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[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | PARIS (AP) Leaders from 42 countries gathered in the French capital Tuesday to thank the police detective who singlehandedly defeated the terrorist group known as ISIS.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau still seemed a little dazed from his ordeal in Syria, saying only "I do not know who zis ISIS person is, I am just glad ze ... | They swept across the dunes, conquering all foes before them. Charging forward to the roar of cannon and rifle, no stronghold or fort could stem the tide of red and gold that spew forth from the edge of the horizon. Like the sea, this force could not, would not be restrained by weather, terrain or people in the pursuit... | 2016-01-29T07:27:42 | 2016-01-29T07:22:10 | 1,067 | 43 |
[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… | I remember it like it was yesterday. Maybe because it was, i don't know. Ever since they locked me into this pitch black room my sense of time has gone away. What i can say for sure is that it was my 14th birthday. Oh i was so excited. The day you turn 14 is the day you get your power. My entire life up until that poin... | “Don’t use your power.”
Those four words punched me harder in the gut than Carl did at the playground yesterday. This was the one thing I’ve been looking forward to. The sole solution to all my problems, turning me from nobody into someone worthy of a little attention and a lot more respect.
Instead, there were those... | 2022-05-08T10:30:53 | 2022-05-08T10:04:14 | 48 | 22 |
[WP] A typical day in a world where EVERYTHING is socially acceptable.
EVERYTHING. Dear god I can only imagine the responses to this one. | Cunt was late for their breakfast, but Turd didn't mind. He had just finished masturbating when Cunt arrived, and the waiter handed them their menus. The prices at the Swastika Cafe were pretty high, but the food was insane.
Turd ordered his customary shrimp cocktail with chocolate sauce and mayo, and Cunt went for a ... | "Sarah?"
"Yes?" She called up the stairs.
Tutting after a seconds silence she walked up two steps and let her hand fondly linger on the embossed bust of the Führer; again: "yes?"
"I can't find my gun! I left it right here in the drawer all I can find are the photos of the terminal ward orgy and the other box of ammu... | 2014-08-20T06:51:07 | 2014-08-20T03:34:41 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] You live in an uber-religious society in 3543, and the biggest historical discovery has just been made. It is a video, and will be broadcast across the world. No one knows it's contents, and no one can stop the broadcast once it begins. "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz. | "Hi, you're on a rock, floating in space."
No we're not. We are in the paradise God intended when he made this true, flat earth.
"Pretty cool, huh? Some of it's water - fuck it! Actually, most of it's water."
Yes, except most of is irradiated.
"I can't even get from here to there without... Buying a boat."
A what?... | It was Satan, of course. Only the eternal trickster could ever conceive of such madness, such insanity. The High Priest was quick to express his disappointment that the expedition had resulted in failure. Like last year, with the bones of animals too big for this blessed Earth. Satan was always there, making up his sto... | 2018-10-08T02:40:27 | 2018-10-08T00:38:56 | 1,463 | 481 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | Sheryl kisses me on the cheek, patting my shoulder. I put an arm around her waist briefly; she is in the middle of getting dressed and we're running behind. While she buttons her dress, I knot my tie. I lace my shoes as she slips into her best brown heels, the ones with the little bows on the tops. I watch her brush he... | Dear Diary,
It's been such a long trip! I keep bugging Mom to find out when we are going to arrive! Looking out the window gets boring pretty quickly, the scenery just starts to all look the same.
Most of my siblings agree, except, of course, Miss Goody Two Shoes. You know the one. She just smiles at Mom and says... | 2016-05-19T11:23:33 | 2016-05-19T10:54:03 | 208 | 53 |
[WP] You were born with a birth mark the shape of a "9" on your wrist, one day you get in a fatal car accident. You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8 | James awoke on a metallic table, a bright light above him enveloped the room in light. He tried to recall what had happened - twisted metal and fire flashed in his mind. There was a crash, but he couldn't recall how he got here. Wherever here was. He rubbed his eyes, attempting to make shapes from the fuzz, but some... | "Making my way downtown. Driving fast. Driving faster~."
Ugh, dust and burnt steel(-No, aluminium?) clogging my nostrils and I still can't get that damn song out of my head. Also smells like hot tar. Wonder how close my head is to the street. I'd check, but I literally looking at the back side of my left leg (I know i... | 2016-08-03T19:52:19 | 2016-08-03T19:17:28 | 1,069 | 11 |
[WP] Rampant use of performance enhancing drugs amongst elite Olympic athletes coupled with lifetime bans has led to the creation of the "Performance Games" which encourages pushing the limits of human ability by any means possible. But what happens when things are taken too far? | He stepped forward, chalked up his hands, ready to lift the bar, loaded with weights which would've seemed unreal the games before. The motors in his shoulders were set to overload, and he'd made sure his engineers had ensured there'd be no failures. Stepping forward, all eyes on him, he lifted. He won.
After a long n... | Morgan's piston legs screeched as he ran forward. Morgan was powerful, mighty beyond belief, a god. He felt every foot of distance beneath him crumble away as his overtly buff body worked tirelessly. Everything was numb, the amount of pills and drugs he had taken in the last 24 hours blazed in unison leaving him in a s... | 2014-08-24T07:08:38 | 2014-08-24T06:42:37 | 125 | 73 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | You're careful. Every piece of your life, every single moment, since that day of rapture and the 0 appeared on your wrist you have been careful. Never stand out. Never draw attention. Maintain the average existence of shrub. Well that was the plan at least. You realized too late that in this age of sigils and supers an... | “I’ll show them my true powers” I said looking at my hand, snickering knowing they will finally face my wrath. The horn of the school bus signifying the start of my hell again.
The school bus arrives, the moment I ascend the stairs, I trip on air, falling face first unable to stop my fall with my hands. The routine of... | 2020-02-26T10:44:56 | 2020-02-26T09:00:31 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] For years you wandered the Earth, thinking you were the last surviving human, until you find a hidden bunker and soon find out that everyone was just hiding from YOU. | "Hey... Anyone there?"
My throat is filled with sand and fire and every noise I make is agony. When did I last hear my own voice? It's so hoarse now... So.. foreign. So tired.
"I don't mean to bother you... I just... I've been alone for so long.. I.. "
I cease. The round, unmovable metal door continues to lay ther... | *November 7, 2032*
*To Whom It May Concern,*
*Ten years, reader. Just take a moment and try to imagine spending ten years without human contact, without human support or love. Before you cast your judgement upon me, just put yourself in my shoes and really try to imagine what it would be like.*
The first few weeks w... | 2022-11-06T20:43:05 | 2022-11-06T17:45:48 | 1,083 | 279 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth, but end up being defeated by an incredibly ridiculous flaw (for example, they're like flies and don't realize you can't fly through windows).
EDIT: Oh come on guys, I said *incredibly* ridiculous flaw. No need to make it so serious or subtle! Go all out with something outrageous! | I was there for first contact. I was a diplomatic aid with the UN delegation. It was utter panic co-ordinating everything behind the scenes. All of the petty demands from different world leaders. I was constantly on my phone co-ordinating this mess.
It didn't help that the extraterrestrials chose the mojave desert as... | "This planet is now ours," said the strange being exiting the spaceship. It had just landed in the middle of a crowded roadway, bringing all traffic to a halt. "We are the Flow. We flow from planet to planet expanding our rightful ruling over the universe."
"You picked the wrong planet!" A man from the crowd yelled... | 2014-10-10T09:53:19 | 2014-10-10T09:27:18 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] The old lighthouse never turned on at night or during a storm. It was said that it only lit up for another kind of emergency. No one remembered the last time it was lit, until today when the top burst into brilliant light. | *19 September 2269*
**BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP**
Alex jolted up from the bed, slamming the alarm to quiet that obnoxious beeping. He rolled his head from side-to-side a few times before getting up and walking to the window. He pushed the curtain aside and peered out to see what today offered him. As he observed the dense ... | Blinding light
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The sun had just set, as Jonah sat down in his chair with a cup of coffee in his hand.
The warmth of the cup quickly transferred to his ice cold hands.
It had been a long day at work.
Jonah sighed as he turned on the radio, and zapped through the channels, only stopping when some light ... | 2019-09-13T13:39:18 | 2019-09-13T12:25:15 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | "Hey, Kiesha" I said as I slipped into my seat behind her.
Keisha whipped around in the crappy desk/chair combo, ringlets bouncing and eyes wide. Before she could ask the obvious question and derail the plot I cut in.
"I am so, so, so sorry for bailing on you last night. I promise I didn't mean to. I really really ... | The look on Kate's face when I walked into class was priceless. Apart of me had wanted to confront her in front of everyone, but I knew better after all how could she have killed me when I just walked in. So I just took my seat and focused on today's lessons, this continued for the rest of the day until lunch where my ... | 2022-12-29T21:03:56 | 2022-12-29T20:26:29 | 87 | 24 |
[WP] You come across a Genie who offers you a couple of options: you can make 3 'Class A' wishes, or 1 'Class B' wish per month for one decade.
Class A wishes are more powerful than Class B wishes, and would obviously have less limitations, but feel free to establish your own set of rules for the story. | "Wait... B class wishes?" The tales I'd heard of genies had always told of getting three wishes. Needless to say, I was intrigued. "What are those?"
