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[WP] [CW] Two different subreddits are at war, but two of the mods on opposing sides have a "Romeo and Juliet" relationship. Written in Iambic Pentameter.
Pick two subreddits (ie: /r/shittyaskscience vs. /r/talesfromtechsupport). They are at war. Describe the relationship between two mods from these subs (fictional or... | Fair friends who often love to write, heed now
My warning words. A tale of strife, of woe,
Of the cruel twists that fate can bring, and how
One unclean divide brought two great subs low.
This, the finest tale of despair. Tearing
Asunder the rich fabric of these lives
of subscribers so merrily fairing.
... | *I'm out of scotch so if the timing is slightly off then fuck it......*
**It is too great, that which my soul doth bleed**
To share the tale of two great loves denied
Two houses, of no cordial friendship
Hath spurred one fair relationship
Of mad and treasonous beginnings.
**We watched and learned of their roma... | 2014-10-14T12:52:46 | 2014-10-14T12:30:34 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen a lot of tens. It's scary, really, how quickly people can go from six or even five to ten. Other people don't realize how much danger surrounds them every day. It takes so little...
No, the tens aren't the ones that stay with you. Not for long, anyway. No, the one that will always be in my mind was somethin... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T14:12:40 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 714 | 14 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | “One, two, two, one, three, two.” Numbers over the heads of my friends, family.... People I knew, people I didn’t. I can’t remember when they got there. I just sort of started noticing them one day.... And what they meant was... Obvious to me somehow. “One.... One....”
I often murmured to myself, no one seemed to not... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T14:15:56 | 295 | 30 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | I've spent my whole life looking at numbers, judging my safety from them, gathering intelligence, watching, waiting. I am a perfectly average teenage girl; I've got brown hair, brown eyes, and a rather plain face. I'm average height, average size. There is nothing exceptional about me; except that I can judge how dange... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T14:34:22 | 140 | 41 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've spent my whole life looking at numbers, judging my safety from them, gathering intelligence, watching, waiting. I am a perfectly average teenage girl; I've got brown hair, brown eyes, and a rather plain face. I'm average height, average size. There is nothing exceptional about me; except that I can judge how dange... | This is my first post to WP, so I hope anyone who reads this likes it!
Ever since I was born, I’d see numbers in my brain. From the instant I saw a living face I’d see a number. I learned pretty quickly it was danger: my dog was a 1 (too stupid to hurt anyone even if he tried, bless him), and the highest number I eve... | 2014-11-29T14:34:22 | 2014-11-29T14:18:16 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | It only took a few seconds of staring until the number pops up in the middle of their forehead. Thank goodness for that, since I think I'd go insane seeing numbers everywhere!
Babies and most kids measure from zero to three at most, while grown adults measure up to maybe five or six, depending on their skills in hunti... | I always figured it was some form of synesthesia; above everybody, a translucent number, hovering above their head like a static hummingbird. I figured out soon enough that I was unique in this, that no-one else could see these bizarre numbers, a halo of creation and devastation. The nerdy kids on the late-night subwa... | 2014-11-29T17:05:40 | 2014-11-29T15:29:59 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You travel back in time to the 1900's, you take your tablet out of your rucksack only to find that there is a WiFi hotspot nearby labeled "If you can see this, turn back.". | I stole a quick glance into my rucksack at my tablet, the signal for the hotspot was growing stronger. I looked ahead through the crowded Street, towards a tall building. It would be empty on this day
I checked my watch, 12:18 PM, I had 12 minutes. I approached the door and gave a quick push, the door swung open. The... | I thought for a moment to heed the stranger's warning. But if anything, it made me more curious than defensive.
I located the strongest signal and it led me to a local inn. I returned the tablet to my rucksack, and entered.
I had taken the proper precautions to dress the part, and be able to speak as my forbearers h... | 2014-12-23T18:36:50 | 2014-12-23T18:17:59 | 911 | 227 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | "You have five minutes."
The overly sized bear-man shoved me into the room with force sufficient to topple me over the table. Gathering myself and the contents of my bag I attempted to contemplate where I was. The room was white, not pristine but an almost dull, mind-numbing shade. The room was empty minus a mirror on... | I committed suicide at age 43, alone in a dingy flat in a dodgy area; overdue two months of rent, water long since cut off, and loan sharks knocking at my door at all hours of the night.
I will freely admit that I knew I wasn't a model citizen, but I certainly didn't think I was Hell-worthy. I thought of myself as a l... | 2015-01-02T11:13:26 | 2015-01-02T11:09:56 | 334 | 22 |
[WP]: it's the year 2057. Queen Elizabeth still reigns. People are getting suspicious. | It's been 15 generations since the legend was passed down to me. That our God mother was truly a vampire. I didn't believe it at first after my mother told me the story. My dad verified it too. He said that his father and his father's father confirmed the same thing. She just never aged past a certain point.
I had my ... | "Mum? I think it might be time for you to step down and let Will take over like you promised all those years ago, or even George at this stage. I mean people are starting to suspect now."
"So? Let them suspect. Surely by now there are more important things for the people to worry about, if not it would be a distracti... | 2015-01-20T05:08:27 | 2015-01-20T04:14:55 | 133 | 94 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | "No, please."
She pushed the vial away from her lips, her thin and wrinkly hands shaking.
"Why?" I asked.
"I... I'm so tired, dear." She sighed. Then she continued:
"My flesh is tired."
"What do you mean?"
"The other ones, my other lives, I've come to realize... they were not *really* me. I've read their diaries... | I always hated winter in New York. Ever since we first came here. Actually, I never liked New York at all. You may not have noticed, you've had so little time here, but the rain here is different from anywhere in the world, and believe me, I've been everywhere.
I am 3,569 years old. I was born in a small village outs... | 2015-02-14T06:40:49 | 2015-02-14T06:24:56 | 1,103 | 13 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | He was ten at the time of the accident.
Unbeknownst to me, Ben's day began like any other. He woke up one minute before his alarm would ring and raced to turn it off. He always loved to beat the alarm clock, he felt like it set him up to keep winning the rest of the day. He showered quickly, skipping shampoo and only... | Lucas focused the scope of his riffle, aimed at the head of no other than the famous Maria Rios.
He smirked. It was lucky day, no doubt. The women’s activist may have been gaining a large following across the world but like most things, enemies came with the territory. Powerful enemies – the kind who would pay nicely ... | 2015-06-03T06:23:30 | 2015-06-03T06:09:40 | 197 | 29 |
[WP] you live in a world where instead of Wolves being domesticated bears are. Today you are visiting the pound to adopt a bear. | As a child, John had begged his parents relentlessly to get a bear. His many protests of "I'll feed it every day and clean up after it! I'll be responsible, *I promise!*" were always met with promises of a far-flung future of when he was older, more responsible, more mature. Then he'd be able to get a bear.
Well, Joh... | “Oooooo honey look! Teacup Grizzlies! Sooooo cute!” Kirsten bent down and reached over the little pen, holding her hand out to one of the tiny bears.
“Well, yeah they are, but I was thinking maybe something a little bigger, you know, that we could train to protect the house”.
“Danny no! Look at them! Oh who’s a f... | 2015-07-23T06:56:53 | 2015-07-23T05:43:51 | 616 | 86 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | God: "What the me is this?! How the hell am I supposed to find anything again!
The first ones are okay:
Patch: Wisdomteethremov1.4
Patch: Diabeetus1.8
Patch: Colonmrrt2.3
But these?!
Patch: TrgH&3.4
Patch: TrgH&3.5
Patch: TrgH&3.5.1
Patch: TrgH&3.5.1&Wisdomteethremov1.5
And so o... | Update available!
Patch notes for humans below:
General
- Fixed a bug which made liquids spray out of the nose when humans laugh and drink at the same time
- Tweaked cognitiv memory settings that fixes random amnesia when subjects enter rooms or opens the fridge, causing them to forget their task or stare for hours ... | 2015-08-25T07:52:02 | 2015-08-25T07:46:47 | 150 | 51 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | git diff
similarity index 72%
rename from incentives.h
rename to motives/incentives.h
index f3e63d7..e8f44ba 100644
--- a/incentive.h
+++ b/incentives.h
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
- #include "greed.h"
- #include "power.h"
- #include "exploitation.h"
-
+ /*
+ Seriously,... | Update available!
Patch notes for humans below:
General
- Fixed a bug which made liquids spray out of the nose when humans laugh and drink at the same time
- Tweaked cognitiv memory settings that fixes random amnesia when subjects enter rooms or opens the fridge, causing them to forget their task or stare for hours ... | 2015-08-25T07:52:12 | 2015-08-25T07:46:47 | 69 | 51 |
[WP] The last direct descendant of the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang finds him/herself in mortal danger. The Terracotta army awakens in response. | In the second week of the first year of the underground offensive on ISIS, Harry Qin of SEAL Team 2 had been under siege in the village for three days.
