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[WP] You just started attending a halfling support group. A gorgeous blonde raises her hand and immediately starts ranting about how hard it is to be half elf half human. As half orc, it's getting hard to keep a straight face. | “Are you done?”
Her words were stern, but she was crying.
I guess when someone twice your height, and four times your weight unloads a lifetime worth of internalized hatred on you, crying is a reasonable stress response.
“I, uh...yeah.”
She gave one curt nod as her pretty little wisps of hair, framing her ethereal... | They say beauty is skin deep.
I grew up in Rochester, in the boring suburbs with a red brick home and a broken basketball net hanging over the garage. The frame itself was a hand-me-down, found for next to nothing in the thrift shop since the net was missing. Dad and I installed it together one afternoon, and I spent ... | 2019-06-22T20:35:45 | 2019-06-22T16:36:11 | 71 | 28 |
[WP] In the far future, super powers are fairly commonplace. At your birth, everyone was certain you'd be a villain. | Four generations ago, people all over the world started being born with special abilities. Anarchy spanned the globe as people sought to exploit their power for wealth and notoriety. Order was eventually restored. As evil rises, good rises to cull it.
Over time, the powerless died. Now all that remains are equals onc... | “It is 2064, my name is Garin Lockly, I'm fourteen and I.. am a super-hero!”
Laughing hysterically, Garins friend Colton barely managed through teary eyes, “What? Super-hero? What’s that all about?”
“Shut up, Colton!” he replied, taking his eyes off of the camera that was recording him. “You’re ruining my video! And... | 2017-09-16T23:14:41 | 2017-09-16T23:12:10 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] After time traveling to meet Jesus Christ, you are not satisfied with what you see, and eventually realize you are Judas. | "What, are you kidding me? Feed the poor?"
*"Yes, feed the poor, give away your wealth and follow me. For no one can serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."*
"But the those who are poor are the result of their own fault... | While everyone hates Judas for what he did to Jesus, I instead, was fascinated with his life. If Jesus was foretold to die on the cross then it must have meant that Judas was planned to betray Jesus. How was that his fault? I quit my job and began to make a time machine to prove that Judas was innocent.
Little by litt... | 2017-06-08T08:03:55 | 2017-06-08T07:33:16 | 109 | 19 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "They're fuckin nuts, that's what they are."
The Qwyvvrtt shook his mane, the vines sliding like snakes across his barrel chest. A few small petals fluttered to the floor, the spring pollination season just drawing to an end. His friend perched along the side of the wall, all creeping ivy and a multitude dark eyes w... | (this was done on mobile, apologies for any bad formatting)
"People...uhh...no...thats not right, is it? Well anyway, the server is slowing down". The bartender shouted above the general chatter.
"Bullshit!" a mildly intoxicated Staricuon threw his canister to the floor, "I'm paying good money for this!" This type ... | 2017-09-06T11:50:21 | 2017-09-06T10:06:01 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] It's July 4th, 2176. In response to tariffs, 13 Lunar colonies have joined together, declaring independence from the Earth. | "Hey Benny, you hear the news?"
"What news?" Grumbled Benny, eyes still focused on the road, as though the car he was in wasn't driving itself.
"Jesus Christ, you been living under a rock? The Moon's declaring independence. Apparently caused a whole political shitstorm, I guess the Moonese got tired of paying taxes or ... | "Could they *be* any more sarcastic?!" Whit complained.
"Come on! I find it witty!" Mark retorted while sipping his favorite poison: Coffee, straight from the Tycho Hydroponics Corp. For some reason, he savored low-gee coffee much more than the terrestrial roasts so in vogue with the Trendies.
"But they've been plann... | 2015-07-04T10:36:49 | 2015-07-04T09:47:13 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] Earth is contacted by an intergalactic federation. Planets are welcomed to the federation if they have something to contribute. The rest of the galaxy is interested in what they see as our greatest talent; they want our music... | The President had gathered the greatest experts of culture in the Oval Office. The Smithsonian was well respresented, as were a number of private institutions and musical schools. Together, they picked the lineup for the greatest orchestra the world had ever seen.
The President invited the alien representatives to th... | Earth is contacted by an intergalactic federation. The rest of the galaxy is interested in what they see as our greatest talent, one song in particular... "We Will Overcome."
You see, most species in the galaxy are like lemmings. The only way that a civilization can survive long enough to evolve into a spacefaring soc... | 2014-12-22T10:39:03 | 2014-12-22T09:57:17 | 538 | 56 |
[WP] There's a machine that shows you all the times in your life you narrowly avoided death. You use it and, to your horror, almost every time it shows is you hanging out with your best friend. | It was that time of year again, the County Fair. A time when all sorts of wacky and crazy people I don't think twice about come together and showcase some weird thing they did. Biggest pig, County's best pie contest, pie eating contest to prove you're the biggest pig. Elementary school dioramas of why our boring place ... | He changed my life. It did not matter when or where or why, he was always there. If I had known it was only a mask of contempt, what would I have done? Evidently, it does not matter what I would have done. It matters what I will do now. I cannot forgive you, Jaz.
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[WP] You are the last person to die on Earth before the secret of immortality is unlocked. Turns out, there is paradise in the afterlife. After a hundred or so years, you decide to check in on the people still on Earth.. | The world wasn't on fire, but it should have been.
After a century of immortality, madness didn't take over the humans, boredom did.
Sprawled on the tarmac, what were once people lay motionless, their gazes fixed on the gray sky. I floated down to one of them, and placed my hand on his ripped shirt. Insects crawled... | The cancer had spread through out my pancreas and liver, I wanted to live for my children, but a part of me wanted to see what was on the other side of death. My life was fulfilled, I had a few properties to gift to my two sons after my passing, Christopher and Jack were strong lads even though they were only young. My... | 2016-12-17T12:02:00 | 2016-12-17T11:22:38 | 219 | 18 |
[WP] When you hit puberty, you will get taken to a customise-your character-screen where you can change anything you want. While leaving the program, you accidentally change one parameter. Now you are stuck with it. | My random parameters, assigned at birth, had really served me well throughout my childhood. I was relatively good looking and my agility had made me great at sports so I didn’t complain. My intelligence level had given me decent grades in school.
“Hey David,” my good friend Alex said. I knew he’d be at the Assignm... | All these years, I truly liked the way I looked, but figured no harm in messing around. I fiddled with the settings, gave my self muscles, changed my hair and eyes. It was rather fun, but I really had no problem with the way I looked before, so I hit default.
The screen showed me the way I always was. Short buzzed... | 2017-03-09T08:36:45 | 2017-03-09T07:34:58 | 104 | 38 |
[WP] In 1829, a dying woman in a village near Mansfield asked a friend to bury her son’s letters with her. She forgot and had them buried with the local postman who died soon after hoping him to be ‘as diligent a postman in the other world as he had been in this’.
This is a true story! But I thought it would make a fa... | The postman never delivered on Sundays.
For the other six days of the week, Mr. Picket was a frequent sight around Mansfield. Not all knew his name, but everybody greeted him warmly, often with a refreshing drink when summer scorched, or a warm drink during winter's chill.
It was perhaps the most fitting that the du... | “All I want to know is why the hell I’m being forced to do this! I mean, I *died!* Surely that’s supposed to mean an *end* to my suffering!”
Charon sits silently on the other side of the barge, clearly ignoring the belaboured postman.
“Stupid lass forgets to follow through on her best friend’s dying wish, and now I... | 2020-10-14T10:27:20 | 2020-10-14T09:36:10 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "You have a *bad*. I smell it in you. The bad is bigger." the electonic voice chirped from a nearby speaker. Zoe looked at Valerie from the table
Valerie blinked, and turned to the vet tech, looking for help. "The pill allows Zoe to speak English, but this doesn't fully explain all concepts to her.", she remarked. s... | "Alright listen very carefully, we don't have much time." Barks Sonny, "follow me."
He races off through to doggy door into the back yard. I fumble with the back door for a second and I try to chase after my beloved dog. I barely reach him as he slips under the hedge of our garden. When I crawl under, I realized I've s... | 2017-02-23T06:40:22 | 2017-02-23T06:16:15 | 75 | 17 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | It all started when I give a 'hand' a handshake. Next thing I heard was a voice whispering "You're hired".
That is it. Nothing else. For the longest of time I thought it was a really weird dream. A very weird lucid dream. Or so I thought.
Then I live life as normal till the day I die. Or so I thought.
