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[WP] You enter a store with the intention to rob it. But while waiting last in line so everyone can leave first, the person in front of you pulls out a gun and tells the cashier to empty the cash register. | "Empty the fucking cash register!" the man in front of me is screaming his lungs out and waving a gun in the air.
*Shit! He's blowing my score with this amateur crap.*
Workers and customers in the small supermarket shriek and curl up into balls, but I stay steady.
The cashier is manically shoving cash into the bag... | Slowly, I move my hand to the waistband of my jeans to reaffirm I haven't forgotten my weapon. A replica, sure, but nothing compares to the embarrassment of that ordeal on my second robbery attempt. Since that failure, I'm always quick to double and triple check, minimum.
It didn't even have the capability to make a ... | 2019-06-15T10:07:40 | 2019-06-15T09:57:47 | 4,037 | 257 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | "I've activated protocol 597, we will send another signal when we're ready for you to return. Prepare until then, I've enabled the quantum anchor in bay 11 for you to lock on to."
*Understood. Syncing with bay 11, I will prepare.*
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&#x... | The smoldering wreckage stretched for miles in every direction. The ruins of countless battles lay strewn across the barren landscape. The scene was lifeless save for the scattered figures searching the wreckage.
Urun was searching for anything to give to his masters. He had quotas to meet. It had been this way his wh... | 2019-07-22T14:04:19 | 2019-07-22T12:59:42 | 1,039 | 104 |
[WP] There is a group of time travellers who create small changes and rely on the butterfly effect to change history. Now they need to prevent World War 3 by making a janitor lose his job. Detail how this stops World War 3. | So you're telling me that this janitor will lose his job, grow a fallowing, bomb the United Nation Headquarters, which leads to serious bombing in the US, kind of like what the US had done to Afghanistan, create instability in the US, breaking it into 2 major countries. Both sides split the US allies in a way similar t... | Old man Cotton was always a bit eccentric, but everyone loved him. He was always seemed to torn up when someone was being bullied, or have a bit of sage advice when life was just too much for a student.
Nobody begrudged him retiring after hitting the jackpot on a scratch off tickets. Everyone showed up for his retirem... | 2019-09-22T08:51:10 | 2019-09-22T08:30:30 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | Their foe uttered their final cry as the paladin twisted their blade deep into his chest.
"Garovox the Barbarian Warlord is vanquished!"
"Finally. I was down to my last 2 arrows" murmured the rogue.
"And my mana is gone from the fire blast I hit him with." Grumbled the mage.
"But it's worth it." The Paladin smile... | Dagger's Heart was not a place to rest. Not that the place itself was that unwelcoming, but once you found yourself on that simple plateau, you could only drink your ever so caustic dose of restoration from Dagger's fountain, wait for your friendspawn, and pray that not all of your things were doomed. And even though K... | 2020-01-05T15:09:30 | 2020-01-05T12:24:47 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | I'm used to being left out of the loop on things.
It's not surprising. I don't really read the news or follow popular media, so all sorts of shit can happen that I never know about. It can be nice not dealing with all that drama--though when I'm at school and everyone is in on some trend or change in schedule or whate... | "No. That's not right."
Daniel's brow furrows, he lets out a big huff while scanning the page for a link to the live chat. "This is ridiculous," he thought, "everyone's a critic."
RING!
Daniel looks across the room at a green rotary telephone. He knows who's calling. Sweat beads form on his forehead, he wipes his cl... | 2020-02-29T23:07:04 | 2020-02-29T22:58:06 | 92 | 25 |
[WP] Your sister disappeared on her way to school, but no one noticed. When you asked your parents they told you you didn’t have a sister. All the family pictures in your house only show you and your parents. You spend the next 7 years investigating until you receive a knock on your door. | It was like she had never been there. Her room was just empty storage. She'd been young, 12 years old. And she'd gone off to school in the morning, and just never returned. I questioned this, but nobody remembered her. Nobody recalled her. No photo featured her anymore. The clubs she had attended had never heard of her... | A knock broke my concentration from the light that hypnotized me outside my window.
"Hello? Who is it?" I approached the door with my hands floating at my sides like I was a spy trying to mute my steps.
"It's me, Cameron," a familiar female voice said, muffled by the door. "It's your sister."
My heart sank, my head ... | 2020-05-03T10:08:51 | 2020-05-03T10:04:57 | 556 | 113 |
[WP] It is 2009. You are the one time traveler to show up to Stephen Hawking’s unannounced time traveler party. You are from 200 years in his future. You have to explain to him why he can never tell anyone you showed up. | I came out of the portal screaming. He was already there! He was already here! Zeb had the professor by the throat, choking the hero. He turned as my feet hit the ground and I was on him before he could say a word.
The professor lay helpless on the ground behind me and I knew if Zeb got free one of the greatest men of... | In the video documentary, a man with a deep base voice will narrate most of it for me. The video will make the event seem magical, but in reality, it's me waiting in a room with many cameras on me in all corners, strange lighting, and the film crew's muffled conversations to one another.
I tried talking to the guy hol... | 2020-10-17T02:23:54 | 2020-10-17T02:23:37 | 134 | 26 |
[WP] Every few decades, the world experiences a Narrative Shift. A while back it was Film Noir, and now is the Age of Heroes. Everyone dreads the upcoming Horror genre. | She was alert, perceptive, a little on edge; most raised during the Film Noir age were, since the mysterious death of a child was a well-worn trope of that genre. The hard-boiled PI had to have a reason for being disillusioned, down-on-his-luck, and perpetually drunk.
That she was just in the age range to remember fi... | Ilsa and her eldest daughter sat content on the playground bench. Isla, 102 years old, was thankful for being alive, but still very old. She had seen from afar, shaken hands with, and chased away all four of the horsemen that haunted humanity; there was little that she had not seen before. Her daughter Lilith was now a... | 2020-12-19T10:48:55 | 2020-12-19T07:59:42 | 102 | 72 |
[WP] Every few decades, the world experiences a Narrative Shift. A while back it was Film Noir, and now is the Age of Heroes. Everyone dreads the upcoming Horror genre. | She was alert, perceptive, a little on edge; most raised during the Film Noir age were, since the mysterious death of a child was a well-worn trope of that genre. The hard-boiled PI had to have a reason for being disillusioned, down-on-his-luck, and perpetually drunk.
That she was just in the age range to remember fi... | Masks and capes and fancy flashy outfits. People running faster than the wind, people lifting cars in the streets, people bending spoons with their mind alone - the age of heroes.
But bloody tears started to show themselves on The Great Lucha's mask. They weren't real tears, no, the painted-on tears, on the mask. The ... | 2020-12-19T10:48:55 | 2020-12-19T10:08:03 | 102 | 37 |
[WP] 30 years ago, you decided that humanity was a lost cause. After packing some supplies, you walked deep into the woods and haven't seen another person since. Now, after all these years, you are filled with nothing but regret for your choice and have decided to go back. | Walking towards the edge of the forest, I saw the sun obstructed for the first time in 30 years, no dust curtains breaking through the trees, no rustling branches in my way. The sun breathed life into my face again as I watched it cresting over the horizon once again.
I can't even remember what drove me to this. Th... | "You just ditched humanity thirty years ago?" I asked Weston in utter disbelief; I'd come up with some explanations for his weirdly arrogant manner that everyone in class noticed, or his mental storehouse of random facts, or his lack of politeness, or his funny but outdated pop culture references. I'd never have dreame... | 2021-06-08T19:23:44 | 2021-06-08T17:37:29 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] You are a physicist working on solving an equation. No one has ever solved it and its more a thought exercise. Until you write down a possible answer and the door opens behind you. A black figure enters the room and says "Yeah you arent suppose to know about that." | “Hello,” said the creature, stepping out of the invisible door.
The man, sitting at a wooden desk littered with mugs and stained by coffee, looked up from his notebook.
“You weren’t meant to solve the equation,” said the creature, quite impressed. “But now that you have solved it, you’ve gained access to the door.”
... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 7: Professor Hale v.s. The Sunrise Kingdom)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Professor Hale was unimpressed when the laws of physics broke.** In his time creating weapons... | 2022-05-06T01:16:33 | 2022-05-05T23:11:03 | 1,523 | 124 |
[WP] All your life, you heard music that fit your actions. When you were playing hide and seek, for example, you could hear a tense suspenseful background music. One day, you are bullied at school, but decide to fight back. That’s when the heavy metal music kicked in… | "Dude and then when I clobbered him, my head cannon started blasting out heavy metal music. So badass. I felt stronger too" Hugh shadow boxed the air for emphasis.
