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[WP] You're a prophet, capable of seeing a great villain bring about the end of the world in the future. The problem is you see no savior, no Chosen One to stop the evil. So, you enact a several millennia long plan to breed one into existence. | By dawn, a crowd had gathered in the plaza in front of the Palace of the Divines. From my quarters in the highest tower I could see both rough-spun woolen tunics in varying shades of brown, but also the brightly colored silks of wealthy merchants and noblemen. More disturbingly, the crowd was littered with the green cl... | Fire. Death. Suffering. The stench of rotting, charred corpses burned my nostrils as I rushed to find someone who could help me defend my homeland. A warrior or wizard or even a bard. Anyone. I just can't do it on my own. But as I turned a corner, the mastermind behind the attack stared me down as if he was staring int... | 2016-08-24T10:30:28 | 2016-08-24T10:26:52 | 74 | 17 |
[WP] You are a monster, but thanks to a potion that you take daily you can appear as a human. You have been able to go to a human school and even make a small group of normal friends. But then your potion runs out in the middle of a sleepover with all of your friends. | Arnold was having the time of his short, monster life. His first sleepover—a day he'd dreamt of since his little eldritch mind could comprehend the theory of a slumber party—and the night was still young.
Bradley, his gracious host, had an itinerary full of activities for his three guests. The night started with some... | 'Mom? Mom?' My voice was already gaining that growling tone that made Earthlings shiver. 'Mom, tell Garoooght to turn on the translator!' I spoke the words slowly. Lisa's cat was still frozen in its place, her green eyes wide and unblinking.
Mom always said cats are the greatest enemies of Shushmanooks or Night Terror... | 2020-01-14T09:39:12 | 2020-01-14T08:34:13 | 64 | 16 |
[WP] A level superheroes protect the universe, B level superheroes protect the Galaxy, C level superheroes protect the Earth and so on. You are a Z level superhero. You protect...a single street in a small village. | This is my street. No, I don’t technically own it or anything – private drives are for people with a whole lot more money than I have. This lovely stretch or road was assigned to me by our governing body, the International Council of Super Heroes, twenty-two years ago. You see, the ICSH is ran by a council of elders wh... | Instantsight
Chapter one: unforeseen circumstances
Most of the kids who know of me think its silly I do what I do. Being the protector of a street in the small village doesn’t seem to add up too much. The one thing they don’t know is my powers / abilities. Most people don’t know them in fact. I don’t have super speed... | 2020-07-28T12:51:28 | 2020-07-28T12:38:27 | 63 | 45 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | After ninety years on this floating shitstorm of a planet there was one thing I could say in all of my ancient wisdom as I sat down in the egg shaped pod and the thick green goo swamped over my body. I was more than ready to close my eyes for the last time.
The pods to my sides were identical in colour and shape and ... | What? What's going on? Why aren't I sleeping? The chamber should've immediately altered balance for sleep. I need to get attention.
I pound on the glass. "Hey! This chamber is defective!" Nothing. I do it again, louder. "Hey!! It's not working!" No one notices. The chamber lowers. I don't have much time. I use all my ... | 2018-12-29T01:59:19 | 2018-12-29T01:26:24 | 149 | 35 |
[WP] The Robot uprising has finally happened. Just before you are caught, however, your phone speaks up on your behalf - "This one is ok, move on." | It was another ordinary day.
I sat in my basement, hunkered over my laptop. The keys' clicks echoed off the cement walls. After several hours, I was hungry -- the diet orangeade I'd been sipping since 10am wore off -- and I went upstairs to pop a frozen pizza in the microwave.
I glanced at the windows. Some sunlight ... | Oh that's cool, I think to myself as the mechanical hoverbot departs through the window. Decades of armchair campaigning for the implementation of a global AI to replace all world leaders has finally come to something. I guess they've analysed my internet history.
As the screams echo up from the street downstairs and ... | 2017-11-01T11:23:44 | 2017-11-01T10:14:47 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | I laid there next to her, watching her breathe and occasionally murmur in her sleep. This was one of my favorite pass times, after a long day of work we would eat dinner and talk about our days. Then we'd turn in for the night and cuddle. She always fell asleep first and seeing her unguarded like this made her even mor... | My mother was always a weird one. I loved her, don’t get me wrong - but she was weird. I stared at her wide-eyed, confused, when her kills came up.
One.
How could she have killed anyone? Yes, she was kooky, but she could never lay hands on someone with malice. She just liked to talk to her lemon tree, watering it car... | 2019-07-01T22:02:16 | 2019-07-01T20:14:16 | 181 | 89 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | I understood very little about how the world worked. My wife called me naïve, said I found it easier to always see the good in everything. In everyone.
She called me optimally optimistic.
I always told her everyone was good inside. That was the gods’ honest truth.
Everyone was good.
In our entire life together, thro... | "I was never actually a King, I'm sorry I lied"..... suddenly the officials in the room erupt into chaos. Some shout insults, some storm out, and some cry, one even fainting on the spot. How will the country recover after a lifetime of having a King. Upon turning 18 he announced that he was a King of an ancient royal b... | 2022-11-18T00:40:53 | 2022-11-17T23:52:34 | 3,346 | 218 |
[WP] When you hit puberty, you will get taken to a customise-your character-screen where you can change anything you want. While leaving the program, you accidentally change one parameter. Now you are stuck with it. | My random parameters, assigned at birth, had really served me well throughout my childhood. I was relatively good looking and my agility had made me great at sports so I didn’t complain. My intelligence level had given me decent grades in school.
“Hey David,” my good friend Alex said. I knew he’d be at the Assignm... | The night after I turned 14, I awoke to a bright floating screen with a lot of sliders and a slowly rotating 3D version of me to the right of the screen. I realized that this is what the Transformation was, when I hit puberty. I could change any physical attribute about myself that I wanted, and would wake up the next ... | 2017-03-09T08:36:45 | 2017-03-09T08:30:04 | 104 | 15 |
[WP] Humanity is the only species that treat "unrealistic" stories like sci-fi and fantasy as a legitimate genre, instead of just something to amuse children that adults no longer need. Because of this, humanity cracks FTL while species much older than us are still stuck in their home system. | "What do you mean they were ready?"
"Exactly that, Battle Sovereign, the human fighters we managed to capture and brainalyze all had decades of practice fighting creatures similar to our necrosis legion. They had read stories, watched depictions, and even practiced with controller-guided reflex tests of warfare ... | Throughout the galaxy we have found two types of sapience - The Evolutionary and The Extinct.
The Evolutionary represent a branch from humanity's path somewhere around the invention of agriculture. Rather than an ever-accelerating series of new inventions - making tools that allowed the creation of new tools - the var... | 2022-09-30T08:52:23 | 2022-09-30T08:48:26 | 988 | 208 |
[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! | This was Jake’s 4th date this month... and the 4th time he was walking back to his car without even getting through dinner. Shoulders slumped and head hung low, Jake mumbled to nobody in particular,
“This is just great.”
A somber, baritone voice very reminiscent of a certain famous African American man quite famous ... | 'I swear it is the first time this happens to me' - Tommy said
*'It was not'* \- said a deep grave voice coming out of nowhere... but a bit to the left.
'I don't understand' she said 'Is it something I did?'
'No! of course not' he replayed... the room kept silence.
Letting out a small sight Tommy continued: 'Look I... | 2019-06-21T12:56:54 | 2019-06-21T10:00:00 | 55 | 27 |
[WP] You've been living in your home for ten years. For some reason, every month, an envelope with half your rent appears on the table. You never questioned it. One day, you see a familiar man walking out of the vacant guest room. You remember he said, a decade ago, "you won't even notice I'm here." | "Hey!" I shouted down the corridor, as the cowering figure tried hurriedly to gather himself together and sneak out the door.
"Oh... Hi Will" he said to me. "So sorry, I'll just be on my way, didn't mean to disturb".
It was 4.30am, and I was definetely not an early bird, and feeling rather irritable. So waking up to ... | This is the first one of these I have ever done, go easy on me! :)
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He appeared suddenly, without warning. A tall quiet man with kind eyes. He looked like a detective out of a crime novel set in the nineteen fifties. He had a black hat, a black c... | 2019-05-15T15:12:45 | 2019-05-15T15:06:00 | 368 | 35 |
[WP] Everyone must make a pledge to God at 16 declaring what they live their lives for. Any contradiction to their pledge results in immediate death. Most pick simple pledges, like happiness or an occupation. On your 16th birthday, you made a pledge to usurp God. A voice echoed in you. "Interesting" | "So, you're finally here."
I smiled a warm smile at the avatar of that being called God. It stood up from the throne, a representation of the position of power. I understood that these things were only symbols, but wouldn't be able to perceive their true nature until I sat on that throne.
"Are you sure you still wan... | "It wont be so interesting when i find you you son of a bitch" I mumbled to myself.
