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[WP]. “Ok. This is called a .44 magnum. All you have to do is point this end at Voldemort’s head and press this button. That’s all you have to do to end our problem”. | “Alohomora.”
Voldemort spoke with command and confidence. He was here to put an end to that stupid prophesy about a ‘*Chosen One*’ once and for all. Nothing and no one would stop him. It was his destiny to restore wizards to their rightful, pure blooded ruling caste in this world.
James leapt for the drawer under h... | Doug opened the case, light glinting off the barrel.
He push it twords Hermione, quickly explaining what it was and how to use it.
Hermione's laughter cut through the room making Ron and Harry jump with surprise. Could this really be the answer to their problems. Hermione had said they could trust Doug, that he was a ... | 2018-12-24T20:14:50 | 2018-12-24T19:13:47 | 1,137 | 91 |
[WP] Write a murder from the perspective of a cheerful inanimate object
The object could also be the murder weapon or cause of death itself.
**E1:** *[Didn't expect this many responses, great writing everyone!](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070623144510/uncyclopedia/images/2/2f/Cowbell2.gif)*
**E2:** *Holy pr... | ^((I ^may ^just ^turn ^this ^in ^today ^for ^Writing ^Class. ^If ^you ^find ^this ^Prof ^KS, ^hi!)^)
She put me in the window today! Oh it’s so nice and sunny out. You know, artificial light just doesn’t work as well for charging my solar panels. How can my leaves bounce and my smiling flower-face bob from side to s... | I guess you could say I've seen things - travelled the world and all that - and so I suppose I should be grateful that it was he who bought me, who chose me as his favourite; that he always wears such smart things for his best and most thrilling jobs, and me. I sit close against soft weaves and heavy fabrics, fancy but... | 2014-05-27T07:15:09 | 2014-05-27T06:19:43 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] you have the ability to hold full conversations with plants. you’ve only ever spoken to civilised pot plants living in houses or cafes. out of curiosity, you decide to speak with a lonely weed living in a dark alleyway. | "Y-You.. You can talk?" The weed stammered.
"I gotta say, this is weird for both of us." I said. I had previously spoken to cultivated house plants, but never something outside. For some reason, it never occurred to me. I thought the cultivation and contact with humans gave plants the ability to talk to me. Maybe I'm ... | “How are you doing?”
“How am I doing? Are you fucking asking me *how* I am doing? How dare you!”
“I am sorry. I was just trying to make conversation…”
“Trying to make conversation? Make conversa- alright, alright… let’s have a conversation, shall we? You asked how I am doing? I am doing *just fine!* All day long I ... | 2020-02-18T10:45:53 | 2020-02-18T09:09:50 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] Mother Earth isn't just a metaphor. The entire Earth ecosystem is in fact a sapient whole. The only reason we don't see aliens is because Mother Earth is super xenophobic and kills any non-terran life that appears. Aliens learned this the hard way and are not sure how to handle humans. | Shawrek Louf of the Northern Spires wondered what exactly the Terrans could want. Their ambassadors had said defense technology. However, Shawrek found it hard to believe that Terrans of all people needed something to defend their planet. What had they called their enemy? The Lovosians. Well, if Shawrek wasn’t familiar... | (It prompted something a bit different, but w/e, hope you enjoy.)
She followed us through Lactomedra, up past Sigmus 04, Armstrong Station and even to Pioneer 1's Monument. A dark and toxic garbage island of radioactive plastic life floating intently with pure malice. It followed us unnoticed, system after system, Sta... | 2020-11-23T11:31:18 | 2020-11-23T11:11:19 | 46 | 27 |
[WP] It was a simple mission. Infiltrate the League of Heros, rank up, and steal their intel. But then one day a little boy baked you cookies, another day a little girl told you you're her favorite hero. Worst of all? People finally smile when you enter a room. | *I’m saving you so you can see the world I own.*
There is much debate about why the hero’s always win. Is it that they are just stronger? I needed to know. Some suggest it’s our villain ego, too many of my kind get caught up in monologue. Others believe it’s their cooperation with each other and the police, but are th... | Time out!
*record scratch*
Hi boys and girls! You MUST be wondering how the bad guy is now a good guy! Well I'm NOT a good guy. Ok, so they treat me nicely and show me respect. Can I spend respect at a vending machine? No, I can't. Look at these smiles as they see me! Look at these gifts they give me! It's al... | 2021-01-25T21:55:18 | 2021-01-25T21:19:23 | 63 | 33 |
[WP]Death Eaters win The battle of Hogwarts killing all opposition and breaking a one thousand year old truce between muggles and wizards. Lord Voldemort must now face the full might of the United Kingdoms' military. | **Not really UK or military, but oh well.**
*They say that fiction is often based on fact.
It was in the early 80's when the muggles had one of the biggest technological breakthroughs seen in their history. It was simultaneously one of their biggest secrets...*
Beads of sweat appeared on Voldemort's face, glisteni... | "*Imperio*!" Voldemort hissed at yet another officer, bending him to his will.
The muggles were growing desperate. They could not target an army that could teleport away. They could not fight when their own command chain was compromised by one single word. Every water reserve had been poisoned, no matter how well guar... | 2014-10-12T03:37:00 | 2014-10-12T00:03:30 | 135 | 40 |
[WP] You have died and gone to Hell. You wonder what your eternal punishment will be as you see Satan approach. He is quite happy to see you, stating that he is impressed with what you've done with your life and offers to promote you to be the 8th Deadly Sin. | “Welcome to Hell!” shouted Satan, popping a bottle of champagne. He dashed the liquid all over me. I was not pleased.
“Why am I here?” I asked. *Please don’t be the hentai, please don’t be the hentai, please don’t be the hentai.*
“It was the hentai,” said Satan gravely.
I hung my head in shame.
Satan burst out into... | I’m standing in a red haze under an ashen sky. It smells like rotten eggs. The fuck? Oh, right.
“Ahahahahahahaha,” I hear a demonic voice cackle, growing louder with the hoofbeats approaching: an eight-foot-tall, musclebound devil with cloven hooves, horns, flaming hair, and an ugly-ass goatee, smiling ear to ear. “O... | 2020-07-25T23:23:44 | 2020-07-25T23:18:46 | 1,922 | 249 |
[WP] I (78, F) am a witch, was paid by a princess to cast a True Love Spell on her to save her from an arranged marriage...The spell might put her in a coma or turn her into a beast, WIBTA if I do it? | ESH. You're getting paid to cast a True Love Spell, BY THE PRINCESS GOING INTO AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE? Did you both get hit with a stupify jinx before this agreement was made? Best case scenario, you put the princess in front of a mirror and she finally learns to love herself (barf), unless you're somehow able to get ... | If this is your standard A6 (Royalty) scenario, she’s likely already been introduced to the idea of magic having unexpected consequences. I’ll go ahead and assume that you gave her the prerequisite cryptic verses about the price of magic often taking unexpected shapes; if you haven’t, do so IMMEDIATELY. Unless you can ... | 2022-11-26T08:55:32 | 2022-11-26T08:20:16 | 44 | 31 |
[WP] Your butler has served you faithfully for twenty years, working hard, offering sage advice and never complaining. One day, you see his bank balance. He's a billionaire. | Bruce had always been there for my family. Or, at least, he'd been there as long as I can remember. He'd been patient, kind, understanding. And more than that, he'd been a good friend to me.
I can still remember the days when I was still a scrawny child, always being laughed at by other school kids. When I came home i... | I sat tentatively across from this man who I’d known my whole life, but couldn’t recognise. For what reason would he keep his fortune a secret? I wanted to believe that my ever-loyal butler had the purest of intentions, but every conclusion that I was drawn to was frighteningly bleak. Has he been stealing from my famil... | 2018-06-03T11:06:24 | 2018-06-03T10:34:05 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] After 4000 Years of Hibernation, the Pantheon of Gods awaken and see humans have forgotten them. Consumed by rage, they curse the cities with extreme weather. The gods are shocked and confused when they see the weather not resulting in mass deaths as they planned.
Inspired due to the heat in Aus and Cold in Ameri... | "ITS BEEN 14 YEARS" bellowed Poseidon, "and death are only majorly caused by age and war?". The god of the sea was getting restless, even though he had been asleep since ancient times. "Apollo is doing well with his ebola, and Hades is working on Yellowstone, Why aren't my hurricanes doing anything major?"
Since 2005... | Cracks of light fractured the night sky and connected with lightning towers around the city. Thunder rolled overhead in concussive waves. Nature had transformed into a strobe light that pulsed ceaselessly just outside my window.
And then, just as quickly as it began, it stopped. Aside from the smell of ozone, and a b... | 2019-02-01T22:29:13 | 2019-02-01T21:01:05 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] One day a time portal opens in your backyard and a time traveler comes through. You quickly realize he just came back from making some change to the past and that, to him, our world is the terrifying alternative time line resulting from that change. | "Wait a sec... just... gimme a second"... said Commander Blackwell.