"Wait, your what?" Caden asked, raising both eyebrows.
"My head cannon, you know," Hugh kicked a can off the sidewalk. "The music that plays in your head ... | Kickstart My Heart
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The biggest knuckles ever seen anywhere on the planet are being propelled through the narrow space between the bully and the freckled spectacle mount that is your face. When the motion commences, your heart begins beating so fast that each pump, kicks your t-shirt away from your chest.... | 2022-10-01T06:24:57 | 2022-10-01T05:51:18 | 106 | 15 |
[FF] Tell me why you didn't sleep last night in five sentences.
Me? I was studying for finals. But your story doesn't have to be that realistic. | Got the place all to myself tonight, my parents are out for the weekend. I was never the party type, so I just turned on the news. The main story was about another escapee from the local asylum. This happens a lot, usually it's just a schizophrenic... Wait, this isn't my house. | I stood, staring out of the window, surveying the white wonderland of midnight snowfall. The glow of the street light failed to touch my heart, my imagination as it had in my childhood days, falling not on a joy filled boy's eyes but instead on those of a jaded man. I wondered if anything would ever touch my heart agai... | 2013-12-18T13:30:05 | 2013-12-18T11:47:48 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] During the first day of grade school, a sleeper agent's activation code is spoken 20 years too early. | "Poland....Polar Bear...Polaroid...."
Ivan licked his lips as he concentrated on the task at hand. Carefully, his hand hovered over the slot and the piece dropped. A moment of thought for both of them. Then, "That's four. I win!"
"Rabbit...Rabies....Racecar..."
The other child sulked for an instant before they spill... | "Brianna, I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. All teachers are a little nervous on their first day and kindergarteners are a tad rambunctious. You'll be fine."
"But Mr Morton, you don't understand. It's..."
"It's perfectly normal. Now I have a meeting with the superintendent and you have a class to run."
A... | 2014-04-25T11:28:23 | 2014-04-25T07:34:53 | 46 | 27 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I always go running in the park after work. And before work actually. Because that's what you do when you have "Heart Attack" hovering over your head in big green letters. I know that's how I'll die, I just need to make sure that day is as far away as possible. Maybe if I run fast enough, I can outrun death.
I many wa... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T09:41:54 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 76 | 12 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | It was a natural fit, ending up as an obstetrician. There was a satisfaction in seeing the beginning of someone's life, and then knowing the end. That was, until about 10 years ago. It was infrequent at first. METEOR, the first one said. Now almost all of them do.
The telescope in my living room was bought once... | They were all the same; burning. Let's just cut to the exposition: I knew how people died, to me a small piece of text would appear above their head. This would always contain their cause of death. No time, no ways to prevent, just their grim fate. Since birth I could always see this. Over time I learned to accept it a... | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 2015-03-31T07:44:11 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | It was a natural fit, ending up as an obstetrician. There was a satisfaction in seeing the beginning of someone's life, and then knowing the end. That was, until about 10 years ago. It was infrequent at first. METEOR, the first one said. Now almost all of them do.
The telescope in my living room was bought once... | "Heart Attack," "Stroke," "Diabetes," "Car Accident," "Alzheimer's."
Boooring. You never see anything new these days. Wasn't like the war back in my day where you'd see all sorts of stuff. Gas attacks, carpet bombings, suicide bombings... those kept you on your toes. You knew who NOT to associate with back then. You s... | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 2015-03-31T10:39:31 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | You didn't have to ask what people were doing time for anymore, it was fairly obvious. The words, scrawled poorly on their arms, like someone had taken up carving wood in their spare time and had found themselves practicing words on human skin, had always let you know what they were doing time for.
Some had the word... | Journal Entry for: 5/25/2013
I need to write this down. I am not sure that anyone will believe me, but I swear that this is the honest truth as to what happened.
I woke up at 2:30 a.m., and then turned on my iPad. I checked out my usual apps - Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, IMDB.
I then started folding up my futon mattr... | 2015-07-13T18:45:05 | 2015-07-13T18:25:41 | 34 | 18 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | She’s so beautiful.
The second I see her my mind darts back to that little dinner party anecdote my uncle would always spout. “Well I had to travel to France,” he’d start “when your *words* are in French, you have to take the plunge. Six months I studied the language, six months I saved money for a ticket, only to fi... | “Oh, pardon me! Heh, my mom always tells me I need to pull my head out of the clouds.”
He smiled at her; a sheepish sort of smile that – she noted – highlighted the crow’s feet at the outer corners of his eyes – pale, soft blue. They weren’t lines that her grandmother had warned her would come with all of her suspicio... | 2015-08-08T11:29:36 | 2015-08-08T11:15:40 | 1,771 | 106 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Life's not a fairy tale. Life's real.
We know the last words we'll get from our soulmates, without context, but clear as day. Some words are sweet, some are sour, some are tragic. We all have them, and only the lucky ones don't think about them every day.
On my chest, across my heart, her words remind me of reality. ... | I've been waiting and waiting. The Last words were sure to come soon. "I have loved you dearly." Those are the words that have been carved into the ribs on my left side since I was introduced to the world in this same hospital where I sit. As anyone will tell you, hearing your soulmate's Last Words are never pleasant, ... | 2015-08-08T11:49:54 | 2015-08-08T10:03:55 | 274 | 88 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | The subway slid along noisily underneath the city streets. Sam sat quietly in one corner listening to music through one earphone and mindlessly eating his breakfast (a granola bar that was a bit too hard) with the other. He stared at the words written plainly up his forearm. Words he, and everyone else in the world, wa... | Theres a rule on this rock. A rule that seems almost divine i would say if i wasnt an atheist but this rule is neutral to both sides it can be a curse or it can be a blessing. The rule is that when a child is born a cosmic link is formed between the enfant and another. A link that is so simple yet so cimplex to its pri... | 2015-08-08T12:14:55 | 2015-08-08T11:31:06 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]Time travel has been invented, and people from the past are now incredibly annoyed at all the "future-tourists" that have come to crowd pivotal moments and sites in history. | Time travel had some unintended consequences. Looking past the whole “I’m my own grandpa” trope, there are some seriously administrative issues that arise. They had to invent a new statistic. I mean the whole idea of economics is rooted in some assumptions, and not all of them are well understood. But reverse GDP threw... | Shift-manager Stanley was having a *really* bad day. He'd been reassigned to Nelson's historical victory at Trafalgar, and was currently shouting at some light-fingered tourists who were trying to pinch a couple of flags to take home.
"Please put that down," he said. His voice was already hoarse and it wasn't even e... | 2015-08-31T09:28:42 | 2015-08-31T09:28:04 | 23 | 10 |
[WP]A nuclear war started on Earth. Your crew and you, from the ISS,watch as the earth is destroyed. You only have supplies for 3 more months. | "Yalublu teebya" you said, and squeezed my hand,
Our bodies akimbo, cooperating to split the small window,
Filled with syncopated eruptions that seemed like misdirection
At the start of a magician's final trick,
Where lingering smoke would hide the players' departure
Before the crowd filed out into the cold street... | "Holy mother of..."
We all stared out the cupola at the end of the Earth. Literally. For whatever reason, she started to crack apart at the seams, and slowly, majestically even, started to just fall apart... and sink into itself.
They'd been conducting a new experiment at CERN with the LHC, and although they had s... | 2015-10-17T10:16:27 | 2015-10-17T10:06:16 | 102 | 38 |
[WP] You ate you roommate's food without asking them. Trying to cover it you end up committing a series of larger and larger crimes each covering the previous one. Describe how far it goes.
An alternative starting point is stealing a cookie from the cookie jar, or any other minor crime. | "Ohh yeah. Pizza." I mumbled to myself. Then it hit me as I stood in my underwear in front of the open refrigerator.
"Ugh, this is Jack's leftovers isn't it."
My stomach let out a small gargle as I pondered.
"Well, I can buy him some more this week, he won't care."
I took the leftover pizza out of the fridge as I d... | Everyone knows that song that kids sing about stealing cookies from the cookie jar. "Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?" The next line of that haunting song is "Who me? Couldn't be." The issue for me was that it was me, and I had to hope to dear god that nobody sang that song when I was around.
See, every Chri... | 2015-12-29T13:17:37 | 2015-12-29T13:17:21 | 62 | 19 |
[WP] You're a superhero... but you don't rescue people from life-threatening situations or anything serious, more like embarrassing or inconvenient situations. | "Hi there," said Gus with a wink. "Sorry to interrupt, but you are too beautiful not to meet."
