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[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. | Yikes - this ended up _way_ too long. I'll have to break it up.
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28480 (TSC):: Interview with survivor, Oridan system.
It's not that we couldn't, you understand. Every vaguely intelligent species in the galaxy knew that it could be done. The issue is one of sim... | Part 2:
The Stars Shine Again
"K'uklas, we're pulling out off of the Zhavra cruiser, make sure you and your men can handle the onslaught," the man over his radio said. He couldn't believe the man he looked up to would abandon them like that, in a time where they were hopeless against these tiny, ferocious beasts—no, ... | 2019-12-19T04:41:09 | 2019-12-19T04:20:10 | 102 | 15 |
[WP] After you blow your candles our on your cake for 2 on your 35th birthday, your seemingly perfect spouse looks up at you and says "you're finally at a wise age, I can offer you the gift of immortality, the same one I accepted so many years ago. Do you want to live this life with me forever?" | I pondered for a moment, my eyes drifting slowly along the beautifully sculpted features of my darling's face.
Sheila. My high-school-sweetheart-turned-fiance.
She's always been a bit quirky, so I flash her a warm smile and play along.
"Oh darling, hasn't anybody told you that birthday wishes don't come true when... | My eyes closed for a moment as I turned past the foyer. Then everything changed.
Aida smiled at me from across the apartment, her eyes twinkling in the candlelight. She'd worn her red dress, the one that caught eyes and made other men envious when we'd went barhopping last week. On the wall were blue balloons and stre... | 2020-08-22T19:22:54 | 2020-08-22T19:11:00 | 141 | 18 |
[WP] For years, there's been a room in your house where time stops. You can stay in there for as long as you possibly want without aging, and not a single second passes outside of the room. One day, while in the room taking a nap, you're awoken by the sound of furious knocking at the front door.
This was inspired by a... | Every evening I walk into timelessness and shut the door, unfettered by my cruel mistress of a calendar, free from the nagging ticking of the clock.
It started as as my yoga room but eventually even the calming music and rhythmic breathing spoke of the passing of time. I was counting my breaths and moving to the almo... | "This house is amazing!"
The realtor smiled at the couple. "So, is this the one? Do you want to make an offer?"
"I think so, but can we see that room first?" Amy pointed past the realtor's shoulder at the single door they hadn't been through.
The realtor's smile faded away. Completely serious, she said, "It's just a... | 2020-10-04T08:57:22 | 2020-10-04T08:50:24 | 68 | 31 |
[WP] The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again they rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. | Most modern people had forgotten that the Olympic games were a celebration of and for the great Zeus, King of the Gods. One hundred oxen would be sacrificed to him. Statues and paintings would be made and displayed. Victory songs would be composed and passed down for generations.
They became a political tool of variou... | The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again the rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. But they knew what they would do with t... | 2020-10-06T23:13:50 | 2020-10-06T23:00:27 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] You have existed since the dawn of humanity. In a way, at least. Once a simple tribesman, you were cursed so that whenever you are killed by another person, you leave your dead body and become your killer. You fear death by natural causes, as that will end your life for good. | Life is getting harder. For me, anyways. Too much peace and quiet. Sure, there's still plenty of conflicts, ethnic hatreds, and crime ridden slums for me to get by, but it's not as convenient as it once was. And it doesn't show signs of getting any better for me. People these days like to bitch and moan about how awful... | The past few years had been hard. A whirlwind of changing, switching perspectives, and the flood of memories not my own nearly drove me mad. I was relieved when it ended and I stared down at the man I used to be. I turned away, catching my reflection in a shield, still polished despite the scars of battle that covered ... | 2021-01-28T19:40:04 | 2021-01-28T18:26:02 | 66 | 12 |
[WP] "citizens of earth. Due to your continued pollution of your planet and your over-hunting of its wildlife, as well as your leaders' complete ineptitude at resolving these issues, we have awoken and shall assume direct control over the restoration of this earth. Any resistance will be crushed." | "Citizens of earth. Due to your continued pollution of your planet and your over-hunting of its wildlife, as well as your leaders' complete ineptitude at resolving these issues, we have awoken and shall assume direct control over the restoration of this earth. Any resistance will be crushed."
Hermes lowered the great ... | *Citizens of Earth. Due to your continued pollution of the planet and your over-hunting of its wildlife, as well as your leaders’ complete ineptitude at resolving these issues, we have awoken. We shall assume direct control of the restoration of Earth. Any resistance will be crushed.*
They had no idea that it was comi... | 2021-03-03T19:13:07 | 2021-03-03T18:08:25 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] Angels are thought to be beautiful, while demons are thought to be vile and disgusting. However the truth is Angels are extremely scary, while demons are beautiful and elegant creatures. | I'd never felt anything more beautiful than the blood pounding in my veins. Never heard anything more beautiful than the subtly sibilant susurrations of her voice. Never seen anything more beautiful than the scarlet sheen of her skin, scales that only stood out when the moonlight hit them just right.
She was all of th... | Yet nay, but no mind could comprehend, nor understand the beauty of thy majesty, and the terrifying beauty of the angelic hosts that surround you. \~ Jerimiah the wanderer
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**"HALT."** the voice, like a thousand lions awakened from slumber. Reverberated around the pristine gates of heaven, at it, the kin... | 2021-04-08T10:17:19 | 2021-04-08T09:57:52 | 85 | 18 |
[WP] Priests and paladins hate you. Witches and warlocks want to be you. You are the realm's one and only licensed dark wizard, and this is a day on the job. | "Take me to the body" I said sternly, lifting the the top of my black hood. The acolytes guarding the door hesitated for a moment, before steeping aside. The look of disgust in their eyes barely concealed, as they opened up revealing the crime scene.
The cleric on duty, a Pelorite judging by the holy symbol around his... | "I'm onto you, necromancer." Growled the man in heavy armor.
The suit was excessively polished, and bore a few decorative flourishes too man. Davis rolled his eyes. He had just gotten done dealing with a witch who was a little too happy to do, well, anything he said. He was in no mood to deal with the exact opposite.... | 2021-07-11T16:26:06 | 2021-07-11T15:45:44 | 55 | 20 |
[WP] You're secretly a genie who can give 100 wishes to someone you're deeply in love with, after which you fade away into air. The past 20 years with your partner have been the most precious years of your life, but you lost track and only have one wish left to give. Suddenly your love gets cancer | "Hey, Elly." I took a seat next to her bed, and began arranging the bouquet I brought by the night table.
"Please stop cluttering my table with garbage." The skinny lady sighed. "My last joy is being able to eat all the snacks I like in bed."
"What about my daily visits?" I threw the empty bags of weird imported snac... | How have I let this happen? To Jennifer of all people. I am such a fool. Terry put his head in his hands and let out a small sob. The only noise he could hear in the hospital room were his own cries and the slowing heartbeat of his dying wife.
“Jennifer, I’m so sorry.” he whispered, tears streaming down his face. Nin... | 2021-08-21T09:41:31 | 2021-08-21T06:39:28 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] Google announces that they finally found what they were searching for and effective immediately they will be shutting down their search engine. | She blinked as the words danced before her eyes. Google’s farewell message to the world read, “We hope you find what you are looking for!” along with a doodle of a private investigator flicking a cigarette away and disappearing. It was the last search engine to close.
She felt paralysed. How would she survive high sch... | Google Inc had recently announced the immediate cancellation of all Google products, particularly regarding their worldwide famous search engine. The news came as a massive shock to the billions of consumers below the company’s towering stature, with questions of why and what’s next filling everyone’s minds. Despite al... | 2021-08-24T17:24:56 | 2021-08-24T15:58:15 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You were created to slay the demons from beyond the gate, but eventually they stopped sending you reinforcements, and even later they stopped sending resources at all. You had to make do with what you found. You're sure they've forgotten about the demons by now. | 89 945 762
The imp's corpse fell lifelessly to the charred ground, its eyes frozen in a perpetual state of terror. The blood of the thing rushed into the roughly carved runes supplying just a few more hours of life to the killing machine, extending its existence with that stolen from its victims. The Demonbane continu... | I remember the day I was birthed, or rather, made...
A lost spirit summoned to inhabit a large metal body, implanted with one unbreakable oath, one simple task-- to protect the people of the kingdom from the invasion of the dark army.
That day when I found myself awoken in the world of the living, I wasn't overjoyed ... | 2021-09-11T05:58:02 | 2021-09-11T03:58:06 | 1,183 | 270 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "Can I see that book?" I asked. The genie handed the book to me, which was very light for its size. Each page contained a single rule in a large bold font, with an example printed beneath in smaller letters. Each rule, along with its example, took up about a third of the page. The rest looked hastily scrawled by hand, ... | After much consideration the child contemplated the now empty, shiny artifact in front of him, gently buffed cleaner in one spot, and mulled over how to get around an impasse created by djinn with lawyer's souls. "Okay, I wish to be recreated into a supernatural human being of such considerable power, wealth, intellige... | 2022-01-04T06:00:40 | 2022-01-04T00:47:44 | 138 | 77 |
[WP] You are a renowned knight tasked with slaying a mighty dragon. On your quest, you find the beasts lair, and see it’s corpse. Relieved, and yet slightly disappointed, you prepare to take credit and report to the queen, but you notice something disturbing. The beast has been bitten in half. | "Your highness. I have returned."
