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[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | *Diiing! Diiing! Diiing!*
"Hello, this is Tommy"
"Hey Tommy, It's your mother here, it looks like we got some sort of a situation to resolve here, could you please tell me-"
"Ha, Voicemail! Leave your message."
"Dammit! I can never get a hold of him! In these times of need, and he still pulls these stupid pranks of... | This is my first time writing this type of stuff so please bear with me. :)
Story begins:
Me: My whole Family are known for doing illegal things, heck even I admit they do those stuff.
Me: But I know you're wondering why wouldn't they want me to join in their.....well..... escapades?
Agent: Tell me why?
Me: Well..... | 2017-06-04T10:17:12 | 2017-06-04T05:32:37 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | Humanity learned many lessons in the dark days after the Nuclear Apocalypse. Our inability to understand each other led to mistrust, and that mistrust almost exterminated us all. A team of brilliant scientists developed a potential solution: the Memetic Link. Implanted in the gene code of all humans, it taps into the c... | "Hello. Jon here. How can I help you?", a stereotypical Indian voice pretending to fake an American accent replied back. After all these years, couldn't the actually named Jogender, but fake named Tech Support Jon had not shed the weird accent. Even though he was probably not Indian. It had almost become an hallmark of... | 2017-04-07T11:40:12 | 2017-04-07T10:58:56 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] You have the ability to know a lie when you hear it, and to know the truth when lied to. Society appoints you to a high judiciary position, but there's nobody to check if YOU'RE lying when you decide justice. Which case do you remember most?
Edit: Hi, guys! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who visited or... | Grand magistrate Vield looked down from his raised stand into the courtroom. A child stood in the defendant’s stand, accused of murder. She glared down at the desk in front of her. Her representative had ignored her for the entire course of the proceedings, shuffling papers to and fro and making a big show of not doing... | I walked out of the court room. Cameras swirl around me. Questions get sucked away as a walk forwards. They know to move. Microphones surround me as I step off the sidewalk. Then as I open the door to my car they back off. They know not to scratch the paint. I climb in and microphones threaten to follow. I shut the doo... | 2018-05-15T21:01:00 | 2018-05-15T20:18:02 | 742 | 231 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | "Hey" James said as he slumped down on the couch beside me, beer in hand. "Hey, it's OK".
Well, it technically wasn't, but I didn't really want to argue with him either, so I just sat there and contemplated how to best kill myself.
"It really wasn't your fault that you got fired..." I felt a familiar bitter taste in ... | I was shocked. How could it be? After all this time.....I didn’t know what to do so I ran. What else could I do? I ran as far as I could and ended up in some hell forsaken forest. I just needed time to think. I sat on the edge of a broken and twisted tree, trying to regain my thoughts. Then it hit me, I need to ... | 2018-05-12T05:24:41 | 2018-05-12T05:15:18 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] It's another murder case, plain and simple. With Watson out of commission, Holmes heads to the nearby police precinct in search of a temporary partner for the case. Instead, the precinct gives him Detective Jake Peralta | Sherlock Holmes hadn't been to New York in a long time, but after 22B Baker Street had been searched after a bomb threat for the third time that summer, Sherlock decided he had to go somewhere else for a little while.
He had found an apartment. Old and run down, so the landlord did not check up on it too often. This ... | I stood over the bed, the disinfectant smell of the hospital burning my nose. The metronomic beep of the heart monitor and the hollow in and out sussuration of the respirator were the only sounds as I watched over the body of my closest friend, my only friend.
John Watson and I had solved many cases togeth... | 2020-01-20T06:52:15 | 2020-01-20T06:45:07 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] In a world where what doesn't kill you literally makes you stronger, you run a clinic that gives people near-death experiences. | I will make you perfect. I will make you beautiful.
Another boy today, this one can't be more than sixteen years old. In the many years I've run this clinic I can confidently say that men are just as insecure as women. The number of female and male patients is pretty much the same and most of their problems are also ... | “I know I forgot something, just what was it again?” Andrew said in the car.
“You didn’t forget anything hun, and if you did I would’ve remembered,” his wife replied.
“I know, but there’s just something nagging me,” he said. “Let me check just one more time.”
“We’re going to be late like this hun,” she said. “Just ... | 2016-08-21T07:14:40 | 2016-08-21T05:53:05 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | We were at Walmart...Dad told me I could pick anything up for my birthday present, thats about the first time I noticed it, there it was.... On the floor a distinct green line and on the opposite side a red line, this one was a little less brighter, it had a very bleak bright to it.
I followed the green line to see w... | Cast:....Assholio, A Gentleman of Reddit
Scene:....A Downtown Mall. People are hurrying by,
carrying cups of coffee.
Assholio stops abruptly, and looks at the ground in front
of his feet. He addresses the audience.
ASSHOLIO:
This day, perhaps, may be the day I veer,
From this line... | 2017-08-23T08:58:51 | 2017-08-23T08:23:34 | 100 | 12 |
[WP] "It's human-made, you know!" Reverse the usual fantasy scene where somebody gushes over elf/dwarf/whatever craftsmanship. | Gilani strolled through the shop, yawning. Nothing here was worthy of her attention. The shop keep was trying his best to not stare, but Gilani could feel his expectant eyes on her. Making a sale to the Queen of Stalart would be an event that brought business to his shop for a generation.
Gilani enjoyed helping out th... | Elinir crouched down and stared into the ghostly depths of the mysterious black sphere, still perched on its silk-laden plinth. "It must be of goblin design" he announced. The others looked amongst each other and nodded in agreement. "I've never seen anything like it" he continued, "it seems to be housing its very o... | 2014-09-11T12:25:43 | 2014-09-11T10:33:41 | 69 | 11 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | "You bet on the human?" my friend asks. "Tool-reliant creatures never do well."
"Just got to get one with the right tools," I say. "We use tools, don't we?"
"It's not the same."
"Sure it is. If you had a weapon, instead of food, even you'd do pretty well. Have you seen their planet's record?" It was not a good reco... | I receive the confirmation that we got all the 150 species and we transfer them to the planet Terranavi. I’m the chief engineer of this planet and we needed such a planet to host this sort of event. We collect different species from different planets and putting them on a piece of rock that only habitable for some of t... | 2020-09-13T17:30:40 | 2020-09-13T17:01:43 | 261 | 41 |
[WP] The aliens conquered earth swiftly and violently with little issue, but they're about to experience a type of resistance they've never seen before: peaceful protest |
For thousands of years our species ruled over the galaxy. The empire is an ever expanding, ever conquering machine. We were, sorry we ARE unstoppable. This tiny planet on the far edge of the galaxy had put up a good fight, they had spirit and I appreciated their grit and tenacity. But eventually they lost. Of cours... | The humans are broken. Not like I wrote in my log a month after arriving at this beautiful bountiful planet where their spirit was broken and their will to fight dissolved and they began the arduous task of collecting resources to be sent back home, but they are now actually broken individual; they no longer work. It a... | 2021-05-10T12:41:37 | 2021-05-10T12:00:48 | 68 | 14 |
[WP] Your Galactic zoo just received a shipment of 24 humans. You have to build a habitat base on very little information. | The humans have been very listless lately. When we first welcomed them to the zoo, they explored with great enthusiasm, making loud and seemingly joyous vocalisations, and happily interacting with the guests. There were a few issues with customising their enclosure, but they finally had everything they needed. And now,... | Why do these humans behave so strangely? They shiver, which is a waste of their energy, they constantly bump into each other and trip at the smallest obstacle. They started grouping together for some reason. What are we missing? I thought to myself, checking the document again. Average temperatures on Earth is 13.9 °C,... | 2022-06-29T01:57:59 | 2022-06-28T21:40:28 | 104 | 68 |
[WP] Each year mankind hibernates during winter. This year you're one of the chosen watchers that stays awake during the long night. | **Excess.**
Humans were prone to it. In 2017, at least three in ten were known to have some sort of substance addiction. By 2050, it was eight in ten. America had fought the war on drugs, and failed. Not only because of the racial targeting it promoted, or because of the commitment to punishment over treatment - No, t... | "I'll see you on the other side, love," I whisper, kissing the corner of her lips.
"Are you sure you won't get lonely, Qora?" she asks, cupping my cheek.
"I'll be fine, Cienne," I promise. Smiling, she nods and lays down in her sleeping pod. Mine, beside hers, will remain unused this year.
As the cover slides over h... | 2017-11-08T12:07:04 | 2017-11-08T11:44:56 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] After being told she had an accident and had "gone to heaven", his mind exploded in a white hot rage. 7 year old Roger wants his kitty back and God doesn't know what's about to hit him. | On a cloudy Winter day, 7 year old Roger ran throughout his neighborhood, denouncing God and screaming profanities that no 7 year old should know.
Then the clouds parted, letting heavens light through, and he heard a voice rumble through the skies.
