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[WP] The death penalty for murder no longer exists, instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim. | Mother doesn't talk to me any more. I don't know why. She doesn't let me into the house, screams at me whenever I appear. I don't know what I did to make her so angry.
I get so confused these days. I thought I was a girl, but the doctors tell me I just need to keep taking the pills, and the nice surgeon will give me a... | The last thing Jacob remembered was that he was at an AIDS conference. He was at the podium. Everyone had given him a standing ovation, cheering that their colleague had finally solved that one first step (of many) toward some cure that everyone was fighting over.
There was a flash, and then, nothing. He felt like he ... | 2014-07-27T11:17:55 | 2014-07-27T11:12:53 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] You are a lawyer in God's Court who and you must a find a way to get your newest client, Adolf Hitler, into Heaven via a loophole in the Lord's legal system
To clarify, the job is relatively simple: you are a lawyer who argues the case for people who don't just make it into Heaven. Anyone who was a heathen, a mur... | The trial did not go well. Hitler was found guilty of the murder of countless humans, including his family, and himself. At the sentencing is where I will strike.
"While Hitler is guilty of sin, my client did accept Jesus as his personal saviour. Is it not the case that his sentence has already been spent by our Lord'... | "Your honor, this man is not guilty of the actions the prosecution claim he has committed. Article 6 of the Mosaic Commandments clearly states 'Thou shalt not kill--' but my client never killed anyone."
"Objection! Millions were killed at his orders!"
"Your honor, I object to the prosecution's objection. The case ... | 2014-10-13T08:34:47 | 2014-10-13T08:30:05 | 69 | 20 |
[WP] You are a peanut farmer. Your father was a peanut farmer. Your father's father was a peanut farmer. Peanut farming is all you've ever known. Your first child has just been born, and has a deadly allergy to peanuts. | My wife... she died in childbirth. She gave her life for this child.
At first, I thought it was a poor trade. My wife for a broken child? One who could not even carry on the family business? I won't deny, I considered "accidentally" letting him eat some peanuts when he was young. No one would have been the wiser.
But... | They said this journey would be difficult.
I signed up anyways.
It's year 2150, I think, if the computers still tell us the truth, and it's not as if my life's been easy.
Sure, your average redditor will say JeepDriver, you've lived a sheltered life. That may be true.
But consider this: You can look outside and see ... | 2015-05-19T22:07:10 | 2015-05-19T21:46:31 | 247 | 10 |
[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... | Bob sat down at his desk at exactly 8:30 AM, as he did every morning. He situated the few materials left scattered about his desk from last night’s hard work until he got them perfectly organized, as he did every morning. His job was mundane and basically one repetitive task after the other until the clock slowly ticke... | 2015-08-11T11:07:01 | 2015-08-11T10:11:02 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] You have a rare form of multi-personality disorder where each day of the week is a different personality. Each personality knows about each other and for as long as you remember, you have slept through Saturdays. Today you wake up on a Saturday. | It was always dark before, this much you can remember. Dark, and full of dreams. When Spriggan awoke the next night she always said there was extra energy in the body, like a fountain of youth. Some of us had tried sleeping all day to replicate this effect, but it only made the body groggy and unable form words correct... | "Ha ha Batman" I said to the woman bagging my groceries.
"Yeah I'm not Batman" she said
"No one cared who I was until I put on the mask"
"That's Bane" she said in a monotone as she handed me the bag of groceries.
"Wait till they get a load of me" I said
"Please leave"
I threw the bag of groceries at the ground, c... | 2015-12-16T14:25:17 | 2015-12-16T13:40:21 | 88 | 41 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | It's been 100 years, we are ready. The human race was challenged to a fight with an alien race and given 100 years to prepare. They proved to us we weren't ready back then. Half of our missiles exploded in their silos. Of those that launched, less than 1 in 100 hit something. That something didn't even get scratched.
... | The human and Q'la ambassador sat across each other at the great stone table. Both waited in silence for the other to show their hand, to break first. Ambassador Smithson mustache twitched. Ambassador Quklukgukguk's single shining eyeball drooped a sticky liquid. Well... 'his' name was not Quklukgukguk, but Ambassador... | 2016-01-01T18:48:26 | 2016-01-01T16:31:24 | 122 | 30 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | The first evidence of life beyond that humans were to be treated to, consisted of huge, intricate, metallic structures dropped by parachute, and gently wafting down to the earth. But once ensconced, these origamic beauties created Einstein-Rosen Bridges that disgorged hordes of arachnid shock troops, in an alien invasi... | It's been a hundred years already, time just flies my grandpa said when you're preparing for intergalactic war. When I was little he told me that war never changes, but for some reason today he said it finally has.
All the years of the nations fighting ended in the blink of an eye; a mere 80 years before I was born. C... | 2016-01-01T19:30:06 | 2016-01-01T13:58:25 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] You are a senior student at a prestigious school of thievery. The only way to graduate is to break into the headmasters office, steal a certain object and escape from the school. Tonight you're going to attempt it. | Max locked the door and turned to face his team. "Does anyone remember their jobs?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
"Then let's do this."
 
They rappelled down the north side of the school building. Four in the morning, all dressed in black, the whole deal.
Max reached the window first. Careful, he aimed the laser beam an... | "There is only one certificate. That means out of the four of you, only one will graduate. It mustn't be surprising- we have a reputation to keep up and only produce the best after all."
The headmaster stared at the four eager aspirants.
"Now read up on the rules. Your clock has already started."
He got up and left... | 2016-04-25T05:17:02 | 2016-04-25T05:09:54 | 147 | 54 |
[WP] You are a senior student at a prestigious school of thievery. The only way to graduate is to break into the headmasters office, steal a certain object and escape from the school. Tonight you're going to attempt it. | I grew up on the streets, and the gutters, of the great city of Magonomy. I got by thanks to a quick wit and even quicker hands, thieving to stay alive. It was a lonely existence and I didn't have any real friends, only *acquaintances*.
I was six when my father abandoned me in the great city. He gave me a small silve... | "There is only one certificate. That means out of the four of you, only one will graduate. It mustn't be surprising- we have a reputation to keep up and only produce the best after all."
The headmaster stared at the four eager aspirants.
"Now read up on the rules. Your clock has already started."
He got up and left... | 2016-04-25T05:17:43 | 2016-04-25T05:09:54 | 101 | 54 |
[WP] The invasion of Earth has finally begun but it is not the humans who are putting up the fiercest resistance. | As the mother ship, 2000 meters long and covered with bulbuos spines, approached inner orbit, captain k'rac of the imperium of zel, conquerer of a hundred worlds and slayer of the crab nebula hordes, was signaled by one of the communications officers on the bridge.
"We are approaching our designated landing point, cap... | The ships landing gear extended slowly, and grazed the earth with a scrape followed by a thud.
"What dooes the indigenous population call this place Zull?"
"The charts say Texas sir."
"Very well. Have the reapers finished culling the planet of the humanoids?"
"There are just a few left in a small mountain some dis... | 2016-05-17T10:46:52 | 2016-05-17T10:42:55 | 365 | 69 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | They walked up and took their seats.
They looked at the board.
They looked at each other.
They looked at the board.
Moments passed. Eventually the telepath looked to his opponent and said, "I have the worst fucking migraine right now."
"Me to," said the psychic. "Let's never hang out again."
"Agreed."
They left. | One man sat at the base of a tree,
Branching and twisting to eternity.
With heart of oak and legs entwined,
he ruled as king of infinite mind.
Across the board, he then did see,
A kindred soul with eyes like he,
His face showed wonder and he sat carefree
As he stared up the branches and the twists of the tree.
... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T16:24:18 | 372 | 11 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | The people said that there are things that are not done in war.
Killing the children of the enemies; torturing prisoners of war; killing doctors in enemy camps;
Not that this ever stopped people from doing those things anyways.
When you fight a war, you fight to win.
Regardless of who is on the other side.
