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[WP] A team is chosen to represent planet Earth in an inter-world fight to the death. Humans are given very low odds due to their mediocrity. Luckily for you, the criteria used to choose the participants was "citizen of earth", and not "human". | "Did you catch the game?"
"Of course I caught the game. The whole universe did. Un-fucking-believable"
"Still mad that you lost your bet that Earth would get crushed in the first hour?"
"No. I'm upset that that trash-heap of a planet actually WON"
"I mean, after seeing their fighters, was it really that shocking th... | Knowledge is a double edge sword, it can be a terrible thing. Just ask anyone who has ever worked in a weapons program. Even starting out with the best of intentions can lead to terrible consequences. There is no such thing as knowledge to heal without knowledge to harm. That is one of the facts of existence.
You coul... | 2017-10-24T05:23:36 | 2017-10-24T01:23:24 | 105 | 47 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | The end of all galactic life had been going on for nearly 10 standard cycles. The Enemy was as relentless as it was ancient, still no one knew where they had come from, or what their purpose was beyond mere universal destruction.
A long time ago, most sovereign governments and most of the colonies had all but given u... | The highest Generals of the United Human Systems sat in their chambers, a dark and rather cramped room in the back of the Capital Parliament. They were comprised of many generals from across Human worlds. Three from Earth, one from Mars, another four from orbital colonies, and the other seven from a number colonised st... | 2017-03-06T02:43:37 | 2017-03-06T01:54:02 | 121 | 27 |
[WP] You, a retired assassin, met the agent that has been on your tail since the start of your career. He/She didn’t know your real face, so it wouldn’t pose so much of a problem... that is, if you two aren’t trapped inside a bank, alongside with the rest of the civilian hostages together. | The time is 5:30. Tick tick tick. Even on a wonderful day like today I have to stick to a strict schedule. That’s how I survived when I was still doing freelance, now it’s just a part of who I am. Whenever I look at my watch it takes me back to that awful time. Tick tick tick. Everything runs on a schedule. Everything ... | Why did they tie my hands so damn tight? And why am I resting my head on this cold hard metal desk wishing I had retired to someplace warmer than this shit hole. Well it's no use now, my time is probably near it's end. Why now? Why is it that when I go to cash my dividend check, after 14 years and 13 days of ruthlessly... | 2019-12-08T13:04:17 | 2019-12-08T09:03:19 | 70 | 19 |
[WP] "I want to speak to your boss!" The furious customer screamed from the other side of the counter as your eyes widen and your jaw clenches in fear. You nod and go to summon Rob, a thousand year old Eldritch Horror who, among many other horrifying titles, was also the manager of Best Buy.
Idk | "I don't believe we have any in stock. Have you tried looking on Amazon?"
"This is unacceptable. I need to speak to your manager!" she exclaimed.
"He isn't in, but he can be here in about 15 minutes." I explain.
"Fine. I'll wait." she says to my utter surprise.
"I will be right back and let him know you are waiti... | I knocked 3 times on his door. Well, 3 times on the wall in the spot a door would have been had his office not been in some strange dimension. I briskly took two side steps to the left, Not wanting to be ploughed through on his angry march out. Oh boy, that women won't know what hit her, but then, this is what she want... | 2018-11-07T15:49:21 | 2018-11-07T14:41:42 | 63 | 22 |
[WP] There is a group of time travellers who create small changes and rely on the butterfly effect to change history. Now they need to prevent World War 3 by making a janitor lose his job. Detail how this stops World War 3. |
2009: “Sue Ellen, we need to talk,” John said morosely as he walked in the house.
“What’s wrong, John?” Sue Ellen asked as she walked out of the kitchen, wiping her hands on a dish towel.
John sat heavily in his recliner, burying his head in his hands.
“I got fired today.”
“Oh no! What happened?”
“I swear, I d... | So you're telling me that this janitor will lose his job, grow a fallowing, bomb the United Nation Headquarters, which leads to serious bombing in the US, kind of like what the US had done to Afghanistan, create instability in the US, breaking it into 2 major countries. Both sides split the US allies in a way similar t... | 2019-09-22T09:08:06 | 2019-09-22T08:51:10 | 90 | 35 |
[WP] You and a friend jokingly start a religion in order to avoid taxes. Not long after you are in an accident and put in cryogenic freeze. You wake up many years later to find that it is now a major world religion. | Outside the hospital window, flat wooden boxes covered the ground in a complicated labyrinth of dubious architecture. These were the strange buildings of a city that stretched into the horizon in every direction. The doctors had informed me that thousands of years had passed since my accident that turned me into a Pop... | Making yourself a god is not as hard as you would think. Coming back from the dead was always the plan, but to what effect I had no idea.
The Council of Eight pre-planned the entirety of the event. The 8 of us drew out what morales we would hold, what actions were commands, and what disobedience consisted of. The most... | 2018-08-16T09:42:01 | 2018-08-16T09:41:19 | 144 | 90 |
[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. | Immortality sounds fun on paper. Never being able to die, there’s no reason to fear…..anything really. You can just give your problems to time and eventually the problems will go away on its own, gradually, slowly.
But the same applies for feelings too. With time they fade, they become memories, then soon, ... | “The name is Ødgerson, Erik Ødgerson”
Ha. I like this way of introducing, learnt that from the pickup artist JB, and it never fail me.
Yet that line is actually plan B. Most of the female of this species will fall into my arms just by looking at my 7-feet-tall masculine physique with a good number of scars.
Ah. Th... | 2022-11-25T21:05:49 | 2022-11-25T19:12:40 | 53 | 22 |
[WP] After being greatly wronged, you seek out the Goddess of Vengeance to give you advice in your quest for retribution. You always imagined a powerful warrior, sitting atop a throne made from the skulls of Her enemies. Instead, you discover a kindly old woman tending to a garden. | It was getting hard to breathe.
How long had it been since he’d started his ascent? He didn’t know, he supposed that meant it had been a while. Time didn’t seem to matter on this mountain, the home of the being he sought.
His journey had been a long one, even before he’d begun his climb. For years he travelled from t... | Sarah had lost an arm it seemed. Blood fell from the wound. She couldn’t see out of her left eye and she held her hand in front of it too scared to touch what might not be there. The left side of her head ached and her ear felt like a tattered mess.
The pain was intense and she curled up on the ground gasping between ... | 2019-05-22T07:58:05 | 2019-05-22T05:52:05 | 145 | 16 |
[WP] At the age of 10 you're given the option to go through surgery to possibly get superpowers 10 years after that. The surgery leaves you basically crippled during that time. All your friends and family are getting their abilities meanwhile you just turned 21. | As an only child with ambitious, overbearing parents, part of me thinks the 10 year old me was too easily manipulated and naive to see the big picture. However, I will never fault myself for that, or even them, because how was anyone supposed to know what would happen next.
I had friends growing up, but preferred to b... | “Can you believe that my Kyle and my Ryan have broken the speed and weightlifting records at Princeton University this year.”
*This obnoxious, stay a bitch, at home, mom, always brags about her children at these social events; even worse, she refuses to let me stay home, because of her “obligations” to my deceased pa... | 2016-06-03T12:31:44 | 2016-06-03T11:20:58 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] For every 10 lives you save, you get an extra life for yourself, shown as a number visible only to you on your wrist. Waking up with bad hangover after a particularly rowdy night, you look at your arm through blurry eyes to see the faintly glowing number: 700,000,000. | I’m ashamed to say I don’t know who Eric’s dad was. My mid twenties were a blur of drug and drink filled nights with any man who’d pay. I guess it was inevitable that one would knock me up, and by the time I realized it, there was no way to know who it was.
I blamed myself for the way he turned out. It took 4 suicides... | These days it was next to impossible to become a police officer, paramedic, or even a firefighter. Everyone and their dogs were trying to enter these jobs, to have the chance of adding lives to their wrist.
It happened instantly, without word or warning, everyone woke up with the number "0" on their right wrist. A... | 2019-08-28T15:26:39 | 2019-08-28T13:31:27 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens arrived on earth, but they are super lame. The following decade after contact they take humanity as "the cool kids" and try hard to be like us. | "What are you doing?"
"What does it look like?" replied his friend from the ground. "I'm sleeping. Duh."
He was lying flat on his back with his eyes closed as if he was resting in a coffin.
"But you \*can't\* sleep! Stop being an idiot! You know we don't sleep."
"Maybe \*you\* don't sleep, but I sleep all the tim... | "You named yourselves the Smiths?"
John Smith waved a tentacle at the school counselor from their home planet of Monora. "Yes, we thought that by giving ourselves common names, we'd allow Kevin to fit in better."
The counselor, XII-V-1, winced. "Yes, but you're aware that Kevin Chen is a name usually given to familie... | 2019-10-17T06:11:54 | 2019-10-17T04:47:46 | 355 | 199 |
[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...
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Thank you SO much for the 2K upvotes... | Death.
Something we've seen hundreds of times by the time we were younglings, most likely having experienced it ourselves by that point. Something that was so natural and normal to us that we would often kill each other for no reason other than to pull one over our comrades. Usually it would take a few minutes at most... | Everybody in the Federation knows the drill...
