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[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | Quiet down Martians, let me tell you a little tale,
About my home planet, here's the detail:
A big ball of molten rock like deep fried Metallica,
Got gassed up like it's high off indica,
But don't fear, that was just the atmosphere,
But let me steer, the story a few billion years,
Where shit started popping off,
... | The creatures looked down from the balcony, staring through the stage lights shining against his platinum blond "hair".
*Hair*.
It was a funny word and a funny thing they had all thought when they had first examined the human, rubbing their own bald heads and laughing.
Since then, certain circles of the creatures ... | 2016-11-30T10:48:23 | 2016-11-30T10:44:14 | 2,428 | 1,235 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | Finally, after years and years of research and development, it seems to have worked. I think to myself of all the possible mysteries we could now witness first hand. What was life *really* like in medieval Europe? Was it *actually* Nero who burned Rome? This could solve many many things.
I quickly adorn the trousers, ... | There's no way. Everybody learned in school that this old guy was a genius, and that he came up with a lot of ideas way ahead of his time, but... Wi-Fi? In the early 16th century? What does he even use the Wi-Fi *for*? Does he connect to other Renaissance geniuses? Do they all have their own 1500s-style web servers, as... | 2018-03-02T04:17:12 | 2018-03-02T02:35:00 | 6,437 | 1,133 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Ich'tuk wept.
The bodies of his clan covered the plains before him like a bloody carpet. The third hand of his clan priest descended on his shoulder and clasped him tightly. "You could not have known," said Ahn'rek. "None of us knew. An entire race that fights with no concept of honor, but only to win."
"They don't e... | Dr. S.F. Mercola
Peking University, Department of Neurobiology
2259, March, 15
Human greed and shortsightedness—an intergalactic evolutionary trait?
Those in the scientific community have lamented the inability of humans to deal with basic market externalities and tragedy of the commons in the recent century. H... | 2014-10-17T09:09:55 | 2014-10-17T08:36:32 | 324 | 19 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | “Okay okay okay. Stay calm. It’s okay. We’re all calm,” I said. Fifteen years was a long time to wait for a baby to pop out of the womb. I had spent the whole time eating nachos and drinking beer, but I’m sure it wasn’t a pleasant experience for my wife. But now her water broke and weird lady things have started to hap... | Of course we could rely on Yorkshire for some peace and quiet.
When one of the quakers found out who we were all that changed was that she simply started offering us old remedies for Alex's god-baby pains. And weed too. Rural Yorkshire folk had that strange charm to it.
As soon as the baby was older than 12 months ... | 2017-07-08T02:06:06 | 2017-07-08T01:38:23 | 92 | 12 |
[WP] You possess the ability to quick save in real life. When someone upsets you? Quicksave and beat them up. Wonder what would happen if you kiss that girl? Quicksave and find out. Then one day you attempt to come back from a failed attempt at something to find your previous save corrupted. | "So, doctor, what kind of symptoms are we seeing from your patient?"
Doctor Allen adjusted her glasses, looking through the pattern of reinforcing wire in the windows that separated her and the man in the grey suit from the dimly-lit observation room. A figure inside struggled against restraints, his voice muffled by ... | As I bled out on the floor, I smiled. Now I knew exactly where all my most recent of set of enemies where in the building. It might take a few more tries before they were all gone, but time was literally on my side.
As the darkness rushed in, I felt the usual twist, before finding myself kneeling on the floor behind ... | 2017-04-19T06:03:25 | 2017-04-19T05:06:21 | 715 | 206 |
[WP] After the death of a beloved American hero, all flags are flown at half-staff. Later that night, it's discovered that, somehow, the American flag on the moon has been lowered as well. | Its been about 60 years now since Luna broke away from America. What were we supposed to do, send an armed ship up to change their minds? They weren’t worth the fuel it would’ve taken. No, they left peacefully and we let them. Non-contact was the name of their game, but no one seemed to care. We had bigger fish to fry.... | Asiyah quietly watched the casket lowered into the earth. The priest speaking the last rites and the beautiful words eulogizing her husband of two decades barely registering as she reminisce on the past
They been through a lot together, more than even those reciting his deeds of heroism would ever know. A young boy lo... | 2019-02-27T20:50:15 | 2019-02-27T20:33:17 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] You dream every night about the girl of your dreams. You and her connect on every level and you get excited about falling asleep. Then, one day, you and your SO run into her on the street and she instantly recognizes you too... | I'd met her dozens of times, in my dreams. The pale girl with the red hair. We'd played tennis, gone hiking, participated in a drag race, slayed a couple dragons, and so on. She was a blast. Fit, courageous, and knew how to handle a weapon. Not to mention smart. That plan she came up with to beat that last dragon... Ho... | It started in the first grade. I’d have a dream that seemed to fast-forward through my life, some parts blurred or non-specified, some parts as clear as anything I’d ever experience in the real world. The scenes that flashed through were always the same, walking through an arch way hearing the end of a story, walking i... | 2015-07-26T05:44:57 | 2015-07-26T05:16:20 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] People do not get weaker and more frail as they age - they get stronger and stronger. "Dying of old age" is when groups of young people band together to kill off their elders before they become too strong to defeat. | From his hidden roost in the bushes, Tin Tang suppressed the urge to vomit as the stench of the Elder's meal forced it's way into his nostrils. The rest of his hunting squad, not a one of them older than sixteen, remained safely behind the cover of trees and rocks. Waiting. Watching.
The Elder had been a man, once. As... | "After 40 years of service, losing and regrowing limbs 7 times, and capturing 4 high class oldies, its finally time to kill me." Said a man who looked to be in his early 60's.
"Sad to say, but yes, your time has come, so we will make this your last mission, please die, and make this easy on us". Said a female voice.
... | 2020-01-21T08:31:23 | 2020-01-21T07:32:18 | 64 | 40 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | The humans sat down for diplomatic relations, as they always had and always will. The envoy for the Coalition of Civilizations sat down at the far end of the long table. The envoy came with seven bodyguards and seven times seven support staff. The humans brought a puppy.
Envoy G'rig burbled out nonsense in its native... | Drifting endlessly and peacefully through this void, I gazed upon the great blue sphere. Its skies swirling with white ink. The low rumbling of our ship had my brethren in a deep sleep.
A great white plain, frozen and still, is where we made our temporary home. A small elderly woman made her way out of that dark and s... | 2020-02-07T13:11:42 | 2020-02-07T12:50:43 | 72 | 41 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | As his back bounced off the unforgiving steel of his own locker Tomas contemplated what imagined slight he caused this time. It was always the same. Same oblivious parents. Same uncaring teachers. Same Jacob Meech.
The circle sigil on the back of his right hand a mocking symbol of his overall life so far.
He considered... | *Dark...... It went dark..... but how? It's still day,* they thought, feeling the air around the cool.
The air continued to grow colder and colder, nothing but inky blackness surrounding them. Then they saw you. You in the center, eyes dark and your face twisted into a vicious scowl and arms stretching to what was th... | 2020-02-26T07:36:26 | 2020-02-26T06:52:34 | 72 | 42 |
[WP] After several thousand years, the Greek gods awaken in the in the mid 1940’s. When the gods meet up to discuss what they had learned of the modern world, Ares walks into the room with a hollow and horrified look in his eyes, the day is August 6th, 1945.(Hiroshima) | This is my first time writing on here, so please bear with me and please share any criticism you have. Also, I suck at Reddit formatting so please bear with me.
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Ares, chin held low, walked under the arch way for the first time in what was nearly 3,000 years. The sun a piercing light in the sky as it alw... | “Ares my son, whatever is the matter with you?” Zeus asked boisterously as he downed another flagon of mead.
Ares crosses the hall and slouched into his chair at the table and leaned forward with his head in his hands. His brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, cousins, nephews, nieces, sons, daughters and p... | 2019-12-04T14:18:41 | 2019-12-04T11:21:28 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | Tragen swatted at a Nik-Nik which buzzed quietly near his hearing duct. It flew away unphased before he returned his attention to the monitor. He tapped it a few times. "Hey Zorg, there seems to be something wrong with the playback element."
Zorg leaned back in the chair and gave Tragen a smug look. "There's nothin... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T14:47:37 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You have your dream job and the best boss one could ever imagine. Unfortunately they also happen to be a secret super villain. Desperate to keep your job, and keep your boss out of jail, you must work to become his top henchman while simultaneously foiling every scheme they come up with. | 'Thirty years!'
You- and everyone around you- pointedly look at the desk, fidgeting nervously as your boss strode back and forth along the room, mechanised armour hissing and thumping.
'Thirty years I've tried to crush this city like an ant. Thirty years I've toiled tirelessly to bring down its institutions, to driv... | 2003 - 2003
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“C'mon, not again,” Tom whispered as he saw his boss return to the office wearing the red and black metallic suit. He had been so happy after being hired by the best company in New Amsterdam - only to find out his boss was the telekinetic super villain “The Terror Crackle”
Her ridiculous name asi... | 2016-11-03T06:28:27 | 2016-11-03T04:15:09 | 122 | 12 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | Well, this may be the ump-tenth time I've "kidnapped" the Princess. Every time she gets saved she plays the victim, swoons for her "hero" and goes home with a smile, plotting her next kidnapping in hopes of finally returning here for good. Honestly, she's crazy.
