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[WP] As it turns out, "God" is an elected position. The Creator was followed by the Old Testament God, who was followed by the New Testament God, who was followed by a God who didn't interfere often in the mortal world. The next election is in 6 months. | It was 6 months ago that the bombs began to fall.
Little ones, like a light rain from the sky, except this rain contained the most deadly viruses known to man. Smallpox, the plague, anthrax, you name it, even some things that were whipped up so quickly that they didn't even have names.
Nukes followed, bringing a heat... | The crowd of Gods gathered like a storm cloud, drawn to the light of struggle like swarm of locusts to the flickering flame. Each of them an entity made entirely of human wants, needs, entitled demands and expectations, they drew power from the people who cared, thought, wondered or begged in desperation.
You'd think ... | 2016-09-02T15:25:57 | 2016-09-02T13:28:12 | 58 | 20 |
[WP] As it turns out, those red lines in our eyes aren't veins, but rather a parasitic worm that feeds on ocular information. A Scientist removes them, and for the first time in history humans can see everything they were meant to | It was a delicate procedure. Snip. Required a precision that no-one else was even close to capable of. Push the needle through. No-one but me would try it. The man's mask fogged up as his breath condensed against the plastic. Hmm. This was slow work. He might wake up before we want him to. Nobody understands just how b... | "I said, Put it. Back. In."
"You do realize what that sounds like, right?" The Scientist quietly giggled, his sense of humor getting in the way of the serious nature of the situation.
"YES!! Haha, very funny, now **Put it back in.**"
"But why?!" The Scientist had spent his life on this conspiracy, working to uncover... | 2016-01-08T07:41:42 | 2016-01-07T19:40:31 | 106 | 29 |
[WP] The commute of a man who can see how people will die.
EDIT: Just woke up and holy CRAP this exploded! I'm reading through all the stories now and they're great! | I hate the bus. Every morning at 7:18, the number 14 bus pulls up to my stop and I am forced to bear the burden of my "gift". As the bus pulls up to my stop, an old classmate Randy opens the door and asks "Long time no see! Today the day Ted?" I laugh him off with a lighthearted "Not yet Randy, but may want to lay off ... | I sat in the back of a New York taxi, head pressed against the window and hands crossed in my lap. I watched the buildings, billboards, passing cars. Anything except for the faces of the hundreds of New Yorkers. Each of which had a limited time remaining. The clock was ticking on each one of them, but they kept their l... | 2013-10-16T11:54:11 | 2013-10-16T11:52:05 | 245 | 11 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I stuck my hand out in a reaching motion in front of the council. Today was the day of my eighteenth birthday. The council was the nine elders who decided what your object meant and recorded it into the official records. If no object arrived within sixty seconds you were labeled as a null and sent to the labor camps wh... | I was about to turn 18 when my parents told me that such is possible.
I did not want to believe it, at all - it was very crazy sounding but all this would explain why my mother and father are both insanely talented with one thing. Like, really talented. My father is selling books like wildfire burning and my mother is ... | 2019-09-18T10:23:04 | 2019-09-18T08:53:53 | 42 | 30 |
[WP] You were sent to go deal with reports of a sinister witch in the woods that has been terrifying local villagers. Your grandmother is surprised to see you, but offers tea and cake while you're here. |     The autumn wind howled through the forest, a biting wind that caused Thom to pull his cloak tighter around him as peered through the lantern lit window of the old, rotting cottage. Three days earlier he arrived here, on the outskirts of bog hollow, and found a woman who claimed t... | ( on mobile so bad formatting please forgive)
As I walked up to the house the path seemed oh so familiar. It's like I was walking through a memory a memory so far forgotten that it was more like a dream. There was smells coming from the house good smells like Cakes and Pastries almost as if I were visiting my grandma.... | 2022-12-18T13:13:41 | 2022-12-18T08:47:53 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | Ani reached for the bowl of cheese puffs teetering on the edge of the couch with her right hand, holding the game controller in her left. Her thumb rapidly tapped one of the controller buttons as she stretched out her fingers to grasp the bowl. One last reach and... the bowl fell over onto the floor.
Ani reached down ... | I sat quietly, watching the sea of stars and the Earth from the observation deck of the Defender Space Station. Gotta hand it to the League, they did a very good job improving this place since the last time I was awaken.
A shining symbol of truth, justice, and order, the Defender Space Station is always ready to mob... | 2021-05-26T05:40:08 | 2021-05-26T05:33:02 | 160 | 75 |
[WP] In a fantasy world, there is a secret society of people who use modern technology and chemistry instead of potions and magic. | The magicians were coming to kill them all.
Sybel was no magician. She could not pluck her future out of the entrails of a bird or the scattered pattern of tea leaves at the bottom of her cup. No, she was born magickless, and like all the Unmagicals before her, she had to improvise. Adapt.
But she saw their fate com... | The alchemist glanced around before ducking into the alleyway with the door to his workshop. It was there at the dead end where the walls loomed overhead to encase him in a steel tomb that he stepped upon a pair of cobblestones and disappeared.
By the time the agent turned the corner, the alleyway was empty. He twirle... | 2020-02-19T06:54:40 | 2020-02-19T06:46:46 | 148 | 17 |
[WP] Every morning you wake up with small wounds; just little scrapes and bruises you attribute to flailing in your sleep. This morning, you woke up with a huge cut across your hip, a glowing golden dagger plunged into the wall, and what looks an awful lot like a dead angel on your floor. | Well, this is ..... interesting, I thought as I rubbed the morning gunk out of my eyes. Either someone slipped something in my drink last night at the Christmas party, or that's a dead angel lying on the floor. "AAAGHHHH", A lightning bolt of pain goes through my side as I try to stand up. No wonder. There seems t... | It all started three weeks ago; I woke up with a single long scratch on my leg. I didn’t pay any attention to it; I had to get to work. The next morning I had a small cut on my arm. Every day I woke up to more and more. I thought maybe I was hitting my metal bedframe in my drunken sleep, but the cuts kept coming even w... | 2017-12-23T23:59:39 | 2017-12-23T22:13:59 | 160 | 68 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | The newly minted King Agralin stared at me, eyes red from Kastian ale. Half a goblet of that fine vintage stained the front of his doublet. I grimaced at the dreadful waste, my nose wrinkled at the scent; it had been a while, but my senses were slowly returning.
‘What are you doing here? I kicked you lot of wastrels ... | A few years ago, I would have been the one leading the chorus. "Gods save the king", I'd cry, and legions would answer back. I'd served, in some form or another, for three kings in succession, each transition of power being simple, clean, and effective. Gods save this king, that king, and the next one. And they did. Ev... | 2021-02-28T04:13:58 | 2021-02-28T03:50:25 | 1,113 | 539 |
[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. | My sweater scratched at my skin as I began to pull it back, I can't believe I'm doing this.
My mom told me I should be careful who I show my given names to, who I trust is telling the truth about theirs. But her- she was perfect, her smile when I would glance over, her hair that blew in the wind on a warm summer day, ... | “John Smith. And fuckin.... John Smith. WHAT THE FUCK!” Andrea yelled, looking at her friends arm.
“I know right. Stupid.” Tally remarked. She’d had this reaction before.
“So ya gotta find two John Smith’s?”
“I hope so.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe I only need to find one.” | 2018-03-11T07:35:29 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 1,948 | 78 |
[WP] Write a really BAD guide for getting a guy/girl. Bonus points if the narrator is mocking you for still being single.
[removed] | Hey girl! Binging on chips again while watching Netflix eat away at your insecurity? Stop marathoning bad rom-coms just because you can't get the man of your dreams! Let this love expert help you snag that hottie who's never looked your way with these simple tips. Throw away that photo of your ex under your pillow and ... | Wow, you must have been the kind of guy even hookers wouldnt touch with a 10 foot stick. Probably ugly, smelly, fat, awkward and introverted, am I right you little worthless piece of fucking shit?
Fret not, I have the perfect tips for worms like you, how to get a girl.
1 The oldschool method.
Ever wondered how the ... | 2017-06-09T23:54:54 | 2017-06-09T21:39:04 | 182 | 56 |
[WP] You are a commercial airliner pilot. The moment before you turn your phone off to begin the flight your SO sends you a deeply concerning text. | *644221*
I read the numbers and then our pre-flight routine is broken as I whirr to a stop. Co-pilot, John, keeps talking, not realizing I'm sitting there frozen like a block of ice.
My phone buzzes again. *644221*.
"Mike? You right?"
John's Australian. It sounds like *rooight*.
"Uh yeah. Just give me a minute. My... | "Hi sweetie..."
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You worked in resource management. Your resource was cocaine. You had been allocating the resource up your nose.
You were also a pilot on the side, to support your resource management addiction.
_
"I want you to know I've forgiven what you've done."
