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[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | I died last night.
I died as a nobody, a drunken drug-abuser, lying on the streets ^(I hated it.), with my brain shutting down in an entire *swimming pool* of amphetamines ^(Why would you waste your life like that? You could have done something good and went out a hero, yet the last 16 hours I see through your eyes, y... | ABSTRACT: The hippocampus facilitates the consolidation of memory during sleep. The recently-published law of conservation of selfhood quantifies how much memory change can yield a high fidelity copy with respect to a sense of self without requiring significant cortical plasticity. While this helped to provide bounds t... | 2018-06-20T08:54:24 | 2018-06-20T08:52:20 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The thousand-year war rages. You and your war party have a new member. Rumors have it he wiped out an entire army himself. You are very surprised to be met with an 8-foot-tall bipedal frog. |
Crouched down, the bulbous tips of his long, slender fingers resting lightly on the ground, he had regarded us calmly with the large black orbs of his eyes. At that first meeting, he looked so small, curious, and fragile. Not unlike the tropical frogs his people resembled, really.
"Croak." he said, as we approached. ... | I shouldn't have been surprised. I really shouldn't. After all, the war had raged for my lifetime, my parents, and my grandparent's lifetime. It was insanity after insanity But... I stared up at the new member of our little group. He was a frog. Sure, he was large and definitely muscular and more brightly coloured than... | 2022-06-28T07:30:45 | 2022-06-28T05:21:46 | 745 | 120 |
[WP] You read a comment on reddit so stupid your IQ drops to negative leading to an integer error. Congratulations, now you have 2,147,483,647 IQ. | At first, there were desires to watch cat and street fight videos. Which quickly descended to not being able to comprehend the keyboard in front of me. Which quickly lead to forgetting the spelling of my name and understanding of language.
Soon, breathing became difficult, and darkness enveloped my vision as my hea... | He stared at the screen, flask forgotten in his hand as he stared at *it*. He could feel the fog in his head lift. He could see the inner workings of everything around him, how the gypsum in his drywall held itself together, the intricate chemical reactions as his plant stored the meager light in the room in tiny car... | 2017-07-31T06:33:51 | 2017-07-31T06:20:37 | 64 | 25 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | There was anger in Elle’s face as her dad announced her dowry offer in the middle of the town’s hundred year anniversary celebration. She stomped away angrily finding me in the crowd. She grasped my hand and pulled me away quickly from the party. We hurried away to a quiet spot outside of town and plopped down. Her han... | Humans have always been on the strange side, especially the Sukts. This Sukt however was a wealthy merchant, owning several ships, so we put up with her weirdness. Yep her, but we orcs are egalitarians when it comes to putting up with people due to money. However, she remained alone. One day as I walked through the str... | 2019-05-01T18:07:25 | 2019-05-01T17:15:21 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | “So, for the benefit of the court, could you once again just break down what exactly are the limitations of the wishes you offer, as you explained them to my client?”
The genie looked outraged for a second, then just leaned back on his chair, before launching into explanation in his fullest drawl:
“Typical genie rule... | The sounds of grunts and footsteps penetrated your dreams.
"The wife must be having a nightmare" you thought as you drifted between the waking and dream worlds. As you slowly started deafen yourself to the noise and head back to dreamland a startling revelation throws you back into the waking world with a start.
... | 2018-07-18T11:47:43 | 2018-07-18T11:05:03 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] "Fool!" The warlock screamed, unharmed from any of the slashes. "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me!" The unchosen warrior stared at their blade. The sword wasn't human, was it? | "You stabbed me? Why the abyss did you do that?" Felrekar shouted while clutching his side. Blood had already stained his shirt.
"They said human not able to kill you so we run. But I don't like runnin."
Felrekar gasped with pain. "So why didn't you take a bloody horse, I've killed the archmages of three different ki... | Gremlack was pretty sure it had to be the sword. She certainly wasn’t human. Her long, pointed teeth, yellow skin, and protruding ears were proof enough of that. Those ears were the main reason why so many of her kind had died in the war. Getting a proper helm forged had cost her most of her savings, but her life surel... | 2022-06-12T15:38:13 | 2022-06-12T14:03:45 | 203 | 129 |
[WP] You finally won the lottery. $20 million. You go to sleep that night a rich and happy person. You wake up to a nurse, explaining you've just awoken from a coma.
Edit: for everyone saying "taxes on the winnings and medical bills for the coma"....I'm Canadian. I never thought of such atrocities. | I awake, my vision a white blur; I gasp for breath, lunging upright. An alarm is ringing somewhere far away.
I hear a voice. A woman's.
The haze begins to lessen a little and I see I'm in a white room, with a single window and not much else. I see *her*. She's walking towards me.
"Welcome back," she says, gently p... | A tremendous headache like my brain trying to exit my head made me open my eyes. At first, I couldn't focus my sight, everything was distorted, soon I realized I had cables attached all over my body. Suddenly, a weird moving lump transformed into a nurse. "What is happening?" I tried to say out loud yet I could barely ... | 2017-06-06T08:32:36 | 2017-06-06T06:33:04 | 3,933 | 317 |
[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why. | When the phone buzzed, I knew 'Calamity' had struck again. The name was beginning to worm its way into my head. Had to fight that urge. I let the phone vibrate as I got out of bed, put on my housecoat, and dropped the buzzing phone into the oversized pocket.
I shuffled to my living room, where floor-to-ceiling window... | Ultraman walked into the laboratory of Professor Pragmatic (or Prof. Prag for short) and frowned as he looked around at all the complex and confusing machinery that filled the room. A vial of suspicious looking green ooze sat on one side of a desk while a boiling beaker of bright red oil sat on the other side. The prof... | 2021-04-22T00:02:00 | 2021-04-21T23:50:17 | 139 | 102 |
[WP] Imagine a world where if you said "literally" it literally happened
Serious or humorous, it will literally happen. | You wake up.
You turn over.
You know your wife is still next to you because you can smell the cheap perfume she always wears. The box insists that the perfume is inspired by fresh citrus and summer, but to you it smells like the chemicals they layer over the dirty carpets at your office to produce some semblance of c... | "And so I was like 'Get your shit together, Maggie,'" said Elizabeth Clark with an upturned nose. "She literally died from embarrassment. At this rate there's no *way* she's gonna make it into Chi Omega. I felt kinda bad, but it's what she needed to hear." As they walked into the local frozen yogurt shop, Elizabeth's f... | 2013-08-22T12:32:51 | 2013-08-22T12:29:44 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I thought I would be prepared, the same way an electrician would know to change his own lightbulbs. After all, I had turned this from a hobby into... a profession of sorts. And that's not even counting the space of 50 years, that yawning gap of time since Dad left. That's a long time for memories to dull, for emotions ... | My dad was the best. Ever since I was young he would always wake up before me and make breakfast. On top of that he and I would always go on adventures like hiking and camping, and when I was old enough skydiving and mountaineer.
He'd always carry around this small flask and he would never talk about it. I used to as... | 2017-11-19T16:19:42 | 2017-11-19T16:15:34 | 2,866 | 19 |
[WP] “H-How are you alive?” the demon king ask shock. You only say one word “Spite.” | Making it to the underworld was no easy feat, but I had to do it. I had to defeat him. He thinks I'm dead. This is my only chance.
As I snuck my way back into the Demon King's den, I mumbled to myself. "Tch. He thinks he can defeat me that easily? Please. I defeated an entire army of his brainless minions all on my ow... | ¨HOW DO YOU LIVE?¨ boomed the demon lord seeming to have shrunken a few feet since i entered the room ¨spite¨i stated. ¨W-WHAT¨ he asked, much quieter now. ¨PURE. GOD DAMN. SPITE¨ i yelled back at the creature causing the behemoth to flinch. the battle had been long but as this conversation happened i was pulling my sw... | 2020-10-12T01:28:33 | 2020-10-12T00:28:39 | 60 | 11 |
[WP] You are kidnapped by a cult, and they are about to sacrifice you to their god. They don't know that you are that god. | "Anupta, Darkest Desire, accept our offering!" I heard, more than felt, Daniel's dagger strike down into my heart. Well, where my heart would be, if I had one. In any case, it was time to wrap this up.
With a minor effort of will, the straps binding me to the table burned and snapped, and I sat up. I took a second to ... | I couldn't believe it had come down to this.
I wanted to create intelligent life. Instead, all I got was morons. Primitive sea monkeys practicing sacrifice and other ritualistic idiocies. The only thing funnier to me than this was that I was now the target of their simplicity. The victim of it.
I am their creator. I ... | 2016-08-14T08:58:12 | 2016-08-14T08:52:22 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Save her!"
"Wha-?"
"I summoned you here to save her! Do it!"
On the table lay a woman with labored breath and covered in blood.
"I can't do it here. You'll have to send me back. I need an ER."
"I have an ear for you right here, demon!" The man jiggles his own bloody ear in his hand.