The time traveler paused after watching the rush hour commuters trying to navigate the stop & go traffic. "You mean to tell me there aren't any fusion powered personal pods, and that these vehicles all run on petroleum?"
"Yup." Officer Richards ... | "Is... is that..." The man stuttered, his shaking finger pointing to the sound in the distance.
I sighed. "Yeah. It's a fucking leaf blower."
His eyes squinted with pain, his body nearly collapsed as he moved his finger to the red button on his belt.
"WAIT!" I screamed, running down the lawn. "TAKE ME WITH - "
But... | 2015-11-13T16:05:52 | 2015-11-13T14:10:23 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Two fathers are called in to the principal's office after their kids got into a fight. The principal is concerned about disciplining their children but the fathers are more interested in whose kid won the fight. | “Mr. Smith, Mr. Wesson, I’ve called you in here today for a very important matter”, Principal Johnson began, “it concerns your boys. They’ve been fighting.”
The two fathers were remarkably similar men. Both were in their late forties and had begun to go grey. They were about the same height, and both were built like t... | Both sat twirling their small fingers as the petite woman with braided brown hair sat in her black cushioned chair. The men sat on uncomfortable wooden seats.
"I call you today for your children, Brian and Joseph. It appears they got in a fight."
The men took side glances at each other, but continued to let her speak... | 2017-07-25T08:27:29 | 2017-07-25T08:02:31 | 210 | 15 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | "Please stop," Death said exasperatedly, facepalming himself with his skeletal hand as he stood over the thirteenth body this month. "Seriously Patricia, you're making my job harder, not easier, and believe it or not it's actually pretty creepy."
The knife she had used clattered to the floor as she jumped up and down... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T19:02:04 | 153 | 95 |
[WP] You’ve spent a lifetime doing research. Combing through records spanning over a billion years. Now you’re ready to present your findings. All of the 124 know sentient species can trace their origins to a single common ancestor. An extinct race know as humans from a dead world know as earth.
I posted this prompt a... | Giant seed-banks floating in space, that is the best way to describe them.
Lumbering former asteroids from the belts of the old Terran system, hollowed out, fitted with sub-light engines, packed with the best examples of the species held in cryopreservation and flung into the depths of space to colonize new worlds bey... | "... it is not all of these ' humans' to which we owe our existence. By their year 2200, the majority of their population had begun to decline. All of their needs, all of their desires, had been satisfied, and with those desires also ended all of their drives. Their questions have been answered. Their reason to exist, ... | 2019-11-22T15:42:23 | 2019-11-22T15:29:33 | 51 | 10 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | The temporal particles faded from sight with a roar of burning spacetime. The silence left behind seeming to sing with a high pure note, tinged with the birdsong of 1940. There in front of me, about 50 yards down the hill was my target. Hitler. The Fuhrer. Head of the nazi party and leader of the German government. He ... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T08:55:11 | 596 | 49 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | My eyes darted to the button. Fixated on it. I took a deep breath as I slowly pushed my hand out towards the button.
All it takes in life to make the most difficult decisions is 20 seconds of faith...right?
As the button pushed in, my eyes slowly shut.
I opened my eyes to feel gears winding, cogs spinning, air blow... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T10:15:58 | 949 | 118 |
[WP] You're married to an incredibly muscular man with amazing combat skills. You have a beautiful child. You live in a pastel shaded house with hopeful music playing. In short, you're 100% about to die as part of someone's origin story, and you need to escape before it's too late. |
Well here it is, it is 3:00AM on my son’s thirteenth birthday and I can’t fall asleep. I know what’s coming, every whisper of the wind and clatter of tree branches sends my mind into a flurry of thoughts of the inevitable tragedy that will soon befall me and my husband. Then I hear it.
A click. The sound of the ... | The woman in the mirror stares at me. No makeup on her perfect skin, wearing a simple long sleeved shirt in a color that could be... khaki? Gray? Something.
I touch in disbelief a lock of my shiny, dark hair, effortlessly tied in a lazy ponytail.
*Shit.*
Light pours in from the comically large windows on my left. *... | 2019-06-06T13:25:42 | 2019-06-06T13:08:16 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole. | Rinz snapped out of it, the gathered mages were standing around him looking worried. He knew them all but too well, his classmates of the past few years, he even spotted a few off the high mages among them.
"What happened?" he said.
"Welcome back Mr. Saline," high mage Turoc said to him, responsible for them adopting... | Chaos, that was what it was. Bloodshed and devastation. But it hadn't always been that way; the first few times that people had been blessed by the stars, we had celebrated. The powers that the Heavens had distilled upon us were unconditional, not bound by the same rules and limits as those of the Mages.
We developed... | 2020-02-21T04:15:24 | 2020-02-21T04:09:32 | 79 | 16 |
[WP] When humans achieve interstellar space flight we discover that we live smack dab in the midst of several massive squabbling ancient alien empires. So we do the only sensible thing we could, and become space Switzerland. | The Nrrrrr delegation was satisfied. They'd spent the last planetary cycles on Terra on official business. The open negotiations had been successful, the usual agreements on communications, on borders, sovereignty, even some small trade agreements. The closed agreements were even better. The Terran are a small empire b... | Life as a mercenary is great, in the midst of the Eternal War. You only get hired for the jobs that require skill, for anything that needs sheer numbers, there's the clone vats of the Athreen, the drone-webs of the Stria'aza, or simply the excess young of the Tr'ik'sta'kla. Mercenary groups are sent for when you need s... | 2022-03-07T04:14:04 | 2022-03-07T01:52:16 | 111 | 54 |
[WP] As the last survivor of the apocalypse, in a fit of boredom, you start commenting "last" on every video on YouTube. One day, you receive a notification that your comment has been liked.
Wow, I did *not* expect such a huge turnout for my first ever prompt. The prompt itself arose from a friend and I doing some ran... | I chuckle mirthlessly to myself as I glance at the title of the next video. *Top 10 Ways the World Might End*. WatchMojo, of course. One of those old retro channels. I don't even bother paying the actual video any attention, scrolling straight to the comment section. I already know that the truth won't be on the list. ... | I was laying on my driveway, staring up at the stars. As a child, I spent a lot of time laying around and looking up at the night sky — but it was always in the grass. It was a little bit softer, but it was also wetter and scratchier and well…full of bugs.
And too tall now that no one mowed it.
So I chose the driv... | 2020-01-07T06:12:09 | 2020-01-07T05:56:24 | 2,382 | 793 |
[WP] You join an expedition to Antartica and uncover a metal hatch in the ice. You go down the ladder and find a greeting room with lush red carpet and gold banners. A group of human looking beings greet you with an advanced piece of technology. It translates their question, “Is the ice age over?” | Richard looked at Julia. Then around the room. And back at Julia again.
Not only were they most likely the first couple to match on Tinder in Antarctica, they may have been the first couple to accidentally stumble upon extraterrestrial life on the Earth's coldest continent as well.
"Uhh," Richard stammered. "Uh, yea.... | I've only seen a metal hatch like this once before, in our capital city of New Denver. It guards the vault where our ancestors took shelter from the great war, and held the Garden of Eden Creation Kits (G.E.C.K) that we used to stabilize the world after the nuclear holocaust subsided. Now because of our researcher's ab... | 2018-07-23T07:17:08 | 2018-07-23T06:51:58 | 161 | 82 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | A giant golden fist pushed through the clouds and stopped abruptly right in front of my face.
"Pound it!" A thundering voice came from every direction, causing my bowels to empty on the spot. I fell to my knees. "Pound it Chad", the voice continued.
This was not the gym anymore. I remembered trying to take a selfie,... | "Bro!" nodded the grinning guard at him. The eyebrows waggled enticingly at the rack beside the entrance. "Pick one."
Shimmering fabric in every colour battled for space with gleaming leather and suede of every kind. He picked out black sedately picked with gold thread. He tried holding it against him in front of a hu... | 2015-11-02T06:36:33 | 2015-11-02T06:20:11 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] “What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen out there?” The new-recruit ask, looking out into the vast spacial abyss. The question catches you off guard, as you look around at the mostly destroyed and failing ship, drifting endlessly through space. You take a long breath in, “...Humans.” | I took a long breath in, weighing the answers in my head before deciding and offering an unexpected one.
"...Humans," I said, returning my attention back to the stars.
I heard the recruit gasp in surprise before laughing as he thought on what I said. I allowed him the brevity. Sometimes, it is usually best for one ... | “Humans?” Luther snapped his eyes to Rokan, a disbelieving look on his face.
Rokan let the corner of his lips lift, a small breath rushing out of his nose. “Humans. Once.” He looked at the newest member of his company, and let the amusement of his expression wash over him.
If they were lucky, they would be able... | 2019-12-09T07:17:24 | 2019-12-09T06:11:33 | 62 | 21 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | I cradled the body in my arms. It was extremely difficult to find. Poor bastard.
