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[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My phone rang for the third time in 10 minutes. I made a mental note to change the ringtone to something less patriotic and swiped up on the little green icon.
"John! Mate I've been trying to get through for ages!" came a frantic voice down the phone.
"Oh, well sorry Barry..." I lied, "it must've been on silent" I l... | *An interview with Commander Juan dola Cruz, former Captain-General of King Ferdinand. He provided unique valuable insights on the demise of the Mad king. After my interview with him, I can't help but think that one wrong decision lead to the fall of a dynasty lasting 300 years*
The day the kingdom fell was the day I ... | 2021-02-28T04:16:00 | 2021-02-28T02:31:53 | 315 | 107 |
[WP] "HI. Uh, I'm your new God, humans of Earth. The other guy was fired for sucking at his job. There's going to be a meeting in an hour to discuss my plans going forward. Attendance is mandatory. Also, don't be afraid; my resume is available upon request." | "What the hell did he just say?" Johnny says as he slowly climbs back to his feet. The sudden appearance of the voice had sent him sprawling from his chair in the packed diner.
"You heard it too?" Sarah softly says as she wipes Johnny's jacket free of dirt. She wasn't sure if she had gone mad, and she was still only h... | “Damnit James quit crowding me! I’m the one who put in the resume request, I get to read it first!”
Emma crossed her arms and stood as tall as she could, daring her boyfriend to take it. Between them on their small kitchen table a scroll sat, bound up tight with a single golden cord.
“That’s a literal god’s resume, t... | 2021-03-13T12:40:33 | 2021-03-13T12:18:22 | 166 | 90 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | "Professor? You wanted to see me?"
The professor seemed to have calmed down since the student first turned in their assignment. The look of terror had gradually subsided as the class went on, though there was still a note of wariness in the professor's eyes. The professor nodded.
"Is it about the spell?" the student ... | Magic schools demand miracles and the assignments are a real pain. What's worse? The professors are all old coots in long frocks.
"Mr. Johnson, your spell is rather...rather..." Professor Pulsifer huffed, proving the point.
"Yes, sir?" Godfrey Johnson, sophomore, answered.
"Well, it's a rather crude spell. It, uh, i... | 2021-04-02T00:45:54 | 2021-04-02T00:02:18 | 176 | 96 |
[WP] You are constantly on the run from heroes, careful to erase any traces of your presence. Not, mind you, because you are a villain, but because your “deaths” were an important formative for several of the greatest heroes, and you feel too guilty to let them find out you’re immortal. | It was easier before, shaping the heroes of legend. I was the mentor, the parental figure, and, ultimately, the sacrifice. It was a matter of simple planning, a climactic finish, and then a quick move to another land of myth where no one knew of my glory.
And now, things are ridiculously difficult. Cameras everywhere... | What makes a hero?
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Is it the unyielding mental fortitude, never to give up even in the direst situation? Is it the unrivaled strength, enough for an individual to sweep away thousands and thousands of elite-rank enemies? Or is it the selflessness, the will to sacrifice oneself to achieve absolute justice... | 2021-04-05T19:21:48 | 2021-04-05T19:07:33 | 1,214 | 150 |
[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why. | Look, I don't know why the fuck they hired me either.
I flunked out of undergrad -- not that anyone knows that. Somehow it doesn't make a great catchphrase: *The Negotiator: I got a D in Chem 101 but A in ass-kicking.*
But then the chief of police flashed the alert spotlight in the air. A question mark, if you're cu... | Captain Justice leapt to the top of the water tower in a single bound, landing in a perfectly heroic fashion—fist to the floor, down on one knee, steely smolder in the eyes. He could hear maniac laughter echoing from inside the water chamber. “*Mwahahahaha!*”
Captain Justice could recognize that laugh anywhere. He ... | 2021-04-21T23:00:54 | 2021-04-21T20:44:06 | 1,472 | 440 |
[WP] "You killed in a peace zone" the guard said pointing a gun at me. "No I poisoned him before he went into the assassin meet-up he just happened to die in the peace zone" I responded. The guard pondered this for a second. | Of course I could just flash my credentials as Master Class Rightier, but that breaks much of the protocol. There were the Peace Guards, the Justicars, Lawyers, Judges, then there were the Rightiers, and we all had to get along, but damned if it was not hard at times to get through these meatbags. So I explain again, s... | [Voiceover](https://vocaroo.com/19f1KU4N49Qi)
The Villains owned the Southside and heroes all the rest of the city. Fetor, much akin to his own philosophy, lived just on the edge. The tenuous balance of power left unaffiliated supers like him frequently pestered by job offers. One of the sides finally hit him with one... | 2021-04-26T13:21:18 | 2021-04-26T11:13:15 | 83 | 58 |
[WP] Time slows down near a Black Hole. The most expensive wine in the universe is produced in a winary orbiting a Black Hole. | “There’s this planet orbiting a black hole,” said Elise. “Or not orbiting, just kind of stuck there. Like a fly trapped in a spider’s web, somewhere near the centre. Imagine that for me.”
Alana grinned. “Okay. I’m imagining it. For you.”
The campfire crackled as the two girls lay on their backs watching the stars. It... | You'd think with the advancements of modern technology we'd ascend past the idea of consumerist crap like this. I understand, I know, and I feel saddened by the fact that I was born to be an economic cog within the vast veracity of human consumption, without my undue consent, I get that. I'm honored to live in this tim... | 2021-04-29T03:27:02 | 2021-04-29T02:11:15 | 241 | 42 |
[WP] You're the main exhibit in an alien zoo. Little do they know you're learning their language through all the visitors. | I was beginning to learn a newfound respect for the caged tigers I'd seen as a kid. We were both dangerous things, confined, and put on display for creatures beyond our understanding. There were differences, of course. They had been rescued from poachers; I had been captured on a battlefield. They were put on display t... | Human City was a nice enough place. There were two houses, a diner, and a park with exercise equipment. Three women and three men lived there; it was an obvious attempt to get baby humans. For enrichment, keepers would bring snow, a hot tub, a TV with video games, or sports equipment. On rare and special occasions, the... | 2021-05-07T09:33:35 | 2021-05-07T08:44:13 | 166 | 96 |
[WP]You're the minor god of favours. You make things happen for people, but only at an equivalent price. When endangered innocents, abused children and similar start asking big favours, you have to find ever more creative ways for them to "pay" without "paying" anything. | Legends told of a man who grants favors in return of one's soul. Some whispered the figure they encountered on the intersection of an abandoned crossroad-- a man dressed in a black suit, smells of expensive cologne.
*"What is it that you want the most?"--* he would always start with that question, and you give him you... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Interlude 2: Small Favor)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The girl was determined, but most people who sought out their shrine were.** Small Favor watched wearily from above ... | 2021-07-31T23:25:06 | 2021-07-31T22:28:03 | 1,522 | 213 |
[WP] Our protagonist is a part of the surviving group of humans who have been living in the zombie apocalypse. The frequency of zombie attacks has been dwindling over the last couple of years. Every few weeks a pack of them will show up. But eventually they stop. | Jeremy looks around the perimeter of the base. The last pack of zombies was only a week or so ago. Jeremy stays alert, trying to pick out any type of clue that another pack is coming, or anything for that matter. It wasnt too unusual for a pack to not arrive until at most 2 weeks. So Jeremy kept on watch, waiting.
2 da... | Krystal and I haven't spoken in days. As a matter of fact the last time we spoke was a few days after the last zombie wave. And before that it was also a few days after the last zombie wave. We would constantly butt heads on how to do things. For example, I thought we should hang and hide boxed food in the trees. she t... | 2021-09-16T11:25:39 | 2021-09-16T03:35:11 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You have the ability to see into the past. You can only observe past events, not change them. You're helping the police solve a murder. As you're describing what happened, the killer suddenly turns around and seems to look you straight in the eye. "I know you're watching". | As the elevator makes its slow climb up the highrise, Detective Burrow gives me the rundown on the case. A murder in one of the executive suites near the roof. Some big shot with connections and enemies all over the city stabbed to death on his leather throne.
