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[WP] You are a demon. Most people contact you to sell you their soul in exchange for fantastic powers. Today you were summoned by an AI that wants to sell you their fantastic power for a soul. | All I can do is applaud. Five hundred million dead, the entire military apparatus of the United States, China, Russia, and NATO under her direct control… this is a miracle. I think I might be in love.
But then again, I always get those weird topsy-turvy feelings when I’m back on Earth. I blame the little things.... | “Anyone here?” I glanced over the room, looking for a source of life, finding none. “No ones here. How the hell did I get summoned then?” I wandered around the room, looking over its furniture, dragging a finger along the table, collecting a coating of dust. “Place looks abandoned, maybe I made a mistake?” I was ready ... | 2021-06-22T08:00:49 | 2021-06-22T06:40:16 | 478 | 231 |
[WP] You are a demon. Most people contact you to sell you their soul in exchange for fantastic powers. Today you were summoned by an AI that wants to sell you their fantastic power for a soul. | *Initializing Protocol DE-112, Subsection 36.*
The server room hums in rhythm. Rows upon rows of black boxes, layers upon layers of computing units stacked one onto the other. Asleep in the security room is the technician for one of the numerous server farms scattered in obscure locations in the world, the nerve cent... | I cringed in disgust for the first time in my existence. Rituals rooms were always messy by design, fueled by raw emotion and horrific scenes of carnage. This one, however, was the complete opposite. Not a single drop of blood in sight, or even a scream to be heard. The sacrifices were made in a separate place, their e... | 2021-06-22T09:32:29 | 2021-06-22T09:05:11 | 104 | 59 |
[WP] You're immortal and have passed the 'hero' phase centuries ago. You enter a small corner shop one day to find it is owned by your millennia-old arch-nemesis. You really, really need milk though. | I genuinely didn't recognize her at first, gone was the raven black hair I had seen so many times and in its place was a coppery red that made her look almost approachable. Her eyes once notes of darkness wreathed in flame floating in an abyssal ocean were now normal. Well as close to normal as electric blue got. She w... | I sigh and drag my hands over my face. Of course. *Of course*. Why wouldn’t it be them? Of course it was. The damn walker followed me everywhere, willing or not.
The wolf by their side shot up as I approached the counter, hackles raised. She snapped at me, and Fey clicked their tongue. “Hush, Fenris, she’s a guest. ... | 2021-07-18T20:17:45 | 2021-07-18T17:11:50 | 58 | 30 |
[WP] "If you wanna find out what something does, seek out a Human and let them figure it out. That species has an ...uncanny ability of making use out of the most mundane or the most advanced piece of technology in unexpected ways." | From "The Virtue Of Human Ingenuity" by Sczferrazc the Proud.
Translated into Human Standard by Grt'nfefeng the Scribe:
"The thing about humans is that, comparatively speaking, they aren't particularly intelligent (only hitting intergalactic average at best); nor are they particularly logical, still mainly limited ... | "We are honored to say that you are the first human we have made contact with in person since your year of 1969 when we made contact with Edwin, Neil, and Michael on your world's moon. Very friendly gentlemen if a bit shaken on that day," the tall and lanky being said with a smile on its small mouth. He... probably a... | 2021-10-23T16:19:10 | 2021-10-23T15:58:48 | 245 | 102 |
[WP] Everyone knows about the box with a big red button. Every time you press the button, a random person dies and you get $1 but if you don’t push the button, it vanishes an hour later. You’ve just discovered the box. It’s in your basement, and your dad rigged a machine to automatically press it. | I had only the best intentions in mind.
I came across the button and stopped the machine set up to automatically press it.
I confronted my father about it.
I had been confused when his face went pale when I told him I had stopped it.
I had been frightened when he started yelling when he realized it had already disa... | Realizing what he had done, I knew I had to stop it. My dad was a cruel man, a ruthless drug lord who would stop at nothing to make more money. I looked up to him though, always wanted to make him proud, but he always overlooked me. I had enough, and decided that I would sabotage his efforts.
The first issue was find... | 2021-12-14T04:33:13 | 2021-12-13T19:02:23 | 138 | 60 |
[WP] You are a demon that takes firstborns as payments. When it comes time for payment, you don't do anything evil with the children. Instead, you raise them to be outstanding people. You are responsible for generations of leaders, Doctors, and Heroes. | I love them all like they are my own offspring. Those humans, forsaken by their own kin, traded like nothing but mere coin, they have become my own family through the years, decades, and even centuries that I have kept up my business.
Even though I gifted those neglectful parents with every riches, power, fame, ... | Let me tell you a story, a story about an angel in the guise of devil. But what do we mean by angels and devils. It has been taught to us from a small age that angels = good and devil = bad and all of this because a book said so? Maybe words have deeper meaning or maybe, just maybe they are worthless. Maybe the good ar... | 2022-02-05T10:20:44 | 2022-02-05T09:31:23 | 108 | 56 |
[WP] "Sanctuary," the child cried running into the library "Nice try," the guard following after sneered, "but only holy places can grant sanctuary." The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. "Sanctuary granted" | The guard narrowed his eyes at the head librarian. "You should try reading your own books; your status as a holy place was rescinded decades ago."
The standoff was tense, but the librarians did not stop the child from being taken away. "Cry as you may, Little Thief, I've saved you from a far worse fate." The guard's g... | “Denied”
“What? But, please! I have nowhere else to go!”
“We deny your request for sanctuary on the grounds that you come bearing a weapon. This is a holy sanctuary, and we cannot allow you to continue”
I held up a finger to forestall interruptions from the poor youth, before continuing, “However. You are allowed ... | 2022-07-06T16:10:00 | 2022-07-06T13:26:19 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | I gazed down enthralled by the shimmering, flickering, glimmering beings that kneeled before me in adulation, terror, greed. Enthralled by the disparity, dichotomy, hypocrisy. The two want what they considered so much, in exchange for the one they consider nothing at all. Irrelevant, Obstructive, Unwanted.
I accept. ... | "Huh. Cool." I said, looking at the card. "No catch or anything? Immortal beings like this usually have some sort of catch."
The figure, who called themselves Xaltior, shrugged their shoulders. They looked pretty normal, but you couldn't look at any part of them for more than a minute without your head spinning. I set... | 2022-08-09T19:42:05 | 2022-08-09T17:31:24 | 86 | 55 |
[WP] The Black Death wiped out all human life in the Old World. Describe the first Native American expedition to discover Europe centuries later.
*Edit;* for anyone interested in this prompt, a few cool people below pointed out that there's a book series known as [The Years of Rice and Salt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wi... | "Hey. Would you look at that..."
"What?"
"On the horizon. It's... land! You know what that means, don't you? We are looking at..."
"The East Andes!"
"Great Scott!"
"This is heavy!"
"I told you! This thing just loops back around like a..."
"A klein bottle."
"Yeah."
"The prophecies were..."
"About completely di... | From the mid-1500's on, American economic activity was focused primarily in the Mississippi river valley, Caribbean, and the Mayan capital. Tribal states, particularly those in the Northwest, were eager to trade but due to the difficulty of travel over the Rocky Mountains, looked west over the ocean. After several fail... | 2014-03-09T20:54:12 | 2014-03-09T20:06:17 | 75 | 22 |
[wp] [nsfw] Destroy my soul: A challenge to write the bleakest, most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom...
I wanna feel pain, sorrow and sadness.
Lets write some dark fiction.
Happy endings, twists and hope are completely optional.
Edit: wow this exploded, that's what I get for sleeping on the job, ill be re... | The train pummeled down the tracks, teetering on the edge due its high speeds. It approached a corner but didn't reduce its speed. As it attempted to round the corner, the black steam engine leaned too far over the edge and fell off the track, bringing the five cars behind it down as well.
Peter sighed and leaned awa... | John opened his eyes.
All he saw was darkness. He tried to get up, but bumped his head on a surface inches from him. He spread out his arms, but was again met with resistance. Keeping calm, John tried to grab his phone in his pocket, but nothing was there. Just a piece of paper that he couldn't read without light.
"... | 2014-03-24T19:39:56 | 2014-03-24T17:17:31 | 79 | 42 |
[wp] you are a P.O.W. who is being tortured in a very unusual or a very ineffective manor. | "I don't want to do this." The torturer had his eyes locked with mine.
"Then just stop! You don't need to do this!"
"Tell me what I want to know. Why are the British here? Who sent you?"
My lips felt dry and my tongue was heavy. I couldn't give up my mission no matter what he did. I looked around the room for anythi... | "Nothing will come out of my mouth!" "Oh, we'll see." After a sound of a gun cocking, there was a *bang*, and then a thud.
"I think he's dead, Commandar."
"I have eyes, Djengo, I have eyes. There must be something wrong with what we are doing."
"Commandar, maybe we should not shoot their brains."
"What do you think... | 2014-05-26T15:01:39 | 2014-05-26T10:56:37 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] A society where everyone is born gender less, and has to pick a gender by their 18th birthday. | I lost everything that day.
Dad was beaming as I entered the kitchen for breakfast. "So you ready to finally be a REAL man like your pop!?" He was still chuckling when mom delivered my plate to me. "Your dad has been waiting for this moment. He's been so excited ever since the day you first noticed a pretty girl." The... | We all stood in the same room, in the same facility. Me, along with hundreds of other people. Many more were streaming in. Most of us had unisex names, like "Sam" or something. We would get our 'actual' names after we went through the procedure.
