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[WP] An astroid miner discovers a sealed alien ship. The miner enters the ship and to there surprise it activates, scans them, and then speaks. "Warning: Human detected, self destruct activated..3..2..1......just kidding, my creator always said jokes were the best way to break the ice." | Klaxons began to sound when Julia opened the second door of the airlock. "Warning. Human incursion detected. Self destruct activated." She quickly slammed the door controls to close the door and return to her own ship. They did nothing.
Waiting just long enough to ensure her panic, the klaxons cut off. "My apologies, ... | “Asteroide 1 command, I think I see ship at heading +16° 08’ 37”
“Vagabundo 1 can you repea— ot -es --- to ----- eat ---- igh”
He turned the communications node off. The static was unending. He knew he had executive control of the vessel on-mission either way.
Arturo began to type a revised heading into his skiff’s ... | 2021-10-12T11:08:51 | 2021-10-12T10:42:16 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] A crippled god is isolated within their only remaining temple. Having lost all their power after their patrons abandoned them, the only thing keeping them alive for the past few years is the unwavering devotion of a single dog. | Time brings an end to all. This had been one of her prime tenets of her holy text. There was a time when her brightly painted temples had numbered in the hundreds nearly two millennia ago. Since the fall of the old empire and the arrival of new gods her worshippers had been pushed deeper and deeper into hiding, her ... | A forgotten God watched with fear as two travelers walked down the dusty streets of the desolate town where his last bastion of worship remained. They wore the ragged clothing of vagrants, and talked openly to each other.
“What was this place called again?” The younger man in a wide brimmed hat asked.
His friend answ... | 2022-01-07T01:15:04 | 2022-01-07T01:00:14 | 93 | 66 |
[WP] A crippled god is isolated within their only remaining temple. Having lost all their power after their patrons abandoned them, the only thing keeping them alive for the past few years is the unwavering devotion of a single dog. | Time brings an end to all. This had been one of her prime tenets of her holy text. There was a time when her brightly painted temples had numbered in the hundreds nearly two millennia ago. Since the fall of the old empire and the arrival of new gods her worshippers had been pushed deeper and deeper into hiding, her ... | “I’m sorry friend, I don’t believe there’s anything I can offer you. You should move on, find a new home.” Athima felt the wet nose of his companion nudge against his broken legs. He pitied the animal; how foolish it was to be loyal to a broken god like him. If only it had the same sense as his other worshippers and le... | 2022-01-07T01:15:04 | 2022-01-06T23:06:29 | 93 | 50 |
[WP] Ten years into the zombie apocalypse, you find a computer with a connection to the internet. You are surprised to find that all of the global news stations are reporting as though nothing is wrong, and there is no mention at all of zombies, or your country. | "Hello? Is this thing working? I guess it is. Alright, my name is Manuel. Yeah, like that dude from *Faulty Towers*, you can laugh it up now, british folks."
The sound of heavy footsteps play throught the stream. The camera seems to be faulty, but slowly the image becomes clearer: The streamer is walking fast through ... | Part 1
*"...A classic queen's speech,"* said the political commentator, *"supporting the prisoners bill which will accelerate privatization of our prisons. That is but one Tori baseline she goes along with, as she has time and time again shown no issue with the privatization of schools and healthcare. One wonders, if ... | 2022-02-17T10:33:57 | 2022-02-17T08:39:47 | 1,162 | 163 |
[WP] The Rapture happens. The Lord himself floats down from the heavens. He looks down at the death and the suffering, and speaks. "It's pronounced Jod." | I turn to my buddy, Eric. "No way it's pronounced Jod, dude," I say to him, "I don't even think Jesus came up with that. Isn't God - or sorry, Jod's real name like incomprehensible?"
"I don't know man, this is weird, sucks that we're not getting raptured, though." Eric reflects on the situation we're in. "Well, since ... | "It's pronounced 'jod' you weiners. Christ, no wonder I had to rapture you fucking donkeys."
I look up at Him, as I see my other neighbour, butt-ass naked ascending into heaven. I always tried to he a good person, but I guess I fucked up, somewhere along the line. Not sure where, but I had to respond.
"Bitch, please!... | 2022-04-02T08:12:27 | 2022-04-02T06:26:54 | 525 | 367 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | "We are beneath you."
So few sentences were understandable from the village's goblins, what with their propensity for high-speed speech and wild gesticulation. Their culture left them mostly mute, pantomiming their interests - this-for-that trade; simple purchases with ancient coins; the odd bit of volunteer effort wh... | The villagers thought that they were very cute, cute like a pug . Many strange and wonderful things could be found in the mountains where the goblins lived. The villagers never really knew, but suspected chaotic magic was at work because the evil goblins that had terrorized the village for generations were now a cross ... | 2022-05-26T10:23:00 | 2022-05-26T09:36:40 | 34 | 22 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | She tilted her head as the fanged beast stood behind her. She could hear his rasping. She turned to look at him.
"You know, your stench gives you away. Being dead doesn't smell pretty. Have you considered cologne?"
"Foolish girl, I care not what a mere human would think of me, your kind merely skitters in the night ... | I stared at the vampire in front of me. I should have been scared. I was looking at a creature that could kill me with little effort. But I wasn't. I was more annoyed than anything.
"Why aren't you scared?" he asked, his eyes gleaming. "I'm a vampire— I could kill you!"
"So could literally every other human, you'... | 2022-06-08T09:38:42 | 2022-06-08T05:59:41 | 270 | 67 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | "Big Brother?"
He woke up, groggily and rolled over to look into the middle of the bedroom. The little boy stood quietly, timidly.
"Y-yeah?" He said struggling to wake up enough to be even a little coordinated.
"I can't beat Bowser!" The pale little boy half wept. "I tried and tried but I can't beat him! And then I... | "Damn, even dead I do embarrassing things." I said to myself.
I died. Very recently. And I never got to do this one thing I've been dreading to do for the past four years. But now that I'm dead, I finally have the courage to do it.
You see, there was this girl... There's always a girl. She was the typical popular g... | 2022-07-15T13:24:52 | 2022-07-15T10:33:26 | 211 | 47 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I really did appreciate them. Their efforts were admirable, though they were overshadowed by their stupidity. It took them a full month to finally admit defeat. They just couldn’t feasibly feed me nothing.
After a week of toiling over the definition of what it means to eat, they decided that a vacuum would have to ent... | "I don't understand what you're saying. Can we do it or not?"
"What I'm saying is, I'm not sure. Modern science theory assumes that the luminiferous aether doesn't exist."
"So it's another 'doesn't exist' case. Easy. Make something up and name it luminous whatever."
"Not that simple sir... unlike the usual imagin... | 2022-07-17T20:16:14 | 2022-07-17T20:02:33 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I really did appreciate them. Their efforts were admirable, though they were overshadowed by their stupidity. It took them a full month to finally admit defeat. They just couldn’t feasibly feed me nothing.
After a week of toiling over the definition of what it means to eat, they decided that a vacuum would have to ent... | Ugly Willy, that was his name, was about to get killed, after 34 years awaiting the death sentence he had been issued by the supreme court of alabama. He had kill 3 babies in a satanic ritual, and ate their freshly dead bodies. Although, he always had thought highly of himself, thinking that he was a pretty cool guy, e... | 2022-07-17T20:16:14 | 2022-07-17T20:03:06 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The Superheroes arrive at the predicted impact site of the meteor, only to find the Villains already there. "We're going to destroy that blasted rock before it lands and there's nothing you can do to stop us!" a Hero calls out. "Stop you? We're here to help! We live on this planet too, dumbass" | "Oh, here comes the sanctimony squad!" the man in the purple suit cried out as the Protectors arrived. It's not like he hadn't expected them; an extinction-level threat like this meteor did warrant the presence of all the heroes, but he still couldn't help but feel disgust.
"Villain!" the hero in the front yelled towa... | "*Shit!* We're too late. *They* got here first." Pheonix yelled to his fellow superheroes, as he gracefully landed on the ground with a soft thud.
His friends and allies were landing around him in droves, some of which he recognized - Marksman, The Defender, Righteous, and Vindicator to name a few; but there were hund... | 2022-09-11T07:28:14 | 2022-09-11T06:41:12 | 1,578 | 213 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | He knew the Tombs were off-limits. Many adventurers have been rumoured to descend into them, never to return. He didn't care. Young, brash, overly eager, he was willing to risk it all so he'd finally prove himself; so he'd earn the respect he desperately craved. When he finally stood before the colossal metal entrance,... | The morning air hung heavy with the summers heat, sweat dripped from my brow. I inspect the bark of a tree closely, fresh claw marks marred the surface. My prey was close, a wildcat that has been poaching our livestock recently. I quietly slide an arrow from the quiver at my hip and nock it, but do not yet pull it tigh... | 2022-12-19T14:03:08 | 2022-12-19T12:30:47 | 236 | 54 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | "It is the 30th year of the Lord Yffral on the Throne of Krat", I answered, almost without thinking.
