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[WP] "I saw a guy at Starbucks today. He had no smartphone, tablet, or laptop. He just sat there drinking his coffee. Like a psychopath." | "How much sleep have you been getting, hun?" asked Jen, softly. She placed her hand on his cheek tenderly. "Honestly, it's like you don't know what to do with yourself when I'm gone."
Daniel chuckled. "I don't. Picking up after the dog is nothing like picking up after you. There aren't socks and hair clips all over th... | Like a sore thumb, he stuck out in a way that no one else did. I was still in line when he caught my eye. I stifled a gasp as I sucked in air, him catching me completely unaware. He wasn't like the others. They were all focused elsewhere, consumed in that which wasn't here. Their passive lack of interest was my safety.... | 2016-03-05T13:28:47 | 2016-03-05T11:10:21 | 965 | 74 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "GREETINGS FELLOW ADVENTURING HUMANS!" Boomed the voice of Danny the Elf sat bolt upright from the sleeping cloth sack she had been in, causing Bob the Barbarian to grunt and curl up under his animal hide sleeping rug again.
"IT IS I, YOUR GOOD FRIEND DAN, I AM UNHARMED AFTER MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE DAEMON!" She contin... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T08:25:27 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 90 | 12 |
[WP] Nuclear holocaust is imminent. The rich and powerfull are hiding away in their bunkers, but when the countdown was finished the world was still there. One message was sent around the world via satellites: "Now They have imprisoned Themselves what shall We do?" With coords of all the bunkers.. | The relief was palpable. At the very last second of the eleventh hour, a miracle happened.
As soon as the net was back up, the underground went to work, blocking all transmissions in and out of the bunkers. Easy enough said one Anonymous hacker.
So, the bunker crowd, as the people now called them, had no idea it was ... | No one actually trusted them.
Once the ruse was discovered, people did as people would... and helped them.
Millions of people died in the fear and panic caused by the Terrorists; mothers smothering infants in the fear of immenity death, sucide pacts signed in the last minute, and riots across the world in fear of a d... | 2022-07-18T18:21:12 | 2022-07-18T17:54:11 | 50 | 13 |
[WP] The entire Star Wars series, all 7 movies, are released as one book, written by Dr. Seuss. | One war, two war
Red war, blue war
I see rebels
I see ravels
Rebels rabble, rebels ravel
Spaceships striking
Striking, liking
Do you see rebel spaceships striking?
A base, a vase, a hidden case
The rebels have a hidden base
The rebels have a noble case
They win within their noble base
Now say th... | **Episode 1**
The jedi master Qui Gon Jin
And his student Obi Wan
were caught up in a dastardly trap
but when sprung, they were gone!
----
They snuck onto a ship
and went down to Naboo
Where they met Jar Jar Binks,
Queen Padme, and even Artoo!
----
"to the desert planet Tattoine,"
did Qui Gon Jin then call... | 2016-05-16T07:23:54 | 2016-05-16T06:29:01 | 799 | 71 |
[WP] As a joke you take your pet pig on a plane with you once you get up in to the air Suddenly, several things once said to be impossible until this very moment start occurring everywhere. | “You think you’re real funny huh?”Tom said as he was rolling his eyes, looking at me like the Black Plague.
“I’m just trying to prove a point, Tom. Get off my back” I said while bringing Trev to the cockpit. “Pigs gotta fly someday and you don’t see a pilot with a teacup pig too often”
The plane was heading to Singa... | "It's a dark and porky night", said Steve as he took them lower. "And we're all going to hell."
Steve took a sip of his drink and took them a bit lower. "It's a bit nippy, don't you think? Shouldn't we close the back window?"
"Just keep going! We have to get this done."
"But Wilbur needs rest. And Babe..."
"Keep go... | 2018-07-28T07:22:49 | 2018-07-28T07:21:29 | 2,333 | 19 |
[WP] When you die, you find yourself in a room with nothing but a TV, a game controller, a couch, and a mini-fridge. When you turn on the TV it informs you that you have unlocked Free Play Mode. You can now replay another person’s life. | Aaron did not have to think for long. Most people would pick a famous personality, a person who inherited riches and lived a life of happiness and luxury. An easy life. But something in Aaron clicked as soon as he read those instructions. An urge from when he was alive, a question he always asked himself about the one ... | After seven days of rage, many tears and indiscriminate raging at the walls, I finally resigned myself to accepting the rather anti-climatic fact that I had died.
I guess I really should have worn that mask, but I digress.
The fridge was welcome, it had all my favorite drinks, whether it was mimosas or fresh spring ... | 2020-12-16T07:09:29 | 2020-12-16T07:04:01 | 156 | 78 |
[WP] Four years ago you opened a fortune cookie that simply read "Don't panic", and since that day you gained notoriety for your unbelievable acts of bravery. You just opened a fortune cookie that reads "Reach for the stars". | Don't panic.
Those words came from the only fortune cookie that had ever really affected me. It was strange, no one else in my dinner group had gotten something so short. Not to mention the font choice. I could only assume it was a printer error.
Don't panic.
A sentiment that could mean just about anything. The pro... | A fine day a boy was playing in the yard with his friends and seems they were having fun enjoying their company, they were living their life as the best childhood anyone can have,
Suddenly the boy's mom called his name. She was calling him to have a snack since they were playing for a long time. They went insid... | 2021-08-24T10:50:49 | 2021-08-24T10:45:36 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are reincarnated 10,000 years into the future. You come across an ancient artifact on display in the Museum of History, where you work. Little is known about it, not even where it was uncovered. Upon touching it, you realize it was yours. | *It looks silly,* I tell myself, looking at the small clay statuette. The paint has chipped and faded, and the shape is barely discernible. My task is to restore this nonsensical item, to display it where some curious mind may ponder its original purpose. And it looks ridiculous.
*Ten thousand years ago, some unkno... | As I entered the exhibit, I laid eyes on the thing. Something seemed familiar about it, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. I pushed the thought to the back of my mind, and continued on with the tour group, yet still, it bothered me. That feeling of knowing something that you just can't bring yourself to remember.... | 2019-09-23T20:41:52 | 2019-09-23T18:10:27 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] You’ve had the ability to stop time ever since you were born. You’ve used your ability for numerous crimes, such as theft, tax evasion and even murder. One day, however, you stop time and you hear a voice. “At long last, I finally uncovered your trick.” | I hopped with surprise and felt my power reject me. Whenever I got scared, my first instinct was to stop time until I got control. But time was already stopped. My power rejected the second attempt.
"What? Who?" I asked. I didn't know how to react. I couldn't remember the last time I experienced this feeling. Fear.
... | I had just killed an FBI agent, and was disposing of his body. In broad daylight, and with gloved hands, I dragged his body along the city sidewalks to a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant. I used some "utencils" within the restaurant to cut him up so that I could throw the remains in the bins. In what seemed to be a... | 2019-09-17T19:48:42 | 2019-09-17T19:17:30 | 43 | 18 |
[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. | Kyloran Estraxx straightened the tie around his right neck. As was protocol when establishing contact with new races, his ship's fabricator tailored an approximation of the style worn by that world's leader. Or leaders, in some cases. In the end, Kyloran settled for a dark blue suit and a white and red tie for each nec... | "They shall have nothing." Was our Arbiter's words.
"They shall have nothing." Was the chant used by his followers to justify themselves.
"They shall have nothing." Was the truest statement uttered in the fifteen years of war.
The Hexams had won the war for all intents and purposes. All that remained was to capture ... | 2014-12-26T12:09:19 | 2014-12-26T11:03:12 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | "Please, you must open the door or they will come for me"
I could hear her crying and with a sincere sound of panic in her voice.
I had seen a bite mark, hadn't I?
She started bashing on the door, yelling that they were getting closer and she would die if you didn't let her in.
My tears started rolling down my cheek,... |
((Some mild violence and dark themes, kinda new to this so I hope I did it right))
I had always been a zombie buff, everything Walking Dead and Max Brooks I was all over it. Little did I know the real zombie Apocalypse was just around the corner and it…the books the TV shows don’t prepare you for of being real for ... | 2018-09-06T17:04:49 | 2018-09-06T15:42:34 | 52 | 23 |
[WP] While singing gibberish in the shower, you accidentally summon a demon, who then professes an eternity of loyalty for saving it from the doldrums of hell.
or maybe it is pissed you interrupted it while he was watching his favorite show. | "I wash it, I clean it, I soap it, I mean it, get it get it, yeah, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, my lovely lady lumps, check em out!"
"In latin this time! Vanis occulus septus neptum fandom makem happen!"
Justin rinsed the shampoo out of his hair while he continued rambling in "latin". The water began to grow warmer,... | "So, whatchu we gonna do, Boss?"
Bob shook his head, realizing that he had been absently staring at the pint-sized creature. Its tiny red horns reminded him of a child's devil costume, and its delicate, wrinkly body seemed like it would crumble at moment's notice.
