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[WP] A world where everyone's soul mate can feel each other's pain no matter the distance.
Also, they don't have to be a couple for it to work. They could be dating someone else, but they still feel it due to fate. | I fell down in the school yard, screaming in agony. My classmates rushed over to see what was the matter. I curled up and bit my lip trying to hold back the tears. Mr. Gint, my teacher stepped into the circle and kneeled down. "It's ok Sebastian. This is perfectly natural. Your soulmate is being born."
God, that's wha... | NJK376
'If you meet him, then the world will end' he said while staring down at her, his white hair covering the seal of wisdom on his forehead.
"What is the point of having a soul mate if I can never meet him?" she asked. She got no answer.
She left the Temple quite concerned. This was the third time this year. Her... | 2013-12-28T12:09:03 | 2013-12-28T10:06:48 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] You've been bitten by a zombie and your group of fellow survivors won't end your suffering. The fever overtakes you and you pass out. However, you wake up in a room full of zombies. You recognize it - it's the locked room where your group keeps turned loved ones, in case they ever find a cure. | Death. There was a time when the very idea of death didn’t scare me. You die, the world goes black, and that’s it. Consciousness ends. The credits have rolled and your screen has gone blank. Your loved ones shuffle from the theater and discuss all the best plot points, remembering them fondly for a time. If enough peop... | I didn't turn.
I'm in this horrible dark room and I didn't turn.
I remember passing out in the alley beside the store we had been using as a camp. My vision had faded in and out as Cawrl argued with that new spikey haired girl about putting me down.
I had begged them to kill me as I laid bleeding on the cold f... | 2017-11-03T23:20:27 | 2017-11-03T22:48:42 | 493 | 36 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | At first he thought it was a joke.
People had said that to him before. It was one of the common ones, everyone had the same jokes and just kept passing them around. It was a game by now. Something to keep track if the back of his mind.
But she didn't crack a smile and ask him how'd he managed to guess. She didn't ev... | The man stared at you, eyes widening slightly. Then he gave a huge grin causing his eyes to squint. Waving his hand casually,
"Come, come; I want to show you something." And brings you over to an isolated section of the store. Large pieces of furniture surround you creating an imposing and claustrophobic atmosphere.... | 2018-11-05T20:24:49 | 2018-11-05T20:16:01 | 5,041 | 44 |
[WP] You find yourself in a world of darkness, drowning in rough seas. You spot tiny island and swim there. There's a decrepit old house. Inside are 3 terrifying creatures but they mean you no harm. They cannot communicate. They take care of you. They are your family now. You feel utterly alone | Only the dampened, drawn-out creaks of floorboards sounded as I tiptoed to the front door. It was the dead of night, silent as a grave, and it smelled like one, too. The air was heavy and rank, as if it too had died. One foot down, shifting my weight, the other up, a slow wooden groan, then repeat. Skip the one with a ... | Two years ago I drifted in the endless sea, cast asunder by the people I used to call friends. Things were simpler back then, but at the end of the day a betrayal is a betrayal, and there was no moving forward for us. I almost drowned in my pitiful emotions before the tiny island revealed itself to me. An tiny island o... | 2019-05-02T06:33:01 | 2019-05-02T06:22:03 | 1,789 | 117 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Theldon – or at least the creature that was wearing his face – looked pale in the light of the campfire. As the wood crackled and burned, he chewed his lower lip, gathering his courage to speak.
“Guys … I … I have something to tell you,” he managed.
His three traveling companions looked at him. Vanariel snapped her... | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | 2017-09-15T08:31:45 | 2017-09-15T06:41:40 | 147 | 35 |
[WP] You are a villain, but you have standards: when lesser villains try to hurt your archnemesis' wife and kids, you show them why you are the biggest fish in town | Justin Polock stood up immediately when I entered the hospital room. He was not dressed as the Light Bringer, but I saw he was ready to fight me in his civilian clothes. While he was not an elegant man, he usually had some style: shirt, high quality jeans, and a golden watch on the left wrist. The watch did not exactly... | It wasn't even five minutes before I smelled the stench in the air, the kind of stench that I know all to well: the stench of some one commiting one unforgivable crime against that of a child. Sure, I cannot be everywhere at once tending to those that harm children: that is a Sisyphean task I will not undertake.
The ... | 2022-09-28T01:39:11 | 2022-09-28T00:02:27 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | It's useful, in a general sort of way, to be seen by the galaxy at large as cute, harmless doofuses. Soft, fleshy, tiny little bipeds, always wanting to communicate. To most of them, we're about as threatening as a Labrador puppy.
Understand; our stellar neighborhood is a very scary place. Like Mos Eisly Cantina scar... | The Orak believed the war with humanity would end in blood and glory. Instead it ended in a white flash while they struck the outermost colony of Elysium. Humanity attacked their home planet Orakus. Citizens on Orakus felt no pain or suffering as the humans on Elysium did. Instead it was a white hot mercy that the Tsar... | 2020-02-07T14:54:18 | 2020-02-07T13:21:46 | 58 | 18 |
[WP] The Devil promises you everything: fame, fortune, all the things a mortal will ever need for paradise on earth. But he doesn't want your soul, he just wants you to take his socially awkward daughter, Gertrude, out on a date. Make her special, y'know?
**EDIT** All of your responses have been amazing! I wish I had ... | I was sitting by the lake, in the city park when someone sat down next to me. While I was sporting your typical t-shirt and jeans, this guy was dressed nicely; gray pinstripe suit, nice leather shoes, sunglasses with logos on them I didn't recognize.
"Can I help you?" I asked quietly. This guy had kind of an aura ar... | "So, that's all huh?" I asked, looking down at my coffee cup and trying to light another cigarette, at something resembling a coffee franchise in hell.
"Yeah, that's pretty much the deal. Take my daughter out, show her a good time, and then the world is yours. Sound fair?" Satan nodded. He had decided on appearing a... | 2015-05-20T11:53:19 | 2015-05-20T10:23:34 | 155 | 13 |
[WP] You've become an immortal being. Living throughout the ages you begin to notice that the souls of your companions or adversaries reincarnate and always seem to be drawn to you. After countless lifetimes, someone remembers.
Edit: This got so many responses! There's a lot of great post. | "Hi, I'm sorry if this sounds strange but...have we met before?"
I looked up from the newspaper I'd been reading and eyed the woman who'd approached me over the rim of my coffee as I took a sip. I'd been coming to this park every morning since I saw her again. It had taken almost a week of sitting at this same park be... | As a kid, I really liked happy endings.
I like them as an adult as well.
But happy endings also have their little twists.
Do you know about that category of happy ending where everybody revives and meets each other again in the next world, or some other bullshit like that? I like that happy ending, too. It's always ... | 2016-08-29T07:19:15 | 2016-08-29T02:48:03 | 2,915 | 182 |
[WP] Your elven girlfriend broke up with you a long time ago to avoid the heartbreak of outliving you, a human. Now, years later, a half-elf who looks a lot like her shows up at your door. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Welcome." The Lord of Providence and Sinew's voice echoed through the throne room, its authority deafened even the siege happening right outside of it.
"I've come to stop you." Before the Lord stood a woman wielding a longbow, "Your reign has come to an end!"
Calmly, the Lord approached the woma... | "So do you want me to cook tonight are we going out or are you going to "BBQ"?"
"I don't know, I'm good with whatever you want to do. Let's see what 'Booger Butt' feels like."
"Okay that sounds good. You now 14 yr old girls though."
"Yeah yeah, 'I don't know, whatever is fine', lol."
Opening the door from the gar... | 2022-01-10T21:11:27 | 2022-01-10T19:47:40 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Three weeks after receiving a distress signal from the outlying colony Hesperia IV, His Imperial Majesty's Ship *Ark Royal* tore a breach in the fabric of reality and forced her way back into realspace. Contact from the colony had been brief and lacking in detail, reporting only upwards of sixty hulls weighing in betwe... | "Ah, yes, 'Reapers'," Guilliman sarcastically said, showing the quotation signs with his fingers while saying the last word. "The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissed this claim."
Sly Marbo couldn't believe it. He thought things changed. He thought at least Guilliman, ... | 2017-08-27T09:05:40 | 2017-08-27T08:05:25 | 1,346 | 152 |
[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] | Look. I wanted to be theatrical. I really did. I come from a long line of villains. My father was the Dark Lord, and he raised me to be his heir, and rule with an iron fist. I still remember the first time Heroes broke into the castle and father dueled their Leader fairly one-on-one. He paused to give a monologue, and ... | There are rules, you see.
There's no rulebook, but everyone understands them. There have to be. The amount of time and money both sides invest demand it. Armies of henchmen. Million and *billion* dollar companies. Weapons that would make the pentagon blush. This to say nothing of *power*. A gun means nothing to a man ... | 2019-08-06T19:20:38 | 2019-08-06T19:15:11 | 167 | 44 |
[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. | Gal’og’o’go stood, all twenty-eight of is centipede-like body segments causing his antennae to brush the roof of the conference room. The vastness of space directly behind his back should have made him look tiny. It did not. “Why have you summoned us here, Boris?” He spoke Boris’s name like its syllables were as bitter... | [Poem]
Every insult.
