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[WP] Your superpower isn't as flashy or obvious as other, but it's one of the most powerful. You always guess the code, the evil plan, the safest route. You're always right. | "How the hell do we bring that thing down??" Screamed Livewire, floating midair and staring wide eyed to the trail of destruction left by the creature.
The Titan was stalking toward the downtown area, slow but inexorable, as tall as a ten stories building. Ground shook at every step, its five unblinking eyes fixed on ... | "Hey, Captain Foresight!"
I heard the bellow from across the restaurant. Enjoying a burger and fries in peace was becoming increasingly difficult.
"It's you, right? Who do like in the game tonight?"
The question came from the same, vaguely youngish, vaguely middle-to-upperclassish, not vaguely dudes who always think... | 2019-11-29T12:11:40 | 2019-11-29T11:13:36 | 55 | 20 |
[WP] Due to a rare neurological condition you literally have a room temperature IQ. You've been able to manage your condition by living in a warm climate and making regular visits to the sauna, but you find yourself thinking that there has to be a better way. | I've been living with my condition for quite some time now, making small strides here and there increasing and stabilizing my IQ. At first I just made sure to stay indoors during the winter, but eventually I moved from my home in England closer to the Mediterranean which helped with the usually more stable climate. Eve... | Month fourteen day four hour it’s cold in space. After spending days in the sauna, I slowly was able to build a ship that would take me to the sun. And I’m almost there. I just hope I make it there. I have to leave the heater soon.
Yao y’all have cheese??? Like yes. Zimbabweea. Cold
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{... | 2021-09-23T10:53:09 | 2021-09-23T08:34:24 | 412 | 114 |
[WP] “Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me. It’s not your fault.” He spoke with a gentle tone but he was pissed, not at the hero, but at the gods who send kids and teens to fight him. | After so long, after so many people, you would think you'd get used to the sight of blood. To the sound of someone crying in pain. It doesn't get any easier though. Especially when it's like this.
The child gasped and coughed again, her fingers feebly trying to pull at the piece of rebar that protruded from her chest.... | A rage began to swell, bubbling up from Saerin's gut and seating itself deep within his heart. He had fought many a hero since he started following his own ambitions, but never had he fought a kid before. Now here he was, holding the child, likely no more than 15, that had been slain by his own hands. A child chosen by... | 2019-07-26T07:52:50 | 2019-07-26T07:17:13 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] So many new exoplanets are being discovered that "planet deeds" now make well-known novelty gifts. You recieved such a deed last year on your birthday, legally making you the owner of one such planet - and, only a moment ago, heard on the news that life has just been discovered on it. |
"*Welcome back to Dox news, I'm Don Lime. Our top story tonight: life has been discovered on the outer-system planet Terrabulus. The 'aliens' are like humans in almost every way, save for the blue skin and long limbs. We've also just received word that local office worker John Abraham, age 29, has the binding legal ce... | "Hell yeah bro! Did I just get a planet with life?"
"Yeah man shit is live, are you gonna enslave them?"
"Probably. Apparently I own the planet now. I heard the most advanced life forms there resemble primitive humans. So we are like, way more advanced then them."
"I say we take a hunting trip this weekend."
"What ... | 2017-01-01T13:54:55 | 2017-01-01T13:17:56 | 98 | 15 |
[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... | Seconds before the decaying support beams running through the apartment building finally snapped, Chronotron strolled casually into unit 8B, the last on his checklist.
Mere seconds remained before the aging architecture would be reduced to rubble, but that was more than enough time for Chronotron. As one gifted with ... | Like every day since I started this job, the subway was packed. Not the kind of packed where you have to occasionally mutter apologies as you slide past people; this was more like something that made me envious of sardines in a can.
Thank-god for phones. I sighed as an ad began to play again on the video I was watchi... | 2017-04-02T08:24:03 | 2017-04-02T07:17:35 | 142 | 41 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | It was a kind of pleasant work to be a gardener of the military. They put me in a group with some adorable guys, some that followed me around, and some that lead the way. I felt like an escorted princess.
I was the only girl of the group, but they might as well not have noticed it, since I had to wear that stupid pro... | "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Lieutenant Aldo Raine was my CO, everything in the company was his territory.
"Sir, I have the upmost respect for you, this battalion, and our great country. It's just that I don't feel comfortable devoting my life to a military that broke my one golden rule. Never deceive me."
... | 2017-06-20T00:45:54 | 2017-06-20T00:31:30 | 3,857 | 17 |
[WP] The apocalypse happened but not before Disney developed an advanced AI driven robotic Mickey Mouse and friends. Now they protect a group of children from the horrors of the world. | Mickey scanned the horizon, looking for any signs of his yellow-furred friend. Pluto had been gone for hours, and the children were starting to get antsy. But they couldn't leave without him - any intel on The Enemy was desperately needed - and besides, Pluto was Mickey's best friend. Especially now that the others had... | PART 1
"C'mon, Stevie! Ya really gotta give it everything," I yelled, the dread starting to creep in. "The gate's closing!" My boy was trailing too far behind, and the cacophony of footfalls and snarling and growling were beginning to become deafening. I knew I didn't have the strength to hold a gate that big open for... | 2015-04-29T19:07:44 | 2015-04-29T18:18:46 | 94 | 46 |
[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. | Trajan sat on the porch of his family's farm. It was a quiet early summer evening. The work had mostly been done, setting the farm to rights. Readying it for her return. The fields were sown, the little brook babbled, the chickens meandered the small herb garden, the tree they had been wed under cast pleasant shade,... | 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... | 2022-08-12T18:40:02 | 2022-08-12T17:33:00 | 62 | 11 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | "There is a time and place for everything."
Faultline shivers, eyes beseeching the darkness to give up the nightmare contained with in. He'd heard of the creature, a hero twisted and malformed until it switched sides. It slaughtered its friends and civilians alike before vanishing entirely.
He thought it had died.
I... | I am practicing songwriting. So here is a musical theater piece on a villain that clearly out-matches his adversaries. It's a comedy song
Nothing irks me quite like knowing that they'll never see my pity
Nothing rattles me to shame to think they've really done their best
It's not enough to pest this city
And with... | 2021-05-20T08:00:26 | 2021-05-20T07:57:21 | 78 | 19 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | *Rumors of some world's end monster had been circulating for the past few days. I could hear all the men telling their versions of this supposed creature. A giant dragon type beast? The biblical leviathan? Perhaps some huge underwater base? Preposterous. We'd have heard or seen some massive sea monster long before now.... | First time writing so be gentle.
"I didn't mean to!" Tim exclaimed as he ran away from the side of the ship.
"Darn it, Tim..." I sighed, "I told you to be careful with that; if they find out that we lost it RIGHT after being told not to, they're gonna kill us! ...or worse! Take us home.."
Tim let out a short gasp as... | 2017-11-17T07:04:57 | 2017-11-17T07:00:35 | 99 | 16 |
[WP] 'Please Adopt Me', said the box on the side of the road, with the single black puppy in it. So you did. A year later, you realize the breed is a bit complicated, considering it has three heads, a snake tail, and breathes fire. | Sighing, I turned to the ground. The special plastic floor was charred black.The trial led to the living room. The culprit was nowhere to be found.
"Oreo ! How many times do I have to remind you, don't burn the floor!"
A dog came out of the room. Oreoresi was a black skinned dog, with 6 beautiful blue eyes. Yes... | I've never been much of a dog person. Honestly I wasn't much of an animal person, though I'd certainly argue certain points. I never wanted a pet, or a companion, or anything of the sort.
So, you might ask, why was there a puppy in my room? Well, long story short, it was fuckin adorable. Big ass eyes, looking all piti... | 2019-07-04T07:23:00 | 2019-07-04T07:02:31 | 150 | 29 |
[WP]The potion seller places the love potion of the counter and say "Before I can sell you this, are you certain that the other isn't in love with you?" | Jason nudged the $100 bill across to the man at the desk. The potion seller was a large man, with weathered wrinkly skin, thick lips and a double chin, but his hands were small for his size. He examined the note with care, running his tiny fingers over the paper, and then bringing it close to his bulbous green eyes.
J... | Apologies if the characters in this story get confusing. I don’t want mind readers to know about these… things.
The words that came from the Potioness made me think. Did she? I….hmm. I dart my eyes back and forth, making special note of her standing outside laughing with the party.
“N-No. I don’t think so.”
“I se... | 2022-07-28T13:58:02 | 2022-07-28T12:37:50 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] You are a true immortal. You stay sane by hanging out with the descendants of friends that are long dead. Today, one said a very familiar phrase you haven't heard in a long time. | Writing on mobile, sorry for typos. This got slightly longer than I wanted it to.