_
You were very good at your jobs. Both of t... | 2014-06-18T18:29:14 | 2014-06-18T17:02:48 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | "It's not entirely about focus..." Professor Wagner said, his thin German accent gently colouring every word he spoke "...there are many of us - like Scott Summers - who require a physical tool to control our powers. But for myself, and most other teleporters I have known, focus provides strength. For us, it is natur... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T06:33:50 | 9,106 | 119 |
[WP] The gods/monsters that showed themselves to ancient people never thought us apes would go on to make weapons like bombs, lasers, missiles. Our capacity for carnage and how little we have to lose terrifies these beings. The god/monster of your choice returns after a vacation and nopes right out. | I still remember when night used to be dark.
When a ghost could wander the shadows, walking from the tip of Asia to the shores of France uninterrupted under the cover of night. For a ghost, darkness is necessary- it's our home, and we cannot exist without it. When I became a ghost, in the early ages of man, darkness... | Those humans, once so fragile, so weak,
but now, they possess such power.
How could have this happened?
*I should have come sooner,*
*I should have been here to guide them.*
*They were so different the last time.*
*I thought that what I had done was enough to set them straight,*
**but I was wrong***, so ve... | 2016-06-23T00:19:10 | 2016-06-22T23:17:41 | 49 | 31 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | When the king took his last breathe it felt like rain after a long drought. I was so close to my freedom. For 50yrs I was tied to that bastard, my wings clipped by youthful pride. I had loved him once and given my heart and magic to the king thinking he would love me too, he convinced me that even when he married his ... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T02:58:19 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 68 | 14 |
[WP] After Jesus has returned from the Earth, he gets stuck in a conversation with his mother causing him to ignore the Earth for several thousand years. Jesus is now trying to catch up by binge watching episodes of the Earth's history with growing unease. | Impatiently he clicked his fingers.
Holographic images displayed just in front of him advanced their story of Earth to the beginning of the twentieth century. It was not long before the episode, entitled The Great War began, all in gory, fulsome color.
Jesus had managed to get through the bloody slaughter at the Som... | And then Jesus said unto his mother, “Mother I must see what has come of the Earth, if you are finished with your tale.”
His mother replied with snide, “Go ahead son. Go attend your more important duties.”
Jesus knew he had brought on his mother’s wrath, and there would be consequences. Still, Jesus felt his obligati... | 2016-08-12T13:28:36 | 2016-08-12T12:59:09 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You've been trapped in this time loop for centuries, and an attempted "perfect run" decades in the making has failed to break the loop. Frustrated, you decide to go scorched earth on everyone and everything around you. The next day, to your horror, you wake up to find the loop has been broken. | The cold air of the early winter morning slid into my house. It was freezing, and with the shivers that woke me up, I walked cautiously towards the same place I visited to shower every morning. I was done rather quickly and I walked around to figure out what I could try today, as the misery didn't look like it was goin... | The mountain of sedatives I'd just taken were quite effective at quieting the screams of the people around me as they were consumed by fire. I'd finally done it. I watched the world turn to embers and closed my eyes. I woke up the next day in the same bed I had the last 137,433 times and ran downstairs to slit my throa... | 2022-05-23T23:44:58 | 2022-05-23T18:18:40 | 161 | 15 |
[WP] Your kingdom lies in ruins and the demons are at the gate. You hold the sacred relic that has been passed down for countless generations to your lips and speak a prayer in a long forgotten language: "Orbital Strike on my location" | Is godlike an achievement or failure?
It’s funny, the sort of thoughts that come to you before your final moment. Not every one had the luxury to know when it will be. But for me, the once-king who held a long-forgotten sacred relic in his hands, I get to choose when.
In those last moments of life, my heart calmed an... | The kingdom was slowly consumed by the light. The mechanical god in the sky had heard my call, my desperation. We had observed him before. A figure with arms that were large and reflective, and a body of pure steel. For many generations the sacred words had been passed down. To call down the power of the mechanical god... | 2021-11-08T07:30:13 | 2021-11-08T06:35:44 | 264 | 98 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 212 | 26 |
[WP] You die suddenly and unexpectedly. While in Heaven, you're shown archives from the life of the person whom your earthly existence effected the most. It's not who you'd expect. | "The afterlife isn't about punishment, or reward. It's simply about reflection. You're here to reflect on your life, and how your life has affected others. You're here to accept responsibility for the real and actual consequences of your actions."
I opened my eyes, and I was Home. Not anyplace I had actually lived, b... | "Are you ready to view the archive, Master Peter?", said the large winged entity as we entered a white room with a lot of shelves filled with cases and a hometheater set up with a huge OLED(I always wanted one. Too late now that I'm dead). As he awaited my answer, he closed the black curtains and then, suddenly, the li... | 2018-05-06T03:30:38 | 2018-05-06T00:40:03 | 87 | 11 |
[WP] "I have met a woman with more riches than kings. She dresses like a peasant but listens to great composers with a 'Spotify' anywhere and puts on private theater plays on her home every night, 'Netflix,' she calls it. I've seen her pantry full of spices and her wardrobe filled with purple." | She was a dream of flowing porphyry and soft, exotic scents on a quiet summer night. There were no woods. The forest was gone, replaced by wavering grain out to the horizon. A golden field at a golden hour, a golden woman in a robe of royal purple. Her villa was small, but it held a strange, magical light.
And I was a... | "A hidden monarch, it must seem!", the knight thundered on as he listened to my tale, in awe and in understandable confusion. "How can one woman possess so much wealth and power, things that the world is yet to see? Tell me more of your visions, great oracle."
"Well, I decided to put her to the ultimate test. A test o... | 2022-01-28T05:59:48 | 2022-01-28T05:26:52 | 879 | 562 |
[WP] Describe you favorite color, but don't say the name of it. | When you dip her in the middle of the dance floor, it's the color of her dress.
When she whispers into your ear, it's the color of her lips.
When you make love, it's the trace you want her to leave all over your body.
When she places her palm over your heart, it's the color that comes to the surface as her finger... | My favorite color is the color of smiles and happiness, of sunlight and joy, of new beginnings and fresh smells. It's the color of flowers and life and that nagging feeling in the back of your mind. It's the color of alertness and fun memories and getting just a *little* tipsy with your best friends.
It's also the c... | 2013-12-25T13:29:02 | 2013-12-25T10:19:49 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] So this is what being in a car crash felt like. Not as painful as you thought it would be. But you can't feel your toes. You look down, your leg is missing from the knee onwards. There's no blood, no bone, no muscles. Instead you see mechanical components. | Click-clack. The mechanical gears whir futilely at the end of your left stump. The rest of your leg is laying a few feet away on the side of the road, next to the burning wreckage of the other car. Instead of oozing blood, your stump is dripping a black liquid. There is no pain as you prod your finger into the strange ... | WARNING! Body modifications have been damaged. Please call 643-143U in case of emergency repair. CLIENT REMINDER from 34TH3R! Cited in GCX Protocol 113G40H: In case of damage to the product do not call an ambulance.
Message repeat
WARNING! Body modi.....
I saw that warning message flash before my eyes and get projec... | 2020-12-17T09:26:15 | 2020-12-17T09:02:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] While you were growing up, your grandmother always sang you a nursery rhyme as you fell asleep. You just discovered it is an ancient spell of protection. Not only that, but there are more verses, with more interesting effects. | I was paralyzed in bed. my eyes were shut, and my face rested in a smile. The warmth of the hall light permeated the veil of my eyelids, creating a red hue that went black when my grand-mama passed through the doorway.
She'd added a verse tonight. The song she sang, by her insistence, was Welsh. She aimed to teach me... | I began to sing.
A lullaby, strange yet familiar, arose from the subconscious of my mind. The terror, the panic, all of it fell away as I sang the lullaby... Grandmother's lullaby.
It was a strange one. It sang of a government official returning to his home back in the countryside, close to the mountains. His family ... | 2018-11-07T05:34:22 | 2018-11-07T05:30:36 | 110 | 12 |
[WP] What can a mere human do against a God? Well, you're about to find out. Armed with nothing but a half formed plan and enough spite to push yourself past mortal wounds, you're gonna show these eldritch idiots they messed with the wrong species. | It was in a wasteland that the last human stood. The husks of buildings and skeletal remains decorated rust-colored soil that stretched as far as the eye could see. No green was left, nor breathing thing save this one human, facing down the monstrosity of epic proportions that was before him. The man clutched his s... | You sons of bitches stealing my concepts, eh? Good! Complex themes are important in writing!
*2nd Book of Songs, Chapter 3 from* ***A Peace of Madness***
*Twist of fate, and turn of chance,
Watch him writhe, watch him dance.
Strings of Strings, strings of twine,
All we suffer please Divine.*
*Flash of foot,... | 2019-05-20T10:52:01 | 2019-05-20T09:40:09 | 235 | 61 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Is it true, you're going to let me die?" Daisy says as she lets out a whimper
"What the fuck did you just say?" Shouts Jeremy at the old family dog he was left to care for after his parents were T-Boned by a drunk driver a fortnight ago.
"They just inject a needle and I go to sleep? Will I feel any pain?" a sadness ... | "Whooo hoooo! Now that has some kick to it!"
