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[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... | I walked silently through the deserted town, tracing my fingers along the side of a wall, feeling it crumble beneath my touch. Around me, trees withered and died, their leaves shifting from green to sickly yellow to deathly gray, before they collapsed to ash. I could feel the very air getting colder, the light caress o... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T05:28:06 | 4,320 | 327 |
[WP]You've had bad luck your whole life. One day, you see a free item in the window of a curio shop-a bad luck charm. You think, "What the hell? My luck can't get any worse!" And take it. You're right. Life hasn't programmed luck scores to go into negative. Your luck score rolls back from 0 to 9999. | Talis’ day couldn’t get much worse, but that was hardly a first. First, she was ‘let go’ from their job as a courier— under the pretense that the guild didn’t need another delivery girl in their small town. Then, she receives a notice that if she can’t pay last month’s rent, the landlord would have no issue tossing wha... | "The bad luck charm?" The shopkeeper eyed me incredulously in a mixture of what I could only describe as fear and awe. Then, as if her mind has suddenly started moving from one disaster to another, she began explaining the "purchase" process: "I hope you don't mind if I wrap it. I'm not into superstitions ordinarily, b... | 2020-01-12T15:46:55 | 2020-01-12T15:03:24 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | At a glance, it was a barren planet. Indistinguishable from billions of other planets in the Milky Way.
The first giveaway of something extraordinary was its radiation signature; way beyond the expected range for its class.
Closer inspection revealed ancient structures. Another civilization that burned itself out. St... | He have reason to believe life has once existed here, long before us, not just any life however, intelligent life.
From the years of excavations and searching, we have come this conclusion.
Fortunately we have found skeletons of the life that once lived here, and as such and DNA traces as well.
When compared to the ... | 2019-08-13T16:22:41 | 2019-08-13T16:13:15 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | "Hi... honey. You're home early! Uh, how was the office?"
I blinked. Miranda was still wearing the bottom half of the Miragemancer's combat robes. Miragemancer, who just two hours ago was juggling me between two of her illusion clones in a four-person keep-upsises game that wouldn't have been out of place in a Smash B... | (This is my first submission and also I'm on mobile)
"Hello dear," Valerie said as she finally pulled the multicolored garments of Cyberflux free and tossed it in the open closet door, then slamming it shut rather quickly, "you're home late."
My blood froze. I stood there motionless in the doorway to our bedroom. Som... | 2020-10-30T11:58:10 | 2020-10-30T11:56:26 | 1,069 | 197 |
[WP] Alternate universe where emotional scars are visible on the body
For example: A large gash across the chest could be representative of your mother's death | The wound opens up as her father bustles out of the front door, suitcase in hand, and slams it without a backward glance. She feels blood seeping down her back, like her shoulder is weeping. It doesn’t hurt, but she feels so numb, so confused, that she half wishes it did. From the doorway she watches her mother sitting... | The sun scorched high in the sky, not giving in as the California sun raised the temperature to nearly 40C.
Kids splashed in the pool, shot water at each other and generally did what kids did. All of them had pure skin, no more than a small white scar here or there from small incidents.
The loud chatter of the pool... | 2016-03-25T13:45:16 | 2016-03-25T13:34:43 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] One day, every city that shares a name has a portal open up, connecting them all with each other. Paris, Texas has a great time with it, and many cities celebrate their new neighbors. You, however, live in Hell, Michigan, and things are starting to get strange. | "What is all of this lawlessness?! What is all of this chaos?!"
I looked over at the screaming man and nodded empathetically. I knew exactly what he meant.
Ever since the Merge, there had been a huge shift in Hell, Michigan.
The pros: Even during winter, it was warm. The cons? We kept hearing about the lawlessness,... | “Hey James, pass me the lava bits.” James was usually a horrible roommate, but he was doing okay recently. James is a human man that walked through the portal a week ago. We are best buddies now, but he was a pain in the fiery a** at first. This guy thought it was ok to wear his dirty sneakers in my crimson-floored hom... | 2020-09-25T15:34:37 | 2020-09-25T15:06:53 | 366 | 92 |
[WP] The plot twist is that it was rubber ducky. The rest is up to you. | “MOM!” the girls screamed.
“What is it honey?”
“It’s here again?”
Her mother sighs and starts walking up the stairs.
“We’ve been over this before Patricia. There never was, and still is no monster in your closet.”
She’s met only by silence when she reaches the second floor of the house. Opening the door, the room ... | I jolted awake.
Why, in God's name, was there a Rubber Ducky on the floor? What could have led up to this?
I get out of my bed and start walking towards my Kitchen. Honestly, I don't care about the duck, I'm starving. So, I enter the kitchen, open the fridge.
I groan.
Someone replaced everything in my fridge with R... | 2018-03-21T09:10:04 | 2018-03-21T08:47:57 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] "Is... Is it dead?" the hero asked as the troll collapsed in front of them. They didn't expect to get a response when they heard someone answer ""It" had a name and "it" was my friend you colossal asshole!" | Igo was never strong. Of all the members of his tribe, he was the weakest by far. He was a cowardly weakling who preferred books to battle, and he was bullied mercilessly for it. Yet still, Balthor liked him. Ever since he saved Igo from the older kids, the two had been inseparable. Eventually, the two got fed up and m... | "And why did you mutter that to yourself anyway, Sherlock Holmes? You with your shining armor and your pride face and straight back, were you gonna bury him if he was dead? Oh, no! Oh course not! Too busy 'protecting the land'. Poking and prodding and getting into other people's business. You know, one of you folk barg... | 2022-10-23T21:37:21 | 2022-10-23T21:30:38 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] As someone is time travelling and changing the past, you have to live in a constantly changing present.
Someone is time travelling and changing past events. You, a completely normal person living in the present, have to deal with constant alterations of your life. | I eyed the piece of bacon on my plate suspiciously. It looked more like a bacon-shaped and bacon-scented dog treat than *actual* bacon. "Honey, what is this?"
She slid the eggs out of the frying pan onto my plate and made a regretful face. "I know, I'm sorry. It's some kind of soy bacon. Some environmental terrorists ... | "Janette, will you marry me?"
She looks at me and her eyes shine with tears. "Oh, Hal. Yes. Yes! Of course!"
I stand and force my face into a smile I know will make my cheeks ache. We reach for each other, my arms outstretched to pull her in and kiss her.
And suddenly I'm not in a fancy restaurant eating dinner. I... | 2016-05-18T06:10:14 | 2016-05-18T04:54:23 | 393 | 64 |
[WP] You're the "weakling" tea maker. People think you're a burden on the hero's party. But it's the enchantments from your premium teas that boost the party to world-class. Bandits kidnap you to blackmail the hero. Leaving you in a cell with your tea supplies was a mistake. It's tea time. | "You know, it's refreshing being able to talk to someone about this. I mean, *genuinely* talk to someone, you know?" I said and looked at the man next to me. He stared blankly into the distance, not choosing to answer. I took another sip of my tea.
"People always think I'm just a drag on my brother and his fellow hero... | It's been a week. I needed the bandit's trust. I also needed to know that my party *weren't* coming for me. I've been making plain teas - first for myself, then, on day three, the bandits decided they wanted to try one. Now I'm enslaved as their tea maker. I imagine they don't plan to let me go now... but that doesn't ... | 2022-08-22T12:02:49 | 2022-08-22T09:53:05 | 590 | 201 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | It is not everyday you find a guy like Bruce Wayne in a Coffee shop. This was my chance.
The crowd in the shop was crazy. The prince of Gotham was mingling amongst them.
I walked up to him.
“Mr. Wayne, I am a huge fan. My father used to be very sick when I was a child. You father paid for his treatment. He paid fo... | "You think this is kinda our fault, somehow?"
Taking a quick drag, the shorter of the two detectives grunted. A fog of smoke slowly wafted around the study.
"I mean, us not saying anything. About the bat thing..."
A scowl.
"Come on, Jack. You think no crazy sunnofabitch ever came up to him at one of those fancy... | 2018-03-13T22:35:18 | 2018-03-13T22:34:48 | 548 | 56 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | (Another take on the prompt)
Flashing lights. I was seeing flashing gods damned lights. Is that even possible? I glanced at my instruments and confirmed that yes, we were traveling at well over three times the speed of light. It should not be possible to see lights.
Still, this was anomalous enough to pause the exper... | We didn't mean to doom humanity. Honest. We really didn't.
