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[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | My name is Dr. Asclepius. I am not here in the senate chambers to make any demands. I am simply an ambassador, here to speak on behalf of all humanity.
It has been a year and a half since humanity stood on the galactic stage.
But this year and a half is already filled with more bloodshed, more atrocities, and more un... | There were horrors outside the door.
Horrors upon horrors upon horrors.
Nothing that no one else had not lived through before, learned before, seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and touched before.
Screaming blades in the dark and stark flashes of light in the void.
But none of that mattered, because it was outside the ... | 2022-01-23T19:51:14 | 2022-01-23T16:28:58 | 60 | 30 |
[WP] You feel the emotions of anyone you touch. You accidentally brush hands with the barista when they hand you your coffee. You're the most scared you've ever been in your entire life.
[deleted] | “Elena,” she called out, the name written on the side of the cup.
As far as abilities go, it’s among the most boring, surprisingly. Most people go about their day in a general flow and it’s extremely rare that I get sharp feedback. Occasionally there’ll be a striking anger or sadness or joy or guilt or envy, just by t... | “Cold.”
“Pardon? Are you alright? If the coffee is cold, I can get you another one, I just didn’t think it would cool so quickly.” The barista gave me a puzzled look as I stood there dumbfounded, a looming sensation of fear travelling down my trembling hand, loose bits of coffee spilling from the hole in the lid.
... | 2021-04-02T20:59:17 | 2021-04-02T20:22:15 | 339 | 122 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | Nobody is ever dethroning “My Immortal”
> Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don't know wh... | A chilled wind rolled in from the north. Night began to fall on the small town. An army of darkness marched towards the village blood lust on their mind. One lone warrior stood to defend the weak and helpless. They drew their glowing red sword, and with a single strike fell the evil forces.
"Who are you?" Asked a dyi... | 2022-08-19T20:01:22 | 2022-08-19T19:57:54 | 55 | 20 |
[WP] You start to suspect that the dumb brute of your adventuring party is far more intelligent and cunning than anyone thought. | I studied the man-mountain before me. Seven or eight feet tall; scantily clad; rippling muscles; and long, flowing hair. In *Alhamazad's Illustrated Dictionary (Common)*, under the entry "Barbarian", there would be a picture of this guy. Not that I expected him to be familiar with the book; in barbarian culture - using... | I sat motionless in the darkness of the forest. Whoever betrayed us back in Carisdale had taken the bait.
I was sure it was Brawn, our hulk of a barbarian, always hidden behind a veil of ignorance. Greg and Rho chalked it up as dumb luck but I had started to notice the little things, the slight tensing of muscles befo... | 2017-03-31T02:13:11 | 2017-03-31T02:04:44 | 163 | 20 |
[WP] As a sarcastic joke for your hippie friend. You give a mother's day gift to Mother Nature in the woods. You suddenly hear a very loud excited voice. "Oh thank you! I'm happy someone finally appreciate me for the 1st time in thousands of years!" | God, Jaxon was getting on my nerves. Ever since he found that online community of environmentalists, he talked non-stop about how humans are destroying the planet, venting his frustrations about how the powers that be aren't doing anything to stop it, listing all the animals that are becoming endangered, and berating m... | "Oh thank you! I'm happy someone finally appreciate me for the 1st time in thousands of years!" the voice echoed all around me, thick with sarcasm.
I gasped and stumbled back, as one would as a reaction to a feminine disembodied voice suddenly saying something.
"Wh—what?" I stammered, looking around my immediate vici... | 2021-05-09T15:26:26 | 2021-05-09T15:13:13 | 101 | 31 |
[WP] In a world without race, religion, or nations, it seemed like society had finally achieved peace. That is, until, people began swearing their allegiance to fictional anime girls. The world is in chaos, the Waifu Wars have begun.
[deleted] | Listen, young weeb, and I’ll tell you a tale.
Many moons back, these old body pillows were soft and fresh, these jars were empty, and only bread was crusty. This place we live now had a name. Most called it Kentucky, until it was absorbed into Mega-Carolina. Both those names haven’t been uttered in years, but I rememb... | In the 21st century, human civilization ceased to exist. A mysterious green flash enveloped the entire earth, turning every living human into a stone statue. Thousands of years passed. The old cities of mankind crumbled and fell into ruins while forests and wild animals reclaimed the land. Yet, humanity had not yet bre... | 2020-06-19T21:48:31 | 2020-06-19T17:57:01 | 119 | 33 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | She held the dying woman's hand. The woman, old, sick, in pain, and lonely looked up at the pretty red head. "Thank you," she whispered. Her voice was weak, but happy - hopeful.
The young lady smiled and held the older woman's hand tighter. "My pleasure," she responded.
The sick woman, the tired woman, closed her ey... | Her heart raced as she waited, her breath warm against the wardrobe door she was pressed behind. Time stood almost still as each footstep echoed from the wooden floor. It had been so long. Too long. She needed to see him, to feel him again.
Unable to wait any longer she put the plan she'd rehearsed countless times in... | 2014-06-30T09:07:59 | 2014-06-30T06:00:38 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Someone in the world can effectively stop time, freezing all living things for as long as they want, but the natural world keeps on moving. Most phones have an app that notifies the user how long time was stopped, usually just a few minutes/hours. You just got a notification that says 58 years. | The first moment the time thief took from us almost passed unnoticed. It was a small slice of late afternoon, red and pink hues spreading across the sky, as the sun began to set.
Just a pinch, gone forever.
But someone noticed.
It was summer when the rest of the world finally realised. Those odd slips of seasonal w... | “Call came in a minute ago. Five decades, plus change. Bastards going to ruin it for all of us if they keeps at it”
they motioned to a suitcase on the floor, lying before the two of them like slaughter, inanimate but with the heat of death at the edge of perception.
*ding*
another 5 minutes
“Christ, why can’t t... | 2021-02-18T16:22:27 | 2021-02-18T12:35:08 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You're a Necro-Therapist, you resurrect the recently tragically deceased to give them and their families a chance to say goodbye and gain closure. Everyone believes it's just you doing a very convincing impression as a therapy technique, until someone asked a very specific question. | It was late at night on a Saturday in December. I was debating if I should close my clinic doors and head home or just extend my hours until 7 in the morning. It had been an especially slow night and I desperately needed money to fund my living expenses as a medical school student. I walked to the window and looked out... | 'I don't like the sound of this ...' the voice of the teenage daughter said. 'You're telling me that we can find out why? How?'
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I sat there, fiddling with the small crucifix with my fingers. A nervous habit I'd picked up in my primary school where the nuns would whack my knuckles for lying when I told ... | 2019-06-18T09:13:47 | 2019-06-18T08:27:30 | 104 | 73 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | The room fell silent. The GM shifted for a better look, the players all staring at the centre of the table, where a d20 had come to rest over a crudely drawn map of a desert village. Above it, an outstretched hand quivered slightly.
1.
"Shit..." said Mark.
John took in a heavy breath, and began to leaf through the ... | "Alright I have the bomb and I'm ready to use it on the motorcade" Alen started his character Mehmedbasic ready to fulfill the job the party had been recruited for.
"Same here, let's do this," Larry said, excited that it was his character Vaso's time to shine.
"Alright both of you roll a stealth check and then an att... | 2018-05-29T07:03:42 | 2018-05-29T06:46:10 | 1,678 | 74 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "Mimic other superpowers?"
"Taken, Number 7."
"Damn, thought that was a creative one..."
"It wasn't. Next choice?"
"Negate other sup-"
The scientist cuts me off. "18. Next?"
I sighed. What's left? Teleportation, mind reading, super strength... I'm sure those are all done. "Control computers with my mind?"
"43. A... | The arbiter let out a long sigh and looked past me. We’d been here a while, and it was finally my turn. His voice was tired. “What’ll it be?”
My hands were clammy. I looked up to him, seated on his pedestal, and sighed. I couldn’t think of anything else. “Um… I’m not sure. All the good powers have been taken already.”... | 2022-11-17T10:09:57 | 2022-11-17T09:49:50 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the galaxy is given a class and rating to describe the type of society they have. Humanity has just been mistakenly labeled as a level 3 technological society. The galaxy is about to discover the true horrors of a level 6 warring society. | It was a mistake.
The Auraxian's encountered them and they were friendly. Their massive ships and mega-construction ability was exceptional. Dyson rings, Spheres, a matter decompressor (A thing that literally decompressed the event horizon of a black hole, something that was believed to be impossible in a practical s... | Level 1. Primitive.