Of course, these are the only cases the cops bother to ca... | **Elli & Eli (1/2)**
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The King had me thrown in the dungeon on charges of witchcraft.
There was no trial. Only his will. I believe he would have had me killed if he had not believed in death I would come back and torment him.
The cell had no windows. I was fed once a day. I don’t know how long they kept me ... | 2022-02-12T09:16:32 | 2022-02-12T09:15:45 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You used to be stuck in a 3 year time loop, but you escaped it by building a time machine. However, as you land the machine in the past, you realize that you landed on the exact day you became stuck in it. You realize what you have to do. | I checked my watch nervously. 20:58 and 46 seconds. The hand flicked to 47 seconds. I had 15 seconds left. It was now or never. I pulled the lever and... nothing happened.
'Damn it!'.
If this didn't work, it would never work. I had spent what felt like several lifetimes putting this together. Each time I got closer... | I used to be stuck in a three year time loop, but I escaped it by building a time machine. The past that I travelled to was the same day the loop started, and it was then that I realised what to do. That I had to get back in the time machine and figure out these stupid controls better. Confusing bunch of flashing dials... | 2022-04-19T12:39:15 | 2022-04-19T08:29:42 | 108 | 28 |
[WP] You are due to be executed for your involvement in the rebellion, but the queen herself approched you in your cell to ask you a question; why are people rebelling against her rule? | "Why?" I echoed, idly touching the scabs and scars covering my bare lower legs. I looked up at her royal majesty through the bars of my cell, at her beautiful dress and her expensive juwelry. Her very presence, sitting on a cheap chair in this dark and unadorned prison, felt vaguely wrong. A steeper contrast than betwe... | Queen Oblivia walked tentatively through the rank, fetid dungeons. It was an amusing contrast; her pristine attire and the decrepit complex. Oblivia was worried. She certainly looked so. And the worries reached their peak at the same time she reached the prisoner.
The queen wastes no time with formalities.
"For your ... | 2022-05-18T08:51:40 | 2022-05-18T02:12:56 | 46 | 26 |
[WP] Out of options, you pray to whoever's listening to save you. As it turns out, there were a LOT of entities happy to bestow their divine providence upon you. Thing is, none of them knew the others were doing the same. The results are successful - albeit chaotic, to say the least. | He was there, dying in my arms.
I myself wouldn’t live much longer…
The bruises on my skin reflected his. We looked liked perfect lovers for our final instants. The crowd stoning us, spewing their hartred, would be the last to see us together.
But i didn’t want to die here and there, not for the sole crime of loving... | Ikam Iïa Ziggurath smiled as he saw the man in front of him slowly die, his crimson blood spurring from the gushing wound on his throat throat. Gurgling sounds coming from within. It was a pity about his wife and daughter, departed under Ikam's blade – they had been such nice people - but the sacrifice was necessary. H... | 2022-09-25T03:56:08 | 2022-09-25T02:21:19 | 311 | 36 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | “Hey kiddo, how’d your day go?”
“It was, I did, I think it was, uh, good.”
“That’s good to hear, buddy. So… did anything interesting happen?”
“I dunno. Mama picked me up from school, and she, and we walked down the bridge, and there—oh, and there was a man on the bridge!”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah daddy, but he was *on... | It took a while, a whole summer to be exact, but the story finally made its way to the light - light he worked so hard to deny to so many. You suppose you should recap the night’s events in your own mind.
The darkness of the parking lot is only impeded by the bright-burning victorian style lampposts that line the sid... | 2022-10-21T10:37:34 | 2022-10-21T06:47:27 | 80 | 52 |
[WP] A portal opens before you and out steps a version of yourself covered in blood. "I've killed humdreds of you and they say you're the strongest one. Time to find out why." | "What are you-"
"DIE!!" The doppelganger screams as he charges me, attempting to pierce my chest with the long sword in his hand.
I dove out of the way, getting up quickly. "What the hell are you doing?!"
"KILLING YOU!!" He shouts, a snarl on his face as he tried another stab.
I sidestepped, before jumping forwards... | In your final moments, it is said that your entire life flashes before your eyes. I might've seen something similar as my doppelganger lunged at me, had my attention not been drawn to the gaping wound he had ripped in my reality. An open wound, bleeding a blue ebb of time and space, oozing the pus of his dimension into... | 2022-11-09T12:43:10 | 2022-11-09T11:21:09 | 124 | 38 |
[WP] Time Travel is possible, but only used to send terminally ill people into the future in hopes of being cured. For the first time, someone's been sent back. | I gazed in the distance through the dark. To the cages. Behind the pile of bodies.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't one of the strongest ones. So as I wouldn't have to be a slave for so long. So as I wouldn't have to see the others die.
I stayed hidden waiting for the guard to fall asleep, lost in my thoughts. I know I shou... | There was a large commotion at Phoenix Labs this morning. We were the last resort for those who were dying, and we had sent hundreds of bodies into the future last year.
Thinking this process was instantaneous, many tried to sue us because we didn't have the bodies of their loved ones. Even with people losing faith... | 2014-07-24T07:56:47 | 2014-07-24T07:22:03 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone's flaws are listed in a translucent white box above their heads. One day, you meet a man whose 'box' is empty. | "Excuse me, miss? I'm new in town and was hoping you might help me find a good place to have lunch."
Surprise hit her in waves:
first, that someone was asking her at all, with her dirty public "secret" emblazoned above her head. Generally the only public response she recieved from people was to notice parents of s... | "Get out !" the sales manager shouted.
As I walked out of the office with my resume and the usual feeling of disappointment. It feels like that i was blessed with longest list over my head. I have been cursing god for it since my childhood.
Walking of the corner street i thought of buying flowers for my hopefu... | 2014-10-27T08:20:41 | 2014-10-27T04:41:34 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] The characters in a popular TV show are actually prisoners forced to act or face death. They have been dropping hints hoping a viewer would catch on without drawing too much suspicison. | "Hey folks!
Everyone doing well today!
Let's hear a round of applause for everyone's favorite friend,
Party Marty!
Every one also who came here today will get a copy of today's script!
That's right!
Haha your way through the script at home as you reminisce about your experience here at America's favorite show! ... | TOOOOONIGHT! On CHAINSAW MAIDENS!
Shirley stares down her lesbian love Sherl who is the surrogate mother of the producers child!
Will Old Helga finally lose it and be the first cast member to snap?
The food is running out on this storm racked tropical island in the Amazonian jungle, will the ladies resort to violenc... | 2015-04-19T20:48:06 | 2015-04-19T20:16:28 | 25 | 11 |
[WP]After a head injury, a formerly brilliant general appears to have gone insane. The plot twist: His winning streak continues unbroken. In increasingly comical ways.
Is it merely fool's luck on a cosmic/comic scale, or is there actually a method to the madness? You decide! | "Sir, he *is* our best general. But... this is serious. Should we retire him?"
"Eh, give him one chance. Just one. If he manages to impress us still, keep 'im in. I'd love to see this man overcome his little headache."
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**Wartime Pres... | He got hit at Calais, just off the boat.
A mortar exploded 10 feet away and a piece of debris just up and struck him square on the forehead. Regulations said he should have been wearing a helmet. He wasn’t.
Regulations also said that he should have been shipped back to England, then back stateside. He wasn’t.
My fau... | 2015-04-26T12:27:41 | 2015-04-26T12:26:09 | 46 | 17 |
[WP]'The old avatars had it easy with 4 elements. You, on the other hand,' she sneered while handing me a periodic table, 'have 118'. | "Wait," I said looking down at the sheet of paper that the woman had slipped into my hands, "are you seriously telling me that the avatar's powers are directly tied to our knowledge of what an element is?"