---... | "That's an interesting outfit" said Hitlers clone. He sat calmly behind the desk, clearly put out by the several dead Nazi Hive-men in the entrance to his throne room that I had killed. He maintained his composure well.
"I'm unsure how you managed this", he said, gesturing to his dead guards. "But it won't save you fo... | 2017-04-22T05:32:27 | 2017-04-22T05:27:38 | 52 | 21 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "Come on in" I heard a tired voice call out. I stepped into the room, and saw our leader looking worn out and tired. "Is everything alright sir?" I ask. "I'm thinking of surrendering to Belgium." He said. "But they're the last country standing in our way of continental domination?!! Their tech is from the 22nd century,... | The year is 2198. The entire world has seen 15 world wars. All of which Germany has participated... and... err... lost. Y-yeah... they lost 15 times. This the 16th war, and everyone expects Germany to lose. People aren't taking Germany seriously anymore. Many keep joking about Germany.
But it looks like things will cha... | 2017-08-18T05:12:07 | 2017-08-18T02:09:31 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | The German Army have finally broken the lines surrounding Moscow. The Russian Army, in total disarray, retreats eastward in a heap of terrified cyborg ninjas. Field Marshall Stubenz leads his men into the charred remains of Moscow in his Mercedes Panzer, dead set on being the first to raise their proud colors over the ... | It was called the blind luck victory in textbooks. The day when the very earth itself called out to the German's and shouted "NO." The latter from the more poetically minded.
Everyone else calls it idiocy redefined.
Every single weather forecast listed that day as having extremely bad weather. Thunderstorms with hi... | 2017-08-18T06:20:40 | 2017-08-18T05:45:39 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | Laying down on my couch enjoying its softness, hearing the sound of rain outside combined with the sound of a knife repeatedly cutting veggies and the smell of something delicious from the kitchen, these were the ideal conditions for a short nap. A truly peaceful one.
Unfortunately, someone interrupts my little ritual... | "Can't I just clock him? I really bloody want to." The girl holding the pan took a test swing in the hallway. Two kilos of lovely iron-reinforced teflon, with the added bonus of oil that hadn't quite cooled yet. It was dripping on the rug.
"No, Hal, Hal, hey. Hey!"
Mid-swing the pan changed direction and hit the ful... | 2017-10-10T03:19:24 | 2017-10-09T14:52:53 | 156 | 10 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Dear grandad,
You died 11 years ago when I was only 10years old. I had begged my parents to go to your funeral but they refused and I never got to go. I never got a formal goodbye so here it is.
I loved playing the violin for you. It always brought you such joy. I loved how you would always say “one day I’ll be bet... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T21:06:53 | 1,462 | 351 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Hey Mom,
It’s been a few months since we’ve last talked. I miss you.
I’m still not quite sure why you decided to cut me out of your life. I’d always thought family wasn’t just blood relations, but those who matter to us. You’ve shown me otherwise.
I just can’t believe you threw me out like that. I watched as you sp... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T21:31:44 | 1,462 | 81 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear self, I hate you. I hate what we've become. When did we change, when did we grow so old and angry, and when did we decide to be alone? I know that we did not always act like this. I know we used to laugh, and let other people get close. Remember when we had so many friends? remember when we go to other people's ho... | Dear Luis Miguel,
It's been 4 years since you've passed. Things have gotten better from the old years. The kids are older, my house is different, I actually have cats again.
I found some of your old photos. Back in the day when the camera had only megabytes instead on gigabytes. I found a nice one where you were sunb... | 2017-11-05T19:56:15 | 2017-11-05T19:02:08 | 799 | 516 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear self, I hate you. I hate what we've become. When did we change, when did we grow so old and angry, and when did we decide to be alone? I know that we did not always act like this. I know we used to laugh, and let other people get close. Remember when we had so many friends? remember when we go to other people's ho... | Hey Em,
I'd love to say I've changed, I'm new, brag about things I've done. I'd love to say I've grown.
But you, with your disarming blue eyes, somehow always knew. You always knew when I was making things up, when I was caught in little white lies. You'd encourage some.
And I'd love to say how different I am, from ... | 2017-11-05T19:56:15 | 2017-11-05T19:02:54 | 799 | 55 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Jeremy.
I'm sorry I didn't call.
I don't remember if I was busy, or tired, or anything else that could be considered an excuse. I felt like it was all my fault. I could have stopped it. When I met your family and found out you had been living with this all your life, I almost gave up.
I should have called. I h... | Hey Em,
I'd love to say I've changed, I'm new, brag about things I've done. I'd love to say I've grown.
But you, with your disarming blue eyes, somehow always knew. You always knew when I was making things up, when I was caught in little white lies. You'd encourage some.
And I'd love to say how different I am, from ... | 2017-11-05T19:17:09 | 2017-11-05T19:02:54 | 508 | 55 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | To you, whom I didn’t treat right, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry in a way that you may not even realize because it hurts me every day that I live I remember you. I remember not being the very best for you and that cracks me deep down, I don’t know how else to say it. I feel fractured because I wasn’t the best for you, and I wi... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T23:09:04 | 58 | 29 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear friend,
Oh dear friend. If only I could just step back for just one day and talk to you about all that has occurred since we last saw each other. I’m so thankful that we were able to spend the time in life together that we did.
I miss that little sigh of excitement that would rise up from my chest and escape my... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-05T23:44:56 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | To you, whom I didn’t treat right, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry in a way that you may not even realize because it hurts me every day that I live I remember you. I remember not being the very best for you and that cracks me deep down, I don’t know how else to say it. I feel fractured because I wasn’t the best for you, and I wi... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-05T23:09:04 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | To you, whom I didn’t treat right, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry in a way that you may not even realize because it hurts me every day that I live I remember you. I remember not being the very best for you and that cracks me deep down, I don’t know how else to say it. I feel fractured because I wasn’t the best for you, and I wi... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-05T23:09:04 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Hey Dad,
I've grown up and got a decent job. I have 2 sons and I've carried on our family name like you always wanted. I was only 11 when you passed but I still think about you all the time. I never got to tell you I love you and I'm sorry I was scared to give you a hug in the hospice, I was young and scared. I loved... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T02:11:26 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | I really miss the look on your face when I would pop up unannounced... You would walk into the room, eyes lit up and say "my Andy!" That always made my day. I loved feeling wanted, needed, loved. I'm starting to ache from the pain of no longer hearing your laugh. The way it would hit me full on in the chest and bounce ... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T00:06:31 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | Chapter 1:
Two birds with one stone.
Those were grandfather Elon's last words.
He hadn't whispered them, no.
He had invented them... and engraved them onto the side of the titanium sphere.
It was no secret that our family had been part of the revolution. Grandpa's effect on the world had been as far reaching anyone... | I remembered seeing this back now.
I thought I should stop by to 2017 on my way back to bitch-slap Karl Marx, and let you all know that it all ends up okay. All of this protesting gets us nowhere, and they do succeeded in banning net neutrality, but the free market saves us. It always does.
Around mid 2018, despit... | 2017-11-21T23:06:17 | 2017-11-21T23:01:17 | 44 | 14 |
[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 know of a game," said the man, finally speaking up after a long pause. Death's glare shifted, as if his bony face cocked an eyebrow. The man crossed his arms, collecting himself for the explanation. The only way to win this game was to make sure the other party lost first, after all.
"Well?" Death questioned, gro... | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | 2018-03-07T07:43:55 | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 251 | 97 |
[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 know of a game," said the man, finally speaking up after a long pause. Death's glare shifted, as if his bony face cocked an eyebrow. The man crossed his arms, collecting himself for the explanation. The only way to win this game was to make sure the other party lost first, after all.
"Well?" Death questioned, gro... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T07:43:55 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 251 | 18 |
[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? | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 97 | 46 |
[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... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T08:28:53 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 65 | 46 |
[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... | "Hey Death, whats up?"
Gary knew the bitter cloak of cold that surrounded him was the physical manifestation of Death. Most mortal folk would have cowered in fear if they knew the Grim Reaper was coming for them.
