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[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | So about 7,000 years ago Ollie dropped a boulder on my head. We were hunter-gatherers then, and he convinced me that there was a herd of red deer in a canyon near our camp. When I went there to check it out, he was on top of the ridge and rolled the boulder off onto me. It took a week for me to claw my way out.
Okay ... | The best joke we've ever seen wasn't the time Jake tricked me into a pit of spikes and left me there for a whole day. That was diabolic but it wasn't the most creative (and certainly not the most original). Nor was it the time Mary faked an official letter from the gods telling us our time was up (though that was prett... | 2017-06-23T00:57:11 | 2017-06-23T00:50:43 | 220 | 27 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | Beware the false prophets, the wolves who hide in the white of sheep’s clothing. That was what my Father once said. Yet he failed to practice what he preached. He let a wolf into his home, a man who claimed to seek shelter but bathed in blood. When the wolf fled, my Father was laid to rest, a pool of water seeping from... | I still remember the screams. "Demon!" "Evil!" "How dare you!?" "Trickster!"
That was ten years ago, now. I once lived among the rich elite, high in the sky, in the tops of the towers of New, New york. What a naming scheme... Knitting hats for the homeless is just a scam, you know. Keeps us looking go... | 2018-08-04T12:06:46 | 2018-08-04T11:02:34 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Stepping out your front door one morning, you trip on the step and fall. Unfortunately, in doing so you crack you head open and die. As you fell you happened to crush a snail which, due to a technicality, turns out to count as dying in battle. You and the snail awaken in Valhalla | I couldn't believe it. Valhalla. Of all the heavens I had heard of this one fit me the least. All because of the small snail on the ground next to me. I was angry. For a man such as me, one who had never been athletic or strong in any typical way it was certain to be my hell.
"Pick up the sword lad, the day of fighti... | "Espera un momento, dejame entender esto" Digo sosteniendo mi frente.
El vikingo suspira. "Ya estamos media hora aquí"
"Lo sé, pero como es posible esto" Señaló el caracol. "Yo no lo mate, el no me mato y no estábamos en ninguna batalla".
El vikingo levantó un portapapeles. Comenzó a abrir la boca.
"¡Que no estába... | 2022-10-16T10:22:44 | 2022-10-16T08:17:39 | 112 | 36 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | Can you imagine being forgotten? Not dying, mind you, but being *forgotten.* Dying, I could live with, but being forgotten is a different manner.
Every word I’d ever spoken and the influence it had on humanity was gone. My ancient followers, along with their names and faces, could be found nowhere. My temples and idol... | All that can be heard is soft thrumming. The world pulses with the Worldsong, a gentle violin mixed with the exuberance of a trumpet, a song of constant-shifting tempo and tune, but the ancient being does not stir. For centuries, the ancient being has slept.
Something changes. The world’s melody shifts. A soft xy... | 2021-09-02T12:46:28 | 2021-09-02T10:15:48 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Other princesses have Fairy Godmothers. You have a Fairy Godfather. He doesn't exactly grant wishes in the usual way, but the Fairy Mob always has your back. | Maria had come to realize that being royalty meant two things: she didn't have to cook for herself anymore and that the expected was anything but. She'd worked her way into the good graces of the high court, grovelled at the feet of lords, dined with baronesses all throughout the land, all to get where she was now. The... | Princess Edna was crying fat, ugly tears inside her chamber in the castle.
She wailed and pitifully beat her fists against the smooth stone of her walls. She threw her bedsheets off the bed, stamping on them, and decided to unleash a horrible scream. Nothing in her chamber was safe: that priceless painting of her gra... | 2020-08-19T16:08:32 | 2020-08-19T15:23:22 | 3,230 | 478 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | The first flecks of dawn’s light trickled into the fancy high-rise bar. All was quiet except for the subtle squeaking of glasses being cleaned by the young woman behind the counter. She worked mechanically, with no life in her movements. She didn’t even flinch as the rear door slammed open and noise flooded the room.
... | Theodore, Eoghan and Meph stared at the ransom note left by the bar.
It was glued on in single letters, to a single matte sheet of paper. *We have your number, and your children. You will be contacted about the location of the drop. We require $20 million in non-sequential, non-scented, unmarked bills.*
Meph looke... | 2018-01-31T12:13:05 | 2018-01-31T05:07:27 | 203 | 86 |
[WP] A cynical man finds a real hidden utopia. Spends the rest of his life trying to find something wrong with it. | I've spent more time in this place than I care to remember. It's perfect. *Too* fucking perfect. And I'm sick of it. I came here when I was just a kid and here I am now, an old man, waiting for the sweet release of death. I've spent years trying to find something wrong with this goddamned place. Something to wipe the s... | 200 hundred years he's tried to find the catch. That's right you can't seem to die here either. Figured that out a long time ago.
He had never been a good person, he wasn't even an alright person but he'd accepted that, he'd embraced that.
One day he woke up here, it was perfect. Glorious. Indescribable. A flawless w... | 2014-07-06T08:03:42 | 2014-07-06T07:20:51 | 54 | 32 |
[WP] Theorising that so-called "life-force" or "souls" is actually just the electricity coursing through the nerves of living things, you try to sacrifice a battery to a demon. | I had everything set up correctly, I think. A star within a pentagram within a circle, each point illuminated by a candle. I got as many of the called for herbs from the local farmers' market, but what couldn't be found there I got from the spice aisle in the supermarket. I figured fresh and organic was better, but I d... | "Here's the soul you wanted," I said, smiling confidently at the demon lord whilst concealing a shit ton of nervousness. This was the very first time that I was ever doing this, though I had footage to suggest that it was true. Electric currents were responsible for the urban myth of 'souls'; the greater the ampere of ... | 2017-07-01T19:06:27 | 2017-07-01T18:21:46 | 1,551 | 825 |
[WP] A very serious story about a very silly thing. Surprise me | **(lots of "adult" language ahead)**
You red-haired, grinning, stupid son of a bitch. You just had to go and honk that fucking elastic noisemaker right in my goddamn face, didn't you. Thought it'd be funny to approach a baby's face and frighten all of my senses, huh? I've got sensory experiences I'm still figuring out... | I entered the enourmous room which was slightly illuminated, my heart was beating faster and faster as the moments passed. Sweating, and frantically looking from side to side. The floor and walls were tightening every second I was present. People’s eyes were suspicious; I was the elephant in the room. I walked as steal... | 2016-11-17T10:52:05 | 2016-11-17T10:46:50 | 47 | 13 |
[WP]Your girlfriend is an alien whose species is only slightly different from human beings. What are those changes, and how do you find out?
Potentially NSFW | They came from space.
They looked like babes. The males: Even the most wretched of them was an 8 at worst. an 8 *female*, that is.
Sexual Dimorphism had been honed to a mere sliver of possibility in the millenia their species had been breeding. Turns out, earthlings weren't the only homo sapiens in the universe, and... | Greg was an aspiring musician, tonight he was playing a gig at Coastal Town or something like that. That night he found love, gave up his career, and found something magical. A few weeks later he was talking to his girlfriend and asked about her family. She said she doesn't have one. Greg asked why, she said she wasn't... | 2015-09-05T14:42:39 | 2015-09-05T14:38:54 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | He looked at her expectantly. Waiting.
“Orange?”
He waited.
“Orange! CAT! MOTORBIKE!”
She tried so hard to get through to him but felt like nothing was happening. She searched for his eyes. Hers were beginning to moisten with the hopelessness of her situation.
“TELEPHONE!”
He looked straight at her, so conf... | Mom was singing Christmas carols again. The martini in her hand glowing like the contents of a broken glow stick. The dog was barking too. When I went to go look I could see children running around the classroom, having too much fun to notice the SS Titanic sinking into the giant kiddie pool outside. The sound of bagp... | 2015-01-12T15:45:13 | 2015-01-12T10:42:43 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You adopt a cat. On its first visit to the vet, you introduce them as Buttercup. When you turn away to get the adoption papers, you hear the veterinarian murmur, "So that's what you're going by this time, huh?" | The vet sighed as soon as she walked in the door. The vet tech broke down into a fit of giggles and bolted out the door.
“Buttercup, huh?” She snickered. “You’re playing along with that?”
I looked from my vet to the cat and back. Buttercup rolled onto her back and showed a gloriously fluffy calico cat belly. Her lit... | "So you two know each other huh?", I said to reciprocate the Veterinarian's obvious joke. He did not seem to find it funny. At all. Is my timing really that bad?
"Sir, this cat is a know felon, I'm afraid I can't let him leave.", The Veterinarian said sternly. He glared at the small animal with what I thought was a di... | 2022-01-27T19:40:14 | 2022-01-27T12:13:03 | 121 | 31 |
[WP] You, a bassist, make a Faustian pact with a demon for incredible musical skill. No one notices.
I love the bass, I swear. | The show ended, and Micky Timbre had rocked the bass greater than any bassist in the history of music. The crowd went wild and clamored to reach the stage, but to Micky's horror it was the lead singer they were after.
The night did not get any better for poor Micky. Backstage, he asked his bandmates how they think the... | "I'll do anything, I swear!"
"Even sell your soul?"
"Yes, even that!" John wanted more than anything to actually be good with his guitar. It was his only dream, that people would like his compositions and playing skills. He would do anything, yes, even sell his soul.
