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[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | Teaching Mr. Waggles to communicate was the easy part. Getting him to *want* to communicate was harder. Just training in the end—rewards and gentle chastisement. Dogs are really suggestible when treats are involved. Learning the vocabulary was the hardest. He didn’t have the concepts to understand a lot of it. Smart en... | Lucas walked into the intensive care unit of the hospital. It was late and the lights were dimmed, giving the entire wing a air of dread. Gurneys with men and women were strewn about everywhere. The rooms were filled long ago by the sudden influx of patients. Not a single person moved, the room was absolutely still and... | 2015-05-18T19:33:05 | 2015-05-18T13:29:22 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] write the best story you can in 5 sentences or less | His first time in prison, he was only 15
It made him hard and it made him mean
When they let him out, he was a mess.
Four more times before a judge, until a bullet in the chest
Meant that his life could be told in 5 sentences or less
Edit: Formatting and typos | The self exists in relation to a singular locus, of which there are three variations at any given time: the *is*, *is not*, and the *should be*. Normally, these psychic structures labor in tandem, much like the machinations of a wristwatch. But if the self begins to confound these articulations, pervert their functions... | 2015-08-09T12:17:27 | 2015-08-09T11:06:09 | 76 | 12 |
[WP] write the best story you can in 5 sentences or less | I held a parent in my arms as I blinked at the world.
I held a schoolbag in my arms as I laughed at the world.
I held a laptop in my arms as I lived in the world.
I held a woman in my arms as I loved in the world.
I held a parent in my arms as she left the world. | The self exists in relation to a singular locus, of which there are three variations at any given time: the *is*, *is not*, and the *should be*. Normally, these psychic structures labor in tandem, much like the machinations of a wristwatch. But if the self begins to confound these articulations, pervert their functions... | 2015-08-09T12:37:06 | 2015-08-09T11:06:09 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] write the best story you can in 5 sentences or less | My wife and I just had our second child. She's thrilled, really hoping this will be just the thing we need to mend the rough turn our relationship has taken in the past couple of years. Me? I'm just annoyed. I had such a hard time getting rid of the first one. | The self exists in relation to a singular locus, of which there are three variations at any given time: the *is*, *is not*, and the *should be*. Normally, these psychic structures labor in tandem, much like the machinations of a wristwatch. But if the self begins to confound these articulations, pervert their functions... | 2015-08-09T12:16:28 | 2015-08-09T11:06:09 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, while your girlfriend is a hero. She doesn't know your secret identity but you know hers. After years of fighting each other you decide it's going to pull a heel face turn and join the heroes. | "There's nothing going on between me and Captain Invincible" Norah sighed, rolling her big brown eyes once, twice, thrice. I knew she was lying.
"How could you?" I screamed. "That dude wears spandex and a speedo on the outside of his costume. You can see the contours of his balls! He dresses like that in front of *ch... | I look over at the woman I love, her eyes filled to the brim with fresh tears, and my hands ache.
“Okay, one more time, Richard,” she sniffles, “Tell me what you told them.”
It takes more courage than I care to admit just to draw my next breath. In spite of the repetition, I can see the words are only now having an i... | 2015-11-08T14:04:31 | 2015-11-08T11:36:50 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] You discover the legendary weapon, capable of defeating all evil. However, its definition of 'Evil' is a bit skewed. | "What the... he was just standing there!"
"Exactly. Do you know how rich he is... was?"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"If he had donated that money, he could have saved thousands of lives."
"So that makes him evil?!"
"If you saw a drowning child and a man who could save the child, but refuses because ... | "Sounds promising." I murmured, holding the dagger as the door burst into splinters.
*The one in grey and caked in mud*.
"They're *all* caked in mud. We're in farmer central, remember?" An angry bar goer smashed a bottle down against the table, splashes of stale beer coating my boots.
*The one missing half... | 2016-02-29T20:12:36 | 2016-02-29T15:55:00 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] The world is flat. There is no known edge, just wasteland and winds that blow harder and harder against you the further out you go. You're part of a research expedition trying to make it further out than anyone ever has. | An *Endless Abyss*, they all said. Well, for all intensive porpoises, I guess it is. Terrible though it may seem, yo' chance of getting through the winds is nigh to none. I made it, tho', somehow. Don't know where my friends are, or what happened to 'em. Don't even know what'll happen to me once the winds calm down. Do... | *Day 62*
*Scout Lucas Brentwood*
Lucas placed his left foot on the bark of the tree before he grabbed the two closest branches. He took a deep breath before hauling himself upwards and placing his right foot on the closest gap. He started to climb, checking each branch before he would put his weight on it. It was ... | 2016-03-17T19:19:08 | 2016-03-17T19:17:18 | 94 | 46 |
[WP] Write a story where the good guy is actually the bad guy, but it's only revealed on the last line. | "Do you know how many chefs there are in the world?", he asked as he casually sliced and diced an onion, not pausing for a response. "You don't get to be on top by being average. You have to stand out. Make a name for yourself." He placed the onions in a hot skillet, and they sizzled sharply when they touched the h... | He ducked in through the doorway. His tall 7' frame, drenched to the core. Taking off his hat and dripping coat to hang in the entry. A small slender framed woman poked her head from around the kitchen corner.
"Lylle, where have you been?"
He could smell her cooking and knew he smelled distinctly of the bar he had b... | 2016-08-20T07:57:51 | 2016-08-20T05:43:48 | 86 | 19 |
[WP] Your new girlfriend has almost everything in common with you. One day, you learn that she's your female clone | When I first met her, I was surprised by just one thing.
Her face caught my eye at the bar, as I was grabbing a round for my table. Her eyes had that almond color that drew you in, just like my previous partners had told me I had. I recognized the curl of her hair that was just a touch too unruly to comb down, but no... | We love all the same things… It’s crazy really. So, I have this thing for ice cream, right? Eat it for breakfast. But she does too! And the freezer is like our little ice cream library. I mean, we moved in together after what, a month? She’s impulsive… like me.
Our taste in music, movies… she loves the slow boring st... | 2017-01-25T19:28:57 | 2017-01-25T18:29:17 | 29 | 12 |
[WP]You are a parent in an anime. Your child is born with epic anime hair, and you are certain they will become the protagonist. You are determined to not become a tragic back story like so many other anime parents. | "Dear son,
I love you, with all my heart. You're the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and your mother, but also the worst. When you were born, your head was full of this luscious, golden, bloody pointy hair. It seriously messed up your mother giving birth to you. I mean, have you tried touching your own hai... | "OK, here's another one. What is a banana's favourite gymnastics move? The split!"
Rochard let out a heavy sigh. For days now Lemmic, a good friend of his, has been telling dreadful jokes. At first he guessed he must be taking part in some sort of stage show or wedding speech or...? But no, any inquiry about such idea... | 2017-02-15T04:53:49 | 2017-02-15T04:38:20 | 107 | 37 |
[WP] Every month or so, the same man walks into a barbershop for a haircut, not knowing that it is just a front for the mob. He arrives every time just as all the real barbers are on break and the mob boss must cut his hair. | "Sometimes it's just unbelievable, you know," he said, "I give simple instructions and no one seems to be able to follow them. I worked hard to get here and when I was in their shoes, I knew how to get the job done the way my boss wanted it."
A larger man, somewhere in his early 50s, swirled a comb through some Barbas... | "What are you doing, Mizuo?"
The voice came from the far end of the shop. He tilted his head just slightly and gulped as he caught sight of the most muscular man he had ever seen in real life. The giant towered, his hair easily brushing against the narrow doorway of the barber's as he squeezed his way in. Tattoes cov... | 2017-07-03T08:59:33 | 2017-07-03T05:43:32 | 1,094 | 593 |
[WP] Puns are now illegal and punishable by death. Those who laughs to the pun will die instead of the person who said it. As an assassin, you utilize this law to murder people. | Johnny walked into the bar, he saw three pieces of dripping red meat hanging above the counter. It was hard not to miss them.
Slightly disgusted by the sight, Johnny asked the bar tender, "What's up with those 3 pieces of meat?"