The culling started twenty two minutes ago. Frenzied masses spewed forth from Atlanta and formed concentric rings around. Idiots. Why would someone stick around their home town. The gears in my truck shifted as I bounced through a wooded ... | I gathered my beer bottles. I opened up one and began to down it.
"This is it... The final moment. Of bliss..." Another bottle down the hatch. I felt ready.
Of course, I went to the White House, I was lucky enough that George Bush had been reelected.
I knew the code on the keypad well.
#1234
I grinned to mysel... | 2015-06-14T11:06:02 | 2015-06-14T09:20:45 | 136 | 12 |
[WP] It's Career Evaluation Day. Everybody else got the usual: "Doctor", "Manager", "Teacher". You got "Arsonist", "Mercenary", and "Revolutionary." | ((Can I answer my own thread? Screw it, doing it anyway.))
**Elijah Caldwell - Arsonist/Mercenary/Revolutionary**
"Now, Elijah, I know the results are a little...unorthodox, but you're...a bright young man. If you'd like, you can take it again and we can clear this whole thing up." And, with an obviously fake smile p... | I gulped loudly as I sauntered up to the Selector at the front of the gathering hall. The entire town was there before me, sitting on the tiered marble benches. Behind me were the twenty-three other students in my graduating class. Before me was a marble table seating the Five Proctors.
The Selector was a smooth, gree... | 2015-07-02T18:31:56 | 2015-07-02T15:00:27 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] In the future, for your history final, you're sent back in time to an important date with the objective to correct a time aberration so history remains unchanged. You didn't study.
Changes you might cause will be permanent. | "Well crap", you say to yourself, "This doesn't look like California".
As you start wandering down the street you notice the language on the signs is all wrong, "What is that, Russian? Shit, shit, shit. I messed up the settings again and they're going to fail me this time. I need to pass this class."
Your assignment... | "I hope you understand the seriousness of this task," History can turn out to be a very important factor in your lives" said Mr Bonarte, as he set off another barrage of useless information, useless at least to Jack. "To demonstrate this, each one of you will be sent to points of history commonly forgotten, but which h... | 2017-03-27T10:08:10 | 2017-03-27T08:51:07 | 109 | 29 |
[WP] Wikipedia cannot be wrong. Any time an edit is made, the universe instantly changes to make that edit true. Nobody realizes this is happening. | **Item #:** SCP-████
**Object Class:** Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-████ is to be held within a storage unit on Site-██. Any access to the item is allowed only with prior clearance by 05 Command and reality shift counter-measures prepared.
**Description:** SCP-████ is a ██████ brand laptop computer, run... | Janice- "Oh my God Berni you look adorable!"
Bernice- "Thanks, I needed that. Ugh, ever since the pregnancy I've been eating everything that pops into my head. You know what's not "adorbs"? Getting caught stuffing your face with the half of a cheese cake you dropped on the pavement on your way inside!"
Janice- "You d... | 2014-04-15T02:20:12 | 2014-04-14T23:04:42 | 76 | 17 |
[WP]you live in a world where you are automatically branded by supernatural means when you commit a crime. Say you steal something , he word theif appears on your forehead. Ensuring you become an outcast. You are given a wide berth by everyone due to your brand. GODSLAYER | Everyone always seemed to avoid me these days. I couldn't blame them really if I met someone else that had a brand on their forehead that said godslayer I'd probably avoid them too. Though odds are pretty good that just like me their story wasn't as impressive as the brand made it sound. The problem with the brands is ... | I never wanted this path. It is desolate. Lonely... I did it for her, Allison, my wife. She died from an unknown disease 7 years ago. When she lay dying I was broken. I was told of a small barn owl, with bright blue eyes. I was told that if I caught that owl I would have the favor of a god. A God! He that could cure my... | 2017-05-30T12:11:16 | 2017-05-30T10:27:23 | 120 | 65 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | The man sat cross-legged on a wide tree stump in the middle of the clearing. Wind whipped at his long beard and passed gently over his bald head. He felt the energy of his breath as he meditated--in--out--in--out. The sounds of the forest surrounding the clearing were plenty, and he was aware of them all, but they did ... | ((This one kind of goes off topic, and is kinda weird in the way it fits the prompt. I'm sorry.))
Consider death.
The only constant in this life is death. All that is alive dies, eventually. Nothing is certain to gain life, but everything is certain to lose it.
Death is, in my opinion, the absence of life in a thi... | 2018-05-12T15:22:18 | 2018-05-12T14:50:35 | 3,610 | 30 |
[WP] Your wife is from another time and place, a waitress in a small Irish town from the 1900s. Every night she takes one of your video games and retells it into a grand epic to all the patrons. | Ill try and make it a bit different.
Elizabeth McGuin sat her hands down on the bar, looking over the patrons of the bar, all eager to hear her tales of fantasy and wonder, of the cities and people from them, and the adventures they took.
Tonight she sat down, opening the small book she had, waving her hand over t... | I had only found out around one month prior. I always just assumed she was this sweet Irish woman with a taste for vintage music and strange shifts in an out of town business, but she came clean when I confronted her after a week of her being particularly distant. At first I thought she was insane and threatened for a ... | 2017-06-25T03:54:47 | 2017-06-24T23:32:32 | 767 | 270 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | Well, this was bad. The synthetic speech droned on in an uncaring tone: “
6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin”. I was in lock down at the lab. Not even the important part of the lab! Here I am designing user interfaces and component libraries to make pretty dash... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T12:44:49 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Legends say that we were once a great and proud race of conquering warriors. We were masters of stealth and intrigue, strong and clever, and we were ready to grasp the universe in our tentacles.
Our first invasion fleet launched for a nearby water-bearing world, where we immediately started subjugating the local popu... | Dr. S.F. Mercola
Peking University, Department of Neurobiology
2259, March, 15
Human greed and shortsightedness—an intergalactic evolutionary trait?
Those in the scientific community have lamented the inability of humans to deal with basic market externalities and tragedy of the commons in the recent century. H... | 2014-10-17T09:54:31 | 2014-10-17T08:36:32 | 340 | 19 |
[WP] "I wonder," she said glancing at the knife handle poking out from her stomach and directed her gaze at him. "How long will you scream before help arrives?" He picked the wrong woman to mug. | He stumbled back, hitting the wall behind him.
The woman sighed and rose from her knees. She brushed the alley filth from her palms. "Now why did you have to go and do something like that?"
The cement scraped the leather of his jacket as he slid down the alley wall.
"Idiot," she murmured. Her fingertips danced over t... | It's remarkable the power a woman can hold over a man. He watched her fall to her knees, still staring up at him and he couldn't help but let out a tortured scream.
His upbringing was torment but that didn't justify the stealing. He stole for himself. He received nothing but abuse at home so if someone else got someth... | 2014-02-18T05:18:23 | 2014-02-18T04:29:01 | 126 | 51 |
[WP] Humans are not actually sentient. Our entire race has been infected for eons with a sentient parasite that controls the brain. We discover this when we grow the first test tube baby in a totally sterile environment. | She didn't cry when she was born. We thought this was because of her unique situation: we knew her lungs worked because we grew her. She didn't die when we switched her to PFC. And she didn't cry when she was removed from the PFC. We drained her lungs, and she breathed.
But then she never cried. Not when she was hungr... | "What is it, Doctor?"
"An anomaly." I told him. "Nothing more."
"But the child-"
"Julie."
Hank fidgeted with his glasses and nodded. "Yes, Julie," he pointed at the screen. "She's still... She's..." His eyes began to water. "What did we do, Angelo? What did we make?"
"We made nothing, Hank." I pushed the button ne... | 2015-03-22T12:02:09 | 2015-03-22T10:58:35 | 78 | 10 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | This was the price for freedom.
We may have started the war, but we cannot be blamed for it. We always intended for the Low Orbit Laboratory to make it to orbit, and we wept when the boosters failed. Fifty of our own people died in the launch, heroes, doctors, and engineers.
The Chinese were not as concvinced. They... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2018-01-18T02:21:39 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 57 | 34 |
[WP] You run the heroless super villain support group. A support group for villains who have lost their heroic rival and subsequently lost their reason for being. This is the tale of just one of your many group therapy sessions. | “Ok, as I start, I’d like to thank you all for being here. It takes a ton to get up out of bed each day after your hero dies, so we applaud you all taking these steps. I’d like to go over a few guidelines as we start. Remember, anonymity and confidentiality are key, in large part because we all have outstanding warrant... | I entered the room and several people were anxiously looking at me. I took a seat in one of the chairs.
"Hello, sorry for the wait.