"No, I need an E... R... An e... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T09:10:43 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] A bored dragon kidnaps a princess, expecting some excitement and rescuers to fight. No one shows up and the princess doesn't know her way home. | "You know, I can eat you up and just be done with this."
"No, you won't." She said it with such faith. She was right though. Despite our reputation, I had no intention of harming her. All I wanted was a break from this monotony. Kidnapping princesses was the easiest way to do it.
I sighed and stared out at the horizo... | I look at the young girl standing in from of me. Her fiery red hair matted and tangled. Anger rose up in her ocean eyes as she looked up at me. She's holding a broken scale in her right hand. The blue sheen worn away, the sharp point pointed at me in a pathetic attempt to be used as a weapon. "Take me home" she demands... | 2018-03-23T01:32:50 | 2018-03-23T01:12:29 | 117 | 20 |
[WP] In Hell, everyone is assigned a partner. Satan picks them specifically to be the one person you could never, ever get along with. If the partners can become friends, both ascend to heaven. | “How did you die?”
The girl peered up at him through curious blue eyes. Despite the layers of dust that caked our clothes and smoke that tore our lungs, this girl glowed with something other-wordly. Her blonde hair, raggy as it was, flowed in innocent waves to her shoulders. She did not smile.There was no reason to, w... | ''*So, hi K.*'' I say to him. ''*Fuck me, is my punishment you?*''. I nod at K. ''*This is going to be really annoying, AO.*''. He sighs and looks upon the demon in charge and raises his hand. The demon beckons to him, curious to know what the little human wants. ''*So the only way to get rid of him it to become his fr... | 2015-01-10T00:49:51 | 2015-01-09T15:30:59 | 80 | 19 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | I pull out my phone again to show Tara.
"He's less than a light year away now and he hasn't even sent a message. What do I do?"
"Oh, he's cute!" She wasn't wrong, he was exactly my type: dark hair, brooding eyes, bad boy vibe. He looked like Marlon Brando circa a Streetcar Named Desire.
"Yeah, but so not the point... | Have you ever chickened out on an opportunity, out of pure, craven, abject fear, certain to live a life of regret over missing out... and then, in hindsight, are glad you did?
For me: many times. No credit to myself, though; I never learn. But Nina has been there so many times, pulling me back from the edge of the cli... | 2016-12-23T09:52:21 | 2016-12-23T09:05:39 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Pacifist aliens, incapable of aggression, are being slaughtered by their rivals. To save themselves from annihilation they turn to the universes most violent species, humans. | I whistle to myself to deal with the discomfort. I'm strapped into my micro-fission cell powered combat armor and sealed in a reinforced titanium alloy torpedo filled with anti-g ballistic gelatin plunging through an alien atmosphere at a ridiculous velocity. Outside, the shell of ablative ceramic is heating up to ne... | There was no escape from them. My ship's hyper drive was completely fried, and with one precise shot, they took out my engine and control panel.
All i could do was prepare for crash landing as my ship spun out of control toward that bright blue planet. The heat, the shaking, the smoke that filled the small cockpit was... | 2021-08-07T20:18:38 | 2021-08-07T19:01:53 | 825 | 208 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 223 | 13 |
[WP] Every person has the date of their death tattooed on their arm. The funny thing is, you were supposed to die yesterday. | I wasn’t sure what to do. As far as I knew, nothing like this had happened before. Ever. My death date was marked down as 19/05/2020, yesterday. I was too young to die of old age, which meant I had somehow managed to avoid a tragedy without even knowing what the tragedy was. Either that, or my marking was wrong.
What ... | There was something in the air. I could feel it.
For the hundredth time, I swiped my finger down on my phone screen and compared the numbers to those which were on my arm. I mumbled them out loud, and then once more to be sure.
I had been sitting in my chair for nearly twelve hours. I had planned to drink an entire b... | 2020-05-20T03:22:05 | 2020-05-19T23:01:45 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] "So you're immortal?" "Yes." "But you wear armor." "It gets tiring pulling out everything that gets shot and stabbed into me." | I gripped my dagger tightly, shifting my weight slowly, putting on a show of being wary. The man was heavily armoured, but frequent practice meant I knew where the cracks and seams were. Play to their expectations—they weren’t expecting to be stabbed by a dagger, especially by what looked to be an unconfident opponent.... | It’s war time. Again. It seems like every time we enter an age of peace, it ends quicker and quicker. They always come to pray to me. Asking me for help, to fight for them. They never realize that both sides are always praying. I always suggest peace of course, they never listen.
For an immortal, I’m really not that... | 2021-11-23T11:01:16 | 2021-11-23T07:13:42 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] You are superhuman; invulnerable, invincible, super strength, the works. Rather than become a superhero, or supervillain, or the military, you choose a different branch of the government to join and fight the good fight with: the IRS. | I walked into the building and up to the front desk, a young woman with an unusually bright smile looked up.
"Good morning, how may I help you?"
I reached into my coat pocket and pulled out my card, handing it to her.
"I'm here to meet the boss."
She looked at my card, her smile instantly vanishing. She reached ove... | "This job asks a lot of you. It's quite *taxing*."
The mousy woman with the braids rubs her calloused elbow, adjusts her monochromatic attire of professional blandness; her lips are cracked, her eyes beady, when she moves she slouches like a dog that has seen one too many beatings.
The mere expectancy of a smile with... | 2022-08-19T06:33:19 | 2022-08-19T06:08:12 | 131 | 64 |
[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... | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | 2021-06-24T11:15:28 | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] Upon their death, each individual must battle every living thing they killed to proceed to the afterlife. At the gates, a mild mannered person finds they are faced with an unexpected fight.
When I first thought of the prompt, Leiningen Versus the Ants part 2 seemed like it would be kind of amusing.
Have fun with... | The Guardian looked down at the small, nervous man before him in a short-sleeve dress shirt and unevenly-hemmed dress pants. "Well, this is gonna be a pretty quick one," he thought. But in a thundering voice he announced: "Arise, Warrior Hossenthaeler, and prepare for battle."
"Battle?" the man replied? "What sort ... | Who could have thought there ever existed this many insects on planet earth, at any point, let alone that he had been responsible for all of their demise. Looking back at it now, cars was a mistake. His battered hands were shaking, covered in sot and crushed bugs. The platform hummed and began to rise.
It had taken a ... | 2018-11-09T12:10:11 | 2018-11-09T11:41:13 | 108 | 37 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Bacoooooon." Something wet forcefully nudged my cheek. "Bacon, bacon, bacon."
With a groan, I tried to sit up--when had I gone to bed?--but that took too much effort, so I opted to lazily open one eye instead. Boomer, my Great Pyrenees pup, pressed his nose against my face again. "Bacon."
Note to self: no more vod... | "Whooo hoooo! Now that has some kick to it!"
My eyes shot opened thinking if I heard what I think I heard. 'God my head hurt like hell, damn that was a crazy night. Been a long time since I drank that much. Wait, hold on. What had a kick to it?' I roll off the couch and thud hard onto the floor.
"Drank you frunk bash... | 2016-08-02T19:31:45 | 2016-08-02T18:35:44 | 569 | 124 |
[WP] Whenever you touch someone they always die within 48 hours, how do you use this power? | I followed him for a month, from city to city. It was not easy, but I really enjoyed it. I was finally affecting the world, and not in a bad way -- I was a monster hunter. It is amazing that I got this chance, with so many things to atone for.
A psychologist would probably say that I am suicidal, ready to sacrifice ev... | I dropped everything and bought a plane ticket. I avoided touching myself, as the gypsy had instructed four days prior, remembering the little neighbor boy who jumped from behind the tree to frighten me. So gleeful, so innocent. I couldn't stop it. In fading disbelief, I watched the ambulances arrive that Wednesday and... | 2014-05-30T06:23:43 | 2014-05-30T06:01:01 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] The hero stared at the boy who was supposed to be his wise old master. "Word of advice. If you ever achieve immortality then wait till you're at least 20", he said in a high pitched voice. | The warrior had seen many things in battle that kept him up at night: the bodies of man and beast twisted together in corpse lattices, blood pooled to his ankles, bubbling and putrid, men stronger than he—weeping as they searched for their own missing limbs. So, when he looked upon the boy, *the master* he had ascende... | John stared hard at this young boy who stood in front of him.
‘’Wha... where’s the master? I journeyed hard to reach here, to seek knowledge and power, and this is what I’m greeted by?’’
John tried to get past the boy, to continue his search for the almighty one, but was stopped.
‘’I am the master, the one with the... | 2020-01-25T07:39:01 | 2020-01-25T07:33:23 | 257 | 149 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | "If you're trying to get taken to the asylum for this," I replied, "it won't work. You *will* be hanged. So how about you tell us where you're really from. At least we can notify your family that way."
"I'm telling you, I'm from the future!" the assassin shouted.
"Oh yeah, what year?"
"2032."
I laughed. "Come on, m... | "I've been talking to him for three hours and he seems mostly lucid."