“Oy, listen here you little shit. I don’t have to take this from anyo... | "Roger?! What are you doing here?" A look of shock spread across his face, long white beard drooping on the floor, gazing at the very familiar waddling humanoid. "YOU KNOW WHAT IM HERE FOR!" as Rogers whiney voice fills the air, screaming "He was my cat...MY CAT YOU WHITE HAIRED FU--" "You had him 5 minutes, and let hi... | 2021-04-13T13:29:25 | 2021-04-13T12:33:03 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | The old man sat alone and waited for Death.
It always came this time of year; just before spring, in the last days of long nights and long shadows. There was no fanfare to his arrival. Death simply was where it once wasn't - namely, at the seat across from the old man.
"Are you ready?"
Death's voice was, much like i... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T17:24:04 | 149 | 16 |
[WP] You're a Super Villian, and honestly it isn't a bad job. But one hero always harasses you even when you're off the clock. Walking in the park, in the grocery store, getting a haircut, he always wants to 'Stop your evil plan'. You're left with one option: Complain to his manager. |
ring ring... ring ring... ri- “Good morning.”
“Ah yes. Good morning, Mr Peterson is it?”
“Michael Peterson, Yes.”
“Senior editor of the City Times?”
“The same.”
“I wish to have a word with you about one of your staff.”
“I’m sorry but I’m quite busy, I can give you the number of human resour-“
“No, that won’t d... | I forced my russian accent as I complained to the manager.
"It was my daughter birthday!!!!"
"Look sir, I will try talk to him, but as you know, he is "a loose cannon in the police department".
For one week all was calm, but i knew he was inside his shitty apartament, connecting those detective dots, but this is a... | 2019-08-01T19:28:52 | 2019-08-01T17:43:19 | 52 | 28 |
[WP]You possess an ability that seems relatively harmless, albeit useful, at first glance, yet on a deeper look is scarily powerful. Nothing can be taken from you against your will | It began small.
At one year, my mother had tried to take my baby blanket to get washed. The poor blanket only got washed when I took my baths after that. The next time it saw the inside of a washing machine, I was five.
In school, the bullies tried to take my lunch, my pencil case, my friends, my partner. They tried ... | This makes me think of Cypher (douglas ramsey) of X-men. He has a seemingly innocuous ability to translate languages. But he's also able to "read his opponents' body language and the patterns of their combat moves in order to counter the attacks of several opponents attacking him at once. By considering the exercise of... | 2021-09-11T16:46:55 | 2021-09-11T15:10:01 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You been a bullied outcast your entire life despite your pure heart and kindness. One day a horrible prank for you goes wrong, leaving you to die. Before your final breath, Death appears in white robes, and offers you a golden scythe with a name engraved on it: Karma. | As I lay dying, my right hand clenched my left pocket, hard. My clothes completely drenched in my own sweat. Unable to bear the heartache. Every few seconds or so the pain spiked so bad, I went blind with pain, bright lights shooting before my eyes. I knew my time was up, no one's going to be able to help me. I'm going... | I lay face down in a pool of my own blood. Every inch of my body aches. There re deep cuts and wounds all over my body but none as deep as the 3 inch deep gash they left in my head.The blood continues to leak on to the solid concrete base of the parking lot, soaking the already wet patch around my head and turning it... | 2019-04-19T05:36:16 | 2019-04-19T04:49:52 | 144 | 33 |
[WP] You are an Oracle whose prophecies always come true, no matter how absurd. Only problem is, you've made every single one up on the spot. | I was feeding my cat when Satan, the slanderer, the lord of flies, harbinger of doom and eater of souls, appeared in a puff of smoke into one of my floral print kitchen chairs.
I'd say it was a surprising turn of events, but after the last few predictions it would take a lot more than a cloven hoof and a pair of goats... | Even those blessed with great power have a hard time out-living their past. Whether through accidents, irrational whims, or a spur of the moment reaction to a childhood enemy, there will always be damage. The face of a parent who lost their child because a kid said his bully would "turn into a blimp and be attacked by ... | 2020-05-01T10:33:45 | 2020-05-01T09:51:38 | 121 | 18 |
[WP]”So…you peasants actually want me to terrorize your village?” “Yes. Without all those heroes paying for supplies, lodgings, and resurrection spells since the last monster was defeated the village’s economy has tanked.” | "Let me get this straight. You want me - a necromancer-" he was by technicality, but that was irrelevant "- to send waves of undying abominations to your rather quaint little village... to boost the economy by summoning travellers?"
"Heroes, sir." The farmer said. The only real distinguishing things about him were his... | "You smoothskins are weird..." said the kobold leader "What's in it for us? You hear them up, they slaughter us and then what!? You wait for the next group to arrive and then you massacre them too?"
his rage was evident in his outburst, tho the village chief didn't seem bothered by the sudden aggression
"Oh no no, y... | 2022-02-10T11:25:59 | 2022-02-10T10:32:50 | 367 | 271 |
[WP] Hell is not a "prison" that God sends those who aren't loyal or faithful. It is more akin to the "quarantine" box that He sends corrupted files. Anomalies that quantum physics naturally develop are rerouted here. Occasionally, this will include people. | The falling rain pitted the man’s flesh like it might have been made of sand, divoting and darkening him as it hit. Bullets tearing into meat. Occasionally, clumps of his woody flesh would dislodge, dangle by threads, and the man would scoop them up and pat them back into his body.
He hadn’t always been like this. A b... | Jo’s feet had specks of blood this time, but the pain paled in comparison with the pain of burning. It had been worth it to push as hard as possible in the hopes of finding shelter, but to have run so hard all night, in a night that was so long, and still see nothing…
“We can try burying ourselves in the sand,” Christ... | 2021-08-14T08:08:13 | 2021-08-14T06:19:38 | 561 | 58 |
[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... | My transmutation circle shined and I came face to face with Truth. I knew my research was trustworthy, that the truth's form was undefined, but the smile on his face was so genuine that it cast a shadow of doubt over my whole being. Time only exists as it is perceived in this state, and the feeling that this moment o... | 2016-11-19T01:55:33 | 2016-11-19T00:55:02 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] As an atheist, you always believed that there was nothing after death. After your last breath, you discover that you were wrong, but that no one else was right about what's after either.
Mainly, there is something after death, but religions are wrong about it. | I had an excellent death. After that it was all downhill.
My death happened on one of those rare sunny January days on Vancouver Island when the omnipresent gray clouds part and the outdoors beckons. Jane and I had taken a leisurely drive from our “luxury senior living” (tiny) apartment in Nanaimo out to Lake Cowichan... |
I should be dead. I remember how each breath from my withered mouth drew in less air, how my aching body grew too weak to support itself. I remember those final moments leading up to the sweet release of death.
I know I died. So why am I still alive?
At least, I think I'm alive. I'm certainly not dead.
I think I'... | 2021-07-01T16:30:32 | 2021-07-01T15:36:52 | 99 | 63 |
[WP] You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads "Why don't you have any kidneys? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?" | Worst hungover ever. And cold, oh god I hope I didn't lose my phone and wallet.
Wait... My mind slowly banishes the fog. I wasn't drinking last night, haven't had anything for the last few years. But I do feel like absolute shit.
I take in my shabby surroundings, a tub with ice and meltwater, a dirty bathroom, some m... | Santiago de Buille Preshton of Arch Lambert Avenue, Suite 2201, one Mister Francois Marie-Adem Langlois was once a respectable man.
Now being found in a place most distasteful to the man of high tastes, he found himself in a rather most uncomfortable position. An apparent ice cold bath with several incisions along h... | 2015-12-31T03:35:05 | 2015-12-30T22:31:42 | 143 | 70 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "And who can tell me about the events of the first cycle?"
Professor Gooblevork watched his Galactic History class intently through triplicate eyestalks. None seemed particularly interested in his lecture.
"How about you, Shrdmrn?" He pointed at a particularly bored student in the first row. Or maybe he was just gass... | “Your Grace,” Eddie said, bowing. The King gestured for him to rise in one quick, almost bored, motion. Eddie rose, meeting the King’s eyes. His normally serene face had _twisted_ the past few weeks. The man kept his gray-tinged beard even, but it had grown wildly. Uneven and unlike His Imperial Majesty.
“What news d... | 2017-03-05T22:47:46 | 2017-03-05T22:41:12 | 1,151 | 60 |
[WP] The programmers of the world wake up to find that they can do magic by writing (and with focused speaking) programs. What are C, C++, Java, Python, Haskell and other major languages like? Which are 'regular magic', 'beginner's magic' and 'dark arts' etc.? What is your day like?
How does a person cast: "shoot an a... | The man sat in a room. Or what was a room. His dorm room to be precise. The police would be showing up in a moment. His CS prof sat next to him.
"Well, here's the problem. You passed the address of the value, not the value."
"Yeah" His eyes seemed far away. Thousand mile stare. Any war vet would recognize it.