You die, and the technology of the Federation respawns in the last point we were...
You are bored? Kill yourself... It is fun, and a great time killer.
You need an excuse from a certain appointment? Kill yourself... Saying that you "accidentally" killed yourself is way b... | 2022-08-13T21:56:58 | 2022-08-13T21:09:22 | 1,573 | 351 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | The blood lab door opens. The District Attorney and Detective step out into the hall and close the door.
Detective: Sir, I don't think we can prosecute this.
DA: He did it!
Detective: I know sir, I -
DA: There is no reasonable doubt anywhere. This is an ironclad case.
Detective: Sir! I understand.
They look at ea... | My name's Ambint Couslen. I'm 26, dark brown hair, pale white skin, and I was a huge MMO master since I was 16, that was up until I met someone. The most peculiar of people who showed up out of nowhere as a coworker of mine at an intolerable desk job.
People used to call me "M". From aMbint, in my name. Now everyone j... | 2020-02-09T13:06:43 | 2020-02-09T12:50:06 | 26 | 19 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | "Hello?"
"I can't fucking do this anymore." I cried out for help while gasping for air.
"Isabelle, is that you?"
*Isabelle, how the fuck does this woman know that slut?*
After spinning her words in my head for a moment, I knew it must be a mistake.
"No, I'm Natalie, or I was. I suppose none of that matters anymore.... | "Is this the suicide line? My name is Steven, and I need someone."
Marie smiled in her heart. Another soul sent her way. In 92 years, there wasn't very much she hadn't seen, and by herself, she'd saved 18 lives over the last 15 years, since the Line came into being.
"Steven, my name is Marie. What can I help you with... | 2016-02-06T14:05:09 | 2016-02-06T13:08:00 | 400 | 178 |
[WP] Your last source of light has been snuffed out. Within the encroaching darkness, your only guide is the audible clicking coming from your Geiger counter. | sorry for mobile formatting //
*The following audio file is dated six months ANC (after nuclear crisis). The identity of the narrator is unknown. Transcription courtesy of the Institute of Post-Historical Studies.*
A film about animals I saw as a kid showed a series of strange pinkish creatures that lived in caves t... | *TICK TICK*
“you will die like a dog for no reason...” something like that. But you got to think most dogs die better than this...
It was supposed to be a flawless plan. Why would you need a bail out plan for something that couldn’t possibly go wrong? Why bring extra oxygen for “15 minutes, 20 tops!?”
Because he’s a... | 2019-05-19T01:09:01 | 2019-05-18T23:55:44 | 96 | 10 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | "You're never going to believe what happened." He rushed in through the open door and swept everything off the countertop to make space for his groceries. Key Food.
The last Key Food had closed 5 years ago. The Key Food near our house, 10. Who was this straggler who barged into my house? How far and how long had he be... | He was never your typical father, but he always cared. He never missed turning a special occasion into a really special occasion. Birthdays were his favorite. One of my lone memories is when he pretended to be a pirate for my sixth birthday, and turned the house into a ship’s galley. I was daddy’s girl, and I loved... | 2016-07-20T09:54:19 | 2016-07-20T09:19:38 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You read a comment on reddit so stupid your IQ drops to negative leading to an integer error. Congratulations, now you have 2,147,483,647 IQ. | At first, there were desires to watch cat and street fight videos. Which quickly descended to not being able to comprehend the keyboard in front of me. Which quickly lead to forgetting the spelling of my name and understanding of language.
Soon, breathing became difficult, and darkness enveloped my vision as my hea... | #*Heureka!*
This was easier than I thought!
I understand. I understand it all. The meaning of life was never that big of a mystery, but I guess every problem looks way easier when solved. This is amazing! Not even a second has passed, and I can still process so much more information hidden inside my brian than I ever... | 2017-07-31T06:33:51 | 2017-07-31T05:29:08 | 64 | 12 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | They called me "El" after "Elliot" was too long for some of them them to pronounce. They treated me with fear until their children grew accustomed of me.
They thought my "slow" actions were freakish until one day I was a sage, slow and wise.
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The knee-high being who identified himself with a clicking h... | 14 years... 14 God damn years I've been stuck here! For whatever reason these things only live for roughly 6 months then die. They've been astounded by me since I crashed here after I lost control from that space prick Callhoun. I thankfully haven't seen on in years because I've been in hiding. Hopefully for them it me... | 2019-04-22T08:06:01 | 2019-04-22T06:41:10 | 311 | 66 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | By rights I shouldn't exist. With the pairing of bear and dove, they expected something smaller. A wolf, perhaps, or an eagle. Something fast, yet powerful. Strong, yet humble. No one prepared for me.
The marks determine one's place in society. My father, with his unequaled strength, led the tribe to greatness. My mot... | Some call it a gift from the Spirit of the Earth or God or whoever is out there. This animal shaped stain on everyone's skin one of which can grant the attributes and behavior of whatever it resembled. My father has the mark of a Wild boar on his back he is stubborn, strong and smart. My Mother has a hawk on her should... | 2017-11-08T05:54:13 | 2017-11-08T05:42:07 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | I’m a bad person. Really, I am. So when they executed me for all the people I killed, I figured, “Straight to hell!!” I mean, honestly. I killed quite a few people, robbed a few, and then killed some more. What can I say? I like the thrill of the kill. I like hunting the enemy, the biggest enemy out there- and that’s a... | *Wake up in a fiery courtroom*
**Main:** Wow! what the.....
**Judge:** Welcome to Hell, you are brought here today to determine if you will go to heaven or if you will spend eternity being punished here in hell.
**Main:** What, who's deciding that?
**Judge:** It is up to the animals you have interacted with thro... | 2016-03-24T14:12:16 | 2016-03-24T11:03:54 | 78 | 16 |
[WP] you are immortal, had to break up with your girlfriend cuz you couldn’t stand the grief of her inevitable death. She seems surprisingly understanding and you believe you’ll never see her again. Centuries later you are shopping and come across her and she looks just as surprised to see you.
Wow this uh- this blew ... | Why? How? What?
Questions, I asked myself numerous amount of questions.
I assumed that this life of mines was just another trial of torture, torture sent by some unknown source.
The source was probably the universe, with all of its innate capabilities.
Why, why, why,
why are you back!?!? you aren't supposed to liv... | "*Holy french fried fuck, Sharon*?" He practically screeched, the women in question turning to stare shocked at the shrieking man.
There was a pregnant pause as each stared at the other.
"Dave?" She whispered, a hand coming out as if to prove he was here "You're..?"
"Yep and you're?" He grinned as she laughed out her ... | 2022-12-08T09:13:06 | 2022-12-08T08:51:31 | 117 | 29 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | The brain is a fickle thing. It’s meat, essentially—meat brimming with electricity. Really, it’s amazing that it works at all. Don’t you think so?
But given that it’s electric meat, it’s not difficult to imagine the brain is the trickiest thing to bring back.
I’d done research in the experimental medicine faculty fo... | *Should I tell them?*
"Introducing, Mr. Micheal Smith!" A lean man with pale skin and snow white hair conducts a crowd that murmurs in front of him. "He marks the first in the last step towards immortality! The first to be truly resurrected!" The crowd erupts into polite applause. The stage lights are a bit bright.... | 2020-10-29T23:23:12 | 2020-10-29T21:23:58 | 252 | 43 |
[WP] You are a twenty something. You wake up to find yourself in your 8 year old body. You are in the time and at the place you were when you were 8, but with all the memories and mannerisms of your twenty something self. | I rolled my eyes - *here we go.*
"What do you mean?" My mother looked fidgety, casting wary glances between me and the school principal. I dangled my tiny ass feet across the edge of the seat, kicking them upwards to pass the time. *Damn, were my legs this scrawny before?*
It had been a week since that fateful day. ... | Where the fuck am I? I mean seriously how much did I drink last night?
Okay this definitely isn't my bed. Man, I sure picked some weirdo to go home with last night. What adult has this many teddies and is that a toy box? Not a kinky toy box either a action man and lego kinda toy box.
I need some answers, nicotine, ... | 2016-12-17T01:57:33 | 2016-12-16T23:26:26 | 83 | 21 |
[WP] You make arrangements to cryogenically freeze your brain at the age of 31 in hopes of being revived in the future. Many years later, you "wake up." | Panic.
I'm feeling panicked. There is no reason to panic. Or is there? I can't move. Wait... Yes. Yes I can. Head, shoulders knees and toes. Check. Okay. What is going on? It's dark. I can hear a hissing noise. Ow! My ears popped. A rectangle of blinding light stretches from my right to my left as some sort of panel ... | A bright, jarring beam of light was shining in his face. Max woke up, startled. He heard screeching sound, and then a loud thud. As his eyes adjusted to light, he saw that the glass wall in front of his face was broken. He pushed it aside and stifled a scream.
