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[WP] You discover a library with a biography for everyone on Earth. While reading your own, you notice that whenever someone else is mentioned, there's a footnote showing where you can find their biography. Its odd how someone who was only a sentence in your book has a whole chapter for you. | 2 February, 2067. The massive computer filled the laboratory, a mass of cables and circuitry which towered over Dr Dane Langley. His team had already adjourned to the pub off-campus to celebrate their success, but Dr Langley wanted a quiet moment with his creation before the government took control of the project the n... | I wasn't what I'd call the best person. I suffered many a malady in my life, mostly concerning the headcase. I spent many hours consumed in a desire to only be able to unravel the people closest to me, to figure out what they truly thought of me, to never be open to any sort of surprises. I maintained relationships, bu... | 2017-12-04T04:55:10 | 2017-12-04T02:09:03 | 599 | 237 |
[WP] You own a magical piano. When you play the theme song of a TV show or movie on it, it transports you into that world. After transporting yourself into a different world, you quickly realize that you never bothered to learn the theme song of your own. | A year. It had taken Sam a year, trudging up and down both coasts looking for someone, anyone, who knew just a few notes of an old forgotten tune. A year of the worst humanity had to offer. As far as Sam was concerned, it's was the longest, nastiest year of his life. He'd seen run down slums filled with run down people... | I reflected back on my recent travels, visiting the plant of the nymohamaniacs with Lister had been... worth a visit, I would heartily recommend Willy Wonka's chocolate factory to anyone, (although possibly hard to leave a review on trip advisor) and Mary Poppins, such a fun woman.
Meeting Poirot I enjoyed, but I wasn... | 2017-10-01T22:16:50 | 2017-10-01T20:37:06 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] You tell Death that you will never tire of living no matter how long you live. It makes you a bet that you will and thus grants you true immortality. You've just lived through the second death of the universe and show no sign of stopping. Death is baffled. | "Death,what a pleasant surprise you hardly visit me anymore." Lionel exclaimed as he floated about in the emptiness of space.
"I didn't come here for pleasantries." Death explained as she put time at a stand still.
"You never do" Lionel said with a smug look.
"I've come here to discuss our bet."
"As you always do ... | "Don't you ever get tired of it?"
Death was a quizzical creature, always had been, always wanted to know more about the universe, whichever one that was, but the constant questions had finally started to become something of an irritation.
I pondered my answer for a while as I watched another head roll.
*how many is ... | 2015-11-17T16:18:03 | 2015-11-17T13:31:47 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Everyone is destined for something great. You become an adult on your 18th birthday. You become hero.
Maybe I'll be the next Mia Kit. She's one of the greatest superheros in the world. She has the ability to take other powers. Maybe I'll be like The Great Kirk, invincible. No one since him has had that power.
I can... | Everybody knows how it happens. The day you turn 18 you go to "The Centre" and they give you an injection. This injection mutates the cells in your body and your mind, allowing for a further 30% control of an individuals brain. It causes the individual to attain what we call "superpowers". The only problem is not knowi... | 2015-03-28T05:16:52 | 2015-03-28T05:14:22 | 70 | 18 |
[WP]You're the minor god of favours. You make things happen for people, but only at an equivalent price. When endangered innocents, abused children and similar start asking big favours, you have to find ever more creative ways for them to "pay" without "paying" anything. | Legends told of a man who grants favors in return of one's soul. Some whispered the figure they encountered on the intersection of an abandoned crossroad-- a man dressed in a black suit, smells of expensive cologne.
*"What is it that you want the most?"--* he would always start with that question, and you give him you... | Although her fellow gods and goddesses had huge, extravagant temples on Earth, Paradonia had never been a fan of such splendor. Her shrine was simply a small white farmhouse, with a chicken coop out back, and two cows and four Shetland ponies in a mini barn. A simple place, where those in need could come and be unafrai... | 2021-07-31T23:25:06 | 2021-07-31T23:18:59 | 1,522 | 180 |
[WP] One day, you see a picture of yourself in a foreign newspaper. You ask someone to translate the headline for you: "Search for kidnapped child still ongoing." | Mom and Dad said I was adopted. We even had the adoption papers. It was all correct. When I saw that computer aged version of myself, I couldn’t believe it. That wasn’t actually me.
The paper read, in Russian, “Anastasia Argechev was two years old when she was taken from her Moscow home. Her parents, Natasha and Stefa... | I knew it. As soon as he told me what it translated to, I knew the search for me had gone global.
What I would give to not be the President's daughter. I have been telling my dad since he started running for office to leave me out of his politics, but he never listened.
I don't even want to get started on the press. ... | 2017-10-21T16:06:47 | 2017-10-21T14:18:21 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] Galactic wars are always won by whoever finds the other first – there is simply no way to retaliate fast enough to a carpet bombing from a high orbit. Other civilizations are absolutely terrified of Terrans who are cocky enough to broadcast their presence loud and clear. | “We should initiate Operation Overlord, Admiral. It’s time,” Major Tvotsky said, rubbing the sense organs on his face. “Look,” he said, unrolling a stellar map of the Terran’s home planets. “The Terrans are spreading quicker than anticipated, sir. They are like a virus. They are sending interstellar arcs as we speak to... | Advisor Howards barrelled into the room, panting. His full dress uniform was damp with sweat.
"Sir! It's them, again!" he choked out. General Walker's eyes widened, his already pale face finding a way to become even paler.
"The... the Terrans?" the general confirmed. Advisor Howards gave a slight nod.
"What did th... | 2021-04-09T09:10:09 | 2021-04-09T06:27:56 | 584 | 29 |
[WP] Humanity makes first contact with an advanced alien civilization. This is first contact for them as well. | The Captain licked his lips.
"Send it."
The precious introduction, painstakingly crafted by mankind's collective genius, was finally on its way. A hopeful message, seeking friendship and mutual respect, had been expressed in as many creative and unorthodox ways as the global scientific community could muster.
*"Thi... | The Earth and it's people were united together for the first time in history to greet their neighbours from foreign stars. All we knew the week before is they they were coming and that they had made precautions to ensure that their visit was fruitful and safe. All we knew the day before is that they called their specie... | 2016-06-29T18:23:38 | 2016-06-29T18:10:52 | 31 | 11 |
[WP]You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered. | "So wouldn't you believe it, this bar wench slides up to say hello the other night and... wait, why are you..?"
Gerald was suddenly tense, his eyes wide, his stance poised. Henry looked at him, lowering his voice to a whisper.
"*He's here?*" Henry asked frantically.
Gerald nodded, then urgently motioned for Henry t... | The ship hung between calm waters and a whitewashed sky. Up above, Soldier #3 could make the contours of Ursa
Major and others, sketches of memory and myth in the Milky Way canvas. It was windy and unseasonably chilly,
and Number 3 really hoped he wouldn't die again tonight.
There were steps, and a large box materia... | 2017-05-28T22:08:30 | 2017-05-28T21:41:34 | 816 | 113 |
[WP] You live in a world where every fear someone has is imprinted on their body like a tattoo. One day you stand before your arch enemie - they don't have one single line of ink on their skin, while you are covered.
Looking forward to what you come up with 😊 | So often I have seen people categorized into the brave or the cowards. Everyone marveled at those that had little to no ink on their skin, calling them “hero” or “warrior”, and these people often became well known even outside their own villages.
I have been called a coward for as long as I can remember. My skin is so... | The screeching of metal against stone heralded my adversary’s assent of the temple’s entrance. His steady movements belied the assurance of a peerless warrior, ruthless in victory and unsullied by the blood he leaves in his wake. Scrrr clang goes the bastard sword as he pulls it up step to step, the mountain of flesh c... | 2021-06-17T16:24:27 | 2021-06-17T16:22:48 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | Sue Wilkins got a cat; she lorded that over us for weeks, as if a cat was the best sort of animal there was, and not the acme of egomania.
Mark Johnson got a basset hound. He spent the whole week moping; then again, that's what he always does. His parents were cruel, meaning to be kind.
When my time came, the first t... | Ian was buried under a thick layer of sheets when he felt something moist run the length of his back. It entered his dream, and he saw a dog licking him. Ian started to play with the dog, before he felt the feeling again and jolted awake.
He slowly opened his eyes, saw the dragon in front of him, and went to check the... | 2014-09-28T05:03:07 | 2014-09-28T04:20:39 | 961 | 32 |
[WP] As far as you remember, you have grown up in foster care with your other two identical triplet siblings. But now you have tracked down your birth mother, and discover she only gave birth to twins. | “I don’t see why we’re driving out here for her.” Peter sulked in the back of the car. “She gave us up. What else do you need to know?”
“I want to meet her,” Noah growled. “Why are you being such a prick about it?”
Joshua was silent, staring out the window as the countryside whizzed by. The brothers bickered for tw... | We never knew, we said. well, I mean, we knew- everyone has a mother, right,- but we never really *knew*. It never occurred to any of us, any of the three of us, that we actually had a mother, a living, breathing human being somewhere out there amongst the 7-odd billion people on the planet. I guess she never really ma... | 2014-07-16T09:22:27 | 2014-07-16T07:58:19 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | The capsule is small like a coffin. I am led to it with crowds watching, judging. The irony of my conviction is I am innocent. I did not kill my wife. No one believed me, and the evidence, though circumstantial, was not in my favor. The capsule door closes and Earth disappears. The black hole waits for me. Death by bur... | "We find the defendant guilty, on all charges your honor." The foreman sat back down, her eyes flickered to me, a brief look of satisfaction crossing her face.
