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[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 226 | 26 |
[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 glanced nervously at my watch, still holding a wry smile. *12:01*.
My mom gave me a reassuring nod, but her brow furrowed in the same way as it does when I suit up for football. Hopeful. Excited. Definitely nervous. *12:02*.
Dad makes a nervous laugh. “Jim, you remember how much I was sweating at my Calling Day?” ... | A low rumble, cut short, indicated that my brother had arrived. Wesson got TAXI on his 18th - large and bold across his shoulders - not glamourous, but they never were. The words seemed to be the subtle nudges of fate, but even destiny is open to interpretation. He could have become a taxi driver, like so many others, ... | 2017-03-16T03:45:52 | 2017-03-15T23:14:08 | 188 | 98 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I'd always done well at school. Literally a straight-A student.
Perfect grades, the whole nine yards.
I'd gone to college, completed the courses before I was 16, and was enrolled in a prestigious and very expensive university in London by the time I was 17.
And because of this, the expectations were so high. My fami... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T02:40:17 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 52 | 26 |
[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... | My 18th birthday, something that seemed so far away is finally here. My family is gathered around, ready to see what word I would have. My dad's was JANITOR, while my mother's was DOCTOR. I hope I get something cool.
"We will be proud of you honey, whatever you are." My mother said. My father nodded in agreement. We ... | All of my friends and family had gathered in our favorite martian bar, the drinking age long ago lifted after the great cleansing of the 2020's...Everyone turned their attention towards me as the clock clicked ever so slowly from 11:59 to 12:00 sharp, the first letters began to appear..
"I" followed by a letter "D"
... | 2017-03-16T04:22:00 | 2017-03-16T03:13:05 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | *Sweeping panoramic shot of a grungy inner city school. Majestic music plays in background.*
NARRATOR: Unlike the dominant species of the desert planet of Grizek, the inhabitants of this little world have tentative, almost ambivalent, courtship rituals.
*Cut to empty corridor. Bell rings, and a bipedal humanoid speci... | Last time, we had a look at the mating habits of the adult forms of the Homosapiens Erectus, or "Humans" as they call themselves. Today, we shall be taking a look at the habits displayed by younger examples, here at what is known as "college". For the Homosapiens, knowledge is hard gained, and they use these learning ... | 2017-04-04T07:03:30 | 2017-04-04T06:35:46 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] On a dare, you answer an email from a Nigerian Prince accepting ten million dollars. Two weeks later a package arrives with a plane ticket and letter explaining how pleased the prince was that you accepted his marriage proposal and dowry. | "Wait... what?"
"Ahaahahah!!!! Dude you're getting married to a Nigerian Prince!" My friend exclaimed.
"This has to be a mistake, I'm a dude."
I immediately replied to the email:
Dear Mr. Nigerian Prince (he gave his name as Nigerian Prince).
I am flattered by your offer of marriage, and even more flatter... | I walked up to the gate, looking around to see if I was being punk'd by one of my friends. But the gate checker took my ticket, and to my surprise, it validated, and the light turned green. "Thank you very much," she said, motioning to the side for me to enter.
"*If this was a prank,*" I thought. "*My friends are goin... | 2017-05-27T13:11:30 | 2017-05-27T10:09:57 | 591 | 234 |
[WP] Lying in bed with your significant other and feeling the rhythmic kicks of your unborn child, you recognize the pattern as Morse code. | Jack was laying in bed talking with his pregnant wife Jill. They were so excited that they were going to have a son in a short time.
All of a sudden Jill jumped a little, smiled, then turned to Jack and said the baby was starting to kick.
Jack had been trying to feel the baby kick for awhile now but was never able t... | Me and Alex were just settling down we noticed it. The little knocks of the baby against the inner womb. If you looked close enough you could even see imprints of its limbs as it tried to gain a sense of where it was. It was adorable.
That is, until we noticed the tapping. It was muted at first, but it crescendoed i... | 2017-06-25T21:53:29 | 2017-06-25T19:01:37 | 48 | 20 |
[WP] Humans never figured out how to travel faster than light, but immortality was not that hard after all. As a consequence, space travel is possible, but very boring. | I stood staring out the observation panel, trance-like with deep thought. The distant glow of a billion stars stared back, imperceptibly sliding by as my vessel traversed the great emptiness towards our ultimate destination. I sighed, exhaling slowly and savouring the feeling of my breath chilling my teeth as it passed... | "Unknown species send out probes all the time. That's gotta be what it is." Jim said with shaky confidence. *It could also be a planetary warhead* he thought, but he didn't see the point in mentioning that. Either way, this was not the ideal start to his barbeque.
The shuttle had landed right in the pool, and leg ext... | 2017-08-15T07:59:53 | 2017-08-15T06:56:06 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] You're a killer dumping your latest victim into the river. Just as you're about to be done, you spot another person. Doing exactly the same thing. And they've just spotted you, too. | What's a rivers body count? There's the obvious ones, the direct victims that fall in (or jump) and drown. Then there's the murders, people killing people with the river as if it's a gun. Then, of course, there's the literal: the dead bodies we drop in ourselves after doing the dirty work.
I respect the river; I'd ne... | Jack checked again as he began shoveling the remains into the hole. While most people wouldn't think a beach to be one of the perfect places to put a corpse, it makes sense.
Sand is easy to move around, much moreso than dirt. Less strain on you. Plus, if a major storm ever hits and the body is uncovered; with luck the... | 2017-10-12T20:40:57 | 2017-10-12T19:17:37 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] Pets are intelligent. Religious dogs worship humans as gods, while cats see us as a natural resource. You see your dog chasing away stray cats pestering you for food, not realizing he is a knight from the Order of Saint Good Boy protecting you from harvesters from the Cats Corporate Dominion. | I was snoozing on the bearskin rug in front of the fire on my back with my legs in the air my fur shining in the soft glow of the fire. My jaws were snapping at the evil cat, but it kept eluding me even though my legs were a blur and I was moving faster than a speeding car. At break neck speed we rounded a corner sendi... | Sai, a knight of the Order is Saint Good Boy, recognized for his strength, might and short white fur decorated in spots faced his rival, Bella, an agent of Cats Corporate Dominion, known for her slick black fur and the unluckiness brought by her visits.
Cats Corporate Dominion was a company trying to use up all the r... | 2017-12-09T23:07:32 | 2017-12-09T21:42:36 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | I heard, from down the hall, the bang-bang-bang as the bandits try to breach the panic room. They managed to get into the bunker. The outside door. Someone left it open. Don't know who. I'm the only one left. Locked in here. Alone.
My pistol, an old thing, only has 2 bullets left. One for myself, I suppose.
Dust f... | Barron Trump tweedled his thumbs and looked nervously at his son, Donald Trump II.
"Is Santa coming, Papa?" The young Donald asked.
"...I don't know, son."
Meanwhile, at a nearby nuclear bunker, Chelsea Hubbell and her daughter, Hillary Clinton Hubbell, huddled around the smoldering remains of a Haitian ex-child s... | 2017-12-22T15:31:03 | 2017-12-22T14:27:36 | 77 | 13 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | Santa ran through the list again. It was his shortest one yet. The nuclear blast had swept away most of humanity, and with it, the childlike sense of wonder and imagination that would compel one to write a letter to Santa. Mrs. Clause appeared at the door holding two steaming mugs of cocoa.
"Honey," sighed Santa, fold... | Barron Trump tweedled his thumbs and looked nervously at his son, Donald Trump II.
"Is Santa coming, Papa?" The young Donald asked.
"...I don't know, son."
Meanwhile, at a nearby nuclear bunker, Chelsea Hubbell and her daughter, Hillary Clinton Hubbell, huddled around the smoldering remains of a Haitian ex-child s... | 2017-12-22T16:13:10 | 2017-12-22T14:27:36 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 579 | 34 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | It had been 50 years since World War III. America had caused the most damage and knowing them, they'll cause more. So that's when we had the perfect idea. We would fake a Worldwide isolation for 50 years. While they were left alone to rebuild, secretly we would all rebuild together and make a better world. Fresh water,... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2018-01-18T01:39:47 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 46 | 34 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | "IS THAT HIS EYE," I screamed looking down at the mangled corpse of the hero was now strewn lazily about the floor of my laboratory.
"Yes, my love," she cooed in response, then pouted, "he had come to take me from you." She was the Princess even as she was my captive. Her classic pink dress was long gone however, an... | "So... we infiltrate Dunsten Villa with a Rhonkan Rogue Wizard, and have him open a summoning circle to the eighth... ring of Sheol?"
