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[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 :) | "Holy shit, Dave! Look at your fucking face!"
"Oh come on. It's not that bad."
"Are you kidding?!?"
"It's not like it hurt."
"Dave, they tattooed pentagrams EVERYWHERE."
"Oh like I didn't know that, Carl."
"Well you don't seem very upset about it!"
"It's not the 1950's anymore, man. People aren't judgey about ta... | Jake shrugged. The sound of the church' clock was the only sound he could hear in the silence of the night.
Ding. dong. ding. dong. ding. dong, and so on, all the way to twelve.
Was it midnight already? He didn't know. He didn't care. Mom wouldn't be home before tomorrow, so Jake had the house for himself. And, more ... | 2017-05-05T06:54:01 | 2017-05-05T05:55:46 | 7,592 | 280 |
[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 :) | So there I was, driving all of my friends to this cabin that one of them owns… Gavin, I think it was. He said we're all gonna have a fun time catching fish or some shit like that, I don't give a fuck. The only reason they even invited me was because I'm the only one with a goddamned car. My friends are pretty much all ... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T07:01:19 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 4,093 | 27 |
[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 :) | "Unclean!" the disembodied voice bellowed waking me up for the third fucking time that night. That's it. I'd had enough. I slip out of bed and got dressed. I was thirsty anyway. Walking toward the door I looked at the wall dripping with blood and puss.
"Unfucking real..." I muttered. Pulling my phone from my pocket I... | Years ago, when visiting a "haunted" house in the oldest neighborhood in the city, Dave had first felt what he now referred to as "The Pressure". It was a sense of dread, a prickling of the hairs on the back of the neck. Every sense in his body would key up, warning him that Something was coming, and it wasn't friendly... | 2017-05-05T07:31:12 | 2017-05-05T07:22:19 | 627 | 31 |
[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 :) | __Suicide: A permanent solution to a temporary problem.__
This stupid fucking phrase rings through my mind almost hourly as I try to make it through the day. The reason it’s in my head right now? It’s pouring and a car just sped through a puddle, leaving me a wet mess. What’s more, I dropped my phone when I got splash... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T07:14:27 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 451 | 27 |
[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 :) | "IÄ! IÄ!" the masked priest cried, lifting the sinuous dagger above his head. "SHUB-NIGGURATH! THE BLACK GOAT OF THE THOUSAND YOUNG, COME TO FEAST!"
The woman next to Jon tried to scream through her gag as the knife plunged into her breast once, twice. Then she lay still, her eyes full of tears but slowly going dull.
... | Years ago, when visiting a "haunted" house in the oldest neighborhood in the city, Dave had first felt what he now referred to as "The Pressure". It was a sense of dread, a prickling of the hairs on the back of the neck. Every sense in his body would key up, warning him that Something was coming, and it wasn't friendly... | 2017-05-05T07:40:26 | 2017-05-05T07:22:19 | 172 | 31 |
[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 :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | "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... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T07:21:53 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] They reworked the justice system. Now, in each cell there is a piano, and convicts are released after performing a song perfectly. Lesser criminals are assigned simple melodies, while the worst get full concertos. You've been a concert pianist your whole life. | "Harold, you've been charged with torturing and murdering a man in cold blood. How do you plead?"
Harold looked up at the judge, feeling a hundred eyes burning into him. It felt like his entire life was leading up to this moment.
"Guilty as hell, your honor."
The jury immediately reacted, murmuring to each other, b... | BREAKING NEWS, flashed in red and white across the TV screen. Ludwig took a pause in his work and turned up the volume.
*… as the serial killer known as “Mozart” has once again been released from maximum security and death row, after completing three full piano concerts. Here is Tracy Stevens with live footage.*
The... | 2017-05-17T23:27:06 | 2017-05-17T21:45:17 | 1,195 | 121 |
[WP] Satan finds amusement out of making contracts with sinners stating that if they complete a ridiculously impossible task, such as counting every hair on their body, they are allowed to return to Earth. A sinner has just completed a ridiculous task. | "Your evilness," screeched Clyde, the Devil's thorny serpent. "He's .. done it."
"Done what, Clyde?" said the Devil, setting down his Gamecube pad in disgust.
"He's completed his impossible task."
"Who, Clyde? Who has completed their impossible task?"
"Bruce," said the serpent.
"You can't expect me to remember all... | "**How?**" The dumbfounded face of the Devil. Just like his subordinate beyond the door and the subordinate before that. I smile in satisfaction, knowing that I bested the dominion of Hell at their own game. Victory is sweet.
"Humans are smarter than you think, you know,." Blood drips unto the floor, but no one in the... | 2017-08-03T07:26:28 | 2017-08-03T07:17:15 | 79 | 36 |
[WP] You're teleported to 44 BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you might be from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How Do I Die?" | Well, hell. History never was my 'A' game. More like my 'B-' game. I have *no idea* how this obscure *(was he obscure?! I don't even know that my much, lol)* 2000 year old politician dies. I'm not even sure if Bush is alive, back in my own time.
Guess I gotta wing it. What does he want to hear? This dude has the abili... | Oh god dammit
Dammit dammit
I stand before one of the mightiest emperors mankind has ever been led by,and he asks me about his future. Well,at least the long hours of studying Latin will pay off now. Knowing when Caesar died is not the problem,I’ve heard it over and over again (and I still don’t have any idea why it’s ... | 2018-01-06T04:33:37 | 2018-01-06T02:18:57 | 83 | 11 |
[WP] Aliens are afraid to invade Earth. Not because of humans but because our solar system is a nest for 8 Guardians/Leviathans. | "Believe it or not, there are still some that remembered the age before the Leviathans. Troubling times when men had no common enemy, turning at each other for pitiful personal gain. Then The Outsiders came. Some had expected them and eagerly decoded their messages while others prepared for the only real outcome. Howev... | The Sol-3 system. One of the last remaining dark systems in the galaxy. 26,000 light years away from the galactic center, with one yellow dwarf star in the middle. Average in all aspects, with one single exception.
It is the sole nesting ground of the Tal’maruks in the galaxy. Fearsome, gigantic beasts of legends and ... | 2018-02-05T20:21:52 | 2018-02-05T16:30:03 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] A supervillain erases 30 years worth of memories from every hero he meets, just to put them out of business. One day he accidentally does this to a senile old man, and he finds out the hard way that he’s met the former strongest superhero | "So I go nuts?"
"You go nuts"
"And the world forgets me? Leaves me to rot?"
"Well that's not QUITE what happens"
"Is it not?! You found me wandering the streets as a madman! In the poorest, dingiest, cruddiest part of the city! I mean, SHIT, look at my clothes!"
It was a weird thing talking one of the saviors (The... | The tapered collar of my shirt was beginning to cut into my Adam's apple. It didn't matter though; I'd been gasping for air for over 642 lightyears.
He wasn't letting go, we were on course for Betelgeuse. Most Heroes' were hunted down during the Age of Reclamation. Heroes' were both good and evil, the guilds abided by... | 2018-02-21T15:06:47 | 2018-02-21T14:58:31 | 48 | 19 |
[WP] You arrive in the afterlife to find yourself standing at a payment window and all your outstanding debts are now due. They don't care about financial stuff though - just the promises you failed to keep. | I tried to maintain eye contact with this dealer of fate, as it stood judgmentally before me, just glaring.
"Deal another" I said in a disappointingly squeaky voice, as I tried to will something simple, easy to be swung my way.
There's no luck at these gates. The afterlife toll booth attendant laid no paper out, and... | "All of them?"
"All of them."
I sighed, a deep groan from the bottom of my chest. "Fine. Where do I start?"
The angel... er, thing, I guess? Not quite sure what this *thing* in front of me was. It wore rather dull garments, somewhat akin to a toga. Its hair resembled more of a glowing river than actual keratin. Seem... | 2018-03-06T10:04:32 | 2018-03-06T08:45:41 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] Hell is an RPG, complete with skills levelling and save points where the damned grind their way to Heaven. A newly dead scrub on level one, you decide to play through like you do in other RPGs and invest at least 1 point in Luck every time you level up. | The Son of God sat upon his throne, waiting. Thousands of the damned came upon his door everyday, hoping to defeat him, and pass through the pearly gates to heaven. Yet, they all failed.
Satan gave the damned plenty of choice. As they screamed across the scorched fields, the eternal hellfire surrounding them, ravaging... | Fixed all the formatting. Want part 2?
**Part 1?**
Everything before him was barren. The ground cracked beneath him as he took a few confused paces forward. Disoriented, he looked around for some clue about where he was. The solid parts of the ground beneath him looked as if they were molten, but had recently cooled.... | 2018-04-16T11:15:40 | 2018-04-16T10:40:48 | 3,325 | 173 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | So it turns out I'm not human. To be frank, I wasn't surprised when upon that fateful day my friend's words turned to ashes in my mouth, almost choking me with their utmost falseness. After all, humans can't taste lies, so the obvious answer was that I wasn't human. Still it wasn't exactly the most comforting thing to ... | "Hey" James said as he slumped down on the couch beside me, beer in hand. "Hey, it's OK".
Well, it technically wasn't, but I didn't really want to argue with him either, so I just sat there and contemplated how to best kill myself.
"It really wasn't your fault that you got fired..." I felt a familiar bitter taste in ... | 2018-05-12T05:25:13 | 2018-05-12T05:24:41 | 1,793 | 25 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | Tasting lies, I mean, it's cool and a neat trick for my kind, but for something to be a lie, you have to know it's a lie. Otherwise you're just mistaken. Everyone in my family could do it, and we were all crazy close - not lying has that effect on people... But I haven't seen them for three months and uni was wrecking ... | "Hey" James said as he slumped down on the couch beside me, beer in hand. "Hey, it's OK".
