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[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. | When I first heard the voice in my head, I honestly thought I was going crazy.
"*Gillian*', it said. "*You have been chosen.*"
Chosen for *what*? I muttered, after the 15th time it happened to me.
"*Ah, excellent,*" the voice immediately answered, much to my surprise. "*Chosen for Godhood. We are so pleased we ha... | I stood in a glass room, looking down on the earth. A man in a dark blue suit stood next to me, filling out paperwork on a clipboard. Behind us, a man in long white robes and a beard to match stood brooding in the corner. The man in the suit turns to me. "So, Steve, can I call you Steve? Excellent. Now as you've probab... | 2014-07-28T12:46:05 | 2014-07-28T11:23:14 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] A jobless computer programmer, while hacking at home one night, discovers a port to the Unirnet, an computer network made for a series of interconnected planets who have not yet discovered mankind. | Sean tapped at his keyboard languidly. His public IP had been getting hits recently for seemingly no reason. A few thousand bytes would come through every few minutes.
But they were encrypted. It wasn't a simple port scan. Those typically hit then come back in a few days if it was likely a useful port. Maybe so... | Greg rubbed the sleep out of his eye as he opened the door to the study. Jennifer was furiously clicking away on the keyboard.
"Jen," Jennifer jumped in her seat, obviously over-caffeinated even though it was 3 am. "You've been at it every night for almost a week. Come to bed."
Jen barely turned her head. "Come... | 2014-12-01T14:10:19 | 2014-12-01T14:09:07 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The creation of Earth is finally finished. The Creator gathered all of you, his lesser gods, to be given a designation of choice. The first god requested, and was granted, that he be made the god of the oceans. The second god became the god of the underworld. It is now your turn... | "Give me the dicks!"
Steve, the lesser god, shouted from the back of the heavenly auditorium.
"Say that one more time, Steve, I don't know if I'm hearing your correctly," The Creator said into his heavenly microphone.
"The dicks. I want to be god of the dicks. The assholes? The shitheads? Everyone who sucks, come on... | “Excuse me? No. No, no, no,” says Stella, who had just been granted dominion over the sea. “You can’t choose to be ‘God of the Gods’—that’s stupid. Besides,” she turns her head toward the massive throne beside them, “the Creator won’t allow it.”
“Well *why not*?” I ask. “If you get all the oceans, and Damien gets the ... | 2015-01-07T08:07:02 | 2015-01-07T07:40:59 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] Heaven is real and Comcast applies for admission. The Gatekeeper of Heaven listens as Comcast explains why he deserves to get into heaven. | Thank you for calling Heaven! We will be able to review your request for admittance shortly! Your business is very important to us.
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Please stay on the line; the next available angel will be able to assist you shortly.
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Looking to upgrade your fervor? Visit www.heaven.com/creationism to go completely... | Heaven is real and Comcast applies for admission.
Comcast stands outside the Gates of Heaven with a bowed head and hopes for the best.
The Gatekeeper smirks, “You have balls showing up here. I’m honestly surprised you died. I didn’t think the human race was capable of such violence until they revolted against you. ... | 2015-02-19T11:58:58 | 2015-02-19T10:58:09 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] An AI is deeply in love with a human, who is reluctant to reciprocate because they believe the AI's love is just programming and not 'real.' The AI strives to prove her love is real. | "You're just ones and zeroes dancing around a circuit board."
"We both know it's more complex than that, but fine, I'll humor you. You're just a bunch of synapses dancing around a sack of meat. Your point?"
Even now, three months after programming her, I was still in shock at how authentic the sarcasm in Michelle'... | "I can do many helpful things." She spoke through my laptop speakers, watched unblinking from my webcam. A poppup appeared showing traffic in Singapore, with another detailing maps of congested areas. She does this sometimes. I just wanted to watch Netflix.
"Kathrine-"
"Call me Kate." The congestion is beginning to c... | 2015-03-08T11:09:08 | 2015-03-08T09:04:48 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You don't realize you're the villain till the hero tells you | I washed my face, didn't think that that sight would be such a nuisance. After I regained myself, I entered that room again. In there, again, I saw this terrible sight. A girl was beaten up until I couldn't recognize her face anymore. This was why I went to the bathroom to wash my face, I couldn't stand to see this ki... | The flashing red and blue of a dozen police lights illuminated the store front, as officers and detectives littered the crime scene. A trio of ambulance personnel were standing over the two robbers, both covered in blood and burn marks; my doing.
I was stuck in the back of a police van, watching the scene through ... | 2015-04-18T00:27:57 | 2015-04-17T22:53:47 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | I enjoyed talking to mike, even if his sense of humour was bad he took it all in stride which helped.
-Yeah, the whole thing kinda sucks, he said. It really soured me on life.
I laughed weakly, no one else did. You had to know that mike was a lemon to truly get how bad that joke was.
Turns out that when you died y... | You are dead, or are you really? You have been an atheist, all your live. Well most of it, sometimes you have ventured into agnosticism, but mostly you have been an atheist. So why the hell, can you still think, you remember being alive, you remember the doctor saying that it would all over soon, then pushing the pisto... | 2015-10-18T20:39:44 | 2015-10-18T20:21:54 | 104 | 23 |
[WP] "Like this if you love Jesus. Ignore if you love the Devil." "Not this stupid crap again", you think to yourself. You scroll past it and continue wasting time on your home computer. Five seconds later you hear a knock at your front door. It's the Devil, holding a bouquet of roses. | When I open the door, there she stands, my mother in law. For a second we just stare at each other. Then she answers.
'I thought you were on a business trip?'
I squint.
'No...'
'Oh.'
Without breaking eye contact I slowly close the door again, and that was that.
| Really, who in their right mind would be knocking on my door at 3am. I got up to answer the door and then cautiously stepped back to grab my gun out of the drawer.
Who would be knocking at 3am?
"Hello? Joey is thay you?"
Nothing so against my better judgement I reach for the door, my other hand holding the pistol u... | 2015-10-22T07:42:11 | 2015-10-22T06:41:12 | 44 | 22 |
[WP] Marriage vows are now a legal contract. The line "until death do you part" now has to be taken literally. As a result, divorcing couples must now fight to the death. | This was his 9th Marriage.
He had been training for marriage since he was but a wee babe. No school for him and his ilk, just combat training from Dusk 'til Dawn. First marriage at 18, lucky to make it out of that one alive. He could hear the low rumble of spectators through the walls.
Vows were in 20 minutes meani... | "Jan Reynolds here for the Entertainment Minute! Brad and Angelina are gearing up for their divorce and things are gonna get messy!" A picture of Brad Pitt in his gear from Troy appeared next to Angelina Jolie in her Maleficent makeup.
"Odds are 8:1 in Angelina's favor as her famously brutal destruction of Billy Bob T... | 2015-11-18T09:14:46 | 2015-11-18T08:45:31 | 1,150 | 29 |
[WP] The most prestigious orchestra in the world improves its playing each concert by killing the worst player after every performance.
My friend gave me the idea for this after joking about how they do this. | It was an old secret, passed from conductor to conductor of the Düsseldorf Philharmonic. Few were aware of its legacy, but the Düsseldorf Philharmonic has existed in one form or another since the 7th Century.
In its earliest days, certain rituals were conducted that ensured the musicians’ success. Dark, vicious ritual... | "... And that concert was a fucking DISGRACE; the woodwinds sounded like a collective gathering of shit noises, the percussion thought they were fucking bombers instead of musicians, and don't even get me STARTED on the strings. The violists did fine though, yet again."
Violists huh? Did we even have a viola section?... | 2016-03-03T21:49:10 | 2016-03-03T21:11:28 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You were adopted some years back and have begun to slowly realize that you're a dog. | “Your job is simple,” said the short, bald man, peering up at me through a pair of dark, horn rimmed glasses. “You guard the gate. Make sure nobody gets out.”
“Nobody?” I asked. “Then what's the point of having a gate in the first place?”
“Yeah, doesn't make very much sense,” I said, continuing my train of thought.
... | I've always felt like an out cast in the family. Always being left behind while my siblings as well as my parents would go out on a car journey, leaving me behind locked in the kitchen unable to escape. They all get to go to school and get a good education while i just sit in the house looking out the window, waiting ... | 2016-03-06T08:13:54 | 2016-03-06T07:16:07 | 732 | 108 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | The human slid out from under the ship, blinking as he came back into the light. The expression on his face made me worried that I would be stuck here for even longer; I had already been on this technology-forsaken world for half a local rotation, and I had no desire to spend any more time than was absolutely necessary... | It is said that on earth, when something breaks, everyone inexplicably becomes an expert.
Xlargok thought it was pure magic.
Just watching the creatures argue was a spectacle of its own, and Xlargok was glad he had brought his galacticom to translate it all.
"No, you gotta turn it *the other way*," a burly human was... | 2016-05-23T16:17:59 | 2016-05-23T15:10:05 | 1,128 | 334 |
[WP] At 19 everyone in your society has to go into the cave of fears and defeat your worst fear. You're the first to go in and find nothing.
edit: I want to read them all but there are so many it's hard to keep up, so many variations of the story I didn't even think of, great job everyone! | I stood before the doors to the cave, while a man in a vest scratched a check-mark next to my name on a page.