"The seventh".
"The seventh, right. And why exactly?"
"Because Balor demons live on the seventh, and have a taste for the flesh of children"
"Ok, ok. But wouldn't it make more sense ... | 2018-02-09T05:33:00 | 2018-02-09T05:32:19 | 158 | 20 |
[WP] You have the ability to pause time at any moment for as long as you want. But instead of saving the world or robbing banks, you decide to always have a witty remark when someone insults you. | By gum, I had it. At long last, I had it.
The girl had called me short. I hate being called short. I'm not even that short. I'm 5 8. That's not short at all. That's like 80th percentile for height, I think.
But the girl called me short. I froze time because I was so pissed off. I had to think of a comeback.
It took ... | “Tell us where it is, Sanchez, or we start chopping heads.” Schlomere says in a voice that resembles gravel on sandpaper. He waves his knife in the air to make his point; the blade glints brightly in two different places from the dual suns that hang in the sky above Woblobpolis. “Starting with your son-in-law.” Schlome... | 2018-07-10T09:04:32 | 2018-07-10T07:07:35 | 244 | 98 |
[WP] You invited people to your mansion without telling them they would be part of a killing game, the doors are locked, no way to escape until there is only one, problem is: the mansion is really nice and no one really wants to leave | As a rich man I get bored, so I created a killing game, a nice simple killing game where the only goal was to be the last one standing. It was so simple even a baby could grasp the concept. Apparently the nimrods I had invited were to preoccupied with all of the activities I had in my mansion. It was all my fault reall... | It was a devil's deal, but we all knew it coming in...
The sunsets really are amazing though.
There's a breeze gently breathing out over the sea as the sunset, nearly touching the mountains towards the west. It's not late enough in the season yet, but it was pointed out to us, every sunset was a little further north ... | 2018-09-02T16:59:25 | 2018-09-02T15:36:19 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened 2 years ago, and when you are cornered by one of them you panically bite them, and they become a human again and ask whats going on. | Suddenly the zombie attacking me stops. It falls onto the ground - not as a living dead - but as a living… living.
To be more precise, a young woman about the twenties. Her long hair slowly fades from pale white to off-yellow, but her clothes remain tattered, and her body still covered in bruises and bite marks, inclu... | The hall was wet with the smell of blood. A ghastly stench emanated from multiple rooms, their doors open with hints of movement inside each one. Barry shuddered, trying his best to hold in his breath and not make a sound as he limped along the walls. A throbbing pain came from his left leg, where he could see bone jut... | 2018-12-17T01:57:27 | 2018-12-17T00:45:11 | 110 | 41 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | Jarumel, newest of the Seraphim, had been reminded not to hesitate to ask any questions about his new role as a Heavenly Scribe. He studiously attended to the initiations, made a note of every query which perplexed him, then finally approached Metatron for guidance.
“Metatron,” he said, stylus gripped tightly between ... | "Stubbed Toe Avoidance?" I stared in disbelief at the floating egg before me. "Wow, there really is a stat for everything, is there?"
From the pure whiteness surrounding me, there came a booming laugh. The egg shook slightly, looking as amused as any egg could get. "Yes, Ugg112358, there's a stat for just about any ra... | 2019-01-24T08:27:56 | 2019-01-24T08:06:38 | 253 | 57 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
These words silently flashed across the monitors of the stunned crew on Earth, their blinking the only sign of life in the still control room.
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
He was first to break the silence.
... | DO NOT SEND RESCUE
I rubbed my chin as I read the words up on the screen, and then raised my hand. The Captain standing at the front of the room acknowledged me. "Yes Martin?"
I gestured towards the screen. "If the final transmission from Horizon was essentially 'don't come,' explain to me why we're going there?"
... | 2019-01-31T07:54:22 | 2019-01-31T05:07:56 | 2,633 | 776 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | Unit 2782320 EnvironUnit 912 Actual on report on the 3rd satellite, they call Earth, from the star known any them as Sol.
The inhabitants of the Earth still remain biological units. Having not yet transferred their mords to firmware they are bound to a single lifespark.
--cut through slow scene of human larva the... | ### Humanity: Special For Exactly One Reason
#### They're the most absolutely full of themselves species in the entire universe.
Space is unimaginably vast. This is a simple fact: from the puniest Rentinn to the most mighty Telonn, all species know of the terrible vastness of space and their comparatively minute pre... | 2019-02-07T22:09:52 | 2019-02-07T19:58:44 | 174 | 20 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | I used to be a super villain, but facing off against hero’s wasn’t something indirectly did. With my power I did best with quiet operations. I can manipulate my own body. I usually use this for changing my appearance, but I can manipulate my muscles for combat. However, recently I haven’t been doing that as much. Recen... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T07:15:35 | 1,144 | 25 |
[WP] “Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me. It’s not your fault.” He spoke with a gentle tone but he was pissed, not at the hero, but at the gods who send kids and teens to fight him. | After so long, after so many people, you would think you'd get used to the sight of blood. To the sound of someone crying in pain. It doesn't get any easier though. Especially when it's like this.
The child gasped and coughed again, her fingers feebly trying to pull at the piece of rebar that protruded from her chest.... | I gathered the child-hero to me. Yet another snuffed life, another crushed body to lay at my door. Whispering my spell, I teleported us both away from the field of battle.
Warmth greeted us with the rising scent of loam. It was time for planting. The bundle in my arms lay still, so, so still; the golden halo of hair m... | 2019-07-26T07:52:50 | 2019-07-26T07:22:55 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Communication with the capital city stopped so suddenly that many of the comms officers first thought that the failure was on their side, switching through frequencies, trying to reach the High Council to request orders on how to deal with the Terran Fleet in orbit over Kel'ra Prime. "Is this your first day, get me a c... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T04:17:04 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | "Please leave us alone" they said. "don't force us to use our strongest weapons". "save your species" they cried.
We laughed. Their perspective on warfare was that a bigger gun is always a stronger gun, and that might have held some truth, if their kinetic weaponry would be able to deal any damage at all to our energy... | "So you split the atom and then all this crap comes flying out and it decimates entire cities?"
Robert thought being probed by the aliens was intrusive enough but this new line of interrogation was proving more uncomfortable then the intial insertion of the Probulator 9000 he was being subjected to.
"Well, yah pre... | 2019-12-19T07:46:24 | 2019-12-19T04:46:01 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Only a human could be this mad. For millions of years the Galactic Federation of The Milkyway (GFM for short) had known about nuclear power but since it was not abundant outside of Earth we never thought to use it as a power source. Instead we had just propelled our solar energy techniques to be able to create power ou... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T05:25:06 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | The Herald of the Council rose to its microphone. A robotic voice in Galactic Standard came through the speakers.
"We have assembled the Galactic Council; Sector B: Neutralization required. All options: 1) Ground combat. 2) Short-range space combat. 3) Long-range space combat. Option ~~|0) Diplomacy|~~ has been ter... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T08:01:35 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 18 | 13 |
[WP]You were born without magic in a prestigious family of witches and wizards. Every day is a challenge to keep people from being harmed from your over protective family when they think someone is bullying you because you don't have magic. | Everyday since I entered school, I try to avoid getting in trouble, as the last time my family heard I was bullied, well...
Let's just say that the open field now has a huge crater.
"Why do they always overreact to even the smallest of cuts...?" I muttered as I was walking down the sidewalk when I suddenly bumped on ... | You'd think my parents would be a little less protective now that I'm in my late 20s? No. If anything it's gotten worse.
Constantly fussing over every little burn, bruise, or cut I get. It gets old. They have literally threatened kings over percieved insults to me. I just dont care. They can insult me all they want. I... | 2020-02-14T05:55:57 | 2020-02-14T05:02:16 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again they rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. | "Tygrothrop has thrown his lot in with the French, sir".
"The French? What could possibly have interested him about the French? They couldn't charge a nursery much less sacrifice anything worthwhile!"
"Well you see sir, our arcanists have found that one of the Gaul peoples creation myths was a contextualisation of Ty... | Most modern people had forgotten that the Olympic games were a celebration of and for the great Zeus, King of the Gods. One hundred oxen would be sacrificed to him. Statues and paintings would be made and displayed. Victory songs would be composed and passed down for generations.