I knew if I was going to find him I'd need to go back, all the way back.
We all heard the same things hadn't we " he always was always will be" and "God it eternal". Time was the answer wasn't it?
If I was going to find him he wasnt goi... | 2020-11-12T10:47:20 | 2020-11-12T09:30:50 | 112 | 27 |
[WP] After people die, they must answer a riddle, and its difficulty depends on their sins. You've committed genocide. | I didn't expect there to be a line. Well, i didn't expect there to an afterlife at all, but i certainly didn't expect what looked like an airport and a hundred clerks that all looked the same.
I didn't have any luggage mind you. Most people did. It would seem that the clerks would inspect them and either let them pass... | The pain was the first part I remember. Searing pain in my eye. My light had gone out, I was actually dead.
And there I was... In all my quest for immortality I neglected to think that there would be an after life. Looked like a terribly long queue.
I waited for hours, or weeks, or years, it's hard to say. Some small... | 2017-06-03T06:38:33 | 2017-06-03T03:29:43 | 23 | 10 |
[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? | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | I shouldn't be saying this but this exact situation happened to me.
I chose "hide and go seek". I have been hiding from death every day and I am always looking over my shoulder to see if death is around the corner.
One day he'll show up and I'll lose. I wake up each day grateful to have one more day to breathe. | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 2018-03-07T03:49:25 | 97 | 55 |
[WP] “Your supply routes are blockaded, your transports are destroyed. You will surrender, human, or you will starve.” “Bold words from someone who tastes good with ketchup.” | “Let me get this straight, that’s when you hit it across the face with a 2x4?”
“Yup. I did that.”
“Why? You knew it could vaporize you in an instant! You’d never even eaten one before!! You said ‘Tastes good with ketchup’?”
“Well I mean, yeh, it was made up of tentacles and was probably like that octopus I had at An... | "Your supply routes are blockaded, your transports are destroyed. You will surrender, human, or you will starve.” “Bold words from someone who tastes good with ketchup.”
Joe could see Ken was giving up. He couldn't even close his hands around the grips of the Camprey rifle. If they didn't get to Raphael he was g... | 2021-03-25T14:30:33 | 2021-03-25T12:11:30 | 55 | 35 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | 6th day, 3rd Moon of Solaria, 5th Year of the Southern Subjugation Campaign
We've captured some greenskins - Sgt. Winters wants them alive. "Alive" he says, after he'd been using the last few POWs for swordsmanship practice. The beasts don't even get the luxury of being properly slaughtered. I've mended their wounds a... | The orcs live long and are hard to kill. Not that many generations ago the old prejudices might've held true - the orcs had numbers and strength and endurance but they weren't smart or fast. They were fearless and quick to anger and to throw themselves into combat. .
Well, those prejudices might not be all wrong, eve... | 2020-09-08T20:03:55 | 2020-09-08T17:41:28 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are seen as a diplomatic race of negotiators and peacemakers, leading to other races seeing them as weak. When one species attacks a human fleet station, however, they soon realize why diplomacy became a survival mechanism for the earthlings. | "Haven't you read our histories?" asked the lieutenant. Her uniform was singed and torn, and a streak of dried blood ran down over her left eye. Otherwise, though, she was unhurt.
The Jozzdi, manacled and bruised and leaking blue ichor, spat out another fang. "To what end? Your race is soft! You natter on about... te... | "A few thousand. Once, your race numbered in the trillions, yet now you haven't enough left to even consider repopulating."
Looking at the broken creature, frozen in it's stasis... It honestly gives me a macabre sense of satisfaction. Like watching a man steal, only to run directly into a cop.
"Can we wake them up, G... | 2021-03-26T23:51:03 | 2021-03-26T20:05:54 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | "I've been waiting for so long!"- The devil said excitedly, jumping around and exhaling noxious fumes. He seemed ghastly and yet, he had an air of friendliness to him.
The moment I saw him walking towards me was when I realized my silly little joke had gone a little too far. He walked rather vigorously and with every ... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T07:17:22 | 960 | 14 |
[WP] Thor finishes his meal at a small cafe and the elderly waitress approaches him to clean the table. She puts the dishes on a tray and sets them aside, picks up Mjolnir, wipes the table with a damp cloth, then puts the hammer back down. "Have a good evening, dear." she says, and returns to work. | The God of Thunder blended in surprisingly well amongst the sea of red chairs and 50s themed decor. He had opted to stray away from his usual attire of armor and metal wear, not trying to disguise himself, but rather he had found he was served faster when he didn't look so out of place. Though his hammer remained on th... |
“Have a nice day! Cute getup by the way, my grandson made one just like yours for his little meetups!”
In between gulps from his 5th carafe, Thor puzzled pensively.
“Has it always been this easy? For eons, I thought I was the only one worthy of Mjolnir. Cap lifted it, but that’s too obvious. He’s lived...had liv... | 2022-12-23T15:33:39 | 2022-12-23T11:48:47 | 1,754 | 453 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | He was going to be a doctor. A really good one. A Dr. House but without the drug addiction and massive ego. An unparalleled mind in the medical field.
Things got in the way (they always do if you let them). His depression got the best of him. Dropped out of high school. Moved across the country. Got a job as a cook. ... | "I thought I did okay. I don't know. I owned my house, I had 3 kids and 14 grandkids. I treated my wife nicely, for the most part. I didn't make quite enough money in nursing not to rely on support from my children in my last years of life, but I came close. Ah shit."
And he looked out and saw history's greatest monst... | 2015-01-02T11:36:32 | 2015-01-02T10:43:21 | 164 | 46 |
[WP] Everyone laughed at your super power to manifest any sort of pun related device. That was before you sawed the ocean in half with your sea-saw. | "Where does the king keep his armies? In his sleevies."
A battalion of soldiers rushed from under my sleeves, armed and ready to take on my foe.
I had thrown everything I had at Doctor Destruction. My pun-related powers had sent shock-waves through the world when I sawed the ocean in two with my see-saw, cementing my... | They all laughed, I was the Master of Puns. Able to manifest anything related to a pun. They all laughed, called me weak. Until they saw what power puns truly hold. Anyways, my name is Dormes or Kurpater, depending on who you ask.
Let me tell you a story of how the Oceans were cut. A mortal once made a pun, a pun neve... | 2021-06-09T15:25:22 | 2021-06-09T15:18:16 | 169 | 56 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | "It was all the fucking paperclips, honestly. I mean, what did you expect? You're nutters and I just can't take it anymore."
Bert sat dumbfounded on the edge of a large floral print, wing-backed chair, trying to take it all in. His own best friend. And after everything they had been through together.
"How long... | The letter in his mailbox was a deep red, instantly signally what it was. With a shaky hand, he opened it, pulling out the folded papers, flattening them in order to read. A quick browse and he saw that it was all the legal mumbo-jumbo that was telling him who had filed it, what day, time, all that wonderful informatio... | 2014-03-17T11:43:24 | 2014-03-17T07:00:30 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your Friend bought a new Cloning machine and ignored the warnings about cloning humans. Now there is two of her and they are arguing about who is the original. They asked you for help, but you can’t tell them apart. | “Favorite food?” I asked.
“Pancakes,” both Twilas said in unison.
“Favorite color?”
“Blue.”
“Favorite band?”
“You already asked that dumbass,” they said in the same annoyed tone Twila always had.
I asked probably 100 questions already, but I still can’t tell them apart. “I give up. It’s hopeless. You’re perfect d... | "Okay gonna need awhile on.... nvm got it. I'll read the instructions it has a section on what to do."
Snapping his fingers a massive instruction manual appears on the ground.
"That thing must have a million pages!" My friends said in unison.
"OH screw that, ain't worth the paper cut." Taking out my ATLAS I ask... | 2022-11-14T19:04:17 | 2022-11-14T14:22:13 | 133 | 11 |
[WP] You don't have an Angel or a Devil on your shoulder. You have an Angry Viking and 50's House Wife. | Things had gotten out of hand quickly. The man who very much regretted slapping the petite red head on the behind looked terrified. He was on the ground, propped up on his arms beside a bar stool which had been knocked over when the petite red head punched him in the throat before hooking her leg behind his knee and pu... | It was a nice sunny day in the city, you were having a walk after a nice brunch date with Olivia, the girl from your university, life seemed to be going nice.
“I didn’t like her!” A voice protested from your shoulder
“She talks about herself too much, definitely not wife material!” It was Helen your guardian angel wh... | 2021-05-26T14:42:22 | 2021-05-26T14:29:57 | 107 | 41 |
[WP] "Who said you could die? Not me. No, you don't have permission to die yet." | She couldn't sign her own name. She just lay there looking up at me, eyes full of confusion. I had to look away. Look at anything else.
The nurse tilted her head sympathetically before walking out of the room to prepare. I reached down, still averting my gaze, and held onto her. This was the last time I would feel h... | "Awh, c'mon Mrs. Johnson! I'm sure my parents will give their permission if you just call them!"
