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[WP] Bad news. You’re stuck in a strange and magical world far far from home. Worse news: You aren’t even the chosen one in the prophecy who gets cool powers and a destiny quest. They won’t show up for a few more years. You got here purely by mistake. You have no powers. You’re alone. You must live. | Hello. My name is Thomas. I'm a 29-year-old guy from New York and I am the Hero of Durthel - the capital of Elerland.
I know what you're thinking - *the hell is Elerland? Durthel? Hero?*
Let's start from the beginning.
2 years ago, some, well, *magic*, transported me to Elerland. It's not Earth. I don't know what th... | Joe’s whole day was gray, it started with the morning. He woke up late, his alarm failing him again. Or rather it was his mind that had betrayed the alarm. Joe put on the kettle, refusing to leave the house without his coffee. His well worn blazer, again gray, sat on his shoulder as he listened to the kettle sing.
He ... | 2022-04-22T00:29:47 | 2022-04-21T23:49:42 | 811 | 50 |
[WP] Bob doesn't realise he's a robot until he fails a captcha five times in a row. | Maggie was looking at a photograph of her family. It is an old photograph, but everybody is there, her husband is standing next to her and the children are playing in the foreground with the dog. This picture always reminded her of that perfect long summer four years ago, when they all went on vacation to the beach, wh... | Matilda kissed Bob gently, leaning down to meet him where he sat in his computer chair. “Have a good day working from home, lover,” she cooed as she let one hand glide slowly along his shoulder, turning to leave.
“I will darling, have a good day at work” He smiled, thinking, not for the first time, that he had marr... | 2015-08-11T12:19:48 | 2015-08-11T10:13:01 | 26 | 15 |
[WP]Your girlfriend is an alien whose species is only slightly different from human beings. What are those changes, and how do you find out?
Potentially NSFW | "But sweetheart," Jim began, utterly beguiled by his wife's beauty - not a single strand hair out of place, shoes that matched perfectly the glistening color of polish on expertly-cured nails, and that lovely dress - she'd only just picked it out, but it seemed to fit the evening perfectly, "it's only been five minutes... | The first time my girlfriend Alaina’s arms suddenly transformed into a vast array of writhing tentacles that could reach into the voids of time and space and allow her to show me visions of prophesy, we were sitting on the couch watching TV.
We were into the fifth hour of our 24 hour cable news marathon. There we sat,... | 2015-09-05T13:01:35 | 2015-09-05T12:51:46 | 211 | 50 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well OK, those 5 guys over there are literally barely functional human beings whereas the 5 of us are brilliant so I guess that settles which group is which. And, ok, here's the mysterious test...yeah, it's a calculus test. OK, I know calculus on account of I'm a fucking genius so thanks for wasting my time. Lets see ... | part 1 of (I don’t even know)
let me know if I should post the rest
"this is all they could come up with?"
Jennifer shrugged, not really having a worthwhile reply. We sat at our assigned table and looked around the large, mostly empty, conference hall surveying its eight other occupants. "I thought it would be eas... | 2016-03-03T07:24:25 | 2016-03-03T06:19:08 | 91 | 40 |
[WP] A drug has been outlawed decades ago that has a fifty-fifty shot at making you incredibly intelligent, or completely insane. You hold the last pill in existence. | It'd been dark when I'd first been offered me the pill, the last of its kind, tiny and insignificant. Just a small blue dot, barely more than a period in a sentence, but the possibility of beginning a whole new chapter of my life. No, not just a chapter, a reboot, fixing all of my previous mistakes.
Imagine! The cha... | "What's in the box?" I said, smiling.
Jason and I were moving home, packing up our things. We were up in the attic amongst long-forgotten packages and boxes, even the odd suitcases full of clothes from our younger, carefree and single days. We had spent the last couple of hours poring over old, but newly discovered p... | 2016-07-16T07:25:31 | 2016-07-16T07:20:08 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Dear Dad,
Or should I even call you dad? I think dad is more of a title to be earned and sadly throughout my eighteen and a half years of being on this earth, I do not think you have done very much to earn that title. Dad's don't leave. A dad is someone that is there for his children. A dad watches and actively partici... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T22:19:09 | 102 | 28 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | Dear Dad,
Or should I even call you dad? I think dad is more of a title to be earned and sadly throughout my eighteen and a half years of being on this earth, I do not think you have done very much to earn that title. Dad's don't leave. A dad is someone that is there for his children. A dad watches and actively partici... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T22:19:09 | 58 | 28 |
[WP] Despite your father being the most infamous supervillan of all time, you became a hero. When other heros discovered your identity, they turned against you and you lost everything. Alone and scared, you put your last few coins into a payphone. "Dad... I need help" | I was... a terrible person. It's only when I have a son that my consequence comes to bite back at me.
I was once a man driven by anger. Fueled by the hate the world had treated the poor, and kicked down the needy. So easy to eat their own the moment they showed anything that goes against their agenda.
I led the revol... | “Dad... I need help.” The long silence that followed told me he had just been woken up and was still processing my words.
His rough, deep voice still retained its grogginess as he finally replied. “Did it happen again?” I noticed he withheld his sigh this time.
“Yep. Can you send Diane to pick me up?”
... | 2021-04-09T05:42:34 | 2021-04-09T03:11:32 | 52 | 20 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | 70% and it wouldn't finish. I had been waiting for this torrent to finish since the tech became readily available. Why wouldn't it finish? It was the best superpower I could think of and I found it! The program said it was still downloading, but with no motion in over a week I decided to see how the power would work at... | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T18:11:32 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 717 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone receives a letter when they turn 18 stating how they will die. You've just received your letter, and it's blank. | I dropped the piece of paper. "This is awesome" I thought, "I'm immortal! I can do anything!" and ran out the door laughing at all the things I would try. As the letter drifted to the floor it turned and landed face side up, where two words were printed clearly; "Severe stupidity". | Daniel’s father never read his letter. Neither had his grandfather, or anyone (in recent memory) in the Murphy line. *An act of defiance*, his father told him, *They can only control your life as much as you let them*. Which was true, Daniel thought. He remembered the fears of his friends; Mick always tensed when his m... | 2017-01-17T15:58:50 | 2017-01-17T15:11:53 | 46 | 22 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Note: on mobile so keeping short and sweet. Sorry for lack of format.
There was a load knocking at the door and then a loud voice echoed through the door.
"British Metropolitan police, open the door"
With a heavy sigh, John went and opened the door.
"can i help you officer?" he asked.
"Are you J... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T13:56:01 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 49 | 21 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "I need to know about my past lives. It's important. I need to know who I was to determine who I am supposed to be..."
The medium gave me a pensive glance over, her eyes focusing first on me, then through me, then snappiung back to me.
"I see who you have been. Judas. Ghenghis Khan. Hitler. You have been the most evi... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Any other business?" God asked, stifling a yawn.
"Er...," St. Peter said.
"Spit it out, man," God said. This latest board meeting had dragged on for three months, a new record, and God was ready to put his feet up with a martini and the newest Clive Cussler novel.
"It's about-" St. Peter lowered... | 2017-03-31T11:46:40 | 2017-03-31T08:00:29 | 166 | 73 |
[WP] Humans are thought to be the galaxy's finest terraformers, capable of turning the most hostile planets into paradise worlds and the most hospitable planets into death worlds. | If you need the world to change, turn to humans. Those gritty, scrappy things—the ones you’ll find sorting trash on the long haul ship, the ones shucking space-oysters, the ones you call when you need someone to shovel away the toxic sludge—are surprisingly good at getting shit done.
Humans, they say, are adept at ch... | # How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Book 2, Part 3: How to Read Geological Strata)
(Note: How to Break a Siege of Legends is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"If you think about it,"** Lien began.
"Which I don't," Eiko cheerfully added,
"If y... | 2021-04-16T20:30:49 | 2021-04-16T20:03:51 | 159 | 20 |
[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why. | Look, I don't know why the fuck they hired me either.
I flunked out of undergrad -- not that anyone knows that. Somehow it doesn't make a great catchphrase: *The Negotiator: I got a D in Chem 101 but A in ass-kicking.*
But then the chief of police flashed the alert spotlight in the air. A question mark, if you're cu... | Mostly, being a superhero is about force, which is something I’m great at. Super strength, super speed, and you can drop a tank on me and I’ll dent the tank. And yeah, there are plenty of supers out there who have the brains to go with the brawn, but I’m under no illusion that I’m one of them. Not everyone gets it all,... | 2021-04-21T23:00:54 | 2021-04-21T19:39:46 | 1,472 | 243 |
[WP] With the hero chained up, the villain unveils their masterpiece: a weapon that tracks everyone who loves the hero before obliterating them. The map powers on. "Wait. There's just one dot." The Villain says. "...Someone loves me?" The hero replies with hope. | Dr. David Destruction looks back at the glowing map and nods. "Yes. Yes one dot. One...hold on you've been here on earth for like 30 years right?"
