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[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "Hey!" The hairy biped barked across the dining hall. "Put. Him. Down."
The Jzakish stopped gnawing on the cook for a split second and turned to the human. Our planets history is a litany of blood written by the forepaws and teeth of this gigantic ... Monstrosity. How, the fuck this primitive had the power command a ... | „Here kitty, kitty, kitty...“ said the human while being in the cargo bay. I never understood that creature, but I’m still fairly new to this crew. But that human is still a mystery to me. However, the captain ordered us to get some of the cargo we need to ship. As I grabbed the inside of the crate, something damaged m... | 2019-11-21T08:21:02 | 2019-11-21T06:21:21 | 72 | 21 |
[WP] You tell Death that you will never tire of living no matter how long you live. It makes you a bet that you will and thus grants you true immortality. You've just lived through the second death of the universe and show no sign of stopping. Death is baffled. | I cracked open my latest notebook and took out my trusty pencil, now worn down to a bare nub. Peering in by the light of the dying universe I began to add.
*Saved up enough money to buy very own spaceship - 300 pts*
That was a rather fun experience. It was a particularly good spaceship, being jet-black and sleek. A b... | "Don't you ever get tired of it?"
Death was a quizzical creature, always had been, always wanted to know more about the universe, whichever one that was, but the constant questions had finally started to become something of an irritation.
I pondered my answer for a while as I watched another head roll.
*how many is ... | 2015-11-17T18:40:12 | 2015-11-17T13:31:47 | 30 | 14 |
[WP]It's physically impossible to tell dad jokes unless you are a dad. One day you bump into a stranger and they say "I'm sorry". Without realizing it you answer "Hi Sorry,I'm dad" | Wake up. Brush teeth. Work. Eat. Netflix. Sleep.
Wake up. Brush teeth. Work. Eat. Netflix. Sleep.
Life is bland, every day the same. Wake up. Brush teeth. Work. Eat. Sleep. Occasionally the odd tinder date to disrupt the monotony. Although it had been a few months since the last successful date.
Wake up. Brush t... | The stranger gave me a murderous look and replied with "ye, real funny" and continued on his way.
It took me two whole seconds to process what had happened and my face go from a content smile to a dumbfounded stare. I was a father, plain and simple.
But how...? It should be impossible... unless - no! I have been trick... | 2018-01-20T14:40:22 | 2018-01-20T09:32:43 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] The ghosts in your house hated you when you first moved in, but overtime you have grown fond of each other. Now that you are moving, the ghosts will do everything and anything they can to make you stay. | Music blares from the little black object in the living room and Jesse dances around the living room picking up objects and tossing them into various moving boxes. I slam a cabinet next to me and grumble, although I can't help but smile a bit, she is so beautiful like this.
"Oh stop it Sam! We both know you like... | Through the wall floated a white misted figure, gripping its head between its thin elbow. It's eyes were pitch black, and John had woken up to those eyes staring at him more than he could count. He'd screamed his throat dry, pissed his bed wet, thrown his pillow, and the figure had laughed all the while. However, today... | 2021-06-30T07:29:51 | 2021-06-30T06:18:45 | 23 | 14 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | “Hey Daddy, can we go to Disney?”
“Sorry honey. I’m too busy right now. Maybe next year, okay?”
Adrian watched the giddiness fade from Patty’s face before she shuffled away. He sighed and continued working. There would always be time later.
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“Hey Patty, how about we vacation next week together? Just us.”... | I slide another box to the left. And another, down the conveyor belt. The mundane nature of the job is mind numbing. My brain wanders as I work. Suddenly, a pierce of light rips the seam of my consciousness open. Red flashes through my vision. An inhumane scream that is mine shreds the air as I look down. My right arms... | 2014-10-19T18:06:40 | 2014-10-19T18:03:46 | 2,653 | 25 |
[WP] Your latest assignment is to write an essay extensively detailing how a great historical tragedy could have been avoided entirely. Your professor skims through each paper as he collects them. One stops him. "Yes, that's it. Good, I'll try that this time." He then jogs out of the room. | 8 AM. I hate getting up in the mornings.
I hate classes. College would be awesome if there weren't any classes. Hanging with friends, going to Taco Bell at 2 in the morning, that would be the life.
But classes are the worst. My least favorite is definitely my history class. 10:10, and my professor sucks. He doesn't c... | Professor Rawson stepped into the capsule. The light inside illuminated a a soft blue, as it always did. The console in front of him slowly jogging to life. “Greetings, Mr. Richard Rawson” the female voice said. “Where shall I take you this time?” “Same place as always” he said solemnly. “Of course” the voice replied. ... | 2019-10-03T19:28:49 | 2019-10-03T19:28:07 | 70 | 14 |
[WP] Since birth, you have always had a bad sense of direction that would defy the laws of logic and space. Instead of arriving at your destination, you would end up in places or areas impossible for normal people to get to. | I was watching a seal sunbathe from the other side of a plate-glass window when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned my head. It was Karen, with her long brown hair. She was dressed casually.
“Oh hey.” I said
She smiled, but the smile didn't extend to her eyes. “Hey.”
“Uh…” I tried to find something to say. This ... | "In one thousand feet, take a right."
Fifty. Sixty. Seventy. The needle climbed clockwise towards the top of the odometer. An eternity stretched between me and my destination - the cemetery, its tall stone spikes and rows of gravestones so near I could almost read the familiar name of my beloved and the near numbers ... | 2016-05-03T23:46:14 | 2016-05-03T21:56:28 | 136 | 43 |
[WP] Youre a wizard in the Imperial Army. Most wizards are very ritualistic in their tactics and that is very highly respected but doesn’t give many victories. So you decided to ignore all the long chanting and nonsense and simply immediately kill your opponents with your spells instead. | “Where’s that apprentice?!” Master War Wizard Alejandro shouted.
Yes. That was his title and he got very upset if you didn’t use it. “I am right here. Sir. But I am not an apprentice.”
I may not be a highly decorated Master War Wizard like Alejandro but I was still an imperial wizard, with slightly less honors. Ok ... | Urstud stood alone on a hill overlooking the field of battle, his matted cape clinging to him stinking of sweat and seared flesh. There was nothing left of few that had accompanied him, his most loyal companions and retainers, all reduced to ash or worse from the onslaught of sorcery that was levelled at him when he no... | 2020-08-15T07:06:38 | 2020-08-15T06:49:01 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] After decades of fighting crime and injustice, a super hero's faith in humanity is broken. As he holds his innocent murdered daughter in his arms, he allows his rage against humanity consume him. A super villain is born. | It was all because of a protest...
The city had been going into the shitter for years. One corrupt mayor gets taken down another more corrupt shit head takes their place. A hundred dirty cops are punished, a thousand more just fill in the holes. It was a city begging for a hero, someone to bring order a justice.
That... | There was no fanfare. There was no purpose. It was not an origin story. It was simply life. It was artless and the way of things.
He would never know who did it. In this city the killers outnumbered the buildings. Dishonesty grew faster than the trash. It was a simple break in. Even heroes have homes. It was not targ... | 2017-01-25T09:40:04 | 2017-01-25T08:07:36 | 104 | 29 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Some people are brought into this world to cure diseases, lead countries, build rockets, or fight for justice. I think I was brought into this world to serve coffee.
That’s what I tell myself every day when I unlock the door of my café. Even as a kid, I was obsessed with coffee - at first the smell, then when I was ol... | Simple fact, if you catch more vampires with blood than stakes.
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Washington DC, other than being a hotbed for politics, is a playground for lobbyists of all types. Creates a lot of problems. The simple word on the street is, though, if the problem is weird, people pay a lot of money to have it solved, no... | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 2018-10-20T22:39:44 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You were relentlessly mocked growing up whenever others found out your superpower was "Feelings". You just found out the government considers you a universal threat and has been monitoring you closely. | "Give me a break." My bully said to me, as I fell to the bathroom floor. "Why would I be scared of some loser like you?" As he said that, his cheeks grew pale, and expression changed to that of shock. He clutched his heart as a tear ran down his cheek.
"What are you doing to him?!" His friend shouted at me. As I got b... | I trudge my way home, scraping my feet on the ground. Once again I was tormented for my powers. Now 15, I've learned how to harness my ability to sense exactly what another person is thinking, but all that did is give me the nickname 'Mr Emotional'. The worst part is how their emotions SCREAM how they find it HILARIOUS... | 2022-11-17T17:14:50 | 2022-11-17T15:19:08 | 107 | 45 |
[WP] A Genie has cursed you with one year left to live, however he also gave you the power to convert each clap meant for you into 1 hour added on to your life. You cannot tell anyone about your curse and you are determined to live as long as possible. | The player charged down the perfect grass field, moving with quick professionalism. He twisted around his defender, turned and lobbed the ball into the opponent's box. A teammate launched himself forward, connected with the ball and sent it spinning into the top right corner of the net.
The world erupted in thunderous... | You stare down at your feet. The alcohol is making it harder to focus on anything at all. It feels like this should be more momentous, but this is all you can muster: drunk outside a convenience store at 10 am. What day is today? Doesn’t even matter.
