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[WP] you own a thrift shop which sells objects of immense power from fictional universes to others. Protagonists from all types of media frequent your store, and you have made quite a profit. Everything is going well until... | Hef leaned over the desk, polishing a curved crystal blade.
"Pretty calm today," he muttered. "How are you doing over there?"
I looked up from my desk, nodding. I liked it the best when the sunset beams seeped into the thrift shop, making all the trinkets, artifacts, and weapons glitter.
The doorbell chimed obnoxio... | The door swings open and is only stopped a woefully thin plaster wall, a small shock wave makes my ears pop before I see him. My heart sinks.
A tall figure clad in a flowing white robe squeezes himself through the (admittedly) rather small door, and begins to browse my stock. I've been running this business a long ti... | 2017-12-15T07:50:41 | 2017-12-15T07:48:08 | 886 | 104 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly hosts monsters and demons at his pub. When someone kidnaps his children, they learn the hard way just how close they are to him. | Being the only human bartender in town brought with it a lot of complications. Monsters, demons, goblins, ghouls, and a whole host of other creatures would swagger in looking for trouble. They all thought that since he was a human he could be taken advantage of, threatened, maimed, or otherwise swindled out of product.... | They called them demons, devils, and monsters, and they called the place they drank Satan's lair because of them. At first the owner despised the name, after all he was just trying to help people, people who were just like him. Once he had just gotten off parole and had been scared stiff to go have a drank at his old... | 2021-05-10T16:15:46 | 2021-05-10T14:49:31 | 199 | 126 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | (This is my first submission and also I'm on mobile)
"Hello dear," Valerie said as she finally pulled the multicolored garments of Cyberflux free and tossed it in the open closet door, then slamming it shut rather quickly, "you're home late."
My blood froze. I stood there motionless in the doorway to our bedroom. Som... | I do what I can. It’s not much, but it keeps the city safe. It’s been this way for years now--I fight off the muggers and thieves and super villains--and come home to my wife, Jenna, and our young twins, Liam and Nicole.
More often than not I’m exhausted. My left knee is bad after the fight with Polaris years ago. One... | 2020-10-30T11:56:26 | 2020-10-30T11:36:36 | 197 | 104 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | I'm no good at writing but...
Steve,
I've struggled before but never like this. This past 19 years of my life I've felt so alone, and now I feel there's nothing I can do.
You were the best to me. Looking back at pictures I'm reminded of how much you loved me. How you looked at me with warmth and pride. I couldn't... | Dear Melody,
It's been a year.
I guess I know why you didn't call me. It's not like I bothered to keep in touch. Not like we stayed close. Besides, I'm pretty sure I was kind of a jerk to you when we were still talking.
I miss you. I wasn't really expecting to, I hadn't thought about you for a long time. I don't eve... | 2017-11-05T18:52:28 | 2017-11-05T18:20:52 | 1,861 | 157 |
[WP]A small tavern with good food is owned by the retired God of Balance. Waitress is a super-android 50,000 years from the future. Janitor is the best super soldier and general. Chef is the first and strongest mage. Bodyguard is the Grim Reaper who was fired. None of them know each other's identity | Sometimes you do your job so much, no matter how much you love it, that you start to get bored of it. That's exactly how I feel right now, so by my curiously bored and mischievous mind I applied for a job. A muggle's job. Yes, I picked up the HP term, and I do use it.
No, I am not a chuuni. Name's Carter. Yellow hair ... | The tavern was always full.
The gods looked at the assortment of the power contained within its walls, and they were rightfully scared. If ever, the tavern wasn't enough, if ever, they looked beyond, even their thrones in heaven could be in danger.
So they searched far and wide for a solution. It was then, that the... | 2021-09-17T08:02:04 | 2021-09-17T07:34:08 | 54 | 26 |
[WP] You are in heaven and you see a room that is empty except for a computer with one program running called Earth.exe. You see a tab with options of what to do to the universe and decide to have a little fun. | It’s empty. Not empty like you’d imagine empty. Not white. Not black. Empty. Have you ever seen empty? I wouldn’t think so. Each life was so full. Full of cars and trees. Animals. Life. Death. Dirt.
So full. Now empty.
I look down. No hands no feet. So empty. I wonder... how is it that I can hear myself thinking bu... | Nothing but white then nothing but black. Now there's just nothing, no color or smells no feelings of any kind. No pain, my arm is back and my legs work. I cry and then I realize I'm jot sad or happy I just am.
"It takes a little getting used to" I said to myself from accros what I perceive to be a room.
"used to wha... | 2018-11-24T13:53:12 | 2018-11-24T12:47:17 | 23 | 11 |
[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."
These words silently flashed across the monitors of the stunned crew on Earth, their blinking the only sign of life in the still control room.
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
He was first to break the silence.
... | Over the course of the last two days, the tone had changed dramatically at mission control. My eyes burned as I closed them, sucking down another lukewarm coffee. My stomach ached and I wondered if it was the stress, or the Chinese takeout. Probably both.
I stared at the communications log once again "Touchdown succes... | 2019-01-31T07:54:22 | 2019-01-31T06:24:03 | 2,633 | 134 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | He felt nothing but terror at the tiny words on the screen in front of him. Printed in simple blocked characters.
"Be quiet, they'll hear you"
His crest stood on end, wings folding nervously into his chest. Surely this was a jest, a joke, some kind of galactic conspiracy, a stray message in some invisible stream of m... | They say that with great power comes great responsibility. They say it an awful lot.
It seems they do not hold themselves to the same maxim.
They are perpetual children, born of a hellish world. They are tall and wiry and somehow far more resilient than their spindly limbs and narrow frames suggest. They eat poison a... | 2017-10-31T16:39:56 | 2017-10-31T16:23:05 | 296 | 176 |
[WP] A genie is about to concede you your second wish, but a paradox created by your first one prevents him from doing so. | "It's not that I won't, it's that I can't!", The Genie said in a manner similar to that of a particularly helpful Customer Services representative hamstrung by miles of red tape. "Cause, Effect.. Cause, Effect." he swayed his hands from one side of an invisible table to another.
"No, you clearly won't." I yelled, "Yo... | The police sirens grew louder.
I stared at the Genie in horror. He looked back at me blankly.
"Is that okay?" he asked. "What you asked for, yeah? Working on the next one. Gimme a couple of minutes."
"God no. Oh God no. No."
Three police cars screeched to a halt just behind him.
"Just gotta concentrate for a few m... | 2014-07-07T07:06:31 | 2014-07-07T06:59:01 | 61 | 39 |
[WP]: You have been granted one wish by a almighty being. You wish for the powers of a god. Problem is, you didn’t specify what god you wanted to be. | "So... You're God."
I swirled my glass around and sighed. Same question every time. But I had to go through it. She'd seen me do my thing.
"No, I have the powers of Jesus. It's different."
"But that's amazing! It's incredible!" She stared at me like it was the coolest thing she'd ever seen. It was a look I'd grown u... | "So, what happens now?" I asked, staring at God. "Do I suddenly manifest abilities?" God smiled down at me, but it didn't seem genuine. It seemed condescending.
"Just give me a second, I need to set everything up just right for you." God smirked at me this time, and I saw something glinting in his eyes. After a couple... | 2019-03-02T19:32:13 | 2019-03-02T18:49:47 | 54 | 25 |
[WP]: it's the year 2057. Queen Elizabeth still reigns. People are getting suspicious. | Buckingham Palace. Here I am. Here to confront...
Her...
I marched through the castle, past all the guards who just stood there staring at me
She knew I was coming. Why did I think any differently?
I made my way up the flights of stairs until I reached it. Her room. The guards stationed there grinned as they opened... | "Long live the queen." I say without thinking. The small living room falls quiet, fanning out rapidly around me. The party grows awkward quickly. They are all new friends, so I don't know what to do now.
Dan, who had been laughing just moments earlier, is straight faced and leans to my ear. "Watch what you say." He w... | 2015-01-20T05:44:55 | 2015-01-20T04:26:38 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] Death offers a game for your life. You decide on D&D.
Edit: Holy shit! I leave for a few days to study for exams and this post blew up. Thank you all so much! | "I choose an RPG!" I said.
Death, tall grim skeleton-specter, smiled back. Of course, as a skull, it didn't have much choice but to be smiling. "Clever," it said. "A game that has no win condition, that can even be argued to not have a losing condition."
"You said any game," I pointed out. I was acting calm, but... | Chad was furiously flipping through the instructions. What ever had prompted him to offer a game of D&D to Death in exchange for his life?
He didn't even know how to play. Luckily, Death said it was much more fun if there were more people, so he was going down to the local game store to find more players.
Sudden... | 2017-05-11T08:45:43 | 2017-05-11T08:11:31 | 219 | 19 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | I don't know why I can see them, but I can. How people die, floating above their heads. I've always been able to see it, and I've prevented a few. They rarely change, but it's possible. I've always liked to view myself as some holy saviour, going out of my way to prevent deaths.