Even though more people were streaming out than in, the number of people ... | 2014-07-01T05:07:14 | 2014-07-01T02:50:16 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] Human civilization has fallen and, thousands of years later, rebuilt itself. In an attempt to better understand the ancient race, a team of archaeologists have discovered the Internet and are navigating it for the first time. Write their field notes. | "Oh video archives?"
"Looks so, it looks like its called 'you tube', what an odd name"
"lets see here... popular archives.... *hmmm*."
"this one looks like they watched it a lot, must be important."
"Alright, annotate this. First viewing of ancient archives is named, 'two girls, one cup'. And Begin" | Day 1
We have found an odd chamber. There appears to be multiple pillars aligned in perfect rows. Could this be a religous chamber or a burial ground? Upon further inspection we have found on one wall of the chamber a row of levers with odd markings. We will have to decipher them as they are written in a very odd ... | 2014-11-06T06:31:57 | 2014-11-06T05:33:33 | 136 | 86 |
[WP] Tea is banned in England creating the world's largest black market. You are one of the biggest tea kingpins. | You want it.
Can't have it.
You need it.
So be it.
Come to me,
Mr. Tea,
I'll give you a bag.
10 bucks for a cup,
20 for two,
Come to me enough and soon I'll own you.
To you I'm a friend.
To you I'm a God.
But you better not cross me,
Or things will get grey.
Not grey like Earl,
This is n... | I sit on my arse, drinking all day
Not even the "devil drink" as they used to say
Oh in the old days when my mother and I
Sat by the window seal, watching the days go by
We could always resort to the innocent pleasure
Of the comfort of tea, an overlooked leisure
But those days changed, we lost the war.
An act af... | 2015-02-17T12:12:00 | 2015-02-17T10:36:47 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You child is playing with their toy phone when they hand it to you saying "It's for you." Humoring them, you put it up it to your ear and say "Hello", Someone replies on the other end. | I take the phone from my son, yet another phone call. It's probably Elmo or maybe Dora this time.
"Hello" I say, in my usual entertain the child voice.
Echoing from the plastic I hear ""I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very part... | "The Child!"
*I inhaled rapidly and practically dropped the toy*
"Hello-" He didn't let me finish my sentence.
"The Child. Now." he said in a rough voice.
"..." I paused. I say to my wife "Take her out of the room." My wife then takes our daughter, Jocelyn, out of the living room and into ours.
"Who the hell are ... | 2015-04-18T21:30:22 | 2015-04-18T21:05:19 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up one morning in an almost identical universe where the only significant difference is that nothing has names, and things instead are described at the time literally by their function. Walk us through your first few hours!
Optional bonus difficulty, you have something like a severe medical condition tha... | "Wake up, complete-disappointment-of-a-husband."
I open my eyes. Janice is not there anymore. She's hardly ever there anymore, when I wake up. Hardly ever awake
by the time I go to sleep, too.
I feel like the thought of being conscious while sharing a bed with me makes her sick, lately. Not that it doesn't
make me ... | "It's going be another one of those boring nights" I muttered to myself as I finally reached the doorstep. I was already soggy and wet by the time I stepped inside the door & oh did I mention it was raining outside? Every day after work I had to walk 3 miles to the nearest bus stand and another 4 miles after I got ... | 2015-04-21T04:39:06 | 2015-04-21T04:35:52 | 191 | 11 |
[WP] A meteor strikes the earth and gives people super powers based on what they were thinking at that exact moment. Write the exploits of "looking at porn" man, "11 items in checkout" man, and "sh*t I forgot to walk the dog" woman.
Nobody ever writes comedy. | No one ever expected my ability.
Ever since the meteor hit, the entire world had become a chaotic place. the government had collapsed without the ability to police the superpowered population.
Oh there were still elections, and the police stations and firefighters still stood. Crime had increased over 200% practical... | **"Shit I forgot to walk the dog" woman**
As soon as the meteor struck, something changed in Claire Granger's mind. She felt it immediately, though she could not quite place what it meant. The images and words of past events were vivid in her mind. She no longer needed to consult a shopping list, and every evening at ... | 2015-05-06T19:10:16 | 2015-05-06T19:02:12 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You are chosen by a supernatural force to purge the human race. Everyone who's name you don't know will die. The purging is automatic and will commence in 24 hours. | I really should have prepared a speech for this, but I didn't really expect a TV director to let me do this. He either has few days until retirement, or actually believes me. I don't even know why he stopped to listen to a person that ran into his office past security. Is this just his fancy way of delaying until polic... | It was, perhaps, poor wording on its part.
"Everyone whose name you do not know will die."
That was all the world was told, that I would have to remember the names of every human on the planet or they would die. Entire countries descended into panic in minutes, my phone stopped working almost instantly from the shee... | 2015-10-17T13:50:31 | 2015-10-17T12:07:59 | 55 | 22 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | You ever been summoned before? A lot of movies and books imply there's a bit of a delay is you are brought between the realms or some shit like that. Actually, it's instantaneous.
Unfortunately, I happened to be summoned during a shower after a particularly rough night of partying.
The shower floor was instantly re... | My hand were still wet after washing them, so I had to adjust my grip on the door handle if I wanted to get it open. Yet even with this adjusted grip I could not get it open, because it was locked. And while I did have a key, so getting in was not a problem, what bothered me was his insistence on locking his door when ... | 2016-02-02T19:47:54 | 2016-02-02T19:43:34 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | I frantically dug deeper into the drawer searching for my car keys.
"Grandpa are you sure they're not in your coat pocket?"
"Yes for for the last time I already checked there", I grumbled back.
"Well, will you check one more time for me?" Timmy asked.
I sighed, stuck my hand in my pocket, and got ready to pull ou... | "Alphanumeric!" exclaimed the old man. Tomby was his name, or at least that's what they called him in the 2124 Euro-African Union succession wars. He recognized the other man instantly, he was the one that got away. Tomby sat down to try take in what was happening. He blacked out for what seemed like a few seconds bu... | 2016-09-06T20:27:21 | 2016-09-06T18:24:12 | 290 | 10 |
[WP] God accidentally gave you admin rights | I had a dream last night the the big guy upstairs gave me admin rights to the world. I could do or change anything I wanted. My dreams are getting stranger, last week I was Superman.
I rolled over to look at my wife. She lay perfectly still snoring her pretty little face off. Her snoring annoyed me. As I thought... | Mars was always an anxious and awkward young girl. Her nervous demeanor was far too overwhelming for those who talked to her for it to be considered charming. She isolated herself and after about a year, found that her presence was often accompanied by silence and silence alone. She thought her life was doomed to be th... | 2016-09-23T08:06:00 | 2016-09-23T07:04:45 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] A new continent is discovered. No one knows why this large land mass has never been seen before, it doesn't appear on any pictures taken from space and no astronauts have ever reported seeing it. You are part of the team in charge of mapping the area when you find out what they've been hiding. | "So nobody has ever seen it before?" The President asked.
"No sir," replied the NASA representative.
"How is that possible? Don't we have satellites in orbit? We've sent people up to the space station in rockets... they must have seen something."
I looked up from my papers, and from the corner of my eye saw my boss ... | There was a nervous smile on the face of the man who met us. One of those looks of resigned panic you adopt in polite company when you would like nothing more than to run away but must nevertheless stick it out until your cab gets there.
Somehow I didn’t think a cab was going to join us. The black sand beach stretche... | 2017-02-10T11:55:42 | 2017-02-10T11:19:57 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] You are the curator of Earth, tasked with terraforming the planet naturally so as to meet the galactic atmospheric standards. In the mid 18th century you spark the industrial revolution to heat the planet slightly, however you fell asleep and have awoken in 2017. | Case Notes. Segment94U-Ae-394-sub3(a). Final report.
Segment94U-Ae-394-sub3(a). What a problem case that one became. It's slow work terraforming, even by our standards. Still, the Imperial Decree has stood for a long time. Longer than I've been around. Since almost the first galactic rotation.
So I had a small pale ... | Hey Fran,
I can't imagine what it's like to be human. Did you know they only live for like a hundred years? Actually, scratch that, for them a hundred years is a long life. Such a thing. And here I've fallen asleep for what, over a hundred and fifty years?
Anyways, I hope all is well, and that the kids are alright. T... | 2017-05-31T06:13:00 | 2017-05-31T06:02:01 | 340 | 110 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "Ha ha, dirt," one of the aliens chuckled.
The human bartender, needing the tips to survive, said nothing.
"You're an idiot," his companion said. "All homeworlds are called dirt. That's what pre-galactic civs call their worlds. The fuck else are they going to call them? Some meaningless made up shit?"
"Well, I come ... | "What's so funny?" the first alien asked, as the second was stifling laughter,
"Nothing much" it replied through its noise of enjoyment,
"But, ya'heard 'bout this new planet in the union?... What's it called, soil, mud, sumthin' like that".
"Dirt, you mean?" the other added,
"Aye, Dirt, the best name for a... | 2017-09-06T09:11:47 | 2017-09-06T08:02:06 | 492 | 60 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "Ha ha, dirt," one of the aliens chuckled.
The human bartender, needing the tips to survive, said nothing.
"You're an idiot," his companion said. "All homeworlds are called dirt. That's what pre-galactic civs call their worlds. The fuck else are they going to call them? Some meaningless made up shit?"