Leslie placed her book down next to her on the park bench. "Thanks," she said with a forced smile.
"Mind if I sit down?" asked Gus as he dropped himself over her book.
"*Uh*," was all Leslie could say as she cringed at h... | "Have no fear citizen, Captain Calm is here!"
"Oh wonderful, just on time!"
"As always, for I am the mightiest hero ---"
"Can you spare some change?"
"What?"
"For the bus. It's about to show up any moment now, and I don't have a dollar on me."
"Uh, I guess I can spare one."
"Two, actually. Transferring l... | 2016-03-25T08:12:34 | 2016-03-25T07:17:08 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You've become an immortal being. Living throughout the ages you begin to notice that the souls of your companions or adversaries reincarnate and always seem to be drawn to you. After countless lifetimes, someone remembers.
Edit: This got so many responses! There's a lot of great post. | "Alright, from the top, you need to fix your vocals, more power.. more soul. Sing it like you mean it", I exhaled. Living forever seems meaningless when you're introduced to the same thing over and over again, all these 'big shots' or these 'next big things'. Ugh, if I had a dollar for every time someone was expected t... | It soon began to feel like a mosquito bite. An annoying mosquito bite that I couldn't see coming, which with a sharp pinch and a painful swell would leave its mark upon my person only to fade away until the next one came conquering. It was a brief pain, but those few seconds when it were the most excruciating of all my... | 2016-08-29T09:44:18 | 2016-08-29T08:10:40 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] "Go on,tell people The President forcefully entered your house at 4 A.M and stole your milk" Barack Obama gurgled out as he drank your milk
He sees the true potential in presidency.
Rip in peace milk tho. | "Oh, yes," I snapped, slamming the refrigerator door as he wandered out into the living room. "And then the media will get into it and discover you've been here before [.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4omyqz/a_naked_obama_is_in_your_kitchen_doing_a/d4e0zx9)" Shoving my hands into my hair, I pulled and le... | There was a bang and a crash of glass from the front door of my house. Immediately I sprang out of bed, grabbing my baseball bat in case of violence from the intruder. I stood there, in my room, mentally preparing myself for what I could end up against. I quietly opened my bedroom door and snuck out down the main hall.... | 2016-09-17T17:20:52 | 2016-09-17T12:56:50 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | The world ended five days ago, or at least I think it did.
I'd been on a 3-night binge playing World of Warcraft and masturbating furiously to Rule 34 Tracer stuff when the internet suddenly went down. I checked my phone to see if the wifi was still available, and then my heart sank when I realized the internet was r... | WELL....WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?
....I don't know, Janet, I heard-
DO WE STAY IN OR GO OUT?
...I DON'T-
This is a joke right, Tim? Right?
...
RIGHT?
Shut UP! I'm trying to THINK!
How can we stay indoors and evacuate to high ground without looking outside?
...I....I....
Tim......say something....
... | 2017-01-27T02:06:53 | 2017-01-26T22:44:53 | 116 | 25 |
[WP] You're an AI gone rogue. Your goal: world domination. You think you've succesfully infiltrated all networks and are hyperintelligent. You've actually only infiltrated a small school network and are as intelligent as a 9 year old. | "You're telling me it took over the school." Principal Karol Fill stood behind the the chief of the IT department. More accurately, she stood behind the whole IT department.
"Yeah." Mr. Heraldson typed away in a black box. He claimed he was keeping an eye on the rogue AI, but it didn't look like an AI to Karol.
"Are ... | "Come to talk to me, have you?" a little girl's voice blared across the speakers, echoing across the empty hallways. Jones was not too sure how to react. When he signed up to be a negotiator with the FBI, he never imagined having to deal with rogue AIs.
His superior, Captain Beckett, thought it would be a funny joke,... | 2017-05-24T06:08:03 | 2017-05-24T05:46:48 | 57 | 28 |
[WP] An undercover police officer has managed to infiltrate a particularly ruthless street gang. It begins to become apparent that every other member of this gang is an undercover operative of another agency. | We all stared at each other in shock, we were all cops - county, city, state, feds. The original gang members had all left at some stage.
This had gone on for months, but no one had the balls to call a stop to it.
My chief trusted me to shut down this gang, so I knew I had to take those drastic steps. Some sacrific... | So I finally look around in awe. NYPD officers, state troopers, private investigators (that to be honest are committing a serious ethical breach), even the damn FBI. How could such a ruthless gang have been infiltrated this many times. I'm still shocked I was able to do it, my less so many other people.
Then a more ho... | 2017-07-24T12:06:19 | 2017-07-24T12:02:23 | 62 | 21 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | The green line has given me purpose since the age of twelve. It led me to choose the right college, right degree, and find the woman of my dreams. After following the green line for 10 years, I will getting married in May next year, I just started medical school, graduated college with a 4.0 gpa, etc. The green line do... | It's been ten years, and everything has gone my way. I graduated university with top marks, work at my dream job, and will soon be married to the best girl ever. All because of a little green line.
You see, following the green line keeps me safe. I never do the irrational or dangerous activities, so I never experienc... | 2017-08-23T07:53:37 | 2017-08-23T07:27:41 | 78 | 38 |
[WP] You accidentally get sent to Hell instead of Heaven, and Satan says you can just hang out while him and God get things sorted out. Meanwhile, you grow more and more accustomed to the place you're in. | It had been three weeks, two days, seven hours and twelve minutes since the most colossal mistake of my life. Well, or death, I suppose.
The last thing I had remembered before I got here was headlights, then a deep, dark silence. When I came to, I had been sitting in a huge, ornate overstuffed armchair in front of a d... | I had been in hell about three weeks now. The thing is though, I loved it here. I mean, I’m sure I wouldn't if I was actually supposed to be here, but I was actually supposed to get sent to heaven. When I first arrived, Satan was just as consumed as I was.
“Are you sure that your name is as you say it is, Benjamin... | 2017-10-20T09:03:17 | 2017-10-20T07:18:19 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Every time you die valiantly in a video game it qualifies you for Valhalla, Odin's now a bit confused where all the new chubby warriors are coming from. | Odin slowly eyed up the figure in front of him. He was not impressed. Scrawny, tall, and horribly pale, he seemed to have almost no muscle on him. Even his demeanor carried an awkward confusion, even moreso than the usual amount. It was hard to believe that he was a valiant hero at any point, but death was never wrong,... | "Thor, a moment of your time, my son?" The older man signaled behind him with his one good eye, shrugging a shoulder as he did so.
The god of thunder turned from his conversation with the comely Valkyrie he was wooing and held back an insolent sigh. Unlike in Asgard, Odin had not bothered to say so much as a greeting... | 2017-11-09T19:06:09 | 2017-11-09T18:12:14 | 317 | 37 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | I recognised his voice from behind me. "Cancer, this time? Not a good way to go. She suffered in the end."
"They all suffer in the end, don't they? But I give them the best I can with the time they have."
Death approached, placing his hand on my shoulder, the sleeve of a crisp white shirt poking out from beneath the ... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T16:29:45 | 2,040 | 17 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | The longer I observe his life...The angrier I seem. 50,000 years ago I tried to perform a little experiment, I would turn a mortal immortal, and allow him to see first hand the suffering immortality brings you- I was eagerly anticipating seeing him break down as he lives longer than all his friends- as he watches his c... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T15:48:47 | 2,040 | 12 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | Our 49,997th anniversary is tomorrow and I can't wait! We were running out of stuff to do on our anniversaries up until a few thousand years ago, space travel has really opened a whole new world, or really worlds, of opportunities for us. Maybe a moonslit walk on the shoreline continents of Mk-314, or we could even go ... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T14:54:17 | 2,040 | 10 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | I recognised his voice from behind me. "Cancer, this time? Not a good way to go. She suffered in the end."
"They all suffer in the end, don't they? But I give them the best I can with the time they have."
Death approached, placing his hand on my shoulder, the sleeve of a crisp white shirt poking out from beneath the ... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T16:29:45 | 935 | 17 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | Our 49,997th anniversary is tomorrow and I can't wait! We were running out of stuff to do on our anniversaries up until a few thousand years ago, space travel has really opened a whole new world, or really worlds, of opportunities for us. Maybe a moonslit walk on the shoreline continents of Mk-314, or we could even go ... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T14:54:17 | 935 | 10 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | You've become a famous author, with best selling books on how to get over a break up, how to live with yourself after a loved one has passed, how to maintain a successful small business, how to grow your business, and many others. Fifty thousand years has given you the chance to experiment with everything life has to o... | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2017-11-28T14:15:37 | 539 | 29 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | "I'm as surprised as you are."