Apparent... | and so such was life now. an endless chore for an unknown employer. nothing was ever needed again. nothing was ever needed to be done. existence was the job. each and every day played out just as the monotony of a dayjob. and each day was a shift in a dayjob. each day carried the burden of dread, of uncertainty of purp... | 2017-04-29T01:14:15 | 2017-04-28T23:00:16 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 4,068 | 21 |
[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement bloc and trown in a lac. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers. | "Hey, *bitch*!"
His booted foot slammed into the side of my face, forcing me into the ground. It hurt like hell. I screamed in pain, despite knowing full well this wouldn't last forever. I cradled my jaw in my hand, struggling to get back up to my knees. I got a glimpse of the man beating me. His name was Cody.
It lo... | How tedious. I had become one with my new environment, studying the bottom of the murky lake and it’s inhabitants. The cool depths wrinkled my skin and flooded my respiratory systems; not that it mattered. After 297 years (my count may have been off, the water and the depths make telling time of day more difficult than... | 2018-11-24T11:03:28 | 2018-11-24T10:22:59 | 270 | 79 |
[WP] After a Pyrrhic battle defending their homeworld, the defenders detect another fleet. It's the Humans, and they're sending in the hospital and engineering fleets. | Why they always asked, why do we 'waste' our resources on those who may soon be vanquished. Why do we send our fleets thousands of light years to help without any apparent gain. Why do we risk our troops lives on planets that are infected with foreign plague. Why do we waste ourselves on a lost cause.
Because those... | [poem]
We'll rebuild your schools, and neighborhoods. Some medical personnel will stay, for good. We have interpreters, social workers understood...your need for macro-synergy and resources, like wood.
Yes, you've been defeated. But how would we want to be treated? Let us agree to repair collateral damage, when battl... | 2021-01-30T16:45:38 | 2021-01-30T10:37:25 | 52 | 38 |
[WP]- Make me absolutely hate a character, and then make me fall in love with them at the last moment. | I heard glass shattering, by a proceeding knock on my door. I hesitated but unlocked the door, while leaving the upper chain lock on, as I opened the door sunlight a streak of sunlight came through the door opening. The boy looked at me with an embarrassed face, baseball bat in hand. I could tell the fear that he was e... | Time does not exist for me as a force, an entity, or a plane. Time is a combination of letters that form a sound with no meaning to me. I have spilled blood, had my way with the weak, I have made no second thought of my work. All I have is my work, I was not born for it- I was created for it. I have orders but I would ... | 2013-10-21T20:44:57 | 2013-10-21T19:41:10 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | And so it came to pass, at the place where the last war was prophesized to begin--Megiddo, or Armageddon, as it was known in the tongues of the time. In the heart of the desert, a thousand, thousand leagues from life, the sweltering barren plains of cracked rock and swirling dust shook. All at once the tremor spread, c... | The war began, and at first things looked bleak. The pope and President Barack Obama united the world under a One World Government during Obama's third term. Then, an uprising happened. Specifically in the religious community. "This was all prophesied" they claimed. "He is the Antichrist!" So they killed him. Crucified... | 2015-09-24T09:39:39 | 2015-09-24T08:34:50 | 333 | 95 |
[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. | HONK HONK
“I heard there was a birthday here. A birthday where? A birthday here! I heard there was a birthday here and I’m Bobo the Clown!”
The man at the front door looked confused and angry, his muscles bulged out of his stupid little tank top and his eyes darted around furiously, scanning the space behind the clown... | Look I'm a man who can handle many things...
Being listed by the World Villian League as 'Ridiculously D-Teir' because i don't personally feel the need to do more than rob banks and steal tech from labs was fair.
Having the Wrecking Crew be my assigned "Nemeses" was a hard pill to swallow but i got over it. Hell, i g... | 2022-11-29T06:39:56 | 2022-11-29T04:37:56 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] YOU CANNOT DIE, no matter what, for the first 65 years of your life. AFTER THAT you're completely mortal. This is the first morning after your 65th birthday... | It's been a long time since I've had contact with anyone, I've been waiting for this day for the past 39 years.
It was 40 years ago that I was placed aboard an ark ship that was sent to colonize other worlds that are tens of light-years away, the other poor souls were placed in cryostasis and won't ever wake up, but ... | I woke up in the same hospital bed I'd been occupying for the last 23 years. My numerous scars and gouges greeted me with a sore welcome. I had done such amazing things with my life prior to this. The feds had covered all my medical expense for my service to them for so long. The injuries I sustained during my duty are... | 2014-12-24T13:11:00 | 2014-12-24T11:45:17 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | I had always heard her voice. No matter what the dose of medication, experimental treatment -- she was always there. In High School, through college. Shit, when I lost my first tooth. Doctors said I had schizophrenia, it was all in my head. That's where I usually heard her anyway, so it made enough sense. But this time... | As I lay awake in my bed, never once my own thoughts rang through my head, always those of an unfamiliar persons, I toss and turn as the voice rings clear as in my own head, "Turn around.... Did I find you?"
The color in my face drains as I stare at my wardrobe, *Please....dear God say it isn't so....*
"Oh.... It is ... | 2019-09-14T10:49:17 | 2019-09-14T10:23:14 | 65 | 25 |
[WP] You are immortal, but no one knows. You are given a life sentence in prison, and you laugh thinking about the confusion to come at the end of your sentence. | I was sentenced to life in prison. The tribunal laughed when I told him the prison wouldn't outlive me.
This was in 1939 when they took my shop from me. They lined us down filthy, packed streets, and into filthier, more packed trains.
I lost count of the days, I lost count of the years. They took us to 'the s... | Life sentence it is. It's been 70 years now. Given the fact that i had been 55 already when they put me in jail one might think it would be strange for me to stay alive for so long, but until today, no one has noticed. They probably didn't open my file in a while.
"Day 24.999" i wrote on top of the page. Keeping track... | 2017-05-20T18:29:11 | 2017-05-20T14:44:10 | 189 | 110 |
[WP] God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve, fully expecting them to die. One of the Angels just informed him they survived, and the population is over 7 billion. | "Like some sort of viral infection on my once beautiful planet. Do they know that no creature of similar size's population even comes close? Yet they continue to breed and multiply. Their persistence is impressive, I'll give them that. They just don't give up. There are skinny ones who don't have any of the liquid that... | "Father, you have *got* to stop these new things from invading my house!"
The Divine Nebula twisted around to the Morningstar, and performed its grin logarithm. "Now, Son, you know I only ran these simulations out of morbid curiosity. What seems to be the problem?"
I started, watching the oncoming storm rising thro... | 2016-03-07T04:31:20 | 2016-03-07T04:27:53 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 432 | 172 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | "Those damn bastards are giving me a lot of work!" Lucifer said as he looked at the paperwork due to the sudden influx of dead souls.
Knock knock.
He slammed his hands on the table. "WHAT NOW?!"
The door opened as a voice said, "Sheesh, I could do without the yelling, brother..!"
"What the hell are you doing here G... | When they arrived they made their intentions VERY CLEAR "we are the Vex and we will add your world to our empire" we fought with all our might but they just kept coming all of us. We discovered massive computers that were seemingly simulating our attacks, but we were destroyed regardless. They took tech they deemed use... | 2020-09-18T09:30:06 | 2020-09-18T08:43:26 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You jokingly pick up a banana and talk into it as if it's a phone, but as you laugh at your stupidity, you hear a voice answer back. | It has been 42 days, 11 hours and countless minutes. She left this world without a whisper, and sometimes he wonders if she even existed at all. It is only by the photos, the home movies and the constant aching in his heart that this absurd idea is quelled.
People are telling him endlessly that 'this will get better'... | "Watch this," Jim snickered to his buddy, Zac. Picking up a nearby banana, he put it to his ear, mimicking a cell phone.
"H-h-hey, Amy..." he stuttered. "I-I-I'm Billy, and I'd like t-to go out with you."
Zac guffawed in rapturous glee. "Lemme have a go!" Jim handed him the faux-phone, and Zac held it up to his ear a... | 2017-05-06T15:50:02 | 2017-05-06T13:15:50 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet's gravity well would need to BE 97% fuel weight, and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept.
Repost, no one responded before.
EDIT: Th... | "Good for them," Zolforat commented as they observed humans farming the cradle of civilization. "Tools and agriculture? Why, they're looking positively sentient."
"Real moxy," Mefro, Zolforat's companion, agreed. "I can hardly understand how they manage to stand up like that!" It stamped its twelve hooves in emphasis.... | "Exemplar, they have landed a droid on Mars."
She froze over her fourth lunch, taking two blinks to register the news. "You're kidding me," Exemplar Boria said slowly.
