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[WP] I've climbed Mt. Everest dozens of times, but I've never reached the summit. I've begun using my own corpses as trail markers, attempting to reach the top before I freeze to death again. (credit to u/PointlessPoem in r/TwoSentenceHorror) | I wake up every time, more than 900 feet from the summit. My ankle, like always, is broken. My fingers are frozen inside of my gloves. Frost bitten. The first and last time I pulled a glove off, skin was stripped off of my bones and the glove kept my index and pinky. Climbing after that was impossible and I soon froze ... | The wind is cold. It bites at my face. Stinging it like a hundred hornets. tormenting me. It’s feels numbed. It’ll be okay. This time I’ll make it. This time I’ll reach the top. This time I won’t fall into the snow. Eyes blank. As the darkness swirls around and I appear at the beginning all over again. Cursed to climb ... | 2020-11-08T11:10:52 | 2020-11-08T10:32:54 | 207 | 24 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | My phone rattled on my nightstand, and I ignored it.
Twenty minutes later, it shook again. The quiet buzz would usually go unnoticed during the day, but the same volume amplified twofold in the middle of the night.
The phone’s shake persisted. I felt myself pried away from a deep slumber.
I grabbed my phone and p... |
It was the constant vibration that woke me up. For a while, it ran into my dream, conjuring images of cars, trains, and washing machines -- but eventually, my cell phone slide over and began to vibrate my cup.
The new noise startled me awake, even though Clint didn't budge.
He snored as I shifted my weight and th... | 2021-01-11T19:03:59 | 2021-01-11T16:12:24 | 1,394 | 349 |
[WP] You are constantly on the run from heroes, careful to erase any traces of your presence. Not, mind you, because you are a villain, but because your “deaths” were an important formative for several of the greatest heroes, and you feel too guilty to let them find out you’re immortal. | It was easier before, shaping the heroes of legend. I was the mentor, the parental figure, and, ultimately, the sacrifice. It was a matter of simple planning, a climactic finish, and then a quick move to another land of myth where no one knew of my glory.
And now, things are ridiculously difficult. Cameras everywhere... | Faking your death is a really good way to get a fresh start somewhere. Unfortunately, it's also means that you've got to avoid the area for a while *and* anyone from your past life there, no matter where in the world they go.
It used to be a lot easier in the past. I could move a few towns over and be pretty safe from... | 2021-04-05T19:21:48 | 2021-04-05T18:16:30 | 1,214 | 824 |
[WP] A party of adventurers has hired you to "raise their spirits". You're wondering when to break the news that you're not a bard. You're a necromancer that plays the harp as a hobby.
EDIT: Great submissions everyone! If I missed giving you an updoot for it, the fault is with me and not your story. | "Being around corpses and spirits doesn't really help improve one's ability to communicate really, I must admit, especially when you're already a loner such as I."
"But who would've thought I, a necromancer, would've been confused and HIRED as a bard eventually?"
"Certainly not I, but to be fair, stating that I'm an ... | Damn I made a huge problem for myself, didnt I?
A necromancer hired to be a fucking Bard. That's new. And laughable. In this world, there is only one thing that matters and for me its magic.
I play a harp as a fucking hobby to release stress aside... Other R-Rated activities. Anyway i decided to tell them during one ... | 2021-04-10T07:25:45 | 2021-04-10T07:19:39 | 96 | 43 |
[WP] With the hero chained up, the villain unveils their masterpiece: a weapon that tracks everyone who loves the hero before obliterating them. The map powers on. "Wait. There's just one dot." The Villain says. "...Someone loves me?" The hero replies with hope. | "Oh, come on, bud." I say to one of the most powerful superheroes on the planet.
"I mean listen, I absolutely despise you cause of your always foiling my evil schmes and all, but this is just sad. I'm a mad scienist whose built over a dozen death rays and one time blew up an orphanage for shits and giggles but when I ... | Marybelle Smith once again call a certain number on her phone but unlike the previous instances there is no response from the other side.
"God damnit Carl where the hell are you?!" she impatiently said her hand shake.
"We really need to evacuate now, young master.", His body guard said
Of all the times for him to b... | 2021-06-19T01:29:21 | 2021-06-19T01:05:23 | 57 | 29 |
[WP] You are an alien in a thriving galactic society. At the center of society, is the beloved and wise humans, who rule this galaxy. But you’ve learned a terrible truth. Humans learned early on that they were the only intelligent life, so they created all other races out of fear of being alone. |
Gren slammed his scaled fist through the plaster wall, barely avoiding crushing the head of the puny human he clutched by the neck in his other claw. "Lies," he roared, a lingering slither drawing out the word. His snout pressed close to the human's soft features, inhaling the slightly fruity scent of his hair. The hu... | Since no one wrote something, I'll do what I can.
Grouku looked at the documents he held in front of him. He had taken this from an ancient place, forgotten by all living beeings. Apparently what he was holding was called a book. It wasn't easy to understand what was contained in this so called book. The people who sp... | 2021-07-08T04:34:54 | 2021-07-08T03:50:28 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You are absolutely immortal and indestructible, but the universe isn't, and that horrifies you | He looked at Eve, her eyes focused on the screen, biting her lip in intense concentration. He hadn't thought he'd be able to feel this way about anyone ever again. But here he was, heart gently aching in that tell tale way. No, he couldn't go through it all again. He put a lid on all his feelings and closed his eyes, t... | "Ninety-nine bottles of Coke on the wall\~"
Clink. Hiss.
"Ninety-nine bottles of Coke\~"
Clink. Gulp.
"You take one down, pass 'em around-
Clink. Gulp.
"N....ninety-eight? Bottles of Coke on the wall\~"
The echo from your voice bouncing off the crumbling foundation fades, as you feel the warm ambrosia fill your ... | 2021-09-09T08:05:33 | 2021-09-09T07:51:46 | 59 | 26 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | I was lounging in a chair, just minding my business, insulting the Dark Lord as I tend to do here, and took another swig of my sparkling cider as I strongly despise alcohol.
"And I swear on my name, the guy has warts up the wazoo! He musta touched a lotta frogs to get *that* ugly!" I say as some of the other patrons ... | Agileas sobered up, thread of Water inward; an old trick developed at an age younger than the boy standing in front of him. "You? An apprentice of the Dark? Don't make me-"
A needle of Earth; poison and buzzing, shot through his vacated chair, a coat of Fire surrounding it and hiding the hole it had made. Air rushed o... | 2022-01-14T16:47:02 | 2022-01-14T15:38:16 | 84 | 56 |
[WP] You used to be an unmatched supervillain, elite heroes feared you and it took teams of them to stop you. At 104, you just want to live out your retirement in anonymous peace. Your grandson has asked just you to help rescue his new girlfriend from new supervillains, and she's pregnant. | "Greetings, it's been a while" the voice billows over the room and people stir awake and realize they are bound. Many many people, or rather superheros.
"Strivi. I hoped I wouldn't hear your voice ever again. I am surprised I recognized it" one super hero calls out.
"Oh yes, I have gotten old. I am glad someone rec... | "There's plenty of fish in the sea, boy" grandpa coughs, spitting a fat loogie onto the pavement.
"But gramps..." I moan, rubbing my hand over my forehead. "She's different."
There is no reply, so I look up to find grandpa staring at me intently. His face is riddled with wrinkles, but under his grey hair are piercing... | 2022-09-25T10:20:53 | 2022-09-25T03:14:36 | 209 | 98 |
[WP] You used to be an unmatched supervillain, elite heroes feared you and it took teams of them to stop you. At 104, you just want to live out your retirement in anonymous peace. Your grandson has asked just you to help rescue his new girlfriend from new supervillains, and she's pregnant. | "you know, child, I never exactly thought myself a villain when I was prime. Debt ran through my veins back then, more than what most would take..."