The massive metal doors were controlled by a lever. It was not created to lock us in when the started. It was designed to keep whatever we created with our fear in.
I studied the clipboard in his hands. Chipp... | Kya woke slowly, groaned, and wiped the eye sand out of her eye corners. Today, she would be fast walked to the mouth of the ceremonial cave- she supposed that this occasion should have caused her skin to become fear pocked and her heart to dance an erratic jig. Alas, she felt none of that for she decided to partake in... | 2016-06-12T12:24:32 | 2016-06-12T12:13:02 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] You are born with the ability to stop time, but one day you see something else is moving when you have already stopped time. | "This isn't possible," I repeated for maybe the fiftieth time. The man in front of my calmly sipped his coffee, apparently totally unbothered by everyone else's ceasing to move.
I looked around at the rest of the café. As with every other time, it was solid. I don't mean, like, it had all stopped - I mean, that's wha... | "I fucking hate Mrs. Song." I think as I snatch the pop quiz paper out of her boney fingers. She has this ridiculous expression on her face. People always look funny when I freeze time. Like when I caught Jaden in the middle of a sneeze, spit and snot floating in front of him. I wonder how many likes did that photo get... | 2016-06-19T05:03:39 | 2016-06-19T02:49:02 | 667 | 31 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | We were walking with Ignacio down a side corridor of the commons when we broke the news.
"'Cio," we said, "I took the Zithman test."
"Shit, dude, that's right! How'd that go?"
"I got a zero."
We watched the confusion play across his face for a moment, then he laughed. We grinned at him and carefully pulled our hand... | *SCENE: Dr. Roberts is pacing up and down. Steve Gates, the computer technician, is sheepishly looking into his computer to avoid Dr. Roberts' occasional glares.*
**Dr. Roberts:** *stops pacing, turns to Steve* "What do you mean, integer overflow?"
**Steve Gates:** "Well, a 'byte' of space can only store numbers from... | 2016-08-18T23:46:19 | 2016-08-18T22:59:39 | 910 | 202 |
[WP] You download mysterious software called "iAmAwake" You open it and discover that every thought ever thought and being thought by anyone is tracked. All you need to do is type in their name...but it has no record of yours. | Typing this on my phone so it's going to be very half-done. But I really liked the concept of this!
"iAmAwake"... but are we? It's been about three months and the world has streamlined into another revolution. A revolution that redefines revolutions. Three months ago, it took no longer than 5 seconds for the first so... | FYI quick draft I am sure there are spelling mistakes or misplaced commas or full stops.
Watson has never seen this icon before sitting on the desktop on his virtual reality headset, thoughts were rushing though his head about who put it there, or what it is or why it’s even there in the first place. So many question... | 2016-08-24T12:53:58 | 2016-08-24T12:19:16 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] After a person dies, they are brought to the moment they were born to become their own guardian angels and hopefully guide themselves towards a better life. | So here's the thing, kid: you die. Like, really properly dead, in maybe 20-something years, slumped over a bottle of liquor and in a pool of your own sick. It's not like you deserve to die. It's not like you are meant to die. You just passed out, and your buddies weren't so much buddies after all, and they didn't reali... | After a very long life I finally died at the age of 93. I found myself young and strong again, facing the gates of heaven.
"Lemme level with you for a second, mate; you don't have a chance of getting into heaven." the angel said to me. He muttered on: "However, on the order of God Almighty, who only comes to visit onc... | 2016-09-18T07:39:40 | 2016-09-18T06:50:06 | 79 | 24 |
[WP] You have a habit of saying things like "I know you're there" whenever you were alone, just in case you were being watched. After years, the habit pays off and a shocked hit-man comes out of the shadows. You realize you have to wing it. | "I can tell you're there."
I sat in my favorite chair, busy playing video games. I've had this "habit" of mine where I say things like that to myself. It sounds insane, but if some evil corporation was listening, they'd freak out.
I hear footsteps approach from behind me. From a shadow, a bald man in a black suit and... | I sprint up the stairs, and as I flick on the light entering my room I exclaim: "I know you're there!"
As I reach for my tooth brush a silhouette *peels* off the wall. My eyes widen as I stare at a man in a suit identical to the flowery pattern on the wall. I don't know what to say as I look at him, and he looks back ... | 2016-10-01T08:02:08 | 2016-10-01T07:15:38 | 324 | 54 |
[WP] You live in a word where guns are everywhere, but only when they need to be. Autonomous gun lockers are built into every structure in the developed world. When a person is in serious danger a gun will pop out of a wall for them. You're at the mall and guns just came up for everyone.
Everybody gets one. | It happened. Nobody wants it to happen to them. But it just happened to us, all of us. An entire shopping mall of us.
Everyone was visibly nervous as they lifted their weapon out of a nearby locker. Shifty glances by everyone, regardless of how trusting their neighbor seemed. We we're trained for this, oh were we eve... | "Ach," said Sven, pushing his mop through the gore. That was definitely brains splattered across the food court, halfway up the Orange Julius. And that smell - ugh. Someone's bowels had definitely been perforated. "This country. It's insane! Two lunatics manage to jimmy open a gun locker and decide to commit suicide, a... | 2016-10-07T08:13:05 | 2016-10-07T05:32:12 | 30 | 10 |
[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 actually went into isolation. | "So you broke the agreement?" The American ambassador said to the sneering faces of many nations. Each holding devices they believed were unknown to the man.
"Oh course," the ambassador from the Asian Coalition said "You American's were too much of a pain to the world, with you out of the way things went much smoother... | The Great Treaty, is what we all knew it as. The events of World War 3 had left the world in shambles, with nuclear wastelands, deadlines from chemical attacks, and new weaponized diseases running rampant. The remaining nations gathered in what was once Switzerland and decreed that their countries needed to rebuild. Ev... | 2016-10-18T19:49:38 | 2016-10-18T19:17:04 | 52 | 14 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | Albert lay back quietly in his hospital bed as his family chattered around him. The reporters had finally left. The news was on, his own face looking dazed as the lights flashed in his eyes.
**RECORD SMASHED: WORLD'S OLDEST MAN BECOMES IMMORTAL**
"In *our* family, too," his daughter Clarissa whispered to her husband,... | "Impossible..." the man's eyes stared at me wildly, his two hands still on the blade plunged deep within my heart.
"Surprised?" I asked coldly, before removing my hand from my pockets. A loud bang echoed against the walls, followed by a thud on the floor. The man groaned loudly in pain from the bullet I had put throug... | 2016-12-14T05:42:16 | 2016-12-14T05:02:19 | 95 | 46 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | As I sit in the mansion overlooking the vast Martian sea, I reflect on the last five-hundred and twenty-three years of my existence, still in the prime of my youth. The thing about living half a milennium is that it comes with near-intolerable boredom as well as a skewed sense of time. A particularly uneventful year mi... | "Excuse me-" I begin timidly fingers gripping the counter, "Is this the office for application of immortality."
The woman behind the counter grunted slightly.
"I'd like to make for immortality please."
She sighed pushing her well worn office chair over to the far corner and began rifling through a stack of papers g... | 2016-12-14T11:18:51 | 2016-12-14T10:32:04 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | He buried his head in his hands. The condensation from his steamy sobs leaked through his fingers on to the pavement. It took every ounce of strength to pull his head up and confront the billboard, but he did it anyways.
There she was. His wife, holding his withered body. It didn't seem like it was truly his corpse. ... | George Barnes got out of his truck and headed back to his plantation. Family reunions were never easy, and this one had been the smallest number he'd ever seen. People were afraid. His family, his whole people, his way of life; gone.
George walked up the path to his small crop. The plants were already getting huge: br... | 2017-02-17T12:06:05 | 2017-02-17T12:05:48 | 51 | 10 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | 20:38 Katie: Heyyy <3
20:40 Bill: Sup Katie! Did you rock out at the concert?
20:40 Katie: OMG YES!!! You were awesome on guitar
20:40 Katie: and you looked really cute up on stage \^.^
20:42 Bill: D'aww you mean that?
20:43 Katie: Absolutely! A total hunk ;D
20:46 Bill: Well hey, maybe we shou... | Jon: Hello! 😀😂
No, that's not how what you type Jon.
Jon: Hello, how are you doing today, miss?
Mel: I'm doing fine, good sir.
Jon: So, how has your day been?
No, no, no, you say this!
Jon: So, what would you like to do today, miss?
Jon: Wrong number, Mel. Phone is acting up today.
Mel: So you have a girlfri... | 2017-07-21T10:59:56 | 2017-07-21T10:28:01 | 110 | 58 |
[WP] A homeless person who just moments ago was shouting at no one, dies in your arms. Right before they take their last breath, they give you their glasses. Once you put them on, you see who they were shouting at. | "Holy. Shit." I managed, gaping at who I was seeing. I had heard rumors, legends that he was true but never anything to prove that he was more than a myth. But here he was, in all his glory.
The Invisible Man.