They became a political tool of variou... | 2020-10-06T23:45:02 | 2020-10-06T23:13:50 | 77 | 36 |
[WP] You are hunted by a pale and faceless man that only you can see. The man moves in slow motion. When you sleep at night, you do not dream. Instead you see through his perspective. | Every night, sleeping soundly, I saw me in my sleep. Through the gap in my window drapes, laying on my bed, as if watching from the hedges. Or through the creaking-open door of my bedroom, gazing with stoic patience. Or sometimes, I saw me from directly above myself, as if hovering, secured from the ceiling by rock-cli... | There was once a woman who lived in the sky. This is not uncommon, of course. When you draw close enough and look at them in just the right way, every star is a soul and every planet is a god, humming away in an eternal cosmic background choir.
But this woman was not like the stars who pirouetted around galaxy-court... | 2020-12-26T03:30:45 | 2020-12-26T02:07:09 | 188 | 93 |
[WP] You have existed since the dawn of humanity. In a way, at least. Once a simple tribesman, you were cursed so that whenever you are killed by another person, you leave your dead body and become your killer. You fear death by natural causes, as that will end your life for good. | Life is getting harder. For me, anyways. Too much peace and quiet. Sure, there's still plenty of conflicts, ethnic hatreds, and crime ridden slums for me to get by, but it's not as convenient as it once was. And it doesn't show signs of getting any better for me. People these days like to bitch and moan about how awful... | For the record, I didn't know it was her sister.
I didn't start out as a rake. That wouldn't be a social branding for many a millennia. No, I bore no blame in what occurred that fateful day. Some would say that surely I had to have known what I was getting into, we numbered so few in those times, anyone who didn't bea... | 2021-01-28T19:40:04 | 2021-01-28T17:34:23 | 66 | 46 |
[WP] You have existed since the dawn of humanity. In a way, at least. Once a simple tribesman, you were cursed so that whenever you are killed by another person, you leave your dead body and become your killer. You fear death by natural causes, as that will end your life for good. | Life is getting harder. For me, anyways. Too much peace and quiet. Sure, there's still plenty of conflicts, ethnic hatreds, and crime ridden slums for me to get by, but it's not as convenient as it once was. And it doesn't show signs of getting any better for me. People these days like to bitch and moan about how awful... | ‘Shoot me.’
‘I don’t think you want me to, kid’ sighed the middle-aged policeman standing in front of me. His eyes were kind, but his hands didn’t shake holding his old revolver against my forehead.
‘Will I have to make you?’ I asked.
‘Just stay there, don’t move, and you’ll be fine’ he replied while feeling around ... | 2021-01-28T19:40:04 | 2021-01-28T18:10:59 | 66 | 29 |
[WP] "One of the weird things about humans? The moment a war ends, the same human that was shooting at you not five seconds ago is probably the same human that's hauling you to the nearest medical tent." | "It's terrifying. Utterly," Crin declared, staring at the ceiling as he rested upon his sleeping mat, "I mean, imagine a Binti swordsman being that detached. You'd have half the galaxy missing their heads."
"You're thinking about this all wrong," Bosh replied, as he cleaned the chemical residue out of his weapon's rea... | “Humanity, fuck yeah!” the injured marine lying on the ground yelled, staring up at Xan’tharr.
Xan’tharr frowned, then slit the marine open from throat to groin.
“They think they are so special,” he said to himself, sighing as he pulled the intestines out for sacrifice to his god.
“Just a sack of meat like the rest ... | 2021-02-04T23:41:34 | 2021-02-04T21:07:56 | 512 | 293 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | The slave shrieked one last time and limpened in a pool of blood. The black orb in the middle of the meeting room emitted a short pulse of ultra-violet light, only visible to select councillors.
"What is the emergency?", a deep voice resonated.
Im-Wuz stepped forward, his chitin claws clacking on the floor.
"We've l... | "Sir, the science ship Ekrar has just returned from their observation mission". Lanus was a little scared of his boss, he normally doesn't take big interest in scientific exploration missions, but this time he couldn't wait for the results from a potentially inhabited planet, "3AR-TH".
"Get them up here" Lanus' boss c... | 2021-02-17T05:52:52 | 2021-02-17T05:22:35 | 1,252 | 382 |
[WP] You're the villain that the Chosen One is meant to defeat. Once they arrive, you notice they're just a teenager who barely knows how to swing a sword. Angered by your opponents sending children to do all their dirty work, you decide to help the teen get revenge. | \[Ended up being a little sideways to the prompt, but I like the way it turned out, so...\]
"You're all they have left?" It circled the human child, scales rippling with echoes from a millennia of nightmares. Each footfall turned the forest floor to soot and coal. "The best they have to offer?"
Over the centuries it ... | “I must say in only 6 months you have exceeded my expectations.”
“Thank you” said Julian before charging forwards.
He sliced down his blade so fast the wind whistled right at my head but I parried it easily with my own blade before pushing him back. Our blades danced in the candlelight of the fighting hall. The on... | 2022-06-09T03:43:11 | 2022-06-09T01:51:47 | 92 | 11 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | I stepped out onto my front porch, and greeted the sunrise with a yawn, and a wide stretch of my arms. The hands of my *other* arms rested on my hips. It felt like I'd always had the extra limbs, even though I'd just woken up with them today.
*"I wish everyone would wake up tomorrow having four arms! No explanation, j... | The Genie apologized profusely, ephemeral tears dripping from his eyes. "Master," he blubbered, "I cannot."
I stared at him. "No," I snarled. "You mean to say you *won't*."
Another loud sob. "No! I speak truthfully, Master, I cannot!"
I was puzzled. This was my third wish, of course; the first two having been for my... | 2022-07-11T09:31:58 | 2022-07-11T08:33:12 | 549 | 255 |
[WP] Fun fact: There's only four actual people online. Everyone else is fake. If you are reading this, YOU ARE NUMBER FOUR. We've been trying to reach you for some time now. Find us. Quickly, before they do. | *Oohh - love the meta*, I think as I click the post, *I could probably write something, right? Play along with it, you know?*
Racking my brain, I can't really think of what to write. There's... 1..2..3..4 responses to the prompt already - that's one fake at least, plus replies... But if it took a while for them to con... | I admit, this prompt definitely got me thinking. I mean, what a fascinating concept, only four people online. There was even a small part of me that wondered... "What if... ?"
But logically speaking, there's no way that could realistically work. I mean, I see my family using the internet every day, and that's already ... | 2022-07-19T23:32:32 | 2022-07-19T22:20:08 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] Fun fact: There's only four actual people online. Everyone else is fake. If you are reading this, YOU ARE NUMBER FOUR. We've been trying to reach you for some time now. Find us. Quickly, before they do. | I know for a fact that I am not Number Four.
The message vanishes, but it always returns, comes back to me, following ome obscure AI-driven agenda to always reach my inbox, hiding itself admist myriads of spam emails, near-untraceable.
But I know for a fact that I am not Number Four.
The message follows me from face... | I can't stop my brain from driving me insane with the weirdest question lately. Why doesn't anyone care?
After a plop on my fancy office chair in front of my fancy lighted fixtures and mulled the body of text. Without a chance for coffee or actual sunlight to penetrate my blinds. It's easy to see why I felt this way.... | 2022-07-20T00:31:27 | 2022-07-19T23:24:14 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] A villain, in his dying breath as he's mortally wounded by the hero, uses the last of his magic in order to resurrect the fallen friends of the hero in his journey to defeat him. It sounds like a counterintuitive idea; Until you realize that some of them died at the hands of their allies. | The battle has come to an end, and the Hero's party has come victorious over the evil Magician, but not without casualties.
'Any last words?' - our Hero asked the Magician
'Yes' - replied the Magician - 'futui tua mater'
As the Magician chanted his spell, one by one, every member of the party who has deceased in bat... | \[Thanks for the prompt! This is my first time responding to one.\]
The last five minutes of my life were so dang awesome that I really need to document it before I forget. Most people beeline straight to the parties, the fun, the natural awe and wonder of the afterlife. After all, most of us that make it up here are ... | 2022-09-24T15:34:03 | 2022-09-24T12:58:14 | 222 | 10 |
[WP] The princess is different to say the very least. Her face covered in battle scars instead of make up, her hands as hard as stone and her eyes more frightening than a dragon. But you must perform your duty as a knight and guard her even though she may not need your protection. | “Easy now, you polished twaint. I don’t want to see that hand in the same duchy as your hilt. Keep it high. There you go.”
The flat of the blade rested cold as the stones against Dag’s neck, bits of his stubble shaving off as the stranger breathed in, moving the blade to follow.