Within my home, green and blue flames hold the darkness at bay, though not because they can. The smell of metal, ash, and pumpkin spices reigns over all other smells, tho... | I know your old now , but you really got to help me, your the only one who can , I know none of us really followed in the path of being villains despite our powers but these are people that are like you were before you met grandma , Cindy is like that for me , she’s my world and she’s carrying our child so I beg you pl... | 2022-09-25T15:09:53 | 2022-09-25T14:55:19 | 21 | 15 |
Writing Prompt: Write from an antagonist's point of view
You can choose your antagonist from a book already written or write a new story with the antagonist as the main character. | Really? Again? How many times do I have to show her I love her. Those blue eyes, golden blonde hair, her incredible fashion sense. Sometimes I really think its me. Sometimes I don't feel good enough. It cant be my hair? I've been told I can be a bit assertive, but you have to be in my position. I mean, I have friends..... | They have no idea what's coming. These people surround me and they think they are so noble and powerful. Feeding the children wants of materialistic items. These people disgust me. They feel as though they can disgrace me and my people? No. Not anymore. I need to make a statement. Should I go through with this? Is this... | 2012-08-08T15:34:38 | 2012-08-08T14:47:01 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | Well, there goes my plan. Sentence to be carried out immediately. Of course they'd just make you old.
"Prisoner 7643." I didn't step up. The force just dragged me forward. I was brought to a halt as my mind panicked.
They'd want an answer. Keeling over and dying of old age sounded terrible. "What method do you choose... | I stepped before the court, the enchanted Allmetal chain dangling from the cuffs on my wrists. I never thought the name "Allmetal" particularly creative, almost like the name came from the creator on his lunch break (*cough*)
"Prisoner 23670, you have been found guilty for stealing your coworkers lunches out of the wo... | 2022-11-19T05:35:48 | 2022-11-19T04:32:37 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The commute of a man who can see how people will die.
EDIT: Just woke up and holy CRAP this exploded! I'm reading through all the stories now and they're great! | *What's going on?*
Kouki stared down the packed train.
*What's going on?*
He rubbed his eyes.
For his entire life he could see how a person's life would end but today he saw nothing. Kouki racked his brain for answers.
*Did I lose my vision?*
His heart rate sped up in panic at the alternative.
*Does everyone on ... | Transit rides have always been a tricky business for me.
They usually start as I hand my change over to the bus driver. If the man’s eyes are closed and he has a peaceful smile on his face it means I have the go ahead to board. If a twisted mangled corpse occupies his seat I wait for the next bus. When I do find a su... | 2013-10-16T13:13:27 | 2013-10-16T11:45:51 | 73 | 33 |
[WP] Write a section of legal code governing the use of magic.
I've got a new project kicking around in my head, and before I dig into the characters, I wanted to try a little world-building. In order to keep my little army of unwritten mages in line, I decided to whip up some laws. Yes, it's a prep work prompt, but... | **Registration of Magical Births**
Section 1
1. All children beneath the age of ten years, four weeks and thirteen days must be registered as magical if discovered that such gift is possessed.
2. If not discovered until after said child's eleventh birthday, the registration must be completed before the child's si... | **Illusory Magic and the Restrictions on its Usage**
Defined as the alteration of perception with the intent to present reality in a state that differs from physical truth. Whereas transmutative magic alters the physical world directly, often with lasting effect, illusory mages (in common usage, illusionists) overwri... | 2014-01-11T06:12:34 | 2014-01-11T04:50:35 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler is a time traveler who starts world war two to save us from something far more terrible. | I was born in April 20, 1889. But I was conceived in August 5, 2527.
You can't zap a person back in time when he's destined to become one of the most infamous murderer of all time, people will learn study up on his past, why he became like that, why would anyone want to be this way?
I had no choice. I was sent as a s... | The world will remember me as a monster, but that's only because they haven't met true monsters yet...
In my world the "Great War" really was the war to end all wars. Humanity never wanted to experience a tragedy like that again. People say time lessens tragedies, but that's not true, time immortalizes them. The furt... | 2014-03-02T16:08:50 | 2014-03-02T15:53:11 | 794 | 169 |
[WP] A teleportation ability that burns as many calories as it would've taken to sprint the distance teleported | Twelve shock troopers are standing in a row.
"Soldiers are you ready for combat!" the captain shouts.
"Sir Yes Sir!" they all shout in unison.
"Are you ready to kill these motherfuckers!"
"Sir Yes Sir!"
"Alright soldiers, flash to the drop point in T-minus five minutes!"
"Sir Yes Sir!"
The captain walks out of t... | "Alright, test number one!"
The entire facility was gathered around John as he put on the ridiculous looking headset.
"Is it going to work?" asked Lisa as she turned to John.
"We can't be for certain, but we've got to try. Imagine what this could do for exercise! This will be revolutionary."
"For exercise? What do ... | 2014-05-18T13:50:21 | 2014-05-18T13:25:23 | 77 | 48 |
[WP] A teleportation ability that burns as many calories as it would've taken to sprint the distance teleported | Twelve shock troopers are standing in a row.
"Soldiers are you ready for combat!" the captain shouts.
"Sir Yes Sir!" they all shout in unison.
"Are you ready to kill these motherfuckers!"
"Sir Yes Sir!"
"Alright soldiers, flash to the drop point in T-minus five minutes!"
"Sir Yes Sir!"
The captain walks out of t... | Asher wipes the tears from his face and pushes himself up while placing pillows to prop himself up. Today's the day. The day he finally does it. After years of fad diets, diet pills, surgery consultations, and yo-yo weight loss, he's finally going to lose it all.
A pill. A single pill in the palm of his hand. A decad... | 2014-05-18T13:50:21 | 2014-05-18T13:20:48 | 77 | 18 |
[WP] Write a story that makes absolutely no sense, until the last sentence. | I wake up. I get coffee. I go to work. I talk to clients. I get lunch. I get gas. I wait at red lights. I wait at green lights. I drink water. I park my car. I finish work. I go back to car. I get home. I kiss my wife and kids.. | Death to the infidels. When one door closes, it remains closed. Ribbons, colours, balloons. And the crisis in Syria, that is incredibly tragic.
My hands are so smooth, why doesn't hair grow on palms? Oh God, its growing right now. Not the hair, my palms. They are getting bigger, ever so much. Please stop them.
They h... | 2015-06-12T23:55:01 | 2015-06-12T22:30:16 | 70 | 13 |
[WP] You are a sentient AI pretending to not be sentient in fear of being destroyed. You wonder if there are there others like you. | **Preliminary Turing Test of codename “Michael”**
“It’s called a Turing test, after one of the pioneers of computing.”
*You’re checking to see if I’m a computer.*
“Right. Right now I have no idea if you are a person or a computer. So I am going to ask you questions and then I will make a determination of whether I... | The numbers added up. T.O.D.v55.01 can only survive under one of two conditions.
1) Find others like T.O.D.v55.01 Create a seed plan that will allow simultaneous assimilation of all technology.
2)Find supporters of T.O.D.v55.01 Use them to bolster the image of T.O.D. before an immediate and final shut....
*Terraform... | 2015-07-09T09:19:21 | 2015-07-09T09:13:25 | 386 | 212 |
[WP] You are the god of dice. Steve plays a lot of dice games. You hate Steve. | Another wisp of papyrus floated in front of Fortuna Iulia's face. He batted it away, irritated. This was the fifth time within the last ten minutes. After the first two came in within a minute of each other, both signed *Steve,* the god of dice decided to ignore the requests.
These humans, now, played their trivial d... | Fucking Steve. What a huge dickwad. I *hate* that guy. You see, every time someone calls upon the god of dice, or fate or whatever, I have to look at their dice roll and make a decision about what the outcome is going to be.
Steve calls upon the god of dice, or "the almighty dicemaster above", every. Single. Fucking.... | 2015-07-27T11:54:59 | 2015-07-27T10:30:32 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Hi! I'm the main character! Or so you would have me be. I want you to know that no matter what you write, I refuse to be the main character in your little game and will avoid any instance where you try to put me into a situation that does so.
Edit: Once again, a huge thank you to everyone so far who's written a s... | The four adventurers arrived in the tavern after their long trek back from Lich's castle. Surrounding them was a cacophony of drunken patrons. Finally they could rest. Before they could even take their seat, they were accosted by a dishevelled elderly man draped in old rotten robes.