But not Gary. He had played this game before and won.
*You know why I have come, mortal.*
"Of course ... | 2018-03-07T08:28:53 | 2018-03-07T07:52:34 | 65 | 41 |
[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? | “How do you wanna do this?”
“I take my scythe, and like a badass I run down the Dragon’s back dragging it behind me.” Death replied standing on his feet in excitement.
The dm nods. “And with that you drag a mighty gash into back of the blue drake and land with a 3 point landing behind it as the dragon collapses wit... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T08:40:32 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 32 | 17 |
[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? | “How do you wanna do this?”
“I take my scythe, and like a badass I run down the Dragon’s back dragging it behind me.” Death replied standing on his feet in excitement.
The dm nods. “And with that you drag a mighty gash into back of the blue drake and land with a 3 point landing behind it as the dragon collapses wit... | I look at the game’s Death has surrounding the room.
There’s the ornate antique marble chess board, polished to a gleam with ivory and ebony pieces.
In stark contrast, right next to that there’s a well loved and worn checkerboard. It has obviously faded areas where players over the years slid their pieces over the b... | 2018-03-07T08:40:32 | 2018-03-07T07:49:56 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] You, an average, law abiding person, just somehow accidentally killed Earth's greatest and most powerful superhero on live, global TV. It happened while he was fighting his ultimate nemesis in their final confrontation. | "I swear I didn't intend to do this !"
everything was silent, and people were looking at me in shock.
It wasn't my fault ! I was just working, as usual. Just screwing screws, fixing things, the usual.
Of course there was noise down there, but it's a City ! there is always noise.
And then it happened. There were hug... | They were fighting. A man was beating a woman. She could barely protect herself. What else could I have done? I did not know who they were. But if I did, I would have done differently.
You wanted to hear my story. How I murdered the most powerful superhero?
I do not have much time. They will execute me really soon.
... | 2018-03-22T07:39:53 | 2018-03-22T04:32:44 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] A creature that eats emotions met you, and was horrified when it tasted your chronic depression. Today marks its 24th attempt to cure you with seasoning.
Edit: Holy Crap, I was not expecting this kind of response. I'm blown away, y'all. You rock! | The creature first visited me on a long, lonely night, another sleepless, dreadful twilight that I was spending brooding over the pointlessness of my existence.
It crept into my house and swept me up off the couch with ease, gripping me tightly, my face inches away from rows of razor sharp teeth.
'*This is it,*' I... | A rustle of bushes. She's here.
I sigh, resigned. "Hello, Jackie." My name for her. One she insisted on, really.
"Hi, cutie. How goes things?"
I smile reluctantly. "Fine."
I can't see it, but I can feel her pouting. "Come ooon, that's not true. You still taste... funny."
"What does that mean, anyway?"
"Funny. Y'k... | 2018-06-15T21:36:27 | 2018-06-15T21:29:27 | 4,139 | 1,089 |
[WP] You're listening to Plot Relevant Radio, the only radio station that fits the situation of one randomly selected listener. We hope you're all safe tonight, as next up we're going to be playing The Final Countdown by Europe. | What’s up, Rockers?! This this Al-your-Pal here on the 9 o’clock hour on **KZFP: The Shred!!!** For all of you new listeners out there, 9 o’clock weeknights is our plot-relevant song hour; one lucky anonymous listener out there gets a song exactly scripted to their experiences **right now!!** Don’t ask how we do it! I ... | "I don't and I don't and I don't."
The meandering voice encircled him, crescendoing.
He was getting closer now. The shimmering blue lights were frantic around him.
The aimless wandering of the voice gave way to an unfamiliar rumble, just as he came to a large open chamber. It was a hazmat analysis node.
Synthetic m... | 2018-08-20T22:18:26 | 2018-08-20T20:10:11 | 760 | 43 |
[WP] After buying a sword online, you go to the local archery club to recruit a ranger as a joke. A guy comes up and says "I'm in. Now we need a mage. I know a place." | Carl pulled up to the location in the park he'd got off the archery club's facebook page. They met here every Sunday morning, and it was finally time for him to get some hilarious footage. He turned off the truck and looked over to his colleague in the passenger seat: a scrawny, dark haired young man with a camera.
"... | This joke is going to snowball I can feel it. This "ranger" hopped on board too quickly for this not to end up hilarious. Then again maybe I'm about to get mugged by this guy...
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I hefted the cheap-ass katana I bought online. Its not very sharp but it could definitely hurt somebody. I bought it for shits ... | 2018-09-13T10:33:25 | 2018-09-13T09:49:59 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | Today’s the day, Carl is coming over... you’ve been stood at the door for 3 days now just charging, waiting for him to arrive. He called you up and made the plans; it’s going to be radical.
The time draws ever closer; you know he’s doing the same thing. Excitement builds in the pit of your stomach as the clock strike... | Celeste gripped her arms. Her hands glowing like a magnesium flare. She had been charging her attacks for three days. The relentless banging on her door had stopped long ago when her brother, Kai gave up on her.
It felt like space-time was warping around her. She could see objects bending and warping; the hum of elect... | 2018-10-02T17:03:01 | 2018-10-02T14:09:41 | 514 | 53 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Never piss off a witch with a thing for statistics, that's what I'd tell my teenage self if I had a time machine.
Ever since that day I've been cursed to be average. Not mediocre. Average. At **everything**.
In my head things still seem clear but it's as if everything gets passed through the average filter.
Not m... | Anthony Vander Ghal was considered funny, but not hysterical. A nice guy to be around, but not all the time. He drove to work in a 2011 Golf, it had a few war wounds and erroneous knocking sounds - that sounded like an actual golf ball loose in the back - but it served its purpose. He parked in the same spot as he had ... | 2018-10-24T07:42:20 | 2018-10-24T07:20:17 | 850 | 177 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Who am I? I could tell you my real name, but you won’t remember it. It’s an average name, easily forgotten. I could even describe myself, but nothing about me will stand out. I’m average build, of average height, hell I even have average skin tone and hair color. Want a picture? Run a composite image of every person,... | My best friend once called me and told me how jealous he was of my talents. What talents? I could never really put my finger on it if they existed, and I spent years trying to see what he saw. Maybe he meant the time I used to play in a band. We called ourselves, “We Ate the Fish”. Looking back that was a stupid band n... | 2018-10-24T08:42:32 | 2018-10-24T07:46:45 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] The worst part about being shot in the head? The headache. The second worst part? Explaining to everyone why you can't die... | AH! You'd think after fighting through 27 wars in 2000 years, I'd be used to pain, but no. The bullet richochets off something important as I drop.
The mugger, just some dumb kid trying to feed his family looks terrified. I can tell this is the first time he's shot someone. The store owner freezes, hand already rea... | A bang shook the restaurant while I fell backwards out of my chair. I had figured it would go this way, my being so far behind on the money I owe and all. Guess he had to make an example if me, but damn I never figured the shark would have a .44 tucked in that pinstripe suit of his. Tacky piece of shit even had i... | 2018-11-25T22:13:29 | 2018-11-25T20:14:26 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] The Devil is trying to trick you into signing a contract for your soul. The thing is, he's already got your soul...he's trying to get you to take it back. | Lucifer was pacing now. He was clearly agitated and it was only getting worse. He just didn't have the time for this nonsense. No one had EVER rejected this offer and now here he was 3 days into negotiations with this clown and he was getting nowhere. It was absolutely infuriating. He figured this must be how Yahw... | "Those are terrible things you said about my grandma's cooking," my secretary said yesterday.
*Sorry. I take it back.* I want to say it, but I know she is possessed. If I say those words out loud, he wins. The best bet is to either double down or deflect.