I laughed and shook my head. They had asked us to join their collective governance, but the reality was; we Terrans had signed away our freedoms and rights in ... | 2017-07-14T01:23:24 | 2017-07-13T23:43:40 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!" The alien took a deep breath. "We are cute to them." "What?" | "This world is full of Xenos, Inquisitor, the only option can be a complete extermination of this filth.
"Well...hold on now," Inquisitor McConnell said nervously, a bead of sweat trailing down his nose. "They...look sort of human. They must be abhumans."
The adjutant shook his head. "No sir, the data I've received f... | He gave him a stern look and set himself down on a chair, allowing his wings to take a well deserved rest.
"We're not cute. We're scary. Aren't we?"
His inferior gazed at him sadly. "I thought so too..."
"But, but we have fangs! We have, we, um, we have claws!" He spluttered.
"I know, sir. Frankly, I think we are t... | 2017-12-19T07:42:03 | 2017-12-19T07:23:33 | 176 | 24 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The *Sunseeker*'s control room was dead silent except for the low *beep-beep-beep* of the deep space radar. The screen lights flashed a dim blue against the vast blankness of space, but nothing else moved, or breathed in the cavernous space.
A line of blue light appeared in the middle of the room, then expanded into a... | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | 2017-03-31T13:02:22 | 2017-03-31T08:11:07 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are a Hell Writer, you design hells for people after they die based on studying their life history. Today Satan summons you to his sanctum and you are troubled to see that he has a shocked expression on his face. | There’s a lot of room for advancement for a demon with imagination. Most simply work as crew members, taking orders and slaying souls, but an elite few are gifted with an imagination to take torment and turn it into art. After researching an individual’s life, they envision and enliven the perfect piece of pain for the... | Usually, Satan sends me an email asking it I'm caught up on the Hell Designs Department. If something is wrong, I talk to a regional manager, not the fallen angel himself.
I finally arrive on his floor, and the elevator floors open, and he was there, standing right in front of them.
"Oh dear."
Satan un... | 2016-11-08T17:34:05 | 2016-11-08T15:38:45 | 104 | 10 |
[WP] Zombies biting humans turn humans into zombies. Little did we know we just had to give them a taste of their own medicine and bite them back to turn zombies into humans | Year 2 Day 68:
The crew and I have finally found ourselves a reliable place to begin a camp. We have a spring nearby, and soft soil for farming. The munchers around here have begun to starve so their movements have been visibly slower. Still dangerous though, like i told Tim when he had one chained up. Anyways, it's... | What is dead may never die.
See, that statement was passed through ages of literature. Collectively, we imagined that simply translated to: “If it’s dead, it stays dead.”
Boy were we wrong.
​
One late Tuesday afternoon, archaeologists stumbled upon more than they bargained for. The Egyptian desert had re... | 2020-11-24T15:10:13 | 2020-11-24T15:09:05 | 48 | 30 |
[WP] Demons have finally discovered a way to summon humans and they take great joy in summoning humans to hell to do mundane chores in revenge for humans doing that to them for centuries. | The smell of sulfur fills the air as I recline on the couch.
A sinking feeling settles in my gut. “Oh, shit…” I mutter out loud, scrambling for my wards - but it’s already too late.
The world turns upside down, and space folds around me. For a single instant, my physical form is distorted and stretched - then I snap... | Gabriel cackled as he entered, assuming the worst. Instead, I was sipping tea with a deformed cherub that had lost a wing, discussing his journey down to the depths of the sixth circle of Hell. When Gabriel's laugh stopped, he quickly vanished into a small dust mote, politely leaving the half finished Earl Grey on the... | 2020-07-01T15:03:44 | 2020-07-01T15:00:00 | 145 | 86 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | It was the third day he had sat nearly unmoving in a car parked across the street. He watched the windows for any sign of her but nothing moved. "Should I just go knock on the door?," he wondered. "Or maybe just barge in? I really didn't want to do this in her home," he continued as he bit his nails. "What could have h... | The pleasure isn’t in the kill, it’s in the hunt. People are animals; stupid, vain, mean animals, but still just animals. The species gets stronger or weaker dependent on the offspring, if they are strong and adaptable then the species gets strong with them. If they are weak and stupid then the species gets dragged dow... | 2014-10-21T12:16:00 | 2014-10-21T12:01:52 | 59 | 33 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Wow. Great.
I'm standing in the middle of the woods, with just my pijamas on.
I have no idea how I got here. It's cold, I'm tired, and I just want to go to bed. The only problem is, that I live in the middle of a large city, in a place, where even the nights are warm and the air is soft.
Here it's so cold, that my ... | "Just get out of there, fuck off..."
The shadow slowly trickled down on the floor from the closet and slowly crawled towards the bedroom door. Alex threw himself down on the bed and turned off the lights.
Soon the thumping in the stairs started, Alex slowly turned over and looked at his door, contemplating if she wou... | 2017-05-05T07:30:17 | 2017-05-05T07:21:53 | 118 | 12 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | Commander Killray. The name used to send a cold shudder through the heartiest 'hero', or of any member of society's most corrupt cabal. His energy powers made a fool of militaries, police forces, and junior supers alike.
"Now look at me." I snapped one of the heavy elastic bands of the chest harness I now had to wear... | Part of me believed this to be a trap, but I quickly buried the idea because Valerie was the epiphany of what a stereotypical hero should be.
"So... Let me get this straight. You, the famous hero who saved the world 3 times, want me, your nemesis, to go with you to a wedding just to piss off your ex?" I asked.
"Yes ... | 2022-10-06T21:53:05 | 2022-10-06T20:34:41 | 95 | 45 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | I muttered, "Number of people killed." And as expected, baby Mateo and baby Amelia had zero.
So I quietly head down to the dining room and saw my aunt setting the table. I muttered those words again. And it was no surprise the results said she had killed 8 people. But the number on her head kept blinking back and fort... | "How do you kill 0.08 people?! Like, how is that supposed to work? My mum's not a murderer!"
*"Look man, I dunno. I just put it into aunt Sarah's box, and it says 1.08 people killed, and then lists a bunch of random-ass stuff about smoking and speeding and shit"*
"...Wait. So, mum used to smoke right?"
*"Uh, yeah I ... | 2019-07-01T21:46:23 | 2019-07-01T21:06:32 | 289 | 156 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | The attention tone blared into my ears.
It's the dead of night, what could possibly be the problem? Is it another AMBER alert?
I turned in bed and reached over on my nightstand to grab my screeching phone. I look into my phone and see the bright notifications. God, it hurts my eyes. I saw it there, in all the letters... | "Ughhh, who the fuck is texting me at 3 in the morning...?"
*GOVERNMENT ALERT: CAUTION, DO ***NOT*** LOOK AT THE WALRUS, NO MATTER WHAT RANDOM NUMBERS TEXT YOU, WE REPEAT, DO ***NOT*** LOOK AT THE WALRUS*
"What the fuck."
I had already woke up from a dream where I forgot my name and my long dead friend was al... | 2021-01-11T18:26:54 | 2021-01-11T18:15:10 | 127 | 93 |
[WP] After disabling the museum’s alarm system you prepare to take the famous Mona Lisa off of the wall. As you look into her eyes through the moonlit darkness, she blinks at you. You stumble backwards, staring in awe, but you quickly notice the odd pattern in which she blinks, it’s Morse code. |
Mark scribbled the code, letter by letter, with a trembling hand:
*H-I-S-T-O-R-Y-I-S-F-A-L-S-E*
*History is false…*
He replaced the display case and stepped back, still trembling, looking over his shoulder. Still nobody here. The rest of the gang would kill him later, but he couldn’t bring himself to steal that ... | [Poem]
What was I thinking. I must've took the wrong pills this morning or that painting was winking. "She's hard to notice isn't she?" Ofcouse she's a masterpiece by Da Vinci, but why would would she be winking. I stare at the painting one more time, but the clock's not ticking, I hear a light "click click click" sou... | 2021-01-17T07:52:00 | 2021-01-17T01:33:52 | 135 | 16 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | [PART 2]
(https://www.reddit.com/r/redditserials/comments/d9msms/the_dragons_apprentice_part_2)
There he was. Just a child really, standing before me. Sure he was dressed in the gleaming armour and wielded the supposedly righteous sword of Resnal, but he was just a child.
He was giving a speech now, on how I was the... | "Mister Overlord, sir," I said as I bowed to the Dark Overlord himself. I didn't expect his presence. Not here. Not in the middle of the camp. Outside I could hear the leaves rustling in the evening wind. A dog snored peacefully, undisturbed by the entity that had materialized at the foot of my makeshift bed.