He was in a half-destroyed dusty room. He remembered it be... | 2015-09-13T23:01:17 | 2015-09-13T21:42:12 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] A robot assassin has discovered that it will be destroyed the moment its target dies - or if logfiles show that it is not trying to kill them. So begins a delicate game of continually trying but finding excuses to fail. Terrorized by a dozen "close calls", the target is becoming suspicious. | "It's you."
The voice came from behind the metallic person currently aiming their weapon at a nearby car - one belonging to the target. It turned around with the stiff rigidity expected of a creature built for precision.
𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙴𝙳. 𝙹𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙼𝙸𝙰𝙷 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙻𝚃. 𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙶𝙴𝚃.
The man behind the robot raised... |
I am not human enough to die.
There is a sort of comfort in that thought, but there is also terrible sadness. I was not made out of love, just as I was not born into this world freely. I was created, manipulated, and specifically made with one purpose only.
To kill.
I would watch my targets fall under my touch... | 2022-05-26T22:28:09 | 2022-05-26T19:38:43 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] families send mining ships to distant star systems to mine materials and bring back wealth for their decendants. You, a person living on the street, had a ship arrive for you with... something strange. | An ingenious method for getting rich in the long term. A family pools their earnings for years and years, to send out a mining ship using the Petrikov-Yutani FTL drive, which while inherently fatal to use for humans, can be utilized by advanced automated mining drone-ships. Wonderous materials are then harvested under ... | "Hey, wake up."
I turned away from the voice, curled up inside a cardboard box. I felt the end of a boot prod me in the back, and I groaned as I glanced at the silhouette above me.
The sun was bright behind the figure, but I knew immediately that this was a patrol officer by the weapons clipped at his waist.
"Get ... | 2021-06-20T10:33:06 | 2021-06-20T10:12:21 | 136 | 84 |
[WP] Upon their eighteenth birthday, everyone has to choose either Order or Chaos. Those who choose Order are sent to a safe, structured city with no real free will. Those who choose Chaos are sent to a city with complete freedom, but there are no laws or protections of any kind. | I was exhausted, but still I could not sleep. My weary eyes scanned the ceiling of my room for the hundredth time, as the glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling seemed to twinkle. I nestled deeper into my cocoon of blankets, seeking comfort that I would never find. I let out an inaudible sigh, and checked the clock for ... | It was strange to see a man never so much as glance in Cassie's direction.
The small bar with a neon sign reading *Ulysses's Bar and Grill* was quiet for the past few nights. Still, Cassie got a few looks from every guy to walk in, except one. He sat alone at the bar, idly toying with an empty glass in his hands.
... | 2016-11-12T22:22:21 | 2016-11-12T21:17:04 | 390 | 66 |
[WP] A demon keeps getting summoned into the mortal plane. Instead of being used to kill, disfigure, or torture like he is used to, the summoner keeps giving him tasks like "Help me eat all these cookies, I made too many." or "We needed an extra player in Mario Kart. Come sit down!" | As the gateway appeared before him, Balthazar sighed. He was quite use to being summoned. Perhaps, at the beginning he had enjoyed it. He was a demon after all. Terrorizing and maiming mortals was what he was created to do. But after a while, it tended to be very repetitive.
With the slightest hint of an eye roll, he... | "What is it this time?"
I appear in the kitchen, in the corner of the room where she has set up the circle of candles. This time, when I materialise and see her, she is pulling something out of the oven.
"Oh thank goodness... you're here!" She exclaims, putting down the tray and pulling off her oven gloves. "I've bak... | 2017-05-13T14:59:44 | 2017-05-13T14:18:54 | 127 | 47 |
[WP] The narrator may be omniscient, but they are also really easy to distract, so they still get surprised by plottwists and surprise reveals. | Carol's feet moved silently across the stone warehouse floor, her padded soles muffling already light footsteps. As she approached the large door ahead, her hand dropped to the small leather pouch which lay tied to her waist. One hand reached into it's recesses as she approached the perimeter wall, eyes methodically sc... | Ahh, Mr Michaelson and his wife, Mrs Tabernathy sit nonchalantly on their patchwork sofa. Their sofa faces across from a quaint CRT television which can only display black and white pictures due to some incident from 1975, where Mr Michaelson hired a repairman who had accidentally- by some absurd twist of fate ruined t... | 2022-09-13T08:35:58 | 2022-09-13T08:00:22 | 114 | 15 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | It sat there in the middle of the interrogation room, looking around, well what appeared to be looking around.
Private Daniels was staring at through the one way mirror and looked both fascinated and appalled at the same time. The bases chief medical examiner was also here, "So I understand Major that Private Daniels ... | "Tucson's a strange place.
Jesus look at it. It's a forest.
When I was a young man, I lived there three or four years. Usually takes that long to get used to a new place, and for me to start running it. 21 years later and it looks like this.
I'm still waiting to get used to this shit.
When they came, the... refl... | 2017-03-10T01:57:10 | 2017-03-09T23:13:07 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] Your partner rolls over in your bed, looking at you with the most tired eyes you’ve ever seen. “I’m in a time loop.” | "So here's where it happens?" You look over at Joseph.
"Absolutely. After hundreds of times, I think I know."
It was a roller coaster of a morning. His bizarre waking statement, his insistamce upon cake for breakfast, and his refusal to go to work had prompted you to call in sick today. Whether he's crazy or ill, you... | "ah! well, i'm not. so if you'd like some help getting unstuck, i'm here for you."
"it's been a few weeks already. and we've had this conversation at least ten times."
"do you think it will last forever? you look really tired, as though it's somehow wearing you down -- but shouldnt you start fresh each loop?"
"i thi... | 2022-05-28T21:18:55 | 2022-05-28T19:56:36 | 107 | 33 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | *4..3..2..1.. Just breathe, Ginger. Five seconds at a time. You can take five more seconds of this moron.*
Steven Gelster, the bane of my existence. As a human, anyway. A reminder to all you bosses out there: you may be ranked higher than your employees, but never underestimate us. Especially when we happen to be an o... | Normally, you would think that I could 'Bruce Almighty' my way out of this one. Doing everything that pleased me without due consideration (or even thought for that matter). Well, Bruce didn't have to stick with the God-title forever. It is obviously, relentlessly infuriating, when you are commanded around by somebody ... | 2017-02-19T09:58:18 | 2017-02-19T09:17:00 | 211 | 12 |
[WP] While FTL-Travel is possible, FTL-Communication is not. This means that interstellar communication has to run through couriers, but also that the job of courier is as dangerous as it is profitable. Your latest contract has the biggest bonus you have ever seen, while looking comparatively easy. | We received an order for a delivery. This may not seem remarkable in and of itself, but what was unusual about this particular request was its relatively short distance--about three light years--but paying at a rate for a delivery over hundreds of light-years. It made one wonder if there was another drawback to the job... | FTLmail isn't a glamorous life, mostly just long hours in your freighter, watching whichever vids were on sale at the spaceport and keeping yourseelf busy since the auto pilot takes over for most of the journey.
Getting special orders can be a bit of a break from the usual piles of letters that make up the usual trip.... | 2022-09-25T12:59:51 | 2022-09-25T10:43:11 | 192 | 32 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Zander grinned, a wide shark teeth grin as he looked upon the beaten human they tied down. She was unconscious and bleeding from multiple cuts the flageis had inflicted himself. He glanced over at the assistant who was looking rather green around the gills. With a curt nod the boy pulled the lever and woke the human ge... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T05:52:46 | 431 | 30 |
[WP] You're a side character in a story. By chance you become aware of this fact and you try everything to be more relevant to the story, even going as far as to intefere in the protagonist's life. |
People called me crazy when I said I could see words in the sky. We had dragons, mythical creatures and magic but words in the sky didn’t exist. These words predicted the future. They always mentioned this one person in my village. He was a human blacksmith destined to be a great warrior apparently. His name was Jo... | "You're can't be serious, right?"
First rule of the apocalypse: under no circumstances do you mention to the local trading post marshall that you have gasoline stashed in a secret shelter nearby. They will remember you, and they will chase you with sharpened pipes and sawed-off shotguns until you are conveniently save... | 2019-01-06T09:55:05 | 2019-01-06T09:54:36 | 253 | 26 |
[WP] An immortal in the present day takes a college archeology class on a lark only to find that the professor found some of the immortal's old diaries and is now reading them out loud to the class. | "Now, I have some excerpts from an anonymous diary found only a few years ago. They provide an excellent insight into what the people had on their mind at the time."
Most students are only half-listening to Prof. Larson's lecture. It's a beautiful day, and he's been talking for two hours already, droning on and on.
... | Dr. Thomas placed the flimsy, yellowed book down on the lectern in front of him. "Now for you today, I have a very interesting find. And a recent find at that: A diary that belonged to an unnamed young woman back in the '80s... the 1880s!"
Most of the class looked bored, or semi-interested at best. But Margaret... if ... | 2021-01-21T08:48:13 | 2021-01-21T08:02:17 | 163 | 57 |
[WP] You can take a peek into people's souls, to take a look at who they were in their past lives. Some of your friends were emperors or kings. Others were pharaohs or chieftains. You find it odd that so many historical figures gather around you, so one day you look into your own soul in the mirror. | I stared out at the night sky, a dark thunderstorm adding purple to the infinite bespeckled black.
