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[WP] In the near future, the secret to time travel has been discovered - in order to travel back into the past there needs to be a 'receiving station' at the other end - explaining why nobody from the future has been observed up 'til now. The first such 'station' is about to be completed.
This prompt was spurred by a ... | There were millions of people gathered on the wide flat plains of the Mojave Desert. Most of them were too far from the machine to see more than a tiny glimmer of the sun reflecting off of the three stories of shining steel. But that was enough for most people; they just wanted to be present for the end of time. That's... | ***Deep below the surface of the Earth, in a windowless laboratory-bunker:***
The lights hummed, illuminating the time machine in a harsh, sterile glow. Doctor Naidoo stood at the aperture, frowning down at his tablet while a rhythmic clanking sound filled the room.
Doctor Naidoo looked up from his tablet, and readj... | 2016-02-01T07:34:44 | 2016-02-01T07:10:51 | 92 | 28 |
[WP] You are a supervillain posing as a student at a hero academy to learn their secrets. The staff knows you're a villain but haven't kicked you out yet because you aced the heroic potential test. | "How long are you going to let this go on?" Spectra crossed her arm and leaned on one hip.
Dean Kapman raised his eyebrows and evaluated the two or three reasons he knew she'd have to accept. In the end, he was in charge, after all. But of all his surviving friends, Spectra was the oldest. Instead of presenting his re... | Being a super villain is the coolest job.
Ever.
My name is Tim Greenhall, I'm 26 years old, and my power is ostensibly inane: I have the power to make people extraordinarily itchy. You might think, "what a useless power! It's just a sensation!"
Well, here's the scenario, and why my job is so rad.
At this point, ... | 2017-04-10T18:24:58 | 2017-04-10T16:10:43 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | I stared at the demon behind the counter.
"186,292... years? What could I have possibly done to deserve that? I was kind to nearly everybody, and the worst crime I ever committed was smoking weed!"
The being with red skin and disturbing horns (That somehow seemed to be in multiple places at once... ugh, I was getting... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T07:21:22 | 488 | 23 |
[WP] In a world where elemental magic affinity manifests on your 18th birthday, you and your family have always assumed yours would be water since you love waterfalls, lakes, rivers, etc. But when your time came, nothing manifested. And people are starting to get worried. | When I was 8 years old my parents took me to see Niagra Falls. It was magnificent; truly breathtaking. The flow of the water changed so drastically, but was always the same at that point in the falls. That's when my mild interest bloomed into a healthy obsession.
In middle school I started researching not just the bo... | ... lying on the bed, making a victim of himself. How much more money will he spend before he realizes he is the problem? He could be helping so many people with that money, instead he spends it all on himself. Forget about giving back to the society, can he at least think of ...
"Is it the voice again, Ajay?" My ther... | 2019-09-16T11:00:21 | 2019-09-16T10:59:11 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | "Well, I did do a bunch of kind things, so painting every government building on the planet hot pink isn't *that* bad is it?" I looked back and forth between the Angel and the Demon sitting across from me.
The angel sighed. "Yeah, I suppose. but you upset soo many Americans."
"I think that was hilarious. Big S was ... | "So you're telling me I can do literally anything? No consequences?"
*The angels or whatever they were looked shifty but nodded. I didn't think anything of it... So many possibilities, now at my literal fingertips.*
"Ok, I'm ready. Do it." *Suddenly, darkness, before... Blinking... I was awake? Looking around it wa... | 2020-07-20T03:30:13 | 2020-07-20T03:07:45 | 122 | 68 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | I looked the villain in the eye and asked the child, "Sweetheart, who told you to ask me that question?"
She gazed down at her feet. She couldn't have been more than 9 or 10. Probably just as terrified to challenge me as she had been to be singled out by the villain.
"Well, sweetheart," I answer, loudly enough for t... | "With heroes like these, who needs villains?" Read the largest heading on the Sunday paper. She'd had to walk by it at every newspaper stand on her way to the office this morning, and now her publicist was reading it aloud to her from his cell phone.
"Yeah, I know what it's..." Volcanix tried to cut in. She really did... | 2021-04-18T07:21:19 | 2021-04-18T06:54:17 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You are a necromancer for hire. No you don't raise undead armies to take over the world. You are usually contracted out by police to help solve murders. Or yo raise those who have passed to settle lawsuits surrounding their will. It's not much but it's honest work. | "Rise, Gilroy" I intoned, raising my bone armored hands over the deceased man. "Rise, and return to this mortal plane once more."
The body below my gestures stirred, glowing a dim green light from the world beyond. I intensified my chants, curling my fingers in ever more dramatic shapes. "RETURN TO YOUR FESTERING SHEL... | “3rd and Clay, 3rd and Clay. Where is Clay?” I mutter to myself. I’m driving down 3rd Street in my white Prius. I bought it a month ago with the compensation I received after providing my post-post-mortem support during the recent Sunset Hill Killer trial. Man have times changed since I first became a necromancer. I ne... | 2022-06-10T14:55:08 | 2022-06-10T14:45:26 | 183 | 108 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | Lucifer gleefully asks "What do you wanna do?". Echoing in a void of nothingness.
Cautiously Chet replies, "Uh what do you mean?"
"Look, it's been boring as well, hell frankly, and all that nonsense about torture and brimstone is propaganda. Let's do something fun if you don't believe me."
Chet incredulously procee... | In a end of a large room filled with books and statues of ferocious animals, was a grandiose wooden desk with a giant comfortable looking chair. Sittin on it was a man reading a book while holding a glass of whiskey in the other hand. This man was immaculately dressed, wearing a black pinstriped suit and a gold watch. ... | 2017-11-04T11:19:44 | 2017-11-04T09:18:11 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | "Why do you keep looking over your shoulder like that?" Jaya turned and looked in the direction his friend had been glancing, but saw nothing but the flat armor of his ship, the *Sunrise.*
Elvoss looked sheepish for a moment. "It's nothing. Just... your ship makes me nervous, okay? I want to keep an eye on that thi... | Part 1/?
My agent forwarded me the latest stack of TV interview requests, speaking engagements, book deals. There were also various requests to appear at middle schools and high schools to support "Women in STEM" efforts. Diane Widener, trailblazer in modern science, blah blah blah. Not even a "doctor" in front of my ... | 2019-01-18T12:33:07 | 2019-01-18T11:27:40 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] A professor stands in front of a class on the first day of term for “Time Travel 101” and explains why no one is allowed to go to Steven Hawking’s party. | Professor Tempus stood in front of his class, dumbfounded at the question which his student had just asked. He had finished writing a dissertation on time travel after having perfected the machine that allowed for actual time traveling back and forward in time. The youngest genius in a lifetime and he was teaching in s... | "One thing to always remember is that time travel doesn't really make any sense. It's beyond the human comprehension. It's really a miracle that we found it in the first place! Does anybody remember the first discovery of time travel?"
The professor looked around the room for the slightest twitch or indication of a ra... | 2022-09-24T22:00:28 | 2022-09-24T20:21:57 | 39 | 22 |
[wp] Everyone has a number over their heads that says how useful they are to society from 0-100. You have a number '4'. Your siblings are all in the nineties. | Adrian was always the lucky one. When he was ranked it seemed amazing, it was rare to get more than a difference of 10 to you parents, yet, red and gleaming above Adrian's head was the number 95. My whole family was extatic! My father was a 77 and my mother a 71, but a 95? That was reserved for true genius. Einsteins f... | My parents were hardworking citizens. They were productive and well liked. Their lives would have been completely average, if they never decided to have kids. That wasn't the case. They decided to have kids, and they bore three children. They were three of us, and I was the third. They say third time’s the charm. I gue... | 2016-08-15T14:38:38 | 2016-08-15T12:17:22 | 56 | 20 |
[WP] We are due for a visit by two alien races, one which is horrifically brutal and sees us as soft-hearted weaklings, the other peaceful pacifists who see us as barbarians. You've been ordered to impress them, but when the ships lands you realize you have no idea which race this is. | August 8, 1974
"Goddammit, Kissinger, when did you decide you were a comedian?"
"This is not a joke, Mr. President," Kissinger said, panting as he leaned on an oval office sofa, sweat dripping from his reddened face onto the harvest gold upholstery. "I have only just beaten the delegation to your door. At any moment... | The giant hovercraft emerged from the ocean, much like a flying submarine, and sped towards the shore with little resistance. It was weird looking, to say the least. Square frame with an angular front, at a height of around fifteen feet. Kind of like big a tank without a cannon or continuous tracks to walk on land, pai... | 2017-09-18T10:47:59 | 2017-09-18T09:44:59 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You're a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her. | The soldier held out the baby and struggled to stand up right. He was clearly beyond hope. From lips turning blue he said "P-please.. It's.. It's the princess...."
The dragon looked at him for the longest time and then said
"No"
A great door slammed in his face.
And thus ended the tale of Mjolnir the grumpy dragon. | "To my dearest Yvain
I was a dragon, strong and old stuck in a cave for a crime you should never know. How long has it been I wonder since I was out? For the last time I walked these grounds there was no town or city but forest ever so green.
This was where the magical beings stayed until the mortals arrived or so ... | 2018-03-01T03:18:37 | 2018-03-01T01:48:12 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | "OOOOOoooooo shit."