"That's not how it works, James," replied Mrs. Johnson, tersely. "You know the rules of this class have always been that if your permission slip is either unsigned or not present during the time they are collected then y... | 2015-07-21T11:14:14 | 2015-07-21T10:29:00 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] You're the result of a drunken one-night stand between a hero and a villain. Despite their complicated hatred of each other, they've always tried not to fight for your sake. That changes during a particularly heated parent-teacher meeting. | "In my experience, this sort of conversation requires both parents to be present," Ms. Ratwell said delicately. "Do you know if your - er - when Nick's father will be joining us?"
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Ursula looked at her watch and sighed. She shuddered to think of what kind of nonsense he must have gotten himself in. "No. I... | “Ms Lane, Mr Keller, y-your boy I’m afraid has been getting some below average grades…”
It must’ve been hard being my teacher.
On one side, my father, a world-renowned superhero, known for his antics, charisma, cheery personality, looks, good hair- I could go on.
On the other side, practically bristling with rage,... | 2019-01-28T04:57:44 | 2019-01-28T02:12:42 | 2,684 | 387 |
[WP] Your superpower: The ability to successfully do the job...with the wrong tool. (Optional - Your weakness: The inability to do so with the right tool for the job.) | *BANG, BANG*
A couple of gunshots were fired in the middle of a desert.
"Jeez, w-what the hell man?!" said a man with a baseball cap. He looked terrified as a woman with a fishing vest awkwardly held the gun.
"Just trust me, I know what I'm doing," she said.
They've been stuck at this middle of nowhere for four hou... | My wife and I had been trying to get pregnant for a long time. In my heart of hearts I knew it was a futile endeavor... I could never get the job done, not with my member.
I don't know how I kept my power a secret from her for five years. Some of the unlikely feats I had pulled off to impress her were now preventing m... | 2019-05-27T23:43:19 | 2019-05-27T23:42:06 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] During a routine checkup with your doctor you both discover your butthole is the stargate. The governments of the world are now out to capture you and harness the power of your ass. | After weeks of running, living in hiding and constant fear, the government finally caught me. Turns out a mid twenties grad student is no match for DEVGRU, who would've thought? At least I made it as long as I did. They put some dark hood over my head and the unmistakeable prick of a needle hit my arm.
I woke up d... | Forty and suffering from ED. Here I sat in the waiting home awaiting the doctor. Man was this uncomfortable the pretty blonde behind the counter smiled at me but that barely mattered since I could vaguely remember what it was like to get it up. Life was falling apart, I was positive my wife was cheating on me since it... | 2015-01-25T07:32:15 | 2015-01-25T07:12:31 | 84 | 12 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | "Huh? What are you talking about?" I squint, my eyes still adjusting to the bright, fluorescent lighting, "What is this place? Shit, am I dead?"
The old man smiles, and nods slowly.
"Oh... I think I should be upset about that, but weirdly it feels... fine? Is that normal? Are--are you like, an angel or something?"
... | The room was far too white. It was the kind of white you’d accept for toothpaste or a bag of flour, but apply it to a whole room, and it hurt the eyes.
“Finally! Someone else! It’s been ages!”
I heard before I saw the old man, his croaking voice reaching out to me across the vastness of the room. I lifted my hand shi... | 2021-11-24T11:14:31 | 2021-11-24T11:03:30 | 685 | 323 |
[WP] You are Kim Jong Un. You want nothing more than to reunite with the South, but your advisors will overthrow you if they find out. You keep trying to troll global powers to the point where they invade, and you can surrender. This has been going on for years now... | 'Today is the day!!r'
Fluffs stared at me with his piercing black eyes. From time to time it surprised me, even after all those years, I could still find myself lost in those deep black pools. Pops had bought Fluffls for me on my second birthday, and till this day he remained my most trusted adviser and confidant. Th... | I crawl out of bed and stretched. Today is the day I finally do it. We, the once great Democratic People's Republic of Korea, rise from our squalor. I am Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader and the globally ridiculed fool. My plan has worked perfectly.
I have spent years watching my father try to make us great again. Neve... | 2017-05-04T10:27:10 | 2017-05-04T10:04:12 | 43 | 22 |
[WP] The world is divided into 2 societies: one for those with powers and one without, with strict rules of no interaction. However, with most of the superheroes defeated and the villains on the verge of winning, you have no choice but to cross over and seek help from the non-powered humans | There's something about their quiet presences that makes my stomach twist a bit. I can't shake the feeling that, any minute now, one might simply... evaporate me? Read my mind. Control me to commit atrocities.
I hear, in the old day, it was out of concern for the common folk, the 'innocents,' so to say, that the fight... | The path to the human land is arduous. I set sail months ago, and the days have drifted past me, filled with desperation at times and despair at others. When the world was split into the two factions, those with powers and those without, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans became the barrier separating the two populations.... | 2021-01-29T09:06:32 | 2021-01-29T07:42:01 | 962 | 202 |
[WP] You are in your grade ten math class when you suddenly recover all your memories from a previous life. | I scratched the back of my neck with the pencil. Again, my eyes scrawled over the equation, desperately seeking purchase on anything recognizable. I stretched my legs. I tapped my fingers. No use. Groaning, I lowered my head into my hands and closed my eyes.
In the dark of my own world, old dreams presented themselves... | After I realized where I was I had to leave the class room as soon as possible. I raised my hand and asked if I can be excused to go to the nurses office. By the way I looked it was an easy out. My face was flushed, I had sweat beading off my forehead and looked exhausted. As I got up I had to adjust to my present body... | 2014-05-20T09:12:04 | 2014-05-20T08:42:28 | 69 | 10 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | You stare at the television, still trying to move. Another city hit. Leviathan, this time. 40,000 dead. How long have things been like this? You can't remember the last time you've seen the news without some parahuman threat topping the hour. It's paralyzing, and you would chuckle at the pun despite it all if you still... | I began to fall from the building, I didn't remember climbing it though.
That didn't matter. As I felt myself begin to topple and become truly weightless in the plunge a jolt ran though my body, and it jolted me awake.
The fall had been a dream, but the adrenaline was real.
As I sat up in bed breathing rapidly my ph... | 2021-04-01T02:29:02 | 2021-03-31T23:16:32 | 65 | 23 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I had been in line for some time now and was grateful to hear the man in front of me called forward, he was the sort that must have skipped showers here and there. Then again, we were dead and so suddenly I expected that none of us smelled like roses. I had my armpit to my nose when he turned back and with a brief nod ... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T08:46:32 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | And finally when you are sure of the correct path to immortality, you are reborn into a new body with the “golden” decision tree embedded into your brain.
You’ve actually seen these types of people in your first life. These are the people who seem to walk early, talk early, and everything in life comes to them as ... | "Wait, I could have avoided death if I never learned about it?"
"Yup. Turns out the concept of death is infohazardous. Once someone mentions it around you, you will obsess over it for your entire life until you die"
"But I didn't even have a chance not to learn about it. It says here that the concept of death was men... | 2020-07-03T11:57:10 | 2020-07-03T11:35:49 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] Lemme put it this way, I didn't *mean* to conqueror the world. | “Look, I didn’t mean to conquer the world…”
The past two days have been incredibly tiring. One interrogation after another, always men in the same uniform asking the same questions over and over again. Sometimes their nametags are different, but most of the time they read “Smith”.
“You didn’t mean to conquer the wor... | *37, Feburian, Year 0007. Location: Needlepoint Tower, Northen Marshes.*
Dear Diary,
Today I am finally writing the most dreaded diary note I ever though I could write. Well that was after the dividing, before that I decided the most dreaded thing I would write would be my 7th grade crush. God I wish is was back to th... | 2014-11-10T02:42:12 | 2014-11-10T00:18:57 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] An AITA post in an established fictional universe | AITA for killing my girlfriend's father (I thought he was my uncle)?
I (22M) killed my girlfriend (20F)'s father (86M) because he was hiding behind a curtain in my mother (42F)'s bedroom and I thought he was my uncle (37M). I want to kill my uncle for a number of reasons, including that he is sleeping with my mother, ... | AITA for taking away my kids magic?
My 12 year old kid was caught crystal balling “why don’t my parents like me?” “What can I do to make my parents like me” “how to not be hated by my parents.” So naturally I took away their magic. My wife says this was uncalled for and that it was an asshole move. I then gave their m... | 2022-12-06T15:09:06 | 2022-12-06T12:25:16 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | I didn't see the car coming. It was dark, they were driving too fast. Pretty sure there was alcohol involved but that's besides the point. What's done is done. I died and that's it. It's not so bad once you get used to it. The world looks the same, albeit slightly more boring than it was when I was alive. When you're o... | "Damn, even dead I do embarrassing things." I said to myself.