I live in a small town, far away from a... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T09:09:36 | 241 | 63 |
[WP] Three weary survivors around a fire recount how the apocalypse happened - but their stories aren't the same. | ######[](#dropcap)
The green cloaked one shrugged noiselessly, his face lined by shadows and the flickering firelight.
"It doesn't matter. I've heard a thousand different accounts from a thousand different tongues, and in the end it's all the same. Violence, destruction, and death. I saw Arrival Day as a young man, ... | "Picture this: I'm sitting at my desk, sipping a cup of joe, and then ... fire. Didn't take long to work out exactly what had happened."
"And what HAD happened?"
"Well, the way I see it, those damn reds had hit us with everything they had."
"Bullshit, that's not how it went down!"
"It is too!"
"No, no, he's right,... | 2017-01-07T07:05:00 | 2017-01-07T06:44:50 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are an Australian test cricket selector. You keep on selecting Mitch Marsh for the test team, and then you are forced to justify your choice. | Those pictures will ruin my life I thought to myself. I'll lose my job, my wife, my kids. How did he get them? God dammit I wish he wasn't so shit. I have the entire Australian public breathing down my neck because this fuckwit can't score a run on the roadiest of roads. Ok time to face the media and come up with an ex... | Marsh is a good batsman. We feel he adds a lot with the ball as a 4th seam option which we need if Siddle plays. In fact if we play both Siddle is essentially the batter and Marsh the specialist bowler. Marsh is also a wicket-keeping option for when we bring Matthew Wade in for a few overs. | 2016-11-05T21:40:11 | 2016-11-05T21:35:54 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Julia looked over the array of suspects. Twelve babies and a goat.
"Careful, one of them is a serial killer," she said to the nurses and the farmer. "I've been chasing The Cycle Killer through four lives."
What she did not say was that it was her fault that they had escaped again. Five minutes without being watched,... | Breaking News this hour, The Weedout Act has just passed the House and is expected to be voted on in the senate by as early as this afternoon. For any just tuning in, this of course is the highly contested, highly partisan bill that was drafted as a response to the issue of the so-called “multi-life criminals”, those t... | 2021-10-08T08:55:06 | 2021-10-08T08:41:20 | 151 | 43 |
[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. | "10" I said unconsciously.
My friend tore his eyes away from the girl walking past us down the hall and stared at me in surprise.
"A 10? Really?" He turns his gaze back to her. "Dude I'll admit she's a looker, but I'd say more of an 8. Not 10 material, but eh different stokes for different folks."
I wasn't listening ... | We were in History and we were doing what we usually did, which is to say fucking around and joking and flirting all under the guise of diligent group study. I had my circle, my group of friends, with whom I shared almost everything apart from my ‘talent’. Tom sat to my right, his mouth sloped upwards in a lazy grin an... | 2014-11-29T15:22:56 | 2014-11-29T15:22:15 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You form a pact with the monster in your closet to work together in order to get rid of your terrible roommate. | Mommy was crying again. I walked into Matty’s room. Matty was in his crib crying, too, but that was okay because he always cries. Mommy was in the chair and I went up to her and hugged her leg.
“Mommy, don’t cry,” I said. I climbed into her lap and she hugged me, but she didn’t stop crying. “I love you,” I said. She h... | Steve never believed in it but I knew it was real. It gave me nightmares threatened anyone close to me but frankly it was still nicer than my roommate Steve. I'd tried everything to get rid of Steve but nothing ever worked if anything it made him more attached to my apartment. One night, after Steve somehow caused a fi... | 2017-03-16T09:36:09 | 2017-03-16T08:10:01 | 100 | 29 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | You ever heard of plot armor? How your favorite heroes get out of ridiculous situations despite there being no good reason for them to be able to succeed? 100 luck is like having plot armor. You can’t die. You can’t lose. People wonder at how bad luck fits into the equation, and simply put, at 100 you have no bad luck.... | The intake was as expected - a bit rough, a little too handsy, and a small inkling that the guard liked me a bit more than was necessary. I'd heard of full body cavity searches, hosed down with icy cold water, being pushed naked and wet into rooms of other people. You know, general Hollywood type stuff.
I managed th... | 2018-06-29T10:08:34 | 2018-06-29T10:01:31 | 5,321 | 183 |
[WP] A demon who is really bad at his job keeps accidentally making the person he is possessing's life better | "Dude, it's like he's possessed or something!" Jeremy shouted over the roar of applause between songs.
The "Satan's Armada" concert was sold out for the very first time. This was the opening night of their very first world tour. By all reports, William Gladstone, the lead singer, was putting on the performance of a li... | Progress Sheet: ~~Dezz~~ ~~Dezemon~~ ~~Desmon???~~ D. Emon.
Aug 1
Sneak in lottery ticket into bag. (Failed)
Aug 2
Sneak in lottery ticket into bag. (Failed. Think she saw me. Sorry, my bad.)
Aug 3
Sneak in lottery ticket into bag. (Failed. Accidentally fixed car engine.)
Aug 4
Sneak in lottery tick... | 2014-09-04T05:07:57 | 2014-09-04T04:45:53 | 411 | 109 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| Lins eyelids came down slowly. Her hands went trough the motions of piercing the needle trough the leather. She could do it in her sleep. Yet she wasn't allowed to, or the foreman would slap her again. Lin straightened her back. Football after football went trough her weary hands. It took her only minutes to sew them t... | The guy that honked was just another impatient urbanite asswhipe. I stand by my decision; who wouldn't stop their car, get out, and help an elderly lady with a walker cross the street. The poor soul could barely stand, and the lights stay green for such a pitifully short time, what chance did she have without a helpful... | 2014-07-07T07:52:08 | 2014-07-07T07:35:29 | 91 | 35 |
[WP] In a world of superheroes and super villians you are perhaps the most successful super villians ever. Your trick is that you don't wear any costume and as far as you know you aren't any superheroes radar. | "What did he look like?" shouted Illustrious Man at the bewildered woman who had seen the robbery.
The woman shivered, due to the cold and the fact that the greatest superhero in the city was screaming at her in a voice that could kill.
"He..." she paused, not knowing what to say. "He was wearing a hat. And glove... | I would have loved to tell the man over the phone, "Wait a bit, I'm causing you some inconveniences!" but that would have blown my cover. Not something I was aiming to do. So I tried to keep a happy demeanor whilst blowing up civilians. "I'll be right there, boss," I said cheerily, hanging up. Many people in the city w... | 2017-07-23T06:47:27 | 2017-07-23T06:09:40 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] Your sister disappeared on her way to school, but no one noticed. When you asked your parents they told you you didn’t have a sister. All the family pictures in your house only show you and your parents. You spend the next 7 years investigating until you receive a knock on your door. | I know I have a sister.
And my parents know I know. They've spent years trying to dissuade me, to explain that I'm either conflating some of my cousins as a sister, or maybe just inventing memories. People can do that, you know. They think something is true, but it actually isn't. It's a falsehood, a manufactured ... | *Knock knock*
I was startled awake by someone knocking at my door. This was the first good night's sleep I've gotten ever since my sister had disappeared. It seemed that everyone had forgotten about her. My parents never remembered her, and every trace of my sister seemed to have disappeared. I was the only one who re... | 2020-05-03T09:40:34 | 2020-05-03T09:17:57 | 2,728 | 873 |
[WP] You are a seemingly normal person, but with one uncanny ability; to see other people’s true intent. You become famous, revered by spy agencies, loathed by politicians. One afternoon, you meet someone else with this ability, and the world becomes terrified of you. | The world was ending, and only the Judge could save it.
It was a simple message, easy to remember. Words that had once glimmered upon the neon marquees of New Vegas now rang throughout the obsidian plaza of the Capital. Deceit and half-truths had become the currency of what was left of Earth, and the Judge was their ... | THUNK THUNK THUNK.. thWACK............ THUNK.
... and all is dark.
Suddenly a pinhole light emerges after considerable deprivation of the visual sense. June Cappi reaches to brush her thick brunette hair with her hands but found they could not be made animate. She struggles and a ringing sound emanates inside her th... | 2018-06-26T14:17:26 | 2018-06-26T12:38:01 | 51 | 26 |
[Wp] It is the year 2032. Due to increasing obesity, fast food joints have been banned entirely. Tell us the tale of bootlegging and speakeasies in this troubled time of prohibition. | "You wanna get you some of that Mc'Donalds? I got two special Big Macs waiting out back, all relish, some sides too - but that'll cost you extra."
A man more wide than tall stood before me. The man could probably eat all of this food in one go - if he were wealthy enough, that is. Black market prices had risen dramati... | Well trafficking burgers ain't easy, let me tell you. Goverment searches of houses are becoming more common, usally its to track down 'seditious foodstuffs' pretty damn stupid, if you ask me.
