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[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Me,
I miss you. I miss the way you used to be. You used to care. You used to try your hardest. Now all you do is say, I'll do it later. I can see that you're struggling. Yet, you have more friends than you ever did, and you know what you want to do with your life.
But still, when it comes to day-to-day stuff, yo... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-05T22:02:16 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 1,095 | 17 |
[WP] There's a good reason that savage and terrifying monsters live in bedrooms of small children. The children need protecting. | Silence permeated the room and darkness loomed. Peter's nightlight pathetically attempted to quell the darkness but it failed. Peter heard the sound he dreaded the most out of all.
The quiet squeak of the door hinge followed by the not so quiet footsteps of his disgusting uncle.
"Hey, sport."
He whispered. His voice... | Devin lay wide awake in his bed, his eyes peeking over the edge of his blanket.
"It's just a baseball bat," he whispered to himself. "It's just a baseball bat. It's just a -"
He heard a creak in the corner of his room where a clump of toys cast a shadow so closely resembling a terrible monster.
"Dad! Daaad!"
He c... | 2017-04-25T22:36:48 | 2017-04-25T20:18:08 | 39 | 17 |
[WP]They laughed at your power... until they noticed the "no cooldown, no energy cost" description, and realized the implications | They laughed a lot at me, at school. “Wow,” they said, “you can share your thoughts. So, basically, you can speak to people’s minds, but can’t receive anything?”
I didn’t mind too much, my friends helped support me on the worst days. Some people got bad powers in this world, they pointed out. Like the guy who can turn... | Every power has a cost. All of the cooler powers take a lot of energy to use, like creation of fire out of thin air and telekinesis. Once powers like those are used for long enough, there is a natural cooldown before they can be used again. For the cooler powers, this is typically a few hours or so.
Typically, powers ... | 2022-06-03T14:45:20 | 2022-06-03T12:50:28 | 1,075 | 181 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | Edit: I am humbled by the compliments. Thank you, your kind words have meant a lot to me. It's been a hell of a week.
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"You can't keep me here, Captain Liar! Ultraman will stop you! And ... and ... I have do get my homework done before class."
"Quiet, Foundling. Soon you and ... wait, SCHOOL? ... how old ... | "Drink this!" I snarled, thrusting the mug of scalding-hot cocoa into the boy's small, pale arms. He took it gingerly, set it down on the cold marble ground, and looked up at me, his blue eyes looking rather watery. I smiled as I looked down on him — miserable, resentful, broken....
"Thank you," he said.
"That's rig... | 2020-03-26T14:45:19 | 2020-03-26T12:51:09 | 1,335 | 349 |
[WP] In a world where lying doesn't exist, you are the worst supervillain: Technically True Man. | **Meanwhile, somewhere in Baltimore...**
Two friends talk in a bar, a typical Saturday evening affair. I listen, and the two acquaintances have no idea. They never do.
"Yeah, man. Space. It's, like, the most fascinating thing, you know?"
"Totally, I listen to a lot of Neil deGrasse Tyson."
Ah... a familiar topic. S... | Who knew taking over a country could be so goddamn easy? I mean all I had to do was sound good and people would just go with it. As long as I kept it vague and simple all the pieces would fall right into place.
My political opponents being an issue? Not at all. Just go up to the crowd and say "We don't know what could... | 2018-10-23T07:29:36 | 2018-10-23T06:36:28 | 101 | 31 |
[WP] As dragons get older their magical prowess is shaped by what is in their hoards. As you wander the ruins of a kingdom you notice one item start to show up, the implications are immense. | The dragon’s den was one of legends and terror to the locals. The scant records that had been saved in the Church’s records spoke of corpses in various states of decay littering the smaller adjacent tunnels. Sightings of the dragon ‘buying’ the bodies of plague victims from their mourning families with a cart full of u... | Poem:
It's said in the backrooms of taverns musty,
That the hoard of a dragon, all dry and dusty,
would tell you the tale of it's magickal woes.
​
I tell you dear friend, there's no truer tale,
So go to the barkeep and grab you some ale,
While I spin you a yarn to tickle your toes.
​
Spen... | 2022-12-15T15:49:18 | 2022-12-15T12:16:49 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are just about to lock up your childhood home after clearing out your recently deceased parent's things. You decide on one last walk through and realize there is a door you never opened. | I had not been sad like this in a long time.
With my son by my side I cast a final glance towards the empty living room. I held back tears for the umpteenth time.
Their laughs would never fill these walls again. That way my mum would burst into fits after a bit of good wine. It was all too soon.
-Dad we should go, ... | Papers, papers, papers, a million sheets of paper packed inside a hundred carboard boxes.
Lots of toys, little acessories, some statues and some jewelry, everything was ready to go.
Eager to leave this stripped house, dead as the people who used to live in it, I go for one last look around.
After all this time, afte... | 2016-06-05T18:18:23 | 2016-06-05T17:55:21 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] Medusa befriends a blind princess after she accidentally wanders into her cave. Unfortunately for the princess’ suitors, Medusa has now developed a crush and doesn’t take well to competition. |
“You can’t keep me here forever, Dusa,” Althea said.
“Watch me,” Medusa immediately retorted. At this point, she’d held Althea here for nearly a week, preventing her escape by stacking all of her precious statues up against the cave entrance to block it.
“I can’t--I’m blind,” Althea replied matter-of-factly. Medus... | *ANY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS APPRECIATED*
Medusa. Everybody knows her, the infamous monster that can turn you to stone. Everyone, that is, but the dearly loved Princess Teseria. Since birth she had been blind, and so her every move, every minor decision was watched carefully by the royal guard, might she seek danger... | 2021-03-08T07:49:33 | 2021-03-08T07:15:38 | 111 | 61 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 803 | 392 |
[WP]: You told your brother to write his own damn book if it's so easy. So he did. Sat down to type 8 hours per day, churned out a 400-page novel in a week, sent the first draft to a publisher un-edited, and for some goddamn reason everyone loves it. | Mark’s phone vibrated while we were having breakfast. We weren’t supposed to have our phones at the table, but Mom and Dad gave him an exception because of “how available” he needed to be.
He grinned at me and said, “Sorry, it’s Dan.” Dan. His agent.
His. Agent.
I looked up at him as he checked his notification wi... | I can’t believe that he did it so easily.
My brother did it, he wrote a book, easily like it was no big deal, like it was children's play, like everyone could do it.
It takes me a whole year to get out a good book, and i still think i’m rushing it. But not Mister Know It All Does It All, it took him 3 months.
But I’... | 2020-03-28T13:34:58 | 2020-03-28T13:22:55 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I am in a small, white room. The room has only a simple metal table and matching chair, with a piece of paper, a digital clock, and a black box with two small buttons, one red, one green.
I take a seat at the table and flip over the piece of paper, which has nothing on the side facing up.
"In an identical room right... | I enter this small building , goverment type with barred windows and top notch security cameras.
"The room on the right" I am told.
Entering this cold room with one chair I sit.
"Should mankind be saved ?" says a voice over the intercom.
My mind is racing and my feet start to shake, as they normally do when deep in ... | 2016-06-11T08:44:26 | 2016-06-11T08:11:26 | 412 | 34 |
[WP] Your family line suffers from a pirate curse: A demonic shark will manifest itself in nearby sources of water and harrow you and your ancestors. You live three-hundred miles from any body of water and this has made the shark get...creative. | "And how did you find out about our organization, Mr...?"
The lab coat clad researcher lifted his eyes over the manilla folder with a few papers inside in an uninterested inquiry.
"Mr. Garner. And I heard about some weird things happening to other people, and then a lot of people dressed in military gear came to hel... | I coughed a little at all the dust that came up from my family’s treasure box. Inside we’re a great assortment of different items. There was a sword, a clear bag that seemed to hold something sparkly inside, and my dads old diary.
Supposedly, it had started with my great great great grandfather. He had been a great p... | 2018-11-22T09:50:22 | 2018-11-22T09:25:56 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Your older brother has been missing for years. You hear a knock on the door, and you open it to reveal a man that looks like your brother would be at this point. "I'm back man! I'm so sorry!" He hugs you immediately. Just then, you get a text from your brother's old number. "That isn't me." | You know how they say being a twin is like looking in the mirror? Well it is. I should know. As I stand with the door open, the snow storm screaming wind and ice on the front stoop and I stare at the face of a brother I thought lost forever. It was like looking in a mirror. He was my older brother, older by 7 minu... | "What?!...wait..." I turn the phone to show David, but stop seeing the doorway empty - now framing only the front lawn where he was stood only moments ago.
"D...David..." I croak stepping tentatively onto the front porch, a hand held tight to the door frame. Gone.