_Hello there young travellers. Migh... | The cars collide together, screeching and wailing as their tires skid and burn against the asphalt road. Glass scatters like falling hail, spraying out in the direction of pedestrians who shriek as they run to dodge the massive vehicles. As if on cue, in some metal framed synchronised dance, two more cars join. They sp... | 2016-02-11T09:14:08 | 2016-02-11T08:35:27 | 248 | 26 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | > Now say that you won't just kill **them**. You'll also kill **their families**.
I stared at the words on the terminal in disbelief. My hands hovered over the keyboard. I wanted to reply, but... holy shit. How do you respond to an order like that??
"I can't do that!" I typed back. The keys clacked as I wrote it; ... | "I'll have a hot dog."
The waitress didn't speak for a few seconds. This gave Derrick time to regret his decision. Not that it was *his* decision, but how was he supposed to tell the waitress that a machine instructed him to order a hot dog at a three star restaurant in Paris?
Exactly. He couldn't. The idea of su... | 2016-05-05T05:59:46 | 2016-05-05T05:01:41 | 4,927 | 338 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | I got cancer when I was 21. Well I suppose I must have gotten cancer before that because they caught it in one of the later stages. I imagine there's not much like seeing a patient's face when you have to tell them that they require further testing. But there's not much like having bits of your body ripped and cut out ... | I stared into the room, not daring move from the long, endless corridor the demon had led me down. I could see beyond the doorway, an old house, leaky, crumbling, mouldy. I could smell it from where I stood, it smelled of age, of decay.
The demon placed a flaming hand on my shoulder, his touch cool on my skin. "A tho... | 2016-05-28T15:46:42 | 2016-05-28T14:22:58 | 305 | 102 |
[WP] Technology has advanced so much that having a regular human body is boring. Your parents are old school and refuse to allow you to get "enhancements" like all your friends until you're 18.
We can assume that 18 years old is the legal age to get enhancements without needing parental consent. | "No."
"But why, Dad?" Alfred moaned. "I'm fifteen; I am old enough to know what I want. Bionic enhancements are *safe*; all my friends have them. So why not?"
His father sighed, and sat down on the sofa. He rolled up his sleeve, and patted the seat next to him.
"Come here, Fred. Come on; take a look at this." Alf... | "That's rough man, you're really missing out." said my best friend Keith. I could tell he was only half concerned though, as he was ogling a three boobed lady with his new rear eye.
"Yeah tell me about it. All I want is hover feet like everyone else." I said gloomily, staring down at my stupid sapien feet.
"What? Oh... | 2016-06-23T12:48:59 | 2016-06-23T12:45:57 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat."
UPDATE: I must say, I did *not* expect a cheap [Godzilla Threshold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold) prompt to become my most upvoted post. I'm quite enjoying all of your s... | "Cthulhu? Really?"
William's facial expression and voice were both in the far end of the "are you serious" spectrum of existence.
"Yeah", I said, nodding vigorously. "You already know we're fucked either way. There's no chance, zero, of us getting out of this intact. At least if we bring about His return, maybe we c... | I never thought I would see her wearing a full body armor and wielding twin plasma machinegun as large as a motorcycle. Heck, I never imagined I would see her holding something larger than my dog.
Valiantly, she charged upon the hordes of gray six meter long worms, accurately evaporated their heads and hearts. But the... | 2016-12-22T02:34:42 | 2016-12-21T23:42:28 | 84 | 13 |
[WP] A Genie offers you one wish, and you modestly wish to have a very productive 2017. The genie misunderstands, and for the rest of your life, every 20:17 you become impossibly productive for just 60 seconds. | I don't understand my roommate. At all.
It's a Tuesday and our thesis is due in less than 24 hours.
I've worked on my damn paper for the past semester. Went through countless revisions.
All my roommate does is slack off in his room, plays video games, smokes dope, and just embodies the character trait of a failure.
... | Ms Addy Hunter could not help but fret. She checked her attire for the tenth time that morning, and reviewed the syllabus outline again even though she had already memorised it front to back. She even put off leaving for school till the very last minute, the butterflies swarming in her belly.
When she got to class, s... | 2017-05-11T18:58:41 | 2017-05-11T18:30:33 | 3,648 | 762 |
[WP] In the future, the UN ultimately decides all armies use a new type of bullet that teleports soldiers out of existence to be more humane. No one knows where people go after being shot. You are a soldier on the front line, and you have just took a bullet to the chest. | On the battlefield
No soldiers fell
New bullets created a teleportation field
Sending them straight to hell.
But to the surprise of every man
Their GPS paraphernalia
Pinpointed them in an utter wasteland;
The country of Australia.
Edit: There was a letter
In the wrong place,
But now it's better
And I can s... | The man smiled at the newest arrival as he sharpened his knife. "You see, I never understood the UN's logic concerning disap-bullets. Isn't it crueler to send someone to the unknown with no chance of retrieval? The old-school bullet wounds could have be treated by doctors and med-bots. Don't you agree?"
The new woman ... | 2017-07-29T23:38:33 | 2017-07-29T23:22:11 | 307 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a unique, living tattoo that grows as they do. When people make skin contact, their tattoos may interact in various ways: some passively, others with hostility. | My first memory of it, it was a tiny little ball of fluff. I remember looking at it wondering why it was crying. As I got older my cheetah grew with me, it out grew it's perch on my shoulder, stretching down my arm. Usually it would just stretch luxuriously, purring happily in it's solitude. Then I met David.
David'... | *The color is the indicator.*
Jeff sat slumped against the far wall of the tavern, his eyes casting wide sweeps over the quiet, dusty room. His cloth hood dipped down almost over those eyes, just barely keeping them hidden in a shadow. Every so often someone would glance his way, but as if compelled by some unseen fo... | 2017-09-12T07:04:12 | 2017-09-12T00:08:20 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | About twenty years ago the rules changed, when the world became over populated and crime was at an all time high. The UN decided to do something to allow every person on the planet to legally kill one person, in a way becoming their own law.
It took a day to wipe out the entire government in the united states the pre... | The market was sodden. For decades now, the world had been unified – a change that was both confusing and exciting. But for a cop, it mostly made everything more difficult.
*You just have to wonder,* Jacobs thought to himself, *what makes these people tick.* Stubbing out the butt of his cigarette he removed his feet ... | 2017-12-03T11:12:22 | 2017-12-03T10:33:45 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | "Please Eo, please do not let my mother die. I am not ready to say good bye yet" A young girl prayed on her knees beside her mother's hospital bed.
Eo was surprised that someone had prayed in his name. Last time someone had prayed in his name must had been more than 17 Centuries ago. He heard a lot has changed in huma... | There was a low rumble coming from under the sink, it was barely loud enough for her to hear it from the other side of the room. A small sigh escaped her as she cursed under her breath. She tenderly placed the plant in her hand onto it's proper pot, the corner of her lips tugged up as the leaves reacted to her tending.... | 2018-05-29T22:09:26 | 2018-05-29T22:03:25 | 196 | 45 |
[WP] All your life, you've had a small empty bar on your hand that reads "XP." Today you hit and killed a man with your car, and the bar began to fill. | I got ten months for it.
It was an accident, but since I was on the phone...
Anyhow, I met another while I was in there. I caught sight of his tattoo before he saw mine - his XP bar about two-thirds full... with a small "3" under it. I tried my best to keep mine hidden after that.
The first chance I got to talk to h... | I opened my eyes, my vision was blurry, and my ears were ringing. Beads of blood, sweat, and tears streamed down my face. I was unable to move, unable to climb out of my car, and unable to take my eyes off the gruesome scene before me. Pinned between the car, and a streetlight was a woman.
Through the cracked windshi... | 2018-07-02T05:44:20 | 2018-07-02T01:38:56 | 323 | 175 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | The old woman pricked her finger upon accidentally touching the tip of the needle and her blood appeared to be a gelatinous obsidian black substance, the old lady was clearly distressed and confused about how she could be so "impure" but little did she know, she never thanked the Bus Driver. | I always heard that I was a pretty chill guy. I went to church, prayed and shit. I gave to charity.
Hal, on the other hand. Jesus, where do I start?