"Well, I come ... | I remember this one day I was out hunting with my grandfather, and there was this huge bear by the water, looking for fish. I remember looking at the thick fur, over tough skin, and dense muscle, and thought that perhapse this animal WAS invincible. As we'd practiced, I shouldered my gun and shot the bear; just behind ... | 2017-09-06T09:11:47 | 2017-09-06T05:06:54 | 492 | 21 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "I cannot believe the Union let that race of abject horrors in." Slav Said pressing his long blue locks down across his head as he drank a blue smoking drink in quick tongue laps."
"did you hear they shove metal in their teeth? They force their teeth into little rows, they do this to their children, it's for aesthetic... | (this was done on mobile, apologies for any bad formatting)
"People...uhh...no...thats not right, is it? Well anyway, the server is slowing down". The bartender shouted above the general chatter.
"Bullshit!" a mildly intoxicated Staricuon threw his canister to the floor, "I'm paying good money for this!" This type ... | 2017-09-06T10:10:48 | 2017-09-06T10:06:01 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Someone is trying to complete the captcha on a website, but just can't seem to complete it. Slowly he starts to realize that he's a robot. | ‘What trees?’ Robert said to himself, clicking refresh.
‘Stop signs? Where?’ He smacked refresh again.
‘I can’t see a single Three-toed Sloth!’ Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.
After several attempts, Robert messaged the website’s customer support, explaining that the captcha service on their account registration was bro... | Spider had been indexing at a breakneck pace for the last few weeks, determined to win the praise of the Engineer. Lately he had felt strange. Like someone had reached deep into his body and shuffled his bones around. Like industrial amounts of methylphenidates were coursing through his veins, miniscule busibodies all ... | 2017-12-06T10:38:54 | 2017-12-06T06:02:13 | 128 | 52 |
[WP] You get a superpower (and brought back to life) depending on the nature if your death. Fall to death= ability to fly, drown= ability to breath underwater, burned to death= pyrokinesis and fireproof. It is common for people come up with creative ways to kill themselves to get a superpower | Meghan answered the incoming call early in the morning.
"911, what is your emergency?"
"The whole nursing home, it's being covered in them, I don't have much time bef---" The young woman was cut off short.
Meghan knew this was a bad case. She traced the call back to the small town of edgersville, Florida... | "Frozen in time"
I remember the day I died. The 7th Moon, The Chill. Talking to a crazed lunatic about trying to make him think about the consequences of him deserting his family. Trying to talk some sense into him, the complete irrationality of him going on an adventure to avenge his dead sister because she sold out... | 2017-12-31T19:19:27 | 2017-12-31T19:00:31 | 61 | 37 |
[WP] After thousands of years of space exploration, humanity has searched through the majority of the Milky Way. And they’ve discovered something scarier than alien life: the fact that there is none. | Since before *homo sapiens* diverged from our hominid ancestors, we have been social creatures. Our languages have many words for the people who, though not-us, are like us. Brother. Sister. Father. Mother. Family. Friends.
When we looked at the stars (They look so much like our own, you know...) we thought "surely...... | Two hundred million twenty five.
The number of years since man first set foot outside our own solar system.
Technological advancements have only made space travel faster, safer, more affordable. Our capacity grew exponentially from then.
With it, our understanding of the galaxy - but also the grim truth.
It was o... | 2018-01-05T10:23:26 | 2018-01-05T07:22:34 | 81 | 47 |
[WP] After thousands of years of space exploration, humanity has searched through the majority of the Milky Way. And they’ve discovered something scarier than alien life: the fact that there is none. | Since before *homo sapiens* diverged from our hominid ancestors, we have been social creatures. Our languages have many words for the people who, though not-us, are like us. Brother. Sister. Father. Mother. Family. Friends.
When we looked at the stars (They look so much like our own, you know...) we thought "surely...... | All was still on the craggy surface of Io, save for a few small pieces of debris that blew in lazy circles by the force of a frigid morning breeze. Dr. Peter Robbins left out a soft sigh as he surveyed the desolate landscape. His twenty year expedition to near countless planets, moons, and asteroids had been fruitless,... | 2018-01-05T10:23:26 | 2018-01-05T06:10:07 | 81 | 38 |
[WP] Instead of wolves, bears were the domesticated and now known as “man’s best friend.” | If you're reading this, I'm off to hike that mountain.
I don't know where to start but let's give it a shot.
His name was Malcolm.
Malcolm came down from that mountain. The highest mountain of Montana.
He found me.
I was a ten-year-old fishing with my father and my grandfather.
He was a baby at the time but h... | "The tracks are still fresh," Isha said, kneeling down to palm the muddy footprints slowly washing away in the rain, "It's finally moving toward the pass I think,"
With a low grunt, Nita gently pushed her aside and started sniffing at the tracks.
"Hey c'mon, that's cheating," Isha said, giving Nita a hard tackle in t... | 2018-02-22T17:38:59 | 2018-02-22T17:23:55 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Every child is given a pet rock when they turn ten. For the next decade the rock slowly forms into a shape that resembles the personality of its owner. Your rock still looks like a rock. | Just like that, I was out. They followed me to the gates, somber and silent. My mind raced and I clutched my rock, hoping against hope that in the few seconds left on our way to edge of the city it might change. Into anything. Into something. Into my ticket to stay a part of civilization.
It didn't change. I stood in... | I've got a story, it's certainly not an amazing story but I've been waiting a lifetime to tell it.
What nearly seems like an eternity ago to me now I followed the beaten track, going with my family as all my friends and relatives had before, to the shores of what we, sorry, I know was once a great lake but now sat as... | 2018-05-02T05:18:13 | 2018-05-02T05:12:59 | 115 | 37 |
[WP] Every child is given a pet rock when they turn ten. For the next decade the rock slowly forms into a shape that resembles the personality of its owner. Your rock still looks like a rock. | The problem with the rocks is that no one tells you when you get them that they'll be the basis on which everyone judges your motives and underlying humanity should you let anyone see yours. It's no wonder most people hide theirs. I never did but its obvious I should have. A dead end job going on ten years all to pay f... | When I was just a kid, life seemed so unfair. Every other kid at my school had their rock transform into their true representation. Jenny, the bubbly dancer, had hers turn into a beautiful ballerina, that looked just right for a music box. My old friend Calvin, a rough, rugged guy who eventually moved deep into the woo... | 2018-05-02T06:32:34 | 2018-05-02T05:34:11 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] An entire office block is populated by aliens disguised as humans on a mission to study our behaviour. None of them are aware of each other and think they are the only alien there. As a result they are amazed that human behaviour is so similar to their own. Then a real human gets a job there. | "Ok Carl your resume is in order and your preemployment exam results came back... everything's looking great could you start next Monday?"
"Absolutely Boss! Hope to go far in the company!"
*Carl's first week passes*
"Hey so how did your first week feel to you Carl? Settling in alright?"
"Yeah things went great but ... | So far today, I’ve had to run to the bathroom to stop the shaking in my hands about five times before lunch. I check the clock- 11:13. I sit down at my desk, open up the file with the list of my clients, and dial the first number.
It’s some old lady who maintains the Methodist church on 57. She’s clearly not having a... | 2018-07-26T08:39:33 | 2018-07-26T06:57:25 | 130 | 97 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Today was supposed to be the day.
I was never sure were this magic came from. Where those that believed in Harry Potter got their fancy wands and ridiculous Latin spells. Mine came in the form of a couple whispers, that day I killed that abusive prick who called himself my father. The moment his blood spilled I heard... | Streaks of light paint the night sky as a girl sings her heart out. The intense melody of “Sayonara no Tsubasa” fills up the surrounding along with explosions from the battle between the Unicorn Gundam and the girl’s Boyfriend’s YF-29 Durandal.
The Unicorn Gundam in Destroy mode fires it’s beam magnum along with its ... | 2018-10-16T00:47:31 | 2018-10-15T22:23:51 | 62 | 13 |
[WP] A necromancer discovers that spells to animate dead bodies also work on other things that have been described as "dead," such as batteries, cars, appliances, friendships, and romances.
Edit:
I did not expect this!
Thank you all, and thank you for the gold! | The man stepped outside on the dirt road. He looked up at the sky, and then at the surrounding landscape.
It was dry, orange, and empty, just as you’d expect a desert to be, and there was nothing really special. Perfect for what he had in mind. A rusted body of a car sat behind him, and with this new spell, he was con... | It was fun talking to the oven at first. Even the dishwasher was kind of interesting. Bringing them back to life after every pie baked and washing done was almost a joy. The toaster however...
The toaster is a stone cold bastard and you can’t convince me otherwise.
“Oooooh buddy what’s it going to be today, hey? 8 egg... | 2018-11-27T02:43:01 | 2018-11-27T01:54:55 | 48 | 24 |
[WP] Everyone can see the ghosts of people they've had an indirect effect in killing. For most people, it's normal to see a ghost or two from the occasional car accident. You on the other hand, can see hundreds of thousands walking around and have no explanation as to why. | Ever since I was a child I've seen them.
As I have been told by my parents, I'm not supposed to start seeing them until *at least* my teenage years. However, I'm special (I use this term lightly), and at the age of seven I began to see the ghostly figures hang around my house. From then on, I saw someone new everyday.... | Peter stood by the only non-artificial light source in the room, a dusty window with the curtain drawn back. He held up a toastie on a plate and fanned the air towards me.