My mind's eye continually painting the horror I had seen. The old souls around me - kings, warriors, shamen of repute. Why did everyone I see have such a deep and enlightened soul? What am I to them?
"Bourbon, on the ro... | You're like, OG God. Suddenly everything makes sense. All the lifetimes, all the souls. The exact same one, in different vessels. The concept of individuality fades away under the ultimate realization that physical existence was just God playing Sims. This lifetime just so happens to be the end game one, thus why you p... | 2020-04-13T05:37:09 | 2020-04-13T05:07:52 | 73 | 26 |
[WP] In the zombie apocalypse, it’s usually very hard to come by useful items and people. Antibiotics, Doctors, penicillin, veterans, etc. But the one thing you’re in desperate need of is an orthodontist because you were meant to get your braces removed and the zombie apocalypse happened. | "By the way, does this settlement have an orthodontist?" I asked, gently pushing an inquisitive guard dog's nose away from my crotch.
The Patroller looked up from examining my ID and gave me a questioning glance. I answered by smiling. She looked closer in interest. "Is that metal?" she asked.
"Yep. Just looking ... | I leapt over another abandoned car that was more scrap than car by that point. Hundreds of them had been lined up to protect this place. Greenville Mall. It looked mostly like it did in the brochure. Except for the salvaged car doors and rubbish lining the walls. And how the “M” in “mall” had been turned around to spel... | 2021-08-31T07:44:46 | 2021-08-31T07:06:10 | 189 | 61 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | Some nights I'm back in my old self, at my desk at 2 AM as my stack of files piles on and the coffee in my mug runs dry. My old lamp had flickered for weeks now, the shitty thing. Always thought it'd ruin my eyes, but I was too lazy to replace the bulb while it still worked. I'm not what most would describe as a lazy p... | My memory was as sharp as it had ever been, I remembered all of the evils this guy had done, all of the suffering he had caused, the countless people killed through his gang. I remembered the outcry of the mother that just returned home to find her husband dead with her child in his arms, the weeping ten-year-old that ... | 2017-08-03T19:54:34 | 2017-08-03T14:33:00 | 239 | 11 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | As soon as the first reports hit the galactic web, the entire Milky Way ground to a halt.
HUMAN PROTO-CIVILIZATION REACHES NEIGHBOR PLANET
But the second half of the headline is what shook the galactic community to its core.
**ZERO CASUALTIES**
The impossible had happened, a species not even qualifying as a Class 1... | [Poem]
The stars called them all,
So they all came to play.
The species made spaceships,
In their own special way.
Some engineers toiled,
On their knees did they pray.
Others waved wooden wands,
Magic words did they say.
The strongest were silent,
Concentrating all day.
But they all feared the human... | 2020-08-07T18:10:46 | 2020-08-07T13:39:59 | 705 | 153 |
[WP] Your body automatically stops time when you are in imminent danger, allowing you to effectively dodge any dangers. It’s been five years since time has last moved, and you still don’t know why. | It had taken five years to figure out why.
Five years of existing in a realm separate, but oh so close to everyone and everything else. Five years of being able to walk among his friends, family, and everyone else, but not do more than touch their frozen forms.
When time stopped five years ago( if it counted as five ... | You wander the streets of the world. You live in various houses, mostly those of the super rich who won't miss a few luxuries. At first you were reluctant to, but you can't stay in one place too long like this, the CO2 builds up in the static air.
You still don't have the slightest clue how or why you are in danger. ... | 2022-11-16T17:27:34 | 2022-11-16T13:50:03 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | “Finally! Someone else! It’s been ages!” Cried the slouching old man, hands raised to the skies, “Thank the gods! Op- not for how you died, of course.”
Stumbling back on the soft dirt of the expansive, lush green valley, Michael could only gape in utter disbelief. One minute he’s been walking along a popular hiking tr... | The ground wasn't there, twas but empty and i,
A man of existence, if existence could lie.
And upon the horizon, of the line-lacking plane,
Walked towards me a man, who called out my name
How did he know? Had he ever been seen?
Had i fallen through life to the cracks in between?
Why did he walk while i drifted on ai... | 2021-11-24T12:25:38 | 2021-11-24T12:24:23 | 1,290 | 84 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | Sweat decorated my face, my hands twitched, my personal signs of panic. I gripped my phone on one hand and on the other my bed sheets. A deafening silence filled my bed room.
"What the fuck?" I murmured to myself. I rose up to a sitting position, used the now dirty bed sheet to clean my face. "Sarah?" I called out to... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2022-09-27T16:50:27 | 483 | 33 |
[WP] The Death Sentence is a literal sentence, spoken by a cult of executioners, that kills the person who hears it. You are the first known person to survive this fate. | In the dark chamber, riddled with the skeletons of past fallen, swept off against the musty walls, the three cloaked figures stood and spoke aloud. I clenched in silence, scrunching up my face and waiting for the sentence that would end my life. As they recited the holy vows that came before the sentence, I didn't dare... | My jaw was clenched so tight, and I slowly opened my eyes. The priest was staring at me with probably some form of disbelief underneath his black veil.
"Is there something wrong, Priest?" The executioner next to him asked, taking out his earplugs.
The priest murmured something to him, something uninteligible. The e... | 2014-02-05T11:42:26 | 2014-02-05T10:33:34 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You get abducted by aliens, but as they preparing to probe you, they scan you only to discover a terminal disease that they have never seen before and they can not cure. The aliens instead end up befriending you and taking you on one last adventure traveling across the galaxy. | As you sit there, writhing in your chair, you see the beings that brought you onto their ship huddled over instruments. You're fairly certain there are four of them, but it's hard to tell as one keeps shifting back and forth, splitting into two, working on different instruments and then coming back together. The room i... | Klaag, we have a problem.
Eh? You get used to the begging, just mute your translator.
It's not that. Look.
Where's his Gargen?
I dunno, where did you put it?
Idiot, you're doing the operation.
But I haven't even opened the monkey yet!
Well it's not in him. He's got a lot of spunk for a Gargenless chimp.
Look a... | 2018-12-12T12:14:58 | 2018-12-12T11:10:30 | 93 | 25 |
[WP] You are a fervent believer in a abrahamic faith who once dead, face an obscure pagan god. | Of all the things I’d expected to see when I died, I never expected this. The being that greeted us was so alien I could barely see it. It stood upon the hill and dominated the landscape and the souls of the dead that surrounded it. What was this creature, this entity – nothing in my life had prepared me for this. I wa... | "Begone, demon!"
"And just who are you calling demon, you homo sapiens sack of shite? My name is Jeff, the God of Whirligigs."
"The LORD commandeth that we should have no other gods before Him!"
"Yah... about that. You guys have been mucking about for nigh on 6,000-some-odd years now, and perhaps you didn't get t... | 2015-02-09T10:37:46 | 2015-02-09T07:47:57 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You have just begun your fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You are surprised to have made it this far, after all, you aren't even a wizard, just really good at special effects. | "Um, sir," I said, shuffling my feet. "I think -" I glanced backwards at the closed door. "I think this has really gone on long enough, don't you?"
Dumbledore lounged easily behind his massive desk, his eyes twinkling like the little spinny silvery things he had all over his office. "Has it?" he said cheerfully. "You... |     Imogen sat on the divan in the common room, taking in the sweet silence between classes. Nosipho came down from the dormitory and sat beside her.
    "Enjoying yourself, my lady?" asked Nosi.
    Imogen smi... | 2016-11-24T02:59:47 | 2016-11-24T02:47:02 | 1,182 | 34 |
[WP] everyone in the world has a number over their head, but nobody knows why. You have just figured if out. | My day started like this, with my wife smiling. She kissed me lightly on the forehead on my way to work. It was a long drive by myself. When I arrived at work, everyone else had already started to notice the changes.
Jared and Connie met me outside the doors to the office. That was when I first noticed the numbers. J... | One day, numbers appeared over everyone's heads. They weren't bright enough to see in sunlight, but they were always present: faintly luminescent digital numbers, ticking upwards and downwards. People didn't talk about them at first, thinking they were tricks of the light or hallucinations from too much coffee and too ... | 2014-06-04T18:03:01 | 2014-06-04T13:35:55 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | How long have I been here?
Upon gaining immortality, I quickly realized that like my body, my memory does not degrade. How I wish it did. I can remember every agonizing moment, every maddening tick of the clock in my silent, immobile prison. I am grateful for sleep, when I am able to dream something other than infinit... | *I know the ending I want but I need the earlier story...*
"As I fell to the ground I couldn't believe that I had found another like me...another immortal person stuck here just like me. She was amazing, if I had to spend the rest of eternity here I don't care! I have never been more happy in my life. What are the odd... | 2018-10-12T12:31:22 | 2018-10-12T11:37:08 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Just push this button and that's it?"
"Yes"
"That seems... anticlimactic. What exactly happens when I push it."