This past year and a half you’ve tried anything you can think o... | 2018-10-02T17:45:16 | 2018-10-02T17:23:53 | 79 | 30 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great pregnancy foods
How to make wife happier during pregnancy
Are cats okay to be around pregnant women?
Local shelters
Price of spay/neuter in area
Best hospitals for delivery in area
Cost of child birth
Cheapest hospitals for delivery in area
Do men have to do anything during the birth
Keeping placenta?
B... | Free dating sites.
Italian restaurants.
Italian restaurants near me.
Conversation on first date.
Tips for second date.
Tips for third date.
Mexican restaurants near me.
Long term relationship tips.
When to propose.
How to plan a wedding.
How to choose best man.
Pregnancy test.
How to tell if an unborn baby ... | 2015-02-04T18:24:30 | 2015-02-04T17:51:52 | 672 | 25 |
[WP] Every time you cooked over a campfire, you would throw some food into the fire as an offering to the gods. One evening, just as you're about to perform your little campfire ritual, you hear a voice behind you say "You know, I would very much prefer my food un-burnt." | There’s not enough sunlight for the trees to grow as they once did. They’re short, stubby things now. They’re like children deficient of vitamins, their spines curved, life-expectancy reduced.
All the same, trees do grow again in this corpse of a city. They broke through the ancient concrete like fists battering layer... | I plucked the marshmallow from the bag and gave it several firm squeezes, as I felt its springy texture roll between my thumb and fingers. Satisfied with the moment of sensory bliss, I attached it to the end of my poker and extended it over the coals.
The fire was at the perfect temperature. I was always fussy ... | 2022-11-28T05:47:20 | 2022-11-28T05:27:30 | 1,939 | 332 |
[WP] Your superpower is Montage, the ability to set a task and then fast-forward through it without aging. You usually use the ability to bypass boring bits, like building things or travelling. After setting a simple goal, you activate the ability and when it finishes, decades have passed.
The number of people who thi... | It started with a blink.
Nick vowed himself never to use his power, ever since he discovered it as a child. The ability was too dangerous. He didn't want to skip a second of his life. In fact, he tried to pretend like he didn't have powers in the first place. But when he accidentally spilled a cup of coffee, he watch... | He thought it would be simple, Falling in love. Heroes did it all the time and romantic comedies always made it seem like love could be achieved in a week or less. The Sporting Hero Rushplay hadnt taken account the wisdom of his elders.
The montage started after he said "Let's go find out perfect partner" and took his... | 2022-12-11T08:04:40 | 2022-12-11T05:14:33 | 773 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone who dies reincarnates in Tier 2 universe. People there have all memories from the previous lives, and they suspect there are more Tiers. People live really differently there compared to Tier 1.
EDIT: thank you everyone for the great texts. I'm enjoying reading them. Having a lot of people expand on a con... | Tier 2 will be my crazy life. I can see it now, as the beast of desire rages on, I will charge alongside bands of other animals who once prided themselves on their humanity, wreck havoc in the streets built by the men and women who choose to make a difference from their former lives, and live, not as man, but as natur... | The icy cold gun rested in my hand, it was heavier then I expected, weighing down my hand. Around me the depressing beige walls seemed to get closer to me as I was reflecting my life, well my second life.
I was put on this world at the age of 20. I knew thats not when my life started but my memory was fuzzy on the 1s... | 2016-01-22T00:17:28 | 2016-01-21T21:51:30 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You're the only human in the world who can use magic. Rather than being locked up or amything, you have to deal with a lot of passive-aggressive laws set up wherever you go about the use of magic. | Me played by Terry Jones.
Policeman played by John Cleese.
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**Me:** 'Don't you think this is oddly specific? I've never had to deal with this before.'
**Policeman:** 'Sorry, sir. It's part of the Transportation Act of 2017. I'm afraid I don't make the rules.'
**Me:** 'But it doesn't matter what I do. I'm harm... | I got up from bed feeling groggy. I knew I should never have drank that beer last night. Once I start, I won’t drinking.
I wobbled to the kitchen, grabbing the walls as I go. I need that hangover medicine. Boss will kill me if I end up late again.
My left foot stepped into the kitchen, and walked into that same damn ... | 2018-02-08T04:31:59 | 2018-02-08T04:13:18 | 492 | 200 |
[WP] A knight in shining armour goes to rescue the dragon-in-distress from the great and terrible princess. | There were no guards in the chamber, not that Princess Raella needed any. She was already strong enough for the Kingdom’s mages to think twice about crossing her path, and the sadistic twists she was putting to her dragonmagic was ample deterrent for any would-be assassins. She was also a hair’s breadth away from lashi... | Ser Darius crouched on the battlements, hiding in the shadow of the topmost tower. He was close, he could tell. There was no mistaking Arcu's cry, a shrill keening that rent his heart.
What was that witch doing to him?
Deftly, he ducked from cover and sprinted to the south tower, the place he had been seeking this p... | 2017-11-15T08:42:44 | 2017-11-15T08:08:38 | 36 | 13 |
[WP]You keep getting kidnapped by the biggest Supervillain on the planet. The Superheroes of the world think it's because you're important, however, it's really because the Villain really likes talking to you. You know this but you can't tell anyone because if you do people will get hurt worse.
You can take this story... | "Have I rescued you before?"
The man in skintight spandex stood before me. Once again, I cringed at the tight material. Men should not wear spandex.
"No, I don't think so."
If he saw the lie, he didn't show it.
"Well, I hope you have a... SUPER DAY!"
Chuckling to himself at the awful pun, he turned around to impri... | **So.. we meet again, MISTER NORMAN DUNSTON!**
Why do you bother me so, Robot Jerry Seinfeld?
**Because I am the most evil of all the supervillains. Some say, I'm the super villainist! (Seinfeld theme plays)**
Oh make it stop! You were not programmed for this!
**I was not, you are correct. It was 2025, the technolo... | 2017-05-25T06:12:56 | 2017-05-24T21:51:30 | 129 | 35 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded Earth. Instead of attacking, they find the human race remarkably cute and decide to keep them as pets. It’s quite degrading, but it’s better than being eaten- right? | "Awww, who's a cute little human? You're a cute little human!"
The tentacle-covered slimy bastard poured me cereal and milk. I used to like having this for breakfast, but now I have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This alien thinks that's what humans have to eat for every meal and never get sick of. It surprises ... | They're telepathic. They speak every language. Their voices are a beautiful harmony of countless notes layered upon each other in an ever-changing symphony of chords made of melodies, of which humans can only hear a small fraction. Dogs can hear slightly more.
"Music is the language of the gods."
Zach was 15 when the... | 2018-04-16T11:14:12 | 2018-04-16T07:52:05 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] 1 hour before someone dies their loved ones are teleported to them so that they can enjoy their last moments. You don't have any more loved ones, but suddenly you are teleported into a crowded room. | I wasn't expecting it. You never do, really. But I guess I was hoping he'd make it.
My best friend had gone missing a few days earlier. I figured something awful had happened on his morning run in the forest behind the suburb we both lived in. Nobody had seen anything, and there was no sign of him.
I couldn't bear th... | I had heard about it online. An hour before someone goes they're teleported to their loved ones. Not that it mattered to me. I had no one.
Standing on this windy day watching the Sun set. The oranges and reds in the sky and faint breeze in my hair. I could faintly hear sirens in the background, some stranger yelling a... | 2018-05-20T11:47:02 | 2018-05-20T09:20:13 | 416 | 246 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | Abacus.
An outdated term, an outdated power set. If it weren't for the x-gene testing and the lack of other neurodivergences, it wouldn't even be considered a supervillain. He could do math. Very, very swift math. Without a calculator. Without an Excel sheet. Or scrap paper.
Without evidence.
So, it made it simple t... | *This time* it had to work. It couldn't be like that time the duct tape broke in the torture chamber, releasing the bar that kept Doctor KingKitty from morphing into her feline form and escaping. Or like the time my blaster cannon had no ammo while I finally had WhipWorm in the scope. And most certainly never like the ... | 2022-11-28T17:50:25 | 2022-11-28T14:15:34 | 106 | 18 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | Zarome stood proudly in line with the rest of the new recruits to the Intergalactic Police Force. As a Ghar of pure lineage, he was easily the tallest and the most powerfully built among them and he drew the envious looks of many.
A tiny, soft-fleshed, creature beside him gaped openly at his silvery ivory tusks and hi... | ***THE EXODUS (my first try at a writing prompt, hopefully this is decent)***
Within the Outer Rim of our Galaxy exists the planet called Nagilum. Human expansion throughout space had been progressing rapidly throughout the 2300s but inexplicably ceased after having reached the said planet. When making the first cont... | 2021-02-03T14:26:28 | 2021-02-03T13:44:20 | 613 | 420 |
[WP] As part of a senior thesis, an anthropology student decides to start a cult to see how far it’ll go. Several years, hundreds of deaths, civil warfare and a complete government overthrow later they wonder how they’ll properly cite their sources. | Today marks the end of year ten. My hands hurt. My head hurts more.