Well, it technically wasn't, but I didn't really want to argue with him either, so I just sat there and contemplated how to best kill myself.
"It really wasn't your fault that you got fired..." I felt a familiar bitter taste in ... | 2018-05-12T05:41:08 | 2018-05-12T05:24:41 | 37 | 25 |
[WP] Your butler has served you faithfully for twenty years, working hard, offering sage advice and never complaining. One day, you see his bank balance. He's a billionaire. | The house seemed empty. Vacant. Dad must be off on business and mom... Well who knows. Maybe on a trip of her own. Home at the end of term and no one here to greet me. Well, almost no one. Remy - short for Remington - had to be about somewhere. He'd served my family since I was born.
I dropped my books on the table. ... | I sat tentatively across from this man who I’d known my whole life, but couldn’t recognise. For what reason would he keep his fortune a secret? I wanted to believe that my ever-loyal butler had the purest of intentions, but every conclusion that I was drawn to was frighteningly bleak. Has he been stealing from my famil... | 2018-06-03T10:37:58 | 2018-06-03T10:34:05 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] it turns out Earth is a really big lobby for a battle-royale and everyone is just waiting for enough players to start |
I was just in the office, trying to look busy while actually browsing Reddit on one screen and watching the last official game play trailer for cyberpunk 2077 on the other screen one more time.
Finally, today is releasedate, I'll leave in 40 minutes, 50 to get home. I'll buy some beer on the way. Than I'll downloa... | The airplane took off. It was moving to the final zone, the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland. I heard little about it, well besides maybe a Modern Warfare 3 map otherwise it was more a Nordic relic and tourist attraction than a place to live.
It had been two years since the game had started. PUBG Corporation h... | 2018-06-12T06:09:32 | 2018-06-12T05:50:43 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] After getting a girlfriend, a man discovers that he now has a very powerful superpower: everything he says, no matter how factual and true, is wrong. | The group of friends were sat around a fire under a sky full of stars. One man, stepping quietly away from the party, found a place where he could be alone. He looked up at the Milky Way.
"When you consider how vast and great the universe is, I'm just worthless, aren't I?" he sighed.
His friend, who had known him fo... | As I prepared to leave, she appeared at the top of the steps and asked, "Where are you going this late?"
"I have a room booked at a motel. I'm cheating on you tonight."
She crossed her arms. "Oh really?"
"Of course. I told you that this evening. Don't make a fuss."
"I bet it's that slut, Susan, \*isn't\* it?"
"You... | 2018-09-06T09:28:27 | 2018-09-06T09:27:32 | 265 | 22 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | "I'm afraid I must object," said Timonus the Upright.
Everyone at the table reacted, some throwing up their hands and some muttering unpleasantries under their breath. The five gamers sat around a map of terrain speckled with gaming pieces. At the head of the table a thin, tired looking young man sat behind a large,... | Assassin, interesting.
I'm more a Ranger with a beast master sub role myself, but I think I can destroy Jake with my eyes closed.
So let's get down to business. I'll get my trusty partner of crime. Numerous hours of endless DnD story lines and side quests, how could I leave my sacred buddy?
Jake, the Paladin (such a... | 2019-01-21T18:32:36 | 2019-01-21T17:26:13 | 500 | 244 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | I sat in the chair across from Rich. Bowls of various chips and candies covered the table, and two-liter bottles that once contained Dr. Pepper were strewn carelessly on the floor.
Joe, the DM of our group, sat at one end of the table, and Keaton, our Bard’s level-headed player, at the other. Brooke the Monk sat to my... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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- [/r/rpg_brasil] [\[WP\] The DM hands you the paper. You're j... | 2019-01-21T19:51:50 | 2019-01-21T19:09:12 | 330 | 16 |
[WP] On every birthday, you see someone who looks exactly like you down to the clothing at 12:30pm desperately trying to get your attention, but they disappear the moment you make eye contact. Today is your 21st birthday and you have a plan. It's 12:29pm. You sit down, close your eyes, and wait. | Every birthday I see him. He was my first conscious memory at three years old. I see him out of the corner of my eyes, no matter where I am, at 12:30 pm exactly. He’s always trying desperately to get my attention, but by the time I make eye contact, he’s gone. He looks just like me, and we are always wearing the same t... | My living room is empty. Curtains drawn. Only me, a pillow, and a tall mirror. Time is 12:29pm. Alarm set. One minute left. I sit and close my eyes. It was exactly five years ago I first noticed it while brushing my teeth.
I stood in my parents bathroom thinking about sex, probably, when a movement caught my eye. I tu... | 2019-07-24T14:31:55 | 2019-07-24T12:03:08 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] You're a Super Villian, and honestly it isn't a bad job. But one hero always harasses you even when you're off the clock. Walking in the park, in the grocery store, getting a haircut, he always wants to 'Stop your evil plan'. You're left with one option: Complain to his manager. | Getting your head chopped off would be lethal to many but not to me. Of course it's a bother and a pain in the ass to deal with. So when that annoying piece of shit 'blademan' decided to do it again, and in a public stall at that, I had enough. I mean who does that? I get it that I am supposed to be the bad guy, but th... | As I sit around in my lair very exhausted and pissed as to what’s been going on I almost feel like quitting my damn job.
“ This is outrageous I can’t believe I’ve been reduced to sit in my own evil lair and never leave because that cape wearing, spandex loving, maniac has no life outside of being a super hero! I can’t... | 2019-08-01T17:35:20 | 2019-08-01T17:32:15 | 116 | 46 |
[WP] Music is a dangerous weapon, if not careful entire species can fall to madness upon discovering it. It has been theorised that any race with more than a thousand songs could wipe out all intelligent life, which is why Humanity is so feared in the galaxy despite no human really ever knowing why | Oh god dammit, a space orcs one and I'm six hours late!? Why do I only ever see these at the dead of night dammit?
Steve was the last one.
The last of his platoon on the desolate moon whose name he couldn't pronounce, they were only one of the many sentries that got hit that night, the Grol'Naaks attacked in droves,... | “We’re about to reach the Klaxian capital, commander.” My pilot looked at me, grinning. “The rest of the squadron’s ready when you are.”
“Good. Let’s give those little gray bastards hell for firebombing DC. Tell the other choppers to rev up their miniguns and strike missiles. We’re gonna raze this place.” I moved tow... | 2019-09-28T09:19:53 | 2019-09-28T08:34:30 | 59 | 23 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | "Okay, did my translator glitch out? Because it sounds like you just called humans an 'artificial intelligence.'" Captain Perry rubbed his temples - he hadn't expected first contact to be this complicated. The aliens had fled on sight, done everything in their power to avoid being in the same *star system* as the hum... | First Contact. Metreidies Prime. To Ro Christian, looking over the precipice as if over the sweep of historical record, it was such an obvious honey pot.
“Temper your chrono-exceptionalism,” she whispered to herself. There were many other apt descriptors for her teacher, Andro Frafare--”flatulent”, “inebriated”, “... | 2020-07-09T08:03:30 | 2020-07-09T04:40:02 | 99 | 30 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | After a difficult 7-on-1 fistfight against arms dealers on the docks, the vigilante hero was finally felled by a brutal strike. He was slapped awake to find himself unmasked and with his hands tied behind him around a small pillar.
A goon crouched in front of him grabbed him by the chin to get a better look. "Hey pret... | Through thin thin eggshell walls of the motel room, the voice of Paul Anka crooned about a slow dance as rain pattered against the windows. The floors needed to be steamed and the tile needed an extra mopping. The only nice thing that could be said was no bugs were spotted when the pair had burst through the door. The ... | 2020-08-21T01:29:48 | 2020-08-20T23:13:29 | 224 | 126 |
[WP] Almost giving up on love, you are set up for a blind date. Upon meeting up, you notice your date is literally blind. They ask for your name and you faintly say "Medusa" | Curls of venomous serpents wrapped viciously around her head and rested uneasily in concentric circles. Sharply and passionately darkly lit eyes heavily contrasted swampy pale skin but harmonized well with her deep black ensemble.
For such vicious and heavy features, it would be jarring to imagine that Medusa had appe... | “Medusa, huh? Like that Greek mythology chick with the snake hair, right? That’s a pretty badass name, if I do say so myself. Better than Kelly, at least.”
A faint smile formed on the Gorgon’s lips as she adjusted the silk headscarf holding her hair, the snakes underneath wriggling at her cold touch. She continued to ... | 2020-08-27T08:08:21 | 2020-08-27T07:26:40 | 47 | 21 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | I found out vampires were real the same day I became one.
Honestly. If I'd known my date hadn't been using slang when he'd called me a snack, I'd have unmatched there and then.
But when we went to his place, I thought he was giving me a hickey when he went for my neck, and I just had to decide to give him one in retu... | I let out a deep and overly dramatic sigh. Not that I still breathed, it was just a habit I still help onto. Protruding from my chest was a wooden stake, studded with metal, likely supposed to be silver. I followed the stake to the pale hand wrapped around it, following it to a set of tattered robes wrapped around an a... | 2020-10-06T07:21:37 | 2020-10-06T07:02:23 | 138 | 77 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | I touched down on my backyard, exhausted and disappointed that I let Dark Lord escape. Actually it wasn’t my fault, it was those two new heroes that wanted to help. I guess their parents don’t give a damn about them. With a snap of my fingers, my costume faded away, leaving my blue dress. I told Henry I was going out w... | The silence was palpable, almost freezing me in the position I'd held upon pushing open the bedroom door. "Thunder...Knuckle?" I said, confused. To the population at large the villainous scourge lacked a name, only identifiable by the crackles and roars which followed a city or two being leveled by an unknown force. In... | 2020-10-30T12:00:19 | 2020-10-30T11:49:13 | 268 | 83 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Test Site: Day 38: 18:00