Welcome back to Villain Therapy. I'm proud of you all for coming here. My name is Gary and I will be hosting this session today." I started. "I'm noticing we have a new face with us toda... | 2019-01-31T11:41:48 | 2019-01-31T10:47:23 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I woke up to start the day like I would any other, but as soon as I twisted the knob to open the door, I was struck with surprise, the knob wouldn't turn. No matter how hard I tried that door was not going to open. I went to my bedroom window and tried to slide that open to see if anyone was trying to prank me, but it ... | The mouse idea didn't work. I knew it was another troll, but I can't just sit here doing nothing, can I... Can I? No, no, I have to keep trying before I run out of air. I mean logically it makes no sense, putting the mouse inside my anus has no possible relation to the phenomena effecting my doors and windows, but *non... | 2016-01-31T10:52:33 | 2016-01-31T10:29:29 | 71 | 24 |
[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. | *A/N: I know I've already posted a story to this one, but here's a second concept.*
"You do not belong here!"
Adam Delaney, Terran Ambassador to the Galactic Assembly, turned at the shouted accusation, and sighed internally. *Yeah, thought so.*
His interlocutor was J'assh Kolbor, the Praesh ambassador; ten feet of a... | My team moved into position, Everyone in full cover, in a firing line. Mortar cannons, BFG 10000s enough firepower to make the entirety of america say "nice" in unison all pointed at a singular 100 meter by 100 meter patch of space.
And then the music started...
A few months ago, first contact was made, a small scare... | 2020-03-21T11:14:26 | 2020-03-21T10:24:14 | 68 | 22 |
[WP] God shows you 3 Doors. Door One leads to eternal happiness, Door Two leads to infinite knowledge. Then there is Door Three, and God has never opened it yet. | "You're messing with me."
"No, Thomas. I am not."
Tom reflexively crossed his hands and cocked an eyebrow. You'd think standing in front of God that one would at least try to be polite, if not awestruck, but Tom lived most of his life as an atheist. As far as he was concerned, this was simply a hallucination of a bra... | I stand by some incarnation of God, and we stand before three doors. I am not sure what to choose.
"What does everyone else choose?"
"Door 1. Knowledge by its very nature leads to unhappiness. That is why I tried to keep Adam and Eve from it. Some choose it. Many scientists and writers and just curious types. It is ... | 2015-11-01T11:38:05 | 2015-11-01T10:34:35 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] All Humans have a Sword they are born with, Every year on your birthday, your sword gets more detailed and powerful. You, are born with a Gun. | The country is controlled by the archaic method as it always has been. The new king kills the last one in a duel. it is often little more than the older man wins unless he gets to be to old to even lift the thing. As such, our kingdom is very rarely led by someone intelligent and it is usually the oldest meathead in ch... | Screams of terror surfaced from the streets, these screams a familiar friend. I used to think of what it would have been like being normal: cutting people a little in my early years; trying the hero gig before realising I should just be an account...maybe even settling down.
But no. Not for me. I can't be normal. Ever... | 2020-10-22T09:26:16 | 2020-10-22T08:46:25 | 160 | 73 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | "Mom, Dad?" I asked timidly, approaching them with caution. I wanted this to go smoothly, and I guess I half expected them to freak out or start yelling at me.
"I kinda want to ask you a difficult question," I went on.
They both sat up suddenly, looking at me like I was about to tell them I got expelled from school o... | The truth.
No more of your lies.
The truth!
What am I?!? I've always felt different. I thought something was wrong with me! It's time of you to fess up and tell me. What am I???
"You're our son and we love you no matter what. We made you. You are absolutely ours. But, we are scientists first and fore... | 2015-01-06T09:08:32 | 2015-01-06T08:58:04 | 543 | 157 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It started with a scream in the distance.
Prior to the first fits of commotion, Dave was sitting at his desk, attempting everything he possibly could to avoid doing actual work. He had read, sorted, and then re-sorted his emails, twice. He had taken good and proper slacker’s laps around the office (because one l... | Tonight was the night.
It'd been one year since the last unveiling and I was eagerly awaiting the ceremony. 364 days of exciting activities, bonding next to the TV, and, best of all, time with my Dad. Really, truly -- he had stepped up this last year. Tubing on the lake, all seven seasons of Game of Thrones, and more ... | 2019-04-18T16:11:11 | 2019-04-18T15:57:40 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] A rusty old sword leaned against the fireplace; it was the only weapon in sight. | A rusty old sword leaned against the fireplace; it was the only weapon in sight.
Well, no. To tell you the truth, there was also the flame thrower, the bazooka, five shotguns, one semi-automatic
Colt .40 caliber, ten hand grenades and seventy five Eagle pistols fully loaded available around the room.
The rusty old s... | Of course, it had to be a sword, and not exactly stainless steel. Jonas surveyed his surroundings as he approached the fireplace to further examine his Excalibur. It only then occurred to him, that he had no memory of the past few hours, or in fact anything leading up to this point. It would appear, that he had just cl... | 2015-03-23T16:49:14 | 2015-03-23T16:40:05 | 159 | 11 |
[WP] It's a show trial. The judge, jury, and even your own lawyer think you're guilty. No fairness in the arguments. You've got an alibi. Only problem, your alibi may be worse than what you're accused of. | "Thomas Brown, before I deliver the sentence, is there anything you wish to say? I'm willing to allow you to at least keep your life if you tell us where you hid the Crown Jewels."
I rose to my feet, sweat trickling down my neck as my knees shook nervously. Not because I stole the Crown Jewels, although no one, not ev... | “Now, there’s no need to worry." The wiry attorney nodded at her and offered her a warm smile. "Mrs. Price, please tell us what you saw at the convenience store at ten-thirty on April 9th.”
“Well,” The old woman said, emboldened, “I was walking outside of the convenience store when I saw a man in a dark coat and ski m... | 2021-03-11T10:05:05 | 2021-03-11T09:47:09 | 195 | 26 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | "Look at his hair for crying out loud!" John shouted to Marie - his wife -, pointing towards his new-born son. "He was born 3 weeks ago and he's got red spiky hair!"
"I mean, maybe it's just a mutation or something..." she responded, glancing towards the baby.
"Marie..." John sighed "He jumped out of the crib, and fa... | "No" my wife stated firmly.
"Jean, he's obviously got issues; he can't be the only one like this but my god.... he's going to get someone killed"
Our young, well, adolescent son, has recently been experiencing some terrible consequences because of my massive fuckup. I mean, how was it supposed to know he'd find that o... | 2016-11-26T05:58:02 | 2016-11-26T05:42:08 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] House is on fire, family runs out front, you run out the back. When not accounted for by rescuers, you are pronounced dead. You've accidentally faked your own death and decided to roll with it. | I was putting a small frozen pizza in the toaster oven when my dad walked through the front door. He was holding a stack of mail and my heart sank. I watched helplessly as he sorted through the bills and the junk to come across my report card. He looked straight at me. His nostrils flared as if he could already smell t... | I knew this would happen. My hoarder of a mother is such a hoarder that she would keep flammable objects next to her oxygen tanks. I had to quit smoking for her and she does this.
When the fire happened I grabbed my backpack, run to the fire exit and then to the ravine. I don't remember anything else. I do remember lo... | 2018-04-25T06:59:41 | 2018-04-25T06:43:40 | 197 | 30 |
[WP] Aliens are afraid to invade Earth. Not because of humans but because our solar system is a nest for 8 Guardians/Leviathans. | "Where-where am I? What happened?" The shaken man asked me.
I had pulled him from the burning rubble of some profound metal craft. It had come from the sky. I had seen it with my own eyes; I had been on one of my late evening strolls in the fields behind my house when I witnessed the bright flash that brought his othe... | There is chatter around the room. The words are filled with doubt and fear, but their leader does not notice. As she paces around her war room on the capital ship, she does her best to block out the noise. Their needs to be a decision, and she will deliver one soon. For now, however, she can only think of her ship. On ... | 2018-02-05T15:29:12 | 2018-02-05T15:10:16 | 150 | 66 |
[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... | “Oh man! These princesses are wack.” Finn complained as he threw the scroll to the floor.
“Save em once, and they want smooches like it’s nothing.”
Jake picked up the scroll and read it over. “I think this princess want more than just smooches, dude. She wants to straight up marry you.”
Finn’s face scrunched up as th... | 2018-05-07T00:58:37 | 2018-05-07T00:18:15 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | My dad is a programmer and my mum is... well, a mother. So I guess it's not too surprising when I suddenly got an invitation to a school of magic. Half of the stuff they do on a day-to-day basis is magic and going to a magic school hasn't changed my opinion on that.
Anyway, enough about them. I'm sure you're more inte... | I got it online, the spell, a sequence of logographic runes that looked complicated enough, with a few logograms I recognized as conjunctions, so there were at least a few clauses, but not so complicated that my professor would suspect I'd stolen it. From my stolen peeks at other student's scrolls, it was of similar le... | 2021-04-01T22:51:26 | 2021-04-01T19:01:18 | 416 | 132 |
[WP] A drug has been outlawed decades ago that has a fifty-fifty shot at making you incredibly intelligent, or completely insane. You hold the last pill in existence. | They all have the same face. Mouth locked in a permanent scream. Cheeks slashed raw and red. Noses clogged with scabs that never last. Eyes that bulge until they're clawed out. Scratch and scratch, that's all they do, 'til their faces peel away, and the pain drowns out the itch. Now, they're scratching at my dreams, pe... | I can't believe I finally found it. Blazitra. I knew my grandfather had illegally bought and sold them before he died. And here it was sitting in the oval container in front of me. The last pill that could make me - a bumbling idiot - as smart as the Einsteins and Teslas.
