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[WP] You die at the age of 65 and learn that your entire life was a VR game. Your friends are angry at you because they have been waiting to play the game for hours. | They say that when you die, you see your life flash before your eyes. If that’s true, I’m fine with that. I always thought I’d live longer than to sixty-five, but life is a tricky little bugger once you get to know it well. You never know where the road leads or who will travel with you, until you reach the end.
My wi... | The VR headset was pulled from Richard’s face as he struggled for air. It was as if he breathing for the first time.
“What happened? Where am I?”
“Calm down,” said Lenny. “It’s my turn.”
“What do you mean ‘it’s my turn’? What is this?”
“You were playing LIFE. You finally died. I’ve been waiting for three hours now ... | 2017-02-15T01:14:33 | 2017-02-15T00:27:04 | 169 | 53 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | "Destiny Matthews?" the man said to me as I sat near my small fire under the bridge, pretending to huddle against the cold. The name I hadn't heard used in years sent chills down my spine.
"Whattaya want?" I asked, hamming up the part of a bum, but I knew this stranger knew it was an act. The bald head, the regal po... | Through thin thin eggshell walls of the motel room, the voice of Paul Anka crooned about a slow dance as rain pattered against the windows. The floors needed to be steamed and the tile needed an extra mopping. The only nice thing that could be said was no bugs were spotted when the pair had burst through the door. The ... | 2020-08-21T02:05:49 | 2020-08-20T23:13:29 | 667 | 126 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Carlos crossed the Barkfrost with a swagger in his step. His small legs plodded on that multi-coloured bone bridge, with other honoured brothers and sisters behind and in front of him. Though he felt a sadness at the thought of his master who he left behind, he felt content that he had done his duty and earned his rest... | An unnamed cow walks into Valhalla. He sees the 60 billion other animals killed by humans in the last year waiting for him. "Hey, join the party! " "Welcome to Valhalla!" they all say.
Another friendly cow comes forward to talk to him. "Word of advice, watch out for the dragon Alduin. He flies around eating us whe... | 2018-05-25T05:45:05 | 2018-05-25T02:31:56 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] "Enough! Is there anyone here who DIDN'T come to rob the bank?" | Too many groups had shown up to the bank, far too many. A brawl had broken out between a gang of old English accountants calling themselves 'The Corporate Raiders' and a trio of cudgel armed lunatics in red robes and wide brimmed hats shouting in fake Spanish accents. Several men dressed as Orthodox Jews had come here ... | I wipe the sweat off my brow, my heart is racing. I tell the teller once more
"Put the cash in the fucking bag! Keep it going..."
I had already told everyone to put their hands up, which they much obliged. I would too if a dude rushed in on me wearing aviators and a trucker hat with a cut off shotgun. I check the t... | 2016-09-07T11:07:10 | 2016-09-07T09:07:25 | 268 | 18 |
[WP]They laughed at your power... until they noticed the "no cooldown, no energy cost" description, and realized the implications | They laughed a lot at me, at school. “Wow,” they said, “you can share your thoughts. So, basically, you can speak to people’s minds, but can’t receive anything?”
I didn’t mind too much, my friends helped support me on the worst days. Some people got bad powers in this world, they pointed out. Like the guy who can turn... | Everyone got 10 Energy, symbolized by their fingers. Once a person reached the age of 25 and their brain finished developing, everyone received a vision detailing their ability, it’s cost, and it’s cooldown time. Generally the power of an ability would scale with it’s cooldown time and energy cost. An ability that requ... | 2022-06-03T14:45:20 | 2022-06-03T10:32:46 | 1,075 | 297 |
[WP] You sit with him in his final moments. His paw in your hand. Such a good boy. As he leaves you witness his life flash before your eyes. To him, you were a glorious king and he, your most noble of knights. Many adventures you had together. You decide to share some with the world and so you write | I remember the sun, its warmth radiating deep into my coat. Laughter from children echoed across the park, and the chattering of squirrels could be heard from the nearby trees. It was peaceful, but for some reason, I was afraid. I was alone.
I tried to move, but I was weak. So, so weak. I looked around, but could only... | I entered the back garden of our kingdom with my master and I stood vigilant as ever, my eyes peered out over our glorious kingdom and as I gazed I spotted an intruder; he was tiny, but he was mighty. The furred plume of his helmet stood on his back, he locked eyes with me and I knew I must defend the kingdom. I flew o... | 2018-11-01T23:59:34 | 2018-11-01T23:50:14 | 32 | 14 |
[WP]: You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You black out for 8 hours 5 days a week and a paycheck appears once per month. | "What a day, huh?" I said to Kev, loitering in the parking lot. There were about twenty of us still there, stretching and cracking our joints and expelling the excess ichor. The asphalt was stained with it, half-footprints and tire tracks dragged through tar. Cigarette smoke wafted on the cold air, their lit tips bobbi... | "Hey Phil, I just received another one of those paycheques.", Dave sighed.
Dave Follière had been receiving mysterious paycheques, every week, for the past 6 months. At first he had thought they were sent to his address by mistake, however, when attempting to contact the business listed on the cheques, he was surpris... | 2016-10-11T05:26:32 | 2016-10-11T04:53:17 | 371 | 57 |
[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 ... | Immortality can be a blessing and a curse. I enjoy watching as humans make new advancements and slowly discover every secret the world has to offer. But an immortal life is a lonely one. At first you don't think about the fact that any friend you make will eventually die and leave you behind.
I was only ever in on... | "*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 ... | 2022-12-08T09:37:00 | 2022-12-08T08:51:31 | 198 | 29 |
[WP] You awake to find yourself in a room with a multitude of people. After some confusion a voice speaks over the PA system. You've somehow been placed in a death game for the entertainment of the rich. You begin to laugh hysterically, as this is SOOO not going to go the way they want it to. | sry for bad writing and short text, am on mobile
edit: spelling
As I heard a loud alarm I covered my ears with my hands. "Just one more minute" I said, half awake, half asleep.
As I slowly started to gain consciousness I looked around. I was in a gigantic room, filled with beds, all identical. This wasn't even remot... | As I lay on my cot 5 beds up, I surveyed my surroundings.
To my left, Jang Deok-Su fondled his pocket knife, safely guarded by his makeshift miscreant thugs. Way over to my right, Seong Gi-Hun, playing the hero with his misfit crew, was polishing off his fortress. Insofar as you can "polish off" a castle made of cots... | 2021-10-31T01:05:36 | 2021-10-30T22:15:47 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | To the Justice Unit, he was a mere has been. To us, however, he was a milestone in all of our lives. My father, Mega-Kill Sr., was his arch nemesis for decades. I remember when I was 17 or 16, my pops gave me his suit. He said to me; "Georgie, if you want to be a real villain, you gotta know how to fight a super." S... | "I don't have time for this Hydro, so let that girl go and I may just spare you the hurt." His voice boomed. Mr. Streak, greatest hero of the 1980s, my grandfather's one time nemesis and comrade in arms against the Zorblaxian invasion. Despite his age, the old dreg still looks dapper as he was in his prime, it's a pity... | 2017-04-13T06:12:53 | 2017-04-13T05:12:50 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] Through selective breeding we managed to turn wolves into pugs. For the last 1000 years a secret cult has also been selective breeding, but not with wolves but lizards. Crocodiles, monitors, sneks. The largest and most dangerous, into finally they created their perfect monster... A Dragon.
Just wanted to thank ev... | I thank you for your interest Mr. Darson. Yes we have quite a few breeds of Dracus Domesticus. This way please.
Now, if you wish to choose from the catalogue you'll notice that each of our fine creatures has a vet certificate of health and their shots are all up to date. Now if you'd let me know your price range...
... | The bigger the lizard is, the warmer it gets. Did you think they would *stay* cold-blooded? The first warm-blooded lizard was hatched in 1344. It was just a simple test iguana, but it became well known and loved among our group. The scientist who incubated it took it home after a week and loved it like it was a normal ... | 2018-10-20T08:08:21 | 2018-10-20T07:21:40 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Write an essay about a current event as though you're a child 50 years from now who knows the gist and a few specific details, but is just bullshitting most of it. | Donald Trump Americas Last President
By Carl
Donald Trump was a famous millionaire from New York. Donald Trump got famous because of his reality tv show Survivor where contestants sang there favorite songs and America voted for them he also sold houses!
One day, Donald Trump decided he would run for president, he wa... | Name: Nikoli Date: 8/28/2066
My report on the grate russha in the early twenty furst centrury. (I am not good speler)
My name is nikoli and I am 10 yeres old. I was born long after the gloryos campaigns of russia in the early 2000s. Great leeder puttin was presidant of russha. He did many grate fings, like arrest th... | 2016-08-28T15:56:26 | 2016-08-28T13:16:35 | 83 | 35 |
[WP] Following a chosen deity has real world benefits, much like perks in a videogame. The more obscure gods offer more interesting gifts to those that find them. | "So I just started worshiping Matton, the ancient greek demigod of meals, and check this out. Cheesecake me." Kevin snapped his fingers and a slice of blueberry cheesecake appeared in his palm. He gobbled it down. "That's my fifth slice tonight."