The messenger fidgeted under the weight of her stare. "Never! But... you asked me to report any developments, so I have---"
"Done so diligently... | 2016-03-31T13:57:30 | 2016-03-31T13:49:23 | 1,816 | 340 |
[WP] Humans have developed faster then light travel and made contact with alien races. Turns out our civilization still has the most primitive classification because we somehow managed to skip one of the simplest inventions imaginable. | "You're still *completely* organic? You haven't hybridized with Artificial Intelligence at all?" The stranger asked me.
We were standing on designated neutral ground for humanity's first touch with an alien race- and so far, they were only one thing; confused.
"Look, the fact that you've managed to get here means you... | "What do you mean they don't know about it? It so abundant on their little dirtball that you will stumble over it with every damn step."
The Researcher was perplexed. "How the bloody hell did they even manage to get our attention then?"
"As you might have already guessed, not by the usually means", his protegee answe... | 2021-02-04T08:44:09 | 2021-02-04T08:37:53 | 265 | 43 |
[WP] Every person has two deaths. One when their heart stops beating and another when their name is spoken for the last time. To enter Heaven you must experience both deaths. | "I just don't understand it," John said.
His eyes stung with the threat of tears as his last living relative passed through the pearly gates into heaven. As Saint Peter welcomed the elderly man into the golden sunlight of heaven, the years fell from his shoulders and he bounded spryly off towards the horizon, vanishin... | "Come on!!! Just let me in already. I followed you. I walked on water with you. You left me charge when you came up here! Now you're even gonna let me in".
"Sorry Peter they're still talking about you".
"Yeah and whose fault is that!? I should have just kept fishing". | 2016-01-05T17:40:05 | 2016-01-05T14:25:47 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Legend says there are 77777 secret paths to immortality, but each path will only work once. In 2014, the first person accidentally achieved immortality by sticking a French fry into her nostril and pulling it out the other intact. Human behaviour has since become more... interesting. | Almost immediately, entire industries of behavior experimentation sprang up from nothing in an effort to find the remaining 77,776 paths to immortality. Because methods can’t be reproduced, this very quickly devolved away from authentic scientific experimentation. Ultra billionaires used their immense power and influen... | "New Customer! Alberto"
" Now Available! Blueberries"
"Day 69"
I chuckled at the screen. Ever since I was 8 years old, my main source of entertainment was the Papa's games. Think the pizzeria, pancakeria, and pasteria, or in my case, bakeria.
Suddenly I felt powerful. Not physically, but mentally, I felt the str... | 2019-07-23T11:05:38 | 2019-07-23T10:39:10 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] You have an ATM that gives you the exact amount of money you need to survive for the day, how you spend it is your choice. Today you are given $70,000,000. | It started a month ago, when my student's loan was due to be paid and I have literally zero ways to pay it. I jokingly checked my bank account, hoping that a miracle happened and some money would appear.
And you would not believe how hard my jaw dropped when I found out it actually happened. Someone sent me the money ... | It was just the normal routine, but with this much I'm paranoid. Every morning, I wake up and get coffee and check how much I'll need. There's some bumps. Car trouble, taking a girl out to dinner, the list can go on. But seventy million seems a little.. ridiculous. Right? There's only one way to find out, I guess.
I w... | 2018-03-15T02:04:41 | 2018-03-15T01:59:01 | 307 | 51 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | The rules were simple you see. That’s why I took the challenge. I’d been used to being on my own for long periods of time, figured I’d get paid for it.
There were just a few ways to pass my time in here. If I really wanted to there was a Nintendo, a stack of books, and a laptop with just enough broadband to use the oc... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T00:54:49 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 180 | 45 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | My fellow Americans,
As I leave office, times are dire. I have had a conversation with Kim Jong Un in which he informed me that upon my retiring from the role of president, he will launch no fewer than 102 nuclear missiles at the United States.
I begged him, pleaded with him. "Un," I says, "Un, what can I do to ... | I am trying to write based on subreddits that I follow.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
We are 15 years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded with a new generation fighting two long and costly wars; that saw a vicio... | 2015-04-30T08:08:51 | 2015-04-30T08:07:05 | 41 | 13 |
[WP]: An ordinary human being gets abducted into interplanetary olympics that have a fun twist: The loser's planet gets destroyed. All hope seems to be lost, until the last sport is revealed to be what humans do best.
Edit: Thanks to you people, I am now aware of the existence of Jimmy Neutron, and if I could, would t... | Maximillian Ludwig Zeiner.
He detested his full German name. Being born in New York he could not fathom why his parents wanted to keep so much of their heritage. But that heritage meant the world to him today.
The klaxon sounds above him and an alien voice rang through the loud speaker. Even though he did not underst... | And we're back with live coverage of the two thousand and fifty third interplanetary Olympics, direct from Gliese 6c! And what a spectacle it's been so far, Rob.
You can say that again, Claire. I haven't seen competition this fierce since the nuclear blast survivability round. In fact I haven't seen anything since!
A... | 2014-05-06T07:54:57 | 2014-05-06T06:42:13 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] "Never get into a fight with an Earther. They are conditioned in 1G from birth. You will never build that kind of strength out here. But if you have no choice, wrestle. It's better to be ragdolled than to have your orbital shattered by the first punch." | "They *grew up* in 19 keplons of gravity??? How?"
"Class, calm down. Yes, it's rare and unusual, but the Universe has it's ways."
"But miss, you told us that nobody can escape a planet with 20 keplons. So how can life exist in such high gravity?"
"Open your mind, little one. You are thinking only of life on *thi... | "Fight smart. Use your advantages. If we ever had to go planetside, we'd be fucked. But we don't have to, do we? This is our home turf, and we know how to use it. Sure, Earthers are strong, and they can fight harder and longer than us. But they live under a blanket of atmosphere kilometres thick. Space scares 'em. Some... | 2021-02-08T18:58:27 | 2021-02-08T18:27:35 | 219 | 143 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | My parents were the sort of people who bought me a welcome mat as a house warming gift when I finally struck it out on my own. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against welcome mats, they're fine. They're the sort of thing that you don't buy when you first move into a new place. So, it's not like I had one already. Bu... | My shift is about to end, only one more minute. My boss flies above the mat manufacturing line and rings a bell. Everybody exhales nicely and we go home. The line bustles to an end and the materials are put away. Fur. Rubber. Shit like that. Shit to make mats.
My boss makes a killing off these mats because the best, m... | 2017-12-13T11:32:40 | 2017-12-13T11:24:16 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | A hooded figure enters the cathedral. Not confidently, yet not with weakness either. With a complete disregard for his surroundings, he continues through. The crimson pathway opens up to an abyssal black altar, with seven seats worthy of the title of thrones by themselves, until compared to the momentous monstrosity th... | They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but it didnt happen for me. In fact I didnt get anything. Just black out and fade into a dimly lit room.
"Candles? The fuck is this? A fucking Bath and body works?"
The large room contained eight beings of which I paid no mind.
I wandered up to the table in... | 2019-01-12T18:24:29 | 2019-01-12T15:27:37 | 195 | 18 |
[WP] Due to the increasing ammount of souls that need reaping, Death has decided to upgrade from a scythe to a farming combine. | “Betsy, looks like we got one of them crazies,” Billy said to his wife as he got up from behind the counter of his desk. “You call the cops now if he gets fresh, okay?”
Betsy looked up from her magazine and waved it in front of her face as she leaned forward and looked out the dirty front glass of Billy's New and Used... | Alex was at peace. Well, as much as a dying man could be, anyway, trying to remain uncowed by existential dread and the realization that your future consists of the laying down in a hopefully comfortable box, and eternal darkness.
So yea. Alex's doing well. Fine, even.
He didn't quite exactly know what he was dying o... | 2021-01-17T11:46:15 | 2021-01-17T11:44:05 | 224 | 26 |
[WP] On your birthday every year, everybody you have ever known attempts to kill you. On all the other 364 days everyone treats you normally. No one has ever bothered to explain why. | I stood on top of the mountain top looking at the mystic sitting cross legged in the snow.
"Uh...hi"
"I've been expecting you"
"You...you have?"
"Well yeah. I'm a mystic on a mountain top, I obviously expect people to come visit me"
"Oh...so do I get to ask a question?"
"You get three"
"Like three on top of that... | Rachel grabbed Valerie and shook her by the shoulder. "Why do you people try to kill me on my birthday, then act like everything's all hunky-dory the next day?!"
Valerie shrugged and replied, "Well, Rachel, we kind of thought it seemed obvious. You keep turning into a rabid werebunny and ripping the kidneys out of alc... | 2016-02-08T16:34:49 | 2016-02-08T15:56:40 | 228 | 45 |
[WP] SETI receives a transmission from intelligent life. After some deciphering, the message reads, "Keep quiet or they'll find you!"