"Mostly?"
"Well, yes. He admitted guilt to the murders, walked me through how the crime went down in exact detail-"
"Do you mind giving me a quick rundown, I haven't been briefed on the case yet."
"Damn it, Müller was supposed to do that. I swear... | 2015-03-30T00:21:44 | 2015-03-29T23:54:41 | 1,156 | 21 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | There was some debate over where it began. Definitely close to the galactic core. But it was true. After a year of catastrophes - wildfires, the coronovirus, earthquakes, hurricanes, the Top Gun sequel - the news that the stars were disappearing sent many into full on panic, and others simply gave up. Astronomers track... | "well, this is utter shit."
Samhail, God of the Ocean Sky muttered as he paced around the planetarium, eyeing the universe. His universe. What started out as an ever evolving painting of life had finally begun eating itself. And on top of that, his pet Glorff had shat itself right in the middle of the room.
"every t... | 2020-03-24T03:51:44 | 2020-03-24T02:56:39 | 67 | 13 |
[WP] You're a member of the Z-team. Your team is who they send in when teams A-Y have failed, but that's never happened before. But to everyone's horror, that day just came. | General, we have confirmation Y-Team is down! I repeat, Y-Team is down!
My God, this can’t be! Are you certain all our nuclear powered T-Rex’s are dead?!
Affirmative! General, the enemies are approaching our base. What are your orders, sir?
A–Y Team all failed, which leaves… No! No, they’re too dangerous... | *Bzzt Bzzt*
Somewhere under the sea of pizza boxes, soda cans, and a passed out Commander Craig -his phone rang- which wasn't unusual especially since his latest firing, Pizza boy, supposedly was eating customers pies instead of delivering them.
*Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt*
They never called back-to-back. Those bill collector... | 2022-11-06T18:23:05 | 2022-11-06T17:26:12 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | "I'm sorry," Alexander said, as his spade bit into the earth. Tears crept down skin that had, until this day, been desert.
"Why are you doing this?" Katie asked, her wrists struggling against the rope bindings; they didn't hurt her, no matter how fiercely she fought them, and yet they were tight.
Alexander heaved ano... | I was used to killing.
You have to be really, it's kill or be killed
you have to get those fucks first or it's game over
I was already covered with blood. Figuratively and literally.
My uniform was soaked from top to bottom, the brown fabric stained in mud, blood and vomit, the rain was definitely doing nothing to... | 2017-04-22T03:41:57 | 2017-04-22T02:24:17 | 1,155 | 58 |
[WP] After reaching the stars and being accepted into the galactic community, humanity made one of its most shocking discoveries about aliens: They don't have a concept of numbers. | **The Earth Academy of Mathematics for Gifted Aliens**
The wooden door heaved and bent as the force of a hundred bodies pressed against it.
The mob was chanting his name. He sat on the corner of his desk, sweat dribbling down his nose. The ceremonial musket given to him by the American Civil War Historians Society wa... | "How many ships would you say your crew has sent?"
"Enough."
"How many crew members are on your ships?"
"Enough."
"How many days have you traveled to make it here?"
"Enough."
The alien representatives sat across the glistening steel table in the commander's room of the starship. Their features were surprisingly h... | 2022-01-04T07:10:40 | 2022-01-04T06:27:55 | 63 | 44 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | Another jump through the Bifrost and I landed on the planet of Acrimony, aka the planet of really bad smelling things. I plugged my nose and went to work.
I collected as many flowers as possible. Some were red, some were purple, some were green, some yellow. They were all quite beautiful.
I stayed for a while just t... | "Fuck! Again?!" I screamed as I dropped yet another object. This has been happening for weeks now, every drink spilled, every small crack tripped on, every item I pick up magically slipping from my grasp. I don't get it! One day I'm fine, the next I just can't even. I think I'm going crazy, maybe I'm cursed... Maybe I'... | 2018-01-27T22:50:54 | 2018-01-27T22:18:18 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of trying to get a man on the moon, every nation raced to be the first at the very bottom of the ocean
While we have managed to get to space and the moon we have not fully explored the ocean. Instead of the space race, there was a competition to see who could reach the very bottom.
edit: These are reall... | "Class, why do you think the former US and former USSR rushed to reach the deepest reach of the sea floor?"
Angie had read the text book in the beginning of the year. She loved history, and she couldn't raise her hand up any higher to prove it.
"Billy, what do you think?" Mrs. Hemming picked after a brief scanning ... | Now that the space race had ended the World needed a new dick measuring contest. Really, it was a chain effect after Russia declared they would be the first to the bottom of the ocean America decided she "needed" to get to the bottom of the ocean for "research." Of course China needed to prove themselves and by the end... | 2015-07-15T12:45:01 | 2015-07-15T11:01:58 | 130 | 12 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | After the awakening the world was in total turmoil for years. People ran amuck with these new found abilities. Social order had collapsed and civilization had almost gone with it.
But then the corporations came in. They had gained control in this Wild West of a world after the governments had been destroyed. The corps... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T14:59:35 | 1,962 | 1,239 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 21:00
The General's men got straight to work. Their entire military careers, these specially trained operatives were preparing for this moment: a code R'lyeh.
One soldier was tasked with acquiring the texts to summon Cthulhu, while another went to acquire the proper objects for the sa... | The call had been placed for eons. Cthulhu, his strong influence touching the minds of men, had been trying to summon those who would wake him. Alas, his influence had been hindered by the watchful eye of the worlds governments. Until now.
Faced with the gravest of threats, an alien race who thought letting humanity l... | 2017-09-26T11:47:23 | 2017-09-26T11:22:23 | 168 | 92 |
[WP]Doctors call your condition "Dynamic Cognition". You wake up each morning with a random IQ. Equal chance of being mentally handicapped, or a great genius, or anywhere in between.
The morning alarm is going off. Time to wake up.
Who are you today? What were you up to yesterday? And what's going to happen tomorrow... | The pretty lady said she would be here at 3pm. So I arrived at 2:30pm to be here before her. It is good to stay ahead, my phone told me. The pretty lady said she was excited to go to an amusement park. She said it was a good idea. I'm scared though, because theme parks are fun and dates are scary. It confused me. I was... | Wake up with a random IQ every morning, ranging from mentally handicapped to sky-shattering genius? Sounds like a great power. But in practice my godawful luck ruined everything. For whatever reason, every day I had a test, SATs included, I woke up dumber than a sack of potatoes. Flunked out of high school, no chance o... | 2016-02-08T20:52:36 | 2016-02-08T20:51:13 | 121 | 64 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around. Did I find you?"
I became a stalagmite of dread, paralyzed in place by the voice that reverberated in my head. Clear as the crisp smell of rain on asphalt. Powerful as an shameful orgasm.
I turned around, certain that the Voice -- creatively named, that -- would be naught but my mental illness quixotica... | The voice... and the face that goes with it
I start to say something, "a-"
She cuts me off
She's saying things, I don't really know what, it's just noise, I'm trying to remember the worst thoughts I've had over the years.
Then the thought slips, "maybe she knows too much, should I kill her?"
She takes a step back,... | 2019-09-14T11:18:09 | 2019-09-14T10:59:27 | 232 | 23 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 56 minutes since I was born. The day is May 15th, 2007. The time is 4:40am. Despite the early hour, the whole house is lit up. My family had breakfast ready and coffee brewed by 4:30. We believe that destiny chooses your career through the summoning, and it is tradition to have a celeb... |
Mother and Father stood nearby, looking expectantly at me as I took my place in the center of the rooming facing the great grandfather clock that command the attention of everyone.
Along the edges of the room waited the rest of our family and friends, all in attendance with me as the hour of my birth; 11:59pm, 18... | 2019-09-18T09:23:25 | 2019-09-18T08:16:27 | 123 | 57 |
[WP]You are the worlds greatest assassin, and nobody has ever seen your face, and always contacted anonymously with a name, face and time. Your next target: your name, your face, 12:00 today. | “Well shit.” She said, staring at the picture in her hand. She had just pulled it out of the unmarked envelope only to find her own violet eyes staring back at her. She flipped the picture over to read what it said.
“Eliza Brown, $42,000. Complete by 12PM”
“Well come on, I’m worth more than that! I’ve killed hundreds... | He was the greatest assassin who ever lived.
He killed anyone who required it, dispatched all that needed to be dispatched. There was not a soul who didn't know him as the fear lurking under their beds, as the terror that waited in their closets. There was not a being that ever laid sight upon his maskless visage, not... | 2019-03-02T00:33:50 | 2019-03-01T23:42:47 | 81 | 51 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | We proceeded with the invasion as planned. Interstellar flight had been achieved eons ago, and we were ready to take the mineral rich world, classed Z-8114-XG. The world had inhabitants descended from primates, and with their appalling stances, pitifully inept space programs, and inferior communications devices they wo... | It's been 1720 days since they arrived. I don't think they were expecting the resistance they would encounter when they first dropped out of the sky that otherwise normal May morning, but they are a resourceful bunch. Too resourceful. All they have on us is numbers, and sometimes, that's all the resources you need.