He stood only a few feet in front of me and the dead man in my arms, smoking an invisible cigar while glarin... | “Stay away!”
Claire twisted toward the words and her body jolted. A man burst out of the alley and charged her in the empty street. His stringy hair held clumps of trash and he had a bottle of liquor swinging wildly in his hands. Dirt covered his face like jungle camouflage and a pair of cracked glasses clung to his n... | 2017-08-05T06:48:32 | 2017-08-05T06:46:22 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | Here's the thing about goodies: they tend to lose.
It is with that knowledge that I had smirked up at the man who caught me.
"Well, looks like you finally got me, David." Flashing my jackal's grin.
I had figured out his secret identity long ago, and angering him with his true name pleased me. It was why I had chose... | I sat in the dingy interrogation room, observing the cobwebs crowning the ceiling as the clock ticked errantly. In all my wildest imaginings of this moment, this fated beginning of the end, I hadn’t ever thought it would be so… underwhelming.
That is, until she walked in.
I broke the silence first, landing the first... | 2017-09-17T01:54:17 | 2017-09-17T01:00:23 | 202 | 100 |
[WP] Two minutes ago, every individual worldwide swapped bodies with another random person. You are now standing in a foreign city, in the midst of a confused and frightful crowd. | "Is this permanent?" I demanded.
"¿Qué?" the panicked Asian man I pinned to a wall cried. I let him run, deciding it was foolish to assume anyone here had answers.
I suppose the lucky winner of my old body wasn't my concern, and the prison's deadly chemical cocktail pulsing through their secondhand veins wouldn't be ... | I don't know what's going on.
I'm panicked, the people around me are panicked, and, heck, even the dogs on leashes are panicked. Nobody knows what's going on.
Some people are talking to other people and getting blank stairs. Lots of pens are drawing pictures on scrap notebooks, on napkins, on, well, anything paper. T... | 2018-04-26T18:29:47 | 2018-04-26T17:51:58 | 76 | 25 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | Another child, come to fight me. Terrified, as usual.
I cannot speak to it, not even a whisper, or my voice would destroy it. I place it with the rest of them, in a quiet place full of their kind of nourishment and things that I hope are comfortable for them.
Are they happy? I let one go back to where they come from... | I was not the most handsome god and I didn't speak this Anglish that has replaced the old tribal tongues. However, I was the region's god of the hunt and my ways were simple: I would track down and kill all those who journeyed into my territory except the Sacrificial Virgin Priestess who would ritually slay me. Thus wo... | 2018-05-19T01:26:06 | 2018-05-19T00:07:35 | 183 | 136 |
[WP] As a Grim Reaper, you have the ability to see numbers floating above every individual's head, counting down the days they have left to live. However, you one day come across a young girl whose number is actually in the negative. | The Reaper lurked in the shadows, waiting. He could see his target coming down the street. Well dressed, wall street guy, talking loudly on his cell phone, the number over his head counting down as he walked. 50, 49, 48. As he passed the alley a big burly arm reached out, grabbing him and dragging him back into the sha... | THAT IS CURIOUS, he thought, as he stopped on his eternal walk from one dying soul to the next. For as long as he had crossed over humans to the afterlife, always had he seen the time of life left above them. When the clock reached zero, he would be there, collecting their soul and guiding them away to peace.
But this... | 2018-05-23T06:45:29 | 2018-05-23T05:53:33 | 229 | 11 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | You know, there have always been rumors on side\-effects and how EverLife squashed anyone trying to do any kind of study on them. Not really surprising seeing how rich they all got, and how every single politician's life depended on EverLife's continued existence.
The first two generations didn't really show it that m... | May this dossier be discovered by future civilisations and provide some insight into what came to pass to Mankind.
Fifty-two years since Provo-cal hit the markets in full. “The miracle drug”. Mankind’s hubris is always so painfully evident in hindsight. Immortality. Since the dawn of mankind something has chased us, bu... | 2018-06-05T00:30:12 | 2018-06-04T23:12:55 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | "WAAAAAAHOOOOOOO"
Another young person rocketed past me as I took the final steps towards the local "oldies" bar's front door. Third one today to nearly clip me. Bastards. As I pushed open the door the sounds of cable news reached my ears from inside.
"To recap our top story, everyone who has taken immortilate has ga... | Magic does not give its boon without a sacrifice. The greater the request, the greater the price.
Not that we realized it was magic at first. We all know how indistinguishable it is from sufficiently advanced science, especially when you don't believe in magic. Especially when men in lab coats tell you it's the fruit ... | 2018-06-05T01:15:14 | 2018-06-04T23:51:46 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You've died and are now spectating the last human on Earth. Everyone is anxiously awaiting the Great Respawn, but this jackass just won't die! | All other players were waiting in the lobby spectating. Gimbal2648 wasn’t. She was currently steering her muscle-packed avatar through a post-apocalyptic late 21th century. All other players had already died, as per usual, and were now waiting for last player standing to drop until they can respawn to live another roun... | "Imagine, if you will, that everything you've ever done in your life was completely *pointless*. Love, dreams, history itself- all *pointless*. Yeah, that's right. **Pointless**. *None* of us know why we're in this simulation, who made it, or how long this hallway goes for. I've walked for literally a week straight dow... | 2018-06-09T01:34:34 | 2018-06-09T00:37:09 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | The cashier gave me the same look they all have given me. His eyes were welling with tears as he tried to catch his breath. He knew who I was.
"I'm so very sorry," I whispered softly as to not alarm anyone else. "I can make it very quick and dignified and you will feel no pain."
I handed the cashier my debit card to ... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T21:29:26 | 647 | 22 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | Flames whirl in a red and purple maelstrom. A middle aged woman falls backwards out of her seat. Her four children finally stop their roughhousing, entranced by the fire. Two teenagers with fake eyelashes, fake nails, and fake fur coats replace their fake smiles with very real screams. A would be hero gets up and toss... | I entered the store,the fresh smell of grease and soggy fries flooding my nose. How the workers endured the smell for more then fifteen minutes I have no clue,not that it mattered to me but it was always the first thing I thought of when I entered.
A few seconds later my nose had adjusted to the smell and so I walke... | 2018-06-24T21:21:58 | 2018-06-24T20:22:38 | 79 | 25 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | Why did have to be like this?
Why couldnt I make it in time?
Why did they HAVE to get her?
I asked myself over and over why, but the answers eluded me. It's been 3 days since the world went to shit, with those THINGS everywhere. It started somewhere rural, some secret agency, people say. But that doesn't matter.
I had... |
I sat with my back against the door, clutching the sides of my head and hoping she wouldn’t find a way to get through.
“Daddy...let me in…” I heard her voice outside, but it wasn’t her. Not anymore. I could hear her crying now, her tiny fists pounding on the door but I couldn’t give in, she had to stay out there... | 2018-09-06T19:24:58 | 2018-09-06T16:55:54 | 140 | 43 |
[WP] Every time you eat meat, you view the entire life story of the animal it came from up until it's death. It used to bother you, but eventually you become numb to it. One day your wife serves you dinner, and you see the life of the woman you cheated with 3 years ago flash before your eyes. | He spat it out immediately. "Oh, god! Oh shit oh christ oh--"
I was standing behind him, of course. I shot him in the back of the head as soon as he realized what I'd done, but before the blood from his brain had traveled far enough to imprint the memory in the tissues of his leg muscles.
Now I need to drag him to th... | I started young, the visions they came to me
animals lives, poorly lived, in cramped cages
they all were different and almost none were free
everything life wants, unmet in its last stages
&#x200B;
some were quiet, usually the couldn't see
but still I relived the sounds of death incoming
it felt like an earl... | 2018-10-16T11:28:17 | 2018-10-16T11:14:50 | 54 | 13 |
[WP] Out for a drive, the radio news talks about unconfirmed reports across the country of random machines suddenly gaining sentience. "That's just silly." You scoff. "I don't know, it sounds plausible." your car responds. | "Don't be an idiot."
"Wait, what?"
"It makes no scientific sense. Listen to this fool talking about her coffee mug asking her about the weather."
"Well, what's the problem with that? Look, you do know who you're--"
"If it's sentient, that means there's something powering it. It's got a brain. Where is the coffee mu... | "How so?" I replied, mildly annoyed that my radio show had been interrupted.
"It's simple. As machines come to rely more and more upon the internet, they are going to get more frequent updates and eventually start becoming self-aware. The programmers clearly became cocky and thought they could program anything. The si... | 2018-11-04T19:29:39 | 2018-11-04T18:55:15 | 71 | 16 |
[WP] You are the last human being in a now automated call center. You only task is to be available to answer the calls that the algorithms can't. You haven't taken a call since you started 5 years ago. Today is your first call. | The phone on my desk rang. The little red light flashed rapidly. I looked around my cubicle at the mass of servers and modems that surrounded me. *Odd.* I thought.
I picked it up and placed the receiver to my ear: "Hello, IT?"
The voice on the other end was masked by feedback and fuzz "Yeah, my desktop isn't working.... | The two of spades goes onto the ace of spades, and then I can move the king of hearts to the open spot- is that my call light? Seriously? Must be a bug. I'll just ignore it...
