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[WP] You are a retired assassin. The only thing you want is to die. Keeping you from this is the fulfillment of your last contract: A celebrated performer paid you to kill him if he ever tried to make a "comeback" as an old man. After years in retirement, the performer announces a world tour.
[WP] You are a retired a... | The cane clicked softly down the long tile hallway. John's liver spotted, pale, wrinkled hands clutched the handle of the cane tightly. He was already breathing heavily and beads of sweat ran down his crooked spine. His eyes were fixed on the door at the end of the hallway. The bright golden star taped to the door ... | I lined up the aging rocker in the sights of the scope.
*I'm too old for this shit.*
My hands were still steady although time told me otherwise. I breathed long, steady breaths before I clicked the call button on my earpiece.
The man on the scope reached deep into his pockets. Not recognizing the number he returned ... | 2016-05-12T06:04:17 | 2016-05-12T03:45:24 | 41 | 20 |
[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... | Faster than light (ftl) travel happens fast, people knew that from the outset.
Ftl traffic accidents happen faster, people were just smart enough to figure that out beforehand.
What most people didn't know before they tried faster than light travel, however, was that even if it doesn't go wrong directly going about... | 2017-03-31T10:44:01 | 2017-03-31T07:52:19 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] Demons roam the Earth. They can't be killed. They can't be stopped. But they can only hurt you if you look at them directly. Because of this, children must be blindfolded until they are old enough to understand the consequences. | I remember the day my blindfold first came off very well.
I was still young, maybe 6 or 7, and it was the first time I was allowed out of the house without my blindfold on. I kept looking around at all the people with downcast eyes. Nobody would look at one another, nor up at the beautiful blue sky. Nobody but me.
My... | Who was it, that said the eyes were the windows to the soul?
They teach it to children when they're young, cover their eyes with a cloth and drill it into their heads. *Never make eye contact.* It's a strange spectacle to see parents lead their sons and daughters, their own eyes averted towards the ground. The blind... | 2016-09-30T01:03:09 | 2016-09-29T22:02:57 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You stumble upon old home videos of you and your siblings as toddlers. Nostalgia fades when you realize something isn't quite right... | I felt a wave of nostalgia, as I parked my car in front of the old house on the countryside that my parents called home. Memories of my brother and I playing with the water hose during the hot summer days, made me smile as I walked to the door with my luggage. Before I could even knock on the door, my mother was runni... | **Hey, Dad! Come here, look at this!**
What is it, David?
**I know I'm only 16, a star high school football player, and pretty new at this whole exposition thing--**
I'll say! And I'm the one who worked three jobs to make sure you had all of this football equipment because I knew my boy was gonna be making a path fo... | 2015-08-26T22:25:16 | 2015-08-26T21:57:19 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] A man lies on his deathbed, memories of his favorite videogames flashing before his eyes as he expires. Death watches, and intrigued, offers the man a deal if he can best him at his game of choice. | Death violently threw its controller across them room. **Fuck This! This is Fucking Bullshit!** It shouted.
Basking in the thrill of victory, Meg calmly placed her controller on the table in front of her and said "A deal's a deal reaper. I won. You didn't. I get another life. A 1up if you will." Meg chuckled to herse... | "Are... are you Death?" the man spoke with a painful rasp, "Have you come for me?".
"I came for your mom last night" Death replied in the voice of an annoying thirteen year old. Death, you see, was a Call of Duty fan.
"Wha What?" the man seemed surprised.
"I, Death, banged your mom last night. Also, yeah, I have come... | 2014-08-16T13:32:17 | 2014-08-16T11:00:00 | 67 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "Hey! That's the guy that killed my cousin! Pull over!"
*Here it comes again,* I thought to myself. I turned to face my attacker. The third in as many days. Some punk with a third-rate powerset. Probably born since the District was walled off.
I sized him up. No obvious indicators of his power. Nothing obvious on his... | Oh yes. I definitely remember, every single detail. He was wearing a red and silver striped tie, for example. How could I ever forget that day? I walked into his office as number 21,458. When I left, I had his number 1.
Quite a frenzy it set off, you know? At first, people didn't even know it was me. I remember the fi... | 2014-12-18T13:17:44 | 2014-12-18T11:07:40 | 1,338 | 300 |
[WP] Your personal guardian angel from heaven is very upset with you. It's not because you did something wrong. It's because you're an extremely boring person to watch over. | An accountant. Why did you have to be an accountant?
And not even a “I have fun on the weekends because I’m cooped up in a cubicle all week” accountant. But just a boring little toad of a person, who doesn’t need me for anything because you never go anywhere where you could be endangered.
I mean, sure, you ride the b... | "Aren't you supposed to be... *good*?"
"I'm an angel, love, of course I'm good."
"Then why did you just try to kill me?" I hissed at the winged celestial being floating to my right.
"Kill you?" He had the audacity to look surprised. "Surely not! I was just trying to help you have some fun."
Earlier today, he was "t... | 2020-04-22T01:22:14 | 2020-04-21T23:41:15 | 51 | 30 |
[WP] “Please.” The Villian whimpers. “There must be something I can do.” You stare at your clipboard. “Lose the spikes and turn off the volcano and we can talk.” Being an OSHA auditor for superpowers is a whole new type of power trip.
Edit: Many thanks for the gold and silver! Your excellent stories, however, are the ... | The incessant clickity clack of the pen was driving the "power broker" nuts..
"Could you just...put the pen away?? " the power broker snarled.
"And why would I do that? " the auditor snapped back.
"Nevermind...you people never listen anyway" he muttered under his breath.
"What was that???" the auditor retorted.
"N... | With a heavy sigh I pulled up to the not obvious evil lair entrance. You'd think hiding it under a waterfall would be a god idea, but when its carved into the back of a mountain with a skull for a face it's not very easy to hide.
My old pickup whined as it drove through what seemed to be a road of bone down into some ... | 2020-05-12T13:11:24 | 2020-05-12T13:11:15 | 171 | 110 |
[WP] it's a world of superpowers, and yours is most definitely a level 5+, the average superhero is a level 3, you have no interest in superhero or villaining, so you kept your powers hidden to avoid recruiters and managers until you slip up in front of multiple live streams. | "Going live in 3, 2, 1." The lights flicker before the camera trains in onto Heist, a very public and popular supervillain who was recently caught. He, like Al Capone was, is well liked and a notorious bad boy. That is, if bad boys could turn invisble and had a laundry list of crimes. Heist was in handcuffs but still r... | What is a hero? Well to be honest at this point it's nothing but a cool flashy career for those born lucky. I decided early on that I wanted no part in it. Unfortunately for me my secret was about to be revealed.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. My name is Alex and I have a gift if you want to call it that. I can ... | 2021-07-04T22:47:25 | 2021-07-04T20:49:08 | 76 | 56 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil and now he wants payment, but in the worst typo in history he's come to collect "your sole".
If you can think of any other words that work go ahead. | My sole? I stopped and stared, agape,
At Satan's scrawls upon the scroll.
How blessed I was to have escaped
A far more dire toll.
My Nikes lay, from yesterday,
When I had worn and laced them last.
An oh-so-meagre price to pay!
I grabbed my knifeblade fast.
I pierced the shoe, the rubber flew
An... | "Uh, Lucifer?" I squinted at the blazing gothic text in the parchment. How I wish they would have just switched to a more legible typeface; Comic Sans would fit right in, and is at least more readable than this crap.
The demonic form of the Devil was imposing, feral features knitted into his gaunt musculature. Still, ... | 2017-10-16T07:33:44 | 2017-10-16T07:30:31 | 143 | 77 |
[WP]"Oh great far-speaking tower, I have performed the rituals as set forth in the sacred manual. Let me speak to the sky spirit so I may learn of it's wisdom!" "Uh.. Copy that. Moon City Delta responding... We thought everyone was dead down there." | Howard widened his eyes at the blinking control panel. He assumed this was prank at first. It said the transmission came from Earth. That should've been impossible.
The planet had been a smoggy, irradiated mess for over a century. Nobody lived down there anymore. At least, that was what Howard believed until now. The... | "What?" Faldwell tilted his head at the electronic device. "Am I speaking to the Sky Spirit?"
"Sky spirit? What the hell is going on down there, we haven't heard from Earth in weeks." Faldwell sighed and turned to face his band of fur-wearing, face painted, dirty followers.
"Hold on, guys. I think the quest is bugged... | 2020-04-25T09:05:59 | 2020-04-25T08:25:28 | 658 | 63 |
[WP] Tell a story backwards, but still make it cohesive. | I had nothing.
Every day I would count my pennies and food stamps, but they never multiplied. Every night, I cried myself to sleep.
One by one, my friends abandoned me.
I lost the love of my life. The emptiness - that gaping hole that hollowed my soul - was unbearable.