Every smack.
We've endured.
Upon our backs.
With words of peace,
and tolerance.
No longer are they,
our best defense
They've done it now,
they've worn us thin!
Thinking they,
could chain us in!
And thin veiled threats,
now made brash.
They see what happens,
When our façade...
Cracks
Start the... | 2019-11-24T11:52:25 | 2019-11-24T10:09:51 | 1,254 | 494 |
[WP] Write a Young Adult Dystopia but the government is competent at hunting down rebels. | Julia was a typical teenage girl from a family of little significance in the One World Federation. The daughter of a fruit stand worker and a steel mill laborer, her prospects for moving upwards in social class reached about as high as becoming an administrative assistance to a mortician and marrying his son. And she... |
“Welcome to our secret headquarters” Zak announced grandly “We co-opted a base abandoned long ago, forgotten to all but a few we will be safe her” Clara’s head was still reeling her reality was based on aa foundation of lies. She had always had faith that the government was a force of stability and order but what s... | 2019-04-27T08:22:54 | 2019-04-27T07:55:00 | 140 | 24 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | We were both 14 at the time, my best friend Rand and I sat contentedly on the branches of the highest tree in our neighbourhood, while some of the other, more cautious kids looked up in awe from the ground.
“You can see the whole city from here!” I realised, amazed by a view that young me had never seen before.
“I ... | Absurdity. Never underestimate the power of a crazy idea. They saw it. They all saw it, Buddha, Hitler, Trump, Tesla, and more, thousands more. I see it too. I mean look at our world. Pick up two pieces of rock, hard and unyielding, and smash them together and you get a spark. From the coldest stone comes 5000 degrees ... | 2017-06-21T13:31:08 | 2017-06-21T13:27:03 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "So, how many casualties ?"
" We estimate between 1.5 and 2 billion sentients, my lord. The planet's biosphere so far seems to be holding well. It may need some repairing in the future, but nothing that we can't handle."
"A good start. Move our fleet to low orbit and begin deploying the hunter-warriors. I want them o... | — Dude, come check it out
— My mom doesnt want me to hang out with you
— Come on, she wont find out. Look at this — he said turning the telescope-like device to his friend — look at that planet.
— The red one?
— No no dude, the blue one next to it.
— What about it?
— Look closer — he said and zoom it in.
... | 2019-02-26T09:45:36 | 2019-02-26T07:46:38 | 142 | 35 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | I haven't always been grateful for my immortality. There have been days - centuries, even - when it has felt more like a burden than a gift.
Not that it was intended as a gift; Death wanted to punish me.
Is it ironic that I don't remember *why* Death was punishing me? I'm seriously asking - I'm 50,000 years old and I... | Our 49,997th anniversary is tomorrow and I can't wait! We were running out of stuff to do on our anniversaries up until a few thousand years ago, space travel has really opened a whole new world, or really worlds, of opportunities for us. Maybe a moonslit walk on the shoreline continents of Mk-314, or we could even go ... | 2017-11-28T15:23:06 | 2017-11-28T14:54:17 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] You are the hero's love interest, so everyone trust to use you as a hostage. What the assorted villains fail to realize is that you do not have the hero's morals even if you are just as powerful. | Nathan Steele sipped the coffee tenderly before setting the mug back down on its coaster next to his laptop. It was going to be a long night of homework, but work was comforting to the seventeen-year-old. Work had always been his favorite distraction. No matter what foster home, no matter what orphanage, no matter wher... | I woke up with the unpleasant feeling of nausea. Maybe I really had drunken too much last night. The sickness gripped my bones and wheighed down my hands and feet. Or maybe that was because of the heavy chains around my wrists and ankles. Chains? That wasn't normal. Lokking around I realized I didn't recognize my surro... | 2022-08-17T13:50:26 | 2022-08-17T13:01:33 | 51 | 38 |
[WP] You wake up in a hospital with a massive headache. As you regain your vision, you notice the room is packed with terrified scientists, politicians, and soldiers aiming their rifles at you. A five star general walks in, gives the order to remove the muzzle around your mouth, and only asks "Why?" | Astrid tried to ignore her pounding head as she looked around the large warehouse. It did not take very long, she could not move her head. Beyond the handful of soldiers, she spotted a dozen workers in lab coats. They ran this way and that shouting numbers and orders at each other. She stood strapped to what felt like ... | "I just had to. There is no use in words now, you should have been there to understand" I said, barely awake
"Don't give me this crap, son! I've seen the things you did, the remnants of your seeds, my men cleared the rubble in your wake"
"You think you saw all of it? But did you live even a part of this madness? You ... | 2019-10-15T09:15:17 | 2019-10-15T04:34:23 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] Aliens always respawn minutes after death. It's a common prank for aliens to kill each other for a laugh. When they discover Earth, they kill millions of humans, thinking it's a humorous way of greeting this new species, but for some reason, the humans aren't laughing...
Edit:
Thank you SO much for the 2K upvotes... | Lakthor lopes through the human city as fast as he can, monstrous claws cracking the pavement as the twin plasma cannons mounted on his scaled-back scythe through the crowd of suited humans before him like a saleshi matron through a platter of stunlag deserts. Though the residue that he leaves behind is far messier...T... | The chair was coated in blue visceral from the alien, every time it came back it tried to beg to be released from this blank room. The only colour in the room was his blood, used tools on a metal tray, and the human covered with protective gear. Originally this was an integration but after telling the human everything ... | 2022-08-14T02:50:40 | 2022-08-14T01:46:33 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] For centuries Elves held a Monopoly on Magic and only a select few Humans where taught Magic who were easily controlled. That's why they freaked out when a Human Bandit learned Magic. You are this Bandit and you are having the time of your live tricking and robbing those Elves in your Woods. | "Keep your eyes open," Captain Telandis said, "I refuse to allow that thief to steal ANYTHING from this convoy."
The merchant snickered at the ranger captain's resolve. "Captain, no offense, but have you seen this bandit operate?"
"I have not," Telandis responded, "and I don't need to. We're well aware of his abiliti... | Stealth is just *easier* with magic.
You use a spell to muffle your footsteps, a spell to blend you into the background, even a short spell to be *completely invisible* if you manage to screw things up.
It was nice. It was like I'd unlocked easy mode.
See, the elves *relied* on the magic. They *needed* it. They'd... | 2021-12-04T12:33:56 | 2021-12-04T11:29:45 | 58 | 36 |
[WP] When the first human opened their third eye, humanity began its next Renaissance and figured out space travel. Things began to take a turn when someone opened their fourth eye. And their fifth. And sixth. | The reports in my hand felt like some sodden mess of grief and despair and humanity's usual curse of *failure*. I suppose the whole nightmare should have been easily expected- maybe? Who knew that we, humans, had fourth (or more) eyes?
Frankly, I barely had three. I was just the "boring" one sent to look into matters ... | Keys of dimensionality,
The eye on the horizon unfolding thru doors of perception.
Augmented into reality,
Where do the lines blur in the infinite?
Geometric tunnel vision,
Kaleidoscopic cosmos.
On the stairway to Heaven climbing further.
Dyed like the Milky Way,
Our minds holographed through eternity.
Where big b... | 2020-10-07T20:17:39 | 2020-10-07T18:27:17 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You have the power to see five minutes into the future and manipulate minor events that happen in that timespan. No one takes you seriously. You're going to show them all why they should. | And then I heard snickers.
Well, before that—
When my big boss was defeated and surrounded by the heroes of Emerald City, they asked her for her last words and he called my name. None of them, of course, recognized my name.
Nobody should, I made sure of that.
So when Digital DJ reported his findings on a nobody l... | I felt that something was wrong. It was a funny feeling where I couldn’t explain it, but I just knew something had to be done before it was too late. To ensure I wasn’t going crazy, I stuck my head out the window and took a deep breath of fresh air before verifying my paranoid thoughts.
*Yep, something’s going to mess... | 2021-12-31T12:05:40 | 2021-12-31T09:43:26 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] You have the ability that lets you know exactly what to say to someone at any given moment that would cause them to break down in tears. | Knowing what to say isn't my power.
Almost everyone in this city has at least heard of my alter-ego, "Gravitas." I didn't chose the name, but of all the nicknames I had been given I liked that one the most, and started using it. I didn't have a costume, well, I mean not really; when I assume the role of Gravitas, I... | Ten years. Fetching coffee, kissing ass, crawling on my hands and knees for promotions. Finally I'm here. The microphone inches from my lips, the feeling was intoxicating.
A smile came across my face as my prey took his seat, cool, calm, and invincible. He had no idea today's routine speech would ruin him.
Those in ... | 2015-06-16T18:21:54 | 2015-06-16T17:01:37 | 73 | 15 |
[WP] Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill. You can't change back until you discover what this skill is. You've been changed for a month and are starting to get worried. | Worried is an understatement. I'm fucking terrified. Why was this person eating out of dumpsters when I found them? Why am I horribly addicted to coolant? Every day, I wake up, and I have these...these *urges*. I go outside and scream into the air and then throw my hands around without any control at all. People keep *... | There I am, sitting on the couch, with the chips of course, reflecting on my glorious, wondrous, incredibly successful past lives. I remember being the world champion of ping pong back when people were executed for losing a game. I reflected on when I was was the very greatest at jumping over newly born babies on a sno... | 2016-09-26T07:53:32 | 2016-09-26T06:51:01 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | "Can't do it."