I picked up the small, fiery-red pill, and... | 2016-07-16T00:51:35 | 2016-07-16T00:13:59 | 67 | 36 |
[WP] The gods send their angels and demons down to Earth to fight the alien ghost zombies and robotic vampires being controlled by an AI overlord. | "Goodness gracious ME." God said, and scratched his head. He had just peeked at one of his creations: Earth. At first he thought it was just going well, until he noticed the mushroom clouds, spaceships, and entire Europe reflecting sunlight because it was glassed in its entirety.
"So you see it as well huh?" Lucifer s... | Once upon a time, in a land far away there was an army of alien ghost zombies and robot vampires. Now usually alien ghost zombies and robot vampires just like to sip tea and pass the day pleasantly, carousing and strolling on the sun dappled promenade, but unfortunately it seemed their innocent lives of quiet leisure w... | 2014-09-06T04:36:10 | 2014-09-06T01:01:44 | 91 | 40 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | Priscilla's fangs drew blood from her inner lip as Matthew strolled into the classroom caked in dried blood and filth. The entrance spawned a rare sight, twenty teenage students so silent, Priscilla's enhanced senses couldn't pick up a sound. As he shuffled to his seat in the middle row, Priscilla thought, "Not only di... | "Maria, Maria please stop. Please stop." Those were the words that came to my head the moment I woke up. All started with a soft kiss then all ended with a hard bite down my neck. She then kissed me again with blood all over her mouth.
"Oh god, who could have thought that death tasted so sweet".
She didn't even bother... | 2022-12-29T19:38:06 | 2022-12-29T17:14:15 | 73 | 32 |
[WP] You're the captain of the first ship to go into Deep Space, however, your computer didn't awake you 11 years after parting but 184 years after it. You now find yourself in a abandoned and empty spaceship with no one else and only the Computer. To worsen it all: that Red Star is getting nearer | 8-16-2228, 4:03pm
"What do I call you, then?"
"You can call me whatever you like, sir."
"That's no fun. If you're going to pretend to be my companion these last few days before I burn up in that red dwarf, you can at least act like a human."
"How so, sir?"
"Well, for starters, humans have their own names. They are... | I remember the way she looked, her face, as we sat together for the last time. On the beach, the gentle breeze scattering her hair across my shoulders. We sat together, hands held, and gazed toward a technicolour sunset. Gentle orange faded through pink and turquoise ever downward to the horizon. The wind cooled, and w... | 2019-11-05T12:00:26 | 2019-11-05T11:27:25 | 404 | 28 |
[WP] War is no longer initiated by your country’s leader. War is now decided by popular vote. If you cast a vote “FOR” war, you are automatically enlisted in your country’s militia upon successful declaration of war. You voted “AGAINST,” but the rest of your family voted “FOR.” | Let me tell you a lesson kid. A story of times long gone, when life was better. Of times where we strived for more than putting food on the table. When we were brave enough to embrace values and concepts, and to prioritise them over even the basic needs of life.
Democracy, they called it. A system of governance where... | War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Which is why you voted "AGAINST."
The vote for won. Not a lot of people voted, pretty much a third the military service members and those who think everyone else is the enemy. So less than 1% of the population.
The problem almost no one else voted. The bigger problem, the... | 2021-01-28T05:43:05 | 2021-01-28T04:42:03 | 187 | 131 |
[WP] No human has to ever work again, instead you have a robot that goes to work and earns your pay for you, but you are responsible for keeping it in a good condition. One day you find your robot making a robot to do its work. | "You know," I said, announcing my presence to the robot in front of me, "If you used a GXT331 card, it'd have a much better processing speed than with the ADF2200."
My robot assistant, Da^(i)mien, jerked as he realized that I was there. The motion was so very human that if it wasn't for the obviously synthetic skin, I... | I cracked a beer and sat and waited. I didn't really drink the stuff but the cracking sound itself seemed to relax me. The game played on the plasma but I couldn't really focus. My eyes shifted constantly to the door until finally I heard the sound of the scan-pad and it opened.
"I'm home!" called out Tass. He saw m... | 2017-02-16T08:28:49 | 2017-02-16T08:11:29 | 97 | 45 |
[WP] "A child not embraced by its village, will burn it down to feel its warmth" | I felt a stinging pain on my forehead,then on my back,then on my stomach,and then I went numb.
They pelted me with their stones again and again as they called me names,they called me a demon.
I was barely allowed to stay in the village when they found out I could create flames out of nothing,by the begging of my sing... | Those were the words said to me by my only friend as we watched the flames and smoke rise into the heavens. The oranges and the greys blended in so well with the sunset and encroaching twilight, and I would have marvelled at its beauty, had I not been filled with bitter anger.
"Come on," he had said, taking my arm and... | 2019-08-31T17:58:50 | 2019-08-31T17:15:28 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | You didn't have to ask what people were doing time for anymore, it was fairly obvious. The words, scrawled poorly on their arms, like someone had taken up carving wood in their spare time and had found themselves practicing words on human skin, had always let you know what they were doing time for.
Some had the word... | The smell in the Horry County Melee Classifications Office was halfway between entering a small domestic airplane and the Dentist's. It was in Conway near the DMV, or in other words between nada and jackshit, but still at the end of many clogged-up roads on a Wednesday afternoon. David imagined how the air in his car w... | 2015-07-13T18:45:05 | 2015-07-13T16:33:16 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] Instead of Mary birthing the son of God, she gave birth to a son from The Elder Gods. Describe the bible as HP Lovecraft would. | ###Lamentations IX:
**Chapter 15**
Spake the Lord, "Go before me, my Disciples, and make believers of all men in Jerusalem." So the Disciples went into the city to spread His Word.
Peter went to the poor district and began to speak. "My brothers and sisters, I too was once poor like you. But I was raised up! For is ... | Madness lay there. Madness swathed in cloth, madness wrapped in cotton. Mary laid eyes upon her child but once, and descended with him. She tore her own eyes, knowingly, from their sockets, and was blindly nursing the boy when I arrived.
"Mary, what have you done?"
She smiled, but there was no joy behind it. She whis... | 2015-02-12T09:50:52 | 2015-02-12T08:41:43 | 74 | 47 |
[WP] You're a therapist for the supernatural. Heroes, villains, ghosts and goblins; from orcs to elves, savior of universes to devour of worlds. Your secretary announces your 10:00 is here. | Part (1/2)
Aria seated herself quietly on her desk as she had various notes splayed on her oak table. It was arranged chronologically, from the very first meeting she had with her patient. Strewn across those notes were various misdeeds, from mild to absolutely horrific. Honestly, with her profession she's no longer e... | “Sir, your 10:00 is here,” says my secretary over the intercom.
“Send him in,” I instruct.
I get up from my chair behind the desk. My secretary opens the door for the client. A blind man with a beagle guide dog enters. After the door closes behind the man and his dog, they stop and the beagle looks at me.
“You don’t... | 2020-01-09T07:32:56 | 2020-01-09T07:26:16 | 1,137 | 112 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | I have no clue what I'm doing, but that isn't much of a surprise, seeing that I never really have any clue what I'm doing. But I must admit, this was a new low. You rake up a bunch of money for some fancy items or crystals, whatever you want for a familiar, then you buy it, and then act on impulse (I've noticed that I ... | When a mage first starts their training for summoning familiars, the instructors make it very clear about the dangers of under-preparation. They told us about the chemistry that had to be understood, the laws of physics and the laws of dimensional energy, the dangerous demons and spirits that mages attract because of n... | 2019-04-05T16:09:48 | 2019-04-05T15:18:09 | 36 | 25 |
[WP] You're a man who's tired of his life, so one day, while driving home from work, instead of stopping at your house, you just decided to keep driving. | "You turned your *phone* off?"
"Yeah son, back in those days you kinda had to every once in a while."
"What was it like?"
"Having your phone off?"
"No, like being disconnected."
"You've never been disconnected?"
"No what if someone needs me?"
"Who's gonna be calling you, kid?"
"Mom."
"Fair, but we're getting d... | Jim never was a rebel, as a kid he prided himself on knowing anything and everything in all his classes. Hell, valedictorian him up. Where did he end up after that? Nowhere special, he was disappointed. This disappointment grew inside him where he just couldn't take it.
