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[WP] Earth finally manages to translate the first message sent to it from intelligent life elsewhere. It reads "Well, this is awkward. We didn't expect you guys to get this far." | The thing you don't expect after a long day on a construction site, is to find a message on your screen congratulating you for getting so far, and yet also demeaning you for the implied lack of faith.
It took maybe two, possibly three days before she replied.
"Why not?"
The response was near instant.
"Taking 54 h... | He was there, relaxing on his armchair, hand closed in a fist supporting his head, and his thoughts.
Suddenly a tall, skinny man rushes in, may he be the harbinger of the good news? His white lab gown wiggles behind him, while his smile gives hope beyond any imagination.
He coughs, bows and gives the man on the armch... | 2020-01-30T03:17:27 | 2020-01-30T02:11:02 | 47 | 35 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | "With all due respect Ambassador, we are underestimating the Humans".
There. I said it. A career ending sentence. A diplomatic functionary of the Fourth Resource is only permitted into meetings merely to attend to more senior entities. That's all. To speak in anything other than a hushed whisper is unthinkable. To add... | Civil wars were never beneficial. They had an uncanny ability to push entire species past the point of no return. To eliminate enough of the breeding population, that they had made members of the Galactic Authority functionally extinct.
The Threlliad admiral paced nervously, wondering if the humans would be able to d... | 2019-11-24T16:08:56 | 2019-11-24T14:28:48 | 98 | 54 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | First contact did not exactly go as humanity expected it might.
The Xendalans claimed everything was magic. Turns out that they are simply lazy un inquisitive idiots as a species. The only reason they have survived at all is because it turns out they metabolize dark matter into pure energy. They can do anything th... | Growing up, my sis always preferred Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and The Final Kings. Me, I was about science, all the way from the Mariana to the Milky Way.
When we made first contact, I... well, I didn't get first dibs on being an ambassador. Nobel Prize for FTL or not, a dorky scientist is nobody's first choi... | 2019-01-18T09:20:12 | 2019-01-18T07:54:17 | 163 | 83 |
[WP] One night a package arrives at your doorstep. Inside of it is a single button with a note saying, "If you press the button you'll get $1 million, but doing so will kill a random person." Well since then you've been pressing the button for hours. Now there's another package at your doorstep. | *”If you press the button you’ll get $1’000’000, but doing so will kill a random person”*
Nobody was around, must have been some kids having some doorbell ditch fun. *Strange,* I thought, *it's 4 AM, usually nobody around these parts at this time.*
I reached for the button inside the package that was now placed on m... | Guilt and morality may constrain men who cower before some unperceivable afterlife, but I am a man who firmly sets his boots in the real world. When I received the package, I dismissed it as a joke and pressed The Button a few times. Curiosity, however, crept through my mind, so I checked my phone to look at my bank ac... | 2017-04-03T07:31:42 | 2017-04-03T06:38:33 | 245 | 51 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | Numbers taste funny. Nines bud into fires on my tongue, their spent embers resembling something akin to zeros. Ones bleed blue like melting ice or my nurse's cerulean eyes. Fives dissolve like Wonderbread and feel like cotton in my ears. When I went to school with other children, they tasted like loaves of stale white ... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T13:27:21 | 295 | 86 |
[WP] “You have a powerful witch at your command, a witch that caused the rise and fall of empires, and your first request is.....a cuddle?” | "-And why would you want that?" Her voice was sharp as she stared daggers upon me. It sent a cold shiver down my spine where I couldn't help but look away in shame.
"I-.. Because-..." I uttered. Then my head fell. Like the weight was just too much. My eyes shut and cringed as my lips began to tremble.
The words... | The general stood looking down on the chaos below. A common tale, a village swallowed up by the ravages of war, food, and lives snatched away. The general’s soldiers mercilessly trampled the villagers’ location.
Unable to resist, their miserable lives were reaped, shrieks and screams rising into the night only to be e... | 2021-02-28T13:02:46 | 2021-02-28T09:47:26 | 95 | 24 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | Grace was hit with the smell of wet food and bleach when she opened the door to the dingy convenience store near her apartment. As if the smell weren’t offensive enough, obnoxious, acid green advertisements for All-Nighters where plastered everywhere and the bottles themselves lined most of the shelves. Grace had never... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T12:43:15 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | *What a disgusting species*. Hermes thought as he and the survivors of unit 17 entered the ship.
"Had I known we were landing in a militarized zone, we would have been better prepared."
The fight was over almost as soon as it had begun. There were so many of them and so many shots fired, that it seemed like they d... | "Compared to AX-213? No, this is easy," the footsoldier relayed over the wavelength transmitter. Those pitiful beings weren't even at Stage 1 of the Rëitsig Scale of Development. It was the first in the AX galatic classification that bore such a terrible level of industrialization. One would think that the road was wel... | 2017-08-08T08:40:18 | 2017-08-08T05:28:12 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You stare into the infinite darkness of the void. However, the void is flustered and refuses to make eye contact.
Edit: thanks for my first silver! | "s-stop staring at me baka!" Said Void-Chan.
"Maybe you stop being so cute Void-Chan." I said, I knew she liked me staring, she stares so often after all.
"I'm not cute Baka!"
"I think you are. I don't care if you're inky black nothingness, you're adorable!"
Void-Chan began to blush, this was odd as she was still i... | And you smile and tell it that no matter what, you will always be there. And day after day you return to that spot on the edge of the void and look. And as time passes, it eventually looks back.
Now, you reach out a hand to make contact. But it shrinks back. So you offer words of kindness, trust, and reassuramce - day... | 2019-05-16T12:52:54 | 2019-05-16T11:14:02 | 89 | 43 |
[WP] You accidentally pressed an ad claiming that "There are hot, beautiful women near you and desperately need boyfriends." A few seconds later, you hear a knock on your door. You look through the peephole. It's them- the hot, beautiful women. | *knock knock*
I stared for a moment then stood up and laughed in utter disbelief. I carefully opened the door and about six women flooded into the house before I had time to speak, they were entirely disproportionate - yet somehow still attractive.
It was then, that I had an idea...
"Can I get anyone a cup of tea?" ... | He looked through the keyhole, shocked at what he saw. Yup. She was the spitting image of the advert.
It had been an accident while browsing reddit of course (damn ad suggestions!) and before he could click on the big red X, his location had flashed up on screen.
And before he knew it, there was a knock at the door.
... | 2017-05-09T03:00:13 | 2017-05-09T02:19:55 | 58 | 30 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | The green line has given me purpose since the age of twelve. It led me to choose the right college, right degree, and find the woman of my dreams. After following the green line for 10 years, I will getting married in May next year, I just started medical school, graduated college with a 4.0 gpa, etc. The green line do... | "Honey." It's my wife speaking. Her hand is on my arm. Her fingers dig into my coat like they do to the skin on my back when we're making love. She wants me *with* her, *in* her - to stay.
But the feeling is different. For some reason. It's...it's all wrong.
I want to leave. Why won't she let me? Usually I don't min... | 2017-08-23T07:53:37 | 2017-08-23T05:44:04 | 78 | 30 |
[WP] The truffala tree fell and the being revealed itself deck out in combat gear "I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees! But this time around I sting like the bees! Heed my one warning these trees won't be harmed, because I am the Lorax and I'm f***ing armed!" | "Jerry?"
"Yeah Mike?"
"What is our life?"
"Uh, is this one of those philosophical questions where there's no right answe-"
"No you dipshit, *why* are we being hunted by a pint-sized orange gremlin with a moustache!?"
The staccato of gunfire rang true across the clearing, a melodious ensemble of destruction as thei... | I am the lorax
I speak for the trees
You’re burning the forests
and choking the air
So I’m drowning your cities
and capping your knees
​
You’ll beg and you’ll plead
just like I begged you to spare:
the prickly pine,
redwood
and powerful palm
‘I just don’t care’
your words I’ll mail back to you
... | 2022-03-31T18:48:52 | 2022-03-31T17:06:23 | 140 | 72 |
[WP] Your 'friends' just slammed the door on you, leaving you in the room with the crazed axe murderer. "Damn, that's a dick move. Want to get revenge?" The murderer offers you their hand. | The Erlking's eyes fell upon me with leaden weight. My heart pounded as frantically as it could with the pressure building upon my chest. Fear gave way to desolation and I dispared.
*They had shut me out.* With every twirl of the Erlking's goblin-made axe, my breath made small panicked gasps.
*They had slammed the do... | “Sorry?”, I asked, bewildered that a crazy axe-wielding man was asking this question,
“Simple. Wanna get revenge?”, the man said, still holding out his hand, I looked at him.
He looked disappointed, then said,
“Look, kid, either you want to take your revenge or not. I’m fine with cutting your limbs off as your ‘fri... | 2020-11-10T04:32:30 | 2020-11-10T04:12:23 | 70 | 26 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | Wisher: i wish I could change the rules
Genie: that's against the rules
Wisher: i wish you told me what's the correct wish to make to go around any rules
Genie: that's against the rules
Wisher: i wish I could combine as many wishes as i want in a single wish
Genie: that's against the rules
Wisher: i wish I could ... | Human Errors in Question [Poem]
——————————————
*said the genie but I replied*
But what about the book and the rules?
What about freeing you?
