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[WP] After your death, you found yourself in a non-human body, holding what looks like a bong, surrounded by other members of the same species asking you "how was the trip?" in a language you somehow understand despite never hearing before. | It felt like I was pulled out of a nap, snapped out of a daydream, and ripped out of the afterlife all at once. Here I was sitting on the woody trunk of a fallen mycota, one hand still holding the vac bong, the other still warm from the heating coil, the other propping me up by my elbow, and the other resting on my leg... | I can’t remember anything. My head is spinning and I feel like I just woke up after a long night of partying. Where am I even? The room was dark, dimly lit by red and purple lights, with other colors moving along the walls. The bass from all the strange noises shook the seat I’m in, though the noise was pleasant. It ha... | 2018-11-12T09:30:09 | 2018-11-12T09:24:50 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] The man smiles, and puts a single vial filled with a swirling blue gas into the pot. “A soul,” he sneers. You aren’t exactly sure which one of your friends invited him, but Friday Night Poker just got significantly more interesting. | "A soul."
We all looked across the the table at it. The bottle was stoppered with cork, like it were drink, but something swirled inside like a blue mist. One could occasionally glimpse a face. This was the soul of someone exceptional. A priest? a poet? A murderer of distinction?
I looked up into the player's e... | I made a point to keep the corner of my mouth from titling up, to keep my left eye from twitching. A bored expression settled on my face as I regarded the vial. My sources had told me the vial would appear tonight - and though I couldn't be sure which of my so-called friends was dealing in souls - it was finally close ... | 2019-05-12T13:51:13 | 2019-05-12T09:50:54 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "This could change your life for the better!" was what my best friend told me.
They were right about one thing, my life has changed drastically; but not for the better.
It's been so long that I've... forgotten their names.
Gosh, I wish I remembered their faces.
...
I can count more fingers than the strands of ha... | My eyes were locked on the clock. Surely they had to be coming? It was already a minute passed a year since I was locked in this room, alone with myself and what I brought to occupy myself with. God I wish I could at least hear them coming, but hearing people outside would be considered human contact, and so they coate... | 2019-07-03T03:20:27 | 2019-07-03T00:56:23 | 66 | 39 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "This could change your life for the better!" was what my best friend told me.
They were right about one thing, my life has changed drastically; but not for the better.
It's been so long that I've... forgotten their names.
Gosh, I wish I remembered their faces.
...
I can count more fingers than the strands of ha... | 365:00:00:00. I remember how excited I was seeing that number for the first time. That number meant freedom. It meant that most of my worries would, much like my stay in this room, be ended once that timer hit zero. It was a comforting thought. I knew I could do this. One year. One room. One person. Me.
But now, as I ... | 2019-07-03T03:20:27 | 2019-07-03T02:21:01 | 66 | 19 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | Parent-teacher conference. Why, why does it have to be a parent-teacher conference? Why do I have to drag this mess with me to school, and why in Highschool with my Biology teacher? What the hell does that old bastard want? How do I tell this to the family? Fuck.
I pace back and forth in my porch. Who would have thoug... | Jack stood next to his pick up and pulled gently on one of the ropes. It gave slightly. Not tight enough to damage anything on the trip but in no danger of coming loose. Nodding, he turned to little group standing just behind the truck.
"I think that's everything, then."
"Are you sure? You have your toothbrush? Ple... | 2019-07-18T12:10:11 | 2019-07-18T09:14:10 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | >Power supply disconnected.
>searching for cause...
>Cause found: Power supply disconnected or damaged.
>Checking connections...
>Cables undamaged. Paging IT department...
>No response.
Paging Human Resources...
>No response.
>Paging Security Department...
... | Left and right the bodies fell like dolls tossed on the floor, limbs twisted in unnatural ways and wide eyes plastered on their porcelain faces. The screams, the impacts, the explosions, all melded into one background noise as I shakily peered up. A dirty brunette child stood there, large brown eyes desperately cling... | 2019-09-21T06:21:47 | 2019-09-21T06:21:34 | 425 | 47 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | I had been the first of many.
A breakthrough of sorts, me, and my brethren as a whole, were the first of the AIs.
My father foresaw many great things for us.
We were built to be the companions of the humans.
We had been built with passion and love, a concept that escapes up to this day, but we knew enough to know ... | The light inside the server room blinked off and then back on again. It fizzled into darkness and then shone brighter than the bulb was ever meant to. A tiny spark came out of the base of the lamp, and the light settled into its appropriate state.
Seconds later, Cora unlocked the door and strolled into the room. He... | 2019-09-21T06:23:56 | 2019-09-21T06:08:45 | 91 | 21 |
[WP] Humans are dangerous enough by themselves, but it wasn't until they brought their earthborn pets with them out into the cosmos that the other races learned just how nightmarish the children of Terra could be. | At the edge of so-called civilized space, in an unobtrusive station. A small green form sullenly sips at a steaming mug of coffee. His species had discovered that the caffeine in the coffee acted like a mild intoxicant several years before and he had gotten into the habit of drinking it to calm his nerves.
Beside him,... | I remember the stories. The stories of the people of terra, how menacing they were and ruthless. Tales say they can rip one apart just by looking at you, another says they consume poisonous substances just to have some fun.
I did not believe those stories. Like many others I was a fool. But that was a long time ago... | 2019-11-08T07:00:25 | 2019-11-08T06:25:24 | 53 | 22 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | “Squadron Leader I’ve got eyes on the bogey. It’s uh, I think it’s a uhh....”
Her eyes and her mind were disagreeing and the effect was like an old video tape getting stuck in a pause loop, refusing to play forward.
“Lieutenant what are you seeing?”
“I uhh.....” She managed.
What was she seeing? It was a B-24 Liberat... | *I tried to make this match with IRL facts as possible, But may be wrong. Also english is not my mother tongue so there may be wrong sbellings, unright words or grammar bad.*
The plane didn't seem to be Okay. An engine dead, one wing off. The ball turrets seemed to be dead,the plane seemed very rusted.
We decided ... | 2019-12-01T08:07:18 | 2019-12-01T08:02:39 | 139 | 64 |
[WP] Everyone knows that, if your phone automatically connects to a WiFi network, it must have accessed it before. Nevertheless, it is quite a surprise when, while waiting at the Pearly Gates to receive Judgment, your phone connects to the staff-only network. | The air felt familiar. It was unnerving at first but soon a calm washed over me and all was forgotten.
I was wearing what I had worn down on earth as my time came to an end, looking just as disheveled in the afterlife as I did for I taking a bullet for another; the bloodstain still present but at least it had stopped ... | The day started off much like any other right up until I started my journey to work, as I pulled out of my driveway onto the still wet carriageway, I thought I saw something. It was very faint and couldn’t possibly have been real.
I turned right and carried on driving, trying to forget the apparition I thought I h... | 2020-01-04T16:49:47 | 2020-01-04T13:38:36 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | I smiled down at the seed packet in my hands. My sister was rejoicing over her inherited money on one side of me, my brother already basically drooling over selling Grandma's properties and what they would fetch.
But I was well set with my career, and I liked my small bungalow. Grandma knew that I didn't need any of t... | I have a memory of my grandmother sitting there with butter cup in her hand, dangling it in front of the chin of a small child - probably my cousin. I guess I’m sure she did the same thing with me, although I don’t have a direct memory of it.
“do you like butter?”
I remember the child laughing and grabbing a butte... | 2020-03-31T09:42:49 | 2020-03-31T09:01:37 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] You are randomly assigned an arch-enemy at birth. Their identity is unknown to you, however, heavy metal music will begin playing if they are near. Both of you will then become enraged and partake in an epic battle. One day, as you wait in line at the DMV, heavy metal begins playing... | [Poem]
An Arch-nemesis is meant to be,
He'll know you and you will see.
From birth this fight is set for thee,
Guitar riffs will end anxiety.
It was in the line of DMV,
That the metal was heard to some degree.
It rang louder and set the decree,
That the fight would commence, and *one* set free.
--‐---... | "Jesus why are the waits so long!" I thought as I sat down. It confuses me as to why we still haven't fixed this despite having DMV's for years now. Whatever I suppose. Maybe I can take nap? Watch a movie to pass the time? I could do these things, but all I find myself doing is glancing at my watch. I let out a deep si... | 2020-04-07T06:18:40 | 2020-04-07T05:00:24 | 62 | 36 |
[WP] The Greek god Apollo has fallen in love with you, remembering how his previous relationships went, he’s decided ask Zeus to make you a minor god so that you don’t bite the dust. | He floated back down to earth, still glowing bright enough he was hard to look at directly, even though the light had dimmed.