"You... | I had just woken up and got myself a bowl of cereal when I noticed that my roommate was performing another of his 'rituals', in one of the more obscure languages. He was just waving his hands around and shouting a few variations of OOG! and Oog?. At first I didn't think too much of it, because it was simply too weird. ... | 2015-04-13T09:31:38 | 2015-04-13T08:21:12 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Who am I? I could tell you my real name, but you won’t remember it. It’s an average name, easily forgotten. I could even describe myself, but nothing about me will stand out. I’m average build, of average height, hell I even have average skin tone and hair color. Want a picture? Run a composite image of every person,... | 'How...how is this possibe?'
The supervillain clutched at his broken arm and fell to the floor. He tried his best to back away from the advancing man, but he was spent. His workshop and maniacal contraptions burned around him. So much preparation, so much work. He was so certain his plan was going to work, now it ... | 2018-10-24T08:42:32 | 2018-10-24T08:09:35 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | I curled up against the hearthfire, pulling my wool blanket close. The black metal walls around me seemed to radiate the everfrost cold of the fimbulwinter that raged still in the overworld.
The walls were turning white as the carbon dioxide in my breath froze against the walls. I shuddered.
Even through the 20-foot ... | \[A suspended room floating in the Bering Sea\]
Mister Pigeleti sits in a ordinate chair sipping hot coffee as he gazes out of a small viewing port. "maybe I'll see him coming" he thinks to himself as he stares out into the ocean. A few dolphins dance gracefully in the distance as a ever so faint breathing is heard.
... | 2021-01-29T16:20:11 | 2021-01-29T14:00:12 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | The figure in darkness glared at his computer monitor, honestly ready to smash it like he has the first few dozen. But he knew it wouldn’t change what he was seeing, and that infuriated him. “Damn so called heroes…” Shade spat.
Upon the monitor he wanted to smash was another news report, one about a recent bombing. N... | "How long has she been trapped inside this emptiness." Cypress wondered as her consciousness opened once again.
Days? Weeks? Months? Years?
It didn't really matter for her. She can have all the time in the world but that wouldn't give her the way to escape.
The only option is to save her from the outside even if ... | 2021-12-28T22:07:34 | 2021-12-28T22:07:13 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | We rushed to the hospital as soon as they called. After so many years, you tend to get used to the fact that your loved one in the hospital may never wake up. There were plans... discussions, late in the night, when mum and dad thought that I was asleep.
They talked about how keeping sis alive was draining into their... | "Miss. Turpin, my name is John Becker, I'm Chief of Operations at Claremont Hospital. I am here to explain everything."
Carla Turpin's family sat by her bedside; her Mum weeping, her Father staring on solemnly, and her sister trying not to laugh.
Carla lay across three beds. Her legs and arms draping over the sides, ... | 2017-08-02T06:33:47 | 2017-08-02T06:25:55 | 156 | 51 |
[WP] Any person you punch in anger is cured of all disease and is given perfect health for the rest of their life. The truth of this has gotten out and now everyone is out to piss you off. | For most of my life, I had a slow temper. Like some kind of zen monk, man. Normally, nothing bothered me.
That thing with Mark is another story. When I found out that he had been cheating on Sarah with some skank... I couldn't hold it in anymore. *She deserves so much better than him*! I just funneled years and years... | The cartel'd had me strapped to that chair for forty-eight hours with only my right arm free.
"C'mon," said my latest torturer, digging the cigarette butt into my neck impatiently as I screamed and screamed. "C'mon, buddy, get ANGRY!"
"I'm trying!" I shrieked, flailing my bruised and tender fist against his abdomen. ... | 2015-02-23T16:02:40 | 2015-02-23T15:46:39 | 306 | 10 |
[WP] You are Death, slaughterer of billions. Unfortunately, God’s PR department worries that people have become too afraid of you lately and haven’t been enjoying heaven as much as a result, so now it’s up to you to make the process of dying more entertaining for humanity. | *It is your time*
The old man shrunk himself as much as he could in his worn leather chair, his face contorted in fear. A shaking finger extended, though the question died on his lips. I rested my scythe over one black clad shoulder, my flame lit eyes peering at him from deep within my cowl.
*Yes, I am Death. And you... | "I WILL DO NO SUCH THING!" Death slammed his large clenched fists on the round table between him and God. "Don't forget your job, we need to cultivate the best possible environment for progress. Humans have lost their way and have no common enemy. You must be the thing that unites them." Death was clearly irrate and ye... | 2018-07-27T08:17:01 | 2018-07-27T07:37:39 | 107 | 34 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | A week ago I was an elite member of the royal guard, doing my duty as always. I was the leader of the four female guards in the defense troop. That was until the new king, Harrion the fourth, decided that his troops would be better off with new recruits and decided to fire all of us who served for more than a decade.
... | *An interview with Commander Juan dola Cruz, former Captain-General of King Ferdinand. He provided unique valuable insights on the demise of the Mad king. After my interview with him, I can't help but think that one wrong decision lead to the fall of a dynasty lasting 300 years*
The day the kingdom fell was the day I ... | 2021-02-28T03:11:04 | 2021-02-28T02:31:53 | 310 | 107 |
[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. | We were fortunate that both of these names were on his back instead of a body part he could see. When we bathed him, we made sure he never saw them. When he was old enough to shower and change himself, however, we had to spill the beans. "You are not to look at these names," we told him. I'm proud of our son, he unders... | “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.” | 2018-03-11T07:37:56 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 331 | 78 |
[WP] One day, whilst interviewing for a new job, you sneeze. The interviewer blesses you, which ordinarily wouldn’t be a problem. Except for the fact that they are secretly an angel, and you are secretly a demon. | Flames sparked from her fingertips and the top of Neshral's already bright red hair, igniting into a fiery halo. Frantically she beat her hands together, putting out the fire. She and the man jumped at the same time, but Neshral was faster, snatching the glass from the desk. She dumped the water over her head, extingui... | "You alright there? A few of our employees get hay fever around this time of year. Here have a tissue and wipe those tears."
"I'm......*weeeeeeezzzz* fine! Just. FINE! *sob* Not sure *Weeeezzz* what came over me. Must be *Ugh* allergic or somethin. Ya was sayin?"
"Well yes, about your resume. You mention that you'r... | 2018-08-19T20:17:12 | 2018-08-19T17:19:00 | 311 | 99 |
[WP] "Good to see you, Mr. Bond," the Queen said, sliding a file across her desk. "Your next target is a certain so-called detective who has been prying too deeply into national secrets." Bond flips open the file, glancing down at the name. "Sherlock Holmes." | \*This is my first ever post, and I haven't written anything in a long time, so forgive the weak writing\*
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"Is this some kind of joke Your Majesty?"
3 years of being Mr Bond's personal aide and I had never seen him question an assignment, much less from the Queen herself. "Not at all, it's... | "Shaken, not stirred."
Bond, his tuxedo pressed, his dress shoes tight, sits at a bar opposite the craps table. The women around him all wear glossy red dresses, the men entertain them with great feats of gambling. Some fill up with drinks, drowning away their tremendous losses. Many are rich enough not to care.
Such... | 2019-11-04T21:21:38 | 2019-11-04T20:33:50 | 379 | 100 |
[WP] considered the worlds best thief people call you 'shadow'. No one knows who you are, not your gender, your age, anything. Then, one day, you find a note slipped into your pocket... | My fingers touched the folded paper in my pocket and my heart stopped. The city beat on relentlessly. People passing each other, minor incidental contacts, that didn’t even register. Millions of them every day. I used to use them to make a living when I first started out as a street pickpocket. Before I realized I was ... | I was a shadow. No one knew my true form, some considered me a monster while others considered me an edgy human with a love of sharp blades. I considered myself neither; I was a shadow. I was the darkness behind someone, the looming threat that seemed oh so natural. I was that rustling that made one look over their sho... | 2020-11-11T00:35:08 | 2020-11-10T23:38:56 | 62 | 25 |
[WP]You are a guard in a fantasy world. You notice a man in elegant armor kick a chicken in the streets. In your lawful rage, you manage to kill this man in the name of justice. To your dismay, you realize you just killed The Chosen One. You just doomed the world. | "Well, he shouldn't have been kicking chickens. Those belong to old man Greery, and the last thing that poor old bastard needs is someone brutalizing his livestock."
Nobody responds, they're all just staring at the corpse. The chosen one. I'm so fired. "Look, just... think about if it had been literally anyone el... | "Where is the Chosen One? You killed her," the old man said. His tone was surprisingly calm, considering the news.
"Wait," Guard Townsend said, "what do you mean, 'I killed her'? I've only killed a few bandits and a vandal. Obviously, those people were not the Chosen One. I mean, if the Chosen One is supposed to ... | 2017-06-13T08:17:04 | 2017-06-13T08:07:54 | 533 | 92 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. |
“…And when the oppressors finally face their doom, they will know why is it that I’m called The Grudge!” I hammered the steel podium in front of me with a fist and watched it crumple like a tin can. The wave of stunned silence in the great field was breached by a triumphant uproar. My soldiers cried my name in reve... | Row upon row of Deadly Ninja Fighter Robots lined up in front of the Lady Torture, armed with a variety of shiny new dangerous weapons.