Then, I played with chance. I gambled all that... | He fell to the floor.
She stabbed and stabbed at him.
She stood behind him.
She noticed the large knife on the counter top.
She stumbled to the kitchen.
She felt sick.
She put a hand to her mouth.
Her first reaction was disbelief.
He said, "I don't love you."
| 2014-09-07T00:06:37 | 2014-09-06T22:31:28 | 83 | 34 |
[WP] For the last 100,000 years, you have watched humans evolve, learn, mature. After slowly growing to love the poor creatures, today you must say goodbye. You are Death, and today humanity attains immortality. | I have watched them grow.
From their very first steps on the plains of Africa, to the conquering to the vast oceans, to their mastery of the stars themselves, I have watched them.
I have seen their triumphs; great walls and buildings of stone, steel and glass. Art that could make men weep at its beauty, unending lib... | The small elderly was surrounded by a half dozen of his peers.
"Today ladies and gentlemen we are witnessing history"
He paused and surveyed the room.
"Humanity has united itself to end war, famine, and colonize the stars. After countless hours of research we have done it, we have found a cure to the biological agi... | 2015-07-10T10:25:01 | 2015-07-10T09:10:26 | 146 | 25 |
[WP] You dig up a time capsule you buried years ago. Instead of memorabilia, you find a modern phone. It rings. | I pull the box from the grass, dust the dirt from the top, unlock the padlock, pull the lid open and have a heart
attack.
Well, not really, but I was pretty startled when I saw the iPhone between the old shirts and records and newspapers from the forties.
"What the hell?"
My great-grandfather buried this box sevent... | I looked down at the phone and then to the rest of the items in the time capsule. There were toys, a letter asking if I was still thinking about Bobby, and something that MIGHT have been a sandwich fifteen years ago. The phone ringing was weird, but the sandwich thing was weirder.
I grabbed the phone out of the box an... | 2016-01-21T06:28:05 | 2016-01-21T05:32:45 | 55 | 13 |
[FF] Can you try and make me ( and the other readers) cry in less than 150 words? | My tail doesn't move like it used to.
I remember fields of green, and a vastness of olfactory delights. I remember nights next to the radiator, warmth baking into me as the wind howls outside. I remember the day Master brought his puppy home.
I watched the puppy grow, and saw boundless energy relected back.
I remem... | You were confined to a bed,
While doctors said there's no antidotes.
Recounting old anecdotes--
Without a hair on your head,
And you still made cancer jokes.
You told me you'd rather be dead,
Yet I held on to a thread of hope.
Mom, I miss you.
Why'd you have to go?
| 2015-03-27T12:17:02 | 2015-03-27T09:44:30 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Our hero fights for good, but he's very lazy about it. After all, he knows that as the protagonist, his plans will always work out in the end. | **Warning: Strong Language**
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"Fuck the Gods!" Precizioo yelled as the car cruised down the road.
"There is only one God," Laterman replied.
"Impossible. It can't be. One god cannot dish out so much punishment. No god can create such a dastardly plan to ruin my life, and if he can then he is only omniscie... | The Dark One's Keep loomed ahead and the white mist was a sea as he waded through its thick blanket. The dead before him was fresh and their lives still faded from their eyes. His sword was stained though he had hardly used it.
*It is my right,* he thought. *This was their destiny.*
He had hardly cared for the dead... | 2017-01-17T08:51:03 | 2017-01-17T08:10:56 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | *Code Orange. Code Orange. We need Doctor Bees in the operating room*
"Over 300 casualties and a few injured. What happened out there?!"
"Doctor, the comb was attacked by a hairy monstrosity. He tore the place apart and it took most of the workers to fend him off"
"Do we have any survivors?"
"Very few, we have ... | We met in the room of a thousand fountains all 140 of us. We looked around for the original sure enough he was here. "Alright gentleman I have gathered you here today to adress the growing unrest across the galaxy at this time. Now I can't do it alone but with all of you I can, but we have to work together. Sound fair?... | 2016-02-22T11:31:29 | 2016-02-22T09:22:45 | 30 | 10 |
[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... | And so it begins. They came in from every direction but I knew that there was no way that they could possibly even have a chance against me. I am invincible and that's just how it goes. They can't stop me because well I realized from a young age that I am impossible and the impossible can achieve the impossible. At lea... | 2018-10-09T08:22:43 | 2018-10-09T02:54:39 | 27 | 15 |
[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. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | "......Tristan, would you please just die already?" Death said to me with obvious annoyance behind me.
"Oh come on, you know I don't want to. Especially when-" I immediately turn around to quickly remove Death's hood.
"H-hey! Do you want to die?!" Death, whose hood has been taken off, has her beautiful face shown in ... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T16:54:33 | 149 | 11 |
[WP] You’re in a time loop but it’s not permanent. You repeat a day 3 times then time moves onto the next day. Rinse, repeat...Deja Vu was never more applicable. | The most useless feeling is the feeling of having control, only to have it ripped from you at the end of it all.
Years ago, I awoke on the second day of a Sunday, and unknowingly went out to go to my classes. I thought it was a Monday: why wouldn’t I? I had gone to work the previous day, and it was time to put my nose... | At first ot was embarassing. Day one was a new day, day two I thought everyone was fuckin with me, and day 3 I caught on to it and did some... Questionable things.
I live in jail. I have 4 momths, but those four months will literally take a year. I have died so many times it's actually crazy. On one hand, I can say w... | 2020-10-09T06:30:17 | 2020-10-09T02:23:12 | 106 | 75 |
[WP] You are a supervillain named The Keymaster. Instead of creating grand plans to conquer the world, all you do is run around and free other captured supervillains from prison, after the superheroes defeat them.
Edit: Thanks for the frontpage! | This world is one of extremes. Good and evil not only exist, but are personified by fools in spandex. These forces are constantly battling, and sometimes one side is able to capture a member from the other. If a hero is captured, she will almost always be saved by other do-gooders. In some rare cases, evil has the pres... | This world is small, fighting is futile, goals are pointless, we are meant to progress through evolution, till our planet's resources deplete, and we die. Some desire chaos, to become the king, the owner of this small, innocent planet. Some desire protection, to be the defenders of this small, innocent planet.
Why, wh... | 2017-03-11T18:21:49 | 2017-03-11T18:05:50 | 691 | 16 |
[WP] "The meeting of God's shall now proceed" You sit on the most comfortable chair you ever sat on and the words from the start creep back into your head. "We always have one Mortal here just enjoy the food and please don't stare, those guys hate it." | "I'm sorry," inquired Hermes. "Why exactly did we invite Greg here again?"
"It's a new feedback system we're trying out," answered Athena, slightly annoyed. "You should know, Hermes. You handed out the meeting briefs."
"Right, right. Of course. He's here to give us feedback."
"Give *us* feedback?" bellowed Zeus, as... | "Wélcömeth Óðinn, Thor. Cöme here and join us töo, Ζεύς, Hera, Poseidon, and Hades. Is Aphrodite coming?" asked the bodiless head of Mímir, that swung on a bronze plate hung by chains over the large golden table that was filled with grapes, wine, bread and meat.
"Aphrodite isn't coming Mímir," Jesus said. "She pull... | 2021-02-20T05:06:43 | 2021-02-20T05:02:22 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead.
reposting an old prompt | It wasn’t much of a demon. It didn’t really have a proper form — it just sat like a lump of undulating mud on my left shoulder, creeping up my neck, impossible to hide.
I suppose that’s what I get for sacrificing bacteria instead of people, but what can you do? A hundred corpses would have been pretty hard to hide, an... | Antonios rubbed his eyes, tired from the strain. He had just spent the last hour staring deeply at a collection of mites sitting on a polished stone dish. It had taken him a long time to harvest the bodies of these mites meticulously from various leaves, vines, insects, worms, some small animals, and even birds. There ... | 2021-06-08T09:00:56 | 2021-06-08T08:47:07 | 3,194 | 106 |
[WP] The remains of the human race live in a glass dome with no entrance or exit which protects them from the wasteland on the outside, one morning a dusty hand print appears on the outside | For countless centuries, the remainder of humanity has been trapped in an enormous glass dome, blackened on the outside by pollution. Essentially 10 billion or so goldfish in an aquarium painted over with black paint. The identity of whoever placed it there has been lost, as is what it protects us from. As such, it h... | One hundred and forty years. That is how long they tell it has been. The dome protects us, shelters us from the harsh wasteland outside.
Sixteen years since they constructed that dome that they tell us not to go near. There are armed guards posted all around the border. No one knows what is inside, but whatever ... | 2014-12-15T23:12:23 | 2014-12-15T21:27:49 | 367 | 31 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | We wanted the planet, we wanted its resources.
The only way would be to remove the human population. This would be a ground battle, as we couldn't risk destroying the planet.