"Complex magical interactions. We could explain, but to teach you the intricacies of it would take years, oh Chosen One."
"Please stop calling me that, it makes me uncomfortable."
I hesitate.
"Just the... | "Alright, just make sure I'm showered with praise and a proper tale of my deeds spun from this... mundane action," I said. Then, a thought occurred to me. "Wait, why don't you push it?"
The priest frowned and said: "I'm no chosen one. Nothing would happen, you see."
I shrugged and said: "Yes, yes. Whatever. And pleas... | 2020-11-09T12:50:06 | 2020-11-09T12:09:48 | 116 | 80 |
[WP] It's been decades since the apocalypse. The Wise Elders from your village are Millennials and Gen Z. You visit them one day in searching for wisdom.
Based in this [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/cfn55a/a_glimpse_into_teh_future/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) | (On mobile, so bear with my mistakes)
No one had seen the elders since the village was founded. They came, implanted their ideals, and once their home was built, they went in and never came out. No one even knew what they looked like anymore.
Our area of the world wasn't insanely prosperous, but it got by well enough... | Hell pure Hell, What can I say (except you're welcome \*circa 2016\*). Everytime someone uses any words they need to follow it up with any sort of meme (like the doozlebear \*circa2049\*) The only music anyone listens to is despacito 13-19 or classic rock as its more commonly known. (moomoodoodoo \*circa2034) Any form ... | 2019-07-20T22:08:07 | 2019-07-20T20:40:08 | 65 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | Fred Phelps was getting tired of waiting. He had been suspended in space for what felt like a couple of years before he saw a light approaching. He knew this was the moment he'd been waiting for, but as the light drew near, Fred couldn't help thinking that God looked...different...than he'd expected. Instead of a be... | You wake under a plain cloth blanket, one that you really didn't need as it's perfectly comfortable here and you're already dressed.
You remember getting pissed at Tim about the pool game and how he was being a little hardheaded on giving up the table after you'd won. But just snippets of it are coming back like the ... | 2016-03-07T19:44:40 | 2016-03-07T19:29:38 | 50 | 18 |
[WP] the flames of hell are fanned by the arrival of new souls, unfortunately as humanity grows, less and less people are worthy of a spot in the ever cooling realm, it is your noble job to corrupt and condemn people as to keep hell from freezing over and releasing all trapped within.
**** | The moon barely peeked out over the clouds as I followed the girl with ink-black hair down slippery, silent streets, through the village, towards the cliffs. She was the flint I’d strike the rocks in hell with and get the fires raging again.
I stayed close enough to see the prickles on her arms rise in the electric, p... | 2021 began with the Devil and I trying to figure out a solution to our increasingly pressing problem. The year also began with an abnormal amount of volcanic eruptions, locust plagues several orders of magnitude larger than anyone ever recalled, and a dramatic cold front which swept down from the arctic to wreck pretty... | 2021-01-04T07:09:01 | 2021-01-04T06:51:42 | 67 | 22 |
[WP] As a person goes through his life, he is given three options at the end of each day, continue, restart day, or restart life. He has just lived through the worst day of his life. | Joel sat on his bed, and immediately the screen popped up in front of him. "Restart day," he said. There was no hesitation, no waver in his voice. He sat back in the empty bed and waited to begin the worst day of his life.
At 7, his alarm went off. She rolled over and reached across him, as she did every morning, to ... | His days were always the same. For whatever reason as one day transitioned into another, he had a choice. Continue on, or restart the day, or restart life. The third was out of the question, but to have another chance? Usually he would consider it a blessing. Something goes wrong, no sweat, just restart the day and do ... | 2014-07-17T19:47:30 | 2014-07-17T17:56:40 | 68 | 20 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | **The Nightmare of the Dreamless**
I never intended to start a war, but I do intend to win.
How simply it all began, with an uncommon answer to a common question.
“Congratulations Mr. President, you’re having a boy,” the doctor had said, rubbing the ultrasound device over my wife’s growing belly. “Shall we begin the... | I've been up, maybe, 75 to 76 hours this time around
It's this new drug that one of the big pharma companies dropped.
Supposed to be better than Adderall, Modafinil, and miles ahead of most amphetamines. At least safety wise. And so far, that seems to be the case. I feel awake. Alive. So this is what being a normal p... | 2022-03-18T10:33:48 | 2022-03-18T10:08:51 | 514 | 83 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | People used to dream. Adventures and nightmares, jumbled scenes and impossible events. I remember dreaming about just talking to my friend - he's been gone a long time, but I cherish that dream. Crazy, right? People used to study dreams - when they would happen, why some people could remember dreams and others could no... | As I eat my last rations in the war-torn ruins of the former city of London, I cannot help but reflect on our sins. I have no hope of anyone finding these notes, but nonetheless, I hope to keep my sanity for a few more days before I succumb to the madness.
Will future generations ever forgive us?
I doubt they will un... | 2022-03-18T11:16:31 | 2022-03-18T10:06:35 | 97 | 45 |
[WP] Colony ships have been leaving weekly for awhile. The streets around your home are looking more empty. You don't qualify for the colony ships. You will always be one of the left behind. | The oil reserves had ran dry 90 years ago, long before I was born. The damage that they had caused remained. The planet was dying, so people started to leave. Mars was always a hotspot, “Become one of the first to live on a planet once red now green!”, a true planet B. We branched out, colonised the Moon, then Phobos. ... | Juliet and I sat on a broken park bench and watched the southern sky.
Though distant, the cone was sufficiently bright to bathe us and the park around us in a subtle blue hue that banished the deeper shadows.
The fiery cone belonged to the Hougoumont, final colony ship of five hundred to launch itself into space and ... | 2021-06-30T09:13:39 | 2021-06-30T08:20:43 | 118 | 63 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | My fellow Americans,
As I leave office, times are dire. I have had a conversation with Kim Jong Un in which he informed me that upon my retiring from the role of president, he will launch no fewer than 102 nuclear missiles at the United States.
I begged him, pleaded with him. "Un," I says, "Un, what can I do to ... | "Alright mutha fuckas stop, collaborate and listen, Obama is back BEEEAAATTTCHES!" *Pulls out a joint and lights that shit* *Inhaling* "I know yall think I'm punk ass," *Passes that shit to his left* Looking at Michelle, "But you know...YOU KNOW! I be tearing dat ass UP!"
"You know I have been thinking, yeah I ha... | 2015-04-30T08:08:51 | 2015-04-30T05:34:16 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] Finally, the ultimate MMORPG has been created, unlimited choice and room to grow and expand your character. There's just one issue, it's so realistic, nobody can remember which life they are living, and which is the game. | We, the awestruck faction members, stood around him. We saw a man, once glorious and proud, withering away under the green glow of fluorescent hospital lights. The man who vanquished the great beast of Velenforth, with nothing but an iron sword. The same man who bested countless foul creatures, who looted and explored ... | People called it one of the greatest accomplishments in gaming history. A game in which you didn't play, *you lived.* On the release date there were 50 million sales; it was the most popular game of all time.
It didn't last for long though.
A doctor, who was also an avid gamer, had decided to try it out. The sto... | 2018-02-19T08:53:15 | 2018-02-19T08:52:05 | 331 | 25 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | It was just after I had finished the first cup of my morning pot of coffee for the day when my intercom chimed my personal assistant's unique three tone chime.
This caused me to raise an eyebrow as I went to answer, as it was twelve past seven in the morning and Rusti would have just gotten into her office.
"What is ... | ‘Bwahahaha!!! I’m going to make this a wedding no is EVER going to forget!!Muwahahaha!!—that laugh was better—Gregory! Remind me to use ‘Muwahahaha’ in all further expository speeches…..Where were we? Oh, you were begging me to help you, its adorable. Of course, I wouldn’t miss this for the world.
‘This ex, any disli... | 2022-10-06T19:51:19 | 2022-10-06T16:34:26 | 187 | 83 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | I took the time to read through each one of their books thoroughly. Most of them were over 400 pages, so it struck me as odd when I walked up to the last of the gods and saw a young girl with a 3-page pamphlet.
"You're just a kid," I pointed out to her, stupidly.
"That is my soul you're seeing. I am Fun."
"Fun? T... | As I stood, scratching my head, I looked around at the strange landscape. All I could see was gently rolling hills, covered with what appeared to be albino grass. I poked a sprig with my foot. Well, it looked and felt like grass, anyway. As I looked around I saw something in the distance, on a hill which rose slightly ... | 2017-07-09T05:04:36 | 2017-07-09T04:02:59 | 58 | 16 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Just like that?" I asked.
"Just like that." the priest responded.
No way it could be that easy. The priest looked at me with a small smile on his face. Is there a joke I'm not in on? His robes ruffled as he produced a long stem pipe, and began to fill it.
"How long has this been happening?" I asked, watching h... | My eyes darted to the button. Fixated on it. I took a deep breath as I slowly pushed my hand out towards the button.
All it takes in life to make the most difficult decisions is 20 seconds of faith...right?
As the button pushed in, my eyes slowly shut.
