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[WP] You've died but neither Heaven nor Hell let you in, so you start your own afterlifeworld with your own rules | **Dear Mr Beaumont, we regret to inform you that Hell is currently -**
*Bollocks*. I crushed the letter into a pulp and let it fall to the floor where it was swallowed up by the limbo void.
What now? I mean there was always purgatory but the place was quieter than limbo and the admin hadn't dropped in to decorate the... | *Man*, Satan was sure a snoot about letting me in. And God didn't want me around, either. I'm not entirely sure what was up with that, but that was all right. I could just build a place for the kind of people who didn't really need the concepts of Heaven and Hell to be decent people.
I still remember the first person w... | 2015-08-25T06:59:00 | 2015-08-25T06:33:14 | 65 | 21 |
[WP] Following death, you woke up in a classroom, to take the R.A.T.s (Reincarnation Aptitude Tests). After a short period in the Afterlife, you get your scores... which were perfect, despite just guessing. You get to be reincarnated as a god, one of the first in a couple of millennia. | "I.. No. I shouldn't even be a god. I guessed on everything, for crying out loud!"
Whatever being was in front of me sighed, its brows furrowing.
"That's only strengthening my case. You're becoming a god, whether you like it or not."
"Then I won't do a thing as a god."
"That's.. basically what we wan... | When I woke, all memory from before momentarily blank and gone, my forehead bumped on my desk. The sound seemed to have been quite the commotion, for the people around me threw me glances that meant it all, that I had startled them at an important time. But I did not have a single idea where I was, nor what was on my d... | 2019-07-22T07:35:20 | 2019-07-22T07:29:51 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation. | "What you need is us. Your shield technology is at a roadblock. We can help. Have you ever wondered why the humans were last to invent faster than light travel?", Valentina spoke in a hushed voice. The many hours of negotiation had taken a toll on her. Yet the Kulvar in front of her was unaffected. Everytime she looked... | [WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation.
“I am the captain of the UN cargo hauler *Infinity*. James Robert the third is the name and hauling trade goo... | 2018-01-30T07:42:24 | 2018-01-30T07:38:49 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] Every century, a single human is born immortal. When the world ends, you find yourself in a beautiful garden with 20 other people. A voice booms overhead as it greets all of you. “Welcome to my garden, New Gods!” | “So we’re dead?”, Jim Miller asked.
“No, not really”
“Is it a dream then?”
“No, God, have you been paying attention AT ALL?”
The voice sounded annoyed, as its owner finally came down from the skies. He had a tanned skin, and was rather short for a man who spoke with such a deep voice. Not at all what Jim had expe... | Slowly I began to wake up. My head felt kind of numb and I could feel my heart beat in it - bum bum bum. It felt like waking up after being knocked down by something or someone, but I didn't get hit - not to my knowledge at least, or did I? No, definitely not! I carefully opened my eyes ; and closed them immediately. A... | 2019-09-06T05:26:29 | 2019-09-06T05:08:47 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] Instead of Oceans, they are all big forests, that gets taller and darker instead of deeper, with more dangerous animals living further out in the forest. A person decides to cross the Mariana Trench | Bioluminescence. That's what happens in the Dark. Kind of a misnomer because we can't fly over the tallest part of the forest without losing aircraft to the change in gravity. The scant shots we see show a never ending canopy of black tarp. I found out that calling it "The Dark" was a total and utter misnomer. Und... | Towering oaks gently swayed in the wind with orange trees acting the boundary of the Forests. The supple earth molded around its border, the showcase of the feet that have treaded on the edge. Every once in a while, a brave crew would set out into the forest, exploration at its deepest motivation, but not without greed... | 2015-02-01T08:46:37 | 2015-02-01T07:19:38 | 55 | 27 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | "Commander, we've arrived." Zarathan turned his head slightly towards his subordinate officer, nodding to them. His mandibles clicked with restrained anticipation for what they had planned. He turned to look at the blue and white pearl of a planet before them, narrowing his compound eyes. "You said they were weakened b... | When the aliens first came they established their own colonies and bases regardless if that territory was claimed by one nation or another.
Scout missions came back with very little, They were more then just giants, they were Titans that communicated in booms of thunder.
And one more thing. They hated us. Pure un... | 2018-09-29T15:14:36 | 2018-09-29T12:18:01 | 312 | 96 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | *Eyes open. Breathe in.*
The air is so cold. So cold and clear and sharp, it cuts your lungs and leaves you breathless. And you know where you are, but it can't be.
*Eyes closed*
You can feel the tile under your head, your back, your arms and legs. It's hard, it hurts. Yes, you're still on the bathroom floor. But th... | The dead were restless, and even more so when the drinks were free.
Pablo gently cupped Richard's face and kissed it, before leaning backwards and gently sipping on a strong pint of ale. They were surrounded by friends and family, all finally celebrating the great equality of Heaven. Men and men, women and women - he... | 2015-01-04T12:23:44 | 2015-01-04T11:36:01 | 52 | 38 |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, years later, the dragon has returned to you with some of its young. It wants you to raise its weakest hatchling. | "You chump," I said. "You've been gone five years! You... you nub." He kneaded the ground, whether nervously or angrily I couldn't tell. Either way his shiny ebony claws were digging into my grass, and tearing it all to shreds. "And that's my grass, you whelp."
He puffed his chest out indignantly, and gave a squawk of... | Hey guy's. This is my first post and I'm pretty horrible at this but I've been doing short stories without dialog the last couple weeks. I whipped this up for you guys.
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I studied the small gangly creature before me. It’s hard to believe that this little thing would be a dragon some day. Its head seemed... | 2018-04-04T21:17:42 | 2018-04-04T21:13:55 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You're tripping on a new drug dubbed "Memory lane." It allows you to relive anything that has ever happened in your life with 100% clarity. The only catch is that the memory is random.
Good or bad trip. Your choice.
Thanks for the responses guys, I of course had to take a crack at it as well (be gentle it's my fi... | We'd smoked two joints by the time Fred got there and I was feeling pretty lazy. The stairs creaked as he came down.
"Sup guys," Fred laughed, "its like a fucking sauna down here, y'all smoked yourselves retarded yet or what?"
Pat quipped up, "Ha, Ha, Ha, very funny, now sit your ass down and role us another one." Hi... | What some call repression, others call voluntary memory. I have never been prone to flashbacks, which my wife and my therapist both agree (they said it without saying it) is directly related to my lack of introspection and self-awareness. In fact, I never told my wife anything of my past until a year into the relations... | 2014-09-04T15:37:15 | 2014-09-04T15:10:13 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | 6/30/22
“I’d like to sell my soul.”
The devil grinned. “In exchange for what? Women? Money? Power?”
“Salvation…” He said.
The devil leaned back on his throne, raising his head and pressing his long nailed hands together under his sharp chin. “For whom?” He asked thoughtfully.
There was no wind, no moisture, just an ... | “What.” The Devil said, leaning back a bit, running his fingers through his hair
“No no, you cant do this to me. Look at me, look. I’m literally called the devil *pal*. Ok, everyone knows you can only be saved through Christ. I cant do that for you. However…i can gi-“
“I’m already christian” you said. Face completely... | 2022-06-30T10:52:14 | 2022-06-30T10:07:18 | 161 | 50 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | The two figures stood in the street. One, a man covered in a flowing black robe, face obscured by a blank silver mask, raised his hand above his head, pointing a wand at the opposing figure. Opposite him, merely metres away in the twilight night, his foe simply raised her hands, slowly forming runes in the air, body en... | *This was...a mistake.*
That was all Carry could think of as she clutched her Nimbus 2000 in one hand and a twelve inch hawthorn, dragon heart string wand in the other. She, loved Harry Potter, so to her, this was magic, and her rapid wand waving won her many duels, especially against Call of Cthullu fans, but she had... | 2018-10-16T02:17:50 | 2018-10-15T22:55:54 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] you're in your bed about to go to sleep, with your arm dangling off the side. You feel a dark hand grasp yours, knowing first impressions are important you give it a firm shake. The next thing you hear from under your bed is "you're hired" | ..."you're hired".
I wasn't expecting that. But I decided to roll with it, might as well see where the rabbit hole leads to.
"Oh? What sort of benefits do I get? And the pay?" while I say that the creature comes out from under the bed, it is bigger than the space it occupied, with black ram horns on its head and scal... | “You are hired!”
I froze. You know that feeling when, just after waking up, you aren't quite sure whether or not something was a dream? Well it was exactly like that. If you think about it rationally, it should have definitely been a dream. I mean, I was an adult. I lived alone. the only things that could have been h... | 2019-08-30T08:04:44 | 2019-08-30T06:54:15 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] You run a highly successful bakery known for your amazing pastries. Everyone asks your secret to making them so good. You always tell them: "the secret is Love!" In reality however, you absolutely despise baking and can't stand your annoying customers. The real secret to your pastries is Hate. | "I love these," Betty said, pointing to the cupcakes in the pastry display. "You make them better than anyone else. What's your secret?"
"The secret is love," Ronald said and smiled.
"I never would've guessed."