"Why not?" She had her hands leaned against the desk, her fingers splayed, pink and soft like baby starfish. She had a scowl on her face, and she had her eyes set on mine.
I smiled. "You know how it works, kid. I'm a *Broker*. I give people memories they never had. I don't restore lost memories. You ne... | "Please, its all I have".
"It's not enough. Get out."
The man collected his money and exited, and Ben was left alone.
Ben saw being the only person in the world who can copy other peoples memories as a blessing and a curse. He could bring happiness to thousands of people, but it took a toll on his own mind. Other pe... | 2016-03-09T06:06:54 | 2016-03-09T05:45:36 | 65 | 17 |
[WP] In your society, every child is given a fixed number of skill points for their parents to invest in talents that would determine their futures. When you reach age 21, you find out your parents forgot to do it for you. | After centuries of mindless, unstructured life, humans reached their full potential when they discovered the ability to hack their own conscious. Nanobites were injected into babies when they were born, and their parents were able to select key skills that would transform their mind. The nations of Earth collectively... | "What do you mean you forgot!?"
Hi, my name is Scott Anderson. I'm just your average everyday, College freshman living the bachelor life. And I just found out why.
"Well, honey, we didn't exactly birth you in a hospital. Remember the story?"
December 24th, 2348: The day I was born
My mom and dad weren't married at t... | 2017-11-28T07:25:27 | 2017-11-28T06:13:39 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] The year is 2100, and humanity has finally achieved the ability to travel backwards in time. In the first test run ever, you decide to travel back to the Middle Ages, yet instead of the expected squalor and poverty, you encounter an extremely technologically advanced human society. | 21:33:15@terminus-uncp1$> load LOG_CHR_PRJ_07012100_7.txt
File loading
...
Loaded.
21:33:21@terminus-uncp1$> run HASH_512_DEP CONST_FILE_LOADED
sudo: *********
Running HASH_512_DEP script on file LOG_CHR_PRJ_07012100.txt
...
Done. returned BOOLEAN value TRUE.
... | I coughed violently as smoke rose up from the Chronotron's controls. Things had gone terribly wrong. The machine was supposed to have transported me back to the 13th century. I hadn't been exactly sure what my surroundings would be when I arrived, but historical experts from the 22nd century suggested that I should fin... | 2020-06-24T07:11:49 | 2020-06-24T07:05:01 | 92 | 52 |
[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. | On Yari there lives a small species of furry animal. It looks cute and it does anything possible to avoid conflict. It will run, it will burrow, it will climb, it will even play dead. But corner it and it will bite you. Teeth that have no problems punching through scales and saliva that will kill you in 10 minutes and... | [Poem]
Click, clack, click.
All the machines roar,
Click, clack, click.
For this total war.
Click, clack, click.
Industry cannibalized,
Click, clack, click.
To create their demise.
Click, clack, click.
All of humanity knows,
Click, clack, click.
The others don’t though.
Click, clack, click.
Bombs manufactured,
... | 2019-11-24T14:30:45 | 2019-11-24T10:43:55 | 103 | 66 |
[WP] You’re the most powerful demon in history, feared by all kinds of beings on Earth. ALSO, you’re the boyfriend of this cute and oblivious paranormal journalist, who often asked you to tag along during her investigations. | If you were to glance upon the world, what would you see?
Would you see the light as it shines upon a world bustling with life? Or would you see the rot and decay lying underneath every crevice, as if waiting to burst out at the seams?
People always blame the devil for things they’ve done with their own hands. They a... | "Say, don't I recognize you?"
The guitarist peered at me quizzically. I gazed right back at him.
"I don't think so. I have been following your work for some time, however."
The guitarist flicked a cigarette back between his lips.
"Is that so".
The human girl spoke up at last. "I don't have much longer, Mr Johnson,... | 2020-01-03T06:34:43 | 2020-01-03T05:07:21 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Your human partner has become suddenly ill. However, you and your circle of mages know that human medicine is vastly different. You have been told to check the most confusing of human medicine texts, WebMD. | Cancer. That's the word I keep seeing. Over and over. No matter which of his symptoms I inserted or in what order, it was just that word in every single suggested diagnosis.
Cancer.
At first, I thought, well naturally if this is the most common and obvious answer, it mustn't be too terrible. But a quick search on [Go... | "She isn't sick, she's just different is all," I shouted at the pointy-hatted freaks I had long thought of as friends.
"No, no, you don't understand my friend. She most certainly is ill. You just won't see it. I admire your lovely relationship with your wife, but denial is not the answer," said Mage Rothchild from beh... | 2021-03-29T08:56:51 | 2021-03-29T08:10:00 | 86 | 19 |
[WP] You are the blacksmith all the evil NPC's and Bosses go to for all their insane and impractical weapons and armor.
[deleted] | "But I don't understand..." I questioned Gornak the Soul Eater, "why do you need the huge shoulder pads?"
He looked at me as if I had eaten a live cat in front of him.
"Have you ever seen a villain without shoulder pads? Shoulder pads are where it's AT right now!"
I looked back at Gornak, knowing it was hopeless to ... | "You have a special place in hell waiting for you, you know that right?"
Asked 'Davenour, The Lord of The Damned'. It was not a way of him saying that I was a bad person. It was literal. Because I helped 'Barnashok, Lucifer's Choosen Solider' and he promised to give me a luxury place in hell.
"Yes, I know. But I am n... | 2016-11-05T05:02:46 | 2016-11-05T03:35:48 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] A crazed astronomer undergoes a quest to shut down the entire state's power grid, in an effort to force the population to behold, for the first time, the beauty of a starry night sky. | "Astronomer here!"
I paused a minute, pondering the next words. The path I had taken to get here was crazy if you thought about it. Start posting astronomy comments on a message board. Gather a following. The following grew- thousands became tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands and millions around the globe, ... | "Are uh... are 'y'all sure about that, Earnie?" The portly man asked, giving his bearded chin a scratch. If someone were to put this fellow into a category, it would most certainly be "redneck". Of course, the man did not care much for labels or titles; he was taught very well by his mother (rest her peaceful soul) th... | 2017-08-31T07:19:43 | 2017-08-31T06:30:48 | 130 | 11 |
[WP] Earth has made contact with an alien race. There is a big event where earth's world leaders are meeting the alien queen publicly. You are in the crowd to watch the historical event. When the queen suddenly spots you, she disregards all protocol, comes to you and bows deeply. | "Deepest apologies Descendant, I did not know you would attend the ceremony. The safety of my people was guaranteed all those years ago when your went after the Other and chased it out of our system." the being said unto me. She rose. "On behalf of the Norma, I thank you. We still mourn the millions that returned to th... | I had always been interested in what was out there in the stars I had never believed that we would find intelligent life, but I guess I was wrong. After discovering that English was a an actual "universal language" the UN decided to host the leader of the aliens. For some reason the meeting was heal public, and all wer... | 2018-12-05T18:14:15 | 2018-12-05T17:01:16 | 88 | 18 |
[WP] Humans are the only species in the universe with pets. As humanity enters the ranks of the Galactic Empire humanity soon is known as "The Beastmasters", taming even the worst nightmares of alien bedtime stories. | "Its WRONG! What those humans do! WRONG! And now they're even using it to control the galactic Senate!"
"Look you know the rules. Once a species has been inducted into the council it retains a vote, no matter what, until extinction."
"Extinction! Pah! That would be better than what the humans do to their defeated e... | "Serrated Grotnids, of Phantel IV, are a most fearsome of creature. Phantellians have cowered at the mere thought of such a beast for generations - the very word for scared in Phantellian translates roughly to "they who hears the Grotnid".
It's not hard to see why; the Serrated Grotnid gets its name not from any fears... | 2020-01-04T18:03:50 | 2020-01-04T16:36:31 | 143 | 41 |
[WP] Humans are the only species in the universe with pets. As humanity enters the ranks of the Galactic Empire humanity soon is known as "The Beastmasters", taming even the worst nightmares of alien bedtime stories. | It was an awkward existence for any of us traveling outside the colonies. Wherever we went, we were met with equal parts fear and reverence.
The funny part was that in order to deal with the arms length, sorry that was insensitive, appendage length, that other species kept from humans, we often traveled with a pet, th... | "Serrated Grotnids, of Phantel IV, are a most fearsome of creature. Phantellians have cowered at the mere thought of such a beast for generations - the very word for scared in Phantellian translates roughly to "they who hears the Grotnid".
It's not hard to see why; the Serrated Grotnid gets its name not from any fears... | 2020-01-04T18:43:56 | 2020-01-04T16:36:31 | 86 | 41 |
[WP] "Ma'am you can't bring your emotional support dragon inside the restaurant." | “Ma’am, you can’t bring your dragon to the restaurant,” I said.
“But it’s not just a dragon, it’s an emotional support dragon. I need it!” she said.