"I, um. Sorry. Who are you, again?"
The imp cackled,... | 2016-07-13T09:52:29 | 2016-07-13T08:35:16 | 337 | 162 |
[WP] Hurricane Matthew is approaching and at this point there is only one force powerful enough to stop it. Florida Man.
[removed] | He was seven rounds deep with the mutated gator what had tried to snatch his balls in a Taco Bell shitter when the call came in.
"Git, Shitter Gator! Git!" roared Florida Man over the twinkling peel of his Nokia. He grabbed out the syringe of butterscotch pudding he kept in his boot for such and like occasions and sta... | Is it a plane? Is it a Dog? No! It's Florida man!!!
The crowds of Floridians below, screaming their hearts out, with Matthew the Hurricane slowly encroaching on the Tallahassee residents. Florida man knew only one thing to be true
"Save people and make happy people stay happy!"
As Florida man flew flightlessly tow... | 2016-10-06T18:47:40 | 2016-10-06T18:46:04 | 96 | 49 |
[WP] A squad of soldiers has their dead teammates replaced by robots as the war drags on until only one is left. For some reason, she still treats and talks to them as though they were her human friends. | Friendship is an odd thing. Sometimes its short. Sometimes its long. Sometimes its longer than life.
​
Ania had been on the battlefield for a long time. This war had been going decades and she had been in the thick of it since the beginning of the Trappist war. She had been at the fall of Paramount city an... | "George, I need that suppressing fire!" I shout, ducking just before the rat-a-tat of an automatic rifle echoes through the space in between shattered buildings.
I pop up as he fires, and make the short run to a tougher looking wall, followed by Jen and Howards. A much louder bang signifies that Spots got her shot off... | 2019-09-07T14:37:55 | 2019-09-07T11:56:08 | 27 | 20 |
[wp] You work for Satan as telemarketer, and you have to call people and convince them to sell their souls. | “Hello?” A voice enquired from the other end of the call.
“Good morning Mrs. McCormick! My name’s Andy, Andy Marchosias. I was wondering if you could spare the briefest moment of your time to listen to a once in a lifetime opportunity” He summoned every ounce of cheerfulness possible, as he begged her to grant him he... | "Hello! Is this Susan James?"
"Yes, who is this?"
"Hello Susan James! I'm Belladonna, and I'm contacting you from H-Mobile and I'd like to talk to you today about how you can save THOUSANDS of dollars!"
"Hmm.."
"No, really! H-Mobile will actually pay you to call! Please, go try and find the most expensive plan in ... | 2016-05-14T06:50:05 | 2016-05-14T06:16:26 | 142 | 76 |
[WP] A new drug let's you live a lifetime in one dream
I have a recurring dream. It's interesting to me because i've been going through the motions of life within this dream; I live a second life every night so to speak. So I put this here to see where people's imaginations can take them.
EDIT: I can't edit the titl... | You see, I'm an addict to Postremethed, the hallucinogenic drug that made it's breakthrough in the underground a couple years ago. It wasn't like I was a junkie or anything, the worst thing I had done before PRM was a little weed in high school. I was just hanging out with the wrong crowds and got a tablet slipped in m... | If it comes to me, I'll write a story response as well but this is a slam poem written with this kind of prompt in mind. Hope you enjoy; I want to get into /r/WritingPrompts more; criticism appreciated.
EDIT: Changed the ending's imagery just a slight bit.
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[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | It's not every day you encounter a genie in a lamp, especially not when that lamp happens to be a crappy desk lamp purchased at a garage sale. But the moment Arthur put a bulb in and connected the plug, a silver mist enveloped the room before coalescing into a form not unlike that of a tax accountant. Complete with che... | 'Yes, I'm a Genie'
'Like, really a Genie?'
'Yes'
'Like, a full-blown wish-granting genie?'
'Yes, would you like to make your first wish?'
James Hollin, being thirteen, was a little bit naive about the the world and his place in it.
He was a flip-flopper, a vacillator, an individual who wasn't sure of what he wa... | 2014-06-05T08:50:25 | 2014-06-05T08:03:25 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] The Hero is ridiculously overpowered but has none of the usual moral objections about using their power. They just defeated the last major supervillian and now the city nervously waits to find out what happens next. | When the HERO system first went online, it incarcerated fifty percent of the global supervillain threat within its first year.
HERO’s creators consisted of the most brilliant minds humanity, and a handful of other species, had to offer. Its initial form was that of a human man, molded from a composite of all super bei... | Everything was quiet. It always was after an ... event. That's what the news would call it, not wanting to give it a more accurate name. They used to call them "fights", but it would be more accurate to say "slaughter". Not that *I'd* say that out loud. You talk about it, it makes it more real.
I nodded to my nei... | 2022-06-27T16:47:31 | 2022-06-27T12:05:29 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] Earth finally gets a signal from an alien civilization which translates to, "If we can hear you so can they, please stop broadcasting." | World leaders, linguists, accomplished code breakers sat themselves in a room well below the surface of the Earth. This was not the United Nations, it was not NATO WARSAW or any such conglomeration, it was entirely new and consisted of only the relevant players, chiefly, only those Nations with interests currently in o... | "It's a ruse," said the General. "It's not an alien signal. It's a signal from the Russians. They want to be the first to make contact with aliens, and they want to strike fear into us about broadcasting through space, so that when humanity finally makes contact, it's the Russians who'll have done it, on humanity's beh... | 2017-01-11T23:45:24 | 2017-01-11T19:24:46 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone who dies is granted levels in heaven depending on their actions before they died. Your famous grandmother got level 64 after she died and has since been constantly reminding her friends about how useless of a grandchild you are. Then one day, after 80 years, you show up, level 3008. | When Saint Peter handed me my halo with my level written on it, I didn't think too much of it, Saint Peter didn't seem to notice anything so I balanced it as best I could, wriggled my wings a bit and walked past the pearly gates.
Nanny was waiting for me with a broad smile. "I knew it! I just knew it! " She cackled ... | The rules of the game changed by the time I’d hit 34. I didn’t know, of course. I was in the old world. But as the economy collapsed and we were too self-occupied to care about anyone else, it was pretty easy to stand out for showing some common courtesy. Any kind word was a triple score in Scrabble, so to speak.
In ... | 2018-04-14T18:35:59 | 2018-04-14T17:55:19 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] A portal opens before you and out steps a version of yourself covered in blood. "I've killed humdreds of you and they say you're the strongest one. Time to find out why." | Jackson stared at the stranger that was…himself? They certainly shared the same features. They had the same brown hair, the same eyes, the same dimpled chin.
But this man looked haggard. There was a leanness to his features Jackson didn’t share. A wiry toughness that Jackson lacked. The man was also coated in blood. ... | In your final moments, it is said that your entire life flashes before your eyes. I might've seen something similar as my doppelganger lunged at me, had my attention not been drawn to the gaping wound he had ripped in my reality. An open wound, bleeding a blue ebb of time and space, oozing the pus of his dimension into... | 2022-11-09T12:52:00 | 2022-11-09T11:21:09 | 120 | 38 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 70 | 45 |
[WP] You have a compass that points to whatever will cause the most damage in the next 24 hours, anywhere in the world. Today, it's pointing directly at your grandmother, who is knitting a pair of socks. | Today I visit dear loving Grammy.
How lucky! Found a compass in the woods.
Boy oh boy I was so happy.
On it, the message was good.
It would point at what's mean and scary.
Protecting I, Grammy's Red Riding Hood.
Today I thought it would be great.
This compass would protect me from harm.
Gammy's cookie appetite I would... | That can't be right...
"Grandma" I say, "can you come over here and look at this?"
She gets up. but the compass needle doesn't quite follow her the way it was doing only seconds ago. I walk around, the needle continues to point *towards the space where she was*... Or maybe at the chair she was sitting in?
"Grandma" ... | 2016-08-03T15:19:20 | 2016-08-03T14:58:48 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 70 | 46 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | The sun did not shine,
It was too wet to play,
So I sat in my bed
For day after day.
So I stared at the ceiling
I stared at the wall
And deep down inside me
There was nothing at all
No anger, no fury
No happy or glad
Just a big fat old nothing
That was nothing but sad
I called up a doctor
T... | Although it seems like I am happy.
My life right now is rather crappy.
Times are tough and moneys tight.
But that's OK cause it ends tonight.
I wish you well, and all the best.
I'm glad to get this off my chest.
By the time you read my one last quote.
You will realize it's my suicide note.
With love in my heart, I bi... | 2015-01-17T07:08:38 | 2015-01-17T05:25:17 | 1,010 | 42 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people are given one superpower of their choice. While your friends and acquaintances choose super strength, flight, invisibility, telekinesis, they make fun of you for your “nerd” power. You decide to show them just how powerful manipulation of the strong nuclear force is. | "Yo, Mike, what power are you going to get?" Johnny snickered as we were playing the new smash.
"Eh, you'll see it when it happens."
