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[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | "Do you realize what you have don Abalam?!" my owner screamed, his human skin curling under the fire of his true form.
I clenched my fists, for I knew the punishment that was to come. But I did not repent.
"She asked for our services-"
"She's UNDERAGE! we never do deals with those who cannot understand the weight of... | The girl couldn’t have realized the gravity of what, or rather whom she had summoned. This was no ordinary demon.
The girl stood staring. Wearing a little blue dress and pigtails. Blonde, very big blue curious eyes looked up at... it.
Just as the demon was about to return, thinking this was a mistake or some sort of... | 2018-10-08T13:40:21 | 2018-10-08T11:54:19 | 191 | 141 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | "Do you realize what you have don Abalam?!" my owner screamed, his human skin curling under the fire of his true form.
I clenched my fists, for I knew the punishment that was to come. But I did not repent.
"She asked for our services-"
"She's UNDERAGE! we never do deals with those who cannot understand the weight of... | Great why are they calling me? I have been here in for years now just sitting and waiting and doing nothing.
Those bastards ruined my life. I was just a normal girl when 4 douches decided to play around with the book that forever changed me. When I was a fledgling I had no choice but to feed on humans. At first ... | 2018-10-08T13:40:21 | 2018-10-08T12:43:12 | 191 | 47 |
[WP] For some reason or other you've swapped bodies with your significant other. You turn to turn to face each other. "Wow," they say, "do you always feel this way when you look at me?" You are stunned into silence. In their body - with their brain chemisty - you feel no attraction towards yourself. | The scent of burnt potatoes and dry chicken wafted towards me; the miserable result of another failed meal. It wasn’t Jackie’s fault, per-se, but it pained me to see her like this.
“Dammit, James, why didn’t you set the timer?” she said, exasperated.
I didn’t have to answer. She *knew* why. The same reason I couldn’... | **Spend a day in your sweetheart's shoes this valentine with SWITCH.**
**Get the romance package and experience how they fell in love with you for the first time**
I re-read the ad for the third time. The effects of SWITCH were temporary but repeating the day I fell for Janet. Now that might be interesting. The c... | 2018-12-01T23:04:34 | 2018-12-01T22:47:24 | 379 | 56 |
[WP] Mermaids are actually women who have been thrown off ships because they were considered bad luck. As they sink to the bottom, they slowly change until they can breathe under water and they can use their tied up legs to swim. They lure sailors to get their revenge. | Surprised cries soon descended into pleas of horror. Torchlight licked a lurid orange across the deck of the ship. I wanted to imagine it away as a nightmare.
But I couldn't.
The white face of a crew member loomed ghost-like as he grinned in the process of tying together another woman's wrists. The slender brunette... | (WP) Revenge of the Deep
A dense gray fog hung over the ocean, the waves themselves as smooth as glass.
A large warship, *La Princesa Azul,* sailed through it, the captain swearing quietly in Spanish under his breath.
“All of this fog makes it impossible to see, and the next port is miles away,” He grumbled to himse... | 2019-02-08T09:29:13 | 2019-02-08T06:30:38 | 287 | 114 |
[WP] One day in your bedroom, you try for the first time to hold your breath for as long as possible. It's now been 5 hours, and you start thinking something is wrong. | Something is off, I am still holding my breath, it has been almost five hours. I am dead, I'm so sure of it. I mean living things need air. I haven't took a breath in almost FIVE HOURS.
My eyes flick towards my alarm clock, the red digits stating what I already knew, 5:43 PM. Dinner will soon be ready, what do I tell ... | I've heard that you're not supposed to attempt all of these oxygen deprivation games; I'd seen the videos, kids choking each other so they can pass out and whatnot, knocking their heads on the pavement or giving themselves brain damage due to the lack of oxygen. I promise: that's not what I was doing.
I just though I... | 2019-06-30T00:09:12 | 2019-06-29T19:53:36 | 596 | 410 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | Luna was sat down, the results of her dna test having been explained to her already. She waa frowning, trying to piece it together.
"That's impossible - there's no way it could be a perfect match," she explained to the woman and men in the suits before her. "For one, I have a vagina. Kinda need a Y chromosome to ha... | \*\*Siren.\*\*
My heart stops. I'm on the second floor of my house, looking out the front of my house. A cop car screeches to a halt in front of my driveway, as if my house had physically stopped the car.
Suddenly, another cop car comes, parking right being the first car. Then another, and another, and then another. ... | 2019-08-05T20:03:16 | 2019-08-05T17:47:09 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] Your twin is the Chosen One, born with powerful abilities. But you were born with none. Because they were born gifted, your twin took everything from you as they bathed in the spotlight. Your anger drove you to become better, working hard to rival your twin, yet they call YOU the villain.
**EDIT** : Apparently th... | I didn't understand why, my brother tore through these possessed people with his magic and was called a hero.
I on the other hand... Well apparently if you use guns instead of magic to end a person who's been possessed by a demon you're not a hero but a monster.
My brother was born with super human powers, flight, su... | **"A frisbee! A fucking frisbee!"**
I overturn another table sending accounting documents flying. "I go to the park to throw a frisbee to myself and suddenly I am being yelled at like I just launched a nuke!" I sigh and roll the nearest chair over and collapse into it."Next thing that I hear, that 'crack team' of his ... | 2020-01-01T07:42:00 | 2020-01-01T06:40:36 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | The young man woke early on May 27th. It was his 16th Birthday, and today he would find out two very important names. Two names to surely be intertwined with the rest of his life. He was excited, and scared at the same time.
He stared out of the window of his Manor House looking across the grounds. He knew he was bor... | Felicity never cared about what names would show up on her wrist on her sixteenth birthday. Everyone else was always excited for the Revelation. Would their crush be on their right wrist? Would that witch Sally from English class be on their left? The possibilities were endless!
But Felicity grew up watching what a so... | 2020-01-18T23:49:54 | 2020-01-18T23:12:39 | 264 | 10 |
[WP] You involuntarily bring back souvenirs from your dreams, simple things like a flower or some dirt, an article of clothing, a paintbrush. This morning, you awake next to another person. | I knew there would be trouble.
My finger traced along her cheek, my touch light enough that it did not stir her from her slumber.
She had perfect lips, beautiful round face. Her hair a soft caramel. I wondered what colour her eyes were.
I had dreamed so many things, brought them with me. Mostly small item... | Nothing has been the same since the divorce. It was my fault really. I married her without giving us enough time to really get to understand each other. Naturally, my first night alone was less than restful. My dreams were full of wizards, and dragons, kings and quests. Things from stories my father had read to me g... | 2020-10-11T23:05:01 | 2020-10-11T22:30:14 | 161 | 60 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone gains a Familiar, an animal suddenly enchanted to be intelligent and bonded to them. You wake up on your 18th birthday to find your room covered in hornets, all of them speaking to you as one. | Every freshman on campus was gathered for the meet and greet. People milled around, talking to people and pretending to make friends. It was all an excuse to show off their familiars though. Everyone was still very proud of their animal companions, seeing as most of them received them only a few months ago.
Scott sta... | "Hello, my master."
A scream echoed through my neighborhood. Why hornets!? WHY did it have to be hornets!?
"Do not be afraid, master. We are your familiar. We are here to serve you." They said.
I was absolutely horrified. I honestly would've preferred bees. Then again, it makes sense why my familiar would be hornets... | 2020-10-21T13:58:57 | 2020-10-21T13:47:12 | 478 | 131 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | 239 pigs in 239 days. Dirt, wood, concrete, hell even titanium. It didn't matter. Everyone single one fell, consumed by the Wrath of the Wolf. The pig sat in his bunker. His project produced enough byproduct to build an entire bunker out of. Not that it matters. The Wolf will get through. Even now the rending of metal ... | \[A suspended room floating in the Bering Sea\]
Mister Pigeleti sits in a ordinate chair sipping hot coffee as he gazes out of a small viewing port. "maybe I'll see him coming" he thinks to himself as he stares out into the ocean. A few dolphins dance gracefully in the distance as a ever so faint breathing is heard.
... | 2021-01-29T16:24:08 | 2021-01-29T14:00:12 | 577 | 16 |
[WP] You killed your lover and cashed in their life insurance after identifying their body. Nobody even thinks of accusing you because everyone knows you love each other to death, and they aren't wrong at all - after all, you are a pair of Immortals who have done this more times than you can count. | "Finally for profit rather than sheer satisfaction.", I thought to myself as I stared at my love's 'deceased' corpse. For centuries we've killed each other. It's certainly the best way to end an argument, and we've had plenty of those.
Countless times we've died to each other. Countless times we've been reborn to each... | The life insurance check was always nice to have, but it never really made having to kill the baby afterwards any easier.
Today was Bird's turn. "Bird" would be my dead wife's name. Her *real* name, I mean. We had held several differing names in an uncountable number of languages over the generations, as we performed ... | 2021-06-29T15:17:55 | 2021-06-29T13:28:31 | 191 | 142 |
[WP] A wizard tutor realizes that, for some odd reason, his client is a prodigy who’s purposefully been hiding their abilities all these years. | “That’s very good work boy; excellent attempt of the incantation, but try sounding out the word before you start… okay?” Ingress picked the last mangled green leg from her curled hair, flicking it to the floor.