"I know. It is cliche, but it's the truth."
"Love, huh. Well, I'd like six of these," Betty said, pointin... | By hate I mean the blood of my victims. I'm not just a baker. I'm a baker with a terrible secret. My name is Benjamin Bellaton and I am the owner of Bellaton Bakeries. People flock from all over the state to buy my cookies, muffins, pastries. Every month I run a special on cinnamon rolls. I am without a doubt the most ... | 2020-12-14T01:47:45 | 2020-12-13T18:24:49 | 249 | 116 |
[WP] A person visits an Alzheimer's patient while volunteering at a retirement home, and makes a stunning realization that the nursing staff hasn't picked up on; the old man is faking it because he thinks it's hilarious. | When I got out of juvie for the second time, Officer Carl gave me a big stack of papers. "We're gonnna go through this list and find you something to keep you out of trouble", and all that bullshit. I just kinda picked at random and now I'm here.
I'm a therapy dog volunteer. Don't be stupid I told you this already.
... | An elderly woman walked out of the room I was assigned, crumpled up tissue in her hand, eyes bloodshot, tear tracks through her excessive make up. She was clearly very upset. Of course she should be, her husband is suffering from Alzheimer's. I've heard stories about how tough it can be for family members who's loved o... | 2015-01-15T09:41:11 | 2015-01-15T09:35:25 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] You are immortal, but no one knows. You are given a life sentence in prison, and you laugh thinking about the confusion to come at the end of your sentence. | I was sentenced to life in prison. The tribunal laughed when I told him the prison wouldn't outlive me.
This was in 1939 when they took my shop from me. They lined us down filthy, packed streets, and into filthier, more packed trains.
I lost count of the days, I lost count of the years. They took us to 'the s... | Paradox- An Introduction
I forgot my name,
I had onced etched it on the prison walls,
But now that and ancient halls,
Have been put to shame
By Time.
My only companion,
My only friend,
I holds no opinion,
It has no end.
Nor do I
Unlike Time I am bound
In a prison of flesh
Wounds cut deep and fresh
Shortly are not... | 2017-05-20T18:29:11 | 2017-05-20T16:55:47 | 189 | 30 |
[WP] A story where the narrator becomes increasingly frustrated when the characters make dumb decisions | This is the story of a man named Stanley.
Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was Employee #427. Employee #427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to push t... | The sleeve of Chad Bulkson's football jersey snags a piece of jagged metal. He tugs quickly, tearing a bit of fabric away. He looks up ahead to see his nerdy yet attractive girlfriend, Stacy Pendleton, going further into the Abandoned Insane Asylum.
"Babe," he speaks out, his voice booming off the walls like a stalli... | 2017-05-19T09:56:03 | 2017-05-19T09:35:44 | 50 | 26 |
[WP] As a blind dragon, you don't care for precious metals or stones. So your hoard of treasures are perfumes, scented candles, flowers, herbs, spices, shampoo, soaps, and anything that smells great to you. The princess was surprised that you just want her things and not her... | I was used to the subtle sounds of a thumping heart, the sharp drawn breaths, the chattering of teeth. They followed me whenever I drew near to mortal lands, no matter the race. Prideful elves were as quick to fear as bumbling humans. But I never sought to fight them.
Being the very top of the food chain lead my prese... | "*Wanted, dead or alive, but preferably dead as it happens.*
*Roland the blind dragon, for stealing crates of perfume as per the perfumer guild,*
*for stealing tons of candles, wax and soap, as per the artisan guild,*
*for carrying the trash far away from the city and burning it, thus stealing the jobs of garbage ha... | 2020-12-04T12:06:15 | 2020-12-04T11:03:14 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone who dies must go to a waiting room before becoming a character in a work of fiction. They are sorted into roles based on how they lived their lives. | There was a lot of cruel irony in which God made this little sterile room. Filled with books and magazines of all blasted things.
The second life was a pageantry of some absurd roll call. Every few minutes, someone’s Olive Garden variety buzzer would berserk, and they would just liquefy on the spot to ink, soak into ... | He pinched himself.Again and again.He ran his hands over his face.Yes,it was his face.There was no mirror,but he knew it was his face.Severe acne,scars from getting slapped,punched,kicked,spit on.Every inch of his face he had memorized by his fingers.A pathetic and desperate attempt to get rid of all the ugly blemishes... | 2014-12-14T23:17:14 | 2014-12-14T23:00:06 | 73 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 27, after being observed and analyzed your whole life, a computer algorithm matches you with a partner who is perfectly suited to you. It is 93% accurate. What you do with the information is up to you.
Sorry if I did something wrong. It's my first time. ^^Be ^^gentle... | 93.
Blue eyes. A soft smile that hides the teeth. Dark lipstick to draw away from the eyebrows. Detroit suburb. Easy find.
She walks home on Thursdays. She stops at the gas station to pick up cigarettes, but doesn't smoke them on the way home. She's lying to someone.
I parked the car on 142nd. I can see her w... | I always knew my childhood friend would end up being my statistical match. Being a believer in the almighty powers of the ubiquitous bioanalysis mating system, he knew deep down that it had to be the right choice. Our long and secretly lustful history together gave him no reason to think otherwise. Everything was linin... | 2015-08-22T00:58:06 | 2015-08-22T00:53:48 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I sat quietly. I was never loud to begin with. I was never going to have super strength or laser eyes. I was never going to fly above people and soak in their praises. Even with my new power, chances are most people would never know my name.
So it was a pretty good deal for me.
I sat at a table with 7 others. They ha... | "Welcome to the Super Powers Depot, what can i do for you?" The clerk never looked up from their smart device. They couldn't be any more disinterested in the task at hand yet were still complying with the bare essentials of the minimum wage day laborer.
"My name's John. I was chosen to come pick out a free super powe... | 2022-11-17T09:02:15 | 2022-11-17T07:26:44 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] You are bitten by a werewolf, your sibling is bitten a vampire. Things become awkward when you find out that your parents are secretly famous monster hunters. | It was a dark and stormy night... thunder rolled in the distance, while the family gathered around the fireplace.
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"Mom... dad... I have something important to tell you. Could you please sit down?"
"Sure thing dear." My mother took a seat while polishing her silver-coated crossbow bolts.
"What is it hon... | "Jonas, we need to talk. I've found something," said Mason to his twin. "It's about Mom and Dad."
"Oh, shit did they find my blood stash in the basement fridge? I wish we had more time. We're supposed to go off to college in the fall. Our night jobs are a good cover for now."
"No, Jonas, I was browsing the book ... | 2020-01-12T07:56:17 | 2020-01-12T07:47:42 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Your wealthy relative has died and the funeral is coming up. The will stipulates that the funeral-goer that delivers the best eulogy inherits everything. Your late relative left scoring criterion that no one knows except the lawyer that will be judging at the funeral. | As much as I hated him, I couldn't help but to miss him. My dad wasn't the best when he was alive. Always judging and controlling everything, and as much as he was the reason why I moved when I turned eighteen, I had to go to his funeral. He raised me after all. And my family would kill me if I didn't go.
Apparently,... | I missed cousin Mark.
Cousin Mark was one of the most stand up guys that you could have ever wished to be around. Standing at a massive six feet and four inches tall, weighing what was roughly 250lbs of raw muscle, he had a brain which you would think belonged on your stereotypical nerd, and despite him looking absolu... | 2022-07-15T03:45:19 | 2022-07-14T23:50:04 | 300 | 93 |
[WP] People are born with superpowers that correlate with the circumstances of their birth. Then there's you. A young girl born in a donut shop | There have been other children born in donut shops. I've checked. There are hundreds of them. But none were born in back of a particular donut shop. This donut shop was a front for the mob. The machines which used to produce thousands of donuts per day, ready for all sorts of markets, were being used to stamp out ... | For my entire life I've wondered what my super power was. Perhaps the circumstances of my birth were not remarkable enough. Maybe I was looking at it all wrong, maybe it has nothing to do with donuts at all, it is the circumstances after all, not the location. I could just be overthinking it but my life has always seem... | 2017-04-15T10:05:10 | 2017-04-15T09:22:05 | 70 | 13 |
[WP] You have the ability to know the worst thing you can do in the next 10 seconds. You only really get stuff along the lines of: Drive off a bridge or stab the chief of police. One day on your way into work you get the alert: Go to work. | My head hurts...
What happened? What’s going on? These words... ‘Roll over’, ‘Move a muscle’, ‘Drag your face five feet into the dirt’... Why do I keep hearing these words in my head?
I coughed, and tried rocking my body to the side so I could breathe. Yeah, I should’ve listened to those words.
“GA—GGAH!!?” I scream... | If you could have a superpower, what would it be? It was a question I had heard plenty of times in life. Whether it was in a huddled circle of elementary school students or a group of friends at a bar, it was a popular topic of discussion. People always had wild ideas and would sigh in regret that the superhuman abilit... | 2019-12-03T23:17:51 | 2019-12-03T20:43:01 | 56 | 40 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | Erica pulled the trigger. I stopped the shot before it fired.
“You’re an asshole,” Erica said. She opened her eyes and stared straight at me. She should not be able to see me.
