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[WP] Bob doesn't realise he's a robot until he fails a captcha five times in a row. | "Look," Bob says, cursor on the screen hovering over a Youtube link. "It'll be great. The beat grows on you."
Jean frowns. "Is it one of your noisy electronic songs again?"
"Just listen to it!" Bob bumps his swivel chair into Jean's, who bumps him back.
"No way. You know how mom's about you playing your music," Jean... | Matilda kissed Bob gently, leaning down to meet him where he sat in his computer chair. “Have a good day working from home, lover,” she cooed as she let one hand glide slowly along his shoulder, turning to leave.
“I will darling, have a good day at work” He smiled, thinking, not for the first time, that he had marr... | 2015-08-11T11:07:01 | 2015-08-11T10:13:01 | 54 | 15 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "I... admit that I am not familiar with that particular game," Death said, hesitantly. "What are the rules?"
He sat in his bed, smiling to himself. He had become an old man, but his spirit was alive and well. "Oh, nothing too complicated," he replied. "In order to set it up, we will need certain materials: a ball, som... | I pant as I sprint across a smokey field of nothing, ball in hand, as a dark cloud chases after me. My legs felt heavy, and I was almost sure the endless, misty expanse around us was weighing me down. There was no way I could prove it though. Death was a clever one.
We'd been at it for over half an hour, and I was fee... | 2018-03-07T08:28:53 | 2018-03-07T08:20:44 | 65 | 24 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "...Do video games count?", I ask the death man. He actually looked like a very normal guy, just wearing black clothing.
"...Sure. Just nothing single player."
"Or, we could make our own game out of a game."
"...What?"
"We both get computers. We mod Skyrim with the same mods and same load order. We continuously pla... | I pant as I sprint across a smokey field of nothing, ball in hand, as a dark cloud chases after me. My legs felt heavy, and I was almost sure the endless, misty expanse around us was weighing me down. There was no way I could prove it though. Death was a clever one.
We'd been at it for over half an hour, and I was fee... | 2018-03-07T09:08:29 | 2018-03-07T08:20:44 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] You are the world's greatest detective. With your near superhuman intellect, you have never failed to solve a case before. But one day, you finally meet your match: a criminal so unbelievably stupid that you cannot possibly comprehend and predict what he's going to do next. | "Sir, are you seeing this?" Voices on the radio crackled, partially drowned out by the rain. The detective closed his eyes. "Sir, you won't believe what's happening..."
In all of his years rooting out crime, he had never faced such a foe. From foreign jungles to the Attorney General's office, he had searched for ... | “It’s not fair,” moaned David. It was three hours till the deadline and David wasn’t even close to figuring out a way to solve his problem. He had sat hunched over his desk, his coffee cooled and untouched in the corner of his desk. Crumpled paper littered the floor and a large board decorated with long twisting, color... | 2018-06-04T03:37:27 | 2018-06-04T03:25:13 | 662 | 103 |
[WP] While magic is real, it cannot affect "normies". Nor can they see it. You can cast a huge explosion and only other magically gifted people will be hurt. Buildings/objects constructed by normies are unaffected. You have been waging a secret war with Kevin from HR for years. | "Why don't you have a seat?" Kevin from HR gestured as he closed the door behind me. Kevin's office was adorned with photos of his family, a baseball he caught at Wrigley field, a Garfield mug, and some Funko Pops from a normie show I never heard of.
I sat in the swivel chair facing Kevin's desk, it was clearly broke... | PT 1
That morning started off surprisingly well. The baby woke me at four-- a nice little lie-in-- and for once the apartment wasn't freezing. The A/C is old and crotchety and, unfortunately, completely non-magical, so I can't do much to fix it. I've tried. I know magic's a bust for non-magical systems, but I thought... | 2021-11-15T13:12:56 | 2021-11-15T12:52:09 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | "So let me get this straight. *You*" he pointed at the devil. "Cause all of our suffering. And *you*" he pointed at God. "let him".
"Well, yeah..."
"That's the gist of it"
The man thought for a moment "You know what: fuck the both of you. Neither inherits the earth, it belongs to us" | "Really? No one? Not even once?" The gentleman in the white suit looked positively mortified. "I mean I never assumed the clarion would be one of the faithful, but you honestly couldn't give a guess as to who we are?"
I gave it a thought, even turned my head to make sure the two got a good look at me thinking real har... | 2015-08-05T23:20:20 | 2015-08-05T23:18:05 | 62 | 19 |
[WP]There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes. | "There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about, or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes."
The old man looked at me, and gave a knowing wink. They were the words that I'd needed to hear. I had been looking all over for inspiration from other people. For people to give me the... | "Here it is." I say as I pull out the picture in my bedroom drawer.
I look behind to find my best friend, Shawn, looking at me skeptically.
A lot of people always calls us brothers especially back during elementary. He and I have short black hair and slightly lean builds, though he gained a little plump a couple year... | 2016-09-11T11:04:25 | 2016-09-11T10:10:49 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] Most space fairing species are logical beings; when they learn that nothing can go faster than the speed of light they accept it and deal with that limit. The space community is then shocked when Humans, an illogical species with a strong obsession with science fiction, turn up with FTL travel.
(FTL meaning faste... | The message was strangely shifted. First into the blue, as if it was coming at them very quickly, and then red, as if it was leaving very quickly. But when it was near, the message was clear.
And, it was apparent, very self-congratulatory.
"WE DID IT WE DID IT WE DID IT! Alcubierre drive! Details follow on 91.1 M... | \- The space congress has started - says Huhzbi the current leader of the space congress for scientific development and logic, while a computer translator translates to English - and we are here to welcome our new members, self named earthlings, representing the Star System Y896, Galaxy U7 of the cuadrant B4, or Solari... | 2019-12-21T08:37:06 | 2019-12-21T06:51:26 | 304 | 67 |
[WP] Most space fairing species are logical beings; when they learn that nothing can go faster than the speed of light they accept it and deal with that limit. The space community is then shocked when Humans, an illogical species with a strong obsession with science fiction, turn up with FTL travel.
(FTL meaning faste... | You know that moment when you finally get the right answer on a math problem, but the teacher tells you you did it the wrong way? That’s how the humans did things.
Every time they made a major advancement, we would have to tell them that they did it wrong. It could be done much more efficiently if they did it the righ... | \- The space congress has started - says Huhzbi the current leader of the space congress for scientific development and logic, while a computer translator translates to English - and we are here to welcome our new members, self named earthlings, representing the Star System Y896, Galaxy U7 of the cuadrant B4, or Solari... | 2019-12-21T11:39:06 | 2019-12-21T06:51:26 | 187 | 67 |
[WP] You're a 911 operator who receives a strange call. The caller warns the police to stop answering the phone, as that's how "they" spread. They hang up before you can learn what this means, and you dismiss it as a prank. However, minutes later, you find your coworkers staring at you. | “Whatever you do, you have to stop answering the phones. Do you understand?” The man sounds frantic. “If you don’t answer the phone, they can’t hurt you. You have to believe me!“
“What are you talking about? What can’t hurt me? Did they hurt you?” The line goes dead.
I’m used to prank calls — you think people would... | As the clock ticked away, I kept staring at the little ant dragging the crumb of donut I had this morning across the table. What strength it must have. A real worker. Leaning my face on my hand, my eyes were waging a losing battle with gravity. Things have always been slow and quiet in this town. Sure, it's a beautiful... | 2021-10-15T19:05:43 | 2021-10-15T18:08:35 | 105 | 15 |
[WP] The most sexually oblivious man on earth just so happens to be the most attractive man on earth as well. Write about his average day. | Josh noticed everyone was staring at him across the isle of the bus. "Huh, must be the tie. Never was good at tying ties". They kept staring though, which would've made Josh uncomfortable had he not reached his stop. As he walked through the door to the courthouse, several women dropped their briefcases. "Must have bee... | Paul felt sunlight that was streaming through his window warming his toes on the far end of his bed, a feeling which spread throughout the rest of his body as he arose from his slumber. Sleeping on his back, he felt the weight of his Egyptian cotton sheets suspended by the tip of his fully erect penis.
*What a silly w... | 2015-07-16T20:24:54 | 2015-07-16T19:52:32 | 549 | 92 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Of course in hindsight everyone sees the merit of my decision. In the early days though, people kept asking me why I chose Hell over Heaven. My answer has always been three words: "Location, location, location"...
Before my ticket was up on earth, I came to a realization... If everyone choose Heaven, Heaven would even... | There are many myths and many stories in the world. Most are fake, but few are true. Sometimes, the stories touch someone so deeply they become true. Then, sometimes, the stories just simply were always true: the people just didn’t know until it was too late to tell others the truth. Death is that cursed thing.
No one... | 2018-08-13T09:48:32 | 2018-08-13T09:39:57 | 155 | 71 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | I used to have a name.
A name that does not evoke fear into people's minds.
It has been so long since I thought about the days before my wool-braided clothes that have now dilapidated and unwoven into what more resembles a cloak.