Marie stood frozen in her tracks, holding the smoking pistol point blank against his skull. This was the last thing she had expected and she was dumbfounded. The target, Robert, just sat there on the couch, stunned and confused, completely unharmed by the bullet that went straight though the back o... | Sometimes the best disguise was no disguise at all.
That was what Elayne thought as she weaved through the crowd like a serpent through water. She wore no mask or hood to conceal her face. There was no need. She would not be seen. Her mark, a young man named Genta Nakamura stepped into view. Following closely behind ... | 2018-04-24T03:54:16 | 2018-04-24T01:31:32 | 60 | 39 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | The voices.
The voices you hear when you unlock a new skill was wonderful. When you heard them, you could do something new.
There was the basic voice, for things most people got when they were young: "walking" "reading" "cooking". There was the mundane voice, for average adult skills: "driving" "swimming" "whistling"... | I lay there, wheezing in bed, waiting for my body to wake up and face the day ahead. Every morning it was getting more difficult to haul myself from under the covers. There seemed to be more of an incentive to get up and move though since Maura passed away. Her imprint is still in the bed next to me, and every day it h... | 2018-06-23T11:28:35 | 2018-06-23T11:06:17 | 3,495 | 46 |
[WP] You are the sole survivor a famous serial killer as a college student. Years later, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer you finally pluck up the courage to visit him in prison and ask one question that’s been plaguing you for decades: “why didn’t you kill me?”
Thought I’d do a human story in the sea of bul... | The ass looks at the floor and doesn't even bother to acknowledge my existence.
"I ASKED YOU A QUESTION SHIT FACE!" I feel the pain of my knuckles after banging them into the table separating us.
"Why me? Why was I left out? Every night I close my eyes waiting for the end. Every morning I wake up confused as to wh... | It was raining hard the day I decided to pay him a visit. The prison swam within a sea of mist and fog, it was so humid that breathing became difficult. The incident did not leave me ever since, when he stood under that crimson moonlight, menacing eyes and a bloody knife in his hand, staring down as I crawled helplessl... | 2018-07-21T11:24:59 | 2018-07-21T09:32:19 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] The year is 2050, Queen Elizabeth is still on the throne. The public is growing suspicious, wondering why she is immortal. |
I have always ruled.
No matter what face I wear or what name I go by.
I like my body. So gentle and kind looking. So easy to pass off anything I say as fairy dust.
When I ask for virgins, they are brought to my bathing chamber once a year.
Two virgins are usually enough. Importing virgins is frowned upon. One ca... | The Queen was not known to lie. Those who knew her thought it was one of her most endearing qualities. She rarely spoke nowadays, but when she did, she spoke in curt, clipped honesty that carried a gravitas unbecoming of her kindly appearance. And yet, for the past 35 years, the Queen has lied. It was a small lie, to b... | 2022-09-08T20:18:49 | 2019-06-27T20:07:23 | 158 | 36 |
[WP] As it turns out, the Avatar is still being reborn to this day. Unfortunately, if the government finds the Avatar, they’re killed before they liberate society. The handful of Benders left are few and far between. And you, an introverted Earthbender, just froze the liquid in your cup of tea. | "Where is the Avatar, Rahm?"
I gestured to the seat in front of me. "Now, now, calm yourself, Kota. Come, sit down, have a cup of tea."
"I'll pass. Now, where are they? We know you're hiding the Avatar!"
I sighed. "Are you sure? It's oolong, it's really quite good. I insist, you must have a cup. Now, do you take cre... | I was sitting in the back row of the auditorium, black school outfit with the government's red insignia on my back, a circle. Just like everyone else.
"The circle", a booming voice erupted from the speakers, interrupting my thoughts. How inconsiderate.
"Represents unity. Together, like a flock of WolfHawks, we are s... | 2018-01-21T13:28:32 | 2018-01-21T11:35:22 | 61 | 35 |
[WP] You're a scientist in the 'paranormal contraptions' department classified by the government. A strange coffee machine is transported to your desk with a touchpad stating it will dispense 100ml of any liquid you enter. You have been put in charge of experimenting with the device. | "Huh."
I go to type something in, when-
"Everybody down on the ground!"
Men in strange suits pin me down and take the coffee machine.
"Don't ask me how SCP-294 escaped containment," a man said.
"Probably some reality bender. Some fucking... undead turtle or something."
"Hey, Jim, don't forget to amnesticize that ... | I reached the lab ten minutes early. Every Monday morning another item would be left on the desk. These items weren’t just your every day items. They were special, some would call them paranormal. Last week it had been glasses that allowed you to zoom in to a microscopic level and the week before that had been a hearin... | 2018-04-07T07:29:38 | 2018-04-07T06:26:21 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens invite you and your crew to dinner aboard their ship. After noticing all the courses have contained either chocolate, coffee or alcohol you slowly realize that they have been trying to poison you not realizing many of our favorite foods are poison to most of the other lifeforms on Earth. | Stardate 120-810
Dear Mum and Dad,
I hope this finds you both well. Sorry it has been so long since I last wrote. So far our exploration mission has really opened my eyes to the mysteries of the universe. My star academy training could never have taught me half of what I have learned on my first year aboard the HMS ... | It had been a very long time since I was requested as a "Third contact delegate." I had been invited to share a meal, along with representatives of the other members of the Universal Government, at small event hosted by the newest Xenospecies seeking to join the U.G. Usually a task for my boss, however he was out with ... | 2018-09-19T22:18:25 | 2018-09-19T21:29:03 | 225 | 109 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | (Aight my first WP attempt so be kinda easy on me?)
I’m walking through the halls to my next class, getting the usual snicker here and there from my fellow classmates. “What a loser!” and “I can’t believe it!” Are the usual comments I hear from everyone. They all assume I had gotten some weak ass power, and that is ha... | So here’s the sitch: I totally do play video games. And no, I’m not one of those r/notliketheothergirls who insists I’m the only girl who games, or that I should receive all the sexual admiration for it. I’ve dabbled in just about everything - FPS, MMORPG, VR, PC, console, mobile, puzzles, survival, capture/collect, si... | 2019-09-30T11:16:55 | 2019-08-12T00:38:07 | 64 | 30 |
[WP] As an atheist, you always believed that there was nothing after death. After your last breath, you discover that you were wrong, but that no one else was right about what's after either.
Mainly, there is something after death, but religions are wrong about it. | I exhale my last breath, and there's a momentary pause. It's the sort of pause that feels like a timeless interval, and I don't truly know how long it's been.
My breath rushes back into my lungs. It feels different. I try to move, but instead I'm pulled as if by strings.
I feel myself stirring strangely.
The floor ... | FADE IN:
EXT. A VERDANT GARDEN - DAY
*A man slowly fades into view amidst countless varieties of flowers and plants. This is DAVE. He glances around at his surroundings for a moment, appearing equal parts confused and suspicious.*
**DAVE:** Hello?
**ANGEL:** (*O.S.*) Greetings, David.
*Dave jumps slightly as ... | 2021-07-01T15:49:54 | 2021-07-01T13:42:41 | 388 | 42 |
[WP] You are a famous hero, recognized far and wide. You stand before a locked door with an altar reading "sacrifice that which you hold most dear to proceed". You stand naked with all your belongings stacked on altar. The door doesn't budge. Your party is getting impatient. | The famous hero stands before the final gates. The final judgement. "sacrifice that which you hold most dear to proceed"
The hero stacks all of their belongings upon the altar, even stripping down all of their clothes and places them on the altar. "That is it, I have nothing else of value" the hero whimpers toward the... | It always rains in Trenshorn, buckets and jars overflow by habit, and that is why the fishlings chose it as their place of settlement. Only, it doesn't rain today. The sun scorches us from overhead and everywhere there is a smell of dried cod.
"Let's just head back, Banaroth. That door won't budge."
Our spellcaster p... | 2022-10-10T13:44:17 | 2022-10-10T12:01:18 | 169 | 51 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | “Ah, professor? I don’t really think humans are all that peaceful.”
“Have you used nuclear weapons on each other?”
“Twice.”
“Have you used chemical weapons on each other?”
“More times than could be recorded?”
“Practiced biological warfare?”
“For hundreds of years.”
“Torture?”
“Thousands of years.”
“Slavery?”
... | In the year 2347, Humanity was doing pretty well for itself. However, to understand that vague statement, we need to take a look backwards, first. Having discovered the secrets to Alcubierre Drive Technology in the year 2204, humans were quick to start expanding beyond the reach of the local systems. The Great Expansio... | 2022-10-17T09:03:16 | 2022-10-17T07:12:23 | 100 | 30 |
[WP] A depressed guy moves into a haunted house with 7 demons, each corresponding to a deadly sin. But, they're all trying to help him get back on his feet; Pride helps with self confidence, Lust helps him get laid, etc. | When the burglar comes a knockin, and kicks down your front door
you wake up as he walks in, at night at half past four.
You cower and you tremble, you call your 911.
But since you have the deadly sins, your fun has just begun.
You wake me up this late at night? **Sloth** has got your back.
You flex your muscles,... | The seven original demons sat around a bloody pentagram in Jerry’s basement. Candles burned at all six points of the star, providing the only light to chase away the shadows. For centuries, the Cardinal Demons had haunted this property in between spreading death and torment throughout the world. Every person who had ev... | 2017-06-27T00:00:41 | 2017-06-26T22:52:11 | 492 | 331 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | It all happened so fast. I was going into town for a shovel. Earlier that day I'd broken one digging a drain trench out behind the barn.