I blinked and moved back.
“Don’t give me that,” she whispered. She shuffled onto her feet and dropped her shotgun at her side. “I know ... | Death often found themselves reminiscing about those times. Work had been easy and plentiful. Their ears fluttered when someone’s end was
near, they quickly flew over, and before the victim knew it their soul was now in the
possession of the Repear himself. He often complained that there was too much
work for the littl... | 2018-05-04T12:08:57 | 2018-05-04T11:21:19 | 393 | 22 |
[WP] The end of humanity was supposed to happen ages ago. God keeps sending out increasingly worse disasters, but runs into problems when he realizes that he made humans a little more resilient than originally intended. | “They did WHAT?”
The Heavenly Father had always prided himself on his calmness with handling his subjects on earth, but this piece of news was the pebble that finally broke the camel’s back. He slowly regained his composure - probably he just misheard this angel or something, right?
“Are you saying they just blew it ... | The last natural disaster wherein humanity was supposed to be wiped out failed because a man with a tiny moustache who called himself Hitler failed to bring the world towards nuclear war. “ How could I have placed my hope on one puny human?” God asked herself as she sat on her celestial throne. “ Well, m’lady” quipped ... | 2019-04-16T10:54:42 | 2019-04-16T03:34:16 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] One of your parents was human, the other was a genie. As a half genie, you can grant people's wishes half way. This leads people to wish for twice what they actually want, but that never ends up well. | The young man paced back and forth in my small office, hands clasped behind his back as he mumbled to himself nonstop. He would occasionally glance at me, then shake his head and continue to mumble to himself. I tapped my fingers on my desk, my patience worn thinner than rice paper at the display.
“Are you ready for ... | I was sitting on the couch with a friend playing Mario Kart when I got the feeling. I put down the controller. "Sorry Chris, I'm getting summoned. See ya later!" And with a poof, I disappeared. Somebody had found my bottle. I wasn't physically housed in it, which was why I could still enjoy a somewhat normal life. But ... | 2022-06-15T17:37:02 | 2022-06-15T14:52:33 | 164 | 95 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | As I relaxed my grip on the capsule frame, I felt the blood returning to my clenched fingers as the familiar rush of nausea surged from my stomach to the back of my throat.
This was my third jump, but still it felt like the first. Even if I become used to this, I am certain my body never will. During the jump, it felt... | As I stood before the statue that was on top of the table that had held it since my childhood when i found it somewhere and put it on the table. Every time i tried to recall where i found that statue my memory gets blurry and i get a terrible headache. That's why I have stopped thinking about it as I will know when i t... | 2020-04-17T12:06:35 | 2020-04-17T12:06:08 | 82 | 17 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | 4/7/29: (69corvetteguy) WTB: 69 Stingray Corvette. 30k. Good condition, black or blue, 80k miles or less.
6/12/29 (69corvetteguy) WTB: 4WD anything. Can trade stingray corvette - good engine, quick and reliable. Good for anyone looking to risk the city. I gotta get out into the country.
6/24/29 (69corvetteguy) WTB: G... | 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... | 2015-04-29T10:11:32 | 2015-04-29T07:28:18 | 86 | 10 |
[WP] You are cursed. Every good deed you perform reduces the time you have left to live. However, evil deeds will grant more time.
Do you die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain?
Edit: Great job everyone. This is my first post and it got more of a response than I could have predicted. As far as the quest... | God, but do I ever love stupid witches. I was cursed a long time ago by one of those shriveled bats after I rescued her soon to be victim from having her vitality stolen. "Good deeds shall steal your life, while evil ones shall extend it," the dumb cow crowed with her last breath, "we'll see how long you remain righteo... | Sprinting down the streets, gunfire ringing behind him, the hooded man really hopes he doesn't get shot, he couldn't die, but getting shot fucking hurts. The dude just stabbed 5 people and some random gang is chasing him now, he's grown desensitized to killing these fools, after a while everyone looks the same to him. ... | 2017-05-15T05:11:09 | 2017-05-15T00:37:42 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] Norse Gods have faded into legend. Thor, with his trust-worthy Mjolnir, decides to rebuild his fame,by becoming the best damn construction worker known to man. | **SLAM**
The men looked onward as the towering figure slammed his hammer into the nails like clockwork.
**SLAM**
It was a battle, was what it was. He was hellbent on driving these nails in faster than the engine, or at least that's what he promised his fellow railroad workers.
**SLAM**
Alas, the machine was catchi... | The midday sun burned down upon his thick neck. '*Not as hot as Hades' layer,* he thought wearily, '*but close.*' With one single, spectacular *CHOP*, the hulking man smashed his standard-issue axe against the unyielding tree beside him. Unsurprisingly, the tree gave way, slicing cleanly in half as if the man had used ... | 2018-05-27T19:43:43 | 2018-05-27T18:34:44 | 164 | 66 |
[WP] Future technology allows you to have a text sent out when you die to certain people so they can settle all the things you couldn't finish. You just got a text from an unknown number.... | Marcus stares at the white surface; gathering his surroundings. He’s sore everywhere; his neck, his back, his arms, and his eyes. He’s lying on the bathroom floor staring at his toilet. He swallows to clear his dry throat; acidic. He wipes the crusted vomit off his cheek--
Marcus remembers what woke him up. He quickly... |
I never expected my first death text to be from a stranger, and I certainly didn't expect to be asked to save a life.
Death texts were one of those things like jury duty; I'd never received one, but I knew a few people who knew someone that had. People who sent them tended to spread a lot of little jobs out among th... | 2017-01-15T12:17:13 | 2017-01-15T10:59:15 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You're chosen by the Gods to enter a multi-universe FFA. The winner gets a wish. All of the legendary fighters seem to be afraid of you, even though you're just a regular Walmart employee. | The battlefield was a sight like no other. The gore and terror of the omniverse, wrought before all the senses to behold.
The sights. The sounds. The smells. The textures. Things I never thought possible to experience. watching battles unfold as various species vied for power was both devastating and enthralling at th... | All of a sudden a beam of light shoots down and I disappear off the face of the earth. The trip was cold and dark and my body was motionless as it traversed through the wormhole to Laar. When I arrived there none of the jagged face aliens could even look at me. Even the guards that took me to my cell refused to make ey... | 2017-12-15T07:01:57 | 2017-12-15T05:34:36 | 233 | 130 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | As the class watched on in abject horror, I zoned out a little and thought about what brought me here. This school was supposed to "straighten me out" as dear old Dad put it - after all, if everyone else has superpowers and I don't I shouldn't ever be able to win a fight. And if I could only get into losing fights sure... | I sat alone at lunch as I always did, but this time was different. I used to sit alone because people either did not care about me or did not want to be seen with me. But now there was fear. Now there was respect.
I pulled out my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and look around the room. There were people with super ... | 2022-11-02T12:26:39 | 2022-11-02T09:49:19 | 83 | 45 |
[WP] Heaven is discovered to be a physical place on Earth with access to near unlimited resources. Humanity does what it does best and declares war on God's forces. The siege on Heaven's gates begins. | "Um... God,"
"What is it Gabriel? I'm busy sorting the Easter Eggs, the Easter Bunny is sulking again,"
Gabriel tapped God on the shoulder, and pointed to a large monitor at the back of the large room.
"Are the humans allowed to do that?"
God sighed in exasperation.
"I gave them free will," he said with a chuckle,... | As the army approached the gates of Heaven, the angels flew up from behind the gates, ready for a fight.
"Ripley, we have a problem," a solider shouted over the wind and wings flapping. I figured the problem was the angels, but they were the least of our worries. Over my shoulder I saw the stairway to Heaven slowly... | 2017-10-01T14:33:05 | 2017-10-01T08:40:28 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] Humans aren't generally that advanced but their engineering capabilities are one of the top within the galaxy, since they are so stubborn. This has led to the saying "Leave a human with a machine that is ineffective, give it a few months and it will become effective." | There is an old saying "Leave a human with a machine that is ineffective, give it a few months and it will become effective.". Because there are only about 8 billion humans they are a rare species, not only that but they have a short lifecycle. This is why many people think this saying is figurative, however it is not.... | It was a massive black hole. Around it, hundreds upon hundreds of ships were circling it. It was a place, where only the craziest ones came and stationed. Especially that close to the black hole
“How’s it going?” Jack asked as he entered the ship’s cockpit.
“It’s okay, they are all stable. None of our ships will fall... | 2018-04-26T06:30:43 | 2018-04-26T06:15:40 | 351 | 259 |
[WP] Make up a convincing conspiracy theory | There are 5 things you need to know before you understand my theory.
**1\. Attention is fleeting.**
By the time I finish this sentence, your interest is almost null. But wait! It's a period. A signifier of something new. Something fresh. Better yet,
a paragraph break.
You don't have time for rambles. Long blocks ... | My phone rang, it was Dave. I let out a heavy sigh. Dave only called to share his crazy theories with me. I debated letting it go to voicemail. *Oh well, I can use a laugh I guess.*
"Hi, Dave. What now? Antisemitic lizard people have taken over Area 51?"