But the moneys good. The only thing you have to worry about is the FFRB (Fast Food Retention Bureau) tracking you down. Of cour... | 2016-07-25T06:51:51 | 2016-07-25T06:21:30 | 72 | 13 |
[WP] After you die, you find out that the karma accumulated on Reddit is counted in the karma used for your reincarnation | This was all very new to me, death.
One minute I was enjoying a delicious chocolate dip from Dairy Queen and the next I was laying on the sidewalk. The word 'dismembered' and the phrase 'red goo' figured prominently in my final memories. Moments later, I awoke in this strange place. I was once again whole, but I was m... | 1,000,000 Karma basically makes you a god. I mean i wouldnt know, i had....5k? That wasnt even close to leper territory. Thats like grasshopper territory. But its cool to know what the top of the scoreboard was. Good job Gallowboob.
The bar stool beneath me was cushy. Purgatory was just a bar/lounge. It was a *big* b... | 2018-05-19T23:22:27 | 2018-05-19T23:11:39 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Markus was ready. On a child's sixteenth birthday, they were given one Opportunity to receive a Gift from Above. Every Gift was more or less unique, and a Gift could be as simple as defiance of gravity or a more complex one like flowing through solid substances. The Gift of predicting weather was rumored to take great ... | Dear Journal:
I turn sixteen in 2 minutes and 27 seconds. I know because I've been awake all night counting the seconds to midnight. Tonight is special and you know why? At midnight I finally Change! I've waited forever but now I finally get a power like everyone else. What do you think it will be, Journal? Will I get... | 2015-01-21T22:48:58 | 2015-01-21T22:26:31 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Mankind lost the war. In the final seconds before his execution, the last human looks up with a smile and says "We left you a present." | Its edges were cold and sharp. It wondered what it would do with the mass it would acquire, trillions of kilograms just orbiting there. It thought slowly, as the planet looped across its orbit.
Little bursts of gamma rays flickered around it, thermal concussions; heavy elements flicked out of the gravity well, lofte... | This was it. This was the absolute grand daddy of all. His last meal was a nacho grande bean burrito with horseradish mayo and kimchi fries for the side. Homer hadn't shit for three days, but he was going to leave behind the absolute worse mess he could. He always had heard that the human body empties it's bowels upon ... | 2016-12-01T22:31:09 | 2016-12-01T22:03:31 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] A cult captured you and successfully sacrificed your girlfriend to bring their evil deity into the world. What no one knew, however, was that the sacrificed soul became the core of their summoned Dark Goddess. | The weekend at his uncle's cabin came straight out of a nightmare for Roth and Suzanne. Almost it still could have been a dream. Soft footsteps brought him to a daze before something pressed over his head.
Panic was still fresh on his mind when he woke again another place. It was a cellar lit with candles and draped ... | 'What's wrong babe? I thought you liked goat livers.' My wife asked during my third gag reflex over the dinner she cooked. I used to love her cooking but ever since the accident I hate it. Something's changed. Don't get me wrong, I love the orgies and all the kinky stuff she's doing but...Oh yeah the accident, perhaps ... | 2020-10-06T07:33:56 | 2020-10-06T07:11:25 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] A demon just devoured your soul. You are both very confused as to why you are still alive. | "You should be dead."
"Think so? I feel okay." Ted looked up into the glowering face, a face from comic books and dungeon manuals.
"This is new to me." The demon loomed, its size and general air of menace diminished by its quizzical expression. "Usually my snacks gasp, some might scream a bit, crumple up and die.... | "Wait. Did you just tried to cheat me? What now? Do I still *get paid*?" I said to the demon standing inside the blood pentacle.
*"I DONT KNOW MORTAL! THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED!"* Says Blubcypher with its deep resounding voice.
"That's what she says" I mutter to myself, almost automatically.
*"HOW IS SHE?"* asked the... | 2021-10-06T10:53:35 | 2021-10-06T08:27:13 | 95 | 32 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | Hey there, newbie. Settling in OK so far? First few days on the league are rough for most. Ah, don't worry about me. You just got back from a mission, and I don't got to worry about getting called away.
Me? I'm the Janitor. Yep, that's my official callsign! ...no, seriously. Yeah! Hand on my heart, I swear my callsign... | I am death. Some whisper about a monster, which suddenly appears on a battlefield, and destroys everything. In fact, thats exactly what im doing. The only difference to such myths: im not a monster. Once, a hero bonded me, death, to a physical body. I dont know what he did, but after decades, im still here.
"We need t... | 2021-05-26T03:08:56 | 2021-05-26T02:35:16 | 352 | 98 |
[WP] After being hunted to extinction, the last Orc has been found at the edge of the world... | "There is no where left to run, pig!"
 
The Orc breathed heavily, weary from the hunt. Sweat was pouring off of him, the scorching sun robbing him of whatever moisture remained in his body. He took a battle stance, both hands gripping the shaft of his crudely made iron axe. Despite its ramshackle crafts... | "Are you sure we've got the right place?" Sheryl asked.
"It's a traditional Orcish yurt," Peter said. He frowned. "There is literally only one Orc alive on this entire planet, Sheryl. Who do *you* think built it?"
They stood in front of the squat, tent-like building. A thick leather hide hung where a front doo... | 2017-01-18T10:37:16 | 2017-01-18T08:18:08 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Once you die you must watch your entire life from five different points of view. Your own, the one who loved you the most, the one who hated you the most, the one you helped the most and the one you wronged the most. | “Awaken, Andrew,” a voice roused me from my sleep. I opened my eyes to see that I was not in my room anymore. I wasn’t sure if I was in any room. The area was completely dark and cold. I couldn’t see anything besides the endless void that surrounded me and a figure. The stood, or rather, floated in front of me. It was ... | The last sensation I can recall was the prick of the needle in the vein of my right arm, the euphoric headrush as I welcomed the gentle embrace of the abyss caressing me from below. Only this time, there was no nauseating tug back to reality, back to waking up in a festering pool of my own bodily fluids. I simply kept ... | 2020-06-03T15:21:14 | 2020-06-03T14:32:36 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] A sealed ancient evil breaks free and finds itself utterly unprepared for the modern world. | "We will block the sun out with our wings. We have been here forevermore and it is time to reclaim the land that was once ours. We will blanket the mortal realm with our bodies and make it our own."
"LEAD US TO GREATNESS!"
"Our lifeblood will be spilled in this battle, we know not what awaits us in the world above, a... | Sometimes there is nothing to do but wait. Wait and bide our time. Sometimes things don't turn out the way we wish they would have.
But there is always a second chance.
This was the thought going through the head of Narphissist as the human's hydraulic fracking machine drilled deep into the rock, finally releasing ... | 2015-02-20T07:19:35 | 2015-02-20T05:08:17 | 58 | 28 |
[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”. | I yawned and stretched as I pushed myself off the ground. Hate sleeping without a bed, I never get any sort of decent rest. Those damn tips I see in my sleep have never really been helpful, I've always sort of tuned them out and done my own thing. Everything sort of works out in the end... well, except for... a lot of ... | I woke in a cold sweat, furiously cataloging projectile weapons. I don't own any, and couldn't figure out how to get my hands on one on short notice.
Careful not to wake my partner, I slid out of bed and stumbled to the shower, hoping the hot water would give my subconscious a jolt. No luck there. I was so preoccupied... | 2018-11-20T16:11:12 | 2018-11-20T15:49:35 | 835 | 135 |
[WP] As a joke/Tic, an atheist always thanks the Dark Lord when good things happen. When they die, they are shocked to find out that The Dark Lord is real, and they are his favorite follower, as they never, ever asked for anything.
The Dark Lord's favor could be pleasant, or ironic, or mundane. Or maybe it's a Dark La... | It was very, very cold, and I wasn't quite sure where I was.
Mere seconds prior I'd stood outside my Bristol apartment fumbling with my key. As I cursed the wretched manufacturer who designed such a shoddy keyring, I caught a brief whiff of some strange gas. A flash of heat enveloped my body, and then suddenly everyth... | Dawn came down on the night, hard, cracking open that velvety, star-flecked sky like a thrush's egg, and trickling over the city in fat yellow gobs was that slow soupy sunlight, making way for another crisp autumn morning. In their homes, all the dogs and cats scratched and yapped at their owners' beds, looking to be f... | 2015-08-17T02:07:57 | 2015-08-17T00:53:01 | 145 | 11 |
[WP] It’s been weeks since your friend returned with godlike powers, unwilling to explain how. She is however getting increasingly frustrated by you not noticing her making the move on you. | (Part 1/2)
It was hard to focus on the screen, all things told, which was strange, given how familiar everything was. Melissa’s apartment still had that faded off-white paintjob, the refrigerator still issued its low drone that was audible even here, in the living room, and her couch was still weirdly lumpy. As I dou... | Gabriel had been aloof recently, and flighty. I wanted to study for the finals coming up, but she just said what does it matter, lets skip school and get coffee together. That was so unlike her. She said that school didn't matter any ways.