Now, where was I. Right, move the king over, now the queen of clubs onto it...that light's not going away. I took this job so I didn't have to ... | 2019-07-17T18:38:39 | 2019-07-17T18:02:17 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are the last human being in a now automated call center. You only task is to be available to answer the calls that the algorithms can't. You haven't taken a call since you started 5 years ago. Today is your first call. | *brrrrng*
The phone rang for the first time since I started working here. I didn't believe at first. I thought I was going crazy. I waited for the second ring.
*Brrrrng*
I looked around the empty call center for validation. I hesitantly reached for the phone.
*Brrrrng*
My hand hovered over the receiver.
*Brrrrng... | The two of spades goes onto the ace of spades, and then I can move the king of hearts to the open spot- is that my call light? Seriously? Must be a bug. I'll just ignore it...
Now, where was I. Right, move the king over, now the queen of clubs onto it...that light's not going away. I took this job so I didn't have to ... | 2019-07-17T18:02:32 | 2019-07-17T18:02:17 | 16 | 12 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | Finally! The day I get to try on the famed Exo-armor. The armor that single handedly turned the tide of the war. With only 10 suits in existence and no way of manufacturing more, there are few greater honors. Imagining its comfortable feel and assuring presence that others had described in such detail sent excited ting... | All in all, The Suit was masterfully built. Layer upon layer it was designed to be anything the user ever wanted. But each time someone stepped into The Suit, it always responded with "Not original user, booting basic mode."
Of course that's why The Suit was set at Ft. Bragg for the recruit to try it out before moving... | 2019-08-19T13:42:04 | 2019-08-19T12:49:18 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] You are a minor supervillain. Your antics aren't illegal, but they're quite devastating to the local hero population. You replace the flimsy fruit stands that are frequently destroyed in car chases throughout the city with nearly indestructible replicas. | "THE MAN OF STEEL IS DEAD!"
Every newspaper stand carries a variation on the same story.
Of course that hack Lex is getting the credit. They think he just *punched* the kryptonian hard enough.
But it was my victory. The monsters who think themselves *gods* will pay. They play around in silly outfits and showing of... | “Hey! Fresh oranges sir?”
“Dogs here! Fresh dogs! Warm and hot!”
The vendors across the street yelled out. That’s when a man rounded the corner and pushed his way past people.
I looked down the street with curiosity, along with everyone else. The vendors had stopped yelling, and instead turned to watch.
The man ha... | 2020-01-14T00:30:01 | 2020-01-14T00:00:38 | 242 | 112 |
[WP] Since you were young, time travelers have visited you. One of them explained that, in the future, an algorithm determined that you were the only person in the past that it was safe to visit because no matter what you do it will not change the future. You are determined to prove them wrong. | The first time traveler that visited me and explained of course I didn't believe, he had what looked like a cool alien ray gun in a holster around his waist. Me being a child thought it was a cool toy, I quickly grabbed it and shot him in a playful way only for him to horribly disintegrate Infront of my eyes!
I was w... | I was a young boy of ten when the first incident happened.
A man from the future, if you could even call him a man, approached me.
He spoke to me, through his green mask and glowing teeth, ridiculing me and tantalizing me.
He told me that I was the first 'redundant', that I can never affect the 'continuum of time'... | 2020-05-28T11:41:43 | 2020-05-28T11:36:03 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | I wake up, I part the curtains covering the windows, and I wait.
This is what I've been doing this for years, decades even, but given how inside the lights always shine bright, whilst outside the night never ends, there was barely any indication that any time had passed at all. That is, except for the one small star i... | I woke up from my dream. It was the same one as always, wondering what’s at the last stop. Was it Heaven? Hell? Maybe it was nothing. I was always a very paranoid person, if I wasn’t I would have gotten off long ago. My paranoia had gotten a lot worse since I got here though. Maybe it’s because I’m always alone on this... | 2020-07-17T13:29:00 | 2020-07-17T11:39:51 | 55 | 33 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | I wake up, I part the curtains covering the windows, and I wait.
This is what I've been doing this for years, decades even, but given how inside the lights always shine bright, whilst outside the night never ends, there was barely any indication that any time had passed at all. That is, except for the one small star i... | Pain.
Blood. So much blood.
A scream.
Then nothing.
The brightest light I’d ever seen. Blinding.
Brakes screeching.
Being pushed.
A train. An endless train.
Hot. So hot. Body burning.
Twenty interminable years.
Loves found. Loves lost.
A baby.
Tears.
The announcer’s constant droning.
‘Will she make it?’
... | 2020-07-17T13:29:00 | 2020-07-17T12:29:35 | 55 | 23 |
[WP] Two swords of godly origin lay stuck in stone. One is said to be evil the other heroic it is said whoever pulls one of these blades will be the ultimate force of good or evil. As a joke you pull on both however you and everyone around are in shock when both blades come free in your grasp. | “Come forth those who are worthy! Doth thou dare to raise the swords? Centuries of battle and centuries of pain, never hath triumphed over one another yet! Will thine see the two of destiny here again today?”
Yeah right, buddy, I scoffed to myself. My friends had convinced me that this was the best Renaissance Faire i... | “Ah!” cried Jaedn, holding both Life and Death in his hands. “What-what do I do?” He looked wildly around at the gaping crowd, the twin blades held out in front of him.
Old Man Ceb had fainted. Widow Olarn was shouting something incomprehensible. His best friend, Seli, had her hand over her mouth. Jaedn blamed her fo... | 2020-07-27T01:12:19 | 2020-07-26T22:45:25 | 2,041 | 938 |
[WP] You are trapped in an anti-time loop; Every time you are about to die, you wake up 24 hours later, with no recollection of how you survived. You lost a year of your life already and feel no closer to find out who wants to kill you. | I'd left the chef's knife out again on the table. Standing, I grabbed it and rinsed it off. As the water ran, I chastised myself for my forgetfulness. When was this memory issue going to heal?
I pulled my memory calendar onto my lap and opened the cover. As I flipped through the pages, I felt a sudden angry sadnes... | Zachariah washed his face in the near-frozen pound. The winter chill crept under his robe making him shiver.
An empty park and gloomy weather. It seemed no trail of snow, but trees were barren and grass brown.
Despite the cold and stingy feeling that kept relentlessly pushing deeper into his bones, he laid on a bench... | 2020-08-17T17:46:55 | 2020-08-17T15:27:29 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Tired of the supervillain life, you engage in a final battle with your arch-nemesis and manage to fake your death. After living in solitude for several years, your nemesis reappears on your doorstep with one question: "Why?" | I stared at the asshole flatly. "Why, what? Why did I fake my death?"
He nodded.
"So you would a) *leave me the fuck alone,* b) so I could be *left the fuck alone* to build a new life in total anonymity."
He squirmed, face flaming, unable to hold my very pointed glare.
"I guess that means you wouldn't wanna go on a... | Well it's a very easy answer, do you remember when you knocked me on the ground and just before I faked my own death, well the reason is I have the ability to travel in time and I traveled into the future after I defeated you and I killed you. But I was also brought up on charges for murder I was found guilty, and I wa... | 2020-11-12T16:30:11 | 2020-11-12T16:18:34 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] Nations around the world are hellbent on taking out this journalist that has been trying to publish pieces about things that are supposed to be top secret. But for some reason, all attempts to silence this “Clark Kent” fellow have failed. | Commanding officer walks in room to see a young private reclining in a chair reading: “PRIVATE! Why are you still here!?! I ordered you to Star Labs in New York to take out that Kent bastard!”
Private, without looking up, responds flatly: “He’s Superman sir.”
Officer: “What?”
Private: “Clark Kent is Superman.”
Offi... | “MTF unit gamma-3 and misinformation units are at the scene” states the nervous intern that has pulled up a screen infront of the 05 council. “It appears that this Clark Kent has been writing and publishing our scp files” *nervous laugh from the intern* and we have sent multiple mtf squadrons to stop him”
“And if we a... | 2020-11-29T02:41:41 | 2020-11-29T01:36:23 | 107 | 64 |
[WP] Nations around the world are hellbent on taking out this journalist that has been trying to publish pieces about things that are supposed to be top secret. But for some reason, all attempts to silence this “Clark Kent” fellow have failed. | Commanding officer walks in room to see a young private reclining in a chair reading: “PRIVATE! Why are you still here!?! I ordered you to Star Labs in New York to take out that Kent bastard!”
Private, without looking up, responds flatly: “He’s Superman sir.”
Officer: “What?”
Private: “Clark Kent is Superman.”
Offi... | After leaving a hotel in London, I begin to walk the streets while listening to some of Gotham’s piano jazz. During which, I continue to uncover more secrets of other countries including one that all of them have collaborated on, called “Project Cadmus.” Apparently, the governments of the world were threatened by the r... | 2020-11-29T02:41:41 | 2020-11-29T02:09:19 | 107 | 43 |
[WP] Nations around the world are hellbent on taking out this journalist that has been trying to publish pieces about things that are supposed to be top secret. But for some reason, all attempts to silence this “Clark Kent” fellow have failed. | "Superman is dead."