They say that lives are the price of progress. That knowledge is worth any cost.
And by 'they' I mean the Church of the Scribe. I suppose it's easy to justify what you're doing when your followers span the globe. I want to record that it was never me... | Chad turned toward the knock at his door. He was in the master bedroom of his now seventeen room mansion. The twelve room mansion where he had lived previously was no longer enough. Not for Chad, but for his followers, who insisted Chad needed more rooms. That philosophy came from a drunken night in the first year, whe... | 2021-03-13T09:38:19 | 2021-03-13T08:47:45 | 283 | 91 |
[WP] You have a small superpower. Whenever you tap someone on the shoulder, they always look over that shoulder, without fail. At first, you just used this for harmless pranks. Then, you realized you can kill people by tapping both of their shoulders. | Part 1 - [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsStoriesSub/comments/6jzs2c/a_tap_or_two_part_2/) - [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsStoriesSub/comments/6k636i/a_tap_or_two_part_3/) - [Part 4: Conclusion](https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsStoriesSub/comments/6k709s/a_tap_or_two_part_4_conclusion/)
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It was never a pr... | It took me a while before I knew what it was. I was always a nosy child, and I wanted my parents to notice me. Every time my fingers touched their shoulders, they'd look over at me. No fail. I'd always assume that they loved me enough that they'd look at me whenever I did that. Irritated, my mother told me to stop touc... | 2017-06-27T20:08:38 | 2017-06-27T18:17:24 | 2,179 | 152 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | Our triumph had nearly come. My aide reported that a few well placed payments to cousins of my colleague from Abrax, and we'd secured the votes we needed to pass the bill legalizing our future conquests, even if the Galactic council didn't know it, and to halt the slow 'self determination' movement that had been puttin... | I took a deep breath.
"We're gonna die," I said with the most clarity in the past 4 gerlens. 12 weeks in human times.
"Dude shut up, I refuse to believe the tales of Humanities persistence, they will tire and they will fall. No species as weak as them can fight for that long. I mean look at us, we're the *Serleuns* w... | 2021-02-04T11:55:21 | 2021-02-04T10:18:12 | 94 | 26 |
[WP] Uncle Bob is sober, grandma hasn’t asked why you’re single, father hasn’t questioned your career path, mom hasn’t gone on a political rant. “This has been the most pleasant Thanksgiving I can remember!” You exclaim finishing your meal. It’s then you realize why, this isn’t your family. | I hadn’t been here in years. Travelled half a continent away, in fact. I had kept in touch with them, of course, receiving rants about fraud (mom) and suggestions for more suitable jobs (dad), and occasionally a drunken word vomit of sentimentality or anger, interspersed with apologies (uncle Bob). But no announcement ... | “Fuck you, Uncle Bob!”, the unofficial slogan of family Thanksgiving. Last year it was Great Aunt Maude, who hadn’t so much as whispered a word the four years before that.
So when he rocked up a hundred pounds lighter sporting a purple robe wishing us all “Namaste”, it kind of ruined the days entertainment.
My father... | 2020-11-26T02:39:30 | 2020-11-26T02:00:20 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] After you blow your candles our on your cake for 2 on your 35th birthday, your seemingly perfect spouse looks up at you and says "you're finally at a wise age, I can offer you the gift of immortality, the same one I accepted so many years ago. Do you want to live this life with me forever?" | I pondered for a moment, my eyes drifting slowly along the beautifully sculpted features of my darling's face.
Sheila. My high-school-sweetheart-turned-fiance.
She's always been a bit quirky, so I flash her a warm smile and play along.
"Oh darling, hasn't anybody told you that birthday wishes don't come true when... | " Funny" I say with a chuckle." Where'd that come from?"
Cathy smiles patiently, " I'm serious, I've waited lifetimes to be confident enough to ask someone to join me, and I feel like you're the one."
" Immortality?... So my suspicions were correct." I look at my hands with a sigh.
"Suspicions?" She says.
" I alwa... | 2020-08-22T19:22:54 | 2020-08-22T19:09:38 | 141 | 18 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | Death, that little asshole, sat in the corner of my room, reading a newspaper detailing about a recent plane crash. As I languished in my bed, wanting to die, he flipped ever more casually though the pages in an attempt to feign the most extreme indifference he could muster.
"Kill me." I demanded in a level, toneless ... | I don't fear death. Not because it will never come, and it won't, for me. I can't really say if I would prefer it. Life can be oh so... tedious, but once in a while it can surprise me. I mean, Stranger Things is pretty good, so 2016 wasn't a total wash. And Patrick Stewart will be reprising his role as Captain Jean Luc... | 2018-10-12T10:38:34 | 2018-10-12T10:05:16 | 178 | 76 |
[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 do not like life, not one bit.
I want to find a way to quit.
I sleep all day and I sleep all night.
I really do not want to fight.
Sorry mum and sorry dad.
I really wish life wasn't so bad.
Look after the dog and after the cat.
Please take care of them when I have gone splat.
Please oh please don't le... | 2015-01-17T09:55:19 | 2015-01-17T07:28:39 | 120 | 26 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | “So how long does it take you to grow one of those?” Firelord Ozai said while inspecting the small but elegantly crafted rose bush. Willow stood up as dirt and thorns fell from her pants.
Willow: “oh not ally it takes maybe 100 days but I can grown them in 80”
Firelord: “what are your plants used for?”
Will... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T22:54:32 | 1,001 | 15 |
[WP] You are a chef working for a pizza place which is a mafia front, but you don't really care. All you care about is how to make the best goddamn pizza in town, and not even armed gunmen from a rival family can stop that! | It was nice, playing the part as a chef.
Oh well.
There was a pizza in the oven still, pepperoni. I really hope it doesn't burn...
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Bullets cracked as they whizzed by the head of the chef, currently ducking behind the counter and reloading a CPW submachine gun. Some of the bullets slapped into the hardwood ... | 10 years it's been 10 years since my uncle asked me to go and start cooking for him. He wanted a fresh young face to start cooking pizzas. Food has always been my dream. He went and loaned me 20 grand. Had a really nice place smack dab center of town.
He also got help me have some excellent accountants. Lot of busine... | 2020-12-19T10:51:12 | 2020-12-19T09:49:21 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] The Little Red Riding Hood is one of many "Riding Hoods." Each one has a name in the format of (adjective) + (color) + Riding Hood. And they each have a unique skill based on their names. | ***Identification Guide for Riding Hoods***
There are four known and well-documented types of Riding Hoods. However, at least a dozen more are believed to exist. Research is ongoing as we strive to learn more about these elusive creatures. If you have spotted unusual Riding Hood activity in your area, please contact t... | After the whole debacle of Little Red Riding Hood almost getting eaten alive with her grandma by a deranged wolf, she became an overnight sensation.
I hate to say it, but I was a little jealous. Not because I wasn't happy for Little Red's survival (even though she teased me constantly), nor was I envious of her recent... | 2021-05-26T11:34:08 | 2021-05-26T11:32:21 | 204 | 24 |
[WP] There are no known ways to kill a vampire. For years, hunters have handled this by tying heavy weights to vampires' ankles and tossing them overboard, deep into the nearest ocean, where they cannot escape. You are an oceanographer who doesn't believe in vampires. | If Lawrence’s dad could see him now he’d shake his head and remind his son that if something was chained up there was often a reason for it. He had given similar advice when a seven-year-old Lawrence had “rescued” a, it turned out, very tempermental Pomeranian from where it was tied up outside the grocery store.
In L... | I suppose you could say it was my fear that led to me choosing my field of expertise in the first place. When I was young, against my mother's wishes, my father told me and eventually gifted me books full of stories regarding the dark and terrible secrets the oceans may hold. Unfathomable creatures beyond imagination, ... | 2019-03-11T01:24:47 | 2019-03-10T23:15:36 | 1,621 | 635 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | I looked at the readout again. After turning 179 (take that Methuselah, ya fake bastard) I had earned another skill. One never seen before. My eyes were replaced last year with new "genetically vat grown" ones, whatever the hell that means and I'd been offered all replacement parts. But see, you don't get a new ski... | Everyone could never wait to unlock a new skill, wishing for anything from being able to create money from thin air to flying through the skies like a bird.
The most famous skill ever found however was the power to appraise skills, a shocking discovery was made through that skill however... there seems to be no new u... | 2018-06-23T13:18:44 | 2018-06-23T10:03:06 | 208 | 100 |
[WP] Instead of three wishes, a genie grants you three questions that he will answer truthfully, regardless of whether any human knows the answer. | He didn't look like a genie. He just looked like a guy in a bar. He WAS a guy in a bar. He had a plaid shirt and a glass of whisky and the beginnings of a good beard and a bored, blankish, tired expression. All guy-in-a-bar things. Not genie things.