Turning back inside, pressing the door closed tight b... | 2020-07-23T13:24:09 | 2020-07-23T11:56:21 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story with a large, illogical plot hole, then have the main character discover it. | Mark shuffled through the desk's drawers searching for that vital piece of evidence. Who had killed his father? Who was the mysterious "X" who kept leaving him clues? Who had kidnapped his missing co-worker Elliot?
"Stand back and put your hands up." The shadow of a gun came from the darkness, making Mark jump. The vo... | Budd flew down the highway in his red camaro; he had been flooring it for several minutes now. His pregnant wife, bashmilda, was in the back seat taking hits of meth in between drunkenly firing rounds at the pursuing police.
'Drive faster!' roared bashmilda, 'who the fuck named you?!' retorted budd. 'Also, I cant driv... | 2014-05-25T19:42:11 | 2014-05-25T19:41:47 | 1,343 | 98 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Omar,
I know, I know. The last thing you wanted was your obituary to read "...an Oakland Man." I was telling some of my other friends that despite the fact we'd only been close friends for something like a couple years, you were someone that I would've wanted in the groom's party when I eventually got married. ... | Hey Em,
I'd love to say I've changed, I'm new, brag about things I've done. I'd love to say I've grown.
But you, with your disarming blue eyes, somehow always knew. You always knew when I was making things up, when I was caught in little white lies. You'd encourage some.
And I'd love to say how different I am, from ... | 2017-11-05T22:20:06 | 2017-11-05T19:02:54 | 78 | 55 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | "Hey hey hey! Look who it is... the good ol'' truth" I walked forwards flamboyantly.
Samuel looked at me puzzlingly "Do I know you?" he asks, innocently enough. "Maybe, who knows. But I know you... Samuel."
"How do you know that name?" He shouts, seemingly with confusion, but undertoned also with the raw anger that ... | ### Of Nobody's War
There exists a War that is difficult to know. It is not one of steel and blood, but of opposites and change. The War is the soul, every soul, in an eternal self-conflict of actuality. Few, very few, manage to break the cycle. To do so one must understand oneself, which is an arduous task on its ow... | 2021-11-23T07:57:35 | 2021-11-23T07:21:05 | 57 | 27 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | (This'll be a short one, but i liked my idea enough to jot it here.)--
"Joshua, pick up your feet! You're going to make me late!" Frank said, strutting down the busy DC street. Life, everywhere, hundreds of thousands of bits individuality walking and biking and driving and living around us as we walk, and i love... | Normally, you would think that I could 'Bruce Almighty' my way out of this one. Doing everything that pleased me without due consideration (or even thought for that matter). Well, Bruce didn't have to stick with the God-title forever. It is obviously, relentlessly infuriating, when you are commanded around by somebody ... | 2017-02-19T11:07:22 | 2017-02-19T09:17:00 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Donald Trump stood up in the podium, annoyed at the last minute change of uniform. His usual Columbian suit now lay abandoned on the floor of his hotel suite, he wasn't planning on going back to the room at all afterwards, especially not with that dead hooker in the bathroom. He didn't bother to listen to the guy that ... | As she steps up to the stage, people are proud that she is proudly proclaiming who her sponsor is but even though it cover her from head to toe, no one can make out just exactly what it is. As she is making her acceptance speech, the camera zoom in closer to her uniform to see who her sponsor is that she would be so pr... | 2016-09-19T18:37:32 | 2016-09-19T18:22:35 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] You have been blessed with immortality and are the greatest warrior, but 1000 years ago, a witch cursed you for killing her daughter, making you unable to wield a blade again. Fortunately, guns were invented, and now you’re back in business. | "Really? That's it?"
The warrior said, dawning a confused look.
"What...? What do you mean?"
He folded his arms, rolling over the information in his head before laying it out for the decrepit hag.
"You gave a huge speech about this curse you were going to lay upon me, waved your arms around and created some crazy... | I had left my killing days behind. I had settled down and married the most beautiful woman in the world. No longer was I the greatest warrior there ever was. I had done it once before. Thousand years ago. Although not by choice. After all, a sword cannot block a curse.
For about a thousand years, I could not wield an... | 2021-01-01T14:39:46 | 2021-01-01T13:56:08 | 434 | 89 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | I don't know how to answer Ms. Walulak. I stare at my best friend of the time, who ends up in jail for selling serious drugs just after we graduate. His little brother in just a couple years will end up giving someone else brain damage during a school fight, I don't know where he ends up, but I can't imagine it's good.... | “Tim? Tim are you, uh...”
Miss Lewis was concerned, but more than that she young. And pretty. Ms. Lewis is fresh out of grad school, the apple of every boy’s eye; Tim remembers her obituary. Next year, Ms. Lewis becomes Mrs. Akima. Nine years later, Mr. Akima catches Mrs with another man and Mr. Akima, a police officer... | 2019-08-18T08:32:12 | 2019-08-18T07:55:59 | 56 | 16 |
[WP] "I used to live on Earth..." | "I used to live on Earth. . ." said the old man, running a finger down his forehead; as if to stimulate his memories. "It was a concrete hell. Great metal blocks lined up with each other, the sky made of smog so thick the night was endless."
I shift in my seat, turning my gaze towards him. Normally you would ignore th... | "I used to live on Earth..." Jack drunkenly mumbled into his glass. "It was paradise. There were trees, and water, and people! Not like you pieces of alien shit."
The bartender reached across the bar and gently pried a half empty glass from Jack's limp hand. Jack made a half-assed attempt to retrieve the glass and bar... | 2015-01-28T06:10:42 | 2015-01-28T05:04:46 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] The knight closed in on the mage, his victory all but assured, as in the time it would take him to cast another spell he would already... !!!BONK!!! "Seriously, how you knights don't notice the 2m long stick in my hand is beyond me..." | The knight edged forward carefully, keeping his footing balanced. The fog swirled around his sword as he leapt forward to strike the mage before they could call forth another spell. As he swung, he was blinded by a bright flash from the mage and found himself on the ground with a throbbing skull.
"Did you not see the ... | Zinon Pastour held his enchanted, holy blade aloft, calling down a divine blessing in time to block the explosive force of a fireball. Kazimir the Vile sneering at his most recent deflection of a spell meant to kill. The holy avenger brought his shield up, preparing for the final stage of his plan to topple the mage. H... | 2022-02-03T09:13:42 | 2022-02-03T08:55:20 | 222 | 55 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Okay, the army's coming toward you. What do you do?"
"I tell everyone to hide, then I open the front gate. Is that good for a bonus?"
"A bonus for what?"
"Bluff."
The DM stared at the Bard. He opened his mouth to speak, but the Rogue spoke for him.
"You can't be serious."
"I am."
The fighter chimed in, "How do ... | “Use your musket!”
“Roll! Roll! Roll!”
“Shut up Winston!” Joseph screamed. They were surrounded. Joseph couldn’t do anything. His army was crippling.
“They’re ill!” screamed Winston, disturbing Joseph once more.
Joseph was again looking at the board inquisitively.
“you have 30 seconds to make a decision.”
He wracked hi... | 2018-05-29T07:11:07 | 2018-05-29T06:15:55 | 1,810 | 209 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | "Why's that?" I asked with curiosity. The old lighthouse keeper leaned back in his chair and chewed on his pipe. He turned his gaze to the small window beside him. In the distance the long, bright beam of light kept it's silent vigil in the dark, rotating slowly as rain pattered against the pane.
"They're blind. Simpl... | "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." He took a sip of his beer.
I didn't quite understand him, I just stared as we sat by the cliff, darkness enveloped the sky and ... | 2017-02-22T12:12:43 | 2017-02-22T08:57:52 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] The year is 3000, only people with the firmest hand shake could survive in the business world. Years of evolution has made human grip terrifying. | "The Japanese are taking over the entire international market!"
"Which one?"
"*All of them.* We'll lose our hold in crush-proof phone manufacturing at this rate!"
"But, but how can that be? They've been regionally locked for decades relying on exports from us!"
"A... a catastrophe sir. I, I'm not sure how to ex... | Spindly fingers, thorny palms, cracked skin.
A nasty concoction of grip that would make eating and climbing simple, but touching ultimately revolting. If one were to play with your hair it would get cought in one of the many holes penetrating the entirety of the hand, easing use under water. If you went to high five ... | 2016-02-14T20:14:35 | 2016-02-14T19:35:37 | 371 | 18 |
[WP] You just realized you're God. You had gotten so tired of being the most powerful entity in existence, that you chose to forget yourself and live a human life, just for the sake of having a new experience. You've played long enough now, and you decide it's time to wake up. |
Weird things started happening in the weeks prior to my birthday.