"Don't you get it, Qin?" his captain screamed, "there are no reinforcements, because we're not supposed to be here. We repair this chopper or we die." So Harry Qin wen... | "Well you can't say that to a customer," Phil says. There's mustard on his collar, but I don't tell him. If he's going to prance around like he's the cock of the walk just because he assistant manages a Starbucks, then he can dress himself.
"Okay but they're not customers," I tell him, "they're walking lumps of clay... | 2015-11-11T11:30:42 | 2015-11-11T10:09:09 | 118 | 42 |
[WP] A world where people can store the adrenaline rush and aggressiveness of their anger for later use. Keep enough rage inside and you can, literally and figuratively, hulk out. Now, in your city there's a person who's never been visibly angry... | I've heard it said that a wise man fears three things. The first is a moonless night, and the unseen dangers it holds. The second is the sea in storm, for no man can withstand the awesome power of nature. The third, though, is the most terrifying of all.
________________________________________________
It had be... | *suspect on the run. Last seen on 5th avenue*
"Do you think it's another rager on the run?" said officer John to his partner as Alicia's soft voice came out of the police radio.
"Nah. It's probably another robber." said officer Jones.
Police sirens were turned on as officer John and Jones darted through the empty... | 2016-03-16T10:59:07 | 2016-03-16T08:41:28 | 221 | 14 |
[WP] Your ex has suffered an accident and has amnesia, only remembering up to the point where they still deeply loved you. You're torn on wether to get back together with them and fix anything you did wrong, or crush them with the fact that you're not together anymore. | Pretty standard stuff- I fell in love with a girl named Kate, and she fell in love with me. It was beautiful, but everything comes to an end and we parted ways after a year. We never once fought- not even at the end. I just wasn't right for her.
When I first got the call from her two years later, words were vacant fro... | Chii's heart climbed it's way up her throat with each beat, a lump forming as she tried so very hard to keep her composure. This wasn't... She... What was she trying to think? Everything felt too fuzzy and surreal. For a moment, Chii wondered if this was a sick dream invited by fever or stress.
The blinding lights of ... | 2016-04-19T22:26:43 | 2016-04-19T22:19:15 | 91 | 12 |
[WP] As a White House janitor, you are 627th in line for the presidency. You never expected a catastrophe to cause the deaths of the 626 people ahead of you... | Terrorists.
I know, it's typically a cop-out ploy to monger fear via the media, but the enemies of the US have actually done it.
When Russian subs were found exploring the undersea cables, it was already too late. All at once communication was cut across the nation. Simultaneously, China deployed use of a supercha... | "Two bottles of beer on the wall, two bottles of beer .
Take one down, pass it around, one last bottle of beer on the wall...
When I started to sing this song in my mind, there were 428 bottles on the wall. The first 200 bottles are the unsung victims of this catastrophe.
My name is Paul. I am the white houses jani... | 2022-10-29T12:31:57 | 2016-06-03T21:53:21 | 194 | 22 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | Father Sanchez adjusted his turquoise robes, sighed, and started his defense.
"Look, Your Cosmic Eminence, I don't really think this is our fault."
"Hold on, stop right there." the pulsing orb of electricity said through the translator. "Are you actually trying to justify your actions."
"Well, yes, Your CE. There ar... | We crucified him.
You crucified him?
Crucifixion. We took two wooden posts, nailed them together to make a cross, and we stuck the cross in the ground so it stood up nice and tall. Then we tied his arms and legs to it and left him hanging there for a few days until he was nearly dead, and then we stabbed him in the... | 2016-08-18T06:44:06 | 2016-08-18T06:00:42 | 241 | 145 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | Father Sanchez adjusted his turquoise robes, sighed, and started his defense.
"Look, Your Cosmic Eminence, I don't really think this is our fault."
"Hold on, stop right there." the pulsing orb of electricity said through the translator. "Are you actually trying to justify your actions."
"Well, yes, Your CE. There ar... | The council chambers, despite their vastness and high, vaulted ceilings felt claustrophobic as all eyes fell on me. None of them were human, either. Species of every type had gathered here today, as was custom for welcoming another into their fold. But our membership into their ranks was...unique. They had analyzed our... | 2016-08-18T06:44:06 | 2016-08-18T04:37:42 | 241 | 21 |
[WP] You order a pizza at 12pm. The delivery guy dosen't arrive until 7pm. When asked about what happened, he responds "It's a long story." | I had called back the pizza place at 2pm to cancel my order, but nobody answered. I figured if they did show up I would just not accept the pizza and dispute the charges with my bank.
At about 7pm a small green car pulled in front of my house. It was the delivery driver showing up with my pizza seven hours late. He w... | It had been an hour and a half and we had given up on him ever arriving. Gwen was pissed. I called the store but nobody picked up. She didn't believe me, thought I was trying to weasel out of the confrontation. So I called back with the phone on speaker.
It rang, unceasingly.
"You got the number wrong."
"No. I did... | 2017-02-10T02:21:26 | 2017-02-09T23:20:07 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You're a thief who breaks into homes, but try your best to stay undetected. You lubricate the hinges to prevent squeaky noises, you sweep the floor to get rid of footsteps, etc. Eventually, you fix more than you take, and rumors spread about a mysterious, helpful fairy in town.
EDIT: Wow, didn't expect this promp... | It's no effort at all, really. What better way to remain undetected than to leave the place better than I found it?
Sure, that usually means sweeping up my footsteps, and if one floor is cleaner than the other, now that's just suspicious. Gotta sweep the whole house, no doubt. And you can't be having squeaky doors, th... | "...can"t seem to find my pearl necklace anywhere, Julia!"
My interest piqued, I glanced over my shoulder, and happened to see a recent victim walking out of the café whose patio I just happened to be relaxing on. I turned back to my phone, hoping the two women would continue past me, but they were too busy talking t... | 2017-03-13T07:37:10 | 2017-03-13T07:31:01 | 4,615 | 343 |
[WP] A person awakes from a coma to find the world has become a Utopia. They've read enough literature to believe there must be something wrong with it. There isn't. | John squinted at the brightness. The sting of antiseptic reached his nostrils and the world slowly came into focus.
“How do you feel, Mr. Doe?” A beautiful young doctor came in to view, concern etched across her face. She was flanked by an older man with a clipboard, white hair and beard framing his face. He peered o... | "Well," said the squat man in the tweed suit, gesticulating down the gorgeous main street with his cane, "this all came about when we finally figured out how to knit carbon nanotube structural frames with neo-plastene polymers for the exterior. All made from recycled plastics, of course."
"Mmm." I nodded, my attention... | 2017-03-17T13:05:48 | 2017-03-17T13:03:38 | 263 | 52 |
[WP] An asteroid is on a collision course to end life on Earth. You and everyone do a bunch of stupid sh*t in your last days. Then, the asteroid veers away, leaving you in an awkward position. | I walked through the ruined streets of the city. Wine ran like blood. Blood also ran like blood. I suppose everyone bought wine because they could never have afforded it before. But then, they didn't need to afford anything else. Oh right, you were probably wondering more about the blood. Well, the blood came from brok... | I wake up in a bit of a daze. Dusty sunlight flickers through the half-closed blinds. I extricate myself from the pile of snoring, tangled bodies around me. The room spins around me, and I choke back vomit. Where are my clothes? There's my bra... On second thought, it can stay where it is. There's my shirt, at least. T... | 2017-05-06T19:03:43 | 2017-05-06T18:52:58 | 70 | 12 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | "Jesus."
After two years, there were still so many misconceptions about Google Dating---its origins, how it functioned. But that single phrase was how engineers remembered Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, responding to an initial demonstration.
Social media success had been a goal for so long. The company had failed with... | GOOGLE HAS PAIRED YOU WITH LADYBONE69!
SEND HER A MESSAGE!!!
MOTORBOATER69: Sup?
LADYBONE69: Nothing just looking at some he/she porn sites.
MOTORBOATER69: Nice. Me too.
LADYBONE69: Man, isn't this great? The new Google algorithm makes it so easy. I can just come out and say that. My kinks are paired up wi... | 2017-05-25T13:39:39 | 2017-05-25T12:02:40 | 82 | 46 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | "Could you quiet that thing down?" I shouted at Frank the Magnificent. The ragtime was surprisingly loud, given its source. I wouldn't have minded, but after the hundredth repetition of "The Entertainer," it was getting to be a bit much. I was beginning to understand how ice cream truck drivers felt. *At least it i... | "Sir, you will not regret this. I swear." Miffle entered my quarters with a bound. The sweet smile in his eyes twittered with anticipation. Miffle's dreams of commanding a prestigious estate in the annals of spellmen's history ever lead his way.
"I see you think you've got something quite exceptional this time, Miff... | 2017-07-26T04:30:57 | 2017-07-25T20:43:49 | 59 | 32 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | Warning: This story is not safe for work.