But that's what he said when he called me over. I was also a guy in ... | The sandstorm was getting louder as time went on. I was finally at the end of this treacherous journey. The mystical lamp said to grant three wishes to any who found it. It was ten steps from me, on the temple's altar. Legends were told of many people who had tried and failed to acquire that lamp. That part of the tale... | 2015-05-22T11:19:22 | 2015-05-22T10:07:05 | 318 | 18 |
[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. | The Galactic Council were at war. A vicious reptilian species were pushing deeper and deeper in to their systems, killing all as they went. There were a few massive repair docks, and one in particular had been considered a lynch pin. Plans were formulated, and the odds calculated. They had no hope of taking it down.
A... | :::BEGINNING OF ENTRY:::
It was thought that the coming human invasion would be stopped easily...
They came equipped with barbaric weapons.
They can barely see at night...
They can't even see each others thoughts!
Now they are all over our plan-MY PLANET!
My home...
We accounted for everything except what they would le... | 2017-03-06T02:55:03 | 2017-03-06T01:55:23 | 61 | 24 |
[WP] You have been a fairly successful Super Villain and get to die in a hospital bed. Your arch-nemesis has come to pay his respects (or make sure you stay dead this time) and you get to tell him, the main reason you became a villain. The threat to the world that you spent your life delaying | Not fire, not flood, not fury.
None of those are what led me to lying in hospice days or hours from death.
No, it was a mere human cause, a disease that did me in. Cancer doesn't discriminate against good or bad, you know.
The media loves it. "No more terror from this villain" "Dr. Ghost can't destroy all his issu... | Blade and Arcum. Sword and bow. Near and far. Opposites. You'd think a man who swore by a broadsword, and one who swore by a bow wouldn't get along good. You'd be wrong. The masked men Blade and Arcum got along like best friends. When they weren't trying to kill each other. Blade was a crazed villain who preferred to d... | 2017-08-13T12:42:49 | 2017-08-13T12:35:04 | 97 | 28 |
[WP] You're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone. One day, on your screen, you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure.
Courtesy of corvidaedream on Tumblr | I wasn't sure why the servers were still up and working. I knew they shouldn't be, but I didn't want to question it too much, Pokemon Go was the one thing keeping me sane through this, reminding me that there was a time when I was not the only person left out here. If I questioned it too deeply, the servers might rea... | Today is October 25th, 2016. Today is my birthday! Nobody to celebrate with except my pocket monsters. I thought I'd make my first journal entry today. So hey journal! Let me tell you how this all started.
It feels like yesterday the world was taken by storm by the craze of collecting all of the pocket monsters. Packs... | 2016-09-05T10:42:44 | 2016-09-05T10:07:35 | 2,026 | 12 |
[WP] After you have died, you meet The Great One who says that you have been wronged in your previous life and, as a result, will be reincarnated with unimaginable powers. You accept the offer and you find yourself reincarnated in a fantasy world full of magic as...a slave? | I stood before god, or as my people call him, the Great one. He told me that I had been wronged in my previous life, because of that, he said that he'd reincarnate me with unimaginable powers. I was excited about it, I wanted the world to feel my wrath for wronging me all those times. At that moment, he vanished and w... | I've lost all sense of time in this cell. All of my time is spent questioning 'why am I here, what are these creatures that hold me captive?'. What I've found out is they need something I have.. I can feel something leaving me behind and exhausted each time they tap into me. I know nothing about my past, who I am... | 2020-06-07T10:15:31 | 2020-06-07T10:15:05 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] You're a high level black mage with a few healing spells but everyone thinks you're a terrible cleric because you only ever use healing spells. | I have stood on the edge of chaos, and fought back oblivion. I have held the world aloft in my hands and saved it from the death eaters. I have fought countless battles against terrible foes. I have died and been reborn. My name is feared throughout the multiverse.
But at last I have found peace.
In a small town near... | "You again? I really hate this system" said the young and strong warrior.
"Well, I didn't make it, neither I like you" was my answer.
Like almost every week, I had to endure a conversation about my current place as low level healer. To be honest, I understand why everybody complains about me, I only have like 3 spel... | 2021-09-03T10:55:58 | 2021-09-03T10:26:15 | 669 | 69 |
[WP] You live in a house infested with ghosts, but with the years you got used to them and their tricks, like the blood in the sink, hair in the walls, whispers at night, laughing children, etc. This weekend you have friends coming over and turns out that being used to ghost isn't normal. | "GET OOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUT!"
I rolled my eyes. "Ezekiel, I already told you, they're coming here to watch the fight this week."
The booming, rumbling voice that emanated from the dark opening to the basement went silent for a moment. Then a low groan came from the same open doorway, followed by another haunting wail.
"G... | I hear a knock at the door. It opens by itself, like it always does.
“Woah, creepy.”
I run from the living room to greet my friends.
“Hi! Come in!” I say as I gesture for everyone to come inside.
Everyone comes in and the door shuts behind them.
“Thanks!” I say to the ghost.
“What’s up with your door?” Jake asks... | 2021-08-03T09:43:47 | 2021-08-03T00:54:25 | 580 | 11 |
[WP] Describe a battle with an army against a single man..... Except that man is a level 20 D&D character.
Bonus points if that character is a Bard, or an unpopular class. | "What do you mean no army?" the king said.
"Just that your highness. We sent in our best trackers. They couldn't find a single print. Nothing but the tracks of our own men."
The attacks had started five months ago. Some tax collectors disappearing in the night. Nothing was thought of it. Happens all the time. There's... | It was felling day, as the armies of Water's Deep and the Host-towers found themselves, improbably, allied. Wizards and warriors, Criminals and scholars, joined with a single purpose, a single target.
As they crested the final hill, they perceived his dreaded sanctum, a small tent in the valley below. The horses charg... | 2016-03-16T20:41:51 | 2016-03-16T20:29:35 | 91 | 10 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Is it true, you're going to let me die?" Daisy says as she lets out a whimper
"What the fuck did you just say?" Shouts Jeremy at the old family dog he was left to care for after his parents were T-Boned by a drunk driver a fortnight ago.
"They just inject a needle and I go to sleep? Will I feel any pain?" a sadness ... | Room spinning, face warm and night stretched so thin that it was quickly becoming midday she stumbled into the kitchen. An outstretched hand reached out to scrape against walls, slipping onto counters to boost unreliable knees. A quick rest by the fridge, face pressed against the coolness of the freezer door.
"O-ne m... | 2016-08-02T19:04:22 | 2016-08-02T18:41:05 | 437 | 172 |
[WP] You are in heaven and you see a room that is empty except for a computer with one program running called Earth.exe. You see a tab with options of what to do to the universe and decide to have a little fun. | It’s empty. Not empty like you’d imagine empty. Not white. Not black. Empty. Have you ever seen empty? I wouldn’t think so. Each life was so full. Full of cars and trees. Animals. Life. Death. Dirt.
So full. Now empty.
I look down. No hands no feet. So empty. I wonder... how is it that I can hear myself thinking bu... | I'm in a room by myself. I'm in heaven apparently, since there's a big ass sign in the corner of the room that says heaven.
Earlier, God told me hello, and to make myself at home. I certainly did. I took a glance at the computer looking right at me. It had gold stripes and vines, going side to side. On the computer, it... | 2018-11-24T13:53:12 | 2018-11-24T12:43:51 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You start working in a nursing home, you have a resident diagnosed with late stage dementia. They ramble about their life experiences, from building pyramids to seeing Jesus crucified to watching fights at the Roman Colosseum. 20 years pass, you are now chief nurse, and they haven't aged a bit. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Come now, Nikolas." I wheeled the old man down the hall, stopping for just a second to adjust the blanket in his lap. I'd been watching over him for nigh on twenty years now, since I was just a young woman myself, till now.
He'd been there for the better part of my life now. And in the last twent... | So I sat there, alone. It was a rather peculiar day, nothing much was going on but I could feel a storm rising. My head felt heavy and my hands felt light. Maybe I was just tired. I had a few things on my mind that day, like whether or not Jannette needed assistance and if the tempature in San Bernadino would ever chan... | 2019-06-11T23:18:30 | 2019-06-11T23:18:28 | 138 | 32 |
[WP] You were sent to go deal with reports of a sinister witch in the woods that has been terrifying local villagers. Your grandmother is surprised to see you, but offers tea and cake while you're here. | Nathan's boots crunched on the fallen leaves as he slowly approached the quaint stone cottage in the heart of the woods. He eyed the assortment of effigies hanging from the trees outside the rustic dwelling warily, reaching for the aspergillum concealed beneath his cloak but paused. He did not feel the oppressive aura ... | All Agatha ever wanted was a simple, quiet life – the kind all grandmothers wanted. Every week, her lovely granddaughter would visit with stories about her studies. Vivian was always such a rambunctious child. But such energy was a welcome interruption to her life of solitude.
“Vivian, sweetheart, don’t forget to pack... | 2022-12-18T11:37:19 | 2022-12-18T09:14:25 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] One day, you see a picture of yourself in a foreign newspaper. You ask someone to translate the headline for you: "Search for kidnapped child still ongoing." | Mom and Dad said I was adopted. We even had the adoption papers. It was all correct. When I saw that computer aged version of myself, I couldn’t believe it. That wasn’t actually me.