My eyes shot opened thinking if I heard what I think I heard. 'God my head hurt like hell, damn that was a crazy night. Been a long time since I drank that much. Wait, hold on. What had a kick to it?' I roll off the couch and thud hard onto the floor.
"Drank you frunk bash... | 2016-08-02T19:04:22 | 2016-08-02T18:35:44 | 437 | 124 |
[WP] The day you die, Death comes and asks if you are ready to go. Jokingly, you say no. To your surprise, he leaves. Now every year he comes back to ask again | It came for me, dark and grim,
Come, its time for you to go.
I looked at it, shaking with fear,
And all I said was no.
I still have much to do,
I still have much to see,
Please give me some more time,
All I can ask from thee.
It looked at me and shook its head,
You humans are all the same.
What is it that you... | [Poem]
Tim was a man who lived a simple life,
All he wished for was to be happy and light.
So when he took to the skies for the sky-high dive,
He forgot to pull, leaving him barely alive.
An old man in black approaching, robes tattered
Tim now knew notting mattered.
What he didn’t expect, grieving in woe,
He k... | 2019-04-16T07:46:27 | 2019-04-16T06:59:45 | 87 | 22 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has ravaged the world, but you and a few survivors are safe in your state of the art bunker, the doors sealed tight, until your sensors picked up a single zombie and a clicking sound proceeded with a raspy "This is the Lockpicking Zombie...." | The mug I held in my hand slipped and shattered on the floor. I had to think quick.
I raced to Harry's room. Quickly explained the situation from what I heard in the security room to him, and we got to work. We grabbed a huge rectangular plank of wood from the wood supply room, and hauled it towards the entrance. Sure... | "No..." I whisper in my breath staring at the state of the art security cameras.
"Its him..Its actually him" I recognise that smooth voice, and those nimble,lightning speed fingers anywhere.
Its a slow process, our bunker truly as the best of the best, but even the high end stuff has weak points, and you bet your a... | 2021-03-05T08:05:42 | 2021-03-05T06:11:18 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | It was night again, and for many, it was time to work.
The criminal underground is a nocturnal menace, writhing and growing wherever the sun and light do not reach. Uncaring of what it consumes so long as it can do exactly that. Many give in willingly to the ebb and flow of corruption; for some it is their life purpos... | You are either born with powers or not. That just how it is. Don't ask me why you did not get powers while I did, okay? Because I don't know, but what I do know is that I used mine to perfection! Nobody had a chance against me in my time, and to be frank, I don’t think anyone will ever surpass the accomplishment writte... | 2017-09-17T02:57:40 | 2017-09-17T02:32:46 | 31 | 13 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | I watched as Death drummed his fingers impatiently on the table in front of him. I leaned forward and marked the lower right square with an X, then sat up straight. Death groaned and marked his own.
"I will require that you make a different opening move every game," Death said as he leaned forward and marked a circle.... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T07:19:50 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 214 | 17 |
[WP] You've survived living through many horror movies, aided by your secret power: the ability to hear what the audience is yelling at the screen. | "Behind you!" the audience screamed.
Not again, I thought, while I rolled forward. My hands automatically pointed the laser-repeater I picked up in "Alien Menace 3: Invasion Day" towards the creature. So many scenarios, so much suffering. I used to be so weak. I used to be scared of the voices. Now I'm surviving. The c... | "We now have lost 43 monsters to the subject named "Tim" or as others call him "The Unkillable". We don't know how he does it but he always knows our next move, we wait behind the door and they just go away, we have the upper hand almost killing them and they have a pistol out of nowhere. This has to stop. After each a... | 2018-04-12T07:08:07 | 2018-04-12T06:54:05 | 15 | 11 |
[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. | 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... | Jesus is doing well, most advanced in science but his public order is barely in the green, Jesus adopts and invests his saved social policies heavily in the the freedom ideology.
The other gods see this a chance to fuck with him
"Budda has chosen to adopt the order ideology"
"Bhrama has chosen to adopt the order ideol... | 2016-04-09T07:01:46 | 2016-04-09T05:49:29 | 63 | 20 |
[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... | "Will Alice Smith please come to the stand?" I glanced up as the girl in front of me in line stepped forward. She was chained up six ways to Sunday. It was obvious why. A massacre like the one she single-handedly caused would definitely get you locked down tight. "On the charge of 37 counts of murder in the first degre... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T10:15:26 | 432 | 120 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | “We’re out of flatbreads.”
“Fuck,” I mutter. “What do you have?”
“Italian.”
“Just Italian?”
“Yeah.”
I check my watch. There’s only fifteen minutes left on my break. “Whatever. Italian it is.”
*Five billion.* The voice states it plainly. It comes sometimes, just random numbers. *One. Eleven.* I don’t pay too much ... | When the man hands Joey his sandwich, his stomach growls, and the voice in his head whispers *five billion.* The voice appeared one year ago, and every time he hears it, it makes him chuckle. *That's how many people you're saving,* it said when he first heard it. *You don't know why, but you're important.* He always th... | 2018-11-17T14:21:41 | 2018-11-17T14:17:28 | 6,605 | 774 |
[WP] A super villain who runs a number of retail stores, not as a cover, but as a means of recruiting their staff as villainous side-kicks once they are inevitably filled with seething rage for customers and the general public. | All-Mart Employee log: Pay-period 1, Day 1.
Um. Hi. So according to the HR video I just watched with the terrible actors—who look WAY more put together than a typical retail sails person, —this company requires all employees to keep an employment log. They gave some BS psych reasons like “track your personal growth, ... | "Sally Utherton?" Red Flare asked.
"Pfft, hello Red Flare. My dad send you after me?" Sally asked. Sally was the daughter of Brandon Utherton, the local journalist who tipped Red Flare off about various criminal elements in the area.
"Why are you doing this? Kidnapping? Ransom? Assault? Burglary? A whole litany of c... | 2021-10-14T01:37:33 | 2021-10-14T01:18:41 | 20 | 15 |
[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... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T12:44:55 | 996 | 670 |
[WP] Humans are unique among all space faring creatures, they can interbreed successfully with any sentient lifeform. You run the station daycare. | An inglorious death when you’re changing a nappy and a half Sanathian fire puppy, half human baby decides to take that moment to fire fart in your face. To spare the families, that one was always listed as *mysterious causes*. Not inaccurate, but a helluva way to go.
Still easier than covering up having to quarantine... | Apparently, back in the day on Earth, running a daycare was one of the jobs they threatened you with if they thought you couldn't do much of anything else. Not much had changed in the centuries since; I sighed to myself in my office chair and rubbed the bridge of my nose as I paged through the notifications on my datap... | 2020-08-10T14:21:33 | 2020-08-10T13:49:26 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "The Surgeon General would like to remind you that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious health effects"
Will squinted at the bright neon billboard, its screen casting an unnatural white glow over an otherwise dimly lit street. Taking in the message before briefly sighing and continuing his walk, he gradually ... | I sit in the middle of a barren wasteland with cigerette in hand. So many have been lost before me, a faded anti-smoking ad stares in front of me. Should i just stop now? Put the cigarette down and try to rebuild our crumbled society.
I look up at the sign and then down at my cigarette.
I take a puff. | 2017-02-17T12:12:31 | 2017-02-17T11:51:00 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] You have a strange condition that makes your life have background music depending on your mood or current situation. One day, as you are normally walking down the street, an unfamiliar tune starts playing out of nowhere. It’s Megalovania. | I immediately turned my head, finding no person in sight, which seemed odd as it's 10 AM and this street should be overflowing with the souless suit mans who i like to refer as "job slaves".
I felt my sins crawling onto my back, regretting eating that last subway sandwich which belonged to my little brother; which... | It startled me at first. Compared to what I'd been hearing for the last few months it was so loud, so energetic. I feel like I'd been listening to My Chemical Romance and Lincoln Park for the last eternity.
I couldn't figure out what was going on. Nothing special had happened. I was still sitting in the living room ap... | 2019-01-07T07:35:19 | 2019-01-07T07:04:13 | 70 | 16 |
[WP] You are granted three wishes that can be used any time, but each wish takes some of your remaining lifespan. The last wish kills you. What are your wishes? | "I wish to have a toy tractor!" exclaimed the toddler.
"Are you sure?" questioned the genie incredulously. He had lived for centuries; granted wishes to great warriors and wise men. Here he was, giving a 3 year old a plastic tractor that would cost him 15 years of his life.
"Yesh! Give Me!" the toddler had mastered ne... | "It's quite simple. Each wish will make the day you die closer. The last will kill you. You only get three. Simple as that." The genie explained.
"That's... not how your powers worked in the stories." I quip.
"Too bad kid, that's how it goes." He retorts.