"No cooldown huh? Guess I should convert. Zeus offers a lightning strik... | History buffs are already calling it the religious revolution. It's a fancy schmancy name for a bunch of uberpowerful beings fell from the sky and crept up from the caverns and rose from the sea back in 2033. Gods from cultures big and small emerged and rose to prominence around the world, beckoning for followers. Enti... | 2017-08-28T22:44:17 | 2017-08-28T19:44:37 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] You have just been abducted by a UFO. While you are figuring out what just happened to to you, a frantic alien bursts into the room. "You have no idea how many rules I'm breaking, but my Human Studies final is tomorrow and I need help." | One moment he'd been stargazing and the very next he was among them. He hadn't noticed it happen initially. William had been seated next to his brother Waylon on the hillside as they usually were on Tuesday nights, smoking and snacking as they talked about the cosmos. The two of them had always had a fascination with t... | The blue dot of Earth receded into the distance, leaving home farther in Deliliah’s rearview mirror than ever before. When she’d told her friends she needed to get away she’d meant Colorado or maybe New Mexico, not quite this. The room she occupied had all the accoutrement of an upscale apartment but with the miles the... | 2021-01-22T09:55:54 | 2021-01-22T08:32:28 | 1,825 | 232 |
[WP] Being an orc living in an elvish village isn't as bad as you would think, but stereotypes run deep, and it's almost weekly when another elf wants to fight you because they have something prove. You're a librarian for gods sake! | I take off my spectacles and regard the young elf with a critical eye. He’s tall and better muscled than most of his kind. He holds his straightblade with a certainty and purpose that speaks to his years of training. Given his obvious confidence he is probably a formidable warrior.
I don’t recognize him, which means h... | The green skinned orc sat at the large desk in the center of the Oakmore library, a small book in his hands, his dark eyes scanning the pages as a loud yawn escaped him. There wasn't much to do at this hour in the day, most of the youth were at the local school house (though it was more of a mansion) to continue their ... | 2021-03-10T20:55:32 | 2021-03-10T19:17:20 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | Our triumph had nearly come. My aide reported that a few well placed payments to cousins of my colleague from Abrax, and we'd secured the votes we needed to pass the bill legalizing our future conquests, even if the Galactic council didn't know it, and to halt the slow 'self determination' movement that had been puttin... | He collapsed on the far side of the rock, air sacs pulsating as he tried to oxygenate his system. His hind limbs were shaking, he knew he couldn't go on much further. He peered back and saw the creature, pink skin layered over with synthetic fibers it's two legged stride ate up the ground between them as it started to ... | 2021-02-04T11:55:21 | 2021-02-04T10:56:14 | 94 | 43 |
[WP] Your doppelgänger climbs through your window one night. You scream, but instead of killing you to replace you in your world like they normally would, they’re here to say goodbye, just having wanted to meet you before they disappear forever. | I bolted upright in my bed and flicked on my bedside light. It was like I was staring at my own reflection in the window, but her hair flickered in the slight breeze and she wasn’t wearing her (my?) PJs.
“What? Who are you?” I scrabbled around to grab my phone.
“Don’t do that. Don’t worry.” She stepped into my room.... | "What do you mean disappear forever? Are you supposed to follow me 'round, trying to slowly steal my life?"
The mirrored man sat on the window ledge before speaking again: "Ordinarily yes, but doppelgängers only look like others on the surface, the mentality is completely different, so when someone becomes involved in... | 2022-11-07T08:17:55 | 2022-11-07T06:25:15 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | For decades, maybe even centuries, I had terrified the world. The monster under the bed, the seductress who stole men's hearts and crushed them between her fingers, notorious bank robber, crusher of men and women alike, and the woman who really did rule all.
It wasn't vindictiveness or hatred that drove me to these n... | It was night again, and for many, it was time to work.
The criminal underground is a nocturnal menace, writhing and growing wherever the sun and light do not reach. Uncaring of what it consumes so long as it can do exactly that. Many give in willingly to the ebb and flow of corruption; for some it is their life purpos... | 2017-09-17T03:08:23 | 2017-09-17T02:57:40 | 83 | 31 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | "Hello Jackson."
Those words, in that tone, by that voice. The same voice that had the "Ruler of Ten Worlds begging on his knees. I wish I could be even a bit frightened, but after twenty times, it gets old. The same words, every time.
"No and go."
Genesis raised an eyebrow, but other than that, didn't respond. I sl... | “Why me?”
I thought as I’m walking while two heroes are stalking me. I can’t possibly be the only person with powers that just minds their own business, so why are they targeting me? I guess it could be that I have multiple are pretty strong powers, I can use both fire and ice, as well as lift stuff with my mind, incl... | 2021-08-16T16:57:27 | 2021-08-16T13:29:39 | 679 | 145 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | Why *did* Thor keep all this useless junk. Low-Key observed the collection with curiosity, occasionally picking something up to inspect. Trophies of all his wonderful endeavours, no doubt. Thor had always been one for showing off, for displays of power, wealth, and overcomplicated execution in the name of grandeur. Ri... | The great tuppaware riot of 2056 was the beginning of the end for human civilisation as we know it. For years ordinary people had felt mounting frustration at attempting to store left overs or prepare packed lunches only to find, inexplicably, that no lid matched any one container. This was the straw that broke the bac... | 2018-01-27T23:20:19 | 2018-01-27T23:00:54 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] The Rest of the team has been wiped out and a Healer-type character is making a desperate last stand. | And then Moore was gone too.
I looked around at my squad members, the last of my family for the past two days. I should say the guilt of not saving their lives was crushing. I should say I was overwhelmed by the sight of my dead friends. I should say I rose up from the agony and rage within...
But it wasn't, I was... | High on a rocky bluff, Jack watched as Ceda crumpled like a rag doll. The blow sent her to her knees, daggers dropping from her fingers, and she toppled down in front of Boldre. Jack roared, the wind whipping his voice away. He drove his staff into the rocks. It left a singed round mark, black against grey.
She had ... | 2016-07-17T06:21:33 | 2016-07-17T04:45:21 | 79 | 23 |
[WP] A technology is invented that allows us to hear sounds locked into the clay of ancient pots as they were being formed. What is extracted are conversations that will alter the perception of history in the most terrifying of ways. | *God I hate him.*
Of course, the “*most brilliant mind of our time*” is a complete moron. And his name is Jerry. First, He radicalized the historical record by developing a device for reading micro impressions left on malleable mediums. Delivered the speech about it via recordings he left on play-doh figures *of himse... | They were right when they said that Sound is the very Vibration of Matter, recent research indicates that Matter stores every Sound it had ever 'heard' in the form of quantum-stasi vibrations which could be recalculated using Fermi-Dirac statistics in tandem with inverse Fourier Transforms, which would give back the or... | 2019-03-18T17:38:49 | 2019-03-18T17:23:16 | 56 | 37 |
[WP] You are the luckiest person on Earth. Everything you make an attempt for works in your favor. However, there two catches: you are absorbing the luck of those around you, and anyone who tries to profit from your luck (even with your help) is met with the worst luck immediately.
Holy crap, front page of the sub!
G... | I laid on the tattered rug and rested my head against the rusty fence. The warm air from the vent underneath is soothing.
My stomach grumbled. I reached out and felt the energy around me. It was thick and velvety. That's good. I wouldn't want to be in the downwind when it happens.
I closed my eyes, wanting to catch a... | ... years have passed, I've learned to appreciate my luck, and think I have, too, found the way to love anyone, and for they not to be punished by my curse.
I have experienced the desperation of the bad luck myself. I was born like this. My parents were always there, hardworking to provide me the things that I didn't... | 2015-10-17T11:22:37 | 2015-10-17T10:39:25 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I didn't expect to close my eyes in one moment only to open them the next and be escorted down a fiery flight of stairs to Hell. I thought I'd led a pretty good life. Never had a run in with police nor did I ever treat someone with less respect than they deserved. I was honestly quite surprised to be taken to Hell, but... | Why?, I ask in disbelief I tithed I went to church I was a faithful husband. What did I do? Saint Peter looks deep into my eyes with morose and disgust, “ It is not what you have done but what you failed to do...” I rack my mind trying to figure out what it was and finally it dawns on me. All this time for a Fucking F... | 2018-09-26T06:12:57 | 2018-09-26T03:51:49 | 881 | 123 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I sat in the back of the classroom, staring at her.
What the hell was going on? Was I losing it?
I looked around the room. No, everything was normal. A bunch of 3s, a few fours, and Mark, a six (I stay away from him).
Then there's this girl.
I had heard all about her. She was new in town, apparently her parents we... | My own number always bothered me. A 1, seriously? Luckily nobody else sees numbers or they would think I was nothing but a big laugh.
And I couldn't use another reason to be laughed at, you know. Being in high school is already torture enough, and I'm being bullied enough as it is.
Normally the day starts off getting... | 2014-11-29T15:20:57 | 2014-11-29T14:33:38 | 50 | 19 |
[WP] You are immortal and move to a new city every 10 years to avoid detection. After moving back to Boston 100 years since your last stay, you notice a familiar face. | Boston.
