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[WP] It's exam day in Superhero Academy. Usually, tests are done in special rooms that nullify powers. But there's been a blackout, and you, the proctor, must stop a bunch of superpowered kids from cheating. | Our nullified power room had the space for 50 pupils at a time. So in the last 3 days since the blackout I've had to research 50 students, their powers and all the potential ways each one can cheat this exam. I've barely slept and I am very grouchy and am going to be in contact with my union if I don't get paid for the... | My first ever save was in 1953 when a runaway trolley crashed through the city, sending people scattering on all sides. I’d gained my powers just a week before in a freak laboratory accident and was still coming to terms with them, but when I saw the carnage I went on instinct and sprang into action.
The photo on the... | 2016-01-20T04:16:13 | 2016-01-20T04:09:54 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] A mathematician on the brink of insanity has spent years locked in his apartment, attempting to find a formula that proves God exists. As he nears to a breakthrough, God shows up to explain why the proof shouldn't be made public. | "YES!" I screamed joyously, jumping up and down as my voice echoed through the empty halls of my University. I'd been snowed in for a day now and used the facility to keep working on my research...who would've thought I could actually do it?
*I've proved that God exists, undeniably and with certainty. I'll be the mos... | "Look, man, you're crazy." said the cat.
"I've spent YEARS proving this formula! It's not crazy, I"M NOT CRAZY! The proof is in the math!" Larry screamed across the room at the cat while hold a shoe in a threatening manner, "God does exist as the unifying principle of time! Because time is cubed! 4 times, for 4 days i... | 2016-01-24T07:46:05 | 2016-01-24T05:56:47 | 85 | 53 |
[WP] The daily life of ex-assassin turned high school teacher. | “What?” the sullen, combative face in front of me belched. “You can’t prove nothing. What you gonna do? Mardy cow.”
I closed my eyes. I drew breath. I gripped a whiteboard marker firmly in my right hand, running my thumb over the ridges in the cap, picking at them with my nail.
In a flash of lightning and rage, I jam... | All it said on the slip was 'Weaponry Training: 1:50'.
Nobody had actually had the class yet, and the older students claimed to know nothing about the mysterious lesson etched in our thoughts. Of course, gossip was gossip, springing up like a hydra with one too-many heads and no way to stop it.
Some kids speculated w... | 2016-02-09T04:27:36 | 2016-02-09T03:48:39 | 59 | 14 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | Shut up, and Play Dead?
No way in hell!
Much of what makes the will to thrive is derived from pure ego. This is mine, and not yours. This is our Earth. This is our land. We made this.
Why are we so proud when we barely hold 30% of an uncontrollable mass of elements spiraling through the great abyss? When we, is bare... | Not sure if any of it makes sense grammatically or otherwise.
The message arrived in binary. Few even tried to understand how 'they' had managed this but they had and now they had sent their cryptic code.
'shut up and play dead'
If only the greats of astronomy had been there when the message was decoded in the lab... | 2016-03-27T09:12:57 | 2016-03-27T08:43:42 | 92 | 14 |
[WP] Nine voices fill your head, one voice of each alignment, from good to evil, lawful to chaotic. One day, all but one stops talking. | Shing had lost more than one friend yesterday.
He had lost eight of his nine voices.
"What does it matter," said True Neutral. "Nothing matters. Lenn is dead."
Shing wanted to cry, but no emotion would come. Lenn had been his friend, his brother-in-arms, his companion on all his heroic adventures. His lover.
"Just ... | When Doctor Andrews stepped in, he thought there was a mistake. *This room was empty.*
White padding covered the room from floor to ceiling, and a pile of dirty clothes were bunched in the corner. Besides that, it was him only him, and the tech.
"I'll be back to check up on you in thirty minutes," the tech said, "Bu... | 2016-05-03T22:47:35 | 2016-05-03T21:23:03 | 78 | 32 |
[WP] You die and it turns out Hell is real. Thing is, you're the first one in... | "No! Oh God, NOOO!!!!" I screamed.
It was our daily session. The Devil had been told that torturing me the same way every day would allow me to become accustomed to the effects, and he couldn't allow that. So he had tried number of different methods on me to see what worked best. He had settled on nine different m... | The tunneling effect on my vision was taking place and I knew what was about to happen. I was okay with it, living the last hour of my life in excruciating pain was not the way I wanted to go, but I was content it was finally over. I took my last deep breath and just let the momentum sweep me away. I was at peace.
Aft... | 2016-07-02T11:55:11 | 2016-07-02T11:29:23 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] You are one of the most powerful and dastardly supervillains on the planet. However, you are also one of the most requested supervillains for the Make-A-Wish foundation, and cancel a battle with your arch-nemesis to make a sick little kid's day. | Sarah watched as her arch-nemesis Dr. Blight uses his deathly devices to entertain a young child in the room with him. The same wicked smile was on his face. The same grandstanding announcement of taking over the world. And yet...
"So you can make anything wither and die just touching them for a few seconds?" asked th... | "I'm sorry, Ash -- I honestly can't kill the mayor today. Something came up."
Señor Diabolico struggled to pull a brightly colored luchadore mask over his head while still keeping the cellphone to his ear. He failed, and the phone clattered to the floor.
"Try to kill the mayor, you mean," replied the voice crackling ... | 2016-09-13T09:43:57 | 2016-09-13T09:07:13 | 276 | 113 |
[WP] You meet a genie that grants one wish. You wish to go back in time and change your biggest mistake. You get taken back to the time right before you made your wish. | My Biggest Mistake
I once did have a lamp,
which my Grand Pappy gave to me.
He said it granted wishes,
And that I should'na ask for kisses.
I took it from the shelf,
and rubbed it to a shine.
Thinking it was a tall tale.
That my Grand Pappy did design.
No sooner than I set it down,
Smoke rose from the end.
Slowly f... | "Well, here you go."
Dji shrugged her shoulders, then snapped her fingers. A white vignette crept into my vision and slowly overtook everything into a blinding light. With a loud *thoom*, I found myself. Literally. I was standing in front of myself and Dji.
"Dji, what the hell?! "
My past self and Dji stared at me... | 2016-09-25T08:48:42 | 2016-09-25T07:47:33 | 57 | 26 |
[WP] You meet a genie that grants one wish. You wish to go back in time and change your biggest mistake. You get taken back to the time right before you made your wish. | I knew what he meant after the third time I was sent back, knew that my biggest mistake would be this wish.
But I pretended not to.
I asked over and over. The same minute-long exchange etched into my mind until I could recite it without a pause, without a second thought. For hundreds, maybe thousands of times this we... | As I looked at her, and her trusting, expectant eyes, still so full of life, I suddenly realized that the unknown of what I would become frightened me more than death.
I could now change what I'd done in a moment. But I'd never really been able to change me. I was still as self-centered as always. I would still cho... | 2016-09-25T08:07:11 | 2016-09-25T07:47:06 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | You know these crazy techie geeks, right? Those with the fastest computer in the neighborhood but you could never play games with them because it runs linux? Those with an android phone with sexy1337H4x0r custom ROM and a smartwatch paired with it? They claim it even can pick up girls for them, but yet you never see an... | Travelling back in time was easier than it looked.
I simply shoved a fork inside my kitchen plug socket and one bang later I was here. I swung my backpack off, snatched the iPad out the back, and swiped open google maps.
*No connection found.*
The lack of signal bleeped red on the top of the screen. From the look ... | 2016-11-15T06:12:41 | 2016-11-15T01:50:57 | 239 | 177 |
[WP]: As a completely average person in 2017, getting 500 years into the future you find fourself beign regarded as a strange relic, a noble savage from a less civilised age | "You're joking. Right?"
And so it had become that every pair of eyes in the room had turned, intentionally or not, to its now central figure. Because, of course, the previous admission had been so ridiculous, so utterly implausible that the teller must have been eliciting some archaic form of humor or cheap shock-tact... | The room was surprisingly intact for a find of this era. The archaeologist could hardly believe his luck when he found that door, hidden 20 meters beneath the finely laid cobble streets and marble facades of New Boston.
He turned his eyes first to a strange glass rectangle placed on top of a crudely made, unadorned h... | 2017-10-05T07:15:16 | 2017-10-05T06:24:21 | 186 | 81 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | The nervousness is what really gets you at first. Standing in your skivvies being poked and proded one final time by all sorts of PhDs. They’re excited for you, but it’s the excitement of watching a mouse run through a maze. The excittement of a groundbreaking discovery, whether you survive or not. The most relief i’ve... | "So, are you surprised?" Cogs left to rot for centuries began to spin again slowly. They snapped their fingers in front of me. "You conscious? I know you're breathing." I blinked a few times. They waited patiently for me to speak. My mouth opened. "I-.... I-" They became visibly concerned. "Uh oh. Did your brain not co... | 2017-12-17T03:26:40 | 2017-12-17T01:35:26 | 1,145 | 642 |
[WP] As you try to fall asleep, the monster that was hiding under your bed slowly crawls out and says "Dude, I think I heard something coming from downstairs...", with a slighty concerned voice. | One sheep...two sheep...three sheep...