Johnny's innocent and unintended pun caused the burly man sitting next to Johnny to snick... | I light the last of my cigs as I kept my two volumes in my drawer. One's named Dick, and he tells me the word on the street, and the dinosaur's Theresa, who finds me alternatives. The tools of my trade. They call me the Donkey- the Double Donkey. My real name is something else altogether- gotta keep things confidential... | 2017-07-15T01:07:18 | 2017-07-15T00:43:55 | 75 | 13 |
[WP] In the future, humans have the ability to transfer pain from one person to another. Every town has one person to whom they transfer every other citizen's pain. | I sat on my stump and, sure enough, my leg twinged with pain. My fireside seat had this pesky nub of oak that jutted straight into my thigh. Without fail my toes would throb; my calves would prickle.
"I could have it sanded down," my attendant Martha would say. She'd stoop low and frown at the knob like some malignant... | You sit silently at the bar, alone, with a loose grasp around your beer bottle. You pull your long, blonde hair back and put it up in a high-bun.
A man in the bar looks over and notices your subtle act. He sees the signature red tattoo on your neck - an emblem indicating that you are a Pain-Taker.
He stumbles over ... | 2017-07-15T18:15:14 | 2017-07-15T17:03:49 | 75 | 17 |
[WP] you go to Hell to realize that it has completely been over ran by humans. After Centuries of Human deaths. Humans vastly out number demons. making it a Hotter second earth....but you know, with demons and stuff. | Dear Diary,
I've been in Hell for a long time now - four centuries, in fact - and I have finally been offered a place in Heaven. Wonderful news! - or, so I *thought*. I mean, I'd been on the Heaven's Gate waiting list for three centuries, and had been praying for this day ever since I signed up. But now that it's here... | I look at the demon in front of me and he looks at me back, with a scowl on its face. It probably knows what I am going to ask and I am probably not the first one either. And definitely not the last. Still, I am curious.
"So... you mean to say that God, with his infinite wisdom, completely oversaw this thing? Like lit... | 2017-07-21T07:51:22 | 2017-07-21T07:49:20 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] You have many of the abilities of a Disney princess. You can talk to animals, people burst into song around you, and it seems every other day a "Prince Charming" type falls madly in love with you. As one of the most feared mafia enforcers in New York, it's tough, but you make it work. | So, my situation is pretty damn peculiar.
You see, ever since I was born into the family, I had an innate knack to rise up in the ranks and gain power in the biz. I always had the abilities of a Disney princess... I could communicate with animals, force my victims into vulnerability by magically forcing them to sing m... | Sweetie wrapped her bushy tail around the Capa's ear and whispered her recent scouting results. Shipment at the docks this time; apparently the Yakuza thought staying out of the city could protect their chatter. The Capa had eyes everywhere though, not just near central, and her employees weren't of the conventional ty... | 2017-07-31T11:46:36 | 2017-07-31T10:25:21 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | Pool party. I'm an idiot, right? For someone like me, wouldn't a big body of water by the prime place to avoid?
Most of the time, my brain's thinking clearly, and I would have declined the invitation. Hell, I've gotten really good at thinking about all the twists and turns of any sort of social interaction - will t... | The worst part of constantly redrawing my symbol is that by the time I get home every night, it's smudged and that makes my wrist all grey and weird. I always have to keep my smudged wrist hidden on the subway from work to the station nearest my home.
Today, a hetero couple across from me is arguing; their hands are w... | 2017-08-06T17:01:38 | 2017-08-06T15:49:22 | 594 | 149 |
[WP] In the future, to pass college you no longer must pass written finals. Instead, you are simply dropped into a real life scenario related to your major, and left to fend for yourself with your new found knowledge.
*My first post on WP, sorry if it's a repeat and/or against any rule(s)*
Edit: wow, sincerely thank ... | The stench of gunpowder hung in the air. I could hear the artillery fire cascading into a nearby town. I stood up, groggy and confused.
I looked down at myself. I recognized the uniform immediately from my history class. A red swastika covered my left arm.
"Why am I here?" I asked aloud.
A man accosted me from be... | "I said skim with low fat caramel!" the lady screamed at me as I snapped back into myself. I was still trying to adjust to my current reality. A barista? This was my exam? I had spent 4 years working towards this degree and this was my exam?!?! Well, I guess my parents may have been right after all. Wait what am I say... | 2017-08-10T05:16:53 | 2017-08-10T05:15:48 | 741 | 67 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Sorthol the Immortal stepped out of his ship and onto the queer green land. The atmosphere smelled about 20% oxygen, and the lifeforms reflected it. Tiny little insects buzzed around him, he swatted at them absentmindedly, looking around for other signs of life. Smooth green hills roll away in all directions, most of t... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T07:21:20 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 1,830 | 25 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Arganax flicked his antenna in irritation as he glanced around the conference room. The air was heavy as each multifaceted eyes twitched away from his stare.
"So," he clicked. "The decision to retreat was universal."
A brief buzzing filled the room as the augmented battle armor they all wore activated under the twitc... | Gorestaff the Annihilator snuck carefully through the unfamiliar base. The holographics had shown him what to expect, but the smaller structures were like some sort of nestlings play area to the 8 meter tall Zaxarian, who's hardened carapace was festooned with the gilt of conquered worlds.
But finally he had arrived ... | 2017-08-20T08:54:15 | 2017-08-20T08:37:27 | 316 | 96 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | "The crisis is averted. I repeat, the crisis is averted. The asteroid is no longer on a collision course towards Earth. Stay tuned for an interview with the NASA scientists who rerouted it."
I stare at the TV and hug my kids. Tears flow from my eyes as I feel their tiny hands wrapped around me. Thank God. I kiss their... | The, to be fair rather recently elected President of the 6 Continents (may the people of Europe rest in peace) has spoken in public today:
"Things have changed, for the better and for the worse. We are one free people, unbound by the shackles of what cruel fate had struck us before, yet bound by the need for choice. A... | 2017-11-29T06:47:31 | 2017-11-29T04:06:09 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | The Montgomery’s were having a normal dinner on a winter’s evening when snow began to distract young Steven from his mother, Mary Montgomery.
“Steven are you even listening to your father?” Mary raised her palm in front of Steven’s face trying to gain his attention. Steven’s eyes were fixed on each snow flake illumina... | The stars that night were alive in a scattered glow, pulsing with light, but cold, and far behind the grey clouds. She saw them looking down at her. Her arm trembled from gooseflesh. She had never seen the stars before. The dark had never been so black.
Something was wrong. She closed the door. The shadows fell long ... | 2018-02-01T23:02:24 | 2018-02-01T22:34:56 | 423 | 22 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | I had been in the park when the siren sounded. I had exactly two minutes; there was no way I could make it. I was a dead man, and I knew it. At first I thought it was a drill, but they only did those in schools nowadays - there had been no real emergency in over 20 years. The words of the old film reel ran through my h... | The stars that night were alive in a scattered glow, pulsing with light, but cold, and far behind the grey clouds. She saw them looking down at her. Her arm trembled from gooseflesh. She had never seen the stars before. The dark had never been so black.
Something was wrong. She closed the door. The shadows fell long ... | 2018-02-02T04:45:23 | 2018-02-01T22:34:56 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | Never hire a human. I know. I mean, we all know. We just don't know why.
It's not like I had a choice though. Business was running slow and the plethora of intergalactic wars had depleted most of our resources. Money was scarce and humans... weren't. Humans are cheap.
So I figured, to hell with it. If I want to keep ... | There’s an old saying on home world that goes something like “Never hire a human” or some shit. Words that could have changed my perspective...had I listened. But be that as it may, those words were lost to me as I stared at a stack of resumes piling up in my database after a few weeks of neglect. Our staff had been cu... | 2018-04-27T13:39:05 | 2018-04-27T12:18:08 | 535 | 25 |
[WP] Wandering the streets, jobless, homeless, you happen across a silver ring with an inscription: "Help for the Needy." Idly you slip it on. Suddenly a voice resonates deep within your bones: "44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN." | Five years later...
The ring sat there on the nightstand the glint from the morning sun reflecting off of it. It seemed to be glaring at him.
He had done it. After five years he had finally taken it off. Five years of running. Five years of pushing people out of the way of buses, cars, and trains. Five years of snat... | No, Jeremy was sure this had to be a prank. A stupid ring on the ground couldn’t actually be able to… but, what if?
Well, it’s not like they had anything better to do.