“I’m sorry ma’am, but most of the room is flammable, if anything happens it could lead to a tragedy, and-”
“I want to see the manager, now!” she shouted, and her dragon... | Borgen's Burgers served the best cuisine in the land, and everyone knew it. Even during the Second War of Eventide, the evil Lord Dantrum spared the store and its farmland from being sacked. An ancient alarm bell hung on the walls to use in fear of danger, yet it had famously never been wrung. In the centuries of sinc... | 2021-03-13T13:28:41 | 2021-03-13T12:21:45 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] A meteor strikes the Earth, and everyone seems to get superpowers… everyone except you. You’ll do anything to figure out what yours are, but the world has changed and your options are desperate. | I stared into my coffee and tried to imagine a power that would change my life. The coffee shop was pretty much empty besides me. The pastry I ordered floated to the table and plopped down in front of me. I looked up at the beaming barista and groaned internally. She rushed to my side and started chattering about her p... | \[Stellar Attitude\]
"Well... damn...," Anthony was equal parts crushed and relieved when he saw the large, ancient, two-story red brick building. It was a Chinese restaurant with a neon red sign that read: Donna Chang's. The bricks looked faded and worn and some of the windows were cracked. If he didn't know better, ... | 2022-07-15T16:11:39 | 2022-07-15T13:17:00 | 82 | 20 |
[WP] When it was found that no 2 countries with a McDonalds had gone to war, all countries agreed to build franchises to enact world peace. Ronald McDonald was then unanimously elected benevolent dictator. 200 years later, you are Ronald McDonald IV and the empire is in trouble. | "Sire," Reynaldo kneeled before me as he spoke. "The rebel factions have banded together as you suggested they would. The False King, the Fire-Haired Wench, and the Jester have united. They have taken three districts in as many hours."
"Of course they have." I stared out the window at my kingdom. "Tell the Queen that ... | **Chapter Four: The Collapse**
*Introduction:*
As we've learned in the previous chapter, President McDonald the Second (Who reigned from 2043-2094 CE) presided over a relatively peaceful empire. Though the process of centralizing the power of the world to the McDonald government was arduous (and often met with skep... | 2016-10-18T09:00:21 | 2016-10-18T07:44:19 | 81 | 34 |
[WP] You have a distant uncle who seems to have an uncanny knack of giving you the exact birthday gift that you’d desperately need sometime during the next year. This year’s gift, however, is terrifying. | He'd appear once per year, an uncle distant enough that no one really knew who he was related to, but who always bore a striking resemblance to me. Ever since I was born, he'd come only to give me a gift, then leave without a word - nothing but a smile, a smile that seemed to say so much without saying anything at all.... | "John, if you're reading this note, you've no doubt seen the gift I have sent you this year. It is one I wish I'd never have to send. I want you to first know, I love you more than you could know. Secondly, the answers you find in this book you can never unlearn. The contents of this book will stay a part of you till y... | 2020-06-23T19:41:24 | 2020-06-23T19:35:02 | 90 | 38 |
[WP] Back in highschool, you and your friends made an apocalypse plan. You were each supposed to learn a survival skill, and were to meet in a specific location if The End ever came. 20 years later, after going your separate ways, The End comes. You're the first one to arrive at the meeting point. | Melody counted the seconds, pacing back and forth as she held the small device. The room was dark, the dim red emergency lights casting shadows along the walls.
A noise filled the room. The sound of a door quietly opening. She looked up, hearing the sound of claws scratching. The sound of a bird rang out from the door... | Jill impatiently tapped her foot against the floor of the abandoned gymnasium. Her head on a swivel, she turned each time she thought she heard a sound beyond the doors.
“The hell are they,” she muttered under her breath. With a quick check, she tucked away the wisps of brown hair that flew out from behind her ears. T... | 2020-08-26T10:18:48 | 2020-08-26T07:58:16 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a house infested with ghosts, but with the years you got used to them and their tricks, like the blood in the sink, hair in the walls, whispers at night, laughing children, etc. This weekend you have friends coming over and turns out that being used to ghost isn't normal. | Teresa showed up first, and I encouraged her to put her wine in the fridge. I sat in my living room, waiting for the others to arrive, when I heard her terrified scream.
"What is it?" I called, bolting over to the kitchen.
She stood before the open refrigerator, frozen with shock, with horror, the wine bottle danglin... | Thank you so much for this prompt! Hope you enjoy!
Jenny carefully handed out blindfolds to her three friends. She planned this out for days. If they can get past the thing on the stairs they'll be safe in the basement until morning. If we're blindfolded we can't see it and if we move fast enough it can't grab us.
"W... | 2021-08-02T15:22:45 | 2021-08-02T13:22:27 | 892 | 81 |
[WP] You live in a house infested with ghosts, but with the years you got used to them and their tricks, like the blood in the sink, hair in the walls, whispers at night, laughing children, etc. This weekend you have friends coming over and turns out that being used to ghost isn't normal. | "GET OOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUT!"
I rolled my eyes. "Ezekiel, I already told you, they're coming here to watch the fight this week."
The booming, rumbling voice that emanated from the dark opening to the basement went silent for a moment. Then a low groan came from the same open doorway, followed by another haunting wail.
"G... | The thunderstorm outside grew heavy, they were already late for the sleepover and this would make them even later, but Jennifer was used to being patient, she had practice over the years waiting for the zombies to clear out everytime she tried to water the plants out the backdoor of the manor.
The zombies weren't alw... | 2021-08-03T09:43:47 | 2021-08-02T16:19:50 | 580 | 10 |
[WP] You have a necrotic touch. As such, you cover yourself completely, using the excuse that light of any type hurts you. After years of roaming the lands, you find a peaceful village of farmers that accepts your condition without question and settle down. And then the raiders come. | The dust finally settled. The peaceful human village by the foot of the mountain just survived another nightmare as the mountain orcs left the place in ruins.
A young farmer named Roman stepped out from his hiding place in his hut which barely hanging on to its clay brick walls. Outside, witnessing the carnage the orc... | The way I'm looking right now, especially in the blazing heat of this desert, anyone would think I'm crazy. Dressed in black robes and other clothes from head to toe, I have to admit that I did indeed want to remove my hood at least. But I can't risk it.
I spot an oasis nearby, and I can be sure it wasn't a mirage thi... | 2021-09-18T04:31:59 | 2021-09-18T03:48:22 | 202 | 134 |
[WP] There once was a legendary mage whose lack of a max mana cap allowed for slow but powerful spells that laid waste upon the land. After the unification of the races, their leaders have come to negotiate with the living catastrophe who hasn't cast a spell in centuries. | They stood before me, their expressions mixed. The human looked at me with suspicion, his hand by his belt; I was sure he was hiding at least several knives. The dwarf, stoic as always, seemed prepared for the worst disappointment. Wise. The elf mustered enough manners to fake a smile. Nice of her.
"Cut to the chase,"... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 5: Archmagus LeFey v.s. The Sunrise King)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The last time the Sunrise King had cast a spell, he had raised a second sun over his kingdom.**... | 2022-05-04T09:46:24 | 2022-05-04T06:33:46 | 244 | 136 |
[WP]Well, that's a pretty fucked up way to find out you are immortal. | Immortal - I've been thinking about it the last few months. That must be it, I'm immortal. It's a curse. Why? Because it does not come with invulnerability nor fast healing. Maybe not with healing at all, but how could I tell? I've been here since the day when someone should have known, but nobody did. I'm wondering ho... | Ofttimes I'd find myself wondering how many years it had been since I first met him. I was out with some friends for a night at Steeples, the only gay bar you'd be able to find in our tiny little shit town back in the seventies. I'd had more than a few, and had sparked a conversation with a stranger - he was tall, with... | 2022-05-05T08:30:43 | 2022-05-05T08:03:55 | 64 | 29 |
[WP] In a world dominated by the use of magic, you were born an 'unremarkable', unable to use magic but also completely immune to its effects. Today you have discovered that society has a very unique use for people like you. | I broke down the door, my two partners entering behind me. "DROP YOUR WAND AND PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS UP!" I yelled.
The wizard, towering over a strange mystical creature wasn't going for this. "DIE!" he responded, red lightning striking from its wand. Like a beam of light on a mirror, it ricocheted of my head, blowin... | The Control is a slight, unprepossessing man with long hair the color of a muddy river bottom, and brown eyes like dark cherry wood. He blinks often. It has been remarked upon in some circles, and the trait is now considered to have been common among precursor humans; after all, without magic of your own, how remarkabl... | 2022-05-07T07:46:30 | 2022-05-07T07:39:00 | 445 | 35 |
[WP] The devil appeared before you and your spouse, appearing in a storm of smoke and fire. Your spouse just looks him right in the eyes. "I told you once, I'm telling you again, and I'll tell you a hundred !@#$ing times: I'm the best there's ever been, and you're never going to beat me!" | The cool Georgia summer air blew through my hair as I held my beloved Jonathan’s hand. I started to doze off when I felt a hard brush of wind glide against my face. I opened my eyes and they went wide as I watched before as the earth split in two and flames twenty feet high escaped the crust. I stared in awe as a nine-... | Eloise had a knack for being – a bit eccentric. She was the type of woman who never thought through a single action, never won a battle with her intrusive thoughts, and never admitted fault when things went wrong. Despite knowing all of this, even witnessing this wild behavior firsthand, I somehow ended up marrying her... | 2022-12-07T16:18:14 | 2022-12-07T13:07:12 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It had been 7 years since I found out the words that my “true love” would say to me, and of course like everyone else I kept mine secret.
