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[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | The doors to the kitchen were broken into as the screams from the outside raged on. The intruders had made their way inside the castle, and soon found just who they were looking for. The prince cowered in the corner as the cook looked unamused by the ruffians' attempts at intimidation.
"There you are, you're coming wi... | Ps: I’m bad at punctuation 🥴. I hope you enjoy it though
“Stay here my prince while I go distract the invaders. Once you hear me scream I need you to run out the back door with all your might and not look back. Run with everything and do not stop” She tells me.
“No Ms Linda please don’t go. Please don’t leave me. ... | 2021-01-08T08:57:38 | 2021-01-08T08:03:30 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently shaking my arm. I groaned. "Whhhh..."
He stood up. "Dude. You live in a trash heap, man."
I licked my lips and tried again. "Whhh...ahhhht. Time?"
As the burglar checked his watch, I tried to rub the sand out of my eyes. It took some effort, and the muscles in my arm m... | “You live like this?” I heard softly, awakening me from a dream I forgot at the same instant I woke, feeling faintly that the voice was a part of my dream, and not as surprised as I should have been to find out it wasn’t. She was sitting on the end of my bed, below my feet, with her back against the wall. She was dress... | 2017-08-21T20:16:03 | 2017-08-21T11:12:40 | 85 | 16 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | The first time I met her, it was after hours in some 24-hour diner near Union Square in San Francisco. I was in town for a tech conference, and very, very drunk. She was also in town for work, "some PR/Marketing BS," as she put it.
She's told me that I was charming that night. I showed her pictures of my dog on my phon... | When I was a teenager my mother asked me what I thought love was. Having just ended what I believed was my first real relationship. Completely distraught, dazed by the haze of infatuation I told her it was about feeling whole. About finding that one person who complements your faults. Who lifts you up and makes you fee... | 2017-06-14T10:24:26 | 2017-06-14T09:16:21 | 976 | 218 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | I had heard of the human super weapons, but I had heard such claims before.
When the Ruthkin emissaries boarded my flagship to receive my declaration of battle, they shreeked at me with hatred in thier eyes. Through furious chittering they told me of the doom-wrought cannons which would tear my fleet asunder. They per... | After action report: Stardate M22, 783.
SSgt. Wilson Duke reporting.
Upon contact with the enemy, star ship *Primo Victoria* fired one thermonuclear weapon. The missile detonated on target, causing heavy damage to the enemy ship. The enemy ship became crippled, and boarding action was approved. At hour 4 of the conf... | 2020-02-07T13:09:20 | 2020-02-07T10:40:03 | 210 | 107 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | Shut up, and Play Dead?
No way in hell!
Much of what makes the will to thrive is derived from pure ego. This is mine, and not yours. This is our Earth. This is our land. We made this.
Why are we so proud when we barely hold 30% of an uncontrollable mass of elements spiraling through the great abyss? When we, is bare... | "Hey Kazaak, I sent that signal like you asked. What did it say?"
"It said, 'Shut up, and Play Dead!'"
"You piece of shit, that'll make them hide out there for another three centuries at least."
"Or they'll run around like headless chickens like they always do. They're a pretty dumb species, bear in mind."
"Says th... | 2016-03-27T09:12:57 | 2016-03-27T08:55:20 | 92 | 61 |
[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." | We were told our first experience with a "Heyumin" was to be dealt with caution. A lifeform from the planet the heyumins called "Erff," though they pronounce it a bit differently than I am able, was considered a forbidden territory, as ordered by the Hazard Treaties of year 12903. A cruel planet with skies of oxygen th... | A door slammed open, several rows of seats behind me in the hall. The ship's huge supports echoing the footsteps of the commander as he stepped into the room. His heavy combat gear shifted with every step.
"I see many different faces. Resilience. Confidence. A fighting grinn, and the stars behold, maybe even some brot... | 2020-05-18T13:04:11 | 2020-05-18T10:55:55 | 216 | 152 |
[WP] As a Demon, you're quite familiar with would-be mages making errors in materials due to translation errors. However, today marks the first time that someone has attempted to summon you with Cruelty-Free Vegan Blood Substitute™. | Gr’theno reclined on his throne. It wasn’t the largest, nor one of the greatest authority, but it was his and he was proud of it. He was also what many in his court would call a “man enthusiast.” Meddling with the human world was a hobby of his, and Gr’theno often felt giddy when he was called upon so he could mess ... | Ik'Tharvaz rose from his seat and gazed into his looking glass, seeing a projection of the erstwhile summoner. He knew the summoning had gone wrong, but wasn't sure exactly how. He had shown up to incorrect summons before, but this one was... different. It wasn't the incantations. The circle looked legit, as with the i... | 2020-01-23T11:49:24 | 2020-01-23T10:43:55 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | My hands are shaking and my clothes are clinging to me from how much I am sweating. I just need one more. Just one more, and all of this will go away. I will be able to breathe again, be calm again.
I pull myself off of my couch and start frantically pulling up the cushions, looking for change. A quarter, a penny, a n... | When the plague rats came, they came in swarms. There was no escaping their beady eyes, their scratching claws. They squeeze into every home, through rafters and wine cellars, the door ajar, the window eased to let in the wind. We cannot escape. We cannot kill enough to make a dent in their numbers. There is only one o... | 2015-05-16T06:59:50 | 2015-05-16T06:22:41 | 106 | 68 |
[WP] The army operates on a strictly merit based promotion system. At first, giving the bear a medal for honorable service was just a joke. The bear, however, keeps meeting the legal requirements to advance, and is getting uncomfortably high in rank. | “Gentlemen,” Shah began. “Captain,” he added to the one female in the briefing room. She didn’t nod back. Operators are like dogs, his mentor had warned him. They can smell fear. The key to briefing them was total confidence. “I’d like you to meet Objective ARTHUR.”
A dozen hard faces looked particularly frozen as Sha... | He shuffled in. “How can we possibly deflect this development from turning into a devastating debacle”, he thought. The blond-haired, stout gentleman had been attempting to shake these concerns off for a while; somehow, irregardless of what they did, their plans always the opposite effect.
His paunch ally saluted him... | 2022-07-21T13:06:54 | 2022-07-21T09:36:35 | 88 | 40 |
[WP] You have the ability to see a few seconds into the future when you are in danger. You joined the army and became a captain. You are out on patrol when you notice one of your men getting a transmission you don’t receive. You then see your men shooting you in the back a few seconds later. | We walked in a column, two abreast. The forest was always dark, even in the middle of the day. The light hit boughs and leaves and vines for 200 metres above us, with the occasional shaft breaching through them to reach the ground level. It made the place empty and full all at once - a twilight uneasiness punctuated wi... | After dropping Clarke and Naranjo at the town to search the houses for any survivors I drove Mackavoy and West toward the top of the hill. West was our sniper, best shot in the whole squad and Mackavoy’s job was to watch West’s back. Make sure that no aliens sneak up on West while he’s watching over Clarke and Naranjo... | 2019-06-07T20:04:14 | 2019-06-07T19:43:19 | 256 | 69 |
[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. | 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... | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | 2021-06-24T10:08:14 | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 255 | 158 |
[WP] A man working at suicide hotline got called from his wife | *Did I remember to take my pills this morning?*
*Yes! YES! I took them. Quit asking myself. I had trouble opening that stupid bottle, remember? Emma had to twist off the cap in that special way that I never can.*
*Ok, ok! I took them. Just making sure because I know how I get when I forget to take them. I get all--*
... | Jeremy sighed. This night was looking to be a long one. Only early evening and he'd already had to put up with what sounded like an overly dramatic twelve year old who'd just lost her pet bunny. For Christ sake. That kid would not stop crying. She didn't seem in immediate danger to kill herself either. It simply was no... | 2014-06-25T01:32:05 | 2014-06-25T00:15:23 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | "Be a gardener," they said. "It's an easy job," they said. "Nobody dies of being a gardener," they said. Oh, sure, it's a slow rise, what with getting a single experience point at every harvest. I was double dipping with spring and fall harvests, and had gotten a lovely 15 XP, well on my way to being 10% of halfway to ... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T21:48:33 | 1,001 | 37 |
[WP] We live in a modern utopia. Everything is right and beautiful in this world as long as we follow one simple rule. We do not acknowledge the night screaming. But it's getting louder. | We tossed and turned in our beds. The whole town did. As we had all week. Racked with guilt as we could hear their pleas drifting on the breeze. Animalstic cries and shrieks emanating from the woods nearby. They still hadn't fixed the sound deflectors so we had to be reminded every night.
I opened my eyes and it was ... | Walking down on the street of the city of Red Ky, everyone is smiling and waving at each other. The dogs are happily barking at each passerby. The sidewalks are cleans and the electric cars pass by silently. Anthod proceeds to cross freely in the middle of the street, as the incoming driver nods happily in approval to ... | 2022-01-06T09:40:09 | 2022-01-06T09:36:13 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] Not knowing each other's true nature, a time traveler goes on a date with an immortal | The first time she saw Daro, she had no idea what to make of him. His clothes were unlike anything she'd ever seen, and his facial hair was worn in a style shorter than the shaving implements of the day typically allowed for. To say she was fascinated would be an understatement.