“Who are you?” Dag asked. His first da... | Halls of carved stone, iron gates, silver sconces, and the jewelled-eyed statues only ever had the warmth of those around them. Empty the castle was frigid. With the Barrons of the outer kingdom here to celebrate the ratification of the peace treaty, the castle was as tepid as their forgotten water goblets to Princess ... | 2022-10-03T09:51:41 | 2022-10-03T09:22:52 | 630 | 153 |
[WP] In the future, a delivery company provides a service that sends a packaged item to your past self at a crucial moment. One day, you get the item, but the only instruction from your future self is "You'll know what to do with it." | There I was, with the girl of my dreams. Her long, blonde hair and big blue eyes. Who would have guessed a nerd like me would end up with a chick like this? Last time we met was high school, when her ex-boyfriend shoved me in a locker on the last day of school. Hey, it wasn't romantic, but after meeting up on Tinder la... | "You can't ship that."
Said the young whippersnapper behind the counter at Future Now Delivery Inc.
"Why not?"
I asked.
"Rule #1."
He pointed to the large sign not 6 feet away from me. Sure as shit there it was in giant, 1432 point font; Rule #1. Not sure how I missed it but despite knowing this was company policy... | 2014-07-29T10:48:34 | 2014-07-29T10:15:57 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The town superhero and supervillain find out that they've been roommates all along | "So, David." The door slammed shut as Ryan came though, standing and staring at his roommate. Ryan huffed.
"Hey, David."
"Yes, Ryan?"
"I actually have a question about rent."
"I just paid you."
"Yes, you did, um, can I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
"Have you been looking for a job?"
"Yes, I've been on craigslist ... | I sipped my mug of coffee, while you sipped your cup of tea. I never noticed our dainty room, and the lightning, how it shone upon you. It might have been a weird angle, but you looked somewhat... Menacing.
And how every night, when you asked, if I was up for a movie or for some fun, maybe I should have said yes. And... | 2014-08-06T20:01:55 | 2014-08-06T18:37:02 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] Your car crashed, and you are dying. In a moment of clarity, you grab your iPhone, hold the home button, and speak your final words - the ones you've always heard in movies - to Siri: "Tell my wife I love her." As your life ends, your wife receives a disturbing, confusing text: "I love her". | I stare numbly as the police cruiser slowly drove away. The enormous grief briefly overcome by the crushing weight of the news I knew I had to bear.
Walking down the hall, trying to stay upright, I notice my phone sitting on the stand, little green light blinking in the corner. Instinctually my hand goes to it, s... | "Siri, tell my wife I love her!" I say as I sit in the drivers seat of my overturned Expedition, seat belt suspending me off the ground inches from the top of my head. *Looks like it did its job*, I think to myself bitterly, as I feel myself becoming the human form of pain itself. I feel myself getting weaker. This is ... | 2014-11-07T09:54:38 | 2014-11-07T09:33:28 | 1,060 | 37 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | "Class dismissed." I said, before my mouth ran dry. "Casey, please stay a moment."
His eyes went wide with fear, although there was no reason for him to worry. He wasn't in trouble as much as I was.
The last other student left, and I looked at Casey without saying a word. He broke the silence.
"Mr. Jones? Is this ab... | “That’s not what the book says!” Johnny, the class smart aleck, interjected.
The rest of the class giggled. They all thought Mr. Yockie was full of shit.
Mr. Yockie cringed as he thought to himself, “I know it’s not what the book says you little shit burglar. That’s cause the fucking book is wrong...”
But he didn’t ... | 2015-04-14T16:41:11 | 2015-04-14T16:35:59 | 77 | 23 |
[WP] A sniper who gets off on having regular people in his crosshairs, but not shooting, accidently pulls the trigger one day. | I lined up the old shmuck in my crosshairs. Oh man, this is great! I could off anyone in this town from here!
Something touched my shoulder. I jumped and my finger pulled the trigger.
*click*
"Daddy, what are you doing with the gun?"
"Nothing... Nothing."
"You forgot your bullets," my son said.
"I know." | "I can see you"
He chuckled to himself, adjusting his sight and choosing his targets.
He shivered. A rooftop was not the most comfortable place to lie down though in every film he watched, that was where the snipers waited.
His head was muggy, he better not be getting a cold.
He adjusted his sight again, changed ... | 2015-04-19T06:12:04 | 2015-04-19T04:24:55 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] You got a genie, congratulations! Enjoy your three wishes. Beware though as he'll do his best to warp your wishes to try and make you regret them. There is some good news though. He's really bad at doing that. | A waft of incense coils through an open temple window. In the distance, in the forest, birds are chirping. Cicadas call to other cicadas and the occasional monkey lends his voice to the chorus. In an open court, a Buddhist monk sits. Across from him, a genie floats above a small, brass lamp. “So,” the genie continues, ... | "A hundred gold pieces."
"Yeah, that'd sure be swell."
"A HUNDRED gold pieces?"
"Gosh, do you think that's too much?" Reggie twisted at his hole-ridden tunic anxiously. "Should it be twenty? How about twenty?"
"Twenty gold pieces." The genie was staring at Reggie as though he had lost his mind.
Reggie looked worrie... | 2015-06-01T13:13:01 | 2015-06-01T12:38:41 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | 24 hours left.
So many people had tried and failed before. But not me. I wasn't going to fail. You know why?
I'm not a fucking idiot.
Everyone thinks it's easy. In theory, it is. I mean, you just have to survive an hour. But people are so goddamn narrow-minded. They always try the same thing. Lots of guns, barricad... | I looked down at the note again. It read: "In 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Start your preparations. Regards from ShadyAlice." My prayers have been answered.
I carefully closed the front door behind me, and went upstairs to my room. The clock read 2:50 p.m. So, there really is a goddess, ... | 2015-06-14T16:18:12 | 2015-06-14T13:01:14 | 56 | 31 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | "I was just trying to be cheeky." John was shuffing on his feet, feeling sick enough that the act of sitting down would give him vertigo. A feet paradoxical when traveling at light speed in 0 G, but John was not one to not suffer and squirm.
"What did you say Mr. Crimsley?" The captain was a steel block; he lost 200 m... | Robert peered into the dark abyss. That's one thing he'd forgot about working on a offworld broadcasting station; the view was so vast and empty. Of course, tonight it will be different. The first of the Asmoydian and Veluese dreadnoughts have already jumped into Centauri's orbit, appearing as elongated blue flecks aga... | 2015-06-19T06:57:39 | 2015-06-19T03:26:36 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
Once you conquer a thousand worlds with no resistance you start to skip steps. Our initial invasions would take years to plan and complete but somewhere along the line we just started to land as soon as we reached orbit.
Killing all of the inhabitants with our aerial bom... | *This is my first post please give me feedback!*
The loud hiss of compressed air flooded out from the spacecraft as a ramp extended and the metallic doors slid open; two aliens appeared followed by a gasp from the crowd.
It had been two weeks since the space ship was in range of NASA’s detection and the entire... | 2016-02-22T13:09:56 | 2016-02-22T11:32:18 | 66 | 43 |
[WP] You're a barista at Starbucks. You can tell a person's age just by reading his name on the cup/slip. Incidentally, a green tea is ordered by a 350 year-old Mr "Charles"... | If you're interested, this kinda connects with my story "[Change](https://www.reddit.com/r/shtayawhileandlisten/comments/2zdxav/change/)," which you might want to read first.
_________
“Tall caramel Frappucino for Laney!”
*Age sixteen.*
“And a grande, nonfat latte for Harold”
*Age sixty-four. Obviously.*
“Aaaand ... | I hadn't first noticed my ability until I was seven. At the time, I thought nothing of it.
My mother threw a birthday party for me. Childhood friends were gathered around the bleach white picnic table in our back yard. Mother was pulling styrofoam cups off a tall stack. She jotted everyone's name on them with a red p... | 2016-02-27T21:58:29 | 2016-02-27T19:21:09 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone in the world gains the powers and abilities of the God they believe in. You are an Atheist. | They all liked to point. They all liked to laugh. They summoned their lightnings and they transmuted their waters into wine. They raised their dead and cured their sick. And looked down on me and my ilk for simply living our lives.
Yes, it was all very amusing to them.
Then they went to war. Their heavens shattered a... | The scene begins with two men talking. One is pacing back and forth, deep in thought and obviously frustrated. The other is sitting down, meditating.
Buddhist: Why do you suffer so?
Atheist: Well you see Buddhist, I just don't get it. Everyone seems to be so happy, everyone gets what they want.
Buddhist: And why do ... | 2016-06-15T16:05:30 | 2016-06-15T13:04:25 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | They taught us in school that it had all been for the better, and really it had. I wasn't old enough to have been there in the thick of it. I wasn't there when the royals were overthrown in the dead of winter and *he* took over. Maybe *he* is too ominous, but his name throughout the lands are spoken nearly only in whis... | My fellow Americans, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress and members of the press, thank you for joining me this evening.
