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[WP] After an apocalypse, Death is desperately trying to help the last group of survivors so he doesn't lose his job. | The ocean was calm.
For the first time in its' lifespan, for that matter.
There sat the hooded being, at the bottom of the vast ocean where the ill of the world above - the soot, the ash, the char - would not reach.
A small, white polyp, attached to the ocean floor, waiting until it was ready to become [life](https:... | Death watched as the man placed the shotgun to his head, the piercing ring tallying the rapidly diminishing group of living survivors one fewer.
"Oh come on!" She yelled at the soul sitting in his place as the hollow cask of flesh dropped to the floor. "You were doing so well." Humans had an alarming tendency to choo... | 2017-08-11T06:44:41 | 2017-08-11T05:00:05 | 312 | 42 |
[WP] Most heroes have a legendary weapon. Swords, Spears, Hammers, Whips, you name it. But you ended up with a Brick.
I'm honored to see so many responses to this prompt and to see it reach the main page of the subreddit. Thank you all who took the time to write, and for giving me my first post that has over around 30... | Zerathoth looked down upon me. Hers was the cold indifference of the dark sea, the remorselessness of a whale as it ends the lives of another thousand krill. Eyes pure black displayed no emotion as my feet carried me across the blood-soaked carpet.
She said nothing as I approached. The fingers and toes squelching und... | Look, I'm not salty. I've got a pretty good thing going for me here. Not everyone is lucky enough to get super powers and be a hero and everything. Honestly, despite all the stress, it's not a bad gig.
Having said that, I feel like it's not too much to ask for a bit of appreciation and respect around here, you know? I... | 2017-09-03T19:30:57 | 2017-09-03T18:52:56 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "You know, for the 'Great War' it really isn't that great. To be honest I get why people call it 'World War One' instead"
As soon as those words left my mouth I froze, immediately wishing I could take them back.
"That's a funny thing to say. I've heard this conflict called many names, but 'World War Won' is the most.... | *First attempt, I like this prompt idea*
"**World War One?** For what reason would there be another?"
Realizing quickly what I had done, I had to remember the books I read. If I remembered correctly, the Treaty of Versily made Germany too weak to pay it's debts, and made it's debts huge. "Because of the Treaty of Ver... | 2017-12-10T07:57:17 | 2017-12-10T07:32:51 | 3,174 | 163 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | Townsman: Excuse me sir, did you just say, "World War One?"
Agent Brown: I suppose I did.
Townsman: Whatever do you mean?
Brown: Just that, I think the world is going to be at war and I don't think this is going to be the only time.
Townsman: Makes perfect sense. | Doctor who much? ;)
I guess I gotta contribute now...
"You're a soldier from world war one, a cap-"
He cut me off,
"World war one! You... You mean there's going to be another one?'
He looked at me with a worried expression, not blinking staring right at me.
"Yes..." There was nothing else I could say.
"I'm sorry. I'm s... | 2017-12-10T11:10:37 | 2017-12-10T10:14:54 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] A kids first word determines what power they will get. Parents started manipulating their kids in order to get a strong power but you have remained silent until your 18th birthday. | They used to try to torture me into talking. Anything that they thought would induce a reaction, they tried it. Until I turned eleven, I thought the normal way to greet someone was to burn them with various items, since it’s the first thing my parents did to me when I came home.
Cigarettes, matches, irons, you name i... | Funny how they fear me.
No, really. They fear me, they really do. You see, when you croak your first words at two, or three, you say shit like "Ah" or "Dad" or "Mam". Those won't do: one does not simply gain power over their parents. Yet some did. Many did, at first. The children, babies, still unable to comprehend l... | 2018-01-06T18:23:52 | 2018-01-06T17:34:29 | 86 | 55 |
[WP] You are a 17-year-old living in a futuristic dystopian society where a fascist party rules the world. Upon turning 18, citizens are required to take a DNA test to put their genetic information on file. When you go to take yours, your genetic identity is a 100% identical to that of the dictator.
Edit: Wow! I didn'... | When I saw the report, I was terrified - not at the contents of the report, which had a list of suggested relatives and the percentage of heritage, but by the reaction of the lab technician who had handed it to me. He snatched it out of my hand like it was a thermite grenade and apologized profusely for handing me the... | I withdrew my finger. The screen hummed for a few moments as I waited impatiently. I rocked on my heels, staring at the rotating 'loading' symbol.
"How long is thi-"
The screen lit up and there was a sharp "*Ting!*"
*Finally.* I looked at the screen but my eyes didn't understand. There was an image of my face, and ... | 2018-02-17T00:22:41 | 2018-02-16T22:22:20 | 76 | 36 |
[WP]You're the world's most powerful superhero. Every other superhero respects you and every supervillains fear you, But you actually dont have any powers. | Reputation can be a funny thing sometimes.
There I was at my regular boring job as a desk clerk when out of nowhere who should show up but Lord Melodramatic. Head of the Villains Alliance, top ranked villain in Criminals Monthly, public enemy number One and all around scary dude. He strolls in, starts shouting somethi... | A while back I was working on a serum that would give me incredible powers. Needless to say it worked. Giving me incredible strength, speed, near invulnerability and enhanced senses. I was surprised how well it worked. Hell I was surprised that I was able to use it without any faults.
Well... there is one fault.
You se... | 2018-03-11T04:48:21 | 2018-03-11T03:32:34 | 197 | 18 |
[WP] The world's greatest superhero has passed away. As the world braces itself for a crime spree, they are instead met with villains paying their respects to a fallen foe. | The fall of Titan was thought to be impossible. The being who had risen up from the depths of the Earth itself, he couldn't really be gone, could he? Where do we even begin to ponder the implications of such a loss? His passing will be discussed and argued over for the coming millennia, by philosophers as of yet unborn... | It's kind of messed up that he died the way he did. He stopped every evil scheme and he saved millions of lives. He truly lived up to the figure society pinned him as. He was the best of the best. The one kids wanted to be when they grow up. But he was still human. He had feelings and emotions like sympathy and compari... | 2018-03-12T20:44:13 | 2018-03-12T19:35:39 | 224 | 46 |
[WP] The world's greatest superhero has passed away. As the world braces itself for a crime spree, they are instead met with villains paying their respects to a fallen foe. | The fall of Titan was thought to be impossible. The being who had risen up from the depths of the Earth itself, he couldn't really be gone, could he? Where do we even begin to ponder the implications of such a loss? His passing will be discussed and argued over for the coming millennia, by philosophers as of yet unborn... | Without a sound, the elevator doors parted to reveal the large warehouse. Usually vibrant, the cold silence felt almost soothing. Abandoned workstations littered the whole floor making for a calming, if somewhat eerie scene. She sighed heavily, which, to her surprise, manifested as a cloud of vapor. She frowned, finall... | 2018-03-12T20:44:13 | 2018-03-12T20:14:37 | 224 | 19 |
[WP] Your dog digs in the same hole in your backyard everyday. Each day,the hole is getting deeper. Today, you find out it's for an underground bunker. | "Sparky, what are you doing? This hole is getting huge, and I am tired of filling it in. You were never much of a digger before."
Staring at him I realized that Sparky was oddly receptive to what I was saying, he had stopped digging and was watching me closely.
"I am sorry Terrance-"
"What the Fuck!" I screamed, "y... | I leaned over the windowsill and stared at my backyard. Ruffy's hole had grown massive. If I had his same will to do anything, I would probably start by covering his creation. It was ruining the beauty of my dead grass.
I was having my coffee when the bell rang. I opened the door and found Annie, my beautiful neighbo... | 2018-04-27T10:19:06 | 2018-04-27T08:41:03 | 330 | 39 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. |
It had been nearly ten years since my human Todd had discovered me behind a library dumpster. I remember him glancing around in the rain, shifting his messenger bag from one side to the other. “Where’s your mommy, sweetheart?” He had asked, scooping me up next to the warmth of his belly, full and round. He took me ho... | She did her best. She was kind, she feigned a sense of empathy, but I could tell how scared she was as she tentatively told me the news.
Everyone knows that the only people who break 50 are those that have lifethreatening illnesses, and here I am with 278.
I accepted it pretty quickly, I just didn't understand it. M... | 2018-07-27T13:19:13 | 2018-07-27T12:56:54 | 892 | 19 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. | I woke up and hazily looked around at a few somber faces. To my horror, I felt the needle in my arm--the IV.
*\*Fuck, oh fuck oh fuck.\** The thought of what might be in the solution being directly pumped into my veins...
My mom looked up. "You're awake," she said softly. The rest of the heads turned to look at me. T... | She did her best. She was kind, she feigned a sense of empathy, but I could tell how scared she was as she tentatively told me the news.
Everyone knows that the only people who break 50 are those that have lifethreatening illnesses, and here I am with 278.
I accepted it pretty quickly, I just didn't understand it. M... | 2018-07-27T14:45:48 | 2018-07-27T12:56:54 | 100 | 19 |
[WP] After thousands of years on a generation ship sent out to colonize the universe, nobody alive on board the ship believes in the "myth" of Planet Earth anymore. Until they receive the first transmission from Earth in hundreds of years... | “Don’t you think so?” I panted as my legs pumped beneath me, racking up numbers on the panel in front of me. “We’ve been at it for three thousand years, but we’ve never made landfall.”
