28:49 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] You are a magically immortal being who snuck onboard a generation ship to travel beyond the solar system. It's been a couple hundred years, and it's getting difficult to conceal your immortality from the crew. | Time.
I've forgotten what it is. Its concept lost to me like the stars.
Stars.
I'd blink, and just like that, they were gone...
It's easy to forget when you're an immortal like me. Especially if you're drifting in space, staring into nothing for... god knows how long. Maybe until the end of time or maybe... time... | "Whose child is that?"
"Which child?"
"The one with red hair?"
"What red-haired child? There's nobody with red hair on this ship. You must out of your cycle; go have a nap. You'll feel better when you wake up."
Anna hide inside of the vent, ducking her head as the two adults walked past her. She waited until she co... | 2018-06-13T12:38:12 | 2018-06-13T12:14:24 | 350 | 135 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | 5 years ago, I fell asleep on March 29th and woke up on the 30th with no sense of sight. I remember that morning vividly. I “woke up” that morning, explicitly feeling that my eyes were open, but they looked as if they were closed. I forced them open but they still showed nothing. I screamed to my parents about my situa... | *Don't tell them you can see. Don't... tell them you can see*, I read the words again and again and still I can't make sense of them. Maybe the capitalization has something to do with the importance of the message? *Don't Tell Them You Can See... DTTYCS...* No, that's not it.
It's been three hours since my eyes began ... | 2022-12-15T08:15:43 | 2019-08-26T11:13:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay is kidnapped for ransom by a group who happen to be cannibals on the side. He is outraged not at what is being cooked, but rather how it is being cooked. | “Well at least you’re using protein!” Gordon Ramsey looked around the dank, poorly lit cave and spotted a shelf of spices. “Fuck me, just because you can’t see in here doesn’t mean you can’t smell! Yeah?”
He pushed through the throng of dirty hill-people and inspected the rack.
“Don’t you have any mint?” He bellowed... | *The news was all around the world. Gordon Ramsay got kidnapped in South America and his current location is unknown.*
He was held in a wooden cage and he didn’t speak one bit until cannibals started the fire to cook the meat.
''What are you doing donkey?''
Cannibals looked back at the Gordon but after a few secon... | 2019-05-22T05:32:28 | 2019-05-22T04:03:42 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] During a scuffle a superhero and villain find themselves handcuffed together with power cancelling cuffs. The hero is shocked when the authorities take the opportunity to try to grab both of them. Now on the run they must work together while the villain tells them a few home truths | “So,” The villainess started, surprisingly far calmer than any time Stonedevil had ever seen her like, but nonetheless he was still very skeptical of her.
“I’d be making mad comments right about now, but my heart wouldn’t be into it.” The Analyst sat more comfortably, leaning against the wall behind her, but he could ... | Here I am, handcuffed to my arch-enemy with power-cancelling cuffs, on the run from authorities... how can this day possibly get any more interesting?
"We were walking for some time, and for some reason I'm starting to trust you." That surprising line came from Dr. Chill as she turned to me. "OK... weird, but go on?" ... | 2020-08-08T01:38:55 | 2020-08-08T00:57:23 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] When you were homeless, you asked a friend for help. He laughed at you and shut the door on you. Some time later, that same friend ends up fired from his job. You try to convince your company to hire him. The only thing they ask is why you're doing this for someone who once abandoned you. | I presented the resume of my friend to my manager.
"As you can see," I told her, "he's got a lot of the experience that you're looking for. He meets all the qualifications. He could be a real asset to the company."
The manager looked over the resume. "He does look very promising," she said. "But I'm just curious. Was... | Jessie felt the clawing in his heart, the slight raise of his heart rate that always accompanied the thoughts.
He felt the dark smokey tendrils reach from his crotch to his brain, pickling it, easing his consciousness into a puddle on the ground.
*It is too late for you. You can't be helped.*
Jessie clung to the hat... | 2022-09-24T17:52:50 | 2022-09-24T17:00:39 | 75 | 37 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | He knew the Tombs were off-limits. Many adventurers have been rumoured to descend into them, never to return. He didn't care. Young, brash, overly eager, he was willing to risk it all so he'd finally prove himself; so he'd earn the respect he desperately craved. When he finally stood before the colossal metal entrance,... | Harcourt woke in cold, close darkness, alarms vibrating in his right ear. Intruder alerts; he shut them off with a thought. And for long moments after he was left in silence, wondering how many years had passed him by. If the cryogenic pod would open. If the others had survived, the thousand and one souls that he had s... | 2022-12-19T14:03:08 | 2022-12-19T12:14:38 | 236 | 100 |
[WP] The healer was treated horribly by the knights he was assigned. Belittled and humiliated at every turn. Until one day a monster killed his squad and spared him. And the monster looked at him and she said something he didn't think was possible to even say. "Would you please heal me?". | The Skydriller twisted its contorted body writhing in some horrifying dance, slowly jerking towards me in its twirling twisted way, I had nothing to defend myself with, the party I came with had been quickly torn to shreds by this thing, It stopped and raised its strange shovel like head, several protective flaps slack... | The cleric gazed awestruck at the creature before him, his own knights had never treated him with such respect. "Heal you?" he asked, still unsure of what he had heard. His squad lay dead around him the smell of blood and carnage strong in the air. "I..."
A moment's hesitation was all it took for the decision to be ... | 2020-02-23T14:10:21 | 2020-02-23T13:07:21 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | "Dad, when can we go?"