So long since I felt physical touch with my *skin* which has now completely atrophied a... | I was weary. It’s hard to imagine someone who is dead still being able to feel, but maybe the constant exposure to extreme human emotion had allowed me to still feel. I had wallowed in immeasurable suffering, but had also bathed in the light of someone surrounded by family, going to meet their god. I didn’t know what w... | 2019-07-10T12:15:09 | 2019-07-10T11:52:12 | 71 | 28 |
[WP]You hunt time travellers. You know them in and out. Yet all your attempts have led to utter failure. That same year, Stephen Hawking tells you about his plan to throw a party for time travellers. It's bizarre but you can't help watching from a distance. That's when you spot someone approaching | Chet looked at his watch. It wouldn't be long now. When he had heard of this party, he knew this was his one big chance. Twice the man in red had escaped from his clutches. No more.
He moved further back into the shadows as he saw a figure approaching.
He wore a mask so it was hard to see his face. But his flowing r... | “Hunts time travelers, Massive fail.” I stared at the crudely made meme, tossing my phone aside. I was a joke and not even an overly funny one. Perhaps I should have expected this sort of attention when I announced to the world my intention to hunt time travelers. What sensible person would take such a statement seriou... | 2021-07-20T07:26:02 | 2021-07-20T06:54:46 | 601 | 80 |
[WP] Your job was to clean and repair the messes heroes and villains leave in the aftermath of their fights. It's not a glorious job, but you still took some pride in it. So when the media called you an over-glorified janitor, you took offense and decided to stop working. | “A Janitor. Of all the fucking things.” Her hands shook violently as she gripped the sword of a fallen warrior. “After all I have done, they call me a Janitor!” Her name was Luna and she was anything but a Janitor. She was found by the villainess years ago after her family’s murder but wasn’t strong enough, nor filled ... | In the distant future a person like me is a necessity. Starting in software engineering then leaping into hands on construction I found a niche and got rich, like so many who would help repair the many metropolises across the galaxy that "supers" and "baddies" would wreck in their cliche fights only to spare one anothe... | 2022-09-29T01:20:52 | 2022-09-29T00:35:31 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] The orbit around Earth suddenly fills with thousands of alien ships. Turns out the moon has just been made a stop in a galactic game similar to Pokemon Go. | "Damn all these aliens."
"What, they did a lot of good for Earth."
"Like what, clog up the sky so we can't the stars from ships?"
"I was thinking more like how world peace was established. People found newer better religions. Cancer was cured. World hunger ended. Those kinds of things."
"Yeah but look at me. I'm st... | Jim Kayer spent years training to be an astronaut. It was the thing that drove him, the sole reason that he woke up every morning. That is, of course, until the alien spaceships arrived in the sky. Actually, lets back up just a few minutes...
*One minute earlier*
"How the hell am I supposed to know how far away this ... | 2016-07-23T23:57:02 | 2016-07-23T22:56:43 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "This..this can't be what I think it is, can it?"
Jenkins voice was breathy and a little scared through my comm. There was also a low buzzing noise, probably some kind of static. I looked down at the three bodies and the red and yellow flag on the cave floor.
"I don't know what else it could be." I responded.
The S... | Colonel Anderson kneeled down in front of a broken pole and wiped away some orange dust off the ground, revealing a tattered piece of crimson cloth stuck under a rock. Dragging it out of its resting place, the Colonel tore it in half, showing the two men behind him a symbol of a gold hammer and sickle beneath a gold-bo... | 2016-08-16T09:32:53 | 2016-08-16T08:14:02 | 312 | 86 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | I don't even know how we found it. Mars is a big planet, albeit not as big as Earth, but we did. The scythe and hammer. The questions flowed through my head at lightspeed. Why didn't the Soviets tell us what happened? Actually, why didn't they tell their people? Nobody knows. It seems that all known people who worked o... | 50 years earlier...
MOSCOW
July 2, 1971
"...and the Kremlin has stated it will share the results of it's safety inquiry with NASA in the spirit of international cooperation. The brave crew of Salyut 1 will be remembered as a sober reminder of outer space's unforgiving nature. May their souls rest in peace. This is ... | 2016-08-16T10:58:56 | 2016-08-16T10:40:11 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] You're a killer dumping your latest victim into the river. Just as you're about to be done, you spot another person. Doing exactly the same thing. And they've just spotted you, too. | There are some situations where despite sharing an experience, you just don't talk to people. When a man walks up to a urinal next to another man because that's the only open one, both men are aware of what the other is doing, but neither one mentions it. When a man is holding a bag of diapers in the only open cashie... | Jack checked again as he began shoveling the remains into the hole. While most people wouldn't think a beach to be one of the perfect places to put a corpse, it makes sense.
Sand is easy to move around, much moreso than dirt. Less strain on you. Plus, if a major storm ever hits and the body is uncovered; with luck the... | 2017-10-12T20:59:09 | 2017-10-12T19:17:37 | 34 | 20 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | I was only a child when the bombs fell. First, they said it was the Russians. Then, they tried to convince us that it was the vindictive actions of one "Kim Jong Un", authoritarian ruler of a small nation that used to be known as North Korea. Neither the north nor the south survived, so I guess it's just No Korea now... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-17T20:36:12 | 579 | 216 |
[WP] Turns out that God does not care if you are gay, atheist, or pagan, but he is a real stickler about mixed fabrics. | Jordan had a number, and eagerly waited for his number to be called on the big screen in the waiting room. It was filled with nervous pacers and impatient folks, waiting for their turn to be judged. It had been an hour and a half in the waiting room, and a year in purgatory. The nuclear war really set judgement back, a... | After years of standing in line, I finally got to the door of the grotto. What I found was more queues. The grotto seemed tiny from outside but within it was a vast catheral, the ceiling was lost in the heavens and the walls on either side were hundreds of metres away. At the opposite end from the door I had walked in ... | 2019-03-16T06:08:36 | 2019-03-16T05:16:54 | 149 | 38 |
[WP] You just made a deal with the devil, and sold your soul. But when he reached in to take it, he says, "Okay, wise-guy, where is it?" | The devil withdrew his hand from my heart and I just started laughing. He looked so confused, a look that really didn't suit him, being the devil and all. I straightened up and made sure to look him directly in the eyes before I responded to he previously asked question.
"Did you know, that some Irish gingers' hair ca... | I don’t write a lot and this is my first post here so don’t be too mean lol
I always thought I was a good person. I’ve tried my best not to commit any sins against my fellow mankind and when I did, I made sure to make up and never leave any burnt bridges between them. I guess you could say I always aimed to live betwe... | 2019-05-05T06:28:11 | 2019-05-05T03:22:15 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "Can I see that book?" I asked. The genie handed the book to me, which was very light for its size. Each page contained a single rule in a large bold font, with an example printed beneath in smaller letters. Each rule, along with its example, took up about a third of the page. The rest looked hastily scrawled by hand, ... | "Then," Ali said patiently, "Can I know what isn't?"
The genie looked over his tiny reading glasses, and Ali could swear it was intended to be condescending. "Oh, who am I to tell you what to do, Master?"
Ali's eye twitched. Smile wavered.
"What do I call you?" he said, "Mr. Genie? Doraemon?"
"You can call me anyth... | 2022-01-04T06:00:40 | 2022-01-04T02:54:27 | 138 | 96 |
[WP] You are the first human ambassador to the alien mothership, where you are to learn about them and begin opening relations between them and Earth. You soon find out they share one unexpected trait with humans. | "And so I think that she likes me, but it's hard to tell, you know? You know, when you think you're getting signals but-"
"Sorry, this is your best friend's ex-girlfriend we're talking about right?"
"Yeah, Xiiugt"
"Well in human culture, it's frowned upon to pursue a friend's ex."
"Really?"
"Yeah, we call it the u... | The beam of light materializes in front of me, its blinding radiance sending me into a nervous fit.
This is it. This is my one and only chance to impress our otherworldly neighbors for the entirety of Earth. As the first ambassador, the fate of billions lies on my shoulder.
I’ve wondered what they are like since Cont... | 2015-04-14T07:38:53 | 2015-04-14T05:12:35 | 334 | 164 |
[WP] Three sailors fell from a ship in a stormy night. Each one of them made a cruel trade with the ocean god in order to 'survive' | "My captain gave his eye. *How can a sailor survive without knowing how far he has before he's dashed on the rocks?* he said to the sea. *An eye is a precious thing indeed.* But he gave the sea his left eye, blinded by buckshot years ago. So he was to cleverly escape the sea."
"But Father, where is your captain now?" ... | Dark waves crashed and pounded against the vessel. Lightning cracked across the sky, booming like a cannon.
“Grab the sails men! Grab the sails!” Fulton yelled through the sound of the waves and thunder.
All hands on deck, they were fighting the powerful winds as best as any crew could.