"I never said anything about your grandma. I don't even know h... | 2019-01-12T00:44:33 | 2019-01-11T23:04:06 | 79 | 50 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Whenever our people find new life in the galaxy, by tradition, we show them our true forms. Every member of our species is taught this. It is perhaps our strongest weapon, such that those who oppose us must use machines without fear or mind to fight our military might. This combined with our military has served our peo... | The Zoroites arrived on the Planet Earth with their grand armada. On board the flagship, The Emperor of the Galaxy had prepared Himself for the descent to Earth. He had recently acquired the star system of Sol, which was previously under the domain of the Humans. He reduced the Humans' dominion to their planet and its'... | 2019-06-11T09:37:21 | 2019-06-11T08:18:28 | 1,501 | 159 |
[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole. | "It is simply a natural progression."
She said it so matter of factly that I couldn't find it within me to argue. And yet my entire understanding of the laws of magic, of the universe, were imploding all around me.
"But you're dead. How...how can we forge a pact if you're dead?" A part of me, perhaps the rational p... | Chaos, that was what it was. Bloodshed and devastation. But it hadn't always been that way; the first few times that people had been blessed by the stars, we had celebrated. The powers that the Heavens had distilled upon us were unconditional, not bound by the same rules and limits as those of the Mages.
We developed... | 2020-02-21T04:27:44 | 2020-02-21T04:09:32 | 252 | 16 |
[WP]Humans are the only race capable of creating fiction. The galactic community has never contacted Earth out of fear for our Death Stars and our frightening “history”. Until now. The two most powerful space civilizations have come to earth asking us to arbitrate a dispute and enforce the outcome. | They say that no man has ever won a war alone. They say the end of each life is the death of a thousand stories, forever untold.
We did our best to prepare. The skies, we knew, would be filled with levin and gale and puissance. The seas, tumultuous with thrashing bodies competing for territory and food. The cities? Th... | Two different unidentified spacecrafts landed at DeBell Golf Club, the military was waiting already, a message had been heard through the earth airwaves: we need judge Atkins.
As the ethereal figures descended their ships, the troops set prepared for a confrontation: an eclectic group of space forces, police and m... | 2020-03-16T22:38:07 | 2020-03-16T18:48:38 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | As the prophecy foretold, the child of destiny rose to power! Not as a Dark Lord, but a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love her and despair!
She was the the undisputed ruler of the Empire of Light, the Shield ag... | The mother was shocked. "The signs couldn't be that blunt, can it?" She looked at her husband who was looking at their children as if he wanted to eat them. She felt quite scared that something would happen to her baby.
"The Fates are helping us, Sandra. What more could you want?" He bellowed. "The prophecy came... | 2020-05-07T08:33:44 | 2020-05-07T08:12:21 | 98 | 68 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | As the prophecy foretold, the child of destiny rose to power! Not as a Dark Lord, but a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love her and despair!
She was the the undisputed ruler of the Empire of Light, the Shield ag... | Angela was scared for the first time in her life. Her parents, now quietly standing in the corner of her room, had hidden from her the giant part of her life.
She has a brother.
"How could you do this!" She screamed, her anglic wings now scruffed " Do you know what that means? That boy, now man can be as strong as... | 2020-05-07T08:33:44 | 2020-05-07T08:30:59 | 98 | 33 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | "You sure about this boss?"
Missy Missus, carefully put down her pipe and stared at me with cold gray eyes. "You wanna ask that again kiddo?"
"Erhm no boss, I meant no offense by it, I'm just a bit confused is all."
Behind me I could hear the soft rustling of her two Fangs of the Missus moving into position to strik... | "What are you waiting for! Get out there and do it!"
If I do it, he will kill me. If I tell him, he will still kill me. "No."
"Are you defying me?"
A lazy smile, he's already thinking I'm dead. Too bad, I won't kill her. "No."
"Then kill her!"
"No." That's got him stumped.
...
"Why?"
An intelligent questi... | 2020-07-02T07:40:02 | 2020-07-02T06:41:33 | 1,492 | 1,062 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | "You sure about this boss?"
Missy Missus, carefully put down her pipe and stared at me with cold gray eyes. "You wanna ask that again kiddo?"
"Erhm no boss, I meant no offense by it, I'm just a bit confused is all."
Behind me I could hear the soft rustling of her two Fangs of the Missus moving into position to strik... | I sat on the rugged couch, illuminated by the hungry line of cold light from the television. I rustled in my loose pockets for a few seconds while looking up at the broken asbestos ceiling. My fingers touched a firm paper texture, and I yanked out a card. I looked at the card *he* gave me. Its decorative edges lying on... | 2020-07-02T07:40:02 | 2020-07-02T06:47:27 | 1,492 | 40 |
[WP] Humanity has merged into a single immortal consciousness. Everyone who has ever lived has become as one, a being of pure energy and infinite love, that shall last to the death of the universe and beyond. And they’re here to explain why they left you out. | "Was it something I did wrong? I tried my best to be a good person, I know I could've been better, bu-"
>**--it was never malice--**
Jackie shuddered from the response. Speaking to them was always loud in every way except volume. Every lover, every friend, every *person* was clear as day, speaking as one. Every wr... | “Love is a fickle thing, it happens,” said humanity. It - or rather, *they*, was now altogether and all-encompassing as a hiveminded collection of sorts. *They* claim to be every person that ever was, is, and will be all in one poof of sorts. An immortal poof that is sure to bother the other poofs in the universe with ... | 2020-10-17T22:08:23 | 2020-10-17T22:04:12 | 130 | 62 |
[WP] Humanity has merged into a single immortal consciousness. Everyone who has ever lived has become as one, a being of pure energy and infinite love, that shall last to the death of the universe and beyond. And they’re here to explain why they left you out. | "Was it something I did wrong? I tried my best to be a good person, I know I could've been better, bu-"
>**--it was never malice--**
Jackie shuddered from the response. Speaking to them was always loud in every way except volume. Every lover, every friend, every *person* was clear as day, speaking as one. Every wr... | “Aye, no cap man, it’s because of your freaky thoughts.”
What? It can read my mind?
“Excuse me, it’s “they” not “it”.”
Well I guess that answered my question.
But anyway, what freaky thoughts??
“Listen, we have a complete collection of every thought you’ve ever had. Do you really want us to go over everything... | 2020-10-17T22:08:23 | 2020-10-17T22:05:46 | 130 | 25 |
[WP] Humanity has merged into a single immortal consciousness. Everyone who has ever lived has become as one, a being of pure energy and infinite love, that shall last to the death of the universe and beyond. And they’re here to explain why they left you out. | You're not human. It tells you. Or well, they tell you.
You don't get it though, you've always been human. You bleed red, you feel, you speak, you think.
What's wrong with you?
When was the last time you went to the hospital? They, it asks you.
You shrug. I don't think I've ever.
Why is that?
... I'm health... | “Love is a fickle thing, it happens,” said humanity. It - or rather, *they*, was now altogether and all-encompassing as a hiveminded collection of sorts. *They* claim to be every person that ever was, is, and will be all in one poof of sorts. An immortal poof that is sure to bother the other poofs in the universe with ... | 2020-10-17T22:29:08 | 2020-10-17T22:04:12 | 89 | 62 |
[WP] Humanity has merged into a single immortal consciousness. Everyone who has ever lived has become as one, a being of pure energy and infinite love, that shall last to the death of the universe and beyond. And they’re here to explain why they left you out. | You're not human. It tells you. Or well, they tell you.
You don't get it though, you've always been human. You bleed red, you feel, you speak, you think.
What's wrong with you?
When was the last time you went to the hospital? They, it asks you.
You shrug. I don't think I've ever.
Why is that?
... I'm health... | “Aye, no cap man, it’s because of your freaky thoughts.”
What? It can read my mind?
“Excuse me, it’s “they” not “it”.”
Well I guess that answered my question.
But anyway, what freaky thoughts??
“Listen, we have a complete collection of every thought you’ve ever had. Do you really want us to go over everything... | 2020-10-17T22:29:08 | 2020-10-17T22:05:46 | 89 | 25 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "this is bullshit." satan said from his throne. "utter and complete bullshit." he said gesturing to the portal showing the earth. countless dead from wars, plague and simple poverty. "Fuck this." he said as he stomped off to his desk and picked up the white phone.