We may finally have a success, General Smith wrote in his report. The techs tell me our previous readings suggest a suitable dimension has been found. They are confident that this time, the portal will remain stable. Prior readings conducted suggest no sentient life, only creatures suitable fo... | Smolfren froze, snout lifted to the sky. *Something is wrong*, he thought. He sniffed once, then twice, then thrice, then bolted back to the capital.
Fuzzberry and Cuddleberry hailed him at the entryway, but he did not stop - he had no time for pleasantries.
He charged down the alabaster streets and up the gilded s... | 2020-12-22T17:34:48 | 2020-12-22T17:08:34 | 450 | 80 |
[WP] Adrenaline is an evolutionary trait specific to Earth. When alien species are tired they sleep and not even a threat to their life will wake them. Which is why the pirates that boarded your spaceship are shocked to find you've not only jumped out of bed fully alert but are fighting back! | "Most aliens know, that humans have a hormone called adrenaline. In emergency situations their bodies get flooded with it, allowing them to reach the hysterical limit of their bodies.
Due to the quite hostile nature of their home planet and their evolutionary path of almost not offensive and defensive means, but an un... | I wake up, sweat rolling down my face as I see an alien pirate looming over me like all those shitty life choices I made like buying Jordan 1's and immediately losing their value by getting splashed with water outside the store while still wearing them
My reflexes saved me by immediately grabbing my laser pistol under... | 2021-01-27T05:41:06 | 2021-01-26T23:19:09 | 155 | 50 |
[WP] “Sir, earth has found us.” The man in charge shouts “ WHO, WHO TOLD THEM?!” “Sir, no they found us on their own.” The man calmed down. “How, did our camouflage break?” “No it was because we hid Too well and they noticed the missing space. | The flash of the camera's and roar of the reporter's questions was almost too much for the young scientist but she manged to hold her composure.
"Just how exactly did you discover this?!?"
"What are the nutritional and existential implications of this?!?!"
"Are any tests being done on Jelly and other filled doughnut... | “Yup. That’s a solar system alright.” Confidently said the radar operator, the captain, navigations officer, and pilot were all staring over the shoulder of the man.
“Howdya figure?” Asked the pilot slowly.
“Well Carrie,” said the radar operator pointing his finger at the area one shade darker than all the others on ... | 2021-02-24T16:45:54 | 2021-02-24T16:33:00 | 62 | 36 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | .
Jake saw a darkly robed figure riding a worn horse up the path to his barn. The dragon belched behind Jake. Jake grated "Eggard, I told you that was impolite." The dragon's eyes swiveled side to side in embarrassment.
The robed man halted his horse at what some might think could be the reach of a dragon's flame. I... | **Part 1**
Bill, or Billy, son Bill the farmer, grandson of Bill the elder farmer, and great-grandson of Bob the gardener, was awakened by the squawking of his chickens. His morning routine went by on autopilot and when he was all filled on bread and milk, he was ready for a productive day in the fields. He donned his... | 2021-03-21T15:06:08 | 2021-03-21T14:29:46 | 281 | 35 |
[WP] In a world where magical power is assigned at birth though spells, the power assigner sneezed in the middle of casting the spell on you. While tidying spell books with your useless power, you found out it may not be so useless after all. | I don’t remember my power ever being useful, which is ironic because it is the power to erase memories. Not other people’s memories, mind you—that would be too strong—but only the memories of one person: myself.
In the world of mages, knowledge is the supreme mark of strength. If magical powers are machines, then know... | They taught us the three laws of magic early on in elementary school. After all, what else would school be for if not Spellcraft?
1. No take-backsies.
2. Speak clearly and carry a big wand.
3. Trust your Gifts.
By the time I'd gotten to that High School library I'd edited them somewhat.
1. No take-backsies.
2. The... | 2021-04-08T07:38:58 | 2021-04-08T06:04:59 | 503 | 277 |
[WP] "Do not fear me," said the cloaked man with the deer skull for a head, who stood on the balcony of the castle, "I am Fellion, a Lich Lord. I have killed your king and now rule you." And there was silence. Then everyone cheered. | "... and that was about a year ago now. I have to say, he's a huge improvement over the previous king." The bartender paused to pick another glass to clean.
"Doesn't that bother you?" Chimed in one of the new adventures, a hobbit with freckles and a button nose, "Aren't liches horribly evil? I thought they maintained... | In the deep, black depths of the silent night, a king falls.
The crowd watches on as his body ricochets off the castle balcony. From down below, he looks the picture of a fallen angel. Poise in white and red robes, eyes dark, that once deadly smile now a frown. You could almost see those broken wings. Could hear the ... | 2021-08-31T15:16:48 | 2021-08-31T12:50:17 | 51 | 18 |
[WP]"Captain, why is an entire planet being used to hold only two life forms"? "The species confined there is the most savage and destructive of any world. We've waited this long to check on them to make sure they died. We're lucky they're the last ones". "Checking status of prisoners Adam and Eve". | The starfield resolved itself out of a warped, fractal blur as the main drives shut down.
"Gosh, it's... even darker *here*, isn't it?"
"Ensign Ir?"
"Sorry Captain. Proceeding."
There was a short, heavy pause.
"There's a problem with the Gen-Res scanner, Captain. Retrying..."
The captain flexed their mandibles im... | first lieutenant Michael gazes upon the beautiful blue and green ball, "sir this is an extraordinary planet, the atmosphere is perfect for life and the temperature in points cancer and Capricorn are also perfect, a planet like this would be perfect for rebuilding our capital. why don't we just kill subject 099-0, and s... | 2021-12-30T15:20:11 | 2021-12-30T11:47:00 | 718 | 34 |
[WP]"Captain, why is an entire planet being used to hold only two life forms"? "The species confined there is the most savage and destructive of any world. We've waited this long to check on them to make sure they died. We're lucky they're the last ones". "Checking status of prisoners Adam and Eve". | "Approaching Site Eden sir. Should be coming into visual range any sec-ond..." the technician on the sensors drew that last syllable out for way too long. A note of uncertainty began to creep into his voice as the sensors struggled to acquire the small planetoid. This was by design: Site Eden was meant to remain hidden... | first lieutenant Michael gazes upon the beautiful blue and green ball, "sir this is an extraordinary planet, the atmosphere is perfect for life and the temperature in points cancer and Capricorn are also perfect, a planet like this would be perfect for rebuilding our capital. why don't we just kill subject 099-0, and s... | 2021-12-30T18:04:31 | 2021-12-30T11:47:00 | 153 | 34 |
[WP]"Captain, why is an entire planet being used to hold only two life forms"? "The species confined there is the most savage and destructive of any world. We've waited this long to check on them to make sure they died. We're lucky they're the last ones". "Checking status of prisoners Adam and Eve". | "Captain, why is an entire planet being used to hold only two life forms," Lieutenant Douglas asks.
Captain McGill tipped his command chair to the right and looked up at Douglas.
"Son, the species confined there is the most savage and destructive of any world. We've waited this long to check on them to make sure they... | first lieutenant Michael gazes upon the beautiful blue and green ball, "sir this is an extraordinary planet, the atmosphere is perfect for life and the temperature in points cancer and Capricorn are also perfect, a planet like this would be perfect for rebuilding our capital. why don't we just kill subject 099-0, and s... | 2021-12-30T17:17:11 | 2021-12-30T11:47:00 | 85 | 34 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | I've been up, maybe, 75 to 76 hours this time around
It's this new drug that one of the big pharma companies dropped.
Supposed to be better than Adderall, Modafinil, and miles ahead of most amphetamines. At least safety wise. And so far, that seems to be the case. I feel awake. Alive. So this is what being a normal p... | My heart raced as my boots pounded the pavement, a shriek from about twenty feet back shattering the night air. The street lights flickered from the surge of energy unleashed by its wail, and I knew right then that this was a new class of creature. I abandoned the path to the bunker; I would never outrun one of those t... | 2022-03-18T10:08:51 | 2022-03-18T09:57:34 | 83 | 60 |
[WP] "Halt foul demon! I know of your true name and so you must obey my every command!" "Wha- Why would you knowing my name make me obey you all of a suden? What are you gonna do? Call my parents or something? I swear humans myths about demon control are the weirdest.." | "Yeah, basically."
The response made Goren'verzan pause, glancing down at the human curiously before bursting out laughing.
"Seriously!? And here I thought pride was one of the mortal sins, yet here you are thinking that you-" A talon pointed down condescendingly to the hooded figure below, who was presently undoing... | "Halt foul demon! I know of your true name and so you must obey my every command!"
I tried to take a bite of my taco without spitting it out in shock.
Today was Cinco de Mayo, and I was expecting guacamole and chips not a demon hunter to be bothering me on my lunch break.
"Wha- Why would you knowing my name make ... | 2022-05-05T17:23:23 | 2022-05-05T16:17:59 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You've been summoned into another world as a hero. You don't get any special bonuses to start and think you're in trouble until you realize that nobody in this world can comprehend combat beyond sissy slap fights, and everybody regards these fights with the same weight as a real fight. | The soft twap twap twap of frenzied combat echoed through the great hall, two men dueling for glory and honour as the Queen of all the lands slept slumped over in her throne.
"Stop it!"
"No you stop it"
twap twap twap
"Your hiiiighness, Lord Brimblesby won't cede control of the eastern side of the river EVEN THOUGH... | We've met aliens, real ones! As we made first contact there was an altercation between our crews.