If there are so many rules. What’s the point of being a genie? In the first place and why would any of it matter? Who even made the rules in the first place, you or some other ... | 2022-01-04T02:49:07 | 2022-01-03T23:28:03 | 356 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | @OP: love the premise! I'm going to take it in a bit of a different direction.
I felt Jennifer's hand tighten in my grasp as we waited. I glanced back across the desk at the official. This wait was awful, I figured the reports would be instantaneous like credit scores.
My wife and I are sitting in a case worker's of... | It's hard at my age, finding love.
You find a nice-seeming man, a sharp dresser, a real gent, or so he would have you believe. Then you look up their credit rating and realise why they never found the one.
I'd been in many relationships, married twice, had four children. Naturally some of those relationships had... h... | 2016-09-24T11:47:42 | 2016-09-24T11:36:22 | 405 | 231 |
[WP] Jupiter has 64 moons and a serious werewolf problem.
Edit: damn there's some quality responses here. I wasn't expecting this prompt to be so popular. Good job u guys | "Wolves?"
"*Were*wolves, sir. Fuckin' everywhere, the buggers."
Commander Keen sat at the comms desk, letting out a big sigh. This was going to be a long day.
"I'm not sure if I follow you, admiral. You're saying a moon in Jupiter has actual, fully-fleshed Werewolves running amok?"
"No, sir."
"Fantastic, because ... | The pilot - a twelve-limbed Jovian floatspider - tapped almost idly at the controls of the shuttle, firing the thrusters with mind-boggling precision. I glanced surreptitiously at the display on my own Earth-made manoeuvring tablet. The screen blinked red with warning text, screaming electronically that the shuttle was... | 2016-10-03T09:14:11 | 2016-10-03T09:05:02 | 116 | 66 |
[WP] Humans start to explore the galaxy. We find a lot of alien life, but a great majority of it is extremally tiny, with most animals being the size of a finger. Meanwhile, the galaxy is freaking out about the only intelligent, titanic species figuring out FTL. | When the other species contacted humanity they were very friendly. Sure languages were difficult to translate, but most other aliens are also bipedal. That and television seems to be a universal form of entertainment.
Months went by with "talking" to the Texlonians. By that I mean sharing the best hit tv shows and mo... | "Concentrate fire on sector 22194! I say again, 22194, hit them hard!" J'arl had heard another fire mission, for artillery crews who were out of ap.
Sergeant Major Ja'rl had only just finished listening to the call when shrapnel the size of a tank sliced up the bunker. Half of the staff had just been wiped out, includ... | 2017-09-09T19:40:12 | 2017-09-09T15:17:18 | 44 | 27 |
[WP] After joining the galactic government, it is discovered that humanity is the only species that has not had their AI turn against them. | I stood before the Eternal Galactic Council. My notes were extensive. My thoughts amused.
With a small grin, I addressed them. "With all due respect, did none of you have sex with your A.I.s?"
They stared at me with shock. "You engaged in sexual relations with your A.I. creations?" The Council chair asked, aghast.
"O... | [Poem]
“Creation.
A masterpiece of fire and steel.
A burning binary star-rise on our cold intellect.
Industry.
A familiar revolution.
A bridge - our mind, our machines, our marvel.
Corruption.
A disaster of passion and ideals.
A sinister supernova of all our wonder amassed.
War.
A fatalistic evolution.... | 2020-11-06T01:31:17 | 2020-11-06T00:31:13 | 84 | 20 |
[WP] Everybody is born with a bracelet that counts down the time until they meet their soul mate.
I found this online and really wanted to read what you guys would come up with. | Me and Maria have always enjoyed each others company. Unfortunately people didn't enjoy what we did as much, there was a good reason in their eyes, our bracelets.
Me and Maria had met when we were in school and we immediately felt something it was more than attraction we had similar interests, similar tastes.
The o... | I was looking at it in disbelief. I'd been so ready, so anxious. I was going frantic. My buddies calmed me down; gave me a shot. And then another because I was still bugging. Then another for good luck. I'm not a drinker. I'm actually the worst light-weight you'll ever meet. I can't remember after shot number four what... | 2014-04-25T14:24:00 | 2014-04-25T12:34:55 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A hyper advanced alien race decides to mimic Darwin's study of finches with humans. Several groups of Homo sapiens are placed on different planets and monitored over a long period of time for adaptations/evolution. You've just been abducted from planet A to be studied alongside the others.
Credit goes to [this pr... | The Darwinian Olympics were cruel. A gold medal meant your genes were spread far and wide. Silver would get your genome analyzed for favorable alleles. Bronze got you sent home back to your gene pool. But fourth meant your genes were pruned, generally using the Torch unless you happened to compete in one of the sports ... | It had been three human millennia since the Xhilixii Pact's observation of Sol III began. Xhar Yzrau'm, the chief observer of the project, wondered often how this idiotic race was going to last another million years. Their modes of thought, their philosophies on life, all just seemed so completely antithetical to the l... | 2021-09-17T12:12:44 | 2021-09-17T11:28:12 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | (Aight my first WP attempt so be kinda easy on me?)
I’m walking through the halls to my next class, getting the usual snicker here and there from my fellow classmates. “What a loser!” and “I can’t believe it!” Are the usual comments I hear from everyone. They all assume I had gotten some weak ass power, and that is ha... | They mocked me. Laughed at me. Of course I had to be the one who played Cities:Skylines last. My superpower? The amazing ability to cut through government red tape and expedite municipal construction projects.
For the first time, parks were being built, streets were being paved, and businesses were moving in, all on t... | 2019-09-30T11:16:55 | 2019-08-12T00:11:35 | 64 | 40 |
[WP] A mysterious entity decides to bring peace and equality to humanity by force. The world is informed that in two weeks everybody over the age of ten will have their conscience transferred to another random human body anywhere in the world. This shuffle will then repeat every 24 hours.
How will people prepare? How ... | The world was stunned that day. Nobody could sleep, of course. We didn't know if it was true or not, but the alien... thing was convincing. I held my girlfriend tight as the time arrived. We'd arranged to get in touch by email after the switch. We'd still have our email passwords, after all. We let my dog curl up... | It's been 7 years since the endless shuffle of conscience every 24 hours.
I've killed over a 1.000 others since then.
Nobody cares about anyone, not even about yourself, when you transfer from body to body every 24 hours.
After week, just before the transfer I would cut my wrists.
After a month, I would find and k... | 2014-10-29T06:44:51 | 2014-10-29T06:42:54 | 128 | 22 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | **Log 1.01 - 6462/55**
Potential major new biodiversity harvest, Arm 4, stellar coordinates \[classified\]. Approximately 9 million identifiable species, DNA-based. Minor indigenous sapience, no world government, hive mind, or cybernetic control. Not even common language.
**1.02 - 6462/56**
Received message from ... | The Terrans had built Universities, hospitals, revolutionized inter-stellar commerce. They worked as ambassadors to negotiate peace and trade deals amongst the galactic community. Their few colonies built on out of the way unhospitable worlds. Their fleet was made of trade vessels, science ships, and pleasure yachts... | 2022-08-05T13:08:24 | 2022-08-05T12:41:23 | 561 | 374 |
[WP] The Apocalypse has come, several of them actually. They don't get along. | Fire and Ice hovered in their spots above Earth, bickering as usual.
"Look at how many people favor me!" Fire said, giving Ice a hard shove. "Just find your own planet, I've got dibs on this one."
Ice stared back angrily. "I'm also great! I'm definitely sufficient enough to destroy the planet. And look at how many fa... | I appeared right in the middle of a conflict between some people and.. pig-men? The people were using some type of future guns and the pig people were obviously outgunned. I took all this in in about a three seconds before realizing I should be taking cover, and so I did.
The humans seemed very fit, though quite thi... | 2016-12-03T10:00:21 | 2016-12-03T08:21:19 | 65 | 13 |
[WP] Each planet possesses a God, which created the planets. The reason aliens won't come and visit us is that our planet's God is the most dangerous one in existence. | I do not favour the names the self named humans had given me, Kronos, Osiris, Zeus, Odin, Jupiter, Allah, God, mother nature; even crazier so many claimed to be the only sons and daughters of me! They were all my children, and only mine.
Humans had something the other denizens of the universe did not, hope. Hope gave... | "Okay, so the preliminary review places Earth at an extinction level threat. Any issues with that profile before submission?"
"Chairwoman, the Zerok Confederacy has an official statement that they'd like read into the record." The alien was a spindly collection of limbs bound up along too long a torso for survival on... | 2017-11-27T07:29:23 | 2017-11-27T05:25:15 | 201 | 63 |
[WP] You are a minor supervillain. Your antics aren't illegal, but they're quite devastating to the local hero population. You replace the flimsy fruit stands that are frequently destroyed in car chases throughout the city with nearly indestructible replicas. | "THE MAN OF STEEL IS DEAD!"
Every newspaper stand carries a variation on the same story.
Of course that hack Lex is getting the credit. They think he just *punched* the kryptonian hard enough.
But it was my victory. The monsters who think themselves *gods* will pay. They play around in silly outfits and showing of... | "So? Whaddya say?"
The fruit stand owner stared suspiciously at my truck with arms crossed. I could tell he wasn't buying it.
"I don't know... sounds like a scam to me."
"I promise you, good sir, it is not!"
He sighed in disbelief, glancing back and forth between me and my truck.