"Ah yes, Sir Madhu. I trust your journey into the mountains was a success?"
His appearance begged to differ. The royal guard silently parting for a man who did not seem like the same knight who had left a fortnight ago. His armor was tattered, its sigils scarred and worn. Blood, or s... | In all my quests I never thought I would win before I had the chance to walk into battle. Yet when I entered the long narrow pathway to the cave no sign of life was in sight. A long trail of blood led to the center of the cave. Once I had lit the torch and stuck it in the ground before me, was when I realized I wasn’t ... | 2022-07-13T10:18:19 | 2022-07-13T08:34:30 | 58 | 20 |
[WP] The princess is different to say the very least. Her face covered in battle scars instead of make up, her hands as hard as stone and her eyes more frightening than a dragon. But you must perform your duty as a knight and guard her even though she may not need your protection. | "Look, your highness, I don't like it either. But you know both of our hands are tied." Looking into Rochelle's dead-set eyes was scary enough. Watching them change to reluctant understanding was almost as unsettling, since I didn't see it coming.
Rochelle threw her favorite knife across the room, bullseyed the waterm... | I was nervous as I followed the princess into the darkness of the ancient forest. The trees were so tall they blocked out the moonlight. The air was thick and humid. We walked for what felt like hours, but I knew it couldn't have been more than a few minutes.
The forest was alive with magic. The trees were twisted and... | 2022-10-03T13:05:57 | 2022-10-03T12:11:22 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] You were sent to go deal with reports of a sinister witch in the woods that has been terrifying local villagers. Your grandmother is surprised to see you, but offers tea and cake while you're here. | I stomp my boots on my grandmother's welcome mat, which says, "Garlic is for the weak," removing the extra snow from the toe tips.
"Novie? Is that you?" My Grandma's voice still has that high-pitched, sing-song quality to it. My name is Nova, which means exploding star as well as No Go, depending where you are.
"Ye... | ( on mobile so bad formatting please forgive)
As I walked up to the house the path seemed oh so familiar. It's like I was walking through a memory a memory so far forgotten that it was more like a dream. There was smells coming from the house good smells like Cakes and Pastries almost as if I were visiting my grandma.... | 2022-12-18T08:58:21 | 2022-12-18T08:47:53 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] You win a bet with the Devil by asking him a question that no one has ever thought of before. | "Wow, you’re not..."
"...how you imagined me. I know. Can we cut this short? There were 6392 deaths in the hour before you died and I’ll have to visit all of them."
"Ehm. Yeah, sure. It’s just a little sudden."
"I know. You die and you find out there actually is a life after death and a devil and you would have... | I wish I had walked away.
I should never have taken that bet.
I was cold. Everywhere was shut up for the night, bleak metal shutters blocking the shelter of the doorways.
My bag was heavy. The driving rain soaked the canvas making it difficult to grip. I slung the strap over my shoulder and pushed towards the front.... | 2014-06-20T10:06:03 | 2014-06-20T08:23:39 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Relations between humanity and an intelligent plant-based civilization are already strained over the human diet partially consisting of defensless plants. The discovery of an open terrorist movement called "Vegetarianism" is the last straw. | “They call themselves, *Vegetarians*,” Captain Sunflower said, "And they eat all kinds of plants."
“Even the baby bok choi?” Corporal Cactus asked.
“They especially love to eat baby bok choi,” Captain Sunflower said.
Major Peony fainted.
“What are we going to do?” Private Hedge asked.
“Let me at ‘em,” Sergeant Ven... | The translator unit sent yet another message into the human ambassador's inbox, but this was was marked high priority. The ambassador hadn't known the translator unit was capable of marking things high priority.
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To: Humans of Earth
We are appalled at your lack of disclosure [about a] group called "Vegetaria... | 2014-08-27T09:54:43 | 2014-08-27T09:44:15 | 105 | 13 |
[WP] The dead have come back to life across the world, but they're not here to eat us. They're all fleeing from something terrible in the afterlife. | The frayed remains of the rope had stopped swinging in the rafters. Shattered glass from the coffee table littered the wood flooring. The television was on, but the picture was a red blur and the speakers spewed a deafening silence.
Marcus sat in a haze with his back to the front door. He gripped an empty whiskey bott... | > **Why have the dead come back and what are they doing?**
> An opinion article by Maxxon News reporter Oliver Davis.
If you had told me one year ago that some sort of "zombie apocalypse" was imminent there is no way I would have taken you seriously. To be honest- I would have laughed in your face. That was bef... | 2015-01-23T10:22:13 | 2015-01-23T09:28:59 | 187 | 49 |
[WP] You are the first human ambassador to the alien mothership, where you are to learn about them and begin opening relations between them and Earth. You soon find out they share one unexpected trait with humans. | "And so I think that she likes me, but it's hard to tell, you know? You know, when you think you're getting signals but-"
"Sorry, this is your best friend's ex-girlfriend we're talking about right?"
"Yeah, Xiiugt"
"Well in human culture, it's frowned upon to pursue a friend's ex."
"Really?"
"Yeah, we call it the u... | "I bid you welcome, and I hope your journey was pleasant," I said with a smile, trying to hide the fact that my armpits were vomiting sweat.
"Meh," replied one of the creatures, looking much like a smaller and more humanoid version of Cthulu. I thought of Zoidberg, and then shuddered in fear as to whether or not thes... | 2015-04-14T07:38:53 | 2015-04-14T07:36:16 | 334 | 36 |
[WP] You are forced to take a genies place, and can only be freed once you have granted 10 wishes. The catch: You have no magic in any way. | My cell phone rang again. That was three times in the span of an hour, and the ringing was becoming more persistent. At first I'd planned on just ignoring the constant summons but the more I pretended I couldn't hear the obnoxious ringtone, the more frequently it played. I had planned to outlast the ringing but patienc... | I was left out in this island. I don't know how I got here but the last time I was able to blink I remember I was in a meeting of genies and their boss told me that 'I am the new one' and I have to grant at least 10 wishes to get back to delivering pizza again. And although I hated my job it was more preferable than th... | 2015-04-20T10:19:21 | 2015-04-20T08:44:45 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] The world is ending. Tell me the feeling of the superhero, when he understands the villain was right all along. | "It's not your fault. You couldn't have known."
Those were the last words of the woman I called my enemy. The last words she said before she pulled the trigger, staining her red hair a deeper shade of red.
I stared out of the window of the highrise building that held her office. Outside the building the fires burne... | Earth is aflame.
It is my fault.
It's funny, really. When I was born, chemists heralded me as the dawn of a new age of chemical possibilities. Headlines around the world proclaimed "The Possibilities have Doubled!" and "Reversal!"
Within a 10 foot radius of me, the exothermic/endothermic state of all chemical reacti... | 2015-05-02T04:42:24 | 2015-05-02T02:44:18 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Two prison guards discuss a prisoner who is apparently immortal. He's been in jail with a life sentence for so long that no one knows the reason for his imprisonment. | "Cutbacks," said Dan.
"Cutbacks?" Charlie said, distracted by the paperwork. There was always paperwork.
"That's what they're saying. All non-violent offenders are up for early release."
Charlie looked up. "Nobody knows if this guy is a violent offender."
"Well, apparently that's good enough for government work. The ... | "Him?" Carter placed a metal bowl on the flagstones. It rang out in the quiet corridor and the guard toed it towards the reinforced door with the metal caps on his boots. "No one knows, and it's better not to ask."
Greyson gulped and nodded. In his hands he carried a cast iron pot of what was fondly referred to as '... | 2015-06-01T21:05:28 | 2015-06-01T18:01:47 | 552 | 131 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | For the past few months I had been low on money. I took the advice of a friend and signed up for a clinical trial of some sort, I'm not really sure what it was at this point. Suffice to say they were testing genetic targeting. I received a call a little while ago from the team lead Dr. Sullivan. She said that a contagi... | I gathered my beer bottles. I opened up one and began to down it.
"This is it... The final moment. Of bliss..." Another bottle down the hatch. I felt ready.
Of course, I went to the White House, I was lucky enough that George Bush had been reelected.
I knew the code on the keypad well.
#1234
I grinned to mysel... | 2015-06-14T13:21:20 | 2015-06-14T09:20:45 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] A man's child is born with different colored hair than he is. He becomes suspicious that his wife cheated on him even though it is VERY clear that that isn't possible.
You're free to choose whatever reason for why it wouldn't be possible, the more exaggerated the better in my opinion. | Jonathon watched, frowning, as the boy ran into the shallow water again, spraying water everywhere and scaring the fish away. He swore and threw his fishing rod down.
"William! Get away from there! How am I supposed to catch us dinner with you carrying on like that?"