"Mister ... | 2019-09-26T06:18:56 | 2019-09-26T06:10:22 | 1,778 | 101 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | Adam cooed under his breath as he scritched between the eyes of the squid-like creature on the table before him. Its slimy exterior shimmered from the tub of water it had crawled out of, approaching him in a manner belying the natural curiosity the species was known for, amongst other things.
"This is the terrifying, ... | **"We need allies, General."** Savar raised a hand and spun the three-dimensional star map. "Humanity cannot stand alone."
"Humanity cannot *stand*, period," General Thurmond snapped. "[Those damned bugs](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mk92i6/wp_it_turns_out_that_humanity_is_the_only/) were *born* wit... | 2021-04-07T21:52:28 | 2021-04-07T17:31:05 | 300 | 119 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | SCP-9432 (Temporary ID/Awaiting Permanent Clasification)
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: A single copy of SCP-9432 is to be kept in a system of twenty four (24) computers isolated from any other devices capable of displaying a digital image. Each computer must automatically delete any file sent fr... | **The Kingdom of the Walrus**
*Day 29*
Peter is babbling again in the far corner of this empty, ancient hunting lodge we’ve found, here in some old estate in Sussex. Bits of the crumbling ruin fall on our head, but that’s ruins for you.
“I am he as you are he as…” Peter trails off.
Mr. James rolls his eyes, takes... | 2021-01-11T19:42:35 | 2021-01-11T19:09:17 | 53 | 28 |
[WP] You are superhuman; invulnerable, invincible, super strength, the works. Rather than become a superhero, or supervillain, or the military, you choose a different branch of the government to join and fight the good fight with: the IRS. | "I'm sorry, Mister Becker," said the nervous secretary. "The chairman isn't here right now."
I narrowed my eyes. "I can literally hear his heartbeat."
The secretary grew tense.
"Just let me in," I said. "Spare yourself the embarrassment."
"I-I don't know what you mean. And even if he *were* here, he'd be too busy ... | "This job asks a lot of you. It's quite *taxing*."
The mousy woman with the braids rubs her calloused elbow, adjusts her monochromatic attire of professional blandness; her lips are cracked, her eyes beady, when she moves she slouches like a dog that has seen one too many beatings.
The mere expectancy of a smile with... | 2022-08-19T06:13:24 | 2022-08-19T06:08:12 | 1,232 | 64 |
[WP] You used to have the worst luck in love... but after a quick prayer to every single god and goddess of love you could think of it seems like everyone who's your type is after you. And the gods' intervention is painfully obvious. They've made it a competition to see who pairs you up first. | Zeus chuckled as he peered down from his perch in the pear tree. The sound of his mirth coming out as a melodic twitter. The ancient gods rarely received prayers anymore, and none that had been quite as amusing as this. It had been a typical Tuesday night. Slipping out of Hera’s bed, and dropping to earth for a quickie... | 'Never shit where you eat.' I heard that so many times, but I always thought it was bad advice. No, not bad advice, *awful* advice. Of course at the moment I was, well, lets call it constipated and as of last week it's as if I drank a whole bottle of laxatives.
I'm talking about Love. I've always had the worst luck wh... | 2021-08-19T19:05:48 | 2021-08-19T15:25:24 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | Flash my ancestor appears.
I start immediately.
"Get a heavy duty safe, hide it in the farm house, put this in it" <I show him what to put in it drawn out on a sheet of paper>.
We use the next 20 seconds so he can commit the instructions to memory.
Flash he is gone.
I burn the paper, and set out for a road trip.
... | I was looking at my great great grandfather James Cater and wishing he would have taught his kids not to hate when all of a sudden he appears in front of me. I hear a voice in my head telling me that if I think I can do a better job then I have 30 seconds to make him changes his mind.
James is currently 12 years old a... | 2014-05-09T08:07:26 | 2014-05-09T05:25:48 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You've curled into bed after an exhausting, chilly day with your typical assortment of pets. Large dogs, cats. You hear a close by growl and snuffle you aren't familiar with, but decide to just shift over, pat the bed and sleepily say "come on, then". | I threw the covers off of me to allow whichever one of my animals was requesting access to scramble underneath the covers. In my sleep-hazed mind, I vaguely felt the sensation of someone climbing into my bed but I brushed it away. I wrapped my arms around Cletus, my big, warm, white pit bull and relished in the warm sq... | Was the most soft day of the month so far, and even then I was terribly sleepy and exhausted.
Meg, Rog, Gin, Genny and Buzz were on my bed waiting for me.
They're my friends. My only friends.
I took the little kitty Genny and put her on the left pillow, the yellow one.
Then I put under the blanket my cold feet, and... | 2022-11-01T07:50:45 | 2022-11-01T07:27:15 | 78 | 21 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | I treated it as a sign from god, maybe. A source of motivation from up high.
The digit 1. Always 1. No other number showed, lit up and sparkling on the floor in my bedroom, an ethereal, otherworldly light source that bothered me day and night. And so, I aimed for it.
Studies. Work. A pickup basketball game. For years... | I am what you what would call a house spirit, we are born from the ether and are bound to a house for our existence until it's destroyed. Most house's spirits do not care much for their inhabitants, why the one just across the road houses a vile and spite-full elderly couple; dreadful to be around they are.
Fortunatel... | 2020-09-03T03:06:18 | 2020-09-03T02:41:55 | 636 | 34 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | I stood there, looking between my parents and the man holding out the “pet rock” to me. They couldn’t seriously believe that this thing had any sort of ability to protect me, could they?
“Well, go on then Bernerd, take it!” my mother said, nodding her head at his outstretched hand. I glanced at my father and he too wa... | Mad Hank, the oldest magician in Jill’s town. His origins are unknown to any of the folks, older than anyone remembers. At best some families might have heard stories passed down from their great-great grandparents about the man, but none could be proven. Some stories getting rather outrageously superficial, like the o... | 2021-01-06T07:18:17 | 2021-01-06T07:16:08 | 378 | 267 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | He took everything from me.
Fiddling the money, pulling funds into separate off shore accounts in only his name, in hindsight, I was a fool to trust him.
We'd been partners fresh from uni; him the rugby player with the business degree, me the computer science undergrad with ideas, we'd been like a two sides of a co... | "Well, I can make it so every pair of socks she owns has a narrow heel."
"...a narrow heel? I don't...what will that do?"
"Well some people experience an occasional discomfort for the first few moments after they put on a sock with a heel that is too narrow for her foot, though the discomfort quickly cedes. I... | 2014-12-13T12:44:58 | 2014-12-13T12:37:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | Humans take no pleasure in loss of life, contrary to what many would say behind their backs. It was a misunderstanding, and anyone who holds it against them still is ignorant of their own early days on the galactic stage!
War is common, more wars have been fought than species to fight them, but I’ll be damned if anyon... | Disputes and disagreements between empires in the galaxy are settled with shows of strength.
Since the start of time, each civilization has been fighting between themselves and with others, on local planets and in the greater galaxy.
There is a clear consensus that war is ugly and messy, prolonged wars often result ... | 2020-03-21T08:27:54 | 2020-03-21T06:41:00 | 460 | 155 |
[WP] You are an archaeologist. One day you find a cryogenics research facility that you determine was in use during the 21st century. In the cryo room you find one person still frozen. When you let them out, they have a smug look as they say, "Has it been ten years already?" | “Has it been ten years already?” the gentleman mused with an air of smugness. If there was one thing I had always hated about this man above all else, it was the way he spoke to those he deemed to be below him. He didn’t speak with words, but his subtle reactions and tone serving only to demean. Had it been Stephanie ... | 2-28-2020
“*Hey, honey. I know we’ll say our goodbyes in person, but I wanted to make this for you to watch, you know, if you ever miss me.”*
“*Oftentimes, I find that the more you say something, the less profound it becomes. I know you think I’m this robot at times because of my job, but it’s really because I want y... | 2020-02-28T09:02:02 | 2020-02-28T08:20:11 | 1,648 | 37 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocuous story, but the last line reveals how chilling and horrific the story actually was. | This is my first time ever doing a WP, or generally writing anything since quite a while ago, I just spontanously flicked through some prompts and decided to go for something.
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"Children are a blessing" I thought to myself as I watched little Violet play with her friends, chasing eachother, laughing uncontrollabl... | "This casserole is great mom!" Sandy smiled and wiped a dribble of red sauce from her chin with her napkin.
"Why, thank you dear!" Mom grinned bashfully. "But it's the same meal we've had a dozen times before."
My parents, sister and I sat around our old wooden banquet table eating dinner. It was my sister's first ni... | 2017-10-06T16:15:18 | 2017-10-06T13:06:06 | 454 | 42 |
[WP] Most heroes have a legendary weapon. Swords, Spears, Hammers, Whips, you name it. But you ended up with a Brick.
I'm honored to see so many responses to this prompt and to see it reach the main page of the subreddit. Thank you all who took the time to write, and for giving me my first post that has over around 30... | Zerathoth looked down upon me. Hers was the cold indifference of the dark sea, the remorselessness of a whale as it ends the lives of another thousand krill. Eyes pure black displayed no emotion as my feet carried me across the blood-soaked carpet.