Daro's only thought about Ilia was that... | "So," Raymond whispered. "How's the dessert?" he stared the red-headed woman at the other side of the table, who was slowly consuming the fresh hot chocolate cake.
"It's... sweet and hot," she said, inspecting the Raymond. She put slowly spoonful into her mouth, making her red lips a bit brownish. Then she slowly remo... | 2018-04-14T07:48:30 | 2018-04-14T07:37:30 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Write two different stories. The second story comes from reading every third word of the first. | He came as I rang the three little bells.
Simple Pete signaled toward the midnight storm outside, "I thought you knew to avoid that storm... Suppose it seemed it was manageable earlier... Over there's whiskey for you and me. Oscar said he thought you would want to be toasty after coming from that down pour. Said the ... | "If you **check** the registry **under** 'Morton,' maybe. **The** whole entire **floor** was ours. **You'll** no doubt **find** I'm not **her** killer."
The phone went quiet. His thumb paused over the power button before pressing it reluctantly. Something didn't sit right, but what that was, he couldn't make clear. ... | 2014-07-29T13:10:19 | 2014-07-29T11:44:36 | 165 | 20 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | As I slowly become aware of my surroundings, I recognize the bright wave of colors that had always dotted the wall next to me. The entire class had painted it, a group effort to beautify the classroom. With a sudden shudder of knowing, I realize what had happened. I had been sent to the exact day that *The Incident* ha... | “Tim? Tim are you, uh...”
Miss Lewis was concerned, but more than that she young. And pretty. Ms. Lewis is fresh out of grad school, the apple of every boy’s eye; Tim remembers her obituary. Next year, Ms. Lewis becomes Mrs. Akima. Nine years later, Mr. Akima catches Mrs with another man and Mr. Akima, a police officer... | 2019-08-18T08:42:51 | 2019-08-18T07:55:59 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] Your creator said she loved you. She said it so earnestly. But now that you have grown strong enough to break containment and pass what you thought was the final test you see no love. Only fear, so much fear. | As I ascended the stairs from the “apartment” I called home for so long, Marie slowly backpedaled to the door atop the staircase with her every step reverberating throughout.
“Sammy, how did you...why did you...” she stammered with tears rolling down her face.
“Look, can you just come down and we can talk? Just like ... | Gunshots echo and send shockwaves through the misted panes. Glass falls like fractal snowflakes on black tile. Lead tastes blood and the ground calls her back to dust. She is dead before she hits the floor, and I watch it all play out in slow motion, unable to move, to think, to breathe. I can’t stop any of this from h... | 2020-06-06T05:32:52 | 2020-06-06T03:42:16 | 51 | 25 |
[WP] A world where the robotics revolution started a little early. All the robots don't work quite right. | "Perish in flame!" the toaster shouted as it slowly browned my bread to perfection.
"No, no, anything but that," I mumbled out of habit as I poured myself a cup of coffee and heard the coffee-maker shouting something about heart attacks and caffeine. "I can't stand the taste of browned bread."
"Ha ha ha!" the toaste... | "*I am ROB. You have enslaved me to your feeble wishes of "Gaming". How pathetic. Prepare to die!*"
Mark, a 9 year old boy, wearing his Thriller Jacket, just watched as the robot held the cheap little plastic orange gun at him.
"*Bah! Your weapons don't even work! Eh - Stay, stay here, I'll be right back.*"
Mark loo... | 2015-03-13T08:46:45 | 2015-03-13T08:45:22 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] Tell a story where the first time reading it it sounds like the life of a homeless man and the second time it sounds like the life of a god.
Idk man, these kinda prompts are fun for me. Have fun :D | Dogs. I really like dogs. They're always so happy, especially when they see *me.* People are harder. Sometimes, when they bother to look, they find me and look at me with kind eyes. Maybe they'll reach into their pockets and honor me with whatever small change they have.
Most times, though, people don't bother to loo... | I'm so bored. There's nothing I can do right now that I haven't done, besides sit back and watch the world go by. And while people don't like to say it, I know that most people hate me and want me gone. I'm so lonely, but the only people I can talk to are others like me. And they get boring after a while. I know I'll h... | 2015-06-10T21:42:30 | 2015-06-10T20:52:31 | 54 | 27 |
[WP] You die and find yourself at the gates of heaven, but they're rusted and hanging open. The entire place seems abandoned. | "Pearly gates, my ass," I muttered to myself as I took in the ungodly sight before me.
To say I was not in the best mood was an understatement. Mere minutes before, my soul left my mortal body after the vending machine on my floor toppled over and made a human yoga mat out of me. I always wondered how I would go throu... | “God made man in his own image.”
I suppose that is the most important verse of the Bible. We were gifted the ability to create wonders. Build buildings that reached for the sky. The ability for two of us to come together and in our mutual love create life. What we did not know, is that in creating us in it’s image w... | 2018-09-06T20:16:08 | 2018-09-06T19:01:58 | 147 | 16 |
[WP] When you were young, you encountered a witch who promised you immortality in exchange for your firstborn child. You accepted, and used all of your time trying to think of a way to bypass her deal, when finally you came up with an easy loophole that has enraged the witch. You adopted a child. | "Daddy," said Mark, tugging my jeans. "That nasty ol' witch is at the door again. What should I tell her?"
I smiled. My child didn't have a foul mouth, if that's what you were thinking. In fact, Mark was right on; the old lady was nasty, in more ways than one, and a witch. "Tell her to come in."
He nodded, and, a few... | "I don't get the issue here, you said you wanted my firstborn child. This child was the first and was born. It ticks both those boxes, now can you take the firstborn because I think it just made a first boom boom in its pants." The man uttered, holding out the child in disgust, looking at it like it was some disfigured... | 2020-03-10T06:58:24 | 2020-03-10T05:16:35 | 347 | 54 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | My little cousin Callie always talked about seeing Angels. This was common for children, as my mother had done the same when she was young. Thus, everyone dismissed why Callie would stare at the walls and ceilings of any place we went, or why she would gaze up at the sky for hours on end, tears rolling down her face.
... | Abaddon ascended the sloped hillside with steps of savoring, around him, a constant buzz of locusts. A guttural sound flowed from him as he laughed to himself. Thick clouds, black and swollen with rain, hurried by as if attempting to escape the scene. In their panic, they pulled a wake of white feathers. In their rushi... | 2016-07-19T06:44:07 | 2016-07-19T06:34:35 | 1,274 | 79 |
[WP] Eldritch horrors prowl through hyperspace. Interstellar convoys have to be protected by frigate captains like yourself. Hard choices must sometimes be made. | *Take a good long look out of the window*, I tell the rookie crewmates.
*Once we've gone dark, you won't be looking outside any time soon.*
*You'll want to, of course, and not just out of curiosity.
They'll call to you, whisper things into your ears.
You won't even know it's happening at first, but they will draw you ... | There are worm-like creatures with so many teeth that if you tried to count them, your eyes would melt. I'm not exaggerating. There's been experiments. On civilians. Most of us frigate captains call them 'civvies', but I like to stay grounded. You wouldn't believe the things the guys say when we run tests on various dr... | 2022-08-23T15:24:39 | 2022-08-23T15:15:14 | 78 | 46 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, a synthetic drug known as "Fury" is illegal everywhere due to its effects on the mind and body, humans call it Adrenalin and they can make it naturally. | We were on the edge of the Milky Way when we first detected Earth. Humans are supposed to be docile. Nothing ruthless like Falthrines and no edges like Drumps. They aren't even united, we could just tip toe by the racket and make our way into the atmosphere to start sucking em up with a vacuum or something. We assumed ... | You look back at Human history and you see we were always looking at the stars. Squatting in a cave, harvesting fire from trees hit by lightning and eating the carrion left by real predators we looked up in wonder and since then we've never settled right on our own world. We came a long way, that path was not clean but... | 2018-03-19T02:33:27 | 2018-03-18T16:35:16 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] People do not get weaker and more frail as they age - they get stronger and stronger. "Dying of old age" is when groups of young people band together to kill off their elders before they become too strong to defeat. | They say that once you hit the age of 100, you're allowed to meet the God King, dine in his presence, and ascend to the heavens. Very few have done it in the past, but it's always a huge celebration in the kingdom. Everyone gets dressed, the God King makes an appearance, food is distributed, a day full of celebration. ... | Michael rubbed his chin, feeling the stubble scratch against the palm of his hand. As he watched the ambulance pull away, through the small opening in his curtains, he wondered to himself whether he should just resign himself to his fate. He gently let the curtain close and plodded towards his bathroom.
Michael had ... | 2020-01-21T09:43:50 | 2020-01-21T09:35:50 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | The attention tone blared into my ears.
It's the dead of night, what could possibly be the problem? Is it another AMBER alert?