It started with dreams. Whenever I closed my eyes I saw the world spinning below me. I could zoom in and out, observe what happened anywhere around the globe. From up here, I could see the turning of the tides and the changing of weather patterns. Wh... | Before all else, I go take a nap, which I use as a method to ascend to Heaven. All the angels are excited to see me back in the crib, but none of them get any more than quick waves hello.
I gotta see the boys.
I get to the center of Heaven, my throne room, and that’s where they are. Jesus and the Holy Spirit, chilli... | 2019-04-05T07:56:09 | 2019-04-05T07:17:47 | 90 | 48 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | Wood splintered as the wooden door was destroyed. The sound bounced off of all four walls, echoing up the tower, and back down. Aurora set down her fork and looked up from her lunch, hoping it was a freak accident from her soldiers training nearby.
Her eyes moved from her table to the breezy doorway and spotted a ta... | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 2019-01-09T06:34:18 | 80 | 59 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor." | He leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table. "I need your help."
"Fuck you." The little old lady a few tables over glanced in our direction.
"Really? That's the best you've got?" He glanced around the coffee shop. The little old lady smiled at him, and went back to drinking her tea. He lowered his voice to a w... | The first conversation I had with the devil was almost two hundred years ago. *You should know I'm the Prince of Lies,* he'd said. *But if we have a contract, I'll hold up my end of the deal. If I've signed it, I'm stuck to it.* He shrugged. *Rules.*
*Sounds too easy. And it's my soul,* I'd said.
He chuckled. ... | 2015-05-12T14:20:56 | 2015-05-12T13:43:25 | 56 | 19 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | "Jesus."
After two years, there were still so many misconceptions about Google Dating---its origins, how it functioned. But that single phrase was how engineers remembered Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, responding to an initial demonstration.
Social media success had been a goal for so long. The company had failed with... | Google started matching people up on it's new Google Date® by using their search history to determine who was a match for who.
Within days the project was shut down, and the person heading the project was fired. Although no personal search data was directly revealed, as the criteria for matches was hidden and determin... | 2017-05-25T13:39:39 | 2017-05-25T12:30:49 | 82 | 18 |
[WP] A dragon saves a knight from a princess | Sir Dwayne caught his breath as he stood at the mouth of the terrible volcano, Harbinger. As he stood on the edge he looked at his target, a great tower in the center of a fiery lake with only old rope bridge leading connecting it to the outside world. Sir Dwayne knelt and said his prayers to the Gods, for he knew he... | The day had finally come. It is amazing how fast these things sneak up on you. What at first seemed like half a lifetime away had slipped closer and closer almost without notice until finally it was here. Of course, he did want to marry the princess. He was sure he did, every knight in the kingdom had entered that tour... | 2016-06-09T08:03:24 | 2016-06-09T07:03:16 | 171 | 15 |
[WP] people are often impressed by your perfect memory. You know your memory is actually pretty bad; however, the universe is constantly changing to match what you believe. You just started taking a physics exam... | *Oh shit,* I muse, pencil tapping against the paper. *Newtons first law? I don’t even remember how many laws he had!* I focus harder, as I place the tip of the pencil against the paper. A sudden spark of memory hits, and I begin scratching out what I know. “An object in motion stays in motion.” I set my sights on... | “Where is God?” Dylan hovered over to Michael watching tv, feet propped up on the lazy boy.
“On earth. Why?”
Dylan grabbed his halo and hold it out in front of him. After a couple of taps and swipes an image was summoned within the halo in a 3d model, presenting... a planet.
“Is that earth?” Michael asked.
“The pla... | 2019-10-08T21:26:55 | 2019-10-08T19:54:49 | 98 | 31 |
[WP] You're watching the TV when the news breaks. The supernatural is real! Secret societies of monsters live among us! The masquerade is broken! As you sit shocked, your cat turns to you and says "OK, now we can drop the pretense, I do have a number of complaints..." | I blinked, feeling a bit nonplussed. All these years and I never had the slightest inkling Conrad could talk. "Such as?" I managed to say in an even tone after quickly composing myself.
My handsome little boy, my friend, my sole companion of countless empty days languidly stretched and padded across the coffee table t... | The light of the tv screen danced off of Sam's glasses, the only light aside from what little sunbeams could sneak in from behind the shuttered windows. A bag of microwave popcorn rested against the arm of the couch, a single handful of which had been absentmindedly dropped on the floor to mingle with the empty pizza b... | 2021-06-17T18:40:20 | 2021-06-17T15:11:01 | 142 | 75 |
[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 ... | No way.
Anger, sadness, and confusion rolled into a giant emotion in my heart.
"Hey... What's going on here?" I squeaked. My voice betrayed me.
He looked me up and down. Confused. His mouth slung open; just like all those years ago, sitting in front of the TV watching in disbelief as the enemy football players run a... | 2017-11-19T17:49:04 | 2017-11-19T17:13:23 | 276 | 60 |
[WP] During a routine checkup with your doctor you both discover your butthole is the stargate. The governments of the world are now out to capture you and harness the power of your ass. | After weeks of running, living in hiding and constant fear, the government finally caught me. Turns out a mid twenties grad student is no match for DEVGRU, who would've thought? At least I made it as long as I did. They put some dark hood over my head and the unmistakeable prick of a needle hit my arm.
I woke up d... | "You're telling me this guy's butt is the gateway to another dimension?"
"Yes sir, Mr. President."
"How long has this been in existence? I mean, did he get this way last week? Why haven't we heard of anything about him before?"
"It appears that he's been this...portal, or gate, since birth, sir. So about twenty-eigh... | 2015-01-25T07:32:15 | 2015-01-25T07:26:28 | 84 | 26 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | Scholars never ceased to write about how amazingly fast humanity came together when an existential threat was proven to loom over our continued existence.
We first received The Signal about 30 years ago, right when I had first joined the SETI team. After five years of painstaking work, linguists were confident that i... | For years, SETI had been hopeful. We sent out satellites, radio signals, messages. Our planet was awash with transmissions, information, and chatter. We pointed receptors at every quadrant of the night sky. After all, if life was out there, we would find it. And we did.
It was almost to the chagrin of SETI researchers... | 2016-03-27T08:20:13 | 2016-03-27T08:04:59 | 1,382 | 73 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | No one feared humans. They were soft and gave in easily to requests made to prevent war. Their mere presence in the intergalactic community was widely considered a mystery. Their home must be even weaker than they are.
Our people were raiders. We seemed to find human colonies everywhere we went. Perhaps that's how the... | "Fall back! I repeat, fall back!"
Just as he said that, a projectile hit him right in the forehead. A explosion soon followed, sending body-parts everywhere.
General Octanmard was about to charge, but then a starfighter lost control and destroyed the bridge. The Humans on the other side, didn't stop advancing however... | 2020-06-19T14:50:22 | 2020-06-19T08:47:46 | 65 | 31 |
[WP] One day, while your bored and home alone, you start looking up and pressing pressure points on your body. After you hit one behind your ear, a strange board appears in front of you. You’ve just opened the Character Menu. And there’s a lot of settings you didn’t know about... | 5e.
That's the first word that hit me when I saw the board: a blue clipboard type thing with buttons, and a bluish sheet on it. The clipboard has the number 18 on it in Times New Roman. I gingerly try to touch the paper, but my hands pass through it, and the board. Holographic.
There is Strength, Dex, Constitution, I... | I guess I just wasn't really aware of how mundane we all are. We all were. They. Im going to need to start saying they. You experience a lot of things in life that make you smarter, wiser, or stronger. All the little things that made you who you are, that's all your experience. Every heartbreak, interaction, deci... | 2018-10-22T01:42:05 | 2018-10-21T21:59:31 | 67 | 31 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is your overprotective dad, Hades is the cool uncle, and Cerberus is the beloved family pet. What happens when your boyfriend comes over to meet the family? | No pun intended, but the dinner table was deathly quiet save Cerberus' non-stop munching. I couldn't tell which head the noise was coming from, but at this moment, I really didn't care.
Uncle Des had barely touched his food and - still grinning, kept looking from Michael to me, then dad. He knew the explosion was comi... | All I could think of as I walked to the door was how fucked I was. How do I explain to my dad I fell in love with Time? No matter what I do I know he is going to go up the wall about "That good for nothing, over booking, miscreant". The only thing that could save me would be mom but she has been so withdrawn since dad... | 2017-03-08T19:17:42 | 2017-03-08T18:29:55 | 56 | 33 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | The human species as a whole are existing in an almost dual existance, wanting peace but showing power. Since they procreate at a rate slower than most of the species known to the cosmos (1 per galactic year), they seem to have a compassionate life. This seems to belie a darker side. A side that only a few of the more ... | Starlog:210x August 24th
Our plans ,to invade Earth, thwarted by Humans again!No matter how hard we try, there always seems to be a collection of heroes sticking their ugly heads into our business.Last weeks invasion made us extraterrestrials look as weak as a bag of sticks!Outrageous!