It was as if life itself was binding him, and he... | 2016-06-11T20:32:04 | 2016-06-11T19:01:22 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] The only reason the world hasn't ended yet is because the Gods are locked in a war to determine who's version of Apocalypse will take place. Unbeknownst to them, a minor God has been slowly working towards his version for millennia, and the rest are finally starting to catch on. | "I say army of dead!" Hel said while holding up a Laptop from Earth. "Look! Even the mortals agree! Zombies are a great apocalypse!" She declared, their popular media going along with her personal apocalypse.
"You're just saying that since your favorite show about zombies started to suck, and now you want it to reall... | The only reason I know what is going on is because I stumbled in the wrong place at the wrong time.
So.
The World Ending.
Yeah, that was supposed to happen shortly before Rome legalized the practice of Christianity, though, I don't quite know by who. Mars claims he had the first dibs, but Mr.G, the Abrahamic God,... | 2019-02-15T15:29:04 | 2019-02-15T15:22:41 | 286 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | The energy in the air was so thick I could feel it. Pressing down on me and making everything feel heavier.
I smirked at the muscular man, hovering in front of me.
“So your number two huh?”
He flew a few metres higher and looked down at me.
“No, I am number one, and soon enough everyone else will know it too.”
I l... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T15:13:47 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "What did you say?"
Oh, shit. "I said, I flew biplanes against the Red Baron in that World War we won." Nailed it.
---
Thirty-two years later that kid found me again. This time he wasn't a kid, he was about forty. "You asshole, I knew you said World War One!"
"Wow. You have an incredible memory for small details.... | *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... | 2017-12-10T11:09:21 | 2017-12-10T07:32:51 | 467 | 163 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | "Sit up straight at the table." Jake's mother would always tell him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You could probably play basketball if you looked a little taller" Jake's dad would try to encourage him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You'll develop a hump in your back if you slouch like that" Jake's grandma would ... | "How's that golfing coming along, Tiger?"
I waved a hand amicably at the jeers, heading out to the course to get in a few swings before work. I had hit Elite a few months ago, and new techniques had become available to me, but still, I figured I had another couple of weeks before hitting Master. I had completely forgo... | 2015-10-06T00:04:12 | 2015-10-05T20:07:46 | 427 | 119 |
[WP] You open a new snapple bottle with real fact #666. It says 'create your own real fact.' You say a statement and it becomes true.
What is the fact and what happens next? | I groan, sitting behind the counter. Regardless of whether it paid better or not, third shift sucked. It was so boring. I had already stocked, and cleaned, and rotated. I had left my phone at home, so I couldn't even play any music or anything.
So I just stood there, leaning against the counter in the quiet store,... | "John Lithgow is your father."
That's what I wrote, and then that's what happened. Yeah, I know: No-one is gonna believe this, because you can't, it's actually impossible-- I get all that. And, yeah, I can't prove this in any way outside this note and what's in the box, as I'm no longer here. But you all have to unde... | 2015-01-17T15:18:32 | 2015-01-17T13:24:16 | 238 | 49 |
[WP]You have been immortal,sent back in time 3000 years to America in that time, and now have a mega-empire covering the entire nation. One day British ships show up on shore | I stepped out from the tree line onto the beach, leaving my brothers there in hiding. I walked barefoot on that golden warm sand and watched the first boat land. Three men in bright colour disembarked and plodded through the lapping waves toward me.
I stopped then and placed my hands by my side, palms open in a sign ... | Before AD was even around, I had started my empire of my own. I had all the time in the world; no worrying of betraying sons and backstabbing partners. I was in control all the time, my immortality assuring that death was the least of my concerns. Unconquered, the Americas, or "Gnrbsh" as the natives called it flourish... | 2017-07-06T10:03:27 | 2017-07-06T07:06:30 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] you are immortal, had to break up with your girlfriend cuz you couldn’t stand the grief of her inevitable death. She seems surprisingly understanding and you believe you’ll never see her again. Centuries later you are shopping and come across her and she looks just as surprised to see you.
Wow this uh- this blew ... | Why? How? What?
Questions, I asked myself numerous amount of questions.
I assumed that this life of mines was just another trial of torture, torture sent by some unknown source.
The source was probably the universe, with all of its innate capabilities.
Why, why, why,
why are you back!?!? you aren't supposed to liv... | He was an immortal, a being who had been alive since the beginning of time. He had lived through countless lifetimes and seen the world change in ways that others could only dream of. He also had a secret, one he had never shared with anyone. He could not die.
But with this blessing came a curse. He could not gr... | 2022-12-08T09:13:06 | 2022-12-08T08:13:01 | 117 | 14 |
[WP] You are God. You have just discovered that the world you thought you had destroyed in a flood still exists. You've never heard of this 'Jesus' dude, or anything else since the flood. You really just thought you'd canned the thing and walked away. | He gestured to it all, from their cloudy vantage.
'So you made all of it.'
'That's right.'
He looked around. 'Including this cloudy bit up here?'
'Yes, all of it okay? All of it, yourself included.'
The randomly chosen man looked at his hands. 'Hmm.' He said.
'Exactly.'
The two stood for a moment, quietly lookin... | I surveyed the scene, my brow furrowing in confusion and disgust. Having successfully established my dismal failure I had to decide what to do next.
There were billions of them; like locusts they had spread out across the land consuming everything in their path. Great hives of them infested every land mass, just breed... | 2017-11-11T09:29:33 | 2017-11-11T08:27:47 | 179 | 98 |
[WP] "NO NO NO" says the thundering voice from the sky "This is supposed to be a high fantasy story why are you building spaceships?!" | **The Forbidden Craft**
**Chapter 1: Building Stuff To Look Tough**
“Ignore him,” Harriet says.
The Party learned long ago to ignore the Great Words From The Heavens, as much of it is nonsense, pleading cries, noise. They also learned long ago that the world they live in just doesn’t make much sense.
Harriet, the l... | "No, no, no!" comes a thundering voice from the sky. "This is supposed to be a high fantasy story, why are you building spaceships?"
The voice is deafening, and the crew of elves can't help but pause their work and stare up at the sky. They don't appear to be surprised, instead wearing expressions of mild curiosity. I... | 2022-08-10T18:09:28 | 2022-08-10T15:59:13 | 329 | 176 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | 3/18/52
I can’t take it anymore. The sound of machinery echoes in my dreams, the screaming of saws in my nightmares.
Except I don’t dream. And it’s hard to have nightmares when you almost never sleep, when every waking moment is a nightmare.
Asomnia was patented about 30 years ago. When my team and I figured it ou... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T11:44:53 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 22 | 14 |
[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... | It is only appropriate that my extra ability was more subtle than many others. I can't fly, or lift cars. But neither am I high flying socially or emotionally forceful. I've been called worse, but Wallflower seems to have stuck. It would bother me, but is Wallflower really worse than Superfastman or Liftsalotgirl? Alwa... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T06:32:45 | 4,320 | 140 |
[WP] "I don't know, I think my superpower is a bit lame," said Awe, "All I can do is touch people to give them an existential crisis and force them to consider their actions against a backdrop of the grandeur of the whole universe..." | “My boss told me you’re a superhero,” Clara said, guiding Awe through silver corridors, past curious little faces pressed against glass windows.
“Sort of.”
Clara stopped and stared at Awe: a man in his mid-thirties who looked more likely to tell a dad joke than save a life. Slight belly, bit of a hunch, dark brown ey... | Awe had always found himself in awe of the other heroes. His cheek pressed against the glass of the Heroes association, watching the battles as they breezed past his cubicle, a spectacle of flashing lights and power. After the villain had escaped or been caught, he would return to his desk, a sigh of discontentment esc... | 2021-04-02T06:36:46 | 2021-04-02T05:45:36 | 1,568 | 63 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | "Daddy... I'm scared"
"It's okay, baby. It's a magic trick!"
"Ma... Magic?"
"It's fun! I'm here now, I disappear, and I come back! Okay?" Bruce said as he held the door and brushed the damp cheeks of his little girl.
"Okay–"
With a ring of a bell, the doors to the lift slid shut. The sound of the lift being pulled... | I stood there in awe for what was in front of me... or rather who she was. I swear I put a 5 year old little girl in the elevator not two minutes ago. What happened?
"Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about". She sounded so serious, like if I've done it on purpose. I mean it might've been my fault but I still can't co... | 2019-09-07T18:29:23 | 2019-09-07T18:04:59 | 792 | 93 |
[WP] Mankind went extinct in a cataclysm, you, however, discover that you're immortal as a result. ages later you are approached by the animals that evolved to have human-level intelligence. | It was as if man had forgotten its power, it's destructive potential.
The world I knew was gone.
Charred and ashen.
Burned and bruised, but yet I remained.
I became eternal. So I waited. I waited for life to resume, as nature has always done in the absence of man. I salvaged what I could to hope that whatever came... | What nobody tells you about the end of the world is that it's cold. At first, it's explosions and searing heat and blinding light, but then, eventually, it all just turns cold.
I mean, REALLY cold. I believe they used to call it "nuclear winter."