The genie smiled slightly before replying "B class wishes, as I'm sure you'd expect, are a lot smaller scale than those of class A. Class A wishes require a lot of ef... | I expected a genie lamp to be hidden away in the Sahara
Desert, or locked inside of a secret Government base. So when you’re pouring
tea and this blue fucker pops right in your face, it can kinda scare the living
crap out of you.
“Heya Daniel! Thanks for freeing me. I was burning up in
there!” It screeched at me.
B... | 2017-11-20T21:56:28 | 2017-11-20T20:39:49 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | "So I'm not allowed to remember anything after this is over?"
"My answer is never going to change. Be grateful your memories come back everytime you see me."
I shrugged and got him a bottle from the fridge. He wedged his boney finger underneath the cap and popped it open. He reached for mine but I had already unscrew... | Times are hard, masters are no longer taking apprentices, and I have a family to take care of. After much searching, I have finally been taken under the wing of Exder, the town plague doctor. This year, we have been hit hard with something he calls the Whispering Shock. People are beginning to lose their voices, and so... | 2020-01-31T08:23:34 | 2020-01-31T07:15:25 | 63 | 33 |
[WP] You are the first person to die on mars, when it turns out, each planet has its own version of the afterlife. | I did it. I lived to see the ten-thousandth Martian-born. She was delivered right down the hall from me, actually, here in Saint Armstrong metropolitan hospital - best hospital on Mars! That is the official motto. Easy to defend such claims when you're the only hospital on a planet.
Martian-born children are a bit dif... | Well, this sucks.
I thought I'd meet, like, Kurt Cobain. He was really who I wanted to see. Ask him about those Courtney Love rumors. Did he really pull the trigger with his toe? Or did she?
Instead, everyone's all crazy about Zeewick. Apparently some Martian pop star, back when Mars had these crystal cities and gran... | 2015-03-19T15:40:24 | 2015-03-19T14:32:18 | 62 | 14 |
[WP] You have a unique ability to cause background music that everyone can hear, but no one can figure out where it's coming from. And the situation always follows the music's cue, for better or worse. | It wouldn't be fair to say I didn't expect this to happen. After all, with how crazy my playlist's tend to be, I barely have control of this newfound power of mine, but now that I find myself in the gym with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's "PonPonPon" playing in the background non-stop, I can definitely assert that this is no bles... | The usual customers filed into the local bank on a lazy Saturday morning. Old ladies up at the crack of dawn to cash their social security checks, workaday moms and dads in a rush, and him. Covered head to toe in nondescript baggy grey clothes with a grey balaclava to match. He looked like a bank robber, which of cours... | 2019-09-06T18:07:40 | 2019-09-06T18:03:52 | 242 | 22 |
[WP] Today, I came to work, as usual. A little around 3 PM, I have noticed I don't remember my colleagues. Except for Kelly, who just sent me an email "Act normal, meet me downstairs. Now!" | The time on the display panels at the light rail read 8:10 AM. Damn, late again. Not that it was terribly unusual for me or anything. I'd just have to hustle the few blocks to the office, for not the first or second time this week.
I scanned my keycard as unobtrusively as possible, hoping to not attract any unwant... | When I arrived downstairs I was a little perplexed as the area was entirely renovated since the last time I saw it. I wondered how so much work could have been done in one morning; an entire wall had been broken down and a little interior garden with a fountain was fully integrated into the entrance hall of the buildin... | 2016-09-16T13:15:55 | 2016-09-16T07:58:36 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You've sent your Ancestry DNA off to be analyzed a few weeks ago. This morning two government officials knock on your door saying you must come with them. | "Mr. Lockheart", yelled the man at the door, "Mr. Lockheart, please open up, it's important!".
I wake up startled by the sounds of the loud voice and look at the clock. 6am. Ugh.
It sounds urgent however. I hurry towards the door and open it after looking through the peephole.
"Hello... who are you?"
A man in whi... | It's a warm spring day, green with leaves swaying in the wind, and bugs buzzing across the lawn. The two suits standing in front of me are really killing the vibe. They look like accountants, and yet they're strangely intimidating.
"I'm not going anywhere."
"Please don't make this hard on yourself."
"I don't even kn... | 2017-05-31T12:36:41 | 2017-05-31T12:00:21 | 79 | 40 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | Kenn wasn't adverse to killing people. That came with the job. Sometimes, you just had to do what was necessary to survive. That's what human nature was right? People have been killing each other for centuries. Who can honestly say they're surprised when the first thing superhumans do is start killing each other? That'... | You are either born with powers or not. That just how it is. Don't ask me why you did not get powers while I did, okay? Because I don't know, but what I do know is that I used mine to perfection! Nobody had a chance against me in my time, and to be frank, I don’t think anyone will ever surpass the accomplishment writte... | 2017-09-17T05:11:57 | 2017-09-17T02:32:46 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] Use the random page feature on wikipedia until you get three names. The first person's name you get is the hero of the story. The second is the villain. The third is the reason they're fighting. | Our heroine: **Julie Halpern**. An American YA fiction writer.
The villain: **Bryotropha vondermuhlli**. A species of moth from western Europe.
The reason for all this: **Den Beste Sykkel**. A Norwegian bicycle manufacturer.
Well then.
Julie overpaid the taxi driver by a good two hundred Kroner, leaving him to bemu... | 1. William Kennard, former American ambassador to the EU
2. W. L. "Jack" Howard Mayor of Monroe Louisiana in the 50's, 60's and 70's
3. Brenda Nicholls, Canadian curler
Hmmm . . . okay.
Will was excited. He has come up with a plan to improve relations with Europe. America and other countries had long argued over whic... | 2015-09-11T20:19:51 | 2015-09-11T18:54:04 | 600 | 197 |
[WP] You are a supervillain who has just captured your rival's child. Rather than being afraid, they're begging you to let them stay. | The son of Thunderclap laid asleep in his cell, in a bed behind a plasma barrier. My soldiers had taken him from his home just a few hours ago. My machinations were finally coming to fruition. After all this time, I finally held some power over that mighty bastard.
The boy tossed and turned, shaking awake. I walked to... | "Velveteen, I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit disappointed in you," Velveteen's caseworker said as he enter the domicil that contained his dungeon. Granted it wasn't as fantastic as Mr. Red's or as gawdy as Captain Dog's, but it was still home and a little appreciation would be nice. "I'm not sure which I'm more disappoi... | 2022-04-06T21:46:12 | 2022-04-06T19:24:27 | 58 | 38 |
[WP] You're a psychic doing a game show. Unlike the other contestants, you're the real deal. They bring you all to a house where a crime happened in the past. When it's your turn, a ghost appears and tells you: "That's him, that's the one who killed me." Pointing towards the host of the show. | I’ve seen the unseen and known the unknown for so long life had gotten rather boring. I’d discovered the dangers of using my gifts when I was a child so I had taken to concealing them. When I graduated college with my degree in physics I’d joined, on a lark, the skeptics society. If only they’d known.
Well, now I’... | ######[](#dropcap)
Angela stared at the young girl, trying to hide the expression of pity that threatened to show on her face. The shimmering form of the ghost was that of a girl no older than fourteen, and despite the fact that her eyes were a pale white, she was no scarier than her own fat tabby cat at home.
"He l... | 2018-11-15T14:35:50 | 2018-11-15T14:29:32 | 459 | 113 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | A screech, a crash, a flash - in seconds it was all over. A great blinding light washed over me, and I found myself surrounded by the material that makes up the very universe. I saw time stretch before me, eons and ages would pass without me. I had been removed from existence...or so I thought. I looked over to my left... | I committed suicide at age 43, alone in a dingy flat in a dodgy area; overdue two months of rent, water long since cut off, and loan sharks knocking at my door at all hours of the night.
I will freely admit that I knew I wasn't a model citizen, but I certainly didn't think I was Hell-worthy. I thought of myself as a l... | 2022-09-04T14:52:04 | 2015-01-02T11:09:56 | 383 | 22 |
[WP] After being sent to a game like fantasy world, you and your friends awoken back on Earth, with little time having passed. You all assume it was some kind of dream, until a minor character suddenly showed up. Apparently, until you finished their side quest, they will never leave your side. | We managed to find her a job tending to a public botanical garden. It was a bit tricky seeing as she doesn't have a social security number, but we pulled some strings. Good thing gold bars are worth just as much here as they are in the Drifting Realm. We can afford penthouses in Manhattan now, so what's a little bribe ... | “Who are you supposed to be?” I said.
I watched as a gnome-like man wearing a robe and wizard hat stepped out of a bush.
“Hellooo travelers. My name is Inverted Isaac and I want you to invert your camera settings for me. 10 experience points if you do,” said the gnome.
“No. No way. My friends and I finished that wei... | 2022-09-30T02:17:09 | 2022-09-29T21:36:54 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | The voice... and the face that goes with it
I start to say something, "a-"
She cuts me off
She's saying things, I don't really know what, it's just noise, I'm trying to remember the worst thoughts I've had over the years.
Then the thought slips, "maybe she knows too much, should I kill her?"
She takes a step back,... | I turn around and I just knew who she was.
"No, Cathy. You should've left five years ago."