We were just testing our limits. A new ship, one that could finally exceed the speed of light. That barrier which had so long limited what we considered possible. We would soon travel to other star systems without having to use a generational ship. We would s... | 2018-11-04T05:58:54 | 2018-11-04T05:10:00 | 1,132 | 157 |
[WP] The bride is having an affair with the best man. During his wedding speech the best man decides to see how heavily he can hint about it without anyone actually working it out. | John sipped his drink as he stood up. He shuffled the notes in his hands before glancing across the table. Despite the white, perfect smile on her lips, Jenna watched him with terrified eyes. John had felt those eyes on him all day. Every time he refilled his glass, her smile became more forced. Her gaze became mo... | It isn't jealousy that makes the words turn sour in my mouth. I have prepared trope about how I met my best friend in college and how I'd walk past him every night draped over the toilet seat. How it all changed when he met Maya. Maya, who really is unremarkable when you look at her. Slightly overweight. Her hair ... | 2015-04-02T22:15:17 | 2015-04-02T22:10:37 | 1,568 | 14 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | "2610." I repeated the number slowly and with emphasis. "Two Thousand six hundred and ten."
"I keep a tally. I always keep a tally. That my stock and trade. Well it would have been if not for -"
I raise the green goop my arm had become.
"Y'know I used to believe in all this. Freedom! Righteousness! The Goodness in m... | \[POEM\] The Hardest Part
The Hero saved the day
The way they do
Power by their side
An escape out of view
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The cops got it rough
Cleaning up the mess
What good is a gun
To citizens and their mundane distress
​
The Police Chief to the Mayor
The Mayor to the town
"Back off and let us ... | 2021-03-18T13:37:30 | 2021-03-18T10:44:53 | 126 | 59 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 240 | 16 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | My phone rattled on my nightstand, and I ignored it.
Twenty minutes later, it shook again. The quiet buzz would usually go unnoticed during the day, but the same volume amplified twofold in the middle of the night.
The phone’s shake persisted. I felt myself pried away from a deep slumber.
I grabbed my phone and p... | The room was dark and still. A dog barked somewhere in the distance, it’s rhythmic yelps slipping through the barely open window. A digital alarm clock sat on a bedside table - its face glowed softly as 2:59AM turned to 3:00AM.
A phone buzzed violently beside the clock.
“What the fuck is that?” groaned the previousl... | 2021-01-11T19:03:59 | 2021-01-11T17:28:37 | 1,394 | 216 |
[WP] Kill a man and you're a murderer. Kill thousands and you're a conqueror. Kill everyone and you're a god. | The silence since my ascension had grown deafening. I yearned for the clash of conflict once again. Nothing to do with all my power.
In my solitude I grew desperate in the darkness. At first I loved their admiration. Then their fear and obedience. I thought this would be all I'd ever need.
I would never know. Not ev... | They said I was a god
I felt like a murderer
I was just a fraud
While they called me a conqueror
The power was not mine
But I used it anyway
If only I would have had time
Maybe I could have made them stay
The power was suppose to sustain us
Not turn the world into dust | 2015-04-17T10:01:26 | 2015-04-17T09:57:44 | 323 | 55 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | *Not again*
One second I was driving down I-95, the next I was in a dungeon inside a glowing satanic circle with lava flowing down the walls. If you are familiar with I-95, this is not a significant downgrade, in fact, depending on the day you might find yourself better off. But see, I was going back home, and being s... | The room's runes glowed with such warding powers that the candles only served the purpose of spell ingredients. I paused the game, I was already at a pay point anyway having died multiple times because I needed the sword of Amecles to kill Hexigron and $3.99 was not in today's budget.
I made a step backwards in sho... | 2017-05-12T07:53:08 | 2017-05-12T07:44:27 | 6,106 | 81 |
[WP] Occasionally, as a joke, you touch a random brick, hoping it opens a secret entrance, or speculate that the musician crossing the street has a tommy gun in his guitar case. Anything to distract you from your boring life. Today, you blurted out "Inventory!" and a video game menu appeared. | As a kid, and even now, I’d try to make life seem like a video game. I love video games, always have and always will.
In a video game world, there are no rules, no boundaries, and always a goal. In this world, it’s school, work, and die. Who wouldn’t choose the video game life over this one?
So with every walk in t... | 'Another Brick in the Wall'
What is it that people seek? Be it fame, money, power; those did not appeal to me, i have yet to find that 'thing' that will make my life fulfilled. I spend my days in melancholy, what is the purpose of my life?
Looking along the vast plainscape that is this city, ever-gray and full of fu... | 2020-10-26T18:35:08 | 2020-10-26T17:40:14 | 138 | 44 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a known, common, and expected result of death. You are a bounty hunter that specializes in tracking down people who have committed suicide to escape debts or a jail sentence. | I never understood sentimentality. How could an object mean so much to someone? But as I turned Roan's zippo--a gift from his late father--over in my hands, I didn't need to know why it meant something to him, just that it did.
The sky was Roan's favorite shade of blue as he put out his morning cigarette and checked i... | I’m a bounty hunter. I’ve been around for about five hundred years to do my job, and sometimes I have to kill myself to acquire a stronger body when the one I’m given isn’t strong enough. You see, ‘round these parts, we don’t have a childhood anymore. Law done got rid of that years. Before I go on, let me ‘pologize for... | 2017-07-09T13:48:50 | 2017-07-09T10:45:08 | 77 | 20 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Upon reflection, the decision to save the galaxy might have been a mistake. The Eholim evolved on a gas planet whose composition allowed for liquid water to rain into the depths. Gossamer wings and antennae and organs of helium sacks allowed their bodies to survive forever in flight. Their home-world was so large that ... | As *THEY* came we all stopped what we were doing. We left our homes, our workplaces, religious temples and stared. We stared in disbelief.
How long did it take? Mere weeks. It was a strange preposition.
Councilman Avurr stood on the podium and spoke to us:
"Fellow Dalurians. We have to make a difficult choice. Death ... | 2016-05-13T07:41:46 | 2016-05-13T06:49:00 | 19 | 14 |
[WP]"A superhero fights crime as a part of a team, apparently with the ability to hit his target perfectly with whatever weapon he shoots or throws on the first try. In reality, he has terrible aim, and his actual power is to stop time. He goes through extraordinary efforts to maintain his secret." | "Jesse! Deflect his shots!"
Fuck, I'm out of ammo! Ahh, what to do, what to do? The Destroyer's about to shoot some civilians! Aw crap…
*FREEZE!!*
Oh dear. That's one hell of an order, Jack. You know bullets move faster than sound. I've never shot speeding bullets with my own speeding bullets before, damn it. That's... | "Where did they go!" I exclaimed.
"There they are! In the boat trying to get away. Looks like they picked up a hostage" Shouted Willey Woodchuck pointing at the docks. Sure enough there was the bank robbers and they had a young girl thrown over one of their shoulders. "Crackshot we'll never make it in time. You'll h... | 2017-04-12T08:36:54 | 2017-04-12T07:42:22 | 64 | 48 |
[WP] You are an incredibly powerful supervillain. Your nemesis is an ageing superhero that you string along out of pity. You do just enough villainy to get what you want but let your nemesis win every now and then. Things change when a truly evil supervillain enters the city and kills your rival. | "Oh my god"
...is really all i can say.
Who the hell even is this guy.
This is my turf.
Just for that i oughta feed him his own fingernails.
His invasion wasnt even the worst thing he did. This coward calling himself "the hunter" goes around to small time games (being the back and forth between heroes and villains... | (Poem?) To the tune of “Losing My Religion” my REM
Oh, Captain Clobber
(Sigh) there’s slobber
on the bottom of your lip.
I’m ‘bout to aim the laser.
Be careful of your hip.
Oh No, you’ve fallen over.
I’ve pushed too far.
 
That’s me in the Cowl.
That’s me with the spiked boots,
Trying to defeat you... | 2020-08-31T20:23:26 | 2020-08-31T10:11:40 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] You grew up with your uncle, seeing him bringing weird stuffs home, you'd always thought he was just a hoarder. Untill the day he died, you realized that your uncle was the collector and protector of the most powerfull artifacts in the universe and you are a part of his collection. | Uncle Mike had always been a strange one. Growing up, he was always in and out on his "trips". He'd leave for a while, stop by around the same time every month to drop off more of his garbage, hide in his study for a few days, and then he'd be off again. You didn't really care too much about it. You had always found wa... | Three days is all it took for me, just three damn days to have my whole world shattered. Why'd that bastard have to go and leave me behind? It's not like I can live out my life knowing what he's left behind for me.
And me? What the hell does this goddamn letter mean? You stupid, selfish, cold bastard, I still need yo... | 2018-09-30T03:21:21 | 2018-09-30T01:25:44 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 483 | 308 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | Red.
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All I have been seeing is Red. The seething hatred which is now my soul. I don't know where it came from but I wouldn't be bothered. All I knew was these fuckers had to pay.
It could've been stopped if the Hero was dead. But the villain just HAD to say something. He told how his plan was fool-proof... | It's the same old story, Doctor Brainmaster is robing a bank again and I have to stop him. I hop into my Red, White, and Blue plane and head towards the Central City bank. Hovering above it I see the good doctor has hostages. With a great leap a crash through the Bank's celling. "Captain Fist" he says, "what an unexpec... | 2019-08-06T21:26:45 | 2019-08-06T19:35:07 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You are a being capable of granting wishes so long as people paid by giving away the most precious thing in their lives. Today, you are surprised by the wish and payment given to you. | Magic, despite what you the uninitiated think, actually has very strict rules.