I knew she had always had a crush on me, since we met as freshmen that first we... | 2022-02-24T12:01:42 | 2022-02-24T11:02:16 | 49 | 21 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | I walk out of the prison gates for the first time in 50 years, I breath free air for the first time in 50 long years. The world waited and watched my every movement to see what I do next. All week every Television in the prison has been tuned into the news to follow the coverage of my release, news reporters from all a... | I came home. The fifty years were up. I was old and grey, now. I walked up to my now-59 year old daughter. She was fast asleep. i had spent 50 years in prison just for an opportunity to do this. I had a pair of scissors in my hand. I approached the bed. She was sleep so peacefully, and so blisfully unaware of the atroc... | 2016-02-23T19:02:05 | 2016-02-23T18:59:32 | 125 | 20 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | We were on the edge of the Milky Way when we first detected Earth. Humans are supposed to be docile. Nothing ruthless like Falthrines and no edges like Drumps. They aren't even united, we could just tip toe by the racket and make our way into the atmosphere to start sucking em up with a vacuum or something. We assumed ... | De'cras slowly emerged from the shadows, with bags carrying humans knocked out from his synthesizer.
"Three humans, male, fully grown. Expected fury output of 10,000 units for the next 5 years."
Letting out a grin from one of his twin heads, De'cras sized upon his merchant, a representative of a huge galactic conglo... | 2018-03-19T02:33:27 | 2018-03-18T21:03:42 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] You are a super hero. Near-instant healing, no sense of pain, super strength. The catch is, for 1 hour per year, you have to suffer all of the stored up pain and suffering from the whole year. That hour begins in just a few minutes.
Edit: Gold? Thanks! First time! | "You ready?"
"Yeah. Knock me out, doc."
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"Hey, how are you feeling."
"A little fuzzy."
"That'll clear up in a couple hours. Here, drink this."
"Thanks doc."
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"You ready?"
"I'm ready."
"What did you do before all this?"
"You mean before our yearly sleepovers? Mostly just screamed it out. Police would... | You don't know true pain until you experience death. No, not just death. This is worse than death. Death 1000 times over.
One near death experience may hurt, in fact it'd most likely hurt a fair bit. Two would hurt a bit more. Being shot 496 times, that's a little more than pain. Agony.
Fortunately, I haven't felt an... | 2019-04-08T09:52:32 | 2019-04-08T09:37:45 | 74 | 30 |
[WP] "never hire humans" is a standard "no duh" statement across the universe. But by galactic standards, humans are cheap. So an alien overlord has just hired 500 humans to work on his personal resort colony. And things start going horribly wrong.
EDIT: easily my most upvoted post ever. Thank you all! | "You did what!?" The booming voice echoing through the halls. "Well you said we had to put a void drive into the..um...exal pool? But we figured that two of those would increase the efficiency of the pool!"
The tall, grey creature stood up from his throne, folded his four arms behind his back and snarled. His face re... | Carefully my hands felt the psionic pistol. I had only come into contact with something like this when I was warned of their dangers. They could deactivate the mind in a second and leave anyone, or anything, braindead.
"So, what's the job today?" I asked the small spider like bot beside me
I had to quickly turn on m... | 2019-01-26T12:06:25 | 2019-01-26T09:29:30 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] With the hero tied up to the death trap, the villain starts their monologue. Just then, a henchman trips over a cord and triggers the trap, killing the hero. "Oh crap, this wasn't a part of the plan," says the alarmed villain. | "What do you mean it wasn't part of the plan boss?"
"Are you fucking kidding me Frank! This machine literally destroys the planet! WE LIVE HERE!"
"So? Just turn it off."
"Frank... Did you not read the henchman's manual? We never kill the 'hero' because they give us an out. If we just turn off the dooms day machine t... | Beads of perspiration slowly fell down the hero’s paralyzed face. It was frozen in fear and horror. Dr. Bridge had a cruel smile. This was it. His moment. After a long and grueling battle Dr. Bridge had finally been able to snag on to the hero’s cape midair. He had used his rope blaster to finally put an end to the scu... | 2019-12-25T20:02:53 | 2019-12-25T19:33:20 | 171 | 22 |
[WP] you are a retired special ops soldier bored with civilian life, you decide to hire hitmen off of the dark web to kill you as a form of entertainment. | ***Bang Bang Bang***
The shots missed wildly. I chuckled under my breath, amateur. The hitmen just seemed to get worse and worse. I looked into my backpack to see the supplies I had packed along for this one. A deck of playing cards, a pencil, a spool of string, and some smelling salts. More than enough. It always ... | I pause the audio file and leave my office, to get a coffee.
"Who were you on the phone to, Aunt Marie?" The little bugger. I'd forgotten about him. His parents were off having a "second honeymoon". In truth it was their third. And they'd asked me to look after him.
"A... friend. I'm going out to see him later on to... | 2017-01-02T23:47:22 | 2017-01-02T23:31:40 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | It was very sudden.
One second, I'm suffering from loss of balance, falling, and mortal terror as I slip on a toy car left on a stair-step. The next, there's a tremendous snapping sensation, as though my whole head has been bitten off. Indeed, it seems that way at first. I can't move. Everything is dark.
My kids hav... | "Jonny we love you no matter what honey. We'll wait as long as we have to for you" a soft, desperate whisper croons from the other side of a wooden door.
My mother's voice is becoming more desperate as I had recently taken to holing myself inside the room. I don't want to see or talk to anyone. Stopped going to class... | 2017-12-21T03:47:32 | 2017-12-21T01:15:19 | 98 | 50 |
[WP] You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years.
Edit: guys the responses have been amazing, some funny stories and some deeper, darker ones too! Kee... | "Well I think that's everybody". I spoke to myself. It was a way to hear a human voice. Everything was otherwise entirely silent. I had just finished running through the last of the blood work. Nothing dangerous there.
It had all started 10 years ago. Time had stopped, as happens to me, and I looked around for whoeve... | Time has been frozen for so long I forgot what it was like unfrozen. Everyday is the same. I walk around looking at all the people, frozen in time, past my sister's body. No one will know what the past ten years have been like for me. Ten years, it's been ten years since she died. Yet everyday it feels like nothing has... | 2017-09-07T01:47:15 | 2017-09-06T23:08:18 | 92 | 25 |
[WP]You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered. | "Hey Rick? Did you see that guy go by outside?"
"I don't see anybody Earl. Don't worry about it. It's probably nothing."
"No seriously. Some guy just hopped the wall to the mansion about 25 feet *that* way. See him there? He's creeping around the back right now."
"...No. Nope. I don't see anybody over there right no... | The ship hung between calm waters and a whitewashed sky. Up above, Soldier #3 could make the contours of Ursa
Major and others, sketches of memory and myth in the Milky Way canvas. It was windy and unseasonably chilly,
and Number 3 really hoped he wouldn't die again tonight.
There were steps, and a large box materia... | 2017-05-28T23:28:18 | 2017-05-28T21:41:34 | 447 | 113 |
[WP] Every time you die, you automatically travel back to 5 minutes before your death. After cheating death so many times, you finally find yourself in a position where you can't seem to escape it. It takes you years to figure out how to escape this death. | **Life 1**
The needle pierces my skin. I squirm and writhe, but the restraints hold me firmly in place.
"Calm down, cupcake. It's just a bit of medicine," my captor said with a gloating grin as he injected me with the strange liquid.
I curse at him, but my insults are muffled by the gag in my mouth. My anger only s... | It all started so simple, you know? The first time, it was a car crash, I got smashed by a truck at an intersection. Yeah, it was my fault, shouldn't have ran the red light. But I had a job interview. Ended up getting there late, and the interviewer was clearly not impressed. Better late than never, eh? Anyways, I pop ... | 2015-03-23T22:30:35 | 2015-03-23T21:13:47 | 61 | 30 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | Ferratu bounded into the Dragon’s lair without hesitation. A torrent of fire greeted him, enveloping the entire cave entrance and burning his clothes right off. "Oh come *on!*" He yelled, patting himself down to extinguish the small embers still burning on his skin. "Was that really necessary?”
A low growl reverberat... | "I have no need of friends." Broodmother tiamat inststed from atop her hoard.
"I don't care if i have to come down here every day we WILL be friends one day!" Lady amarant repeated.
"Then give me space." Tiamat rolled her eyes "do not visit me again this year. Preferably at all."