On his ventures around the dumpsters, he found a small shiny ring covered in the dirt. Brushing it off greeted him with the most detailed ring they’ve... | 2018-04-30T10:41:56 | 2018-04-30T10:19:31 | 447 | 143 |
[wp] Sick of somebody trying to get into your servers, you let them in, only to spring a virus into their system. To your surprise, the news the next day says that the goverment's systems have been absolutely wrecked.
​ | I’m still relatively new to writing, so any constructive criticism would be appreciated, thanks.
***
Another ping. They’re trying to get into the server again. Why? It’s a tiny server. It’s for running this game I made for me and a few friends. No one would ever find it particularly interesting. And yet, here they are... | Paul awoke the next day groggy as hell.
Well I won't be doing that for a while he said to himself as he swiped the empty beer cans off his table into the trash can.
He looked at his desk with eyes half open trying to remember the following night.
Then it dawned on him in. A sudden flash. He had let that knocking bandit... | 2018-09-03T22:24:30 | 2018-09-03T21:09:41 | 26 | 12 |
[wp] Sick of somebody trying to get into your servers, you let them in, only to spring a virus into their system. To your surprise, the news the next day says that the goverment's systems have been absolutely wrecked.
​ | The sounds of the cafe around me drowned in the shivers of my ragged breathing, my racing heart. I glanced at the man across the table. He sat in front of me, still silent. Still expressionless. My eyes fixed themselves firmly on the table, perhaps in some vain hope that he would go away if I pretended not to notice hi... | "Heh, bet that dude's feeling the pain by now. That virus should have totally bricked their system." I hopped on to my couch and turned on the TV to check what was going on in the world. And oh boy, something was going on. The headline read 'Government computer system has been destroyed by suspected cyber terrorist.' I... | 2018-09-03T22:05:53 | 2018-09-03T20:35:43 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A disease has infected half of the world's population. There is no cure and there is no test for infection. The only symptom is a permanent inability to reason logically. You do not know whether you are infected or not. | At some point, you just have to trust yourself. There's no point in all the arguing and rioting and war. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and if you can't reason with them, they have to go.
It's like when you have a spider in the bathroom. Of course it's a living thing, so you can't just kill it, but it's not as if... | THE INFECTION
We were sitting up in bed, staring deep into our laptops, and typing gently.
I looked to my right, and she suddenly looked as beautiful as when I'd first met her.
I'd stopped typing and had been looking at her when she smiled and mumbled: "Baby, what're you looking at?"
I laughed.
"Nothing," I said. ... | 2018-09-22T10:43:26 | 2018-09-22T09:41:44 | 60 | 13 |
[WP] Kidnapped by an alien scout party, you are taken back to their ship. Aware your answers will be used to assist in their invasion, you try to lie but fail. They are somehow forcing you to speak the truth, so you do the only thing you can: Tell the truth in as disturbing a manner as possible... | "So, tell me," the Commander said, "what are humans vulnerable to? How can we hurt and dishearten them?"
I took a deep breath, and swallowed. "That depends, really."
"How so?" I could hear the sneer, even if I couldn't see it.
"Well, we're vulnerable to radiation, for one. It can burn and disfigure us. But many of u... | “Tell us about the weakness of humans” demanded the chief alien, his obsidian eyes emotionless in its stare.
The device that hovered over my head forced me to tell the truth, so that is precisely what I told.
“The weakness of humans is our destructive greed. Human greed is a greed like no other. If we see a resource,... | 2018-10-14T06:07:24 | 2018-10-14T03:01:58 | 54 | 24 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | "Java. The entire universe runs on an outdated version of Java? Are you kidding me?"
The Genie chuckled. "What did you expect?"
"Not fucking *Java*, that's for sure," I replied. "Come on, we're going back home. I need some time to process this."
"Your wish is my command," the Genie said with a sly grin.
"That wasn'... | ***To understand is not the same as to have the ability to communicate..***
This is one of the first thoughts to flit across my frantically overloaded mind, in several different languages simultaneously, fittingly enough...
Sure I could speak every language, but never the one I wanted in a given situation anymore. T... | 2018-10-18T13:42:48 | 2018-10-18T12:01:54 | 508 | 79 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | Sobbing with the sheer weight of understanding, I reach for the only comfort left to me and bring it to my lips.
I tilt my head back, and look to the sky. Even through the beauty of the stars my comprehension demands relief.
"It's PHP all the way down." I whisper as my finger tightens on the trigger and a moment late... | ***To understand is not the same as to have the ability to communicate..***
This is one of the first thoughts to flit across my frantically overloaded mind, in several different languages simultaneously, fittingly enough...
Sure I could speak every language, but never the one I wanted in a given situation anymore. T... | 2018-10-18T14:11:40 | 2018-10-18T12:01:54 | 212 | 79 |
[WP] Through selective breeding we managed to turn wolves into pugs. For the last 1000 years a secret cult has also been selective breeding, but not with wolves but lizards. Crocodiles, monitors, sneks. The largest and most dangerous, into finally they created their perfect monster... A Dragon.
Just wanted to thank ev... | I thank you for your interest Mr. Darson. Yes we have quite a few breeds of Dracus Domesticus. This way please.
Now, if you wish to choose from the catalogue you'll notice that each of our fine creatures has a vet certificate of health and their shots are all up to date. Now if you'd let me know your price range...
... | "Hurry up, you wouldn't want to miss this!"
"Huh, miss what?"
Some things are just not meant to be hidden for long.
"Darn my friend, you were one of the lead scientists, weren't you? Why are you so far behind the news?" The other man replied.
In a secret cult, a massive upheaval was ongoing. One of their long disca... | 2018-10-20T08:08:21 | 2018-10-20T07:38:23 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | We’d thought the humans would be easy to defeat.
How wrong we were.
The war had started when we struck a major human spaceport with a hundred ships of the line. Ten thousand space-fighters bombed that planet, razing cities with precision strikes. The humans had attempted to defend themselves, but what could this peac... | The selected representative of the United Earth, Amy Sliskin, stood before the Council Of Space Faring Species, reading from a prepared speech. “I am here today representing the United Earth to notify this council that that Ratilkin Empire is preparing for war against us.”
An envoy from the Empire stood across from Am... | 2018-12-14T18:25:59 | 2018-12-14T17:52:57 | 1,305 | 488 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Day 143 of the 10,365th year of the Galactic Federation (April 7th 2574)
As the human ambassador and his staff left the conference room Thrassik found himself walking over to Fleet Commander Horlaq. Horlaq watched his approach with two of his eye stalks, the other three stared at the humans until they were out of sigh... | I've never written anything, but strumbling upon this thread on the FP I started typing regardless.
I haven't read it after finishing and there must be a gazillion typo's due to a keboard that is falling apart.
​
Humans, those annoying humans. Always talking talking talking. Negotiating peace whenever th... | 2018-12-15T09:26:04 | 2018-12-15T07:32:50 | 45 | 20 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | Every month, I've slowly been accumulating knowledge over my soulmate, ever since my third vision, I've wrote down the most valuable information each vision I've gotten.
*She has a friend named Luke, and a cousin called "BB" (nickname?)
*She's in a football team, her uniform is green.
*Her name is Rachael, she gets... | I looked down at the diamond ring, then back to her face. This was the second moment of my life that seemed to last an eternity. I etched the look of true happiness to the back of my mind and thought about the first time I met her. Eight years ago, first day of high school. I remember nervously waiting outside the clas... | 2019-02-13T16:28:22 | 2019-02-13T16:09:17 | 135 | 69 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | A change of scenery was what she needed. She had been working for about twelve hours a day, or more, if the current project has an early deadline. Today marks the end of the latest project, and she plans to skip the celebratory dinner and head home to plan her vacation. A friend suggested a nice beach on the outskirts ... | Karen and I broke up a little over a year ago.