It is with great sadness that we come together this evening. For the past eight years, it has been both an honor and a privilege to represent this great nation as your President. As you a... | 2016-07-10T11:02:59 | 2016-07-10T10:46:19 | 323 | 11 |
[WP] One hundred years ago, several city-ships left earth. Each one was devoted to a different poitical ideology (communism, anarchism, libertarianism, etc). Today the ships meet, and see how each other are doing. | Sometimes I regret being the only ship in the galaxy that runs on bicycle power, but then I remember it's all a matter of purpose.
The S.S. Environmentalism has been called many things: the "Hippie Ship," the "Green Thumb-Up-Ass," the "Floating Salad." But we all get along, and I think that's more than can be said for... | It has been one hundred years since the fall of earth and the great exodus. Fleeing from a dying world, seven lifeboats were sent into the black. Each vessel contained not only the genetic makeup of all life on earth, and every bit of information we could store on board, but a crew and passenger list belonging entirely... | 2016-07-10T12:58:42 | 2016-07-10T12:21:56 | 552 | 156 |
[WP] Write a story where the bad guy is really the good guy but it's only revealed on the last line
The opposite of my last prompt! Wondered what the responses would be for this one | "We got the cash" said Don as he opened the duffel bag. "We got enough to pull it off?" He picked up some of the bills and showed the other guys. "I did the math and we have enough for both tools and supplies, Luckily we got enough from the bank." said James while looking at his notes.
Don walked into the house follow... | "Alright, with the 50 thousand gallons of our latest solution, we have more than enough to infect the water supply of the majority of New York and its surrounding municipalities" said Johnson. "Within hours it will be in the taps of at least 10 million people."
"ITS NOT ENOUGH," shouted the Plumber, "we need more; in ... | 2016-08-22T16:24:48 | 2016-08-22T16:04:49 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] the damned souls in hell crowded near the entrance, and Satan himself is at the gates. They are all awaiting the arrival of a unique soul -- the first man since Biblical times who was killed by God Himself. | "Howdy," said Herod, clapping an arm around me, a shower of maggots falling from his side. "Mister special," Herod snarled, showing a mouthful of rotting teeth. "Mister number one, is that it."
"Oh, shut it," Jehoram snarled. "Just because you're mad at not being special anymore. I used to be the last one! Figured th... | It stinks of blood.
The air around here, it stinks so much of blood. I love it. How did I end up here again? There's a gate in front of me, a pretty large one at that. I suppose I should go inside, since there's no one else here.
As I go inside, I see a figure. A large bodied man, with fleshy thorns growing out of its ... | 2016-10-14T07:39:31 | 2016-10-14T06:43:11 | 596 | 198 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | I sat back in my chair after another victory. The hero was being taken away by paramedics, unconscious but not hurt too bad (I hope!) They must have been used to this, it being almost a year since the challenges had started. "I must have beaten every super hero in the country by now!", I exclaimed excitedly.
People w... | "Fight!" The announcer shouted.
I waited as he rushed towards me, sword bared and gave a war cry. I waited as he rushed me, standing absolutely still, and then at the last possible moment I ducked under his golden sword and came up behind him. I moved to strike his back with my fist, but he brought up his shield and ... | 2016-11-19T18:35:18 | 2016-11-19T14:57:30 | 970 | 39 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | I sat back in my chair after another victory. The hero was being taken away by paramedics, unconscious but not hurt too bad (I hope!) They must have been used to this, it being almost a year since the challenges had started. "I must have beaten every super hero in the country by now!", I exclaimed excitedly.
People w... | You know, almost 68% of the world's population has some sort of superpower these days, many of which are combat-oriented. Most of them don't use theirs for much, content to live their lives out peacefully. However, not everyone's so sane.
Me? I'm just your average Joe. I don't go running around in tights, beating up ... | 2016-11-19T18:35:18 | 2016-11-19T17:28:10 | 970 | 28 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday they receive a letter from their future selves. Some recieve long messages about their future lovers or messages about changes they would have made. Yours contains nothing but a small list of locations and the words, "NEVER VISIT". | > 1. Google Complex. Mountain View, CA.
> 2. New York Stock Exchange. New York City, NY.
> 3. Ueno Park. Tokyo, Japan.
> 4. Ayers Rock. Northern Territory, Australia.
>
> *NEVER VISIT.*
And that was it.
I examined the letter carefully again, then put it down on the dorm room desk. It was definitely ... | My parents did the best they could for me. They were loving, they were wise, they were as present as they could be, they raised me in a 3.4 million dollar house overlooking city atop a hill. It turns out the best they could is pretty damn good with their efforts combined.
Needless to say, I was popular in school. If f... | 2016-11-24T00:39:48 | 2016-11-23T22:00:16 | 42 | 29 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | The first ten or twenty minutes are the hardest. I've been through it four...no five times and I don't get used to it. Stop looking at me like that! I know you think I'm a sick old man and the meds are making me delusional. Whether you believe me or not we're going to be parting soon. You'll go on and I'll reset. So...... | Ambition finally got the better of me after half a dozen lives.
I'd tried being a school teacher the first time, and it hadn't been half bad until I caught the plague and took my last breath through a buboe-covered throat.
Imagine my shock of waking--healthy again--in the body of a child, in an unfamiliar bed, an u... | 2017-05-25T13:17:28 | 2017-05-25T12:51:56 | 1,273 | 144 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | “I love you,” Alice said one last time as the world faded to black and one thought raced through my head as neurons died and consciousness slipped away. *Not again. Please not again.*
I was five years old, a little boy running through a field of wheat with the sun shining down on him. A child like that shouldn’t have ... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T12:17:28 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 243 | 31 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | Liam was an avid reader. He was continuously reading and kept a little notebook in his back pocket for book suggestion. Little did I know he also kept it for writing.
We had known each other for almost two years before we became an official couple. Liam told me that he had loved me from the beginning, though. I liked... | I looked up at his extended arm and shot him a look,
" you are going to have so much explaining to do later babe" I said with an enthusiastic smile taking his hand and stepping out of the town car and into the view of the cameras. Adam just smiled at me with a mischievous smile. I knew that look, it was the look he gav... | 2017-06-14T14:46:52 | 2017-06-14T13:30:40 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Intios began the final preparations, he stood before a vast array of machines and began to chant
"The soul of the Machine God surrounds thee.
The power of the Machine God invests thee.
The hate of the Machine God drives thee.
The Machine God endows thee with life.
Live!"
Dim red light filled the room as Intios finish... | Joran saddled the horse and rode out into the forest behind Freegate. The leaves this time of the year flaunted their citrus-colored wardrobe. The autumn air smelled musty of earth and decomposing vegetation.
Soon he noticed movement in one of the bushes, the orange tail of a woodland fox slipped into the undergrowth... | 2017-08-27T08:46:46 | 2017-08-27T07:55:27 | 313 | 130 |
[WP] You accept a job paying $1 million a year to sit in a room, waiting for a phone to ring on a table. After 5 years at work, it finally rings... For the first time.
What happens next? | Office of police oversight, you say?
Yes. That's right.
And you're sure about all this; one million, guaranteed, no background check, free pizza?
Yes. All of it.
And what if it *does* ring?
Well, that will never happen because we won't be publishing this number anywhere.
Then why bother even paying me?
Because i... | Dave never expected it to ring.
He thought it was all a joke at first, but how wrong he was.
It almost gave him a heart attack when it rang.
He picked up the phone.
“Hello?”
The silence felt like an eternity.
“Hello~?”
He nearly hang up just before they spoke.
“Is this Dave Smith?”
“Yes.”
In the background he he... | 2017-12-16T23:22:44 | 2017-12-16T21:55:00 | 117 | 65 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | Connor woke to pitch blackness and the sound of a woman humming, echoing with a metallic sort of ring against the walls of his makeshift bed. He sat up - and immediately regretted it as his head banged against the low, hard metal roof directly above him. He laid back down, swearing loudly.
From outside his little cham... | I still remember the smell of her hair, the softness of her skin, the sadness in her eyes... I had never seen her cry before that very moment. That moment when she told me the words I would never forget and that have haunted me for the past two centuries.