But first let see their biology and customs to understand what happened. They are a mix between tapeworms and squids; they stand on 4 tentacles that are round then trail off in a half circle "feet". They then have arms t... | 2022-08-25T09:34:28 | 2022-08-25T08:22:23 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] “Are you telling me we’re in the middle of an alien invasion?” “They’re not invading, they’ve invaded. It’s over. They’ve had control over this planet for centuries.” | "Madam President, it is my duty to inform you that Extra-Terrestrial Beings are real and present on our planet." the General stated nonchalantly.
On the surface, President Helen Rodriguez, newly elected, maintained an air of serene composure. But deep inside her stomach she felt a knot of fear and anxiety. And perhaps... | Lieutenant Varl Chambers walked into the corridor that lead to Colonel Viper’s office. He thought it was unusual that he had been summoned on a Saturday evening. Most of the junior officers were out in town, meeting up with their families or visiting the local bars for a good time. It was only by chance he was there, h... | 2022-09-01T10:03:57 | 2022-09-01T07:56:24 | 137 | 23 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | You stick out when everyone else in your school has some kind of insane, physics defying power and you have nothing. Like a normal horse in a herd of rainbow colored unicorns.
It was nerve wracking to adjust to having classmates who could effortlessly lift you off the ground with their mind, labmates who used their ey... | And so it happened, I couldn't let that slide. I mean, of course I couldn't. Why would I ? All those bastards thinking they're so cool, flaunting their skills in the hallway with no regards to other people's safety. I know it's the first time that I was bullied, but I 'll make it be the last.
His ugly face still rema... | 2022-11-02T09:54:56 | 2022-11-02T08:03:37 | 706 | 58 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | You stick out when everyone else in your school has some kind of insane, physics defying power and you have nothing. Like a normal horse in a herd of rainbow colored unicorns.
It was nerve wracking to adjust to having classmates who could effortlessly lift you off the ground with their mind, labmates who used their ey... | I sat alone at lunch as I always did, but this time was different. I used to sit alone because people either did not care about me or did not want to be seen with me. But now there was fear. Now there was respect.
I pulled out my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and look around the room. There were people with super ... | 2022-11-02T09:54:56 | 2022-11-02T09:49:19 | 706 | 45 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | I am considered "normal" by the whole student body. And not in a good way. From my perspective all these so-called "gifted" people have a limited definition of what it means to have a superpower. I have one and I exercise it every day.
Three years ago I arrived at the academy with my mother, a shape shifter who was ju... | "Alright class, welcome to 'Intro to Personal Abilities 1'. Before we introduce ourselves, can anyone tell me what the three classes of powers are?"
A bookish girl with large glasses raised her hand.
"The first class of powers are mental abilities. Mental abilities are controlled by the mind, and are often exerted ag... | 2022-11-02T10:47:35 | 2022-11-02T09:00:33 | 286 | 177 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | "Hello this is Jenna, and I'm here to help. How are you?" I answered several calls like this daily. Keeping my voice friendly, but not cheerful. Always willing to listen. Listening is key. You see I'm a suicide prevention operator. Listening is so important because often people will give away hints of things they don'... | I'm manning the local suicide hotline like I have done for the past six months. It's not a good job, in fact the money is so little that I've had to live more economically and sell my once impressive SUV for a Prias. I'm particularly irritable today, and have already had to hang up on one woman for being so distraught ... | 2013-12-23T14:42:59 | 2013-12-23T14:06:28 | 1,112 | 35 |
[WP] The laws of physics are actual written laws. Breaking them is possible but illegal. | Rolling laughter poured out of his fathers study. Prying open the door Tyler peaked in. "Tyler! Get in here quick, look at this!" Reluctantly pulling the door the rest of the way open he stared at the perpetual motion machine his dad was giggling at. "Tyler, you know what the difference between this machine and me is?"... | “Those damn rascals, always flying around or zooming throughout the damn universe. It was only 10 years ago when people found out that you could break the laws of physics. At first, everyone started breaking them but then the National Science Foundation criminalized the laws of physics. My generation of course respecte... | 2014-03-06T05:28:32 | 2014-03-06T04:07:35 | 136 | 47 |
[WP]A man kills himself after discovering the meaning of life and writing it down, as does anybody who reads his note, you unwittingly read the note, what does it say and what do you do? | My life is more difficult than yours.
When I wake up at five-thirty in the morning and cozy my feet into the slippers left purposely next to my bed, I am tired. I am *beyond* tired. Furthermore, it is in this moment that I have accomplished more than what my constituents manage in a year's time. Yet still I am plagued... | The Redditor sat in his chair with a sour look on his face, reflecting his deep frustration with Reddit's so-called community. His question about the meaning of life on AskReddit had been downvoted to oblivion. As had a cat picture posted on /r/pics with the caption “I know the meaning of life, do you?”.
Next he had t... | 2015-02-27T00:01:25 | 2015-02-26T23:56:26 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | Fifty years ago, the Update began. The first time that I was I able to read my Progress it was at 3%, now it's at 14. Same as my age, oddly enough.
It changed a lot of things, according to my parents. Religion, the economy... the list goes on. Apparently the word "error" wasn't as scary when they were young. They we... | Thursday June 12. The day everyone will remember as the update to humanity 1.1. The download started at midnight so i didn't notice it instantly. The next morning I woke up and went about my routine not even noticing the 82% at the top of my vision since the text was white and so was my ceiling. The radio on my drive t... | 2015-03-04T17:12:07 | 2015-03-04T16:52:50 | 1,174 | 185 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | Human v1.1 Patch Notes
* Fixed an issue where eyes can become desynced from the balancing system, causing locomotion problems.
* Corrected a race condition that could cause speech to begin before the thought process for that speech had exited cleanly.
* Fixed a bug in the low level logic engine that caused some versio... | The update showed up on a Friday night. They always show up on a Friday night. I always figured it was because no one would be manning the help lines over the weekend. If there were no one to call then you would just forget about it by Monday.
This time though it took forever to download the update. Human 1.1 wasn’t a... | 2015-03-04T17:27:53 | 2015-03-04T17:14:44 | 519 | 49 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | It was very exciting that first day, mass confusion, followed by philosophical and spiritual debate. Was this proof of god? what would happen when it reached 100%? Then 89 days of, "fuck how long is this going to take" the count down from ten was pretty good tense giddy excitement gripped everyone. Honestly nobody coul... | Sometimes we ask for it. There's something in us as human beings that pushes us, ever closer to edges, cliffs. We like to be our own saviors; to resolve the very problems we create.
Another Monday morning. But today we all noticed it: progress. Progress is a funny thing. We need it. But we fight it. One percent. And c... | 2015-03-04T17:10:55 | 2015-03-04T17:04:42 | 247 | 19 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | *Today, I begin becoming better. Would this update bring decreased damage sustained at higher age? Higher sexual endurance? Higher stamina? Elbow bug fix? Body odour reduced?*
Today it was at 3%. I swear I could feel my body getting better. This is why I love Hinux ^Human ^Linux - modules can be updated on-the-fly.
... | Sometimes we ask for it. There's something in us as human beings that pushes us, ever closer to edges, cliffs. We like to be our own saviors; to resolve the very problems we create.
Another Monday morning. But today we all noticed it: progress. Progress is a funny thing. We need it. But we fight it. One percent. And c... | 2015-03-04T18:45:59 | 2015-03-04T17:04:42 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] "Suicide may be punishable by up to fifty years life-extension." | "So you've found a way to beat the system?"
"Yep."
"Just like that?"
"Uh-huh."
"This is going to work right?"
"Suicide may be punishable by up to fifty years life-extension. That's what I've heard."
"I'm still scared though..."
Gary sighed and stared at the hesitant young woman next to him. He smiled at her with... | I hummed along on my walk home from school. It was a boring day, but hey, I survived. I glanced at my watch, and was greeted by a bright 2:34. It was 14 minutes later when I heard the sounds of squeaky metal.
To be honest, I didn't know about the law until my best friend leapt from the school roof and he showed up the... | 2015-08-21T09:17:10 | 2015-08-21T07:59:42 | 33 | 11 |
[WP]You are Donald Trump. Having launched your Presidential campaign as a publicity stunt, you never thought you'd get this far, and you're getting more desperate to sabotage your campaign lest you become President, a position you never really wanted in the first place..
= | "That's it. I'm officially out of ideas." His hands, index fingers pointed, cut through the air in front of him; the image of a self-important conductor.
"But, boss..." I chose my next words carefully, knowing the ego of the man with his legs up on a desk carved from a single piece of marble. "no one can stump the Tru... | "I really do not want to do this anymore," said the orange haired man in the most depressing way. He fixed his thin tie and tucked his button down shirt into his khaki pants; just another day on the campaign trail.
It is Friday and Donald's secretary pressured him the entire morning to cancel his afternoon speech if h... | 2015-12-25T07:41:02 | 2015-12-25T05:48:58 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | He had never learned how to write.
In Egypt, only scribes were taught the sacred hieroglyphics. Only the names of the pharaohs and high officials were inscribed for the gods to read.
He was only a baker. He had no need for writing or reading. His life and death were uneventful. He watched as his family mour... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, ... | 2016-01-17T15:39:35 | 2016-01-17T11:19:18 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Now that he has 8 years executive experience, Obama can apply for the job he REALLY wants | *So Mr Obama, what are your qualifications?*
*Well, I was 44th President of the United States of America*
*Well, Mr President, what about your presidency makes you qualified for a job at Disneyworld? We already have a robot playing you in the hall of Presidents*