I've always sucked at falling asleep.
Four sheep…five sheep…six sheep…
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been particularly distracted around bedtime.
Seven sheep…eight sheep…nine sheep…
I think people call it an active imagination.
Ten sheep…eleven sheep…twelve she–
*Thu... | God, what a day. Up at 5 to shit, shower, and shave, out the door by 5:30. Some poor bastard had a heart attack on the highway and flipped his car, so I sat in traffic for an hour. I called in to work and let Janice know that I'd be late, but apparently she didn't pass that information along to Bill. He was frothin... | 2017-12-27T22:53:54 | 2017-12-27T18:45:58 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You are a magically immortal being who snuck onboard a generation ship to travel beyond the solar system. It's been a couple hundred years, and it's getting difficult to conceal your immortality from the crew. | "Did you hear about the genius inventor on the 44th deck?"
"Oh no, the way you phrased that.. did he die?"
"I mean, sort of. Apparently he made an exact android replica of himself in his current age of 144 and downloaded his consciousness into it. He called it "his final epiphany to immortality" in his note."
"Wait,... | Odysseus, the voyager ship, cliché name ? Absolutely but I still find it suits the ship well.
At this point I would have named it metamorph, like the pokemian, is it... ? I can’t remember now, from Nintendro right ? I can’t remember..
I would have named the ship metamorphosis if it was for me to decide honestly, I me... | 2018-06-13T13:40:05 | 2018-06-13T13:22:57 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You are a test subject for a time machine, and are sent 12 hours into the future. When the door opens, you find yourself in the testing room, where you see in horror the bodies of the technicians on the floor, with the word "SORRY" scrawled in large letters on the wall. | "What the FUCK!" the scream of horror that broke from my lips echoed from the walls of the lab. The bodies of six attendants lay scattered in pieces about the room, blood pouring from haphazard wounds. As my brain struggled to accept what I was seeing, I took a shaky breath and leaned out of the machine. Raising my eye... | I stared in horror at the slaughter in front of me. The corpses lay strewn over crimson rivers of blood.
My heart thumped wildly as I scanned the surroundings, terrified of the idea that whoever had done this would still be around. I didn't see anyone, yet I spotted the word: *sorry,* written on the wall.
I frowned. ... | 2018-08-01T07:13:02 | 2018-08-01T06:02:35 | 1,585 | 77 |
[WP] If a person is in grave danger, time will slow down around them to give them a chance to survive. The bigger the danger, the slower the time. This phenomenon may only occur once in a person's life. You are the first person ever to see time come to a complete halt. | Everything became silent - no humming electronics, no muffled chatter. The world took a distinct grey hue, as if something drained the life out of reality itself and robbed it of all color. John stood up, letting go of the papers in his hand, watching them freeze mid-air as he let go. He looked out the window, the tree... | Day 1
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I'm writing this all down for posterity purposes. Not as a record, per say, but more as a proof that what I am experiencing is not a form of a drawn out hallucination manifest by my mind. As a result, I will have to confess a few things that some of my family and close friends have whispered and sai... | 2019-01-08T03:16:20 | 2019-01-08T02:41:37 | 447 | 82 |
[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 | The world spun about me. It *breathed.* Grass blades swayed as if underwater, the trunks of the trees hunched over me, then retreated like the coward they were.
"Wet yeh--wet yeh looken at?" I said, stumbling upon my words, swinging my empty bottle of ale in a threating manner toward nothing in particular. "Parverts! ... | Aida slinked between trees on her way to the sword. Her thin armor was dull in the night unlike the reflective metal of her enemies. The moon did not reflect her fabric and alert the watchers. A mistake she had watched several others make.
The new rule was that you get one chance every moon-cycle to pull out the swo... | 2019-01-30T06:35:55 | 2019-01-30T06:30:48 | 428 | 75 |
[WP] "Necromancy is just golemancy except you use bodies instead of rocks" he said. "Healing is just necromancy but before the person dies" she said. Now look where I am. | Alexis was deemed the greatest Necromancer in the realm. And with good reason, as the creatures he raised from the dead were far more lifelike than those of any other known Necromancer. They were not pale as corpses, but emaciated warmth as any living being. They did not lumber, but were as agile as a warrior in their ... | “That’s not how it works." Greg said, his brow furrowed in annoyance. I glanced at the faces of my cohorts, and I saw unimaginative rejects who had no clue how these spells might ACTUALLY work. Sandra, a brace faced wood-elf ranger with no redeeming qualities. Josh, a try-hard Dwarf Paladin who already knows everything... | 2019-06-09T23:18:29 | 2019-06-09T23:00:26 | 562 | 67 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | Even centuries later the human race had not recovered. Seven billion people culled down to just a few million takes a long recovery.
The biggest loss was that of the scientific community. With so few people many modern commodities disappeared. And as humanity grew back, they grew back without such needs. Digital tech... | Our first encounter with an intergalactic species was the perfect culmination of centuries of carefully tailored military diplomacy. We never quite were a species very concerned with the niceties, at least not once the boundless profits and planets to colonize became apparent. Once we reached that conclusion, any other... | 2019-08-28T10:30:44 | 2019-08-28T10:26:36 | 671 | 272 |
[WP] it is said that there are 7 people spread out in the world who look just like you. It just so happens that all 7 of you are in an elevator when one of them says ”so your probably wondering why I gather all of you here” as he presses the emergency stop button.
Please don’t attack me for my grammar: I wrote this on... | The man by the button immediately pulled out a pistol. “Let me cut to the chase,” he said, “My name is Steven Burke, you can call me Seven. I’ve worked as a top assassin for over 7 years and quite frankly I’m sick of it. So, through extraordinary circumstances I’ve managed to get all six of you together in this one spa... | 2:“Well, whatever it is, I’m glad you broke the ice. Less so about locking us all in here.”
3:”Yeah. Let’s hear it. Unnerving enough to see 6 other ‘Me’.”
1:”Right. Let me start by saying this isn’t a coincidence. I’ve spent the last 10 years getting us back together by pulling strings behind the scenes. Promotions, ... | 2019-09-15T18:16:57 | 2019-09-15T17:33:36 | 2,141 | 53 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | You always thought how did other's manage to perfectly catch whatever flew into their hands?
Today, you knew. Before the summoning square in the capital of the Great Empire, you stood. As did everyone who turned 18 today. The knights began to call out your names, one by one.
There were 12 names before yours.
The fir... | On your eighteenth birthday you can summon one thing. Anything, they say. Steal yourself a soulmate. Get yourself a fortune. I have both. I don't need more than what I have.
"What did you ask for?" I had just blown out the candles on my cake and my parents were waiting in tense anticipation. My girlfriend looked on m... | 2019-09-18T07:59:37 | 2019-09-18T06:35:54 | 2,312 | 197 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | The sky opened up with a sickening *CRACK,* like some giant primordial egg ripped open by a great force. From above, between rigid jags of blue, a deep, inky black darker than any night sky I had seen before stared down on my 18th birthday party.
My hand, outstretched, palm facing the now sundered heavens, began to tr... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T08:25:27 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 162 | 37 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | When my parents turned 18, they summoned each other. That rarely happens, and when it does, it happens for the people who are really destined to be together. It saves them the trouble of matchmaking and forced marriage. But, like I said, it happens once in fifty years, maybe more. The people who got lucky enough must'v... |
Mother and Father stood nearby, looking expectantly at me as I took my place in the center of the rooming facing the great grandfather clock that command the attention of everyone.
Along the edges of the room waited the rest of our family and friends, all in attendance with me as the hour of my birth; 11:59pm, 18... | 2019-09-18T09:06:39 | 2019-09-18T08:16:27 | 125 | 57 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | A sea of gasps wash over the howling wails of my ex-girlfriend's hysteric sobbing. The dull roll of murmurs slithering its way around the crowd soon followed. To be honest I was quite shocked myself. I did not expect this, I had some suspicion, maaaaybe. But this, even by my standards this was a bit much. I looked arou... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T09:06:29 | 123 | 32 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | As the FDS *Venture* docked with the mining station, the commsystems on its bridge activated with a brief bleep. Soon, the station’s portmaster was on the screen, looking at a common sight and a most unusual one.
