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[WP] Rewrite The Ten Commandments as if it were a Buzzfeed/Cracked artice. | **11 Moral Lifehacks This Koala Wearing a Straw Hat While Eating a Popsicle (http://imgur.com/CO0nPRL) Does Better Than You**
Let’s face it: ain’t nobody got time for all these rules and shit. Who always has time? This koala. Eating a Popsicle. Wearing a straw hat.
1. Keep it simple. Focus on the popsicle. Would you... | "God sits down with Moses and lays down his ten rules for living (You won't believe #7!)"
#1: I AM THE LORD THY GOD.
God is really laying down the law on his chosen people, saying, I am in change, I am the boss.
#2: THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.
God doesn't like being put on the backburner when it comes ... | 2014-12-12T18:48:50 | 2014-12-12T18:40:53 | 67 | 22 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "You can *not* be serious," Overlord stated dryly in response to the hero's offer. She was running several tracing programs to try and find out where he was calling from as soon as possible - he'd always been a pain in her side.
"Look, I- I know that this is a peculiar situation, but..." the hero meekly replied.
"Why... | 1
Look, I felt bad, okay? I couldn’t just let the guy sit alone in a wedding while the newlyweds danced about. And, for what it’s worth, I learned many new things about him. Many, _many_ things….
I’m losing focus. The wedding. “Don’t push it,” I said, feeling his hand begin to grip tightly on my arm as we walked to t... | 2022-10-06T18:26:35 | 2022-10-06T17:28:32 | 2,322 | 379 |
[WP] An ancient manuscript is unearthed. It is proven to be the original Book of Revelation. After it is translated, there are actually FIVE Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Describe the Fifth Horseman, his color, and his contribution to the Apocalypse.
(Title) | Death. War. Famine. Pestilence. The four horsemen of the apocalypse; that deadly quartet of brothers who with them bring nought but a hurricane of suffering and misfortune. By many they are considered the harbingers of the end times, the heralds of the apocalypse, but those people forget their brother, the fifth horsem... | When He broke the fifth seal, I heard the fifth living creature saying, “Come.” And as last, a brown horse, went out; the man who sat on him was chubby and round of face, an ugly sneer painted on it. A golden crown, a golden chain and a golden cloak, and hungry eyes peeking out over the horizon. "My daughters for a man... | 2015-09-22T14:41:27 | 2015-09-22T11:42:52 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | A bead of sweat formed on the genie's brow, as he nervously searched for the right words to use, fully aware that he was about to deliver my fate.
"Your existence will result in the cure for cancer being developed, which will pave the way for hundreds of generations to come," he said, confident that he had delivered n... | Genie: Well, David, you may not know this but you're a bit of an asshole.
David: I am not, I even gave that guy the $20 he dropped yesterday
Genie: You we're trying to impress a girl with the $20 and you stole my lamp off of someone's porch.
David: You saw that?
Genie: I think we've established I know more than wh... | 2018-08-15T06:31:04 | 2018-08-15T05:47:33 | 351 | 59 |
[WP] A ship full of alien scientists lands on Earth. They've been in cryosleep for 150 million years and were expecting to study dinosaurs. | "150 Million years, One hundred fifty million years. Nowhere in any of that time the computer picked up on the fact the one thing we were coming to this rock for is dead" Ensign Cragroc said. He'd never wanted to escort these eggheads across the universe and now it was all for nothing.
"Hey it's not the computers faul... | In a dark, foggy room, a blue luminescence is radiating from two metal pods, arranged vertically, about the size of twin size beds. The transparent covers of the pods spring open and bodies rustle inside.
"Hey, Glarshnog. Pssst, Glaaaarshnog, you awake?"
"Yeah, I'm awake, Fusho, but my back is stiff as shit. How lo... | 2014-04-29T19:34:19 | 2014-04-29T17:01:26 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | ## Change EVERYTHING
"Sir, you have fifteen seconds," the lady behind the counter said to me, "And remember, you are not allowed to disclose any information that may affect the future of this company. Should you attempt to do so, your ancestor will be terminated and you will be liable for the fullest extent of penalti... | I was looking at my great great grandfather James Cater and wishing he would have taught his kids not to hate when all of a sudden he appears in front of me. I hear a voice in my head telling me that if I think I can do a better job then I have 30 seconds to make him changes his mind.
James is currently 12 years old a... | 2014-05-09T08:44:55 | 2014-05-09T05:25:48 | 70 | 15 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | "I just need more time" the healer said. "If you would take a few minutes to plan and let me do my work instead of rushing into danger, we wouldn't have to keep doing this" As he spoke his hands ran across the Paladins chest, a warm glow spilling across the slowly closing wounds.
"Evil waits for no one", the paladin ... | "Please, I beg you, I'm sorry!"
Janivar hated this part, the begging.
"Shut up. Lord Tansalon has passed his judgement. I am merely here to execute his will. Don't take it personally."
The man was bound to the pyre. Janivar had built it himself. He was very good at building fires. He was usually left behind ... | 2020-01-05T12:01:26 | 2020-01-05T11:58:20 | 317 | 43 |
[WP] On every planet, there is one being who is a living recorder for everything that happens. During the yearly recorder meeting, one always comes in emotionally drained. “Look. It’s the guy that has earth” | The doors opened violently and smashed the walls as they swung. A guy with a half unbuttoned dress shirt and a loose tie came in, he was carrying a bottle of vodka and a small glass. The hall had around 200 people in it and all turned to see the commotion.
"Whoops, sorry about that. Light doors. Please, go on! Let's ... | "That's right... Earth is the most stressful thing I've ever been assigned..."
"Still as gaseous as ever, huh?"
"Han, don't confuse Earth with Venus!!"
"Shut up, Tassa! Both planets are gassed in the air, aren't they?!"
"But," the Earth recorder Gen replied wearily, "Earth is getting gassed air thanks to the humans... | 2021-08-13T08:05:58 | 2021-08-13T07:53:22 | 54 | 34 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I wasn't a dad, I bought one ironically. The day the mugs changed, a tiny black hole opened up where my mug used to sit next to my coffee maker. My Keurig and no one in a fifteen mile radius noticed, as they were instantly ripped into the basic building blocks of life, which were then ripped into their smallest compone... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T10:07:25 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You’ve been stuck in a time loop that repeats the same day over and over. You’ve perfected every skill, you speak every language ever spoken. One day you go crazy, by the end of the day the entire town is dead. You wake up the next morning still covered in blood, the loop finally broke. | They don't tell you about the smell of blood. I lived my whole life and no one ever told me about the smell of blood. It's coppery. I think I remember someone telling me that once. And it does smell like someone dropped me in a room with a fuck ton of pennies, but blood, it's also organic so it rots. So it smells like ... | "Fuck." i muttered. Well, at first i just sat in silence for some minutes. Shocked. Horrified. All those words don't really describe the feelings i had in those first minutes.
The last, well i think centuries, had been boring as hell. Or maybe it had been hell. Repeating that godforsaken day for eternity had finally g... | 2019-08-11T09:38:39 | 2019-08-11T08:50:59 | 130 | 35 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | The shop's bell rang, Mason could barely hear it over the buzz of his tattoo gun and death metal blaring from the small stereo in the back. Mason looked up from the butterfly tattoo he was doing on the college girls ankle and saw him. Tally. That was the nickname Mason had given the man because of the very specific ... | Chris opened the door, rang the bell as he passed the check-in desk, and took a seat.
"Same as usual," he grunted. I don't have a lot of repeat customers at McDowell Tattoos, but this guy must have some kind of record.
I sighed and gave a little chuckle. "You really do make my job easy, you know that, Chris? People c... | 2016-07-09T09:02:56 | 2016-07-09T08:57:58 | 150 | 45 |
[WP] Bob doesn't realise he's the last man on Earth because he's still receiving packages from Amazon. | August 25th 2017
Dear Diary,
It’s been about three months since the big ebola scare. I haven’t been outside other than just opening the door to pick up my Amazon packages. I haven’t heard from my sister for about two months. I hate talking to people, but I was willing to talk to her that day. We said goodbye just i... | “The person you are trying to call is unavailable,” the automated voice said. “Please hang up and try your call again.”
“Oh what the fuck,” Bob sighed. The last three packages sent to him by Amazon were empty boxes. Bob ordered Xbox 360 games, taking advantage of lowered prices since the release of the Xbox One. He’d... | 2015-04-27T09:16:46 | 2015-04-27T08:58:32 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Nighttime. Perfect time for a heist... the ordinary mortals would be unable to see through the darkness of night, leaving them out of my way. No sense in harming those that have not earned it, after all.
I adjusted the last few straps on my gaudy outfit and made my way to the bank, where the lower-ranking heroes would... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T16:49:51 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] “Look, it’s one thing to claim you’re the guy who started this apocalypse. It’s another thing entirely to claim you started it by telling a joke wrong.” | "Its a stupid joke, really."
The man on the screen was clean, and cleanshaven. Everyone was. But his face was lined like a map.