"This is the great satan, Heir..." he stopped speakin... | Korgan guarded the infenal gates with his associate Ortpk he has for millennia. For once though, as the Horned figure gazed out into the landscape of dilapidated castles and twisted mockeries of the surface's cathedrals he kept thinking of the comment that last mortal he processed made. "Can't be too bad, hell is what ... | 2021-04-29T20:53:00 | 2021-04-29T20:19:13 | 279 | 37 |
[WP] Time travel is real and as a result so are Time Cops. You’ve been in the organization for years, one day a coworker tells you that a prisoner will only talk to you. You enter the Interrogation room to see an older version of yourself. | "Is...is this a joke?", Agent Sinclair stuttered-- stagerring back in shock.
On the other side of the prison bars sat Prisoner Zero-- the first man the Time Bureau ever captured. In weakened and deprived state the man smiled-- it radiated relieved and empathy towards the bewildered time agent.
"Not at all, young ag... | “Well look what the cat dragged in.”
“Oh hush.”
Steven quickly closed the airlock.
“How in the hell are you even here?”
“Hey man, I’m just here to give you something.”
“No no no I'm not going to go down a paradox and fill out the multitude of paperwork that it's going to take to get you back on your way. You’re goi... | 2021-05-21T19:25:22 | 2021-05-21T18:45:46 | 67 | 29 |
[WP] There is a procedure offered to the wealthy and powerful that allows their minds to be transferred to the brain-dead body of an anonymous individual. Except it's fake, the volunteer is actually trained in every minute detail of the person's life to assume their identity as if they were them.
This prompt was inspi... | "And this will work?"
"Indeed sir." The smile never wavered from her face.
"And he will look like me too?"
"Of course sir. He's gone through extensive facial reconstruction to look like you. No one can tell you apart. And there won't be a he. He will BE you. Your mind. Your looks. You'll be 25 years younger, but lo... | [Part 1 of 2]
I could hear the nervous grumbles of Mr. Walker as he entered the room. My body laid flat on one of the medical beds, only a thin white sheet covering my body, offering some dignity as his eyes lingered over me.
“This is the body I’m taking? It looked a lot nicer in the photos.” He raised my arm, wri... | 2021-07-02T07:31:48 | 2021-07-02T06:49:24 | 247 | 77 |
[WP] Two criminals share what is to be their last conversation on death row. With nothing left to lose, all is laid bare to the other stranger. | The heat had been pressing down hard for three weeks, and the ground outside the prison was baked red as a pile of bricks. Even the hardiest shrub had wilted into something that looked spilled out of a Dali painting.
Elijah sat with his shirt off, back against the cool of the stone wall. The evening sun bled its way t... | “Are you scared?” The meek, thin man asked, scooting closer to my side, trying to find some solace in the cold, bare cell. It was strange that he even wished to speak. We had spent at least an hour by each other’s side without a word and suddenly he wished to talk.
“Not really. I mean, maybe a little? I don’t know.... | 2021-07-28T07:35:32 | 2021-07-28T07:21:55 | 278 | 24 |
[WP] You were told your gift for light magic was a blessing. Your wit and talent could make you into a legendary healer. But you're not a gentle person. The charred corpses of your enemies can attest to that. | They say light magic is only good for healing. You could make a small light, just enough to read at night. Maybe a flash of light to blind your enemy, giving you a chance to run. Fighting with it would be foolish, stick to being on the back lines and healing.
Those fools can’t even comprehend the power of light. If th... | There were maybe a dozen names for our kind. The Imbued or the Chosen, because it was thought some higher force must have imparted our gift to us. Causals, because the things we did seemed to defy any other form of cause. Weavers, because it seemed to many that we were weaving with the very forces that made up the worl... | 2021-08-21T10:25:27 | 2021-08-21T09:52:56 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Occasionally ships in deep space going undergoing faster than light travel just go missing, a tragic but well known and accepted fact. One ship managed to come back however years after disappearance with extremely disturbing reports | “What am I looking at here?” Captain Michaels asked, looking not at what he referenced but at the lone figure before him.
The man, the Fleet officer, sat silently in the middle of the spartan compartment, staring past Captain Michaels at the projection shimmering across the far bulkhead.
“Captain Tyler,” Michaels sa... | [Part 1 of 2]
Few things could make a galaxy standstill, but today everyone held their breaths. There wasn’t a single holo screen or window not occupied by an alien of some sort, each one looking on in awe as the Galactic Ranger descended into the port of Docking Bay 12.
“The Galactic Ranger? Id tag 200498? That e... | 2021-10-10T07:27:37 | 2021-10-10T06:40:54 | 157 | 59 |
[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. |
I’ve always dreaded going into work on Mondays, and today was no different. Walking up to the office building, I could already see Kevin’s greetings emblazoned across its front in bold, red letters.
“Welcome to the pain zone!”
Urgh, The font choice and frankly unimaginative copy hurt my soul. But what could you expe... | Today the Dairy Queen parking lot will burn. There will be fire and brimstone, devastation on scales unimaginable to normie minds. Three things will occur:
1. My in-office preeminence will be established beyond doubt.
2. Rebecca in accounting will be *so* impressed when we get back to the office.
3. Kevin Anderson’s l... | 2021-11-15T11:38:08 | 2021-11-15T11:10:54 | 333 | 184 |
[WP] A woman discovers a horrifying collection of VHS tapes in a landfill, each showing a disaster in the future she can try to prevent. | Abby Weyerhauser could see the future.
Not in her *head,* like dreams or visions. She could see it on her grandpa's old 19" CRT TV / VCR combo. The TV was one of the few things she'd been able to salvage from the rural landfill where the majority of her late grandfather's things were taken after his death. That, a few... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 8: Clara Olsen v.s. The Future)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**You always found the best things in the garbage.** Oh, sure, you wouldn't be digging up any Anhertz-class... | 2022-05-09T01:02:16 | 2022-05-08T21:21:10 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems!" Dr. Bentley said, hotly, jabbing a finger at Miranda, the corporate liason.
"Uh, *excuse me?*" Miranda hissed, narrow... | The yelling would fall on deaf ears, however. The emergency sirens blared in the background, making conversation virtually impossible. The man stared ahead, in shock at what was happening.
The three men had locked themselves in one of the remaining rooms. Some*thing* had escaped. The doctor with them wouldn't say a wo... | 2022-05-09T13:44:04 | 2022-05-09T13:05:50 | 102 | 17 |
[WP] At dinner, you serve the king a glass of wine with poison in it. He sips from it and continues to eat as usual. At the end of the meal, he walks up to you and says. "Next time you make poison, make sure it really works. It was pathetic." | "...uh...ok, my leige" I said, confused. The king clapped me on the back and let out a large belch, before retiring to his chambers.
How had he known? Why did he drink it all? And why did he tell me? Most importantly, why was I still alive?
I heard a deep throat clearing noise from behind me. I turned, and found mys... | “I’m sorry, milord. It’s just…”
The king smiled, “there’s no need to worry about me, Lirrin. I asked this of you so I could be ready for a real assassination. I need you to honor my command in this matter.”
Lirrin nodded, “Of course, your Majesty. It’s just… what if I don’t deliver the antidote in time or... | 2022-06-03T16:34:22 | 2022-06-03T16:10:34 | 1,988 | 345 |
[WP] At dinner, you serve the king a glass of wine with poison in it. He sips from it and continues to eat as usual. At the end of the meal, he walks up to you and says. "Next time you make poison, make sure it really works. It was pathetic." | “I’m sorry, milord. It’s just…”
The king smiled, “there’s no need to worry about me, Lirrin. I asked this of you so I could be ready for a real assassination. I need you to honor my command in this matter.”