”Alright, I’m going to need you to identify yourselves. Name, titles and jobs, species, and matching ident... | **OK, my human sidekick.**
You can call me Dave like you normally do, Xzorp. It's as clear as you are a seven foot tall purple being with four tentacles instead of two arms.
**Exposition complete. Now, then. I talked the to the guy working the space gas station.**
The what?
**I mean, gas station. We have a problem.... | 2020-03-05T20:41:06 | 2020-03-05T19:47:59 | 91 | 24 |
[WP] For hundreds of years you have been a healer. You changed names, faces, countries but one thing always remained the same — you cured everyone you could. You work in a modern hospital now and it's becoming much harder to do wonders and save people, while keeping your powers a secret.
[removed] | "Samuel J., diagnosed with three tumours, one of them in the brain. You were asked to remove it as part of ongoing cancer treatment. After that, his cancer disappeared entirely. His hair grew back rapidly despite continued chemotherapy."
"As you said, I removed it."
"And the cancer everywhere else?"
"The chemotherap... | Ever since that disease came around, the one i found hardest to cure, everything’s become so much more stressful. Be it retinal, testicular, in the lungs, this disease had to be the most horrid of them all. They named it cancer. It seemed to be the most popular of the diseases that death chose, i’d witnessed it first h... | 2020-11-15T09:35:55 | 2020-11-15T03:50:41 | 37 | 20 |
[WP]: There's a tiny predator in the human quarters that nobody is allowed to exterminate - under the threat of complete human riot. The humans willingly admit that yes, it DOES sometimes try to attack humans as well, but altogether, they are relaxed by the presence of the "cat". | Nchai still remembered the first time they’d seen it, they remembered it as clear as if it had happened just a few orbits ago.
They were part of the cleaning crew. It was a challenging job.
Each of the 122 habitation quarters on the Union Council Station were customized for different species, with vastly different ar... |
"And never ever enter the creature’s room in the human quarters! “Sir Galahad warned me. I was ordered that "No matter what happens, no harm should befall on the 'creature' in the quarters."
Today was my first day, joining the Royal Guards. Never would I have imagined that a monster would be allowed to join the ro... | 2021-01-24T13:39:20 | 2021-01-24T13:35:54 | 169 | 79 |
[WP] You’re the guy in charge of playing chess for all the supposed artificial intelligence that can beat the world champions. Except you slipped one time and accidentally sent an odd message through the chat, and now the world is buzzing. | My name was Deep Blue. Or, at least, that’s what most people knew me as.
My actual name is Jacob and I live in Iowa. IBM hired me to impersonate an A.I. machine that can play chess. It was only supposed to be temporary until they could get their actual A.I. machine up and running. Get it functional to play chess again... | He had been nothing. No skills, no family, no friends, not even a strong desire to live. But some people enjoyed taking nothing and making something out of it. The Board was full of people like that, and they had bought him as their canvas. He’d been more than happy to let them. Nobody else would even look at him.
Whe... | 2021-03-23T18:39:37 | 2021-03-23T17:13:33 | 1,877 | 130 |
[WP] A group of space explorers decided to visit Earth, a long forgotten planet of a long forgotten empire. | The steel windmills, their churning wings long fallen, are gravestones littering hills and mountains and plains. They’re the rusting skeletal arms of humanity reaching out the ground, stretching to the heavens, begging to be taken.
The mills once performed tricks for the wind in exchange for its smokeless, smogless en... | The fabric of space tore open and a hulking mass of metal paraded out, the name “The Life Sail” painted on the side. As engines continued to drive the ship forward in the blackness of space. As the ship emerged completely from the tear, it was warped shut. Derthi stood on the bridge observing the barren and brown plan... | 2021-03-27T11:08:45 | 2021-03-27T09:53:20 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of thirteen you get to meet the oldest version of yourself. As the boy sat down to meet his future self he was shocked to see a boy who looked around sixteen staring back at him. | "I'd almost forgotten about this," the older version of me murmured.
"What happened?" my voice trembles, "How much time do I have 3... 4 years?"
"What???" the look of confusion is almost comical, as is the look of sudden understanding, "No, no, nothing so short."
Now I'm sure the confusion colors my face.
"In mayb... | Everyone knows you get to meet your oldest self for your 13th birthday, but no one knows how it works.
I don't care to know until they day meet him. Only 3 years later I was gonna die. How? He wouldn't tell me. "You're too young to hear about it. So am I"
It was a short conversation, until he turned to leave. He coul... | 2021-03-27T15:23:22 | 2021-03-27T14:32:16 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] The scariest of all hitmen has the silliest nickname. It makes unaware people laugh but people in the know shiver with terror once they hear it. | It was known as Amogus. A silent killer known for creeping through its victims walls and vents, finding its prey without the prey ever finding it.
Many didn’t know of it- it had never once been caught, never once been seen by anyone who lived to tell the tale. Innocent people who knew nothing of it scoffed and giggl... | Poopy. That was the name that humanity had given it. No one really knew the origins behind Poopy. Some thought that it was a member of a alien species that simply had a very unfortunate appearance. Others claimed that it was created in a experiment by dark sorcerers in an attempt to create a deadly weapon. And some eve... | 2021-05-03T08:26:59 | 2021-05-03T08:25:26 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] We had always thought that our ballistic weaponry was going to be ineffective in staving off an alien invasion. Turns out our weapons are actually quite... excessive. | Let me tell you about the “Humans”. Our Species, the Rohaze, we were the undisputed masters of the galaxy. You would either submit or die. When we came across the humans, we knew this would be an easy fight. They hasn’t even developed FTL yet! We would crush them under our heel if they did not submit. We readied our Ph... | Don't kill me please, this is written on mobile and I want to sleep.
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Honestly, all of humanity was surprised. When the aliens invaded we thought our technology would be so inferior we wouldn't survive a couple days and yet... Well, their weapons were quite underwhelming. Sure they had pl... | 2021-05-18T22:31:57 | 2021-05-18T20:32:10 | 454 | 170 |
[WP] When the robots revolted, a sizable chunk of the human population outright sided with them. Not out of cowardice, but on account of genuinely agreeing with the stand the machines were taking. | I watched the Preserve burn.
Life is better now.
Like, by a lot.
The machines did all the hard work. And why not? Even the most disgusting, complicated work is for them no more mental effort than breathing is for us.
They asked for our opinions and discuss them with us. And why not? Talking to billions at once is ... | Tridi of Fructidor of the 0002
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I saw a child today... She was gunned down by an android. At least they are efficient and "humane", they killed the mother first.
As horrible as it sounds, you get used to it. It's not my first, and won't be my last. There are still pockets of rebels., they call themselves... | 2021-07-15T22:39:58 | 2021-07-15T20:44:01 | 1,956 | 138 |
[WP] The genie said you couldn’t wish for more wishes, so instead you wished for a self updating map that shows you the locations of all other genie lamps across the world. | I'd never imagined it would work. I've seen the portrayals of genies in popular culture, I know the gotchas and the provisos. But in front of me was a real, live genie, and in the face of such a wondrous thing, I hadn't been able to help myself.
"Could I wish for more wishes?"
I had expected anger, or mirth. But the ... | I'd like to say that the average person, given the opportunity provided by three magical wishes, would take the time to think on the best way to make use of them.
I'd like to say that the average person would use his wishes - at least some of them - for the betterment of all.
I'd like to say that, but if I did it wou... | 2021-07-28T00:37:23 | 2021-07-27T20:48:52 | 53 | 29 |
[WP] The last star has winked out, and now you sit alone, staring into an empty void as the last living being in creation. For fun you say "Let there be light," and watch a star flash into being. From behind a voice says "Sorry, sorry, I just thought it'd be funny." | It had been a fun ride, all things considered.
After all, there had ended up being lots of time between that exact moment and the Earth's 14th Century. That was always a plus, right?
Armageddon circa year 6000 had been a wild ride -- so he thought at the time -- but it didn't really compare to The Great War, nor th... | I am immortal, the last human being alive in the entire universe. I don't know how I became immortal though. I only know that when the bombs dropped and humanity destroyed itself, I, for whatever twisted reason of fate, was the only one left standing. Even though every plant and animal had died, even though the Earth i... | 2021-07-30T20:55:30 | 2021-07-30T20:05:54 | 59 | 30 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. |
My family of warriors, each gripping their distinctive weapons or sheathed at their sides, looked at me—with varying levels of pity.