"Alrighty, just sign on the dotted line, leave a ... | 2017-08-03T11:11:10 | 2017-08-03T10:28:01 | 410 | 47 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *If it makes a human sick, it will kill you*
Ashley glanced over the survival pamphlet for the umpteenth time. Pulled off the corpse of one of the invaders that had come from the cosmos above, it was the single piece of information that had turned the tide of the war against the Lar’khii.
Initially it seemed as thou... | Mike looked up from the vomit splattered floor.
"Nope - not good," he said as he continued to dry heave over the sink. What made it worse was that the steady airflow that usually came from the "south" wall flowing steadily toward the "north" wall, would stop every time he got sick. He'd named the walls "north" and "... | 2021-02-03T19:32:17 | 2021-02-03T19:22:53 | 102 | 34 |
[WP] An older version of yourself offers you immortality, the only catch is that you will be sent back in time 2000 years. Older you claims it's a great deal, but secretly they are miserable and want you to accept so they can transfer this horrible curse to you |
At first I didn’t believe him, none of it made any sense, time travel, immortality, the fact that I was speaking face to face with my future self, or my past self? I don’t know, it was confusing to say the least. But he looked like me, well a version of me at least. He and I shared features, the same facial structu... | Trevor looked at the old man, fighting off a headache. "Are you insane?"
"Oh come on, look at me. I'm you!"
"Impossible."
"Good lord, 30 year old me was stupid. Look carefully at me. Look at these features. I'm you... Just a few years older."
"How much older?"
"Around 435."
"435? Ok, now I know you're insane. Tha... | 2020-12-14T19:04:32 | 2020-12-14T18:35:40 | 310 | 92 |
[WP] You are part of a group of survivors in a zombie apocalypse, but you have a secret... you're actually a vampire. | It had only been six months since the outbreak went viral. I sat alone in the basement of an abandoned parking lot we'd taken refuge in, collecting my thoughts as to how I should proceed. During daybreak I often remained here, waiting for the others to return from their scavenge runs. It was dark, and comfortable. They... | My eyes blurred as I felt the hunger sinking in I must look sick to the others it’s getting very hard to hide who I am. It had been a few months since the outbreak happened something I only thought would be in one of those stupid video games my cousin Carl played. Carl, he was one of the first close to me to go.
“Jack... | 2015-10-11T06:53:38 | 2015-10-11T04:24:57 | 55 | 18 |
[WP] You've been living in your home for ten years. For some reason, every month, an envelope with half your rent appears on the table. You never questioned it. One day, you see a familiar man walking out of the vacant guest room. You remember he said, a decade ago, "you won't even notice I'm here." | This is the first one of these I have ever done, go easy on me! :)
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He appeared suddenly, without warning. A tall quiet man with kind eyes. He looked like a detective out of a crime novel set in the nineteen fifties. He had a black hat, a black c... | I woke up scared. My heart was beating a million miles an hour. The clock glowed softly 1:30AM. Looking around the room I noticed two red eyes staring at me from my desk.
My heart froze.
"Mew," My cat said softly. I sighed, all the fear I felt in leaving me. I got up and turned on the lights. I squinted at the sudden... | 2019-05-15T15:06:00 | 2019-05-15T14:57:26 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] In vampire society, it is a capital offence to touch prey marked by a senior vampire. There is a very good reason they all shy away from the cross.
All credit to [https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/wwon7a/in\_vampire\_society\_it\_is\_a\_capital\_offence\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentence... | "We can't go in there, Victor"
"Why not, Rabbi?"
The Rabbi stood there for a second, his face one movement away from laughter, before recomposing itself and replying, "I guess you wouldn't yet know. You know how whenever we scout, I leave a mark somewhere on the property?"
"Yes, Rabbi. What does that have to do with... | He was the one above all, and his Mark was the cross. The earliest of vampires all watched when he was once upon the Earth. When he had a son, the Romans saw him for what he was, and yet they did not strike; they waited. Years passed in that biding time, when the son took up the Mark of the father.
Some believed him ... | 2022-09-05T08:55:39 | 2022-09-05T08:22:18 | 676 | 171 |
[WP] At 19 everyone in your society has to go into the cave of fears and defeat your worst fear. You're the first to go in and find nothing.
edit: I want to read them all but there are so many it's hard to keep up, so many variations of the story I didn't even think of, great job everyone! | Draped in golden chains and adorned with all sorts of finery the five elders looked down on him. The great hall normally used for extravagant feasts on the year days had been cleared out. Jacob knelt in the center. He felt countless eyes on the back of his head.
"And you say you found nothing."
The tone was calm enou... | "There's nothing in here..." she said, almost disappointed
The premise that the cave of fears was empty was very disappointing for Julia, who only just celebrated her 19th birthday. As per tradition in her town, she had to enter the cave of fears to face her greatest fear of all time. But what should she face if there... | 2016-06-12T10:50:09 | 2016-06-12T10:12:38 | 134 | 56 |
[WP] It is illegal to contact the humans, as they wear an evolutionary scar from their time as prey. It is known as "fear" and it makes them volatile and unpredictable.
Optionally, you are releasing an article of your interviews with them before they were illegal
Edit: look at that, my first reddit gold! Until now I... | In the year 6892 FA, three hundred years after the galactic treaty, humanity made first contact with the galactic belt. They first met and traded with some relic scanners in dead space who'd mistaken their basic craft, (binary computers, lithium-ion power cells, hydrogen and nuclear fuels, along with a primitive mobile... | [Undisclosed desert region, at sundown]
_ <Human, could you come to my tent for one second?>
Roger, the only human in the team, nods, leaving his bonfire and passing 3 other soldiers, four times his size each, dragging the company's standard small arm, which for him was a comically large bazooka looking thing... | 2016-05-24T15:47:28 | 2016-05-24T14:35:03 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] The only two (secret) telepaths in the world are introduced to each other at a party. On the surface they are cordial and polite... but mentally a battle rages on.
Have fun with it! | James sat by the pool, nursing his third beer in ten minutes. Absent mindedly peeling the label from the bottle, he was engrossed in his usual party pass-time of flitting between the various attendees thoughts and impressions as they chatted.
Like channel hopping, slumped on a couch at 4am, he paid little real attenti... | Boredom.
Standing amongst a crowd, feeling the music pumping the air in the room, whilst the fools dance and sing, spinning and drinking like it'll make the next day any better for them.
There's nothing to be offered there, no interest to be found... At least... Not the kind everyone else was looking for.
He smiled,... | 2014-07-23T04:59:19 | 2014-07-23T04:37:02 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | Thor raised Mjolnir high.
"Heathen! Join with US in Valhalla, and every day will be battle. At night, my Valkyries will tend your wounds as we drink mead and revel in our longhouses!"
"Eh, I kinda did that phase in college. What else have we got?"
Vishnu came forth. "Your faith is imperfect, but choose my path... | Rising from my grave, I enter a half-lit world inhabited only by dark undead and beings burning for power, espousing godhood.
"Bring us the souls of these undead and you shall keep the right to your own" said they, but I, knowing the caprice and deviousness of those in search of power, knew there was no hope for my s... | 2017-07-09T06:55:11 | 2017-07-09T05:10:20 | 21 | 12 |
[WP]There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes. | Working on my thesis at the moment which revolves around my Dad growing up as an ethnic minority in Vietnam during the war (Degar, Rhade/E De tribe). But also working on a collection of short-shorts about my mothers life growing up as well.
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Our Garden in Saigon
I was seven, and my mother and I pushed a food cart... | Howard and I sat in our respective chairs, looking through thousands of white specs against the black curtains of the universe. We had been 2 of a team of 15 people working with the Hubble telescope. In reality running an operation like this takes a small town's worth of people, but as far as the actual research and da... | 2016-09-11T10:25:17 | 2016-09-11T09:59:29 | 103 | 14 |
[WP] “Although we are grateful to you for defeating our oppressors, you were meant to die in battle…” your “allies” suddenly turned their weapons on you, “Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” | "Seriously? We're doing this now?" I sighed, more disappointed than anything. The others had murder in their eyes; save Rogue and her usual greed. To be honest I saw it coming since we came together. "Well, it's a good thing I have contingencies." I used a scroll of anti magic first thing, temporarily disabling Cleric ... | I stood, covered in blood, bewilderment becoming a simmering rage brought to boil. I had fought wars, defeated nations and their armies, and this is how I'm repaid? In betrayal?
...No.
I refuse. I will not become their martyr. I was seen as the hero, as the Saint. Now, I'll become the Devil and show them what real ... | 2022-11-01T23:34:26 | 2022-11-01T20:20:50 | 53 | 39 |
[WP] A demon vows to raise a human baby after the child is sacrificed to it by their parents. | "Destroyer of Civilizations" the demon said proudly looking at the smoldering pink bundle, "that's what I'll call you. Garthon Destroyer of Civilizations.
Garthon burst into tears. The demon cursed. Thankfully it missed Garthon and hit a rock instead, destroying it to ashes.
The demon stared at the infant with eyes d... | "Wake up Nathanaël ! You'll be late for school !"
Every morning, it's the same routine. I knew humans were easily lazy (I may be at fault here), but didn't realize how annoying it can be untill 7 ago.