We had had a whirlwind romance. We both knew our respective Soul Mates lived in the city and it felt right at first. After a few months we knew it wasn't right. We could see it in each other's eyes. In those moments we were alone when the visions came, we saw familia... | 2019-02-13T17:42:35 | 2019-02-13T17:03:12 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] One day, humanity receives a gift: everyone gets to ask for one power /ability. The more people asking for the same power, the weaker it is. You are the most powerful person in the world | I remember that day as clearly as though it were this morning. It was bizarre, to say the least. People said it was a hoax. It had wall to wall coverage on the TV, all the networks were displaying the message, each trying to put their own angle on it, every anchor wanting to be the first to either prove it as true or d... | Nate sat hunched over his sweating ice coffee; it was a warm summer day, and the afternoon sun was beating down on the cafe patio. He sighed as he wiped a single beed of sweat from his forehead and flurried his fingertips at the cup on the table. Chill air seeped from his hand, and the nearly melted cubes of ice in his... | 2019-03-14T15:24:31 | 2019-03-14T15:09:01 | 358 | 42 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | First day at the academy, but it's not that exciting. I've been here before and it was just as boring then. The real fun doesn't come until after, most people don't even keep the familiar they get while they're here. Just a big 'show of power' or whatever. Wait... why is that cat following him...and that lizard on her ... | Larry woke with a snorting start when his friends Don and Harmony burst into his dorm room, chased by two other animals. Cheetos tumbled off Larry’s faded graphic t-shirt, leaving trails of orange dust down his chest. The computer in his lap asked if he was still watching Netflix, and he was glad that was all he’d fall... | 2019-04-05T16:41:38 | 2019-04-05T15:51:00 | 71 | 39 |
[WP] Your ability to see what level of pain a person is experiencing has always helped you in your profession as a nurse. From the hovering "0.6" over the guy with the hangnail to the "42" over the crash victim. Today on the bus ride to work there is an "800" over a guy, calmly reading his paper... | I let out a small gasp. That's the highest number I have ever seen. He just sat there and turned the page of his paper.
This man looked like he was around the same age as me. He was maybe 20. He had dark brown curly hair and a long straight nose. He was wearing a black striped shirt, black jeans, and white high-top c... | You look inquisitively at the man before deciding to sit next to him.
“Mind if I take this seat?” He seems happy to have company. Both of you don’t say a word for several minutes despite all the questions running through your head. You finically veal the silence.
“So, what are ya reading?” You croak, your voice a bi... | 2019-04-14T02:13:01 | 2019-04-14T01:38:46 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] When you arrived in the future, the locals put you in a "historical village" in an attempt to reduce culture shock. Unfortunately, their ideas about your past life are hilariously inaccurate. | "We're here," Detective Jake said as he lead me out of the vehicle we're in. "Welcome to Old Earth Island, a state-of-the-art recreation of the 21st century world based on different records about your culture there. We brought you here to help you adjust to our society."
"Uhh, Detective, I appreciate the thought, but.... | Poem
Flying cars, ray guns, and massive wealth.
And my desire to go there was the promise of good health.
My mom's cancer was back for sure,
In the future I know we've got a cure.
So I made a machine to travel through time,
It worked on the first try and I arrived in the future to a friendly chime.
Apparentl... | 2019-04-23T17:11:43 | 2019-04-23T10:35:49 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] "Oh shit, you survived it?" your best friend says to you, minutes after the global disappearance of the human race and the emergence of the Others. "What?" you ask, terrified and confused. "Normally, I have to fix it all by myself every cycle", he responds. | A loud high pitched scream ripped my friend Hudson and I right out of our video game and back into the real world. I jumped up from the couch, the sound seemed to come from upstairs where my mother had been cleaning.
"Shit, is it time already. I'm getting slow."
I can hear my friend say from behind me. I barely reg... | A cloudy fog of carbon dioxide transpired on the glass barely floating above my face. Luckily two stainless-steel desks saved my face from inevitable dismemberment. I twisted my arms back around to the backside of my body and attempted to push myself up.
It was no use.
Fragments of steel frame from the crumbled b... | 2019-06-10T05:55:35 | 2019-06-10T05:19:36 | 115 | 36 |
[WP] You own a coffee shop, and you make some damn fine coffee. After decades of running the place, one of your most loyal patrons approaches you, reveals themselves as some kind of immortal being (a god, vampire, etc.), and offers to make you immortal as well, as along as you keep running the shop.
No idea why it say... | I had always wanted to be a vampire.
​
I remember reading about them with my brother Henry as kids, watching them in whatever movies or tv shows we could. They fascinated us, and I wanted to be a part of that world much more than this one. Now, here was Christina, standing in front of me and offering to m... | The buzzing of the phone stirred the man from a short slumber. As he groaned and tossed the sheet back and forth, a small tantrum, defying the nature of the organized life and society. Grunting the man who could be called middle-aged sat up, loud pops and cracks wracking him with pain and misery. The discomfort was due... | 2019-06-27T07:07:10 | 2019-06-27T06:55:46 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] The submarine had run out of power and was now dead underwater. Slowly, you watched your crew mates die of starvation but for some reason you didn’t die, you survived months and years on end in a dead submarine. Fast forward 75 years and your submarine is found. | *Great. Now I’m hearing voices.* I thought to myself as I continued to mark yet another day on the metal wall of my cabin.
I was running out of space in this room, after all it had been more or less 27 368 days since D-Day, or at least since I’d started to count the days. I’d been alone with my thoughts for most of t... | I'll never forget that day. The day when the torpedo took out our power. One by one they fell. There was no thing we could do. Tim got married the week before. Poor guy. Jerry, Stevens, captain justin, benny and kris, all dead. All gone. Looks like old man death forgot about me. I do not know how much time has passed, ... | 2019-11-11T05:39:12 | 2019-11-11T04:47:59 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | "I just need more time" the healer said. "If you would take a few minutes to plan and let me do my work instead of rushing into danger, we wouldn't have to keep doing this" As he spoke his hands ran across the Paladins chest, a warm glow spilling across the slowly closing wounds.
"Evil waits for no one", the paladin ... | >*"Rhathma! What have you done?!"* the spindly cleric was let up. All her healing spells had fizzled, leaving the party at the mercy of common Gnolls and their hyena pack mates. As they growled and laughed the party lay prone and at their mercy. A thousand curses were wished upon the healer under muddled breath. The... | 2020-01-05T12:01:26 | 2020-01-05T11:54:50 | 317 | 27 |
[WP] In an alternate universe where human skin changes colour according to their emotions, you alone lack this ability. As a result, nobody really believes a single word you say. | I stare at the carpet, pretending to myself that I can't hear while the school's color therapist speaks to my parents. Focusing on the calming yellow of kindness and on my fingers touching rhythmically, I can almost feel like they are talking about someone else.
"-ith enough training and effort, she should be able to ... | I know I stand out. A brown amidst a sea of red. People are angry, understandably so. Their government has failed them, left them to suffer, and I agree, but my affliction receives slander instead of smiles.
"Why are you even here?" A light red woman asks me as she shoves her way by, pounds of blubber followed by thr... | 2020-02-25T09:14:43 | 2020-02-25T08:43:13 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] A blind little girl somehow hugs a demon, mistaking him for her dad. No one has ever shown a demon affection before this point, and it has a very surprising efect. | "Just do it already," the demon thought to himself. "For god's sake, she walked right into your arms. It's never this easy. Now harvest her soul!"
But he couldn't. Instead, the demon just stood there in the arms of Bella. The dread and anger that consumed him for all of eternity had disappeared. Even a demon has its d... | She hugged me.. she actually hugged me. A little human girl hugged me. Does she not know the danger she’s in. At any moment I could rip off a arm, take away a toe or just eat her whole. She can’t really see all too well so maybe that’s it. Maybe she’s mistaken me for something or someone I don’t know but I gotta get he... | 2020-03-17T22:32:42 | 2020-03-17T21:46:52 | 89 | 29 |
[WP] Your sister disappeared on her way to school, but no one noticed. When you asked your parents they told you you didn’t have a sister. All the family pictures in your house only show you and your parents. You spend the next 7 years investigating until you receive a knock on your door. | Just for the record, what I am about to say will make you slowly walk away out of fear for your safety. It'll sound crazy, but it's true. You're just going to have to believe me.
I don't remember much about my youth. Most of what I remember are glimpses of events, some vague faces, and feelings of dread and hatred. Fr... | The knock sounded on the door to my room. I glanced up, confused. We weren't really a knocking family, or at least mom and dad weren't. Still, I was thankful for the chance to compose myself, and I quickly folded the caricature into my pocket. I always liked to bring it out on D-Day, just to see her and refresh my memo... | 2020-05-03T11:39:04 | 2020-05-03T10:51:48 | 76 | 36 |
[WP] You're mindlessly scrolling through random subreddits when you find a subreddit filled with photos of you at different hours of the day, explanations of all your activities, people discussing what life decisions you'll take. Confused, you notice a new post titled: "We've been found!" | “Damn. They really upvoting pics of me at work. Why y’all people so interested in watching me cut golf hole cups? The real deal is me mowing tees, everyone knows that is the real show stopper. What’s next? ASMR Green Syringing? ,” I joke to myself.