I sigh. Could there really be a wish worth me dying? World p... | 2015-05-24T03:55:31 | 2015-05-23T22:14:43 | 73 | 38 |
[WP] You are a full-time superhero who is extremely committed to the cause. Recently, you have become entirely unemployable for various reasons. As you start to drown in bills you decide on one solution: you become a part-time villain. | I stand in the bank, three men tied up in the corner, other people stood next to the windows. I open my duffel bag and start loading the notes into it. The teller cries softly, and a small boy starts praying. I think back to my life only two months earlier.
I went by the name 'Kevlar', and though I certainly was never... | The stars always make it seem so easy. Throw on a pair of glasses, you have a fully developed alter ego. Bank robbery downtown? Who cares if you're in the middle of your performance review, just make a lame excuse and slip out the door. Museum heist? The urgent deadline you had can be blown off, nbd. Some crap with mis... | 2018-07-05T08:57:41 | 2018-07-05T07:59:38 | 71 | 17 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | Third time's the charm.
Crowley was the first one through. He was understandably confused. 16 other men had jumped through the portal with him, yet they were no where to be seen.
From what I can gather, he set off to the distant canyons to search for us, thinking we had simply dropped out of blackspace in a differen... | There was no sign of civilization. Not a single sentient lifeform exist. The world is untouch, and the bravest marine of all is the first human that have laid eyes upon them. It doesn't take him too long to realize what happened, and the mistake they made is too big for him to fix. Years of training comes in handy in t... | 2014-09-02T09:23:24 | 2014-09-02T09:22:16 | 598 | 71 |
[WP] You are bitten by a werewolf, your sibling is bitten a vampire. Things become awkward when you find out that your parents are secretly famous monster hunters. | "I always loved how the full moon looked, so round and perfect, gently lapping at your skin unlike the sun's radiant assault on your flesh. It was calming, peaceful. Some of the only peace I could get in my 'home' both before and after the incident.
My sister was for all intents and purposes, the personification of... | “Remind me what your name is again.” The man- I mean wolf- I mean *werewolf* they called Lupus said, with a (perhaps permanent) frown on his face.
The flustered werewolf stammered, “J-Johnny, my sir.”
“Well, Johnny, you’re a fucking genius! You know who that girl is?”
“N-no sir, I’m afraid I don’t know her.”
“She’s... | 2020-01-12T06:48:54 | 2020-01-12T06:40:38 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Dear Monique,
We both messed up. I should have paid you the attention you needed when you needed it, and you should have told me when you felt you had lost control of your life. I'm sorry, but this is no reason to throw away a wonderful 10 year marriage. Please come home, we miss you horribly.
I love you and I al... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T20:41:24 | 235 | 67 |
[WP] You're lonely, so you jokingly say, "If any mythical beings wanna go out on a date with me, let me know!" Suddenly, someone appears out of thin air. "Hello." | *Clubs and Get-togethers aren't really my thing*
I said while chuckling halfheartedly.
*Hey! Maybe you should date someone. You're pretty good looking, you know*
said my friend, in an attempt to probably subconsciously make me not kill myself in the midst of my boredom surrounded by my lonely active and passive sel... | My life is not interesting, I have no friends, nor hobby's, I spend 8 hours a day stuffing teddy bears then I go home and watch tv on my couch til I pass out, I had just finished a fantasy movie when I sigh and l whisper "Any witches, or magical being want to go out with me?" Suddenly a giant prehistoric lizard appeare... | 2015-07-18T15:28:36 | 2015-07-18T15:27:33 | 140 | 16 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | "Are we going to see the horses again today?" A wide smile flashed across his face as he looked up at his father.
Jeff looked down at his son, smiled and said "Yes, yes we are. We just have to make a quick stop at the bank and get some extra cash before we go."
"Do we have to?" His sons smile vanished and a look of ... | Jeff had been waiting in The Line for hours. He wasn't a drug addict, nor was he a struggling, out-of-work college grad, like the other people in line. He wasn't here as a result of poor decisions, but sometimes life throws you a screwball, and you end up standing in The Line. And there Jeff was waiting, wasting his li... | 2014-07-10T10:17:25 | 2014-07-10T10:03:05 | 689 | 42 |
[WP] "The Young Anakin, Trained, he will be." Yoda said. Obi-Wan exclaims, "The council is in agreement then? I will train the Boy?" Yoda looks at Obi-Wan, "Mace Windu, his master will be." | Obi-Wan blinked. Then he blinked again.
"Excuse me? Did I hear you correctly master Yoda."
"Hear me well, you did, Mace Windu, the master must be."
"Why?" Asked the confused Jedi Knight.
"Vaapad." Mace Windu answered.
"Indeed, the boy is old enough now that the dark side will have a far greater pull on him than a... | "As you wish, master." Obi-wan says, as he is withdrawals from the chamber.
*timeskip 18 years in the future*
Anakin is standing in the same chamber in front of Yoda and his master Mace Windu.
"Congratulations, in order they are!" Yoda says
"Yes congratulations Anakin, you are no longer the young padawan that was h... | 2017-05-24T05:19:39 | 2017-05-24T02:38:15 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You did awful, horrible things and served the tyrannical government with the promise of resurrecting your long-dead spouse. You finally capture the legendary rebel against this government. Who upon closer inspection, was your spouse. | “It’s surprising how much people can change.”
Those words cut deeper than my recently-obtained dagger wound, which smarted and ached with even the most minute of movements. Somehow, even a finger wag would send pulses of pain through every nerve.
But she was right. Just a few years ago, this would have made me woozy,... | “Samantha.” I greet the woman in front of me.
She stands in front of me, behind the other side of the jail cell. Her eyes however, look elsewhere.
I chuckle. “What’s wrong?”
“Why?”
Ah. That was her question.
“Why else? I thought you were dead. Do you know how long it was since you passed?”
“I-“
“A decade Samanth... | 2022-03-08T04:40:20 | 2022-03-08T04:38:40 | 904 | 356 |
[WP] Nuclear war ensued before either God or Devil could begin Armageddon the old-fashioned way. Mankind is just... gone. Now an angel bumps into a demon in the wastes left behind, both wondering what they're supposed to do now... | "Bill" "Jim"
The two celestial beings confronted each other, simplifying their many thousands of titles for the sake of sanity. After all, as mid level clerks in their respective domains of good and evil God/Lucifer knows there's enough paperwork.
"Well this is it I guess" the angel mused, kicking aside the irradia... | "Well...what do you want to do now.? The humans are gone, most of the flora and all of the fauna. all that's left is rubble, and these-- roaches." He spit the last word out with disdain. The same contempt he had felt for humans now transferred to one of the only leftover species. Roaches weren't as fun to toy wit... | 2020-05-11T00:22:08 | 2020-05-10T22:01:07 | 45 | 18 |
[WP]For generations, the worthy have gone out with armor and weapons to slay a dragon and earn a knighthood. It's your turn, young one, but the king takes the sword from your hands. "This dragon cannot be killed with a sword." | "Guards, Leave us."
George the Radiant lifts himself from his throne, age and finery make the movement seem like that of Atlas lifting the world. His gaze locks on that of the young man before him. He's young, fit, and dressed simply in leather armor with a few metal plates on the chest and legs. His hand rests on the... | "my liege I don't understand, if I cannot slay the beast and join the knights like my father and brothers I know not what I do" the young burly squire protested at the gray haired King.
"my boy, look out on this city of ours. How'd you describe her?" The King led the squire to the terrace overlooking the royal precinc... | 2015-06-09T05:13:11 | 2015-06-09T03:18:42 | 101 | 30 |
[WP] A group of "heroes" killed the friendly village necromancer whose skeletons helped out everybody with their daily work. Those "heroes" now stand trial in front of a judge - and the whole village is enraged: | "His name was *Morthos*. *Morthos the Damned.*" The teary-eyed Judge said. "Father, teacher, poet, and part time necromancer. And now because of you, he's dead." There was a solemn murmur of agreement amongst the jury and assembled, weepy townsfolk.
"He was a good man!" Shouted a voice from the crowd, "When the bar... | "Hang them! Hang the outsiders!" unknown person shouted promoting a wave of vocal unrest amongst the gathered crowd.
"Order! Let there be order!" the tall and broad-shouldered mayor immediately responded. He was about thirty, with ginger hair and pronounced skinny face, which now shown the hardest of internal dispute... | 2018-01-05T16:48:35 | 2018-01-05T16:35:39 | 129 | 20 |
[WP] "Why do you humans keep using kinetic weaponry!? It's ancient and it's primitive! Just upgrade to plasma and energy weapons already!" "We can't exactly enchant an energy projectile, that's why." | A general of the United Earth Forces, having recently obtained an alien deserter, had just finished his interrogation of the alien soldier. After the discussion about the weak points of the various alien ships, the two finished drinking their tea.
At that time the alien asked "Why do you keep using kinetic weapons? It... | Gwendolyn pulled out her Magus’ Blade from its scabbard. Being small in stature, even at her age, she gave off a deadly presence that made Elrond incredibly nervous. He probably should have been more respectful in the way he phrased his question to the fiercest instructor.