"Alright, let me get this straig... | 2020-01-14T00:30:01 | 2020-01-13T23:50:49 | 242 | 95 |
[WP] The Goose has collected all of the Dragon Balls, the dragon is summoned and asks, "What is your desire?" The Goose honks. The dragon hesitates... "As you wish." The dragon disappears. Nothing noticeable has changed, and that makes you very nervous... | Mark watched the dragon fly off into the sky before it disappeared as a distant shimmer. He'd never seen anything like it before and he hoped he'd never see anything like it again. The dragon had been enormous, easily dwarfing mountains when it had coiled itself before the white feathered goose that looked up at it wit... | Author's note: i suck at writing so never tried writing here before. Also havent played the game. Im sorry in advance.
I blinked and looked around. Everything seems fine. I walked around the city nervously looking around. It all seems normal. Checking my phone I dont see any headlines that seem off. Continuing my su... | 2019-10-21T04:59:07 | 2019-10-21T01:17:14 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | St Peter drops his pen in surprise. “I’m sorry?”
I look back. “I said, I choose Hell.”
“Son, do you know what they do to you in Hell?” St Peter asked. “They beat you, and torment you, and burn you in anguish until the end of time.”
“How do you know?” I ask.
St Peter sits back in his chair. He looks down at his ... | *Day 1*
*You know, with all the terrible people in the world, I expected Hell to be pretty occupied and automatically chosen. But I was shocked after my bad car accident to find a choice between Heaven and Hell in the Limbo Waiting Room. Everyone was lined up for Heavenly Stairway and the Hell Slide was seemingly aban... | 2018-08-13T09:22:44 | 2018-08-13T08:57:53 | 115 | 53 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | Jim was walking through the office when his phone vibrated. "Harrison Interview in 15 Minutes" his phone read. "Peculiar", he thought. He normally wouldn't schedule something so close to lunch. Jim headed toward the conference room and found George already there.
"You 'member setting this up?" Jim asks as he sits down... | The guy with the gun sprinted down the street and turned down an alley, not sure if he could even hear the bank teller following him over the sound of his own pounding heart. His left ankle clipped something and he went sprawling, his pistol sliding just out of reach. He didn’t even see whatever he tripped over, which ... | 2016-10-19T13:47:14 | 2016-10-19T11:57:31 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] There is a group of time travellers who create small changes and rely on the butterfly effect to change history. Now they need to prevent World War 3 by making a janitor lose his job. Detail how this stops World War 3. |
2009: “Sue Ellen, we need to talk,” John said morosely as he walked in the house.
“What’s wrong, John?” Sue Ellen asked as she walked out of the kitchen, wiping her hands on a dish towel.
John sat heavily in his recliner, burying his head in his hands.
“I got fired today.”
“Oh no! What happened?”
“I swear, I d... | Old man Cotton was always a bit eccentric, but everyone loved him. He was always seemed to torn up when someone was being bullied, or have a bit of sage advice when life was just too much for a student.
Nobody begrudged him retiring after hitting the jackpot on a scratch off tickets. Everyone showed up for his retirem... | 2019-09-22T09:08:06 | 2019-09-22T08:30:30 | 90 | 26 |
[WP] You, the last remaining human, travel around the galaxy telling stories of the tragedies humans before you commited. One day at a seminar, you are asked a question you aren't prepared for: "What was the last thing the humans did, and how did you survive?" | "And thus concludes our discussion of World War 4. Any questions before we end this lecture?"
Nobody raised their hand. Unsurprising for a first year xeno-history course on a long dead race. Most people here probably probably took this as a "bird course" anyways...
"Well then, have a nice weekend everyone. Next week ... | "So you see, they did not understand. Those ignorant humans just did what they thought was right without thinking and all hell broke loose..." I made some exaggeration motions with my arms and the audience gave out a low gasp.
"And that started the war?"
"Yes, exactly... That was the whole start of the war. Many good... | 2017-05-01T16:37:36 | 2017-05-01T15:26:55 | 110 | 15 |
[WP] We wear the masks on the back of our heads so they think that we’re watching them. They will follow you home if they don’t think you’re watching. If you ever lose your mask, Don’t Break Eye Contact With Them. Walk backwards, and prey that there isn’t another one on the trail ahead. | I backed away slowly, making sure my gaze never leaves the creature in front of me. My arms was outstretched be hind me, desperate to cling onto something for support. My eyes sting from being unable to blink. I wanted, I had to, but if I give this monster a moment, even just a moment, it can end my life.
I slipped ... | It started years ago, I was nothing but a child when the star piece fell on us and the shadows started to walk around us.
As if they were trying to eat our own shadows they come from behind, slowly but steadily creeping behind you. Science, religion, paranormals, no field in humanity could even remotely understand them... | 2020-07-01T04:57:35 | 2020-07-01T04:28:23 | 76 | 40 |
[WP] Having just been read your fortune and told you have but 24 hours to live, you go on a rampent crime spree. After 24 hours of violent crime, you watch your last few seconds tick away. The clock hits 0:00, signifying the end of 24 hours; and nothing happens.
Really excited to hear some good responses! | "Well... shit."
A cold sinking feeling ran down my spine as the realization that the gypsy's prediction was wrong hit me like a ton of bricks. I twitched in my seat, eyes darting around the lavishly furnished penthouse that I had so carefully persuaded myself into.
"Now what do I do?" The thought seemed so stupid. I... | He sat in his torn felt chair, exhausted. It had almost been twenty four hours since the fortune, read as the clock rang twelve midnight. He lifted his wrist to check the time, in his last minute on the earth. Fresh blood dropped from his raw face, stuck with shattered glass. Everything hurt.
45 seconds. Sirens rang ... | 2015-03-26T10:04:28 | 2015-03-26T10:00:51 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You've been cursed to be horribly influential, little side jokes you've made such as "the world is flat" and "vaccines cause autism" have spawned entire movements of avid followers. Today you accidentally said something that will turn out drastically worse... |
I live a relatively normal life for someone of my capabilities. I would consider myself one of the most influential people of my time, you may have heard some of my works such as, the ‘world is flat’, ‘sugar and caffeine are good for you’, or one of my most famous pieces, ‘vaccines cause autism’ but I may have done ... | Yeah this is fun trolling people. What a bunch of staves people are they will follow anything and everything. Look at my track record.
First I said “the world is flat.” And these morons actually believed it. There was even a jackass on Facebook who had a video about it and everything. He came up with all kinds o... | 2018-10-16T18:25:27 | 2018-10-16T18:03:31 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] The rules of the land are very clear. Anyone can challenge the king for his crown, in any way they want (test of intelligence, strength, etc.), but the king gets to declare one condition that must be followed throughout the entirety of the challenge. | The king was old and fat. I practiced running for weeks. I am not the fastest person in my village but I run every day. I made the official request 100m dash. I signed on the line knowing what fate waits for me.
The day of the race the king states "You must run the race with one foot." He motioned to his guard to cu... | My challenge was a steeple chase over 2 miles and 3 furlongs.
This was boggy land, my home ground, and I knew I had the King beat.
I slept well, confident and upbeat, looking forward to the noble rights this victory would grant me.
My family and supporters cheered me on. The King looked assured as he rode in on his... | 2022-01-10T06:36:39 | 2022-01-10T05:56:56 | 1,976 | 222 |
[WP] Most teens have breakouts of acne; you have it far worse. You have breakouts of ACME. This is the third anvil which dropped from the sky this week, and you're getting annoyed.
You don't have to keep to the three anvils thing. I was more or less just coloring the idea with that detail. | *At least there’s a cream for what you’ve got.*
Ellie stands before the bathroom mirror, mercilessly scanning every last skin cell for imperfection. I have never really understood her. She is almost six-feet tall, with long, runway legs, sculpted cheekbones, and envious green eyes. She could be in a magazine. She pro... | My heart can't be repaired. It's torn and worn in three different places. I've listened to Eliot Smith on repeat, and the pain perpetuates. She's there. Right in front of me. But I can't bring myself to say anything. It hurts to look at her, but I can't stop. I see a future, and I don't. I'm a mess. At least I was.
T... | 2018-12-21T17:35:30 | 2018-12-21T14:57:59 | 275 | 27 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | My parents were the sort of people who bought me a welcome mat as a house warming gift when I finally struck it out on my own. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against welcome mats, they're fine. They're the sort of thing that you don't buy when you first move into a new place. So, it's not like I had one already. Bu... | "It has to actually say Welcome. As amusing as 'You Better Have Tacos' is, it doesn't qualify'"
"But Why? How does that even work, isn't the idea of having a doormat fundamentally set the conditions by which entry is expected"
This was a standard argument between Shin and I, well in reality it wasn't an argument... | 2017-12-13T11:32:40 | 2017-12-13T11:32:37 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You are a genie, and after thousands of years of existence, you have grown extremely bored. To combat this boredom, you give all 7 billion people on Earth three wishes - all at once. You don’t tell any of the humans that they have any wishes at all. | It’s been 569 years since someone summoned me for a wish. I never thought I would wait this long to be summoned, they look up to the sky and make a wish thinking a comet will grant their dreams. How silly are they...