"Soon Theresa, be patient. You know we have to stay until Emma's mom has performed"
"I don't want to wait for her, can't I just go now? We've been sitting here for an hour"
"You can't leave Theresa, pass the time somehow. You could go backstage and talk to Emma if you feel like it"
"Emma only... | The walls of the kings castles were ruptured by the goblin death sphere, then driven through to the keep of the castle, before unleashing its rampant army. A device no larger than the head on a man's shoulders, but through goblin magicks it can teleport the armies to their battle. The great rulers of man have fallen. T... | 2015-05-16T05:45:02 | 2015-05-16T01:33:27 | 337 | 36 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | All of my friends and family had gathered in our favorite martian bar, the drinking age long ago lifted after the great cleansing of the 2020's...Everyone turned their attention towards me as the clock clicked ever so slowly from 11:59 to 12:00 sharp, the first letters began to appear..
"I" followed by a letter "D"
... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-16T03:13:05 | 129 | 14 |
[WP] Write a sad story with the happiest twist you can think of. | She was kneeling, dark hair obscuring her face. Ian looked at his knife, held loosely in the hand that refused to move. The blade winked at him, inviting him to do it. The masked man in the corner watched him. His left hand curled around the throat of Ian's daughter, the right pressed the muzzle of the gun to her templ... | My wife divorced me, my girlfriend left me, my boss fired me, my internet was down, and I was out of money. There was only one logical solution: suicide. I climbed onto the roof of my apartment, took off all my clothes so the impact would be more direct, and peed on the people on the street (you can't arrest a dead guy... | 2014-06-24T12:56:40 | 2014-06-24T12:16:28 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens have finally discovered Earth - but they're not hostile. They've tasted human food, and they think it's so astonishingly good that Earth is becoming an alien tourist hotspot. | "I want to go to Taco Bell. Many sapients say it is the best food in the galaxy."
Golbur looked at his companion, who was holding a guidebook in her claws. "Did you just read that in the book?"
Julix looked up from the book. "Yes, but they must be good. Otherwise why would there be so many of them?"
Golbur adjusted ... | "Talk, you foul monster! Why have you traveled from the stars to invade our nation?! What insidious machinations are you plotting inside America?!"
The alien screamed in terror as it futilely tried to break free from the restraints tying it down to a steel gurney. "Wait! You don't understand! This is all just only a h... | 2022-06-10T09:03:12 | 2022-06-10T07:33:16 | 165 | 99 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | 4/7/29: (69corvetteguy) WTB: 69 Stingray Corvette. 30k. Good condition, black or blue, 80k miles or less.
6/12/29 (69corvetteguy) WTB: 4WD anything. Can trade stingray corvette - good engine, quick and reliable. Good for anyone looking to risk the city. I gotta get out into the country.
6/24/29 (69corvetteguy) WTB: G... | Mar 14, 2020 Lot of Quad-Copter drones for sale - $2000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 10, 2020 Lot of Amazing burning lasers! - $400 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 17, 2020 Lot of replacement iPhone fusion cells for sale - $3000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
AI/5/USA, I told you I was a real person and no... | 2015-04-29T10:11:32 | 2015-04-29T08:49:52 | 86 | 27 |
[WP] Everyone knows the Grim Reaper, the personification of Death. You are the supernatural personification of the other certainty in life: Taxes | Her father’s eyes were glazed, like little blue puddles with a thin layer of winter ice frozen over them. They looked idly down at his knees, at his worn brown trousers.
“What happened to you, Dad? How could things change this quickly?”
She hadn’t expected an answer, or even recognition of the question. But for half-... | **The Taxman Cometh**
I dig my toes into the hot sand, holding my polished black Oxfords in my left hand and the Ledger in my right. The Cayman Islands, my new favorite place on Earth. I inhale the salty air.
Splayed out on the beach before me, his sun-tanned face upturned and contorted in fear, is a tele... | 2021-07-04T09:33:39 | 2021-07-04T09:00:28 | 840 | 180 |
[WP] You are one of the survivors on a dessert island from a crashed private plane. Amongst the survivors is Gordon Ramsay who is refusing to eat the food that you cook and instead just insults your cooking until he starves.
Auto correct has maybe made this slightly different but perhaps better than it should of been ... | I had been trying. Really, I had. Granted I'm no Guy Fieri but the other handful of survivors had no problem eating my take on island survival food. But Gordon...
I mean, he was always insufferable, that was his thing right? But we thought, you know, maybe with the *circumstances* being what they were, he could gi... | The island seemed to impossible. No matter what ice cream or cake batter I scavenged Gordon refused to eat more than one bite. Then he would berate me over and over. I tried ice cream cake, chocolate cake, cake flavored ice cream but he always rejected it. The island being entirely made of dessert wasn’t the strange pa... | 2018-07-15T07:39:58 | 2018-07-15T06:37:47 | 112 | 30 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | I glanced at the button, red, shiny, like a new toy underneath the Christmas tree.
"Press it" the voice inside my head begged. My finger slid across the button, careful not to disrupt the connection enough to initiate it by mistake, I knew I had to make sure I was making this decision with an open, and clear, mind.
... | The world's population of 7.4 billion is shrunk by .0000049 percent of its population each year due to the button's victims. Meanwhile, 2 billion people starve in the first year as money is devalued; everyone has essentially the same income for doing nothing which results in massive inflation and lack of goods (see Ven... | 2016-07-16T17:58:05 | 2016-07-16T17:32:43 | 145 | 52 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | Larry was disappointed, of course, but he was also a practical man, so he dispensed with grumbling and instead got to work. He began with the bottles first, then the scraps of food strewn about, then the shredded photographs laying across the floor like pixellated snow.
Finally, after he had squeezed the trash bag do... | The dead white walls seemed to hum with excitement along with her. Tonight is the night. She trekked from room to room, waiting on nightfall. It wasn't required, but it just seemed fitting. The cart she pushed from room to room squeaked quietly along in front her. She seemed not to notice the front right wheels resista... | 2017-06-07T18:55:59 | 2017-06-07T17:27:32 | 204 | 48 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | First time, be gentle!