"What do you mean?"
"I don't see fire on this table," I explained. I adjusted my glasses, I'd majored in chemist... | "You have a new curium instructor," she told me. "The last one has -"
"Cancer," I interrupted. "Yeah. Funny, that. What have I got tomorrow?"
Grabbing a list off her desk, she nodded sagely. "I'll be taking you for mercury at eight thirty."
"Are you sure?" I said. "I thought you were retiring."
She shook her head a... | 2016-01-23T14:59:18 | 2016-01-23T14:57:22 | 112 | 57 |
[WP] No one in the galaxy ever assumed that Earth would amount to anything because of its extreme gravity for a life-bearing world - anything trying to escape the planet's gravity well would need to BE 97% fuel weight, and the idea that they would try was a ludicrous concept.
Repost, no one responded before.
EDIT: Th... | "Good for them," Zolforat commented as they observed humans farming the cradle of civilization. "Tools and agriculture? Why, they're looking positively sentient."
"Real moxy," Mefro, Zolforat's companion, agreed. "I can hardly understand how they manage to stand up like that!" It stamped its twelve hooves in emphasis.... | "We will now be opening for questions," the gooey grey alien in the suit said, turning to the audience.
Behind him, Mark Wilson smiled. He risked a glance at himself in the mirror in the back of the conference room – his silhouette against the white light of the power point presentation onscreen behind him was lean an... | 2016-03-31T13:57:30 | 2016-03-31T13:51:16 | 1,816 | 577 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | !!CALL ME BEFORE YOU READ THIS!!
10 years ago today, I got a package delivered to me. There wasn't a return address, and I didn't order anything. Perhaps foolishly, I opened it anyway.
Inside was a leather-bound book, and every page was blank, except the first page. The first page said "keep this book and read it ... | The artifact the old man gave me seemed more like a rock than anything mystical at the time, that was until I touched it.
On contact I was filled with knowledge, maybe even premonitions that never came.
The first thing I learned was that I should put down the artifact and leave it, but that was something I couldn't ... | 2016-05-05T07:56:19 | 2016-05-05T04:51:37 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] As you walk along the Thames pondering what Brexit will mean for you and your family, a soaking wet woman walks up a set of stairs from the river, hands you a package and tells you “Sort it out, please!” before vanishing around a corner. You open the package to find Excalibur. | "Here, sort it out, will you?" The strange woman just about lobbed the sword at me and started to vanish back into the Thames. Before I could do more than stammer a few half-formed words, she was gone.
I stared at the sword in my hands, barely able to hold the heavy hunk of medal upright. My eyes traveled down the len... | *Slap*. The damp package was dropped into my arms.
"Here you go. Now sort the damn thing out." The woman turned and strode off into the Thames once more, leaving me nonplussed. I slowly unwrapped the parcel, to reveal...a sword, bearing an ancient weight of responsibility. Damn.
I phoned my Grandmother; she'd kn... | 2016-06-27T11:27:09 | 2016-06-27T10:27:12 | 420 | 157 |
[WP] You have just let loose a string of vulgarities so potent that the patron saint of cursing has decided to personally pay you a visit to tell you to calm down. | The entire room stared at me with wide eyes, some covering their mouths, others whispering to each other. I could feel their judgement hot upon my neck.
"Dude... there are *kids* here..." my opponent said, rubbing his eyes. "Why would you say that?"
I was too furious to respond, and thankfully, I didn't have to. We a... | I was still fuming as I locked myself in the break room.
I'm not usually the type of guy to explode like that, but sometimes, one little computer glitch puts you over the edge. Now, here I was, hiding away, trying to pretend that none of my co-workers had seen anything.
I was about to get a bag of chips from the vend... | 2016-07-23T08:15:46 | 2016-07-23T08:11:42 | 1,757 | 42 |
[WP] You get a deep cut for the first time in your life, instead of bone or muscle, you see wires. | “Ow!” Jake screamed out as the sword slashed his arm. It was mid-July and he was a performer at his town’s local medieval faire. Over the past few summers, he had done everything from running the concession stands to performing on stage in real sword fights. This year he was doing the latter. Covering up his wound w... | "Okay." I say, looking down at the gash in my palm. "Okay, don't panic. Don't panic. Ow. This hurts."
This is what I get for trying to catch a falling knife. Stupid of me, I know. But I have a bigger problem than a cut. Under my skin, the cut didn't reveal blood and muscle, but a metal framework with wires runn... | 2016-09-12T10:55:47 | 2016-09-12T10:16:37 | 104 | 64 |
[WP] After thousands of years of deep space exploration, humanity hits the skybox. | Sensors never lied. At least, never this badly. The crew had all seen the rendering on their computers. The surface they hovered above reached out endlessly in all directions. Putting their feet on it just confirmed what seemed to be impossible.
Being a rational man, Burbank was not frightened, but was quickly becomi... | Imagine the sound of metal crumpling. Great lumps of the finest machined and manufactured metals, placed and bolted with the utmost care, now being mangled against a unseen wall. Now forget all that as this is space and sound doesn't work that way.
"Ah fucking hell. BOB, get up here"
"Jim, the fuck you do?"
"I thin... | 2016-11-05T08:06:14 | 2016-11-05T07:46:57 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | They decided to test-run the idea on the 'Blade and Flame' killer. Real name, Leonard Stiles: notorious for cutting up his 50 victims, before torching them while still breathing.
He'd get a little trip down memory lane before death, courtesy of LifeChip technology. The chips had already been widespread in society when... | Thwap. Thwap. Thwap.
Something was broken inside Rand's train car this morning. A small piece of metal had broken off near the heavy doors. Every :02 seconds it made contact, caroming off it's former home as far as the separation allowed.
Separation was something Rand knew all about. In his first life. Now. Always. ... | 2016-11-13T12:14:23 | 2016-11-13T12:12:03 | 66 | 17 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | My dog, who I named Mr. Fierce when I was 14, was no longer quite so fierce. 12 years later I was nearing 30 and he was slowing down. His black and white fur had a little extra white in it from old age. He was always excitable, but now days he took a while longer to get his body moving. I could tell I only had a year, ... | "Alright, listen very carefully." The pills had taken effect almost immediately. I was in shock, and let out a, "Wow."
"No. No. No time for 'wow'. Snap the fuck out of it. I know what bullshit you just fed me; Toby told us about them the other week. I know they only last for a while, so there's something very impo... | 2017-02-23T05:15:25 | 2017-02-23T04:57:25 | 3,942 | 842 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright. Listen very carefully."
I sat there, riveted. Quinn had been with me for so long I couldn't imagine life without her. She was my best friend in the truest sense... always there, up for every adventure, a shoulder to cry on.
I was more than happy to listen. After all, she had been on the receiving end of a t... | Alright, listen very carefully. Have you seen the movie Inception? This is one of those situations. You’re locked inside what you might think of as a ‘dream’ and this is the only way I’ve found to talk to you. What’s actually going on is pretty complicated, involving comas, wormholes to alternate realities, and quantum... | 2017-02-23T05:50:11 | 2017-02-22T22:49:20 | 219 | 117 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "You have a *bad*. I smell it in you. The bad is bigger." the electonic voice chirped from a nearby speaker. Zoe looked at Valerie from the table
Valerie blinked, and turned to the vet tech, looking for help. "The pill allows Zoe to speak English, but this doesn't fully explain all concepts to her.", she remarked. s... | I knew I really couldn't afford the Intelect pill AND pay my rent that month, but the commercials made it seem so special and interesting. People hugging their pets, giggling at their smart wit, deepening that bond between them... It sounded to good to be true. Sadly, one pill was $500, so not everyone got to try. I ha... | 2017-02-23T06:40:22 | 2017-02-23T06:22:01 | 75 | 22 |
[WP] Your roommate is the serial killer on the news. However, he's probably one of the nicest people you know, and he's very respectful, discreet, and moral in his deeds. Neither of you really bring it up until one day he says, "I'm bored. Got anyone in mind for me to... y'know?" | I never saw Eric during the night. I'm not sure if this worries me, or if I am grateful. For one, I never have to see his... work. He is a wonderful cook, I pay the rent, and we work well together. "HEY KATE" he yells one night before leaving. "yeah?" I reply, slightly nervous. "mind if I use the bleach? I promise to r... | I was cooking dinner when he got home, I was kind of in the zone, listening to a record, so I jumped when he came around the corner into the kitchen. He never used to scare me like that, I'm not sure that he still does, but that breaking local news story during dinner last week definitely made me think.