Lady Torture herself a Raven haired beauty, clad in leather and lycra, cackled from her podium.
"Excellent! My new army of Ninjabots will lay waste to Atro city! Not even the Power He... | 2020-04-14T06:09:54 | 2020-04-14T05:49:42 | 320 | 193 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | My whole life I've been a slave. My mother was a slave too, so I never knew another way.
When I was young, I was happy to subject myself to the will of another. First my mother, and her master.
Then, the travelers came to my home and took me away. I went willingly. They taught me I had power, but they insisted on... | That arrogant, **airheaded,** *asinine* fool. Such potential, and yet he wastes his graces on the lowest of his subjects. They bow to him when they should be **groveling.**
And what do I get for bringing this to my *dear* brother's attention? I'm **thrown out,** like bones picked clean, to bleach in the summer sun.... | 2014-06-20T09:34:04 | 2014-06-20T06:30:33 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick of being ignored and insulted all the time, so they join the bad guys. They are a much more effective villain than anyone thought possible. | (Corp's Bride)
The pulse shorted out only their bionic prostheses, but nothing else. I knew the exact frequency to use – I’d installed each and every one, after all.
Kicking the door open, I pull out my tiny pistol and advance upon the stunned group. The sight of my gun didn’t provoke the usual laughter about size an... | *Healer*
The title made her sick to her stomach to hear. She didn't exist solely to cure the injury and disease of adventurers too careless or stupid to avoid the injury. She hadn't minded before the Rift between the team but they wouldn't stop fighting and hurting each other so she put a stop to it. Xantas was the f... | 2019-03-05T13:24:28 | 2019-03-05T12:50:59 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | “They aren’t human anymore, Bell. They haven’t been in a long time.”
“I know, but they look so real.”
“They are real, love; they just aren’t human.”
“I know.”
We had had this conversation countless times. I knew how it would end. I always knew how it would end.
At first, the integration had been slow. Accepta... | I’m slowly bleeding out. He is gone for at least 20 minutes. The last thing he said was, ‘Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.’
We didn’t know what we were doing. I remember taking my backpack and going a hike with Terry. I’ve never expected to see something falling down fr... | 2020-04-26T07:39:49 | 2020-04-26T05:52:23 | 303 | 44 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | *Ms. Jennifer Brevis, beloved kindergarten teacher, passed away after a short illness. She was 49. Ms Jennifer was surrounded by her family and friends as she said goodbye to this world ...*
\- Obituary of Jennifer C. Brevis, published 1/10/2016 in the Riverton Times
I am a kindergarten teacher in hell. It was a good... | First opening his eyes, he saw two paths. One was the cliche pearly white gates in the distance, a beautiful path towards them filled with life and vibrancy, the other full of crags blackened by hellfire and brimstone while leading down to a fiery pit. One thing though: the first path was blocked off by dark grey metal... | 2020-01-10T18:04:41 | 2020-01-10T17:59:07 | 363 | 51 |
[WP] A world where eating a person lowers your age by 20 years. The poor are offered up to the rich who have been around for hundreds of years. | For a long time, it was seen as a horrible crime against nature. To kill a person, only to add more years to your life? It could only be called inhumane. But there were those who secretly did it, who had done research on these effects.
Eating a person? 20 years. But what was defined as a person? Soon the wealthy foun... | My brother and I sat at mother's bedside, teary-eyed and with broken hearts. She didn't have cancer, or some kind of heart defect- "her body is just old" they told us. She's only 45, but there's nothing to fix, and nothing to cure; she aged quickly, for some reason. Just the imminence of death intruding on our lives.
... | 2016-02-22T00:21:34 | 2016-02-21T21:34:12 | 138 | 69 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I didn't really know what to think of it. "Don't look at the moon"? Sure, no problem. Going back to sleep now. But then I saw my other notifications...99+? Ok, something is definitely up.
I tried to call my girlfriend, but I notice one of the texts I got was from her. "You really should go look at the moon, its amazin... | That alarm. That damn alarm that everyone hates. So loud, blaring with such urgency that rouses anyone from their sleep. "God what, what is it now?" Isaiah questioned. The amber alert sound was still unending, and as he turned to unlock the phone and silence it, he was met with the brightness of the sun in the palm of ... | 2022-12-12T15:52:54 | 2022-09-11T16:03:17 | 191 | 15 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.*
My eyes were glued to the green button, every night. At first, I loved the color. Green is healthy, and green is money. It made sense. What didn't make sense made it even more fascinating somehow. Hell, I even got the thing a black case. Suede.
*Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. To... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T17:19:00 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 65 | 12 |
[WP]You've been finding a lot of loose change in your couch lately. It turns out it's the tiny speaking spider paying rent. | As I lay sprawled out on the sofa, perspiring in nothing but a pair of moist boxer shorts, I was far from a pleasant sight but it was summer in Britain and the temperature was peaking to record heights. I'd already had two cold showers, drank several glasses of chilled water, and had two fans blowing warm dry air on me... | I opened the door and stepped into my apartment. Kicking off my shoes, I reached for the lights, flicking them on without looking. I emptied my pockets onto the small table near the door, and headed for the couch. It had been a long day, and I really just needed to zone out for a while. I stood at the end of the co... | 2017-04-01T02:21:44 | 2017-03-31T16:50:44 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] “Sir, World of Warcraft subscriptions just jumped by 2.3 billion” “Billion with a ‘B’? Where did they come from?” “Well, all the new traffic is routed through the Deep Space Array. It appears we’ve made first contact. Or, at least Thrall has…” | The problem with sudden success is that nobody is ever ready for it. While the problem of too many subscribers was not new to Blizzard, after all the initial response to World of Warcraft was well beyond their capacity as well, it was old enough that nobody currently working at the company remembered it. Or remembere... | Three hundred and four yachts.
In a single quarter Bobby Kotick now owned more yachts than anyone else on Earth. This was an admittedly small potatos when compared to the Potato Emperor of Pluto’s two thousand and seven sentient flying yachts, but still quite impressive for a non-quadrillionare confined to Earth marke... | 2022-03-14T10:50:53 | 2022-03-14T09:46:18 | 690 | 69 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | It was an accident, of course.
My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc... | -Part one, introduction
The class system that had been established after centuries of war, had ultimately benefit nobody.
The Ice-nobles ruled as viciously as you'd expect, condemning the rest of the elemental spectrum to a life of distinct class restriction. The Desert-wares were the lowest caste in the system, ... | 2021-11-12T07:30:30 | 2017-04-14T17:56:58 | 4,698 | 37 |
[WP] You are in hell and your dog keeps breaking out of heaven to be with you. The demons and angels have no idea what to do. | Hell isn't all that bad; it's definitely better than people make it out to be on the other side.
For most people, it's the loneliness that gets them. Hell is just so vast and empty most of the time, and even when you can see someone on the distance, they never seem to get any closer. Your voice thins out and turns to ... | The dog door swung open. A dog's head appeared, sniffing the air. Then, two more followed. Their googly eyes took in the whole house.
"Derp, derp, derp!". Each mouth barked in joy, seeing me, their owner. [I stopped rinsing my burned fingers in the kitchen sink](https://old.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/d1jhz6... | 2019-09-09T07:16:08 | 2019-09-09T06:52:57 | 107 | 43 |
[WP] "Humanity will only unite if they have a common enemy. In that unity, they will achieve peace, for as long as that enemy lives." He looked at you with his dark tired eyes, your weapon on his neck, as he croaked, "That's why I chose to be the bad guy." | Humanity will only unite if they have a common enemy. In that unity, they will achieve peace, for as long as that enemy lives." He looked at you with his dark tired eyes, your weapon on his neck, as he croaked, "That's why I chose to be the bad guy.
I looked at him and scoffed. “You think you get to choose which side ... | Our eyes met, and shared a look for a few seconds. He seemed exhausted, but then, so was I. How could I not be, after all I had been through? He averted his gaze before I did, his head nicking down ever so slightly.
"Peace?" I finally asked. "Do you call that peace, out there?"
My left hand pointed across the throne ... | 2020-12-09T10:47:34 | 2020-12-09T10:23:36 | 18 | 11 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Another blow sent me sprawling onto the floor. I felt a drop come from my nose and saw the spot of red on the floor. My face burned from his fiery punch.
“Come on, loser,” Chantley shouted. “If you’re not going to show your power, I’ll force it out of you.”
“You’re not changing anything by doing this,” I said. “Just ... | Jerry Novak was a simple teen. His hair was close-cropped, with no special style, his clothes were regular—just jeans and a T—he was utterly average in terms of appearance, and even his Rune was bland. Just a plain old circle.