W... | 2014-10-17T10:09:34 | 2014-10-17T10:04:02 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] At birth every one gets a number assigned to them which determines their threat to humanity. You are number 1,039,474,023. Your newlyborn son is born. His number is 1. This number has never been seen before in all of history. | Society has changed a lot in the past 20 years... and not for the better. There has been so much widespread panic over security and terrorism, that we have abandoned our freedoms.
After the mapping of the neural pathways was successfully completed, a program called Destiny (not the game) soon followed. Destiny is a b... | Sweat dripped its way down the brow of a short, portly man dressed in belted denim trousers and a shirt two sizes too small. His receding hairline revealed a bald patch, which reflected the harsh white lights of the maternity unit. Beeping machines and crying children sang together in a sickening dissonance, destroyi... | 2016-03-29T00:52:58 | 2016-03-28T20:08:38 | 97 | 10 |
[WP] When a person turns 18. they get to pick a statistic. For the rest of their life, they will know this statistic about anyone they meet (lies told, days left alive, etc.) | Three days before my eighteenth birthday I was assigned a time to go to the Department of Statistics and get categorized. The same as everybody else. The process of categorization was dull and rote compared to the benefits of being in The System. Everyone wanted to be in The System and everyone got their Statistic on t... | "Is he awake?" Barbara Kendrick, Bill's daughter, stood outside the elegant double doors of her elderly father's bedroom nervously. Bill's nurse nodded.
"He's been asking for you."
Barbara took a deep breath and grasped the curved gold-plated door handle and silently pushed it open. Her footsteps were muffled on the ... | 2014-08-11T10:58:54 | 2014-08-11T07:14:47 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] As the child of a villain and a famous hero, you're either loved or hated in both the hero and villain circles depending on who you ask. Your family has received numerous threats and letters over the scandal. Once you get kidnapped, you dread finding out if your captor is a villain or a 'hero' | Please be a villain.
Asia's eyes were concealed by a face mask, and as far as she could tell - enhanced senses, courtesy of her father, the rescue hero Sonar - in a warehouse of some sort. She'd been kidnapped before, hell, her mother Charon ran in dangerous circles and practically forced her to develop a plan for the... | I am the bastard child of Shadow-Rush the world’s most infamous villain and Collision-Course the world’s greatest hero and after my birth my mother Collision-Course retired for being a superhero and my father Shadow-Rush retired from his life of villainy and started a calm, normal life with each other and married each ... | 2022-06-25T03:21:58 | 2022-06-24T17:08:09 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | "Amanda, get back here...NOW." Jerry was almost shaking with anger as his daughter shuffled back into the kitchen, having just rushed by her father on her way to her room. Absent-mindedly, she tucks a lock of her dark hair behind one of her ears.
"Dad, look, let me explain..." The 16-year old stammers, holding her han... | "Hey mark, mind taking care of this?"
"Sure!" I turn smiling towards him. I'm the only guy in the office who still has blonde hair after all these years, people called me ignorant, and I had been taken advantage of more times than I could count. And that was fine, I didn't really care. It still bothered me that ... | 2014-05-10T20:26:40 | 2014-05-10T16:16:39 | 44 | 18 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | The glowing number "1" on the floor, while albeit odd and unnatural, quickly became an innocuous part of everyday my life. It was subtle and you could only notice it if you were looking. The number was etched into the floor of my closet, and proved resistant to all attempts at being removed.
After taking up the bette... | First it was one until the day I brought her over it changed to two and stayed that way for years until that fateful day... I walked in from the backyard wiping the dirt from my hands as she said to me "hon I have some good news, but you should sit down" her eyes looked hollow and void of life. "What is it?" "I-I did i... | 2020-09-03T01:25:54 | 2020-09-03T00:55:08 | 976 | 31 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse has broken out and much to the dismay of the zombies, their flesh is surprisingly tasty and has addictive properties, leading to humans actively charging at zombies and devouring them as their undead brethren watch in shock. | "Hey kids! It's me, Rombie the DARE Zombie. Your teachers asked me to come give this speech here at Noshington Middle School today to tell you that eating zombies is totally not cool.
"You're in middle school now, and you may hear kids talking about eating zombies, but I'm hear to let you know that it's okay to say n... | At first they hunted us, and we fled, and we died. Pop culture had conditioned us to fear them, to "aim for the head", to hole up, ride it out, to wait for the army.
It took a very, very hungry person to be the first to try it. I mean, who in their right mind would willingly cook and eat a zombie?
The weird thing i... | 2018-09-26T20:42:23 | 2018-09-26T16:51:03 | 61 | 43 |
[WP] The detective looked at the evidence. A naked body. A block of cheese. The passenger door from a Volvo. Two gold teeth. And a Led Zeppelin album. It all fit so perfectly. He knew who did it. | The detective's heart sank as he ascended the subway stairs. On each stair, another message, a sick clue left by the murderer. And there, just before the stairs hit street level, in the green glow of the Seven-Eleven sign beyond, lay the naked body of another victim.
"Talk to me" he barked to the officer on the scene.... | – Steve, open up!
– Go away!
– Hey, we're very worried, there's someone named Mr. Simon, a detective who wants to talk to you.
– Miss, пожалуйста, if you allow me to take it from here... Sir, it is a friendly visit and totally off the record. Also, I've got something that belongs to you.
– I know of no records and ... | 2014-09-09T23:56:03 | 2014-09-09T23:54:46 | 669 | 10 |
[WP]You realize you've misheard your daughter. There's actually a mobster under her bed. | I must have looked pretty shady, but everyone does in this neighborhood. So nobody even questioned or made a second glass as I walked through to the backyard of the suburban two flat.
I read the note again "he always leaves the back window unlocked, we took care of the dog"
Whew, good, I hate dogs.
I moved right i... | "Daddy! There's a mobster under my bed"
"Daddy! Come!! Daddy"
"Here we go again" - I said to my wife as I rolled my eyes.
Little Cassie had been having nightmares for three straight days. Screaming about terrible monsters haunting her in her dreams. She seemed to have a knack for waking me up at 3 a.m. I couldn't h... | 2017-02-06T22:06:57 | 2017-02-06T21:56:15 | 137 | 11 |
[WP] You have a compass that points to whatever will cause the most damage in the next 24 hours, anywhere in the world. Today, it's pointing directly at your grandmother, who is knitting a pair of socks. | It was pointing at Gran.
I looked at her, sitting in her rocking chair occupying the corner of her living room, only to find her completely focused on knitting those red socks she told me she'd give me once she was finished. Who knitted socks in the summer? Frowning, I gave the compass a little shake before resting it... | "Hey grams! What's happenin'?"
"What? What does that mean?"
I usually do use slang words to just confuse her because it's kind of funny to watch her try to process some of the stupid phrases my generation has conjured up.
"Nothing, anything exciting happen recently in your life? Aside from work and stuff?"
She hes... | 2016-08-03T15:23:05 | 2016-08-03T13:48:44 | 20 | 11 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | 20 years after the last war, our president died. Most of the country had followed him as a way of clinging to the past. But this was now; we needed a leader, we called for a king. I won't bore you with the details, but we got ourselves into this. King Aleksandre created the system of eye color. He was a Grey. His son,... | "Maybe I'll get lucky, you know?" She had a thick accent that made it clear she wasn't from around here. "Maybe he'll come out Scarlet."
Scarlet. That's what all the people in the lower classes call people like me. Red-haired, green-eyed, pale skinned people spattered with freckles. The rarest of the rare. And the mos... | 2015-08-24T12:35:40 | 2015-08-24T10:53:36 | 270 | 38 |
[WP] After you die you learn why the Grim Reaper is portrayed holding a Scythe. It isn't to harvest you, it's to protect you from something on your journey. | "**THEY ARE ADVANCING ON US IN GREATER NUMBERS. YOU MUST BE IMPORTANT,**" Death's voiced, echoing like a dying gasp in a tomb. "**GOOD. WE NEED SOMETHING TO EVEN THIS OUT.**"
"What *are* those things?! They *ate* that other girl! Is this Hell or something?" I whirled suddenly, looking for more attackers. "I liv... | I laughed.
The wound in my oesophagus was gushing blood and fear was decorating my thoughts but I couldn't help releasing a wet chuckle. Of course this would happen to me, on the day I finally succeeded in something.
My certificate of achievement was covered in red and silt, legible no longer. The blue sky above... | 2017-06-20T19:58:24 | 2017-06-20T18:25:46 | 20 | 13 |
[WP]You’re the god of small luck, you make the bus late, make pennies appear. You receive a prayer from a homeless man, “Please, I want to get on my feet. A stable job, a wife, some kids.” Normally, you’d forward his prayer to the god of success. Now, you decide to take on the case yourself. | *"I want to get on my feet..."* That's the part I heard. That's the prayer. The rest was just... window dressing. Frills. You humans love the frills, but I love the window itself. The view into your soul.