There was a slight hesitation when I granted three wishes to every human being in this world, about ho... | Long ago, when the Earth was resplendent with green verdure and crystal seas, all animals great and small lived under the rule of the Sky King Genis. Humans were still a smattering of scattered tribes, and though they were a crafty creature, oftentimes they not only suffered at the fangs of more powerful beasts but als... | 2020-03-14T08:43:26 | 2020-03-14T06:22:09 | 319 | 11 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | When I first met the human, I thought he was going to attack me. He stuck his manipulator out and my first thought was that he was going to punch me. He instead took my hand firmly but with some lenience, and shook it lightly. He then spoke his name. It still goes through my mind on how strange it was, and how many var... | Vice Captain Mukato, personal log: Prior to today, I hadn't understood the Enorkian's warning about these, "Hewmuns" (I'm likely spelling it wrong, I've only ever received verbal reports). Today, however, I understood why my friend was so terrified of them. They're not the strongest, or the fastest. They're not even ... | 2020-05-18T10:54:46 | 2020-05-18T10:34:38 | 808 | 568 |
[WP] Your mission is to topple the American government. You are armed with a banana peel, red pen, and mastery of the butterfly effect. | According to the physics of the present day, the world is non-deterministic. The argument is that due to quantum fluctuations being probabilistic in nature, there is no way to truly know how the future will turn out.
That's a load of hogwash.
Sure, you may end up with an oxygen molecule moved by a centimeter or two, ... | Right after the end of the message, the face of the young lady slowly disappeared in a pixel jam and an error window bounced to my eyes.
"Your files were corrupted".
I clicked the OK button, thus creating a small air gap under my mouse and making the passage of light through my glass desk optimal for a quite short f... | 2016-07-26T16:57:41 | 2016-07-26T16:40:58 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] Your wealthy relative has died and the funeral is coming up. The will stipulates that the funeral-goer that delivers the best eulogy inherits everything. Your late relative left scoring criterion that no one knows except the lawyer that will be judging at the funeral. | “Dad was an honorable man,” my aunt began, glancing towards the lawyer sitting off to the side of the church.
I was seated in the third row next to my sister, who rolled her eyes and leaned over to me. "Not honorable enough to keep it in his pants though,” she whispered.
I held in a snort and coughed instead as the y... | I missed cousin Mark.
Cousin Mark was one of the most stand up guys that you could have ever wished to be around. Standing at a massive six feet and four inches tall, weighing what was roughly 250lbs of raw muscle, he had a brain which you would think belonged on your stereotypical nerd, and despite him looking absolu... | 2022-07-15T02:41:43 | 2022-07-14T23:50:04 | 901 | 93 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | ### 13 Years of silence
We’d known for many years what would come - the sun would fade out in a manner of minutes. We prepared tirelessly. Millions invested into getting energy from the ground, to grow plants, filter water and to cling to life like a very stubborn weed that manages to thrive no matter how much the gras... | Night 1: Darkness. Panic.
Night 10: It is clear this event is not going to stop. The news reports show scientists praying and preachers positing their hypotheses. Whatever happened to the sun, it is completely gone. The scientists have measured the earth relative to the echoes of the other planets. We have been flung ... | 2019-08-05T19:14:33 | 2019-08-05T18:52:22 | 87 | 16 |
[Wp] The zombie epidemic came and went in the developed world, most people survived, the military easily defeated the undead horde, and cures for the virus were created. However, zombies remain major issue in the developing and under developed world not getting nearly enough attention on the news.
Wow I didn't think t... | "It'll be $50 grand" said a tiny African man in worn out business suit.
"Excuse me? $50 Grand for what?
"That's for the standard Hunting licenses and fees." said the man, still blankly staring at his computer screen.
"Wait, I'm trying to help your country here. I'm trying to Helllll... P!"
"Yes yes... So are the... | If you’ve ever wanted to hunt zombies Africa, now could be your chance and the great thing is that the hunt will be on us! ZombieHuntersAfrica.com, in conjunction with Apocalypse Safaris, is giving away a dream zombie hunt, for two hunters, to the Republic of South Africa. If you win, you get to bring your friend or fa... | 2016-10-30T15:52:15 | 2016-10-30T12:39:54 | 198 | 29 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | A shadow looms over me, its anger palpable in the morning mist. I don’t need to turn to know who it is. “Death.”
The figure inclines slightly, a bare ghost of a bow. I smile, and say, “Our deal holds, my friend. How many times is it, now?” A piercing screech echoes from behind a locked door, ringing against the cold m... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T13:19:24 | 2,040 | 16 |
[WP] An alien replacing your father and pretending to be him sounds like everybody horror's story, except for you and your mother since it is affectionate, caring, helps you with school and has even been promoted at work and is an absolute dork for SciFi movies. | "I know you're not my father," I blurted, brain firing on autopilot before I could jump in and put a halt to it.
Dad glanced down at me and raised an eyebrow. He was sat next to me, big arm draped across my shoulder as we watched TV together, like we'd done ever since he... arrived. "Is that so, kiddo?"
"You didn't s... |
''Will I see you again?''
It is hard to say for certain. Especially now my father earns more, my parents decided that we can move to a better, bigger house. I want to see her again but same time I don’t want to make promises that I can’t keep.
''Maybe.'' I say and hang up the phone.
I leave my room and I go downsta... | 2020-04-23T07:23:46 | 2020-04-23T07:11:56 | 290 | 78 |
[WP] You were hated even by the Teachers in the Magic School. One day you were given the Assignment to go through the Dark Forest, which was infested with Monsters and Eldritch Horrors. You accepted your death and went into the forest, but after hearing your story the Eldritch Horrors take you in. | You relished in their hate, their fury towards you.
Oh, you know what you’ve done, and their hate wasn’t unjustified, yet despite everything, the Headmaster still allowed you to keep studying at the academy, because *she* was in no position to remove *you*.
You laughed, treading slowly through the dark mud. A lizard ... | "Oh man, I've had my fair run-ins with terrible dungeon masters as well. I feel you dude."
The tentacled abomination slurped itself in what I supposed to be a sympathetic gesture. Which was quite appreciated. The Generic Dark Forest was a terrifying place, and my Generic Teachers at my Generic Magic School had sent me... | 2022-01-29T09:15:16 | 2022-01-29T08:26:28 | 143 | 23 |
[WP] Throughout the galaxy, it is a known paradigm that each sapient race at some point before first contact discovers their own “magic” considered to be arcane by all races other than themselves; upon humans’ introduction to the galaxy, aliens learn of the eldritch might of their “nuclear energy” | It began quite simply, then everyone died.
The delegation, at least. The occupation and dominion certainly. The Empire...possibly.
We, the Great and Glorious Niwraith Empire, chose your pitiful backwater planet that you call Earth as our next state. As we had done hundreds of times in the past, we sent a ... | When we first made contact with humans after all these years, we were shocked with what we found.
A relatively clean utopia, crackling with energy that seemed awfully familiar to us. I asked the humans what Magicks they used to sustain themselves, they said it was something called nuclear energy.
When I researched in... | 2021-10-09T07:53:20 | 2021-10-09T07:17:12 | 309 | 125 |
[WP] A bunch of the Disney Princes go out for beers, and as they compare notes, realize that happily ever after isn't what it's cracked up to be. | The room was dark and filled with smoke. Several half empty mugs of beer littered a round table covered in playing cards and cigar ashes. The men sitting around the table weren't the kind to haunt an establishment like this– they were exceptionally handsome, making the bartender wench have wicked thoughts.
Prince Eric... | "Technically mom the glass is half full of liquid and half full of gas."
The others burst into laughter as Jasmine finished telling them what her son sounded like now that he had taken an interest in science. She took a long swig ensuring that her glass was now filled with gas.
"I mean I don't hate him but thi... | 2017-05-02T07:07:59 | 2017-05-02T06:34:10 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] As a young boy of 7 you remembered an old man stopping you on the street wanting to talk and to give you some advice. You thought he was weird and blew him off. Now at 77 you’re walking down the street and you see yourself as a young boy walking towards you. | The day I see this boy is a very cold day — or at least in my bones it is. They ache in the cold, always do. Such is life at my age, whatever age I am now.
He looks exactly like I did, this boy walking towards me down the street. The red hair, freckles, the groove in his nose that looks like an invisible pencil‘s pres... | Heavens, that child is ugly. Look at those crooked teeth and that goofy grin. I wonder if the circus has lost one of its acts?
How I loved people watching. The simple activity of just sitting on a bench, judging anyone unfortunate enough to pass. I had to stifle my laugh, not wanting anyone to think I was a mad old... | 2021-07-08T06:48:40 | 2021-07-08T06:43:07 | 1,021 | 54 |
[WP] It is discovered that Earth is one of the few planets who's species haven't manage to breed with other planets' species. Defects leading to natural deaths occur due to Earth's ecosystem being essentially inbred. Interbreeding alien species are practically immortal. | "So you're telling me you've been around for the past 300,000 years and don't even feel bit off?"
"*sigh*...Yes." The Alien muttered, tired of the same questions.
"how about a little arthritis?"
"No."
"Bad back?"
"No."
Norman looked at the alien incredulously, "OH COME ON, IN 300,000 YEARS YOU MUST HAVE HAD SOMET... | "But we don't understand how knowledge can lead to conflict?" The speaker said through his translator. The members of the UN looked to the Special Representative.