Here I find myself again, strolling down a valley of asphalt, glass, and concrete. I'd been to so many like it in the last few hundred years, but each one had it's own unique personality.
I grumble to myself as I wander, eyeing every "help wanted" sign I pass. Driven once again by the tiresome necessity of fi... | I stepped into Lyndell's and closed my umbrella, shaking stray drops of rain off the tip and into a waiting bucket. The air was warm and full of sugar and dough, and I could see someone pouring melted chocolate over doughnuts at the back of the shop.
I eyed off the display cabinet as I moved closer to the front count... | 2017-10-14T23:56:42 | 2017-10-14T23:47:52 | 473 | 135 |
[WP] Earth has a god like other inhabited planets but unlike others our god is lazy and rarely shows up. But this gave us the advantage of self-reliance. When alien invaders came knocking it was very evident how significant that advantage was. | Entering the atmosphere of the famous blue planet, the invading armada from Planet Yvernas led by their god Ayve closed in. Cladded in his golden regal armor, the deity turned back to his army, raised his spear, and addressed his men.
"My loyal subjects! My children, sons of Yvernas! Today is the day the promised vict... | The aliens have observed us for years waiting to see our God but he didn't appear so that sent floods and disease to force their action but nothing.
The aliens made jokes and plan for us here on earth assuming our God is dead or we never had one. The plotted our demise while in prayer to there god who was always with ... | 2021-04-12T04:10:17 | 2021-04-12T03:05:19 | 164 | 53 |
[WP]You have an uncanny knack of finding things. Time travelers, genuine demons, angels, supernatural beings, and now your newest find, Death and Life having a friendly chat in the woods. They were expecting you. | They were just sitting there, in the clearing. A young girl, barely in her teens, and an thin, frail looking old man, with a beard that extended down to his chest. An odd pair to be seen chatting any day of the week, but here, in the middle of a forest?
Years of running into the most unbelievable things had taught me,... | I tracked the deer around 600 metres into the thicket, trees towered overhead. I crouched down in the shrubbery and watched the deer intently. My mind was focused and my bow was drawn. I had its head in my sights and was ready to release my arrow until it wandered over to two unusual figures. One was wooden and bark co... | 2020-07-11T16:38:26 | 2020-07-11T16:15:10 | 90 | 22 |
[WP] People inherit the best qualities of the people they've killed, but murder is still illegal. You, a born paraplegic, wake up, feeling better than ever before, able to do things you were never able to do, and people are noticing. You don't remember last night.
side note, i had a dream i posted this writing prompt ... | I can't say that my friends haven't warned me. But then again, they still encouraged me to drink with them and they sure as hell didn't try and stop me at any point. For the life of me, I can't remember how much I've had; In fact, I can't remember much of anything of last night, but I've got the biggest head ache to re... | I woke up to the smell of sweat and alcohol and checked the alarm clock. 10:00 AM. I'd really slept in. But I felt better than I had in a while. I stretched my arms, stretched my legs, and looked around for my wheelchair. Wait. Something was wrong. A lot of things were wrong. This was a hotel room. I didn't have my whe... | 2017-09-01T11:50:35 | 2017-09-01T11:32:19 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | It all started with the new miracle Pill. It apparently helped trick your body into thinking it had had it's regenerative sleep, fooling your brain into thinking that it went into the various sleep cycles, releasing all the various hormones and immune cells that you usually benefit from having a good night sleep. At fi... | I hadn't slept well for the past few months. Not well at all. Foxes, you see, had moved into the neighbourhood and were no doubt rummaging through the trash cans in the alley below my apartment, during the nights. I know this because of the terrible howling that keeps me awake at night. I've been told it's only their m... | 2016-08-30T09:04:18 | 2016-08-30T07:55:48 | 475 | 320 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | I approached the gated community in a blue Toyota Rav 4. I chose the vehicle because their were three others like it in this pleasant area. It was full of the type of people who bought colorful Toyotas. I parked on the opposite side of the street from the lilac house. It was debateably hideous, but I thought I could se... | The fire crackled and popped, illuminating the entrance of my lair. They broke in all at once. Half a dozen heroes, none of which it seemed knowing how to use the door, might I add, stood before me.
“It’s over Mania, the jig is up,” their leader, Captain Heronius stated.
I could care less. If they want to invade and ... | 2019-08-06T18:28:40 | 2019-08-06T16:11:22 | 69 | 41 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | (slightly NSFW)
 
It's a Monday.
It's 7am and I haven't been awake for more than 30 minutes so I can barely remember the name of the professor monologuing at the front of the classroom, much less what subject we're supposed to be studying.
I think it's appropriate to say that my mind is nowhere near a ful... | *Meh.*
My cheek is starting to feel a bit sore from the fist that keeps it and the rest of my face from meeting my desk. The arm upright beneath is stiff and sleeping, like a corpse, or half the people in my class. My bored eyes bore into the board ahead - *bored*.
*So fuckin' bored.*
On my other hand, my fingers da... | 2017-11-13T22:10:35 | 2017-11-13T21:43:25 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | *Whoosh. Swish. Click. Pause.*
The laundromat played it's age-old melody. It was essentially therapy after so many years. Ellie took off her glasses and rested her head on the wall behind her bench.
*Whoosh. Swish. Click. Pause. Brr.*
She imagined she was actually on a plane, descending on some tropical isle and not... | "Hey," I said without thinking.
And I really wasn't thinking either. There was a huge upright dog standing right in front of me. The dog, if that was what it was, breathed huskily. His chest moved massively, his breath sounded ragged and there was a guttural groan on the edge of his breath.
"Hey," the dog said, his v... | 2020-09-29T12:43:39 | 2020-09-29T12:41:33 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Canada has Started WW3 | “Canada?”
“I’m afraid so, sir.”
“*Canada?*”
“Yes…it appears that way, Mr. President.”
“Canada…as in *the* Canada? The place to the north with all the ‘eh’s’, moose, hockey, flannel and door-holdin…’”
“That’s the one.”
The President took a stride of disbelief around the couches of the oval office, shaking his head... | This is the story of Clarence Martin. Clarence is your average Canadian citizen, except today he is to embark on a not so average, and not so lucky, journey. The story starts with Clarence walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. about to come upon the White House. This is where a grim scene is about to unfo... | 2014-06-08T21:01:54 | 2014-06-08T19:53:07 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | Honest John they called me. It wasn't actually my name, but sometimes people latch onto an idea and can't really be persuaded to let it go. I have taken advantage of this little niggling detail of human psyche in the past however, by all the salt in my blood, I guarantee I'm not a lying man.
The robbery happened late... | Seven minutes to close, and I had been sitting staring at the clock for at least twice that time.
Mr. Anferno startled me out of my daze with a half-heard question; "---this evening?".
I snapped my gaze toward him stumbling over my response sluggishly and a bit guiltily as well. "Sorry?" I asked for clarification. ... | 2018-05-03T06:59:38 | 2018-05-03T06:48:53 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] You wake up in a house. It's nice place, with all the comforts of home. However, the front door is cold steel, with a note on it. The note warns you never to leave the house. After years of compliance, you decide to go through the steel door... | I loved that house. That's what I had told myself for 4 1/2 years.
In the fall of 2009, I was laid off from work and within a few months I had lost everything. My apartment, my car, all of my possessions. My bed became concrete and my friends became bottles. After months of homelessness I didn't even want things to g... | I stood in front of the steel door. The note told me not to leave, and I had always complied. I’d never even tried the giant knob that looked like a steering wheel that set in the middle of the door.
I’d gone to bed as thirty-seven year old part time temp living in a roach and mouse infested studio apartment with two ... | 2015-03-21T10:59:56 | 2015-03-21T08:52:25 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The humans, as they called themselves, were not mystically incomprehensible. Few things were in a galaxy-spanning civilization. But the fact that they were comprehensible made them all the more frightening, for even with all we knew about them, they were still exceedingly dangerous. Fortunately, they were also very rar... | Captain Gargul stood in his state room watching the endless dark pass by his window. Occasional flecks of subspace would speed by briefly lighting the room with a joyful brightness. He prided himself on this state room. This window. It *meant something* to have earned his position. To have crawled his way up the r... | 2017-11-08T23:14:28 | 2017-11-08T19:06:31 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] After too many mistakes when learning Latin, the devil himself sends you a demon to tutor you, just so you'll stop accidentally summoning them. | “Megan, do you want anything to drink?” Mum walked a few steps down the stairs, but she stayed at the top as she asked me a question. I looked away from my book, clicking the clicker on the pen over and over again as I thought for a second.
“Orange juice, please.” She nodded, and then shifted her gaze in front of me. ... |
“You don’t really seem that shocked?”, said the demon, with a fairly huffy tone.
“Well, no”, said the girl. “I have been meeting Satan on a pretty regular basis for the last few weeks.”
“Ah”, said the demon.
“And with the greatest respect, um….?”
“Athereal”, said Athereal, responding to the question.