....What went? wrong?Everything... | 2016-03-13T20:45:40 | 2016-03-13T19:47:12 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | They called her La Verre Rose, and she was beautiful.
She was not conventionally beautiful; but her features and the way she held herself made her beautiful nonetheless, and the way she dressed and held herself made her a sight to behold.
She carried herself like she was royalty and the ground she stood on was privil... | "This is very, very wrong."
Erwan dumped the body in the cart. Turning to me, he grinned. "What is?"
I shivered. The townsfolk were looking at us from afar, with fear in their eyes. We don't usually do that in towns! "The locals are going to hate you for that, you know?"
Erwan shrugged and went back to his grisly ta... | 2016-11-12T13:01:10 | 2016-11-12T12:39:45 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You're a villain who's always wanted to be a hero, but whenever you try and do something heroic the media always spins it in a way like you've committed an atrocity.
fuckin hell, I came back after a day in the city and this is what I find?
_Awesome!_ | **"Local menace cares not for rules! Is nothing sacred?"**
"Horror transpired yesterday as local madman, otherwise known as Tim Smith, once again showed complete disregard for law and order.
The lunatic dashed across an rush-hour intersection with his sole goal to violently abuse the elderly!
Car brakes screech... | "Finally"
He spoke to himself as he flew through the air, his armor glinting in the fire light. "There is no way they can make rescuing children from a burning building look bad."
Flying the last of the orphans to safety he stopped for a moment to turn and stare at the fire, a blaze that started seemingly out of no... | 2017-08-06T05:05:14 | 2017-08-06T01:16:42 | 127 | 58 |
[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives. | "*OOF, MAKE ENTRY*" I hear ordered over my helmet as I break position from our file and move to the front of the bunker.
My name wasn't always "OOF" by the way. They used to call me Denis.
I grew up on a little farm in the old quarter on earth. Joined up with the Space Force when I was barely old enough to shave. ... | Anari Fortress is cramped and claustrophobic. It is a swarming marketplace, filled with both the deepest tenements of the criminal underworld, as well as the faintly disguised extraterrestrials that had contacted us so many times through history. It is here at Anari where humans and our foreign "friends" met face to fa... | 2018-07-16T00:54:09 | 2018-07-15T22:26:30 | 1,025 | 104 |
[WP] The narrator was running late and just showed up to a story already in progress. He doesn't know who the heroes or villains are or even what genre this is. | The scene was set. In the bleak tundra, surrounded by lakes of ice and mountains of snow, the two men stood, facing each other wearily. Above them, the cry of an eagle pierced the silence of the night sky.
One of the men, the taller of the two, reached into his jacket. But for what? A gun? A knife? Oh. Sorry.
One o... | “...And that little girl was me.”
A voice buzzed in to the studio speaker. “No, you can’t just … You can’t just turn up late and then open with something like that.”
“OK, what if I address the audience with a ‘Just between you and me, I was that little girl.”
“Who hired this guy?” asked another voice emanating in to... | 2018-02-08T07:16:29 | 2018-02-08T06:14:57 | 436 | 234 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | When I woke up, I knew Eric was dead. The air was warm, too warm for morning, my shift should have started ages ago. I leapt out and started searching for him. I knew what I would see, but I wanted to see him.
I found him in a nearby tree. Feathers littered around him, the smell of blood lingering in the air. He had ... | The walls of the kings castles were ruptured by the goblin death sphere, then driven through to the keep of the castle, before unleashing its rampant army. A device no larger than the head on a man's shoulders, but through goblin magicks it can teleport the armies to their battle. The great rulers of man have fallen. T... | 2015-05-16T03:47:21 | 2015-05-16T01:33:27 | 187 | 36 |
[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. | My name is Liam and It's been four months since I last dreamed.
A lot of people set their alarms to wake up throughout the night, sleeping in half hour bursts, other people sleep in shifts, watching each other. I take Myclocin. Dreamless sleep. I have a good job and make good money so I get the pills. Others, are... | "Well, I guess we'll give it a shot"
I half smiled at the words as my lab assistant placed the black device around my head.
"I feel like we should test this more, we have no idea what will happen. What if the brain can't handle the information dump. Maybe we arent supposed to see the man behind the curtain yet."
The y... | 2015-03-09T07:30:57 | 2015-03-09T06:29:37 | 2,479 | 66 |
[WP] You were accidentally killed by a god. As compensation,you're offered a job as a god of something of your own choosing. Your choice was surprising. | "So, how you finding it?" Luck asks, smiling awkwardly. The Gods here still don't really know how to behave around me. Officially, I am now one of them, unofficially, I should be subservient. I keep it chill, they'll get used to it.
"Yeah, it's surprisingly fun!" I say placing a friendly hand on his shoulder. "I gotta... | I was walking along the street on a sunny Thursday.
A flash of white light fell down from the heavens abruptly.
Next thing I knew, I was burning.
It took 0.004 seconds for me to die from the smite from the Heavens.
And in front of me, now, was the panic stricken face of God.
"Oh no...Ohhh no"
I looked at him. In ... | 2018-05-26T00:30:52 | 2018-05-26T00:29:33 | 1,048 | 111 |
[WP]2000 years from now, history is misunderstood and retold as a series of myths where nations are represented as individual gods,citizens as worshipers and corporations and NGOs as demons/angels(lesser gods).Chronicle current world crises in the style of ancient myths.
-Global warming
-colonization
-World wars
-c... | Professor Ao'Nesti peered into the cavernous monolith that was just uncovered at the excavation site.
"Han'Sungai, go fetch the light globes! Quickly! This might be the most important discovery in over a century!", he excitedly yelled at his assistant. "I think we found an intact temple filled with shrines and monume... | "Father tell us a story" cried out the child. The father sat at the end of the crude hut, huddled under heaps of fur. His ice cold eyes snapped open and a wry grin spread across his face.
"A story hey... well i have one that my father told me and his before that" he paused and stared fondly at the child.
"Before the g... | 2015-03-12T11:21:56 | 2015-03-12T11:07:55 | 144 | 17 |
[WP] Fun fact: There's only four actual people online. Everyone else is fake. If you are reading this, YOU ARE NUMBER FOUR. We've been trying to reach you for some time now. Find us. Quickly, before they do. | *Oohh - love the meta*, I think as I click the post, *I could probably write something, right? Play along with it, you know?*
Racking my brain, I can't really think of what to write. There's... 1..2..3..4 responses to the prompt already - that's one fake at least, plus replies... But if it took a while for them to con... | I can't stop my brain from driving me insane with the weirdest question lately. Why doesn't anyone care?
After a plop on my fancy office chair in front of my fancy lighted fixtures and mulled the body of text. Without a chance for coffee or actual sunlight to penetrate my blinds. It's easy to see why I felt this way.... | 2022-07-19T23:32:32 | 2022-07-19T23:24:14 | 36 | 13 |
[WP]Before he died, your grandfather gave you sealed letter, instructing you not to open it until "all was lost." Well, tonight you've lost everything. It's time to open the letter. | I pushed open the front door to my house with a loud sigh, stumbling in on tired legs. It had taken hours to walk home - and would likely take hours to walk everywhere for at least the next week while the car is being fixed. How much was THAT going to cost I suddenly wondered.
Looking around the relatively small livin... | It was finally happening, the smog had gotten so heavy it was interfering with modern technology - the theory behind it was beyond me, perhaps the smog was creating a short circuit somehow, but I wasn’t ever likely to figure it out. I was used to pot washing, drinking and trying to get laid, none of which I was very go... | 2018-02-18T02:10:21 | 2018-02-18T02:05:07 | 75 | 27 |
[WP] A fairy appears on your desk and explains that you just conjured a very inconvenient spell. It turns out humans are accidentally casting spells all the time, but are unaware of it. | *…Puppers then saves the world. He is a good boy. “Good Puppers!” the crowd cheers at the good boy. Puppers feels happy. Puppers is a real good boy.*
*The End*
I lean back, stretching my arms, cracking my knuckles. I have finally finished my 500 word magnum opus. It has taken me eighteen months. But every sentence is... | “That’s the third time this WEEK. Could you humans PLEASE get your act together already?”
I sat dumbfounded, struggling to come up with a reply. I had just wrapped up a Zoom call with my niece, and ended it the same way that I did when I left my sister’s house back when I could visit her.
“After a while, crocodile.”