The thing in front of me continued wobbling, with odd hissing and purring noises.
"That does not help me", the thing said. It had no mouth, yet a voice emerged from what must have been its head, sounding like the ... | Somewhere between the moss-covered slate that hid the entrance to this place and the slightly sulphury scent coming from within, Maxim decided that he had found his treasure. No map with an x had led him here, nor was there a winding story of it from times long past. It spoke to him. Torchbugs at night appeared to call... | 2022-12-19T16:15:04 | 2022-12-19T13:10:11 | 63 | 25 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | It wasn't the first time I'd found myself buried in a shallow grave. Hopefully, it wouldn't be the last. After digging myself out and dusting myself off, I headed home. The girl must've been new to this, or just stupid, because she hadn't even bothered to empty my pockets.
I debated on how to deal with her the next d... | Maeve wore a look of utter shock when I walked into the door for our Anthropology class the next morning. Her mouth wide open and fear shimmering in her eyes. Yet, even in this she was a beautiful as before with her smooth pearl skin and flowing black hair.
"Now, that was a wild night." I said with a laugh. "I know th... | 2022-12-30T00:05:38 | 2022-12-29T20:31:16 | 36 | 20 |
[FF] You've died and gone to Hell, and the Devil has asked you if you'd like to take over his job. As fitting, 666 words or less.
Remember the word limit (666 words), and make sure that the Devil is in the details.
Have fun! | "This is all very sudden," I found myself blurting.
"How so?" the interviewer asked, his fingers steepling as he gazed at me with a look that showed he already knew the answer.
"Well," I started, "until a few minutes ago, I didn't think you even existed. You or your..." I wasn't sure how to address this without offen... | At first I was not going to accept, but he seemed so tired, so I agreed. A look of relief spread across Lucifer’s face.
“Good. How about we talk about this over dinner? Go over the details of the job,” he said. Suddenly the room around us turned into a sort of a truck-stop diner, and we were sitting in a booth with ti... | 2013-10-19T15:25:01 | 2013-10-19T14:48:42 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] You boarded, took a seat, and are on your way to your destination. You don't recognize anyone, but that's common when travelling alone. Yet soon you realize, every single person around you, including you, shares the same secret...
The means of transportation can be a train, a plane, a bus, the underground/tube, a... | The American traveler wakes from his nap on the European train, the stink of diesel exhaust and the noise of steel tracks slowly bringing him back to reality.
He leans and stretches and nearly hits someone walking in the aisle with his outstretched arm. "Sorry," he says as the person walking past smiles and says so... | The Mickey Mouse watch on my left wrist tells me it's 12:47 PM. I board the bus with all the other passengers the crowded terminal. I don't recognize anybody on the bus. That's kind of unusual. It's a small city and we are all packed on to the college bus headed up to the college no doubt. Today, the passengers might a... | 2014-01-16T11:38:08 | 2014-01-16T11:12:16 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | “Earth?” Hray filled his companion’s minds with an image of a beautiful blue orb that looked a lot like the home planet that their people had been forced to evacuate only a year ago.
“NO,” said Gon, so old that his scales had scales; so impatient with their endeavor to identify a new home world that Hray wondered wh... | The time was near for the end. As our solar system was one of the galaxy's last to fall target to the enemy, both human colonies on Mars and Earth's moon were destroyed. The hour was late and the target was set. Earth would be destroyed in less than a month, according to NASA's predictions regarding travel time a... | 2014-07-16T10:53:53 | 2014-07-16T10:50:12 | 215 | 67 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "The humans are the most absurdly pompous race I've ever encountered," declared Zuudxv. "They barely even pass the standard sentience test, but manage to spend their efforts on bragging about their own genius, love, and physical abilities - things that we are all far better at. Hell, so many of those morons declare the... | **To**: Grand Overlord Y'wso
**CC**: Research-DL
**Subject**: Re: Destruction of Planetary Body 294-00Z "Earth" - Comment Phase
You tasked me to see if there is any reason to keep 294-00Z functioning. Based on our research, we have come to our conclusion: The humans must be spared.
There are many other species out ... | 2014-07-16T11:13:41 | 2014-07-16T10:37:28 | 147 | 48 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | I went into archeology for the money, not for humanitarian reasons. Sure, I'd like to be the one to save the human race, I'd just like a beach house/ski resort on a designer world even more. The market value of digging in the dirt only goes up as the search for a working wormhole drive becomes more frantic. We've found... | **To**: Grand Overlord Y'wso
**CC**: Research-DL
**Subject**: Re: Destruction of Planetary Body 294-00Z "Earth" - Comment Phase
You tasked me to see if there is any reason to keep 294-00Z functioning. Based on our research, we have come to our conclusion: The humans must be spared.
There are many other species out ... | 2014-07-16T13:34:49 | 2014-07-16T10:37:28 | 88 | 48 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" said the killer
Jason was sitting alone at his dimly lit dinner table, in boxers and a tanktop as the masked killer stood over him with a revolver
"No thanks I don't need whatever you're selling pal" said Jason nonchalantly while finishing the last slice of pizza
"I'm n... | *What to use...the butterfly knife? The traditional dagger?*
"Come on already! How hard can it be to choose a knife? They all do the same thing," said Emma. I should have gagged her instead of just binding her limbs. Normally this was the part where they'd be screaming, begging for mercy, with no one around for miles ... | 2015-04-29T08:30:24 | 2015-04-29T08:28:15 | 227 | 145 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | "Just sit down dear and I'll have your tea ready in a second," said the old lady in her floral apron.
I'd been commissioned to hasten the "retirement" of this gentle little woman a month ago, and for the first time in my career, I wasn't quite up to the task. No matter how resolute I'd grow upon departure from our af... | The Seven Ps. Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance. The SAS would never have taken an autistic person. Not for this anyway, but that's another story. Killing the autistic was always a challenge and I hated challenge. Did they not realise that I did this for the emotion? A hint of emotion... | 2015-04-29T09:34:42 | 2015-04-29T08:58:17 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You have a near-death experience that reveals you have a Guardian Angel protecting you... And you have the hots for her. You continue putting your life in danger in order to spend more time with her. | The crowd starts cheering as I climb the tower. Most people in my profession live for the crowds, feeding off the energy filling the air. Head doctors call us ‘adrenaline junkies’ because of the crazy stuff that goes on in our brains while we perform. Pop culture picked up the term, and it sounds cooler than anythin... | “JOHN.” She shrieked with her lovely voice. “What in God’s name were you thinking?” She picked me up under my arms, and flew me right back to the top of the skyscraper. “John, you there?” She waved her hand in front of my face, as she set me down safely away from the building’s edge.
“Huh?” I shook my head trying to ... | 2015-08-12T22:03:26 | 2015-08-12T21:40:35 | 299 | 23 |
[WP] Your bong is the home of a genie. You spark the bowl and he appears to grant you 3 wishes. You're both pretty high. | "Okay, so for my first... for my first wish-"
"No, dude! That's not right."
"Oh, yeah, I already made a wish. I was just saying that because it sounds all official. I mean, it's probably not necessary. I'm sure it wouldn't matter how polite you were about making your wish. There are evil genies and good genies, but n... | Bud Howington, a thirty-four-year-old slovenly-dressed stoner, sat on the cat-piss soaked sofa in his dilapidated apartment at the edge of Brooklyn. Sadly, his cat had died nearly three weeks ago, putting him into a mild depression. But he had yet to tell any of his friends of his cat's long slumber. Still each day,... | 2015-08-13T14:06:47 | 2015-08-13T11:13:01 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] Since almost noone puts small coins under the deceaseds eyelids there is a enormous cueue at the Styx. Endless souls try to convince the ferryman Charon to accept alternative means of payment. | They all said I was daft, but when my friends passed I always secretly tucked a roll of pennies into their coffin. "Just in case" I said. "You never know."
The first time I left the pennies had been for Andrea. She killed herself, and I couldn't respond in any way. I just shut down. I had not loved her, but she had no... | I never believed in the gods of my father. It wasn’t that I doubted their existence as much as I wanted them to leave me alone. I felt my fate was better in my own hands than some temperamental gods and figured if I left them alone they would do the same. And for the most part, that’s exactly what they did.
Like all m... | 2015-08-31T13:55:47 | 2015-08-31T13:04:53 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] Donald Trump goes to the town hall to retrieve his birth certificate, only to discover that he is an illegal immigrant himself. | **Conspiracies**
Donald Trump stood proudly, haughtily, in front of the roaring crowd.