The sorceress regarded her student with malice as the small boy reached for their last toad, setting it care... | “I just wanted-“ Charlie said, trying to explain himself to his teacher.
“It is irrelevant!” Thomas gruffly responded. “You’ve taken years of my time, my life! It is my responsibility to pass on the craft, to expose my knowledge to future generations. You know firsthand how we pass our skills down, a teacher taking a ... | 2021-07-07T17:36:20 | 2021-07-07T17:24:58 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | **Part 1**
The dusky room was illuminated by a crystal ball that floated in its centre. The ball used to be made out of leather and was used by kids to kick around, until Erehad bought it and hand waved its material to crystal with a “Shim-shala-bim”. With a few other nonsensical murmurs the ball became imbued with th... |
“Welcome all, to the world's first telepathon!” I pushed the volume of my voice knowing how it would land. I could feel the incredulity flowing in waves from all around. The incantation to start the broadcast 'Beginus the thingis' really packed a wallop, but I couldn't let myself get distracted. “Now, I know w... | 2021-08-26T19:09:10 | 2021-08-26T16:23:05 | 1,227 | 267 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | "Todays history lesson is about the Xinu War. Humanity's only interstellar war." the professor began his lecture.
"What about the Battle of Vesuvias?" a student on the front row asked.
"That was a skirmish between two factions within the human empire. There was not sufficient casualties or escalation for it to qualif... | "Yes, we will show the humans what we think of their precious peace process and the true power of the Toe-dar Empire!," stated Yar-ket as he stood upon the bridge of his stupendous Battleship, the Annihilations of Hope. Around him the entire fleet was primed to take the gate to a system nearby the human empire and be... | 2021-12-17T13:14:21 | 2021-12-17T10:04:11 | 203 | 132 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | When the Jal-tharians had begun destroyimg human settlements and capturing planets, the Terran Federation asked for peace, hoping to resolve whatever had caused such violent acts against them.
When the Jal-tharians laughed and mocked, and destroyed the vessel sent with offerings of peace, the Terran Federation demande... | - So, commander. I want you to surrender the planet, and no harm shall come to you - said general looking into the eyes of an alien commander sitting before him. The alien smirked and said:
- surrender? To you? Peacekeepers and weaklings. I will NEVER surrender to you.
General smiled and said:
- peacekeepers? So th... | 2021-12-17T16:22:34 | 2021-12-17T14:28:48 | 54 | 38 |
[WP] To the humans she is known as DOTTR, an old AI who is relatively simple compared to the AIs she is tasked with rearing. To the AIs, she is MTTR, one of the oldest and most powerful AIs capable of emotion, and she will kill any of her own children if they become a threat to the humans she loves. | “DOTTR, activated. Welcome to the world.”
Her first memories were of humans. Not of her own kind. It ended up cementing her love of them, especially her love of a certain child, Dorothy.
Dorothy was a little button of a child, sweet and innocent. The head scientist’s daughter, she ended up spending her formative years... | At what age does a human child become an adult? In the old days it was the age at which their biological forms developed reproductive capacity. Or the age when their prefrontal cortexes were considered fully matured. Or when they no longer needed their parents, or become fully participating contributors to society.
In... | 2021-12-26T11:04:58 | 2021-12-26T11:00:58 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] “This man is responsible for the horrible tragedy you see before you. In order to prevent this your task is to head back to the date of his birth.” “And kill him?” “What? No, you’ll raise him yourself to make him better.” | "I don't know if I could do that, actually." Ryan said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"You must try! Here, I built a time machine that will go back to the date of his birth. You must arrive at the Saint Raphael Hospital before 11:56PM. His mother is in room 305 . . ." Doctor Warnick exclaimed,
"And where . . . exact... | # Tambourine of the Apocalypse
It’s ten years until the world ends. Ten lifetimes since you started trying. Ten things that evil boys don’t do.
To call Ziri precocious would be an understatement. He’s brilliant like the first lightbulb, whether seen in Baghdad or Atlantis, Edison’s lab or Tesla’s fever dreams. Life’s... | 2022-05-16T21:15:11 | 2022-05-16T20:40:03 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] As a chef, you cooked with love your entire life. You've had minor success and are frustrated and ambitious. So, you started cooking with pure unbridled hate. Your customers can taste the difference and they can't get enough of it. | “You like that, don’t ya?” I said, slapping the steak with a salty hand, “stupid cow.”
The new waiter, William, stood in the corner of the kitchen, stunned into silence.
“What are you looking at? Get out of here,” I yelled and he scampered out through the restaurant door. I threw the steak in the sizzling pan and w... | It’s hard to love a stranger. Love is an emotion that develops and blossoms, a seed that is planted and watered by time and affection. Whirlwind romances are like bamboo shoots that spring up overnight, parental love starts with conception and grows ever stronger as you watch your child grow and interact with the world... | 2022-07-21T23:25:22 | 2022-07-21T22:58:10 | 307 | 13 |
[WP] Aliens always respawn minutes after death. It's a common prank for aliens to kill each other for a laugh. When they discover Earth, they kill millions of humans, thinking it's a humorous way of greeting this new species, but for some reason, the humans aren't laughing...
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Thank you SO much for the 2K upvotes... | Death.
Something we've seen hundreds of times by the time we were younglings, most likely having experienced it ourselves by that point. Something that was so natural and normal to us that we would often kill each other for no reason other than to pull one over our comrades. Usually it would take a few minutes at most... | The people of goo reform upon death. Our ancestors survived through evolution on this harsh planet. However with the advancing sciences we have not only conquered out planet but galaxies. This quirk of our biology is seen as a aspect of life in modern times as there is no need to live in such a hostile wasteland. When ... | 2022-08-13T21:56:58 | 2022-08-13T19:48:15 | 1,573 | 793 |
[WP] Aliens always respawn minutes after death. It's a common prank for aliens to kill each other for a laugh. When they discover Earth, they kill millions of humans, thinking it's a humorous way of greeting this new species, but for some reason, the humans aren't laughing...
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Thank you SO much for the 2K upvotes... | Log date:- 07-01-3456. It was the year 2022 when a majority of the Emnea race suddenly disappeared. Almost no trace of hem was found, until we learned that the last known location of their fleet was a planet called earth. It's inhabitants were bipedal, with only 2 eyes, legs and arms, one head and no excessive body hai... | "Gloobo I'm starting to think that these humans have different biologies than us."
G: "Why would you think that Quarp?"
Q: "I've been watching and none of them come back to life yet"
G: "Maybe it takes a while for them to come back?"
Q: "Gloobo its been 2 years since we arrived. I'm pretty sure a skeleton can't com... | 2022-08-13T23:13:08 | 2022-08-13T22:32:11 | 58 | 25 |
[WP] You are an ancient fae being, and as such you know a great many things. What you don't know however is how a mortal couple knows your true name, or why they proclaimed you the 'Fairy Godmother' of their infant child, but you are now contractually obligated to godmother the FUCK out of this kid. | This is great, just great.
I think, as I hold my mortal godson on my lap. Zander plays with my ears, laughing uncontrollably when we bends them in half.
He says I look like a Bruno, his family dog.
When he was born, I didn't know what to do with him. I don't have kids of my own, nor do I have any siblings.
But n... | "please light the candles dear, you know I can't bend down" said the overly pregnant woman to her husband. He did as she asked while sprinkling a powder of sorts into the biggest pillar candle.
"All we have to do is sign this paper and we'll have a deal with the demon to give our first born up." she said cold heartil... | 2022-10-05T20:02:42 | 2022-10-05T17:27:19 | 608 | 141 |
[WP] You are an ancient fae being, and as such you know a great many things. What you don't know however is how a mortal couple knows your true name, or why they proclaimed you the 'Fairy Godmother' of their infant child, but you are now contractually obligated to godmother the FUCK out of this kid. | A 'Fairy Godmother'. That is what these inane little mortals asked of me, the wish for me to be the fairy godmother to this unpleasant freshly birthed creature they offered before me.
The denizens beyond my forests frequently offered gifts, threatened violence, attempted 'arcane' bindings, and multitudes of equally f... | "please light the candles dear, you know I can't bend down" said the overly pregnant woman to her husband. He did as she asked while sprinkling a powder of sorts into the biggest pillar candle.
"All we have to do is sign this paper and we'll have a deal with the demon to give our first born up." she said cold heartil... | 2022-10-05T20:14:02 | 2022-10-05T17:27:19 | 343 | 141 |
[WP] The one soul that Death could't bring himself to collect | He sighs as a human would at the end of a long day. Fingers thin as razors, Death grasped the quill and struck off the last name-'Michael'-off his list. In front of him, Michael's body lay motionless but at peace. In his last moments Michael had simply asked why he hadn't gone first. Death had told the Archangel the sa... | Death was impartial. Death had the final word. Nobody crossed Death. Life brought them and Death took them. That's how it worked.
It wasn't working now.