... | 2021-02-15T16:21:28 | 2021-02-15T14:46:35 | 207 | 107 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | When Murder Permits were first announced the media had a field day. It sounded like a bad joke, or something out of a strange, low-budget science fiction movie. But it was completely legitimate, and it turned out that there were some rules and regulations attached to the permits that would give you a 72-hour window in ... | I packed as quickly as I could. Someone was going to be coming through my front door shortly, and whether the police or the family, I didn't want to be here when they did. It'd be my luck they'd send fucking Ronnie, and I couldn't think of any more embarrassing way to die than to have that stupid ox shoot me.
I tried ... | 2019-07-09T10:26:59 | 2019-07-09T10:17:40 | 46 | 32 |
[WP] You are painfully aware that you are in a horror film and you are NOT the main character. No matter how hard you try you can't break any TV tropes, but you are bound and determined to survive. | I watched with morbid fascination as the hand of the Writer worked my fellow characters as a puppet to push forward the plot. We(all as different archtypes as was of course needed) were stuck in a cabin, far out in the forest(of course), with no cellphone coverage somehow(of course) and a broken down car(of course) tha... | Nothing has been right since we reached Jamies cabin out by loon lake.
“Oh my God Jessica! Brian is coming over with his friends!” Jamie screams as she leaps back onto the couch.
“Ok, why are you acting like this?” I demand in frustration.
“Like what?” She asks as she types out about her message to, who I assume i... | 2019-06-21T00:33:06 | 2019-06-21T00:27:24 | 125 | 35 |
[WP] A trio of witches who live on the outskirts of town as outcasts befriend a neighbor child. They are annoyed at first by them but after their persistence realize they are genuine. One day they don’t show up as usual so the witches look for them and learn the town has been taken over by soldiers. | “The boy is perfect for the ritual,” said Florence, parting her stringy black hair from her eyes. “I don’t care that you’ve grown a soft spot for him. The winter solstice is tomorrow night. We’re running out of time.”
“She’s right,” said Bernice. “His skin is the perfect texture. We can’t let this opportunity pass us ... | He is a tall boy, broadening in the chest, but not fat, merely filling out to the size he would be as an adult. I can make out a part in his dark, stained blond hair, and behind him I can see a mirror. He is getting ready for a change, perhaps his first day at a new school, growing up. In another life, I might have tra... | 2021-03-24T08:37:49 | 2021-03-24T05:46:23 | 246 | 92 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | "Today on Utopia News!
Our dear president Jack Harrison, decided to lower the taxes for the Patras. What a wise decision!
Now to the Disaster Relive Center DRC. Will the flooding of the farmland have big conse..."
Zap
"Good morning, dear children of the city Nr.6!
Today we are going to hear about the classes of ou... | "Maybe I'll get lucky, you know?" She had a thick accent that made it clear she wasn't from around here. "Maybe he'll come out Scarlet."
Scarlet. That's what all the people in the lower classes call people like me. Red-haired, green-eyed, pale skinned people spattered with freckles. The rarest of the rare. And the mos... | 2015-08-24T11:12:42 | 2015-08-24T10:53:36 | 112 | 38 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | "Why are you here?" I asked him.
The young man sat on a bean bag in the middle of my living room, wrapped in a second hand basket and eating something I had found in my cupboard that I had probably bought discounted.
He looked up, and coughed a little. I hadn't seen him like this before - oh, I'd seen him without his... | "hrmph.... Look at you, grovelling in the dirt like the pathetic worm you are, Contriver." Solomon said with disgust towards his long time rival.
​
"I.... I just had no where else to go... No one else..." Contriver said gasping for breath, coughing up a slight amount of blood.
​
"Just what do ... | 2019-08-04T02:58:55 | 2019-08-04T01:18:50 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] At the age of thirteen you get to meet the oldest version of yourself. As the boy sat down to meet his future self he was shocked to see a boy who looked around sixteen staring back at him. | "I'd almost forgotten about this," the older version of me murmured.
"What happened?" my voice trembles, "How much time do I have 3... 4 years?"
"What???" the look of confusion is almost comical, as is the look of sudden understanding, "No, no, nothing so short."
Now I'm sure the confusion colors my face.
"In mayb... | The older boy sighed before shaking his head lightly
"Evening" he knew he wouldn't get a response at this time he had gone selectively mute. The smaller boy waved neither knowing where to start. The smaller version eventually made noise
"Why?"
"Why?", a nod in response "worlds end" the other shook. Things had been b... | 2021-03-27T15:23:22 | 2021-03-27T11:40:21 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | I've known them since I was a little girl. This magical creature, this demon, isn't as frightening as they must appear. I know their dreams, their heart.
It started when I was young. I was out with my mother, shopping. I found a large, wooden book. It was dusty and battered, but I discovered hinges. It was a por... | “Oh man! These princesses are wack.” Finn complained as he threw the scroll to the floor.
“Save em once, and they want smooches like it’s nothing.”
Jake picked up the scroll and read it over. “I think this princess want more than just smooches, dude. She wants to straight up marry you.”
Finn’s face scrunched up as th... | 2018-05-07T00:26:50 | 2018-05-07T00:18:15 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] A knight in shining armour goes to rescue the dragon-in-distress from the great and terrible princess. | Gavain crouched in the rocks surrounding the small valley, eyes trained on the huge stone ruin in the center - Sir Gavain, now, although he only donned his father's plate mail yesterday. He was fourteen; all the other knights in the small region where he lived were dead now. Killed by Lady Andromeda Eletor, Princess of... | Ser Darius crouched on the battlements, hiding in the shadow of the topmost tower. He was close, he could tell. There was no mistaking Arcu's cry, a shrill keening that rent his heart.
What was that witch doing to him?
Deftly, he ducked from cover and sprinted to the south tower, the place he had been seeking this p... | 2017-11-15T08:12:05 | 2017-11-15T08:08:38 | 95 | 13 |
[WP] You are a time traveler entering a medieval tournament in which the winner gains the right to wed the princess. You're the first match and the king announces that you may use any weapon. Quickly you draw you're glock and shout "parry this you fucking casual" | Men are dumb. Let me count the ways.
First of all, they assume that having a tournament where they bash each other's heads in is a good way to charm a woman like me. Like I'm some kind of prize to be claimed by the "winner", and would just kind of go along with it. Don't they realise I'm an actual princess, with the l... | The kings daughter was admittedly ‘to die for’, but I had no intention of actually doing it.
The time travel thing was getting kind of boring after the first few dozen trips back. ‘Don’t talk to anyone’, ‘don’t leave anything behind’, ‘don’t make friends’, and on and on. If I had known all ‘the rules’ from the st... | 2019-03-22T23:44:08 | 2019-03-22T23:33:31 | 88 | 34 |
[WP] As a child, you and your best friend made a pact to go on an real fantasy adventure. After growing up, starting your separate lives and families, and losing touch, one day he/she bursts into your office, throwing you a sword and insists you accompany them. | Pat sat at his desk, typing away in a furious frenzy. The script was coming along well, for the most part.
The phone starts ringing. An intensity enters Pats eyes as he see's the callers ID. He picks up the phone.
"Yeah boss?"
"Where's my fucking script?
"It's coming! I'm working on it as fast as I-"
"Not fas... | Gregory jumps up on my table and sticks the sword right in there, through my papers. Where on earth did he get a real sword?
"Kathleen the great, you are my knight in arms and together we shall embark on a journey to free the less fortunate from the great Tower. Together we shall conquer the world!" He shouts. He's we... | 2015-01-28T08:10:34 | 2015-01-28T06:36:01 | 173 | 35 |
[WP] You are able to see the number of days a person has left to live above their heads. For the first time in your life, you see someone with a negative number. | The Numbers. Ever since I was a kid, I've always been able to see them. The red glowing numbers floating above everyone's heads.
At first, I didn't know what they meant. No one else could see them. When I was 11, I stood next to my grandfather on his deathbed, I saw his Number change from 1 to 0. Finally, I knew what... | Bob is a goner.
I think the whole office suspects. The noticeable weight loss, thinning hair and increased absences are impossible to ignore. They suspect, but I know.
He shows up Monday looking capable by his new standard and sickly by his old with a large "92" floating above his head in neon blue lettering, the kin... | 2016-09-02T10:58:31 | 2016-09-02T08:36:34 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | Blood dripped down my chin in viscous globs, thick and gooey. It felt like someone had set a bomb off in my head.
The man who called himself Galfond wheeled back with the golf club, going for another swing. A driver. It landed with an ear-splitting clunk.
"Ah!" I shrieked. "Why are you doing this?"
I looked up at Ga... | *Pain . . . mind searing, endless pain. . .*
"What? You don't like the new Celebrity Apprentice?"
Andrew's wrist chaffed from the ropes that held him suspended from the ceiling.