While mostly lighthearted, I can’t help but feel this niche subreddit... | I stood outside the restaurant waiting for my friend as I scrolled through my reddit feed, barely registering the posts when one made me freeze. At first I just scrolled past it, then I froze and scrolled back. I felt sick to my stomach as I stared at the pictures, me in my house, at my school, with my friends, showeri... | 2020-06-30T11:25:05 | 2020-06-30T10:43:11 | 210 | 25 |
[WP] On the eve of your arranged marriage, you slipped away into the night. Intending to never be seen again. While scaling the garden wall, you spotted your fiancée doing the same thing. You both stared at each other for a while. | If love is a fairy tale, why had I not heard the one about the prince scaling his garden wall the night before his wedding? I figured only the stories with happy endings become romantic fables; mine was over before it had even begun.
Look, she wasn’t a *bad* partner. Her father owned a successful software development ... | When i was little, all I wanted was to be a dragon. A dragon, or a knight. My parents forced me into clothing that didn't fit, forced me down and restrained me. All while gushing about how handsome of a husband I would get.
I noticed something was wrong not long after my thirteenth birthday. I was hormonal, at the st... | 2020-07-07T15:03:42 | 2020-07-07T14:51:38 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] You've just entered the restaurant of Karma, where everyone gets what they deserve. As a very normal person, you expect to get a bowl of soup, or maybe pasta. But before you can even sit down, the staff carry out a 12-course meal for you. | "I do not deserve this", I sighed as the waitress brought me the food.
"We are just bringing the meal that you deserve," smiled the waitress.
"There must be a mistake of some sort," I insisted. "The most I deserve is a bowl of soup. I have not done anything worthy of praise in my life."
"We don't make mistakes here,... | Theo finished the final course and allowed herself to relax into the soft, corner booth. She had arrived with the hopes of getting a bite to eat, not gorging herself on foods she had never even seen before! Why was this happening to her? When asked, the servers just smiled at her and ignored her questions.
Something ... | 2020-08-10T06:59:21 | 2020-08-10T06:56:18 | 172 | 40 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | An egg has been found- it was far larger than any egg found in the world. It was a soft shell like a snake's and people there could see the leathery surface writhe as the hatchling inside was waking up. People were being far too noisy to hear the gentle peeping of the whelp within. There was no knowing what exactly it ... | Preface:
The young acolyte, dressed in his plain clothes and hooded cloak, ran hastily toward the Master's Sanctum in the base of the mountain. He pulls his hood down against the rain as he runs, trying desperately not to slip and fall on the muddy soil beneath his feet in the low visibility of the nights rainfall. Th... | 2020-12-12T05:55:26 | 2020-12-12T03:18:35 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone jokes that you'll be haunted by spirits for building your tea shop on sacred ground. But at night you actually serve the undead spirits and calm the restless. | I shut the door, lock it. Flip the Open sign to Closed.
“They gone?” One of them asks from the back wall.
“They’re gone,” I say, watching my last customer walk down the path and into the night.
I walk back across the tea shop. They are coming in now, through the back, with their slow, patient strides across my tiled... | “Have a good night Hal!”
“You too Sam!”
Sam started to step out of the doorway before he paused, and swung his head around for a quick jab
“Make sure to put plenty of garlic around your room tonight eh, wouldn’t want the ghosts to take you away in your sleep.”
“That’s vampires, Sam,” I started to reply but the do... | 2021-03-10T18:00:27 | 2021-03-10T17:08:10 | 1,778 | 44 |
[WP] You have the ability to rewind non-living objects back in time to previous states they existed in. One day you come across an object older than the universe itself. The object goes back farther than your power can reach. You can't shake the ominous feeling that the object is dangerous. | A power beyond imagining and comprehension. It breaks the known rules of physics and reality, would render humans mad if they thought about it for too long.
Not you, though. You staved off madness by seeing the power as a tool, a dayjob to earn a salary.
People think you're a repairman.
The idiots.
Take this client... | "Where...did you get this thing?", Gregory asked, terrified.
"He-hey, bud, are you okay? What's wrong? You look pale", Jeremy inquired, worried of his friend.
"Where did you get this thing?", Gregory asked again, with more demanding voice from before.
"Relax dude, my god. I found this stashed away in my grandpare... | 2021-07-27T01:39:32 | 2021-07-27T01:31:43 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | # Smoke and Starlight
He was only here so he could gloat, Smoke thought.
There had been a time when the Bottled Worm was just a seedy warehouse. That time had long since passed. Now it was a disaster zone, the sort of place that only existed because long-dead authorities had been paid off not to demolish the rusty bi... | >**SILAS AND THE SEVEN SPRINGS**
“Begone, you wretch!”
Silas had heard that phrase so many times. Such was the life of an orphan- an orphan, and foreigner, at that. Doubly cursed, since the day he had escaped the chains of his slave master. He was young when he had been sold into slavery- too young. Then, when he... | 2021-12-28T19:33:56 | 2021-12-28T18:13:43 | 1,166 | 311 |
[WP] As the only immortal you know about, it's just occured to you; your online friend has been around for a bit too long. | The concrete world began to crumble without humans left to repair it. Like how snow, once firm and compact, melts into the cracks of the earth without winter to hold it, leaving no trace of its previous form. Towers bent, sagged, and fell; dirt-infused air sanded both brick and wood to dust; bright red rust salvaged th... | Internet is a safe space. At least, that's what Kleon used to think at the dawn of the world wide web. He found a community of like minded people he could interact with without ever meeting them, and to a man in his situation, it was nothing short of a boon.
*Place of birth: The city-state of Athens.*
Socrates and P... | 2022-02-09T06:16:21 | 2022-02-09T05:58:05 | 1,060 | 185 |
[WP]They laughed at your power... until they noticed the "no cooldown, no energy cost" description, and realized the implications | They laughed a lot at me, at school. “Wow,” they said, “you can share your thoughts. So, basically, you can speak to people’s minds, but can’t receive anything?”
I didn’t mind too much, my friends helped support me on the worst days. Some people got bad powers in this world, they pointed out. Like the guy who can turn... | Stephen and Darius laughed, faces twisted into near caricatures of themselves. They were barely amateur wizards, and yet they took every opportunity and expense to laugh at me. Nothing like punching down on your inferiors, no matter the grand scheme of things.
“This guy’s a terrible wizard!” Stephen sneered.
Previous... | 2022-06-03T14:45:20 | 2022-06-03T12:04:48 | 1,075 | 107 |
[WP] A man tries to explain what a nuclear bomb is in fantasy terms to the grand council of wizards | "Okay. I'll try to keep this simple but detailed. Understand?"
"Yes. Explain."
"What's the most devastating spell you can yield? Something that can destroy everything, including yourself."
"In what manner? There's more than one way to do so."
"Complete destruction. The kind that people can't recover from for genera... | So, we had our own alchemists as well. We just didn't bother with focusing on turning lead into gold, or capturing a soul. We did at first but we became far more curious about what makes something... something. What makes gold gold? What's the smallest amount of something you can have and still have it be that somethin... | 2022-07-23T20:04:19 | 2022-07-23T19:25:54 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | Those who say alcoholism is selfish really didn't know how selfless it was for me to stay drunk out of my fucking mind.
The drinking made everything just a little too slow. Thoughts would trot instead of racing, memories would stumble gently upon my brain instead of hitting it full-force. Everything was a bit dim; an... | The last time I was sober was my 16th birthday. That day I got my powers and ever since I always had to occupy myself with something. I am so used with being on drugs that I’m not affected much by them. Often when people see me drinking and smoking weed, a cigarette to calm down the nerves, along with occasional other ... | 2022-12-28T08:49:46 | 2022-12-28T08:03:54 | 1,700 | 238 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | "I can quit whenever I want."
"So why don't you?"
"Because I *don't*."
That should've been the end of that. But let's face it, when you spend half your time stoned out of your mind and the other half so damn hammered that they could get drunk off your blood, it was understandably hard to let the topic rest. Even a b... | From within the city walls, everyone heard the loud and unnerving *boom* from the outlands as it traveled the empty night sky. Throughout the city, lights turned on, windows were opened, people took to the streets. It was 3 AM, yet everyone seemed to understand.