It was an unusual weapon for sure. It was a l... | 2022-02-02T18:49:07 | 2022-02-02T15:46:52 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the ability to summon one random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does Mjolnir. As you summon yours it takes some time but people are horrified as it finally arrives... | I stood in the middle of the stage, baffled at what was now before me. A gigantic snake, large enough to devour a man whole. I now understood why everyone else was terrified. Anyone would be terrified of a creature of that size. But the snake wasn't doing anything. It mainly looked...confused. It was a long way from ho... | The secret service agents bursted through every orifice of my small one bedroom apartment. I had kindly warned them about my situation. They still decided to bust in like this though. I couldn't blame them though. What happened? I'll have to take you back to a few days ago to explain that.
"Dude call it hurry I want ... | 2022-11-15T09:51:03 | 2022-11-15T06:58:42 | 89 | 41 |
[WP] Humanity had put off dimensional travel for fear of running into 'cosmic horrors'. A long overdue visit to an alternate dimension revealed we were the cosmic horrors. | It was a difficult thing to look at. It wasn't its ugliness though it was ugly. It wasn't its size even though it dwarfed mountains. Instead there something about it that the human mind just refused to process. Looking at it gave the viewer a combination of vertigo and motion sickness as the mind failed to figure out j... | Well, this was unexpected.
After centuries of waiting, humanity had finally decided that it was worth the risk. We'd heard no end of tales and dystopian warnings from soothsayers, storytellers and scholars. That we'd run into dimensional horrors and scientific reversals of a particularly deadly kind, not at all unlike... | 2021-04-09T05:22:19 | 2021-04-09T04:50:57 | 53 | 21 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | My name is Jezzabella Heart and I'm not like other girls. When I walk down the hall at school, the other girls stare, because they know, I am just not like them. They don't agree with my sense of style. While they're dressed up in pink and glitter, I prefer black t-shirts and skinny black jeans.
They just don't unders... | Once upon a time, a young girl and a young boy were deeply in love. They would always re-enact romantic scenes from films, ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, costumes and all. They would go everywhere together, *do* everything together... by everything, I mean *everything*, even going to... | 2022-08-19T16:04:21 | 2022-08-19T14:20:41 | 2,256 | 93 |
[WP] Upon us entering intergalactic civilization, we discover that the Milky Way wasn't where we came from, but where we were banished to. All of civilization is horrified that we survived and returned from the universe's harshest galaxy. | Sensor Post Omega was a small station situated on a rim system, the kind where rookies were sent to learn the ropes and where veterans went to retire. Nobody stationed there really knew what they were supposed to be looking for, but since they always had new tech and the best internet connection in the known universe, ... | The screens blared in agony as bells rang.
"ALERT. ALERT. MESSAGE FOXTROT UNIFORM CHARLIE KILO RECIEVED"
Dianne looked out of the window to see a ship like no other. It didn't seem to have a beginning or end or even to exist at all, yet it was there. All that was know of this ship was that the Drehlah were the creat... | 2019-11-14T19:58:45 | 2019-11-14T16:24:09 | 102 | 23 |
[WP] "Academy Magic" is generally regarded as safe magic. "Fell Magic" is dangerous and can almost only be used for evil. "Vile Magic," meanwhile, is 'safe' but is also the magical equivalent of "don't google that, if you don't already know then you really don't want to know, I promise" | I double-checked the ritual instructions on my spell scroll - eye of toad, tongue of frog, cave-crystal shard, crocodile's teeth and horse's blood were placed in a bronze cauldron at the centre of my room, with a pentagram carefully drawn around it in chalk. The windows had been blacked out with paper and the only sour... | 'Safe.' Spirits below and above, I hate that word.
The first cut I make is perfunctory. The second, performative. The third, productive. The thrashing stops as the bleeding slows, and the poor creature's tiny genitals fall from my hand and into the North brazier. There they burn, the sickly-sweet smell of cooking fles... | 2022-05-25T10:57:44 | 2022-05-25T10:37:01 | 234 | 103 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | No one questioned it when the national anthem became a mandatory part of the school day for children across the UK in 2020. It seemed like a positive act from parliament, designed to strengthen the bonds between the various cultures who call this island their home.
Five years later this act was extended, to enforce a... | "They're starting to figure out... We've been alive too long"
"Nonsense" The Queen spoke. "This is going just the way I wanted it to"
"Listen, we've both lived our grand lives. It's about time we went and lived one more humble. We could hide away in the mountains, or maybe in a small village in Asia. "
"Let's not ge... | 2022-10-29T10:31:46 | 2018-07-08T21:36:18 | 49 | 18 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | This was the fourth time they came. They had never succeeded; however, they never really seemed to try.
The first time they came, they brought what they considered fierce monsters. Cats, as they called them, did not attack as intended, rather they made a strong niche among the rising generations.
The second was a l... | Not with a bang, but with a whimper
It has been thirteen years since the aliens invaded. Well I say invaded, they just parked a space ship in the ocean and sank a few ship. And they're not actually aliens they're just humans who somehow ended up in a distant galaxy a long time ago. They're kinda dickish about the whol... | 2016-02-22T10:42:06 | 2016-02-22T08:33:57 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | “Did you get the stuff?”
Somber organ music filled the church, as grieving friends and relatives made their way up to the casket to pay their respects to my deceased best friend. Huddled in a quiet corner near the entrance to the church, my contact nodded, glancing around cautiously before taking a plain white pillo... | Harry found it strange, as he walked down the busy street he'd periodically see people in nothing but their underwear. They'd be carrying on as usual, reading a paper, nose in their phone, or sipping coffee. He looked across the street and saw a group of people waiting at the bus stop. Three of them were already in ... | 2018-08-14T10:34:07 | 2018-08-14T08:22:35 | 173 | 91 |
[WP] You've survived near-death experiences your whole life prompting your family to joke that you have a guardian angel. You've never taken it seriously ,until today, when a man pushes you out of the way of a car you didn't see coming and says "Sorry about that, had to get more physical this time." | I stood, horrified, frozen in the street. Some part of me knew I should be running, diving out of the way, but as the car raced toward me, I felt rooted to the spot. I knew that this time, my luck had run out.
I had time to think, somehow. In the adrenaline rush, time slowed to a crawl. My luck...My Aunt Victoria cal... | "My name's Alistair. Pleasure to speak to you after all these years!"
"Wait, so yo-"
"Yep, I'm that guardian angel you've always been so cynical about."
"I guess I have a bit of egg on my face, then."
"Better an egg than that car, Jaime!"
"Are angels usually this snarky?"
"Ohhhhh yeah, you have to be, you know. D... | 2019-08-07T22:09:41 | 2019-08-07T20:39:42 | 72 | 45 |
[WP] C'thulu's Fables: Take one of Aesop's Fables and write it within the Lovecraftian Universe. Morale of the story included.
For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables#List_of_some_fables_by_Aesop | **The Lion and the Mouse**
In a small town lived a young boy that everyone called Mouse. A clever boy, a bright boy, a pious boy—that was Mouse. One day Mouse was walking through the woods when he happened upon a strange lion sleeping under a tree.
The lion's skin was grey and ragged and its mane a ma... | **The Fox and the Grapes**
There once was a fox who came across some grapes hanging high on a vine. The fox, being very hungry indeed, leaped high to snatch the grapes. As the fox jumped, He Who Dwells Between grasped the space between the fox's teeth and bottom grapes and pulled with His twisted fingers, stretchi... | 2016-10-13T10:19:14 | 2016-10-13T09:33:14 | 50 | 28 |
[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | "is it done, Private?" I asked the young one beside me.
"Yes, Captain. But... Something strange is happening... I'm not receiving any reported resistance" they said nervously.
"No resistance? But I was told this species is one of the most stubborn and violent ones in the galaxy. Dr. Halin reports that humans have ben... | We were an advanced species, with technology beyond their understanding. Our weapons were powerful beyond their capabilities.
But they were built for war.
Our species had become weak and reliant on our technology. When they learned how to use it, we were not prepared.
First, they conquered the local overseers. Then ... | 2022-11-03T03:36:06 | 2022-11-03T03:11:41 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] A top-secret division of the S.S., in charge of protecting Adolf Hitler from the thousands of time travelers trying to kill him. | "You have to know," He said, accepting the cigarette before leaning back in his chair. "You have to at least *suspect*, with so many of us." The man took a long, slow drag. Apparently, most people did not have access to tobacco during his particular piece of the timeline.
"Of course," Sturn agreed as the whiskey tr... | "Zis tiem travelleurs!" laughs Oberst Henckel von Krantfindeneinbludinaam, pointing at the latest. "Ven veel zey evah lern?! Zat tiem douß not wehk zat vey?!"
"Ich douß nicht know, Oberst Krantfindenbludinaam!" laughs Leutnant Klaus Einmoarkrautnaam. "Die alvez kommen allesder tiem!"