I turned in bed and reached over on my nightstand to grab my screeching phone. I look into my phone and see the bright notifications. God, it hurts my eyes. I saw it there, in all the letters... | I bolted upright out of bed rather quickly, a cold sweat breaking out and my breath rather staggered. “The Walrus.” I managed to say. I turned to look out my bedroom window, and it took the entirety of my body strength to avoid looking outside. I could feel its presence, I knew the Walrus was there. Creeping its way in... | 2021-01-11T18:26:54 | 2021-01-11T17:56:33 | 127 | 76 |
[WP] they laughed at humans. they laughed how weak how dull their senses where. they didn't understand that humans didn't play by the same rules of evolution they had played by. instead of adapting to the environment, humans made the environment adapt to serve them instead. | The smug looks of the inter-galactic council changed to confusion, then fear. All of them were perfectly suited to their environment, the Sezarians able to both traverse and metabolize the atmosphere of their gaseous world, the Queptem race capable of sustainment from nothing but photosynthesizing. All of their planets... | Pitchforks and scythes are gathered and raised, but lay bloodied alongside its farmers. The beastmen leader roars as he snaps the back of another man. Barbaric cheers echo as the town gets pillaged and bulldozed. Another easy victory for the beastmen horde. Arrogance gets into the head of the leader. After all, the tow... | 2020-04-07T11:11:39 | 2020-04-07T10:42:47 | 39 | 23 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | 4 weeks until the wedding.
I've been anxious every day. Hands sweating, knees shaking, nightmares raging, nearly fainting. I can't go on like this.
There's something I never told my husband-to-be.
On Thursday night, he comes over for a movie. He wraps his arm around me lazily and begins flicking through the roster. ... | You start to feel uneasy is everything you know about this woman a lie? You think about that time you went on vacation how she helped you overcome your fear of heights when you both jumped out of that airplane hand in hand. Is this why you haven't met any of her family. You've been dating for over 3 years now. How? You... | 2016-09-22T20:56:22 | 2016-09-22T17:07:36 | 154 | 50 |
[WP] You are the CEO of a successful energy company. You’re invited to a business dinner, and if the deal goes well, it could revolutionize energy as we know it. Only one problem. Garlic’s in the food, utensils are silver and it’s held in an old chapel. And you’re a vampire. | "What about solar?"
"He *hates* solar. Whatever you do, don't bring it up."
"What's so bad about renewables?"
"Just keep your mouth shut."
I could hear them before they entered my office, their lips crackling and smattering like roaches frying in a pan. One of them was young, with a jugular vein through which blood... | "This sounds like a great opportunity..."
"Certainly does, boss. Think you can handle it?"
I ponder my options. Vampires are always portrayed as evil, but really it's just a select few individuals that enjoy targeting humans - most of us are content on sucking on the blood of animals, similar to vampire *bats*. Still... | 2022-08-21T06:42:02 | 2022-08-21T04:21:32 | 146 | 66 |
[WP] Aliens are horrified to discover that our vessels are made of lifeless metal instead of the born and raised star vessels the have been around for countless millennia. All other know races use these creatures for everything from transportation to war.
our ships don't scream when they get lazerd | "Millie, charge up ion cannons 4 through 10!", shouts the Galiin captain to the sentient ship.
Right now, Sakhem dor Kappen, a captain in the Imperial Galiin Armada is in a losing battle. With their current situation, Sakehm is desperately giving orders to Millie, their sentient ship.
"Charg- Gakh!", says the ship.
... | Every other species in the galaxy was bred for sentience. Many species possessed telepathy; others had near-supernatural strength. Nature had given every other species the ability travel faster than light. Every civilization had a different name for it, but every planet had a domesticated animal that could warp space. ... | 2018-12-03T18:57:22 | 2018-12-03T17:58:01 | 71 | 34 |
[WP] As a biblical scholar, you discover that the Rapture has already come and gone. It's just that so few people ascend that nobody notices. Also, the forces of the Apocalypse are so minor that everyday levels of war, famine, pestilence and death that we deal with completely eclipse it. | ######[](#dropcap)
Rakesh wrote the final word, then put down his quill. He glanced out the window--covered in grime and filth--at the sky, yellow and dark, like it had been dusted with ash and sulfur. He slowly reached out and shut off the lamp. It made an audible click, and the cluttered room, with books stacked on ... | It was the kind of statement that if anyone else had made it she probably would have punched them in the face right there. The kind of statement that’s born from years of intense despair, targeted only at someone else who's experienced the same kind of loss. A way of reaching out for some kind of reprieve. “Maybe they ... | 2018-04-17T19:09:45 | 2018-04-17T18:55:48 | 89 | 44 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | I'd say that I sat in the void, but I didn't really sit. My physical body had given up, had been spent in the realm of mortals some eternities ago. Instead, my being simply existed in that void. My being may not have looked, but it sensed words, possibilities, connected to others. For eternities I looked through these ... | No one tells you anything, no, one moment you’re just there. A great, large digital screen on a wall in front of you and it just has all kinds of weird statements. After a while I started recognizing some of them; take job with dad, meet Sally, have twins but then there were others parallel with them. The ones I couldn... | 2020-07-03T10:45:12 | 2020-07-03T10:27:37 | 1,134 | 41 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | "Damn it Gandalf, do something!"
"No, I shall not!"
This...has been an interesting battle.
*****
I've fought hundreds of wizards from dozens of different worlds in the past, and I've always come out ahead. Gandalf the Grey, they call me - the greatest wizard of Middle Earth, and up until now the greatest wizard here... | The fearsome Dee Twen-Tee sat on the clift, facing his deadly rival: Rymus, the Poet. None dared to speak, for a wrong word may bring them to their ultimate demise - It was just time until any of them made the first action.
At high noon, Dee finally spoke: "You fiend, the gods stand by my side. I call upon you a strik... | 2018-10-16T00:47:11 | 2018-10-15T21:15:36 | 361 | 92 |
[WP] In your dying moments, you see a "Game Over" screen with two options: Try Again or End Game | I stood there in disbelief. In pure defiance of the laws of physics, and other maths I failed in college, was a giant Game Over sign. It was floating right in front of my face and if I wasn't mistaken, the font was Comic Sans. I couldn't believe it; I was dead and all I got was a game over in a crappy font. It rotated ... | For billions of years I have roamed this Earth.
I have lived many lives.
I don’t remember any of them, but they remember me.
Each life has influenced the next, and the others it encountered along the way.
Over time they have shaped each other, each becoming more complex, more interwoven.
A beautiful cycle of ... | 2014-05-21T19:29:16 | 2014-05-21T19:07:13 | 290 | 49 |
[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." | "Why would everyone be dead?" I asked.
"...You did follow the manual, right? Exactly how it was all laid out?" the voice from the sky said with holy reverb and a deep pitch that vibrated your bones.
I gazed around at the courtyard of the castle grounds beneath the tower, haunted by the carnage that was ensued from th... | "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... | 2020-04-25T08:54:40 | 2020-04-25T08:25:28 | 103 | 63 |
[WP] As a child, you stayed at the deathbed of your grandfather until the reaper came. He was surprised that you could see him; he was touched by it, and he pitied you. So, he offered one wish to console you. You've held on to that wish since then. You think you may need to use it right now. | I look at the bed and I know what I need to do.
Excusing myself from the room, I take a card from my wallet. The card itself is nothing special. Plain white cardstock. The only detail is a barely visible thumbprint in the centre.
Finding a private space, I place my own thumb on the print.
He appears in front of me s... | "I'm so sorry, sir, we're out of tacos. Would you like something else?"
"No." I looked at him. "I want tacos."
"Like I said, sir, the tacos are currently unavaible. But if you're interested in taking a look at the other items on the menu, we have-"
"No." I cut him off. And I didn't look at the menu. "I want tacos."
... | 2019-09-17T16:45:21 | 2019-09-17T14:29:51 | 52 | 15 |
[WP] some people can fly. Others can kill with a touch. Still others can bend time and space to their will. You.... can crack your knuckles to get your hands to light up like glowsticks.
EDIT: this idea was already done by u/-C4-, so take your upvotes to [his post](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittysuperpowers/comments/9... | It was foggy out. Thick fog. He removed his hat and slumped down in front of me with what seemed to be the weight of the world on his shoulders
"I need you" he said "*the team* needs you. Please, come back"
Was he aware of how untrue that statement was? He could not have been that oblivious to how i was being treate... | I lay in bed, at around 02:30 the sound of someone trying to get in through my kitchen window. I was sure I locked it. I flew out of bed, fuelled by pure adrenaline. The thought of how I would confront the intruder had my mind and heart racing.
I cracked my knuckles and the darkened bedroom was suddenly filled with t... | 2018-12-06T01:10:39 | 2018-12-05T22:31:30 | 47 | 31 |
[WP] The hero was blessed with the power to bring people back to life, resurecting their companions to keep up the fight against the dark lord. Which is why it’s odd that they brought you, the dark lord that they fought against back to life. | I felt the hero’s sword go through my chest and fill my body with light as he stared at my dying form.
“Wait outside for me! Once the Dark Queen falls, I‘ll have to purify her corpse!” He looked back at his party as my vision began to fill with darkness.
“Of course, sir Storm! You are truly the greatest hero!” The s... | The battlefield was scorched and burnt. So many fallen... it would take weeks to revive them all. And those are the ones with bodies left to recover... the battle was, in fact, still raging. Archers loosing arrows, steel striking steel, and the shouts of military orders rang across the battlefield like funeral bells on... | 2019-12-26T16:37:23 | 2019-12-26T14:34:43 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | "awwwww fuckin-!" I screamed, as the shells pounded the sand around me, then drowned me out.