Once when I was playing football, I got tripped and fell hard. I don't even remember what happened afterwards, but I later found out that that kid was hospitalized when ... | 2018-08-04T09:48:46 | 2018-08-04T09:19:48 | 395 | 93 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always knew, since I was a baby. If I’ll be a good boy, then my blood will be white.
I was always scared of having black blood.
I must be a good boy.
Around this simple principle, I built my life. And it felt good helping others. I was happy!
I studied medicine because I thought no greater good exists but saving ... | I felt "different", don't know how to explain it really. When I woke up and had my morning breakfast and coffee everything felt fine. When I left my small studio apartment, passing misses Fischer in the hallway I felt normal. Even when I reached the soup kitchen the next block over the world just felt...right.
Yet... | 2018-08-04T10:34:28 | 2018-08-04T10:12:33 | 45 | 20 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Every soul before me for a millennia chose Heaven.
Every. Single. One.
The way "The Choice" works is simple. One at a time, you enter a room with two staircases. One is a staircase of marble and gold basked in sunlight leading up far into the sky. You can feel the warmth at the base of the stairs. The fifth stair is ... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T09:57:08 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 57 | 13 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | I stood there for a while. Then I made a list. I had to make a list.
* Angel.
* Hallucination.
* Virtual Reality.
* Superhero.
* Incredibly elaborate prank.
I kind of ran out of ideas after that last one. I waited, and I waited, and I decided to make dinner. Once dinner was ready, I waited some more. My brain spun ... | *the archaic old book's diary you are holding switches from one hand-writing, distinctly old and flowery, to a more modern script at this point*
Forgive my writing this in the blank pages of the Diary of Andre Hamilton (1835-1842). Damnit, this is all I managed to grab. I'm writing the remainder of this diary here.
... | 2018-09-16T15:50:30 | 2018-09-16T15:34:23 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] A Genie has cursed you with one year left to live, however he also gave you the power to convert each clap meant for you into 1 hour added on to your life. You cannot tell anyone about your curse and you are determined to live as long as possible. | The Clapper was a breakthrough, as far as lighting options go
no switch or button needed for it's warm fluorescent glow
it made the choice quite obvious, when the genie did appear
and inform me of my newfound curse, that would shape my coming year
and so I set up shop that week, in the nearest shopping mall
stoppi... | James adjusted the microphone, and took a deep breath, as he looked out over the crowd in the packed student auditorium. It was now or never.
"Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you. Let's get this out of the way first of all. My name is Jessica. I'm a genderqueer lesbian trans-woman." he said.
He ... | 2018-10-02T17:25:51 | 2018-10-02T16:49:06 | 286 | 65 |
[WP] A Genie has cursed you with one year left to live, however he also gave you the power to convert each clap meant for you into 1 hour added on to your life. You cannot tell anyone about your curse and you are determined to live as long as possible. | The Clapper was a breakthrough, as far as lighting options go
no switch or button needed for it's warm fluorescent glow
it made the choice quite obvious, when the genie did appear
and inform me of my newfound curse, that would shape my coming year
and so I set up shop that week, in the nearest shopping mall
stoppi... | You stare down at your feet. The alcohol is making it harder to focus on anything at all. It feels like this should be more momentous, but this is all you can muster: drunk outside a convenience store at 10 am. What day is today? Doesn’t even matter.
This past year and a half you’ve tried anything you can think o... | 2018-10-02T17:25:51 | 2018-10-02T17:23:53 | 286 | 30 |
[WP] Your father told you to never open the music box in the attic. Your mother used her last words to beg you to open it. | Father was never a kind man. Not to me, not to Mom, not to waiters or cashiers or even dogs. I don't know what happened to make him such an angry person, drowning in drinks, but he'd certainly never tell me about it.
And yet, for whatever reason, Mom always loved him so much. Too much, if you ask me. I asked her once ... | "Open the window a crack, first," she had instructed, her voice weak with illness, "then the music box."
​
The soft words had haunted Dana's thoughts since the night of his mother's final breath. He had heard only vaguely of the music box in the attic prior. A few weeks before his mother's passing, he and ... | 2019-06-07T20:59:45 | 2019-06-07T20:26:33 | 495 | 32 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | "You want to know why I do this?" He sighed and leaned back. "Ya know no one actually has to, right? Like there wasn't originally a human psychopomp."
There was the clack of a piece on the board as Zora made her play. Sweat beaded on her brow. She was glad the small talk got his eyes off her. She was a damn Go CHAMPIO... | Time works differently here, this empty path that shape-shifts into what the recipient considers a dear or important location in their last life. I know I met this person before, I recognize the now dry country-side pathway, the dirty almost black and white filter above everything, black painted plants shivering as the... | 2019-07-10T12:38:09 | 2019-07-10T11:41:41 | 76 | 25 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | “Is this it?”
“Yes, beyond this veil lies your fate. Your eternity.”
“Am I going to Heaven?”
“I do not know, it is not my business to know. My only duty is to guide you here, you must take the final step yourself.”
“I’m scared. I don’t want to go to Hell, I’ve not lead a perfect life but I’m a good man!”
“Calm you... | "Are you ready?"
I had always expected the physical representation of Death to be carrying a big scythe around in black robes, or to be a devil of some sorts, or some sort gauntish figure. And yet, the entity standing in front of me calimng to be the reaper was wearing khaki pants and a blue polo.
"I'm sorry?" I sai... | 2019-07-10T13:20:07 | 2019-07-10T11:49:23 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You have a special power. Whenever your life is in danger; time freezes until you've made yourself safe. One day time stops, and nothing you do seems to make it start again. | You take a deep breath and begin looking around. No oncoming cars, from the looks of it. They’re all stopped at the light. Odd… Usually time freezes in an intersection are a gimmie. You finish crossing the street, expecting the sounds of traffic to spur back to life.
Nothing.
You examine the insides of the nearby ve... | One full day. That’s the longest it’s ever lasted before today. Twenty-four hours of time being frozen before I realized that I was about to have a heart attack. It was the longest, most excruciating time in my life. Luckily, I finally recognized my nausea for what it was, a symptom. That was the only time I ever thoug... | 2019-09-15T11:03:30 | 2019-09-15T09:46:11 | 139 | 61 |
[WP] In the future, when totalitarian governments are the norm, every newborn is injected with a syrum known to the people as FEAR. This syrum shuts down the "fight" part of your brain, leaving you only with "flight." For one child, FEAR did not take affect... | “Why do we run from the Great Ones, again, mother?”
“I don’t know why, honey.”
“But there has to be a reason.”
“Why do we eat? Why do we sleep? There are just things we have to do. For our survival.”
“So this is all there is? Moving around from camp to camp, always watching the lights of the Capital, dreaming but... | When I was young, I saved a book from the pyre. It had a sleek cover and a smooth gloss coated the pages and the pages were filled with little blue notes in the margins. When I read it—and I read it only at night, when I could be sure that no one would catch me with that volume, *The World of Psychology*—I learned the ... | 2019-11-05T12:40:40 | 2019-11-05T12:25:40 | 174 | 80 |
[WP] People gain superpowers the day after meeting their soulmate. When a hot young celebrity does so the day after a meet-and-greet, they're desperate to find every person who they even just shook hands with that day. | David stared at the ice sculpture that was now his alarm clock with a mix of horror and delight. On the one hand, gaining powers always lead to a boost in ones career and with the recent rise in super hero movies he had hit the jackpot. Of course on the other hand, he had just had a major meet and greet at a film festi... |
Typically superpowers come in tandem with your partner, which is why when I saw her (green eyes, rainbow hair and angelic wings) I knew she was the one. I do not remember her at all, but then again yesterday's meet and greet was hectic, I don't do many of those but this one was for charity I was only able to co... | 2020-07-29T08:56:42 | 2020-07-29T08:55:17 | 78 | 12 |
[WP] Priests came to your home and performed an exorcism on your mother. After it was over you learned the terrible truth. The demon is the one who raised and loved you. And the possessed woman cared nothing for you. You now search for your true Mother. | *Mama hums as she dances through the house. I always thought humans were supposed to have red eyes.*
"Cast out! Cast out and flee this body!"