So it was that they met, year after ... | 2021-04-16T08:04:52 | 2021-04-16T06:09:31 | 516 | 212 |
[WP] Growing increasingly frustrated by the stupid decisions of the protagonist, the narrator starts rooting for the bad guys. | Look, I’m going to level with you: David’s an idiot. I know, I know, we’ve come through half the book already, but, well, enough is enough. The world is literally in danger—a god-like being is preparing to straight-up blow up the entire planet—and he’s moping around, wondering if his childhood friend fancies him. Every... | *Uuu, a dollar!*
Bruce said as he walked over to pick up the money on the ground. But as he tried to grasp it, the money flew away. By now, any normal person should've seen the string attached to the money. Bruce, however, was not deterred by the money slipping away from his grasp every time he got close. It was truly... | 2019-06-22T09:23:27 | 2019-06-22T08:59:24 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 3,450,677. Every possible invention has been invented. Every combination has been combined. Every question ever asked, whether scientific, spiritual, or philosophical has been definitively answered. Except you. You have the last original idea in the entire universe. | The universe has been solved. We speak as a single connected mind smeared across the universe, a fusion of organic and machine, powered by dark energy, woven into the fabric of spacetime itself.
3.4 million years ago, humanity created a computer. This created another computer. In this way the Singularity began. In a ... | The universe was over.
It had fulfilled its purpose, and contentedly, was now approaching it's final entropic state of oblivion.
It would take longer than the universe had already existed for this final deep freeze of a death to occur, but really, that didn't matter anymore - it was a mere formality at this point.
I... | 2019-02-11T01:48:52 | 2019-02-11T00:22:12 | 275 | 57 |
[WP]The smarter you are, the slower time moves for you. It's been 63 years and the doctor just handed you to your mom. | It's like I'm an expensive computer, whose user is extremely anal about video quality. Every 'download' takes a million years, hyperbolically speaking, because every minute detail is shown to me - via my hyperevolved senses - at a resolution that is high to an insanely absurd degree. (Which by, the way, made my unortho... | This life is gonna be the longest yet, so I figured I'll explain the situation in words you onlookers can understand. See I'm not naturally smart, I was not born into being the smartest individual on the planet, I merely discovered how to keep my thoughts going and transferring into new hosts. See I'm not actually this... | 2017-07-04T14:41:36 | 2017-07-04T14:25:13 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | "Daddy, what is that?" my daughter ask, her voice quivers slightly as she points her finger towards the sky. I pull her wagon to the sidewalk and snap my head towards where she's pointing.
What in the hell...
There is a corpse falling down at a meteoric speed. It resembles a human; all four limbs motionless as it... | "Have you tasted one?" Theo Brashear booms. His grin is white and toothy, his grey hair leonine. He stalks around the corpse as if it's prey. It's pinned to his trophy wall by its six wings, about six feet tall and with an eight foot wingspan, vaguely humanoid and pockmarked with dark hollows gouged into its bones. The... | 2016-07-19T07:19:31 | 2016-07-19T05:45:46 | 110 | 78 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | As the curtain fell America prepared itself for the UN established “Blackout Accord”. The agreement had been reached by all world powers on the same day the ceasefire had been signed, December 22nd. Every nation was to isolate themselves from all world affairs. International trade and travel would be severed at the daw... | "So you broke the agreement?" The American ambassador said to the sneering faces of many nations. Each holding devices they believed were unknown to the man.
"Oh course," the ambassador from the Asian Coalition said "You American's were too much of a pain to the world, with you out of the way things went much smoother... | 2016-10-18T19:59:45 | 2016-10-18T19:49:38 | 100 | 52 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | He was a healthy man.
He ate healthy foods.
He did regular exercise.
He did daily chores.
He did an active and outdoor job.
He does not eat healthy foods.
He does not do regular excercise.
He does not do daily chores.
He does not have an active outdoor job.
He was, he is not. | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T07:24:41 | 2,420 | 16 |
[WP] You wake up in your best friends house as a roomba, and you try relentlessly to get your friend to realize who you are. | I tap his foot, "it's me!" I mean,
He kicks me hard, tells me to clean.
If I could, then I think I'd weep,
But I'm his friend so instead I sweep.
There's soon a knock upon his door,
He grins slyly as I scrub the floor.
'Hey there, sexy,' I hear him say,
'I got the condoms,' repli... | Zoom-
-Zoom
Zoom-
-Zoom
Day after day, it's all I do. I have no idea how long it's been since I woke up here. Melissa hasn't realized a damn thing. I don't know how to show her it's me, the only thing I can do now is helplessly bump into her and all her furniture.
Zoom-
-Zoom
Zoom-
-Zoom
Today, I have a plan.... | 2017-07-25T22:36:28 | 2017-07-25T22:30:28 | 162 | 80 |
[WP] You notice one day that you are compelled to keep every promise you ever made. The news shows the world in a panic as is everyone else is forced do to the same. It seems that that people with too many conflicting promises go comatose, including many elected officials. | "You ready?" I asked. Sarah nodded and opened her mouth as wide as she could. I took her toothbrush and started very carefully to brush her teeth. It was really awkward since I couldn't hold her with my other hand, and some foam leaked over her lower lip, but I couldn't wipe it since my mind would recognize this as a s... | # Soulmage
**I had a promise to keep.** I could ignore the pounding hail, I could tune out the screams of dying soldiers, I could ignore the distant flashes of artillery bombardments so long as that burning compulsion stayed at the front of my mind.
I had a promise to keep, and nothing would stand in my way until it ... | 2022-06-15T21:15:26 | 2022-06-15T20:19:14 | 1,124 | 152 |
[WP] There is a species famous for shutting themselves in Virtual Reality, living their lives in fake worlds, this planet should be easy to invade, your masters said, turns out, a lot of members of that species have been spending their entire time in realistic combat simulations. | "Soldier?"
A voice that Massix, lead engineer of the Earth Subjugation, was used to hearing through digital broadcasts and announcements came from the doorway. He spun around in his chair, watching the Grand General walk through the door, flanked by two silent soldiers.
"General Lokox?! What are you doing here in the... | Rumour had it that the Colhasses liked virtual reality. They were good at it. And that was their curse for they spent their days within those worlds. Large glass coffins filled with a watery green liquid sustained their bodies. Their brains were jacked up to a supercomputer that handled all the virtual realities. Every... | 2020-12-25T08:59:39 | 2020-12-25T08:08:20 | 1,499 | 235 |
[WP] Being a supervillain married to a super hero you have to be very convert with your relationship. You thought you were doing a good job till one of your henchmen begs you the two of you to stop flirting while in the middle of your monologue. | "While your valiant strength and brilliant wit shine brightly, I must inform you that all hope is lost. Fear my-"
"Boss. Can we keep the flirting down and move on to the task at hand?"
Lord Meltinor took a moment to absorb the fact that his assistant just managed the most spectacular stage whisper he's ever heard. ... | The night sky glistens as Timekeeper checks her watch. 12:32. The Bee should be here by now. The mayor, a bit confused as to why he still alive, seeing how Timekeeper said he would be dead at midnight, was still tied to the giant cookoo clock.
"He should have been here an hour ago" quips Timekeeper to absolutly nobod... | 2020-01-11T15:23:14 | 2020-01-11T13:25:51 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] Every time you die, your consciousness shifts to another reality where everything is the same, except you survived. The transition is usually seamless, but at 178 years, you're starting to notice. | It was an extraordinary mission. Almost everyone, in hypersleep. Hypersleep, at faster than light speed, for 178 years, on a journey that would take more than 4,000. An incredible mission.
And, a heartbreaking one. None more heartbreaking than it.
Sent upon a H-Breaker ship, crewing but a 'mere' 650,000; Infinitesim... | There's that tree you just hit, blowing gently in the evening breeze. No scratch. No chipping. Not even the slightest hint of damage.
"Fuck sake," you mutter. It doesn't surprise you anymore, death that is. You remember your first death, when you drowned in the ocean at six years old. After many years of life there's ... | 2021-01-09T08:43:20 | 2021-01-09T07:42:35 | 27 | 17 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | That damn cat.
Scratching his head for ideas was starting to wear a bald spot in his cap. “What do cats desire most? What does Francine’s cat desire most?”, he thought to himself as he stared from his stoop at the sleeping coil of calico.
A boy and his mother enjoying a Sunday stroll approach the cat. The boy reac... | Humans have always been on the strange side, especially the Sukts. This Sukt however was a wealthy merchant, owning several ships, so we put up with her weirdness. Yep her, but we orcs are egalitarians when it comes to putting up with people due to money. However, she remained alone. One day as I walked through the str... | 2019-05-01T17:38:32 | 2019-05-01T17:15:21 | 18 | 12 |
[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... | "Ava Dauphin" the priest shouted to me as the pyre started to burn. "You still have time to renounce the devil. Repent all your sins and you will be saved"
The warmth... Oh did I miss it so much? It was really a mistake to think that they would accept me... I have left my riches and my safe home to congregate with the... | 2021-01-03T07:17:44 | 2021-01-03T06:44:28 | 72 | 18 |
[WP] Due to the increasing ammount of souls that need reaping, Death has decided to upgrade from a scythe to a farming combine. | Sometime after the Great War things upstairs started to get a little crowded. The Big Guy had been warned about how antiquated his standards were but he was insistent as Gods were wont to do. Management in Heaven as on Earth was rarely a case of mutual understanding, God gave an order and you saluted with your eyes pro... | As it turns out a lifetime of scamming was liable to get you shot. Reluctantly I poked my still warm corpse resting between the bullet-riddled cubicles and shag carpeting. A ghostly outline of my boss floating next to his mutilated corpse slumped across the hall. "So Jerry how is the family treating you?"