Lirrin nodded, “Of course, your Majesty. It’s just… what if I don’t deliver the antidote in time or... | Nobbins was one of the more simple creatures in Hell. He never did anything particularly bad per say in life, but he did accidentally piss off a priest and ended up there. And because of that, Nobbins really did not fit in whatsoever. He took to a bit of petty theft in the underworld, but that was nothing in a land of ... | 2022-06-03T16:10:34 | 2022-06-03T16:10:32 | 345 | 144 |
[WP] "Any last words before I eternally claim your soul?" snarled the demon. Terrified, you stood there silently. You haven't said anything in 20 years, yet you still see the demon constantly hovering in the shadows, waiting. | The demon hovered ominously as I poured milk into the cereal bowl. I pushed it out of the way to get to the freezer and pulled out the ice cube tray.
The demon snarled in frustration as I went about getting my breakfast, thoroughly angered by my stubbornness.
Years had passed since it had uttered that once terrifyi... | I've been staying in this void silently for what feels like decades. Well, not *perfectly* silently, every now and then I'd make mouth noises unintentionally, but it seems that as long as I don't say any actual words I'm all good.
Originally I was just thinking of some cool last words, y'know. Something that this dem... | 2022-07-11T12:36:14 | 2022-07-11T11:36:03 | 212 | 18 |
[WP] "Any last words before I eternally claim your soul?" snarled the demon. Terrified, you stood there silently. You haven't said anything in 20 years, yet you still see the demon constantly hovering in the shadows, waiting. | There was a soft breeze as the sky started to show hints of pinkish orange. It was quiet, aside from the clinking of glass.
"I don't think I've been above ground during sundown before," Orika said, eyes fixated on the distant horizon.
"Really? It's almost always breathtaking, I remember from all my soul-claiming days... | The human mind has an incredible ability to adapt to almost any circumstance. It may strain under the pressure, but if it doesn’t break it will bend and adjust. Eventually, the new will become more familiar than the old to the point you could never imagine returning to the way things were. To that point - I can’t reall... | 2022-07-11T13:05:38 | 2022-07-11T11:12:58 | 100 | 43 |
[WP] A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | The planet of Hexalos prepared to receive their first emissary to Earth, worried about Kashitok’s last transmission:
“These humans do not just have dreams. They have these horrible, twisted dreams called nightmares, where everything is terrible. I’m returning home.”
The Hexalians anxiously awaited Kashitok, expecting... | The psychic being turned to the busy Metropolis for its first meal since arriving on Planet Earth, the moonless night having fallen on the community. Freshly asleep, its denizens knew not of the being from the cosmos sent to feast on their nightly visions.
It crept onto a rooftop, peering into a window of one of the f... | 2022-09-06T08:45:39 | 2022-09-06T07:34:55 | 295 | 115 |
[WP] Write a scene that would appear sexual to an observer, but is completely innocent. [nsfw]
Like the tent shadow scene from Austin Powers, it should be humorous and can involve objects and sounds. | He's behind her. Thrusting as hard as he possibly can. Her eyes are up in her skull and he has a tired look on his face.
He begins to do this action faster.
Harder.
Finally she spits out a grape that had been lodged in her throat.
Phew, glad that's over. | God, I felt like a man.
I couldn't help but admire myself, stealing glances at my own reflection. Shirtless in the nippy air, glistening with sweat; the light reflected off my perspiration, clearly delineating the bulging and rippling of my muscles as I worked, up and down, like a powerful machine, a piston powered by... | 2013-10-13T23:38:00 | 2013-10-13T23:18:57 | 87 | 11 |
[WP] What if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves.
[WP] Saw this as a shower thoughts post and no one put it up as a writing prompt. Credit to OP 69PrivateJoker
Edit: Wow! I really didn't expect this post to blow up so much. Thank... | "Just another day for the Cutie Mark Crusaders, right Applebloom?" Exclaimed my friend Sweetie Belle as her horn poked through the pile of trash we found ourselves in. It would have been almost comical if my flank didn't hurt so much.
"Where is Scootaloo?" I asked suddenly, remembering the pegasus pony we jumped off th... | The studied and revered scriptures of history are full of proverbs, but they are all about an inch and a half away from uselessness.
They don't make the world a better place because not everyone follows them. The actions that make the world a better place are nearly impossible to guess at, and certainly follow no con... | 2014-08-02T19:13:10 | 2014-08-02T18:00:09 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Day 1.
Sigh..... As I wake up on my 16th birthday I knew it would happen. I was dreading it. I didn't want it, I didn't need it. I didn't believe in it. My parents had useful powers though as much as they hated it. Dad being a doctor of course managed to heal people at a touch. Mum being the cook that she was never ne... | Sean was walking home from the gardening store, he loved getting new utensils. His birthday was spent as it usually was, Dad carrying in his broken down car from his 24 hour shift as a security guard before falling asleep without saying happy birthday and Sean playing hide and seek in their garden with his Mommy. Her p... | 2015-01-21T22:46:38 | 2015-01-21T22:19:41 | 62 | 22 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | 16 years, 16 years of waiting and dreaming of the power I would get. In a million years I could never have imagined this. My class from high school has powers like flight, invisibility, ability to cure illness. What do I get? What is the pay off of all that dreaming and waiting? When I make a gun with my fingers the... | Tonight was my night; my 16th birthday. Finally, after what felt like a lifetime of waiting, it was my time to shine. I had waited almost a year for this day, ever since my best friend Andrew discovered in January that he could fly. I had envied him at first, being the first in the tenth grade with a power. As time pas... | 2015-01-21T23:50:44 | 2015-01-21T21:42:59 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Your daughter wakes you up in the middle of the night insisting there's something scary in her room. You go with her to check it out and prove she's just imagining things. After you turn on the light, she doesn't see anything out of the ordinary and calms down. You're frozen with fear. | A small hand taps Sarah's elbow. She tries to pretend it's just a dream. Maybe if she doesnt open her eyes, then the damn kid will go back to her room. Not that that ever works.
"Mommy," a tiny voice whispers. "It's in my room again."
Sarah groans and sits up. Her daughter's minature form silhouettes against the drab... | "I'm just nervous." Sean said. "We don't know her birth mother. Tomorrow she could . . . blow up the cellar."
Leao laughed quietly into his pillow. "Relax. It's not going to be that bad. It'll take two or three hours, everyone will keep their distance. She understands the drill."
Sean sighed. "How long did your inh... | 2015-01-22T08:46:31 | 2015-01-22T08:19:32 | 110 | 25 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | My dearest Anna,
I know that when I left I told you it was for the best, and that I needed space, but this was not the way to get it. The front has been hell. Sitting in what feels like a pit, eating watery soup they call food, and wishing I could come back home to your delicious cooking. I know I told you I was joini... | My love,
I miss you and the child terribly. Life in the trenches is hard, but bearable, knowing that-
*A fold and several stains coat the paper.*
---
To whom it may concern:
No words can express my sorrow for your loss. Gerard was a brave man - a good soldier, one who anyone could be proud of.
War is hell. Men w... | 2015-02-03T13:10:45 | 2015-02-03T13:02:09 | 95 | 48 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Dear Mom,
I love you and I miss you dearly. I want to be home. I don't want to be here anymore. It is unspeakably terrifying in this trench. We are shelled at random times of the day. There is never any peace. We can never be at ease.
There is 400 meters between us and the enemy, and we are at a stand still. Neithe... | My love,
I miss you and the child terribly. Life in the trenches is hard, but bearable, knowing that-
*A fold and several stains coat the paper.*
---
To whom it may concern:
No words can express my sorrow for your loss. Gerard was a brave man - a good soldier, one who anyone could be proud of.
War is hell. Men w... | 2015-02-03T13:25:34 | 2015-02-03T13:02:09 | 67 | 48 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | The current "super strength" boost was 110%. That meant when you lifted 11 kilograms of mass felt like you were lifting 10.
The current telekinesis limit was that of a slightly irate poltergeist who waves curtains as if in a drafty breeze. The immortals were pretty much guaranteed to live long enough to say their las... | I was so excited, so damned excited, when my day finally came. You know what I'm talking about. THE day. That day, yeah exactly, when finally you're deemed old enough to pick your power, talent whatever the hell you want to call it.