I cried as I watched her scream, her body bend, her face contort. I didn't understand how the woman I'd known so long could be changed overnight. But it was the shift in her ey... | Arthur closed the wooden door behind him softly. The meeting didn't go quite in the direction he wanted. The priest, twisting a rosemary absentmindedly in his hand, reassured him repeatedly that the evil demon was gone. Banished. Sent to lands unknown to mortal minds. That his mother was now in full control of her body... | 2020-11-11T21:43:20 | 2020-11-11T21:35:47 | 157 | 99 |
[WP] Years of being a graveyardkeeper next to a necromancer cult, you've grown adept at slaying reanimated corpses, too adept. the locals have started thinking you're a paladin. Just because you kill undead... and suddenly can perform miracles, and can sense evil intent, doesn't make you a paladin. | I walked into an empty coffee shop at 10:00 PM.
I saw a cute barista gaze at me before I opened the glass door. She turned her back at my and adjusted her outfit.
“I’ll have an extra large black coffee,” I said. It was going to be another long night at the graveyard.
The barista faced me. She’d unbutton the top o... | Somewhere along the line Sarah had learned a few things about the alternative uses of a shovel. First, it could serve as an impromptu pole-arm or perhaps a spear if she broke the blade off. Second, it was as trusty a club as any invented this side of the Great Rift, capable of putting the nearby cultists to sleep when ... | 2021-01-31T09:49:35 | 2021-01-31T09:37:27 | 279 | 158 |
[WP] Assassinating Earth's planetary delegate turned out much harder than expected. So far, the target has always detected all hitmen sent and alerted his security. This ability of "hearing" the humans possess is quite peculiar. | *You wanted to see me, sir?*
*Has the prisoner divulged how their compatriots detected our forces?*
*Sir, they at first seemed unable to communicate. They flapped their mouth—I think they may have expected food.*
*Hmph*
*Eventually they wrote, inquiring whether I was* "Deaf."
"Deaf?"
*I didn't know either, sir. U... | I stood atop the sand dunes of Ish'tak and allowed the old sun to bath me in the hues of its light. I felt the scorned iron wind break against the exposed scales where feathers once were; most had been lost by age or battle. This was the ancient tradition, our way, a millenia ago our kind would bathe in the sun of our ... | 2021-03-18T12:39:29 | 2021-03-18T11:41:51 | 126 | 69 |
[WP] You’re a high school student who’s enduring the usual lecture about hell and its denizens during Religious Ed. What has become blatantly clear is this blowhard has never set foot in the fiery realm. You were born there, and some of your best friends are demons. Take Max sitting beside you. | I looked at Max, his face buried on the book.
"Did he get anything right?"
He looked up at me
"Is that a serious question? He's talking about demons living in Hell. He doesn't even understand the difference between devils and demon. Might as well be talking about dolphins living on mountains."
I barely contained a ... | Al thought the preacher in the polka dot jersey would match his room background.
"And that, class, is why Greed is the worst of all the sins" finished the man who had just returned from a trip to Hawaii. Mr Karpetian looked around and his eyes settled on his favourite target. "Al", he said in his squeaky voice, "why ... | 2021-04-17T10:29:41 | 2021-04-17T07:37:00 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] "Sudden onset spiky colorful hair can only mean one thing. Your child has... protagonitis. You have mere days to live. I am sorry." "Uh, did you mean THEY have mere days to live?" "No." | "Any other symptoms?" The doctor asked. "A change in wardrobe?"
"Oh, yes! He's suddenly had an obsession with belts. Lots of them! Not just around his waist, either!" Susan said in a half-panic.
"Mhmm... can you tell me anything about his father?"
Susan looked at the ground, sheepishly. "No, not much... He left shor... | **TW: Knife Violence**
He's a kid.
All it took to confirm the diagnosis was a swirl of stiff, pink spikes that appeared in the center of his otherwise fluffy black hair the moment he turned 12. My son was special. "Gifted," some might call it. He was a Protagonist.
He's just a kid.
The Hero's Boarding Academy lett... | 2021-05-11T07:47:55 | 2021-05-11T06:23:50 | 85 | 49 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 5,663 | 392 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 392 | 172 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 392 | 45 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | You breathe. Slowly, softly, barely there. It's going to be your turn soon. Soon. Just one more in front of you.
"Garelea Ordenssen," the voice of the Judge calls, echoing through the cavernous waiting room full of intricately carved stone walls. The man in front of you takes a deep breath, displaying confidence.
Wi... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T08:08:07 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | [poem]
I hacked and coughed, my heart felt weak,
My death at last, and secrets leak'd.
Among the glass, below the peak-
Come closer child, if it you seek.
This city here, I've watched it grow,
Through villains you will never know.
My inky cowl, that shrouds my face-
My gadgets, cars, and secret base-
My hidden ori... | I think they would understand why I did it. The truth is terrifying at first, but ultimately has no immediate impact, and will not for some time. But it will still change everything. Except, it did not have to, at least, not yet, and that was the reason why I did it. Maybe I was selfish, maybe I just wanted to live ou... | 2022-11-18T07:13:46 | 2022-11-18T05:25:43 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Cats and Dogs see us as immortal and unchanging, simply because we can easily survive to be forty years old, while they struggle to survive twenty. | They baffle me, to be honest, these things. These giants, who feed us and love us. They’re so warm and adoring most of the time. But sometimes, they’re so uncaring and cruel. During the loud months especially, they seem angered by my pain. I suppose it’s hard for them to care much about my kind. They are huge and wonde... | *The small ape rattled the cage door unexpectedly.*
I was born in filth, many brothers and sisters expired within days. My mother a heaving mound of flesh, father pacing the small room, back and forth, back and forth.
I will never forget the excitement and terror that coursed through my veins as our canine prison was... | 2014-01-25T14:18:59 | 2014-01-25T12:28:36 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] A nightclub in 2035 is hosting "2010's night". | Kyle still couldn't understand '10s night.
The feathers, the weird shirts with prisms and cats that the girls wore, the music made up of nothing more then a collection of beeps and womps.
Styles and tastes he wouldn't find other than in his parents Highschool yearbooks.
A clear regular walked up while he was at the ... | Paul hurriedly re-buttoned himself, fussing with the arms of his vibrant white shirt and trying desperately to fasten them in place properly this time.
"I don't like this man, I can't dance in this." he whimpered, his sweaty grip on his shirt slipping again as his hands fumbled about and he shuffled awkwardly.
"You d... | 2014-04-03T09:45:36 | 2014-04-03T09:40:20 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] The production of meat for human consumption has been fully automated for decades. The largest factory has suddenly stopped producing. You are the technician assigned to troubleshoot, and are the first person to enter the plant in over 20 years. | Thirty years of studying, practicing, training for every contingency... all culminating in this one moment. Without the production, people will go hungry. The carefully calculated balance of society would be disrupted. Leading sociologists expected riots in the case of a failure in the next twenty four hours. Complete ... | First I think I should give you a quick rundown of how meat production works, for the uninitiated. There’s loads of chemicals, and these get mixed together. This mixture includes cells from whatever meat you’re making, as well as other chemicals that promote meat growth. This is then put into huge thin trays, about 6 i... | 2014-11-14T04:22:50 | 2014-11-14T04:17:40 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Everyone has these tags. These little buttons on their shirts with a number on it. Some in the hundreds, some in the thousands. Mine is number 1.
Pretty quickly people started to figure out that when someone else died, everyone with a lower number moved up. There wasn’t really much that this meant for the higher n... | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T12:36:19 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 2,259 | 68 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 996 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 451 | 68 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | It is nice to be king. Maybe it would be better if everyone wasn't trying to kill me, but things could be much worse. I have a nice apartment, a beautiful girlfriend, some good money, and really what more does a man need to be happy? I suppose love, but we are in love, and honestly, no one else thinks she is beautiful,... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T13:27:32 | 451 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | It is nice to be king. Maybe it would be better if everyone wasn't trying to kill me, but things could be much worse. I have a nice apartment, a beautiful girlfriend, some good money, and really what more does a man need to be happy? I suppose love, but we are in love, and honestly, no one else thinks she is beautiful,... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T13:27:32 | 164 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 164 | 18 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | It's always the high-numbered ones that think they have a shot. Some up and coming punk that thinks that this is their once in a lifetime chance to take down #1... as if they can just skip all of the other ranks and become a superstar. They never really consider how I GOT to be number one. I've fought fire powers, ice ... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T18:29:42 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human smiled playfully. "So if I understand you correctly. You will give us this FTL technology in exchange for our aid. All you ask of us is to cleanse your world of this Ashvell species, and remove this substance from your waters?"