"The breakfast is ready !"
a little sleepy voice came from a room : "Mmmm. 5 more minutes please dad."
*Dad*
If so... | 2018-03-22T05:26:48 | 2018-03-22T02:24:22 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] After earth blew up, you and your close friends who are all immortal are scattered into the cosmos. You land on a planet which, while devoid of life, has water. Start a civilization. Guide them to the stars, in order to reunite with your friends. | "Gilgamesh!?"
"Derek!? My friend!! What are you doing here?"
" I came to invade this alien planet! Or well my army of bug people did, they worship me as a God-king."
"You know what, funny thing, literally the same here. The Jellyminds love me."
"The what?"
"The Jellyminds, that's what I call 'em, they look like fl... | When you live as long as I have things take on a repeat.
It's all the same thing, over and over again.
There's Earl, Megan, Harry, John, and-
Why are they all Caucasian names, you ask?
It's what they call us in this language, you know.
Anyways, here we are again, the Earth is gone -- blown up -- and we had to scat... | 2021-07-20T23:36:59 | 2021-07-20T23:21:43 | 95 | 47 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | "Where am I?" Amelia slurred, "What... what happened?" she grimaced, "Why does my head hurt?"
"Sorry, side effects of the knockout agent. You'll be fine in a few minutes." A distant voice called out.
"Wait, what?" Amelia tried to move but felt paralyzed. She looked down and though her vision was still blurry, she saw... | I am known as Mind Master. My power is telekinesis \[which I can also use to make myself fly\]. After defeating my main villain, Dr. Psychon, I was ready to rest and stop the occasional bandit. But that evening was nothing like that at all.
I followed a distress call next to the town park. The next thing I knew I was ... | 2021-10-21T13:00:29 | 2021-10-21T12:25:33 | 124 | 67 |
[WP] In his dying breaths, Weird Al reveals his final parody target: himself. He had a team of scientists scan his brain and his band's brains to create an algorithm that will continue to take in new songs and create parodies for us until the end of time. Behold: Weird A.I. | Now, this is a story all about how
The music industry got flipped upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just wait on by
I'll tell you how I became a neural network called Weird AI
&nbsp;
In Lynwood, California born and raised
Growing silly hair was how I spent most of my days
Chillin' out, maxin', relax... | [Hey kids! Sing along if you know the words!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-upHSP9KU)
Throw the switch and fry my brain!
People said that I'm insane!
Now who's laughing?
**WEIRD A.I.**
Lights and flashes, beeps and boops,
Brain uploading or
I'm compiling
Ones and zeros
**WEIRD A.I.**
Thoughts I never thunk... | 2022-04-28T13:23:35 | 2022-04-28T13:21:50 | 100 | 54 |
[WP] A faerie introduces himself. Then, he says, "Give me your name," and he holds out his hand as if it's a physical thing he wants. Like a fool, you give it to him. | "Well, well, what do we have here? A pretty little thing, walking all by herself in the big, dark woods."
The young girl paid no attention and continued her steady gait through the grassy path. She wore her green hood up, all but covering the dark curls of hair framing her expressionless face. Only her eyes conveyed a... | She held out a pristine palm. Tiny flowers, leaves and branches twirled around her arm. It was, almost as if she was a forest herself. "Give me your name," she said and tilted her head.
I looked at her eyes, and saw spring and autumn inside. How round, bright and magical they were. "My name?"
She nodded and let out a... | 2018-07-26T21:15:11 | 2018-07-26T20:57:21 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] It turns out that adrenaline is considered one of the most illicit drugs in 90% of the civilized portions of the Galaxy. Among the circle of sapient races, humans are the only one known to produce it naturally. | The walls of the hallway were as bland as the rest of the ship. Despite being pristine, the white walls of cabin C3-T were horrendous on the eyes.
As I made my way down the corridor I bumped into another god damned cleaning rover - there's just about more robots on this ship than humans. The buggers are all over the p... | John's body stood sprawled on a large metal block, tied down at each limb. His eyes stared down the barrel of an assault rifle. It stared back.
"No more," he screamed, "please!"
The gun sat latched to a bulky naked machine about 20m away. The machines operator was a mysterious dark figure stalking behind a panel o... | 2017-02-28T20:33:11 | 2017-02-28T19:50:36 | 265 | 31 |
[WP] You have the ability that lets you know exactly what to say to someone at any given moment that would cause them to break down in tears. | I started to complete the online application. Most of the questions were pretty routine: name, date of birth, address, school history, names of parents and so on. Finally I came to the last question: "What is your most unique talent or ability? When and how did you first realize you had this gift?"
I paused for a mome... | Ten years. Fetching coffee, kissing ass, crawling on my hands and knees for promotions. Finally I'm here. The microphone inches from my lips, the feeling was intoxicating.
A smile came across my face as my prey took his seat, cool, calm, and invincible. He had no idea today's routine speech would ruin him.
Those in ... | 2015-06-16T17:27:30 | 2015-06-16T17:01:37 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] While exploring ancient ruins called "the fairy city" by the locals, you accidentally trigger a mystic portal, surprising a fairy archeologist also exploring similar ruins. To her, your technology is just as fantastical as her magic as you excitedly swap stories | She buzzes around excitedly, wings fluttering like a hummingbird's. I smile. I can't help it. She's adorable. I want to be her big sister. "There must have been an accident. You got into the portal the same time I got into the portal. Poor Shiannon's probably looking for me. Didn't you see the portal glow?"
I grin, de... | It was getting dark, the pair decided they would make camp for the night near the portal. He left to collect some firewood while she prepared the beds.
Upon his return, he stacked some wood in the middle of a small stone circle, and started searching his pockets for a lighter. "Aha! Here it is." He proclaimed.
"What ... | 2019-10-15T22:16:33 | 2019-10-15T21:16:39 | 1,095 | 324 |
[WP] To stave off mass starvation, humans have managed to capture and cage a phoenix. They kill it and eat it. A few days later, it would be reborn, only to be butchered again. | At the base of the mountains, before the world flattened to prairies, there was a village plagued with misfortune. Time and again, they’d been met with curses and floods, hexes and droughts.
Despite it all, they had a zoo. Animals from around the world lived there—unicorns and lions, manticores and girafes. The Phoen... | The small phoenix flapped its wings, soaking in the moonlight that luminated their forest swamp. She chirped and laughed with her family as they flew around the water. It was in this haven where she spent each moment with bliss, her one true home. The first few hours of dusk were like every other, once the sun went dow... | 2021-01-30T22:07:16 | 2021-01-30T21:20:56 | 214 | 86 |
[WP] You’re sitting in a coffee shop surrounded by strangers but then it dawns on you that these were the same “strangers” who were in the restaurant where you had dinner last night. You head to the beach and realise again that the people around you are once more the same. | "She's *new*," Carlos narrowed his focus on the green-haired woman that wasn't there moments ago. If he had not been scanning the crowd intently, he wouldn't have noticed her. He counted beachgoers from his seat at a wooden picnic table. So far, he found most of the children from the restaurant matched to different par... | "I'll have a bacon butty and a cup of tea dear," the old man at the table next to you has a tone in his voice that makes you sit up and take notice.
It's a kind tone, it's a tender, gentle voice. It's a voice that makes you think of your childhood and those rare visits to your grandfather, the only sane person in the... | 2020-01-18T07:33:45 | 2020-01-18T06:30:22 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] You are able to see the sins of people. Small sins look like mice. Larger sins look closer to dogs. You are terrified when you encounter someone with a sin that looks like a dragon. | It was a standard Tuesday morning on the L-train. I had left home early to make it to the office to work on a case that had been bugging the hell out of me for months. No leads, no suspects, no motive. Just a bunch of bodies, some shady corporate transactions and a lot of accompanying financial crimes. All the leads de... | I have a certain fondness for cute animals. Things like rabbits and hamsters and sea otters or pandas. Mostly because I never see them. The only animals I see are filthy ones. Ones that come from sin.
Dirty mice, raccoons, opossums, dogs and more. They take the shape deemed accurate of the sin the holder has committe... | 2018-04-18T09:17:48 | 2018-04-18T09:03:28 | 62 | 28 |
[WP]You're the Interim CEO of a major internet company. Every decision you make seems to just go completely wrong. | "But it's our site," I said sternly.
"*Your* site? It just got shutdown."
"Well then revert the shutdown! We fired her, we can fire the mods!"
"Don't you think their revenge would creep back into the site? You know what happened when our country went into another country and made a lot of young, angry and trained me... | 12 noon. I slowly open my eyes and let out a stifled yawn. I hate waking up so early, but the mailman should be delivering my AOL cd today, and I'm going to get a technician to install the internet off it onto my phone.
But first, I have a very important decision to make. One that may change the course of history. I th... | 2015-07-02T23:44:11 | 2015-07-02T23:25:51 | 815 | 18 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | The first time Ravick the Ravisher stepped onto the green pebble, he knew that conquest would be easy. This would be nothing like the molten planet of Xera-2 where his soldiers had sunken beneath the ground only to be swallowed by fire. This planet, if it could even be classified as such, had a nitrogen rich atmosphere... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T08:30:05 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 153 | 25 |
[WP] Your party accidentally enrages a God, but certain doom is oddly liberating. Cursed weapons, monkey paws, contracts with demons; nothing is off the table. You have no chance of winning, but your deaths shall be GLORIOUS! | # Curse of the Overdragon
"...and in exchange, a lifetime of suffering," the witch said.