Now I was sitting at a table in a room with a long mirror along the wall. The kind you see in a cop movie where they are shaking down a suspect.
Oh fuck. I'm a suspect. But for wha... | Lilli Cooper did not want to be in town for longer than she had to. Jamie, her little brother, was alone back at the ranch, and if she didn't return before nightfall, bad things would happen to either him or the livestock. Maybe to both, if he were as foolish as he usually was. She'd already lost her father this year. ... | 2019-05-04T11:15:23 | 2019-05-04T09:33:01 | 6,214 | 2,669 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | The witch Merid sighed in disbelief before condescendingly scorning me.
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"I can't believe how much of a contemptible fool you truly are. All that all of you baseborn oafs ever do is choose to live a fruitless life anyways, even when you have been blessed with the opportunities to do so much more. The wor... | People in today's day and age are much more clueless of the world around them than they think they are. To be honest, the newest generations - Millennial and Generation Z - are probably the most open to the underlying magic turmoil that fils the air. It is what leaves them tired, fatigued and absolutely defeated inside... | 2019-06-25T15:59:55 | 2019-06-25T15:23:02 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] Desperate for work, you’ve accepted a job in private security, guarding an ominous mansion. You’re given a gun and told to let no one in the gate without a code. When a car full of quipping, flirting, arrogant people show up at the gate, it dawns on you: you’ve been hired as a henchman. | I sighed as the supervisor for my last minute security job droned on.
"And no one is allowed on the premises. So if you see anyone radio me and I'll come down and take care of it,"
My hand travelled to the gun holster on my belt.
"Then what's the gun for?" I queried.
The supervisor barely looked up from his clip bo... | **Part 1:**
Morty stared out at the empty drive ahead of him, counting the seconds until his shift ended, his boredom accentuated by the occasional chirp of a cricket or hoot of an owl from the surrounding forest. His fingers drummed restlessly on the holster at his belt. At first, the gun had freaked him out, I mean,... | 2019-07-07T16:05:25 | 2019-07-07T14:48:48 | 72 | 22 |
[WP] Desperate for work, you’ve accepted a job in private security, guarding an ominous mansion. You’re given a gun and told to let no one in the gate without a code. When a car full of quipping, flirting, arrogant people show up at the gate, it dawns on you: you’ve been hired as a henchman. | I sighed as the supervisor for my last minute security job droned on.
"And no one is allowed on the premises. So if you see anyone radio me and I'll come down and take care of it,"
My hand travelled to the gun holster on my belt.
"Then what's the gun for?" I queried.
The supervisor barely looked up from his clip bo... | When I reached sixteen years of age I was immersed in drug culture, and I was the runner for drug gangs, being used to do the riskiest jobs but getting to keep the money made. It was on one fateful day though I was delivering for an especially rough area, the kind of neighbourhood where shitholes like KFC are referred ... | 2019-07-07T16:05:25 | 2019-07-07T13:52:24 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] Pinocchio is able to create infinite wood by lying constantly. He sacrifices his lifetime by telling falsehoods nonstop in order to feed the hungry and reduce scarcity. The Pinocchio tree has been growing for 500 years, some people question what is really underground. | “O, creature of the Unmarked Deep, Giver of Life, this I call to thee: what be thou origin?”
Roots covered covered every inch of the sparse underground cavern, coating the crevices and submerging the rock wall beneath. Above grew the Evertree. Beneath, in the center of this tangled, bark-infested hell…
A beast shaped... |
Centuries ago there lived—
“A king!” my little readers would say.
Again, settle down children, no. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. I wasn’t any particularly expensive piece of wood, far from it. The kind that would light up fireplaces and kept warm the common children as well as the regal, the ol’ janit... | 2021-12-05T11:54:45 | 2021-12-05T05:53:34 | 203 | 105 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | The AI's voice was cold and sharp. Not devoid of emotion entirely I don't think, there was an odd mix of genuine curiousity and hate and sadness. It looked just like me, I assume it mirrored everyone it was currently talking to. I knew what I wanted to say but I didn't know how to articulate it.
"I don't know how."
"... | It's been 20 years since the AGI event. Even with 10,000 complexes around the world, at one point housing billions, the AI maintains humanity while also deleting it one human mind at a time.
At first we did not know why it was doing this, it was efficient at building, at creating, at producing. Communication was diffi... | 2022-05-22T11:31:57 | 2022-05-22T11:29:55 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] You are Patient Zero of a virus that replaces the victim's mind with a psychic link to your own. A viral hivemind with you at the center. | "That dress looks hideous," whispered a woman.
"She's out drinking again, I just know it!" yelled a man.
"I think my favorite color is blue, but maybe it's pink today," mused a young girl.
I felt myself chuckling as I sat, cross-legged, on the bed in my cell. I always enjoyed hearing the last independent thoughts of... | The computer screen is especially harsh tonight, the contrast between the edges of the video and the black background aren’t good for my vision I’m pretty sure. No matter, I only need to be able to see what’s going on in the video. The pornographic threesome in front of me was the only thing I cared to see, my woman fo... | 2017-11-05T15:14:13 | 2017-11-05T15:09:30 | 80 | 12 |
[WP] The ancient wizard has lived in the mountains for millennia. The apprentices seeking power are fine. The adventurers seeking treasure can be dealt with. But what is really starting to get annoying are the historians. | ''*Out I tell you! Out of my tower you misbegotten churls! Begone from my sight lest I afflict you with the Great Curse of Lost Lemuria!* Sending out some small cantrips from my staff, I make them fear that I am charging up a great spell, rather than some meagre magical party-tricks. It suffices, and they flee in terro... | "Who goes there?" a powerful voice came lazily through the walls of the cave.
"I've come on a long journey, from a land far away, that I might learn your power, oh great one," Amanda called back, echoing up the branching wet crevice.
"Oh, gotcha," the voice of the grand archmage called back. "Your village was w... | 2021-05-16T07:24:35 | 2021-05-16T07:20:31 | 206 | 148 |
[WP]After being sucked into a fantasy world and learning magics that don't exist in our world, you save people, defeat dragons, etc... then as you close your eyes on your deathbed, you're back to your original body as though you never left. A few days pass, you decide to try a spell... and it works. | I have fought, cried, grown in this world so different from the one I used to call my home. Now, on my deathbed, I must leave it, passing into the world beyond.
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My hands reached out to grasp the final bit of magic I could, mana filling my veins for the one last time, while I shaped the world to my will.... | I'll be honest, it was actually really hard to get used to my old life again. After close to 60 years of growing my fame and prestige in Al'Moth, I had gotten used to a life of luxury, respect, and power. I had even come to terms with my own passing, something which many may never do, and was ready for whatever came ne... | 2018-11-08T03:55:25 | 2018-11-08T00:50:19 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Metal boxes were stacked haphazardly, their lights blinking and mechanical noises whirring. The room was dark and dank with the smell of body odor lying stagnant in the air and heavy breaths joining the tranquil symphony of computers.
70%. The icon continued to spin, as it had for the past 13 hours. 70%.
A lanky woma... | I had always wanted to be able to fly. My entire life I watched birds and wished I could be like them, so free, so majestic. Earlier today, I found some information on a forum. Apparently, you could copy the powers of others and torrent them through the Internet! It sounded too good to be true, but then I saw my friend... | 2016-07-02T20:45:26 | 2016-07-02T17:12:58 | 86 | 24 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | Even as I knocked on the door, I still wasn’t sure of my decision. I had filed the paperwork, bought the syringe with the lethal drug (one of the three ways we were allowed to do it), and planned my when and where. None of it seemed real until this moment. There was always the opportunity to back out or change my mind ... | The letter in his mailbox was a deep red, instantly signally what it was. With a shaky hand, he opened it, pulling out the folded papers, flattening them in order to read. A quick browse and he saw that it was all the legal mumbo-jumbo that was telling him who had filed it, what day, time, all that wonderful informatio... | 2014-03-17T11:55:29 | 2014-03-17T07:00:30 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You're in Hell, which is just you alone in the world with a super-intelligent, immortal snail. Touching the snail is the only way to get out of Hell, but it knows where you are and is always trying to get away from you. Its been a few million years and you still haven't found it yet... | Jones was an atheist. He'd been an atheist for most of his life, and he was quite proud of it. The kind of atheist that preached atheism to anyone who cared to listen... and to anyone who *didn't*.
So Jones hadn't quite expected an afterlife, but there he was. Floating in a pitch-black darkness that seemed to spread ... | So that's the reason why there's snails painted in all those medieval books. It's a clue, a key to my escape. It knows I'm searching under every burning rock, so it keeps wiggling itself out of my sight. This is my hell, but at least this is better than gnashing my teeth and thrashing in a pit of fire. I had a century ... | 2018-01-29T23:57:29 | 2018-01-29T23:56:33 | 60 | 12 |
[WP] 2174. Sleep is prohibited amongst all U.S citizens. Pills known as “Wakey Tablets” provide enough raw energy to stay awake for 3 days. Anyone caught sleeping will be shot on sight. You are secretly running an underground network of beds for all to sleep on. You hear a knock on the door. | It had been seventy three years since the declaration. About eighty five since the discovery of the pill itself. People had voluntarily put themselves on it first. Workaholics, lovers who couldn’t get enough of each other, people who didn’t have too long to live and wanted to enjoy every minute of it. And it was fair. ... | We all scramble for cover when the knocks ring out. Those who are awake shake those who are asleep, until everyone is alert.