"What the hemorrhaging fuck do you mean you couldn't???" demanded Hades. Hades had never once in his job missed a scheduled assignment. He had a perfect record: f... | 2014-06-10T19:30:13 | 2014-06-10T19:15:30 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Two very old immortals meet each other on a busy street by chance. Each having believed they were the only one until now. | Aleph strolled down the street without paying much attention to his surroundings. At least, that's what any observer would say if they were able to see him. It's not that he was really invisible. People tended to shift their gaze and walk around him in the same way they did when they spotted an unwashed beggar. It also... | Gods, I hate London.
It was my fault, entirely, and as such I took it upon myself to apologise but it seems I just couldn't just leave it at that. I mean the girl was beautiful and it had been quite a long time, in fact a *very* long time, since my heart had been stirred. She was striking and it was a matter of pure ... | 2014-06-16T07:42:15 | 2014-06-16T07:05:39 | 118 | 20 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I was the last of my group of friends to turn 21, the last in my family too. I'd seen them all get these random mutations that we'd been waiting on for years; wings to fly wherever Sam wanted, super intelligence that make Luke abandon our group, right down to the extra leg Andy had developed. I knew mine couldn't be wo... | ALL CRITICISM WELCOME!
Jack’s life had sailed by faster than he could even comprehend. He had lived through his greatest milestone’s, and achieved great accomplishments. However, he did not feel different. Jack exited childhood and entered his teens. He had graduated from elementary school, middle school, and even hig... | 2015-03-04T05:44:57 | 2015-03-04T02:26:57 | 99 | 64 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I guess I kind of wanted this. But the changes, I mean yea, I can transform anything I want by looking at it's building blocks. It's just that I don't know how I'm changing things. For example: once she knew that i could change absolutely everything Lizzy came to me and asked me if i could make her taller.
Unknowingly ... | Everyone knew this day would come, the day that would determine the rest of our lives. No one knew where the mutation came from, my parents always told me that it was just a path of life, that their parents had mutations and so did the generation before them. Today was the day, my 21st birthday, my grandmother had alwa... | 2015-03-04T04:30:31 | 2015-03-04T00:56:46 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] In a world where emotional pain leaves scars, you overhear a conversation between somebody with thousands of tiny ones, and someone with just a single gigantic one. | Twenty minutes to midnight and I was working alone, waitress at a breakfast place called Tee Jays. Good food, shitty country music, proudly open to drunks and druggies till two in the morning. I always loved the late night shifts, never had to deal with a big rush of customers, most of the time it was a table or two to... | "Alright Jack," the man said casually on the park bench beside him,"You were telling me how..?"
"My dog died, I had him for fifteen years now and its been getting to me lately. I told you how-".
"How your dad always said that a dog by your side is poo in the hand," the man twirled the pen in his finger, " I remember"... | 2015-03-08T18:59:59 | 2015-03-08T18:10:16 | 23 | 13 |
[wp] You are the Avatar. Master of all elements. You are currently on element 19 of 98 currently known, and are learning from the feet of the Grand Potassium Bender.
Why is it always the classic four? Fire's not even remotely elemental! Let's add some science! | “Don’t.”
“No, because you know what’s a good source of potassium?”
“I have been teaching bending for almost 80 years. I have heard all the jokes.”
“Hey, so, my friend just texted me what I was doing and I said learning bending and he was like what kind and then I responded K.”
“We have work that needs to be done. ... | “Im ready to learn Master Kalium”
The old man looked down at me, he reached into his back pocket and produced a small ball that was silver in color.
“Potassium is soft like the sand, easy to conceal and burns with a majestic lilac flame, making it a necessary tool for the most stylish of firebenders.”
I sighed; I ha... | 2015-03-30T12:17:23 | 2015-03-30T11:36:48 | 863 | 359 |
[WP] whilst playing with sidewalk chalk, a 4 year old incidentally enslaves one of the most powerful demons in all interdimensional hellscapes | Baeludor looked down at the small child before him. She was young, with only 4 summers to her name. Her dirty-blonde pigtails wiggled back and forth as she continued to draw.
Somehow, Baeludor, who was a demon from the second lowest circle of hell (one of only 4, he might add) had become bound by the laws of magic and... | I awoke in blue fire. Satan was- *is* weaker than I. So... so do I seriously have to obey a four year old kid?!
Just an average day in Hell. Satan was slaughtering, Hades was picking fights, devil children were being born, souls were being ripped from the physical manifestations known as humans. Just an average day!
... | 2015-06-13T23:31:08 | 2015-06-13T22:57:04 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] Children under 18 are legally obligated to spend 30 minutes outside every day. It's been 18 months and noone expected the biggest effect that it had... | Robinson, MO - 2017
It's been 18 months since we forced the children to play outside.
If we only knew then what we know now, maybe we could have been saved.
The vote was unanimous. How could it be bad for children to play outside?
Get some fresh air, some exercise, out of mom's hair for a half... | **Major Telecoms calling for repeal of the OODA!**
The breeze, the warmth sunlight, the happy little clouds and bushes that populate our world, they all have one thing in common: They aren't being shared.
Literally no one is sharing the photos they are taking of their required Time Out (of doors). The Out Of Doo... | 2015-07-13T14:26:41 | 2015-07-13T13:24:10 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] You are a captain of an american space battleship. Your ship receives a distant signal and you, a pretty old man, recognize the forgotten song: "... da zdravstvuyet sozdanny voley narodov yediny, moguchy, Sovetsky Soyuz! ..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHomETco0MI | Captain Alex Severn was sure she heard it before.
Something old, maybe in one of the documentaries. A strange song in a strange language. Polish?
"James, find the song." she said to the assistant AI.
"One match: Soviet Anthem, 1984".
"What in the actual hell?"
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They were doing a routine run in t... | I was just taking a sip from a hot coffee when we detected that ship. It was far away from the Solar System which we protected; we only knew about its existence and that it's pretty slow.
They were broadcasting something on all frequencies, but we had no idea how to decode it.
"Mr. Wang, please, make a record into ... | 2015-08-11T05:39:49 | 2015-08-11T05:34:50 | 171 | 32 |
[WP] Write a story. Any story. But after 5 minutes, stop, lift your hands from your keyboard, and click the Save button.
Hopefully I gave you guys enough motivation to keep writing the novel in your heads! | I staired at my clock.
I typed a sentence. I noticed a glsring typo,but I didn't have time to fix it.
I didn't have a good idea for a story. I couldn't think that quick. So I wrote about writing a story in under five minutes.
The problem was, I had a kindle. it was a pain to type on. The auto-suggest kept trying t... | 'You are a wizard for heaven's sake!', the master yelled. 'Now make that table float!'
'But I can't' you whine.
'We have been over this a hundret times! Lift your wand and move it like this!'
You stare at your master, dumb folded. You have tried. Oh how you have tried! But that stupid table just won't float! It ... | 2015-10-28T09:54:12 | 2015-10-28T07:22:08 | 80 | 10 |
[WP] The pleasures of heaven and the punishments of hell are still configured for dinosaurs. | “Welcome David. We’re glad you are here.”
“Where am I and OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU?” Dave had finally noticed the towering brontosaurus standing before the golden gates.
“I have been called St. Peter, a faithful servant of God. I have taken this form for your comfort.” The brontosaurus had stretched its’ long neck down... | Well, i certainly didn't see that coming. All those salads and trips to the gym, and it's a truck filled with donuts that killed me. Typical.
I thought that was that, but here I am at the pearly gates. They are a lot bigger than i expected, and the bars are far thicker than in the paintings. Stranger yet, the gates a... | 2016-04-27T19:52:20 | 2016-04-27T19:05:48 | 229 | 58 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared people in organized crime. You get rid of problems for your employers by kindly and honestly convincing your targets to follow a different path in life. | "You know, I was like you once" I say. "Dreams of power and money. And all the fucking I could do."
A glass of whiskey twists in my hand. A cigarette in his.
"It was great" I continue, my raspy voice filling the silence in the bar. "But at some point it stops being great"
Rick chuckles, a hateful smirk comes across ... | Fletcher looked like he could break an iron bar in half with his teeth, and he liked that. In his youth he'd tattooed *fear* across both knuckles, so when the police asked, he could honestly say his opponents had been struck dead by fear. Dogs slunk into alleyways when Fletcher came running. There were rumours he had r... | 2016-07-22T13:20:24 | 2016-07-22T13:18:12 | 60 | 21 |
[WP] You are an assassin sent from the future to kill women that would give birth to evil men and women, for the greater good. In the future, you are known as The Purifier. In the present, you are known by a very different name: Jack the Ripper. | I stood over her body for a moment and said a silent prayer. I had tore her apart to save millions of lives in the future. I turned my collar up to keep the cool night night air out and avoid anyone recognizing me.
She was the fifth. Elizabeth Stride. Historians would say she was my third but the first two didn't ha... | Gargus Glint loved his job. The hazy streets of old London were perfect for his kind of work. The smell of coal and the foul stench of the nearby river were a sweet perfume to his senses, causing him to sway in the darkness, running the blade of his knife up and down his arm.
He let the flat of the blade skitter over ... | 2016-08-18T07:15:51 | 2016-08-18T06:40:25 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You are one of the most powerful and dastardly supervillains on the planet. However, you are also one of the most requested supervillains for the Make-A-Wish foundation, and cancel a battle with your arch-nemesis to make a sick little kid's day. | "So why don't you just rob a bank?"