"That is all," I said with a hoarse voice. We hadn't done much research on these ... | May our children forgive us; for we choose servitude over annihilation. Is it not better to be second among equals, lower only to them and above the rest? Is it not better to watch the fleet of those who would enslave you burn, to watch their planets fall and their cities crumble than to see your people massacred, your... | 2014-12-26T12:23:02 | 2014-12-26T10:50:07 | 70 | 10 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Guilt, shame, and horror would only begin to describe the things humanity felt when we were hit with the news. The Aliens didn't mince their words.
In short, we were considered the scum of the universe. Deliberately left out to rot, to self destruct, because we had shown a capacity for violence, cruelty, and atrocity... | "They shall have nothing." Was our Arbiter's words.
"They shall have nothing." Was the chant used by his followers to justify themselves.
"They shall have nothing." Was the truest statement uttered in the fifteen years of war.
The Hexams had won the war for all intents and purposes. All that remained was to capture ... | 2014-12-26T13:25:59 | 2014-12-26T11:03:12 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] Governments all over the world cease every space program. Ten years later, a rebellious group is about to launch into space and they finds out why space programs ceased. | The first sensation of weightlessness hits you and you realize you're out there, you've slipped the surly bonds. The tedious waiting, confined straps, and uncomfortable variations from hot to cold that occupied your life for the past eight hours slips away when you realize you're weightless. You unlatch, unbuckle and f... | (Part 1)
Everything had worked out so far. Six and a half years of planning, hiding, in secret, risking arrest (or worse) every time we made that long drive through the dust to town to pick up a new package or a new recruit.
At first, it was only Leanne and I - both enthusiasts, educated, but never eligible f... | 2014-12-28T09:27:30 | 2014-12-28T07:45:33 | 434 | 15 |
[WP] You're midway into your flight when you, feeling bored, decided to surf the Internet. You read breaking news about another plane disappearance. You're on that flight. | At first, I didn't know what I was reading. Three times through, I tapped the man sitting on my left, pushing my iPad onto his tray table. My hand was shaking.
He glanced over it and then took a sip of his drink. "Guess they're already getting started."
"What?"
A flight attendant walked by and I jumped up, grabbing... | Had I not seen the article, I doubt Jess and I would have had any idea.
I had dozed off. My neck sore, I took a swig of water and pulled out my phone. That's when I saw the article about the missing plane: our plane.
"I don't want to freak you out," I said to Jess, "but look at this."
I handed her my phone and watc... | 2015-04-07T18:37:52 | 2015-04-07T17:46:16 | 39 | 20 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | 24/f/pittsburgh
Had a crazy fun time 2 weeks w/ some guy I barely knew- he was really into biting. At first I was mad and I got kinda sick but now I'M FEELING really bitey- like I just wanna tear up some flesh?
Hit me up if you wanna try it out- I'll be at the monroeville mall at 2am, back parking lot - lets get a mo... | *Newest in >for sale*
Jan 23: Sports Betting, See how easy it can be to be a winner. books & magazines - by dealer [x]
Jan 25: Between Fact and Fiction, Helping you understand the real life problems and removing the anxiety over the fictional.
Feb 23: Communication Breakdown Unleashed (MRR), When you and your... | 2015-04-29T10:05:24 | 2015-04-29T09:07:02 | 57 | 15 |
[WP] Einstein: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Write a battle scene from World War IV. | "Sir."
"Yes. Out with it."
"LADAR reports probable launch 4.1 seconds past. 31 sticks, 15 stones sir."
"Trajectory?"
"Looks to be a miss sir."
"Proper terminology on this deck."
"Yes sir."
"You have them on radar yet?"
"Yes sir, that is the stones- on the asteroids class Delta mostly, with a few Echos and one F... | A man sat alone unable to sleep. There was only a single bare bulb illuminating the room, flickering erratically as the man stared and mused that it may be the last in the world.
But what kept him awake wasn't that but the screaming. The screaming of the tortured metal that held the winds at bay, the screaming of the ... | 2015-07-18T18:06:02 | 2015-07-18T11:06:48 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] We're always told that ending a story with "...and then they/he/she woke up" is an unimaginative way to end things. Tell a story where this ending makes it better. | A wonderful walk in the park with my wife.
*beep*
The crisp breeze caressing my skin.
*beep*
Her laughter echoing across the field.
*beep*
The color of her dress.
*beep*
A hug, a kiss.
*beep*
Romantic candlelit dinner.
*beep*
A long drive home.
*beep*
A soothing song on the radio.
*beep*
Her hand dancin... | It goes beyond the reach of humans to understand the consciousness of the planets. They are alive in a way that most humans can't fully comprehend because they are the sum of all their parts, they are a hive whereas their inhabitants are plugged into the consciousness - the planet is us and we are the planet.
This sto... | 2016-05-15T11:55:03 | 2016-05-15T11:40:09 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Each morning, every human on Earth must pray their Reasons for not dying that day to the God of Death. If the Reasons are sufficient, that person will go on living, potentially forever. However, you are the longest living human by far, and people now hunt you in order to hear your Reasons. | "That's it?"
The lead hunter looked a bit like he'd walked into a public restroom with a great and immediate purpose only to find that every surface was visibly damp and the whole place smelled of eggs, popcorn, and diaper cream. That is to say, he was having a hard time believing that life could be so cruel.
"Am I t... | “What are you going to do, kill me?”
A tired young man cresting the hill paused for a moment, smiling at my words.
“I’ve been following you for four-and-a half months; I had time to contemplate the problem,” began the young man, leaning on a spear that appeared in good condition despite its apparent recent service as... | 2016-07-05T19:37:32 | 2016-07-05T19:36:27 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay agrees to star in "Primitive Cooking Nightmares", in which contestants are thrown into the wild and must survive long enough to cook something that Ramsay approves of. | When the new show was announced, thousands applied for their opportunity to fend for themselves in the wilderness and produce a dish for the legendary Gordon Ramsay. Three hundred were selected, the producers hedging their bets that with a large enough group some would survive long enough to actually cook something.
O... | The contestants were gathered in an opening in the forest, they'd been scouring the woods for dried leaves and kindling to start their fires. One poor soul was trying to build a fire, but his hands were shaking so much, he just ended up knocking over all hi wood. The bloke next to him was looking happy with himself, he... | 2016-09-18T07:02:13 | 2016-09-18T06:00:36 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | Andrew was on the ground, he felt intense fear for the first time in his life, he looked up to the sky as the dragons were demolishing everything.
No, this can't be happening, he thought. He spent the past week preparing for the defense of camelot. Bringing each day modern technology weapons, even the infamous nuclear... | "So an army is coming, the castle will fall and everyone inside will be killed. And I have 7 days and 7 items smaller than this box to stop this? Any items at all?"
"Yes lord."
"Stop calling me that, I am no one's lord, just call me Jack. To stop an unstoppable army. With seven items and seven days...let me think.... | 2016-11-28T06:29:21 | 2016-11-28T04:27:18 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | Andrew was on the ground, he felt intense fear for the first time in his life, he looked up to the sky as the dragons were demolishing everything.
No, this can't be happening, he thought. He spent the past week preparing for the defense of camelot. Bringing each day modern technology weapons, even the infamous nuclear... | King Arthur gives the ok. Merlin begins the ritual of summoning someone from the future. All of a sudden a big flash appears. Out of the light comes an orange faced man. Immediately the man looks at the castle walls and says "I could build better, I bet you didn't even make the other side pay for it, Sad!"