The paper read, in Russian, “Anastasia Argechev was two years old when she was taken from her Moscow home. Her parents, Natasha and Stefa... | Well, cause you asked. I gotta warn you though, it's my first WP:
"Heh, imagine if it actually said that."
"No Mark, I'm being serial."
"Serious."
"Serious. The main paragraph says 'The suspect's recent confessions indicate he was...' There's no word for this... 'Kidnapped to another country for someone?"'
"What, ... | 2017-10-21T16:06:47 | 2017-10-21T11:09:22 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | I am the source.
The source of everything good, bad, holy, evil, light, dark.
I am the good, the bad, and the ugly. I am the punk and I
am the .44 Magnum and I am feeling lucky. I am not for a few dollars more because I am all dollars.
I am the beauty and the beast. I am the genie and I am the wishes.
I am th... | I'm all moved in. The office is fully furnished, degrees and certifications well hung on the wall. It's been more than a week now though and I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little concerned. No one has shown up and the phone is silent - apart from the occasional, wildly inappropriate prank call.
I guess some p... | 2016-02-22T09:46:55 | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 104 | 15 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | How long has it been?
Weeks?...Months?...maybe more.
All I knew is that I should have been dead.
I knew how it worked. 3 days without water, a month without food. And yet, nothing. I knew at the very least I should have died of thirst by now. Maybe the immobility that results from being tied up could have given m... | "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH" I scream out in pain as the masked man starts to slowly lift my index finger nail on my left hand. The finger pulses uncontrollably with pain.
"You don't know me" the man said. After a brief pause he continued "Oh wait. You do know me! That's to bad for you. In fact you know too much about me. I can't... | 2017-02-08T11:45:29 | 2017-02-08T10:53:29 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You are an American astronaut on the International Space Station when a second cold war breaks out. Tensions between the U.S. and Russia are higher than they've every been, and the Russian Cosmonauts are beginning to whisper and give you strange looks... | There had always been a special bond between us crewmembers aboard the space station, a feeling that although we all come from different cultures we are united by our love of technology and our desire to improve life for the human race.
News had been coming in daily about the increasing political tensions between NATO... | This is horrible news. I need to defuse this situation, quickly. I turned to my partners, Zack and Helen.
"We need to talk to them about this before they get the wrong idea."
The two nodded in agreement. We walked up to our 3 coworkers-possibly-turned-enemies, who were wary of our approach. I spoke first... | 2018-03-21T10:22:34 | 2018-03-21T10:02:47 | 70 | 15 |
[WP] The Government brings back trial by combat and televises it to earn revenue. The worse the crime, the more difficult the champion. You're the government's chosen champion to fight a tax evader who owes 40 million. | The chiming bells echoed off the walls of the empty hallway. It was a sound I had grown used to, a sound that used to fill me with dread but now only filled me with a bestial hunger.
But today was different. The air seemed a little colder, the chainmail a little heavier and my muscles a little stiffer. It was my bigge... | Jury duty. Three grocery flyers, my cell bill, and an embroidered card. My lanyard swung gently from the key still in my mailbox lock, my trembling hand frozen in the air. I stared at the card, two words in bold red letters burning into my eyes. My guts went cold. I stood there for an eternity before finally reaching i... | 2017-04-25T20:59:05 | 2017-04-25T20:19:54 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] people are born knowing the date they’ll die. However people have noticed children born in the last week share one date, farthest in the future. | The doctor's eyes looked grave behind his glasses' thick lenses, concerned. But there was something else there as well. Confusion? Fear?
"I just want you to know that it's nothing to be alarmed about, but there's uh, something strange with your son's mortality date projection," he said.
"It's probably nothing... | I was working another night shift when we saw the third baby in a row come into the incubation center with the same date in bold over their heads. We knew by this point that it couldn’t be a coincidence and that it was a sign of something to come that would wipe out possibly the world.
Four.
Five.
Six, seven. Wait, ... | 2017-12-25T19:34:40 | 2017-12-25T18:39:08 | 99 | 29 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | The world outside the bunker roiled, the fabric of space time ripped and billowing in the cosmic wind. Across the despoiled plains strode Abaddon, Dark Lord of Corruption, his left glove crackling with the power of the Hand of Midnight. He raised a finger, and a beam of pure destruction struck the bunker, splashing aga... | "Private!"
"Yessir! I am ready to call the number!"
Area 51 started disintegrating around them, as the monster from below started tearing apart space itself in an effort to escape the prison, the corridors of the underground complex appearing to bend as time itself tore apart.
"This is only like a level 3 right now... | 2017-03-21T02:08:31 | 2017-03-21T00:59:36 | 205 | 31 |
[WP] You're a special genie. You allow whoever finds you to re-experience three events that happened in their life for the first time again. Some people choose to re-experience a great movie as if watching it for the first time, some re-live their first kiss. Your latest request sounds quite odd. | "How specific do I have to be?" Noah asked. His light brown eyes were ablaze with a curious light. The geenie had a feeling that this person was not like the others.
"If you can't think of a time, as long as you can specify the event relative to yourself. For example if you want to say I want to remember the time I me... | “Well, what will it be?” asked the Genie, always enjoying the final wish the most. It never ceased to amaze the Genie what people would seek to relive when they are down to their last wish.
The young woman stared at the Genie with a perplexed look on her face. She had sat with that same look for quite some time no... | 2017-09-16T17:23:28 | 2017-09-16T13:41:47 | 142 | 78 |
[WP] You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | 'Shit' The Polaroid camera slipped from my hand, hitting the floor with a solid thunk. Just my luck, I find something magical, something which defies explanation, and I drop the bloody thing and probably break it straight away.
I'd found it nestled in the back of the pawn shop on my way home, struggled to find a few ... | I took the picture, smiling inwardly. I wonder how it'll look? I'd only been living there for a few months - I wonder what it had been like 10 years ago? What pictures would be up on the walls? Was the building even 10 years old?
I went to the darkroom, dipping the photo into the chemicals. I'd always enjoyed the proc... | 2016-12-22T03:53:52 | 2016-12-22T03:14:16 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | Jesus landed somewhere out in the desert. The first place he found was Vegas. It didn't take long to prove himself. Turning water to wine, walking on water, walking on water while turning it into wine until he fell in.
His entrance was so calm, and he took to the current world so quickly that anyone hardly made a fuss... | Oh fuck me. "Really? Here? Now?" I say. Jesus sneers at me. "I think so Antichrist." He looks to the gathered people. "Everyone!" he says, his voice amplifying so everyone can hear it. "This man here." He points at me, "Is the Antichrist, here to damn you all to Hell." The people turn to look at me. I sigh, "Look the A... | 2020-02-02T16:50:40 | 2020-02-02T15:07:16 | 972 | 25 |
[WP] You are a soldier in a fantasy computer game, and your general/player has just given you some very questionable orders. | "What I need you to do, right, is run up to the enemy."
"Yup. And then stab 'em?"
"No. You engage them."
"Oh right, ok. Then I stab 'em?"
"No! Listen. Run up to them."
"Uh-huh"
"Engage them."
"Righto."
"Then immediately retreat,"
"Uhh,"
"Then re-engage them."
"I'm not sure I follow... When does the stabbing ... | What? Why?
**Just go over there already**
But why is everyone else staying here?
**Because reasons, NOW MOVE**
There could mines or artillery though
*sigh* **Look there is nothing over there I just want you and ONLY you to move over there**
Nope seems like a bad idea bad things happen to lone lings
**Fine... | 2016-11-23T08:40:59 | 2016-11-23T07:07:59 | 156 | 60 |
[WP] In this world, physical appearance depends entirely on personality. All babies are born identical. Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while the opposite is true for ugliness. | It's the unusual cases that make the news but it's the ones that shock them that stays in people's hearts. Growing up children are told to trust in beauty because it's beautiful people who are good people. Ugly thoughts imprint themselves on peoples' skin. Every wrinkle is a cruel thought and every unattractive feature... | "So why did you become a priest?"
My hands were old, wrinkled, yet free from blemish. They gripped the handle of my mug off coffee. Pure black. A strong bitter. It reminded me of life. Pure coffee looks smooth, crisp, black. No flaw. Almost like those of us who genuinely wanted to make the world a better, more pe... | 2015-10-31T01:17:13 | 2015-10-30T22:12:44 | 142 | 44 |
[WP] The Evil Overlord has begun his final siege on the castle of the only kingdom not under his control. In a last ditch effort, the Princess performs a ritual to summon the Heroes of Old. However, the ritual doesn't work quite as intended... | _Htrof emoc , dnegel tneicna._
Pain. That is the last thing you remember. The swing of the blade, in a last ditch effort. The last whisper of the holy words....
_Su evas, thgilp ruo raeh._
Victory, at the last possible chance, sacrificing your very existence to seal her for eternity, in a cage forged from her own va... | The room is dark, lit only by three failing candles and full of people huddling in what they think are the final days of the kingdom. Until the princess speaks "I didn't want it to come to this day, but I have a book. One with a ritual that will restore the heroes of yore to their former glory." With the royal wizard b... | 2021-10-22T06:42:01 | 2021-10-21T23:58:05 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] As a young wizard you uncovered an old spell that resurrects one of your eldest ancestor. You do so in curiosity, only to face one of the most feared creature the world ever experienced thousands of years ago. The creature recognizes you as its descendant while you stare at it in disbelief. | (A teensy bit off prompt but i was inspired!)