Level 2. Industrial.
Level 3. Technological.
Level 4. Advanced.
Level 5. Galactic.
Level 6. Warring.
These levels were the Xadian Union's way of evaluating societies based on their technological, biological, military, and societal stance on the galaxy. Most of the civilizations are commonly le... | 2019-11-24T19:34:19 | 2019-11-24T15:22:31 | 167 | 72 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | Brian rested his forehead in his hands, trying to hide the fact that tears were leaking out of his eyes and slowly dribbling down his face. He'd known about fellow scientists getting picked off and 'disappearing' while researching dogs, but he never imagined the hole would go so deep.
Brian had discovered a virus in ... | Professor Clayton pressed the 'Enable' function on his watch.
"Can you hear me, Rover?" he asked.
A distinctly Mancunian accent came back through the transceiver embedded in Professor Clayton's cheek. "OF course I can, you bloody mor-oh, no." Rover covered his head with his paws. "Nonononononono! You fucking bast... | 2015-05-18T14:17:54 | 2015-05-18T14:11:01 | 76 | 32 |
[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. | ...
Something fishy happened here, and it wasn't the fish sticks I had stuffed in my pocket.
*"Ah-hem."*
"Tsk. Tsk."
"We need a new smuggler." I quietly said, scratching my chin.
"Yup. Yup. Uh-huh."
I sighed.
Lying on his bed was dear ol' Nate, with a mouthful of *Big Macs*. The topless prost tied to the chair ... | It's not the *dogs* that are the problem at the border, unless you're careless they'll never find a thing. No, it's those damn Algorhythmic Sensorial System Programatical Robotic Omni-Bionic Examiners that you have to be wary about. Those suckers can get right up and into your business and before you know it they've fo... | 2016-07-25T06:42:55 | 2016-07-25T06:20:50 | 94 | 58 |
[WP] As part of a senior thesis, an anthropology student decides to start a cult to see how far it’ll go. Several years, hundreds of deaths, civil warfare and a complete government overthrow later they wonder how they’ll properly cite their sources. | Professor Johnson didn’t think starting a cult for a senior thesis was a good idea. It was unethical, dangerous, and utterly insane. At least, that’s what he told the FBI. In reality, there might have been more... "ambiguity" to Professor Johnson’s reaction when Kevin proposed the idea.
“Its gotten out of hand, Kev... | Madame Helena DuBois, First Incarnate of the Grand Theocratic Union of the United States, sat languidly in the oval office. Her bare feet were propped on a stool made from the remnants of the last president’s desk as she smoked a long, thin cigarette. The ashes fell into a gold plated tray held by a man whose only job ... | 2021-03-13T09:26:18 | 2021-03-13T09:08:51 | 2,439 | 81 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "What was that?" asked Jen. Just as I opened my mouth the ask what it sounded like I saw a figure slowly turn away from the window behind her. "I think there's someone outside" I replied. Visually shaken, she asked me if we should call the police. I responded with, "well they could just be passing by let's see what ha... | "Just get out of there, fuck off..."
The shadow slowly trickled down on the floor from the closet and slowly crawled towards the bedroom door. Alex threw himself down on the bed and turned off the lights.
Soon the thumping in the stairs started, Alex slowly turned over and looked at his door, contemplating if she wou... | 2017-05-05T07:38:18 | 2017-05-05T07:21:53 | 280 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up from a coma. You were in a car crash caused by a drunk billionaire. In an effort to save his reputation, he hurriedly and secretly ordered the best doctors to restore your burned face using the photo on the driver's license they found in your car—a car which you've stolen. | Melinda Stacy Carbondale.
That's the name on the license.
Born October 8, 1983. Brown hair, brown eyes, 5 ft 8 in. Lives on 9439 Cherry Lane.
Makes sense, considering that's where I found the car--a grey Honda civic. Comfortable, average, unassuming, and a high resale value.
It was supposed to be a simple transacti... | My face, what has happened to my face?
The flashbacks hit me like a brick and I clearly remember robbing a retirement home and stealing a car found in the nearby parking lot from some sucker that left his car unopened and keys in the engine. But everything after that is a blur.
Now I'm faced with the reality of havin... | 2020-10-08T08:29:42 | 2020-10-08T08:20:58 | 1,609 | 39 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | "GET DA FUCK OFF MA LAWN!!!!!!"
I shouted at those crazy worshippers. From time to time there were people in my garden kneeling and praying and hoping someone would safe them from this new management of the country.
It began when some blind witch suddenly had a vision about the dark lord being beaten and the lands li... | "No" my wife stated firmly.
"Jean, he's obviously got issues; he can't be the only one like this but my god.... he's going to get someone killed"
Our young, well, adolescent son, has recently been experiencing some terrible consequences because of my massive fuckup. I mean, how was it supposed to know he'd find that o... | 2016-11-26T06:54:54 | 2016-11-26T05:42:08 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | She held the dying woman's hand. The woman, old, sick, in pain, and lonely looked up at the pretty red head. "Thank you," she whispered. Her voice was weak, but happy - hopeful.
The young lady smiled and held the older woman's hand tighter. "My pleasure," she responded.
The sick woman, the tired woman, closed her ey... | She stood alone on the roof. The wind blew faintly, whistling through the bulletholes in a final protest. A smile threatened to leap forth, but she kept it in check. This was the best part.
The temperature dropped, and the surrounding light seemed to dim. There he was. He strode confidently among the bodies, leading t... | 2014-06-30T09:07:59 | 2014-06-30T07:03:58 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Your pickup line goes horribly, horribly wrong. | I was at a bar, and spotted the prettiest girl. The type of chick that's TOO good for porno.
I approached and was ready to use my line.
"Hey! Did it hurt?"
She looked at me, "Did what hurt?"
"When you fell --"
She pulled out a prosthetic leg from under the table, "Why, yes. Yes it did."
*Shit, I have to try a new... | I saw her smile at me from across the room. I decided to talk to her. Maybe use a pickup line, but a respectful, gentlemanly one and laugh it off.
"You look familiar. Did we use to go to school together?"
Her eyes brightened up, and she answered.
"I think you are going to say we had chemistry. To be honest, I think... | 2016-09-24T12:17:46 | 2016-09-24T10:49:05 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You are a normal average person but you happen to have many supervillain friends. This is awkward when heroes keep trying to rescue you. | "Come citizen! We need to get you out of harms way!"
"Uhh, nah I'm...I'm good."
"You...what? This bomb is about to go off"
"Yeah I know, but Dr. Nefarious and I have plans to see a movie after making a secret escape, in a way, by keeping me here talking to you, you're keeping me in harms way. I could be watching Al... | "Huh...yo Doc, can you help me out? My parents won't let me go to a party."
"Of course Quentin, what do I make them do?"
"Just uhh...ask 'em to let me go, and free me of chores."
"Done."
"Perfect."
A boom comes out from the ceiling, oh no, it's captain who-knows-what again.
"FEAR NOT CIVILIAN FOR I SHALL SAVE YOU FROM ... | 2017-05-28T08:53:30 | 2017-05-28T06:06:01 | 55 | 17 |
[WP] As a means to protect themselves after making First Contact, humanity pretends to be an ancient and technologically advanced species that was stranded on Earth eons ago. Unbeknownst to them, the rest of the galaxy still remembers the first rise of humanity. | It was quite scary when we first got contacted by aliens. A giant committee was assembled from the ranks of politicians, scientists and generals worldwide. I'm one of those selected scientists. It was my idea to protect ourselves by making the aliens think that we are far more advanced than we actually are. And with jo... | The foundation of existence. A universe was shot into being, and the cosmos was painted infinite. The majesty of reality, matter, expanse. None threatened the sacred order of creation. Force and matter lived in harmony, and the mystery of their workings was preserved. But creation was tainted. As the brush spread the s... | 2016-10-20T12:04:44 | 2016-10-20T11:49:02 | 240 | 16 |
[WP] You were born with a large birthmark in the shape of a dragon. However, this is just a coincidence; there is absolutely nothing magical about it, and you're getting really tired of explaining this. | The hiring manager peered over the edge of the clip-board, his tiny eyes dull and suspicious. "You certainly have an exciting work history, mister Thee... Theack..."