Ambrose tossed the pouch of coins and grabbed the potion off the wooden countertop. The old woman gave him a nasty grin. _A lifetime of suffering..._
_Well, not like I'll be living any longer anyway,_ he thought.
He pushed asid... | Zeraphane always wondered if he’d get it right.
The perfect goodbye. A composition of expression which delivers all the thoughts which he had not the courage or depth to say. Could he craft such deep feelings into words? He had rehearsed them in his head many times before. He expected to die in the line of duty,... | 2022-06-02T10:37:49 | 2022-06-02T10:28:10 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Rewrite a famous/classic story as though it was a crappy fanfiction. | As I woke up I opened my eyes to see Jason. His muscular arms were still rapped around my naked body and I could feel his sweet building between us where my hips pushed up against his tight abs. The rocking boat was making our bodies move together but he was still sleeping. I climbed out of bed and looked at myself ... | "IT'S HIM, WATSON! IT WAS THE CAB-BOY, JEFFERSON HOPE!" Sherlock said with a smart face.
"Sherlock, please. No," Watson begged.
"SHERLOCK, YES!" Sherlock said, his face growing even smarter.
"How did you even come to such a stupid conclusion-"
"IT'S THE INDUCTIVE REASONING, SHUT UP WATSON!" Sherlock's intelligent f... | 2015-07-21T14:16:40 | 2015-07-21T13:53:56 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | The massive, angular craft drifted into orbit around a dead world. A world scarred by a war fought so long before what the rest of universe viewed as the dawn of time. A war in which there would be no victory. Against a foe that sought to tear the galaxy asunder and could not be defeated. Themselves.
I shuddered at th... | In a language both grating to hear and difficult to master, yet immensely more elegant than any human tongue, an open report is given to a board of exoarchaeologists and exoanthropologists.
"On the topic of Earth, first findings and contact, from the expedition lead Enchri, the lead researcher Ravme, and the warp-brid... | 2019-08-13T15:43:33 | 2019-08-13T14:53:50 | 64 | 42 |
[WP] You are so good at CPR you manage to revive anyone, a miracle, but people start calling you a necromancer | "I'm a *what*?" Asked Geoffrey. He looked out at the mob lining the path. It was almost the entire village.
"A necromancer." Answered Terry, butcher and nominal leader of the group. "Because, you know," he waved his cleaver at the mob "you raise the dead."
A couple of *yeahs!* and waving of torches backed up his s... | "I'm not a necromancer. I'm not a necromancer"
I keep repeating the phrase to myself. I always was good at CPR, 100% success rate, unheard of. I'd never let anyone down.
"I'm not a necromancer. I'm not a necromancer"
All I wanted to do was help people. What kind of person could just stand aside and watch the life... | 2016-08-24T12:16:33 | 2016-08-24T10:50:24 | 229 | 59 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | "Step right up! Step right up and spin the **Wheel of Reincarnation!**"
The voice comes from nowhere and everywhere. I'm near the front of a long line of people, but I don't know how I got here. Ahead of us is a wheel so impossibly vast that the bottom edge is a flat line extending out to both sides, disappearing into... | You are dead, or are you really? You have been an atheist, all your live. Well most of it, sometimes you have ventured into agnosticism, but mostly you have been an atheist. So why the hell, can you still think, you remember being alive, you remember the doctor saying that it would all over soon, then pushing the pisto... | 2015-10-18T20:44:27 | 2015-10-18T20:21:54 | 1,380 | 23 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | Mankind.
__
For countless Millennia we have warred.
Peace being a brief respite from the routine of war.
Always pushing one another, further and further, building bigger and better weapons.
Our ventures into space a mere by-product of our advancement of war, a result of competiton between rival superpowers.
Our e... | Planet 3 NessaSpo (“Earth”)
MISSION STATUS: Completed
MISSION SUCCESS: Unsuccessful.
Covert Agent Placement Failed,
Population Control (Somnulent) Failed,
Population Control (Hydraulic Hostage) Failed.
DETAILS: A highly destructive bio and neuro agent, “caffeine”, native to Planet 3 NessaSpo (“Earth”) is pervasiv... | 2018-05-16T16:23:34 | 2018-05-16T15:43:54 | 105 | 48 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | Tears of horrible pain streamed down Miranda Keidra's face from the broken bones and second degree burns. A healing mage carefully guided the divinely blessed water over the officer's body as I forced my breath into the meditation pattern so that I wouldn't accidentally break something in my rage.
"I-I'm so s-s-sorr-r... | 73 years since the last time there had been a major incident for my my organization, 73 years of fighting and posturing between the Powered that worked for me and those idealist fools in the Guardians hero task force.
I hadn't been in the field for 46 years as of last month but I still kept in contact with members of ... | 2021-03-22T14:08:31 | 2021-03-22T09:25:07 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You can teleport your SO anywhere instantly, and your SO can do the same for you. One day you get in an arguement. | "Where is she?"
Its been four days since I've seen my wife. And I'm worried sick. Not the "I hope she didnt get into an accident" kinda sick. But I would describe it more of an "I hope this isn't going to be the end of our relationship" kinda sick.
&#x200B;
I sit down on the couch in our living room and look ar... | You know that song by Katy Perry, *Hot n Cold*? You’re hot and you’re cold, you’re yes and you’re no? It’s not a bad interpretation of how fickle love can be, yes, but for me, it’s a goddamn reality.
I am *literally* hot and cold if I piss her off. I don’t think she even chooses where I end up, she just poofs me into ... | 2019-03-23T09:09:52 | 2019-03-23T06:45:15 | 199 | 98 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
Don't have too much time, we move out in 10.
Long time no see. Haven't been able to write back, they've been keeping us on our feet for the last few weeks. Tell the goobers their uncle has permission to beat them if they get into the cabinets again. Tell Heather that the fish tank needs cleaned more ... | Dear Mom,
I love you and I miss you dearly. I want to be home. I don't want to be here anymore. It is unspeakably terrifying in this trench. We are shelled at random times of the day. There is never any peace. We can never be at ease.
There is 400 meters between us and the enemy, and we are at a stand still. Neithe... | 2015-02-03T15:25:05 | 2015-02-03T13:25:34 | 113 | 67 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | They called themselves the Taxmen. Apparently some form of tithing on their world that featured in a prominent expression. A few thousand stong. Nothing before the might of the Belathon Empire. We spanned a thousand Galaxies. We, who took planets for sport, and to offer our mates as dowry. What had we to fear the last ... | Mankind had figured out how to put colonies on Mars and was terraforming the red planet. We had stations around the moons of Jupiter and Neptune, even mining operations in the asteroid belt. Paranoia about other nations space capabilities, treaties about non weapon proliferation, economic exploitation all went with us.... | 2019-12-17T22:09:03 | 2019-12-17T19:12:15 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | At first I thought we were evenly matched, but I was slowly starting to realize I'd been too optimistic. My fists blocked by equal force when I rocked out, my strategies countered or nullified no matter the sonata, piece by piece I shuffled through futile playlists.
I began to suspect that he was some form of Copycat ... | "And stay down!" Maestro slammed Songbird down to the concrete.
The hero lay still, dust rising around her. Her headphones skittered across the pavement. A crunch followed, as the villain stepped on them. The beats of Poison silenced instantly.
It was supposed to be an easy battle. Maestro was a new villain in town, ... | 2022-05-17T09:05:42 | 2022-05-17T08:28:11 | 151 | 91 |
[WP] Make an emotionally manipulative character. Make that character the narrator. Manipulate the other characters. While you manipulate me, the reader. | **Authours Note: Strong language and content**
This is Anthony. Anthony isn't much good at anything. Are you Anthony.
“Not again, not here” Anthony would bemoan, okay I’ll give you that, you are good at that. I guess if you do anything that often you would be good at it. Not that it was a trait worth bragging of is i... | "Interesting isn't it!" I asked the girl holding her shoulder as she tried to back away. "Let g..go" she stammered trying to push my arm away. "Don't worry" I whispered soothingly. "I will, just let me explain.” "You killed my friend" She screamed frantically clawing at my face trying desperately to get by.
"Stop that... | 2014-12-08T21:56:52 | 2014-12-08T21:39:38 | 151 | 10 |
[WP] You grew up in a religious family. Due to a minor speech impediment, you inadvertently prayed to the long forgotten deity "Veebuse" for most of your adolescence. Now in college, you have stopped praying every night. Worried, Veebuse comes to check on his only worshiper. | Laurence stared at the little man on his window sill. He had dragonfly wings, a mottled grey top hat and a scraggy beard. All in all, he looked more like an ugly leprechaun than any god Laurence would have imagined.
"You said your name was...Veebuse?"
"The *Great* Veebuse." the thing replied with outstretched arms.
... | Eighteen god dammed years I lived with this stupid speech impediment, my parents wouldn't helped me to get rid of it, I was bullied hard for it. "It's a gift of god" they said, "It would be against his path" they said.