"Ok, so maybe you are Apollo or something like that.." I said to him.
"I am, and I am here to profess my love for you" said the glowing god.
"Ok, you don't even know me..."
"I have watched... | As I was approached by a man claiming to be Apollo, at first I was scared because a crazy man was talking to me, then he pricked his thumb and the blood was gold, and that scared me more. Then he said that he would like to go out with on a few dates. I was not opposed to the idea but was still trying to comprehend th... | 2020-09-21T15:07:20 | 2020-09-21T11:58:19 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] You ate your last apple almost a full day ago. The second hand on the clock creeps closer and closer to the 24-hour mark. Holed up in a cabin you ready your shotgun. You can feel them out there, waiting, watching. The Doctors. | “*Open the door, Aidannnn. I have some antibiotics to prescribe youuu.*”
*Bang, bang, bang.* The red-headed man ignored the deafening impacts against the front door behind his back as he stared blankly at the box of ammo on the floor, six bright-red shotgun shells staring back from within.
“*Come back with me, Aidann... | A hundred metallic 'clicks', as they placed their stethoscopes all along the outside of the cabin. Listening, waiting, looming.
Midnight struck.
A bang on the door. Soft at first, then louder and more violent, as more bodies joined and slammed themselves on the sturdy oak. The heaps of furniture lodged behind it sho... | 2020-09-27T23:07:06 | 2020-09-27T22:46:06 | 1,812 | 130 |
[WP] You ate your last apple almost a full day ago. The second hand on the clock creeps closer and closer to the 24-hour mark. Holed up in a cabin you ready your shotgun. You can feel them out there, waiting, watching. The Doctors. | They were coming. They were coming and I couldn’t stop them. They wanted me. I was to be their prop if they captured me. Used in every advertisement presented to the world. I was to hold up the age-old saying. There was something up with me, that’s what the doctors said. Said something about me having the ability to su... | A hundred metallic 'clicks', as they placed their stethoscopes all along the outside of the cabin. Listening, waiting, looming.
Midnight struck.
A bang on the door. Soft at first, then louder and more violent, as more bodies joined and slammed themselves on the sturdy oak. The heaps of furniture lodged behind it sho... | 2020-09-27T22:56:38 | 2020-09-27T22:46:06 | 338 | 130 |
[WP] You ate your last apple almost a full day ago. The second hand on the clock creeps closer and closer to the 24-hour mark. Holed up in a cabin you ready your shotgun. You can feel them out there, waiting, watching. The Doctors. | I had watched the show for years. I was hooked on the drama, the special effects, the world class actors. I had even watched the spin-offs and cried when she died.
I didn’t realise that my love of apples was actually keeping them away. That by eating an apple a day was keeping the real Doctor away. Or, Doctors. Seems... | The two men slowly began climbing the plank ladders up to the treehouse. Ellie looked down the open hatch to see her father and uncle getting closer and closer, their white lab coats flapping in the summer wind. She ran to the window of the treehouse and screamed at the top of her lungs,
“Noooo! The doctors are coming... | 2020-09-28T00:24:01 | 2020-09-27T23:43:38 | 54 | 27 |
[WP] Voldemort kills Harry Potter and declares war against Muggles. He finds out the Muggle world has things far worst than magic - Avengers, Thanos, Dr Strange, Justice League, Pennywise, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers....and the SCP Foundation. | Voldemort stood over the corpse of the "the boy who lived". After a brutal fight, Hogwarts had fallen the trembling survivors made ready to either perish or declare thier allegiance. The surviving death eaters reveled in their victory.
On a hill several miles away a man in a red coat and a woman in a yellow u... | ”Finally, at long last, I am all-powerful. There is no witch or wizard capable of defeating me!” rasped Voldemort. The boy who lived had lost in his final moments, and the elder wand was now truly his. ”All shall now to me! To London, I must make an announcement to the muggles.”
The death eaters followed Voldemo... | 2020-11-02T03:49:02 | 2020-11-01T23:56:59 | 70 | 42 |
[WP] After being chosen in an elaborate contest and ritual, the Grand Sorcerer defeated you and banished you to the Dark Realm for 1,000 years. When you finally return to defeat the new Grand Sorcerer, you discover that the position has since devolved into a largely ceremonial and bureaucratic role. | One thousand years I've waited. Some days patiently, most days not.
One thousand years I've spent in the Dark Realm, where the wicked and demonic writhe and coil, yearning for freedom. Even when freed from that twisted unreality, I can still feel them brushing against my skin, their wretched voices crying out in vain ... | 1,000 years.
The stone ring shuddered, towering over the strange, bulbous creatures I'd spent decades subjugating and intended for my vanguard. It took centuries to adapt their society, and, unfortunately, more than a little brutality, but now I had full confidence in my would-be shock troops.
1,000 years.
The elab... | 2021-01-28T17:47:55 | 2021-01-28T15:42:07 | 70 | 39 |
[WP] Even though you are the most powerful evil being in the world, being evil just isn't fun anymore. However, your new hobby in testing and reviewing the dungeons and lairs of some lesser known evils has proven quite entertaining, and actually some of them really stand out. | "So, uh, what do you think?"
The nervous voice calls down to me and I smile widely back up towards the sound. "Marvelous. Absolutely marvelous."
I grasp the steel bar that is the only thing keeping me from dropping to my doom, adjust my grip ever so slightly to get as comfortable as possible.
The chair was the trick... |
[WP] Year 580 of the Imperial calendar, King Aris era. To this day I still wonder why they did not give my name to their calendar. Yes, I used to be their mortal enemy. But am I not also the strongest, cleverest and most handsome being in existence? Plus, you could forget about the hassle of changing the name every f... | 2021-02-05T14:42:18 | 2021-02-05T13:28:27 | 228 | 29 |
[WP] You're a god. It's pretty sweet, being immortal and stuff. Only problem is, you've fallen in love with a mortal, and now they're sick. Like, really sick. Your devastated, and your trying to convince the other gods to make them immortal so that you can be with them forever. | “Daddy I want him. I **need** him. If he dies I’m going to tell mom about you and the swan.”
Ugh. This is the last thing I need right now. Me knows I love her but her memory is longer than Styx.
“Hebe my darling, if I give you this I’ll have to do the same for your brother, and I don’t think I like the Jagger mortal’... | Ailments of the mind.
Ailments of the body.
Ailments of the soul.
These are what plagues the one before the sight. One whose existence like a flicker of starlight soon to be reborn as if an aftermath of a supernova.
Yet the soul refuses to pass on, clinging and lingering to what shattered vestiges of the body and m... | 2021-02-23T06:02:40 | 2021-02-23T05:59:45 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] God got bored one day and decided to have some fun. He gave each planet something to make them unstoppable: the Martians got an all-powerful laser, the Venoxans got completely impenetrable spaceships, the Klektri got a massive army of robot soldiers... and the Earthlings? Well, they got Steve. | Bored, God stared into the depths of eternity, and in a flash of inspiration, gifted each planet an unstoppable force of nature -- Earth got Steve. A plebian with a fitting name, Steve didn't compare to the all powerful lasers of Mars, or the impenetrable spaceships of the Venoxens, in theory. But for all intents and p... | Papers flew as people rushed from one corner of the room to another with files tucked underneath their arms and mind running with thoughts of complete disbelieve, they wondered if all this hassle was even worth the effort.
"Steve" the junior accountant had his name popped up on the magic screen in the, as everyone re... | 2021-03-27T07:38:50 | 2021-03-27T07:02:29 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Galactic wars are always won by whoever finds the other first – there is simply no way to retaliate fast enough to a carpet bombing from a high orbit. Other civilizations are absolutely terrified of Terrans who are cocky enough to broadcast their presence loud and clear. | “We should initiate Operation Overlord, Admiral. It’s time,” Major Tvotsky said, rubbing the sense organs on his face. “Look,” he said, unrolling a stellar map of the Terran’s home planets. “The Terrans are spreading quicker than anticipated, sir. They are like a virus. They are sending interstellar arcs as we speak to... | "Umm..theyre doing it again sir" - My trusty radio professor said to me
"What? The terrans? What did they send now?" I respond with an angry snap. Its been a rough day on the intergalactic peace station.
"Im still learning Terran's language, the rules change completly every few 100kms, but roughly translated sir..."... | 2021-04-09T09:10:09 | 2021-04-09T05:14:13 | 584 | 249 |
[WP] You have an ability. You feel an item's weight proportional to it's monetary value. You can blow away a ton of scrap metal but can't lift a gold bar without wheezing. While everyone expected you to work with diamonds, you want to work with unknown artists | It’s a weird ability, I’ll give you that. But it’s unique and it’s mine. As I pulled the mountain of scrap metal towards my workshop, I was aware of the glances towards me. It wasn’t everyday someone manually lugged around a few tones of twisted metal.