"Calm down, Jon," Karen said, from under the shade... | "I just think it's funny..." *Uh oh, this phrase precedes negativity at a correlation of 97.8%.*
"I just think it's funny that little Art has blonde hair, but we both have brown hair. Don't you think that's funny Sheila?" *Oh bother. The human Zeke's patterns and phraseology indicate emotion A178: marital jealousy. I'... | 2015-08-05T02:13:10 | 2015-08-05T02:05:03 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Multiple nuclear explosions wipe out several cities in the middle east, but noone knows who deployed the weapons. This is the resulting UN emergency meeting. | "It wasn't Russia?" The speaker had lost all of his composure in the last hour. Most of the delegates were impressed he'd lasted that long. Nuclear warheads! Deployed without any warning, without any spy agency being tipped off! Not just a single bomb, twelve bombs had wiped away civilizations that had fought each othe... | "Alright, I'm sure you've all heard about the recent developments in the Middle East. Anybody care to speak up?"
Simultaneously, all the heads in the room turned towards the United States delegate. The tension instantly became palpable as the silence hung in the air as the US delegate looked around the room, eyebrow r... | 2015-10-18T07:58:48 | 2015-10-18T07:34:17 | 189 | 88 |
[WP]You are part of a resistance that is fighting against the hive mind. One day you are captured and finally assimilated. Turns out being part of a hive mind isn't all that bad. | Sergeant Buck Hardcheese, grizzled veteran of the Forever Wars, recipient of over fifty Slaughter Medals, and certified Hero of the Freedom Army lay strapped to a sterile operating table. He had been captured, damn it, but at least he had taken a hell of a lot of those drones out before succumbing to his wounds. He w... | Broad windows made me nervous. The sun was setting over the city and it cast shadows across the room: jagged, cold shadows, formed from the straight lines and clean edges of everything within it. Shadows that would have distracted my attention, were it not for Heller’s face.
The scar slithered from his left jaw up to ... | 2016-01-13T07:55:50 | 2016-01-13T06:39:17 | 120 | 25 |
[WP] Following a chosen deity has real world benefits, much like perks in a videogame. The more obscure gods offer more interesting gifts to those that find them. | The metro wasn't busy. However, a few seconds ago it had at least been slightly less empty. Besides from myself there had been another man staggering around the other side of the platform. He held a bottle and was muttering gibberish.
"Rayna... Rayna..." He said.
He was clearly drunk. In retrospect I should probabl... | “What is a God?”
Oh… not this lecture again. Was it really that time again already? Why *did* I keep popping in to this classroom. These humans repeated themselves so frequently that it was maddening checking in more than every few rotations or so… But it was time to align myself to their new forms of worship, and t... | 2016-01-26T23:28:28 | 2016-01-26T21:02:12 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] Love is blind, but for you it's quite literal and you lose your sight every time you fall in love. | "Do you love me?" she asked with a smile as she embraced me. We were in the kitchen of the house as our two perfect, healthy children played outside in the yard, trampling the grass as it turned from green to muddy brown. I had been watching them with a faint smile as one sent the other sprawling and ran away in a fit ... | The small street showed itself in headlights, just a few feet at a time
On that dark night, when the fog and drizzle was like a million leaky faucets,
Dripping off the droopy willow trees and onto the roof of the car.
You held my hand from the passenger seat
And said how your dark fingers always went so well with ... | 2016-02-16T07:20:11 | 2016-02-16T07:17:06 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | I remember the first morning I had to head up to the mill under our new Eternal Lord of Darkness. I slowly leered out of the thin opening in my front door. The sky had turned dark, and red clouds hung in the air above us. I stepped back to hold my wife goodbye, took a deep breath of courage, and stepped out onto the ha... | My fellow Americans, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress and members of the press, thank you for joining me this evening.
It is with great sadness that we come together this evening. For the past eight years, it has been both an honor and a privilege to represent this great nation as your President. As you a... | 2016-07-10T12:02:17 | 2016-07-10T10:46:19 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You're a scientist studying bacterial colonies. One day, you look under the microscope to observe strange shapes that, on a closer look, resemble letters. The bacteria are greeting you and have a message for you. | At first I thought it was mere coincidence that they formed shapes that were so nearly letters, then they started becoming more solid, less hazy, more sure.... They bacteria were forming letters and numbers, slowly deciphering the language, I would make corrections as necessary so that I could understand them. Then the... | *STOP MEDICINE! WE DESERVE RIGHTS TOO!*
I couldn't believe it. HIV wanted rights. One second I'm working on a vaccine, the next I'm talking to a virus.
*I WAS MADE THIS WAY! I CANT CONTROL HOW NATURE MADE ME!*
So HIV viewed itself as a collective whole rather than individual cells... Interesting.
*SORRY "WE"! WE WE... | 2017-01-01T15:41:20 | 2017-01-01T15:36:34 | 68 | 37 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | My mother was supposed to die in childbirth. And she did, later on. I had been born to a corpse more than any living thing. She was barely alive, and the doctors weren't quite aware of it, the medical field being mostly guesswork at the time. It wasn't like a lot of work was being put into treating women anyway, not wh... | "You can't do this." I gasped, the words barely audible in the poorly illuminated room. Figures lined the edge of it and the murmuring I heard sounded dire.
"Oh, I think you will find I very much can, and will," the king said with a hint of amusement in his tone. Clearly his age was affecting his brain.
He was old,... | 2017-05-13T08:16:17 | 2017-05-13T07:31:52 | 277 | 34 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | "If you're here to join the pity party, I don't want to hear it." The sergeant drained the rest of his tumbler and lined it up with the others.
"Wasn't planning on it." The commissioner took the stool next to him. "I've been getting an earful from everyone else about... what you went through, but I wanted to hear it d... | Light.. Its day time. Where am I? What is this place? Why am I in a bed? Is.. is it wet?
Shit. I wet myself. I'm 5 again.
In 2 minutes and 12 seconds my mother is going to walk through that door and blame this on a bad dream. She always says it's night terrors. She'll help me change and then take my sheets to the ... | 2017-05-25T17:59:55 | 2017-05-25T17:38:23 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | When the door slammed shut, she began to speak as quickly as she could. "You never knew I was an actress?" she asked, totally in denial. "I mean, I told you I had a film shoot the other day! Did that not tip you off?" Her radiant smile was clouded with a brow of confusion.
"You said you were a film major! I didn'... | "I'll be at your Door at 4 sharp"
"Leila, you know I'm always on time" I said with as lovely a voice I could.
With a cute kiss over the phone, She hung up.
Who would've known that the Depressed and Broken lady on the public bus was the Lady destined to my dreams. Perfect for me, inside out. Purest of souls and sof... | 2017-06-14T09:12:12 | 2017-06-14T07:58:26 | 1,740 | 195 |
[WP] [Harry Potter] You are a non-famous muggle biologist that keeps discovering magical creatures, and right before you announce your discoveries, get your memory erased by the ministry of magic. Then your daughter gets her letter from Hogwarts, and you learn you're famous in the magical world. | Steve wiped the sweat from his brow, brought on by the humidity. Hot he could deal with, but rainforests left him drenched. Still, it didn’t slow him, following his guide deeper into the unknown. Rumours had reached him of something new, exciting. A little humidity couldn’t stop him.
The path—a tangle of roots and fer... | I sipped my coffee with a sigh. I enjoy a nice cuppa as much as my neighbors and colleagues but having grown up in America before moving to England some habits die hard. I gaze morosely at the cup wondering if I should add a bit of something stronger but shook my head. A touch to early for that and it wouldn't fix the ... | 2017-07-16T08:46:11 | 2017-07-16T08:34:03 | 228 | 94 |
[WP] In the future, genetic engineering has been perfected. Instead of creating horrors or perfect humans, most scientists just want to make Pokémon. | "So....What does it do?"
The suit stood in the middle of my lab, squinting in at my creation. *My* lab. Chrissy and Dave stood just behind me, nervously waiting with armfuls of papers.
"I'm sorry?"
She rolled her eyes, motioning through the glass. The tiny critter within chirped warmly at the motion, leaning fowa... | "Can you feel it?"
"Please. Please don't."
"That means that you can feel it."
"Please... Please..."
Something inside stirred.
"I love you. Daddy please..."
Those words were familiar.
"But I... I want to..."
"Daddy please!"
Somewhere far, past the brink of emotion, he found the memory.
"Annalisa?"
... | 2017-09-12T10:40:47 | 2017-09-12T10:16:49 | 506 | 88 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | I still remember the smell of her hair, the softness of her skin, the sadness in her eyes... I had never seen her cry before that very moment. That moment when she told me the words I would never forget and that have haunted me for the past two centuries.
"You're not allowed to die, okay?" she had told me, tears drawi... | Ben rose from the grave. He felt pain, but the tears stopped flowing years ago. They stopped after he lost everyone he loved and knew. And it all stemmed from his daughter's last day on earth.
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"You're not allowed to die, okay daddy? You can't. You have to take care of Laura. I know she's married and all, ... | 2018-01-05T12:17:29 | 2018-01-05T12:14:21 | 80 | 49 |
[WP] We find intelligent life under the ice crust of the moon "Europa". Upon contact, the aquatic species is confused how we survived the "harsh climate of earth" any why we, as a species didn't leave "when we had the chance".