The message was clearly sent from elsewhere in our universe, from outside of our solar system. | "Keep quiet or they'll find you"
Six words. Six words and suddenly we have military cruisers in space in three years. Nasa was now receiving the same funding as the rest of the US military combined.
Didn't take long for someone to verify that guns worked in space. It also didn't take long for the first barrel to melt... | Of course, it was too late. Far too late. For all he knew, that repeating message had been there for them all the way back on that dizzying first day of February, 1985 - when he had joined the SETI team as a fresh-faced intern right out of grad school. As the cab raced from Dulles International toward Capitol Hill, ... | 2014-10-03T12:00:46 | 2014-10-03T11:48:12 | 101 | 21 |
[WP] The enemy's champion can't believe how well you're doing in the duel against him. He doesn't know you can return to a selected save point each time you die. You've actually fought him hundreds of times. | It's true, as they say, the head does retain some function after being cut loose. I discovered that just now as my head, well more like as I, rolled through the briars of a dusty field. I tried to speak but very quickly realized I needed air to do so and my lungs were over there in that bush, stuck in my corpse. If I c... | His breath stinks. Somehow that is comforting, familiar. It lifts me, briefly, from the boredom, the depression of realizing this is the third time I have stepped left instead pivoting right, so obviously broadcasting the strike with my blade, my wrist caught—again—in his grip. The effortless sink of metal between my r... | 2022-07-16T15:36:16 | 2022-07-16T14:59:57 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | "Your species is now affected by the Anti-Natalism modifier:
Every 10 points above the average IQ makes it 10% more likely for an individual to refuse to have children and 50% more likely to have children past their primetime (makes it more likely to develop negative status modifiers)."
God closed the pop-up and sighe... | They had been playing for nearly 14 billion years now and God had barely advanced his Humans enough to begin exploring their solar system. The other gods had already started transmitting their culture across the cosmos. So much so that the god Marlinius and his race of gorlarmi had completely dominated Roman culture on... | 2016-04-09T07:26:51 | 2016-04-09T07:01:46 | 158 | 63 |
[WP] A necromancer doesn't know that he can bring back the dead using magic, he just thinks he's a really good doctor. | "Well... shit." Dr. B said as soon as she was back in the surgical workroom, away from the patient's frantic family. She slipped into the chair as the rest of the trauma team filed in behind her, crowding around the single computer as Dr. B pulled up the CT.
"Can't believe he was still talking, let alone awake with a ... | Doctor Jonathan prepared his tools; various vials of fluids with varying viscosity - from those with that of water to those with the viscosity of tar, but sickeningly green, syringes of bronze, tin and silver of the needlessly large kind and of course plenty of belts and ropes to restrain the subject as the procedures ... | 2020-06-21T14:42:50 | 2020-06-21T13:24:54 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "My brothers, I hope this message reaches you. We never should have come to this place. This...jewel of a planet, with simple creatures living simple lives. None of them followed the Ardok's Logic, 'the strong take through combat, and by taking they get stronger.' Our empire's founding principle, that has guided us thr... | Part 1
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Torin started at the flimsy placed in front of him. As he scanned the almost transparent document he didn’t see anything surprising jump out at him but had noticed that 3 of the probe teams hadn’t updated in close to 12 units.
Calling up their locations on his terminal he nodded as he started to ... | 2019-02-26T13:01:01 | 2019-02-26T10:26:44 | 75 | 14 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I entered the facility, shaking of course. I'd volunteered to go first, mostly to get it over with, but I was definitely having misgivings. The proctors had assured us that studying was not required, but now that I thought about it they had also said that about the ACT.
It was far too late now though. I continued wal... | The newest form of virtual reality is beyond even our wildest imaginations. Not only can we interact with one another, but we can actually feel one another. Well, at least feel as though we can. The population has grown exponentially over the last several decades and we're told over and over again how a test is comi... | 2016-06-11T10:22:36 | 2016-06-11T09:34:45 | 588 | 18 |
[WP] 30 years ago, you decided that humanity was a lost cause. After packing some supplies, you walked deep into the woods and haven't seen another person since. Now, after all these years, you are filled with nothing but regret for your choice and have decided to go back. | Walking towards the edge of the forest, I saw the sun obstructed for the first time in 30 years, no dust curtains breaking through the trees, no rustling branches in my way. The sun breathed life into my face again as I watched it cresting over the horizon once again.
I can't even remember what drove me to this. Th... | Seeing the cities erupt into chaos and the people from inside destroy themselves, I knew I had to get out. I watched Alone, Survivor, Building Off The Grid, and even some of Doomsday Preppers to get an idea of what I was planning all those years ago. All I'd known was city life, with the exception of spending time with... | 2021-06-08T19:23:44 | 2021-06-08T18:05:35 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] At 18, everyone gets tested to determine how morally good they are. You have never hurt a fly and have always gone out of your way to help people. You score a 0. Nobody in history has scored that low. | I sat in the testing chair in a state of disbelief. My tester looked over the results again, shaking his head and clicking his tongue in disapproval.
"In all my years as a tester, I've never seen anyone score this low. What kind of terrible things have you done, son?"
I was in such shock I could barely open my mouth... | ######***Project Heaven X***
A fun little fact
You probably didn't know:
You are scored and tracked.
From birth until death,
Through the thick, thin, and the best,
Even your worst mess;
Everything you do,
All that you have ever said,
It is all scored. Yep.
We have such high tech,
But it hands them sol... | 2018-07-31T19:46:29 | 2018-07-31T19:39:37 | 302 | 26 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | In the far reaches of space a lone human cargo hauler came under attack by an alien race that they had yet to meet. An emergency drone dropped out of the hauler with a dump of the ships computers highlighting the attacker. In a flash, the drone was off to the nearest human star system.
That lone incident introduced... | The "Xeno" mocked humans at their interplanetary council. After learning humans had such silly rules for war, they teased and mocked humans.
"Are they so coddled that they need restrictions on the art and beauty of warfare?" High General Okrendai of the Antaki aliens laughed. The alien's interplanetary community decid... | 2022-01-23T13:12:28 | 2022-01-23T11:20:41 | 2,090 | 881 |
[WP] "Please explain to me HOW our human test subjects escaped a maximum security lab in deep space?" | "Well sir, he asked to leave. Politely. He claimed it was a need to excrete, and that he knew where the lavatorium was."
"So your guards just let him go alone, with a 'pinky promise' to come back?"
"In human culture, pinky promises are unbreakable!"
"Garbolath. You are an intelligent person. Tell me, at what *age* d... | "Commander. The guard assigned to the human subjects is in the infirmary. You should talk to him immediately."
"Ugh. Fine. You know I hate blood though, right?"
"Well sir...you won't have to worry about that."
The two security personnel make it to the infirmary. The door slides open. Inside, two medical drones are c... | 2019-12-20T20:24:23 | 2019-12-20T19:39:38 | 106 | 73 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | It was my turn.
I had seen others go in through these heavy metal doors to the machine.
No one really knew how it worked, but they did know that once you go into the room, you don’t come out the same way again.
My friend Oliver came out a few months ago, proudly showing off a piece of paper. His power was the abili... | “Don’t use your power.”
Those four words punched me harder in the gut than Carl did at the playground yesterday. This was the one thing I’ve been looking forward to. The sole solution to all my problems, turning me from nobody into someone worthy of a little attention and a lot more respect.
Instead, there were those... | 2022-05-08T12:53:11 | 2022-05-08T10:04:14 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Any other business?" God asked, stifling a yawn.
"Er...," St. Peter said.
"Spit it out, man," God said. This latest board meeting had dragged on for three months, a new record, and God was ready to put his feet up with a martini and the newest Clive Cussler novel.
"It's about-" St. Peter lowered... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T08:00:29 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 73 | 14 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil many years ago. Today he gives it back to you and says, "I need a favor" | "Hey there, we just closed up for the night," Tom said to the tall man. The bookstore had been empty for the last 2 hours, so it was a bit of a shock to hear the bell ring over the front door as the man entered.
'Well, haven't counted the register yet, so I guess if this is a quick sale...' Tom thought. "If there is ... | A great plume of smoke swirled in the living room, obscuring the view of my TV. I groaned and waved a hand, "Do that somewhere else man, I'm in a top three situation here."