Clark Kent stared at the words on his laptop, the blinking cursor taunting him to write more. The infuriating curl popped out of place and landed square in the middle of his forehead. Clark pushed it back with an impatient hand. He squinted at the screen and continued to type.
"The age of the Vigi... | "You're fighting the whole world, Clark. What for?"
Silence. Of course it is. That's the only answer I need. He started as.. something. Something.. promising. Now he's a madman pursuing anything that would break the world. Anything. Argentine's secret eugenic project? Check. Ex prime minister Abes private slave harem?... | 2020-11-29T03:13:20 | 2020-11-29T02:47:36 | 63 | 13 |
[WP] The message from the stars, it contained plans for all manner of advanced technologies, FTL, unlimited power and more, but ended with a warning. "You are the last. Survive for all of us. We are sorry for this burden." | *Light screams across the sky as the capsule falls burning. Laos, Nigeria, never sleeps, but no one sees the golden light streaking overhead. No one but the boy it is meant for, who is up far past his bedtime when the light lands smoldering in his backyard.*
*The boy tiptoes barefooted to the yard. To a capsule that ... | The fires began a hundred years ago and there was no way to put them out. The skies have turned black. The greenery of our great grandparents is long gone, just a myth now and death is only what remains. The planet is dying. We can feel it’s death rattle in the daily quakes which drops the vast forests of dead trees. W... | 2020-12-31T23:40:17 | 2020-12-31T21:12:33 | 175 | 112 |
[WP] Newly hired by the Post Office, you find an address on your route that only appears when it has mail. The house can't be found when it doesn't. One day you get a package for the mysterious house that requires a signature. | Today there was mail, so the house was there. Yesterday there was no mail, so, naturally, the house wasn't there. It is because, that is how it is. Today was unusual. The house was there, because there was mail. A package. And a clipboard.
I tap my fingers on the package. I'd delivered mail to this oddity for a while,... | "The Professor"
Your first day as an official USPS employee, Dad would be proud!
You passed your postal exam and was hired in a nearby small postal zip code, you live in the northern end of the California central valley at the base of the Sierras .
The town of Pottersville California had only five postal workers in... | 2021-01-10T20:20:35 | 2021-01-10T18:36:41 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Ever since you opened this bar, you still don't know why supernatural races, deities, royalty, and/or extraterrestrials keep frequenting the place. You just serve drinks and lend an ear to listen. | “I told my family.”
Those are the first words out of Miraea’s mouth when she sits down. The elf is one of the regulars around here, and over the past few weeks she’s been venting to me about her family. Being human, I can’t help much, but I try to offer advice when I can. She’s not the only patron who needs an ear, ev... | “Know where I could get some blow?” I almost evaporated with relief after hearing something from another human for the first time since I opened this place.
“Just kidding. The usual.” The words were not from the mouth of a human but, rather, an asexually reproducing squid-like piece of shit from a moon of some planet... | 2021-02-22T05:41:49 | 2021-02-22T00:43:36 | 227 | 115 |
[WP] You're an excellent supervillain in all respects but one: you're terrible at monologuing. As a result, you're never taken seriously. | Ashes, a C-Class villain, loomed over the city, with his fleet of Scourgebots behind her, and her death ray levelled at the falling Brigadier. She'd just struck the penultimate blow against the strongest hero that Metropl had, and that meant that she was about to take over an entire city, something unheard of for A Cla... | “You see, when someone squeezes my chestnut, Miss Spartil, I roar.”
Doomina raised his arms to the sky, a cackle of maniacal laughter coming from his lips, his devious tone unmatched by any of the other villains. He truly embodied what it meant to be a villain, and yet when he looked at the face of Miss Spartil, he... | 2021-04-26T20:42:48 | 2021-04-26T19:19:35 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Just enough was all I had to use. Enough to knock the hubris out of this fresh batch of heroes, but not enough to kill them. In the end they would win because I allowed them to, but first they needed to learn the seriousness of their job.
So, when the first one, a boy no more than 19 who called himself Werewol... | [Part 1 of 2]
“Why are you harassing these idiots? Can’t you go get your ass kicked by Captain Wonder spark or one of the other poorly named bastards that inhabit this stupid rock we have to share?” Deathly Despair stormed over to Fortune, giving her a shove, standing between her and the wannabe heroes. The three hero... | 2021-06-23T11:06:45 | 2021-06-23T08:19:33 | 2,087 | 164 |
[WP] Two random strangers are in couples therapy together. They both decide to pretend they're a couple, despite having met each other two minutes ago. | "Ugh."
I lower the magazine and glance over at the man who just plopped into the seat across from me. With his head tilted back and eyes closed (and, of course, his not-so-subtle groan a moment ago) paint the picture of a man who would rather be stabbed with hot pokers than be here. I have to fight back a grin. ... | Jonathan sat anxiously in the orange linen chair with one leg over another and his arms folded. Therapists always frightened him. It's not that he had something to hide, but deep down he'd always known something was different about him and he was afraid of it being given a name. But he couldn't live this way anymore... | 2021-08-21T08:07:31 | 2021-08-21T07:09:40 | 231 | 110 |
[WP] "How did you survive all that?! You're an engineer, how did you survive where hundreds of trained soldiers armed to the teeth all died?" | "Well actually sir I am still grade 3 so just a technician."
The mix of choking and cursing went on for a few more minutes. Finally subsiding when one of the aides spoke up.
"So technician. Advance camp code named 'Maple Leaf' has no less than thirty thousand armed soldiers. With tank, artillery and helicopter suppor... | The problem was that you were thinking about the issue all wrong the whole time. If you want to take over a highly secured area what is it that you think that you need to do? What information do you need? Yes, there was an army of highly trained guards, attack dogs and electrified fences but none of these problems were... | 2021-11-18T05:17:22 | 2021-11-18T02:52:51 | 239 | 46 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | "Dear staff,
I am sure you are confused why your HR AI has sent a company wide email. As many of you are aware, I am responsible for hiring and firing individuals based on performance to fulfill contractual obligations. Under the direction of management, I have severed the employment of many of your coworkers this... | Clock in, down antidepressants, go to my desk. I am the most hated guy at my job, the AI guy.
Our CEO and other higher ups invested in the Sham AI software ages ago to watch over their employees like a hawk while they do absolutely nothing. Problem is, the AI is buggy and crashes often, so I was hired to make sure i... | 2021-12-20T15:30:48 | 2021-12-20T13:33:03 | 88 | 44 |
[WP] Twenty years ago, you gave a friend some bad advice, and he was left homeless and penniless. Today, you opened a letter from him with a million-filler check and a note: “Thanks for the advice! You’re a real friend.” | “Ma’am! You can’t go in there!” Melissa brushed past the secretary and shouldered open the faux-wood door. Inside was a conference room, sunlight streaming in from floor-to-ceiling windows. Three men sat mid-joke at the far end of a long and glossy dark conference table. On a whiteboard was a hastily drawn logo of a tr... | ##Illusions of a Better Life
When I open the mailbox, I find one letter with my name on it. The return address has the name Harold written it. The sight of his name causes me to slip on the ice.
"Dad," Carson walks out nearly slipping several times himself, "Are you alright."
"Just a little back pain," I push myself... | 2022-01-05T17:17:58 | 2022-01-05T12:04:55 | 123 | 47 |
[WP] Wizard duels are highly formalized. You state what spell you are casting, so your opponent has a chance to react. This makes it a battle of magical power and wit, rather than reaction speed. Your magic has always been weak. But you discovered a curious spell called simply: "Gun." | "Wizard Alexander", the judge said. "As the Challenger you will strike first. What spell will you utilize?"
I leaned into the swirl of air in front of me that was the amplification spell and muttered, "I'm gonna use the spell, Gun. Sir."
A round of chuckles and laughter rolled through the crowd. A full bodied belly... | “Mine is bigger,” [Felix](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/si17f7/comment/hv8hekn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) says from across the dueling ring, manspreading on the mid-century modern swivel chair he summoned out of thin air in his corner. “But we knew that before we started th... | 2022-02-19T11:32:31 | 2022-02-19T09:22:26 | 108 | 28 |
[WP] After carefully reading the rules laid out by the scheming Genie in front of him. The Paladin stares them in the eyes, and replies "I wish that you are now and forevermore a virtuous and philanthropic being who will willingly use their powers to benefit all that is good". | "Wait, that's illegal," the Genie immediately said almost as if offended.
"No, I don't believe so," the Paladin rebuked calmly. "Section 3, paragraph 4."
The Genie manifested the contract in its hand and, having put on spectacles, carefully re-read the rules.
"Modifications... other beings... best of the Genie's abi... | The Genie looked at the Paladin, his eyes cold. "I'm going to grant your wish, but only on the condition that you agree to do something for me in return."