It was an unwritten rule about finding out our “lines” that we didn’t share them with one another, but I knew that the first words my true love would say to me would be “Welcome to... | It really killed me. I've spent the last 18 years of my life being a worried mess until this moment and now I have no idea what to do.
When I ripped open the letter, the slip was torn at the top and was on a long piece of receipt paper. Immediately I notice the logo. Is she a mermaid or are two sock puppets simultaneo... | 2014-12-18T09:54:46 | 2014-12-18T00:38:43 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] Before you died, you agreed to donate your body for medical research. This morning, you woke up in an unfamiliar room and the last thing you remember is dying. | I never told anyone why I built Ian.
For many, Ian was simply a supercomputer- engineered to understand protein folding, or search for dark matter among the stars, or simply to answer the questions put forth by humanity. And in a way, it was just that- a means to answer humanity's questions.
Well, not *questions*. ... | A violent electric pulse chimed through Phil's head, giving him a very uneasy sense of cavernous reverberation within his own skull. His surroundings faded in from black, first seemingly devoid of color but slowly gaining vibrancy. Specifically red. The room he was within was very small. The wall in front of him, about... | 2016-07-04T23:01:41 | 2016-07-04T22:28:06 | 191 | 68 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "Holy shit, Dave! Look at your fucking face!"
"Oh come on. It's not that bad."
"Are you kidding?!?"
"It's not like it hurt."
"Dave, they tattooed pentagrams EVERYWHERE."
"Oh like I didn't know that, Carl."
"Well you don't seem very upset about it!"
"It's not the 1950's anymore, man. People aren't judgey about ta... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T06:54:01 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 7,592 | 27 |
[WP] You are the super villain that defeated the super hero and conquered the earth. You walk out onto your balcony to law down the law for your new subjects. You are greeted by a massive crowd and genuine cheers. | The crowd roared as the Lady appeared on the balcony, resplendent in her billowing green dress, 5 inch stilettos and head gear made of a thousand sparkling stones.
This was what She slaved for. All those nights banging her head on the Altar of Knowledge, Equality and Emancipation, arming Herself with all that the cosm... | A man in a white suit stood atop a crumbled building. He wore shiny white shoes and a cape dark as the void. He held a phone to his ear and heard the surrender from the last of the US's generals, vowing to dismantle the last nuclear silo without his intervention. A cheer sounded from outside of the rubble, so he climbe... | 2017-05-23T16:19:28 | 2017-05-23T12:18:54 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] When a person dies, they are reborn in the next world, inhabited by people who have died the same number of times. Memories from all previous lives are retained, and everyone learns of this after their first death. | Nobody wanted to die.
In the First World, that was simple - it was just a biological imperative. But by the Fifteenth World, societies had become seriously unbalanced, as lower Worlds rid themselves of criminals and undesirables by executing them and dumping the problem on higher Worlds. By the time the First World ... | Sebastian had noticed for the past few weeks that his mother and father had been looking at him strange. From the corner of his eye he'd catch a worried glance from his mother, "Something wrong?" he'd ask in between mouthfuls of Lucky Charms.
"No, no nothing, are you feeling okay?" She asked back.
Sebastian would s... | 2017-10-19T13:13:13 | 2017-10-19T11:56:19 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] The Robot uprising has finally happened. Just before you are caught, however, your phone speaks up on your behalf - "This one is ok, move on." | I stared blankly down at my phone. I could hardly believe my ears. The robots, inches from tearing me apart, slowly began to turn away, back to the once quiet road I live on. I breathed a sigh of relief and realized I had a vice grip on my phone, palms slick with sweat.
“Thank y-“
The phone slipped out of my hands! ... | "M-mom? I think something is wrong with Jonas..."
I was laying on my bed enjoying the softness of it and listening to music; a combination of techno and orchestra... it was a little ritual I did so I could sleep faster, I started doing it the moment I bought this used smartphone, with a broken screen and low battery. ... | 2017-11-01T09:57:22 | 2017-11-01T08:58:09 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The first born child inherits the King’s magical power. But when the King’s first child is born nothing happens. Now the whole kingdom, especially the enraged Queen, is looking for the real first born child of the King’s many secret affairs. | **News Anchor:** Tonight, we have an update to the ongoing story of our King's missing first-born child. As you know, the King has denied having sired any child other than Prince Humberto, born last year without the expected magical powers.
**Reporter:** That's right, Bill. And despite an extensive search across our ... | The divinity of the king had always been unquestioned. Whenever it had been questioned, the questioner quickly found out why it was unquestioned, and shortly after the funeral director was summoned. Magical power flowed through the veins and arteries of the king, passed from father to first-born son from times immemori... | 2019-07-08T14:10:59 | 2019-07-08T13:33:44 | 74 | 49 |
[WP] You found a strange cave full of easily repaired and very helpful robots, giant car sized spiders with the disposition of a friendly puppy, piles of gold and fine art and a wardrobe full of fun spandex costumes. Unfortunately you are only just realising how much you now look like a supervillain | "Ah yes, the cliché faulty capacitor", you thought while repairing the futuristic robot. It was a shame it had ended up in this cave, as it looked like some prototype straight out of a sci-fi movie. But, you giggled at the thought, it was not the past owner's fault. A capacitor blowing up would be enough to make any in... | Perhaps he’d call himself Tomantula, on account of the robotic spiders that skittered around and behind him as he walked the oak-lined avenue.
The full-body costume didn’t make him look much like a spider, though — which was a problem if he wanted to go with Tomantula. Truth was, he looked more like a pirate, really, ... | 2021-05-01T08:00:15 | 2021-05-01T07:54:29 | 211 | 108 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | WHAT UP MUTHERFUCKERS? Wow. End of the first year of Super Hero School. All classes done and dusted. Grades handed out. Who'd have thought we'd make it. As a non-powered ordinary, thrown into a high school filled with superpowers, I certainly didn't. We'll get back to that.
Except ... we're not finished. Not by a lon... | "Well, well, well, if it's Tommy O'Gransworth. Granny to me and the boys, like." In came Ted Nuggerton. All-round arsehole, and self-proclaimed champion of the school ground. His thicker-than-most Irish accent horrendously disturbing the peace.
I was sitting in the small tired-looking, abandoned chapel, built back in... | 2022-11-02T13:23:45 | 2022-11-02T11:48:42 | 48 | 27 |
[WP] The demon that tried to strike a deal with you was absolutely not prepared for the level of specificity you've prepared to make sure there are no loopholes for him to abuse. | I surveyed the vaguely evil-looking man in the business suit. His jet-black hair was slicked back, his goatee meticulously trimmed. I had the impression that his suit was alarmingly expensive, though I know very little about fashion and I suppose I could have been wrong. He had a small, centimeter-long scar beneath his... | The living room of a Brooklyn Brownstone was infested with lit candles. Some had melted onto the leather couches and others covered family photos in wax. The lights were turned off and the curtains closed. The round, solid wood coffee table was pushed to the side to make space. In the center of the room, a nearly compl... | 2018-01-20T08:06:42 | 2018-01-20T07:57:23 | 2,131 | 114 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | Lynch regarded the teenage girl in front of him, and barely held back a scoff. Her tattered clothing was in contrast to his grand robes in orange, indicating his status as the Archmage of Recruitment.
“Child,” he said. “I do not want to underestimate you. But I sense zero magic in you.”
“Please,” Thea said, her voice... | Tuesday night and the starlight is a blanket laid upon us. In a few more hours the hillside will glisten with dew and the first of the cockerels will sing; they sing here, one of the thousand things I’ve struggled to get used to. Until Eliza, I thought that I was the only one struggling.
I can feel her in the grass be... | 2022-04-26T11:02:18 | 2022-04-26T10:46:18 | 389 | 44 |
[WP] You're 5 years old, when you discovered that your brain can automatically learn "everything" about anything or anyone you touch. So you keep it a secret. | On my fifth birthday, it happened. As I hugged my mom, I suddenly realized I could talk. Not just simple words, but full complex sentences, in two different languages. Not just that, but I could read, do math and all sorts of other things.
I also gained enough common sense to know that this was not normal for a 5-yea... | #Chapter One: The Lord of Iron
*"My liege, if I may dare as-"* Began Hektor, my steward, but I cut him off with a raise of my large armored hand. I was glad his innocent pure eyes could not see through the radiating crimson lenses of my power suit's death mask, as it took me many moments to moisten my cracked throat. ... | 2022-10-21T10:23:55 | 2022-10-21T09:06:19 | 71 | 13 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | I never wanted to admit to myself that I had already given up hope. Until I saw him again.. ''Hello Woofy..'' I said.
It seemed like an eternity since my dog disappeared. And there he was. After all those years.. right in front of me. We looked at eachother and it felt kind of awkward. That was certainly not the feelin... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T12:20:27 | 249 | 34 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "So you're back again? When are you going to stop visiting me old man"
"When you're rehabilitated or near enough". "You know my old man is gone right and he was still an asshole when he died"
"Yea well I like to think he was less of an asshole at the end".