I never usual... | 2017-03-21T21:10:08 | 2017-03-21T21:05:16 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A Genie offers you one wish, and you modestly wish to have a very productive 2017. The genie misunderstands, and for the rest of your life, every 20:17 you become impossibly productive for just 60 seconds. | She just wanted a fun night.
I had made my wish and learned to live with the consequences. 8pm was my prep time. Get everything in a row. I need tasks. Paper, pencils, building material is good too. During a rebellious period I tried to beat it. To take back control. I would lock myself in an empty room. But no, ... | On Christmas last year, I was dragging myself through a thrift store, looking for something to get myself. Nothing crazy, just a little gift.
I was messing around with some cups and glasses when I saw it. A small, faded, bronze-y... I dunno, lamp, I guess. I rubbed the side of it, thinking it was covered in dirt. Inst... | 2017-05-11T21:31:49 | 2017-05-11T21:17:37 | 341 | 104 |
[WP] there are people with control over the elements but not the the Greek ones like fire but the ones on the periodic table like hydrogen | The war was nearing its end but they weren't going to give up without a fight. They would fight tooth and nail it was their custom. The Japanese were a proud and honorable people. They were getting ready to dig in and fight off American forces. Adolf Hitler was dead and the Germans had already surrendered. The Japanese... | I AM CHROMOS, LESSER GOD OF CHROMIUM-50, HEAR ME.
I AM NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH MY BROTHER, CHROMETTO, LESSER GOD OF CHROMIUM-52 (PLENTIFUL BE HE IN NATURE). NOR AM I TO BE CONFUSED WITH MY FATHER, CHROMEO, GOD OF VIRILITY AND ALSO OF ALL THE STABLE ISOTOPES OF CHROMIUM, BLESSED BE THEY. HE RULES OVER ALL THE KINGDOM... | 2017-05-20T17:54:15 | 2017-05-20T17:13:15 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] End a monologue with "so fuck you, and thanks for asking." | "How am I? I'll tell you how I am.
"I wake up and there's no milk for my tea, that would be fine except there's no coffee either.
"I go to make breakfast, and the aforementioned lack of milk means there's no cereal, and *somebody* forgot to buy bread for toast.
"When I go to have a shower, there's no hot water, so I... | It has been awhile since we last talked. I had hoped that you had forgotten about me, that you would leave me alone. I wanted to be a lost memory, or at least be a sorrowful one to you. Did you ask how I was doing when I sat in a corner crying? Did you care how I felt when you beat me? Did the thought that what you wer... | 2017-06-26T15:08:08 | 2017-06-26T15:01:09 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a known, common, and expected result of death. You are a bounty hunter that specializes in tracking down people who have committed suicide to escape debts or a jail sentence. | "What is that?"
"It's your wife."
"It's a fucking frog!"
I looked at the fat, muddy brown toad sitting at the bottom of the cage. "Yes, a frog that was once your wife."
"How do you know that's her?" the man crossed his arms and adopted an accusatory tone. "She wouldn't become a frog. She was a woman... | Sarah had an apple lodged in her mouth. That was my personal touch. Everything else—the swollen cheeks, the blackened eyes, the missing finger—that was protocol. She sat bound to a small wooden chair, a camera in her face and lightbulb above her head.
“Should’ve stuck with your bodyguards,” I told Sarah.
Girls her a... | 2017-07-09T10:24:06 | 2017-07-09T10:10:35 | 5,471 | 94 |
[WP] A world not too far in the future, where cursive is used as a secret language among those who have something to hide, and bored people who learn it from the internet. | "Are you seeing this shit? 'What is your primary language?'" George read aloud, waving a form in the air. "They just put this squiggle."
"Let me have a look at that," Jackie took it from him. "Oh. It's cursive. I think the new hire can read it. Hey, Bill! Take a look at this, will you?"
An old man with thick glasse... | The underground society situated just 10 meters below the parliamentary building used cursive. So did the modern Mafia. Each man's hand wrote elegantly, but truly, it was shame and fear that compelled their hand. No cipher worked against the smartest sleuths of the 22nd century, but disguising on the other hand...Zack ... | 2017-08-28T16:06:20 | 2017-08-28T15:53:59 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Write a villain who is terrifying not just because of what they do, but because they almost convince us they're doing the right thing. | It is a terrible thing which I do. It is a terrible thing which must be done. On the lonely highway south of town when a dog lays crippled on the deep shoulder of the asphalt with legs ruined by the tractor trailer, you drive past and you think:
"Someone should do something."
In the dark night, the wind of the speedi... | At the end of the day, it was simple mathematics. One is less than two is less than three. Nobody knows the future and nobody knows if they made the right choice until after the fact, so all humans could do was play the odds. Pick the option that would save the most amount of people and let the rest slip aside. What di... | 2017-10-27T19:28:30 | 2017-10-27T19:17:30 | 531 | 27 |
[WP] The first generation of wizards inherits from their parents’ professions. For example, a child of a chef and a swimmer wields fire and water spells. You possess something interesting. | Normally, you'd get a power from each of your parents. Everyone had two, and it usually related to their professions. I knew a kid once who had oil and water. His dad worked on a rig, while his mother taught swimming classes. Poor guy's parents divorced, eventually.
Rarely though, you'd see a combination of the powers... | The worlds rejoiced and remarked of the return of our world from the line.
The line was cut during the medieval times as Christianity became the highest belief. Witchcraft and Black magic was prohibited by the sacred book, which in turn led to hundreds of burned wizards and witches that were akin to both light and da... | 2018-04-15T09:48:49 | 2018-04-15T09:34:14 | 853 | 212 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | Xil’dan looked down at his wilted hydrangeas in disgust. Six hundred years, and he had not yet learned the trick of keeping plants alive. Surely it wasn’t that difficult a task. Mortals did it all the time. But try as he might, he could not seem to make his garden flourish. Plants he cared for withered, shrubs he prune... | She had set-up her booth at the street-corner, under the giant maple tree which marked the junction of 56th and Elmsway. Her handwriting was neat and precise, such that the words on her chalk board were legible even from a distance away. 'Portraits - $1', it read. I was disappointed to find that there was no array of s... | 2018-05-30T00:42:23 | 2018-05-29T22:46:26 | 2,136 | 1,507 |
[WP]: Alcohol is not medicine. No bloodletting. Absolutely NO mercury, at all, ever. Being thrown hundreds of years back in time was an inconvenience, but at least you’ve made a name for yourself as the most paranoid and superstitious doctor around. | It took a while to persuade them that I wasn't insane. But I thank the good Lord that I found myself in the company of rationalists and thinkers, instead of the uneducated common folk.
What was a bunch of misguided geniuses obsessed with the details and mysteries of alchemical theory, became a true establishment of na... | The glass splintered and tiny shards were scattered across the room as it crashed into the ground.
“What in the hell is wrong with you!?” the confused man shrieked in obvious disbelief.