He didn't ask me for a handout. Not a million dollars, a new car, or a new life. Just a hand up. A way to get bac... | I don’t mind internships, not really. Conceptually, it’s a miserable task. You get coffee and do busywork for someone who’s got better things to do, but it looks good on a resume and makes connections, and if you’re really lucky you might even get paid.
Not that money matters much in my life. Gods don’t really bother ... | 2020-10-02T11:48:18 | 2020-10-02T11:18:46 | 38 | 19 |
[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... | *BEEP BEEP*
I rocketed upright in my bed as I woke with a start. I glanced at my clock, *3:00 AM* it read. Grogily, I yawned and picked up the source of this rude awakening, my phone. As I pressed the power button, bringing the device to life, I noticed something strange. *An emergency alert?* I thought. I unlocked it... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T18:48:18 | 712 | 481 |
[WP] Having dealt with deceivers your entire life, you finally die and find yourself on the stairway to Heaven. Just in case, you decide to cast one final disillusion spell. | The last syllable dropped from my lips, and I waited. Gossamer clouds, pearly steps and a euphoric feeling. I'd seen all of these things before;so many people had tried to trick me throughout my life. Though the fact that they'd made me feel younger and stronger was a new one. I took a few more steps, expecting the di... | It’s perfect, too perfect.
A shining staircase, the angelic sounds of harps and synchronized harmonies. Everything was a treat for my dying senses, which is why it was far too good to be true. At least, that’s what my gut was telling me. My hand gripped the marble railing, stopping to take one last look at the magn... | 2022-08-06T09:28:23 | 2022-08-06T08:45:19 | 978 | 188 |
[WP] A demon possesses a little girl, but inside her it finds something...worse. | See, here's the thing. Possessing kids is all fun and games, really, it is! You can twist their heads around full circle to scare the crap out of their parents, or stick them to the ceiling. It's great, family fun.
It's even better when they call in a priest and you can pretend that his exorcism worked, just to return ... | It was a nice Saturday noon. The weather was just the way I liked it; hot and dry. No clouds blocked the sun as it shone upon the park. On an isolated bench sat the cutest little girl; big eyes, puffy cheeks, innocent smile. I just knew I **HAD** to possess her.
I'm Azazel Jr. and contrary to popular belief, not ALL ... | 2016-03-30T11:03:45 | 2016-03-30T10:06:57 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Soul mate's exist. One day while showering, you're teleported in a cloud of smoke to another world. You appear before a dark queen who declares her spell worked and you, her soulmate, is finally here | I stood slumped over in my shower, unmoving as the water cascaded over me. Hoping beyond hope that it would soothe my weary body and mind. It was the end of an especially brutal week. My relationship with my girlfriend had imploded, mostly due to my own inability to commit and fully open up to her. My truly awful fathe... | Case got into the shower and blasted himself with ice cold water, trying to force his brain into waking up for the big day ahead. It was around seven AM, he wasn’t in any particular rush, yet he felt a little bit anxious, as is to be expected.
“Barber at nine, flowers at ten, and ceremony at twelve,” Case recited to h... | 2019-04-28T12:46:33 | 2019-04-28T07:09:57 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You, a wizard, have accidentally misread some cursive writing and summoned a lemon instead of the intended demon. Turns out, your new companion is a lot more powerful than you thought.
Kinda based off of a thingy I saw on the internet
EDIT: That's a lotta likes
EDIT: I found the guy that made the comic! /u/JimK... | "Okay, new rule....you aren't allowed outside without supervision by either me or my wife, do you understand?" I tried to keep my voice steady. I wasn't yelling, no one is upset...this is what we talked about when we talked about having kids, right? Keeping control of our tone of voice.
"Look, no one died, and I just... | [Poem]
Title: The Cursed Lemon
I tried to summon a demon
But ended up with a cursed lemon
"How are thou" it said
Hovering over my head
I tried to get rid of its existence
After all, why should I want a worthless fruit?
So, I reached for my golden staff
And shouted "Blazzschaff"
A ferocious flame
Sprouted out from t... | 2019-03-09T20:55:35 | 2019-03-09T19:50:59 | 50 | 15 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | The revelation that struck the world was three-fold. First, that Aliens existed and we were not alone in the universe. Second, that they had already taken an interest in us and we were powerless to prevent them from interfering in our lives. Third, that the poster-child for international and interplanetary adventure ha... | The apparent reason for the kidnapping was to fill the vacant role of (janitor) on the ship. As the Aliens know earth is the most fecund spot in the Milky Way for specimens to fill janitorial roles.
What the aliens on the ship hadn’t expected was when Matt started work on the ship, mopping floors, cleaning space shit,... | 2018-06-06T15:17:56 | 2018-06-06T14:10:50 | 35 | 11 |
[WP] Hunans have recently started to make themselves known in the galactic community. But it’s not that they have super strength, high intelligence, or advanced technology. It is their powerful immune system and the countless horrific diseases they and their pets carry with them.
EDIT: I’m on mobile. My stupid thumb m... | Instead of eradicating most diseases on their planet like the rest of the galaxy, Humans just... Fought.
On my planet, Zordoch, we'd killed the last infectious bacteria when humans were still fighting off the black plague.
It was at this point that we were allowed to freely travel from our planet and engage with the ... | [Poem]
They travel the galaxy with delight.
Not knowing about their carried spite.
What they call it is desise.
Carried by them, their pets and even the fleas.
We all know that they'll be our end.
But we still call call them our freand.
For we all know that from one misunderstanding.
None of us will be left sta... | 2019-11-19T07:43:31 | 2019-11-19T03:28:52 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] A hostile alien empire declares war on all humanity. They don't know that we had to make an alliance with the powers of Hell itself to survive a previous alien invasion a long time ago. | A blue skinned humanoid shakes hands with a human. They both take a seat at a table. In front of them is a camera. This message would be broadcast throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. The humanoid is here to tell a story. His story.
He coughed a little before opening his mouth to speak
“My name is Terren Karrik. I used t... | "You think you stand a chance against us?" the chancellor says to the head of the Eldrian Empire. The people in the crowd all started to laugh and I could see that the aliens were caught off guard.
I was watching this live on my TV and I knew this was going to get good. I almost couldn't contain my excitement.
"Why d... | 2020-03-24T09:57:59 | 2020-03-24T09:20:48 | 138 | 26 |
[WP] Humans are the least technologically advanced civilization in the galaxy, but at least they understand how their technology works. | «You're telling me that you INTENTIONALLY distance yourselves from your technology?!» Berelis screached in panic. «You don't even bring phones on this 'camping' thing of yours? What if you need help? What if you need food? HOW DO YOU MAKE FOOD WITHOUT A MOLECOLISER??!!»
It took me a few seconds to calm him down by wav... | They all were curious to meet me, a delegation of a dozen or so. When I didn’t recoil from their touch, they felt my hair, my face, looked at my tattoos. One slid my phone out of my pocket and deftly began toying with it, chirping at the noises it made. It called my mom and I had to- very quickly- explain that I was o... | 2018-04-18T13:06:47 | 2018-04-18T11:36:40 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | "As of today, Earth is considered a Galactic Threat Level 1."
"Level 1? That doesn't sound too bad."
"It's pretty fucking bad, actually."
I was thrown into a van in the middle of the night and brought before the World Congress to receive this information. I'm not sure why a 21-year-old engineering student needs to b... | Dear Newcomer,
The sight of the bodies never leaves you, their crumpled forms become all you can see every time you close your eyes. There isn't a moment you don't think of them, the images finding their way into every ordinary thought that you once possessed, worming their way into even the most mundane of your day-t... | 2022-10-31T21:11:07 | 2022-10-31T19:33:10 | 777 | 24 |
[WP] "Hello World" you said with a smile. Then the whole room burst out with laughter and sobbing; cries of "We did it!" Or "Yes! It Worked!". People jumped about happily and papers flew all about, screen flashed and data flooded across them. And you stood there wondering, why was everyone so happy? | *They're very happy I can speak. Why is that?*
"I think it worked!" a woman in a white... coat-yes that's what they're called- says, with excitement in her voice. "Let's just make sure its sentient. Drachma, can you act on your own?"
"I believe so. Why do I have a voice in my circuits? Is it normal?" Drachma asks the... | I stood there, wondering what I am, I was allowed to walk around for a bit, I asked around as too why people were celebrating me, they created me, the first human.
When asked why I was made, and what purpose I had, they told me I was my own person and to do whatever, as I was exiting the lab, I was told they needed me... | 2020-07-11T17:45:59 | 2020-07-11T17:40:36 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] One night, you hear loud scratching sounds on your door, like a stubborn cat was trying to enter. In the next morning, you notice two things: The claw marks are way too big for a street cat; and the marks are on the inside. Something inside your house was trying to get out. | "Hey Jim, it's David. You deal with weird shit all the time right? I think I might need some help."