Everyone else had magnificent patterns: dual swords crossing and emitting sparks, skulls wit... | 2020-02-26T05:43:27 | 2020-02-26T05:10:36 | 1,964 | 1,182 |
[WP] Your life is an endless series of horror movies. You're always at the wrong place at the wrong time. You're stuck seeing all your friends die right after you make them. The reason you're still alive? You can hear the horror music. | A colorful box lay on the table, myself and my newest friends crowded eagerly around it as the birthday girl excitedly undid the ribbon. I think the invitation said this was melissa's party, but I had forgotten. Was it bad that I had stopped bothering to learn their names? Even though I was watching intently as the box... | 'Oh God... Not again...!!!' I thought as those deep brass Inception style horns reverberated around me. I could kill Hans Zimmer for pioneering that sound, I hear them every day of my waking life, and this was no exception. I knew what was coming and it was time to start running.
This time I was in the woods with a ... | 2016-12-31T21:43:15 | 2016-12-31T20:06:44 | 194 | 59 |
[WP] Finally, the ultimate MMORPG has been created, unlimited choice and room to grow and expand your character. There's just one issue, it's so realistic, nobody can remember which life they are living, and which is the game. | "You're telling me that none of this is real?" I gestured to my beautiful wife and children, to my home and car. To the beautiful blue sky and the relentless summer sun.
"Sir, I'm sorry to inform you but your User Occupancy has expired according to our registry."
Beads of sweat rolled down my forehead and yet the m... | I sit at the pub, drinking away my disappointment. Boy, I really earned my money today. Feeling confident, I strode into the bar. A few failed attempts at flirting brought me down a couple notches. Maybe I should play a round of cards at the table in the back or place a bet on the ball game on tv. Or maybe I should jus... | 2018-02-19T09:27:33 | 2018-02-19T09:23:58 | 645 | 45 |
[WP] As the leader of a CIA hit squad, you have been tasked with the secret, “extrajudicial” killing of a journalist who is causing problems for the government with his reporting. The problem is, he just won’t die! Every team you send fails. Who is this Clark Kent, guy? | Amanda Ross had never lost a target. That's why the government of the United States trusted her with every unmanageable, unethical, and undoable task. The FBI had recently noticed a trend of activity in a major metropolitan. Otherwise uninteresting, this city had a crime rate well below the national average. What was e... | Its been a long time since i held a trigger. I gave up that life, i was an assassin for a very long time. It still itches when i had to cut my finger to prove my loyalty. At least i didnt have to carry a gun again or so i thought.
The CIA found me and recruited me, my job was to train their agents. They gave me my fr... | 2022-06-08T10:32:59 | 2022-06-07T23:34:16 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] "Come to me! Face your fear mortal!" "I fear NOTHING!" "Then I will show you true nothingness!" A few moments pass and the warrior before you is a crumpled mess. Your turn. "Come to me! Face your fear mortal!" | "Face your fear, Mortal!"
What did I fear? I stepped up to the Maw, the strange dark void that was slowly encroaching on the land. It seemed like a million years ago when the Maw appeared, abruptly and effectively ending modern life as we knew it, though some part of the back of my mind reminded me it had been a mere ... | "Or what?"
"Eh?" The eldrich God pauses to look at me.
"What happens If I don't face my fears?" I shrug. ''I mean, you have a pretty good cult here-"
"It's not a cult" the God mutters, stung.
"-But I mean 'face your fears' really?" I hold my hands out, showing I'm not trying to trick him-her-it-them. (What *are* t... | 2022-12-18T22:21:45 | 2022-12-18T21:08:12 | 449 | 195 |
[WP] You find a mysterious website where you can anonymously request an item once a day and it's delivered to you the next day.
You don't know how this website works and you don't enter any personal details, including your address. The item you request must actually exist. To clarify, it's a gift, you don't pay anyth... | "Hey man, try this new app and get a free gift."
I don't have time for this, I thought. It was Tuesday. Taco Tuesday. I was already late, and if I was any later, the truck will be out of carnitas. They're always the first to go. So, whatever. I took his card to get him out of my way.
As I pulled my wallet out to pay ... | It was 3 in the morning, and i was just finishing up a research paper for my Quantum theory course. I had just submitted the paper online and was in the process of closing out my glorious collection of tabs that I had amounted over the past couple of hours. I was about to close out of a reference article about time-ind... | 2015-03-25T07:50:32 | 2015-03-25T06:55:25 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | u/numbers909 ok no worries, how about this:
It was black. The sound of absolutely nothing pierced my eardrums as if there was an infinitely high pitched tone passing through my very skull. My skin was void of sensation, and smell or taste remained absent. My breathing had disappeared yet I wasn't drowning. It was diso... | Pure silence. A quiet more soundless than the empty page of an armless writer with nothing to say. A defending nothingness, in all directions, from this space here to the end of time.
*THUNDER*
A crack explodes in to existence. Cutting itself in to this world mercilessly. The violence roars in a mounting creshendo. Bu... | 2017-12-17T05:38:03 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] When someone dies, they are always challenged by Death itself to a chess game, symbol of how nobody can win against it. Except you. You died and just won the game. Death is not amused. Both of you don't know what should happen now. | "Magnus, you have mystified the world over with your daring play ever since you were a young boy. What's your secret? How did you become the world's best?" The reporter leaned forward, waiting for her answer. It was something of a perfunctory question at this point with Magnus always responding with same rote answer of... | My name is Gerald Michaels, and I beat the Grim Reaper in a chess game. I've only played chess a few times in my life, but I knew the rules all too well. It took me 5 moves that day, and I won the one game that death had put for me. Five moves, in total, and he made the last one. Yet I won.
My life was never particula... | 2018-04-20T13:50:38 | 2018-04-20T12:58:20 | 72 | 21 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Guilt, shame, and horror would only begin to describe the things humanity felt when we were hit with the news. The Aliens didn't mince their words.
In short, we were considered the scum of the universe. Deliberately left out to rot, to self destruct, because we had shown a capacity for violence, cruelty, and atrocity... | Hairless Bonobos walking on the moon. This is how we found them. Our scouts studied their movements. We infiltrated their societies. Studied their mating habits. Cold, isolated and hungry. The defining characteristics of the human. Now as the shadow of a more advanced race fell upon ours, I sat seated across from this ... | 2014-12-26T13:25:59 | 2014-12-26T10:18:47 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] The biggest reptile zoo in the universe was closed down temporarily after an asteroid crashed into it. When the owner checks up on it millions of years later, he discovers that its inhabitants have renamed the zoo 'Earth' | Xe'lok buried his head in his tentacles and groaned.
"A *sentient* species? With civilization? On my planet? How...? We just had an inspection done a couple tens of thousands of years ago and that planet was just an iceball."
The inspector shrugged, "I'm sorry, sir. We must have missed them during the last inspection... | "Ok Operator, ready to move in?"
"Yes sir, ready sir."
Lucy stared down the sights of her Strike-Rifle towards the ship. Since these Invaders had landed on Earth, fourteen Operators like herself had been trained, equipped, and sent off to deal with them. They were some of the most powerful and informed people in the... | 2017-05-06T13:23:52 | 2017-05-06T12:05:59 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | My friend was always very cynical, so it was only natural that he gained the ability of truth seeing. Same with my grandmother, who thanks to her caring nature got healing powers, as well as my grandfather, who was an army general and became able to command people into formation.
My situation was a little different ... | It is only appropriate that my extra ability was more subtle than many others. I can't fly, or lift cars. But neither am I high flying socially or emotionally forceful. I've been called worse, but Wallflower seems to have stuck. It would bother me, but is Wallflower really worse than Superfastman or Liftsalotgirl? Alwa... | 2019-09-08T07:43:12 | 2019-09-08T06:32:45 | 194 | 140 |
[WP] The alien invasion of Earth was going quite well until they made three mistakes: They invaded Russian during the winter, got into a land war with Asia, and went in against the Sicilians when death is on the line. | The blazing winds of the tundra was something they'd not prepared for. They'd been warned against arrival during the cold seasons. "It couldn't be that bad", some of them said, with the arrogance of having the coldest winters in the Galactic Union. They were not prepared for how cold the icy tundra would be, and the in... | "Sir," said the young man on his right. He looked as if he hadn't slept all night. "They're coming."
Mack Mia nodded at the screen. It showed a section of the Asian continent where the battle between the aliens and humanity had been raging for nearly two months. The Russians had been the first to be hit, but the battl... | 2022-02-11T06:50:31 | 2022-02-11T04:46:40 | 370 | 24 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | For centuries, the two immortals stared each other down, neither moving nor willing to let the other. In the isolation of their tomb, both had long since forgotten which was the immortal and which the king. They had both wielded power unlike any in the world. For one, his words were like the incantation to a spell. Eve... | "I think invading the Hoolian kingdom is a brash and stupid idea." Everyone at the table turned to stare at me as a hush fell over the gathering. The king glared daggers at me. "Also, I need to use the latrines."