As a race that had no home to call its home, we've lived in space for the last 8,000 years, pulling resources from anywhere we could find. Eart... | 300 years of peace. Fuck, we were kinda hoping for this. I mean peace is great and all......but, I dunno. I think we all wanted to think we had evolved beyond, risen to a higher level of being. But, no....no that's not really true is it? Sure we made some advances during three centuries of peace but.......nothing like ... | 2019-02-26T11:56:18 | 2019-02-26T10:48:47 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] You bought a pair of headphones that are acting up. Every time you plug them in, you hear a different sound - first crying, then a war-zone, now just static. You plug them in again and are frightened to hear a desperate, tearful warning: "Whatever you do, DON'T unplug the headphones again." | They pleaded for me to never unplug the headphones. It all sounded very desperate, so I just left them plugged in.
After a few months, I just bought a new device. Wouldn't you know it, the new headphones had the same problem. So I just left them plugged in.
I used my device for a long time and dutifully never unplugg... | I strolled into my neighborhood dollar store for a pair of headphones to replace my 99-cent earbuds that only worked when I wrapped the wire tightly around my phone. Buying another shitty pair of earbuds only for them to break after a day wasn't at the top of my shopping list. A wise stranger once said, "splurge on the... | 2020-04-02T03:58:31 | 2020-04-01T23:18:06 | 31 | 16 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T09:10:03 | 240 | 18 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | Ben awoke on a table, finding that he could not move, just when he was about to scream a figure hovered above him.
He could hear a voice through the ringing in his ears, “We don’t usually do this,” it said.
“Where—” Ben coughed.
Ben tried to focus his eyes, the shape of whoever was speaking to him varied from a slen... | Everything was dark. The black surrounded me and not a single shred of light was visible.
"Hello?" I shouted. Nothing replied.
I tried to move my arms and legs. Strange, I felt numb. I couldn't feel my limbs or turn my head or grasp the darkness in front of me. I was nothing, just a voice. I was truly alone with my... | 2019-10-28T11:41:31 | 2019-10-28T11:22:42 | 189 | 50 |
[WP] As a young boy of 7 you remembered an old man stopping you on the street wanting to talk and to give you some advice. You thought he was weird and blew him off. Now at 77 you’re walking down the street and you see yourself as a young boy walking towards you. | *So she was right after all.*
*It's all cyclical.*
I smiled in regret as I shoved my hands in my pockets and shuffled toward him- the young boy sitting on the park bench, head buried in his Gameboy. I led with my cane and used it as a pivot to sit down next to him. My knees popped as they always did when I bent them... | There I was. Astonishingly small. Looking up at everything with polite curiousity as I made my way down the square. I almost gasped at the sight of my younger self.
I rose to my feet, the rags that barely covered my modesty shook, threatening to crumble away as I swatted the flies away and tried to make myself look so... | 2021-07-08T08:20:49 | 2021-07-08T06:49:00 | 215 | 75 |
[WP] On their first birthday, everyone on Earth is given a wristband that will glow brighter depending on how far away they are from their soulmate. But, yours has never even turned on. | So far down.
That was my first thought, standing at the edge of the roof of a twenty story building. It was so far down. The wind began to blow again, sending my dress into spirals and almost making me lose my footing on the small ledge. Was I really going through with this? I mean, did I really want to end it all?
I... | They always say that it isn't my fault.
For as long as I can remember, I've been an outsider. It's not that my personality is all that objectionable, nor that I'm somehow incapable of connecting with the people around me. No, the source of my isolation stems from the thin band of black metal locked around my right wri... | 2015-03-22T11:21:58 | 2015-03-22T11:19:52 | 54 | 25 |
[WP] The self help group you started has turned into a cult. | All I had wanted were erections again and instead, I had gotten a global socio-economic superpower shadow organization. Really, I’d like to blame Viagra for this one. Them and their god damn claims that anyone could get those four hour erections. I took a fistful and of their cure-all pills, bought a subscription to Pl... | Initially, I had only the sincere hope that I could help someone. It started simply; I would freely give to any whom asked, expecting nothing in return, a hit of LSD or a shot of ketamine. It was my intent to awaken these people—mostly heroin addicts—to the intricacies of our reality. But the prolonged highs, which wer... | 2017-08-19T08:42:03 | 2017-08-19T06:21:37 | 72 | 34 |
[WP] You are a hero in service of Death itself. As counterintuitive as this may seem, it is not what it looks like. It's just that villains tend to kill people before their time and Death really hates people messing up fate. | “It’s not really counterintuitive.”
“Of course it is! You can’t be a hero and work for DEATH!”
“You’re making Death sound like a bad guy.”
“Yeah, no fucking shit he’s a bad guy. He’s fucking Death! Ended of lives. Reaper of souls or whatever. Jesus Christ, don’t roll your eyes at me.”
“You sound like a child.”
“An... | Hissing and boiling noises arose from a cavern deep below the earth. One would think that it was the sound of boiling magma yet it was only Death who read another scroll of the Dead Arrival, killed by another whom did it purely for pleasure. Standing in front of him, seeing that skeletal, almost phantasmal face, writh ... | 2022-08-08T19:52:48 | 2022-08-08T19:38:21 | 17 | 11 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | Kate reached for the handset, ringing once again at 2 in the morning. At the ripe age of 92, Kate did not have anyone in her life that would have reason to call her, let alone at this ungodly hour.
At this ungodly hour. Ha. Ironic, given that this span of time, this brief period between midnight and the first light of... | Ring, ring
It was 3 am on a Tuesday, and Dorothy didn't know who was calling, but she knew why they were calling.
"Hello?" A man on the other end of end line timidly asked
"Hello deary, how can I help you?" Dorothy said warmly in a way only a 93 year old grandmother could
"I need help...I ... ı"
Dorothy didn't ... | 2016-02-06T18:21:21 | 2016-02-06T17:14:53 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Cannibalism has been widely accepted for over 20 years. A renowned chef before dinner service checks tonights product. In the caging area he sees his activist sister. | She saw him look in. Immediately she started shouting or screaming; noise and agitation anyway, the gag made it all quite incomprehensible.
This was awkward. Why her? Why here? He ducked out and closed the door, pondering his next move. Twenty years her ridiculous idealist activism had achieved nothing. Nothing. Excep... | His heart turned to ice. His head went faint and his stomach twisted into a ever tighter knot.
"no" he thought, "no, no, no, NO".
Why her? Of all the people out there? Why not a drug addict? A criminal? Any worthless dreg of society?
"Sir? Are you alright?" asked his assistant.
He had to get it together. He would ... | 2014-09-18T19:47:40 | 2014-09-18T18:39:41 | 859 | 73 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | I take a step forward. The line to the High Magister grows shorter by the moment as the people befor me are tried and executed on the spot befor the Grand Court of Wizards.
The reading of crimes is honestly the longest part, the crimes are listed for each of us and given a unanimous guilty verdict on the spot.
Cant sa... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T10:08:14 | 432 | 255 |
[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... | It started slowly. Smudged and even shattered glasses and plates, uncleaned linens, and general neglected duties; Vrarren chalked their discordance up to mistakes or accidents. But his theory was quickly thrown out of the window when he walked into the restaurant’s kitchen during a dinner rush to find a chef spitting i... | 2019-01-26T12:06:25 | 2019-01-26T12:01:27 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | Ben awoke on a table, finding that he could not move, just when he was about to scream a figure hovered above him.
He could hear a voice through the ringing in his ears, “We don’t usually do this,” it said.
“Where—” Ben coughed.
Ben tried to focus his eyes, the shape of whoever was speaking to him varied from a slen... | "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed."
Those words rolled acro... | 2019-10-28T11:41:31 | 2019-10-28T10:44:31 | 189 | 138 |
[WP] You have a special ability: you live two lives. Whenever you go to sleep at night, your "dream" will be about your other life. Both lives you live are equally realistic and soon, you start to realize both lives actually take place in the same world, but centuries apart.
[WP] You have a special ability: you live t... | Ever since I have realized that both of my lives take place in the same world - I have decided to become god. I have made it a habit to write journals, and keep them in a safe and secure place. That way, whenever I am in my future life, I can get my journals from the past, and read what will happen during the rest of m... | **I am** King strong and dapper /
I am a pauper poor but proper /
At night nightmares I face /
At night I look for my riches /
And find naught but holes in my breeches /
At night I search for the faces of me and mine /
And not my beloved I find, but great halls prime /
I wake all but forgotten the nig... | 2022-05-27T22:26:32 | 2015-07-28T12:40:34 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth has exactly 50 years to live before naturally dying of old age. This amount of time can be extended by doing dangerous life threatening acts. Each time you nearly die you gain 5 years. You are 146 years old and need to perform your next act before your time expires. | You know it's a good one when they're stopping runs every 10 minutes to remove the body parts they'd missed.