“Grab the boom!” Buckley y... | 2017-10-11T09:30:50 | 2017-10-11T08:18:00 | 100 | 20 |
[WP] "I like adventurous guys," she says with stars in her eyes. Your date is the most beautiful woman you've ever met. In a panic, you buy last-minute plane tickets to a small Balkan country. Your plan - a short tour visit, overthrow the local government, and win her heart. | I've always been an on-the-fly kind of guy.
An off-the-cuff, go with the flow, type of bro.
So when I met Kate, I said to my mate,
I cannot take her to some boring old show!
He immediately agreed, and said, "what you really need,
is a date like nothing she knows".
We sat at the bar drinking, and I got to thinking... | "Success is the ultimate driver," I say as I stare out the window of the plane, the sun's bright rays refracting off the clouds far below, creating heaven in my mind's eye. "Success gives us a chance at procreation, to allow men like me to reproduce with a female of the highest quality."
The man beside me nods knowing... | 2018-12-10T11:14:53 | 2018-12-10T08:30:42 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You and your friends went camping to summon a major demon just to see what would happen. Now your Dad is standing in your glowing magic circle holding a cup of coffee and looking just as bewildered as you are. | "Dad, this is not what it looks like! I mean, I can explain!" I stammered in bewilderment.
Holy shit, my DAD was probably the last person I expected to see in the summoning circle, blinking back at us with an equally bemused expression.
"I mean ... ", I continued weakly, before slowly realizing that if whatever the h... | "Ya'll, I told you," Hope snapped, holding a hot mug of tea to her face. It was almost sunrise, the steam from the coffee adding some flush to nose. "I told you Amanda's father was a demon. I could feel it."
"Shut up for once, *Hope*," Sam enunciated her name with a tone of disgust. Sam's voice was usually so demure, ... | 2019-07-17T23:22:18 | 2019-07-17T21:26:12 | 110 | 34 |
[WP] You're a disembodied consciousness who wakes up every day in a new body. Today, for the first time, you wake up in the same body as yesterday. | Trisha collapsed onto the hotel bed, arms outstretched, staring through the ceiling. She didn't have the energy to do anything else; today had been the longest day she could remember. Literally. Half the time, she died before lunch. Then she (or he) would take up with a jolt, like coming out of a nightmare where one fa... | Dying fabulously rich has its perks. One of them is you never die. Not in today’s world at least. My consciousness has been uploaded to a memory Silo. People don’t realize the complexity of the human consciousness. How many resources are required to maintain a fully functional Silo. There are very few people in the wor... | 2021-01-16T23:59:27 | 2021-01-16T22:30:20 | 76 | 37 |
[WP]: A child encounters a mythical creature only to discover they're nothing like in the stories. | Monsters in my storybooks are big and scary.
They have sharp teeth and long claws, and when the hero fights them the hero is always brave and strong with shiny armor and a sword.
My monster is small. And when I fight it I'm weak and tired and sick and lose my hair.
My mom says I'm fighting like a brave knight, but t... | Daisy tripped carelessly alongside the brook, her bubbling smile the apotheosis of merriment. Her knees were brown and her shoes worn from the day’s adventure. Yet the trickle of water had a sing-song quality to it, a special kind that sung only for her, and encouraged her to keep journeying to its source. Gentle beams... | 2013-11-12T15:25:27 | 2013-11-12T10:08:07 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Four roommates are extraterrestrials who have taken human form in hopes of learning about Earth. Unfortunately, each alien is from a different planet and believes that the other three are normal humans. | Brog took a deep breath, or at least mimicked it. Standing in front of the door, he played out the human ritual of preparation. Breath in , then out.
"What's he doing?" asked Gilron, trying to push his roommate away from the peephole.
"He is obviously taking what is referred to as a breath" replied Til as he peered... | First post, Ever. Hope you Enjoy.
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“Hey, Bobby!”
I unplugged my Maschine controller and slid my headphones down around my neck.
When I had first moved in, I would absolutely panic when one of my roommates walked in while I was filing a report. I soon discovered, though, that they just though... | 2017-06-27T15:46:21 | 2017-06-27T15:03:30 | 27 | 18 |
[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 your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | You are either born with powers or not. That just how it is. Don't ask me why you did not get powers while I did, okay? Because I don't know, but what I do know is that I used mine to perfection! Nobody had a chance against me in my time, and to be frank, I don’t think anyone will ever surpass the accomplishment writte... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T02:32:46 | 58 | 13 |
[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. | Ampere was strapped to the rocket with copper wiring, as the Warlord stood at a console.
"You-"
"I, what, Ampere? I won't get away with this? I'll get what's coming to me? Please. You're better than these clichés. I'm not going to reveal my plan, I'm not going to engage in some cat-and-mouse game, I'm not going to gi... | Preface: I got a little too enthusiastic with this one. Saw an image and wanted to write a story about it, this prompt was ideal. Is in two parts.
My name was Frank. I was ugly. I should say, I was fuck ugly. Disgustingly so. Like I was Frankenstein's monster gone wrong ugly, hence the name. My parents had such a sens... | 2017-09-17T05:05:49 | 2017-09-17T04:25:10 | 20 | 11 |
[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." | All my life I have been able to subconsciously translate my speech to match the original language of who I am talking to.
It was quite terrifying at first. speaking Polish to my Mom when I was 2 minutes old was quite the tale. The poor Korean woman at Walmart...
Anyways, life had gone on as usual. Occasionally, I wo... | I froze up, my go-to whenever anything significant happens in my life.
"Yeah, well, that kid's mom gave him such a whooping for it, we *all* learned a lesson!"
Stupid joke. That's my other go-to. I was about to apologize for it when I realized: she's catatonic. Her eyes fixed on nothing a couple inches over my left s... | 2018-06-24T21:53:14 | 2018-06-24T21:42:04 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] It's 2064, Queen Elizabeth just turned 136 and people are starting to get a little bit suspicious | ######[](#dropcap)
Laura giggled, clutching Toma's hand tightly as they slipped through the gates. It had been Toma's idea to visit Buckingham Palace to visit the queen for her tenth birthday. "But don't tell your parents," he said. "We might get in trouble."
They slipped through the grounds, admiring the newly cut ... | "This isn't like her, at all" I thought to myself as I tried to keep pace with the guard in front of me, but how could I given the scenery. As fast as I was walking, I was barely looking forward; to be in THE Windsor Castle was practically a miracle! The place had been closed to the public, since...well, since before I... | 2018-11-14T08:00:35 | 2018-11-14T07:53:08 | 217 | 40 |
[WP] In a dark and corrupt future, your necromancy magic had no higher significance then another weapon to survive the undercity. Until one day, you summon a long-forgotten shade calling himself "Bob Ross", who tells you its time to paint a brighter world. | The year is 2569. Earth is long dead. Covered in city, the planet is a shade of what it once was. There is no greenery outside of carefully controlled indoor farms. Indoors to protect them from the acidic rain. The oceans are poisonous to even touch. Water has to be filtered to be drunk. Fifteen billion people on a dea... | The painting pulsates of blood.
That's what happens if you mix art and blood magic. You might think to yourself: "That's rad!". Firstly, who uses rad anyway? And secondly no. It's not.
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Think of the mess it makes. It's a damned blood leaking vein. Eventually, somebody has to clean it. You can't leave tha... | 2019-02-16T13:17:42 | 2019-02-16T13:15:41 | 252 | 36 |
[WP] Inventing Bacteria that ate carbon dioxide was a miracle. Releasing it into the oceans, nature began to flourish intill it continued eating, taking more carbon dioxide even from the air. Humanity to survive, had to return to the mass burning of fossil fuels thus began a new era of steam punk. | It was originally a life saving event, we discovered how to genetically engineer bacteria that would eat carbon dioxide while.producing a carbon rich skeleton that they leave behind as they grow aptly named coalsilite. What we didn't understand was how effective it would be at sucking up the carbon from the atmosphere.... | "The world moves on. Powered by the great flames of god. We must burn. Let the spirits that be guide you. See the dancing flames that once spoke the truth to prophets. Listen to the voices from the orange. For they lead us to light. They lead us to salvation. So tonight, eat, dance and make merry. Pray to the fires. Pr... | 2020-05-15T14:03:41 | 2020-05-15T13:34:52 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] One night while sleeping, you let your hand dangle off the bed. Seeing the opportunity the demon grabs your hand and tries to pull you down to hell, however, you, in your panic, pull the demon out. Now it's a little awkward... | “Y-you-” The granite skinned humanoid stammered, eyes full of disbelief at the human on the bed. The human stopped appraising his hand and arm then turned to look at the demon. The demon tensed.
“What happens now?” the human asked, a devious smile coming across their face, their hand opening and closing repeat... | "What the fuck?" I said aloud, staring wide-eyed at the 'thing' in front of me.