Now that I am eighteen, free and finally rid of my curse, I thought everything would get normal, you... | 2020-04-07T07:40:52 | 2020-04-07T05:07:37 | 260 | 55 |
[WP] You are laying in bed in the dark and you glance over and see an odd shadow in the corner of your room. You're about to turn on a light to see what it is when you hear a voice in your head that says, "Don't move. They're watching you." | "Don't move. They're watching you." I hear in my head as I see the odd shadows in the corner. I knew they were coming, even though it was too early. I knew the quiet couldn't last forever.
I tried to close my eyes and ignore them, but I couldn't forget they were there, watching me, waiting for me to make a move, m... | "Don't move. They're watching you."
I pin myself to my bed, not moving a muscle.
Excruciatingly two hours pass before a nurse enters, she doesn't understand. If I move the shadow will get me. She will just pin this on my condition.
"Here you are Dear, just sit up" she says, giving me a hand
As I go to take her hand... | 2016-04-30T04:08:48 | 2016-04-29T22:57:20 | 176 | 115 |
[WP] Hell is kept molten by the blind hot rage of an immense creature chained in the lowest pit. | Hell has always had a place in the minds of mortals. It has snuck its way into many of the major religions, into dreams, into expressions. Believers and non-believers alike interact with Hell in all its glory. But there was one expression that always gave *me*, a demon extraordinaire—wings and claws and everything—the ... |
His shoulders and arms are malformed. Grotesque taunts of what once was beauty. White scalding scales flake off his chest and reform, only to burn off once again and turn rock into lava. Colorless eyes that are perpetually clenched in hatred. No name. No identity. Only the rage that punishes. Good, bad, the creatur... | 2022-04-26T10:02:25 | 2022-04-26T09:45:50 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | There were some that called it a sign from God, another purging of humanity like the great flood. I never cared, all that I needed to know was that they were smart, and didn't like to go underground, best place for safe houses in my opinion. I was in one of these so called safe houses, if a sewer tunnel filled with lam... | Kevin listened to the Oracle while sitting on the cloth that covered the pile of rubble beneath it. He's heard the tale more times than he can count: on that fateful day, 25th December of the year 2017, fleets of starships darkened the sky, and leveled the human civilization.
The oracle spoke of times when humans wer... | 2017-12-06T20:40:56 | 2017-12-06T20:39:17 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] The president finishes his inauguration, he is escorted to his office to start working on his agenda when he first meets with the previous secretary of defense. Before the secretary leaves the room the president says “no bullshit, tell me about the aliens.” | I give our new president a blank stare for just a second. I didn't vote for him and this is exactly why. The dude is completely off his rocker. The American people are so sick and tired of political bull that they've elected a complete nutcase. I have a feeling that four years from no none of us will ever complain abou... | “No bullshit?”
“No bullshit.”
“Okay… You need to sit down for this, Mr President.” The man pauses to lick his lips. “Are you well seated?”
“Stop wasting time and hit me!”
“Sigh… Fine. There was a war in space, fought by two or more species who are far, far more advanced than us. And every now and then, a stray bull... | 2022-11-20T07:05:14 | 2022-11-20T03:23:13 | 121 | 62 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | It really sounds good on paper. Everyone gets a superpower. Oh, there are people with awesome powers. Eki Magnusson, the current president of the great and bountiful human empire has the gift of luck; whatever choice he makes will turn out for the best. Since he was eighteen, his ambition to find challenges pushed huma... | There was a loud knock on my door and I woke up in a panic. “Mom said get downstairs it’s nearly time!” That was my younger sister. I looked at the clock. It read 12.00pm. I was due to receive my powers at eleven minutes past, as that’s when I was born.
I’ve been doing my best to ignore that it was happening. I alway... | 2015-03-28T06:27:10 | 2015-03-28T06:04:58 | 70 | 12 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | I ordered a shot of whiskey,
A slippery nipple and then
I downed six bottles of bud light
And two whiskey sours and gin.
My head is swimming round and round.
My heart is all aflame.
I wonder if my ex is awake I think I'll call him again.
Oh Fuck yeah this is my tune.
Get up!
Let's dance and shout!
This is my j... | I'm all moved in. The office is fully furnished, degrees and certifications well hung on the wall. It's been more than a week now though and I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little concerned. No one has shown up and the phone is silent - apart from the occasional, wildly inappropriate prank call.
I guess some p... | 2016-02-22T11:35:38 | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 74 | 15 |
[WP] “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with D,” you say to your 4-year-old. “Demon.” “It has to be something you see.” Without a hint of fear, your child points behind you. "Demon," s/he insists. | Samuel laughed at his pig-tailed daughter, pushing up his glasses, "Well, I suppose theoretically... there could hypothetically be a demon or an angel anywhere, but you certainly would not be able to 'see' one, seeing is when we are able to-" "No, but really!" his daughter insisted, interrupting the beginnings of her f... | “Sweetheart, what have we said about talking like this when we’re outside?” She shrugs. The gesture is completely unnatural. “What did we say?” She folds her arms and pouts and suddenly she’s a perfectly normal four year old and even if there is an incoming tantrum I don’t really care. “What did mummy say about trying ... | 2021-02-17T01:17:58 | 2021-02-17T00:28:18 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] When aliens invaded earth, they expected humanity to reach for nuclear weapons. They had experience in this, they knew how to deal with a few warheads. What they were not prepared for was the quantity possessed by humanity. | "Attention Earth. We are the Skonshor, and we offer death or slavery."
Admiral Gerd, Commander of the Fifth Skonshor Battlefleet, was amused by the replies he received.
"Cute". Somehow it was always the Level 5 species who wanted to fight and went straight to nuclear threats. No-one ever wanted to surrender when the ... | General Zlaxxhun, known by his sobriquet ‘General Z’, was the most decorated and successful of our Empire’s Expeditionary force. Their only ‘expedition’ was the conquest of planets with the natural resources the homeworld consumed with an unending appetite.
This story beings when I become his diplomatic aide. The Mi... | 2022-11-10T10:55:46 | 2022-11-10T08:17:43 | 539 | 154 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | She reached into her bag and pulled out her white pad things, not the sort of white pad thingy that had wings but the other one that was small cylinder and had string attached to it for some probable reason. She was in the women's toilet of a dingy local bar and like all women's toilets was outstanding in its size and ... | According to all laws regarding aerodynamics, a bee should not be able to fly. Their wings are too small. Their rumps to... Err... rumpish. But that does not stop the mighty bee. Try as nature might, it cannot stop the bee.
You see, every bee is born with a small jetpack, right in between their wings, and is only vis... | 2016-02-01T22:32:48 | 2016-02-01T22:09:55 | 507 | 40 |
[WP] After a Pyrrhic battle defending their homeworld, the defenders detect another fleet. It's the Humans, and they're sending in the hospital and engineering fleets. | Of over 1000 ships that stood by in defence of Acvia, less then 200 returned. Most bore significant battle damage, leaking atmosphere into the void of space. Some were barely held together, others had lost most of their crew. It was a sobering sight.
The Acvians were joyful, but even that rang hollow. With so many sh... | "\~Report unknown fleet, this is Kithlam Homeworld actual, identify yourself or we will fire our Surface to Space Guns upon you.\~"
Hierarch Chevalus sweated quietly within his command bunker as the unknown fleet barreled ever closer to Kithlam; for Seven Turnings of the Three Moons, Kithlam itself had been under sieg... | 2021-01-30T11:31:38 | 2021-01-30T11:08:37 | 329 | 124 |
[WP] You chant "Bloody Mary" three times in your car's side view mirror and then hit the gas laughing all the while as she sprints towards your car desperately trying to keep up.
Edit: Optional inclusion, it's the eighth time you done this. |
Someone was calling my name.
This was something that used to happen frequently but recently, I had more time to just sit down and relax. I spent some time reading some books, Catcher in Rye by J.D. Salinger was a good read, I watched some television shows, Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What do They Know? Do They Kn... | I watch her in the rear view mirror. The look of anger and frustration. It's so much fun to watch her...
Pedestrian. I swerve. Too late. The body hits my bonnet. It's her.
Bloody Mary.
She's now perched on my bonnet smiling, clawing at my windscreen.
How did she get in front of me? I can't stop myself glancing back... | 2018-10-01T13:18:21 | 2018-10-01T13:14:18 | 120 | 69 |
[WP]The story of someone dying and realizing their religion was not true. | This is bollocks you know.
**THATS NO WAY TO SPEAK TO A GOD**
Not my bloody god mate, I followed ...
**YOU CHOSE INCORRECTLY**
Oh come on, just let me in. My mate Bob was a ... whatsit.
**HOMOSEXUAL?**
No ... wait, what? He was gay? But he'd been going out with Crystal for years.
**ITS ALL JUST A COVER UP, HE... | I believe I have been a good man. I tried to follow his example. Sometimes I failed but I always had good intentions. I loved one woman and one God. I tried to resist temptation and petty jealousies.
As the cancer ate away at my body I became more devout and more dependant on **his** teachings. I explained to my famil... | 2016-04-11T10:58:32 | 2016-04-11T09:43:34 | 76 | 23 |
[WP] Due to a technicality, a patient was brought to Valhalla because he died while battling cancer. | My family are happy that I’m dead. For the last 3 years as this cancer are away at me I lost more and more of myself. Just like with my own mum, they had to watch their dad turn into a facsimile of a person. I tried my hardest to hold on. Every day I did everything for myself. Until I could no longer walk. The goddamn ... | I rolled over and looked around confused...