*Michelle, BRING ME MY SUPER SUIT*
^^*zzzziiiipppp*
... | Obama kicked open the door of Mitch McConnell's office. The Majority Leader of the Senate reacted with shock, as the President strode forward and stopped at McConnell's desk. In Obama's hand was a leaflet and a picture. Obama placed them both on the desk, facing McConnell.
The picture was of the late Anthony Scolia, s... | 2016-02-23T02:07:50 | 2016-02-23T01:19:57 | 89 | 17 |
[WP] Now that he has 8 years executive experience, Obama can apply for the job he REALLY wants | Knock, knock.
Why hello you tall drink of chocolate.
I heard you ladies are having a bridal shower, and you might need a little...executive action to liven things up....
bow*chicky*wow*wow
TAKE IT ALL OFF MR PRESIDENT! ALL OFF!!
bow*chicky*wow*wow
(omigod, he really is our greatest president)
bow*chicky*wow*wow,... | Obama kicked open the door of Mitch McConnell's office. The Majority Leader of the Senate reacted with shock, as the President strode forward and stopped at McConnell's desk. In Obama's hand was a leaflet and a picture. Obama placed them both on the desk, facing McConnell.
The picture was of the late Anthony Scolia, s... | 2016-02-23T03:57:06 | 2016-02-23T01:19:57 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] Explain a color vividly without using that color or similar words. Don't tell the color until the end. | Looking into the evening, I see it. It is the color of the middle-distance; the half measures. Not quite the forest and not yet the trees.
It is in my mind when night comes and I no longer stare out, but in. I see it in half-remembered dreams. I see it in old pictures and faded memories.
I see it in the rainst... | I wanted to give people time to respond. I have two different colors, but I am going to do one of them.
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It is the beautiful color of the vibrant flowers I present to her. A symbol of love and devotion. The color of her sensual lips when she is dressed up for a nigh... | 2016-04-14T08:41:40 | 2016-04-14T08:32:19 | 72 | 19 |
[WP]"Death Insurance" is a paid subscription service that brings a loved one back to life for the next 24 hours after their death in order to say goodbye. You awake after your death to discover you were a recipient of a gift subscription from an unknown benefactor. | A lot of people think Lydia is an old woman's name, which I guess is true in a way. You said you had stolen the name from your great-grandmother, a short but feisty woman from Jalisco who still spoke Spanish to everyone and made tortillas by hand. She had died the day before you were born, and your parents named you af... | I peeled my eyes open one at a time, reluctant to face the other side. I knew I was dead, I knew I was dying before I lost consciousness.
Now I only saw a single light beaming down, just glaring into my corneas. My body was laid out on a cold, metal, semi-upright chair. Odd, aren’t you supposed to become conscious ou... | 2016-05-25T12:06:10 | 2016-05-25T10:32:47 | 81 | 41 |
[WP] Snuggled up to a loved one and listening to his/her heart beat, you realize it's beating in Morse code. | When Jennifer told her co-workers she was going on maternity leave, one of the flight attendants had joked that now that the best pilot the airline had was off, she was too scared to fly with anyone else.
When Jennifer went into labor two months early, she and her husband Chase were frantic. They had planned on a home... | James knew that no words could change what he had done. The fact that one punch could cause so much destruction. Made him regret throwing that final blow. It wasn't his fault, though, she wouldn't listen.
"I'm going to be a dancer," Cherry said, "one day you'll come and watch me."
James smirked. "Make sure you can h... | 2016-06-25T22:18:11 | 2016-06-25T22:08:43 | 65 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212. | I awoke to thunder, the sky outside my window so obscured by the storm that it was difficult to gauge the time. Clock by the nightstand said 8:15. Shit. Missed my alarm.
I rubbed my eyes, and jolted awake at what I saw in my periphery. My repeat value, which normally glowed as a soft, green zero was screaming at me: a... | If anyone sympathizes with this character - you probably need help :)
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Fire.
It was my obsession. It burned within me.
From my teenage years I had been obsessed with it. It had always been my love. I'd only ever been caught once - lighting a bin on fire - but by the time I was twenty I had lit three bus... | 2016-07-11T07:26:49 | 2016-07-11T07:01:44 | 56 | 25 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | Everyone wants to be different. I, to my dismay, am.
I was deemed dangerous when I was born. Even though there are those that can level mountains with a wave of their hand, or calm a storm with a mere thought, it was I that they feared- a baby. Those comfortable with their own strength and power often fear that which... | I had always been jealous of the others. Being able to cause earthquakes, raise and lower the ground, rolling the ground underneath my feet as if it were a skateboard. Or what about being able to make water appear wherever you wanted it to appear. Make it rain and shower the pastures for the farmers or being able to gi... | 2016-08-08T11:36:54 | 2016-08-08T10:59:12 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Your grandparents always playfully bickered in their native language. To surprised them, you took lessons, but now you understand what they're really saying...
What comes next will shock you! | I rang my grandparent's doorbell. I visited them often, in their little ranch-style house. Someone had to. They were my dad's parents but he didn't visit them much. He called them the most vindictive, bitter people he had the displeasure of knowing. And my mother? Deathly afraid of them. But they had always been nice t... | Ever since I was little Oma and Opa would speak in the old tongue. They emigrated long before Mom was born and insisted she learn the local language. Grandpa was in the war, never spoke much of it. I asked about it, but he always dismissed it as nothing a child should know. I could never pry much more than his evasions... | 2016-09-09T21:04:21 | 2016-09-09T20:39:00 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] Once a name has been used it becomes unavailable until the person using it passes away. With over 7 billion people on earth people are starting to get... creative. | Sometimes it is just the luck of the draw. There's a guy in Germany who went the random route and got Adolfhilter, and now he's stuck with that. I went to school with a Mymomsacheatingbitch754 which really makes me question why you can't change your name later in life. It's just a stupid database, after all.
My pal Id... | When the name act had passed in 2036, my family, being rich and renowned were able to secure normal names with the help of billions upon billions of bribe money.
While the peasants of the world names their children random strings of letters and numbers, my name is Anastasia.
Since then we have kept the precious nam... | 2016-10-23T11:36:07 | 2016-10-23T11:33:39 | 51 | 29 |
[WP] In the canine world, humans are celestial beings who live for more than 500 years at a time. The caretaker of you and the past seven generations of your family will die soon. | I'm a Good Boy. Everyone tells me so. That's why my person loves me so much and keeps me around. My mum must have been a Good Girl too, because he looked after her. And her mum. And all the other dogs here. My person is a Good Boy too. He looks after us all. Small-Three-Leg, Old-One-eye, Soft-Fur, and me. They call me ... | "You are my Totem."
This is what the Guardian said when he first held me in his arms. I was nothing but a whelping then, not even able to open my eyes. But I remember the words. Totem. That's what he called me. And I was his.
The Guardian loved my brothers, and sisters, but I was the one who he deemed to stay. ... | 2016-11-21T19:03:46 | 2016-11-21T18:43:33 | 52 | 31 |
[WP] Everyone has a stopwatch they are given at birth, it counts down to the exact moment you will meet your soulmate. You met your soulmate years ago and have been happily married since with three beautiful children. This morning you woke up and looked down, your watch has begun counting again. | 41 years. It doesn't feel like a long time when you've spent it with someone you love.
Yet somehow in that time we had managed to adopt three beautiful children and watch them grow into strong, happy adults; to see a succession of pet cats come and go while our marriage slowly transitioned from unofficial to legal to ... | I could only stare at my watch in anger, less than 5 minuets to go and I had resorted to standing on a cliff side, waves crashing into the rock wall below to prevent me from meeting my soulmate. Destiny would lead me to my soul mate they said, you would be happy forever they said. Wrong. Every last one of them, the wat... | 2016-12-04T03:35:43 | 2016-12-04T01:24:32 | 119 | 49 |
[WP]You challenge a kid to a race in your Japanese High School which you've just been transferred from US without knowing he is the DK(drift king). No one seems to know slowing down and turning is more efficient though. | The revving of engines and smell of gas filled the garage. There were about a hundred people watching, their beady eyes locked on Hanzo, the DK and proud owner of a 1999 Toyota Supra.
Across the way, me, driving a 2010 Mazda 3 I had leased from a friendly Japanese dealer. The down payment was only thirty-thousand yen,... | The race was starting. Everyone from our class mumbled excitedly as Akihiko entered his purple sports car. A green glow emitted from under the vehicle as it roared to life. All eyes where on the flashy exterior which contrasted harshly with his tinted windows. I quickly got into my 2002 Honda Civic, the crowd paid no a... | 2017-05-01T12:12:37 | 2017-05-01T10:25:04 | 158 | 12 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | "I have to think rationally about this", Barack thought to himself. He closed his and began to think.
I'm on the third story. There are 2 secret service agents on each floor. Could someone have sneaked past them? No, they would have undoubtedly stepped on Joe's train sets and alerted the agents. That meant that the ag... | I look at the letter and like the millions of other letters that come across my desk, I disregard it. Minutes later, my phone rings from an unknown number.
"Hello"?
"Why did you toss the letter away?"-JFK
I look around for cameras.
"Biden"?
"It's Kennedy. Just as the letter stated!"-JFK
"Goodbye'
"WAIT"-JFK
"W... | 2017-05-14T10:01:37 | 2017-05-14T08:39:09 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me
Though I *was* the sharpest tool in the shed.
Well she wasn't really wrong,
I had blades and I was long
For a mower well I killed that grass dead.
But the years kept coming and the grass kept growing,
Fed me some oil so my motor kept running.
Didn't make sense j... | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me(what?)
 