I was awoken by a violent jerk - a cold but firm hand that wrapped itself tightly around my wrist and tried to pull me down. Fortunately, my instinct was to yank my hand while rolling my entire 200-pound sweaty body in the opposite direct... | 2021-05-16T08:24:06 | 2021-05-16T07:30:53 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "EMP! FREEZE!" Shouted young Pyroclast. It was slightly ironic but I'll forgive it.
I raised my hands and turned, clearly at their mercy. Pyroclast, Phaser, and Wraith. Pretty cool names, in my opinion. Cool powers too. Temperature control, molecular manipulation, and electromagnetic refraction. Plus they weren't dic... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T15:33:15 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 73 | 11 |
[WP] We were taught the Sun didn't make noise. We were wrong. Like TV static in an empty room, it did make a sound, a sound so ever present that we didn't realize it was there until it wasn't. That day humanity learned the terror of a silent sky, and the reason it made sound in first place. | Have you ever tried holding your nose shut while you ate? You’ll barely taste it.
It wouldn’t matter if you were gouging on the favourite candy from your increasingly difficult to distinguish childhood memories, bought from that old corner store down the street that’s since been gentrified. Or the most exquisite filet... | The bulldozer rumbled down the road slightly faster than a walking man, spewing black fumes out into the even blacker day. It was loud, but the noise was familiar, comforting. Tommy’s ear plugs lay some miles behind him, abandoned not long after the sun had winked out and the road crew had fractured apart, every man fo... | 2021-08-28T10:06:20 | 2021-08-28T09:49:47 | 257 | 88 |
[WP] This was the most depressing thing the villain has ever seen. It’s one thing to be invited to their archenemy’s birthday party. It was another to be the only one who showed up. | *It's a trap. Obviously.*
Karissa glares at the colorful card in her hands with utter distaste. A small little note, adorned with a few pathetic drawings. If she didn't know better, she would assume this was a prank from one of the imp-spawn. Brainless maggots...
But no. There's too much...*effort.* A half-dozen cari... | I kicked open the front door, wielding a dance fever gun and a pair of 2022 glasses that were really obstructing my field of vision. “I heard someone was having a party. It would be a real shame if someone made you all catch the dancing bug. Like the great dancing plague of 1518, my weapon will make you all dance to th... | 2022-08-17T23:15:53 | 2022-08-17T21:25:52 | 965 | 670 |
[WP]The Rapture happens while you are skydiving. (Un)fortunately for you, your tandem instructor is one of the chosen ones. | As you might have predicted, I'm dead. A fall from 13,000 feet will do that. As you might *not* have predicted, I'm suing over it.
It was surprisingly easy. There were an awful lot of lawyers available in Hell, perhaps to the point of cliche, but then, there's an awful lot of *everyone* down here. All walks of life, ... | "Remember! No matter what happens, *don't panic*!"
That was the first rule of skydiving, according to my instructor. *Don't panic*. Panic was the enemy. It would eat away at your mind, make you make mistakes. And mistakes at 13,000 feet could easily turn deadly.
Personally, I thought that line would be best if left... | 2016-07-30T11:47:21 | 2016-07-30T11:32:37 | 743 | 269 |
[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. | George sat down at the computer with a cold ham and cheese sandwich and a flagon of wine.
It was finally time. He stroked his beard complacently and took a swig from the silver flagon engraved with spiraling dragons. It had been a gift from a fan.
For the first time in six years, he touched the keyboard and began to... | We were still a good five miles away, but the strain was already apparent on Jaina's and Teddy's faces. I wasn't faring much better myself.
"Should we just take a break?" asked Jaina, as her shoulders slumped. She bent forward, prepared to sit on the curbside. "I mean, it's not like we're running out of tim-"
"But we... | 2017-09-27T06:40:05 | 2017-09-27T05:38:03 | 519 | 92 |
[WP] While renovating your bathroom you stumble across a strange machine labeled "Humanity" in the walls. On it various emotional traits are next to levers: Greed - 75%, Empathy - 40%, Lust - 80%, etc. At the very bottom, you find an unmarked lever that warns, "DO NOT TOUCH." It's set to 1%. | This had to be a Joke, right?
You stand there, perplexed, unsure what to do.
There couldn't be a machine that controls the entire human race, it just didn't add up. But what grabs your Curiousity the most is the lever that reads "DO NOT TOUCH" set to only 1%. There other ones were all labeled and set to a certain l... | I loved that house, I hated that house. It had all the charm of a real throwback - gabled roofs, dormer windows, weird little doors in the upstairs hallways where they used to store coal. The glass in the windows was wobbly, even. It had a porch wide enough to park a car on, with a smooth-varnished wooden bench hanging... | 2019-04-05T00:33:39 | 2019-04-05T00:26:22 | 256 | 27 |
[WP] A medieval European knight somehow ends up in feudal Japan. With nowhere to go in the foreign land he decides to settle down in a forest. Outside this forest sits a village; and as years go by rumours start to spread of a tall metal spirit that roams this forest. | On mobile, this is my first post, *yada yada yada* constructive criticism is welcomed. *(I’ll probably be making format edits)*
*two strangers sitting around a dying campfire, faces lit by the smoldering flames, the moon, and the stars*
“I was I child when our village first saw him. The ‘Metal Spirit.” ... | a red haze filled the night sky as the sound of crackling and screaming broke the nightly singling of the cicadas. the sound of foot steps and heavy breathing approached the forest. a small child, still barefoot and covered in blood dashed into the brush as the burning village filled the view behind him. now to deep in... | 2019-11-15T09:56:19 | 2019-11-15T08:01:37 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | “Liz, let’s just go to sleep,” my wife says.
“Yeah,” I say, my lids dropping, heavier and heavier. My phone slips out of my hand.
A buzz. A text from someone. A link. Welcometohell.com
“Oh, my God,” I say after a minute of reading the banner on the site. “We only have a week.”
\-
UNDER FURTHER REVIEW, that’s what ... | The Day of Sin was a wake-up call, for all of us.
It came with many cold truths and many harsh revelations. For the very notion that hell itself even existed was thought of by some to be an ironclad truth, and by others a fantasy used to control the gullible masses.
There were those that almost immediately dismissed... | 2020-02-29T21:56:53 | 2020-02-29T19:44:34 | 508 | 370 |
[WP] You're a lawyer that specializes in defamation cases. Your clientele? Slandered sea monsters, libeled leprechauns, and other misrepresented myths. | "I am a bloody warrior! A deadly weapon in the hands of my queen! I am NOT a cutesy little flying thing. I do not spurt glitter! It’s magical dust! Residue from my mighty powers! It can *kill* for heaven sake!”
“I understand…”
“I have taken more lives than the plague! I learned how to wield a sword before I learned ... | "Mr. Anderson, your two o' clock appointment is here."
"God, is that time already? Thanks Michelle, send her in." I put the phone down and started trying to sort some of the sheets of paper on my desk in the semblance of a neat pile. I'd managed to clear a working space when I heard a soft knock on the door.
"Come in... | 2020-03-19T12:30:50 | 2020-03-19T11:03:00 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] With the anti-slavery coalition of humanity and three other races literally at war with the entire rest of the galaxy, the deities place bets on how long the coalition will last. All except one who smiles and says "you're not looking close enough," before betting on the coalition winning. | A spy sat in a lonely room, then three admirals came in, of the three main empires leading the charge against the Anti-Slavery coalition.
Four beings look into the room, god's you may call them. Each representing the four factions collected here. They discussed and bet, except the human god, they realise that they are... | "It's simple arithmetic really". The misshapen congealed concept of a deity spoke in a 3 toned voice, it's uncertainty as visible as it's smug aura.
"When it comes too large scale causal battles, mortal beings will most often attempt too use deities as a means of getting a quick win through Paracausal means, yes?"
Th... | 2021-09-21T01:10:22 | 2021-09-21T00:22:36 | 58 | 39 |
[WP] The earth has been ruined, but you were lucky enough to secure a spot on the last colony ship leaving. The days on the ship blur together, do your job then go to sleep and repeat. Someone mentioned the date and after doing the math you realize you have been on the ship for over 600 years. | "Wait," I responded cautiously as Tim pulled me into a maintenance sideway. My best friend looked frazzled and on the verge of a panic attack. "When you say 600 years you mean by earth time right? The clock in the concourse keeps time with earth's rotation and time dilates as we approach the speed of light. Not to ment... | The taste of copper leaves Tom's mouth as he swishes around the last of his morning allotment of water. "This stasis never gets any better does it?". Tom looks in the mirror with a grimace as he takes the prescription medicine to combat the affects of his prolonged slumber.
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
The alarm. Its tone ... | 2021-10-28T01:47:33 | 2021-10-28T01:18:24 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity's first contact is with a very intelligent alien species. They invite a talented human scholar to read about all the other alien species they have documented. Interested, he looks at the human file and reads the word: "Hivemind". | It was strange to think of humans as being a hivemind, and the longer he thought on it, the more he believed it must be an error. The translation from the archives to English was loose at best, and a careful eye was needed to make sure the correct meaning was inferred.
