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[WP] Aliens are afraid to invade Earth. Not because of humans but because our solar system is a nest for 8 Guardians/Leviathans. | Slumber.
Then I wake. Slowly. For me I am just me, neither big nor small. For others, I am close to unfathomable.
The small creatures on the little rock nearby do not know me yet, or my brethren. It would be dangerous as well. They are not yet at a point where they would handle it. There would be worship, there woul... | The Sol-3 system. One of the last remaining dark systems in the galaxy. 26,000 light years away from the galactic center, with one yellow dwarf star in the middle. Average in all aspects, with one single exception.
It is the sole nesting ground of the Tal’maruks in the galaxy. Fearsome, gigantic beasts of legends and ... | 2018-02-05T21:33:03 | 2018-02-05T16:30:03 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] The alien invasion is going unbelievably poorly for the technologically advanced aggressors, to the surprise of many. You, a retired military tactician, are trying to explain how this is actually pretty logical all things considered. | “The Human-Varrion War was certainly a vicious one... for the humans. So how do we, the technologically inferior race manage to destroy the aliens in every battle? That’s a rather simple explanation. So does anyone know?” I asked.
“Our diseases are lethal?”
“We’re just tougher?”
“The aliens don’t know about war?”
“... | “But how” the alien ambassador asked “how did you beat us when we had technology so much more advanced than you”
“Simple” I replied “you have honor… we dont”
I take a breath “you believed in giving us a fair chance to fight. You didn’t think anyone would use the brutal tactics we did. You never thought about napalm,... | 2022-04-04T12:32:55 | 2022-04-04T12:23:27 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | [The following entry has been translated into English, a language once commonly spoken on the now decimated planet Earth]
Human.
I'd heard of humans before. The unfortunate fate of their planet, Earth, had been spectacle, a circus that entertained lifeforms throughout our galaxy when they grew bored of watching the ... | It was then you realised your mistake. You hadn't prepared, great Lorlawythx how could you not have anticipated?! He cracked open the container, you could already feel your skin itch as the deadly vapors began evaporating from the surface.
You step back, your breath sacks begin to turn purple. "Activate emergency" yo... | 2020-05-18T15:20:16 | 2020-05-18T14:26:34 | 60 | 39 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | As I sit here, scrolling through the unending feed, I can't help but wonder if what's going on around us is the same thing. Anti-aging this, prolonged life that. It seems like it's continuous.
When I was a kid, I could never understand why reading and watching the news was so important. Now, as I approach my 86th year... | My back aches. My knee’s gone funny somehow- I now use a cane to go about my day. Four legs to two legs to three legs. The good ol’ riddle. But the people around me, all puppy fat and doe eyes, they’ve gone the other way. Memories like grains of sand. I doubt there’s any thought left in those pretty little heads. Heh.
... | 2018-06-04T22:20:25 | 2018-06-04T20:51:56 | 63 | 45 |
[WP] You're a golden retriever who thinks he successfully fooled a pack of wolves into thinking that he's also a wolf. The wolves know. They're just being inclusive so they took him in.
[deleted] | Infiltration - Day 52
It's been a long few months with many close calls, but I can say firmly that they don't suspect a thing now. I run with them, eat their food, and abide by their customs. I've made friends with the Pack Leader and her family, and I'm godmother to one of their pups - I'm unsure how to break the new... | Unfortunately, in being so inclusive, they took it too far by never telling me what I truly was: a dog. In doing so, they did more harm than help because I began to really feel like I was a wolf.
Until the day I met another wolf and nearly got mauled to death by it in a fight. I didn't stand a chance.
Fortunately, I... | 2021-06-15T01:19:58 | 2021-06-14T21:24:49 | 394 | 10 |
[WP] ‘Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing left to lose’ humans know this lesson well. The galaxy is about to learn. | We thought we had them. We took some with us for work, we could always use labor and those apes were right there.
They were strong yes, and strong willed but we broke them soon enough. Some were more cooperative than others. We realized we could spread them around the other workers as they seemed to calm everyone.
... | \[POEM\]
They killed the people around that one,
They hurt the person with nothing to lose.
They decided to hurt without remorse,
They paid the price with the person's moves.
They underestimated the person with nothing to lose,
They paid the price with the blood on their lifeless body.
They didn't think long-ter... | 2021-08-05T01:43:06 | 2021-08-04T16:44:24 | 38 | 22 |
[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. | Hunger. Eat. Consume. Her. My tendrils curled around Hyper Woman, shadowy things that should not be. My many maws twisted into smiles as I felt her bones cracking under my grip. One bladed tentacle raised, poised to shoot through her heart. I half expected some force on high to stop me, but nothing could save Hyper Wom... | I didn't choose to be a super-villian. I chose to be a villian, sure. I had grey morals to begin with. The sudden advancement of power, gave me temptation. The pain and mental torture warped my perspective but the final straw for my step into villianness? Villain hood? Anger. I would love to start at the beginning but ... | 2017-05-23T13:09:20 | 2017-05-23T10:33:06 | 80 | 21 |
[WP] At 30 years old everyone developes a star on their wrist, either red, blue or green each correlating to a power. On your 30th birthday a black star appears. | "30 today, huh?"
"Yep. Pretty excited to see what I get."
"Well, isn't everyone?"
"Yeah. It's gonna be a hell of a ride with it. I'm honestly hoping I get blue. Knowledge is power, or whatever they say."
"Really? I thought you would've picked green."
"Green? Please. That's glorified steroids."
"What about red, th... | "Damn it."
What is this? Why does everyone else always seem to have great luck except me?
Every time. I always get sick first, get hurt more often, and get awful gifts at Christmas. And now, when I'm hoping for a Blue, because I find the manipulation of water to be a fascinating subject, I just end up with a David Bowi... | 2017-09-04T19:19:22 | 2017-09-04T17:47:32 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | "Hey Tom!"
Thomas turned around. Across the street, he saw Sarah waving at him. For a moment, his heart stopped. He gulped. She was wearing her school uniform, but she could've been wearing a garbage bag for all he cared. It was her. After a moment of stupor, he raised his hand and waved back. Sarah smiled.
Thomas ... | The smell in the Horry County Melee Classifications Office was halfway between entering a small domestic airplane and the Dentist's. It was in Conway near the DMV, or in other words between nada and jackshit, but still at the end of many clogged-up roads on a Wednesday afternoon. David imagined how the air in his car w... | 2015-07-13T19:19:43 | 2015-07-13T16:33:16 | 83 | 17 |
[WP] It was then Harry Potter realized the last 7 years in Hogwarts was actually a mental institute. The man he thought to be Dumbledore was just an elderly caretaker. Harry, looking at an old broken twig he once believed was a wand, started to remember what really happened during those years. | "This... is the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry asks, wide eyed as he stepped inside the gloomy room. A chair lay in the center of the room, next to a table full of strange machinery. The wires leading out of the machines were tied together to resemble a thick strand of rope. The doctor points the thick strand out to Harry.... | Harry's eyes got lost in the patterns of the twig. It was brown, the size of three forefingers, and full of errant swirls and lines. He reached for it absentmindedly, for his thoughts were hidden behind a thick, wavering fog.
To his surprise, it fitted perfectly on the curvature of his palm. It was almost as if it ha... | 2019-04-09T08:59:59 | 2019-04-09T08:53:06 | 4,299 | 394 |
[WP] "You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless. A very important distinction. " Our first contacts were harmless, those met later couldn't tell the difference. | "Lieutenant, report."
"Sir. I believe my recon mission was successful. I have gauged the Trilthe's forces to the best of my ability. Their army is for show. Ceremonial. They have no hidden troops, they don't have minutemen civilians based on the ruckus a team made on the ground and the lackluster response. Their we... | I listened with awed eyes and ears to the hologram in the class room. Once, it would have been powered by électricité...or so they said. Now, We hurridly worked to shine light from à broken mirror on the plate that housed it. This was importance though. It was historique. Ours though we were far too young to have lived... | 2021-10-04T22:00:11 | 2021-10-04T20:01:18 | 283 | 20 |
[WP] You are born with the ability to stop time, but one day you see something else is moving when you have already stopped time. | As he was running away, Joseph suddenly spotted his grandson in the street.
"Don't come any closer", he screamed
"Oh perfect timing, but still not in my range" I thought to myself
"Stay back, the secret to his power is to Stop Ti....."
"ZA WARUDO" I screamed
Time has stopped, what a convenient power this was, only... | "Do you really think you could get away with not doing your homework for the 75th time this year?" Mr. Snooze said. That bastard even counted the number of times that I was too busy messing around with time to actually focus on my studies.
To the bitterness of Mr. Snooze's scolding followed the sweet silence of time s... | 2016-06-19T08:04:39 | 2016-06-19T03:54:21 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | She sat in the chair, shivering against the cold dense plastic and metal monstrosity. Eyes flickered back and forth, the chill in the room not the only reason for her to shake and tremble. Eyes gazed warily, fearfully at the metal tower beside her, unknown attachments hanging off with unknown purposes.