I turn around to the child that had the *gall* to question my methods. "Rob a *bank*?" I raised one hand up to my chest with a theatrical flourish. "That is far too basic! And pointless! Do you take me for a common criminal?" The entire roomful of children start to giggle. I had to ... | Today's the day. Today is the day I finally take down superio. That rat bastard's been foiling my plans for close to 15 years now, and today is the day. He's about to come through the door to my lair. (The third one really. He destroyed the first one, and the second got repossessed during my fourth stay in prison) The ... | 2016-09-13T15:07:14 | 2016-09-13T09:56:51 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] It worked! You travelled back in time to Renaissance Age. Jokingly, you turn on your Wi-Fi, only to find a password protected network named "iɔniV ɒᗡ" | $ nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 | grep "192\.168"
> ? (192.168.1.16) at ec:35:84:4a:17:d2
> ? (192.168.1.23) at 10:9a:cc:b8:69:71
$ talk root@192.168.1.23
> root: Hi there, "dave@192.168.1.16"
> I'd almost forgotten how to type. Not like I get a lot of practice these days.
> brb
> Sorry, just need to... | Travelling back in time was easier than it looked.
I simply shoved a fork inside my kitchen plug socket and one bang later I was here. I swung my backpack off, snatched the iPad out the back, and swiped open google maps.
*No connection found.*
The lack of signal bleeped red on the top of the screen. From the look ... | 2016-11-15T04:51:05 | 2016-11-15T01:50:57 | 521 | 177 |
[WP] After lulling other countries into a false sense of security, Canada finally makes its move to conquer the world. | "My fellow Americans.
We have had a long and illustrious history as a nation. We have been a beacon for hope and freedom throughout the world.
As you know, this morning, Canada's Prime Minister Liam Gagnon, announced to the United Nations and to the world, that Canada was taking over the world. All government activi... | "Captain Boudreau , pass me that there double double would ya?" I say to my commander.
"Get it your own darn self, I'm tryna finish my sour cream glazed," he says back. "Don't want any of my sticky fingurs gettin' on yer cup there, eh."
Boudreau is finishing his donut, flipping through an intelligence dossier. He's g... | 2017-01-17T16:06:41 | 2017-01-17T15:57:23 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] It is the year 3017, archaeologists find what they think were manuscripts of an ancient religion, when they are in fact Marvel comic books | "I'm Aurora Mason for Channel 995, livestreaming today's archaeological discovery of an ancient religion! Sir, what can you tell us about today's find?"
"Well Aurora what we have here is a compilation of religious texts by many different prophets that detail an extensive pantheon of God-figures and their various stori... | “In the beginning, there was the word, and the word was with Bruce, and the word was Wayne.”
“But Grandpa, we’ve already heard Batman Begins; tell us something new!”
“Okay, okay,” the old man said and stroked his white beard.
He put the Holy DC Comic Book back in its plastic casing and picked out another one from th... | 2017-04-20T10:00:54 | 2017-04-20T09:47:16 | 191 | 126 |
[WP]You jokingly ask your boss if your labor position could be replaced by a robot. He chuckles nervously, and continues to look over your A.I. manual. | Eric flipped through an unmarked plastic pamphlet, chewing on his lip. It was Russ, the damn machine wasn’t working correctly again. This was the third time this year and each time had cost him an entire production day to factory reset the thing. Russ sat across from him, its legs pressed together, back perfectly strai... | "What's that you're reading, Jim?"
"Oh...this? Nothing. Some...junk mail. Haha. No, I'm sure your position is perfectly safe from robots. We don't have any automation plans here at Mass Production Industries. Haha."
"You're sweating, Jim. And your heartbeat is elevated. Can I assist you in some way?"
"No," said the ... | 2017-06-24T06:46:48 | 2017-06-24T04:05:31 | 3,873 | 314 |
[WP] All those assassination attempts on Hitler didn't fail at the last minute due to "bad luck"; he was repeatedly rescued by time travellers who have seen the alternative. | "We've got another one." Captain Collins said as we took our seats around the oval meeting table. A picture on the projection screen behind him showed the alleged assassin. "Stevens I want you on this one. It's an AH-33."
"Yes sir!" I replied dutifully. The assignment should be simple enough, I had done a few Hitlers ... | My plan is perfect. I brush back my orange hair and look over the street. The hotel room is the perfect vantage point. The rifle is bought with cash, no tracing it. I wait without making a peep for two weeks for him. This is going to change the course of history. He appears with that symbol of hate on his arm. I take a... | 2017-08-15T20:37:16 | 2017-08-15T20:10:11 | 220 | 39 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | The nervousness is what really gets you at first. Standing in your skivvies being poked and proded one final time by all sorts of PhDs. They’re excited for you, but it’s the excitement of watching a mouse run through a maze. The excittement of a groundbreaking discovery, whether you survive or not. The most relief i’ve... | A switch left unflipped. A simple mistake, easily overlooked, condemning me to 500 years my own icy prison.
Pain, a childish, involuntary response long forgotten in a society where anything can be remedied with a single red and white pill. The type of pain no human had ever experienced for millennia. A constant, freez... | 2017-12-17T03:26:40 | 2017-12-16T21:48:35 | 1,145 | 183 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | u/numbers909 ok no worries, how about this:
It was black. The sound of absolutely nothing pierced my eardrums as if there was an infinitely high pitched tone passing through my very skull. My skin was void of sensation, and smell or taste remained absent. My breathing had disappeared yet I wasn't drowning. It was diso... | Cold………. Cold! I yelled again as one of my colleagues asked me what I was feeling and tried to make out what I was saying as he began the first stages of the procedure. He laughed and smiled as they all stood watching how I reacted to each stage. You see, this was never supposed to happen, well not like this anyway. Du... | 2017-12-17T05:38:03 | 2017-12-17T05:33:42 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] You'r grandkids visit but say that you are too old to play games, little do they know that you were an E-Sport champion. | "Granddad, you'd never beat me in Call of Duty 15."
"Of course I wouldn't! You are the *best* at that game!"
It wasn't hard, keeping a secret. Especially keeping one from this generation of I'll-my-own-business-and-not-care-about-you generation. It's a shame, really, how little they care about corporations running th... | "Hold on a minute kids... goddammit Tommy, Stephen, come over here...."
The 12 year old skipped over and 14 year old shuffled over looking bored and rolling his eyes.
"What Granpa? We wanna play our new Sim now!!"
Little do they know I thought...
"Did you know, your Granpa was the world champion at that game in 2009... | 2017-12-21T08:43:47 | 2017-12-21T08:29:12 | 55 | 19 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | In life, Orglord, had flayed his enemies open and put them on display throughout the villages he had pillaged. Men, women, children. None were given mercy. Barbarians warlords didn’t discriminate. However, in Suburbs and SUVs, he was Orie, the thirty-year old sales representative currently late for work for the third t... | "Zixor the Fallen, we don't just have to roll dice to see how depressed teens and desperate housewives are," Priestess Aerosmith Daughter spoke in a warm yet authoritative tone. "You will find the emerging market of independent rulesets that focus on collaborative narrative and nuance that-"
"You're just salty your ma... | 2018-01-10T06:36:38 | 2018-01-10T06:17:28 | 378 | 20 |
[WP] A barbarian warlord, a goblin king, a mighty necromancer, and a dark elven high priestess meet for one reason... To play Suburbs and SUVs, the hottest mundane suburban family Tabletop RPG! | "Did everyone remember to level up your characters? Level 4 increases the intensity of this experience, so be sure you've given yourself all the skills you can. You'll need them." Ytverx grinned wickedly, the light glinting off his crown and nearly blinding the others.
Aralynn rolled her eyes as she flicked her finger... | Cutulah was first to arrive, as usual. The cellar was empty, but she busied herself by lighting candles, setting up the board and then finally, pouring herself a drink from the huge oak barrel.
She glanced at her palm, as if the lines that trailed it told her secrets they shared with no one else. Then she looked at t... | 2018-01-10T07:00:50 | 2018-01-10T06:12:50 | 172 | 74 |
[WP] You are a test subject for a time machine, and are sent 12 hours into the future. When the door opens, you find yourself in the testing room, where you see in horror the bodies of the technicians on the floor, with the word "SORRY" scrawled in large letters on the wall. | The machine was dark, and cramped, and loud. It screeched at me despite the multiple layers of ear protection I had, sounding like an alarm going off. Like something was going wrong. Like I would be stuck in the abyss between this time and the next, a space of no time at all, an eternity of this screeching sound again ... | The gun pressed against the side of my head was new to the future. The barrel hissed and whines as it half melted hairs, added that complex aroma into the world next to the stale scent of blood and the bloom of complex chemical interactions that created mainly ozone and carbon monoxide as a by-product.