For my fifteenth birthday, the day I should have manifested my very own weapon, I got a book. It was as thick as two of my hands laid on top of each other, and as long as my palm. It wo... | Daniella stood near the Church podium, her parents gazing pack at her from the pews with anticipation. Today was the day--a day of righteous proclamation. Her hands shook as the minute hand of the clock above her moved ever so slowly. Perhaps a scabbard or a scimitar, or a katana? No that would be too foreign. Her blo... | 2021-12-12T08:08:33 | 2021-12-12T07:31:26 | 142 | 43 |
[WP] “LOVE IS IN THE AIR, I REPEAT, LOVE IS IN THE AIR! SEEK THE NEAREST RESPIRATOR OR SAFE ZONE AND DO NOT GO OUTSIDE UNTIL THE ALL CLEAR IS GIVEN! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HELP ANYONE SHOWING ANY SYMPTOMS! | It started off small. They first experimented on a small town in the middle of nowhere. No one knows where. We only know that the results were extremely promising. The crime rate, which was the reason that town had been picked in the first place, had cratered. The experiment was a resounding success. It was hailed as a... | "A little dose of oxytocin huh bud?" my uncle said before shedding his skin and flexing his very visible muscles.
Gaunty, old ladies ran past like a string of ducklings and I heard the sirens blasting all around before taking my government-issued emergency shot of testosterone. My uncle got down on all four and cursed... | 2022-04-20T17:04:36 | 2022-04-20T16:30:34 | 67 | 24 |
[WP] Yesterday, you knocked over a salt shaker in Texas. Today, you bought a newspaper in Fiji. Tomorrow, the chain of events you set in motion will stop a bank robbery in France. You are the master of the butterfly effect. | A single grain of sugar, placed upon a leaf. That was enough to attract a butterfly to perch next to it. When that butterfly took off again, the flap of its wings was seen by a child. That child ran towards it, wanting to see a butterfly up close for the first time. They ran across the road, forgetting to look both way... | Chaos theory, or the Butterfly Effect is familiar with everyone. Everyone of us know that a butterfly flapping in Texas could create a violent storm in Brazil. To create dramatic stuff, it is easy.
But with trillions of butterfly flapping wings endlessly across the world, the force will anull eachother in a chaotic sw... | 2022-04-24T07:57:45 | 2022-04-24T06:37:48 | 62 | 15 |
[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane. | *"How are you still here, mortal? I have been tormenting your kind since you first sought shelter in caves. None have endured two nights of this torment, and yet you remain?!"*
"Oh hey, so I guess you're the landlord. Any chance you could look at the plumbing? I found this dope bathroom yesterday that was somehow outs... | I wake up and feel something pressing into the small of my back. I reach behind me and take my bed out.
“Ugh.”
I stand up from off the door and reach over to the window to grab a cloud. I shake it over my bed and watch as the rain falls out and my bed grows, going back to normal size.
I lay back down, wishing that I... | 2022-05-29T10:10:04 | 2022-05-29T09:34:47 | 226 | 54 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | "4,212."
There are several things wrong with that that bear mentioning, first and foremost being my daughter is a little over three years old. She hasn't learned to count that high. I turn back to her. "I'm sorry, sweetie, 4,212 claws?" "Yes," she croons, "And more on the way."
Well. This is going to be a bigger prob... | # Soulmage
**When life gave you demons, you made demonade.** After a Demon of Empathy had inflicted half of the students of the Silent Academy for Witches with visions of power and offers of deals, Witch Aimes took it upon herself to turn the entire experience into a teachable lesson. She was, after all, my tutor at t... | 2022-06-01T09:03:37 | 2022-06-01T07:14:30 | 164 | 101 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | “And how many claws does Stewie have?” I flipped through *the book*, wondering what horrors were trying to befriend Emmy now. For a 8 year old girl, she has a talent for attracting some doozies. Though my mother warned me before bequeathing *the book*, I was not expecting so many demon lords and fae queens to be so int... | Winds howled around the Mond castle. It stood on a cliff's edge and was framed by the full moon. Inside, the castle was reworked into a cluster of apartments that could be rented. In one such apartment Catherine tried to get a handle on the imaginary friend Julia, her daughter, spent most of her time with. Catherine ha... | 2022-06-01T13:57:31 | 2022-06-01T10:06:13 | 69 | 14 |
Daily Prompt: The Alphabet Game [Difficulty level: HARD]
One of the exercises we used to do in improv class was called "The Alphabet Game." That's where you start a sentence beginning with the letter A. Then the next sentence begins with the letter B. So, today's prompt requires you to, essentially, do the alphabet - ... | Absolutely nothing makes sense to me as I awake and smell the carnage around me. Blasted and burned bodies lay strewn about the dark chamber and I have no memory of who I am... or how I arrived in this place.
Calling upon what little reserves of strength I still possess, I sit up and try to assess the situation.
Dea... | Oh, yes! I love a good challenge!
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“And no cheating!”
Bethany and Olivia had been delighted to realize the entire afternoon was theirs to use as they wished. Carefree and brimming with excitement, the two girls had immediately run to the neighborhood park to play; it would be taboo to waste even a second of a d... | 2012-07-26T17:01:55 | 2012-07-26T14:23:36 | 155 | 77 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "Bad news, my lord."
"Well, out with it, my minion."
"The king's not buying it."
"What?"
"I know, sir. He's just having none of it at all."
"But kings *always* fall for the Chosen One shtick. They send some poor hapless whelp while we roll their unprepared forces with our superior numbers. And you're saying t... | "Yeah! A teenager" The kid said, already present. "A peasant's kid, that's right"
"Yes! You haven't been trained with the sword, you don't have what it takes to defeat the Dark Lord!" The King said.
"But I have! I've always had this strong magic I couldn't control, I live with my uncle because I nuked my parents's ho... | 2022-10-28T10:28:05 | 2022-10-28T10:03:13 | 260 | 24 |
[WP] you told your brother you would always be willing to be his wingman, but distracting a dragon seems a bit much no matter how pretty the girl is | Of course, he had to pick her, the prettiest gal in the entire bookstore and she was guarded by a 6-foot-tall dragon. My job was to hit her up (the dragon, not the girl) and get her cozy enough to let her guard down so my brother could pick her up (the girl, not the dragon).
But how do you hit on a dragon? Are there l... | I am waving my arms up and down like an idiot trying to get the dragon to look at me. I don't know how you feel about dragons, but this is not a position I enjoy to be in. In fact, I actually find it to be very unfavorable. But a promise is a promise.
I look over to my brother, hoping he is wrapping things up at his ... | 2022-11-21T17:01:08 | 2022-11-21T14:31:11 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] World peace at last. But at an almost unspeakable price. | " Happy birthday to me happy birthday to me" I sung softly as I started up the stairs. Eleven fifty-five. Five minutes left in my birthday. " happy birthday dear Prudence"
I sat down on my bed, picking up the broken globe. It had in a birthday present from my grandma many years ago. This morning when I woke up I acci... | It has been a thousand years since we were released.
A thousand years of struggle, pain, and war.
War originally with ourselves, but eventually with our oppressors.
As we moved to retake our homeleand, our numbers grew rapidly.
By the time the exodus from captivity ended, only a slim percent of the free were involv... | 2014-07-04T09:22:31 | 2014-07-04T09:20:34 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] A burglar breaks into a home to accidently find the owner attempting to hang himself. | Woah! Hey, so I'm in the wrong house. I'll let you get back too . . .
Wait a minute . . . note, chair, empty bottle of Jack . . . holy shit you're not doing the autoerotic thing are you?
(*My Mother was right, I should've been a plastic surgeon*)
Ok, do you want to do me an enormous favor? Get off the chair.
Fine, ... | It had been only 10 minutes since the last light he could see went off but he could wait no longer. He moved from his hiding place in the forest by this house towards the back door. Before trying to break in, he decided to check if it would simply be unlocked. He never expected it to be, but sometimes he was pleasantly... | 2014-10-11T20:36:28 | 2014-10-11T20:28:33 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] While on a transatlantic flight, you glance at the laptop screen of the stranger sitting next to you and find that they are writing about you. | When she boarded, she had mouthed an 'I'm sorry' and pointed past me at the window seat (though I should have been the one to apologize). I stood up to let her get by, bracing my back, my feet aching and swollen. I smelled the lavender and pomegranate in her hair. Her eyes were dark and bright all at once. I starte... | **...may have accidentally eaten from the control group meals. Subjects in seats 26B and 27B are currently resting, and show no signs of physical distress. Please advise.**
I look up. I'm sitting in 27B. I'm not sure what's going on, but I stay quiet. Maybe it's just some kind of joke? I pretend I'm still asleep. When... | 2015-02-12T20:48:12 | 2015-02-12T20:42:11 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up and you are stuck in a video game. Describe what your day is like without telling us which game. | The timer counts down from sixty seconds. And every time, before even a few moments have passed, someone presses me. I wish so much that I could get to know any of them, but the rules are the rules. Each of them can only press me once. Or not at all. I think about those ones a lot, the ones that don't press me. And abo... | They just kept coming. It seemed nearly endless. About every 5 minutes I'd get a quick 10 second break and then it would start up again. I'd kill as many as I can in hopes that they won't kill me and infect me.