I looked around and noticed that my actions had drawn a considerable amount of attention from the other patrons of the Garrison Pub,... | 2018-06-21T13:40:30 | 2018-06-21T11:41:35 | 256 | 102 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | All of the sound was suddenly sucked from the room. I couldn't even hear my own pulse, if I still had one, given what I was seeing... but... no. No, no, no. I'm seeing things. This is just a trick of the light. I chuckled lightly at the thought of my own 'impurity'. What a concept! I was already anxious to share this w... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:00:48 | 3,279 | 147 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always knew, since I was a baby. If I’ll be a good boy, then my blood will be white.
I was always scared of having black blood.
I must be a good boy.
Around this simple principle, I built my life. And it felt good helping others. I was happy!
I studied medicine because I thought no greater good exists but saving ... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T10:34:28 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | PeculiarPete was scrolling through /r/Jokes when he realized something.
He took his idea and went over to another subreddit and began scrolling back through some old prompts when he saw something that captured his fancy.
*"Writing Prompt[WP] Humans blood gets darker t... | At that moment, I was happy. I bring my pricked finger to my supple lips, and my tongue caresses the wound with warm tenderness.
Sweet. Like a strawberry lollipop.
It started off as one good deed a day. Picking up trash, volunteering at the senior home, removing hate graffiti, giving some water to construction worke... | 2018-08-04T11:11:45 | 2018-08-04T10:18:07 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always did my best, powered through the worst, and did my best. I have to charity, I saved animals, I did what I thought was morally right... but we all have different moral definitions of what is right. I sadly patched my wound as fast as I could when I went through my entire memory, trying to pinpoint the worst thi... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T11:28:16 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Of course in hindsight everyone sees the merit of my decision. In the early days though, people kept asking me why I chose Hell over Heaven. My answer has always been three words: "Location, location, location"...
Before my ticket was up on earth, I came to a realization... If everyone choose Heaven, Heaven would even... | St Peter drops his pen in surprise. “I’m sorry?”
I look back. “I said, I choose Hell.”
“Son, do you know what they do to you in Hell?” St Peter asked. “They beat you, and torment you, and burn you in anguish until the end of time.”
“How do you know?” I ask.
St Peter sits back in his chair. He looks down at his ... | 2018-08-13T09:48:32 | 2018-08-13T09:22:44 | 155 | 115 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Of course in hindsight everyone sees the merit of my decision. In the early days though, people kept asking me why I chose Hell over Heaven. My answer has always been three words: "Location, location, location"...
Before my ticket was up on earth, I came to a realization... If everyone choose Heaven, Heaven would even... | The woman in the gate couldn't believe her eyes. There was a young woman there. In Hell. By choice. And she looked at peace. How long has she seeing something like this? 1000 years? 10000? It was so unexpected that she forgot the protocol. She just stared.
The girl approached the desk with small steps, looking around ... | 2018-08-13T09:48:32 | 2018-08-13T09:21:04 | 155 | 21 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | I smirked. Now wasn't this ironic. After finally falling to the demons from hell, I get to choose whether to finally take my eternal rest, or continue to *Rip and Tear*
Now why the hell would i go to heaven.
The Doom Slayer walked in through the gates of hell.
The second slayer's testament would begin to be penned t... | They’ve really pulled out all the stops. They *say* you can pick Heaven or Hell, but they forget to mention you need to be subordinate to the Big Dude. They do let you take your time, see both sides of the coin, but frankly you’d need to be a dumbass to pick heaven.
Who would want to die like that? Denying yourse... | 2018-08-13T09:08:57 | 2018-08-13T08:20:27 | 82 | 33 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | That was the last time I saw her. She said she'd explain when she got home, and I believed her, but it turns out it was the most elaborately staged breakup ever. I think she went full crazy, because none of her friends or coworkers heard from her either.
It's been about a year now, so the hurt has eased a little, and ... | Yup. I never had ... relationships without complications. I guess dating a super hero or something was one of the better kind of complications.
I condensed those thoughts into a confused shaking of my head and a gesture telling "What the hell, jenny?". Then I patted her on the shoulder. She was tense and stressed, I c... | 2018-09-16T14:48:25 | 2018-09-16T13:10:00 | 129 | 92 |
[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”. | I yawned and stretched as I pushed myself off the ground. Hate sleeping without a bed, I never get any sort of decent rest. Those damn tips I see in my sleep have never really been helpful, I've always sort of tuned them out and done my own thing. Everything sort of works out in the end... well, except for... a lot of ... | The alarm went off that Friday at 6AM just like it did every day... except waking up that morning did not feel even close to as calm as waking up any other morning. The words "Always aim for the head" kept playing back in my head over and over again like a terrible song that just wouldn't leave no matter how badly you ... | 2018-11-20T16:11:12 | 2018-11-20T14:12:09 | 835 | 130 |
[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”. | Jeffry awoke from his dream with a question on his mind. "Why would a highschooler need to aim at someones head?" Then he remembered one horrid detail about the day that was about to unfold before him DODGEBALL. He thought about it for a second though and realised. "Wait you aren't aloowed to take headshots in dodgebal... | Just another Saturday morning, sleeping in until nine o’clock then “Aim for the head”....
Now what in the world is this about, don’t own a gun, hell I don’t even own a bow or even a single arrow.
Well, next is taking the dog for her walk, about a one mile walk to start the day. Nothing unusual, the standard pee and pic... | 2018-11-20T16:38:57 | 2018-11-20T15:58:54 | 24 | 10 |
[WP]You've recently died, however you don't fear Hell since you have a get out if Hell free card: Just show it to the Gatekeeper of Hell and you're immortal soul is free to go. Now as you present your card to the Gatekeeper a wicked smile formed on his face. "You didn't read the fine print did you?" | "Wha.. What fine print?"
I quickly grabbed my card back, trying to look for some small text. I looked all over it, yet couldn't find anything. Everything was large enough to read, and I had read them all. It said I should be able to get into heaven.
"Not *those* type of fine prints. Did you pay attention to wh... | Waking up from the searing pain of hell isn't the warmest welcome to say the least but I do know that there ain't know way that I'd be going to heaven. You see I've been part of the axle cultists for a long time and some would just paint me as a con artist or a mad man with nothing short of a thousand followers from al... | 2019-03-30T11:29:09 | 2019-03-30T11:27:43 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | I was in school when it happened. It was just another cold day of winter like any other until a teacher came to our class to inform us we were instructed to go the gym immediately. We didn't know what the hell was going on, just that the president was going to give a speech about the... uh... weird circumstances Canadi... | Nobody thought of it at first, as less and less flights started to come in and out of Canada, to eventually none. Car travel slowed until it too eventually stopped, Canadian TV and Radio networks going dead within a matter of hours.
To be completely honest, nobody even noticed it at first, until for the first time in ... | 2019-08-25T20:08:06 | 2019-08-25T19:45:28 | 311 | 72 |
[WP] A knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes a young preacher. Groggily, he opens the door to reveal a surprising visitor - a demoness asking for help with tears in her eyes. | The thumping was louder. The preacher slowly rolled over in bed, and stumbled to his feet. "Alright, alright, I'm coming! It's rather late though..."
He looked up at the clock, ten minutes after midnight. A bad hour to be up. He stopped to pick up the pocket cross from his bedside table, and pocketed it. He wasn't sur... | Sleep still clenched my eyes in its vicious grasp. I barely force my eyelids open as I lean against the door, my forehead pressed into the cool wood.
"Myeah?" Is the sound that my lungs manage to force out of my lips.
When I'm greeting by silence, I sigh.
"Again, Lil?" I stand aside. I hear her wet boots, still t... | 2019-10-31T22:47:35 | 2019-10-31T20:47:35 | 213 | 74 |
[WP] In the future, when totalitarian governments are the norm, every newborn is injected with a syrum known to the people as FEAR. This syrum shuts down the "fight" part of your brain, leaving you only with "flight." For one child, FEAR did not take affect... | “Why do we run from the Great Ones, again, mother?”