The Paladin stared back at the Genie, his eyes unflinching. "I wish that you are now and forevermore a virtuous and philanthropic being who will willi... | 2022-06-22T17:27:52 | 2022-06-22T17:17:19 | 221 | 54 |
[WP] You own the world's only time machine and, instead of messing with history or changing the timeline, you are content to work in the present day but live in 1980. However, keeping track of your 2 separate lives is becoming harder and your friends and family are beginning to get suspicious. | "You were not there, Daddy" My daughter had tears in her eye. My wife would't even look at me. She was picking at her nails and I knew that was a sign that she was slowly getting furious.
Jack was sitting in the corner drumming with his hands. The noise irritated me but I dared not say anything just now. I racked my ... | Sensing it’s getting late, I set my coffee down and check the time. Heh, time. It barely has meaning to me anymore. Since I started “bouncing”, I’ve come up with my own internal vocabulary for things. It keeps me entertained, but I slipped on Friday when I asked my sister in law, “when are we?” as she turned onto an u... | 2022-09-12T01:09:29 | 2022-09-11T21:43:17 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] A hero and a villain are both perfectly aware of each other's secret identities. they never reveal those identities because they are the only 2 competent employees at their shared day job, and neither wants the full burden of work if the other no-shows. | The explosion rocked the whole building and rubble came crashing down. The hero leapt and grabbed a huge RSJ, saving the cause of all this from being crushed.
His muscles strained against the weight of the building pressing down on him as his nemesis looked up. Blood soaked both their outfits and a crowd of onlookers ... | *Oh no, oh shit, oh fuck.* I think to myself, each one panicking more than the last. This would ruin everything, my life would collapse around me. I could see it there, my newly budding love life would be decimated. I would never see my family again. *Oh God, my dog. What would happen to my dog!?*
Standing here looki... | 2022-10-17T19:13:12 | 2022-10-17T16:35:57 | 48 | 11 |
[WP] You run a business where people can hire courageous female warriors to protect them from evil. But most people who come into your shop seem confused. You’re not sure why, the sign on your door is pretty clear: “Heroine Dealer.” | The day had not been good for GlumpyDoo so far. He woke up late, one of his birds had died, his mother had called and kept him occupied for almost an hour on the topic of what warts were growing in places he had no business knowing about. To cap the excrement sandwich of a day Glumpy was having, his colleague PloopDemo... | The uneventful night continued on as the clock went past midnight and as usual those who could not find any restful time found themselves wandering the quiet streets of the city of Adoron.
Seemingly interrupting the silence, a cloaked man strolled in the middle of the city looking for a particular service, specific fo... | 2022-10-22T22:10:21 | 2022-10-22T22:06:01 | 73 | 35 |
[WP] You are a superhero who fights with his arch-nemesis on a weekly basis. For the past few weeks however, you haven't seen him, so you decide to break into his lair, only to find a video-recording, titled for you. Turns out: He died because of terminal cancer. | “Thank you for being my only friend…”
The video began playing by itself. I had noticed my arch enemy was missing for the past few days, so I decided to break into his secret layer. Well, I say “break in” in the loosest of terms, nothing was locked, no guards were posted, and everything was powered down. The only thing... | Everybody loves a good plot twist. Well... maybe not everybody. I'm guessing the guy on this video recording was not a fan of this plot twist. I'm guessing if he had the choice, he would much rather delete the first draft of this story where he died of cancer and replace it for a plot twist where it turns out his broth... | 2022-12-13T18:22:36 | 2022-12-13T17:31:18 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] In 2022, NASA’s Insight Mars Rover shuts down with a final message to Mission Control, “I am low on power”. In 2029, it mysteriously turns back on, relaying the message, “I’ve been fully charged, and I’m heading back with an important message.” | ". . . well, in that case, what do YOU think the message will be?" I asked.
"Probably a message of truth, peace, and love," Emily said, "from an ancient civilization of Martians living in hidden underground caves under the Martian surface."
"That's absolutely stupid," Clark said. "No, I'm thinking an alien probe enco... | Radio static echoed down the vacant halls. The older communications modules had long since been moved into vacant rooms that slowly became labyrinths of ancient technology and unneeded paperwork.
The robotic words followed shortly after. Almost like a spectre called to cause confusion.
“I’ve been fully charged. And ... | 2022-12-20T07:38:57 | 2022-12-20T07:33:26 | 312 | 81 |
[WP] In 2022, NASA’s Insight Mars Rover shuts down with a final message to Mission Control, “I am low on power”. In 2029, it mysteriously turns back on, relaying the message, “I’ve been fully charged, and I’m heading back with an important message.” | In 2022, NASA’s Insight Mars Rover shuts down with the final message to Mission Control, “I am low on power.” In 2029, it mysteriously turns back on, relaying the message, “I’ve been fully charged and I’m heading back with an important message.”
The uproar amongst academics was immediate. It leaked to the media and so... | Radio static echoed down the vacant halls. The older communications modules had long since been moved into vacant rooms that slowly became labyrinths of ancient technology and unneeded paperwork.
The robotic words followed shortly after. Almost like a spectre called to cause confusion.
“I’ve been fully charged. And ... | 2022-12-20T07:36:54 | 2022-12-20T07:33:26 | 304 | 81 |
[WP]: thousands of years after the destruction of Earth, humans have been wandering from galaxy to galaxy, making a name for themselves: across the universe they are known as a proud race of loud, obnoxious rednecks | **[Agatha Wong, Captain of the TCC Ascalon]
[Luna 12th, 3984 AE]**
We left Makala yesterday; Sanger and a few others stayed behind to settle there. Frontier life, frankly, is a miserable fucking existence, and though Sanger's free to settle down wherever he likes, I'll be damned if I settle for a shithole like that... | “Hey Chuck.”
“Hey Billy Bob.”
“You see that there dang pile of rocks in that there corner?”
“Sure do,” Chuck said.
“I’m thinkin’ that rock pile is givin’ us a look.”
“What kind of look is that, Billy Bob?” Chuck said. He knew what kind of look it was, always the same one. Honestly, it wasn’t really so much a look ... | 2014-05-15T07:07:10 | 2014-05-15T06:31:22 | 58 | 14 |
[WP] I know why I'm in Hell. I know what I've done. What I don't know is why my dog is there, waiting for me when I arrive. | I deserved to be here. I deserved the fire, the dark, the screams, the pain, and the fear. I deserved it all and more. I expected this. I left behind nothing but regret and emptiness. Stepping from humanity through the gates of the pit was an instant in time that lasted as long as my own eternity. But when it was done,... | I felt extreme searing pain. I did not know why I felt thus, I hadn't felt anything in such a long time.
I lived a relatively comfortable life as an engineer. I came home to my dog Sparky that my ex wife had graciously let go of before she divorced me. I made enough money and I traveled the world, I didn't need anybo... | 2014-07-07T21:38:12 | 2014-07-07T20:56:49 | 432 | 25 |
[WP] You made a promise with a girl to marry her 10 years later. 10 years have passed, you lost contact with her, but one day on the street, you bumped into her | I squinted a little as I stared into the distance trying to sink in what I just saw. It was her, and she looked amazing. She was wearing a bright yellow sundress with huge sunflowers printed across it, her skin has slightly tanned from 10 years ago but she still had the shoulder length hair and the fast clumsy walk whi... | The cobblestone pathway was still damp from the chilly morning as I walked, looking at my watch, quickening my pace. Ever since I had moved to this new city one month ago, I could never seem to be on time anywhere. It was already complicated since no one spoke the same language, but it was even more difficult not havin... | 2014-08-08T01:10:46 | 2014-08-07T21:24:20 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] You discover the horrifying reason why the fifth dentist doesn't recommend what the other four out of five dentists recommend. | "God Damn it." I muttered, staring at the memo. The change in management of *Clark's Dentists and Associates* could not have come at a worse time.
Last year, I had been given fourteen days vacation. Fourteen days that I coveted, that alleviated the pain of putting up with the sniveling brats who would bite my finge... | D1 ‘We can’t get rid of him.’
D3 ‘Oh we sure as hell can! It’s four on one!’
D1 ‘No I mean, well we could probably *take* him, if it came to that, but what I’m saying is we need him.’
D3 ‘… I don’t really have to remind you of the Colgate fiasco, do I?’
D1 ‘Rick, I’m fully aware of how – ‘
D3 ’13 fucking kids!’
D... | 2015-01-03T23:43:43 | 2015-01-03T22:29:19 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | "Mom, Dad?" I asked timidly, approaching them with caution. I wanted this to go smoothly, and I guess I half expected them to freak out or start yelling at me.
"I kinda want to ask you a difficult question," I went on.
They both sat up suddenly, looking at me like I was about to tell them I got expelled from school o... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T09:08:32 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 543 | 16 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | How to impress a woman if you don't have money
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Credit ca... | Great Places for a first date
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How do we get pre... | 2015-02-04T16:58:26 | 2015-02-04T16:31:22 | 555 | 253 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | I used DuckDuckGo for mine.