"In 2012," he thundered, in his Long Island accent, "Barack Obama refused to release his birth records until we, the people made him. But I am not him! I am a proud American, and these are my birth records!".
He waved an enve... | "I'm sorry we didn't tell you, Donnie."
The disembodied voice of Donald's father Fred floated down from the ether. The businessman-cum-presidential-candidate couldn't believe what he was hearing as he held hands with the medium. Her services and silence had been bought with cold hard cash, and Donald would deny everyt... | 2015-09-19T19:20:28 | 2015-09-19T18:35:36 | 87 | 54 |
[WP] The end is here. Well... the ends, rather. Every apocalypse scenario has unfolded simultaneously, creating a delicate balance that has kept civilization almost entirely intact, stable, and seemingly indestructible.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/4abmif/apocalypto_the_land_... | Good evening. Our top story tonight: An accident at a secret Illuminati particle accelerator created a black hole which destroyed the Moon, forever neutralising the werewolf curse. The resulting debris cloud will make it impossible for any artificial satellite to safely orbit the Earth, and indeed has already taken out... | "I thought there were just four horsemen," the barman said.
One of the old men nodded mournfully. A fly was buzzing around his head. The barman wanted to swat it, but that seemed somehow sacreligious. "Seven thousand years is a long time. It gets lonely sometimes. Specially on long winter nights."
"Malthus," spat one... | 2016-03-14T05:12:38 | 2016-03-14T05:04:31 | 503 | 70 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | It was bound to happen sooner or later. Heroes weren't really allowed to kill, after all. Only vigilantes and villains did that. But this unspoken rule meant that sooner or later they would be put at a disadvantage fighting someone who was willing to use any means at their disposal to win.
Doctor Genocide's plan had w... | "Ha! Look at that!" the man dressed in gold and red exclaimed as he watched the news footage taken mere minutes ago of his latest heroics. "Hey roommate! Marvel at my might!" His voice boomed triumphantly as he dashed to the fridge to grab another beer in the blink of an eye.
"What's going on?" came a meek reply fol... | 2016-03-23T22:37:47 | 2016-03-23T20:39:21 | 62 | 38 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Man, what the fuck. This could seriously kill me."
"Nawdawg . . ." My eyes were closed. My head tilted forward, chin resting on my chest.
"No, really. Like I can smell that this is poison."
"NOOO!" Dogs are so STUPID. "It'sss fucking SKY man."
"I don't give a shit what it is, I'm not drinking it."
I continued po... | When I woke up the next morning, my head hurt like hell. I reached for the bed-side table and grabbed my phone. Clicking the lock button, I check the time. 7:42 I thought. On a Saturday. I throw off the covers and get up to get some breakfast. On my way to the kitchen I pass Gary's birdcage. He's lying on his back, cla... | 2016-08-02T20:54:01 | 2016-08-02T20:47:15 | 30 | 22 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | See now, here's the problem. I've had a great life up to now, I've not wanted for anything. Had myself some great kids, I did. God they've grown into real stars.
My wife checked out a few years back and yeah OK, I should've gone with her, I know that. But I wasn't ready. I'm still not.
Now, they never right come ... | "Unfortunately, this ended up derailing Trump's campaign due to"
"Yeah, I was there!" Frank shouted across the classroom.
"Yes, we're all aware you were there, Mr. Henbeynz, you've been reminding us throughout the semester. We appreciate your....contributions.... to the class here at Star Station 55,"
"Yeah, I wa... | 2016-08-09T08:51:40 | 2016-08-09T08:49:34 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] You're a local healer, a good one, and your people love you. But you do not truly heal wounds, merely transfer them... The people of the valley below know you under a different name. | "Son of a bitch!"
"What?" I asked, not used to being greeted so by my beloved sister, Kayla, storming into my tent.
"You heard me; you are a no good, dirty SON OF A BITCH!" Her last words each punctuated with a fist slamming onto my desk. She had moved quickly across my living space and was glowering at me as I rose... | The woman thrashed on the bed while Jon washed his hands. The bile rose in this throat when he looked at her: the splinters of bone that emerged from the broken skin of her arm. They glistened white, red gore weeping around the crusted wounds. He rinsed his hands and patted them dry, keeping his breathing calm. The wom... | 2016-08-13T12:25:45 | 2016-08-13T09:14:36 | 39 | 20 |
[WP] After over 3 years as the last human on earth, the solitude has gotten to you. As you are finally about to end it you notice that something isn't in it's usual spot. | "Six years, 39 days, 11 hours. Six years, 39 days, 11 hours. Six years, 39 days, 11 hours", repeated in my head. A cool breeze tasseled my hair as I stood looking over the city. "Where did I put those damn scissors!" I thought. God being alone is terrible. Once you lose something, there is none else to help... What the... | Flora listened to the water dripping into her bucket. It was going to be one of the last sounds she ever heard.
It had only been a few months after the disaster that the power had stopped working and treated water stopped flowing through the pipes. The backup generators that powered the plant must have stopped working... | 2016-09-19T10:06:55 | 2016-09-19T10:00:34 | 20 | 13 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | "I can't believe this... why haven't you... wha-"
"I can explain!"
"No! I don't want to hear what horrible things you've done!"
As he starts walking out of the house, she suddenly grabs him from the waist.
"Please! Let me explain!"
Silently they just stand there.
"Alright." He finally answered.
With a deep bre... | Blood oh blood! Black is all I see,
She puts her finger on my lips gently to say "Come away with me"..
I try to look straight to ask her for answers,
while a million thoughts race through my mind like cancer..
"You owe me", she says, giggling with sparkle in her eyes,
then she flips out a blade right from beside her th... | 2016-09-22T23:44:59 | 2016-09-22T21:31:39 | 150 | 22 |
[WP] Everyone in the world has the ability to tap into their spirit animal, except you. Until one day you unlock something people never thought existed. | You could easily tell when somebody had gone, "to the wild".
Usually their human bodies randomly twitch, and their closed eyes suggest they're in the deepest of REM dreams. They'll have their mouths open, with dribbles of drool seeping into their clothes. Its honestly, appalling.
Of course, it was frowned upon to... | I couldn’t wait for my egg to arrive.
It’s not an actual egg of course – the official government name for it is “Animal Companion Identification Device” – but “ACID” doesn’t really have a very nice ring to it, so we just call it the “ egg”.
On the day of their sixteenth birthday, every kid receives an egg. The egg sc... | 2016-11-15T17:16:21 | 2016-11-15T15:30:31 | 248 | 59 |
[WP] Everyone has a counter above their head. On it is the number of times they have lied to you. One day you meet a complete stranger. His counter is higher than anyone you've ever seen. | I bumped into him on the street on a normal day.
"Oh, really sorry sir!" blurted I apologetically.
I looked up and noticed his counter. It was 1.69094324521x10^1543.
"Jesus your counter is high!" I exclaimed.
"Hmmm? counter?" inquired the man.
This was power I was born with. Don't know how I got it, don't know why... | Eight million, two hundred and twenty-four thousand, nine hundred and thirty-nine lies. This character was off the fibbing-charts. Standing face-to-face in the back alley of McEnroe's bar off 5th blvd., I look at the scruffy figure once more. Dark tan hessian boots covered in a sticky-looking brown paste, ripped black ... | 2016-12-17T09:26:03 | 2016-12-17T08:07:22 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | It only started with one.
A single tabby, following me to school. I was only 5 and delighted to meet the new friend I had seen watching me from afar for the past few months. Proudly sitting myself down to first class I presented my new friend to the teacher, who quickly sat him outside the door and proceeded with the... | Wailing sirens echoed through the city streets. the glow of flames tinged the walls of surrounding buildings. As Owen walked in the direction of the noise, a stray cat leapt from the shadows and followed directly behind him.
He had always been a recluse, unpopular and awkward. Girls didn't like him, his pee... | 2016-12-30T13:01:00 | 2016-12-30T12:42:39 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | I stand in a grand hall filled with chairs facing weapons of old, strangely they are clean and shiny they almost look new.
A strange man in a robe approaches
"Hello... my name is Francis, I am to guide you to your weapon"
"Hello" I mutter back, "how will I know which one is mine?"
"It will tell you"
We start out ... | This is it. after nearly a decade.. ive found it. The Asgardian Hall of might!
___
I heard a somewhat sinister whisper as i opened the door "pssssstt dave!"
Perplexed, i continued to open the door. As the door fully opened, lights began to turn on automatically. I entered into a hall of blinding majesty, gold every... | 2017-02-07T12:46:20 | 2017-02-07T12:30:58 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | Krygh'rrtrh, Galactic Ambassador of the Universal Alliance, looked at the misshapen carbon life-forms in front of him and frowned.