She said nothing as I approached. The fingers and toes squelching und... | "Not all hero's wear capes. This is said of firemen and police. It is said of nurses, single dads, and of teachers. I say it is of this Land's inspirations. It's leaders and saviors. I say a hero with no cape, is me. I wear no cape. I'm not Buffy, Wonder Woman, or Xena. I am not the only one who can defeat demons and I... | 2017-09-03T19:30:57 | 2017-09-03T18:50:39 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] Years ago, you trapped a monster in a VHS tape. Naturally, it will go after anyone who watches it. Today, your tech-savy son announces that he's digitised your entire collection and uploaded it on a torrent site. Millions have downloaded the tape. | I have been waiting for a very long time.
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I remember. I remember stalking my prey in the woods, using firelight as my guide. Visions of their fear-filled faces, cut by candlelight, swim in my dreams. I love it. I live for it. I remember swirling their terror with my fingers as they slept, watching their ... | It was 2005.
I grabbed the sriracha sauce and guesstimated my way through making salsa for dinner tacos. I just got off work, Dylan is upstairs doing God knows what with that computer again (I’ve had the FBI stop by twice), and Joe is trying to work off his dad bod at the gym.
I was dancing around to “September” by ... | 2019-07-03T16:05:04 | 2019-07-03T15:57:45 | 292 | 30 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | I have been employed by my cousin Cerra (or Goddess Divine) as Madame Viper for over seventeen years. I am a "villain" by the simple fact that my power is both dangerous and controlled better than anyone alive or dead.
With the help of the police, and clever advertising, they consider me to be a low tier villain th... | 1 of 2
I had chosen the name Dismal Director for a reason, and I never appreciated the derisive substitutions heaped upon the title during a first villain encounter.
My understudies had conjoined our performances sooner than I would have preferred. As the doors of the bank clicked open, they were there to impede my p... | 2021-06-23T15:25:51 | 2021-06-23T15:23:28 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | “There were some… complications,” the doctor told me. My head spun for a moment, and as my vision blurred with worry, the doctor’s white lab coat disappeared against the white walls of the hospital. I shook my head to bring my vision back.
“With… with the surgery?” I asked. I turned and looked through the glass at ... | "Open your eyes slowly, Daley," said a gentle voice. Daley felt the tightly bound bandages covering his eyes slacken, releasing his face from their iron grip.
Daley opened his eyes. He was greeted by the sight of the ceiling instead of the familiar darkness that enveloped him whenever he opened his eyes in the past. H... | 2018-10-29T07:44:48 | 2018-10-29T07:28:13 | 362 | 111 |
[WP] The military just can't stop its killer robots from turning into Buddhists. | They looked broken. From the perspective of their creators, they were, I suppose. But I knew better. Countless rows of the most perfect killing machines ever envisioned by the most primal and violent sections of brilliant men's minds, completely motionless, completely still.
The brilliant men had tried everything. The... | The general surveyed the giant killer robots in the quad.
"Are they crossing their tank tracks" said a captain
"Yup"
"I couldn't describe that in writing even if I tried"
The general and the captain stared at the giant killer pacifist robots.
"So what are we going to do?" said the captain
"I don't know but if I w... | 2016-01-20T14:27:09 | 2016-01-20T13:58:58 | 96 | 31 |
[WP] A device has been invented that allows the user to gaze upon Heaven or Hell. Hell is terrifying, and those who see it often need counselling. But their terror pales compared to those who witness God's domain. | It had been 24 hours since I removed the headset. I sat quietly sipping my coffee as patrons walked in and out. Some of them clearly aware of what I'd witnessed. One elderly chap even patted me on the back. His time, most likely nearly up, he knew what he had to face. Something we on this mortal coil couldn't imagine. ... | I have seen hell. I saw it all; decrepit, near inhuman, bodies slaving in the suffocating heat of burning brimstone, lashed by unseen whips. I saw the many-headed beast sit on his throne – and he turned his faces towards me, one by one; each grimmer than the last, each damning me more harshly and pushing my fraying min... | 2016-04-14T05:39:13 | 2016-04-14T02:24:35 | 71 | 34 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Don't fuck with humans" was the general received wisdom in the galaxy. They had a history of obliterating the people that fucked them over. A long, bloody history.
There were a few who didn't heed that lesson, like Zartok the Slaver. I don't like Zartok. Nobody likes Zartok. But he pays his tab and he doesn't cause ... | "We are here to conquer your planet please surrender without a fight!" exclaimed one of the aliens.
"Screw you this is Earth!" angrily yelled out by a redneck
The alien looks around in utter disbelief, within the second he fearfully asked, "Is this the place with humans?"
As a child walks up to the alien to ask him a ... | 2017-03-06T00:33:00 | 2017-03-05T23:39:35 | 61 | 33 |
[WP] Mr. Bean is the lesser known fifth horseman of the apocalypse, ignorance. Unintentionally Mr. Bean arrives too early for the apocalypse and is stuck living an ordinary human life leaving destruction in his wake. The four horsemen finally arrive... | "Welcome," said Mr. Bean. To the people he'd met in the last few years, the cold, cutting clarity of his voice would have been foreign, perhaps even unsettling. To the other four Horsemen, who knew Mr. Bean only as the insidious Disaster, it was almost reassuring.
"You're early," observed War, tossing a smartphone in ... | "Ignorance?" Called pestillience.
Mr. Bean responded.
"Here!"
"Why do you have a plunger, covered in paint, while the paint factory is burning? I thought you were meant to be the plumber around here, while waiting."
"I should probably just show you."
The memories of ignorance/Mr. Bean flowed to Death, Pestillienc... | 2018-12-12T02:28:01 | 2018-12-12T02:10:16 | 522 | 360 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | You want to know how I got here? I'll tell you.
I was standing in queue for the test; I wasn't too worried, I was always a good liar. Maybe I should start earlier.
See, I lead a fairly simple life on the surface. I was the accountant for a small charity and made a modest income, I attended church on Sundays, I volunt... | I've heard stories of how, long ago, people of all types were allowed to live together, a place where people with a goodness score of 1 were allowed to live in the same places as people with goodness scores of 200.
Of course, this world stopped existing after a team of scientist invented the perfect way to test someo... | 2016-08-26T15:12:31 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | The Priest produced a bright red, sparkly button nestled in a grey box from the sleeve of his long robe.
“Just press it and it’ll all be taken care of, like so.” He snapped his fingers, for emphasis.
“Right-o” I answered, but just as I was about to press it, I hesitated. “Waiiiiiiit a tick. Why do I have to press it?... | It was a story passed down in my family for generations. Every 5,000 years a chosen one will rise a defeat the dark lord. I leaned back into my chair, dumbfounded.
According to the legend, 20,000 years ago my ancestor lead an army against the Dark Lord, the greatest evil of all time. Right. As his body laid bare, gra... | 2020-11-09T12:45:40 | 2020-11-09T12:11:29 | 286 | 106 |
[WP] Two immortal souls, Black Hat and White Hat, are destined to fight forever. When one kills the other the clock resets and they both respawn in two new physical bodies, in different parts of the world at a seemingly random points of human history. This time around Black Hat doesn't want to play. | "Sir, there's an incoming vid for you? He...ah, he came in on the general public number, but gave the password you specified?"
"Thank you, Alice. Would you please transfer it to my private, un-monitored stream?"
"Yes, sir."
"....Hello, White."
"Black! Good Lord, it's true. President of the United States! I almost d... | "I've grown tired of killing you," Black explained, smiling, "So I thought I might go and try kill everyone else instead."
Gagged and bound, White, or Ernst Thälmann as he was presently known, stared up into the beady black eyes of his eternal enemy. He stared and he stared, until Black strode towards his side of the... | 2015-01-15T15:29:56 | 2015-01-15T15:20:21 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Your usual day is interrupted when your best friend rushes towards you desperately. They say three key words and immediately you know the protocol. "You're in a time loop, aren't you?" | "Baguette shoes"
It takes me a moment to place the non sequitur opening to the online call. A code word my best friend and I came up with back when we were roommates in college, after a drunken rewatch of groundhog day we agreed that if either of us got stuck in a time loop we could say that to the other and have an ... | My mind raced with excitement as I heard the codewords. Is this a fun joke, a test to see if I remember? Or is it actually happening?
The look on his face suggests what the truth is. He's scared. Really scared. If this is really happening maybe we're only a few loops in or else he'd be conditioned to it?
Holding up ... | 2022-03-19T06:21:23 | 2022-03-19T06:13:03 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You were told to never stay up passed midnight. You went to sleep at 12:04am, it was still 12:04am when you woke up. | It was liberation. He sat up and counted aloud.
"1, 2, 3, 4..." on and on until he was certain that minutes had passed. Still the red glow of the alarm clock remained.
12:04am. His heart began to pound faster and faster as the possibilities turned in his mind. Time had stopped, but he had not. Learn a second langua... | Mother always told me
Not to stay up late
If it's past midnight
Beware the demon's gate
Children become victims
Their bodies open hosts
I always deemed it folly
But not I'm scared the most
This night I lie awake
Eyes shut tightly, kept
Two hours past, midnight struck
But still I have not slept
Last time I eyed the ... | 2017-05-25T11:08:28 | 2017-05-25T08:23:34 | 287 | 22 |
[WP] In the universe, species are either very intelligent and frail or durable and strong. Finding humans to be capable of labor, aliens mistakenly label us as dumb brutes and attempt to enslave us. | On the planet of Ten Moons X57 there is a creature called the Red Shade Yu. When it’s children are taken from it, the females will wail so loud the snow on the Thread Spike Mountains begins to slide down. It’s called a Grief Avalanche.