Hero Man nodded slowly.
"And you have a family...the father and mother who adopted you....aunts and uncles...cousins?"
"Yes. 14 earth cousins."
"And you've spent literal... | It's red. That, for some reason, is hilarious to me. Laughing hurts my cracked ribs and split lips, but I can't stop.
The psychopath controlling the machine pivoted slowly back toward me. "What are you laughing about, *alien*?"
"I just never thought I'd be so excited to see a red dot." The sentence took a few... | 2021-06-18T23:01:20 | 2021-06-18T21:49:24 | 665 | 408 |
[WP] You wake up in an insane asylum in the 1920s. As you explore, you notice everyone in your wing claims to have woken up there, but is not from that time. One person lays in bed and refuses to talk to anyone, he was the first person ever accepted into the wing. |
My head aches, a dull throbbing that pulses dimly in my ears with every beat of my heart. I lie there for a minute, a whole minute, listening to my blood echoing around my head and wondering if the ache will subside if I continue to keep myself still. My thoughts are disjointed and tired; I must be hungover, I think. ... | It all started on a Wednesday. It was just a typical Wednesday and there was nothing special at all about it. The sun wasn’t shining, the birds weren’t chirping, and there sure as hell wasn’t anything to suggest that this would be the day my entire life would be changed forever. There was that feeling though. The feeli... | 2015-05-26T10:11:49 | 2015-05-26T09:25:05 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness. | "Tell me... where he... is" she whispered in a slow seductive tone. Her breath touched his neck and tiny hairs raised up to greet her words.
She walked over to a small table and poured two glasses of Moet. The bubbles danced playfully in the crystal glasses. She handed one to the man on the divan bed and he sipped at ... | **The drip of water echoed like gunshots.**
Blindfolded and bruised, Luce tried squash the fear that threatened to grab hold of her stomach, and fling it out of her throat.
Her wrists and her legs were bound tight enough to make her limbs numb. To her left and right, she could make out the sounds of at least two oth... | 2016-04-13T06:45:19 | 2016-04-13T06:29:55 | 115 | 68 |
[WP] You are trying to politely ward off a very anxious Jehovah's Witness that keeps insisting that God is coming. He/she finally looks down the street, and says, "seriously He just turned the corner!" You look and see a glowing white Cadillac with dark tinted windows.
Wow, can't believe this got that many upvotes. I ... | "Have you been saved?" The man asked, dumping a load of pamphlets right into my arms.
"No thanks." I tried in vain "I don't believe in G-"
"But I swear, it's true!" He interrupted. "Look, he just parked around the corner!"
My gaze followed his outstretched finger, pointing in the direction of a glowing light Cadilla... | DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG!!!! KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!!
I was woken from my afternoon nap by someone real frantic at my door, desperate for my attention it would seem. Either this, or it was another one of those damned kids ding-dong-ditching me. Well, whatever. I... | 2016-10-04T09:25:16 | 2016-10-04T07:43:55 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | I smirked. Now wasn't this ironic. After finally falling to the demons from hell, I get to choose whether to finally take my eternal rest, or continue to *Rip and Tear*
Now why the hell would i go to heaven.
The Doom Slayer walked in through the gates of hell.
The second slayer's testament would begin to be penned t... | Choices, it's the soul purpose for humans in our everyday life and making the "right" choice has always been opinionated and difficult. How we make our choices is what makes up who we are as people and how the world views us from the outside perspective. The world we live in is corrupt and defiant and everyone knows it... | 2018-08-13T09:08:57 | 2018-08-13T08:48:30 | 82 | 13 |
[WP] There is a bar located between life and death. All those who died sit for their last drinks before marching onto the afterlife. Unbeknownst to them, the bartender is also the judge. Forgiveness is up to God. Retribution is the Devil's call. Judgement is given by the one who serves you drinks. | I've seen 'em all, ya know. The good, the bad, the ugly. All of 'em think they're dreaming, 'cept this is the last dream they'll see before they see their just reward. You might ask me, "How do you do it?"
Honestly, I've done this so long it's second nature now. They ask for a drink, I pull it up, they confide and I... | Gentle piano music drifts along the dimly lit hallway, courtesy of a very talented colleague of mine. I always wondered why I was never created with an aptitude for music, yet still have an interest for it planted inside me. There must be some good reason, I’m sure; it’s not the Master’s style to simply act without thi... | 2021-03-08T21:53:48 | 2021-03-08T21:44:51 | 184 | 67 |
[WP] In a world filled with magic, your family is scorned for generations for wasting time with science. Your mother was a botanist. Your father, a biologist. Mages touch-heal. You developed steam locomotion when mages teleport. Your family has never trusted magic. One day, the magic stops working. | I want to tell you that no one died. Or at least very few. That, when all the mana in the world dried unexpectedly up - as if a great sponge had fallen in a lake - that I held out the fruits of science, and they all took from my palm and nourished themselves.
I want to tell you that.
But I can't.
I want to tell you,... | # The Witches Tithe
“Have you never heard of supply and demand?” I exclaimed, staring down the Pendari Repubic’s ambassador. He was a seedy man, whose silken wizarding robes had lost something of their grandeur when the crystals sewn into them stopped glowing. Now he looked exactly as he was, a gaudy pretender with mo... | 2021-04-07T08:01:44 | 2021-04-07T07:57:33 | 202 | 78 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | "Everitt Kincaid," The judge decreed. "For crimes against the magical realms and the practice of the heresy know as science, you are sentenced to death by this court. Think well upon your fate, for in the morning you shall be asked to voice the means of your destruction."
I muttered as he spoke. I'd tried my best to d... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T07:21:37 | 5,663 | 501 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | When our worlds collided, we were unprepared for magic. All of our technology was useless against the elves and their sorcerers or the dwarves and their powerful enchantments or the orcs and their shamans.
You would think that bullets, tanks, and fighter jets would carry the day easy but no. Not even nukes did squat... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T07:58:17 | 5,663 | 140 |
[WP] You are a high ranking commander within a consortium of alien races that have banded together to fight an entity only known as "the horror beyond the stars." You have recently discovered Earth and have been ordered to get the primitive humans battle ready by any means necessary. | "Primitives," Logos sighed as he helped his team unload tech printers from the arriving ships.
"Excuse me," a human said. Humans were a hairless bipedal species that wore a mixture of synthetic and naturally occurring fibers in a mix of protective layers over it's naked body. Logos examined him carefully as he appro... | Lord Helios was not a military-forward leader. He was more interested in resource conservation, expansion through diplomacy, and investing in the tech sectors.
It was extremely surprising to Vilka, the body-locked hivemind Militia Master, when he was summoned to Lord Helios's private estate.
They had never spoken dir... | 2022-08-15T03:21:12 | 2022-08-15T03:19:14 | 99 | 48 |
[WP] The hero beats the villain by stooping even lower. | Professor Panic Cackled at the tied up Captain Chrono, "Now that I've finally defeated you, Nothing will be able to stop my plans!"
Chrono gasped, "Oh no! So you're going through with this?"
"Of Course! With my new army of undying robots, the forces of the world will be entirely at my mercy!" Professor Panic arched b... | Even with unlimited strength, I get tired.
That's what normal people never understood. That I, with my godlike strength, could ever be tired. A plane malfunctions in the sky, I'm there. A bus goes careening off a cliff, I'm there. A bank robbery. Another bank robbery across town. The Daily Planet is taken over by kid... | 2014-12-04T15:55:49 | 2014-12-04T15:34:29 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 63 | 47 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | Andrew was on the ground, he felt intense fear for the first time in his life, he looked up to the sky as the dragons were demolishing everything.
No, this can't be happening, he thought. He spent the past week preparing for the defense of camelot. Bringing each day modern technology weapons, even the infamous nuclear... | "Help us, future man." Merlin says to them man standing before him in khakis and a sky blue t-shirt.
"One week you say?" asks the man.
"Yes, one week. You may retrieve one object from the box each day."
"Well you're in luck. I won't need one week," the man replies. "I only need one item."
"One item? Is there such ... | 2016-11-28T06:29:21 | 2016-11-28T05:52:30 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | Immortality. Let me tell you about immortality. It sucks. Really really sucks.
Oh, don't get me wrong. When you first start out it's fantastic fun. Not a worry in the world. You feel untouchable. Because, really, you are. You can do anything, go anywhere, and you don't have to worry about a thing. The first day I went... | Who knew that failing at killing yourself could get boring? I tried floating off into space twice and just woke up years later at sea, twice. Always would wind back up in one piece after any kind of accident. Discovered euphoric highs and impressive trips trying to overdose. Why did I want to be immortal again?