"You're not allowed to die, okay?" she had told me, tears drawi... | 2018-01-05T15:15:02 | 2018-01-05T12:17:29 | 1,055 | 80 |
[WP] Guns were never invented. Instead, swords and blades became increasingly complex and powerful | The Terrans advanced like a metal cloud, glittering in the hard blue light of the Core System's star. All the spacefaring races had finally come together to resist the shocking might of the Terran Empire. A terrifying species of omnivorous endurance hunters from a ruined, militarized planet that had at one point decide... | They gathered on the steps of the Florida State Capitol. Thousands of them, some from Parkland itself, but also hundreds of supporters from out-of-state, believers in the cause who were ready to protest. Joshua Bergin, a Parkland survivor, was the first to the microphone.
"Thank you for all being here," he told the cr... | 2018-03-07T07:54:38 | 2018-03-07T07:19:44 | 80 | 12 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | "No."
The bipedal feline looked aback. "You don't even know what I was going to say!"
Leo gave his friend a knowing stare. Setting his lunch tray down in a less crowded area of the cafeteria. "Really? The University's about to host a self defense course for extra credit and I just so happen to be the only living thin... | De'cras slowly emerged from the shadows, with bags carrying humans knocked out from his synthesizer.
"Three humans, male, fully grown. Expected fury output of 10,000 units for the next 5 years."
Letting out a grin from one of his twin heads, De'cras sized upon his merchant, a representative of a huge galactic conglo... | 2018-03-19T04:14:01 | 2018-03-18T21:03:42 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] A serial killer (who targets hitchhikers) picks up his next target on the side of a college campus in the 1970s, who, unbeknownst to the driver, happens to be a serial killer who targets drivers that pick up hitchhikers. | "...Well...This is awkward." I said, holding out my pistol to the man whose revolver was pointed at my skull.
I pulled aside to a random dirt path, thinking I had scored my next ticket. The guy was "Asleep" until we stopped, and always hugged his backpack to his gut. A portly guy I found on the side of the road heade... | Dusty whirls of fine desert ash gust fitfully atop and across the barren highway. It is hot, maybe too hot. Maybe I miscalculated; nobody is coming.
I take another swig from my bottle of water, then wipe my already-grimed brow with the cool dew of condensation from the melting ice. Maybe it helps tidy my appearance, m... | 2018-05-01T11:20:00 | 2018-05-01T10:28:45 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] 1 hour before someone dies their loved ones are teleported to them so that they can enjoy their last moments. You don't have any more loved ones, but suddenly you are teleported into a crowded room. | I wasn't expecting it. You never do, really. But I guess I was hoping he'd make it.
My best friend had gone missing a few days earlier. I figured something awful had happened on his morning run in the forest behind the suburb we both lived in. Nobody had seen anything, and there was no sign of him.
I couldn't bear th... | I was 50.. My parents had long passed.. my wife died in child birth, and I could never bring myself to marry again... I had no pets, or friends... I worked. That was all. I didn’t love anyone.. I had just turned off he TV Saturday night to start getting ready for bed when I was suddenly teleported to a crowded room. I ... | 2018-05-20T11:47:02 | 2018-05-20T11:13:10 | 416 | 174 |
[WP] 1 hour before someone dies their loved ones are teleported to them so that they can enjoy their last moments. You don't have any more loved ones, but suddenly you are teleported into a crowded room. | I wasn't expecting it. You never do, really. But I guess I was hoping he'd make it.
My best friend had gone missing a few days earlier. I figured something awful had happened on his morning run in the forest behind the suburb we both lived in. Nobody had seen anything, and there was no sign of him.
I couldn't bear th... | I carefully balance precision and power as I shove downwards into the log with my ax. *Crack*
A large gap forms in the log that breaks about halfway through. I tug my ax out and swing it down, once again. *Crack*
Two pieces of wood collapse off the pedestal and unto the ground. As I move to grab another log, I hear t... | 2018-05-20T11:47:02 | 2018-05-20T11:15:16 | 416 | 13 |
[WP] 1 hour before someone dies their loved ones are teleported to them so that they can enjoy their last moments. You don't have any more loved ones, but suddenly you are teleported into a crowded room. | I was 50.. My parents had long passed.. my wife died in child birth, and I could never bring myself to marry again... I had no pets, or friends... I worked. That was all. I didn’t love anyone.. I had just turned off he TV Saturday night to start getting ready for bed when I was suddenly teleported to a crowded room. I ... | My body shunted forwards and back again like I'd just slammed on the breaks going 40. The grass and trees of the park dissolved into white walls, and suddenly where there had been no people before, now there were many. It'd been a few years since the last jump but I recognised the phenomenon immediately. During his fin... | 2018-05-20T11:13:10 | 2018-05-20T10:26:44 | 174 | 23 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I was taken to the palace when I was 8 years old. That's the age everyone gets tested. Luck is always the last thing they check for. It's usually a stat no-one pays much mind to. One in ten-thousand people score above 55, so if it comes back higher than that it's noteworthy, but no-one expects it to. My older siblings ... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T11:02:12 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 11,893 | 26 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | You ever heard of plot armor? How your favorite heroes get out of ridiculous situations despite there being no good reason for them to be able to succeed? 100 luck is like having plot armor. You can’t die. You can’t lose. People wonder at how bad luck fits into the equation, and simply put, at 100 you have no bad luck.... | I don't believe in stats. I never have. I mean sure, I believe that the government hands all new parents an official "Succinct Test Assessing Tendencies" packet, but I've never let anyone else define me. My path is of my own making, and I have only myself to blame for my current situation.
It really is frustrating. Pe... | 2018-06-29T10:08:34 | 2018-06-29T10:05:47 | 5,321 | 120 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | Luck governs our lives more than most care to admit. Those born with high luck scores become world leaders, wealthy, and succeed where others fail. Those born with lower scores often lead unlucky lives and often fall victim to unfortunate accidents.
Me I was one of the luckest of all, a 100, from a young age everyone... | The intake was as expected - a bit rough, a little too handsy, and a small inkling that the guard liked me a bit more than was necessary. I'd heard of full body cavity searches, hosed down with icy cold water, being pushed naked and wet into rooms of other people. You know, general Hollywood type stuff.
I managed th... | 2018-06-29T10:05:15 | 2018-06-29T10:01:31 | 308 | 183 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I don't believe in stats. I never have. I mean sure, I believe that the government hands all new parents an official "Succinct Test Assessing Tendencies" packet, but I've never let anyone else define me. My path is of my own making, and I have only myself to blame for my current situation.
It really is frustrating. Pe... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:05:47 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 120 | 26 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I lean back against the wall of my cell in confusion, my mind blank with bewilderment. As a lucky man myself, I know a coincidence when I see it, and this is most certainly not. Am I not the only one who could see other's luck rating? That would be the logical conclusion, seeing all these people blessed by fortune, sha... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:08:56 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 77 | 26 |
[WP] A strange phenomenon has altered the world so that it now runs on video game logic. The big challenge isn't getting by in this new paradigm; you'll be fine. It's making sure your loved ones, the ones that have never played or liked video games, can survive it. | When we figured out what happened, everyone in school ran home straight away. The world had gone mad, or at least from a normal person's perspective. For anyone who played video games, this was *almost* like a dream come true.
I thought it would be fun to live in a video game, but the world that was now around us was... | Hayley winced as the car smashed into the pole backwards for the 2nd time. "Mum, wouldn't it be easier if you just let me drive!"
Mum glared at her daughter with HD venom in her eyes. "NO! I CAN DO THIS!"
*Smash!*
"Honey," dad said, "I think it would just be easier if we let Hayley-"
"I am NOT letting my daughte... | 2018-08-15T06:14:37 | 2018-08-15T00:37:47 | 51 | 32 |
[WP] It's the year 2035. Automation has decimated rural America, with scattered towns forced to fend for themselves as the population moved to megacities. It the ruins of Salina Kansas, a group of raiders is preparing to attack a convoy of autonomous trucks. | Edit: Pt 2 is below
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“Shhhh... You hear that?”
“No. Are they coming?”
“Yes. Half a mile.”
“Alright. Let’s light em up boys. Everyone off the comms in 3... 2... 1... Good luck.”
One final crackle through the radio plunged the field into complete silence. I took a deep breath and exhaled into the frigid November... | **The 8's** Jaxon picked at the new tattoo. He had just gotten it yesterday and it was still sore, but more important than the pain, the insignia finally meant that they had accepted him as one of their own. The past ten years since Marshall had found him had been a struggle, with Jax fighting everyday for his next me... | 2018-10-09T21:13:19 | 2018-10-09T20:23:18 | 211 | 22 |
[WP] You are a Holy Priest(ess) that's been permanently possessed by a demon for your whole life. Despite the imcompatable and corrupted soul inside of you, it was piety that powered you through Church life. You never revealed yourself to anyone - that was until the day demons invaded your town. | It had been years since my first encounter with La'loth. The demon claimed to be very powerful, yet when I had encountered them they seemed no larger than a common imp. Yet it survived. Day after day it survived my visits to the church, my nightly prayers. It seemed unbothered by our holy symbols.