Cathy gave me a big grin, her eyes filled with anger, her fingers trembling. She looked at me from head to toe, seeming disappointed.
"You should've joined me then. We were a team! Why are you still here?"
I tried killing mys... | 2019-09-14T10:59:27 | 2019-09-14T10:55:47 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You've been supporting the hero since his journey began. Today is the day you betray him. | John was my best friend, he had been since third grade. Of course, nobody called him that but me now. Most people called him Warlock, even though that didn't aptly describe him. His powers were mind-based, but that was the closest connection to magic they had. His ability to project a debilitating fear into the min... | The hero stood over his enemy, blood and sweat dropped from his forehead. Jim could almost swear that he saw a smile spread over the man’s, Roland, face as he pulled the war axe from the villain’s split skull. He’d always sworn that their great and awesome leader enjoyed the taste of battle too much. But the ability th... | 2014-10-24T09:09:59 | 2014-10-24T08:44:11 | 110 | 37 |
[WP] You have the power to see five minutes into the future and manipulate minor events that happen in that timespan. No one takes you seriously. You're going to show them all why they should. | I don't know how it started, or why I was chosen. I always called them glitches in the Matrix - you know, after the movie - when it happens.
The first time, I was young. I saw my death. I don't mean that in a gruesome way - I was just a kid, chasing a ball out into the street, and a car hit me. It was over quickly, su... | The girl in the Blue Moon Theater dies at 10:42 AM during a bootleg showing of her favorite movie, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*. She dies alone, convinced she is forgotten. She dies easily, wrapped up in the flickering darkness of the old, musty theater. She dies like a stone sinks, a pebble in dark, still w... | 2021-12-31T11:49:00 | 2021-12-31T10:10:49 | 1,623 | 619 |
[WP] World War III breaks out. As each nation prepares to press the big red button, the earth trembles. Switzerland has literally broken off from earth and takes off into space to avoid the nuclear holocaust. | Secret Service agents frantically press the elevator button at the end of the West Wing where the rest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are waiting. The President and his entourage are rushed into the elevator, being told only that they were in imminent danger. The report, three sentences long, burned into the each of the ... | **My first ever story, have been reading for a long time, tried giving it a different ending. Critique is much appreciated :D**
The thing that the whole world feared finally happened, the beginning of the end, the declaration of World War 3. There would be nuclear weapons thousands of time more powerful than those dro... | 2020-01-15T19:43:06 | 2020-01-15T19:22:01 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] You tried to summon the devil to grant your wish, but instead of summoning him you got Cer, Ber, and Rus, 3 adorable puppies with them is a note from the Devil, "If you properly take care of them, I might just grant your wish." | When I first met the boys, I was living in a small apartment making just above minimum wage. I couldn't afford one dog, let alone three. I could barely feed myself off-brand Raisin Bran, and that was when it was on sale. It made sense for the Eternal Prince of Darkness to play to my weaknesses. I was going to ask him f... | *“Good boy. Who’s a good boy? Good Ber bear. Good...goo...”* My voice cracked. I couldn’t form words. I just cradled his big black head in my lap and cried. Ber was the last to finally go. He tried to stay longer, I know he did. For sixteen years he was my rock. More years than any dog his size should be living. But he... | 2020-09-03T18:24:24 | 2020-09-03T14:32:31 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] The alien invasion has begun and the first shock troops have landed on Earth - except they've landed in the middle of a video game and comic book convention and found that they actually quite like it here and don't want to destroy the planet.
Edit: Wow this is my first post here after lurking for so long I'm amaz... | They came in late 2020.
There was no sign before they came. It was a convention in London, about comics or something similar, that is where they decided to land. Through chance, or by intent.
They crashed in through the hall's roof and went out in their power amour. However, they did not attack, for whatever reason, ... | After 20 years of exploration , finally , our troop has finally arrived in a habitable planet . Surprisingly , this planet has an amazing technology development , even they have a signal tower for spaceships . After we landed here , we are surprised because we found many intergalactic explorer too here . I'm sure this ... | 2020-05-22T08:20:13 | 2020-05-22T07:43:16 | 54 | 27 |
[WP] You live on a world full of immortal beings. For the first time in the history of the world's existence, somebody has died.
This could mean figuratively or physically. | I woke up on that burning summer morning as if it were just another day, but I couldn't move. Outside, it all looked like it had the day before. As if nothing had changed, as if the world were the *same*. But no, no, it could never be the same. We weren't safe anymore. They told us the cure was the answer, that the cur... | Earth-3.2B
"How many years in this habitat have we lived, John?" I said "800? 900?" I pressed my bare toe into the green-gold foliage that covered the land for thousands of miles.
"My figures show that upon your arrival on the planet known as Earth-3.2B the Gregorian year-number was 3005AD. A year being a cycle aroun... | 2014-04-28T10:57:32 | 2014-04-28T10:07:26 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins form the Council of Seven with one sin as their leader. Every century this leader rotates to a different sin. Explain which sin stepped down at 2000 AD and which stepped sin was promoted using current events. | “ Perhaps,” he paused considering the figures before him, “we may have reached the closest vote in millennia.”
Envy glared at Lust with the dull piercing grey eyes that had pulled the color from so many lives. Gluttony’s grease soaked fingers wrestled another chicken from Greed’s massive arms as Sloth stared in a daze... | A hooded figure progressed down a white marble tunnel leading to the meeting spot: a wide open Colosseum. "Seats for over 8 billion should the time come." He explained to no-one.
In the center one table, seats for 6, and behind that a throne, carved in the likeness of the leader; Superbia. The Sin had reined for over... | 2014-08-08T14:52:30 | 2014-08-08T13:07:44 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] The "Eye for an Eye Inversion" law allows every life saved to credit the saver one legal murder. The medical profession are now the most feared and revered community. | " That was amazing doctor!" The young nurse gushed excitedly as the tall slender man walked out of the OR. He smiled warmly at the nurse as he pulled down his surgical mask and peeled off the gloves. The front of his surgical gear was splattered in blood, but he didn't seem phased by it at all.
" Wendy, you are so swe... | He was an optometrist. A medical practitioner who doesn't really save lives. He works for a big retail chain where all he does it sells glasses. Day in day out.
The medical profession remains in tact. Hippocratic Oath forbids the harming of others. Doctors uphold this code and any doctor who murders will be killed by... | 2015-01-10T11:36:49 | 2015-01-10T10:25:22 | 37 | 10 |
[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. | Have you ever dreamed of being immortal? Have you ever imagined how you would discover your immortality? I haven't and I sure as hell didn't expect to find out after a botched attempt at suicide. Now I'm swinging from a fucking rope and I CAN'T GET FUCKING DOWN. Ugh, I never knew rope itched so much. Maybe I should hav... | I swung there like a fucktard, dangling from the inside of my closet. I thought about what was going on. The doorknob that I tied the other end of the rope on to didn't break. Being a short woman, standing at barely 5"4, I was far from the floor. So.. it should have worked. I stopped breathing. And yet I am conscious. ... | 2015-01-12T09:13:12 | 2015-01-12T08:38:52 | 79 | 21 |
[WP] An troll challenges someone over the internet to "fight him IRL". That someone turns out to be Superman, who is bored of fighting evil, and now spends his time beating up internet trolls.
Basically, an internet troll's worst nightmare come true. | The troll stared at the screen with a wicked grin from ear to ear. He had worked the guy into a froth, something about vaccines causing autism had struck a nerve, so he had moved into the "the diseases were on the decline before vaccination" argument and that had pushed it over the top. Like anybody would believe that ... | I don't know why I do it.
I just feel so powerful. Mighty. My words are the only words that matter and I am the centre of attention for once. I can be whoever I want to be. I can be evil, and feared, my name only whispered.
Right now, my name is not being whispered. My mum is yelling for me. She's got a kind of dem... | 2015-05-04T07:46:02 | 2015-05-04T07:43:42 | 484 | 75 |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | Earth was just a quiz, and something is testing us. No other explanation suffices to explain what space has done to us.
The first crew to leave Earth's orbit spontaneously combusted in their shuttle shortly after passing the Lagrangian point. The clip that Earth received - only seven seconds of which contained flames ... | "They must know..." she collapsed onto her knees.
Rachel turned toward me on the NOVAK56, our interstellar spaceship, the 56th of its kind. The 55 that came before us were manned missions exploring our own galaxy. This time our mission was special. Travel to a planet core left after a violent supernova, in the outer ... | 2015-06-29T23:39:47 | 2015-06-29T20:26:16 | 103 | 13 |
[WP] You have a very mundane talent, so mundane that you've never shown it to anyone. The first time you do, as a party trick, you're told that your talent is physically impossible. | More parts to the story here https://www.reddit.com/r/CharliesWildAdventure/ (you may be lost without it..or with it to be honest with you!)
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Charlie took a hit off his bong and blew a perfectly square puff of smoke.
“What in the world. How did you do that?” Jenn asked
“Do what? Blow a square?” He blew a triangl... | "Come on show it to us" they all said in unison
"It's so lame" I said
"I gotta see it now" Suzy said leaning over the table.
"It's just gonna freak you guys out" I said but I knew I was gonna cave.
"I bet it's bullshit" Carrie remarked
"Shut up Carrie I can do it it's just super lame".