The two soldiers laugh raucousl... | 2014-07-01T08:13:49 | 2014-07-01T06:35:21 | 86 | 60 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | Burnt bodies strewn all around me. Bodies, heaps and heaps of them. The mulch and grass I thought I had been stepping on formed into someone's burnt liver, my other foot resting on what I could only hope was not a snake (based on the dried blood around it, I guessed it was not.) My stomach heaved as I hurled onto the f... | "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Lieutenant Aldo Raine was my CO, everything in the company was his territory.
"Sir, I have the upmost respect for you, this battalion, and our great country. It's just that I don't feel comfortable devoting my life to a military that broke my one golden rule. Never deceive me."
... | 2017-06-20T01:15:12 | 2017-06-20T00:31:30 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] When the Statue of Liberty was sent to America from France, the box was labeled "some assembly required." In well over a century, no one ever noticed the other label that said "batteries not included." Until today, that is. | "Dude is that… the Statue of Liberty attacking the city like God-damned Godzilla?"
"Don't say God-damned Godzilla."
"Why not?"
"Because GOD-damn-GODzilla. Sounds weird. God-god."
"Can we focus?"
"Why are you so worried? You're sweating. Your eyes are wide."
"Jesus Christ the Redeemer just joined the Statue of Lib... | It was a day like any other, kids were in schools, adults at their jobs, the elderly silently judging on park benches in Central Park. We, the citizens, had no idea what was going to take place on that fateful day. That in a few hours most of the city would be in ruin.
It crept down through word of mouth that the gove... | 2017-02-23T15:02:19 | 2017-02-23T14:38:56 | 325 | 138 |
[WP] Vampires have risen up, to take over the world, and to usher in an eco-revolution. Not because they're power-hungry, or care about the Earth; they're just sick of feeding microplastic-riddled blood. | A white porcelain bowl explodes against the wall. A thousand bloodstained pieces hurled in every direction.
Pavel looks back across the room at Alexander. Alexander, enraged, his body heaving up and down as his scowl grows deeper with each passing second.
Alexander looks at his meal, slowly dripping down the wall. "W... | A quote from high lord dracule
" honestly for a long time we were trying our best to push for unleaded. It made some of us go mad and others stupid. But if the alternative is the taste of caran wrap covered in the smell of burnt tires then id rather chug chyrnobyls reactor coolent. So we all voted and we all agreed. I... | 2022-09-23T10:05:28 | 2022-09-23T05:51:31 | 250 | 83 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | Flying along in the dangerous Quadrant X-7 was a small reconnaissance craft, home to a few hundred Nebulins, a species that while rather stupid, are very efficient at producing offspring, and due to their small size, use up few resources.
"Captain Zarquan to Division A." Division A was responsible for waste managemen... | A few disclaimers, this is my first response to a post and I am writing on mobile so sorry if the editing is weird.
I had grown used to the silence of the universe. I spent my time hiding from my civilization, traveling from galaxy to galaxy in a never ending patrol. During the war, my people called me a hero, an uns... | 2014-11-09T00:37:30 | 2014-11-09T00:24:27 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] Write the most elaborate, over-dramatic, and exciting story you can think of that all just turns out to be a set-up for a pun so horrible I'll want to punch you
It actually doesn't have to be dramatic or exciting or anything similar, just make sure it's elaborate so the final pun delivery is a gut-wrenching blow | It was Tuesday morning. God I hate Tuesdays.
You see, when you work in the sawmill of a small town, logs shipment usually comes in on Wednesdays. That keeps us busy for three days, sometime four, but Tuesdays are always dead.
This means that on Tuesdays, I have to listen to Tom, Jim and Preston talk about their mean... | Every morning I wake up and go down the stairs and trip over my son’s wrestling toys. For some reason he plays with them right at the bottom of the stairs and keeps them there. We bought him the special ring and playsets and everything, but he continues to play at the bottom of the stairs.
He has all the classic w... | 2015-01-13T10:39:25 | 2015-01-13T10:12:18 | 188 | 20 |
[WP] You lose a dare at an airport and are forced to ask an employee for a ticket to the farthest destination. To your surprise, they quietly nod and give you a single ticket with letters you don't recognize.
EDIT: Holy *crap* this blew up. I want to thank everyone for their stories and input, and also would like to s... | AT25.
It was a very strange airport code. I had never seen a 4 digit airport code before and certainly not one with numbers. I turned back to the desk attendant confused.
"Umm which country is this airport in again?"
"None of them," she answered as though it should have been obvious. "And don't forget your jacket.... | You look up at the map behind the atendants head. Lota of obvious counties with well known abbreviations. CA, Canada. AUS, been there once actually, that's Australia. There are others you could guess at. Sweden would maybe be like....SWD. Italy maybe an ITL. So you start to narrow it down.
Nigeria....nope. Couldn't be.... | 2019-03-04T22:30:27 | 2019-03-04T21:58:08 | 77 | 45 |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | When the red bones appeared and burned through the ganges delta, it convinced many that their ancient gods had forsaken the world, casting them off to be consumed by death and ruin. Villages, and then cities were burned to the ground trying to stem the tide, but the disease only seemed to spread with chaos following i... | All told, Vritra had a very successful 5,000 odd years. He had taken a break from the world just as the Indus Valley civilisations collapsed and he deserved it. Few humans knew who he was, but there they were, continuing to speculate, wonder and theorise why the Indus Valley collapsed. And some of them were right: weat... | 2017-04-03T16:13:45 | 2017-04-03T10:49:54 | 68 | 24 |
[WP] You are a superhero with shapeshifting powers. You don't fight crime. You cover for other superheroes when they need to sneak out to save the day. | Ender Trailborn, Jason Hellsmith, Echo Morgan, Matthew Gearson, Rachel Kovacs, Elizabeth Howards, and Fredrick Henderson. These are only a few of the acts I portray. Each one with their own memories, their own secrets, their own relationships and lack thereof. I play each of them at least twice a week. Of course, they ... | "This is insane." I protested as I pulled the suits... speedo? out of my now overly sculpted buttocks. "This isn't what I do. This isn't covered in our agreements." I felt a bead of sweat forming beneath my now full flowing hair. It felt wrong for more reasons than I could count, but mostly because Chris never sweat. I... | 2020-03-23T18:00:39 | 2020-03-23T17:57:48 | 78 | 12 |
[WP] Historians discover something they haven't noticed before on the Declaration of Independence, and it changes American life as we know it. | "A *microdot?!?*"
Neils swallowed compulsively, his Adam's apple bobbing visibly. His sunken eyes shifted nervously and he gave a little laugh that quickly degenerated into a dry, rasping cough.
"Uh, yes sir. Concealed under the ink of Franklin's signature. Meaning it was there *before* he signed, and, and..." at ... | "Blood. It's blood."
"Wait, so has it been there for awhile? Or did you let the Declaration get contaminated after the last preservation check?"
"I don't know."
"You've worked as a forensic scientist and you can't tell?"
"It's not that simple - but - I want to test it."
"Well, you can't. There's no way you'll get ... | 2014-11-10T10:31:04 | 2014-11-10T08:59:33 | 74 | 55 |
[WP] Wrongly imprisoned individuals who are later found innocent are given a Crime-Credit equal to the number of years they were unjustly held. This non-transferable credit can be used to engage in any combination of criminal acts to the value of the time owed. | Free. The word had little meaning. So much time in the dark.
Year 0 I was tumbled over hiprocrasy of a judge trying to bury his coked up mistress.
Year 1 was a brutal. Beatings, humiliations and loneliness. Sexual abuse. Sick punishment from men who actually committed sin. Maybe they wanted to feel like they made a dif... | It's awfully thrilling, hearing the tales of those who rot half their life away to return with only vengeance on their mind. Those who claim they thought of nothing while shackled to their bed but the comforting fantasy of strangling the sonofabitch that put them behind bars in the first place. I, however did not give ... | 2015-09-18T06:46:51 | 2015-09-18T06:05:12 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] The new king was not crowned by a holy man, nor by another monarch. Instead, he asked you, a commoner, to crown him. This was to represent his dedication to his people. But now everyone calls you"King-maker", to the extent that other nations call upon you for your service. | Looking back, it was a beautiful metaphor. Being crowned by a commoner was supposed to represent his dedication to his people, because he knew that he is nothing without them.
As for why it had to be *me,* of all people? That was simple enough; my parents were servants in his castle, so I spent most of my childhood g... | "I don't understand?? I was merely a close friend to the king? Why do they want me to crown others?" I asked, shocked at the letter I received from the Ablys kingdom.
"I don't know honey but this won't stop there . . . Here, have a pastry." My wife, Laurasia, said and stuffed a baked good into my mouth.
"You'll be hu... | 2022-10-17T16:33:12 | 2022-10-17T07:54:31 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] There are a finite number of human souls. As the population grows, something else is filling the bodies. | I still remember the day when I began to realize that Mr. Gildren was different. I don't mean different as in dangerous, crazy, or disabled, but just different.
I was doing the same thing I did every day after being woken up by the Waker on our block. It was time for me to go around the city delivering everyone's mail... | “You filled them with ***meat***?” I asked, incredulously.