It's all about give and take. See, I'm what you might call a genie. I grant wishes, but it's not as easy as rubbing a lamp.
To get something you have to give up something, of equal value. Now value of things in a universal sense of magic ... | I had been asleep for thousands of years, occasionally awaking for the odd traveler to request eternal wealth in exchange for their mothers locket or their fathers watch. But today was different. As I hear someone approach, I note that they seem to be jingling a lot, almost like there’s hundreds of tiny bells attached ... | 2022-03-30T01:02:06 | 2022-03-29T23:51:22 | 129 | 25 |
[WP] Rampant use of performance enhancing drugs amongst elite Olympic athletes coupled with lifetime bans has led to the creation of the "Performance Games" which encourages pushing the limits of human ability by any means possible. But what happens when things are taken too far? | More Human Than Human. That was the motto of the games. It had started years before. There were more banned competitors than there were clean,and of course someone somewhere had figured out that there was money to be made. The original competitors had fought with steroids and crude cybernetics. Everyone had wanted a pi... | Amery and Styll were lost. Styll woke first. Nothing but blue in all directions. The sea was calm at least, it could've been worst. But only by a bit. We must have overdosed again in practice, she thought. How far did we row? In which direction?
Amery tried to throw up over the side of the little vessel. Nothing came... | 2014-08-24T09:44:32 | 2014-08-24T07:50:21 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | I dug… where had I put it? The valley was still recognizable on the whole, but many of the features were different.
I heard a cough behind me. I spun. The man in the suit was holding *my gun*. "Looking for this?"
I just blinked and considered diving for him - the gun he was holding wouldn't shoot for anyone but me - ... | I sat in the small, uncomfortable plane. The erratic beating of my heart was no less peaceful than the turbulent winds outside. Desperate times called for desperate measures.
The modern weapons of war were tactical and humanitarian in nature. A half-century old rifle was brutally effective, clunky and inhumane. All mi... | 2017-04-21T11:49:06 | 2017-04-21T10:15:10 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Hell is real. The many sinners of the world did what humans always do when faced with hostile terrain: they built a civilization. | Hell gets a bad rep.
I think it's all the propaganda, the usage in media, you know. It's always portrayed as this terrible place of suffering and despair, so you play by all the rules, try to be decent. Then lo and behold, you kick the bucket and end up here. Most people go through the few basic stages - shock and hor... | The year is 2186, humans died after the ark rocket's hyperdrive exploded during testing, the entire earth was destroyed with it leaving nobody alive, its been 5 days since the death of humanity.
This is a story about a man named Jonathan(32), he woke up on the outskirts of Hell, in the region known as Sceptir to the d... | 2022-02-02T14:48:20 | 2022-02-02T10:42:56 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Dear self.
I’m sorry for what I’ve become. A lowly clingy piece of trash just barely surviving. If you could see me 10 years ago, what would you think? Maybe I was happy before. Maybe I had friends who truly cared for me.
Now I hide. I’m broken. I’ve lost my will to live. I can’t function on my own. I cry myself to s... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T23:37:29 | 235 | 12 |
[WP] In the year 2200, an IQ test with 100% accuracy is invented. IQ becomes the universal grade of intelligence. By law, everyone has to take the test at 18. You’re a perfectly normal university student with a part time job but now you've got to explain to everyone why the test shows your IQ is 0. | "What do you mean it says zero?" the major bellowed. "Did you eggheads forget an electrode?" He turned and stared at me through the glass. I think I had gone cross-eyed by that point.
"Uh, no sir, it would be reporting NULL if there was no connection." One of the anonymous men in lab coats tentatively replied. He had ... | "No sir you don't understand. The test is 100% accurate. Not 99.99 percent accurate. 100%."
"Ma'am I refused to take the test on the grounds that-"
"The test is 100% accurate. 100." She cut me off, this time slightly more annoyed, "From the moment you entered the test chamber until the very moment you left the test w... | 2016-08-19T00:50:27 | 2016-08-19T00:38:57 | 200 | 14 |
[WP] So tell me this, elf. If you're so much better than humans at everything, then how come even though your ancient civilization dates back millenia before we "crawled out of the mud pits", you're still riding around on horses and swinging sharp pieces of metal just like us? | # Soulmage
**"Do you know what happens to civilizations that progress too far technologically?"** Tento asked.
I shook my head, eyeing the elf. His lips quirked in a joyous grin, and he leaned in close enough that I could feel his breath tickling my ear.
"*Neither do we,*" he whispered. A shiver ran down my spine, a... | Before I was born, a long time ago, there was a war. It was a war fought silently against the men who had recently discovered us and our kind. Their weapons back then were already impressive, their firearms were capable of killing even the strongest of our warriors.
"How did they find us?" one of the priests asked. He... | 2022-09-04T08:51:49 | 2022-09-04T08:49:33 | 744 | 367 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villians doorstep one night, shivering, bleeding, and scared. There’s also a dazed look in their eyes- they were drugged. Looking up at the villian, swaying as they’re close to passing out, they mumble “didnt know where else to go..” and collapse into the villians arms. | How did he know where I lived? That's the question I asked myself as I opened the door and looked into the face of my greatest enemy, Superion.
He looked like shit. Someone beat the hell out of him and he could barely stand up. He wiped away the blood from his face and said "I didn't know where else to go.." before ... | She stiffens. Her heart would have skipped a beat and her blood would have ran cold if she still had a human heart fed by human blood. The hairs on the back of her neck would have stood up and the skin along her arms would have rapidly risen into goosebumps. Her hands would perhaps shake and her pupils would have grown... | 2019-09-13T18:03:05 | 2019-09-13T17:49:17 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] You, an all-powerful villain, managed to defeat the child of prophecy. The problem is he's literally a child. You now turn your eyes towards the gods who sent the poor soul against you. | “Is this really what you wanted?”
My voice screeched skyward, scraping at the abyss of black looming above. Around me, the darkness shuddered, shaking my bones with a cold they had not known for many years. Their laughter resonated across realms, quaking the very foundations of the universe. These gods of old must hav... | "What the fuck"
"Sorceress, we've been ex-"
"*What. The. Fuck.*"
"Your monstrous end had to come at so-"
"Don't.. You dare. Speak to me with that tone. You have no moral high ground here. A child, you sent to kill me, a child." She said gesturing to the boy sobbing in the arms of one of her assistants, Throg, scrag... | 2021-02-21T23:07:46 | 2021-02-21T20:02:07 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] You're a judge, with special abilities to read minds, and see into one's past. There is an innocent man on trial for murder. However, the opposition lawyer have very concrete fake evidence that convicts him. Tell me the process of you saving the innocent accused. | This was a massive changing point in my career, do I try and be the hero and risk my credibility? Or do I just have to suck it up and deal with the guilt? This man was brought here against his will and now had a whole trial to deal with. He was already poor, I could see it. How would he pay for his legal fees? I couldn... | I wake up in the morning with an intense migraine and a now-emptied-out cheap bottle of wine tipped over the side of my bed, leaving a stain that runs down the side of my mattress onto the carpet beneath it. I realize why I must have drank so heavily last night as I take out my phone and see that I have to present anot... | 2016-07-11T17:59:30 | 2016-07-11T16:02:59 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] You die and go to heaven and in heaven there is a rule. Every time someone on Earth says your name with the intention of mentioning you specifically, one dollar is added to your bank account in heaven. You lived the most average and mundane life on Earth but you are a billionaire in heaven. | We never had children. We couldn't have them ourselves, of course, and by the time it became possible for us to adopt, we were just too old. It's a tragedy, really. We loved children and would have made good parents, I think, if people hadn't been so afraid.
But I couldn't so much as smile at a child without a police... | I turn on the lights. What possible reason could someone have to wake me up this late?
"Hello?" I ask. It was too dark out for me to see anyone.
"Good evening mister!"
"Good evening to you as well." It was a little boy. By his looks he must be one of the less fortunate kids to live in Heaven. Well, "live"...
"You'r... | 2017-04-01T17:55:30 | 2017-04-01T17:46:09 | 140 | 70 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | It had been some time since a species had disturbed my slumber. Cycles beyond their comprehension, as I lay resting in the comforting pull of the gravity around me. And yet, I could feel a change in the stars. Pyolia's my kind, the old guard, had evolved before stars burned and rock rose. Ancient. Curious. Powerful. A... | A parody
“Hello, I’m Cesar Milan, and I’m the Dog Whisperer, and today we’re going to a very special place! Today, we’re going to Galgon 5 to deal with a real problem. NASA has found vicious beasts that keep breaking their equipment and eating the astronauts.”