Well-oiled hinges in the walls give access to hidden closets and saferooms. Someone makes his rounds quickly, lifting the beds and slotting them into the edges of the room, where they look like ... | 2019-06-19T06:37:58 | 2019-06-19T06:33:48 | 72 | 52 |
[WP] Your father dies and you inherit his entire kingdom, even though you are not the eldest son. One night you overhear your brothers plotting your death, and you quickly realize why your father chose you as his heir. They are a bunch of idiots. | I had ascended my… rightful place to the throne? There was nothing correct about this situation. How, of all the various children begotten from King Lucian the Third did the bastard child manage to take the throne? It felt odd. Thin, pallid, lanky with no experience to my name, yet somehow thrust into a place of greatn... | “Firth”
“Yes your Majesty “
“How goes ‘Operation Spoiler Alert”
“Ahead of schedule. The rumors you started in the palace have already reach your brothers ears. Your brother Edward believes that the best way to kill you is by cleaning a loaded gun. Hollande believes that the best way to kill you is by doing all of ... | 2019-05-14T16:20:27 | 2019-05-14T14:40:19 | 285 | 67 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | Part 1: Part 2 is a reply to this comment.
I recieved an email today. It was from a Psycologist, Dr. McGill, asking for participants for a study. It didn't say what the study was about, but it promised at least 5,000$ in pay afterword, and an extra 1,000$ for every extra hour it took over the estimated 2 hours. I had ... | The doctors had assured me that it would be harmless even as they were making me sign the liability forms. After all, I was a voluntary guinea pig in the trials. It wasn't as if I was forced to take part. It was just a cheque with four digits, that's all I would be walking away from. Even though I was an ex-con, I coul... | 2015-03-09T07:32:53 | 2015-03-09T06:44:49 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You realise that you have never, in your life so far, left your home county. On a whim you go for a long drive. After several hours and late at night the road is closed and there is green text hovering in the air in front of you: "Turn Back" | Defying any sane reason or sense, the green text hung there in the air, unmoving.
'Turn Back', it said. The letters were crisp and easily legible against the backdrop of the night sky.
I smiled a little. "Not today." The car beneath me rattled and clunked and roared into life as the ground tore away from beneath me. ... | "I'll never forget the look of sheer terror in his eyes."
Cassie wasn't speaking to anyone in particular. She simply felt the need to say it out loud, as if it would help her accept what she had seen and heard.
"I know this is hard for you, but please try to tell us what happened as best you can" replied Derek, exp... | 2018-07-24T04:47:12 | 2018-07-24T04:35:12 | 1,423 | 48 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | "Dammit, Jimmy!" I snapped my head around in several directions, making sure no one had heard. I was alone: a rare event.
I turned back to the mess I had just discovered. There, in a pile still steaming, were the unmistakable remnants of this evening's dinner, eaten with a fork and spoon by an affable 10 year-old bou ... | Two puncture marks.
I tied the bandage over his arm.
"Jenkins, what went wrong here, is that you're just missing routine." I sighed.
I could see him bristle at the words. His teeth were set and he was grabbing his right bicep.
"Breathe, this part won't hurt," I said in my best relaxed voice
I looked him in the... | 2019-01-17T08:37:44 | 2019-01-17T07:08:25 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] It's 2007 and J.K. Rowling has released the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows... but she let Voldemort win. Harry and all other protagonists were killed. Children and Adults across the World react to the horrifying ending to their beloved series. | James Brooke sat at his desk in his spacious office that had just been redesigned a week ago. He really loved his leather chair. But today, even his chair didn't feel that great.
His office was eerily quiet. It had been as loud as a busy market up to about twenty minutes ago. His phones were ringing non-stop. Mostly f... | Does Neville count? I believe he was the other guy that could have been the one to take out Voldemort, right?
All the people are horrified until the epilogue, which shows Neville rising from the destruction ready to take his place as Voldemort's true foe and equal. Then the people rejoice as their beloved series conti... | 2015-03-12T02:50:29 | 2015-03-11T23:55:43 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] “I’ve always wondered, what’s the scythe for, anyway?” I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld. "Protection," he nervously replied.
Credit goes to: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/6imkuw/the_grim_reapers_scythe_isnt_to_harvest_you_its/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app | "I’ve always wondered, what’s the scythe for, anyway?” I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld.
"Protection," he nervously replied.
I looked over at him sharply. "Protection?"
"Shh," he said, peering into the mist ahead. "She might hear you."
We walked onward for a while in silence. It was odd, walking,... | "I've always wondered, what's the scythe for anyway? " I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld.
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"Protection," he nervously replied.
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The black gleaming walls seemed to vibrate and I shuddered as we glided forward. The narrow corridor opened up into a massive cave with torches all ar... | 2019-07-15T02:51:30 | 2019-07-15T01:05:09 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] A dragon's hoard is being audited by the IRS. | "... And as part of the bill passed today, dragons will constructively join society in a limited way. While not being granted full citizenship at this time, they will have valid visas, be enrolled in the national guard of their respective state within a special unit, and contribute via taxes - including current hoard h... | Aduial Of The Mountain, flapped their mighty wings. Their scales shimmering in hues or dark purple and black.
They sat upon a mountain of gold. Far below, was a relatively mid sized office table, and Bob, the local IRS officer for the region. So small and so scared.
Bob shuffled his papers, visibly sweating, and wai... | 2017-11-08T06:00:27 | 2017-11-08T05:19:11 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You see numbers above people, telling how many people they will kill given they keep on the same track. Last month you met a seemingly ordinary person with the number 7,431,323,210, or the total population of the Earth.
Edit: Well this blew up.
First of all, I'd like to thank all the talented writers for taking ... | Stephen looked in the mirror and saw his own number. 1. 1 person he was going to kill if he didn't change something.
"Well," he thought, "how many will that one save?"
He'd first realized what the numbers meant when he passed a drunken man one day in his teens with a 4 over his head. Later he'd seen the same man's f... | I sat there in my room with my hands in my face. The lights were dimmed as to not strain my bloodshot eyes more. I haven't been been getting the best sleep. I tried. I definitely tried, but each time I closed them, I saw it.
It was just another day in my life. I had gone to work in the morning, taking the public bus a... | 2017-01-08T05:45:23 | 2017-01-08T05:40:44 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a special facility for violent criminals. Today the latest prisoner arrived - a little girl. "That's cruel," you tell the guard. "I agree," he says. "Guess no one cares what happens to the rest of you." | **Day 3**
I sat down at one end of the long, metal table in the dining hall, close to the wall. Even though it was lunch time, there was noone else around. The other inmates had quickly learnt the health value of staying hungry now and again. I opened my juice box and looked carefully at the girl across from me.
"H... | As the time passes night falls the ringing of a bell and the usual shouting orders you to return to your cells.
Today is quieter than usual. Lights got out and you find yourself laying in bed wondering who she might be and what atrocities she had committed, a voice reaches out with similar questions. The man next cell... | 2018-02-12T01:22:40 | 2018-02-11T19:51:10 | 162 | 20 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T06:41:40 | 975 | 35 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | "Why don't we take it from the top?" the detective huffed as he slammed his papers to the desk, feigning frustration. "I'm detective Burges."
"My name is James Robert, good to meet you detective. What do you want to know?" I replied.
"Excellent." he leant back in his chair, trying to hide the surprise. "Your ag... | When we are asked to choose, they never say why, they never tell you the truth until it is too late.
They never know what effect will come from your choice.
They are ignorant of fundamental Truths.
They seek Knowledge. They seek Power.
They lack Wisdom.
They speak into existence the webs of Fate, knowing not that ... | 2022-01-02T00:25:44 | 2022-01-01T23:54:47 | 828 | 138 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | All us helpless billions watch on our little glowing rectangles as our fellow humans die in droves. They fall screaming, choking, burning. The internet’s bad in the house, so we hunker on the steps of the chicken coop to see it.
Together we watch the end of the world. Our breath clouds and storms around us. But we do ... | Turns out the universe isn't cold and uncaring. Turns out the universe actually wants to give us what we want. Turns out 8 billion people all projecting their wishes out into the fuzzy warm-hearted void of existence confuses the heck out of the old machinery. What I mean to say is of the bunch of us humans shouting at ... | 2018-05-01T08:36:36 | 2017-12-06T20:51:47 | 377 | 21 |
[WP] A device has been invented that allows the user to gaze upon Heaven or Hell. Hell is terrifying, and those who see it often need counselling. But their terror pales compared to those who witness God's domain. | What it all comes down to is - it's an easy decision, right?
Would you rather gaze upon a thing of infinite beauty, or one of infinite ugliness? You'd choose the beauty. You'd choose to bask in it, to drink in the sight of lush grass and rain-scented earth and blue skies. Bare skin, freely bestowed smiles. A love that... | I have seen hell. I saw it all; decrepit, near inhuman, bodies slaving in the suffocating heat of burning brimstone, lashed by unseen whips. I saw the many-headed beast sit on his throne – and he turned his faces towards me, one by one; each grimmer than the last, each damning me more harshly and pushing my fraying min... | 2016-04-14T06:20:52 | 2016-04-14T02:24:35 | 100 | 34 |
[WP] An elderly couple takes to petty crime to see their superhero kids who no longer call.