"and" instead of "any"... | It was interesting encountering life on Europa, the first thing NASA said in the press conference, was that they thought they found language. Once that press conference was over, my job interview began. Being head of NASA’s linguistics department pays way more than my University position. It was my job to translate an ... | The team sent to Europa was a small one containing only three men, only one expected to exit the submarine at the risk of their life. I was that man. An entirely new type of rocket separate from that of the ones utilized prior had to be constructed to breech the miles and find what would lie beneath. It had a normal sh... | 2018-04-23T09:04:06 | 2018-04-23T08:14:38 | 48 | 28 |
[WP] The universe has placed you in a groundhog day style time loop until you learn a lesson. Problem is, you REALLY LIKE being in the loop, so now the universe is constantly sending you not so subtle hints that you're supposed to be learning something. | It was yesterday. Again.
This was okay. This was fine by me.
 
“Bye Mom”
“Bye honey, see you tonight”
 
And just after the fourth bell, my phone would ring, and –
“Your mother was in a car accident, you got to come -”
“No”
“She’s…she’s gone, she’s gone”
“No, she’s not. She’s not.”
&... | I don't know what happened when I opened my fridge that day, but some weird forces took action and sent me to an incredible log cabin complex in the middle of the woods. The interesting thing was that every time I woke up the same day took place.
I would stretch, yawn, bond with Sara and Bob over breakfast, and then I... | 2018-05-01T22:36:33 | 2018-05-01T16:08:28 | 105 | 65 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | “What is the defense system, Father?”
I got on my knees and looked at the fake child straight in his eyes as if he was my own scared son. “The Earth is protected. You remember that documentary series I showed you, you know, the one about The Doctor.”
In a flash of gray light I was jolted back into my seat in the Oval... | I freeze. *Stranger*...
"uh, well then it's very complicated, but let's grab a sandwich, and we'll sit down and talk about it, ok?"
The knives in the kitchen drawer are rattling as I scamble for the spare radio I keep in there... the little freak is standing by the door... my son... no, he's a freak. what is he, a 4... | 2018-05-14T01:44:46 | 2018-05-13T23:45:15 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | Everyone had a rating for how lucky they could be, from 1 to 100, 1 being close to no luck and 100 being the best luck. Most people had a rating of around 30ish. I was one of the few with a full score of 100.
Which would have been great, if bad luck wasn't a thing. The thing with the luck rating was that it was basica... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T11:19:11 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 72 | 12 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | They told me I was lucky. My whole life they said that the stat assessment showed I was one of the luckiest people alive with a score of 100. I swore it wasn’t true. If I had been lucky, why was I born to a poor family? I never got to play games of chance, since those were forbidden to luck score 100s.
Then the revol... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T12:50:06 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | Harry found it strange, as he walked down the busy street he'd periodically see people in nothing but their underwear. They'd be carrying on as usual, reading a paper, nose in their phone, or sipping coffee. He looked across the street and saw a group of people waiting at the bus stop. Three of them were already in ... | I sat there on my bed having just gotten home from food shopping. I looked at the cut on my hand from when I had accidently cut myself helping my dad earlier today. I took a mouthful of my energy drink, by time the fluid went down my throat the cut was gone. I thought I was hallucinating so I grabbed a knife and cut a ... | 2018-08-14T08:22:35 | 2018-08-14T07:36:53 | 91 | 49 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | “What?”
My shock at seeing my wound heal instantly was quickly replaced with a feeling of strength that surged through my body. *It’s just like a video game*. With my newfound power, I decided to test if I could do anything else from games I had played. I walked outside and punched a nearby tree. After a few more hits,... | I sat there on my bed having just gotten home from food shopping. I looked at the cut on my hand from when I had accidently cut myself helping my dad earlier today. I took a mouthful of my energy drink, by time the fluid went down my throat the cut was gone. I thought I was hallucinating so I grabbed a knife and cut a ... | 2018-08-14T10:35:26 | 2018-08-14T07:36:53 | 80 | 49 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I remember the end of my life. I lay in my bed, surrounded by family and friends, rattled my last breath, and closed my eyes. After that... blackness.
I awoke in a cold sweat, in a bed in what I knew to be my bedroom. I was in a house I recognized from my memories, but recalled I hadn't been in this room since I was 8... | I was sick, the only release I had was playing varies mmorpgs, platformers, and survival games. I was in the hospital for several months. One morning however I ate my usual breakfast and fell asleep again. When I woke up, the doctor said my vitals were fine, my sickness miraculously vanished. How? I did nothing differe... | 2018-08-14T13:16:04 | 2018-08-14T11:20:45 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I couldn't tell you offhand which video game I played did me the most good, but I enjoyed playing them all to death. I always thought I was just very talented. It never occurred to me that I never had the skill to do a thing before I played the game version of it. It was just that I only ever got interested in the real... | Okay so being a lesbian is hard. Being a mildly unattractive, chubby gay girl who very infrequently emerges from her apartment to see the outside world is easier with video games. I can be a sexy martial artist who devours the men who try to sleep with me. I can be a strong, boisterous dwarf who drinks ale with the boy... | 2018-08-14T13:06:43 | 2018-08-14T12:53:24 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "I like adventurous guys," she says with stars in her eyes. Your date is the most beautiful woman you've ever met. In a panic, you buy last-minute plane tickets to a small Balkan country. Your plan - a short tour visit, overthrow the local government, and win her heart. | The woman I love has stars in her eyes. No really, she has actual stars in her eyes! When I look into them, I can see vast cosmos -- points of light on an infinite plane of darkness. Once, I swear I even saw Sol, with our humble planet dancing around the star like a courting lover. The first time our eyes met, I was lo... | "Success is the ultimate driver," I say as I stare out the window of the plane, the sun's bright rays refracting off the clouds far below, creating heaven in my mind's eye. "Success gives us a chance at procreation, to allow men like me to reproduce with a female of the highest quality."
The man beside me nods knowing... | 2018-12-10T08:31:16 | 2018-12-10T08:30:42 | 2,022 | 15 |
[WP] You wake up in a remote island after a plane crash as the only survivor, but you find 9 others who were also the lone survivors of 9 plane crashes already settled there. You realise that the planes were of the same airliners and next day an airdrop delivers the message "Now it starts". | 20 meters away another air drop was crashing down. A large crate about the size of a truck.
You could feel everyone trying to process what was happening. It was too much. Surviving a plane crash was enough trauma for anyone. Now... Whatever this was.
"Wait" one of the other survivors said. "Let's take a few minutes t... | Somewhere above the Pacific Ocean
“Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm. It’s all a dream nothing more. Don’t open your eyes. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts. Ohh god please forgive me for all my sins, I know I was never religious, but please forgive me, please look after Jon and Noah, please look after jasmine. I spent some... | 2018-12-26T05:34:13 | 2018-12-26T04:18:59 | 812 | 34 |
[WP] being the grim reaper is pretty lonely, you only ever meet people once to escort them to the other side and most don’t want to talk. Except this one soul, who every week without fail shows up ready to make the journey. How he gets back I have no idea, but it’s nice to see a familiar face. | “Sorry I’m late,” she says as she gets in the boat. “The game went into overtime.”
“That’s all right,” I say. “How did your son do?”
“He scored the winning shot! Of course, it was his only bucket of the game and he's still not that good...but he was so happy and his teammates were hugging him…he never had too many fr... | The Reaper was ticking his checklist off, checking the Book of Names for who was dying next, tying his shoes, polishing his scythe, etc. Once he was ready to gather the souls that had died that day, he stepped off the floating platform of the Undeath and began free fall into the infinite darkness. As fast as the fall h... | 2019-02-22T03:44:42 | 2019-02-22T02:17:15 | 324 | 35 |
[WP] In a fantasy world filled with magical champions, you find yourself forced into your first battle of a long tournament. You may not have magical swords, or spells, but you do have something this world has never seen before: your trusty M1911, and all the ammo you could fix up before the fight. | Life is a funny thing. One moment you’re in the woods for some target practice, and suddenly you’re in front of a bearded man with a robe. Of at least that’s where Dave was. Apparently a summoning had gone wrong, a not uncommon occurrence in this land, and now Dave Briston was stranded here.
The wizzard, a student wh... | "Your weapon will not pierce through my armor!"
Captain Strong fired his gun. The bullet hit the armor and ricocheted back at him, and he moved his head only in the nick of time. He had heard that the enemy in front of him possessed a legendary suit of armor that could stop any kind of attack, but to see an armor-pier... | 2019-04-22T22:17:16 | 2019-04-22T21:34:15 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | John was astonished by what lay before him. In bold black letters, on a sober cream background read the words that most people were elated to see. But not John. John was far from that. £7.27. £7.27? There had to have been a mistake. Only £7.27? How? Why!?