It's been a fact of life for as long as history has been documented that humans can extend their lifespans by nearly dying. The major world religions are all based around the concept that their god was responsi... | Death takes us all. Eventually. Sometimes more than once.
See. The thing about anything “life threatening”, is that it’s traumatic. The mind and body are damaged to an extent. This all depends on the situation. Recovery from this trauma can be quick, or it can be never. Only the trauma is guaranteed.
So the first ti... | 2020-03-15T03:43:13 | 2020-03-15T02:28:32 | 377 | 25 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | The doctor's words hit me with an almost physical impact. I feel like I'm sinking into the stiff examination table, my hospital gown suddenly as heavy as a sheet of lead. "No. No, that can't be right."
"I know it's shocking, but I can assure you that it's true," the doctor says, turning the ultrasound monitor to face ... | The cardiac monitor rings in flatline. A team of nurses rush into the delivery room with a defibrillator.
“Clear,” the obstetrician gives the go signal. *Shock.* The woman’s body on the hospital bed lifts up—like a phoenix—yet sinks back down. The cardiac monitor shows no changes. The team does a few more rounds ... | 2016-01-25T09:46:57 | 2016-01-25T07:24:31 | 151 | 25 |
[WP] A man wants to sell his soul to a demon but the thing he wants in return is so dubious the demon is thrown for a loop. | "Four lemons," Greg responded.
"It's done," said the demon. The response was so quick that the smoke from its appearance hadn't yet left the room.
"...and some sugar," Greg said. He stared blankly at the demon and blinked once.
The demon also blinked. A subtle mark of shock passed over its ashy face.
"Um, it's done... | "You want whaaaaaaat?!" Fe'na was never taken for such a loop in her life. "I mean really I don't get this. Why would anyone want this?" She look at the man who sat down and negotiated business with her. "I don't think I'm asking to much. Its a win-win benefit for both of us."
The demon looked over the contract care... | 2014-05-15T21:16:19 | 2014-05-15T18:07:44 | 252 | 68 |
[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". | "Kinda short for a knight, aren't you?"
The words hung in the air. Sir Gregory was taken aback. He was expecting the princess to be excited to see him or terrified of the dragon. Condescension was an emotion he never entertained.
"Oh Gods, you reek. No, this won't do. If you wish to rescue me *properly* I insist you ... | "Maybe in this castle we'll be safe," she thought to herself, "maybe we won't have to run again."
It had been so long since she had felt safe. So long since the running had started. So far they had travelled together, he had kept her safe as she fled to find another haven. So many worlds they had discovered, and falle... | 2019-01-09T11:59:29 | 2019-01-09T11:07:30 | 158 | 24 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | As soon as the first reports hit the galactic web, the entire Milky Way ground to a halt.
HUMAN PROTO-CIVILIZATION REACHES NEIGHBOR PLANET
But the second half of the headline is what shook the galactic community to its core.
**ZERO CASUALTIES**
The impossible had happened, a species not even qualifying as a Class 1... | "So wait, you use explosions to traverse space?"
"Uhm ... soooo ... funny story. But first we actually use controlled combustions rather than 'explosions'. It's more like very spicy fire."
The four aliens look at each other, with concern "And you don't see a problem with that? Isn't that dangerous?"
"Again, another ... | 2020-08-07T18:10:46 | 2020-08-07T17:56:13 | 705 | 191 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | "Judgement!"
The voices of the villagers rose behind me. They sounded demented, their cries tinged with bloodlust. I shivered as I stepped through the trees. The light of the torches vanished behind me, and their cries softened.
Dread filled me as I stepped along the dirt path. I was sure that my actions were just. B... | “Killer!” “Send him to the woods!” “It would eat you, murderer”. I only wanted to leave the village, that was all.
I walk away from the people who who were my friends, my family, into the thick line of trees. Yes I have killed and in doing so committed a great sin, I however have no evil in my heart. My assaulter does... | 2021-03-16T11:59:31 | 2021-03-16T10:05:48 | 283 | 64 |
[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... |
I remember the first night, as terrible as it was, it is one of those memories that never leaves you. My mother had come home late, she worked hard in a small salon in the city, it wasn't much to get us by, but she always smiled when she saw me, always walked a little happier when she was reminded of why she did it. I... | 2014-07-07T07:52:08 | 2014-07-07T07:30:11 | 91 | 24 |
[WP] You are a superhero and not a native English speaker. You chose your superhero name early, when you didn't know much English yet and gravely misunderstood what your name means. You have been trying to get rid of this name ever since. | To Hero Corp Administration,
I came to America ten years ago. When I arrived, I was but a teenager with nary a sense of how the English language worked. My father and mother both worked hard to give me the live they thought I deserved. Even when my latent potential awakened, my parents worked tirelessly to give me the... | Dear Hero Corps,
I know this is probably just going to get buried, since this is the 30th email I’ve sent to you all. However, yet again I would like to request a name change. I know my unique powers to spit liquid fire are hard to add a nickname to, however since the move to the English sector, I’ve realized there’s ... | 2022-06-24T11:00:08 | 2022-06-24T10:00:11 | 73 | 48 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T09:10:03 | 127 | 18 |
[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)
I knocked politely on the door of Grace's new penthouse. She took a while answering, which made it all the more surprising when she answered wearing nothing but a towel. I could feel my facial muscles strain to raise my eyebrows higher than eyebrows were designed to go. She had changed her hair, too. It... | Julia awoke to the sound of singing birds. A stream of light broke through her window and struck her face in a rainbow. She squinted and buried her head under a pillow. Reaching out to turn off the alarm, her hand landed on a bird, which took off with a squawk. She bolted upright.
A flock of birds began to encircle he... | 2022-02-24T10:26:27 | 2022-02-24T09:39:12 | 143 | 103 |
[WP] "If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human" | "Remind me," Eric said as he pulled himself off of the ladder, "why the hell I'm here with you?" . The man dusted himself off and checked around them, it was dark, just dark enough to be the belly of a massive ship.
"I'm paying you to be," Thador said from above. Through the translator, his voice sounded deep and comm... | "Mmmh? Why's that?"
"Because they're the only race to innately have healing magic, of course! Everyone knows that!"
Sydney took a good, long stare at the innkeeper. "Right. Everybody knows that. Figured you might have been throwing out some wisdom..."
"If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human," the... | 2016-06-19T12:24:49 | 2016-06-19T12:20:24 | 107 | 25 |
[WP] Finishes with "May I start over?" | He laid on his back as the pain slowly sank in. Is this what death felt like? Surely the fall must have killed him. Oh well. It was just nice to feel something again. The dreary 20 years that lead to this moment were finally coming to a close.
No. That's not right.
So the year is 1944 on June 6th. Steve took one las... | 'May I start over' the words reverberated through him, no now, her. The newborn baby let out a small inaudible sigh. The man saw his memories drift away like dew on morning roses, his love, crimes, treason, hate, schooling, knowledge, ability to talk, crawling, all gone. The baby girl smiled feebly at her mother knowin... | 2013-09-01T07:01:42 | 2013-09-01T06:51:01 | 89 | 17 |
[WP] Your power is “fuck no”. Every time you sense danger of any kind nearby you yell fuck no! And bail. You have suevived serial killers, cults, even terrorist attacks. This morning you wake up yelling fuck no Every 2 minutes without fail. | “Fuck nooo-ughhhh.” A loud yawn followed the swear as Tim stretched his arms out, giving his alarm clock a rather hard smack. Turning the church bell chime, it emitted into a static mess as it collided with his carpet. “That’s weird. Isn’t it a little early for danger? What sort of person tries to murder someone before... | In the world of superheroes there are those individuals who stand tall amongst the rest. They are the faces you see on the news. They are those who catch falling planes from the sky, rescue people from burning buildings, the front line in the battle against evil. They are known as the "Radiants"-- individuals with acco... | 2022-06-30T23:52:54 | 2022-06-30T22:34:16 | 86 | 43 |
[WP] A schizophrenic get admitted to a mental institution where he meets another schizophrenic who hears the same voices as him.
Thanks everyone for the positive response to this prompt! You've all renewed my faith in my own creativity. | “Well, this is a mess we’ve gotten ourselves into indeed isn’t it?”
Greg Alexander mused to no one in particular as he assessed the space he would, presumably, occupy to himself for the foreseeable future. All things considered it was not overly oppressive.
The walls hinted at something that might have once been whi... | Twenty minutes in which to live. They take us to the red dust yard, hands chuffed, ankles chained. Three o'clock to twenty minutes past three o'clock. Sixteen hours leather-strapped to an iron frame, drowning in my loneliness and waiting for these precious golden minutes. I turn my face to the sun and take in the heat ... | 2014-03-23T10:20:46 | 2014-03-23T09:31:33 | 170 | 64 |
[WP] An NPC goes mad from the absurd and insane mods the player installs that no one else seems to notice. | "Tits?"