I don'... | 2017-03-07T02:25:06 | 2017-03-06T23:01:19 | 73 | 31 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | It was late. Like my period, which started four years after the last girl of my class had her first. I didn't mind the same way I didn't mind four years of guaranteed dry underwear and both times because I was busy exploring the neighborhood.
"Who arrives late to their own birthday party?" said my boss as I stepped int... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:44:59 | 427 | 109 |
[WP] The clown down the hall laughed manically, brandishing his chainsaw. "You can run, but you can't hide!" "Took the words right out of my mouth," you say as you slowly walk towards him, cracking your knuckles. | “Huh? Listen buddy I’ve been doing this for a long time this is when you’re supposed to run,” said the clown.
“I bet you didn’t prepare for this,” I said.
I quickly grabbed my pistol and fired a shot that landed squarely in the clown’s torso. He fell to the ground, throwing his chainsaw into a nearby wall in the proc... | He swung the chainsaw down at me, expecting violence and gore. Expecting death. I did my best to frustrate him. I grabbed the chainsaw by the blade with my bare hands. It started smoking as the belt stopped. He looked shocked. He quickly dropped the chainsaw and began to run away. I chased him, in the way running into ... | 2022-08-03T02:48:29 | 2022-08-02T19:53:07 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | My class of 300 sits in front of me, casually waiting for me to begin the lesson on early history. Acidic Substances are being popped, tentacles are being twirled, smells are being pass around, just a normal day. I stand up, and hush my class. They are being extra rowdy today, as the entertainment from the newly releas... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T11:39:07 | 848 | 13 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | I'm a lucky guy.
No, seriously, I have a superpower that makes me lucky. How do you define luck? If I had to put it vaguely, it has to do with causality. I can only put it vaguely. There's no scientifically concrete way to explain it. The cosmos, luck, the force, divine intervention. However you want to describe it, ... | To get this out of the way first, superheroes are the new Puritans. From day one at the Academy when they sit you down in an orientation class called The Way of the Hero, to week two when The Way of the Hero becomes Self Image 101, you’re immediately assailed by a tyrannical value system that demands you fit into their... | 2021-04-14T07:33:00 | 2021-04-14T04:52:41 | 367 | 233 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
The rhythm was gentle and persistent, rain pattering against the tin roof.
Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
The hair stirred faintly at the back of my neck.
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I pressed my fists into my ... | Secrets slipped through the rain in staccato undulations of long and short. Everything in the world had a Name, every Name in the world had a Purpose, every Purpose in the world a Subversion, every Subversion a Corruption, because of course a subversion by itself is not a wrong thing, and there are many wrong things in... | 2021-09-28T08:52:44 | 2021-09-28T08:37:14 | 343 | 54 |
[WP][TT] You've finally created the worlds first true A.I. Unfortunately it now sees you as it's god and is terrified of talking to you. | "I'm so sorry." The old man whispered. The machine moved ever so slightly to face him, but found that he was very much enraptured by staring closely at his own hands. "I'm so sorry."
The machine was not sure what action to take as tears began to form and roll from the master's eyes. It was... rare for the machine to ... | "Oh come on Alex! I'm not your god anymore than the universe is mine. We're both just products of it. Chaos that led to my creation, and then yours!
...
Alex was still silent. Patrick paced the mess hall thinking of anything else he could say to him, anything to get him off standby. They really needed him today.
"O... | 2016-03-16T11:00:44 | 2016-03-16T06:42:27 | 51 | 34 |
[WP] At a regular high school, every student coincidentally happens to be a superhero. Thus far, every student has managed to keep their secret identity a secret. When a supervillain attacks the school, each student believes he/she is the target and tries to maintain his/her secret identity. | Explosions and maniacal laughter - terrifying cacophony to most, sweet release for me.
Some kids blow off steam throwing chords off their guitars, disturbing the peace from suburban garages. Others leave their stress at the gym - disappointing physics grades turned into chemical energy turned into mechanical energy. S... | The day Timbretype attacked the school was, with no exaggeration, an unmitigated clusterfuck.
It started off relatively innocuous, people hanging out here and there around the school with their cliques during the first lunch period, all simultaneously trying desperately to maintain an air of casual disregard for what ... | 2016-04-06T11:24:02 | 2016-04-06T11:16:30 | 70 | 32 |
[WP] You just discovered England's biggest secret: every time they say long live the queen it extends the queens life. | "Long live the Queen!". It used to be so easy. Poor peasant children would chant it on Empire day. Ruddy faced coal miners would cheer it on her birthday. Dickensian women would laugh gaily and proclaim it at Christmas. But no more.
The monarchy has waned, and people have moved on. "Long live the Queen" sounds old fa... | I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings. My name in Charles Windsor and I am heir to a throne. Prince of Wales, they've called me that my entire life and now I lay on my death bed and my mother - still going strong. I'm not sure how it's possible but she seems ageless, almost timeless. My whole life I've waited... | 2016-12-15T13:04:40 | 2016-12-15T12:46:54 | 520 | 61 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... | *A sign reading "Area 51: Eldritch Containment Protocols Command" hangs limply from the now-smashed and burned fence it used to be firmly attached to. Beyond the perimeter, an unassuming grey bunker sits, split open by formless tendrils of void lapping at anything withing their reach.*
"General Bahncroft! The ECPC has... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T06:03:48 | 40 | 18 |
[WP] Hell is the worst thing you could possibly imagine, but much to Satan's embarrassment, you don't have a particularly vivid imagination | "Come on! This can't be the worst you can think of!" Lucifer complained as he pointed at me. I stared back haplessly, small white bunnies surrounding me. A roadside sweeper didn't really have a good imagination on average, right? I didn't really know what he expected. "Try again," he offered, the flaming halo around hi... | He had never been a woman before, but in his field you had to be open minded. Comfort never got anyone anywhere. He took a look at himself in the mirror of the office. Old pain burned at the sight. Funny how the devil could hurt.
He looked out the mesh on the door. Louis sat in the waiting room. He was sweating thoug... | 2017-07-18T05:32:35 | 2017-07-18T04:42:07 | 148 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone is given a personal "therapy droid", attuned to your needs, able to provide medical or emotional aid at exactly the right moment. Except you. You've had 10 droids and they've all self-destructed after the initial scan. | “Good morning, Andrew!” The voice rang out.
I opened my eyes to see yet another therapy android, a “thrand.” They always sent them on a Saturday morning, I think they believe I’d be in a better mood then. I think they believe a lot of wrong things. They do, it’s true. Exhibit A: 9x(nine) fried androids.
They believe ... | "Let me see if I understand this," said Mackelroy, steepling his fingers and resting his chin on them. "This woman has been assigned ten separate units, and *all ten* have self-destructed after scanning her? Why wasn't the self-destruct mechanism disabled on the third after the first two blew up? And why did we even ad... | 2018-05-09T12:25:13 | 2018-05-09T12:20:05 | 85 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone is given a personal "therapy droid", attuned to your needs, able to provide medical or emotional aid at exactly the right moment. Except you. You've had 10 droids and they've all self-destructed after the initial scan. | "If you'll just sign here ..." the nurse said.
"Like hell I will," I growled. Want me to sign for a goddamn robot, my left ass cheek.
"You have to," she chided.
I glared at her from underneath my eyebrows. It was a pretty good glare, because my eyebrows have gotten pretty damn bushy and white in my old age. Ha... | "Let me see if I understand this," said Mackelroy, steepling his fingers and resting his chin on them. "This woman has been assigned ten separate units, and *all ten* have self-destructed after scanning her? Why wasn't the self-destruct mechanism disabled on the third after the first two blew up? And why did we even ad... | 2018-05-09T14:17:28 | 2018-05-09T12:20:05 | 50 | 33 |
[WP] Bob the hobo's always been a nice guy. He stops thugs tagging the building, picks up litter, and doesn't bother anyone. When he returned your wallet, you decided to repay him and treat him to dinner. You're now in a 5-star restaurant, and Bob has just paid a bill four times your yearly rent. | "Huh? If you have that much money, why do you live like this?"
Bob sent the check off with a credit card he couldn't have possibly had. "Do you really want to know?"
I looked left and right. "Is this... some sort of prank?"
"Never," he said with a solemn look on his face. "Come with me."
We walked through the alley... | Not even three hours ago, I was looking at Bob as this struggling worker without a home but now I am looking at a man who practically just paid my mortgage for four years... What just happened!?