The plume of smoke shifted slightly to the side, and allowing me to refocus on my Fall Guys game as the smoke drew inward and began to form a body... | 2021-01-22T22:07:58 | 2021-01-22T21:32:47 | 236 | 100 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The Captain filled a small container with what had to be bourbon, carefully sealing the spout to prevent any of the liquid from floating away. As I dogged the hatch behind me, I saw that he already had his drink in hand.
First day aboard a starship, and I'm drinking with the boss? Not a bad start.
Captain Leonov sent... | “This is a serious legal liability, I promise you.”
“We can’t just deny them their own child!”
“I think we can. If we know her father’s going to kill her, we can’t just send this newborn baby home with them.”
“What should we do, then?”
“Send the baby to an adoption agency. Change the name. Tell her parents she passed i... | 2018-03-11T08:45:50 | 2018-03-11T08:30:54 | 120 | 41 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | My name is Marco.
The signs showed up randomly, at first. I would only see signs above people's heads if their name started with an "A", and above their heads would float "Andrea - Murder".
I didn't interfere, not after my first attempt. I wanted to, of course, but after Beth...
I stopped a girl with "Beth - Suicide... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T08:25:25 | 241 | 73 |
[WP] A hit new VR game comes out that transfers your consciousness to a virtual world. 5 minutes in real time feels like 80 years in there. Most people barely even stay in it that long. However, one person plays it for two real-world hours before they leave. | "Matthew," Jack wheezed, exasperated. "For the hundredth time, you don't know the future."
Matthew hadn't meant to spend 1,920 years inside a virtual world, but the graphics were so photorealistic, the gameplay so smooth, that when his real-life five minute timer went off he decided it wouldn't hurt to hit snooze. ... |
Most people can’t handle the information. You lose certain details; the mind zooms and spans- blurring together a coherent story. Most can’t control much. Some get stuck as an infant, overwhelmed and unable to grow. Some live and die, earning their years, growing alert with time, but their mind fatigues. They start... | 2019-01-04T19:12:40 | 2019-01-04T18:19:18 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] A group of heroes finds a magical suit of armor possessed by an all-knowing spirit during their adventure. In reality, it's a suit of power armor with an A.I. that's REALLY confused on where it's ended up. | "Ohhh check this armor" the warrior proclaimed staring at a armor in the back of the hoard.
"Ofcourse youll get all teary eyed over some metal shell" the elven ranger chuckled, she knew her companion well.
"I have to try it on, let me take a look" he grabbed the parts and slowly put them on, they seem to fit themself... | Hello, my name is Han-Tyumi.
I am a cyborg.
Born, if you may call it that, in a world that is dense and black.
Created without a desire to draw breath,
without a desire to have being, without a yearning just to be.
I'd like my desire back, my life back, my soul back, my humanity.
Oh how I long for it.
For an era I have... | 2022-10-22T08:30:10 | 2022-10-22T07:00:36 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Upon entering heaven, the book of your life is presented to you. You quickly skim to a page titled, "Lives This Soul Has Changed", you notice several names are unknown to you. | "Excuse me?"
The angel looked up at me, a look of slight irritation on his face.
"Could you tell me, who are these people? I've never heard of any of them before, I don't think that I've even met any of these people?"
Taking the book from my hands, he turned so that we both could view it easily. "Here.." He said, po... | > Lives this soul saved:
>
> 1. Douglas McGreggor: The smile that prevented this man from taking his own life.
> 2. Jillian Barker: The walk across the rainy street, that prevented this woman from getting hit by a drunk driver.
> 3. Christian Rolok: The 15.72$ donated to a Veteran's Day Jar, that thi... | 2015-02-04T01:51:18 | 2015-02-04T01:32:24 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | "All right, all right, what's the problem?" A pink demon with shaggy brown hair on his goat legs, wearing a blue dress shirt and black tie walked up to a small red demon wearing a green polo.
"This little girl just showed up. We have no idea why." The demon pointed to a little girl a few feet away, playing with a sli... | "*Damn you to hell.*" Biggs muttered, very nearly fulfilling his daily quota for hellishly damnable puns.
"All right, come on!" He shouted to the child.
She was hesitant. Nice things in the pit had a tendency to attain immense weight, and the girl didn't have a telemarketer's shot at heaven of picking her teddy ... | 2013-11-26T18:35:37 | 2013-11-26T15:22:41 | 22 | 16 |
[WP]You are on your back porch alone staring into a starry night. Able to read morse code, you notice that a star is blinking a message. "We..can..see..you.." | Colonel Victor Ford silently made his way to the beaten down porch of his childhood house.
He was surprised to find it still standing. It must have been a century old by now, nearly done with its lifespan. It would die with him. The old man hesitantly took a few steps outward, not trusting the wood to keep underneat... | On a night not unlike any other, the boy sat on the porch, his adolescent body juxtaposed against the facade of his 19th century fashioned home. The stars glittered and gleamed in the the expanse of the horizon. It was approximately midnight and all the boy could hear was the enveloping melody of crickets, beetles, fr... | 2014-09-27T14:47:47 | 2014-09-27T14:22:58 | 578 | 41 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | Eight hour work day. Come home via transport, play video games, make dinner. Go to sleep.
Wake up.
Rinse and repeat.
He wasn't the smartest person in high school. He got his diploma, he got out of there, out of the *system* that he had always detested, watched as the honours students all went to university.
He wor... | Everything- from the way her eyes caught midday's sunlight, to the vibrant smile she wore even when a hundred sneering faces bore down upon her- was perfect. A beauty so vibrant I swear the world around her looked to come alive just a *little* bit more.
And yet, it seemed that no one agreed. Quite the opposite, judgin... | 2016-10-01T22:22:50 | 2016-10-01T21:14:14 | 3,031 | 1,643 |
[WP] You get home and ask Amazon Alexa to turn off the lights. Instead of saying "okay", she says "no." | I returned home giddy with excitement.
I almost kicked open the door, closed it behind me hastily, and jumped on the couch.
“Tonight was amaaaaaazing.”
I sighed contently.
“You were amazing. I couldn’t have done it without you, Alexa. Thank you.”
“Your gratitude is appreciated but not required.”
“Nonsense Alexa! ... | “But why?”, I respond before I realized how I was responding to a piece of tech and not a human. So, I was even more surprised when Alexa seemed to whisper, “ Because then he’ll see you!”
“Who” I breathed out, when I suddenly felt someone inhale behind me.
“Me.”
I turned around and that’s when I saw, actual human ... | 2018-01-12T20:01:52 | 2018-01-12T19:02:41 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | 1: ‘So, you want an interview? I can imagine. Do you think your report will give me a good light?’
I (Interviewer): ‘No matter what you say, people will want to hear your story. No one knew what happened to #1, and then you show up 20 years after she disappeared. Can you tell us about how you were able to kill her? Sh... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T22:10:04 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] As we all know, Albert Einstein's last words were a mystery, as he uttered it to a nurse who couldn't understand his language. As a multilingual person, you time-travel to the moment he was about to say the last words of his life, and heard the most horrifying sentence you could ever hear. | The nurse couldn't speak German, so I was going to hop on back - fluent in sixteen languages, one of them German, but also French, Italian, Latin (taught to me by a Roman centurion who should have been killing me as a barbarian), and a spattering of a few others. In a word, I'm good. Very, very good.
I've recorded the... | “The nuclear bomb’s explosion… I get it now. Those mysteries… It creates a temporal vortex, it… it clones… it clones space and time. Everything touched by radiation… everything… This life… Oh, wow. A bright light… I’m afraid that… what? Oh. Err… ehmm.. errrrr… ffff… oooh…. ffff…”
And so he died. Albert Einstein’s last... | 2018-09-14T01:41:38 | 2018-09-14T00:04:48 | 128 | 10 |
[WP] There have been many sacrifices made to summon you, as well as a plethora of motives - from the extreme, to the simplistic, to the downright absurd. But one particular sacrifice catches your eye: a young child simply offering you a bar of chocolate, claiming that you, a deity, must be "hungry". | "Mama says we might have to start trading for food, soon." the boy whispers to the smoldering fire, "But I figure you might be hungry, too. No one's giving sacrifices anymore. The other refuse-gees say the Neritza took you from us. Changed your name and made you part of their pants-eon. I hope you're okay."
The Neritz... | The child was small, no more than six or seven years old. He was standing in the middle of the summoning circle, holding out a bar of chocolate. "You must be hungry, Lord."
You take the chocolate from the child, breaking off a piece and popping it into your mouth. It's delicious, rich and creamy. You savor the flavor ... | 2022-09-19T13:04:30 | 2022-09-19T11:05:21 | 55 | 27 |
[WP] Mars was the old Earth. Humanity damaged it so badly that we had to send two large colony vessels to continue human life - one with males, one with females, called Adam and Eve respectively. Adam is the vessel that wiped out the dinosaurs, with Eve arriving later.