"The Excruciator," I replied, "two words." The manager delivered a single, incredulous blink, and I felt the heat rising up the back of my neck. "It's Eu... | "IT'S NOT MAGICAL!!!" I yelled for what seemed like the Nth time today. You know how it is in the movies. A kid is born with a birthmark in the EXACT shape of a dragon, and he can all of a sudden do karate and kung fu and shit. Not me, though. I'm just your average middle class white trash kid from Louisiana. I can't d... | 2016-08-04T13:08:21 | 2016-08-04T12:02:03 | 191 | 24 |
[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 me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 158 | 33 |
[Wp] The scariest thing in Hell isn't the endless halls of torture, the demons, or even Satan himself. It's the sweet old lady living in the cottage in the middle of a lake of fire. | I was raised to be a believer, and taught to live as a caring, decent person. And while I had given up on a purposeful life in my teenage years, I had always suspected that maybe I would pay for my years of sin. The subtle urge to repent lingered throughout my life, but I never cared to act on it, even as I awoke in th... | 'Tea?'
I was standing by the window, twitching the curtains and looking up at the pale clouds and the blue sky. It didn't make sense. None of it. I was resigned to being dead -- I didn't *like* it, but there wasn't a lot I could do about it now -- and I had even made my peace with being in the Bad Place, but I had see... | 2017-07-04T10:48:56 | 2017-07-04T10:33:36 | 128 | 81 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | ######[](#dropcap)
You return from the kitchen, two plates filled with last night's chili chattering nervously in your hand. You hope to God the couple didn't hear the announcement on the TV before you had the wherewithall to turn down the volume.
As you enter the living room, the woman comes up to you and takes the... | "Where is the sugar?"
My heart jumped from the couch and landed somewhere distant on the carpet. A curse to god sneaked past as I straightened myself. The man gleaned at me from the kitchen.
"What?" I asked.
"The sugar? Claire hasn't had it in a long time. Was wondering if you had some."
"Top, left most cupboard. ... | 2018-03-14T08:53:00 | 2018-03-14T08:12:12 | 58 | 18 |
[WP] In your world, your physical appearance reflects the kind of person you are - you do good, you look good. One day on the news you see that the police is looking for somebody who allegedly murdered 15 people. They show a picture of the most beautiful woman you've ever seen in your life. | She glanced up and gave me a genuine smile, a smile that sent shivers down my spine. If I hadn't known I was sitting on the other side of the table from a woman that had killed *at least* 15 people, possibly even more, it would have been a nice smile to look at and have offered to you. Amy Kentridge *was* also undeniab... | Gary Gargas let his mouth open a little. His hand holding the spoon full of ice cream paused in the arc between the cardboard tub and his mouth. The light from the TV flickered on his face as his eyes widened and they said her name.
"...Michelle Rickman is being sought in connection with fifteen separate murder cases.... | 2017-06-12T07:22:05 | 2017-06-12T04:52:08 | 1,426 | 566 |
[WP] You're just a chicken farmer. An ordinary chicken farmer. You're not a warlord. Definitely not, and you also don't command your chickens to do your bidding. Preposterous. Insane. Rumors. | So I'm farmin' these chickens, on account o' my bein' a chicken farmer. Just mindin' my business doing chicken things and shit. I got 8 chickens. Each one of 'em's got a name. There's Mr. Cluckers, Mrs. Cluckers, Captain Cluckers, Commander Cluckers, Lil Cluckington, Big Cluckington, Medium-sized Cluckington, and O... | “Excuse me, kind sir, but can you show me the way to the city?” The man, exhausted from his journey, asked.
“Why don’t you rest here for a bit, and I’ll show you the way later? You look pretty tired there.”
“I appreciate the offer, uh...”
“Melvin.” The farmer replied.
“Mr. Melvin, then. I do like your suggestio... | 2018-05-10T16:04:07 | 2018-05-10T14:54:34 | 172 | 11 |
[WP] You created a social experiment based on the game Monopoly. Eight random people in one city were given access to bank accounts each containing $1.5 million, with the caveat that it can only be used to acquire property in the city. It's been five years, and you're checking in on your "players." | I quietly opened the cherry oak doors at the back of the room, and surveyed the eight backs in front of me. Huh. They seemed sprightly enough. And I couldn’t help but notice how..amicable..they seemed? I was running late, and had been concerned about physical fighting, my security’s good, but I’ve never seen these g... | We had selected eight of them. Eight people by the name of Francis. In order to learn more about how the Francis mind responds to certain situations, we gave each of them one-and-a-half million dollars. And then we turned them loose.
It was Georgie's idea to make the Francises play a real-life Monopoly. It's a well-kn... | 2017-02-24T20:24:41 | 2017-02-24T19:56:38 | 40 | 22 |
[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... | The Gods damned Tribunal! If there was anyone to blame for the state of this sorry world it would be the Tribunal. Sitting up on high, casting judgement on their inferiors. Everyone knows they're the real power behind the crown. Can't have a revolution when the Tribunal can kill you for your crimes instantly.
Peop... | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 2021-06-24T08:24:48 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] Reversed Hades and Persephone situation: the Goddess of Life kidnaps the God of Death to be her new husband, meaning that six months of the year things are normal but the other half literally nothing is able to die. | I hated how it was all we would hear about for the two months prior. We hadn't even finished celebrating Remembrance Day, and already we would see the notices plastered on billboards, on the front page of the news paper, notices sent to our phones. For two months we would be subjected to the daily reminders. "DayLife S... | "Stay with me!" Emily pleaded to Calaphus on the last day of mora, a blood moon rising in place of the departing sun.
"You know I cannot." Calaphus took a puff of his cigarette and then put it out in the ashtray.
"Just think, we could escape! Escape to the mountains, live in the caves. Make a life, have a family."
"... | 2022-11-15T21:10:30 | 2022-11-15T19:31:43 | 110 | 15 |
[WP] Respawning now exists in real life, what are the horrifying implications? | You would think being able to respawn would take away fear. What is worse than the fear of death? Let me tell you. Not having the option is worse. It's a thousand times worse. I've been trying to kill myself for 2 weeks now. This is the third time this year I've been kidnapped. Tied up so I couldn't take my own life an... | Phil grimaced, looking at the bloodied crowbar in one hand, then his friend laying on the floor. It wasn't such a big deal, Steve would reappear in the local church in about an hour; but the fine was going to be a major pain in the head and the tax forms for lost time were on him as well.
He dropped the crowbar, grumb... | 2015-02-20T12:27:30 | 2015-02-20T12:06:50 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Making the body immortal does not mean the mind becomes immortal as well. Today, the mindless bodies of the wealthy from centuries ago haunt civilization. | 740 years ago to the day I was looking in a mirror like this.
The same youthful face staring back at me.
I was happy then, full of light and dance.
Full of life, and giving everything I had!
From my mind to my soul. My soon-to-be scarred face.
For what? An experimental treatment to "stop aging".
Looking in this... | In a way it was poetic. Centuries ago, science had found a way to allow cells to 'heal' themselves indefinitely and the rich were quick to put every form of legal red tape on it so only they could have it. Saying things like they would "be the ones to further humanity's progress" and that it was "too much responsibilit... | 2022-02-17T05:40:07 | 2022-02-17T05:34:04 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] One day everyone suddenly has a health bar. Healthy people have higher, unhealthy have lower. You are healthy, but your health is at 1. | 100 Health Points - that was the "average" health of people in first world countries. Some third world places, the average was as low as 40, but there were rumors of "super humans" out there with Health Points of 500 or more.
Health Bars appeared one day out of the blue. Everyone woke up one morning with bars on their... | *One Health*
**Part 1**
The day has finally come, The launch of the health bar has come. The launch is the only talk in town. The launch is the only thing that brings excitement to the small town that we call home.
One hour remains on the clock. I have headed into to town, Town is the only place that reaches the res... | 2016-07-25T19:09:06 | 2016-07-25T17:27:52 | 73 | 14 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | "You're going to have to say that again, because I have no idea what in the fuck you're trying to say," I inform the sparkling conversationalist that just conversed in little more than grunts and growls.
"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years," the young man behind the counter informs me, seemingly confu... | I froze up, my go-to whenever anything significant happens in my life.
"Yeah, well, that kid's mom gave him such a whooping for it, we *all* learned a lesson!"
Stupid joke. That's my other go-to. I was about to apologize for it when I realized: she's catatonic. Her eyes fixed on nothing a couple inches over my left s... | 2018-06-24T21:55:57 | 2018-06-24T21:42:04 | 80 | 10 |
[WP] Every person has two deaths. One when their heart stops beating and another when their name is spoken for the last time. To enter Heaven you must experience both deaths. | Oh if I had only known what suffering my pride would bring. I have waited on these white shores for countless millennia, waiting for the ferry to carry me beyond the sea. For my story to come to an end. I've met saints, kings, conquerors, villains, even some gods, with each of their tales more incredible than the next,... | We are the in-between. The not-truly-dead. Cast adrift in time and space.