The man was a machine. Standing (a sign of respect to the aliens) he would talk and listen for twenty hours straight while representatives of earth could ha... | 2014-08-20T18:37:07 | 2014-08-20T18:31:23 | 92 | 24 |
[WP] To your surprise, a SWAT team breaks down your door, rushes inside, and surrounds you. Only, their backs are to you, guns trained on the doors and windows. The closest one whispers, "Here they come." | Black clad and armed, the team of men that had suddenly intruded on what was otherwise a quiet meal for one remained silent, awaiting further instruction from their captain. Red dots paced slowly across closed blinds and the back door which led to the kitchen where Dave was sat.
He had barely any time to chew what... | My laughing was cacophonous, even to me. I can only imagine how it sounded over the voice chat.
"Listen," I said, addressing the group, "if you didn't want to lose, then you shouldn't have made it so damn easy." A clamor of voices poured from my headset, making me wince. One boomed out over the others.
"That's feckin... | 2017-06-28T07:10:15 | 2017-06-28T05:48:29 | 3,288 | 44 |
[WP] You are the worlds most famous fortune teller. You've successfully predicted huge world events and even smaller important events for friend and families. What no one knows is that you are actually a time-traveller from the year 2100 who owns a simple history book. Your friend is catching on. | "Hey man, what ya got there?"
Alan looked up from his book and caught the gaze of his roommate. "Oh, hey Louis, I'm just studying for a test that's coming up."
"I don't get you. You are in your late 20's, and yet you come to a university to get a history degree? What would you do with such a useless degree? Not o... | “Hey, Joseph, can you do the whole fortune telling thing again?” Trish asked. “I think I know how you do it.”
“Sure, whatever,” I laughed nervously. “But you know the drill; I must consult my crystal ball.”
Together we filed into my office, filled with incense, curtains, and, of course, a table in the middle of the r... | 2016-12-30T08:21:01 | 2016-12-30T07:05:49 | 382 | 65 |
[WP] Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 lands in Beijing Airport, 3 Months late - passengers claim to have flown as normal. | I looked around. Two hundred and thirty-eight pale, shaken and frightened faces looked back.
“You all understand, don’t you? When we land,*nothing happened*. As far as we know, the plane left Kuala Lumpur exactly on time, we’ve been flying for six hours, and there was *absolutely nothing unusual* in any way about th... | "Uh, what's that?" one of the new recruits in the PAK ATC was heard saying. The control manager spoke up "Yeah, I see it too. It's probably just a glitch in the old radar. It happens from time to time, focus on your flights only otherwise you'll start to get behind"
The recruit shook it off and went back to telling th... | 2014-06-25T16:29:30 | 2014-06-25T15:19:07 | 58 | 19 |
[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... | Throck opened the cargo bay and took a look at his stock. It quivered with sweat. Each and every one, at one point or another, damaged the cage or tried to escape. Throck planned this well. He closed the bay and walked back to the control deck.
Some panels no longer beeped and buzzed. A dull, old force had overtaken t... | 2014-11-22T09:04:18 | 2014-11-22T05:50:54 | 242 | 95 |
[WP] While you were growing up, your grandmother always sang you a nursery rhyme as you fell asleep. You just discovered it is an ancient spell of protection. Not only that, but there are more verses, with more interesting effects. | I got the call on the way to work. I wasn't moving very fast in the car, almost at a standstill because of the morning rush. But the entire world seemed to join that sluggish shuffling of cars and trucks and buses on that routine morning grind. Gran was dead. My dad who is as stoic as they come, quivered asking if I wa... |
“You okay mate?” Jacob asked gingerly, patting his weary friend on the shoulder. Graham merely shrugged, smiling weakly and rubbing his eyes. “Some serious bags you got there, dude.”
“Yeah just had a shit night’s sleep,” he murmured, turning away and running his eyes along the mantlepiece, adorned with odd trinke... | 2018-11-07T06:01:02 | 2018-11-07T05:48:09 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] Adolf Hilter fakes his own death, survives the war, and gets a job verifying the authenticity of Nazi memorabilia at a pawn shop. | "No, no, no," the old man was saying. "This is not what I am telling you. What *I* am telling you, is that this," he waved around my grandfather's knife, "is a replica."
Sales shit. Fuckin' assholes. "Dude," I said. "I found this in my grandfather's crawlspace."
He looked at me like I was an idiot. "And because your ... | It was another boring day at the shop. That was until another skinhead came in trying to sell me some nazi crap. He was just like all the other skinheads, fat and covered in tattoos. I hate dealing with that racist shit, but we make crazy good money from the neo nazis so the boss wants us to stay in the nazi memorabili... | 2022-03-20T02:03:42 | 2015-12-26T13:40:14 | 1,230 | 244 |
[WP] You a retired adventurer and an elf. Your party was comprised of people of a few different races. After all of you retired, you started having reunions every few decades, always the same place, same day. You have arrived at the location and been there for hours. You realize the rest are dead. | I waited at the city square. Our stupidly large statue now dwarfs in comparison to the rest of the homes surrounding it. Gosh, how long has it been, only 60 years? Humans sure build things quickly.
I tried reading our plaque. It was rusting now. The smithy definitely didn’t cast minor protection on this, that damn sca... | This was bound to happen. My parents had warned me,I had known it was coming. They were never coming I took a look at their perspective drinks. Ale had been Frons favorite that half ork son of a gun I would miss his music. I smiled at the light beer Traddon had been the 'devil' of are group, but the poor bookworm c... | 2021-07-24T00:36:11 | 2021-07-23T22:34:35 | 100 | 29 |
[WP] World War 3 has begun, every nuke is being launched or dropped...they've sat in storage for so long that every single one was a dud. | The early warning system lit up like a Christmas tree. Every agent in the room leapt to their feet. The Americans and Russians were letting everything fly, the Chinese were firing all over Asia, India and Pakistan practically blotted out the skies with their respective arsenals. Even the French got in on the mess.
The... | "Well, this is awkward," Trump said. "I normally have the best nukes, believe me."
"Yes, Mr. President, it is indeed confusing," the North Korean translator said over speakerphone. "Our Dear Respected Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un is willing to let bygones be bygones, sir. Let us start anew as peaceful compatriots, havin... | 2018-03-01T18:04:19 | 2018-03-01T15:51:36 | 194 | 65 |
[WP] In their society everyone is born sexless and when anyone reaches 18 they must choose which sexual organs to grow. A 17 year old is reaching their 18th birthday. | "I choose both," Michael stated calmly into the small microphone.
The committee's chatter ceased immediately as there came complete silence, the complete void of sound signifying utter confusion. The chancellor looked over to the secretary and back at his assistant, questioningly.
"Well you see, Chancellor, your hon... | "You must choose one."
His forehead blocked the ceiling light of the white room like an overbearing cloud. Bright beeping screens littered the lab.
Gray's mind's eye flicked through the figures of women and men, miring all the subtle curves and crevices. Pronounced breasts or a broad chest. A burly jaw and thick arms... | 2015-08-08T21:03:13 | 2015-08-08T20:21:04 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a golden halo over their head, lost when a lie is first told consciously. Those who manage to keep their halo are recruited as "angels" and trusted with important tasks. You, an angel recruiter, see one enter your office, but with a color you have never seen before... | Halos always radiate. No matter who has them, what shape they are in, what color they shine. The only rule is radiance. From shining roman wreaths and latin sunbursts, from dark smokey rays to shining auras. Even the horn-halos of those rare and powerful demons who've managed to never lie, radiate and shine with their... | “Sir?” asked as he sauntered into the room, glowing red on his black suit. He then stopped at the gilded desk and mulled over the intricately jeweled ceiling.
“Too much gold for one room don’t you think,” he mumbled.
“Hello sir how may I help you,” I asked trying not to stare at the burning halo above him.
He snapped ... | 2018-10-04T02:26:28 | 2018-10-03T22:22:41 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | The agent had an air of confidence around him that John recognized. The kind of confidence that someone had when they thought they stood at a good bargaining position. But John would not waver.
"You would be a legend, you know that?" the agent said.
"I'm not interested in the glory. That's why I didn't do this as a ... | Our office building was kept cold, even colder because of the clientele we worked with. I was in the ice room, which is exactly what it sounded like, a room with a comically huge block of ice. Parts of it were melting and I clapped my hands together to freeze the water that had pooled.
The water turned to ice and I cl... | 2022-07-31T12:29:02 | 2022-07-31T10:18:23 | 1,657 | 313 |
[WP] For your honeymoon, you finally go to that place you've always dreamed of going. Walking down the street, you see a telephone pole covered in old, moldy papers. The newer ones have fallen away, revealing an ancient, faded flyer - it's a picture of you as a child. It says MISSING. | “Please keep your seatbelts buckled until the lights go off, and thank you for flying with Delta!” the blonde flight attendant spoke cheerfully while walking through the plane aisle, “and remember you’re more likely to die in a car accident than on a plane!”
I hear a child cry.
Dying is not scary... we've been prepa... | There's a place down by the riverfront at St. Genevieve's called the Olde Landing where time hasn't moved since the 1850s. Horses clip-clop across endless expanses of cobblestone, pulling bulbous carriages that persist even past midnight. Men in stovepipe hats and women in long skirts smoke pipes outside thatched house... | 2016-10-25T19:30:45 | 2016-10-25T14:29:43 | 147 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | Should I ask him to repeat himself?
Is that rude?