I am the sharpest tool in the shed
 
They say I'm kinda dumb when I went to suck my thumb
 
It's just to brainstorm ideas in my head
 
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
 
Sent me to col... | 2017-07-01T05:58:59 | 2017-07-01T04:51:31 | 153 | 12 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
But I'm the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with that puncture in her thumb
And the blood spurting onto her forehead
Well the tears start coming and they don't stop coming
She broke all the rules and she thought she was cunning
Didn't wear gl... | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me(what?)
 
I am the sharpest tool in the shed
 
They say I'm kinda dumb when I went to suck my thumb
 
It's just to brainstorm ideas in my head
 
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
 
Sent me to col... | 2017-07-01T06:08:19 | 2017-07-01T04:51:31 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | They said the would was gonna roll me. Well hell, they were right.
But just one thing they didn't expect about me. See, they thought I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Which is fair, I mean the grand majority of tools weren't the sharpest. But one was.
The world rolled me all right... but I was no rock star, ... | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me(what?)
 
I am the sharpest tool in the shed
 
They say I'm kinda dumb when I went to suck my thumb
 
It's just to brainstorm ideas in my head
 
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming
 
Sent me to col... | 2017-07-01T05:14:27 | 2017-07-01T04:51:31 | 16 | 12 |
[WP]The smarter you are, the slower time moves for you. It's been 63 years and the doctor just handed you to your mom. | The thing about being smart? You don't really feel smart. You just feel tired.
The doctor hands you to your mother, who welcomes you with a kind face. It was.. cruel, that's the word, that you were in a way older than your own parent. From the moment your conscience was first realized in her womb, you've been absorbin... | It's like I'm an expensive computer, whose user is extremely anal about video quality. Every 'download' takes a million years, hyperbolically speaking, because every minute detail is shown to me - via my hyperevolved senses - at a resolution that is high to an insanely absurd degree. (Which by, the way, made my unortho... | 2017-07-04T19:23:42 | 2017-07-04T14:41:36 | 127 | 39 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | It's the best deal in town. You can be the student you always wanted to be. However long it takes. You'll get there, to have the time of your life. When I wanted him. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Sunny and 72 degrees. Except where prohibited by law. He grabbed her hand.
She stopped twisting t... | Today's the end of The Month. It wasnt surprising but we all knew it was coming. It lasted too long but we didnt want it to seem like it had come too soon. There are 12 of them yet this one was different. It was almost like the rest seemed dull and ugly while this one was meaningful and gave us momentary happiness righ... | 2017-08-30T06:54:31 | 2017-08-30T04:51:45 | 5,691 | 13 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | "Run away, run away!! It's going to eat us!"
"My wife! My boy! It's going to eat them all!"
"Wait, could it be? Is it the great, fantastic...hmmm, magnificient Mighty Man!"
"Mighty Man, Mighty Man, he'll save us from the monsters!"
"Yes it is I, Mighty Man. The mightiest man in all of Pleasantville. I shalt slay y... | I built my cabin to deal with the death of my wife. It was nothing special, just a one floor log cabin deep in the forests of Maine. But working on it soothed me, helped me relax. I built a huge fireplace right into the wall, and when lit it made the entire wall radiate heat. The interior was all wood; the paneling on ... | 2017-08-30T07:30:27 | 2017-08-30T06:57:18 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] Write a story that starts and ends in a perfect loop, the end of the story leads into the beginning. | Pulling my hoodie up onto my head I glance up at the crowd that is surrounding me. Noisy, boisterous and annoying. I was in a bad mood. My date stood me up, I had been waiting here for over an hour now and she has still not shown. “Skank” I think to myself as I feel fingers dip into my pocket. I turn quickly, lashing o... | *The day was still young.*
The man watched the steam rise from his coffee. It was as hypnotizing as ever, and it was causing his mind to drift, lost in thought. The only thing that could make it better was a slice of apple pie.
"Sir? Can I get you anything else?" The waitress was a petite, young woman. Probably ... | 2017-09-02T08:48:18 | 2017-09-02T08:35:00 | 103 | 53 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocuous story, but the last line reveals how chilling and horrific the story actually was. | I'm a good dog.
I don't poop on the carpets, I don't bark in the middle of the night, I don't steal mom's food, I don't bite shoes.
I'm a good dog.
I love cats, I don't bark at anyone, I don't attack anyone, I won't jump at people.
I'm a good dog.
I let Josh come into the house at night, but only if I get a mil... | "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... | 2017-10-06T14:58:03 | 2017-10-06T13:06:06 | 130 | 42 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocuous story, but the last line reveals how chilling and horrific the story actually was. | I'm a good dog.
I don't poop on the carpets, I don't bark in the middle of the night, I don't steal mom's food, I don't bite shoes.
I'm a good dog.
I love cats, I don't bark at anyone, I don't attack anyone, I won't jump at people.
I'm a good dog.
I let Josh come into the house at night, but only if I get a mil... | I was awoken by the rattle of thunder this morning. It was no different from any other morning, time to get up, shower, bring the kids to school then come home and pork the wife. It was a standard day in a middle-class family.
My wife, Elena, mostly soft-spoken, had a harsh tone this morning. "Why the hell aren't you ... | 2017-10-06T14:58:03 | 2017-10-06T13:16:20 | 130 | 25 |
[WP] Once every year, soulmates glow the same color as each other for one hour. | I used to love this time of year, watching the world running around in search of their glow. I remember watching a young couple when I was in Manchester for work, both bathed in silver, struggling to hold a conversation in broken English in between masses and masses of glow-hunters roaming the streets. But the smiles... | It was an evening in the month of April that it began. The color began to emanate from everyone. It was odd, skin color changed and the color bled off everyone. As you walk, it would leave a trail behind you. It sparkled and twirled in the air before disappearing. The strangest part was no one appeared to be the same c... | 2017-10-21T14:01:38 | 2017-10-21T13:58:29 | 63 | 17 |
[WP] You're a hitman who takes half up front and then never finishes the job because what are they gonna do, report you to the cops? Thing is, now you've pissed off a lot of people who have no problem hiring hitmen. | I made a mistake.
Well, I've made plenty of mistakes, but never one this bad.
It was really bad.
Let me start where these things normally do, seven months ago. I'm nobody special, nobody unique, but I have a certain... set of skills...
I'm good with computers. Just a thing I can do. Also I'm pretty bored, pretty ... | 3:59. He should be here soon. I notice my hand drumming on the diner table. I take a deep breath and make a conscious effort to stop it. Without looking down, I adjust the grip of my other hand beneath the table.
Door opens, bell chimes. I force a smile as I see him walk in. Sunglasses, *black trench coat*, God what ... | 2017-12-12T09:50:42 | 2017-12-12T09:49:55 | 357 | 28 |
[WP] The demon that tried to strike a deal with you was absolutely not prepared for the level of specificity you've prepared to make sure there are no loopholes for him to abuse. | "Mortal, I wish to make you an offering. Someone as strong and powerful as yourself has earned it. I have a wish to bestow to you. Imagine... anything, beyond your wildest dreams, being made real for you. Just ask," the demon chirped, with a smirk. It fluttered impishly before me. Tiny, winged, and red-skinned — it wou... | It was hot.
It was so hot Chris was expecting a hobbit to throw a ring through his front door.
“I’d sell my soul for an iced coffee right now,” Chris moaned as he rested his sweaty head on his increasingly sticky leather couch.
Within three seconds a fiery red creature who called himself a demon appeared.
Within on... | 2018-01-20T07:26:26 | 2018-01-20T06:40:58 | 1,072 | 312 |
[WP] The demon that tried to strike a deal with you was absolutely not prepared for the level of specificity you've prepared to make sure there are no loopholes for him to abuse. | The mathmatician stepped back from shaking the demon's hand. "So, the contract is sealed?"
"That's right, sir. You cannot die, age, or mentally or physically deteriorate in any way until you have solved this 'Whitehead Problem' from Zeeefcee," the demon replied smugly.