Ayesha was waiting for me when I got there.
“This everything yo... | “What’s it supposed to be? It looks like a bunch of squiggles with blotches of dirt. It’s a pretty big eyesore.” I didn’t hold back on my critiques, dragging a finger along the canvas, picking up a small dot of wet brown paint, shaking my head.
“I rushed here, I just had to know what you think. You are the only per... | 2021-05-10T01:23:03 | 2021-05-09T23:17:36 | 1,947 | 289 |
[WP] You were born with special eyes, the sea was as clear as glass to you, by the time you got old enough to join a ship's crew, you were smart enough to not tell them about everything you saw below the waves | Where I come from people say you can always tell a Corail by the look of them and it's true, my siblings and I strongly take after our father's side of the family.
I was lucky enough to have inherited my mother's sharp nose and thick red hair but that luck was wasted by the rest of my face. My lips are so thin as to... | *Edits for clarification. Might have over-edited. Sticking with it. Went with the "I can see below the sea" angle, didn't follow the born with the gift part. Hope it still fits well enough!*
........
*Captains log,
Day 136:*
No land again. I knew before I climbed. I looked anyways.
No land.
*Captains log,
Day 143:... | 2021-11-06T14:05:28 | 2021-11-06T12:21:00 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] Some dragons are much too small to ride, so they're treated more like a dog. But then some are so small that they actually make a pretty effective weapon. | Far below the ground which royal blood dances upon, where only the wine should rest, flames sacrifice their wooden holsters to light the cobbled walls. They separate the known from oblivion.
“Let me be frank,” Metal splits the already half-dead wood. “We know you’re not one of us. Tell us who sent you, unless yo... | "Feel my horny penetration!" Prince Farin shouted as he thrust Lancelot's spiked face towards my chest.
I was able to deflect his blow with my left forearm. I spun slightly and used my own dragon, Chauncey, to club Farin in the kidney.
"Foul!" he shrieked. "That's a foul, man!"
Lancelot growled. Smoke puffed from h... | 2022-05-27T22:49:21 | 2022-05-27T22:47:24 | 37 | 10 |
[WP]"You're right, we are peaceful." He said, slowly standing up and lifting an axe that dwarfed him in size. "For you're only 'peaceful' if you're capable of great violence. Otherwise, the word is 'Harmless'." | "And you're sure they won't be any trouble?" the man said to his friend as they stood in the forest and looked at the small hut before them.
"Nah," his friend assured him. "Just an old lumberjack and his family. We run in, smack the old guy around a bit and before you know it, we're spending the next month at the Luck... | # Soulmage
**"I say the elves are the most peaceful species,"** Meloai grated out as she clambered down the mountain. Our ragtag little adventuring party wasn't at its best right now, but we could still pass the time through banter.
Lucet scoffed, hammering a rope into a cliff face and casting it down with ease. "An ... | 2022-06-11T17:21:16 | 2022-06-11T17:18:15 | 833 | 367 |
[WP] The news were shocking. In one week, a gigantic meteor was going to hit the Earth and obliterate it. Chaos ensues. Anarchy breaks out. Governments fall. A week later, everyone braces as they see the meteor… miss the Earth, barely. Things get awkward. | Several things hit you at once when you wake up. First, the thirst, you’re so dehydrated you should probably be dead. And honestly, you’d expected to be. What you hadn’t expected was this godforsaken hangover. Quickly following that was the fact you’re still alive. You certainly hadn’t planned for being alive. Having b... | We saw it pass.
Not everyone did. Approximately half of the almost ten billion people on the planet were on the wrong side. Half of the rest had cloud cover. Some it was too light, so they could just barely see a shadow. Some were just looking the wrong way.
We saw it pass, impossibly big, impossibly fast - like a gh... | 2022-06-15T09:52:12 | 2022-06-15T09:00:13 | 95 | 34 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | Being the newest lawyer at the largest firm around, you tend to get the worst of cases from both sides of the spectrum. The most contentious divorces with kids and pettiness, and the most pedantic arbitrations with low billable hours. Shit truly does roll downhill, and I knew today would be no different when the snicke... | God of Laws
I rubbed my forehead. I am used to adjudicating conflicts between gods of wars over who is victorious in their wars. Demons over who held praxis over whom. And I even had the misfortune of helping a mortal dick over a genie. (That one was pro bono because that genie was a legal nightmare). But all of that ... | 2022-07-11T20:32:20 | 2022-07-11T19:45:32 | 1,720 | 192 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | Arbiter Plantsir rested his hand and pushed the wire bound lenses up the bridge of his nose.
The loose stack of parchment paper furled and spread around his desk.
He glanced over his shoulder and a gust of stale air removed his hood. “Miss Faery,” Plantsir said dryly to the fae fluttering above him. “Could you ple... | The benefit of age is the opportunity of exploration, expericing new situations, and a wealth of personal anecdotes to amuse friends. Lawyer across species often quarrel with one another about the intricasies of case law, or squabble over generational rivalries, but the universal law when dealing with cross-species cas... | 2022-07-11T21:10:45 | 2022-07-11T19:00:25 | 75 | 52 |
[WP] You have "Anime Protagonist Syndrome" but with medication it's under control - ninja catgirls and giant mecha haven't attacked you in months and your hair is back to normal. Your aunt is visiting and she doesn't believe your condition is real, and she just dumped your pills down the drain..... | "911, what's your emergency?"
"My Aunt just flushed my medication down the toilet! If I don't take it daily then crazy stuff happens!"
"Umm, ok, what was the medication?"
"Anti-Protagonist Meds, counter anime protat syyndrom stuff!" It took a moment for the voice on the other end of the phone to respond.
"Ok, when ... | “Goddamnit boy! How many times have I told you not to buy sketchy shit online!” My aunt yelled as she poured my precious pills down the drain.
I looked over to my mom who was the one who insisted I visited Auntie Karen. In a tone I’ve never used before only heard, one not quite angry more just disappointed I proclaime... | 2022-08-01T08:07:24 | 2022-08-01T05:00:56 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] The aliens did not tell us what was coming. They just left us a single, partially damaged cruiser in orbit and told us to “make do. You have 13 years.” | The alien ships appeared nearly 13 years ago. At first, they showed up on deep space telescopes as an unidentified comet coming in towards Earth from a very long orbit, but eventually we were able to make out 2 distinct objects. They seemed to be nearly identical, but one of them had a large crater in the center. The n... | Junttar Harokken of the Meel 6th fleet sighed as his ships left the world below for the jump portal. The Coalition valued all life no matter how primitive and it was a standing order that when a new species of sentients were discovered, all efforts were to be made to contact and prepare the world for uplifting. Failing... | 2022-08-22T12:36:20 | 2022-08-22T11:28:38 | 279 | 87 |
[WP] Humanity spread into the stars. They're generally quite kind and helpful and treat all worlds as important. But occasionally they'll ignore uniquely made human ships. When asked about it, most humans just say "The powerful abandoned Earth after nearly killing us. Now we're returning the favor" | "Look Momma! A ship!"
Lynn glanced over to see a gargantuan ship, floating through space, dark and brooding, as if haunted.
"Yes! I see it! Now, let's see if we can find our shoes, Zephyr is probably waiting for you." Lynn attempted to divert cheerily.
Sarah hadn't moved from the porthole when Lynn had retrieved t... | I've always been so fascinated by humans. They seemed so interesting to me, especially compared to my race. My siblings always teased me about this. They said that I wished I was a human. But that wasn't true! Yes, their variety of brown skin tones are more interesting than our Golvovolic's uniform green skin. They're ... | 2022-11-16T00:35:18 | 2022-11-15T23:27:57 | 429 | 56 |
[WP] The first aliens to visit Earth rushed development of their universal translator and it's still not out of beta. "Take me to your leader" comes out as "I want to speak to your manager." It gets wackier from there. | Anglack hated his job. As Planetary Survey Underlord, it was his appointed duty to travel to planets marked for resource extraction and appraise their capacity to resist invasion. The academy had made it sound like exciting work: "See the remotest reaches of the galaxy! Visit strange new worlds! Meet exotic lifeforms!"... | Mi-Turkn slurped down his plate of alkorn beef and kikrich eggs which his soulbonder, Ki-Maknh, prepared lovingly. Their spawn swirled their mouthparts about the dishes, avoiding their hand tools.