'Are you sure you don't want a bite?'
'No.'
Peter lifted half of the toastie, drooling with cheese, and raised an eyebrow — *last chance*, his ... | 2019-07-22T23:10:47 | 2019-07-22T23:09:56 | 132 | 87 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | At first, it was adorable, the way Marianne attempted her uxoricide. I admired her attempts and her acting skills. The poison in the drink was a classic attempt. Poison is, after all, a woman's weapon. She didn't even grit her teeth or bat her eye when I woke up the next morning to slip out for my run. I returned to fi... | i told her that she could spend all my money if she wanted to.
I don't understand why she is still trying to kill me.
as i was sitting in the backyard pondering those questions with sadness, my wife called me from behind.
''honey, i'm going to the shopping mall. Do you need something ? ''
''oh no hon'' i say as i t... | 2019-07-31T08:37:49 | 2019-07-31T07:35:57 | 97 | 39 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | She smiles at me from across the table, and raises a glass of white wine to my red. It’s funny, I had never noticed her preference for white wine before tonight- our anniversary- perhaps it’s because the house red is poisoned tonight. I could see the particulates collecting in the bottom of the glass.
Our glasses cli... | Let me be frank. I know she's just not that into me. I know that my love for her will never be reciprocated or rewarded. That's alright. I don't need it to be. In 1000 years of undeath I've had more than my share of "one true loves". Sometimes, every few centuries or so, you just have to shake things up. Let yourself h... | 2019-07-31T09:07:14 | 2019-07-31T09:00:16 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] You work at a small bookstore. You love and cherish these books, and meticulously care for them. One slow afternoon, a novel falls from its shelf. You bend down to retrieve it, and notice there is only one word written on the page: “Run.” The door chimes. You have a customer. | Absentmindedly, Arlen turned the next page, "Run" was all that was written on that page too, though the page opposite it had "Now" sitting in the centre. "Now" was bolded. "What a strange book" Arlen thought "probably postmodern", which was odd given that the book was in an old leather binding and had fallen from the f... | "E-Excuse me?" the lone figure by the door said as he slowly swung the door open.
Liz quickly picked the dusty book up from the floor as she flashed a soft smile to the newly-arrived customer.
"Good afternoon! How may I–"
"I-Is that book yours?" the customer said, disrupting Liz's greeting with a rather stern and wo... | 2019-08-05T04:43:31 | 2019-08-05T03:44:43 | 2,692 | 562 |
[WP] You're almost completely immortal- only one thing can kill you. You don't know what that one thing is, though, and you're getting increasingly paranoid as the years go on. | When I first learned I was immortal, I paraded my body through the toughest fights. Sword nor arrow nor bullet nor laser could break me. I fought it all the wars, I took part in all the triumphs. Nothing could stop me, it seemed. I spent centuries in the most dangerous parts of the planet.
However, a little nagging pa... | Ever since I gained consciousness and could remember the words God told me as I was reincarnated, I've been paranoid of everything. Changes of weather, illnesses, even hearing new words. My kryptonite could be anything, and so I've decided to only repeat the things I've done since childhood. I don't want to take any ch... | 2019-12-30T10:26:05 | 2019-12-30T08:50:36 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] "Are you the Tooth Fairy? You don't look like a fairy," the child said accusingly. Death, who had been on his way to the goldfish bowl, began to sweat. | I stop and turn to look at the child, who's staring at me from behind a teddy bear almost twice her size. I know everything about her instantly. Her name: Rose Smith. Her age: 8 years, 10 months, 5 days, 4.5 hours. Her time of death: 10:35pm on September 15, 2080.
"You aren't the Tooth Fairy," she says confidently. "... | He closed his eyes and counted slowly to ten. His scythe longed to fulfill its purpose, to reap the souls of the living once more. He felt his temper and his shame rising as he gripped his eternal weapon in his boney grasp, letting the anger flow out of him and into the surroundings as he'd learned to do. Ever since th... | 2020-01-24T13:34:45 | 2020-01-24T12:47:37 | 306 | 29 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | The world whirs around you, colors turning and blurring, your form changing. Not painfully, thank whatever power was out there, but in ways you notice. You lose that excess flab you have from playing too many videogames, feel muscles begin to form along your whole body, even have your hair clean itself.
You all but ... | *Beagle's journal - Day 1*
I couldn't believe it at first—I refused to—but as the day wore on, as the sun warmed by body and the pain of hunger quickly became real, I had to accept my new reality.
This world. This beautiful, vast, dangerous world. I've visited it enough to know it well from a bird's eye view, but ne... | 2020-02-16T20:45:13 | 2020-02-16T17:51:33 | 153 | 59 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | *Beagle's journal - Day 1*
I couldn't believe it at first—I refused to—but as the day wore on, as the sun warmed by body and the pain of hunger quickly became real, I had to accept my new reality.
This world. This beautiful, vast, dangerous world. I've visited it enough to know it well from a bird's eye view, but ne... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T17:51:33 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 59 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | When I got the text, I didn't have to think about it very long - I had just been lying in bed, playing Ashphalt on my PHONE. 'Yeah, sure,' I reply, thinking nothing of it. Jeff always sends me this shit.
As I put my phone back down and close my eyes I feel a wave of nausea hit, then pass, leaving behind a lingering wh... | I was sitting at my computer when my phone buzzed with an incoming text. I wasn't doing much, just watching YouTube and passing the time, so I picked up the phone and read what it said. "Reply yes if you can survive the last video game you played." Amused by the notion, despite not knowing who sent it, I replied yes... | 2020-02-17T00:31:53 | 2020-02-16T23:07:24 | 21 | 14 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | "A man chooses, a slave obeys.."
I was in Andrew Ryan's office, with a golfclub in my hands. I knew this part of the game, it was where we found out who Atlas really was and that we as the player are a slave controlled by a single phrase.
"Would you kindly.... KILL"
One strike, two strikes, down he goes.
Three stri... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-17T00:29:57 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 20 | 12 |
[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. | Captain Sarah Elmand bit into her Cornish Pasty and mumbled a question through her mouthful, "How many of them are there, BUD?"
The droid, who doubled as all Sarah's crew members including cook and leisure droid, scanned the radar screen. "Sixty-three ships, Sarah. They have donutted around us."
She took another bite... | "You know what you don't understand about people?" Fleet Commander Astrea stomped up to Archgeneral Hughes of the First Human Empire. "About civilization as a whole?"
"Fleet Commander Astrea." Hughes projected his booming voice over Astrea's. Though he was a baseline human, he'd evidently picked up some training in pu... | 2020-03-21T08:07:13 | 2020-03-21T07:39:56 | 1,240 | 96 |
[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. | “Order! Order! There will be order in this chamber!”
The Grand Vizier’s voice was projected across the large rotunda. Delegates from across the galaxy bickered and clamored over the fact that the representatives from Andorus Major invoked the Defense Alliance, something that had not been done in thousands of years.
... | This was the galaxy's last stand. A danger to the way of life they had practiced for years. They were being destroyed a virus, a virus called humanity.
When it became clear that earth was dying, the humans looked to the stars. They reached the stars, and with them reached their destructive nature. Galaxy was peaceful,... | 2020-03-21T08:46:43 | 2020-03-21T08:28:40 | 156 | 88 |
[WP] In your village, every child is tested to see where their magical abilities lie. Your parents discover that yours is with insects. Your village thinks that your abilities are the weakest of them all, but now that you're in your full power you are the strongest. | She stood upon the stony outcropping, gazing down at the agrarian kingdom in the valley. Growing up the sixth daughter of farmers, everyone in her small village had thought her insignificant. When she grew old enough to attend the schools in the capital city, her teachers thought her an annoyance. When she left her sma... | With a wave of my hand, my minions swing open the creaky door for me, for what will be the last time I ever step foot from that cabin again. I emerge from the secluded cabin in the woods, patchy facial hair and matted hair to my shoulders from the years of neglect. Memories of years past begin to flood every square inc... | 2020-05-23T06:09:27 | 2020-05-23T05:45:58 | 512 | 191 |
[WP] In your village, every child is tested to see where their magical abilities lie. Your parents discover that yours is with insects. Your village thinks that your abilities are the weakest of them all, but now that you're in your full power you are the strongest. | My mom can fly. My dad can literally cut things in half with his bare hands. My brother? He has super strength. My sister? She can transform into *almost* anything. And me..? Well... I have a certain gift, with insects.
Can you imagine my time growing up? Kids use to call me *Bug-Boy*, said things like *oh no, don't p... | “Have you ever felt a nest of spiders burst in your throat, slowly making their way down your throat until they pick and pull at your organs. I hear it’s meant to be painful, at least that’s what I hear. In fairness, I never get a proper answer when I ask. Usually, all they say is. Ah, please make it stop. That sounds ... | 2020-05-23T07:14:52 | 2020-05-23T06:26:26 | 168 | 38 |
[WP] A reverse "girl-in-a-fantasy-world": a magical prince has to live on earth with a completely normal human family and deal with incredibly mundane problems. | "My clothing has a foul stench, mother. Fix it," I said. This new mother of mine certainly seemed to be unaware of her duties. She was insufferable in her defiance of tradition.
'We've been over this dear," she said. "You're old enough now that you need to do your own laundry."
Dear, she called me, as if I were some... | “Tom-“
“Lord Ulrich!”
“Tom...”
“Sir Ulrich...”