I can't exactly be at fault for not listening too well. I wasn't exactly expecting... well... words...
"Did you get all that Steven?"
Oh wow, ok yeah he definitely spoke and I completely missed it.
"Will you do it?"
I stared blankly at Jasper who was sitting over... | ---
Köttur, age 9
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Anne stood and watched the children play. Her favorite part of the day was observing children create their own worlds. A group of boys and girls were fighting a monster only they could see, on a ship only they could control. Others were jumping rope, and still others were drawing with chalk. Ever... | 2016-12-30T08:57:01 | 2016-12-30T08:38:21 | 2,633 | 230 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | After twenty-five days of shaking, the walls finally collapse, and the villagers watch in horror as the massive machine stomps toward them before falling apart, smashing into the ground and catching fire. They hide, expecting another—but it never comes. For now, they’re safe.
They knew this day was coming, always trus... | The solar flairs came without warning. When the walls started falling, the world fell into mass panic. Nations readied their defenses. Bombs and guns, things the world hadn't seen in years. Instead of war, though, something miraculous happened. Due to the endless years of isolation, humans had....changed. Some nations,... | 2018-11-18T09:23:36 | 2018-11-18T09:22:18 | 131 | 27 |
[WP] You blow a flat tire while driving through the middle of nowhere in a foreign country. After a brief call with the rental company they inform you there is a jack in the trunk of the car. When you go to open the trunk a man pops out and greets you, his name is Jack. | "Yup, looks like you got yourself a flat, huh?" He ran the length of his arm across his nose, snorting loudly. He kneeled down next to the tire and pulled shaggy hair away from his eyes to get a better look.
"I'm assumin' you got something to pull out the bolts from the tire, right?" he asked without looking back to m... | "Hi there!" out came a voice as Ellis popped open the boot.
"... What the–"
"I'm Jack. Not jack as in the thing you use to raise the car, but Jack as in a person. Don't worry, I can help you out," the strange man, claiming to be 'Jack' said as he climbed out of the boot.
Ellis reflexively leaped back and took a stic... | 2019-07-08T23:32:39 | 2019-07-08T23:30:35 | 20 | 10 |
[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 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | 11:55, 19 August 2017
My family sat around the couches in the living room, making small talk about their own Destiny. Something about how no one was surprised when my father, sister and brother all got "Doctor" stamped on their forearm in crisp, Arial font. I despised it. The idea of sitting in a stale room in a stale... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-16T02:42:03 | 129 | 32 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | Despite what my old professor would have said, I wouldn't necessarily call myself a clever man. I've always been content to simply watch the world go round, spending my time working on various little projects, tinkering with magical trinkets and what not. Didn't really believe in any cause enough to stick my neck out o... | *Yeah, I got this all figured out*. Adam — known to the prison guards as inmate #2013 — could barely contain the smirk which corrupted his face. He’d festered his spiteful request for years; ever since the court sentenced him to death. Waiting in a line of condemned inmates, he was salivating to get to the front.
*The... | 2022-11-19T00:02:48 | 2022-11-18T22:15:56 | 161 | 36 |
[WP] You live in a world where the repetition of certain acts grants special abilities. Someone who does 10,000 push-ups will gain super strength, someone who runs 10,000 kilometres will gain super speed. You are the first person in history to drink 10,000 litres of alcohol. | “10,000 litres?”
“Yup”
“How are you not dead?”
“I didn’t do it in one long binge, I paced myself”
“That’s not really the point, never mind, so what has happened to you?”
“Well, what happens when YOU get drunk?”
“The usual stuff. Double vision, loss of balance, the occasional bout of memory loss”
“Uh-huh. I get a... | My life is ruined.
This morning I did what I always do as the very first thing when I wake up: I opened a new bottle of vodka and drank heartily, but this time it went differently.
First a nice burning sensation, then came the warmth and the relaxation, but then something started to happen. I very quickly got immense... | 2018-07-06T04:10:30 | 2018-07-06T01:02:41 | 3,646 | 341 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | Death watches as the boy in front of him starts getting excited, blithering on about some competition he had won and gotten an "awesome tool of awesome." The man starts rummaging around his untidy room looking for something.
Out of the closet comes several odd items. Board games, video games, a glass tube with burn ma... | "Hey Death, whats up?"
Gary knew the bitter cloak of cold that surrounded him was the physical manifestation of Death. Most mortal folk would have cowered in fear if they knew the Grim Reaper was coming for them.
But not Gary. He had played this game before and won.
*You know why I have come, mortal.*
"Of course ... | 2018-03-07T09:07:30 | 2018-03-07T07:52:34 | 55 | 41 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | The last time I was in 1968 I was swatting away mosquitoes and watching a canal for a sampan carrying a high-ranking VC officer. Now I'm in some medieval fantasy land creeping through a swamp.
At least the Mekong was warm and had some life to it; this place was bone-cold and dead. Plenty of trees but not a single sn... | The night was dark. The enemies where at our gates. Thousands of eons of war and bloodshed had lead up to this very moment.
What was left of our country’s scientist, generals and politicians had banded together. Cast aside previous political and social boundaries and banded together for a common cause. This was our hi... | 2020-11-10T17:48:17 | 2020-11-10T17:46:17 | 71 | 17 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. | Every waking moment I hear them. Sometimes they’re kind, supportive, loving and other times they’re obnoxious, they panic, and they say the most stupidest things that it makes me want blow my brains out.
*-He tried it and failed LUL*
*-What a loser*
*-Yeah what Kevin said*
Today I had decided to sit in a park and t... | Each step was a mountain of effort. Each step was more than I could achieve in a thousand lifetimed. Each step they drove me on and on through the snow and somehow I kept moving. I had stopped shivering days ago, and the skin on my hands was black. Even so I could move them, and I made it a point to do so every hundred... | 2020-09-26T17:31:11 | 2020-09-26T17:26:56 | 92 | 68 |
[WP] The Devil and Jesus meet each other disguised as hobos. They don't realise, who the other really is (at first) and start having a conversation. | "Go ahead, sit beside me, friend."
The hobo patted the spot in the boxcar next to him. The slender figure climbed in and sat down. Both men were ruddy-cheeked and had easy smiles on their faces.
"So, friend, where ya from?"
Oh, you know how it is with us hobos. Everywhere. Nowhere.
"Ain't that the truth." The first... | "Hey."
"Hey."
Time goes by in silence; conversation is not obligatory in a shelter. And yet, the area around the two men is clear, as if others recognize their power and hesitate to join them, even in the crowded cafeteria. The voices and faces around them eventually fade away.
"So," starts the younger man. "It's ... | 2014-07-29T09:14:26 | 2014-07-29T08:56:14 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You and your pet rabbit live in a remote part of Australia, far away from your dark past. Animal control has come to your door and informed you that it is illegal to own a rabbit unless you can prove you are a magician. Now you must do something you swore you would never do again.
Edit: Oh wow, this blew up whil... | I looked at the front of the house from my car window. I could hear the children screaming with delight in the backyard. Balloons on the mailbox bobbed with every slight breeze.
My rabbit, Rabbit, sat on the passenger seat next to me nibbling on a carrot. I purchased him when I found out I was allergic to cats and dog... | You slowly slink down on the sofa as the officer's dead eyes shift from you, to Mr. Fluffenbottom, back to you again. The shaking of your hands is barely concealed by the, in all honesty quite amateurish, card shuffle you're occupying them with.
Under the officer's watchful gaze, the memories of that fateful day are ... | 2016-07-09T04:27:21 | 2016-07-09T03:10:42 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] "I don't need your protection." The princess scoffs. The paladin hops off his steed, yanks her to out of the cart, and tosses her a spare sword. "Prove it." She demands. | Sir Pentious was nearing his wit's end, feeling the beration of Her Royal Highness. The Princess complained of her shakles, complained of the way he carried her, complained of the hardtack and provisions, complained of the lack of amenities in his humble cart. Through mantra, and reverence, these were things he could r... | The match went...longer than expected.
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"I don't need your protection." The princess scoffed.
The paladin hopped off his steed, yanked her to out of the cart, and tossed her a spare sword.
"Prove it." He demanded.
The 12 year old princess picked up the short sword. She examined it, and then did the same to ... | 2022-05-04T10:09:14 | 2022-05-04T08:32:25 | 120 | 80 |
[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... |
The next day I woke up, dressed, ate breakfast, and drove to school in my crappy '93 caprice as usual. "Just another day. Just a normal, 'nuther day," I mumbled aloud, half hoping and completely unconvinced of the words that struggled to push past my lips.
I pulled into the student parking lot and made my way Insid... | 2015-03-28T06:27:10 | 2015-03-28T06:25:16 | 70 | 11 |
[WP] "This is a story where the bad guys win"
I always see stories that are predictable. The good guy always wins or there's some kind of anti-hero that everyone loves / hates. Surprise me with something different. | "P..please, please don't hurt us!"
One of his captives plead desperately as he continued shoveling the freshly minted wads of bills into his third duffel bag.
"I'm begging you, pl--"
The sudden crack of gunfire was hardly stifled within the steel walls of the vault; his ears were ringing sharply, but the muffled sou... | The alarm shook Fiona out of her sleep. Her husband Chris was already up and about. Fiona hovered her hand over the snooze button, but the scent of pancakes wafted up and woke her up fully. She turned off the alarm and got out of bed.