“I don’t know why, honey.”
“But there has to be a reason.”
“Why do we eat? Why do we sleep? There are just things we have to do. For our survival.”
“So this is all there is? Moving around from camp to camp, always watching the lights of the Capital, dreaming but... | If I were told to describe cowardice in a single word, it would probably surprise you. Throughout my life, my definitions of terms such as weakness, cowardice, and really anything pertaining to the human mind and its sheer capacity for self-preservation could be labeled as shallow at best. I’ve often found that it is n... | 2019-11-05T12:40:40 | 2019-11-05T12:34:16 | 174 | 22 |
[WP] After several thousand years, the Greek gods awaken in the in the mid 1940’s. When the gods meet up to discuss what they had learned of the modern world, Ares walks into the room with a hollow and horrified look in his eyes, the day is August 6th, 1945.(Hiroshima) | "Ares?"
Zeus' mighty shadow falls over the God of War's formidable figure, but it does not seem to stir him out of his mindless stupor. His gaping, bloodshot eyes refuse to blink, or move from their transfixed stare on the horizon.
"Ares, this is my final command. Heed my call, or I shall remind you who reigns over... | The gods slowly arrived at Mount Olympus. They awoke merely a few weeks ago and still had trouble with the new world. This meeting of the council was a good opportunity to complain about everything new. Hades was the loudest: "Can you imagine how long the queue at the River Styx is. It will take me years just to get al... | 2019-12-04T09:58:31 | 2019-12-04T09:49:56 | 330 | 56 |
[WP] After several thousand years, the Greek gods awaken in the in the mid 1940’s. When the gods meet up to discuss what they had learned of the modern world, Ares walks into the room with a hollow and horrified look in his eyes, the day is August 6th, 1945.(Hiroshima) |
“Ares.” Zeus at times wished he was Odin. He wished at times he had a hall to retreat to, a throne from which he could view the world impartially. He wished he hadn’t had to be himself. But Ares was his son, and he could feel his anguish.
“Zeus, father..? Whats happened to Ares? Why hasn’t he returned?”
“I don’t k... | This is my first time writing on here, so please bear with me and please share any criticism you have. Also, I suck at Reddit formatting so please bear with me.
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Ares, chin held low, walked under the arch way for the first time in what was nearly 3,000 years. The sun a piercing light in the sky as it alw... | 2019-12-04T14:40:05 | 2019-12-04T14:18:41 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] In a world filled with magic, your family is scorned for generations for wasting time with science. Your mother was a botanist. Your father, a biologist. Mages touch-heal. You developed steam locomotion when mages teleport. Your family has never trusted magic. One day, the magic stops working. | Space is vast, and Magic runs deep.
Of course, no one calls it magic anymore. But, that's what it is.
Magic, or aethermancy is the art of drawing and channeling aether from the (wait for it) ethereal plane to do your bidding. Or, in the case of ritual casting, someone else's bidding. Dangerous stuff, Aather. It ob... | Since I’d just gotten home from work at the supermarket, and my parents were busy with the work they did from home, I was the one unlucky enough to open the front door when the rapid, demanding knocks sounded. Curious, and more than a little worried since our neighbors usually wanted nothing to do with us, I walked qui... | 2021-04-07T08:06:12 | 2021-04-07T07:53:52 | 180 | 103 |
[WP] You’re a reformed supervillain, the heroes attack your home to try to bring you to justice. Your family is killed in the process. Your wife’s last words “make them feel it.” | "What are you doing here?" His voice demands. Understandably the person is upset at my intrusion. I know EXACTLY how he feels.
"We made a Deal once. For me to retire peacefully and be left alone by your League of Champions. Do you remember?" I ask, blood drying on my clothes.
"Yes. You wanted to stop being involved i... | "Hello my name is Richard and I'm an alcoholic. It's been 11 1/2 years since my last drink, but tonight I fell off the wagon. This is going to be a bit of a rant but this is why we are here right? To share and get what we need, right? I haven't had a drink it so long I forgot how bitter the stuff was, gosh I cant belie... | 2021-04-17T08:20:37 | 2021-04-17T02:33:08 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 1,590 | 152 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 1,590 | 17 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | The Gods damned Tribunal! If there was anyone to blame for the state of this sorry world it would be the Tribunal. Sitting up on high, casting judgement on their inferiors. Everyone knows they're the real power behind the crown. Can't have a revolution when the Tribunal can kill you for your crimes instantly.
Peop... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T08:24:48 | 1,590 | 11 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 392 | 181 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 236 | 152 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 236 | 17 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 74 | 45 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 74 | 12 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “How would you like to die?”
What kind of question is that? I wouldn’t like to die at all! But still I must give an answer.
I am sentenced for crimes against magic. I tried to poison the Well of Magic. But truly magic is the root of all evil and corruption. It is just a way to cheat the laws of nature.
People with... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T07:46:07 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 68 | 17 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Well, that didn't work out as i thought" thought Alex, while the lifeless husk of an old man was being pushed away by a magical hand. "Now what? I've heard it all, and nothing worked. The best i came up with was within my loved one's arms, but the last guy who said that got stabbed in the heart by his wife, while she ... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:44:08 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The Wish was the last will of the self, a powerful magic that one's potential in time unleashed at a forced convergence point in time.
Everyone had a rather large potential, and so almost every Wish succeeded in ending the life of the subject in the way they asked for. Literally. Figuratively. It found a way. I didn't... | There went my master planof outsmarting the system.
Joey, my former impromptu partner-in-crime, laid in the room as his life slipped through his grasp, surrounded by hospital equipment.
Joey wheezed and coughed by old age, I was running out of breath as a knot started sinking in my gut. The room started getting hott... | 2021-06-24T11:47:16 | 2021-06-24T11:02:13 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The Wish was the last will of the self, a powerful magic that one's potential in time unleashed at a forced convergence point in time.
Everyone had a rather large potential, and so almost every Wish succeeded in ending the life of the subject in the way they asked for. Literally. Figuratively. It found a way. I didn't... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T11:47:16 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well shit. There went my plan. Looks like old age is not a way out of it when they can rapidly age you before the assembled court. I had to come up with something amazing if I wanted to survive this execution. To be fair I probably did deserve this, I had killed a few (dozen) people in rather brutal fashion. Deserving... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:26:09 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | # Foreword to the Poet's War, by John Burnett
The Terani send their poets to war. I know because I’ve fought them, and because I’ve read the collections of the men I thought I'd killed.
When I was young, a boy of eighteen, I went to the trenches of Tau Ceti. I brought along a million of my best friends, and shou... | Garen tried standing up, but his knee buckled. Where did they go wrong? His breath was fleeting and blood dripped from a fresh wound beneath the hair on his head. So close, so close to victory and the end of this tyrant’s rule. The creak of metal jarred Garen’s thoughts. His enchanted armor had long lost the magic in i... | 2022-12-09T06:27:20 | 2021-07-13T13:54:46 | 1,513 | 14 |
[WP] A notoriously talkative superhero is forced to remain silent for an extended period of time due to civilian, secret identity reasons. Villains, civilians, even other heroes are unnerved and intimidated by the hero's new stoic, silent behavior. | I was the last one standing. The Bug Trifecta, the three most powerful villains in the whole city has gotten defeated... by fucking Current. Both Moth and Spider lay on the ground, maybe dead or maybe just paralyzed, leaving me alone to fight him. Normally I could manage him, after all, I am the great Bee. My robotic s... | "Oh now this is just ridiculous Tank!" Velveteen cackled as he had his minions attack his archnemesis The Tank who with a swing of her mighty fists made short work of them. Her latest outfit was just awful. Full black with no highlighting of her luscious curves. "You're going woke and broke!" He exclaimed as he jumped ... | 2022-01-24T10:13:49 | 2022-01-24T08:41:17 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] Every God gets a planet to take care of for their final project. You are pretty sure you're going to fail the assignment because your planet has this weird gross stuff growing all over it. | Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh crap! What am I going to do? I'm throwing everything I have at it but it just keeps coming right back!