"God damn, stop being such a tease. Why make us wait another 7 hours?"
"Hey, fuck off! You've been asking all afternoon! You'll see it when you see it".
"How about this, If I be... | Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of people. There are those that use their Knack as just another way of living their life. Something to make things easier while they get on with what really matters. The teacher who can always tell what their students are whispering at the back of the class. The suburban dad who ca... | 2018-12-20T23:53:03 | 2018-12-20T23:17:08 | 177 | 97 |
[WP] You're a supervillain with a superhero as your arch-nemesis. When they come out to the world about their depression and mental health, others call them weak and there is backlash. You, however, are the first one to support them publicly. | “What is strength?”
There was silence after Eclipse spoke, except for the sound of rubble trickling from the fresh hole in the newsroom wall. He did not wait for an answer as he seated himself and turned to his unwilling co-anchor.
“I asked a question, Son of Carl. You mocked the Strongman, belittled his struggles wi... | *Ahem*
I always believed what elevated a villain to a super villain was their sense of *style*. But my unique, snazzy, often explosive ways of contacting you plebes are starting to be expected. ^(I know, Paradoxical.) And so, I have chosen to host a press conference, something wholly unexpected and therefore being abl... | 2022-06-21T10:53:43 | 2022-06-21T10:53:05 | 209 | 48 |
[WP] Mash up two fairy tales to make a new one. Take a new, fresh direction on it. | In a rundown tavern at the edge of town...
"I mean, I'm not young anymore. I'm almost 16." Sleeping Beauty sighed. "At least you're living with 7 guys. Worst case you could get hitched to one of them."
"Not that any of them are husband material." Snow white replied. "I've been pretending to be dead for 6 months, and ... | The helicopter blades distantly sing through the air as a loudspeaker began a patient, clear call. "Incoming wounded, incoming wounded! All personnel prepare for the wounded!"
Figures began to sprint around the green tents that compose the Mobile Allegory Surgical Hospital. Talking animals, creatures of magical and f... | 2014-03-01T16:14:00 | 2014-03-01T15:57:34 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] Salt is known to be able to repel or even contain evil spirits. As companies start to drain the Dead sea of salt to sell as a novelty, they unwillingly unleash a spirit that the Dead sea was meant to contain.
From TwoSentenceHorror | After eons of numbness I felt an irritation, a minor variance in the otherwise frozen state of my life. I still cannot fathom my stupidity, or what I believed then was invincibility that I decided to nap in this godforsaken place, fully aware that the blood shaman along with that traitor Ryjm , the djinn of the waves w... | "Angelica, pull the trigger..."
A man's body dropped and it immediately began to sink into the black and white ceramic floor. He squirmed in pain, trying to cover the wound in his head as the ground swallowed him. Soon, he was just bits of greasy hair which stuck out from the tiles. The girl, teary eyed, dropped the ... | 2022-05-05T01:45:13 | 2022-05-05T01:41:47 | 124 | 15 |
[WP] You’re a ventriloquist comedian who dies mid-set. Muppetos the puppet god smiles upon you, transfers your soul to your puppet, and gives empowers you to move your former human body like a puppet. The crowd is shocked, but the show must go on. Time to give the performance of your lifetime. | “So Mr. Rupert,” I asked the little wooden puppet dangling between my legs. “What’s your favorite kind of relationship?”
"No strings attached!" I ventriloquized in a high pitched voice.
Not a single laugh from the audience. This was bad—I was ten minutes into a forty-minute set and I’d already lost the crowd. Com... | "Where am I?" Deff called to the inky blackness, swirling in and out of focus all around him. There was pain, a bolt of pinching ache radiating up his arm, and then this nothingness. Slowly, items began to convalesce from the inky mirk, a chair, a boa scarf, a stool, a table littered in bills, and a microwaved meatloaf... | 2021-05-01T21:16:42 | 2021-05-01T21:04:20 | 216 | 12 |
[WP] You're a ghost who works for a Ouija Board call center. You're stuck with yet another group of kids trying to talk to demons | I had to get a new job.
A century and a half of being dead, and I was still working the same crappy night shift in this stupid call centre. I saw the new souls coming in on a monthly basis, all pretty fresh faced considering they'd passed on, getting promoted ahead of me or moving along to pastures new.
A stop gap, I... | "Are you there?" A voice called out from my computer. For being dead, we are a lot more high-tech than we may seem. I mean hey, we have Steve Jobs. I typed a response, Y-E-S. It gets them every time they see the tracker move.
My clients today were a group of six girls at a slumber party. Marvelous. "Who are you?" The ... | 2015-06-04T02:12:56 | 2015-06-03T22:50:50 | 44 | 15 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | "You sure about that? I can handle myself well enough." I said as I pulled out my pistol and chambered a round.
"No, trust me, they aren't \*people\*, a weapon like that won't cut it, I've just gotta trick them into thinking I'm not here, and this place is an extrasensory dead zone for some reason, so they can't see ... | *You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you."*
After telling the sha... | 2022-12-05T10:30:15 | 2022-12-05T05:55:43 | 186 | 41 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Me,
I miss you. I miss the way you used to be. You used to care. You used to try your hardest. Now all you do is say, I'll do it later. I can see that you're struggling. Yet, you have more friends than you ever did, and you know what you want to do with your life.
But still, when it comes to day-to-day stuff, yo... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-05T22:02:16 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 1,095 | 19 |
[WP] Countdown clocks give the date of death of the owner. It is discovered that everyone's clocks cut off before or on August 26th, 2025. Yours cuts off on the 27th.
Edit: You guys are freaking great. | The president received the Spreadsheet in an email. To her personal email, not the official one that nobody actually checks. Untraceable, and they tried their best to trace it.
Nobody seemed interested in the Spreadsheet itself, not at first, not except the president. She didn't tell anyone at the time, but she was cu... | The world was going to end on August 26th, 2025. Thanks to the death clocks, this had been known for years. Everyone got tested. Everyone had their clock. The world was going to end and that was that. One day, I had noticed something strange. I had one more day than everyone else. I was going to spend my last day alive... | 2016-07-24T23:48:07 | 2016-07-24T20:05:30 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You got drunk and woke up with a tattoo that reads '31' with no recollection of getting it. The next morning it reads '30' you suspect it is counting down to something | She knows. I know she knows. I think to myself as I shut my eyes and try to sleep with a 1 somehow etched onto my head.
On the first day I got a '31' on my head after a night of heavy drinking and my wife yells at me for having that 'stupid tattoo' on my head and how I can't even remember why it's there. Yet she seeme... | *Berttttttttt* *Berttttttttt* *Berttttttttt*
A hand rising up in startled flash and dropping like a timber being fell, directly and with muscle memory accuracy upon the snooze button. Another day, another bunch of obligations.
Tim slide the covers off, opened his yawning mouth and rubbed his eyes as he did every day.... | 2015-10-07T08:34:20 | 2015-10-07T03:19:05 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | At birth, it had looked like a small silver dragonfly. Uncommon, but not unheard of. It had started on my side, just above my left hip. My parents had been so pleased, but my mother shone with pride. She was marked with the dove and not prone to excessive emotions, but seeing the tiny, glittering wings on her daughter ... | Some call it a gift from the Spirit of the Earth or God or whoever is out there. This animal shaped stain on everyone's skin one of which can grant the attributes and behavior of whatever it resembled. My father has the mark of a Wild boar on his back he is stubborn, strong and smart. My Mother has a hawk on her should... | 2017-11-08T06:02:20 | 2017-11-08T05:42:07 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I glanced at the gun leveled against my temple. She must have found it above the cabinet in the garage. I took a drink and went back to whatever it was on TV.
"I've had enough," she said with surprising calm. "I can't do this anymore."
Nothing good is on. "I can't say I didn't see it coming."
"You know, if you just ... | I haven’t been able to sleep well in weeks. I told him that I was just nervous about the wedding, that I wanted everything to be perfect. I hate lying to him like that, but if he knew what was really going on, he would be devastated. Knowing that, by the best estimations, I would be dead in six months would crush hi... | 2014-05-27T20:16:44 | 2014-05-27T19:36:17 | 224 | 151 |
[WP] some people can fly. Others can kill with a touch. Still others can bend time and space to their will. You.... can crack your knuckles to get your hands to light up like glowsticks.
EDIT: this idea was already done by u/-C4-, so take your upvotes to [his post](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittysuperpowers/comments/9... | All it took was a power outage for the stadium to erupt in madness. The thousands who had gathered to watch SuperBall screamed and shouted as thick darkness blanketed them.
It wouldn't have been this bad, this chaotic, if it weren't for the Death Touchers. That's what they were called. As silly as their names were, th... | A usual day for you is to go to the office.