"Yeah, what in Oblivion is going on with all the giant tits?" asked Faendal.
"I didn't notice anything" responded Alvor, confused.
"Really? You didn't notice the fact that your wife suddenly has boobs bigger her head? Or the fact that her clothing is now some strange dominatrix type stuff? I mean, look arou... | “Bill? Bill. Bill did you just see that?”
Bill sighed and rubbed his forehead. Craig was seriously starting to get on his nerves today.
“See what, Craig?”
Craig wildly waved his hands in the direction of the PC.
“Dude! The PC has a sword made of light! It’s blue! And he flew in on a giant...dog...thing with a creep... | 2015-08-04T07:43:46 | 2015-08-04T07:22:50 | 98 | 34 |
[WP] You have a small superpower. Whenever you tap someone on the shoulder, they always look over that shoulder, without fail. At first, you just used this for harmless pranks. Then, you realized you can kill people by tapping both of their shoulders. | The first time I used my powers was when I didn't even know it existed. 14-year old me decided to joke with the studious girl sitting in front of me by tapping on her shoulder jokingly mid-lesson. I was shocked momentarily when she turned around instantly, accompanied with an annoyed "What?" She was the type of girl wh... | Twenty-one years ago, I was born with an unusual superpower. By tapping somebody on their shoulder, I could always make them turn and look over that shoulder.
The superpower seemed innocuous; like it would serve no practical use outside of playing pranks. That was until I had inadvertently tapped both shoulders and ki... | 2017-06-27T22:57:47 | 2017-06-27T21:38:32 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] At birth every one gets a number assigned to them which determines their threat to humanity. You are number 1,039,474,023. Your newlyborn son is born. His number is 1. This number has never been seen before in all of history. | The nurse comes back into the room, cradling our son. "Alex David!" I say, straightening myself up in the bed.
The nurse doesn't smile back, and she certainly doesn't place Alex in my outstretched arms. "Give him to me!" I snap. My husband, Steve, starts to laugh. ("I told you she'd drive you crazy", he says.)
"His n... | (Obligatory First Post)
Brian and Susan Harmony had always been normal people who lived a nice normal life. They met in high school, dated through college, married two years after graduating, and settled down in a small town in North Carolina.
Susan was a Women's Studies major who at first spent much time volunteerin... | 2016-03-28T20:01:26 | 2016-03-28T18:10:53 | 115 | 44 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | "I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" the Dark Lord asked.
I can't see him, but he towers several feet above me as I feel the spirits leave the bodies of the fallen heroes. A familiarity begins coursing through my body. The heat rising within, ignoring my cold, tattered robes.... | As the headless body of Sly - the Hero of Legend - slumped to its knees the entire chamber grew still. The corpses of his friends were strewn all over. Impaled on spikes, beheaded, torn to shreds. Each one killed in a separate gruesome and imaginative fashion.
The Great Lord - Apollo - the Son of the Sun - the Starchi... | 2020-07-11T04:45:03 | 2020-07-11T03:40:49 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] "If I am not the rightful king, lightning shall strike me now!". It struck him. Silence followed. Baffled one of the bystanders cautiously asked "...well, could ya give us a sign who is?" | "My lord, I'm grateful for your invitation. I always heard about your delightful banquets and now I can atest to that."
The king despised the idea of having peasants like the son of the chief blacksmith attending his banquet but his advisors insisted on improving his public image by inviting the lesser kind.
"Drink u... | “Hell’s”
The tired young knight stayed close to his prince as possible,the prince was a fool with a blade, with a castle,with a kingdom.As the foolish prince ran into more enemies, the knights blade ended more lives.Were they good people,were they going to be missed at home or were they evil men who the gods had put i... | 2018-10-25T22:01:51 | 2018-10-25T21:15:19 | 63 | 37 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | Curved horns, grey skin, six-fingered hands, split tail...yep, my roommate just proved her claim and transformed into a demon. She looked imposing enough to be royalty, too.
"Well fuck, I know I'm not on anything today. Guess I should run with it."
"Run with it?!" Eis (no, Eisheth, what the hell) shouted. "My mom is ... | "OK, so what you're telling me is ur gonna have to wear a frilly dress even though they make you dysphoric, pretend that ur dating me, and convince ur homophobic, conservative mom that im a good partner for the prince of hell?" Texted Tissues, sitting on his bed while texting Trophy, who was at the mall buying a... | 2022-10-09T02:53:50 | 2022-10-08T20:49:21 | 52 | 16 |
[WP] You are a lawyer defending your client, who has been accused of murder. You want to see them found not guilty, since they are a good person and you KNOW they are innocent. After all, you are the murderer yourself. | We exchange a knowing glance before being led into the courtroom. This was part of the deal, after all. I was here to attempt to defend him and keep him out of jail.
He saved my life all those years ago in that desert, so I owed him more than I could ever repay in one lifetime. Only reason he was on trial and not me i... | He graduated top of his class and before he knew it entered the chaos of New York with firms to chose from. Plucked up into an associate role, he worked case after case, simple civil claims to big corporate cases. As soon as he bought in as a partner, he decided it was time to take cases on the side. Murder cases alway... | 2019-05-19T04:44:40 | 2019-05-19T03:42:28 | 275 | 52 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | It's been 7 long years since you left me. The counselor told me that the pain would become more manageable. With time. And sometimes I think maybe it will. Then I'll hear the creak of the floorboards, and expect to see you shuffling into the room as you did, that beautiful smile on your face making my heart skip a beat... | We used to play as kids that we got our messages and they were from our crushes, the girls would swoon and the guys would try and run. We would put our names in a hat and one by one we would grab a name, pairing everyone up.
That was when we were kids. I'm 26 now and no response. No messages, no info, just silence.
Wh... | 2015-11-30T12:28:23 | 2015-11-30T09:56:49 | 87 | 58 |
[WP] You run an underground fight club for the supernatural. A new patron approaches you at the end of the night and asks why you don't enter the fights. After explaining you're human the patron looks at you with confusion. "No, you most definitely aren't kid". | “Kid?” I asked, as I scoffed, “Buddy, I’m almost 50 and on top of that, I’ve never had an awakening. No powers, no moment of clarity, no greater calling yadda yadda. So, I dare say I am, 100% certified Grade A, FDA approved human.”
The patron rolled his eyes at me and began to speak in a hushed tone, “Look boss man, ... | The new patron with his shifty beady eyes grabs you by the arm and takes you to the juice bar staffed with 4 or 5 really hot superheroines who are tossing shakers around like the finalists at last year's best bartender contest. He, she or it whispers in you ear, while motioning to one of the now free barmaids to coming... | 2022-09-09T09:08:29 | 2022-09-09T00:50:39 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] While cleaning your attic, you find a box of glass balls with names on them. You accidentally drop one, and as soon as it shatters, you hear your neighbor scream. Her husband has dropped dead. | The new house wasn't really what I'd hoped for.
Desperate to move out of my piece-of-crap rental, I'd bid on every house I could get a loan for - anything had to be better than an asshole landlord and a carpet that smelled like piss. If it was my own house, at least I could do something about the carpet.
Sadly, what ... | I gasp at what has occurred, a mere coincidence I think to myself. Tom, my neighbor's husband, was old and already at risk, so perhaps a heart attack or a stroke. I search around the box for my other neighbor's name. I find it and think to myself, "Should I do this?"
I slowly bring the small, blue, glass marble to ... | 2019-11-03T23:23:28 | 2019-11-03T22:48:27 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | Finn stared, first in disbelief then in annoyance, as a crossbow bolt flew like quicksilver across the room, directly into the Lord Sovereign's chest, killing him instantly. Finn continued to stare as the strands of magic tying the golems around the room dissipated as the source drew its last breath.
Was that it?
"H... | "Good job breaking it, hero," I managed to spit out through the blood and half-missing, mangled flesh that was my right cheek.
"What? Emperor Tranithis Rex lies dead by my hand. I have won the day!"
"No, Arctus, you haven't. Tranithis has ruled for over 2000 years, without pause or sizeable opposition. Didn't you con... | 2017-03-12T13:41:06 | 2017-03-12T12:55:51 | 89 | 64 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | One day, on my 18th birthday, on my way to school, I saw an old lady sitting on a park bench, watching her grandchildren playing in the park. I felt happy, knowing that no matter how much darkness is in the world, there is always something good to brighten up your day. But then I saw something behind her. At first, it ... | \[English not first language\]
It took him a long time to open his eyes, so long, in fact, that I thought he might be dead. We were deep into the mountain, and the rescue team that I had called in was still quite far.