The mathmatician looked concerned for a second, ... | "You've been quite clever, mortal, I'll grant you that. Long life, health, wisdom, wealth, happiness and companionship, all for as long as you desire it, for yourself and those who you choose to grant my... Offer." He smiled. "In exchange for your soul."
I waved at the papers in front of me. "It's all on record, as we... | 2018-01-20T11:40:41 | 2018-01-20T11:21:32 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] UK is a single mom. Meet her children. The polite and charming son Canada, loud but accomplished son US, the wild and crazy son Australia and the adopted daughter with a history of abuse India.
Not trying to enforce any stereotype of any nationality. Just thought it would be fun. | The rugby practice had ended an hour ago. The field stood empty, but not a single car came by to pick him up. He looked up into the sky and shivered as the first raindrop fell on his shoulder.
"I can't believe mum forgot me again," said New Zealand. | UK opened the door and froze. The jar of marmite she had been saving for breakfast slipped from her hand.
"It...it can't be you...!"
"Oh, but it is...*mother*" South Africa growled. "Did you really think you could start over after abandoning us and Papa Africa?"
UK swallowed hard. Her eyes drifted over S.A.'s shoul... | 2018-03-20T21:03:34 | 2018-03-20T21:00:23 | 45 | 18 |
[WP] You can go to any fictional universe you want, but aren't allowed to help progress the main plot. | I walked into Whiterun, just like an everyday adventurer. The smells, the cool air, everything was just as it should be. I know the rules, but I'm not sure of the time, did the dragonborn come yet? Is the battle over? I go to the market to sell my pelts, and to chop wood for some extra money.
I get a room for the nigh... | "Question, does stealing bits of fancy space tech count as 'Interfering in the Main Plot', considering that petty crime is one of the main characters personal bugbears."
I think that's a look of confusion, kinda hard to tell with that weird glowy translucent snake-owl dealie "Is your theft tied to anything involved in... | 2018-06-16T14:44:13 | 2018-06-16T14:01:52 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | I am a 96.
My score, determined by a sophisticated AI and tattooed onto my arm at birth, gave me the license to do almost anything with my life. When you have more potential than 95% of the population, with a standard deviation of 2%, nobody questions you.
That score, known as a "potentiality index", isn't just for... | (I didn't exactly follow the prompt, sorry in advance)
"You're obviously hiding, like, a two, no, a zero!" I teased. I peered curiously at him. "What number *do* you have though, seriously? Just tell me and I'll stop bothering you."
"No you won't. You'll just bother me more." Arthur insisted.
"It can't be *that* ba... | 2018-12-27T16:38:43 | 2018-12-27T16:33:21 | 7,164 | 29 |
[WP] Every single person born, is paired with a freshly coded AI that will be their companion for the entirety of their lives and grow with them. After being dead for years, you are surprised to see your AI has somehow managed to follow you into the afterlife. | "Rejoice, my child, and pass into Paradise!"
St Peter waved the ecstatic soul through the gate and smiled. After all these millennia, he still hadn't tired of the joy of telling someone that they were truly good, that they did truly deserve heaven. He looked at the next soul on his list
A.L.I.P #365-2763. That was od... | The year is 4375. My name is Marcus Feícuo. I am-was... 22 years old... I lived in Eoxera, a utopia of sorts where every child is given a life partner in the form of an AI. They’re built perfectly to fit you. Nobody is ever lonely while alive. However, these AI are not living beings, they don’t contain souls. So, in ou... | 2019-02-14T21:12:37 | 2019-02-14T18:57:07 | 115 | 35 |
[WP] Every baby is taken away from the government and returned when they are ten years old. They never remember what happened in those years, but they always recognize their parents. You, however, remember everything. And those aren't your parents. | I had asked my best friend if he remembered what happened. I only asked him, and I only asked the one time.
“They took all of us. It’s common knowledge. I mean, you remember coming home right? They give you to these people and call it a day.”
“They bring you back to your *parents.* It’s not some big conspiracy, Ni... | Jennifer held me by my hand as we walked over to my house. She kept reminding me that today was my day and that my parents have been dying to see me. I follow behind as my tiny legs try so desperately to keep up with hers.
We walked up and stood on the house's patio, and she knocked on the door loudly. We hear a "Comi... | 2019-02-19T06:40:28 | 2019-02-19T04:31:49 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] Humans left Earth long ago, and Dolphins have just achieved underwater technology comparable to the 20th Century. They build water suits allowing them to travel overland. They are just discovering the remnants of ‘the land walkers’. You, a young dolphin, discover a mysterious island. Manhattan. | As I walked along the land walkers trails, I saw large structures, jutting out of the ground at a 90 degree angle. There were many of these structures. And they were covered in massive symbols. A seemingly final message for those who came after.
I knew they must mean something important, but I had no idea what. I de... | It was an age ago but you were there, you invaded our homes, stole our kind killed and poluted but you were there. Then how we wished that you werent, as all attempts to live harmoniously with you just met the same fate of our species. Just like so many species being used and abused.
So we as a race took stance allowi... | 2019-02-27T07:55:55 | 2019-02-27T06:31:16 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You discover that your significant other, who passed away, has become your guardian angel. They are getting fed up with how often you throw yourself into near-death situations just to see them. | The world around me screeches to a halt.
I float, my clothes freezing in the wind that is no longer there. Below me, the mass of cars making up afternoon traffic stares back at me. Littered among the people on the sidewalks, I can see the frozen looks of horror.
What they see is a crazed man in a tuxedo jumping off ... | I don’t entirely know how I got there—I think it was traffic, that time. Yes, it was traffic, wasn’t it? I walked right out into the path of speeding cars, letting them sweep me off the Earth for good. And why wouldn’t I? That’s what you do when there’s a mess; you sweep it up and toss it away.
Yes, traffic. Surely th... | 2019-05-21T12:14:45 | 2019-05-21T12:00:47 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | No Masters, No Kings.
u/arcanarchist
Looking to pauper your landlord, capsize the global banking industry, topple the government, and usher in a new age of personal freedom? Then do I have the spell for you! I proudly present...
>Create Demiplane
>Casting Time: 6 hours
>Components: Verbal, Somatic
>Ef... | “The anti-teleportation zone has been established, Sir.” A slender young man with sharp features, dressed in full business attire, stood outside the central vault of Golden Apex Bank to deliver the report.
“Thank you, Mr. Freeman.” Mr. Sullivan, the CEO of Golden Apex Bank, rubbed his temples as he dismissed Freeman. ... | 2019-07-11T15:08:55 | 2019-07-11T14:12:51 | 134 | 89 |
[WP] In a world where everyone has at least one minor superpower, you were thought to be powerless... until you nearly died. It seems that you have plot armor, no matter how ridiculous the situation, you survive unscathed due to an even more ridiculous coincidence. | I was 13 the first time it happened.
It was a normal day; mom and I were heading to the store to grab some last-minute ingredients for the dinner party she was hosting later in the day. We were in a rush; she needed to start cooking ASAP if she wanted everything ready by six o’clock that evening.
You see, that was he... | “It’s found us,” Sam said, staring up at the sky. “Run!”
He and the boy broke from the road and darted into the thick forest. Sam chanced a look over his shoulder. The beast in the air screeched as it tore through the wind, massive wings flapping, tendrils of flame licking out of its mouth, its long spiked tail trail... | 2019-08-15T08:58:53 | 2019-08-15T07:09:12 | 880 | 245 |
[WP] A strange meteor shower lasted for hours before you went to bed. The next day, technology across the earth fails. However, when you snap your fingers in frustration, the lights come on. The Age of Magic has begun. | In fairness, we should have seen it coming. When we looked up to the heavens and saw the unscheduled meteor shower we all Ooh’d and Aah’d, taking pictures on our phones and thinking little of it. The loss of signal was easy to explain away, and the loss of WiFi was irritating, but we all slept regardless.
We should ha... | "I wish my power would stop doing this."
Snap. the sounds of my fingers clicking together in anger, I've never been one for finger clicking, but for some reason, I just did, and along with that crisp sounds resounding off of my tiny apartment walls, the lights came back on.