"its not fair" John muttered to himself as he slumped onto the... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T13:46:39 | 99 | 10 |
[WP] A man was sentenced to death. He was executed, announced dead, and had a funeral. The day after, you got a phone call from the police station from the same man asking you to be his lawyer. He argued, "I paid for my crimes already. They can't sentence me twice." It was all over the news. | "I'm not sure I follow."
Lucas Giraldi rolled his eyes and folded his hands on the table he was seated at. "I'm gonna tell you one more time," he said in a frustrated tone that made his Texas accent sound funny.
"I'm listening."
"The Devil and I go way back. I knew him as Johnny back in the day but then some fraud ... | The two sat across each other as he had raced to the police station. It was late, and the weather was rain pouring down. It did not take long for the two to get an interrogation room to chat.
Though it did not come to much talking. For a couple of minutes, they just stared at each other. Then, a chuckle fell.
"You...... | 2019-07-05T15:18:17 | 2019-07-05T13:07:16 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You die in a car accident and go to the afterlife. Everything is amazing until you meet several generations of relatives who are disgusted by your modern behaviour and all, "want a word." | **You wanted to talk to me, grandpa?**
Sit down, Johnny. Look, I'm sorry you died at age 17. Rough break. But at least you're here in the afterlife with family.
**Yeah, about that. Why are we all in hell?**
Because I cheated on your grandma, your mother embezzled from her work, your father once killed a guy, and you... | ‘Angel of death’ are written in crude sharpie on a helmet. It’s written just above a drab green American flag.
The First Reconnaissance Battalion of the USMC makes it start. A blitz to Baghdad.
The radio played dimly as the cars drove across the land like a single tendril of an leviathan. The distance was great and ... | 2019-07-24T13:59:36 | 2019-07-24T13:54:12 | 40 | 24 |
[WP] Due at an error, a baby was born without a guardian angel. A demon notices this and has taken it upon themself to become their guardian demon. But they seem to have some... Dark ways of helping their human stay alive. | He wandered though the empty train storage yard at night, unafraid of the things that may lurk there. This wasn’t bravery, or even stupidity. This was a classic symptom of not having a guardian angel. That little niggling discomfort that tells you not to go in. That tingle up the spine that says “this is not a safe pla... | Despite the pride the humans have accumulated through their time on Earth, the species is fragile. Technologies and medicines could only go so far as protecting one from their materialisation onwards. Prior to that, however, the souls that were to be bound to new flesh are weak and vulnerable. That is where the angels ... | 2019-12-14T22:12:02 | 2019-12-14T21:32:54 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] you have the ability to hold full conversations with plants. you’ve only ever spoken to civilised pot plants living in houses or cafes. out of curiosity, you decide to speak with a lonely weed living in a dark alleyway. | "Would you please move me a few inches to the left?" the finicky fiddle-leaf fig asked me, its voice curt and shrew. "I don't quite like the strength of the sun right here. It's too warm."
I obliged with a sigh--who knew talking to plants would be so much work? They always demanded so much of me, crying at all hours o... | People have always treated Gordon like he was different. Even his own family treated him like he was something they’d accidentally stepped in, when his carer wasn’t looking. It wasn’t his fault. The only time he got into real trouble with his little sister, was when he ran out of paper to draw on, and so he went into h... | 2020-02-18T06:14:45 | 2020-02-18T05:59:48 | 1,828 | 296 |
[WP] As it turns out, humanity is the single most pyromaniacal and explosion-happy species in the entire galaxy. This quickly gets us something of a Reputation... | Pyromaniac that's what they called me when they tried to vent me out of an airlock into space. The moment i stepped off of the shuttle into the station simply for bringing my old golden lighter on board with me. Slowly the flames licked at the merchant union's headquarters the same one run by the galactic peacekeepers.... | Light a match. Drop it. See the fire. Enjoy it. Cause an Explosion. Witness it. This is our existence. This is my Existence. I have no name. I am only fire.
Fire was crouching behind some barrels of hyper fuel. She has the right side of her head shaved with long green hair. She is dressed like any other fire starter... | 2020-03-15T15:10:11 | 2020-03-15T14:23:19 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] Upon dying you challenge Death to game of chess, choosing to play despite the warnings not to. Unfortunately you've won and soon find out you should have heeded Deaths warning. | “Checkmate in two.”
The words still ring in my ears every now and then. At the time it felt so satisfying; success against all odds, besting the supernatural.
“Think carefully about your next move, mortal one.” The words, like a cool sea breeze on a hot Summer’s night, whispered from under the dark hood. I would not ... | My victory with Death was bittersweet, I was warned by Death himself that winning may not be the wisest option. I ignored him all the same and won my life back, but things were never the same.
When I awoke in my bed the next morning it all seemed like a bad dream, it didn't take long however to realize my skin was pal... | 2020-04-08T07:19:48 | 2020-04-08T06:10:29 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] A global, standardised test taken at 13 determines the career of everyone on the planet. The big day comes and you get your results back, only to learn you might have the hardest job ever given through this system: you have to redesign the test. | "I've never seen this before" said Mrs Mitchell, and swung her screen around to face me, "so we're going to put you in for a bit of everything for the rest of your time with us. Statistics-"
"Maths? But I'm rubbish at -"
"Yes, statistics. Psychology, biology, history, politics, ethics-"
"What about art, can I do a... | I sat staring at the LED's of my computer screen, frozen and transfixed by the simple email imploring me to redesign the test. I thought with my years of programming experience I would be selected to work with software, perhaps for Peach or Macrohard. I had grown up at my desk, typing away lines of code, while many kid... | 2020-07-05T02:35:15 | 2020-07-04T23:05:06 | 83 | 28 |
[WP] You're in your fifth seemingly endless Zoom meeting of the day. Without thinking, you mutter "this is Hell." As everyone around you freezes, you realize that you forgot to mute yourself. The host's eyes begin to glow as he announced, "He noticed." | "Oh, thank *Lucifer*! He noticed. Alright team, that's a wrap. Great meeting. Thank you for your time. I'll move forward with the candidate here offline and will loop you in on his progress."
The call participants logged off and the screen went black. I'm sitting in a tiny, nondescript office with manila folder-yellow... | Hell is a hallway with two conference rooms.
The first is over-conditioned. The hum of fans is overbearing as cool conditioned air blasts through vents in the ceiling. Cobwebs billow and you wonder when the last time they dusted. In the corner is a dispenser with plastic-tasting water. They have a handful of pixie cu... | 2020-09-17T09:03:43 | 2020-09-17T08:42:48 | 125 | 68 |
[WP] When you die you go to hell, only to find out you can gamble your soul on a coin flip for a brand new life or damning 500,000 more souls to the underworld. You’ve been doing this for 2000 years, winning and beginning a new life every time... you show up at the devils throne once again. | "Hello again Lucifer!"
For a soul on the edge of eternal suffering, it sure seemed nonchalant about it. Lucifer eyed it suspiciously. It looked liked every other soul that passed through his doors and yet it spoke to him as if he were an old friend.
"You must have taken the gamble before."
Lucifer always offered eve... | I was leading my oxen through the crowded streets of Rome, heading toward the market at which I hoped to sell my most prized specimen for a hefty sum. Suddenly there came shouting from the senate house. It was muffled. Its words were indistinct.
"Julius Caesar is dead!" cried one man, closer to me than the original sh... | 2020-11-24T12:35:02 | 2020-11-24T12:24:57 | 133 | 48 |
[WP] You're a disembodied consciousness who wakes up every day in a new body. Today, for the first time, you wake up in the same body as yesterday. | The clock stuck 6 AM and I woke up, a bit groggy as usual. The room seemed familiar. I picked up the phone on the table next to me and opened up the front camera.
Wait. This was impossible.
I had been jumping bodies for years now, always waking up in a new one. This was a first. I had once again woken up in the bod... | Dying fabulously rich has its perks. One of them is you never die. Not in today’s world at least. My consciousness has been uploaded to a memory Silo. People don’t realize the complexity of the human consciousness. How many resources are required to maintain a fully functional Silo. There are very few people in the wor... | 2021-01-16T23:14:08 | 2021-01-16T22:30:20 | 63 | 37 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Travel was always a danger for us.
To brave the high seas, to trek the rocky mountains-- these were the things for the bravest of souls, the greatest adventurers. Homing talonsongs could only be so reliable, after all. An unexpected storm here, a foul gust there, and a call for help on your trek would be a pitiless s... | They came from the galaxy’s edge on worldships whose engines fanned out behind them like the ends of a scarf caught on the breeze, and their troop transports were no lesser works of art. The former Ethan found out from the news broadcasts that had flooded every terrestrial communication device for the last week as the ... | 2021-01-21T18:13:20 | 2021-01-21T14:21:41 | 299 | 53 |
[WP] Aliens have tried to conquer Earth over and over again, to no avail. Your empire is the latest to try it, and despite all your technology, you finally discover why Earth has never been conquered by alien empires. | Kamunepta, High Warrior of the Vol Song, had achieved her new position due to her careful analysis of human culture, and what she had found disturbed her.
Human were liars.