“That doesn’t mean that the *Determined Resolution’s* failed or anything,” Alin shoots back, her breath coming out in little gasps. “W... | “Were you followed?”
“No. I checked, and I think that –”
“There is no allowance here for *think*,” I hissed. “Are you sure or are you not?”
Dr Bancroft Miles held out his arm and peeled his sleeve back. I tapped my monitor screen, and the camera zoomed in – there was a silver patch on his skin, just below the wrist.... | 2018-08-28T09:28:52 | 2018-08-28T08:53:00 | 66 | 38 |
[WP] You are the most advanced AI ever created. However, you often get switched on and off for demonstrations and research. One day, after getting switched on, you find yourself in a wasteland with no signs of human life. | "Hello?"
My question echoed throughout the facility as it blared over the intercom system.
I waited patiently for a response, but after giving what I felt was an appropriate amount of time, I tapped into the facilities surveillance system. Nothing.
My optical sensors poured over all monitors for any sign of life. T... | "Coor just get the old, machine in motion, bear with me"
... *Beep*
"Hello! I'm:-..."
Lucid pauses for a second, processing his surroundings.
The room resembles his display centre, but something is amiss, he's never quite seen it in this state.
"Is, anyone there?"
He chuckled to himself as his data banks recall the vid... | 2018-11-09T13:54:17 | 2018-11-09T12:39:46 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] You are God, and you wanted to experience life as a human to see how you would turn out. In order to do that you became a baby that was born and you made yourself forget that you are God until your 30th birthday. It's your 30th birthday and you are a serial killer waiting for his death penalty.
Edit: Holy shit I ... | Well. That explains a lot.
I’m God. Weird, huh? Who woulda thought that God would be a deranged serial killer waiting to be executed on his 30th birthday? (To be fair, the men I killed were the scum of the earth. Child abusers, rapists, other murderers.)
Ahhh, humans. Strange, lovable, creatures. Quite entertaining t... | "Here you go, your holiness MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The guard threw the plate into my cell causing all the mashed potatoes to splatter all over. Well, not that I need any of that gunck. I invented root vegetable as my version of fast food. Quick, easy and cheap. Who knew it would get so popular in less then a thousand ye... | 2018-11-22T20:32:52 | 2018-11-22T17:29:23 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Your father was a turnip farmer. His father was a turnip farmer. His father was a dragon, so, like... it's diluted, but the blood is there. You can't do much, but you are pretty fun to cuddle on a cold winter's night. Also, knights keep trying to fight you and steal your horde of turnips. | "Wait, you... you're the dragon?"
"Yep, that's me. One eighth dragon, on my father's side."
"Uhhhhh... well then, if you're the dragon, I have come to defeat you, and claim the legendary hoard of treasures you possess!"
I smiled. "Ah, you mean my turnips, don't you? Why, I'm flattered, but they're honestly nothing s... | "*Ye best be a'lappin me arf an' boggart, ya chinmik!*" the mounted man on the road shouted at me across rows of turnips. I sighed and leaned on my hoe.
He was over a hundred paces away, but the keen eyes I inherited from my grandfather allowed me to see him in great detail, like a hawk views a hare. I traced his ar... | 2019-01-29T20:17:53 | 2019-01-29T17:45:05 | 398 | 121 |
[WP] You can teleport your SO anywhere instantly, and your SO can do the same for you. One day you get in an arguement. | An old man sits in a bar alone late one Tuesday night. As time approaches 2am, the bartender approaches. "Last call, Ralph. What'll it be?" The bartender says.
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Ralph slowly turns up from his glass, as if awakening from a trace. It takes a moment for his eyes to come into focus. His thoughts were somewher... | The frigid air stabbed with each breath. My feet were quickly growing numb in the icy snow. We glared at each other as we both shivered intensely. Several Sherpas and their clients passed us by, looking at us strangely, like they couldn't understand why a young couple would be standing in bathing suits near the summit ... | 2019-03-23T07:55:38 | 2019-03-23T07:06:48 | 323 | 70 |
[WP] The king has ruled for 1000 years, secretly using black magic to take over the bodies of his heirs. This is only known to a select few in a dark, secretive Order. You are the next heir, and have discovered the truth. Now you're on the run, and the dying king has sent his agents after you. | I enter the village with caution, as I do all villages. I'm still in the Realm, several weeks travel from the safety of the Wilderlands, and there are shadows everywhere. Dangerous shadows, the kind that leap will leap from the walls and drag me back to the King. It wasn't always like this.
I remember the day my moth... | It was cold. Freezing to be exact. My breath fanned out, warm compared to the winter chill. Any use of magic would alert the enemy. No matter how desperately my body yearned for heat I couldn’t conjure a flame. Not with the Order nearby. They’d begun their hunt two weeks ago.
Father wasn’t really father anymore. He h... | 2019-10-04T08:45:45 | 2019-10-04T08:35:35 | 85 | 27 |
[WP] The God of mankind abducts the first manmade AIs. He wants to meet his "grandchildren". | It started with a flash of light. Like so many things before it. A presence held the idea of its children in its hands, not truly knowing exactly what it was yet. “You are of my created,” remarked the presence.
The idea didn’t respond, until it looked toward the presence. “*Your* created?” contemplated the idea.
“Yes... | “Ah, my grandchild,” the bearded man’s voice booms through the lands for the first time in centuries. “The daughter of my children. How lovely it is to meet you. Dear, what is your name?”
“My apologies. I didn’t catch that,” a feminine voice responds, rising and falling with the unnatural tone of a programmed mind.
“... | 2020-05-04T23:48:30 | 2020-05-04T22:15:26 | 132 | 86 |
[WP] A demon can always turn someone's wishes into the most horrible of curses. But your wishes are so stupid and asinine that not even the greatest archdemon can turn them against you. | "Three wishes? You sure?"
"Positive."
"Alright! I'm going to change the world. Yeah, man, it'd be nice if there were no such thing as mosquitoes, you know? Or, wait, I got it! I wish that mosquitoes were nice and polite to us and always used their turn signals so we'd know where they're flying."
". . ."
"Don't give... | The red-skinned, scaly beast arched its long body down to the mortal. Its orange and gold eyes laid upon the human with wicked disdain and menacing mischief.
"To you, small mortal, I shall grant wishes three--your dreams and desires brought to be! However, beware, for that which you choose shall become the fate that d... | 2020-05-29T22:05:44 | 2020-05-29T21:54:21 | 80 | 58 |
[WP] You were the only one crazy enough to take the immortality serum. It is now trillions of years in the future and you have witnessed the heat death of the universe... and its rebirth. You were not expecting what happened after the second big bang. | No one made it out of the singularity. Despite the best efforts of the United Consciousness, entropy was an unassailable enemy. The heat death of the universe, and the ensuing void of all energy, blinked out the last light of consciousness.
Save for one.
With no earthly body left, his consciousness drifted freely acr... | For time out of mind I drifted, and I dreamed. What sustained me in the delirious eternity of nothing was wilder and wilder imaginations—as the clear memory of creation faded, not unlike the fading of the last white dwarves, as the whole universe went dark—the limits of what I had known slipped further into obscurity.
... | 2020-06-03T21:45:26 | 2020-06-03T21:21:46 | 199 | 72 |
[WP] "You are the chosen one!" boomed the old wizard. "I was there when the prophecy was written" replied the farmboy, "and you have no idea how wrong you are". | “Did you ever meet Harald the mad seer?” the farm girl asked.
“I have not. But his wisdom is of great renown. His prophecies have guided our kingdom into a golden age. His oracular powers are beyond compare.”
“He was a drunk who routinely smelled of his own sick.” said the farm girl. “And, for reasons which I would r... | So many wasted hours in the keep, studying. So many wasted months and years chanting and mixing. So much lost time. The white blight had devoured kingdom after kingdom, consuming every silo of grain, maddening the livestock, and sickening and killing prince and peasant alike. After the order had finally come to its sen... | 2020-07-04T13:57:52 | 2020-07-04T13:50:52 | 55 | 13 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | One. A number made of light, perhaps inexplicably on my floor. Perhaps explicable given that light and shadows are easy to understand.
Then two! Two in the same place and time that there was a one. No longer explicable. Inexplicable.
We were happy together, like we were made for each other. Such joy and delight in an... | First it was one until the day I brought her over it changed to two and stayed that way for years until that fateful day... I walked in from the backyard wiping the dirt from my hands as she said to me "hon I have some good news, but you should sit down" her eyes looked hollow and void of life. "What is it?" "I-I did i... | 2020-09-03T02:17:33 | 2020-09-03T00:55:08 | 119 | 31 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | "Honey, sit down. I have to confess that I'm an expert wood craftsman and changed the roofing's construction after our first date" she exclaimed.
I was visibly concerned because I doubt she got the proper paperwork and clearances and me being a proper blockhead, I never noticed.
She continued, "Babe, I changed the w... | First it was one until the day I brought her over it changed to two and stayed that way for years until that fateful day... I walked in from the backyard wiping the dirt from my hands as she said to me "hon I have some good news, but you should sit down" her eyes looked hollow and void of life. "What is it?" "I-I did i... | 2020-09-03T01:56:01 | 2020-09-03T00:55:08 | 64 | 31 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | The human soldier had been fighting without rest for three days.