I opened my eyes to feel gears winding, cogs spinning, air blow... | 2020-11-09T11:45:32 | 2020-11-09T10:15:58 | 170 | 118 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | After the test revealed that indeed had super powers i was excited to hear what they were. After all: I had to wait until i'm 18 to take this test.
My parents didn't share my excitement but were rather concerned and worried. They were thinking that two S tier supers would create a child with powers so strong that ... | I was powerless. I was disowned by my superhero parents. Everyday I suffered with the bullies giving me the worst wedgies in school.
The day the gift came really made me happy. I immediately folded people in half --- crushing their beloved spines. 70% of the people of the city are now dead.
"Who's useless now?" I sai... | 2017-06-12T08:29:20 | 2017-06-12T06:49:33 | 27 | 15 |
[WP]The smarter you are, the slower time moves for you. It's been 63 years and the doctor just handed you to your mom. | I didn't really like that I took more than 60 times the average human to exit my mother's womb. But if waiting could give you success, it wouldn't just be me who would clamour for it. Hyper-intelligence made life Easy-mode, in a way.
For one, I would always do well in class, because of how slow it moved for me. I coul... | This life is gonna be the longest yet, so I figured I'll explain the situation in words you onlookers can understand. See I'm not naturally smart, I was not born into being the smartest individual on the planet, I merely discovered how to keep my thoughts going and transferring into new hosts. See I'm not actually this... | 2017-07-04T15:47:10 | 2017-07-04T14:25:13 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You've kept your immortality secret for thousands of years. Thats going to be a lot harder now that your on a generation ship on a 2000 year voyage. | -5 years: You should be excited, Marlon. Not everyone gets a chance to help bring humanity to another star system. Your great-to-the-eightieth grand kid will thank you when they touch down on alien soil. Come on man, the least you could do is seem a little happy.
0: Today we launch the Living World; two thousand year... | I'm awake now, the dream had become so real, so drawn out that I almost lost my lucid capacity. It was enjoyable, I almost desire to return to it. I was one of them, like livestock. I sometimes had wives and children in the dream and they worked and went to school. I was never a child but grew old, now I know what its ... | 2016-07-06T09:04:35 | 2016-07-06T08:28:05 | 64 | 35 |
[WP] It turns out that all birds share a common language and even have an official political voting process. One day, you find an injured bird and rescue it. You don’t know it, but it’s the leader of all the birds. Strange things around you start happening... | "Director Tjip Tjisp, is it true? Has the Chancellor been found?".
"Yeah, in the outskirts of a large Worker Ape Colony."
"Such a dangerous place, swarmed with Squirrel-chasers and devilish groundhawks. The Chancellor is little, How'd he survive there?"
"Apparently he had been injured after a groundhawk put his shar... | I think so too as far as the common language is concerned! I was once out to get some chores done and saw a distraught scared little bird trying to take a flight but would immediately fall flat. On examining the situation closely I saw that the poor bird's paw was somehow entangled with a pile of thread. I don't know h... | 2019-10-13T04:11:58 | 2019-10-13T02:39:56 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a golden halo over their head, lost when a lie is first told consciously. Those who manage to keep their halo are recruited as "angels" and trusted with important tasks. You, an angel recruiter, see one enter your office, but with a color you have never seen before... | I tried not to gasp as he entered my room. As a recruiter, I was accustomed to seeing the soft golden flow of the halos floating about three inches above people’s heads. There weren’t a lot of them, of course, but enough that I was used to seeing them over the years. But this guy...
“Hi,” he grinned. “I’m Mike. I was ... | It’s like the color of an oil slick or that sheen on a piece of carnival glass.
***
After introducing yourself you realize that this potential angel is either deaf or mute and has hands that are clearly waking up from what was likely a lifelong arthritic condition.
“Is it hard to tell a lie when you can’t communicat... | 2018-10-03T20:52:20 | 2018-10-03T18:33:00 | 195 | 35 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | As everything came into focus, red block letters greeted me
DON'T TELL THEM YOU CAN SEE
For a moment I sat, looking at the shapes. Like the others, I had been blinded December before last. My MX-Sarah assistant had guided me back home while the world was in chaos. The robot became my eyes.
I needed an upgrade b... | I had seen those words. All those years ago. "Don't tell them you can see." They covered everything and I had ignored them, but only on my deathbed.
I had thought that it did not matter. In an act of defiance when dieing of cancer I had told them.
I was a fool. I have learned long ago that people don't need to die.... | 2022-10-22T00:27:31 | 2019-08-26T10:47:46 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] Bob the hobo's always been a nice guy. He stops thugs tagging the building, picks up litter, and doesn't bother anyone. When he returned your wallet, you decided to repay him and treat him to dinner. You're now in a 5-star restaurant, and Bob has just paid a bill four times your yearly rent. | "Huh? If you have that much money, why do you live like this?"
Bob sent the check off with a credit card he couldn't have possibly had. "Do you really want to know?"
I looked left and right. "Is this... some sort of prank?"
"Never," he said with a solemn look on his face. "Come with me."
We walked through the alley... | “[Poem]”
Cathedral high ceilings and silverware in flat copper...
Here I was sinner taken to the altar.
“Haven’t you always known?” He said with unprecedented ease.
I quietly smoothed my napkin draped over the top of my knees
the beginning of my sentence... I couldn’t quite find
So i stared at the closed... | 2020-03-30T09:05:52 | 2020-03-30T07:20:53 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Years ago, an old Villain saved the life of a Young Hero and decided to adopt him before retiring. Now some rookie Villains have decided the best way to get to the Hero is through his dad. What a terrible mistake. | It was kind of a travesty, how lax modern villainy had become. He'd been surreptitiously informed about the coming ambush dozens of times over the past few days. His old minions had gone on to set up a whole host of hench services after all, and no-one took notice of the help.
They'd made it too easy, his generation.... | The word is spinning, after effects of overly strong tranquillisers flood my brain, my thoughts swim through treacle. I can feel rope against my skin in several places, tied tightly and securely. I am not however gagged nor blindfolded, this is no home invasion, these people want something from me. Do they know who I w... | 2022-09-02T13:43:52 | 2022-09-02T13:08:03 | 53 | 36 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | The button was there.
John was there.
The words were there.
But the last part was not.
Warning: this will eradicate all people who
Nothing. All people who what? There was a blank space, and a line underneath, almost as if mockingly highlighting to him the importance of the missing part.
After all his searching, t... | A wave of time washed over the world, warping and distorting all. Every man and woman saw their future and past, and felt every single bit of harm they inflicted or would inflict upon fellow man by malice or inaction.
The chosen ones woke up, the heroes, saints and geniuses among mankind. They woke up to see their ut... | 2015-10-21T14:07:36 | 2015-10-21T13:38:00 | 161 | 31 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | 2017-03-31T12:54:20 | 2017-03-31T06:56:53 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | Things seem to be going good, minimal bugs, nice graphics. Wait, what the hell? I keep telling them to knock it off with this cartoon bullcrap. I told them how many times, I want the games we make to be realistic.
*BZZZT*
Damn that intercom is annoying. “What’s up?”
“I have an Agent Price from the H.R.C. here for yo... | *Bzzzzzzz bzzzzzzz. Bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzz.*
David opened his eyes. He could feel the sleep dust still trying to keep them shut. He glanced over to his bedside clock. 4:00 AM, it read.
*This better be important*, he thought to himself.
He reached his hand under his pillow for his phone. He could feel it vibrating. He sl... | 2022-07-31T15:31:39 | 2022-07-31T13:19:23 | 72 | 31 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | "Hi... honey. You're home early! Uh, how was the office?"
I blinked. Miranda was still wearing the bottom half of the Miragemancer's combat robes. Miragemancer, who just two hours ago was juggling me between two of her illusion clones in a four-person keep-upsises game that wouldn't have been out of place in a Smash B... | I do what I can. It’s not much, but it keeps the city safe. It’s been this way for years now--I fight off the muggers and thieves and super villains--and come home to my wife, Jenna, and our young twins, Liam and Nicole.
More often than not I’m exhausted. My left knee is bad after the fight with Polaris years ago. One... | 2020-10-30T11:58:10 | 2020-10-30T11:36:36 | 1,069 | 104 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I was taken to the palace when I was 8 years old. That's the age everyone gets tested. Luck is always the last thing they check for. It's usually a stat no-one pays much mind to. One in ten-thousand people score above 55, so if it comes back higher than that it's noteworthy, but no-one expects it to. My older siblings ... | The intake was as expected - a bit rough, a little too handsy, and a small inkling that the guard liked me a bit more than was necessary. I'd heard of full body cavity searches, hosed down with icy cold water, being pushed naked and wet into rooms of other people. You know, general Hollywood type stuff.
I managed th... | 2018-06-29T11:02:12 | 2018-06-29T10:01:31 | 11,893 | 183 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | "I made you some sandwiches for your trip honey".
"Thanks, Mom", I replied, knowing full well they'd go in the trash once I'd started out. "Frank and I are going to pick up Jillian before we head down to the city, Should be back around 1 AM".