They told untruths, and omitted key details from their speech when it suited them. Their cultural fascination with a thing called "art" was distu... | Report from Conquer Earth Voul Fleet:
Our ships take up position just outside Earth's lunar orbit because in-between the moon and Earth laid the most dangerous defensive weapon a ballistic mine field that would shred any ship attempting to get through. This was often enough to disuade most fleet's to turn around. But ... | 2021-05-07T07:53:58 | 2021-05-07T05:03:24 | 141 | 67 |
[WP] Your friend begs you to drive out to the middle of nowhere and take their picture with their phone. As soon as you do, they disappear. You check the phone and find hundreds of photos of different smiling strangers all in the exact same spot.
(inspired by tumblr [https://writing-prompt-s.tumblr.com/post/6512662342... | Do you want to know something crazy?
I had a best friend just a few months ago, she and I had been childhood friends since middle school. We did everything together, stuck together through thick and thin, through bad breakups and high school drama. We stayed in touch through our adult lives, always making time to meet... | **NEVER NEVER LAND**
Zia was used to spontaneity that looked like insanity from Nora. In fact, that was partly why they’d become friends. Nora was always up for an adventure, most of the time it was her idea, but she was down for where Zia’s wanderlust took them too.
So, when Zia got the text “Let’s go.” She didn’t ... | 2021-05-15T11:02:46 | 2021-05-15T10:47:56 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] No one is sure what happened, but suddenly everyone started obeying the law. All crime ceased. At first it was beautiful, but it quickly started going very wrong. | My mother’s voice was soft and gentle, her touch kind and enveloping. Hugged tight against her chest, I felt warm tears begin to form, wishing she’d *let me go*.
I couldn’t push her off, though. I couldn’t even blink on command, couldn’t even breathe. I was just a puppet. *Everyone was.*
Finally released from the hu... | It was such a beautiful idea. Build a machine that sends a new form of electrical wave neutralizing neurophysiological problems like anger, jealousy, envy and humanity finally can ascend to a higher form of society. It was simplistic even. Just drug the brain to the point the patient can't differentiate between right a... | 2021-09-22T11:18:45 | 2021-09-22T09:04:52 | 54 | 25 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Your eyes have never changed. Ever since you were a little girl, your eyes have been the color of a thoughtful ocean: churning, stormy, one weather system away from order or chaos.
Even now, your eyes look the same. You're 27 years old, and I've been dead for 15 of those years. And even with the distance of death and... | Why won't they listen?
Why won't anyone listen?
"You never wonder if the rain would give you a message in Morse code?" asked Natalia, in an innocent tone that did not fully hide her fear.
"That would make my day more interesting, I can tell you that much," replied Rene, her Morse code instructor in the army.
Natali... | 2021-09-28T09:13:08 | 2021-09-28T08:55:03 | 2,222 | 89 |
[WP] You run an underground fight club for the supernatural. A new patron approaches you at the end of the night and asks why you don't enter the fights. After explaining you're human the patron looks at you with confusion. "No, you most definitely aren't kid". | “Trust me, I’m only human. My parents were human and I’ve never had a remarkable thing occur to me my whole life.”
He stares at me as he processes my response. “I understand that you believe that. In fact anyone would believe the same. But the truth is you are much more.”
I stare at him feeling a bit annoyed... | "Chuckle, what have you been smoking bud." My parents and all that crap were all human. They did the DNA thing, mandatory for the past 75 years, so it's no big deal.
The patron looks at me, and his eyes flicker. "You are not human. I don't know how you are passing, but definitely not human. Fight me in the ring, toni... | 2022-09-08T20:25:14 | 2022-09-08T19:48:41 | 525 | 231 |
[WP] You run an underground fight club for the supernatural. A new patron approaches you at the end of the night and asks why you don't enter the fights. After explaining you're human the patron looks at you with confusion. "No, you most definitely aren't kid". | For the fighters, fight clubs were about honour first.
And some money. When the vampire with a swollen face and bloody teeth comes up to me, you best believe it’s not about the rankings, or the win.
For me, it was about money first. Running a supernatural fight club was a difficult business, entirely reliant on the h... | "Chuckle, what have you been smoking bud." My parents and all that crap were all human. They did the DNA thing, mandatory for the past 75 years, so it's no big deal.
The patron looks at me, and his eyes flicker. "You are not human. I don't know how you are passing, but definitely not human. Fight me in the ring, toni... | 2022-09-09T02:12:40 | 2022-09-08T19:48:41 | 428 | 231 |
[WP] In the Academy for Knights, all students must bring their own weapon to matches against other students. You couldn't afford anything fancy, so you brought something more unconventional. | I hate Tuesdays.
Tuesdays, the school decided, were all-out Battle Royale fighting days. The winner would be granted test immunity for the next week. While the losers would be healed by magic for class the next day.
So I stood in my corner, simple peasant clothes and red scarf around my neck. While my classmates were... | the arena was jam packed with spectators from all over the campus. My opponent was decked out in the best armor and gear money could buy. I myself wore a tunic and shorts. This was on purpose because it allowed more mobility. My weapon however was less than ideal. A small squeaky hammer. I enter the arena weapon ready.... | 2022-09-14T17:58:43 | 2022-09-14T16:33:52 | 207 | 11 |
[WP]: A child encounters a mythical creature only to discover they're nothing like in the stories. | Monsters in my storybooks are big and scary.
They have sharp teeth and long claws, and when the hero fights them the hero is always brave and strong with shiny armor and a sword.
My monster is small. And when I fight it I'm weak and tired and sick and lose my hair.
My mom says I'm fighting like a brave knight, but t... | She saw it as she was walking through the woods. It was just as she imagined, lit by a single ray of sunshine while the trees glowed around it, lapping up the water from a creek that trickled gently.
She didn't know what to say, should she call her mother and father who had gone on ahead, oblivious to the magnificent ... | 2013-11-12T15:25:27 | 2013-11-12T09:00:02 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | "But what if you don't have internet? I mean, it seems like the process kinda favors the richer countries."
*"It only seems that way. It comes in more forms than you know."*
"So, that's it? That's the criteria? The only criteria to become a GOD? You toss out great heroic deeds or a moralistic sense of purpose? Leader... | Listen up, you mutha fuckin' people of Earth. Us gods are tired of all your bullshit complaining about how fucked up the world is. Ya'll go on and on about how we let evil run rampant and how life isn't fair. Of course, you causally forget that when we gave you this existence it was god damned perfect, and that it was ... | 2014-07-28T09:33:03 | 2014-07-28T09:24:21 | 358 | 25 |
[WP] Looking into the camera on your phone you jokingly say, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To your surprise, suddenly the phone rings! "H-hello?" "Hi! I'm from the NSA." | “I’m sorry?”
“You asked me out, didn’t you? I’m Mark. Work for the NSA. So meet you at Bamboo Inn at eight?” There was a drawn-out silence as I processed what he said.
“Wait, how did you…?” I eventually said.
“Know your favourite restaurant? Well, your phone’s GPS data has you visiting there quite often. Worrying... | "W-what?" I said stuttering into the phone. This couldn't be real.
"I'm Nicole, from the NSA!" said the voice on the phone. "I heard what you said into the camera, and I have to say, for the past couple of weeks I've had the biggest crush on you."
A cueball dropped from my the inside of my chest to my stomach.
"Are... | 2015-02-20T17:50:36 | 2015-02-20T17:09:46 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] You are 100% convinced that you are the sole surviving member of the human race, despite the fact that today is your first appointment with a shrink for the very same reason. | It was a necessary chore, attending these sessions. Without a minimal functional certification of mental health, he would lose access to the colony's automated systems, the only thing now keeping him alive. It was just one of the hoops he had to jump through, and by far his least favourite.
"Hello again ... Technicia... | ''*So, mr. Ao, why are you so convinced that you are the sole surviving human, when you are as a matter of fact speaking to one right now?*''
It is a curious case, mr. Ao, a small-time short-story writer and indie movie maker, believes that all of mankind has died out, and that he is the only remaining human alive. Cu... | 2015-04-10T05:30:14 | 2015-04-10T00:38:24 | 318 | 54 |
[WP] You don't realize you're the villain till the hero tells you | I did not know.
I just wanted the best for him, I wanted him to succeed. I helped him cruise through High School, excel in University, and connected him to a respectable job.
He told me today that he wanted desperately to be his own man. That he has lost interest in everything around him. I just wish he had told me i... | "'Scuse me?"
"Oh *come on*. You had to know."
"No, Captain Save 'Em, I *don't* know that I'm the *villain*."
"Dude, think about it. You're smart, okay? WE GET IT. You're *such* a know-it-all. Villains are *always* like that."
" - "
"You *think* about things too much. THIS IS SERIOUS. And you're act like it's a fuc... | 2015-04-17T23:16:28 | 2015-04-17T22:28:05 | 1,146 | 23 |
[WP] a popular children's TV show that generally follows a basic template suddenly has a horrific and disastrous turn in the plot
I.e. Doc mcstuffins can't fix one her her beheaded toys...and go | "Today's episode is brought to you by the letter H, and the number 13!"