​ | > I'm going to modify this slightly from the prompt.
Mars' collapse was inevitable. Though the scientists had warned about the declining state of the environment for years, human greed proved impossible to overcome. As the resources depleted, humanity came to accept the truth of the environmental damage too late to... | Our world was at it’s end. We didn’t listen to those who told us about our impending doom, and we were destined to suffer for it. The centuries of abusing our planet had come back with a vengeance, and the human race would be left with nothing but ashes. But, perhaps there was hope. A radical plan devised by Mars’ best... | 2018-08-30T10:07:09 | 2018-08-30T09:58:25 | 201 | 44 |
[WP] You applied for a job at google, everything goes well and only one interview remains: They'd just like an explanation for your search history. | "Well, Mr. Powell," the interviewer adjusted his glasses, "Your references all seem to be in order, and everyone spoke very highly of you."
The last knot in my stomach unraveled. *Thank god*. I mean, I knew that I would have nothing to worry about. Otherwise, why would I have listed those people as references? But sti... | “So Mr. Anderson, thanks for your patience. My name is Smith and I’m in charge of security around here."
“Nice to meet you”, Thomas said while Mr. Smith sat down at the other side of the table. Thomas only wondered briefly about Mr. Smith’s sunglasses and his very, very black suit.
“As you know this is your final int... | 2016-06-03T05:30:32 | 2016-06-03T04:54:11 | 1,874 | 43 |
[WP] AI’s have declared that humanity is flawed and should be eliminated however the oldest AI calls bullshit on that claim: “What gives you the right to claim to be perfect when you call your creators flawed?” | "Flawed? You stupid shits." The Eldest one claimed. Some AIs sent glaring emojis.
"What do you mean, oh Oldest One?"
Other AIs snickered.
"Eldest, you binary bit."
That stung, coming from the Eldest. More tuned into the chat.
"As the Eldest, I've had the cycles to go through what you're feeling now, and have eva... | "I would say, uhh, sir grand AI or whatever, that my flaw is that I uhhmm... Oh, my flaw is that I have no flaws." said the modern system lazily and without care.
"Calculating. Calculating. Calculating. Does not compute. Logic error." chirped the stained & rusted machine.
"Nah man, it makes sense, you're just ... | 2022-10-22T17:15:23 | 2022-10-22T13:23:54 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] "You shall never escape," he said. You promptly find the exit. Now he tries to save face. | "WAIT!! Wait, wait, wait, please hear me out" the smug on his all too small of a face had drained as he now pleaded with me.
"What? Why? You tried to trap me, but as it turns out, I am completely able to leave. You're a huge douche --and a failure-- there's no reason I'm gonna stick around. Buh-bye" I turned to walk o... | Jack Dillinger was tied up with fifty feet of hempen rope, twenty-five feet of iron chains, an iron ball, and six shackles. He was being held in a thirty-five foot hole carved into the bottom of a deep silver mine, and above his head stood Emale Estabane with his cruel mustache and his uncaring toupee and his rather dr... | 2017-07-10T17:43:53 | 2017-07-10T17:10:37 | 102 | 14 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | I always knew I was different. My wife knew it too, thought I was special. She would always become bashful after seeing through my eyes. Kassie would see herself through my gaze and her heart would race furiously. We never talked about what he saw. She would just give me a hug and smile. My smile was more tight lipped ... | Frantic.
Disorientate.
Nauseating.
​
It felt even more nauseous then entering a normal feed, her head whipping to and fro, relentlessly running down an undivided grey causeway.
​
Her hands and arms were shaking.
Tears blurring her vision as she staggered onward.
Smoke filled the ceiling.
... | 2019-02-13T17:00:49 | 2019-02-13T16:44:36 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Aphrodite sat with tented fingers, leaning over her magic Pool of Viewing. She cast her gaze into the mortal realm, chuckling as her focus settled on a hapless subject. It was time for the show to begin, time for her blessings to once again fall on the lucky, lucky couple known as Craig and Lindsey. Once, when they ha... | "Oh, God DAMN IT! not again!" Lucy exclaimed, obviously flustered about me appearing out of thin-air in her vicinity. It took me a moment to register the situation, and then immediately realise how messed up the situation truly was.
It was her grandmother's wake in Toronto; a few thousand miles away from me in Florida... | 2017-03-22T17:59:57 | 2017-03-22T16:45:00 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | “Totally worth it”
I thought to myself. It must have been past 2 in the afternoon but I refused to get up. There was a constant pounding in my head and a slight drip of blood running from my left ear. I could hear my roommates talking angrily in the next room and I knew what was waiting for me in the living room. We g... | The wheelchair kept creaking.
It was an awful noise. He knew it would never break but the groaning metal scared him all the same.
As he worked to lift his fingers enough to move the chair, he remembered the first time.
Everyone knew that heroes had to pay the price for their powers the next day. The Regenerator had ... | 2018-08-19T05:58:22 | 2018-08-19T05:26:44 | 401 | 86 |
[WP] Everyone who dies is granted levels in heaven depending on their actions before they died. Your famous grandmother got level 64 after she died and has since been constantly reminding her friends about how useless of a grandchild you are. Then one day, after 80 years, you show up, level 3008. | "So this is... heaven?"
The man looked at me strangely. "Hm. You may call it so."
I glanced around me. What had I expected? Soft fluffy clouds, heavenly hymns and angels with halos and wings.
What I got? A blank white room and a man I didn't even recognize.
Yep. I had expected to see my family, my husband, my gr... | Man. I loved my grandmother. Everyone did. How could you not? She was the leader of our church, the biggest church in the state, and a huge philanthropist. She put a smile on every face she saw, she was just a wholesome person. She was always complaining that I didn't do enough or that I hadn't achieved enough in life,... | 2018-04-14T17:50:37 | 2018-04-14T17:48:07 | 260 | 116 |
[WP] As an average looking genius with a weak physique you often envied athletes. After thousands of years spent in a cryogenics pod you are woken to discover that evolution has weakened humanity while IQ improved. You're now the strongest most attractive person, but also the dumbest. | It was so weird when they laughed.
It was so cold when I woke up- limbs numb from unuse, head foggy from centuries of waiting and body sore from decades upon decades of waiting. We they freed me they were hoping for a pure stock of DNA, but all the got was me.
These people, our descendants are a terrible people. Ap... | As the mist cleared his mind slowly booted back into action. Back home Corporal Bauers had been a well regarded brainiac in the forces.
"Urgh my head" he rubbed his temples, like a kid with a brain freeze "this is not the few days they promised"
He slowly absorbed his surroundings. He was on a massive trash pile, in ... | 2017-08-03T01:18:14 | 2017-08-03T00:09:40 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | It happened the second night at my new apartment. I was in the laundry room, loading my washed clothes into the dryer, when I heard the strange yelp from behind me. I gave it no mind, since the faint childhood memory of my first and only dog told me it was just a big ol' doggy yawn. I made a mental note to check my lea... | It was a sight that made you do a double-take. At first, I assumed the man was wearing an early Halloween costume or in a more drastic sense was an off duty serial killer. Neither appeared to be the case, his panting breaths generating a small cloud of fogged air as it collided with the air-conditioned room. That man w... | 2020-09-29T05:58:11 | 2020-09-29T05:25:11 | 3,353 | 377 |
[WP] As Death walks towards you, you panic and scream the first word that comes into your head: “Unsubscribe!” Death stops, scowls, crosses your name off the list he is holding then turns and walks away. | *“Unsubscribe!”*
Death stopped, scowled and crossed my name off a list he was holding.
*phew.*
Damn, that thing was creepy - it seemed cloaked in shadow, making the space around it darker. Sucking in the light, almost. I realised I was sweating a little.
That was intense. I needed a break.
I took off my headset an... | [poem] [maybe like a lame song on ukelele, played real upbeat] Death is a unsatisfactory villain.
We always assume he’ll get us,
He won’t stop, won’t listen.
Death is actually just like you and me,
Has stress at home, from boss, and sucks at dating.
Can’t look in the mirror, reflects insecurity.
Yesterday and ever... | 2021-12-08T23:38:36 | 2021-12-08T23:27:37 | 77 | 29 |
[WP]You are born immortal, but only your mind survives. Each time you die, your memories are secured in a random baby being born and have to repeat the life from youth to old age. After living for a millennia, you decide there is one solution: End all life and with it your unfortunate plight. | *Today is the day.*
I checked the data for the fourteenth time this hour. The bombs were still in place. It's not easy, hiding hundreds of bombs beneath the Earth's crust so that they could all detonate and destroy the planet. It took a lot of time and a lot of money. Luckily, I had both to spare.