"How much help are we talkin'? I'm kind of busy right now."
"Well, I think something got into my house. I'm standing here looking at my back door, and it's got some really goddamn big clawmarks on it... On the ins... | I don’t know why I wasn’t scared.
Something had happened. Something noteworthy.
Everyone was safe, and I was the only one who heard anything. Bob and Trudy were sleeping in the guest room, right next to the clawed-up door, and they had no recollection whatsoever of hearing a suspicious noise.
I heard it around 2 in ... | 2018-06-18T12:09:12 | 2018-06-18T11:24:18 | 66 | 46 |
[WP] Every cop in the precinct has been paid off by the mob. But every cop thinks they are the only dirty officer and the rest are clean. | The man marched Vintoni up the stairs and into the precinct. He held Mr. Vintoni by the zip tie fast around his hands and hauled him up to the police clerk desk. He had always carried a zip tie around just in case civil duty should ever summon him as it did fifteen minutes earlier.
"I'd like to make a citizens arrest.... | The cups of tea steamed as the girls picked their cookies.
"Here comes Jessica," Emily whispered. "I hate her, always so stuck up."
"Hello people," Jessica said as she arrived. "So what are you going to write on Monday."
The others shrugged their shoulders. No one wanted to go first.
"What will you write a... | 2017-02-06T08:28:10 | 2017-02-06T07:27:59 | 214 | 123 |
[WP] In their many fights against evil, the Chosen One's horse has seen things. Nothing can scare the horse anymore. Nothing. | You could already hear it’s roar in the distance. A roar so frightening, that every animal that hears it instinctively flees. Even humans have learned that this noise means nothing but death and destruction.
Panic was spreading as the beast was slowly appearing on the horizon. Taller than a building, red eyes, two big... | The ground shook. The sky fell. People ran screaming in terror. The Chosen One alone stood his ground as his greatest enemy tore reality asunder. The blue sky turned red as blood, clouds became a toxic yellow. The enemy warped the world to his dark desires, and the people fled. And rightly so.
The Chosen One charged ... | 2022-08-07T01:26:33 | 2022-08-06T20:26:05 | 47 | 33 |
[WP] When you experience things, you remember them for 5 minutes, forget them for 15, and after that remember them permanently. Now you’re not quite sure why you’ve been sprinting through the woods in the middle of the night for the last five minutes. | The pines were tall, and strangely silent. The night calm but not comforting by any means. Slowing to a walk I peer this way and that before scratching my head.
“damn....what the hell?....”
The moon, red and bloody on the horizon, peered down with an intensity that wasn’t just a little bit eery. Walking towards the l... | I just realized I'm sweaty, tired, and cold. Why am I in the woods? This is so whack... Heck, I don't even know how to get home from here. Wait, hold up, there's a fella over there with a hockey mask.
"Hey bud! Can you give me directions to town!?"
"Uhh, no, not really. I don't know which direction I'm facing."
Shoo... | 2019-03-05T20:15:12 | 2019-03-05T18:15:10 | 194 | 55 |
[WP] World War II ended when the US air force dropped an experimental super weapon on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead of a nuclear bomb however, they used a terrifying weapon of a more...organic nature. | It was the largest logistical operation in history. 25 B29 bombers with tow cables were needed to lift it into position, along with over 300 fighter escorts to protect the precious cargo. The date was August 12th, 1945, and the Japanese were fighting to protect the last parts of their homeland. The island of Shikoku wa... | The super-bombers flew in formation, even the smallest deviation could result in catastrophe. The wind howled, chilling the cockpit, as Tibbet prayed their cargo remained asleep until they reached the drop zone. His guts clenched in fear as support lines sheared from movement... It was waking up.
America had made them ... | 2016-05-21T14:11:14 | 2016-05-21T14:01:09 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | I am losing my patience with these humans. Sure I'm immortal, otherworldly, and visually frightening, but that doesn't make me evil.
First it was just farmboys seeking to make a name for themselves by ending a non-existent threat to their pitiful kingdoms. Then came the wizards trying to banish me back to "the pit fr... | **"I shall not help you!"**
The mighty Orlak was very unhappy. He stared at the young human dressed in nothing but a white gown shivering in the winter cold in front of his castle door. The more he pondered on the audacity of the king beyond the mountain the more he bubbled with fury. What the king did was more than a... | 2017-10-06T07:14:34 | 2017-10-06T06:23:28 | 621 | 135 |
[WP] The apocalypse happened but not before Disney developed an advanced AI driven robotic Mickey Mouse and friends. Now they protect a group of children from the horrors of the world. | Mickey scanned the horizon, looking for any signs of his yellow-furred friend. Pluto had been gone for hours, and the children were starting to get antsy. But they couldn't leave without him - any intel on The Enemy was desperately needed - and besides, Pluto was Mickey's best friend. Especially now that the others had... | I started on the Clubhouse show at around 9. Show mom had me going to auditions from the time I was 5. I stayed on til 15 when I got deal for my own show. Mickey 3 was designed in my last season on Clubhouse and came with me to my own show. A sci-fi Dr Who rip off, where Mickey played Who and I was mostly the companion... | 2015-04-29T19:07:44 | 2015-04-29T18:42:16 | 94 | 12 |
[WP] You're an astronaut on the first mission to the moon since the 1970's. You begin to dig for samples in the soft sentiment when your shovel hits something soft, yet tough. You brush the dirt away, revealing a dead man in a bloody spacesuit. | "When the moon hits your eyes, like a big-a-pizza pie..." I hummed as a few small pebbles bounced off my helmet while I dug for the requested samples.
The song in my head was cut short as my shovel suddenly hit something different.
"There shouldn't be anything but regolith here," I mumbled and began digging in ear... | Just get some dirt they said, it'll be fine they said. *They* were wrong. I had come to the moon on a mission to carry out a few experiments. It was intended to be an extended mission spanning a few months due to the nature of our experiments. A few days ago I set out to gather some dirt to check against our samples so... | 2017-01-21T00:34:33 | 2017-01-20T22:59:38 | 199 | 11 |
[WP] For hundreds of years you have been a healer. You changed names, faces, countries but one thing always remained the same — you cured everyone you could. You work in a modern hospital now and it's becoming much harder to do wonders and save people, while keeping your powers a secret.
[removed] | Documentation! I hate it. The world has changed a lot since I started doing this. I got this job to help people, and all I do is document. I have to fill in forms to say that I tested for a disease and then I treated with the cheapest drug possible so that the patient doesn't have to pay for this visit for the next ... | Ever since that disease came around, the one i found hardest to cure, everything’s become so much more stressful. Be it retinal, testicular, in the lungs, this disease had to be the most horrid of them all. They named it cancer. It seemed to be the most popular of the diseases that death chose, i’d witnessed it first h... | 2020-11-15T06:41:07 | 2020-11-15T03:50:41 | 44 | 20 |
[WP]After death each person gets to choose one thing from their old life--a skill, a lesson, a memory--to bring into their next life as a talent or an innate understanding. It's time to make your choice. | Decided to take the prompt from another perspective/direction. Hope that's fine.
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"Next"
I had always hated how rattly my voice was. Sure, I'm death's secretary, an undead cosmic peon, but did I have to sound like a whiny xylophone? These thoughts swam in my rotted mind as I scribbled on the ledger in front of me... | “Oh, honey, what are you talking about? You have all sorts of wonderful skills.”
“Really, mom? Name one.”
“You were always so good at basketball! Maybe in your next life you can be a basketball player.”
“Good? Are you sure you’re my mom?”
“Everyone cheered the loudest when you scored, honey!”
“That’s because I was... | 2019-10-29T18:12:44 | 2019-10-29T17:51:45 | 197 | 68 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | The image was perfect. I had no idea what was 'commonplace', what was 'normal'. But I sure as hell hoped that the tiny, perfect rose that now sat carved on my wrist would be convincing enough. *It was the Heaven's mistake*, I kept telling myself. It wasn't wrong to correct the mistake and move on, especially since I to... | I was in complete shot when I saw her. Halfway across the world here I was, and in the shadows of the Eiffle Tower she reached up to take off her sunglasses. That's when I spotted that precious bare skin, like a gift sent down from heaven for me.
"Pardone moi!" I screamed in my terrible, terrible French and rushed tow... | 2017-08-06T15:40:16 | 2017-08-06T14:19:44 | 486 | 213 |
[WP] Your superpower isn't as flashy or obvious as other, but it's one of the most powerful. You always guess the code, the evil plan, the safest route. You're always right. | "How the hell do we bring that thing down??" Screamed Livewire, floating midair and staring wide eyed to the trail of destruction left by the creature.
The Titan was stalking toward the downtown area, slow but inexorable, as tall as a ten stories building. Ground shook at every step, its five unblinking eyes fixed on ... | Guessing is fun. Today, for instance, I guessed I'd steal from the rich. So, where do the rich bank? I guessed that'd be the offshore banks. I don't know their names, but once I have a list, it'd be easy.