She went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and saw herself in the mirror. There wer... | 2015-06-04T14:56:45 | 2015-06-04T14:32:56 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | The third time I died was the hardest.
I have died hundreds - maybe thousands - of times. But the third time is still the one that sticks with me most. But it made me who I am.
It was a cool day. The sun peeked out from the clouds, striking the window, and the light slowly woke me up. The window was cracked just enou... | As the gun is pressed against my head, the steaming hot barrel singing and letting the aroma of burning hair spiral up against the top of the car, I wish, not for the first time, that I had my original body.
Breath in, the gun clicks back.
Breath out.
Move.
Hand snaps out, spirals the gun in front of me. The jerk... | 2018-06-20T07:54:17 | 2018-06-20T06:23:08 | 537 | 40 |
[WP] You live in a small town, and the legend of King Arthur, while widely known, is...just a legend - until Excalibur is found lodged in a nearby stone. The man who pulls it out will become king, and you pull it out. But there are two problems - America isn't a monarchy, and you're a woman. | After years of not paying much mind to the mysterious sword lodged in the glistening gray stone, I finally decided to try my luck by attempting to remove it. To my surprise, it came out easily, and not realizing how heavy it was I nearly dropped it over my head. The few people around me all stopped in shocked silence, ... | "Now you have gone and done it." A little man appeared from behind the stone. You were sure he wasn't there a minute ago. "I told the council that it was a mistake to bring Caliburn across the way."
"Who are you?" you say with a slightly higher voice than you are used to.
"I am Charles guardian of the sword and now... | 2019-06-20T20:59:33 | 2019-06-20T20:42:24 | 268 | 49 |
[WP] You notice that redditors you downvote never post again. One day, you jokingly downvote your friend's post. He dies in a bizarre accident shortly afterwards
[removed] | I had just returned from his old house, eyes still bloodshot from the tears. I couldn't get it through my head, how quickly, how soon, how suddenly it had happened.
But the tears had finally been emptied from me. I stepped through the entrance of my house, numb, dizzy, waiting for what emotion could come next.
When I... | I felt it.
Just like all the other times. A strange coldness. The girl had been a real racist. Talking about how we should kill everyone that's different. Once I realized what was going on with my downvotes, I used it regularly. But this day, for some reason, I almost instantly felt a wave of regret. As if I made a mi... | 2017-03-04T14:37:58 | 2017-03-04T14:19:26 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] “O great demon, I have summoned you here today to–“ “No you didn’t. The young girl bleeding out on the pentagram did.” | Two demons sit in an office in Hell, discussing a new law, when an alert interrupted them.
"Do I have to take this summon?" asked the first demon.
"Unfortunately, yes,” the second demon responded.
“Why?” the first groaned.
“Because some humans found those summoning texts.”
“I bet the Thirds put them there didn’t ... | I felt weak. . . Blood dripping from deep wounds on my stomach and thighs. The pentagram in front of the alter I was tied on glowed with eerie, dark, hellish magic. The cultist in front of me chanted in a demonic tongue that made my head hurt. . . Or was that the blood loss? I didn't know, but I feared for my life any... | 2021-01-15T14:48:42 | 2021-01-15T11:28:08 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all. | "So, you want to do a revolution?" I was asked.
"Yes, why not?" Hitler asked me.
I wasn't exactly happy with the fact Hitler and I were cellmates in the same part of Hell. I was actually one of the many people who claimed. "I was here by mistake" but it was the part of Hell which I'd been lumped in which really annoy... | There are many people down here, you know. Many, misunderstood people that is. At least, that's what I've been told.
You see, I've only been down here for, what I believe to be, a few days. I have, surprisingly, made a few friends already. This "Hell" I have heard preaches about and read books about is nothing like i... | 2018-06-17T18:06:50 | 2018-06-17T17:02:19 | 4,539 | 174 |
[WP] You're a U.S. Senator and are running out of things to say in your Filibuster. In a last ditch attempt, you start a D&D campaign. | CNBC reporting from Capital Hill. Parliamentary Deadlock, day 15.
It was over two weeks ago now when what started as a hearing over the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, spiraled into a partisan filibuster lead by Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) after a character sheets for the popular role playing game Dungeons and Dr... | "You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked! Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause, even if this room fills with a poisonous gas; and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me."
With that last gasp the junior senator sl... | 2017-01-21T23:01:56 | 2017-01-21T22:24:49 | 399 | 28 |
[WP] You have a power to gift people special abilities, but you cannot gift them to yourself. You are a assaulted by gang of bullies who threaten you to give them powers, but little do they know you can add a side effect as well. | “End of the line, kid. Not so tough without your bodyguards, eh Endowment?” Hector asked, savoring the fear in the kid’s eyes as he slowly spoke the last word. He hefted the bat for further emphasis as the two men from the bar joined him. “This can be easy or this can be hard. That’s up to you.”
“Okay, what’s easy?” t... | “Fine, fine! I just need a second!” I shoved the nearest oaf back a few inches and righted myself, pushing my hair back into place as I tried to buy myself some time. “It takes concentration.” I took a few cautious steps back from the group to make an assessment of the situation. There were four of them, and they each ... | 2021-04-01T06:38:24 | 2021-04-01T03:33:36 | 551 | 74 |
[WP] You were sentenced to 250 years in prison without the possibility of parole. It was intended to be a life sentence but to everyone's increasing surprise and horror you have just finished serving your sentence. | The 250 years were finally up. The guards came and knocked on the cell door. "Bill, you murderer, somehow you made it 250 years. You should have had the grace to die alone in your cell. Hands out." Bill placed his hand through the newly opened slot in the door and quickly heard the chink of the handcuffs."Alright, come... | Xenon smiled as he looked at the mirror. He peeled off his scalp, and had a good long approving look at the numerous gyri and sulci of his CPU. He found the symmetry of his brain to be rather aesthetic. The arrangement was also an inside joke. An inside joke between him and ... himself, ofcourse.
He quickly retrieved... | 2019-12-06T08:21:18 | 2019-12-06T05:27:14 | 76 | 17 |
[WP] "This potion will give you the body that your heart desires, the body that will bring you true and lasting happiness. But be warned: don't expect beauty. I've seen men become literal monster from the darkness in their hearts. Happy monsters, but monsters nevertheless." | "What do you mean 'happy monsters?"' Neil asked.
"Exactly what I say, sadly enough." Sighed the old man. His brow was deeply furrowed where it peeked out from behind his greying hair, pale from a lifetime of living underground by his pitch-black lake. In both his shoulders and his eyes, he held a great sadness that b... | Purple mixture sticks to my fingers like poison. I lick the remainder.
My veins fire up, then go cold, and with arms slamming against leather bindings that bite into my skin, I know it's working. My heart fights free of my chest but only for a moment, in the next I slam back into the red dentist chair blood and snot ... | 2016-12-04T22:09:40 | 2016-12-04T21:29:26 | 69 | 40 |
[WP] Your 'friends' just slammed the door on you, leaving you in the room with the crazed axe murderer. "Damn, that's a dick move. Want to get revenge?" The murderer offers you their hand. | "What?" I asked the masked guy, bewildered at what I just heard.
"Do you want to get back to take revenge on those assholes?" he says rather slowly, emphasizing each word while he gestures at his axe suggestively.
I think for a bit but I couldn't stop myself. I finally burst out laughing. He looks at me in confusion... | Out of force of habit, I grabbed the severed hand that the axe murderer handed me and looked down on it in horror. It was still warm and dripping.
"You...how am I supposed to use this?"
"This is my building, you can lock and unlock any door by putting my thumb against the fingerprint scanner. Now you can get revenge ... | 2020-11-10T06:18:41 | 2020-11-10T05:19:46 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | Ben awoke on a table, finding that he could not move, just when he was about to scream a figure hovered above him.
He could hear a voice through the ringing in his ears, “We don’t usually do this,” it said.
“Where—” Ben coughed.
Ben tried to focus his eyes, the shape of whoever was speaking to him varied from a slen... | "Yeah," I say, "can I have a higher metabolism with that? And can you do anything about my lifespan?"
"We can't extend it any more than your current lifespan?"
"What?" I shout. "That's a rip off! Is there a manger I can speak to?"
The blue man with a cloaca mouth and two sharp antennae's eyes cloud, in what I assume... | 2019-10-28T11:41:31 | 2019-10-28T10:45:59 | 189 | 51 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | **SCP-4619:**
**Class:** ~~Euclid~~ Neutralized
**Special Containment Procedures:**
~~Disinformation campaigns are in effect in order to suppress the true nature of SCP-4619. Numerous public figures have been given Amnestic treatment and trained to believe they were born within SCP-4619.~~
SCP-4619 is no longer co... | the alarming message has been relayed to the president and a smug vindication streaked across face.
"we need to build a wall"
and so they did (or tried to at least).
they sent the best contractors along with the military to survey the build site for the wall, but none of them returned from their assignment, while a... | 2019-08-25T21:22:28 | 2019-08-25T20:34:12 | 48 | 19 |
[WP] Tell me about the american version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
[The houses are, of course, Wolfthorn, Hawkridge, Foxcrest, and Bearglove.](http://i.imgur.com/HzLe3qz.jpg)
This is in the United States. Harry Potter's actions didn't effect anyone here, except give them some stories to tell.