I feel bad for the guy, he's hard working, steady job,... | I hold my hand against the brown,ancient earth.
The soul trembles under my roots,their twisting veins piercing and shoving through the rock and silt.
It wails as I scoop the mass,so full of life,and crush it in my palm.
Dehydrated soil falls down through my fingers,defeated and hollow.
I chuckle,the rumbling coursi... | 2018-02-09T05:44:16 | 2018-02-09T03:55:16 | 61 | 10 |
[WP] In a world where having multiple personalities is the norm, the protagonist has been diagnosed with Single Personality Disorder. | School was difficult for me, I always had a special needs teacher in the afternoon and she kept me away from the other children. Walking home after school was rough, they would always poke fun at me because I was "different".
The doctor gave me a tablet to take every morning and evening, but the next month I saw anot... | When I was seven I found out I was different from my friends. I was at a sleepover and I had only brought one sleeping bag. My friends had all brought two. "Sarah, why did you bring two?" I asked. "One is for Anna. One is for me." I didn't know any Annas, so I just kept quiet and tried to sleep.
On my seventeenth birt... | 2015-06-07T20:01:20 | 2015-06-07T17:40:48 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] You live in an alternate universe where a person's worst fear becomes a tangible threat in the dark. The rich possess ever-illuminated mansions while the poor conserve power for the dreaded night hours. Just as the sun is setting, your entire town's power grid fails. | *The dark is neither good nor evil. The dark is a mirror.*
"If you fear, you will be taken. If you face your fear, you will survive," the whisper echoes in ears half-filled with the ever-increasing drumming of a frantic heartbeat. Behind me there's the slithering masses of a veritable armada of cockroaches, lurking i... | The all too familiar sound of all of the generators in my neighboring alleyways powering on, it must almost be time for the darkness. The sun should be fully down in about 5 minutes. People didn’t play around with the dark, most people just see clowns and pitch darkness itself, ya know, normal fears. Every now and agai... | 2019-01-17T14:36:59 | 2019-01-17T13:19:47 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | Fourteen billions Manukrians wiped out in a single blast from the human bomb. The unimaginable force of the bomb dropped on the center of the Manukri planet vaporized it in less than a second. The shockwave traveled through the entire Fifth Colony, pushing six planets and four moons off their rotating axis. The light f... | “All rise. The Intergalactic Federal court is now in session. High Judicial Archon Irk’nCzrwyon presiding. Please be seated and come to order.” A being of nebula, serves as the bailiff, towering in its enormity vibrates sounds and light as they were being translated to the floating balcony’s desk, where seven humans ar... | 2022-12-17T21:49:39 | 2022-12-17T17:34:16 | 80 | 34 |
[WP] Scientists create a portal to another realm. Rather than attempting to enter the portal in an attempt to seek out other life, the leaders of the world decide to first: dump the entirety of humanity’s trash into it. You are one of the trash men working closest to the portal. | I sat there, pad in hand ready to take notes at this crisis meeting, the entirety of the world's leaders in attendance, all to answer one question.
What are we going to do?
Our world was running out of resources fast, our scientists had tried everything to replicate what we need,but the basics were just not obtainabl... | It isn’t like any other waste management job. Don’t let them tell you any different.
Humanity has created more thrash than anyone realizes during their reign on this earth. The decision did make sense at first. The portal appeared, and when someone kid threw something through it- nothing happened. Nothing at all, exc... | 2018-11-16T05:43:30 | 2018-11-16T01:27:48 | 77 | 14 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | In a world like mine, everyone could easily become what they wanted. Wanna be a smart professor making ground-breaking discoveries? Just max out intelligence. Wanna be a bodybuilder? Easy, just level up strength. Or do you just want to become the popular kid? Charisma. It had become too easy to achieve your dreams.
Ir... | “Welcome to News 69, today we have another update on the suicide of the worlds oldest man, brought to you by his great great grandson, Simon. Welcome, Simon!”
A series of questions transpired until Simon gives what his father’s views on life were:
“He struggled a lot. Having no stats in anything other than endurance ... | 2018-09-12T10:57:43 | 2018-09-12T09:47:40 | 39 | 23 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | When the door opened, I'm not sure what I expected to see. Maybe the Pearly Gates, or a paradise resting in the clouds? Instead, I was met with a simple white room, like a doctor's office, and a single wooden door on the far wall. It looked old and faded from age and use.
I turned back around and jumped at being met ... | "Hello?"
There was no response. There were a few people lining the edges of my vision, but none spoke. I came up to one, sporting the longest black beard I had ever seen.
"Hello? Where are we?"
He gave me a baleful look. His eyes seemed like sandy mud chunks and his limbs were worn to the bone. Skin and freckles wer... | 2016-08-14T05:52:11 | 2016-08-14T05:25:06 | 119 | 56 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 226 | 71 |
[WP] After months of finding small knickknacks placed on your back porch, you've found the culprit. It's a small mouse living under your house. You go into the crawlspace and find a shrine made of several of your socks and pictures of you. Out of a dark corner a mouse approaches you, trembling. | The air was heavy and thick with the stench of mold. I really need to get a contractor out here before my house collapses.
I crawled my way past mounds of dirt saturated with bug spray. Hey, at least it keeps the spiders away. Moving forward I saw a peculiar light ahead. The unmistakable warmth and flickering of fire... | It's dark and damp under the house, and a foul smell punches me in the face as I crouch down and crawl in.
I shine my flashlight around; mainly dirt and garbage, but something catches my eye. Socks and.... photos?
Photos of me, all laid out on the ground and, peculiar as it sounds, the dirt around them looks like it... | 2019-06-15T11:27:10 | 2019-06-15T11:18:19 | 398 | 295 |
[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 Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] The amount of things promoting Raid: Shadow Legends is starting to get suspicious. News anchors, Congressmen, random Live Leak videos and even terrorists are thanking them as a sponsor. The SCP Foundation decides to investigate this as a possible anomaly. | **SCP-62109**
**Object class** - Euclid
**Containment procedures** -Any instance of SPC-62109 must be recorded and removed from its location. This may involve speaking to video host platform, YouTube, as the videos on the site are the most common location of instances of The anomaly. Tape recordings of the anomaly, r... | Be there or be square he said, no one saw it coming when the squarespace attacked.
Then the global internet black out was ushered in by nordvpn.
While people were too distracted turning into squares or unable to polish their spears at midnight it finally happened.
Raid: Shadow Legends succeeded where no other scum... | 2020-01-30T15:00:46 | 2020-01-30T14:46:19 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You're a killer dumping your latest victim into the river. Just as you're about to be done, you spot another person. Doing exactly the same thing. And they've just spotted you, too. | There are some situations where despite sharing an experience, you just don't talk to people. When a man walks up to a urinal next to another man because that's the only open one, both men are aware of what the other is doing, but neither one mentions it. When a man is holding a bag of diapers in the only open cashie... | I spotted him across the river. Just a guy in a suit with a large package wrapped in a bloody sheet. Ew. What a mess. The guy had to be new.
I dropped my carpet wrapped body on the bank and kicked the heaving weight into the river. It wasn't the first one. Sure wouldn't be the last. It wasn't even the last this week... | 2017-10-12T20:59:09 | 2017-10-12T19:44:21 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | “I’m not a bad person (or am I better described as an “entity”), I used to be a bit of a monster but that was a LONG time ago before I had a handle on my powers. Turns out that when you have the ability to drain life force and devour souls coupled with a requirement to feed in order to survive things get a little crazy... | I stormed back into my car as my staff were carried away by ambulances. I would wait there until the police investigation on my store would finish, so I could finish closing up for the day. *Those bastards..* I didn't know what happened, only caught the tail end of it. I was coming back from my break when I saw that fu... | 2022-11-28T20:13:47 | 2022-11-28T19:43:40 | 105 | 39 |
[WP] A new dating website accurately pairs up every single person on the planet with someone they'll love, with 100% accuracy. Everyone except you, because there are an odd number of people on Earth. | When the representative told me I wasn't sure what to make of it. Somehow, he said, it was something that they never thought to check for before starting out. How could that be?? I mean, I'm no genius, but I know a thing or two about even numbers.
As I sat there, floored by the fact that I was the only person on ea... | Sarah called, I grabbed my phone but I didn't answer right away. Couldn't seem too eager so I let it ring for a few seconds. "What's up?" I said.
"Come over right now," she said.