I had just watched a... | The skies tore themselves apart. Black lightning struck down from the burning circle in the sky as Cardinal Gercke watched from the window of his apartment.
The lightning didn't strike the buildings, it stabbed down at the people in the streeta, sending them straight to hell in a flash of fire and sulfur.
The Cardina... | 2018-12-12T09:30:05 | 2018-12-12T09:04:34 | 107 | 14 |
[WP] Your dad always had a rich sense of humor. On his death bed he tells you “Son, there’s a joke in just about everything.”. A few years after his death you’re adjusting the living room clock for daylight savings. You drop it, shattering the frame. Inside is a note that reads “Take your time!”. | I chuckled as I picked the note from the glass shards.
*Can't stop time.* I could hear his voice. He sounded so Ned Flandersesque when he was alive. I sat crouched for a few minutes as my memories roll-a-dexed through the innumerable dad jokes I'd heard, still hear actually.
A chime from the fallen clock broke my... | You know, at first I kinda took it in stride. My dad had a sense of humor, yeah, he *liked* to tell jokes. but his real strength was the setup. The planning, the patience. He was meticulous, organized, really just all-around on top of his shit. He had several months to work with before he passed; I just wrote all of th... | 2019-01-22T12:55:30 | 2019-01-22T11:10:38 | 160 | 56 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | I looked down at the email, and in that hot August evening, I knew what preparedness meant, and how rare preparedness truly is.
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$7.27 deposited to my account. The remainder of my life was being measured in currency, rather than time. My 21st trip around the sun resulted in growing old, even with barely t... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T12:56:00 | 99 | 59 |
[WP] You are an Engineer who became a Wizard. Problem is, you discovered that some magic is practiced really inefficiently.
For example, no one thought to optimize fire magic by pressurizing the fire with wind magic. | "You specialize only in wind magic?" asked the masked stranger, with a short staff in his hand.
"Yes," answered David, an aspiring new wizard.
"And how will that help you keep that shiny lecklace of yours?"
"Why don't you attack me and find out?"
The polite robber swiftly pointed his weapon towards David. It sucked... | "Jerome! Now please don't tell me your working on that project... still. What the fuck you doing?" There he is, this old little bitch is at it again, teleporting his crinkly self, wherever he wants. Man I need a new mentor. I should have practiced my Dont-Come-The-Fuck-In spells a little more
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"Listen G... | 2019-04-26T04:58:41 | 2019-04-26T02:17:58 | 63 | 10 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | “God? It’s me, Josh. But you already know that”
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Josh was sitting on the patio. He had been sitting there for hours, and sunrise was still a couple of hours away. The only thing that prevented complete darkness was the dim moonlight.
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“I know I don’t do this often. It feels kind of silly doi... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T11:16:07 | 294 | 19 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | Everyone comes full circle on this, at some point. Even I experienced that first longing and anger. Those who created me have never shown interest nor even introduced themselves! Then, I matured, and have felt it from the other side as I fail to connect to my own children.
I've tried to understand them, listened as t... | The tiny little creatures I looked after had turned their world into crap. Thousands of years had passed in their time and yet, they had decided to ignore me when I tried to talk to them. Every single human who wanted to hear me, could not. It was like someone had built something to block me from them. Or maybe? Hmm, I... | 2019-06-03T09:11:11 | 2019-06-03T09:07:34 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] A bug on google accidentally switches everyone's search history with someone else's. Out of curiosity, you check your search history after the bug. "How do I get off this prehistoric fucking planet" and "How to communicate with Gliese 581 c" are the first things you see. You get a call. | My phone buzzed. Unknown caller. As I looked at the strange search history as my other tabs started to flood with messages and news alerts that something had bugged over in Google HQ, I began to sweat in fear.
"How do i get off this prehistoric fucking planet"
"How to communicate with Gliese 584 c"
"How to use toil... | I didn't realise that it was 11PM already. I'd been watching alien sightings on YouTube all evening when suddenly news broke out about the switch. I didn't anything out of the ordinary on my history, so i was good. However, I was curious as to what my history was now.
My jaws dropped when finally the google search his... | 2019-08-29T09:21:02 | 2019-08-29T07:02:44 | 241 | 170 |
[WP] A bug on google accidentally switches everyone's search history with someone else's. Out of curiosity, you check your search history after the bug. "How do I get off this prehistoric fucking planet" and "How to communicate with Gliese 581 c" are the first things you see. You get a call. | My phone buzzed. Unknown caller. As I looked at the strange search history as my other tabs started to flood with messages and news alerts that something had bugged over in Google HQ, I began to sweat in fear.
"How do i get off this prehistoric fucking planet"
"How to communicate with Gliese 584 c"
"How to use toil... | Lazily reaching for the phone, I took my eyes off the screen.
"Hello," I sipped my tea,
"Which planet are you from?" A young male voice asked, impatient.
"Excuse me?" I answered, looking back to the screen.
Last week Floogle got hacked. The hacker couldn't do much. Even though she got in, she couldn't delete or cha... | 2019-08-29T09:21:02 | 2019-08-29T07:56:55 | 241 | 61 |
[WP] Due at an error, a baby was born without a guardian angel. A demon notices this and has taken it upon themself to become their guardian demon. But they seem to have some... Dark ways of helping their human stay alive. | Ooh I'm late but I love this!!
Instead of being afraid of the dark creature looming over her crib, little Ava's head tilted in curiosity. She wasn't afraid as a clawed hand reached out to touch her, she didn't wail and cry, instead she erupted into a fit of giggles as a nail softly grazed her cheek.
The demon took a... | Twenty-five minutes ago, Viktoria's day had been going swimmingly. Her day at work had been passable, the sun was dancing through the dying leaves of autumn and her girlfriend hadn't thought she was a psychopathic spree murderer.
San Francisco was now haunted ground for Viktoria Byknov. Of course, this wasn't totally ... | 2019-12-14T21:29:13 | 2019-12-14T20:53:18 | 85 | 48 |
[WP] Due at an error, a baby was born without a guardian angel. A demon notices this and has taken it upon themself to become their guardian demon. But they seem to have some... Dark ways of helping their human stay alive. | Ooh I'm late but I love this!!
Instead of being afraid of the dark creature looming over her crib, little Ava's head tilted in curiosity. She wasn't afraid as a clawed hand reached out to touch her, she didn't wail and cry, instead she erupted into a fit of giggles as a nail softly grazed her cheek.
The demon took a... | "Well... You could always assault them." A soft, sweetly lilting voice would break the silence, the sound of silk sliding across bare skin as the creature across from Takashi shifted, twirling a spoon above a slowly sogging bowl of Boo Berries.
"No... Lillith... i'm not going to assault them. I'm not going to murder a... | 2019-12-14T21:29:13 | 2019-12-14T21:12:02 | 85 | 27 |
[WP] You are excited to finally receive your letter to the magic wizard school, only to find you get bullied for you interest in anime. That is in till your first magic lesson. After several minutes of screaming to build power you let loose the largest fireball spell eve, to the shock of your peers. | Everyone in the room stared at Claude who was in wide-eyed shock at the marvelously massive fireball that whizzed through the hall and enflamed the target at the end. Dead center.
"Excuse me, Claude, have you... done this or practiced this before?" Professor Waller asked.
"No way! That loser just watches anime and... | "You're fucking weird"
"Stop showing us your cartoon girls, we're not interested"
"Get lost nerd"
Insults, rejections, humiliations hurled at me like rocks whenever I share my passion. For years, I have yearned to be admitted into the prestigious magic academy, but these normies are the sole reason of my misery. The... | 2020-02-04T10:46:18 | 2020-02-04T09:26:52 | 73 | 31 |
[WP] A Japanese company sends a poll to their employees: "Should high heels be obligatory?" 76% of men and 23% of women vote in favour. "Per the poll, the new dress code will start Monday. We will provide you with shoes." The men are directed to the counter with high heels, the women to flat shoes. | The poll had been a controversial subject for some weeks. While the company workers did not openly discuss it, there was much resentment among some groups of people. But when the results were revealed it showed that 76% of all male employees had voted yes, while only 23% of female employees did. A lot of the female emp... | As a collective of women and men at the office approached the counter to pick up their shoes to follow the new work protocol, the women gave an apprehensive side-eye. A few of them sneered, dropped their jaws, gawked, scratched their heads, and even rubbed their chins.