“With the... | 2020-12-30T11:16:25 | 2020-12-30T10:58:24 | 406 | 175 |
[WP] How does the Grim Reaper react to a Zombie Apocalypse? | "Thank you for calling Ethereal Weapon and Supply Company. My name is QXkLUarq. How may I be of assistance?"
"My Scythe is not reaping correctly, Every time I harvest a soul it--"
"Thank sir I am sorry to hear you are experiencing difficulty. May I have your name please?"
"... rude ... YES Reaper, first name Grim... | “Apprentice! Come here! Explain… this. What is this nonsense?”
“They are called ‘Zombies’, my Lord.”
“Zombies? What are Zombies?”
“The folk call them ‘the undead’, Sir. They are alive and dead.”
“How can they be alive, if I can’t kill them? See? I can’t even touch them!”
“Life has left them, O dark Lord. Yet i... | 2017-06-16T11:13:06 | 2017-06-16T10:20:48 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Your power is that anyone will believe what you say, no matter what it is. You casually rob the store, assuring everyone that nothing is out of the ordinary, and later laugh as you offer an outlandish explanation to the flabbergasted police. | “You just won the lottery?”
“Yep!” I casually explain to the officer, smirking. “Don’t really know why they gave it to me in cash, but you don’t really care, do you?”
“Nah,” the officer said, scratching his head. “Congrats, I guess.”
I reply, “Thanks bud!” As I walk away, I say in a sly tone, “You’re not w... | "Listen, I was just going to get thi sdown to the local orphanage."
"Oh, okay, fair enou- WAIT! WE DON'T HAVE AN ORPHANAGE!"
I always use my most outlandish idea, just makes the reward all the best better. "Oh, yeah you're right, I was going to deposit this in my house to further spend on other things to bolster the ... | 2020-03-06T11:48:09 | 2020-03-06T10:30:59 | 15 | 10 |
[wp] You are the Avatar. Master of all elements. You are currently on element 19 of 98 currently known, and are learning from the feet of the Grand Potassium Bender.
Why is it always the classic four? Fire's not even remotely elemental! Let's add some science! | "Where are we headed now Master Bond?" I asked as the emotionless hulking giant of a man lead me down a corridor that seemed to grow increasingly bright the further we trod. With the Masters long strides, it's a wonder I could keep up but every step seemed to give me more energy, as if there was some healing and replen... | The master comes into the room and places what appears to be a sack of bananas on the table and a bottle of water.
"Bananas... master?" I questioned, much to my bewilderment.
He smiles warmly and explains, "Why yes my pupil, much like how water benders can bend blood, earth benders can bend metals, I will show you ho... | 2015-03-30T13:27:41 | 2015-03-30T13:25:24 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You are allowed to 'downvote' a government candidate instead of voting normally, reducing their votes by one. Turns out people have little love for politicians, and the majority end with negative votes. In these democracies, anonymity is the key to winning. | "Zjim." Zjim offered, stepping up to the stage.
"Jim? What's your last name?" the speaker asked. She flipped through the results print off.
"It's Zjim, actually. You can call me Jim though if it's easier. My last name's Zupp."
She flipped to the end of the report. "Wow, okay. Yeah, I do see you. You only received a ... | Robert Smith was working from home, but hadn't yet gotten dressed (no video calls this morning) when the doorbell rang. He grumbled at that--he wasn't expecting any visitors. He quickly threw on a pair of jeans and a red polo that that he kept handy just in case, and answered the door.
Two men were standing at the d... | 2022-11-21T07:20:30 | 2022-11-21T06:52:58 | 1,045 | 78 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | At first, no one really knew what to think. I mean, how does an entire country, a massive one, drop off the face of the earth like that?
No contact. Any missions, squads, caravans, drones, hitchhikers, boats and even animals that crossed that border disappeared, instantaneously. It didn’t take long for the military t... | Nobody thought of it at first, as less and less flights started to come in and out of Canada, to eventually none. Car travel slowed until it too eventually stopped, Canadian TV and Radio networks going dead within a matter of hours.
To be completely honest, nobody even noticed it at first, until for the first time in ... | 2019-08-25T20:02:13 | 2019-08-25T19:45:28 | 317 | 72 |
[WP] A love story between a woman who takes everything literally and a man who speaks exclusively in metaphors. | Amelia Bedelia leaned against the stone wall of her cell watching the guards pace along the thin halls, their bobby sticks rattling against the iron bars as they walked. She missed her freedom, and longed desperately for the days when she could jump into her husbands arms. His long fingers black with ink from hours of ... | "Excuse me, could I steal you away from the bar for a tête a tête?"
Zoe looked at the beard, and the suit. The bar doesn't own me, she thought, so it was a silly notion that he could steal her. But she liked his beard, and his eyes.
"In a way, though if you were stealing me you wouldn't ask!"
"Then come and let me fea... | 2015-07-11T13:00:12 | 2015-07-11T12:51:29 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Whenever our people find new life in the galaxy, by tradition, we show them our true forms. Every member of our species is taught this. It is perhaps our strongest weapon, such that those who oppose us must use machines without fear or mind to fight our military might. This combined with our military has served our peo... | "How many have we lost so far?" Growled General Barkler, as he stared at the great blue orb sitting in space. He had been ordered to fetch this world and its spoils, but it was not coming easily. It may as well be inside the neighbor's fence.
"The tally is in the tens of millions, sir. But it's worse than that." The f... | 2019-06-11T09:37:21 | 2019-06-11T09:05:18 | 1,501 | 216 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Electrified, Stabbed, Engulfed in flames, Beaten on the floor, those were just everyday life of a guy like me with “nothing” on his sigil, Students and Teachers alike always called me “nothing” just like how they described my mark, i was just nothing in their eyes, but that was enough for me to go by.
Months passed an... | The power of the "Full Circle" sigil was never truly understood or appreciated. Seen as middling with equal gains and losses, disregard was the usual way.
These bullies saw the sigil as the Cherry on a very attractive Target. Not only was his sigil uninspired, but his refusal to respond or react made him a Target they... | 2020-02-26T06:48:40 | 2020-02-26T06:26:31 | 93 | 37 |
[WP] You are agent 23-23-24 for the Timeline Integrity Organization. Your job consists of sitting at a desk where you read reports about all types of mundane events to ensure nothing has gone awry. Once day you notice the tiniest detail out of order and realize something terrible has happened. | Modifying timelines is tricky business. For something so fundamental to the fabric of reality, time is shockingly fragile. Technology advanced enough that we could make small changes in the early 22nd century and most of the time since has been spent setting up an infrastructure of agents who document reports that are ... | I rolled my chair back from my desk and stood up, stretching my arms over my head and elongating my body as much as I could. This usually gets the blood flowing and keeps me awake a bit longer. Today’s reports have been a bit torturous to read. I thought about grabbing another cup of coffee to help me stay awake and... | 2020-08-02T09:23:42 | 2020-08-02T07:49:58 | 37 | 27 |
[WP] 'Please Adopt Me', said the box on the side of the road, with the single black puppy in it. So you did. A year later, you realize the breed is a bit complicated, considering it has three heads, a snake tail, and breathes fire. | It takes a lot of convincing to be allowed to keep a pet you find. Especially when that pet is the fabled keeper of the pit from Homeric myth, and you already have two dogs at home. But I never let that deter me, and thankfully my husband acquiesced my strange albeit well-meaning request.
I'd love to say it was smoo... | This dog is amazing! Even though his random fire breaths are little bit annoying and his snake tail is awkward, I realized that this dog is amazing. Hes friendly, really strong, smart and handsome. I didn’t really show my dog to a lot of people, but after a while I told my friend John Burgler about it. At first he didn... | 2019-07-04T06:46:57 | 2019-07-04T05:01:08 | 1,277 | 52 |
[WP][Semi-Historical] In 1787, Ben Franklin snuck a joke into the U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights that was never caught and never removed. Centuries later, it inadvertently plays a major part in a Supreme Court decision.
For any alt-history/parallel dimension fans around here. Inspired by [this TIL](http://www.reddit... | "Chief Justice, you can't be serious!"
"Our decision has been based in nothing but close and careful interpretation of the United States Constitution. I assure you, we do not act in folly."
"This is an outrage! Millions of Americans cannot change who they are simply because of a court decision! This violates everythi... | I'm in class, I'm no writer, and I can't think of a good plot, BUT I have the perfect premise: California obscenity law is put to the test in the mid 90s and the defending lawyer quotes a penis joke by Ben Franklin.
Someone please runaway with this. | 2014-01-06T18:22:09 | 2014-01-06T18:06:54 | 56 | 23 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | "You must save the world from....The Darkness.", the old man said. What the hell is The Darkness? Jeezus. I just came into the bar to get a damn drink and this old guy, who looks like 100 or something, shows up beside me. "Dude, are you off your meds or something?" The old guy blinked, "No, I have no need for your Mort... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T07:05:07 | 41 | 20 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | *Homo* v. 1.5 release: *Homo modernus*
**New features:**
* Improved and sustained acuity of visual sensory systems. They should no longer wear out as quickly.
* Female models now have access to facial hair growth.