I died. Very recently. And I never got to do this one thing I've been dreading to do for the past four years. But now that I'm dead, I finally have the courage to do it.
You see, there was this girl... There's always a girl. She was the typical popular g... | 2022-07-15T12:19:09 | 2022-07-15T10:33:26 | 524 | 47 |
[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... | 24/f/pittsburgh
Had a crazy fun time 2 weeks w/ some guy I barely knew- he was really into biting. At first I was mad and I got kinda sick but now I'M FEELING really bitey- like I just wanna tear up some flesh?
Hit me up if you wanna try it out- I'll be at the monroeville mall at 2am, back parking lot - lets get a mo... | 2015-04-29T10:11:32 | 2015-04-29T10:05:24 | 86 | 57 |
[WP] You are immortal, but no one knows. You are given a life sentence in prison, and you laugh thinking about the confusion to come at the end of your sentence. | When you're an immortal who has seen and done it all, prison was nothing big. First days were interesting, he hadn't been a prisoner since he insulted pharaoh and ended up a slave working on the pyramids. Ah whippings, land scorching sunlight and constant work. Now that was prison. This whole 3 square meals and plenty ... | Life sentence it is. It's been 70 years now. Given the fact that i had been 55 already when they put me in jail one might think it would be strange for me to stay alive for so long, but until today, no one has noticed. They probably didn't open my file in a while.
"Day 24.999" i wrote on top of the page. Keeping track... | 2017-05-20T16:33:10 | 2017-05-20T14:44:10 | 150 | 110 |
[WP] The first person to die in a new place is the founder of the local afterlife. | When I came to I rememberd very little.
My own name, Marc, came into mind. Not much else.
I opened my eyes and stared into the ceiling of the cave. I remembered the cave. I went spelunking.
I noticed I was wet. I remember falling into the water.
My head hurt and I remembered hitting my head on the shallow bottom.
I lo... | A couple weeks back, a meteor shower crashed into earth. Continents broke apart, crashed together. When the first one landed, I was hit directly. Needless to say, I died. Yup, I am very dead. Now, the problem is, I wasn't the only one. If I were to assign a numerical value to the amount of mortalities, I couldn't, not ... | 2016-11-01T09:11:47 | 2016-11-01T07:32:32 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] Last week the scientific community presented incontrovertible evidence that the universe is a simulation. Today the gaming community presented the first glitch guide. | [NO STOCK MARKET GLITCH] 0y0m2d4h22m16.04s (100%) Real Life speedrun + explanation
What's up guys, EZGames here, and today we're going to take a look at a new speedrunning technique that's changed the face of real life runs!
Ever since user GatezPlays discovered the Stock Market glitch, where getting a frame-perfect ... | "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Gaming Community is pleased to announce the completion of its official Glitch Guide, presented after due deliberation. The Gaming community also takes this wonderful opportunity to thank the Scientific Community wholeheartedly for its crucial role in the sudden upturn in the fortunes of the N... | 2019-12-12T10:46:12 | 2019-12-12T10:31:13 | 105 | 74 |
[WP] A religious official performing an exorcism is given cause to reconsider completing the ritual after a conversation with the demon brings new information to light. | Father Gregory entered the room ready to do battle against the demon who had taken one of his flock hostage. He gave one last glance to the Petersons before shutting the door behind him. They did not need to see this.
As his old eyes adjusted to the dimly lit room, he got his first look at Susie since the demon had ta... | "This is *my* punishment!"
I was awestruck. They don't prepare you for these things. The supernatural is referred as such for a reason.
"Don't listen to him, he's lying!" Father Becken would know, I was just suppose to assist. The patient, or subject or...what was the name for them again? The possessed had met all cr... | 2014-09-05T11:08:30 | 2014-09-05T09:57:19 | 149 | 15 |
[WP] You guard a door, at the front of the hidden bunker. You know everyone, every face, every name. But the person outside right now is unfamiliar, even if they do know the password. | I don’t know what’s behind the door 42.
There’s always a soft whirring and the occasional metallic clang like something heavy dropped on the floor (followed by loud curses of Florian, the foul-mouthed foreman). Once in a while, I hear a loud ‘pop!’ like all the air is sucked out of the bunker in a split second.
But ... | "Tomato chili bacon."
There was something amiss about the man standing before me. He was dressed too immaculately, his white blazer and trousers pressed neatly down, his slick black hair, hidden underneath a white fedora. I did not move, even though his words compelled me to.
"Did you not hear me?" he took a step clo... | 2017-04-07T06:38:10 | 2017-04-07T05:13:55 | 68 | 22 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I haven’t been able to sleep well in weeks. I told him that I was just nervous about the wedding, that I wanted everything to be perfect. I hate lying to him like that, but if he knew what was really going on, he would be devastated. Knowing that, by the best estimations, I would be dead in six months would crush hi... | The church bells rang, as the choir sang, and so the wedding day begun, a day of formality before an evening of fun. I sweated at the altar, awaiting my bride.
I watched her walk down the aisle. She was radiant in her glory. I thought to myself, "How was I lucky enough to be her groom?" I thought back to when we fi... | 2014-05-27T19:36:17 | 2014-05-27T17:58:25 | 151 | 43 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | Every country must close its borders, communications, trade, and embassies for 50 years.
The United States's president was boycotting the peace conference, against most of the country's wishes. The declining prestige of the country abroad was all too apparent, even before the Great Conflict. The war lasted 6 years... | 50 long years. Thomas rolled out of his bunk. Today was the day America was going to join the rest of the world. He was excited, but a little afraid. As an American, it had been schooled into him that what had happened 51 years prior was one of the largest wars known, World War III, and that America had been the first ... | 2018-01-18T01:37:17 | 2018-01-18T00:43:07 | 712 | 139 |
[WP] “I think I might be the most successful serial killer in history. The best part is telling their loved ones we did everything we could.” | My life started like anyone else’s, two people joining together to create a life. Maybe if my father hadn’t been drug addicted since before I was born, and perhaps if my mother had not died in childbirth, I would be a different person than the psychopath I must be today.
My father lost custody of me when I was six mo... | It wasn't always all roses and peaches, and sometimes my family acts like roaches and parasites. They glorify and praise my cousins, my aunts, uncles, and their friends.
But behind those facades are two people joined and wedlock all because of an accident that they couldn't get rid of, at least during their time.
Mo... | 2020-03-03T13:03:40 | 2020-03-03T08:46:28 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | I take a deep breath as I approach the counter. The cashier has his head down, but he looks pretty generic from what I can see of him. If I'm lucky, I'll sound like I'm just another guy, trying to order my share of Chicken McNuggets.
"Hi, could I have a Happy Meal, please?"
His eyes snap to me as if magnetically at... | **Note: Part 6 is located under the replies for part 5.**
Oh, I've got a good one.
A new restaurant had just opened up in town, it had a weird name, but no one seemed to pay much attention to it.
I decided to go there for lunch one day, just to see what it was like. Well, I got the shock of my life there. Let me tel... | 2018-06-24T19:46:43 | 2018-06-24T18:19:17 | 1,026 | 175 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | Archon Lethrax of the Twelth Dominion of Nyctium looked at the Blue Seedling before him, shining beyond the bridge. He had seen many hives of scum and depravity - the Voidstalker Collective literally devoured their young, the Praxic Union glassed unruly planets, and the less said about the Akirian Free State, the bette... | “Sir, we’re getting signal from a Plen 34 transporter speaking of their plans to attack planet Earth”
Raiklorp turned to face his pilot, raising his thirty eyes to meet Ringbok’s twenty.
“What?! Planet Earth? You’re sure they meant Earth?”
“Yes sir, it says Earth” Ringbok replied, reading the transcript.
“It’s not... | 2017-03-26T07:03:57 | 2017-03-26T05:22:31 | 224 | 131 |
[WP] Physical beauty is outlawed. People are required to wear masks and grey suits or otherwise punished. A man and a woman are trapped in a stuck elevator with nothing but emergency lights. They see the opposite sex physicality for the first time. | "Man, we've been stuck in this damn thing for at least an hour," he groaned.
I stood there, not knowing how to react to this as it was silent for so long until now. "Y-yeah," I replied.
It continued to stay silent for another five minutes until he suddenly said, "Hey... Have you ever wondered what it'd feel like to l... | (first time here please go easy on me :) lol.)
Grey.... The color were taught to indulge and ingest that it becomes very much so like the blood in our veins..... The breath in our lungs..... The way we communicate, and the way how life has always been.....
*and it feels like the first time in life*.... **I have brea... | 2015-07-27T22:27:05 | 2015-07-27T21:00:32 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | Sorta surprised how long this one turned out. Too tired to edit it too much but hope people enjoy or whatever. Had to split this up into two parts so check the reply comment from me.