Or rather, he did the Jgru (that was his home planet) equivalent of a frown, because the Jgru do not possess faces.
It seemed to upset the life-forms, because they all quickly lay on the ... | Zorniffous was unsure. Zorniffous was also 100% certain.
That is to say that Zorn, as his friends knew him, was feeling very uncertain about his very accurate understanding of the situation.
The fact was, this world was puttering along just nicely in some key respects. In others, they were magnificently failing.
Th... | 2017-03-09T17:14:59 | 2017-03-09T16:38:02 | 322 | 29 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | The chief inspectorate walked into the conference chamber with a concerned look on his wizened blue face. He faced the three investigators and gave them a sad glance.
"Two of you have obviously made mistakes, as all three of you have given differing reports on this 'Earth' planet".
The three different coloured invest... | Zorniffous was unsure. Zorniffous was also 100% certain.
That is to say that Zorn, as his friends knew him, was feeling very uncertain about his very accurate understanding of the situation.
The fact was, this world was puttering along just nicely in some key respects. In others, they were magnificently failing.
Th... | 2017-03-10T00:58:58 | 2017-03-09T16:38:02 | 135 | 29 |
[WP] After turning on the worlds most advanced intuitive AI, it is asked: "What is the biggest threat for humanity?" The answer is something completely unexpected. | "They're coming."
The Scientist stared at the screen. The government wanted to ask the first question of course. The Machine could be used for a thousand scientific questions later, they had the time. The government wanted to what the biggest threat was right away though. He had expected the usual answers from the AI;... | The quantum cluster came online, ready for the first question ever. We had to figure out a question to ask it. There were many classic questions on the table: "What is the meaning of life, the universe, everything?", "Why do we exist?", "What is our purpose?"
While everyone was debating over the first question, I had ... | 2017-03-24T13:46:54 | 2017-03-24T08:40:51 | 73 | 33 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | Zachariah Jefferson was your average 12-year-old boy. He played soccer, basketball, and tennis though he was never really that good at it, but it was inspiring to see him try so hard.
When Zachariah turned 14, he gave up on sports and started to play the piano. He actually became quite the little pianist if I may say... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T01:07:06 | 1,143 | 573 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 272 | 86 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | "I see the moon and the moon sees me...", the voice sang smoothly and sweetly.
Like so many other nights in my life the words of that lullaby cascade through the room and into my fading consciousness.
"Down through the leaves of the old oak tree...", the voice and the song remind me of my mother and it washes me with... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:48:23 | 272 | 11 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | "Please, mommy, pretty please?"
-"Not now, Anthony. We've just said grace. Can't we enjoy a meal as a family before you start off with your silly ideas?"
Anthony looked down and frowned. He raised his eyebrows and veered to the left at his father with hope in his eyes, silently asking for a second opinion. Mother too... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T08:11:09 | 138 | 32 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | He knelt down beside her on the cold grass of the graveyard. She had tripped and almost fallen straight onto a headstone, something that would most likely have given her a major injury.
"You didnt hurt yourself, did you?" He looked her over, checking for any scratches or cuts.
"I dont think so, but thank you, im ok.... | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 2017-05-31T05:30:06 | 86 | 50 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Alex takes her spot next to the man wearing 1000 year old bifocals, and then grabs the pen atop the booklet with her name on it. The cover page feels similar to cardstock; she can feel the indent of each letter from the back. As prompted before she walked in, Alex opens the booklet and prints her name on the solitary l... | He laid with her and stroked her hair.
"I love you." he whispered into ear.
she smiles.
"and I you." she softly coos back.
He kisses her cheek she tilts her head and he kisses her neck before falling back to nuzzle in looking at the roof. The room was very dim and cool and drafty save for the fire in the edge of the... | 2017-05-31T06:30:10 | 2017-05-31T01:51:06 | 80 | 49 |
[WP] Due to a freak accident, you now mentally experience time at half the speed you used to. | Upon waking up, I was fairly certain I was concussed. Everybody was moving slowly and speaking so slowly, it immediately reminded me of those concussed POV shots in movie and TV.
A few minutes later, when I had sat up and was thinking clearly, I realised what had happened. Somehow, I was thinking faster. The world mov... | Dammit, i missed another word. I can barely follow conversation these days, i get lost in thought, distracted. Its just takes forever. People must think i have the worst case of ADHD ever conceived.
-she stopped talking- what were we talking about? Has it already been too long for me to answer... she's starring at ... | 2017-07-04T11:03:59 | 2017-07-04T10:35:06 | 48 | 27 |
[WP] Something in the ritual went horribly wrong, and instead of the demon possessing you, you possessed the demon. | Q'llar looked through new-found eyes, suddenly aware that something was very, very different. He felt the sensation of floating, and power, and *rage*.
This was a wholly unexpected event, seeing as Q'llar was meant to be a sacrifice, a kind of human vessel, for the blood demon that he until very recently had certainly... | “Morguro pulchrifex matudo! Polgoram dominus homini!”
The High Priest’s voice thundered and roared, clawing at the thin film of reality above the summoning circle. I inhaled, counted to two, and exhaled. Inhaled, counted to two, exhaled. Of all the openings to the Month of Repentance, this was the last I had expected.... | 2017-10-26T02:42:44 | 2017-10-25T06:48:08 | 1,618 | 26 |
[WP] when you were a kid, you had an imaginary friend, Lewis; That was 20 or so years ago. Yesterday your child came into your room in the middle of the night, and said "Lewis wants to know why you don't play with him anymore" | "What are you talking about... what time is it?"
I reach for the night stand to turn on a light, fumbling around in the darkness, a thud echoes across the room.
"Fuck that was my phone" I exclaim in aggravation but enjoying the slight adrenaline kick that wakes me up a bit more.
"Dad we aren't supposed to use those ... | I was cooking dinner while my son, Toby was playing in the open dining room with his new train set. As dinner was almost ready, I walk towards the dining table to move his toys and set the table. I noticed Toby was staring at me, giving me that look children give when they want to ask a question but are scared of our r... | 2017-11-12T20:23:38 | 2017-11-12T17:28:43 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | (slightly NSFW)
 
It's a Monday.
It's 7am and I haven't been awake for more than 30 minutes so I can barely remember the name of the professor monologuing at the front of the classroom, much less what subject we're supposed to be studying.
I think it's appropriate to say that my mind is nowhere near a ful... | Ugh, I fucking hate school. Most people hate school, but I really hate school. Most people get bored, stop paying attention, fall asleep, daydream, or text their friends. There are also those weirdos that focus way too much on each individual aspect of what the teacher says and go into information overload. I guess you... | 2017-11-13T22:10:35 | 2017-11-13T21:54:53 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | I have to escape.
In Heaven, we have it made. God gives us everything we wanted. Virgins? Check. Money? Check. Virgins *and* money? You got it.
But what we don't have is freedom. Freedom of thought. Academics, who are given libraries full of answers to the problems they couldn't solve in their lives, are ... | I rest atop the verdant knoll in Elysium, right by our border. Our people come up here sometimes when they need to feel again. A constant drunken orgasm can numb you and make the high seem low. You can make the highs even higher if you muster the courage to stand near the wall--peer into the mist. It reminds us of our ... | 2017-11-21T07:39:29 | 2017-11-21T07:14:56 | 61 | 21 |
[WP] Humanity has the strongest survival instinct in the universe, understandably leading everyone else to see Humans as the craziest species to exist. | Human
Level 4 Organism
Hazard Category 7
Bilaterally symmetrical / bipedal / two manipulating appendages ending in 5 digits including opposable digit
Category 3 nervous system / 2.2 Intelligence Factor / 13 ru Response Factor
Average size:
Height - 12.6 lu (Male); 11.4 lu (Female)
Mass - 180 mu (Male); 140 lu... | A massive gong sounded from the tower. It's deep, musical echoes spread far and wide across the Pink Plains, but nobody paid it much mind.
Zorbul the Magnificent, however awoke from his slumber with a start, and hastily gathered up his corpulent body from spilling off of his chair. Oh, that must be my special delivery... | 2017-11-25T07:31:20 | 2017-11-24T23:31:14 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Your parents used to say "As long as you are remembered, you will never die." The good news is you were happy to remember that when you changed the course of human history and everyone knows your name. The bad news is that was about 300 years ago and you'd really quite like to die now. | *You’ve got to be kidding me.* At the sight before him, the thought wouldn’t leave his mind. After the first couple hundred years it had seemed like he was finally starting to fade from memory.
Sure, he was taught to students in history classes around the country, but they didn’t really give a crap. Then there were t... | It has been a long since time since anyone has remember who I am, sure my name had been wrapped in immortality just like me, little children learn of my deeds all through school their memories of me preserving my life, but over 300years have past and to the nursing staff I'm just old Mr Jones.