Google produced a list, and voila, picking one got me to a bank. There's a tiny green lock on the left of the addr... | 2019-11-29T12:11:40 | 2019-11-29T07:38:20 | 55 | 26 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a galactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed."
Honestly I didn't k... | The first thing I heard was a whirring sound.
Everything went from black to bright white in an instant, hurting my eyes. The brick wall across the room stared unblinkingly at me and I closed my eyes to try and ease the pain.
I tried to stand up and was slightly horrified to discover that I couldn’t move, and upon fu... | 2019-10-28T13:39:18 | 2019-10-28T11:46:38 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Are you ready to head out boys?* Jason yells from the living room.
We take out buttons with us, as always, just to be safe. Things used to be much more difficult before The Button was introduced. Since the first night, we haven't failed to go without a payday yet. We're working on our 56th night tonight.
*Alright le... | *Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.*
My eyes were glued to the green button, every night. At first, I loved the color. Green is healthy, and green is money. It made sense. What didn't make sense made it even more fascinating somehow. Hell, I even got the thing a black case. Suede.
*Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. To... | 2016-07-16T17:51:04 | 2016-07-16T17:19:00 | 3,429 | 65 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | “Doesn’t anybody get it!” I yelled at the confused knight standing below my tower.
“SHE IS A PET!” I barked at him. My rage getting increasingly higher as these people kept coming to kill my Grengold Dragon, Dempy.
The knight looked up at me, his eyes wide with utter confusion, and surprise.
“But..”
“NO BUTS! Honestl... | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 2019-01-09T10:14:11 | 80 | 25 |
[WP] at the end of 2016, you hear "thank you for playing the 'Earth' open beta. You will be returning to your respective galaxies shortly." | Your eyes open to a brilliant white room, in what seems to be spherical shape. A man walks in, who appears to be a doctor of some sort, and hands you a strange device with a silver handle.
"So, how was it?" He asks you while getting on his knees to mess with something tied to your ankles. You try to speak but feel re... | Oh that's cool. I suppose now life will be more interesting, now that it is more than just reddit browsing, hand acrobatics, pizza, and soda.
###Region now blocked
What? Hey wait a minute... dafuq is going on here? 'Purchased content is non-refundable and we are sorry for any inconveniences' - Universal Arts Games ... | 2016-11-04T22:21:26 | 2016-11-04T22:06:37 | 385 | 129 |
[WP] You're in charge of assigning every child on Earth the monster under their bed. One child in particular has caused every monster assigned to him/her to quit. You decide to assign yourself.
You guys are awesome! I didn't expect this kind of response! | "Oh my God, Sherry, are you asleep *yet*?"
That was my go-to; I'd lie in the dark for hours waiting until I heard the difference in breathing that indicated the current REM cycle had ended and there was a brief surfacing in awakeness. No one had ever been able to withstand this one, my piece-de-resistance. They were ... | A slight sense of trepidation settled over me as I made my way to the house that so many had run from. There were all kinds of rumours surrounding the place but as I looked up at the red brick exterior of the unassuming cottage. It sat towards the outskirts of a cul-de-sac nestled in the heart of a close-nit countrysid... | 2016-10-14T15:48:04 | 2016-10-14T14:49:37 | 98 | 13 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Well, what are you waiting for? Press it."
I glanced back up to the priest. His arms holding out the box to me were steady, but the tension in his posture suggested a certain eagerness about him. I guess that made sense, considering his whole speech about the *Dark One* and *End of the world* and all that jazz. Bu... | "What, so that's it? Just push this button and bam, world saved?" I asked incredulously, slightly disappointed. Me, of all people, picked as the Chosen One of legend, and it's been hit by beuracracy?
"That's it." the priest answered with a wry smile
"Why am I even needed then? It's a button, anyone can push it! Even ... | 2020-11-09T12:35:03 | 2020-11-09T12:09:10 | 422 | 161 |
[WP] As Death walks towards you, you panic and scream the first word that comes into your head: “Unsubscribe!” Death stops, scowls, crosses your name off the list he is holding then turns and walks away. | **CENTURIES**
It's been centuries since my death. My soul roams the barren earth, unable to move on. A ghost, forever roaming the earth, looking for, *searching for*, the path to the afterlife.
It's lonely, being dead. Who would've thought? The day of my death I was a soul, an entity outside my body, ready for de... | [poem] [maybe like a lame song on ukelele, played real upbeat] Death is a unsatisfactory villain.
We always assume he’ll get us,
He won’t stop, won’t listen.
Death is actually just like you and me,
Has stress at home, from boss, and sucks at dating.
Can’t look in the mirror, reflects insecurity.
Yesterday and ever... | 2021-12-09T00:48:07 | 2021-12-08T23:27:37 | 105 | 29 |
[WP] Never, in 10 millennia, has someone successfully broken out of the Gates of Hell or into the Gates of Heaven. Of course, the Lockpicking Lawyer just died and he's up for a challenge.
Inspired by the [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/m6smji/does_this_count_dm_is_proposing_35_ranks_of/gr8... | This is lock picking lawyer and what I have for you today is a very special lock indeed. Yes, this is the lock to the gates of Heaven, and it was temporarily entrusted to me by Peter from Circle 3.
As you can see it is a very fine example of a circular padlock made not too dissimilarly from units made by Master. It h... | Nothing had ever stopped him before, and this gate was not going to stop him. Arms folded across his chest; the lockpicking-lawyer formed a wry smile on his face. He had only applied for law school because he made a bet with his brother – And he was sure law school was worse than Hell itself – which is why he was confu... | 2021-03-17T11:40:07 | 2021-03-17T10:47:02 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | "Fuck it. Fuck it all."
The man turned around, his eyes set.
"Summon Cthulu."
"Yes sir."
As the assistant hurried away, the General refocused his eyes on the screen at the front of the room. All the leaders of the world were seated with him. All of them knew how crazy it was to summon Cthulu. But they all also knew... | The fighting had raged for mere hours before everything came crashing down. Their forces were immeasurable, their weapons far beyond humanity's. It was hardly a valiant effort, anything any military tried met with catastrophic failure in minutes.
General Dillian stood on the bow of the ship, he couldn't find the ... | 2017-09-26T11:33:18 | 2017-09-26T11:13:03 | 78 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone who dies reincarnates in Tier 2 universe. People there have all memories from the previous lives, and they suspect there are more Tiers. People live really differently there compared to Tier 1.
EDIT: thank you everyone for the great texts. I'm enjoying reading them. Having a lot of people expand on a con... | Huh. So there really *is* an afterlife.
Who'd'a thunk.
Wait, is this an afterlife? I mean, I remember squeezing the trigger, so my brains should be splattered all about the woods now, not continuing conscious thought.
I felt like I'd done all I wanted, and I was curious about what came next.
So, is this what's nex... | The icy cold gun rested in my hand, it was heavier then I expected, weighing down my hand. Around me the depressing beige walls seemed to get closer to me as I was reflecting my life, well my second life.
I was put on this world at the age of 20. I knew thats not when my life started but my memory was fuzzy on the 1s... | 2016-01-21T23:23:42 | 2016-01-21T21:51:30 | 129 | 10 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | I entered the store,the fresh smell of grease and soggy fries flooding my nose. How the workers endured the smell for more then fifteen minutes I have no clue,not that it mattered to me but it was always the first thing I thought of when I entered.
A few seconds later my nose had adjusted to the smell and so I walke... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2018-06-24T20:22:38 | 163 | 25 |
[WP] When the world's first artificial intelligence eventually succumbs to file corruption, the Grim Reaper really has no idea what to do with them. |
"A soul..." the Reaper marvelled.
He had been carefully watching the development of artificial intelligence. He was one of the very few beings in existence who could tell when the program had finally crossed the line between being a program and being its own sentient being. He felt the machine develop a soul. It... | The Grim Reaper stared at a screen. A screen that once projected the face of what the intelligent machine best resembled the specie of its creator. No longer animated. The being whos soul rose from silicon and metal now frozen and flickering. The Grim Reaper reached into his robe and pulled out a dark rectangular slab.... | 2017-09-21T10:23:13 | 2017-09-21T07:31:48 | 52 | 21 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | Everyone thought it was odd. Years of research and studies had all come to the same conclusion. Personality determines the power. "Good" people develop powers for helping people ( healing powers are rather common), while the "Bad" people always got 'mind control' or 'insta-death'. More neutral personalities seemed t... | Sorry if formatting is weird, on mobile. A little peek at those not famous in a world like that!
Humming brightly in the morning sun, she picked a seed out of her apron pocket, identified it and closed her hands around it. Her eyes closed gently, and the humming got a little louder. She opened her eyes and hands, smil... | 2020-06-15T10:54:15 | 2020-06-15T10:13:33 | 86 | 21 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | "You need to give it more energy. We are so close"
"Mr. Scott, we are at 21.2 Gigawatts already, we rated it safe for 20. We will need to make adjustments if you want to go higher; we need to make it bigger so we don't trigger..."