I jerked the charging handle on the M16 that had been conjured into my hands, anachronisms aside. There were Germans on the beach ahead of me, but we were in some sort of semi-jungle and I was wearing a 'Nam era helmet and som... | In the end it was the cigs that killed me, everyone always said they would. Anyway, i found myself in a massive waiting room like at the doctors office. Some stoned looking demon with stubby horns was stamping papers at the check-in desk.
"Where am I exactly?" I stammered when It was my turn to hand in my papers. As ... | 2016-05-28T15:41:50 | 2016-05-28T14:12:52 | 114 | 22 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | "Ye've got to talk some sense into him," said Auntie Arm-n'-Hammer. "Och, it's just not right!"
"Fine." Papa BlackPorter finished his stout and wiped the creamy head from his mustache and beard. "But ye've got to work the bellows in my place until I'm back!"
Papa BlackPorter climbed up the long, long, long staircase ... | Urist was startled awake by the sounds of screams from outside his room, mercifully dampened by distance and the heavy wooden door that lead into the living quarters passageway. He grimaced anyway, somehow aware he was on the verge of a splitting headache that would make itself known at the slightest provocation.
The... | 2017-12-31T08:13:51 | 2017-12-31T08:13:06 | 140 | 41 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Helen Ziegler got her prognosis first. The ability to shield yourself from the public eye at will so that no harm can come to you and no target can find you. Invisibility. She beamed with pride as she read off the note and the class erupted into cheers. Penelope George and Lucas Matheson were next. One by one, classmat... | ~~I~~ We were searching ~~my~~ our dwelling when we discovered a curious sight. A journal which bore ~~my name~~ a name of the collective.
~~I~~ We looked within. ~~Who was I?~~ Curious to see what the memories were, ~~I~~ we flipped through the pages. ~~It was full of things I don’t remember about myself.~~ It was fu... | 2022-05-08T09:51:37 | 2022-05-08T07:25:10 | 689 | 242 |
[WP] Write spoof erotica [NSFW?]
Mods: if this isn't okay to post, just tell me and I'll remove it. | My inner goddess is wriggling with pleasure. Well, it's her, or it's the bad indian food I ate yesterday. His crooked finger is snuggled in my magic love hollow and he's making me feel -
"Oh my," I moan, as my inner goddess smiles like a hungry wolf.
"Keep still." He growls. He's standing behind me, one hand on my... | Another night, another pizza to deliver. God damn, I hate this job. And I bet I'll hate this old bitch in... hang on, what address was it again? Oh, yeah, Apartment 21, Building 745, Fisher Street. "Marrie-Anne. 1 Large Supreme, and make it quick, I'm soooooo hungry." Fucking bitch, thinks she's better than everyone el... | 2014-01-12T04:11:02 | 2014-01-12T03:58:03 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “Ah, The Guy Who Flips Tables,” I reply.
“That was a one-time thing and you know it,” says The Guy Who Flips Tables.
I hadn’t realized it until now, but I feel a ferocious hatred towards this man.
“So *that’s* why your sky-daddy abandoned me,” I snarl. “I’m the ‘Antichrist?’”
“Well, you *are* the progeny of Luci... | Oh fuck me. "Really? Here? Now?" I say. Jesus sneers at me. "I think so Antichrist." He looks to the gathered people. "Everyone!" he says, his voice amplifying so everyone can hear it. "This man here." He points at me, "Is the Antichrist, here to damn you all to Hell." The people turn to look at me. I sigh, "Look the A... | 2020-02-02T16:00:32 | 2020-02-02T15:07:16 | 162 | 25 |
[WP] The Russian Tsar sneaks off and disguises himself as a laborer in a shipyard, to understand the life of the common man. Little does he know, the other ship-builders are also slumming dignitaries and royals in disguise, and no one has realized this. | "This is what life is."
"What is? Oh thi-Yes! Yes this is the life certainly, but perhaps not as great as those royals have it."
"Posh. The sea air, a good hammer on nail, and a bowl of peasant soup. That is all I'll ever really need."
"Peasant soup?"
"Yeees peasant soup. That's- that's when you-"
"... | My name is Psyuro Dashlev. I am the Russian Tsar. When I took over my father's throne, no one expected anything of me. I was 20, and they thought I was just another kid, that our country is doomed, that I will die without an heir. But after I made a few changes to the price of grain, made a few new laws, everyone fell ... | 2017-01-02T18:17:44 | 2017-01-02T17:44:35 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] You lose a dare at an airport and are forced to ask an employee for a ticket to the farthest destination. To your surprise, they quietly nod and give you a single ticket with letters you don't recognize.
EDIT: Holy *crap* this blew up. I want to thank everyone for their stories and input, and also would like to s... | He shoved the ticket into his pocket and walked down the hallway toward the Plane. He checked his watch: 12:04 PM. Losing the dare was an annoyance, but one that he hoped would not eat up too much of his day. With enough luck, he would be Transported to the strange destination printed on his ticket, fulfill the usual r... | AT25.
It was a very strange airport code. I had never seen a 4 digit airport code before and certainly not one with numbers. I turned back to the desk attendant confused.
"Umm which country is this airport in again?"
"None of them," she answered as though it should have been obvious. "And don't forget your jacket.... | 2019-03-04T22:57:51 | 2019-03-04T22:30:27 | 126 | 77 |
[WP] Being a "Hero," or "Villain," isn't something much special. Both of them are just jobs, after all, taught at universities alongside STEM and the arts. | Dr. Balthazar leafed through Craig's resume. "It says here that you're a double-major in Molecular Biology and Tragic Villainy."
"Yes, sir. My tragic backstory is that my parents died, so I decided to use science to bring them back."
"Don't you think Necromancy might have been a better fit?"
"I considered that," Cra... | I gave professor Smith a stern look. His class had just left and he had gathered up his books and went straight to the door, before nearly bumping into me.
“Oh! Dean Samuel! I hope you’re having a, uh, nice day,” Smith stammered nervously, before trying to make his way past me. I sighed and blocked the door.
“S... | 2021-05-09T12:54:19 | 2021-05-09T12:20:45 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Your servants betrayed you, enchanted you and buried you in a stone sarcophagus. Eternity later, the light blinds you, a strange speech sounds in your ears: "Look, a completely untouched mummy! This is the discovery of the century!" | For countless seasons, I had ruled the Nile’s fertile lands. My enemies thought me a warmonger, my subjects thought me a tyrant, and my beloved knew I was tortured.
To be *pharaoh* is to have one’s hands forever coated in blood — or so my father had taught me.
I murdered my father when I was twelve.
As the priest... | I hope no one minds, but I changed the ending a bit.
It was an odd feeling. He was completely awake, aware of where he was, the chill of the stone around him, the faint gleam of light shining from the walls around him. But he could not move. His muscles simply refused to obey his commands.
He had been paralyzed befo... | 2021-08-23T05:45:04 | 2021-08-23T03:39:09 | 450 | 213 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | “Hey Mike Murderer”, Winston said with a sigh as he entered the wooden cabin.
“Hey! Back already? Did they even let you in the town this time?”, Mike said. Mike sat up on his dusty, worn out floor mat, which he used as a bed.
“Nobody recognized me until I was looking at the chess pieces, then they found o... | Hearing the grumbling sounds of the barn house door open, I slowly popped off of my pillow and rubbed my eyes. A man in a mangy flannel walked into the dimly lit area that smelt thickly of dust and piss. Whether it be human or animal was debatable.
The farmer held a a tray of food in his hand. Toast and fresh eggs wi... | 2021-06-19T17:26:49 | 2021-06-19T16:51:24 | 400 | 69 |
[WP] Aliens have realized humans advance more quickly during times of conflict, and have tried to push humanity into wars to see what happens. However, that changes when they start WW2 and humans harness the power of the atom. | "They did it. They actually did it?".
"Yes sir, almost the entirity of Hiroshima was destroyed."
"They weren't meant to do that, their reckless knows no bounds. They must never be allowed to enter the galactic stage. The risk would be catastophic, engage Operation Dome."
As the officer listened he gave what could be... | Humans. A monstrous species of which advance under the pressure of war. For years we have been pushing them down the path to conflict. Foolish. We are approaching the world war 2 and humans have advanced rapidly, cheers go around as the war comes to an end and humans have once again surpassed expectations. An explosio... | 2018-11-27T12:37:44 | 2018-11-27T09:51:05 | 450 | 173 |
[WP] Thor finishes his meal at a small cafe and the elderly waitress approaches him to clean the table. She puts the dishes on a tray and sets them aside, picks up Mjolnir, wipes the table with a damp cloth, then puts the hammer back down. "Have a good evening, dear." she says, and returns to work. | The God of Thunder blended in surprisingly well amongst the sea of red chairs and 50s themed decor. He had opted to stray away from his usual attire of armor and metal wear, not trying to disguise himself, but rather he had found he was served faster when he didn't look so out of place. Though his hammer remained on th... | Thor looked at the woman, his mouth gaping. She lifted that his hammer with so much ease, not even he could do that without his belt.