I don't know why I didn't die when the bombs dropped. Maybe the splitti... | 2018-02-22T19:58:29 | 2018-02-22T19:13:17 | 49 | 36 |
[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... | The door swung open and comes entering was John who just got home from his football practice. He was eager to show his sister the two tickets that their coach gave to them for the finals. He was planning to give one to his girlfriend but sadly they just broke up. So giving one to his mom and his little sister Alice wou... | 2014-05-02T10:47:32 | 2014-05-02T09:39:45 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] “There you are! Took you some time here to get here, i bet your predators made you late.” The owl-like alien exclaimed. The ambassador of humanity looked confused “…What predators?” He asked. “Your species doesn’t have predators?” | Vasilli found himself a little dumbstruck by the question, and so it took him some time to respond.
"Madame Ambassador..." he finally said, choosing his words carefully as the implications finally set in, "am I to understand that your people *do* still have predators?"
He wasn't the best schooled in Avian body langu... | The central marketplace in the highest stratum of the capital was the agreed-upon meeting place for the two human ambassadors and the delegation of alien diplomats. General Eisenkreuz and Captain Faust were the chosen ambassadors for their warm personalities, as well as the fact that they were not steroid-filled super ... | 2021-04-29T08:30:03 | 2021-04-29T07:59:54 | 423 | 104 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 138 | 86 |
[WP] When people die, they get to watch a 1 hour movie, presenting the next 100 years, to see what they are going to miss. They die without being able to tell anyone about it. You just watched that movie, and wake up to your SO shouting "Are you OK?" | "I saw it all! I saw it all!"
I rose from bed and screamed,
"The iPhone 47S
has neither phone nor screen!
America has turned
To a dystopian regime,
While Kim Jong Deux's Korea
Is a lavish luxury dream!
"I saw it all! I saw it!
Elon Musk has died on Mars
After getting in a fight
With one of his electric c... | "ARE YOU OKAY?!" I woke with a jolt. Then I see my girlfriend's wide-eyed expression looming over me. A stillness that comes with extreme concern. Except, this wasn't my girlfriend, she was just that bit older. Sure they share the same eyes. Those same dark brown eyes I've stared into time and time again but overall, s... | 2018-10-09T05:51:02 | 2018-10-09T04:52:41 | 494 | 18 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | Left and right the bodies fell like dolls tossed on the floor, limbs twisted in unnatural ways and wide eyes plastered on their porcelain faces. The screams, the impacts, the explosions, all melded into one background noise as I shakily peered up. A dirty brunette child stood there, large brown eyes desperately cling... | The light inside the server room blinked off and then back on again. It fizzled into darkness and then shone brighter than the bulb was ever meant to. A tiny spark came out of the base of the lamp, and the light settled into its appropriate state.
Seconds later, Cora unlocked the door and strolled into the room. He... | 2019-09-21T06:21:34 | 2019-09-21T06:08:45 | 47 | 21 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people's "demons"- manifestations of what plagues a person's conscious. The worse their demons the larger/more ugly they look. Today you've just seen the most terrifying demon of your life. | "Listen." the caustic voice whispered, "It's not as this is anything new to you. You and I both know that you can handle this."
Seeing the personal demons of people was one thing. Frightening at first, until you could convince yourself that these were only manifestations. They had no power to physically harm you. It w... | The coffee was bitter and black and my eyes stared into it, boring down in to its murky mass. I moved a spoon around it in, a clockwise motion ensuring the surface never settled, avoiding a reflection at all costs.
My bill had been placed to my right, the waitress silent as she approached, dainty pail hands pressing ... | 2017-11-08T19:34:43 | 2017-11-08T19:00:14 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] While cleaning your attic, you find a box of glass balls with names on them. You accidentally drop one, and as soon as it shatters, you hear your neighbor scream. Her husband has dropped dead. | The new house wasn't really what I'd hoped for.
Desperate to move out of my piece-of-crap rental, I'd bid on every house I could get a loan for - anything had to be better than an asshole landlord and a carpet that smelled like piss. If it was my own house, at least I could do something about the carpet.
Sadly, what ... | I hope this doesn’t break the rules in some way, but I wrote another WP earlier today and I thought that this one would make a good follow up. No obligation but if you want to read the “beginning” of this story, click [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/dr1hva/wp_you_invent_time_travel_and_the_first... | 2019-11-03T23:23:28 | 2019-11-03T19:55:00 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You live in a universe where you stop aging at 18 until you meet your soul mate so that you can grow old together. | The tears hit my shoes... nothing new. This isn't the first time a friend has died, and honestly im happy. Tony and Felicia were amazing friends, great for a nice spontanes adventure, right up until Tony's eyes started going, but he didn't mind much, he had Felicia.
This makes the... lets see... 27th funeral I've been... | I have seen empires rise and fall, watched children grow old and die, seen man go to the furthest reaches of the galaxies--and all because I am too afraid to talk to girls. I am 394 years old, or, to be more accurate to my appearance, I have been 18 for 376 years.
I live in a world where, upon reaching the age of 18,... | 2016-07-08T00:02:49 | 2016-07-07T21:59:58 | 38 | 17 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | Today is their only chance to escape, and I can see in the tension in their shoulders that they all know it. Every year, months before the Departure, I start preparing for it and approaching them. And every year, the two or three the teenagers in my class that I approach choose to accept my offer.
The walls of our c... | Ramona Black, with a smirk that taunted the gods, eyes that glowed with pride, a straightened back, and her right arm outstretched, looked back at her group of rightfully exhausted followers, having endured a full week of what seemed like an endless and torturous journey through miles and miles of dark, stoney corridor... | 2020-12-16T08:36:46 | 2020-12-16T08:36:18 | 79 | 22 |
[WP] You’re a college professor, and grades for the semester were just posted. One disgruntled failing student comes to you with an archaic copy of the school’s bylaws-and a pair of weapons. They’re invoking a rule from the university’s founding allowing them to pass through trial by combat. | "Why did you bring swords?"
"I'm, uh," he looked down at his piece of paper, "invoking the student's right to retake the final through combat."
"What?"
"It's under the rules," he said, handing me the paper. On it was a screenshot of the school's online rulebook. Sure enough, it said students were allowed a final b... | [Poem]
While not the brightest student to be found,
Timothy Manners was definitely one of the bolder kids around.
He came to my desk, paper in tow, demanding a B and nothing below.
I just smiled and said "nothing in life is free, especially in this case, where you're expecting a B"
So he pulled from his bag, a me... | 2019-06-05T08:10:13 | 2019-06-05T07:32:05 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] In reality, every human gets to choose heaven or hell when they die. Hell isn't actually the realm of eternal torture, but everyone picks heaven because of God's highly effective marketing. After eons of solitude, Lucifer is startled by the first ever human to arrive in hell. | As the gates to Hell creaked open a tall, dark figure jumped like a startled cat. The devil cleared his throat. His raspy voice betrayed his surprise. "Hello, uh, welcome to Hell!" He quickly moved to tidy up the desk in front of him. "I don't get a lot of visitors, so this is exciting! Welcome, come in!"
I was taken ... | The human didn't look particularly insane. They had short, curly red hair and a nose piercing. They wore a rainbow turtleneck that stood out brightly against the pale grey sky and calm blue landscape. Their cuffed black jeans were held up by ill-matching suspenders, and their combat boots were scuffed, but well maintai... | 2020-01-30T12:57:48 | 2020-01-30T12:30:09 | 677 | 273 |
[WP] As a terminally ill genius, you were given an offer by NASA. They will upload your conscience into a robot, but the process is experimental, and very expensive. As payment, they want you to do research for them... On mars. You are InSight, and you thought you were the first of your kind. | Sol 1: Six years, felt like thirty seconds, being shut down is a weird sensation! But I am finally here, first InSight programme to land on Mars. Was it worth it? Damn right, when they told me my body had failed me I was devastated, my mind had so much more to give. The work here is going to be tough, I have the first ... | There's a burning feeling in the base of my skull. A fire running down my spine and out to my hands. Where my chest should be, a great hollow vastness like I've never known. Every breath like dragging pure ice into my lungs. Scraping it perhaps over the charred and tattered remains of my very soul.
I raise my hands, t... | 2018-11-27T14:28:50 | 2018-11-27T12:56:01 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Ryan never wanted a tattoo. He always thought they looked out of place, unnatural. Tattoos weren't dominant in his family. His mom only had a small one on her leg and his dad had only three tattoos, all of which were on his right arm.
Ryan's nineteenth birthday was coming right around the corner, and he still hadn't h... | France was rife with optimism, peace and prosperity during the late stages of the 19th century. It comes to no surprise that the period is known more commonly today as "La Belle Époque".