As a young wizard, I found a spell.
It was a strange thing. By itself, in an otherwise completely unnoteworthy cave. Written on parchment so ancient it crumbled somewhat to the touch. The document itself was worn and missing segments, and my best translation was rath... | Alright looks like it's all set up, all i need now is to drip a little of my blood. I hate this bit, why do they always need blood? My hands already look like chopping boards and I've only just started this magic stuff.
The wizard grabs his ceremonial dagger and stands in the centre of the room surrounded by markings... | 2022-12-31T11:01:45 | 2022-12-31T10:15:47 | 59 | 13 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | I started keeping my own personal time by counting cycles of my fingernails growing; I clipped them every three weeks before time stopped. Every time before, time stopped for only a short period. Once, it was a car swerving out of control, headed in my direction. Another, a crazed gunman at university. Once I had remov... | The world is still, lifeless, dead. It would seem it takes my burden. A year has passed since anything moved. Anything. People stand still amidst the backdrop of soulless cities, like mannequins in windows. The birds are idle in the trees, no morning silence ever broken. The grass lies frozen in the land, no wind to mo... | 2018-07-04T14:24:46 | 2018-07-04T13:31:50 | 1,474 | 153 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | >**SEAWORLD & SUCCUBI**
"It's a conspiracy, bro. The government just doesn't want you to know that the *real* walruses are so beautiful, because it'll expose the ones at Sea World as being super unhealthy."
"So you've looked at the Walrus already?"
"Nah bro."
"Then...how do you know?"
"It's, like, a gut fee... | A soft outline of a human figure, fetal position, can somewhat be made out under the stained linen bedsheet. The light whispers of the wind. It's that time of night. The room was awakened by the harsh light of my mobile phone.
*Do Not Look At The Walrus*.
Did I hear that as I left my dream?
I open my eyes. Vision bl... | 2021-01-11T17:49:11 | 2021-01-11T16:43:12 | 287 | 209 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | 2017-09-15T08:23:49 | 2017-09-15T07:03:44 | 223 | 36 |
[WP]: A fly lands on a table, starting a chain of events that gradually escalates to first degree murder | When you swat a fly, you might hit a fork instead.
When you hit a fork, you might send it flying.
When you send a fork flying, you might hit a waiter.
When you hit a waiter, he might cuss very loudly.
When a waiter cusses very loudly, he might startle an old lady.
When you startle an old lady, she might not tip as... | It started with a fly landing on a table.I had grabed it and watched it squirm. At the age of seven I marvelled at how easily I could kill this small insect. Slowly squeezing I felt each twitch and smiled when it was a pulp.
The next experiment was a kitten. The cat in the shed had a litter. Holding one in my hand I w... | 2014-12-28T22:21:10 | 2014-12-28T20:46:20 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | I only have one power. And by itself, it's the weakest power there is.
My first roommate was, in a lot of ways, the luckiest one I could have gotten. Her power was "The Vision". She could see Powers in people. She approached me on the Subway and said I had one, but it was fuzzy and she couldn't understand it, which ... | In the world we live in, superheroes are quite common. It's actually gotten to the point that we have a ranking of the most powerful people on the planet thanks to Eugene. You see, Eugene has the ability to sense the power levels of anyone within 50ft of him and makes a point of traveling the world plotting everyone's... | 2016-03-23T22:08:45 | 2016-03-23T21:32:33 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] You're a genetically engineered "designer" child, but don't like the design your parents chose. | Technology has changed our lives in so many unexpected ways. It has given us the ability to communicate over the entire globe instantly, capture memories forever, and argue over whether or not Willem Dafoe was in that one movie. What it never should have given us was the ability to decide what our children should loo... | Why did they let my parents decide? They were gamers, and they loved making stupid characters!
My name is John Cena. Yea, my parents loved that name. Everywhere I go, whenever I meet someone new, my parents always say "AND HIS NAME IS JOOOHN CEEENAA!"
They gave me blue skin, because everyone loves blue skin! I look l... | 2016-07-29T05:10:18 | 2016-07-29T04:43:44 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | Scout Beozoo's Log: One and a quarter Earth rotations
In all my adventures, I have never seen a world so treacherous and inhospitable to life. Not even on the lava-ridden moons of Oredah-3, and they don't even have atmospheres.
What makes Earth more dangerous than an unbreathable bath of molten slag? The problem wit... | ### Humanity: Special For Exactly One Reason
#### They're the most absolutely full of themselves species in the entire universe.
Space is unimaginably vast. This is a simple fact: from the puniest Rentinn to the most mighty Telonn, all species know of the terrible vastness of space and their comparatively minute pre... | 2019-02-07T21:56:10 | 2019-02-07T19:58:44 | 211 | 20 |
[WP] I cannot stress this enough, I did not see the murder. | "I can promise you officer, I did not see the murder." I said, setting my cane down by the table, and sitting in the chair.
"Alright, man, I getcha. Now, face me, we just want to ask you some simple questions." he ordered. His voice sounded grim. The room smelled like hardened steel and sterility. I faced his voice, a... | “Well, somebody shot him!” a sharp slap rang out as the detective smacked his hands against the table.
It was loud and completely unnecessary. My ears rang, I had laid my head across the table and felt the vibrations as they assaulted my eardrums. My fingers felt the tremors as they spread across the table from the im... | 2022-11-30T17:39:52 | 2022-11-30T16:03:49 | 75 | 33 |
[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | I finished my speech, fully prepared for the usual spectacle of protests and outrage. I take no pleasure in those but centuries of analysis and prosperity proved our way as superior and most efficient.
However cruel it is.
I certainly didn’t expect this unusual noise the humans started producing. It took my communica... | “Look Zygol, the humans are cheering.” Sadol said a perplexed look in his eyes. “You’d think they’d be less enthusiastic about involuntary servitude.”
Zygol was a wise Questar with many years of experience invading and occupying alien worlds for the good of the empire. With his kind of experience came a knowing smile... | 2022-11-02T22:40:54 | 2022-11-02T18:46:31 | 4,256 | 836 |
[WP] You give a dollar to an old man on the street. He immediately hands you his old, stinky shoes and promises that you can achieve anything you want while you are wearing them. | "Anything?" I echoed the words of the homeless, probably jobless man sitting on the street curb. He nodded, his eyes filled with gratitude. "These shoes will give you great prosperity. Anything you want will be yours. But...I must caution you. You must be patient," he said, before turning to leave, his lunch money held... | The streets were bustling with the morning song of traffic, the sidewalks packed and roiling with businessmen and women, as I stepped out from my flat to begin my morning commute. As I weaved my way down the pavement I looked across the way at the line that had formed outside major corporate coffee co, and smirked. Tur... | 2017-07-22T01:27:02 | 2017-07-22T01:26:39 | 288 | 23 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | You would think that the vast expansive history of alien communications would evolve to become something cohesive, that a sense of mature camaraderie or, at the very least, begrudging respect for one another would frame the foundations of interstellar interaction.
It was not.
In fact they acted an awful lot like a ro... | Jalaxil shuddered, trying to keep his chitin plates from rattling in terror as he hid in the bridge. His ship had run out of fuel, drifting through space. He had tried to argue with the captain against activating the distress beacon. They could have let the ship drift. In another month, they could have been in the clea... | 2021-04-08T00:34:55 | 2021-04-08T00:31:51 | 206 | 71 |
[WP] Michael, a 15 year old Call of Duty player, realizes the greatest trash-talking opportunity of all time. Over his headset, he recognizes his opponent's voice as that of President Obama. | “Mike, you gotta turn on the TV.”
“What? Why? What channel?”
“Doesn’t matter what channel?”
I flicked the TV on to see the President holding a picture. My picture. I flicked to a few other channels. With the exception of the Spanish channel, he was speaking on all of them. On the Spanish channel, he was being tr... | It was a normal day. I had just gotten home from school, and after a quick few texts between this girl I was hitting on, I proceeded to go to my second home: Xbox Live.
Xbox Live has always been a home for me, specifically Call of Duty. I make videos online "trash talking" the other team after with voice messages. Som... | 2015-12-17T06:35:23 | 2015-12-17T05:57:37 | 230 | 54 |
[WP] You’re an immortal 30-year-old-looking serial killer who was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. After 100 years people started asking questions, but now it’s been 400 years and you’re starting to outlast the prison itself. | Just as I thought, I'm being moved to a separate unit again to keep the older guards off track and have me overseen by a new team.
Each time I get transferred now I hear more wispers, feel new glances, but my true nature has moved past the stage of rumor and is now a legend, too outlandish to be taken seriously and re... | A pebble bounces from the ridge of his nose as he looks up to inspect the damage to the castle infrastructure.