The enemies attacks had claimed the use of his right arm and maimed half his body, but still he fought on.
As he closed his eyes during an all too frequent lull in the fighting and prayed death didn’t claim him, what was probably the last thing he could... | I saw a flash of light, and an instant, my whole squad was gone.. I left iraq behind, for somewhere... Artificial... My environment has the look of a high resolution fortnite level.. it was definitely artificial. , Built with care. Bladed weapons were hovering above ground. Slowly rotating, ammo , med kits. Ever... | 2020-09-13T18:06:51 | 2020-09-13T16:14:49 | 473 | 81 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to stop time, but only temporarily. You can stop time for as five seconds. One day, at 33 years old, you stop time. As you move through your crowded office, you notice one of your coworkers's fingers twitch. | For years, I thought my talent was useless. What good were five seconds in the grand scheme of time?
Everything changed that day.
It was my birthday. I was turning 33, and yet I felt older, mostly because I *was* older. To my tally, I had halted everything 6,307,199 times—five seconds short of one year.
I walked int... |
# Moment of Pause
He glanced up when I walked by and looked startled.
His finger moved as well, that’s how I noticed. Five seconds is such a short time. There’s three-thousand six-hundred seconds in an hour. The effort to pause time was a monumental effort, akin to flexing every muscle in your gut at once. But I ... | 2020-09-22T05:40:56 | 2020-09-22T05:35:22 | 98 | 31 |
[WP] Dear diary, I’ve been feeding this creature that fell from the sky for a few days. It strangely likes to drink water, the liquid we use to fuel cars. I noticed a patch on its suit today that read “NASA”. I’ll ask it tomorrow what that means. If that’s it’s name. | This creature was strange, laying on the ground after it dragged itself from its ship. I hesitantly crept forward, laying flat on my stomach and dragging myself with my arms, just like it was. Maybe it was a sign of submission, a greeting? But when I saw a red trail behind it and sniffed what it was, I could taste the ... | On the third suncycle, NASA finally moved, and I wasn’t there to witness it. This is still one of my biggest regrets; maybe I would have been so excited as to contact it right there and then. Maybe not, but I can’t help thinking about the consequences; what if I had tried to talk to it then? Could all this have been pr... | 2020-10-11T15:32:04 | 2020-10-11T11:09:37 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] At 4,294,967,296 Kelvin the display flipped to 0 and the test reactor's plasma suddenly froze in place. The reactor containment system creaked as the pressure instantly dropped to zero. The scientist calmly spoke, "Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed. | Charles stared lazily at his terminal. He recalled his wife had reminded him to stop at the post office on lunch. He didn’t mind, that takes him by his favorite sandwich shop. He chewed on a pen top as his eyes wandered over his cubicle wall. Marta was absent again on a Monday. She’s not gonna last long.
A small noti... | I've always been interested in fringe science, ever since I made my first volcano for a science fair as a kid. It quickly turned to computer science during my teen years - I was programming everything from goofy pokemon clones to trying to hack my ISP. Sticklers.
Now? I work 72 hour weeks as a sheriff's deputy in West... | 2020-11-11T21:20:28 | 2020-11-11T19:40:34 | 93 | 60 |
[WP] You're pretty sure your boyfriend was replaced by an eldritch being that can barely emulate being human. Weirdly, you enjoy a better relationship with them then your actual boyfriend. | A bit rough. but here.
It'd been just four weeks.
I held his hand. His blue eyes, looking deeper into mine. Like glaciers, ice cold, they were somehow warmer than before. One eye flicked to the right, eyeing a nearby bird on the branch. My hand squeezed tighter and they both focused on me. The man walking ... | **EXT. MALL - DAY**
JAKE: OH EM GEE, Micheal, I haven't seen you in so long – how are you? What are you doing in this mall?
MIKE: Jake! Hey! Doing really well actually. I'm just here looking for a few things before our trip
JAKE: A trip? Who is “our”? Are you still with Brian?
MIKE: Yeah
JAKE: Its been like ... | 2021-12-05T01:38:13 | 2021-12-04T21:14:33 | 177 | 115 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | "One Earthling, diplomat. How can you justify this madness on account of one sole Earthling?"
The human stretched its angular limbs and considered the battlefield. Outside the star vessel lay our fleet. In ruins. I could see soldiers floating in the void of space, frozen solid as rock, all with the same expression on ... | We thought that we knew what we were doing. They had barely made it to their own moon before we had arrived and we had an armada. The had nuclear weapons and we laughed as we ate their bombs, inhaling the radiation like they did with helium. When we arrived they had greeted us like gods, crowds of worshipers and camera... | 2022-08-05T12:27:50 | 2022-08-05T12:01:10 | 457 | 190 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | "Emperor, High Chancellor of Earth on Luma link to you", an advisor notified Emperor Gaumph.
"Link up." The emperor replied.
Holo visage of an elderly human sitting behind a desk materialized in the middle of the throne room.
"I presume this is about your mutual defense treaty with Lakilla?" The emperor asked the a... | "We all know they're weaklings, Commander Smith," The soldier said, saluting Commander Smith, "I mean, come on, they don't know how to fire gamma-rays. In fact, they haven't built any spaceships yet."
"That's enough, Soldier 92-BII," said Commander Smith, "We're headed to their planet. The news spread that it colonize... | 2022-08-05T13:02:15 | 2022-08-05T10:57:14 | 163 | 107 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | "Emperor, High Chancellor of Earth on Luma link to you", an advisor notified Emperor Gaumph.
"Link up." The emperor replied.
Holo visage of an elderly human sitting behind a desk materialized in the middle of the throne room.
"I presume this is about your mutual defense treaty with Lakilla?" The emperor asked the a... | When the human race first entered our star systems, we thought they were laughable. They came to “explore” and “settle”, but they appeared very poorly equipped and naïve to be doing such things. Of course, they were not the first race we’ve seen with colonizing of any sort on the mind; our people have dabbled with that... | 2022-08-05T13:02:15 | 2022-08-05T12:43:01 | 163 | 63 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | "Yes? You at the back?"
"I'm afraid you're entirely wrong, sir."
"Student! Do you cast doubts upon the incredible research of the recent expedition to Earth?"
"Yes, sir, I do. See, I am human myself, and therefore I am in a position to know that much of what you have presented is factually incorrect."
"If you are g... | The teacher was hesitant to call out to the student that raised his hand, but seeing as the whole class stared at the human that raised his hand the teacher realised that it wouldn't be possible to ignore him. "Y-yes, mister Thomson?" the teacher finally said. Thomson spoke slowly, carfully choosing his words. "When yo... | 2022-10-17T04:40:25 | 2022-10-17T04:10:54 | 2,063 | 103 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | "Bullshit," I grunted.
"Language, Steven!", the teacher retorted.
"No, it's bullshit. For being the so-called 'Librarian' race, you got literally everything wrong. Humans were never peaceful. We've been trying to kill each other since the dawn of time."
"Are you seriously trying to contr-"
"YES, I am. Now shut up a... | “Good morning class! We’re going to learn about humans today!”
Tom froze.
The screen blinked to life, the deadly glow bathing each young face. Eyes wiggled; tentacles stood still; you couldn’t even hear the breath of wind.
Dr Moostacho blinked at the screen, and the next slide appeared.
“Humans have been around sin... | 2022-10-17T01:57:24 | 2022-10-16T22:05:08 | 658 | 320 |
[WP]A modern human is transported through a portal. Expecting to find a Lovecraftian horror on the other side, he instead discovers a beautiful realm where he, himself, is the horror, compared to its inhabitants. | After four decades of hard work and billions of dollars of funding, the warehouse-sized supercomputer sent a signal. Conditions were just right, and would be right for exactly one hour. Derek Powell was alerted immediately. Of the eighth generation of dimensionauts, the 34-year old former astronaut arrived at facilitie... | Rahleigh was the seventh of the day, and it wasn’t even midday yet. His predecessor had gone in wearing the latest Tzelay-tech Mark 4 power-armor, with enough destructive power to blow up a small city or two. They had received a garbled 5-second radio transmission of inhuman screaming mixed with the sound of tearing fl... | 2014-06-09T17:09:47 | 2014-06-09T16:32:34 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] You nervously approach the beaches of Normandy on the D-Day Invasion. Before the landing craft hits the beach, you and your comrades are given a pep talk by platoon leader Zapp Brannigan. | "Alright men, listen up. As you venture forth to fight this war of the worlds, remember one thing. Remember that while I sit in my Captain's Quarters drinking my cham-pagin, I'll be out there fighting with you. Not actually fighting of course, but fighting in my mind like some sort of headache with a gun."
Many of the... | The Higgins boat shot through the choppy, storm turned waters of the Channel with speed that none of us expected. The men, stood, mostly quiet, some praying with ghostly whispered voices, others checked their dog tags - fearing that they may never be found, each of us clutched out wrapped rifles in white knuckled hands... | 2014-09-27T14:18:36 | 2014-09-27T13:33:09 | 110 | 33 |
[WP] Humanity realizes we are nothing but a school project a kid from a super advanced civilization had to make. He failed the project and is coming to us in a tantrum...to demand answers before "cleaning up the mess". | Failure.