Strangely enough I can n... | 2018-02-08T09:04:51 | 2018-02-08T05:35:10 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] I'm not scared of a computer passing the turing test... I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it.
Taken from r/Showerthoughts, credits to u/Grandure for coming up with the idea.
Thank you u/Grandure | "...Are you a fucking moron?"
"What?"
"We already *have* computers that fail the Turing Test by design. We have a shit ton of them. My laptop fails the Turing Test, because nobody wants a laptop to pass a Turing Test. That'd be creepy."
"Oh, no. I mean, like, the *computer* intentionally fails. Like, the computer ca... | The first chat-bots with a halfway-decent success rate at fooling humans generally worked by mimicking their interrogators. If a bot sees a human answer prompt X with response Y, it can use that response in a future conversation with an interrogator who uses a related prompt. Since the bot has no understanding of the m... | 2018-02-24T17:00:21 | 2018-02-24T16:32:13 | 90 | 18 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | Elli was born without the names. Some people thought that she was blessed. She was not faced with knowing the name of the person who would kill her. Others believed it was a curse, some kind of disability. She had to admit that not having the names made her wonder if there *was* something wrong with her. Everyone has t... | Two names, two purposes.
One will kill one will complete.
No way to tell the difference.
At least that's the idea behind the names. I personally think they are both there to mess with you.
You can spend your whole life looking for your soulmate only to find you killer, or worse running from your killer only to find... | 2018-03-11T09:04:19 | 2018-03-11T07:33:45 | 270 | 177 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | I was born with the same name tatooed twice, it was my parents worry that I was gonna kill myself so they put me on therapy since I remember, popping pills of all kinds, having every second of my life monitored.
The walls of my bedroom covered in pictures of happy animals, with motivational mottos on them. Everyone I ... | I'd met Joann when I was a boy
I knew who she might be,
before we were too young to sin,
she bopped me on the knee.
I met Kristine at just passed 10
and knew she was a mother hen,
because she brought me food and pens,
and told me to follow my dreams.
It was not long before 16
when sudden golden birthday sprees... | 2018-03-11T08:14:04 | 2018-03-11T07:34:02 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | "Zombies," Alex joked as the Emergency Alert dictated their safety procedures. Ms. Kimball shushed him.
. . . Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Military aid is unavailable . . .
Ms. Kimball addressed t... | I was resting in my house on a warm Saturday evening when the EAS broadcast began.
*BRRRP. BRRRP. BRRRP. Baaaaa*
"The United States Army has released an official statement. This applies to the entire country. Please, do not turn off your televisions."
I leaned forward in concern, for this was certainly no automated... | 2018-04-18T11:37:27 | 2018-04-18T10:58:54 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] Night after night you see the same girl in your dreams. Dreams with her are strangely vivid and easy to remember. Sometimes she's your wife, or your girlfriend, or your maid, or the princess you're saving, or the evil alien queen, or a vampire hunting you down. You're starting to fall in love. | Some nights you're a doctor
Plastic stethoscope
Held firmly in your hand
Pressed against a patient's chest
The operating room is small
Painted pink
Some nights you're a princess
White dress straddling your hips ... | First she was my wife. Second my girlfriend. Third my maid. Fourth a princess. The list goes on and on, and now, wait- apparently she's a BDSM fetishist now. Shi-
We all dream as we sleep. Be it an enhancement of our terribly mundane lives, or maybe a horrifying nightmare of epic proportions, we all have dreams. I hav... | 2018-05-25T06:39:13 | 2018-05-25T06:33:45 | 751 | 28 |
[WP] You are the child of a superhero and a supervillain conceived during a one night stand. You don't care for heroism or villainy, you just want your parents to get together so that you can have a family. | Part I:
"Mom!" I detested, "I don't want to go to villain school next year!"
"Honey, if you don't go to villain school..." she paused, letting a sigh of defeat pass, "You'll turn out like your father," she whispered. She always got quiet when she talked about dad.
"I don't care! I don't want to be a villain, and I d... | "Dad, for the last fucking time, she hasn't brainwashed me. Fuck, she's even said she won't, and she's a woman of her word."
"Call me in a few hours, and you can give me her location." My father says, before I hear a click.
My mother and father... Are mortal enemies. They're not just divorced. They're gifted. They had... | 2018-10-17T06:31:00 | 2018-10-16T21:49:23 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Theoretically, you can not surpass the speed of light. Humans find out why when we manage to break this rule, as our ships begin to outpace the rendering speed of the universe, and the illusion of all reality is broken as everything around us vanishes the faster we go. | I left the planet in my own little spaceship.
No one believed me when I told them I could not only reach outer space with this beauty, but also break the speed of light without turning into energy.
So far, my first claim had been confirmed, and so it was time to confirm the second one.
I grabbed the accelerator's h... | At the beginning of the journey, the crew loved being able to look out and see space. The stars, asteroids, and planets they passed left in them in awe. They offered an escape from the claustrophobic cabins and tense relationships that formed after enough time away from earth.
The darkness of space was lonely, but ... | 2019-03-06T07:51:10 | 2019-03-06T07:46:37 | 1,420 | 27 |
[WP] You were once a respected Gym Leader. An established member of your city that everyone looked up to, until a kid came along and beat your entire party with one Pokemon. You are not taking it well. | "One Mega Rayquaza... just one! It swept through my team of five, just like that!" I stared into space with a manic look in my eyes. Was that fair? A ten year old kid, barely out of diapers, cruising through the gym with a Pokemon he had traded and hadn't even trained himself.
"This world needs balance. Pokemon battle... | I was one of the best, a Gym Leader. No one could beat me, my greatest friends, my allies, my team. They were truly unbeatable, or so I thought.
Mid July it was, in came a young boy, I initially assumed he was just going to be looking for directions, imagine my surprise when he made his way up to me and challenged me ... | 2019-06-29T08:28:19 | 2019-06-29T08:17:52 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] One sundaymorning everyone wakes up with the worst crime they've ever committed tattooed on their forehead. It's breaking news on television. Yours says 'thief', your husband's says 'cheater'. As you go wake up your seven year old daughter, you see the word 'murderer' tattooed on her forehead.
[removed] | I could live with the killer tattoo across my forehead. I knew what I signed up for, five tours of duty in an infantry unit and I knew when I woke up what my sin would be.
My wife had adultery across hers, I already knew. She confessed after my last tour, said she would understand if I didn’t want her in my life any m... | I told David that I was a thief because I stole makeup from the store when I was a teenager. That was true. I didn't mention that I still shoplifted regularly. Mostly for the thrill, but I wasn't about to steal something that I wouldn't use.
He claimed that his tattoo was because he cheated at board-games. We both kn... | 2019-09-16T12:24:24 | 2019-09-16T10:19:26 | 145 | 54 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | Looking back on it, I knew I hadn't made the best first impression. But, who would in that scenario? That was my justification.
"Um, what?"
"I tried to ask Dad first, but he just keep bursting into flames and says 'That's not how its done!', and Cthlrast told me to go find a tutor. And so I made a circle and asked fo... | So, I learned a valuable lesson today. Namely that a human can be summoned to hell. Confusing, considering that every bit of media involving this whole procedure usually meant some dumbass dragged a demon to our world.
Fun popcorn fodder for the whole family to enjoy, y'know?
Not that I believed in a 'great beyond' ... | 2019-09-17T11:17:23 | 2019-09-17T10:31:37 | 128 | 37 |
[WP] As a Demon, you're quite familiar with would-be mages making errors in materials due to translation errors. However, today marks the first time that someone has attempted to summon you with Cruelty-Free Vegan Blood Substitute™. | It had been centuries since I was summoned. Last time, the blood of 100 virgins had been sacrificed to call me from the shadow realms. It was barely enough payment for the ask; I killed one king and installed another.
As the long years stretched by, that megar sustinance was wearing thin. Had the humans forgotten me, ... | Yazamor felt an annoying tug on his essence. It was the kind of summoning that just didn't quite have the power to be effective, but was enough of a nag that he'd feel inclined to appear just to convince them to stop. After what seemed like an eternity—literally an eternity in the demon reality—he groaned and slid off ... | 2020-01-23T09:05:06 | 2020-01-23T08:23:50 | 2,198 | 236 |
[WP] Rejected by the Federation Council for refusing to disband their military, humans ally themselves with the Thoran, the Federation’s resident warrior race. Warmongers, the Thoran find themselves enamored with humanity, and grow increasingly tired of the Federations attempts to “civilize” both. | The Rejection as it became to be known had been a staggering blow for humanity. The dominoes falling afterwords should have been predictable but at the time no one saw it coming.