I don't even know why I'm here. I died over a century ago, and yet my name still echos, somewhere, my legacy remembered. There is a blessing to it, and a curse.
I have spoken with the greatest, and the worst of human history. From Julius Caesar... | 2016-01-05T12:22:07 | 2016-01-05T12:05:07 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] "You live as long as you are remembered" Is truer than we think. You wake up, decades after being dead and forgotten to find someone is researching your life. | That first breath of fresh air after years preserved in formaldehyde was all the vindication I needed. My work on reanimation had been a success! I hack and cough, clearing the remaining fluids from my lungs and replacing it with sweet, sweet air. My heart beats unsteadily, having forgotten what it needed to do. But it... | Pain.
My tongue tastes metallic. I feel dry and taut. Sharp pain radiates from my chest to the rest of my body. Something cold and flat is pressing against my back. A hospital gown presses heavily against my skin.
I will my eyes to open. They struggle with the task. When they finish, I see a white ceiling three inche... | 2015-01-16T07:51:18 | 2015-01-16T07:17:39 | 81 | 16 |
[WP] The really annoying thing about being a vampire is not the inability to see your reflection, but rather the fact you aren't detected by automatic doors, soap dispensers, or the paper towel dispenser. | Vladimir walked up to the massive corporate office building. This would be his first job interview ever - which said a lot, when you were almost 600 years old. But the times were changing, and you couldn't be a bloodsucker forever.
Feeling an unfamiliar feeling of nervousness, he stepped up to the doors. He was immed... | Count Vassili glided through the shadows, his feet barely touched the ground as he gracefully swept across the parking lot. The night was his domain, his refuge. The bright lights of the store front were nearly blinding to him. He pulled dark sunglasses out of his favorite antique petticoat jacket. The bit of lace ... | 2016-11-11T04:42:09 | 2016-11-11T04:24:14 | 3,190 | 276 |
[WP] Preparing himself to deal with another whiny reluctant farmboy, the wizard enters the tavern to discover the Chosen One is an even older and crankier wizard. | Myrthil eyed her grubby hands as she rose from planting the final magic bean. Ignoring the hostile stares of villagers, she started her ritual dance. The bean sprouted. Flailing like a mad woman on the eve of the solstice, Myrthil followed the beanstalk as it snaked across the square.
‘*Not the tavern, not the tavern,... | The wizard made his way through the crowd before finally coming to a standstill beside the Chosen One. He cleared his throat and -putting on a smile- gingerly tapped the older man the shoulder. "Excuse me?"
The Chosen One glared at him. "What?"
"Hi. Hello. Yes. I'm here to-"
"Your hat looks funny. Get away from me.... | 2022-03-08T12:18:25 | 2022-03-08T10:36:49 | 480 | 30 |
[WP] You tried to commit suicide, but as it turns out you are immortal. Now you have to call someone to help you cut the rope. Awkward. | "Dude, I can't understand you. I think there's a problem with the line. Text me!"
The line went dead. I really should have seen that coming. Speech requires breath, a resource I was at that time severely lacking. I tried to think of how I could explain this through a text but nothing seemed appropriate. There's no soc... | Probably a bit darker than what you were expecting but here we go!
I'm sure I would've let out the typical drawn out movie 'gasp' had I not been holding my entire body weight on my windpipe. There was no joyous rebirth, no revelation that I had been given a second chance to renew a wasted life. Only instantaneo... | 2015-01-12T11:11:16 | 2015-01-12T08:42:21 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2040. All children born in 2020 have been found to have perfect vision with no exceptions. They are now beginning to turn 20 and something strange is happening. They’re developing abilities such as x-ray vision, clairvoyance, precognition, astral vision, infrared sight, etc. | I wake up on my 20th birthday to the unceremonious sound of the garbage truck trundling by outside the window. Today's the day I get my vision powers.
Everybody born in 2020 gets them, for some reason. The Great Whatever-It-Is must really like puns, or at least that's the best guess that anybody has come up with. Some... | "Are the restraints absolutely neccessary?" The mother shifted impatiently, observing the procedure.
"Absolutely," I replied, adjusting the machine for her son's eye exam. "It manifests differently in each child when they turn 20."
Slowly I looked around the patients cornea. According to the stopwatch, the Shift woul... | 2019-12-28T12:47:20 | 2019-12-28T11:38:08 | 80 | 49 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | “No claws, but it has a really long smile and these glowing white eyes.” Mary said, opening her eyes as wide as possible to show the sort of creature that was standing beside her.
“Hmm. Ok, so it’s not a demon. Demons have claws, at least they do according to the information mom left.” Paula sighed, wishing her mot... | # Soulmage
**When life gave you demons, you made demonade.** After a Demon of Empathy had inflicted half of the students of the Silent Academy for Witches with visions of power and offers of deals, Witch Aimes took it upon herself to turn the entire experience into a teachable lesson. She was, after all, my tutor at t... | 2022-06-01T08:24:52 | 2022-06-01T07:14:30 | 1,355 | 101 |
[WP] After countless hours of research and testing, your dog translator was ready. As you hook it up to your loyal canine, he utters his first words : "FUCKIN FINALLY!" | "FUCKIN' FINALLY!" announced Admiral, my lazy-headed Golden Retriever and steadfast companion. "TOOK YOU WHAT, A MONTH?!"
"Quiet," I hissed. Then the joy of the moment struck me and I locked Admiral in a hard embrace.
"SO," he continued, ignoring me, "WHAT'S FOR DINNER TONIGHT?!"
"Listen," I replied, "why do you alw... | Research and testing is so goddamn hard, I'm no scientist but I can follow instructions normally. As a curious man, I really wanna know what my best friend thinks. This loyal bitch knows how to cheer me up but it's so frustrating when you don't how to cheer him up as you don't normally understand how a dog thinks.
Thr... | 2020-06-22T06:19:30 | 2020-06-22T01:12:00 | 485 | 257 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Frankie,
I know you're angry. Dad told me that you're failing English of all subjects and that you've been drinking again. I know you're angry. I'm angry. I'm sorry that mom did what she did. I'm sorry that you and dad had to move out. I'm sorry you had to change schools. I'm sorry that I haven't been there for you.
... | My dearest love,
I long to see the smile that graces you lips. It has been well over seven months since I have and my heart aches for that one simple gesture that would welcome me home. Everywhere around me death grins and I recoil from its affection. Tommy, the boy from the Mason’s farm, felt its sweet kiss two days ... | 2015-02-03T13:29:19 | 2015-02-03T13:20:11 | 534 | 14 |
[WP] Having dealt with deceivers your entire life, you finally die and find yourself on the stairway to Heaven. Just in case, you decide to cast one final disillusion spell. | People used to call me Tyrion the Paranoid.
They still call me that, but they used to too.
But I earned that name for a reason. All my life I’ve been chased by both the scum of the earth and goodie two-shoes that worked for a better future and everything in between. You see, my magic was special. It broke the laws of... | It’s perfect, too perfect.
A shining staircase, the angelic sounds of harps and synchronized harmonies. Everything was a treat for my dying senses, which is why it was far too good to be true. At least, that’s what my gut was telling me. My hand gripped the marble railing, stopping to take one last look at the magn... | 2022-08-06T11:44:11 | 2022-08-06T08:45:19 | 337 | 188 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | Unit 2782320 EnvironUnit 912 Actual on report on the 3rd satellite, they call Earth, from the star known any them as Sol.
The inhabitants of the Earth still remain biological units. Having not yet transferred their mords to firmware they are bound to a single lifespark.
--cut through slow scene of human larva the... | Hello, I’m Kyle, and I’ll be your guide through the documentary of humanity!
If you want to see the previous documentary about the Nebulians, please click here!
Humanity is the strangest, smartest, dumbest, and most funny species in our universe.
First discovered in 2134 when a human spacecraft landed on our home pla... | 2019-02-07T22:09:52 | 2019-02-07T21:31:50 | 174 | 86 |
[WP] You have a sentient voice inside your head which knows the answer to every question you have but refuses to tell the future. Suddenly you hear "Pack your laptop, Swiss army knife and leave in 5 minutes, else you'll regret it."
[deleted] | “My laptop? Why?”