He looked up and saw the cliff from which we had fallen. Confusion filled his eyes, and then pure di... | 2020-01-24T16:18:18 | 2020-01-24T14:14:12 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Humanity has a low-key Hivemind that was the origin of the “sixth sense”. When another gestalt entity attempts to invade earth, the Hivemind fully awakens. | It was a gradual change. It went unnoticed at first, save the fact things began to improve for us. People who previously couldn't give a toss, stopped for a moment. A child's birthday party brightened the mood of those around. A funeral caused passersby to bow their heads. But ever time someone slept, the connection op... | “We received a boon, a long time ago,” said Anne, curling her graying hair around her index finger.
“Yeah? And how do you know?” said Twitch.
“I’ve always known. And so have you. And so has every man, woman and child on earth.”
She released the springy curl and pointed to the sky. Oily pink and purple clouds swirled... | 2021-01-26T11:07:04 | 2021-01-26T10:51:28 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] You are a well-respected Villain. You caused only necessary minor Damages, you never purposefully took a life, and you made sure to keep a strict Code when dealing with civilians. But for some reason, some of the younger Newbie Heroes seem to think you are Evil Incarnate | Usually one is awoken to the blinding of a golden glow filling their bedroom on a sunny morning, or the consecutive noise of fighting and squawking birds on a colder one. Today however I was awoken to soft and harsh whispers, and when opening my eyes I was not in my bed, but tied to a chair with three pairs of eyes gli... | ***Hashtag "Evil"***
Gentle notes played from the tickled ivories of the grand piano that sat in the center of Paul's Piano Bar in the heart of Star City. A familiar feeling place, filled with familiar looking faces. The most familiar of those faces, Detective Falcona was running late this particular day, happy hour w... | 2022-12-20T13:51:04 | 2022-12-20T09:05:51 | 163 | 107 |
[WP] Your kind has conquered countless worlds. Your aren't particularly strong, but you have a dirty trick up your sleeve. One which is currently being thwarted for one simple reason. Out of every species you've fought, humans are the only one that doesn't typically eat random crap off the ground. | It was a quiet evening. The planet's single star had disappeared below the horizon leaving a slowly fading glow. To Ther'ok's multilensed eyes, it was prismatic and ethereal. A blanket of gossamer rainbow dragging night across the
sky. She allowed herself a moments' distraction, then returned to the task at hand. *The... | "So, Oooaaauuu, how is it going?"
First Claimer sighed at this question. Of course, Vessel Commander have a right to know about status of ongoing operations, but his timing is just obnoxious. Why he questions Oooaaauuu during his lunch break? Like, isn't working hours exist for, well, work?
"We are only getting start... | 2022-09-20T12:40:57 | 2022-09-20T10:57:08 | 641 | 208 |
[WP] You can heal anyone from any injury or disease, by either taking the affliction on yourself, or passing it onto someone else. You've been using this gift for years, but no one has realized it. | “Bless you, Jason. You’re such a nice boy.”
I smiled warmly and patted Mrs Jenkins’ arm before turned to leave. My fingertips flickered numb momentarily as I Pulled. “Don’t you worry about those tests, Edith. Spry young thing like you should be up in no time.”
The octogenarian laughed delightedly.
“I’ll go check wit... | Irritating, is what this power is.
I found out about it when my younger sister finally got chickenpox.
Grossly, I poked one of them and found it disappeared. I kept on doing this, and every spot removed, perfectly smooth skin underneath a sore that disappeared.
"Mummy, look! I'm a doctor!" I announced proudly, po... | 2016-02-03T10:32:04 | 2016-02-03T10:31:22 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You're a superhero slowly turning into a super villain | *Absolute histrionic bullshit,* I thought. “Megan,” I said. “May I call you, Megan?”
She nodded with tears in her eyes.
“Do you know who I am?” I asked.
“Everyone does,” she said blushing a bit. “You’re here to tell me not to jump, aren’t you?”
“Look, I’m sure you have lots of people who care about you. I know some... | John was a good man. Swiss, or something. Easily the best of us, in power and in character. And his burden was the heaviest. Someone out there past the edges of what we know stole him from his home, stretched and twisted his body, tried to burn away his mind, filled his head with the thoughts of a monster. Sent him bac... | 2015-03-18T20:28:45 | 2015-03-18T17:58:06 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | As a young man in Delphi, Gouliélmos generally rushed through lessons with his tutors in order to run outside and wrestle and throw javelins and race chariots. As a result, his standing in the academy was low, but at sport he had few equals, and this gave him great confidence and arrogance.
One day, Dionysus and Herm... | In the beginning, there was nothing but the gods of Darkness and Light. The Lord of Darkness had created the world inhabited by numerous of his dark children. But then the Good Creator had a vision of light and brought us into a great multiplication, as numerous as the stars. In his vision of light, he had created a sy... | 2015-06-10T10:25:42 | 2015-06-10T10:24:27 | 730 | 11 |
[WP] "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison."
This is a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky, by the way. | We start with a tempting job offer.
The job has a salary that is far above average for the prisoner's field. Most accept. If they don't, we raise the offer.
The prisoner is then flown to a small town in Alaska. This town is accessible only by planes.
The prisoner is allowed to work from home most days.
An employee ap... | Dave sat alone in his apartment drinking his morning cup of coffee and eating a bowl of cereal. He glanced up at the clock and noticed that it was time to drive to work. His commute took roughly half an hour due to traffic and he arrived at his office building at just past 8 o'clock. As he sat in his cubicle creatin... | 2016-05-04T16:08:39 | 2016-05-04T15:52:19 | 220 | 123 |
[WP] A love poem that is beautiful when read forwards and heartbreaking when read backwards | It was the end of me.
But seeing you standing in the coffee shop,
I knew you had to be mine.
I could let go of my past, my fears, my regrets,
The future was calling. I thought
We could never be one,
But when I looked in your eyes I knew
I loved you.
I never wanted anything so much as you:
Your smile... | In the End
I knew You had forgiven me
But I can not tell you how much I wish
Calmer winds had blown from then on,
Despite all I had done
Every day, I would see your beauty anew and
Find new ways to say that
Gracefully you showed me how to
Hate my self less.
You could not always be there to help me
But I was g... | 2016-11-19T16:25:08 | 2016-11-19T16:21:42 | 61 | 29 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Ah shit. Well there goes my plan. I step over the mess of dried up bones before me. The court addressees me and ask me the same question the poor bastard before me fumbled. I start to panic my heart is racing i cant think of anything. "How much time do i have?" I ask. "I dont know dude honestly your the first to ask, l... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 56 | 17 |
[WP] We find intelligent life under the ice crust of the moon "Europa". Upon contact, the aquatic species is confused how we survived the "harsh climate of earth" any why we, as a species didn't leave "when we had the chance".
"and" instead of "any"... | They moved like great leviathans, eyeless worms with fleshy whiskers tingling like ears, but connected directly to their brains. They broke through the plates of ice with sound. It was a bellowing - an awesome primal noise coming from somewhere in their guts. It made everything shake. The ice flashed with a purple glow... | The team sent to Europa was a small one containing only three men, only one expected to exit the submarine at the risk of their life. I was that man. An entirely new type of rocket separate from that of the ones utilized prior had to be constructed to breech the miles and find what would lie beneath. It had a normal sh... | 2018-04-23T08:54:22 | 2018-04-23T08:14:38 | 102 | 28 |
[WP]"And that totals to twenty three dollars thank you" The perky cashier chirped up with their unnatural cheer... "It was twenty one yesterday, what gives?" I protest, somehow I feel like I'm being mocked. "Oh well your karma's risen since then which inflates your misfortune" I jerked up, "What?" | 'I thought you knew?' The perky cashier asked.
I glanced down at her name badge. 'No, *Debby*, I didn't know that you were going to overcharge me because of *Karma*.'
I would be lying if I said, I didn't mean it to come out harshly. Debby took no offence; she stood with her hands folded on the counter. 'It's in the ... | "Sir, this is a Costco, if you really aren't familiar with the arbitrary and metaphysical concepts of the world we inhabit by now you should talk to a professor/wizard, not me."
"Oh." John said, somewhat taken aback. "Do we have wizards here?"
"In Walmart? No."
"I mean do wizards exist."
"Also no. I'm fucking with ... | 2019-04-29T04:51:45 | 2019-04-29T04:26:36 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] You are a "hero" in a fantasy world, but as you "adventure", you are slowly realizing YOU are the antagonist.
I'm new here, this is my first WP! Please have mercy.
I really want to write something, but i'm scared ç-ç.
Edit: this blew overnight! Thank you guys so much! | With a quick block of my shield, I quickly countered the soldier's attack. Killing him in one fell swoop. The soldier fell to the ground, blood leaking across the stone pavements. The town was now silent. All families had fled. Almost soldiers had been eliminated.