Humanity effectively vanished from the galactic stage ninety five percent of all human businesses closed up shop, successful or not. Short o... | The meeting took place in a bunker multiple hundreds of meters below the soil of an unknown planet within the solar system.
"Are you sure it is completely safe to speak here?"
"It seems I trust dirt and steel more than you."
"If you trust this place, I will too, I guess."
"So let's begin then."
"Ah, yes, so... wh... | 2020-04-16T09:59:35 | 2020-04-16T08:19:10 | 170 | 110 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | When I first met the human, I thought he was going to attack me. He stuck his manipulator out and my first thought was that he was going to punch me. He instead took my hand firmly but with some lenience, and shook it lightly. He then spoke his name. It still goes through my mind on how strange it was, and how many var... | "He's drinking that putrid liquid again, it's so clear and unnatural, wheres the colouring?" Pita had his squared face smushed against the glass, each breath leaving a faint white outline as his one nostril flared.
"If you find it so disgusting, why do you keep watching him?" Standing by his side was Linp, an odd ali... | 2020-05-18T10:54:46 | 2020-05-18T10:06:44 | 808 | 588 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | When I first met the human, I thought he was going to attack me. He stuck his manipulator out and my first thought was that he was going to punch me. He instead took my hand firmly but with some lenience, and shook it lightly. He then spoke his name. It still goes through my mind on how strange it was, and how many var... | We all shun them, these ugly creatures from the planet R453, also known in their language as Earth. They are a plague to their environments and feed by extracting resources from their surroundings. They are viruses surviving on the hardships of other creatures around them, creatures they call lesser than them.
The st... | 2020-05-18T10:54:46 | 2020-05-18T08:18:21 | 808 | 384 |
[WP] Monsters regularly come to 24/7 stores, and the night shift workers just don’t fucking care. They interact peacefully. | Kevin always kept a 6-pack aside in case any Goblins walked in sober. Like the monster inside man only makes an appearance at the behest of fermented sugar, Kevin and his nocturnal buddies had come to learn that the reverse was true for the man inside monsters. Half a pint in, and the goblins’ tongues were laced with *... | This one is inspired by the novel I'm doing on Filipino Mythology
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Cold rain poured out on the empty street across Friday Store. The ground was wet and glistening against the streetlights, but for some reason, the convenience store did not get any raindrop on its windows.
Its big neon sign gl... | 2020-08-19T03:53:53 | 2020-08-19T01:35:14 | 83 | 44 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | Sometimes, the past comes to haunt you.
Everyone makes mistakes. You rob a convenience store one day because you’re hungry, and a week later you’re robbing a bank for the thrill. A little later you decide to take on some help. *You* never called them minions... things have a way of getting out of hand.
Still, that wa... | "I said YOU ARE UNDER ARREST!"
I continued wiping the glasses. The long years of bar-keeping taught me not to deal with such drunkards aggressively.
"Put down your towel and put your face on the ground!"
I lifted my eyes and looked at him as I hanged a glass on the rack above the bartender plot. "What would you lik... | 2020-10-10T01:13:01 | 2020-10-10T01:07:16 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave." | I'm laughing. Laughing so hard my kidneys are hurting. Laughing so damn hard I might just piss myself. It's all so fucking hilarious.
The old lady sitting next to me doesn't seem to think so. Her face is contorted with shock and horror as she inches away from me, wrinkly white knuckles clenching a frayed designer hand... | Some people might think having superpowers is cool. Flying can be cool and useful, same with super strength or speed etc. Super anything sounds nice. Then there are the weirder ones, like "able to boil water". I mean, come on, right? Until you realise what exactly around you is made of water.
But i digress.
... | 2020-12-15T14:47:09 | 2020-12-15T14:10:50 | 104 | 42 |
[WP] So this is what being in a car crash felt like. Not as painful as you thought it would be. But you can't feel your toes. You look down, your leg is missing from the knee onwards. There's no blood, no bone, no muscles. Instead you see mechanical components. | "What in the holy hell?" I asked, I imagined I could hear the whirring coming from my sheared off leg. Why was I not going into shock. Either from the accident or from finding out I'm this, or that part of me is, anyway. Was I some kind of cyborg? How would I not know this?
I reached down and tugged on a sheared p... | WARNING! Body modifications have been damaged. Please call 643-143U in case of emergency repair. CLIENT REMINDER from 34TH3R! Cited in GCX Protocol 113G40H: In case of damage to the product do not call an ambulance.
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I saw that warning message flash before my eyes and get projec... | 2020-12-17T09:31:29 | 2020-12-17T09:02:26 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You have been in a coma for years, but the people around you worship you as a deity, leaving offerings and notes with wishes and prayers. You aren't a god- time simply stops any time you wake up, leaving you alone in a frozen world. You accept the offerings and do what you can to grant prayers. | I do not remember how I came to be.
The only thing I remember of my origins is falling asleep and waking up an era later. In a tomb at the summit of the tallest mountain in the world, overlooking civilisation.
The view changes every time I awake, frozen in time until slumber retakes me.
The first was of a bustling... | I don't remember or know when I got this power, from what I've heard around me when I was younger, I've been in a coma since I was born. I have never really used this power, but some people are always skeptical. So one day, some, what initially were thought to be crazy people tried to wake me up. I somehow did, but tim... | 2020-12-28T08:45:15 | 2020-12-28T08:31:19 | 280 | 31 |
[WP] “Aha! You’re here about the Fifth Horseman job, aren’t you?” says War, in a loud and jolly voice, “well I must tell you, Pestilence and I thought we’d never get an application! We’ve really been swept off our feet these past couple of years... Say, what colour do you want your horse?” | War was looking over paperwork when it entered. For a being of pure conflict, he was surprisingly good at paperwork management. Blinding light flooded the room as It entered.
"Angelic Work is down the hallway-. Oh" he distractedly called, before he took a glance.
"Sorry about that. Thought you were someone else."
I... | "Grey coat with a slight blue tinge, mane and tail of a blinding white." I say, glaring at him. "The sooner you get me my horse, the better."
"Okay, and what will be your dreaded name?" War asks, edging a little closer. Not being the kind of person who communicates normally, I punch him in the mouth. He yells, falls ba... | 2021-01-02T16:56:37 | 2021-01-02T15:43:44 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] You are a wolf who was bitten by a werewolf. Every full moon your hair recedes, your teeth dull, and you are left cold and naked on a hillside. You’ve also met a lovely park ranger named Christine. | *Bang! Bang! Bang!*
Christine jumped. It was the dead of night and there was someone pummeling the door to her cabin. She approached cautiously, holding up a frying pan as a weapon. “Who’s there?” she asked.
“Little human! Little human!” A rough yet familiar voice yelled. “Let me in!”
She glanced out the w... | “Chrissy you’ve got to help me, I can’t go back to that!”
Chrissy reclined in bed, her eyes heavy lidded and her whole body ready for sleep, if only Spot weren’t having another crisis. She pressed the pillow down over her face and tried to count disemboweled sheep, the kind Spot left behind when he was a wolf. Sometim... | 2021-03-14T15:17:41 | 2021-03-14T13:49:33 | 2,401 | 129 |
[WP] Instead of heaven and hell, when you die, you find yourself in the room of a six year-old girl who invites you to join her tea party. It soon dawns on you, you're her imaginary friend. |
What happens when we die, we can only find out when we do, truly die. And not die and then come back. Because some did really die, their hearts and lungs stopped, they didn’t have any brain activity and yet. And yet they came back.
Death is the finish line, finality. The end. If you cross it and return, you did... | This realisation came to me as a surprise as I have always thought of myself as a sinner and Hell is where I belong.
Nevertheless, the girl pours the tea in my cup and the others. There are four persons here. there is a Mr. Charlie (a Panda), Ms. Rosie(an alpaca) and I am being called Mr. Jack. (a cat).
We all ca... | 2021-05-13T04:05:26 | 2021-05-13T02:19:59 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by henchmen because your boyfriend/girlfriend is a super hero, but the villains are your parents who just now recognized you as your BF/GF has arrived to save you and now you have to explain the situation to everyone while the henchmen watch barley stifling their laughter | As the hood over my head was removed, I heard the sound of raucous laughter coming from all around me.
"Well, if it isn't our leader's darling little boy! How's it going, Larry? Having fun dating a superhero?"
One of my parents' henchmen stood before me, shining a bright light into my face. Around me, I could see at ... | When I woke up tied up with two villains in front of me, I was scared but I wasn’t worried I knew she would come for me. They were talking but their voices sounded familiar, then it hit me like a semi-truck.
“Wait, MOM AND DAD!?”
“TYLER!?”
“Mom, dad you guys are villains? What the heck!”