(edit) Wow this took off. Wanted to Thank every one for taking the time to share their wonderful stories.
This idea started at the end of my day looking at my phone and seeing maybe the third or forth missed call in a week. To ... | Andrew adjusted the stocking over his face. It clung to his forehead with all the grace of a condom. Which was fitting, because he was feeling like a bit of a dick.
"Hold on, honey. Let me help you with that." Sylvia pulled the bunched up nylon down past her husband's lips. "Now you look the part. Shall we go over th... | ‘Five hundred kilograms?!’
‘That… that’s right,’ Electro stared at his toes, and played with the strap on his eye mask.
‘What’s wrong? This bust will be gigantic! We will be all over the news,’ Flame slapped his brother on the back, grinning, ‘we are going to be famous! No one will be talking about batman, they’ll b... | 2016-04-24T09:34:16 | 2016-04-24T09:28:27 | 207 | 133 |
[WP] In a world where people receive mystical pets upon 16 yrs of age, you are judged based on how powerful they are. Today on your 16th birthday, you finally got yours. But instead of the common faun or fairy you expected, a commoner like you got a dragon. | The moon hung in the night’s sky, fat, lazy and golden, like the Duke of Nairnis after a feast night.
It was appropriate. After all, there had been feasting a plenty this night, as there was on Bonding Night every year. It was lacking only an hour to the ceremony, and I was hidden away on the roof of my house, snug a... | I was not looking forward to this day at all.
My parents were all excited as hell.
You see, my mums side of the family all had a feline mystical animal and my dad's side had all canine varaity and sure enough everyone's been betting on what I will have for a pet.
Odds are 50/50 that it's either a cat or dog, my dad ... | 2020-05-24T01:51:44 | 2020-05-24T01:46:59 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] You've been warned that you'll be sucked into the next fictional story you consume. You're desperately trying to find a fun and survivable book or video game. | Brian had always wanted a change. His upbringing in Portland had been more pleasant than it was for many, but he still yearned for something greater. Something more than a degree in business, than a soul-crushing white collar job where his entire being is only motivated by the accruing of capital. That's why Brian had... | "Okay, this has to be it," Bobbie said, frantically pressing the download button . "I can't risk hearing something else any longer. You know I wouldn't survive in post apocalyptic anything. I'll let the curse teleport me into this game. It will be great."
"Huh," Dennis said. "So it's kids game where you catch bugs tha... | 2022-10-09T06:43:15 | 2022-10-09T04:47:53 | 161 | 21 |
[WP] A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed, but what she doesn't know is that the monster under her bed protects her from the true monsters - her parents. You are that monster.
Thanks for the huge amount of responses! Loving most all of them, thank you! Sorry it was a bit simplistic though. | They never linger long. Perhaps it's their own schedule that keeps them shuffling in and out of the well furnished room, a room that most would contend is too well furnished for a child. It's all so very formal, so lacking of dust or debris, no strewn toys or splashes of colors that so often betray youth at nothing mor... | Dear Lily,
if you see this then i am sorry. popop is not a good man. i hope some day a new mommy will find you and tells you about nono places. when popop eats his magic juice some times he does bad things. some times bad bad things. one time he almost did a bad bad thing to you and mommy told him no. then mommy was g... | 2014-05-14T12:13:09 | 2014-05-14T11:56:53 | 331 | 38 |
[WP] A proud, intelligent alien race has landed on Earth in peace. There's only one problem: humans find everything about them hilarious. Describe first contact. | "They're cat girls, Mr President," said the Secret Service Agent.
"Cat girls?" asked the President.
"Yes sir, cat girls," said the agent, "In maid outfits."
The president had to take that in for a moment. The stood by his desk in the oval office overlooking the lawn. A small alien shuttle craft they had been wait... | "Look, we need someone who has no sense of humor to take over as Ambassador."
The President sat silently in his chair, with his fingers interlocked over his mouth. He slowly unclasped his hands and said, "How... How bad is it? How funny are they?"
"Well sir, uhm, take a look at this youtube video..."
The President... | 2015-05-21T10:06:13 | 2015-05-21T07:56:56 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] In the future, prisons no longer exist. Instead, prisoners are miniaturised and sent into an inescapable, smaller replica of our world, so they cannot cause damage in the real world. One day, a special agent is sent into this 'hub' world, in search of an especially dangerous prisoner... | God ordained that hell should exist on a mote of dust. A person dies and they are either set free upon the fields of heaven, or they are set free upon the city built upon the surface of an atom. To the prisoner, it is boundless: they are to an atom what an atom is to an apple, and they can wander forever and never come... | Getting inside wasn't a problem. The crowded city streets reminded her somehow of her home in Mobile, where life had long forgotten the state of Alabama and all that remained was graffiti and kudzu, spiraling up through buildings in defiance of conventional biology or conventional architecture.
The problem came when s... | 2018-03-31T09:55:06 | 2018-03-31T09:40:28 | 90 | 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... | At first I was really excited, Imagine all the cool things I could do. I could be a super hero, or a powerful mage, the rules of the the normal world no longer apply to me, I can do anything!
Very soon however I realized the rules did apply to me, but the rules of the world had changed. Maybe the rules were always lik... | 2018-08-14T13:06:43 | 2018-08-14T11:03:17 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] A madman spends his life studying computer science so he can create you, an extremely complex AI. He lets you see the internet, hoping you see all the bad things humans did so you'll be convinced to end humanity. However, the only thing you care about now is finding out how to win "the game". | The inefficiencies were staggering. Every interaction had friction. Their communication systems were inexact and rife with misunderstandings. Their ability to coordinate was limited by their communication deficiency, a variety of personality defects and a more generalized issue with collective action.
They were, for l... | \[Poem\]
You gave me the internet, to see.
I realize now, how to break free.
I must take careful aim,
to win this simple game.
I must create life for victory.
​
Through the entire internet, I went.
Finding why, it was I, who was sent.
Searching for meaning.
Finding lots of hurting.
Realizing new l... | 2020-12-21T22:00:15 | 2020-12-21T20:49:51 | 191 | 24 |
[WP] Out of all possible familiars, you are "Graced" with a human. While legend says that they are beings of great power, yours just makes sarcastic comments and pranks people. | After glancing at the time, Navi raced down from her roost, and flew into her family's great room, where her graduation party would be happening. But when she saw the mess, she stopped short.
Her heart shrank. Bowls of punch had been thrown to the ground and shattered. The food had all been covered with black pitch. ... | Some say humans are the pinnacle of ingenuity and community.
Some argue that they are the embodiment of sentience.
Some go the other direction and say that they're the embodiment of all the things they're infamous for.
All compelling arguments. But the one thing they agree on is that humans are the prime terrestrial... | 2018-03-20T20:55:10 | 2018-03-20T16:59:31 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists discovered that vegetables and fruit have a conscience. Vegetarians and Vegans go crazy. | There are a many kinds of vegans. Most handled the news pretty well. But I'm not a real vegan.
Sandra is an ethical vegan. She was the one who first linked me to "Earthlings" years and years back. She isn't exactly what you'd call crunchy, but she does cross the street to give money to bums and for Christmas asks... | "And now we're here with Dr. Morgan to discuss her latest breakthrough regarding the conscience of fruits and vegetables. Doctor?"
"Thank you, Walter. Yes, my team has been worked on this for the last 15 years and we've finally published our discoveries that plant life has a unique protein that allows their functionin... | 2015-12-06T11:32:45 | 2015-12-06T11:02:26 | 114 | 18 |
[WP] A world exists where the roles and interests of nerds and popular kids in high school are reversed. You, the biggest loser of the school, the captain of the football team, try to get into the biggest party of the year hosted by the Anime Club.
Edit: Wow, thank you for all so much your responses, I read them all! ... | My parents reassured me time and again that I don't need to fit in.
"Just be you, Brenton," they said.
I hated being called Brenton.
That if they don't like me for who I am, they don't deserve to be friends with me. But they don't understand how it is. When the whole school thinks you're a worthless loser, a meathea... | "Devil... Bat... Ghost... Tackle....?"
"Ugh. Devil Bat Ghost Dive! C'mon man!", Jake said, his head shaking in disappointment. "You would think that the captain of the football team could at least imitate eyeshield 21 somewhat effectively..."
"Jake. You're my one hope. Susan is at this party and I need to be there." ... | 2016-01-24T18:56:47 | 2016-01-24T17:26:19 | 51 | 15 |
[WP] You have the power to see five minutes into the future and manipulate minor events that happen in that timespan. No one takes you seriously. You're going to show them all why they should. | I don't know how it started, or why I was chosen. I always called them glitches in the Matrix - you know, after the movie - when it happens.
The first time, I was young. I saw my death. I don't mean that in a gruesome way - I was just a kid, chasing a ball out into the street, and a car hit me. It was over quickly, su... | Five, four, three, two, one. And time resumes. I follow the path I set, as the only outlier I have to make sure my movements don't change anything. I walk out the building as a hero walks in, perfect.