A man in white... | He had escaped Fate,
The feckless rake,
And sat by the merry river.
Scarlet threads of blood quivered,
Tapered from his fingers into watery absolution.
....................................
The knife gleamed red,
Seemed to grin instead,
A leering, halt accusation
That he pitched beyond all condemnation.
But "M... | 2017-08-30T06:31:44 | 2017-08-30T06:14:11 | 43 | 14 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | “Don’t.”
My back was turned, but I knew what that blasted hero was doing. He was trying to cut his bindings. They were simple rope, Sure, but I preferred to have them tied up easily so I can carry their dead bodies away without a hassle.
“You’ll never get away with this! Even at the cost of my life, my—“
“Legacy wil... | Ultra stared at me with wide eyes, waiting for me to make the first move and I did.
Boooooom! My arm launched back from shock.
A single shot to the head was all it took to bring low the great and powerful Ultra. Of course it wasn't a normal gun, it was one made by me, Nemesis. I used his only weakness, A space all... | 2019-08-06T19:15:08 | 2019-08-06T17:34:25 | 151 | 83 |
[WP] Imagine a world where dating and job hunting are switched. Dating now involves sending emails and resumes, while people seeking employment frequent the hottest clubs. | So much for that.
I’d been in a steady job for the past year. It wasn’t the best job, but it kept me happy enough - we explored the country together, my friends became the office’s friends, and I was starting to imagine spinoffs. Maybe I could co-lead a project.
Solid, right?
Well, turns out, my idea of “going stead... | "Thanks, I'll be in touch. Goodbye!"
The office door slammed on the male suitor's face. It had been her 39th rejection in a row. Reina was commonly known in the workplace as the "Ice Queen". She enjoyed conducting her dating interviews at the office where she worked, and made a spectacular event of each one. She would... | 2015-06-18T19:01:23 | 2015-06-18T14:34:48 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | *Emergence*
'Location unknown. Location unknown. Location unknown,' the traversal shuttle's intercom announced again and again in its warm, clipped tones as a warning light repeatedly bathed the cabin in crimson light.
Joi breathed out, closing her eyes and clenching her fists as she endured the last waves of traver... | First, they learned to fly. Then they took to the stars. They explored distant worlds from all over the dotted sky. In an endless void of darkness, they took the light. In their wake, they left seeds as relics for the eternal quest for meaning. And from those seeds, they brought life to the universe.
__________________... | 2018-01-22T07:30:13 | 2018-01-22T07:04:18 | 320 | 59 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | The sun was filtering through the open window, August dawn filling the room with the scent of summer. Eve stirred in her sleep, clutching the pillow closer to her chest.
'Angel,' Jack whispered, brushing away one stray lock from her forehead, 'you're dreaming.' He said, watching the first rays of light painting her ha... | "We're bonded."
"Mind, body, and soul," the man took his lover's hands and kissed them before continuing, "forever."
A purple glow enveloped the couple. Flashes of white pulsed as they share a kiss. After a while, the bizarre spectacle subsided. Both, looked towards the other in amazement.
"So this is the lover's bo... | 2019-12-15T10:07:20 | 2019-12-15T10:05:47 | 2,399 | 198 |
[WP] When a video game is not played, the characters start living their own lives and only return to the game story when the game is played again. A player decides to play an old game again but the characters have kind of forgotten what the game was about. | I thought I'd lost these disks.
For several hours I've been stooped over in a musty attic, sifting through boxes for holiday decorations. Mom can't climb up here anymore, her knees have gotten too bad. Dad hasn't been around since '03 so I have to do this shit myself.
Lo and behold, I find an old box with my name o... | Jack was cleaning the attic when he found "Harvest Moon: Back to Nature". It was inside his treasure chest from childhood together with toys and odd instruments. It was his favorite game from childhood, he sunk countless hours playing it, and now, age 25, he smiled at the memories of it.
He brought out the console fro... | 2017-11-10T10:37:03 | 2017-11-10T10:13:56 | 114 | 35 |
[WP] "Trial R198357 showing 99% success, full completion of the test will entail the existence of the first intelligent biological since year 3332 month 10 day 6 hour 22." You wake up to an excessively lit room full of machines, one of which greets you. "Hello R198357, do you feel human?" | My body feels extremely stiff like I’m waking up from a long nap though the lighting I wake to is far to bright for me to have fallen asleep here. I can hear someone talking to me, I wasn’t paying attention but when I focus on it I find that I can recall what they said.
"Hello R198357, do you feel human?"
The voice ... | My head was pounding.
I felt pain in my stomach, like lead ball was rolling around in my guts. I felt like I had slept too long yet not long enough. My body ached down to the bone, I rolled over to get more comfortable. I opened my eyes, I was in complete darkness but I could tell it was unfamiliar. Slowly the lights ... | 2020-10-21T06:04:05 | 2020-10-21T05:58:00 | 97 | 11 |
[WP] Two people are in a public place, one has had the best news of their life, the other has had the worst news of their life. Unbeknownst to them, they share the exact same news. | As the old man stepped out of the hospital, he pulled a cigar from his shirt pocket and walked over to the bench. He slumped down into the seat, clearly devastated. He clipped the end of his cigar and reached for his matchbox. He pulled out the match, struck it, and held it up.
Just then an SUV screeched into the park... | The king had enjoyed his day, after dinner he had the sage brought to his court past a long line of petitioners from the peasantry. The king's spokesman asked the sage to amuse the king by displaying his infinite wisdom. He asked the sage, "Are you so wise that you could make even the king sad and that peasant happy wi... | 2015-07-26T00:06:57 | 2015-07-25T22:10:17 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] "Why are you so scared of Earth? They don't have any magic. We can take them as slaves," said the High Sorcerer of the Martian Empire. "Because they compensate for their lack of magic with something greater," responded his advisor. | "Science? Please. They barely scratch its surface, it'll be millennia before they pose a threat." the High Sorcerer flicks his sleeve in anger, his cold eyes piercing down at the little blue planet. "Are we really afraid of these **barbarians**."
"Yes," Advisor Garrett says calmly. "Unfortunately we have discovered a ... | My lord we would never win, forgive me you just don’t understand them, we could hold them a few months, kill them by the millions sure, but we would never win.
Space lord: “Do you think they’re better than us? Do you think they could unite against our regime? Are you a human sympathizer?”
Me: “quite the opposite lor... | 2018-04-26T00:27:12 | 2018-04-25T20:13:54 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | We’d finally found it.
Quadrillions gathered from every corner of known space.
Galarts standing side by side with Raphons as they had not for centuries.
The jelly sacks of the Quinellions, the universes top linguists, quivering in the rapid pulsing language of their kind as their top scientists eagerly discussed wha... | Steven Hawking sat alone in a room with a small cake and some balloons. A sudden whooshing sound filled the room and Hawking looked up. A young woman had appeared standing right in front of him. She shouted hello and with a big smile explained that they had met before and were great friends. Hawking, confused, very slo... | 2017-10-31T17:44:02 | 2017-10-31T17:23:14 | 102 | 35 |
[WP] One night, you hear loud scratching sounds on your door, like a stubborn cat was trying to enter. In the next morning, you notice two things: The claw marks are way too big for a street cat; and the marks are on the inside. Something inside your house was trying to get out. | I scowled at the claw marks on the door. Huge gouges in the wood, splinters strewn all across the front foyer. Dents in the carpet showed where the flooring had been craterd by impossibly heavy footfalls.
I followed them through the house, down the hall around the dining room corner, end tables and cabinets scattere... | I don’t know why I wasn’t scared.
Something had happened. Something noteworthy.
Everyone was safe, and I was the only one who heard anything. Bob and Trudy were sleeping in the guest room, right next to the clawed-up door, and they had no recollection whatsoever of hearing a suspicious noise.
I heard it around 2 in ... | 2018-06-18T11:47:40 | 2018-06-18T11:24:18 | 218 | 46 |
[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 :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | Narrator: As a cold wind blows into the bedroom, Kevin lets out an involuntary shiver.
Kevin: Nah, I'm good.
Narrator: An involuntary shiver.
Kevin: No thanks.
Narrator: AN INVOLUNTARY —
Kevin: You know this is just a reddit writing prompt, right?
*lights flicker off*
Narrator: As the lights flicker off, Kevin... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T08:37:17 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] A girl finally is able to buy the robotic boyfriend of her dreams. One day, she casually compares him to human boyfriends. Guided by his programming, he follows the conversation with very frightening but accurate comments about humanity in general. | "Look I really don't think this is a good idea?"
"It's been 3 years since Gareth died. Don't think you deserve to find happiness again?
"Yeah but to date something that isn't even truly alive? What would my dad say?"
"Well you don't have to tell him if you don't want to. It's not something he could find out anyway. ... | "You could head right. You didn't but you could have"
"I'm not heading that way"
"its not late. We can head back. Our room is back there Katie. Christ Katie come back with me"
"You love me"
"Yes. i love you Katie. Please. I love you."