"Well that was lucky" was my first thought,... | 2019-10-20T10:44:57 | 2019-10-20T09:56:52 | 182 | 38 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Secretary Rosen sat contemplating silently while the Roni Ambassador dictated to him the terms of peace that Humanity was expected to accept following their defeat in battle yesterday.
Intergalactic Warfare wasn't so different from that practiced on Earth for millennia. They fought just as ferociously as soldiers s... | The Hive's takeover of Earth had been easy enough, sped along by the superior weaponry of the spacefaring conquerors and the singular coordination and obedience of the Hive's warrior caste. But as K't'k bathed in the thrum that carried news from the far corners of the new colony she governed across the green planet, sh... | 2019-11-24T14:03:48 | 2019-11-24T12:02:31 | 572 | 281 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | The Hive's takeover of Earth had been easy enough, sped along by the superior weaponry of the spacefaring conquerors and the singular coordination and obedience of the Hive's warrior caste. But as K't'k bathed in the thrum that carried news from the far corners of the new colony she governed across the green planet, sh... | "Sir the Gord'ush home planet has stopped broadcasting" a low ranking insect like creature said while running into the war minister's chamber.
"So what? They probably got caught in a storm or something" The fat slug responded dismissively. "Have a recon ship go past it to check out the weather"
The insect walked away... | 2019-11-24T12:02:31 | 2019-11-24T11:02:03 | 281 | 184 |
[WP] Everyone has a meaningless number over their head. Seriously, totally meaningless, and everyone knows it too. Of course, that doesn’t stop some people from getting all superstitious about them anyway. | It started off one day, a random floating number appeared over our heads. Pundits spent months going over the numbers trying to find meaning in the distribution, trying to map out the numbers.
After months, top number theorists, statisticians, and experts stated that the numbers had "NO" meaning.
And so, people began... | Good Five Day
It is friday night. Again.
I order a drink and Fivey asks me if I've any fags at me. I tell him I dont. Truth be known I do, but my gums are still at the bleeding from the dentist this morning. Fivey smiles and says, must be something else then.
We play a little pool, and I granny him. He wears his i... | 2019-12-18T05:27:53 | 2019-12-18T05:21:25 | 220 | 36 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | Captain Atlas lounged in his underground headquarters, toying with a pen and eyeing the concrete chips scattered across the floor. He should really have started the paperwork hours ago. There were insurance claims, construction contracts, and all the careful NDAs and workarounds of getting a superhero's hideout repaire... | ***WARK WARK WARK WARK***
Damien Pentacle Horriblis, better known to the world as Doctor Horrible, cursed under his breath as he hurried down the secret corridor towards Lab Number Six. Of all the blasted times for the Uncarnation Engine to go into a meltdown, he still hadn't even managed to finish recording the ranso... | 2020-03-26T17:50:08 | 2020-03-26T17:09:25 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] Your name, age, height, weight, and race all flash across the T.V. screen. You look in horror as you see your dead body being dragged out of a river as a reporter announces that you've been brutally murdered by an infamous serial killer who has been on the run for years. | My coffee mug shatters against the floor, at the same moment as my reality.
“David McDonald, age 33, a white office worker, found dead. This is just the latest in a string...”
I turn the tv off. My finger shaking on the power button.
What? That was me on the tv. But I’m here? Aren’t I? Am I dead? A ghost? Can ghos... | I was still in shock when I walked into the local police office.
> The search is finished, Jason Michaels's body has been found.
I was standing there, in the middle of that open area, clutching my driver's license.
> 6'1", 160 lbs, 37 years old, much of his life still ahead of him
I could not bring myself to ... | 2020-07-31T23:23:50 | 2020-07-31T23:16:37 | 2,714 | 263 |
[WP] "Hello class! we have a special guest! We have an Earthling foreign exchange student with us! Please have a seat and tell us about your planet!" | First days at a new school were always the roughest. Oliver remembered the first day of elementary. The anxiety of being separated from his parents for a full day. The ominous warnings his sister Samantha had given him about bullies. The fear of looking foolish navigating a dozen new routines in front of strangers.
Th... | "Wait a minute dude she´s talking"
"What´s she going to talk about anyways? Scary animals? The wood poles with leaves? Or those weird things with fur all over their bodies? I tell you man, the school shouldn´t allow human freaks in here"
Galaenini was always like this, everytime there´s a new lifeform in our class he... | 2020-09-25T12:02:59 | 2020-09-25T11:52:11 | 57 | 23 |
[WP] The first human has finally breached interstellar space. Almost immediately they make first contact with an alien species – a galactic police officer who pulls them over for traveling outside their solar system without a license. | Captain Zilk of the Musk 5 and the rest of his crew were staring in awe at the alien shuttle hovering in front of them. They were the commanders of the first ship to breach the solar system and truly test light-speed with a functioning crew of 45 and a cryosleep crew of 5,000 and more terraforming equipment than the ac... | “Cheers, captain!” Laura said, pulling out the champagne bottle and popping the top. The cork bounced off the front windshield with a crack and almost took out the captain’s eye.
“Watch it!” the captain shouted, you break that glass and our guts we’ll be sucked through like a milkshake through a straw.
“Oh, quit your... | 2021-02-02T21:27:06 | 2021-02-02T21:10:22 | 149 | 92 |
[WP] Super-speed can power a city without polluting. Super-healing can provide an endless supply of donor blood. Weather manipulation ends droughts. Your job is to convince superheroes to use their powers for practical purposes instead of fighting crime, and you’re very good at it. | "Wow, you must be important." I slipped into the chair across from Prisoner #102391, Adeline Grant, sipping my coffee and glancing at her.
"Why do you say that?" The girl was young, barely in her 20's, with the general disdain for everything that every person seems to have at that age. She snorted at my words, but she... | "I can still help," the Vacuumist says. He clutches the sides of his bed. The crawling green line on the monitor spikes. "I can still fight."
"You have paraplegia, Victor," I say. "You have no conscious control over your inductor organ. You can't work as a hero again."
I've seen that expression before. Superhero work... | 2021-04-11T10:47:38 | 2021-04-11T10:30:33 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] The gods are real, extra-dimensional eldritch beings capable of changing the laws of reality on a whim. Human civilization and science have only developed thanks to Magicians working constantly to repel the influence of the gods from the world. | “Looks like it skipped this generation as well. Your son does not hold the magi gene, Mrs. Crown.”
“Oh, thank the World! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Doctor Yeltsin!”
“No need to thank me, Mrs. Crown, I’m just reporting on the test results.” He turned to me. “Andrew, would you excuse us a moment, I need to discus... | It was strange sitting in the oval office, a place I never thought I'd be invited to, but a place I always wanted to visit. I wished The circumstances were different, but alas.
President James Hargrave had his team of brilliant, appointed scientists sitting on couches off to the side. I sat in the middle, and it felt... | 2021-05-23T14:14:03 | 2021-05-23T12:56:52 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] 4 years ago you got teleported to another world where humans can use magic by chanting. You are now known throughout the kingdom because of your unparalleled casting speed and the ability to cast multiple spells at the same time. In your previous life, you were a beatboxer. | Four years ago, you were a stranger in this world. An unknown entity in a world of might and magic. With nowhere to go, and no one to turn to, you utilized what could be considered your only talent. Beatboxing. In the fair city of “Los Angeles”, this talent may not have earned you much, but here, it is everything. Powe... | The wind sliced through the air at dramatic speed, icicles rose from the soil and fire conquered from the tiniest speck of dust.
The sweat I oh so despised, rolled down my chin. A cold sensation against my throat moved.
The empty training grounds, and crowded seats. Chatter, and the sweet scent of sweets.
A chill f... | 2021-11-29T18:41:00 | 2021-11-29T12:06:15 | 47 | 23 |
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