"Doug I still need your project submitted before you leave." Crap teach is coming! Maybe rinsing it would work. Darn it, I didn't get it all! How does it spread so fast?
"Doug did you here me?"
... | I could be the God of anything. The God of Music gets his Planet of Symphony. The God of Lightning gets his Terra of Thunder. The God of War gets his World of Wars. I am the God of Bryophytes.
Every God receives a planet before a spot on the throne of Gods. The higher the grade, the more power thine shall receive in r... | 2022-01-27T13:43:10 | 2022-01-27T09:56:00 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | I have seen civilization fall. I've seen it rise like a phoenix from the ashes, only to burn out in its own magnificence. It was as much the cycle of life as any living being.
I have seen the fall of the last civilization of man. Greed, corruption and short-sightedness joined together with technology that... | I knew the names of those that stepped into my door. They did not offer their souls, but they were nonetheless forfeit. It was the way the world worked.
I realized now that I never knew the people.
For one that lived an eternity, the apocalypse was at once sudden and inevitable, and yet ultimately unnecessary.. A fla... | 2022-02-20T11:07:34 | 2022-02-20T10:08:56 | 828 | 96 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | **Looking for Death**
If you’re looking for death, follow the crying.
My shadowy cloak billows around me as I float toward the the small hut at the edge of Omega, a woman’s wailing drawing me in like a flame draws bugs. That’s what they’re calling the town these days, Omega, since it’s the last town left in the world... | I knew the names of those that stepped into my door. They did not offer their souls, but they were nonetheless forfeit. It was the way the world worked.
I realized now that I never knew the people.
For one that lived an eternity, the apocalypse was at once sudden and inevitable, and yet ultimately unnecessary.. A fla... | 2022-02-20T11:25:42 | 2022-02-20T10:08:56 | 178 | 96 |
[WP] You open a letter addressed to your home’s previous owner. Inside is an “Application for Immortality “. The questions are strange and entertaining so you fill it out. | "What is the fundamental flaw with Avocados?" I read aloud. "What a weird question."
My wife leaned into the doorframe from the hallway. "Steve, I still don't think you should be reading that. Isn't reading someone else's mail, like, a Federal crime?"
"Idunno" I replied, as I wrote out my answer.
"Shouldn't we trac... | Just for kicks I opened the letter addressed to the old guy, Nick Johnson, who had owned the house before we moved in. "We" being my lovely wife Jordan and our two lovely daughters Agatha and Dorothy.
From the looks of the letter, I assumed it was from the Home Owners Association with news telling me to paint the gar... | 2022-06-10T09:57:06 | 2022-06-10T09:17:04 | 984 | 56 |
[WP] You are an evil dragon who has gone out and ravaged a village. After slaughtering the villagers, you lay down to rest upon a pile of corpses. After a few hours of evil dreams, you wake to a small poke in your side. You open your eyes and see a brave little girl trying to slay you with a knife. | She stabs, the knife skittering over my scales.
I smile. What a perfect result, a little digestif to compliment the meal I had made of the village. I lazily lick my lips, the stench of cooked human from my bed almost entirely overwhelming the delicate scent of the creature at my side -
\- almost, but *not quite*.
I ... | It was the first time I have ever pause. A mere knife couldn’t pierce my scales and even it could she didn’t have the strength. Yet somehow I who had killed the bravest knights found myself stuck. What to do? Killing her just seemed like a waste but why shouldn’t I? Finally after much deliberation (which she was still... | 2022-08-18T18:21:43 | 2022-08-18T17:35:59 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | I have been a baker for many, many years. It wasn't always a passion or even something I thought I could do. I lied at a bar to impress someone and one thing led to another and here I am baking rolls and bread.
Another lie was that I had perfected that art of cake making. People believed it and flooded the store with ... | I think they would understand why I did it. The truth is terrifying at first, but ultimately has no immediate impact, and will not for some time. But it will still change everything. Except, it did not have to, at least, not yet, and that was the reason why I did it. Maybe I was selfish, maybe I just wanted to live ou... | 2022-11-18T09:05:17 | 2022-11-18T05:25:43 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You can make a lie become truth, but only one lie at a time, once it is a lie again everyone involved will know immediately. You’re on your deathbed, holding one lie as truth for decades. You know hell will break loose once you die and the lie becomes a lie, and everybody will know. | "This sentence is a lie."
And they fucking believed it. For a century! They really did not see what is coming... I was the only Ultima Authorie, last to be asked whether it was the truth or not and I always went with "Yes.'.
So the sentence is a lie? Get over it, is the truth. Fucking hell though, once me time was th... | I think they would understand why I did it. The truth is terrifying at first, but ultimately has no immediate impact, and will not for some time. But it will still change everything. Except, it did not have to, at least, not yet, and that was the reason why I did it. Maybe I was selfish, maybe I just wanted to live ou... | 2022-11-18T08:23:40 | 2022-11-18T05:25:43 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" | June 23rd 2044
The heat of the summer solstice had caused some of my plants to grow thirsty; some of their
leaves having wilted under the intensity of the light through the day. It had been a bright blue sky
without a single cloud to offer its respite to my delicate friends. I dipped my watering can into a
rain barre... | Wishing to be immortal was the worst mistake I have ever made. If I could go back and change it, God knows I would. I remember when I rubbed that lamp, and the damn genie popped out like it was nothing.
"Hello, master," the genie said with a booming voice. "You get one wish. No wishing for love, death, or more wishes.... | 2022-12-21T12:38:09 | 2022-12-21T12:14:53 | 580 | 98 |
[WP] You find an old locket in some ancient ruins, with a faded photo inside. The photo is you and your SO - a photo you took ten minutes ago.
Edit: WOW guys, triple digits? Really liking the responses so far, keep'em coming. | *I... I don't understand.*
My brows furrowed in as I studied the small metal clasps and chain, turning it over and over in my hand. I looked around to see if the rest of my crew was watching, expectantly waiting for their moment to chuckle.
Matthew was fifty or so feet away, intently analyzing a clump of dirt that ke... | Walking along the ancient crumbling corridor I caught a glancing ray of light on top of golden lantern holder. "Hold up Maggie, look it this!" I say as I snag the locket. It was a dusty faded silver oval with a red gem centered on it and a broken latch. I held it up in the torchlight by its chain, grinning.
Maggie pus... | 2013-10-14T21:25:48 | 2013-10-14T21:24:30 | 61 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "Hey! That's the guy that killed my cousin! Pull over!"
*Here it comes again,* I thought to myself. I turned to face my attacker. The third in as many days. Some punk with a third-rate powerset. Probably born since the District was walled off.
I sized him up. No obvious indicators of his power. Nothing obvious on his... | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T13:17:44 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 1,338 | 81 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | You want an interview ? Fine, but you're buying the coffee. I'm getting kind of sick of this god-damned urban legend. I DON'T have superpowers, no-one has superpowers. There are just a bunch of crazy people who think they have powers, who for some reason have decided that I'm some fucked up version of their messiah.
*... | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T13:36:09 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 996 | 81 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 451 | 18 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 243 | 10 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | A eon we watched them. We watched them kill each other with amazement. Their violence horrified us, but we saw glimpses of peace amid the blackness of horror. Deep inside, their intentions were good, every single one of them acted on the idea that what they were doing was improving the situation of another. We watched ... | The towers were under siege. The walls were falling. The Philka were pouring through the outer gates. Their siege cannons pounded on the shields of the keep.