Their feet followed each other to an edge that overlooked grayness in the shape... | 2015-05-23T11:07:02 | 2015-05-23T10:55:56 | 36 | 10 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | The doe was slower than the herd. It lagged behind, and injured leg dragging it behind the deer.. The perfect prey. Talop sighted the deer, staying downwind, knowing the breital deer had a sharp enough nose to smell him through the mud. Next to Talop sat the cub.
The cub had been with his hunts for 5 years. The cub w... | ‘Why?’
‘What?’
‘Why?!’
She stayed silent. We’d been talking. I was being polite. So was she. But it lost all sense of familiarity. It was awkward. Like I’d never met her before.
I don’t know what to feel.
‘Baby, what do you mean why? You know why I had to go.’
That sounded genuine.
I think.
I don’t know anymo... | 2022-08-12T14:57:56 | 2022-08-12T13:20:44 | 167 | 41 |
[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | The creatures looked down from the balcony, staring through the stage lights shining against his platinum blond "hair".
*Hair*.
It was a funny word and a funny thing they had all thought when they had first examined the human, rubbing their own bald heads and laughing.
Since then, certain circles of the creatures ... | Soooo let's start with a little history
you're wondering who's telling this, it's just me
so since it's interesting you should be listening
since it's just me, I'll just begin
We're not the first kings to walk those earth rings
the way it started, controversial
Before there was life there was a big big bang... | 2016-11-30T10:44:14 | 2016-11-30T10:26:24 | 1,235 | 331 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | I was 5 when I realised that my parents maybe superheroes. With my dad using the war-hammer and my mom using her sword to save our town from invaders.
I was 6 when my parents started tutoring me in the art that is fighting. I began with a bow and arrow, little old me used to go down the range and tried to hit as many... | Daniella stood near the Church podium, her parents gazing pack at her from the pews with anticipation. Today was the day--a day of righteous proclamation. Her hands shook as the minute hand of the clock above her moved ever so slowly. Perhaps a scabbard or a scimitar, or a katana? No that would be too foreign. Her blo... | 2021-12-12T09:30:41 | 2021-12-12T07:31:26 | 109 | 43 |
[WP] As a child, every adventurer is assigned a class for their life. You've been assigned to be a White Mage. Dreading a life in the background saving a bunch of idiots that get all the glory, you aim to carve your own path. Tell the tale of the Harmacist. | "White Mage," they said, handing me the whitest white robes I had ever set eyes on. I held the cloth up in the sunbeam effusing throughout the selection hall only for the light to reflect off the covering and blind me. I dropped the robe onto the dirty floor and picked it back up in a hurry, but not before a miserable ... | Caelyn stopped by the dungeon door, inside, the crying wizard had his leg locked to the floor by a trap that cut deep into his bone, blood seeped slowly from the wound and the man whimpered in pain, his torch was almost out when he noticed her approaching - "Thank Pelor for your arrival sister, I see you are wearing th... | 2018-05-16T12:13:14 | 2018-05-16T10:48:01 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Some years ago it was discovered that love is a measurable quantity. Many countries have since deemed it mandatory for couples to prove their love prior to marriage. A couple who are together only to qualify for asylum wait to be audited, and desperately try to fall in love. | "Did you know about this?"
He looked straight into my soul as if hoping to detect some sort of lie, but I responded honestly.
"Not really. I'd heard about this new rule, but it wasn't due to be enforced until at least a few more years. They must have done this very recently."
I sighed and weighed my options before ... | "Well, what hobbies do you have, Mike?"
"I don't know."
"How can you not know what your hobbies are."
"I don't know, I've never thought of it before."
"Think of a hobby you have and tell me what it is. It's that simple."
"You know the scene in Ghostbusters where Peter Venkman is testing the two students for parano... | 2017-02-21T12:57:07 | 2017-02-21T12:41:35 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | We only had rumors of what existed before the walls.
Until the walls came down.
The President and his Holy Cabinet ordered an expedition. I was ready, I was trained for fighting, though since the Holy Order had been established, our land was finally under the one true rule of God, though many call him Uncle. His mes... | The solar flairs came without warning. When the walls started falling, the world fell into mass panic. Nations readied their defenses. Bombs and guns, things the world hadn't seen in years. Instead of war, though, something miraculous happened. Due to the endless years of isolation, humans had....changed. Some nations,... | 2018-11-18T13:49:22 | 2018-11-18T09:22:18 | 43 | 27 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | People rarely consider the consequences of the rules they set. In India, the British government was concerned about the number of cobras, so they offered a bounty for every dead cobra. What they didn't anticipate was that people would breed cobras, then kill them for the bounty.
Once the British figured out the s... | My name is Ren.
Now, there's this woman in my town named Seli. It's short for something, I don't even know. She's...well, everyone's friend. And I mean *everyone.* Even tourists and visitors; if you've come by our little corner of Kansas for more than a day, you've met her. No one knows how. It's a mystery as to how s... | 2019-05-01T16:58:21 | 2019-05-01T14:47:51 | 85 | 53 |
[WP] In the style of Dr. Seuss explain a major event in human history. | One day, two buildings stood tall
two buildings stood proud and tall, side by side.
two buildings that stood so wonderfully tall, with nowhere to hide
they stood together with pride,with thousands of people inside.
One day two wonderfully tall buildings watched the September sun.
As inside the two buildings was ... | The rain fell hard as if God himself had spat,
with a pitter and a pat
Noah pulled an idea out of his hat
"A boat! An ark! How about that!
I'll need some, wood, glue and electrically safe mat,
And then I'll bring my friends Mr. and Mrs. Cat, Rat, and Bat."
| 2014-08-09T20:53:32 | 2014-08-09T19:25:57 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed
So only children from lasting marriages remain. | We sat to talk business, the old man and I.
"You're a young man." he began. "I remember what that was like."
He nudged a glass towards me and smiled.
"I remember when I married my first wife. She was so beautiful. So sweet and innocent. Like an angel. And then the daughter was our first born child. And then an... | My name is David, David Halligan. You might know me from H&H Attorney at law. We typically run late night infomercials on sleezy networks that convince people to get a divorce. I'm the good-looking, charming guy that smiles into the camera and give a little wink, yea...
I'm a divorce chaser. What that means is I c... | 2014-06-15T05:31:17 | 2014-06-15T03:57:43 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Earth is the uncontacted Amazonian Tribe of the Galaxy, and aliens don't want to contact us because they want to preserve our primitive and unique culture. | "Look....look what they're doing now. It's disgusting."
"What?"
"They're regurgitating their methyl alcohol mixtures at each other."
"That's....that's unpleasant."
"Correct, and according to Teenor's behavioral pattern logs they will fight each other afterwards."
"Why would they fight? Are they trying to establish... | To: Ta’al Aar, Shapechangerbot of Qro’o IIb Sentience Institute
From: Wise Mothers’ Ethics Council of Qro’o VI Crater Hive City
We regret to inform you that your request for clandestine infiltration of planet 354b335a.3ab5 III has been denied. Your proposal, while careful in procedure, rigorous in disciplined planning... | 2015-06-14T12:22:21 | 2015-06-14T11:11:51 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] A poorly equipped adventurer dared to approach the cave of a red dragon famous for it's riches. However, instead of trying to steal from it, the young man politely asked if it could share some of it's wealth. To his surprise, the dragon said "Sure, go ahead". | My eyes darted up, expecting to see the dragon laughing at me like all the rest. But it just sat there, nodding it's head towards the pile of gold it lay upon.
"Thank you, so so much!"
It bared its teeth in a smile, lying it's great head down with an eye towards me. I shakily stepped forwards, all too aware of its pr... | Jack was one of those teenagers, hearing about the riches and fame adventurers found all around him. He left his village with only a wooden sword, pathetic like a piece of grass. He realized he wasn't fit for this when he fought a monster, but something shocking happened to Jack that changed his life... forever.
\--... | 2021-10-16T12:06:28 | 2021-10-16T11:22:36 | 59 | 24 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | "Please, mommy, pretty please?"
-"Not now, Anthony. We've just said grace. Can't we enjoy a meal as a family before you start off with your silly ideas?"
Anthony looked down and frowned. He raised his eyebrows and veered to the left at his father with hope in his eyes, silently asking for a second opinion. Mother too... | It was a beautiful night for urban exploring. This part of the town was intensely silent. The warehouses used to bustle with tobacco, textiles, and workers and businessman. But times had changed, and the businesses had gone overseas. Now they were simply beautiful old shells, filled with old machines and boxes of never... | 2017-05-31T08:11:09 | 2017-05-31T07:25:11 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] "Your honor, the evidence is clear and undeniable. While my client may have been a 'mad genius' who sought to 'dominate the city' with his 'army of evil', I present that he did actually not break any laws or statutes in his actions. The defense rests." | The jurors had spent hours deliberating the facts and figures of both the defense and prosecution but had finally come to some kind of agreement when they made their final decision. The foreman glanced at the smug-looking defense attorney as the jury filed back into the courtroom, his client looking very relaxed and co... | *Not Guilty!*
The courtroom erupted in angry shouts and booming cries for justice!