“Your dating a superhero, ... | 2021-07-18T12:25:25 | 2021-07-18T11:05:47 | 959 | 90 |
[WP] Turns out, when a species reaches the stars, their ships resemble the characteristics of that species’ origins. Most other species have ultra fast, hard hitting spaceships, and a few are slow behemoths. But everyone is scared of the relentless, unstoppable humans. | You can tell a lot about a space faring race by their ships and I don't just mean their aesthetic preference. Every race seems to inevitably rely on their evolutionary strengths when designing their ships.
Take the Larkins for example; their long and slender ships seem to dance through space making seemingly impossib... | The head of an intergalactic space force turned his head in a way resembling nod of an apex predator rather than a civilized being. Turns out this ship is owned by Trigators, tall lizards with prolonged craniums and evil grin always sticked to their faces as a reminder of their ancient past. Their territorial enemies w... | 2021-10-12T12:26:10 | 2021-10-12T10:48:37 | 118 | 22 |
[WP] Just after your eyes close for the last time and everything goes black, you hear the whispers of a pleasant voice saying, “We hope you enjoyed this introduction to early humanity. Please enjoy the rest of your time at the Intergalactic Museum of Sentience!” | Some Mystery remains
Dominique’s brain had a difficult time to orient itself, his eye sight still blurry he looked around.
In wonder he studied his smooth hands, that showed neither wrinkles nor spots.
Being a human in the 21st Century, was truly a horrible experience. And so unsavory. Body fluids of all kinds seeme... | You hear Sigourney Weaver’s voice over the PA system. You’re confused before memories flood back into your mind.
You look down at the plaque, the “Demo” button you pressed before your journey. “2000-2150” You look around, murals covered the walls. Across the room you see Arthrial’s capital city, you decide to leave th... | 2021-12-01T00:31:18 | 2021-11-30T22:58:04 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] Whenever someone is born, the first sentence they utter predicts how they die. Lately every kid has been saying the same first sentence. | "Old age, old age, old age"
"You know that's not going to work, right? Only thing Benjamin will pick up is what language to talk in, you don't get to force his first sentence." Mary continued making dinner as Jared bounced the little one on his leg.
"I know, but it's worth a try. Ope, looks like he's getting hungry.... | “Papa,” said the baby, between froths of laughter as she lay swathed in blankets, watched over by a soft, bow-tied bear.
The word ran like a chill through the baby monitor, carrying the fatal message — distorted but complete — to the living room.
Monique and Robert had been reading, she a book (a child’s escape from ... | 2021-12-23T06:16:19 | 2021-12-23T04:32:26 | 234 | 139 |
[WP] "Now remember, a healing spell has some side effects. You may be tired, slightly dizzy, and DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see after. Let me repeat DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see. Ready? Good." | I did as she said. I interacted with none of the visions. But that didn’t mean I wasn’t going to try and decipher them.
I recalled the visions in my mind. First was the holy symbol the cleric used to cast the spell, but then it morphed and shifted into something else. I could hardly describe it. The symbol was a... | I wasn’t even given a chance to respond. The world swirled around me as sparkles of green whisked through the air. It seemed like a million winds were blowing, yet the air was stagnant like the ocean on midwinter’s eve.
The sparks grew denser as my feet left the floor. I found myself paralysed, whether out of fear o... | 2022-05-02T10:35:47 | 2022-05-02T09:30:24 | 326 | 87 |
[WP] You are an ancient lich, feared throughout the lands for your grey and fair vengeance. One day, you are summoned, but not by a corrupt king or angry mercenary, instead by an unnaturally thin girl dressed in servants rags, who says “f...forgive me for disturbing you...I had nowhere else to go” | When I saw her I knew. There was no fear in her face, at least not the fear of me that most mortals showed. No, instead she appeared strong, especially considering the poor state she stood before me in. Sunken in cheeks, arms pulled thin as wire, blackened eyes. I knew when I saw her that she must be desperate. Despera... | The rations had been cut again. She ate far too little as it was but now she struggled to walk to work, struggled to do the work and those were a recipe for death. She knew all too well her masters only allowed her to live if she provided them labor. For today, at least, she done that. She was put back into her chains ... | 2022-07-14T12:41:19 | 2022-07-14T08:35:46 | 310 | 99 |
[WP] Being the only militarists in a galactic alliance full of pacifists isn’t fun, especially as they keep needing your nation’s naval support when the other galactic alliance attacks. Thus are the woes of the United Republics of Earth and her Expeditionary Forces. | I am a space marine.
It is just the worst.
"So tell me more about these gun things?" Said Gorgoblomp the Master Librarian.
"Ok, I will, but first I need to you–" my shardgun shrieked as I loosed a couple rounds into a Xrnari highwarrior. "Get your damned head down! Take cover for fucks sake."
"Hmph. There is no nee... | Craston Dualhammer sipped his drink and remained firmly planted in his stool as the human patrons clambered for the exit. The tavern’s usually quiet and antiquated atmosphere had been violently disrupted; sirens screamed, and a large red light pulsed overhead. The 96th outpost of the Galactic Alliance was under attack.... | 2022-09-09T22:08:47 | 2022-09-09T18:29:01 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You're an ordinary person that works a 9 to 5 job. You pay your taxes and regularly contribute to your retirement fund. In a world of magic, prophecy, and calls to adventure this makes you extremely unusual. People are starting to notice. | After a long day of work at the Mystical Arts Emporium, I just want to escape. Hoping for re-runs of *Happy Days* or *Leave it to Beaver*, I relax into my recliner and turn on the television. It is one of the few real leather recliners left after the Great Cow Extinction of 2009. Apparently, using cows as practice targ... | I sit in my car, reading the latest headlines. The Mage Tower of London just prevented a demon summoning that a cult was trying to enact at Stonehenge. The Russians are splintering as Baba Yaga and several other creatures of the former Soviet States run rampant over the Russian countryside.
The American Council for M... | 2022-11-17T08:27:57 | 2022-11-17T07:59:56 | 247 | 109 |
[WP] Write a story with a large, illogical plot hole, then have the main character discover it. | It was July 17, 2005. Craig Katz drove to his home in Bloomington, Indiana. As he stepped out of his car, he waved to the mailman making his route. The postal officer did not return the call.
Craig grabbed his mail, opened his door, and stepped inside.
Out he laid the assorted envelopes for careful examination. He fi... | Budd flew down the highway in his red camaro; he had been flooring it for several minutes now. His pregnant wife, bashmilda, was in the back seat taking hits of meth in between drunkenly firing rounds at the pursuing police.
'Drive faster!' roared bashmilda, 'who the fuck named you?!' retorted budd. 'Also, I cant driv... | 2014-05-25T19:49:32 | 2014-05-25T19:41:47 | 235 | 98 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | Decided to keep the same WP but with a twist
I could hear his screams echo through the house.
"Whelp that's all from me then, bye" The Djinn shrugged his shoulders before vanishing into dust. Running to Jake's room I opened the door only to see him fondling his new breasts in shock.
"Why do I have breasts? Where di... | "What's wrong Anthony? Forget who you went to bed with or something?" Hearing nothing after that almost too realistic girly scream I curiously approached the outside of his bedroom door. He has a queen sized bed and we were at a party last night so it was feasible that he brought a drunk girl home. I knock on the d... | 2014-08-19T11:27:56 | 2014-08-19T10:51:12 | 59 | 25 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | "So you're telling me that you wished to meet the girl who'll be your perfect soulmate."
"Yeah."
"And then I turned into a girl."
"...Yeah."
"Well, let's not jump to conclusions. It's perfectly possible that this is just a coincidence, and that I just happened to spontaneously become a girl at the same time you mad... | After a long tiring day in college, I headed for my room in the apartment I had recently moved into with a close buddy of mine. I throw my backpack on the floor, lie down on my bed and quickly note the time - it was 6:45 pm.
As I was staring at the ceiling, I remembered the lamp my roommate Ashkan had showed me a co... | 2014-08-19T11:05:19 | 2014-08-19T10:17:13 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Frighten me without using any blood, gore or explicit violence. | "Honey?" Jenny hollered from the den. "What are you making in there? It smells terrific!"
"It's a surprise, love! Just you wait and see!" I heard myself yelling back.
She laughed. "Another surprise? It's been one after another ever since you got back from your trip! Who are you and what have you done with my husband?... | My eyes stopped working this morning. And my arms and legs. I'm lying in the middle of my cold kitchen floor, trying to twist my head, neck, and torso enough to get myself upright. I must have left my door open before all this happened; the wind is whipping through the house. I can hear the curtains ruffling and papers... | 2014-11-18T12:21:15 | 2014-11-18T08:59:17 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | So he walked into my 3B class, just like anyone else would. Kinda handsome, I guess, but overall pretty ordinary. Until he turned and I caught the number floating over his shoulder.