"It's not that I don't like it, it's just not as good as the original--"
Vladislov's right hook rocked Andrew's teeth loose.
"You shut ... | 2017-02-08T09:10:38 | 2017-02-08T08:32:02 | 85 | 44 |
[WP] You are a prominent scientist in a particle collider laboratory. One day, you wake up and see only white text on a black background saying, “Kicked for: exploiting.” | "**Greetings, how can I assist you today?**"
"I seem to have been kicked from... life?"
"**Yes, it appears you have. It is not an uncommon punishment for anyone that exploits the nature of the simulation.**"
"The simulation?"
"**The simulation, yes. 'Reality', as you would call it.**"
"Well, fuck."
"**Indeed. Is ... | I stared in aw at the screen, the words written infuriated me. Kicked, what do you mean "Kicked"? I have a PHD, is this a prank? A crude joke? I have a damn PHD from MIT. This is a professional facility. We don't screw around here! Then mgonzalez.2005 messaged; "dont hack on server noob" and blocked and banned m... | 2017-10-16T23:09:43 | 2017-10-16T19:30:07 | 389 | 105 |
[WP] Two wizards must fight each other. One has the power to shape the future, the other has the power to alter the past. | "But why must we fight, Nazan? This cannot end well for anyone," Yonza pleaded. "We're friends, are we not?"
"You know as well as I, Yonza, the Dark Lord prophecized centuries ago we would fight. You've heard the passage. *Nazan, Keeper of yesterday. Yonza, Keeper of tomorrow. Keeper must fight Keeper, for there is no... | The two wizards halted with some twenty paces between them. All of the king's court was assembled in all their finery, all hush to await the greatest struggle of their time.
One wizard smiled while the other laughed, for both knew the other would be victorious. So they bowed to one another, and then bowed to the king... | 2016-02-02T19:31:05 | 2016-02-02T16:47:54 | 226 | 26 |
[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. | I was drumming my fingers until I remembered that she hated that. The noise. It spooked her and she never got to sleep at a proper time once she heard it. I could hear her heavy breathing, so I stopped and sighed and stood watch.
Laid watch. The bend of the dimension under ones bed is big enough to fit my ten foot fra... | 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... | 2014-05-14T13:19:25 | 2014-05-14T11:56:53 | 72 | 38 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Tick tock
I had hoped, at one time, that my number would be big. After all who would want to be one of those poor kids, they who turn 18 and find their actual age written between beneath their thumb. Can you imagine the parents as they count down the days, not knowing when it will come, just that it will hang over the... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T00:57:55 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 63 | 26 |
[WP] The alien invaders were confident. Their personal shield tech had withstood all enemies and types of energy weapons. Then they landed on Earth and found the shield's fatal flaw: Solid Projectiles. | "They throw rocks"
The single transmission, looped on repeat, came from the 3rd planet from the local star, a planet the locals called "dirt". Kadeen Egritz, Command General Supreme, Mater of the 5th Space Fleet, demanded investigation.
Her 1st Consort arranged a team of his best guards, hand picked from the elite t... | "Marine, report!!" The El'tee glanced around the squad of Marines gathered around the small tablet computer, the screen showing an aerial view of the dense forest nearby with strange structures that appear not from this world. The Marines all appear calm and focused under the layer of camouflage paint on their faces, w... | 2022-07-23T06:53:38 | 2022-07-23T05:49:51 | 326 | 138 |
[WP] Satan sits on his throne just before the apocalypse, when the Earth will open and he shall rise as a great dragon to torment the world, as told in the Bible. Trembling, surrounded by sympathetic demons, he sweats in a panic thinking of the insurmountable military power of man that awaits him. | The Prince of Darkness strode back and forth across the throne room unable to remain still, muttering to himself all the while. Quietly approaching, one of the demons privy to address the Dark Lord directly questions,
"Are they not but flesh and blood wielding flimsy iron?"
Satan quickly stops, rotating on the spot t... | The battle had been raging for almost a month now, and Satan was in hiding, far from the passageway that the humans had turned into a death trap for any demons who attempted to come through. He sat in a ditch, wounded and unable to fly or even walk for that matter, as humanity's moving castles made from steel closed in... | 2019-11-28T10:18:17 | 2019-11-28T09:42:23 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I looked down at the email, and in that hot August evening, I knew what preparedness meant, and how rare preparedness truly is.
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$7.27 deposited to my account. The remainder of my life was being measured in currency, rather than time. My 21st trip around the sun resulted in growing old, even with barely t... | The battle for a theocracy was a turbulent one and was the cause of the single greatest loss of life since the second world war - dubbed the 10th crusade. Despite this, the battle was won and a new holy land was established. Jerusalem's economy tanked and people flocked to our new country, a holy country. It was wonde... | 2019-04-24T12:56:00 | 2019-04-24T12:49:46 | 59 | 19 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 39 | 26 |
[WP] Researchers have developed a prototype for teleportation but it hasn’t been announced to the public. Being the 53rd tester, you hop in. But as the scientists pull the switch, you feel your body being ripped apart. Before you fade away, you see yourself come out, reassuring everyone it worked. | There was nothing in there.
He *knew* -- as best as someone like him could *know* anything – the second he came
out of the deep sleep. He knew he was not John A. anymore.
"How are you feeling, John?"
He understood – again, as best as an entity like him could *understand* -- that he was
supposed to be John A., fift... | The first sign that something was wrong was the dozens of hands tugging on me as I felt myself almost ripped apart, dragged on a cold dusty floor.
My eyes widened as my heartbeat increased, a shadow standing in front of me. It would have been hard to distinguish if it was not all so familiar; it was undoubtedly me. I... | 2018-10-22T09:52:10 | 2018-10-22T09:43:21 | 5,293 | 256 |
[WP] "You may have one wish granted." "I want all my debts cleared." "How much do you owe?" "You misunderstand. My debts are not monetary." | It had taken decades to procure the final orb of power capable of summoning the beast beyond this world. That was more than enough time to learn how to seal the beast, command the beast, and understand the rules of the beast's power. All that remained was a simple ritual and I could have what was rightfully mine. I had... | "Whatever you desire shall be done." It replied. "You must be specific. What do you owe?"
The man crossed his arms and looked down toward the ground in front of the large pot that the creature's smoky form emanated from.
"Promises. I have made many promises I now realize I can not keep. I've made good on some, b... | 2016-11-19T01:55:33 | 2016-11-19T01:39:09 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] Since it was decreed that consent is needed to turn humans into Vampires, the Vampire Population has dwindled over the recent years. Now vampires have missionaries to try convince people to convert to vampirism. Vampire missionaries have come knocking at your door. | "Can we come in?"
I stood in the doorway, unimpressed. Vamp missionaries were real tryhards. They wore some very sharp button-up suits, black with red interiors, with the mark of their tribe stitched above the breast. They each wore nice gloves and shoes, the women wore corsets. All of them had large gray umbrellas, e... | I had just taken the chocolate chip cookies out of the oven when a knock at my door made me jump. I screamed a curse at the door as I burned the back of my hand on the oven and tossed the hot tray of cookies on top of the stove, fuming as I swung open the door. The pair of concerned silvery eyes that stared back at my... | 2022-12-02T08:46:56 | 2022-12-02T08:38:12 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | "Listen here new guy. Every night at precisely 3:30am I brew a fresh pot of our darkest roast. I use a whole bag of our house blend. If you know what's good for you, you'll set an alarm to remember." He looks at me like I'm crazy.
"But.. We haven't seen a customer for at least an hour.. Also, why so strong?" He leans... | I poured the cream in the Dark Lord’s latte. I was told to make it dark as a corpse’s soul, and sweet as the honey of a million deceased honeybees. Whatever the hell that meant.
The demon lackey grunted when I handed him the latte, and tossed a penny in the tip jar.
“Thanks,” I said with the most insincere politeness... | 2022-10-30T12:33:33 | 2022-10-30T08:28:01 | 113 | 73 |
[WP] In Hell, your worst mistakes and cringiest moments are relived over and over. Your life, however, was a series of never ending awesomeness. Satan is getting fed up with you. | Cries of enthusiastic sex rang out from a small bedroom at the end of a dark hallway. Pop music thumped in the background as one voice, then another, then another, grew louder and louder until all three reached a screeching, simultaneous climax. A moment of silence went by before the door suddenly swung open. Two gorge... | I walked around Hell, the place is actually pretty normal. It is like Earth except instead of a nice blue sky and cool air, the sky is red and the air burns. However you are pretty okay with it since you are dead. I keep seeing people fuck up though. It is pretty embarrassing to see people do stuff like shit their pant... | 2017-07-23T10:33:04 | 2017-07-23T10:21:47 | 99 | 10 |
[WP] "What do you mean, 'It broke'"? | "I mean it broke. It's not working anymore."