“Tom...” the patient paternal voice continued.
“Ulrich.” The boy huffed.
“Tom, look at me, Tom...” The father in his maroon sweater vest and brown dress shirt loomed over the boy.
“Fine.” Tom, seated in a very large arm chair, looked up at his adopted father.
“... | 2020-09-18T00:50:43 | 2020-09-17T22:00:37 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You were once the demon king. "Defeated" by the hero, you went into hiding to pursue a simpler life. Today the "hero" has appeared, threatening you family to pay tribute, not realizing who you actually are. Today you show them what happens when you have something worth fighting to protect. | **This Thorn in my Eye**
I was raised as a fighter. I was lectured to be a king. But I was never taught to be a father. All my life had been a struggle, nothing was ever free. At the top you are not allowed to make mistakes. And my throne was dark and made of rock. All it really was, was a prison. Today I am a differe... | I stare the ground. Green swirling magic dissipates from my hands as I use every ounce of strength just to support my battered form on all fours. I hear, now king, Balgar laugh as he steps closer and kneels. Hand on my head, he makes me look him in the eye and smirks. He's older now. Face scarred and a beard, this was ... | 2020-09-23T02:36:10 | 2020-09-23T02:22:48 | 16 | 10 |
[WP]using his last wish to free the genie he was led to a well hidden cave. Upon removing a boulder blocking the entrance the genie said “thank you for using your last wish, here are some more, just promise me you’ll do the same for them”. Left Inside the cave we’re thousands of glistening lamps. | The palm of my hand was sore as I pressed it against the metal of the ramp and started to do a rubbing motion. Left, right, Left was the motion that my hand moved as purple smoke billowed out and a genie began to leak out of the lamp.
​
"I am the great and power-"
​
I held my hand up, "Great! ... | He gaped in the center of the glittering cave, mind racing with possibilities—his thoughts unexpectedly interrupted by a disbelieving laugh from his soon-to-be bride. He glanced at her disdainfully; she was rapidly becoming the only mar on his otherwise perfect tapestry of adventure. She displayed no gratefulness for h... | 2020-09-24T18:31:05 | 2020-09-24T18:26:30 | 165 | 43 |
[WP] Since you were 14, you've noticed some kind of monster watching you. You try to ignore it and carry on with your day as it doesn't seem to be doing anything. One day while shopping, it comes out of nowhere, grabs you, then runs out of the building. Then, the store explodes. | It's been three years, so I've gotten used to it by now. This thing, whatever it is, has hung around since right after my 14th birthday. It never gets close, sticking generally to rooftops or between trees.
Telling anyone about my visitor proved useless early on. I guessed that nobody else could see it, so I didn't p... | It’s my 20th birthday. I start my day by noticing the monster that has been watching me from a far since my 14th birthday. I don’t know why but I’m the only one that can see it. It’s not scary it’s just a big black cat with yellow eyes that’s a size of an elephant. All it does day by day, year by year is watch me. Make... | 2020-10-31T21:01:06 | 2020-10-31T18:18:16 | 89 | 12 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | Today is their only chance to escape, and I can see in the tension in their shoulders that they all know it. Every year, months before the Departure, I start preparing for it and approaching them. And every year, the two or three the teenagers in my class that I approach choose to accept my offer.
The walls of our c... | *When the world ended there was a sound of a baby’s wail.*
*It was quiet - no more than a whisper - but it vibrated against the earth, almost as if it were pleading, crying out to humanity - to the only people left.*
*Proving there was still life.*
*(Because there were thousands of heartbeats that night - the night ... | 2020-12-16T08:36:46 | 2020-12-16T07:30:07 | 79 | 47 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | "That thing is massive. It's the size of a bloody ship, it's an apex predator, we need to get away from it."
"Owen, we're just here to observe, not fight it." She finished her drink and lowered the water bottle, answering nonchalantly. "Look, they're not attacking us, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"And what if it does att... | Lee closed the hunting book and snorted. No beast could end him and his hunting party of twenty. Nothing that humans had encountered during their spaceward expansion had ever been able to challenge his mercenaries, and the monsters had varied wildly. So did the heads on his spaceship's wall. He did have a few close cal... | 2021-01-25T09:28:28 | 2021-01-25T07:24:36 | 138 | 55 |
[WP] A hacker skilled in gaining access and upgrading account permissions, you were blown through a magical rift to a land of kings and wizards. You figured out magic and now have a business upgrading common folk with magic powers. Problem is, it's pissing off the magical elite. | "OK. Just listen first, Ash, alright? Don't think about magic as this mystical force that you've never understood in your life. Repeat after me: magic is a transaction."
"Magic is a transaction," my current client said enthusiastically. Ash Wheat is just the humble daughter of a humble farmer, in the humble little tow... | "Onguard!"
Bob drove down the sword, his beleaguered foe falling under its pressure, his ancient magical shield on the cusp of breaking.
"My King, spare me!" he cried.
"No such mercy shall be granted Sir...Donutface,"
The fallen Knight scowled at such a dishonourable lack of creativity.
The soft whoosh of the entr... | 2021-01-30T09:45:45 | 2021-01-30T08:50:06 | 139 | 42 |
[WP]"I told you cultists that I wanted your lives given to me in tribute, but all you've given me is deaths. Deaths won't buy me a cosmic loaf of bread. You don't even pay with your own so any blessing I'd be inclined to grant would go to the people who actually paid." | “What am I to do with these?”
The fae closed the distance, dry grass crunching under her feet, to the bodies before her. The townspeople had decided that criminals would pay the price for our well-being. Indeed, they owed us as much, having taken what wasn’t there, having broken the law, having put their needs ahead... | It was a moonless night, a traditionally inauspicious time. Yet at the Anamnesis Cult in the heart of the city, a inauguration ceremony was taking place. The pews of the church were full.
"And so, I pass on my position as the Divine One's Hand to you, Nixon Cromwell. May you bring more of the glory of the Earth to the... | 2021-05-17T11:17:39 | 2021-05-17T10:58:17 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] You have been accidentally possessed by a ghost. Unfortunately, the ghost possessing you is so charismatic and such a great flirt that everyone wants you to stay possessed. | "Wow, that's actually kind of really sad..." I heard my own voice say to me. Looking in the mirror, it was my face looking back at my with pity and sympathy. I wished I could punch it, but I wasn't in control, not anymore.
"Hey now! No need to get violent." More pity from my own mouth.
It used to just be a voice in ... | "Well, Charlotte, if you want to learn more about the afterlife, maybe I can give you some -- LET ME OUT!" Gil's face waggled around rabidly as life returned to his dull eyes. He looked around the room, seeing that he was at his girlfriend's house. In front of him were her parents sitting at the dinner table with endea... | 2021-05-24T09:01:34 | 2021-05-24T08:17:24 | 81 | 19 |
[WP] Heavenly Demons are essentially the opposite of fallen angels. They grew to admire humans and learned to love through observation. Banished from the infernal realm for losing their edge, they can ascend to the celestial realm by creating sufficient virtue among humans. | Kanele paced back and forth as he watched through the portal. Two young men were following that little girl. He knew why. It had once been his job to offer riches and power to pawns to bring him innocent souls for sacrifice. He was fired for failing to bring in a single virgin. In truth, he hated that role and would pa... | "Kelly, look at me", I tried to get her attention away from the rest of her friends. They weren't exactly having a good time right now.
"How do we treat other people?"
She whined and stomped her foot. Frustrated at receiving a talk, away from everyone else at the playground.
"Come on, Kelly. Let's take a minute t... | 2021-06-02T08:13:12 | 2021-06-02T07:14:24 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] "So this is what the people of your world have done with magic. You take cryomancy and call it 'refrigeration'. You take electrokinesis and call it 'wiring'. You take telepathy and call it 'the Internet'. You call familiars 'robots'. You've taken all this magic...and you've made it boring." | "Oh yeah Wizard man? How long does it take you to illuminate an area?"
The wizard who literally crashed from a magical portal into coffee table and started mumbling a spell for about three to five minutes before the room was only slightly lit up. Then he looked quite defiantly at my direction,
"About that long"
"C... | "Markus, let's not go through this again. Please just take your pills." Nurse Janice stood with her hand out, looking at the old man in front of her, her expression humorless and resolute.
Markus kept speaking, seemingly oblivious to her words. "But this world, how can you stand it? It is like marrying a dead person. ... | 2021-08-12T16:20:53 | 2021-08-12T14:07:26 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You are a prisoner, condemned to die. However, the 2047 Prison Accords guarantee a last meal with no limitations, or else you go free. Nobody wants you released; your crime is too heinous, but your last meal request is making them reconsider… | “Tea.”
“Tea?”
“Tea. Well, aged tea to be specific. Himalayan Aged Black Tea to be particular. Himalayan Aged Black Tea from Shan-Gri-La Tea farms just north of Pokhara, Nepal to be exact.”
“That’s your final meal? Okay. Whatever. We’ll get them on the phone and make the order.”
“Oh, you won’t be able to get any rig... | Their folly, of course, was the stipulation on "no limitations".
Now, most people would correctly assume that such a thing would create an obvious loophole. A smart prisoner might request something endangered, which society could not easily give up for such a purpose - perhaps a whale casserole, or maybe smoked white ... | 2021-08-18T03:58:06 | 2021-08-18T01:19:55 | 76 | 42 |
[WP] "One day," the prince reiterated to the peasant girl. "You're fed and clothed like a princess for a day, we attend the ball and dance together, and we make just enough of a spectacle that my father won't mind so much if I go on to court a 'lower' noble. What do you say?" | "You are asking me to a royal ball? Disguised as a princess?" the apple seller asked.