He laughed.
>No man. It's worse than that. It's real. The e... | 2016-09-24T11:05:09 | 2016-09-24T09:53:06 | 141 | 28 |
[WP] A group of friends meet up with each other every hundred years. One is immortal, one is reincarnated into a new body every time they die, one is a time traveler, one is a robot, and one is Death.
If you can think of any other types of people, please add them. That's all I could think of.
And you don't have to i... | Death arrived at the precise moment the man died. He had bad habit of doing that. He didn't mind his job, but certain cases required him to get especially...involved, particularly when the death was gruesome and the soul was still in too much shock from the death experience. They had trouble letting go, so it became hi... | There were always infinite changes whenever Andrew jumped. A hundred years was a short period of time, in the grand scheme of things; the Earth had come into its present form over millions of hundred-year intervals. But the grumbling lethargy with which the Earth moved was nothing compared to humanity's speed of develo... | 2017-04-22T23:53:56 | 2017-04-22T22:07:02 | 66 | 17 |
[WP] - On a dare from your friends, you've slipped into the dark bathroom, locked the door, and whispered Bloody Mary three times. Nothing happens, and just when you think there's nothing to fear, she appears in the mirror. But she doesn't look scary - she looks scared, and she's begging for help. | "Do it! You won't. You're too *chicken.*" Sarah put her hands on her hips and gave me a cheeky smile.
I wasn't expecting to be bullied into a seance at my first sleepover. But Jackie, Sarah, and Alice were insistent. We weren't the closest friends. In fact, I'd only agreed to invite them because Mom was worried about ... | #In the Mirror
"Help me!" she bangs on the mirror wall trying to get out. Paige backs up against the wall as Mary writhes in the mirror. A force grabs Mary and tries to pull her away. Mary resists leaving a hand on the mirror. Paige walks over to save Mary. Mary grabs her hand and pulls her into the mirror.
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It ... | 2020-10-10T16:32:11 | 2020-10-10T16:23:06 | 1,085 | 48 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I'm Samuel Smith, and I have the most useless power you could think of.
Both of my parents are super heroes, my dad can warp reality with his mind while my mom can basically deadlift two continents without breaking a sweat.
Me? I can move anything I want telepathically by an inch.
It took me years and years of bein... | I watched my opponent carefully. There were lines around him, possible moves, all converging into one. Right on time, I ducked, jumped forward and turned, landing at his side. I punched him, then stepped backwards to avoid his kick.
My opponent grunted and twisted, preparing to use his power. When I saw that, I moved... | 2020-12-02T07:22:15 | 2020-12-02T07:12:59 | 320 | 62 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I was an avid dog lover. Jesse was my loyal dog and the cutest husky around the block. My girlfriend loved her also, so when I proposed to her, whether having the dog in the house or outside wasn't even a question. 1 year goes by and my wife has beared me a healthy young girl, Monica. After we left the hospital and wen... | "Daddy!" I hear my little girl giggle from upstairs. "Daddy look what I done!". She's my world - my beautiful girl of 6. Me and my wife adopted her as we couldn't have children of our own, but she might as well be our biological child; we're a very close family.
"In a minute, Anna!" I yell - "Show your mother and I'll... | 2016-05-19T14:52:21 | 2016-05-19T13:10:57 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | U'grall'urk sullenly walked up to the counter. The human was a tiny and ugly thing. Nothing of note to make an impression with their dull skin, small bodies, weak muscles, and ignorant brains, and yet, they had managed to work their way into the greater parts of the galactic empire despite their obvious shortcomings. H... | We would try and kill them. We've run scenarios on how to kill them. We've seen them kill each other. But to try eliminate them all. It borders complete impossibility.
They're just way too good at sex. It's not even that their really skilled at it. That title belongs to the Zendians. They just have copious amounts of ... | 2014-07-16T14:12:33 | 2014-07-16T12:20:35 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] A powerful being has been hunting and killing gods since time began. It now sets its sights on the self proclaimed god of Earth: Kim Jong Un. | I watched him rise to power in the wake of his father's passing. It was lightly admirable, yet the inevitability of it diminished his achievement. A general may have garnered some support initially, but the people would have rallied behind their - their *god* in the end.
I watched him as he struggled to maintain his f... | I must use different tactics to overpower the other Omnipotents. They never knew the strength that I possessed until their entire breadth of influence was wiped from existence.
With every one that is eliminated, I become stronger. One less to oppose me. Millions of them have fallen at my feet. Unfathomable numbers of... | 2015-02-06T02:48:58 | 2015-02-06T01:18:50 | 129 | 22 |
[WP] This is the letter you need to read when you reach the lowest point of your depression. | Get up. Take a breath. It's hard, I know. It's a quagmire and you feel lost in the middle of it. You're tired. Everyone expects you to climb out. Everyone wants you to be happy, but you? You're tired. You want to sit, to give up. You look around at the others, they're trying to pull you along, but you want to just coll... | Connor
Six years ago you broke your arm after falling out of a tree in your best friend's garden. It hurt more than you were willing to admit at the time, but that wasn't your lowest point.
Five years ago your grandfather died. The man who rowed you and your brother out to Rangitoto island, the man who taught you how... | 2017-01-30T23:12:49 | 2017-01-30T21:28:05 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] You give your significant other a bundle of roses with a fake one nestled inside, and tell them you'll be with them until the last one withers. Little did you know this made you both immortal... as long as you stay together. | "I'm so tired," you say. "We've lived so long."
Jasmine rolls over in bed and looks softly into your eyes. "Me too. But I still love you."
"So do I," you reassure her. "It's just... everything around us is dying. There are hurricanes ripping apart the southern streets we walked. Fires are destroying the forests we on... | I handed him the roses with a knowing snicker.
"I'll love you and never leave you as long as these roses still bloom!"
He eyed me. Either I'm planning on breaking up with him soon or there is a corny trick involved here, he's sure of it.
Years pass, it isn't exactly marital bliss but it isn't horrible either, th... | 2017-09-08T08:32:36 | 2017-09-08T06:42:51 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | I pass through life with an apologetic smile.
I've always been in the way. I was in the way of my mother and father's happiness when I arrived on this planet so unexpectedly. I was supposed to be a tumor in my young mother's uterus. But there I was, hiding behind the tumor, in the way of its growth.
I was in the wa... | They say it's comforting to know... you know... when. Everyone else knows. My wife knows. She's going in a few days. She checked her clock, and sure enough. We said our goodbyes and made our peace. She leaves today at noon. I'll miss her, but I suppose it's better this way. She knows she's going. I never will.
The clo... | 2014-09-30T07:21:37 | 2014-09-30T06:50:11 | 479 | 50 |
[WP] Everyone on earth has an current objective objective displayed above their head. One day, while you go along your work, yours randomly changes from whatever you were doing to “survive” | Small talk was the goal.
“I just don’t understand letting him pitch until the 8th inning,” Steve said, coffee in hand.
“Right? He had a three hitter. That's not going in a record book.” said Mark, as he sipped his hot coffee.
Survive.
The word screamed in Steven’s head.
Steve ducked as Mark’s hot coffee splashed t... | It was early morning when it happened. I was washing up and bent down to splash water on my face when I felt my senses go on high alert - like the hair on the back of my neck was on end. Something was wrong, I could feel it, but I wasn't sure what it was. I stood up and looked in the mirror. The green HUD that usually ... | 2020-03-13T12:58:11 | 2020-03-13T12:50:01 | 66 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | Determining the fates of others never seemed like a blessing to me, a simple, powerful thought could ruin the lives of countless. It took too long for me to control it, and even longer to accept the things that I have done. I never wanted to rise to the top, If I could, I would be at the bottom. But I guess that the fa... | 2014-12-18T12:44:55 | 2014-12-18T10:51:52 | 670 | 362 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by henchmen because your boyfriend/girlfriend is a super hero, but the villains are your parents who just now recognized you as your BF/GF has arrived to save you and now you have to explain the situation to everyone while the henchmen watch barley stifling their laughter | My mother gulped, moaned (like a ghost not a lover), and bit her nails--all at the same time I promise you. I can count on one hand (and from now on I must) the occasions on which she has pleasantly surprised me.
1 - It was my birthday and she brought me grapes she had stolen from the local supermarket. She didn't kno... | When I woke up tied up with two villains in front of me, I was scared but I wasn’t worried I knew she would come for me. They were talking but their voices sounded familiar, then it hit me like a semi-truck.
“Wait, MOM AND DAD!?”
“TYLER!?”
“Mom, dad you guys are villains? What the heck!”
“Your dating a superhero, ... | 2021-07-18T11:45:08 | 2021-07-18T11:05:47 | 130 | 90 |
[WP] Mankind discovers suddenly that now when you kill someone, you gain all of their power and knowledge. After years of fighting there are now only two people left on Earth. The two meet to talk before their final battle... | Edit: God-damn formatting.
Double-Edit: Trimmed a single word. :)
"You got a light?"
*"Yeah, sure. Here-"*
"Thanks."
Silence.
*"You know what I hate the most about this?"*
"The weird porn?"