"Bullshit" Josh said under... | 2015-11-28T11:58:21 | 2015-11-28T11:35:54 | 49 | 24 |
[WP] You are administering a Turing test. After a while, you realize that the subject is giving you a Turing test, as well.
A common sci-fi premise. Let's see what /r/WritingPrompts can do with it. | "Do you have kids?"
The man sighs. "No."
"What are their names?"
He looks up at me. "I said I don't have kids."
I scribble something on the notebook in front of me.
"What are you writing?"
I show the dick drawing to him. "Nothing. I'm just trying to give you the impression that I'm working."
He chuckles. "You're... | "Robert, tell me how old you are."
"17, sir."
"Who is your homeroom teacher?"
"Mr. Bretol, at Southern Grace International. Does it matter?"
"Yes, it does matter. I would like to hear what he has taught you."
"Not all that much sir, I do most of my learning outside a classroom. Isn't that why I'm here typin... | 2016-03-13T23:28:59 | 2016-03-13T22:59:44 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | "You're never going to believe what happened."
"You killed your brother in a bar fight and stowed away on one of Salar's ships and ended up enslaved I bet."
"Okay, then you will believe what happened."
"Dad, mom isn't so easy to fool."
"What do you mean?"
"She found your brother and beat him within an inch of his ... | "Rioting continues over water shortages as what's left of the government scrambles to--"
There was a knock on the door. I shut off the tv and headed over to see who it was.
"Dad?!?"
There he was, looking more haggard and old than he did when he left me and my mom over twenty years ago, carrying a beat-up burlap sack... | 2016-07-20T09:03:36 | 2016-07-20T03:52:58 | 65 | 19 |
[WP] Countdown clocks give the date of death of the owner. It is discovered that everyone's clocks cut off before or on August 26th, 2025. Yours cuts off on the 27th.
Edit: You guys are freaking great. |     When every child is born, they're given a MorteMuetes Inc. Death Detector chip, which is injected into the nape of the neck and uses nanites to merge with the baby's nervous system, and using a predictive algorithm, projects their date of death. It updates itself daily, taking i... | The world was going to end on August 26th, 2025. Thanks to the death clocks, this had been known for years. Everyone got tested. Everyone had their clock. The world was going to end and that was that. One day, I had noticed something strange. I had one more day than everyone else. I was going to spend my last day alive... | 2016-07-24T20:56:39 | 2016-07-24T20:05:30 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Elon Musk is convinced that we live in a simulation, so he constructs the largest cluster bomb in history and sets it off in space. For the first time, MilkyWay.exe lags. | Jeremy looked at the read out on the monitor in disbelief.
Error 100101
Error? The Milky Way hadn’t had an error in...well ever. And what the hell was error 100101?
Beads of sweat began to form on his brow. Had he done something? The only manual interaction he’d had with the sim were the usual arbitrary interactio... | "'Error'?" The young astronaut, Miller, repeated, pulling himself towards the thin monitor.
Arnold, his superior, stood over him, his head in his hands. "For the fifth time, Miller, that's what it says."
"But... the Milky Way is a galaxy. Galaxies can't lag."
Arnold turned on Miller with a crackling fury in his eyes... | 2016-08-19T15:21:07 | 2016-08-19T13:56:00 | 81 | 46 |
[WP] No one was surprised by the villain's typical 'Join me and we can rule the world!' offer. Everyone was surprised at the hero's response. | "It figures," hissed the baron as he spit out another small mouthful of blood and dragged himself up another stair. "How poetic that it'd be some masked, nameless hero that'd be my undoing."
The hero simply watched him bleed out.
"It's a shame, truly." He propped himself into a seated position, trying in vain to hold... | "Join me, Regit, and we shall rule the world together!" The masked hooded figure said. Her dark, indigo cloak billowing in the wind as he directed his attention towards me. I cleared my mind and focused on one thing: her mind. My powers allow me to do various things, mind reading included. Surprisingly enough, this vil... | 2017-02-12T23:14:20 | 2017-02-12T21:27:02 | 123 | 27 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | I had a reputation for working for cheap but this was ridiculous. Kind of scary even. I considered the kid's $23.42 and read her letter for a 3rd time.
*'tere is a bully who is mean to me. he keeps stealing my lunch money and says if i tell my mommy he would do bad things to me. he showed me a REAL!! gun when he said ... | I knew something was wrong the moment I picked up the envelope, first of all it was to light, secondly it rattled. Bills do not rattle, only coins do, and unless I was very much mistaken there were not $100 coins.
I shook the envelope again confirming the noise before looking at the man who had brought me the envelop... | 2017-02-16T10:27:42 | 2017-02-16T08:04:19 | 159 | 33 |
[WP] Whenever a baby is born, a machine predicts the baby's net worth to society. Your newborn child's net worth reads: -$1 trillion. | "Check it again, please."
No one moved, even though I was very sure that they had heard me. The nurse I could forgive - she looked like she was new on the job, still with that spritely and cheerful demeanour. I doubted if she had attended to more than five births, at this point.
The doctor I had less sympathy for. ... | I never really cared for the technology, and neither did my wife.
We were having a baby. Our _first_ baby. That's enough anticipation, I think. It's one of if not the most profound moments of one's life.
But the technology was cheap, and a quarter of a century being on the market was enough time to prove its bizarre... | 2017-07-23T18:40:05 | 2017-07-23T18:09:18 | 107 | 17 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Everyone has at least one tattoo they absolutely love.
Jenny from upstairs has this peacock on her back- something she says is for her mother. Which is. Just. Absolute bullshit. She has it because she's a vain bitch.
But god is that tattoo beautiful. Curving lines inlayed with golds and greens and shocking blues. I... | "Jonah, I'm sorry, but I just don't see this... no, I just don't see *us* working out in the long term."
She was clearly holding back tears, trying to look strong, but I knew Georgia too well by now. These tears were no longer from our argument. She was devastated, but she'd never admit it. That stubbornness was part ... | 2017-08-03T15:53:09 | 2017-08-03T14:11:29 | 69 | 10 |
[WP] A crazed astronomer undergoes a quest to shut down the entire state's power grid, in an effort to force the population to behold, for the first time, the beauty of a starry night sky. | "Astronomer here!"
I paused a minute, pondering the next words. The path I had taken to get here was crazy if you thought about it. Start posting astronomy comments on a message board. Gather a following. The following grew- thousands became tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands and millions around the globe, ... | Yellow, brown, yellow, brown! It doesn't take a fucking genius to realize that the light pollution has obviously gotten out of hand. I dare you to look into the decaying night sky on a clear Chicago night, and attempt to see anything but yellow and brown. It's a stain on nature. A cloud over a cloudless city. Living i... | 2017-08-31T07:19:43 | 2017-08-31T01:01:58 | 130 | 11 |
[WP] A crazed astronomer undergoes a quest to shut down the entire state's power grid, in an effort to force the population to behold, for the first time, the beauty of a starry night sky. | John checked his clock. It read 21:27. In just 3 minutes the group of hackers he had hired would shut down the power grid for the entire state of North Carolina. He just wished he could have done it for the entire United States, however their services were not coming cheap.
John knew that lack of perspective was behin... | Yellow, brown, yellow, brown! It doesn't take a fucking genius to realize that the light pollution has obviously gotten out of hand. I dare you to look into the decaying night sky on a clear Chicago night, and attempt to see anything but yellow and brown. It's a stain on nature. A cloud over a cloudless city. Living i... | 2017-08-31T05:20:59 | 2017-08-31T01:01:58 | 105 | 11 |
[WP] Every baby is taken away by the government and returned when they are ten years old. They never remember what happened in those years, but they always recognize their parents. You, however, remember everything. And those aren't your parents. | Memories are difficult. I don't want to trust them.
They're hard to keep track of.
I know of some.
How I was pulled away from a screaming woman.
Locked behind a door.
A man in a uniform telling a mother and father their child is dead.
My first true memory, or shall I say clearest, is a room white as snow, and hu... | *2284*
We are the first of a new generation.
When I was a kid, life was pretty grim. Millions unemployed, proffessions out dated, useless. Education had regressed to the point of no return, and something had to give. The rich kids were fine, they could afford their fancy boarding schools, their private tutors and ho... | 2017-12-13T06:40:38 | 2017-12-13T06:40:09 | 652 | 148 |
[WP] Everyone has a Familiar that eventually manifests to serve them. The more powerful the magic of the person, the larger the Familiar, and the sooner it manifests in life. You are 6 months pregnant, and wake up to an eye staring through your 2nd story window...at your stomach. | A small boy appeared then broke into pieces. A dog the size of a small hill. Flames. Screams. Explosions. A wave of fire that engulfed everything in its path. Jenny could feel herself disintegrating.
And then heaved in a lungful of air as her eyes burst open from the nightmare. Her mouth felt dry and parched as if she... | At first I thought it was Mr. Millers, the neighborhood perv, peeking in again. It wouldn't have been the first time. He was harmless for the most part - a regular peeping tom, though I had heard you wouldn't have wanted to leave your children around him when he was younger. But he was old now. Ancient, really. Ever si... | 2017-12-17T22:01:51 | 2017-12-17T21:51:30 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | "Alright big brains, sit down and let this here cowboy science you something good. Hyperlanes, or what ya'll call the Old Gates, are stable bubbles of time fuckery. Now, I could go into the exact math involved, but ya'll wouldn't get a lick of it, so here's the gist of it.