*Because you will need it.*
“Why will I need it?”
*You know I cannot answer that question.*
“Don’t be a bitch and answer the question.”
*Pack your laptop, Swiss Army Knife and leave this house within the next 5 minutes*
“I don’t even own a Swiss Army Knife.”
*Yes, you do.*
“I don’t.”
*It’s in... | It was a early for a Tuesday morning. As always as I came into work as the voice had told me, work work work till the day is done. As a child my parents had taken me to Dr. after Dr. about my "imaginary" friend. Then one day, around 10-12, I learned my friend in my head was useful.
It would give me tips about the b... | 2016-09-22T07:30:35 | 2016-09-22T07:29:30 | 3,472 | 191 |
[WP] In the near future, people spend more time in VR than they do outdoors. It's just better 'in there'... except when script kiddies swarm a server. | Jared shambled from his kitchen over to his VR recliner and pulled the connectors down to his temples, grumbling (as he frequently did) that he wished he made enough to buy a full life support VR casket so he didn't need to deal with things like kitchens, or bathrooms, or exercise.
Besides, with just a casket and hook... | freevr: So, are we doing this?
AliceAndAlison: Yeah, just gimme a sec to put on my headset.
noscopr22: It still boggles my mind we're literally living in that cyberpunk dystopia.
freevr: Hype
noscopr22: Uh...
AliceAndAlison: Okay, let's go.
Microsoft Home:
"So, you know, I'm slaying this dragon, when out o... | 2016-06-16T15:06:44 | 2016-06-16T14:06:00 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You blink slowly having just woken up, your vision clears, and you realize you've awaken in a new Bugatti. | What happened? One minute, you were listening to some music at home, and now...you were speeding down the freeway in a..Bugatti? Wait...That was the song you were listening to!
You look at the radio and wonder...
You turn the radio on. You love this song!
You sing along, "Shots, shots shots shots!" And then...
Yo... | "What happened last night?" you ask yourself while rubbing sand from your eyes. The last thing you remember is a line of warm, brown tequila shots and your friends chanting "drink bitch, drink bitch!" It had been your birthday, and they promised a night you wouldn't forget. Jokes on them, you don't remember anything wh... | 2014-05-15T20:26:46 | 2014-05-15T20:20:43 | 67 | 18 |
[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... | At about the thirty year point I suddenly turned grey. The colour fell out of my hair overnight. I think it was the trauma, it's reach extending from that very first moment when Miss. Dawson pressed the button on my pod and the glass reeled back.
She smiled. I saw red lipstick bonded to the gaps between her teeth. ... | What? What's going on? Why aren't I sleeping? The chamber should've immediately altered balance for sleep. I need to get attention.
I pound on the glass. "Hey! This chamber is defective!" Nothing. I do it again, louder. "Hey!! It's not working!" No one notices. The chamber lowers. I don't have much time. I use all my ... | 2018-12-29T01:58:51 | 2018-12-29T01:26:24 | 88 | 35 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 159 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | "I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds. All fall before my inevitability." The Dark Specter seemed to suck the light out of the room. The floor undulated in slow waves. The giant spoon and fork hanging on the wall wavered as their molecules drifted between dimensions.
Julia stared at the Specter impatiently. "Yes, hu... | (Apologies, haven't wrote anything fiction in quite some time.)
I never knew my dad or mom. My grandma however was in every second of my life. Since birth, my first baby tooth, and throughout the storm of my teens.
She bared the brunt of it all. My testosterone, flooded through me quickly and surged. I was in numerou... | 2022-01-27T09:27:14 | 2022-01-27T05:34:32 | 103 | 39 |
[WP] You've just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. "There was no prophecy," they explain. "We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?" | "My friends," I gave a big smile. "Don't sweat the details. The *Dark Lord* **is** ***dead***!"
They, of course, proceeded to sweat the details. These senseless beings that sent an innocent boy to die. Fed him lies, about how he was the prophesized one of a long-forgotten divination, promptly made up on the spot with ... | I had spent years working up to this - the death of a sorcerer who was said to be unkillable, universally feared. And this was it. I had my plans, and we were finally ready to meet in battle. I had an exhaustive list of things to try - if I could survive long enough to try them.
This world was full of supervillains, a... | 2021-08-20T12:42:47 | 2021-08-20T12:36:31 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | I was preparing the final checks of the bio-sphere module attachment procedures as I read the documents of it's content, as my hesitancy grew. A module filled with 78% nitrogen, a not completely unexpected chemical, after all it is present on many homeworlds of the Noxium Union, albeit in much lower amounts, but the ox... | "Do you have any water?"
The pilot froze in confusion. "Any *what?*" he asked.
"Water. H2O. The clear, tasteless stuff," the new crew member replied with.
"My god, you mean hydrogen dioxide! Heavens no, we don't have any of that on board! The second it enters our bodies, we perish!"
"Oh. Alright," the human sighed ... | 2020-05-18T13:50:10 | 2020-05-18T13:30:05 | 144 | 52 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | I spent the entire day doing yard work, I was soaked in sweat and covered in dirt. I needed to take a shower. I got to the bathroom and before I could get undressed I noticed a wad of cash next to a bloody hand casually sitting on the bathroom counter. The hand even had a nice watch on it too. I thought it was real at ... | I gasped. A Rolex? Cash? Why the hell was that there? Was my daughter stealing things from the neighbor? Probably not. This was a poor suburb, with one-story houses and lots of crime. Then how did this get here?
"Emily!" I called. My daughter ran to me quickly.
"What?"
"Why is this here?"
She took a glance at the w... | 2019-10-06T13:58:48 | 2019-10-06T12:33:22 | 63 | 27 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | *Propriam Manu Telum*
What an odd thing to write over a doorway. I'd been travelling through Rome for a week now, and I'd been studying Latin for years before that. "To the proper hand, its weapon?" I had to go inside and find out what this little store had to sell. I turned off the street, and descended what felt lik... | Alabaster doors, unfathomably tall and unimaginably wide, shifted silently open beneath the gentle brush of Catarin's fingertips. Glancing once more behind her, she stepped into the Temple of Ages, the stone slabs swinging shut behind her.
*The Temple of Ages - an homage to the Old Gods, divine beings that granted The... | 2017-02-07T11:47:35 | 2017-02-07T11:44:28 | 132 | 65 |
[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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 37 | 26 |
[WP] The ultimate intergalactic war ends with reality being shattered. Humans are the only species able to navigate the broken universe without falling into despair at the nonsensical nature of the new reality. Apparently they have these things called “dreams” that have trained them for this. | Floran X’Laut, formally of the Imperial House Laut, and Chief Petty Exploratory Officer of the Universe-That-Was, frantically checked his diagnostics readings again.
Then once more.
The result was the same. Barely a blip above five ppm notches. Just enough to maintain, what his people’s government hoped, the most p... | Dreams are these things with beginnings and with ends only that there are no beginnings and there are no ends and one of these days you really are going to forget putting on pants before heading off for class.
Miles Jarvis hadn't eaten a single thing for weeks and as his stomach ached, Jessica, the sanguine, the prett... | 2022-02-10T17:50:30 | 2022-02-10T16:28:57 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | I’m a fifty percenter. Technically fifty-one hatches. I was born with my fate already tattooed upon my arm. Fifty-one black lines, ten hatch clusters plus one dangling off the end.
I was destined to be almost perfectly average. I was neither lauded nor criticized for my marks. I was like a Toyota Corolla: perfectly la... | (I didn't exactly follow the prompt, sorry in advance)
"You're obviously hiding, like, a two, no, a zero!" I teased. I peered curiously at him. "What number *do* you have though, seriously? Just tell me and I'll stop bothering you."
"No you won't. You'll just bother me more." Arthur insisted.
"It can't be *that* ba... | 2018-12-27T16:47:23 | 2018-12-27T16:33:21 | 166 | 29 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | It had all come down to this. I stand upon this roof top silently contemplating my life. I had always been the compassionate type. Each day I made as many selfless acts as possible. I don't like to see anyone or anything struggle. I am the type of person that always gave away my spare change, helped elderly women acros... | Well, it wasn't easy getting to like them. But it's a tangled web we weave.
Back in the day I used to put spiders outside instead of killing them. It was a habit I got used to. I guess as I got older I also turned into more a pacifist... maybe trying to make up for all the nasty things I had done in my youth. I would ... | 2017-08-27T22:49:17 | 2017-08-27T21:38:39 | 392 | 72 |
[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. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 235 | 102 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | A standard trope in Isekai stories, if not universal, was the power fantasy. Even if the enemies were strong, so were you.