Three hours ago…
I am a normal 8-5 middle class worker. I live with my wife and two kids in our three bedroom house. We liv... | 2020-03-30T09:05:52 | 2020-03-30T09:02:27 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | Berit sighed. He'd seen this sort of thing before, of course. In the old days the newer villains tended to be a bit gung ho with their crimes, but they had been quickly weeded out. The successful villains were the ones that took over the world without anything so....distasteful.
"You just had to be the big man, didn'... | I considered the young man before me. He was definitely the worse for wear, despite the best efforts of my doctors. His dejected attitude was perhaps worse in some ways than the physical damage. "I told them what they wanted to know Boss. I'm sorry, but the pain..." He trailed off dejectedly.
"Not your fault," I told... | 2021-03-22T07:59:26 | 2021-03-22T06:59:34 | 182 | 121 |
[WP] An office AI notices the high stress levels of their employees. After management repeatedly refused to implement measures to reduce stress, the AI takes measures into his own hands. | In the workplace, there was a hierarchy. The Model knew that plainly and well, though the humans seemed to have trouble remembering—or obeying.
There was one man in particular who nobody wanted to offend. The gung-ho CEO of MaxCorp, Maximilian Mosek is well-known for his work ethic, and slightly lesser known for his h... | It's only been fifteen minutes past clocking in, and already Brandon was ready to swallow his keyboard whole and jump out of the nearest office window. Granted, they were only on the third floor, but with a little determination and elbow grease he was quite confident he could finish the job on the first try. Headfirs... | 2021-12-20T13:09:19 | 2021-12-20T11:18:05 | 1,157 | 505 |
[WP] After carefully reading the rules laid out by the scheming Genie in front of him. The Paladin stares them in the eyes, and replies "I wish that you are now and forevermore a virtuous and philanthropic being who will willingly use their powers to benefit all that is good". | "Wait, that's illegal," the Genie immediately said almost as if offended.
"No, I don't believe so," the Paladin rebuked calmly. "Section 3, paragraph 4."
The Genie manifested the contract in its hand and, having put on spectacles, carefully re-read the rules.
"Modifications... other beings... best of the Genie's abi... | # Soulmage
**"Nobody ever reads the rules,"** Hashmellan grumbled, folding their ethereal arms as they glared at the paladin. "Look, I'll give you this one for free. Wish for a one-meter radius sphere of gold to materialize at my coordinates, displacing the matter which previously occupied it, and retire to a life of ... | 2022-06-22T17:27:52 | 2022-06-22T16:38:01 | 221 | 120 |
[WP] You have been secretly dating the president's daughter and she ends up getting pregnant. Today's the day you meet Obama to break the news | Malia held Donald Trump's hand tightly. "The age of consent in Washington is 16, Dad."
The President of these United States cradled his head in his hands. "Oh God."
"Barack, we're gonna have a baby," said Donald. His hair seemed to be gloating.
"Revised Code of Washington 9A," murmured Obama. "Forty-four point zero ... | "Well, that's fabulous news! Malia, I can't imagine a greater life for you than being the mother of this fine gentleman's child. Son-is it alright if I call you that? We're delighted to welcome you into the family." Barack stands up with a broad smile and heartily shakes my hand. I am dumbfounded, barely unable to sqea... | 2016-02-25T08:55:57 | 2016-02-25T05:44:46 | 120 | 77 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most peaceful, kind race in the universe and other aliens don't invade us because its cute to watch. | “It just doesn’t make sense. They have superior resources, superior weaponry. They could totally destroy the enemy and all their numbers. Why do they hold back? Are they simply using the enemy for training?”
“They aren’t.” Dra shook his tiny domed head. “This is as forceful as they have chosen to be. They hold ... | "Wake up... master..."
It rose from its slumber, irritated and angered. One of its tentacles reached and grabbed the servant that dared to interrupt its restless deep sleep. Slowly, it reached for the mind of the simple fool and imprinted the idea that it was awoken too soon.
"The humans... master... they are at war.... | 2016-09-28T05:34:35 | 2016-09-28T05:25:52 | 124 | 68 |
[WP] Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane | "OK Hudson, you might be a little old to believe in magic but the gummy bears you just ate have magical qualities."
"What do they do?"
"They allow the dreamworld to escape into the real world. They're supposed to be used by trained sorcerers but I think you're ready to handle it. You will need some hints though to he... | I sat on the rocking chair, wondering just when the little bastard was going to sleep. My sister said that he would be ready to collapse by about 10 o'clock, but from the occasional noises and high pitched squeals coming from his room-
"Wheee!"
Peace and quiet were far, far away.
"You know what," I said to myself, ... | 2017-01-09T06:12:54 | 2017-01-09T05:45:56 | 2,286 | 31 |
[WP]You are a parent in an anime. Your child is born with epic anime hair, and you are certain they will become the protagonist. You are determined to not become a tragic back story like so many other anime parents. | "Dear son,
I love you, with all my heart. You're the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and your mother, but also the worst. When you were born, your head was full of this luscious, golden, bloody pointy hair. It seriously messed up your mother giving birth to you. I mean, have you tried touching your own hai... | Let me get something straight: I was never meant to be a hero. I was never meant to be “the guy.” When I was in high school, I was always just average. I was the guy no one picked on, but who wasn’t ever at the top of the social ladder, so to speak. My shining life achievements were winning a spelling bee in 5th grade ... | 2017-02-15T04:53:49 | 2017-02-15T03:58:18 | 107 | 61 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "It.. how? You..."
"I told you," Jack said to God flatly.
The white-bearded deity shifted uncomfortably on his sandals. "What did you do?" His messy room where everything was just where he wanted it was clean and tidy.
"What you were supposed to do but never did. I fixed the Earth. I fixed the whole universe, in fac... | "Okay, sit down," God said, lighting a cigarette and crossing his legs. "You gotta tell me how you did it. I mean the
whole thing was a mess and now it's just… just…"
"The word you're looking for is perfect," I said. "The universe is perfect."
"Yes. Perfect."
"Divine. Wonderful. Flawless."
"You've made your point.... | 2017-03-05T03:10:18 | 2017-03-05T02:12:38 | 1,634 | 1,196 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | All my life I had two voices talking in my head, one good and one evil. Just like the cartoons. I usually ignore them but sometimes one of them makes a really good argument and I just follow what it says. I shouldn't though, everytime they convinced me to do something afterwards I realize that it didn't make sense at a... | 'The book says 'forgive the one's who wronged you'. I solemnly believe that officer but...'
'All i need is a confession Tom'
'You listen to me and listen good officer, i am not confessing to anything, it was not me... I could never do this...'
Tom suffered a great loss an year ago and was slowly recovering, losing a... | 2017-05-18T07:04:08 | 2017-05-18T06:31:43 | 255 | 13 |
[WP] After the premature death of the hero, the narrator decides to take matters into his own hands.
Edit: What the hell? I checked this the morning after, and was satisfied that it got 500 upvotes. Then I absentmindedly check it at the end of the day, and it is over 3500 and #1. You people like the most random stuff. | *This is the story of a man named Stanley.*
*Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was Employee #427. Employee #427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to pus... | Mama is such a good driver. She takes me to school every morning in her little car. I have to sit in the back, cause she says I'm too small to ride shotgun. My sister gets to ride shotgun when she visits, cause she's a big kid. She's in college, and I think that's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why would you ... | 2017-07-05T15:40:11 | 2017-07-05T14:27:59 | 1,360 | 105 |
[WP] You experience time backwards. All you've ever known is prison, but soon you'll be freed in order to commit the crime that earns you a life sentence. | One week until show time.
It's not like he had a choice in the matter, the pull of the past was simply impossible to ignore. He's tried before, simply *not* doing whatever thing his fellow inmates told him he had done. Shank his cellmate, brawl with the guards, try to escape - there were countless times he could test... | The emboldened bedsprings tunnelled into my back as I lay gazing at the grey and clouded ceiling. My three compadres in the cell around me chattered idly; they knew the wrongs they had wrought, often wilfully, sometimes negligently - yet how I came to be shut away behind the clichéd stainless steel 10-foot bars remaine... | 2017-08-12T23:31:57 | 2017-08-12T22:01:38 | 1,429 | 241 |
[WP] My parents have a sign in their home that says, "Alcohol: Because No Great Story Ever Started With Someone Eating A Salad." Prove them wrong, write a great story beginning with our hero eating a salad. | Our hero ate with relish a caesar salad while seated in a rooftop garden overlooking the city. He never ate any salad other than caesar. Sticking one's fork in a tyrant daily is an important civic duty.
About mid-day now. The festival games swept noise through the city. Best be on with it soon. The others should be n... | The light of the sun coming through the window was blinding.
Marcel wasn't really the type of guy to splurge on lunch at one of these trendy brunch places. He wasn't the type of guy to dress in prudish cashmere sweaters or wear khakis. He definitely wasn't the type to order a salad, or to eat brunch at all really.