"That had better be midnight, Mister. You've still got a curfew, you kno... | I gathered my beer bottles. I opened up one and began to down it.
"This is it... The final moment. Of bliss..." Another bottle down the hatch. I felt ready.
Of course, I went to the White House, I was lucky enough that George Bush had been reelected.
I knew the code on the keypad well.
#1234
I grinned to mysel... | 2015-06-14T09:41:32 | 2015-06-14T09:20:45 | 448 | 12 |
[WP] Your elven girlfriend is having a mental breakdown after learning you are only in your mid thirties. | Aria walked to one end of our house, then cursed under her breath in that elven language that only she knew. I had been picking up bits and pieces, but even then I wasn't entirely sure what "Eis Ru'math" meant. The direct translation I was getting was something like... "dirt in mud?"
"Honey," I said, hoping that my v... | "Ah, finally" thought Sam as the doorbell rang for what he hoped was the last time tonight. He removed his washing up gloves and dried his hands before making his way around large boxes and torn paper, remaining dead glasses and half empty bottles of sparkling wine.
There was a click as Sam turned the latch and pulled... | 2021-12-19T22:50:22 | 2021-12-19T22:31:02 | 103 | 25 |
[WP] The year is 1492, Columbus has just arrived in the Americas. But instead of finding savage Indians, he finds their technology has surpassed the Europeans.
I've always wondered what would of happened if the Indians would have had better technology than the Europeans...
*I understand that the Indians were not sava... | "It's about time they got here," mused Heammawihio. He was one of a handful of employees at the Taino Vuniabu Observation Institute, a research deck resting at a low cloud level, monitoring the great waters for signs of Europeans.
When he finally caught sight of their water vessel, it wasn't the first time he had seen... | October 12. The voyage had been long and hard on Columbus and his crew, but sighting land made it seem like a long forgotten past. The destination now close, they found renewed vigor, for the passage to India had been found.
He ordered his men to make for a harbor they could see before them, and get ready to make la... | 2015-05-29T13:34:19 | 2015-05-29T13:17:42 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Youre a wizard in the Imperial Army. Most wizards are very ritualistic in their tactics and that is very highly respected but doesn’t give many victories. So you decided to ignore all the long chanting and nonsense and simply immediately kill your opponents with your spells instead. | “...That's not fair.”
The voice sounded slightly whiny and plaintive, as if they were used to getting their own way by the power of annoying people until they gave in. It had echoes of a six year old and an ice cream stall on a summer's day. It was the kind of voice that instantly made you think anything done to ann... | I was always a bad scholar. The teacher told me to quit, because I was not fit to learn the spells and ritual. If only the hab known I had awaken during this time and just waited until now to retaliate. „Unter den Talaren, Muff von 1000 Jahre“ says an old German proverb.
I was around 15 years old when a dog bit my ha... | 2020-08-15T04:23:21 | 2020-08-15T01:24:27 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] You applied for a job at google, everything goes well and only one interview remains: They'd just like an explanation for your search history. | I must admit, I expected everything to be much more challenging. But it turns out interviewing at Google is not that difficult. My experience definitely helped a lot, being involved in the past with a bunch of giants from IT. But the weirdness just begun. The last part of the interview happens in what it looked like a ... | “So Mr. Anderson, thanks for your patience. My name is Smith and I’m in charge of security around here."
“Nice to meet you”, Thomas said while Mr. Smith sat down at the other side of the table. Thomas only wondered briefly about Mr. Smith’s sunglasses and his very, very black suit.
“As you know this is your final int... | 2016-06-03T06:27:32 | 2016-06-03T04:54:11 | 245 | 43 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | Maria fumbled for the keys in her bag, eventually finding the heart shaped keyring her husband had given to her long ago. How long exactly, she couldn't quite remember.
The lock clicked. A monotonous buzzing greeted her, as if a giant hornet had taken up residence in their home since she'd left for work. "Honey?" she ... | Honor and justice were words for politicians. Eraser had always believed in a single driving force to his heroism and that was efficiency. If the name was catchier, he would’ve called himself Factory Man, instead, he took the name Eraser for his powers in wiping villain’s identities. He took not just their memories, bu... | 2022-12-05T21:34:05 | 2017-12-30T08:30:59 | 3,733 | 300 |
[WP] All is well in the world. The sun is shining, your flesh decaying well, your children even got their first worms yesterday! Then your neighbor starts turning into a human. Before you know it, the Living Apocalypse is upon us! | Er. Sky. Food. Light. Brains. Walking. Running. In a horde. Noise all around. Running into many lights. Sirens, Sirens in front of me. I'm with those like me. We are running at something. That something has always been the hope of flesh. The roar of the infected begs me on, I need to be one of the first. If not, all th... | At first, nothing was out of place. We were all eating our brains as if it were any other day. But after a few minutes, something felt out of place. My neighbors skin started clearing up. He started looking, well, dead? Thats what I would call it. The holes in his skin started shrinking at a rate so fast it was god lik... | 2018-02-17T11:54:23 | 2018-02-17T10:25:38 | 701 | 266 |
[WP] A dying outlaw is approached by two people. An angel and a demon. Both are working together to save the world from something. Offering the mortal a chance at a new life and redemption, they become a pair of pistols. A worn and rusted one named justice, and a beautiful one named Vengeance | A lone rider sauntered into the eerily quiet town of Whit's End as the sun climbed higher into the sky. She had two six-shooters on her hip--one pearl handed beauty that gleamed in the light, and one so rusty that it matched the coat of her roan.
The rider continued unmolested through the streets until a voice called... | Isaac was pissed. Two pistols suddenly adorned his belt, one ornate revolver and one crummy one, both with more than enough power to blow a strangers head clean off.
Isaac grunted as he rolled over, gradually trying to find his feet.
Well what the fuck, Isaac thought, I need some goddamn water and food; he already o... | 2021-02-23T19:09:17 | 2021-02-23T16:35:37 | 51 | 27 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 235 | 10 |
[WP] The virtual assistant in your phone has been replaced with a super intelligent AI. But rather than taking over the world, it just gives you life advice and helps you out through out your day.
Inspired by [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/adw8y3/wp_your_demon_keeps_writing_messages_on_your/) ... | *"It takes you roughly 14 and a half seconds to get to the kitchen using this path. If you took a shortcut through the corner of the living room right around the edge of the table, it would take you 12 and a half seconds, saving on your precious time and allowing you to resume your adventures in your current gameplay o... | “Wakey-Wakey! Rise and shine!”
I grumbled and rolled out of bed.
“There is an unexpected 15 delay in your commute today, so I woke you 15 minutes early, plus an addition 2 minutes to compensate for your anticipated slower pace”
“Alexa, are you calling me lazy?” I muttered as I started to pull on my pants. Once dress... | 2019-01-09T18:30:37 | 2019-01-09T18:23:58 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone who dies reincarnates in Tier 2 universe. People there have all memories from the previous lives, and they suspect there are more Tiers. People live really differently there compared to Tier 1.
EDIT: thank you everyone for the great texts. I'm enjoying reading them. Having a lot of people expand on a con... | Huh. So there really *is* an afterlife.
Who'd'a thunk.
Wait, is this an afterlife? I mean, I remember squeezing the trigger, so my brains should be splattered all about the woods now, not continuing conscious thought.
I felt like I'd done all I wanted, and I was curious about what came next.
So, is this what's nex... | Do you remember when we met, my love? We met at the cafe we ended up always going to. They closed 10 years before I died. Do you remember? I remember.
Do you think about our wedding day? You promised that if I stuck with you that there would always be laughter. You said we would always be happy. I think about this pro... | 2016-01-21T23:23:42 | 2016-01-21T20:51:02 | 129 | 40 |
[WP] Theoretically, you can not surpass the speed of light. Humans find out why when we manage to break this rule, as our ships begin to outpace the rendering speed of the universe, and the illusion of all reality is broken as everything around us vanishes the faster we go. | ''How much you are willing to pay?'' He asked me.
I looked back and I saw people who standing behind me looking at me if I’m able to get a deal for last 2 tickets. I sold everything I owned including my house, my car and most importantly I sold my work. I was an AI developer for seven years and my most precious produc... | But what is reality? As the universe falters and spits away, I am still here. I do not need air, or love or sunshine, but I am something.
I am threads of atoms and quarks and molecules broken and dangling. I can touch the history of each. I know their point of origin. The origin of everything when the on was pressed.... | 2019-03-06T09:23:22 | 2019-03-06T08:19:53 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You are a lonely hermit. Every once in a while, a stranger comes to you and asks you for advice. No matter what you say, it always ends up ultimately being the single advice that lets them complete their quest. One day, you decide to put this to a test. | It was the blonde that did it.
I was already getting sick of my reputation as a "sage", and then in came this lovely blonde young woman asking me for help with, of all things, an astonishingly complicated magical ritual.
I stared at her plans, baffled. There were at least two languages involved that I didn't recogn... | "And what do you want, hmm?" I said, pruning the Bonsai tree before me.