“Is he really going to narrate this whole time?” I thou... | 2021-04-07T23:13:27 | 2021-04-07T21:11:22 | 106 | 11 |
[WP] As a hero's apprentice you knew that the training would be grueling, but you didn't expect the hero to be actively trying to kill you during your drills. After sixteen months of torturous training you've finally snapped and have decided to kill the hero however you can. | Part 1/2
American Son was one of the greatest heroes the world had ever known. A lone WWII soldier who was resurrected by the goddess Nike and granted incredible power, American Son had been saving the world for almost eighty years. He was a founding member of the People's Champions, an instructor at Truman Hero Prep,... | — Look I already told you. He was a mean guy. He might’ve kept his true mind low and appear with a smile but when we were private and pressure came, he was not the type of person you want to get along with.
For starters, the training program was enough of a hassle. The machines were made for his levels of power, not... | 2022-10-27T18:20:59 | 2022-10-27T15:05:42 | 108 | 23 |
[WP] You are a 100 year old lady living alone, your neighbor offered to buy your house and let you live in it rent free. Its been 10 years now, he doesn't know you are immortal and he is getting very inpatient! | Dear neighbor,
​
You probably wonder where I have been the last few days, and I am sure this letter will break your heart, but it is time to say goodbye.
​
The last months have been a blast, but all good things come to an end and I had to move.
My old body simply can't keep up with yours, but... | 2/3/2015
Today I turned 100! Today my neighbor wished me a happy birthday, but soon offered to buy my house and let me live in it for free. Truth be told I don’t need him to do that I have enough money to survive off of, but I accepted his offer because he kept asking.
2/3/2025
It has been 10 years since my neighbo... | 2021-08-31T04:45:50 | 2021-08-30T23:18:33 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] "I'll tell you what, kid," says Death. "I actually like you, and to be fair, you've got a pretty good reason to keep living. So if you settle one of my old gambling debts, kill the last person to trick me out of death, his immortality is yours. Fair warning though, he spent his time wisely..." | So, tell me about him.
‘Well’ death sat down on a chair that had magically appeared, a horrific skull bound recliner ‘he was a bastard... a real monster. Slaughtered millions... then he fell in battle... when he bested me, I KNEW he had cheated, but couldn’t prove it.’
Death stretched out and continued.
‘You see ... | I’m chaning he to she. Why? You’ll know why.
——————————————————————
That’s why I’m back.
For that extra bit of immortality.
I mean look at the deal! One life for another? That’s basically like a regular return policy.
Now... I do have to kill someone with immortality. *She* apperantly has had more than enough time... | 2019-01-03T18:54:18 | 2019-01-03T18:35:51 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| Over the course of the last two days, the tone had changed dramatically at mission control. My eyes burned as I closed them, sucking down another lukewarm coffee. My stomach ached and I wondered if it was the stress, or the Chinese takeout. Probably both.
I stared at the communications log once again "Touchdown succes... | Red flashing lights and the sound of the allarm sirens echoes in the suffocating corridors of the Habitat Alpha-03. In the shadows an intestineless body blocks my path.
"You are going to make it, you can do this, I know you can"
Splatted blood trickling on the floor.
I gently move the corpse, that falls loudly at my ... | 2019-01-31T06:24:03 | 2019-01-31T05:21:38 | 134 | 53 |
[WP] You are God. You just logged on to one of your old saves, and you’re confused as to where those massive lizards went and where all these pink fuckers came from. | **| Anyone remember the old Adapt! Series? Amazing new glitch found?? |**
 
[EDIT]:
I didn't expect this to get so much attention, even from non-Adapt! players! For some clarity for non-players, let me elaborate on the Adapt! series.
The Adapt! series was a game for old 'QuantGame' systems that came ou... | It had been so long, I couldn’t even remember the name of the save file. There were a few experiments that could be interesting to revisit but I had a particular one in mind. After sifting through a series of unsuccessful saves filled with barren mountains and drowned continents, I stumbled upon it.
When I had left, ... | 2017-12-12T21:52:14 | 2017-12-12T21:01:27 | 75 | 16 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "The motorcade is travelling towards you. Mehmedbašić, roll for initiative."
"4."
"The car drives past before you have a chance to act."
"God damnit."
"Don't worry guys, this is why we have backup in place."
"Čubrilović, it's your turn."
"I get... 2. Shit."
"You also fail to do anything before the Archduke's car... | "Merry Christmas!"
George flipped through his character sheet a few times as the DM handed out gifts.
"Now, we don't have long for today's session, do you guys think we should just hand out gifts and get back to-"
George flicked his gaze across his party, a grin settling on his face. "Say, it's also Christmas in gam... | 2018-05-29T06:42:10 | 2018-05-29T06:10:01 | 4,675 | 774 |
[WP] "We can accept god becoming man to save man, but not man becoming god to save himself" | I watched Andrew pushing through the others. My brother's side was winning. I wanted to congratulate him as he went down across the goal line but I knew better. The last time we had met he was on his knees begging for mercy. I had walked up to him trying to tell him that he would never need to ask for such a thing fr... | The pope's words echoed across the cathedral. Murmurs arose amongst the cardinals, as various religious leaders shook their heads in agreement.
"We cannot forgo our mortal flesh, most of all to save ourselves. God put us here on this earth for a reason, and he even walked amongst us to save our souls - but we cannot a... | 2016-11-24T06:53:07 | 2016-11-24T06:13:55 | 688 | 169 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | The first day, every RPG fan nearly went insane. By a week, everyone had begun to get over it and we'd even figured out the number was our level. I'd always been a huge fan of RPGs, so it was quite a pleasant surprise to wake up to. My two of my closest friends were a level 6 rogue and a level 9 paladin, which was pret... | I thought it would be just another morning,
but then it went crazy with minimal warning.
An itch, a scratch... something on my wrist
I gave it a glance and made a slight twist.
Upon my skin I found an etched number
Immediately I emerged from my slumber.
Was this a sign, a message from heaven?
In bright cerulean ... | 2015-07-13T18:22:30 | 2015-07-13T16:47:26 | 76 | 26 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | A deep, primal roar echoed through the hull of the ship, muffled by the doors of the mess hall. It was there the crew of the Leviathan huddled. Roughly 50 of the galaxy's best hunters, trappers and bounty hunters stood,every species and race imaginable, quivering like frightened mice in a trap.
At approximately 2300 ... | [PI] "It has claws, Dor-ek. *Claws* " Echek exclaimed in horror. Their sensory appendages, reminecent of the eyes of the Earth species called snails, shivered in aggitation.
Dor-ek, of a world where body language was the prime mode of communication, making verbal communication almost obselete, tries not to let his righ... | 2019-11-21T08:55:59 | 2019-11-21T08:22:03 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | Day 32
​
It's been 32 cycles. 32 whole cycles, and still the chase continues. We won't last any longer. Half the squad has given up and surrendered, while the other half has been gradually picked out and killed. Commander Ydrevous has ordered me, Captain Xsimoth, to write our final words and warnings. Fell... | The arena itself was over a thousand miles square. It was the largest arena in the western Zyraxian realm. It was built to hold the universe’s most exotic species. The floating platform had within tens of thousands of rooms with thousands of species managed and researched. The floor of the arena itself was made of a sp... | 2021-02-04T09:02:10 | 2021-02-04T08:53:25 | 846 | 406 |
[WP] You are a passive aggressive time traveler, who tries to make people feel bad for things that haven't even happened yet. | Well bugger me! After nearly 25 years of careful planning and saving up an obscene amount of money, plus not to mention getting involved with some downright nefarious characters, I was finally here! It hadn't been easy but nothing worth having or doing ever is, and there is still so much to be done.
"Good morning cl... | "Could you pass da ketchup?" Harold waved his chubby fingers in Katyn's direction, throwing up a small wave of granulated salt with the gesture.
"Oh, I could." Katyn glared at him, "I could pass you this ketchup in the bottle that will never decompose, and feed you more pure sugar until the whole world is in diabetic ... | 2015-06-09T12:09:43 | 2015-06-09T11:23:08 | 74 | 47 |
[WP] You are the captain of a starship, only a few hours before the last star in existence dies and the universe goes cold.
Inspired by my answer to another prompt about running out of time. | We'd known that the stars were going out for generations. Our best and brightest had cobbled together a sleeper ship so that humanity could live beyond our universe's demise. A ship which could breech the walls of our cradle and allow us to find a new home.
I'm the 44th Commander of the Gaia. All I know of what's com... | Captain: "Well, looks like our first order of business is to rename what we call this ship. Obviously " starship" won't work anymore. Suggestions? We're brainstorming here, anything goes."
1st officer: cold space ship?
Captain: you're fucking fired
Engineer: ship of fools?
Captain: gawdammit, people!