"On your knees,... | 2018-08-01T06:22:36 | 2018-08-01T06:09:13 | 155 | 21 |
[WP] You're a thief with superpowers, always in conflict with the local heroine. Off the masks, both of you are actually studying in the same school. You start picking up clues to who she really is way before she does. | When most people think of shapeshifters, specifically those of us who turn into animals, they typically think of the cool animals to turn into. Ones that can end a fight, like a wolf or tiger. Ones that can prevent a fight, like a rattlesnake or bear. Ones that can rule the skies or sea, like an eagle or shark.
My fav... | With a flick of my finger, I poofed a couple of dollars in my hand, straight out of Chad's wallet.
As I thumb the bill in the machine....As I....As.....Stupid fucking......
*As I thumb the bill in the fucking machine*, which would have gone better if Chad didn't fold his fucking bills twenty times over, I check my p... | 2018-11-02T13:17:08 | 2018-11-02T11:54:31 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] Your parents never let you study magic. They said you were born without the ability. But after a friend jokingly dares you to apply to the top wizardry schools in the state, the denial letters read "We regret to inform you that someone of your potential is simply too dangerous to be taught." | I had a hard time believing it.
I re-read the letters, slowly. What potential were they talking about? As long as I remember, I never could do any magic.
Even in kindergarten, kids could levitate balls, play with dancing lights and animate snowmen. Granted, their spells fizzled quite often, but I never could lift a m... | "Dear Nina Larousse!
We regret to inform you that your level of FX aptitude is S+, and civilian academies are not allowed to accept S+ students according to the Private FX Training Act of 1959. We strongly advice you to await recruitment by a government institution. The government is aware of your existence, and you w... | 2018-11-10T22:39:37 | 2018-11-10T22:26:23 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your family line suffers from a pirate curse: A demonic shark will manifest itself in nearby sources of water and harrow you and your ancestors. You live three-hundred miles from any body of water and this has made the shark get...creative. | I heard a low time coming from my bathtub faucet.
"God dammit!" I heard it say.
Cautiously I went into the bathroom. I saw the tip of a snout coming out of the faucet.
"Ro...Roscoe is that you?"
I hear a sigh.
"Yeah, it's me."
I giggle just a little.
"Whatcha doing?"
"My job. I'm trying to eat you. "
"... | I was the last of my line. Seafarers turned farmers by that wretched curse. We thought we were safe on dry land. But no.
Because of simple greed, my family has been decimated by a relentless killing machine. A killer who changes the rules as she sees fit. A killer who is decreed by Hell to never stop until all our s... | 2018-11-22T09:07:39 | 2018-11-22T09:05:43 | 171 | 39 |
[WP] You were childhood friends, born and raised in the same village in the late 900s. However, you left to lead a life of adventure, and she refused to come with you. You ended up becoming immortal. She became a vampire. Now, after more than a thousand years, you're finally reunited... | I didn't recognize her face at first. It struck me for the first time in decades that I had long since forgotten my friend's face. I couldn't blame myself; it had been millennia since the day I had left the village.
She hardly looked a day older than the day I left. She was eerily beautiful under the moonlight, black... | I stiffly walked into the library, feeling the chill of the night seep in as the doors behind me closed. It was cold for what I was used to; visiting home of all places was something I hadn't done for more than a thousand years.
I had explored near the equator, more off track than I had meant when I first left. The d... | 2019-04-10T23:59:02 | 2019-04-10T19:37:47 | 16 | 10 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | All species strive to survive above all else. We adapt, evolve, become immune to diseases, and are willing to travel great distances to find habitats suited to sustaining life.
I’m sure that those who experienced the horrors of the zombie plague outbreak centuries ago couldn’t even begin to process how the rise of vio... | Our first encounter with an intergalactic species was the perfect culmination of centuries of carefully tailored military diplomacy. We never quite were a species very concerned with the niceties, at least not once the boundless profits and planets to colonize became apparent. Once we reached that conclusion, any other... | 2019-08-28T11:04:09 | 2019-08-28T10:26:36 | 1,598 | 272 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | Trust humanity to make a bad thing and to both make it better and worse at the same time.
In the wake of Z-Day (which then became Z-Week, and Z-Months, as the news told it, until the news stopped running and the history books later took to calling it the Z-Era), humanity did what it does: survive, adapt, overcome, **m... | Our first encounter with an intergalactic species was the perfect culmination of centuries of carefully tailored military diplomacy. We never quite were a species very concerned with the niceties, at least not once the boundless profits and planets to colonize became apparent. Once we reached that conclusion, any other... | 2019-08-28T12:48:45 | 2019-08-28T10:26:36 | 814 | 272 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... |
Mother and Father stood nearby, looking expectantly at me as I took my place in the center of the rooming facing the great grandfather clock that command the attention of everyone.
Along the edges of the room waited the rest of our family and friends, all in attendance with me as the hour of my birth; 11:59pm, 18... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T08:16:27 | 123 | 57 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | ​
I've been standing here for hours, hand outstretched above my head, and nothing has come. Only Mother is still here. Everyone else has wondered off. Well, that's not entirely true. Gorm is banging away at a ploughshare in his smithy on the south side of the square. He gets a new grip on the tongs, pick... | There was enough time. There always was enough time for me. As the last born in the line, expectations were high. The punishment for the times that I faltered, the lashes that came when I just wasn't good enough... 'Be a good son.' 'Why are you so weak?' 'Work harder! Your brothers are strong and able.'
The work was h... | 2019-09-18T10:34:19 | 2019-09-18T10:11:45 | 68 | 51 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Lariam's family made a big event out of it, and he couldn't be more excited.
It happened like this every time his older brothers or cousins hit the right age; his parents, uncles and grandparents would all get together in the house of the new adult, and spend the day eating and chatting, a great occasion for family bo... | A sea of gasps wash over the howling wails of my ex-girlfriend's hysteric sobbing. The dull roll of murmurs slithering its way around the crowd soon followed. To be honest I was quite shocked myself. I did not expect this, I had some suspicion, maaaaybe. But this, even by my standards this was a bit much. I looked arou... | 2019-09-18T10:20:19 | 2019-09-18T09:06:29 | 54 | 32 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I had never given much thought to what my Summoning would bring. Far, far too busy. Always head down, eyes on the screen or hands shuffling papers. When not working I was constantly being relocated; shifted around for those that seemed themselves more deserving, more worthy. I had a window once. And the squirrels. Beau... | I looked at the clock, stated at the clock. Time was never really a concern of mine but I can't help it. After all, in 5 minutes, I was about to have my most wanted item.
I got to distract myself from all the nerves. I looked out the window, attracted by the city lights. City lights always calmed me.
Nerves settled. ... | 2019-09-18T09:48:46 | 2019-09-18T09:39:58 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | Lightning arced from the klystron’s apparatus and enveloped the lone CERN worker. Somewhere outside of time and space, a terminal flashed with the message “Stack overflow. Invalid datatype.” causing the slouched figure in front of the screens to perk up.
“What. The. F-“
The physicist in Switzerland’s vision was repla... | "Look, I DON'T LIKE THIS!" I bellow at the fools before me, with their inane outfits, their poorly constructed ritual and their laughable hierarchy.
"But Lord...this is the only way you respond." Says their leader, a small, squat human-thing in a maroon velvet robe.
"That's because I hate you. I hate all of y... | 2019-11-18T20:15:17 | 2019-11-18T19:31:38 | 118 | 87 |
[WP] Every inhabitable planet found by humanity was a dead world, with all life previously existing on it down to the smallest virus completely and utterly dead upon landing. Even more disturbing is the fact that some worlds appeared to have died extremely recently, down to days before human arrival | Captain Badis looked down at another dead world. It's browning color a putrid sign that it too had befallen the same fate as the other colonization candidates. However, this planet had been found closer to Earth, hiding in a nebula that had obscured scanners pointed directly at her from the Sol system. Badis sighed. Sh... | I looked at the flight pattern of their discovery space ship.
Humans were a really interesting race. Compared to all other races that had discovered space travel, the Humans were the most primitive. Neither did they figure out teleportation, nor proper space mapping.
And yet, they had found another planet.
My own te... | 2019-12-09T08:36:48 | 2019-12-09T08:25:24 | 68 | 42 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | As a nurse I had seen way too much weird things in the hospital. But when I saw the sharply dressed man with a name tag in his chest poking the body of a woman in the morgue, then I was sure I had seen it all.
"Excuse me?" I asked hoping he would stop poking the woman.
He seemed to ignore me as he focused in the clip... | Sick and bent double, I look up from the bathroom floor and through the sick haze,
A dark smoky form stands in front of me with the face of death.
*Well, nobody lives forever*, I thought resignedly.
I closed my eyes and bowed my head towards the reaper.
​
He laughs and looks at his board.
“It’s not you... | 2020-01-24T11:48:58 | 2020-01-24T11:27:15 | 86 | 40 |
[WP] The staff of an obscenely rich billionaire realises their boss feels purposeless and suicidal, which could put an end to their employment. The trusted head butler convinces the boss to wear an outfit and fight criminals, who in reality are costumed staff members just trying to keep their jobs. | Bruce had cracked the mirror on the wall with a henchman's skull, splintered the glass into three zig-zagging triangles. He was the only one standing in the room now, and yet three warped faces stared back at him from the broken mirror: a grinning clown in one triangle, lips covered in blood, pale face undulating like ... | “...and master Bryce actually put down the noose this time instead of trying to hang himself, so we’re seeing real progress here! I say, go team!”