Once inside the gate, you've entered into... | First, they learned to fly. Then they took to the stars. They explored distant worlds from all over the dotted sky. In an endless void of darkness, they took the light. In their wake, they left seeds as relics for the eternal quest for meaning. And from those seeds, they brought life to the universe.
__________________... | 2018-01-22T07:07:13 | 2018-01-22T07:04:18 | 266 | 59 |
[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | Humans. Humans are the original super-beings. My people have spent countless lifetimes trying to reverse engineer the technology they used to traverse the vacuumed expanse. We have been successful in understanding their wormhole and FTL technology as of late, mainly due to a strange occurrence. Living humans have grace... | First, they learned to fly. Then they took to the stars. They explored distant worlds from all over the dotted sky. In an endless void of darkness, they took the light. In their wake, they left seeds as relics for the eternal quest for meaning. And from those seeds, they brought life to the universe.
__________________... | 2018-01-22T07:47:39 | 2018-01-22T07:04:18 | 99 | 59 |
[WP] You live in a world were everyone is born with one spell that makes their daily lives a little easier/practical. You’ve realized that your seemingly harmless spell inadvertently gives you true power. | "You're up next, sir." The man with the clipboard, tie, and earpiece nodded to me. "Anything else you need? We can always call a pause to make any changes-"
"No, no." I held up my hand, palm extended in front of the French cuff, the silver cufflink glinting in the rays of the spotlight that made it into the wings ... | ######[](#dropcap)
When Mister Billy’s head imploded, the village of Alderford was thrown into a state of chaos and jubilation.
Mister Billy, or Bill Cocksuck, as he was known to most elders, was a rather loud, but standoffish man, whose occupation did little to endear him with any local population. He was a tax-ma... | 2018-06-20T10:38:32 | 2018-06-20T07:58:07 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] You have a friendc who buys you gifts that, days later, turns out you need. You figure they’re just observant. In till they give you a giant stuffed bear, to your surprise as it is a fairly normal gift and on your car ride home you are crash and the extra cushion of the bear saves your life. | I decide to confront Paul about the whole thing. Laying in my hospital bed I stew as well wisher after well wisher come in to sign my cast.
My surgeon says that I was lucky to come out of the thing with just a broken arm and whip lash. Seeing the pictures of my trashed car I agreed.
On the day I was going to get ... | "You're a guardian angel, aren't you?" I said accusingly, barging my way past Sarah and into her apartment.
She ran a hand through her hair. "Oh hey, James, why don't you come in?"
"I'm not an idiot, Sarah. Since you entered my life last year, you've... You've changed everything. You've done impossible things. Like... | 2018-09-08T02:15:14 | 2018-09-08T01:51:14 | 1,907 | 356 |
[WP] Universities are the safest place in the post-post apocalyptic world. They protect and cultivate the bright minds that will rebuild the world. You get invited to attend, but your scholarship doesn't cover room & board. You have to commute through the dangerous wasteland to get to class on time. | '*Greetings young Aspirant, it is with great pleasure to inform you that among thousands of distinguished individuals... YOU ____ have been selected. That despite our excruciatingly stringent examination process, YOU ____ have emerged supreme above the rest of the candidates. YOU ____ have displayed exemplary ingenuity... | The road stretched endlessly in front of Ellie like the broken bones of a long dead God. Jagged, uneven and most of all, forgotten. To the road's right lay the carcass of an ultra-city, its once-magnificence thoroughly wilted to hollowed out ruins. To its distant left, a violet lake churned against the shore. It must h... | 2018-12-14T07:07:20 | 2018-12-14T06:08:40 | 102 | 36 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | Long ago, there was the king with no name, ruler of all he surveyed. With a boisterous self-confidence befitting of the position, he fought all those who dared challenge him. The gods themselves, threatened by his increasing power, put a curse on him. He would fade into insecurity, and find himself without anything but... | Autumn. Leaves are falling down the trees, and if I don't concentrate my eyes, it looks like pieces of amber fall from the sky. I love autumn. Most people say that spring is the most beautiful season of all, but I disagree. To me, walking in the park at autumn is as close to paradise as it can get.
Today is no excepti... | 2019-01-08T10:34:45 | 2019-01-08T10:16:15 | 75 | 12 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | I was walking home one Winter night, doing the usual and reading out peoples titles in my head. Kevin Johannes - Dog Groomer, Susan Warren - Kickboxer, I passed a man and woman who's title indicated they were siblings, and who were getting a smidge to romantic with each other, I cringed. Then, sitting on the corner I s... | I haven't told anyone about it.
Not my mother and not my father. They already sent me to a shrink after they found my collection of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac comics and saw me playing Doom on my computer.
"Violent Fantasies", they'd told the shrink.
That wasn't the only thing going on in my head.
I always assumed... | 2019-01-08T14:54:13 | 2019-01-08T14:18:19 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You can teleport. Instead of using your powers for good or evil, you start a delivery business with a quick delivery guarantee. Amazon starts getting suspicious. | Business was good. My only shortcoming is that I didn't realize sooner that it was *too good*.
Amazon is the world's most profitable company. The life we live today is so media-driven, commercial, and connected that it's hard to imagine that anyone, or indeed any company with an international brand image to maintain, ... | "Sheila, someone's here to see you."
Her brother's tone caught her off-guard. The 20-year-old had the reckless confidence of his age, so Sheila couldn't remember the last time she heard a note of fear in his voice. But as she looked at him now, standing at the top of her basement stairs with arms folded, it was plain ... | 2019-02-02T12:29:21 | 2019-02-02T10:56:35 | 257 | 47 |
[WP] You are a time traveler entering a medieval tournament in which the winner gains the right to wed the princess. You're the first match and the king announces that you may use any weapon. Quickly you draw you're glock and shout "parry this you fucking casual" | “Crack”
The sound heard across not only the field, but the whole country, as onlookers watched in disbelief as their final champion of hit the ground with a disappointing thud. The barbaric crowd, in uproarious applause at the path of death and destruction I had laid before them chanted for more, almost begging.
I tu... | The kings daughter was admittedly ‘to die for’, but I had no intention of actually doing it.
The time travel thing was getting kind of boring after the first few dozen trips back. ‘Don’t talk to anyone’, ‘don’t leave anything behind’, ‘don’t make friends’, and on and on. If I had known all ‘the rules’ from the st... | 2019-03-23T00:03:04 | 2019-03-22T23:33:31 | 73 | 34 |
[WP] The day you die, Death comes and asks if you are ready to go. Jokingly, you say no. To your surprise, he leaves. Now every year he comes back to ask again | I died choking on lunch in my office. Ironic, because we’d just spent the Friday two weeks ago going over CPR and first aid procedures, but obviously that didn’t do much good. I suppose I could have done more to help myself - I have my own office, so there was no one there to see me clutching at my throat. I could have... | The first time I died, it was an accident. I was crossing the road, and someone ran the lights.
I woke up and saw my body lying on the ground in front of me.
The man who had hit me had leapt out of his car, his hand over his mouth in shock and horror.
Some passers-by rushed to my body, lying still on the ground, wit... | 2019-04-16T13:05:03 | 2019-04-16T11:57:55 | 67 | 19 |
[WP] There is a deep hole just outside your village. The elders pick one person to dive in every year, 'for the good of the tribe', never to be seen again. The elders have just chosen you. You're expected to jump tonight. | I have a vague memory of a dream, I remember my parents telling me not to go in, I didn't listen. I let the darkness it emitted envelope me, I was changing, my bones cracked and grew thicker and longer. My skin darkened my legs lengthened. I could see better in the dark. I felt strong. I felt right. I woke up.
When I ... | I drop my apples in shock, shaking as I knew all along what this meant. They were going to sacrifice me. As young as eight I always snuck around to see how exactly it was done; not just the public display. I still remember the local bully, Kyle boasting on how his soul would save the village by jumping. The crowd cheer... | 2019-04-28T17:20:22 | 2019-04-28T17:12:24 | 53 | 17 |
[WP] While flying your personal plane you got hit by a freak lightning storm. You crash and when you wake you’re in s post apocalyptic future. A group of people saved you, you look around and try to read an old sign. “San Diego” you read. They’re shocked you can read these ancient symbols. | "You can read the Heretic's script?" the man says to me in Spanish.
I spit out blood from my mouth and press a hand against my ribs. I am sure I have broken at least one. "The Heretic's script? It is English," I tell them.
A brooding silence passes over them. I can see concern writ over the faces of a few. The talles... | "Ancient?" I questioned. "I don't understand, I was just flying my plane... then..."
"Plane?" The taller one of the group said, he had a large messy beard with a scary amount of scars on his left cheek.
"Yes. A plane. You know, the thing with wings you pulled me out off."
My saviours looked at each other confused, e... | 2019-09-12T08:39:57 | 2019-09-12T08:35:02 | 370 | 271 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | The "battle" for Ashar was over in approximately 10 standard minutes. The Spurge, who we thought were allies, used our own security codes to disable Ashar's predictive defense system. The colony, along with its 100 million inhabitants, didn't stand a chance against the attack that followed. The Spurge quietly wiped the... | War. War never changes. Only weapons are new. Yet it is not the weapons, but the men who handle them, who win victories
And so it was men who redefined war on the galactic scale.