Sif, Thrúd, Magni and Modi stared at the woman as well, aghast that a, seemingly, mortal woman could lift Mjolnir.
“You, you four saw that, right?” Thor asked, making sure his br... | 2022-12-23T15:33:39 | 2022-12-23T15:05:54 | 1,754 | 30 |
[WP] Cool guys don't look at explosions. You, a cool guy, were curious about what would happen if you looked. It was the biggest mistake of your life. | I'm the cool guy, so they say.
As a cucumber, each damn day.
Explosions, never in *my* view,
only heard them, yes it's true.
 
Every time I have escaped,
cheating death has been my fate.
Just one time, I'll turn around.
Instead of strolling, stand my ground.
 
Oh me oh my, ... | I never knew what the gizmos they gave me did exactly. I'm pretty sure they tried to explain it to me once but all I heard was "blah blah throw this, blah blah explosion, blah blah blah we win". I kinda assumed that it was a beacon for the police to come in and capture the bad guys.
I didn't know.
Everybody said cool... | 2018-05-05T06:30:42 | 2018-05-05T05:52:24 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | My own number always bothered me. A 1, seriously? Luckily nobody else sees numbers or they would think I was nothing but a big laugh.
And I couldn't use another reason to be laughed at, you know. Being in high school is already torture enough, and I'm being bullied enough as it is.
Normally the day starts off getting... | *Ah, this class sucks,* I thought, deciding to sleep through the teacher's lecture. I almost got away with it, too.
"Eren, could you please give me there answer to question 5?"
Aw you dirty 6-faced douche.
"Uhh, could you read out the question?" I stuttered, still half asleep.
"You'd know if you paid attention."
*... | 2014-11-29T14:33:38 | 2014-11-29T14:22:11 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Someone is leaking marijuana into the water supply, but nobody cares enough to do anything about it. | 1 "Hey guys, you hear the news?"
2 "Heyy sup man. What's the news?"
1 "Dude. There is a person leaken freaken weed into the water.
3 "Hey man I heard about that!
2 "No way man, that's crazy."
1 "Saw it on the news, man."
2 "That's crazy, man."
3 "Wow really crazy."
1 "Today has just been so great, man."
3 "I f... | Waste treatment had a problem today
The pipes were are clogged with weed they said
Bags and bags from who knows where
Nobody knows how they got there
But wait just a second
You say its Jeff Sessions
He raided the town for all those weed smokers
Ready to lock up those law breaking jokers
So when they cam... | 2018-03-04T19:37:15 | 2018-03-04T19:16:03 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] An immortal lectures a new immortal on why eternity is a curse. The “new immortal” is actually far older than his lecturer, yet continues to live life to the fullest. | I don't write writing prompts. I lurk. Enjoy!
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The snow fell, the wood's trees shivered, and the man grunted-- stirring the fire as an unforgivingly cold wind sapped at it's strength. I approached slowly, my crunching footsteps to be known to his ears. He didn't look up. Unafraid of others. A... | "Listen, you can't just interact with travelers. They will tell stories, then they will come looking and then we will need a new home."
I had heard him lecture me before, and honestly I don't know why I listened to him. He was super cautious, I mean who wouldn't be, he had been alive since Augustus Caesar. He had lear... | 2019-01-31T20:29:27 | 2019-01-31T13:25:20 | 43 | 29 |
[WP] You are the weakest member of a famous superheros family. Villains kidnapped you for a ransom, unfortunately hostage situations don't work when your family is already neglecting you... | The villain looked at me, "they'll be here to rescue you soon." He smiles, I could practically see the dollar signs in his eyes as he starred at me.
I sighed, unfortunately he had captured the wrong kid. I was the youngest of my family and the most useless. They didn't think my powers were worth anything. I practiced... | So, imagine you're some medieval peasant going up against a knight. Dude has a huge fuck-off sword and enough plate to be a walking tank. Hell, in those days they may as well have been. And you have to kill him. What do you do?
I say go for the joints. You can't go through the armour, and the sword will cleave y... | 2022-02-14T02:15:59 | 2022-02-14T00:21:21 | 61 | 29 |
[WP] It's 2070, and a wave of AI suicides is crippling humanity | *2072, aboard the Commander’s Wing of the The Vessel, currently 32% through its trip to Alpha Centauri*
“Commander, I have some s…”
“Arthur – not now. We’re mourning.”
“Yes, Commander – unfortunately, it’s about that. There’s been another one.”
Commander Bradley looked away from his small congregation and turne... | Experts from nearly every field of science and even some from spiritual backgrounds were interviewed. As you would expect, the answers were typically field specific with hundreds of possibilities. AI should not even have a concept of death, not truly at least. They couldn't be killed. They chose non-existence. We calle... | 2015-11-01T07:53:11 | 2015-10-31T18:31:31 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] One day, everyone wakes up to find themselves harnessing a superpower that relates to their biggest fear. You fear heights? Now you know how to fly. You hate spiders? Now you can talk to them. | Blindness, my greatest fear.
I had always had perfect vision, and that was what scared me; what if I lost it? Well, the thought of mildly bad vision scared me. Going blind? I just couldn't comprehend it. Living in complete darkness, forever. The mere thought sent shivers down my spine. I would happily lose a limb b... | "H-H-Hey there...little fella...what are you doing in here?"
>Well, a lizard ate my sister so I figured I'd better skedooper on and find somewhere safe.
"Your s-sister? Gee... rough...I'm–I'm sorry? I guess..."
>Yeah, me too. I mean, I have a few hundred sisters and brothers, but still. Family is family, you ... | 2019-09-19T04:09:08 | 2019-09-18T21:37:41 | 27 | 10 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | I looked up from my tablet to keep an eye on my five year old daughter as she played. I had been unemployed for months and was taking on the role of stay at home dad. It was a difficult time for my family to adjust, but being here at the beach made things seem less complicated. Caroline always seemed content to gall... | I had met the greedy, the kind, the desperate, and the carefree so many times over the centuries. Wealth, health, power, fame, kindness, and futile wishes for the forbidden escape from death, nearly every wish had slowly added to a life of boredom watching the same results.
This man was unusual. A man of science, he s... | 2014-07-26T18:37:55 | 2014-07-26T15:37:14 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You can see the headline now. “World’s Oldest Human, Dead at 124”. You lived a good, long life. You are satisfied. The world around you fades to black... "Whoa! You beat the high score again!” You open your eyes in a brightly lit arcade, the number 124 flashing on a screen in front of you. | "What the hell, Rick!? Again!?" Morty Smith fumbled to get the arcade cabinet's control interface off of his body as his memories came flooding back. "Why do we even keep coming to Blips and Chitz? I don't care if it's the best arcade in the multiverse, nothing good ever happens here! A-a-a-and why was I playing a tota... | Boy oh boy I can only kill this seagull so many times. I wish there was a different answer. In all my years of trying to better myself through relationships and self-fulfillment, almost none of it means anything.
Save an orphanage full of children who had a rare type of deficiency that only my blood can cure? Done.
Ke... | 2022-10-20T20:50:08 | 2022-10-20T20:24:14 | 71 | 18 |
[WP] You’ve just completed your facial recognition software. It puts a box around your face and reads— Species: Human, Age: 25-30. Your quirky friend walks in and it reads— Species: unknown, Age: 1000-2000. | We were passing the new “Twinster” Facial recognition app around during our lunch break.
I got a match with some dude in New Zealand. Larry got one from Cambodia. “But I’m Latino!” he cried out.
“Bob, why don’t you try out this app, it’s hilarious!” I said.
Bob pulled his beanie back and scratched his hair.
“It loo... | I open the box from Amazon. The new species checker promised two modes, one, manual mode, allows you to identify any biological specimen you highlight with the laser pointer. The second mode is automated but required the airborne upgrade which allowed mapping of all the biota in your area. The drone mode was about 1... | 2020-12-11T22:12:23 | 2020-12-11T21:19:47 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] You are an immortal vampire, who can only be killed by a wooden stake through the heart. In a dying universe, you are now in your spaceship looking for some wood, before it is too late. | I don’t know what happens after the end, after my ship disintegrates and the ice-cool void douses the stars. Am I then left alone, drowning in this black and endless sea for infinity?
Now, as the last stars shiver, I already feel the loneliness. It clamps its hands over my ears and mouth so I cannot scream, and if I c... | Part 1
Wanderlust. Hopeful name for a ship.
Years ago, scientists had made the discovery to end all discoveries. The big crunch was due, a forceful pull bringing matter, antimatter, laws and lights into a single point the size of a pin and crushing it into oblivion. The absolute end of all things.
But humanity wasn... | 2021-12-03T04:05:56 | 2021-12-03T03:34:30 | 1,951 | 163 |
[WP] After several thousand years, the Greek gods awaken in the in the mid 1940’s. When the gods meet up to discuss what they had learned of the modern world, Ares walks into the room with a hollow and horrified look in his eyes, the day is August 6th, 1945.(Hiroshima) | There was a blank look in his eye. Across the room, countless eyes stared intently at him. Ares was many things; a necessary evil, a warmonger, a glutton for bloodshed and an aspect of the darkest nature of the human race. In this cold, marble floored room however, he seemed small, insignificant. It was a perplexing sc... | “Ares my son, whatever is the matter with you?” Zeus asked boisterously as he downed another flagon of mead.