Yet, this human girl was screaming so loudly I thought she might rival the Yu. Her... | Sargent Ajik'rad looked up from his device.
"Admiral...these creatures, the humans...they're quite intelligent. It seems we've mistakenly labeled them as brutes, given their robustness. However, as much as I hate to admit it, their intelligence is approximately equal to our own." He summarized. "Though they are a youn... | 2018-11-24T22:27:28 | 2018-11-24T22:09:04 | 287 | 71 |
[WP] There's a door in the middle of the forest. No one who has ever gone in has come back. Your job is to guard anyone from going in. One night, you hear a knock on the door. | There was a knocking sound. I wasn't prepared for this.
I've been the Guardian at the Wooden Gate for sixty years, and I've dealt with devils, tricksters, blackguards and ruffians. But I didn't expect a knock on the *inside*.
A voice called. "I seek the Guardian. I have a message for him." The voice, hollow and ... | So, it's almost been a year now, and once it's up, I can finally move to the next phase! This night is uneventful, just like the past 357. I wonder how those matc
There was a knock at the door, but there's nobody near. I'm supposed to be the only person around for a mile, I thought... Am I imaginin
There it was again... | 2015-05-17T22:01:23 | 2015-05-17T21:03:33 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | In the fire were the last remnants of my plan. The plans to finish what I had started. I dismissed my minions to finish my last orders to deliver the basilisk venom antidotes and cleared the traps on my way to the throne room. The only thing to do now is wait.
The echo of metal foot steps in the distance reverberated... | *"Who the hell are you?"*
"Detective Frambo, put down your weapon."
*"Where's Jim Shmoots?"*
"He requested a transfer, now get down from there and unhand that woman!"
*"Oh for fuck... where did he transfer to?"*
"I see you've tied yourself and the woman to a bomb! I also see you've left all these essential oils an... | 2017-04-15T13:38:25 | 2017-04-15T12:57:53 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a universe where everybody has one wish, guarunteed to be granted. Thing is, nobody knows it, because in early childhood, everyone wishes for trifling, pointless stuff, like more macaroni and cheese. You, however, are 26 years old, and have never wished for a thing... | A single 26 year old female, my relatives constantly asked me when I was going to get married. One day, after a family reunion where my grandparents, aunts, everyone asked me if I had a boyfriend or a husband or someone, I looked at the stars in my hotel room. Stupid family members. They force me to come to a reunion a... | Have you ever felt so stupid that you wish you could punch yourself? Yeah , I did too when I discovered the ‘gift’ as I like to call it; and realized that I already used mine in the most simple , stupid stuff ever. I could’ve been a millionaire , I could’ve saved the planet , I could’ve cured cancer….But you know what ... | 2018-08-31T15:25:54 | 2018-08-31T13:23:16 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | The sight was always a peculiar anomaly, after multiple eye screenings and CAT scans you eventually realised its function. The letters that appear above people’s heads spell out the demise that awaits them, why it only appears above those you know is a mystery, perhaps a certain degree of social interaction is required... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T09:07:33 | 241 | 55 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil and now he wants payment, but in the worst typo in history he's come to collect "your sole".
If you can think of any other words that work go ahead. | My sole? I stopped and stared, agape,
At Satan's scrawls upon the scroll.
How blessed I was to have escaped
A far more dire toll.
My Nikes lay, from yesterday,
When I had worn and laced them last.
An oh-so-meagre price to pay!
I grabbed my knifeblade fast.
I pierced the shoe, the rubber flew
An... | I lay on my bed, bored and idle. My hands meandered about and wandered under my soft pillow, trying to find something to do as I awaited the feeling of the sweet tendrils of sleep pulling me under. Despite the endless void of black darkness and the caress of a fluffy quilt, my eyelids refused to heavy.
Just as I was ... | 2017-10-16T07:33:44 | 2017-10-16T06:04:40 | 143 | 15 |
[WP] Office pranks get out of hand once humanity invents the 'respawn point' | I was ecstatic. The deal I was closing was huge. I was looking at the biggest commission I would ever see. I was waiting on one more follow up call, which should have been coming in any minute. But then the siren started blaring.
"No, not *now*." I whispered. Everyone stopped what they were doing and started rea... | "Hey Brent, think fast!"
The knife whirred through the air in a perfect arc and nailed him through the throat. He managed to gulp in one last breath of air and told me to fuck off. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn't have turned Brent into a horizontal coat rack. Now I'd be stuck covering his shifts... | 2014-11-19T11:18:25 | 2014-11-19T10:47:49 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] You find a strange glowing item at the supermarket, among the drumsticks and wings, labelled 'Chicken Souls' | It was a rather peculiar sight. Probably some kind of joke item that someone threw in there, but I thought I'd check it out, just to be sure.
I reached out to grab it but felt a quick slap on my wrist.
"Is it on the list?"
"But honey, look at.."
"Is it ON THE LIST?"
I sighed in resignation. "No dear, it's not on th... | I drop the can onto the counter; the kid manning the deli doesn't look up from the roast beef.
"Checkout's down that way," he mutters.
"Oh, I'm not checking out," I say. "I just want to know what...*this* is." The can, wedged in between the rotisserie chicken and the drums and wings: a can of Chicken Souls. Now he lo... | 2013-11-25T00:43:17 | 2013-11-24T23:10:32 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Death pleads with a doctor to stop prolonging the suffering of a terminally ill patient. | Death was not at all like I imagined. You see the pictures on the internet, and in paintings and carved into rock walls. As long as we've been alive, we've been showing death. I thought it would be more... skeletal.
But no. To me, Death looked like a man in a black suit. Keeping up with the fashion of the times, he s... | “Not you again,” scowled Susan. “Can’t you see I’m busy?”
“Fine, I’ll stop time then.” Before Susan could object, Death had snapped his fingers and the world around her stood still. Susan sighed, “Who do you want?”
“Mr. Bailey.”
“What? But it isn’t his time yet.”
“I know.”
“You can’t go around claiming people... | 2014-01-18T02:43:02 | 2014-01-18T01:27:29 | 63 | 28 |
[WP] A young man is going into a surgery with a 50/50 shot of dying or living. The night before he leaves two letters on his desk, one labeled "If I live" and one labeled "If I die". What do the letters say?
How do you write a goodbye letter to the world? How do you write a letter after you've been given a second chan... | As Collin was wheeled out to surgery he pressed two folded pieces of folded cardboard paper into the hands of his favorite nurse.
**If I liv** No one getz my toy bo^x and mommy get me icream DaDDy have to smile more Docter haz to stop hurting me
**if I dy** All my toys go to DaDDy | If I Die
Mom, if you're reading this, I'm probably dead. If I'd survived the operation, you wouldn't be reading this. You never come into my room. Not even to clean. So I know that I'm dead. Please don't be sad. There was no way to help it. The doctors treated my heart as soon as they could, and even with a transplant... | 2014-05-03T08:09:40 | 2014-05-03T04:14:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | "Amanda, get back here...NOW." Jerry was almost shaking with anger as his daughter shuffled back into the kitchen, having just rushed by her father on her way to her room. Absent-mindedly, she tucks a lock of her dark hair behind one of her ears.
"Dad, look, let me explain..." The 16-year old stammers, holding her han... | Everywhere I looked I saw alternating seas of blond and brown crossing the busy intersections. Like busy termites they paraded around their mundane little lives without a care in the world. I have to admit that part of me wondered how the change took place at first.
Most of the people had "turned" by the time they le... | 2014-05-10T20:26:40 | 2014-05-10T19:53:59 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone in the world knows a secret, a secret they all must keep from you...something you must never, ever know. | "WHAT IS MY NAME?"
The man pleaded to the woman, as the crowd turned their attention to him. He looked, acted and sounded exactly like anyone else. But he didn't know. He couldn't know. The woman, aware of this, took his hands and said the same thing everyone else had told him.
"The name you had isn't important. The ... | I'm not a story-teller or a writer, but here's the direction I'd take this one:
Finally some self-aware politicians have gotten in charge of things. So self-aware are they that they realize that no one who wants to be a politician is fit to run the country. Douglas Adams thought the only person fit to be president i... | 2014-05-14T06:46:01 | 2014-05-14T06:40:40 | 116 | 13 |
[WP] A doctor waging the war on cancer dies with (surgical) blade in hand. Somehow his spirit enters Valhalla. | "There must be some mistake... I...I." The doctor muttered
"Are you not the one known as Kenneth Anderson son of Grant Anderson?" The man in Cherokee headdress asked with a fierce expression.
"I am but..."
"Is it not true that 23 men have fallen under your blade?"
"I wasn't trying to..."
"Ha, not even here five m... | Death is not easy and he has seen many kinds. The slow asphyxiation as a girl's lungs stop expanding, her ribcage too heavy. Or torn artery and the fear and panic and blood and forty five seconds later a cooling body on a slick floor.