Immortality is a weird thing. As much as some people long for it, it also brings pain, mostly emotional. I don't even know anymore when and how I became immortal. One day I just survived a fall into a canyon that no human should be able... | It was storming out, enough rain to cover your ankles on the ground, with massive thunderclaps and lightning strikes leaving no silence. Inside the shotgun seat of a military APC sat a young woman in a dark grey jacket over German forest camouflage. She looked out at the rain, and used the old trick to tell how far awa... | 2019-03-08T05:05:48 | 2019-03-08T04:22:12 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] You have a mountain lair with a lava lake, have a knack for elaborate machines, traps and plots, frequently ignore the law on purpose, own a Death-Ray, and dress predominantly dark colours. You even have a perfect evil laugh! Yet, SOMEHOW, the Alliance of Superheroes still calls you a good guy! | ######[](#dropcap)
Gorlin's eye twitched.
This was not how he'd imagined things going down. He gazed impassively as the man who would have been his perfect partner-in-crime, Yeshnu, slowly dissolved in the lake of lava, the viscous liquid bubbling and hissing as it swallowed him whole. Gorlin brought a hand up to hi... | Reinholt stood on the balcony overlooking his lava lake where another unfortunate soul had just lost their life. Trying to sneak into his lair was their own mistake. All one had to do was walk straight up the path to the door and knock, and he would have let them in. But no one seemed to do that, instead they crept aro... | 2019-02-03T22:26:29 | 2019-02-03T20:26:55 | 346 | 71 |
[WP] You study magic at the top school in the world. Your village saved every penny to send you, but you suck. You find the spells hard to pronounce and memorize. They always feel odd, till one day you discover something called a "dictionary" and you see everyone is pronouncing them incorrectly. | Life has always been kind of hard for me. Everybody expects me to meet their expectations, and everybody is disappointed when i mess it up afterwards. But magic i've always been pretty good in. Well, by my villages standarts at least, as i learned when i finally got to the school. The spells make very little sense to m... | The teachers just don't understand. Latin is a dead language. It is so hard pronouncing these spells. I've always had a lisp since I was born. I was born with a hare lip. i had the corrective surgery but pronouncing certain words has always been tough for me.
You've read the manuals. The Harry Potter books. They have ... | 2020-03-29T11:10:53 | 2020-03-29T11:05:34 | 91 | 20 |
[WP] A warrior's strength is based on the rules of chess. A Queen can wipe out an entire army, a bishop can kill a legion, rooks, a battalion. While a pawn is lucky if he can kill 14 men. You were a mere pawn, but you've infiltrated to the end of your enemy lines. Your body began to transform. | Sara Lazuli knew her place. She was a pawn. She moved forward, for there was no retreat for a pawn. She smiled bitterly as she struck down those in front of her. Sometimes a knight or bishop would zip ahead, and do their thing, killing those who opposed them, but in the end when there was danger, they would be allo... |
“King me!”
You hear a distant voice declaring.
You are suddenly transformed into a trim, agile king. Your mind becomes inundated by visions of your soldiers on the battlefield, their positioning, how many have fallen, how many are left, the positioning of enemy, how many each person on the field has slain, and the ... | 2020-08-12T11:52:14 | 2020-08-12T10:01:59 | 291 | 45 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | As I walk home from school, I can hear the voices that bother me the most at the park. "Mine is four crosses that all meet with one corner. It kinda makes a star shape!"
"Oooh, can I see? Sounds cool. What does it do?"
"It's on my back. It lets me bend light and make illusions!" The new peers of this nemesis of mine ... | I always thought that the girl who'd punched me in the gut with just now had a power that hardly suited her.
To own a detailed sigil of was a sign of respect, prosperity; stronger sigils always signified that their bearers were wise, kind, or honourable or highly experienced in life.
And yet Leticia Norek, the sigi... | 2020-02-26T08:45:39 | 2020-02-26T08:34:28 | 68 | 25 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | At first we thought light pollution had gotten out of control, then we thought that maybe it was a chain supernova, but soon there was no denying it: the stars were dying, and the wave of death was closing in on us.
Across the globe, scientists scrambled in their laboratories and at their desks to find a cause and pot... | At first, it was just a few distant stars that no one took note of. But as time went on, we realized a much darker force was at play. The stars start blinking out at an astronomical rate. Scientists around the world start panicking when we discovered entire star systems disappearing. It took a while for this to reach t... | 2020-03-24T02:46:02 | 2020-03-23T22:51:17 | 253 | 103 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | **FOR THOSE WHO WANTED A SECOND PART!!** [Here's part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Necromorphs/comments/5zt7d0/the_calling_part_2/)
My parents had insisted on a party. They said it was tradition and invited aunts and uncles and cousins from gods knew where, half of the people I had never seen in my life.
Quite a fea... | The words flashed red, the letters engraving themselves into my skin. I read them again, still uncomprehending. What kind of purpose was *that?*
I tried to get up, to run away, to try make sense of things - but my father held me firmly down by the shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly.
"Son, your mother and I are very... | 2017-03-15T20:33:55 | 2017-03-15T17:51:32 | 5,607 | 256 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Alex takes her spot next to the man wearing 1000 year old bifocals, and then grabs the pen atop the booklet with her name on it. The cover page feels similar to cardstock; she can feel the indent of each letter from the back. As prompted before she walked in, Alex opens the booklet and prints her name on the solitary l... | He knelt down beside her on the cold grass of the graveyard. She had tripped and almost fallen straight onto a headstone, something that would most likely have given her a major injury.
"You didnt hurt yourself, did you?" He looked her over, checking for any scratches or cuts.
"I dont think so, but thank you, im ok.... | 2017-05-31T06:30:10 | 2017-05-31T05:30:06 | 80 | 50 |
[WP] You are death row's last meal chef. Today's condemned prisoner killed your daughter. | Chiken fried steak, and baked potato. Such a simple man. His last meal on earth and he asks for something so... Simple. No gravy or anything. Dry, just like him.
This man killed my daughter. A parent should never have to bury their child, let alone cook a meal for the one who killed them. She was my bright little thin... | I look at the slip of paper. I go through lots of these but when you've been here as long as I have you gain this uncanny habit of eying out the names of the soon-to-be departed... It's all as well though, this job is slower, easier than the job of actually handing the food to prisoners as in low security... I turned o... | 2015-07-04T09:49:50 | 2015-07-04T09:45:58 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] The gritty realistic R-rated movie adaption of your favourite show as a kid. | He thought he was done. After thirty years of madness fighting crime on the streets, he was finally able to lay down his badge, and looked forward to a quiet retirement. He thought he was finally out for good. But they wouldn't let him rest. They went after his family, and now he's going to make them pay.
"If you're ... | 20 years ago, 4 kids were kidnapped and confined by an unknown entity. After cruel experimentation, isolation, brain-washing under a new personality and desfiguration, they've become free... to look for a vengeance. This summer, Miramax brings you the deadly conclussion to this story - Teletubbies: Spelling Murder. (R-... | 2016-05-13T07:57:00 | 2016-05-13T05:39:57 | 126 | 46 |
[WP] The child meets your eyes and says,"You need somebody killed, don't you? I can do that for you, if you can afford it." | "You need somebody killed, don't you?"
The kid meets my eyes. He looks twelve and somewhere between driftwood and a cigarette. Sweaty, eyes glassy like he has a fever.
"I can do that for you, if you can afford it."
I try to stare back at him, all shaky snot-nosed fear. Try to meet his gaze but I can't. I can see, ... | After spending a large chunk of the past month playing this online game, Runescape, I'd finally reached my wits end. I was decently leveled, going about my business doing quests, killing monsters, trying to make some money, and it was going well, until another player, 's3x_m@ster420' started following me around, litera... | 2014-10-06T14:12:12 | 2014-10-06T07:34:15 | 300 | 10 |
[WP] The Sith feel a disturbance in the force unlike anything they have encountered. A consolidation of pure rage and anger in a single entity- The Hulk has entered the Galaxy.
Inspired from a comment on r/FanTheories. Would the Sith try to recruit the Hulk? Or would they fear him? | He had to remain calm. He had to figure out where he was and how he had gotten here. The Hulk had been in control for so long,as they bounced from star system to star system. He knew The Hulk was trying to find his way back to Earth,to have his vengeance on those who had set them adrift among the stars. Banner couldnt ... | Darth Plagueis opened himself up to the flow of information the force offered, his body descending the stairs of his ship on pure muscle memory. The rocky, near-deserted planet was a world, no, *worlds* away from the sophistication of Coruscant but it was here on the outlying edges of the galaxy that he felt truly invi... | 2014-07-22T20:33:57 | 2014-07-22T19:19:57 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You can rewind time at will, but only a couple minutes at a time. Everyone around you believes you are an expert at everything, in reality you use your power to correct every mistake. | It can be hard to imagine, because of human design, that by a small margin you can control the time.
I would love, my dear reader, to teach you to control, but only the creator knows the special word. Even if I wrote it, I would have to write again, even if I told it, I would have to tell again. So behold! my dear rea... | Jim was the best, ever, period. He made sure everyone knew it, too. Any time there was a writing assignment during class, he’d stalk from desk to desk, paper to paper, until he found what he was looking for. With a few slashes and strokes of his red pen, he’d write in spelling, grammar, and punctuation suggestions as t... | 2018-03-30T21:13:08 | 2018-03-30T20:49:45 | 35 | 25 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Secretary Rosen sat contemplating silently while the Roni Ambassador dictated to him the terms of peace that Humanity was expected to accept following their defeat in battle yesterday.