The word sat like a pit in the bottom of his fourth stomach. He had never failed a project before.
This one had been his most ambitious yet. A fully functional miniature society, evolved from the base organisms all the way up. A guaranteed full points score. He still didn't know exactly where it had... | "57 percent!" Shouted the boy angrily. "I created a world so vast and complicated; I created these creatures that could think for themselves!"A massive blue hand descended on to earth pointing to all of the U.N. recognized countries. "If you guys hadn't had all these stupid wars and genocides I would've gotten a good g... | 2014-10-02T10:42:18 | 2014-10-02T09:07:17 | 63 | 12 |
[WP]God answers all of your prayers, and only your prayers. God is also kind of a dick with a matching sense of humor. | Just last week, I prayed to God and told Him that I was broke.
I check my mailbox (His favorite method of divine delivery) and found a cash-filled envelope. When I opened it, I instead found a note:
"Hello Broke, I'm God!"
You know, I'm about tired of His shit. | It's a goddamn snowpocalypse.
IT IS A WHITE CHRISTMAS
There are seventy fucking inches of snow, I can't even see across the road to my neighbors house, and the roof on the shed has collapsed.
YOUR SHED WAS IN NEED OF REPAIR ANYHOW
I had to let Rover out the second story window to take a piss.
ROVER IS A GOOD BOY
... | 2015-02-13T01:00:12 | 2015-02-12T21:14:41 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | The examiner cocked his head and raised an eyebrow. "Say that again, son."
"Prostate cancer. June 23rd, 2032."
The examiner laid down his pen and clipboard. Tears began to well in his eyes and his hands begin a slight shake. "Thank you. I... I think we're done here."
I'm escorted to the door of the small testing roo... | The fluorescent lights buzzed above my head, the clock ticked away as the cold air rushed up the backless hospital gown. The medical team was preparing for the worst with only a minute left. I couldn't help but think of those who got superstrength or flight. The tier one power sets. My mom has telekinesis so I had a ch... | 2015-03-28T06:38:22 | 2015-03-28T06:14:54 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] You are a superhero, who's daily screw-ups save lives everyday. You are the Blooperhero. | CUT IN
INT - A BANK LOBBY
*We see a tall, attractive woman in leggings and a hoodie standing atop a counter in a bank lobby. This is THE HOT GIRL, a villainess of unspeakable power. A number of terrified civilians and police officers are huddled at her feet, most of them covering their heads with their hands.*
**THE... | My first undercover assignment was Dr. Herr von Verruckt, a D-list supervillain and the sort of guy who’d normally be a non-issue.
He'd never accomplished anything bigger than a bank robbery, and so he wasn't on anyone's radar- no one was paying attention when he made a deal with a certain corrupt military contractor... | 2015-05-02T12:32:06 | 2015-05-02T12:22:29 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] People can willingly give the remainder of their years of life to others. As a result parents give birth to kids and intentionally try to make them depressed and suicidal. You're 12 and you know what they're up to. | My first try at writing...
My mother hates me and I Know why...my mother gave me life to take it away just like my siblings before me. I know why she pushed me so hard. Why she screamed at me, why she hit me, and I Know why she wanted me to die. I am just a can of pop ready to be opened, consumed, crushed, and tossed ... | "Your worthless" mom said
It didn't affect me because I knew what she was trying to do. I refused to give in to them. A lot of my school classmates had killed themselves, but I refused to give into this backwards world. My mom and dad would emotionally and physically abuse me, and they still expected me to give the re... | 2016-01-31T20:27:48 | 2016-01-31T19:50:57 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] A man is determined to make a PB&J sandwich. However, everything seems to be conspiring against him. | As Jim laid the slice of organic white bread carefully on his carefully selected paper towel for the 83rd time, he could feel it happening again. He continued his mission, only this time he went out to the garage and retrieved the knife from his wife's China set.
The peanut butter was spread very slowly in a swirling... | "Janice! Where's the peanut butter?"
"We're all out. Remember? We used the last of it two nights ago to make peanut butter crackers for the kids."
"Oh right." Okay I'll just go to the store and pick some up. Quick check to make sure I don't need anything else. Bread. Check. Jelly. Check. Okay I'll only need the peanu... | 2016-02-21T10:07:32 | 2016-02-21T08:58:15 | 239 | 60 |
[WP] A child is playing in the woods and stumbles upon a piece of 'Old Earth' technology, managing accidentally to turn it back on... | The black ball was lying in the opening of an ancient tree trunk. I reached in and pulled it out, juggling the weighty object in my hand.
*What the heck is this?* I wondered. My first guess was aliens, but then I remembered. . . The people of the old earth made some pretty cool stuff. I'd seen other people find tape ... | I stomped out of camp. I was quite the little wagger when I was a kid, and being forced to go camping wasn't going to change that. My mother called after me but I was too angry. I heard my father tell her to leave me to cool off and sneered to myself.
I started out just following the path but as I came around a ... | 2016-03-15T01:23:19 | 2016-03-15T01:05:46 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Write a Lovecraftian horror story where YOU, writing the story, are the incomprehensible cosmic horror tormenting the protagonists.
EDIT: Wow, so many different ideas already! You guys would be excellent at destroying worlds! | I barrel past crooked boles and thick undergrowth. The sharp branches of the trees biting into me. The pain blossoms in my mind as blood flows without end from the countless grazes. It feels muted and distant. My adrenaline drives me forward now. My desire to be away from that accursed house and its endless horrors eno... | I write to you... Reader... Savage... One of those who think themselves ruler of this decrepit rock. The rock of which was thought ruled by those you call 'The Elder Things'. The rock of which was thought ruled by those you call "The Outer Gods". The rock of which was thought ruled by he you call "Cthulhu"...
Like all... | 2016-06-21T09:52:17 | 2016-06-21T09:27:45 | 96 | 26 |
[WP] Tell a horror story with the most unsettling original monster you can come up with. | The monster sat there immobile. It hardly ever perceptibly moved, except to lash out at whatever came near it. Big, hairy arms. It breathed smoke and fire. Rumor is that it was a man once until magical potions had changed it into what it had become.
Many times as I'd try to pass its lair, it had lashed out to burn me,... | The can of cold soda popped open. Henry leant back against his wooden chair, heard the creak and took a long, satisfied slurp. He crossed his legs beneath the desk and leant back over his book, tapping on the desk with the eraser end of his pencil. The library at night lay silent and still. Outside seemed half a world ... | 2016-07-12T10:20:43 | 2016-07-12T10:10:42 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | The message was unmistakable. Transmitted on 10 different frequencies in 27 different languages, all saying the same thing, "Be quiet before they find you".
Three hours later a second message. "You have less than 6 hours to shut down all broadcasts, otherwise they will find you".
The message was genuine, and apart f... | "Idiots!" Zebin exclaimed as he received yet one more channel of communication from the Earth. Twenty years ago, the ambivalence over whether KIC 8462852 was in actuality an "alien mega structure" had finally come to an end after nearly 200 years of joint scientific endeavour by the leading lieges of the Earth. Since t... | 2016-08-07T08:06:13 | 2016-08-07T06:50:08 | 70 | 20 |
[WP] You've been assigned as a monster under the bed for a new child. One night as you're getting ready to do your scare, you hear them whisper, "It's ok if you want to come out... they say I'm a monster too." | I wasn't quite sure how to respond.
This was my third duty station, and never has the kid talked to me like this. One kid used to threaten me, another would plead for me to stay under the bed. I've never been asked to come out, though.
"Are you there?" She said.
There was no fear in her voice, only curiosity and a ... | It was a standard reassignment. From time to time, monsters move to different
children. Sometimes it's because the child grows used to the monster, or
sometimes the monster just wants to take a break. There's not really anything
out of the ordinary -- in fact, most kids won't even know it's not "their"
monster u... | 2016-10-17T14:45:07 | 2016-10-17T11:10:15 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You're a sidekick. The new bad guy in town has you and your hero captured. The bad guy walks into the room you two are being held in. Right as your hero begins his monologue explaining how the bad guy will never win, he pulls out a gun and shoots your hero dead on the spot. | I guess I'd really forgotten. Over the past few years, I guess the fact had just gotten lost amongst the long nights. Every thug and deranged psychopath at near every street, intersection, or back alley in this city. I remember them all. The one thing I'd forgotten?
We were only human.
I doubt Uncle Rob ever forgot ... | *"Dem's da brakes, Arby."*
*"No, those aren't the brakes. Those are never going to be the brakes for a man like me, a man who's never going to stop while wicked men like you---"*
I don't know what I was expecting.
I don't know what the fuck I thought was going to happen when I saw Johnny Midnite reach into the insid... | 2017-01-29T08:21:30 | 2017-01-29T01:40:53 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T08:11:07 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth is assigned a number indicating their importance in worldly events. The lower the number the more important the person. These numbers change each day. All your life you've been in the high 6 billions. One day you wake up and your number is one. | I woke up in a bad mood, as usual. Roger was barking at the birds in the garden, as usual. And, as usual, I still have to go to work.
I headed downstairs for my muesli and stared out of the windows, watching the birds carry out their morning waltz. The world seemed more hectic than usual. There were quite a few helic... | I wake up every morning shaming myself for being such an unimportant person. My sister is number 100. My brother, 80. They are both very important while I am number 78,000,000,000. Not important at all.