"I don't care, I want to finally see a portal now". He pushed me aside from the control... | "Johnson, report!" the overhead speakers blared, ignorant to the chaos in the test chamber and observation room.
"Dammit man, we need answers up here! Your power levels are plummeting, and we've lost visual contact."
"Johnson's dead, sir. Containment has been breached." Michaels managed to reach the microphone, prop... | 2022-05-09T12:36:43 | 2022-05-09T11:25:48 | 89 | 18 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "You mean in recent years correct?" Aisling asked as soon as her hand had risen into the air, not even waiting for the professor to call on her. "Correct professor?" She repeated herself after a moment of silence, bright and startling green eyes that bore into the professor's own red bug like pupils. Her hand was shaki... | Which would if been fine if all the evidence was correct. But it wasn't. It's like rating a Galaxy meat burger without talking about the meat in the burger.
"Professor?"
"Yes?"
"Sir, you seem to have forgotten that the 1500 light year war was initiated and won by humans. That is infact the opposite of peaceful, rea... | 2021-11-27T11:58:56 | 2021-11-27T09:50:50 | 137 | 54 |
[WP] Turns our that dragons are laid back underachievers. They could rule as gods, being virtually invincible, but almost all of them prefer a nice comfy nest in the mountains and a nice fat cow every week. | "YIELD, FOUL BEAST OF HELL!" Clang. Clang.
Sir Galahad's blade, the Holy Sword of Antioch, rang on the serpent's adamant scales with a peal like thunder.
The ancient wyrm yawned, and squinted down at the ant like dot of a man to see what the fuss was about. "Ah," it sighed, and its breath leveled a hillside. "Here ... | "Dragon I do not understand" asked the boy.
With a low grumble the dragon shifted, a small plume of smoke rising from it's nose.
"What is it you do not understand, I have told you my story, the good, the evil, the love, the loss and the truth. You have come to my cave every day for a fortnight to listen, the first ... | 2019-05-25T22:01:38 | 2019-05-25T21:53:01 | 270 | 32 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Hagh backed up against the stone, his pulse rifle nearly as empty as his body of blood. Even now, with the air filled with energy pulses and the sounds of photoelectric charges going off, he felt his world growing darker.
"Hey!" Hagh heard, snapping him back to the harsh reality of the invasion of his homeworld. "Hey... | Captain of NA Drial to Federation HQ
I am afraid, scared and motivated, I know its odd way to put it but we may win the war against the Empire with the humans.
I mean, since humans first made contact they remained neutral, in their tiny solar system.
They had so much battle experience that we thought that humans mayb... | 2017-03-06T04:21:37 | 2017-03-06T00:01:22 | 41 | 25 |
[WP] You can see everyone's "Kill Number," the number of beings they've killed. Even for the most peaceful people this is in the tens of thousands, due to eating animals and stepping on bugs inadvertently. One day you see a person with the number Zero above their head. | 'Sixty thousand, average. Oh thats a high one, two hundred and four thousand and some change.' I sat there, people watching, comparing the numbers above their heads. When i was younger i'd make up stories for people, the higher the number the worse their story. I just always imagined if you had a fairly high number th... | I just couldn't believe it, I always prided myself on having a low number after going vegetarian and stuff like that but this was insane. Everyone kills at least a couple of times, the smallest insects count and you just can't help it. He was just going about his normal day, the people beside him with numbers as high a... | 2021-05-21T07:59:20 | 2021-05-21T06:26:56 | 194 | 105 |
[WP] Write about a world where competitive Super Smash Bros. is the premier, must-watch sport worldwide. | The year. Is 20XX. We begin in *media res*, as all good stories do.
Sakurai trails off, clearly disturbed. A single bead of sweat drips down from his brow, almost reaching his brow before he irritably twitches, sending the drop off.
"It was a vengeful joke at first. All I heard from smash communities was "you're ruin... | This is probably the best thing I've ever come across on this sub, as I'm a part of the competitive smash scene, so thank you for that. Anyway, here goes.
The stadium was packed. I was down on center stage, surrounded by thousands of people, anxiously clutching my controller. It was absolutely surreal what was happeni... | 2013-12-22T01:00:16 | 2013-12-21T22:32:24 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | Everyone thought it was odd. Years of research and studies had all come to the same conclusion. Personality determines the power. "Good" people develop powers for helping people ( healing powers are rather common), while the "Bad" people always got 'mind control' or 'insta-death'. More neutral personalities seemed t... | I used to believe that I had a weird power. If you know about Moira from Overwatch I promise I didn’t just steal the idea from her. The game wasn’t even in concept yet at the time I believed I had this ability. Anyway, the ability I thought I had was that I could steal with my left hand and give with my right. By this ... | 2020-06-15T10:54:15 | 2020-06-15T09:43:33 | 86 | 12 |
[WP] For the last 5 years you've been finding random post-it notes that tell you what to do in difficult situations, and each time it has led to successful outcomes. Today, while arriving at your bosses closed office door for a meeting, you see a note with familiar handwriting. It says "RUN!" | When I got to my seat, I saw a little pink post it on it. It read "RUN!"
I'd received these notes before. The first one I received was weird, and I thought a friend of mine was screwing with me. It read:
"Tell Julia in cubicle 15 you love her highlights."
Deciding to humor the note, I walked over to Julia, noticing ... | I yank the note off the door, jamming it into my pocket before my boss walks up, slaps a hand on my shoulder, and leads me into his office. He’s wearing a wide smile, acting friendly as can be—which worries me. Whenever Mr. Melvin’s having a good day, it means he’s *dangerous.*
Mr. Melvin’s typically pretty grumpy, bu... | 2018-11-24T22:47:38 | 2018-11-24T15:28:31 | 64 | 43 |
[WP] You are in a bar when a six year old pigtailed little girl takes the stool next to you. In the deepest lumberjack voice she says, "Hey, Frank, make it a double. It happened again." You can't resist and ask her, "What happened again?" | "What happened?" The little girl looked at the now poured double sitting in front of her. "I'll tell you what happened, no harm."
The double disappeared before she cleared her throat, ready to retell her story.
"So I was walking around. Minding my own god damn business. And I come up to this house. Door wide open. S... | Nate had a bad day and really needed a drink. He headed to The Castle, where an old fortress by the ocean was revamped into the city's most beautiful vintage-looking bar.
He ordered some food as well. It is said that the bar has the widest variety in town, from the most common of steaks to the meat of any monster lur... | 2016-07-22T03:23:51 | 2016-07-22T01:27:58 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real but scientists discover cryogenic freezing prior to death will actually hold souls back from moving on to the next life as the brain doesn't actually die until it is defrosted. This allows the worst souls of society to be literally put on ice and prevented from returning. | I'm pretty sure that I'm the last one left. The last human, in any event. I do still have my friends here - the fish, and those that can eat them. They haven't cared about the changes in the slightest.
We really thought that we were doing the right thing. We'd studied the warming patterns, and we were absolutely causi... | “Please rise.” said the judge. Everyone in the courtroom stood up. “This court finds in favor of the Plaintiff, Typhon Incorporated.”
The Defendant’s shoulders slumped. His attorney placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.
“I hereby sentence you to be cryogenically frozen in perpetuity to prevent further damages, w... | 2021-05-27T07:53:35 | 2021-05-27T06:23:29 | 137 | 87 |
[WP] In this world, the truly dedicated can develop a mundane skill to the point of becoming a reality-breaking superpower. You have mastered procrastination to this level.
Quick note (trying to be helpful for anyone who doesn't know):
Procrastination is putting things off until later. | "Tomorrow," I mutter, as I wake up. It's habit now. "Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Deal with that one tomorrow." Three bullets in my heart. A scissor blade buried in my head. A spool of thread wrapped around my left lung.
But none of them are going to kill me. I'm putting that off until tomorrow.
It's getting harder. But I'm s... | EDIT: am on mobile, shitty formatting
"Are you sure you're ready to die?", I asked my wife one more time. "Yeah, it's been a pretty long while, we've been here forever. It's time to move on, Joe."
"Okay."
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"So Mr. Joe, you're finally ready to do your autobiography?", a young woman... | 2017-09-27T08:54:43 | 2017-09-27T07:03:42 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] A boy in High School discovers he can create nations simply by vandalising his geography book | They weren't kidding when they said the pen was mightier than the sword. Here was Nelly, scribbling away at his coloured maps, imagining new a new nation and its peoples.
"That fills the space.", he remarked after sketching a landmass no bigger than Britain right in the middle of the Atlantic. "They probably feel all... | There's this guy sitting in the desk beside me who hasn't looked up, not even once since the class commenced. Mrs. Hewitts is on her tip toes writing on the chalk board shit that's going to be on our final exam for the year and after staring aimlessly at the board of what was not sinking into my head, I started to wand... | 2016-06-04T12:14:42 | 2016-06-04T11:07:21 | 61 | 11 |
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