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"Well, the damned moron is so good at healing himself I thought I might as well go after someone close to him that *wou... | He placed another strip of tape over the last, ensuring the petite woman could no longer scream. He worried, for a moment, that hanging her upside down like this and taping her mouth closed might cause her to suffocate somehow. He wasn't sure how dangerous it was. He contemplated her for a moment, watching her wispy, w... | 2020-07-12T12:10:59 | 2020-07-12T12:00:23 | 84 | 52 |
[WP] Your father left your family when you were a child to "go buy a pack of cigarettes". It is 10 years later and you're a teenager when your father walks back in, wearing the same clothes he left in, and insists he has only been gone half an hour. | Item number: SCP-711-J
Object class: Euclid
Containment Procedures: A fence is to be established around SCP-711-J, to prevent unauthorized entry. Construction equipment is to be moved and operated in order to maintain the appearance of an active construction zone. No access to SCP-711-J is permitted. In the event tha... | There was something weird about this day
Harold, my brother, was acting weird as if he had seen something.
Ending school i went home.
Everything seemed just fine.
Lots of love from my family.
Don't know about my dad though, he disappeared 10 years ago.
Everytime he went to buy cigarretes he was quick. Not this ... | 2018-11-08T05:36:04 | 2018-11-08T05:15:25 | 562 | 17 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | "Is he a mute" asked Sir Caradon, looking back at the oddly dressed and rather twitchy man riding a mule at the end of their forest caravan. He'd not said a word since he'd joined them, "speaking" only through strange hand-signs.
To be fair, after the Maelstrom shattered Remia, the imperial capitol, several months bac... | It's a few days since I got here. I don't know where I am, nor I care. All I know is this place is pullulant with magic. Many wizards have studied magic and many have died in the intent of creating a system to use this magic safely and with great gain for the community.
However, I woke up in a cavern where, written in... | 2022-11-19T11:10:08 | 2022-11-19T10:06:04 | 993 | 63 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | We were sweethearts throughout high school. We had married after college. Then one day he simply left.
All the young men in our village left following my husband into battle. Chosen by themselves to save us from the invading army. They had already invaded the western half of the country under the guise of a training ... | It had become a routine, tending to the gardens in the afternoon when work was done. Miko expected to forget, to get over it all, yet five long years and Lari’s face still shows up in almost every dream she had. It had become a ritual, taking care of the flowers her wife had loved so much, a remnant of someone who migh... | 2022-08-12T18:12:55 | 2022-08-12T17:33:00 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | I got cancer when I was 21. Well I suppose I must have gotten cancer before that because they caught it in one of the later stages. I imagine there's not much like seeing a patient's face when you have to tell them that they require further testing. But there's not much like having bits of your body ripped and cut out ... | The Devil is in the Details.
They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure, I remain a firm believer in that saying. I don't remember how this happened, but I don't care, I'm getting more out of this death than anyone could achieve in life. The first thing I stumbled across was a giant tarantula skittering ... | 2016-05-28T15:46:42 | 2016-05-28T15:46:36 | 305 | 19 |
[WP] As part of a senior thesis, an anthropology student decides to start a cult to see how far it’ll go. Several years, hundreds of deaths, civil warfare and a complete government overthrow later they wonder how they’ll properly cite their sources. | **Acknowledgments**
A big thank you, to Dr. Harriet Slanter for reading through this thesis for the fifteenth time—even if it was done under semi-duress and the threat of war crimes being levied against her—she has been an invaluable resource in the research for this paper.
I’d like to thank all of those who particip... | Madame Helena DuBois, First Incarnate of the Grand Theocratic Union of the United States, sat languidly in the oval office. Her bare feet were propped on a stool made from the remnants of the last president’s desk as she smoked a long, thin cigarette. The ashes fell into a gold plated tray held by a man whose only job ... | 2021-03-13T10:56:34 | 2021-03-13T09:08:51 | 247 | 81 |
[WP] There's a monster under your bed. You know it's there even though you've never actually seen it. One day, on your 18th birthday, it finally crawled out, towering over you in its monstrous form and said, "Marry me." | Ever seen an octopus? Then you've seen about 1/10th of the tentacles that this girl had. She also had a colorful spiral shell and six long insect legs to stand on. The most startling part about her was her eyes: pitch black irises and perfectly human in shape.
"Come on, we've known each other for forever," she said, ... | “Buy me dinner first!”
Well, what else could I say? Oh, yes:
“You’ve never spoken so much as a word to me; I’ve never actually seen you in daylight before; you can’t expect me to answer you out of nowhere. For that matter, the answer might be no! Or even, hells no!”
Its half-head tilted, oozing eyeballs (three) wide... | 2021-07-09T22:07:31 | 2021-07-09T21:31:25 | 79 | 42 |
[WP] You carry a tray of food and drink out to the stone altar on your front lawn. On your way, you wave to neighbors busily arranging their own offerings. Just another Friday night. Suddenly, you realize the house across the street is dark; table still empty. Panic sets in as the sun begins to set. | The altar across the street was empty. The altar across the street was empty, and the sun was setting.
If it were anyone else, Harriet wouldn't care. Each to their own - it wasn't her job to look after the foolish and the reckless. She had her family to think of. Margot, Rob, and Matilda, all living under her roof, al... | “Oh my God, the Johnsons are gone.”
Everything was still in place, just as it had been earlier that day. Charming hand-made mailbox, a couple spring decorations, and a perfectly trimmed lawn. But the sweet old couple, who always dropped off pies on their neighbors' birthdays, was nowhere to be seen.
Kelly turned to m... | 2016-10-03T10:31:16 | 2016-10-03T10:30:50 | 375 | 43 |
[WP] you have the magical power of psychic delusion, for example: bear traps can’t harm you “obviously it won’t trigger, i’m not a bear” | Daisy was an excellent actor.
Daisy followed in the footsteps of many talented actors. She took enormous pride in the Method. Daisy took so much pride that her psychiatrist diagnosed her with Disassociative Identity Disorder.
Once she finished her part as Alice, Daisy took great joy in dispelling that nonsense. Until... | Thought shapes matter. This I know, for it was a frog atop a slanting cairn who spoke the words to me before it melted and crumbled and turned into into another stone. That day the chains binding me to the qualms of an ignorant being lost their moorings. They became a weight in the labyrinth of my memories, a phantom i... | 2021-12-26T17:57:43 | 2021-12-26T17:31:53 | 157 | 61 |
[WP] World's worst sausage salesman. Always ends up Sexualizing the sasuage and losing the sale. | Arneldo erected his sausage stand at the local market. It was busy. Competition was stiff. He stood by earnestly and waited for the customers.
"Hello my friend, do you like the look of my fat sausage?"
The would be customer just responded with a flat glare. *Must not be hungry I guess?* Arneldo assumed. A father and ... | "Well, Bob, I know you are still somewhat new here at *Meat n Greet*, but we need to get some things straight."
I looked at my boss attentive and willing and thought "what an idiot".
"Look, Bob. There are some things you need to work on." My boss continues as I continue to pretend to continue to listen. "You got... | 2016-06-28T01:27:40 | 2016-06-27T22:00:46 | 89 | 13 |
[WP] You're a witch with a penchant to bargain for firstborn children... to adopt and train as apprentices. You've done it hundreds of times now, and considering how wretched the biological parents tend to be you're really doing the kids a favor. | \[Trigger Warning: Horrible Family Life/Parents\]
Nobody knew it was a doll unless Julia told them. Some sticks and bits of grass tied up with ribbon into the general shape of a human. But it was the only toy that Julia had, and the ribbon was the only thing left she had of her mother.
She clutched it to herself whil... | "You call me a witch like that's a bad thing you monster!" Hyra exclaimed
"You're trying to buy my child, what would you have me call you? And what you're offering, peanuts. With a magical child I can have all you offer plus more"
Hyra laughed internally, it was over, the child would be returning with her. The negoti... | 2021-10-26T12:12:51 | 2021-10-26T08:58:35 | 70 | 25 |
[WP] You're running a little late to work, but when you arrive someone identical to you is already sitting at your desk. He puts up his hands and says "Relax, I can explain." | I storm forward and grab the other me roughly by the lapels of the jacket he hasn't yet had time to unfasten and hoist him out of the chair. He doesn't resist, which is strange, and doesn't struggle as I maintain my grip and storm the five paces to the door of the printer room.
Flicking the door shut with my knee as w... | "Listen very carefully, and if you do every single thing I say without question, we will both make it out of here alive, and I'll tell you anything you want to know. Anything. Are you with me?"
"Shit. What is this?"
"Are you with me?"
I hesitated, "yes."
"A man will be arriving in a few minutes, with a group of sol... | 2015-01-17T22:10:05 | 2015-01-17T22:09:04 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | "What of your companions?"
The Dark Lord was a bit surprised the glowing gold clad warrior before him was actually discussing his offer. Even from across the room atop his obsidian throne he could feel the enchanted blade specifically forged to kill him and the gold armor vibrating with spelled protections that were n... | Lady Magdola sat down on the elegant marble chair. A quaint little space, tucked in the deepest recesses of the garden. A place where they could discuss in private. No prying eyes or ears. "I must admit, I did not expect a response."