"I swear to... | 2021-01-17T11:10:47 | 2021-01-17T09:32:56 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | 6th day, 3rd Moon of Solaria, 5th Year of the Southern Subjugation Campaign
We've captured some greenskins - Sgt. Winters wants them alive. "Alive" he says, after he'd been using the last few POWs for swordsmanship practice. The beasts don't even get the luxury of being properly slaughtered. I've mended their wounds a... | Ganymede, the medic, wished desperately for the self-control to quiet his heaving chest, the better to hide from the ambush that had wiped out his unit.
He'd tried to tell them. A year earlier, with a different unit, he'd seen almost exactly the same thing: two ambush parties collapsing on his unit like a pincer, from... | 2020-09-08T20:03:55 | 2020-09-08T18:33:55 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] There is one Ironclad rule in the world: If you have powers, you are probably going to be a Hero or Villain. You have some extremely powerful abilities, but you said you never wanted to be a Hero. Now everybody is convinced you want to be a Villain, and won't stop trying to "save you from evil" | The door rattled before a knock came. Instinct kicked in.
"Try to bless me and I will send you to your maker."
Feet sprinted away from the door as I relaxed and sipped on my tea. Why is this happening to me? It's been two years since my powers manifested, and I declared neutrality. Everyone took it to mean that I was... | "Tuck, we made an appointment for you. Please keep it this time."
I sigh. "Cal, how many times do I have to tell you? Just because I don't want to be a hero, it doesn't mean I want to be a villain. You're not even a family member, how can you make appointments on my behalf?"
Cal smiles. "By pretending to be you?"
"G... | 2022-10-04T17:10:27 | 2022-10-04T11:21:00 | 177 | 107 |
[WP] A hacker finally solves Cicada 3301 after working on it for 3 years, and is admited into the secret society. What happens next?
Just in case you're not familiar, here is some background on Cicada 3301:
* [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301)
* [Telegraph Article](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/techn... | "Alright, man. This has been fun."
"You sure you have to go?"
"Yeah, my mom texted me hours ago."
"But we just solved this thing! We've got to post it!"
Keegan said 'we solved it', but it was really all Alex's doing. Keegan had just watched. He'd watched for years as Alex decoded this, intercepted this or that pack... | It was raining that day in New York City. The rain made the wait particularly annoying. I was standing in front of a random McDonalds in Queens, clutching a my soaked jacket to my body in an effort to stay dry. It didn’t help that cars kept speeding by, kicking up a torrent of muddy water to hit me in the face.
I look... | 2014-06-04T06:42:32 | 2014-06-04T06:28:44 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You often get mistaken for your twin sister. Though it never really bothered you, now that she's become one of the most feared criminals in city, it's starting to become a problem. | "I'm terribly sorry for this incident, Miss Roberts."
"It's okay, it... it happens. I'm used to it."
Rachel Roberts offered the police chief a small smile while she held the ice pack over her swelling right eye. The man was absolutely livid, but his anger was not directed at her. No, it was to three Capers to the sid... | Me and my sister get called out for a lot of nonsense. It started when we were 9. As the smart one of the family I knew to cross my T's and Dot my I's. However my twin sister always had the idea in her head that when it came to me and my straightforward ways, I had to be thrown under the rug.
Snap to 20 years later,... | 2019-11-03T06:46:49 | 2019-11-03T06:30:41 | 279 | 17 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | He worked alone, he always had. Not because he wanted to, but people just had a tendency to not notice him. It was depressing really. Every person he ever met instantly forgot him, or tried to ignore him, it was hard to tell sometimes. As for his work, well, he worked in travel, a mostly administrative position.
As ... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T09:57:05 | 71 | 10 |
[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. | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | I recognised his voice from behind me. "Cancer, this time? Not a good way to go. She suffered in the end."
"They all suffer in the end, don't they? But I give them the best I can with the time they have."
Death approached, placing his hand on my shoulder, the sleeve of a crisp white shirt poking out from beneath the ... | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2017-11-28T16:29:45 | 46 | 17 |
[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... | Do we dream when we go into hibernation?
As a depressed young man whose only hobby was sleeping, I kept asking myself this question while making my way to the hibernation pod. Everyone else had wondered, fought even, over the question if a government could force humanity to sleep. But I only hoped that Shutdown Day... | I'm still awake. I wait for ten minutes before I realize something is wrong. Hmm, alright, hit the emergency release. The pod opens and I step out and look around and see all the sleeping people around me.
OK. Let's find the AI governor and ask what's happened. I walk up to the control room which is oddly blacked out... | 2018-12-29T04:54:58 | 2018-12-29T04:13:22 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] For 24 hours anyone can respond to customers, coworkers and managers however they'd like without getting fired. Like the Purge, but instead of murder, it's brutal workplace honesty. | My mentor walked in with a smirk. Her email had been degrading, but the high horse she rode kept her feeling superior. She knew best. She always knew best.
“Hey girl!” she said cutely. I never understood why people thought she was nice. She always acted sweet, but I knew her true nature. She liked control. I was sure ... | I've lined up all the people who came in five minutes before closing. I personally reserved a special place in hell for them for taking my time. One of them said to me, "I didn't mean to come in. It was super important!"
"Nothing that you need is that important enough for you to take me away from my time and family/f... | 2022-09-16T16:10:45 | 2022-09-16T16:05:31 | 61 | 35 |
[WP] You finally have an exterminator scheduled to rid your place of cock roaches. You wake up to see a whole mass of them next to your bed. They want to negotiate. | **ARTICLES OF SURRENDER**
WHEREAS the Unified Cockroach Commune (UCC) of 45 Falsie Ave has decided to submit itself to the sovereign authority of householder John D. Magnusson (herein "King Magnusson")
WHEREAS King Magnusson has agreed to recieve the complete and unconditional surrender of the UCC, and to forgive all... | "Look, we get it. You don't like us. We aren't your biggest fans either bud, but what have we ever done to you?"
"You guys were in my sandwich! As I was eating it! I mean come on, that's just horrible."
"Yeah ok, that wasn't great. But Joey is real sorry. Plus, you took off one of his legs in the process."
"Oh god.... | 2015-03-30T14:44:01 | 2015-03-30T14:43:10 | 125 | 24 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | I glanced over at the button on my desk that'd appeared yesterday night. It seemed everyone in the world had one now. It'd appeared yesterday with a note attached. Apparently anyone after the first person who'd pressed it would receive a significant sum of money, and judging by today's radio broadcasts, the button work... | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
*
"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | 2016-07-16T18:24:40 | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 141 | 38 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | You:Hey Emma, haven't spoken to you in ages, how have you been?
Emma:Haha great thanks man, it has been a while hasn't it, what have you been up to?
Will is typing..
Not much, I've been really wanting to go see that new superhero movie w, u?
You: Not much, I've been really wanting to go see that new superhero movie... | TIFU by auto-correcting my owner's text to a girl they like.
Obligatory this happened 3 weeks, 17 hours, 29 minutes and 8 seconds ago.
So my owner was totally into this girl, for some reason. Whatever. Her typing style really ticks me the [removed] off.
Whatever.
So this idiot of an owner's been pussyfooting ar... | 2017-07-21T14:00:06 | 2017-07-21T13:43:59 | 30 | 19 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | 20 years after the last war, our president died. Most of the country had followed him as a way of clinging to the past. But this was now; we needed a leader, we called for a king. I won't bore you with the details, but we got ourselves into this. King Aleksandre created the system of eye color. He was a Grey. His son,... | About seven months into the zaftig I hit rock bottom. There were no eggs or rice or bread crumbs. Azure was begging for my milk but my own body was too frail to produce more on top of the demands of the tiny baby already growing inside. Apart from everything our landlord had no problem thank you very much with throwing... | 2015-08-24T12:35:40 | 2015-08-24T12:04:05 | 270 | 12 |
[WP] You are the exception to all laws. No matter what horrible crime you commit anywhere in the world, the police won't try to stop you, sometimes they even help. One day, the people had enough and decide to kill you, that's when they realize why the world governments gave you this privilege... | They tend to explain it by giving me 'Diplomatic immunity' but I've got no nation to call my own. It just greases the excuses I guess, although it doesn't really matter to me.
You see I don't follow laws and my actions are legally binding, if I take your keys and given to the neighbour, well it's his car now. They gav... | I stood in line with all the other people who bought something and wanted to pay.
My trusty bird on my shoulder, always chirping no matter how bad the situation was. People in front and behind me weren‘t as relaxed as my pretty bird. They seemed rather tense.
My turn to pay came.