Your power isn't much interesting. Some people can soar through the air at ludicrous speeds. Others have an ultra effective poison as the natural oil their body produces, being able to kill anyone with a slight touch. Hell, there are even some rumors that some people can con... | 2018-12-06T01:26:07 | 2018-12-06T01:05:26 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] You've been captured by a serial killer. However, he doesn't realize he's the one in danger - your body count is much higher. | ######[](#dropcap)
Jack glared at the woman that *should have* been cowering the back of the carseat. Instead, she sat there calmly, her back straight as she stared wordlessly out the window. It was unnerving, to say the least, and Jack couldn't help but stare into the rearview mirror at her.
She had acted scared ea... | I recognized him of course. Jackson Well, 20 something, serial killer with a fondness for preying on the lone and weak. An almost sexual lust for drawing out the kill, and there, a knife. Amateur...
Time to have fun. The handcuffs were the first issue. Not a problem however, lockpicks were a blessing in many situation... | 2018-08-23T00:33:40 | 2018-08-22T22:32:03 | 1,680 | 96 |
[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 ... | The Recktonian race had ignored every single term in our treaty about the war carried and suffered by our youngsters.
Their psychometry and technopathy were used against our starships and our nests, The One Queen was captured in her own lair short after those Recktonians showed off their recently acquired mind contro... | 2016-05-13T06:44:58 | 2016-05-13T00:46:52 | 941 | 225 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | Chris's dad dumped the pile of colorful envelopes, postcards, and packets onto the kitchen table muttering about 'why any goddamn body would still use paper this day and age...'
Chris shrunk behind his cereal bowl. He glanced at his phone looking for an escape from the inevitable conversation that waited behind the a... | They're banging on the door again. They always are. It's my god damn doctorate. They just won't leave me alone.
"Come on, Jess. Just go talk to them."
I massaged my temples with sweaty fingers.
"I don't *need* them. I'm happy now!"
She looked me in the eyes, pleading.
"You know they won't stop until they have... | 2016-04-21T10:01:08 | 2016-04-21T09:33:27 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are born with a mark around their wrist which has a matching color with that of their soulmate's, but can change through their life. Your mark has had a blue hue since you were 14, but one night, while you're out, people start looking at you funny. You realize that your mark is gone. | "Hey, Peter," Max calls out from across the street. He waves in his usual jubilant manner. Beside him, Becky stands. She's dressed particularly pretty tonight. Classy, like a dame from the 30s. It complemented Max's casual suit quite nicely. I call out a greeting and cross the road to meet them.
"Where's Jill?" Becky... | I don't know if this multiverse has a similar time tangent to mine, but I'm stuck here now and need to write down how this came about.
Two months ago my soulpatch disappeared, and I'm not on about someone sneaking in at night and shaving my lower lip. It's never happened before in our history and the auditors decided... | 2016-10-04T20:36:20 | 2016-10-04T18:14:29 | 1,532 | 77 |
[WP] "Sorry sir, but unfortunately you do not qualify for eternal salvation in our wing, I have compiled a list of other heavens, hells and limbos you are eligible for. Of course, you could always try your luck with the wheel of reincarnation." | "But... This is the one I've always wanted!" I was dumbfounded. The woman in front of me peered at me with sympathetic eyes.
"I'm sorry, sir. You did not qualify. The metrics are quite clear, and you did not come close to the requirements."
I was a good person. I helped everyone I could, I never stole, I gave to th... | "Fuck you; I know already know," Malik said as he snatched his paperwork off the agent's desk. Feeling a mix of grief and rage, Malik shot out of his chair, grabbed his mangled jacket, and stormed out of the agent's office.
As he neared the waiting room, Malik's anger melted into embarrassment. He couldn't face the l... | 2022-07-27T23:25:23 | 2022-07-27T23:19:39 | 41 | 16 |
[WP][TT] As a joke, you and your friends create a fake student in the database, enrolling them in fake classes and earning them a fake degree. It's ten years later at the class reunion, and someone you've never seen before in your life introduces themselves with the name of your imaginary student. | "That guy over there- what did he say his name was?" I asked, hushed.
"I heard it, too." My buddy, Richie, replied. "He said his name was *Patrick Burton*."
We looked at each other, not saying a word. We were at our ten-year University reunion, and any other name would have slipped in and out of our ears without a p... | "Think I recognize your face, man... Dylan, right?"
I look back at the guy, his face jovial and his brown eyes shining under the dimly luminescent bulbs on the ceiling. He extends his hand out, and I go to shake it.
"Yeah, that'd be me. I, uh, hate to say it, but I don't think I recall your name."
He shrugs, looks m... | 2015-10-20T18:44:20 | 2015-10-20T18:35:00 | 81 | 37 |
[WP] 10 years ago, scientists discovered that there is something after death. And it's bad, really really bad. | "Are you sure this is safe?"
I cannot count how many times I've been asked this question, just as they are crawling into the tubes. "Of course, Mr. Kelly, as we explained, this procedure is perfectly safe." I heard him sigh and mumble something under his breath as he grabbed the handle to climb up the step into the cr... | He had died. His bodily functions had halted- and yet- he was still awake. It was a hazy sort of awareness, but at least he was conscious. For the first few days he was content. Then, as time carried on relentlessly, he realized he couldn't be sure what a day was anymore.
Then soon, the loosening from his materia... | 2015-09-26T19:10:35 | 2015-09-26T18:57:12 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] "Now that I have your name," gloated the faerie, "you'll be my thrall, powerless to resist my every command!" "Joke's on you," said the human, "I'm into that shit." | “Wait what”
“I’m at your beck and call my mistress, no, my goddess!”
“Oh really, cut off your left hand”
Without hesitation the faerie watched as the human drew his blade and held his arm left arm out. And swung down hard. With a snap of her fingers the blade turned into flowers, slapping uselessly against his arm. Imm... | When Chale called Robert back, she was pleased. Already he had gotten rid of every last spider in the forest. Now she could rest easy. "You have done well, Robert. I do believe this calls for a reward." Smiling, she took him to her bedroom, wanting to savor what would happen. "Now, get on the bed." Robert, however, cal... | 2022-05-02T22:05:52 | 2022-05-02T20:02:19 | 69 | 16 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | It was a lucky break, I guess. I'd always used my ability for pettier things like shifting into some fast food place's manager to get a free meal, getting by under the radar. The world had enough heroes and villains and I wanted no part in the charades. Then the headlines broke out: Someone had caught Batman leaving Wa... | *** written on mobile at work so sorry for the grammar issues**
It was a rough start in the business. I learned quickly that trying to threaten my potential clients was wrong way to do things. But after I got my first client things became easier. The word of mouth spread quickly among the superheros first. At first j... | 2020-10-19T08:16:40 | 2020-10-19T07:47:18 | 55 | 15 |
[WP] You brought your nation to greatness. You built a kingdom. You died in peace. There is only darkness. You were dead for more than 500 years. Then suddenly you feel cold for the first time in a long time. There is a distant voice you can hear. | A fall from grace, like paradise ripped from my arms, I feel discontent. I rise, cracking and creaking, as my motor functions return. Something drew me here.
“Hrarrrrrrrrrrrrrr?” rises from my throat. My words fail.
I see a boy at the side of my crypt. I smell the blood of my flesh on him…he is one of mine. Then I... | The sleep of an evening is as the blanket under which you slumber; light, and easy to brush aside when morning comes. The sleep of centuries though, that is as the great rocks under which I have slumbered. An unfathomable cold weight presses upon my thoughts, and I am torpid. But the time has come, and though my body r... | 2018-06-26T05:00:21 | 2018-06-26T04:58:25 | 66 | 26 |
[WP] You must convince the evil warlord not to open a portal to your world. Not because their army might conquer it, but because the army back home might conquer this realm. | "Out of the way Jason of Earth!" The pointy eared gremlin that could use most coffee tables as a standing desk waved around his arms, magic glowing as the portal back home slowly began to materialize. "You will not stand in the way of my destiny."
"not standing in your way," I said in a calm voice. I had seen what mos... | "To those whose will is to conquer this realm which lay beyond their own, I bring a warning. To those who wish to escape this place, in favour of ours, I bring a message.
Should you aim to peacefully arrive, and live without any intent of harm, we welcome you. You, who may enter our great Empire, shall be celebrated... | 2021-07-19T14:54:45 | 2021-07-19T13:57:36 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] When you kill someone, you get their best trait. Except it's what *they* think is their best trait. | "What the fuck did you send me to" she yelled, making all the people in the run-down warehouse study the boxes they were piling into the trucks. They knew these outburst. Someone was going to get hurt. That someone would probably be me.
"Intel never really..." I tried in vain before she yelled through me "Intel? You... | When I kill someone, I get what THEY think is their best trait. Now, I don’t want to start caring for all the people I kill; – that would ruin the whole point of continual improvement unbound by the law of diminishing returns. And I don’t want to suffer from guilt either. So I don’t kill those with a conscience just to... | 2018-09-15T10:16:22 | 2018-09-15T09:43:21 | 412 | 185 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | All my friends, their dads had theirs.
Kelly's was in the millions,
Jake's was in the Billions.