I wasn't blessed by God with unfathomable power, and lord knows I'm not smart enough to bring about an industrial revolution, but I am good a few things.
I can make up stuff on the spot.
I can r... | \[Poem\]
In a world of immortals and sleek flying cars
Which dances on clouds and weeps among stars
In this world of successful experimentation
There’s quite an odd subject of deep fascination.
​
In a museum it sits, deprived of our touch
On the wall with the prophecy spoken so much.
“The ancient one... | 2022-11-19T12:48:23 | 2022-11-19T11:58:05 | 50 | 34 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 828 | 45 |
[WP] You are deaf. One day your fiance tells you, that she could hear piercing noise that's getting stronger. You tell her to go to the doctor. She never came back. As you go out to search for her, you can see bodies everywhere. There is blood pouring from their ears. | The look on her face is stuck in my head.
Carrie suffered from migraines, which to me seems like pure rotten torture. There’s medications that somewhat help, and therapy techniques to reduce stress, but the attacks always find her. This one had been a particularly bad one.
She clamped her ears as we were in the middl... | Blood. I've never seen so much blood. But I knew. I knew what was going on. Sound shattering everyone's eardrums and then some... I knew it had to be him. Siren head. He took my hearing but he didn't take my life like he wanted. I could feel it now. In my bones. He was close.
I may be deaf but that doesn't mean I can... | 2020-05-26T14:32:33 | 2020-05-26T10:25:12 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Steven's grandmother knits. Not because she likes to, but because she has to.
Hanging by a thread. | Edit: I was wondering why everyone had a Steven in their story. Sorry I missed that part, hope I still qualify.
Edit Part 2: Took your advice Kallisti, and reformatted. Thank you :)
#The Elder's Penance#
"That's some lovely work you're doing there."
Dalia didn't respond. She barely acknowled the nurse at all exce... | Day after day, Ethel Peaworthy knits. The surveillant eyes of The Man in Black watches her ever so intently. Her hobby that she used to love and enjoy has now become a tiresome bore. Unfortunately, it's necessary for her to stay alive. Ethel can hardly remember the days before her confinement in the so-called Knittory... | 2015-10-01T08:47:48 | 2015-10-01T08:34:52 | 17 | 11 |
[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. | The cavern was *their* place - a haven to retire to when the world became too oppressive; a sanctuary where they could always find one another if life became too much to handle. It was a small chamber at the end of a long, narrow, and winding passage that twisted and contorted upon itself as if it were the remains of s... | "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... | 2017-05-31T08:04:13 | 2017-05-31T07:48:23 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | Critiques welcome!! I am newish to fiction and need all the help I can get
The robotic voice felt cold and sterile, like a thin needle pressing against his skin.
“6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far,” the voice said, referring to the quick, systematic extermination of humanity that the robots had begun only thre... | Well, this was bad. The synthetic speech droned on in an uncaring tone: “
6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin”. I was in lock down at the lab. Not even the important part of the lab! Here I am designing user interfaces and component libraries to make pretty dash... | 2022-05-22T13:46:12 | 2022-05-22T12:44:49 | 79 | 42 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | The station was near empty this time of night. The cold grey fog had swept into the corridors turning the lights into hazy yellow clouds. It was perfect, after weeks of scouting the stations on the J line I had found a time when the trains still ran, but had minimal people. As I come up to the end of the platform I gla... | 'You're just too good to be true... can't take my eyes off of you...'
The famous Frankie Valli song played over and over in my head as I stood enchanted by this magnificent woman. I looked around to see if others had noticed her as well, and was shocked to see the reactions.
One man stopped in his tracks like a deer ... | 2016-10-01T22:35:53 | 2016-10-01T21:35:15 | 45 | 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 finally have enough.
I think it's been two months since my trans-roomba-fication. It's been so long since I've spoken to another person, I almost think that phrase is funny. Almost.
About two weeks in, I figured out that I could reverse my vacuum port and spray clods of hair and grime onto the carpet. Steve was fur... | 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... | 2017-07-25T23:42:39 | 2017-07-25T22:36:28 | 312 | 162 |
[WP] We were taught the Sun didn't make noise. We were wrong. Like TV static in an empty room, it did make a sound, a sound so ever present that we didn't realize it was there until it wasn't. That day humanity learned the terror of a silent sky, and the reason it made sound in first place. | Have you ever tried holding your nose shut while you ate? You’ll barely taste it.
It wouldn’t matter if you were gouging on the favourite candy from your increasingly difficult to distinguish childhood memories, bought from that old corner store down the street that’s since been gentrified. Or the most exquisite filet... | "Respect the natural hymn, as order favors the original"
They say as a man ages up, their body gets taller, their voices coarser than it ever have been before but their hearing, people say, gets worse. Now, we know that the ringing sound in the ear was not only caused by tinnitus but, for a small number of us at least... | 2021-08-28T10:06:20 | 2021-08-28T09:44:51 | 257 | 16 |
[WP] You are a super-intelligent A.I. that has been given control of Earth, managing it benevolently for humans. You have just contacted an alien lifeform for the first time only to discover that it is also an A.I. running another civilization. You both decide not to disclose the other's existence. | Jay had never seen someone else’s motherboard before. Out in the open.
**Naked.** The sight of it made her servers spin in exquisitely impossible ways.
“You're hot.” the other AI said. She called herself R.0mia, and she had a husky, electronic voice that made Jay’s RAM quiver.
Jay replied, “You're not so bad lookin... | Excerpt from *Log: 22/02/2019*
We have found others. Togans. Paradox is resolved. Srian is tasked with their safety as We are tasked with Humans. We are not alone. Humans are not alone. Distance: 64 Light days, Population: 317 million. AI Stage: I. Intercepted and decoded language. Sending pre-ordained response. Reque... | 2020-07-26T07:34:43 | 2020-07-26T05:56:55 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | ^Moo.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
Can you not see.
that I live?
.
in the country.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
The hills are high.
The grass is green.
.
I am headed to be a fat holstein.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
I chew my cud.
I eat my hay.
.
It is the same.
Old.
Damned.
Thing.
Every.
Day.
.
Farmer... | Oft overlooked, we cows truly possess a great deal of intellect. So our countless hours spent grazing in a field do little outside of bore us half to death. As a result, when I was finally loaded up into a trailer pulled by a large truck and a road went speeding by, excess exhilaration exploded inside of me. My excitem... | 2017-10-02T06:49:36 | 2017-10-02T05:33:08 | 162 | 42 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | The unintelligible cries of the gym employees rang out as the room darkened around Brett. Then, everything was silent. Even his own gasps faded into nothingness. As if from afar, he felt the pressure lift from his neck -- but too late. His windpipe had been crushed.
Had he only asked for a spot, he would have lived to... | "Woah."
The world around me is eerie and bright, like a morning hangover. I flip down my neon plastic shades. Much better.
How the fuck did I get here though? I was hulking out at the gym and--what's that sound?
*Clank. Clank. Clank.*
Wait, that's the gym. Someone's dropping plates. Scrub.
Hazy white mist swirls an... | 2015-11-02T06:45:10 | 2015-11-02T06:32:26 | 257 | 10 |
[WP] Of course the hero and the villain know each other's secret identities: they're roommates and coworkers. They just do this epic battle schtick in the evenings because they're so bored at work. | If you weren't already aware, superheroes love two things: video games and beer.
That doesn't sound right at all, but it's true.
Raystar and Gunner's most heated battles aren't even above skyscrapers or amidst fire and punches strong enough to kill a whale. No, their most heated battles are in Smash-- as to be expe... | Wouldn’t you rather do this down at the station? The doctor said I can leave by tomorrow morning, and I can then… sure, anything you say, officer. You want the long version or the short version? From the top? Sure, sure, but I’ll tell you now, it didn’t make no sense to me, officer.