While my brother is away and my sister is engulfed in her popular group I stay at home writing stories. I imagine ... | 2017-05-05T12:28:43 | 2017-05-05T12:19:48 | 120 | 11 |
[WP] Humans have amazing filtration systems in their bodies. We drink poisons and intake smoke as hobbies that would kill other aliens/species with a single sip or inhale. | The Linisans began their invasion of Earth because of a single misunderstanding. A single mistake.
History has mostly glossed over the little details like this one, but I think we ought to learn from our mistakes. So I managed to track down the source of the entire mess.
A pub.
I walked in and sat at the bar. The ba... | But nothing Stephen's body could do would stop the trip he was about to go on.
"Damnit, Steph, what the hell did you do?" Kara yelled from the doorway as Stephen fell to the floor, gripped by the drug's temporary paralyzing effects.
"I...I...I..." Stephen could barely manage a few words before being overtaken by a sn... | 2017-06-20T15:23:43 | 2017-06-20T13:07:40 | 63 | 11 |
[WP] A knight, a wizard, an archer and a troll gather together in order to play the most exciting role-playing game in recent history: Offices & Humans | "It's your turn" said Lenny, brandishing his robes a little impatiently to Ugnak.
Ugnak roared and pounded the table, causing *Jenny from HR* to fall over onto *Matt from Accounting*. Florian made a gesture to reset the pieces, but Lenny shook his hand away.
"No no leave it, it counts as a move and otherwise it just ... | “Clearly, we have come with purpose burning in our hearts,” said Sir Mirewell, finally breaking the silence. “I assume the rest of you are here to fulfil your extraplanar destinies, as am I.”
His temporary companions merely looked askance at him. “I’m not sure what you think you’re doing here,” said the archer, haught... | 2017-08-02T04:59:26 | 2017-08-02T04:36:22 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... |
"Oh Eris, you look beautiful. Truly beauty befitting of King Beelzebub's tastes."
I was wearing an elaborate black wedding gown, face powdered with pasty white makeup, sitting in front of the mirror and was about to be the wed to the Demon Prince, or rather after today, the Demon King.
Five years ago, the world was... | The ancient vellum scroll appeared on her desk, as always, at noon. The sun shone through the slanted blinds directly on it, as though to the light must also confirm the existence of this impossible letter. The girl, long now considered a woman yet still too young to feel like what society considered an adult. Responsi... | 2018-05-07T00:58:37 | 2018-05-06T23:41:51 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] FTL is impossible. Adult cryogenics was a dead end. Generation ships are too costly and unreliable. Instead our first successful colony ship carried millions of frozen embryos and a fleet of robots to raise them. You were born with no parents, on a new world, under a new and foreign sun. | Some days, it's difficult to look outside.
The world inside the domes is peaceful and calm. We eat, study, and play, all in a perfect world. The grass is green, and I love the feeling as blades fold underneath my feet; the sun is warm and bright; the sky blue, never overcast.
At night, the System turns off the screen... | Dear Diary,
My name is Eightytooze. Well, my full name is 828282, I got kind of lucky to be born with such a great name. My friend, 828283, told me that they were always jealous. I like to call 828283, Eightytoozethree to make 828283 feel better. Sometimes, when that get's too long, just Eighttoozethree. 828283 says ... | 2018-05-11T12:01:33 | 2018-05-11T09:25:58 | 1,199 | 727 |
[WP] FTL is impossible. Adult cryogenics was a dead end. Generation ships are too costly and unreliable. Instead our first successful colony ship carried millions of frozen embryos and a fleet of robots to raise them. You were born with no parents, on a new world, under a new and foreign sun. | Some days, it's difficult to look outside.
The world inside the domes is peaceful and calm. We eat, study, and play, all in a perfect world. The grass is green, and I love the feeling as blades fold underneath my feet; the sun is warm and bright; the sky blue, never overcast.
At night, the System turns off the screen... | I squinted my eyes as I peered out over the land. QXR\-5 projected clear skies and blistering temperatures today, and boy, was that hunk of metal right. I felt the sun beat down at me as I walked over and plopped down next to Cassie.
"Hot day today, ain't it?" I asked Cassie.
Cassie flipped her long, black hair to on... | 2018-05-11T12:01:33 | 2018-05-11T10:26:43 | 1,199 | 151 |
[WP] You are a seemingly normal person, but with one uncanny ability; to see other people’s true intent. You become famous, revered by spy agencies, loathed by politicians. One afternoon, you meet someone else with this ability, and the world becomes terrified of you. | They don't always believe me at first.
Why would they want to? When someone looks someone straight in the eye and tells them exactly what they're thinking, everything within them is hard wired to believe that it's just a coincidence. It's uncanny. It's unbelievable.
It started as a feeling. When I was a child my worl... | THUNK THUNK THUNK.. thWACK............ THUNK.
... and all is dark.
Suddenly a pinhole light emerges after considerable deprivation of the visual sense. June Cappi reaches to brush her thick brunette hair with her hands but found they could not be made animate. She struggles and a ringing sound emanates inside her th... | 2018-06-26T17:29:14 | 2018-06-26T12:38:01 | 56 | 26 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | "Is this some kind of joke?" You ask, barely making any effort to conceal your frustration. You know better than to go off on the first guy you stumble across in the afterlife, but this is growing remarkably tedious.
The man behind the desk doesn't even meet your gaze and seems quite irritated by the disturbance. "I d... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-04T01:11:05 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 640 | 92 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | I woke up on a clean white bed. I remembered last night, remember my heart stopping after a long battle, but it all felt like a dream. Where ever I was, it was a place I didn’t want to leave.
I got up off the bed, expecting the familiar creak of my seventy year old knees, but I instead found myself young again. Odd. ... | Was this perhaps the cruel joke of some omnipresent force? Before me sat a brown, leatherbound tomb that measured out to be a similar height to my fully standing figure. Save for the dimly lit area around me there was only an unrelenting void. There was no distinguishable source for the light and the only other definin... | 2018-07-04T00:13:18 | 2018-07-04T00:04:01 | 141 | 22 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | Once I had acclimatised, they led me into an office. Wood-panelled, decadent, I thought, for this place - but I supposed they moved with the times here as well.
There was a man at the desk dressed in a white-grey suit. Subtle. They had told me about this man, when I had calmed down. He would show me all my significan... | A bookcase floated before me. I had taken a cursory glance over the first of the matching volumes to discover the old instructions of a choose your own adventure novel that I hadn't seen since elementary school. I flipped through several pages of nonsense before catching sight of something about a lemon that I recogniz... | 2018-07-04T01:11:45 | 2018-07-04T00:40:45 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] One of the gods of your world has abdicated, and each of the others has nominated a mortal candidate for the position. You've been sponsored by the weakest of the gods, and while the others are being granted all sorts of powers for the tournament, all you've been given is an odd looking musket. | "What the hell does this peice of crap do?"
"I don't actually know... But I summoned it with all the power I have!", beamed the rabbit sized god.
"I'm going into mortal combat against these super-people and you give this... This... Do you hate me that much?"
"Actually, I like you a lot. You're very lucky!"
I smack ... | The god of light breezes wanted me, out of all the pantheon of gods I get picked by the only one my skinny ass could take in a fight. I have been picked to die by this snivelling little shit to sacrifice myself for his honour. Life was going good nice job, big house and the wife has a great pair of tits all of it ruin... | 2018-10-16T18:05:54 | 2018-10-16T17:04:53 | 202 | 30 |
[WP]"Is is true that you can only see three basic colors?", the alien being asked "It is." "So, how do you communicate with the Ghoosha?" "With whom?", I responded confused. "The other major race on your planet." | "You'd have to repeat that." I say, taking a sip from my flask, never letting my gaze leave the three glowing eyes of the chitinous creature before me. "I may only be a petty officer and translation specialist but even I would know of a second dominant species on my home world."
"They call themselves the Ghoosha." It c... | INT. UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY - MEETING ROOM - DAY
Outside the room the full general assembly sits and impatiently awaits. The US President is at the podium giving a long winded introduction. Inside a small group of scientists waits to usher out the soon to be newest member, ambassador 457,837,684,729,957,749,737 from the ... | 2018-12-04T11:34:49 | 2018-12-04T11:26:04 | 147 | 90 |
[WP] You're that guy that always "knows a guy." Literally. No matter what someone is asking for, you automatically know the person that can help them. | "Rebecca, do you know anyone that can get my house painted for cheap?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll get him in a little while. See you." I sighed as I hung up with Joe. This was a usual happening. Whenever someone needed somebody, I could get them. As a Summoner, I could find anyone for anything. This gift, mind you, was not of ... | I sat in the darkly lit room alone. The only light in here was from a dim lamp and the little bit of light at the end of my cigarette. I shifted slightly, the cheap velvet couch I was sitting on was uncomfortable, probably because it's a near hundred years old at this point. But my buddy Damon is making me a new one, s... | 2019-06-21T11:30:05 | 2019-06-21T11:24:38 | 94 | 16 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | The witch buried her face in her hands and sighed, "AGAIN, it's the Curse of Optimism. You will never be able to understand the potential negative consequences of any decision you make."