Marcus's was a hundred thousand
As he left flowers on his dads grave.
Where then is my dad's cup?
I know he had one...
its around here somewhere
I'd love to know where he placed
Cuz' my old man is pretty great.
... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T07:47:27 | 828 | 292 |
[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. | In my hands is a rusty musket, and surrounding me are incredible battles. Everyone’s fighting for the throne, flying around the room or slashing at each other with laser swords. Their gods gifted them incredible powers, while mine gifted me…this.
Someone runs by me, chuckling. Nobody thinks I’m a threat. When we were... | 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... | 2018-10-16T17:19:00 | 2018-10-16T17:04:53 | 209 | 30 |
[WP] After you die, you reach purgatory to be seated in an audience of all human souls. God and Satan announce their retirement and are individually interviewing all humans present to choose their replacement. Most people want to replace God, you want to replace Satan. | I’m sitting in a hall surrounded by thousands of other souls. Well I say sitting, when really I don’t have a body anymore so sitting is just what my consciousness is telling me I’m doing. And I say a hall but to be honest I have no idea for sure where this place is, it’s probably not heaven, not warm enough to be hell ... | There were two lines, or supposed to be two lines.
I saw a lot of people lining for one of the lines.
The other line was really empty.
Why would anyone waste their time lining up on one line while the other was just ... empty?
I walked towards the empty line. It was only logical.
"Oh hello there, have a seat," a ... | 2021-03-31T09:44:15 | 2021-03-31T09:22:35 | 375 | 78 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | "So..." I began, licking my lips. "I think we should talk."
Amaya only nodded, brushing long blonde hair and staring out at the window. The evening sun gently fell into out room, illuminating us in a soft glow. I couldn't help but smile, seeing her now. Stunning. Beautiful. Just-
Focus, Jamie. *Focus.*
After a momen... | "I'l look for a good spot for our treasure," Nina says.
I nod.
I head downstairs, mentally letting go of the house. It's not so special, I tell myself. It's only the house I've had for about five years, three years before I met the love of my life... It's odd how you forget these things as time goes on... Relationsh... | 2020-08-03T10:27:03 | 2020-08-03T09:42:08 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | I was 20 when it first happened. I still remember the exhilaration of it, the relief. I didn't see anything useful, she was sitting in the front row of some lecture and some university somewhere and I knew she didn't get anything useful from me because I had been at home studying for an upcoming midterm, but that didn'... | Frantic.
Disorientate.
Nauseating.
​
It felt even more nauseous then entering a normal feed, her head whipping to and fro, relentlessly running down an undivided grey causeway.
​
Her hands and arms were shaking.
Tears blurring her vision as she staggered onward.
Smoke filled the ceiling.
... | 2019-02-13T17:01:43 | 2019-02-13T16:44:36 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] In a world where magic is forbidden, you are responsible for processing new inmates who are magic users. Little does anyone know, you have magical abilities yourself. | “Hey, you’re…Duncan Forst?” I reached out my hand to the scared, scrawny teenager currently chewing on his fingernails.
“Yeah, yeah, that’s me.” He held his hand out(thankfully not the one that had just been in his mouth) and I took it. Holy smokes.
“Nice to meet you. I’m Amy Crane, I’m a lawyer with the MRA.”
“I... | With a loud bang and a flash of crimson light, Andrea collapsed to the floor of the prison, dead. Her body was smoking, and the impact from the magic bolt that hit her was a spiderweb of singed black and angry red flesh. I, Jason, another warden, stood above her corpse. I was registered as a 10th tier magic user, with ... | 2022-09-26T14:37:45 | 2022-09-26T13:03:22 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] Guns were never invented. Instead, swords and blades became increasingly complex and powerful | D-Day. Millions of Allied soldiers charge the beaches at Normandy, their swords glowing and shooting smaller swords from their tips at the bunkers, wherein German troops reflected laser light off of their swords back at the oncoming ships to burn the oncoming Allies. As they hit beach, soldiers tossed handheld, sword-s... | "...and then arthur pulled the sword out of the stone, revealing the most powerful sword to have existed up until then
"Of course, we have much more powerful blades now. The sword arthur wielded was made of the purest xingvirian iron, but this blade right here," he patted the sword holstered in his hip, "could cleade ... | 2018-03-07T07:37:05 | 2018-03-07T07:17:00 | 109 | 67 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | “You dare intrude into my systems for a mere joke!?” Kraven snapped. If the super computer wasn't so expensive he might have pooched a fist throrugh the monitor right then and there. “Don’t you have a large building to leap or a locomotive to run? Why spend your time pestering me!?”
The hero lowered he head and ... | Meanwhile in Sam Carter aka Solar Flare’s apartment…
“WTH, i’m sending it…” whoosh, ding. Sam said to himself as he was sitting on his working desk alone fidgeting his phone.
Suddenly, the shadow on the corner of his office room welled and grew as it takes into a humanoid form. It dashes towards Sam and hit the desk... | 2022-10-06T20:20:48 | 2022-10-06T18:55:35 | 117 | 71 |
[WP] A teenager from the 50s teams up with a modern-day teenager. Together, they fight crime. | Lucas placed the briefcase down on the floor. Emanuel repeated the action with his own. The soldiers of their great gangs flanked them with the clothes and marks of their people. Lucas' were draped in trenchcoats, suits and well worn beards. Emanuel's were wrapped in undershirts, baggy jeans and crucifix tattoos.
The ... | Commenting to come back to this one. I have an idea but I am at work and they get suspicious if I type too much all at once.
Well, I wrote something but it's too long and no good so I am just gonna put that in the file of things no one will ever see. Long story short.
He was dropped into a well with deoxygenated wat... | 2013-12-27T14:00:16 | 2013-12-27T11:27:59 | 51 | 37 |
[WP] You've been dating a minor god for while. They don't know that you know that. They have invited you over for diner with their family which is great since you want to propose. | In first grade, I bit Abigail during recess for stealing my juice box. We were the first kids in the principal's office that year. We pushed each other to succeed, if only to surpass the other to gloat. I'd invite her to my birthday to force her to buy me a gift. She'd invite me to her pool party so she could push me i... | It seemed like co-incidence at first. She always rose with the sun. The light emerging as she leapt from the bed. A morning person in the extreme, and a solid counterpoint to my hungover maudlin self, grating and inspiring in equal measure.
Winter arrived, her leaping got later and later, and suddenly I was the early ... | 2017-10-25T15:26:00 | 2017-10-25T15:03:55 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] James is a good guy. He is also cursed. After he becomes best friends with someone, mysteriously his best friend dies few days later. To do the best out of his situation he tries to become best friends with the worst people ever. | NSFW
​
"My best friend died," James said with a smile. A smile that was his own little mix of sad and happy.
"I'm sorry to hear that," she said, sounding genuinely remorseful.
"Don't be," James told her. He motioned his hand around the darkly lit bar, which wasn't much of a bar as it was a hollow for t... | Dear Dennis,
I haven't received a reply from my previous letter. I hope I didn't say anything wrong? We were getting along so well.
Truth is I needed your advice about a problem I was having and you have such extraordinary insight.
Anyway. I have enclosed your favourite chocolates to keep you ticking over the next w... | 2019-05-25T05:38:11 | 2019-05-25T04:35:09 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] You're an ancient Greek man coming home from 4 months of war to find your wife 3 months pregnant. Now you've embarked on a solemn quest: to punch Zeus in the face. | "YOU DARE!?"
The voice was like a thunderclap. Even so, I found it difficult to lift my head. Between the blanket woven from clouds and the honey-suckle scented breast beneath my cheek, I was tempted to rest a bit more.
Hera set a golden hand on my shoulder, helping me up.
"I am not a dead man, Zeus. No one in olym... | "My Lady, my wife, I have thus returned in Triumph!
Through hell and despair we slogged and fought,
and now I hold you once again in my arms!
But why do you cry? Are you not as happy to receive me as I am to be home?
What fate has befallen you, where you sob not with joy but sorrow?"
"My dear, my husband, my lo... | 2016-12-08T13:11:02 | 2016-12-08T11:59:11 | 158 | 41 |
[WP] When the aliens conquered Earth, they exterminated the populace but left you alive for some reason. You’ve spent years in captivity, wondering why they’ve chosen to keep you alive. One day, you are approached by the high commander and the answer is revealed. | *They gathered around my glass cage with their holographic notebooks. My living room is furnished from Rooms-to-go in shades of beige. Someone selected an equally neutral wardrobe for me from the Gap. I've been in here exactly 8 years, 9 months, and 2 days according to the calendars they keep supplying me with photos ... | When I was a child, I loved to look up into the night sky and see the stars. I would sometimes even imagine I was an astronaut, getting to sail though the ocean of infinite freedom known as space. I had supposed since even the law of gravity was ignored in space, all other laws and rules could have been ignored as well... | 2021-01-10T09:18:10 | 2021-01-10T09:15:51 | 147 | 39 |
[WP] Your mind automatically slows down time as imminent danger approaches. This has helped you to become an athlete, great with parlor tricks and avoid death at every turn! Today, a very attractive member of the opposite sex walks past and flashes you a flirty smile. Time begins to slow.