**MagiSup issue report nr. 334123**
**Tags**: Medical, input encapsulation
**Severity**: Potentially lethal
**Description**:
This issue pertains to a spell recently developed by one of our affiliates, whose name has been omitted for legal reasons and can be retrieved up... | I swore, again, as I stared down at the Philosophers Stone we'd cooked up. It had cost millions of dollars and thousands of hours of work to produce, teams of our best researchers. We had figured that we'd be set for life, if we pulled off what alchemists had been after from the very beginning.
My manager was shaking... | 2017-07-26T04:40:08 | 2017-07-26T02:26:17 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone on earth is immune to one specific type of damage (fire, car crash, kicks, falling off buildings, etc.). The problem is, you have to find out your immunity on your own. You have just discovered yours. | Carl was an odd man. Most had discovered their immunity by the time they'd left school, yet here he was. He'd been shot at, electrocuted, set on fire, thrown off roofs and not a single one has been his immunity. Most people would stop there. He's still smiling though, and I admire his drive.
During one of the tests, c... | I figured it wouldn't hurt.
The sudden impact upon the ground would lead to a quick demise.
My cheeks ache. It hurts to smile.
I wish I could say I miss him. He was perfect. He really made me happy! But then again so did the others I had dated before him. Even now I can't help but smile at the thought of them.
... | 2017-08-06T14:22:56 | 2017-08-06T14:05:52 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] People start 3D printing up meat of themselves as a fringe curiosity, and it becomes mainstream. Turns out it tastes really good, and it becomes the norm. Suddenly, all electronics on Earth stop working, humans cast into the dark age. No crops, no herds. Just the constant urge for human meat.
[Original comment](h... | It wasn't like the other shortages, I had seen the riots from the news when bacon was on a shortage. Twenty years after people were cloning their own arms, and legs not for health reasons but to eat.
I was one of the few that didn't, or couldn't. People looked at me in pity as my stomach didn't produce the right stuf... | The peace lasted for no more than three hours. Being raised in the south end of Detroit, I was fairly used to occasional violence and accepted its place in my life as a rare and unavoidable reality. When clean meat was introduced in 2042, the only members of my community who were at all excited are those with someone e... | 2017-09-27T17:36:12 | 2017-09-27T16:30:31 | 95 | 45 |
[WP] Every game you play gradually turns into Minesweeper, and it's getting pretty annoying. | Surely the newest COD game won't turn into minesweeper. Candy Crush, I can understand. Solitaire even made a bit of sense once I though about. But not COD.,. good ol' faithful COD. I fire up COD and load into multiplayer.
The first map plays normally. It's the week after Christmas and all the scrubs are out. Unfortuna... | After they banned home entertainment in 20XX, we had to resort to public forums situated in government-regulated internet clubs. All activity monitored. All discussions -- recorded. Sure, there were the benefits, I imagine. People less committed to trying to be anonymous butts to one another -- favouring instead to a m... | 2018-01-02T09:06:22 | 2018-01-02T09:05:55 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | The time stops. The first time it had happened was months ago, and only for a few shocking seconds. I remember being afraid I'd had a stroke or something, but I never got it checked out. How do you tell a doctor that one second you're eating lunch and then nothing moves but you?
The second time was maybe five minut... | he first time the incident occurred I was in a busy mall. I bumped into the person in front of me and apologized, but I got no response. A moment later she fell forward. What a bitch! Not only did she ignore me, but she completely over-reacted with such a delayed response. She screamed, and a bunch of tough-looking guy... | 2018-01-26T07:14:36 | 2018-01-26T06:49:48 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "...But what's the point." It responded. "It's in their nature. They're just fighting the inevitable."
The alien paused. "Is peace a commodity? Do they fight to be the only ones at peace"
"Human tribes have frequently sabotaged other tribes for their own self-interest," the other alien began.
"Well there we go. I don... | Humanity.
A weird species.
Instead of opting for an optimal utopian government made of people who have passed standard intelligent tests, they decided to let the people vote despite how bad the choice is.
Now, about war. Humans are supposed to be a subspecies of a warring race that we planted on this planet years ag... | 2018-03-17T04:45:49 | 2018-03-17T04:45:25 | 1,307 | 65 |
[WP] You're happily going about when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks please at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, and we're the demons, you've just been summoned. | A small green being with a flowing black robe stood silent, their mouth hanging.
“Arkro Shime! Flee Verk?!”
I looked at them with a dumbfounded expression on my face. I dropped the piece of pizza I was holding as it sizzled and smoked with an unnatural flame.
“What the actual fuck is this?!”
The being looked at m... | It was all so surreal, I was sure I had to be dreaming, and yet... Even still, I'm not sure where in the Hell I am. All I know is that I was sitting on my ass playing a CS:GO match when the world seemed to explode.
"So the ritual works then..." A quiet, disembodied voice near me whispers.
"Ritual?" I attempt to croa... | 2018-03-20T19:08:25 | 2018-03-20T19:04:47 | 79 | 54 |
[WP] It turns out that every sentient species in the universe has a god and when war breaks out the gods would actually duel. The losing god would lose it's species. Then one day an alien god decided to invade Earth only to realize that we've killed our god. | It was a normal day in 2018. Completely normal. No notable events, no notable birthdays, nothing at all. Nothing out of the ordinary was supposed to happen. Then, something did happen. The damn God of Mars landed in the middle of the Vatican. He simply landed there, demanding to see our god. Then, some of the people th... | **Gods. Rulers. Conquerors. Protectors.**
**Humans. Children. Servants. Play things.**
I look at the inscription again.
**Gods. Rulers. Conquerors. Protectors.**
**Humans. Children. Servants. Play things.**
I look at my friends. At my buddies. At my fellow warriors.
They look up. Up high into the sky. The sky ... | 2018-04-03T10:18:07 | 2018-04-03T05:33:44 | 97 | 61 |
[WP] Humanity wipes itself out through nuclear war, but everything on the Internet still exists. Another sentient race on Earth millions of years into the future develops an Internet and somehow manages to gain access to the human Internet, revealing everything humanity had posted and stored online. | The whispers of the ancients first sang to us a long time ago. Merely an accident at the time, we danced around the warmth of the sun, listening to the everbeing of the universe, when we heard new truths amidst their chaos.
It brought knowledge, carried on waves amidst the cosmic void. Through them, we learned of ha... | ...There were catz, lots of catz...
But why? To what purpose? The apex predators clearly worshipped these non-sentient lifeforms. Throughout their recorded history, from early 'hieroglyphics' {a proto-language made up of pictorial semiotical phonemes} to end of days 'memes' {a meta-language made up of pictorial semiot... | 2018-05-19T21:57:29 | 2018-05-19T21:56:07 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] One day you squish someone in your view with your fingers, and they actually get squished. You've discovered that you have the power of perspective.
[deleted] | With great power, comes great responsibility... and punishment of equal magnitude.
I have done the squish countless times growing up and nobody ever got hurt. Maybe my resentment and hatred were much stronger. I don't really understand how I hated him so much though. He never specifically done anything to me, but t... | I didn’t mean to do it.
So as kids we had all done that thing where we stand back and close one eye and press our fingers in, just like the person or thing was actually that small right? Well, today I found out I have that as an ability.
School had been getting progressively tougher and tougher as Charlie upped his ... | 2018-05-21T14:37:03 | 2018-05-21T13:40:26 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | It's unlike any other feeling, to know that you're dying. It's closest maybe to being caught in a summer thunderstorm as the streetlights blink out. So after my wife, and everything that entailed, I am choosing another path forward.
This is the last thing I'll write because, after this, I won't have to write. My thoug... | Alters. Augmented. Ascended.
My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace and balance between the changed people, the cyborgs and those in the cloud. But that all changed when the Alters attacked. Only the Avatar mastered all three techniques. Only he could stop the ruthless DNA hybrids, ... | 2018-07-01T08:37:47 | 2018-07-01T08:08:56 | 536 | 294 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | Earth had known peace for centuries. The shining cities that covered the land were the pinnacle of civilization. Three civilizations. Descendants of the Humans.
The Alters, who mastered the genetic code and manipulated it on whim. The Augmented who had created the perfect symbiosis between man and machine and the Asc... | *A man in a suit appears on the TV screen. He looks for all appearances, human. His face is pale and dark circles hang under his eyes. His eyes have lines of red running through the whites. Only a deep look into the irises of the man reveal his true nature. They are not natural, but lens. This “man” is the representati... | 2018-07-01T10:47:01 | 2018-07-01T08:41:45 | 80 | 32 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | “Totally worth it”
I thought to myself. It must have been past 2 in the afternoon but I refused to get up. There was a constant pounding in my head and a slight drip of blood running from my left ear. I could hear my roommates talking angrily in the next room and I knew what was waiting for me in the living room. We g... | You know how when you fall asleep on your arm and you wake up and feel that tingly feeling? Yeah? Well imagine that through your entire body. That's not what it is, of course, it's actually just at the base of my skull. But 'The Buzz' as I've come to know it as creeps into my brain stem on the really bad recoil days.