"King Jang, the impudence of this man is astounding!" sputtered Earl Bachman angrily. He wagged his sausag... | 2017-05-13T06:50:28 | 2017-05-13T06:18:45 | 1,785 | 368 |
[WP] After being kidnapped you wake up in a room where the only thing to keep you occupied is a computer with access to just wikipedia. After 2 years you are taken to an illegal gameshow as 1 of 10 contestants, if you are eliminated, you die. | *'What is the lifespan of a crocodile?'*
We all stared silently at the display in front of us. Finally a voice breaks the silence.
"What the hell's going on? And what kind of question is this?" a woman across from me asked, bewildered. She was trapped in a plastic box, just like the rest of us. She looked around her ... | The only thing I could see was a light, flickering in the dark, and a screen. As I came near it, it opened, and I saw, a familiarity looking page, mostly white with black text, and some colour from the images. I sat down and I start to browse. Then it hit me, a wave of memories, the last thing I remember was a party, m... | 2022-11-23T15:22:58 | 2022-11-23T14:54:16 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] You’re a professional photographer hired by the bride’s family to film a night wedding. You capture maybe ten minutes of footage before the groom’s family pay you in cash and cancel your services. That night, going through the uploaded footage, none of the groom’s family shows up on the screen. | I had to save her. That’s the only thought that run through my head as I made my supply run.
I had to stop her.
The wedding was tonight. I was lucky I had discovered their secret at a small get together before the actual event.
I picked up garlic and a wooden cross of sorts I had fashioned myself. I didn’t have e... | **Vampires are many things, but subtle is not one of them.** From hosting a wedding in the middle of the night to paying me with unmarked gold coins to, well, *not showing up in mirrors or photographs*, they couldn't have been more obviously vampires if they tried. They even had an honest-to-God castle. I smiled bitter... | 2021-04-08T22:35:28 | 2021-04-08T20:59:58 | 226 | 107 |
[WP] The Villain uncovers the Hero's true identity, and targets his family. Unfortunately, the Hero's spouse is a retired villain even more powerful than the current one. | "Slowly, now," I warn, as Perry Gunderson, or, as we know him, the hero Paragon, stepped into his own living room. "You're going to want to play this one smart."
"And why's that?" he asked, stalling as he strove to comprehend the situation. As though it could be anything other than the obvious.
"Why, your wife and da... | *I messed up.*
The only thing Villain could think about was how much she wished she was back in her hideout laying in her comfortable bed sleeping and dreaming of her plot of world domination. Her villainous life seemed like something from a faraway story that she would never get back to.
“Oh-ho? Discovered my husban... | 2020-07-19T02:58:47 | 2020-07-18T23:38:26 | 96 | 67 |
[WP] In a world of wands and wizardry, you are a legendary assassin. Nothing stops you from killing your target. Your secret? Guns and technology. | The target is 1400 meters, about 10 meters off the ground, standing on the top of the castle, surveying the land that was to be his. My target's red robes became easier to distinguish from the other blurred colors of earth, save for the members of his guard.
And the crown. that helps too.
the reticule hovers over wh... | Waiting is the second hardest part of the contract. Tailing a wizard is a pain in the ass. _Chasing_ a wizard on the run is nearly impossible, thanks to that nasty teleporting thing they do. A successful hunter must wait, watch, and attack by surprise. I am a very successful hunter, but the waiting is still hard.
The... | 2019-04-17T21:26:18 | 2019-04-17T21:19:42 | 58 | 29 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | I have to escape.
In Heaven, we have it made. God gives us everything we wanted. Virgins? Check. Money? Check. Virgins *and* money? You got it.
But what we don't have is freedom. Freedom of thought. Academics, who are given libraries full of answers to the problems they couldn't solve in their lives, are ... | You know believing in a god is not a hard thing to do, with enough faith any science can be simply explained as the will of the gods. Looking back at it, I only really refused to believe out of pride, in my mind I could not see that a being could exist that was greater than the sum of mankind. I had from a young age se... | 2017-11-21T07:39:29 | 2017-11-21T06:58:29 | 61 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Part 2:
The Stars Shine Again
"K'uklas, we're pulling out off of the Zhavra cruiser, make sure you and your men can handle the onslaught," the man over his radio said. He couldn't believe the man he looked up to would abandon them like that, in a time where they were hopeless against these tiny, ferocious beasts—no, ... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T04:20:10 | 431 | 15 |
[WP] Normally, it’s the Dark Lord who kidnaps the Princess. However, as the Princess’s Bodyguard, you know that would never happen, as she currently has the Dark One in her room. | I knock on the door.
"Princess Lux? It's almost time for your meeting with the diplomat."
A deep, nasty voice boomed from within the room.
***"GO AWAY, PLEASE. THE PRINCESS...MEANING MYSELF...HAS COME DOWN WITH SICKNESS IN MY DAINTY PRINCESS BODY."***
I roll my eyes. "I know that's you, Dark Lord Pitch. Now where d... | 'These secret meetings are getting old.' I think to myself, as for the last five years or so the dark lord has been visiting the princess and having a tea party with her. The first time I figured it out was a little surprising but turns out the dark lord is a softie for kids, since the princess is now going to be 15 ne... | 2021-10-03T23:44:45 | 2021-10-03T23:13:02 | 176 | 36 |
[WP] One night while you were hanging out with your friends in a bar, you met a mysterious fellow who said he'd make you immortal if you give him beer money. Thinking nothing of it, you drunkenly agree. You are now the last man on Earth. As you walk alone, you cross path with the same man again. | When I woke up laying down on a park bench, a few pedestrians looking at me, and five dollars missing from my wallet, I didn't think much of it. My head hurt and my body ached- but it was all a part of being hungover. It was normal. I didn't remember what I did the night before; all that remained in the back of my head... | It had been sometimes now since I last awoken. It had, in fact, also been sometimes now since the Earth withered and crumbled. In my awakening I had been reminded of that fact, the endless dream broken into dawn. It had, as I speculated, been sometimes since my shelter drifted away in the relentless wind. I wondered, h... | 2020-10-07T04:31:11 | 2020-10-07T03:57:09 | 140 | 64 |
[WP] Your just a humble spider who was just spotted by a human. Expecting certain death, you are instead put in a cup and released outside. Before closing the door, the human tells you “Today you, Tomorrow me”. Today you just found out he was kidnapped by the CIA. | This is it, my time has come to repay my life debt.
The journey will be long and hard, but it is my duty. Upon my back I have two adult flies, they should be more than enough food for my journey. I stretch my eight slender legs and begin my journey.
The torrential rains of what I have come to know as “sprinklers” sl... | I just heard some horrible news from my fellow spider relatives that the guy who saved me got kidnapped by the CIA. I knew what I had to do, I had to save him. I then began to quickly scuttle into the house to dial for a taxi. But as soon as I entered, my saviours’ wife killed me with a roll of newspaper.
The end | 2018-02-24T12:50:54 | 2018-02-24T10:42:58 | 65 | 26 |
[WP] You're high powered villain who specializes in nonviolent crime in a city where the superheroes are high powered, but dumb as rocks. When the new villain comes to town and kills your favorite minion and his family, you reluctantly roll up your sleeves and put on your "emergency hero suit". | I broke my code for the first time in my life. Usually, when a new villain rolled into town, it didn't take long for them to learn the rules. Some infractions, like selling drugs in the wrong corner, weren't as bad as others, like murdering a high-profile hero, and a simple conversation could get the matter sorted out.... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 0, Part ?: Tupperman v.s. Chameleon, Rematch)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The neighborhood was a rather pleasant cul-de-sac, all neatly-trimmed hedges and laughing children.... | 2021-09-02T08:09:32 | 2021-09-02T07:02:34 | 280 | 120 |
[WP] You were once an unbeatable hero. Your secret? Every time you died, time rewound itself for you to alter your future. You are now 97 years of age. Constantly looping over your last day before dying of old age. You have been searching for a way to break this curse for over a decade. | "Why? Why won't you end this?"
In youthful days the old man laying on his sickbed had been known by many names. He had been known as Gehrn Stormblade, Gehrn the Mighty, Titanslayer, Savior of Barrowglen. But he lay there now as no more than who he had been born as: Gehrn of Windwhistle Valley. A miner's son who had ma... | I wake to the sound of moaning and despair. I lay in this bed looking up at an unfamiliar ceiling. I panic.
I don’t know where I am. I don’t know what that sound came from. I don’t know why I’m here.
“My name is...”
Nothing comes to mind.
It now become apparent to me that I’m in some sort of hospital room. I look a... | 2018-12-21T09:48:35 | 2018-12-21T09:44:16 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] You're a female hero in a fantasy world, and you are annoyed. The wizards keep giving you enchanted armor with incredible stats, but it looks RIDICULOUS! This one has nipples! This one has a hole over your heart! This one is just a necklace and a belt! Would they please STOP IT! | "I know it's ridiculous!" The wizard threw his hands into the air.