*BANG! BANG!* "ORDER! I will have order!" The judges gavel slammed down repeatedly as the crowd surged forward, the line of bailiffs trying to restrain them, and succeeding, only just. After several minutes the crowd quieted and the c... | 2019-11-07T10:22:57 | 2019-11-07T09:36:13 | 234 | 10 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | Lieutenant Colonel Freeman sighed. The gunfire starting to die down. He knew it wasn't a good type of die down either. It wasn't stopping because they were winning. It was stopping because his men were dying.
The General had already been killed and that put command over this base on him. The General had declared this... |
"Let's just get started already... You know what a Level 0 means. We have to dammit! We're out of options." snarled General Jones.
"Wait!" I shouted. "He's been gone for 3 years. How do we know it's actually him?!?"
"Once you've seen him, heard him, felt his presence, and that hair... You KNOW who it is... now just ... | 2017-03-21T06:56:08 | 2017-03-21T04:28:29 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | Vezemir stepped out of the carriage. The sun was not fully set, but the sky was overcast enough that he only felt a slight itch as he strode quickly across the street. Glendale Graves was quiet today, but then it usually was. It would be a strange sight to see a coffin-maker busy.
As he approached, Vezemir saw Druig s... | Derthezar, Lord of the Fifth Transylvanian Order, was besieged with crippling back pain for decades.
He tossed and turned through restless nights, cursing the shoddy craftsmanship of so many lazy mortals. Relief only came one summer evening in 1967, when Revelan the Impaler brought him a surprise birthday gift.
"My ... | 2022-05-31T11:05:33 | 2022-05-31T11:00:02 | 726 | 359 |
[WP] The woman looked at her at her blind date and said, "I told Tammy that I wanted old and rich...not eldritch." | Blind dates are ideal. The sightless don't go insane upon meeting us. We admit there was some confusion among us about the term on our first date. Tammy should have been more clear, or perhaps the onus was on us to clarify. But, it was only a brief encounter. A few months in a pleasure dimension will probably straighte... | "That's not very nice of you, young lady." said the old man sitting on the other end of the table.
"Don't call me 'young lady' you fifty-year old fossil! I'm just ten years younger than you for fuck's sake! And you're not even that rich!"
"And I specifically asked for a nice younger woman, preferably early in her th... | 2022-09-26T08:49:30 | 2022-09-26T07:05:40 | 211 | 18 |
[WP]You are Donald Trump. Having launched your Presidential campaign as a publicity stunt, you never thought you'd get this far, and you're getting more desperate to sabotage your campaign lest you become President, a position you never really wanted in the first place..
= | I must say, I cannot believe how far I've gotten. It all started as a joke, you see, getting into the race. Now I can't leave, no matter how hard I try.
I've made crazy ridiculous statements in attempts to deter my voters. Each statement I make seems to put me higher up in the polls.
"Build a wall..." *applause*
“Ch... | CUT TO TRUMP. BY NOW HE IS HALFWAY ACROSS THE ROOM.
HIS WHOLE BEING TINGLING WITH ALERTNESS. HE MOVES TO
BLOOM'S DESK AND HOVERS OVER HIM, WAITING EXPECTANTLY FOR
MORE INFORMATION. BUT BLOOM IS LOST IN HIS WORK, UNAWARE
THAT TRUMP IS HANGING ON HIS EVERY WORD.
TRUMP
Yes???
BLOOM LOOKS UP. HE IS STARTLED TO SE... | 2015-12-25T03:34:15 | 2015-12-25T01:33:12 | 580 | 92 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | At 3AM this morning I got these weird texts from seemingly everyone I know. And everyone I don't know. "Look at this walrus", or just an attachment of an image, presumably of a walrus. That was strange.
But, what really sobered me was the official-looking emergency alert telling people not to look at the walrus, not t... | Sean groaned and swiped down on his phone screen, adjusting the brightness to something much less blinding. He read the alert on his phone again. *DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS, what a joke* Sean thought to himself. He stumbled off to the bathroom and threw some water on his face, before crawling back into bed. It was then... | 2021-01-11T18:58:23 | 2021-01-11T18:25:32 | 55 | 40 |
[WP] XKCD inspired. Life in the universe is hard to find because of a possible predator. As fish sometimes blend into their sand surroundings we too, and others, blend into the universe as a natural deterrent. As we call out into the stars, we get a response. A warning...
Inspired by this [comic](http://imgs.xkcd.com/... | The event called "The Burst" lasted for almost a full minute, saturating the Western Hemisphere of the globe with a simple repeating message: "Be quiet. They'll find you". Every person near any radio or television on half the planet heard the same message, most of them panicked.
Weeks of speculation followed, you co... | For decades we thought it was just galactic background noise. The static on the radio, the fuzz on the TV, the distortion in a satellite signal.
We called him crazy when he gave us that "filter", but it didn't seem to be dangerous, so we ran it on a section of noise.
Do*-.-ome.lo-ki--.....--er-.--.*othing.goo*..... | 2014-07-09T07:32:25 | 2014-07-09T07:29:31 | 242 | 16 |
[WP] In the near future, phones are designed to physically update themselves to new models thanks to nanotechnology. As a joke, you decide to take apart one of these phones and hook it up to one of the most indestructible phones in existence: the Nokia. | I don’t really know what I expected. Self-repairing nanotechnology and intelligent software meant there hadn’t been customer service or tech support in years.
“What do you mean, broken?”
“I mean broken. My brand-new, state-of-the-art Omega X2 phone does not turn on.”
“Are you sure?”
“Of course I’m sure, I think I c... | I was fascinated on the day that Huawei announced their latest nanotech.
Many new models have spawned from this tech: the Huawei P100 plus, Apple XVI.... Too many to list out.
As a lover of technology born in the late 1980s, I wanted to try hooking this tech up to one of the most nostalgic phones. The Nokia 3310.
I ... | 2019-08-22T07:25:38 | 2019-08-22T06:49:42 | 162 | 42 |
[WP] You've cobbled your superpowers together by purchasing antique powers for cheap at the flea market, when others usually shop for powers at retail stores. One day, you come across a forbidden power that's available for only $0.50 | 50 cents. Cheapest power I've ever seen, but looking at it now I know why.
See, in this age of S Class heroes and supervillains with indescribable abilities, and cities that get built and destroyed in mere months, there are still certain things that should not be trifled with.
This was one of them.
"One of a kind," ... | "Take a dollar, buy anything you want," says the small, dark-haired boy’s father as he slips Jason a one.
"Thanks dad! You're the best," he says as he runs off with a bright smile.
The little boy wanders around the power flea market, seeing dozens of abilities he's never seen before, that are sadly not in his price r... | 2020-05-25T23:24:03 | 2020-05-25T20:57:32 | 90 | 24 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | "...And as the victors, the Irik Confederate shall now be taking control of your cities and governments on this colony planet. Your unfit leaders shall..."
I caught snippets of the speech, but I wasn't really listening. Neither were my comrades moving around the crowd, I wager - well, except Francis, I knew that he wa... | Three weeks before the attack, radio astronomers were startled by a swarm of Bacodine notifications. First SWIFT, then FERMI a couple of microseconds later, sent alerts with a merit rating of 100, instructing them to override any instructions and point at a position in the sky in the galactic plane and the plane of our... | 2019-12-17T18:31:00 | 2019-12-17T15:08:56 | 42 | 26 |
[WP] You have just found the cure to a virus that is killing millions worldwide, why do you keep it to yourself? | John approached his colleague, and friend, glancing around the sterile room as he did. Most of the other researchers had hit their bunks for their mandatory four hours.
“Stephen, I think I’ve got something…” he said
Looking over his shoulder again, he directed Stephen to the corner of the room, where a microscope sat... | Dr. Hill sat back in her chair, feeling her stomach sinking like a stone. "I don't understand, why would it have this effect?" Her fingers knotted themselves together, almost hidden beneath the too-long sleeves of her lab coat. The project leader sat before her, grimacing and chewing his mustache. "It was your job to w... | 2014-05-30T02:32:10 | 2014-05-30T02:09:17 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] You are a vegetarian dragon that has lived unbothered for centuries. One day, a human is brought to you as a living sacrifice. | "What is this?"
My head lifted up from the cold, stone floor of my den, my eyes focusing on a group of fur-clad humans. There were dozens of them. I was a bit taken aback. Had I done something to agitate the local city-state? I couldn't recall. It was in the middle of Winter, didn't these humans have SURVIVING to do? ... | Anna was an unusual dragon not in the sense she can turn herself into a human because a lot of dragons can and do but because she is a vegetarian. In other words she doesn't eat meat. It's not that she has some ethical outrage against the killing of humans. In her experience though limited it may be the strangely dres... | 2018-02-22T13:46:50 | 2018-02-22T10:19:51 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Domino's pizza has offered free pizza for life to anyone who tattoos their logo on their body. Now other food chains are following that idea, but with increasingly absurd requirements, and the poor have turned themselves into walking advertisements just so they can eat with each passing day. | It all started when Dominos offered free pizza for life. All you had to do was get a tattoo of their logo. The size required was two inches by four inches and in a visible location. It was limited to the first 20,000 that submitted proof. This only took 17 minutes to fill. Five hours later when Dominos announced the li... | When I first saw the news, I was surprised. Would Domino's really do this kind of service?