Intergalactic Warfare wasn't so different from that practiced on Earth for millennia. They fought just as ferociously as soldiers s... | Dargeroth, the grand admiral assigned to this arm of the milky way, scoffed at the message. The Aristance Empire had been expanding for centuries with little resistance, and even the United Federation of Galactic Systems posed a miniscule threat. And yet, the small human alliance centered around their home system had j... | 2019-11-24T14:03:48 | 2019-11-24T10:54:19 | 572 | 236 |
[WP] The King is dying and decides to abdicate his throne before he dies. During the coronation ceremony, he places the crown on a servant's head and declares him king, rather than one of his two sons. | Ranma laughed, trying to encourage all those in the hall to join. "My father jests, even in the face of death! Truly a light-hearted man to the end. Now, please, father. Place the crown on either Kalin's head or mine, and be done with the ceremony. We are your loyal sons, here to serve and protect the realm."
The king... | His Majesty's chapel erupted. Fred-Lesser was unsure what to make of the boom that shook his ears. All his years raised in the Kingdom's service and he never heard anything quite like it. To poverty, it even made his head feel heavy. And cozy. Sort of... regal feeling. He had to scratch his head, the velvet was startin... | 2016-02-12T16:04:34 | 2016-02-12T16:01:03 | 509 | 64 |
[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" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | I was sitting at my computer when my phone buzzed with an incoming text. I wasn't doing much, just watching YouTube and passing the time, so I picked up the phone and read what it said. "Reply yes if you can survive the last video game you played." Amused by the notion, despite not knowing who sent it, I replied yes... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-16T23:07:24 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | He felt nothing but terror at the tiny words on the screen in front of him. Printed in simple blocked characters.
"Be quiet, they'll hear you"
His crest stood on end, wings folding nervously into his chest. Surely this was a jest, a joke, some kind of galactic conspiracy, a stray message in some invisible stream of m... | I've seen it. I know it's there. The messages, unending stream, they're everywhere!
I saw it first when my days were young, the plants withered, the wind child and I felt a...presence... They were here for me! To tell me! I was chosen to decipher their language, and I swore to my destiny on that day.
The connection re... | 2017-10-31T16:39:56 | 2017-10-31T15:26:39 | 296 | 80 |
[WP] In the style of Dr. Seuss explain a major event in human history. | One jew, two jew
Who jew, you jew?
Sign this form to identify who's who
and we'll send you to the learning center for you few
With evidence for why? Well why? We have no clue
We'll call it a prize, a reward, or a privilege
While we map out population simply based off of lineage
Germany will prosper the jews wi... | The rain fell hard as if God himself had spat,
with a pitter and a pat
Noah pulled an idea out of his hat
"A boat! An ark! How about that!
I'll need some, wood, glue and electrically safe mat,
And then I'll bring my friends Mr. and Mrs. Cat, Rat, and Bat."
| 2014-08-09T21:04:37 | 2014-08-09T19:25:57 | 86 | 12 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | Death may seem like the worst that can happen to you, but I asure you there are fates far worse, like marriage. What started out as a brief yet exciting love affair ended in a life of slavery and torment at the hands of what can only be described as a monster.
It all started going wrong when I accidentally walked in o... | You sat in the chair, nurses and police officers towering over. Your wrists were tightned and you let out a dreadful scream. You have a phobia of needles so you look away. You can feel the sick in your stomach
"Scared eh?" One officer said.
"Scared of the truth?" He repeated
"Give it up Andrew!" Another officer said
"... | 2020-02-09T12:50:15 | 2020-02-09T12:45:04 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | The earliest one gets one's familiar is at 13. The latest is generally 18. The world record is something like 27. I feel bad for that guy; eight years waiting was hard enough.
Familiars are strange beings. The earliest recorded one came in the early 1800s, a great bear-like beast that followed a single man. They canno... | Some saw them as animals. Others were trailed by ghostly figures, embodying compassion or envy or pride or any of the hundred of qualities that dominated their lives.
Nina tried to convince herself she was simply too well-balanced to have one. That's what she told the bullies that mocked her for being too utterly ordi... | 2017-01-20T13:17:28 | 2017-01-20T12:59:54 | 4,354 | 456 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around, did I find you?"
I froze. *What the fuck?*
"Don't be afraid."
Strangers bumped past my shoulders, struggling to get past me. Like a rock in a fast-bubbling brook, I remained fixed to the subway floor. I tried to calm my thoughts. She could hear all of them, after all.
But curiosity and sheer impulse ... | She has always been there for me. She has always been honest with me.
When I was 4 years old, she told me Mr Bunny had been saying mean things about me. I threw him in the bin. My mother was upset she said why did I throw away my favourite toy. I said he's not my favourite any more.
When I was 6, she taught me what v... | 2019-09-14T11:28:36 | 2019-09-14T11:01:10 | 74 | 16 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "Look at that idiot swinging a sword at my playful Gilgamore." I said while looking out of my window from the top floor of the tower into the courtyard.
Every damn time... I don't know why they think they need to *Slaaaaay the Draaagon.* What was this, some Walt Disney princess movie? Did they honestly think that if t... | He opened the wooden door with a long drawn out squeak. In his hand a touch rose up illuminating the room and stretching his shadow behind him like taffy. He gazed at the silhouette laying in a bed decorated in fine silks, the moon outlining the perfect beauty of Princess Marianna.
"Alas my Lady! I have" *Clonk!* he s... | 2019-01-09T10:46:09 | 2019-01-09T08:21:48 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] The news were shocking. In one week, a gigantic meteor was going to hit the Earth and obliterate it. Chaos ensues. Anarchy breaks out. Governments fall. A week later, everyone braces as they see the meteor… miss the Earth, barely. Things get awkward. | I grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him close, digging my face into his chest as he held me tightly. Nothing was going to save us from the meteor, so we embraced our timely deaths as the bright light of the meteor grew larger, cutting through our atmosphere. I admitted, finally, to myself that I didn’t quite love thi... | The sound of the bolt racheting back was so satisfying. It was why she'd picked the outdated thing. The way that her target's face painted the arena floor was satisfying too. The way he screamed and fell to the ground still horrified her, still gave her those little shivers of guilt and adrenaline.
"Another victory fo... | 2022-06-15T10:51:41 | 2022-06-15T10:14:56 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Long ago, someone wished that all dragons would become housecats. Now, the magic of the wish is weakening and they are slowly starting to turn back. | "... the hive of dragons erupted off of 3rd and Main Street earlier as police were trying to do their best to evacuate the area."
The news droned in the background as I looked at Elizabeth, who didn't seem to be phased by the whole thing.
"You know, honey," she pointed towards the screen, "I think I might know that... | Sprinkles, a fat black cat belonging to Steve and Harriet Pearlman of 625 Meadowlark Lane, turned into a ravenous, sixty-foot, three-headed dragon at precisely 9:16 on the morning of September 15, 2016. Prior to this moment, Sprinkles' all-time most destructive act was the jettisoning of a lemonade pitcher off the kitc... | 2016-04-13T19:47:44 | 2016-04-13T19:37:41 | 533 | 56 |
[WP] When humanity developed FTL, the specifics of the drive meant that each ship needed to be the size of Manhattan and built like an anti-nuke bunker to survive a trip, not to mention using enough power to fry a continent. This was shocking to aliens more used to gentler, subtler means of travel. | A pillar of burning light rose from the base of the greater sphere. It's beauty never failed to evoke awe. The pillar was the culmination of a great core tap, initiated on the planet below. The energy stream stretched across the interior of the sphere and out through the spire. Juhar, as the administrator, was privileg... | \[A/N: Coming in at 1233 words, this might just be the longest thing I've ever written.\]
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The Tellamani people were not alone in the universe.
At first, it was just a whisper of radio signals, too regular to ignore but too brief to really place credence in.
Then came another, then another, then a const... | 2020-10-26T20:03:55 | 2020-10-26T18:20:08 | 100 | 73 |
[WP] 'Please Adopt Me', said the box on the side of the road, with the single black puppy in it. So you did. A year later, you realize the breed is a bit complicated, considering it has three heads, a snake tail, and breathes fire. | So, I adopted this puppy. Black as overbrewed coffee, a hairless tail with *scales*, and three heads.
From a box. I figured someone thought he'd end up being put down and just abandoned the little guy because birth defects. Well, not a problem. I'm a dog lover. Even a dog with a few extra heads. Means he'll be smarter... | This dog is amazing! Even though his random fire breaths are little bit annoying and his snake tail is awkward, I realized that this dog is amazing. Hes friendly, really strong, smart and handsome. I didn’t really show my dog to a lot of people, but after a while I told my friend John Burgler about it. At first he didn... | 2019-07-04T08:26:40 | 2019-07-04T05:01:08 | 165 | 52 |
[WP] a love story that ends with the words "and I hate her" | You know, I ran into her, some time after the break up.