"Would you like to tell it?"
"No. I mean, I'll tell it. I don't want to. But I need to."
The man on the screen pulled in a breath.
"I was just a grad student. I didn't know the math, didn... | "How does that make a difference?"
"We're all going to Hell because of *you* and your shitty delivery. Don't you dare try to argue with me about this *entire situation*."
"It's not fair though..."
"Uh, not fair? Mate, look around you! This world is fucked because you couldn't get your punchline right. Do you not und... | 2017-10-05T05:27:30 | 2017-10-05T05:10:14 | 41 | 19 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | The Terran Federation. A force that now spans several thousand solar systems within the galaxy with several species under its wing. We believed they were possibly as advanced as the Galactic Alliance; yet we only recently discovered them by accident when we entered one of their border systems. They seemed less wary and... | Humans had always been respected in the intergalactic society. Not for our scientific breakthroughs, we were actually the last of space capable species to achieve intergalactic travel. We're not respected for our love of things that are beautiful, or creative. No, we're respected for our resolve. Over the last several ... | 2016-03-13T21:56:17 | 2016-03-13T17:44:09 | 68 | 20 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | Peter stood among a line of mourners filing past a casket paying their last respects to a friend Peter had loved. The sorrow and weeping in the room reflected the anguish and weight Peter carried inside of him, but he shed no tears. There were none left after centuries of watching every person he loved die.
This death... | I wake up in my bed, the same bed that I bought.
The same room with the same walls, the same decorations.
All of it is familiar to me, nothing had changed.
Nothing.
Not even the calander date.
My fear was simple and profound at the same time. I feared the familiar, the same repetitive thing over and over again.
I... | 2022-05-14T20:10:32 | 2022-05-14T19:10:00 | 128 | 31 |
[WP] A man in a hospital sees Death. Death's intentions are not what he expects. | The click of the door broke the manatonous beeps and hums that were beside my head.
I slowly came out of my groggy slumber as the figure entered the room.
The man slowly walked up to me and started looking at a chart he pulled out of his coat.
"Who are you?" I managed to croak out as the figure went abou... | The scent of antiseptics wasn't an easy one to get used to. It was the trademark smell of the hospital, that kind of smell that makes people feel uneasy for reasons that aren't fully realized; perhaps a fear of the hospital and the sharp objects it holds, or maybe just the overall sense of not exactly being in control ... | 2014-06-01T14:25:07 | 2014-06-01T13:45:28 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Water is the most dangerous fluid in the galaxy. Earthlings drink it like it's nothing. | "Thglwmp it is time for your powered down cycle."
Thglwmp writhed in its caretaker's grip. "Whyyyy?" Thglwmp asked plaintively.
"It is that moment in the cycle," said its caretaker.
"Tell me one more story, Caretaker Pthkw. Tell me the one about the Earthlings."
Pthkw buzzed impatiently. Well, at least it worked ... | The light fades in to reveal an important looking meeting room, a large circular table placed in the middle, with ten different looking creatures seated around it. In the middle of the table, an image of a blue and green planet is being projected for all the attendees to see.
Chatter fills the room, the different crea... | 2017-04-06T09:02:19 | 2017-04-06T08:24:42 | 442 | 95 |
[WP] You are a sentient brick. | I am brick.
Part of wall. Part of whole. I am useful.
I am brick.
I am solid. I have brothers. Lots of bricks. We all like being bricks. It's a good life.
We are a schoolhouse. Red brick. Hard brick. Strong brick.
The children learn inside of us. We protect them. Today is a school day. Today is a strange day.
Th... | Today a boy was beaten in front of me. It was ruthless. They didn't stop when he started to weep. Only when he had ran out of tears. The boy lied there for a while. Eventually though, he did stand up. What struck me was that he didn't spit the blood from his mouth, but instead swallowed it. Maybe that day, he had alrea... | 2017-12-22T13:48:48 | 2017-12-22T13:28:20 | 189 | 20 |
[WP] Humans are new on the galactic stage. The reigning champion in an MMA style fighting ring uses telepathy to predict his opponents movements,but humans have something never seen or heard of before. Muscle memory. | “You’re up next”, the man in grey said while opening the entrance into the arena. Well he wasn’t exactly a man with those two wings sprouting from his back. Not like I was surprised. There were dozens of them lining up outside as I entered the stadium, along with several other kinds of people. I saw some guys with ... | I've been living in this space voyager for quite some time, I've even gotten used to all the weird pathways that this place has, even the small intricacies that most other aliens don't understand. I guess they really don't understand humans, I mean how would they. They only started contact a few decades ago; but that d... | 2019-06-01T02:06:17 | 2019-06-01T02:05:41 | 373 | 207 |
[WP] There is a (visible to everyone) sign that pops up above people's heads whenever they do something for the last time (eg. "This is the last poutine Snowtroopersarecool will eat"). A sign has just popped up. What does it say, and how do people react? | All at once the city turned quiet. Cars stopped and idled, people stood and stared. A light breeze brought an air of dread as people came to grips with what this meant. All across New York, all across the world, everyone had a sign up at once.
*This is the last time I: eat breakfast*
*This is the last time I: make h... | The Sign popped up over my head, just as I put the ring on
"This is the last girl you will ever marry"
I was overjoyed, and as I slid the ring on her struggling finger, knowing we'd be together forever.
A sign popped up over her head.
"This is the last man you will marry against your will"
I turned to Pa , but he ... | 2014-06-21T06:05:27 | 2014-06-21T04:57:06 | 90 | 40 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | I could see the rifling of the pistol barrel as the strange woman lifted it to my head. Her Welsh accent almost made the scene comical. "As with the rest of my toys, you get a few pitiful moments to plead for your life. Oh, and try not to blow snot all over your face and look more pathetic than you already do."
"I'm ... | . . ."Now look, you have about 10 seconds before I blow your brains out; and paint this awful living room with your gray matter." The murderer paused, his thumb teasing the hammer of his Sig PP24.
"Give me one good reason, why I shouldn't kill you."
The murderer placed himself against the nearby wall. The barrel o... | 2017-10-07T15:02:47 | 2017-10-07T12:25:05 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] The opening scroll for George Lucas' Star Wars Episode VII | Taxation on the trading routes is in turmoil following the fall of the Empire. Following increased restrictions on the rate of inflation by the remnants of the imperial forces it has become unclear what the future will hold for the profitability of third quarter revenue listings. A new senate has been established in an... | War rages as the New Republic struggles to stamp out the few remnants of the evil Galactic Empire. The Empire has cobbled together their remaining forces in the far reaches of the outer rim, where they are rumored to be developing a new super weapon far deadlier than the fabled Death Star. With tensions high as Leia Or... | 2015-12-11T09:08:40 | 2015-12-11T09:06:43 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] As a dad, you obviously have a mug that claims you're the "#1 World's Best Dad". One day, you find on the news that all "Best Dad Mugs" now have actual ratings, the media is crazy about it, a photo shows a mug with #5,826,827 World's Best Dad on it, curious, you check yours. It still says #1. | I never thought about being a good father. It never even occurred to me-I just tried to do better than my own parents, and to always be there. To show up. They say the moment your child is born, the world changes for you. There's someone in your life in that moment that will always come first. That's how it was for me,... | A month had already passed since I had seen my ranking as best dad. My life and my families had then been filled with tv interviews, appearances on the Ellen show and even a book deal where I share my wisdom on what it means to be the best dad. Simply put, this was the happiest I had ever been.
Well, almost. It began ... | 2019-10-03T00:11:58 | 2019-10-02T20:33:44 | 546 | 37 |
[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement bloc and trown in a lac. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers. | "Hey, *bitch*!"
His booted foot slammed into the side of my face, forcing me into the ground. It hurt like hell. I screamed in pain, despite knowing full well this wouldn't last forever. I cradled my jaw in my hand, struggling to get back up to my knees. I got a glimpse of the man beating me. His name was Cody.
It lo... | I was born to rule the world. My destiny, no matter what, was to be above humanity itself. Even though I was raised in a poor household, I ended up being adopted by a rich family - who knows how they got their wealth - my deadbeat father managed to save. That was their worst mistake. Even at an early age, I longed for ... | 2018-11-24T11:03:28 | 2018-11-24T10:49:19 | 270 | 27 |
[WP] The world's population receives a message that in 10 hours their minds will be 'shuffled', with everyone's mind being transported to another random body anywhere else on earth, of roughly the same age but with no other defined characteristics. What happens?
Additional information if you want more inspiration! The... | Have mercy. I have not written creatively in almost 12 years and I am writing this from my phone.
"... That is all." The message ended. Lois stared at her tv screen. Around the world, people were in various states of shock, uncertain what this would mean for their lives, but not Lois. In ten hours, everyone on earth ... | President Petty paced around the oval office. It had been 9 hours and 55 minutes since the warning came and the technological anarchists had finally succeeded. Although no one knew who they were, everyone knew what they were capable of.
"Society is doomed," he thought.