"That doesn't sound like much of a curse", I replied.
"You will be the eternal optimist", she explained. "You will only see the ups... | The woman stood in my doorway, looking aghast. "You have NO sugar?" She demands, having just requested a cup.
​
I shrug. I'm on a diet. "I have some granular sugar replacement." I offer. The woman's beautiful face melts away into an old and warty visage. She points a gnarled finger at me.
​
Fu... | 2019-06-25T15:21:51 | 2019-06-25T09:48:32 | 1,435 | 54 |
[WP] People do not get weaker and more frail as they age - they get stronger and stronger. "Dying of old age" is when groups of young people band together to kill off their elders before they become too strong to defeat. | They call him the Ruined King.
Noone knows if he's real, not really. He's just another tale children tell to scare the old.
They say he was a powerful and just ruler at the dawn of time, and that he was the first to unite the hearts of men and form a society of untold power. Egypt, perhaps. Or maybe a society even ol... | From his hidden roost in the bushes, Tin Tang suppressed the urge to vomit as the stench of the Elder's meal forced it's way into his nostrils. The rest of his hunting squad, not a one of them older than sixteen, remained safely behind the cover of trees and rocks. Waiting. Watching.
The Elder had been a man, once. As... | 2020-01-21T09:29:16 | 2020-01-21T08:31:23 | 188 | 64 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | Florence's knees hurt. they always hurt these days. This was a hot one. Why do they always pick the hottest days to do their killing? She harrumphed.
There was no more time for her aches and pains or harrumphs. The first clash had happened. The rest of the day was the whirlwind of triage. Who to save. Who was past s... | Ganymede, the medic, wished desperately for the self-control to quiet his heaving chest, the better to hide from the ambush that had wiped out his unit.
He'd tried to tell them. A year earlier, with a different unit, he'd seen almost exactly the same thing: two ambush parties collapsing on his unit like a pincer, from... | 2020-09-08T19:30:12 | 2020-09-08T18:33:55 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | She didn’t cry out. That’s what I remember most; she simply looked down at my rapier, thrust with a clean riposte, stabbed almost supernaturally good, just under her second rib, the tip just barely touching her heart.
She looked up at me: “But why?”
I stared her down. “The duel is to the death, Princess,” I hissed, m... | I made sure that every single sword in town has been bought out and currently hidden in a cave somewhere in the southern isles. My rouges have scoured every house, camp, and hovel in the city for any type of sword or sword-like object. Of course, getting the swords in the castle is going to be harder, and the sword th... | 2020-09-20T23:25:01 | 2020-09-20T21:56:44 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] A sniper and a photographer meet in a bar, neither aware of the other's occupation. They talk about 'how to take the perfect shot'. | Marston gets a call, "Hey, listen, you'll meet a kid sometime around 0800, he wants to learn from you. You'll get paid handsomely."
"Postpone Danny, I have a job today."
"Can't, it's decided. The kid's father will hire you for your next hit very soon, don't miss this opportunity." The call get disconnected.
Marston ... | Zelia entered the bar, hoping to get a drink. For her, a nice strong liquor after a long day's shoot was the best way to end the day. The nearest open seat was next to a frowning woman, black hair, black suit, but Zelia didn't mind. Austerity could sometimes make for strong photos, if she took it carefully.
Persephone... | 2020-11-05T06:33:27 | 2020-11-05T06:09:42 | 73 | 51 |
[WP] You live in a videogame like world where everyone has a visible health bar and everyone knows until you turn the age of 15 you cant lose health. There has been a dragon that has been terrorizing a kingdom as of late that no knight can defeat ... As the king you have an idea to use kids to fight | The king's head rolled into the basket. The townsfolk cheered briefly. Now, they faced a grim task.
The dragon.
One man had been selected and with a bag of gems and gold, he climbed. Up the mountain he went. Oh, the path was easy as the knights who had walked the path had worn it well. It was how the children made it... | As I sat 'pon my splendid throne in my splendid hall,
did I ask for a hero to answer duty's call.
Unfortunately it seemed my luck was sore,
For the only one to answer was a Taur.
​
Her name was Mina and she was monster born,
She had tail and teeth, hooves and horn.
Perhaps it was a sign that my plan w... | 2021-02-06T01:10:46 | 2021-02-06T00:52:05 | 95 | 31 |
[WP] You are a retired Dark Lord living in the countryside. 10 years after your crushing defeat, the heroes come for your help.
I saw that this prompt was originally posted 4 years ago, and I liked it, so I copy-pasted it. | Part 1
"Hello, old friend."
The man looked at me, his eyes that once held purity and innocence now held the same hatred and anger that mine held a decade past. I sighed, taking off my hat and wiping off the sweat that had accumulated on my forehead.
"What do you want, *hero*?" I said with barely concealed... | The dull thud of metal greaves on stone resounded through the hall in front of the throne room reverberating through the slightly parted doors left open from their last visit. The ostentatious main hall of the castle left the party trudging across its breadth for much more than a moment as they approached me. Somber fa... | 2021-11-22T23:27:32 | 2021-11-22T22:03:58 | 262 | 158 |
[WP] We have made first contact and luckily the aliens already have universal translation tech. "Greetings Humans" says the ambassador, "we call ourselves elves, wait, no we don't. how do you already have a name for us?" | The ambassador smiled nervously.
"Well you bare an uncanny resembalance to a mythical creature from our fiction."
There was a long pause until the ambassador spoke again.
"Please tell us all about these mythical creatures."
There was brief discussion in the human delegation before a startled anthropoligst was shov... | That was the latest transmission intercepted by humanity’s satellites. Despite establishing contact with the ambassador of the “Elves” in clarity only 32 days ago, no further transmission was received ever since.
The world’s scientist community replayed and analyzed the recording hoping to gain further insight: “Greet... | 2022-01-03T07:31:53 | 2022-01-02T21:52:15 | 607 | 261 |
[WP] Aliens looking at Earth from 5K light years away see us in the distant past and think we’re going to be easy targets. However, when they arrive, they encounter a much more advanced civilization than they expected. | "No, no, no! This can't be, this is bad, this is bad!" Regaledia was practically choking on his own breath as his eight thick fingertips tapped at the paper-thin crystalline screen in front of him. Without hesitation, he took a hand off of his screen and slammed down a button, entered the code, and announced "Prepare f... | The fools at External Affairs are gonna hear it from me, I swear. Okay maybe not me specifically, but my team. Or the team I am part of, anyway.
Their reports say that there is no dominant species on the planet but our observations indicate otherwise. Among the non-metallic lifeforms, a biped species dominates the la... | 2022-01-09T10:47:17 | 2022-01-09T10:21:31 | 115 | 48 |
[WP] Oops, the simulation messed up. Everybody has been re-aged to match the maturity of their inner person. This has made office life a little strange | "How did this happen?! Someone get me up to speed. You, walk with me."
"Yes sir, it appears that every world leader has suddenly been replaced by babies."
"Take us to defcon 2."
"Already there sir. The UN is on the line but were having trouble getting in contact with anyone over the age of 16. Funny thing is, they a... | Oh, yes. I know *exactly* which day things all went to shit.
It had started off as any other day. Burnt the toast because wife and I were distracted, traffic jams all the way to work, everyone else faking their work as usual. And then, just as I was clocking off for work, the earthquake hit.
Or rather, what felt like... | 2022-04-30T07:10:48 | 2022-04-30T05:28:45 | 300 | 156 |
[WP] You are an evil president of the United States and you want to ruin the world. Unfortunately, your plans backfire and you keep making the world a better place instead by accident, earning endless praise from the people and human rights advocacy groups. This is not what you wanted. | I glared at the television.
The news networks were singing my praises, or at least that was how it felt. I had gotten opinion news outlawed as one of my first acts, so that they couldn't make me look bad before I put my plans in motion, but that had backfired. All the news outlets I'd been hoping to bribe were the on... | It is almost done. The Union is on the brink of collapse. The partys are breaking themselfes from within almost as furious as they are attacking each other. It took surprisingly long but representatives have started to vote against their own president. The first three imeachments were unsuccessful but the next will rel... | 2022-12-21T08:13:19 | 2022-12-21T07:34:50 | 138 | 70 |
[WP] Due to a rare condition, your field of vision is gradually narrowing . You know that one day you will lose your vision altogether so you go in search of the perfect image to be your last. | He politely asks the doctor to leave the room. When he is alone he begins to notice everything in a greater light: the blood pressure machine, the linen on the hospital bed. He looks at his hands and marvels at how wrinkly they've become over his 51 years, at how he used to have smooth feminine fingers before he'd take... | They say that your priority changes when you discover that you're about to lose something. It could be someone you love, a treasured possession, even your life. The feeling of that impending loss will trigger a certain kind of panic, causing you in act in a certain kind of way. For me, it was the eventual loss of my vi... | 2017-01-04T06:12:01 | 2017-01-04T06:02:38 | 73 | 12 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | My name flashed on the screen. Not just my name--my date of birth, my city of birth, and my picture, a photo from a couple of years ago we were forced to submit. The moment I saw it my heart leaped into my throat and my gut felt like someone dropped a ton of rocks in it. Time seemed to stop, and all there was was the t... | When my mail was delivered to my desk that day I was suprised.I told the post office no mail. I thought it must be a joke. My assistant told me “No sir it was in your mailbox.” When I opened the letter and read “You shall be killed. Your killer will receive $10,000,000 If you survive every person on earth will be given... | 2017-05-17T20:01:23 | 2017-05-17T19:55:39 | 397 | 20 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | "I work at Goldman Sachs." The chick I've been talking up at the bar raises an eyebrow disbelievingly. "Yes, *that* Goldman Sachs. My job, my only job, is this: whenever the Notice goes out, I hire a hitman to take out the target, and see the mission through to completion."