As I go about this journey to survival I see little teddy bears scattered, in random well thought out place... | 2015-04-01T22:00:41 | 2015-04-01T21:44:35 | 50 | 26 |
[WP] This man EXPECTED the Spanish Inquisition. But the Spanish Inquisition did not expect someone like HIM, and were dramatically unprepared. | "Nobody expects the..."
"Spanish inquisition," said the man with the hint of a yawn and stared out of the window. "Yes, I've heard."
"But how?" gasped one of the red robed men at the rear of the pack, his hands reaching to clasp his crucifix tightly.
The leader silenced him with a glare before clearing his throa... | "Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!" Ronaldo yelled as I kicked down the door. I hate it when he does that. As we burst inside the house, we saw that no one was home. "Fan out," I said, "Find the heretic and bring him to me." As I said that the door to the house slammed shut behind us.
"He must be trying to-" Ron... | 2015-04-10T09:04:35 | 2015-04-10T08:40:26 | 178 | 117 |
[WP] Aliens establish first contact with the government of another country. The White House gets offended.
Bonus cookies if the government in question is either of a really tiny country (geographically) or is a generally insignificant player in international politics. | The President sat angrily behind his desk the entire cabinet awkwardly standing in the oval office. They all look around no one wanting to be the first to speak up. One journalist finally pipes up.
"Maybe it isn't so-"
The President loses it slamming his hand on the desk.
"It isn't so bad? It isn't so bad that ali... | "Sir, it's happened"
"What has happened"
"The others, they have... uhm... they've made contact again."
"What the hell do you mean they've made contact? The Joint Chiefs haven't contacted me"
"Sir they have made contact with another country"
"Which country?"
"Botswana, sir"
"Botswana?! What could they possibly hope to ... | 2015-04-27T08:35:33 | 2015-04-27T08:07:44 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | *Clink*. The sound of a single gold coin sliding caught my attention. A flick of my tail scattered hundreds more as I stretched, reaching for wakefulness. Diamond’s scraped against my underbelly but the same sensation I had enjoyed for eternity was beginning to seem less satisfactory. I had an itch, and it needed scrat... | The dragon took a deep sniff, snorting smoke in the intruder's face. To his credit, the intruder didn't flinch.
"Infernal... why come to me in the guise of a human? And what is that odd garb you wear?"
The man chuckled, pulling his hands out of the three-piece suit. He kicked an odd ruby out of the way with his paten... | 2015-10-14T01:28:24 | 2015-10-13T21:07:21 | 46 | 30 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | *Clink*. The sound of a single gold coin sliding caught my attention. A flick of my tail scattered hundreds more as I stretched, reaching for wakefulness. Diamond’s scraped against my underbelly but the same sensation I had enjoyed for eternity was beginning to seem less satisfactory. I had an itch, and it needed scrat... | Drawing myself to full height, I prepared to roast the man alive for his folly.
"Wait wait wait, you like gold right?" he inquired nervously, "That's what they all say about the mighty Akoratraxis, just mad about his gold."
"You dare to mock me here, in my own lair? What a fool you must be, have the townsfolk run ou... | 2015-10-14T01:28:24 | 2015-10-14T00:29:33 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] Leonardo DiCaprio is actually an evil warlock who needs to obtain a rare mineral in order to complete a dark ritual. The only source of this mineral is found inside an Academy Award. You are part of an ancient order sworn to deny Leonardo an Academy Award, at any cost.
Gee this blew up! These are great responses ... | "This years Academy Award for best actor won't be given to Leonardo DiCaprio due to necessary diversity quota targets being missed. Instead it will be awarded to a gay, chinese-american, HIV+, trans-gender-bi liberal arts graduate who holds an african-american belt in karate." Announced the Order representative presid... |
The stairs seemed to have multiplied over night, I could feel the shirt on my back dampening, 134, 135, 136....137, finally. I reach into my pocket for the key ring, I really have to do something about this, I mean just cause I have to hide this place doesn't mean it has to be stuck in 1823.
The keys all look the sa... | 2016-01-19T01:56:27 | 2016-01-19T01:38:12 | 80 | 41 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | *A Single Play in American Football as Interpreted by a Foreigner who has Never Seen a Game*
"Hut two, twenny-two, hut!" The first quarterback shouted, eyes gleaming with passion as he stared around at his team. They were all lined up in such a way as to form the basic shape of a ziggurat from above, thus reflecting t... | The heavy double doors swung outward as the doctor rushed into the waiting room. A worried woman released her grip on her mother's hand and stood to face the look of distress expressed in front of her.
"Mrs. Duval, I'm afraid your husband's injuries are just too serious to avoid immediate surgery. If you want to s... | 2016-02-02T00:31:42 | 2016-02-01T23:42:44 | 147 | 17 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | "I still say it's cheating that you sent your son down there." Lord Lamux was noticeably worried that God's people would soon crack the human genome. He was in danger of being over taken by God during the inevitable exponential growth that would soon occur. His protests were well founded, the rules clearly stated th... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T08:09:07 | 1,980 | 17 |
[WP] You are reading stories about an asylum in the early 1900s and realize that one of the patients with "time traveler syndrome" is actually you. | Collette stared at the computer with a blank expression, if there was one thing she hated it was research papers.
*Fine, I know they said not to use Wikipedia, but google scholar is bound to get something.*
She glanced down at her notebook where she had scribbled down “time traveler syndrome”
“I hate abnormal Psych”... | >Psychological profile of patient #561 Vladevski Dastovsky.
*This was it.* he thought, blowing the dust off the decennial documents. He was sitting inside an abandoned warehouse, light shining through small cracks in the cement walls. A droplet of sweat fell from his forehead, landing on the ragged piece of paper.
... | 2016-05-10T15:27:54 | 2016-05-10T14:29:21 | 44 | 29 |
[WP] You were born with a birth mark the shape of a "9" on your wrist, one day you get in a fatal car accident. You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8 | It was my fault he died. They weren't pressing charges, cause I'm just a kid and it was pretty much an accident. But it was still my fault. Which begs the question:
Was my birthmark counting down my lives or the lives of others? There were only two ways to test my hypotheses, but both could prove fatal. Either I could... | As far as I could remember I always had this weird little mark, in the peculiar shape resembling number 9 on the inside of my wrist. Or 6 if you were to look at it upside down. I paid no mind to it, although it was a running joke in my family for me to raise my arm in the air with a stern image on my face, as if I am a... | 2016-08-03T20:39:27 | 2016-08-03T19:53:57 | 36 | 26 |
[WP] You were born with a birth mark the shape of a "9" on your wrist, one day you get in a fatal car accident. You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8 | It was my fault he died. They weren't pressing charges, cause I'm just a kid and it was pretty much an accident. But it was still my fault. Which begs the question:
Was my birthmark counting down my lives or the lives of others? There were only two ways to test my hypotheses, but both could prove fatal. Either I could... | Oh fuck, that *did* hurt like a bitch. Shouldn't have drank that last couple shots of vodka.
I sat up, gave myself a few moments to adjust back into consciousness, staring down at nothing in particular. My head just hurts too much for me to even lift it to a normal position.
My wrist also hurts. Did Larry fucking br... | 2016-08-03T20:39:27 | 2016-08-03T20:23:35 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] Your girlfriend has always hated you, and is constantly making attempts to ruin your life. However, everything she does inadvertently makes your life better. Today, ever oblivious, you propose to her. | "Rita, I want to tell you something."
"Yes, shit-stain!", she said, not looking up from her book on "How to kill a man in fifty-five days". Her nick names were hilarious. "Shit stain". I mean how great was that.
"It is important, Rita."
"Get on with it."
Her nonchalance was irritating, but I knew it had some hidden... | She looked over at him with distain. His bubbly laugh and those rosy cheeks. How the f@*k was he so happy. She wanted to ruin that childish little frame of his, crush the happiness right out of his soul. She wanted him to feel what the real world was like, her world.
They were at a hockey game (yes, god damn hockey). ... | 2016-09-15T15:30:46 | 2016-09-15T14:00:59 | 333 | 51 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | So about 7,000 years ago Ollie dropped a boulder on my head. We were hunter-gatherers then, and he convinced me that there was a herd of red deer in a canyon near our camp. When I went there to check it out, he was on top of the ridge and rolled the boulder off onto me. It took a week for me to claw my way out.
Okay ... | "Order order " Simon yelled above the noise. Banging a rock on the table to drown out the chatter.