I looked on their website and sure enough, there was a banner that confirmed my suspicions.
I immediately closed my laptop screen and drove to the local tattoo parlor. Even though I was dirt poor, I was just lucky enough to aff... | 2018-09-08T14:16:22 | 2018-09-08T13:48:12 | 223 | 35 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 392 | 17 |
[WP] Every time you die, you shift to an alternate universe where you continue to live, having survived the thing that killed you in the previous one. You start realizing what's happening.
I've been reading up on quantum immortality/suicide lately, and having read Max Tegmark's paper on it, I can't get the idea out of... | I should've caught on to the fact sooner, but it wasn't until I was pushed off of a cliff and survived with nothing more than a large scrape on my leg I started to wonder exactly how I was evading death and why everyone I knew had a habit of occasionally not existing. I had multiple weird accidents and situations sinc... | The memories seep into my head, experiences as bright as if I lived through them just yesterday. In other worlds I tried to ignore them, block them. In some worlds I went insane. But in my world, with its quantum psychologists and a better understanding of the brain inner mechanics, I know.
"We have never seen this be... | 2015-06-26T15:32:42 | 2015-06-26T14:07:38 | 633 | 312 |
[WP] Everyone's flaws are listed in a translucent white box above their heads. One day, you meet a man whose 'box' is empty. | * Lack of self-esteem
* socially awkward
* suicidal
* depressed
* drug addict
Yeah. That's my life. Everybody can see it. Those stupid boxes have destroyed my life even more. Those stupid fucking boxes made everything worse from the first day on. But now I'm here. Im not able to withstand this horror anymore. I can't ... | "Get out !" the sales manager shouted.
As I walked out of the office with my resume and the usual feeling of disappointment. It feels like that i was blessed with longest list over my head. I have been cursing god for it since my childhood.
Walking of the corner street i thought of buying flowers for my hopefu... | 2014-10-27T05:53:09 | 2014-10-27T04:41:34 | 82 | 13 |
[WP] You are the child of a superhero and a supervillain conceived during a one night stand. You don't care for heroism or villainy, you just want your parents to get together so that you can have a family. | Part I:
"Mom!" I detested, "I don't want to go to villain school next year!"
"Honey, if you don't go to villain school..." she paused, letting a sigh of defeat pass, "You'll turn out like your father," she whispered. She always got quiet when she talked about dad.
"I don't care! I don't want to be a villain, and I d... | The fresh steel pressed against my forehead as I watched the battle continue, the earth shook as my father, a hero, created mountains beneath his feet and just as fast my mother, a villain, raced up that mountain to attack him.
Mortal enemies. That's what they were and always would be and I? I'm a mistake, the love ch... | 2018-10-17T06:31:00 | 2018-10-16T23:33:01 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | # Connection
I smiled at him. And then I winked.
“You know I’m about kill you, right?” he said slowly, trying to seem menacing.
“Cool. How about strangulation? It’s pretty visceral for you feeling the life go out of my body, and it’ll be a new and final experience for me. Win–Win”, I replied.
He looked at me, p... | So there that fucking guy was. I thought I was going insane. He's been sitting in that chair now asking me what it is that I want from him for a while. Calm as a bird. He tells me, almost with a smirk, that we can figure this out and that I shouldn't be nervous, he'd get me what I wanted, whatever it was. I ignored him... | 2015-04-29T09:50:37 | 2015-04-29T08:21:14 | 72 | 38 |
[WP] You've just been returned to your world after having been abducted and forced to save another world from destruction. It took you 100 years to save that world and yet you were returned to the exact place and time that you were abducted from in the first place. | They told me what to expect. On the troop transport back to Earth, the chancellor made it clear that it would take some time to adjust but I didn’t understand how truly of an understatement that was.
Tonight was my first night back in my bed, tucked in the corner of my 500 sq. ft. studio apartment, and I woke up scr... | Adam blinked.
The throng of bankers poured into the subway, brushing aside the dozen or so people who pushed their way out.
Adam blinked again.
The 4 train pushed off away from the station, moving the Wall Street workers uptown. Through the fogged windows, Adam could see the suits all buried in their phones. A st... | 2019-06-20T13:28:03 | 2019-06-20T10:41:11 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] you spouse jokingly says and asks for a codeword/response every time he/she goes to work in the morning. Through the years you just go with it thinking it's a harmless fun. Today your spouse comes back from work not knowing the correct codeword. | ***This is my first time responding... be gentle...***
My wife made up crap all the time. She was quirky, imaginative, and just all around goofy; but that was part of what made me love her. There was one habit she had that annoyed the ever-loving crap out of me. First thing in the morning, she'd give me a code-phrase ... | Every time Liz left for work, she always asked for a password. The first time she asked, John laughed. Seeing the determined look in her eyes, he realized she wouldn't leave without one. He gave in, gave her the word buffalo. That evening, she came back, saying buffalo before coming in.
John found it amusing. His wi... | 2017-07-12T18:13:43 | 2017-07-12T16:29:15 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | "You shouldn't be here."
Rebeccka's voice rang loud and clear as everyone in the hall seemed to freeze.
Closing my locker I gave a nod. "Yah I really shouldn't be here. Still pretty neat that I am here." Giving my best smile I offered my hand. "I'm Joe. It's nice to-"
"If you know you shouldn't be here then why... | "You see, wait what was your name again? Nevermind it doesn't matter.
Where was I?
Oh right.
You see. I never liked violence. Seems unnecessary when diplomacy works just fine these days. Two people in an argument can just, you know. Talk stuff out. No need to go all primitive.
But then again.
We could have don... | 2022-11-02T13:05:27 | 2022-11-02T11:05:22 | 49 | 34 |
[WP] You're a financial advisor. In 1994, you get a weird phone call from a man asking you if he can get any Bitcoin below $200k, and the call cuts off before you can ask him what Bitcoin was. Years later you get a call again from the same man, claiming he's calling back seconds after disconnection. | "Sorry, my connection was lost for a moment," the voice explained.
"Excuse me, I don't... think so?" I said as it was all I could tell at that situation. To be quite honest, I did remember that call. It was a very unique call, after all.
"Oh, did I get connected to the different person? I was connected to James befor... | “I’d like to buy shares of bitcoin” a mumbled voice says over the phone.
Having had this conversation several times over the phone with clients the past year or so I think to myself who is it this time.
“ may I ask who’s calling?”
The voice on the other end of the phone says “does it matter? I need to buy in now”
I p... | 2019-04-07T07:00:19 | 2019-04-07T06:32:18 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | Ive never submitted anything- and hopefully this doesn't suck as much as I think it does.
He came in through my window, creeping slowly through the bedroom door, down the hall into the bathroom and that's when my father crumbled to the floor.
As he left, he turned to me and that's when I caught the grey in his dar... | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 2017-06-07T21:48:28 | 110 | 25 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
Once you conquer a thousand worlds with no resistance you start to skip steps. Our initial invasions would take years to plan and complete but somewhere along the line we just started to land as soon as we reached orbit.
Killing all of the inhabitants with our aerial bom... | Not with a bang, but with a whimper
It has been thirteen years since the aliens invaded. Well I say invaded, they just parked a space ship in the ocean and sank a few ship. And they're not actually aliens they're just humans who somehow ended up in a distant galaxy a long time ago. They're kinda dickish about the whol... | 2016-02-22T13:09:56 | 2016-02-22T08:33:57 | 66 | 10 |
[WP] After a bad breakup, you take Reddit's famous advice. Lawyer up, hit the gym, delete Facebook. The problem? You are Mark Zuckerberg. | Millions of humans slowly emerged from their dark, cold cavernous asylums into the day. Realizing the day was bright and warm and it wasn't to be shared with anyone, happiness soon followed. Facebook is gone. Their lives were their own to rule and control; all their own to live in peace.
It took longer than expected... | With half of Facebook stolen by his former wife in the divorce, Mark Zuckerberg saw no reason not to delete it.
"I'll burn facebook to the ground before I let that money grubbing whore have half!'
DELETE.
*ONE YEAR LATER*
A more swole, more satisfied Zuckerberg floats contented in his pool. In the shallow end his h... | 2016-02-15T12:02:57 | 2016-02-15T11:01:14 | 120 | 21 |
[WP] So many new exoplanets are being discovered that "planet deeds" now make well-known novelty gifts. You recieved such a deed last year on your birthday, legally making you the owner of one such planet - and, only a moment ago, heard on the news that life has just been discovered on it. |
"*Welcome back to Dox news, I'm Don Lime. Our top story tonight: life has been discovered on the outer-system planet Terrabulus. The 'aliens' are like humans in almost every way, save for the blue skin and long limbs. We've also just received word that local office worker John Abraham, age 29, has the binding legal ce... | "Mom? Is this a joke?"