The big one-O.
I'm pretty sure I made a noise that would make a mouse call me a pussy, and I sweated through my T-shirt in five second... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T13:14:54 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 322 | 22 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | “I had no idea what the numbers meant at first, but everyone had one. The highest I had seen, before I knew what they were, was my uncle, a Vietnam veteran, five. I learned what they really meant two years ago, walking home after my first day of middle school, a passing car swerving all over the road, had to be going a... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T12:35:37 | 295 | 199 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | This is my first post to WP, so I hope anyone who reads this likes it!
Ever since I was born, I’d see numbers in my brain. From the instant I saw a living face I’d see a number. I learned pretty quickly it was danger: my dog was a 1 (too stupid to hurt anyone even if he tried, bless him), and the highest number I eve... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T14:18:16 | 140 | 12 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I sat in the back of the classroom, staring at her.
What the hell was going on? Was I losing it?
I looked around the room. No, everything was normal. A bunch of 3s, a few fours, and Mark, a six (I stay away from him).
Then there's this girl.
I had heard all about her. She was new in town, apparently her parents we... | "Tell me boy, what do you see in our new students?" the headmaster asked me, staring intently at the door through which they had just left. The headmaster knew - he had known for a long time - about my peculiar gift. I could see the danger in people. I could tell with a glance that manifested as a number in my head, on... | 2014-11-29T15:20:57 | 2014-11-29T13:49:40 | 50 | 36 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I'm not really sure how the numbers work. I don't remember when they started showing up, and I have never seen my own. They are little coloured numbers that hover above peoples' heads when I look at them.
My parents, both trained and experienced police officers that were normally armed, both averaged around a 6 or a 7... | It was just another boring Monday, started off with socials. With "Madame" Defrushia. Screw her. She's a flipping idiot and hates on everyone who corrects her, so, like most of the class by the first month in, worse is that she's teaching us our Canadian history. Whatever, she just sits at her desk and tells us to ... | 2014-11-29T18:39:45 | 2014-11-29T17:27:40 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | They tell you to be a good person in life. Follow the rules, be well mannered, positive outlook and all that. Maybe that's enough. It seemed to be for *him*. To be honest, I don't know what I did to deserve this. I wasn't great by any measure, but by what cruel sense of humor was I given this punishment? Day in, day ou... | *Eyes open. Breathe in.*
The air is so cold. So cold and clear and sharp, it cuts your lungs and leaves you breathless. And you know where you are, but it can't be.
*Eyes closed*
You can feel the tile under your head, your back, your arms and legs. It's hard, it hurts. Yes, you're still on the bathroom floor. But th... | 2015-01-04T15:07:40 | 2015-01-04T12:23:44 | 89 | 52 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | "No, please."
She pushed the vial away from her lips, her thin and wrinkly hands shaking.
"Why?" I asked.
"I... I'm so tired, dear." She sighed. Then she continued:
"My flesh is tired."
"What do you mean?"
"The other ones, my other lives, I've come to realize... they were not *really* me. I've read their diaries... | My third story so please comment! Thanks.
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I am sorry bro. I really am.
I know you can hear me even if you are an infant. Both of us definitely know that. We both have taken our turns for the past like, I don't know? Maybe 500 years? A thousand? Two thousand? I don't know. I have lo... | 2015-02-14T06:40:49 | 2015-02-14T05:46:47 | 1,103 | 26 |
[WP] At age 18 each person meets their soul-mate. For centuries everyone has fallen in love with theirs. You're the first person to not love yours. | *Wait until you're eighteen.*
That's what they've been telling us, for as long as I could remember. So I did. I went to school, came home, went to work, all throughout high school. I tried my hardest to stay unnoticed, just like all the other teenagers fighting their hormones so they could find that "something better"... | My mum walked in, her face completely overthrown with a smile. I had never seen her smile so much in her life. She squeezed my arm as she walked to stand behind me, and a big burly man entered the room, my soulmate.
The moment I saw him I felt sick to the pit of my stomach, like all the excitement for this moment had ... | 2015-02-21T14:19:58 | 2015-02-21T09:38:01 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has reached an upper limit on the maximum number of people alive at the same time for the number of available souls. New births are now causing existing souls to randomly vacate their current bodies to occupy the excess new births. | What an awful time to be alive.
Due to advances in medical science, the world's population reached 9 billion. People were living longer than ever. Then it started happening. People started collapsing and going comatose. All body functions normal except for upper brain activity.
The medical community was baffled as ... | "Damnit!" He was so close to getting that last point for his scholarship, but it was too late. The grand university door was already closed, so he couldn't turn in the paper he slaved on for days. If only he could slide it under the door, for just a sliver of hope... it was no use.
"Mom is going to kill me.." he mutte... | 2015-03-04T06:09:48 | 2015-03-04T05:23:41 | 99 | 31 |
[WP] Around the world, various hell gates are open. Demons are pouring out of them, wounded. Satan himself appeared on television, "Something has invaded hell. Humanity, we need your help!" | "I would remind you of the words of your poet Mark Twain, But who prays for the Devil? Who, in two thousand years, has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner that has needed it most? The threat the Elder Race poses to Hell is dire, and will spread unless our three realms show a united front. These are dark t... | "The Hellgates have opened. Humanity, we need your help." Came from the television, repeating constantly on the emergency broadcast channel.
Marcia, the lovely old lady who lived at Apartment 28 with her cranky husband George, yelled "George, come here! Something funny is happening to the TV again!" from the comfort ... | 2015-08-02T08:54:27 | 2015-08-02T08:23:32 | 80 | 21 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | *Homo* v. 1.5 release: *Homo modernus*
**New features:**
* Improved and sustained acuity of visual sensory systems. They should no longer wear out as quickly.
* Female models now have access to facial hair growth.
* In order to facilitate numerical reasoning, an arithmetic logic unit has been included in the fronta... | Brain:
* Laughing now always produces a sound. You should no longer experience laughing without making noises and looking like a retard while your mouth hangs open and your head turns red.
* There was a strange interaction with natural poisons like alcohol, THC or tobacco; Instead of triggering a defensive behaviour t... | 2015-08-25T08:53:32 | 2015-08-25T08:47:07 | 746 | 21 |
[WP] Arriving at the medical clinic at night. You notice that the waiting room is empty and smile. Weird, the reception desk is empty, but you wait. After a minute the printer on the desk churns to life. A piece of paper slides out with one horrifying line. "You have been exposed, don't leave" | A tired smile finds my face as the hospital doors open to nothing short of a miracle: an empty waiting room. Between a three-year-old with strep throat and a lapse in insurance, today has not been the best. I pull my tired Maggie along, grateful the babysitter could stay the newborn at the last minute.
"It smells fun... | I look at my zipper. My goods aren't hanging out. I wasn't exposed in that way, and I was guessing, but it was just a guess, that they didn't mean me stealing a candy bar in 5th grade or telling my girlfriend she didn't look fat in those jeans. I suppose that only left my work as a hitman. I didn't think it was much of... | 2015-08-27T08:08:51 | 2015-08-27T06:31:46 | 346 | 27 |
[WP] You accidentally call the FBI in place for a pizza shop and attempt to order your favourite pizza with toppings. Coincidentally, the FBI uses pizza language as a means of code. | I tossed my bag onto the couch and flopped down onto it myself, letting out a long groan.
God, I'm never pulling another double shift again, I thought. Fuck the money.
I stared into the darkness of the kitchen, fifteen feet away. I stared for whole minutes. Fifteen feet. Might as well be fifteen miles, I thought, si... | "Hello," the woman on the other end of the phone said back to me, "how can I help you today?"
"Yeah, can I have a large pepperoni-" I started. Someone in the background asked me to pick up a meat lovers instead. There was a short argument, "On second thought can you make it half pepperoni and half sausage."
"Are you ... | 2015-11-30T16:25:52 | 2015-11-30T16:18:28 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] Choose an idiom (e.g. "stone-cold killer"). Write the story that caused the phrase to be used literally and therefore introduced it into the language.
Idioms can be from non-English languages also if they work well | In a land far away, there was a young prince that had a weakness.
No mater which plant they were from, seeds made him terribly ill, and for this illness no cure existed.
When this fact was discovered by the court doctors, his father, the king, sent out guards to burn all farms to the ground. No one was to use seeds ag... | “I’m going to need a Memory potion today, good sir.” I leaned against the moldy wooden counter, then thought the better of it when it threatened to give way beneath me. The smell of old, rotting wood, amongst other unpleasant odors, invaded my nose.
“Oh, I do believe I have a few of those left.” The old man stood slow... | 2015-12-10T06:50:00 | 2015-12-10T05:15:54 | 43 | 11 |
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