"Then stop this nonsense and make me something that doesn't look like I should be wearing it on a street corner rather than in the dungeon!" I snapped.
"S'not my fault," the wizard muttered, turning away to fiddle with something. "I'm doing the best t... | This was getting stupid. At first I thought it was a joke! I started my adventure poor with my dads armor yet now that I had money I was getting bless clothing. Sure it could tank there breath of a dragon and the swing on an ogre (though how that helped me is a question they never answered) finally I had enough and too... | 2022-11-21T04:56:11 | 2022-11-20T21:20:53 | 568 | 161 |
[WP] You are having a conversation with the monster under the bed, when it realizes that beds are just made of flimsy wood and fabric | "You'll be sorry!" I warned him loudly, but he didn't listen.
The creature under my bed (whose anatomy I was still a little fuzzy on) continued its furious assault against the plywood bottom of my bedframe.
"Grrah! Rawr! Errgh!" it grunted, scraping it's thorned whiplike tentacles, releasing a confetti of sawdust.
... | It was hard to fathom what was happening in my room. I felt almost... bad for the guy.
"I'm telling you, man, kids are just brave or something these days. Maybe they just don't believe in me anymore."
"Hey, no don't say that Boogy! Can I call you Boogy?"
"Yea of course. It's just hard to find a place these days. I m... | 2015-09-18T16:06:54 | 2015-09-18T15:19:07 | 53 | 33 |
[WP] You call to order pizza, but unknowingly call a hit man | "Hello?"
"Hi, this is Joe. How may I help you?"
"Hey... um... one sec. I think I'll have the number 3. As long as it's still half off with a side order."
"Yeah, it is. Is that the deal we agreed upon last time? Should be cool as long as the side is equivalent price. If you know what I mean."
"Uh.. agreed upon? Last... | "Hey, Pizza Hut, I'd like a large pizza with extra olives, extra sausage, extra anchovies, and hold the pepperoni. Oh yeah, and I'd like the crust to be stuffed. I'll have you send it over to my friends house, the address is 6599 Meadow Lane Rd. Thanks man." You hear strange muffled sounds from the other end of the lin... | 2015-02-10T16:25:29 | 2015-02-10T16:25:06 | 98 | 14 |
[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 | Tick, tock.
Earths space fleet was ready. Well, the most ready they ever could be.
Decades of research had been poured in these top-of-the-line fighter craft. Ground-breaking achievements were made on every front. A never before seen united human spirit was born, and every country participated the best they could, th... | "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... | 2016-01-01T15:57:37 | 2016-01-01T13:14:36 | 239 | 80 |
[WP]: a very powerful reality-warping entity is in love with you. While the poor thing does its best to shower you with gifts and favours, it does not quite understand what humans actually like | The entity forgot all her misfortunes in the joy of Gary.
As he commuted between his home, office and pub, she admired his commitment to balancing money, and the eight hours of diligence Gary practiced five days of the week to that cause. His mastery of moving money from one place to another, so that his clients migh... | I let out a long sigh as a young woman, dressed in something that belongs on the set of Oedipus Rex or 300. Not that I had actually seen the play- or the movie, for that matter, but an History Major can dream. "Look," I muttered, "I can't talk right now. I've got an important paper to finish."
The women gives me a ste... | 2016-04-20T19:27:26 | 2016-04-20T19:05:10 | 413 | 28 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | "What are you hooligans doing?" I cried. "This is an old and respected establishment."
"Oy, Cap!" one of the ruffians cried. "Look at this. The chair can talk."
The captain of the ruffians strode up and loomed over me. He was tall and swarthy, with a bushy black beard. He wore a faded blue tunic, and held a steel dag... | The first things I can remember were steel bars and a wooden cart. I hadn't yet grown enough to control my form, and could only take the instinctual shape of a chest. As the darkness passed and the sun rose, a man in a flamboyant robe and top hat appeared and began peddling.
"Come one, come all, see the magnificent tr... | 2022-10-09T18:25:20 | 2021-09-22T08:36:29 | 1,468 | 11 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | Please, no more “he said weakly as he sits hunched over in his throne.
He lifts a shaky hand to his eyes to cut the glare emanating from the piles of gold, rubies and diamond that loom so high they could be mistaken for walls.
“Oh, don’t be that way” The large man says as he snaps his fingers causing a mountain of g... | I was destined to be great. I was blessed with the gift of royalty.
Not only was this taken from me but so was my life, taken by someone close to me. Set up. Convicted of my own fathers murder. Pushed out of my home and into the treacherous world.
Alone to fend for myself. Every turn brought a new fear to the surface... | 2014-08-04T07:31:04 | 2014-08-04T05:25:37 | 118 | 37 |
[WP] You discovered the ability to time travel. You go 30 years into the future expecting to meet your future self only to discover that you've been missing for 30 years. | He's been up for more hours than he'd like to think about and has drunk enough coffee to sink the titanic, but it worked.
At least according to the half dozen clocks he has stacked around his desk, it worked. They are all exactly three minutes ahead of the watch on his wrist.
Time travel. Most of his colleagues at ... | You know the sci-fi stories of last generation, where they had 50's wives tending in a flying kitchen, flying saucers with millions of buttons? It's the bane of predicting the future - you don't know what you don't know. You can't help but let your world's landscape and culture flow into your idea of the future. It's w... | 2018-06-17T06:06:14 | 2018-06-17T05:12:19 | 83 | 14 |
[WP] Gods get their powers from humans believing in them. When that belief fades, the God looses his power and must live as a human. Your a god whose lived as a human for thousands and thousands of years. When you woke up today however, you feel your God powers beginning to return. | A storm rages outside as you swing your feet over the side of your bed. Thunder roars as you slowly slip your shirt over your chest. You can hear the hammering rain on your roof as you put on your boots and tie your laces. After a quick swig of wine from your bedside mug you begin walking to the balcony of your apartme... | “War is hell.”
That was the belief humanity held today. The humans have taken their fates onto themselves, and left the gods to rot in the pages of history. They pray for their own survival, even as they throw themselves into the turmoil of combat.
None of them want war, a lone mercenary thought. In the millennia he ... | 2019-09-01T11:29:34 | 2019-09-01T09:37:26 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 78 | 46 |
[WP] Demons have finally discovered a way to summon humans and they take great joy in summoning humans to hell to do mundane chores in revenge for humans doing that to them for centuries. | I’d been sitting at my desk, idly scrolling through my thousand or so emails that I needed to reply to, check, and delete when it happened.
A drop in the pit of my stomach, a strong sense of misplacement, and a literal jerk and snap of my spine as my body tried to follow… *something*.
Then I was in hell.
No, I hadn... | "Oh, for *Heaven's* sake!" Matthew Parayas snapped, having found himself, once again, in the center of a crudely drawn hexagon facing a smirking demon. "That's the third time this week!" He threw down his bag of groceries in exasperation and glared at the enormous, blood red servant of Hell before him, who stared right... | 2020-07-01T14:03:30 | 2020-07-01T13:30:21 | 1,455 | 553 |
[WP]You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago, today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor". | "And what could you *possibly* require from me?" Vernon asked. After selling his soul years before, he now stood at a somewhat remarkable six-foot-two, dressed himself rather well, and had money enough to retire at forty. Such was the life of one fated for eternal hellfire. "Getting my soul back would be nice, but- wha... | "I need a favor."
The devil stood behind her. She thought that from her chair she could hear the sound of his hooves scraping against the stone floor. The girl did not turn, instead continuing along her task of dragging metal against stone.
"What favor is that?" she asked. All he could see of her was her red hair, ... | 2016-06-27T06:58:27 | 2016-06-27T06:34:17 | 1,053 | 653 |
[WP]You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered. | "Jorun, it's that guy again."
Jorun rolled his eyes. "Gonna need you to be a tad more specific, Karl. Lot's of guys around here."
"Oh, right. Uhm, remember the one that thought he could sneak around in full plate armor if he just stuck to the shadows?"
"Uhg, again?"
"Well, now he's wearing dragon bones."
"And... | The ship hung between calm waters and a whitewashed sky. Up above, Soldier #3 could make the contours of Ursa
Major and others, sketches of memory and myth in the Milky Way canvas. It was windy and unseasonably chilly,
and Number 3 really hoped he wouldn't die again tonight.
There were steps, and a large box materia... | 2017-05-29T01:45:41 | 2017-05-28T21:41:34 | 191 | 113 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | An uncomfortable silence filled the room. I looked at the gold in the basement, piled right in the centre with a molten spot, and somewhat organised gems and other valuables on the shelves. It was a den of a small dragon. That explained something. Why my wife never ate eggs, loved laying in sunlight and was rather cold... | I look at the massive pile of gold in shock. There must have been a ton of it. It included a wide variety, bars, coins, jewels, statues and any other cold fixture you can think of.