I paced. Did she break up with Zak? Was it my time? I looked at my calendar, a calendar of cats doing yoga. Today was September 25th, and... | 2016-08-25T01:29:19 | 2016-08-25T00:24:56 | 122 | 21 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | After a century, i realized i could sell my own antiques, squeeze my body through bank vaults, and start enough crummy businesses to be wealthy. There was a long line of J. Alfred Smiths on the west coast. I ate in the finest restaurants and kept up with the height of fashion, because there are certain things an immor... | The wine had been poisoned, again. She had been expertly subtle this time, choosing a wax sealed Margaux to nigh imperceptibly inject a substantially lethal dose of what I am sure was something truly lethal alongside going to the trouble of rebranding the maker’s mark with a magnificently accurate forgery. Gods, what a... | 2019-07-31T10:31:43 | 2019-07-31T10:09:35 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] It’s the birth of a new universe, and you’re trying out to become a war god. But, that role was already filled, and you got booted to a fertility god. At first you’re upset, not sure where to start, but then you start to get an idea. After all: “love is a battlefield” | “Who?!” I asked incredulously, “Who could possibly be a better War deity than I?” I’d attempted a wrath filled roar to punctuate this outburst, inwardly cringing at the sultry, soft purr that I ended up with. I threw an ambrosia filled goblet across the room and it clattered behind the huge, looming form of Balruze the... | "God of fertility? GOD OF FERTILITY! WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!" Mangala raged.
He would've kicked over the golden stand next to him if it weren't so heavy. He glared over at Eirene whose calm disposition only worsened the situation.
"How does she get the title of god of war and not me?" Mangala protested, "I served i... | 2021-01-11T08:05:49 | 2021-01-11T06:55:59 | 216 | 91 |
[WP] A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. | The orc trudged forward through the snow, tired and weak from the journey, but he did not care; after all, he didn't need to be at his peak performance for what he wished for, what he was walking towards.
Death.
A curious eye would likely notice a few things about the orc that did not fit the usual muster; he was thi... | You can never get used to the sound of cracked bones. I stare blankly at the sky as they beat me, wondering why it always has to be me. I dont feel much, almost as though its happening to someone else until I feel my arm break as it receives another kick from Ski'ez from down the street. He was the son of a cook - tryi... | 2022-09-03T12:28:37 | 2022-09-03T11:50:01 | 2,298 | 225 |
[WP] You are a fairy - and the king has not invited you to his child's christening. Fairy law now demands you to crash the party and curse the child. While the king definitely needs a lesson, you don't want the child to suffer over their parents' neglect | Well well well the fey spirit thought to itself. This was a gross violation of norms. She mulled it over on her throne. It would be that blasted law, as a marquess, she couldn't change it either. If she abandoned it it would be the end of her reign. Yet still, it would be unfair.
She mulled it over again. The la... | I curse the child to become an apex predator of a magical creature, as appropriate to his situation, and possessing his own terrifying human intelligence when threatened, to return to human form when he next sleeps, unless he likes the form
To find an have a harem of 12 men he finds beautiful, loves, who love him and... | 2022-06-23T21:26:32 | 2022-06-23T15:34:21 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] "Sudden onset spiky colorful hair can only mean one thing. Your child has... protagonitis. You have mere days to live. I am sorry." "Uh, did you mean THEY have mere days to live?" "No." | Well. Crap.
 
I had been a weeb in my younger years, enough that I was familiar with what was happening. Spiky, colorful, gravity-defying hair that could block bullets. My little boy was about to grow up fast, and one way or another, I was going to be his catalyst. The Fates had spoken, and denial would just... | It started with the old people.
Thousands of them, innocently weaving their way in my life, giving sage advice and trying to teach me their ways. Many pacifistic, but a handful promoted vengeance as solution to the bullying.
Although perhaps it started with the bullying. No matter now; technically it started with a b... | 2021-05-11T09:18:38 | 2021-05-11T08:31:45 | 22 | 13 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | The sigil remained dull, black and inactive. Even through the shoving, the pushing, the punching and name calling - it didn’t light up even once. Maybe it wasn’t the best to get used to this type of treatment, but Dalton refused to use his powers on anyone. While his powers were not inherently destructive, they were ha... | My head rebounds off worn red brick after Jackson threw me into the outside wall of the teacher's office. His cronies hold my arms to the wall as Jackson puts his sigil to use, cutting my shirt to ribbons with swipes of his fingers to reveal my sigil, his careless cruelty leaves many shallow cuts on me by the time my s... | 2020-02-26T07:49:39 | 2020-02-26T07:22:21 | 92 | 46 |
[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
must be coherent | Unfortunately, I think all of our efforts are drowned by that black hole of horror, *My Immortal:*
>Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of ... | A UPS man walked up the driveway to a suburban house to deliver a cardboard package at the doorstep, then got back into his truck to drive away, but as soon as he started up the engine his truck was hit by another, larger truck, and the UPS man died, because life is cruel. | 2014-01-14T19:35:53 | 2014-01-14T18:20:58 | 59 | 27 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | Snorri, Fjol and Hurg sat around their meager fire, the cold wind cutting through their fur and leathers. "Have you heard about all this nonsense with Dragons?" Fjol asked, adjusting herself and spitting into the fire.
"It's no more ridiculous than the war with the imperials," Snorri replied, running a whetstone acro... | *"Just sit down on the chair, put on the helmet, and say what i told you to say."*
*"Alright. I'll try it if you stop bugging me about it, but it still won't change how I feel about you wasting your life away on this crap."*
He sighs and scratches his head like he always does.
*"How long is this going to take anywa... | 2015-05-08T04:17:06 | 2015-05-08T00:56:15 | 87 | 15 |
[WP] You died and awoke in the afterlife. It's quite nice actually. The people and atmosphere are a lot nicer than you are used to and there is no stress or pressure. When you ask what good deed got you into heaven you are informed that this is hell, followed by a visit from a very concerned demon.
Edit: Wow, this got... | I was always kinda banking on there NOT being an afterlife. That we just cease to exist and we're worm food or whatever, which means I could do whatever I damn well please without fretting over my potential eternal reward or damnation. And that's exactly what I did for most of my life: whatever I damn well pleased, scr... | The screen door creaked open as I stepped outside. My cousin sat on the porch in the camping chair we had got from Goodwill when we first moved in to the apartment we shared. It was early morning and I had just gotten home from a night out. I had fixed myself a sandwich and taken a shower, like I usually do before bed,... | 2022-12-26T16:43:53 | 2022-12-26T16:07:27 | 60 | 21 |
[WP] You were a great hero who sacrificed yourself in order to save the world. Now whenever the world is in danger someone always finds a way to bring you back to do it again, you however just want to enjoy the after life and is tired of being brought back constantly. | I am a worn-down crutch. Ancient. Creaking. Beginning to splinter. Someday, this has to end. Everything does, after all. Gods know I've seen that. Gods know I've put an end to plenty myself.
I stare at him, at the circle he's scribed in the burnt-out floor. I can hear the distant sounds of marching boots, the unmistak... | The queue to the pearly gates spanned the length of fifteen clouds. It snaked back at least four months worth of deaths and would grow until the experienced border force returned from their strike, having received both - fair pay and increased holiday. At the helm, sat a row of new staff, floundering with paperwork and... | 2019-04-15T05:56:19 | 2019-04-15T05:36:22 | 99 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Impossible." Lamp exclaimed to his partner. Of course, Lamp isn't his real name, being the president of the High Council of Galactic Science, and a member of the Beblebrox species, his true name had acquired so many titles and honorifics over the years due to his accomplishments that Lamp had long since forgone using ... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T13:59:04 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] An undercover police officer has managed to infiltrate a particularly ruthless street gang. It begins to become apparent that every other member of this gang is an undercover operative of another agency. | "Aight, we gonna do this or what?" James mumbled out, his accent and demeanor perfect. Six months in intensive training and it was his first day: he was beyond ready.
"Yes, my brother, let's initiate this exchange of drugs," Jarfoor responded in an unusually high volume.
"Oh yes, 2.2lbs of methamphetamine, son, you ... | Frankie paced back and forth. He was worried. He was hands-shaking, muttering-to-himself, about-to-cry worried. I couldn't blame him; I was a little distraught myself. I mean, he was holding a sawed-off shotgun. If his trigger finger shook any more, I'd be sporting a new chest hole. As soothingly as I could, I tried to... | 2017-07-24T12:34:25 | 2017-07-24T11:09:01 | 54 | 22 |
[WP] We've explored more of the lunar surface than the bottom of the ocean. NASA knows what's down there, and it trying to get us off Earth as fast as possible
Since this is getting a lot more attention than I expected, I should point out where I got my inspiration for this post from:
https://i.imgur.com/tXkZaIL.jpg
... | It's called the Fermi Paradox, the fact that in a universe that should be teeming with intelligent life we have heard nothing from our neighbors. That where space should be a cacophony of cultures all shouting to the cosmos 'we exist' there is only dead chill silence. It should not puzzle us, every day when we see th... | Johnson brushed away his popped collar, silently complaining about the burden it was. He wiped away the layer of sweat with the rolled up cuff of his sleeve. The room was a chilly 68 degrees, which was the worst part, and he still was sweating as a result of the job. He cursed to himself as he leaned forward over the m... | 2016-05-24T01:48:41 | 2016-05-24T00:53:39 | 1,401 | 41 |
[WP] You are a Logistics Officer during an invasion. Tell the course of the war solely from equipment requisitions. | **Operation Preemptive Angel - Zero Day(-7)**
* Ammo, standard air cav company- 100 units
* Ammo, standard marine company- 250 units
* Ammo, standard tank battalion- 30 units
* Diesel, Aviation- 250,000 gallons
* Diesel, Marine- 750,000 gallons
* MRE- 250,000 (ind) Note: 10 day supply
**Operation Preemptive Ange... | August 1, 1939
* **Luder Pistols** x25,000,000
* **Mauser C96** x15,000,000
* **Karabiner** 98k x20,000,000
* **Volkssturmgewehr** x18,000,000
* **MG 34** x15,000,000
* **5 cm Granatwerfer 36** x5,000,000
* **Model 24 grenade** x40,000,000
June 22, 1940
* **Mauser HSc** x25,000,000
* **Volkssturmgewehr** x... | 2016-04-10T07:46:38 | 2016-04-10T07:40:21 | 196 | 51 |
[WP] In the far future, a gladiator stadium finds its gladiators by time traveling the greatest warriors of all time into a single arena. You cannot believe you were chosen. | I was a doctor. Not a soldier. I didn't hold rifles, or use my hands for combat. I held scalpels, and used my hands to probe the deepest recesses of the human body.