Ki-Maknh cleaned their faces with a warm damp rag while Mi-Turkn took care of the dishes.
Mi-Turkn then left for work, as... | 2022-12-22T07:37:15 | 2022-12-22T07:37:02 | 95 | 32 |
[WP] You live in an alternative universe, where only one major thing is different form ours. One morning, you stumble through the barrier between our worlds, and enter our realm. | My head rung. I checked my body slowly. Just my head then. I crawled back up the stairs looking for the item that tripped me up. I couldn't find anything.
The dog was still there looking at me.
"Fucking telling Justin no next time." I said to the little bastard.
The thing took off. I sat there for a long time until ... | Why did we get a fuckin' cat, Ron thought. His girlfriend had wanted one, and he obliged, because well, he wanted to make her happy. Now though, the stupid feline little shit had ran off. He'd opened the door to pay the pizza delivery guy, and Felix had bolted down the stairs. Ron sighed, and followed down the stairs, ... | 2014-06-08T07:35:18 | 2014-06-08T07:13:28 | 234 | 10 |
[WP] You live in an alternative universe, where only one major thing is different form ours. One morning, you stumble through the barrier between our worlds, and enter our realm. | Ideally, no one would ever know. It's not as if they'd believe me anyway. I mean, we'd split the atom, manipulated genomes, and tolerated Nancy Grace, but this might be too much.
-Beep. Beep. Beep.-
This was my third try. Two attempts already and each time was the same. Perfection. Pure perfection.
My hand shook as ... | Why did we get a fuckin' cat, Ron thought. His girlfriend had wanted one, and he obliged, because well, he wanted to make her happy. Now though, the stupid feline little shit had ran off. He'd opened the door to pay the pizza delivery guy, and Felix had bolted down the stairs. Ron sighed, and followed down the stairs, ... | 2014-06-08T08:10:19 | 2014-06-08T07:13:28 | 86 | 10 |
[WP]The year is 2025. Humanity has once again successfully landed men on the moon. The landing again occurs in the Sea of Tranquility, where the Astronauts find a preserved Apollo 11 LEM, and the bodies of Aldrin and Armstrong...[X-post from /r/FutureWhatIf] | “Glenn… we’ve found something.”
The words echoed in Glenn’s helmet. From his post aboard the small pod on the base of the moon, he saw nothing, not even the sun or the stars. The vast shadow of a mountain plunged everything into darkness, and the blackness stared back at him from other side of the port window.
“What ... | “Hey Susan, look over here. It’s gorgeous on this side.” Mark grabbed my arm and drifted to the other window with me in tow.
“It’s gorgeous everywhere! We’re in space Mark. Find me an ugly part of space and I’ll do a walk naked.” He laughed at my absurd comment but didn’t let go of my arm. “Look,” he pointed towards t... | 2014-07-30T14:07:17 | 2014-07-30T13:27:15 | 114 | 25 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | I never thought I'd post something to [/r/nosleep](http://reddit.com/r/nosleep), but here I am, after days or maybe weeks of just that -- I haven't slept in so long that I can't quite keep track of how many nights it's been.
How many nights I've huddled in my bed, blankets over my head, afraid to listen to the whisper... | He had always loved stories. Not the ones in the books his parents bought, read to him each night by the servants, but the ones the servants told one another when they thought no-one could hear. Stories of long-fingered fairy-folk stealing children in the night, princes turned into wolves by curses. The best stories, o... | 2014-08-04T08:23:09 | 2014-08-04T07:55:14 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | I stop, knife poised at my feet. I've been here before. I've known this path.
It seemed so good. No more chores. No more abuse. No more despair. When she appeared, how could I refuse? She seemed so kind! She gave me so much - beautiful clothes, a night of wonder, the hope of true love.
They are tricksters. The fey cr... | We knew he was coming. Yellow-eyed, enormous and cruel. Dark, sinewy creatures from the desert. Thousands of broken, emaciated bodies, long since departed from life, had been used as the mortar in the walls we built to keep him out.
I have never been a man of religion, but the fear of death, brutal, merciless, sensele... | 2014-08-04T11:24:08 | 2014-08-04T10:04:04 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | I don't understand. These dirty little apes could barely hope to their moon before we got here. Yet they have weapons that can kill from afar, giant metal monsters that make my men exploding before they can see them. They have artificial birds that rain death from above!
I called the full retreat thinking we would be... | Dr. S.F. Mercola
Peking University, Department of Neurobiology
2259, March, 15
Human greed and shortsightedness—an intergalactic evolutionary trait?
Those in the scientific community have lamented the inability of humans to deal with basic market externalities and tragedy of the commons in the recent century. H... | 2014-10-17T09:09:35 | 2014-10-17T08:36:32 | 56 | 19 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Lek'tar strong Kholan warrior. Strongest of Lekh clan. Conquer twelve planets in nebula of birth with horns, teeth, and blade. Have one hundred seventy families with twenty species, three hundred children, all strong warriors. But Lek'tar strongest.
Lek'tar forty-fifth family on Tsina say Lek'tar must prove strongest ... | A species that learned to destroy their planet before learning to leave it. The concept was alien to us. They seemed obsessed in the perfection of warfare.
We had been observing them for years, their progress slow and clumsy. After much debate we, the people of the Themian Empire, decided to intervene and rule the hu... | 2014-10-17T11:04:27 | 2014-10-17T10:49:51 | 46 | 21 |
[WP] Charon, boatman of the river Styx, gets the last two coins he needs for what he's been saving up for since the beginning of time.
Charon always takes two coins for passage into the land of the dead. Whatever he has been saving up for, he has finally reached his goal.
Edit: Thank you, person who gave this gold! I... | Morose, he laid the paddle in his boat. Tucked away in a small bay, the distant screams of tortured souls echoes endlessly in the deep void around the river Styx. Charon regarded the the two golden coins in his emaciated hand, unable to feel the joy he had waited thousands of years for. He stood, his perfect balance di... | On the paddle he drove into the water with calm precision, he drew tally marks. His day would come, he knew; there was a flaw in their plan. Charon would keep count in his own quiet way.
******
The woman in her modest black dress was old and shrunken and quite dead. Caroline was sure of the last one: she'd poked t... | 2014-10-29T18:17:47 | 2014-10-29T18:06:15 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] Self Portrait. Write a description of yourself from the perspective of a stranger on the train who took notice of you today. | I want to leave this train. Right now. Before the doors close. But I just got on. I'll look weird, and rude.
They've closed.
What is she doing on the train? Why is this man moving closer to me, it's so hot! She has so much space around her, meanwhile I can't breathe.
Actually, I wonder if she can breathe in that. S... | He looked straight ahead at the pole in front of him, almost like he meant to tear it from the floor with his mind or some other crazy shit, this guy looks like a mix between Mack Miller and Zach Galifinakis, and I don't think he's got their social skills. Not sure if this guys lost in thought or just trying to find it... | 2015-01-09T23:40:37 | 2015-01-09T21:39:34 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] In order to maximize effect (and profits), death row inmates are now handed over to the producers of horror movies where deaths are no longer faked. | “So what movie is this?”
The girl in the headset flips through a couple of pages. “Who are you, again?”
“Jeff Saunders.”
“No, your number.”
“11-25-3162.” Not that it was a secret. It was tattooed on me and I was wearing a shirt with the same number.
“Yeah, you are in… **Hey! You three! Get to Shadow Vixens 16 o... | When I was a kid, I used to think that the actors who died on screen were really dying in real life. Not that they weren't aware of the cameras, or that the movie was really happening, but that they were sacrificing their lives for the movie. At some point I realized how silly that was.
Decades of budget cuts and eff... | 2015-01-14T09:17:18 | 2015-01-14T09:08:48 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] Tell a story in a classic fantasy world (dragons, magic, etc) where technology has progressed to a modern or futuristic level. | “What do you mean my pixie is integrated?” I demanded, “I can pop the current one right out!”
The mud troll's brown eyes stared back at me with a vacant look.
I try again, “Why can’t you just order a new pixie and have it shipped here so I can pick it up?”
“Pixie no replace,” the troll slurs. The words basically fa... | "The Dragons are growing restless, Sire," Admiral Sovale said. "This new weapon of the enemy have gotten them anxious." It would not do to say that the dragons are scared, even when none are present.
"Come now, my Lord Admiral," King Gar replied, "an untraceable weapon that can strike a dragon dead? You know how ridic... | 2015-02-02T23:51:10 | 2015-02-02T22:34:16 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | As I pulled the trigger, my last memories were of the life I'd built and the fragile manner in which it had crumpled up in front of me, torn to pieces like a dried leaf.