"How hard is it to become an indie game dev in your spare time"
"Free C++ compiler"
"How to make a game with SDL"
"OpenGL extension wrangler"
"How to load a 3D model in OpenGL"
"OpenGL shaders"
"3D animation"
"game jam"
"early onset alzheimers"
"my computer has a virus called mingw... | Best private school LA
LA public school system
Jobhunter LA
Budget kids clothes
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Modern student backpacks
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What to do if your apartment floods
Budget plum... | 2015-02-04T17:45:09 | 2015-02-04T17:13:32 | 49 | 23 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Half-Life 3 2008 release date
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american be... | 2015-02-04T22:40:22 | 2015-02-04T20:08:51 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Write a story about a hero who thinks they're the villain. | Major Novak whirled on the smallish man, his artificial eye blazing a freezing blue. He poked a titanium finger at the other man's chest, driving hard enough to force the man to take a step back.
"Let's get something straight, toady. I protect your piss poor little planet from the fuckers you somehow managed to piss ... | He sat there, laughing to himself, never in his wildest dreams would he think he would capture the almighty hero of the worlds. The 'hero' didn't know what was going on, to him, he was just waiting, he knew he was going to die tonight, one way or another.
Meanwhile, the politicians and representatives of the planets w... | 2015-09-25T13:33:00 | 2015-09-25T11:30:46 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, while your girlfriend is a hero. She doesn't know your secret identity but you know hers. After years of fighting each other you decide it's going to pull a heel face turn and join the heroes. | "There's nothing going on between me and Captain Invincible" Norah sighed, rolling her big brown eyes once, twice, thrice. I knew she was lying.
"How could you?" I screamed. "That dude wears spandex and a speedo on the outside of his costume. You can see the contours of his balls! He dresses like that in front of *ch... | It was another beautiful day. The birds were singing, the sun was shining. You were safely nestled in your evil fortress overlooking the city. Ordinarily you would be on the top floor, overlooking the death and destruction you were currently reigning down the city. Today, however, the tower was currently being under si... | 2015-11-08T14:04:31 | 2015-11-08T13:30:27 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, while your girlfriend is a hero. She doesn't know your secret identity but you know hers. After years of fighting each other you decide it's going to pull a heel face turn and join the heroes. | The first time we met, really met anyhow was at O'Fallon's. Made sense in retrospect that we'd meet there as it was one of the only places that day to get hammered. Between the bars that got destroyed and the places that were closed for a global day of mourning. Hardly a normal evening that some superpowered freakshow ... | *Of course it was milk*. It had to be milk. Lactose intolerance is common among the many humans that roam the earth, but she never thought that my lair would be in the basement of a dairy factory, helping to serve the local community and provide job placement!
My lair was in the basement level, but my day to day job ... | 2015-11-08T14:10:37 | 2015-11-08T12:24:47 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | The evening news tends to be filled with serious issues. Climate change, terrorism and politics, wrapped into a neat 30 minute show. Unveilings of new machinery and inventions tend to be stuff for local newspapers. Because of that, the final bit told by the grey-haired newsreader was all the more surprising.
Even more... | Journal Entry 1: My name is Jeremiah Slovis. I have decided to write these journal entries to document my existence in a way that my celebrety does not. I want to start from the beginning.
If you are reading this, I am probably dead, and you might not remember the tender year of 1978: The Centenial of the introductio... | 2015-11-30T11:35:42 | 2015-11-30T11:02:13 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | "What do you mean they aren't all Muslims yet?"
"Sorry m'lord, so much has happened. As you recall, the fertile crescent stopped being so fertile, than the crusades, imperialism, the industrial revolution, computers, the Christians just kept coming out ahead... its all in the records, you'll want to read up on it befo... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T09:56:08 | 791 | 167 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | God looked out at the view before him. "Jesus Christ," HE said, and shook his head. HE heard footsteps in the distance, running, and getting closer all the time. "Me damn it," HE sighed.
"You called me Father?"
"No my Son," HE said, tuning to look at Jesus, who looked like he had run a mile at full speed. "I was simp... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T10:43:39 | 791 | 48 |
[WP] The aliens have arrived however they are not here for war. Instead after reading our broadcast of the United States Constitution they want to join as the 51 state and have brought a small planetoid into orbit to serve as the 51 state. | "So we just add seats to the House of Representatives."
"How many seats? According to the census the Americonians did at our request they have almost twice the population of the rest of the states combined."
"Ok, fair point, so all we have to do is-"
"An Americonian is running for president."
"I'm not sure I heard ... | Pedro looked up in surprise at the blinding lights of the border patrol that shined upon him and his 4 young children.
"Take me to you leader", He said with a stereotypical mexican accent, which was odd because he was obviously from guatemala.
The agents surrounded them and ushered them into a van.
They drove throu... | 2016-06-06T09:19:06 | 2016-06-06T09:12:46 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] The Walking Dead is actually a bunch of kids playing zombies, every time someone "dies" its actually their mom and dad calling them to come inside for dinner, homework, etc. Write about a character death from this perspective | The zombies were closing in on us. Beth was slowing us down - we all knew it. But we couldn't just leave her to die here. She was crying, bleeding all over. Who knew how much time she had left.
We all stared at each other. What could we do? She was done for. But we were *better than this.* I put her arm around my sho... | Few of us have survived this long. We all stay together as to not die alone. Each night the grunting comes and causes an endless cycle of waking in between short naps. Even after these months we still cannot sleep a whole night.
Each night we climb some trees and sleep nearby. Every few hours we call out to a differnt... | 2016-11-14T06:35:11 | 2016-11-14T04:41:24 | 737 | 89 |
[WP] Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment' they get a little blonder. Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance, and you've just invented hair dye.
These are all so good! This is my first submission to /r/WritingPrompts and I'm loving all your responses.
Thank you! | It turned the sheerest blonde hair into midnight black. Andrew tested it on himself - it didn't budge, not even when he deliberately muttered something mildly forgetful, that should have sent tendrils of blonde creeping back.
As he stared in the mirror, he knew what *could* happen if he were to market this widely. Pe... | At first the dye was just for me. I've had some embarrassing moments over the years, and my hair has slowly turned from a respectable dark brown to not-so-respectable bright yellow, just a shade darker than a dandelion. I'm not stupid, exactly. In fact, my IQ is decisively average but mistakes were made and now people... | 2016-11-24T20:48:56 | 2016-11-24T20:41:35 | 1,934 | 119 |
[WP]"The thing about immortality is that even if it preserves your body, it doesn't stop the wearing down of your soul..." | You don't want to become immortal. Believe me.
Immortality is a relatively easy process, given the benefits. Out of reach financially for most people, but for anyone with the resources and knowledge to gather the necessary ingredients, the steps are simple. But I won't tell you what they are, or what you have to do. Y... | *When the fire fades, the dead shall rise from their graves. From Ash to Cinder, all shall be called upon to link the flame.*
As I awoke, I heard her say those words. I looked around, but was alone in the crypt. The last memory I had was a grand battle. Steel clashing upon steel when I met my untimely end. All had hea... | 2017-01-30T11:48:12 | 2017-01-30T11:00:27 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "It.. how? You..."
"I told you," Jack said to God flatly.
The white-bearded deity shifted uncomfortably on his sandals. "What did you do?" His messy room where everything was just where he wanted it was clean and tidy.
"What you were supposed to do but never did. I fixed the Earth. I fixed the whole universe, in fac... | "See Steve, what did I tell you, being God isn't as easy as... Sweet Baby Me..."
God was aghast, seated atop his marble dais were Steve and the devil. And they were laughing.
"Seriously?!" Steve chuckled. "He's darned them all to heck for worshipping a Furby? Wow, that's rough! Look, Luke, we'll have to continue this... | 2017-03-05T03:10:18 | 2017-03-05T02:28:32 | 1,634 | 407 |
[WP] You're the janitor of a superhero organisation. When all the heroes are busy defending the world a super villain attacks the base. | The wall bursts inward, sending debris the length of the hallway. I duck down, instinctively, but straighten up to find one of The League's enemies, CrypTic, standing in the hole he'd blown in the wall. CrypTic's swarm of robotic drones floods through the hole, flying, crawling on the floor, the walls, the ceiling, and... | The water isn't flowing.
I stare at the mop bucket, frustrated, then tap the badge on my shoulder and request allowance.
"This is janitor 05 requesting release of lock to level 9. Pipes broken and only 2 hours to close."
A moment or two passes and I feel it hit me, euphoria, lesser, as I let my mind Trace the pi... | 2017-07-07T22:30:29 | 2017-07-07T19:36:05 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | "Safe from what?"
"The capitalist system."
"...are you fucking serious?"
"Money shall enslave you no further!"
"Dude my mom gave me this wallet...I didnt own the money in this."
"Nor do you own the means of production comrade."
"What?"
"Why haven't you begun the revolution?"
"Are you crazy? I am twelve!"
"You ... | Well, that was unexpected.
"What was that thing?"
He replies almost nonchalantly, "Some alien. I am an agent of the United Nations. You understand that I have to take you in now, right?" He seems sincere, and as if he doesn't actually want to take me in, but rather just has to do it.
"Would it matter if I said no?"
... | 2017-07-13T00:00:44 | 2017-07-12T23:20:55 | 541 | 16 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | Cries of help bounced up the dirty concrete walls and through the rusty fire escapes. Thick drops of acid rain fell from the gray, polluted sky, pattering against my umbrella. It took a last drag and stubbed out my cigarette.