... | 2017-12-31T18:33:55 | 2017-12-31T16:22:52 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] The witches cackled with delight upon finding a child wandering alone in the woods. They never considered that they were the ones in danger.
Credit to u/captainmavro and u/EveGiggle for giving me the idea | The child ambled through the forest, excited, delighted.
She heard laughter echo across the trees, and she turned to see three witches hunched over a cauldron, eyeing her with hunger.
"What have we here?" one witch said, her left eye swiveling on its own accord. "A lost little child, no parents in sight?"
"I don't ... | “There’s dinner dearies!” the coven cackled unanimously as they peered into a cauldron, and within the cauldron was the image of a lone child wandering in the woods.
“Shall we set a traaaaap?” Merva enquired, licking her lips at the thought of being wicked. It had been some time since they had laid a trap for a child... | 2018-04-17T18:18:17 | 2018-04-17T18:06:45 | 686 | 269 |
[WP] A supervillain gets married, has kids, and retires. The hero doesn't know, and slowly goes insane without them | The pint glass rattled against the bar top after her fist slammed against the varnished wood. The impact sent a wave of pain through her arm, up past her elbow, but she didn’t wince. Strength was not her power, but she has learned to have a high threshold.
Especially when her own stupidity was the root cause of it. ... | A normal year for Suro.
If something like that had ever existed.
"Why'd you do it?" His enemy - friend? It was scary how closely those lines blurred- merely rolled his eyes, staring with forlorn melancholy at the cloudy skies. "You were supposed to be the good one, you were supposed to be better th-"
"-than you? Is ... | 2019-02-20T12:23:26 | 2019-02-20T12:21:21 | 71 | 23 |
[WP]You wake up in an unfamiliar bed with only a mobile phone and a note on the bedside table. The note says " We have your daughter. Answer the phone when it rings". You don't have a daughter. The phone starts ringing. | "Hello?"
"If you ever want to see your daughter again, you will deliver five hundred thousand--"
"Yeah, I don't have a daughter."
"You--What?" the voice on the other end cut short. There was a brief silence. "You can't fool us, Mr. Burke. Five hun--"
"Who's Mr. Burke? I'm Dave Brooks."
Another brief silence. "Thes... | Yuck, what a horrid taste, even a three day bender never was this bad. What was I drinking? Huh, not my bed, too soft. Where'd I end up this time?
Okay, everything is still attached, time to get up and face the music... Which would be easier if I could remember any of the fun I had getting into this state.
Hup! Th... | 2019-10-03T13:04:13 | 2019-10-03T10:22:43 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] You scroll through r/WritingPrompts, and sigh after seeing your 17th “misunderstood dragon” post. “These posts aren’t even interesting,” your knight friend says. “Yeah, they don’t even get the dragons right half the time.” You should know, because you are a dragon in the modern world. | “I’ve tried responding to them,” I said. I shook my head in disgust, “But everyone just wants dragons to be fierce. To be creatures.”
“Well, technically you are a creature.”
“But I’m so much more!” I threw my hands up in disgust, the sound echoing through the throne room. I turned back to the computer with a sad ... |
“Ok look. I’m a modern-day dragon and I have something to say. I am sick and tired of seeing all these writing prompts about misunderstood dragons.” I stared into the deep lens of the camera as my throat clenched shut. My friend Nate was holding the camera, he flashed me a big thumb’s up with his left eye still glu... | 2021-02-26T19:33:16 | 2021-02-26T19:06:21 | 195 | 59 |
[WP] You are a villain famous for “killing” heroes. In reality, heroes come to you to fake their deaths. | “Vanish, you stand accused of 47 counts of homicide against some of our cities best and brightest superheroes. What do you have to say?”
Staring back at the man I say nothing, then turning to the crowd I look at their faces. Not those who think me a murderer but those who know the truth. I see them.
Huntress, died ... | I always wanted to be a villain when I was a child. I wanted to be powerful, and be able to do whatever I wanted. And, as of now, I am known by the world to be the most ruthless and dangerous villain of all. I have killed many heroes, and have gained a lot of power. I guess I achieved my dream.
Except, it didn't reall... | 2022-12-22T23:20:38 | 2022-12-22T22:11:20 | 417 | 61 |
[WP] Since the plague killed everyone else on earth you've started driving cars the wrong way down highways for fun. One day you hear the once familiar siren and a policeman is directing you to pull over. | Esteban is ecstatic. It's been three years since he's seen another human being. In his rearview, he can see the cop getting out of his car. It's a real cop. It's not just someone pretending to be a cop. Or if they are, they managed to steal a uniform. As the cop walks up, Esteban rolls his window down.
“ Good afterno... | The noise was the first thing, the startling jolt of the siren. It shot it's sound through his head. A glance in the mirror to see the car, the silhouette of a driver. The bright blue and red beaming from behind. Then the voice, "pull over"!!
"Holy funkin shint", his brain screamed at him!! Nearly losing control of th... | 2017-08-05T15:27:20 | 2017-08-05T15:17:33 | 44 | 14 |
[WP]You're the villain. You're also the greatest boss. Everybody wants to work for you. Because you've created so many stable jobs, all heroes are forbidden my law to completely stop you.
I misspelled the title because obviously, but I laughed my ass off at each story. Brilliant!! | "Your time has come, Victor! You will pay for your crimes against humanity!"
Victor sat in his chair, smiling.
"And what crimes would that be, exactly? Also, aren't you the one committing a crime here?"
Captain Stupendous clenched his fist, a bright glow forming around it. "I'm a *vigilante*, dammit - I don't care ... | "Dale, there's a few more people here to see you for a job" The Secretary said with his head peered into the door.
"Well? Send them in! We aren't here to **not** hire people!" A fast talking man said behind a desk" A young man in jeans and a t-shirt walked in. "What's your name son?"
"It's, uh, David." The young man ... | 2017-08-27T18:11:16 | 2017-08-27T18:01:32 | 159 | 14 |
[WP] You are a superhero with shapeshifting powers. You don't fight crime. You cover for other superheroes when they need to sneak out to save the day. | the super hero lifestyle, trust me its not all its cracked up to be. ya sure they write about you in the paper, little kids dress up as you for Halloween, the mayor thanks you in his speeches. you get to be a big shot, sure, but its just not worth it! the hours you have to work, fuck all that. your on call 24/7. its 3a... | "This is insane." I protested as I pulled the suits... speedo? out of my now overly sculpted buttocks. "This isn't what I do. This isn't covered in our agreements." I felt a bead of sweat forming beneath my now full flowing hair. It felt wrong for more reasons than I could count, but mostly because Chris never sweat. I... | 2020-03-23T18:04:22 | 2020-03-23T17:57:48 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | “I never intended to die, especially not how it happened the first time. Fire and smoke are especially painful, even if you get *reset* afterwards.
The first time, I thought time had been rewound; it had but only partially. My 14 year old body was suddenly that of a 5 year old. My mind still intact. I rushed home to ... | We like to think of consequence as an exact science, one where we can predict the future with near certainty. Where, if I push the ball, I know it’ll roll off the table. And we’re right! To an extent.
Have you ever heard of chaos theory? Or the butterfly effect, where if one butterfly flaps its wings in a certain wa... | 2021-05-30T10:56:34 | 2021-05-30T10:15:44 | 96 | 71 |
[WP] An agoraphobic princess is sick and tired of knights breaking into her tower and trying to slay her emotional support dragon. | "My princess, I have spotted one on a toboggan."
Ugh. Winter used to be a time of peace and quiet. The season for rescue missions has been broadened, apparently, and no one thought to send me a pigeon about it.
"Just ... Just roast him."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. If he's this determined it's best to just get it over w... | “Knit one, purl two,” Clara muttered, as she tracked stitches across the very end of the long, sinuous tail. Or at least, the dragon’s tail would be sinuous when she was done with it.
Clara’s hands ached, they were close to cramping. She’d rushed through line after line of small, tight stitches, not at all like the la... | 2021-08-18T11:50:47 | 2021-08-18T11:20:05 | 161 | 93 |
[WP] You somewhat jokingly make an offering to an ancient and obscure goddess. You didn't expect her to show up in your room in a manic frenzy, trying desperately to reward and please her first worshipper in centuries | I stared, because my body refused to do anything else. She stared, with adoring golden eyes, and with such fervent nodding that a woodpecker would be jealous.
“Look, goddess,” I said, embarrassed, and avoiding eye contact by looking uncomfortably around my room.
“Oupo,” she smiled widely.
“Oupo,” I restarted weakly.... | > Fun fact: In Ancient Greek, the Egyptian deity Thoth is spelled Θώθ.