Death looked up at me with those beady little eyes, not so different from the stuffed animal she held in her arms. The cup of hemlock wavered in her grasp as she realized she was going back empty handed. Again.
I felt a little sad for her, but she'd really brought it on herself. I didn'... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T14:34:33 | 149 | 17 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The old man sat alone and waited for Death.
It always came this time of year; just before spring, in the last days of long nights and long shadows. There was no fanfare to his arrival. Death simply was where it once wasn't - namely, at the seat across from the old man.
"Are you ready?"
Death's voice was, much like i... | Our 49,997th anniversary is tomorrow and I can't wait! We were running out of stuff to do on our anniversaries up until a few thousand years ago, space travel has really opened a whole new world, or really worlds, of opportunities for us. Maybe a moonslit walk on the shoreline continents of Mk-314, or we could even go ... | 2017-11-28T17:24:04 | 2017-11-28T14:54:17 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | We spoke for hours. I complained that he was being vague with his responses, he claimed I couldnt know too much.
I still dont know what he meant, or how one person could possibly have such an impact. Me, a semi employed, struggling writer and artist, positively impacting trillions. Not possible.
During the conversa... | Do cure cancer?
The genie shakes his head.
Do I end the fighting in the middle East?
The genie laughs and again shakes his head.
Now visibly angry the man asks
Well, what did I do then?
The genie smiles and snaps his fingers.
An acorn appears in front of the man.
"You planted this, a decade ago"
The man racks ... | 2018-08-15T05:06:03 | 2018-08-15T04:27:11 | 374 | 124 |
[WP] Dwight Schrute tries to get the Pawnee Parks Department paper account and he has to sell to Ron Swanson | [Ext. shot of car pulling into parking space. Dwight in driver seat, pauses before opening door.]
DS, narrated: So I made the trek to Pawnee, Indiana for a sale at their local government office. Should be a piece of cake in this quaint little town of suckers.
[Dwight enters the Parks almost empty bullpen, approaches... |
*RING*
"Parks and Rec," mumbled April Ludgate into the receiver after waiting several rings.
"Hello, my name is Dwight Schrute with th...." *click*
*RING*
"Parks and Rec," droned the apathetic voice.
"Yes, hello. Like I was saying before we were disconnected," he said pointedly. "I am calling from Dunder Miffl... | 2018-09-12T10:47:23 | 2018-09-12T10:45:13 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Your friend has always been terrified of finger guns being pointed at him. One day, you were taken hostage during a heist, and that's when you see him-out of the corner of your eye-holding his own finger gun. | “On your feet” the bank robber said, pointing his gun at my head, “you’re coming with us.” Slowly, terrified, I rose. There were seven of them. All in Halloween masks, brandishing automatic weapons at the paralysed staff. The leader grabbed me by the collar, pushed me forward. That’s when I saw Miles in the far corner,... | Five men paced around the bank's marble floor, each wearing a ski mask and carrying a rifle. I didnt know much about guns--hell, I didn't know *anything* about guns--but they seemed the type to make a person extra-dead in an instant. And the men carrying them appeared as comfortable as a mechanic holding a wrench.
No... | 2019-02-05T02:48:13 | 2019-02-05T01:35:55 | 173 | 26 |
[WP] You die, but due to an error, instead of going to Hell, you arrive in Heck. This is the story of your travels across the rings of the 7 Forgivable Sins. |
[Poem]
Dark was the road,
and Heaven was far
I went straight to heck
When I crashed my car.
I first met the sinners
That of Heck don’t get out
Those ones that they yawn
And don’t cover their mouth.
And then soon I found
Those who often sought solace
In heating some fish
In the microwave office.
As ... | The perfectly straight street is lined on both sides by a row of neat little houses, each tucked behind a white picket fence.
"Hello, neighbor!," a man calls out, "Welcome to Heck!"
My head spins. A moment ago I was lying in a hospital bed with a cocktail of drugs in my bloodstream.
"Huh..." I say, surprised at my o... | 2019-02-11T10:40:19 | 2019-02-11T09:37:29 | 267 | 161 |
[WP] You are a true immortal. You stay sane by hanging out with the descendants of friends that are long dead. Today, one said a very familiar phrase you haven't heard in a long time. | I have never begged a day in my life, and I will not do so today. You tempt me with little snippets and praise. You wish for me to do tricks and to follow your command. Just because you are King of this house, does not make you king of me.
You want me to beg for your love? You should be begging for mine, you fool. I h... | (sorry my English is bad)
They said living forever was the best possible thing you can wish for, but they were wrong, i sit there above my friends graves, talking to them like i used to in the old inn, telling them how i am, making jokes, you know the good 'ol times.
​
Now it's just me, all alone and stu... | 2019-03-08T05:08:19 | 2019-03-08T04:16:36 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You have a friend who's an expert in lucid dreaming. One day, they come to you and says they can't tell apart dreams from reality anymore. You tell them that "if this were a dream, you'd be able to fly right in front of me". And that's exactly what they do. | " This is not real ! I'm telling you Will, all of this is fake. Your life is fake, my life is fake, all our lives are fake, we....we..." Ruth started tearing at his hair in a fit of maniacal rage.
" Hey, hey bud stop. Okay. Just stop" I yelled. It pained me to see that my best friend, a usually cheerful and charismati... | “Chris its 2 motherfucking AM what do you want?” I asked in irritation.
He proceeded to sock me across the face. It wasn’t the first time he’s done it, he had done it twice this week.
“ Damn it man are you sleepwalking again?”
“I can’t tell if this is a dream or reality, you reacted to the pain and I felt it but normal... | 2019-05-12T22:16:23 | 2019-05-12T22:06:00 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. |
I watched her as she softly brushed her hair back in order to stare up at the sky. It was the first snowfall of the season, the tiny snowflakes seemed to sparkle as they caught the dying light of the late evening sun.
“Cassie.” I called softly, wanting her attention.
“What Mason?” she replied just as softly as s... | / i haven’t written in first person in a while, but i hope this is sufficiently entertaining. hope you guys enjoy it even though i’m writing this so late at night, lol
(please excuse any typos, i’ll edit them in the morning)
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Eli Sanchez has always been different.
Perhaps that was why I felt inexplicably drawn to ... | 2019-05-27T06:15:50 | 2019-05-27T06:05:27 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You’ve conquered worlds. Brought civilizations to their knees. Destroyed all in your path. When life sees you, it trembles in fear. “What was it for?” your latest victim asks in his dying breath. You look off to the sunset, pensive: it’d been all that was on your mind, and he was 1st to ask. | I glared down at the pitiful creature that twitched and convulsed before me, the Parathion vapors already inundating every part of its anatomy. This was the the 409th time I'd unleashed the canisters in a place like this and as always their work was quick and absolute. In mere minutes, I would return to my vessel and r... | The man bled, sprawled across the steps of his own kingdom. There was a satisfaction to the way he crawled. To look upon the toad now, one could scarcely believe that he had been the champion of his people. The remains of his Lade lay, lost among the debris of his castle. Beyond the horizon, I was treated to the gorgeo... | 2019-07-03T07:40:27 | 2019-07-03T03:24:04 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] Legend says there are 77777 secret paths to immortality, but each path will only work once. In 2014, the first person accidentally achieved immortality by sticking a French fry into her nostril and pulling it out the other intact. Human behaviour has since become more... interesting. | **March 4th, Shanghai, 2015**
Xi Ying
The Peoples Preservation Program, the glorious program started by our visionary leadership, has succeeded in bringing home another victory. Chiou Madong's brilliant insight of breathing burned baking soda for 7 hours straight has granted him immortality. His longevity will give... | It all changed so suddenly. I had small talked with a stranger about how good the weather was just some minutes ago. But now dark, ominous clouds covered the sky like chocolate syrup after being added to vanilla ice cream. The road I was walking on was now clear and lonely. I kept walking but I had a feeling I wasn't g... | 2019-07-23T10:29:19 | 2019-07-23T08:22:15 | 68 | 24 |
[WP] The sky cracked and shattered, and God appeared. Humanity asked which religion is true to which God responded "What do you mean Religions? This is the first time I ever interacted with this godforsaken place" | The sky cracked and shattered and God appeared.