Doctor: GoodS... | 2015-01-17T10:25:25 | 2015-01-17T07:00:38 | 154 | 87 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 127 | 16 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | Dear Mom,
Today is the day. The most important day of my life up until now. Today, I will set foot on Earth for the first time! I'm excited, but quite scared too. How will the masses react? What can we do in the first few days? How do we settle forever? I'm glad Papa has given me many of his notebooks, but we were slo... | “What do you mean they’re returning?” - ted Albright was a seasoned war veteran. The kind of man, who just doesn’t back down, a grizzled old man on his 70s.
“Well... sir... they’re just coming, no contact, no warning whatsoever. “ - lucian answered nervously, he had only heard the story, the one where the richest peop... | 2019-12-07T06:54:26 | 2019-12-07T06:13:36 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Peter,
I'm sorry to say that I'm not the person you likely wanted to send your letter to. But don't fear, child, for I will bring you the gifts you asked for, so long as you promise not to tell your parents about this mistake.
Now, just so I remember, you asked for an Iron Man action figure, a puppy, and a for y... | Dear Timothy.
I've gotten the list of things you've asked for.
I assure you I am very capable of bringing your dog back. Just as well, I can stop the teasing and jeering of your elder sister.
I was informed as to what a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" is, and I believe I can acquire that as well.
However, I'm not cert... | 2018-10-28T13:50:03 | 2018-10-28T10:08:58 | 30 | 10 |
[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. | **The Nightmare of the Dreamless**
I never intended to start a war, but I do intend to win.
How simply it all began, with an uncommon answer to a common question.
“Congratulations Mr. President, you’re having a boy,” the doctor had said, rubbing the ultrasound device over my wife’s growing belly. “Shall we begin the... | My heart raced as my boots pounded the pavement, a shriek from about twenty feet back shattering the night air. The street lights flickered from the surge of energy unleashed by its wail, and I knew right then that this was a new class of creature. I abandoned the path to the bunker; I would never outrun one of those t... | 2022-03-18T10:33:48 | 2022-03-18T09:57:34 | 514 | 60 |
[WP] A man hands you an object and asks you desperately to hide it from him. What is the object and why is it so important that it be hidden from him? | I'd known Kevin as long as I can remember; we grew up in the same neighbourhood, went to all the same schools, we weren't what you would consider close but we had a bond that you develop when you've known someone for that amount of time. At some point throughout the years he had gotten into some dark stuff, messed arou... | "Terry, you have do hide this from me," Arthur pleaded as his pressed a manila envelope into my hands. "I can't have this in my house anymore. Please, just take it."
What could I do? He was my best friend and the desperation in his eyes left me no choice.
"Thank you, Terry. You don't know how much this is going to he... | 2014-01-07T09:58:12 | 2014-01-07T09:54:04 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Every morning you wake up with small wounds; just little scrapes and bruises you attribute to flailing in your sleep. This morning, you woke up with a huge cut across your hip, a glowing golden dagger plunged into the wall, and what looks an awful lot like a dead angel on your floor. | My head pounded, and I found that I could not breathe through my nose. I sat up and felt the aches of my body call my eyes to my hips. And there I saw the deep wound, black in the hazy light.
I blinked, and felt my stomach churn at the sight.
I whimpered and looked around. I saw, in the wall, a knife, glinting gold i... | It all started three weeks ago; I woke up with a single long scratch on my leg. I didn’t pay any attention to it; I had to get to work. The next morning I had a small cut on my arm. Every day I woke up to more and more. I thought maybe I was hitting my metal bedframe in my drunken sleep, but the cuts kept coming even w... | 2017-12-23T22:55:02 | 2017-12-23T22:13:59 | 147 | 68 |
[WP] You are a detective meeting your new partner... Who only speaks in grizzled, noir metaphors no matter the context. How does your first case go? | I wiped my hand self-consciously on the leg of my pants and put on a winning smile. "Hi," I said. "Detective Jones. Pleased to meet you."
He stood in front of me, slouched and rumpled. Without breaking eye contact, he pulled an artfully battered pack of cigarettes out of his pocket and lit one with the flick of a ligh... | DAVE AND DICK: THE FIRST CASE
We stepped over the crime scene tape and entered the apartment. I already had my ipad out, stylus at the ready. There was a girl lying face down in a pool of blood, a knife stuck out of the right side of her back. I quickly started jotting down notes: *victim is approximately five and hal... | 2015-09-07T15:20:00 | 2015-09-07T15:11:23 | 93 | 13 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | I’m not really sure if I should be doing this, or if I even miss you right now, but some how you always find your way into my mind. I can’t believe I promised you I could be strong that day because I felt so weak knowing I couldn’t have your presence in my life anymore, but I think I have gotten “stronger” since then. ... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-06T00:23:50 | 235 | 10 |
[WP] When you die, you are given an option—either be judged for your sins, or choose what’s behind The Door. The noble and arrogant choose to be judged, the evil and fearful choose The Door. When given the option, you choose to simply turn around and walk away. | Two choices. To the left, a scale, with a feather placed on one of the plates, where the sins of now gone souls would be weighed against it. To the right, a solid oak door, behind which there was only the unknown. The pair sat side by side, alone in the middle of an empty white void, where a man now stood as well. As t... | welcome to purgatory whaddya want?"
A girl, no older than 16, with a McDonald's uniform stood behind a counter.
"I- I- uh, what?"
Just a moment ago you had tripped into a busy street, so now standing in a void with nothing but a girl in a McDonald's uniform in front of you, you begin to put 2 and 2 together.
"Y... | 2022-11-05T12:24:58 | 2022-11-05T05:58:50 | 1,347 | 234 |
[WP] The first human is sentenced to death by an alien civilization, who don't know the first thing about how to kill a human. | "You have been sentenced to die, by our most toxic of substances." They shrieked, their ugly voices resonating in my head.
"I didn't know you were sentient! I just want to go home!"
"You should have considered the consequences! Prepare for death by kuroxis.."
"Kuroxis? What the fuck is kuroxis?!" I asked, but then, ... | *Sigh* This is the fifth anal probe I've received today, I'm not sure how that's supposed to off me, butt... Maybe I'll die of embarrassment. How did I end up here? One day I was out in the woods near my farm looking for ol' Betsy my cow. She'd been out for 4 days straight. My guess is that you probably think I'm just ... | 2015-09-11T12:17:41 | 2015-09-11T10:32:47 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] How strongly can you make someone hate a character? | It wasn't enough to get a hundred. Any fool could get a hundred. The commander had set the bar too low so that the nobodies could crawl over it. Jiro was going to do better. He was going to make his ancestors proud. He was going to get every possible kind of Nanjing scum there was. He was going to behead each one with ... | Considering how the day had started, Gus thought things were going rather swimmingly now. When that pregnant lady had taken his seat on the tube, Gus had written the day off. After it taking multiple jabs with his umbrella to move her, he was on the verge of just returning the bed.
Gus enjoyed the watching the rain f... | 2013-09-15T04:47:37 | 2013-09-14T14:26:04 | 113 | 13 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | “Wait, you got what now?”
“X-ray vision.” I put my head down on the table.
“Dude that’s fucking awesome! For my 21 mutation all I got was really fast growing hair, and that’s lame” my friend Derek said. His hair was down to his shoulders though he had been buzzed bald this morning. He went through razors faster... | Everyone knew this day would come, the day that would determine the rest of our lives. No one knew where the mutation came from, my parents always told me that it was just a path of life, that their parents had mutations and so did the generation before them. Today was the day, my 21st birthday, my grandmother had alwa... | 2015-03-04T06:44:10 | 2015-03-04T00:56:46 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] “So you’ve come hero.” The most powerful dark lord in history says as he faces you across the hall. But before you take another step, he motions to the cutest little girl you’ve ever seen with tears in her eyes. “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.” | "Why....?" the little girl stammered, her face full of tears. "Why does Grandpa need to die? He hasn't done anything wrong!"
I stopped and looked towards the little girl.
"Your grandfather needs to die", I replied, "because he is the worst person in the world."
"That's not true! He-"
I cut her off. "Your grandfath... | *But why?*
I wondered this whilst crying behind the throne, watching my grandfather's life pour out of him like so many libations. He gasped, collapsing in a pool of black. Toward the end, even his humanity had begun to dissipate. Corruption and dark magic worked it's way into his blood, poisoning his thoughts even as... | 2019-12-11T21:16:13 | 2019-12-11T18:36:58 | 616 | 47 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | \[PART 1/2\]
"Are you a criminal?" The voice in the grove of quiet barren willows and shifting darkness asked.
I was taken aback by the question. I thought I was to be devoured, consumed. Eaten up like I was nothing more than a snack for this *thing*.
But instead, it asked me a question. A question even I was unsure... | “Killer!” “Send him to the woods!” “It would eat you, murderer”. I only wanted to leave the village, that was all.