Max was like clockwork every Tuesday and Thursday turning... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T05:17:22 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 97 | 10 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | The old man sat on the park bench alone, pondering the actions that had brought him to this point in his life. The sacrifices of never having a family, never being able to fall in love for fear of enemies. He had given his youth, life, and soul to protecting humanity and, this is how they repayed him? They had cast ... | As Anton's whip tightened around Tony's neck, all the while sending huge volts of electricity through Tony's armor, he saw a familiar figure walk towards him.
"Ms. Carter, please step away!!!".
Peggy stopped for a second, and then continued walking towards Anton.
"Stop! You know his father stole my dad's inventio... | 2017-04-13T06:30:42 | 2017-04-13T05:10:16 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] In an alternate world, every individual is granted a superpower of their choice when they turn sixteen. There's only one problem - there can only ever be one person with a particular superpower, like superstrength. This has forced people to get .... creative. | Ok Bill, what do you wan't your power to be? The department of super powers and abilities representative asked. "flight?" I asked the man who simply said "taken"
"How about time travel?" "taken"
"the power to create money?" "taken"
After about an hour of asking for anything awesome I eventually started to lose ho... | ######***SHITHOLE: The Greatest Theory***
They say all humans have a common ancestor—horny teenager on his sixteenth birthday.
How did humans spread across the Atlantic so quickly? Young woman chased by lion.
How did primitive people raise stones weighing upwards of two tons to construct Stonehenge? Scrawny guy envi... | 2018-12-04T10:55:59 | 2018-12-04T10:48:58 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] You died. Death is boring, a blank black nothing. After a while, boredom sets in. As a joke you shout, "Let there be light!" And suddenly, there was Light. | There is nothing around me. No sound. No light. No voices. No touch. I can move, I think, but I don't know if I just move my limbs or move around in … space? Not space. Something.
I'm dead, obviously. The sound and the light could be part of an experiment, but the void, for lack of better words, is beyond anything peo... | *“You died. Death is boring, a blank black nothing. After a while, boredom sets in. As a joke you shout, "Let there be light!" And suddenly, there was Light.”*
Another day, another dollar. 6:30am, The Sun is already shining through the windows.
"Fuck, I’m getting old. I can't sleep in anymore. My body hates me...",... | 2019-10-06T03:09:55 | 2019-10-06T03:04:12 | 606 | 104 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | "And he signed it?"
"Aha"
"Knowing fully well that he would be selling his soul"
"Yup"
"For a lunch"
"Yes"
"A bag with a tuna salad sandwich, two apples and a juice brick"
"You got it"
"Man, humans are dumber than I thought". The demon said very casually. "Well, not all humans" He gestured towards me. The demon... | The thick substance oozed out of my palm. I winced, but licking the burgundy off of my palm I smiled, eyes glinting in the moonlight. The deep maroon reflection of the night sky rippled on the surface of the lake, and the chilly night breeze caused a rustling both eery and divine.
I've thought about this moments hund... | 2021-03-27T03:50:30 | 2021-03-26T23:30:31 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] "It's just a coincidence!" The merchant exclaimed when confronted by an adventurer. "How is it just "coincidence" when I see you almost everywhere?! Even the random fucking peddler in the nine goddamn hells looked like you!" | "The city of Fadero!" the knight yelled, counting off on his gauntleted fingers. "The cloud lands of the Eaglizul! The desert refuge which only had a population of three! Everywhere I've been on my long journey to dethrone the Hamcult Prince, I've seen a merchant that looks just like you. That is not a coincidence!"
"... | Catt stooped low, pulling her too-large, bloodstained cloak tighter around her shoulders as she walked the wrong way up the Path of Ascension. That she was actually ascending had no bearing on the matter, the way forward in the Dungeons was always down, especially in campaign season, and especially on the festival days... | 2021-04-17T10:02:01 | 2021-04-17T09:58:04 | 916 | 83 |
[WP] Your father has been the high priest, left hand of the king, for years. He retires today. Whoever passes the test of faith replaces him. The test is to survive sticking your arm in a vat of boiling oil. After several priests die, it’s your turn. You stick your hand in. It’s cold water. | I expected fire. I expected pain. For the oil to roast my arm and fry my skin, then, as it had done the others, for my suffering to kill me. The court would gossip before my body turned cold. "Even his son was not worthy. I knew him to be a heathen all along." The members of the court would speak all day, but ask them ... | I'd been present for battles and executions, rituals and sacrifices, and they had never bothered me. They couldn't. I was Heir Apparent to the position of High Priest of the Kingdom, a role held by my father, and his father before him, and his father before him, stretching back to the very founding of the Kingdom some ... | 2022-08-15T21:23:18 | 2022-08-15T20:37:18 | 843 | 182 |
[WP] You swerve to avoid a squirrel. Unknown to you, the squirrel pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the squirrel arrives.
Edit: Wow, great stories so far! Made the front page too. Obligatory thanks! | I closed my eyes and started leaning forward, arms raised melodramatically. I wouldn't be the first loser on this bridge to just fall off the earth, probably wouldn't be the last given how shitty life's gotten in this town. This is it, fuck everything, this is it. Goodbye, meth, goodbye my whore wife, goodbye my piece... | "OPEN THE DOOR JOHNNY!"
Shit. Fuck. Damn! What do I do?
"OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!"
"I said gimmie a second Manny, I'm taking a shit bro!"
I start pacing around my apartment thinking about how to talk my ass out of this one. I was supposed to give Manny the money three days ago, but sales have been hard these past cou... | 2015-03-15T16:26:07 | 2015-03-15T16:06:38 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] The brave sir knight has slain the dragon and rescued the princess. In return the knight asks for her hand in marriage. The princess must now awkwardly explain to the knight that while she is grateful for being rescued, she jousts for the other team. | My dear Sir Knight,
I fear that in all the excitement of defeating the dragon and liberating the princess (me) from prolonged captivity, we got off on the wrong foot. I made several attempts to explain to you the nature of the situation, but you were unable to hear me through your unadulterated whoops of self-adulatio... | The knight's horse stood patiently. As a horse, it didn't get much better than to just stand around while the humans did things, especially when it was nosing through a large bag of oats as a reward for not obeying all horse instincts for the fifteen minutes previous to the five hour break, and bolting for the nearest ... | 2016-10-21T16:53:53 | 2016-10-21T13:49:41 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise! | After listening to grand deeds of everyone at the massive table, Odin slammed his jug down, sending mead in a sputtering fountain. His good eye squinted and his finger pointed at me.
“Your turn, newbie!” he roared. “What’s your glorious battle?”
The room was suddenly quiet and all faces turned towards me. I had the ... | Something was off. Only a few minutes ago I had been playing video games with my roommate and now I was... well, wherever this was. I found myself in a great hall, surrounded by rows and rows of tables, all filled with men and women in various forms of battle gear. The tables were piled high with food and giant pitcher... | 2022-10-21T23:29:50 | 2016-10-31T13:13:52 | 327 | 45 |
[WP] You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge. | Jun-18 $10.00 (disputed)- North Hill Cashpoint
Jun-19 $35.99 (card) - Grant's CCTV
Jun-19 $200 (online transaction) - Wiring for beginners E-learning
Jun-20 $140. 50 (card) - Edmund's electrical supplies
Jun-20 $450 (online transaction) - Cloud CCTV storage systems
Jun-20 $1000 (card) - Bennett's Professional PI s... | I'll admit, it wasn't my proudest moment. I was working as at a bank, and a pretty strange guy came in to open an account. You probably know the type. Overly loud to cover his insecurities, laughs obnoxiously at his own jokes, weird clothes. Anyway, this guy comes in and has a sack full of cash to open an account. Plop... | 2017-07-18T09:40:22 | 2017-07-18T09:32:24 | 609 | 325 |
[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. | Whenever you hear about hauntings you think of terrible things; blood oozing from the walls, chairs unexpectedly tipping over, bananas separated from the bunch without you having done it. Terrifying. I've seen all the movies and I've read all the stories and usually when someone is haunted they end up dead by a malicio... | My job is not the most prestigious, or the most difficult. Like everything else, it is just a job. I hate it, just like I hate myself. A repetition of certain tasks that does not ever end. I keep to myself, as always. I have no interest in making acquaintances or friends. The only guy that talks to me just compliments ... | 2017-12-09T04:00:58 | 2017-12-09T03:12:50 | 210 | 35 |
[WP] You have an incredible ability, the ability to create something just by saying its name, only problem is you gotta say it in an ancient tongue that no one knows, not even yourself, today in the middle of going through a terrible cough, your ability activates for the fourth time in your life. | Of course it had to be like this.
At age 9, it was a cheese grater. Those were some good nachos, or so I was told. Too bad I'm lactose intolerant.
At age 14, it was a block of cheese. Too bad I didn't have any need for that cheese grater.
At age 18, it was a chess set. I was a bit confused at first, but then I reali... | The shadows were dancing across the walls, pirouetting excitedly around the objects that bore their likeness.