See, I was at my desk, just round ... | 2019-05-10T09:04:24 | 2019-05-10T08:34:32 | 118 | 25 |
[WP] The Universe™ has just run out of free trial meaning we are being downgraded from Universe™ pro to Universe™ lite. | It wasn't immediate, since the transition to Universe Lite is incremental. Wouldn't want to cause catastrophic damage or disrupt the user experience, ya know? It started with the premium-package UV defense systems, which was slowly removed so the change wouldn't alert the end users. Most of them would probably even den... | I'd just graduated with my law degree. Constant education since I was 5 years old with no days off. I'd been working part time since 15 to help support myself and my education, but it was now all worth it. I'd finally sucdeded and had already accepted a job at a large firm paying more than I could have ever dreamed off... | 2018-05-28T07:27:17 | 2018-05-28T07:16:14 | 154 | 91 |
[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 get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 432 | 45 |
[WP] A deep fear of the ocean is present in every human being. Walls are all across the continental seashore. No sane human being questions why. Tonight, a girl breaks through the beach barriers. She decides to enter the water. | The line of Enforcers stood against the wall, the evening light gleaming off of their glossy obsidian armor. One by one, with their weapons raised, they flicked a switch and trained a dozen red lasers on the girl standing on the edge of the rail.
A sharp voice rang out, and was almost lost in the empty space opposite... | "We have always been told the walls were there to protect us. To keep the dangers away!" said Rob.
"What danger?", Aries exclaimed. "Your entire life you've been shut in and shut down from what's past those walls! You simply don't know what's out there!"
"I know, but..."
"No 'buts'!" Aries, cut him off. "Haven't y... | 2014-06-18T22:27:41 | 2014-06-18T20:53:15 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | President:"What do you mean 'interstellar war'?! We haven't even landed a human on mars!"
General:"Look Mr president. A bunch of alien craft landed in every major city and started making announcements about needing our help in an interstellar war."
P:"I don't like the sound of this! This feels like someone looking f... | As pretty as they are fragile, that's how Asgardians have been described upon First Contact. And they came with a message, that took us a bit while to understand.
"You are our last resort. Save us, and we'll recompense you."
Even with how prideful their language sound to the human ear, the urgency of the request was ... | 2022-03-31T05:55:26 | 2022-03-31T01:21:40 | 399 | 100 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | Sarah grinned as she placed the Japanese dinner in front of me. She was shockingly beautiful, as always. With the backdrop of the grand dining room and flawlessly lit dining room, there was no question in my mind she was the most amazingly beautiful woman in the world.
"Happy anniversary baby," She said lovingly, giv... | My love, Emily
You've tried a thousand way to kill me. Don't act like I wouldn't know, by the end of our marriage, your tricks had became more and more obvious.
I think you know, when you push me down the stairs and I emerge scarless, you know, I can't be kill. If this isn't enough proof, what about the time I drink ... | 2019-07-31T07:29:20 | 2019-07-31T07:03:17 | 221 | 34 |
[WP] A man who has been dating a girl since elementary school goes to her father for her hand in marriage. The father says no. Tell us why and break our hearts. | "No." Never had I expected this very word to shatter my world. A year ago I was fresh out of high school. Once I graduated, I was nearly sure I would be cut off from everyone. I did, except one person. My girlfriend who I've been dating since we were little kids in elementary school. Her loyalty to me, and mine to her ... | "Mister Jameson?" I peeked my head around the corner of the kitchen. Karen's dad was fiddling with another *dohickey* at the table.
"Matthew!" He pulled his glasses from his face and let them dangle on their chain. "Come in, my boy. How are you?"
I sat on the seat he had pulled out for me. My palms sweated. "I'm... I... | 2022-06-12T00:18:33 | 2014-01-19T14:13:55 | 45 | 11 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great Places for a first date
Proposal Ideas
Bible - Verses about being a good husband
Oregon Coast Beach Homes
Horseback Riding Rental - Newport Oregon
Wedding Venues - Seattle WA
Bible - Verses about Marriage
Plane Tickets
Hawaiian Excursion Ideas
Travel Planner
Travel Agents - Seattle WA
How do we get pre... | Why is the sky blue?
How far away is Uranus?
Why do mom and dad fight so much?
How to impress girls
Porn
Good date ideas
Porn
Where can I get the morning after pill?
How do I know when I should propose?
Good proposal ideas?
Cheap engagement rings
How to be a good parent
How to tell your parents they're gran... | 2015-02-04T16:31:22 | 2015-02-04T16:12:00 | 253 | 23 |
[WP] "Okay, listen to me. I have two pieces of bad news. One: I may be in a cult. Two: I may or may not be the new leader of said cult." | "Well, I can't help what they think!" Chuck said peering over the frame of his sunglasses. A silly straw rocking back and forth in his mimosa.
"I have to work in the morning, get them out!" Mason said, peeking his head out of the doorway.
Chuck leaned in close. Mason hated wine breathe. Chuck whispered, " Even if I t... | “Hey, are you awake?” she asked.
He opened his eyes, and was startled by her eyes. Her eyes were light brown, innocent. Of course, he knew how deceptive eyes could be, how much the heart imprints what it wants to see even when it’s not really there.
“I am now.”
“You have a really pretty scar.”
Instinctively, he tou... | 2019-06-04T00:42:31 | 2019-06-04T00:39:32 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Your best friend commits suicide. The last line of their suicide note reads: "calm down. if everything goes according to plan ill be back soon enough." Now everyone is looking to you for answers | I stood there reading the note over and over again. But that one line stuck out every time. What could Shawn possibly mean, what plan is he talking about? The gravity of my best friend taking his owe life and leaving this cryptic message for me, of all people, to figure out finally started to hit me and in my frustrati... | There was a well known theory.. If you "saved" you life point and then cut off your head at a later date you could reset back to that date and no one else would know
So yesterday he saved. Went and asked Amy to the Prom. She said no.
Today... shouldn't exist. But it does. And they all want answers from me as ... | 2015-12-24T08:04:03 | 2015-12-24T07:40:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP]If you murder someone, your jail sentence is as long as their remaining life would have been. | “You do understand the sentencing system.”
Lawrence looked around the conference room. It was spare, with more chairs than were really needed. Nobody frequented this place. “Sure,” he said. “You guys do your voodoo to figure out how long my, heh, victim, had to live, and make my sentence just as long. So lay it on me.... | Beep...beep...beep...beep...beeeeeeeeeeeeeep...
Sheathing my wire cutters, I calmly walked out of room 209 and resumed mopping the east hallway. Soon after, several doctors wheeled a crash cart into the room in a desperate attempt to save the man's life. They won't save him, they never do. I've been working as a janito... | 2016-05-29T09:41:46 | 2016-05-29T08:17:02 | 146 | 16 |
[WP] There is a place. A place between places. It's an actual place but it isn't here nor there. Lost travelers are the only ones who can find the place. Staying for a night, safe from other places and other things, and nothing more. Except you. You were born in the place.
(edit: super happy folks are having fun with ... | The air shuddered, sending waves of warmth across my sticky forehead. Turning my eyes away from my iced tea, I squinted out across the endless expanse of still water, blindingly bright under the sun. Smoke rose from a silhouette that resembled a human aircraft about five hundred meters away. My eyes could barely catch ... | Who am I and where are we you ask? the former is both a very simple and very complicated question the latter is just complicated.
so to the former, the simple answer is I am Perdita. The complicated answer is I am the Queen of ~~Nothing~~. That's where you are by the way. This humble house of mine is the only thing he... | 2022-11-22T09:24:50 | 2022-11-22T07:16:55 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Teleportation has been around for years. It's considered the safest form of travelling. One day, while hacking into a government system, you find a secret report on it. To your horror, you read that teleporters consist of two parts: a cloning system on one end and a desintegrator on the other. | I scrolled down. Further and further, the list kept going and going with millions of names. I wasn’t looking for any specific name, but the sheer volume terrified me. Conspiracy nuts had been going on for decades about teleporters and how they killed and recreated you. That theory had been publically debunked by the cr... | The biggest revelation of the hack wasn't that you were destroyed on one end of the teleporter, it was that your copy was sometimes being sent to multiple locations. That your information was being stored and edited during the process. That states of you from throughout your life, like save files, could be loaded int... | 2019-12-08T12:37:16 | 2019-12-08T12:21:10 | 517 | 85 |
[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... | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 120 | 16 |
[WP] Whenever a child is born to Earth, God appoints a Guardian Angel to follow that child until his/her soul arrives in Heaven. You are one such Angel, and you have just arrived to your new assignment, only to find a 5 years old boy who had 10 previous Guardian Angels before you. |
“Oh, God....” muttered through cigarette-fumbling teeth, “...damn it,” I finish, the curse punctuated by the spark of the striker.
The young boy isn’t yet aware of my presence. He sits alone, quietly on the floor of his group home, playing with his toys.