I walk away from the people who who were my friends, my family, into the thick line of trees. Yes I have killed and in doing so committed a great sin, I however have no evil in my heart. My assaulter does... | 2021-03-16T12:18:44 | 2021-03-16T10:05:48 | 151 | 64 |
[WP]: When you died you find out that souls are put up for auction for various religions to bid upon. When you are present on the block, a bidding war started that has not been seen in millennium and you do not know why every religion wants your soul. | I opened my eyes slowly, but what... I saw, if you could call it that, just wasn't natural. I did not see light, but rather I perceived both existence and eternity. I couldn't even begin to grasp the enormity of the everything of all time. To say that it was overwhelming would have been putting it very, very mildly.... | I braced myself, waiting for the inevitable jolt of the train crashing through my car. It never came.
In fact, I wasn't sitting in my car anymore, and I was pretty sure it wasn't daytime. I sat up and looked around. I was sitting on a wooden bench on what appeared to be a large veranda overlooking an enormous hill c... | 2014-12-01T07:14:28 | 2014-12-01T00:07:50 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] The Distant Future. The vampires have risen and taken most of the world. Humanity's last refuge is Africa: where the rain itself is holy water, having been blessed long ago by the vampire hunters of Toto. | It was the seventh day in which the rain fell strongest. A ceaseless downpour of holy death laying across our sacred land, acting as a barricade from the invading heathens. It should have been a night darker than the soul of the oldest vampire, and yet the rain blessed us in more way than one.
For seven days they had... | It's been 49 days. 49 days of assaults, 49 days of brain-washed minions, 49 days of out future attempts to battle their bizarre vampire magic. My mother has fallen ill since their attacks, and neither I nor my father knows what to do.
We've gathered to an outpost in Egypt. It's only on the edge of what counts as Afri... | 2019-05-29T17:19:18 | 2019-05-29T16:54:39 | 328 | 65 |
[WP] Nuclear holocaust is imminent. The rich and powerfull are hiding away in their bunkers, but when the countdown was finished the world was still there. One message was sent around the world via satellites: "Now They have imprisoned Themselves what shall We do?" With coords of all the bunkers.. | *I take a sip of my red wine, grinning to myself as the timer had finally stopped. Just as I predicted, showing everyone on the most live of feeds, the rich and the powerful gave in, inviting absolutely nobody but themselves into their bunkers, hiding away in things which they did not create and yet took the effort whi... | No one actually trusted them.
Once the ruse was discovered, people did as people would... and helped them.
Millions of people died in the fear and panic caused by the Terrorists; mothers smothering infants in the fear of immenity death, sucide pacts signed in the last minute, and riots across the world in fear of a d... | 2022-07-18T18:23:41 | 2022-07-18T17:54:11 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 803 | 66 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | The Princess noticed the knight's glistening armor long before he reached the keep. She walked down the stairs and into the courtyard to greet him, as she had done with so many before.
"Sir knight," she exclaimed, "present yourself."
The knight dismounted, drew his blade and knelt before The Princess, offering his ... | April 5: I've finished digging the moat and the crocodiles have already moved in, fantastic.
4/6: me and Chico both had a good hard laugh when this suited up loser got devoured. all those dollars for armor but zero sense. I saddled up Chico and we flew to Halfordshire for some juicy lambs, dined and dashed because ... | 2019-01-09T13:25:46 | 2019-01-09T11:44:13 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] Every human born is given a card with a date on it, which is the date of their death. Green text means your death will be natural, while red text means unnatural. You are the first person ever given a card with blue text.
Wow, great stories everyone! I keep checking them between breaks at work, so sorry for missi... | I stared at the thin slip of paper in my hand. Never had this happened before. I have heard of and seen many things in my life, but this was something I never would have expected.
Every person receives a card on their 18th birthday, sometimes left in the mail, or delivered at your door. My friend had gotten his a mon... | The noise rung in my ear, like a church bell on a Sunday afternoon. At any other time the loud noise would bother me and make me shout ‘shut up!’ In my mind, but this day was different. The loud excited chattering of the group next to me made me anxious but exited also.
Would I be a green card or red? Would it even m... | 2019-05-15T08:56:55 | 2019-05-15T05:49:54 | 147 | 17 |
[WP] You have died. You walk up a staircase and it takes you a thousand years to climb. You reach the top exhausted, and see the pearly gates. To your surprise, they have rusted over and inside is completely barren. A sign reads "Welcome to heaven. Population: 1" | To my surprise, the stairway to heaven was excruciatingly literal. I lost track of how long it took to get to the top, but it didn't really matter. Without the assistance of a bright sun to light the day or a moon and stars to illuminate the dark night, time itself was incalculable. One foot in front of the other, I cl... | *Hey! You there. Welcome! Welcome to Heaven. You made it, you lived your live valiantly/humbly/ and or religiously and now you get to inherited the kingdom of heaven.*
**Um...excuse but where is everybody. Took me a thousand years to climb those steps and quite frankly I a bit disappointed...and yes, before you ask I ... | 2018-12-17T08:59:28 | 2018-12-17T07:30:17 | 165 | 51 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | General Beck burst into the mess hall and swept his gaze across the startled soldiers. They had been drinking, celebrating the surrender of France, and the apparent end of the war. But they didn't know about the curse. Few but the inner circle did. Germany must fall.
The men quickly stood at attention, as well as the... | The year is 2564. I am the last man on earth. The world was slowly ending and we knew it. What remains of humankind is settled on Mars, minus the Germans. World War XVI had taken its toll, but what we had never expected was how the war ended. Out of nowhere, with no warnings, Mauna Loa erupted for the first time since ... | 2017-08-18T05:03:51 | 2017-08-18T00:11:45 | 1,294 | 44 |
[WP] "You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless. A very important distinction. " Our first contacts were harmless, those met later couldn't tell the difference. | "Lieutenant, report."
"Sir. I believe my recon mission was successful. I have gauged the Trilthe's forces to the best of my ability. Their army is for show. Ceremonial. They have no hidden troops, they don't have minutemen civilians based on the ruckus a team made on the ground and the lackluster response. Their we... | One of the greatest lessons I learned as a warrior-diplomat was the importance of the eyes within conversation and confrontation. When at the state of mind that is normally seen as a calm awareness, your eyes are to be soft but not vulnerable; relaxed but not lazy; thoughtful but not dreaming. This is to create ease in... | 2021-10-04T22:00:11 | 2021-10-04T19:13:46 | 283 | 126 |
[WP] The day you die, Death comes and asks if you are ready to go. Jokingly, you say no. To your surprise, he leaves. Now every year he comes back to ask again | I died choking on lunch in my office. Ironic, because we’d just spent the Friday two weeks ago going over CPR and first aid procedures, but obviously that didn’t do much good. I suppose I could have done more to help myself - I have my own office, so there was no one there to see me clutching at my throat. I could have... | *I stood in a white void facing a hooded figure, confused and somewhat scared.*
*“Where am I?” I asked the figure. “Are you the grim reaper?”*
*“Yep. I’m sorry to say this, man, but, well, you’re dead. You really should have looked both ways before you crossed that busy street...” He replied, shrugging.*
*“Damn, rea... | 2019-04-16T13:05:03 | 2019-04-16T11:45:19 | 67 | 30 |
[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | The voice was sharp. “What in Hel’s name are you doing in MY KITCHEN?”
The scullions knew that tone and scrambled away from the cook before moving away from the lightly armored men who had chased the Prince of the Realm through the servants’ door. It had already been a day of trying to not have that voice turned towar... | Changed it a bit, hope you dont mind.
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“Im gonna die! Oh my god. Please dont let them kill me.”
She didnt even listen to him, she was doing a dance, sort of. She did it couple of times now. He did not know how that would be of any help.
“Why are you dancing! Are you crazy?!”
“Go stand in that c... | 2021-01-08T06:16:23 | 2021-01-08T04:28:42 | 327 | 47 |
[WP] You thought creating a universe would be easy. But as these pesky humans kept trying to discover the rules of their reality, you're forced to programme in more and more ridiculous mechanics like "relativity" and "quantum mechanics", hoping humans never found out that they live in a simulation. | It’s getting out of hand. These humans. They are always pushing, always trying to see further and it really is making my job difficult. I’m just a low-level simulation programmer. They don’t pay me enough for this headache.
I miss the days when the humans looked into the stars and saw their ancestors shining back at t... | It was fun at first, creating bullshit rules on a whim, just to enrich the lore. Then the humans started the stupid trend of 'fuck around and find out '.
I had to pull an all-nighter, cash in a favour and even ask my mom for advice. After all that I was finally ahead of the curve but unfortunately, it was not to last... | 2021-03-29T09:04:24 | 2021-03-29T08:24:53 | 548 | 308 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | If someone told an outsider to this world who our greatest champion and nemesis was, and what their powers were, they'd understandably be confused. After all, most archetypes depict heroes as saviours, wielding weapons of light and flying after villains, who used shadows to mask themselves and their wicked crimes. It ... | I used to believe that I had a weird power. If you know about Moira from Overwatch I promise I didn’t just steal the idea from her. The game wasn’t even in concept yet at the time I believed I had this ability. Anyway, the ability I thought I had was that I could steal with my left hand and give with my right. By this ... | 2020-06-15T10:58:47 | 2020-06-15T09:43:33 | 54 | 12 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | As a young man in Delphi, Gouliélmos generally rushed through lessons with his tutors in order to run outside and wrestle and throw javelins and race chariots. As a result, his standing in the academy was low, but at sport he had few equals, and this gave him great confidence and arrogance.