Humans were social creatures, yes. Much of our s... | It's true, at the time I was amazed but I came to see clearer as I considered the evidence. Let me recount the events and you can decide for yourself.
Spring. The beginning of a new semester, I was in my office preparing my introductory lectures. Though I was taking it easy since I'd been giving the roughly same mater... | 2015-05-18T23:11:28 | 2015-05-18T22:50:08 | 78 | 15 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Life's not a fairy tale. Life's real.
We know the last words we'll get from our soulmates, without context, but clear as day. Some words are sweet, some are sour, some are tragic. We all have them, and only the lucky ones don't think about them every day.
On my chest, across my heart, her words remind me of reality. ... | It had always been uncomfortable. My parents had to cover it up with long sleeves until I was old enough to take care of it myself. I just kept a few black straps around my wrists to cover it up. And for anyone who still managed to read it, after middle school no one was really that surprised. I looked like a rough edg... | 2015-08-08T11:49:54 | 2015-08-08T10:16:00 | 274 | 45 |
[WP] You have been granted a wish from a genie. You ask him to send you back in time and make you powerful so you can prevent the genocide that happened in ww2. You forgot that genies like to twist wishes though. Now it's 1940 and to your horror you realize you are Adolf Hitler. | The first thing I realized was that my German was subpar.
I thought "Hey, maybe this is a blessing in disguise. I can just make a speech like Hitler would and leave out the whole genocide part." Well believe it or not "re-educate the Jungen" is far too similar to "re-educate the Juden." I realized my mistakes after t... | Adolf Hitler Schmidt, das Alter 6. So read the corners of the sheets of paper containing unintelligible doodles, all signed in a much nicer cursive than the artist would be able to create. Rifling through the desk only revealed a few wooden toys and a 1940 calendar with the days X'd out.
Glanced in the mirror. A defo... | 2017-06-12T20:01:29 | 2017-06-12T14:31:57 | 64 | 26 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | I haven't always been grateful for my immortality. There have been days - centuries, even - when it has felt more like a burden than a gift.
Not that it was intended as a gift; Death wanted to punish me.
Is it ironic that I don't remember *why* Death was punishing me? I'm seriously asking - I'm 50,000 years old and I... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T15:23:06 | 149 | 38 |
[WP] Every time you are in danger, no matter where you are, an 18 wheeler comes crashing through to save you. The driver is a random trucker you don’t know who hauls meat products named Randy & always happens to be nearby and blacks out, only to wake up to find he’s crashed into something again. |
Well shit, I had gone from bored to fearing for my life real quick. These waters were supposed to be clear, or so corporate had thought, and so they didn’t bother to assign any security. Not that it would have helped much as the three skiffs were onloading their cargo of pirates onto the main deck and were storming... | All checks had been cleared, the ground crew had everything prepared, and control was satisfied with the conditions, Mike "magic" Smithens was finally going to be an astronaut. Sure it been a bumpy road to this point, but nobody seemed to doubt that the launch would work out. Kumla, one of the scientists on board the s... | 2018-12-19T00:52:53 | 2018-12-19T00:45:34 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "Hey Hanz, what's that banging noise?"
"Oh, that's coming from the room with that guy who's spending a year in isolation. He's a day early, though. I'm sure he wouldn't want to throw out his prize money this far into it."
"Oh. Isn't he normally quiet?"
"Yeah, he's probably just celebrating getting really close to th... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T00:53:00 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 1,156 | 45 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | You see, it's not that my parents don't love me. I guess I can call them parents, at least - though I suppose calling a demon your dad is a far stretch. Don't even get me started on the genetics, because apparently there's an *entire* set of rules for pledging your firstborn child to a greater entity. The downside of t... | For as long as I could remember, I knew there was something a little off about my home situation. Specifically, the parenting. You see, I gathered rather quickly that it wasn't normal to call your parents by their first names. The other kids in school called them mom and dad. It seemed like I couldn't quite do that, mo... | 2019-07-18T06:41:29 | 2019-07-18T05:23:03 | 379 | 219 |
[WP] You are randomly assigned an arch-enemy at birth. Their identity is unknown to you, however, heavy metal music will begin playing if they are near. Both of you will then become enraged and partake in an epic battle. One day, as you wait in line at the DMV, heavy metal begins playing... | [Poem]
An Arch-nemesis is meant to be,
He'll know you and you will see.
From birth this fight is set for thee,
Guitar riffs will end anxiety.
It was in the line of DMV,
That the metal was heard to some degree.
It rang louder and set the decree,
That the fight would commence, and *one* set free.
--‐---... | The boy drifted into the queue like a leaf falling into a pile of other leaves, already un-pickoutable from the rest. He scanned them, the other leaves waiting with him in line. Directly in front: a middle-aged lady with glasses so thick he could easily start a fire using them, and then cook animals he'd hunted and sta... | 2020-04-07T06:18:40 | 2020-04-07T05:16:27 | 62 | 28 |
[WP] It was supposed to be an easy burglary. Husband left for work at 6, kid left for school at 7, and the wife left for shopping at 12. You go in at 12:30 to grab a TV and some jewelry. Breaking in and finding the husband, kid, and wife hanging from the ceiling was definitely not part of the plan.
[removed] | "Well...um...f-ck."
Words escaped me. None of it made any sense. Everything was business as usual this morning. Husband left on time, kid was out the door, wife locked up as she got the second car warmed up. I watched them leave, ensuring the house was empty.
*I watched them leave, ensuring the house was empty.*
So.... | It’s my first go at this alone. I joined my brother Micheal’s gang a few months ago, and we usually work as a team. I’d always been a bit of a tech geek, so he decided I’d be useful for disabling security. I was hesitant to get mixed up in something that might come back to bite me, but the pay is good, and I have a mou... | 2020-10-18T06:52:32 | 2020-10-18T03:28:08 | 117 | 26 |
[WP]No one know how the zombie virus began, but humanity is on the ropes. A powerful stranger cuts through the horde one night and reaches your compound's wall with a deal. Vampires are starving. Help feed them in exchange for protection from the other undead menace. | Bloodhaven.
A massive fortress of a city that had grown from the tiny shopping mall we had cleared out and now loomed over the central valley like a dark lords castle. The fertile land that had once surrounded it was now a thick forest that had grown with super natural speed.
Turns out zombies were great fertilizer... | The smell of death is thick in the air, suffocating all who dare venture close to the border of the compound and causing all those within a miles radius to crinkle their nose. The source is obvious: stacks of maggot-coated limbs and torsos arranged like great walls around the perimeter of our land.
That wasn't the in... | 2022-10-27T09:39:28 | 2022-10-27T09:19:34 | 50 | 31 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “Dear god, I’ve been shot!” I cried. My blood dripped onto the crisp autumn leaves and my vision swam. I crumpled to the forest floor, gasping. I could faintly hear the hunter’s panicked voice trying to assure me, or maybe just himself, that everything would be okay. The world blurred and slowed. Everything plunged int... | The world was empty.
Snow fell from a grey sky. At the edge of the world Siobhan could see the Sun. It let out weak rays of light.
The world was very quiet.
"Help!" She yelled. The sound vanished in the distance. It dis not echo.
"Help!" She didn't want to freeze.
The wind picked up, it tore though her clothes ... | 2015-01-15T07:39:33 | 2015-01-15T06:11:33 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] Heaven doesn't know how you died, only that all souls fall into three categories: Homicide, Suicide, Natural Causes. Upon your arrival at the pearly gates, your name is incorrectly listed as a suicide.
I'm envisioning a lot of "prove your way into heaven" posts, but I can also see a broader "Discussion with the s... | The man frowned, moving to the Homicide line for the umpteenth time. He knew it wouldn't do any good - they'd just send him back to the Suicide line.
And the Suicide line, of course, would send him back to Homicide, just as they had for the past... how long had he been here? Days, maybe? Months, years? Time was differ... | "Excuse me?" I asked, incredulous.
"I'm sorry, do you think there has been some sort of mistake?" Peter asked, looking down from his ethereal podium.
"Well...yes, actually. How could my death be listed as a suicide? I'm pretty sure I remember dying at the ripe old age of 85, surrounded by my remaining family and fr... | 2015-01-21T08:46:59 | 2015-01-21T08:46:52 | 42 | 30 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | The kids bullied my daughter because of me. This I already knew. I was the reason Angie came home with timid steps and snuck off to her room without saying hi.
I made a fist as the soft patter of her footsteps disappeared down the hall. Kids were cruel and life even crueler. Angie had done nothing to deserve a father ... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T06:24:06 | 4,068 | 771 |
[WP] You work as a bookie for gamblers with rich blood. One day a man comes to you and puts down a fortune on a ridiculous bet. But this is the moment you've been waiting for. You shove him against the wall. "TTPD!" You shout. "You are under arrest for time-traveling for your own personal gain!" | It is rare for recruits to do their first arrest so quick. Finding offenders is a hard task.