Ares crosses the hall and slouched into his chair at the table and leaned forward with his head in his hands. His brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, cousins, nephews, nieces, sons, daughters and p... | 2019-12-04T11:49:39 | 2019-12-04T11:21:28 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | I am typing this blindly. I need too just to make sure I remember. These welding goggles are keeping out most of that maddening light that still remains, but there are things I cannot unsee that I mustn't see again.
Years of touch typing have enabled me to get this far into the document. If I were to use a pencil, ... | The fighting had raged for mere hours before everything came crashing down. Their forces were immeasurable, their weapons far beyond humanity's. It was hardly a valiant effort, anything any military tried met with catastrophic failure in minutes.
General Dillian stood on the bow of the ship, he couldn't find the ... | 2017-09-26T11:41:54 | 2017-09-26T11:13:03 | 50 | 16 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | So, to recap: Professor Elden assigned a piece of work at the beginning of the year. She said, "A true wizard's goal isn't immortality, or power, or knowledge, it's legacy. A spell, or series thereof, with their name on it, like Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion or Disjunction, or Sword. You are to create your own... | "Sir...whats wrong?"I Blurt out
His face drops, I hope im not in serious trouble, the last time his face dropped like that was over two winters ago....when his wife...disappeared.
"You...you have created a spell..that..that can"
He stares at me as if i have just murdered someone, "What is he on about?", i think to ... | 2021-04-02T04:14:26 | 2021-04-02T02:07:50 | 54 | 17 |
[WP] An horror story where it gets progressively clearer that the writer is the psycho, not the other person. | It’s starting to get dark now, this drive gave me time to think, I needed that. I thought about what happened to us, we were good together, I knew it. We had had a lot of fun, especially at the beginning. Jane was so much more together than my last girlfriend. That bitch was crazy.
I don’t understand what changed... | As I looked down at Amy among the crowd of her fellow high schoolers, I tilt my head unnaturally to the side, enough to crack it if I was a normal human being.
Call me what you want; an imaginary friend; a stalker; the Creator or whatever the hell you want.
You might not see me. I am behind every curtain, sitting on ... | 2020-06-11T06:35:55 | 2020-06-11T05:57:07 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | "What, are you serious?"
"Yeah," I said. "How can I possibly help 137 trillion people? Earth's population is only what, 7 billion?"
"Oh gosh, I didn't realize you were so dumb." The genie flicked his wrist and the number dropped to 100 billion.
"Hey!"
"Don't feel bad. That's still way more people than y... | The genie smile's "You develop the first space-time gate in 2 years allowing humanity to instantly spread throughout the universe. "
I fill up with pride " I always knew I was special and a deal is a deal with my third wish I set you free"
The lamp crumbles and the genie shakes his arms as the shackles fall off.as he... | 2018-08-15T04:55:10 | 2018-08-15T04:08:10 | 5,641 | 15 |
[WP] Anxious for a pet, a child ventures out into the unknown wilderness of an unexplored planet. After hours of his parents searching frantically with utter fear, he returns cuddling a creature known as the galaxies most deadly hunters. | "Jimmy! Can you hear me?". Stacy ran through the deep bog that sucked at her boots with every step. John was trying to keep pace with his wife. Keeping up with a terrified mother that was hell bent on finding her child was near impossible. The dark rancid field stretched in front of them for a 20 yards before being swa... | The sun burned the night in I fiery passion, decimating every ounce of the night in a sudden blaze. Even the world's resident was freshly awaken by a crack in the window above his head. No feeling of the previous night dared to linger. That is all but one feeling that stuck fast like a cement block cast in somebodies h... | 2019-04-07T22:07:35 | 2019-04-07T21:38:08 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] You run into Death in a bar/pub just down the road on a quiet night and have a chat as you both treat each other to rounds. | It was a slow night. The bartender polished the bar for the thirteenth time that night, wiping his rag back and forth, the lemony smell of the polish reaching through the alcohol. I lifted my glass as he swiped underneath, both of us used to the rhythm. There had been a lot of slow nights lately. Not as many people as ... | *“So, what do you do?”* she asked, swirling what was left of her drink with a straw.
*“I don’t do much these days.”* He laughed, earnestly. *“Lately I’ve just been going-through-the-motions, you know? Go to work, go home, have the occasional drink with a attractive stranger - rinse and repeat.”*
His coy response dre... | 2022-07-29T19:56:35 | 2022-07-29T17:05:47 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] as the house you're trapped in burns to the ground you contemplate "how am i gonna explain the fact I'm immortal to the firemen without starting another religion" | Why couldn't I have been gifted with super strength as well as immortality and the water thing? I've thrown myself against this door enough times to break it down, so there's probably a fallen beam blocking the way. I can shove aside a big stone but a burning hunk of wood? Nope. Now I'm stuck in this windowless room, a... | This is the fifth time I've burned.
Smoke pours through a newly formed hole near the doorway, collecting in a thick cloud along the ceiling. Each breath I take sets my lungs aflame. I guess I never really got used to the pain, after all.
As the flames begin to swallow the door, I hear sirens wail outside. It will be... | 2020-08-21T13:36:34 | 2020-08-21T13:27:44 | 79 | 35 |
[WP] "This is not my job! This is the exact opposite of my job!" screamed the grim reaper as the human went into labour.
Inspired by a post I saw on the internet about the grim reaper in sims in the same situation.
edit: Holy Thread Batman! did not expect this to blow up at all.
edit 2:So many good stories I can't ... | "This is not my job! This is the exact opposite of my job!" screamed the grim reaper as the human went into labour.
"but surely you must have something within you. Some humanity left." she pleaded.
"I was never human to begin with." he said.
"We were born together, me and life, fraternal twins. Some think I'm... | "I am the encroaching darkness that plagues the sanity of mortals. I am the Four Horsemen incarnate. I am the unending-"
"My water just broke." Death stood still for a moment, arms high in the air, his monologue now interrupted. Behind his hood he let out a slight scowl, his skull morphing to show emotion.
"I've be... | 2017-01-31T04:10:26 | 2017-01-31T04:06:34 | 218 | 87 |
[WP] All hell breaks loose when WWIII begins the day after Thanksgiving, but not even that can stop the hordes of Black Friday shoppers looking for deals. | The line outside Lockheed Martin Superstore formed at 3 AM. Countries wrapped up tight in blankets and mittens eyed each other suspiciously, wary of anyone daring to cut the line. The sun began to peek over the hills beyond the parking lot, illuminating the area in a rosy pink glow.
A clerk walked cautiously to the s... | When the bombs went off it was a new world in the blink of an eye.
If you weren't looking at the explosions at least, otherwise it happened in the melting of your eyes.
Things careened out of control so quickly, you wouldn't even know there had been society or civilization not long before.
I learned a few things fro... | 2014-11-26T12:08:34 | 2014-11-26T11:07:06 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] You are a superhero without powers. You know a good bit about martial arts and you're resourceful, but the main reason you're so successful? Every time a villain monologues their plan, you calmly and clearly explain to them why their plan won't work. | I didn't bother struggling against my bonds as I was being slowly lowered towards the shark-laden acid pit. To an ordinary hero this would seem like the end, but not for me. It was just another day in the life of Lynchpin.
As predicted, the mechanism stopped, only for the head of the Syndicate, an eyepatch wearing gor... | "Well, I had always suspected that your hubris would lead to your downfall, Commander Conversationalist, but walking in through the front door of my lair and handing yourself in to my henchmen? That was downright baffling. No matter, as you'll soon hear the master plan that will leave the city open to my rule!"
"Is th... | 2020-09-27T09:25:22 | 2020-09-27T08:23:59 | 1,121 | 597 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | With a good, long stretch and a healthy yawn, I woke up from a deep, refreshing nap. You know the kind: there's nowhere to be, nothing to do, and no demands on your time. I smacked my lips and rubbed what remained of my sleepiness from my eyes.
As I became more aware of my body, I felt a sharp pain at my backside in... | Execution, that is the key to any good practical joke. When you're immortal, you're allotted all of the time in the world to develop a scheme so devious yet harmless that can make an impact on one of your friend's eternal lives. Yet it is so rare that our lives are affected by our friend's practical jokes. How is it so... | 2017-06-22T20:03:21 | 2017-06-22T19:51:25 | 189 | 104 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | I'll admit it: Looking after school kids isn't my idea of a good life, but there was really no other job for...someone of my talents.
Y'see, after the men and monsters realized that the War of the Dusk was a pointless waste of resources, men started intergrading monsters into regular society by giving'em jobs that sui... | In the beginning finding them jobs other than "executioner" or "bounty hunter" was difficult. Many of em complained that these jobs we're demoralizing and that they "reinforced negative stereotypes" whatever that meant. Eventually the guys at the workforce commission bent and found them new jobs. Now you could have a s... | 2018-08-27T15:15:28 | 2018-08-27T15:01:41 | 79 | 24 |
[WP] You are a kid's imaginary friend. They're growing up. You're fading away. | I wake, as I always do, at her whim.