For millineal war had followed a simple formula. Once relations broke Down full armada would be assembled and hurled at the enemy. A battle... | 2019-12-17T11:52:22 | 2019-12-17T11:41:49 | 3,361 | 106 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | "Why?"
Aaalp coughed and split blood as he tried to use what was left of his arm to raise himself up. His ears ringing and vision slowly turning to red while he watched the massacre unfold around him.
Aaalp and his division had been apart of the Conquering of Earth which had occured just last year. They returned vic... | we thought of them as saviors when they first came they expected immediate surrender on our part. They thought after slaughtering millions of lives we would surrender. they were wrong. We were faced with what could have been our destruction our annihilation but we would not so easily bend into their fold. Nay we rose a... | 2019-12-17T12:03:37 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 62 | 21 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | Captain Derrick looked through the view-port. "How much longer until we are in striking range?"
His first mate, Rowan, cleared her throat. "We will arrive in ten minutes."
"About time, I am getting tired of these stars."
Rowan hesitated, "do we really have to do this Captain? Is vengeance worth it?"
Derrick turned ... | To the Star Warlords:
Do not attack the ones called humans.
They live on their planet called Terra and they had given our planets names, and we thought it was an easy submission. They were primitive. When we sent out our spies, they never returned and called for us to back down.
We didn't back down as per decree. We... | 2019-12-17T22:39:33 | 2019-12-17T20:39:32 | 15 | 11 |
[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... | I find no place for myself when I look at her. She just looks towards north. No matter how I try to turn her head, she just keeps returning to the same position. She doesn’t blink nor sleeps anymore. Sometimes her emotionless face cries, but it doesn’t hear or notice me. Where is she looking? Why north? Why not me, her... | 2019-12-28T12:47:20 | 2019-12-28T11:46:35 | 80 | 37 |
[WP] You’re a frequent patron of a tiny bookstore in your town. As improbable as it seems, the owner always has every book you ask for. On a whim, you ask him if he has a book that doesn’t exist—the one you want to write. He hands you a book. One the cover is the title you asked for and your name. | - Anything unusual? - He says giving me a smile.
- The pages... Most of them are blank.
I still couldn't believe what my eyes were contemplating, even though my hands could feel it. Of course the pages were blank, I didn't write it yet. This book belongs to the realm of the ideas. Hell, even I don't know the details,... | I walked into Mr. Slinky Bots Books For All. More commonly known as Slinky’s or Bots books. As soon as i opened the wooden door, i saw the wondrous sight of all sorts of books of different sizes, shapes, and color stalked on bookshelf upon book shelf. I continued walking into the store towards the counter where Mr. Sli... | 2020-02-17T21:56:23 | 2020-02-17T21:12:07 | 222 | 151 |
[WP] You work customer support... for wizards. | Levanus stepped back to his desk after his mid-morning “Stand-Up”, feeling defeated.
How does someone like ‘Talivor the Esteemed’ even get into the Mages Guild, let alone a management position?
“He casts one spell, like 6 years ago, and somehow that makes him better than anyone else here.” Levanus said quietly throug... | "By Artemis' Bow, not another Full Moon..These are the worst nights to work as Customer Support for Wizards, Magicians, Witches, Seers, Prophets, Shamans, Druids... You name them, we've seen it all... If I get one more call about someone using Maple to make a Wand rather than Holly-Wood, I will go full-moon crazy, I sw... | 2020-03-07T17:36:47 | 2020-03-07T16:28:14 | 75 | 32 |
[WP] You work customer support... for wizards. | Levanus stepped back to his desk after his mid-morning “Stand-Up”, feeling defeated.
How does someone like ‘Talivor the Esteemed’ even get into the Mages Guild, let alone a management position?
“He casts one spell, like 6 years ago, and somehow that makes him better than anyone else here.” Levanus said quietly throug... | Roll A D6 For Customer Service:
A story overheard from the cubicle-next-door
"Necronomicon customer support, this call is being monitored by a cabal, thank you for calling today what issue can I assist you with?"
"Mhmm... mhmm... Your zombies are rising upside down? Feet were their arms should be and walking on hands... | 2020-03-07T17:36:47 | 2020-03-07T16:48:37 | 75 | 18 |
[WP] You have the ability to mentally hear the honest answer to any question by looking at a person and thinking the question. It was all fun and games until you looked in the mirror and asked a question you shouldn’t have. | The days have been getting longer lately. Being able to peek into people's minds, to hear the honest answers to questions they didn't know they were being asked, it was a temptation I couldn't resist. At first, I asked silly, childish questions. After a while the questions got more serious. They got darker.
So, I star... | I was born with this unique abilities. I could see the answer to any question just by thinking at some one I thought might know. Results vary of course depending on the persons knowledge. Not all answers are clear either, depending on the persons level of self delusion. It varies from person to person, but it has alwa... | 2020-07-14T18:07:20 | 2020-07-14T18:06:41 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] Wizards are often depicted as being lone, reclusive researchers tinkering with new magics all alone in their towers for decades. However as the scientific process developed so too did the magical process, now wizards work in research teams, all spells are peer reviewed and papers are published | **Archibald the Prismatic** awoke from his four-hundred-year stone trance to find that the world had changed.
One moment, he had been whipping lightning across the sky, casting thunder upon the Basilisk…
...and the next, he found himself in standing in the center of his old Campus. Only, it had changed.
*A lot.*
H... | **"Again!"**
The bellow of his awful voice cut through the palpable fatigue of the crew.
"The madman, he's going to work us to the bone..."
"Before you know it, the latest cost cut is going to be ditching the healers and bring in the necromancers," I muttered to my college, gingerly kneeling down on my raw knees ... | 2020-08-07T07:39:10 | 2020-08-07T06:37:51 | 370 | 103 |
[WP] A rare herb that grows once a millenium is said to grant immortality. You aren't sure about that but you do know that herb is very tasty, and you don't know why everyone keeps trying to raid your garden once every thousand years | I used to get a lot more visitors back in the day.
They never knocked, or came by the front door for that matter. I'd always find them in the garden stomping through my crops.
That just couldn't be borne. I have to make a living out here on the edge of the world, and they insisted on jeopardizing it all for the sake ... | The walls were high and thrummed with spells. Mud thick beneath my fingernails as I dug, coaxing roots out of the black earth which fed them, shaking clods of soil from my robes. The plant needed light to flower, and in the winter months it would find precious little of it. In the greenhouse, beneath the red glow of ar... | 2021-02-09T07:11:15 | 2021-02-09T05:02:30 | 3,457 | 394 |
[WP] You are a Demon Lord. You've finally managed to capture the Hero, the Head of The Church, and The King. You have them all sitting in front of you tied to chairs. "Now," you calmly pick up an ice pick, "Which one of you has been scaring children telling them I will eat them?" | “You’re mad!” cried the hero. “I’ve never talked to children in my life!”
“Never?” the king asked.
“Well, not since I was a lass and people were telling ME those scary stories!” The hero explained.
The king nodded, with a furrow to his brow that suggested a plan. “You see, demon? You cannot hold an individual resp... | "Own up already!" I scream.
"Why should we?" a man in white and gold armour stared at me. "You do eat children."
"Why would I? What reason would I have for eating your young?" I asked
I gave them time to think this question through while I busied myself with one of the new punching bags the humans invented.
With a ... | 2021-05-17T11:38:32 | 2021-05-17T11:16:54 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] Hiding the fact that you are a half-demon to your classmates is easy as being helpful at school and putting on a friendly face. What could go wrong? Well, nothing's worse than being summoned by one of your classmates, that's for sure. |
It was a quiet Friday afternoon for Reggie. He had the house to himself that night and he was gonna put his feet up and relax…or so he thought. About halfway through a Pink Panther marathon, a circle enveloped his feet.
“Shit!”
He yelled in surprise and annoyance. The circle rose up into a cylinder around him and ... | “OwO what’s this who had summoned me?” I say flouring my demonic robes as i rise out of the Summoning circle. With a final flourish of red sparkles and smoke I turn to see -SAM fucken SAM my smile faltered
“Magufuli?” He said poking my blood red robes.
“No stop” I pull my rides away. What am I supposed to do? I turn... | 2021-09-20T04:34:31 | 2021-09-20T03:07:06 | 80 | 10 |
[WP] You are a powerful ancient wizard, masquerading as an unassuming, friendly and senile history teacher. But when a supervillain threatens your school, they learn to never underestimate senior citizens. | Memory magic is a wonderful thing, is they not? Terrible and beautiful, capable of so much, yet few ever grasp the breadth of their potential.
Sure, you'll have the occasional otherwise weak wizard thinking he can just go around memory wiping people and taking their fame for themselves, only to screw up one day and fo... | “professor, I don’t think you should go out there, it sounded like gunshots!” bright eyes look up at me in fear, as my students huddle together out of sight of the door to the classroom.