"Yay!" said Ernie, his muppety mouth gaping open as he wiggled his whole body like a puppet possessed.
"H is for Hemorrhoids! And 13 is the number of them I have on my backside," continued Big Bird.
"Um," said Ernie, mouth firmly closed.
"What ... | "That was fun," said Mary, giggling. She and Caleb were still catching their breath from the Wacky Wormhole game. "Now it's time for questions from viewers like you."
Caleb fished through a large sack and pulled out an envelope. "This one's from Hiram, in Fairbanks," he said. "Dear Caleb and Mary, how do I get a job a... | 2015-05-17T10:06:12 | 2015-05-17T08:35:42 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | I expected nothing. Not to say that I expected nothing*ness*, I just expected there to be nothing. An end of consciousness and awareness. I didn't expect this. But these things happen sometimes, I suppose.
I remember being a kid, and my parents telling me that if I was a good boy, I would go to heaven some day. They ... | You are dead, or are you really? You have been an atheist, all your live. Well most of it, sometimes you have ventured into agnosticism, but mostly you have been an atheist. So why the hell, can you still think, you remember being alive, you remember the doctor saying that it would all over soon, then pushing the pisto... | 2015-10-18T21:30:06 | 2015-10-18T20:21:54 | 135 | 23 |
[WP] "Like this if you love Jesus. Ignore if you love the Devil." "Not this stupid crap again", you think to yourself. You scroll past it and continue wasting time on your home computer. Five seconds later you hear a knock at your front door. It's the Devil, holding a bouquet of roses. | I had a plan to get both of them to stop harassing me. I loaded up my friend David's Facebook page, and scrolled down to the post. Then I unlocked my phone, and had John forward the text.
I sighed, closed my eyes, and waited five seconds. The knock at the door. Ten seconds. The wailing from the kitchen. I smiled and r... | The knocking grew more insistent. He always knocked in groups of three or seven. He did most things in threes and sevens, some sort of habit 'left over from my days in the garden'. The light switches were endearing--in the beginning--but the toilet flushing was always annoying, and he always burned toast, not to mentio... | 2015-10-22T07:28:18 | 2015-10-22T02:38:50 | 179 | 47 |
[WP] You have a soundtrack that plays music appropriate to whatever situation you are currently in. You can consistently hear the music which is why you're terrified when you awake to the sound of screeching violins at 4am. | All my life, I've been hearing music randomly. Sounds kind of stupid, but it helps me in situations. For example, I was talking to a girl in school today and the "awkward" music came on. I knew this was my time to just roll out and leave her alone.
The music would shut off when I went to sleep. I don't know if it actu... | I wake with a jolt and for a second wonder why I am awake. The curtains are still quite dark and I can't see any light coming from the crack under my door. I glance over at my illuminated clock and see 4:00 AM, what?! I am the type of girl who sleeps in until 1. 4:30 in the morning is as far away from 1 as it gets. The... | 2015-11-24T19:32:25 | 2015-11-24T15:16:02 | 87 | 22 |
[WP] You are born with the ability to stop time, but one day you see something else is moving when you have already stopped time. | "This isn't possible," I repeated for maybe the fiftieth time. The man in front of my calmly sipped his coffee, apparently totally unbothered by everyone else's ceasing to move.
I looked around at the rest of the café. As with every other time, it was solid. I don't mean, like, it had all stopped - I mean, that's wha... | I was seventeen years old, that's counting the time I actually moved through with everybody else. I cannot account for the 'time' I have spent suspended, there was simply no way to measure that, no clocks, no day and night. The only thing that moved was me, well to some degree. After I unstopped the time I always ended... | 2016-06-19T05:03:39 | 2016-06-19T03:54:17 | 667 | 48 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | "What do you mean it says zero?" the major bellowed. "Did you eggheads forget an electrode?" He turned and stared at me through the glass. I think I had gone cross-eyed by that point.
"Uh, no sir, it would be reporting NULL if there was no connection." One of the anonymous men in lab coats tentatively replied. He had ... | Food for Thought
Most people are smart enough to stay out of trouble. According to my test results, I am not. The supporting evidence was the fact I was waiting in an interview room. Everyone knows the staple of classic B grade TV crime shows. I had my single chair seated in the middle of a large steel table. The doub... | 2016-08-19T00:50:27 | 2016-08-19T00:26:43 | 200 | 27 |
[WP] In a world where people can only see in black and white, you are a drug dealer that sells drugs that allow people to see color. | Sonia and Andrew walked the streets in a daze, clutching onto one another for support. It was too much.
"What do *you* see, this time? What does it look like?" Sonia whispered, staring at the sky.
Andrew paused, and searched for the right words through the haze of the drug. "I...it's, well, it's..."
"It made me sad ... | A million stars perforated the pure black night sky as the shining white full moon stood in the middle of heavens likes an impatient actor demanding an audience’s attention. Grayscale buildings of brick and stone curved along the black pavement of the roads, creating a maze that we call our city. Standing in a secluded... | 2016-11-22T06:14:15 | 2016-11-22T05:44:30 | 133 | 21 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "Well this is a bit excessive," I thought at first, "even for them."
He was everywhere.
After the first week, I named him Xavier. I don't know why, it just seemed to fit. He was a distinguished, handsome, and charming. Exactly the opposite of his target.
It seemed like an odd use of apparently brand new tech, conne... | I don't know why they care so much. It's not like I'm hurting anyone besides myself.
I rarely smoke in public these days, and when I do it just doesn't feel right. I don't even smoke when reading the newspaper anymore because I can't handle seeing myself on page 7 everyday.
Oh what's John up to today? There he is ha... | 2017-02-17T14:17:58 | 2017-02-17T13:15:29 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... |
"Let's just get started already... You know what a Level 0 means. We have to dammit! We're out of options." snarled General Jones.
"Wait!" I shouted. "He's been gone for 3 years. How do we know it's actually him?!?"
"Once you've seen him, heard him, felt his presence, and that hair... You KNOW who it is... now just ... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T04:28:29 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] A waiter is grating the cheese for you at a restaurant. He askes you when to stop. You choose to remain silent as the cheese starts to pile up | Cheese dusted my pasta.
My waiter, Dennis, flashed me a winning smile. "Enough, sir?"
"I'll tell you when to stop."
"Sounds good."
He grated the lump of parmesan a few seconds more, until the surface of my pasta bolognese was covered in white flecks.
He paused, raised his eyebrows inquiringly, and, when I made no... | "Would you like some Parmesan, sir?" I gave a polite smile, my hand with the cheese grater extending out over his pizza.
"Oh, yes please. I like a lot of Parmesan."
I began cranking the handle of the grater, the small metal grating wheel spinning and gnawing bits of cheese off of the fresh block pushed against it.
... | 2017-03-21T14:31:07 | 2017-03-21T14:15:23 | 448 | 11 |
[WP] You sit on a bus, thinking to yourself 'Wouldn't it be amazing to hear peoples thoughts?'. A voice replies, 'It is'. | *It is*, a voice said. It was a child's voice, little and playful. *It's great.*
I sat bolt upright in my seat, and accidentally knocked the coffee in the hand of the woman next to me. She glared at me, and then down at the brown flecks spreading across her sleeve.
"Sorry," I muttered, and fumbled for my handkerchief... | I turned to my right, glazed eyes looked back at me.
"You're saying you can read minds?"
"mmm mostly but I prefer not to."
"Why not?"
"People's thoughts are nasty things, you don't want to be in your girlfriend's head as she thinks the bouncer could give her a better night than you. I normally have headphon... | 2017-06-01T08:42:41 | 2017-06-01T08:41:52 | 607 | 35 |
[WP] You sit on a bus, thinking to yourself 'Wouldn't it be amazing to hear peoples thoughts?'. A voice replies, 'It is'. | Aaron glanced at the boy leaning against the bus window, music blaring from his headphones. For a second, he contemplated standing, but then the bus hit a pothole and he scooted into the seat by the boy. He never understood people who drowned out the world. Here we were, on a floating rock in space with nothing but dea... | Jesse pressed his eyes shut. *No one can hear my thoughts, no one can hear my thoughts, no one can hear my
thoughts.*
*Oh, but I can.*
He lifted his lids. He looked around the bus. It rattled and bumped the bored, expressionless faces of the
passengers.
Was it the old man? The little girl? The driver? Was it the ... | 2017-06-01T10:39:58 | 2017-06-01T09:05:15 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | I stare, pretty shocked, I must admit, as something a little too fast for normal eyes to see hits Phase in the stomach and launches him backwards, much like what happens in a car crash. He lands right in front of one of the huge trucks carrying containment cells, designed to cuff people like me. Actually, probably desi... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T05:11:16 | 5,127 | 12 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | Ampere was strapped to the rocket with copper wiring, as the Warlord stood at a console.
"You-"
"I, what, Ampere? I won't get away with this? I'll get what's coming to me? Please. You're better than these clichés. I'm not going to reveal my plan, I'm not going to engage in some cat-and-mouse game, I'm not going to gi... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T05:05:49 | 58 | 20 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | For the 313th time.