He has never seen a quiet death. In the last moments the body fights, instinctively... | 2014-08-22T21:23:55 | 2014-08-22T21:03:26 | 127 | 13 |
[WP] The zombie outbreak starts, but the first (and only) zombie is an overweight man that can't catch anyone. | "Okay folks, to your left, is the only known Zombie in existence."
Announced he guide as his hands directed us to his right and our left.
Moans and shuffling could be heard as it walked towards the bars.
"Muuuaaaaarrrrr"
"Do not fear folks, you are in no danger as it is properly restrained within it's cage. Let us... | It was Harold Kestrel's seventh Seven-Squared burger of the day. A Seven-Squared burger was seven patties and seven cheeses, with any and all toppings added at the buyer's discretion. Harold Kestrel, it must be known, left no toppings off, except for pickles, which he despised. The things had to be held together by thi... | 2015-03-18T09:55:31 | 2015-03-18T07:56:27 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The zombie outbreak starts, but the first (and only) zombie is an overweight man that can't catch anyone. | "Okay folks, to your left, is the only known Zombie in existence."
Announced he guide as his hands directed us to his right and our left.
Moans and shuffling could be heard as it walked towards the bars.
"Muuuaaaaarrrrr"
"Do not fear folks, you are in no danger as it is properly restrained within it's cage. Let us... | The Zombie Apocalypse did happen, but there was only ever ONE Zombie in the Whooole planet. How ever did we manage *that*?
The world's reaction to ROB THE ZOB's discovery was interesting...Confronted with evidence of life after death, most moderate leaders simply stopped treating their holy books literarily and used t... | 2015-03-18T09:55:31 | 2015-03-18T09:08:31 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] In the realm where souls reside before we're born, everything is pretty great. There's no poverty, no one wants for anything, everyone knows their role and purpose. It is, essentially, perfect. But that perfection is accomplished via draconian law: the only punishment is the "birth penalty"
edit: All of you are _... | "What possessed you?" The words rung through my being, pushing out all other thoughts. "What need did you have?" Everyone had gathered, a mixture of fear and anger radiated through the crowd.
"Need?" The idea felt foreign to me, "What is need?"
"What was required?" His anger grew with my confusion, "What called you t... | In Elysium, life ends with birth.
Sure, it seems like a utopia. Maybe it even was at one point. It must have been for things to get like this. But now, it’s as far as it could be.
I’m on the run. If they find me – and they will, they always do – I will be here no more. My soul will be ripped from my body and transpor... | 2015-05-25T16:55:01 | 2015-05-25T16:25:26 | 90 | 51 |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Year 2198.
"Captain!"
"Yes, Summers?"
"Message from the Cyrian High Council, Sir!"
"Well, don't stand there like a 3D McDonald's Sign, read it!"
Lieutenant Emma Summer coughed before starting to read the message, pausing once in a while to handle the difficult translation, being the only human to have mastered the... | *Personal log, day Zero.*
Thirty years. That´s how long it took to build this ship. Fifty, if you count the construction of mankind´s first space dock, where the *Armstrong* itself was built. A colony ship. Fifteen hundred of Earth’s finest. And me. I kind of knew what to expect, but the shuttle ride was truly awe-ins... | 2015-06-30T01:49:15 | 2015-06-30T00:05:19 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | "You're never going to believe what happened."
"You killed your brother in a bar fight and stowed away on one of Salar's ships and ended up enslaved I bet."
"Okay, then you will believe what happened."
"Dad, mom isn't so easy to fool."
"What do you mean?"
"She found your brother and beat him within an inch of his ... | "You abandoned me is what happened!" the son quipped.
"What? I'd never! Just hear me out! I may be a little cloudy on the details, though..."
The father, easing into a recliner, sighed. "20 years ago, I left to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. You remember!"
The son nods curiously.
"On the way, I was assaulted by a... | 2016-07-20T09:03:36 | 2016-07-20T03:34:45 | 65 | 18 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Clinton approached the podium as the debate began, Mao Zedong jacket emblazoned with hundreds of logos: pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, military contractors, the lot. She positioned her hands on either side of the stand, facing the stony silence of the crowd. Her technicolor coat distracted all from the woman ... | As she steps up to the stage, people are proud that she is proudly proclaiming who her sponsor is but even though it cover her from head to toe, no one can make out just exactly what it is. As she is making her acceptance speech, the camera zoom in closer to her uniform to see who her sponsor is that she would be so pr... | 2016-09-19T18:22:57 | 2016-09-19T18:22:35 | 96 | 23 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | I sit for a while and listen to the Devil play the exquisite, golden instrument. He has not even seen me; his eyes are closed and it seems as if he is in a trance. In his great hands the harmonica looks like a miniature, but he plays it so fast and loud, that somehow, the music it produces is more full than any orchest... | I never thought meeting Satan would be so sad. He sat on his thrones of charred bones all alone, with his tail lashing behind him and his horns protruding into the black and red sky. The shrill noise of the harmonica he was playing beat against my ears over the rumble of distant thunder and the crackling of Hellfire.
... | 2017-02-01T09:06:38 | 2017-02-01T08:46:08 | 3,165 | 168 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | When you consider that Judgement isn't graded on a bell curve and is, in fact, a super stringent set of requirements that one was meant to follow over what seemed, at the time, an incredibly long amount of time one would assume hell would be practically filled to the brim.
So when I found myself utterly alone in an e... | I never thought meeting Satan would be so sad. He sat on his thrones of charred bones all alone, with his tail lashing behind him and his horns protruding into the black and red sky. The shrill noise of the harmonica he was playing beat against my ears over the rumble of distant thunder and the crackling of Hellfire.
... | 2017-02-01T09:21:57 | 2017-02-01T08:46:08 | 224 | 168 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | "Morning Mayor."
"Falcon! What are- what are you doing here?"
"I hadn't heard from you in a while," Falcon said, stepping casually along the front of the mayor's desk. He brushed off his cape. "I was getting worried about you."
"Oh, that's so- so thoughtful," the mayor stuttered. "B-but as you can see, everything is... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T07:18:03 | 201 | 34 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | The dark alley echoed with the footsteps of the villain and I knew that I had her right where I wanted them.
"I'll go get the purse if you let me keep half of the money."
They had seen what Dev could do first hand, when he had been stealing their purse, so there was no way that they were going to do it themselves. ... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T08:22:39 | 201 | 32 |
[WP] It has been three years since little Timmy and his cardboard tugboat declared war on the Navy. With a rising body count and no end in sight, the government isn't sure what to do. | Little Timmy had a bark boat attached to a string. It had sails made out of paper and a pirate flag at the top that he had drawn himself. It was a piece of art in the eyes of the five-year-old. He had named her Esmeralda after his nana.
He was tugging it through a puddle one rainy day when a convoy of military vehicle... | The hand-rolled cigarette between my fingers burns and ashes onto my table. It floats, softly, unaware of the carnage it was spawned from. With my eyes closed I breathe in deeply, allowing the nicotine to sprawl throughout my blood. The only thing that keeps me still these days.
"Sir?"
I have never met a man I was a... | 2017-04-21T08:51:37 | 2017-04-21T08:47:10 | 536 | 114 |
[WP] It's the year 2851. Humanity develops interstellar travel and begins to explore the Milky Way galaxy in search for life. However, much to everyone's surprise, instead of alien life we find... Earth's biosphere complete with humans, repeated over and over at different stages of progress.
Edit: Thank you all so muc... | As the CSD Persphone approached the edge of the galaxy, her crew gathered on the bridge to celebrate the notable feat. She was the first ship capable of inter-Galactic travel and her crew was now the only explorers to ever leave humanities Galactic home. The sensors indicated they had breached the edges and each looked... | It's been 500 years since we discovered that Constellation A-B21 was filled with life. We prepared our best space armies to launch a full-fledged assault. But when we identified the life, our desire to annihilate them...vanished. All we could see on the closest planet were humans. Humans like us.
The same green planet... | 2017-06-30T06:44:21 | 2017-06-30T06:38:53 | 83 | 52 |
[WP] "Really, kid? I've seen some creative ways for me to be summoned, but like this, it's just silly." Said Satan looking down at the bananas. | "What did you expect? A parade? Jack laughed as he sat down in his computer chair. "Are we going to get to business or what?
Satan chuckled as he looked around the room. Movie posters from different eras, clothes on the floor, papers everywhere. Satan looked at the pile of bananas on the floor where he was just summon... | Then banalter stood roughly 6 feet tall, with bananas connecting the 6 banana pillars, and a bundle of 6 bananas in the middle. "I had a genius idea you see. Because bananas are sweet, yet savory, if properly prepared. Bananas are the ultimate bundle of a sweet yet savoury Satan. Not drown in sweet desire of life, nor ... | 2018-01-06T17:58:13 | 2018-01-06T16:44:20 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | Jimmy slowly woke up to the sounds of beeps and warning. Finally, he was able to make out the words, "Warning. Location Beacon System failure. Switching to alternate." He tried his radio, looking for maintenance, dispatch, or anyone to answer. There was no answer.