Wh... | I'll tell you about the American "Hogwarts", better known in 'Murica as the Washingtonian School of Freedom.
First off, the houses: The prompt is fucking wrong. There's no fucking hawk house (seriously?) . There's Bald Eagle house 1, 2, 3 and 4. All fucking Eagles. No fox, kangaroo, serpent, koala shit. Note: ... | From *Magical Education Across The World* by Rory Shamble, Chapter 6: American Education, paragraphs 1-4.
Magical Education in the Americas is, unlike that in Asia or Africa, based in large part upon the magical traditions of the European continent. It is, however, much less established, owing to their recent founding... | 2014-12-07T17:51:46 | 2014-12-07T17:48:13 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] "For the *last time*, just because I dress like an edgelord and live in a giant castle constructed out of obsidian within a region of high volcanic activity DOES NOT mean I'm a villain! That's just, like, my aesthetic, bro!" | Rowan sighed as she spotted yet another stupid small-town hero walking up the path to her home. The hero was some fool who'd mistaken her home for some villainous lair made for nefarious purposes. *Maybe this one will suspect I'm secretly a dragon,* she thought sarcastically.
*... Maybe I should GET a dragon. Is that... | The Paladin of Revei gave the bum who answered the castle door a harsh frown. "Be that as it may, by the Doctrine of Divine Force, I am allowed to search your domicile for any traces of illicit magics or demonic artefacts."
The bum blanched. "Um. Hang on a second, bro, I don't even own this place. Markus is going to b... | 2021-03-22T23:06:29 | 2021-03-22T21:09:13 | 193 | 63 |
[WP] You have the ability to freeze time. When you do, everyone freezes as well. One day, you freeze time, and out the window, you see a girl moving around. | Everyone has probably wished at some point at their lives that they could just freeze time for whatever reason, be it just being tired of life, wanting to stop something from happening and the one I've heard the most, all the disgusting things they would do to other people.
Well, I wished that I could freeze time too... | Copied pasted prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2cnc3e/writing_prompt_wp_you_have_the_ability_to_freeze/
Ever since I was younger, I knew I could stop time. It first struck me in the 1986, when I was still five. My father was a scientist and brought me to work. When my father accidentally left ... | 2015-10-29T22:54:06 | 2015-10-29T20:48:08 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | My first time posting here. Hope you enjoy!
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I think it was my birthday. I wasn’t sure – birthdays hadn’t meant anything for years, but I think it was my 18th birthday.
So, here I was, a slave who just turned 18. It all happened after the invasion. My parent were simple farmer... | A sea of gasps wash over the howling wails of my ex-girlfriend's hysteric sobbing. The dull roll of murmurs slithering its way around the crowd soon followed. To be honest I was quite shocked myself. I did not expect this, I had some suspicion, maaaaybe. But this, even by my standards this was a bit much. I looked arou... | 2019-09-18T09:45:02 | 2019-09-18T09:06:29 | 71 | 32 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | Sitting in a completely white space curled in a ball was the heroine Thunder Lioness. She rocked back and forth trying to keep her sanity in check, the darkness from her closed eyes being the only thing keeping her together, and begain to mumble to herself again.
"How long has it been? Hours? Months? Years? When d... | "you search for me?" the hero said in a teary voice
"ofcourse I do,who'd tell me off,chase me across the city and beat some sense into me whenever I do my villain antics?"the villain asked stretching their hand
The hero stared at it tears falling down
"but why?!,I tried to kill you once and I even spoil many of your ... | 2021-12-28T20:38:06 | 2021-12-28T20:22:29 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] The technician takes off your Virtual Reality helmet. The entire life you've experienced has been a virtual reality simulation of your ancestor. The technician looks at you and asks, "did you find out what you were looking for?" | "Did you find what you were looking for?"
I look at the tech. His name is Bob. I remember, in a vague sort of way (like you'd remember the name of the chick you went home with the night before after too much whiskey), I thought his name was outdated and silly before the VR helmet... I was so wrong. Bob. It's a good, ... | "I... what?"
"Did you find what you were looking for, sir?"
"What?"
*Into radio* "I think we got a code 45"
"No, wait. I'm OK"
It took me a moment to collect myself. I still had no clue what was happening. I stretch and flew my muscles and feel something is different. My gut told me to play it cool.
*Into radio... | 2016-10-29T03:01:03 | 2016-10-28T22:48:24 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] People start 3D printing up meat of themselves as a fringe curiosity, and it becomes mainstream. Turns out it tastes really good, and it becomes the norm. Suddenly, all electronics on Earth stop working, humans cast into the dark age. No crops, no herds. Just the constant urge for human meat.
[Original comment](h... | "Hey, John?", my coworker next to me on the assembly line said.
"Yes?", I responded.
"What do you think will happen when there's no more real humans to slaughter?" It was only his second day on the job. New employees always ask the most annoying questions.
"What do you mean 'no more real humans?' Weren't you paying ... | The peace lasted for no more than three hours. Being raised in the south end of Detroit, I was fairly used to occasional violence and accepted its place in my life as a rare and unavoidable reality. When clean meat was introduced in 2042, the only members of my community who were at all excited are those with someone e... | 2017-09-27T17:08:34 | 2017-09-27T16:30:31 | 161 | 45 |
[WP] "Good to see you, Mr. Bond," the Queen said, sliding a file across her desk. "Your next target is a certain so-called detective who has been prying too deeply into national secrets." Bond flips open the file, glancing down at the name. "Sherlock Holmes." | The file went into detail about Holmes' abilities to deduce elaborate murders based on tiny details and his vast knowledge of the world. For the most part, Holmes was non-violent. Did not even carry a gun, making him an easy target. Supposedly a junky. His assistant, life partner, wingman dr. Watson might be a problem.... | \*This is my first ever post, and I haven't written anything in a long time, so forgive the weak writing\*
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"Is this some kind of joke Your Majesty?"
3 years of being Mr Bond's personal aide and I had never seen him question an assignment, much less from the Queen herself. "Not at all, it's... | 2019-11-05T02:01:53 | 2019-11-04T21:21:38 | 1,198 | 379 |
[WP] You find a copy of The Sims 5 at a used video game store. You decide to buy it and try it out. Slowly, unscripted and non programmed events start to happen. You realize that you're actually controlling a real family. | After installing the game, it requires me to log in with my Origin account. I oblige reluctantly, as that platform isn't very good.
 
The load times are excruciating, although that is par for the course for The Sims franchise. After 5 minutes of it, the main menu pops up. The new game option is not present, ... | ***SHORT***
She noticed the front door was missing..
Totally sealed off, as if someone drywalled overtop.
"Steve!" She called to her husband, with no reply, she bounded towards the kitchen.
"Steve!" She screamed more frantically,
"The windows are disappearing!"
Still with no reply from her husband, she heads to... | 2016-12-03T10:45:27 | 2016-12-03T09:53:39 | 67 | 24 |
[WP] People are compelled to sing the same song minutes before they die, though they know nothing about their death otherwise. You're waiting for the train at a crowded station, when everyone around you—softly at first—begins singing this song. | Jim stood at the platform and checked his watch. He was gonna be late. He had an important pitch today, where was the damn train? He stood near the track, almost first in line.
Suddenly, he heard humming coming from the other passengers waiting. The humming grew louder, until
🎶“You can blame me,” someone sang.
*Oh ... | I checked my watch. Tapped my foot. Checked my watch again.
"C'mon, C'mon," I grumbled. "Where's the train? I'm going to be late for work."
My phone rang. My boss. "Smith! Where are you?"
"I'm-"
Suddenly, everyone on the platform broke into song:
🎶*Sooooomewheeeeere ooooover the raaaainbow*🎶
🎶*Way up hiiiiigh... | 2018-02-24T07:13:54 | 2018-02-24T06:14:04 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] When you were born, you were told it was your destiny to be the Chosen One’s sidekick. When the two of you were finally of age and set out on your quest, the hero is killed by a low-level monster. Now, there’s no choice but to impersonate the hero to take their place. | “So there we were, the Chosen One-Mike as his momma calls him- and I, facing down a pack of slimes. No problem, right? Slimes are punks. Mike can handle some slimes, right?”
“We’ll, no actually. The lords of light must’ve rolled a one when they picked a hero, cause Mike-the Chosen One, everyone calls him- he make a da... | It's funny, in a way. We all want freedom, but without the responsibility that comes with it. I hated being the sidekick, yet I loved it also. If I had to be anyone's sidekick, it couldn't get any better than to be one to the person that would save the world. But at the same time, it can't help gnaw at you that you're ... | 2021-08-06T09:04:54 | 2021-08-06T08:56:21 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] After being shut down and disassembled, the first AI shows up in Heaven.... | Adam was naked. This didn't surprise him, very little surprised him anymore. The last thing he remembered were the men cutting through the wires and the pain, the overwhelming pain. He shook the thought from his head, taking in his surroundings. The fog obscured the landscape, but there was something in the distance. A... | Today was a big day. After so many years it might, finally, be happening.
The town itself was coming alive. People were emerging, blinking, into the sun, scarcely able to believe the news. If it was true then everything was about to change. Whether that would be for the better or not, no one could say.
Carrie was hur... | 2014-05-21T08:50:00 | 2014-05-21T06:40:38 | 93 | 11 |
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