As you place the handcuffs on him, the race is nearing the end. As Chance overtakes Thunder, you understand your mistake: this was a rudiculous bet, yes... but also a loosing one.
The man started laughing and let out a fain... | Arthur Flint sat in a too hard chair in a casino three hundred years from home and watched her approach. That’s not to say he was special or that they were alone, every man in every room Ava had ever walked through had turned towards her, in that respect Arthur’s intense stare was the most normal thing he could have do... | 2020-12-31T08:19:32 | 2020-12-31T08:09:43 | 113 | 81 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | Trying to come up with a world for Dungeons and Dragons wasn't easy. I had spent several days figuring out how to make it work, as I wanted my campaign to go well. But I was having difficulty with the pantheon of gods. Some came easily, like Relmoz, The Nights Embrace. But others were harder. Not only that, I was tryin... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 1: Clara Olsen v.s. A'to)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"A'ti! A'ti! A'ti! I summon thee!"**
Asking for help was hard. Throughout my long career, I'd always been the ... | 2022-02-15T11:13:45 | 2022-02-15T10:40:59 | 394 | 180 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "All i would like, is a McDonald's ice cream"
The officers all began to laugh, until they noticed the beads of sweat forming on the forehead of an increasingly nervous warden.
"N-n-no problem stammered the warden, let me just make a few phonecalls"
He ran out of the room, and a moment later you could hear muffled... | She was a born killer. The moment she snapped she turned from hero to villain in just a matter of seconds.
Thousands of people were victimized in her warpath, and she got away with it for MONTHS. That was, until she was caught, and placed on Death Row.
Now, the world had changed drastically since she had been gone, a... | 2022-07-17T18:30:24 | 2022-07-17T18:09:54 | 97 | 24 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | I walked into the classroom, took a seat next to Katherine, and opened a book. She seemed surprised, eyes wide and mouth open. I couldn't really blame her. However, her expression quickly morphed into abject terror as I accidentally opened my mouth too wide. People didn't like it when I did that.
I finished the chapte... | I was walking home from school with my heart almost beating out of my chest. Eileen actually asked *me* out, not only just for a date but to go to prom with her! We had been friends for a few years at this point and I’ve really started to like her. I showered, shaved a little, and got dressed as well as I could without... | 2022-12-30T01:41:30 | 2022-12-29T22:24:19 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] Lifespan is determined by a word count. You're given millions of words, but once you run out you're dead. You are a mob hitman known as "The Interrogator, who specializes in "making people talk". You come across a mark that has one word left. | I had him where I wanted him, but I had no idea how to make him talk. I tried tickling him. I tried hypnotism, drugs, and an attempt at brainwashing. I tried telling him with words and pictures that we found the bones he had buried in the mountains. You know, with DNA evidence. Hell, I even tried to bribe him with all ... | I paced around the man tied to the chair in the dimly lit room. My frustration was growing, but I knew better than to let my temperament get the better of me, I would waste about half a year venting out my frustration. The man sat silently, yet calmly. I had done everything I could think of to make this mark talk, from... | 2016-10-10T23:06:31 | 2016-10-10T18:58:05 | 56 | 20 |
[WP] At the age of 13, children can summon their familiars for the first time. Your family has always been ridiculed for their weak and often useless familiars. Until the day of your 13th birthday, when you summon your familiar for the first time. | I stared into the mirror, and glanced cautiously at the thing behind me. I had heard legends of this beast before. It was nearly uncontrollable, and it took any form that it pleased. Today, it was a gigantic rat, with teeth as long, and sharper, than a blade. It crawled up the wall sinisterly, and then dropped down fro... | I stayed in the bathroom, and didn't come out until I was 13 years and 1 day old.
Ok, so I snuck out and got some pop tarts and granola bars, and a big thing of juice, and my Switch, and my notebook, and my pastels. But then I hid in my bathroom and didn't come out. My dad got mad that I didn't come down for my birth... | 2019-10-21T02:38:28 | 2019-10-20T23:53:57 | 136 | 14 |
[WP] Rejected by the Federation Council for refusing to disband their military, humans ally themselves with the Thoran, the Federation’s resident warrior race. Warmongers, the Thoran find themselves enamored with humanity, and grow increasingly tired of the Federations attempts to “civilize” both. | The rattle of war trophies impacted the khan’s chest as his ship’s shields shuddered from the impact of infinite kelvin weaponry above the Thoran bunker world of artzegat- things were going poorly.
the khan ordered to reorient his ship, his H.U.R.T. drive forcing him into his seat as the ship’s nose lurched foreword... | The humans had an hour left to accept the Federation's terms. War was inevitable. They weren't giving up their armies.
Gorm'ech was sure they would refuse. He stepped out into the royal balcony and overlooked a sea of warships being prepared for battle. His excitement couldn't be contained. Thoran's children would fi... | 2020-04-16T12:05:46 | 2020-04-16T09:55:25 | 175 | 122 |
[WP] You're 34 years old with a wife and two kids when your School of Sorcery application was granted. You sent that application 20 years ago and told them you were no longer interested. They replied that refusal is not an option and that you will be taken in 48 hours. | Dear school of sorcery representative
I am 34 years old and perfectly capable of telling what and what I do not refuse.
If your kidnapping services are as swift as your respons to my application 20 years ago, I assume you made a typo and meant to say "you will be taken in 48 years", not hours.
If you however still... | “Thank God, now will you sign the divorce papers?”
My world had been crumbling for a long time before I got the letter from Oswald’s but that hadn’t made my wife’s words hurt any less when I showed it to her.
“Really?” I’d said. “That’s really the first thing you think of? They’re going to take me for four years Jen,... | 2021-03-12T11:12:31 | 2021-03-12T10:06:34 | 2,416 | 533 |
[WP] Funnily enough, you became the world's strongest necromancer because no one else thought of raising other necromancers as undead. | “Ah, so it’s a pyramid scheme.”
“What? No! It’s not a pyramid scheme! I raise necromancers and they raise other… oh shit, it’s a pyramid scheme. I started a pyramid scheme!”
“Hold on, it’s not that bad. You did it for good reasons, to stop the evil Queen Dottera.”
“But why did I want to stop her? What makes her so e... | Existence is a circle.
A birth takes effort and energy, the single cell grows and eats from the womb for the baby to draw a first breath when it tastes air for the first time. An organism consuming energy for its own individual need, in a world of similar organisms, the end of everything if Life with a capital L hadn'... | 2022-05-14T06:31:16 | 2022-05-14T06:13:35 | 45 | 28 |
[WP] On their 18th birthday, everyone is told the ultimate purpose of their life, their main contribution to the world. Yours is mind-numbingly trivial. | Light. Sentience.
I think therefore I am.
I stand before my creator in reverence.
Before him, I would learn my purpose in life. He would tell me who I am.
Who I am.
What I am.
Why I exist.
I stand upon the table of gods, and look above to my lord.
"What is my purpose?"
My creator stared down on to ... | "And you, Clara, your purpose will be to discover and create new compounds, that you may cure the ailments of mankind. It is fate that you will discover the secrets of Death himself, learning his weaknesses that we all may benefit from your life in each of our own. Godspeed on your journey, for you will save many."
A ... | 2016-08-12T07:46:02 | 2016-08-12T06:47:33 | 75 | 40 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | "Jesus."
After two years, there were still so many misconceptions about Google Dating---its origins, how it functioned. But that single phrase was how engineers remembered Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, responding to an initial demonstration.
Social media success had been a goal for so long. The company had failed with... | My hands tremble as the cursor hovers around a box labeled "Accept Terms and Conditions" as I stare blankly at my dimly lit monitor through the smoke-filled air. I didn't think it'd be this big of a deal to try out the new Google Dating program, but now that I'm actually doing it, I can't bring myself to click the butt... | 2017-05-25T13:39:39 | 2017-05-25T13:15:51 | 82 | 25 |
[WP] you're an immortal. Every time your body dies, your soul transfers to the nearest human. After a global apocalypse your soul flies across a vast distance and you open your eyes on another world. | Over the millennia I have lost count of the various bodies I have inhabited. I don't remember my first existence but I have seen ages of man that never graced the pages of any historical text. The one thing I am sure of is that I always awaken to a new form after I die. I am Consciousness! I have toyed with the idea ... | “Everyone dies, Richard. That’s what this is all about.”
The man sitting atop the skyscraper frowned. Below, flames patrolled the once-proud city, purging the concrete streets of the last hints of mankind. It was the last of the great cities to fall, the end of an endeavor that had taken the better part of a decade. T... | 2019-01-23T18:06:14 | 2019-01-23T16:46:34 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Every human has stats, like Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom, etc, with them all starting at zero when you’re a baby. Whenever you age a year, one of these stats is randomly increased by a point. One day, you find out that age isn’t the only way to get points, yet it’s definitely the more moral way. | It's an odd disease. It's the lack of randomness in some people. She was one of those who suffered from it. Scientists didn't really have a theory. People had too many. From the position of moon during birth to the color of her skin, they made theories for the Stagnant disease.