... | 2018-08-19T05:58:22 | 2018-08-19T04:42:57 | 401 | 30 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | The wheelchair kept creaking.
It was an awful noise. He knew it would never break but the groaning metal scared him all the same.
As he worked to lift his fingers enough to move the chair, he remembered the first time.
Everyone knew that heroes had to pay the price for their powers the next day. The Regenerator had ... | It's been 5 years since the first quackman appeared, a being with superpowers that have a 'hangover' effect. The man was bulletproof one day and the next a paper cut during the press interview caused him to faint due to excessive blood loss.
Now there are beings with all kinds of powers coming up, all quackmen with a d... | 2018-08-19T05:26:44 | 2018-08-19T04:31:42 | 86 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | Life isn't fair. I learned that lesson very early in my life. My mother told me she did her best to rush me out, then when she saw she wasn't going to make it, she tried to hold me in, but I guess when it's your time to be born, it's your time, even if that means you're born on February 29th.
She cried for me, and the... | People say I’m a fool, ever since my 10th birthday, the age where you could start allocating your points, I put it into one skill. At first it overwhelmed me so much to choose from.
There was strength which made you stronger physically. Some built themselves with this stat becoming Footballers or MMA fighters.
Some ... | 2018-09-12T08:07:42 | 2018-09-12T07:00:23 | 1,821 | 381 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | My 10th birthday I broke my mom's vase. In my panic, I threw my first skill point into deception, hoping that I could avoid her wrath.
Or at least, that's the story I tell people.
Every skill has a downside that rears its ugly head if you stray too far down it. Too many points into strength and you injure yourself be... | At the doctor's office again. I tripped over my foot again out in the courtyard, holding all of my notes from last night's study session I had with myself in the library. I think i sprained my wrist. I should be back in the library trying to find my dissertation. I was looking at some pigeons the other day, by the wate... | 2018-09-12T10:14:36 | 2018-09-12T09:36:26 | 99 | 10 |
[WP] When people die, they get to watch a 1 hour movie, presenting the next 100 years, to see what they are going to miss. They die without being able to tell anyone about it. You just watched that movie, and wake up to your SO shouting "Are you OK?" | "I saw it all! I saw it all!"
I rose from bed and screamed,
"The iPhone 47S
has neither phone nor screen!
America has turned
To a dystopian regime,
While Kim Jong Deux's Korea
Is a lavish luxury dream!
"I saw it all! I saw it!
Elon Musk has died on Mars
After getting in a fight
With one of his electric c... | "Are you okay?!" she shouted. I felt a hand on my shoulder, but, no, I didn't prefer to get up yet. Face down on the floor, nose broken, banana peel behind me, I considered the future.
One hundred years of pain and misery. First came the nuclear war. Started by the whim of a single rogue nuclear engineer, who took an ... | 2018-10-09T05:51:02 | 2018-10-09T04:40:23 | 494 | 23 |
[WP] When people die, they get to watch a 1 hour movie, presenting the next 100 years, to see what they are going to miss. They die without being able to tell anyone about it. You just watched that movie, and wake up to your SO shouting "Are you OK?" | I was very happy I already entered the Gates of Heaven. It's a better place. Green fields, no pollution, water's pure, skies sheer blue. A paradise, indeed.
An hour later, God, a speaking mist almost formed in the human body, called us newbies to assemble. He waved his hand and a wide screen appeared in front of us.... | "ARE YOU OKAY?!" I woke with a jolt. Then I see my girlfriend's wide-eyed expression looming over me. A stillness that comes with extreme concern. Except, this wasn't my girlfriend, she was just that bit older. Sure they share the same eyes. Those same dark brown eyes I've stared into time and time again but overall, s... | 2018-10-09T05:32:55 | 2018-10-09T04:52:41 | 61 | 18 |
[WP] When people die, they get to watch a 1 hour movie, presenting the next 100 years, to see what they are going to miss. They die without being able to tell anyone about it. You just watched that movie, and wake up to your SO shouting "Are you OK?" | "are you ok?"
"followthehippo, are you ok? you hit your head. I think it's bad. There's blood everywhere. That fucking car hit you hard. The driver. He's mad. He drove off the bridge. I think he's dead".
I could hear her. I could have answered. But after what I had just seen. How could I? How could I tell her that yes... | "Are you okay?!" she shouted. I felt a hand on my shoulder, but, no, I didn't prefer to get up yet. Face down on the floor, nose broken, banana peel behind me, I considered the future.
One hundred years of pain and misery. First came the nuclear war. Started by the whim of a single rogue nuclear engineer, who took an ... | 2018-10-09T04:44:50 | 2018-10-09T04:40:23 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] At 795 years old you are the last human alive to remember the Mars landing, the first translight jump and contact with the Others. The government thinking that all secrets were already known allows you to tell your story about the disappearance of the Others. They were wrong. | The gears in my right arm whir gently as I cough into a handkerchief, raising my free hand for a moment.
Tyler Stulter sits across from me in a comfy couch, lounging back with a slightly annoyed look in his eyes. Another young and extremely popular late night show host, he’s not used to old coots like me.
I hack in... | They sure were wrong. But I was glad that I got to tell my story.
"When I was younger, in my 300s or so, humanity encountered the Others. The—"
"The Others?" The Plutonian man leaned over into his mic.
"Sorry, that's what we called them in my day before we knew what they were. Let me rephrase: When I was younger, h... | 2018-10-28T14:54:06 | 2018-10-28T14:16:54 | 111 | 66 |
[WP] When you die, you get to choose any fantasy world for rebirth. Problem is, you get the last person's choice, as the person after you will get yours. And this was definitely not your first choice of worlds. | The first time I was reincarnated I got lucky. The guy ahead of me turned out to be a DND nerd who wanted to reincarnate into a world called Eberron. I wound up as a blue-skinned humanoid whose species' trademark was reincarnating whenever they die, which wouldn't have mattered much since it turns out everyone reincarn... | "You're donezo, kid."
"Uncle... Tom?" I couldn't believe my eyes. It was my dead Uncle Tom. But yet here he was alive, standing right before me.
"That's right. You died. Annihilated. Donezo. Finished. Retired."
"Where am I?" I looked around. It was just white as far as the eye could see. Like a blank page.
"Y... | 2018-11-12T13:15:42 | 2018-11-12T13:05:32 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | “We’re out of flatbreads.”
“Fuck,” I mutter. “What do you have?”
“Italian.”
“Just Italian?”
“Yeah.”
I check my watch. There’s only fifteen minutes left on my break. “Whatever. Italian it is.”
*Five billion.* The voice states it plainly. It comes sometimes, just random numbers. *One. Eleven.* I don’t pay too much ... | “Sorry, sir, we’re out of Italian bread, what else can I get you?” Makayla said.
The faces – oh god, the faces. Jayden held back his scream, hunching over; all eyes in the store turned towards him. Every face he would save flashed across his vision in an instant; a near infinite amount for him, so much joy—and so muc... | 2018-11-17T14:21:41 | 2018-11-17T14:08:20 | 6,605 | 104 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | "I'd like a club on Italian herbs and cheese, please." Dan says.
This is his usual order. In fact, Dan comes to this Subway on his lunch break, orders the same sandwich, and return to his desk to eat every day like clockwork. Dan is a predictable kind of guy, and he doesn't mind it; and knowing that he's unintentional... | 5 billion
The voice boomed clear and articulate as it always did.
“What the hell?”, I muttered, in disbelief.
“Sorry sir? Was that too much mustard? I could start again if youd like.”
“huh?” I looked through the pimply faced kid not truly hearing a word he was saying. “no…..no that's, uh, no problem.”
5 billion. W... | 2018-11-17T19:42:29 | 2018-11-17T18:46:50 | 166 | 33 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | Anger. It's always been a problem of mine. I knew from an early age when I hurt a school kid for no reason than his glasses made him look funny.
In the military i was kicked out before graduating boot, and that was okay with me. I hated rules. My dad had left me more money than i could ever spend, and it made me even... | 5 billion
The voice boomed clear and articulate as it always did.
“What the hell?”, I muttered, in disbelief.
“Sorry sir? Was that too much mustard? I could start again if youd like.”
“huh?” I looked through the pimply faced kid not truly hearing a word he was saying. “no…..no that's, uh, no problem.”
5 billion. W... | 2018-11-17T18:54:59 | 2018-11-17T18:46:50 | 51 | 33 |
[WP] The world is suddenly changed as toys start to work like their fictional counterparts. Toy lightsabers can now cut through metal. People with yu gi oh cards can send others to the shadow realm. Foam mjolnirs become impossible to lift and cosplayers get the abilities of the people they copy. | I heared a strange whizzing noise coming from my shelf. Confused I looked to the side. "Do you hear that?" I asked my boyfriend. Before he could even look over, there is a bang. I was sure I was dreaming. The small creeper that was my first crotcheting project just exploded. Mike was now also looking there with a shock... | "can you start taking responsibility like a real adult?" She yelled as she storm away. I am a gamer, a hard core, die hard gamer at least I think I am. Always dream to be one of those no damage souls player or professional gamer as I was a child but I just grow up to be one of those medicores. I met her in high school.... | 2019-03-29T00:45:53 | 2019-03-28T23:46:45 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | "Hey Jim, how's it going?" Andrew greeted his friend as they met up on their daily commute to the office.