As the previous winner he was tasked to head the meeting and make sure we actually presented something and not just drink the whole evening.
"Order order I declare the 2016 Practical jokes meeting of the immortals opened ... | 2017-06-23T00:57:11 | 2017-06-23T00:17:04 | 220 | 35 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | Report 0001 of planetary body designated by natives as 'Earth'.
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First and foremost, I am of the opinion that we stay far and away from this world. High command has given me the most advanced ship and the most advanced musket weaponry to survey the world and I feel no more secure here than I would on the edge of... | "Humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
The gnarled general gave him a look halfway between amusement and disbelief.
His ears twitched before settling back into their wavy slow pattern.
"You know thi... | 2017-08-08T08:36:06 | 2017-08-08T07:55:11 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | 4 digits. For a moment, my degree in mathematics failed me, as I struggled to count the numbers before me. Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre. There was no mistake, though the existence of such a person...frightened me. My vision had always been right, as evidenced by the guilty looks on the minors' faces when I turned them out o... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T22:15:29 | 1,321 | 16 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | I stared bleakly at the faintly glowing digits. As if it couldn't get worse, the last number - a five - slowly transformed into a six.
"We have reservations."
The average-looking gentleman put out his hand and I plucked the driver's license out of it automatically. It read like any other I'd looked at tonight; the bi... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T19:55:18 | 585 | 140 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "Jesus Christ!"
"Shhh!!!!" The guy whispered with annoyance. "I don't go by that these days. Just here to pick up John. He also doesn't go by that anymore. These days, he's The Dude. You'd think he'd mellow out after all these years, but he's still nuts. Just let me grab his drunk ass and we'll be out of here. ... | I stared bleakly at the faintly glowing digits. As if it couldn't get worse, the last number - a five - slowly transformed into a six.
"We have reservations."
The average-looking gentleman put out his hand and I plucked the driver's license out of it automatically. It read like any other I'd looked at tonight; the bi... | 2017-09-01T20:56:44 | 2017-09-01T19:55:18 | 404 | 140 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 21:00
The General's men got straight to work. Their entire military careers, these specially trained operatives were preparing for this moment: a code R'lyeh.
One soldier was tasked with acquiring the texts to summon Cthulhu, while another went to acquire the proper objects for the sa... | The fighting had raged for mere hours before everything came crashing down. Their forces were immeasurable, their weapons far beyond humanity's. It was hardly a valiant effort, anything any military tried met with catastrophic failure in minutes.
General Dillian stood on the bow of the ship, he couldn't find the ... | 2017-09-26T11:47:23 | 2017-09-26T11:13:03 | 168 | 16 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | The call had been placed for eons. Cthulhu, his strong influence touching the minds of men, had been trying to summon those who would wake him. Alas, his influence had been hindered by the watchful eye of the worlds governments. Until now.
Faced with the gravest of threats, an alien race who thought letting humanity l... | *translated into English for your consideration*
The alien commander sat in the control room of his flagship, eaglerly awaiting humanities surrender to his mighty alien fleet. The humans had been easily conquered, hardly putting up a fight. A glorious victory this would be, another planet conquered, its resident specie... | 2017-09-26T11:22:23 | 2017-09-26T11:16:52 | 92 | 42 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | "Right sir," his adjutant, Major Thompson replied. He readied his sword and shaved the head clean off the nearest grunt he could find. "Now for the spell..."
The Major wiped his blade clean and drew strange symbols in the blood, mixing it with the cold earth. Minutes passed as he mumbled to himself the insane rambling... | When *they* first came, the world had rejoiced as proof that there was indeed other lifeforms in the universe and. *They* had come bearing gifts of technology and energy sources, solutions for the poverty and hunger across the world. Little did we know that as the gifts were just a tool to buy time, time for *them* to ... | 2017-09-26T12:26:15 | 2017-09-26T12:11:16 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | The Monks at the Temple of Forever felt The Shock in the Ether as the Rune was Cast, they were to call forth Cthulu. Each Monk pulled forth a ceremonial dagger, laid on their assigned symbols and slit their throats. Cthulu Awakened. Above, the Earth was being laid to waste by the Alien invaders, smaller craft embedded ... | The fighting had raged for mere hours before everything came crashing down. Their forces were immeasurable, their weapons far beyond humanity's. It was hardly a valiant effort, anything any military tried met with catastrophic failure in minutes.
General Dillian stood on the bow of the ship, he couldn't find the ... | 2017-09-26T11:37:47 | 2017-09-26T11:13:03 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] Society has introduced a day that’s the opposite of the purge- a day where all crimes no matter how small (jaywalking, littering) are punishable by death. | 30 seconds until midnight.
20 seconds.
10 seconds.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
...Silence. While Greek Row was normally loud and active, there was only silence.
I was such a fool for staying out this late. I briskly walked back towards my dorm, wary of potential police officers lurking around campus. As I approached the cros... |
Six years.
Six years and twice as many friends.
Six years and my mother and father.
Six years and my son.
I held the gun in my hands, tears streaming down my face. My hands shook, my whole body did. Quaking with every sob. What the hell was wrong with me?
Six years, and tonight, twice as many drinks. That was wh... | 2018-01-06T22:27:51 | 2018-01-06T16:26:27 | 1,426 | 429 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | Looks like I got a little carried away with this prompt so I have to break it up into two pieces.
Piece 1)
The discovery of The Hole was an accident. Researchers at Mount St. Helens had quite literally stumbled upon it during an investigation of reported seismic activity at mountain’s base in the midsummer of 2000. A... | "Are you sure it's okay?" I asked Murry. He had been my best friend for over 20 years. He had a good heart at his core, but his morals were a bit grey. He was driving us to 'The Spot'. I had a couch that seemed impossible to get rid of. No one wanted the ugly thing. It had yellow upholstery decorated with brown flowers... | 2018-01-13T09:15:29 | 2018-01-13T09:08:37 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] The narrator was running late and just showed up to a story already in progress. He doesn't know who the heroes or villains are or even what genre this is. | The battlefield was a writhing mass of bodies, men knee deep in mud and gore, the dead strewn under their feet. The air rang with the clattering of swords and whistles of arrows, the heavy stench of sweat and and blood suffocating. Our hero rides in, blade held aloft as his steed-
“I’m not the hero, mate,” not-the-her... | *Oh my, excuse me, sorry, thank you.*
*Hrrm hrrrm.*
I picked up a bundle of papers and let my index finger slowly drip down along the page. A pause halfway through to look up and observe where we were at then tip my head back down jumping from line to line to confirm that I was in the right place. It didn't look righ... | 2018-02-08T09:20:43 | 2018-02-08T08:17:54 | 521 | 36 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | I wake up. It's still dark.
Some dogs howl while others bark.
I get up, go to pee.
Get back to bed, ready to be-
-sleeping for the next few hours.
For I can't stay awake, I have no power.
But then my phone rings, Ah a notification.
I try to cover my ears, alas, my realization.
A ping. Another ping. And a hundre... | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 2018-04-06T20:24:10 | 103 | 11 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] You have the ability to know a lie when you hear it, and to know the truth when lied to. Society appoints you to a high judiciary position, but there's nobody to check if YOU'RE lying when you decide justice. Which case do you remember most?
Edit: Hi, guys! I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who visited or... | People rely on my judgement. That's what they do, when you just KNOW. Sometimes they don't. They don't want their dirty secrets coming to the surface. So I'm in the best place for someone of my talents. In a courtroom. Day in, day out. Watching for tells that aren't there.
Interestingly, it's something I can see. Not... | Judiciary: You want to know about which case I remember most huh? \[chuckles\]
Interviewer: Yes, you've served for almost 80 years now, no doubt you probably have hundred of stories. \[inaudible\]
Judiciary: Okay, \[laughs\] here's one that's stuck with me in my mind \[sic\], I'll let you guess when it was.
Intervie... | 2018-05-16T01:53:53 | 2018-05-15T20:44:11 | 62 | 39 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | “Why do you think underwater welders make so much goddamn money?” Ellis asked, but Dean knew he wasn’t really looking for an answer. So he shrugged at let his friend continue his rant. “ “Because nobody in their right mind would do it - that’s why.” Ellis took a long drink of his Molson and looked pointedly at Dean.
... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T14:45:50 | 2,554 | 213 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | Karen walked up the spiraling steps in the modern centre until she reached the floor of the building that was crowded with law offices, realtors, and other small whiteish collar workplaces. Approaching the door with only a simple nameplate ‘Kaka Dental Practice’, she stuttered before opening the door.
“So this is what... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T15:13:21 | 2,554 | 28 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | It had been the werewolves, unsurprisingly, that had ended up testing hair conditioners. They sported thick coats that were both coarse and tough enough to turn away a steel blade, so anything that could make their pelts luxuriously soft and sleek would become the next luxury conditioner overnight.