It sucked.
We screamed, she cursed, called me an asshole. I called her a bitch.
She threw her popcorn at me.
(We were at the movies.)
That's how much we loved each other. Popcorn throwing in public love. Asshole-bitch-I-never-wanna-see-you-again love. That's... | One more day.
One more day was all it would've taken. I think she knew it, too. All I needed was one more day, and I could have made her dreams real.
I had made the reservations. The time; six o'clock. The *maître d'* knew my plan, from the moment I walked into the door, all the way up to the moment when we walked ... | 2014-11-24T04:03:48 | 2014-11-24T03:54:14 | 702 | 38 |
[WP] The day is 4th of July. The US suddenly cut off its connection to the outside world. Then they start to broadcast an international countdown. | Stephen and the rest had tried, and they had failed.
The plan was flawless, Stephen had okayed it himself. He had gone in with 4 others and had come out alone. The monster that had become The State of America should not be allowed to live. They had gone in, everything perfected, but what did they get in the end?
Br... | "I cant believe these idiots made me President. I can finally show this world my beautiful art."
"Mr. President! Please dont so this!" An agent said in the oval office.
"Come here John, watch poetry in action!"
"Why? Why have you betrayed the people like this?"
"Betrayal?! You dare tell me after all humanity has d... | 2017-06-25T11:46:41 | 2017-06-25T10:11:16 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] When someone's heart breaks so does a piece of our world; this creates fissures, valleys, and even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon.
Have fun! :D | "Hello, you're new here, who are you?"
"Greetings, I'm Mr Moon," said the Moon cheerily.
"I'm glad you're here Mr Moon, I have been so very lonely."
"Well be lonely no more, for I'm here to stay," the Moon reassured.
"Oh that's just wonderful, I have so wanted to talk to someone for so very long."
A pause.
"Mr Mo... | "Keep this with you at all times." He hands me a silver locket. I open it and it was empty.
No, Dean was not the best. He was callous and he had the worst of hygienes. He was stingy, although our kids and their kids will have endless supply of their needs and wants. But he's kind, and charming. He smiles and my parent... | 2015-12-03T15:00:03 | 2015-12-03T12:13:15 | 1,218 | 107 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | Groggy thoughts...clouded memory...so weak...so weak. The blade had been sleeping for ages, too weak to even reach out for a new wielder. Every righteous hero and every depraved villain who took the blade ended up dead, surprised at how dull the blade was, how heavy and unbalanced it felt. The blade of wrath was anythi... | Master would've used this blade well, I thought.
Her sword, after all, was one of hatred. Against the unfairness of the world. Against pain. Against destiny. Against the apathetic heaven that only observed suffering.
It was why her sword was called Infernal Heaven. Why her sect was called the Demonic Cult.
It no lon... | 2021-09-18T15:30:23 | 2021-09-18T12:56:51 | 108 | 34 |
[WP] The Sea of Trees. The deeper you go, the taller they get, and the more incredible the animals. After a month of traveling, you just found your first clearing. | Samantha has been missing in the sea of trees for five days now.
We pass the infamous sign, nailed askew to a tall redwood: DO NOT PASS THIS POINT ALONE. We've lost many a teenager to that sign, to stupid dares accepted under the influence of alcohol and testosterone.
But we're safe. Our search group is a bit more th... | With dirt-covered fingers, I wiped the sweat from my eyes and squinted. The darkness of the forest taught me to look twice, and then again, before every step. I walked forward, the browning duff crunching beneath my feet, and fell to my knees.
The clearing was a great, green circle around me. Shadowy light fell throug... | 2017-06-17T12:52:38 | 2017-06-17T11:39:36 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Humans left Earth a long time ago. In their place, dogs have evolved to be the new sentient species, but they never lost their love of humankind. Their technology has finally caught up to space travel, and they take to the stars in search of their human precursors.
You've all fallen for one of the classic blunder... | "Dog Star"
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“Our human who art in the Heavens, Master be thy name. The kibble will come, the steak well done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily walk, sniffing those who trespass, as we are sniffed by those who trespass against us, and lead us not into hedgerows, but deliver us from l... | Long ago, long before the time of canines, another species
ruled the Earth. They were not the strongest of species, the quickest, or even longest-lived,
but their incredible intelligence allowed them to become the apex species. They
created a world in their own image and did incredible accomplishments our
species has y... | 2019-05-14T10:33:45 | 2019-05-14T10:07:58 | 88 | 59 |
[WP] In a stereotypical dystopian story, a teen girl with a bow attempts to cause an uprising against the government. Except, there isn't anything actually wrong with the government. She is actually just really kinda whiny and bitchy.
[removed] | They came for him at dawn, screaming across the dusty plain, throwing up a choking cloud in their wake which turned the sun red. He knew this was an entirely dramatic decision, since she'd set up camp sometime the afternoon before. Within sight of the city's towers.
The gates and walls of Newhaven were more than stro... | Freya readied her aim, as a hushed silence fell over the masses. Her cloak whipped in the chill night air. Everyone was staring at her in adoration, hanging onto every word - it was the perfect moment to exact her revenge.
"Your day has come!" she screamed, triumphant at the sight of Jarek Earl, ruler of the Five Isle... | 2016-11-15T23:15:06 | 2016-11-15T22:55:23 | 1,112 | 274 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | The end of all galactic life had been going on for nearly 10 standard cycles. The Enemy was as relentless as it was ancient, still no one knew where they had come from, or what their purpose was beyond mere universal destruction.
A long time ago, most sovereign governments and most of the colonies had all but given u... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-06T02:43:37 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 121 | 46 |
[WP] A pre-battle monologue between two fighters, but rather than the usual "deterministic good guy vs. inevitable evil" banter, a knight/sellsword/soldier angrily explains to his opponent why his giant mega demongunsword of death-murder is not an effective weapon. | Zort the Immortal hefted the weight of his gargantuan weapon onto his shoulder and pondered the pathetic man before him.
A Paladin of the holy something or other, he had called himself. A thousand years of learning every new religion and sect and pathos and government and so on left Zort with little patience for pret... | Zolaroid swung his massive behemoth of a weapon toward Ben completely missing his intended target. After a few seconds of delay Ben looking bewildered by the effort Zolaroid had to exert to angle his sword and aimed it toward Ben, then with painfully slow charging time the sword glowed bright red and launched an electr... | 2019-05-06T00:23:34 | 2019-05-06T00:11:51 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] "Genetic Designer Babies" are commonplace, but parents only have so many "stat points" to allocate between your different physical and mental abilities. Your parents dumped all your stat points into one thing. | I've always been the top of my class without ever having to try very hard. I study in much the same way as the rest of my classmates: read through the textbook once and then go take the test. The difference is I remember everything. With the diagrams, the explanations, and my knowledge of how things fit together, syste... | The strange man is sitting across the table, looking at me. I was always told to be a good boy and look people in the eye. So that's what I do. Until something better comes along.
I'm sitting here in this big empty room, just waiting. They watch me, I watch them.
I'm starting to get bored.
My dad would often get mad. ... | 2016-12-13T15:48:39 | 2016-12-13T14:05:56 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | 10 minutes ago Hawk was lounging around at the base with nothing much to do. Now he and his co-pilot Twitch were in a Typhoon at 10,000 feet and cruising just under Mach 1 towards the unidentified contact.
Unidentified radar contacts were not an unusual occurrence and usually ended up being a weather balloon, a large... | The phone rings at RAF Heyford tower control. “It’s a civilian air traffic controller sir.” The room is quiet with curiosity. “What is their issue?” Asks the commanding officer with an irritated tone. “Unidentified air craft not responding to radio contact.” Replied the airman with a slight concern on his face. “Locate... | 2019-12-01T09:08:36 | 2019-12-01T08:37:01 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] The United States has suddenly gone dark. No noise or activity out of there for a week, not even a Reddit post. You are part of an SAS squad sent to investigate. | The Aircraft lurched and hopped roughly as it set down on the runway at Jean Lesage international airport. Outside the late season blizzard howled and blustered in its last attempt to snatch the plane from the air. On board Col. Mcentire looked over the cargo bay stuffed with their expeditionary vehicles supplies, and ... | Within the clouds there was no noise, only the constant whir of the chopper blades pulsing above the men and I. I shifted my legs so that they crossed each other and looked out the sliding door. Water hissed as the blades passed through the damp air. It was eerie. Usually, my men where being the assholes they were and... | 2017-03-07T12:22:54 | 2017-03-07T11:17:45 | 61 | 33 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I have to say, that this isn't so bad.
Yeah, it's a bit cramped, and the lighting's is too dim, but I'm a fan of the rustic life.
Of course, I preferred living in my Dad's mansion, making all my money off of my job at his firm, but that's all gone now, and all I have is this dingy apartment.
It took some doing too.... | I hold her hand.
She smiles at me.
Despite having lost her sense of touch, she can somehow still smile, for me.
"I love you" she whispers
"I know" I reply.
"I'm going to beat this" she insists
"I know" I reply
Her eyes slowly close.