We've all been there, those of us at the age of choice and above, at any rate. You kno... | 2015-05-05T04:09:18 | 2015-05-05T03:08:45 | 301 | 105 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | There was once a man who had a great love for the animals of the land. The goddess of the Hunt, Artemis saw his great love and appeared before him with this message:
"I command you to be the very best, like none other before you. To catch animals shall be your test, to train them shall be your cause."
He traveled ac... | Once upon a time, in a faraway land of chocolates and timekeeping and mountains, a man was born. The man spent his life planning great games to keep the people of his magical, punctual land happy. He worked hard, and over the years his prestige grew. Eventually, he was charged with planning the greatest tournament in t... | 2015-06-10T16:10:18 | 2015-06-10T08:06:59 | 57 | 17 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | They struck at early morning, when the peasants were disorganized, and the king was off visiting a nursery. The twin dragons found the symbol of wealth of the prosperous land of May Rica. Two glimmering towers made of enchanted iron and sand stood tall, above all the other huts and inns around it.
The dragons knew th... | Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a tavern with his sister. Times had been bad in the city where he lived, so he had decided to come home and live closer to his mother, who was very ill. With him, he brought the fairest princess in all the land. She had long golden hair and a radiant face, with a smile that c... | 2015-06-10T10:26:42 | 2015-06-10T06:53:17 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] As a joke/Tic, an atheist always thanks the Dark Lord when good things happen. When they die, they are shocked to find out that The Dark Lord is real, and they are his favorite follower, as they never, ever asked for anything.
The Dark Lord's favor could be pleasant, or ironic, or mundane. Or maybe it's a Dark La... | "You should sit. We have walked far."
Through some window my eyes were not privy to, some impossible breach in the air, he entered his arms and withdrew two bone-white stools. He offered one into my outstretched hand, and I felt - reassuringly - a smooth, dry wood. I knew I was in Hell, or some equally unfathomable re... | It all happened so fast. One second James was walking across the street and the next he was on the front of a bus. The bus screeched to a halt, throwing James forward and to the ground. As his head hit the ground he heard a sharp *crack* and it was over. James Reginald Smith III was dead. Blackness quickly enveloped hi... | 2015-08-17T01:18:49 | 2015-08-16T22:16:24 | 1,022 | 122 |
[WP] As a small child, you walked in on Death taking your great grandmother. You unexpectedly became friends and Death began to visit you often for tea and conversation. You're now very, very old and Death has become quite evasive on subject of your ultimate demise. | I remember the first time we met, he was taking my poor old granny. He realized my presence and the tension grew. "How did she pass? Was it painful?" I asked wistfully.
"No. She died naturally in her sleep, she felt no pain," he said.
The realization that my great grandma just died hit me like a steamroller. She was ... | "Come in, come in!" The old man wheezed, opening the door for his oldest friend to step through the threshold.
"Thank you, James." The well-dressed young man entered the house, piercing white eyes scanning the room, noting the dust that piled higher each visit. Pictures hung on the wall, the paper cracking and falling... | 2016-08-01T12:18:03 | 2016-08-01T11:57:43 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | Everything- from the way her eyes caught midday's sunlight, to the vibrant smile she wore even when a hundred sneering faces bore down upon her- was perfect. A beauty so vibrant I swear the world around her looked to come alive just a *little* bit more.
And yet, it seemed that no one agreed. Quite the opposite, judgin... | She didn’t like to talk to me, I could tell, and I wondered why she did it. I never asked her out loud of course, I didn’t want to mess it up. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
We had lunch by ourselves and she told me of her life. It was an ironic thing, but she was quite active. She lived in a home... | 2016-10-01T21:14:14 | 2016-10-01T20:43:03 | 1,643 | 1,036 |
[WP] As a child, you were always able to lucid dream, meaning you can control your dreams. One day, as an adult, you wake up to find out you can also control your reality. | Playing God.
Everyone's got their power fantasies, don't they? We all love the brutal and violent gangster because of one thing, he is in control. He isn't prey to vices and influences, to be the Don is to cast those aside in favour of one thing: power.
We celebrate the violence on screen. We applaud the way he rids... | I lived in a grey city.
When I woke up, it would be the same every day. Same clothes, same journey, same work, same people, same food. I sometimes looked into the mirror at night and wondered how the hell I managed to end up this way. In my life, nothing new happened and nothing new was going to happen. I came to ... | 2017-01-15T11:01:31 | 2017-01-15T10:48:46 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | The sounds and smells of New York assaulted John's senses. After being gone from the city for 10 years, he still love/hated the smell of New York City in the summer. It was dark on the street. Darker than a street should seem. Looking up he noticed the lights had been busted out on the light pole.
He heard a soft *Jo... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T17:37:31 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | I sat at my desk, lazily gazing at the television. Listening to the screaming of innocent civilians. Can't really sympathise with them, I'd become too desensitised to these sorts of things. But, as the second one began to fall over, I realised that I should probably do something. So I turned to the only man who knew wh... | "Happy Birthday dear Shaurya, happy birthday to you!",
as his friends and family sang the monotonous ritual of a song at his 18th, He looked more lost than usual.
His eyes were moving rapidly,as if he was reading a book floating in front of him. As the song stopped so did his eyes. An unusual look of anger decorated h... | 2017-03-31T14:19:18 | 2017-03-31T09:38:51 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | God, I'm tired. It feels like this shift just never ends.
One of the puppies stirred from sleep. I picked up the clipboard containing its sleep log. Another effort in futility, as the pup decided naptime wasn't quite over yet. With a sigh, I put down the clipboard. No surprise this little half-breed ball of mongrel f... | "Happy Birthday dear Shaurya, happy birthday to you!",
as his friends and family sang the monotonous ritual of a song at his 18th, He looked more lost than usual.
His eyes were moving rapidly,as if he was reading a book floating in front of him. As the song stopped so did his eyes. An unusual look of anger decorated h... | 2017-03-31T15:56:19 | 2017-03-31T09:38:51 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | You know the old term, "keyboard warrior"? Well, that fits me to a "t".
I've fought 'em all; the Goons of SA, the Maddox fanboys, the /b/-tards of... /b/. I fought in the Flame Wars, man. I've beheaded trolls, and disarmed White Knights. I. Have seen. Some shit.
So when I got diagnosed with lycanthropy, maybe I didn'... | (I'm new here. Haven't written much. Don't kill me.)
"What a waste of an existence" I muttered to myself, as I walked past the morning office goers in the Munich train station. People stuck in a rhythmic drag of work and home, with no direction in life but to survive. I pitied their mundane existence.
You see, I w... | 2017-05-20T07:09:19 | 2017-05-20T06:14:36 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] The government spends all their time focused on exploring space, completely ignoring the enormous void that is the ocean and you're one of the few people who knows why. | "How long have we known about this?" I whispered, in awe.
"Since the 1940s." Commander Hays said, curtly. "A US submarine discovered and entered the hidden pressure lock off the coast of California in '43, I believe it was. More locks have been discovered since then -- including the one we used to get here, of course... | Twenty men and women all in long white coats, tablets under their arms and half of them spectacled, all argue around a screen with several calculations on how to escape earth’s gravitational pull; Angus Bermuth, the last man in the room, steps forward and instead tells them why.
“The last days are coming, children. P... | 2018-06-26T00:47:05 | 2018-06-25T21:46:35 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | This was a mistake.
When we arrived the whole planet focused on us as though a great beast was questioning who had awoken it far far to soon.
At the start. Before our intentions were known and we offered them a choice of submit or perish they were excited buzzing around in a frenzy that so many other species had wh... | Politics is a hell of a thing. We saw the humans of earth fight among themselves and almost destroy their species. The Hunt Leaders of the time saw it as a fantastic opportunity and petitioned our Supremes for permission to attack.