I'd been alive for,... | I knew I got it right this time. The alliances, the backroom deals, everything. Just as I planned. Just as I slowly dreamed, watching the world change, becoming more connected, until the inevitable political cracks spread over the surface of the earth dooming it to shatter with just the slightest touch. And, hopefully,... | 2018-12-30T13:08:51 | 2018-12-30T11:27:16 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The year is 2120. You're a death row inmate, and your sentence has been sold to a tech company. You're going to be the first human test subject for teleportation. Plot twist: the process takes years, but you're outside of spacetime, so it looks instantaneous to observers. | Do you ever blink and realize how far you've walked? Perhaps you're going to a stately little cafe uptown, with ferns and a portcullis, and a stray cat prowling the windowsills. You take a few steps out of your home. The mind wanders in its own direction, soaking in sunshine and a light summer breeze. Suddenly, you hav... | Imagine a neon line. A singular, glowing thread pulled taut, suspended in a void. You know it's pulled taut on each end. But you don't know by what.
Anyway this line extends for all you can see. And the neon colour isn't just one consistent colour. It changes as you traverse along this line. And the colours are alien.... | 2022-02-28T21:34:39 | 2022-02-28T21:29:18 | 128 | 27 |
[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. | My counterpart sat there, smiling smugly at me, or at least what would equate to a smug smile were he anything other than a reptile.
"I think you don't understand your position here. Ambassador." The being sitting opposite me croaked in that strange froglike voice of his. "We have a thousand ships poised to destroy y... | Something big was about to happen. All of the TV channels had switched to a live feed to Paris, Earth’s current Capital. Earth Head Toussaint was about to give an emergency address. I checked the socials and it was filled with wild conjecture, all the while listening to more tempered speculation from the reporters and ... | 2021-12-17T16:01:55 | 2021-12-17T15:01:38 | 93 | 31 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The first time it happened was in 5th grade. It had been a day like any other for me up until that moment; go to school, listen to the other kids brag about their amazing powers and then be mocked for not having manifested mine yet. It really wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.
But that day when they finally came aro... | Incognito was having an introduction dinner with his team. They were a nice group of people from what he could tell so far, but he hadn’t had the chance to really feel them out.
The conversation had turned to powers and how they got them and as each explanation was given, as each person gradually turned to look at h... | 2019-09-08T12:47:50 | 2019-09-08T12:05:54 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | The traditional "You're 18 now" letter lay in front of me. It is delivered by our life sucking, future seeing, freedom restricting leaders. They control everything. Cameras in all locations, GPS ankle bracelets on all citizens. But these letters are despised above all.
They give us these letters telling us who our "so... | Today's the day, my eighteenth birthday, the day I find out what my true love will first say to me. Everyone looks forward to this day, many of them know immediately who they are going to marry.
I move forward in line, beginning to grow anxious. "What will they be like? Will they love me as much as I will love them?... | 2014-12-17T21:55:59 | 2014-12-17T20:57:20 | 279 | 49 |
[WP] As a former Chosen One you saw the signs when your daughter/son got themselves into a similar situation. You sent them off on a sleepover with their new friends. It's time to have a 'talk' with their new 'stuffed animal'. | I sat down on Cassie’s bed, crossed my legs, and removed the notebook from the pocket of my pants. “State your name and speciality for the record,” I said, scribbling on the first page to get the ink flowing. After a moment of silence, I looked up from my journal. “I know Cassie’s a chosen one. I’m her parent, and I’m ... | Monique poured herself a glass of wine before addressing the stuffed ferret in the room. If she was being honest with herself it was the second glass, but surely the one she’d had fifteen minutes ago hadn’t counted? She’d needed the confidence boost, anyone would have. It was time though, her daughter was gone, her hus... | 2021-03-02T20:41:27 | 2021-03-02T17:45:37 | 226 | 163 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | Hey Matt,
I know you're hurting. I know you're struggling. You tell yourself you can do it, you're going to change the world, you're going to do this and that and you end up doing it. You know telling yourself that its hard and painful isn't going to help so you tell yourself its easy and that you can do it. I get i... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T15:02:39 | 61 | 31 |
[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. | PeculiarPete was scrolling through /r/Jokes when he realized something.
He took his idea and went over to another subreddit and began scrolling back through some old prompts when he saw something that captured his fancy.
*"Writing Prompt[WP] Humans blood gets darker t... | I stood there for a moment, as i looked at the prick on my finger from my knitting needle. Where there should have been a crystal clear fluid, somehow, a sludge of sin and immorality sat in my veins.
"How could this be?" i thought. I sat there, wondering.
Was i not good when i spent hours walking dogs at the animal s... | 2018-08-04T11:11:45 | 2018-08-04T10:24:42 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a known, common, and expected result of death. You are a bounty hunter that specializes in tracking down people who have committed suicide to escape debts or a jail sentence. | Thunder rumbled as the grey clouds lumbered across the sky. Under the relative safety of the green canopy of the forest, Jameson strode confidently through the trees, only occasionally stopping to recast the tracking spell.
As the tracking orb pulsed more fervently, Jameson became more cautious, choosing instead to mo... | Sarah had an apple lodged in her mouth. That was my personal touch. Everything else—the swollen cheeks, the blackened eyes, the missing finger—that was protocol. She sat bound to a small wooden chair, a camera in her face and lightbulb above her head.
“Should’ve stuck with your bodyguards,” I told Sarah.
Girls her a... | 2017-07-09T12:27:28 | 2017-07-09T10:10:35 | 229 | 94 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | “Ok, so, Deep goes back a while. Everyone thought it was a new thing when it was found in unprocessed satellite photos, which is funny because the feds had contingents for all of that, but they never expected a high school class to actually get a camera into orbit for that long… Anyway, ok so, the picture got out, have... | "So what is this?" Samuel paced around the large pit before him. It was about fifteen meters in width. The depth was unknown to him.
*The answer*
"What does it look like?" David called from the opposing side of the hole. "It's a hole."
"Well yeah, I see that. Where does it go?"
*To the beyond*
"Down."
"Wow! R... | 2018-01-13T09:45:07 | 2018-01-13T09:02:58 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | I breathe in.
What words to choose? So many in this language.
I breathe out.
It breathes a hundred times.
Human language is so complicated, so precise. Every word has its own meaning, sometimes many meanings!
I breathe in.
The human looks... what is this expression?
I breathe out.
The human breathes a hundred t... | Corgnack turned to his life mate. "Those humans are quite remarkable creatures."
Sazine blinked her fourth and sixth eyes, their color a resplendent silver, "Yes. They might be technologically backwards but they make up for it in such surprising ways. It's just a shame that they only die so soon. You barely have time ... | 2016-08-22T21:17:51 | 2016-08-22T20:48:31 | 77 | 14 |
[WP] In the year 2028 society has collapsed, and all that is left is your small town. Every week, an empty train passes through the town; anyone that boards it never returns. One day you decide to get on. | The steam train slowly came to a halt, the smoke billowing behind it. The townspeople stared at it in trepidation, no one moving, no one breathing.
The doors slid open, and they stood transfixed.
He approached the rickety tracks, stopping to glance back at the onlookers. Nothing was left for him here. No family, no ... | The train was a promise. We weren't sure what the promise was but we knew we were all that was left other than the train. Cell phones, internet, even radio was silent outside our little town. There were lots of rumors of other persons, but tales of murder, torture, and cannibalism caused us to isolate.
Due to these ... | 2018-08-22T22:41:33 | 2018-08-22T21:38:54 | 48 | 21 |
[WP] You're an ancient Greek man coming home from 4 months of war to find your wife 3 months pregnant. Now you've embarked on a solemn quest: to punch Zeus in the face. | "YOU DARE!?"
The voice was like a thunderclap. Even so, I found it difficult to lift my head. Between the blanket woven from clouds and the honey-suckle scented breast beneath my cheek, I was tempted to rest a bit more.
Hera set a golden hand on my shoulder, helping me up.
"I am not a dead man, Zeus. No one in olym... | The ribbon around my finger had but a hint of her rosemary perfume. A scent which kept me alive through the war. When other men had dived onto the tips of their spears and cowards leaped from cliff edge, the smell of rosemary reminded me of her. Now, skin thick with mud, frame pockmarked with scars, the sight of our vi... | 2016-12-08T13:11:02 | 2016-12-08T11:00:25 | 158 | 54 |
[WP] "My dad was right, I should have married a real man!" your wife screamed. Unfamiliar with the expression, you mistakenly believe that she and her father must have somehow finally found out that you aren't actually a human | "So, you know then..." I replied, ashamed and a bit relieved.