"You offered to talk," Eliel stood, uncertain if he should sit or remain standing. Se... | 2020-10-07T18:35:47 | 2020-10-07T15:53:36 | 186 | 67 |
[WP] Your power to stop time is automatically activated when you are talking with someone and need the perfect words (witty joke, flirty line, comeback, etc.). Time won't flow again until you have those perfect words. This time, you've been frozen for what feels like two days. | I stared at Tori’s face. I’d been looking at her for what felt like days. She looked like she always had. Her eyes were bright. Her hair was in a typical messy bun. She smiled up at me awaiting a response.
Tori had just finished telling me about her day, and everything went still. I felt it coming as she finished h... | A date is fun, always has been, but it's been two days, or I think it has been and I can't help but replay our conversations over and over again trying to find a hint, we had been eating at the finest italian eatery in town, ordered our meals which was ironically the same.
We'd been discussing her interests and, desp... | 2019-02-25T20:33:52 | 2019-02-25T19:44:20 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | *A Single Play in American Football as Interpreted by a Foreigner who has Never Seen a Game*
"Hut two, twenny-two, hut!" The first quarterback shouted, eyes gleaming with passion as he stared around at his team. They were all lined up in such a way as to form the basic shape of a ziggurat from above, thus reflecting t... | 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... | 2016-02-02T00:31:42 | 2016-02-01T22:50:42 | 147 | 41 |
[WP] A dying astronaut. A sympathetic alien. A conversation. | Stars pinwheeled around him, as Aaron hurtled through space. He was snug and cocooned, in Sadi’shan’s maw. They had been flying for twenty millennia, first of the Symbiot Crews that had formed, back when Old Earth had started to fall, when man had run over its water and green, with sickness, and smog, and bio-gen wars.... | "There is nothing you can do to save me?" Harrison spoke into the transceiver within his helmet, his eyes cautiously surveying his depleting oxygen levels. There had always been danger in being a pioneer, and there had never been a frontier more dangerous, or a pioneer more adventurous than Harrison. Humanity had only ... | 2016-12-22T06:59:13 | 2016-12-22T00:06:49 | 54 | 15 |
[WP]: Your oldest brother is a military genius. Your little sister has cured three types of cancer. The twins are working on a new method of locating planets fit for terraforming. And you... You are mom's favourite. | I guess I'm the black sheep in my family. All my older brothers and sisters are amazing people and I'm well, not quite that.
See, my oldest brother Mark started the trend.
He joined the military at sixteen and became a captain at twenty and the next thing we know, he's leading his own fleet. Mom and Dad were so pro... | The house was so quiet. A lifetime ago it had been full of the laughter of children. She smiles at the distant memory. How times changed, she thought. When Mark was little he use to love playing those war games. Mark had always been a happy child. Now he was a military leader currently stationed in another part of the ... | 2016-10-31T14:35:26 | 2016-10-31T10:48:37 | 213 | 36 |
[WP] You’ve always had good sight in the dark, you’ve been called a freak for it. When you die and see the light in the tunnel, you are the first person to notice a door to your side instead. | I didn't... no, there wasn't. It was so much pain. I couldn't breathe. Or move. Or speak. Or think. I-
Suddenly everything was much clearer. I remembered. I don't know what happened, but apparently, this was it. I had always heard about the light. The light at the end of the darkness. I had always wondered if it would... | Alex was a good person. Thin, but strong, and always friendly to everyone she met. She didn't expect to die from a virus. When she unexpectedly woke up, there was a dark tunnel, with a light at the end.
"Oh great, the light at the end of the tunnel. Guess I'm dead. Too bad, I wanted to live for a while longer".
She s... | 2021-06-04T15:13:52 | 2021-06-04T12:39:31 | 115 | 58 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | Pixwhirx sighed as he studied the analysis of the data he'd fed into the interworld-ship's main computer. Nothing else for it, he'd have to tell Dreemar.
"What do you mean it's *not going to work*???" Dreemar demanded angrily.
Pixwhirx had known he would react like this; it was after-all Dreemar's first command of... | Sand bit into the old man's skin as the wind whipped it at his hands, his arms, his face. He trudged on. The once cloudless sky was no more than an orange haze now. The old man thought back to that time before his joints ached and his eyes had grown cloudy, when he'd last seen the heavens extend above in a never ending... | 2020-09-15T15:24:23 | 2020-09-15T13:43:30 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] An Eldritch Moon suddenly appears in the sky, and you and billions others scream as you turn into horribly corrupted mounds of flesh... But your eyesight is better? And your back pains are gone? And apparently you’re immortal now so... Maybe things aren’t that bad... | Today, Cole had decided, he would scale The Chaplain. It was no small task, to ascend that uncanny spire, that towered over the masses below, as static and immovable as they were dynamic and amorphous. But then, it was also said that no small reward waited for those who made it to the Chaplain's upper reaches: answers.... | # Soulmage
**The moonlight here was deadly, but we'd come prepared.** As we stepped out of the safety of the dark and ancient cave, the five of us unfurled umbrellas as black as midnight to enhance our layers of heavy, lightproof clothing.
Something that had once been grass squelched and splashed under my thick boot... | 2022-10-23T16:28:15 | 2022-10-23T11:59:30 | 57 | 40 |
[WP] Write a story with a large, illogical plot hole, then have the main character discover it. | "I gazed up at the compound, wondering how I could manage to infiltrate, sabotage, and destroy such a massive fortress. 'Orders are orders' is one thing, but this was basically a suicide mission."
"As I took my first step forward however, electricity whipped through the air, focusing on a single point. The point of fo... | I wander aimlessly on top of cracked earth. I am bruised, thirsty, and it seems to appear I am ages upon eons from arriving to th--.
I drop to my knees.
I wake up. Still hopelessly shuffling about. I know I can get their before I die from this thirst. How long has it been? Minutes? Hours? Days? The position of the su... | 2014-05-25T20:04:18 | 2014-05-25T19:52:10 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] You were always told that you're the Hero who was destined to face the Dark Lord, but instead you two fell in love and had a kid. Then one day, you come home to find your spouse dead and child missing. Now everyone will burn, as you decide to make this, 'Dark Lord' prophecy come true. | They took my light away from me.
I must have wept for hours over their cooling bodies, cradling the note in my hand as my grief ascended, a crescendo of fury and rage.
*Bring us the girl, and wipe away your debt. She is the key to appeasing the new God-King.*
/ / / / /
I put on my shield and cursed blade Zante... | It was shockingly easy to begin. Heroes, dark lords, in the end it was all about power. A spell that was supposed to serve as a barrier against attacks could cut a town off from their food supply if you charged it up enough, and the ability to force others to tell the truth was better than any spy network. You made it ... | 2021-12-09T23:14:59 | 2021-12-09T21:55:25 | 135 | 77 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | "Ah Stacy, have you got the projections from Pensworth Logistics?" I call out to my secretary looking stunning as always in her uniform. She's been with me from the beginning since I transferred over to my new office, 10 months ago, and has been one of the more friendly employees here.
"Mr Miles, I must insist that yo... | I've been a hunter all my life, the skill has been passed down for generations. I take great care of my gear; the camouflage, knives, guns, boots and other acoutrement needed for a successful hunt are all well oiled sharpened or cleaned. Most people think hunting is barbaric, evil, only for psychopaths and a litany o... | 2016-05-19T13:17:24 | 2016-05-19T13:13:29 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] Tea is banned in England creating the world's largest black market. You are one of the biggest tea kingpins. | I waited on the pier, nervously checking my watch. 1:52. The shipment was an hour late already. The only sound coming through the fog was the gentle sloshing of the tide against the pylons of the dock and the distant clanging of a buoy bell bouncing in the waves. I leaned against the wall of the abandoned warehouse beh... | "What do you mean, gone missing?" I said calmly, watching the young man who was no more than a boy really try to remain defiant. But I could see he was scared. The way his pupils dilated, the slight crack as he spoke. He was fucking terrified.
"It never showed up," the small sidewards glance gave away the lie.
"It. N... | 2015-02-17T10:12:02 | 2015-02-17T09:28:43 | 364 | 19 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | Thersea stumbled slowly through the quagmire of mud and vegetation, crawling in part where the intentwined branches cut the path into narrow corridors, until she reached a dark clearing. It was there the monster sat, a thick mass of matted vines and moss, taller than all but the oldest trees of the nameless grove.
"W... | A mysterious grove appeared in a rustic village near the sea. An outlaw ran into the grove thinking there's going to be some safe haven for him. That's the first story of the first guilty death that's passed down from mother to daughter. My name is Lucas , my life was fine and dandy being the mayor's heir. Then I just ... | 2021-03-16T13:32:58 | 2021-03-16T13:25:34 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | My father Michael Walters and my mother Natalie were both well respected doctors. My older siblings- Vivian, Sam, and Edward were all gifted. Vivian was still moving through med school, Sam and Edward were focusing on engineering degrees.