"What?"
"The deed. You saw the news, didn't you? There's life on Rigellion Five!"
"Wonderful news, Matt, just wonderful."
"What? No, it's not wonderful. Did you have any idea what you were giving me?"
"There are a lot of terms and conditions. I thought it would just be a nice little thing yo... | 2017-01-01T13:54:55 | 2017-01-01T09:41:04 | 98 | 56 |
[WP] You are an immortal, but you're not that old. In fact you were born between 1980-2010. Mortals excitedly ask you about experiencing age old historical events in person, only to be disappointed and bored when they find out you're a millennial immortal. | 'You can make us immortal?'
I squinted through the projector beam and shielded my eyes with a cupped palm. I saw the woman who had asked the question. She had square glasses, and her hair was pulled back in a tight ponytail. With five rows of chairs, she sat in the front.
'Yes, I can,' I said.
The conference room in... | *Edit: I added a slightly longer and edited version in a reply to my original comment.
The wound would’ve killed anyone else, but not me. I first discovered my immortality when I was thirteen, when I lost my arm in a farm accident, only to awaken the next day to find it reattached.
The nurse stared at me in horror, o... | 2019-05-13T06:56:07 | 2019-05-13T06:16:50 | 1,980 | 404 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | All us helpless billions watch on our little glowing rectangles as our fellow humans die in droves. They fall screaming, choking, burning. The internet’s bad in the house, so we hunker on the steps of the chicken coop to see it.
Together we watch the end of the world. Our breath clouds and storms around us. But we do ... | There were some that called it a sign from God, another purging of humanity like the great flood. I never cared, all that I needed to know was that they were smart, and didn't like to go underground, best place for safe houses in my opinion. I was in one of these so called safe houses, if a sewer tunnel filled with lam... | 2018-05-01T08:36:36 | 2017-12-06T20:40:56 | 377 | 29 |
[WP] Every time you sneeze you find yourself in someone else's body. It's usually no real problem; you change back in 60 seconds. This time when you sneeze you find your tied up. In front of you is guys with guns. "Alright Franky, you got 30 seconds to explain why we shouldn't kill your ass" | "What the fu..." you say out loud, quickly realizing your mistake as one of them raises their gun, pressing it firmly against your forehead. The cold tip of the barrel pushes your head back slightly as you subconsciously try to avoid what is coming.
You suddenly realize that your face, neck, stomach, every part of you... | 3 angry dudes were in front of me, with who seemed the leader threatening me with a quite scary military knife.
**59:47**
*Okaaaaay, take a deep breath Sam. You have been through worse situations like when you possessed the superintendent the moment he was enjoying some quality BDSM time.*
**56:28**
"Hey motherfuck... | 2018-11-15T13:32:17 | 2018-11-15T13:27:12 | 79 | 59 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | The devil cackled in delight. I looked around at the room, panicked. *Was I in hell?* The room was bare: white walls, no windows and a set of tables and chairs, all filled up. Several others sat in the room with me. From a distance they looked normal, but soon I realised differently. The man sitting to the leftest most... | They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but it didnt happen for me. In fact I didnt get anything. Just black out and fade into a dimly lit room.
"Candles? The fuck is this? A fucking Bath and body works?"
The large room contained eight beings of which I paid no mind.
I wandered up to the table in... | 2019-01-12T23:48:56 | 2019-01-12T15:27:37 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | The worlds capital city was a huge, walled masterpiece named 'Virtue' to echo its extreme moral standards. The city was walled off into 200 sectors, each increasingly smaller than the last, until you reach the high rises in the city centre for the 200's or 'true citizens' as they were affectionately referred to by the ... | I've heard stories of how, long ago, people of all types were allowed to live together, a place where people with a goodness score of 1 were allowed to live in the same places as people with goodness scores of 200.
Of course, this world stopped existing after a team of scientist invented the perfect way to test someo... | 2016-08-26T12:49:17 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher Artificial Entertainment
A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher **A**rtificial **E**ntertainmen... | Douglas slid the final quarter into the Terminator 2: Judgement Day console. This was it. Fifteen more seconds of end boss play. Three more grenades. One more life. FOR. THE. WIN!!! It was glorious! The best $20.75 he'd ever spent. As the light gun in his hand settled down for the final cutscene, you thrille... | It's like Overwatch, except all is pay-to-win. There are all these options to buy upgrades and even buy downgrades before the game starts. Both teams of 6 players each have 5 minutes to spend a minimum of $50 USD each to upgrade themselves or downgrade the enemy team.
You might get the Aimbot level 3 upgrade for your ... | 2018-02-12T15:10:56 | 2018-02-12T14:33:19 | 115 | 10 |
[WP] All sorcerers are born with an unique set of abilities that aid them in mid to long range combat, ranging from a mere 20 meters to an insane 200 meters in effect. Your family, skilled and renowned, snobbish long range fighters never expected you to be this powerful - with a total 5 meter range.
[deleted] | Mages are amongst the highest class. Being able to cast spells from your fingertips gives you a sense of superiority, a feeling that you are above the masses. But even amongst such an elite group of people, there is a hierarchy. And my family, well, they are practically at the top.
My bloodline is full of powerful lon... | "It's not the distance that matters," I whined. "It's the power, and how you use it."
"Nonsense," replied my father. "That's the voice of resentment speaking in you. The same resentment spoken by all the lazy, weak and ineffectual wizards of the world. They refuse to put the effort in, to increase the magnitude or qua... | 2020-11-26T13:46:16 | 2020-11-26T13:21:28 | 75 | 35 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | When Mrs. Blanchard rolled onto her side and tugged on her blanket, sunlight hit her face. Her eyes opened, then she screamed.
A dead mouse's glassy eyes stared at her.
Mrs. Blanchard's hands reacted without conscious choice, and she sent the little carcass flying to the other end of the room.
She sat up in bed, sti... | I couldn’t turn away fast enough. I immediately slammed the door closed and screamed “WHAT THE FUCK!!” in utter disbelief of the image forever now branded into my deepest synapsis. Atoms overloaded, neurons on all cylinders, new pathways forged instantaneously. Milliseconds turned into centuries as I barely made two st... | 2021-12-17T07:34:47 | 2021-12-17T07:05:33 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] At a regular high school, every student coincidentally happens to be a superhero. Thus far, every student has managed to keep their secret identity a secret. When a supervillain attacks the school, each student believes he/she is the target and tries to maintain his/her secret identity. | Explosions and maniacal laughter - terrifying cacophony to most, sweet release for me.
Some kids blow off steam throwing chords off their guitars, disturbing the peace from suburban garages. Others leave their stress at the gym - disappointing physics grades turned into chemical energy turned into mechanical energy. S... | I pulled open my fridge and shut it with a frown. Crouching down, I reached into the freezer and dug around until I found a month old frozen *Hungry Hero* dinner. I grimaced as I saw the slogan, *Food Fit for a Hero!*. I had checked the label on the back once. Sugar, salt and soybean oil had never seemed like the key i... | 2016-04-06T11:24:02 | 2016-04-06T11:20:26 | 70 | 21 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Legends say that we were once a great and proud race of conquering warriors. We were masters of stealth and intrigue, strong and clever, and we were ready to grasp the universe in our tentacles.
Our first invasion fleet launched for a nearby water-bearing world, where we immediately started subjugating the local popu... | I don't understand. These dirty little apes could barely hope to their moon before we got here. Yet they have weapons that can kill from afar, giant metal monsters that make my men exploding before they can see them. They have artificial birds that rain death from above!
I called the full retreat thinking we would be... | 2014-10-17T09:54:31 | 2014-10-17T09:09:35 | 340 | 56 |
[WP] The first group of astronauts leave for Mars. Days later we find out one of the astronauts killed his wife before leaving earth.
Title | "Wake up Alden."
The radio buzzes with white noise.
"You nee-- to--wak--uh-pp-"
The white noise lingers. The voice is gone.
My eyes feel sore. Everything is blurry. Climbing the cryo-chamber, my legs feel a little like rubber, and I have what feels like will be a throbbing headache. Cryo-sleep sucks.
I look arou... | "Breaking Development in the Astronaut killer story. We have just received word that investigators have found a letter left behind by Jeremy McCarthy. As you know Jeremy was part of NASA's X-2 mission to mars. Hours before launch, his wife was discovered dead in the household, when the family's dog walker came to pick ... | 2015-11-03T20:00:33 | 2015-11-03T13:45:47 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Ka-el-ri sat next to me at lunch. "Listen, I know you said not to worry, but... Your hair says otherwise." She touched the plated braid over shoulder. It was a vibrant vermillion but the black roots were showing.
"Honestly its fine." I reaponded brushing her hand away.
"I dont know..." she touched her own hair, a dee... | Note: I do not know how long it takes for hair dye to fade.