The man in front of me, massive barrel chest heaving, incredible arms, built for crushing, rending, clutched a short sword.
It was explained to me when... | I find myself in a large ring. It’s bigger than any stadium I’ve been in. I hear alien languages booming out from all directions, and cheers just as hard to understand. My legs start shaking a bit, but I feel the ground is firm. Then the voice of the announcer starts to make sense.
“Visitors, we have gathered the best... | 2022-07-04T08:50:35 | 2022-07-04T08:22:39 | 719 | 50 |
[WP] One evening, a portal to hell opens at the foot of your bed. A demon strides through, rips off your covers, and begins to drag you through the portal by your ankles saying “You’re going to help me settle a bet.” | "Oh for fucks sakes Azarath!! Don't you know that humans have to *sleep*!?" I scream as I'm forced to fall. This goofy looking motherfucker, with cherry red skin and rams horns as black as pitch, was my stupid goddamn cousin. Auntie May was big into witchcraft and Satanism, and boned the Lord of hell himself in order t... | "W-what?" John barely managed to turn around and see the portal, before the demon rips off the covers, revealing the sun, which in turn blinded him.
As he had barely managed to recover from blindness, he still didn't believe the fact that there is a demon in his room. Then the demon suddenly starts to drag John to the... | 2018-03-10T09:46:44 | 2018-03-10T09:21:08 | 336 | 90 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | Brandon Braithe swiped mindlessly across his phone screen, barely taking in his friend’s social media posts, sports highlights, and celebrity news, until something on the screen finally grabbed his attention.
Literally.
The screen suddenly swirled red and a slender, scaled arm reached through it to grab Brandon by th... | *It turns out demons have demonic solutions, who knew.*
Words blast across the city, the same enormous flat screens that used to show advertisements and Knicks games now show strange, horned freak shows. The demons we got weren’t the ruby red, fiery incarnations of torment that Hollywood had lead us to expect. Instead... | 2021-04-29T19:39:22 | 2021-04-29T19:31:35 | 115 | 54 |
[WP] A god trapped in an empty plane, you can create anything you can imagine, even life. But everything you make is destroyed at the end of each day, the plane made barren once again. | At first, my creations felt hollow to me. Where is the beauty, I thought, in something that is gone so quickly? Whatever I can make, it is here, but it cannot progress on its own. I must be there to renew it when it is inevitably destroyed. To put everything back to the way it was a moment before it collapsed, just to ... | The nearer peaks were not capped with snow, but you could make out the old firewatch towers, and the donkey trails winding their patient ways to the peaks. The shadows under the mountains formed and lengthened as they walked, and soon the trail was painted in the shadows of the redwoods and they stopped in a clearin... | 2022-04-22T21:32:00 | 2022-04-22T20:57:03 | 142 | 27 |
[WP] You're a human trader for the intergalactic slave market. Advertise to buyers why they should buy human instead of another species. | Alright look, I'm not gonna lie to you: Humans are tricky. They're weak, slow, and for all that's holy they love to complain - but that's not why you want one of my stock.
You want *my* stock, because they're fucking clever - and they love a challenge. Analysis and problem solving, that's where the Human's shine. Each... | Everyone, come look at these amazing watersacks! Each one of them 90% water!
Have you ever been sitting in you captain's chair and thought "I could use a drink"? Well now we have these portable, self maneuvering watersacks! Each one trained to obey and come when called. Just shout for a water sack and soon you'll be ... | 2014-11-22T09:04:18 | 2014-11-22T08:53:50 | 242 | 40 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | "Don't sign the form".
This did not surprise me. Since I've been 7 years old I've been receiving these messages.
"Don't chase Jimmy" was the first. It was my birthday party, and I had received a bright red, toy car. I instantly fell in love with it's shiny coat and slick design. On the card read the usual message of ... | “Don’t use your power.”
Those four words punched me harder in the gut than Carl did at the playground yesterday. This was the one thing I’ve been looking forward to. The sole solution to all my problems, turning me from nobody into someone worthy of a little attention and a lot more respect.
Instead, there were those... | 2022-05-08T10:12:49 | 2022-05-08T10:04:14 | 646 | 22 |
[WP] An Eldritch Moon suddenly appears in the sky, and you and billions others scream as you turn into horribly corrupted mounds of flesh... But your eyesight is better? And your back pains are gone? And apparently you’re immortal now so... Maybe things aren’t that bad... | My limbs began to shrink. As I fell to the floor I started to bloat out. Warts and pus-filled pockets sprouted out all over the bubbly mass of flesh I had just become. My eyes bulged and expanded by at least 2 feet. I screamed as I looked around and saw all the others around me morphing into grotesque mounds of flesh a... | # Soulmage
**The moonlight here was deadly, but we'd come prepared.** As we stepped out of the safety of the dark and ancient cave, the five of us unfurled umbrellas as black as midnight to enhance our layers of heavy, lightproof clothing.
Something that had once been grass squelched and splashed under my thick boot... | 2022-10-23T13:23:05 | 2022-10-23T11:59:30 | 317 | 40 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | It was years since I signed the contract with Suriale. She was the first demon I summoned, and I noticed she grew and got older as I did. Eventually, I started teasing her, calling her Lamashtu instead of her real name. Of course, she soon made a deal to help me get quite a bit of money, considering I was in a tight sp... | The stare in its eyes were palpable. As I raised the pen; secure in my grip. I saw a glistening ember formulate by the side of its lip, growing by the second and getting brighter the longer I stared. How many has it secured? What number would my spawn be in this carousel of abandonment that I have enthusiastically ente... | 2022-08-31T21:06:11 | 2022-08-31T17:45:32 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] When the alien crew learned that humans will go practically insane and be willing to eat anything or anyone when left without food for too long. It led to aliens frantically trying to feed the human crewmate whenever they said they were hungry | It finally happened. After what felt like forever on the training base, we were finally aboard a real alien spaceship.
Commander Jones and I were the first two humans ever to be allowed to meet the various alien species face to face. According to their customs, we'd had to train for months in simulated environments fi... | Hour 1
My first day on the alien ship. Not much to report. I've not yet had contact with the Host. I have been placed in what seems like an incubation pod that is lined by the collection of scratches and dots that we have come to learn symbolizes the different species that make up the alien conglomeration that we call... | 2021-06-11T19:00:14 | 2021-06-11T18:46:44 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You are every Super Hero’s worst enemy, not because you are particularly powerful, but because nothing you do is technically illegal… you’re just a huge asshole. | “For Hades’s pitchfork. You must cease your evil. Don’t you realize the harm you cause?”
“Whatever you mean? Did I break a law? Did I directly cause a harm?”
“You know what you did, you know it is wrong. Because of you the Bipedal Bat is now homeless, destitude and criminals are causing mayhem in the city.”
“Wrong?... | “Look your robbed from the poor and gave to the rich” he said as his stupid H glowed on his chest. Hope man was the galaxies most powerful hero and that was saying a lot. Me well I’m just a guy. “ no no no I bought that Martian egg fair and square ok. It’s in a museum so thank you tax write off” his face twisted in an ... | 2021-08-02T03:40:36 | 2021-08-02T01:55:44 | 1,074 | 25 |
[WP] All souls in Hell are given the same test upon arrival. If they can create a punishment worthy of being added to the Pit, they get to ascend to demonhood on the spot. You are the first to succeed in 200 years...
[deleted] | "Democracy."
The demon Adjudicator, a green-skinned multi-gutted blob with the unfortunate name of Kikmahbutte, frowned. "There is no Democracy in Hell." Using a claw to pick at one of his three nostrils, he leaned forward and gestured with a crusty chin for me to continue. "Explain yourself, soul."