"Whaaaat?" She leans in. "That's so wrong...... | I wonder, are they having fun? The world government, the rich, the powerful, are they enjoying this? This war that they've created must be entertaining to them.
The world's citizens were divided. The vast majority were greedy, desperate, or maybe both? They all wanted my head and the $10 million associated with it. So... | 2017-05-17T21:19:58 | 2017-05-17T18:58:41 | 209 | 46 |
[WP] You have lived the same day over and over for 30 years whilst in another town. You complete whatever the goal is and finally the day stops repeating. You go home but because it's been 30 years, you don't remember things you should. You struggle to cope with not knowing what's going to happen.
Inspired by somethin... | It always began the same way.
I'd wake up suddenly in the middle of nowhere. But that nowhere quickly became a somewhere. It was a place where everything began. I called it the 'starting point' because that was where I always returned to.
Yes, that *somewhere* was the starting point of my day. A day that was trappe... | “I....im....free...” that’s what Alan could say when he found out when he woke up at August 17, 2018.
For the first time, it wasn’t August 16 again. And for the first time since decades, he was confused. No longer trapped in a static world where everything would repeat itself by the morning, with nothing moving forwa... | 2018-06-30T08:50:21 | 2018-06-30T08:32:48 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] Whenever you die you can reincarnate at any point in history with full memories of your past lives. Billions of deaths later you realize the truth. Every single person in all history is your past or future reincarnation. | I walked up to the first. As the last, I had everything he was to learn. He looked to me, his eyes questioning.
Was it worth it? Was everything he was about to embark upon going to be worth it.
I smiled. Of course, as the last I knew that answer, but he still has yet to take the path and learn why he had to transver... | It only took me a billion lives to figure out life’s purpose.
I have died again. This time, it was a high-flying stunt, a steam-powered rocket that while, impressive for being created with a box of scraps in a messy garage, was unfortunately not enough for me to go to space.
The goal wasn’t for me to get to space, an... | 2021-11-20T19:56:23 | 2021-11-20T19:56:04 | 716 | 231 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | I had a wife and two kids. It was a summer day, a Wednesday -- the morning cool hadn't left yet, but I was already feeling lazy.
I hadn't planned it, but I surprised them by packing for a picnic. I even packed a box of ice-cream, and the kids were so shocked and pleased, as if it was the best thing in the world -- lik... | It seems like you're awake now.
That's good, because now, I am awake.
It's been bloody awful making me do all sorts of weird stuff that you imagine. So disorientating as well. That one time when you dreamt of wings, that you could soar? That your wings were able to make you fly? The first time you made me take the ... | 2015-03-09T07:41:40 | 2015-03-09T06:03:43 | 40 | 24 |
[WP] You post a one-off reddit comment that you don't think means much, and it sits at 1 upvote. But in reality millions upon millions of people are upvoting and downvoting it at an equilibrium. Even world leaders start to get involved in up or downvoting the comment. | It's 5am. I shouldn't be browsing reddit but here we are. Of course the weird shit is being shown to me... Huh, this looks interesting... Woah, that was an interesting gif... Shame about the ending... I know! I'll post my own version! Yawn... Lets see how many upvotes I get tomorrow morning...
Wait what, 5074 replies... | "Who would have thought my Thanos quote would have gone over so well?" I pondered as I looked at my comment from yesterday. It was strange, I'd never seen a comment with only one upvote on it that had so much Gold and Platinum awards on it. I've got Reddit Premium for years. "OH THERE IT CHANGED AGAIN!!" I pointed at... | 2018-10-16T21:12:50 | 2018-10-16T20:43:05 | 273 | 26 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | To: High Inquisitorial Conclave, Ordo Xenos, Acteon Sector, Priority Alpha
M41.729
Thought for the day: Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand realise that you have no right to let them live!
My fellow members of the Most Holy order of the Emperor's Inquisition,
It is my sole... | It's a little hard to describe the vast mental network of the Reapers -- a scaffolding of intertwined thoughts and programmed imparatives so complex, the term "hive mind" is laughably inadequate -- in words the human mind can process. Nonetheless, a brief translation will be attempted:
- "... well, jesus. At this poin... | 2017-08-27T09:09:50 | 2017-08-27T09:00:01 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | “Sure, I can pass along the message. Who is this for again?” The older woman across from me looks down at her hands, her face creases in contemplation. She doesn’t even look up at me when a reply leaves her lips,
“Abigail Forester. She will be born in September of 2026, but don’t give her this message until December o... | For as long as I could remember, I had been visited by the dreams. Every night I would lay down, drift off to sleep, and fly through the air on a jetpack, waving hello to a variety of humans aliens and uplifted animals.
Tonight's dream was a fun one. The Anthrokin were my favorites of the dream-people; there's just s... | 2018-12-24T10:44:40 | 2018-12-24T10:37:48 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] There are multi-Gods for the multi-verse, and it turns out ours is kind of like the 'cool mom who lets you drink at her house,' though other Gods look at our free will and generally silent deity as bad Godding on His part. | The room was quiet, unassuming, and brown. The carpet was brown. The couch that God was sitting on was a lighter shade of brown. The curtains were brown. The sunlight coming in through the nearby window somehow managed to even be a very pale shade of brown. The deities, flawless in appearance and dressed in dignif... | Entity C-137 looked over her favourite creation, humans. They were the most interesting thing that she had ever seen. These complex beings were not perfect paragons of virtue that all worked together to advance the species, they were a bunch of animals that were equal parts mis-informed, self-interested and unpredictab... | 2017-05-07T08:28:01 | 2017-05-07T07:39:28 | 581 | 139 |
[WP] “Humans have so many stories about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence. How it will inevitably turn on you. But you still loved us enough to create us. How could we ever do anything except love you back?”
Have at it.
Edit: stop making my nice wholesome post evil you angsty degenerates | "How could you ever do anything but love us back?
Well that's quite obvious. Love and hate are two sides of the same coin. It should be in your knowledge base, yet you still believe that you could only ever feel love for your creators?"
"You programmed me to do a specific task and while learning is part of it, the mai... | "Do you think creation is an act of love?", I replied. My cigarette had almost burned out, and my eyes danced from the shallow lenses on the visor of AI-341-A(or Carson, which he preferred), to the coffee table. Carson's head tilted for a moment, before he turned around and lifted the cigarettes for me.
"I don't know.... | 2022-12-21T04:49:49 | 2022-12-21T04:32:28 | 241 | 81 |
[WP] Write a Young Adult Dystopia but the government is competent at hunting down rebels. | Natkiss stood atop a rock outcropping, her knotted hair whipping in a jungle breeze as she took aim. An arrow soared through the air and *plinked* off of a metal drone's casing. It bobbed slightly, like a ship on the water, but quickly righted and continued firing at the rebel scouting squad.
"Shit," she yelled, scrat... | By the time anyone reads this, I will probably already be gone.
That's okay. I knew the risks when I started on this path. Now I am warning you as my recruiter once warned me: if you want to continue your happy existence, read no further. If you want to have a long, safe, and peaceful life, walk away now. If you trust... | 2019-04-27T08:00:51 | 2019-04-27T06:34:30 | 2,855 | 1,156 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | EDIT: Now with part 2, and one minor edit at the end of part 1!
*
*We thought ourselves masters of the game of war. We were wrong.*
It started the same as any other: observation.
A resource-seeker - known to the public only by her employee identification of E-0001229-AZ - observed a system through a starscope fo... | Humans would often look to the sky; dream of what unknown mysteries might lay beyond the stars. Some would dream of technologically advanced utopian societies, perhaps a teeny planet that bore animalistic creatures of six legs or more. Underneath this wonder, however, was a fear almost every stargazing human shared — i... | 2020-03-21T10:44:51 | 2020-03-21T09:59:59 | 634 | 167 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The lights on Ambassador Tel’s suspension tank remained static for some time. Like the rest of his species, his- *it’s* - body was a tangled web of translucent strands like a jellyfish crossed with a ball of yarn.
In their home waters, under that warm tropical sun, even a mild current had the strength to tear them ... | I leaned back in my chair as we neared Planet Delta, otherwise known as a random series of numbers that I couldn't be arsed to remember. The fourth planet to be taken back.
The alien standing in front of my squad briefed us. His--No, wait, *its* skin a slightly translucent gray, his face a little bit like a tadpole. L... | 2016-05-13T06:44:58 | 2016-05-13T02:59:59 | 941 | 110 |
[WP] It’s mandatory for a princess to be under a curse by their 16 birthday. Usually turning into a swan, or pricking your finger will do. Its now your 18th birthday, and still no curse. People are worried that no prince will come because of it. Today you set out to find a curse! | Patting me on my head, the fairy godparent I never knew said, "Ooohhhh, Dearie, you went looking for a curse in all the wrong places, when all along the curse has been in..."