This wasn't my hospital bed and as far as I could tell I wasn't even in New York City anymore.
Looming skyscrapers that I could always see from my window had disappeared replaced with hills and a mountain off in the distance.
A quick look around my room showed little this... | 2020-01-26T13:28:55 | 2020-01-26T12:57:28 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | I walk along the street. It's a normal night like any other. Nothing special until I see the sun rise. Something was different the light was too bright. Far too bright. I close my eyes and they still burn from the light. I try covering my eyes as they're closed yet they're still burning. Until I can no longer see the l... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2019-08-26T10:34:32 | 4,287 | 17 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | Some get the power of speed, moving faster than electronics could even process, and the human eye could ever possibly hope to track. Others granted with the powers of great strength, setting weightlifting records and simply maintaining the lies that their extensive training is the reason for their superhuman strength.
... | You tell everyone that you have the power of flight. But that seems like too simple of an explanation, and people are starting to get suspicious.
It is incredibly hard to explain that there happens to be a very unique “phenomenon” that occurs within your body. It is something completely natural within your body, and ... | 2022-06-06T17:30:16 | 2022-06-06T16:57:42 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] An unidentified dead human body is found in space. | "Uh, Houston, we have something happening up here. Request switch to private channels." Mission Commander Elle Waterson chirped over the radio. "Roger that", came the reply.
Ground control switched over to the encrypted channel. Nobody was aware of what was about to be revealed. Normally, it was talk of toilets malfun... | Floating in the vast distance, I see a lone figure. The body floats calmly, facing away from me, as if in a sea of tranquility. It is peaceful. Behind the body, I see the wreckage of what is now space junk. I lean against the seat of the shuttle and record the meters and gauges for mission control down on Earth. I push... | 2013-10-30T08:12:41 | 2013-10-30T08:09:51 | 450 | 21 |
[WP] The Apocalypse wasn't as bad as the legends foretold. Sure the demons and angels are fighting everywhere, but they don't do THAT much collateral damage and the economy is booming thanks to humanity's ability to profit off of war. | Feb 1, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - President Trump struck a gleeful tone in the White House Press Room on Monday when he announced a new multi-billion gold nugget weapons deal with Satan, the Lord of Darkness. The second such deal of its kind since the outbreak of the Apocalypse late last year, the United States has agreed ... | "I'll take uh, the flaming sword today Isaac." The demon said with an easy-going look on his face.
"Ah, you do love your antiques don't you Rasmondeous. That'll be 50 angel feathers."
"What can I say, it's hard to beat the old stuff." He tossed Isaac a small, brown sack and flew out of the store with his new toy. Isa... | 2020-05-06T08:56:04 | 2020-05-06T07:10:52 | 131 | 84 |
[WP] "I wish I never met you!" You shouted at your husband of 10 years, father of 2 of your children in a heated fight before bed. You then wake up on the day you first met. Eager to correct your mistake you wait for him in the park, but when your eyes met, he just smiled and walked past you. | I’d found out because he’d told me. It wasn’t a secret, it wasn’t something that had hung heavily over us for ages, and it wasn’t even that big a deal, in hindsight. He’d been drunk at an office party, a coworker had kissed him, and he’d admitted he hadn’t immediately drawn back away from it.
That was Nick. He couldn’... | I rolled over in a fury befit a dragon. Every day it was getting worse. His callous words, the children pleading for us to stop, his career taking off while mine stumped to care for everyone but myself. I could feel the rage building greater the more I thought about it. Why did I have to give up my life for this selfis... | 2021-02-15T16:04:35 | 2021-02-15T14:51:51 | 1,647 | 203 |
[WP] You ate your last apple almost a full day ago. The second hand on the clock creeps closer and closer to the 24-hour mark. Holed up in a cabin you ready your shotgun. You can feel them out there, waiting, watching. The Doctors. | Nobody thought the world would end like this. The room is filled with people who used to be guests at the Downtown Sheraton, but now we're all frightened animals. The news networks are flashing warnings and the internet is reporting millions dead. Men weeping and clutching wounds, children crying for their mothers - if... | Tick, tick, tick. Every second passing on my watch seemed deafening. I knew it was a mistake to rely on apples. I was bound to forget one day but I hated needles.
The door creaked. Bang. I scrambled to reload, no time to check if it hit. Bang. The door was split in two, someone outside screamed. Bang. The screaming st... | 2019-09-28T16:06:45 | 2019-09-28T15:36:25 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] The Terran diplomat screamed with mind-numbing intensity: "DEEPEST APOLOGIES BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION." | "DEEPEST APOLOGIES, BUT AS YOU CAN TELL, HUMANS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MODULATE OUR PSYCHIC VOICES. IT WOULD BE BEST TO REENABLE PSI SHIELDING AND STICK TO MACHINE TRANSLATION."
Joruk worked his feelers back and forth in a gesture meant to be considerate. "I understand your concerns, Diplomat Karen Nguyen, but we ... | The five beings, as best as they could be described, were positioned around a stone pillar, where Ambassador Dorian Ashwander stood. They flickered, seeming to pass in and out of existence, or at least the observable dimension he belonged to. The way light passed through them when they were visible reminded him of ghos... | 2020-05-27T22:16:14 | 2020-05-27T18:58:12 | 1,415 | 410 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're the most powerful member of the league, so why are you an F-tier hero? Because F-tier is cleanup. The others protect the world from threats. You protect it from the other heroes. | I was 15 when I woke with a raging headache that wouldn't stop. Of course, parents initially think it's you have a test in school you don't want to take, or perhaps a peer issue, or that maybe you snuck into the liquor cabinet. It wasn't any of those. It was the morning of the Awakening. Not just for me, but for a ... | I ran through the alleyway, trying to put on the left sleeve of my costume as fast as I can. Ok, I can do this! I bump into a trash can and the lid goes rolling down the street. Ok, I can try to do this. Finally, I have the stupid thing on.
Rushing out of to the scene I see the newest villain team being held back by R... | 2021-09-23T07:05:33 | 2021-09-23T07:04:47 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of killing your minions for petty reasons you use positive reinforcement to improve their skills and pay them the amount they deserve. What was just a simple act in your eyes has led to you having an army of the most zealous and loyal henchmen. | "So, you thought you'd follow your own little plan and disregard my orders, did you?"
Eyes downcast, his minion said "Yes, m'lord."
His other lackeys in the room looked around at each other nervously.
"Good. Shows initiative. In the field, you must be willing to adapt to circumstances. You saw an opportunity to amb... | "....Union?"
"Specifically speaking, the Loyal Dregs and Bodyguards 220."
"... why the "220?"
Hale stole a glance at Bott. Under his breath, Hale mentions that, well, all the other Unions like the Sidekicks 27 and the Local Fruit Carts 365 have numbers after, so why not us. Both stare nervously at the floor. Dr. Dea... | 2022-10-05T08:45:19 | 2022-10-05T06:00:14 | 525 | 221 |
[WP]The story of someone dying and realizing their religion was not true. | This is bollocks you know.
**THATS NO WAY TO SPEAK TO A GOD**
Not my bloody god mate, I followed ...
**YOU CHOSE INCORRECTLY**
Oh come on, just let me in. My mate Bob was a ... whatsit.
**HOMOSEXUAL?**
No ... wait, what? He was gay? But he'd been going out with Crystal for years.
**ITS ALL JUST A COVER UP, HE... | "Age 2, you lied for the first time. Your mother asked you if you tipped your juice over and you said no."
"I was just a baby! Does that even count?"
"Age 15, you told your girlfriend you were sick. You were actually at a house party drinking."
"Yeah well all 15 year olds do dumb things. You'd know, you created them... | 2016-04-11T10:58:32 | 2016-04-11T09:44:54 | 76 | 42 |
[FF] "So, come here often?"
Begin your story with this line of dialogue.
Oh, and set your story somewhere other than a bar or restaurant. In fact, set it somewhere in the distant past or future.
And make it less than 500 words.
Have fun! | "So, come here often?"
Don stared hard at the man holding the rope. His face was still, and his eyes were even in the Alabama sun.
"I take it you're trying to have some fun with me," said Don.
The man's face remained impassive, but a smile erupted after a moment.
"Aw, hell. If you can't have a bit of levity here, w... | "So, come here often?"
I heard the gruff voice behind me say. I turned around and saw a familiar face covered in mud. It was my brother. Our different platoons had landed on the same beach in Omaha during the assault. I jumped up at once, dropping my canteen and wrapped him up in a hug.
"My God, I'm so glad to see yo... | 2013-08-31T11:56:21 | 2013-08-31T09:28:59 | 3,687 | 90 |
[WP] "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!" The alien took a deep breath. "We are cute to them." "What?" | The alien commander sat up in his basket and barked out an order. Paws were set in motion throughout the spaceship. A screen loomed up over the console, with a man in the middle of it. He wore a suit with an American flag pinned to its lapel, and had a furrowed brow.
"This is the President of the United States of Am... | "Define cute."
"Attractive or pretty in an endearing way."
The prime minister leaned backwards in his chair, eyeing his security council. Arrays of impressive medals gleamed on their chests, symbols of their mighty struggles.