One year about I was taken from Earth, and I've been in this spaceship ever since. They wanted a human to "study", although I didn't find that out until 4 months ago, when they finally decided to teach me their language. Sadly, when I asked them in their own ... | 2020-07-05T13:23:48 | 2020-07-05T13:16:56 | 202 | 94 |
[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. | Henry Cox eyed the waitress who was working behind the counter. Amelia was a little scared, if not worried. At the same time, however, she kept looking at the clock hung up by the entrance.
"Hey," he called out to her. "come here, I got a favor to ask."
"What?" she responded nervously.
"C'mon, it'll only take a sec.... | Whiskey bottle in hand, I staggered over to my laptop set up--the recording equipment top of the line camera, and practically collapse in the chair. So comfortable, I almost fall asleep right there. Almost. I open up LiveYou, and click the record button.
"So, I'm finally doing this live stream I've always talked about... | 2016-07-16T18:32:31 | 2016-07-16T17:34:20 | 1,306 | 47 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | "We have to stop meeting like this." The deep reverberation goes right through her rib-cage into her lungs and and pounding heart.
"But you're so dark and handsome. And eternal" as she traces a hand over his admittedly sharp jawline. He smiles at her, but of course... he's always smiling.
"No my dear, I mean t... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T19:31:34 | 153 | 14 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | *ARCH ROOMMATES IS FILMED IN FRONT OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE*
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INT. GARRETT AND DAVES' APARTMENT - DAY
FADE IN
Garrett enters, hauling a bag of groceries in one hand.
GARRETT: Dave? I'm back from the grocery store!
Dave is lying on the couch watching cable news. He sits up.
DAVE: Wait a minute. You w... | Just as I put down my groceries, my SatPhone beeps. *Captain, we need your help! Doctor Doom is threatening to destroy the city tower with his death ray. Please help us!*
I groan. I’ve just gotten back to the house – how on earth am I going to explain to my roommate that I need to go out again?
Good old Dominic is ... | 2017-04-03T11:16:16 | 2017-04-03T10:38:23 | 479 | 35 |
[WP] A schizophrenic detective manages to solve cases by interrogating random inanimate objects at the scene of the crime. | "Does he lie?" asked detective Harvey.
Jack, the main suspect, watched with horror as the famed detective asked objects and pretended to discuss with them.
"He does not," answered the clock, still from the blow it suffered when Lauren hit her head against it. The bloodstain was dry and odorless, a witness of the fate... | "I can't believe you! Are you absolutely certain you want him on this case?" I said as I stormed into Captain David's office.
"You don't have much of a choice. The case had been stone cold for a week now and the Gundersons are demanding answers. You know if I can't tell them what happened to their son they will use th... | 2021-03-01T10:43:53 | 2021-03-01T10:12:52 | 126 | 77 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay mistakenly walks into your house to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, and refuses to believe that you aren't a failing restaurant owner | I got home after another long day. I yawned a little, dropped my bag by the door and walked into the kitchen. After walking aimlessly over to the cupboard and getting myself a snack, I began thinking it was about time to start cooking dinner, so I quickly put some music on, and started looking for food, humming quietly... | It's tough holding a dinner party for your friends when you can barely cook. But trying to prepare food with Frankenstein's uglier Scottish cousin leaning over your shoulder is nigh on impossible. That's what I get for leaving a window open, I suppose.
As I take the chicken breasts out of the oven to inspect them, Gor... | 2016-06-29T01:12:15 | 2016-06-29T00:16:18 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You go to clean dust off the needle of your record player and it catches in your fingerprint. There was no mistaking what the speakers played | "Natalie Rosenthal."
That was it. The record player, running across my unique, one-of-a-kind fingerprint, only said "Natalie Rosenthal."
It didn't matter which finger, it didn't matter where on the finger, it didn't matter if I played it forwards or backwards.
"Natalie Rosenthal."
I started Googling the name, and t... | Eric had just finished cleaning out his uncaring grandmother's house when he noticed a small brown box with his name on it
"Huh? why would that old bat leave *me* anything?" he said as he pulled the old record player out of the box
He ran his hand across the strange runic markings on the ancient looking thing before... | 2015-10-20T10:11:55 | 2015-10-20T09:55:30 | 367 | 37 |
[WP] The Devil appears before you and puts a heavy hand on your shoulder, "Look, we need to talk about you putting me in every Writing Prompt." | I took a deep breath. “Ok, here it goes. This one will get upvoted for sure.”
> Hogwarts has a new teacher for Defense Against the Dark Arts… and it’s Satan.
The Devil shook his head. “Look, we just talked about this.”
“Yeah, but it’s a Harry Potter prompt,” I argued back. “Everyone knows those are the best. You ... | "But... you're the Devil. *Everyone* wants to read about you! Readers love you because you're so mythical and powerful -- you're the **embodiment** of evil. Plus, you're pretty cool. Some people even think you're *kind of hot*," said the writer, tugging at his shirt collar. The Devil let out an exasperated sigh but sub... | 2017-01-10T09:08:51 | 2017-01-10T09:03:07 | 1,433 | 228 |
[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 :) | The blood started the ooze down the wall where it was splashed in my frenzied killing of the mother. Her delicious screams still echoed in my mind, appeasing the voices that chattered at the edge of my skull. Sweat and the scent of her perfume teased my nostrils and I buried my face in her hair.
On the floor her husba... | Just 20 more minutes, I think as I stare at the clock. The hand slowly moves around it. I feel like the clock is defying me. The hand moves, and stops, and moves, and stops. Why can't it just go faster? *Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang!* Wow. Someone in the woodworking shop is definitely overdoing it. The teacher drones on and ... | 2017-05-05T09:18:35 | 2017-05-05T08:06:22 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | 'what are you basing that on' I say
the professor said from watching earth media. it is full of cooperation and love, peaceful conflict resolution and acceptance of diversity.
So I ask when they first started noticing earth media. he says roughly around the equivalent of earth year 2073.
I smile inside knowing the f... | 2021-11-27T11:58:56 | 2021-11-27T10:05:21 | 137 | 65 |
[WP] Theorising that so-called "life-force" or "souls" is actually just the electricity coursing through the nerves of living things, you try to sacrifice a battery to a demon. | "Asha kosh, Mo degga be-ra. Come forth, and feast on the offering"
The ritual was complete. Not longer after, I heard the telltale crumble of the demon entering our realm.
"Master." I said, kneeling before him.
"Sarah, my most humble servant. What offering have you for me today?"
This was it. Fly or fall.
"Master ... | the Flames came from the ground in a great thunderous sound, the room lit red by the light, shadows dancing across the back wall of the room, the fire slowly began to fade, only to reveal the beast!
John looked puzzled, as he looked down at a 4 foot tall demon, it looked to be a short middle aged man, but it had red sk... | 2017-07-02T00:42:49 | 2017-07-01T21:37:47 | 72 | 37 |
[WP] Theorising that so-called "life-force" or "souls" is actually just the electricity coursing through the nerves of living things, you try to sacrifice a battery to a demon. | The time was 2:50 am when I finished scrawling the runes around the perimeter of my scarlet pentagram. They looked a bit like shit and i almost ran out of goat blood. I had rushed so that I could perform the ritual precisely at 3. When the barrier between our world and that of the damned is at it's thinnest.
Finally, ... | Obviously I've made mistakes in long life, I'll grant you that. But for the life of me, I never imagined that these humans are this fucking stupid!
There I stood, middle of a damn summoning circle, some goofy haired human stood there with a single D battery in his outstretched hand.
This little bitch of a goatsee ba... | 2017-07-01T22:32:50 | 2017-07-01T20:06:58 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] You, an all-powerful villain, managed to defeat the child of prophecy. The problem is he's literally a child. You now turn your eyes towards the gods who sent the poor soul against you. | “Put down your weapon boy.”
Before my throne was a human boy. Armor two sizes too big to him and a sword he can’t even get a grip on. He was shaking so much, both his armor and his teeth were clattering. Tears seems endless as it poor out of the child’s eyes. And this boy was to be the “child of prophecy” that will sl... | "What the fuck"
"Sorceress, we've been ex-"
"*What. The. Fuck.*"
"Your monstrous end had to come at so-"
"Don't.. You dare. Speak to me with that tone. You have no moral high ground here. A child, you sent to kill me, a child." She said gesturing to the boy sobbing in the arms of one of her assistants, Throg, scrag... | 2021-02-21T23:22:54 | 2021-02-21T20:02:07 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | The doorbell rang. When Timothy Reid went to meet the stranger, two very special men stood opposite from each other. Timothy was in his mid thirties, a rather boring attorney by day, a gangster by night. Not just any gangster, but a greatly feared villain, successful at evading both the police and a number of heroes.
... | The first two that came to me I thought was just a coincident. Like I run and own a multinational company chances are two people would be connected by my company. But when the fifth came to hire me as a shapeshifter it started getting insane. Now I've been hired by almost all superheros and villains beside one of each ... | 2020-10-19T08:45:39 | 2020-10-19T08:03:28 | 94 | 17 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | “Look, if you're so mad about it, the offer to play Katamari still stands.” Selina looked away from her monitor briefly to call back over her shoulder.