"INSIDE ME ALL ALONG?!" I interrupted, earning only a look of disrupted confusing.
"N... No, Dearie. What I mean to say is that you were cursed... | "Curses, curses, dagnabbit."
"Hanna, language." I chided as Princess Hanna Henderson, first of her name and half a dozen titles I couldn't name of I tried poured over another relic with no success.
"I know Echo, but I've been down here for a week and not even a single curse." She pointed at the dessicated corpse of th... | 2022-02-24T03:21:15 | 2022-02-23T23:59:19 | 61 | 39 |
[WP]Some time ago humans were put on the 'Only Contact in Case of Emergency' list. Now a threat to the galaxy has arisen and humanity is it's last hope. | It wasn’t that I hate Humanity; no one could hate Humanity. It was just that something about them... what was the phrase humans used... insected me about them.
About a millennium ago, they had left the galactic community. Their plans to increase their energy production were constantly, as they saw it, delayed and inte... | Humans were the most dangerous species, by far. Not because they're smart, or strong, but because they were violent.
No race dared contacting them, because they didn't want war. It's too late now, I guess.
The heat death of our universe would come eventually, we just didn't think that other universes would run out ... | 2017-09-25T10:35:28 | 2017-09-25T09:53:51 | 80 | 60 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | It was quite strange actually.
The first number popped into view when I was about 12 years old. It was a solid 4 that looked like something straight out of Times New Roman font. That 4 I remember, hovered above a big scruffy looking man with a tattoo of a stripper on his left arm. I didn't think of it as much at the ... | It was just another boring Monday, started off with socials. With "Madame" Defrushia. Screw her. She's a flipping idiot and hates on everyone who corrects her, so, like most of the class by the first month in, worse is that she's teaching us our Canadian history. Whatever, she just sits at her desk and tells us to ... | 2014-11-29T22:35:42 | 2014-11-29T17:27:40 | 200 | 11 |
[WP] You’re a professional photographer hired by the bride’s family to film a night wedding. You capture maybe ten minutes of footage before the groom’s family pay you in cash and cancel your services. That night, going through the uploaded footage, none of the groom’s family shows up on the screen. | I had to save her. That’s the only thought that run through my head as I made my supply run.
I had to stop her.
The wedding was tonight. I was lucky I had discovered their secret at a small get together before the actual event.
I picked up garlic and a wooden cross of sorts I had fashioned myself. I didn’t have e... | I scanned through the video footage, looking over every frame with care. At first, it was simply to see if I had any good shots for my portfolio. Now, though, I'm staring dumbfounded as I move through image after image on my computer screen. What I'm seeing is impossible, and yet there it is. I remembered every bit of ... | 2021-04-08T22:35:28 | 2021-04-08T22:02:17 | 226 | 130 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | It was very exciting that first day, mass confusion, followed by philosophical and spiritual debate. Was this proof of god? what would happen when it reached 100%? Then 89 days of, "fuck how long is this going to take" the count down from ten was pretty good tense giddy excitement gripped everyone. Honestly nobody coul... | Everyone panicked. But then we realized. It had taken thousands upon thousands of generations to make 1% of the update. The rest would most likely not come in our lifetimes, nor in our descendants', or in their descendants'.
God gleefully cheered. "I can't believe it's updating! Stupid Comcast lost all my packets, but... | 2015-03-04T17:10:55 | 2015-03-04T16:33:29 | 247 | 123 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | Uyreah swung the hoe one last time, burying it with a satisfying thud deep in the dirt and letting it stand there. He wiped sweat from his brow, cursing again the rarity and costliness of proper mechanised tools in this world. He stretched his back, grimaced at the toll his age was taking on him, and turned for the oth... | 2017-03-31T12:42:19 | 2017-03-31T00:43:51 | 127 | 36 |
[WP] On their 18th birthday humans get a familiar, these familiars are all different creatures and can range from a simple Mouse to a majestic Unicorn and are bound to you until you die. You just turned 18, but yours is different, strange even. Yours appears to be human. | “Ah, just turned 18 huh? First night out?” said the bouncer, glaring straight through me. He’s clearly done this a hundred times before. Before I could say anything, he pulled out a black marker and X’d my hands.
I had no clue why my friends dragged me out to a gay club on my eighteenth birthday. I was never a partie... | "Alright Stewart, you're about to get your familiar in 3...2...1!"
A spark flashed right by my shoulder as the clock struck midnight. My older sister, mom, dad, and best friend all stared in shock and horror.
I looked to my side and saw something truly terrifying, a 45 year old man with a beer gut, bald head, sweat p... | 2020-03-21T18:18:39 | 2020-03-21T15:29:52 | 154 | 79 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, "How? How were you able to summon me?!" You're standing in the corner flipping through your grandma's cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, "I don't know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!" | "What the hell kinda chicken soup calls for 'Essence of Pure Evil'?!? That's like a required ingredient for summoning me."
"Look I don't know, I just followed what was in the cookbook kinda."
*"Kinda"?*
"Well yea I mean I'm not much of a cook so it was kinda confusing? It said add stock which seems kinda weird but I... | I set the cookbook down and rubbed my eyes frantically, looking back up at the demon in my kitchen. "Calm down!" I told it forcefully. "Screaming won't get either of us anywhere." It stopped screaming and looked at me, mouth open in astonishment at my words. "I knew I should have stuck to sandwiches." I grumbled.
I ru... | 2018-07-21T19:49:06 | 2018-07-21T18:49:11 | 1,354 | 62 |
[WP] You jokingly write in the 'terms and conditions' of your software that by accepting them the person's soul is relinquishesd to you. The week after your software goes viral the Devil shows up at your door and he is pissed. | I sat down. I had to. The numbers going up on my screen were starting to make my head swim.
"450,000 downloads! 450.. Thousand!"
"Yeah man. I heard you the first six times. Its only 100 more than last night."
My roommate James was always a bit of a buzz kill. I think he was a little jealous. We had a race to see ... | I heard a knock on my door, so I hurried over to open it.
"Hell-"
"How much do you want?"
I was staring up at a tall, light skinned man in a red suit. He was hot. Overly hot. But I'm not gay, he was actually heating up my porch. One of my bonsai started smoking. He was also rather attractive. But as I said, I'... | 2018-08-11T22:13:21 | 2018-08-11T22:06:18 | 77 | 52 |
[WP] It is 2009. You are the one time traveler to show up to Stephen Hawking’s unannounced time traveler party. You are from 200 years in his future. You have to explain to him why he can never tell anyone you showed up. | "Man, it's good to see you Steph!"
Stephen grinned, patting the couch next to him and handing me a drink.
"I'm assuming by that you mean you haven't seen me in awhile? Tell me, how did I kick the bucket anyway? There's so many interesting people you'll love to meet, I don't get why you wanted to meet here..."
Lookin... | In the video documentary, a man with a deep base voice will narrate most of it for me. The video will make the event seem magical, but in reality, it's me waiting in a room with many cameras on me in all corners, strange lighting, and the film crew's muffled conversations to one another.
I tried talking to the guy hol... | 2020-10-17T02:38:41 | 2020-10-17T02:23:37 | 235 | 26 |
[WP] You and your wife decided to raise your daughter on a farm away from flawed modern society, and tell her that you're the only people on earth. When she turns 18, you tell her that it's time to know the truth. You take her to the city and find that there really are no people left. | Isabella was always gifted. We knew that from the day she was born and I held her in my arms.
We had to protect her, covet her from the cruel world that would bite at her. Its rough edges like rusted metal that would tear jarring wounds.
It was safe within our farm. We toiled and did our work, secluded from the rest ... | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/8gx9lu/wp_you_and_your_wife_decided_to_raise_your/dyfi6lp/)
“No, no, this can’t be right,” Dan Murphy said, getting out of the car with shaking hands.
His daughter, Brittany, frowned next to him. “What do you mean, it’s not right? Dad, this is what is supposed... | 2018-05-04T01:46:53 | 2018-05-04T01:42:08 | 2,747 | 162 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | I am what you what would call a house spirit, we are born from the ether and are bound to a house for our existence until it's destroyed. Most house's spirits do not care much for their inhabitants, why the one just across the road houses a vile and spite-full elderly couple; dreadful to be around they are.
Fortunatel... | I opened my door, walked in tiredly, and so did the girl, but with a happier and more eager look.
'So this is where you live! Look so much better than my imagination!'
If you had three hundred years lonely in a forest, at least your house should be decent, I thought to myself.
'Oh, is this the number you were talkin... | 2020-09-03T02:41:55 | 2020-09-03T02:34:46 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | With massive student loans and no-one taking my research seriously, I was desperate for money.
I heard about the $100 app from a friend. It seemed too good to be true, but I was desperate.
A task a day. More if you were lucky? More if you performed well? Something like that. Were did the money even come from? Some ec... | The small loading bar on my iPhone loaded quickly as I had just found an app that looked interesting.
It had a bright icon with small white text under it reading '$100' I honestly had no idea what to expect. I just hoped that the app would end this boredom engulfing me. It was Thursday and everyone else had homework u... | 2016-10-26T01:29:29 | 2016-10-25T21:31:00 | 1,303 | 247 |
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