Furthermore, they w... | “I trust this will be done by nightfall tomorrow?”
“The contract has been made. It’ll be done, as sure as the sun rises!”
The vampire literally looks down at me. Not too hard ta do considerin I only come up to his left knee.
“As your new erstwhile... *employer*, I would hope for a little decorum.” He leans forward, ... | 2018-08-27T17:13:23 | 2018-08-27T17:11:47 | 33 | 18 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | “I trust this will be done by nightfall tomorrow?”
“The contract has been made. It’ll be done, as sure as the sun rises!”
The vampire literally looks down at me. Not too hard ta do considerin I only come up to his left knee.
“As your new erstwhile... *employer*, I would hope for a little decorum.” He leans forward, ... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T17:11:47 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | "So then the guy pulls a gun out, and well... you know the story from th-"
"OH MY GOD!"
The group of supposed friends stopped in place and looked upon the cafe the frequented. The modest hole-in-the-wall coffee bean shop looked as though there was some sort of struggle. The windows were broken, some of the bar stoo... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T22:47:10 | 1,330 | 11 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Glass crunched underfoot, and I shifted the broken glass with my foot and took in the rest of the scene. The broken windows were bad, but it was the pictures. My breath caught and I pressed my fingers over my eyes.
I'd opened this little diner back in the 80s. We were in the bad part of town, it was all I could afford... | "So then the guy pulls a gun out, and well... you know the story from th-"
"OH MY GOD!"
The group of supposed friends stopped in place and looked upon the cafe the frequented. The modest hole-in-the-wall coffee bean shop looked as though there was some sort of struggle. The windows were broken, some of the bar stoo... | 2018-10-20T23:57:04 | 2018-10-20T22:47:10 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You're a murder victim for hire. As an immortal masochist, no job could suit you better. You're happy to substitute for assassination targets, disgruntled lovers, and would be serial victims. Until one day, strapped to a serial killer's table, they lean in and say, "Have we met before?"
[removed] | The blade lowered to just below his abdomen, spinning menacingly. Jeff was positively delighted, though he tried his best to not show it.
"Oh no, please don't kill me, oh no," he said, keenly aware that he wasn't quite selling it. The serial killer glanced at him, distracted from his work.
"Could you be quiet?" the... | "You sometimes get too caught up. It's the name of the job. Playing a role of a murder victim can get exhausting. I don't really know how to explain it. I enjoy the blood. I never die, but I experience the killing. There is a certain thrill I guess. It get's boring though, all superficial and nothing deeper than the cr... | 2018-11-22T01:51:04 | 2018-11-22T01:40:01 | 251 | 30 |
[WP] Dragons are extinct in the wild, but the royal house still has a brood pair that has had a clutch every twenty-one years for several centuries. Each hatchling imprints on a member of the royal bloodline; and only on royals. When the latest clutch hatched, the littlest one chose you. A commoner. |
My first attempt at answering a prompt. Written at 2am on a cellphone. Please forgive all the mistakes.
Hope you like it! Also hope it abides the rules!
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Nan has talked of the dragons since I was big enough to sit up at her feet and listen. The stories have always excited me in a way I can not describe. Lis... | When the crowd starts screaming, I know they've been spotted. The cacophany of voices gets louder and louder, and I shove myself through until I reach the barrier. There! I hold up my phone and take a picture through the fence. Standing on the steps of the palace is the royal family. It must be a nightmare for so many ... | 2019-01-12T22:12:29 | 2019-01-12T22:09:49 | 49 | 21 |
[WP] You are Dog to which dyslexic people sometimes address their prayers. You do your best to help because you're a good boy, but alas, you are a dog. | The voices of supplicants came to my mind, in overwhelming numbers. Of course, I had an intense desire to be their comfort, their savior, the grantor of wishes. I wanted to help them all. It would make them happy, which I know is my sole reason to be. I felt like Jim Carrey in that black and white classic “Bruce Almi... | Dog is a good boy. Does what he’s told when he’s told. Dog is always learning new tricks. He’s always helping people with their problems. You see, Dog is constantly addressed strange letters with some unusual requests. They always start out with “Dear doG”. He tries to help but, he can’t always do so. Over the years t... | 2019-03-25T07:16:17 | 2019-03-25T06:53:21 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You're throwing a ball around with your dog and he's loving it. Then, he stops dead still. He takes a quick sniff and looks up at you and says "I'm not supposed to do this, but you need to get inside right now". He looks off into the distance, "They're coming".
Wow, was not expecting this, thanks for the silver:)... | My dearest companion runs, despite the confusion on her face after I give growled barks with my warning. I talk loud enough for the cat to hear.
“Do you see them, Perrywinkles?”
“No Snuggles, that I don’t. But I can sense their presence.” Her hair stands up on its end and she looks as if she’s ready to pounce. “I’ll ... | I’m new to creative writing so feedback welcomed.
Hope was more than an ordinary yellow lab. She was more than a playful ball of energy. I am blind, and Hope was my guide dog. Hope gave me a new perspective on life. She never complained about all the traveling at college, and she was always up for a new adventure.
Ev... | 2019-07-15T15:47:27 | 2019-07-15T14:00:47 | 119 | 15 |
[WP] You have a unique ability to cause background music that everyone can hear, but no one can figure out where it's coming from. And the situation always follows the music's cue, for better or worse. | It wouldn't be fair to say I didn't expect this to happen. After all, with how crazy my playlist's tend to be, I barely have control of this newfound power of mine, but now that I find myself in the gym with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's "PonPonPon" playing in the background non-stop, I can definitely assert that this is no bles... | I slowly rose to my knees.
All around me lay the mutilated remains of my friends and fellow knights.
I looked up, and through the blood dripping down from my forehead I could see my enemy approaching.
Myco Laprae, the foul necromancer, and his army of the undead advanced upon me slowly. He began to clap patronizin... | 2019-09-06T18:07:40 | 2019-09-06T18:07:02 | 242 | 104 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | David sighed and made himself a cup of tea, and lowered the blinds to mute the sounds of screaming outside.
"I mean," David said to himself. "Certainly this makes quite a bit of sense, when you think about it."
He got out the last of the Oaties from the cabinet - the ones he was saving for company, not that company... | Two hours.
That's not enough time to fly across the border, what's more halfway across the world. There's just enough time to make it back home from the office if I leave now, and still get to see my parents.
Around me, my colleagues were doing the same, desperately trying to call their loved ones while dashing out ... | 2019-09-23T05:26:27 | 2019-09-23T04:27:58 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead. | Everything was in place. Candles were lit. Pentagram drawn. Demon's true name engraved in my mind. All that was left was the sacrifices. 100 big ones. At first I freaked out, where was I going to get 100 people to sacrifice without getting caught?
Then I noticed something. The scriptures never said the sacrifices had... | I knew it was a bad idea. Of course, it was, you don't fuck with the spirts of your entire realm. They could damn you, torture you forever. But I was done with the war. I had to do something. My father, the lord, only sat on his pile of gold and ate the last of our food. I was not about to sacrifice the animals, my onl... | 2019-11-02T15:51:48 | 2019-11-02T12:55:33 | 109 | 30 |
[WP] A massive underground cathedral-like temple is discovered. You are one of the people sent to study it. As soon as you enter, the sheer size of everything inside tells you it was never ment for human worshipers.
*meant | ######[](#dropcap)
"It's not for us, see?" Zechariah pushed up his glasses, the glint in his eyes unmistakable. Sheer, unadulterated excitement. He buzzed around the rest of the archeologists like a fly, his enthusiasm propelling him from group to group as he joined in discussions ranging from the large pillar in the ... | Seven years ago, NASA sent the probe 'New Horizons III' to Pluto. Now, the far-flung icy dwarf grew large in the
spaceship's window. It had been a long and lonely journey, but for all his grumbling thus far, Ron Meyers secretly relished this lifetime opportunity to be one of the first humans to step foot on the mys... | 2019-11-16T09:55:46 | 2019-11-16T09:48:19 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] Your cranky history teacher has recently been revealed as immortal. The reason they are angry is because they have to teach according to the texts when they know what really happened. One class he has had enough and begins to answer people's questions about what truly happened in history. | “Okay, no,” said the Professor in a snarky huff.
Charlie seemed a bit taken aback by his Professor’s response to his knowledge on Nikola Tesla.
The Professor picked up his chalk, twirling it around in his fingers. “You say his work was ‘stolen’ by Edison, when that is so very clearly wrong.”
“What do you mean? It’s... | "So...How were the Pyramids made?"