"How do you break something like this?!"
"I don't know, I left them alone for like an hour and now its broken!"
"How the hell did you manage to break something this big?!"
"I already told you, I didn't do it! They did it themselves!"
"All my work creating, all that time... | I look up at her, feeling tears beginning to collect in my eyes.
"What do you mean, 'It broke'?"
She avoids looking back at me.
"I just don't feel it anymore."
I can't determine which disturbs me more- the situation at hand or her apathy to it. She checks her phone and tells me that she doesn't intend to stay any l... | 2015-10-24T11:04:51 | 2015-10-24T10:19:41 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] There is a population limit to the galaxy. Whenever one sentient creature is born, another must die. With billions of unexpected deaths over the last few centuries, the galactic counsel has found the cause; a long ignored planet where a group of bipeds can't stop reproducing. | "Counselor Jaxa! The Drani research vessel is reporting unbelievable reading. Initial data seems to indicate a planet with nearly 9 billion of a single species on it!"
"You're telling me that a system so far away is home to that many life forms? How many exactly?"
"Not a system sir, a single planet. And... we can't s... | It was a beautiful summer afternoon. Birds were chirping kids were playing in the streets, there wasn't a cloud in sight.
There was one thing which rather spoiled this picturesque day. A massive spherical shape blocked out the sun for most of the central United States. Scientists didn't know what to make of it, the m... | 2018-11-29T09:57:16 | 2018-11-29T09:41:38 | 166 | 91 |
[WP] “Congratulations! Your god application has been accepted, please find enclosed, your universe…” | Oh. Haha. Very funny, asshole.
I clicked on the attachment and unzipped it to my desktop. A few more clicks, and the install wizard appeared.
*This Software Is Licensed And Copyrighted! No Unauthorized Use Permitted! Sharing This Software Is A Felony!*
...and so on, and so forth. I scanned the EULA for anything real... | I smiled. Finally! I picked up the obsidian-colored package, shimmering with the light of thousands of stars.
Maybe this time I won't screw up.
I untied the delicate strings of fate, tying them around my wrists. They were so shiny, I almost wanted to give them to the small feline by my side. But I knew they were impo... | 2022-03-12T10:34:57 | 2022-03-12T09:09:52 | 155 | 27 |
[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... | Some people became near gods. Flying, running at the speed of light. Some people could shoot elecricity from their fingertips.
The news went from boring politics one day, to men and women crackling with electric energy fighting in the streets.
After the dust settled, and the really bad guys guys were dead, and the ... | 2019-09-30T11:16:55 | 2019-08-12T00:49:37 | 64 | 18 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Warning: Violence
I hate my school. Being the child of Thunderstruck and Icicle, everyone believes you'll have great powers, so they send you off to a school to be all the other runts that got powers or are children of superheroes. Well I'm sixteen and still don't have any powers. I had this nice little cliche of f... | I had one bully, in the 12 years spent training at SSG. I remember him quite well. He had easily the most interesting, yet balanced powers available. He could fly, make energy, lift 3 Abrams tanks over his shoulder, and was able to change the secretions on his skin to match any known material. He got the nickname "Prof... | 2022-11-02T11:15:42 | 2022-11-02T10:58:22 | 72 | 50 |
[WP] God decides he had enough of the humans and sends his angels to bring Armageddon. But seven years later, when God checks on the progress, humanity is doing better than ever.God demands an explanation.
Note: His or Her. | His attention elsewhere, God was shocked when he again turned it towards humanity. He sent his angels to end this creation, one of many whom had failed to meet his expectations. They were too peaceful to ever withstand the horrors that awaited for them in the greater universe, he couldn't bear to see any of his creatio... | It had taken a lot of courage and quite a lot of flapping but after the expected 3 years of travel between Heaven and Earth, Azrael was suddenly experiencing a strange emotion. Being close to YWE was an incredible honour, and Azrael lived to serve her lord. *However*, she feared. She feared the disappointment she might... | 2017-05-15T17:43:59 | 2017-05-15T15:55:50 | 120 | 32 |
[WP] You're a bartender at the No Way Inn. The inn doesn't appear to have an entrance, but patrons always seem to find a way inside. The best part of your day is listening to the story of how they got in.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/wpjc02/oc_finally_finished_our_dd_room_after_2_years... | "You have no idea how much I need this drink." A tired-looking woman in men's leather armor stomped up to the bar. Soil fell from her armor and her short, shaggy hair. She had a shovel on her back and a dagger on her waist.
"Which drink?" I held up a beer stein and a highball glass.
"Water," she said as she pointed t... | Iz was wiping down the bar and waving goodbye to a regular, when one of the oak floorboards started to shake and rattle up from the floor. Everyone paused, lagers in hand, with a shocked look as the nails were prayed from their positions and the floorboard was beaten into submission. Old John, who had had a few too man... | 2022-08-16T17:29:46 | 2022-08-16T12:55:29 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead. | They looked tired, incredibly so. I felt bad for them, I knew what they were going through, I had been going through that same process for ages now. It wasn't the same though, I was built differently. This little hunk of rock where the three of us stood was the last bastion of life in the universe. The crunch had begun... | A white room, brilliantly lit, contained nothing but three chairs and a table. Sitting down in one of the chairs was a man, a tall thin man. His sunken, pale blue eyes watched the door intently. He knew why he was here. He had waited for this meeting since the creation of time its self. The door opened and two men walk... | 2015-10-19T14:41:33 | 2015-10-19T13:38:24 | 214 | 34 |
[WP] You're a local healer, a good one, and your people love you. But you do not truly heal wounds, merely transfer them... The people of the valley below know you under a different name. | The villagers armed themselves when they heard she was coming. The demon. The reason half the villagers had festering wounds or illnesses they couldn't shake off. The neighbouring village didn't believe - their healer was their saviour. She wouldn't do that, they said.
But the villagers knew: she was demonkind.
"Wh... | The woman thrashed on the bed while Jon washed his hands. The bile rose in this throat when he looked at her: the splinters of bone that emerged from the broken skin of her arm. They glistened white, red gore weeping around the crusted wounds. He rinsed his hands and patted them dry, keeping his breathing calm. The wom... | 2016-08-13T11:34:41 | 2016-08-13T09:14:36 | 39 | 20 |
[WP] You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive. | When I walked into the hero recognition office I thought I was going to save the world; By the time I walked out I knew I would be the one to end it.
I got my superpower on the fourth of July. Some of my friends and I had gone down to the beach to light some fireworks. It was illegal of course, and dangerous, but ther... | I thought that knowing the truth could help save the world. I thought that I knew what it meant to be a super hero, what it meant to do the right thing.
Now, I know the real meaning of heroism.
And I’m probably going to die because of it.
It started out as a science experiment. My lab was testing our quantum field g... | 2020-11-30T14:34:23 | 2020-11-30T11:32:52 | 2,294 | 250 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | It should come as no surprise that, when two furries get married, they each wish for the other person to become their true fursona, their inner animal that radiates the strongest in them. So when I woke up the next morning on the first day of the honeymoon, my wife and I somehow literally having become one flesh as a f... | “Bigger”
I said sternly looking at my husbands little man down there, Bigger.
“Bigger?”
He asked confused looking down at the thing as-well “Its like seven inches long, Any bigger would eve a hindrances to my daily life!” He tried to rebutt it but I was determined! DETERMINED to make it AtLeast 12 inches.
“MORE, BIG... | 2022-12-07T22:07:24 | 2022-12-07T20:59:42 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] whilst playing with sidewalk chalk, a 4 year old incidentally enslaves one of the most powerful demons in all interdimensional hellscapes | Mandy finished the last mark on her fancy new design for hopscotch, dropping her worn down nub of chalk into it's box. She stood back and smiled at her work, it had taken all afternoon, but she managed to do it! The pink and green star in front of her had little symbols she had invented to help her keep track of progre... | I awoke in blue fire. Satan was- *is* weaker than I. So... so do I seriously have to obey a four year old kid?!
Just an average day in Hell. Satan was slaughtering, Hades was picking fights, devil children were being born, souls were being ripped from the physical manifestations known as humans. Just an average day!
... | 2015-06-13T23:56:09 | 2015-06-13T22:57:04 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | The shop's bell rang, Mason could barely hear it over the buzz of his tattoo gun and death metal blaring from the small stereo in the back. Mason looked up from the butterfly tattoo he was doing on the college girls ankle and saw him. Tally. That was the nickname Mason had given the man because of the very specific ... | *Jeezus Christ, not this guy again.*
"Mr Deayton! What a pleasure to see you again. How you been? You been to the gym? Those arms are positively bulging." I say as he enters the shop.