Vee looked over me with a nonchalant air.
“Of course I did, Dama,” Vee said, “You know that meat has many of the same locomotive properties as souls.”
“Right, but Vee, where did you find all that meat?”
Vee rolled her eyes. While I was still collecting my ... | 2016-03-23T20:11:10 | 2016-03-23T19:58:45 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | **Another slow week. Modern medicine is really dragging things out down here.**
"Ya, too bad it couldn't save me from that heart attack."
**You didn't have a heart attack. I killed you.**
"Um, pardon me?"
**It's alright you won't remember me telling you that. See you next week.**
"What—"
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**Six thousand d... | I love my local park - being a big kid adult I can’t help the attraction. It is like everything I need to have a great Sunday is all in one place
Who can resist monkey bars and the weird animal shaped seats on springs and that circle thing with handles that you can spin around on
I learnt a few years ago to avoid the... | 2020-01-31T07:13:05 | 2020-01-31T05:04:17 | 625 | 42 |
[WP] You run a bar that exists on the edge of reality. Your usual patrons include cosmic horrors, eldritch abominations and elder gods. | "Do you know why your patrons don't fuss about a human running the tavern at the edge of all existence?"
My hand had just pulled away from shelving the bourbon when the customer spoke. I took my time in returning my attention to the Q. He was dressed in some space-aged uniform from a corner of time I was unfamiliar wi... | Ink-black black; fine-in-trial|underwhelmed-in-present rejoinder--[Tripping through]<nervous idles and [flying afore ^ aft]<for after: gusts of guests|host of host||black>[sit loud in din].
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Port>[parted] ^ YHWH>[thresh threshold]; attentive attendees>[attend-in-attention]; inattentive ina... | 2017-10-23T23:52:55 | 2017-10-23T23:36:09 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You have been abducted by aliens. For some reason, Jack Black is on board, not as a prisoner though. He's just... there. Wandering around the ship, eating a packet of chips and making sassy comments about your various escape attempts. | "Oo-hoo. Smooth plan, bro. Just going to slip out the Apple Mac and make like Jeff Goldblum, huh?"
I turned to look at him. "Are you going to help or not?"
Jack gave his serious look - or as close to serious as that face ever could manage - then crossed his eyes, as if someone had slapped him on the face. "EERrrrrrrr... | "Log date: 7;00. The first day of my imprisonment.
The lights, the sounds... Everything was so foreign. I'm not entirely sure how I ended up on the ship, although I'm assuming I was abducted. Yeah. Aliens. If you don't believe me, take a look at these... books? That's not an Earth language, I'm sure."
"Oh, yeah. Comp... | 2016-12-07T06:40:25 | 2016-12-07T06:10:29 | 160 | 57 |
[WP] When you ask your daughter what she wants for Christmas, she asks for a unicorn. Your wife laughs it off, but you don't. Neither your wife or daughter know that you're the best monster trapper in the world, and your daughter is getting her unicorn no matter what. | "What do you want for Christmas Cupcake?" I asked.
She twisted her foot, how cute. I knew the answer of course, I had paid attention. She was absolutely enamored with unicorns, she's been drawing them for months, and has read every book in the library on the subject. Her pre-k teacher was amazed that she was powering ... | Night descended on the mountain in a rush, revealing an immaculate display of starlight. The forest was quiet, save for the sporadic cackling of a dying fire. The flames danced melodically, the sole companion of the trapper Garrix Madhorn. The roasted grouse sat well in his stomach, and he relaxed, thinking of home.
... | 2018-12-07T17:57:45 | 2018-12-07T15:01:36 | 92 | 66 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | The young man woke early on May 27th. It was his 16th Birthday, and today he would find out two very important names. Two names to surely be intertwined with the rest of his life. He was excited, and scared at the same time.
He stared out of the window of his Manor House looking across the grounds. He knew he was bor... | Everyone eventually finds someone, its just an unwritten law of this world that you will. Well not unwritten, cause its literally on your wrist. Though everyone also stays away from someone, that one person whom they dread the most. These are the anomalies of this realm, and everyone acknowledges their existence... Wel... | 2020-01-18T23:49:54 | 2020-01-18T22:49:37 | 264 | 68 |
[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... | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 432 | 181 |
[WP] Leonardo DiCaprio is actually an evil warlock who needs to obtain a rare mineral in order to complete a dark ritual. The only source of this mineral is found inside an Academy Award. You are part of an ancient order sworn to deny Leonardo an Academy Award, at any cost.
Gee this blew up! These are great responses ... | "Dude we didn't even nominate him for The Departed. This is going to start to look sketchy."
"He got nominated for Blood Diamond that year, and besides, Forest Whitaker was amazing in the Last Kin-"
"There are absolutely zero black people in Scotland. Now or ever. Anyone who complained, we called them a racist... | It has been so long since this battle began, a game of sorts
He can conquer the world, if he wins this metal
I am the last of us, after me, there will be no one left
For so long I have denied him his precious metal, for so long have I fought
However, the time is finally at hand, he will complete his ritual, the met... | 2016-01-19T00:40:23 | 2016-01-18T22:37:40 | 86 | 13 |
[WP] Start your story with a sentence that is genuinely happy and upbeat, no double meanings. End it with the same sentence, but this time it's chilling, dark, and horrifying.
[deleted] | Life with her is so bright and loving like the color pink.
I see her everyday wearing some variety of the color. And I get so insanely nervous to speak to her. What if she thought I was weird or too forward with how much I liked her? Everyday I see her and I wonder what it would be like to feel her hold me. What it w... | I love to cook with children.
I have always loved them.
They are so innocent. So pure.
Today I’m making my special dish and 4 year old Toby will join me.
It was easy to lure him over with the promise of a fluffy rabbit.
It was even easier to twist his little neck and chop him into little pieces for the stew.
I ... | 2018-04-24T01:07:59 | 2018-04-23T23:56:08 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | I stared down the barrel of a gun. "Convince me why I shouldn't kill you." Now at this point the killer expected me to grovel and beg. To plead on why he was secretly some good person, or try to empathise with his situation, try to make some friendship. No. He was a garbage person, only fragments of what might have bee... | It was hard to breath. Not because I was being choked todeath, although I'm sure that'd happen in the next few minutes. The man stops in front of me, however, and he begin to speak. "Why. Why should I not kill you?" My mouth fell ajar. What the hell? What kind of serial killer is this guy?
I take a deep breath, trying... | 2017-10-07T09:05:38 | 2017-10-07T07:51:57 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] The world exists just as it is, except that hardly anyone speaks because anything spoken immediately becomes true. | The only words heard most days were the pleasantries that lubricated the world of civilisation. "Good morning," "Good afternoon," "Sleep well" and "I'm fine, how are you?"
Larger comments like "There's no more war" were contradicted by "I'm king of the world" which in turn was finished by "The world is how it was exc... | Clementine smiled. "Daddy we're going to win the lottery tonight, won't we?"
"We will now," her father smiled, taking a sip from his coffee. "Is there anything else you'd like?"
"Ooh! The oceans. They're now made of jello and it rains gummy bears from now on," she spoke with glee.
| 2015-10-04T01:49:24 | 2015-10-04T01:17:49 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Write erotica of hilariously bad quality.
An example of what I'm looking for would be something like this:
She flopped onto the breakfast table like a wet sock, her eyes bulging with desire. Her body was covered in nudity. "I bet I can eat more pancakes than you," she coughed, lustily.
Have fun!
EDIT: I did a ... | "Aww yes, boy! Slap that little meat-schlong into my piehole!"
Chocolate-colored skin, dark as tree sap found on some filthy elementary school playground, flopped about atop the mesh hammock. The skinny white man heaved and slammed against the woman, moaning like a flamingo in an oven. Hot, filthy sweat filled the roo... | Jess gazed at Jorge like a fat person would gaze at a cheap, all you can eat buffet.
"take me to dream town" Jorge said seductively as he loosened his overalls and threw off his hat.
Jess wiggled like pleasure, like a tapeworm would wiggle if it felt pleasure. Jorge climbed onto the race car bed and threw off Jess' ov... | 2015-02-16T10:00:52 | 2015-02-16T09:59:07 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | We had been running from the hatchet wielding man for what felt like miles. After I managed to jimmy the door to the campground office, my fiancé ran in and locked the door behind her. My pleas fell on Sarah’s deaf ears. Slumping to the ground, I felt the driving rain on my already soaked pajamas. Betrayed and conf... | "What?"
"I asked if you're okay, what with that sunnuvabitch just leaving you out here to the hands of a murderer."
My chest heaves as I gulp in as much air as I could. Everything felt hazy, and I couldn't even point my finger as to where the hell am I. All I knew was that Francis just shut the door on my face, and n... | 2020-10-10T11:36:21 | 2020-10-10T11:29:05 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | The news was out.
It was official that Super Guy and Super Girl were going to have a baby together. The two superheros that continually save the world were going to pass on both of their genes to one child! Everyday, the hype would build more and more.