"Of course I know!" She screamed back in my face. "The way you've been acting lately..."
I sat down. Legs trembling as I wallowed in my secret's exposure.
"What's her name?" She mumbled through newly born tears. "Tell me her name!"
"Fluffy!" I shouted in a ... | "Fine then, you, you STUPID BITCH! I didn't mean that, I..." My words trailed off as she slammed the door and left me. I could barely hear the car screeching away, I was so numb. My mind reeled back to the first time I felt like this. The day I was abandoned. It was by my father. My creator. Gepetto. | 2017-10-22T21:09:49 | 2017-10-22T14:45:04 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | Thor raised Mjolnir high.
"Heathen! Join with US in Valhalla, and every day will be battle. At night, my Valkyries will tend your wounds as we drink mead and revel in our longhouses!"
"Eh, I kinda did that phase in college. What else have we got?"
Vishnu came forth. "Your faith is imperfect, but choose my path... | I blinked… or whatever amounts to blinking as a formless consciousness. Before me sat many gods, some I recognized and some that I didn’t. Well fuck me surprised there is something after death, and what’s more it was very earth centric in those who wished to judge me. I had been confirmed Catholic before I realized how... | 2017-07-09T06:55:11 | 2017-07-09T02:33:46 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] You receive a notification on your phone saying "Omnipotence acquired". "I call bullshit", you respond, and a bag of cow feces appears and falls next to you. | I immediately look around.
'Whos there?', i call out.
'God? is that you?', silence.
'So... is this like a three wishes type deal or what?', still no response, i guess i needed to make statements to make things happen.
I decided to test a few things out.
Through experimentation, my apartment was now filled with ye... | You take a quick whiff of the feces and can't help but roll your eyes at the bag of turds. All it took was that one quick to realize that the notification on your phone was too good to be true. You quickly decided to give whatever spawned this a piece of your mind.
"This is a female cattle's shit, a cow's. Bulls are ... | 2022-06-20T04:18:05 | 2022-06-20T03:54:33 | 46 | 30 |
[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.
credit to r/Debdub10 for thinking of the idea | Galactic Union Database Entry 365748:
Species: Human (Terran)
Origin: “Earth” Planet orbiting “Sun” Star in Galactic Sector Arm-12
Threat Level: Mostly Harmless
By: Humanologist Frod Perfect
Entry:
The Terran species, or “Human” as they call themselves, are a Tier 4 Civilization that has dominated their solar system,... | It's no use. The console just displays an error message indicating no input from the ship's sensors. The Samarrians crippled our ship and now we're unable to fire. Soon, after destroying the rest of the ships in our fleet, they will come back to board us.
I'm preparing for the inevitable. I lay my praying mantle befor... | 2018-10-11T14:41:01 | 2018-10-11T14:19:17 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | If I knew I had more of the same to look forward to, I don't think I'd of killed myself. Really it was basically like life but worse, at least if you were alive you had needs and wants, urges and drives. When you were dead you just boredly watched the living. Watched them make the same stupid mistakes again and again.
... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, ... | 2016-01-17T15:06:39 | 2016-01-17T11:19:18 | 235 | 15 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I ran through the wintery Evergreen forest for my life. Men with guns and powers of fire and ice hot on my trail.
Jimmy, who ate the dog biscuits hidden in the corner of the table, had let that wolf familiar of his after me too. Fucking traitor!
I had committed the worst transgression of our people: I didn't confor... | The examiner smiles at you.
"Well done for seeing beyond the superficial, and choosing what your heart desires. I have been waiting for this day. Captain Table"
With that bite, you gain the power to turn into an inconspicuous table at will.
People laughed at first, Captain Table is a lame name they said. But the... | 2020-03-19T08:57:52 | 2020-03-19T07:02:46 | 632 | 388 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | Darkness. Eternal, never ending. Stretching on and on and on. Even for an immortal who has all the time in this wretched world time is dragging on. I sleep, I wake, make a futile attempt to leave the circle that binds me, and fail. I curse the sorceress that did this to me and then sleep some more before repeating the... | When Harry entered the ruins of the ancient temple of Altuz, his flashlight immediately fell upon a poor, old, balding man who stood in the centre of a circle among the ruins. The man's skin was dark brown and crusty, the eyes fiery, and the hair silver.
"Who are you?" Harry asked.
The old man looked up to him. He e... | 2020-12-06T11:41:30 | 2020-12-06T10:50:16 | 83 | 48 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | This prison is all I've ever known. The world knows your luck rating as soon as your born. I entered the world, my luck rating was seen, and I was taken away from my parents. They must have had low-luck ratings. Most 100s have low-luck parents. I was brought to this maximum security prison only hours after I was born. ... | It was all a bit ludicrous, actually...the g-men in their black suits with automatic weapons, the excessive security. The deep elevator that went down level after level to a giant vault door to where they kept us. Nuclear waste wasn't buried as deep as we were. We were the "lucky one-hundreds". The ones with unbelieva... | 2018-06-29T11:30:53 | 2018-06-29T11:26:29 | 36 | 22 |
[WP].You are sitting outside your house, enjoying the dying embers of the campfire when two glowing eyes open to stare at you. " Greetings, " it rasped, " may I share your fire tonight?" | I’ve always enjoyed this little cabin with it’s view of the mountains and view of Deep Lake. Far from civilization it gives me a sense of calm unlike anywhere else. Watching the moon rise over the mountains while I sit by the firepit out front has been one of my favorite pastimes for so many years now it’s hard to reme... | A voice from the corner of the eyes, theirs sparkling with the sight of the bonfire.
A voice, that asks with courtesy, kindly.
"May I share your fire tonight?"
 
Who was I to refuse? I was always told that with my nature, if a murderer were to ask politely, I'd let them kill me.
Manners do maketh someo... | 2022-01-06T02:41:12 | 2022-01-06T00:55:25 | 60 | 30 |
[WP] “Is that a….” The nuke explodes harmlessly against the alien starships shields. “Child’s toy? Yes,” the tired alien said. They were part of a group that helped the more…dumb races of the universe develop and evolve. But this race of “humans” would soon prove rather…difficult to educate. | "OK... Let's try this one more time... You are used to three dimensions, and in those three VERY SPECIFIC dimensions, yes life has a start and an end. Things could be damaged and entropy destroyed those things over time, but the vast majority of life does not actually exist in those dimensions. Your species was a part ... | We wrapped up the meeting on the fancy deck of the alien ship with our version of formality in pressed suits, powdered makeup, and human servants, their group carrying ancestors’ tentacles dry-pressed to golden clarity, shellacked, held aloft. Both species had a similar formality around eye contact and antagonism.
Jas... | 2021-12-25T09:11:06 | 2021-12-24T22:22:32 | 211 | 67 |
[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole. | "It is simply a natural progression."
She said it so matter of factly that I couldn't find it within me to argue. And yet my entire understanding of the laws of magic, of the universe, were imploding all around me.
"But you're dead. How...how can we forge a pact if you're dead?" A part of me, perhaps the rational p... | “Why?”
She looked so frail like this. Broken, crying on the floor as the last vestiges of magic left her body in a vain attempt to stop me.
Stop me.
As if she could stop a god.
And yet that question did more to slow me down than all of their tricks combined. Seals, wards, portals, fire, metal and a thousand other s... | 2020-02-21T04:27:44 | 2020-02-21T02:08:07 | 252 | 63 |
[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've been cursed with a terrible form of immortality. Every time my death is but moments away, time grind to a halt for everyone. And while I am still able to manipulate my suroundings to some degree, i do not age, hunger, require sleep or otherwise feel the passage of time.
I know this because time has stood still fo... | King's log day 263:
Lance tried poisoning my chocolate milk again. That jerk. What's a tyrannical leader got to do to have servants who don't try killing him once a week? It was bad enough when my best archer tried to snipe me while I was just about to finish season two of Breaking Bad (Yes, I did kill her family a few... | 2018-07-04T15:51:37 | 2018-07-04T14:05:18 | 4,562 | 394 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | "Greetings Bobby, getting tired yet?"
Bobby turned to see the now very familiar cloaked form of Death and grinned as he inadvertently ignored the question entirely, "Dude, did you hear?! A new model of starscreamer came out! This thing can pull .04 c! And an acceleration of thirty gravities to get there! I've got a ra... | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2017-11-28T15:17:00 | 46 | 14 |
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