I put down the knife. | 2017-05-31T02:40:54 | 2017-05-31T01:46:56 | 548 | 109 |
[WP] A genie gives you two options. One is to get your three wishes now, or to get one wish a day for five days. He tells you that no one before has survived and gotten all five wishes. You choose the latter. | I only rubbed the lamp as a joke. It was *just a stupid fucking joke* between my friends and I as we were bored standing around the antique shop where we worked. It was a hole in the wall joint in a bad part of town so we were lucky if we saw three actual customers a day. With that spirit crushing reality, of course we... | "Definitely a wish a day," I asserted confidently. The genie looked at me surprised, his warnings having been ignored. Picture me, this modern day Aladdin, beanie instead of turban, a little bit whiter around the edges but basically the same in the end. He rubbed a lamp, I rubbed a bong and just like that there's a gen... | 2019-06-04T11:28:14 | 2019-06-04T08:12:27 | 200 | 68 |
[WP] "No one has ever been this close to a human before," the alien whispers to his camera drone. "My hearts are pounding. This is actually extremely dangerous. Humans in larger colonies are skittish, but out here, they're bold and territorial. That stick he's pointing at me could blow my head off." | **Translated painstakingly to Galactic Boggstandard and close-captioned for your feeble comprehension. This dataspurt made possible by financial contributions to the Supreme Galactic Magistracy Broadcasting Network from subjugated vassals like you. Hail to our glorious Suzerain Consul.**
"The galaxy's most dangerous ... | “As you could see, you can clearly observe the human pointing that stick at my head. That thing could very easily blow my head off.” The reporter gestured towards the human, indicating the camera to do a zoom in.
“I said, get off my lawn! Get off my lawn or I’ll blow your head off!”
The reporter kept his gaze locked ... | 2020-09-29T16:21:34 | 2020-09-29T14:24:50 | 3,047 | 332 |
[WP] Civilization evolved on Mars parallel to humanity with similar technology. Thanks to the radio we've spent most of the twentieth century sending messages back and forth, learning about each other like interplanetary pen pals. It is 2030 and both civilizations have agreed to meet.
Edit: I've been thinking, feel fr... | The two sat in silence. On the table before them were red foods from the blue planets and blue foods from the red. It hadn't been coordinated: the two leaders had wanted to play a small joke on the other, and had come up with the same joke.
When the aides had left, and the leaders had taken their seats, they had foun... | "Soon before long, Mars will cross with Earth."
Commander Galt had a face full of expectations. His Pilot, Miyazaki Fuuko, decided to not question the grammatical syntax and meaning of what he had just muttered.
"Maybe we should stop muttering cryptic sentences and get on the PA.", said Pilot Fuuko.
Commander Galt f... | 2015-05-29T10:05:56 | 2015-05-29T08:28:27 | 191 | 31 |
[WP] Aliens prefer term "prey animals", Humans prefer term "herbivores". A group of alien hunters, hunting on Earth, painfully discovered why. | On their home planet, the first simple beings came from the oceans: the vast swirling currents carrying billions of cells gave way to more complex agglomerations, moving near the water's surface, absorbing the nourishment of two suns. These photosynthetic creatures eventually colonized the tide pools and the rocky beac... | (The following is translated from glorpinax to English for your convenience)
"What kind of sister-loving bum-fuckery is this Clarence?!?!" Earl asked, still trying to shake off the loss of his cousins Tucker and Maurice who moments ago were trampled and mauled by one and a half tonnes of toothy angry mammal. "These ca... | 2022-08-16T14:23:30 | 2022-08-16T13:47:52 | 543 | 264 |
[WP] Humans have this idea that they are feared throughout the galaxy because they are willing to use any half baked, harebrained, or otherwise impossible plan to win a war. This amuses the rest of the galaxy to no end, so they play along just to see what humans think will work this time. | The laughter in the war-room had ceased long before the fourth messenger delivered his dire tidings.
"I told you we should have crushed them when we had the chance!" yelled General Kraton, second in command of the Gorluppian fleet. Insubordination was a capital offence any other day, but Commander Juju had other thin... | Bathed in the dim glow of the hologram illuminating the otherwise lightless surveillance post, the scaled creature uttered what might have been akin to a laugh. The rumors had made the rounds throughout the nests earlier in the previous weeks, but he had to see it himself.
"That's not possible," the commander began, b... | 2017-05-24T18:25:54 | 2017-05-24T16:06:28 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] You're immortal and have passed the 'hero' phase centuries ago. You enter a small corner shop one day to find it is owned by your millennia-old arch-nemesis. You really, really need milk though. | Time dulls the edges of enmity. A man's hatreds can only last so long. Is it wisdom or weariness that takes out the sting?
I cannot say.
But it's true. Even the man who played my adversary for millennia. Who tortured me and tormented those I loved. Who spread evil and pain through the world like a cancer, corrupting ... | Stornak the Mighty, Saviour of the Five Kingdoms, Uniter of the Tribes, Destroyer of the Blood Temple of Karnull, Lord of Mandon, Bearer of the Power Crystals, plus sundry other titles, was in a hurry. He had a hot date with Jessica from marketing that evening, and he was only half certain he'd end up round hers. If he... | 2021-07-18T15:40:25 | 2021-07-18T14:27:01 | 755 | 210 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | Kurt looked own at the screen.
He started Dragon's Egg when he was fifteen and just getting into programming. He based a lot of it on old games he played himself. He had been a huge fan of Zelda, Runescape, Final Fantasy.
But the effort he put into the game just seemed pointless. No one seemed to be entering the 's... | It was a simple enough concept. We dig, we mine, we dig, we mine. Everyone was agreed that we were some sort of dwarves but we didn't really have any need to verify it.
We dig, we mine, and occasionally one of us would come along who could dig, and mine, and fight the cave monsters and was, well, some sort of super-dw... | 2015-09-01T09:58:16 | 2015-09-01T09:31:42 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] When a mage is awakened, they acquire one spell and must master all its forms before they acquire another. While every spell starts trivial and grows in power over time, yours appears especially useless: The ability to create a black spot on the wall. | Realistically, no one gets a spell that’s much to shout about as their first. Still, when I discovered mine was the ability to make a black spot appear on a wall I was pretty envious of some of the other mages as they floated sheets of paper and moved little drops of water about.
After a while I found that I could ma... | The Riftkeeper
It started out…terrible! All i could do was create a black spot on the wall! As i improved the magic, i learned to make it bigger and…deeper? The spot seemed to be getting deeper day by day. Until yesterday, when something changed, i could see an unfamiliar area, like i was looking through glass. The ho... | 2022-08-27T01:45:53 | 2022-08-26T19:36:13 | 107 | 33 |
[WP] "Who took your wings, little angel?" The voice calls from the darkness. | She’s shaking, the poor thing. A small girl, dressed in rags, curled in a trembling ball on harsh, jagged stones. She’s not even trying to navigate through the darkness anymore. She’s given up.
Her dark hair hangs about her thin shoulders, matted with dirt and blood. Injuries litter her skeletal frame. Cuts, scrapes, ... | Out of the pile of robot discards, Seraphim had chosen a child unit, a small girl, a perfectly good Model Daughter that one couple must have grown bored with when they had decided that their adopted AI needed a more grown-up body. Seraphim liked child units. They were small. And quick. It made killing easier.
“Who t... | 2021-03-16T23:08:36 | 2021-03-16T21:20:54 | 34 | 20 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | Ultra stared at me with wide eyes, waiting for me to make the first move and I did.
Boooooom! My arm launched back from shock.
A single shot to the head was all it took to bring low the great and powerful Ultra. Of course it wasn't a normal gun, it was one made by me, Nemesis. I used his only weakness, A space all... | The fire crackled and popped, illuminating the entrance of my lair. They broke in all at once. Half a dozen heroes, none of which it seemed knowing how to use the door, might I add, stood before me.
“It’s over Mania, the jig is up,” their leader, Captain Heronius stated.
I could care less. If they want to invade and ... | 2019-08-06T17:34:25 | 2019-08-06T16:11:22 | 83 | 41 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | As the car slowed in the lineup, I forgot to breathe. It was all beginning to make sense. I knew Talia was well-off, but the limousine seemed a little extravagant for a work outing. It made me a little uncomfortable to be in one of these, again. It had been so, so long-- a different time, a different life altogethe... | She’s insane.
I swear it.
A grade-A loony who belongs in a straight-jacket.
Somehow we’ve dated for six months, and somehow she managed to hide that side of herself for the first three. She was so friendly back then. Her laugh was graceful yet cute, and she seemed to have an answer for all the world’s problems. I... | 2017-06-14T12:00:32 | 2017-06-14T11:04:30 | 372 | 39 |
[WP] Your mouse cursor has broken through your screen and can now interact with the world around you. You realize that you can do everything in the real world like you can on your computer, but right clicking gives you many more options. | I'm sorry, but I will save you, forgive me.
It started with a small crack on the screen.