Petty was on the phone with Harry Livingston, th... | 2014-05-17T12:05:00 | 2014-05-17T11:53:24 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | "What are you hooligans doing?" I cried. "This is an old and respected establishment."
"Oy, Cap!" one of the ruffians cried. "Look at this. The chair can talk."
The captain of the ruffians strode up and loomed over me. He was tall and swarthy, with a bushy black beard. He wore a faded blue tunic, and held a steel dag... | Life good, life been good. Life was bad, hunger bad and was hungry so life bad. So hungry life so bad went sleep. Woke up and Big Snackums had me tied in wheeled bed...bed with wheels...wheel barrow...nope, cart, tied in cart. Big Snackums in open though, to many other snackums, hungry but not want die so stay chai... | 2022-10-09T18:25:20 | 2021-09-21T22:43:21 | 1,468 | 156 |
[WP] Your parents choose your attributes, you end up as a tank, 6.4 foot tall, and most of your attributes placed into strength, endurance and intelligence. However, you've always wanted to become an assassin, and now at 18, you strive to meet your goal. | It was time to choose my guild. I was lined up with my classmates during the ceremony. My turn to Choose. Everyone was looking at me, though I was used to *that*. Even now, I towered above my classmates, as thick in one leg as they were in their waist.
Everyone expected me to protect, to serve, to take the hits for my... | They'd kill for my physique, all those puny fuckers who want to play football or something. It'd be wasted on them.
I'd kill to be small and slight. I'll kill anyway, but it's harder when you're a giant.
I asked my mom why they maxed me out in strength, endurance, and intelligence.
"Your father and I have both had a... | 2017-09-27T06:50:32 | 2017-09-27T02:57:19 | 103 | 24 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | *The light grew dim above me. "We're losing her!" a masked man yelled, pumping my chest as another forced something into my mouth.*
*It was all so tiresome.*
"Well, you've done it. After two thousand, six-hundred, and forty one years, you've done it." a voice exclaimed excitedly.
As I emerged from the cavernous hall... | They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but it didnt happen for me. In fact I didnt get anything. Just black out and fade into a dimly lit room.
"Candles? The fuck is this? A fucking Bath and body works?"
The large room contained eight beings of which I paid no mind.
I wandered up to the table in... | 2019-01-12T17:16:59 | 2019-01-12T15:27:37 | 261 | 18 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | “So what is your power?” The administrator says. Everyone has one all we know is they are made from our worst fear, once our worst fears are fully developed at around age 10 - 12.
“Well, I am not entirely sure. Sometimes things just happen. They tend to happen?” I say as to misdirect the conversation. For some context... | My first power was short lived. As a child, I was terrified of wasps. If there was a god, he laughed when he gave me the power to transform into a wasp. It was wondrous, the first time I flew was the best moment of my life. As a wasp, I was able to communicate with the other creatures that had once terrified me. We bui... | 2022-05-14T22:11:22 | 2022-05-14T21:10:03 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] 'Please Adopt Me', said the box on the side of the road, with the single black puppy in it. So you did. A year later, you realize the breed is a bit complicated, considering it has three heads, a snake tail, and breathes fire. | Cerberus. Cherubus. Chubbus. Chubby Pupperus. Chumbawumba. Chuck. Chonk. Chief. Charles Doggerton Whizhydrant the 3rd.
Even now one head was snuggling against my leg, the long rattlesnake tail behind him swooshed back and forth happily with maraca pace, this dog head as thick around as my thigh already. The middle was... | Franklin had been trying to deliver a letter to this blasted house for twenty minutes now. He would've been finished and on his way, too, we're it not for the terrifying oddity that stood in the yard, chained by silver to a literal Crucifix sticking out of the ground.
It was a mammoth beast, at least two meters tall... | 2019-07-04T09:11:58 | 2019-07-04T09:06:27 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "Look at that idiot swinging a sword at my playful Gilgamore." I said while looking out of my window from the top floor of the tower into the courtyard.
Every damn time... I don't know why they think they need to *Slaaaaay the Draaagon.* What was this, some Walt Disney princess movie? Did they honestly think that if t... | “Doesn’t anybody get it!” I yelled at the confused knight standing below my tower.
“SHE IS A PET!” I barked at him. My rage getting increasingly higher as these people kept coming to kill my Grengold Dragon, Dempy.
The knight looked up at me, his eyes wide with utter confusion, and surprise.
“But..”
“NO BUTS! Honestl... | 2019-01-09T10:46:09 | 2019-01-09T10:14:11 | 38 | 25 |
[WP] A bard is kidnapped by orcs. At first the bard is terrified, however the orcs actually treat the bard with much more respect than any tavern full of drunks ever had. It seems the ability to sing and play instruments is extremely rare amongst orcs but even they love music. | Too many nights I came home, my clothes stained with food and ale from the multitudes of drunken boors of the tavern. Though I made enough to scrape by, not a soul cared for the craft and creativity. But what choice did I have? What other skills could I provide? I was not strong enough to be a hunter or warrior, so wha... | Well, I suppose I should have run. The tightness of this moldy bag stifles my breath. My breath, the gift of song and joy, all I can manage now are gasps. I can hear them grunting in some guttural language. From the belching I assume they took some barrels of beer with them amid the violence and the fire. The Patchy Dr... | 2020-05-13T16:05:21 | 2020-05-13T16:01:01 | 63 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation. | "So," the General asked, "What you're saying is that humans are *not* distinguished by our superior talent for battle?"
"No, sir. We've been over this."
"Are you quite sure? It's been my understanding that our willingness to kill each other and our fearlessness in combat make us the scourge of the galaxy, spoken of o... | "And here dear trainee, that's how humanity succesfully hold their territory, and gained it's place amongst the star, any question?"
I couldn't believe it, Humanity way to the top of the Galatic Races wasn't by clever planning, genius military mind, better armament or thanks to our scientific progress. But it was beca... | 2018-01-30T06:56:55 | 2018-01-30T06:14:54 | 164 | 118 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | The trial was kinda a joke. I mean, I get that they had to do it, but considering the plague at its height infected almost half of humanity, you'd figure most everyone killed or contributed to the killing of \*somebody\*. I'm probably not even the guy with the biggest kill count overall, that goes to the pilot who loos... | "All rise!"
The wooden walls of the Palace of Justice did little to stop the chilly winds of Nuremberg. I had always been too sensitive to the cold.
The judge walked up to his chair and sat down, looking down on me. I didn't need him to speak, but he did nonetheless.
"This court finds the defendant guilty of the 12 ... | 2022-01-17T12:55:01 | 2022-01-17T12:33:53 | 945 | 108 |
[WP] A while back, you and your friends started praying to a goddess you had made up as a joke. Unbeknownst to you, your constant prayers have made the goddess real and she’s eager to reward her faithful followers. | It had started off as a joke. I had been making a world for a new campaign for our dungeons and dragons group. Naturally, this required me to create a pantheon of gods. Although most were farily forgettable, one stuck with me. The Goddess Ra'ah, the Divine Healer. She was fairly generic, being a Goddess whose followers... | We had done it hundreds of times at this point. Every time we met up for our "Green Day", as we liked to call it, the five of us stood in a shape that looked vaguely like a pentagram in the middle of the room. We weren't Satanists or anything, but since the whole act was against everything our Christian education had t... | 2022-10-29T16:58:01 | 2022-10-29T14:05:45 | 286 | 50 |
[WP] Write a story that has spoiler tags all over the place. The story has two different meanings: One when reading without looking at the spoiler tags, and one when the spoilers tags are moused over.
Not sure if this is too confusing, so I'll post an example sentence.
The man loves [the severed head of](/s) his wif... | A few days ago, my wife died after [](#s "I helped her along with") a tumble off the roof top.
The doctors decreed it an unfortunate accident. God, I was wretched. My wife had died [](#s "because of me"). I couldn't be more despondent [](#s "while around my friends").
At home [](#s "however"), I jumped [](#s "for... | So, here was John, [Spoiler](#s "Trying to decide how to murder Jack") with his hot girlfriend, Cindy. Jack [Spoiler](#s "only at day") was a nice guy, but the couple [Spoiler](#s "was trying to save the world by killing a guy who would destroy the earth, but Jack made the whole world turn on them and think they're the... | 2015-06-07T19:24:11 | 2015-06-07T15:12:48 | 210 | 15 |
[WP] Two prison guards discuss a prisoner who is apparently immortal. He's been in jail with a life sentence for so long that no one knows the reason for his imprisonment. | "Cutbacks," said Dan.
"Cutbacks?" Charlie said, distracted by the paperwork. There was always paperwork.
"That's what they're saying. All non-violent offenders are up for early release."
Charlie looked up. "Nobody knows if this guy is a violent offender."
"Well, apparently that's good enough for government work. The ... | Concrete walls create long hallways, the cell's metal bars breaking the gray. Behind one door sits a prisoner who is immortal, and no one can remember his crime. In front of him two guards argue about his imprisonment.