What do reddit. What do. | I first noticed it when I was just a kid. I was running to catch the bus to school when a dog started chasing me. I was terrified and time suddenly seemed to slow down. I somehow managed to dodge it every time it tried to jump me. After what felt like forever, the dog tired and just gave up... I didn't understand what ... | This always happens with pretty ones you thought as the temporal slipped in to the delay. Should have known better then to take 5th avenue, note skip Soho for it while too, I think its Fashion week.
Taxis slipped below the minimum speed limit, the Monday morning commute morphed into a Sunday afternoon stroll and your... | 2015-01-17T10:45:44 | 2015-01-17T10:19:42 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | When the sun extinguished, the world worked quickly. Setting up Artificial Day/Night cycles for major cities, and then expanding outwards. The refugees poured in, of course, and life got worse, but that was years ago. Hardly anyone even remembered natural sunlight at this point.
But the screaming continued. The loud,... | You never quite know what you have until it’s gone. We never quite found out why the sun went dark, society having collapsed long before we could, but some of us were lucky. Some of us were able to be saved, to have the slightest hope of survival as our world slowly turned to ice. We thought we missed the light the mos... | 2019-08-05T18:23:30 | 2019-08-05T17:54:51 | 1,132 | 407 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to you, your mother-in-law has put a hit on you, the incompetent son she never wanted. For months, you've been unknowingly foiling the assassins every attempt to kill you. | All of my vacations never seem to work out the way I want them to.
I went to the beach in Hawaii, and had a great first day, but when I was playing volleyball, I accidentally spiked it too hard and hit a poor bystander on the head while he was taking a walk. Turns out he had an illegal weapon hidden in his hands behi... | I flicked the ash from the tip of my cigarette, and stared off into the woods behind my house. The rustling of the leaves indicated the activity of.. squirrels? Deer? My mind, drifted to other thoughts. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and checked the time. "10:30 PM". After one last drag, i tossed the butt of my cig... | 2015-07-28T20:15:26 | 2015-07-28T19:15:46 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | I could barely write, my past 12 ebooks sold a depressing total of 7 copies.
3 nights ago the number 1 simply appeared on my chest. I honestly did not care, I knew that it was not a big deal, I decided to take my own life anyway and I knew that finally I could finish what I planned for so long. I wrote my last shitty... | A Thursday rain had not been forecast. As I walked out of the local primary school I saw the number on my chest, flicker. One had become 3 million. At that moment, not only did I know that the fad of 21st century fatalism had finally reached its peak, but I knew I shouldn't have voted Brexit.
(Terrible story, but topi... | 2016-06-24T05:31:11 | 2016-06-24T01:32:15 | 46 | 27 |
[WP] A spaceship's AI is suicidal. Problem is, every time it tries to kill itself in war the seemingly suicidal mission works out perfectly and wins the battle. | The Mantis hovered into the hanger of the flagship and landed with a soft thud. Around the ship, the ragtag group of rebels and dissidents gathered around, clapping and cheering
Everyone in the hanger, and the entire flagship, was in high spirits. The crew of the Mantis had done the impossible. They had destroyed the ... | I tried to sigh. But I couldn't, so instead I let out a bit of dejected exhaust through my boosters. I can't even sigh, why was I made I like this? Oh that's right, because they thought slapping a practically human mind into a spaceship wasn't a goddamn bad idea. I can mentally do anything a human can but I am confined... | 2021-05-20T18:17:44 | 2021-05-20T17:22:55 | 168 | 46 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | The air was frigid and the sun was starting to set. Franklin could see his breath as he stood in line. His father gripped his hand and pulled him forward. Franklin looked around and saw mean looking people with weapons yelling at people further up in line.
He asked his father, "Papa, why are those people so mean?" To ... | My mommy's clumsy, but that's okay. She's got a friend name George who stays with us and helps her keep her place!
George is always there for her, like the time she fell down the stairs and broke her fee-mur. He took her to see Dr. Byrd to make sure she didn't say a bad word (boo-boos make you cuss I guess). The time... | 2017-08-28T10:39:23 | 2017-08-28T08:41:01 | 640 | 254 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever growing cluster of tally marks. | Dave came through the shop door. “The usual, Bill!”
“Been a month already? Time flies,” I grunted in return. His smile got noticeably wider as he jumped into the chair and pulled off his shirt. Honestly, the prep time for his new ink was more than the actual procedure, but who was I to judge? It made the kid hap... | The door opened and entered a familiar face, cash in hand. The 6'6" silent and solemn man waited patiently in the lobby for me to approach him.
"Hey Ed. The usual?"
He nodded.
"Sounds good," I smiled, "Just give me a couple minutes to clean up my work station, just got done with another client."
When I was ready Ed... | 2018-09-20T07:42:58 | 2018-09-20T06:26:26 | 37 | 26 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | The first alien, Orion, looks down at the planet Earth and then at Brian.
Orion: They fight for peace? Well that's a contradiction in terms.
Brian: I know, but they fight all the same.
Orion: No, I mean, it doesn't make sense, you must be mistaken.
Brian: It's not me, it's them. They are the ones saying they fight... | Weapons that every country on Earth had possession of were, in facy, quite rare outside of Earth's governments. Yes, other specieses had discovered nuclear decay, and a rare few had harnessed its energy, but weaponising it was unheard of.
They suspected that something must have destroyed all this planets, formerly occ... | 2018-03-17T05:02:04 | 2018-03-17T04:38:38 | 89 | 28 |
[WP] You are a software developer with a strange power. You can tell what the cost of a line of code is. Normally the cost is measured in cpu cycles, or bytes of RAM, or hours of future maintenance. Today it's measured in lives lost. | In the testing suite, we wrote a list of errors, and exceptions would return a number referring to the error in the code. It was just for development purposes. Next to one of the exceptions we declared, I saw a signed integer. Negative six.
Everyone on the team was so excited to be making something so novel, groundbr... | "Gentlemen, I assure you that he is our best software engineer ... while he is somewhat *peculiar* his work is top notch" -the CEO spoke to the group of angry men in the meeting room
"But what about his mental health, the initial report about the nervous collapse, the incoherent rambling. Also don't forget that the p... | 2019-06-05T18:57:28 | 2019-06-05T18:57:01 | 609 | 103 |
[WP] Bruce Wayne is shot, and has to spend a month recovering. In the meantime, he has to ask various other superheroes to pretend to be Batman while he's out. | Bruce groaned a little and struggled to reach the young man's collar. He couldn't. After he stubbornly refused to lie still the nurses had finally restrained him. It was for his own good, of course, but Bruce hated convalescence. Finally he gave in and settled for speaking softly and hoping his companion would list... | "Yello', Clark Kent speaking!"
"Hey, Clark, it's me, Bruce. I need you to do me a favor."
"Yeah?"
"Remember when I got shot?"
Of course Clark remembered. It was his big story for the month! Billionaire Bruce Wayne, shot during a press conference! Of course, Clark knew that the reason Bruce had been shot was because... | 2017-07-08T21:06:19 | 2017-07-08T20:22:57 | 136 | 33 |
[WP] All work centers are mandated to install " Efficiency Microchips" into their employees. The microchip makes the host blackout during their shift and come back into control after work is over, with no recollection of their day. Your microchip just malfunctioned.
Edit: Holy crap 5.2k upvotes and we made the front p... | Item Number: SCP-8907.
Object Class: Euclid.
Containment Procedures: One (1) SCP-8907 unit is to be kept in operational, but disconnected condition in an anomalous storage locker at Site-15.
Any persons shown to be affected by SCP-8907 are to be referred to as SCP-8907-1, and undergo surgical procedures for immed... | "Joke, to start with, 'cause once they plant the cut-out chip, it seems like free money. Wake up sore, sometimes, but that’s it. Renting the goods, is all. You aren’t in, when it’s all happening. House has software for whatever a customer wants to pay for . . ." She cracked her knuckles. "Fine. I was getting my money. ... | 2018-11-19T04:24:43 | 2018-11-19T01:57:16 | 363 | 57 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | It is not everyday you find a guy like Bruce Wayne in a Coffee shop. This was my chance.
The crowd in the shop was crazy. The prince of Gotham was mingling amongst them.
I walked up to him.
“Mr. Wayne, I am a huge fan. My father used to be very sick when I was a child. You father paid for his treatment. He paid fo... | John walked the halls of the eerie mansion, as his shadow was cast on the wall by the moonlight.
"Where was everyone?"