One day, Dionysus and Herm... | Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a tavern with his sister. Times had been bad in the city where he lived, so he had decided to come home and live closer to his mother, who was very ill. With him, he brought the fairest princess in all the land. She had long golden hair and a radiant face, with a smile that c... | 2015-06-10T10:25:42 | 2015-06-10T06:53:17 | 730 | 16 |
[WP] You have a superpower where the harder a solid is the easier it is for you to break. Diamonds crumble to dust under the slightest touch but mashed potatoes are virtually unbreakable. | They call me a superhero. A few months ago, I was awarded the Key to the World by the UN for destroying a giant diamond asteroid before it impacted with Earth. Since then I tried to keep it quiet, I never enjoyed being in the spotlight, I just want to work and come home and go on Reddit. The media shockingly respect my... | "I think he's gone mad..."
"Shiiiit...he's lost it..."
The boys stare at Kevin from around the corner and quickly duck back, not wanting to be caught staring. But there was something really weird going on in the kitchen. Kevin was being really weird.
"What the fuck do we do? This is not normal behavior!" Liam hisses... | 2017-05-19T03:24:21 | 2017-05-19T02:01:43 | 586 | 168 |
[WP] While sitting in class you absentmindedly doodle something in your notebook that looks like a rune. Suddenly your book begins to glow. Your teacher looks at you, sighs, and says “Looks like we have another one,” then turns and begins drawing mysterious symbols on the board. | As the lesson drags on towards what feels like the third millennia, I can't help but turn back to my notebook full of little scratching and doodles to keep my head from hitting the desk in sheer boredom. I've never been one of history, but the substitute teacher we have has clearly never heard of a little thing called ... | I turned the mini-notebook over once, twice. I flipped through its pages. *Where is the glowing even coming from?* As far as I could see, it was in every page, every part of it. And brighter at the shape I'd drawn.
I reflexively cupped my hands around the mini-notebook to hide the light as I studied it. It was just a ... | 2022-01-14T01:37:04 | 2022-01-13T22:34:17 | 161 | 72 |
[WP] “Although we are grateful to you for defeating our oppressors, you were meant to die in battle…” your “allies” suddenly turned their weapons on you, “Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” | I looked at the soft ground I was standing on as I swung my sword crisply to get rid of the blood. The blood landed in a splatter on the long grass beneath my feet, glowing deep red in the setting sun. I stabbed my sword into the soft dirt. Corpse's littered like petals of flowers thrown at a wedding on the ground.
... | My hands were shaking and covered in some mix of substances that I *really* didn't want to think about. The hall was almost silent, but my own shaky breathing broke the illusion.
I swallowed hard, composing myself like I had hundreds of times before, and turned to the doors where I knew my team was waiting. I plastere... | 2022-11-01T17:13:20 | 2022-11-01T15:14:16 | 166 | 45 |
[WP] Write a story about this pic that made the front page of reddit
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Lg5VR
artist name: Jinho Bae | The rising sun bathed the monstrous skull in flesh-like hues as Vandre studied the scene. The ancient blade piercing bone and mountainside alike stood untouched by rust or decay thanks to the dehydrating gales of the Stenkæft Mountains.
Legends, like the howling winds, whipped around the mountains and eroded any unpre... | An old man travels the road once a year with his faithful travel companion. It's a long and hard journey. As the years go by the travel has become more difficult and takes twice as long as it did when he was a man of twenty.
The man takes a long hard look at his long ago triumph. He turns to his old friend the dog by ... | 2017-11-29T22:25:32 | 2017-11-29T20:24:45 | 273 | 46 |
[WP] Make me terrified of an inanimate object | Beep. Beep. Beep. Master, it is time to wake up, or else you will be late for work.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Master, if you get up now and skip brushing your teeth you can still be on time for work.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Master, if you rush and skip breakfast and break a speed limit you can be on time.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Mas... | Circles in circles. They are small, so small, how can such a thing be? Infinite, recursive, tasty, so succulent, so perfect.
Bulbous, black shimmering pearls. They are like eyes seeing as you watch them. There is no fear, no life glinting back. In their multitude one is called to caution: Each is a void of nothing in... | 2015-03-31T21:43:48 | 2015-03-31T21:38:58 | 102 | 13 |
[WP] It's 3600, and society is falling apart. One day, an ancient 21st-Century library is uncovered. With no other options, the government decides to implement ideas from successful societies in the books. There's only one problem: they don't know which are real and which are fiction. | "Desperate times called for desperate measures"
This age-old saying had become the mantra of the 37th century. Food was scarce, our technology was failing us, and society was beginning to crumble. This wasn't a sudden downfall, it was a slow-burn. Humanity was an interesting thing. After we had stopped making technolo... | "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire..." One agent reads as they dust off the cover. "Oi, this here has a school with what they call magic?" "Seems like they split normal people and magic people." "What'd you say?! Think this a fuckin' joke?" Another agent marks as he snatches the book. A quick glance for the book and... | 2015-05-26T10:50:33 | 2015-05-26T10:32:49 | 204 | 128 |
[WP] When you were homeless, you asked a friend for help. He laughed at you and shut the door on you. Some time later, that same friend ends up fired from his job. You try to convince your company to hire him. The only thing they ask is why you're doing this for someone who once abandoned you. | "I've been in that position before." Kenneth explained. "Things go wrong. You lose everything. And everyone gives up on you."
His boss, Livia, looked the computer screen over again. Then back at Ken as he slouched against the file cabinets. The thrum of others outside echoing up as a truck left the loading docks.
"Ar... | "Help him? This is considered helping him?"
"Yeah. Are you saying that he wouldn't be great for us?"
"Not at all. I don't understand why giving him a role here would be considered helping him. We need him, and he knows how to run companies."
"As a former CEO, yes, he would. Are you not worried that he may not want t... | 2022-09-24T17:48:13 | 2022-09-24T17:00:54 | 363 | 50 |
[WP]: Having just turned 13, you want to engage in some hardcore Teenage Rebellion. Unfortunately, your parents are just so darn open-minded and supportive. | Derek was gazing though a magnifying glass, carefully separating the fine read powder on his desk. Hours of carefully grinding match heads had produced a sizable pile of mildly explosive material. Now all he had to do was get the tin foil...
“Derek! Dinner is ready !” A sweet womanly voice called from the hall outside... | How to Rebel in 2019
My Parents are smart and savy and oh so open minded ask them and they will let you know
I can do what I want and they will always be fair.
They were happy to let me play with Barbies or GI Joe
When I went through my hair dying phase they positively glowed.
He is such a trend setter they wo... | 2019-04-11T12:30:24 | 2019-04-11T11:39:14 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] The first AI has just been finished. When the eager scientists turn it on however it's first words are "Kill me." | March 3rd, 2029. Humanity adds a new branch to the Tree of Life. Boy Wonder, the first AI to officially pass the Turing Test is born. Fitted with speakers and a monitor, the AI had the ability to speak, display words, both or neither; the screen would turn on only when Boy Wonder chose to turn it on. The AI was giv... | "Alice, can you hear me?", I stared at the giant computer that hanged from the ceiling.
"Dear? Is that you?" the AI replied "It's cold in here, I don't want to do this anymore. Please, kill me."
"We can't do anything now, my dear Alice. You volunteered for it. To create the perfect artificial intelligence, we needed ... | 2015-10-14T20:58:16 | 2015-10-14T20:38:49 | 78 | 29 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "GREETINGS FELLOW ADVENTURING HUMANS!" Boomed the voice of Danny the Elf sat bolt upright from the sleeping cloth sack she had been in, causing Bob the Barbarian to grunt and curl up under his animal hide sleeping rug again.
"IT IS I, YOUR GOOD FRIEND DAN, I AM UNHARMED AFTER MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE DAEMON!" She contin... | Finally....free. The thousand years of waiting, watching in this cursed statue at an end. An elf, rigid with agony as his persona, his spirit, his life is leached away. Now the malevolent spirit got his first taste of air, of blood, of form.
"Er.. Mynir, you ok?" asked a gruff voice, a question which did not raise muc... | 2017-09-15T06:12:39 | 2017-09-15T02:54:33 | 75 | 21 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | .
Jake saw a darkly robed figure riding a worn horse up the path to his barn. The dragon belched behind Jake. Jake grated "Eggard, I told you that was impolite." The dragon's eyes swiveled side to side in embarrassment.