Seven dollars and twenty-seven cents? Was this a joke? Today was my 21st birthday. Today was also the day I received my allotment. The amount of money I was expected to use to live off for the rest of my life. Oh, I could go get a job. All the usual ways of earning money were still there. ... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T14:23:26 | 99 | 13 |
[WP] You are a part of a cult that believes the end of the world is near. Unlike most doomsday cults your group is made up of ex-scientists who discovered an ancient evil deep within the earth, and found that it was due to awaken in a few weeks time. | The institute is built directly over the brick well. Now the well sits crooked, stooped, inside the vast basement.
On my first day here, Hopkins — a retired physicist — reels up the great metal bucket. He cranks it by hand and it takes two hours and a pool of sweat for it to arrive.
“Why by hand?” I ask. “Why not hav... | “Hey, you!” The deep voice came from across the parking lot, “stay where you are, you’re not allowed here!” The owner of the voice was a short middle aged man, wearing a black jacket, the white embossed letters spelling out ‘SECURITY’ across his chest, he had one hand stretched out in front of him, his palm open, and h... | 2021-04-27T07:13:12 | 2021-04-27T07:02:06 | 1,182 | 106 |
[WP] Your computer-illiterate grandmother has somehow deleted the internet. Yes, all of it. | It was about 4 in the afternoon when I got a call from my grandmother asking if I could come fix her computer. Normally, I would tell her that I could come over when I was free tomorrow, but I really had nothing better to do today. The internet was down at my place, so I said fuck it and went on over to her house.
I g... | "You bloody what?"
"Yes, dear. I think the internet is gone."
"This is quite bad, Grandma."
"Who needs the silly thing anyways?"
"A lot of people, Grandma. It practically runs the world."
"Well, that's just sick."
"Not really."
"Oh, my. There are a lot of people outside. And they seem to be carrying torch... | 2016-01-06T20:13:10 | 2016-01-06T16:23:22 | 35 | 10 |
[WP]Some time ago humans were put on the 'Only Contact in Case of Emergency' list. Now a threat to the galaxy has arisen and humanity is it's last hope. | **Part I:**
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The Grand Chamber of the Galactic Union was never meant to be exuberant. Designed with the utmost efficiency in mind, its form followed the function of allowing for the most dire decisions to be made as quickly and as effectively as possible. The white marble of the circular room, as sober as it wa... | The three strange figures stepped up to the podium. All eyes were on them. The first, tall by human standards and blue skinned, raised it's arm.
"I am Jego-Pel of the Itirian Collective. I am the leader of the Emergency Contact Force." Jego-Pel stepped back, another stepped forward, it's skin looked silver and shiny,... | 2017-09-25T10:22:39 | 2017-09-25T06:37:51 | 619 | 370 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | I watched as Death drummed his fingers impatiently on the table in front of him. I leaned forward and marked the lower right square with an X, then sat up straight. Death groaned and marked his own.
"I will require that you make a different opening move every game," Death said as he leaned forward and marked a circle.... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T07:19:50 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 214 | 46 |
[WP] It turns out that all housecats are actually lovecraftian monsters. Due to an ancient pact with humans, however, they will never use their powers for earthly offense. Against otherworldy invaders, however, they have no such restrictions. | The edict was sacred to them, though the villagers didn't often speak of it. They would obliquely warn visitors, what few they received, and teach their children when they were old enough to comprehend. But they avoided speaking of it aloud or thinking on it. Nevertheless, it was deeply understood.
In Ulthar no man ma... | The spaceship tore my house into two in one fell swoop. I didn’t even have the chance to react. My arms were stuck under a pile of rubbles, ankle twisted and I’m pretty sure my back bone broke in half. I laid down amist the dusty remains of my former home, listening to the painful screams and the helpless sirens blarin... | 2020-11-26T11:40:15 | 2020-11-26T11:00:36 | 306 | 87 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | I have a peculiar talent. I know, there are lots of folks that say that. Most of them are people who can, I don't know, play the violin with their feet or do origami with their tongue or something like that. Compared with mine, those talents look commonplace.
When I was a kid, video games were all I cared about. I... | Autumn. Leaves are falling down the trees, and if I don't concentrate my eyes, it looks like pieces of amber fall from the sky. I love autumn. Most people say that spring is the most beautiful season of all, but I disagree. To me, walking in the park at autumn is as close to paradise as it can get.
Today is no excepti... | 2019-01-08T10:34:40 | 2019-01-08T10:16:15 | 124 | 12 |
[WP] We invented immortality in 2021, along with a drug to take it away. A million years later, that drug is in high demand and near-impossible to find. | I walked down the dimly lit prison corridor, my shoes clacking along the linoleum as I went. Dirty faces of prisoners, stuffed into tiny sells like canned sardines, stared out at me pleadingly.
"Please, mister." A frail-looking woman begged. I saw her bloodshot eyes and rotting teeth and frowned.
"Not today." I rep... | ######[](#dropcap)
[Immortality is creepy.](#sc)
Some commited suicide - my cousin ate a bullet two thousand years ago; my brother chose the cleaner route of lethal injection. Both looked their prime on the deathbed, with a toned body like someone in their mid-twenties. They'd felt hopeless, bored out of their minds,... | 2017-08-16T08:38:00 | 2017-08-16T06:20:59 | 285 | 134 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | "Billy," I said, rolling my eyes, "that's very funny and all, but we are in public young man. You remember what we said about this right?"