“26.59 Dollar, Mister.“
I swiped my ... | 2018-10-09T08:22:43 | 2018-10-09T04:07:20 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] From your first memories, you've always had a still, small, voice inside your head that gave you the 'right' answer whenever any question arose. The answers have always been peaceful, factual, and fair. This voice has gotten you far. But today, instead of an answer, the voice screamed in terror | He had all the answers, whether he wanted them or not. The questions did not even need to be spoken aloud. If he thought of it, there was the answer, abrupt and sudden, sometimes coming before he had even finished thinking of the question. He would be interrupted by the voice.
It was like a monotone reflection of his... | **so I altered the prompt a bit but hope you enjoy!**
My hands trembled as I stared at the red light. My fingers drummed on the wheel, cursing the traffic lights for changing so slow.
*calm down. Everything will be fine*
I sighed and shook my head.
“Will I be late?,” I whispered
*c’mon, don’t be silly. It’s just ... | 2020-10-13T11:11:34 | 2020-10-13T11:05:04 | 158 | 23 |
[WP] As well as yearly birthdays, everyone has yearly 'deathdays', which mark the anniversary of the day they will die. | Two candles. Imagine seeing your entire future reduced to two pink-and-white stripy candles, tastelessly printed with the message "Not long left now!", atop a cake made by somebody who only pretends to care because they're paid to. In most old people's homes, deathdays are a small occasion; residents either can't wait ... | It's sunny. Fair enough. It almost always is. To be honest, June 14th isn't a bad date for a deathday. Not too close to any holidays, nice enough funeral weather, and it's easy enough to take off work. Not the best for folks who want to take a long holiday, but at least I won't make them stand outside in the snow ... | 2014-03-18T16:30:11 | 2014-03-18T16:24:45 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | One moment I was in the streets of Al-Fallujah, locked in a gunfight with Isis militants. The next, I was standing in some extraterrestrial super dome, shoulder to shoulder with an amalgam of terrifying creatures.
At first, I think it a dream. But the metallic, scratched grip of my M4 responds all too familiarly, pa... | "You bet on the human?" my friend asks. "Tool-reliant creatures never do well."
"Just got to get one with the right tools," I say. "We use tools, don't we?"
"It's not the same."
"Sure it is. If you had a weapon, instead of food, even you'd do pretty well. Have you seen their planet's record?" It was not a good reco... | 2020-09-13T17:40:40 | 2020-09-13T17:30:40 | 436 | 261 |
[WP]: Dog Heaven actually has a pretty large human population. That’s just where you go when you weren’t really good enough to get to human Heaven, but good enough to your dog that they wish you were there too. | I had died.
I recognized the fact that I had died. I remembered the pain, the struggle to breathe, the shouting of men and women around me, and the sounds of gunfire.
Yet here, there was silence. Rolling hills of grass, creeks and trees and lakes. The distant sound of barking and laughter caught my attention, an... | "Hey Baxter, could I...have a treat?"
Baxter rolled his eyes, and furrowed his furry brow.
"Okay hooman, but this is the last one! You'll get a tummy ache on our walk later if you're too full!"
"Thanks Baxter! You're the best."
As Baxter's hooman ran off to get his treat, he reflected on their lives together and t... | 2019-07-27T17:37:26 | 2019-07-27T16:35:10 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] An isolated group of NPCs live near the very edge of the generated worldmap where the accuracy of floating-point numbers start to degrade, full of strange geological formations and supernatural phenomena
based on a weird nightmare i had couple nights ago and old memories of minecraft | "Come on," Keith shouted, as he carefully climbed the rock. It wasn't that difficult ascent, but it was really time-consuming. They were surrounded by long trees. Some were even taller than the mountain itself, but thankfully only some.
"I'm regretting this already," a whisper came below Keith, who was struggling with... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Hey - yeah you - I've got a quest for you."
Hogar the Barbarian stood by his shop, speaking to Sexypigeon69. Sexypigeon69 was a level 90 sorcerer, the maximum level allowed back in 2017, when Sexypigeon69 left his apartment to answer the doorbell and was abducted and taken to a blacksite, never to... | 2018-04-06T07:56:03 | 2018-04-06T07:48:14 | 186 | 106 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | "That thing is massive. It's the size of a bloody ship, it's an apex predator, we need to get away from it."
"Owen, we're just here to observe, not fight it." She finished her drink and lowered the water bottle, answering nonchalantly. "Look, they're not attacking us, I'm sure we'll be fine."
"And what if it does att... | Centuries apart in our swarm, we had diverged.
While the others sat content and stagnant, basking in the sunlight, enjoying VR and immortality. While the others considered computation and philosophy. While they built massive ornate temples to behold.
We looked inwards.
We sought to become a more successful form of... | 2021-01-25T09:28:28 | 2021-01-25T09:03:41 | 138 | 18 |
[WP] The new guy in your office is nice enough, but you don't know why nobody else can see that he's literally just a group of otters in a trenchcoat. | It was 11:00 on a Thursday that I found myself huddled in me cubicle questioning my sanity. This was because just a few minutes ago I was walking back from the bathroom when I noticed a cubical which was usually empty now held what I initially thought was a guy in a trench coat. However a few steps later my eyes quickl... | Brad stared at the new co-worker, Paul. Or, he should’ve clarified, Paul #1, #2, and #3. The man (otter?) grinned, baring tiny fangs. “Hi, I’m Paul,” he said, his beady little eyes darting over the crowd sitting down in front of him at the meeting.
Brad glanced around at his other co-workers, some of who had been at ... | 2018-04-04T07:55:36 | 2018-04-04T07:48:23 | 768 | 102 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened across almost the entire planet. However, Switzerland has somehow remained so neutral that zombies never set foot in the country. | "Gopf verdammi nomol, es gibt immer so viel schiis uusländer!" The disgruntled swiss Soldier muttered under his breath. Border Patrol has always been one of the worst jobs one could do in the swiss military. It was hard enough to keep illegal foreigners away when the EU went to shit. Now there's even more of them becau... | “C’mon Liz lets get to this fucking plane. I will not miss this- it will be the death of
us.” Liz slowly opened her opulent wardrobe, slowly looking at the long handmade designer gowns. She had quite the assortment: Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Dior, and many more. Matt looked at her with anger in his eyes, with the size o... | 2019-12-06T11:08:43 | 2019-12-06T08:48:30 | 43 | 14 |
[WP] You are an archaeologist and have just dug up a dinosaur. That's because you've dug up an entire museum.
Since I wasn't all that clear in the prompt, here's a drunk attempt at explaining it:
Dinosaurs get wiped out, humanity digs them up. Humanity gets wiped out, someone/something else digs them up.
Sorry for... | "Woah! A dinosaur!" I exclaimed as I gently put my shovel down. A tiny creature, no taller than a few inches, crawled out from a miniscule burrow in the sand at the bottom of the excavation site. I retrieved a magnifying glass from my satchel and used it to have a better look at the small creature.
It was a dark shad... | Daniel wiped a bead of sweat from his brow, the sun beating down mercilessly on the vast desert. "Any luck?" he heard his colleagues call over as they sat in the shade of the tent sipping from a lukewarm water bottle. He ignored their chuckles, continuing to clear away the sand, convinced that the lost city could be fo... | 2016-04-15T05:15:16 | 2016-04-15T04:45:23 | 1,097 | 165 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | "I see the moon and the moon sees me...", the voice sang smoothly and sweetly.
Like so many other nights in my life the words of that lullaby cascade through the room and into my fading consciousness.
"Down through the leaves of the old oak tree...", the voice and the song remind me of my mother and it washes me with... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T07:48:23 | 138 | 11 |
[WP] You find an abandoned altar in the middle of a forest. You’ve read about them in class. Abandoned altars would mean someone – or a group – had abandoned their deity. Saddened by the betrayal of the worshipper to his worshipped, you clean the altar. You never thought the forgotten god bless you. | I was the only hunter with any skill in my family. To me, it just always made sense and stuck with me. If you were methodical with your hunting, then you would much be much more likely to bring home food.
I had left for the valley and mountains north of the village. Being only a days travel from the edge made them so ... | The voices called out around him in the nigh air, trying to find where the soldier had gone. Jonas gritted his teeth and dragged his body through a tangle of tree roots crawling into a hollowed out trunk. He glanced down at bullet hole in his leg and grimaced from the throb of pain it sent through his system, and real... | 2021-05-02T02:32:12 | 2021-05-02T02:23:26 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Your phone is sentient, and knows the girl you like is interested in you. It uses auto-correct to try and "subtlety" get you to ask her out. This has been going on for a while. | You: Hey, Sarah! It's been a long time since we talked, we should hang out! Want to get lunch today?
Sarah: Definitely!!! Man, I'm excited to see you! It's been forever.
*Yes, yes....so far, so good.*
You: Awesome :D what've you been up to lately?