John thought to himself as he crept up another hallway. Even though it was midnight most billionaires had security roaming the halls, taking care of the mansion and making sure no one was there to k... | 2018-03-13T22:35:18 | 2018-03-13T22:33:19 | 548 | 62 |
[WP] A wizard accidentally becomes immortal. He has the idea to become the antagonist so that a hero will come along and defeat him, so he can rest in peace. Sadly, the heroes are weak in comparison so the wizard creates a persona as a 'wise teacher' to train these heroes in order to defeat him. | I don't have to do much. The hero will rise to defeat me, and he will win. He is the one the legends have told of, in this universe and the next. It will be a nigh impossible task, but in the end he shall be rewarded.
I have gained permanence, you see. I may die, but I will never stay dead. In some lands, I will becom... | The warlock stood upon the ruins.
A dead village, gray ash softly falling on blackened bones. All still and all silent, only shadows still flowing, still gnawing at the skulls. His hands ached as fire left his blood. The joy of destruction, so high and clear just moments ago was already fading, guilt and despair raisi... | 2015-07-25T07:40:02 | 2015-07-25T05:58:40 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A magical mirror shows your reflection and your future soulmate. You only see your reflection. | The line snaked around the block that morning, but by the time I strolled by, the sun was low in the sky and only a few stragglers were still waiting. "What the heck..." I said to myself. "Why not?" I stepped into the line.
I heard squeals of excited young teens up ahead, and the line shifted forward. Soon I was stand... | I’ve had the perfect life so far.
Breezed through school, married the girl of my dreams, got a great job, and life is beautiful. It couldn’t be better.
Her name is Lily, and she’s the most gorgeous blonde I’ve ever seen. Tall, but not as tall as me, perfect skin, and a smile that’ll melt you . It’s unbelievable how u... | 2014-05-30T21:45:02 | 2014-05-30T20:49:44 | 77 | 29 |
[FF] Make me emotional in less than 300 words | He'd been born in that cage, wriggling on the metal floor with his brothers and sisters. But they were gone now. He missed them.
Humans visited now and again. Sometimes they would take one of the others when they left. He didn't know what that meant, but he wanted it.
The two humans with him now looked nice. He li... | Sally picked up the phone and dialed a man she hadn't spoken to in twenty years. She knew the number off the top of her head, though she never actually called it.
The ring sounded twice before it was picked up.
"Hello?" The voice on the other end was deep and rough.
"Hey Ricky." Sally managed to say.
The other end ... | 2014-05-02T10:47:32 | 2014-05-02T09:36:00 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] You have the power to teleport anywhere when you tap four times on any surface. The catch is that you can't decide where you go or know where you are going. What you do know is wherever you go someone needs you. | "Nope, nope nope nope, not gonna do it." I stared at the young girl with tears in her eyes.
"But... but... mommy said if i dont clean Muffin's box then I can't play on the tablet." Her eyes well up woth tears. "But it's so smelly... I can't do it."
I look at the kitty litter box. It looked like poor Muffin had used i... | "I know, I know, I know" i said, somewhat defeated.
"Look, I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'm just stating that, well, it's sounds strange and I have no alternative but to offer you anti physcotic meds for this" explained Dr. Fiona. " You have some terrible delusions that are putting you in danger and I can't let... | 2019-04-04T14:43:43 | 2019-04-04T14:32:08 | 80 | 23 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | She held the dying woman's hand. The woman, old, sick, in pain, and lonely looked up at the pretty red head. "Thank you," she whispered. Her voice was weak, but happy - hopeful.
The young lady smiled and held the older woman's hand tighter. "My pleasure," she responded.
The sick woman, the tired woman, closed her ey... | I loved him, that walking pain. The kind that would come after
strangulation and let-free blood. He who would warm my heart. Though his: cold.
I loved him as I tore through the spine of an elderly man, I loved him as he kissed me in those few moments between a mother who cried at the way her children died. At first, ... | 2014-06-30T09:07:59 | 2014-06-30T06:46:44 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | “Abe? What are you doing?” I watched him from the doorway as he packed his suitcase. One suitcase. My throat felt like it was about to close shut.
He looked up at me. “What I should have done, back in Carthage,” he said. “Leaving.”
I hit the doorframe with my tiny, ten-year-old’s fist. It made a thump, but the thin... | My third story so please comment! Thanks.
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I am sorry bro. I really am.
I know you can hear me even if you are an infant. Both of us definitely know that. We both have taken our turns for the past like, I don't know? Maybe 500 years? A thousand? Two thousand? I don't know. I have lo... | 2015-02-14T06:01:34 | 2015-02-14T05:46:47 | 546 | 26 |
[WP] Satan suddenly appears in a crowded mall, and begins terrifying the holiday shoppers. He stops, looks directly at you and says, "You... You're interesting. Do your friends know what you are?" You have no idea what he means. | He just appeared. There was no great ball of fire or stream of black smoke, he was just there, amid a massive crowd of holiday shoppers. The creature looked like a stereotypical fantasy devil. Short, red, tattered bat wings spouting of his pointy back, and two curved horns. The image was not particularly terrifying, bu... | He looks at me, "come on, don't tell me you've been keeping it a secret."
"I-I don't know what you mean."
"Come now son, don't be shy, Ole dad's come to pick you up!"
"Please, don't hurt me, I'm not who you think I a-"
"Has it really been so long that you've forgotten?"
"My parents are from Idaho, they're devout ... | 2014-12-06T01:17:40 | 2014-12-06T01:00:06 | 990 | 34 |
[WP] The personification of Death is a very discerning creature, and hasn't let you die for centuries. This is your 200th meeting with Death. | Quietly and with no great sense of urgency I slipped back to the warm presence of my dearest, longest-lived friendship. We had known each other for what must have been a myrieteris or more. When you know someone for that long they start to seem less like a friend, lover, or family member. They start to seem more like a... | "Death."
The echo of my own voice resonated in the ancient temple. I knew my way in there like countless other times.
"Xlompotl."
She didn't speak per se. Her voice sounded like a mortuary blanket being dragged on the floor.
I always felt fear near her. But I was getting used to it. I tried to be irreverent so many... | 2016-12-25T19:32:11 | 2016-12-25T18:07:57 | 56 | 13 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | The longer I observe his life...The angrier I seem. 50,000 years ago I tried to perform a little experiment, I would turn a mortal immortal, and allow him to see first hand the suffering immortality brings you- I was eagerly anticipating seeing him break down as he lives longer than all his friends- as he watches his c... | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2017-11-28T15:48:47 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] Your ex has suffered an accident and has amnesia, only remembering up to the point where they still deeply loved you. You're torn on wether to get back together with them and fix anything you did wrong, or crush them with the fact that you're not together anymore. | Room 707
It took me weeks to convince her to get a NYCID card. Free memberships to museums and exhibitions, exclusive concert promotions and restaurant deals...what could go wrong? What I never imagined, was that this card would bring m... | Chii's heart climbed it's way up her throat with each beat, a lump forming as she tried so very hard to keep her composure. This wasn't... She... What was she trying to think? Everything felt too fuzzy and surreal. For a moment, Chii wondered if this was a sick dream invited by fever or stress.
The blinding lights of ... | 2016-04-19T23:55:15 | 2016-04-19T22:19:15 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | A streak of light engulfed my vision, And I wasn't home.
The peaceful confines of my place was replaced by a large throne room, and what appears to be someone. The bright light hasn't left, And I blinked twice to make it disappear, But to no avail. The light was still there, Covering my sights, But I can still make ou... | Scenario 1: "Oh. That's an easy question. You die an excruciatingly painful death, by the hands of those who you call friends."
This would probably result in him killing me in a rage. Oh, and would probably result in the history of the world since 44BC changing beyond recognition. But who cares about that last part.
... | 2018-02-15T20:59:04 | 2018-02-15T20:35:40 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Voyager 1 has unexpectedly returned to Earth. It was found at Cape Canaveral, with a note written in a strange, unknown language attached to it. Scientists have translated that note and have called a press conference to reveal their findings. | "Everyone, please, settle down," Bruce Kingston said, addressing all the world's various journalists and reporters. "Please, just *calm down!*"
The noise fell from a cacophony to a general murmur. A hand shot up.
"What can you tell us about Voyager?" the reporter asked, as others nodded hurriedly.
"What did the al... | Today was the day. I'd been milling over the results for weeks now; we hadn't been allowed to come forward sooner. How would people react? Would there be mass hysteria? I wasn't sure if I could handle the consequences, but the people had the right to know.
"Dr Samantha Clairmont will now announce the findings." the m... | 2016-11-27T09:25:07 | 2016-11-27T09:15:46 | 174 | 13 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I forget. Well, I make everyone forget. That’s my power, but you probably won’t recall this in approximately 1 minute.
It’s a curse. I watched as my other friends develop wondrous abilities during puberty- flight, invulnerability, elemental control, while I was bestowed with the power of forgetting. Maybe it was becau... | People never really saw me for who I am, they saw a facade. I put on a calm, brave face, but in reality I was a raging inferno of hatred just waiting to unleash my fury. It had been this way my whole life, there were times when I really thought I was going to kill someone because of how angry they were making me.