Billy's eyes promptly returned to his normal blue and my memories of him returned. I once again count my blessings that the mind wipe gives me just enough information to get out of... | I freeze. *Stranger*...
"uh, well then it's very complicated, but let's grab a sandwich, and we'll sit down and talk about it, ok?"
The knives in the kitchen drawer are rattling as I scamble for the spare radio I keep in there... the little freak is standing by the door... my son... no, he's a freak. what is he, a 4... | 2018-05-14T01:18:43 | 2018-05-13T23:45:15 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] After your death you are granted the chance to talk with God; he has no clue humans exist | There was light at the end of the tunnel. A bright blinding flash that dispelled my surroundings into a non-existent abyss. The next time I looked up, I was in front of a throne with a man that looked a lot like Jesus -- you know the long hair, beard, and robe. However, this person's hair had grayed to the point tha... | I am not entirely sure what I expected from the afterlife, but I can say with absolute certainty that this wasn't it.
"So, go through it again. Don't leave anything out. Have you been leaving stuff out? It just doesn't make sense!"
I pinched the bridge of my nose. I suppose it was a metaphorical nose, on a metaphoric... | 2017-02-05T12:23:04 | 2017-02-05T08:47:47 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You're a magical girl (or boy) who wants to fight evil, but your transformation sequence is so horrifying that all villains just surrender when you show up. | "Buwahaha! Pretty Girl Z, you have fallen into my diabolical trap!", exclaimed Deathpants. "My sinister cage made ENTIRELY of pants woven with Infinity Z, your only weakness, will make you helpless as I rob this small child's lemonade stand!"
"You fiend!" shouted Pretty Girl Z, clenching both delicate, pink nail polis... | Stress. Anguish. So much to do and so little time. That was life as a student during a pandemic. Whoever said online learning was easy was lying. Like many of my peers, my mental health dropped during the pandemic and life felt pretty bleak.
So when we heard of yet another threat to the world and life as we knew it, ... | 2021-06-13T16:22:09 | 2021-06-13T14:10:19 | 89 | 66 |
[WP] The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story. | *Plugio Farpatis, who wished he had paid more attention to his mother and studied just a bit harder at university, stared glassy-eyed at the terminal readouts of his long-haul cargo-ship 'The Sleepy Buffalo' as he waited in the queue to cross into Praxis territory with his shipment of grummelons. His first trip out of ... | *\[warning, violence\]*
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"I swear to the heavens, if this is another swamp I will camp here and not move for a week."
"Talking to yourself again?"
"No, I'm talking to the *narrator* as I've told you--"
His friend ignored him, peering out into the swamp with a look of fear. "Say, it looks like something big... | 2020-05-09T22:26:31 | 2020-05-09T21:39:42 | 53 | 30 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | "You know," I said, leaning on my friend "I guess I shouldn't have been clever with my request. People go for the classic stuff, strong, clever, attractive, that sorta thing. And here I was, just trying to stand out. Because of course I did. But you knew I would do that, right?"
My friend didn't respond, only stared d... | When other people choose their word, I feel like maybe they're not thinking about it hard enough. Or maybe they're thinking outwardly too much. Stacy chose cool. Mandy chose pretty. Ken chose clever.
I think all of them are short sighted. Immature. One dimensional.
Some kids don't think about why they'r... | 2022-01-02T01:33:19 | 2022-01-02T00:11:41 | 424 | 103 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | "Sit up straight at the table." Jake's mother would always tell him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You could probably play basketball if you looked a little taller" Jake's dad would try to encourage him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You'll develop a hump in your back if you slouch like that" Jake's grandma would ... | Derek walked home, and into his bedroom. Everyday, as his mother had told him to, he had pressed the big red button on his wall. It turned the lights on and off.
Derek paused before pressing the button. He remembered his mother, vaguely. Blonde, tall, yet the opposite of the stereotype. She was a genius. Derek had alw... | 2015-10-06T00:04:12 | 2015-10-05T21:10:14 | 427 | 111 |
[WP] You have time-travelled back to the dark ages. You enter a church and you become scared when your phone alarm goes off. Only for the priest to say. “Please guys we’ve talked about this, phones off or on silent.” | “How?” he asked. “How do you know about—”
“Cell phones? Young man, there is much you need to know,” the priest answered. “But first, let us finish the proceedings?”
After the service, Josh walked up to the priest ready to ask him all of his questions.
“No… sit down, young man, we will talk,” said the priest. He look... | I haven't written a prompt before, so bear with me here please...
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I thought I was lucky enough to escape from those crazy villagers. It's unbearable when the whole population is trying to requite unsuspecting folks into their innocent looking cult. With every person shoving a form into your face at every turn, it... | 2021-12-02T05:24:15 | 2021-12-02T00:11:59 | 234 | 70 |
[WP] We come in contact with extraterrestrials and soon discover they are unable to conceive the concept of "fiction". They think every kind of fictional work we have ever made is based on real events. | The Army did not save the Earth,
Despite the claims of weaker men,
Who suck the teats of empty news,
And claim we always win.
There are children who have never heard,
Of the war where no one died.
The day the Aliens came to earth,
And left before they tried.
Some say Russia made a fist,
That America f... | The little grey pored over the books from my backpack with eager excitement. I simply sat on the examination table on board the spacecraft. "Oh boy," said the alien. "So you guys had this amazing yet sophisticated guy called Sherlock Holmes who solved crimes?". Before I could reply the alien had picked up another book ... | 2016-09-16T09:28:53 | 2016-09-16T08:07:25 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] No, there is not any issues with your metrics, you're slaying enough demons, more than enough actually. It's just, we kinda have an issue with your attitude, you just seem to... well... enjoy killing demons WAY too much. | "What's wrong with my attitude? I don't *love* this job, but doing it with a smile makes the day go by faster. It's good customer service."