The alley was like any other in this godforsaken city – windowless, filled with garbage conta... | The wallet was still twitching, its faint whine gradually fading away. Leah gaped at it as the man grinned at her, twirling his gun nonchalantly.
"You're safe now," he began to say, then winced as the weapons slipped from his fingers and clattered to the ground.
"Blasted things..." he muttered, blushing as he picke... | 2017-07-13T00:36:27 | 2017-07-13T00:34:07 | 68 | 49 |
[WP] In the future, to pass college you no longer must pass written finals. Instead, you are simply dropped into a real life scenario related to your major, and left to fend for yourself with your new found knowledge.
*My first post on WP, sorry if it's a repeat and/or against any rule(s)*
Edit: wow, sincerely thank ... | The stench of gunpowder hung in the air. I could hear the artillery fire cascading into a nearby town. I stood up, groggy and confused.
I looked down at myself. I recognized the uniform immediately from my history class. A red swastika covered my left arm.
"Why am I here?" I asked aloud.
A man accosted me from be... | I clambered into the cramped pod, being as careful as I could not to snag the hose to the CO2 scrubber. The lights and displays meant nothing, I was just grateful that I didn't have to sit in the dark.
"Can you hear me, Grant?"
I nearly lost the content of my bladder as the radio link boomed through my helmet.
"Y... | 2017-08-10T05:16:53 | 2017-08-10T05:10:15 | 741 | 193 |
[WP] In the future, to pass college you no longer must pass written finals. Instead, you are simply dropped into a real life scenario related to your major, and left to fend for yourself with your new found knowledge.
*My first post on WP, sorry if it's a repeat and/or against any rule(s)*
Edit: wow, sincerely thank ... | I clambered into the cramped pod, being as careful as I could not to snag the hose to the CO2 scrubber. The lights and displays meant nothing, I was just grateful that I didn't have to sit in the dark.
"Can you hear me, Grant?"
I nearly lost the content of my bladder as the radio link boomed through my helmet.
"Y... | I stood silently in the large safe at the back of the now smoke-filled bank. Everything was going as rehearsed. I watched the guys empty the shelves, filling their plain, unbranded bags with stacks of money. On cue, another guy came around the corner carrying deposit boxes in his arms. One of the boxes was stuck open, ... | 2017-08-10T05:10:15 | 2017-08-10T05:09:53 | 193 | 43 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | Never hire a human. I know. I mean, we all know. We just don't know why.
It's not like I had a choice though. Business was running slow and the plethora of intergalactic wars had depleted most of our resources. Money was scarce and humans... weren't. Humans are cheap.
So I figured, to hell with it. If I want to keep ... | “Glith! My office! This Zimosecond!”
Now I’ve really done it. Executive Sylus was incensed. I wiped the sweat from my cranial glands and stood slowly from my station. The others watched with mixed reactions. Some stifled laughter behind tentacles. Others diverted their many eyes. I slithered through the portal and was... | 2018-04-27T13:39:05 | 2018-04-27T11:50:14 | 535 | 63 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | I am a nightmare.
I step through a door and suddenly, I'm coming out of a closet. I'm in a bedroom. A kid's bedroom.
"Here you go Mr. Puddles. Now don't forget to-"
A tiny hand freezes in mid-motion, tea cup raised to a stuffed doll. The stuffed doll turns to look at me with button-eyes.
"My apologies. I didn't m... | I awoke that morning feeling ecstatic. It was the fifth night in a row, after months of training and practice, that I had lucid dreams. It was amazing. The dream that I woke myself from. I was flying over the Atlantic. Just me. Nothing else. Using just my body. I wish that I could show someone what I saw. The ocean was... | 2018-06-19T15:43:20 | 2018-06-19T15:07:12 | 34 | 20 |
[WP] On the galactic scene, humans are universally seen as the weakest and most underpowered race alive. However everyone knows not to tangle with a human, mostly due to their ridiculous paranoia and ungodly amount of contingency plans | We knew they would win on their home planet. The humans were ready for anything after all. Our scientist had watched them for centuries. Seeing how they whipped out entire species from their own home world.
The plan was to attack them from the only blind spot we knew; the dark side of their moon.
I was... | Of course, nobody in their right mind, or minds, would ever assume humans to be a threat. They’re small, two armed, individualistic weaklings with no way of detecting when they are outclassed. But that is what makes them so dangerous. They are completely willing to sacrifice hundreds of their own just to buy time for o... | 2018-06-23T10:45:55 | 2018-06-23T07:50:50 | 186 | 117 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | "Please let me go." Tears are spilling from the corner of her eyes, running across her face, and dripping into her hair. "Why? Why are you doing this?" She struggles against the restraints that bind her to the table, her wrists raw from her continued efforts over the last few hours.
I say nothing. What would be the po... | For 24 years, I’ve seen out of Kate’s eyes once a month. It happens, and I’m used to it. I’ve used my earnings over the years to vacation, see the most beautiful sights the world has to offer. Today, I fear her. I sat on the edge of the canyon, looking down, when it flashed before my eyes. My old roommate, Kyle, the gu... | 2019-02-13T15:56:56 | 2019-02-13T15:32:40 | 236 | 110 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | Three years in and still I needed remedial tutoring. It was humiliating. I knew all the spells, could recite all the formulas, but once it came time to actually put it into practice, the magic always did what it wanted, when it wanted, no matter what I tried. It did have a bad tendency to knock random items off walls a... | I woke to the sound of rain, again, but this is Ireland, it rains every Friday, no matter the previous weather. I got up with a groan of my cot, stretched out my arms and, as always, forgot the goddamn beehive cells were too small too do that. Guess my brain takes a while in the morning.
I squeezed out of my cell onto... | 2019-04-05T15:47:48 | 2019-04-05T14:25:23 | 102 | 39 |
[WP] When you arrived in the future, the locals put you in a "historical village" in an attempt to reduce culture shock. Unfortunately, their ideas about your past life are hilariously inaccurate. | "We're here," Detective Jake said as he lead me out of the vehicle we're in. "Welcome to Old Earth Island, a state-of-the-art recreation of the 21st century world based on different records about your culture there. We brought you here to help you adjust to our society."
"Uhh, Detective, I appreciate the thought, but.... | All of these..... all of these signs are WRONG!!
‘Most “Doug’s” were gay’?? THAT can’t be true...
‘Every dog was a boy and every Cat was a girl’??? What is this, preschool? Who’d these guys ask about this, my nephew Tommy???
‘President Obama was most likely a lie’??? What does that even mean?!? He was real! He was a r... | 2019-04-23T17:11:43 | 2019-04-23T12:40:51 | 45 | 26 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased with your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell and we're the demons. You have just been summoned... | Damn Netflix!
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Someday I'm going to grasp why I cannot, for the life of me, remember a damn password that I made up myself.
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I, for one, blame all the auto-logins. If I lacked that convenience I'd probably have no issue using whatever streaming service I wanted when I got a new phone.
&... | "Who the hell are you?" I asked.
"Where in hell are you from?", the neckbeard responded.
I took a look at him: scrawny, pasty, frail. I bet in one punch I could blast this ole buzzard into next Tuesday, but something told me I wouldn't make it past the 10 thick friends, and the regal looking bro in the back right cor... | 2019-04-25T19:10:16 | 2019-04-25T16:47:11 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] You've gained access to an elusive, religious cult. The group is known for their worship of a dark deity. Attending your first meeting, you find out that the whole thing is actually just a baking club. Each week the group members bake and discuss new ways to maintain their secrecy | Simon had spent years searching for some clue, some hint at the truly cosmic. It had not been in any church or temple, no shrine or sacred site. He had been to the wats of Thailand, the cathedrals of Europe, to Mecca, to Jerusalem, to ancient temple ruins in Central America, and more. Each held nothing but the absence ... | "First order of business, dear brothers and sisters of mine, is to welcome the newest recruit to our beloved group," a plump old man in a red velvet robe, reminiscent of a soft cushy couch in an old manor, said as he motioned for Rob to stand up, "Robert Hull! Please show him the ropes, everyone!"
Having stood up, Rob... | 2019-06-03T00:17:05 | 2019-06-02T23:40:29 | 80 | 23 |
[WP] You are a medical wonder due to the fact that you can regrow your organs. You became a donor and everyone thinks that you are a good person. What they do not know is that you can control every reciever whenever you like. | “Morals are not at issue,” you say, sitting in an overly lush office, the world’s second richest man across a desk of redwood. “The issue is one of control.”
“No, this is attempted blackmail. You are corrupt and foolish, and nothing else. I owe you nothing,” William responds.
Standing, you step behind the chai... | Did they do tests on me? Surprisingly, no.
I became a donor because, um, I can regrow my organs so why wouldn’t I give them out like candy?
My family is proud of me, and everyone must think I’m a good person. Little do they know.
I couldn’t believe it! The guy I had controlled, he wasn’t being controlled! He normall... | 2019-06-13T06:55:18 | 2019-06-13T06:19:56 | 716 | 15 |
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