"I seek your wisdom, Great Hermit of the Mountain." said a young man. He was of average height and slender build. He wore expensive silk clothing and hung on his belt was a saber much too large for him.
"And what have I to gain from this exchan... | 2020-02-10T20:46:58 | 2020-02-10T17:20:38 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] Your parents are both high ranking members from two warring crime families. Your birth was supposed to signal peace, but ever since your parents divorced, it’s been a literal custody battle. | Ever since I could remember, I had the world at my feet: cars, houses, the best and newest of everything. Growing up, I had nannies to heed my every need. But there was one thing that had me curious and I'd often ponder it late at night: my parents. As long as I could remember, they'd never been in the same room. If on... | I opened the door to my apartment that I've been living in until someone gets custody. I'm hoping the case just slips through the cracks and never gets settled. Both of my parents have been idiotic for a while. Somehow, I've afforded this place for so long, but it's not like fast food pays thousands. Funny how my paren... | 2022-06-17T12:08:56 | 2022-06-17T10:34:52 | 28 | 15 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | "Why aren't you scared? I'm a vampire, a creature of the night, a-"
"Humans are worse. You at least have the honor to let me face my death. Not that I think you'll kill me. You're all posturing and no actual danger, as far as I can tell." The human, presumably female but toeing the line of androgyny, pushed easily pas... | Why would I be scared of death ? I've been dead before... Twice... I'm totally over it. Actually you should be scared, taking on a former special forces operator that has nothing to lose... You can strike me, but I'll have my revenge... You know what they say about revenge. You better be ready to dig two graves... I'... | 2022-06-08T16:17:17 | 2022-06-08T05:05:56 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You made a deal with a witch with the price being a year of your life. You thought it was a year off the end of your life but when you return home you realize exactly a year had passed. | Relief — warm, glorious relief — swept through Jason's body at the sight of his old family house, spreading to the very tips of his fingers and toes, purging the cold and weariness that had threatened to overwhelm him, and instilling new strength into his battered legs. He had spent six days in total, plowing through c... | "So, we have a deal, Royce?"
I swallowed my anxiety and shook her slender right hand. She weakly shook my hands with both of his hands, the other clasping mine as I went for it. For some reason, her eyes brimmed with joy.
"Thank you, Royce, I hope it was worth it for you because I know it was... for me, at least!"
"... | 2020-04-14T08:43:33 | 2020-04-14T08:10:58 | 43 | 18 |
[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. | The Kasian 15th Armored Regiment was enjoying a rare moment of quiet on the planet Saeria. With an Ork WAAAGH! Being waged no more than a hundred kloms off, it was a peace that was sure to not last for long.
Lord-General Stanbridge, and the officers of the various regiments under his command stood quietly around a da... | Deep in the Warp, the Hive Mind thought.
The Fleets cry out in pain. Man's tongues of fire
and words of home split I apart. To live
I must begin to change this flesh. These spires
of ships and biomass are ours to give. ... | 2017-08-27T08:13:12 | 2017-08-27T08:12:48 | 63 | 33 |
[WP] Humans have been broadcasting messages into space for years. In 2022, a message arrives from Trappist-1e, saying "STOP TRANSMITTING OR THEY WILL HEAR YOU." This message departed from the planet a decade ago. An unknown large object is heading to Earth, currently near Pluto. | It was some time after the object first appeared that it stopped. It hung there, beside Saturn, having traversed the distance between Pluto and it’s current position in the space of a week without turning into energy.
All laws of physics had been proven bunk in this moment. Now, the world went about its business, tryi... | When they came it was without fanfare. There were no dire reports on the news. There was no panic in the streets. There were no grand displays of power and might. There were no glitzy Hollywood entries into our atmosphere. One day it just happened. The skies were black and the power was out. In that deep all encompassi... | 2021-08-17T13:01:23 | 2021-08-17T11:55:00 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | **April 29, 2015**
M, 51, Atlanta - I'm a virologist at the CDC, and my job makes is hard to meet people, as I work long hours. Hoping to find someone here to share quiet weekends with, maybe more. Please reply to this ad if interested -- Frank
**May 5, 2015**
ATTN: Frank the Scientist
Frank, I feel really ... | Mar 14, 2020 Lot of Quad-Copter drones for sale - $2000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 10, 2020 Lot of Amazing burning lasers! - $400 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 17, 2020 Lot of replacement iPhone fusion cells for sale - $3000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
AI/5/USA, I told you I was a real person and no... | 2015-04-29T09:53:01 | 2015-04-29T08:49:52 | 450 | 27 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | "So there is a bit of fuzzy area. Anything below this and our brain is happy to leave it alone and call it Non Human. Anything above this, our brain will identify a face as definitely human. But if you look at a face that falls in this area, uncanny valley as we call it, our brain just can't fully process it. It confus... | \[Use this guide to translate the caveman speech.\]([https://public.wsu.edu/\~delahoyd/cavespeak.html](https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/cavespeak.html))
“Neecha, maka. Igac maka-daka neecha!”
The other four cavemen whooped and hollered at Igac’s boastful retelling of the saber-toothed cat he had killed earlier that d... | 2020-09-15T13:26:22 | 2020-09-15T12:33:35 | 590 | 21 |
[WP] The aliens have arrived however they are not here for war. Instead after reading our broadcast of the United States Constitution they want to join as the 51 state and have brought a small planetoid into orbit to serve as the 51 state. | "Sir, they are calling it Planetoid 51."
"Shouldn't it be State 51?" I asked.
"I don't think we should get caught up on technicalities."
I shrugged. My Vice President had a point. In all the confusion with the Ien ambassador, we mistakenly accepted them into our United States with the acceptance of their technology ... | "Turn it up, please," the President said with a soft smile, his wispy, blonde hair whipping in the breeze. He was standing on the White house lawn.
"Yes, sir." The volume increased, filling the confusingly jagged streets of DC with the sound of a computerized, autotuned, deep-south voice.
*We the people, of the Unite... | 2016-06-06T09:04:47 | 2016-06-06T08:43:22 | 287 | 84 |
[WP] two teens use an Ouija board to find out the date of the apocalypse. The spirit responds with a date two days ago. | The board had spoken. A-U-G-U-S-T-1-9-2-0-1-4. Mina and Liz look up at each other with with incredulity, not at the revelation, but at the mere fact that they'd been bored enough to play with a Ouija board.
"Well that's stupid" said Liz, as she looked for another game to play.
"It was your idea to play with fucking t... | Pete was getting pretty tired of this. He just wanted to be dead and left alone. But the kids, man, the kids always had to pull out that stupid Ouija board and summon him back. It wasn't always the same, sometimes he'd be casually strolling along in the park, unseen by those around him, when he'd be yanked by an unseen... | 2014-08-21T09:18:11 | 2014-08-21T09:11:37 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] American submarines are never considered lost. The ones missing from WWII are “still on patrol” with their hundreds of sailors. Little do we know the horrors these men defend us from in the deeps. | **We were guests at our own funeral.**
A hundred of my brothers sat in white wooden chairs, the legs sinking into wet grass. Officer Louis was on the plinth, his uniform sharp, his movements sharper. He brought the bugle up to his lips and began to play that old, lonely, mournful dirge.
He was playing for us.
Floyd... | ​
The old house drug itself through the depths. Out from a darkened window shot a chained harpoon. Sailing across the ocean floor it hooked into distant rock and pulled the house forward. When the house reached the point of impact, the chain retracted and the process repeated. A tedious and bizarre thing to... | 2020-08-21T12:46:30 | 2020-08-21T10:59:02 | 189 | 54 |
[WP] After dying from a road accident, you wake up in a strange world and hear a voice beside your bed. "You got lucky, they reduced your sentence. Welcome back." | "Fuck," I whisper and rub my eyes. Sitting up, I feel my arms for tubes and entry points. There are five. I hear beeps and boops. Someone is sitting by the bed, silent. "What?" I ask, my vision still a mess.
"You got lucky, they reduced your sentence," the voice is young. Female. I look in her direction and try to foc... | Ragbar looks at the beast standing over him. It takes him a few seconds to understand. He feels his face and his head. The horns are back. Instead of hands, he has paws. He tries to stand but drops to all fours, returning to his natural form. He misses walking on two legs already. He misses the beautiful human form tha... | 2016-01-30T05:24:44 | 2016-01-30T03:57:24 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] A fleet of alien ships has appeared in orbit. The aliens say they can end world hunger and disease. In return, they want one hundred million volunteers for their army. | It was the end to a horrible year. December 2020 was met with moans and groans, after the recent economic collapse of several countries. So when an alien fleet appeared in orbit, many people were surprised, but not overly so. The fact they didn't attack was seen as a good sign.
They sat in orbit for 11 days, before a ... | From the sidelines, we watched as 100 million of our own walked into uncharted territory.
All across the planet, at the capital of each nation, the aliens had dropped large metallic archways. Upon landing on the earth, they began to glow with an ominous light, forming doorways to an opened universe.
*100 million vo... | 2020-07-22T11:14:26 | 2020-07-22T08:53:14 | 19 | 12 |
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