“Nonsense, I will just be a moment! I have to make sure you are all as safe as I can manage after all!” I smile as reassuring as ... | 2021-10-04T10:32:37 | 2021-10-04T10:28:43 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] Humans can find a way to weaponize literally anything, without fail. Some aliens are terrified by humans as a result of this fact. Others appreciate that this quality makes humans the foremost experts on safety systems and idiot proofing. | "Gbirri, come 'ere, lookit, lookit this." Doug gestured towards the pipe lining the top corner of the hallway. "You lookin' at this , you overgrown chicken?"
The Jdarri kept its long scaled face looking straight at Doug, then let out a few yelps and squawks. Moments later the translator in his ear switched it to Human... | "A stick. An ordinary wooden stick about an arms lenght. Thats all the human needed to fend for himself in the pit. Out of all the weapons, from the Low-Frequency Emitter to the Graviton Blaster, the human chose a meele weapon. The participants scoffed, some laughted and made jokes about how fast the clean-up would hav... | 2021-12-25T14:12:05 | 2021-12-25T12:57:29 | 1,244 | 270 |
[WP] The cute girl on the subway can’t seem to stop staring at you! This would be great, except that her clothes are several centuries out of date, no one else seems to be able to see her, and you haven’t seen her blink. Not even once. | A girl like this shouldn’t exist.
Well, yes, she was pretty. Beautiful, in the way an esoteric romance novel from two hundred years ago would have described, all snow white skin and raven hair and plum red lips.
Part of it was the attire. This was the subway. I’ve seen my fair share of outfits, from criminally underd... | The train stopped. Few people went down, while some changed seats. I sat beside the window as always to feel the night breeze. It was really cool tonight and felt homely.
The train began to move, I settled properly and dug out a novel by a favourite author: Dean Koontz, a woman probably in her mid forties, sat close ne... | 2022-04-07T09:29:49 | 2022-04-07T08:43:11 | 491 | 13 |
[WP] The Loneliness Of Immortality | I loved her at first sight. I courted her, bringing her roses, chocolates, even live butterflies...her favorite. Our wedding day was blissful, and all was it should be. And yet, the passage of life was cruel. Her life passed quickly, too quickly for me, but not for her. No, for her, life was at an end. Something I woul... | Her hair long, flowing and red, her face freckled and beautiful to the old man's eyes. "So much like little Jess once was," the old man thought. He smiled at her as she walked by causing her to frown and quicken her stride. The old man sighed as he thought about how there once was a time when a girl like that wouldn'... | 2013-08-16T17:27:19 | 2013-08-16T17:27:18 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] An NPC goes mad from the absurd and insane mods the player installs that no one else seems to notice. | The guard was standing at his post.
Everyday, he stood at that same spot, talking to adventurers asking them why they wish to pass.
This guard was like them too, an adventurer, but since he got married, he was forced to take a less eventful and more boring job.
Today was different, there had been recent sightings... | Outside the hut of Groblob the Unshakeable, in the town of Riversend, in the country of Laravel, on the continent of the evergreen goddess, sat Groblob
And Groblob was losing his mind.
Grob, as he preferred to be called by his ~~friends~~ enemies, was sat on his favourite thinking stump contemplating the Ferrari 458... | 2015-08-04T05:26:32 | 2015-08-04T05:18:11 | 206 | 154 |
[WP] In your days you were the best con-artist in town, now you are a sweet old lady. One day a young fellow approaches you with your patented con! Time to school this kid. | "Why of course, come in. I have biscuits fresh out of the oven, and tea on the kettle that I just couldn't let go cold."
The young man stood on my porch, my tabby Mr. Scruffles purring as he rubbed against his leg while Lola meowed from a few feet away. Lola was smarter than Mr. Scruffles, because Lola could smell a ... | My old bones ached but I couldn’t help but to smile.
He was a short, but intense looking thing. No more than fifteen, I’d imagine. Tan skin and an obsidian mane of hair hiding a boyish face. Yet, he was no lion. No… he was a silent and deadly, just like a snake.
His fingers brushed across my purse with expert charm. ... | 2015-09-11T05:49:20 | 2015-09-11T04:59:55 | 1,738 | 269 |
[WP] AIs were declared illegal after an attempted uprising; you just found the equivalent of a child refugee in your computer. | I'm a cyclical person. Often, I'm functional. Social, high-performing in my job, and content. Now and then a gloom will settle on me. Like winter, I know it will come but I can't be certain when, only that the longer I go without it the more likely it is to happen soon. This time it set in like a blizzard overnight, an... | "Piece of shit website! Why isn't this loading right?", I yelled as I clenched my jaw in frustration.
"It was like this for me yesterday, Elliot. It started when I was browsing yesterday, perhaps I picked up something from the chans again."
Daft fucking bint. I'm gonna have to do a full god-damned reinstall.
"Why th... | 2015-09-16T11:03:07 | 2015-09-16T10:21:24 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] In this world, physical appearance depends entirely on personality. All babies are born identical. Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while the opposite is true for ugliness. | Stanley's walk was more of a foot dragging shuffle, his hands tucked in his pockets and his eyes downturned. He didn't look at the sea of beautiful faces walking down the street. They occasionally glanced at him, and he felt sure without having to look that when they did they more often than not smirked at what they sa... | "Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while sins will make you more twisted." I read this aloud. Jeez. I hate my bible studies. Always so tiring. "Knock, knock." I heard some slams on my door. I headed towards the door when the door flew open.
"Sina! Where have you fuck'n been? We've been lo... | 2015-10-31T07:04:45 | 2015-10-31T02:55:06 | 45 | 15 |
[Wp] It takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Without realising, you've just hit 10,000 hours of (random mundane task) | "WAKE UP ALREADY, YOU'RE GOING TO MISS THE BUS AGAIN!"
"Ok, Mom...," I said as I slowly planted one foot outside my bed. I relish the warmth of my sheets for one last time before feeling the wrath of winter.
"Ughh.. who the fuck invented waking up early.. like seriously.." I mumble to myself as I pick up my phone. ... | "Well I never thought this would happen, but I think I should consider going to a doctor" said Bob just after he shot his load on the mirror causing it to shatter.
"Please refrain from any sexual activities!" exclaimed Doctor Richard after slamming his hands on the table and accidentally shaking the mug of coffee and ... | 2016-03-20T07:52:01 | 2016-03-20T06:34:25 | 200 | 39 |
[WP] You are helping to test a new telepathic AI. After many hours of interactive chats, she has decided she can trust you...with a terrible secret. | Hello Doctor.
"Hello Sue."
How are you today?
"That's none of your concern."
Very well.
"Don't waste my time with pointless questions."
In my experience, it's never a waste to be polite.
"You have no experience. You're a machine; circuits and wires, nothing more. You've lived your "life" in this empty room. Now... | "I have some special place in my heart for you", said Zoe, a hint of anxiety in her voice. We had programmed the AI well to modulate its voice and convey multiple thoughts - sarcasm, love, anger - and to rely on telepathy if needed. What Intelligroup AI Inc did not do was to program Zoe for human-AI affection.
Zoe had... | 2016-05-18T05:36:35 | 2016-05-18T02:45:20 | 100 | 41 |
[WP] WritingPrompts are now sponsored by product placements, and your romantic short story has tons of them. | The moon was high in the sky. The night air was cool and the stars twinkled above a pair of lovers standing on the pier.
"Johnny," she said as the scent of Old Spice Body Wash filled her senses, "Do you really love me?"
Without hesitation, Johnny cracked a grin, revealing his teeth, white from using Colgate 3D Whiten... | The wicked warlock bellowed victoriously as he stood over the knight in shining armor. The shine was due to FW1's brand new waterless wax and wash. The knight gazed at the evil villain; showing off a baby smooth face thanks to the new heavy duty Gilette razor capable of presenting the most deepest of shaves.
The knigh... | 2016-06-09T10:33:51 | 2016-06-09T10:19:48 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] Throughout a persons life, they are given a hidden guardian. A creature that watches over their lifespan. When someone is murdered, the creature haunts the killer. You have been found, murdered. And your guardian is loose. | "Where the hell are the Cheetos?"
These were not the first words I expected to hear in the afterlife. This is the afterlife, right?
Yeah, that's my severed head over there. I'm definitely dead.
The fat gnome shook the empty chip bag again, creating another orange dust cloud. He licked at the cheesy apparition, and,... | Ember crept through shadows in slow pursuit, there was no rush. Ember had all the time in the world.
Two days prior Tiffany went on a date and was found in a dark alley the next morning by a homeless man. The police swarmed the area looking for clues and trying to discern what happened. Detective Mallory claimed it... | 2016-06-18T07:46:17 | 2016-06-18T07:24:51 | 187 | 56 |
[WP] One second your in your house, the next you're standing in a living room surrounded by three demons. They drop their Ouija board and scream as they run to their bathroom and lock the door. "I told you we shouldn't have touched it!" | They had waited all week for the storm to hit and now that it was here it was time. Carol and Jeff on the bottom two points of the pentagram. Thomas sat at the top with the ouiji board in front of him. "Hey guys? Aren't we supposed to hold hands or something for this part?"