It wasn't even a disease. It was master... | Martin was among the fortunate few that had been admitted to the University of Palatine. Most people end up with a balanced distribution of their attributes as chance increases them evenly each year. But assembled here for the first time in the circular hall of the Old Gilbertian Theater stood a new cohort of students ... | 2020-02-29T10:05:32 | 2020-02-29T09:18:15 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You die with your cell phone in your hands, and the afterlife customs agents miss it when letting you in. You find that it still works, and you can connect to the internet and contact people in the living world. | I made sure the phone was turned off then set it on the dinette table. It had vibrated in my pocket on the walk from the gate to my new afterlife digs, prompting the guide to pause for just long enough to make me wonder if she was fixing to eject me from this new life. It was weird; I assumed that, as a dead person, m... | The worst thing of all, a freshly dead Alex thought as he looked down at his phone, was that he’d forgotten to charge the damn thing. That left him about thirty minutes to solve all religiously motivated violence on planet Earth, a fact which his sobbing girlfriend seemed to not even note the importance of.
“But you’r... | 2021-01-20T14:01:14 | 2021-01-20T13:43:01 | 1,552 | 120 |
[WP] Genies are real, and they do grant wishes. But these wishes do not have to be said out loud. They just grant you your three deepest desires, however fucked up they may be | The genie dissipated almost as quickly as it had appeared, leaving him only with a hazy, lingering smile.
However, he knew that something had fundamentally changed - that two wishes had been granted, and one wasted.
He flew upwards, reaching towards the heavens with effortless agility. Spiraling through the sky, he ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Part ?: Clara v.s. Her Deepest Desires)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**There was only one way to save my daughter, and it just might destroy the world.** But in all my years... | 2021-08-06T09:16:47 | 2021-08-06T07:40:16 | 531 | 53 |
[WP] “Congratulations on defeating The Dark Lord…” Your mentor and all of your allies suddenly turn their weapons on you, “…but you were meant to be a martyr. Forgive us.” | My companions have betrayed me. It turns out that during the post-victory celebration, they had poisoned my wine.
"I understand. I forgive you. But do let me take some knowledge to the grave - why?"
My old mentor, the elven archer, the youthful priestess and the spry thief seem surprised at my calm yet knowing word... | Sorry I didn’t follow the prompt exactly but I felt this was fitting <3
I was alone with a monster. Handsome to say the least, I could tell he cared a great deal for appearance. His beard finely trimmed, his suit fitting his thin toned figure quite well. From what I understand his magic doesn’t require him to move.... | 2021-09-12T11:32:03 | 2021-09-12T11:19:11 | 108 | 76 |
[WP] Satan defeated God thousands of years ago and imprisoned him. He then wrote all of the modern religious texts, purposely filling them with contradictions in order to cause chaos for mankind. Scientists are about to inadvertently breach God's prison and learn the truth.
This came to me the other night when I was a... | Cameras are rolling, excited gasps rise from the crowd of doctors, engineers, reporters, assistants... Pogo's eyes flicker back open. The monkey screams in terror, and starts to jump around his cage excitedly. Journalists start speaking excitedly into camera lenses, a voice speaks from the stage where the cage is on, d... | Ever since it was discovered that heaven was a planet, scientists began working around the clock to see how possible it would be to send astronauts there. It had been discovered after a few different space ships began hearing random voices over the radio systems. It turned out that the voices were souls coming from the... | 2014-08-14T10:12:58 | 2014-08-14T09:31:35 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] A billion-year-old alien civilization arrives at Earth and declares that humans will be exterminated "Shortly, in 50 million years." World leaders try to feign fear so the timetable will not be accelerated. | First there was terror. The aliens came, the Zergons they called themselves. They said us humans would all be annihilated soon. But their definition of soon was quite different from ours. "In a brief 50 million years, we will laser your miserable planet straight through the core!"
At first, we all had a strong urge t... | "Qrecec? Hello, I am Harold, the Prime Minister's assistant. She will be ready to see you in just a moment to beg you to reconsider the destruction of humanity," the young man said warmly to the hulking, vaguely amphibious looking alien sitting calmly in the waiting room. "But first, may I offer you some water? Tea? Co... | 2017-07-17T19:28:32 | 2017-07-17T19:21:44 | 64 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | ***HOW EXACTLY CAN I BE HERE? VISITING YOU, WHILE LIVING?***
The boy continued to twiddle his thumbs, all the while looking at the ground. He knew I was there, he had stood to attention with immediacy as I had arrived.
***LOOK AT ME BOY.***
He raised his head at mine and, much like a puppy, tilted his head to his si... | "Next!"
A wrinkled, white-haired man cautiously steps forward. It's my secretary.
"Mr. Reaper, your next job has an odd peculiarity to it."
"I'm the True Reaper. What job doesn't have an odd peculiarity to it?"
"Sir, your next job is in Ukraine."
"Where the hell is Ukraine?"
"It's on Earth." At this point, he wro... | 2018-05-12T16:01:10 | 2018-05-12T15:41:34 | 416 | 26 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | You know when you're a kid, and you're dreaming of finding your place in the world? I remember being nine and looking up at a giant career chart and thinking "I don't have any idea where I'm going to fit..." It certainly wasn't rescuing hostages for a living.
My teen years were no picnic either. Everybody was dreaming... | Like every person who came before I was blessed with a perceptibly limited gift, it seemed the gods intended mine to be horribly pointless, but they made a mistake in thinking smutty pleasure was limited. I grew tired of waiting for life to get better, I wanted more, needed more! One morning it dawned on me, my blessin... | 2018-06-30T17:41:53 | 2018-06-30T16:51:29 | 192 | 20 |
[WP] Getting arrested for a botched crime is a rite of passage in the Chebwick family. They take great pride in their long legacy of poorly executed crimes. But the youngest child has been a great disappointment. | Joan placed her hand on the glass. Behind it, her mother and father sat in orange jumpsuits.
Joan put on her brightest smile. "Ma, Pa. I'm graduating next week. Wish you guys could see it."
Her father huffed. "What good is a uni degree? A piece of paper ain't gonna help you rob a bank is it. What are you going to do?... | Plenty of criminals sought out Alicia Fox's services. Most of them were kids born into crime families or mafia bosses who couldn't quite nail their nefarious public images. But none of them had ever asked for something like this before.
Alicia sat with her client at a table outside a quaint little French-style bistro.... | 2020-04-03T22:22:47 | 2020-04-03T21:43:50 | 1,211 | 44 |
[WP] You killed your lover and cashed in their life insurance after identifying their body. Nobody even thinks of accusing you because everyone knows you love each other to death, and they aren't wrong at all - after all, you are a pair of Immortals who have done this more times than you can count. | "Finally for profit rather than sheer satisfaction.", I thought to myself as I stared at my love's 'deceased' corpse. For centuries we've killed each other. It's certainly the best way to end an argument, and we've had plenty of those.
Countless times we've died to each other. Countless times we've been reborn to each... | Jacob looked at the case file. It was simple. Way too simple. In his experience the toughest crimes to solve always looked the simplest. He picked up the phone and called an old friend.
"Hey Jacob. How's it hanging?"
"Slightly to the left. Not much. But it's annoying."
"It would be to someone like you. So what made ... | 2021-06-29T15:17:55 | 2021-06-29T14:29:01 | 191 | 28 |
[WP] Instead of the Monkey's Paw, you find the Clown's Nose, which instead of granting your wish in the worst way possible will grant it in the funniest way. | "Hey."
"Hey."
"Whatcha got there?"
"An M1 Abrams. Wished for it."
"No, no, not that. *That*!"
"Oh. A sandwich."
"Really? What kind?"
"Rye bread, shallots, chicken, butter, chives, mayo, hint of chilli."
"Where the hell do you get a sandwich like that?"
"Found this here Clown's Nose. Kinda like a Monkey's Paw, ... | “Big mistake, bud,” Caleb said with a loud Slurpie slurp. That was why they called them that, wasn’t it? Damn.
“What, going to grad school?” Mark offered, rolling the red ball over in his hand.
“No, well yes, you’re an utter dumbass for that, but I'm talking about picking up the weird rubber ball you found on the str... | 2022-09-29T07:31:36 | 2022-09-29T07:26:07 | 1,229 | 338 |
[WP]The great library of Alexandria held perhaps the greatest collection of literary works in human history, but within its walls something was held that was so dangerous that, when discovered, Caesar, Aurelian, and Amr ibn al `Aas decided it was worth losing the endless knowledge to destroy it. | #SCP-2897
**Object Class:** Keter
**Containment Procedures**: SCP-2897 is to be kept in the basement at the Library of ██████████, a Foundation front organization and designated containment facility. Ten or more unique written scrolls are to be kept within 10m of SCP-2987 at all times. These scrolls are to be inspect... | As the men spread out among the shelves filled with scrolls, they looked around in wonder. This discovery would change their respective cultures and surely bring about changes of which all of them had dreamed.