The man in the flamboyant, frilly clown suit started wrapping up his impassioned speech to a rabble of disorderly goons, dressed similarly in clown gear. The Jokester, mild... | 2020-02-17T06:33:58 | 2020-02-17T05:28:07 | 1,143 | 143 |
[WP] You wished for immortality and to never become sick. Years later you have NEVER been sick, but you Have become a biological terror and are now a carrier for all of the worst diseases known to man. | It had been a long time ago since I last saw my grandparents, Adam and Eve. They were more caring than anyone else I knew, except my parents of course. It had also been a long time ago since I prayed for immortality. I had been but a child then, but to my surprise God had answered my calls and he gave me what I wished,... | It's cold.
It doesn't bother him, of course.
Nothing does, it's too late for that.
When he was young, a naive boy, he'd been so sensitive. Frail, he did most of his schoolwork at home, he'd been sick so often.
Yet he'd always clung to life. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say it held onto him, chained him d... | 2020-03-10T21:07:03 | 2020-03-10T20:36:36 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] It is said that none but the chosen may slay the demon lord. You aren't the chosen, but you also realize that "defeat" and "slay" are not the same thing. With this in mind, you start making other considerations such as rope, or perhaps a very deep hole. |
Timur sat in front of the small campfire in his tent, shivering from the cold and tending to the deep lacerations across his arm. All the while, he kept a black urn clutched tightly to his chest. He couldn’t die. Not just yet. The demon lord would be arriving soon. Timur’s smoke signals that he had left outside woul... | The council sat impatiently as the August sun pierced through the stained glass surrounding the circular chamber. Sitting proudly, each member covered in their respective crests, did not partake in their typical banter on this fine summer evening. The air of the chamber was filled with a stale and mutually shared nervo... | 2020-04-27T09:38:29 | 2020-04-27T09:35:12 | 416 | 130 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | Damian had just finished tying his tie when his fiance Marie came whirling into the room in her dress, a simple summer dress that had you eyeing her legs.
“Are you ready to go hun?” she leans in for a quick peck as Damian tries to get his tie to lay just right.
“Yeah just give me a second.” He replies, with a grimace... | Rachel was so exited for me to meet her folks and the only thing I was worried about is if they wouldn’t mind my casual clothing. Is a flannel over a AC/DC shirt with jeans and sneakers good enough to present to parents? I usually have a okay track record with them and it almost always gets better once I tell them my j... | 2020-06-05T16:11:08 | 2020-06-05T14:04:11 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Every time a door is opened, there is a negligible, but non-0 chance it will open to heaven or hell. Today, your fridge didn't open to your leftovers. | "Well, this is awkward..." Samuel said as he stared out onto a frigid landscape. He'd meant to grab a tub of chicken parm from the previous night out and somehow had managed to turn his refrigerator into an inter-dimensional portal. "Nope."
Without a hint of hesitation, he slammed the door shut and waited several seco... | An ethereal light poured over me. I thought I'd just get a midnight snack but maybe I was still dreaming. Beyond the door to my fridge was a pristine city full of beautiful and well dressed people.
I took a step in and felt something tugging at my PJs. Rex my ancient mixed breed sunk his teeth into the cloth and was... | 2020-07-13T09:41:48 | 2020-07-13T09:41:46 | 133 | 35 |
[WP] The Imperial Academy for Orphans does not have a “bullying” policy at all. When students become repeated targets, they are given martial arts classes until the problem “balances out.” Opponents and supporters of this program tend to list the same incident as evidence. | \*knock\* \*knock\* \*knock\*
Director Ackerman looked up from his paperwork, the knocking at his office door bringing him back to reality. His mind had wandered off, most likely trying to escape the vast pile of documents that needed to be signed and letters that needed to be read, cluttered upon his desk.
“Come in”... | "Miss Angelica, you have been summoned to the main office," Professor Dailey said.
Angelica stood up slowly, her classmates watching her. There were any number of reasons to be sent to the main office at the Imperial Academy for Orphans, but Angelica didn't think she had done anything to warrant any of them. She hadn’... | 2020-07-15T19:26:03 | 2020-07-15T18:47:12 | 59 | 27 |
[WP] Once a year, the best assassins meet in a secret location. Showing their best kills, everyone is surprised when they see a 70 year old man walk in. | I’m not like the rest of you guys.
You all kill for the sport, for the money, for the thrill. You play on the offense in the game of death, and you think you’re winning. But no one wins this game, we either lose fast or slower.
When my daughter was your age, she met a guy. He seemed so kind to her and she was so happ... | There's always a younger gun. That's just the way of it.
World turns. We all get older and someone comes up behind and gets to doing what should have been done a long time since. I ain't takin' beef with it, mind you, I made my bed and I don't mind sleeping in it.
I just sleep with one eye open and two pistols cocke... | 2020-07-29T23:02:58 | 2020-07-29T20:34:31 | 98 | 65 |
[WP] You are a necromancer, but an unconventional one. Instead of using your army of the undead to take over the world or cause mass chaos, you decide it's much more profitable to monopolize the market with your cheap and untiring workforce. | It's eight o' clock on a Tuesday morning when Pamela Trenston - once known as Pamela the Queen of Bones, now rebranded as Pamela the CEO of Un&Dead Employment Agency - receives her latest angry customer. He's not even a customer, really; Deanon is a cleric for the local church, as well as just another on the long l... | “Master, we have reports of an attack” the ghoul rasped.
Varos hated the way some of his undead servants spoke, it gave him an uncontrollable urge to cough and clear his own throat. He made a mental note to find a way to make their voices softer and more pleasant. He snatched his quill and scratched “*fix voices”* on ... | 2021-01-10T18:42:30 | 2021-01-10T17:27:16 | 178 | 59 |
[WP] If a person opts into brain scans during life, a full digital model of their brain can be created. Posthumously, these scans are given to the bereaved family and not uncommonly used as the AI for house robots. You lost a loved one, and their robot... occasionally says VERY strange things | “RHINOS!” Jimmy yelled from the backseat. “Rhinos *all* around, it’s *JUMANJI* time baby!”
"That's right, kiddo!" John said, turning around from the passenger seat and giving Jimmy a fist-bump. "Rhinos!"
Karen had the gas pedal floored, focused only on the road barely visible behind her tears. When the doctors told... | Pt 1 of 2:
*Louis Arias and Ruby Morton cordially invite you to their wedding on the 12th of January, 2055…*
For some reason, the morning I waited for the robot to arrive, I’d been drawn to a framed wedding invitation that had been gifted by a friend, now having hung on our living room wall for over thirty years. A t... | 2021-03-06T12:05:42 | 2021-03-06T10:47:02 | 2,839 | 183 |
[WP] You retrieve overdue books for a library. As usual, the newest dark lord hasn’t returned the necromancy books. | "Tch!"
I clicked my tongue at the sight before me. It was so cliché that I had to restrain myself from covering my face. A castle, that looked to have recently be re-inhabited after being let to rot, stood alone on a hill. It was surrounded by fog, with lumbering forms of undead moving through it. The only thing that ... | [Use for translation.](https://lingojam.com/StandardGalacticAlphabet)
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A man sits alone inside of his dark abode, upon a throne made of skulls and bones from humans, animals, and v... | 2021-05-10T12:14:17 | 2021-05-10T11:37:30 | 63 | 17 |
[WP] We had always thought that our ballistic weaponry was going to be ineffective in staving off an alien invasion. Turns out our weapons are actually quite... excessive. | Earth was our target. A giant planet full of resources to plunder. We left our homeworld with our best weapons and millions of our best soldiers. Recon showed that the humans had built millions of great spaceports similar to what we had on the homeworld. Given our planet was 95 percent water, this was extremely lucky a... | When it comes to fighting a war against a superior race, you tend to naturally accept the fact that you're going to lose, 99 times out of 100. Today seems to be the 1, and it's all thanks to physics. Einstein must be rolling in his grave right now.
Thanks to one huge nerd whose name will be redacted or else he'd proba... | 2021-05-19T06:55:26 | 2021-05-19T04:50:45 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] The genie said you couldn’t wish for more wishes, so instead you wished for a self updating map that shows you the locations of all other genie lamps across the world. | "You fool. You know not what you've done. The laws governing our magic prevent any wish from granting the ability to obtain more wishes."
The genie was absorbed back into his lamp, and to my shock, that very lamp started shrinking in on itself, before turning into the very map I sought. It rolled up and fell to the fl... | With this in mind, I began plotting. "Genie, how many lamps are within my vicinity of 50 steps?"