Amongst all this blood shed, I had a small thought to... | "I stand here before you as a meek servant of The Man With the Compassionate Horns," I cried. The men and women of the village stood still, nervously looking at one another. Slowly, a man began to nod.
"At last you've come!" he said. He launched into an enthusiastic applause, soon followed by rapturous roars from the ... | 2016-10-26T09:19:47 | 2016-10-26T08:50:11 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | Creativity. Creativity is key.
The bank robbers were very well armed and clearly well trained. They held their guns confidently and quickly subdued the crowd, backing us against the wall, our faces to the ground. On one side of me, a man was muttering something, angry words, working himself up. On the other side, a wo... | The universe is a weird place, but back in 2016 we thought we had it figured out more or less - we thought we knew the possible and could separate it from the impossible. We were wrong.
Reality-defying superpowers started springing up all over the place. Nobody knows how the powers work, or exactly how you acquire t... | 2015-05-05T10:19:33 | 2015-05-05T09:38:36 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] It's been five years since the manned mission to Mars ended in disaster. A weak broadcast in Morse is picked up by NASA satellites; it says 'I'M STILL HERE'. | The control room went silent.
"Was that...?"
"Check if the equipment's malfunctioning. Now."
The room burst into a frenzy, coffee cups ignored and headsets slammed on.
In a nearby office, a suited man furrowed his brows. His aide rushed in, carrying a faded manila folder. There were much easier ways to transfer in... | It was 2050. Mission control was talking to the ship, preparing it to land. The mission control members were guiding astronauts through high-tech cameras streaming to earth. As it began to get closer to the planet the astronauts suddenly stopped talking and camera signal was lost.
"Mike. Ground control to Mike. If yo... | 2015-01-29T18:54:02 | 2015-01-29T17:08:07 | 59 | 38 |
[WP] You live on a floating city that traverses the ocean. Today, the city is going to dive. | So I live on the water, big deal. But I'm a little different from most people that live on water. This isn't a boat. In fact, when I'm not *home* most people don't believe where I live. And it's not that they won't believe the concept of it - I mean, of course everyone knows about the big bloody floating city. Well, *N... | They never did give us straight answers. They never did let us study the world before, when we didn't use the ocean currents to traverse our world. They never told us of the people who came before us, or how they had caused the great disaster that turned their world into ours. They never told us how *our* world came to... | 2015-07-30T13:46:20 | 2015-07-30T13:42:31 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | "Alright, I'll tell you, but you can't laugh."
"I'm not going to laugh."
"You are totally going to laugh, and then I'm going to get embarrassed and hate you forever." She glanced around. "Who brought up this topic, anyway?"
"You did, we were talking about my power and then you asked me how old I was when I chose." I... | The genie floated before the slight little girl, patiently waiting for an answer as she hummed her indecision.
"I wish," she said, "I wish that I could make cookies appear whenever I wanted."
With a brilliant sparkling, the genie disappeared with the dream and the child woke up.
Deciding to test this new power ... | 2015-03-06T23:18:21 | 2015-03-06T23:01:15 | 316 | 130 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | The end began years before the pandemic did, even though I did not realize it at the time..
No one could have foreseen that unlike the previous year's coronavirus, SARS3-CoV-20 would have the power to create zombies. No one prepared for it; the media did not warn us; President Trump couldn't even be bothered to tweet ... | \-=-=-
Day 3, My friends and I managed to get some supplies from the supermarket without attracting too much attention from other survivors or the undead, When planning our next move I made the suggestion of raiding the old history museum, They just laughed and called me a madman, I kept insisting that the old armor t... | 2020-09-14T09:45:10 | 2020-09-14T09:10:39 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You build a robot to do your every day tasks for you so you don't have to work anymore. One day, you come home to find that your robot has built another robot to do its tasks for it. | It got out of hand the fifth robot down the line. I programmed the first robot, A2, just to do my basic functions (I'm a computer programmer and robotic engineer) and my most boring tasks (chores, etc.) I'm good at my job - really good - and my robotic side projects are starting to generate some real income. In a year,... | Through avoiding having to wash my underwear, I stumbled across a new fundamental Law of the universe. Simply stated, any robot created to do work that its creator clearly doesn't want to do will inherit its creator's propensity for shirking responsibilities. I call it the Laziness principle, or LP for short.
Thanks ... | 2017-11-20T08:26:53 | 2017-11-20T08:24:53 | 3,392 | 15 |
[WP] You are a retired Dark Lord, living in the countryside. Ten years after your crushing defeat the heroes come for your help. | Warm water filled the filthy bathtub to the brim. I dropped myself, splashing some onto the rotted tile nearby. I tried to relax my heartbeat as I sunk deeper. I put my head underwater for a few seconds, just enough to trigger my body's panic response.
It was nice to feel something, at last. I repeated the cycle a fe... | Hmph. "Dark Lord." I don't know about that. That's what the media named me, but make no mistake, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't feel the raw guilt of my...my history...
I did what I had to do to protect my family, protect their future. The futures of my children. The stereotype of evil is that the "villai... | 2017-06-09T07:50:58 | 2017-06-09T07:50:52 | 41 | 25 |
[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.” | If my childhood was a fairy story, it was more Baba Yaga than grinning mouse.
Instead of beautiful flowing locks, I had a ramen noodle mullet and a humpty dumpty build. Being an eight year old girl was no picnic. To “toughen me up”, my well-meaning mother enrolled me in The Brownies, a military youth organisation.
Th... | “My cat wants to adopt you, so you’re now one of us,” one of them said.
I blinked and tried to process the scene in front of me. I had woken up to a group of strangers standing over my bed talking nonsense. A group of women and men(?) were dressed in old, worn out clothing. Mostly black dresses and strange hats. Th... | 2020-12-05T08:07:28 | 2020-12-05T07:25:32 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You find three little puppies sleeping on your porch. Actually, upon closer inspection, it’s not three little puppies. It’s Cerberus, Hade’s three headed dog. The collar around the middle head reads, “Cerberus. If lost, please call Hell. (666-666-6666)” | My own dogs barking their heads off inside, I observed the little heads as they playfully nipped at one another. I chuckled to myself when all three heads looked at me expectantly while the one tiny tail wagged exuberantly.
Certain I was being filmed for a YouTube prank channel I called the number on their collar. A... | "What's not to like? It's three times the dog and a third the poop," With a phone in one hand and the largest jug of enzyme cleaner available on the market, the woman sighed across the line, "Yeaaaah... no I know, I was wrong about that too. If I'm not joking about it I'm crying so I think this is a good alternative. t... | 2018-08-08T15:30:37 | 2018-08-08T14:41:01 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | A marine stepped through the portal.
He surveyed the land, and beheld a lush, uncharted rainforest.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He looked forward into the clearing, and saw an exotic hut surrounded by plots of abandoned farmland.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He peered around, and was greeted ... | There was no sign of civilization. Not a single sentient lifeform exist. The world is untouch, and the bravest marine of all is the first human that have laid eyes upon them. It doesn't take him too long to realize what happened, and the mistake they made is too big for him to fix. Years of training comes in handy in t... | 2014-09-02T10:07:22 | 2014-09-02T09:22:16 | 342 | 71 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to know what is wrong with a piece of broken technology just by touching it. One day, as you’re shaking someone’s hand you see an error message. | When I met first met Dave he seemed like a normal guy. He was a new employee of mine at the garage and though we’d talked we’d never really got to know each other. One Friday evening I was closing up shop and he offered to grab a drink. My husband and kids weren’t expecting me at home soon so I agreed, thinking why not... | “Nice to meet you, I’m Tiffany.” She offered her hand.
“And I’m Rex.” He took her hand in his, and in that instant, an alarm that he had never expected to hear, rang off in his head. From the corner of his eye, he could see the error message screaming at him.
*Defective android.*
His first instinct was to pull back ... | 2020-10-24T10:56:22 | 2020-10-24T10:25:13 | 42 | 30 |
[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” | Z'Tok sighed as he sat down on his chair. Everyone around the large table stole a look at him. He had the toughest job out of all the recorders.
"All Rise."
The Chief entered the room, smiling at everyone. His smile wavered a bit when he got to Z'Tok but the old being was good at keeping his emotions hidden. He took... | It was the yearly recorder meeting, when the party was already going.
"Earth's watcher is still missing, right?"
The Great Beast's planet watcher said.
"Yeah, as usually he's late. No magic, no autonomous machine civilisation, no galactic civilisation, yet the humans of Earth can give him so much to do."