It was granted. But politics kept us from attacking right away. The first leader assig... | 2019-02-26T09:23:50 | 2019-02-26T08:34:44 | 227 | 123 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | This was a mistake.
When we arrived the whole planet focused on us as though a great beast was questioning who had awoken it far far to soon.
At the start. Before our intentions were known and we offered them a choice of submit or perish they were excited buzzing around in a frenzy that so many other species had wh... | The ships navigation algorithm makes an assessment and we land in a part of a large island which the earthlings call "Britain". This particular area is called "Scot-Land" or some such nonsense.
We have to make a good showing, my armed detachment expects no resistance, but intimidation always helps. My men look powe... | 2019-02-26T09:23:50 | 2019-02-26T08:51:54 | 227 | 110 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | 'The All Seeing Eye' honestly I just thought it looked cool. I can't exactly 'think' much these days. I rarely get the chance.
I can see the Universe, it truly is beautiful, I see the chaos that created it and the peace that will, or already has, brought it back together.
It's hard to tell these days, these centuri... | The men lined up, ready to storm the building. They were a brotherhood. No, they were more than that. They were *one*. As they closed their eyes they became a single entity, able to harness massive unnatural physical powers they could not generate on their own. Suddenly, Tyler opened his eyes. Something had occurred to... | 2019-05-07T09:09:10 | 2019-05-07T09:02:42 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] Instead of heaven and hell, when you die, you find yourself in a room with a six year old girl who invites you to join her tea party. It dawns on you, you're her imaginary friend. | Boom. There I was in a pink room with a little girl.
I felt my chest and patted my body to check for gunshots. Weird. I swore that one cop got me in the chest before I blacked out. I was gonna kill him for that. I knew I was.
I turned to leave the room and get the hell out of this room of color and rainbows and fucki... | A deep shade of red was the last thing I saw as my eyes closed tightly, never to open again. The paralyzing agony that seared through my veins, centred around the deep gash in my throat through which the slowly coagulating fluid was gushing.
I could feel the warmth of the blood trickling across my chest, dying my favo... | 2019-07-27T11:01:31 | 2019-07-27T11:00:48 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." |
“Well, I wouldn’t mind having a bigger dick.” Was my response.
The voice beaming through my thoughts gave off a distressed sounding grunt- the kind that’s usually followed by, “fuck off.”, or something similar.
There was a long pause.
“Fuck off.” Was the response I got.
I was partially thrown off. “What is it, ... | *Am I... Awake?* were my first thoughts. *I think I am, but...* I couldn't feel any part of my body at all. Or see, or hear. Understandably, panic began to creep in. *Is this sleep paralysis? No, I'd be able to see at least.* Some memory was hovering around the back of my mind. What was it? I tried to grab at the slipp... | 2019-10-28T13:22:27 | 2019-10-28T12:07:57 | 57 | 35 |
[WP] You find yourself in a time loop, where you have to prevent 7 different murders with 7 different murderers, one happening each day of the week. Every time you fail, you are returned to the beginning of the week. But there is just one problem: you are a dog.
(Optional detail: the murder victims are people that hav... | It takes time. Time and patience. I don't know if you're aware, but patience is not a quality generally found in dogs.
Try again.
Try, try again.
Try, try, try again.
Quitting is an option, of course. But it isn't, of course. Not really. They have to be saved. They *have* to.
What's a week, to a dog? Time is weird... | How long had it been before I discovered the truth? A month? A year? Time passed strangely in this new body. I had been cursed.
Cursed to live a short and unfulfilling life, abused and ignored.
I had expected to end up in a place where I would never see the sky again. Instead, I had ended up on the streets of my hom... | 2019-11-09T23:10:20 | 2019-11-09T21:16:10 | 1,095 | 160 |
[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... | There were rules. There were always rules. How much energy a single bite could give you. How quickly you could bring a ship to a halt. How fast anything could go. It had been thousands of years since any species had tried to question these rules. After all, they were rules that couldn't be broken. And my species was no... | 2019-12-21T11:39:06 | 2019-12-21T11:38:24 | 187 | 80 |
[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... | “...and that’s why they call me ‘The destroyer of Blargin!’l
The group of drinking buddies all toasted to the story, those who can smiling and laughing at Glythard’s story. After the laughter died down, BiZ-Nit clicked their mandibles together, their autotranslator working seamlessly.
“So Greg, I’ve been meaning to a... | "Clocking in at maximum non-human speeds, I repeat, clocking in at maximum non-human speeds." The com receeded into the inner workings of the ship. "ETA, fifteen hours." Wave chirped. I don't know which eccentric pedophilic trillionaire made his AI assume the form of an eight year old in a loincloth, but it gets the jo... | 2019-12-21T13:23:48 | 2019-12-21T13:13:53 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone gains a superpower when they turn 18. On your 18th birthday, you acquire what you think is the most useless power. When consoling a friend who is unhappy with their power, “Don’t worry, you’re only human. A bitter taste forms in your mouth. A lie. | "...that's your power?", asked the young vigilante aspirant.
"Underwhelming isn't it? And yet, I've made the most of it while I could", escaped whispers from the old woman's lips.
"It's a peculiar power. I thought it was pretty useless at first, admittedly.", she continued.
The young hero, perplexed, continued: "... | This is an old story I wrote with a shockingly similar premise so while it doesn't quite fit, I thought it might work!!
“I had a great time!” I remember she had said, all twinkling kaleidoscope eyes and toothy smiles.
*Sour, like old milk and mothballs, or maybe the way my grandma's carpet smells.*
"Me too!” I repl... | 2020-04-04T15:14:18 | 2020-04-04T15:05:49 | 55 | 27 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | I don't wait. I grab my purse and the first pair of shoes that I find. I bang into the corner of the bed. It will leave a mark. I grab a sweater as I open the door and lock it. I run down the stairs and out of the apartment building I have lived in for the past five years. I hadn't even looked into the mirror rea... | *Diary recovered from the body of 24-year-old Sabrina West.*
January 1st: Happy New Year! I'll be honest, I woke up well past noon with a massive hangover and no idea what I did last night. My friends said I went with some group of people all holding candles, so maybe it was some church service thing. I suppose it's n... | 2020-06-07T20:54:59 | 2020-06-07T20:24:52 | 547 | 308 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | Three days of fighting. All of humanity eradicated after three days of one sided fighting. Metropolitan areas and military bases were the first to go. We fled out of urban areas but their probes were thorough. One second I was walking to find shelter the next moment I wasn't.
I was in a meadow that was greener than a... | Far away, a ceremony was being conducted. As the conductor appeared before the crowd, he lifted his baton, signaling the rows of singers behind to begin their melody. All those there believe soundly that the expedition and conquering of Earth was going smoothly. The media had announced that the last human had since per... | 2020-09-18T08:10:13 | 2020-09-18T08:08:08 | 182 | 56 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | What the aliens never understood was that hell was the repository of all human hatred, rage, contempt, and evil intent. And there were billions of humans down there, all waiting to unleash their vengeance. The pit of darkness that connected the underworld to the Earth opened up to reveal legions of legions, billions ... | The first sign of trouble was when the ship's light cut off, bathing it in darkness. the Jar'ko engineers went to work right away. But then an eerie red-light began to emanate from strange runes in the metal and the whispers began. They were not a language; not the sense of a race's babbling; this was a language that ... | 2020-09-18T08:58:41 | 2020-09-18T08:43:13 | 48 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | It was cruel. And it was slow. And worse of all, it was thorough.
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Their shields repelled all of our weapons. Theirs ships barred all but their own from the sky. Earth surrounded by thousands of ships all of their weapons prepared, primed, charged.... but death did not come from above, it came door to doo... | “God has abandoned you.” The sneering face of man’s greatest nightmare loomed above them. These shades of men, these souls doomed to a life of death and an eternity of fire. “He loves all living things and thus cares not for your extinction. But I, in my magnanimity, will not deign to allow you to fall in such a forget... | 2020-09-18T09:26:17 | 2020-09-18T08:56:23 | 42 | 29 |
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