*"Oh, god. You know, I could have lived my whole life without knowing what a vore fetish was."*
"I've got you beat."
*"... | I arrive a bit early, to enjoy the scenery..the fresh air..life. The earth gives faint rumblings under my feet. Looking around the meadow, I see that she has arrived also. Our methods of reaching this particular place in time have differed. I started with strength, and as my enemies fell, I gained in knowledge. She sta... | 2014-03-21T06:03:32 | 2014-03-21T05:05:16 | 315 | 68 |
[WP] Pennywise wakes up after his 27 year sleep to find that four giant turtles and a rat have taken over the sewers. | The Clown opened his eyes.
He was hungry. It was dark. It was damp. It smelled of mildew and old water. And fear. That was there too.
The sleeping minds of his prey were prepared for his return. Those with greater shine had felt it first. But now everyone would know it. A little pressure behind their eyes when they ... | After 27 years of sleep, Pennywise the clown arose from its slumber, hungry. Its feet sloshed through the water, the sound of its steps bouncing off the moss-infested stone walls. At the slightest disturbance, the bodies dangling above Pennywise shifted, some spilling three decades worth of bloody decay into the sewer.... | 2017-09-28T10:41:54 | 2017-09-28T10:09:06 | 2,224 | 1,199 |
[WP] Once a year, on January 1st, a random citizen in the world receives a letter; addressed to them personally, and signed by the same woman. Each letter predicts the worst disaster to befall the world that year with terrifying accuracy. | Samuel tossed back a beer as he scanned through the letter that had appeared in his mail that morning. He saw the name that was, by now, familiar to everyone on Earth: Moira.
He knew what he was supposed to do. Hand the letter over to the government. Hell, to anybody who had the slightest inkling on how to avert the ... | "Why, and how, does this woman do it?" The news reporter's face was a botoxed mask of faux-concern. "As New Year's Day approaches, millions of people will wonder if they are the recipient of this year's 'bad luck' letter."
Val dug the spoon deeper into the multi-coloured cereal and pushed them around in the milk. Th... | 2016-08-28T07:40:54 | 2016-08-28T07:38:09 | 121 | 26 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I've made up my mind, this is the end
I've said my goodbyes to family and friends
However they don't know that I'm leaving tonight
I've struggled too long and can no longer fight
I walk back home after a long day of work
And get on reddit to routinely lurk
I see a post on "W-P"
And smile slightly at the irony
... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T09:55:19 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 120 | 15 |
[WP] Bob Ross was actually a serial killer that painted where he buried his victims. His paintings are becoming suspicious and the body count is rising.
Inspired by comments in r/art | Bob ran the brush through a thick glob of oil paint and wiped the excess on his pants.
It was nighttime, eerily quiet.
Bob gently tapped the brush against the canvas, filling in a line of pine trees with a dusting of snow.
Outside, the wind howled and beat against the sides of the cabin. Snow had piled so high in on... | “Anything we don’t like, we’ll turn into a happy little tree. Do you know why?”
I aim my pistol at Bob Ross, my hands shivering. He paints a little tree in corner of the canvas, oblivious to the gun in his face. “Put your hands behind your head. Now!”
He ignores me and continues. “Because we don’t make mistakes. We j... | 2022-02-01T07:29:40 | 2017-01-04T22:26:19 | 464 | 186 |
[WP] You are caught working on a D&D campaign at your office, as punishment, your supervisor, the CEO, VP and Head of Accounting sit in a conference room character sheets and dice in hand | "Leonard. Francis has alerted me that you are particular to Dungeons and Dragons and were working on something for it a little earlier today. Is this correct?"
"Yes. I was formulating a campaign strategy, Mr. Granin."
"We should talk. Step into the conference room."
Leonard was in for it now. He only hoped he could ... | I figured it would be best to take the initiative. "Gentlemen, you'll forgive me if this sounds flippant, but I have a suggestion. Let's keep things simple. 1,2,3? Truth. 4,5,6? Dare."
The CEO said nothing, but briefly met the eyes of his two colleagues. Nods. For an instant I could've sworn I saw the corner of his mo... | 2018-04-11T10:31:59 | 2018-04-11T09:20:47 | 124 | 10 |
[WP] Your family has a superpower: you have a lot of cousins. No, like seriously, a lot of cousins. If you ever need something, you've got a cousin for that and who can get it done within 24hrs. | "That's amazing," is what people sometimes say. They say "What the hell?" more often. This is usually because I just told then about my family.
You see, my grandparents were completely obsessed with children. They had a big home, with as many children as possible. I forget, but I think they ended up with an overwhelmi... | My oldest living family member is my great-grandmother with an outstanding 106 years on earth. My grandfather and 5 out of the 6 of his brothers and sisters are still alive. One of his brothers died in a car crash a few months ago. We are a Christian family and my family takes go forth and multiply a little serious. ... | 2020-08-12T06:06:50 | 2020-08-12T05:57:32 | 75 | 18 |
[WP] At dinner, you serve the king a glass of wine with poison in it. He sips from it and continues to eat as usual. At the end of the meal, he walks up to you and says. "Next time you make poison, make sure it really works. It was pathetic." | I lock eyes with the King, cutting through the accusatory glare with my own defiant stare.
“With respect my liege, it was not, in fact, poison. Nor was it intended to kill you outright. What you just drank with your wine was an alchemical curse, one of my own making. It has some, shall we say “interesting” properties... | I grit my teeth, clicking my heels and bow slightly. “My apologies, father.”
I hold the position as he dodders out of the room, hold it so long I can feel the discomfort of the other guests. I straighten and they do as well according to degree.
I feel the heat in my cheeks, and it is only thanks to an iron will that... | 2022-06-03T18:55:21 | 2022-06-03T18:31:28 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] You grew up in a world exactly like our own in every except one, in your world Magic is real. Every mage goes through a personality test to help them determine a theme for their magic. Today is your testing day.
To clarify, a theme can be anything from what kind of magic you do to how your magic takes form. One p... | Oliver glanced back at his father, who gave a brief nod of encouragement. He wore his full robes today, the imposing black of a fire mage drawing admiring looks from others. Calling fire, shaping it and taming it to one's will, was widely considered the most difficult of the talents.
Hundreds of parents waited in the... | Testing people isn't a bad job. It pays a living wage, and I get plenty of time to goof off and practice. Cryomancy is nice, it helps me keep a cool head and as especially nice in the summer when the AC breaks down. I work here with my colleague, John, a Pyromancer. He has a more fiery temper and his skills are especia... | 2014-12-17T10:02:48 | 2014-12-17T09:29:52 | 72 | 20 |
[WP] Test. Do not reply. | The Redditor took another swig of beer.
"Am I really going to do this?"
He spent months crafting the perfect writing prompt. He consulted linguists, data scientists, ran multiple tests. His first prompt was going to light the Writing Prompts subreddit on fire.
"This is my moment. This is what I've been waiting for.... | Carrie woke to the usual sound of her mutt dog barking at the passing mail truck.
"Dude, you seriously need to fucking relax Baxter. The mailman hasn't tried to murder us for the last 2 years, he probably ain't tryna start today" groaned Carrie as she rolled off the couch.
Yawning sleep off, she made her way out the... | 2017-02-16T20:52:14 | 2017-02-16T20:04:36 | 77 | 28 |
[WP] We had always thought that our ballistic weaponry was going to be ineffective in staving off an alien invasion. Turns out our weapons are actually quite... excessive. | Life lives in the entropic gap between the temperature where proteins denature—about 105 Fahreinheit, and the temperature where water freezes—32. It's a very small gap, 73 degrees. The surface of the sun is 10,000 degrees. Its core, 27 million. Neptune's surface is negative 300 or so. Earth's surface, on average, is ab... | "5 tics to landing. Enable the shields and decend to point able."
The technician flipped the switch as we entered the atmosphere. The numbers steadily climbed as it absorbed the thermal energy of atmospheric entry, leaving the life protecting hull intact.
"Right. So the aliens on this planet have basic spaceflight a... | 2021-05-18T23:58:48 | 2021-05-18T23:28:46 | 593 | 184 |
[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. | “186,290 years?” I exclaimed, shock written all over my face. “You have to be mistaken!” I continued staring slack-jawed at the bored looking HSA officer across the counter. “186,292 years” he corrected me in a bored tone as he stamped my papers and pushed them back toward me. “Straight ahead, follow this hallway to t... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T07:53:45 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 17 | 10 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | It's been 100 years, we are ready. The human race was challenged to a fight with an alien race and given 100 years to prepare. They proved to us we weren't ready back then. Half of our missiles exploded in their silos. Of those that launched, less than 1 in 100 hit something. That something didn't even get scratched.
... | "So you're saying you flew in firing range."
"Yes."
"But you didn't fire."
"Correct."
"You just sent them a message?"
"Said we'd all be back in 100 orbits, with a bigger army."
"100 orbits of what?"
"I didn't specify. Who cares?"
The war general flew into a rage. He was well known for his narrow range of expres... | 2016-01-01T18:48:26 | 2016-01-01T13:14:36 | 122 | 80 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | *The Regulator:*
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The boy sat, hands shaking and cuffed. The room was quiet, still. Through a mirror, he knew there were people watching him- he could tell somehow, dangerous people. He was like them now, worse maybe. The chair creaked as he peered at the glass.