Explosions and loud noises were common occurrences outsi... | 2022-12-28T10:15:44 | 2022-12-28T10:01:31 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] This is a special post that I'm asking for your help with. Rather than the standard asking for a story, my fiancee and I would like your help writing our wedding vows.
**Edit: My fiancee and I looked through all the submissions, along with our Maid of Honor and Best Man. We unanimously selected /u/paashpointo's p... | I, John,
take Jane,
into a lifelong bond,
founded on a mutual love, respect and understanding,
and always dedicated to the cause of good,
for the betterment of our family and friends,
both as individuals and united as one,
through the pains of growth and the trials of change,
to strengthen, complement a... | THANK YOU FOR VISITING beautifulhandwrittenletters.com
*Please find your newly handwritten letters in your preferred format*:
"**uh, normal computer text I guess.**"
-
Darling one.
With these words, pulled from the nameless writers on the internet, I thank you for choosing me, for choosing joy and wellness on th... | 2014-03-29T04:36:44 | 2014-03-29T00:46:50 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] When a person dies, their body evaporates into butterflies. One day, as the sky goes dark, you look up to see the sun blocked by an unending cloud of butterflies. | ONE DAY,
A day that is not a day, but boundless smaller days, a day where points become planes and all the finite moments stretch into paper thin filaments of time. And now you know, you know that this is how it always was, how it will be forever. If only your time had come sooner.
AS THE SKY GOES DARK,
Which is the... | What had been done could not be reversed, and I was fully aware of that. I pulled out a cigar from my side and lit it with a brief puff of flame from one of my nostrils. I looked up as I saw the moons of the silvery planet start to drift away. Among the soon to be lost planets I watched the paths of millions of butterf... | 2014-09-25T20:21:42 | 2014-09-25T19:54:59 | 233 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | I pass through life with an apologetic smile.
I've always been in the way. I was in the way of my mother and father's happiness when I arrived on this planet so unexpectedly. I was supposed to be a tumor in my young mother's uterus. But there I was, hiding behind the tumor, in the way of its growth.
I was in the wa... | Jill gripped the back of the chair and eased herself into it. She slumped there with a sigh, legs outstretched. She glanced at her wrist only for the 'ERROR' to blink at her as it always has. A constant reminder, not that she needed reminding.
She held her wrist up in the air, the message now blinking to the men in... | 2014-09-30T07:21:37 | 2014-09-30T07:09:39 | 479 | 25 |
[WP] The most depressing back story that you can come up with in a few paragraphs | It started out simple enough, as it always does. A little nip here, a little nip there; just to keep the edge off, you know? I don’t need it, I can quit whenever I want.
So my wife, she was this gorgeous creature. Seriously, I still have the ring. I don’t wear it anymore since it just doesn’t seem right with her husba... | I had this thought the other day. There I was, cooking a greasy breakfast at home with the news on in the background. Another guy dead in some shithole, this one a journalist or a doctor or something, and I couldn’t help but think: flashbacks are *so* Vietnam.
The modern conception of flashbacks is rooted in the kind... | 2014-11-20T02:47:07 | 2014-11-20T01:55:16 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Satan ironically enjoys the multitude of letters from dyslexic children during the holidays.
Had to put it here after imagining a scene after reading a certain r/showerthoughts thread. | Dear Satan,
For Christmas, the thing I would most like more than anything in the world is probably a tac.. or a god. Could I have one of those?
Bets,
Timmy
.
Dear Timmy,
I have heard your request and am honestly quite excited to tell you that for this christ's birthday you may in fact have both. Actually, a close ... | Satan looked over the latest letter, one of the hundreds he was working his way through.
*Deir Satan*
*For Cnrisnas mai I pelase heva a puppy, su that I heva smoetnhing to hug at nihgt*
*Bruec Jnoes*
It was a short one, and he re-read it several times. A cruel grin spread across his face, as he realised that this ... | 2014-11-23T12:39:34 | 2014-11-23T12:34:03 | 71 | 29 |
[WP] The devil enters into a contract, and over time slowly realizes that *he* is actually the one being manipulated by it. | There once was a man named Lucifer,
Whose cable bill caused him to go nuclear.
So one desperate day, he called up Comcast to say hey...
is there a better deal I could receive for the future?
The agent was nice, and with out thinking twice,
He agreed to a bundle at "One low monthly price."
Now just to be clear, he ask... | "This can't be. This can't be." he thought as he looked upon lines upon lines of words written on scroll. Words that have never failed him. Words that were crafted to deceive and cloud even the most eloquent of men.
This man had wanted power, wanted to be followed and respected by the masses around him. It was a comm... | 2015-02-18T09:06:59 | 2015-02-18T05:57:45 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] Zombie apocalypse has happened. The survivours have survived and are thriving, so much that people can go their entire lives with out seeing a zombie. You see one today. | Michael shuffled in the door, arms laden with bags of food, looking haggard.
"What's wrong, honey?" his wife asked, helping him remove his torn jacket. Michael didn't respond at first. "What happened?" Michael shook his head slowly.
"I saw one of...them, Donna." She screamed and dropped his coat, fumbling to pick it ... | I saw a zombie! First thing I did was get out the camera and make sure it was a shambler and not a screamer, then I snuck close enough for a selfie. Then, my pic already uploaded to MyFace, I called in the Z-Squad. I'd never seen them in real life, just in shows where they were all grizzled men with grudges against the... | 2015-03-14T09:22:31 | 2015-03-14T08:15:17 | 120 | 27 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | I don't remember when I first started seeing them. I think it was after High School, but before college. They were kind of fuzzy at first, and I thought I just needed glasses.
One day I noticed that they were becoming clearer. There were words. Some were clearer than others. Then it happened.
I was walking down the s... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T10:05:02 | 241 | 15 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Like I said, I was always used to this up until The Moment. Even as a little boy, I had to pretend like I didn't see a picture of a broken heart over someone's head or a cartoonish smashed car. Words eventually replaced the images and they got more scientific as my vocabulary grew. Old age... cancer... coronary embolis... | They were all the same; burning. Let's just cut to the exposition: I knew how people died, to me a small piece of text would appear above their head. This would always contain their cause of death. No time, no ways to prevent, just their grim fate. Since birth I could always see this. Over time I learned to accept it a... | 2015-03-31T07:48:21 | 2015-03-31T07:44:11 | 123 | 22 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | They started showing themselves to me when I started high school. They were always a light shade of blue and wouldn't change. If someone was to die of a heart attack...he was to die of a heart attack. Nothing to be done about their fate. Nothing I could do, at least I thought. Those words would hang over the heads of m... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T08:21:48 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 47 | 21 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Tim wakes up with a scream. He knows something is wrong, but can't figure it out what. His body just wants to go back to sleep. He's never fully understood what the words above people's heads were, but after the first visit to the doctor he's never spoken about it again.
After last night's explosion, he's finally... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T08:43:31 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] Humans are actually a phenomenally advanced species - except for the glaringly obvious thing they missed. Write from the perspective of a befuddled alien xenobiologist. | In a dark, windowless basement, a bored graduate student was sifting through camera feeds of various alien planets. They'd been told that these were all the cameras trained on planets without intelligence, but someone had to make sure they hadn't missed anything. It mostly entailed watching a feed for a few hours, seei... | "The thing that gets me," began Blurk, swiveling away from the view-sphere to address his partner and research assistant Gabble (who was presently hunched over his own view-sphere, gazing intently at the fascinating image of two bipedal organisms from T-734 playing Ping-Pong), "and I recognize it's a bit puerile of me ... | 2015-04-09T12:36:13 | 2015-04-09T11:32:49 | 162 | 45 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 |
Some people keep their Last Words private. I've seen some that weren't intended to be seen, and I've known some religious people who keep them covered up with black CoverTape. They think that God writes your last words, and only your spouse should see them.