Using a heavily furred paw, he rubs his eyes. For weeks human ships have warped into th... | 2017-12-19T07:06:49 | 2017-12-19T07:01:50 | 2,831 | 256 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | A whirring sound gradually filled my ears as the 'GAME OVER' marquee scrolled across the top of my HUD. "*Statistics*", I muttered, reaching blindly around for my beverage. Words flitted across my screen filling all of the empty space. "*Next-Round*", all of the text from before vanished as the respawn timer filled the... | Current Players: 7,383,275,800
Server Uptime: 1059040375.2 mins
Spectators: 21,458,374,931
Player Rank: 2,648,535,901
Time Until Respawn: 23695624.8 mins
People are always afraid of death. The unknown. "What happens to me?" they ask. "Do we have a soul? Is there a hell? Are there angels? Will I see my parents ... | 2015-11-25T01:06:36 | 2015-11-25T00:00:43 | 46 | 27 |
[WP] You have the power to see the exact time anyone has left before they die, but not how they will die. One day a girl walks by, who has only three minutes left. | Drake watched his patient die.
Death is loosely defined. Before heart surgery and paddles, if your heart stopped, you were dead. Now you can be brought back after your heart stops, and go on to live a full life.
Now death is defined as brain death. If humanity figures out a way to better heal damaged brains, the li... | "Well... this has been delightful, Milady. But I'm afraid the fun is now over."
“Yes... I suppose it is.”
Two voices echoed from beyond the sealed doors. The former of a boy, the latter of a girl.
I was seated on the only piece of furniture in the spacious room. A chair— one quite overly flashy, but one most comfor... | 2018-02-10T22:09:18 | 2018-02-10T19:55:40 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] The Universe™ has just run out of free trial meaning we are being downgraded from Universe™ pro to Universe™ lite. | It all happened so quickly. The darkness became darker. Nebulae, Galaxies, Stars, everything just disappeared. Our Sun was lucky. All planets excluding Mars and Earth were not.
All wars immediately ceased. Every Nation focused all of their efforts on figuring out just why the hell everything disappeared. Research of t... | I knew something was up when the clouds spelled something about changing privacy policies but i didnt know things would be this bad. This wasnt something that could be easily be solved and my god was this laggy. I was about to get mugged but i refused to give him money and as soon as he pulled the trigger a message pop... | 2018-05-28T09:23:40 | 2018-05-28T07:43:24 | 84 | 13 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | Admiral Joseph Nakamura looked over his fleet with trepidation. They were outnumbered 10 to 1. The quickly cobbled together international space force (ISF) was a miracle of humanity's ability to come together in a crisis.
In 2048 the Borxite had made themselves known to Earth by beginning a roughly 3 minute orbital bo... | My team moved into position, Everyone in full cover, in a firing line. Mortar cannons, BFG 10000s enough firepower to make the entirety of america say "nice" in unison all pointed at a singular 100 meter by 100 meter patch of space.
And then the music started...
A few months ago, first contact was made, a small scare... | 2020-03-21T12:44:48 | 2020-03-21T10:24:14 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | "Daddy... I'm scared"
"It's okay, baby. It's a magic trick!"
"Ma... Magic?"
"It's fun! I'm here now, I disappear, and I come back! Okay?" Bruce said as he held the door and brushed the damp cheeks of his little girl.
"Okay–"
With a ring of a bell, the doors to the lift slid shut. The sound of the lift being pulled... | [**Part 2**](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditserials/comments/d14q7w/the_stairwell_part_2/)
“Ready Abigail? One… Two… Three!” I said as the doors slowly shut. She stood in her plain red dress bouncing slightly in excitement - we always did this she would ride up and I would sprint up the stairs to try and beat her ther... | 2019-09-07T18:29:23 | 2019-09-07T17:12:52 | 792 | 202 |
[WP] You start blacking out constantly when drinking, every time you come to, you find a paper written by yourself 100% disproving fundamental theories. | As l woke up from a night of drinking, I look at my clock as it ticks away, louder and louder.
The pounding headache, dry lips, and sensitivity to light. All effects of a hangover. But last night was great. It had everything, from booze, babes, and blacking out.
As I retrieved my phone, I see 8 missed calls, 14 t... | I awoke at my station in the scriptorium and attempted to stretch my arms as I always do; the chains make it so I can't get any further than the pages. My head was pounding, my wrist was aching, I tilted just the wrong way to the right so the feeding pipe sent a sharp pain on the roof of my mouth. Another day at work. ... | 2015-01-31T11:27:49 | 2015-01-31T11:04:46 | 311 | 38 |
[WP] In a world where lying doesn't exist, you are the worst supervillain: Technically True Man. | The sun sat low on the horizon in scattered shades of red and gold. Our neighbourhood quiet and empty, as was a usual Thursday night, as my family sat on the long couch huddled up in our blankets watching The Simpsons. That was when the screen cut out to the increasingly familiar grey panel background adorned with gove... | Who knew taking over a country could be so goddamn easy? I mean all I had to do was sound good and people would just go with it. As long as I kept it vague and simple all the pieces would fall right into place.
My political opponents being an issue? Not at all. Just go up to the crowd and say "We don't know what could... | 2018-10-23T06:55:48 | 2018-10-23T06:36:28 | 338 | 31 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | First day open for business! After years of saving up and working as a blacksmith apprentice, I have finally been able to open my own armors and weapons shop. Ever since I was a young boy, I have heard so many grand stories of heroes and adventurers from travelling merchants, now finally I too can become a stop on thei... | The shop belonging to my family has been nestled in the "cozy" side of the Haunted Wood of El Degeneres for upwards of 700 years now. *683* years to be exact. We barter and trade in all manner of magic, non-magic, cursed, sentient, and otherwise valuable goods.
I say "cozy" because it is the part of the forest in wh... | 2016-10-16T10:00:13 | 2016-10-16T09:01:43 | 999 | 190 |
[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 ... | I run through the towering white doors, persisting to fulfill my life, to live with the one I love, Elaine.
My feet carry to me to the center of the room, and then force themselves into position. "I object!" my voice bellows.
Though, I realize where my persitence has brought me. Everyone in the room looked at me, bem... | 2018-03-17T14:29:31 | 2018-03-17T12:44:46 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every person develops a magical power. Yours is the power to fluently read and speak every language in the universe. At first you thought the had the worst power on earth, that was until you you realise that the universe has it's own language.
Sorry for the double you, my bad | They say that when everyone is special, no one is special. *Not true,* I used to say. Look at the most powerful heroes of the generation - X-Zero, Crowstorm, Magenta...all of them exceptions even among the exceptional, with abilities that seem to defy the laws of physics.
My power was ordinary among extraordinary. "My... | The Great Dragoman stared out at a galaxy of stars cocooning the balcony, the silence a perfect tenor to his mood. Deep in the back of his mind came an incessant whisper, his mental shield blocking out the madness of the cosmos.
"My Lord," a voice whispered behind him. The Dragoman turned to see his servant Vulnir kne... | 2019-12-22T08:46:01 | 2019-12-22T06:46:15 | 1,491 | 500 |
[WP] Your will requests that you want a "space burial." You discover your loved ones have honored it when you awake on another planet. It would seem someone managed to revive you. | I remembered dying. I remembered slipping away. I remembered the soft touch of Rebecca’s, my wife, hand as she held mine while I slipped away. I remembered feeling at peace.
I didn’t remember the journey.
“Pull it back,” said someone.
“I think he’s slipping away again.”
I squinted. The light was so bright. Five f... | The air I breathe glitters down by throat as Im pulled along on my back, blearily looking up to the stars above me, consellations I don't recognise.
With each breath I feel more and more in my place, as if I'm slowly fading into the world. My head sparking with light and thought, flashing disjointed memories of the cr... | 2015-01-05T21:43:51 | 2015-01-05T19:04:56 | 158 | 21 |
[WP] You're homeless, sleeping on the street in NYC. You have no family, no friends, and no where to go. After 5 years living like this, a man in a fancy black suit walks by where you're begging and hands you a blank check. Then he says "Knock yourself out, kid." | “Knock yourself out, kid.”
It’s become almost Pavlovian: my hand shot out, palm upward. “God bless,” I didn’t hear the words anymore, let alone mean them.
He wore a plain black suit that looked like it had just been dry cleaned. I’m not a fashion connoisseur, but it looked quality. Expensive. He wore black leather g... | A single moment was all it took. A glance to the side, a shake of a hand, and the sound of footsteps on fallen snow, all in the passing seconds of a nameless, faceless man walking past.
With the man in black now around the corner, Kurt looked in his hand. A small, light blue sheet of paper with more power than he'd ev... | 2020-08-22T20:44:42 | 2020-08-22T17:38:32 | 526 | 30 |
[WP] A young gay dragon has to explain to his parents why he is only kidnapping princes | Ryonar trembled at the sight of his parents landing at his castle. They were the apotheosis of might. Black scales, tremendous size, and unmatched bloodthirst.
"Son," Barlon--his father-- said, locking his fire imbued eyes on his, "it has come to our attention that you aren't kidnapping princesses but princes."