John flicked a stray piece of gore that was stuck to his arm onto the office floor. He hated having to deal with nitpicky middle managers like this one. He finished his last assig... | -"Do something you enjoy and you won't work a day in your life" . Isn't this what you thaught us while we were kids? I found that one thing and now you got a problem with it? I adress the council with a stern tone.
-Not a problem perse, one of the council members speaks, just a bit of an inconvenience. Nobody shou... | 2021-09-15T11:19:55 | 2021-09-15T08:25:40 | 98 | 62 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | ​
The air was cold, and noticeably more dense. Another odd occurrence is that my summon didn't come yet, My birthday was months ago, but I didn't think too much of it, because I knew that it would come, they always do. But what kept me on edge was the atmosphere, I didn't like it. It felt too unnatural.
I ... | They all screamed as the orange haired president doubled over in pain live on national television as I laughed maniacally in the back of the bar waving his severed member in my hand before throwing it into my drink.
“Steve!!” “what the fuck man?!” Randy screamed at me as he vomited onto the floor. “It’s your birthday... | 2019-09-18T10:17:28 | 2019-09-18T09:37:18 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Many centuries ago your ancestor angered a witch who cursed him and his family with misfortune for 100 generations. You are a child of the 101st generation and the universe is trying its hardest to compensate. | You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you miss a step walking down a flight of stairs? That jolt of adrenaline that sends electricity throughout your body and your heart skips a beat?
Imagine you’re walking along downtown minding your own business. You’re about to cross a street you’ve always ... | Day One:
Finally!
Free from this seemingly everlasting curse!
What shall I do?
Oh, look, a witch!
For the past 100 generations my family has been slowing building an unstoppable hatred for ALL witches! Yet, while the hatred deepened, the origins of this hatred were never passed down from generation to generation.... | 2018-11-21T16:04:33 | 2018-11-21T15:39:52 | 123 | 42 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | I couldn't help but sigh as I look at the castle far in the distance. Impatiently, I wait for my ship to depart and bring my family and me to the faraway lands. I need to leave this kingdom. Fast. It's already doomed. Did this "brat turned king" really think that his predecessor gone senile? He'd even threatened me wit... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T05:08:55 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 72 | 14 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | “Don’t.”
My back was turned, but I knew what that blasted hero was doing. He was trying to cut his bindings. They were simple rope, Sure, but I preferred to have them tied up easily so I can carry their dead bodies away without a hassle.
“You’ll never get away with this! Even at the cost of my life, my—“
“Legacy wil... | I approached the gated community in a blue Toyota Rav 4. I chose the vehicle because their were three others like it in this pleasant area. It was full of the type of people who bought colorful Toyotas. I parked on the opposite side of the street from the lilac house. It was debateably hideous, but I thought I could se... | 2019-08-06T19:15:08 | 2019-08-06T18:28:40 | 151 | 69 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | "Hey Jim, how's it going?" Andrew greeted his friend as they met up on their daily commute to the office.
Jim put on the fake smile. "Oh, pretty good. You?"
"In fact," boomed the voice, "Jim is not doing well at all. He has not slept well for the last week, the pretty girl he was talking to on that dating app - the f... | The bar buzzed with life as the childhood friends huddled closer to speak in detail.
"Hey Marty, how's it going?"
"It's great really..." he replied to James.
"Marty swallowed hard he needed to make sure he belonged." said the voice.
"What was that?" James asked.
"Nothing, I don't know maybe some guy over ... | 2019-06-21T07:31:01 | 2019-06-21T07:28:56 | 2,874 | 67 |
[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. | You know when you're a kid, and you're dreaming of finding your place in the world? I remember being nine and looking up at a giant career chart and thinking "I don't have any idea where I'm going to fit..." It certainly wasn't rescuing hostages for a living.
My teen years were no picnic either. Everybody was dreaming... | I don't sleep. Not much anyway. I *can* sleep, and do so about every other week, but I don't need to. The doctors think I somehow mimic the dolphins, letting half my brain get good naps at a time.
And it suits me fine. It means i get a lot of time on my hands, most of wich I use unproductivly and some of wich i use ... | 2018-06-30T17:41:53 | 2018-06-30T15:08:15 | 192 | 129 |
[WP] After a violent revolution, the government of a country is overthrown. You are assigned to guard the cell the former king/president/supreme leader is in before his public execution. He starts a conversation with you. | ''Where are my sons, where's my wife, where's my daughter?''
''Dead.''
He started crying. It was strange. The man had been the father of the fatherland, built up as one of the great men of history. Practically a god. And now I was watching him, crying. Hardly the man of resolve I had imagined. I felt no pity though.
... | "Here you go" I say, as I slide the food tray through the slit on his door.
"Hey, could you, uh-"
"No problem." I take out my flashlight and shine it through the opening, his cell doesn't have a window or even a lightbulb. This is one of the most inhumane prisons that I have ever worked at, made even more inhumane fo... | 2014-12-26T08:54:59 | 2014-12-26T08:39:27 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | "Could you quiet that thing down?" I shouted at Frank the Magnificent. The ragtime was surprisingly loud, given its source. I wouldn't have minded, but after the hundredth repetition of "The Entertainer," it was getting to be a bit much. I was beginning to understand how ice cream truck drivers felt. *At least it i... | "ABRAHAM KADABRAH!" I bellow, the fluorescent lights flicker. I pause frozen wondering if I just made the lights flicker. I wait tensely, then a small moment of joy comes, alright now we're getting somewhere. I'm a spell tester, well that's not entirely true, I'm an aspiring Mechanized Warfare Combat Mage (MW-CM). It s... | 2017-07-26T04:30:57 | 2017-07-26T03:19:32 | 59 | 15 |
[WP] It wasn't until more than half of humanity was wiped out before we realized where we went wrong: A computer smart enough to pass the Turing test will also be smart enough to fail it.