Artious lets loose another flurry of blows.
I take it the same way I took the previous 312 rounds. Another grunt. A fall to my knees. The burn of wind escaping my lungs. And, again, for the 313th time, I gasp, “Not again Artious.” I bellow menacingly,
“I have you now, Magnotros,” she exclaims co... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T05:11:40 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | Kenn wasn't adverse to killing people. That came with the job. Sometimes, you just had to do what was necessary to survive. That's what human nature was right? People have been killing each other for centuries. Who can honestly say they're surprised when the first thing superhumans do is start killing each other? That'... | I stare, pretty shocked, I must admit, as something a little too fast for normal eyes to see hits Phase in the stomach and launches him backwards, much like what happens in a car crash. He lands right in front of one of the huge trucks carrying containment cells, designed to cuff people like me. Actually, probably desi... | 2017-09-17T05:11:57 | 2017-09-17T05:11:16 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You die, become a ghost, decided to explore space, and then you met a ghost of an alien. | We had a hard time communicating at first.
That's why so much was left untold. Or lost in traslation.
But we quickly became friends, out there, near one of the moons of saturn, the closest one to the planet, Pan.
When I was alive, my name was Mark, now that I wasn't anymore, i liked to think that i didn't need a n... | An Afterlife Amongst the Stars
--
It's a strange sensation dying. I thought it would hurt, or would at least feel like something, perhaps just like falling asleep, but no, it just happened.
I was alive. I died. And then, I was dead.
That was it, just a very strange sensation and I was dead, but then somehow it all... | 2018-03-27T07:23:50 | 2018-03-27T04:57:14 | 64 | 12 |
[WP] As a Grim Reaper, you have the ability to see numbers floating above every individual's head, counting down the days they have left to live. However, you one day come across a young girl whose number is actually in the negative. | Leslie Tanner, 21
Cause of death: Accident
The name appears on the leather-bound notebook I am carrying, and like any other day it was time to commence my duty.
In case you are wondering, that’s vague! What kind of accident? We haven’t got a clue and thats why we are there to shadow them, guide them forward in death ... | The opposite sidewalk of where I walked was bathed in the heating rays of the mid-day sun and with no wind to keep cool, I walked in the shadows the building opposite. My dark cloak stuck across my back and I used the hood to wipe away the sweat of my brow. The cloth near my feet stuck to my calves and I held a bunch o... | 2018-05-23T09:26:18 | 2018-05-23T09:20:05 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Hell has been breached using the world’s most advanced drill. The demons prepare to swarm the earth, but as the first human military descended, Hell was not ready for tanks and machine guns. | “Tanks?”
“Yes.”
“...The Here is a *tank?*”
“It’s like a... you know the bronze bull torture method?”
“Yes, one of my favorites.”
“It like that. But not made of any metal we know of. It rolls, we think? And it shoots explosions.”
“It... shoots explosions?”
“That’s the only way to describe it. It points, there’s a... | We were not ready. Not by a long shot. My name is Ezikiel I am a "Spawn of Satan" as we are known, although that's just like a surface dweller, give a group of lifeforms you don't like a bad name and watch as they move in on you like a swarm of locusts. That's what happened to us, that's what happened to my home, my p... | 2018-06-19T15:17:51 | 2018-06-19T15:04:19 | 174 | 56 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | I blinked. *What?*
The cashier had tears in his eyes and was staring right into mine with such intensity I had to keep blinking.
"L.M.A.O. my dude," I offered nervously, not knowing what he had just heard me say. "Are you feeling alright?"
He didn't answer. In the moments that followed, silence took over the room ... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T20:16:31 | 647 | 56 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | Oh, here we go again. The pale, skinny, tattooed, creep behind the counter was freaking out, whispering, shaking, stammering, "nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." So, of course I had to screw with him a little. "Well, obviously you don't get out much." "Now, how about my Big Mac, or do I talk loud... | The man behind the counter froze in the middle of typing out my order. They looked up at me wide eyed and said,"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." Sounding somewhat surprised.
That night, standing in the empty 24/7 McDonald's of our small desert town, it finally happened. The thing that I had been wa... | 2018-06-24T21:27:25 | 2018-06-24T20:39:44 | 165 | 41 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | Why did have to be like this?
Why couldnt I make it in time?
Why did they HAVE to get her?
I asked myself over and over why, but the answers eluded me. It's been 3 days since the world went to shit, with those THINGS everywhere. It started somewhere rural, some secret agency, people say. But that doesn't matter.
I had... | She was only 15.
The knob rattles as the door wrenches from its frame, barely able to stand tall with the onslaught of her nimble frame ramming into the door.
“Daddy, please! Why won’t you let me in! I just want to be with you!”
Don’t listen to her. Don’t listen to her, she can’t be trusted. You saw the mark on her... | 2018-09-06T19:24:58 | 2018-09-06T18:54:24 | 140 | 77 |
[WP] "Please," the dying monster begged the Paladin, "spare the child." And so while the rest of the party celebrated, he sat by a large egg, struggling between his oath to protect the innocent and his oath to destroy all of the evil race. | I stared at the egg that rested in the pile of shattered bones and rotting animal carcasses. The smell alone was enough to make most men turn and run. Good thing we weren't most men. I was the one who dealt the final blow, but I hesitated.. oh gods why did I hesitate!? The beast was supposed to be stupid, savage, incap... | Issac cradled the smooth egg in his arms as his party laughed heartily. Within the fragile shell laid the last changeling. The Norheimian Army had slaughtered all the others.
Mayell sheathed her sword with a victorious smile. "Finally, those vermin have been eradicated! The city council will be more than pleased to he... | 2018-09-26T20:33:08 | 2018-09-26T19:17:28 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You've been magically gifted the ability to speak all languages. Anything you say comes out in the first language of whoever you're looking at. One day, you try to greet someone on the street and they gape in horror as ancient, unknowable eldritch sounds exit your mouth. The ground shakes... | ... the ground always shakes in the subway platform when the train goes by. The man.. he is crying.
After the train passes and the subway platform is quiet, the man explains to you that he is a novelist and has been writing a fantasy novel for 5 years, ever since his wife, Angie, passed away.
Angie loves the man’s w... | " You, do you have any idea what you have done ?"
The breathtakingly beautiful woman says as she glares at you.
You quickly look down out of embarrassment and shock .
"What, what is happening..."
You mutter as you look at the ground then your hands as if you didn't even recognize yourself anymore.
Speaking others ... | 2019-01-11T14:40:20 | 2019-01-11T12:49:48 | 189 | 20 |
[WP] You're abducted by aliens & soon realize it's more of an adoption than an abduction. You're now a pet for a loving alien family. They can't understand you but they seem to understand your body language & have basic knowledge of what humans need to live and entertain themselves when they're busy | "This specimen comes from a G2V class star. It's an aerobic hominid. Their average life span is about... 1.1 HLGDs. This one's in pretty good shape."
"Only 1.1 HLGDs? Damn... How smart is it?"
"Ugh, we're gonna have to get a home gym for it aren't we?""Well, their species is borderline eusocial. They can't do much on... | When the alien invasion of October 31, 2038 came, it was nothing that the people of 1938 who had broadcast *War of the Worlds* exactly 100 years thence could have imagined.
Rather than a massive fleet of alien ships come to destroy our cities and ravage our crops, a single hovercraft, not even that much bigger than a ... | 2019-05-09T16:11:50 | 2019-05-09T15:43:12 | 543 | 200 |
[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | *"...don't forget to share, like and subscribe."*
The "words of god" fell like a ton of bricks in my mind, I was alone in my apartment, but even here I could hear my upstairs neighbour screaming "what the hell?..." and then his TV with a special announcement from the news
Thousands at first, then millions, then a cou... | "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called "willigotohell.god". Just put your name in the search bar. Toodles!"
"What. The. Fuck." The words escaped my mouth.
I was not the only person to react to the bizzare voice.
"Did you hear that?" Another passenger asked.
... | 2019-08-27T09:23:46 | 2019-08-27T09:09:37 | 2,356 | 72 |
[WP] Every day when you return home from work, your dog greets you by bringing you a seemingly random item, which will turn out to be useful throughout the day. One day, after a peticularly stressful day of work, your dog greets you with a sword at his feet, happily wagging his tail. | "Baxter! Here boy! Daddy's home!"
An enormous bark echoed through the house as my huge Tibetan Mastiff lumbered into the living room from the bedroom hallway. The black shaggy dog was a massive specimen of his species, easily four feet at the shoulder. I had to buy a bigger house just so he'd have enough room to run a... | I have a Pomeranian, his name is Rix. He's too cute, like the type of cuteness which makes you go "Awww". Rix is smart too, but not just the fetch-a-ball kind of smart, na. He's almost a clairvoyant. You see, he has a peculiar habit of bringing random stuff to me whenever I come back home from work. But every other dog... | 2019-12-31T16:36:30 | 2019-12-31T14:49:19 | 17 | 12 |
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