"Well how can we really know that they did wrong if we can't remember what they even did? For all we... | 2015-06-01T21:05:28 | 2015-06-01T17:53:40 | 552 | 14 |
[WP] A masked vigilante starts fighting crime in Los Angeles, except everyone knows it's obviously Elon Musk. | It was late on Skid Row. The tweakers and gangbangers were doing their nightly grind. I was unfortunate enough to be around. I took a turn to a less populated street and before I could backpedal I heard it.
“Don’t move.”
Three large men surrounded me. The one in the center gripped a knife.
“Empty your pockets an... | Say what you will about the man, but one thing cannot be denied - he is punctual.
It must have hardly been 15 minutes since the teller hit the panic button. Frankly, it should be renamed as the Calm-but-I-disapprove-of-what's-happening-here button.
Silent as the night, he came. His black suit gleamed under the warm... | 2018-02-07T12:44:50 | 2018-02-07T07:30:53 | 596 | 213 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | Despite what many people think, there isn't actually one perfect line to break someone's spirit. Sure, on the cartoon, they have me say one singular line, and then they'll show whoever I'm talking to reeling back, the line echoing over and over while appropriate, transparent images of their past flash across the screen... | Shit. She couldn't believe it. Which one of her fellow heroes had written it? Her stomach sank. Didn't they understand? She was born with the ability, and had trained through trials and sufferings that many of them could not imagine, no matter how tragic their backstory. The very same power that gave her her abilities ... | 2020-02-25T14:34:20 | 2020-02-25T12:17:21 | 271 | 66 |
[WP] You are short, skinny and well below average intelligence. Yet, you've been hired by a group of elite soldiers to help with some of their most dangerous missions. Your superpower: sheer dumb luck. No matter how close to death you come, reality always follows the path to your ultimate survival. | “Sargent, how much further?!”
I can feel my toes start to seize up with every step, as I hear the crunch of snow beneath my feet and the remnants of last night’s stormy winds across my face.
We had been marching across Siberia for days…*or was it weeks?* We were out of food and supplies, and then the storm hit. 90mph... | English isn't my first language and I never really write but let's give it a go.
"All the trouble in school, the bullying, my parents being angry and dissapointed. There wasn't a single day I didn't hate myself, for who I am and for who I have become. One little accident who sealed my faith. My dumb luck which saved m... | 2020-04-18T07:00:09 | 2020-04-18T06:54:45 | 78 | 47 |
[WP] You're the normal guy the evil emperor keeps around to point out obvious flaws in his plan. It's a pretty sweet gig, but there are some annoyances. | We had the party in the council room. It seemed like I had spent my whole life in there.
There was a long rectangular table. On each side were generals and superpowered henchmen. At the head of the table was my boss, Emperor Chiropteran. I sat in the chair to his right.
The room was filled with balloons and streamers... | At first, he only kept me alive because of my skills as a master mason while he enslaved the rest of my people and drafted them to his army. Then over time as our King gradually grew more obsessed and unstable, I became one of his most valuable assets, forever bound to him and constructing for him elaborate castles and... | 2018-01-15T21:43:05 | 2018-01-15T19:24:14 | 90 | 16 |
[WP] Suddenly, everyone’s life is worth 100,000 USD. Kill someone, and $100,000 is instantly deposited into your bank account, no questions asked. But, your life is now worth $200,000. | It started shortly after the worldwide currency was instated. It took about a year for the world to adjust to the new currency. It was a simple system, which is ultimately what allowed it to work. Countless theorized that it would never happen, that the world couldn’t agree on one currency. It worked like this: create ... | I fought for this right. We all did. Until we saw what It can do to us. We had no choice. Overpopulation was a problem long before I was born. Earth was figuring out diffrent ways to kill us. New disaters, new sicknesess and everyone's life, precious. So we decided to make the choice ourselves. First, we started with ... | 2020-01-31T18:37:31 | 2020-01-31T18:35:39 | 75 | 10 |
[WP] You have the ability to pull any fictional character out of their world and into the real world. The catch is, every time you take a character out, you must put someone in their place. | A sudden knock resounded from the hallway as James woke. He found his body sprawled out upon the couch, adorned with a number of beer cans and kool-aid sachets. His head thumped almost in line with the repeated knocking outside as he sat himself up in a pained movement, cradling his head in his palms.
The knocking co... | Dad's always busy. Whenever you ask him to do something no matter what it is, he just says, "Later." Later, later, later--and tomorrow comes but later never does.
So you pretty much have to replace him. You hardly seem him anyway. He's either at work or he's telling you he's too tired to go swimming this weekend or ... | 2017-09-28T13:11:33 | 2017-09-28T12:46:50 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Only a direct descendant should be able to wield your weapon, the hero's sword. When the neighbour's daughter came to play with your son, you were surprised to see her waving said sword as your son happily chased her. Your wife now looks at you with a literally chilling gaze. | "Honey I promise you I never slept with her!" I cried while backing away from my bat wielding wife. "And I don't know why you think i did!"
"Oh you don't know do you?" She replied pointing in the kitchen. "Then explain that!".
Confused I looked into the kitchen unsure of what I would see, and there in the middle of t... | Confusion overtook me as I saw the neighbor's daughter playing with the sword.
My wife grabbed me by the ear, "Inside. Now."
"I should get the sword back-"
"Alright." She sighed and let go of my ear.
I took the sword from the child and went inside.
She was glaring daggers into me, "Is that kid yours?"
"No. She's ... | 2020-06-13T06:38:39 | 2020-06-13T06:32:49 | 182 | 29 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | 12 hours. That’s how many hours I have till I know the name of my soulmate. I have my phone charged and ready to find them on any social media. Having waited years to meet them I dreamed of my birthday. I’ve spent years of my life watching romcoms. Turning 16 is huge. You can buy ads with your name and your soulmates n... | Felicity never cared about what names would show up on her wrist on her sixteenth birthday. Everyone else was always excited for the Revelation. Would their crush be on their right wrist? Would that witch Sally from English class be on their left? The possibilities were endless!
But Felicity grew up watching what a so... | 2020-01-18T23:16:31 | 2020-01-18T23:12:39 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Create a story where the characters live in a world where something is fundementally different with reality and leave the reader to guess what it is. For example: entropy is reversed, gravity goes sideways, all people can read minds, etc. | I walked into the living room and plopped my hiking backpack onto the table, it made a solid and satisfying FTHINK as the buckles and zippers hit the glass. The sound startled Kate for a moment, she hadn't seen me come in. She looked at the backpack quizzically, and then at me.
"I have a cold." was all I had to say t... | “Have you ever done it?”
“Oh, yea... of course, like tons of times…”
“Will it hurt? I’ve always heard it will hurt.”
“No way! They only tell you that bullshit to scare you. If it were true how would we all be here?”
“But still…”
“Listen, Mary, if you don’t want to do this we don’t have to. You’re the one who broug... | 2016-02-18T13:47:09 | 2016-02-18T13:47:04 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | I have the easiest job you can imagine. I get paid monthly for a hundred years, so I never have to think about saving money. All I had to do was push a button once. Oh, and if I quit I'm as good as dead. But I guess that's still better than the average employment contract.
This left me with a lot of spare time, some o... | "No, seriously, you *aren't* my type."
"Look, I agree with you, okay? You're definitely not what I, uhh, what I was expecting. But those are the rules, right? We're kinda stuck together now, aren't we?"
"No. No we're not. Let me tell you about the *rules* okay. The rules are so vague that it could be anything... | 2018-04-24T04:59:38 | 2018-04-24T00:04:50 | 82 | 18 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | I woke with a start, there was so much noise in the room I could barely comprehend what was going on.
My wife was stood over me shaking me by the shoulder shouting at me to wake up. "Wha..." I felt groggy, it was 4 in the morning and she expected me to jump out of bed. "What's going on?" She looked at me with that 'I... | WELL....WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?
....I don't know, Janet, I heard-
DO WE STAY IN OR GO OUT?
...I DON'T-
This is a joke right, Tim? Right?
...
RIGHT?
Shut UP! I'm trying to THINK!
How can we stay indoors and evacuate to high ground without looking outside?
...I....I....
Tim......say something....
... | 2017-01-27T00:45:44 | 2017-01-26T22:44:53 | 107 | 25 |
[WP]We tried to invade Earth when it was first discovered. But the way humans wage war is terrifying... | Have you read the database?
They had this creature, you see, a protovolve of their own genome. Apparently they originally developed side-by-side. This protovolve was larger than they are. Hairy, territorial, immensely strong. On average, nearly three or four times their size. It could tear a human limb from limb, an... | "I was one of the last soldiers to leave my ship when we went out inthe usual formation, but they refused to face us."
"So what did they do?" One of the kids listening asked.
"Well, it wasn't immediately clear that they noticed us, but as we approached the next city, it was called Kansas and for some reason had the w... | 2017-10-17T21:05:33 | 2017-10-17T11:41:18 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I forget. Well, I make everyone forget. That’s my power, but you probably won’t recall this in approximately 1 minute.