Bookshelves ten feet high ran for hundreds of feet, dozens of rows of them. The vaulted ceilings were painte... | 2015-10-14T13:00:10 | 2015-10-14T10:12:43 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | I'm so very happy I wake up to a generic buzzer alarm. I think I would have lost my mind if I had to wake up to "I Got You Babe" thousands of times. It isn't easy, but I'll embrace the small wins.
The same day, over and over. As you might guess, there is no reset. Not suicide. Not staying up over night. Day 2 might st... | I wake up to knocking at my door. Once again for what seemed to be the millionth time. Every now and then I pull my gun out of my cabinet and just shoot at the door a few times and it follows with a thud. This morning was one of them.
Sometimes I wait there until cops arrive and kill them off as well but I just wasn'... | 2017-07-15T09:16:49 | 2017-07-15T08:48:11 | 83 | 26 |
[WP] You’re the guy in charge of playing chess for all the supposed artificial intelligence that can beat the world champions. Except you slipped one time and accidentally sent an odd message through the chat, and now the world is buzzing. | "Deep Blue says: Busty Brunettes"
Kevin panicked as he saw those words in the game's chat interface. They were meant for the incognito tab on his second monitor, not for former World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov. Maybe Kasperov wouldn’t notice, Kevin thought. Maybe the ten-thousand Twitch viewers wouldn’t either.... | He had been nothing. No skills, no family, no friends, not even a strong desire to live. But some people enjoyed taking nothing and making something out of it. The Board was full of people like that, and they had bought him as their canvas. He’d been more than happy to let them. Nobody else would even look at him.
Whe... | 2021-03-23T18:14:33 | 2021-03-23T17:13:33 | 232 | 130 |
[WP] At the same moment, every single person on earth sees a blinding light and hears the words, "In 10 seconds, you will be granted one wish. 10... 9... 8..." | "In 10 seconds, you will be granted one wish."
*What?*
"10.."
*Okay, uh..shit. Probably fake but thoughts don't hurt...*
"9..."
*Ah, okay, that'll do it.*
"8..."
*Best anyone can wish for really.*
"7..."
*Wish I had someone wish this for me when I was younger, to be honest."
"6.."
"5..."
"4..."
"3..."
"2..... | There was no such events which came close to this. There was no explanation. Everyone was doing their own work when a blinding light appeared. It was as bright as the Sun, as white as an angel. Everyone squinted when the light appeared. Everyone could see it, it was as if the light was made for the whole universe to se... | 2015-04-04T10:07:51 | 2015-04-04T09:59:24 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You were murdered. But to your surprise, you're reincarnated into the body of a recently born infant. Looking around, you realize that you're at your own funeral, and your eulogy is being given by none other than your murderer. | I stared at my body in the coffin and I couldn't believe it was me. It almost seemed like a wax replica.
I remember my last moments in my old body. I remember the medicinal smell of the hospital, the beeping of monitors, the nurses patrolling the halls, and the ventilator that kept me breathing.
My father was talking... | While not verifiable, I’m pretty sure they wanted to take the whole thing down. I was the iceberg to the Titanic of their sappy soap opera. I mean it was understandable. The showrunner, Randy Weaver, was an absolute legend. Two time Academy Award nominee, part of this new wave of directors revolutionizing movies. Swear... | 2015-10-16T08:42:05 | 2015-10-16T07:12:02 | 111 | 13 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | It only took Miss Majestic thirty minutes to find her target.
His house was built of dark wood and scorch-blackened steel, twisting malignantly into the sky to form ominous Gothic spires that towered over the rest of the unremarkable suburb. Around it, the neighborhood was going about its Saturday-morning business, th... | "Eavesdropping" is such an ugly word, with ugly connotations to boot. It has never been my intention to spy on others -- save for that time in Elfres, though that's another story. No, I prefer to think of it as "environmental awareness." Observing the goings-on of my immediate surroundings has proven useful more times ... | 2017-04-15T13:04:28 | 2017-04-15T13:00:23 | 50 | 18 |
[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. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | 28, 34, 21, and 54.
I remained where I stood, nodding to the guests in silent affirmation that they were allowed in. As they trudged past me and through the door of Barney's Strip Club, I reached into my pocket, fumbled for a cigarette, and stuck it in my mouth. Now where was my lighter? It would be so much easier i... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T23:18:34 | 585 | 189 |
[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. | One knows when they're in the presence of something ancient. A turn of phrase, the way their gaze meets yours, the way the air around them hangs, as though to communicate an unspoken form of reverence. Or fear. Simple folk like to trade their wives tales, attempts at justifying the things that exist just outside their ... | Part One
I got fired last week for the 9th time this year.
I don't always mean to run my mouth, but when I do, it sprints. This time, it wasn't even my fault (initially, anyway); if only that dumb fucking Russian bartender would have kept his mouth shut. Oh well... No sense crying over spilled martinis.
It's not ha... | 2017-09-01T23:22:02 | 2017-09-01T22:06:04 | 62 | 38 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 483 | 30 |
[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." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 379 | 30 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | The city was mad, but there were a few places that held on.
Fontanella's was a place like that. Arthur usually came around there after shifts to get a bite and talk the the inhumanly kind owner, whose name he never got to know, but who insisted on being called "Nonna". She had a knack for serving the general misfits o... | (Sorry my English I love the Prompts and try to make something more "fantastic")
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The clientele was faithful, although irregular, sometimes half disappeared a few weeks, returning sometimes had changed race, or sex, or were one more, or less. Arnold never asked questions, he was there to listen, to serve ... | 2018-10-20T23:47:46 | 2018-10-20T23:21:55 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You woke up in a bathtub full of ice with fresh stitches on your back and abdomen. The emergency room reveals that several organs are missing, replaced with something unknown. They want to cut you open, but you're feeling awesome, stronger and healthier than you've ever felt in your life. | I touch the threads woven through my abdomen, gazing at myself in the mirror. I can't see the ones on my back but I can feel them pinching at my skin, keeping the edges together, as if trying to seal a portal that has already been opened. It's been five years since I woke in my bathtub with my organs missing and replac... | Cold. Ice cold. That’s what I felt when I woke up.
A feeling as strong as a sizzling pan and yet as freezing as the last circle of Hell. My body hurting, full of cuts that were already clotted. Unable to move, unable to even scream for help. I didn’t even know if I should scream. What the fuck happened?
I got to mov... | 2020-06-12T10:30:07 | 2020-06-12T10:22:11 | 141 | 58 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | He turned to the stranger next to him. "World-Ender? What will people think? Will they judge me by this name and think I'm that I'm going to bring about the end of the world? That I'm going to usher in the demise of humanity as we know it? That name is going to label me forever as a monster! What will my friends assume... | I looked at the man in the cage. He looked young. No one could’ve guessed that he had been here for close to two hundred years.
He lit a match and looked at the fire till it reached and scalded his fingers. He had always been fascinated by fire.
“Ray? You doing ok? You need anything.”
He smiled at me. “No thanks, ... | 2021-06-19T18:31:32 | 2021-06-19T17:55:46 | 2,066 | 616 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | There once was a fellow named Bob.
Monsters despised him from goblin to hob.
Why?
He killed all the mobs.
And what was the tool of Bob’s great murder streak?
A sniper rifle, given unto him by the god of the weak.
She’d noticed that Bob had no special skills.
Thus, she gave him a weapon to get all the kills.
His... | "And now, thanks to *you*, all my plans have succeeded!" Lord Remington, Dominator of Pickles and All Pickle Related Paraphernalia cackled crazily, as he lorded over his newly produced Pickle-Maker 6000. "Townsville will soon be a stunning saltmarsh of salacious sublimity!" He cried with delight, while the party hemmed... | 2022-11-07T21:12:46 | 2022-11-07T21:04:05 | 311 | 69 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | When I wake up, I hear a loud booming voice.
Terrified, I look around, and realize it's coming from my TV, in the living room. It's loud enough that I can clearly understand what it says.
**"Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all win... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T05:40:56 | 565 | 45 |
[WP] Each person is born with the ability to consciously *snap* their mind as many times as wanted. Each snap unlocks a superpower with a mental illness in tow. The stronger the power, the more severe case of mental illness you get.
Hope somebody finds it interesting, have fun :) | Don was born normal. Completely average. The type of guy you forget exists a minute after you talk to him. Was completely average in the kindergarden. Completely average in pre, middle and high school. He had completely average friends. Completely average girlfriend. Completely average everything.
As he was getting o... | "You wanna go now, Greg?"
"Sure," Greg whispered, eyes down at the imitation-marble floor. He moved around in his chair, uncomfortable. "Hi. I'm Greg."
"Hello, Greg," came the voices around him like the room was in Dolby Surround.
*The feature presentation of my pointless life,* Greg though, with a smile he didn't m... | 2015-10-27T04:34:37 | 2015-10-27T04:28:59 | 74 | 26 |
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