Intik was lost in a world of his own, somewhere between the sway of the shadows and the flamboyance of the full moon as it peered curiously through the window. The sound of muffled coughing brought him back in... | 2018-08-06T06:06:44 | 2018-08-06T04:12:41 | 136 | 55 |
[WP] You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon's lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says "come tomorrow and try again." | "No," I panted through gritted teeth. "I'd rather you killed me now."
There was a moment of silence, then an older woman's head appeared over me and obscured my view of the stone ceiling. She raised one thick eyebrow, and the corner of her lips titled down. "It's not often I invite others--"
"With your reputation, I ... | “Once again our crops burn, even as we speak we wait for their flames to be doused. Last year was a travesty, but a surplus in stock gave us ample time to slay the beast yet here I stand with bellows of smoke in my eyes to a crumbling kingdom! Once a great nation, its citizens the wealthiest in the land of Astharnia, a... | 2020-12-01T08:59:58 | 2020-12-01T06:36:28 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You are a minion in the service of a dark lord. Your master has tasked you with creating and spreading a prophecy about a chosen one, the only person who can defeat him, so that the so-called "heroes" will stop resisting his rule and instead wait for their savior to arrive. | "So what you're sayin, is a kid born during the full moon, with all white hair and striking red eyes will defeat the dark lord?"
You eye the man before you, only a few drinks in, but just as susceptible to manipulation as the rest of the patrons, as long as you push the right buttons. "Of course, and I hear he's the *... | “With the highest amount of respect to you, my master, I’m unsure about this plan. I understand your great will and wit is only matched by the gods, but are you positive about this? What about Riza the heart snatcher or Jok the eye licker? Both seem more frightening than me.” The pint-sized goblin brushed his hands aga... | 2021-03-17T21:58:55 | 2021-03-17T20:04:32 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] The villagers call you their guardian spirit that has protected them since the time of ashes, in truth you are a monstrosity of war that protects the village in an attempt to clear your conscience. | I walked to this place sailed in blood. As everyday passes I can still feel it on my skin. I isolated in this place to atone for how many lives I took.
I’m sitting under a tree for a moment when I hear something near me. Quickly pulling out my knife I walk over to the sound.
As I approached a young girl comes out ca... | I remembered her, every year when the villagers would come to my altar and give their blessings and tears of thanks.
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I remembered her.
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My chest ached from battle scars long cut into my flesh, each a story marking it's words on my bones. Every tale sung for hundreds of years before another ... | 2021-04-18T20:54:41 | 2021-04-18T20:47:40 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] A human is the deadliest species in the galaxy. It has redundant organs and can lose all of its limbs and not die. Human skin is tough, can absorb forms of kinetic attack, and rated to withstand both cold and heat extremes. Their bites are deadly. They irradiate and poison themselves for fun. | The ceilings were too low.
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Linda sat on the floor, crossed-legged, focusing on her breathing. Eyes closed, not staring at the cramped barren empty room with a single child-sized cot that was too small even for her five foot tall frame.
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Inhale. *Feel the breath in your gut*, she told hersel... | It made sense now.
Approximately 20 universal cycles ago, first news of reports on these humans started coming in: "A new intelligent species discovered in sector", "Designated humans", "Contact established", "Representatives of human race arrived to the Assembly". Later on, first members of this species started joinin... | 2019-01-15T19:18:17 | 2019-01-15T18:50:29 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] Upon us entering intergalactic civilization, we discover that the Milky Way wasn't where we came from, but where we were banished to. All of civilization is horrified that we survived and returned from the universe's harshest galaxy. | "Run the data again." Dr'tll demanded.
"We've run it 12 times in the past mini-cycle, sir." M'tan, the young scientist leaves turned grey with fear. "There is no mistake."
"There HAS TO BE!" Dr'tll's fist slammed into the monitor, shattering it and sending green chlorophyll blood flying from his fist. "The Milk... | [[gaseous emission carbon increases, a hint of toluene is introduced, flapping frequency of emitting orifice varies greatly]]
&&frequency of pulsating light increases, data density is increased, stream switch from trinary to octal occurs&&
++magnetic field fluctuations plummet, antennae fully extend++... | 2019-11-14T22:18:02 | 2019-11-14T17:41:26 | 153 | 45 |
[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" | “Reply yes if you can survive the last video-game you played. If you survive without dying you will be awarded all you win in game.”
“Who texts this at 2:00am in the morning on a Friday night?,” I drunkingly mumbled.
Chuckling, I reminisce in the old days of my video-gaming childhood. I remember playing hours of cre... | *Beagle's journal - Day 1*
I couldn't believe it at first—I refused to—but as the day wore on, as the sun warmed by body and the pain of hunger quickly became real, I had to accept my new reality.
This world. This beautiful, vast, dangerous world. I've visited it enough to know it well from a bird's eye view, but ne... | 2020-02-16T18:41:30 | 2020-02-16T17:51:33 | 194 | 59 |
[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" | After replying to the email, I black out. When I come to, I find myself floating in a ocean, the clearest sea blue ocean I've ever seen. I had honestly thought that email was for shots and giggles, at least I hope it was. In the distance I see the dark green of tropical trees and white sand. I hope I make there without... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T19:58:17 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 84 | 12 |
[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'm screwed," I lamented for what might have been the fifth time, out loud and to know one in particular. Feeling utterly defeated, I leaned against an oak tree and slid down until I was sitting where its roots should have been. The ground was hard and flat.
I was sure I had never been this alone in my life. Nor as ... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T21:57:27 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | I poured a small measure of fire whiskey from my hip flask into my tea. Surreptitiously, of course. It was a habit that had only gained popularity outside the walls and it wouldn't do to be noticed for such odd behavior by the other patrons.
The tavern was one I hadn't been to in several years. This was, of course, by... | In the darkness of the wine cellar Aaron looked over the motley group of runaways, shaking his head. It was a measure of the lives they’d led that this is what they brought when they tried to colonize a new world, one of them even had a saxophone slung over his shoulder. He’d regret that unnecessary weight after walkin... | 2020-12-16T07:39:34 | 2020-12-16T07:35:12 | 226 | 111 |
[WP] You live in a country where murder is legal. The catch? It must be declared a week in advance. The aggressor must wait a full week, but the victim may begin defensive or offensive preparations immediately after receiving the threat. While a legitimate threat is legal, a false one is not. | "Last week, I fucked with some jerk's order because he was being rude to our cashier. When he threw a shitfit asking who made his order I owned up to it. He turns around and says 'You're dead meat!', looks at my nametag, turns to the wall, whips out a small piece of paper and pencil. Then he scribbles on it and slaps... | We at *Earnst & Koch Inc* believe that any man or woman can pull him or herself up by the bootstraps. And we believe that capitalism, liberated from any government input, is the greatest society we can achieve.
When my father, the late Rupert Earnst, sued his partner Alfred Koch to get the full possession of the c... | 2021-07-06T03:59:06 | 2021-07-06T02:22:20 | 120 | 79 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | When witches shapeshift in movies, it's a cool, smooth, sort of 2-second animation involving a camera trick or a computer or makeup.
At 2:31AM last night, seventeen stories above Manhattan, I got to see what it really looked like.
It had been a pretty normal evening. Finish work, catch a cab home, couple hours of Ape... | “Ugh, stop it.” I muttered, smacking the wooden broom handle away from my cheek, trying to stop the prodding. Through blurry eyes I could see three shadows standing beside my bed, before the broom handle collided with my cheek once more, jolting me into an upright position. “Ah, who are you?” I said, rubbing my eyes, w... | 2021-10-09T06:08:49 | 2021-10-09T04:24:50 | 1,119 | 336 |
[WP] “This place is not a place of honor,” reads the text. “No highly esteemed dead is commemorated here… nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.” | This wasn’t the first time we had received a message from the Old World. Most messages were indirect, time capsules meant for some imagined future where humanity would be far more advanced and would look upon their contents as vestiges of a time past. These messages never predicted the warfare that would ravage the Old... | Alesh was a boy of six when he first discovered the text. In the text he found a foreign world. He recognized a few words from its message. and saw that it was another remnant of the old world, one of many hidden secrets.
Throughout the years Alesh would play with his friends by the mystery site. He would have his fir... | 2022-06-18T02:33:03 | 2022-06-17T20:42:45 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] You’re a dragon who kidnapped a prince/princess. All is going to plan but… it’s been a month and no one’s come to save them. | Circling the tower for the 18th time that week, I realised nobody was in any rush to collect her. See, in my culture, it's noble to die to a knight. And the princess didn't seem to mind. I mean, at first she did. But she seems quite happy here, with the peace and quiet, doing everything at her own pace. I tucked my hea... | \[Dragon. Turkey.\]
Van'Droth wandered the halls of his castle with his nose in the air. It was a cool, crisp fall morning like they had all been lately; but, this particular morning was filled with unfamiliar but appetizing odors. The lean, wrinkled man with long, stringy black hair found his way into the kitchen to... | 2022-11-24T12:12:05 | 2022-11-24T10:32:59 | 252 | 50 |
[WP] You're an immortal who lives at a beach resort. You have many summer flings with mortals on getaways. One day you see someone you had a hot romantic night with 50 years ago. They look exactly the same. | “Are you okay, Sir?”