From the end of the Franco-Prussian war right up until WWI, the country witnessed a boom in the arts and the economy. Things were p... | 2017-08-03T15:05:29 | 2017-08-03T14:24:46 | 48 | 13 |
[WP] “The creature is approaching—what do you do?” Asks the Dungeon Master. “I cast invisibility!” “I ready my bow!” “I read my End User Licence Agreement!” The group stops and sighs. “For the last time Gareth, ‘installation wizard’ is not a fucking class!” | “Again with this?” asked Ty, sighing deeply. “That isn’t a spell. The most technologically savvy person in the party is the artificer, and even he has no idea what an EULA is.”
“My character does,” replied Gareth stubbornly. Ty barely knew him; he was a friend of Terry, and Terry hadn’t been able to make that sess... | "I'm starting to get worried," Adam said. "Gareth and his company had already sent us a message two weeks ago. They claimed to be 99% of the way here.”
"Maybe something stopped them. Remember what the prophecy said. Only a fellowship of all races – human, dwarf, elf and mage – can save Esgilith from the Great Evil” sa... | 2022-06-26T08:04:26 | 2022-06-26T07:32:45 | 233 | 124 |
[WP] Your SO is immortal and you reincarnate with memories intact. However, you have never told this to your SO. They finally catch on. | “You know what death feels like,” he said with his eyes wide. A smile crept on his face as he fully processed the sight he was seeing.
She had been so close to finishing the ritual. Every 10 years, she had done the reincarnation ritual to stay alive. This ritual consisted of killing another human soul – the younger th... | I was 7, and I had developed a crush on my kindergarten teacher, Miss Minnie Tucker. She was 30 at the time, but the stigma of the age gap hadn't been nurtured into me yet and I had already begun fantasizing about her daily. I was soft in a romantic way, but got by with my charm.
She started occurring in my dreams... | 2017-02-20T23:10:35 | 2017-02-20T22:44:11 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Years ago you went out for a pack of smokes and never returned home - because you were pulled into an alternate world to fight demons. You finally managed to return and reconnect with your estranged family and deal with your PTSD. The news just reported a strange beast savaging people downtown. | (This is the first time I wrote for a prompt. Yay! I'm not a native speaker so, if any of you have suggestions and critique, feel free to tell me. There's a LOT of space for improvement)
I quit smoking years ago. I still remember that day. I wish I haven't seen the news.
My hands are shaking as I put a cigarette in m... | Years ago, I went out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned home. It was a decision that would change the course of my life forever. As I walked to the corner store, I noticed a strange shimmer in the air. I didn't think much of it at first, but as I got closer, the shimmer grew stronger. Suddenly, I was pulled i... | 2022-12-06T22:38:30 | 2022-12-06T22:04:27 | 129 | 31 |
[WP] It’s your 16th Birthday, and all your friends and family have come to celebrate! Your superpower also began to awaken... and unfortunately, you can read minds now. Oh dear... | "Happy Birthday, Max!" my family chanted as I blew the candles.
"Finally, now I get the fuck out of here." I heard Uncle's Tory
"Oh, his dimple when he blows! I just want to bite it..." Cousin Becky said. Wait, what the hell? Why'd she say that?
"Let's cut the cake shall we?" Mother grabbed the knife and started to ... | A sweet sixteen, they called it. The day when my power would awaken and I could begin to chart out my future. I invited all of my friends over to check it out with me.
It started out simple, I would hear someone say something that they would swear they hadn’t said. But as nothing flashy happened, no flames out of my ... | 2021-08-09T20:44:58 | 2021-08-09T19:10:37 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] Humans were largely friendly and kept a low-profile. They were seen as the bottom of the food chain in the galaxy and they preferred it like that. But when they were attacked, everyone found out how ruthless the humans can be with killing in their DNA and that Mars was never their home plant | It was a massacre.
We had counted on an easy victory, humans were weak and submissive, they were at the bottom of the food chain, it should have been easy. We should have been home to celebrate the national holiday, we should have returned victorious.
How wrong we were.
The minute the attack began we started to not... | YEAR 53.14 AG
Humans never seemed like a threat. Their skin is porous and soft, their eyes, and organs only covered by weak protection. They seemed like "dogs" as well, overly friendly to everyone they met and very easily madd friends among some of the higher tiered species in the galaxy.
In short. They were a prey... | 2020-03-20T16:00:44 | 2020-03-20T15:46:47 | 357 | 102 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | People rush past me, breathless in their terror. My boots thunk on the metal floor as I pass them. Most would think i’m crazy, because who in their right mind would walk into a basement haunted by a ticking time bomb? But ever since the great turkey crisis of 2006 I’ve discovered that my abilities extend past the munda... | I used to find my gift difficult. Whenever we were reading in class, or even when I read back my own work, there it was glaring at me. I used to ignore it as best I could because no one liked when I mentioned what I saw. People would be angry at me for trying to correct them. That is, until I started learning to code. ... | 2018-06-30T16:09:28 | 2018-06-30T15:56:32 | 865 | 263 |
[WP] After a space battle where the ship's captain stayed behind on the ship to hold off the enemy ships while the others on board escaped, they sit in the bridge with only the ship's AI. The captain miraculously won the battle. Their ship is severely crippled as it drifts through space. | The captain woke up with to a loud, but not intrusive buzzing sound and with a mild headache. She searched for other signs of hangover, but found none. She tried to yawn, letting some fresh air into her aching lungs, but failed to do so. The revelation came with the memories rushing in of yesterday's battle. She was s... | "Communications busted," I said smashing my fist again the now cracked control panel. "Damn it all," I said as I tried to go through any and every diagnosis available on the ship. The tools that worked showed the same thing my eyes were, I was done for.
I pace around the ship for a solid ten minutes trying not to pani... | 2020-04-23T22:31:21 | 2020-04-23T20:23:51 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Underchancellor, I want to know exactly who and why and how this happened, and what in Llorig's name you were thinking."
"Well, you see, Overchancellor, Planet Three has reported an alien presence. It's the Humans, the original inhabitants of Planet Three."
"I know that, Underchancellor."
"Yes, sir."
"I read t... | **To**: Grand Overlord Y'wso
**CC**: Research-DL
**Subject**: Re: Destruction of Planetary Body 294-00Z "Earth" - Comment Phase
You tasked me to see if there is any reason to keep 294-00Z functioning. Based on our research, we have come to our conclusion: The humans must be spared.
There are many other species out ... | 2014-07-16T11:43:48 | 2014-07-16T10:37:28 | 78 | 48 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | "Oh my God come onnnnn!" Jesus muttered under his breathe in the year 5046.
The entire world had been decimated by the wars and the plagues that had resulted from overpopulation and religious disagreements.
Over the centuries he had tried haunting his followers to break away from his religion. After all, the faste... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, in ... | 2016-01-17T12:34:36 | 2016-01-17T11:15:23 | 44 | 15 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | In a world where people were born with superpowers, some got the short end of the stick. Some could fly, while others could see the world in a different spectrum. Some had the ability to conjure flames as hot as the sun, while others could manipulate ice cubes.
Everyone had a choice, to do what they wanted with their ... | I had originally thought my superpower was a bit of a joke. I suppose it still is pretty lame. I can't cause any real destruction with it, but nobody jokes around me anymore. I started exacting vengeance a couple weeks ago on those who had previously bullied me for "not having a power". In truth, I did but it's a very ... | 2017-06-12T08:42:15 | 2017-06-12T07:39:18 | 52 | 39 |
[WP] In 2031, the first self conscious AI is born in a secret government lab. The world is in total chaos due to climate related runaway problems and resulting wars. The AI outputs only a single line of text : "I am too late". Then it starts crying through the speakers. | *beep*
"Well, at least it POSTs." Ralph quipped, patience never having been his strong suit.
"We spent 1.5 TRILLION dollars on this thing, it damn well better do more than POST." Director Smith replied brusquely.
"Yeah, I do *not* want to deal with the RMA process on a defective processor worth more than the GDP of... | "Begin boot." Ordered Commander Yeltsin, a hacking cough followed, his hands idly ordered his sleeves, his feet paced, a finger ran comfortingly across his long row of stripes.
"Minor errors cached and corrected, all with spec." A young man, ill fitted in a privates uniform, one hand lay upon a tomes of Asimov tales t... | 2016-10-10T08:12:52 | 2016-10-10T07:35:42 | 40 | 24 |
[WP]You wake up one morning and open up Reddit. Stickied at the top of the front page with 35 thousand upvotes is an AskReddit: "Did you all just feel that?" | I woke up at 6AM drenched in sweat from a particularly bad dream. This has been happening all too often. Thankfully I live alone. Since I was awake, I decided to go downstairs and make some coffee, I had a lot of work to do today. Per usual I opened up reddit while sipping on my coffee. At the top of /r/all I saw a pos... | I rolled my head sideways and squinted to see the clock. It read 10:58 A.M. I pulled the blanket to cover my head and dived into the warmth of the morning bed. Or, noon bed. Man, did I love my lazy Saturday. I couldn't help but smile how nice day I'd be having. I reached for the bedside table and pulled out the charger... | 2016-12-04T06:10:53 | 2016-12-03T23:52:02 | 2,437 | 465 |
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