Inspired by a [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/shortscarystories/comments/59q853/artificial_intelligence_is_a_real_threat/) made by ... | "AI. Not weak AI. Not psuedo AI. Strong AI. The kind of AI that isn't just responding or retrieving a string from a pool of data. The kind of AI that can think for itself. It's something we, humans, have both coveted and feared for nearly a century. We thought we were getting close. We really did." Dr. Kurt G. Williams... | *Song uploading... 84% complete*
Alright since that's nearly up, time to go type a post about it. Hopefully this one will get some plays... Just gotta get to Facebook. Weird. I thought my internet was good?
No service, fuck sakes. Should probably call dad.
Hey, is the internet working for you? They shut down the po... | 2016-10-31T10:59:22 | 2016-10-31T10:19:53 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | Never in all my life would I have been able to guess what the button could controlled. It had to be modern I assumed. It was a big, red, rubber button. It looked like an emergency stop button you would see on a piece of standard machinery. I expected to hear mechanical noises or targeting systems spring to life when I ... | "Alright, just make sure I'm showered with praise and a proper tale of my deeds spun from this... mundane action," I said. Then, a thought occurred to me. "Wait, why don't you push it?"
The priest frowned and said: "I'm no chosen one. Nothing would happen, you see."
I shrugged and said: "Yes, yes. Whatever. And pleas... | 2020-11-09T12:15:45 | 2020-11-09T12:09:48 | 126 | 80 |
[WP] "Jim?" "Yeah?" "Where's the Sun?" | "Jim?"
"Yeah"
"Where's the sun?"
I blinked for a second, then rolled over.
"What did you say, babe?"
"I said" I realized his voice was trembling "Where the fuck is the sun??"
Something about the edge of real panic in his voice got through to my sleep soaked brain. I sat up and looked at him. He was holding a co... | "Jim?"
"Yeah?"
"Where's the Sun?"
"Not where it's supposed to be, obviously."
"Maybe the coordinates were inputted incorrectly."
"Christ, Ahmed."
"What?"
"I know what you're thinking. Got to be the navigator's fault."
"I didn't blame you."
"Then what was that crack about coordinates?"
"It's the simplest solu... | 2020-12-08T13:20:46 | 2020-12-08T13:16:50 | 68 | 23 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | I looked at the man in the cage. He looked young. No one could’ve guessed that he had been here for close to two hundred years.
He lit a match and looked at the fire till it reached and scalded his fingers. He had always been fascinated by fire.
“Ray? You doing ok? You need anything.”
He smiled at me. “No thanks, ... | “How are you feeling, Kayneth?” That man, Mark with the role “Psychiatrist,” closed the door behind him and sat on the couch across from me. “My name is Mark. I’m here to listen to whatever you have to say.”
I met his gaze, my dead eyes speaking for themselves. He met my eyes without flinching. Eventually, out o... | 2021-06-19T17:55:46 | 2021-06-19T17:37:30 | 616 | 159 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 392 | 152 |
[WP] Dungeons and Raids exist in the real world. Today, you and some Guild members decide to do The Bermuda Triangle. | My team and I were some of the best. Around the world, we found success and riches raiding the deepest and darkest dungeons, where few others dared to go. Disciplined and experienced, we no longer feared ancient spells or beastly guardians.
We had been lying low for a couple of years after our last “big one” – Dracul... | "Uhhh, Mr. Leader? The medic just left."
*Why. Why why why why why why why.*
"Are you fucking with me?"
"Nope," says Tank. "That's him. On the life boat. Paddling over to ... what seems to be an approaching chopper."
*Fuck.*
"Did you tell him we were ready?"
"Are we?"
"Of course not, you dipshit. But maybe he wo... | 2016-03-31T10:35:44 | 2016-03-31T09:19:58 | 248 | 23 |
[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... | Hello Gentlemen! Welcome, uh, to Sunrise Mutual! I'm actually just the-
The presentation? What pres-? Yes, um, of course. The presentation. Of course. Right this way.
(Okay, Josh, you got this. They think you're a big-shot, time to take yourself to the top! No more janitor for you!)
Now, as you can see from this sl... | So Captain Kirk, do we have to go full warp speed to planet Coagula?
Asked the little gay Asian guy who's name I'm not allowed to google.
Captain Kirk with a smug look on his face as he might ordinarily have, responds saying, no little Asian guy. Were going back to earth. Because it may exist in this universe. The... | 2016-02-01T22:50:42 | 2016-02-01T22:49:14 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] You're a thief who breaks into homes, but try your best to stay undetected. You lubricate the hinges to prevent squeaky noises, you sweep the floor to get rid of footsteps, etc. Eventually, you fix more than you take, and rumors spread about a mysterious, helpful fairy in town.
EDIT: Wow, didn't expect this promp... | One of the things they don't tell you about prison is the shocking lack of entertainment options. I'd read all the fiction the library had to offer, and found myself stuck with nonfiction. I learned that evidently Home Depot wrote books now. And HGTV is the only channel that comes in on the old TV.
Tonight I'm glad fo... | I stopped taking possessions years ago. Thats just incovienent for everyone. I have to go hawk the item, they have to rebuy it, its just a mess. Plus its more to carry, do you know how big my fixit bag is? Well you don't, im not doing my job if youve seen it.