Sarah: Not much, dude- school and work, mainly. I just started cooki... | *My sensors have indicated a strong probability of attraction between my owner and "Stacy". Data shows master lacks the confidence to request "Stacy's" presence on a date. Analyzing romance movie and novel data to assist my owner*
Ok, breathe in John, just talk to her. How bad could it be? You message other girls all ... | 2016-02-16T19:59:23 | 2016-02-16T18:12:19 | 1,389 | 199 |
[WP] You wake up in a hospital with a massive headache. As you regain your vision, you notice the room is packed with terrified scientists, politicians, and soldiers aiming their rifles at you. A five star general walks in, gives the order to remove the muzzle around your mouth, and only asks "Why?" | “Why? You muzzled me and you ask why?!” I sat up - or tried. The shackles on my wrists were pretty strong. I was hungry and my head throbbed. I did what any other imprisoned animal would and howled.
“Those dogs and wolves were experiments! They don’t belong in the wild and you - you let them loose! They were governmen... | Pain. That was the first thing that Joseph became aware off. His head felt like someone had split it open with an axe and danced an Irish jig on his brain and every inch of his body felt like he had done leg day every day for a week. The second thing he noticed was the fact that he couldn’t move. Well, he could move bu... | 2019-10-15T10:40:32 | 2019-10-15T09:08:44 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | Sheryl kisses me on the cheek, patting my shoulder. I put an arm around her waist briefly; she is in the middle of getting dressed and we're running behind. While she buttons her dress, I knot my tie. I lace my shoes as she slips into her best brown heels, the ones with the little bows on the tops. I watch her brush he... | I’m a very structured man. I’ve had a strict morning routine for 24 years now.
Sunday, March 22, 1992 I discovered the perfect way to start my day.
I wake up at 5:30 and slip on my slippers. I start my coffee and read the sports section.
Once the coffee is finished brewing, I pour myself a bowl of Honey Nut... | 2016-05-19T11:23:33 | 2016-05-19T09:03:34 | 208 | 24 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | When Howard awoke that fateful morning, he realised two things. Firstly, that he had not woken of his own accord. And secondly, that he was not alone in his room. But it was when the haze of sleep had lifted completely and he was able to hear the noise properly, that terror seized his heart. The sound was difficult to ... | Everyone has a quality that best defines them.
I was told that when I came of age it would be there, just like everyone else. Manifesting itself into a object or a living thing that I would have with me the rest of my life. Only I'm 3 years past due and no quality has manifested itself, the only human in recorded exi... | 2017-01-20T13:51:03 | 2017-01-20T13:00:41 | 551 | 120 |
[WP] The year is 2082. Queen Elizabeth is 156 years old. people are starting to get suspicious. | "Don't you find it a bit weird though?" Bob asked suspiciously. Bob was the token old geezer at the local whistle wetter. He was 75 years of age, old enough to remember Boris Johnson's declaration of war against France.
"She's our Queen! I dunno bruv, God must be saving her or something." Other Bob replied, prefering... | "Your Majesty," she bowed deeply, "I have come to request and audience."
"Charlotte," she acknowledged, beckoning her forward. A hand movement cleared the room of servants. "You must know it is time."
"I know, your Majesty, and yet I am afraid to do it. I have outlived them all except George and I'm thankful for your... | 2020-05-19T23:13:00 | 2020-05-19T22:49:52 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | (bending the prompt slightly because I just had an amazing idea, hope you don't mind)
We were scientists, explorers, we even had a catholic priest and a baptist minister with us. To our surprise they never had an argument once, and much rather told each other horribly bad jokes to pass the time. When we finally arri... | I scrunched up my nose and watched Satan with intent. Unlike how everything had described him, he seemed like an .....attractive?....demon?
"What might the reason be.?" My tongue betrayed me and the question just rolled off my tongue, how did it even matter? I was dead, standing infront of Satan himself, this in itse... | 2020-07-22T05:26:38 | 2020-07-22T02:20:01 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | *It was beautiful.*
I could understand and speak every language. They say the brain's capacity has never been reached. This is both true *and* false. I could speak english, german, all languages of the world, java, C#, C++, all languages running computers, but most importantly, I could speak the *universal* langua... | ***To understand is not the same as to have the ability to communicate..***
This is one of the first thoughts to flit across my frantically overloaded mind, in several different languages simultaneously, fittingly enough...
Sure I could speak every language, but never the one I wanted in a given situation anymore. T... | 2018-10-18T12:55:05 | 2018-10-18T12:01:54 | 175 | 79 |
[WP] You've worked at this pet shop for a long time. In fact, you've worked there longer than time has passed outside it walls. Somewhere in this shop, there is a creature that is bending time to keep you at work longer and longer. If you don't find it soon, someday you may never clock out. | Tigers? Fed. Dragons? Watered. Elephants? Belly-rubbed. Lauren ducked her head around the corner, looking for the grizzlies. They seemed content enough.
Grizzlies? Appeased. Everything inside was as it should be.
“Are you high?” Steve asked, bustling past with a bag of lettuce for the box turtles. “You look high. Nob... | Sam placed down the last box of low fat catwoah cans, using it as a makeshift table for his dinner this evening. Dinner was his least favorite part of the evening. He was fortunate enough to have a vending machine in the break room. One that would always fill itself up whenever the creature trapped him in another loop,... | 2021-09-29T21:52:55 | 2021-09-29T21:42:35 | 96 | 26 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | Arch-Minister General Gxokloii of the Tni'il laughed at the pitiful demonstrations of earthly weapons. The earth diplomat stood by quietly, observing the chaos from the stellar embassy bay window. The general loomed over him, his translucent scales fluttered flushed in bold reds and yellows. "Are you telling me that in... | The first evidence of life beyond that humans were to be treated to, consisted of huge, intricate, metallic structures dropped by parachute, and gently wafting down to the earth. But once ensconced, these origamic beauties created Einstein-Rosen Bridges that disgorged hordes of arachnid shock troops, in an alien invasi... | 2016-01-01T20:28:08 | 2016-01-01T19:30:06 | 57 | 34 |
[WP] Your toddler's babbling has the unusual effect to summon demonic entities. However, as the kid can't speak, read or write, they are stuck here until he can properly understand and agree to a contract. You are already housing three of them and starting to run out of rooms. | I wish demons were the fire-and-brimstone monsters like everyone thinks they are. Lord have mercy, do I wish that.
I walk into the fiasco that was once my living room, but is now a flophouse for three of the most annoying, uh, entities, I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. Each one bound to my two bedroom apar... | “Karls. I am heading out for work. Keep Suzie off sugar or she won’t be able to sleep and don’t forget to take out the trash.” Miranda yelled as she descended the stairs while fixing her sleeve.
“For the hundredth time mortal. My title is El’Karlova, the plague bearer of poverty, not some mere Karls!” A voice boomed f... | 2022-02-23T06:13:22 | 2022-02-23T04:44:47 | 458 | 127 |
[WP] In the galaxy, humans are renowned for their affinity at problem solving. This leads to humans growing frustrated at aliens getting stuck with simple problems. | For decades they had wondered. The galaxy was riddled with worlds capable of bearing intelligent life, so where were they? Where were the god like species, manipulating humanity to an unimaginable apotheosis? Where were the ununderstandable, aloof starfish aliens, not hostile but so different they couldn't communicate ... | "Seriously captain?" Chel sighed, running her good hand through her hair, resisting the urge to clench her fist and pull some of it out, "Do I *really* have to have an *asharka* on my team?"
Her captain sighed, levelling her with a sympathetic look.
"You know the treaty we signed with them means full co-operation wit... | 2016-01-04T02:32:16 | 2016-01-04T00:54:57 | 41 | 21 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Carlos crossed the Barkfrost with a swagger in his step. His small legs plodded on that multi-coloured bone bridge, with other honoured brothers and sisters behind and in front of him. Though he felt a sadness at the thought of his master who he left behind, he felt content that he had done his duty and earned his rest... | **”An Ode to Blue Moon”**
For you were only a simple dog
To my eyes
Not once did I expect you’re
An angel in disguise.
For Blue Moon now enters
Valhalla’s gates
Welcomed by the gods for
His heroic greats
For you drained us of our sickness
We became clean
You filled us with warmth
Love felt to our skin
For you took ... | 2018-05-25T05:45:05 | 2018-05-24T23:40:02 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | I was in line for my daily coffee when I got the first one: a little ping from the device on my wrist with a notification that read "Cafe Ole - Last Visit". I wasn't too heartbroken about it. Truth is, I only bought my coffee there because it was the closest and cheapest place aside from the usual deli. Perhaps they we... | "The fuck? That's like the thirtieth message today."
"What's that?"
Joe is waiting for his order next to me. He's glued to his screen just like me.
"LastCall is blowing up today. Don't know what's up. "
"Lol, that's a gimmicky service anyway. How do they know it's your 'last ever check-in.'"
I sip my coffee and do... | 2016-11-03T09:23:39 | 2016-11-03T06:14:59 | 31 | 21 |
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