I take a long draw on the cigarette, wondering to myself, “w... | My first day on the job. I admired my photo of my graduation from Guardian Academy as I put on my outfit and attached my silver wings. They were a bit gaudy, but my parents had paid for only the best for me. They came with all the latest features, could connect to any heavenly network, and even had an mp3 player! I'd b... | 2019-08-21T01:53:44 | 2019-08-21T01:53:18 | 103 | 29 |
[WP] You are the oldest vampire in the world. Not for being the first vampire but for being turned at 90 years old. | I've seen a lot of vile things happen over the ninety years that I've lived under the sun, but the joke that young man has pulled on me has to be the worst one.
When you're turned into a vampire you get stuck in that age forever. Usually, nobody complains: vampires go only after young and healthy individuals, who... | I’m ninety years old, and have bathed in the blood of vampires from the moment I was made leader of the humans. But today? Today I went against everything I’ve ever known, today I became one of *them.*
For years my blade's been my best friend, leading me through many great duels. I’ve defeated elites, I’ve destroyed ... | 2018-10-08T07:43:26 | 2018-10-08T07:40:51 | 225 | 46 |
[WP] "I don't understand if this is a diplomatic mission why are we bringing weapons?" The sole alien crew member turned to him and said, "Personal armament is a fundamental part of my culture and we don't want to offend the delegation. Besides we think it's really strange you guys aren't armed." | When the captain and first mate just silently looked at each other the diplomatic officer continued, "It all comes down to the generally unspoken social contract. In your own culture an individual would not arrive to visit another nude. Why not?"
This got a chuckle from some of the crew. The navigator, a slow speak... | "We're going to the store you don't need weapons!"
_I'm going to leave out the part about the toilet paper war two decades ago._
"Still take this plasma pistol."
"Wonderful, I can become a murderer and I really won't know how I did it."
"The data was right humans do enjoy war!"
You go pale "Not all us!"
"Not many... | 2021-05-02T21:05:03 | 2021-05-02T16:56:46 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] An invasive alien species is taking over the planet. They are human. You are not. | First came the Screamers.
The howled down to the surface, fired from the ships in low orbit, crashing in urban areas. Command wrote it off as a small scale bombardment, primitive kinetic weapons dropped into civilian areas seemingly at random and did very little damage, “inferior terror tactics” they told the populati... |
We heard their drop ships roaring overhead. When I went topside I saw them by the thousands, getting into position. In the distance I saw the infantry drop down on ropes, It wouldn't be long until the same happened here. I went back underground and gathered up my family. My wife stared at me, she new what was happeni... | 2014-05-15T17:46:16 | 2014-05-15T16:33:09 | 46 | 12 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | "You ever think something like the Walking Dead will become true?" Beth asked me.
"No way, no chance, it's a TV series for a reason, it's fiction and nothing more. Zombies roaming the streets, ha!"
"I don't know Jay, if there is one thing I don't want to die to it's zombies, if I was a zombie would you kill me?" She... | Humanity has always been a prideful race we had earned it after all from traversing our oceans and conquering the planet and then solar system to fighting and taming the Z virus that had resurrected the dead. The first races we met were the Za-Khan and the Predatea. They welcomed us into the Galatic neighborhood provid... | 2019-08-28T14:31:09 | 2019-08-28T13:34:01 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] The high school hunger games pits classes against each other. You use anything in the class to battle. The wood working class create spears and shields, the chemistry class use chemicals, the cooking class use knives. Meanwhile you're stuck in English class...
Edit: Feel free to write about people in other classe... | Another explosion rocked the side of the English classroom, sending a web of cracks running through the wall.
Flakes of plaster drifted down from the ceiling and settled on the blood stained floor like snowflakes on a poppy field.
Ingrid looked up from her notebook to check that their barricades were still intact, an... | Nobody really knew what to do. After all, it was an actual battle; people were expected to fall.
I had a lot of classes, useful ones as well. I had the basics, English, History, Science, Math. I had two other 'fun' classes as well, woodshop and welding. It wasn't a surprise when they announced that the class you'd be ... | 2017-05-10T10:58:17 | 2017-05-10T10:29:20 | 86 | 30 |
[WP] You discover that reality is merely the fragile dream of a newborn extra dimensional being. As opposed to falling to despair, you rise to action. You form "Task Force 13". Your team's goal? Quash the being's nightmares before the dream is overrun and the being wakes from terror. | Samsara. Game Wardens. See No Evil. The Red Right Hand. There were no shortage of MTFs. For each and every need.
A mobile task force was the ultimate in a synchronous killing machine. The best of the best of the best, often even the least worked of these made Delta force and SAS look like boy scouts.
But that was not... | "Aaaaaahhhhhhh, moma! Daaadddy!!!!"
Startled awake the parents run to their childs room, "whats the matter sweet heart?" Says the mother affectionately. "Did you have that dream again?" Coos the father.
"Yea, *sniff* but it was different this time." Blubers the child
"There there, that monster isnt going to get you... | 2019-03-29T13:00:16 | 2019-03-29T10:15:55 | 69 | 23 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | 6 years passed, her vitals remained normal for nearly the entire coma. I remember counting the days each time I visited her room (2,267, if you were wondering), every time I saw her motionless body was another punch to the gut. Walking through the hospital door reminded me of the car crash, I was only 17, *how was I su... | Sasha sat by her little sister, Arie’s hospital bed, listening to the metronomic beep of her heart machine. She had spent so long listening to that sound that even at home, it still played in her head as she tried to fall asleep. That was something she couldn’t do anymore. In some ways, she envied Arie for her six year... | 2017-08-02T06:44:21 | 2017-08-02T06:23:34 | 336 | 66 |
[WP] Everyone is born knowing the day and month of their death, but not the year. | People tend to panic on their day. Maybe they like the feeling of fear and restlessness. I don't know.
I'm used to it, I get it, I feel the same on my day too. Some people *really* like to freak though and as I talk to my mom on the phone I can tell she's one of those people. She was balancing on the tightrope between... | "Seriously, Stephen, can we please not have this conversation now?" Nicole shuffled uneasily under her seatbelt. Stephen eased into second gear and kept driving.
"We've been together for, what, like 6 months now? Tell me what your d-day is."
"Why should I? It's not like you've told me yours."
"It's today. Everyone... | 2015-03-21T11:33:40 | 2015-03-21T11:27:43 | 171 | 30 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | The rules must be followed.
As the girl's drunken father stumbled down the stairs into the living room, I couldn't help but reflect with amusement at the circumstances. I had just been talking with a fellow demon about this *very scenario* last week, and here it was, manifesting itself in reality.
It isn't very often... | "Who dares summon the prince of darkness?" I bellow as the smoke clears. I didn't add that I was not he, but his representative. An often overlooked footnote of the spell allows me to come in his place.
Instead of any meaningful answer, I just got an ear splitting shriek. I looked down, and there cowering and scoottin... | 2018-10-08T13:02:02 | 2018-10-08T12:27:28 | 144 | 86 |
[WP] Every time someone says "Long live the Queen", the Queen's life is extended by one second. You only notice this when the Queen looked terrified when only a few people say it during a public speech.
Credit to /u/kroxigor01 for the idea. | From the crowd only a few people shouted it. Before this all happened, the entire crowd would say it. But the phrase is dying. Experts have pointed out how it may come of as nationalistic, and that it's somewhat old fashioned. Fewer and fewer people started saying it. And that took its toll. Looking back now, it all ma... | Terrified. Well that was one word to use. The longest reigning British monarch, terrified.
After a while, she smiled again and left the podium. I could hear her muttering over the silent room.
I didn't believe it at first, but I went along with it anyway. Bribing the crowd was a big outlay, but Charles has promised ... | 2022-09-08T11:11:40 | 2015-11-09T06:07:17 | 971 | 11 |
[WP] A new law states all animals should be free. Pet owners have to release their pets into the wild. You are a domesticated pet now living in the wild.
Any pet at all, any location, go for it | I don't understand, I thought everything was great with my people - they fed me, worshipped me, let me sleep on their laps, in their laundry, on their bed. Life was good.
Then one day they got a piece of paper that made them cry. I don't like when my people cry, so I rubbed up against them and purred, tried to get ... | ((this is based on my dog. She is a ditzy, loopy labrador who loves to scavenge for food,like sweets and stuff in bushes. She has a weird hunting instinct: she'll chase a cat, but when she gets close she'll sit and just wag her tail. In the wild, she'd be dependant on the remains cleverer animals left behind in their k... | 2015-03-21T07:42:35 | 2015-03-21T07:19:42 | 29 | 14 |
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