Jim put on the fake smile. "Oh, pretty good. You?"
"In fact," boomed the voice, "Jim is not doing well at all. He has not slept well for the last week, the pretty girl he was talking to on that dating app - the f... | “I love you,” Jack said, taking Katie's hand in his.
**He loves looking at her. In fact, he loves looking at every bit of her, even as she leaves the room. He loves telling all of his friends that they are together, and he isn’t quite sure that he will get anyone better.**
Jack let out an agonizing scream. He under... | 2019-06-21T07:31:01 | 2019-06-21T07:07:10 | 2,874 | 101 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | This was Jake’s 4th date this month... and the 4th time he was walking back to his car without even getting through dinner. Shoulders slumped and head hung low, Jake mumbled to nobody in particular,
“This is just great.”
A somber, baritone voice very reminiscent of a certain famous African American man quite famous ... | Bob kicked back and sipped his ice coffee as he wrote an email to upper management. He had been asked to run a report on the tasks his department had completed during the current fiscal year. Just as he was finishing up his email, the voice boomed through the office.
"Bob's team did not complete all of the work ord... | 2019-06-21T12:56:54 | 2019-06-21T12:31:23 | 55 | 19 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 4,287 | 810 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | 729 days. That’s how long it’s been since the Great Blinding, although if you ask me there’s nothing great about it. What’s so great about losing your sight? At least I wasn’t the only one suffering.
​
I was in prison when The Great Blinding happened. Whoever was pulling the strings chose the worst possib... | You wake up, and for the first time in years, you feel the pain of bright light on your eyes. *Wait, light?!* you jump out of your bed and close the green curtains on your window.
'Oh my God. I-I can-" you immediately stop talking as you look on your wall and see writing in neat, red marker,
"Don't tell them you can ... | 2019-08-26T10:01:26 | 2019-08-26T09:40:50 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | The last thing I remember was a heaviness in my chest that grew until darkness took over. As I open my eyes, wondering if in fact that Chinese food really was too old, I look around me and see I’m not in my bedroom. In fact, I am now in a very cute, post-modern designed sitting room complete with an empty chair opposit... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment.
In his ravenous hatred he found no peace, and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral P... | 2020-01-10T18:07:21 | 2020-01-10T17:42:54 | 124 | 11 |
[WP] Vampires aren't averse to garlic. Thousands of years ago a vampire introduced this idea as a way to develop and inspire better flavors in medieval foods. | "But... but you don't eat food" Joey said.
"Who made that rule?" Vlad responded, pulling a clove of garlic out of the fridge and crushing it.
"Um... Stoker I think? Or was it there before him?" Joey said, looking up at Vlad.
"Ah yes, Stoker. He was a fine vampire. Truly pushed our culture forward. Did you know, we a... | Two things led to this misconception.
First: You wouldn’t believe how gullible they were.
Well, I suppose *you* would. You’re human. That species has always been easy enough to subdue. But something about 1348 (whether it was the general lack of education, the Crusades, or moldy bread) made people excessively mallea... | 2020-04-24T22:55:49 | 2020-04-24T19:15:53 | 164 | 64 |
[WP] Invade the humans they said. It will be fun they said. They only have nuclear weapons, it will be easy they said. Those bastards failed to mention that the humans also bite. | “It bit me, the fleshy thing bit me.” The scaley alien screamed, a chipped scale appearing in its perfect purple skin.
“And I’ll do it again.”
Samson flashed a toothy smile at the beast, watching it stagger back in fear. Its mouth comprising no teeth, only having a small blue sucker that it used to drain the blood of... | The aliens moved into position for the human planet known as Earth but more commonly known as the dimwit rock.
General Glebo secured the go-ahead to invade the helpless planet. Planet invasion inquiries were usually hard to come by with the Galatic Order, but Earth was considered a barren rock with lifeforms bound for... | 2020-09-11T00:24:02 | 2020-09-10T21:58:17 | 335 | 176 |
[WP] The king promises a great sum of gold to the one who can slay the local dragon. The dragon, hearing this and noting that the gold promised was greater than his hoard, dons a human disguise and prepares to fake his own slaying | As the final echoes of the recent battle continued to subside, the smell of charred meat permeated the whole cavern. The young dragon much preferred the sweet scent of seared mutton over the vile stench of brased human.
Every once in a while, some poor soul would wander into his domain and the dragon would be forced ... | They'd done it. After so much time preparing for the greatest display of illusion magic the world had ever known, they'd finally done it. They were a human.
It seemed an insane plan when you thought about it – A dragon transforming themselves into a human to fake their own death and claim riches greater than their own... | 2020-11-18T08:56:39 | 2020-11-18T05:30:10 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Snuggled into bed, you review the footage from your doorbell camera for the day. You notice a strange inhuman figure enter in the morning while you were at work. With rising panic you scroll through the rest of the day - there is no footage of it ever leaving. | Its body was a patchwork of color, its face pointed sharp. Its slitted eyes glared at me through the darkness, lit only by the lights of my screen. Its belly hung low to the ground, and it's back arched as it approached.
It peeled back its lips to reveal rows of sharp teeth, and as its jaw unhinged, I finally spoke o... |
“Ah I see you’ve found that footage,” the creature muttered in embarrassment whilst looking down at you from the ceiling.
“How many times Fredrick!? You have to go before the cats come home! Allergies man, allergies.” You sighed as Fredrick nodded and climbed his way down. “Got any plans for the weekend?”
“Just ta... | 2020-11-21T16:35:22 | 2020-11-21T16:02:48 | 53 | 26 |
[WP] After a child is born, a symbol of the child’s power will materialise on their forehead, disappearing after a few seconds. How long it takes for the symbol to show has a direct correlation with the extent of the child’s power, the longer it takes, the more potent the power. | He lay on the bed, the oldest man in the world, the only one never to show a symbol. He was a wonder when born, closely followed as a child, a yearly update as he got older. Always considered an outsider to be pitied and whispered about. They were all here to witness his passing, the worlds strongest telepaths transmi... | “Is everything all right?” She asked after a minute.
The doctor cleared his throat and handed the child to a nurse ready with a blanket, who hurried her baby back to her. The room was silent as she looked down at her little girl, sprawled on her chest with a blanket draped atop them.
She’d coughed, then breathed. Sh... | 2020-12-10T18:28:01 | 2020-12-10T15:16:43 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] After a child is born, a symbol of the child’s power will materialise on their forehead, disappearing after a few seconds. How long it takes for the symbol to show has a direct correlation with the extent of the child’s power, the longer it takes, the more potent the power. | He lay on the bed, the oldest man in the world, the only one never to show a symbol. He was a wonder when born, closely followed as a child, a yearly update as he got older. Always considered an outsider to be pitied and whispered about. They were all here to witness his passing, the worlds strongest telepaths transmi... | She was laying on a bed, her head propped up, alone in the room. A monitor strap was around one arm, in the other she held a photo in a trembling hand - a family gathering, several generations of kids dressed up and reluctantly holding still in front of a big hedge. She smiled as she looked at it, a few more wrinkles a... | 2020-12-10T18:28:01 | 2020-12-10T15:19:07 | 50 | 16 |
[WP] You die with your cell phone in your hands, and the afterlife customs agents miss it when letting you in. You find that it still works, and you can connect to the internet and contact people in the living world. | **Connections**
***
The first thing I discovered was that I shouldn’t try to make phone calls.
It was physically possible, sure. The line would ring and then connect. The living person on the other side would answer, cheerful or confused, or sometimes somewhere in-between. I would say “Hello,” and they would rep... | Posted by u/Apocryphon_from_Bynd \[Claims to post from beyond\] - 7 hours ago
**Recently deceased, can still access Internet, what to do with this ability?**
This may require you to suspend your disbelief for a bit, but please hear me out before you disregard my post outright.
On the 19th of January, I, Arthur McKin... | 2021-01-20T12:48:41 | 2021-01-20T11:51:49 | 295 | 216 |
[WP] Never, in 10 millennia, has someone successfully broken out of the Gates of Hell or into the Gates of Heaven. Of course, the Lockpicking Lawyer just died and he's up for a challenge.
Inspired by the [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/rpghorrorstories/comments/m6smji/does_this_count_dm_is_proposing_35_ranks_of/gr8... | This is the Lockpicking Lawer, and today I’m standing behind the Lock of the Underworld.