I thought nothing of it, it was an old desktop and I had thrown some abuse at it over the years, and besides, it didn't really bother me - after all, it was only small. Overtime it grew, the screen became unusable and fragile. T... | *Click. Drag. Delete.*
I looked out my window, and suddenly the row of house across from me were gone, erased from existence. Sweat dripped from my forehead and I wiped it away with a trembling hand. I suddenly became very aware of my accelerating heart beat.
Was it a hallucination? If so, there's no harm in it.
*Cl... | 2018-03-25T09:29:26 | 2018-03-25T09:22:28 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | You unlock your apartment door in anticipation, wondering if it would happen again. You had just moved into this apartment a couple days ago, and as a result your evening visitor has been conspicuously absent. As you creak the door open slowly, the smell of a delicious home cooked meal hits you in the nose. With a big ... | I take my work seriously. It’s what I was born to do... and I love it, though I find it increasingly tiring. I work with some of the smartest men who have ever lived. I believe this. And what we do, has never been done before. I can’t tell you about it so don’t ask.
My life works because of the rules. The rules I cre... | 2017-12-09T07:28:01 | 2017-12-09T07:06:04 | 269 | 10 |
[WP] You're a spy who's just accidentally sent your "if you're watching this I've died" video to your only child. Now they're off on an epic quest to avenge you, and you're racing to stop them, always one step behind... It would be easier if you hadn't raised such a smart kid... | "He's good," Clary chuckled. "Real good. You've done a good job with him. No, amazing, I dare to say."
"I guess you'd could call him my most successful operation," I muttered, my words said with a mixture of pride and mild disgust. "He was always a damn precocious kid-- magic-prone and too curious for his own good. He... | *Oh no.*
*I really did send it.*
*It wasn't a dream after all.*
*My son thinks I'm dead.*
And I can't reach him. That brilliant bastard, not keeping a single thing on him that would be trackable. He's going to make his old man "proud" but what he's really doing is taking a sledgehammer to my groin.
He's going to g... | 2020-04-16T20:14:06 | 2020-04-16T20:12:59 | 314 | 173 |
[WP] The Galactic Federation of Worlds detects life on a planet. As per usual, they send an emissary with an invitation to join. They return with odds news, this planet doesn’t have a trace of technology. Instead, they use Magic, as if its a Fantasy world. | It was supposed to be a routine mission for Captain Nikolaj and his crew. The blue-and-green planet appeared to be stuck in the pre-industrial stage of development, which wasn't unusual for a human colony lost during the Collapse. The orbital scans revealed vast forests and rolling farmlands, quaint villages and imposi... | “Magic?”
“Yes, Councillor.”
“Like in a story book?”
“Yes, Councillor.”
“...have you suffered any recent head trauma?”
“No, Councillor.”
“Either way. Doc?”
A hologram shimmered into existence. A squat, near-spherical woman with a cigarette hanging out the corner of her mouth, and a stethoscope around her neck. “W... | 2022-12-03T08:11:40 | 2022-12-03T05:21:45 | 58 | 23 |
[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... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 61 | 36 |
[WP] Whenever you are about to die, your main consciousness switches to alternate universe in which you survived. This makes you conscious only of the longest possible life. Uppon death, you are shown all the ways you would have died. | An endless white void, both expansive and smothering. Two disembodied voices emerge.
“Hello?”
“Hello.”
“Who are you?”
“I am Death.
“I’m dead?”
“You cannot outsmart me any longer.”
“Any longer?”
“You have bested me many times your whole life. That life is now over. I have finally won. As I always do.”
“How man... | “Excuse me. Do you have any Gay Uppoun?” Larry put his hands over his eyes and cursed under his breath then muttered, “grey poupon, grey poupon.” Removing his hands from his eyes, he realized he was no longer in the limo, but rather in a fluorescent-lit office of rather drab appointment. “Uh, cut? Bill, I can take it a... | 2018-02-15T06:54:44 | 2018-02-15T06:44:08 | 85 | 29 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | As Douglas' ship pulled closer to the planet's atmosphere, his onboard computer connected with a local satellite. It began to broadcast the latest galactic news.
*The top story lately is that the Galactic Senate declared every planet in our galaxy "identified and assessed for signs of life." All accounts point to ... | I've seen it. I know it's there. The messages, unending stream, they're everywhere!
I saw it first when my days were young, the plants withered, the wind child and I felt a...presence... They were here for me! To tell me! I was chosen to decipher their language, and I swore to my destiny on that day.
The connection re... | 2017-10-31T17:25:04 | 2017-10-31T15:26:39 | 163 | 80 |
[WP] A prophecy has foretold of two siblings who would be the ultimate forces of good and evil. Together, they could stop the warring nations and establish peace. One day, a woman gives birth to triplets. The first two wield the ancient powers. The last one does not. You are the third one. | When the arch-priest visited our home, he deemed my two siblings, the ultimate forces of good and evil; the ancient prophecy foretold in the old book reinforced this. As for me, well, he said I was an average child blessed with a small stature.
Growing up in the shadow of my brother and sister quickly grew annoying. M... | "Zebbichia, you must eat!" Pushing seedy bread at your face your mother seems desperate, as always, to try to somehow use protein to turn you in to someone else, someone more like one of your siblings.
As you fight the bread away, and she seems to finally relent on feeding you, she begins on her daily ritual of tryin... | 2020-08-27T21:24:34 | 2020-08-27T20:59:31 | 363 | 126 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | I walked through the back allies, the worst ones in town, to get home from work. They were dirty, and stunk of things best ignored. If you could. But it didn't really bother me. My power wasn't flashy, but it worked when I needed it.
Four young men and two women came out from various hiding spots as I passed an in... | “So what is your power?” The administrator says. Everyone has one all we know is they are made from our worst fear, once our worst fears are fully developed at around age 10 - 12.
“Well, I am not entirely sure. Sometimes things just happen. They tend to happen?” I say as to misdirect the conversation. For some context... | 2022-05-14T23:12:34 | 2022-05-14T22:11:22 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | Major Meridith: we attack the Emus.
Dm: Alright, that will be your Lewis guns, thats going to be your Dex Mods, Plus your proficiency modifiers. Roll to hit.
Major Meridith: ... 1, plus my mods thats a total of 7.
Dm: the emus dodge your gun fire, they taunt you. They run south beyond your sight.
Major Meridith: we... | “I want to roll to invade them!”
“Uh, are you sure that’s what you want to do?”
“Yes. Of course. Just let me roll.”
“Fine. Roll.”
He rolls his 20 sided die across the table. It stops directly in front of the Dungeon Master, who looks down and smirks.
“Well. You go to invade Russia. You gather your troops and march ri... | 2018-05-29T09:12:26 | 2018-05-29T07:54:52 | 51 | 36 |
[WP] A cure for the zombie infection has been found, and you are the first one to be turned back. However, there's an unexpected side effect: You now remember everything. | I remember everything. I am one of many who was cured of the Plague, and like my fellows I know everything I did during the years I was infected. Most people don't talk about their Plague memories. The things people have seen and done... It's easy to pick out one of the Cured in a crowd, because they have a haunted ... | *Beep. Beep. Beep.*
They had taken his immortality. They had taken it gladly.
It was obvious why they had chosen him: his thin spindly figure, the blood splattered rags of a hospital gown.
*Easy to handle.* They had whispered. *Easy to catch. Just a child.*
When the purge had come, he had gone out into the world will... | 2014-07-27T17:41:09 | 2014-07-27T13:03:56 | 65 | 30 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | “So, Anthony. You were born in space?”
“Yes. My mom met my d –“
“I’m a doctor, not your biographer.”
“Sorry.”
“No need to apologize. It’s just been a long day. I just spent the last 8 hours recreating all my records from nothing because little Jimmy decided now was the time to lose control of his powers.”
“He…?”
... | My life was an accident. A bad accident. So bad that my existence had to be kept a secret.
My parents you two people that should not have been together. They were two of seven astronauts that were sent to Mars. The first astronauts to ever venture beyond the moon. They were seen as heroes for their "bravery" and "serv... | 2017-04-15T00:14:42 | 2017-04-14T21:11:18 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | Nelko strode into the King's Council Room and took his seat beside Lord Austin of the Legions. As they waited for the King, Nelko gazed around the room, meeting eyes with Holy Priestess Marianne, Admiral Seaborn of the Nine Fleets, and fourteen other titans of Daringrad. They looked back at him, beholding him as their ... | "Good morning Mr Dale. You are now my apprentice in fire magic"
"you forgot my title lad"
"No I am not, I am your teacher now, I might be a journeyman, but you are below me now, not a grandmaster. Call me teacher Watt"
"Grr.. ok fine, good morning teacher Watt"
"Great, now let's start with our first lesson. Tell me... | 2022-05-30T11:34:19 | 2022-05-30T10:15:54 | 74 | 26 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "Kinda short for a knight, aren't you?"
The words hung in the air. Sir Gregory was taken aback. He was expecting the princess to be excited to see him or terrified of the dragon. Condescension was an emotion he never entertained.