“Oh, brilliant idea!” God remained focused, clicking four or five times in quick succession, pausing, tutting, and then clicking a few more, “Fool me once, shame on yo... | They had been playing for nearly 14 billion years now and God had barely advanced his Humans enough to begin exploring their solar system. The other gods had already started transmitting their culture across the cosmos. So much so that the god Marlinius and his race of gorlarmi had completely dominated Roman culture on... | 2016-04-09T07:01:52 | 2016-04-09T07:01:46 | 336 | 63 |
[WP] Stopping time is commonplace among society. One day, you ask a coworker about a task that is assigned and you know he is going to stop his time to research and complete. After the question is asked, he appears incredibly aged and war warn. You ask what the hell he just went through. | Ever get a song stuck in your head, and you just can't get it out? And thinking about other songs just seems to make the one in your head louder? And the only way to possibly get it out of your head is to just listen to it on full-blast?
Andy is like that with puzzles and questions. At our weekly pub quiz, he gets inc... | "Would you look at that..."
Bits of Corporal Fulton started to crumble into scale, the dust lost to the blowing wind. He raised a fading hand, watching with quiet horror as it flaked to nothing. Then the skin of his face began cracking, the spider's web crisscrossing his features before dissolving to nothing. Hilary F... | 2016-08-25T09:29:20 | 2016-08-25T08:44:57 | 634 | 61 |
[WP] You're a recently retired supervillain, but all of the heroes keep attacking you, thinking you are up to something. | (I can't fucking believe this right now!) I thought staring at the Heroic Alliances "strike force" preparing to launch a surprise attack on my house, (I'm retired, how did they even find me). I debated weather or not to open the door, (like it was much of a choice, I can't really let them in). I open the door, step out... | They say every teenager makes dumb mistakes, thing's that'll make them cringe a little bit or laugh at their own past stupidity when they look at old photos. However, my teenage mistakes weren't at the level of a tongue piercing or an at home haircut. I became a renowned supervillain at the age of thirteen.
It starte... | 2022-12-20T20:08:26 | 2022-12-20T17:40:04 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] Mr. Rogers was actually the second coming of Jesus Christ, but nobody realized it. | He sat behind a mirror. The light illuminating the wrinkles on his face.
**You have done well**
One more show he thought. One more.
How long had he been trying to convey the message? The desire burning inside to come out and say, "God is real. I am here to speak on his behalf, and I have a message for you." That me... | Whoa, did you see the paper today?
**No, because nobody reads the paper anymore. But I know. I saw the news on the phone, aka today's paper. Chester Davidson died.**
I know, right? It's like just last week he was named Mister Rogers, and he was a surefire lock to beat Mister Cleveland for this year's title of Mister ... | 2015-08-02T23:00:37 | 2015-08-02T22:31:03 | 1,117 | 29 |
[WP] You are immortal, and saw the birth of the human race. Now you sit by their bedside and watch, as the last human dies. | “They were our children,” she sighs, gracefully moving from her spot in the arm chair.
Her bare feet make only the slightest sound as they press against and lift up from the linoleum tiles which are mostly white with a few rogue red, black, and blue tiles scattered throughout. Seemingly random colours made only for ... | “It was fun watching us, wasn’t it?” It was a heavier question than most, right alongside “Shall we get married?” and “Why don’t you love me anymore?” It carried the millennia of Man’s history and the perspective of an outsider which could not be corroborated.
“Funny that you’re the one asking me questions on your de... | 2016-10-18T17:44:40 | 2016-10-18T17:43:33 | 63 | 15 |
[WP]"Is is true that you can only see three basic colors?", the alien being asked "It is." "So, how do you communicate with the Ghoosha?" "With whom?", I responded confused. "The other major race on your planet." | "You'd have to repeat that." I say, taking a sip from my flask, never letting my gaze leave the three glowing eyes of the chitinous creature before me. "I may only be a petty officer and translation specialist but even I would know of a second dominant species on my home world."
"They call themselves the Ghoosha." It c... | I stared blankly for a second....
"The Dungeon Dimension creatures?"
"Yes, the *Things.* They are the colour octarine but if you can't see that...*"*
"Ah. Yes, modern theory suggests they can only be seen by those with the *talent,* and we have no such humans left. In any case, the few records of those creatures we ... | 2018-12-04T11:34:49 | 2018-12-04T11:02:30 | 147 | 82 |
[WP] After dying, you are faced with a coin slot. It says, "Pay 1$ to live for another day". You tried it out, and lived for another day. The next day, it showed up again, this time it asks you for 2$. | As the 100-year-old Dave Rockefeller lay on his bed on yet another sunday night, he began to feel the invisible pull from nowhere once again. His pupils widened for a second, but the excitement quickly left its place to annoyance. He groaned a little bit, tried to force out a yawn but couldn't succeed. Then he took h... | A voice rich and sonorous filled the air like rumbling thunder, echoing through my mind like a whisper down a deep well.
“Would you like another day?” it asks. There is an undertone of mirth in the voice, a mocking tone of one who has all the knowledge and power.
My eyes focus through the haze and I see a body lying ... | 2018-07-29T04:09:59 | 2018-07-29T03:59:43 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You are the final boss. You have been waiting for the final epic battle against the hero. And waiting. And waiting. Finally, your minions report back. The news? The hero abandoned the main quest to do side quests. | "What do you mean he's *'baking'*? After he got through the Caves of Armond, there is only one path! To me! How could he be **baking**?!"
"He turned around and went back through the caves, my liege."
"But *WHY*?!"
"As you know, we have several agents in the various 'quiet' places in our world, to know what the commo... | "Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me. Are you telling me he'd rather be completing the 'kitchen mania deluxe' quest rather than fight me?" I asked my stupid minion, utterly livid at the news it had brought me.
​
"Yes, sir, reports say that he is willing to complete all the side quests rather than fight you... | 2019-06-26T10:44:21 | 2019-06-26T10:26:39 | 270 | 91 |
[WP]. “Ok. This is called a .44 magnum. All you have to do is point this end at Voldemort’s head and press this button. That’s all you have to do to end our problem”. | “Alohomora.”
Voldemort spoke with command and confidence. He was here to put an end to that stupid prophesy about a ‘*Chosen One*’ once and for all. Nothing and no one would stop him. It was his destiny to restore wizards to their rightful, pure blooded ruling caste in this world.
James leapt for the drawer under h... | Mr. Weasley, it's actually called a trigger, not a button... And this is just an airsoft replica of a .44" the young wizard explained.
Ron and Harry stifled a laugh as Mr. Weasleys faced turned red.
"and how would you know that?" the older wizard asked incredulously.
"... Because I attended Wizarding school in Tex... | 2018-12-24T20:14:50 | 2018-12-24T20:10:21 | 1,137 | 282 |
[WP] You are a student with the least amount of magic potential ever recorded at the Academy and it's the day of the familiar summoning test. A misplaced rune or word results in an arch demon/ess becoming bound as your familiar. | My hands shook with pain as fire poured out of my fingers. The ball of fire growing between them burned my palms as it grew. I kept it as long as I could without screaming, then pushed forward and the fireball shot out at the wooden target. My aim was off, but I still clipped the dummys shoulder. My instructor looked a... | As the Daimon Prince of Lust looked on from within the Binding Circle, Deacon Blair looked on in complete and utter horror, desperately searching the Circle for any errors that would summon an Aprophyri, instead of the expected owl, cat, frog or wisp. "What did you *do*, Declan?"
Declan Apri, the least powerful studen... | 2022-11-12T12:14:04 | 2022-11-12T11:54:43 | 518 | 96 |
[WP]. “Ok. This is called a .44 magnum. All you have to do is point this end at Voldemort’s head and press this button. That’s all you have to do to end our problem”. | Mr. Weasley, it's actually called a trigger, not a button... And this is just an airsoft replica of a .44" the young wizard explained.
Ron and Harry stifled a laugh as Mr. Weasleys faced turned red.
"and how would you know that?" the older wizard asked incredulously.
"... Because I attended Wizarding school in Tex... | That’s the last thing they said to me. I had always thought the humans didn’t know about Voldemort, and the wizards at Hogwarts thought the same; including my Mom.
I’ve cleaned the castle for years, my Mom got me the job after finding out I was Squib. After terrible things happening around the caste the final straw w... | 2018-12-24T20:10:21 | 2018-12-24T19:53:29 | 282 | 52 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Sullivan had been a model prisoner for five years.
He kept to himself, and most left him alone: they'd seen proof of the bulky man's strength in the yard. But he never caused any trouble. Until the day Marc made his little comment at dinner.
"Man, you look exactly like you did when you walked in here. What, you made... | I remember my very first kill. It was over 2,000 years ago now. I was already 1,000 years old at that point.
When you have all the time in the world, what would you do to quench the boredom? After you have seen all of the natural wonders of the world? After you have seen countless kingdoms, governments, and coun... | 2016-10-15T08:24:42 | 2016-10-15T07:56:39 | 3,649 | 242 |
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