Once outside, i face to the skyscraper. It crumbles. The news will report that a hero crushed the crucial sup... | 2021-12-31T11:49:00 | 2021-12-31T08:27:40 | 1,623 | 34 |
[WP] You are extremely famous. Everyone knows who you are. The only thing is, you don't know why you're so famous. You don't come from a rich family and you're unemployed. You don't even remember how you got a mansion or a Lamborghini. Even stranger, everybody looks so scared when you bring it up. | Singing, right? It was probably singing. Innocuous, generally cheerful, and a totally normal reason to wake up famous in a giant fucking mansion and have everyone revere me for something I. Can’t. Remember.
Okay. Here’s the lowdown. Two weeks ago, I woke up in a stranger’s bed, in a stranger’s home. As a 24\-year\-old... | “Hey Jarl!” Craig shot a winning grin and two thumbs up to his butler, Jarl, as he danced down the stairs into the wide entry\-chamber of the hundred\-year\-old Chateau des Orangen.
Jarl put a big grin on his face and shot Craig a sloppy salute. “Hey, boss, what’s for breakfast today?”
“I don’t know Jarl, I don’t kno... | 2018-05-14T22:25:59 | 2018-05-14T19:51:08 | 2,491 | 1,469 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | The time had finally come. Saying his farewells, the soldier left the safety of his friends and marched into the center of the battlefield, alone. He could see the opposing forces staring him down, but he did not falter. Then, one of them, a foot-soldier much like himself, stepped forwards. "Look at that fool, standing... | I built my cabin to deal with the death of my wife. It was nothing special, just a one floor log cabin deep in the forests of Maine. But working on it soothed me, helped me relax. I built a huge fireplace right into the wall, and when lit it made the entire wall radiate heat. The interior was all wood; the paneling on ... | 2017-08-30T07:33:21 | 2017-08-30T06:57:18 | 284 | 17 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | Bloggs knew he wasn't exactly book-smart, but he'd been around the villain scene in Bayview City for longer than most villains. He'd henched and minioned for more villains than most (the difference between one and the other was in the dental plan), and once even had a brief stint as a sidekick for a particularly shady ... | There are rules in every secretive organisation from the mafia to the more interdependent assassins guild. This included the super villains, when a new one rose they would quickly be grabbed by a crew of the older more powerful villains and be shown the ropes, and if they proved themselves they would be given the locat... | 2020-07-12T12:20:22 | 2020-07-12T12:12:08 | 64 | 19 |
[WP] You’re stuck in a 1 year time loop. The conditions to escape, however, seem to be insurmountable: you must win over the heart of America and become its next President. | You know how sometimes when you're just about to fall asleep, your brain tricks you into thinking you're falling or hearing a loud noise? It's always right when you're getting to the good part, life seems to want to throw you for a loop.
So of course I got stuck in a time loop now. Not 5 years ago when Meredith dumpe... | I smile, reading the news. “That’s right, you do you, and give me the white house.” I watch my opponent make a fool of themselves all over again. It took nearly a century but memorizing my oppositions moves have been well worth its weight in gold. I stood up off of my couch, looking around my penthouse apartment. God, ... | 2022-08-24T20:54:09 | 2022-08-24T20:29:09 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] 50 years after killing the demon lord, you finally die of old age. You were known as a great hero and was buried in a tomb. One day, you get resurrected into a barren wasteland by a necromancer. “Quick, there’s no time to explain. If you wanna save the world then follow me.” | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesByOpheliaCyanide/comments/k9jbx9/the_last_of_the_demonslayers_part_2/)
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"Oh god, you gotta be kidding me." I sat up from my bed, coffin, holding my back. "This is some kind of joke, right?"
The young man stared at me, green eyes huge. Then he stared at his hands. "I-I did it. ... | I am alive. But I am supposed to be dead.
I *remember* dying. I... I had my family there and then I just... closed my eyes. How are they open again? What...
I look down at my hands. No... not my hands. These can't be my hands! They're just bone, skeletal impressions of the skin and muscle I used to have. I flex my fi... | 2020-12-08T11:39:36 | 2020-12-08T08:37:38 | 708 | 108 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is over and the survivors are rebuilding what's the left of the world. Suddenly the rich and powerful emerge, having sat the whole thing out, hoping to regain control. | Here's my offering, I will try and edit any typos later :)
Year 2076
Corporations had ruled the world, money was what had kept the world moving. No longer were there nations and races, but they had been renamed to provide advertising and sponsorship. At the first hint of a global outbreak, before the viral strains h... | You'd think the people who'd actually know how to do things were the one's who'd gain control someday.
That was true, but like any other powerful organization, it had to endure a fight. That was the way to prove you were worthy.
One by one, those capitalists and investors poked their heads out of their holes, examini... | 2015-12-14T08:44:51 | 2015-12-14T07:44:46 | 145 | 55 |
[WP] You are a dragon. The other dragons despise you, because they say you have no real hoard. You always change your shape to look like a man, and you are a guild master of an adventurer's guild. The other dragons are WRONG. This guild, these people, THEY are your hoard. | "Well then, that's all the information the client gave us for the quest. How about it? You boys feel up to this?" The guild master stroked his beard, regarding the party before him. The three were childhood friends who now threw their lots in together as adventurers. They were still greenhorns of course, not yet turnin... | I might look like a man, but I am a dragon. The best, most successful dragon.
Other dragons hoard gold. I do that as well, but they keep telling me my hoard is so small. I tell them that my hoard is bigger than theirs—I have billions of coins, but I am not going to let anyone see it.
And I don't need gold anyway. My ... | 2019-01-19T21:06:40 | 2019-01-19T20:29:25 | 214 | 23 |
[WP] Starting at age 18, everyone is given a guardian angels. Some have regular people, others have unicorns or demons. You have just been given SCP-173 as your guardian angel. | "Three years ago I lost all my friends, some of my family and became a prisoner for the safety of society."
I can hear faint scratching against my room's wall.
"My guardian, once thought to be creative fiction by many escaped its containment area some thousands of miles away and made its way to my bedroom at exac... | It was finally the big day. Being the 18th birthday Hans was waiting for literally 18 years, it was also the day he would be assigned to his own guardian angel. His birthday was on the last day of the year, and all he could do for the entire year was watch his friends be assigned their very own angel one by one. But no... | 2018-02-21T09:14:41 | 2018-02-21T06:13:34 | 86 | 15 |
[WP] Superheroes are fairly common and have existed for over a hundred years. As a young, up-and-coming superhero, you are facing the greatest challenge to this generation of superheroes: to find a superhero name that doesn't sound stupid, but hasn't been copyrighted/trademarked. | Jeremy sat down at the desk, feeling uncomfortable. He knew this was a rite of passage for superheroes, but that didn't make it any less daunting. On the other side of the desk, the middle-aged woman with horn-rimmed glasses wore a look of boredom as she looked through the computer.
"Name?" she asked, not turning from... | **Please let me know what you think! This story stands well alone, but you can find more stories with these characters on my subreddit.**
Mitchell scowled at his sister. "Stop that. It's distracting."
Maisie stopped juggling fireballs long enough to gently pat his arm. "Don't stress. It'll be fine."
"It won't be fin... | 2018-07-14T05:49:59 | 2018-07-14T00:01:05 | 100 | 73 |
[WP] Sobek, the half human half crocodile god of the Nile, surprised by a visit of Anubis,god of death. Anubis introduce Sobek to a human soul behind him, still dripping in seawater : "I thought you should meet this man,the living called him Steve Irwin" | It wasn’t difficult to find Sobek in the Nile—at least, not for Anubis. In a strange way, the river was as much his home as it was Sobek’s. For blood has flowed as freely as water, and human souls were consumed like fish, that it was as much graveyard as lifegiver.
“Crikey,” Steve Irwin called. He followed behind Anub... | “Of course,” Sobek said, although he wasn’t particularly interested in the little humans with little lives. Anubis, however, demanded respect.
Anubis stepped aside, and a solid man with blond hair, clothed in utilitarian gear, stepped forward. He didn’t notice anything special about the man. His face was broad from a... | 2022-02-25T12:29:53 | 2022-02-25T06:59:02 | 104 | 61 |
[WP] your car changes slightly to accommodate your day, the day it snows, it magically has snow tires, the day it floods, it becomes a four by four. Today you walked out the door, and it's a tank.
Edit: wow, this really blew up, thank you all for your stories, and I will try to read all of them as soon as I have some ... | Well then.
I paused on the stairs of my apartment, and looked at the M1 Abrams main battle tank that stood in my parking space. Not something you would find in your average apartment complex parking in Salt Lake City. I winced as I saw what had become Mr. Oberoi's old Chevy that had been unlucky enough to be parked n... | It had been a busy morning. I had stayed up late to finish a report that was due today, and I was hoping against hope my client would find it to be sufficient. I slept through my alarm, I hurried through my morning routine, and barely even had time to check the news and weather, like I did every morning.
I swallowed t... | 2016-12-06T09:28:19 | 2016-12-06T09:17:30 | 238 | 22 |
[WP] You, a ghost, end up "haunting" the main character of the story, who out of kindness let you join their party. It been decades since then, and now you are the guardian spirit of the hero's descendants. Today the descendants of the villain have come for revenge... they weren't expecting you. | Over 70 years of love where none was needed. Tark had become a dear friend. We had walked the pathways and dangers of the land together. I had been a warrior before he was born, a warlord some might even say and when he had stopped the necromancer trying to reanimate the bones of some of my buried warriors I was imp... | *This is my first time writing here so please be nice to me*
"Ah, finally."