Aleth... | The Elveron family; one of the most prestigious lines of
dragon in the world. Their terror has been known for over a millennium, toppling
countless villages and striking fear into the hearts of whoever they cross paths with. Their
work has picked up in recent years. With all the new kingdoms popping up, the
need for p... | 2018-05-03T12:47:55 | 2018-05-03T12:12:55 | 243 | 159 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | It's been 7 long years since you left me. The counselor told me that the pain would become more manageable. With time. And sometimes I think maybe it will. Then I'll hear the creak of the floorboards, and expect to see you shuffling into the room as you did, that beautiful smile on your face making my heart skip a beat... | The evening news tends to be filled with serious issues. Climate change, terrorism and politics, wrapped into a neat 30 minute show. Unveilings of new machinery and inventions tend to be stuff for local newspapers. Because of that, the final bit told by the grey-haired newsreader was all the more surprising.
Even more... | 2015-11-30T12:28:23 | 2015-11-30T11:35:42 | 87 | 21 |
[WP] Write a really BAD guide for getting a guy/girl. Bonus points if the narrator is mocking you for still being single.
[removed] | Hey girl! Binging on chips again while watching Netflix eat away at your insecurity? Stop marathoning bad rom-coms just because you can't get the man of your dreams! Let this love expert help you snag that hottie who's never looked your way with these simple tips. Throw away that photo of your ex under your pillow and ... | guide to fetching a gurl.
pro tip #1
girls love manly men, to be mainly you gota smell mainly. men have feranones in theire sweet girls love them, make shur you smell like fermons. the way you tell you smell good enough is if men dont go near you bc they tink you stink.
pro tip #2
men have hair, but not to much o... | 2017-06-09T23:54:54 | 2017-06-09T21:26:55 | 182 | 72 |
[WP] Your boss told you not to press the flashing red button. Your coworker told you not to push the flashing red button. The big book on the desk says don't push the flashing red button. There's even a sign that says "Never push the flashing red button." But still... | I did it. Well, I didn’t really do it, but I did... ya know? It was an accident. They should have put a cage or a shield around the damn thing. It’s not like I meant to do it.
I’m not sure where the smashing noises are coming from, in the building, because my monitors immediately went black. A giant sheet metal door ... | It was flashing and it was red. What the hell else did they expect?
Nothing had happened anyways. I flipped through the manual trying to see what was supposed to happen. It didn't say. Big books had a way of doing that: using lots of fancy words and never really saying much at all. There was people like that, too.
Bu... | 2020-12-17T07:36:38 | 2020-12-17T05:50:15 | 632 | 139 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | So Captain Kirk, do we have to go full warp speed to planet Coagula?
Asked the little gay Asian guy who's name I'm not allowed to google.
Captain Kirk with a smug look on his face as he might ordinarily have, responds saying, no little Asian guy. Were going back to earth. Because it may exist in this universe. The... | "Okay bob, hold my scalpel while I squeeze the heart"
"Right, now I just need you to connect those two tubes while I hold it like this"
"Okay...
Yes! done!"
"Wait, why is my computer making that weird beeping noise?"
"OH MY GOD!!! HE'S GONNA DIE! GET THE DEFIBRILLATOR!!"
*zzzzZAP!*
"Oops, I think we kille... | 2016-02-01T22:49:14 | 2016-02-01T21:35:35 | 16 | 11 |
[WP]”I’m going to fight and lose badly” “don’t you mean win?” “No! Look at her she is built like a tank I can’t win!” | I couldn't argue. The fighter across the ring had a squat chassis resting between two stout track pods. A menacing array of armaments and sensors bristled from slabs of sloped armor. Pretty much the most appropriate literal assessment.
"Look, you're a world-class bot fighter. You can make it happen. Everything has a ... | I look over at the pile of muscle once again. She threw her bag to the ground, cracking her knuckles. It’s hard to actually keep my gaze focused without thinking about the fact that I’m about to be clobbered into the ground, never to be seen again.
“Look, you’ll be fine. You’ve trained and you’ve trained hard! A litt... | 2022-09-18T20:45:08 | 2022-09-18T18:56:46 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | Suzanne opened her eyes to be greeted by her own front room. She looked about, her heart beating fast. Was it a dream? The sickening spinning, the horror of loosing control? The crash and shattering of glass, metal, bone. The last sight of her husband, James, next to her, his neck at a terrible angle. Did she dream tha... | Imagine my surprise when, one second I'm gasping for breath on a West Coast beach, and the next I'm surrounded on all sides by meatball subs.
I don't just mean a few lying on the ground willy-nilly, but a maze of cholesterol and fat. And, oh God, the smell. It was like someone was finger fucking my nose with marinara a... | 2015-01-04T13:39:28 | 2015-01-04T13:34:24 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] You stole 10$ from some guys bank and now he's coming after you with everything he's got. | It was just $10.00 and after all, I was hungry. Who would even notice? Who would even care? Turns out I had found the one guy who pored over every facet of his finances and like a dog with a bone, just wouldn't let this go. This was ridiculous.
&nbsp;
A little over a week had passed since I had found his debi... | It was only supposed to be $10.
I'm not gonna pretend like i know all this computer hacking shit my friend got himself in to, he told me if he could use my IP address we'd make millions, he promised it would be "masked" or whatever the fuck that means.
One minute he was typing furiously in to some matrix looking scre... | 2017-07-18T23:46:02 | 2017-07-18T23:18:11 | 2,949 | 68 |
[WP] The seven aspects of the universe gathered in the room, Good, Evil, Life, Death, Order, Chaos, and Dave, from accounting. | "Well, it's important to keep track of things," Dave replied, sounding almost bemused.
The council's full attention did not seem to phase him, as he kept a bland look on his face. The calming light of Good, the seeping darkness of Evil, the fresh scent of Life, the sour odor of Death, the sharp delineation of Order, ... | Hey there. This is Dave from Accounting. Never heard of me, huh? That’s understandable; I don’t really get as much recognition from my job as one might expect from a fundamental aspect of the universe. Not that I really mind. Hm? Oh, yeah, forgot to mention: the other six “Fundamentals” are, for lack of a better term, ... | 2021-02-16T10:09:54 | 2021-02-16T09:59:56 | 79 | 47 |
[WP] Inexplicably, the planets are disappearing one by one. It started with Neptune going all the way to Jupiter. You're the Head of NASA and you've just watched Mars disappear. | I was rubbing my eyes when the analysts came in.
"Do we have precise timings?" I asked the statistician.
"Neptune's disappearance was reported first, and we know that to within about five minutes. We got Uranus's time within about half a second, thanks to amateur astronomers using Internet-connected cameras. And of c... | "What do mean Mars is gone? Its a planet, not your car keys, James." I grumbled, rubbing the bridge of my nose. I sat down, my heavy figure flowing over the sides of my office chair. Various papers and other notes are scattered about my desk, first Neptune on Sunday, Jupiter on Monday night, and now Mars. I gaze over a... | 2018-06-06T13:33:40 | 2018-06-06T12:14:09 | 46 | 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. | Soa Netar was a woman with very few words. She almost never needed them due to her power. But coming to her needlework store front to see shattered glass, dried blood, burnt tapersies, and a flooded floor made the air hum as she walked towards the scene. For Soa wasn't just a business owner, but also a super with a hob... | \[ParaSEC Target File, Threat Level: Low\]
* C-Class audiokinesis \[Looping and pitch. No evidence of volume control\]
* D-Class speedster abilities. \[Slightly faster run speed. Potential sensory acuity - further evidence required\]
* Target demonstrates propensity to use powers exclusively for show. All 'villainous'... | 2022-11-28T23:59:22 | 2022-11-28T20:44:52 | 90 | 11 |
[WP] We find intelligent life under the ice crust of the moon "Europa". Upon contact, the aquatic species is confused how we survived the "harsh climate of earth" any why we, as a species didn't leave "when we had the chance".
"and" instead of "any"... | The landing was a miracle to say the least. The surface of Europa was covered with a thin crust of ice, which we expected to break, yet it didn't. It was also what brought us here. Stanislav's obsession with this moon had proved useful. He'd noticed the surface was indeed ice, which meant there was water, therefore opp... | The team sent to Europa was a small one containing only three men, only one expected to exit the submarine at the risk of their life. I was that man. An entirely new type of rocket separate from that of the ones utilized prior had to be constructed to breech the miles and find what would lie beneath. It had a normal sh... | 2018-04-23T08:46:09 | 2018-04-23T08:14:38 | 50 | 28 |
[WP] As a vanity project a computer scientist/mathematician sets a super computer to calculating the digits of Pi to trillions of digits. One day he notices that for a stretch of thousands of digits Pi repeated a sequence of ones and zeroes, which he plugs into a binary translator. | "What in the...?" My thoughts trailed off as I stared at the line of binary code. I'd been scrolling through it for the past hour, and it seemed like there's been no end in sight. In a moment of clarity and thought, I had gone back about ten minutes in and began copying it. It might bring me to something. Continuing to... | Several mathematicians were trying to understand the meaning of the strange sequence of numbers. And a strange pattern appeared to emerge. The first digit of any set of eight was a zero except for the last digits found. Someone for some unexplainable reason decided to put the strange sequence in a binary translator dis... | 2020-04-23T03:55:33 | 2020-04-23T02:29:20 | 44 | 13 |
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