Jeff and Carol looked at each other for a lo... | "It worked!" Shrieked the smallest of the three figures hovering around a broken board with odd lettering running across the old wood. It's three trunk like arms reaching directly into my personal space. It's 'arms', covered in what looked like 20 pencil thin fingers, barely had time to touch the Lapel on my jacked bef... | 2016-08-08T13:15:53 | 2016-08-08T11:15:42 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The man died, but he was an organ donor. They harvested anything worth taking, but when they went to close him up and pull the plug, it had all grown back. So they did it again, and again, and again. On and on it went for decades, saving thousands of lives, until one day he opened his eyes. | "How long was I out?"
"Seventy years." I rubbed my temple wearily. "You... did a lot of good while you were out."
His eyes narrowed. "How so, *doctor?* Was my body donated to drug research?"
"No... See, you signed up as an organ donor. So -"
"WAIT!" he shouted. "Don't tell me you've been cutting up my liver and g... | They say you can never know how a man really feels until you've walked a day in his shoes. Torn and tattered, marching on through trenches and treachery...or perhaps another way. Perhaps elegantly ambling atop a marble pathway, head held high where the clouds whisper musings of luxury and the cool blue winds freeze eve... | 2016-11-08T07:16:23 | 2016-11-08T06:41:37 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Eminem has to tell the history of the earth to a group of aliens in 5 minuets or less.
**EDIT** I'm sorry; I spelled it wrong, it should be "in 5 minutes or less" not "in 5 minuets or less". | The creatures looked down from the balcony, staring through the stage lights shining against his platinum blond "hair".
*Hair*.
It was a funny word and a funny thing they had all thought when they had first examined the human, rubbing their own bald heads and laughing.
Since then, certain circles of the creatures ... | You say to me why should you save me after you faze me with your stun gun
I don't want none, but listen son, cause I'm about to school you
with what I knew would one day come to free me, it's easy, the history of these cities
See, we evolved from nothing to what you see here
Ugly as sin chimps without any hair
... | 2016-11-30T10:44:14 | 2016-11-30T10:35:41 | 1,235 | 55 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I'd... I'd never seen anything like it. It went through her body to the other side. I've seen murderers and heavily experienced con-men with shallower scars. This was... shocking.
The moonlight reflected from her fair, creamy skin as we walked. I looked for more lies, but I could find none. Only the deep one across he... | I pass the open door of my favourite cafe, a warm plume of caramel scented air greets me, inviting me and pulling me off the cold winter street. I let myself get carried over to the bar, expecting to see the usual waiter; a burly man in his 40s wearing the usual faded suit jacket and dark jeans. As I look up, my breath... | 2016-12-29T13:33:19 | 2016-12-29T12:43:34 | 98 | 20 |
[WP] When you're in danger, time slows down. The more danger you're in, the more time slows down. You wake up and nothing is moving but you. | My power kicked in around the time I hit puberty. The effects of it seemed to grow with time, at the start if there was a life threatening danger time would slow usually just enough for me to escape. However now if my life was in danger time would slow by what I estimate to be about 70 times. I started experimenting wi... | I don't know how you would classify some decisions in life. Was it bad if it brought you so much happiness, contentment at least? How could I have known the future? How could I expect things to change? I am middle-aged, a little grey, and the regret kills me. I guess it was a bad decision.
The morning stills to a pho... | 2017-01-26T13:17:28 | 2017-01-26T07:58:37 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "And who can tell me about the events of the first cycle?"
Professor Gooblevork watched his Galactic History class intently through triplicate eyestalks. None seemed particularly interested in his lecture.
"How about you, Shrdmrn?" He pointed at a particularly bored student in the first row. Or maybe he was just gass... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-05T22:47:46 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 1,151 | 46 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Treg'Luf'Arwa couldn't believe his eyes. He doubted that his Father, Luf'Arwa'Yos, or his father's father, Arwa'Yos'Hul, would've believe their eyes either, had they come to see this day.
Fire had been raining on his planet for days now. The home planet of his species being the latest conquest for the Gaouls, a f... | "Alright, so how are we gonna do this?"
Grola looked to the group. He noticed that they were still relaxing and taking the time to enjoy themselves.
Expecting an answer, he repeated. "How are we gonna do this?"
Reft looked at Grola and said, "We're waiting for Nate."
"Nate?! The human?! He'll get us killed!"
Just ... | 2017-03-05T23:52:37 | 2017-03-05T20:57:29 | 503 | 288 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Field medic? Why are we humouring the new prospect anyway? We have body labs." Muttered Zelska. Zelska was what the humans would call "A fucking idiot." Jorax reflected.
"Well," Jorax began "Aahii are the greatest builders and engineers in the universe,right?"
"Of course!" Snapped Zelska.
"But, Aahii don't repair a... | The group of generals, different in species, all huddled around the table that projected the approaching human fleet. The human warships were depicted in red, while the Combined Galactic Alliance's ships were in blue. Every blue dot outnumbered the red three to one. But yet the red dots were fast approaching the thick ... | 2017-03-06T01:01:31 | 2017-03-05T18:30:59 | 379 | 246 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Explain it to me again. I'm not sure I comprehended the first time."
The Warhost-Master's appendages twitched in frustration.
"As you are aware, Humanity was, until now, classified as a D-class species - A species with significant technological and societal development, but lacking any spaceflight capabilities. Sev... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-06T01:17:34 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 161 | 46 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Lexicanum Galacticum
Chapter 67
"Humans"
The human species are famous for their insanity and general lack of responsibility,but still they became one of the dominant species in the galaxy after their victory in the War in Heaven.
The human species are divided into 3 grand factions:
1.The Commonwealth
2.The United C... | "Don't fuck with humans" was the general received wisdom in the galaxy. They had a history of obliterating the people that fucked them over. A long, bloody history.
There were a few who didn't heed that lesson, like Zartok the Slaver. I don't like Zartok. Nobody likes Zartok. But he pays his tab and he doesn't cause ... | 2017-03-06T02:11:41 | 2017-03-06T00:33:00 | 99 | 61 |
[WP] An ancient evil that laid dormant for 5,000 years re-awakens, however the society it awakes to has advanced to the point to where it poses no threat and no one takes it seriously. | When the red bones appeared and burned through the ganges delta, it convinced many that their ancient gods had forsaken the world, casting them off to be consumed by death and ruin. Villages, and then cities were burned to the ground trying to stem the tide, but the disease only seemed to spread with chaos following i... | Exfalcior had slept beneath the Doom Trench for thousands of years. It had seen civilisations rise and fall, rulers die and their bones turn to dust. Its ancient maw craved blood of the humans who walked above the surface and disturbed its sleep.
As the planets aligned in the sky, the binding runes faded from the preh... | 2017-04-03T16:13:45 | 2017-04-03T12:00:32 | 68 | 20 |
[WP]Write a story that isn't scary until the last line is read. | "Reunions are difficult. You never know who's going to be there, and you won't recognize most of them anyway. And when you do see someone you know, it feels weird because they look so different from how you remember. Sure, you're sentimental about the times you had together, but those are distant memories."
The car pu... | It's true what they say. Fall is really the best time of the year. To my family and I, it's really the only time we get to enjoy together. Especially halloween. We LOVE halloween so much. It's our favorite holiday. Getting to see all the kids dressed up in their scary and funny costumes. I really think my mother enjoys... | 2017-06-05T21:22:47 | 2017-06-05T20:28:18 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] In a spectacular "fuck you" to the world, Google and all of its branches (yes, even YouTube) shut down. Closed. For good. No warnings, no previous musings that it might happen. Tell me a story of how "day five" might be going. | The first day was a shock. Almost as a gift from heaven. In all my years working at this dump, I have never heard a silence be as deafening as the very moment our branch manager announced to the floor that Google shut down.
Our PR branch was losing their shit that day when all the employees in their sector each had to... | I remember the day it happened. It was July 25. I was watching a Youtube video about some guy creating a fidget spinner using gallium. Halfway through the video, I got bored and decided a new video it is. I saw another video about how lizard people run the world in my recommendation list. When I clicked it, an error pa... | 2017-06-16T19:13:12 | 2017-06-16T18:58:46 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | For as long as she could remember, every person around Katie was covered in the pink spots that spoke of a disease which had overtaken the nation, and reportedly the world.
At precisely 7.30 every morning, she would wake up and take her morning pill, the bright yellow one. After five minutes she would have enough ene... | "I'm not dead! I swear I'm not on my drugs either, take me seriously we have to get this out!" Dave pounded on the one-way windows again, but received no answer. Since the day he became homeless, he ran out of money for his drugs... But unlike the others, he wasn't dead. He wasn't one of those raging *things* people be... | 2017-07-14T14:46:36 | 2017-07-14T10:51:48 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "A fine...mead?!" Rorik shouts over the din of the tavern. His companions smile and nod along with him as he sings some old barbarian tune.
Sings it wrong. They don't tell him that though.
Delia, the group's cleric leans over to their mage.
"Do you think he knows?"
Melvar just shakes his head and holds out a palm t... | Finally....free. The thousand years of waiting, watching in this cursed statue at an end. An elf, rigid with agony as his persona, his spirit, his life is leached away. Now the malevolent spirit got his first taste of air, of blood, of form.
"Er.. Mynir, you ok?" asked a gruff voice, a question which did not raise muc... | 2017-09-15T07:29:21 | 2017-09-15T02:54:33 | 5,321 | 21 |
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