They knew he knew.
He jumped as a door opened, sl... | When I wanted to kill myself the only person I told was Alexis. That was in high school, at peak levels of insecurity and torment. I'd be sleeping for 3 hours a day. Not because of insomnia, but because of the nightmares. An overactive imagination that invaded my personal space, and consumed me while asleep. Some times... | 2015-11-11T08:03:53 | 2015-11-11T08:01:58 | 202 | 126 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability.
[deleted] | How was she supposed to know no one else could do it? They spoke often of it, with a touch of amazement in their voices, longing for the other world in a way that made sense to Gail. After all, she could do it too, from a young age she was fascinated, going back time and time again to experience everything.
She had li... | I was in my classroom,i was nervous because i haven't studied anything for the entire semester.Mister Rim was the most evil physics professor in the entire university,he knew how to put the worst type of questions,his twisted mind was precise and non dared to question his excellence.As i bleat in the space all sweatin... | 2020-06-14T00:35:53 | 2020-06-13T23:30:37 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] It's 2077, and Tourist Time Travel has been approved. The most popular trip by far isn't to see the birth of Christ, Steve Jobs or dinosaurs, but to a Thursday in August, 2026. Your spouse just got you tickets. | Did you know that winning the lottery works out terribly for almost everybody who wins? Most people can't handle that kind of sudden influx of cash. After all, the sort of slack-jawed mouth-breathers who play scratchers tickets never really think ahead to what they're going to do with the money. If they had that kin... | “The most extraordinary event in human history is yet to come,” my eyes are already rolling into the back of my head.
“See it now? Really?”
My girlfriend looks way too excited. I still can’t tell if she’s messing with me or not, but I’m starting to get worried it’s the latter.
“This sounds like the plot for a Scyfy... | 2014-07-27T04:19:50 | 2014-07-27T01:11:58 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You are the super villain that defeated the super hero and conquered the earth. You walk out onto your balcony to law down the law for your new subjects. You are greeted by a massive crowd and genuine cheers. | The crowd roared as the Lady appeared on the balcony, resplendent in her billowing green dress, 5 inch stilettos and head gear made of a thousand sparkling stones.
This was what She slaved for. All those nights banging her head on the Altar of Knowledge, Equality and Emancipation, arming Herself with all that the cosm... | Today, TODAY is a new day! For we have finally overcome the sense of freedom. Bound by the shackles of this new world order I will lead you in to a golden age. We will strive together for greatness of us all. It'll be hard work, yes, but know that through your struggle that your children and your children's children wi... | 2017-05-23T16:19:28 | 2017-05-23T08:50:48 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] It has become a law to hibernate during the winter with the help of a machine, but there is a glitch, and you wake up halfway through winter and find the reason why the government made hibernation manditory
Edit: Wow this got more popular than I expected it would | "Unit 5712 GG 3434 - good morning." Electronic words, spoken by an almost, but not quite, human voice.
My eyes flickered open. The usual tinfoil taste of Somnia lay on my tongue. My familiar sleep chamber wall stared back at me, including the words "nighty night" I'd written in permanent marker during my second Hiber... | As the sun gleaned through the window, Olanna rolled over and opened her eyes. She blinked, bringing her hands up guard her face. "That sun's so bright" thought Olanna as she sat up. She looked around and then looked at the clock on the desk. 9:37 AM 2 Jan.
Olanna spun around to look at the head of her bed where the l... | 2015-01-25T16:44:34 | 2015-01-25T14:18:55 | 115 | 40 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | Is it a curse? No, it is not a curse. The numbers above the heads of strangers, it’s a protection. It allows me a little bit of insight into their character. Who they are, what secrets they hold. I have always been somewhat thankful for this “gift” that was involuntary bestowed upon me.
It was a crisp October morning... | **-- TW: Mentions of domestic abuse --**
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I was only 10 years old when it first happened. I sat on the floor in my room rocking my stuffed bear to sleep. If I couldn’t sleep from all the screaming, maybe he could. Poor Mr. Stuffington.
“You fucking bitch!” I hear my father’s voice boom from the hall.
“P... | 2022-10-21T09:15:23 | 2022-10-21T07:34:41 | 122 | 69 |
[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". | "We have no backup systems."
He stood there, pale, but proud. Eyeing the camera with a speculative eye as it seemed to wait for more.
"This... is the entirety of your argument?"
"Isn't it enough?" the young man challenged. "I could appeal to humanity, to decency, to culture, but you have none of those things and... | 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."
"... | 2022-05-22T13:02:20 | 2022-05-22T11:31:57 | 82 | 38 |
[WP] Due to your poor spelling, you've accidentally summoned Stan. | The circle was complete, the pentagram neatly chalked. I had triple checked all of the sigils, a strange mixture of Norse, Aramaic, and Persian that seemed to fight with itself when you gazed upon it. The book was open on a convenient stand, small containers of salt, sage, and silver hung next to it. A few feet away... | She didn't think it would actually work.
But it did. And she was horribly disappointed. You could hear her heart drop to the floor and see the life leave her eyes as she stared blankly at the man who's head had somehow appeared right in the middle of the pentagram she had drawn. From the neck up, a frowning face look... | 2017-04-16T01:01:29 | 2017-04-15T19:15:41 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You are a great sorceress. People come from far and wide for help. You have but one payment: kindness. By posing as your assistant, you learn the true nature of those that seek you. | “Thank you for your hospitality, ma’am,” The traveler finished his soup. “But I come here to find a way to cure my wife’s illness. Do you know where the sorceress is?”
“I want to tell you a story. Will you listen?” I asked.
The traveler began to raise a finger in protest, but quickly took it back. He nodded his head ... | They've come from all over. Seeking various things. Cures, Blessings, Aid or other. Everyone who comes to me needs something, and I am happy to provide. I was blessed with great power and control over the threads of fate.
However, I seek to put more good into the world through my deeds. Tales of arcane masters fallin... | 2020-08-16T21:35:35 | 2020-08-16T17:58:46 | 249 | 126 |
[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldrich god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day
Inspired by the SCP... | >Okay, How did you get here, this job, and what is your typical day like?
A day in the life and how to did get here, huh? Let’s see, where to start, tsk. I guess… The beginning is where we should go.
I worked a day job at some crappy retailer. You know the big box store that seems to be placed every few blocks alm... | Caleb is greeted by he usual drab sights as he is scanned into the barracks - painted cement block walls, dim incandescent lights, long corridors of marbled tile. It looked more like a prison than a research lab, but then again, it kind of was.
A tickling in his consciousness alerted him to the presence of Mondo, the... | 2018-04-23T08:58:09 | 2018-04-23T08:32:54 | 159 | 84 |
[WP] When a person dies, their body evaporates into butterflies. One day, as the sky goes dark, you look up to see the sun blocked by an unending cloud of butterflies. | It landed on his shoulder and wouldn't leave, but that didn't matter. It was a cute little thing, yellow wings and thin black body, with little antennae like an ancient TV set poking out of its head.
It wasn't a butterfly Jonah has ever seen before. But it was cute, so it didn't matter.
"Jonah. Inside. We gotta go," ... | Some said the world would end in fire and others say in ice. As it turns out everyone was wrong and the world is going to end in butterflies. Three days ago is when it first happened; a man name Jack Core jumped off a bridge after escaping from a mental institution. When his body hit the ground he vaporized, or explode... | 2014-09-25T23:06:47 | 2014-09-25T21:54:17 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Just like a normal person you all age. Until you hit 18. You stop aging until you meet your soulmate so you can grow old together. You've been killing your soulmates for centuries granting you eternal life. | No one is quite sure why it happens this way. Sure there are theories, but none of them can exactly be conclusively proven. One of the most popular theories (at least from the theological side) is that it’s supposed to be some sort of backup plan the gods set in place in case our soulmates died before they could meet u... | *"Curse...you"* she muttered, before collapsing into her own pool of blood.
As she fell to the ground, I heaved a sigh. Boy, was that a hard one. In the hundreds of years I've been doing this, that was the toughest one yet. The universe must be making it harder for me to live with hundreds of years of experience in an... | 2018-06-09T03:12:02 | 2018-06-09T02:47:50 | 48 | 12 |
[WP]Doctors think you are colorblind, but really you only see humans in color, and the colors are judges of morality. The best people are gold, the worst are red, totally medium is blue. Today, you meet someone who is constantly changing colors, including colors that aren’t on your morality scale. | **(For scientific purposes, I changed up the colours a bit. Hope that's okay. Following the colour spectrum; red is good, violet is bad.)**
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"You're protanopic."
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The man in the white lab coat—*doctor*, he claims, they all claim, but how could he possibly be a doctor if he doesn't understand... | I blinked, as if doing so would somehow make him remain the colour he was before my eyelids shut. But to no avail, he was none the less an amalgamation of every shade I had known and even some I did not know, making me feel a nervousness I had never known in my life.