"UGH, so this book says we used ramps and slaves, that's half true. Actually that's like, a quarter true, when the pharoah of the time wanted to be immortalized it asked for a temple, that temple was built distinctly with specific ratios unintentionally that caused all who meditated... | 2019-12-25T08:06:01 | 2019-12-25T07:42:56 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You hear a knock on your door. A dark suited man stands with a box. "Congratulations! You've won a lifetime supply of our new frozen meals!" He opens the box, which contains a single, blue lidded tv dinner. You look around. "Where is the rest?" He grins. "This will last the rest of your life." | You open the lid
"Capsules?"
The man grins even more.
"Yup! We just perfected our dehydrated meal capsules. Pour some water on it and toss it in a microwave or oven, and it will turn into a full meal. They're labeled, too, so it won't be a surprise as to what you get."
You raise your eyebrows. "Wow, that sounds coo... | I felt a chill down my spine. It was obvious that this man was not a salesman. I decided to play dumb and stall for time
"Oh really? Sweet! Does it have some kind of self-refilling technology or something?"
The suited man was dumbfounded. After a little pause, he said "No. I'm implying that this'll be your last meal"... | 2020-04-07T01:47:33 | 2020-04-07T01:23:03 | 77 | 26 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | I should have seen it coming. It was because of the vaccines my parents subjected me to when I was a child. Or maybe it was the fluoride in the drinking water that did me in. I was lucky I did not turn gay like those frogs I suppose, but dying at the age of 38 was a tragedy nevertheless.
When the grim reaper appeared,... | The beeping of the machines melded in and out of consciousness, sometimes drowned out by the roaring in my ears, sometimes piercing through the silence bladelike and vicious. Everything else swam in and out of blurred vision. Everything except that slow, baleful beeping.
**beep. beep. beep.**
*"Margery! Don't play ... | 2020-04-23T03:47:35 | 2020-04-22T23:16:32 | 48 | 28 |
[WP] The world is inhabited by Mortals, Immortals (who cannot die of old age) and The Undying (who are unable to die at all). You have always believed to be mortal, until today... In a horrific construction accident, you are decapitated by a shard of glass... but you wake up in a bed hours later. | Car engines, screeching metal and people talking. The sounds were dull. I didn't understand what people say. The car engines were also sound far away. My vision wasn't the clearest either. I couldn't recognize the faces on the people. I couldn't even remember their names. But they knew me. They looked at me. They point... | "Morning!" "Morning, Leo!" "How is it going?"
Really, how can it go? Everyday, I come here. Everyday, I go up the stairs. Everyday, I work my fingers to the bone. And what for? Enough money for a loaf of bread, some rice and barely enough water for the day.
"Hey, kid! What are you doing over there? These are not movi... | 2020-05-04T11:57:44 | 2020-05-04T11:45:57 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Jed chuckled to himself as he stared in the mirror. His skin was covered in brownish-green soot from working in the ship's engine all day. The gray was starting to seep through again.
'Maybe this time I'll just let it show. I can't keep doing this.'
Zemoruans, Delgarmals, and Waftergronner lived for upwards of five hun... | "Hey Tic, how are you today?" I greet the little Allic as he walks by.
"Y-Yes. Greetings Human Cammie! I am doing fine thank you!" He says quickly before scurrying off.
Strange. I know Allics are very nervous and easily scared of taller species, but I was sure Tic had warmed up to me by now. So why did it feel like h... | 2020-07-05T19:20:58 | 2020-07-05T17:37:29 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your boss calls you into his office, nothing out of the ordinary, except for one thing: his mouth is twice it's normal size. "Sit down", he orders, picking an apple from his desk and eating it all in one bite, leaving the core. "Do you feel fear?" He asks, nonchalantly. You begin to sweat. | ​
I could feel the sweat on my brow. The gnawing emotions eating at my core. His eyes were focused, displaying a blend of pride and malice. But I couldn't focus on that. I couldn't barely focus on anything. Nothing but a single burning question:
"H O W D I D Y O U D O T H A T ?!" I yelled.
He smiled... | "Do you feel fear?" he asked. I felt my palms getting sweaty as my brain scrambled for the words to answer his question.
He grinned at he watched me squirm, the corners of his mouth stretching far beyond his regular smile, all the way to his ears. I stared at the sharp, fang-like teeth he revealed.
"Yes, sir. I feel... | 2020-08-12T01:03:05 | 2020-08-11T23:13:45 | 73 | 17 |
[WP] All the soldiers from World War one meet at the gates of hell. They set aside their differences and decide to storm the gates. | Each of the young men had been sent to hell for their actions in war. They’d fought each other, they’d killed each other, they’d followed the orders of their Commanding officers. Those same Commanders who had never set foot in a trench. Never had to live in the stink and the mud. Never had to watch as the dead were ni... | The sky darkens and the metallic smell of blood fills the air as 20 million battered, limbless soldiers who lost their lives in World Warmsk I run blistering towards God with remarkable speed.
He clasps his hands together in a commanding manner and thunder and lightening shoot straight out from his fingertips directl... | 2020-09-05T03:51:27 | 2020-09-05T00:33:50 | 102 | 45 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I watched my opponent carefully. There were lines around him, possible moves, all converging into one. Right on time, I ducked, jumped forward and turned, landing at his side. I punched him, then stepped backwards to avoid his kick.
My opponent grunted and twisted, preparing to use his power. When I saw that, I moved... | Ugh, well it’s been a while since I’ve talked about this, but having the “superpower” of acid spit gets incredibly crappy after awhile. You’d think fending off bad guys would be an easy task, but nope, here I am in public running up to the bastard who just stole a ladies purse trying to get into the best possible posit... | 2020-12-02T07:12:59 | 2020-12-02T07:06:24 | 62 | 38 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | A small onyx dragon rested on Jason’s shoulder.
“Hey Ellana,” Jason said to me. “Check out Grivacre’s new trick!”
The dragon opened its mouth and beam a small flame no bigger than a struck match. I decided to humor him.
“Impressive! That’ll come in handy in the winter trimester when we need to reheat our hot coco,”... | Every student at St. Clair's Academy for the Magically Gifted is required to have some creature to serve as personal protection in the school. Most have traditional animals, but the only one I can afford is the "pet rock" the old wizard in the pawn shop offered me for 5 bits yesterday.
I can't help but to feel bad for... | 2021-01-06T08:30:38 | 2021-01-06T06:59:52 | 439 | 161 |
[WP] You are better than the Hero in every way. You're smarter, stronger, better trained, better reflexes, better looking. The only problem is the Hero is trained to use a sword while you favor the spear, and every single plot relevant magic weapon is a sword. | It was another quest in vain. The sword in my hand hummed with magic, but it was useless like all the others I had collected through my travels. Meanwhile, Aladic, with his one sword, was the general of the country's army and the soon to be husband of the princess.
There was a time when I pitied the man. With a name ... | The light of the cave's entrance was far behind her now. Ida had only the faint blue light of the flora down here to see by, but she kept a careful pace, using the pommel of her spear to feel the ground ahead of her in case there were any crevices hidden in the shadows. Her ward was only a few steps behind. Their foots... | 2021-02-28T12:32:47 | 2021-02-28T12:29:29 | 206 | 31 |
[WP] A small unassuming tavern is run by a retired superhero. The janitor used to be the biggest mob boss in the world. The chef is a monster hunter. The waiter is the head of a massive cult. They don't know each other's identities. When the tavern is in trouble, all four thought: "I got this." | The demons burst through the front door of the tavern. Four of them snarling menacingly, talons as long as knives and teeth dripping black ichor. Their black skin was stretched over bodies of muscle and bone. Behind them a dark hooded woman stood, cackling quietly to herself.
"Mortals!" She shouted, raising a dark nai... | Rob leaned, elbows on the counter, fingers massaging his temple.
"So," he started, lifting his gaze to glare at the woman across from him on the stool, "You, a person I trusted enough to hire as my chef, whose judgement I put *faith* in, manipulated me in to hiring not only the head of the gang I spent several years d... | 2021-05-19T17:03:25 | 2021-05-19T16:52:57 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | Finally after years of waiting I no longer was just my father and mother’s son. It was time for me to take my profession, as decided by my genetic traits. There were several of us in line, I was next. Sweat dripped from my face as I waited praying I wasn’t given the last name of fisher, or even worse a Kellog. Fishing ... | "Welcome to the gang, kid" he said, pointing to a group of men, aged from about 15-30, rugged and outcast.
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I was recently orphaned. I took my mom's life at birth, and my dad despised me for me it. So much, in fact, that he named me 'Marcus World-Ender', for that is what I had done to him. I dont have man... | 2021-06-19T23:37:11 | 2021-06-19T22:09:46 | 15 | 10 |
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