This lock is famous, invented at an unknown time BCE, and is what keeps souls from escaping the Underworld. As you can see here, the lock seems to be in the shape of a smiling, human-sized skull, with the mouth being where the key... | This is the Lockpicking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is something very special. You see, the other day, an old buddy of mine needed help getting into a safe. Not just any safe, but the main safe in the local banking office. Needless to say, the police didn't like that idea very much, and long story short, I'm ... | 2021-03-17T08:28:49 | 2021-03-17T07:35:05 | 5,313 | 836 |
[WP] You can tell just by looking into someone's eyes the most significant crime they've committed. You notice a couple of murderers on the road today, which isn't an uncommon occurrence, until one of them stands out. His death toll spans into the millions. | I looked again. No, not millions - *Billions.* Billions of lives lost at the hands of this one man.
I took a moment to look him over. He seemed normal enough, aside from his rather odd dress sense, but at the same time, it seemed that he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Somehow, I got the feeling... | Most people see me as crazy once ill tell them what I can do. Or what I can see. I learned you have to move a couple of states away before people don't recognize you anymore. Which is fine. I was able to see more than half of the US before I wised up an kept my mouth shut. At least I didn't ruin New York, New York. I h... | 2021-04-16T01:13:14 | 2021-04-15T22:05:39 | 594 | 263 |
[WP] “How in the world did you get a hyperdrive to work? We tried everything!” A puzzled voice responds: “Well, did you try painting your ship red?” | "So... you're solution to the malfunctioning part... is to paint the ship?" The engineer couldn't believe what he was being told.
"yes." The xenologist repeated over the radio. "I'm telling you, it'll work."
"You do understand why it wont though... right? The problem is the engine. Honestly, this seems so obvious, I ... | Feedback is appreciated. I haven’t written much in a week.
- - -
“Look your hyperdrive engine is faulty or incompetent. We’ve done everything and it won’t link up to our ship without blowing up from dangerous levels of energy.”
The humanoid alien looked up. “Paint it red.”
The office went still for a moment “... Wh... | 2021-05-06T00:11:20 | 2021-05-05T20:14:24 | 125 | 66 |
[WP] You're a high level black mage with a few healing spells but everyone thinks you're a terrible cleric because you only ever use healing spells. | “I don’t know. She’s pretty useless though. Can’t speak. Too dumb for any real magic, but she’ll heal you if you order her to.” Calix said to their new recruit as he marched down the goblin infested tunnels in his massive plate armor.
*Leressa the Black! I bind you!*
The recruit, Daved, looked back at me nervously,... | I remember this one dream, over and over again. I remember my mother’s eyes, so blue like the ocean, towering over me and boring into my soul, whispering to me the same phrase over and over again.
*I’m not crazy,* she would mumble to me, to herself, *you’re the crazy one. Crazy, crazy, crazy!*
And yet, everyone labe... | 2021-09-03T08:38:40 | 2021-09-03T07:46:22 | 2,163 | 237 |
[WP] You're a high level black mage with a few healing spells but everyone thinks you're a terrible cleric because you only ever use healing spells. | Jerik groaned as the cleric patched his wound, a burn on the arm. He wasn't in that much pain to be honest. He was mostly groaning because of the shit show that was the cleric's healing abilities.
He botched healing his burn, he botched healing Mary's stab wound, and he almost botched healing Corians splinter.
Not on... | I told mother, repeatedly, that I didn't want to study dark magic. I wanted to become a healer, I wanted to learn healing spells! But noooo, of course not. "Our family has been black mages for centuries!" She'd say. "You're descended from some of the greatest black mages!" Little did she know I studied white magic in s... | 2021-09-03T14:49:32 | 2021-09-03T13:22:10 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] “Congratulations on defeating The Dark Lord…” Your mentor and all of your allies suddenly turn their weapons on you, “…but you were meant to be a martyr. Forgive us.” | My companions have betrayed me. It turns out that during the post-victory celebration, they had poisoned my wine.
"I understand. I forgive you. But do let me take some knowledge to the grave - why?"
My old mentor, the elven archer, the youthful priestess and the spry thief seem surprised at my calm yet knowing word... | "You realize you can't beat me right?" I respond. "You summoned me from my world to solve your world problems. The powers I amassed far exceed yours collectively, and you think you can kill me?"
"You're powers must be returned. Yours and the darklords powers keep this world in balance. If there is an..." Lucille, my l... | 2021-09-12T11:32:03 | 2021-09-12T10:41:01 | 108 | 71 |
[WP] You're the master of the worst weapon, one made as a joke, to be ineffective, hard to wield and a danger to it's user. Just to become good with the weapon takes as long as it would take to master any other. But the thing is, nobody knows how to counter the weapon once you get good enough. | When a warrior reaches the rank of master they get to enter the great vault and pick a legendary weapon. Today was the day I got to pick my legendary weapon. Every weapon had a name, some were recorded in history for all time.
"Take as long as you wish. Today you pick the last weapon you will ever wield. The weapon wh... | "Sword-chucks" the fighter said, everyone laughed. "Sword-chucks", the blacksmith laughed as he made one, half as a joke, half as a challenge. Everyone who saw it laughed. Everyone but the fighter, too dumb to understand why they were not the greatest invention since forever. "Sword-chucks" he said to the guild, everyo... | 2021-10-21T03:48:21 | 2021-10-21T03:02:47 | 1,649 | 499 |
[WP] You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says, before pulling out a sword. | Perhaps, under normal circumstances, I would have been scared. I might have pretended to be asleep, going along with what everyone else was doing out of a panicked herd mentality.
But it was finals week. I was halfway through one essay, I'd barely started the other, and I was still trying to remember an entire semest... | "I'm sorry, David," Dr. Santosh said. "I didn't expect that you'd be the one. I thought I had plenty of time to find you, but it looks like I have miscalculated. I don't suppose you know how to use one of these, do you, boy?"
"W.. what!?" I yelped as he nimbly pulled the sword from its sheath with his left hand a... | 2021-12-05T23:01:30 | 2021-12-05T22:14:44 | 59 | 43 |
[WP] The elder gods looks to us the same way we look to cockroachs. What means that they are irrationally scared of us. | “Yeah, you’ve got a nest here,” said Percy the God of Pest Control. “Those are roads which connect all these things that're scattered around,” he pointed to some buildings.
“Are those all filled with… humans?”
“Yep, that’s where they feed and sleep and reproduce.”
Alanna gagged. “Reproduce?! I’m going to be sick.”
... |
Never before in R’lyeh’s slimy, grimy, and unceasing eons, had a pest as disgusting as a human infiltrated it.
But despite the sunken city’s remote location, the humans had come. Even Great Cthulhu, now sitting petrified ph'nglui h' wgah'nagl, knew that it was inevitable. No amount of repellent and deterrents—sunken... | 2022-01-03T09:27:37 | 2022-01-03T09:04:46 | 1,225 | 335 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | Jackson Steelflex was just an ordinary kid, but he isnt. You see, he also has a dark secret. He is an international spy and likes killing people with the coolest gadgets. One time he even killed a man with only my bare hands.
Somewhere in the world there is a building with guards . It was night time and they had kidn... | I stepped out of the car like an alpha lion on the hunt, I was hot shit, my drip was hella soothin, and the bitches were flocking to me as I made my way across the courtyard and into the party, where I'd light it up with my electric personality. People kept talking to me, but I stayed hella quiet and sipped on the xo9... | 2022-08-19T17:57:14 | 2022-08-19T17:37:22 | 152 | 51 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | It was a hellish day, in a hellish month, in a hellish year.
My mom forgot to wash my favorite purple sweater, and my dad had the audacity to serve me lukewarm pancakes before school.
So much for my senior year. Whatever.
But things actually got interesting when I arrived at school. No one said hello, which I prefer... | “It’s Friday..Friday..FRIDAY OOO!” Rebecca started with enthusiasm and ended in a happy shout.
Angela chimed in with stunning speed, as if she already knew the conversation was going to take place “We gotta get down on the weekend!”
“Wait..is it actually Friday already..??” Chris asked while his dumbfounded face beg... | 2022-08-19T19:12:52 | 2022-08-19T18:51:48 | 65 | 28 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | A chilled wind rolled in from the north. Night began to fall on the small town. An army of darkness marched towards the village blood lust on their mind. One lone warrior stood to defend the weak and helpless. They drew their glowing red sword, and with a single strike fell the evil forces.
"Who are you?" Asked a dyi... | My name is Drake Silverheart and this is my story.
I go to Meadow Heights, a Christian school ever since my parents died and my uncle started taking care of me. The guys in my school would often make fun of me for wearing all black and being an orphan and not being a Christian but I did not care because I knew they s... | 2022-08-19T19:57:54 | 2022-08-19T19:13:09 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | My starship hovered somewhere between the moon and the planet formerly known as Earth. We, the Caretakers, were unsure what the new sentient species had named it. After the humans had driven themselves extinct, ignoring warning after warning, a new and different species had risen. We had expected perhaps dolphins, or d... | They said that the future was suppose to be bright and silver, a world where people would know peace. Flying cars, no wars, people living deep into their 100's. A world without borders, a time of space exploration, a time where humanity will reach its potential and then surpass it in spades.