* In order to facilitate numerical reasoning, an arithmetic logic unit has been included in the fronta... | Patch notes Human v1.80000001
Bug fixes:
NSP-3750 remove bug that required manual breathing while consciously aware.
NSP- 189 Modified tongue/cheek position check in "Chew" routine.
CPP-1648 improve short term memory storage, should fix the "why did I come in here?" Bug
New additions:
CMP-456 update to ensure a... | 2015-08-25T08:53:32 | 2015-08-25T08:51:07 | 746 | 57 |
[WP] You’ve been stuck in a time loop that repeats the same day over and over. You’ve perfected every skill, you speak every language ever spoken. One day you go crazy, by the end of the day the entire town is dead. You wake up the next morning still covered in blood, the loop finally broke. | The bird didn't peck on my window. That should've been enough for me to notice, but it wasn't until I rolled over in my bed and found a severed arm that I realized it was over. I immediately went back to sleep, of course. This was the first time in what felt like centuries where I could actually allow myself to rest.
... | "Fuck." i muttered. Well, at first i just sat in silence for some minutes. Shocked. Horrified. All those words don't really describe the feelings i had in those first minutes.
The last, well i think centuries, had been boring as hell. Or maybe it had been hell. Repeating that godforsaken day for eternity had finally g... | 2019-08-11T09:03:00 | 2019-08-11T08:50:59 | 2,614 | 35 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | “I still remember the look on Ambassador Ford’s (Betelgeusean Republic’s representative to the former Galactic Councils 300 BT – 5 TA) face when I informed him we had declared war on the pathetic Humans of the Terran Federation. His blue blood drained from his face, leaving a dirty yellow visage which had previously sh... | The Terrans had built Universities, hospitals, revolutionized inter-stellar commerce. They worked as ambassadors to negotiate peace and trade deals amongst the galactic community. Their few colonies built on out of the way unhospitable worlds. Their fleet was made of trade vessels, science ships, and pleasure yachts... | 2022-08-05T12:56:31 | 2022-08-05T12:41:23 | 613 | 374 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | Lyr-Etta sprinted on to the main deck.
“Captain, the humans are in full retreat”
Captain Orasin was a stern and strict leader, but the news that the humans were finally defeated brought a smile to his face.
Lyr-Etta continued “but for whatever reason, our numbers are still shrinking.”
“How can that be?” Orasin aske... | In 2036, life was flourishing. Artificial intelligence had reached its culmination and what seemed to be our greatest problems were now mere puzzles for our fellow computers to crack. Homelessness rates were the lowest they’ve ever been... houses were being built from the dirt on which they sit in hours all around the ... | 2019-09-21T06:59:04 | 2019-09-21T06:38:55 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | "Teatime" That's what they call me. I did it as a joke when they asked for a demonstration of my power, but it quickly spiraled out of control until I became walking tea service. I came seeking knowledge and guidance and all I got for my efforts was this scornful name.
​
They were literal gods among men, b... | “… basically it’s Super Kettle. You’re proposing Super Kettle.” the older executive said, rolling his eyes.
James looked around the stone-faced development executives. Finally he had gotten his shot at pitching
at a big studio – his lifelong dream, his chance at the big leagues – and he was screwing it up big time.
... | 2019-07-30T15:05:32 | 2019-07-30T14:45:31 | 155 | 63 |
[WP] One time, your drunk friend said he was a wizard. You jokingly asked him if he could make you immortal and he agreed. That was 200 years ago. | A wizard’s pre-funeral, apparently, was filled with tens of people wearing earth-tone variations of robes and a hat, wisely rubbing their beards, nodding and saying: “It really is about time, isn’t it?”
It was a pre-funeral, not an actual one, because the wizard was not yet dead. It was the privilege of such powerful,... | You know what is hilarious- drunk friends. You know what is absolutely not hilarious, them being a wizard. Yeah, yeah, I know, a wizard would be a great friend and all but not when you ask them to prove it to you by, drumroll please, making you immortal. And 200 years later, you are still cursing both your younger self... | 2022-01-01T11:55:09 | 2022-01-01T10:11:56 | 347 | 141 |
[WP]You woke up w/ a number on your hand. It's the date of your death. Everyone has it. But this isn't dystopic. It's just a personal info in your birth certificate. Society treats it casually. Short lives get social privileges. Death is accepted as a part of life. And funerals are celebrations.
My friend just died fr... | You pay for love with pain.
These words echo through me like harmonic vibration, shaking every cell within me. The number on my hand--the date, the terminus--is unthinkable decades in the future. But it's there, new-to-me, though not to anyone else in this odd reality I've found myself in. It's indelible. It's some fu... | A soft spring breeze fluttered through the open window, sweeping a few of the papers I had been absentmindedly thumbing through off of my desk and onto the hardwood floor. I tilted my head imperceptibly to acknowledge this, but had no intention of doing anything to rectify the situation. I wished for a hurricane to tea... | 2022-01-15T08:32:33 | 2022-01-15T08:31:33 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | There are many among us who wonder *why* we allow Warrior Species to live. Whenever we discover one of them, there will inevitably be a movement pushing for their extermination before they reach the stars. I do not need to explain why, we all remember the horrors of the Zandrian Fleet sweeping across the Alliance Syste... | "They fight for peace?" Asked the taller of the two.
"Yes." The smaller alien did not feel the need to elaborate, it was necessary that his boss was as taken and surprised by the concept as he had been.
"Well I suppose that is worth exploring. Perhaps not as the centerpiece, but it can certainly feature."
"Thank you... | 2018-03-17T06:35:22 | 2018-03-17T05:04:57 | 109 | 81 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | Ani reached for the bowl of cheese puffs teetering on the edge of the couch with her right hand, holding the game controller in her left. Her thumb rapidly tapped one of the controller buttons as she stretched out her fingers to grasp the bowl. One last reach and... the bowl fell over onto the floor.
Ani reached down ... | Khan we need you... Said desperate Calypso.
Me, El Mayor, Thunderstrike and Kervan we... we could not do anything. They have thousands thousands of ships. Their fleet is ready to embark and conquer earth and we can’t stop them.
Khan stood up from the chair. Wearing his usual black drapes. His massive figure is on d... | 2021-05-26T05:40:08 | 2021-05-26T01:46:59 | 160 | 65 |
[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldrich god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day
Inspired by the SCP... | "Morning newbie."
Three years. I've been working here for three *fucking* years and Caleb was still calling me a *newbie*.
"Morning," I muttered to the unsmiling man behind his desk. "Is the coffee machine fixed yet?"
"Morning newbie," he said again.
I frowned and looked at Caleb, his eyes are unfocused. I was... | I rubbed my tired eyes. The stench of Pat’s armpits was really beginning to get to me. The soggy rustling of her once crisp linen shirt was thunderous. What made it worse was that she was a lovely person. Always covering for people, kind to the new kids, first to smile and last to scold. I guess you have to take the go... | 2018-04-23T10:13:49 | 2018-04-23T10:09:37 | 419 | 21 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | "Daddy! Look! Shooting stars!"
Joseph Barker looks up at the night sky and feels a chill run down his spine. Indeed, there were shooting stars. But years of work developing some of Earth's defense systems meant he knew they weren't meteorites. He watches in terror as Earth's defense grid burns. "Yes Jacob. ... | A human is never late. Nor early. They arrive exactly when they need to. When the Lerval Empire was in dire need of help fixing their own created plague, for example. Or how about that time when a Human selfishly sacrificed itself so that a shipment of foodstuffs for the Herg larflings got to their homeworld in time, t... | 2017-03-26T09:19:46 | 2017-03-26T08:34:08 | 74 | 27 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | "Well Fifth , we have a hard time figuring these guys out ."
Fifth swivels its primary sensory orifices to face Thirty Second "What is so difficult about them that I had to be brought out of stasis?".
"Well they are a primitive species , and we can tell by their transmissions that they seem to want a peaceful meeting... | On Sep’juen 5 there lies a city of towering skeletal spires laid out against an ashy gray sky. Streets lie deserted save for the wreckage, rubble and detritus of a long erased culture.
Yet still a message plays across the apocalyptic landscape in that haunting language of the Janude across the cities PA system.
“We ... | 2016-03-13T19:37:26 | 2016-03-13T17:22:19 | 59 | 36 |
[WP] A nerdy girl goes on a blind date. She's surprised when the date is the bitchiest cheerleader in her school. | "Trust me on this one. I know what kind of girls you like and I am telling you, you will absolutely fall in love with this girl." Her friend excitedly took her hands and nearly bounced with joy as she tried to set up the date for Friday. "Plus, she is totally into you already. She asked me after class the other day if ... | Susan was surprised Rose had ever wanted to be friends with her. Last time one of the popular girls talked to her, she ended up naked in a cornfield in the middle of the night. But she had been sitting with Rose at lunch for almost a year now, and nothing bad had happened yet. On this evening, however, she would be con... | 2014-10-11T21:53:38 | 2014-10-11T19:59:04 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation. | "So," the General asked, "What you're saying is that humans are *not* distinguished by our superior talent for battle?"