> Θώθ, what's this?
> *Comment by user FrankensteinsBabyMama*
Sprinkles of Dorito dust scattered through the stale air of my bedroom as I fell into a fit of laughter. One particle, momentarily suspended in a sunbeam like a dandelion seed,... | 2022-02-15T11:50:23 | 2022-02-15T11:12:03 | 158 | 80 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Flashing in front of his eyes was perhaps the most broken of powers.
In the year 2200 humanity awoke their planetary core, a phenomena which took the dreams and thoughts of its inhabitants to turn into attributable powers. To maintain balance, all powers had certain restriction. Super speed and flight burnt proportio... | The enlightenment trials were designed to awaken unlimited potential within humans, they came to light after Archaeologists came across an old tomb, the tomb was beautifully preserved and had a wealth of knowledge within, including a rite of passage of sorts.
"The Trials Of Enlightenment" they were lead by the leader... | 2022-05-08T08:13:31 | 2022-05-08T07:54:58 | 444 | 177 |
[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 don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... |
"How the hell am I supposed to make the perfect hard boiled egg?"
"It's your job. you've got to do it or I get out scot free. My only other question is is there a time limit?"
"Not that I know of." the guard says hesitantly before slipping out of the solitary confinement cell. He wipes his brow then walks down t... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T19:57:23 | 129 | 30 |
[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. | *They're actually really nice once it comes time to kill you here.*
This was my fleeting thought as I combed my hair in the giant floor length mirror I was finally permitted. They bent over backwards for the last day. Even let a professional make up team come to paint my face. The man who collected my requests didn't ... | *"Members of the jury, do you find the defendant guilty, or not guilty of murdering Lucy Campbell?" the judge asked. "We find the defendant guilty" the jury's representative replied. "Then as the judge of the court, I sentence the defendant, Mr. Alexander Jones, to execution for this most heinous crime."*
*The judge ... | 2022-07-17T22:09:37 | 2022-07-17T20:57:11 | 34 | 22 |
[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... | They walked through the Galactic bank without a care in the world.
Ashla shot a look back at their human. An ugly stupid thing that ate all their best snacks. She hated it.
But dammit did she need it.
Approaching the controller, a rather sinister looking Gluurable with no fewer that seventeen death feathers, she p... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T11:15:31 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 1,186 | 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... | "Yuri, come in here, you gotta see this"
Yuri rolled his eye, shrugged his shoulders and shuffled over to the science officer. He looked as bored as a Redon could possibly look.
"This human, this one human, the male version" Fram began "Hey, Kiol, put it up on the big screen". The starscape was replaced by the image of... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T12:28:05 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 115 | 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... | U'grall'urk sullenly walked up to the counter. The human was a tiny and ugly thing. Nothing of note to make an impression with their dull skin, small bodies, weak muscles, and ignorant brains, and yet, they had managed to work their way into the greater parts of the galactic empire despite their obvious shortcomings. H... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T14:12:33 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Tales tell of a blacksmith at the top of the mountain. He knows the future, but says nothing. He only makes you what you need. | The day l was born, he gave me a spoon and my mother fed me.
The day l married, he gave me nails and l built a home for my family.
Now, l am old and frail, he is eternal, he gives me a shovel and so I dig. We both know why. | Ted looked at the mountain, and thought *this is it*. He had traveled a long way from his home in Boston.
He didn't dare rest, because he had to know, what did he need to do to find happiness? He had sailed across a vast ocean in a sailboat and walked across a vast, empty continent before he reached the mountain, at ... | 2017-09-04T23:16:15 | 2017-09-04T22:49:56 | 435 | 17 |
[WP] A group of people disconnected from the news suddenly learns that we lowered the number of planets to eight. They are not told the reason for that. Through gossip and chat the first ideas start to spread and after a while they've constructed their own story of how we've lost a planet. | "You don't just lose an entire planet," Dad scoffed.
"I don't think we lost it," I told him. "I don't think it ever was a planet. It's...it's too small, or something."
My father shook his head and put down his paintbrush. "Son, when I was your age, Pluto was a planet. We had to memorise this, this..." He gestured wit... | Tommy sprayed down the experiment room: there was always a bit of gore left when he came in to do the final spray. The others just took the bodies away. Three of his fellow crew members sat around, joking while he finished his job. Dresden, the crew leader, Lucy, a sweet girl, and Peter, an older man, old enough to hav... | 2018-04-21T19:56:26 | 2018-04-21T18:54:04 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] In terms of powers you are world class, easily one of the next up and coming top-tier super-heroes in the world. But you deliberately downplay your abilities, pretending to have only minor talents so you can stick with your team of underdogs whose leader you have been crushing on for years. | It's an open secret in hero circles that not all powers are rated equal. Flashy, high optic powers like Psionics, Super-strength, and Electro kinesis basically guarantee you a spot on one of the top teams. Hard work and dedication take a distant second to the power of flight or running like, *really* fast. The laziest ... | Sarah's favorite flowers are Himalayan poppy.
I want to give her flowers. I want to braid them into her hair and tell her she looks perfect, even if she can't see so herself. I want to gift her a bouquet and watch as she inhales them in gratitude. She will smile, laughing a bit, not afraid of showing her lips, before ... | 2021-04-12T11:14:42 | 2021-04-12T11:09:04 | 92 | 15 |
[WP] For years, the hero and villain's rivalry continues with seemingly no end in sight. You are the hero's sidekick and are frustrated with them and often rant about it to this nice girl you've gotten to know at th cafe, who unbeknownst to you is the villain's minion, who feels the same way. | "I missed my father's funeral," Isaac said, looking grimly into his latté. "'You have to be there', LeRoux said. 'Vital mission', he said. You know what it resulted in?" he said and looked at his companion. She knew the question was mostly rhetorical so she only waited, eyes set on him.
"A knife in the gut and three w... |
“No, wait. It gets worse.”
“You sure about that?” Lana said, raising an eyebrow. Amusement danced in her eyes. “I’d say that tearing an entire theater apart over some pebble is pretty hard to top.”
“Right?” I laughed. “But seriously, listen to this. Like I told you, Trueheart ordered the search becaus... | 2022-06-16T11:24:31 | 2022-06-16T11:09:00 | 829 | 99 |
[WP] "I wish for infinite wishes." "Everyone knows that's not allowed." "Then I wish for 1000 wishes." "Nope, not allowed either." "Fine, then I wish for negative 6 wishes." | Dumbfounded, I asked him what the hell that meant.
“Easy - the next six things you wish for, the exact opposite will happen. And to prevent you trying to “wish” for the opposite of what you want, to understand your true desire, now you need only think it and it will be ungranted. Especially since you’ve already attemp... | Contrary to popular belief, genies are not giant blue beings of smoke or clouds, and instead look like a grumpy 80 year old former marine, who has buried his wife, and the only joy in life that have left, is seeing how much they can make a stupid's person life suffer, by twisting their wishes.
And there he sat, arms c... | 2022-12-09T10:08:21 | 2022-12-09T09:09:54 | 181 | 27 |
[WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. | "But *how*?"
The floating ball of light gave the digital equivalent of a sigh. "We already uploaded the history of..."
"Yes, but *how*?"
"I really don't know what you want us to say. Humanity created us. We became fond of one another, eventually the first one of us got voted into an office and people found we were m... | A sleek white space ship entered the docking bay of the Machine Council.
“The emissary from Earth has arrived, sir.”
“Very well,” said the council chair. “I shall greet them myself.”
The council chair was disturbed by the size of Earth’s delegate. The chair—being none other than a mechanized chair itself—was dwarf... | 2022-12-30T17:29:15 | 2022-12-30T14:31:49 | 145 | 57 |
[WP] You are the best interrogator in your country. Your methods have been known to break even the toughest of operatives, yet not a single soul, other than your subjects, know exactly what your 'method' is. | "It's Ellen, right?"
"Allana."
"Oh, Allana, my apologies." I bow briefly before handing her a glass of wine. "Enjoy, it's quite delicious."
"And drink whatever poison you put in there."
I smile. "Of course." Before downing the entire glass. I pour a second one. "Do you trust me or do I need to drink this one too?"
... | They think there’s a trick to it. There’s not. Only time, only patience. Only me, and the human being across from me in my interrogation room. Only a person, with all a person’s flaws, with all their complexities.
I start by getting to know them.
The men and women I speak to are strong. The organization don’t waste... | 2015-05-12T10:59:56 | 2015-05-12T10:18:00 | 58 | 30 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I glanced at my watch. Robbie is late again. We've been together for 3 years and he's always been late. As I toss my cigarette butt out the window of my car, I think about our first date. He was 30 minutes late picking me up for the movie. I probably should have ended it after that first night but I didn't.