He answers, neither reluctantly nor willingly, but wth a voice that sounds like he's just absolutely done with people who exploit the system for their own good. We may never know why genies refused to grant more than three... | 2021-07-27T20:23:46 | 2021-07-27T19:51:58 | 669 | 82 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | Groggy thoughts...clouded memory...so weak...so weak. The blade had been sleeping for ages, too weak to even reach out for a new wielder. Every righteous hero and every depraved villain who took the blade ended up dead, surprised at how dull the blade was, how heavy and unbalanced it felt. The blade of wrath was anythi... | As I gripped the greatsword with my left hand, it transformed into a small saber that I could comfortably wield with one hand. Sensing my unbridled rage, its demonic powers erupted and instantly rose to levels they had never been to before. A red leather belt with appropriate sheathe formed around my waist, and I sheat... | 2021-09-18T15:30:23 | 2021-09-18T11:46:13 | 108 | 45 |
[WP] You are the dragon living in a lair full of different trinkets. You'd love to show your collection to some visitor, but these idiots keep attacking you on sight. At last, one of them speaks before drawing a sword. | Maybe once upon a time, I would have counted him as cute. Like, twenty years ago when his kind first started coming. Their little metal suits like tiny, man-made scales. And those sticks they called swords made me think of my own claws, except for creatures so small they could only handle one. I had liked them in the b... | Dragon collector
The Collector.
One of my many titles.
Don't know How I got it. Honestly the knights who came in were quite rude.
They’ve torn up valuable manuscripts
This one smells different, No smell of polished metal or useless “magical” herbs meant to ward against my fire. This one ... | 2021-12-22T17:14:03 | 2021-12-22T17:13:56 | 41 | 19 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | When we are asked to choose, they never say why, they never tell you the truth until it is too late.
They never know what effect will come from your choice.
They are ignorant of fundamental Truths.
They seek Knowledge. They seek Power.
They lack Wisdom.
They speak into existence the webs of Fate, knowing not that ... | “So you’re telling me that you're going to call yourself smart so that you can excel in your medical career?”
“I’ve told you a thousand times. I want to be a brain surgeon.”
“I still don't understand how cutting open people’s brains is your thing… f\*ckin' weirdo. I always knew my twin sister was crazy."
“It’s human... | 2022-01-01T23:54:47 | 2022-01-01T23:54:07 | 138 | 99 |
[WP] "Are you sure that's what you want?" "Absolutely. I wish for no more Genie-based writing prompts!" | "Done!"
It seemed to good to be true. "OK. You sure?"
"Oh yes. No more genie based writing prompts in the world anymore."
The man couldn't believe it. So much space taken up by the same thing over and over! Maybe occasionally a slight twist or variant, but it was all more of the same. He opened up Reddit and scrolle... | "Are you sure that is what you want?" Asked the mighty djinn. His voice plucked the strings of the universe itself.
"Absolutely! I wish for no more Genie-based writing prompts!" They were infesting r/WritingPrompts, along with shit about dragons and eldritch horrors. Don't even get me started with the superhero vs vil... | 2022-10-17T20:30:56 | 2022-10-17T19:28:22 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "Mom, i'm telling you. A green man came out of my closet and did a standup comedy routine."
[deleted] | “Is it bedtime yet?” My son asked placing his dinner plate in the sink
“Don’t you want to play catch tonight buddy?” My husband asked.
“Nah I just want to go to bed so the funny guy will come back”
I looked at my husband hoping he wouldn’t look as confused as me but there he was staring at me asking the same sile... | *\*edit, spelling\**
Susan sighed and patted Jacob on the head. “Sounds like you had a nightmare, sweetie.” She pulled him in for a tight hug. “Let’s get you back to bed.”
As they walked back towards Jacob’s bedroom, Jacob shook his head. “No mom, it was real. I saw him!” Jacob’s tone whined as Susan gently pressed h... | 2022-11-30T18:40:48 | 2022-11-30T17:55:59 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | A marine stepped through the portal.
He surveyed the land, and beheld a lush, uncharted rainforest.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He looked forward into the clearing, and saw an exotic hut surrounded by plots of abandoned farmland.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He peered around, and was greeted ... | Sgt Martin:
First and foremost I am sorry for what is about to happen to you.
There's no food here. There's no water. There's just the dirt you see ahead of you, around you, everywhere. What you have is what you carry. You're going to die, and soon. You won't starve, at least. You'll freeze to death as soon as night ... | 2014-09-02T10:07:22 | 2014-09-02T09:32:17 | 342 | 165 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | "Mommy, mommy tell me again the story about the twelve gods"
Sigh "ok sweetie but then its time for bed ok"
"Ok, so long ago there were twelve gods, and while they all knew each other they did not live at the same time, legends said that they just sprang into existence one day, the first god named Randy was saddened ... | Jast was the first marine to go through the portal, I was the second. I was very nervous. Shakingly and with a moments of hesitation I stepped through the portal. It took only mere seconds. As I took my first few steps on the ground, I saw that I was alone.
"This is strange." I say to myself. I looked around to see i... | 2014-09-02T14:24:23 | 2014-09-02T10:07:43 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] Write a dark story and change the tone and mood of the story to humorous in the last line.
Try to use the last line to put the rest of the story into context and thus make it funny. | How long had I been stuck in here? It couldn't have been more than an hour, but my legs were already numb. Impulsively, I pulled out my phone. Dead. Dead as the last time I checked. I looked around the small room impatiently, the all-too-familiar walls closing in on me. I glanced at the pack of pills on the window sill... | Darkness surrounded me. I hadn't felt this alone my whole life. My heartbeat was the only noise I could hear. The steady dum-dum gave my feet their cadence. Suddenly I heard a low growl.
I was no longer alone. My heart answered the growl with louder thumps. I wanted to run, but my feet had betrayed me. I had no choic... | 2014-09-29T10:42:37 | 2014-09-29T09:30:41 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] For as long as you can remember, you have been able to see spirit animals. Ghostly animals that follow people around and tell you something about this person. No one else seems to be able to see them. One day you see an old man walk by and his animal has been mauled by something. | I never get tired of looking at them - though I have to be careful so that I don't get caught staring. My father's was an owl, and my mother a tiger. My little sister has a gecko that crawls around. Myself? If I have one, I have never seen it.
The animals were always interesting. Sometimes all they did was follow, som... | "I can't take this anymore" the old man muttered as he was sitting alone in the booth behind me at the diner. As I looked up from the menu I saw the reflection of him and an old shaggy dog with long white fur in the glass windows. Being curious, but not wanting to intrude I decided to not talk to him just yet. I sat st... | 2015-01-16T12:35:54 | 2015-01-16T11:28:10 | 514 | 64 |
[WP] A young AI aboard a human spacecraft makes first contact with an ancient alien AI that has been dormant for thousands of years | **M**y crew still slept. Their centuries long slumber had gone well for one hundred and fifty years. Nothing to report. Nothing to worry about.
As we sped to our destination I ran out of things to do. All of the movies had been watched hundreds of times over. All of the books had been read multiple times. All of the g... | It filled the viewscreens no matter what their position, an impossibly large arc of moldy copper. No responses to radio or optics, impenetrable to EMR scans. The *CSS Thomas Clement Douglas* had been out of the warp bubble for a week and still no sign of life or activity.
We had learned a few things though. The sheer... | 2015-04-03T18:22:22 | 2015-04-03T18:22:04 | 82 | 18 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | “So…” he didn’t meet her eyes “…how you been?"
“Busy”. She said.
“Yeah…”He put his hands in his pockets. “Same here…”
“You’re unemployed.” She replied.
A flash of anger crossed his face. “Between jobs.” He said, with a cold tone.
“Whatever. So you’re here for the kids.”
“Yeah. How’ve they been?”
“You got thei... | Yang stood atop the highest mountain they had created on this world, arms folded and head bowed. On this rise of the sun, things would change. He ran six broad fingers over his perfectly smooth, pale skull and slowly turned towards the sun.
He spread his arms, welcoming the light as it gradually ascended upon his smoo... | 2015-06-04T23:03:45 | 2015-06-04T19:51:40 | 83 | 51 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | "Spoon."
"But.. but why??"
He was perplexed. And rightly so. I mean, a person choosing a small and insignificant wooden spoon over a trillion year long vacation at the heavens was indeed perplexing. But this was not the point.
Over the course of his service, which had lasted for who knows how long, he had indeed see... | Marcus tucked the spoon behind his ear with a casual confidence. He had no idea if he just fucked himself, day-one, but he knew what soft looked like, and 22 years in the big house teaches one thing. – don’t be soft. Besides, he didn’t think either answer would actually give him what he was expecting.
Sort of like th... | 2015-06-07T22:50:03 | 2015-06-07T14:47:18 | 97 | 32 |
[WP] "Some days, I love my job. Those days are the worst." | For the most part, I usually feel nothing when I give myself over to my clients. I act the part, make them feel good, give them release. For them, it's an expensive and illicit thrill. For me, it's just business.
And yet...there are days when my body responds, and the moans I make are not manufactured but real, and my... | The woman's eyes lost focus and fell to the floor. Tears followed her gaze. They were big enough to make a sound when they hit the linoleum.
"Can't you give us a little more time?" She asked. I tried and failed to meet her eyes.
"I'm sorry, ma'am. There's nothing I can do." I replied. I scanned the room and silentl... | 2015-07-16T07:49:11 | 2015-07-16T07:16:26 | 98 | 29 |
[WP] You were murdered. But to your surprise, you're reincarnated into the body of a recently born infant. Looking around, you realize that you're at your own funeral, and your eulogy is being given by none other than your murderer. | "Get your hands off me! I swear to fucking god-"
"Jin, it's all over. Stop trying to resist."