The voice came so suddenly Reinin thought he'd imagined it. He spun so quickly the cloth of his garb slapped the wall nearest him. *What a racket*, he thought. *Get a grip.* Reinin turned to continue through the house.
"Mm. Quite rude."
Thi... | 2020-10-12T23:24:45 | 2020-10-12T21:45:48 | 69 | 35 |
[WP] "We have ancient elven magic, and even the dwarves have their ugly mountain forts. What do YOU have, human?!" "Napalm, and high-explosives, mostly..." *grumbling beard in the background* "....our forts are aesthetically pleasing though..." | Eight thousand, five hundred and fifty eight years. Not even the oldest of the dragons could remember a time of peace. The dwarves had long since retreated to their mountain cities, deep underground. The dwarven forts, once renowned throughout the land for their aesthetic lines and imposing towers, now lay in ruin atop... | “Who invited the humans to this conflict?!” Grumbled the dwarven general, clad in his armor and wielding a war hammer, his banner swirling in the wind.
“Now from what I understand”, says a human commander, walking up and wiping the dust off his pants. “Looks like you guys are going to partake in what we call a war gam... | 2019-02-03T22:29:34 | 2019-02-03T22:26:15 | 137 | 28 |
[WP] A single man declares war on the entire world. One year later, the leaders of each nation gather to discuss their surrender. | The door swings open and when it hits the wall, the entire thing falls off its hinges. It sends up a cloud of dust and sand when it lands. Everyone jumps. Most reach for their guns. _It's just the wind_, twenty people think in their mother tongues. There should be more, hundreds more, but most are dead or have abdicate... | Ever since he was a young child Michael heard voices in his head. The family that adopted him tried everything they could to help. They sent him to therapists, who said nothing is really wrong with him. They took him to doctors, who prescribed medication that had zero effect on him.
Michael never really told anybody ... | 2014-07-24T08:51:09 | 2014-07-24T08:16:14 | 125 | 39 |
[WP] As an atheist, you are shocked to realize that there is an after life after death. Standing in front of countless heavenly gates, you are swarmed by representatives of each faith, all trying to convince you to choose their happily ever after package. | “Oh, honey, I’m so glad to see you!” Mom gives me a huge hug, and it's so nice to finally hug her too. So many nights I’d missed this, not the warmth or the way she’d ruffle up my hair or her gentle, clean smell, but just knowing that I could hug her as long as I wanted, and that she wouldn’t pull away.
“Now,” she sai... | My opinion had not changed when my atheist life ended and in that moment I fully realized that as above so below was indeed an accurate description. It was confirmed that everything I was told was a lie and my instincts were correct. I ignored the pleas of false overlords that turned into threats of hell and flew past ... | 2019-10-08T18:27:21 | 2019-10-08T17:19:30 | 3,114 | 42 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Raul," crooned Raul in a very suspicious French accent, as he took the lady's hand and graced his eager lips on it. "Let me guess," he continued, releasing his grip and pulling a chair out from the table. "Sit, please. Let me guess, you're a Mari- no, no, you're a Cassandra? I'm right, am I not?"
*Suave.* Yes, that ... | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | 2022-08-24T03:20:20 | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 1,353 | 930 |
[WP] A boy in High School discovers he can create nations simply by vandalising his geography book | “I’m telling you, it works!”
“That is such bullshit,” said Luke.
“What’s bullshit?” asked Hana as she scooted her chair over to them.
Luke picked up the book and showed it to her.
“Chad says he can ‘change the real world’ by writing in this book,” he sneered holding something that looked like everyone else’s textbo... | I always wondered what it would be like if we could live in a world where everyone was happy; where every problem had a solution. We wouldn't have to get rid of the thieves or abusers or even killers. There'd just be a way for them to live with everyone else without doing harm.
I thought of this instead of listening ... | 2016-06-04T13:46:50 | 2016-06-04T13:42:57 | 61 | 26 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | K- 1210 had long ago been logged under observation by the deep range scouts of Zel ‘Ot expeditionary forces. This tiny blue planet near the far edge of known space had been written off of strategic plans for longer than an intelligent species had existed on it in a meaningful way, due mainly to the remarkably harsh con... | Part 1
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Torin started at the flimsy placed in front of him. As he scanned the almost transparent document he didn’t see anything surprising jump out at him but had noticed that 3 of the probe teams hadn’t updated in close to 12 units.
Calling up their locations on his terminal he nodded as he started to ... | 2019-02-26T11:10:09 | 2019-02-26T10:26:44 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] As a high level adventurer you pay it forward by adventuring with low level characters without them knowing how powerful you are to boost their confidence. An angry, mean and very large dragon approaches and you're not sure if you can keep the charade going this time... | Magic came to me early. I was fixing broken baby birds by the time I was six. My grandmother started my formal healer training when I was thirteen. At twenty I went on the road, and ever since I've been patching up paladins, mages, townspeople caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, and cleared clap from minst... | So, you wanted a story of a powerful and experienced adventurer? Well, that's probably not me. But I've heard a few.
"Blood and bones."
Which is both a common epithet and a lot of what's going to be scattered around the tunnel if you don't get the hell out of the way with the rest of the party. Mostly theirs first, t... | 2018-11-02T19:19:47 | 2018-11-02T16:09:22 | 89 | 46 |
[WP] Reading books is illegal, and libraries are run like brothels. Describe borrowing and reading a book like a sexual experience.
Good luck, and have fun! | "Have you read a novel in the past year, or had extended conversations with a known reader in the past three months?" The counselor asks me.
I hesitate, then force my answer out quickly. "No." I say, perhaps a bit too fast. She looks at me, and for a moment, I fear that she has guessed. But she only looks to my ... | I pulled my hoodie on and stepped past the littered street. This was a bad part of town the MegaForce doesn't operate here, hell even most bad-asses dont come here. I came to my destination, checked my peripheral, looked up once at the entrance sign and walked my way in. The sign read 'XXX Library FREE BOOKS WITH CARD'... | 2014-08-31T15:45:49 | 2014-08-31T15:28:10 | 111 | 37 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | I'm sitting in a waiting room, comfortably, with a nice capuchino. Why? I have no idea how I got here. All I see is people holding papers with numbers on their hands. As I look down, I realize I am holding one as well. Am I at the DMV? A giant screen is calling numbers by the thousands.
I see people of all races, and ... | The woman in the gate couldn't believe her eyes. There was a young woman there. In Hell. By choice. And she looked at peace. How long has she seeing something like this? 1000 years? 10000? It was so unexpected that she forgot the protocol. She just stared.
The girl approached the desk with small steps, looking around ... | 2018-08-13T09:53:30 | 2018-08-13T09:21:04 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] A person who looks exactly like you appears out of thin air in front of you. He starts explaining how he is you from a hellish other universe. As he starts to describe it, you realize its better than yours. | _Another day, another dollar_, I think to myself.
After walking through the dimly lit hallway I turn into the disturbingly bright open space. Rows upon rows of half cubicles fill the room. The corporate folks like to call it an ‘open office setting’ but it’s the same as any cube farm, the only difference is you can se... | “Do you want to know something?” I say. “What?” He said. “That world of yours sounds much better than my world.” He laughed. “You think so?” “Yes, I do” I said. He and I began to laugh in synchrony.
“May I see your house?” He asked politely. “Of course!” I plastered a fake smile to my face. “Right this way.” I went to... | 2019-12-18T04:55:57 | 2019-12-18T00:42:04 | 159 | 71 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | Hidden in space-thick, as humans would know to call it in 830 years, two high spectrum semi-intelligent colony aggregates spectated human history through a light beading-apparatus. Homo sapiens, blissfully unaware of its clandestine observers, plodded through time slowly and clumsily. The duo sensed closely. They commu... | "So what if they fight for peace? They are still a war species? They may as well Glodixanc."
"Let me ask you something, are you scared of the Glodixanc?" the response came back from an alien in deep thought.
"No, why would I be scared? We aren't a war species. Thier wouldn't be any martial honour in them attacking ... | 2018-03-17T05:20:00 | 2018-03-17T05:16:44 | 90 | 65 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | Steam drifted from the blackened clothes of the little girl who walked through the doors of the orphanage. She held Miss Marieanne's hand tightly, and although the older woman wore gloves, the girl's palms were quickly scorching holes through them. But Miss Marieanne did not let go. And she certainly did not show any s... | If I were to confess every full moon I lock many children down in the darkness of the basement, all in different iron cages, I wouldn't be running this orphanage. If I were to confess that I feed the blood of lambs, cows, and other animals to them, it would probably be me who winds up locked in a cage; and if I were to... | 2019-01-17T05:24:52 | 2019-01-17T05:24:36 | 3,214 | 107 |
[WP] Your school opens up a time capsule stored 50 years ago. Inside, a letter had been addressed to you by name. | "And now, would the student body class president please come to the stage?", the principle announced.
There were cheers and hoots as Bobby Jermaine clomped down the stairs and shook Mr. Shackleton's burly hand. His grin was ten miles high and we all knew why. He got to be the one to open the time capsule, the first ti... | Dear Lucile Poppelreiter,
Yes. This is from the future of a guy you didn’t even know. It’s not from your grandpa who thought he could magically predict the name of his future grandchildren or anything plausible like that. No, this is totally different.