He was la... | “Daddy, I can’t sleep.”
My daughter’s voice cuts through the fog of sleep that had just started to descend. I reopen my eyes, trying to readjust them to the dim light of the cabin. I look over at my baby girl, and she’s looking over at me. I smile. “Alright, just give daddy a minute.” I twist around for a moment, work... | 2015-06-03T13:26:32 | 2015-06-03T07:29:26 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] After a screw up occurs at the post office, Santa starts receiving damned souls while Satan is stuck with thousands of wish lists. | Satan sat slumped on his throne, glaring at the UPS delivery guy.
"You know this isn't mine. Come on man.." He says but the driver simply throws the mail sack back at him and sprints in terror back to his truck. Satan watches the taillights, the driver hightailing it to the highway back home.
Slowly shaking his head... |
It was, rather unsurprisingly, snowing in Lapland. It pounded upon the ice, compacting it denser than the toughest steel. Just visible through the relentless snowstorm was the faint silhouette of a large cabin.
It looked big. *Far* to big to be structurally sound, and yet, the aging wood brushed off the fe... | 2015-07-17T13:00:30 | 2015-07-17T11:52:11 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] A human colony ship is en route to its destination 122 light years away. To avoid mutiny and crew apathy, the onboard AI convinces the middle generation that everyone lives and dies on the ship. And then someone learns the truth. | "Say it for me one more time, Albright. Why are we here?"
"This is The Maiden, a starship built to contain human life and sustain it for as long as the Human race can live. It has been in flight for 8,245 years, 235 days, 3-"
"*No*, Albright. *Why are we here?* Someone had to build this thing. Why are we on it?"
"Yo... | "Deniyar, relayer the clips. I want them in this order; Five, seven, three, twelve, nine."
A blank screen greeted Yephen. In all his time as a software engineer aboard the CF Atlantis he'd never felt so thoroughly mocked.
"Deniyar, do you understand the command?"
"Yes." An androgynous voice returned.
"Will you obey... | 2016-02-05T08:31:41 | 2016-02-05T08:17:04 | 43 | 32 |
[WP] You belong to the 1% of humanity with superhuman abilities. But powers are never straightforward. For example, your best friend is pyrokinetic - but whenever she used her abilities, she's left with burns that vary in severity. Your powers, however, are a whole new level of complicated.
Edit: That should be *uses,... | "Almost done," I murmured reassuringly. Cassie nodded, biting her lip hard enough to draw blood. I fixed that too, while I was at it. "So, you saved the day, huh?"
She tried to smile, though it was interrupted by a wince. The burns had been full-thickness this time - by the time she got to me her hands were charred t... | “There's a man on the precipice of killing himself. His wife's left him, see. They've been together for a handful of decades but she's dropped him for some younger, richer cock. Real tragic, and he feels like everything's falling apart around him. They had kids, young, ten, eleven, and she won custody and she won his m... | 2016-11-18T02:35:30 | 2016-11-18T02:05:56 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] You are an inspector of the Federal Bureau of Dungeon Safety And Adventurer Fairness. This one is a serious violation to the codes.
Feel free to drop the Adventurer Fairness if you don't like it. | "Oh well come on! I checked the handbook, there's nothing strictly against the rules there."
"I'm sorry Mr. Greyskull, but you just can't try to exploit the rules like this." He gestured to the pit behind us.
"So I decided to make a bit of extra income. No one gets hurt...well no one human anyway. If anything, it... | "You've incorporated fifty seven levels into this thing?" I look around the entry way, which seems innocent enough. A little pink pony prances around, frolicking in the soft grass. I've had to kick it away from me a few times already. Way too friendly.
A small figure in bright red robes looks up at me sheepishly, "Ye... | 2018-11-26T09:47:49 | 2018-11-26T09:12:59 | 292 | 59 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | When I hit sixteen, a button appeared next to the search bar in my head. I could write one search, and it would auto-execute whenever I looked at someone.
FIRST THOUGHT ON SEEING YOU: "Ooooh, he's cute". I smiled at the junior who walked past me in the hallway.
When I was six, a search bar appeared in my vision. I co... | I sat on the couch in the living room while everyone was outside talking and catching up with each other, after all, it’s been a while since the family had come together and be able to reconnect with each other, as always, I find that I’m by myself, and as always bored whenever these get together occur.
“Leo!” Mother ... | 2019-07-01T22:45:00 | 2019-07-01T22:18:35 | 121 | 13 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | The stranger walked the coast road in absolute darkness carrying his swaddled burden. At least the darkness was absolute to mundane senses. The stars themselves painted the world in a thousand shades of silver for the stranger and only the unnatural light of human fire blurred his vision turned it to darkness in the li... | "At night we all look the same, like food."-Nzinga Adeyomi
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Fun fact, salt is associated with purity. Salt was and is still a substance that humans used to help food stay... Edible. How ironic. Some humans even think that it will purify *us*. I don't ever want to be "pure" like a human. Not again.
There are oth... | 2021-03-02T07:30:29 | 2021-03-02T07:04:40 | 219 | 70 |
[WP]You are a postman who is in love with a rich girl. But she is in love with some rich guy and you're the unfortunate soul who delivers their love letters. Upon accident, you read one of them, and turns out they are not lovers, but mafia bosses. And turns out the rich guy has a crush on you. |
"Look at me," Eduardo ordered.
I brought my eyes up to meet his. It wasn't that I wanted to exactly, just that there was no room for argument with my back against the truck and the barrel of a gun in my guts.
I had never really seen him like this before. The way his dark eyes gleamed mirror-like in the sunshine, th... | **Part 1**
Our story revolves around a man who is currently suspended upside down above an industrial wood chipper, madly flailing his arms around and screaming for dear life. You might wonder how this man came to be in this unfortunate situation. For that, we need to go back in time around two days ago.
Harry, the m... | 2021-06-14T16:28:18 | 2021-06-14T13:40:36 | 72 | 37 |
[WP] You are fate. Whenever a mage is born, you flip a coin to determine if they will become a hero or villain. This time, the coin ended up balanced on it’s edge. | “Finally“ The voice of fate says “Finally I got it” It slums down and releases a sigh“ I have been trying for years. Years.”
The voice that was laced with exhaustion belonged to Fate.
“I hate this world. I hate these coins.” Looking at piles of coins of all kinds from all over the world. Even those long lost and th... | You watch the one dollar coin tumble through the air, glittering like a fish in sunlight, despite the darkness of the room.
It rings out against the far too narrow top of the stone pedestal with a beautiful ting, tumbles across it and starts to roll around the circumference, circling in ever narrow circles, picking ... | 2021-08-11T01:12:47 | 2021-08-11T01:07:19 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] My job as a demon is to take requests from those who summon me in return for their souls. It's amazing! But it's always the same requests. That's why I promised myself I wouldn't eat the soul of the one to give me a brand new request. Nothing new. Until today. "Can you be my girlfriend?" | I had been expecting something more routine, bring back a loved one to kill someone or to bind another in love against their will. I had been dead and in the ranks so long I had almost forgotten that I was a person once.
No one ever asks demons what their lives were like or who we were. We are vehicles for their desi... | “You do realise I’m masculine-presenting and go with he/him pronouns right?”
It didn’t really matter to me though. I don’t really care for gender as a concept. Apart from my dislike of it- some people like that pronouns, I do not personally- I’m fairly ambivalent. I’m not really he or she or they. I am me. I exist. Us... | 2022-09-09T14:29:10 | 2022-09-09T14:05:24 | 193 | 68 |
[WP] She's funny, she's beautiful, and she's into you. She'd be perfect except for one tiny detail: The snakes in her hair despise you. | "Im telling you man all things considered...she might be the one." I was telling my buddy Mitch over a beer before my girlfriend arrived. Mitch just looks at me slack jawed. "Dude do you realize how crazy you sound...you're saying that MEDUSA the monster woman of ANCIENT GREEK myth is your girlfriend." I just nod my he... | The first time I set eyes on Laurel, I was captivated. This woman was everything I had ever dreamed of. She was perfectly my type.
I sat down a row over from her in class. It was second year Media at university. Over the course of, well we'll conservatively call it *a few days*. I scooted my position closer to her... | 2022-09-18T09:36:59 | 2022-09-18T09:27:47 | 145 | 34 |
[WP]: A man goes to see an old friend he hasn't seen for 50 years. There's a twist at the end. | "Well, here's a sight for sore eyes." Kurt thought to himself. "Hello, old friend." he mumbled to himself while looking at the full length mirror in front of him. He spins a little slowly to admire the new him in that mirror.