"Oh Gods, you reek. No, this won't do. If you wish to rescue me *properly* I insist you ... | He opened the wooden door with a long drawn out squeak. In his hand a touch rose up illuminating the room and stretching his shadow behind him like taffy. He gazed at the silhouette laying in a bed decorated in fine silks, the moon outlining the perfect beauty of Princess Marianna.
"Alas my Lady! I have" *Clonk!* he s... | 2019-01-09T11:59:29 | 2019-01-09T08:21:48 | 158 | 28 |
[WP] A child is born with a condition that doctors describe not as a deformity, but as a form of evolution. | When Adam was born, he didn’t cry. He didn’t make a sound. Thank god Pauline was too deep in an epidural haze to notice as the nurses scrambled, yelling for doctors, prepping for surgery.
It wasn’t the first time this had happened. Adam wasn’t our first child. We started trying for a baby three years ago. After a few... | "Well, it is certainly peculiar isn't it..."
"It's not an "it" it's a child, and don't let the mother hear you call him "peculiar"
Two doctors in white lab coats face a glass window on the other side is swaddle of blue blankets laying softly in a crib. One doctor is young man just donning his doctor's coat for the ... | 2014-04-11T13:06:39 | 2014-04-11T11:58:32 | 145 | 62 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I forget. Well, I make everyone forget. That’s my power, but you probably won’t recall this in approximately 1 minute.
It’s a curse. I watched as my other friends develop wondrous abilities during puberty- flight, invulnerability, elemental control, while I was bestowed with the power of forgetting. Maybe it was becau... | "I know you like strawberries, but.... *that* much?"
He stared at the humongous mountain of fruit. The bottom ones were being crushed by the upper ones, and oozed their sweet juices onto the highway. The cars tried to drive around the giant pile of fructose, but it was taking up just *too* much space, including the si... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T03:51:32 | 4,320 | 429 |
[WP] You design a sensor that can detect probabilities of catching diseases from eating or drinking stuff. One day, your device detects "100% of catching ancient curse" from the seemingly harmless free samples provided by a woman in a supermarket. | It was just another work day, I was standing around in the food section at Walmart, giving out free samples of some new paleo bacon, when some weirdo walked over and started scanning my samples with his smartphone.
"Taking pictures for Instagram?" I asked. He looked up at me through his large glasses.
"No, actually,"... | Is it wrong? Maybe. I don't really know. What I am sure of is that no one comes down anymore. Not in centuries. It's lonely - devastatingly lonely. And that's not fair at all.
I hand out a paper sample cup. This time to a mother and the toddler in her arms. She takes a sip and then lets him try. He smiles. He likes i... | 2018-02-08T19:17:25 | 2018-02-08T19:10:40 | 831 | 107 |
[WP] After a hard intense labor your son is finally born. Just when you think you can breathe easy the doctor holds him up to reveal a baby with impossible spiky multi-colored hair. Gravely the doctor informs, “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.” | “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.”
My mum told me that the doctor just blurted it out, no regard for her feelings or the gravity of the situation.
I guess that the gravity of the situation kinda threw her out. Protagonists are a big deal. Our destiny seems to lead us down pathways that are ju... | I felt the fear sink in right away. No. First I get pregnant as a man, then this. I never thought it could happen to me. You watch the documentaries and think this couldn't happen to me, but here I was with a starry eyed glowing child, his blue hair standing straight up. It all goes racing through my head at once, why ... | 2018-08-21T06:46:32 | 2018-08-21T06:37:28 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | ACTION REPORT
Date: 4301.51.2
Reporting Officer: Flormat Snikker, Tricounsel, Fourth Armada
Subject: Sol 3 Conflict, Withdrawal
Initial skirmishes were wildly successful. The natives were woefully unprepared for combat. After the customary challenges were issued, our champions were sent forth from each ship to do s... | It's the 16th of June and just like something straight out of sci-fi, alien lifeforms are invading planet Earth.
They came to our planet in mechanized horse carriages, dozens and dozens of them in fleets of flying horse carriages, without the horses.
People are whispering rumors to each other on the streets about t... | 2015-04-16T10:56:19 | 2015-04-16T09:46:16 | 78 | 39 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | Melinda was beautiful. Well, maybe a better word is bewitching. She has this beautiful crown of black hair and a quirky smile. It starts a little lopsided when sharing an inside joke and then widens into a full smile with sparkling eyes and crinkly corners when you get the joke.
She speaks with a low voice, every w... | The entire town had apparently gone medieval. Not actual medieval-medieval, but fairytale medieval: solve the Sphynx's riddle, save the princess from the tower and gain the throne to the kingdom!
Only in this case the Sphynx's riddle was the key to a penthouse around the neck of a particularly skittish black cat, the ... | 2019-05-01T18:44:31 | 2019-05-01T18:12:07 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] God returns to Earth. Before any questions are asked he says two words, "I'm sorry." | 'I'm sorry'
The words came out of nowhere, or rather, they came from inside the heads of everyone on the planet. It was a strange thing, to hear with the mind and not the ears, ones innermost privacy violated; to have that familiar, personal voice, conjured by oneself, replaced by the tone of a stranger, internal audi... | "I'm sorry", the white figure said.
"I have chosen to abandon you for a good reason", were the words that resounded across the globe.
If people could enact force with emotion alone then their cries would've torn the planet to pieces. Instead, some of those who believed huddled together as their father ascended into ... | 2014-05-25T07:48:13 | 2014-05-25T07:09:38 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | People have reasons for what they do. You eat when your hungry, you laugh at things that are funny and you fight those that challenge you. I wanted the city, as was my birth right. The problem was the heroic team that always stopped me.
Everytime, I would be so close and then they would find a way to stop me. In an ac... | I hate to admit it but we got close, I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t want him back. He’s extremely smart, strategic, and interesting to talk to. Apparently he was nothing more than a tool for the hero’s, they used his brain and nothing else. I felt bad for him, I offered him to work with me, but he said he di... | 2021-08-04T12:56:20 | 2021-08-04T11:24:19 | 292 | 154 |
[WP] One day you find a prompt that doesn't ask you to write a story based on some weird and mysterious happening, but actually inspires you to practice your general storytelling. And then a vampire attacks. | "My god, I've never seen a prompt so succinct, so inspiring, so perfectly constructed!" I said out loud for some reason. My cat gave me a judgmental look.
"Ah the creative juices are flowing, Cornelius! This one will get me the approval of at least three internet strangers, I can feel it!" Cornelius started licking h... | "I'm afraid that this is no good at all, David. The subreddit is never going to like this - you're going to have to redo it."
David sighed and shifted in the chair of his boss Mr. Harris' office listening to his prompt be torn apart against the backdrop of clattering keyboards and clicking mice. Rubbing his tired ey... | 2015-07-13T09:45:48 | 2015-07-13T08:15:49 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] The Caledonians expanded through the galaxy thanks to their logic and discipline, always following the plan, always following the rules. So when the fleet was about to be destroyed the Caledonian Admiral did what the book said: bring a human to the war room and let it make the decisions. | “Admiral, they're pushing us towards the Gravity well!” The young Caledonian officer shouted over the blarring of alarms and creaking of the ships Titanium bones.
“Sir, the right wing is breaking.” the visibly pale communication officer added.
Another barrage of missiles shook the ship, fire burst from the damage... | He couldn't believe it, the fleet wasn't following the book anymore, they always followed the book. forget cheating, all guns focus fire on there destroyers, take out there damage.
He still couldn't understand it, why take out engines that served no purpose, and they were taking serious losses to do it, friendly loss... | 2021-02-16T06:18:51 | 2021-02-16T04:43:15 | 258 | 34 |
[WP]Your whole life you have been able to shapeshift into anyone or anything. You've managed to keep this a secret from everyone by using as little as possible, But as you experiment with your power more and more you realize that it can be used in... unexpected ways | I hadn't meant to, the first time. I had just been dumped by Trish. Gah, that was an ugly one. So I leaned, a hand against the wall of the restaurant. And then I started to be the building. I could feel myself seeping into the pores of the mortar, molding into the wiring, the piping, the vents. When I opened my eyes, w... | It began with the muffins, a simple shift here or there, but then it was an obsession, better than human reproduction, even.
I had no excuses, I was obsessed with producing fruit, with photosynthesis, but my photosynthetic progeny were violent.
They stood tall, with long whipish stings, and could trace sound with d... | 2018-09-18T22:50:36 | 2018-09-18T21:36:33 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | "Charge men! For the emperor!"
At the commander's orders every single man and woman leapt from their foxhole with their bayonets affixed. The xenos firing line stared at each other confused for a second before shrugging and unleashing a volley of pulse rounds into the oncoming horde of brace humans. Some charged with... | Looking up from the hands of the aged and weathered quarterback the doctor could not fathom the pain. 52, fifty fucking two and this fucking maniac was till tossing bullets with better aim than a rookie just getting his chest hair.