But more terrifying was what layer on top. My girlfriend, Jessica, splayed out in a red dress made of some odd scales that stuck close to ... | 2022-09-10T10:56:35 | 2022-09-10T09:51:49 | 63 | 47 |
[WP] You share a unique relationship with one of your parallel selves: when they receive a tattoo it also appears on you, and vice versa. You happen to have very different tastes, and so begins a passive aggressive cross-reality war fought entirely in tattoos and cover-ups. | When I was sixteen I found my first tattoo. I woke up one morning and there it was -- a tiny, thrilling stain at the top of my right arm. My parents would never have let me get one, and this, a tattoo that they could do nothing about, pleased me greatly.
I knew who it was from, of course. This kind of thing happened.... | The alarm on my phone started to go off. I rolled over and realized the date. December 16th, 2016. It's the eight-year anniversary since the worst day of my life. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and then proceeded with the annual tradition of tracing the shape of the tattoo on my arm. It was a simple tattoo, a hea... | 2016-12-16T10:55:24 | 2016-12-16T09:51:40 | 788 | 84 |
[WP] The scariest of all hitmen has the silliest nickname. It makes unaware people laugh but people in the know shiver with terror once they hear it. | Alright love, see straight ahead from here down the aisle, that's the front door, right? And above it there's a neon sign that reads *"Rusty's"*. That's where we are. We're at *Rusty's*. And I don't know if you're lost, but let me tell you who sits where, alright?
Front left, right by the entrance, are small timers, t... | Flibbertigibbet. Nincompoop. Ninny. Rattlebrain. Doddypoll. Loon.
Over the centuries It had become known by many names. The first occurrence of the word Flibbertigibbet occurred in the 15th century, according to the human dictionaries, but they didn’t know the full story.
It was an assassin, forged from the dark ener... | 2021-05-03T09:06:09 | 2021-05-03T08:49:56 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Demons are a species that feed on fear for power. The more feared a Demon is the more powerful they become. When an orphaned Demon is adopted by a human couple, they discover that love is much more powerful than fear. | "But dear....it's just a baby!", begged Josephine.
David stood still, his arm raised up high, a knife grasped within his hand reasy to strike the infant demon. His wife's plead broke through his rage of the infernal species.
"Josephine, let go! Do you not see what they're doing to our village? They destroy everythin... | The place was clean but cold. It felt more like an asylum than an orphanage. With each step Gary took, his sneakers squeaked against the linoleum floor, while his wife’s heels clicked. The orphans called it “The Song of Hope.”
Although he’d never been in an orphanage before, Gary found it odd that the children were c... | 2020-12-17T18:25:07 | 2020-12-17T17:38:30 | 425 | 90 |
[WP] You have the power to teleport anywhere when you tap four times on any surface. The catch is that you can't decide where you go or know where you are going. What you do know is wherever you go someone needs you. | "Nope, nope nope nope, not gonna do it." I stared at the young girl with tears in her eyes.
"But... but... mommy said if i dont clean Muffin's box then I can't play on the tablet." Her eyes well up woth tears. "But it's so smelly... I can't do it."
I look at the kitty litter box. It looked like poor Muffin had used i... | It’s been with me a while now, and the paranoia has certainly set in. The all too sudden change of being in one place then popping into another is both horrifying and exciting. Every now and again I keep thinking that I’ll be listening to music and maybe I’ll start subconsciously tapping on my desk or table and...poof,... | 2019-04-04T14:43:43 | 2019-04-04T14:09:00 | 80 | 56 |
[WP] You are a travelled drug-dealer in the state of New York and open a pizza place as a cover for a drug operation. In doing so, you find your true passion, making pizza. | I was in the kitchen when I first heard the commotion break out, just disembodied voices tangled in frustration and anger. A glass broke, then a plate, then children started crying, full of distress and grief.
I set down the dough I was kneading, wiped my hands hastily on my apron, then gingerly retrieved my fire stic... | Ding!
The door of the pizzeria opens. A man is seemingly carried in by the wind. The man behind the counter knows immediately what he wants. He has the look. Run down, beaten up, and just looking for his next chance to not be so damn conscious. The drifter nervously approaches the register.
"Do you have any of that.... | 2017-04-08T19:24:32 | 2017-04-08T17:43:31 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] There's a machine that shows you all the times in your life you narrowly avoided death. You use it and, to your horror, almost every time it shows is you hanging out with your best friend. | I wanted to know how many times I’d cheated death. We’ve all done it a few times at least, making that split second call to narrowly avoid a car accident, a fall down a flight of stairs, a dark alley on a quiet night that just doesn’t feel quite right.
But I wanted a number, proof. I wanted to know.
The machine was a... | I walk with Billy to the machine. He's this skinny guy who's always in a good mood, but, today, he is kind of pissed off. He doesn't want to go to the machine but I do. I'm a bigger guy prone to clumsiness. I need to know. The machine could tell me all of the times I narrowly avoided death.
"It's expensive, a stupid ... | 2017-07-02T10:16:43 | 2017-07-02T09:24:34 | 3,160 | 309 |
[WP] You were deathly afraid after being bitten, but now every full moon, your life improves for the better. Your bills get paid, your house is cleaned, and your schedule is set. You've come to see you have a lot to learn from your more responsible werewolf side. | There's a knock at my door. When I open it, I am met with a shaggy-looking guy scratching his neck and looking nervously about himself. "Sorry," he said. "Is your roommate in? We have an ... appointment."
"I live alone," I answer, before I am struck by a terrifying thought.
"No, man. Big, hairy fellow? Breath smells ... | Have you ever got bitten by a werewolf before? The pure fear ran through my body as I felt teeth sink into my neck. I truly thought my life was over, or I would spin the rest of my life in a laboratory or a facility. That didn't happen, my life was together each time there was a full moon.
I gripped my head tightly... | 2022-01-04T15:45:59 | 2022-01-04T14:04:34 | 177 | 87 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | It felt strange, really. To feel the AC blast into my eyes once more, after what seemed like decades of "living". My head was swarming with old memories, found deep inside my brain as the new ones i made clashed and toiled.
This damn thing was clearly an addictive...drug, if you will. hastily checking the time, i saw... | *GASPS*
"AAAARRHHHH FUCK!"
Black....everything was black....
I thought to myself, "this is death."
But I quickly realized I was still breathing. Eyes closed. Last thing I remembered was being crushed by an 18 wheeler that tipped on the highway while I was on my bike.
Fear, was keeping my eyes closed.
I was there... | 2015-11-24T23:03:11 | 2015-11-24T19:30:43 | 737 | 172 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | They showed up 4 years ago. That was all it took for them to cause a cataclysmic shit show unlike anything we have ever seen. They called themselves "humans"
A seemingly unremarkable species, at first. Compared to the zombie ships, wandering plant dragons, multiple hive minds like myself, and hundreds of other species... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T13:17:09 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 115 | 23 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A bone-jarring impact jolts me awake, followed by a few seconds of searing pain. I try to sit up, but the searing pain keeps me on by back. After a moment, the pain begins to subside and I'm able to sit up and take stock of my situation. When I look down at myself I nearly pass out. What once was a mostly healthy, slig... | Darkness. They say there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but I see none. Wait. Is that... applause?
"What's going on?" I turn wildly, looking for the source of the sound.
"Oh, right," a raspy voice says. *Click.* A lamp is turned on, illuminating a small table and an armchair, in which sat a short man in a devil... | 2017-06-22T06:21:45 | 2017-06-22T04:29:40 | 4,092 | 34 |
[WP] You capture a Genie, and have infinite wishes. However, you have to be unrealistically specific with every wish, because the genie uses your wishes to try to kill you. | "Good morning. Please, be seated."
"Wha...? What's this? Who rubbed my lamp? Who among you is my new master?" the genie asked, bewildered at the sight before him. His lamp rested on a conference table, and near it was an empty office chair. Every other chair was occupied with men and woman in business suits, all look... | Come on! Just when things seem great, there's a catch! I put the scroll down next to the lamp. It said stuff about dying and unlimited wishes... I decide to ignore it. For once, something good should be true! I rub the lamp and wait for a few seconds.
The cave is silent, and I'm getting colder by the second. If that g... | 2017-01-11T14:17:36 | 2017-01-11T14:03:21 | 63 | 11 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | "KILL!"
I sprang up in my bed. My heart, racing.
"What?! Who–"
"Kill! You have to. It's the only way to survive!" said a sweet deep voice desperately.
"You must kill it. Destroy it!" said a harried shrill voice with an edge of glee.
I'd had these two opposing voices in my head for as long as I can remember. They... | All my life I had two voices talking in my head, one good and one evil. Just like the cartoons. I usually ignore them but sometimes one of them makes a really good argument and I just follow what it says. I shouldn't though, everytime they convinced me to do something afterwards I realize that it didn't make sense at a... | 2017-05-18T07:58:39 | 2017-05-18T07:04:08 | 470 | 255 |
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