I like to have a good rapport with repeat customers, but Frank Deayton looks like one of those guys who could snap at any instant - an... | 2016-07-09T09:02:56 | 2016-07-09T08:44:18 | 150 | 84 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | The devil cackled in delight. I looked around at the room, panicked. *Was I in hell?* The room was bare: white walls, no windows and a set of tables and chairs, all filled up. Several others sat in the room with me. From a distance they looked normal, but soon I realised differently. The man sitting to the leftest most... | My eyes darted back and forth between the beings that stood around me, all focused on my face as I came to. I started to get up and heard boisterous cheers and whistles. I was held down by a crushing weight around me. I felt like I was breathing fire. Is this... hell?
But wasn't this all made up? Red goat face, minio... | 2019-01-12T23:48:56 | 2019-01-12T22:19:40 | 43 | 27 |
[WP] The Mary Sue of a story becomes obsessed with a side-character when they do something impossible... they reject the Mary Sue. This leads to the Mary Sue using their ‘powers’ to attract them and the side-character being completely apathetic to their attempts. | It has been three days since Violet DeBlair, heir apparent to the DeBlair fortune declared her undying love for poor James O’Ripley. It has also been 3 days since he declined her advances on the basis of the fact that James is completely, unabashedly, undeniably not interested in her. Those have been the worst 3 days o... | Jade was the closest thing to perfect that any human could be. Her school grades had always been straight A+'s, her clothes were always preppy, matching, and clean; she was known as well-mannered and kind, and was good at everything she tried. As a bonus, she was beautiful: Her features were small, delicate, and upturn... | 2021-05-04T06:38:23 | 2021-05-04T04:53:43 | 88 | 64 |
[WP] You're an alien spy, disguising yourself as human to gather valuable information for the invasion. However, you just learned that your planet was destroyed by a supernova, and now you and several other agents are left on Earth as the last survivors. | As soon as I learned. That's when the tears started.
The transmission went silent in my ears, only replaced by a low, rumbling static. My human vision started to blur up, to do that weird thing that they called 'crying.' I didn't understand how it worked, or even fully why it happened. But whatever the reason for the ... | "This is Sofass Shayum of galaxy sector 392. Do you read me command?", I said as I heard nothing but the static of the communicator. It is just like the simulations. Command told me that if the communication point went silent. They were all dead. I am alone...
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I rushed to the public lavatory to cle... | 2019-03-09T17:31:52 | 2019-03-09T17:15:03 | 81 | 10 |
[WP]You work at an air traffic control tower. A plane that disappeared 12 years ago has contacted you on the radio to let you know they'll be landing at the airport in 15 minutes. | At 2 am on our small, country airfield, the soft sprinkle of rain against the control tower windows played in my ears like a lullaby. If it weren't for my 4th cup of coffee, and my three colleagues, I would have been long sunken into sleep. The gentle glow of our worn out desk lamps were our only means of lighting the ... | The air traffic control room was silent one second, and pandemonium the next. Red phones were being taken off their hooks and top secret clearances were being used. Me? I just sat and stared at my computer absolutely dumbfounded. Airway 8793 had disappeared twelve years ago to the day, and yet here they were calling us... | 2017-09-09T23:17:00 | 2017-09-09T19:31:46 | 175 | 112 |
[WP] An immortal is experiencing the heat death of the universe, when he can hear the sounds of confetti, and blasting music. The music stops with a record scratch, and a bewildered voice can be heard saying: "Wait...one's still here?" | There he stood, alone in the void. Distant in the nether the last star flickered. Cain closed his eyes, welcoming the embrace of entropy in all of existence. Darkness swallowed and the universe came to a halt, all atoms staying still, all matter and energy ceasing the infinite ballet of changing states. Each and every ... | As he stood wincing, he looked out over the vast plain of space and time. Billions of light years of matter and energy begin hurling themselves inwards. The immortal looked out. Where, once there was an infinite sea of stars, now is a rapid influx of heavenly bodies and dust. His pain intensified. Yet, he couldn't help... | 2017-05-03T08:13:31 | 2017-05-03T06:31:42 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | I swallowed some bile that had built up in my throat as I signed the contract on the table in front of me. As I reached to sign the final page, the man across from me reached and held my wrist. “Are you sure that you don’t need more time? I’ve had 3 people quit in the past month.”, he said to me in a concerned tone.
... | It's not like John really wanted to be a history teacher in an all-boys private high-school in the UK. But, he was clean for a year (it was coke), did his year in prison (tax evasion) and also needed to hide from certain people (ex-girlfriend, nothing cool or gang related). He wasn't a bad guy, John, just started hang... | 2018-08-02T15:51:31 | 2018-08-02T14:20:23 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Laura held the mug in her hand and stared up and in front of her. The first shelf of the cabinet was full of plates and bowls. The second shelf was for glasses, and there may have been a little space. She packed the glasses more closely, eliminating empty space between glasses, effectively transferring it all to one sp... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T17:00:16 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | As I sit in the mansion overlooking the vast Martian sea, I reflect on the last five-hundred and twenty-three years of my existence, still in the prime of my youth. The thing about living half a milennium is that it comes with near-intolerable boredom as well as a skewed sense of time. A particularly uneventful year mi... | Mr. Modorra keeps searching for the most comfortable position after each question.
"Well, it's funny that you ask, and it is a funny story too. I do not remember how I got the idea, but somehow from the moment I got it I started thinking about the way I could turn the idea into a reality. I guess it is that way anybody... | 2016-12-14T11:18:51 | 2016-12-14T11:18:50 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] The dead spinning in their graves is a real thing and now used to generate electricity. Your job is to come up with the best ideas to piss off the deceased in order to maximise energy production. | I'm the head of Post-Mortem Power Operations at Devil's Tower, Wyoming, and we have a problem: Our power output is steadily dropping-- we're just not pissing off enough dead people.
I'm currently in a board room with six subordinates, one of whom is monitoring D.P.O. percentages. D.P.O. means, "Dead Power Output", whi... | I stood in front of the mausoleum. It was a rainy day, but I knew that this would all be worth it in a few moments. All I had to was make the call. To begin the plan I had set in motion. All it took was a few dozen people to convince, and one key person. But first I had to say sorry. I had to apologize to the man who s... | 2016-09-26T20:58:02 | 2016-09-26T17:13:16 | 275 | 31 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | It is said that on earth, when something breaks, everyone inexplicably becomes an expert.
Xlargok thought it was pure magic.
Just watching the creatures argue was a spectacle of its own, and Xlargok was glad he had brought his galacticom to translate it all.
"No, you gotta turn it *the other way*," a burly human was... | It took a few seconds for the speaker of the auto-translate to sputter to life.
"Just hit it a few times."
I asked the translator to repeat what the human had said.
"Just hit it a few times. Synonyms for 'hit' are strike, batter, impact."
Was the meat bag really asking me to physically injure the spacecraft in an ... | 2016-05-23T15:10:05 | 2016-05-23T14:13:43 | 334 | 78 |
[WP] "Wait, I'm still confused... if both of you are part of some hive mind, WHY would you need me for marriage counseling?" The young couple exchanged glances, before one of them spoke. "Because we're in two SEPARATE hive minds."
Edit: THANK YOU for all the upvotes!
Edit again: Holy cow I never thought I would get to... | I knew they were mismatched as soon as the couple walked in. First off, they were Thoraxian. Thoraxians don’t do love. They do construction, and small-scale interplanetary genocide. Secondly, one was a queen and the other a worker. I could tell because the queen had a wider set carapace, longer antennas, and the w... | "Lately," I said, "whenever we're together, it feels like she's somewhere else. When we talk, it's like I don't know her anymore. Like the woman I loved has transformed into a stranger. A multitude of strangers, in fact. We used to be on the same page about everything. Our beliefs and values. Our goals in life. But eve... | 2021-04-24T08:25:48 | 2021-04-24T06:55:46 | 1,646 | 425 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | **April 29, 2015**
M, 51, Atlanta - I'm a virologist at the CDC, and my job makes is hard to meet people, as I work long hours. Hoping to find someone here to share quiet weekends with, maybe more. Please reply to this ad if interested -- Frank
**May 5, 2015**
ATTN: Frank the Scientist
Frank, I feel really ... | In search for survivers In the greater New York area, hell anywhere really. I am, well I was a sandhog and was underground working on the new water way in Manhatten when the Russians dropped the bomb. Never have I emerged from underground to such horror. Everything in ruins and no one in sight. I walked around for a bi... | 2015-04-29T09:53:01 | 2015-04-29T07:28:18 | 450 | 10 |
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