When people's ability to harm is so clearly displa... | 2019-05-27T12:48:07 | 2019-05-27T12:26:13 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] It's getting really hard for the government to keep covering up all these alien landings. Sightings of strange metal creatures roaming over the surface, apparently scanning it, are disturbing the citizens. The Martian government needs to come up with something better, fast. | **Transcript from the Glogo’s Fourth Planet online radio show, airdate 463-2492. Translated into English post-contact. Slang has been approximated to common equivalents.**
**Glogo:** Hey there, faithful listeners, welcome back to another episode of *Glogo’s Fourth Planet*, where we discuss the extraterrestrial busines... | **In from the Outside**
Glis did not expect Venerable Hall, filled to brimming with Mars’ Political Elite, to smell so *rotten.*
The sulfuric odors rankled his nose, yet the hundred leaders of United Mars seemed to revel in it. A security officer guided him past the rows of Lords and Ladies sitting in their stone-he... | 2015-10-05T09:26:04 | 2015-10-05T09:12:46 | 65 | 14 |
[WP] After time traveling to meet Jesus Christ, you are not satisfied with what you see, and eventually realize you are Judas. | While everyone hates Judas for what he did to Jesus, I instead, was fascinated with his life. If Jesus was foretold to die on the cross then it must have meant that Judas was planned to betray Jesus. How was that his fault? I quit my job and began to make a time machine to prove that Judas was innocent.
Little by litt... | I went to my time machine hidden in the back of the ancient synagog to see if it still worked because I was definitely ready to go back home.
It didn't.
Great, just great. I thought, and wandered back into the street. Now I'm stuck here with this asshole who thinks I'm his bestie or something, tells me he loves me ever... | 2017-06-08T07:33:16 | 2017-06-08T07:11:39 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | I did not know why my parents named me, "smudge," but when I was only 14, I discovered I was not adopted.
Both of my parents are white. But I am black. Tattoo ink black. At least, that is what it looks like from a distance. Freshman year in High School, I was bored and took a look at my hand under a disection microsco... | “John Smith. And fuckin.... John Smith. WHAT THE FUCK!” Andrea yelled, looking at her friends arm.
“I know right. Stupid.” Tally remarked. She’d had this reaction before.
“So ya gotta find two John Smith’s?”
“I hope so.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe I only need to find one.” | 2018-03-11T08:30:03 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 636 | 78 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
Don't have too much time, we move out in 10.
Long time no see. Haven't been able to write back, they've been keeping us on our feet for the last few weeks. Tell the goobers their uncle has permission to beat them if they get into the cabinets again. Tell Heather that the fish tank needs cleaned more ... | To my Love,
I don't know if you're still getting this, or if the post keeps on messing it up, but I want you to know that I'm doing this for you. The past few weeks have been hell, but thinking of you helps me to push forward. Speaking of which, how's our little man doing? I hope you went with Thomas. I've always like... | 2015-02-03T15:25:05 | 2015-02-03T13:14:11 | 113 | 14 |
[WP] An ancient evil has awakened to destroy the world, but is grossly outmatched by modern artillery. | Mogbola they had called it on the evening news. An ancient evil that last showed its unholy face when rickety huts dominated the landscape. In those days it had wrought terror and destruction unparalleled by any contemporary disaster. Now it had resurfaced again. Something about a fallen satellite. It was hard to remem... | It was all over pretty quickly. Helen had grown up poring over fantasy novels fetishizing the end of the world and the awakening of a great, ancient evil, and honestly, the real thing was pretty anticlimactic. The fact that she could watch a horror of the deep be annihilated in crystal-clear, high definition footage wh... | 2018-02-08T13:49:37 | 2018-02-08T09:07:08 | 171 | 112 |
[WP] "Oh shit, you survived it?" your best friend says to you, minutes after the global disappearance of the human race and the emergence of the Others. "What?" you ask, terrified and confused. "Normally, I have to fix it all by myself every cycle", he responds. | " So you mean to tell me that you're some sort of immortal being that resets all life on the planet and rebuilds society from scratch every 1,000 millenia. "
" Sounds about right "
"Huh"
"Yeah, pretty cool right"
"Kinda, the tiny blue things are a bit annoying though. You said you normally have to deal with this yo... | I blinked. Time seemed to hang still until I broke the silence after processing what just happened First off, what the fuck?!. Second. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?" "Chill, chill. So i might be what some people call god, sure. But i don't call myself God. I'm David, aren't I? Now, i guess i better give you the sitrep. Whenev... | 2019-06-10T07:18:52 | 2019-06-10T04:20:18 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] You find an enclyopedia of every lie you've ever been told. You become obsessed with the book and discover who really loves you and who doesn't. | He finally made it home after another of the countless days that had been dragging on as long as he could remember. It's a funny thing, time is. Slow when times are bad but washes past like a dream when the winds fill your sails.
Each day was getting longer than the last and he knew it. Something needed change but the... | "Alright everyone, quiet please", I ask, as my assembled friends and family setting in their seats, clearly confused and slightly uncomfortable.
The host of people, arranged with no particular order in a small auditorium at the local college, watched me carefully. It didn't take a genius to realize *something* was up.... | 2017-04-02T16:01:04 | 2017-04-02T08:57:31 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] You're a merchant in an RPG. Describe waiting for the hero to show back up and sell you junk.
Bonus if you incorporate an ear-worm store theme playing in the background [like this] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XruY72JamWc). | "What do you mean this is all you have?"
"It's all I got, lady. We don't have a regular shipment schedule here."
"So you're seriously out of health potions? Nothing in the warehouse or basement?"
"I don't have a warehouse or a basement. Like I told you, the same guy supplies everyone in Whiterun. Like it or not, the... | He prayed. Repeatedly.
"Oh, great Controllers, guiders of fate, Players of the great game, please have mercy on my pixels." The merchant bowed his head. "Please strike down your Messiah, the Player Character, and pick a new one."
The silence was answer enough.
"Oh, fine. If you can't kill your PC, can you please, ... | 2015-07-22T14:40:22 | 2015-07-22T13:42:10 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] People carry their personal Hells inside them. If they don't keep it under control, it spills out into the nearby landscape as a real, physical place. | *Hell is empty and all the devils are here*
The tattoo on her shoulder writhes in front of me as she dances under the heavy lights, flashing and turning as the music plays loud loud *loud*
She's weirdly pretty in a cocaine-high kind of way, dark smudges under her eyes and skin so pale I could have written my name ... | He stepped out of his blue truck, grabbing his bag he carried with him to work everyday. His gray hair blowing in the wind, he walked towards his house. You could see his determination merely by his gait, strong, tall, and dignified. He didn't have much, but an iron will and unbreakable determination has different valu... | 2014-04-12T06:47:41 | 2014-04-12T05:58:20 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | It happens from time to time, a paladin gets a little too strong they start to think they have a destiny and are all about championing good. They start messing with the world's balance pushing it too far towards good. That's when the Consortium sends me in. Paladins are easy to deal with when you know how to push their... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/dnd] [Is it me or does this just sound like a great idea?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/aiil4d/is_it_me_or_does_this_just_sound_like_a_great_idea/)
- [/r/rpg_brasil] [\[WP\] The DM hands you the paper. You're j... | 2019-01-21T20:21:57 | 2019-01-21T19:09:12 | 80 | 16 |
[WP]: As standard protocol, each new, intelligent alien life is judged not by what they say they are, but by an evaluation from a representative of their servants or slave species. Fascinatingly, the fate of humanity lands on the opinion of a little dog named Lucy. | Lucy name. Called Lucy name name. Shelter Lucy that’s my name. Lucy Lucy Lucy. Cold iron cage meat! Meat meat meat! Warm sun outside touch air breathe air inside need outside want outside Lucy! I’m Lucy! Lucky Lucy, everyone calls me Lucky Lucy, loved Lucy. Tumor. Ugly word don’t like Tumor. Sores pus eyes hurt lights ... | Prancing down the steps from the ship the Large Mutt walked to the end of the boardwalk to the waiting human.
In a voice slightly higher than a chihuahua Draco announced that the Earth is fine...fine I say! Surprised by the vocalization Mike jumped before returning to Draco to give him a quick hug and excited pet.
T... | 2018-10-02T09:10:22 | 2018-10-02T08:28:27 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] A group of space explorers decided to visit Earth, a long forgotten planet of a long forgotten empire. | Reesha settled herself on the ground next to the comforting warmth of the team’s travel stove. She untied her heavy pack with her upper set of arms, letting it fall to the ground behind her while her lower pair of arms busied themselves preparing her meal.
“Can you believe we’re here?” she said to Tavik, the only othe... | ## The Return To Earth
*This is a continuation of a story I started with an identical writing prompt. You can read the beginning of the story here: |* [Part 1&2](https://www.reddit.com/r/CataclysmicRhythmic/comments/m62tay/the_return_to_earth_part_1_2/) *|* [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/CataclysmicRhythmic/co... | 2021-03-27T10:22:13 | 2021-03-27T10:03:23 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] You are a 35 year old working the most mundane office job. you come home and crash on the couch. You then wake up 21 years ago on your first day of high school. What happens next?