I never bothered. Written in a lovely script, it probably w... | The subway slid along noisily underneath the city streets. Sam sat quietly in one corner listening to music through one earphone and mindlessly eating his breakfast (a granola bar that was a bit too hard) with the other. He stared at the words written plainly up his forearm. Words he, and everyone else in the world, wa... | 2015-08-08T13:53:15 | 2015-08-08T12:14:55 | 27 | 14 |
[WP][CW] Make me fall in love with a character in 200 words or less. | "She's always messing with her hair, that one strand that flops in front of her face. I remember her brother's wedding, she was cross-eyed and raspberry-lipped to blow it out of her eyes. She was at it for a few minutes before she noticed me watching... We're going to Venice this Spring. Our seats are reserved already.... | **I**t was ours
this place
where we'd hide
**O**ur own
little meadow
with grass to our knees
and the sound of cars
quiet in the distance
**O**ur own
little spot
where no one
would find us
**T**he meadow grass
soft
beneath our backs
**A**s I turned my head
from the slightly cloudy
blue sky
to look y... | 2015-10-21T19:57:07 | 2015-10-21T19:25:47 | 97 | 17 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | *Peter Lowe has joined respawn lobby chat #854393845*
*Server: Earth (pre-Cataclysm)*
*Players in server respawn lobby chat: 38*
Jack Howard: lMAO
Ellie Johnson: wtf dude
Harley Smith: whyyyyyy did u do this
Peter Lowe: WTF is this
Joseph Gabriel: I think it's his first game guys, easy
Peter Lowe: what's goi... | I took deep breathes but they provided no relief. White specks danced around the corners of my vision and a slow darkness creeped inwards at an alarming rate from the edges until there was a single tunnel ahead of me.
Moments ago I felt nothing but panic and desperation. Now I felt serenity and calm.
I knew I was d... | 2015-11-25T00:31:04 | 2015-11-24T23:52:59 | 1,235 | 26 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | Ed kept reading:
Player score: 4
It really was an absurdly over-engineered game for such a simple scoring system.
The ingenious twist that the game's designer had put in was that once you started playing you immediately forgot it was a game, you didn't even remember the rules. The only hint about what the game'... | "Damn it! I was doing it all wrong."
Immediately everything was clear again. I remember it all. Fighting the urges for my whole life. Fighting against my better instincts, just because they said it was wrong.
"It fucking matters now doesn't it?" I mumble.
Those voices in my head, telling me to do those *things*. I s... | 2015-11-25T03:34:47 | 2015-11-25T00:10:22 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] - You are an angel of heaven. Angels are tasked with creating animals to populate the earth. You are called into God's office to discuss your finished project - the platypus. | "Ralph, God is ready to see you now"
Welcome Ralph, how are things going for you? Being dead is a big adjustment then to have Angelic status on top of that is a big step
It's been great! I wish I could talk to my family but watching over them is good enough for me. Sounds morbid but, they'll join me up here some day.... | Shining light emanates from Bartholomew who sits outside God's office. God, the big man, doesn't just see anyone. You either screwed up royally or you knocked it out of the park. Bart knows which one he's here about. He knocked that shit out of the park. The door to God's office opens and beckons him.
BART COME ON IN... | 2016-05-15T10:12:30 | 2016-05-15T10:00:23 | 1,052 | 438 |
[WP] Weight can be transferred from person to person if both parties accept. People pay money to transfer their unwanted pounds to someone who will deal with it in their stead. You run a gym/factory. | You want to know about the best business in the world?
Lemme tell ya about it.
I used to be a prison guard. Me, if you can imagine, working a job like that, people treating me like crap all day long...
But then BodyRight came out. You pop one pill to lose as much weight as you want, and that weight gets transferre... | *Yoyobros*, that's what they called us - gym rats who weren't particularly motivated by their day jobs, or their relationships, and spent all their time sweating out their lives in small air-conditioned environments surrounded by like-minded people.
Dr Yaya's weight transfer process was revolutionary when it first cam... | 2016-06-29T17:14:24 | 2016-06-29T15:19:13 | 1,298 | 660 |
[WP] You've become an immortal being. Living throughout the ages you begin to notice that the souls of your companions or adversaries reincarnate and always seem to be drawn to you. After countless lifetimes, someone remembers.
Edit: This got so many responses! There's a lot of great post. | Lucidity is a luxury in the home.
The patients would come to us with flashes of it at first, infrequent moments of their former selves rushing through, but soon enough they became distant memories as their minds and bodies slipped away. It was a part of the natural order I supposed, and yet it didn't stop my heart fro... | It soon began to feel like a mosquito bite. An annoying mosquito bite that I couldn't see coming, which with a sharp pinch and a painful swell would leave its mark upon my person only to fade away until the next one came conquering. It was a brief pain, but those few seconds when it were the most excruciating of all my... | 2016-08-29T08:29:30 | 2016-08-29T08:10:40 | 38 | 14 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | Jolder grimaced into his cup of tea when he heard the chime of the bell. *Another bleeding customer. Ah, well, the tea is cold anyway. When was the last time I had a hot mug of tea?* He drained the cup in one gulp, shuddering at the temperature, and made his way to the front of the store.
He rounded the corner, an un... | Another mundane day goes by and I start to think of what to do at night. The business isn't going as stellar lately thanks to the tension between the empires. There has been news about the city patrol gone missing at nearby village. Luckily nothing major happens so far. Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed behind... | 2016-10-16T09:13:08 | 2016-10-16T08:54:28 | 91 | 55 |
[WP] The founding fathers come back from the dead to check up on America, and boy do they have some asses to kick. | Reporters pushed their way through the crowd, and cameras flashed like firecrackers. The five men had formed a defensive ring, alternating their confused looks between each other and the crowd before them.
"Jeanne Larsen, New York Times," one reporter shouted, thrusting her microphone into the tallest one's face. "Can... | Once word got out that the founding fathers had miraculously risen from the dead, every news outlet in the country wanted first dibs on the story. A spokesman for the founding fathers had announced publicly that they had all risen from the dead about two years ago, but were kept in secret to undergo routine medical che... | 2016-10-17T11:50:20 | 2016-10-17T11:29:27 | 427 | 115 |
[WP]Aliens attack earth.They have weapon superiority, a vehicle advantage, and a technological lead. Unknowingly humanity is the only race in the universe which self-sabotages any technical advancements with computer viruses.The aliens are moments away from hooking up to earth’s internet network… | "We are almost connected, sir!" The technician said, triumphantly. The captain of the massive fleet of ships smiled as he looked over the blue planet.
"Good. Soon we will know everything about this world." The captain said, foreseeing his victory. He looked to his General on Deck. "Prepare the DMC for firing. As soo... | It was deadly silent, and every piece of technology in the NORAD eastern command center was turned off, except for one computer with a lone man in front of it. Though there was no noise, the air in the room seemed to scream. 150 employees, generals, privates, and politicians sat in breathless silence, as equals for the... | 2016-10-28T14:42:50 | 2016-10-28T14:36:29 | 70 | 30 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | “But we have no food here! No running water!”
“Dad the internet’s down.”
“When will we know what’s going on?!”
I lifted my flashlight up over the man’s shoulder, the pale faces of his family squinted and cowered from the glare. I saw the familiar yellow glow reflecting on the walls of the hallway, emitted from the f... | The message on the screen read "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." as my radio told me. "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." Lucky for me, I fell asleep watching the television the night before which gave me time to cover the windows on both sides and the front before I accidently took in the beautiful morn... | 2017-01-27T04:28:55 | 2017-01-27T04:05:35 | 89 | 53 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | “But we have no food here! No running water!”
“Dad the internet’s down.”
“When will we know what’s going on?!”
I lifted my flashlight up over the man’s shoulder, the pale faces of his family squinted and cowered from the glare. I saw the familiar yellow glow reflecting on the walls of the hallway, emitted from the f... | WELL....WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?
....I don't know, Janet, I heard-
DO WE STAY IN OR GO OUT?
...I DON'T-
This is a joke right, Tim? Right?
...
RIGHT?
Shut UP! I'm trying to THINK!
How can we stay indoors and evacuate to high ground without looking outside?
...I....I....
Tim......say something....
... | 2017-01-27T04:28:55 | 2017-01-26T22:44:53 | 89 | 25 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | The dead white walls seemed to hum with excitement along with her. Tonight is the night. She trekked from room to room, waiting on nightfall. It wasn't required, but it just seemed fitting. The cart she pushed from room to room squeaked quietly along in front her. She seemed not to notice the front right wheels resista... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T17:27:32 | 153 | 48 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Sally, we really need to talk about our relationship."