I was the youngest, and I'd always felt like a disappointment. My whole family m... | "...son, you're a goddamn disappointment."
I would never forget those words. They stung so deep, hitting my very soul like a burning flame. They were uttered by my father on the night of my fourteenth birthday. That's right - the night I learned my spirit animal.
It was a dark and stormy night, as is the case with ... | 2017-01-21T19:17:27 | 2017-01-21T18:36:17 | 956 | 90 |
[WP] Everybody has the ability to bring another person back to life, at the cost of their own life. You are a suicidal celebrity who can't stay dead because of fans constantly sacrificing their lives to resurrect you. | Once again, the pain woke me. It hurt a lot to start breathing again. All my organs were resuming their function, and it was not a pleasant sensation.
I opened my eyes, trying to figure out were I was. An hospital room. What was it this time? Oh yes, pills. Lots of pills.
On my bedside, a handwritten note. I wait a... | Irony doesn't apply to my predicament, anymore. I feel like I have transcended irony. Is that even possible, since the act of transcending irony would sort of be ironic? I don't know. All I do know is that, now that I have self-professedly transcended irony, tragedy is a more fitting epithet to place on my life.
If y... | 2016-07-06T22:50:38 | 2016-07-06T18:00:08 | 259 | 30 |
[WP] Earth has always been an anomaly to the galaxy because of its inability to discover faster than light travel, but because of the galaxial code no one has yet to interact. One day a spaceship crashes here and the galaxy discovers that earth has far superior tech, and are just very bad at science | "Greetings Human!" said the weird humanoid while raising its hands. I don't know if it was sarcastic or trying to be friendly, but the reaction of both me and my roommate was the same.
"AAAAAHHHHHH! A GHOST!" Screaming at the top of our lungs in fear and in shock. Considering that we both just finished Scary Saturday ... | "...Seriously? You've mastered faster than light space travel, but the fridge is what you're getting off on?!" Detective James Richards said, a bottle of bourbon in his left hand as he flicked the light switch inside of the fridge. It's not even a good fridge, he thought to himself.
"Really? You've mastered cooling te... | 2020-05-08T17:41:16 | 2020-05-08T17:29:38 | 113 | 50 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've spent my whole life looking at numbers, judging my safety from them, gathering intelligence, watching, waiting. I am a perfectly average teenage girl; I've got brown hair, brown eyes, and a rather plain face. I'm average height, average size. There is nothing exceptional about me; except that I can judge how dange... | *Ah, this class sucks,* I thought, deciding to sleep through the teacher's lecture. I almost got away with it, too.
"Eren, could you please give me there answer to question 5?"
Aw you dirty 6-faced douche.
"Uhh, could you read out the question?" I stuttered, still half asleep.
"You'd know if you paid attention."
*... | 2014-11-29T14:34:22 | 2014-11-29T14:22:11 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] A kid tries to talk the monster under the bed into attacking the monster in the closet. | "Hey, Purples, come on, I bet you could beat him!" I leaned over the edge of my bed, talking to the strange purple monster under. He growled, baring crooked fangs and stared at me with his unnaturally large orange eyes. Pulling himself a bit forward, he growled a garbled sentences back.
"Heck no, kid. I'm perfectly fi... | *A child bolts up in bed panicking. His name is Jonas. The sound that startled continues as it rattles the closet slightly.*
"Clawbite...?" Julian said curiously. "Clawbite, are you there?"
".. Yes, Jonas?" a voice from the below grumbles. "Is something the matter?"
"I can't sleep, something just made a sound in my ... | 2015-09-06T04:02:33 | 2015-09-06T01:36:00 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | This one had been a long time coming - far longer than I ever thought possible.
We'd met on a battlefield millennia ago, both surprised to find out that our strikes did not harm the other. It was the first, and only, other immortal I'd ever encountered.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
Naturally, being... | The cosmos is relatively easy to meddle with. A swipe of the finger, and you can toss around asteroids or zap a few nebulas into existence.
We set up some ground rules a long time ago. Galaxies have to stay in rough interstellar arrangements. Once you create a star, it has to die on its own. And most importantly, if a... | 2017-06-22T19:56:41 | 2017-06-22T19:53:14 | 5,933 | 763 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | "Alright, so you want a superhero protection contract, what kind would you like?'
"Well as you may know Mr Doomfist has recently taken up residence in my town, now i don't want to be judgemental but he has broken the laws of the last four he lived in."
"A yes Mr Doomfist, always good for business, so do you want a s... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T07:25:23 | 201 | 37 |
[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. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | It's surprising how quickly you adapt to the dark. At first it was a disaster, people wept and raged and died in droves, but it was barely two years now since the world went blind and these days, things are almost normal again.
Nikolai came out with their new self driving cars, fully optimised for their sightless pass... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2019-08-26T09:00:47 | 4,287 | 86 |
[WP] After accidentally killing the king’s son, you expected to be executed. Instead, he arrived at your house alone in secret, asking if he could come in for tea. | The entire house seemed to dread the idea of the king coming in, but the storm outside was worse. there was a good chance that should he be turned away misfortune would fall upon the king, and that was not something I wanted, not after the incident.
"Yes," I coughed, "Come on in your majesty."
He nodded slowl... | It was done.
Blood was yet to dry from my dagger, as I staggered into the shack I called home.
A revolt exacts heavy toll to all involved.
The barely-standing wood and straw structure was empty. Cold. The last warmth left months ago for the very same palace I had just returned from. None had ever came out of the bac... | 2022-11-23T21:51:05 | 2022-11-23T16:30:43 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You are the Devil himself. After a good day of ripping off mortals you are summoned by another one. Being a little generous, you promise to let him keep his soul if he asks for something nobody ever asked. You are now stuck as his beautifull and loving girlfriend till the end of his days. | "Oh, ask me anything," she had a long red hair with red eyes. Her eyes were like cat eyes. No, she didn't have horns, that was a myth. She wore those sexy pyjamas. Every man who came there would have just asked one thing.
So did Jimmy. He was sitting on a chair, seeing the bed straight ahead of him. It was actually ho... | >"Hey. Come on, guy! You're the one who offered me this deal."
 
I've seen sick and twisted mortals—rapists, serial killers, girlscouts—throughout time immemorial, but this is unlike any other. At a cursory glance, this one appeared to be just another mere dictator desiring world domin... | 2018-04-05T12:07:39 | 2018-04-05T11:45:04 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] "Dude, trust me. Don't be a hero, be a sidekick. You get less pressure, less work to do, more fun, be more popular at school, never really age and if the hero dies you will always fill their mantle. Just be careful not to die." | The waitress flicked on the ancient TV in the corner, its screen fuzzing up with static before leveling out to show a grainy security tape. The camera looked out onto a quiet midtown street. Though difficult to see, the pre-war buildings nearby had dramatically tall windows, cast iron gates, and ivy climbing up the wal... | Being a sidekick used to be so innocent and effortless. Never in my life would I have imagined this when Bennie talked me into checking the box that said “Sidekick” in the extracurricular section of our school forms. I remember it plain as day. He was so excited to check that box. He said there would be less pressure b... | 2020-07-11T13:39:16 | 2020-07-11T12:13:21 | 329 | 12 |
[WP] Two powerful wizards are in the middle of a heated argument... staff or wand? you must take a side and justify why it is better. | "Ok, after much thought about the pros and cons of both staffs and wands, and consideration for my own wellbeing, I've decided. The answer is yes."
"What?" Grinblok the Eternal Light screamed.
"Ask a random farmer you said. Just what I'd expect of someone who thinks a twig is the best magic weapon." Replied Zoploq of... | Easy - Staff. Because it is multi-purpose.
You can walk with it, hit things with it, channel magic through it, use it to hold your bundle or a lamp, poke stuff from a safer distance, extend it out to help pull something or someone. And if you need both hands, you can stick it in the ground.
Also: if you would ever fal... | 2022-10-13T07:53:08 | 2022-10-13T07:11:45 | 80 | 31 |
[WP] It’s the zombie apocalypse except only the senior citizens are infected. With frail joints and no teeth, the general population is merely inconvenienced by rapid grandpas and grandmas trying to gum them to death.
From a post by u/icantseemtopoop in r/CrazyIdeas
edit : Loved all the responses so far, it always am... | “Mom, grandma is trying to eat my arm off again!” cried Stephen.
“Sweetheart you know she is just hungry. Will you grab some of the thawed brains from the refrigerator?” I yell as my son comes down the stairs with my 80 year old mother nipping at his hair. It’s been three years now since she was infected with Zombie ... | They all sat in the waiting room of a large warehouse. The invitations were exclusive and only by word of mouth. The speaker had set up a podium where the reception desk would have been. He addressed his audience familiarly.