Thats what the elders said... | 2022-08-27T07:03:58 | 2022-08-27T06:16:04 | 519 | 60 |
[WP] My job as a demon is to take requests from those who summon me in return for their souls. It's amazing! But it's always the same requests. That's why I promised myself I wouldn't eat the soul of the one to give me a brand new request. Nothing new. Until today. "Can you be my girlfriend?" | I stood there for a moment, trying to fathom what had just happened.
“You want… the perfect woman?”
“No I want you.”
He was imperceptibly shaking, trying to hide it. I admit, this man had me curious.
“You want me? To be your girlfriend”
“Yes, you, girlfriend, me”
I flashed him a smile that had captured many befor... | Malina looked down at the... *child*(comparatively speaking)... knelt before her and the summoning circle he had used to bring her to his plane of existence. She raised an eyebrow, her glowing yellow/orange eyes peering curiously at him through the awkward silence as he started to sweat. If the candles were still lit, ... | 2022-09-09T20:19:57 | 2022-09-09T19:31:28 | 56 | 22 |
[WP] Suddenly, everyone on Earth becomes immortal, free from physical injury or disease. Except for one person. | The sealed chamber outside of the glass cube opened and another swath of visitors entered, with cameras ready. Mark watched idly as they swarmed around the railed off laser-line fence that protected his glass cube. Several kids tested the fence and their hands were incinerated. They laughed at each other while their ha... | "Christina, you get dressed right now, the Ceremony Of The Innocent is starting in 25 minutes. You are lucky it is starting right outside our villa, young lady!" A middle-aged, newly shaven tall pale man stood at the door, covered from toe to crown in vibrant robes, with his young daughter in his eyes. She simply was n... | 2013-12-10T11:59:25 | 2013-12-10T10:53:20 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming
| "I can't believe you're going to do this..." he wept, looking into the eyes of the man about to kill him. "I trusted you, I did everything you said!". The man stared back, full of emotion and yet, an unwavering determination shown across his thin lips. His reply hissed through them like steam escaping a pipe. "You did ... | Jack opened the briefcase and ran his fingers through the bills, caressing Benjamin Franklin’s tattered face.
“I see you have it,” whispered Michael. Michael was wearing blue jeans, a red and white flannel shirt, and grey sneakers. His blonde beard glowed in the black night of a San Francisco alley. He was a short an... | 2014-01-21T13:03:39 | 2014-01-21T13:03:03 | 68 | 17 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | Dear Sir,
This letter is to inform you that one Randy Payne, of 530 Linden Lane, Harrisburg PA, has filed a form 839 (y) - Intent to Murder against you on June 24th, 2016. The Intent to Murder has been approved and is valid from your receipt of this letter today until the 31st of September this year. Please review the... | I released a deep sigh as I lifted the still smoking barrel of my handgun to my lips, giving it a brief kiss. It was, by far, the most sound investment I'd ever made. After placing it on the table and stepping over the would-be assassin's body I approached the closet nearest my door to don my jacket: the black leather,... | 2014-03-17T09:31:02 | 2014-03-17T06:28:23 | 143 | 17 |
[WP] Write a mysterious and confusing story, that is explained at the end using only 1 sentence. | I adored her. She was at once the most perfect and the most terrifying thing that had ever happened in my life. Even though she was sleeping now, I could not stop looking at her face, and thinking about how it trusted me. How my power over her life was complete. And not merely because of the ties that held her arms... | He-tay olice-pay ficer-ofay as-way tanding-say, ilent-say. t-Iay as-way ayay old-cay orning-may, nd-ay he-tay orning-may ush-ray as-way eginning-bay, ringing-bay he-tay peeders-say ith-way t-iay.
t-Iay nly-oay ook-tay n-ay inute-may r-oay o-say efore-bay ayay usty-ray tation-say agon-way lasted-bay ast-pay ur-oay ero... | 2014-04-11T07:04:01 | 2014-04-11T06:04:08 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] You are a sock and today is laundry day. Everything is going well until you lose sight of your matching partner.
Looking for something along the lines of why socks sometimes go missing. | "Ahhh! Laundry day! Time to party! I'm gonna get wasted on tide today! boy last week I was so hung over I didn't leave the drawer for like a week! I wonder if Joe's coming too, I mean last month we tumbled like a motherfucker! It was cra-zy!
Hmm... This drum is rather different, Adam changed the washing machine! Final... | "Ron? Ron? Where are you Ron?!"
Roger, also known by "left sock" had a deep seated connection to his counter part Ron. They'd been together for years, right from the moment the came off the factory line, stitched together by a little Thai girl. They'd been packaged, mailed over seas and bought by a lovely young man by... | 2014-05-27T14:14:29 | 2014-05-27T13:46:35 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | Perhaps he had never truly realized, until that moment, the depthless gloom of his fields. The skies were overcast, devoid of color, clouded by permanent mist - no spark or sign of the heavens' warming light to sweep away the shadows. He had never realized just how quiet it all was: his realm was embalmed with a deadly... | My job required me to be here, I never wanted to, it suffocated me. This place became the worst cage of all and I had to do something to be free, even if my boss killed me in the process or in the aftermath.
I never liked to be the middle manager of so many people. People are dumb. They say they want freedom, but none... | 2014-06-20T07:37:41 | 2014-06-20T06:57:06 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You're a human trader for the intergalactic slave market. Advertise to buyers why they should buy human instead of another species. | Alright look, I'm not gonna lie to you: Humans are tricky. They're weak, slow, and for all that's holy they love to complain - but that's not why you want one of my stock.
You want *my* stock, because they're fucking clever - and they love a challenge. Analysis and problem solving, that's where the Human's shine. Each... | "And here we have a specimen of our 'strongman' range, perfect for all heavy lifting needs! Even stronger than the standard Heoy lifter, these gents are from stock who are known to have built structures many times their height! What's more, they can subsist on most of the cheapest high-protein foods edible to carbon li... | 2014-11-22T09:04:18 | 2014-11-22T08:16:06 | 242 | 10 |
[WP] Life was planted on Earth in order to be a sport hunting planet for aliens to use in the future. However they did not anticipate that life developing advanced weaponry. | It was the best kept secret in the world. Life as we know it did not develop naturally on this planet.
Instead it had been brought here billions of years ago by "them" in order to develop into some kind of sport game. They hunted the dinosaurs and eventually grown tired of their reptilian quarry. So they ended tha... | At first it was just the dinosaurs but the aliens quickly grew tired of the brute savagery these creatures exhibited. They were no longer fun to hunt for sport. They were even losing their entertainment value as observatory material.
The aliens longed for a greater challenge, one that could react to different variabl... | 2014-11-27T02:07:27 | 2014-11-27T00:42:07 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] For years an alien race has been intercepting audio transmissions from Earth and understands English. However, they have been exclusively listening to X-Box Live conversations. They have now prepared their first message for Earth. | The day of First Contact brought chaos in the streets. Many flocked to places of worship, others made a simpler pilgrimage home. It wasn't the end as many predicted, though you wouldn't have guessed it in those first few hours. Riots in the streets, stores closed, governments worldwide on highest alert.
It was just a ... | It's 3am, all you can hear in little Timmy's house is the mashing of buttons, the sharp push of analog sticks, timing the perfect 360° noscope. Little Timmy is one kill away from his favourite kill-streak when his life is taken by what he refers to as a "faggot camper".
" You fucking faggit, wait there I'm gonna noscop... | 2015-04-03T14:32:39 | 2015-04-03T14:22:39 | 53 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | Obama looks down as the small black box is placed in front of him.
"It's a - " He frowns. "What is this?"
"A… save button?" suggests an intern, before he's shushed by a stern glare from one of the senior advisors.
"That's a 5 1/4-inch diskette, sir. Also known as a floppy disk."
Obama stares at it. "Do we know," he... | I know it's a cliche, but as the ramp of the mothership lowered, all I could think of was "I didn't sign up for *this*."
However, I did have orders. My Marines knew that this would probably be a losing fight, but it wasn't in any of our natures to go out on our knees.
The sight around the mothership was truly a ... | 2015-04-16T10:56:52 | 2015-04-16T09:08:53 | 480 | 140 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | ACTION REPORT
Date: 4301.51.2
Reporting Officer: Flormat Snikker, Tricounsel, Fourth Armada
Subject: Sol 3 Conflict, Withdrawal
Initial skirmishes were wildly successful. The natives were woefully unprepared for combat. After the customary challenges were issued, our champions were sent forth from each ship to do s... | “They took the water.” That is one of my favourite apocalypse stories, and I'm living it right now. We have heard the speculative tales of laser-wielding aliens, thermonuclear war, zombies or deadly diseases over and over again. I like “They took the water” better, probably because of its relative rarity and the whole... | 2015-04-16T10:56:19 | 2015-04-16T09:54:49 | 78 | 13 |
[WP] Two planets come within range of eachother every 300 years. There is always an ensuing war that lasts the 5 days that the planets are close enough. Each side can only guess at what new technology the other has built since the last time. | The Alignment. It had always been this way. Every generation knew of it, but none now lived to remember the last occurrence.