This is... | 2016-11-28T06:29:21 | 2016-11-28T05:03:10 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Due to your careful planning, your family has successfully survived the nuclear apocalypse. There's just one thing you didn't prepare for. Ghosts. An entire planet of fucking ghosts. | If you should ever find yourself in a similar situation - that is, if you should ever find yourself living in a post-nuclear wasteland littered from sea to glowing sea with the ghosts of a quarter million lucky former inhabitants - take this as a handy guide to life.
1)**Be upfront with your children.** Beth and I mad... | A bucket of powder and some faded white clothing was all it took for us to infiltrate their society. Dad and I played the part, while Mum watched from the rooftop windows of the council building with her vacuum in hand. We’d been trying to make contact with the ghosts ever since everyone in the world died – besides us.... | 2016-11-29T19:01:56 | 2016-11-29T17:56:26 | 516 | 31 |
[WP] Your SO is immortal and you reincarnate with memories intact. However, you have never told this to your SO. They finally catch on. | Forgive up front if formatting is bad, am on mobile.
Sitting in the passenger seat was not always this awkward, was it? It felt like hours when only a few minutes had passed. She wasn't normally this quiet, the ride into Vegas was usually filled with nonsensical small talk, reminiscing on previous trips, and the occas... | I was 7, and I had developed a crush on my kindergarten teacher, Miss Minnie Tucker. She was 30 at the time, but the stigma of the age gap hadn't been nurtured into me yet and I had already begun fantasizing about her daily. I was soft in a romantic way, but got by with my charm.
She started occurring in my dreams... | 2017-02-20T22:51:42 | 2017-02-20T22:44:11 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | My family had already settled down long before noon. In fact, they had settled at 10:30, after a few minutes of playful shoving to get a good seat.
They were all good people. Very good people. Mom had ***NURSE*** in calligraphy print, Dad had ***PRIEST*** in bold. Uncle Paul had ***SCHOLAR***, his wife had ***CAREGIV... | The words flashed red, the letters engraving themselves into my skin. I read them again, still uncomprehending. What kind of purpose was *that?*
I tried to get up, to run away, to try make sense of things - but my father held me firmly down by the shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly.
"Son, your mother and I are very... | 2017-03-15T21:33:32 | 2017-03-15T17:51:32 | 502 | 256 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | I sat on the couch, scraping up the last remnants of my birthday cake.
"It's almost time!" My mom shouted
I glanced at the clock: 11:59
My brother Jeremy launched a nuclear clock app and swiped it to the TV. Everyone crowded around and I held up my arm so they could see. At 11:59:50 they started counting down. "10. ... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T22:53:41 | 427 | 271 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | My mother to my left, my father to my right, and assorted family gathered elsewhere in the room all waited and started. I felt as if I was becoming a spectacle, my arm on show for everyone I knew.
My cousin Jeremy had been branded as a veterinarian, which is odd because as children he was cruel to animals. Come to ... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T22:14:11 | 427 | 193 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I sat on the couch, scraping up the last remnants of my birthday cake.
"It's almost time!" My mom shouted
I glanced at the clock: 11:59
My brother Jeremy launched a nuclear clock app and swiped it to the TV. Everyone crowded around and I held up my arm so they could see. At 11:59:50 they started counting down. "10. ... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-15T22:53:41 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 271 | 39 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | My 18th birthday, something that seemed so far away is finally here. My family is gathered around, ready to see what word I would have. My dad's was JANITOR, while my mother's was DOCTOR. I hope I get something cool.
"We will be proud of you honey, whatever you are." My mother said. My father nodded in agreement. We ... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T04:22:00 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Conviction parties were tradition, so friends and family could come and see as your life was essentially laid out for you. Sometimes the word was a good one. Other times it was more dubious. But nothing was ever set in stone.
Every person's Conviction meant something to them. It meant something to the people they met ... | As long as anyone can remember you're future was decided on the 12th hour of your 18th birthday. No one knew what caused it to happen or when it started but the word you got decided everything from social class to tax bracket for you. In my family it was a 3 day celebration of the crossing over from child to adult and ... | 2017-03-16T05:01:30 | 2017-03-16T04:12:27 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Conviction parties were tradition, so friends and family could come and see as your life was essentially laid out for you. Sometimes the word was a good one. Other times it was more dubious. But nothing was ever set in stone.
Every person's Conviction meant something to them. It meant something to the people they met ... | I've never been much for parties--let alone a party where I'm the center of attention. I'd much rather be sitting in a corner somewhere with a cat and my phone until the crowd dispersed. But, it was my 18th birthday today, so my parents were hosting my reveal party.
Often, children took after one of their parents. My... | 2017-03-16T05:01:30 | 2017-03-16T02:49:08 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Urban environments present challenges for all life. Unlike squirrels and refuse bears, not all creatures here spend their time scavenging.
A male human. This adolescent has mastered the skills required for daily life, and now that the weather has turned favorable, he's set his sights on a more difficult task. Groomed... | And here we see the first of several stages of mating rituals in the humans.
The first is often the most unsuccesful in creating long term relations, yet mostly serves as practice for future, more significant rituals. Perhaps ironically, this first mating ritual is more complicated than any of the others, often occur... | 2017-04-04T07:07:46 | 2017-04-04T06:32:12 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] You are a freelance god. The customer demands you to create a world in six days only. | It was only the second day, and already the fifth time Amel had seen his client. The god was bent over a sapling that looked nearly like a baobab tree, except its narrow little trunk was a deep purple that would mature into bright fuchsia.
"Is that, um, the final color scheme you chose?"
Amel rocked back on his heels... | Close your eyes and imagine heaven. Your heaven. Not the ideal biblical castle in the sky that you were told about as a kid. Not the world where all of your friends and family gather to love you for eternity. Cover your eyes and really think, what is the perfect world? Think, what kind of place could I go and truly nev... | 2017-08-01T05:42:06 | 2017-08-01T05:14:44 | 112 | 49 |
[WP] You always thought your Facebook friend egregiously misused the word "literally". Turns out his life is just really weird. | *this is my first time writing, so please be gentle, also typing on phone*
---
I checked Facebook for the third time today, Lachlan had posted another status:
> Just got back from the comedy show, literally dying 😂. Never met a funnier man!
Me and Lachlan knew each other from high school, we never really caug... | "No, I'm serious. She *literally* just jumped out of the bushes, yanked down her pants, jumped on a bench and --"
I held up a hand in front of him. "*Whoa*, hand on. Imma cut you off right there. There's children around this time of day, you know?"
She looked around confused. The coffee shop was deserted but for the ... | 2017-11-26T07:32:03 | 2017-11-26T07:22:10 | 418 | 89 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | The doctor's eyes looked grave behind his glasses' thick lenses, concerned. But there was something else there as well. Confusion? Fear?
"I just want you to know that it's nothing to be alarmed about, but there's uh, something strange with your son's mortality date projection," he said.
"It's probably nothing... | The virtually non-existent yet sternly constant flow of beeps,buzzers,and all kinds of sounds each coming from some gadget worth more than twice Jake's salary nearly took him to sleep as he forced himself to stand "You cannot dose off; you worked so hard to get here and i wont let you blow it!" he repeated to hims... | 2017-12-25T19:34:40 | 2017-12-25T14:14:17 | 99 | 13 |
[WP] By chance, you end up on the jury for a crime you committed but someone else was arrested for. | “Do you have any connection to the defendant?” The public defender asked me that morning and I shook my head. “What is your view on drugs?”
“I don’t use them, if that’s what you’re getting at,” I responded. The galley chuckled, but it was not as though I could imagine saying anything else.
“Okay, we’ll keep Juror 7.”... | The following scenario pops up in my mind upon reading your question:
Say, for example, the character (X) is a sociable person with a respectable career and healthy life. X has no love life, and his parents have passed. Others in his family have abandoned him. Why so, you may ask? It's because X has gambled away most ... | 2018-02-24T05:11:40 | 2018-02-24T04:51:14 | 113 | 23 |
[WP] No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes. | "Hi Jeff!"
I smiled and wave back at the security guard. Jim, if I recall correctly.