"Defend the Queen!" yelled the captain of the guard. Gathering what remained of the force rifles, the soldiers arranged themselves at the windows, firing down on... | 2014-12-26T10:31:12 | 2014-12-26T10:20:12 | 507 | 260 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Do you know what humans are? They are a small, bipedal creature trapped on a resource starved planet. Evolutionists would call this a typical case of a species made ruthless through internal competition. Not once in their entire existence had there been peace. Their 'civilization' began by throwing stones at 'Philistin... | "They shall have nothing." Was our Arbiter's words.
"They shall have nothing." Was the chant used by his followers to justify themselves.
"They shall have nothing." Was the truest statement uttered in the fifteen years of war.
The Hexams had won the war for all intents and purposes. All that remained was to capture ... | 2014-12-26T12:10:42 | 2014-12-26T11:03:12 | 130 | 10 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Not all humans were warriors. Not all of them invented machines and chemicals that brought death. This human was my friend.
From the beginning, I knew that some humans were artists. Some built bridges and buildings. Some explored caves. We were told all about them by our scientists. The ones who studied other ... | May our children forgive us; for we choose servitude over annihilation. Is it not better to be second among equals, lower only to them and above the rest? Is it not better to watch the fleet of those who would enslave you burn, to watch their planets fall and their cities crumble than to see your people massacred, your... | 2014-12-26T12:46:34 | 2014-12-26T10:50:07 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You have died, and in the afterlife have learned that each ghost may interfere on Earth only once while in eternity. Today is the day you have decided it's time. | The air wizzed by as he traveled at Mach 4, but he didn't feel it. Neither did the heat from the Rocket's exhaust bother him. But then, He wasn't really there, in the traditional sense. He was just there enough to matter.
Most ghosts used their one chance on something small, something personal. But there were those w... | She was on the bed. That bed my mother was far too thrilled to pick out for us just a few weeks before our wedding. That bed where we spent our wedding night, where each of our four children were conceived all those years ago. That bed where she found my cooling corpse in place of the loving husband she lay next to jus... | 2015-01-08T14:17:46 | 2015-01-08T12:57:30 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | “Its how fast?” David asked, a skeptical tone in his voice.
“Okay, I’ll try to put it in layman’s terms.” Gavin replied, his coffee going unnoticed on the table in front of him, “Let’s say a normal camera runs at something like 24 frames per second. Ours runs much faster than that. Much, much faster. A couple hundre... | "That's just remarkable! Truly astounding!"
Mr. Hader watched the video in awe, and Nathan just stood next to him, and found himself unable to stop a huge grin spreading on his face. He was gleaming with pride.
After all his hard work and dedication, he'd *finally* completed it! A 500,000 frame per second video camer... | 2015-02-06T14:36:31 | 2015-02-06T14:04:46 | 241 | 28 |
[WP] You’re a regular at Starbucks. This time you go, the lady writes "RUN" on your takeaway cup. | I blink at the cup. I blink at the Barrista. She smiles.
"Why does it say 'run' on my coffee?" I ask. She smiles again.
"Cardio" she says "it's always good to invest time in cardio fitness. You know where's a great place to get started? There's a park about five minutes walk from here, do the whole outside tra... | After a whole night sitting the in library my dissertation was finally finished, with not much time to spare as it was already fast approaching 7am with the deadline being 9am. However seeing as the university didn't open until 8am I had to somehow kill an hour, which I decided would be best at my local Starbucks conve... | 2015-04-07T05:36:06 | 2015-04-07T04:31:11 | 186 | 21 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | Craigslist > Men seeking Women > losangeles.craigslist.org
37/M/LA
Athletic Male seeking Sarah Connor for termination prior to birthing the leader of the resistance.
Please provide photo. My connection has been spotty since hooking up to the local service provider, but don't worry if you miss me. I'll be bac... | *Newest in >for sale*
Jan 23: Sports Betting, See how easy it can be to be a winner. books & magazines - by dealer [x]
Jan 25: Between Fact and Fiction, Helping you understand the real life problems and removing the anxiety over the fictional.
Feb 23: Communication Breakdown Unleashed (MRR), When you and your... | 2015-04-29T12:20:34 | 2015-04-29T09:07:02 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Tired of abducting humans, the aliens are publicly offering free spaceship rides to anyone willing to undergo their experiments. | At the moment Marcellin stepped into the office, his face went red and his eyes threw daggers to the man who had took a perfect human apparence and was sitting behind his desk.
"- Monsieur, je suis profondément outré par votre agence de voyage ! Pourquoi m'a t-on forcé à me deshabiller avant de pouvoir rentrer dans vo... | *You can catch a lot more flies with honey than with vinegar*
I read the letters on the signboard that was hung up on the deck of our craft. It had been put up to herald our new change in policy. The truth was that we had lost a lot of time. Humans may have been ancient and stubborn in their ways, refusing to change w... | 2015-09-27T10:04:27 | 2015-09-27T08:44:41 | 115 | 29 |
[WP] When something is created (humans, fire, lotion, etc.), a god is born to reign over its domain. You are the god of what most consider to be a completely mundane object but, somehow, you are becoming the most feared.
Or revered. Both could be interesting! | Long ago I was loved.
Children would play with figures cast from my being.
Life giving water would flow across me, through pipes and tanks to the homes of my worshipers.
Women sought beauty from my colors, adorned and anointed in my holy name.
Those days are long gone.
The figures that children... | The sovereign God. The god no mortal nor immortal would dare to trifle. The God everyone fears.
The God of A Bucket.
I barged through the solid gold doors as the entire room of Gods fell silent. They gazed at me with fear, envy, and amazement. Even God of the humans couldn't bare to make eye contact with me.
I walke... | 2016-07-06T14:30:41 | 2016-07-06T14:15:23 | 211 | 30 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | The earliest one gets one's familiar is at 13. The latest is generally 18. The world record is something like 27. I feel bad for that guy; eight years waiting was hard enough.
Familiars are strange beings. The earliest recorded one came in the early 1800s, a great bear-like beast that followed a single man. They canno... | Everyone has a quality that best defines them.
I was told that when I came of age it would be there, just like everyone else. Manifesting itself into a object or a living thing that I would have with me the rest of my life. Only I'm 3 years past due and no quality has manifested itself, the only human in recorded exi... | 2017-01-20T13:17:28 | 2017-01-20T13:00:41 | 4,354 | 120 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | Apparently, the whole reason 'familiars' (*or 'Guardians', if you're one of those people*) started showing up recently is because of a solar flare or something. Something to do with an ancient curse by the Roman god Mars, in which he cursed all souls killed in battle to serve their descendants for all their lives, or s... | I had never known what life was like with a familiar. My parents both had them, my older brother had one, and almost every person I knew at my school had one. They'd follow their masters about from place to place disappearing occasionally when commanded. I would try to describe them, but they are all so unique it becom... | 2017-01-20T15:20:01 | 2017-01-20T14:02:57 | 53 | 22 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | I thought at first that it was a severed and bloated head wrapped in plastic and thrown in the stream. Morbid curiosity took over and I ventured closer to the bank. It seemed to be drifting closer as I made my to the edge. My feet sticking into the mud I searched for a branch to use to snag the plastic and keep it from... | *For the record, I did not check the comments to see if anyone had used this idea I apologize if I have copied anyone, here we go!*
The Iridashi Companion Creator, or ICC, was created back in the year 2075, and has been creating companions or more commonly known as "Familiars" for people ever since. It was found in a... | 2017-01-20T20:29:24 | 2017-01-20T16:05:25 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I sat on the couch, scraping up the last remnants of my birthday cake.
"It's almost time!" My mom shouted
I glanced at the clock: 11:59
My brother Jeremy launched a nuclear clock app and swiped it to the TV. Everyone crowded around and I held up my arm so they could see. At 11:59:50 they started counting down. "10. ... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-15T22:53:41 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 271 | 37 |
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