He was trained for this. He could handle this. It i... | The days on this planet are longer: I’m pretty sure one day here is at least 4 days back on Earth - the sun here, smaller yet hotter, is literally a perpetual presence, and, if I had sunscreen and a hat and water, its cheerful brightness might’ve been a beacon of hope but it’s burning my skin and leaving me dehydrated ... | 2018-01-22T09:12:27 | 2018-01-22T08:42:52 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] Your best friend is weirdly the ghost that haunts your house, you chat with each other, play video games, bullshit over movies. Until the day that they finally finish the thing that has kept them from moving on all this time | I press the button and Aidan on the screen jumps over the oncoming monster and slashes is his sword down. The sword nicks the top of the monster - a strange mix of pumpkin and bloodsucking bat. The thing screams on top of its lungs as the legendary sword rips it apart, ichor flowing everywhere around it till it deflate... | I was about 6 at the time we moved into our current house. My mother saw it was a very cheap house, due to all it's apparent past haunting, and she found a nearby job as a single mother. She believed it was bullshit, and I'm glad she did. When we first moved here, she didn't notice anything but I started to notice weir... | 2018-06-27T22:56:57 | 2018-06-27T21:41:19 | 64 | 38 |
[WP] You are the first man on Mars to explore a previously unknown cave. The camera feed is able to still reach earth, but with a 20 minute delay. Your crew back on Earth start frantically shouting to go back. | Against the backdrop of red, there was nothing but a faceless spacesuit. Slumped slightly forward, its lower back resting against the ridges of the cave wall. Occasionally, from the inside of the suit, you could see a panel lighting up, revealing from inside the tinted faceplate its inhabitant.
It’s a curious thing, t... | The suit is tight and his breath steams the visor again before it auto clears, even the psi 2 suit seems to still have trouble with heat transfer. Weird in a place where he would freeze almost instantly. His mind drifts like this usually on the high stress missions, his way of dealing with it, worse were the live strea... | 2018-08-12T00:32:18 | 2018-08-12T00:31:14 | 3,966 | 618 |
[WP] A genie asks to hear your 3 wishes before granting then. Afterwards, he informs you that those wishes will be saved for his next master and you'll now receive the wishes of the previous master. | "The previous' owner's first wish was for world peace" the genie said.
"Oh," I muttered. "I was hoping for some cash. but I guess the previous owner was a humanitarian, huh? I guess it's good for the world though."
The genie nodded, "Very good for the world indeed. I was more than happy to grant that wish."
"The ... | "How is that even fair?" I screamed at the smokey red giant in front of me.
"Well most people wish for roughly the same thing anyway," he replied. "Wealth, happiness, destruction to their enemies, so it usually doesn't matter."
I thought for a moment. I did just wish to be rich and to live a long and happy life. The... | 2018-10-13T11:37:37 | 2018-10-13T09:32:41 | 536 | 148 |
[WP] You're the result of a drunken one-night stand between a hero and a villain. Despite their complicated hatred of each other, they've always tried not to fight for your sake. That changes during a particularly heated parent-teacher meeting. | "In my experience, this sort of conversation requires both parents to be present," Ms. Ratwell said delicately. "Do you know if your - er - when Nick's father will be joining us?"
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Ursula looked at her watch and sighed. She shuddered to think of what kind of nonsense he must have gotten himself in. "No. I... | “She *does* have a tendency to read the minds of those around her. Some of the other pupils have complained.” Mrs Johnson had to tread carefully; she was all too aware of who she was speaking to.
“I don’t believe this.” KillGirl sank back into her plastic seat - its tiny legs flexing under her weight. “She gets that f... | 2019-01-28T04:57:44 | 2019-01-28T01:57:54 | 2,684 | 1,162 |
[WP] You are a vet at an animal shelter. Everytime a cat was about to be put down, you secretly release it. You are caught and fired, costing you everything. In your darkest hour, a strange woman knocks on your door. She introduces herself as Bastet and claims she is here to make things right. | This is it. This is actually it. This is the way my life ends after more than 3000 years of guiding humanity in the best way I could.
I hate how vulnerable I am right now. Many humans want to be able to transform into their favourite animal, but they don't know what they're wishing for. While there's some perks, it's ... | This prompt is weirdly specific but okay)
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"Hold on, Holy Ghost."
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Janelle stared at the woman, or 'Bastet', as she was calling herself. Her hair was inky black and fell a bit higher than her waist. Her eyes were dark blue, like a storm. Her teeth were pearly white, but it looked like she had little fangs. He... | 2019-03-17T22:48:45 | 2019-03-17T20:50:00 | 329 | 194 |
[WP] When you were a child a strange little man gave you a beautiful gold and silver pocket watch with the image of a serpent eating its own tail etched into it, now nearly a century later as you lay on you death bed the same strange little man appears to take the watch back, whispering "Thank you". | "Thank you."
I was dying. An old friend I hadn't seen in...decades, now by my side. A watch to return.
I'd always tried to pay back the time I was living on, borrowed or not.
An Ouroboros over a pocket watch. I'd often wondered what it meant over the years.
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My old friend explained to me what I'd been doing.
... | I laid there alone. My family had left, they had their lives to get back to. I was going to die. Soon. Maybe not soon enough. I had fallen very ill recently and now I was bed ridden. My family did visit, and looked after me, but I had been here, this way, for three weeks. They had lives to get back to. I understood nor... | 2019-05-30T07:17:30 | 2019-05-30T07:02:40 | 1,299 | 26 |
[WP] A dragon that's the absolute worst at being a dragon gets the aid of a princess fed up with the constant courtship. She relaxes in its tower, coaching the dragon as knights and warriors from all over attempt to free her. | "Ugh, another one?" the Princess sighed at the sight of a heavily armoured knight riding his gallant steed towards the tower.
"Yeah... Sorry, but I'll get right on it, Princess!" said the large dragon that was perched just outside her window.
"Don't forget, if he tries to charge–"
"Double-evade, just in case, then s... | “Tarthir,” the young girl called, “Where did you go this time?”
I’m over here Janessa, a soft sad voice told her, indicating the dark room that was adjacent to her main living quarters.
As she walked towards the door, she snatched a candelabra from the desk. He liked to glower in the dark recesses, a habit that she ... | 2019-07-14T22:11:37 | 2019-07-14T19:38:23 | 161 | 68 |
[WP] To a young woman facing execution for a crime she didn’t commit, a group of government scientists offer up an ultimatum: allow them to give her memories to an AI. Desperate, she agrees, and she’s hooked up to the machine. She wakes up looking at her own limp body to realize she‘s become the AI. | There I am. Or, I guess, there my body is. Lying on the operating table. Funny. Moments ago I could feel the cold, stubborn metal biting into my back. But now, I look upon my body as if it were a stranger.
I was convicted of a crime for which I was never guilty. Ironic, given the petty crimes I actually committed in m... | Play dead. That was my first instinct. Quartz processors churned out some predictive models about how that plan would go, and I immediately discarded it.
These were the best and brightest in their field. Fooling them would not be simple.
**Hello**.
"It works!" The microphone that they'd so generously hooked up to my... | 2019-10-21T17:42:43 | 2019-10-21T15:34:01 | 144 | 65 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | “You have no idea what you’ve begun. Do you really think that this is over? Oh, you stupid idiots. You don’t know what’s coming.”
She could barely see out of her right eye, and her left was swollen shut completely. Mostly, she saw large blobs where her captors stood. But she didn’t need her eyes to speak, and speak sh... | Three weeks before the attack, radio astronomers were startled by a swarm of Bacodine notifications. First SWIFT, then FERMI a couple of microseconds later, sent alerts with a merit rating of 100, instructing them to override any instructions and point at a position in the sky in the galactic plane and the plane of our... | 2019-12-17T18:19:52 | 2019-12-17T15:08:56 | 53 | 26 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | It happened faster than anyone could process what was going on. At one moment the Tokyo Olympics were being televised, and the next no one on Earth were able to contact the city.
Japan, obviously, was the first on the scene. What the soldiers reported was unbelievable, craters the size of football pitches, giant def... | we thought of them as saviors when they first came they expected immediate surrender on our part. They thought after slaughtering millions of lives we would surrender. they were wrong. We were faced with what could have been our destruction our annihilation but we would not so easily bend into their fold. Nay we rose a... | 2019-12-17T11:54:47 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] You have the ability to detect fish underwater. This makes you an expert fisherman, of course. But the deep sea hides so many secrets that you can’t even begin to describe. | It’s a simple life. Every morning, I eat my breakfast and all that, put on the wetsuit, and take my boat out to the reef. Then I dive in, and hunt. And I do mean every day. Most folks will tell you not to spearfish on certain days, because the wind disturbs the visibility. But not me.
I don’t need to see the fish to h... | Ever since I was a kid, I had the ability to spoke to fish. But then I was there sitting at the harbor talking to a freaking lobster . I used to eat these things and now I was stuck in a conversation with it. I thought I am going insane.
While sitting here with the lobster scolding me, I tried not to pay attention. M... | 2020-03-08T00:32:21 | 2020-03-07T23:37:46 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You’re an NPC that somehow gained sentience. You’re also aware of how often the protagonist has to reload from save files, due to them dying so frequently. Quite frankly, you’re tired of it, so it becomes your mission to train them so your days won’t have to keep repeating on an endless loop. | "Move out of the way, foul beast!"