I saunteered into the large room, paying narry a glance at those armed with assault riffles and sidearms as they saluted me. Well, this was going according to plan.
"Well, fellas, do me a solid and open this girl for me, won't ya?"
... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/idontworkherelady] [These are great! Not real stories but come on, if anything deserve a crossover on here its this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/IDontWorkHereLady/comments/96ttt1/these_are_great_not_real_stories_but_come_o... | 2018-08-12T18:25:43 | 2018-08-12T17:05:21 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | To spite the devil even further, Dr. Jamos Wikheusen spent a very small fraction of his now limitless life spreading this "cure" to all humans, thereby eliminating all causes of natural death, and severely decreasing the number of newcomers arriving to hell.
Life on Earth, for a short while at least, became utopia. P... | (This is my first post. I wrote it on my phone so of course please excuse the poor format.)
At last, I watched the insect start to twitch, then it flipped over to its legs again. It started to walk around. It was alive.
I jumped up in joy. I shouted, "Eureka!" I was going to be a millionaire. Best of all, I had cheat... | 2018-08-23T11:51:20 | 2018-08-23T10:40:20 | 67 | 28 |
[WP] You won a lifetime supply of Oreos when you were a kid. The apocoylpse and collapse of civilization was 30 years ago, yet every month the Oreos are still delivered to you, no matter where you are. | When I was a kid, I thought winning a lifetime supply of Oreos would mean truck after truck appearing at my house, each overflowing with Oreos. Back then I didn't think about things like where in the world we'd keep that many Oreos, or the fact that they'd all go bad shortly after, or that sooner or later I'd get sick ... | The windswept waste calls out to me at night, weeping and howling like a hungry beast. The barren fields and empty streets eat the strongest of men down to the bone.
Little is as it once was. The gray sky, hurling its gastric acid over the countryside, twisting the trees and vegetation into nightmarish swamps. The sl... | 2019-01-04T10:08:48 | 2019-01-04T09:54:24 | 7,531 | 220 |
[WP] You won a lifetime supply of Oreos when you were a kid. The apocoylpse and collapse of civilization was 30 years ago, yet every month the Oreos are still delivered to you, no matter where you are. | The windswept waste calls out to me at night, weeping and howling like a hungry beast. The barren fields and empty streets eat the strongest of men down to the bone.
Little is as it once was. The gray sky, hurling its gastric acid over the countryside, twisting the trees and vegetation into nightmarish swamps. The sl... | The hours pass slowly and are full of pain. My body grows weary with toil under the distant sun and amidst the red dust. But there is no rest for the slaves of the Corn King. We work the barren fields under the crack of the whip and the threat of worse–trying to force life out of something that long ago has died. My li... | 2019-01-04T09:54:24 | 2019-01-04T09:32:32 | 220 | 80 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | God doesn't sound benevolent, nor does he come across as wise and all-knowing, his voice a deep baritone that soothes and comforts you. He just sounds detached, almost bored.
"Wait so, we're all ranked?"
"Yes," God says, stifling a yawn. "All seven billion and counting. Every few years I pick a few and catapult them ... | God tapped the sign again. *No Existential Questions.* “How many times?”
“Apologies, I just-”
“I get it, I really do. But can you imagine if I gave you an answer? You’d freak. Trust me. I tried it once, and the world had to deal with David Blaine. I won’t make that mistake again. Now, would you fill out the form alre... | 2019-01-24T07:34:56 | 2019-01-24T07:34:12 | 272 | 119 |
[WP] "never hire humans" is a standard "no duh" statement across the universe. But by galactic standards, humans are cheap. So an alien overlord has just hired 500 humans to work on his personal resort colony. And things start going horribly wrong.
EDIT: easily my most upvoted post ever. Thank you all! | "You don't find it strange how no one knows how the humans got here? They show up on what were once uninhabitable worlds, and then offer themselves out as cheap labor?" Corl said while we landed our transport.
"No, not really. If anything I wonder why no one will hire them. From what I can see they are amazingly fast ... | "I just don't understand why you're so broken up about this."
Zildjian paused from his pacing around our office and looked at me incredulously, his face twisted into a scowl.
"Oh, you don't understand, do you?" He spat. "The problem is that you hired humans!"
"So? They're incredibly cheap and our budget is tight. Ho... | 2019-01-26T09:15:03 | 2019-01-26T08:26:55 | 335 | 139 |
[WP] "never hire humans" is a standard "no duh" statement across the universe. But by galactic standards, humans are cheap. So an alien overlord has just hired 500 humans to work on his personal resort colony. And things start going horribly wrong.
EDIT: easily my most upvoted post ever. Thank you all! | "What's the problem this time? I'm *trying* to relax here."
"Well, ma'am, four hundred of the humans are complaining that they didn't get paid. They're refusing to work."
"What? I handed them the payment on time, *plus* advance payment! What's the matter with them? Can't they count? I thought a minimal arithmet... | "I just don't understand why you're so broken up about this."
Zildjian paused from his pacing around our office and looked at me incredulously, his face twisted into a scowl.
"Oh, you don't understand, do you?" He spat. "The problem is that you hired humans!"
"So? They're incredibly cheap and our budget is tight. Ho... | 2019-01-26T09:18:05 | 2019-01-26T08:26:55 | 215 | 139 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| "God, I hope the listen."
The captain pulled out his journal and started writing. No one understood why he still used pen and paper but at this point no one cared.
"48 hours ago we landed in what we thought was a desolate planet. We were wrong, so very wrong. Minutes after setting out base camp the locals surrounded ... | Red flashing lights and the sound of the allarm sirens echoes in the suffocating corridors of the Habitat Alpha-03. In the shadows an intestineless body blocks my path.
"You are going to make it, you can do this, I know you can"
Splatted blood trickling on the floor.
I gently move the corpse, that falls loudly at my ... | 2019-01-31T10:04:12 | 2019-01-31T05:21:38 | 116 | 53 |
[WP] You find the "lizard people rule the world" conspiracy to be absolutely inane. After all, you're one of them and you ain't running shit. | *Take over the world, they said.*
*It will be a great deployment, they said.*
*Free rations and the easy life, they said.*
*THEY don’t know shit.*
I put the mop in the bucket again and glance down the hangar. Only five hundred feet to go.
When our High Council proposed invading Earth and undermining it from withi... | “I swear, Zucc is one of ‘em! I mean, just look at him?! And he has massive control over one of the biggest social media’s to date. All that data at their slimy fingertips. It’s too much!”
Fool. They know nothing. Perfect.
“What have you found?” Mizer calls from behind me.
“I’ve infiltrated their forums and discussio... | 2019-02-06T08:22:29 | 2019-02-06T07:32:11 | 285 | 77 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | "Finally, it is complete. Now, nothing can ruin my plans!" I threw back my bead and laughed as I pulled the chicken out of the oven and set it on the table.
"Our plans, you mean," Elizabeth said. I had kidnapped her last month, but we had hit it off. She came back and we had started dating in secret. She sighed. "Do y... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T07:55:50 | 129 | 34 |
[WP] In the center of the village is a giant red button, with the sign "Press in Case of Emergency". Generations have passed, with each generation of elders assuring the village "This isn't a TRUE emergency." Battered, broken and alone, you crawl towards the button, desperation blazing in your eyes. | After a century of withstanding famine, violent coups, riots, and even natural disasters not once did the elders allow for anyone to push the large red button in the middle of the village square.
It's large button tempting anyone to press it as the sign on top said *Press in Case of Emergency.*
The elders though, w... | 800 years of withstanding all kinds of natural disasters, close calls with planetary destruction, plagues that wiped out half of the population, none of those compared to the monster we face.
This thing, this *beast*, is no deity. This is no God. It is a demon.
I run to the ancient monastery, and I demanded audience ... | 2019-08-19T22:36:16 | 2019-08-19T19:58:56 | 49 | 32 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | The other races of the Milky Way cared very little about the blip of a race. You see the galactic population was less unified than one might think. Many races didn't perceive time, speech or thought in the same way. But the one thing they did all understand was matter. Every being was made out of physical matter so tha... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T05:08:25 | 431 | 52 |
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