I'd only been dow... | The room was dark. The eerie glow of the television offered just enough light to see his face. He reclined in the hard, plastic chair as they watched from above. The arrogance that led to his sins on Earth filled the empty space. On the other side of the glass pane, the young woman was grateful for the barrier that sep... | 2021-12-22T17:07:26 | 2021-12-22T15:45:36 | 864 | 218 |
[WP] One morning, everyone in the world wakes up with either a blue triangle or an orange circle on their hand, and a voice announces "The two teams have been selected - let the competition begin!" Things degenerate from there. | It's been about a year since the Smile Trial started. At first, no one knew what to do. These symbols just appeared on our hands, either a blue triangle, or an orange circle. Everyone recalls the first Ascendant, however. It was a homeless father. He and his wife and three young children had all been evicted from their... | The world woke as I headed home to sleep. My night of partying left me with a quarter bottle of Jameson, two cigarettes, and a lighter that only worked when you swore at it. I would have been more upset about having no money if I wasn't so tired. And so I slumped into my seat, hoping the cabbie would put this fee on... | 2018-01-25T17:59:17 | 2018-01-25T16:44:46 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are here. Their names are Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po.
Edit: Thanks guys these are awesome! Please keep them coming.
Reddit Edit: Coooool. Gold and front page, what a day to be alive!
Edit some more: Wow, this really blew up. Thanks for all the submissions. Please kee... | This world is full of sin.
Mere mortals stood before them, some with arms raised to the heavens, hoping to repent for their past sins, hoping that now they could be saved before their God.
They are wrong.
They will be punished for their sins just as those that had died before them.
A beam came out of the antennas ... | In retrospect, nobody can remember for sure where, or how the Four Horsemen appeared. Varying tales of that night, 8th July 2016, are so dissimilar and disparate that it's a mere postulation at this stage.
Tinky Winky appeared on the North, South American continent. Dipsy in Africa. Laa-Laa in Europe. Po's horseman c... | 2016-07-08T08:35:08 | 2016-07-08T07:44:26 | 92 | 16 |
[WP] You have made a large ouija board on the floor in front of the fireplace as a decoration. Your roomba has been randomly summoning demons and then sucking them up Luigi's mansion style. You have been passively watching this happen for about a week now.
[deleted] | "You sonofabitch how'd you know this would work?!"
He sounded angry, he looked angry, but I could tell Zack was impressed.
"Honestly, I didn't. I didn't even try to do this. You know how Laura's all into Halloween and creepy stuff? Found this online and put it down as a surprise. She loved it, almost moved it to the... | I’d watched the Roomba zoomba around the house and fireplace like a machine possessed. I wasn’t sure how it was doing it, but it _wasn’t_. It might have been the all-metal internals or the circuit mesh keeping all the psi energy in circulation without rest, but the Roomba had been summoning and then vacuuming up haples... | 2019-09-08T22:05:26 | 2019-09-08T19:26:18 | 1,271 | 555 |
[WP] There have been many sacrifices made to summon you, as well as a plethora of motives - from the extreme, to the simplistic, to the downright absurd. But one particular sacrifice catches your eye: a young child simply offering you a bar of chocolate, claiming that you, a deity, must be "hungry". | I look down at the young boy in confusion. In his hands, he holds a small bar of chocolate that says, 'bite size'. I have been summoned to this world so many times. I have seen every war, every famine, every disease. I have been greeted by people with such selfish tendencies. This boy, though. This boy is different. He... | "Mama says we might have to start trading for food, soon." the boy whispers to the smoldering fire, "But I figure you might be hungry, too. No one's giving sacrifices anymore. The other refuse-gees say the Neritza took you from us. Changed your name and made you part of their pants-eon. I hope you're okay."
The Neritz... | 2022-09-19T13:04:33 | 2022-09-19T13:04:30 | 85 | 55 |
[WP] You are the only person who can travel through mirrors. Each mirror leads to a different dimension. One day, you travel through your own mirror to go to your favorite dimension. Instead, you travel into the apocalypse. | I've witnessed it all, societies lead by dinosaurs who worshipped a meteor; realities where Hitler won World War II; there's even a dimension where we are all blind. However, none compares to my world, the one I found on my bathroom's mirror.
I discovered my gift by sheer coincidence. I was twenty and my girlfriend br... | I slipped into the glass like a cool lake. Here was the place I called “Sunflower Sky”. It was one of my favorite dimensions, a vast field of sunflowers and an endless, cloudless sky. These great birds would soar high above, but they never seemed land . . . but of course I shouldn’t go on about describing it. After all... | 2017-11-16T08:06:16 | 2017-11-16T07:53:01 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] When you and your twin sister were born your parents couldn't help but cry with your colorful and specifically shaped hair it was clear you would suffer from MCS, Main Character Syndrom, and would have to spend your life avoiding beginings of cliche adventures. | When I saw that hair, that’s when I knew I was going to die. My baby boy, Hermès, was just like every baby in that hospital, I’m sure that’s what all the doctors thought anyways. That’s what I thought too, but then, his hair started to come in.
Blue.
Shit, maybe it’s a fluke, just a random lucky event, natural blue ha... | "You are heroes of Azeroth!!" they shouted from the castle towers and main gate as the twins arose and walked through the masses of cheering peasants, nobles and royalty.
"You will defend the realm!!" one quite boisterous noble screamed as everyone else then hailed, cheered and applauded.
The twins now set out for th... | 2019-04-11T21:16:01 | 2019-04-11T20:19:24 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] Wandering the streets, jobless, homeless, you happen across a silver ring with an inscription: "Help for the Needy." Idly you slip it on. Suddenly a voice resonates deep within your bones: "44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN." | Five years later...
The ring sat there on the nightstand the glint from the morning sun reflecting off of it. It seemed to be glaring at him.
He had done it. After five years he had finally taken it off. Five years of running. Five years of pushing people out of the way of buses, cars, and trains. Five years of snat... | My feet took off before my brain could register what was happening, it hurt to run in the boots, but they were broken in plenty and I wasn't about to let a child die, there was no way in hell I'd ever allow that to happen. I rushed past people on their way to work who gave me queer stares, food vendors who shouted at m... | 2018-04-30T10:41:56 | 2018-04-30T09:47:07 | 447 | 19 |
[WP] Your partner rolls over in your bed, looking at you with the most tired eyes you’ve ever seen. “I’m in a time loop.” | "What," I said hoarsely, "what do you mean you're in a time loop?"
She looked at me with an expression somewhere between frustration and resignation.
"I mean, I'm in a time loop. I am stuck in a loop of time that just repeats over and over again. It's been 4 days."
In my defense, I had just woken up, but the look ... | I looked into her eyes while I considered this. Then I sat up.
"I already thought of that," she said, just as I opened my mouth.
"..." I tried, before she headed me off again.
"No, I don't remember any science experiment, curses, wizards, witches, or magical creatures."
"..." I helpfully suggested.
"Sure, but that... | 2022-05-29T00:48:59 | 2022-05-28T23:08:13 | 62 | 19 |
[WP] A vampire has infiltrated a school, figuring they'd have an easy source of snacks... only to get staked with a pencil by one of the students.
Because kids are vicious. | Food was scarce during this climate with barely anyone going outdoors (Complete callousness on the government's part with all the lockdowns. No thoughts were spared for us with...other needs). So, I figured that this was the perfect cover: posing as a night-time school janitor. With my long coat, unkempt hair, and skin... | Name: Mia Lopez
Date: Monday, Feb. 8, 2021
Class: 5-143
Learning Target: I can write autobiographies.
Directions: Write about one of your days in school.
So, the craziest thing happened in school today. It was a normal day. I woke up, ate breakfast and got to school early. (yay) Everything started out fine. I went... | 2021-02-14T19:53:37 | 2021-02-14T16:41:33 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It was 5:30 this morning when I woke up to the typical sound of my neighbors arguing over something. They always had some feud between them - who had the bigger truck, the greener lawn, the children with the highest grades... It was exhausting living between them, never involved in their madness yet always right in the... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2017-06-11T09:50:25 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 222 | 31 |
[WP] Your grandfather always claimed that he was abducted and fought in an alien war for a few years before returning to Earth. Now, at his funeral, you see several otherworldly strangers paying their final respects. | One hundred four years. One thousand forty eight months. Five thousand four hundred twenty six weeks. Thirty seven thousand nine hundred eighty five days.
Make the durations of time as small as you want, doesn't change the fact that Grandfather's gone.
My grandfather, Felix Felixson (I know, I know. Go ahead and laug... | There is always some confusion during tragedy. Always an internal commotion that wells as you stare blankly forward, wading through the pain. It always comes and there is nothing anyone can do to stay the tides.
The man put his hand on my shoulder. He was tall and he barely spoke. I focused on the casket but my thoug... | 2016-11-12T15:04:40 | 2016-11-12T14:57:51 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] The Galaxy's changed alot since Humans became involved yet one thing has never changed with these bipedal creatures. Their insatiable curiosity to pet everything and anything in existence with their hands. It's their defining feature. | “I have crossed the Milky Way a thousand times. I have seen the mightiest monsters brought low, culled cunning creatures of the dark, sent the ancient animals of time’s beginning to extinction. I am Grog the Breaker. Tamer of beasts. Master of the Dark Menagerie. And as the sun sets on this desolate world, I shall begi... | "Nurse, he needs 400 units of zelidraf immediately!", the surgeon yelled.