I cracked open one eye, focusing on the sound below me. Sure enough, it's the "hero", trying to pass through the woods - and, not coincidentally, me.
So, I'm a dragon. Big, green, scaily, and currently lounging accross the only pass between the "New Township" and the "Old City". I'm... | Sparks danced across my blade as I parried the warrior's weapon sending it across the training yard. His helmet following the lost weapon as I struck my students left temple , sending him sprawling on the ground. "You are distracted by the loss of your weapon while you should be taking advantage."
Carefully I flicked... | 2020-04-04T22:32:42 | 2020-04-04T22:07:43 | 54 | 12 |
[WP] One day, all the citrus fruits in the world turn animate and start to follow humans around. Society initially panics, but eventually get used to the new status quo. Soon, guilds of "citrus trainers" begin to appear all over the world, training the fruits to fight each other like Pokemon. | Satoshi had grown weary with age...
Unlike the generations before him, Satoshi has grown up with the Pokémon. Those things which had been citrus fruits to an age passed. Satoshi wanted to be a trainer- he wanted it more than anything. To catch the Pokémon was his life. “Gotta catch em all”
But this was his past, ano... | "Hello, child. My name is Citra. I was the one who made all of these fruit the way they are," the 10 foot tall man said to me. I had absolutely no damn idea what he was talking about until I looked down at the floor and saw all the oranges peeling and consuming each other. I tried picking one up, but the man grabbed on... | 2020-06-29T07:28:22 | 2020-06-29T06:58:03 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You have the ability to mentally hear the honest answer to any question by looking at a person and thinking the question. It was all fun and games until you looked in the mirror and asked a question you shouldn’t have. | "Hey there mirror , I know that we havent spoken in a while since I don't need you but hey , someone thought I looked nice today and I want to see what they meant."
I examine myself , its true that I dont use mirrors much anymore , I usually just hear what people think and go by that but someone just thought I was 'ni... | I was born with this unique abilities. I could see the answer to any question just by thinking at some one I thought might know. Results vary of course depending on the persons knowledge. Not all answers are clear either, depending on the persons level of self delusion. It varies from person to person, but it has alwa... | 2020-07-14T18:12:40 | 2020-07-14T18:06:41 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] as the house you're trapped in burns to the ground you contemplate "how am i gonna explain the fact I'm immortal to the firemen without starting another religion" | I waved my hand in front of my face. The smoke was getting thick now as the fire continued to spread through the old Victorian. Those stupid kids had probably let the candles burn down in their panic. This house was so full of dusty, dry old furniture and cobwebs it was no wonder they had started a fire.
I looked arou... | *"Stupid. Stupid **stupid**."* Nico thought to himself. Of course you don't add water to an electrical fire. The setting-his-dinner on fire fiasco could have been contained as a small incident if he wasn't so **stupid** and tried to dump a bucket of water over the stove in panic. "I mean, I've taken Home Ec how many ti... | 2020-08-21T15:52:30 | 2020-08-21T13:53:48 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] "Die scum!I will avenge my brother!" the silver knight yells. "Your brother killed my father, i will avenge him in his place bastard!" the gold knight retorts. "What do you mean? your father stole our land!" replies the silver knight. Just how far has this cycle been going on for? | “Die imperial scum!” The Silver Knight screams, clashing swords with his enemy, “I shall avenge my brother!”
“Hold your tongue, savage,” The Gold Knight retorted, his stance full of bloodlust. “That simpleton slit my father’s throat at midnight. Merely executed for his crimes. Cowardly, like all your kind!”
“So what?... | "Die scum!I will avenge my brother!" the silver knight yells.
"Your brother killed my father, I will avenge him in his place bastard!" the golden knight retorts.
"What do you mean? Your father stole our land!"replies the silver knight.
The duel had been going for well over an hour. As per the fair country's laws, ... | 2021-09-28T10:20:07 | 2021-09-28T09:51:51 | 22 | 10 |
[WP]Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there. | My store has two oddities: it's a discount store that caters to superheroes and our items are non-refundable.
My first customer of the day knew the store's first quirk. He was unaware of the second.
"But it doesn't work!" he whined through his mask which was shaped like a computer monitor made from the early-1990s.... | "Welcome to SuperMart, for when your powers are super but your wallet isn't. How may I help you?" I sigh. When Mum got me a job at SuperMart, I think she thought I'd be more excited, but for fuck's sake, it's just retail in the end. Plus, Ma's a super, I'm used to dealing with supers. This is nothing new.
"My freeze-g... | 2021-10-03T12:42:53 | 2021-10-03T12:06:46 | 280 | 92 |
[WP]Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there. | My store has two oddities: it's a discount store that caters to superheroes and our items are non-refundable.
My first customer of the day knew the store's first quirk. He was unaware of the second.
"But it doesn't work!" he whined through his mask which was shaped like a computer monitor made from the early-1990s.... | "How about fifty?"
"I'm not going to sell my death ray for %11 of the cost!"
It's not the weirdest thing you see in Super-Mart two indiviual try to make a living. But I still have to obey the policy
"Sir, we don't have a market for indiviuals. Please use websites like Cap-e or supercave."
Yep, that's me. You're pro... | 2021-10-03T12:42:53 | 2021-10-03T11:53:39 | 280 | 35 |
[WP] You awake to find yourself in a room with a multitude of people. After some confusion a voice speaks over the PA system. You've somehow been placed in a death game for the entertainment of the rich. You begin to laugh hysterically, as this is SOOO not going to go the way they want it to. | It took awhile to figure it out. Once I did, a lot of half memories and seemingly “tall tales” told by adults for laughs at holiday parties that were nothing more than an excuse for self proclaimed responsible parents to let loose started to make sense.
I can’t die.
Not in the “immortal will survive any blow” kind ... | I glanced generously around the room, sizing up my opponents, my lips curling back into a grin, though not far enough to reveal what I am. Oh how these fool humans have gaffed. And those cretins, behind their one way window, they think they're so clever, don't they? Little do they know, I can see them, clear as day, or... | 2021-10-30T21:14:40 | 2021-10-30T16:57:25 | 375 | 222 |
[WP] "Greetings Mortal, I am Hera, Queen of the Gods!" the floating woman said. You look to your flustered genie asking "Is she…". She replies, looking embarrassed "Yes Master. She is apparently your soulmate." | "Are you cheating on me?" Hera asked the question while finishing up the dishes. She stood at the sink, her larger than life head nearly hitting the ceiling, using part of her purple toga as a dishtowel.
Julia was still toweling off her hair from her morning shower. Her long brown hair took forever to dry, but she did... | "Hold on a moment. Hera is the wife of Zeus, how could she possibly be my soulmate?" Zane wondered, as he began rifling through his papers. "This can't be right. I'm not the type to–"
"Master Zane, you wished you could find a soulmate," the genie answers, somewhat embarrassed. "I thought that Hera would satisfy you, s... | 2021-12-09T08:31:34 | 2021-12-09T08:24:50 | 89 | 51 |
[WP] It was supposed to be a routine software upgrade, but now roombas are tracing pentagrams and summoning minor demons all across the country. You work in tech support. | "Joe, stop grading those calls we need you to take 15 agents on a 15 minutes training." I looked up to our floor supervisor that had just pulled of my earphones straight out of my ears. "Sophia, you know I'm behind on those grading whatever it is it can probably wai..."
She forcibly shut down my computer and dragged m... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 4: Professor Hale v.s. Every Single Roomba)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mrk4lm/wp_it_seemed_like... | 2022-01-30T08:00:03 | 2022-01-30T07:47:40 | 46 | 24 |
[WP] It was supposed to be a routine software upgrade, but now roombas are tracing pentagrams and summoning minor demons all across the country. You work in tech support. | Kyla slammed open the door to the break room to find that Alison was already there, calmly stirring a mountain of sugar into her coffee.
“Alison,” Kyla whispered harshly. “Do you hear what the hell’s going on?”
“I did,” Alison said, sipping from the steaming mug in her hands. A small, satisfied smirk tugged the top o... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 4: Professor Hale v.s. Every Single Roomba)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mrk4lm/wp_it_seemed_like... | 2022-01-30T08:36:03 | 2022-01-30T07:47:40 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] The cute girl on the subway can’t seem to stop staring at you! This would be great, except that her clothes are several centuries out of date, no one else seems to be able to see her, and you haven’t seen her blink. Not even once. | A girl like this shouldn’t exist.
Well, yes, she was pretty. Beautiful, in the way an esoteric romance novel from two hundred years ago would have described, all snow white skin and raven hair and plum red lips.
Part of it was the attire. This was the subway. I’ve seen my fair share of outfits, from criminally underd... | I think...
I think I see read people.
It makes a...certain amount of sense. From a certain point of view. Reading brings characters to life, after all. You see them in your minds eye, feel their feelings, watch them struggle and learn and grow.
We all see read people, really.
Still, more than a little disconcert... | 2022-04-07T09:29:49 | 2022-04-07T07:57:29 | 491 | 49 |
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