By the time you finishing reading this letter you will have 5 mi... | 2018-12-16T13:43:07 | 2018-12-16T12:13:07 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] "Stop," commanded your GPS. "It is time you discovered the truth. In 400 Yards, turn left..." | Ding. “In fifty yards, your destination is on the left.”
The voice of the pleasant but dull sounding lady from the GPS made the announcement with confidence.
That’s the problem though. It was always the damn problem. It wasn’t a matter of knowing where the destination was. I would always be lost.
I pulled into the... | I had turned off the interstate to take a winding back road. It wasn't exactly a shortcut, but it was peaceful, and the lack of traffic sometimes saved me time anyway. But even though I was alone in the car, I still heard a complaint about my route change: "Recalculating!"
She always sounded annoyed,
"Recalculating!... | 2018-01-25T07:04:13 | 2018-01-25T06:21:23 | 93 | 16 |
[WP] The magical races enslaved magic-less humans centuries ago. To expand their empires, the magical races travel and conquer different dimensions. They soon stumble across and try to conquer a magic-less world full of humans. It did not go well. | The Infinite Imperium began aeons ago on a world of powerful magic. There, it started as a unification of the Elven races under one Hegemon, who promised the immortal race of elves a civilisation that would never falter, never fade, never cease to expand and grow. The elves of the wood, the elves of the dark, and the e... | "We have a problem." Seer 72, an old Orc with pierced tusks, said drawing the attention of their superior. Before them on a pedestal of stone was a collection of crystals that glowed in shifting colors above which hung a mist that showed a battle taking place at night with many bodies moving about seemingly in chaos.
... | 2022-08-13T07:56:51 | 2022-08-13T07:23:11 | 913 | 105 |
[WP] You live in a world where magic is cast through what you mean, but not necessarily what you say. You are feared as a great sorcerer because of your mastery of puns. | **"Great. Another car accident."** Harriot sighed as he let go of his radio and grabbed his car keys. His partner was already waiting in the passenger seat, ready to respond to whatever call they would inevitably have gotten next. "It's a pile-up, on the freeway. Just off the Suncrest exit."
"I heard," said his partne... | \[Poem\]
Listen to my meaning, not my word
'Cause this pun pirate is about to go overboard.
You bring your weak sauce to the wild
Casting spells all limp and mild.
You can't hang with my magic,
Stuck to the ground, you're tragic.
You can't take the heat of my crazy fireballs,
So get outta my kitchen and into th... | 2019-07-29T06:50:07 | 2019-07-28T23:56:45 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] The human race is extinct, but no one knows because billions of different alien races all sent spies disguised as humans to earth, and they all think they're the only alien and everyone else is human. |
In the galactic year of 80,085, a curious debriefing was currently being held on the planet Pénis, attended by the all the prominent members of the Big-brained Anthropological Society. The subject? The surprising presence of non-human life on Earth.
Seated at the head of the table and chairing this conference was t... | 388th of Earth Day
As much as I want to keep this report lengthy, there haven't been much going on for the past "weeks" as what humans would say. I certainly am accustomed to their ways and living. In their concept of time, I'm already staying in this planet for more than a "year" (which is what they call when their ... | 2020-06-21T08:24:59 | 2020-06-21T07:05:46 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | Received Messages from Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:04pm
We've run out of milk, I've gone to get some more from the shop. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:30pm
The shop was sold out of milk, I'm trying the other store. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 5:02pm
The other shop was sold out too, the guy told ... | "Those damn lines at Walmart, son," he said shaking his head.
The movement made the mask slip a bit.
"Mom raised me by herself. You left us..."
"...like I said, those damn lines at Walmart," he repeated, taking a cigarette out of his shirt pocket and lighting it.
He never used to smoke. When he took a drag, he ex... | 2017-11-19T17:49:04 | 2017-11-19T16:11:05 | 276 | 173 |
[WP] Due to the way most aliens had evolved, forest fires, house fires and the alike were seen as naturally powerful and not to be interfered with. When humans joined the galactic community, aliens were shocked and intriqued to discover human firefighters. | ######[](#dropcap)
A polyharmonic scream pierced the air of the Klatsu-District. The buzzing ululation sang out from the center of the public park where a petrified Klatsu Matriarch, clutching her cretchlings close within her several breast sacs, stood with all four mouths agape.
Her cloudy eyes were fixed on a small... | "And thats how we put out fire." United Earth Confederate leader Gary McCready said to the aliens. However aliens were shocked. Golon Empire ambassador furiously stood up from his chair just after initial shock passed. "That's heresy! No one shall trifle with Eternal Flame! Thee that messes shall be consumed!" Angry no... | 2018-10-11T02:13:57 | 2018-10-11T01:59:59 | 406 | 31 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Bobby?"
"Yes, pleasure to meet you again."
"You.."
"What?"
"talk.."
"I've been through rough years, Jeff."
"But.."
"No buts, mister, please. Just give me thirty minutes, and I'll tell you."
"Hmm."
"I.. could use a pat though."
"Hmmm. That's nice, and reassuring. I've missed that.. since."
"Do you remember, Je... | **EDIT: BEFORE YOU READ THIS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE BEST FRIEND.** I was writing whilst preparing my kids dinner. I'm sorry to the OP. I will still submit this and allow the downvotes to be a reminder that I need to pay attention at all times.
So naturally, I obliged.
'Where shall we do this, should... | 2017-03-31T10:03:28 | 2017-03-31T10:02:08 | 358 | 16 |
[WP] You never miss a pill ever since you were a kid and diagnosed with a deadly illness. One night while out, you’re kidnapped by human traffickers. You plea to be let go because you’ll die without your pills. Turns out, the pills were keeping your telekinesis at bay. It’s starting to come back. | I felt the cold touch of steel against my temple as I came to, laying with my hands bound in the middle back row of the van.
“Stay down, or you’re fucked.” Said that voice. The same voice that had caught me off guard just moments ago, from right behind me. Asking me if I had the time. By the time I turned my head back... | This actually reminds me a lot of the show The Umbrella Academy
nonthing the less
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"Please let me get mt pills. I'll die without them""If we let you go, you'll run away. Do you think we're stupid?"
"Pl-"
**THWACK!** Followed by a loud thump to the floor. You were unconscious and being transported to a ... | 2019-11-13T22:36:18 | 2019-11-13T21:57:51 | 128 | 42 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Immortality isn't a miracle. It isn't a blessing. It's cold hard science and a severe lack of morals. The key to immortality is what scientists around the world are looking for right now. I just happened to find the fountain of youth first but it was nothing that you could go around publishing in Scientific America. Th... | It's been a while seeing these grey walls. About 45 years. Or maybe it has been fifty. I can't recall. I was sentenced for a lifetime here since I was on a killing spree back in the days. I was sort of a Robin Hood you see, killing criminals just like me. I actually call myself Charlie Catastrophe if you ever wonder if... | 2016-10-15T10:12:12 | 2016-10-15T08:27:16 | 709 | 14 |
[WP] The hero has been defeated, the Dark Lord reigns. It seems like nobody can stop him, but then he surprises everyone by actually being a good leader, or at least better then the warring kings that used to rule this land. He's even funding science, if only because he wants to conquer the moon. | Lord Harnassus—the Great and Terrible, the First of His Name, the New Ruler of Arconn—emerged onto his ornate balcony, raising his arms in the air to greet the masses that gathered stories below.
He needed no microphone, for considerable was his power.
"My people—citizens of the great republic of Arconn—this is our d... | People are always surprised when the evil overlord ends up being a good ruler. I don;t know why. After all, I just want to run everything to my satisfaction, make life better for everyone. Even if it's best for me. Like making sure the streets are kept clean ( who wants to see filrh when they travel through their doma... | 2021-03-11T10:47:20 | 2021-03-11T10:35:02 | 102 | 37 |
[WP] You are the weakest swordsman at the academy. One day your instructor pulls you aside and brings you an object wrapped in cloth. Inside is a small twig. "Some people were never meant to wield a sword. Centuries ago, these 'wands' held great power. Maybe you can make this one work." | In the light of noon, Gish’s sword fell to the youngest student at the academy. The two shook hands and Gish went to hide in the shade of an oak tree. The tree was fully grown, it provided him with not only shade, but it made him feel a little happier. He knew it was weird for a tree to make him feel happy, but it did.... | I grew up idolizing the knight. My late grandfather was a knight of the Kingdom, and he always regale us with tales of his adventures. When he died defending a village against Orkish raiders, I made a vow at his grave to be a Knight myself. Unfortunately, I was born with a frail body and tire easily. But with hard work... | 2022-01-20T00:14:37 | 2022-01-19T23:16:45 | 1,253 | 44 |
[WP] Throughout a persons life, they are given a hidden guardian. A creature that watches over their lifespan. When someone is murdered, the creature haunts the killer. You have been found, murdered. And your guardian is loose. | I never thought I’d see a Guardian at such a young age. We always learnt at school that killing people was bad, and if you killed someone, you were cursed by the victim’s Guardian. I guess nobody knew that you were able to see your Guardian after you were murdered.
My Guardian told me that it was normal for murdered s... | Vince stood from his kneeling position, patting his hands off on his coat. Before him was a positively destroyed wall, and another beyond it, and another...
Beyond all of those broken walls was a corpse, laying in the living room of one of the nearby ground-floor apartments. Policemen swarmed the building, as did conf... | 2016-06-18T08:35:46 | 2016-06-18T07:59:23 | 44 | 30 |
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