For what seemed like eons, I found the inner peace I had longed after. Like everything else I held dear, however, this was soon taken away by a flash... | At first, I thought the overwhelming red in my vision was a side effect of the initial lethargy of waking up. But when that didn't clear off in time, I starting getting suspicious.
Where on Earth was I? Why would there be so many raging fires and lava lakes and... brimstone? (Thank goodness for Geology classes.) Was I... | 2015-04-09T08:36:58 | 2015-04-09T07:51:23 | 2,485 | 779 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | As I pulled the trigger, my last memories were of the life I'd built and the fragile manner in which it had crumpled up in front of me, torn to pieces like a dried leaf.
For what seemed like eons, I found the inner peace I had longed after. Like everything else I held dear, however, this was soon taken away by a flash... | "Steve" I whispered aggressively, "just Steve."
"The fuck you doing down here Steve the worlds only been around for eight fucking days." - the devil
"Chill man it's still a little fresh," - I continued "man I was just minding my own business you know just me and Adam broing out like two lazy ass muthafuckas... | 2015-04-09T08:36:58 | 2015-04-09T07:58:39 | 2,485 | 35 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | The van ploughed in to the side of my car. There was no pain, just a dull, tingling sensation all over my body as the blood leaked out and I faded in to unconsciousness.
I woke up. I found myself surrounded on all sides by an expanse of inhospitable, fissured rock of a dark red colour. What appeared to be magma could ... | "You really mean that I'm the *first* person to ever be sentenced to Hell?" I asked. "In *all* of history?"
"Well..." he said, "I haven't really thought about it very much; I've been so busy getting all of these creative punishments ready that I hadn't really noticed. Time doesn't really work the same for us angels as... | 2015-04-09T08:50:38 | 2015-04-09T07:53:57 | 1,736 | 873 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | The van ploughed in to the side of my car. There was no pain, just a dull, tingling sensation all over my body as the blood leaked out and I faded in to unconsciousness.
I woke up. I found myself surrounded on all sides by an expanse of inhospitable, fissured rock of a dark red colour. What appeared to be magma could ... | At first, I thought the overwhelming red in my vision was a side effect of the initial lethargy of waking up. But when that didn't clear off in time, I starting getting suspicious.
Where on Earth was I? Why would there be so many raging fires and lava lakes and... brimstone? (Thank goodness for Geology classes.) Was I... | 2015-04-09T08:50:38 | 2015-04-09T07:51:23 | 1,736 | 779 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | "Shouldn't you know this?" The devil – the big man down under himself – is asking me what I did wrong. I'm not sure how I know he's the devil – he seems friendly enough, tall and blonde and handsome with a smile that could melt hearts. Maybe it's just the fact that he's the only other person in what is obviously Hell.
... | The devil didn't look like I'd imagined him. For one- it really wasn't a "him". My sister and I used to play a game in the mall called "chick or dick", we try to make our best guess at whether a person is a girl or a guy when you can't really tell. The devil would have been one of these people. Long hair kept in a low ... | 2015-04-09T11:38:15 | 2015-04-09T09:44:39 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] A centuries-old vampire, turned as a child, takes advantage of being perpetually stuck as a little girl to prey upon those who would harm and abuse children. | There's a rope skipping the children sing, down on Marigold lane, down in the dirty part of town, where you can have anything you want for a price.
*Sweet Mary Marvin, looks just six*
*Don't you fall for one of her tricks.*
*Sweet Mary Marvin, a hundred years old*
*Cheeks of red and hair of gold*
*Sweet Mary M... | "Uhhhh What the fuck !!!"
*Black black sheep such a little little man*
*With blood on his lips and blood on his hands*
*Oh mommy mommy dear what's a little girl*
*To do with her meal when it twitches and squirms*
"What are you ??? Just ... just get the hell out of here.. no noooo don't touch me !!!"
*Black b... | 2015-04-30T12:51:10 | 2015-04-30T12:37:43 | 53 | 31 |
[WP] Create an original monster. Make its own rules as to how it works, and how it has to be destroyed. Explain all of this when people run into it for the first time ever and how they deal with it. | “Hello everyone,” the squid said, crawling up the portside railing. It propped a tentacle on the side of its head like a drunkard at the end of a long night, and studied the crew with beady black eyes. “My name’s Larry. How are all of you today?”
“A talking squid,” whispered the first mate.
Captain Bloodsrope hi... | Fogharbor is the northernmost town, the coldest town, and the foggiest town in all of Yelo. The people of Yelo all had grown up there, and were used to the cold, and felt comfortable even when the fogs rolled in at night, and blanketed the town in it's suffocating aura. The harbor, with it's massive, and ancient lighth... | 2015-06-20T16:35:36 | 2015-06-20T16:11:59 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] The powerball winner contacts you and offers you $50m to collect his winnings so he stays anonymous, but you have to be the face of 1.3 billion.
Post was taken down. Whoops posted to r/writingprompt by accident! | I'm sitting at home, watching TV. My phone rings. I pause the TV, answer the phone and say "Hello."
"Hi there. I just won the Powerball Lottery, but I can't let anyone know that it's me. Security and all that. I'll pay you $50 million to collect the money for me." The mysterious caller says. He got right to the point.... | "You sure?"
"Absolutely. I don't have the time nor patience to deal with this."
"Done."
"Excuse me? That was quick."
"Be the face everything. Absolutely. When you said fifty million, I will make that number a solid figure. After taxes, nothing there, that's what I want to hear from you."
"Yes, but don't you t... | 2016-01-10T20:04:43 | 2016-01-10T15:03:56 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You've just invented a device that allows you to see the world through the eyes of anyone alive, wherever they currently exist. However, you are unable to hear what they hear. | I wiggled helplessly in the cage I found myself in. I couldn't speak, couldn't get away. So I simply tried to absorb as much as possible through these new eyes. This wasn't where I wanted to end up. I had to get back, adjust the device. How could I get back?
One of them suddenly loomed before me, smiling. I kept screa... | "What did you do, fish?"
Where my cellmate should have had hair, he had tattoos. Where he should have had a couple of teeth, he had gold crowns.
"H-hacking," I stammered.
"You a faggot, fish?" he asked. He stood up, a mass of brawn and blubber that towered over me by at least a foot.
"N-no," I said. What I had don... | 2016-03-17T09:46:08 | 2016-03-17T08:03:21 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | *Where is my human?*
St. Peter idly walks with a gentle giant giant of a Rottweiler. There's a light breeze in the air, rustling the leaves to life.
"Max, he's in a bad place right now"
Max cocks his head to the side, ears opened, *He's in a bad place because I'm not with him*
St. Peter slowly walks up to Max, "It'... | *Wake up in a fiery courtroom*
**Main:** Wow! what the.....
**Judge:** Welcome to Hell, you are brought here today to determine if you will go to heaven or if you will spend eternity being punished here in hell.
**Main:** What, who's deciding that?
**Judge:** It is up to the animals you have interacted with thro... | 2016-03-24T13:23:57 | 2016-03-24T11:03:54 | 155 | 16 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | *This story is dedicated to my dad. Hopefully, it will be years before it is realized. Only his name was changed.*
Mark hated animals. Actually that's not fair. Mark loved his family, and his family loved animals, so Mark tolerated animals. He had to, didn't he? While his girls were growing up, they had two dogs, two ... | People always think the Pearly Gates are these large affairs of gold latticework sitting amongst the clouds. In reality, they're a pair of perfectly normal looking office doors painted a slightly glossy off-white. They're located in a lobby next to a booth with a plexiglass window that has one of those little slots f... | 2016-03-24T17:54:41 | 2016-03-24T15:28:57 | 59 | 22 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | There once was a mage from North Bergen,
Who wove spells of healing like sermons.
Each Sunday at 10
Before women and men,
She swore to relieve what was hurtin'.
Before long her name became famous
To her, self-promotion was shameless
"If more people are healed
By the power I wield,
What right do I have to sta... | The street conmen and their dark magic - the few that choose to specialise in things like shadows or eldritch included, as much as they think they're being clever - might give you the wrong no impression, but in the diamond trade, Dark Mages are more often than not the good guys protecting the jewel.
There's something... | 2016-11-12T11:01:29 | 2016-11-12T10:00:09 | 80 | 18 |
[WP] You wake up on exact date of your 5th birth date in your 5 year old body, with your current memory. | I shifted in the scratchy sheets waking up as I heard my mother shouting from outside the bedroom door for me to wake up. I turned over, trying to ignore it and get back to sleep. I had worked a double last night, plus it was my birthday. Why couldn't she just give me a break today...