Me and my girlfriend were standing in the middle of a bloody crime scene. She just murdered a old ww2 veteran in his home by poisoning his tea.
I have to admit, she was getting better and better with the killings. The poison she used would soon dissolve in the b... | The dead white walls seemed to hum with excitement along with her. Tonight is the night. She trekked from room to room, waiting on nightfall. It wasn't required, but it just seemed fitting. The cart she pushed from room to room squeaked quietly along in front her. She seemed not to notice the front right wheels resista... | 2017-06-07T18:59:16 | 2017-06-07T17:27:32 | 80 | 48 |
[WP] In a world where DnD, video games, and anime have all been outlawed, the most feared and dangerous criminals are the nerds. You are America's most wanted, and you will not be stopped. | “Tonight on Cops, we explore the violent, dark underworld that is known as Dungeons and Dragons. A satanic cult that is known for its evil witchcraft and turning fifteen year old boys into vicious deviants. Law enforcement has all but expelled these dark lairs of evil, but still the danger lurks in secluded basements t... | Marvin quickly pushed his glasses up his nose and let his pencil hover lazily over a sheet of paper. In a voice too high for a 25 year old male, much less one weighing over 200 pounds, he squeaked, "Roll for initiative." I looked at the dice in my hand for what seemed like an eternity but was only a few seconds; would ... | 2017-07-03T10:10:54 | 2017-07-03T09:16:32 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] In the future, romantic attraction is literal: each person is fitted with an electromagnetic bracelet which, they claim, will pull you to your soulmate. It's the day they turn the magnets on, and you're waiting. | My anxiety was climbing through Cupid’s roof, and I was hoping his arrow wouldn’t shoot me down. At the time, I didn’t know what would happen. For all I knew, I’d be attracted to someone across the globe, and our slowly colliding bracelets would never quite pull us together, hindered by, you know, a massive fucking oce... | I waited. Because I figured the chicks would fly to my charm faster than I to them. But after my phone flooded with Instagram date updates, I still as solitary as a loner during prom. No one on my radar. I checked over and over again, verifying the legitimacy of the bracelet. It worked fine. But...no soulmate? I called... | 2017-07-25T09:28:08 | 2017-07-25T07:35:55 | 48 | 16 |
[WP]Every person on earth recieves a message. If nobody is killed by another person for 24 hours everyone will recieve 1 million dollars. However if somebody is killed the killer will recieve 100 million but their name and photo will be made public. | * English it not my native language, sorry in advance.
We had gone 23 hours without killing anybody. I don't know how we got this far but we did. The streets were dead-silent; the whole world was waiting and watching the news. Finally, peace. I turned up the music and started playing games. It was almost time. I was ... | Less than two seconds.
That’s as long as it took for the lucky winner to claim his 100 million. He didn’t get to enjoy it very long. The few surviving historians estimate that the violence in the following week caused a greater loss of life than all wars in recorded human history combined.
The first 24 hours were th... | 2017-07-30T12:54:33 | 2017-07-30T12:51:58 | 53 | 14 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2,040 | 539 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | "Greetings Bobby, getting tired yet?"
Bobby turned to see the now very familiar cloaked form of Death and grinned as he inadvertently ignored the question entirely, "Dude, did you hear?! A new model of starscreamer came out! This thing can pull .04 c! And an acceleration of thirty gravities to get there! I've got a ra... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T15:17:00 | 2,040 | 14 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | "Greetings Bobby, getting tired yet?"
Bobby turned to see the now very familiar cloaked form of Death and grinned as he inadvertently ignored the question entirely, "Dude, did you hear?! A new model of starscreamer came out! This thing can pull .04 c! And an acceleration of thirty gravities to get there! I've got a ra... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T15:17:00 | 935 | 14 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | "......Tristan, would you please just die already?" Death said to me with obvious annoyance behind me.
"Oh come on, you know I don't want to. Especially when-" I immediately turn around to quickly remove Death's hood.
"H-hey! Do you want to die?!" Death, whose hood has been taken off, has her beautiful face shown in ... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T16:54:33 | 935 | 11 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 539 | 149 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | The longer I observe his life...The angrier I seem. 50,000 years ago I tried to perform a little experiment, I would turn a mortal immortal, and allow him to see first hand the suffering immortality brings you- I was eagerly anticipating seeing him break down as he lives longer than all his friends- as he watches his c... | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2017-11-28T15:48:47 | 539 | 12 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The old man sat alone and waited for Death.
It always came this time of year; just before spring, in the last days of long nights and long shadows. There was no fanfare to his arrival. Death simply was where it once wasn't - namely, at the seat across from the old man.
"Are you ready?"
Death's voice was, much like i... | "......Tristan, would you please just die already?" Death said to me with obvious annoyance behind me.
"Oh come on, you know I don't want to. Especially when-" I immediately turn around to quickly remove Death's hood.
"H-hey! Do you want to die?!" Death, whose hood has been taken off, has her beautiful face shown in ... | 2017-11-28T17:24:04 | 2017-11-28T16:54:33 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] She looks entirely human from the outside, but scans show she's older than pangea and incredibly dense for her size. | The doctors in their white coats looked over the uncanny human being. Or, what appeared to be a human being. X-rays, thermal scans, etc. all showed something incredible. This girl was as dense as rock.
It was ironic, because when she woke up...
She was as dense as a rock.
The doctors tried communicating with her, bu... | A monochrome X-ray scan lies flat on the fluorescent lighting table.
At first glance, it has the outlines, a figure of a human being.
But, the shape itself, it is only black, with no greyed out shapes.
So it struck me with anxiety, that this X-ray scan is my first job to assess as an intern for this hospital's radiogra... | 2018-01-20T05:28:19 | 2018-01-20T05:18:47 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | I held her in my bony grip. "Elizabeth," I whispered through the ether, "Hold on."
"What's going on?" she screamed, half in horror, hanging from the cliff seemingly suspended by nothing, "Let me go! I want to die!"
Deep below her there lay jagged metal spikes, the remains of an insurance building mostly destroyed b... | I roamed the scorched, torn apart streets. The vestiges of what once were great buildings lay scattered in the path. The silence, which I used to find comforting, now made my bones quiver. I missed the bustle of the crowds, and their awful jokes. I missed the smell of food, and the fresh scent of spring. I missed their... | 2018-05-04T11:15:53 | 2018-05-04T11:11:58 | 146 | 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... | "don't get me wrong, you won't be a hero foretold in legends or a scientist that found the cure for cancer, but you will shape humanity with mundane clumsiness"
"mundane clumsiness?! That's not much of a super power is it?"
"well you did kind of broke that middle eastern lamp you found at a yard sale and were forced ... | 2018-08-15T04:55:10 | 2018-08-15T03:47:40 | 5,641 | 186 |
[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... | Do cure cancer?
The genie shakes his head.
Do I end the fighting in the middle East?
The genie laughs and again shakes his head.
Now visibly angry the man asks
Well, what did I do then?
The genie smiles and snaps his fingers.
An acorn appears in front of the man.
"You planted this, a decade ago"
The man racks ... | 2018-08-15T04:55:10 | 2018-08-15T04:27:11 | 5,641 | 124 |
[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?” | The genie laughs and blurts out with elation:
"**By doing nothing of course!"**
"What do you mean '*by doing nothing?*' and what do you mean '*of course!'*?"
**"What did you expect me to say? Did you expect one good deed? One invention?"**
"Well...kinda. Maybe hundreds of good deeds?"
**"Tell me, which human do yo... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T02:53:07 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 164 | 43 |
[WP] A VR service exists where the super rich can use the poor as Avatars to live out their wildest fantasies. You're broke and you just signed your first Avatar contract. | “You don’t have to do this, you know,” her face full of concern as she reached out for my hand. “I know, but little Hank or Ruthie deserves a good life.” She rolled her eyes and huffed, “we are not naming our baby after a baseball player!” “But those names are so full of hope, the baby deserves that at least.” “Then le... | Draco. The sound of the new name filled the man’s mind. It dug like a worm into his subconscious, erasing the name that had been before. The sensation was that of a sharp pain, yet the man could not articulate it. Of course, his muteness mattered not; he had agreed to such indecencies.
The man’s body lurched, spinni... | 2018-09-05T17:39:16 | 2018-09-05T17:13:12 | 16 | 10 |
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