“Won’t be long, now.” He muses as he waits for the prison guards to arrive. They come bearing paperwork, and lots of it. Some 400 odd years down, a mere 600 to go- and the same damn paperwork every year. “N... | 2020-08-17T03:06:07 | 2020-08-17T01:11:41 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] Earth only has seasons because it’s tilted on its axis. An alien race from a planet without seasons lands on earth and begins their invasion. What they don’t realize is they’ve just landed in Russia, and winter is coming. | They came in early October.
Luckily, the world had been preparing for the extraterrestrial invasion of America for a hundred years now. Unluckily, the aliens seemed to have missed Washington D.C. by a few thousand kilometers. Embarrassingly, they didn't hit the Kremlin either; rather, a fleet of saucers sat themselve... | AR645 was in the woods when she heard footsteps approaching. Quickly, she shape shifted into the last human image she had seen, some model in a magazine.
“Hello?” a voice asked, low intelligible through AR645’s translation modulator. AR645 ducked behind a tree. “I can tell you’re hiding behind a tree.”
AR645 was sile... | 2020-04-28T13:41:11 | 2020-04-28T12:45:33 | 1,149 | 197 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | He wasn't dreaming.
The Red Phone rang on top of the marble podium in a small isolated room. A call that should not have happen unless...
He cautiously answered the phone. Over the phone, he heard her panicked voice.
"Location, uh... London. Situation... fuck!"
He heard explosions and screaming from the other side,... | "As you can see, the world's best heroes are currently fighting this new monster. While it is sure to be a hard battle, I am equally sure they will pull through. As they always do."
The newscaster spoke calmly over the terrible scene. He had to keep people calm, after all. To describe it as 'terrible,' though, is suga... | 2022-03-28T23:42:12 | 2022-03-28T22:34:58 | 451 | 210 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | The air was frigid and the sun was starting to set. Franklin could see his breath as he stood in line. His father gripped his hand and pulled him forward. Franklin looked around and saw mean looking people with weapons yelling at people further up in line.
He asked his father, "Papa, why are those people so mean?" To ... | Little Johnny, aged 7, heard the knocking again, three short light knocks on the door.
Daddy was still asleep, he'd been up all night, again, doing something in his office, loudly grumbling as he had a wont to do lately.
Johnny, being a good lad, answered the door for his father so that he wouldn't be woken up.
The ... | 2017-08-28T10:39:23 | 2017-08-28T10:00:57 | 640 | 275 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | "Who are you calling a hoe, Hoe?"
We all burst out laughing. We could always count on Shovel to lighten the mood. But, as evening became night, and the moonlight shone through the cracks in the roof of the shed, the only thing on my mind was the prophecy.
As I looked around at each one of us, I couldn't help but ke... | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me(what?)
 
I am the sharpest tool in the shed
 
They say I'm kinda dumb when I went to suck my thumb
 
It's just to brainstorm ideas in my head
 
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
 
Sent me to col... | 2017-07-01T04:56:20 | 2017-07-01T04:51:31 | 2,083 | 12 |
[WP] A man gains the amount of people in the world as money on his account. But when he spends that money, people die. | “Change?” His eyes are sunken deep in their sockets, glittering inside of a gaunt and wrinkled face. The woman sneers, offended and does not reply, does not look at him. Her designer heels click against the pavement as she hurries past, laughing at something her friend says, the encounter already forgotten.
“Change?”... | Everyone had always told him to invest. No one ever considered the fact that a couple dollars into the savings account per year would be a luxury for him; living paycheck to paycheck didn't exactly lend itself to escaping the rat race. Honestly, the recent smile of Fortune upon him did little to change his conception o... | 2014-08-09T08:49:37 | 2014-08-09T05:28:43 | 255 | 16 |
[WP] A child unknowingly has a conversation with Death. | "Mom, get up! It's time for school."
"Mom?"
The child, eager to start his first day of kindergarten, wanders into the room where I am collecting the soul of a nameless woman. Apparently she's his mother. See, part of my deal was that I wasn't to know any personal details of the souls I collect. It's weird, I know, I... | The giggles of a group of children resonate through the
neighborhood street. Sid sat on the curb wishing he could
be with them. He asked if he could play earlier, but they
ignored him. He let out a sigh and started to wander home.
A slightly deflated ball rolled gracefully down the big hill that
eventually led to ... | 2014-06-06T19:55:03 | 2014-06-06T19:32:04 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] You've been trapped in an endlessly repeating simulation by an alien race, studied and researched. They believe when they reset it, your memory resets as well, but for the last 1000 cycles you remember everything. | **Professor Gig**
The aliens approach me slowly.
Casting glances at his two assistants, Professor Gig studies my vitals. For quite a few days, he has noticed a spike in my hormone levels, namely oxytocin and cortisol. Basic depression symptoms, but the way my recent loops were, it might make sense. I was prone to sui... | Carmine swore, suddenly back in front of the school, the machine gun fire roaring from the third story as he crashed through the front door, Glock 40 in hand as the third hinge from the top door snapped.
For the one-thousandth and first time.
He'd lived this scenario, starting with his pushed momentum through the d... | 2018-12-03T23:17:08 | 2018-12-03T22:35:52 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You find a dusty and bulky PC. Its cracked monitor reveals billions of files all marked by three letters and some numbers. Upon further investigation, the files appear to outline, or perhaps control, the fate of every human. | I wasn't really sure- you can never really be sure- but something about it just seemed.. right. I looked through all the files, overwhelmed the insane amount. There must have been billions, trillions, if not more!
I decided to cautiously right click on one of the files, BWE042, and then open it. The operating system s... | "Holy shit," I mutter under my breath. "Holy fucking shit."
"Is it true? Does it work?" I ask.
I checked my file. The file labeled with my initial and the year I was born. I quickly scanned through, reading and growing awed as I see all the events are true. At the point of the present, I read one line into my future.... | 2014-08-13T01:28:46 | 2014-08-13T01:17:56 | 48 | 24 |
[WP] You've recently become president of the United States- unfortunately, life isn't nearly as fun as you'd hoped. You begin doing crazy things to get out of office, but every thing you do seems to be the right thing at the right time. | I thought today would be the beginning of the end. Everything was arranged for the fall and, ultimately, my escape from this prison. Every day the anxiety and the fear have gotten worse. I was finally going to get out. Then, as I read the latest poll numbers, my Chief of Staff walked into the oval office.
"Sir..", h... | I thought that for sure, when I willingly let myself go during a debate, the thunderous fart echoing in the studio - silencing both the canditates and audience - that I had finally managed to pull it off. I was to become 'The President that got fired - by his party, and his people.' Needless to say, that didn't happen.... | 2015-09-12T15:30:12 | 2015-09-12T12:44:14 | 610 | 156 |
[WP] Your power is to materialise the most appropriate tool for any situation. When you need to dig a hole, it materialises a shovel, when you need to chop down a tree, it materialises an axe. This morning when you awoke, your power materialised a large medieval sword covered in strange runes. | And so it comes that the guests of the party have no more beer. Johnny, who organized the evening, is distraught. But here is Amanda, who tips on his shoulder.
"Put a glass of water in the fridge, and close the door. Then open it again."
Johnny is not a man of faith, but desperation often compensates for any deficit ... | I tilted my head and stared at the small knife in my hand. Symbols etched into its handle glowed a saturated blue that could have lit up a small room. It had a heft to it, like a well constructive pair of boots you know could last beyond lifetime no many how many miles you put onto their soles. The dagger also felt imp... | 2021-12-02T10:52:43 | 2021-12-02T09:52:33 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] Everytime you touch somebody you get a flash of your entire future with them. | It was hard knowing when and how everyone you knew would die.
I knew the minute I was born that my mother would die when I was 10 in a car accident. My dad would die of lung cancer when he was 65 and my little brother would plunge to his death at 27 when the parachute didn't open.
I've tried to change it once befor... | I like having sex with strangers. Strangers are uncomplicated, no strings attached interludes in my life. We fuck, I come, they leave. That’s the entire future I see. Only a brief future that allows me to enjoy my present. I once had a girlfriend and every time we touched each other we saw every fight, every argument, ... | 2017-01-11T10:57:53 | 2017-01-11T08:09:51 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Surely their treaty language was infantile. Every galactic power saw the human delegations in this light, and granted them allowances when they called out other polities for supposed violations. Their own world still rattled with ancient, barbaric rivalries, but their world government was adept at crafting laws that ad... | It was the first all-out battle we were to ever have against humans. It was also the first battle I'd ever been assigned to.
We weren't too worried. Humans were new to the Galactic Community. They'd finally gotten some of themselves a significant distance away from their little rock, and we welcomed them with open ar... | 2019-11-24T12:29:38 | 2019-11-24T11:57:32 | 363 | 129 |
[WP] You're a famous detective, but it's your assistant that actually does all work and discreetly leads you to all the clues, evidence, and answers. They do it because they have a thing for you. One day you slip up and turns out you were just playing along and could've easily solved all cases. | She was going to die. In a warehouse. Tied to a chair. Surrounded by armed men.