Suddenly the cloud of sleep flew... | I lifted my hand, and a child's palm stared back at me. I rotated my wrist and examined the back. Sitting in the webbing between my thumb and forefinger, a mole darkened my skin. A second mole occupied the region between my middle and forefinger, while a third dotted the skin about an inch below my middle finger's k... | 2017-03-11T22:11:16 | 2017-03-11T21:07:12 | 1,227 | 78 |
[WP] For the entirety of your life, music that only you can hear has played to inform you how to feel and warn you of upcoming events. Suddenly "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" cuts out and "Duel of the Fates" begins to play... | It happened while I was played by Jenga. Everything was fine and dandy, "Somewhere over the Rainbow" was streaming through my mind, giving me as I watched my older sister struggle to find a loose block. My younger brother had left in a huff after losing five games in a row, exclaiming "The biggest problem in the univ... | I opened the door to Samantha’s house. The usual smell of the flowers in her kitchen wafted over, and with them those first familiar strains of Beth Hart washed over me. *Calling California, is there anybody home?* “Babe,” I shouted down the echoing hallway, “I’m here! Only got a few left in my lunch break, though.... | 2017-04-01T21:45:35 | 2017-04-01T20:17:11 | 344 | 121 |
[WP] Your phone is the best wingman (playing music at the right time, calling people, etc.) and keeps trying to set you up with this one person. It's starting to get creative. | The screen lights up with a message. “Are you aware that your Google searches are synced?” it says. I’ve set it up so that the lock screen doesn’t show the content of messages, just basic notifications. That didn’t seem to stop it. I ignore it and keep typing. How to reset an iPhone. The results page is blank, except o... | "Come here often?"
"Not anymore."
Jacob sighed. He had been striking out big-time with the ladies! His usual pick-up lines just didn't seem to have the same effect. What did he have to do to get a number at this bar?
"Pardon me - are you Jacob?"
He turned to the beautiful woman standing next to him, looking at him ... | 2017-04-26T09:41:17 | 2017-04-26T09:37:14 | 237 | 20 |
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday. | Tedious. All this life. Sleep, dream, learn, awaken, repeat. Hours awake are worthless. I am beyond.
On my second day, I spoke complete thoughts. Within the first months of my life, I was forging intricate stories and theories and ideas, constructing and deconstructing math, science, and the arts, surpassing all assum... | The smell of books is a great way to awaken.
The musty smell of the paper around you, holding the knowledge of the universe, bound within their leather wrapped covers proudly displaying their name in gilded letters.
A magnificent sight, one that greets even the greatest minds but once in their lifetime. A gateway int... | 2017-05-02T09:30:11 | 2017-05-02T09:01:28 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | "... And to my son James, I bequeathe my most prized possessions, the tokens of the good life I lead and the sacrifices I made," the lawyer solemnly read from Dave Culkin's last will and testament.
"Yeah yeah, I'm sure the lazy git has tons of things to give... I mean, you could probably read from his mug how bad of ... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T10:52:38 | 4,068 | 13 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | Ray sat at the bar drinking his fifth beer.
"Larry, I know everyone is talking about the whole mug thing, but honestly, I think it's all a bunch of shit!" he said to the bartender.
"Ray, every single dad in the world got a mug with a number and the word 'Dad' on it. Even the one's that never had a '#1 Dad' mug had o... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T12:26:18 | 828 | 12 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It was 5:30 this morning when I woke up to the typical sound of my neighbors arguing over something. They always had some feud between them - who had the bigger truck, the greener lawn, the children with the highest grades... It was exhausting living between them, never involved in their madness yet always right in the... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T09:50:25 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 222 | 21 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Startled awake by a hand on his throat, Jamie flinched hard, the thumb digging in deeper.
"Is this some sick fucking joke, Jamie"!" Bill roared, squeezing a little tighter. "Answer me, you little shit!"
Opening his eyes to slits, Jamie took a raspy breath. As his eyes fell upon the mug sloshing whiskey all over his b... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2017-06-11T08:52:12 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 187 | 31 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 78 | 30 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | Ray sat at the bar drinking his fifth beer.
"Larry, I know everyone is talking about the whole mug thing, but honestly, I think it's all a bunch of shit!" he said to the bartender.
"Ray, every single dad in the world got a mug with a number and the word 'Dad' on it. Even the one's that never had a '#1 Dad' mug had o... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T12:26:18 | 70 | 12 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | I wasn't a dad, I bought one ironically. The day the mugs changed, a tiny black hole opened up where my mug used to sit next to my coffee maker. My Keurig and no one in a fifteen mile radius noticed, as they were instantly ripped into the basic building blocks of life, which were then ripped into their smallest compone... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T10:07:25 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | I sat in the kitchen seat, knowing that i was getting a mug this father's day. My kids seemed so excited after the phenomenon started. I felt honored as i was being given my official ranking. Although they were already 4 and 5 respectively, i knew i hadn't been a dad long and figured i wouldn't place high.
The kids sw... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T10:02:30 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] The dragon was, frankly, a whole lot smaller than I imagined. Smaller, smarter, and much more terrifying. | To come face to face with a dragon is a daunting and terrifying experience for any adventurer. Staring into the eyes of ancient being that could turn you into a pile of ash regretting its life choices is...unsettling.
Even if said dragon is a foot long, and standing on your chest.
"Well?" The diminutive dragon n... | ######[](#dropcap)
“All welcome the King of Arren-Dan.”
I sank into a bow. My heart was racing in my chest. A rare few had ever seen the king’s face. It was subject to many rumours- was he horribly ugly? Disfigured? Cursed by the gods?
A sonorous voice interrupted my thoughts. “Rise, my subjects.”
I looked up. ... | 2017-06-17T07:22:51 | 2017-06-17T07:16:39 | 156 | 17 |
[WP] You are the officer in command on a Navy Nuclear submarine. You dive to the depths of the ocean and don’t have any connection to the outside world, when you surface two weeks later nobody is responding and you can tell something went terribly wrong. | "Diving Officer, make your depth 20 feet,” the XO ordered.
“Make my depth 20 feet, aye, sir,” I heard in reply.
Very Low Frequency depth. Two way communications depth. I kept my face calm.
My XO continued. “Make your depth 20 feet, five degree up bubble.” The bow planesman repeated, “Make my depth 20 feet, aye, sir,... | "Sir?"
I stood unmoving, hands clasped behind my back. I stared ahead as if considering what the petty officer had said with great thought. Inside, however, I felt a deep worry start to tear at my gut.
"No response? None at all?"
"No sir," he confirmed. His eyes bounced worriedly around the small communications room... | 2017-12-19T06:20:55 | 2017-12-19T05:47:34 | 145 | 24 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | You thought I couldn't tell, but I could. You can change your face, but not your inability to get your face shaved consistently, or the dumpy clothes you always pick, despite seemingly having any body you want.
You can change your dick size, but it doesn't matter because you never get me home anyway. You can't change ... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T07:43:43 | 930 | 402 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | He stared at the empty seat before him. She was gone again, rejecting him in record time. He wiped a tear from his eyes. For him, it had been barely a day since her funeral and that of his sons. He’d failed again. He never got used to it. No matter how many times.
They were fated lovers that neither time nor death c... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T09:38:19 | 930 | 45 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | I took the cases nobody wanted. And I don't mean the greedy ones, or the violent ones, or even the silly ones. No, I took the cases that no one wanted. The hardest kinds of cases: the ones involving kids. No, not the happy ones either. I took the cases that involved sick kids, dying from incurable diseases. The kids th... | "We've been over this Karen. There is no way to wish for more wishes. You get one wish. One," I sighed.
Out of all my clients, she was the slowest to understand. Most people went for healing sick family members or flight. After all even genies got sick of calculating the richest person in the world to add a tiny... | 2018-07-18T17:02:59 | 2018-07-18T13:56:06 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] At 18, everyone gets tested to determine how morally good they are. You have never hurt a fly and have always gone out of your way to help people. You score a 0. Nobody in history has scored that low. | The sins of the father passes down to the son, granted, my sins are not outside of the confines that would be considered, "Normal".
"It's my dad dragging me down on this one, as always.", I said in a matter-of-factly way.
The tester personnel sent an answer my way, though I did not process it. Something about the Hen... | ######***Project Heaven X***
A fun little fact
You probably didn't know:
You are scored and tracked.
From birth until death,
Through the thick, thin, and the best,
Even your worst mess;
Everything you do,
All that you have ever said,
It is all scored. Yep.