The doors to the operating room burst open, quickly followed by the stretcher that carried the murderous screams of a patient, along with a full team of Kaflaronian medical professionals.
The nurse was rustling through the medical cabinet, knoc... | 2021-08-21T10:26:16 | 2021-08-21T08:32:37 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] While sitting in class during a boring lecture you suddenly hear someone whispering in your ear. You turn around nervously and see that no one was there and none of the other students heard. But your teacher drops her notes and stares at you in shock. | "So you hear them."
That's where my story really starts. I'd always had been the kind of kid who
hated drawing attention to myself, and I was new to the whole "middle school"
thing, so when old Ms. Farris caught my eye and mouthed "later",
I was perfectly content to act like nothing had happened. Until later
came, of ... | "and Odin the ruler of the Aesir was to be devoured by Fenrir" i never pay attention to these stupid lectures on mythology its not like its important it's all just ancient bullshit stories.
"its not bullshit, i love Mythology" I heard a familiar voice, dark and cold like ice cracking whisper into my ear a cold chill r... | 2017-01-14T20:24:29 | 2017-01-14T18:54:41 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | The retired professor turned this way and that, crazy haired and wild eyed, looking for something that wasn't there.
Sturbink's office light had shut off about thirty seconds ago. He had been lost in the research time vortex that afflicted adderall users everywhere, absorbed by first hand accounts of murders from the ... | \[Use this guide to translate the caveman speech.\]([https://public.wsu.edu/\~delahoyd/cavespeak.html](https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/cavespeak.html))
“Neecha, maka. Igac maka-daka neecha!”
The other four cavemen whooped and hollered at Igac’s boastful retelling of the saber-toothed cat he had killed earlier that d... | 2020-09-15T12:37:49 | 2020-09-15T12:33:35 | 132 | 21 |
[WP] A pair of twins are cursed with immortality causing them to grow younger or older depending on their proximity to each other. One yearns for death, desperately seeking to get as far from their sibling as possible in the hope they will die of old age. The other does not, and pursues vigorously. | So, I just wrote this on my train ride to work. Forgive me if there’s any autocorrect weirdness.
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Long before you or I ever existed, the world lay in turmoil. Although it was absent of life, the world was far from lifeless; the sky reflected an ashen grey gloom, filled with smoke and ash, the land underfo... | I walked into the bar. When I say bar, I use the term charitably. It was more a den with no air-condition, mixing the arid heat outside with the humid stench of sweat and stale beer inside.
She sat at the bar, shoulders hunched and posture weary. The regulars eyed me warily, but I guess her presence has made them a bi... | 2018-07-31T00:39:27 | 2018-07-31T00:34:23 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I'm nobody's fool.
Tell me to go left, I go right. Offer me what's behind door number 1, you better believe I'm opening door number 2.
Take me to a small room and show me a table covered in food?
Oh, I know what's up.
The food is trash, a diversion.
It's the table. That's the good stuff.
Under the duck l'orange, ... | "What the hell, dude? That table is like 10,000 years old! It's made of a tree that doesn't exist anymore," I heard the sound of a voice and my head immediately snapped around to find it. I still couldn't see the individual in question but I had been made alert.
"What? I was just trying to think outside the box, do I ... | 2020-03-19T08:53:04 | 2020-03-19T08:21:44 | 791 | 162 |
[WP] When we finally meet aliens they are very scared and apologetic, they kept mentioning an asteroid a couple million years ago for some reason... | **PHOENIX SUMMIT** *Official meeting notes*
Note - *See Ellen Gould for full attendance figures and roll call*
(Michael Y. Renham, notes)
1. Delegates from **USA**, **Japan**, **Great Britain**, Italy, France, **Russia**, Mexico, **China**, Bulgaria, Germany, Chad, and Brazil are seated. Additional delegates are lin... | Grigs pulled himself out of his bunk for another day on his galactic patrol mission. He tried his best to put himself in a positive mindset for his day but found it difficult when they all are the same. Grigs and his crew had been sweeping the milky way for what felt like eons to him and every day they scanned more p... | 2016-09-23T21:05:58 | 2016-09-23T20:30:05 | 235 | 51 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | The morning’s golden sunlight spilled into the room from the broken ceiling. Vladimir leapt back, carefully avoiding the thin beam, and pressed himself up against the wall.
“You see,” Montgomery said. “Coming here was a mistake, Vlad.” He ripped a bulb of garlic from the vine that he had slung over his shoulder and ro... | When I saw that the wounds on my neck had become small white scars, my heart skipped a beat.
*Please let it be true, please let it be true...* I begged, as I bared my teeth.
The elongated points of my canines proved my hypothesis right: I had become a vampire.
For an eleven-year-old boy, this was a total dream come ... | 2020-10-06T06:57:23 | 2020-10-06T04:11:46 | 1,343 | 223 |
[wp] Humans have the shortest life span in the universe. This is also the reason they are the most feared. | "Admiral, I have a complaint to file at this group meeting." She huffed.
"Proceed captain Louin." The admiral folded his neck tentacles.
"It's about lieutenant Michael ride." Louin puffed her crest in annoyance.
"What did I do this time?" Michael protested, raising his hands up in a fake surrender, rolling his eyes... | "Redran! What are you doing? Get away from that thing!" Blornof said in the highest whisper he could do without waking the sleeping beast. Redran was right over the creature getting ready to touch it.
"Come on Blornof don't be a Rhombus, We've already passed the dare by coming up to it's den. If we touch it we'll be l... | 2017-10-24T12:25:07 | 2017-10-24T08:31:22 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] Galactic wars are always won by whoever finds the other first – there is simply no way to retaliate fast enough to a carpet bombing from a high orbit. Other civilizations are absolutely terrified of Terrans who are cocky enough to broadcast their presence loud and clear. | “It is the end of your world as you know it. Your organic and scientific advancements will be added to our own. On behalf of the Terran Empire, your world is now ours.”
These are the words which ring out to whichever world the Terrans decide to fall upon. Broadcasting from high orbit, their immense starfighters fill t... | Advisor Howards barrelled into the room, panting. His full dress uniform was damp with sweat.
"Sir! It's them, again!" he choked out. General Walker's eyes widened, his already pale face finding a way to become even paler.
"The... the Terrans?" the general confirmed. Advisor Howards gave a slight nod.
"What did th... | 2021-04-09T06:40:05 | 2021-04-09T06:27:56 | 57 | 29 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | Most people go a whole year without anything interesting going down. Things tend to slow down once you have a 21st birthday, graduate from college, and try to find a job. Then it is just boring old existence until you collect your retirement gift and fade away in some small room that dozens of people before you have di... | "Does chaos excite you? You have been with me for quite some time, after all."
The joker sporadically arose from his misappropriated desk with a tightly gripped fist and an even tighter smile; pacing, the joker began mumbling about the bat, about Gotham, and about nothing at all. His scattered thoughts entrained his ... | 2016-11-21T09:34:58 | 2016-11-21T02:49:57 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Upon signing the truce that ended the years long war, the aliens were shocked to find that for humans, death was permanent. | “We hereby call this intergalactic meeting of truce to begin. General Carver will be representing the Human Races of Earth. General Trixthis will be representing the Galactic Alliance of Conquerors.”
Trixthis lumbered into the room. He was greatly upset at having to attend a peace meeting. It just didn’t seem plausibl... | 'Oh,' said the intergalactic commander, 'Are you rather sure? That just doesn't seem right to me.' The general of the human forces was staring him dead in the eye, trying to stop his curled up, white knuckled fist from resuming the ending war. 'Yes, I am.' 'No, you're having me on! What evolutionary sense does it make ... | 2020-06-29T21:04:07 | 2020-06-29T17:15:38 | 123 | 50 |
[WP] All humans are immortal until they find their "soulmate," after which they age regularly. You, however, have been around since the Ice Age... | I am old.
No, that's not the right word.
I am... prehistoric. In my veins runs the blood of the ancients, of the early times. When we would speak with our spears and write with our ashes on stone walls.
I am human, but I remember the others. The Neanderthal, whose existence we snuffed out. The mammoth who we hunt... | What do you think about after millenniums? Sure, a few days go by and you decide to think about that stupid decision you made when you were six or the time you made your mother so worried that she cried. But that goes away. After millenniums, what more is there to think about? Well, then you can only think about what d... | 2017-05-22T13:02:30 | 2017-05-22T12:55:27 | 50 | 12 |
[WP] After people die, they must answer a riddle, and its difficulty depends on their sins. You've committed genocide. | "It's here."
I looked up from my desk to the tiny blob of light floating above me. "It?" I asked.
"Yes Uriel, it. Destroyer, Betrayer, Kiler. It's finally come here-to face judgement."
I smiled. Azalea was so young. "And to about a third of the humans, she, not it, is hopebringer, Prophet, Hero. Who are we to pick ... | There was no bright light. No singing angels, nor pits of hell. It was like I woke up from a night's sleep - only I was standing, fully clothed and aware of everything. There was an odd, hum of calm that seemed to surround everything, which was nothing at all. A woman who stood in the nothingness, an emotionless expres... | 2017-06-02T21:31:31 | 2017-06-02T20:02:08 | 304 | 88 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | "Well Fifth , we have a hard time figuring these guys out ."