My generation was the latest Soldier Generation. From the time we could walk we were taught tactics, weapons skills, and physical training. A cloud hung over our lives like the storm clouds tha... | Marcus burst through the tall wooden doors that separated the common area from the throne room.
"Sire I implore you, please we must prepare." He cried as the guards took him by both arms with a sharp force. "All the signs have shown themselves, please!"
The great King Harold had heard this all before and was not even ... | 2015-05-26T20:36:04 | 2015-05-26T18:52:53 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one. | **Log 1**
Specimen displays unusual amounts of strength, stamina and dexterity, also only requires 5-9 hours sleep compared to our 18. It's appetite is insatiable needing to feed every few hours and large amounts at a time, consumes enough in day for fifty of us.
**Log 2**
It seems irate, our weapons also appear to ... | "All I hear are noises."
"Is this a metal box? A tray of sorts? Oh god, what am I doing? Where am I?"
"Big eyes. They were huge, but I don't know what they were. I...I was working on my deck. Then I wasn't. Marissa, please forgive me, I don't know where I've gone. Oh God."
Stephen held his temples. He began to endur... | 2015-07-30T03:12:30 | 2015-07-29T21:01:54 | 186 | 56 |
[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one. | He was scared. No, that was an understatement. He was petrified. All he can do right now is hide in one of the cargo holds and hoped that the human did not find him in this dark and cold corner of the ship.
He thought back on how it all started and why it ended up like this.
It was supposed to be an easy mission. C... | "All I hear are noises."
"Is this a metal box? A tray of sorts? Oh god, what am I doing? Where am I?"
"Big eyes. They were huge, but I don't know what they were. I...I was working on my deck. Then I wasn't. Marissa, please forgive me, I don't know where I've gone. Oh God."
Stephen held his temples. He began to endur... | 2015-07-30T00:16:33 | 2015-07-29T21:01:54 | 115 | 56 |
[WP] This new drug's an incredible bliss with no side effects on health. There's just one thing: after taking it, you can't lie for 24 hours. | "Do you know how fast you were going?"
"Not exactly sir, but the last time I checked it was 109 mph"
"you talk about speeding quite cheerfully son, are you high on something?"
The officer smiled as the boy's face began to contort, trying not to open his mouth "I just smoked a monster blunt, drank a bottle of vodka a... | Drugs. Everyone loved the drugs. Hell they are drugs! Of course they loved them. Something better than abutting else? That's legal? The makers made billions in a matter of days.
Everyone was popping them daily, suicide rates plummeted, productivity skyrocketed, and life was great for all.
Well... Almost all. Nothin... | 2015-10-20T10:00:03 | 2015-10-20T09:57:17 | 95 | 13 |
[WP] Scientists discovered that vegetables and fruit have a conscience. Vegetarians and Vegans go crazy. | It was a horrible realization. Literally all plants were connected together through a form of conscious that transcended our own ideas of what was intelligence and awareness. This super intelligent being was beyond our comprehension but after establishing communication with it we quickly learned that although it was ... | "Your eating salad again?" said the carrot to the vegan
"Yeah"
"What it wasn't enough to kill just one of us? You mix us all in together?"
"Hey man you're being really judgemental"
"Hey I subsist off of nutrients. But that's just because I care about the world" said the carrot.
…
"Yeah so like, we grew these orga... | 2015-12-06T09:41:37 | 2015-12-06T08:13:15 | 219 | 51 |
[WP] You are cursed to see people how they view themselves. You walk alongside monsters and Gods.
Can be third person instead of first.
Edit: I just thought of how EDs and other disorders like multiple personality would fit in with this, and now I'm kinda blown away. | She walked into her classroom, and sat down. Her eyes were red from the tears, it was a rough day already. The children walked into the room, sat down at their desks and she did roll call. The children were the worst. Every day the children would come in, and she would see kings and queens, small doctors and businessme... | Some people see themselves as Gods. I stay away from those folk as much as I can; they generally aren't worth getting to know.
Most people see themselves as monsters, with their flaws and regrets plastered on their faces and amplified beyond all logic. They may be hard to look at, but at the same time, I know that the... | 2016-09-16T19:03:55 | 2016-09-16T16:38:05 | 590 | 122 |
[WP] After first contact, mankind and another civilization agree on a exchange program where you went to their planet spend a year there. When they bring you back, there is nothing where earth used to be. | **Galactic Lunch Time Theorem**
What used to be there was no longer there. My life, my memory, everyone I ever known and all the computer games I ever bought on Steam was gone.
Mars was there, so was Venus, even the moon was still there orbiting around an empty space like an abandoned dog barking at a car long gone. ... | "It's been wonderful having you," my host mother said. I called her Ma. I'd managed to learn the basics of Alpha Centaurian, but I'd never got my tongue around the all the vowel-less syllables in her name.
"You must be looking forwards to having your daughter back though," I said.
Ma nodded. "Of course. I've missed R... | 2017-04-11T10:48:17 | 2017-04-11T09:28:31 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] Traditionally, vampires could not see their reflection because mirrors were silver-backed. With the invention of aluminum-backed mirrors, a vampire sees their reflection for the first time only to find out they are the ugliest thing they have ever seen. | "Judith, my favorite thrall, come here."
"Yes master, what is your will."
"Am I, ugly?"
"Ugly? How could my master think he is ugly. He is the most beautiful and..."
"Okay, enough. You're just a thrall, what do you know, of course you'll see me that way. But, what if I removed the charm then you'll let me know."
... | "Eee-yo..." I cringed, pointing at the image in front of myself as I looked to my companion. He sympathetically tried to hold back a grin, but failed horribly.
"Hm?" The smug little shit. He was practically wheezing as he tried not to laugh at my unfortunate discovery.
"...Dude, is that me?" I looked into the mirror ... | 2017-07-29T12:59:14 | 2017-07-29T12:22:53 | 122 | 77 |
[WP] A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher Artificial Entertainment
A parallel universe, in which Pay to win is the norm and gamers complain about these new "skill to win "games from the publisher **A**rtificial **E**ntertainmen... | Douglas slid the final quarter into the Terminator 2: Judgement Day console. This was it. Fifteen more seconds of end boss play. Three more grenades. One more life. FOR. THE. WIN!!! It was glorious! The best $20.75 he'd ever spent. As the light gun in his hand settled down for the final cutscene, you thrille... | “I just don’t get this new trend in gaming,” Axel complained to his girlfriend, Riley, as he stared at his phone debating another chest roll on Hero Clash Saga. They want $60 to even try their game, and you need a special ‘console’ costing hundreds of dollars to play it on.
“I don’t know. I kind of want to try one,” R... | 2018-02-12T15:10:56 | 2018-02-12T14:20:56 | 115 | 48 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | "This isn't possible!" the man screamed, as the guards dragged him into my office. "How! How the hell did you find me?"
"That's not the important thing, Mr. Spencer." I said, calmly, as the guards pinned him face down to my desk. "The important thing is after my firm put up the money for your bail, you attempted to sk... | I was told I was blessed with a green thumb, when I was the only kid in my preschool who didnt kill their plant. This made my grandpa very happy.
Grandpa was a man I loathed in my younger years, someone who always smelled of cigars and hands where always covered in dirt, even after washing up for supper time. From as ... | 2018-06-30T14:13:13 | 2018-06-30T13:56:55 | 8,960 | 173 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | Danny was what you would call a "gambling savant". He never seemed to lose any bet, no matter how outlandish. Everyone knew his gimmick: he'd flip a coin, call the sides in air and whatever it landed on, he would bet. Eagles or Patriots? He could tell you who would win based on a coin flip: heads for Eagles, tails for ... | I felt nervous and sweaty as I awaited to be called to the stage. The university was bursting at the seams with media, all there to witness my graduation. Perhaps not so uncommon to have global celebrities at Stanford but as the “smartest man alive,” everyone wanted to know what was next. As did I.
Of course, smarte... | 2018-06-30T18:35:54 | 2018-06-30T17:46:43 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] The hero and villain are roommates but don't know each other's secret identities. Come up with excuses for each other's injuries and describe a normal day. | I locked the door behind me as I headed out of my apartment. Even if I spent the night fighting with Doxx, I still had classes to get to.
Last night had been a close one: Doxx had infiltrated an industrial warehouse with a shipment of phones and had been installing... *something* into them. Not going to lie, I really ... | *beep beep beep*
I slam my hand down on my alarm clock and hop out of bed. I need to get up as quick as possible so I can meet Silvera at 7:00 and bring her to justice. I hear my roommate also shuffling around as I shove my brightly colored “Starfury” outfit into my backpack and I pull on pants that may or may not hav... | 2018-08-08T05:52:21 | 2018-08-08T05:42:55 | 19 | 10 |
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