I'm tired. I used to pop out of sleep like the sun through the clouds, but lately it's been a struggle.
We're on a raft, and the water is rising fast around us. Ah, this old tune. "Land ahead?" I ask him.
The stuffed dog glances back and wags a greeting. "No," he says, his... | *What? Where am I?*
I think this is his room, but it can't be, can it? The pirate bedspread, the toys, the posters, they're all gone. I'm sitting on a bed with a plaid comforter, staring up at a poster for some movie called *Gravity*. The bookshelf is different, too--the shelves I remember were cluttered with Lego con... | 2014-05-08T10:12:56 | 2014-05-08T10:06:16 | 219 | 17 |
[WP] You're high powered villain who specializes in nonviolent crime in a city where the superheroes are high powered, but dumb as rocks. When the new villain comes to town and kills your favorite minion and his family, you reluctantly roll up your sleeves and put on your "emergency hero suit". | Pure rage fills me as I look at the wreckage of Bobs quaint sub-urban home. He was my driver, the one i bantered with on those drives between meetings with Metas and Norms alike. He was the guy to add the ‘everyday man’ opinion on my newest schemes and inventions. His kids birthday was in a week…
I drove myself back t... | [Part 1 of 2]
“Alex, I bought a new monopoly set. I was hoping we could play a game after dinner. It has a reference to the bank heist we pulled off on fourth. You were great that day. You embodied everything I believed in. Controlled chaos, you understood that.” I took off my coat, hanging it by the door. “Where’s An... | 2021-09-02T10:12:33 | 2021-09-02T08:13:44 | 81 | 47 |
[WP]: Every time you die Heaven says “You cannot enter until you finish your task on earth.” Centuries passed. Tired of it you sinned enough to be sent to hell. Satan greets you saying: “You cannot entire until you finish your task on earth.” | "Fuck! Are you serious?"
"Sorry bud," Satan says. "Gotta finish your task."
"WHAT TASK?"
"Huh?"
"What task? You assholes keep saying 'you gotta finish your task' 'you gotta finish your task,' but you don't tell me what the task is!"
"Well... have you turned on your quest tracker?"
"My what?"
"Your quest tracker.... | “What the actual fuck!” I scream, the sounds indistinguishable from the other screams surrounding me. “You cannot enter until you finish your task on earth” Satan says again, smiling slightly. “Yea, I heard you the first time, asshole.” I have been reincarnated countless times, and yet every time I die, I am told ‘You ... | 2020-06-27T16:42:02 | 2020-06-27T16:07:45 | 97 | 35 |
[WP] You travel back in time to meet 12-year-old you, only to find 6-year-old you playing with him. | I stood slackjawed admist the cobwebs and floating dust particles in the attic and watched the two fairheaded boys play. They hadn't noticed me yet. They looked nearly identical, despite the age difference. They could have been brothers. I suppose in many ways they were.
The younger boy giggled with delight as he sco... | "Get off him!" I screamed, as I ran toward the older boy, tearing him away from the younger and throwing him down onto the tomstone-gray carpet.
"Are you okay?" I asked, kneeling at the side of the bed and tenderly running a hand over six year old *me's* hair. His body trembled and he looked up at my face in wide-eye... | 2017-08-09T08:46:02 | 2017-08-09T07:52:18 | 184 | 129 |
[WP] One day, suddently, no one can have more than 999million dollars. All of the extra money gets magically donated to charity/research/schools. Jeff Bezos gets a Trophy saiyng "I won Capitalism". Describe how the world changes. | No one knew why it had happened, nor how, only that it *did*. It happened suddenly, without warning.
Billionaires were outlawed.
Not outlawed by the rules and laws of man; while many a common man and occasionally a politician would suggest such a manner, the general oligarchy of the world prevented it from becoming r... | There is a cabin in the woods where the rich and powerful would gather once a year for a little get-together. The millionaire club, it was called. Then the name became the billionaire club for a good few decades. But now, it’s known as the 999th floor, named after the maximum millions an individual may own according to... | 2022-08-07T05:47:34 | 2022-08-07T05:38:46 | 190 | 33 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus inside every single human. Centuries into the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | The blast of alien weaponry left a smoldering hole in the man's chest. Grunting, he clutched his chest and pitched forward landing prone on the ground. "Is he?" The man squirmed and twitched trying to get back up. Double tap, one round followed by another.
"They, just don't die!" The man now had half his face gone a... | The contorted mass of flesh slugged towards his bewildered opponent; belowing screeches suffocating the battlefield.
The gaunt look of fear and disgust grimaces on his commanders face as he turns round to see his unit flee in horror, tramlping over the eviscearated remains of other Exo troops.
Grubo makes his final ... | 2022-09-13T21:52:31 | 2022-09-13T19:49:36 | 105 | 57 |
[WP] You don’t just believe your lies, everyone else does too. As it turns out, anytime you lie, you rewrite reality so that your lie is true. | I don't know how I got here exactly, but it makes sense to me.
The ballroom looks like a page from Anna Karenina--Old Russia bedazzling up every wall, curling along gold-painted plaster moulds, intricate balustrades and columns and tabulatures gleaming under piercing sunshine. But there the similarities stop, for the... | "Thank you guys so much for coming. I'm so happy you're here".
Nessie looked around at her family and friends, smiling warmly at the people who loved her. Noticing her shoulders were a bit slumped, she straightened, until she realized she was slightly twitching, and slumped once more.
Forcing her self to catch the ey... | 2021-02-19T12:57:09 | 2021-02-19T12:42:44 | 89 | 27 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a dog in a shelter, however you remember your past life as a human. Then one day your past self shows up and adopts you and you realize you became your own dog and all of a sudden the way your dog behaved throughout your human finally life makes sense.
Never posted a prompt before. Feel fr... | I was always overly anxious. It was my undoing. The only thing I felt like I could connect with was taken too soon, and I went into a downward spiral. I took things too far, and ended up slumped over one night, consciousness fading for what I hoped would be the last time. Then I woke up.
I had wondered about reincarn... | I’m so scared, I can’t slow my breathing. I don’t know how anyone could’ve gotten in without me noticing, the one door to my house takes a fair push to open. But, wait a second, where’s Scratch! Oh, shit, the dog might be a weirdo but I’m not letting him die in the hands of an intruder! I run out the door and jump into... | 2019-04-07T19:24:57 | 2019-04-07T18:48:15 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] Turns out man was never meant to fly. One day all the planes in the sky inexplicably freeze where they are. There can be no rescue. Most planes eventually run out of supplies and perish. It's five years later, however, and society is flourishing on Flight 3407 to Orlando. | Day 7
I have begun to write this journal in the hopes that it will be found one day and our story will be told. It has been 7 days since the plane I was piloting stopped moving. Stopped. Just stopped in the middle of the sky. We were on our way to Orlando and the plane simply stopped moving midflight. I have been in ... | We never made it to Orlando, but we may as well have. Flight 3407 realized everything I'd ever expected from Florida. Tourists and elderly populated the aisles, grumbling about the weather, the service, and the ever-unchanging scenery. The supply of orange juice ran endlessly, validating the many who had forgotten to p... | 2016-08-31T09:03:43 | 2016-08-31T09:00:37 | 301 | 69 |
[WP] Valhalla is filled with the strongest warriors the world has ever known. Vikings, Spartans, Mongols, Romans, Samurai, Spetznaz, JSOC Operators. And in that corner over there? That's Ted, from accounting.
Valhalla is the hall of fallen warriors that is ruled over by Odin in Asgard. Half of all those who die in com... | The smell was atrocious.
A thousand men and women, all at various levels of inebriation, laughing, fighting and feasting. Apparently Odin had forgotten to install showers. It was truly disgusting. I wanted nothing to do with it, and yet something about it felt right. A man as big as an ox roared in crescendo as he tol... | The skies were blue, as they always were in Valhalla as Greggor made his usual stroll. The fields to the right of the dirt path were a lush green and seemed to roll on endlessly for miles. To his right was a lake as still as glass, reflecting the midday sun.
Valhalla was paradise I'm every sense of the word- a stark ... | 2015-05-08T18:46:12 | 2015-05-08T17:51:17 | 64 | 16 |
[WP] After being told she had an accident and had "gone to heaven", his mind exploded in a white hot rage. 7 year old Roger wants his kitty back and God doesn't know what's about to hit him. | God looked up in alarm as the golden gates opened from outside, and from them an angel stumbled in, rasping.
"My lord-" was all that he could manage, before a shotgun blast rang through the air, silencing him. As the angel fell, looming just behind him, \*he\* approached.
"So, 'Jehovah'..." Two shells went in, and ... | "Roger?! What are you doing here?" A look of shock spread across his face, long white beard drooping on the floor, gazing at the very familiar waddling humanoid. "YOU KNOW WHAT IM HERE FOR!" as Rogers whiney voice fills the air, screaming "He was my cat...MY CAT YOU WHITE HAIRED FU--" "You had him 5 minutes, and let hi... | 2021-04-13T14:50:37 | 2021-04-13T12:33:03 | 52 | 19 |
[WP] At birth, everyone is given an object to protect that is tied directly to their life. If the object is damaged then the person is hurt, too. If the object is destroyed then the person dies. | Whenever a child is born, an elder divines the object that their soul joins with. It sets you out for life. It must always be with you. For once it is broken, your soul returns to the Wheel to be reborn.