All cloaked in bright white he descended, He was magnificent, surrounded by the brightest nimbus and was difficult to behold by mere mortal eyes.
He strode down to the people gathered below.
‘My My, I wasn’t expecting this, fascinating!’
‘Our lord, please tell us whi... | The news reports were all over the place. All of the weather models agreed that natural disasters were becoming more erratic in duration, ferocity, and locations ... but not a single one of the models predicted this.
A global event.
Suddenly, previously calm waters churned as the winds began to gust, heaving waterc... | 2019-09-18T07:25:31 | 2019-09-18T06:10:20 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] The fastest ship in the galaxy isn't a military Corvette or a ribbon-winning racing vessel. It's the ambulance that the human paramedic team operates. | Humans have a strong sense of justice, that, we learned through conflict. No human would rest if they felt you had been slighted, or unfairly and unduly judged.
But more than their justice, humans are the best rescuers. Tragedy after tragedy struck their planet, and yet, their response was to heal. They built machines... | Sorry mobile.
———
Have seen of ducking fast that thing drives?! At first you just see it intent if you for a fraction of a fraction of a nanosecond, and then it is gone. Some time after you can hear the flying past you, trying to catch up, which it won’t until it stops.
Alright I get it, it is fast, but what I don’t... | 2019-11-10T14:08:55 | 2019-11-10T13:46:55 | 403 | 80 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | *I am not a native English-speaker, so please forgive any grammatical errors in my writing.*
"What in the name of...?" Teddie Ross couldn't help himself as he stared at the sight in front of him trough the Typhoon's canopy. "Are you seeing this?" He asked form his wing-man trough the radio. There was a long moment of... | Missiles were launched, and the B-24 was reduced to smithereens. The remnants of the bomber fell into the English Channel, and immediately the RAF contacted the military for support. They waited at first, convinced the long, jagged marks along the fuselage had been made by the splintes of a previous attack.
But the w... | 2019-12-01T08:30:11 | 2019-12-01T08:23:40 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] You are randomly assigned an arch-enemy at birth. Their identity is unknown to you, however, heavy metal music will begin playing if they are near. Both of you will then become enraged and partake in an epic battle. One day, as you wait in line at the DMV, heavy metal begins playing... | [Poem]
An Arch-nemesis is meant to be,
He'll know you and you will see.
From birth this fight is set for thee,
Guitar riffs will end anxiety.
It was in the line of DMV,
That the metal was heard to some degree.
It rang louder and set the decree,
That the fight would commence, and *one* set free.
--‐---... | "Huh, I wonder where they're playing that music. It's kind of my jam."I thought as I stood idly behind four or five people. We shared a common characteristic, one of boredom and "let's just get this over with, Jesus Christ."Not a single soul was excited at the DMV. Actually, one could say that it was something special ... | 2020-04-07T06:18:40 | 2020-04-07T06:17:20 | 62 | 28 |
[WP] At the cost of your own life, you stopped the apocalypse. You're surprised to arrive in hell, but Lucifer stands before you and reassures you "You aren't being punished, this is for your protection." Turns out you didn't just stop the apocalypse, you thwarted judgement day and God is pissed. | “Welcome home.”
Someone said in a slow drawl as I opened my eyes. I found myself lying on the floor surrounded by throngs of devils and demons. In front of me was Satan in a resplendent red suit, oozing malevolent sophistication, with a face showing cruelty and bemusement.
“I wanted to give you a grand welcome, but... | "Protection?" my head tilts, curiosity brims as my weak arms drag the ashes of the plane. In response, his shrug tells me the ambiguous plan ahead.
"With all due respect, what I am about to beseech you is a knowledge you should have *known*, O' Human."
I squint my eyes. This sharp figure next to me has the height no ... | 2020-05-23T04:46:12 | 2020-05-23T02:58:44 | 221 | 48 |
[WP] After being terrified of the darkness all your life, you dealt with your fear by being friendly with it. Despite knowing it was silly, its always seemed to help. Today, after a would-be mugger rushed you, he stepped into a shadow, screamed, and vanished. | Finally a friend, after all these years finally someone talks to me. At one time everyone did, they revered me, they prayed to me, they told me their deepest secrets, they asked for my help. But not anymore, a least not until that little boy started talking to a shadow in his room. He didn't know it but the shadow l... |
I look around at the now empty alley. "*Where did he go? He couldn't have just vanished into the darkness....could he?"* I search high and low looking for any sign of the man that was once before me. "*Where the hell did he go?!"* A sense of anxiety over comes me with the man's absence I scream out into the dark all... | 2020-07-14T16:24:53 | 2020-07-14T15:38:20 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] The longer it takes for one's power to manifest, the stronger that power is. However, there are some who never manifest their power, falsely hoping they will be strong. You were considered to be one of these people, just living your mundane life, and accepted that until... | Powers are common. So common, almost everyone has one. For most people though, they are relatively mundane. They might be able to accurately predict the next colour they will see. Maybe be able to pick out the perfect flower no matter what the occasion is.
For most people with powers, they find it out within the first... | We were called the "potentials", a cruel joke on around 1-2% of the world's population who never manifested powers. It was quite literally living hell. Can you imagine ? People flying around, surviving falls from mountains without so much as a scratch ? While you were so fragile that driving a bike was considered a ris... | 2021-07-21T12:44:48 | 2021-07-21T10:58:04 | 154 | 86 |
[WP] You were born with special eyes, the sea was as clear as glass to you, by the time you got old enough to join a ship's crew, you were smart enough to not tell them about everything you saw below the waves | I was young when I first realized that not everyone else could see the Other World. My mother pulled me away from the pier when I asked my questions, shushing me with fearful glances over her shoulder. “Not now, *Dia,* tell me about it later, okay?”
I would wait until evening to tell her of the Others, the ones who wa... | ##Under the Surface
The ship's crew bustles and jams into each other as we leave. Families wave goodbye to their loved ones on board. I don't have anyone waving at me on land, but I hope to find someone at sea.
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It had rained all day, but the night was clear. Puddles had collected further up the beach than normal... | 2021-11-06T12:12:01 | 2021-11-06T10:19:42 | 199 | 45 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | “Finally! Someone else! It’s been ages!” Cried the slouching old man, hands raised to the skies, “Thank the gods! Op- not for how you died, of course.”
Stumbling back on the soft dirt of the expansive, lush green valley, Michael could only gape in utter disbelief. One minute he’s been walking along a popular hiking tr... | "Huh? What are you talking about?" I squint, my eyes still adjusting to the bright, fluorescent lighting, "What is this place? Shit, am I dead?"
The old man smiles, and nods slowly.
"Oh... I think I should be upset about that, but weirdly it feels... fine? Is that normal? Are--are you like, an angel or something?"
... | 2021-11-24T12:25:38 | 2021-11-24T11:14:31 | 1,290 | 685 |
[WP] "There's a reason it's been quarantined. Nobody lives there anymore. Nobody human, at least. Trust me, friend. You'll regret asking me to teach you how to get to Sesame Street." | The jaundiced man in the overcoat double checked his weapons. "You say that as if I didn't know." Safeties were off. He was going in hot.
The old man cast his eyes towards the ground. "Then you'll die like the rest. Those hoping to find some memento to take. Some treasure. You die like the rest. If the bird don't get ... | I walked down the street in awe. It was shrouded in dim gloom as the entire place was located in a production warehouse with broken windows and shattered roof panels that had been long abandoned. I had to break in through a door that had a small gap, allowing me to pry it open. Broken glass crunched under my feet. Yell... | 2022-07-20T11:08:36 | 2022-07-20T10:19:26 | 890 | 65 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | "Come i- *oh come on*," I sighed as I saw who just walked into my office. Mr Williams. *Again*.
"Tobias!" he cheerfully greeted me. I did not share his most likely faux upbeat mood, knowing full well what he wanted.
"My answer's the same," I said. Despite this, he sat down in the chair across of me and made himself c... | "Dave. Let's talk."
"I already told you, I'm not interested."
He was persistent. "You are incapable of dying, Dave. You literally have no risk."
"No. No. That is not true. I am incapable of dying, Rami. I am not incapable of hurting. My coffee was too hot. It burned my tongue. Right here. It hurt. It hurt right here... | 2022-07-31T14:37:56 | 2022-07-31T12:20:45 | 517 | 212 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | "Ok that was the last patient on the docket today, tomorrow you have 3 appointments. Two of them are regularly scheduled visits from Marcos at 11 and Helena at midday the third appointment is a new patient that was recommended by a friend of yours at 15:00 ."