[deleted] | The tv made a buzzing noise that woke me up from my sleep,did i leave that on? I thought i went straight to sleep, what time did i came home anyway? 9 pm? 10 pm? Chris overworked our ass again and traffic was a nightmare as always. "i probably didn't even remove my shoes before going to sleep,but i couldnt feel my shoe... | I lay on my childhood bed, just staring at the wall full of childhood memories. A mirror hung just right to reflect itself on the other wall, flanked by posters of Greenday, sports medals, and a framed article about my mother passing away stared back at me in abject horror.
It was March 2001, outside the garden had ... | 2022-03-01T04:16:34 | 2022-03-01T03:54:44 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | You pop your Zinger in and crack open an energy drink to chase it with. It was only 1/3rd, good for a quick power nap. You step back over to your booth and monitor the customers as they scan their groceries.
Nobody needs help, the machines are practically decorative at this point. The AI camera system runs the show, ... | As I eat my last rations in the war-torn ruins of the former city of London, I cannot help but reflect on our sins. I have no hope of anyone finding these notes, but nonetheless, I hope to keep my sanity for a few more days before I succumb to the madness.
Will future generations ever forgive us?
I doubt they will un... | 2022-03-18T10:24:56 | 2022-03-18T10:06:35 | 190 | 45 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | Ninety percent.
I walked into the room with a feeling of rough harm, a strange notion. The white room, filled with the sterile smell of a hospital took a moment to recognise. I was only in here the other day getting a diagnosis for my strep throat. Such a coincidence that I should be here again so soon. A voice churn... | The newest form of virtual reality is beyond even our wildest imaginations. Not only can we interact with one another, but we can actually feel one another. Well, at least feel as though we can. The population has grown exponentially over the last several decades and we're told over and over again how a test is comi... | 2016-06-11T10:21:07 | 2016-06-11T09:34:45 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Years ago, when visiting a "haunted" house in the oldest neighborhood in the city, Dave had first felt what he now referred to as "The Pressure". It was a sense of dread, a prickling of the hairs on the back of the neck. Every sense in his body would key up, warning him that Something was coming, and it wasn't friendly... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:22:19 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] You've lived in this cave for hundreds of years. You know every sound, every disturbance. You can hear the footsteps, a young human. He thinks your asleep, you observe. His steps are mousy, they tremble with fear. His posture speaks of abuse. It's obvious that someone else put him up to this. | Tap. tap. tap tap. The slow, hesitant sounds of uncertainty, of both footing and presence. Then, I flick my tongue in the shadows. A child, not even ten. The monsters have grown brazen since my last visit. I woukd have to take care.
"I-I'm scared..." A whisper, pleading for help as much as stating the obvious,... | "Hello," My voice stretches the word, dry and wispy as I shift amongst the walls, "what do we have here, then?" He stiffens, then, as he searches for me, his eyes move yet his body is stone. They dart around to darkness, hardly able to discern any detail, "I-I am Jonah. I am s-s-supposed to slay you." His voice tremble... | 2021-03-25T05:26:37 | 2021-03-25T04:11:38 | 48 | 34 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | Writing this on my phone at work, apologies for any mistakes.
A lovely person (u/blu_ski) has narrated this story: https://youtu.be/ozrQ-fu6nV0
And another lovely person! (u/Spartawolf): https://youtu.be/WjN13TVf238
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The Atrium was abuzz with chatter, many language... | Traveling faster than light is an elegant business, or at least it’s supposed to be. Space needs to be folded in such a way that you can jump to your destination without mucking about with all the space I’m between, and the engineers and navigators of the galactic community had developed a beautiful algorithm to handle... | 2021-01-09T11:57:45 | 2021-01-09T09:19:30 | 2,685 | 513 |
[WP] At birth, everyone is given an object to protect that is tied directly to their life. If the object is damaged then the person is hurt, too. If the object is destroyed then the person dies. | My father was a violent man. He hurt many other people before he met my mother. Even after falling in love, he was still a violent man, he just kept it contained much better. When mom found out she was pregnant, both were elated. My father had one request. "If it's a boy, I select his Link. Otherwise, choose what... | *Child of Life, you protect not just yourself but all of us.*
Some people wear their Charge. Some people leave it locked within their own home. Some people make it so mundane that you couldn't possibly find the right one, which in my mind, is incredibly lucky.
Our Charges are not toys or trinkets, they are extensio... | 2015-04-18T07:25:53 | 2015-04-18T05:42:31 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] You're walking down the street, when suddenly someone yells "That's it! I can't do this any longer" and takes off his wig. Everyone stops, and one by one everyone does the same. Turns out, everyone is bald. Except you. | "That's it!" said the man with an enormous pompadour in front of Bruce, "I can't do this any longer!"
With that, he yanked his thick hair off of his head. A loud ripping sound made it seem so painful, Bruce felt the pain on his scalp. But the man didn't show any pain and made the bizarre action seem effortless. It was... | I was walking back from the supermarket with my daughter when I heard an angry yell.
“I’m done! I can’t do this anymore! The constant itch has pained me for too long!” The voice grated my ears.
Until the last sentence, I thought the man was just breaking up with his girlfriend, but he mentioned an itch. Maybe it was ... | 2019-05-28T10:27:51 | 2019-05-28T08:54:34 | 123 | 18 |
[WP] Where do bad guys get their legions of goons? Well, it's all thanks to you. You specialize in supplying grunts of a wide variety to aspiring super villains, whether they need masked men with bad aim or hideous/sexy merfolk to guard their underwater lair. | Chad looked at his assignment and sighed. *Things were so much easier at Level 1,* he thought.
He didn't hate working for GoonCo. Not really. He got to travel around and meet interesting people, and the medical benefits were top notch. They had to be, when your job was to get beat up by heroes. And certainly, the ... | "You need what?" I asked over the terrible quality of the office speaker phone. "A legion of hive mind insectoid androids. Big menacing looking fucks with MUTHAFUKIN high frequency claws!" A rather enthusiastic QueenBee shouted. The incessant buzzing in the background only made the conversation harder to hold over the ... | 2017-03-23T10:11:48 | 2017-03-23T06:59:11 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus inside every single human. Centuries into the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | "This isn't the first apocalypse humanity has faced, you know"
"I know, Dad, but do I really have to go into battle?"
"Yes. If you don't scare them off by the fact that you don't die, you could get a taste of alien blood. Your uncle Jeremy got a taste and said that it was a delicacy."
"Uncle Jeremy was weird *before... | "We've been planning on this war for years. We know everything about those bastard humans. It's time we finally take it over." The commander alien screams as the ships descended on the ground. Their first target was obvious. They talked so much about us destroying New York, so they're going to attack it first.
The com... | 2022-09-13T20:43:27 | 2022-09-13T20:16:22 | 216 | 133 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | I could hear the rituals from the other dorm. Chanting, Latin words thrown about like expletives, great noises of wooden staves clanking on the carpeted floor. Sounds like daemons screaming and darkbeasts roaring. Steel oils and serpent’s blood extracts mixed to form a potion that might seduce whatever creature rose fr... | “No! I can’t do this stupid spell!” I screamed and flailed my arms. I felt I had hit something on accident and turned to the large wobbly circle on the floor.
It was a bag of chips, half empty (or half full...), limited time flavour of dragon tail.
I was too lazy to pick it up, so I chanted the spell used... | 2019-04-05T16:11:29 | 2019-04-05T15:46:22 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] As the last survivor of the apocalypse, in a fit of boredom, you start commenting "last" on every video on YouTube. One day, you receive a notification that your comment has been liked.
Wow, I did *not* expect such a huge turnout for my first ever prompt. The prompt itself arose from a friend and I doing some ran... | As I clicked on yet another link, a glance at the title woke me from my stupor.
**US attack on Iran sparks new wave of WWIII memes**
It seemed inconceivable that not so long ago this was the reality. Fresh internet humor about the planet's impending doom. The latest bunch of pop culture references and dark jokes to r... | I stared out at the street. The lamps lighting up the night, houses automatic lights turning on to prevent burglary. At a glance no one would know it was deserted, of course they wouldn’t, they were all dead. All of them. Apart from me.
I didn’t know how I had survived, maybe the fact I had been locked in a bunker or ... | 2020-01-13T12:40:19 | 2020-01-07T09:22:12 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] You are aware that it is an impostor in the kitchen wearing your mother's skin, you can see the crimson stitching on the back of her neck. | Mommy never really cared
What I had to say
She preferred the quiet and
Whenever I went away
She would say the meanest things
Or I would be ignored
Or she would make me stand for hours
If I said I was bored
She told me Daddy left us
Because he hated me
And that she stayed because she had to
Not b... | Mum stood over the sink, elbow-deep in bubbles. The stitch on the back of her neck was coming open. I had to say it.
"You're not my mom."
She turned, quizzical. "What are you talking about, honey?" The imposter had the mannerisms down to the finest movements. Smile lines bloomed, the eyebrows bounced ever-so-slightly... | 2016-02-26T09:44:10 | 2016-02-26T07:15:21 | 151 | 31 |
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