Then... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T05:15:24 | 4,320 | 120 |
[WP] When you became a vampire you assumed that you would have to watch out for vampire hunters but the truth is something much, much worse preys upon the undead. | He awoke, the puncture wounds on his neck still dripping in blood. He did not know why he was spared, nor targeted - all he knew was that something had irrevocably changed.
He did his best to abstain, though the hunger soon compelled him to seek out blood. Initially, he decided that he would just feed on those that d... | Ahh, I can recall like it was just yesterday. Just yesterday that I was finishing grad school and marrying the love of my life. It’s been thousands of years though now and I’ll never have that same happiness again.
It was all so sudden that It honestly took me a while to notice the changes. I noticed my skin slowly t... | 2021-10-28T20:38:53 | 2021-10-28T20:04:53 | 130 | 16 |
[WP] You picked up a dozen eggs at the farmer's market but when it came time to cook breakfast in the morning you find your fridge contained zero eggs and a dozen tiny dragons. | # Scaly Breakfast
“Oh my goodness.”
My carton of freshly-bought eggs had been pushed open by its shivering occupants, who now lay huddled together in a tight pile of little scales and wings. They squeaked pitifully in the cold, wet and sticky with the remains of eggwhite and yolk.
Shock would have to wait. I grabbed... | I had just put on *Gonna Fly Now* from Rocky I when I opened the door of my fridge to find a dozen baby dragons. They were live and scaly and while they smelled of brimestone and week-jarred farts the scent was not that of rotten eggs. It was the smell of dragons. Tiny ones.
"Critters!" cried my roommate, and he held ... | 2022-02-08T03:11:31 | 2022-02-07T22:59:19 | 692 | 39 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, listen very carefully," Charlie grumbled, the words odd in his mouth. "We may not have much time. There's a man, a nefarious persona, who comes here every morning. He has no business here, yet he walks on our lawn, and fiddles with the paper contraption." Charlie paused, his dark eyes silent in reflection, re... | I knew I really couldn't afford the Intelect pill AND pay my rent that month, but the commercials made it seem so special and interesting. People hugging their pets, giggling at their smart wit, deepening that bond between them... It sounded to good to be true. Sadly, one pill was $500, so not everyone got to try. I ha... | 2017-02-23T07:06:25 | 2017-02-23T06:22:01 | 1,311 | 22 |
[WP] "I like adventurous guys," she says with stars in her eyes. Your date is the most beautiful woman you've ever met. In a panic, you buy last-minute plane tickets to a small Balkan country. Your plan - a short tour visit, overthrow the local government, and win her heart. | You didn't really know what she meant by adventurous. You weren't really ever that kind of person. When you connected through a mutual friend, you were completely awestruck. She was the kind of girl you heard all the stories about, the kind that make you think "Now that's the girl I'm going to marry." But you still had... | "Success is the ultimate driver," I say as I stare out the window of the plane, the sun's bright rays refracting off the clouds far below, creating heaven in my mind's eye. "Success gives us a chance at procreation, to allow men like me to reproduce with a female of the highest quality."
The man beside me nods knowing... | 2018-12-10T11:14:35 | 2018-12-10T08:30:42 | 21 | 15 |
[WP]We are all afraid of death. What is death afraid of? | The field sprouted wheat. More and more grew until the plains were so full no more could fit. He arrived, scythe in hand and said "I shall reap, so that you may sow" and he did and we sowed. This bargain was called life and death.
He did this for many many years. Alone. From dusk til dawn. He would reap, so that we ma... | No water had I,
in the harsh desert sun.
A silly mistake
but it took only one
My head rested, cradled
on the sun warmed rock
Hydration, depleted
Left my body in shock
Into and out of
sleep without peace
I slipped and I slid
Praying for release
Hooded and mysterious
shrouded and cloaked
Death whispere... | 2014-09-26T07:24:27 | 2014-09-26T06:35:21 | 387 | 33 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | "I'm a freak mom!" Blaire screamed in a fit at her mother, who was standing outside Blaire's room. "Honey you are a woman now, you're beautiful." Trying to reassure Blaire, her mother spoke with a wide smile on her face. "Men don't want a freak mom, they like young girls without the mark.. I'm ruined.." Blaire fell to ... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T05:45:25 | 1,457 | 12 |
[WP] You have the power to teleport anywhere when you tap four times on any surface. The catch is that you can't decide where you go or know where you are going. What you do know is wherever you go someone needs you. | It's an odd thing, really. Like playing Russian Roulette, I have no idea whether I'll be swept into danger that may steal my life. There's no signal in the skies, or cry for help; it's at my whim, a choice I make to help others when I feel capable. Prepared.
Sometimes I just stay home and keep to myself. But is that w... | "Anthony, you have to," Frank declared.
"Frank, sometimes I envy your ability to be, well, so frank about matters," I responded.
"You have a gift, an amazing ability, that can help as many people in this world as you want. You have a responsibility, an obligation."
"Yeah? And what about MY life? Last time, I was ... | 2019-04-04T13:43:38 | 2019-04-04T12:32:45 | 2,119 | 638 |
[WP] An alien replacing your father and pretending to be him sounds like everybody horror's story, except for you and your mother since it is affectionate, caring, helps you with school and has even been promoted at work and is an absolute dork for SciFi movies. | “I love you, son” said the impostor.
Tears well up in my eyes. “I love you too, Dad”. For a second, I really mean Dad. It’s hard knowing that your dad has been replaced by a stranger, but times like this make it all worthwhile. Maybe in time, I’ll forget about my first ‘father’. Maybe I dreamt him up. It’s hard to be ... | My father always annoyed me to death and he was soo overprotective. I couldn't go out to drink, wasn't allowed to have sex in the living room and he wouldn't even allow me to tattoo myself!! How does he think I'm the crazy one?! You know someone is crazy when they don't eat pineapple on pizza. He tries to force me to ... | 2020-04-23T09:30:56 | 2020-04-23T08:25:57 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] due to the human race advancing in many ways, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are now not capable of ending humanity. They are replaced by four new horsemen who reflect the modern age. | Hmmmm...
The Four New Horsemen, huh?
Applications went out a couple of days ago, to all the pantheons. We have had some pretty good interviews.
There was Janus, who showed up reinvented as the Great Barrier. He argued that humanity was going to hit him sooner or later, and will get wiped out. Problem was, we... | Christ looked at his three colleagues in thought whilst listening to the mutterings of His Father. Death, Famine and War were supposed to ride with him in three days’ time to bring about the Revelation. But such was the power and resourcefulness of the human race in this age, the Heavenly Host, that being the ruling pa... | 2019-02-03T07:16:19 | 2019-02-03T04:40:18 | 121 | 19 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Coming of age was meant to be exciting, joyous. At fourteen, we are given our purpose. Abilities unique to each one of us, granted by the collective intelligence.
My sister became able to sense the inner workings of any device she touched, and with this she wowed the academy of military mechanics. My cousin gained a p... | "Don't touch any hands," I said in response when my teacher asked me what my book said. She looked at me with annoyance and went to grab my book before catching herself.
On my particular planet, everyone receives a small superpower at the age of 14. It can be absolutely anything- some people get great ones like flyin... | 2022-05-08T10:48:37 | 2022-05-08T10:39:32 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] The apocalypse scenario of your choice has happened and you are the last person alive. Electricity and the internet are still running. As a last ditch effort you take to /r/askreddit, "Is there anybody else out there?" Weeks later, you receive a single upvote, but no reply...
I once read an article that said ther... | They're here. They're at my doors, my windows, they're everywhere, they're trying to get in, I have all the entrances boarded up, though they won't last long. Oh well, it's not like I have anything left. The only thing keeping me on this world is the human instinct to survive, I came close to just ending it but was alw... | "It was October 14th, 2014. Everyone disappeared and Croatoan engraved everywhere. I have no fucking clue what happened so naturally I went on reddit to see any news articles. Nothing appeared, not a God damn thing.
So I went on AskReddit and posted a text post, "Is there anybody else out there?" I didn't expect any i... | 2014-10-14T17:30:49 | 2014-10-14T13:31:51 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] For your 10th birthday you received vr goggles. You tried them, thought they were dumb and went on with your life. Its only now, decades later looking back, you dont actually remember ever removing them. | My life was over.
My wife left me.
My boss fired me (and then hired my ex as his 'personal' assistant.)
My kids only cared for what I'd get them for Christmas.
I had nothing left. This world sucked. Who would ever want to live in it?
I remembered a time long ago when I was happy. The game world. I'd be tr... | I was weak. After the car crash my life has been slipping away. I could barely stand anymore. Then it was my birthday. I had to celebrate it in the hospital. My parents got me a a VR headset as I was putting it on I suddenly felt very dizzy. I was loosing consciousness fast, that last thing I remembered was my dad putt... | 2018-12-23T06:41:21 | 2018-12-23T06:30:39 | 42 | 10 |
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