It’s a curse. I watched as my other friends develop wondrous abilities during puberty- flight, invulnerability, elemental control, while I was bestowed with the power of forgetting. Maybe it was becau... | 8/9/19
Dear diary
I really need someone to talk to, since no one likes me, they say I wasn't worthy of these powers. My powers are... They aren't constant. Sometimes, it's a protective barrier to save people, other times, it's being superior to others. Sometimes, it changes with my mood, other times, my thoughts The... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T08:42:34 | 4,320 | 112 |
[WP] all "walks into a bar" jokes happen in the same bar. you're the bartender. | "Hey, buddy! Our sign clearly says, 'No Horses Allowed,' And don't give me that long face, mister!"
Jacob scowled at the Clydesdale as it cantered out, neighing indignantly. He sighed heavily, turning to the sole remaining patron of his bar. "I don't get it, Sam. Why do these jokers keep turning up here?"
The grizzle... |
"So a priest, a rabbi, and a horse walked into my bar last night," the bartender said to his friend.
"Ooh, I love these kinds of jokes," his buddy said, muting the football game, scooting to the edge of the couch excitedly.
"What joke? I was talking about work," replied the bartender. "They're regulars. Paul, Jaco... | 2016-09-18T19:15:12 | 2016-09-18T17:54:19 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | My grin sent a shiver down his spine. "I can do this all day."
The elvish inquisitor stood quietly aghast, unsure of how to address the mob around him. Only the fire crackling under my feet filled up the silence that weighed on everyone. They didn't know if they could trust me. Even if they didn't realize I was a drag... | Smoke fills the air around me, flames rippling off of my clothes. These ropes are tight against my wrists, and this pier is hard against my back. Below, the people of the city shout insults at me, their fists raised high to the air.
I am burning alive. I am not afraid.
Men are so quick to hate what they do not unders... | 2021-01-03T07:17:44 | 2021-01-03T07:06:34 | 72 | 39 |
[WP] An ancient god "cursed" you with immortality, expecting you to watch the Sun swallow the Earth. When that day comes 7.6 billion years into the future, you're living large on the other side of the galaxy. | The night always brought back memories of my time in Earth. Here iridescent galaxies stretched through the sky, clear as the oceans; stars burned with insurmountable brilliancy, adorning the black fabric of the universe by the millions, and the colorful moonlight showered the field of roses around me.
It was breathtak... | I haven’t seen him since that day, when he placed his “curse” on me, but still one day I hope to. Ya sleep with one of his 400 daughters and it’s “curse this” “curse that” and most importantly “curse you!” Honestly I think he overreacted a bit there, but I’ve given up trying to think through his old-god logic. He told ... | 2019-02-09T15:27:04 | 2019-02-09T14:51:53 | 148 | 77 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Time is passing - it must be near noon. I still remember vividly the smell, the strong sweet smell of burning sugar everywhere.
It was the torch that changed this land. It used to be a soft sea of soft peachy crème in an ever changing configuration of dunes, with our people happily swimming and living in it. The land... | I remember the soldiers.
I struggle to recall much else, but I remember the soldiers. I remember the way they clicked their tongues in some insidious, yet deafening language. I remember the way the sun glinted off their armour, black and shiny and impenetrable. I remember the stomping of far, far too many feet, and I... | 2014-12-17T00:31:27 | 2014-12-16T23:16:10 | 369 | 119 |
[WP] A necromancer discovers that spells to animate dead bodies also work on other things that have been described as "dead," such as batteries, cars, appliances, friendships, and romances.
Edit:
I did not expect this!
Thank you all, and thank you for the gold! | The single beam of light filtered through the window, catching the edge of the crystal and dispersing through the small room. An eager hand reached out, but I caught his hand in mine.
“Wait—you know there’s a price for magic like this” I said, pushing his hand away from the crystal.
“I don’t care. I’ll pay it.” he s... | It’s rather trivial really. Simply reordering a few words in the incantation. And the sacrifices are often different. By far the most difficult to reanimate/revive is a human being, followed by an animal, and then everything afterwords is rather simple. Normally.
By trade I’m a necromancer. Yes, you read right. I toi... | 2018-11-26T23:02:06 | 2018-11-26T22:14:10 | 423 | 140 |
[WP] One day you wake up and discover that you have gained X-Ray Vision. Being a good guy you decide not to use it as it only works on clothing. But after some disgusted stares and comments you realize everyone around you can see through your clothes as long as you're not using your Power. | Day 69. Another fat grandma has been burned into my memory. All because I don't want to be an outcast, I have to suffer seeing every other body. There are so many beautiful people locally, but I only remember all the ones I don't want to remember.
I can't even make some time for myself at all anymore, I can't put an i... | I have eyes of pure gold
Strange and silver
It shoots out x-rays
Left, right, and center
Because of it am I tired
To the point of exhaustion
For if I am not using my power
It reverses the condition
I am not a pervert
But everyone assumes I am
Because of my power
I am either a stalker
Or a streaker... | 2018-10-19T07:22:09 | 2018-10-19T06:43:25 | 100 | 24 |
[WP] In the world you grew up in, telepaths are an accepted reality, but are not common. A friend of yours introduces you to a cousin,who is a telepath. Having been intrigued all your life, you ask if they will do a scan on you. Moments after connecting, they recoil in terror asking, "what are you?" | Well that wasn’t good. I thought to myself. Telepaths weren’t supposed to be able to read me.
“What do you mean telepaths weren’t supposed to be able to read you?” Annie, Seans cousin demanded. Inching farther away.
“I don’t know what you’re taking about.” I said quickly. I wasn’t prepared for this. Normally my men... | I nervously chuckle as I grab his shoulder and lightly pull him into an adjacent room, the look of fear still plastered on his face. The broom closet seems to darken as an eerie, tainted light sparks in my eyes. After a few minutes of silence I explain "I am... different", my voice warping as I speak "But no one needs ... | 2020-08-13T16:23:29 | 2020-08-13T15:58:38 | 45 | 29 |
[wp] Make a character with as much sympathy as possible. Now, in a realistic and non-over the top manner, make me lose all sympathy for them. | My hands shake as the brush strikes the paper. A thin layer of red fills the petals of my rose. Too dark. I must’ve pressed too hard. I take a small breath to calm my nerves. It wasn’t that my hands shake every time I paint, it’s just that in ten minutes’ time, I would finally be able to give my country, my people, my ... | His phone buzzed. He looked at the time, the mall behind him, the time, and then his left pocket. His phone buzzed. His fingers clung to it, as he slid past the password protection.
Adrien 11:54 am
Look. I know it blows, but I can't be there. I get how bad this sounds, I know the others couldn't come either, but stu... | 2017-04-24T10:52:35 | 2017-04-24T10:02:40 | 239 | 16 |
[WP] "Do you sell time?" | The open sign on the door rattled when it swung. It was early, the sun still peeking over the fresh wind of the new day; the cars grumbling to life as loudly as the owners that sat lazy inside them. The 2004 Subaru Outback parked out front was a welcome change to Gary. The midsummer vacation mom and her six year old da... | Crooked teeth form a half smile on a scarred face, the merchant looking up at the little girl. She’s just shy of looking frightened. Bright blue eyes take in his scarred appearance.
“Time iz a very precious commodoty.” He spreads his hands to show all the items on his blanket, voice a slow roll. “What you be lookin’ ... | 2016-04-18T22:14:36 | 2016-04-18T19:48:07 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] For hundreds of years you have been a healer. You changed names, faces, countries but one thing always remained the same — you cured everyone you could. You work in a modern hospital now and it's becoming much harder to do wonders and save people, while keeping your powers a secret.
[removed] | "Samuel J., diagnosed with three tumours, one of them in the brain. You were asked to remove it as part of ongoing cancer treatment. After that, his cancer disappeared entirely. His hair grew back rapidly despite continued chemotherapy."
"As you said, I removed it."
"And the cancer everywhere else?"
"The chemotherap... | Another one.
I lost another life.
And for what? To keep my secrecy? To ensure all the sweet nurses I've come into contact with for the past 10 years don't know who I truly am?
I see the sweet, loving, face of Bababra fall as yet another life is gone, as the line on the monitor runs flat. The atmosphere is tense, no ... | 2020-11-15T09:35:55 | 2020-11-15T08:57:59 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | The enlightenment trials were designed to awaken unlimited potential within humans, they came to light after Archaeologists came across an old tomb, the tomb was beautifully preserved and had a wealth of knowledge within, including a rite of passage of sorts.
"The Trials Of Enlightenment" they were lead by the leader... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T07:54:58 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 177 | 128 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | "Hey!!!" You scream as you kick and bang the glass thinking you will spend the next 90 years bored out of your mind.
"What? Stop your going to damage the pod." The technician says
"Oh hey, something is wrong I haven't fallen asleep yet" you say. "I don't want to spend the next 90 years awake in this thing"
"Sir calm... | The hibernation is supposed to be a beautiful thing. Apparently all of us dream of our own perfect lives, but my situation was far from perfect.