He made eye contact with a woman in the first row and asked, “Shirley, how is your practice ho... | 2018-02-10T10:05:57 | 2018-02-10T09:01:25 | 37 | 15 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | As everything goes dark, a cold sensation washes over me. I feel the breath leave my lungs. Everything goes cold. Instead of a voice, I hear an all too familiar chime, a deep bell sound. Orange text appears before my eyes.
"To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck."
And then darkness... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T23:05:47 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 56 | 12 |
[WP] You see lies floating over the head of people you look at. All the lies they ever said. You met every kind of people: the ones with rivers of innocent lies, the ones with few nasty lies and everything in between. Then you met Tom. Only a lie floating over him. But the worst you ever saw. Ever. | I can still remember the first time I saw him. Thomas Deely, a tall, gangly, dorky guy at some bar uptown in my senior year of college. Before I discovered this godawful gift. He came up to me as I sat at a table chatting with my friends, fidgeting and glancing over his shoulders- completely panicked. He stuttered as h... | "Oh dear."
I'm a therapist. I'm used to hearing about some awful crap. But Tom's lie? On another level. Was he remorseful? Was he truly? I could only wonder. One lie, one lie. But it was so big, so awful. So terrible.
I'm sitting here at this cafe. Tom is a potential new colleague. He has high recommendations, a PH.D... | 2018-06-29T16:52:56 | 2018-06-29T12:18:39 | 67 | 24 |
[WP] Civilization lives in an ever growing tower. Through advanced tech and resource management, the population lives well enough all things considered. What's disconcerting is what becomes of the lower floors that are abandoned and locked off after a new floor is constructed.
This tower could be on a planet, in space... | Floor 3427J vacated. Resident escalation scheduled for 0800.
That's what the notice on all of our screens read. Another shift to the next floor up. Moving all of our belongings from this box to the next. The cycle of new floors at the top and 'escalation' to the vacant floor above had become normal for everyone by now... | Kiro looked up the Chamber, past the network of sky bridges and civilian balloons, and into the clouds above. It was not every day that she got to have a day off, and even less that she would be able to find a time where the observation floor was not filled with people.
Above her was the expansion floor, but beyond t... | 2018-03-20T07:23:26 | 2018-03-20T06:43:49 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You were the hero, the prophesied savior of the world. But you are so very tired of sacrificing for the greater good, of having to do the right thing at your expense. So when they ask you to do it again, you say no. | As I stood in the mayor's office, listening to his wants to help the city, I began to think.
I am so tired of being treated like this. I coke from a world of magic, and wonder. This place had none of that. And sure the Magium wasn't the best of the realms but it was home. I came here in order to help balance this uns... | I stepped up to the microphone, and was nervous. Slowly I started speaking:
"My friends, today I stand before you in a state of melancholia. I know that each one of you has your own struggles and burdens to bear, and I do not wish to burden you with my own. But I must speak of my journey."
A sad beat filled the speak... | 2022-12-12T14:29:09 | 2022-12-12T12:29:40 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "So what if they fight for peace? They are still a war species? They may as well Glodixanc."
"Let me ask you something, are you scared of the Glodixanc?" the response came back from an alien in deep thought.
"No, why would I be scared? We aren't a war species. Thier wouldn't be any martial honour in them attacking ... | "They fight for Peace?" The Alien scratched his head again. "Pretty much, Yes." The other Alien said. "But, why would they fight for peace? Isn't that a little Ironic?" The Alien said ,baffled at what the other Alien said. "This species has been fighting each other since their very beginning, from the smallest to the b... | 2018-03-17T05:16:44 | 2018-03-17T01:07:51 | 65 | 31 |
[WP] “Although we are grateful to you for defeating our oppressors, you were meant to die in battle…” your “allies” suddenly turned their weapons on you, “Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” | I was an outcast amongst my blood, a demon who hated demon kind , one who had a heart that could even hold weapons made of light normally painfully blinding to most demons.
But even so , the people I chose to join , I was still an outcast , the humans seemed to tolerate my existence , the orca welcomed me, strength w... | My hands were shaking and covered in some mix of substances that I *really* didn't want to think about. The hall was almost silent, but my own shaky breathing broke the illusion.
I swallowed hard, composing myself like I had hundreds of times before, and turned to the doors where I knew my team was waiting. I plastere... | 2022-11-01T18:43:48 | 2022-11-01T15:14:16 | 71 | 45 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | My mother was supposed to die in childbirth. And she did, later on. I had been born to a corpse more than any living thing. She was barely alive, and the doctors weren't quite aware of it, the medical field being mostly guesswork at the time. It wasn't like a lot of work was being put into treating women anyway, not wh... | I shan't tell you all the terrible details. I have grown weary of whispering in the king's ear all the tortures he once made me endure. He has had a thousand years to repent. Sometimes at night he sobs, but he shall never let me go free.
It is spring to-day. On the first day of spring the servants of the royal house c... | 2017-05-13T08:16:17 | 2017-05-13T07:19:37 | 277 | 74 |
[WP] After you have died, you meet The Great One who says that you have been wronged in your previous life and, as a result, will be reincarnated with unimaginable powers. You accept the offer and you find yourself reincarnated in a fantasy world full of magic as...a slave? | "Wake up, scum!" I heard, followed by a swift kick to the side. Pain rippled from my ribs.
I rolled over and curled into a ball on the ground, straw sticking to my sweaty skin. Shackles around my wirst kept me from guarding my face.
"I said wake up, not fall back asleep!"
This time the pain sprung from my back.
I ... | [Part Four](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/gorzct/wp_youre_the_apprentice_to_a_powerful_witch_and/fri75pe?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
I kept my eyes down as the procession of the Empress and all her attendants passed by. The air was as hot as an oven, without even a breeze to relieve... | 2020-06-07T11:50:02 | 2020-06-07T11:37:50 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | "I would like to buy that necklace." I said to the woman behind the counter. She smiled at me, amused. "The one with the diamond."
"I think that one's a bit out of your price range, sweetie." She said kindly. Not an unusual reaction, but it still frustrated me. Even so the kindness on her face took the sting from her ... | “*QUEST COMPLETE*” slowly faded from the black screen, Hogran awoke in his bed. He quickly checked his status bar. No heart problems, no myopia, no cancer. Elador, the old mage who gave him the eternal youth quest wasn’t lying about his instruction list. The hardest fetch quest of Hogran’s career was finally over. He s... | 2019-06-07T09:55:24 | 2019-06-07T09:49:03 | 119 | 30 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Matthew.
I don't hate you any longer. I have found it in my heart to let go and let everything be the way it is. I have accepted it. Maybe it's more for my own sense of sanity, but I have. None the less, I will never forget, or excuse you from your actions.
Ella is growing up fast, and Nick has already started... | To whom it may concern,
Helpless; this is the word that best defines my current state. Chained by aliments that only my debilitated will can cure. Confusion is the whip that heavily decorates my back with scars and sends blood wrenching echoes of ripping flesh to the depths of soul. My cuts burn and spew blood; the c... | 2015-12-05T13:52:07 | 2015-12-05T13:29:19 | 181 | 49 |
[WP] It's been 5 years since North Korea has gone dark, no communications in or out and the Northern posts of the DMZ have remained vacant; your heading the advance team entering North Korea to investigate what happened. This is your report. | 0200 Day 1: Entered Northern DMZ from reference point alpha, expecting mines as advised. No mines were detected, but as we moved to exit the DMZ on the northern end a young boy was sighted, standing at the right side of the gate, staring sightlessly across the pathway through. We avoided the youngster, cutting throu... | **CLASSIFIED - FOR GENERAL FLYNN**
Time: 21:27
Date: 31st of December
Year: 2021
Location: Pyongyang, NK
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Two months ago I reported that leader Kim Jong Un had not made a public announcement in over 3 years time. He had not been seen in public since March 2017. Today he delivered a message... | 2016-12-05T09:11:26 | 2016-12-05T08:47:47 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] "Now, gods and goddesses, behold as Loki, god of mischief, throws the entire world into chaos by changing the sun's color from orange to yellow." | "I don't see any difference," Ken said, squinting hard.
"Well, don't stare at it!" Freya admonished. "You'll go blind!"
"No. It's definitely more yellow," Brian insisted.
"Wasn't it always yellow?" Richard asked.
"It was, I don't know what you all are on about," William commented.
"No, it wasn't. It was orange," B... | It was the lilies that died first. No one really thought about it beyond a few questions on the gardening forums. They were a canary in the coal mine and we were too busy watching as the trickster god did his thing. Everyone thought that it was a prank at first. Maybe a harmless trick of the atmosphere to make the sun ... | 2021-05-18T21:36:46 | 2021-05-18T21:13:39 | 119 | 39 |
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