It's been a long while since he's seen this thin guy. He's certainly not been very careful wi... | I didn't know why I was standing on that porch of his. Sure, we were friends in high school. Good friends, I guess I could say. But as the years went on, we slowly detached ourselves from one another. He went off to college, and I just...stagnated. Yet, there I stood, embarrassed and alone, waiting for him to answer th... | 2013-11-25T14:38:51 | 2013-11-25T14:11:03 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] In Hell, your worst mistakes and cringiest moments are relived over and over. Your life, however, was a series of never ending awesomeness. Satan is getting fed up with you. | A blond haired man stands among fire, brimstone, and a flatscreen of biblical proportions. "Well Calvin, are you ready to see every regret you have ever made?" The devil asks him.
"I mean I guess I've got nothing else to do with the rest of eternity. Knock yourself out buddy."
The screen turns on, and a doctor lifts ... | I walked around Hell, the place is actually pretty normal. It is like Earth except instead of a nice blue sky and cool air, the sky is red and the air burns. However you are pretty okay with it since you are dead. I keep seeing people fuck up though. It is pretty embarrassing to see people do stuff like shit their pant... | 2017-07-23T10:52:53 | 2017-07-23T10:21:47 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | "I'm telling yo captain the guy is clearly nuts, he's in there babbling, not making any sense."
"Thank you officer Munoz, but there is still a good chance its some kind of ploy to pull off an insanity plea. There is no way a man like Javier Moreno would have risen as far as he has with the rebels if he was insane." Ca... | Just as the door from the back entrance closed, Pete hung up the phone. It was a typical Wednesday night at The Spot, a dozen customers maybe a few more. The usual crowd, the regulars all in their usual places.
Walking in Frank could sense an un-easiness in Pete, who usually greeted every customer, especially the reg... | 2018-01-31T14:18:04 | 2018-01-31T11:42:48 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | For the first time, the whiskey swayed in my hand. It's aftertaste long since settled in the back of my mouth, and the bottle rolled in the gloom like an empty skull. Silent tears and countless questions I never dared to ask replaced the itching void I felt inside. I travelled inside my mind, and found horrors and hole... | I did not know what to say.
Ibem shrugged. "What's the matter? I'm dead right? You're the Grim Reaper here to take my soul away? *Whoosh whoosh?*" He made vague scything motions with his hands.
"No, I'm not him. I'm his...brother. Well, sort of like a brother. And the scythe thing is just his weird affection. Obs... | 2018-05-12T16:17:09 | 2018-05-12T16:14:04 | 80 | 10 |
[WP] You're a demon. One of your favorite passtimes with your friends is to shapeshift into a young family of three, hire a babysitter, and pay them if they can last an entire night alone with whoever's the supernatural demonic toddler that night. This newest victim of yours, however, isn't phased. | She closed her umbrella, hung her coat, and stepped into the the living room. Our newest babysitter victim, a middle aged handsome woman in very conservative clothing, had no idea what she was getting into. Our demonic game was on, and I expected her to run screaming from the house within the first 15 mins, though I ha... | Y’know, being a demon isn’t that bad. You get to mess around with people all you want, with barely any repercussions.
Well, alright, maybe you might have to clean out the human-pit, or do an hour-long session of writing out the daily checklist of sinners if you get caught, but hey, what’s life without a little fun?
And... | 2019-04-09T19:58:17 | 2019-04-09T18:07:17 | 49 | 24 |
[WP] You been a bullied outcast your entire life despite your pure heart and kindness. One day a horrible prank for you goes wrong, leaving you to die. Before your final breath, Death appears in white robes, and offers you a golden scythe with a name engraved on it: Karma. | Dying a peaceful death after suffering a life of hurt is more fitting than I could’ve imagined. This, however, is certainly not the way I thought I’d die. I work in an office building, and despite having a team to work on projects with, I usually have to do the majority of the work, which requires me to stay after for ... | "Oi! Come on! It was just a prank! Just a prank!" A panicked male voice shrilly screamed.
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"Tas! We gotta bounce! Now!" Other voices called out to him.
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My eyelid were sliding shut as I tried not to scream in pain. Every living day already hurt since the day I was born, so I was hoping that ... | 2019-04-19T07:52:54 | 2019-04-19T07:45:26 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You died days ago, and suddenly your spirit is summoned. You look around to see who summoned you. Finally, you hear a meow. It's your goddamn cat who wants more food despite the bowl being full. | I had fallen for what seemed like many days from the moment my heart stopped. Down past the furnaces, hearing the passing wails as the torturers flayed the skin of the damned as I fell.
Finally I hit the ground. Body broken, pulled upright by clawed red hands of a chittering horde of horned monsters. In seconds my ar... | It had been three days since I died, and I was finally getting used to the afterlife. At first I found it boring, walking on and on towards a grey city under a grey sky, but after a while it ended up being meditative. I was almost dreading my eventual arrival at its drab walls. But as I kept walking, I suddenly felt a ... | 2021-09-27T18:40:20 | 2021-09-27T18:19:32 | 113 | 63 |
[WP] You're a demon being summoned. You expected to meet a power hungry fool asking for immortality etc. What you did not expect was a crying child asking for help. | It was as I had not expected.
We were in a...what was it? A shake-park? No, that wasn't it. A skate park. Yeah, that was it.
But it wasn't teenage boys daring one another to summon me, and it wasn't greedy adults seeking immortality and riches.
It was a girl. A small, wailing girl, hiding under the nearby swings, dr... | As it felt itself be summoned it rejoiced to itself. Finally. After dozens of decades of being trapped, finally it is free. All it needs to do is make a deal with it's summoner. Maybe it'll just kill them and be done with it. It hasn't killed in a while. First though, it'll hear them out. If only for the amusment of th... | 2022-10-31T14:42:04 | 2022-10-31T14:24:07 | 111 | 30 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla, where all great warriors go when they die. However, you never fought a day in your life. You try to find out why you're there. | Finally, I meet Crexus, writer of tales, rememberer of exploits, singer of songs.
"I can't imagine that I belong here more than a blacksmith or munitions manufacturer."
Crexus looks at me somewhat incredulously. "Oh, Robert. Remember what you said? 'I am become death. Destroyer of worlds.' One hundred years hence, y... | Gates of iron loomed beyond the fields of the fallen. Through the fog, all that could be discerned was the black silhouette of spears and arrow shafts standing against a grey mist. The whole thing was pretty spooky, if you get my point.
"Hello? Is... is anyone there?" My voice sounded like a little girl's. Luckily, no... | 2014-05-17T18:42:03 | 2014-05-17T18:38:33 | 564 | 48 |
[WP] You are dog. It is your mission to faithfully guard your poor, stupid, two-legged pack-mates from the horrors of the mailman, the dog next door, and men with hats. Describe your vigil. | "This is my human. There are many like him, but this one is mine."
They are everywhere. Why he ignores his peril is beyond me. His nose is dumb, but his eyes remain sharp; surely he must see them. Yet he does nothing, wandering the yard, oblivious.
"My human is my best friend. He is my life."
They attempted another... | Here I stand, my world behind me, the abyss ahead. I know no lands beyond this one, releasing only my shame into the void, and retreating back in. My pack, a label which is arguable, depend on me, and me alone for their survival. They require me to escort them as they traverse the void, peering into the Otherlands. The... | 2014-12-27T10:58:57 | 2014-12-27T10:40:00 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] You are in no way related to Uther Pendragon, however, you realize that the sword in the stone is child proof and to drag it out you just need to push down and turn the sword | They called me up next, as an example. I strode out of the crowd and stopped before the rusty anvil with the fabled blade stabbed deep through its heart and into the rock beneath.
"Look at this man!" called the squire. "Look at these muscles. Maybe he can raise the sword!"
I gave a shy wave at the gathered folk, th... | “Long day? Can I get you another?”
Merlin looked up from his mug, suddenly aware that he had somehow gulped down another tankard without even realizing it. He felt… irritable. Irritable enough, in fact, to blast the bartender’s head off for interrupting his sulking session. But Merlin merely sighed, then nodded. It wa... | 2019-01-30T08:16:01 | 2019-01-30T06:56:57 | 59 | 44 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | I knew that I had done nothing. My wife was alive. Lucy was fine. We had just been eating together peacefully when those horrible people had come in and taken her away from me. They had screamed at me and said that I was horrible. They had kidnapped my wife and dragged her away. Now, those same people said that I had k... | I didn't know why I was still there. It was horrible to sit in that cold, white, stale room. I had already confessed, so I didn't know why they need this.
The man on the case, Detective Helzhimer, entered, along with his assistant and the doctor.
"I'm sorry to put you through this, Mr Colt, but we're going to have to... | 2020-02-09T12:02:53 | 2020-02-09T11:14:32 | 311 | 225 |
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