"No, sir. We've been over this."
"Are you quite sure? It's been my understanding that our willingness to kill each other and our fearlessness in combat make us the scourge of the galaxy, spoken of o... | This was our third time to Rigel this month, The Dominar said he would trade us a clean energy technology if we would provide him with gangsters to act as his diplomats. Apparently the ability to with hold the truth or Lie as we call it was a unique ability that only humans had. I mean there were attempts. They were al... | 2018-01-30T06:56:55 | 2018-01-30T06:35:36 | 164 | 13 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | Peter stood among a line of mourners filing past a casket paying their last respects to a friend Peter had loved. The sorrow and weeping in the room reflected the anguish and weight Peter carried inside of him, but he shed no tears. There were none left after centuries of watching every person he loved die.
This death... | I had a fear of money.
Growing up, I didn't really want a lot, and my parents were kind, hardworking people, stuck in a world where money was tight for everyone. As a kid, I picked up more on 'we're low on money' than I did their 'we should enjoy life while we can', and that fear of spending money grew to become my... | 2022-05-14T20:10:32 | 2022-05-14T18:44:48 | 128 | 70 |
[WP] In the future we find out that the galaxy is lifeless. Thanks to the resources in space, terraforming a new world is quite easy but there's one problem: there are too many planets. Thus the terraforming and planting of lifeforms becomes a popular subject for student projects. | ###Macroengineering I - Lab 6: Terraforming
**Introduction**
Terraforming is an extremely important methodology to the expansion of humanity, along with being a major subject in the field of macroengineering. In this lab, the goal was to terraform a dwarf planet, seed it with microorganisms, and guide the development... | The white planet came into view. Mark felt a thrill go through him, all of the excitement and anxiety that came with discovery and enterprize and action. Through the round window the little white planet hovered at a delicate distance from its star.
"Which sun are we at again?" Jake's thumbs never stopped moving ove... | 2016-01-06T11:19:05 | 2016-01-06T10:31:55 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] - You are immortal, locked up in a room with no windows, with only a toilet, a bed, a sink and a door with a latch where every hour someone checks on you. You don't remember why or how long you have been locked up there or where 'there' is. Then the door opens and a man says "we need you". | Some days, the attendees annoy me with their voices or their bad breath or the stupid things they say. Some days, I enjoy the gruffness or a witty attitude. Most days, I just long for solitude. Real solitude. After thousands of years, I’ve had my fill of people. And yet, it’s the people who come to do check-ins that pr... | Had it been months? Years? Days?
My mind was in a whirlwhind when the light seared my eyes.
The silhouette stayed there, and soon two more were standing behind it.
I tried to open my mouth but the words fell out.
As it walked in the two behind set a table down and another two brought in some chairs.
I could tell i... | 2018-07-31T14:46:36 | 2018-07-31T14:23:30 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Your car crashed, and you are dying. In a moment of clarity, you grab your iPhone, hold the home button, and speak your final words - the ones you've always heard in movies - to Siri: "Tell my wife I love her." As your life ends, your wife receives a disturbing, confusing text: "I love her". | "Siri, tell my wife I love her!" I say as I sit in the drivers seat of my overturned Expedition, seat belt suspending me off the ground inches from the top of my head. *Looks like it did its job*, I think to myself bitterly, as I feel myself becoming the human form of pain itself. I feel myself getting weaker. This is ... | *Bzzzzzzzzzz*.
"Fucking... again?" Beatrice walked over to her phone to read the third text in ten minutes from Enoch. She was starting to get irritated; it's difficult to work when you're being constantly interrupted.
*I love her.*
Beatrice immediately looked away. What in the fuck does that mean? Did it autocorre... | 2014-11-07T09:33:28 | 2014-11-07T09:24:50 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] It's the first week of Magic theory class. You've finally gotten to the basics of the subject. As your professor talks you notice something bothering you. You raise your hand and ask the proffesor about it. They blink and look at the board, then back at you. They ask you to stay after class. | "And as you can see, the mana balance between light and dark-aspected elements in the magic circle balances out in the first three seconds of inscription, preventing the production of antipodal spells above the second circle of sorcery." The engraved circle on the board sparked white and black and whirled together in b... | Jazz stared at the board. They had zoned out again. It was happening a lot recently. Jazz couldn't shake the feeling each time that there was something in those thoughts without words, something missing. Like a dream forgotten.
They stared fiercely at the board, as if it were holding some secret. Some key to unlock ev... | 2022-04-13T19:14:13 | 2022-04-13T15:29:43 | 341 | 138 |
[WP] You’re a cafe owner who is also secretly a mage. One day a customer barges in, claiming to be a supertaster and demanding to know the secret ingredient in your poppy seed muffin. The secret ingredient was literally magic.
EDIT: Guys, this is the first time I posted in this subreddit and I’m so stupidly happy to s... | Changed up the prompt a bit. Hope y'all don't mind.
Myxia heard the soft cry of the bell hung on the front door as it was pushed open. To humans, it would sound like the ordinary tinkling of an ordinary bell. To Myxia, however, the sound was that of the musical chirruping of the splendid gold-and-crimson phoenixes tha... | He barged into my cafe and the blue doors flew open and then slammed themselves shut.
"What's the fuck in this muffin?," he says excitedly with his eyes wide open. He laughed. "The poppy seeds," I said.
"No. It's not poppy seeds! I swore this tasted very different from every poppy seed I've ever tasted!"
"Oh. Really... | 2020-02-28T01:21:53 | 2020-02-27T23:12:43 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] You are a professional dragon slayer hired by a village to kill a dragon. Everything goes how its gone before until the dragon turns out to be kinder then the people in the village. | It was nice and quiet. The moon was obscured by clouds, leaving little light o navigate by. Perfect for me. The less the beast could see, the easier it would be to sneak up on it. Not that I had much choice on my time of attacking. Those villagers had been so determined to get me out, they hadn't let me hire a room for... | "It is a terrible beast!"
"Evil incarnate!"
"It torched my fields with its firey breath!"
"Just last night it carried off 4 more of my live stock!"
"Why aren't you doing anything?"
"What’s taking so long?"
"You're just taking us for our money and don't intend to do anything!"
Nag, nag, nag. That is all they have done ... | 2021-06-02T11:40:28 | 2021-06-02T10:01:04 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | “Were they planning this?” The General looked to the space command desk in the situation room.
The young intelligence officer did not look away from the holograph GUI showing satellite positions and low earth orbit vehicular traffic. “No activity, sir.” She tapped a few buttons and spoke, exasperated, “It doesn’t look... | The year is 2198. The entire world has seen 15 world wars. All of which Germany has participated... and... err... lost. Y-yeah... they lost 15 times. This the 16th war, and everyone expects Germany to lose. People aren't taking Germany seriously anymore. Many keep joking about Germany.
But it looks like things will cha... | 2017-08-18T05:56:40 | 2017-08-18T02:09:31 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] You have a near-death experience that reveals you have a Guardian Angel protecting you... And you have the hots for her. You continue putting your life in danger in order to spend more time with her. | I woke up in that room again. The stark-white walls radiated with light and warmth. I sat up and looked around me. I was looking for *her* - for Lunaria.
Apparently we had "met" several times but it was only just recently that she revealed herself so I could see my guardian angel face to face. I woke up in that white... | “JOHN.” She shrieked with her lovely voice. “What in God’s name were you thinking?” She picked me up under my arms, and flew me right back to the top of the skyscraper. “John, you there?” She waved her hand in front of my face, as she set me down safely away from the building’s edge.
“Huh?” I shook my head trying to ... | 2015-08-12T23:06:06 | 2015-08-12T21:40:35 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] The one person none of the heroes or villains fucks with is known as "The Mad Doctor". he treats anyone who seeks his help, in exchange everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free and technically illegal care. the new guy learns the hard way. | I grew up poor. I mean, not poor poor but poor y'know? My parents didn't give me an allowance, I never had the new cool shoes the other kids had at school which sucked because shoes were the only things we got to choose at my boarding school. My dad gave me his hand-me-down leather business shoes, always had a new pair... | Going off very little sleep and almost 24h awake so hopefully it’s not as bad as I think it is.
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The command center was quiet as the resident hero, Penance, worked by himself. Images flashed across the large monitor in front of him. Each one cast an eerie glow across the otherwise dark room.... | 2022-10-13T10:10:30 | 2022-10-13T10:02:39 | 874 | 260 |
[WP] Being a human in human studies class, you’re often asked to confirm information.
. | The hummingbird was closer to the window than it had ever been. It was quite a beauty. I imagined what it would be like to be a hummingbird gliding from flower to flower quite literally stopping to smell the flowers on the highway of life. Then I remembered that hummingbirds can’t actually smell. How cruelly ironic. Im... | The professor, at the front of the class, was writing on the board the three most important rituals of the primitive human.