Shows and movies started coming out on the Super Baby when he wa... | After weeks of making phone calls we finally found someone that could open the safe. They arrived around 9am and by 7 that evening the doors started to move. The lock had finally freed but the hinges were off balance and the doors would not open more than a inch. The locksmith went to his truck to get his pry-bar. Sudd... | 2014-12-21T18:12:08 | 2014-12-21T18:01:37 | 645 | 13 |
[WP] A worldwide, nuclear war has left Earth with no drinkable water. The only thing safe enough to drink is beer, forcing humanities' remaining survivors to exist in a state of perpetual drunkenness.
Based off of this TIL post: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6gvflq/til_the_us_goverment_set_a_bunch_of... | "I haven't had anything to drink in like two months, man," Bill said. The group of five of them sat outside the Growler's encampment carrying bows and swords. His mouth was dry enough for his mouth to stick together between each syllable. "I'm fucking thirsty."
"Just relax man," Rick, the leader of the group, said. He... | It was a few years ago. *Hiccup* I remember it clearer than I do the past week. It was the Koreans I tell you! Those damn slit eyed bastards, them did launch those atom bombs and the rest of em countries followed. It don't matter no more, ain't no more countries, or cities, and the only damn thing to drink is beer! ... | 2017-06-12T22:00:19 | 2017-06-12T20:49:33 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You are creating an account on the internet. You are asked to do the 'I am not a robot' test, but you fail. You try once more, but you fail it again. Soon enough you've failed it 100 times, and you are getting concerned. | So many people toiling away. Making accounts. This is my job, you see, to be making accounts. I've done this for years, and I've made accounts across so many platforms. MySpace, Neopets, Club Penguin, Adam and Eve, anything.
There are thousands, like me, making accounts. This is the first time I've "failed" to make an... | "Ok guys," Said Mr. McGreggor waving his hands dramatically "It's time to log into the online portal and create a new account."
Simone looked at the sheet of paper with instructions. It said to go to the website, and create a username using the first initial and last name. She raised her hand, "Mr. McGreggor!"
Mr. Mc... | 2019-07-07T23:44:17 | 2019-07-07T16:54:41 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | Valentine knocked back the glass of scotch as the yacht cruised down the Adriatic Sea. "I do believe it is your turn, Jr. Valentine." The grey bearded man smiled in a carefree manner as he lit his cigar and watched Venice disappear over the horizon.
"No need to be hasty Mr. Wednesday. They may say that time is money b... | I remember last week when they initiated me.
I was not rich, not popular, and not gong to tell anyone they existed. That's strange, they had no requirement to the godlike status of mankind. I was their newest pet member for only a week. But a member indeed.
They were impressed how well i could fend for myself in... | 2016-08-23T15:31:33 | 2016-08-23T15:28:52 | 1,659 | 12 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalypse world, only a few survivors remain. You’re doing everything you can to help them cause if the last human dies, you die too. They can’t see you but they feel you presence and noticed your efforts. They’ve started calling you ‘life’. | "That's Life, that's what all the people say..."
Or, they would, if there was any left who remember it. I've always loved that Sinatra tune. Ironic, I know, but it's the little things you learn to appreciate over an eternity. I was a little nervous when I met him, actually, though probably not as nervous as he was now... | I took this job because it was literally as easy as dying. Now I actually have to work. It sucks.
Now, dying isn't completely effortless. Many, many people attempt and fail to suicide. It takes minimal planning and zero hesitance, but it's doubtlessly possible unless you're a quadriplegic. Jumping off of stuff and bul... | 2019-10-19T22:10:12 | 2019-10-19T21:02:17 | 50 | 35 |
[WP] You live in a world were everyone picks a superpower when they turn 18, however the more popular a superpower becomes the less effective it is for everyone. So the more unique powers become the strongest. It's now your 18th Birthday. | This world is going to hell in a hand basket. When everyone is extremely powerful, no one is. People always go after the usual suspects. Super strength. Super speed. Ability to fly. Invisibility. Ability to set fires. Telekinesis.
No one ever stops to think if we really need these powers.
We, as a species have gott... | The Power Registrar blinked. It seemed he had been hoping for an easy assignment today. But I had been working on the wording of this power since I had finished my Power Studies GCSE two years ago. I knew how it works. The more people who own a power, the thinner that power is spread. Seers had been reduced to predict... | 2019-09-24T05:56:59 | 2019-09-24T05:42:46 | 147 | 35 |
[WP] You are a villain who grows in power whenever someone says your name. The only problem is everyone mispronounces it. | She stood on the balcony outside her apartment, luxuriating in the crisp bite in the air. She could feel it slide along her bare arms, her exposed face.
*Tonight is the night*, she thought.
She bounced on the balls of her feet, scanning the street below. *Soon*, she thought, *so soon.*
As she watched, she kept an e... | "I'm sorry, what did you say your name was?" the clerk asked.
"Nos-ferrrrrrrrrr-atoooooo, you must roll ze r." the dark man replied.
The clerk scratched his head confused.
"Is it foreign? I'm sorry I just can't roll those r's like that. You know high school spanish was especially..."
"NOSFERATU, DIMWIT," the man scr... | 2018-02-25T14:54:01 | 2018-02-25T14:38:00 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] You're that guy that always "knows a guy." Literally. No matter what someone is asking for, you automatically know the person that can help them. | "Rebecca, do you know anyone that can get my house painted for cheap?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll get him in a little while. See you." I sighed as I hung up with Joe. This was a usual happening. Whenever someone needed somebody, I could get them. As a Summoner, I could find anyone for anything. This gift, mind you, was not of ... | Most people thinks it’s a big deal that Jake knows everyone. It really wasn’t. He dealt with it everyday.
“Does anyone know a painter?” Someone would ask
“I know a guy.” Jake always sighed
Everyone needed somebody to do something. Jake always knew a guy. No one questioned it. Everyone has friends, everyone knew at leas... | 2019-06-21T11:30:05 | 2019-06-21T10:22:22 | 94 | 12 |
[WP] "So yea, I'm kind of a chicken magnet." "Don't you mean chick magnet?" *Distant Bawking Intensifies* "We've gotta go, NOW!" | I'd been running for days.
Public transportation, friends cars that I wouldn't be able to give back now, and finally, my own two feet. I was worn out, but I couldn't give in to those... beasts. They didn't care were I hid, they always found me. They pecked through windows, built bridges across small bodies of water. I... | The princess, after she graciously warned us about the calamity, foretold by prophecies older than the land itself, has made efforts to barricade villages and deployed patrols to the kingdom for any signs of evil.
Animals, also, have felt the shift of the world as well, being more restless than ever. The fae have been... | 2020-01-09T23:52:09 | 2020-01-09T22:45:47 | 862 | 31 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | “They can’t milk you if there is nothing to take.”
I’ll never forget my mother burning this into my brain as soon as I was old enough to understand English.
“Your survival depends on learning not to fear, and unfortunately there is only one way to train you.”
I shivered. My mother’s stern voice alone scared the eve... | De'cras slowly emerged from the shadows, with bags carrying humans knocked out from his synthesizer.
"Three humans, male, fully grown. Expected fury output of 10,000 units for the next 5 years."
Letting out a grin from one of his twin heads, De'cras sized upon his merchant, a representative of a huge galactic conglo... | 2018-03-19T01:26:35 | 2018-03-18T21:03:42 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] You have a superpower where the harder a solid is the easier it is for you to break. Diamonds crumble to dust under the slightest touch but mashed potatoes are virtually unbreakable. | "HAHAHAHA" i couldn't help laugh. The police were everyhere. POP POP POP. three little plumes of dust roll off my chest as they fire their guns. The bullets crumble as they touch me. "There is no way they can stop me, I'm indestructible!" I think to myself as I begin to walk away. I kick a squad car for good measure, ... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/bestof] [\/u\/Probably\_juzme writes an amazing meta short story based on an obscure writing prompt](https://np.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/6c1v7i/uprobably_juzme_writes_an_amazing_meta_short/)
[](#footer)*^(If you fol... | 2017-05-19T04:32:27 | 2017-05-18T23:04:07 | 84 | 22 |
[WP] Shortly after we finally develop the cure for aging and disease, the third world war throws humanity back into the Dark Ages. The cure was lost in the war, but immortals live amongst the survivors. | Rhys sucked down the fetid water and hissed through his teeth. Honestly, he'd gotten used to the taste years ago - but it was a habit he'd picked up in the early days and maintained ever since. Must have been because of the comfort people get from routine.
As he crouched at the river, he surveyed the wreckage of the... | Who would have thought, When they first came out with a cure for all disease, I thought it was hoax, but it would be such a good meme. It was like a generic miracle drink from the old west, well old west is now in where china was at the time, and chine is where England use to be, stupid tectonic bombs. Never thought ge... | 2018-10-25T09:05:58 | 2018-10-25T08:19:42 | 21 | 12 |
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