Fifth swivels its primary sensory orifices to face Thirty Second "What is so difficult about them that I had to be brought out of stasis?".
"Well they are a primitive species , and we can tell by their transmissions that they seem to want a peaceful meeting... | Log: forming clear thoughts before my tribunal hearing which I'm quite sure Is being planned as I write this.
Marshall-Borge De Rosche,
I've never seen damage like this, my fleet looks like it's been in a battle with an asteroid belt.... and lost.
It was a routine resource run, our argon levels were critically low... | 2016-03-13T19:37:26 | 2016-03-13T17:43:47 | 59 | 24 |
[WP] Write an upbeat post-apocalyptic tale where life is (for the most part) much better than it was pre-apocalypse. | I find myself growing rather fidgety, I don’t like to be kept waiting around. How hard can it be to find a planet in a telescope? Then again, my dad takes forever to do everything. Finally, I looked up from kicking the rocks to find my dad grinning. He interrupted his sly smile to say, “Scotty come here and look.”
I ... | My kids will never read it, but I can distinctly recall a book from before the war written by some French guy centuries ago. I was forced to read it for some class or another and I can’t remember the title to save my life, but I sure as shit remember its ending. I remember how all of the characters settle down on a far... | 2016-01-19T22:48:28 | 2016-01-19T21:44:49 | 55 | 35 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention you barge in yelling "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediately rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you | Pedestrians stared at me as I biked down the sidewalk, swerving around mailboxes and fire hydrants. The sun shone down, pressing me to the ground, and the air seemed to form a thick wall in front of me as I pedaled and pedaled past one intersection after another. Braking, I threw my bike to the side, and rushed into a ... | Ever since I was a kid, I thought that the church doors were seemingly heavy and large, but today, that didn't stop me from bursting into the room screaming, "I object!"
Everyone suddenly everyone turned to face me, a 100 pair of red eyes glaring right into my soul. I took a deep breath in, preparing to say my declar... | 2018-03-17T14:29:31 | 2018-03-17T13:38:06 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | The first ten or twenty minutes are the hardest. I've been through it four...no five times and I don't get used to it. Stop looking at me like that! I know you think I'm a sick old man and the meds are making me delusional. Whether you believe me or not we're going to be parting soon. You'll go on and I'll reset. So...... | “I love you,” Alice said one last time as the world faded to black and one thought raced through my head as neurons died and consciousness slipped away. *Not again. Please not again.*
I was five years old, a little boy running through a field of wheat with the sun shining down on him. A child like that shouldn’t have ... | 2017-05-25T13:17:28 | 2017-05-25T12:17:28 | 1,273 | 243 |
[WP] You're a member of the Z-team. Your team is who they send in when teams A-Y have failed, but that's never happened before. But to everyone's horror, that day just came. | I woke up to the sound of sirens wailing. The airlock leading to my room opened with a quiet hiss. A voice came over the PA system. "Your help is required."
I rolled off my bed, and started putting on the hazard suit. "What's going on?" I asked as I strapped on my rebreather. "We have some kind of monster running arou... | *Bzzt Bzzt*
Somewhere under the sea of pizza boxes, soda cans, and a passed out Commander Craig -his phone rang- which wasn't unusual especially since his latest firing, Pizza boy, supposedly was eating customers pies instead of delivering them.
*Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt*
They never called back-to-back. Those bill collector... | 2022-11-06T22:25:54 | 2022-11-06T17:26:12 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] In 1907 Vienna Academy of Fine Arts rejects Young Adolf Hitler twice and soon after he survives four different assassination attempts by time travellers. Confused Hitler is convinced that its his art is what the world fears.
Inspiration:
http://i.imgur.com/tGV2LFt.jpg | Adolf's mother pushed his long, black bangs out of his eyes for the picture. "You should show your face, honey, it's so beautiful."
The photographer snapped the picture too soon for Adolf to correct his mother's mussing. "Mo-om!" Adolf complained, pushing his mother away while combing his bangs back the way he liked... | Max shook his head firmly. "Adolf, you cannot do this. *Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Shitty Art Critics* is not only far too wordy, it's flirting with obscene."
"Max," the young man protested, "you of all people know why I chose that title. After my rejection from the Vienna Acade... | 2014-11-16T16:17:51 | 2014-11-16T14:09:03 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The alien invaders don’t need to eat or drink. They photosynthesize. Outnumbered, our meager troops have made a last ditch effort: They’re leading them to Alaska, in November. As the sun dips past the horizon, we know it won’t rise for another two months. Oh, how they tables have turned. | The sun was setting but we all knew there was little chance of stopping soon. Now that we were so close to New Washington, we'd been marching well into the night to keep ahead of 'The Swarm' and hopefully reach it in time.
"Last sunset for two months" my buddy Sean says with a chuckle "let's see those f----r's sta... | Starving and desperate.
I could almost have pitied the creatures if they hadn’t torn through my troops like piranhas to a carcass, gunning down the lethargic invaders without an ounce of guilt. The bursts of thick yellow blood spraying onto the ground, a temporary mist created with each shot before vanishing into t... | 2021-04-11T22:42:43 | 2021-04-11T21:30:47 | 296 | 149 |
[WP] There’s a new team of superheroes and a new team of super villains in town. All are completely inept at their jobs. The heroes always fail to save the day but that’s ok because the villains always screw up. The public is mostly unaffected and tolerates the daily almost-drama that unfolds. | Laura cringed. The broken window showered the restaurant in glass shards. Several of the guests cried out in annoyance -- some left, while others complained to the owner -- but Laura just looked at her husband.
"This is happening a lot lately," she said and picked at her food.
Bruce wiped his mouth on a napkin, his g... | John was standing behind a large window. Outside, among many skyscrapers of the city, the supers were fighting again. With a loud thud, The Falcon, a superhero with wings on his back, collided with the window, just like a bird would. On the rooftop of the neighboring building, John could see the mad scientist Eva Poraa... | 2018-08-17T15:06:27 | 2018-08-17T13:22:04 | 1,012 | 391 |
[WP] Litigation has gotten so prevalent that everyday conversations are made in legal-speak. Make the mundane impossibly mired in legal-eze. I take no responsibility for your response to this prompt. | **"Social convention dictates that on the occasion of birth-anniversaries, it is a non-optional custom to give gifts. In light of this convention, I have purchased you an appropriately priced bauble. Please sign this limited liability agreement in advance of your receipt of the largesse in question."**
"While your con... | Kevin didn't ponder anything while he watched the water fall from the cooler into his cup. The door opened and in walked Bob, wearing a coat and a visible headache.
"Good afternoon, Kevin."
"Afternoon, Bob. How's the weather outside?"
"Well, between you, Kevin Cosgrove, and myself, Bob Wheeler, and with no pretense ... | 2015-01-23T23:47:58 | 2015-01-23T23:41:00 | 102 | 15 |
[WP] Every doomsday scenario and apocalypse event occur on the same day. The computers gain malevolent sentience, zombies rise from the graves, aliens come down to wage war... Humans end up sitting back and watching these things destroy one other, completely ignored | Things weren't so bad when the Apocalypse rolled around.
The undead rose, our computers gained sentience, aliens descended, angels and demons descended onto the mortal plain, hell, I personally saw the four riders of the apocalypse ride down I-95 on motorcycles. I guess they stay with the times.
Now you see, almost... | It's been 12 hours since everything went to hell in a handbasket. Everyone has fled to their homes and the streets are empty.
Well, not quiet.
"Bloody 'ell..." An Australian voice mutters, as the man known only as 'sniper' flicks his eyes from the blue and Silver robots they were sent in to fight to the giant grey ... | 2016-10-20T06:27:36 | 2016-10-20T06:02:42 | 92 | 24 |
[WP] Bad news. You’re stuck in a strange and magical world far far from home. Worse news: You aren’t even the chosen one in the prophecy who gets cool powers and a destiny quest. They won’t show up for a few more years. You got here purely by mistake. You have no powers. You’re alone. You must live. | Hello. My name is Thomas. I'm a 29-year-old guy from New York and I am the Hero of Durthel - the capital of Elerland.
I know what you're thinking - *the hell is Elerland? Durthel? Hero?*
Let's start from the beginning.
2 years ago, some, well, *magic*, transported me to Elerland. It's not Earth. I don't know what th... | When Ray went through that portal in his dream, the last thing he expected was to wake up in a strange, unknown house. **This must just be part of the dream**, he thought to himself. **I wonder where this leads to.**
He got out of bed and wandered around the house, looking at the architecture. The ceiling was low, ve... | 2022-04-22T00:29:47 | 2022-04-21T21:39:27 | 811 | 27 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | “Ms. Deidre Johnson. A moment.”
I wasn’t thrilled about staying back. For once, my grade in this class hadn’t been that bad, and I was very motivated to keep it that way. Seeing how Doc Annis was rumored to eat children and all. Great incentive to stick to a diet, that.