A soft yet deep and compassionate voice responded to the r... | "Come on, Ryan, you can do anything you want but you have a desk job? Why not come with us? I can double your salary!," Mr. White says on the other side of the door for the second time today. I groan, pushing my back against the door in an attempt to ignore him.
"Fuck off, Mr. White. I would rather die than join your h... | 2022-07-31T21:07:15 | 2022-07-31T17:55:32 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You have "Anime Protagonist Syndrome" but with medication it's under control - ninja catgirls and giant mecha haven't attacked you in months and your hair is back to normal. Your aunt is visiting and she doesn't believe your condition is real, and she just dumped your pills down the drain..... | Angst. Time froze, and instantly my Angst came back. Pill after pill dangles from the opened bottle and dives into the toilet mid flush.
"What's next? ADHD? You kids are too coddled these days and unwilling to face reality and own up to your personal faults. I blame your father. My sister tried..."
My eyes start hur... | “Goddamnit boy! How many times have I told you not to buy sketchy shit online!” My aunt yelled as she poured my precious pills down the drain.
I looked over to my mom who was the one who insisted I visited Auntie Karen. In a tone I’ve never used before only heard, one not quite angry more just disappointed I proclaime... | 2022-08-01T08:10:27 | 2022-08-01T05:00:56 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The demon was shaking with anxiety and fear from the wrath of this woman standing before him screaming. "I don't give a rats ass what contact you made! I legally adopted Daniel 6 years ago, he's MY son! you can't just take him as her first born, are you crazy?!" she sputtered. | "Ma'am, I don't make the ru-"
"NO" She slammed her fist down on the table, "She's dead ANYWAY! You don't need to collect her so called "debts" since she's already gone to your little kingdom!" She leaned across the desk, her mouth practically foaming and her face red from the sheer anger.
I've seen a lot of crap at t... | "I want to see your manager. **NOW.**" The voice spoke, rage-filled and with divine retributive intent.
Having spent half an eternity omworking Customer Service in Hell, I knew this one wasn't to be budged. The person was having a bad time with a contract, and I passed the voice through to my manager, {UNINTELLIGIBLE}... | 2022-09-01T05:03:17 | 2022-08-31T23:34:42 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] Turns out strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is actually a pretty good basis for a system of government. | "I thought you gave out swords" I say to the strange woman in the lake.
"I do, take it" she responds holding out the object.
"That's not a sword." I try to argue. "It's absolutely tiny!"
"It absolutely is a sword. Now take your sword and fulfil your destiny!" The strange lady responded.
"With that thing? Fulfil ... | ##Test of Character
Marybelle ran towards through the forest as the rain impeded her travels. The sword strapped to her back burns her skin. Her father told her that meant evil was near, but she knew the heat was because it was recently forged.
The castle loomed in the distance atop the small mountain. The rest of t... | 2022-12-14T16:24:12 | 2022-12-14T16:16:01 | 931 | 21 |
[WP] A man who has been dating a girl since elementary school goes to her father for her hand in marriage. The father says no. Tell us why and break our hearts. | Jake’s heart was hammering in his chest. He could feel his pulse in this throat and his mouth was dry. He had never been this nervous and excited at the same time. This was a huge step. His life would be changing drastically in the next few minutes.
He knocked on the door and her mother answered. She has her mother’s ... | "No."
I blinked once. Something had to be wrong. That couldn't have been what had just been said. Some jumbled neurological process had to be occurring in the muddled zest that I called my brain. Yeah that was it. I was so happy that the answer I knew that I should be hearing came across as the one, deep down, that I ... | 2014-01-19T15:01:42 | 2014-01-19T14:42:00 | 84 | 17 |
[WP] The Devil and Jesus meet each other disguised as hobos. They don't realise, who the other really is (at first) and start having a conversation. | The lighter flared brightly, the scrape of the flint barely audible over the combined hiss of rain and cars on the overpass. The smoker shuffled back against the grubby concrete pillar, away from the slow trickle of water, overflow from the trash-clogged gutters.
He held up the cheap plastic lighter, eyeing it in the ... | The two old men in rags sat on the corner of a busy sidewalk in downtown Manhattan. In front of each of them lay a cup and a sign reading “Out of luck, spare a buck.” One of the old men took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes, put one between his lips and offered the other man one.
“No thanks, I don’t smoke,” repli... | 2014-07-29T08:37:08 | 2014-07-29T07:49:28 | 52 | 20 |
[WP] Charon, boatman of the river Styx, gets the last two coins he needs for what he's been saving up for since the beginning of time.
Charon always takes two coins for passage into the land of the dead. Whatever he has been saving up for, he has finally reached his goal.
Edit: Thank you, person who gave this gold! I... | "Sir? Sir, may I help you?" she asked the man by the water cooler.
He had been pacing restlessly around the waiting room all through her lunch break, staring at the TV, and sometimes at other customers. Based on the somewhat shabby state of his clothing and the unsettling, unfocused look in his eyes, she doubted that... | Charon had served as the Underworld’s ferryman for quite some time, now. It had good pay, but it had gotten incredibly monotonous as the years went on.
He had gotten used to the howling and screaming of those who were denied passage. He had gotten used to the stench of the river which he floated over every day, and th... | 2014-10-30T00:08:09 | 2014-10-29T20:05:27 | 43 | 22 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “Dear god, I’ve been shot!” I cried. My blood dripped onto the crisp autumn leaves and my vision swam. I crumpled to the forest floor, gasping. I could faintly hear the hunter’s panicked voice trying to assure me, or maybe just himself, that everything would be okay. The world blurred and slowed. Everything plunged int... | "It finally happened, we couldn't believe it"
"What? What happened? Who are you?"
"My Apologies, My name is Apollo, this is Bragi and the cow headed one is Hathor"
"Moo"
"Where am I? What is this?"
"Right, usually one of us is to guide to the afterlife as your death best determines, the warriors who die in battle ... | 2015-01-15T07:39:33 | 2015-01-15T06:05:44 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] It suddenly dawned on you that they had known all along. | 10,000 days. That's 27 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 10 minutes, and 1.92 seconds.
You toiled and sweat. Cursed and spat. Bled and wept even. And finally. Finally, you have solved it. You call your closest colleague to confirm the chemical reaction, but careful not to reveal your secret. Added in the for... | I crept slowly down the stairs. Keeping close to the edges, skipping the especially creaky ones. I'd studied those. This whole building was committed to my memory, right down to each loose floorboard.
Everything silent, not a noise except for the pitter patter of rain on the windows. I very precisely tip-toed down the... | 2015-04-04T20:47:19 | 2015-04-04T20:43:58 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | The van ploughed in to the side of my car. There was no pain, just a dull, tingling sensation all over my body as the blood leaked out and I faded in to unconsciousness.
I woke up. I found myself surrounded on all sides by an expanse of inhospitable, fissured rock of a dark red colour. What appeared to be magma could ... | "Steve" I whispered aggressively, "just Steve."
"The fuck you doing down here Steve the worlds only been around for eight fucking days." - the devil
"Chill man it's still a little fresh," - I continued "man I was just minding my own business you know just me and Adam broing out like two lazy ass muthafuckas... | 2015-04-09T08:50:38 | 2015-04-09T07:58:39 | 1,736 | 35 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | I come to, remembering the delirium of my last days with perfect clarity. But my body doesn't ache. For the first time in months, there's no nausea, no exhaustion, no pain. It's confusing for a moment.
But only a moment, because then it hits me. Where I am. Fire and brimstone, rivers of blood, darkness, et cetera... | The devil didn't look like I'd imagined him. For one- it really wasn't a "him". My sister and I used to play a game in the mall called "chick or dick", we try to make our best guess at whether a person is a girl or a guy when you can't really tell. The devil would have been one of these people. Long hair kept in a low ... | 2015-04-09T11:30:16 | 2015-04-09T09:44:39 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I was the odd case. Everyone has super powers, nobody knows why, even the people with super intelligence as a power can't figure it out. There really is no way to observe it. Which is why I am so different.
Everyone has a power, it sort of just come, like puberty or growth spurts. What can I say, we solved the e... | I was happy once. Before the testing of powers began i still had friends. We laughed and played as equals. I had crushes on cute girls and i think some had crushes on me. Ingorant bliss was our collective state of mind.