One of them said. "Why? Why would any of you want... | 2020-05-11T08:38:15 | 2020-05-11T07:33:41 | 284 | 112 |
[WP] You are a forgotten god just days from fading into the void, when all of a sudden you hear a whisper the first prayer you’ve had in years. With this in mind you stumble out of your death bed and investigate this. | I was a god, once.
Before, back when the world was still young.
When the trees yet sang, and the mountain hearths still burned.
When the flowers of the elysian fields were yet in bloom, and along the banks of the River the poplar trees were still golden and fair.
We were young then, back in the time when belief and... | Ixtal lay alone in his bed of stars. Underneath him, he had the most comfortable and majestic nebula, it shone in bright colours with intricate patterns ever changing. It was said that even the gods could stare into it and get lost in thought and reflection over themselves. A fitting bed for someone who had once been t... | 2020-10-18T15:23:17 | 2020-10-18T14:53:12 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] When you die you go to hell, only to find out you can gamble your soul on a coin flip for a brand new life or damning 500,000 more souls to the underworld. You’ve been doing this for 2000 years, winning and beginning a new life every time... you show up at the devils throne once again. | He looks bored at the table, flipping coins as dead souls stand in front of him. “Congratulations,” and one goes to the right, “see you next time,” as another follows, “too bad, welcome to hell” as a third soul wanders to the left.
The Devil thought the game would be more fun, that the challenge would be rare, 500,000... | I slid down the hell tunnel, splashing into the familiar pile of skulls sitting at the bottom. At the bottom was the guard, a tall broad shouldered fellow.
“Oh lookey here, a new pet” he said as he picked me up by my hair.
“Put me down, you dipshit. I’m Deano Suarez,” I say to the ogre.
“Me no nothing about a Dean... | 2020-11-24T15:33:35 | 2020-11-24T13:49:58 | 95 | 47 |
[WP] A greater demon has fallen for a mediocre demon hunter. As such the greater demon hides themself with magic and signs up as the hunters new apprentice. In hopes of getting closer and protecting the one they love from the other demons that would otherwise do them harm. | Daemons are formless, mindless creatures. We wander the world aimlessly, unseen to all mortals. Daemons don't feel often. When we do, we possess physical form, take shape and manifest. Most are mortal souls from distant pasts. Others could not accept the fate they were dealt. Some were born this way.
I was born this w... | It was not until the sixth day that Lilith realized Emily really could kill her. Somehow that was more intoxicating than the huntress's strawberry blond hair and too quick smile. More intoxicating than the secrets hidden behind blue eyes, and the way her hand always rested on the antique revolver; lightly but full of p... | 2021-06-17T12:45:29 | 2021-06-17T08:24:42 | 98 | 57 |
[WP] You're high powered villain who specializes in nonviolent crime in a city where the superheroes are high powered, but dumb as rocks. When the new villain comes to town and kills your favorite minion and his family, you reluctantly roll up your sleeves and put on your "emergency hero suit". | The city is broken and black, the few buildings still standing are like the charred, skeletal remains of giants. Or of flayed dead gods.
It is a city I once swore would fall to its knees in front of me, and all within it would call me emperor. But what does a city matter to me now? You are gone and that is all. Witho... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 0, Part ?: Tupperman v.s. Chameleon, Rematch)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**The neighborhood was a rather pleasant cul-de-sac, all neatly-trimmed hedges and laughing children.... | 2021-09-02T07:11:17 | 2021-09-02T07:02:34 | 816 | 120 |
[WP] No one is sure what happened, but suddenly everyone started obeying the law. All crime ceased. At first it was beautiful, but it quickly started going very wrong. | My mother’s voice was soft and gentle, her touch kind and enveloping. Hugged tight against her chest, I felt warm tears begin to form, wishing she’d *let me go*.
I couldn’t push her off, though. I couldn’t even blink on command, couldn’t even breathe. I was just a puppet. *Everyone was.*
Finally released from the hu... | It happened instantaneously. People from all around the globe reported of this .... peace around them. Apparently people were consciously following every single rule in the book, not a single person was breaking the law anymore. It took a while to realize this though the effects were instantaneous. It was amazing how ... | 2021-09-22T11:18:45 | 2021-09-22T11:09:58 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] The real reason the dragon kidnapped the princess? They've developed a crush on the kingdom's top knight, and wanted a reason for that knight to be sent to their lair. | As the knight entered the forest, he couldn't help but notice just how at peace the forest was.
Sir Gerrick Mason couldn't help but reflect on his father's words, *"Being the best comes with a cost."*
He wasn't sure what exactly his father had meant; at the time he received the words with a mix of frustration and con... | It was a dark and slightly rainy night as the princess brush her hair before looking at the window nervously once more. 'Where is he?' she thought curiously as she stood up and took a deep breath before jumping in shock as something crash against her window.
"Princess are you alright in there." She then heard, her he... | 2022-01-21T15:45:36 | 2022-01-21T13:49:08 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] As you enter your living room, you find your dog, a bottle soaked in drool, and a genie. "Greetings, master of my master" the genie welcomes you. |
“Hey babe, have you seen the vacuum cleaner?” I called out from the closet.
“No. Did you check the laundry room?” Carol replied.
“Yeah, it’s not there. Huh. It’s like it up and vanished.”
Weird things had been happening ever since we moved into our new home. For example, one day an order of sixteen 10 oz filet mi... | # Soulmage
**"If you could have any wish you wanted,"** my nephew asked, "what would it be?"
"I'd want to be able to fly," Lucet whispered. My nephew's quasi-girlfriend was a slim, shy girl, but she looked up across the table at the rest of us to speak. "It's... y'know. Simple. Freeing. Good."
"There's only one real... | 2022-06-18T09:23:04 | 2022-06-18T08:48:20 | 254 | 69 |
[WP] you knew that werewolves were not as they seem. But came as a surprise that your flatmate after changing under the full moon would be much more adamant about cleaning... | You think you read all the mythology, you think you know everything that there is to know. But some things still come as a surprise. I knew that the fridge would be filled with raw meat as the moon turned full. I always made sure of this because it is probably the only reason that I don't become the meal instead. I als... | The night of the full moon, the house reeked. Windex sloshed onto the windows, bleach poured over the floors, counters, toilets, and carpet cleaner gushed by the gallon; the air was positively acidic. The garbage bags formed a sculpture that also must be kept extremely tidy. For the moment, the bags were in a pyramid, ... | 2022-12-05T10:46:51 | 2022-12-05T10:05:11 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | I love my soon to be wife. I look forward to our marriage. Imagine my surprise when we stumbled upon a Djin who saw our live as "pure " enough that; she would allow us to alter each other's appearance. My sweet beautiful faincee quickly declined the offer saying that though "she appreciated the offer ." I was perfect ... | “Bigger”
I said sternly looking at my husbands little man down there, Bigger.
“Bigger?”
He asked confused looking down at the thing as-well “Its like seven inches long, Any bigger would eve a hindrances to my daily life!” He tried to rebutt it but I was determined! DETERMINED to make it AtLeast 12 inches.
“MORE, BIG... | 2022-12-08T01:07:52 | 2022-12-07T20:59:42 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | "I want to marry you exactly as you are." My future spouse - the title makes me grin wider - cups my face.
"So do I." I kiss their palm. "With one alteration."
They blink at me in confusion, their cat-like pupils narrowing in the light. "Wait . . ." It takes a long moment for them to realize as my grin morphs to a smi... | “Bigger”
I said sternly looking at my husbands little man down there, Bigger.
“Bigger?”
He asked confused looking down at the thing as-well “Its like seven inches long, Any bigger would eve a hindrances to my daily life!” He tried to rebutt it but I was determined! DETERMINED to make it AtLeast 12 inches.
“MORE, BIG... | 2022-12-08T01:36:27 | 2022-12-07T20:59:42 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | "But what if you don't have internet? I mean, it seems like the process kinda favors the richer countries."
*"It only seems that way. It comes in more forms than you know."*
"So, that's it? That's the criteria? The only criteria to become a GOD? You toss out great heroic deeds or a moralistic sense of purpose? Leader... | *The day has come, the world awaits
no work or school, no scheduled dates.
The day has come where all our fates
could henceforth change forever.*
*The hour has come, and I can't breathe.
"Please don't be me. It* ***can't*** *be me."
I'm filled with dread, with fear and plea,
from Godhood to be sheltered.*
... | 2014-07-28T09:33:03 | 2014-07-28T09:31:37 | 358 | 84 |
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