She didn’t look hungry. She looked sick. I was... | I got it online, the spell, a sequence of logographic runes that looked complicated enough, with a few logograms I recognized as conjunctions, so there were at least a few clauses, but not so complicated that my professor would suspect I'd stolen it. From my stolen peeks at other student's scrolls, it was of similar le... | 2021-04-01T19:35:41 | 2021-04-01T19:01:18 | 4,219 | 132 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Being average can be both a curse and a blessing. On one hand, you never really can experience prosperity. I learned this the hard way in highschool when I would wrestle. It never feels good to train your butt off to only come in 5th place in a tournament. After all... No one cares about 5th place. It's only the top th... | “Describe the suspect again”, the detective sighed while putting out his third sigaret. The timid older woman sitting across from him was taken aback. She had told her story at least six times. Minuschka was waiting for her and she had never spent an evening without her little darling purring by her side. Her words sou... | 2018-10-24T12:47:09 | 2018-10-24T08:19:24 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | "Freeze! Or you'll FREEZE! Ha!"
Staring down the barrel of the freeze ray that Doctor Device was pointing at us,
I couldn't help but notice the unusual amount of detail he'd put into it.
"Wow, that thing looks really well built. Stylish but menacing. Reliable, too. I
counted eight shots so far"--I tipped my head towa... | Shit. She couldn't believe it. Which one of her fellow heroes had written it? Her stomach sank. Didn't they understand? She was born with the ability, and had trained through trials and sufferings that many of them could not imagine, no matter how tragic their backstory. The very same power that gave her her abilities ... | 2020-02-25T14:46:46 | 2020-02-25T12:17:21 | 119 | 66 |
[WP] “I’ve always wondered, what’s the scythe for, anyway?” I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld. "Protection," he nervously replied.
Credit goes to: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/6imkuw/the_grim_reapers_scythe_isnt_to_harvest_you_its/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app | "So uh… how long until Hell?" We've been walking through a thick forest for what I'm guessing is hours.
"Unfortunate for you, child, we must pass three more of those what you called 'checkpoints'."
Death just looks straight ahead, holding his scythe more and more firm as we walk.
"Hey Mr. Death, sir. I'm just wonde... | "I've always wondered, what's the scythe for anyway? " I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld.
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"Protection," he nervously replied.
​
The black gleaming walls seemed to vibrate and I shuddered as we glided forward. The narrow corridor opened up into a massive cave with torches all ar... | 2019-07-15T02:38:05 | 2019-07-15T01:05:09 | 218 | 13 |
[WP]You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago, today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor". | Todd woke up one bright Monday morning and was very surprised to find Satan standing next to his bed. Again.
"What are *you* doing here?" Todd asked, or tried to. In his drowsy state, it came out more like "Wheryoodooinear?"
"Yes, yes, very nice..." the Devil replied absently. Suddenly, the demon leaned forward unt... | "What?" I asked, confused by his sudden proposal.
"You heard me," he replied "I have come to give you your soul back, but I need you to do me a favour in return."
I smiled, knowing that he wouldn't like what he was about to hear "I'm afraid that there has been a misunderstanding here, Lucifer. I already have regain... | 2016-06-27T09:11:14 | 2016-06-27T07:31:29 | 148 | 59 |
[WP] In the future Earth is fighting a desperate war against aliens. With no other option, we start to use heavy genetic engineering, effectively making most humans like nightmare monsters. After victory, the unaltered refugees on a secluded planet do not recognize us for humans anymore. | "Photon Eagle Four to Base, coming in hot. Advise," CPT Detriech was screaming into his radio. It would be hilarious to survive the 1,000 Year War, the rebuild of the space program, and the fifteen year journey to OP Base Delta in the far outskirts of the Castro System just to die upon entry into the atmosphere of ou... | We won. We finally won. At least I think it's still 'we'.. To say we made horrible mistakes during the war would be to easy. Victory had it's price and everybody had to play their part. But are we stil ourselves? During the fighting, the horrors, the bloodshed, we forgot about Eden. We sent humans to that paradise of a... | 2016-06-04T05:34:35 | 2016-06-04T01:24:03 | 59 | 13 |
[WP] Assassinating Earth's planetary delegate turned out much harder than expected. So far, the target has always detected all hitmen sent and alerted his security. This ability of "hearing" the humans possess is quite peculiar. | In retrospect, perhaps the Gaznid should have paid more attention to the shrill, unholy chaos that entered their side-facing cranial orifices.
It was improper of course, for a Gaznid citizen to exist in the waking world without plugging those orifices. That went without saying, for had not the creator made the Univers... | 57:81 - "Thla 14 has successfully penetrated the *Missionary*'s anti-gravity sphere"
"T14 you are cleared to engage upon sight of target. *Jashfaak*"
"Thanks, we're going to need it."
Zulthai Bron closed the telelink and opened the tactical feed in their ring visor.
Zulthai scanned the room, motionless, as the rest... | 2021-03-18T09:52:42 | 2021-03-18T09:47:43 | 610 | 163 |
[WP] You've been in the queue for two and a half years now. You gave up your job, your relationship... everything. You don't know what's through the Rift but the call of it was too strong to ignore. You're getting near the front and now and you're constantly bombarded with bribes by rich elites...
First time trying to... | For 2 years now I’ve been stuck in line my life wasted many have tried but none succeeded. They all walked in one side and exited the other like it was a fancy door. I was next many elites tried to pay me to get the “riches” on the other side if I passed. I refused all. Many years ago when I first heard about it I was ... | Sometimes, I thought it wasn't gonna be worth it. That this was all some... joke, I guess? Another cosmic "fuck you" directed at me. That I'd gone crazy.
But the Rift is real. And I'm getting so close.
Honestly, it's luck that's gotten me this far. Samantha thought it was fake, thought I was a dumbass. Told me to go... | 2020-05-24T16:13:08 | 2020-05-24T15:15:51 | 20 | 13 |
[WP]If you murder someone, your jail sentence is as long as their remaining life would have been. | "I plead guilty, Your Honor," I told the courtroom, earning gasps and whispers. "I killed her. Six milligrams of Aconitum directly into her left arm."
"Well, I suppose I should thank your honesty. That saves us some time-"
"What kind of sick bastard murders his own sister?" a voice cut in from the crowd. Several othe... | Beep...beep...beep...beep...beeeeeeeeeeeeeep...
Sheathing my wire cutters, I calmly walked out of room 209 and resumed mopping the east hallway. Soon after, several doctors wheeled a crash cart into the room in a desperate attempt to save the man's life. They won't save him, they never do. I've been working as a janito... | 2016-05-29T08:24:25 | 2016-05-29T08:17:02 | 802 | 16 |
[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. | "You see it? That is what I crave. The Rajpank of Avoothenkor."
"That's what you want? That's why I'm here?"
"With that I could rule this World. But I cannot have it, for it is not mine."
"So there's guards, cameras, lasers? What's the deal?"
"I don't understand."
"What's guarding it? You know, the security? I don... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T09:20:50 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 99 | 21 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla, where all great warriors go when they die. However, you never fought a day in your life. You try to find out why you're there. | Deirdre opened her eyes as if she was waking from a great sleep. She sat up with a great stretch, realizing that her body had none of it's usual aches and pains. Before her lay a spectacular view of a golden castle atop a soft white mountain. A waterfall tumbled out of a trellis in the court, scattering rainbows ov... | Gates of iron loomed beyond the fields of the fallen. Through the fog, all that could be discerned was the black silhouette of spears and arrow shafts standing against a grey mist. The whole thing was pretty spooky, if you get my point.
"Hello? Is... is anyone there?" My voice sounded like a little girl's. Luckily, no... | 2014-05-17T19:47:11 | 2014-05-17T18:38:33 | 277 | 48 |
[WP] You use a mirror to summon your evil twin. What comes out... is your good twin.
This ought to be fun. | "So you're saying that you do all your work on time?" I ask again, still half in shock. "And that you've never taken a sick day for no good reason?"
The other me nods his head. He's wearing a three piece suit, tailored, sitting with his legs crossed as though he doesn't have a care in the world. "Speaking of work, I'd... | "Okay," he said, "let me get this straight."
I smiled and nodded for him to go on. It was a lot to take in, I thought, so I figured it best to let him take his time to get his bearings.
"You found a mirror," he said, "imbued with a magical power that allows you to look into an alternate universe and see the version o... | 2022-09-02T19:38:49 | 2016-04-15T16:49:46 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] Your ability to summon Trash was originally a laughing stock... Until items considered trash by an advanced alien civilization started to come through. | The city used to be a hive of scum and villainy.
It used to be filthy place, like a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, but instead of a single building, it was the entire town. Trash littered the streets, from wet and soggy newspapers to empty syringes. More people used drugs than not, in every alley and around every dumps... | In a world where everyone has powers, the ability to summon trash was originally considered the lamest and useless power ever. But when an advanced alien civilization started to consider some things as trash, my powers got a whole lot more useful. Hi, I'm Barta Ace, and my literal trash powers are now worth something!... | 2021-12-27T06:34:22 | 2021-12-27T05:07:02 | 78 | 12 |
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