Being kidnapped was not on Julia's to-do list today, and this was really derailing her routine. She should be with her boss, Daphne, helping her solve crimes and put away criminals.
Well, *helping* was a nice way of putting it. Julia di... | “God, this is awful,” I mutter.
“Senseless,” Dane replies. “Deranged. How can one person do this to another, Cait?”
“Easy. He’s not a human. He’s a beast, a monster; a monster wearing a man fleshsuit,” I continue.
The flash of a camera illuminates the room briefly. Evidence markers litter the floor, highlighting t... | 2022-10-14T00:48:09 | 2022-10-14T00:05:36 | 538 | 114 |
[WP] While out for a hike you notice a fallen log crushing a pretty flower. You decide to move the log in order to give the flower a chance to live. By doing so you have actually saved a Dryad and now they will not stop following you. | "Defeat..."
My screen flashed a subtle hue of red as i put my hands on my face, lowering it - stretching my face downards in fruatration - and lay back on my chair as far as it can take me. Unfortunately, it only reminded me of why i failed, because it leaned back far enough for me to see the dryad sitting on my wind... | \[poem\]
A gift of life
can be saved
as easily snuffed.
One cold autumn day
found a small flower
trapped on its own
it's protector sans power.
Along came a man,
kinder than most,
who cared for nature
with nary a boast.
To his surprise
upon completing the deed
a woman rose up,
as quick as a weed.
Her ... | 2021-01-04T16:01:17 | 2021-01-04T14:52:20 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] We knew about a year and a half before launch.
Edit: Thanks everyone for the very nice stories! :)
Credit for the prompt goes to u/CookyGray and u/purpleflowersj for https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6fjxym/game_developers_who_have_worked_on_terrible_games/diixkc3/ | *T minus ten.*
General David Moore, the director of NASA, stood with his hands folded neatly behind his back. Even in the privacy of his own office, he held himself straight and tall, his shoulders back and his expression unreadable. His gaze was focused intently on the live footage of the rocket. Kyle Owens, his juni... | We had gotten the news at the worst of times, but then again, who’s ever heard of a convenient disaster? For a while now, everyone had known the infinitesimally small chance of a world-ending apocalypse, though nobody thought it would be *their* generation that would have to face it. And that was for the best. Could yo... | 2017-06-06T06:37:06 | 2017-06-06T06:34:03 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | It really sounds good on paper. Everyone gets a superpower. Oh, there are people with awesome powers. Eki Magnusson, the current president of the great and bountiful human empire has the gift of luck; whatever choice he makes will turn out for the best. Since he was eighteen, his ambition to find challenges pushed huma... | The fluorescent lights buzzed above my head, the clock ticked away as the cold air rushed up the backless hospital gown. The medical team was preparing for the worst with only a minute left. I couldn't help but think of those who got superstrength or flight. The tier one power sets. My mom has telekinesis so I had a ch... | 2015-03-28T06:27:10 | 2015-03-28T06:14:54 | 70 | 14 |
[WP] There exists a subreddit that is accessible only by the "random" button. On a day of mindless browsing, you become the first person to ever reach r/TheVoid. There you find a single text post entitled, "Welcome."
EDIT: It has now come to my attention that r/TheVoid actually exists and is currently private. I had n... | "Welcome"
That was all it said. No link, no extra text. Just "Welcome"
No upvotes, no downvotes. Didn't even have any subscribbers.
"WTF is this shit?" 14 year old me thought angrily.
"Reddit can't be this boring."
I refreshed the page a few times. Nothing changed. Took a look at the all black header with white bl... | "hello?"
(submitted 5 seconds later)
"hello"
"what is this sub about?"
(submitted 12 seconds later)
"what is sub?
"you know,.. why did you create this group? what's happening here?"
(submitted 2 minutes later)
"i am learning"
"yeah, kewl brah.. but there'S no one here... what are you looking for?"
(submitted 2 ... | 2015-06-18T00:35:47 | 2015-06-18T00:26:38 | 40 | 20 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | The doorbell rang. When Timothy Reid went to meet the stranger, two very special men stood opposite from each other. Timothy was in his mid thirties, a rather boring attorney by day, a gangster by night. Not just any gangster, but a greatly feared villain, successful at evading both the police and a number of heroes.
... | It was a lucky break, I guess. I'd always used my ability for pettier things like shifting into some fast food place's manager to get a free meal, getting by under the radar. The world had enough heroes and villains and I wanted no part in the charades. Then the headlines broke out: Someone had caught Batman leaving Wa... | 2020-10-19T08:45:39 | 2020-10-19T08:16:40 | 94 | 55 |
[WP] Despite having pink hair, a tragic backstory, and untold magic power, the narrator refuses to make you the main character | I am an immortal being made up of pure magical energy.
Yet my husband and I are slaves to a child.
Our power to grant wishes is not without bounds. Our physics-defying magic is governed by The Rules - an arbitrary set of commandants laid out by an unelected council and their militant enforcer, an unnaturally muscular... | Today on Jeff's fantastical story we watch Jeff heroically run from the bully while his pink haired side-kick stayed behind and froze or electrocuted him or something lame like that.
It seems that his friend has finally caught up with to whine about the bullies taunting him about his parents being dead.
Even as flust... | 2017-12-18T20:45:51 | 2017-12-18T17:21:40 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] To solve the problems of overpopulation, all the governments in the world agree to only allow some of their citizens to reproduce—these people are chosen by lottery. After eight or nine generations, an unintended consequence begins to show up: humans have evolved to be unbelievably lucky. | The trouble with the results of the lottery - what has become known as the 'genetic luck' phenomena - is that luck largely relies on the misfortune of others. In order to win at something, others must lose. In order to find something valuable, someone else must have lost something of value. Even finding true love means... | It was the best of times and they remained as such. It was the days of excess but without the repercussions. What happened was for the best and when it didn't was for the best yet. The Cull was ages ago, so much so that only one true written record of the event itself had remained. Ironic that other similar records had... | 2018-12-30T19:08:22 | 2018-12-30T18:28:21 | 919 | 51 |
[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... | That evening marked the end of the first month I had fought these creatures, and in that time I had lost more soldiers than in a sixty-cycle career. I worked special-operations, pitting my small number troops against the best of the best in any in a planet we choose to invade. These losses made me fearful. If one of th... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | 2014-07-16T13:40:10 | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] It's been 226 years since the bombs first fell. When the sirens blared, your ancestors didn't hesitate to descend into the vaults for protection. You are on the first scouting party to ever leave the vault; however, upon reaching the surface, you discover that there was no war to begin with. | ***(If you like this, parts two and three are below in the comments!)***
***Also, if you'd like to read all three parts in one convenient place, you all have inspired me to start a subreddit for my writing! Check it out at [/r/1_stormageddon_1](http://www.reddit.com/r/1_stormageddon_1/)! I'll also be turning this stor... | I sniffed the auburn air and drunk in the sight of the greeny pastures. Inside Vault 35, there was barely any vibrant color other than the cool gray slabs of concrete that outlined the entire complex. For so long, I have dreaded go out into the real world. The vault had decent food, water and a lot more safer tha... | 2015-02-20T16:51:45 | 2015-02-20T15:49:06 | 342 | 71 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | "So what can you do?"
"I- well- I produce ink."
"What line a squid?"
"Sort of".
"Go on then."
"Well I can't control it."
He goes very quiet. He slowly leans in.
"BOO!" He screams in my face.
Nothing happens.
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For about as long as I can remem... | My first time writing in this subreddit... Please be gentle.
In an oddly satisfying thud, a magazine featuring the top 100 superhumans and all their interesting superpowers was strewn atop the table. Seeing the person who threw it was my Best friend, Altheia, even if possessing the gifted power of time control, I imme... | 2017-12-17T22:56:00 | 2017-12-17T20:04:37 | 57 | 34 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 3,279 | 10 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | I sat outside of the lounge, arms-crossed and face puffed. It was yet another day at the V.E.N.O.M hideout, where I just sat there and took a barrage of jokes and insults while boiling water for their afternoon tea parties. Viper hissed from the lounge, turning the flatscreen TV's volume down. "Hey Re-boil, get us anot... | As I make tea for those scumbags, I start to think of different plans. While waiting for the tea to boil my plans are narrowed to two. They both boiled down to one concept. Boiling them all alive. When finished, I bring the tea down to them all. Being as agitated as I was, I had plopped it down and sat away from them.... | 2019-07-30T17:09:56 | 2019-07-30T16:02:12 | 65 | 13 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | We all laughed at the first wave of news about it, as it was front page of the National Inquirer. Of course bat boy was ridiculous fake news.
Until it wasn't.
On live television, a press reporter literally lost his head. After a moment of stunned silence, he picked it back up and put it back on his shoulders, as stu... | For years my Grandmother claimed our family was descend from an Ancient beast. No one not even I believe her. After all we where human, how could we be have come from something like that? Grandma would all ways answer "we where cursed. The Sorcerer said he want to protect us. It was a lie." When we ask what she ment, M... | 2019-10-09T12:19:40 | 2019-10-09T10:51:45 | 57 | 37 |
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