Kepler... | 2021-08-13T07:56:11 | 2021-08-13T07:47:15 | 224 | 59 |
[WP] Your Grandma, a shape-shifter, is diagnosed with Alzheimers. She begins to forget her true form...or was it a disguise all along? | My grandparents had always been the handsomest couple I had ever known. They had both aged gracefully, their hair turning from brown to grey to a stark white and wrinkles appearing because of how often they smiled. Grandma’s bright blue eyes always looked into Grandma’s warm brown ones. I had never seen them wear outfi... | Dementia seemed to run in my family. I had heard second hand accounts from my parents and elder cousins on both sides about great-grand parents slowly forgetting their friends, their family and finally themselves. It sounded absolutely terrible. I never wanted to experience someone I loved going through that, watching ... | 2017-02-18T09:14:12 | 2017-02-18T06:37:32 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] "We have ancient elven magic, and even the dwarves have their ugly mountain forts. What do YOU have, human?!" "Napalm, and high-explosives, mostly..." *grumbling beard in the background* "....our forts are aesthetically pleasing though..." | I pulled back the throttle on all 8 engines. “Time to target?”
“Dwarven castle 20 clicks!” The flight engineer replied in my headset.”
“Ready payload.”
My co-pilot flipped up the switches that would release the bomb. The F-35 escorts fired at the anti-air gun positions on the castle. I kept the massive plane steady... | “Who invited the humans to this conflict?!” Grumbled the dwarven general, clad in his armor and wielding a war hammer, his banner swirling in the wind.
“Now from what I understand”, says a human commander, walking up and wiping the dust off his pants. “Looks like you guys are going to partake in what we call a war gam... | 2019-02-03T22:44:43 | 2019-02-03T22:26:15 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | "Thank goodness! I was beginning to give up hope." The old man cried.
Timidly, I looked about our modest surroundings. We appeared to be in a small cabin, the interior covered in lacquered wood slats and supports. A small brick fireplace salon the far side of the room, bathing us both in red-orange light. Strangely, t... | "Huh? What are you talking about?" I squint, my eyes still adjusting to the bright, fluorescent lighting, "What is this place? Shit, am I dead?"
The old man smiles, and nods slowly.
"Oh... I think I should be upset about that, but weirdly it feels... fine? Is that normal? Are--are you like, an angel or something?"
... | 2021-11-24T11:38:59 | 2021-11-24T11:14:31 | 6,329 | 685 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | The alliance had recently made first contact with a new and emerging species. They were a frail group, no way to read other species brains having to result in either trust or gunboat diplomacy. They were bipedal and had a pretty large planet, neither of those are a good sign.
Soon I would confirm my suspicions. I peer... | Accariz, the diplomatic of the Azara species, went down sudenly when he was talking to the human.
His screams fill the circular chamber completly. The noise of the hundreds of conversations stopped sudenly, and the AI responsible for security started to search for threads, but fail.
Accariz was screaming in the groun... | 2019-09-29T18:12:55 | 2019-09-29T17:13:42 | 207 | 65 |
[WP] Following a chosen deity has real world benefits, much like perks in a videogame. The more obscure gods offer more interesting gifts to those that find them. | Mixcoatl is a cruel God.
When I was a young lad, everyone around me displayed the blessings given to them from their Gods. I can recall from my highschool days a particular incident, a cold spring day as a senior when I was surrounded by Christians and taken downstairs to a room I neither knew the location of nor the ... | "The name of your god... is Bobo?"
I nodded, clicking my finger against the tabletop, waiting on the waitress to bring me my coffee. My contact had asked to meet me hear, after reading the circulating rumors about my Lord and Savior. Of course, he didn't know the half of it. For every truth spilled on forums and posts... | 2016-01-26T20:48:29 | 2016-01-26T20:37:42 | 219 | 78 |
[WP] After a battle with massive casualties the fallen soldiers of the hostile nations march together towards the underworld | It made sense fifteen minutes ago.
There was us, the brave warriors defending our country from the outsiders. Attacking those who meant us harm before they could ever cross the ocean to get to us again. We were Marines, the greatest fighting force since Genghis Khan.
Then there was them. The terrorists. The crimina... | It hurts to think. Everything hurts in fact. I made a promise to myself that i wouldn't die in this place, so far from home, but as i sink into the mud made with the blood of my brothers, the idea of joining them below the earth doesn't seem too bad. I've seen to much, done to much. This end for me is just, and i accep... | 2014-12-14T13:36:48 | 2014-12-14T10:55:19 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] Every new year the priests sacrifice whoever finds the stone bean in their meal to bring the clan good fortune in the months to come. It's supposed to be random, but you get suspicious when you notice the priests watching you carefully as you sit down to eat. | I noticed the priest stare at me out of the corner of my eye. Every year the priests put a carved stone bean in a persons soup, during the feast celebrating the end of the harvest season.
I know that the bean is supposed to be scooped randomly, but I think it might have been put in my soup, I never was notably popula... | The members of the clan stare at their bowls with trepidation. Children clutch their spoons in anticipation with grabby little fists, with no understanding of the significance of the food. Some men stare grimly at their bowls, others shiver like boys.
You shrug, digging hungrily into the meal before you. The stew is r... | 2021-12-31T19:43:04 | 2021-12-31T18:44:43 | 35 | 11 |
[WP] In the future, genetic engineering has been perfected. Instead of creating horrors or perfect humans, most scientists just want to make Pokémon. | "So....What does it do?"
The suit stood in the middle of my lab, squinting in at my creation. *My* lab. Chrissy and Dave stood just behind me, nervously waiting with armfuls of papers.
"I'm sorry?"
She rolled her eyes, motioning through the glass. The tiny critter within chirped warmly at the motion, leaning fowa... | "Dun dun dun na na na Na!..."
"Hey, man could you pipe down. Curing cancer via custom edited macrophages isn't easy, and that's super annoying" Said Terry.
"Sorry bro, didn't mean to be a bother" said Blake "I'm just really excited about the new project"
Terry heard the excitement in Blake's voice, probably for the... | 2017-09-12T10:40:47 | 2017-09-12T10:25:08 | 506 | 51 |
[WP] The old legends say that only "cold iron" can kill the Fair Folk. Now, with the Goblin King invading the surface world, it's discovered that this was a mistranslation. The original phrase was "Heavy Metal". | Standing on the precipice of extinction , humanity reaches back in time. Back in time to the tales of old. The tales that spoke of the Fair folk.
The fair folk were prophesied to come killing and burning the Earth clean of humanity’s taint. They did as the prophecy foresaw.
Modern weaponry was useless against them... | *Morning, Goblin King's command center, day 3 of the battle.*
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"I understand you're here to make a treaty", the King said, in a tone indicating he'd already won.
"I am." I said, flicking away the notifications on my watch.
New Text: Audio systems in place
New Text: I got the bluetooth linked, your ... | 2018-12-26T18:06:08 | 2018-12-26T17:15:22 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] It is modern day America, but everyone speaks in Shakespearean English. You are a gamer raging out during an online multiplayer match. | **The Impulsivity of Sir Leeroy Jenkins, and his Motley Crew of Men**
(the [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POnOSedWWQ), in case you're wondering)
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My friends and fellow men of arms, these eggs
Have given us due trouble in the past.
But first, let us prepare our stores. Who here
Has need of anyt... | A pox to this story I tell thee dear reader, a pox to its virtues, a pox to its name! A weary and morose tale, one of dastards and deviants and miscreants of all kinds!
I sat at my home, comfort in the hearth, feeling a delight akin to that of my childhood. The mead I had was cool to the tongue, my stomach and blood w... | 2017-01-09T16:29:26 | 2017-01-09T16:00:32 | 94 | 42 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | I see that you chose our unlimited funding package for the cost of one soul. Yes, that does include unlimited funding. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to deny your application for this equipment. You only chose the first tier of unlimited funding. We actually have three levels of unlimited funding. The package yo... | To congratulate you on outsmarting him, the devil gave you a free skiing trip to Mt. Everest where on your second day, an avalanche fell and buried you under 50 feet of snow. Since you are immortal, you are stuck in freezing hell for eternity. Both getting what both asked for. | 2018-08-23T14:29:29 | 2018-08-23T14:10:37 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] An Alien must explain to a Human that Earth is not a paradise for life, it is the most horrific Death World ever discovered. | A paradise for life? Well, I suppose that is technically true. If you tilt your head and squint.
The water is concentrated in a few large oceans which allows for storms of truly prodigious size to form and batter the land. The land masses are so large that the interiors tend to be fairly arid because water just can'... | warning: swearing at the end
"Listen, Jerry, I'm telling you this place is horrible mate, you have to believe me!"
"Nah, dude everything is perfect here what are you even talking about, Larry?"
"Can't you taste it? The chemical flavor, the noxious poisons everywhere created by your vicious plants? What about the s... | 2022-12-08T04:01:04 | 2022-12-07T21:56:40 | 612 | 74 |
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