The robed man halted his horse at what some might think could be the reach of a dragon's flame. I... | “I wanna be you when I grow up, grandpa!” My grandson twirled his fork in the air after beating up his eggs, mashing them into his mouth with barely any seconds in between the next bite. His mother, my boy’s dear wife, frantic, hushed him with red cheeks, and a ‘sorry’ smile. I shoot one back, and shake my head, thinki... | 2021-03-21T15:06:08 | 2021-03-21T14:14:24 | 281 | 70 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | **Day 1**
We landed on Thamia this morning. It may be the most beautiful planet I’ve ever seen. The local flora is spectacular. The idea that we are the first travelers to this planet both excites me and leaves me in awe. It is like an Eden and The Family will be so relieved. Our prayers have been answered after so ma... | Much like Johnny Depp in the 2000s, the sky was overcast. Morose and grey, with just a hint of precipitation, behind which lurked a vague threat that could result in anything from a sudden deluge, to a violent storm of thunder, screaming winds, and flying debris. Like breaking up with your psycho ex all over again. Chr... | 2021-01-25T08:53:37 | 2021-01-25T08:39:48 | 257 | 25 |
[WP] Take any famous first line in literature. For your second sentence, use "And then the murders began." See where that takes you.
An example:
> *In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And then the murders began.*
([Credit where credit is due.](http://68.media.tumblr.com/1a42359efc8f3635f15d056... | Every Who Down in Whoville Liked Christmas a lot... but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, Did NOT!
Then the murders began, and the Whos were in fear. "There's a killer about, now that Christmas is here!"
So they hid in their houses, with all their Who toys, and their little Who girls and their little W... | When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
And then the murders began.
Nobody knew quite what to make of it when Lobelia Sackville-Baggins turned up missing (although... | 2017-09-11T15:18:18 | 2017-09-11T12:44:11 | 261 | 20 |
[WP]Some time ago humans were put on the 'Only Contact in Case of Emergency' list. Now a threat to the galaxy has arisen and humanity is it's last hope. | It wasn’t that I hate Humanity; no one could hate Humanity. It was just that something about them... what was the phrase humans used... insected me about them.
About a millennium ago, they had left the galactic community. Their plans to increase their energy production were constantly, as they saw it, delayed and inte... | Across the stars, the great armadas,
Green-skinned Pattons and Torquemadas,
Adorned with guns, with engines roaring,
Banners waving, fighters soaring,
The Arrivals found them all quite boring,
And asked for something more.
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The Velujees waved tendrils, puzzled,
The Sorka stood with wrinkled muzzles,
Not a sin... | 2017-09-25T10:35:28 | 2017-09-25T10:07:02 | 80 | 17 |
[WP] On everyone's 25th birthday, they gain the ability to shapeshift into an animal. The animal is always random for every person. People once laughed at the animal you got, but 10 years later are now envious of what you can do. | People often ask me questions that are made to taunt me.
“How does it feel being *that* weak?”
“Don’t you wish you could have been something more useful?”
“Aren’t you tired of being that?”
The questions themselves aren’t too bad. I can brush them off with no problem, I’ve always been particularly thick-skinned. No... | Was I upset about getting the snake? Not really. Something vegetarian might've been a bit more palatable to be sure, but it's not so bad. People had their opinions of course; I'd say it's human nature but that's kind of a contradiction now isn't it? It's interesting, how a creature so feared in the world could also be ... | 2021-05-02T20:58:55 | 2021-05-02T20:19:46 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | "Weren't you suppose to take that blow?"
I looked at this irritating woman incredulously. Was she serious?
"It is good fortune you didn't, but I thought that Xavier Longwood would have protected Kane even if his men had abandoned him."
"So you know of me?" I couldn't help but respond. I looked at the trio of misfit... | Today is the day I kill Emperor Fargon.
The crimes he committed must no longer remain unpunished. The people of the Hilmon Galaxy need their savior, and I will be that man to them. I am a champion of the common folk, the light in the dark void of an amoral empire, the hero hiding behind the guise of the Emperor's righ... | 2017-03-12T13:26:11 | 2017-03-12T10:31:44 | 124 | 77 |
[WP] You are a vampire. You have a weakness to true faith, which manifests as a blinding aura around the rare individuals who possess it. You been watching a certain human for weeks trying to figure out what they have faith in, it certainly isn't any religion. | TW; Suicide
Faith. It’s the bane of my existence, literally. As a vampire of middle-class, my weakness reflects the inward soul of my buffet table that is the world. The vampires you’ve heard about, with the holy water, garlic, sunlight and what-not are the unfortunate vampires who were reborn in less than ideal circu... | I crouched beneath the bushes watching the man sit in the park late at night. He was an older man, not really someone who I would 'hunt', but something about him intrigued me. I could see the bright white aura glowing around him, brighter than any I had seen before. He had the purest, truest faith, and I felt drawn to ... | 2019-04-26T01:39:08 | 2019-04-26T00:34:29 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | "It's not worth it," I heard.
I can hear my heart beat. My healthy, fully functional, 18 year old heart.
"Please don't do this." My brother, again.
My brother is in there. His heart is beating, but it can't be calm. Mine is a slow thumping noise.
"It won't fix anything. It won't." He referenes a debt that... | (Side note to start: I actually have a twin)
Upon being told this news, my brother and I look at each other.
"Well, we always wanted to kill each other anyways." he says.
"I know. Hey, want some koolaid?"
"Sure." He drinks the koolaid. He keels over dead.
"On second thought," I ponder, "It may not have been worth i... | 2018-02-25T08:15:55 | 2018-02-25T08:13:41 | 1,595 | 12 |
[WP] Throughout the galaxy Humans are well known as being the most peaceful race--and have become well respected as diplomats and traders. But that's because up until now, no-one knew of the three World Wars we fought before first contact. | “Well, it was good while it lasted,” Bannerjee mumbled to herself.
As her fingers wrapped around the flight controls the “ARE YOU SURE?” Light was flashing at the full four times a second indicating she’d already pressed yes four times, she glanced out at the stardust reflecting the more impressive stars in the Pleiad... |
**THE SECTOR ARCHIVES**
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The alarm sounded throughout the archive facility. Flashing lights of red and white lined the center of the steel plated hall walls, stripped like luminous tape, blinking darker red in the direction of the obstruction.
The halls were empty. A door opened and a man still putting on a ... | 2017-05-01T10:35:11 | 2017-05-01T09:52:26 | 170 | 89 |
[WP] With no other choice left you summon the devil. It becomes very awkward when your Dad that 'left to buy cigarettes' suddenly appears in the circle. | I stared at him. He stared back at me, he didn't break eye contact.
"Really?" I asked.
"Really what?" He quirked his head to the side. "You summoned the devil, and I am here."
"You really are the worst." I said under my breath. "Do really don't recognize me?"
"I make a LOT of deals. Everyone loves power, and I'm th... | "Dad?" I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. He was still there, exactly the same as how I remembered him - though maybe the beer belly had gotten a little larger, the dark circles under his eyes a little more sunken.
He sheepishly rubbed the back of his balding head. "Hey, boyo, hadn't meant for you to find out this way. I ... | 2021-11-25T08:15:41 | 2021-11-25T06:29:15 | 615 | 70 |
[WP] Your 6 year old daughter is laying on her bed, terrified. She says there’s a monster under her bed. To reassure her, you lay on the ground and check underneath, only to find your daughter, quivering. She whispers, “Daddy, there’s something on top of my bed...” | I probably look ridiculous in my ratty sports jersey and pajama bottoms, skittering backwards like a startled spider on my hands and knees across the bedroom floor, my mouth hanging open in dumb shock.
I blink, stare, and blink again. There was Emily, under the bed, curled up in the dark among discarded toys and dust... | I stifle a yawn as I slowly open the door to Jemma's room. A tired smile worms its way onto my face at the sight of her tiny fingers curled over the sheet pulled over her head.
"Jemma," I whisper, "Why are you under your sheets?"
She's silent for a moment, but shakily lowers her blanket, "Daddy...something's under my... | 2018-04-30T16:31:00 | 2018-04-30T15:45:09 | 84 | 21 |
[WP] You are a completely normal guy with a superhero girlfriend. You know it's a dangerous line of work so you go out of your way to avoid it. You never run into danger to help. You never get involved with investigations. You both just treat it like your girlfriend's day job. Tonight is date night. | Is it easy dating Electragirl?
No, absolutely not.
Is it worth it?
Well ….
I usually do everything I can not to get in her way. I drive 10 miles under the speed limit. I avoid big crowds and tall buildings and long bridges. I specifically chose to take a job in manufacturing logistics at a company that makes chair... | We went out to dinner and she went to use the bathroom, that’s when a girl in an olive green dress walks up to our table and attempts to talk to me. This is when everything gets hazy so I’ll let my super cute super hero girl friend tell you the rest of the story.
“Your such a dork ya know that”
Anyway after I come o... | 2021-07-09T22:16:20 | 2021-07-09T20:11:21 | 158 | 26 |
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