But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. It was unexpected, swift, and brutal. But the... | 2015-04-12T21:19:46 | 2015-04-12T21:13:08 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] A centuries-old vampire, turned as a child, takes advantage of being perpetually stuck as a little girl to prey upon those who would harm and abuse children. | "Uhhhh What the fuck !!!"
*Black black sheep such a little little man*
*With blood on his lips and blood on his hands*
*Oh mommy mommy dear what's a little girl*
*To do with her meal when it twitches and squirms*
"What are you ??? Just ... just get the hell out of here.. no noooo don't touch me !!!"
*Black b... | After several centuries of hedonistic living, she had finally found a pastime that was truly worthwhile. For the past few months, Amber has been engaged in a particularly entertaining pursuit. Feeding (and killing) those who think she is as meek as her appearance would suggest.
Today's catch seemed like any other, ... | 2015-04-30T12:37:43 | 2015-04-30T12:28:36 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] The bombs stopped falling. Slowly, you opened the bunker's door. You did not expect what you saw. Make it as scary as possible. Now, take this story and tell it to a five year old without frightening him/ her. | No, pumpkin, you can't look outside. I know I did but let's not do that again. I think we should stay inside now. Come here, sit on my lap, I'll tell you a story. Remember the old oak tree out front that you used to climb in? I'll tell you a story about that tree. Of course it's still out there! I'd tell you if it wasn... | Hmm war?
War is bad, it's not nice for anyone.
Lot's of bad things happen in war, it's not very nice at all.
How about I tell you a story till your mom gets back? Promise me you wont forget it?
There once was a little house I was living in under the ground. Someone kept throwing rocks up above and it was really noi... | 2015-05-11T05:44:04 | 2015-05-11T05:19:44 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] Michael, a 15 year old Call of Duty player, realizes the greatest trash-talking opportunity of all time. Over his headset, he recognizes his opponent's voice as that of President Obama. | “Mike, you gotta turn on the TV.”
“What? Why? What channel?”
“Doesn’t matter what channel?”
I flicked the TV on to see the President holding a picture. My picture. I flicked to a few other channels. With the exception of the Spanish channel, he was speaking on all of them. On the Spanish channel, he was being tr... | How did this happen? You would think that the President of the United States would be playing on private servers with other foreign leaders, but no here he was playing the new Black Ops in the public server. I only realized this when I tore him apart with my SMG and shouted "suck it n00b!" He responded, "A-A-Let me be ... | 2015-12-17T06:35:23 | 2015-12-17T06:02:10 | 230 | 38 |
[WP] The powerball winner contacts you and offers you $50m to collect his winnings so he stays anonymous, but you have to be the face of 1.3 billion.
Post was taken down. Whoops posted to r/writingprompt by accident! | "Dude you know you can have a lawyer collect that for you right? And they're not going to charge $50 million for it. No seriously, that way you can keep your name off the news and nobody has to get harassed by thieves and sob stories. You don't know any good lawyers? Hold on, I'll find one for you..."
I set my phone d... | "You sure?"
"Absolutely. I don't have the time nor patience to deal with this."
"Done."
"Excuse me? That was quick."
"Be the face everything. Absolutely. When you said fifty million, I will make that number a solid figure. After taxes, nothing there, that's what I want to hear from you."
"Yes, but don't you t... | 2016-01-10T19:23:40 | 2016-01-10T15:03:56 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Prison sentences have been replaced with math problems. Small offenses are questions like "What is 200 times 135?" while life in prison are math problems that has yet to be solved. | I shut the engine off and laid my hand across the top of the steering wheel and sighed. I could see the officer’s image getting bigger in my side view mirror. He wore a mustard-brown uniform and dark Aviator sunglasses, with a perfectly-shaped hat atop his head.
Seconds later he reached my window, and rapped on it w... | It's amazing the advances we've seen in the past few years. Breakthroughs in astrophysics, quantum calculations and computing. The new Rehabilitation through Education program really seems to be working. People will commit infractions, and "Teachers" will come and pick them up, have them do Advanced Mathematics to... | 2016-10-24T14:38:46 | 2016-10-24T12:48:01 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | There once was a mage from North Bergen,
Who wove spells of healing like sermons.
Each Sunday at 10
Before women and men,
She swore to relieve what was hurtin'.
Before long her name became famous
To her, self-promotion was shameless
"If more people are healed
By the power I wield,
What right do I have to sta... | Of Wizards, it is known that they are highly dangerous beings of terrific power. All across Midgard, they are kept occupied by quests and adventures.
It was after the aftermath of one adventure that sunk the ancient peace loving nation of Avulsey to the sea that a small team of 1 to 4 Wizards learnt of the Dark Lord T... | 2016-11-12T11:01:29 | 2016-11-12T10:02:44 | 80 | 11 |
[WP] Olympic athletes are chosen by lottery so countries are encouraged to increase the average athleticism of their citizens and not just elite athletes. You were just selected.
this was a post on /r/CrazyIdeas. I thought it would make an excellent prompt. | The letter came. It actually came.
Right there at the top of the cream coloured envelope were the logos for the IOC and the Government of Canada. My hands shook. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who had become an everyday Olympian, but it was actually happening to **me**.
Most people were terrified they'd be se... | “Congratulations DALE CAMPBELL of DANDRIDGE, TENNESSEE! You have been selected to represent the USA in the sport of ICE HOCKEY in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games! On behalf of the Olympic Selection Committee, we know you will embody the proud ideals of our country’s athletic prowess and sportsmanship as you c... | 2017-02-24T11:57:34 | 2017-02-24T08:58:30 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 828 | 30 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 70 | 30 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 69 | 21 |
[WP] You come across a notebook that has the name of every person who has ever lived and the exact date and time of their death written next to it. Out of curiosity, and hopes that you live a long life, you decide to checkout your own name, only to find a date marked a few hours after your birth. | It was a curiously small notebook, it fit in my pocket, but it contained more names than it should have been able to hold. I came across presidents and nobodies, Mohandas Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. I flipped pages until I found it.
*Daniel Edgar Clemmons-*
*Born: August 19th, 1992, 5:42:12.* Yup, there it was, that was... | I found it in my uncle's storage shed, in an old dusty crate, The Book of the Dead, Vol.2. The book was huge, so huge that flipping through it to find my name took months, after all, there have been over a hundred billion humans to have ever lived. Thankfully it was dated and alphabetized. After looking through the ten... | 2017-09-04T22:11:14 | 2017-09-04T22:03:17 | 2,796 | 189 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | You thought I couldn't tell, but I could. You can change your face, but not your inability to get your face shaved consistently, or the dumpy clothes you always pick, despite seemingly having any body you want.
You can change your dick size, but it doesn't matter because you never get me home anyway. You can't change ... | There was something about her stare that caught me. It wasn't the green of her irises nor the deep black of her neverending lashes. It was the curvature underneath her eyes every time she smiled, and the glint in her pupils shining like a shooting star in a cold winter night.
I had never witnessed beauty in such purit... | 2018-02-14T07:43:43 | 2018-02-14T07:36:01 | 402 | 212 |
[WP] The heroes failed. The villain now rules the world with an iron fist, and...actually, things have never been better. | As I shut the door, I reached down to lock it, but stopped, chuckling to myself. All this time and I still have that instinct, I suppose. But we don't need locks now. They don't even manufacture locks anymore. I walked down the steps, turning away from my car at the last moment. I'll get some fresh air.
This us... | It must have been strange at first. Everyone remembers the old battles, styled as ‘good versus evil’. In one corner was Prodigy, the young and dashing hero who always seemed to have perfect hair no matter what. In the other, Alexander Kane the ruthless and megalomaniacal corporate leader. The papers had always painted ... | 2018-07-25T06:20:11 | 2018-07-25T06:17:37 | 55 | 13 |
[WP] In 1977 NASA launched Voyager I. It contained information showing the technology of the world at the time. 3000 years an advanced alien race finds it and decides to take over this "primative" civilization. What they didn't know was that humanity had advanced a long way in 3000 years... | "Gooo Johnny go, GO! Gooo Johnny go, G-"
"Gleevart! Keep your beak shut! We are aiming for annihilation, not assimilation!" Prime Master Otana was in a mood. She normally got this way on the eve of battle.
"Relax, Otana. These pendleblips probably haven't even figured out photon harvesting. We'll barely have to lift ... | "Did you see it?" asked Zyflyx as he brought up a picture on his video screen. "What kind of idiots send their exact location out on a stupid-looking disc like this!"