"Help! Somebody Help!" I yelled desperately. The hibernation process was supposed to be flawless, a Human Marvel!. The pod opened itself and I got out. " Hello Alex, We have... | 2018-12-29T04:08:01 | 2018-12-29T02:42:16 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | "Ye've got to talk some sense into him," said Auntie Arm-n'-Hammer. "Och, it's just not right!"
"Fine." Papa BlackPorter finished his stout and wiped the creamy head from his mustache and beard. "But ye've got to work the bellows in my place until I'm back!"
Papa BlackPorter climbed up the long, long, long staircase ... | Dolkohm crouched on the gutter of the village inn's roof, standing perfectly illuminated by the inn-keeper's window. Many humans gave him a strange look as they passed by, but they were not his business tonight.
There, across the street a dwarf named Branren exited the local dwarvish pub, briefly letting out a cacopho... | 2017-12-31T08:13:51 | 2017-12-31T08:10:45 | 140 | 76 |
[WP] Ever since you received your letter for Hogwarts you've been curious about all the different spells there are. You've just bought your first wand and the first spell you try is what you believe to be rather humorous. "AbraCadabra". Nobody told you this spell was banned. For obvious reasons. | SEE the problem is, the literal translation of AVARDAkadavra is 'i destroy as i speak'. Abrakadabra is i CREATE as i speak. So honestly the logical conclusion of that is instead of killing something when you use abrakadabra, you accidentally multiply it thousands of times.
Little muggleborn kid in olivanders, flicks ... | It turns out that the etymology of the word "cadabra" can be traced back to the word cadaver. This is information I wish I knew before I decided to try out the spell several times while sitting on the toilet in a stall of the Howarts Boy's Room. In my ignorance, I fired off the spell multiple times after I saw no immed... | 2016-12-01T23:01:13 | 2016-12-01T22:42:11 | 48 | 11 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | I felt groggy. My back was stiff. “Where am I?” I thought. “I must have slept in. I can’t remember falling asleep.” The mattress felt unfamiliar. I eased myself into a sitting position.
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“She’s up!” a voice to my left yelled, startling me to no end. I wrenched my eyelids open to take in my surroundings. W... | A woman dressed in black lace sat across from me, her smile a flat caricature of human emotion. I had been coming to the pub for weeks now, hoping for answers. I had been given a small apartment, some money, and a message to return to Death's Door every evening at 10 PM.
No one seemed to want to tell me anything. The... | 2019-01-12T21:06:01 | 2019-01-12T15:32:21 | 631 | 72 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | We, the Taithians, bore witness to the greatest power shift in galactic history. For thousands of years we've been at war with the Vinari, a war like species that believes they are the superior race in the galaxy. They eradicate all other sentient beings, regardless of their technological level. The Vinari are fearless... | "Rules for war?" The answer was slow and methodical as the general stood on the bridge. His scaled skin shuddering in disgust. "War has no rules. Perhaps it is time we show these humans just what a superior race looks like. Yes, We shall enslave them."
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Invasion Day 1 Hour 1
The humans fell in droves, ma... | 2018-12-14T21:31:30 | 2018-12-14T16:40:15 | 337 | 214 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | The detector went off and roused Blortxh from his sleep. After the sleep cleared, he jumped and ran for the screen.
This was impossible! A particle had just been intercepted originating from only a few klorths of light years away. Something had given this single proton the energy of a medium sized starship. What could... | The apocalypse came how we least expected it. Not through famine, not through disease, not even nuclear missiles, but nostalgia.
It was the scientists' faults. Some braniac with a great love for history and an opposite amount of common sense created a time machine. Convinced we could learn from the great heroes of ... | 2017-04-21T08:11:52 | 2017-04-21T07:10:27 | 117 | 15 |
[WP] The phrase "Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it" is true. Everyone who fails history class is sent back to a random era in history as punishment. You are one of them. | Okie dokie gang lets do a last minute roll call before we head off.
Miss Kapowski?
Here
Mr Morris
.........
Mr Morris
........
ZACH!!
Hmm oh Present
Mr Powers?
Right here sir
Mr Slater
Yo!
Miss Turtle
Here, I must say these sandals are devine
Well alright then that is everyone Mr Wainwright
Thank you ... | "15. What were Julius Caesar's famous last words, and why did he say them?"
I sighed, sparing a glance to the clock. 60 questions on a test for 60 minutes? This was ridiculous, and I'm not just saying that because I was paying no attention to the class whatsoever for the entire year. For a long time I just stared d... | 2018-06-14T20:20:47 | 2018-06-14T18:33:35 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "So, about the humans..." Said a voice with diplomatic neutrality.
Groans from a myriad of different species' voices could be heard throughout the conference hall. There was a meeting being held on how to properly welcome these new, strange creatures now that they had, technically, at least, achieved Faster Than Light... | "Surely you can't be serious?" Said one of the Xygian scientists to the Human delegation.
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." Replied Dr. Filmer before receiving a high-five from one of the other members of the delegation.
The Xygians continued "We cannot, in good faith, approve of this travel mechanism. You... | 2017-03-31T10:44:01 | 2017-03-31T04:21:18 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] Time travel exists, and a new form of capital punishment is introduced: Transporting the convict back to the worst, practically unsurvivable, places in human history to find yourself in. You are such a convict, and just got sent back. You will do anything to try and survive. | I landed in a quaint town, next to a smoky mountain.
Of course, there was no point running. I had watched documentaries on this procedure on the Aliens Channel, and they always picked times with fast travel and events with a large span of effect or controlled by a homicidal maniac who is guaranteed to murder you.
I l... | I suppose I deserved it really, but why give me the choice? How could anyone make that kind of choice?
Gallipoli or the Somme. Two of the worst battles in history. Bloodbaths of the highest degree.
"WELP, if I'm gonna choose, I'll take Gallipoli, at least it will be sunny." I said to the executor, and he turned to p... | 2015-01-24T14:05:11 | 2015-01-24T13:01:21 | 194 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone is granted a familiar when they turn 15. A loyal creature that vastly improves their owner's life. Your familiar is one of the wisest and most powerful of them all. Unfortunately, you're deadly afraid of it's species. | Take a wild guess what I got. What are a LOT of people afraid of, hm? What sends thousands upon thousands of grown adults into fits of fear? If you guessed spiders, well here's your cigar man. My familiar was a fucking spider. Not just any spider either, since it was "magical" or whatever the thing was enormous. About ... | I was 15 years old when I was finally granted my familiar. I had been waiting for what felt like forever, and when the day finally arrived, I was so excited I could barely contain myself. A familiar is one of the most important things a person can possess in life. They are loyal creatures that vastly improve their owne... | 2022-01-14T14:23:25 | 2022-01-14T13:45:49 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] A newly-hired bartender is slowly realizing that he's working at the bar from all of those "X walks into a bar" jokes. | "Alright Sam, just watch how it's done."
Sam looked attentively at Holly, her higher-up, as two men in lab coats walked in and sat in front of them. Holly smiled and said to them, "Chemists?"
"Yep."
"What'll y'all have?"
"I'll have H2O, please," said one.
The other followed, "I'll have H2O, too."
Holly motioned t... | The last bartender grinned as I signed the employment papers, then handed me a metal pipe with an odd scribbling on it.
"What's this?" I asked.
"When someone walks in you listen to their story, then make an observational comment on what they say or look like. After that? Hit 'em with this. It'll knock them right off... | 2015-05-14T19:10:48 | 2015-05-14T16:02:19 | 87 | 14 |
[WP] As a villain henchman, the number 1 rule you're always taught is to never outshine the boss. However, during a small bank heist, you accidentally kill your boss' arch nemesis, and the legion of superheroes now see YOU as their ultimate threat. | *I was just trying to protect him..*
Under the weight of early mornings, safety drills, weapons proficiency, endurance training–
Following what I’d learned after all these years by his hand.
Everything happened so fast. One moment, we were executing our mission flawlessly, everyone seemed to be cooperating just fi... | I didn't really care all that much for Borg. The failed cyborg. He was bad at everything he did, but he was one of the few in the aristocrat who didn't try to hurt me. Not to say I was treated all that differently from the other sidekicks. Maybe he knew what it was like to be different or maybe he was just broken menta... | 2022-12-10T12:34:35 | 2022-12-10T10:27:44 | 43 | 21 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | How to make a spreadsheet
Porn
Best protein powders
How to know if a guy is straight
What to do on leg day
How do I know if I'm really gay
Gay porn
How to clear browser history
How to ask for a pay raise
How to meet gay men
First date ideas
How to come out to your best friend
Meal prep
Gay porn
... | Best private school LA
LA public school system
Jobhunter LA
Budget kids clothes
How to fix a leaky faucet
Modern student backpacks
How to qualify for an education loan
Return Klip-pack 9000
Amazon Ninja Turtles rolling backpack
Rain jacket size small
What to do if your apartment floods
Budget plum... | 2015-02-04T19:49:45 | 2015-02-04T17:13:32 | 112 | 23 |
[WP] A burglar breaks into a home to accidently find the owner attempting to hang himself. | It started off like it always did: a quick elbow to the window, the dowel to keep it open, and he was in. It was routine by now. Not just the theft itself, but the expectation that he needed to be a thief. He settled into his role nicely, as if this was his ordained path, what he was meant to do.