"See here class, the human is a strange creature," said the professor, "During their mating season they will gather around a loud music box," he walked to one side of the class staring at the cro... | 2021-11-14T10:07:52 | 2021-11-14T08:03:29 | 330 | 89 |
[WP] You're the last human in a civilized world of vampires, werewolves and other legendary monsters. You only exist in bedtime stories used to scare children. You've been able to keep your existence secret until one day, you're finally discovered. | Most of the "adults" nowadays don't belive I'm real. All of the ones who knew of my existence were killed by my so-called allies when I was merely a ten-year-old. So sweet and innocent. But not sweet and innocent enough.
Now I live a life in the shadows, as a twenty-two year old, leeching off of a gaggle of succubi. I... | -For fuck's sake! Could you guys just fucking leave me alone? I did nothing wrong and you have no right showing up here questioning me! - I yelled at the officer whose teeth are still dripping blood.
- Sir, we believe there have been a couple reports regarding your ... threat.
- THREAT!? You're addressing me as a thre... | 2019-01-31T11:59:21 | 2019-01-31T10:11:08 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Death by Hubris!" I proclaim with a self satisfied smile.
"Hubris," the officiant responds, dryly. "That is your choice?"
"Exactly," I say, grinning at the old fool's expression. "Like in the tales. A hero is given a challenge, some trial to overcome. It's of course, not inherently impossible, but the hero fails and... | As I watched the prisoner rapidly age into a shriveled prune-like corpse, I realized it was my turn. I looked upon my executioner who asked how I would like to die. I looked at him and said "...turn me into a shroud of petals, and let me scatter across the wind..."
The magemaster said "A beautiful passing, my friend."... | 2021-06-24T11:15:28 | 2021-06-24T10:52:15 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] you always had a peculiar ability, you can the see the quality of the objects you pick up. Like a video game, they are labeled "common", "uncommon" and so on. This had helped you decide what to buy and stuff but everything changed when you picked up something that said "unobtainable" | (I wanted to try something new, so I hope you enjoy.)
I stared afte her while she walked down the hallway, unable to believe my eyes. She was so beautiful, with her long flowing hair, her sparkling hazel eyes, her blindingly white smile, and even her slightly crooked and bent glasses sitting on her nose. She was so ... | I smiled widely as I picked it up, I had looked forward to this day for months! When this would finally happen. This had always been my dream, my wish to have this happen. See I have a very weird gift, if you go to a game stop I can tell which one of the games to buy if you ever want a good price on resale. I am a godd... | 2019-06-26T00:29:46 | 2019-06-26T00:04:37 | 71 | 13 |
[WP] The commute of a man who can see how people will die.
EDIT: Just woke up and holy CRAP this exploded! I'm reading through all the stories now and they're great! | I hate the bus. Every morning at 7:18, the number 14 bus pulls up to my stop and I am forced to bear the burden of my "gift". As the bus pulls up to my stop, an old classmate Randy opens the door and asks "Long time no see! Today the day Ted?" I laugh him off with a lighthearted "Not yet Randy, but may want to lay off ... | I watch quietly as two teenage boys harrass an elderly woman at the front of the car. The dark haired one tries to get her purse away from her, while the blonde boy screams in her face.
"Do you want to see?" the voice whispers in my ear.
"Yes."
When the cloudiness fades, the dark haired boy is walking through an all... | 2013-10-16T11:54:11 | 2013-10-16T11:53:29 | 245 | 14 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | “What you in for"
Good question. What am I in for. “I don’t wanna talk about it" I snarl. Keeping my face hidden from view, as a slump into what passes for a bed. After all I have given for this city, couldn’t they have given me a proper bed. Philistines, all of them.
My cell mate persists in trying to engage me in... | Shine just stared blankly at the upper bed of their local prison's bunk bed, There were only a few prison cells and beds they could afford yet a homeless teenage hero like him was one of the chosen few to get a taste of prison life. His wide eyes blinked as he thought what was wrong with him when his morals were all co... | 2021-03-18T19:14:31 | 2021-03-18T15:37:21 | 47 | 22 |
[WP] It has been verified that dying will result in going to heaven, no matter what. You are the government, trying to lower the suddenly skyrocketing suicide rate. | "Tom, we've got to do something."
"I understand, Bill."
"How many?"
"So far? We might as well be handing out Kool-Aid on the streets."
Bill slammed his fist on the table. "Tom, tell me. Tell me how this got out."
"It was the Russians, of all people. They were the first to figure out the algorithm for the subatomic... | They always said humans fear the unknown more than anything else.
My reply: Find me someone who doesn't fear death, then we'll talk.
I could barely hear the first few gunshots through my office window. The dull double pane lazily deflected their sharp reports like a horse flicking its tail at flies - letting them li... | 2015-02-02T07:18:10 | 2015-02-02T06:41:02 | 206 | 44 |
[WP]: thousands of years after the destruction of Earth, humans have been wandering from galaxy to galaxy, making a name for themselves: across the universe they are known as a proud race of loud, obnoxious rednecks | The universe has no love for the nomadic creatures called "humans".
Loud, arrogant, and xenophobic, they were barely even accepted as a species worth trading with. They should have been honored to be given what they were given. And they were horribly individualistic and independent, to the point that it is a wonder th... | “Hey Chuck.”
“Hey Billy Bob.”
“You see that there dang pile of rocks in that there corner?”
“Sure do,” Chuck said.
“I’m thinkin’ that rock pile is givin’ us a look.”
“What kind of look is that, Billy Bob?” Chuck said. He knew what kind of look it was, always the same one. Honestly, it wasn’t really so much a look ... | 2014-05-15T07:06:58 | 2014-05-15T06:31:22 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] You own a magical camera that is similar to a thermal camera, but instead of heat it shows you value. A ring glows as bright as the sun while a piece of plastic wrapping is almost invisible. You have been careful never to look at a person with it for your whole life. | I have had this thing for years, and I never knew what to do with it. I thought it was a thermal camera, but after some playing around with it, I noticed it doesn't see heat. I pointed it at money and the larger the bill, the brighter it showed. I pointed it at my house wedding ring, and it was the brightest thing yet.... | I had received the camera a few years back. It was old and broken, but I still used it,since it was given to me with the best of intentions. At first I thought the images were just color changed, but then slowly,I realized that they showed me the value of things. Much of the world just didn't appear in it, even money w... | 2017-01-15T10:24:30 | 2017-01-15T10:18:27 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | I sat at my computer, my browser open on Reddit. In the top right corner, the New Personal Message indicator showed a single response. I swallowed, and hoped fervently that this would be the end of my woes.
Two days prior, I had posted the following message:
"Hi.
"I'm posting on r/SuperPowers because I figure i... | At first I thought it was some sort of "dormant powers coming to light" kind of situation. I'd record what I was doing just before time froze and then try to recreate it to see if it could happen again. This eventually got worse as I would try to recreate hours, and then days at a time. Thankfully I realized that it wa... | 2018-01-26T06:46:25 | 2018-01-26T06:14:06 | 79 | 45 |
[WP]Flip a coin. Heads you were born a hero but became a villain. Tails you were born a villain but became a hero. Tell your story without revealing which you are until the end (or not at all.) | I watched the blood drip from my finger tips. One small droplet gathering, and then descending to a face abandoned of life. The blood pooled around eyes that stared eternal, wide with anguish toward nothing at all. It pooled and ran, travelling down the crease of his mask past a mouth that screamed in silent anguish; s... | My hair was sopping wet, although that's to be expected in the rain. Drops laid on my eyelashes as i quickly rushed, hands on my head, into the base. I'd seldom take calls but this was a job I couldn't refuse. There was a break in, North wing, which was odd as the point of a secret base was it being just that- secret. ... | 2017-04-17T08:20:15 | 2017-04-17T07:43:27 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | It was the first of January. The day of the Reveal. The day every person turning sixteen in the next twelve months will find out the number that will determine who their friends will be, where they will live, the jobs they will work. I wasn't worried. Both of my parents were in the 90's, my sister too. I was almost gua... | Bearing a fat, round ninety on my wrist filled me with a meld of pride and power I could not properly describe. The issue was that power went straight to my head, and that lead me to a false belief that I was worth much more than the other kids with their meager fifties or sixties.
I didn't bully them, for there were ... | 2018-12-27T18:27:11 | 2018-12-27T16:52:59 | 287 | 60 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed three super-villains. Now the FBI thinks you're the next big superhero, and all the superheroes, who know you aren't, think you're the next big super-villain vying for territory. | By the time he reached the top floor of Marshall Tower, Alex Drake was practically frothing at the mouth. He held a steaming White Lotus Tea in a trembling hand. Sounds of laughter and clinking glasses emanated from the Opulent Penthouse Office.
The guard held up a hand, clearly reading murderous intent in Alex’s eye... | Bang, bang, bang. The gun speaks three distinct times. I am frozen like a statue holding my gun watching their bodies fall in slow motion. Alarms are blaring, the bank vault is still wide open. I collapse in the chair as the police arrive. The primary detective, a woman in her forties wearing a pantsuit, approaches me.... | 2019-02-07T11:43:56 | 2019-02-07T07:59:29 | 65 | 44 |
[WP] When you die, you are given an option—either be judged for your sins, or choose what’s behind The Door. The noble and arrogant choose to be judged, the evil and fearful choose The Door. When given the option, you choose to simply turn around and walk away. | Two choices. To the left, a scale, with a feather placed on one of the plates, where the sins of now gone souls would be weighed against it. To the right, a solid oak door, behind which there was only the unknown. The pair sat side by side, alone in the middle of an empty white void, where a man now stood as well. As t... | I stare at the woman. She turns around, her shimmering black gown not reaching high enough to cover her shoulders. Her black hair billows in the wind. Damn. Talk about badass. She'll be haunting my dreams for quite a while with that stunt of hers.