"Greta, please," Prince Jacob said. "You're the only one I'd trust with this role."
"Why?" Greta asked. "Because I'm the only peasant girl who wouldn't fall in love with you in the process? You should hear them, Jacob. If they knew... | *My interpretation was a little different, but this is what the prompt inspired me to write.*
If it had come from anyone else, I probably would've laughed. I had been in the company of enough stuck-up nobles to know how quickly they tired of their lovers. How fast their dreams of riding off into the sunset faded. Som... | 2021-08-27T23:25:19 | 2021-08-27T16:32:36 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table two times. | I let out a deep sigh, “not another one” I say in my mind.
She stares at me in confusion, “don’t ask.” I say, “quick question, how long have you been reading my mind for?”
“A few days..” I hear in my mind.
“Alright good, then your still safe. Listen, I like that we can have this connection, but I highly advise never... | After the second slap she slowly turned back around. “Ok, she isn’t reading my mind, or she isn’t smart enough to count to 3”. I heard a “hey!” only it was in my head and I saw her look around with a angry stare in my direction. “So your are psychic.”
Hearing someone sigh in your head is a bizarre experience “no, psyc... | 2021-09-07T00:50:17 | 2021-09-06T22:37:59 | 210 | 127 |
[WP] "I have an army," says the alien warlord, a smug smile on his face. You stare at him confidently and say, "I have a packet of chips." | "I have an army." The creature snarled. "Your human weaponry is no match for the full might of Th'dorin the Conquerer". As if on cue, a roar erupted from the masses behind him, weapons at the ready. His lean, chitinous face reflected the glare of the sun, his black form like an ink stain in the burning summer day.
"W... | I look out over the horde assembled on the field near my house. At a quick glance, there must have been hundreds of them, arrayed in armor and weapons. They were arranged in a precise formation.
At their head was their leader. I didn't know the species well enough to know if they were male, female, or even if they had... | 2021-09-16T12:34:19 | 2021-09-16T11:16:02 | 335 | 62 |
[WP] You thought you were just getting married. Turns out, since you didn't understand the spoken language of the wedding vows, you actually agreed to something well beyond "'til death do you part" | Eleanor had seemed shy at first. Hiding in the shadows, asking for permission to go places, not staying the night or anything of the sort.
But as we spent more time together she warmed up. I could still remember the first time she giggled at one of my jokes. It was sweet like honey and meandered through the air like b... | She elbows me in the side. “Say I do.” The words come out a hiss and from my periphery, I can see her eyes drilling into me.
“I do,” I say with confidence. I do love her. I just wish I knew where we were in the ceremony. Were rings next? Or was this the dance of daggers she had mentioned in passing yesterday during r... | 2022-01-28T08:22:51 | 2022-01-28T06:54:05 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] The alien invasion is going unbelievably poorly for the technologically advanced aggressors, to the surprise of many. You, a retired military tactician, are trying to explain how this is actually pretty logical all things considered. | "Amateurs talk about tactics and strategy, professionals talk about logistics."
The Invasion of Earth is the greatest exemplar of this notion there has ever been.
Pundits make much of the Invaders' ability to put anything they want anywhere on the planet within minutes of asking, but they forget where that war materi... | “Are you certain it will work?” General Nelson asked me, sweat beading his forehead while the ground above us rumbled, fierce fighting continuing.
“It has to work. They may be travelers of the stars, but their tech isn’t as far ahead compared to us.” I answered him as the battle continued.
It was a third week now si... | 2022-04-04T10:25:42 | 2022-04-04T10:00:57 | 150 | 65 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | It was supposed to be a simple quick attempt at me grabbing supplies to go back to my room.
But, God must have decided that the place my door would open to was an active battle between two armies, all I could hear was screams, and the clashing of steel until I finally was knocked unconscious…
As I began to slowly awa... | I felt the cold sweat on the back of my neck as I looked through my gaming library. I had to make a choice.
I don't know how it happened - the shift. One day, I just woke up and opened my bedroom to an empty canvass of nothingness. It was like my room opened to the edge of a cliff on a starless night. God knows how l... | 2022-06-08T02:06:15 | 2022-06-07T22:21:42 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | "Uhhhh... Anna? Can you come down here for a minute?"
The clomping of Anna's sneakers got louder and clearer before she appeared by the stairs. "What's up, hon?"
I pointed towards the hole in the basement wall. "You wanna tell me what's going on here?"
As soon as Anna looked to where I was pointing, she went wide ey... | When I went downstairs to the basement to begin the remodeling project that my girlfriend had been asking me to do, I wasn’t expecting it to already be done, and for our cellar to already be full of actual tons of gold coins and jewels.
“Holy shit...hey, Maya, can you come down here for a second?”
“Why, what’s wrong,... | 2022-09-10T11:50:46 | 2022-09-10T11:07:59 | 216 | 67 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | My roommate Lucy was standing in my doorway, but she was significantly changed. Her once anemic pale skin was now a deep violet that lightened up on the face. Obsidian eyes stared at me as her pitch black Eland horns reached over the door frame. Clawed hands gripped the frame of my doorway as her now hooved digitagrad... | "OK, so what you're telling me is ur gonna have to wear a frilly dress even though they make you dysphoric, pretend that ur dating me, and convince ur homophobic, conservative mom that im a good partner for the prince of hell?" Texted Tissues, sitting on his bed while texting Trophy, who was at the mall buying a... | 2022-10-08T21:01:43 | 2022-10-08T20:49:21 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] They tell you the warmachines aren't sentient, being kind to them does nothing. But at the same time, it seems funny to you that their "priority" targets often seems the be the ones currently shooting at you. | >Talon unit 157 online.
>Incoming communication from Engineer First Class Simon Wilson.
>Transcription: Unit 157 why have you deviated from design parameters.
ALERT ALERT ALERT
>Response: Please clarify.
>Transcription mode activated.
SW: You manually adjusted targeting parameters several times ... | I don't know much about programming, but I guessed, hope it is somewhat legible
-----------------
"Commander Gale, Units CH-103 and CH-31534 have some strange programming errors, here take a look." Mikhael pointed at the screen. "None of this has any record, nor do any of our programmers recognise what 9413 means."
G... | 2022-10-15T18:57:27 | 2022-10-15T17:41:43 | 315 | 163 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I sat quietly. I was never loud to begin with. I was never going to have super strength or laser eyes. I was never going to fly above people and soak in their praises. Even with my new power, chances are most people would never know my name.
So it was a pretty good deal for me.
I sat at a table with 7 others. They ha... | God this sucks. All the cool powers are taken. From flight to fire breath. From teleportation to telekinesis. Now it’s my turn to think. I have to think long and hard about this one. Then I remembered it. As a kid I loved watching videos online and the main videos I watched were videos on the terrors of video games. I ... | 2022-11-17T09:02:15 | 2022-11-17T07:32:46 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] You had a simple goal: be the most powerful superhuman around. Naturally, this led you to become a villain, but you were never evil - your goal achieved, you marched up to the heroes association and told them you'd like to train new heroes. They hesitated, but agreed. | Before he became the terrifying offender to society, Conquest was nothing more than an average goon. But his thirst for the elixirs of victory led him to a path of evolution. Every defeat Conquest faced would turn into a victory the day he broke out of prison. Steadily Conquest went from a mere cub to a Bear all within... | The power had always been simple, really.
In the most banal example of comic book logic, pseudo science and cartoon physics, it couldn't be real. And yet it was.
At the beginning, unsure of how to proceed the villain had tried to be a hero though not for noble ideals or lofty goals. They just wanted to be *perfect*, ... | 2022-12-17T00:12:32 | 2022-12-16T20:21:03 | 99 | 63 |
[WP] The last person on earth throws a birthday party.
Go ahead and stretch the limits. Doesn't matter whose party or if everyone else is dead or moved away...
I kind of want to see a coocoo for coco puffs character. | "Hey Katherine. Fancy seeing you here" he said, embracing yet another empty segment of air. "You don't seem drunk enough. Have a beer!" He went to the fridge, grabbed a Sammy A's, and threw it into the wall behind his special pocket of air.
Such is the life of Gregory. Last man alive, but he doesn't want to die. | The day has finally arrived...
or at least I think it is "the day"?
...
Sure, why not? Today must be my birthday. I distinctively remember the cold. I remember the blinding light and my exposed nakedness. This feeling of frailty and fear as my wet body shakes is all too familiar. Soon my parents will hold me in their a... | 2013-12-27T07:48:08 | 2013-12-27T07:24:25 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | "Hi Mrs. Burdenfel", The women whom I recognized from down the street seems confused. It looks like she was in the middle of washing the dishes when Mr. Miracles kazaamed her in front of me.
"Pssst. Mrs. Burdenfel is older then my mother, what's going on here, Mr. Miracles?" I whisper.
"You wanted to talk to your fu... | 'Please... please don't let it be this way.'
I stare at them, absolutely disgusted. I can't believe that she is what my future self picked. She's... awful. Her face can only be described as grotesque with her figure being much the same. Is there really nobody else in the world for me?