This job was a little... | Woah! Hey, so I'm in the wrong house. I'll let you get back too . . .
Wait a minute . . . note, chair, empty bottle of Jack . . . holy shit you're not doing the autoerotic thing are you?
(*My Mother was right, I should've been a plastic surgeon*)
Ok, do you want to do me an enormous favor? Get off the chair.
Fine, ... | 2014-10-11T20:50:48 | 2014-10-11T20:36:28 | 182 | 44 |
[WP] "So you're saying that these "humans" have 30 colonies in their solar system?" "Yes, and increasing. They don't seem to have the need to colonize habitable planets, they just can colonize these dead planets and moons without a problem." | "Damn, do you even *know* what we had to do to get those colonies going?
"Mars was domes and world houses till we got the focusing mirror built in orbit. Then we had the trouble with getting the final lens into that paper thin atmosphere. It kept itself aloft after that, burning the CaCO3 to CaO and CO2. Then we jus... | This is my very first writing prompt. Any critiques and tips would be very much appreciated.
A meeting. In a dark and limitless void. A multicolored spotlight shines on a creature beyond your comprehension. A Booming Voice comes from the Beyond.
"I'm afraid it's terminal."
The creature vibrates in a movement tha... | 2017-12-07T14:10:39 | 2017-12-07T08:35:59 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You are happily married and have a 4 year old child with your SO. But when your child starts to develop super powers one day, you have serious questions for your SO who has always seemed to have a boring accounting job. | She was always good to tread carefully on the subject of fathers. She would only let the boy read books and watch television shows where there were two happy parents, not knowing that watching that very thing was what cut the deepest.
So the boy would seek out stories of boys like him - Pokemon, Harry Potter. Of cours... | I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking my coffee and answering e-mails from work that piled up in my inbox throughout the night. As I was responding to Karen, an assistant to the big boss in our office, that YES I would be in attendance to Tuesday's meeting, something caught my eye - the cat. Normally the cat runs... | 2019-08-23T10:47:43 | 2019-08-23T08:29:08 | 113 | 72 |
[WP] The serial killer confessed to burying the bodies under the house and excavation began. 10, 25, 50 bodies were exhumed and the deeper investigators dug, the more they uncovered. You were called in when they uncovered the rotting remains of a neanderthal. | The man sitting in the interrogation room didn't look like a serial killer at all. He had a clean-shaven face and sat with an elegant posture in the creaky wooden chair. He had deep eyes and a perfect face sure to make any grown woman swoon. Well, that was a lie- he did fit the description of A LOT of serial killers fr... | I stood over the pit to Tartarus. At least that's what it smelled like.
"So... what are you thinking?" My partner handed me some coffee.
"They're definitely altered. Can't tell how though." I took a sip of that new horrible instant stuff.
"Effect of the land, effect on others, effect of themselves." She said in an ... | 2022-03-10T06:26:19 | 2022-03-10T06:19:10 | 71 | 26 |
[WP] It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead. | They looked tired, incredibly so. I felt bad for them, I knew what they were going through, I had been going through that same process for ages now. It wasn't the same though, I was built differently. This little hunk of rock where the three of us stood was the last bastion of life in the universe. The crunch had begun... | I am Death.
I am no diety's creation. I am, rather, the equal and opposite reaction compensating for the lusts of lesser beings and I am here to end an era. The poor fools have no idea.
Since the beginning I have reaped what others have sown. I have wiped clean the drawing boards of life's self-proclaimed puppetee... | 2015-10-19T14:41:33 | 2015-10-19T13:24:49 | 214 | 18 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | **First time doing a prompt, hopefully you enjoy it!**
I set the little black cat down on the floor of my room she looked around curiously for side-to-side as if to inspect her current surroundings. I chuckled quietly at her slight bewilderment.
“A lot better than that storm drain, ain’t it?” I asked. She looked ba... | “Yep, you better get up!” A woman clothed in white dress said with indifference.
“T-This is nonsense!” A youth gazed at the woman with shock as he muttered. “I am not even a woman!”
“You can be a warlock, no?” Another woman who seemed to be younger replied with a mischievous smile.
“Either way, it is not up for us ... | 2019-10-27T04:56:35 | 2019-10-27T02:42:18 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] The narrator realizes they're just words on a page and has an existential breakdown. No other character is aware of this fact. | *The ax crashed into the stump with jarring finality. The ethereal wail that followed only hinted at the agony Isabella felt inside. The last of her strength rushed from her body as the wail is broken by gasping inhalation.*
 
And with that we finish another chapter in this god forsaken book. I honestly don... | It was hard speaking publicly about matters important to oneself. But Shiva knew she had to try anyway. Why else? Her traits— of *valour,* honour, tinged with a British accent that was absolutely unable to be heard of save the additional "u's" and improper appropriation of posh English— demanded that she be truthful to... | 2022-12-26T09:40:47 | 2022-12-26T06:33:24 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You meet a genie that grants one wish. You wish to go back in time and change your biggest mistake. You get taken back to the time right before you made your wish. | I looked at the genie before me with full conviction through weary eyes. If I only had one wish, I'd use it for a second chance.
"Take me back in time to my biggest mistake, so I can have a second chance at living my life," I told the wispy being hovering before me. He was soft, like a cloud, yet somehow rugged at the... | "You have one wish. Consider it carefully. Speak when you've chosen."
I frowned. Wealth? Immortality? Youth? Love? Susie? I haven't seen her since New Year's. We left things in such a bad way, it's no wonder she tried so hard to avoid me. Okay, *I* left things in a bad way. Shouldn't have spent so much time around... | 2016-09-25T07:03:59 | 2016-09-25T06:46:22 | 425 | 136 |
[WP] Your wife is a vampire with deteriorating health because of her oath to never drink human blood. You are trying to convince her that 100ml from you every month won't hurt you, and that blood loss wasn't the reason you fainted when she sucked your blood few years back. | The wind howled outside, twirling the wind chimes hanging by the window. A frail woman laid on the worn couch, pale as milk. Her blue eyes were transfixed on the metal chimes that were barely hanging on to life, much like her own situation. The only difference was she wasn't alone and the wind was her own doing.
"Ple... | The heart isn't ass shaped by coincidence.
Bram Stocker had no choice but to hear his wife's laborious breaths. Every bit of sound in their otherwise dead-quiet home sounded like a casket being dragged against a gravel floor. Bram's heart made up for the too frequent pauses between her gasps by pounding the rest of h... | 2022-05-14T20:57:26 | 2022-05-14T17:57:33 | 181 | 32 |
[WP] "I can't believe it! You played us like a fiddle!" "Oh please. Fiddles are actually hard to play. I played you like the kazoos you are." | "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."
It's an important concept, but it hides an even more important point within it.
It is possible (and, in fact, both common and easy) to have made as many mistakes as any grandmaster, and still be an incompetent fool. Willingness to fail is one part ... | The hostage was bound and gagged in the back of the prisoner transport. Two armored escorts rode in the front, each armed to the gills with various accoutrements of killing.
With each turn, each slow stop and acceleration, the hostage took note. He knew the city like the back of his hand, after all, despite having sp... | 2022-09-12T20:49:50 | 2022-09-12T19:37:56 | 304 | 102 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | About 5 years ago the owner decided to make this little cafe 24hrs. He figured he could take advantage of the after club crowd and by him I mean my poor ass that got shifted to over night. I was the assistant manager, was getting ready to become the manager, now I run over nights 6 nights a week.
Why do I work 6 nigh... | “The usual?” I ask the shapeless… blob, I suppose is one way to describe it. It still hasn’t given me its name, so I call it Tim. Looks like a Tim.
“Yesss” the cursed sound comes out, like nails on a blackboard. The first time I heard Tim speak, I swear, my ears bled, it’s so awful. I wonder if it’d be inexcusably rud... | 2022-10-30T14:17:00 | 2022-10-30T13:51:26 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You are born with the ability to stop time, but one day you see something else is moving when you have already stopped time. | Time waits for no man. It's a phrase everyone is familiar with, everyone accepts it. A law we're all bound to. Knowing time is fleeting rich or poor keeps us together. Time and is follower death, the great equalizer.
Well I'm not equal.
I grew up in a lower middle class household with a single parent. I was left to ... | "I fucking hate Mrs. Song." I think as I snatch the pop quiz paper out of her boney fingers. She has this ridiculous expression on her face. People always look funny when I freeze time. Like when I caught Jaden in the middle of a sneeze, spit and snot floating in front of him. I wonder how many likes did that photo get... | 2016-06-19T03:29:06 | 2016-06-19T02:49:02 | 235 | 31 |
[WP] Okay, hear me out: a blind woman, right? A blind woman falls in love with Medusa. She wanders into Medusa’s meadow, Medusa pities her and takes care of her. They then fall in love. <3 | The End.