"Where are you going?"
I try. I really do. Infusing my voice with th... | 2022-11-05T12:24:58 | 2022-11-05T07:24:56 | 1,347 | 69 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to know what is wrong with a piece of broken technology just by touching it. One day, as you’re shaking someone’s hand you see an error message. | I was an...acquirer. I had no official job title- I was always just hopping from one ambiguously worded contract to even more ambiguously worded contract, going from businesses that were as different from day to night from one another, and simply...acquiring what they needed.
It wasn't as shady as it sounded...usually... | "Um," I coughed, hopefully covering up the look of surprise that had spread quickly over my face. I don't think it worked.
"Is something wrong?" he asked.
I coughed once more, drawing back my hand.
"Nothing, nothing," I said. "Just... don't feel too well. For some reason."
"Right after shaking my hand?" he smiled.... | 2020-10-24T08:51:52 | 2020-10-24T07:11:59 | 107 | 61 |
[WP] Your life is an endless series of horror movies. You're always at the wrong place at the wrong time. You're stuck seeing all your friends die right after you make them. The reason you're still alive? You can hear the horror music. | The tears rolled on my cheek, cold and salty. I tried to stop but I couldn't. I felt empty.
I couldn't believe that I let Amber die. My longest friend. I fought so hard to keep her alive. I was careless!
The emptiness was eating at me, more so as I remembered her fatality. How we were hiding from the soulless face ... | For the longest time I've heard the music. I've had five companions in my lifetime, Julie was the last and she managed to stay by me the longest. I kept us safe for a long time dodging bullets waking up before a disasters and finally moving countries before the coup.
When the music continued to play around her I kne... | 2016-12-31T23:35:10 | 2016-12-31T22:51:02 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You may be a supervillain, but you have standards. So you're concerned when your nemesis brings along a child. | *What is that little creature doing with its arms? Wiggling its hands in my direction? Is it waving at me?*
"Hi Mr. Burtmaster! I'm Jakey! You can call me Jakey!"
*Why, he doesn't even know my name! Can I allow The Burnmaster name to be sullied like this? But, it's a little one. How do I handle this...*
"Mr. Burtmas... | I waited with the mayor tied to an explosive, tossing the trigger button every once in a while. I laughed at the mayors reaction. Little did he know this wasn’t the read button, it was on a timer instead.
Just as planned the Hero Mister fantastic shows up. “Ah just in tim-“ I pause seeing a small figure appear next t... | 2019-08-20T18:54:38 | 2019-08-20T18:38:59 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] You have existed since the dawn of humanity. In a way, at least. Once a simple tribesman, you were cursed so that whenever you are killed by another person, you leave your dead body and become your killer. You fear death by natural causes, as that will end your life for good. | Peace in the middle east! Of all the rotten luck!
The middle east had been my go-to for centuries. Ever since the crusades. It was dependable. Lots of young, talented, promising killers all shoved together with a lot of sand. But now that damned Prime Minister Wolff and her "new way forward"!
Of all the rotten luck.
... | It happened againg I am now my killer,I am an old man at least 89.I pissed off a mental patient.Honestly I am not sure what I will do now because I even though I have lived for millions of years I don't know how to get out of a mental asylum,also I have the body of a frail old man.The first time I discovered my curse I... | 2021-01-28T15:28:08 | 2021-01-28T15:16:07 | 545 | 21 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | The Master of Shadows, Lord of Darkness and King of Terror gazed out across the ruined landscape. Smoke billowed out from the cracked ground, blotting out the sun.
The Last Survivor checked his watch.
He'd been standing back far enough to withstand the Dark Lord's devastating assault, and as a result he was the only ... | "Where do you think the Hero comes from?" The Final Member asked.
"You said it yourself, you weren't able to detect the Hero's presence before. You only realized that she existed a year ago. Didn't you question how a one-year-old Hero turned out to be an eighteen-year-old woman?".
The Dark Lord's face twisted, he was... | 2020-07-11T02:51:40 | 2020-07-11T00:51:28 | 2,838 | 605 |
[WP] The end is nigh as the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse ride. Just as humanity loses hope, the 4 horsemen of wholesomeness descend in a beam of light: Mr. Rogers (love), Jim Henson (life), Steve Erwin (nature), & Bob Ross (peace) | When I was a young girl, everyone told me the end of the world would happen within my lifetime. It was a lot of stress to take on at such a young age, knowing something I couldn't stop was going to take everything I knew.
It started with a war. Just a small one, but all the very big countries got involved. That was f... | Kyle cringed behind what was left of his living room wall. The ashen sky roiled above, and the chatter of gunfire was punctuated only by the occasional *clang* of metal on metal. Most of the neighbors had made due with whatever household or gardening implement was within reach. It would have been a massacre if it had b... | 2018-11-10T05:35:31 | 2018-11-10T05:17:27 | 149 | 23 |
[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." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 712 | 12 |
[WP] A bloodied up child knocks on your door in the middle of the night, asking that you let her in. A man stands across the street watching. | It's nearly midnight as I hear a frantic knock on my front door, quickly driving me up from my comfortable chair. I can't say I'm too pleased about the distraction - a nice cup of hot cocoa in me, I was gently snoozing off into the blissful realm of dreams and forgotten memories to take my well-earned rest.
I open the... | It was odd enough to get a knock on the door. More so when it was at... half ten? And it wasn't all that loud either.
Gallows frowned. Despite the rampant alcoholism dulling his mind, it was still sharp enough to know that a kid was outside. With a bottomless hipflask in one hand, he strolled up to his front door, wak... | 2022-01-09T12:17:52 | 2022-01-09T11:20:07 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] There is an old folklore about a man in a forest. If you meet him, and speak with him, he will grant you your greatest wish. In return, he will also take away your most cherished possession. You, someone with nothing left to lose, go to meet him. | Michael stood face to face with the old man. "I know the deal," he said. "My greatest wish for my most treasured possession. Thing is, I don't have anything left."
The old man raised his eyebrows. He'd heard it all before.
Michael continued. "I know what you're thinking. Yeah, I lost my job, my house, all that crap. ... | "What is your name, sir? I have come to make a deal."
"You will learn my name. But you've come here to outsmart me, haven't you?" He smirked.
"I'm 65 years old, i have $43 in the bank, no family, no house. You are free to take whatever possession of mine that you wish."
"Well I suppose we must make a deal then. Just wr... | 2017-11-25T09:09:39 | 2017-11-25T08:53:47 | 189 | 51 |
[WP] Upon signing the truce that ended the years long war, the aliens were shocked to find that for humans, death was permanent. | The war had raged for seventy years. The Traxian's had struck first, with a surprise attack on the shipyards at AD Leonis, but slowly humanity had driven them back through the novel use of fighter-carrying spacecraft, an innovation that the Traxian's never managed to duplicate.
Today, as the 53rd, 27th, 23rd and 9th f... | 'Oh,' said the intergalactic commander, 'Are you rather sure? That just doesn't seem right to me.' The general of the human forces was staring him dead in the eye, trying to stop his curled up, white knuckled fist from resuming the ending war. 'Yes, I am.' 'No, you're having me on! What evolutionary sense does it make ... | 2020-06-29T17:15:46 | 2020-06-29T17:15:38 | 159 | 50 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | Strength and flight are vastly overrated. No, really, ask anyone stupid enough to take them. They're basically worthless, oh boy I can float am inch off of the ground or lift something slightly heavier! No real thought went into those choices, dumbasses just wanted to be Superman.
Everyone remembers that group of p... | As George walked out of the store, he couldn't help but chuckle to himself. Sure, his power wasn't showy, not like the guys who could shoot small flames out of their hands, or move small objects with their minds, but how often did somebody need to do that? No his power was subtle, but very strong, because he was the ... | 2015-05-05T10:11:25 | 2015-05-05T09:33:46 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Dungeons and Raids exist in the real world. Today, you and some Guild members decide to do The Bermuda Triangle. | My team and I were some of the best. Around the world, we found success and riches raiding the deepest and darkest dungeons, where few others dared to go. Disciplined and experienced, we no longer feared ancient spells or beastly guardians.
We had been lying low for a couple of years after our last “big one” – Dracul... | As Raid Leader, I made sure to get to the docks well before go-time. It was a great day - couldn't be better, really - and I felt a surge of excitement with every soft billow of cool, salty air coming in off the sea. On the logistical end, everything seemed to be coming together. The crew we paid to ferry us out to BT ... | 2016-03-31T10:35:44 | 2016-03-31T08:15:16 | 248 | 58 |
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