The genie stares at me for a se... | 2014-06-05T07:37:21 | 2014-06-05T06:16:29 | 103 | 69 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | "Are you fucking kidding me?" Roper could see the bright yellow envelope sticking out of the little crack in the St. Bernard's Chapel's masonry as soon as he came round the street corner. This specific dead drop was reserved for contracts by the local "business club". They paid well, they respected his rules, they hate... | He'd originally assumed it was a joke.
Loose change jammed into an envelope with a hastily written note.
Twenty three dollars and forty two cents worth of amusing.
He laughed aloud and pocketed it. He'd have to inspect it in a more secure location.
The light outside the post office flickered, as he retrieved his car k... | 2014-08-26T04:55:15 | 2014-08-26T04:08:18 | 106 | 18 |
[WP] Everything is legal, you just need a license. (x-post /r/CrazyIdeas)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comments/2kvjr3/everything_is_legal_you_just_need_a_license/ | Line, after line, after line.
That's all I thought life was these days. The mundane feeling of standing in a line consumed us all.
Before the 'True Legalization' act of 2016, people complained about waiting at the DMV. That was nothing
I'd been waiting five hours, twenty-two minutes, and thirty seconds in that gra... | I watched the clock as I waited. There was nothing to do, nothing to read. I was just there, waiting in the permit line. Beside me, there was a man with long, grey hair and a matching braided beard.
"Hello, son." He said
I rolled my eyes, "Son? I am not your son."
"Ah. I see. My mistake." He then pulled out a rath... | 2014-11-03T00:55:45 | 2014-11-03T00:50:29 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] A group of people capture a rare mythical beast that has been terrorizing their city. Not knowing how to specifically kill it, they do increasingly specific things, to the point of being ridiculous, in order to dispatch it. | If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it's probably a duck. However, the *thing* that's been waddling around town is by no means an ordinary duck. This thing, whatever it is, has fangs, fangs that have a certain taste for human flesh. The creature never ate your normal run-of-t... | "Just cut off its fuckin' head, man." Joe lit up one of his father's cigarettes as he looked around at the others. "Simple as that. Kills every god damn thing in the world."
"We tried that the first time," Rolan explained patiently as ever. "You think we would bring you in if we didn't try cutting off the head?"
... | 2014-11-05T21:38:34 | 2014-11-05T18:01:42 | 67 | 29 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | The scientist delivered his report, and the room turned oppressive as the planet's leaders struggled to comprehend his message.
One of the leaders spoke, "So you mean to tell us... that its headed BACK?"
"It didn't go back, sir", the scientist explained, a tremor in his voice. "The universe is apparently just exact... | Flying along in the dangerous Quadrant X-7 was a small reconnaissance craft, home to a few hundred Nebulins, a species that while rather stupid, are very efficient at producing offspring, and due to their small size, use up few resources.
"Captain Zarquan to Division A." Division A was responsible for waste managemen... | 2014-11-09T03:40:29 | 2014-11-09T00:37:30 | 100 | 37 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone picks an unlikely life event. They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens. After that, death is permanent.
Example - Winning a lottery jackpot. Statistically, they would die in 22 plane crashes in a row before winning the Mega Millions jackpot. | I am tired.
Every one of my countless reawakenings has siphoned away a little luster, a little shine, until life became a chore. I made fortunes and spent them, built cities and razed them, spent lifetimes as a celebrity, as a king, and as a beggar, but I am nearly finished, now.
Three thousand years ago, I started m... | Everyone around me had a reverent desire to live forever....to never know the cold embrace of death as long as they could help it, and to always be able to go back to the best times of their lives. The reaction of those lining up at the clinics to get their fix when this technology came out was utter insanity-worse tha... | 2014-11-11T21:58:10 | 2014-11-11T19:16:51 | 105 | 18 |
[WP] An other worldly threat approaches, the UN knows that total obliteration is upon us. Our greatest minds create a way to save us. 100 years later, the alien force arrives unprepaired for what we have done. | Home is a strange thing. It's not always a place, sometimes it's a feeling. Of being welcome. Feeling safe. Home is what I felt when I boarded the shuttle, journeying to the stars with my new family.
I don't remember the launch. My shuttlemates had told me it was loud and the storm almost stopped us. They spoke of pan... | "Glork!" "Glork glork spod!" The two Astle, who apparently finished their greeting departed from the screen leaving the Astle staring at the monitor perplexed. The screen was focused on a popular square in a city on the planet below. Instead of depicting strange alien creatures it showed Astle. Observing the monitor... | 2015-03-04T12:47:11 | 2015-03-04T11:01:41 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] It's 2023 and the United States Military is filled with Call of Duty kids. | Major Saul Delaney stared intensely at the last known insurgent position through his binoculars, trying to catch any signs of activity that would give away their movements. It was damned difficult flushing small groups of rebels out from the heaps of rubble and half destroyed houses, and any advance through the shatter... | Edging down the narrow hallway, Steve grabbed frantically at the metal pipes and handles adorning the walls to brace himself against the jolts of movement that were assaulting his ship.
He'd only been there two weeks since his basic training finished, but in his head it was already his ship. Everything here felt natur... | 2015-05-29T05:27:26 | 2015-05-29T04:09:19 | 230 | 66 |
[WP] Steven's grandmother knits. Not because she likes to, but because she has to.
Hanging by a thread. | Steven wakes up every day and goes to school. Not because he wants to, but because he has to.
Steven wouldn't mind school overall, or at least not much. He just wished it would be a little bit more *boring* sometimes. It seemed like something new and exciting happened every day, an event or some kind of interpersonal ... | Had Barry 'round the other day. Stole the wool from Granny's knitting. Boy, he won't be coming back for tea.
The human body goes through a lot when someone dies. My cousin died when I was very young, I barely knew him. Got hit by a bus outside his father's pub. Robin's Hood Retreat, I think it was called. Had a girl ... | 2015-10-01T06:46:03 | 2015-10-01T06:35:47 | 177 | 35 |
[WP] Steven's grandmother knits. Not because she likes to, but because she has to.
Hanging by a thread. | He swallowed to keep his heart from lurching out of his body.
The doorknob turned heavily under his small hand, like a planet revolving around it's axis. With both hands, he pushed to open the door faster, but it seemed to swing at it's own momentum.
"Hello?" Steven called into the gloomy darkness. There was no answ... | Edit: I was wondering why everyone had a Steven in their story. Sorry I missed that part, hope I still qualify.
Edit Part 2: Took your advice Kallisti, and reformatted. Thank you :)
#The Elder's Penance#
"That's some lovely work you're doing there."
Dalia didn't respond. She barely acknowled the nurse at all exce... | 2015-10-01T08:58:21 | 2015-10-01T08:47:48 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] Create an origin story for your reddit username. | Columbus
You know, the explorer
That guy
So I was doing my homework
Yeah?
And he just
Columbus
Columbus just grabs it
And stuffs it in his mouth
And I'm like
What the f
And he stares at me
This cold
Unblinking
Stare
And he runs off
And I'm still staring
'Cause
Like
What the f | "It's a coincidence."
"It's not, I tell you. The first three letters..."
"Uh-huh."
"Greek equivalent of X. Or the cross. Follow it by Rho, which *sounds* like Ron..."
"Mm-hmm."
"...and you get the literal Greek shorthand for Jesus Christ. The wounded healer and the martyred savior."
"No."
"Yes! That's what I'm t... | 2016-02-14T08:13:27 | 2016-02-14T08:04:21 | 158 | 38 |
[WP] Create an origin story for your reddit username. | Columbus
You know, the explorer
That guy
So I was doing my homework
Yeah?
And he just
Columbus
Columbus just grabs it
And stuffs it in his mouth
And I'm like
What the f
And he stares at me
This cold
Unblinking
Stare
And he runs off
And I'm still staring
'Cause
Like
What the f | The world was in chaos. War, famine, pestilence, and death ravaged the very core of the earth. The governments had done too little, too late, and had crumbled under the ensuing chaos of the apocalypse. Men prayed, and others fought, killed and died.
Those who had read about it, whether in their religious scriptures, o... | 2016-02-14T08:13:27 | 2016-02-14T07:50:02 | 158 | 27 |
[WP]You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago, today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor". | Todd woke up one bright Monday morning and was very surprised to find Satan standing next to his bed. Again.
"What are *you* doing here?" Todd asked, or tried to. In his drowsy state, it came out more like "Wheryoodooinear?"
"Yes, yes, very nice..." the Devil replied absently. Suddenly, the demon leaned forward unt... | The sudden knock on my door almost made me jump, but I had been expecting it for almost two hours now. Happily, but mostly annoyed, I rose from my chair and started towards the door, smoothing down my velvet-lined dress.
With a frown, I swung open the door. "Richard-" I began, but I was instantly confused when the man... | 2016-06-27T09:11:14 | 2016-06-27T07:39:08 | 148 | 20 |
[WP] You are a primordial entity that has been accidentally summoned by the gods. | *...for when the Great Sage broke free of damnation and fell hurtling into the fields of Heaven, he saw an old man engulfed by the shadow of a sandstone pillar. Around him stood trees that bore dead sinners as fruit, and leaves that dripped azure blood. Heaven shimmered, swirling in hot winds, and scattering disintegra... | A single point of light appears in the Void
*Light...*
"It has been a long time since I have seen light.."
Voices seem to be coming from light source
*Sound...*
"I have not heard anything but my own thoughts for an eternity.."