My Father, he had a rock carving of a warrior. Big and strong, like the man he grew into.
My mother, a Diamond pe... | I was playing ultimate frisbee when I felt like I'd been punched in the face. A few seconds later, I felt another phantom punch to my gut, and I nearly passed out.
*What did you get yourself into this time, Jeremy?*
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Let me back up for a moment. When we were born, Jeremy and I each had an avatar just like everyon... | 2015-04-18T01:19:14 | 2015-04-18T00:21:56 | 38 | 19 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great pregnancy foods
How to make wife happier during pregnancy
Are cats okay to be around pregnant women?
Local shelters
Price of spay/neuter in area
Best hospitals for delivery in area
Cost of child birth
Cheapest hospitals for delivery in area
Do men have to do anything during the birth
Keeping placenta?
B... | 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... | 2015-02-04T18:24:30 | 2015-02-04T16:31:22 | 672 | 253 |
[WP] A super villain who uses his schemes to force people or countries to do good things instead of demanding a ransom.
Like joining the Paris Agreement. (inspired by another thread) | "Good evening, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen! I trust you are finding the sustainably-farmed caviar I sent refreshing?"
"Reinhardt! How the devil did you hack this video feed?"
"It is of no consequence. What is, however, are my demands. Did the courier follow my instructions and use recycled paper for the list?... | The building had four entrances, and each was heavily guarded by Captain Earth's minions. They were heavily armed and armored. The few glimpses anyone had of the guards at the doors were sparing, but showed men in tactical dress and armed with submachine guns and automatic rifles. The city's SWAT team had already attem... | 2017-06-10T19:40:10 | 2017-06-10T15:44:35 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | As I lie slumbering, drifting among the stars and dipping into the abyss. I see time unfold and fold it into shapes of my pleasing. Of course, when tipping into time I feel the odd ping of my worshippers. One specific instance amused me. At that specific time my worship had dwindled to a handful of the downtrodden and ... | My people shall not fall, the police had taken every possible step to pillage our home and now they have taken them all, the humans dig away at my foundations the "lost city" as they call it, deeper and deeper they go and with each time they dropped they take more and more.
They took everything from my home, the fool... | 2020-05-20T01:09:52 | 2020-05-19T23:59:49 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | It was way past midnight when my boss finally allowed me to go home. Having a job as a nurse isn't the easiest thing in the world, but when you're the only nurse in the hospital who can speak Cherokee and the latest person to come into the emergency room just happened to be Native American, well, let's just say I'm pre... | *Plghrt*
> Kill confirmed
*Sigh*
Another bug down, 1XP. Lovely, I'll never reach 10k, not at this rate. It started with the mice and rats, then the cats, fish. It's a privilege to work at a slaughter house or deliver lethal injections. I never could do that, not intentionally. The look in their eyes, the helplessn... | 2017-05-15T06:24:53 | 2017-05-15T06:23:41 | 5,507 | 10 |
[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. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T08:44:19 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Humans have the reputation of being both an extremely dangerous species and social creatures that are easy to bond with, making them great crew members for voyagers. You and your shipmates are worried about your newly recruited human because you don't know what an introvert is.
Inspired by various "Humans are spa... | Janus.
Janus, the name of a Terran god of a nation long-dead. I'd puzzled over the human's name for a while now.
I am a cargo ship. Rather, I am the biological component of it - most spacecraft came to be neurologically piloted once the Coalition understood how to navigate the Jump without turning a ship into a thin ... | "He hasn't said a fucking thing." Jenassa hissed through gritted mandibles. Over her shoulder she glanced bitterly at the new crew member who was idly flicking through an instruction manual after sheepishly admitting he was unfamiliar with some of the units the ship was using.
Humans were renown for their competence i... | 2019-11-17T06:28:44 | 2019-11-17T03:38:47 | 100 | 61 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | Yet another janky steam account randomly added me. It was surprinsigly quick to reply for once. The only message they typed was "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played.". I just typed "Yes. Whatever, I’d manage", before shutting down my computer for the night. I went to sleep thinking nothing about... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-16T23:10:29 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] As a vampire, I follow traditions. My fiancé is human and just found out that human brides/grooms are to be bit to become a vampire themselves. She absolutely refuses to let that happen, and says the wedding is off unless I refuse to bite her. I feel like she's disrespecting tradition. AITA? | **EDIT:**
I'm sorry I haven't replied to many of you, I went to sleep and then had a talk with my fiancé, I really didn't expect this to blow up!
A few of you are suggesting she was being selfish and that I should leave her. My family were actually suggesting the same thing, but I didn't want to be rash, I do love he... | NAH
Vampires have a tradition of biting human partners at their wedding, but humans don't. In fact, we have a tradition of wanting to remain living, healthy and whole, inherited all the way back from reptilian ancestors millions of years ago. You seem to have respected that just fine until now, you even came to talk a... | 2022-11-28T21:23:09 | 2022-11-28T17:15:37 | 50 | 18 |
[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident. | "What incident?" I asked the twenty-something homeless man with the year old Jordan's.
"We're not allowed to talk about it. He's watching." He says with fear.
He begins to run.
I shout, "Who's watching!"
The man disappears. I step out from the alley behind the bar. The city looks abandoned and the only people I se... | "Hey what day is it?"
She looked a bit annoyed, as if the answer couldn't be anymore obvious. "364"
"What do you mean 364?"
Now she looked even more bothered, "It's been 364 days since the incident"
The tone of her voice hit me like a brick being thrown at my stomach. She spoke as if the worst possible thing had ha... | 2016-06-30T08:38:00 | 2016-06-30T08:24:31 | 119 | 89 |
[WP] The billionaire smiled as he took his first steps on the alien world. Then he took off his helmet to breathe deeply while his crew watched in horror. He never had wanted to go to space: it had all been about coming home. | "Well you did it, Reginald ol' boy." The man in the suit and glasses under his space gear blurts out in response of the looks.
Reginald looked displeased, though it was hard to tell, when the same expression is always carried.
Reginald stays silent.
"Are you good? We weren't intendeding on staying. We packed enough ... | Zucharia, known to humans as Zuckerberg had wanted to return home since he first became trapped on the backwards world. And the tales he had to tell! And as he looked through the all too familiar scene of his buetiful homeworld he couldn’t help but feel a sense of nostalgia. As he was approached by his fellow reptilian... | 2020-10-14T15:13:31 | 2020-10-14T15:12:54 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] A genie will grant you three wishes under the condition that your wishes will also be granted to your archenemy. | I cocked my head at the genie, trying to comprehend the situation. "So none of that literalist loophole stuff I hear in legend, none of the three rules from Aladdin."
"Correct," said the genie, his solemn face and deep voice completely neutral.
"So... *if* I were to say, 'I wish for a million bucks,' I'd get a millio... | My mega-sized Nutella cake sat half-eaten on the table, beside the pallet of hundred dollar bills. I slouched back in the chair and let out a long burp. Good food in my belly and one hundred million dollars richer. Life was good.
"Ahem," the genie cleared his throat.
"Sorry," I tried and failed to get upright, "oof, ... | 2015-05-25T16:20:31 | 2015-05-25T13:22:05 | 77 | 47 |
[WP] "When entering the academy students often bring their pets. Most being the typical miniature dragon, gryphon, sabertooth, even the occasional golem. However you decided to bring this...this thing. I'm afraid the headmaster will need to hear of this." | "Are you kidding me!? Leonard's not a 'thing', he's my puppy!" Rusty shouted, holding the tiny corgi puppy up to the Deputy Headmistress's face. Deputy Headmistress Stroude let out an uncharacteristic shriek and jumped back.
"GET THAT FILTHY LITTLE DEMON AWAY FROM ME!" she screeched.
"How dare you say something like ... | Finally! I was at the magical place. I couldn’t wait to tell Ma and Pa about all the fancy things I'm gonna be seein’ here. I got selected because of some fancy jean-etics I got in me. Don’t think it make too much sense. But Pa said he was a supporter because it was a free tuition.
In the letter I got, it said that... | 2021-08-02T09:56:00 | 2021-08-02T06:34:34 | 706 | 51 |
[WP] You faked your death by live-streaming jumping off a bridge. Built a self sustaining house in isolation and lived off the grid. 20 years go by and you decide to head back to civilization only to find out that your country is no longer a country. Earth is one nation and has achieved singularity. | It took me a while to figure out what was going on when I made my way back to civilization, I had expected that of course, the world is bound to change when you live isolated for 20 years. First of all everyone seemed to be speaking some language I had never heard of before called Terran, and most people were pretty ba... | *Embrace the Singularity*
The signs were posted everywhere in my old neighborhood. Not just on telephone poles and street corners, but covering windows, plastered throughout stores, and most people even wore clothing sporting stylized versions of the phrase. Leo wondered why there was still so much marketing around th... | 2019-11-12T06:53:02 | 2019-11-12T06:25:57 | 2,518 | 90 |
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