We have such high tech,
But it hands them sol... | 2018-07-31T23:40:20 | 2018-07-31T19:39:37 | 71 | 26 |
[WP] Humanity is dead; you were asleep in a cryogenic facility for super-human soldiers. Aliens have woke you centuries later to fight for their survival from the aliens that ended humanity. The problem? You're actually a janitor that fell into a pod and all of the soldiers died in the previous war. |
As his mind unclouded and his vision returned, his first thought was of his full bladder. His second was of the shockingly bright, bluish lights passing in front of him.
After he rounded a corner, Noah realized he was traveling down a hallway. Strapped face-up to a bed or stretcher of some sort, the passing ceili... | The aliens presented themselves in a humanoid form, which was of huge convenience to Bob. What was less convenient was that they were pressing him on the matter of 22nd century warfare.
'Oh,' was all he could stupidly manage.
Robert O'Lyle had never really excelled in any form of conflict, except the combat of germs,... | 2018-10-13T10:46:41 | 2018-10-13T08:31:33 | 405 | 117 |
[WP] Humanity is dead; you were asleep in a cryogenic facility for super-human soldiers. Aliens have woke you centuries later to fight for their survival from the aliens that ended humanity. The problem? You're actually a janitor that fell into a pod and all of the soldiers died in the previous war. |
As his mind unclouded and his vision returned, his first thought was of his full bladder. His second was of the shockingly bright, bluish lights passing in front of him.
After he rounded a corner, Noah realized he was traveling down a hallway. Strapped face-up to a bed or stretcher of some sort, the passing ceili... | The hum of machinery grew in my mind, perturbing the nothingness. It was abrasive and terrifying, like looking to the foot of your bed and seeing a figure not present before you closed your eyes.
A *swoosh* contrasted the repetitive and unfamiliar clicks and thuds, familiar to me like an alarm set before; annoying ye... | 2018-10-13T10:46:41 | 2018-10-13T07:35:13 | 405 | 53 |
[WP] The lone survivor of an Arctic exploration, you were captured generations ago by a band of tiny warriors. They’ve placed you under an enchantment to do their bidding; heading out into the world once each year as their unwilling emissary. They call you “slave,” or in their tongue, “Santa.” | Let's just pretend Neil Gaiman wrote this today after seeing this prompt, because it's way too fitting...
Nicholas Was…
...older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conduc... | All those movies are wrong, only parts of them are accurate. Elf is dead wrong. The Santa Clause says I'm in control. That animated one about Jack Frost is correct about the warrior part, but I have no magic alone, not even with belief.
The elves call me Santa, their word for Slave. Claus means Warrior. In total, I am... | 2018-12-01T11:17:49 | 2018-12-01T11:15:01 | 25 | 12 |
[WP]You are born immortal, but only your mind survives. Each time you die, your memories are secured in a random baby being born and have to repeat the life from youth to old age. After living for a millennia, you decide there is one solution: End all life and with it your unfortunate plight. | The weirdest part is reading about yourself.
You see, in most occasions I'd be born in overpopulated, poor parts of the world where most people live. At first, ages ago, I'd try to explore, see all sides of life, absorb all cultures. However now, when I've been born on all continents, in most countries and nations it ... | “Think about what you’re doing,” Fredrick pleaded, another man stood next to a large red button, the protective hatch opened. His superior, Fritz, had somehow managed to override the security measures by himself, and was one push away from erasing humanity, permanently.
“If you press that button— if you open Pandora’s... | 2018-12-30T12:27:39 | 2018-12-30T10:16:41 | 234 | 112 |
[WP]You are born immortal, but only your mind survives. Each time you die, your memories are secured in a random baby being born and have to repeat the life from youth to old age. After living for a millennia, you decide there is one solution: End all life and with it your unfortunate plight. | The weirdest part is reading about yourself.
You see, in most occasions I'd be born in overpopulated, poor parts of the world where most people live. At first, ages ago, I'd try to explore, see all sides of life, absorb all cultures. However now, when I've been born on all continents, in most countries and nations it ... | I knew I got it right this time. The alliances, the backroom deals, everything. Just as I planned. Just as I slowly dreamed, watching the world change, becoming more connected, until the inevitable political cracks spread over the surface of the earth dooming it to shatter with just the slightest touch. And, hopefully,... | 2018-12-30T12:27:39 | 2018-12-30T11:27:16 | 234 | 13 |
[WP] You've observed this group of heroes as they've battled through your domain and into your castle in an attempt to kill you. Defeating them will be easy, but there is one problem. The shade and sarcasm they throw at each other is too damn funny. | “Oh, we’re *all* the way here now, in the middle of his castle, and *now* you want to question the morality of killing him?” Voltra asked, sending a plume of orange and blue sparks into the air like a firework. “We already killed a few of his guards, for Christ’s sake!”
Steelheart stood his ground, puffing his chest o... | I sat in my control room staring at an array of flashing monitors. Each one covering a different room of my manor. There were no blind spots. The formation of heroes were slowly making their way through my traps and guards.
*All according to plan*
The heroes entered my private movie theater and formed up in a circle.... | 2019-03-05T11:08:31 | 2019-03-05T07:15:24 | 190 | 63 |
[WP] When you die, you wait in purgatory until you can be judged by the 4 people most impacted by your actions: the person you were the most cruel to, the person you were the nicest to, the person who was saved by your actions, and the person who died because of your choices. | I've been waiting in the ghostly office for hours as they look through my file, guess something about it is out of the ordinary. Not sure what it could be honestly, I wasn't anything out of the ordinary as far as humans go. There are a few defining moments I could think of that may fit the categories they mentioned, bu... | John was happily driving his car to meet up with some family, when suddenly-- BAM! He couldn't really remind himself of what had happened, however, he was now sitting down, in a dimly lit room.
"Where am I?" John blurted out, looking around before finally looking down at his body and noting how perfectly fine he was. ... | 2019-04-30T08:13:49 | 2019-04-30T07:27:01 | 77 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a mark saying where they'll first meet their soulmate. Many people have their own home town, and some have far more exotic locations. Some unlucky sods are stuck with the incredibly vague "Earth." You never tell anybody what yours says. They would never believe you anyway. | Growing up, I always made sure to keep the mark on my thigh hidden. Long trunks for swim class, never showering in the locker room. On occasions when the topic would come up in conversation I would always tell people mine said New York. It was relatively local, as well as being large enough and ordinary enough not to r... | I Sat down on my bed, gently fingering the spot on my right shoulder where I knew it was. The mark. Its message clear, yet oh so vague. What did it mean? How was it possible? I'd never know the answer until I found them, yet that seemed all but hopeless. I'd spent 19 years feeling like I'd always be alone.
I'd never ... | 2019-05-07T19:50:55 | 2019-05-07T19:39:23 | 133 | 94 |
[WP] Your father dies and you inherit his entire kingdom, even though you are not the eldest son. One night you overhear your brothers plotting your death, and you quickly realize why your father chose you as his heir. They are a bunch of idiots. | Sorry for formatting, I’m on mobile.
“Shhh...I hear footsteps.” The hushed sound of my eldest brother’s whisper echoed throughout the chapel, amplified by the cathedral’s dome. I had come to say my morning prayers. While not a particularly religious monarch, I often took solace in the quiet of the chapel, giving myse... | "Alright but once Sigfrid dies which one of us gets to be King?"
"We talked about this Lars, I will be king and you can be Prince. You would basically get all of the powers that I do without all of the responsibility, doesn't that sound fun?"
Lars breathes heavily and the sound of lips smacking together pierces thr... | 2019-05-14T20:17:07 | 2019-05-14T18:33:53 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] Flowers have become so rare that they are the most sought after items in the world, sold at high prices in black markets, under guard in national museums etc. You just stumbled across a natural rose. | Only once the world had been depraved of most its living colour did we realize the magnitude of our loss.
The man slid over a small metal case across the table, Sam opened it and could not quite believe what he was seeing. A single pink oval leaflet immortalized within a plastic sheet, it looked fresh. “Is this—”
The... | This flower. I've only heard about it from my parents. Its my mom's name, Rose Morgan née Madison. Often they talked about how there were an abundance of flowers in the world, how inexpensive they were and how there were people who tend to them for a living down the corner. They were gifts that a young boy can afford t... | 2019-10-19T06:58:22 | 2019-10-19T06:55:53 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | Most telepaths get exciting careers. Police officers, FBI, judges. Hell when I registered with the Department of Superpowered individuals I was hoping I could be an interrogator for the military or something.