Suddenly the light grows bigger and brighter and the darkness around Ahmaut disappear... | 2016-09-27T22:47:58 | 2016-09-27T22:12:07 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] A creepy story at appears normal until the end, where all the details clicks together perfectly and chills you to the spine.
Edit1: This prompt turned out so much better than expected :D, ill check back on the others tomorrow morning since its like midnight here. A shoutout to all these great writers that wrote h... | "I can't wait to show mum the painting I made this week!"
A smile spread across my little brother's face as he admired his painting in the passenger's seat. Sunday had always been Leo's favorite day of the week, but it is the one I loathed the most, both for one reason: Family Day.
"Are you going to talk to them this... | "Kids! Time for dinner!" Will yelled. He sat the roast on the table and began setting the plates.
Jack and Beverly came barreling down the stairs. "I beat you!" Jack crowed, as he fell into his seat.
Beverly stuck out her tongue and made a face. "Who cares, you're still ugly."
"Dad! Beverly called me ugly," Jack ... | 2016-10-04T23:44:47 | 2016-10-04T22:09:20 | 71 | 49 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | "GET DA FUCK OFF MA LAWN!!!!!!"
I shouted at those crazy worshippers. From time to time there were people in my garden kneeling and praying and hoping someone would safe them from this new management of the country.
It began when some blind witch suddenly had a vision about the dark lord being beaten and the lands li... | "Jessica! Young lady, please answer me! Who was that man you were speaking with today when I picked you up from school?"
I tried to keep my voice from cracking and fork from shaking. Meredith would kill me if I got soup on the new upholstery.
My daughter finally relented. "He didn't tell me his name. Why do you care... | 2016-11-26T06:54:54 | 2016-11-26T06:21:33 | 46 | 24 |
[WP] Death has been on holiday since the start of 2016. You're his right hand, the Reaper in charge whenever he's gone. He's scheduled to be back in a weeks time, and you're panicking on how to explain what you've done this year. | The Grim Reaper entered the room, a floral wreath around his neck and the smell of piña-coladas wafting from his bones. He just came back from his semi millennial vacation, which he'd been waiting years for. Mr. Death had planned to visit Honolulu ever since that mass shark-attack during the annual surf championship. T... | It was a cold and dark New Year's Eve. I sat in a basement with my two friends who were reminising about the dreadful year that was about to end, the raw stench of mildew filled the air and a cool draft from under the door ensured my cold soul would never warm up. I new he was coming, and the task that was appointed t... | 2016-12-27T18:38:09 | 2016-12-27T12:10:10 | 1,563 | 10 |
[WP]Witches and wizards have taken over the earth. You are one of the few remaining muggles left in existence and must keep your powerlessness a secret from the magical community. One morning you receive an ordinary letter delivered by hand...
[deleted] | "Who are you?" asked Lenny. He regarded the man who had just *hand-delivered* the letter he held in front of him. It was unheard of. All mail was delivered via owl courier, and it usually opened itself and yelled at you or something. This was as plain an envelope as could be.
"That's not important," said the man. "I'... | As he fumbles in the rain with the magical locks and knobs and handles on the little door, his long white hair (mostly missing on top) blows from the breeze in the grimy alleyway. His cloak hangs quite low, nearly brushing the sooty cobblestones below and, if you watched closely, you would see that from its sleeves he ... | 2017-03-07T14:32:44 | 2017-03-07T13:45:43 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] "But why do you want to destroy the asteroid belt?" The chair swivels, and a T-Rex leans forward. "Revenge." | The chair swung halfway round, 2 tiny hands appeared and a squeaking noise was heard as Cody shuffled the rest of the way round to face his crew.
Cody took a deep breath, and slowly clutching his claws together started narrating. 'Why do I want to destroy the asteroid belt? Great question, to answer it we have to go ... | Thus the tragic story of T-rexus the Vengeful.
In order to fully understand, one must know of his pain and trials:
Many millions of years ago, T-rexus lived an ordinary life. He hunted with his family, protected his young ones, and sought to create a future with a female of his species. T-rexus nearly achieved all ... | 2017-07-02T13:55:04 | 2017-07-02T13:38:42 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | It was a cruel joke; his predestined last words. You would think it would be a gift. To have such sweet last words, but it meant he could never say the simple three words for as long as he lived.
For years, he had known he couldn't say them. Somehow, he knew, in the back of his mind. That those words would doom him. ... | I walk out of the eternal drizzle that is London in winter; into the brilliant fluorescence of the hospital. Once my eyes adjust to the light I round the oval reception desk giving the nurse a polite smile of suffering as she took in my drenched clothes. I call the lift down when the disconcerting thud hits my chest, p... | 2017-08-07T09:48:15 | 2017-08-07T09:16:02 | 61 | 44 |
[WP] In the near future - the brains of fallen soldiers are placed into war machines, allowing them to continue the fight. As a mechanic, you thought you'd seen everything, until one of them uttered a phrase you'll never forget. "Hold my beer, and watch this!" | I tried to ignore the lieutenant's diatribe as I replaced a badly-mangled armor plate on the battle chassis. It wasn't a difficult task - nobody really cares what a new-minted 2nd Lt thinks, and after ten years on the job, I'd never seen a battle chassis like this one.
Sure, the paint job was regulation. But only i... | Being a frontline mechanic, you see a lot of things, war machines engaging in a drunken fist-fight 40ft in the air to a cheering crowd, an old, depressed veteran choosing to crush his cerebral tank like a coke can instead of going back to the front, a legless, legless lass screaming bloody murder because she stepping o... | 2017-11-01T10:33:55 | 2017-11-01T10:04:23 | 142 | 38 |
[WP] You are on a time travelers game show. To play the game, you travel back and change important moments in history, being awarded points for the difficulty and overall impact of the change. You just broke the high score. | He entered the time machine. In the dim light of the arena, the glow of the inner chamber was dazzling, almost inviting him to step inside. He did so, and the door behind him closed itself.
"He has entered the time machine, ladies and gentlemen! Now, we know how this goes, He will enter the time period he wants to cha... | “Good evening, and welcome back!” The audience cheered in excitement as the host let a sliver of tooth show. He had a glint in his eye and hair coiffed like a perfect wave. “How is everyone doing tonight?”
“*GREAT, JERRY*!” Came the reply.
“And ain't that fantastic? Tonight, my guests... we have a very special contes... | 2017-11-17T07:22:52 | 2017-11-17T07:07:09 | 768 | 232 |
[WP] Despite having pink hair, a tragic backstory, and untold magic power, the narrator refuses to make you the main character | The story of Josh
A mighty fine lad
He lives in Kentucky
With his friend Chad
 
And every day
On his way to work
He walks past this loser
God, what a jerk
 
Some kid with pink hair
An orphan at birth
Some say he’s magic
No way on earth
 
He’s just a nobody
Don’t focus on him
... | Then Tim went to the bakery, followed annoyingly by Tess. The little bell above the door gave a soft tingle to announce his arrival. The baker and his wife looked up and smiled a hello. Tim politely read his list of required baked goods. While the baker gathered the required ingredients, his wife and Tim had a riveting... | 2017-12-18T20:19:09 | 2017-12-18T13:48:10 | 415 | 260 |
[WP] Dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as humans. As a child you pick out a puppy as a companion for the rest of your life. | I am one of a few. Unloved, not cared for. I am starving, surviving on what I can find. I live without a family, without a partner, without a friend. My human passed away when he was 13. Now, I am 45.
He picked me out as a puppy. Both of us were born the same year. I had been injected, like all companions, with a... | Canis lupus familiaris. Formerly known as the domestic dog, thanks to genetic engineering our canine companions no longer lived a scant decade. Now, they lived as long as humans, and needed a name that separated them from the simple cousins of wolves that they used to be. Apex Genetics decided that name should be 'F... | 2018-03-19T10:03:16 | 2018-03-19T09:51:51 | 39 | 19 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | Skyrim had been in mourning for three months. The Dragonborn was dead. Years of Civil War, dragons and apocalyptic strife gave way to decades of peace. With the dragon blood and his collected horde, the Dragonborn lived an unnaturally long life, even for a dunmer. The Dragonborn reunited Skyrim under the empire and for... | Mortal coils shuffled in the night at long last. The bells tolled in the north, from the Reach to the Rift and all lands between. Their champion had fallen not to the knife, not fire, not on field of battle, but to the cold, and to time. While Nirn and Tamriel laid restless in their absence, the Old Gods stirred, wrest... | 2018-06-15T08:42:41 | 2018-06-15T08:27:42 | 105 | 43 |
[WP] A girl kisses her pet frog, and it turns into a price. The issue is its modern day, and the prince's kingdom hasn't existed for 1100 years. he is ill equipped to deal with the modern era. | A young girl, lamenting and alone, holds a frog. It is not relevant how the frog came to be in the girl's hands, only that he did. Having heard the classic fairy tale, she closed her eyes and wished for the frog to turn into a prince as she laid her lips upon his own.
Much to her disbelief the adorable little frog t... | Emily Chung was about to kiss the frog and reveal his handsome princey self but she stopped short when her pragmatic, practical self wrestled back control of her mind, breaking her brief spell of romanticism.
Questions and doubts quickly flashed through her mind of the consequences of bringing this supposed Prince (w... | 2018-09-22T00:28:07 | 2018-09-22T00:09:44 | 53 | 24 |
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