...oh, you actually wish to hear the tale? Oh, forgive me, most people hear that part and walk away. Most do not wish to hear happy stories of Medusa, nor those ragging against the Gods.
What do I mean?
Well, to summarize a much different tale, Medusa was once a beautiful maiden. So beautiful, that Poseidon... | “Then they fall in love!” Heather finished.
Sarah shook her head, “That can’t be the ending. Not every relationship is like you and Jess.”
Heather tilted her head, “What do you mean? They get to know each other and have a happy ever after, what’s wrong with that? And Jess and I are not together, stopping ... | 2022-04-29T11:15:28 | 2022-04-29T10:31:28 | 184 | 85 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | And when I went downstairs to make my morning coffee i didn't look twice at my mug, I'm always number one so why would it be different today? My wife comes down and points out I have a new mug, "no this is the same mug I use everyday." "Then why does it say #666?" Confused and worried I look at my mug, in a panic I ... | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 2017-06-11T10:13:29 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table two times. | Twice she rapped the desk and then held her hand as if to rap it a third time before smirking and grabbing her pen instead.
Did she read minds, if she did she was keen to keep all the power in our particular dynamic to herself and not let me know.
I tried closing my eyes for a moment and thought of all the most disgu... | You have become conscious of your actions but you can't stop thinking about the connection. She is smilling and enjoying going over your expressions and thoughts. You are contemplating how is it possible. She is giggling over your thought process. You haven't been near to her anytime before. You have never talked to he... | 2021-09-07T01:51:39 | 2021-09-06T23:08:48 | 81 | 27 |
[WP] France is now illegal | “Hon hon hon oui oui baguette,” I whispered the secret code in the ears of the man in front of me. He looked just like any proper Englishmen, being in a double-chested suit and holding an umbrella and all, but we both knew better. We both knew that in his heart, he would always be French.
“Hon hon hon oui oui baguette... | Damn baguettes.
I hate baguettes. They are so despicable.
Look at them, those baked goods make me so mad. I feel an anger boiling up inside me, welling up until I am fit to burst, fit to explode. The last time I was in a French bakery I got so angry that I shattered the window by kicking it with my full force, and un... | 2018-07-27T10:14:23 | 2018-07-27T08:37:34 | 563 | 28 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I'd spent so long anticipating what this test would comprise of, and as I sat alone in the examination room, I was still none the wiser.
The booklet placed squarely on the small desk, I glance from the printed front sheet, to my surroundings, and back again.
I close my eyes and sigh, head dropping down, before I ope... | The newest form of virtual reality is beyond even our wildest imaginations. Not only can we interact with one another, but we can actually feel one another. Well, at least feel as though we can. The population has grown exponentially over the last several decades and we're told over and over again how a test is comi... | 2016-06-11T10:11:10 | 2016-06-11T09:34:45 | 187 | 18 |
[WP] As a person goes through his life, he is given three options at the end of each day, continue, restart day, or restart life. He has just lived through the worst day of his life. | After hours and hours of lying my head on my pillow, I finally fall asleep. This is the part of my day that I was most looking forward to. I finally was gonna tell Jim to restart my day.
There was my first breakup, which felt like it lasted an eternity. I moved forward.
The time I lost my first job after the re... | Each day is the same. The darkness, the dampness, the lack of air my lungs suffer, although I don't need to breath.
I had a life once. I had children. I had wives. I had a kingdom. Sometimes I dream I still sit on my golden throne, my empire layed at my feet and the sun god benevolently watching over me and my people... | 2014-07-17T18:32:56 | 2014-07-17T17:29:35 | 274 | 121 |
[WP] The attempted assassination of a human dignitary at a galactic summit goes awry. Turns out, many of the conventional toxins in an alien assassin's repertoire include compounds like caffeine, theobromine and capsaicin; lethal to many species, but... less than effective on humans. | At first, it was entertaining. A meeting of diplomats, gathering and sharing gifts. A few too obvious looks and startled expressions.
It was innocent enough to begin with. A drink, supposedly a local delicacy. Yet it felt so much like an espresso that I could have sworn that Andromorph was from New Jersey. He even had... | It was the perfect plan to kill the human dignitary.
I carefully grounded the leafs wearing protective gloves and a respirator to prevent my own death. Nobody could survive that much of the dangerous tea leafs.
Now how to best disguise the poison that would be this creature's end. As I quickly looked at the available... | 2021-06-12T15:57:52 | 2021-06-12T11:38:22 | 490 | 114 |
[WP] A man walks through a TSA checkpoint at an airport and is sent back to September 10th 2001. He knows he must act quick, but he is having trouble trusting his own sanity. | James rubbed his eyes, the flash had been so bright.
"Sir, are you ok? The woman said.
"Uh, yes, I think so." James looked around. The backscatter machine he had just been in was gone. He stood there, shoeless in the lobby of JFK. Looking up, he saw a man on the bench ahead, reading the paper. Mayoral Primary To... | The light was a blinding blue. Comfortable and warm, simultaneously setting off every alarm bell in my psyche.
I awoke? Became? I still have no words for the odd transition. Yet, there I was one moment. Shoes off, belt off, attempting to explain my tools and equipment and why they had to be carried on. I was taking th... | 2014-06-13T10:52:21 | 2014-06-13T10:42:36 | 138 | 40 |
[WP] You're a common goblin who has, against all odds, slain the hero of the story. | Hero jump high. Hero jump far. Hero lead Crusade. Hero armor shiny. Hero crash into goblin and kobolds, orcs and ogres. Into Horde. Bright flash of light. Gold moons fly out from Hero sword, slice through many. See Hero grab ogre and toss in air with one hand. Pain. Fear behind. Warlords whip Horde forward. ... | Of course, I’ll never tell of how the hero defeated the giant mountain dragon, letting it fall to its death, that left him weakened. Of course, I’ll never tell of how his final breath was drawn before I let the spear the impaled his chest loose from my hand while hiding behind the cover of the trees. That is not a hero... | 2016-07-15T11:00:40 | 2016-07-15T10:37:41 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | In your world, I sit among the average human, riding the subway, reading the morning newspaper, and watching the sun go down. I myself would rather not worry myself in the jobs of other people because you might feel bad I taste ice cream for a living.
Or so you thought.
In my world, I sit as a man who watches paint d... | I was the fart sniffer. I know a terrible job but someone had to do it. After diasmellium was released in to the water system (a dangerous radioactive substance that caused people to transform in to evil lizards) I knew I had to take the job. Why a fart sniffer you ask? That's the only way to make sure someone wasn't a... | 2018-08-02T15:18:31 | 2018-08-02T14:46:41 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] You were born with one talent that no one else has: the ability to spin a piece of a broken eggshell on a paper plate. Finally, you are in a situation where this talent is useful. | "I had a dream." She said, crossing her legs beneath the dinner table.
"Uh, huh." I nodded, watching candlelight flickering and illuminating her bright blue eyes into a sky I wanted to lose myself to. "Go on."
"So, this wise old sage told me that the guy I was gonna marry was great at spinning pieces of broken eggshell... | You are a contestant on Britains Got Talent series 496, the country is running out of the very limited talent it possesses. You spin the egg on the second episode, Simon Cowell declares you the winner as it is the first mildly interesting thing to happen for since the fat woman fell over in series 400. The show is canc... | 2017-08-06T02:18:06 | 2017-08-06T01:03:20 | 70 | 17 |
[WP] A bunch of teenagers in color-coordinated outfits are standing in a V formation on your lawn. | The old man shook with barely-contained rage. With one arthritic hand he drew the metal rocker directly in front of his front door and sat heavily down upon it. As the spring took his weight, he bobbed silently, looking out at the newly minted team on his lawn. Eventually, he took a long drink from the can in his hand ... | I was shaking slightly, the pressure was real. Our team was down by 8 points and I needed to nail this. Sweat started to bead on my forehead as I looked at the teens, counting all ten of them individually, picturing in my mind the perfect throw, the best angle, the perfect amount of spin to take all ten of the little b... | 2021-02-17T19:59:06 | 2021-02-17T17:23:31 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
Tom sent the message, his hand lingering on the button a moment as he watched the transmission status. "That's it, then. I'll never see home again."
>but you are home
Tom nodded to the empty air, limping on his injured leg as he left the communications hub. H... | "Do Not Send Recuse!" …. sent.
Not even a second thought is given as I hit send on the 'unauthorized' message back to mission control. Hoping and knowing that it will fall on deaf ears. Slowly standing, I wander back to the 8x8'' compartment that has been "home" for the past 2 years, Life bay 524-Delta.
A slight la... | 2019-01-31T10:36:30 | 2019-01-31T09:59:54 | 43 | 24 |
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