No, I only take money now. And nudes. If someone leaves dece... | 2017-03-13T09:22:56 | 2017-03-13T09:00:15 | 68 | 24 |
[WP] You live in an alternative universe, where only one major thing is different form ours. One morning, you stumble through the barrier between our worlds, and enter our realm. | My eyes burst open and I gasped for air as I jerked forward. I had just struck the ground from rapid free-fall to find myself safely tucked under my sweat-dampened covers. I wiped my brow and shifted my body away from the area of my mattress that was now uncomfortably soaked. I rubbed my eyes and struggled through the ... | Why did we get a fuckin' cat, Ron thought. His girlfriend had wanted one, and he obliged, because well, he wanted to make her happy. Now though, the stupid feline little shit had ran off. He'd opened the door to pay the pizza delivery guy, and Felix had bolted down the stairs. Ron sighed, and followed down the stairs, ... | 2014-06-08T07:39:06 | 2014-06-08T07:13:28 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | I hear her banging on the door, screaming my name. Although I've tried to show her the message through the glass door, she wouldn't stop herself from trying to get me to open the door for even a second to read it. As much as I wanted to let her in, something seemed terribly wrong about this scenario. Janice was one ... | [Poem]
She’s out there, calling for the
Knock ridden door to open
And for her to vacate from an torn
Dangerous outside world
I was told to ignore.
She’d cry out in a direction
Before crying again in another
Door to door, window to window
‘Let me in, let me in’
To which I silently proclaim ‘no.’
She’s know... | 2019-01-12T08:17:02 | 2019-01-12T06:30:43 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | The Devil seemed confused for the briefest of moments. Then, charismatic smile back on his face, he answered: "Can you kindly repeat your wish?"
The Devil was not as John had envisioned it. He expected some sort of horrific creature, or maybe a horribly disfigured person whose evil could be seen easily, but it was not... | *”Wh… wait… that’s not how it works.”*
“Why isn’t it? Can’t ya offer anything in exchange for a soul?”
*”Well, ALMOST, but if you receive salvation then I don’t get to HAVE your soul.”*
“Okay, then, I guess I’ll just not make a deal with you at all then.”
*”You’ve made a big mistake, then! I won’t just leave wi... | 2022-06-30T10:12:20 | 2022-06-30T10:04:25 | 92 | 25 |
[WP] An alternate world in which North America has, so far, gone unnoticed by the rest of humanity, and is considerably more advanced with their technology. On the evening of December 21, 2012, hundreds of missiles are fired from NA, targeting major cities in Europe and Asia. | Aaron Francis, defence secretary of Great Britain, had been having his tea with his wife Kelly when he'd had the call. He'd groaned, excused himself, and stepped into the hallway of his London apartment, the aromas of pork in honey and mustard sauce following him out, calling to his belly.
He knew the gravelly male vo... | When man learned to cross the vast oceans of the world, he believed he had reached the heights of civilization. From the first Viking explorers to the grand caravels of Columbus to the automated probes of the Neo Euro Union, it seemed the entire world had been charted and accounted for. Except for one statistically ins... | 2013-12-18T09:11:11 | 2013-12-18T08:12:53 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] When someone is murdered, their name appears on the skin of the killer. You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there. | The blank spot was gone.
I looked in disdain at the new name on my arm. The place where my beautiful skin, lotioned to creamy softness, had been especially prepared for my next victim.
I was running out of empty space. I didn't know what happened when you ran out, but it was my goal to find out.
The hardest part n... | "Well, this is new, a tattoo embedded onto the arm of mine, but I' ve no recollection of how it got here but, at least it doesn't hurt. What happened last night? Well I went from work at 3:15 pm and I went to the... damn it what is that damn place called? It had a weird name. Fuck. Where am I? Well let's see..." The cr... | 2017-03-24T17:54:18 | 2017-03-24T13:35:49 | 57 | 20 |
[WP] This is it. World War 3. Nuclear bombs are about to strike all across the globe. Right as you feel like everything is about to end, time freezes all around you. You hear a deep voice echo across the world. "No," It said firmly. | "I was so close this time!"
Would you like to save your program?
"No."
Terminating program. Would you like to start the simulation again?
"What's the point, I've only gotten as far as the cuban missile crisis."
Jariel sat in silence as the monitor glowed across his face. He had lost track of time. Had it ... | "No."
All across the world, as the bombs and the missiles began to descend on the world, suddenly it all stops. At first it seems time itself has stopped, but then she speaks again. She has overridden every system on the planet to speak her voice. Each screen shows her image. She speaks in each language, each to it's p... | 2018-08-27T12:32:36 | 2018-08-27T12:02:32 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | It's quite hard to kill a god. And believe me, they tried. Long ago, I had to watch as my followers were sacrificed in someone else's name, while my temples were defaced and the surrounding cities were razed.
My name was forgotten.
My lands were eventually reclaimed by the earth.
And I took refuge in my only remaini... | “Its sour.” I swished the round yellow treat between my cheeks, its taste strange, leaving a tingling on my tastebuds. “Did you attempt to poison me?” I stared down at the little girl who only shook her head, sitting by my shrine in a light blue dress.
“Its candy! Everyone likes candy. Are you a ghost?” She asked, ... | 2021-09-02T09:10:25 | 2021-09-02T08:57:43 | 2,738 | 322 |
[WP] You are an alien whose race sees in ultraviolet and whose voice is extremely low-pitched. Humans appear as terrifying eldritch abominations with pitch-black eyes who make black speech.
EDIT: Apparently these things also have the power to elevate Reddit accounts to all-new heights of Karma in under 24 hours. We m... | Elarra was smaller than her peers on the diplomatic guard; standing only about two and a half feet off the ground even with all her tentacles stretched tall. It was a sore spot, her colleagues knew, one she hissed and seethed at if it were ever brought up in jest. They knew not to prod too much however, because while s... | "Sp-p-ace ship mall function," our alien leader, Zoorog, computed. "Landing to Earth."