Leaning back and taking In the living fossil, for this game to be Honest, he gasped as... | 2018-07-15T09:51:07 | 2018-07-15T08:19:45 | 63 | 27 |
[WP] You’re in a time loop but it’s not permanent. You repeat a day 3 times then time moves onto the next day. Rinse, repeat...Deja Vu was never more applicable. | The most useless feeling is the feeling of having control, only to have it ripped from you at the end of it all.
Years ago, I awoke on the second day of a Sunday, and unknowingly went out to go to my classes. I thought it was a Monday: why wouldn’t I? I had gone to work the previous day, and it was time to put my nose... | As soon as I realize what’s going on, I’m margin trading on the stock market and becoming ultra-wealthy. I might strike a lotto win to boost things along so I don’t have to wait around too long before realizing the wealth. 3 years of my time for one year of world time to go by.
Then the issue becomes filling up my day... | 2020-10-09T06:30:17 | 2020-10-09T05:37:23 | 106 | 14 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | I know what I am. More importantly, I know what I am not, but I still know the names. The names people spit with vitriol when my face is plastered on the news. Anarchist, terrorist, monster, savage. That’s fine with me. Let them spew their verbal sludge from their high horses knowing good and well they’d do the same in... | 8
8 times they've locked me up and thrown away the key.
8 times i've broken out of whatever cell they make for me.
20
20 times now have we met
20 bodies I have left.
I am John Reyes and I am a killer.
I order another scotch, the bartender slides one over. He's too scared to hand it to me, I can tell.
Foots ste... | 2018-10-18T17:20:09 | 2018-10-18T17:19:34 | 124 | 47 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "What did you say?"
Oh, shit. "I said, I flew biplanes against the Red Baron in that World War we won." Nailed it.
---
Thirty-two years later that kid found me again. This time he wasn't a kid, he was about forty. "You asshole, I knew you said World War One!"
"Wow. You have an incredible memory for small details.... | "You do not believe this is the last world conflict we'll see?"
I paused, realizing the blunder I had just made. However, it did not change anything; I could attribute my statement to many things without raising suspicion that I was not from this *time.*
"No, I do not think this is the last world war we will see," I... | 2017-12-10T11:09:21 | 2017-12-10T10:17:54 | 467 | 218 |
[WP] Scientists have managed to create the world's first time machine, however, it can only send messages to itself in the past. Within seconds of turning the machine on for the first time, messages of warning begin to flood in from the future.
This is one of the most probable ways that a time machine could actually w... | Jim turned the machine on and it hummed to life.
He was a janitor at Intel and he certainly wasn't supposed to be touching anything in the lab, but he couldn't help himself.
This was the first computer made entirely for quantum computing. It was on the short list for the 'greatest damn thing since sliced bread' a... | Dr. Lucia Murray was at her desk, busy pretending to write her grant while dreaming up her Nobel acceptance speech, when she heard a knock at her door. It creaked open, and a mop of black hair poked its way through.
"Dr. Murray?" The lab manager tentatively asked.
"Yes, Kevin?"
"The machine, ah... It maybe sorta sti... | 2016-01-21T12:01:44 | 2016-01-21T09:46:51 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] The hero stared at the boy who was supposed to be his wise old master. "Word of advice. If you ever achieve immortality then wait till you're at least 20", he said in a high pitched voice. | "...that way, you'll have an easier time getting laid."
The hero gaped his mouth as the realization dawned upon him. The young boy, who looked barely twelve, wasn't a false appearance.
"I'm still perplexed by the morality of using illusion magic to look older during sex." The master grimaced. "Then again, it's never ... | The warrior had seen many things in battle that kept him up at night: the bodies of man and beast twisted together in corpse lattices, blood pooled to his ankles, bubbling and putrid, men stronger than he—weeping as they searched for their own missing limbs. So, when he looked upon the boy, *the master* he had ascende... | 2020-01-25T08:11:47 | 2020-01-25T07:39:01 | 355 | 257 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | The hat seemed to gasp.
Yes, definitely a gasp. The entire room of first years wiggled and strained to the edges of their seats, trying to hear from the Sorting hat.
Harrison kept a straight face. Years of practice. You must never show you're nervous, and never draw attention to the truth.
"The truth, eh?" snapped th... | "Hmm...? 'Please don't be Slytherin?' Very well, then. Gryffindor!" the Sorting Hat shouted as Harry Potter excitedly ambled down the stairs. His oblivious expression only further ignited my excitement.
"Pfttt. What's all this cacophony about? Sure, he's that voodoo 'Chosen One', but he doesn't have the ounce of the p... | 2017-06-25T19:58:33 | 2017-06-25T14:51:44 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] The life of an NPC is hard. Laws of your town protect "heroes," who waltz into people's houses, take their stuff, and then walk away, and that's fine because they're some "saviour". Your town just revoked all of the hero protections, and the heroes are having a really hard time.
I hope this makes sense.
EDIT: ok... | We *hated* our heroes. It wasn’t because they refused to help, it was because they put their own needs ahead of the town. There, I said it. Those heroes? Selfish and greedy – all of them. When the mayor had a hero barge into his own home, rummage through his cupboard, *place a cast iron pot over his head*, and steal *a... | "But the prophecy - "
"Gods damn the prophecy," the burly innkeep growled. "You 'hero types' aren't welcome at Crossings." The door to the Lusty Wench slammed shut, blocking off the warmth and light of the inn. She trudged on; curtains rustled behind dark windows as the townsfolk watched her.
"Cursed hicks. I just wa... | 2018-10-22T11:34:04 | 2018-10-22T11:22:54 | 223 | 42 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | ''Claudius.''
''Malcolm."
"How much time do we have?"
"Four days. A week at the most. Bastion and his Dark Horde approach from the north--"
"Shut it Malcolm. Spare me the details. This is the tenth time you've summoned me. ONLY ME!"
"Claudius. I'm sorry. I'm doing my best."
"No more excuses! The Dead Army awaits!... | Sometimes you have to meet predictability with a certain amount of detachment. It was for that reason that I barely looked up as the disheveled young man stepped out of my fireplace, several feet from the large carpet I normally used for these sort of things. Underrated summoning vessels, carpets. Everyone rolls up a d... | 2017-07-22T09:22:22 | 2017-07-22T08:06:50 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Instead of enslaving us, the aliens integrated humanity as equals. Mankind never forgot this. | Teachers...how could this be?
We waited a hundred years before leaving our Solar System, as advised by our Teachers. During this time, we have perfected the Negative Mass Drive and the Quantum Foam Collection Reactor.
As the eager students we were, we set out to be integrated to the rest of the Avon Collective, which... | “Good evening, Lord Serith.”
The Erolan sat across the table from Jacques, molding it’s form to the human seat. It’s membrane stiffened, holding the single- felled organism intact. Electrical impulses rippled through its central core, before an implanted voice box uttered further.
“I am deeply sorry. I must bring te... | 2022-12-19T16:18:04 | 2022-12-19T15:31:19 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | William grabbed a recliner out of thin air, sat down, made some snacks of his own, and began to watch it as though his life were on a projector screen.
He witnessed his birth and early months where his mother got into a car accident, leaving his father to raise him by himself for a couple of years since the grandparen... | A flickering then an eventual fade into darkness - those were the last of memories of Hex.
Hex regained consciousness in a pleasant room. Antique bookshelves covered all fours filled with countless hardbound books, the scent of pine cones waft in the air. A desk separated Hex and an old man with a long, gray beard. On... | 2020-07-20T03:16:22 | 2020-07-20T03:04:41 | 1,541 | 269 |
[WP] After earth blew up, you and your close friends who are all immortal are scattered into the cosmos. You land on a planet which, while devoid of life, has water. Start a civilization. Guide them to the stars, in order to reunite with your friends. | +Day Zero+
I crawled out of the wreckage with not inconsiderable effort. Trying to get out of blazing shuttle wreckage is pretty unusual as you're usually dead on impact, but as I'm sort of special I managed to haul my sorry ass towards the river, about 100m clear, before the wreckage collapsed in on itself. The way ... | I gifted myself the best gift I could, but humans turned that gift into a curse. I'm immortal now and only meeting with George and Linda will fix that. Maybe they've already found each other and are looking for me, but I can't be that optimistic, I have to assume the worse.
After the war destroyed the earth, I drif... | 2021-07-20T22:56:24 | 2021-07-20T22:48:39 | 106 | 63 |
[WP] You move to a small town full of vampires and werewolves. Instead of becoming entangled in a love triangle you just want to be left alone, despite there best efforts to win you over. | The banging on the door just wouldn’t stop. For the last three days, you’ve heard that rhythmic wooden whine constantly tap at the front of your house. As you sit in your bedroom desperately trying to ignore the noise, you take a peek out your curtains to see which of the two was still bothering you. While the night is... | "Join us!" Silverback growled. "Become smarter than any beast, stronger than any man, greater than both! Take the blessing of the moon to be your own, and join the hunt!" The pack howls behind him, in a near frenzied state.
"No! Trust not the words of mangy dogs, who think 'a man to a man is wolf' is pos... | 2021-04-25T09:04:51 | 2021-04-25T07:07:40 | 44 | 23 |
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