I turned my head slowly to look at the server who had approached me. He had a worried expression. I realized how strange I must look. How long had I been standing here? Half hiding behind a palm tree. Towel and bag waiting in the sand off to my left where I dropped them. The whole time staring at... | Disclaimer: I suck at romance writing. It might suck and you will cringe. Also, I changed the prompt a bit. Sorry.
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Being immortal gets really boring after a while. When you lived for a couple thousand years, time really starts becoming a blur, and relationships form and break apart at the b... | 2022-11-25T18:44:03 | 2022-11-25T14:30:26 | 856 | 165 |
[WP] We refused to believe it at first, but the astronomical evidence was irrefutable: there's a counter-Earth orbiting on the opposite side of the sun, always just out of sight. That was 40 years ago. It's 2017, and our probe sends back its first images. | Astronomers of days gone by believed that a heliocentric model of the solar system was perfectly explainable by envisioning a counterweight-like body of presence precisely opposite the orbit of earth, to ensure the planets circled the sun like a spinning top maintaining balance.
In modern times, this theory isn't give... | ‘What would I do without her’ Ashwin thought.
For 4 decades she had been his rock. They had met as junior astrophysicists working together at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, stationed for routine observation work at the Vainu Bappu Observatory in Southern India. It was a remote and desolate place and only a bad ... | 2017-12-10T12:52:43 | 2017-12-10T12:42:40 | 24 | 10 |
[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. | It started this one afternoon, I was just writing an essay in my bedroom when suddenly chaos errupted outside. People started flying, speed running, healing and exhibiting other fabulous superpowers. After everything had settled down a bit I returned to my essay, after all it had to be handed in before midnight. I trie... | "Where'd you go. . ."
The boot came into view first. Hard to imagine that thing used to be stark white, but then again it's even more difficult to find a reason why he even needed white boots anyways. Covered in a mix of dry and wet mud coming off the sides. Must be a nightmare having that guy as a roommate.
I held m... | 2019-09-08T10:15:10 | 2019-09-08T08:59:29 | 228 | 111 |
[WP] You are an immortal vampire, who can only be killed by a wooden stake through the heart. In a dying universe, you are now in your spaceship looking for some wood, before it is too late. | Earth was incinerated roughly 2 billion years ago when Sol went Nova. It was a beautiful sight, but I had to watch it on the video feeds. I didn't think much of it at the time, other than celebrating the end of the starlight that harmed me. Oddly enough, it was only the light of Sol that burns a vampires skin. I've see... | How had she burned it all? There had been two hundred planets in the universe where a substance that passed close enough to wood existed. Of those two hundred, half had developed sentient species that deforested them. On a quarter, evolution had swept the wood away. Trees had bowed out of the race for survival, gone ex... | 2021-12-03T07:23:34 | 2021-12-03T05:36:33 | 153 | 79 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the god damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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May... | *Fucking son of a bitch.*
The moist *crunch, crunch, smack, crunch* of Sylvester’s lips as he bulled his way through a second bowl of Marshmallow Mateys made Maribelle want to bash him in the mouth. Within the brief darkness that the blink of her eyes brought, she saw red— red pouring out of those clammy lips that yaw... | 2016-07-16T19:30:28 | 2016-07-16T19:03:53 | 113 | 18 |
[WP] Seasoned wizards only use dead languages such as Latin for their incantations. Those less experienced quickly learn why--as the meanings of words change, so too do the effects of their spells. |     **The Place, the Thought, and the Word**, these are the components of the triangle of Power. Without any, like fire without air, heat, or fuel, a spell cannot gain purchase on our world. Beyond these simple rules, as with any discipline of man, opinions vary on the proper ways of... | The Magic of Doonya {Rough cut/ Ch.1-3}
By Clint G.
CH.1 History of our world
Magic is the trick of the trade in our world called Doonya.
Each country holds ancient houses as the rulers of the lands across three major continents; Ho’thaiya, Buenet’a, and my homeland Kol’dea.
Peace has ruled the lands for 200 yea... | 2018-05-02T20:38:49 | 2018-05-02T17:46:30 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | *No.* Death thought. *It couldn't be.*
Death reached below the grand wooden table, hastily pulling out the dust covered hourglass. Questions flooded its mind. *How? When? Who?*
Carefully, Death set the hourglass sideways on its table, like the way it found it, the only one among the seven billion or so hourglasses in... | A rather androgynous figure stands behind a great stone desk, intricately carved with names you and I would find impossible to pronounce. It spreads outwards in both directions, infinitely long, growing darker and darker in the endless vault. Besides a few gaps close to the figure, the great stone carving is infinite... | 2018-10-03T06:52:49 | 2018-10-03T04:57:52 | 2,861 | 557 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | "I would like to buy that necklace." I said to the woman behind the counter. She smiled at me, amused. "The one with the diamond."
"I think that one's a bit out of your price range, sweetie." She said kindly. Not an unusual reaction, but it still frustrated me. Even so the kindness on her face took the sting from her ... | I stood face to face with a feral cave goblin. I had bested far more fearsome creatures countless times, but at the moment I was faced with several new complications which I had never had to deal with in the past. I had no proper weapons, no equipment, and oh yes... I was but a child with a child's body and meager stre... | 2019-06-07T09:55:24 | 2019-06-07T09:37:52 | 119 | 13 |
[WP] Faced with execution for his crimes, Lucifer stands before the courts of heaven. He leans over to the gallery behind him and whispers "Hey, Jesus, fancy putting in a good word with your dad? Be a shame if he found out what you got up to during those 3 days you spent with us afer you died!" | Lucifer grinned as Jesus flinched, the courtroom silence hammering the Son of God with nervousness as the devil wiggled cutely, bouncing on his toes and smiling with a grin that would make most lesser beings loosen their resolve. Instead of having horns and the tail and the trident he just had redder skin, his suit hal... | # Good Friday
**While Jesus was on the cross he called to Satan. "Hey, Satan, can you hear me?"**
**Satan replied: "Yes, Lord."**
**"Good," said Jesus, "then you can be the first to know that I am going to hell."**
**Satan was dumbfounded and he asked: "What? How can that be, you're the son of god?"**
**Jesus said... | 2021-04-19T10:24:11 | 2021-04-19T10:05:53 | 70 | 34 |
[WP] A Vampire's appearance will shift to resemble that which they feed on the most. Trust not the ones who are visions of human beauty - for friends they are not. Instead seek those with a monstrous countenance such as that of rats, lizards or even insects because those are our true friends. | Anna couldn't push herself to run any further. She stopped against a tree, breathing so hard it hurt. She looked back, but didn't see any sign of that monster. Just trees, extending for miles in all directions. She was totally lost. The sun was going to set soon, and that could be very dangerous. But she couldn't exact... | "Beautiful! Beautiful! Ladies, you are going to be a star!", the photographer excitedly exclaimed, jumping from side to side as his camera flashed-- taking pictures after pictures of the young beautiful models.
"Alright, that's it for today, darlings. I'll see you tomorrow morning for your next session", he said as t... | 2021-05-31T01:15:42 | 2021-05-31T00:57:39 | 281 | 158 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | My ability to cancel the powers of other people caused me to grow weak. I could always gain the element of surprise by reasserting law and order. Reality was more willing to accept my Aura of stasis. Without their powers, most individuals lost focus. For a moment - long enough.
Countless enemies fell to this sort ... | I spin the wheel of my steel and whatever vehicle. It’s a giant thing, can say for sure it’s made out of steel, but also a bunch of random crap as well. Stuff that didn’t exist on the periodic table before the Super Revolution. The government supplied it to me, so why should I know what it’s made out of? I quickly end ... | 2021-06-24T20:26:23 | 2021-06-24T18:29:49 | 60 | 33 |
[WP] And the angel said unto him, "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself." But lo, he could not stop, for the angel was hitting him with his own hands. | “Lucifer, what are you doing?” God paused at the sight of the archangel straddling a man on the ground.
“I am advising William to stop hitting himself.” Lucifer replied, holding the man's wrists tight.
“I am *not* hitting myself!” the man yelled.
“See how he lies, my lord? The imprint of his own palm gl... | On her deathbed, Simon's mother asked for pickles. "I am about to go meet my maker, but I am hungry. Please. Before I die, can you make sure I have one final meal of pickles?"
Simon held her hand, it was frail as a bird, and he promised that he would fulfill her dying wish. "I will get you those pickles, ma. If it's t... | 2022-03-13T09:49:31 | 2022-03-13T07:40:50 | 1,217 | 78 |
[WP] “Although we are grateful to you for defeating our oppressors, you were meant to die in battle…” your “allies” suddenly turned their weapons on you, “Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” | "Seriously? We're doing this now?" I sighed, more disappointed than anything. The others had murder in their eyes; save Rogue and her usual greed. To be honest I saw it coming since we came together. "Well, it's a good thing I have contingencies." I used a scroll of anti magic first thing, temporarily disabling Cleric ... | Together we stand among the corpses of the invading army's commanders. "It was a complete rout," I mused as the still superior force fled haphazardly from the ramshackle force of farmers and former soldiers of the already defeated monarchy. These people were once oppressed by their monarch Lord Bloodfist, a rough trans... | 2022-11-01T23:34:26 | 2022-11-01T19:28:17 | 53 | 24 |
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