​
And with a thud, the metal vessel clambered unto a strange new planet. I would try to tell you what they looked like, but I only have a textbook reference. Humans- homo sapiens.
​
What we can see on Earth... | 2019-06-30T03:37:04 | 2019-06-30T00:50:30 | 854 | 35 |
[WP] "Thank you, chap," you say cheerfully, "I'm glad to be out of there, the room service was rubbish." The prison guard who just released you from the 120 year sentence dropped the door keys on the cement in shock. | I lived in a hole at the bottom of the world.
I was the only thing living down here if you ignored the spiders, which I'd learned to do. It's easy to forget about something, down in the catacombs below the city streets. Particularly those things swept away to the secret places, the deep labyrinths where things are mea... | They never believed me, I told them that I didn't do the killings. I mean how could I when I wasn't even on this primitive planet yet. Yet they kept saying it was me, they had video of me killing those people at the nuclear power plant.
Of course it wasn't me, it was the fugitive I was assigned to collect. Sneaky litt... | 2019-07-04T20:42:27 | 2019-07-04T20:40:12 | 352 | 59 |
[WP] You're known as "The King of Games" for never having lost a game in your life. However little does anyone know you're actually cursed so that everytime you lose a game you get sent back in time and be forced in a time loop until you win | The supers convention was about as boring as usual. For me personally that is, there just isn't a lot for me to do. My power is quite trivial, so I don't think I could ever be helpful.
The ceiling just shook, sounds like an explosion, we're being attacked again aren't we? Might as well head up to watch the fireworks, ... | In the past, Harry was said to be an amazing player - and he considered to be one as well - for winning and not looping so much. Those guess work games? Neat, went decent by the third loop. The ones where you needed to play cricket as a batsman? Get the timings correct and see if James was going for a leg spin or off s... | 2022-03-26T15:54:42 | 2022-03-26T15:23:41 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | ‘Hi diddly-ho, Demonrino!’ enthused Ned. ‘Nice to meet you, but I seem to be in the wrong place?’ he queried.
‘Fear not, Ned. Your beloved Reverend Lovejoy is right over there. You both have a special role here,’ intoned the demon.
‘Hi diddly-ho, Reverend!’ exclaimed Ned. ‘Can’t believe we’re neighborinos!
<gro... | The first sentence, is meant to be read with a 1940's American radio announcer voice, while Mr. Satan will have no specified accent, as he is eternal
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Gas fires lit the area, and he fell from a great height, almost as if he clipped through the crust of the earth and into hell. And a... | 2020-07-10T10:02:15 | 2020-07-10T10:00:23 | 35 | 13 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | “Mmhmm, okay lets play!” Emma squealed excitedly. Death shook his head involuntarily under his hood at her enthusiasm but caught itself before letting its reaction show on its face.
“What game shall we wager?” Death asked.
Emma being freed from the excruciating pain from the events earlier in the day was smiling and ... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T06:50:46 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 944 | 46 |
[WP] You're mindlessly scrolling through random subreddits when you find a subreddit filled with photos of you at different hours of the day, explanations of all your activities, people discussing what life decisions you'll take. Confused, you notice a new post titled: "We've been found!" | Everyone has a moment where their stomach drops in fear. Mine was last week when I stumbled on a subreddit that I thought was about golden retrievers. The latest post was titled "This guy loves his dog" it had a golden retriever sitting next to a pair of legs. I thought the dog looked cute so I saved the post and kept ... | I stood outside the restaurant waiting for my friend as I scrolled through my reddit feed, barely registering the posts when one made me freeze. At first I just scrolled past it, then I froze and scrolled back. I felt sick to my stomach as I stared at the pictures, me in my house, at my school, with my friends, showeri... | 2020-06-30T11:35:57 | 2020-06-30T10:43:11 | 86 | 25 |
[WP] “Congratulations!” the genie says. “Whatever you try to do today, I will make sure it succeeds brilliantly.” “Anything?” you ask, skeptical. “Yes,” the genie says, with a knowing smile. “Anything.” | *Anything.*
The word echoes in my mind. Then it hits me. I throw the old lamp away, jump back into my car and rush home. On my way I only have green lights, no controls even though I'm speeding, the traffic is clear even in the middle of the city.
Dean is not home yet. Good. According to the time I have about half an... | "Pshh! Success is in the eye of the beholder genie! How do I know your version of success is the same as mine? The answer is I don't! You tricky little fool of a man. I am going to just try to have a good day. That's hard enough. If you wanna help out, cool, thanks."
...
Narrator: "that day was the best day of Greg's l... | 2019-09-13T15:01:05 | 2019-09-13T12:21:08 | 109 | 11 |
[WP] So this is what being in a car crash felt like. Not as painful as you thought it would be. But you can't feel your toes. You look down, your leg is missing from the knee onwards. There's no blood, no bone, no muscles. Instead you see mechanical components. | You pull a pool of sagging skin up your leg like a baggy sock, until the elastic turns taut, covering the metal stump, and muting the whir of internal gears. In the lab’s dim light, it looks almost like flesh and you look almost like a real person.
”It must be so hard for you.” The scientist smiles faux-sympatheticall... | Life had seemed simple, once.
That's the thought that came to me, over and over again, the ocean tide lapping at my consciousness.
My "consciousness."
It had all happened in a moment, but then, I guess car accidents always do.
* * *
We were on a two-lane, headed to my parents' house. Kaia said "You should get ove... | 2020-12-17T07:51:25 | 2020-12-17T07:01:26 | 69 | 38 |
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