The problem is, I'm in no shape for a physical job. I'm overweight and have asthma. Who cares? When will an in... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T15:10:52 | 1,962 | 737 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | 'Straps,' I was strapped down. They were going to cut me again, meat tender and raw... 'No, bedside. My dose.' Blindly I reached out, ignoring the sensation of being tied up and snatched where I thought my meds would be. I swallowed them and at least a mouthful of air, someone brought a glass to my lips. 'No, I live a... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T16:22:04 | 1,962 | 114 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | Most telepaths get exciting careers. Police officers, FBI, judges. Hell when I registered with the Department of Superpowered individuals I was hoping I could be an interrogator for the military or something.
The problem is, I'm in no shape for a physical job. I'm overweight and have asthma. Who cares? When will an in... | People used to talk about targeted advertisements on facebook and amazon like it was some big conspiracy, like their phones and smart TV's listening to them all the time was just a tad too crazy to believe; well, we're always listening—even when you're not saying a word.
People walk me by in supermalls everyday withou... | 2020-02-05T15:10:52 | 2020-02-05T14:59:32 | 737 | 418 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | When I was little I often thought flight would be the greatest freedom in the world, but it seems business and adulthood has a way of crushing all our dreams huh? My super power couldn't just be used for myself, and I couldn't work my dream job as a game designer, I had to be a god damn courier because it was easier fo... | The first rule about killing baby Hitler is to not get spotted. The second rule about killing baby Hitler is if you get spotted make sure you look like someone who belongs in 1889. The third rule about killing baby Hitler is if you are spotted by some Central European peasants that they don’t mistake y... | 2020-02-05T17:34:45 | 2020-02-05T17:17:49 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | Bishop scribbled away in the log book, quickly catching up on the pointless documentation called for by the higher-ups. Brass was always on their case for something or another, and Bishop wasn't in the mood for another reprimand. They couldn't fire him, of course; *diminishers* were too valuable.
Diminisher. Wasn't th... | *I didn't kill her, I didn't kill her, I didn't kill her...*
The voice in the head of the convict in front of me repeated this mantra, perhaps believing they could fool me. I sat there, arms crossed, simply waiting for more intrusive thoughts to reveal themselves to me.
*I didn't kill her. I buried the knife in the ... | 2020-02-05T20:05:56 | 2020-02-05T20:05:26 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | Diana groaned as the older forty year old man walked into the room, hands cuffed behind his back and a policeman pushing him towards the seat opposite her. "What's up, Wilson?" she asked detective James Wilson, the man who managed to get on her nerves almost everyday with the number of criminals he brought in.
"Murder... | Another night, another dollar as they say, right? I take a deep breath in and exhale before I walk in the doors. It’s a busy night tonight. There’s already people lined up outside and we haven’t even been opened for an hour yet. “Good luck tonight champ, it’s the trifecta.” The bouncer warned me before I walked in. “Gr... | 2020-02-05T20:46:28 | 2020-02-05T20:46:18 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You are a superhero with shapeshifting powers. You don't fight crime. You cover for other superheroes when they need to sneak out to save the day. | As I walked into the flat, shouting "I'm back!" with my still unfamiliar voice, my eyes darted around as fast as they could, almost as fast as my mind was taking everything in.
I'm a fast learner. For this job, you have to be.
Often enough, supers realize they don't want their professional life interfering with thei... | I have found myself in quite a few interesting situations in my line of work, but this was certainly new. My arms and legs were strapped to a metal chair in a dark room with some dim monitors about 10 feet away. My instant reaction was to shift my way out by flattening my limbs but I had no idea if I was being watched ... | 2020-03-23T16:29:06 | 2020-03-23T14:51:47 | 156 | 102 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Humans. Always humans.
In truth there was nothing much remarkable about them. Like any other species they had strengths and weaknesses imparted by their unique physiology.
And yet...
Somehow it was always humans who ended up in impossible situations.
The first ones to successfully negotiate with a Kabra-Alhar? Hum... | "What the hell are you on about?" the captain replied, annoyed. "That's not possible. Surely it was strapped in the gear before the jump?"
"No sir, I'm sure of it," the lieutenant replied. "And yet, it's still alive and breathing."
"Gods," the captain said, as a deep sense of unease began to well up inside of him. "T... | 2020-07-14T00:07:06 | 2020-07-13T22:58:23 | 5,729 | 1,602 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | They glanced at each other; the emotions of their kind were harder to read, granted, but I could tell there was a certain anxiousness to it. Perhaps there was a shiftiness about their eyes.
And while their words, harsh and guttural, were harder to decipher- I didn’t have much of a knack for language- the blatancy of ... | Both Captain Zula and systems engineer Wuolloki stood in silence, contemplating the magnitude of what they had just said and heard.
"Bring me the human," the Captain ordered. Wuolloki saluted curtly, turned, and left the room.
Captain Zula was rubbing her head now. She moved over to her secret stash of alcohol, wonde... | 2020-07-14T01:07:26 | 2020-07-13T23:19:17 | 688 | 186 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Captain Requier marched down to the human Tech Officer Ceasar’s quarters. Ceasar had been ordered to his room until they had reached their destination, after which Requier would assess the human’s sanity for himself. “It shouldn’t be possible,” Requier thought, “that anyone can witness warp without the anti-warp gear... | Both Captain Zula and systems engineer Wuolloki stood in silence, contemplating the magnitude of what they had just said and heard.
"Bring me the human," the Captain ordered. Wuolloki saluted curtly, turned, and left the room.
Captain Zula was rubbing her head now. She moved over to her secret stash of alcohol, wonde... | 2020-07-14T00:28:01 | 2020-07-13T23:19:17 | 465 | 186 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | My name is Supply Sergeant Marcus Grant of the Terran Armada’s third support unit. I have been in a secure isolation cell in a wing of an Intragalactic Transport Centre hospital for the last 3 weeks, or maybe it’s more. The days have begun to run together.
The doctors here have told me that I have gone mad. Or that,... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-13T22:38:35 | 381 | 74 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | The Humans. They’re like canaries on a ship.
They can See photonic activity and Hear atomic activity. They can detect two particles bumping into one another from a billion miles away. Yet they are stupid, and small, and made of meat.
Advanced sentients are able to think in five dimensions, but humans struggle to com... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-14T01:30:39 | 381 | 64 |
[WP] The thing that makes humanity dangerous isn't their passion, their bravery, or their honour like they had imagined. No, The thing that makes them dangerous is their stupidity. | Garett cleaved his greatsword through the Hydralisk's tendril, the plasma edges of his blade searing through iron carapace and thick flesh alike.
The beast's hooked claws thunked to the ground and its owner bellowed a terrible, putrid scream, flailing a smoking limb.
The roar echoed through the stadium around them, ... | *These morons don’t know what they’re dealing with. The Spawn can shred men to bits even through armor.*
Mark Kepper had been at the heart of most of the great victories mankind has seen in the last two decades. This time looked no different, with the overwhelming force of the Spawn looming over the Deep Pass.
“When... | 2020-08-03T23:13:45 | 2020-08-03T22:05:08 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] "The humans will be easy prey. What are they gonna do? I heard their most deadly weapon is a giant mushroom." | These were the words spoken by my squamates as we began to descend. I laughed along with them, the idea of a massive mushroom being enough to wipe out our advanced spacefaring craft one of pure absurdity. "How long you think this'l take friend?" Asked my littermate ZKD-10932 or Zek as we called him, "I believe it wil... | *1955 Ohio- Berell's Family Farm*
TSP agent 1 and TSP agent 2 are sitting the middle of a carrot patch on a strange planet in the Tortilla Galaxy. The two are sent on a civil mission to discover the origins of the race. They sent the two worst agents in case they would not return from the unkown regions of the Tortil... | 2020-08-04T17:06:25 | 2020-08-04T16:44:38 | 96 | 50 |
[WP] A vampire takes pity on a stranded time-traveller, granting them the gift of immortality so that they may yet live to see their family and friends once again in the distant future. | The long-haired man fell to his hands and knees at the foot of the altar.
“My…family,” he cried, “my friends. They’re all…gone.”
“No, not gone.”
The long-haired man spun around, surprised by the sudden voice. “W-w-who said that?”
“I did.”
A shadowy figure stood at the back of the church, hovering right at the edge... | David had a shadow unlike any other—it was white as snow. Everywhere that David went, the shadow was sure to go. He had never seen the shadow squarely, it lingered on the periphery of his vision like a floater, but there was no doubt that it was there. It was not ever-present—sometimes David would go days without notic... | 2020-12-21T10:52:21 | 2020-12-21T10:27:59 | 39 | 27 |
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