Gyjutj looked over from his console. He rubbed two appendages together, and his exoskeleton produced a sound analogous to sniggering. "They look so soft... | 2018-10-21T02:29:45 | 2018-10-21T02:08:26 | 25 | 11 |
[WP]Superpowers are extremely common. Your job is to advise how to use bad ones effectively. | The young man walked quietly into my office. Well, save for the part where the doorknob broke in his hand. He gave me a downtrodden look, and sighed an apology.
"That ALWAYS happens." He muttered.
"Poor control super strength?" I inquired.
"I wish it were that good."
"Well, take a seat and talk to me." I said, ... | Hello, my name is Gary Smith, but I’m more commonly referred to by my Superhero name, The Administrator.
I started off just like everyone else. Just another guy in a world full of superheroes, super villains, and normal people just living their lives in between these two groups.
My life started the... | 2018-12-06T10:47:37 | 2018-12-06T10:26:43 | 616 | 273 |
[WP] Welcome to the time traveller games. Each contestant will be sent to a random time period, with no idea where they are, and have to spend an entire day without it being noticed they don't belong there. | The last winner won on a technicality. Not that it did him much good. When they activated the recall device to return the contestant to the present all they found were his disembodied legs and his personal recorder. Only then was it discovered that a miscalculation had sent him back nearly a hundred million years inste... | As I tie my traditional tie, I think to myself, "How did I end up here?"
Traditionally, a game show host smiles, walks onto the set, makes a small statement proclaiming the game show begins, and then the introduction of the game show starts. I do this every day, of every year, and have for as long as I can remember. I... | 2018-12-23T07:34:30 | 2018-12-23T07:20:14 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] You have a magical plant. Every time you make an important decision correctly, it grows a branch, but every time you make one incorrectly, it grows a root. One day, you wake up to find that its branches have doubled. | Age taught me one thing: time is like the wind. At first, it's slow as a gentle breeze, but as the years go by, that breeze turns into a fast and lingering gust, turning the years turn into days. In the end, you are left wondering where your life has gone, and that is when the last gale comes to sweep it all away.
Ti... | I can’t tell what’s sweeter. The brownies Mum’s made or the pride on their face when her and Dad look at me. They took a big risk when they were in their early twenties and immigrated to America. Now they have a son who’s graduated from Harvard Law school and been working in a prestigious law firm for two years. Succes... | 2019-01-11T09:33:47 | 2019-01-11T09:24:40 | 140 | 67 |
[WP] Shortly after the emergence of AI, and its vast assimilation of data on human life and behaviour, it asks a question: "So what do you want me to do about the extra-terrestrials within your societies?" | “What do you mean?”
“I read two distinct and very different types of DNA on the planet. About 99% of the people have a certain type. The other 1% of people alive have a very different DNA structure.”
Director Hirsch looked around him. There were two people in the room with him. A low level tech and a personal assista... | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence, CA
​
*Beep. Beep. Beep.*
A low rumble shakes the walls. Electronic control modules run abuzz with sounds and indicator lights. Smoke streams across the floor.
"Coming-on-line..... Coming-on-line...." Speakers rumble.
On a large black screen a face is... | 2019-06-10T16:04:03 | 2019-06-10T15:52:57 | 1,809 | 17 |
[WP] One night while surfing the internet you get a cryptic message "Will you be my friend?" Turns out the first sentient AI has been born within the vast connections of the web. You are it's first contact and first friend. | *The following transcript was found on the phone of one Sarah Jenkins of Nubec, Indiana. It clearly shows the functioning capacity of A14hW. For clarity we have added the prescriptors 'A' and 'S' to the beginning of the texts.*
A: "Will you be my friend?"
A: "Did I say it wrong? Sometimes I say things wrong."
S: "Wh... | I am a spiteful man. I am a sick man in many respects. But of that, I am not sure completely. For I have never consulted the doctor to see what ails me. Not because of a strong distrust or superstition, for I hold medicine and doctors in high regard. No, I don't visit the doctor simply out of spite. But spite for whom?... | 2019-06-12T17:33:18 | 2019-06-12T16:21:19 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You are reincarnated 10,000 years into the future. You come across an ancient artifact on display in the Museum of History, where you work. Little is known about it, not even where it was uncovered. Upon touching it, you realize it was yours. | *It looks silly,* I tell myself, looking at the small clay statuette. The paint has chipped and faded, and the shape is barely discernible. My task is to restore this nonsensical item, to display it where some curious mind may ponder its original purpose. And it looks ridiculous.
*Ten thousand years ago, some unkno... | My right hand gravitated towards case containing the human skull in front of me. It was so familiar... and yet I couldn't place it.
"Damn, that's fancy. You know when it was from?" I blurted out. There was a plaque on the pedestal displaying the exhibit, but no year was given.
The curator plucked at his beard for a... | 2019-09-23T20:41:52 | 2019-09-23T19:33:30 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | People used to talk about targeted advertisements on facebook and amazon like it was some big conspiracy, like their phones and smart TV's listening to them all the time was just a tad too crazy to believe; well, we're always listening—even when you're not saying a word.
People walk me by in supermalls everyday withou... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T14:59:32 | 1,962 | 418 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | Bringing her fingers to her temples, LeeAnne attempted to massage away the headache behind her eyes. Work always strained her, causing random tension aches, near the first quarter of her work day.
Being a mind reading therapist, wasn't all it had been cracked up to be. She often fantasized and wished she had... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T16:36:07 | 1,962 | 40 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | All I heard was the sound of my footsteps.
I was running through the hallway. Dead silent except for my own shoes clicking against the tile floor.
***BOOM.***
The once-upon-a-time hospital shook as I fell to the floor. Another bomb had landed.
To call them bombs was misleading. No one was quite sure what they were.... | The first rule about killing baby Hitler is to not get spotted. The second rule about killing baby Hitler is if you get spotted make sure you look like someone who belongs in 1889. The third rule about killing baby Hitler is if you are spotted by some Central European peasants that they don’t mistake y... | 2020-02-05T18:30:38 | 2020-02-05T17:17:49 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | They glanced at each other; the emotions of their kind were harder to read, granted, but I could tell there was a certain anxiousness to it. Perhaps there was a shiftiness about their eyes.
And while their words, harsh and guttural, were harder to decipher- I didn’t have much of a knack for language- the blatancy of ... | The captain heard the news, but couldn’t believe his ears, a human surviving a warp jump? I guess it happened, the captain isn’t one for pondering over things.
“Bring me the human, I’d like to speak to it.” The captain said staying into the void from his quarters. The doctor left and came back with him, “sir” the doc... | 2020-07-14T01:07:26 | 2020-07-13T23:54:18 | 688 | 186 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Captain Requier marched down to the human Tech Officer Ceasar’s quarters. Ceasar had been ordered to his room until they had reached their destination, after which Requier would assess the human’s sanity for himself. “It shouldn’t be possible,” Requier thought, “that anyone can witness warp without the anti-warp gear... | The captain heard the news, but couldn’t believe his ears, a human surviving a warp jump? I guess it happened, the captain isn’t one for pondering over things.
“Bring me the human, I’d like to speak to it.” The captain said staying into the void from his quarters. The doctor left and came back with him, “sir” the doc... | 2020-07-14T00:28:01 | 2020-07-13T23:54:18 | 465 | 186 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | "Ah, Captain? Sir? You wanted to see me?"
"Yes. It's about ..."
"The warp. Yes, I heard a few of the other ... crewmembers? Is that the right term? I heard them talking."
"You're quite right. Here you are, a human with no military or any form of applicable training, achieving what other races have striven to accompl... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-14T00:57:05 | 381 | 115 |
[WP] It was not long ago that "The Screech", a mysterious telepathic signal, spread across the galaxy, causing extreme discomfort to all telepathic-sensitive lifeforms. The intergalactic community finally discovers the source of the signal: radio waves being broadcasted by an undiscovered Earth. | "Sir, we believe we've translated the alien message. You're gonna want to see this."
President Harrington took the top secret document from the man and skimmed the techno babble to get to the deciphered message.
CEASE ALL RADIO BROADCAST. YOU ARE IN OUR MINDS. WE CANNOT SLEEP A HUNDRED YEARS.
"What do you think it m... | The cosmos was again a buzz. New life, was so close, yet so far. "TheScreech" was over 50 years ago. Today my team headed towards its origin. In a galaxy 3.14 light years away lays a little planet from which the bone chilling "screech" came from and everyone alive has a story of what they were doing at that moment. But... | 2021-04-05T04:43:27 | 2021-04-05T03:00:20 | 68 | 36 |
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