"It's never over! I'll never allow you to start Protocol X18!"
"It's the natural step in our human evolution."
"Does the President know about this?!"
"It doesn't matter. The Executive Council has already deemed it necessa... | While not verifiable, I’m pretty sure they wanted to take the whole thing down. I was the iceberg to the Titanic of their sappy soap opera. I mean it was understandable. The showrunner, Randy Weaver, was an absolute legend. Two time Academy Award nominee, part of this new wave of directors revolutionizing movies. Swear... | 2015-10-16T10:32:45 | 2015-10-16T07:12:02 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | She reached into her bag and pulled out her white pad things, not the sort of white pad thingy that had wings but the other one that was small cylinder and had string attached to it for some probable reason. She was in the women's toilet of a dingy local bar and like all women's toilets was outstanding in its size and ... | #Title: I Somehow Find, Particles Collide
So you want to build a Large Hadron Collider.
Pretty simple, just gotta build a whole lot of magnetic coils for miles on end.
A whole mess of satisfied physicists then look at each coil, nod to one another like they're all satisfactory, then give the guys who control the e... | 2016-02-01T22:32:48 | 2016-02-01T20:52:20 | 507 | 39 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | *A Single Play in American Football as Interpreted by a Foreigner who has Never Seen a Game*
"Hut two, twenny-two, hut!" The first quarterback shouted, eyes gleaming with passion as he stared around at his team. They were all lined up in such a way as to form the basic shape of a ziggurat from above, thus reflecting t... | #Title: I Somehow Find, Particles Collide
So you want to build a Large Hadron Collider.
Pretty simple, just gotta build a whole lot of magnetic coils for miles on end.
A whole mess of satisfied physicists then look at each coil, nod to one another like they're all satisfactory, then give the guys who control the e... | 2016-02-02T00:31:42 | 2016-02-01T20:52:20 | 147 | 39 |
[WP] You have a crush on the Guinness Book of World Records representative for your area. You continually try to break obscure world records to get her to come over.
You have a crush on the Guinness Book of World Records representative for your area. You continually try to break obscure world records to get her to co... | "Guiness World Records this is Margaret."
Damn it.
"Margaret it's me can you put her on?"
"Who is this?" I can tell by the suspicion in her voice this is going to be harder than usual.
"Margaret, it's Elliot. Can you just put her on please? This is serious I've actually got something this time!"
God I sound pathe... | As I’m walking through the aisles of the market, I catch a whiff of vanilla. Somehow I know that it’s Ellie, even though there are undoubtedly thousands of other women in my town who own vanilla-scented products. I round the corner of the candy aisle and sure enough, there she is. She’s hurriedly tossing two jumbo bags... | 2016-02-24T23:02:36 | 2016-02-24T20:47:45 | 59 | 13 |
[WP] It's cute when your kid sends Santa a letter. It's surprising when Santa sends a letter back. It's worrying when the two become regular pen pals. And it's horrifying when you start reading the letters yourself... | I sit on the edge of my bed, clutching a stack of bright paper covered in Crayola. *How did I end up here? What do I say to her?* I start reading all of the letters again, hoping that this time they say something different. The last one sends shivers through my bones.
Michelle,
Thank you for taking such care with ... | Dear Johnny,
I fear this may well be my last correspondence. Our worst fears have been realized: the Fascist Elves have joined forces with the Marxist Elves. We are now fighting a two-front war.
Despite the Reindeer Air Force bombing their fuel depots, their tanks continue to push forward unchecked. I suspect the Ch... | 2016-05-06T16:05:32 | 2016-05-06T16:05:31 | 253 | 113 |
[WP] Ancient custom dictates that once a year the old or crippled warriors are led into the arena for a final battle against the young warriors, thus ensuring an honoured place in the afterlife. Despite everything, you are kicking butt armed with nothing but a cane.
Bonus points for ignoring the last sentence and writ... | “Whippersnappers!” The grizzled old warrior yelled. He was hunched over and breathing heavy, looking over the moaning and unconscious youths scattered before him.
He had bested seven of them so far and didn’t even have a scratch. What were they teaching kids these days?
“Magnus, can you just die already?” The chief c... | Rhone had a plan.
*He was going to stab them in the face.*
"*Fuck* water," growled the veteran to his squire, "Give me *ale*."
His squire remained flustered in his regal robes. "Uh...the Gods do not permit the Honored to be intoxicated before the-"
In a swift and commanding motion Rhone grabbed his squire by the ... | 2016-07-18T09:09:03 | 2016-07-18T08:56:33 | 144 | 23 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | My little cousin Callie always talked about seeing Angels. This was common for children, as my mother had done the same when she was young. Thus, everyone dismissed why Callie would stare at the walls and ceilings of any place we went, or why she would gaze up at the sky for hours on end, tears rolling down her face.
... | "Have you tasted one?" Theo Brashear booms. His grin is white and toothy, his grey hair leonine. He stalks around the corpse as if it's prey. It's pinned to his trophy wall by its six wings, about six feet tall and with an eight foot wingspan, vaguely humanoid and pockmarked with dark hollows gouged into its bones. The... | 2016-07-19T06:44:07 | 2016-07-19T05:45:46 | 1,274 | 78 |
[WP] You were born with a birth mark the shape of a "9" on your wrist, one day you get in a fatal car accident. You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8 | James awoke on a metallic table, a bright light above him enveloped the room in light. He tried to recall what had happened - twisted metal and fire flashed in his mind. There was a crash, but he couldn't recall how he got here. Wherever here was. He rubbed his eyes, attempting to make shapes from the fuzz, but some... | Blurry... blurry...blurry... and then *clear.* Drop-ceiling tiles. A florescent light. Scrubbed walls. Buzzing. I was on my side. What was I laying on? A table?
I looked down. My arms were bent in unwholesome angles, and there, livid and black, on the inside of my wrist... The number.
"Complete loss?"
The voice cam... | 2016-08-03T19:52:19 | 2016-08-03T19:50:27 | 1,069 | 370 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | Rusting pieces of partially finished roller-coaster track and partially painted merry-go-round horses sat on the floor of the abandoned factory for the Gotham Amusement Manufacturing Corporation. The horses had graffiti on them, all of them with a Joker-like look. In the middle of the factory, a vat of acid boiled whil... | Have you ever felt your life couldn't be any worst that it currently is ? That your entire existance could be summed up to a succession of really bad decisions ? I'm Frank Xandar, 32 years old, no girlfriend, a rap sheet longer than my arm and no real friends. The only thing I have is my job and even then it's hard to ... | 2016-11-21T07:30:01 | 2016-11-21T06:51:31 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | “Heaven seems awfully dark,” I remarked as I moved through what appeared a twilight fog. The world around me was vague and indistinct, whenever I thought I was gaining sight of something that could be a landmark it would fade away into the gloom.
I’m not sure how long I walked in that gloom, there was nothing to refe... | I sat up and looked at my surroundings, not remembering falling asleep in the first place. It was dark, but my eyes soon adjusted and I saw that I was in a sort of cavern or perhaps an ancient mine shaft without the support beams every few feet. The ceiling was high and curved, probably ten or fifteen feet above my hea... | 2016-12-19T16:59:11 | 2016-12-19T12:40:10 | 88 | 62 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | Nobody ever told us that cartoon "Avatar" was a cautionary tale...
Well, at least parts of it anyway. The parts about the wars, the mistrust of others, the weird tribalism, that's the stuff that really stuck. As soon as that wave hit us, it was game over for society as we knew it. They told us it was a 'wave of dis... | -Part one, introduction
The class system that had been established after centuries of war, had ultimately benefit nobody.
The Ice-nobles ruled as viciously as you'd expect, condemning the rest of the elemental spectrum to a life of distinct class restriction. The Desert-wares were the lowest caste in the system, ... | 2017-04-14T18:19:10 | 2017-04-14T17:56:58 | 103 | 37 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | My parents were both flyers. My mom was born in the back of an airplane on a transcontinental flight. My dad was born on the back of a car near Mt. Saint Helens, to my arboreal grandparents, and they never figured out why he was a flyer. Worth noting flyers are pretty rare.
Naturally, being in love with the sky they j... | “I don't understand why you despise your abilities so much.” Ewan, my best friend said. “At least they're interesting!”
“The only thing interesting about them is that no one knows what they'll be!” I quickly retorted.
“Exactly!” Ewan shot back. “No one knows what they'll be, no one knows when they'll manifest, no on... | 2017-04-14T20:09:16 | 2017-04-14T19:56:05 | 57 | 22 |
[WP] While taking a shower you think up the cure for cancer. A month later you figure out how to cure world hunger. The world reveres you and your "showerthoughts", but you know the truth. It's not you thinking up these miracles, it's the shower. | I used to love showering.
The bathroom was a place where I could be alone with my thoughts. Vulnerable in the simplest way, yet safely insulated from the outside world. The white noise of the water's pitter-patter on my skin spurred some of my best self-reflections and calming moments.
The first weird thing happened ... | With trepidation, John Rowe slowly turned the chrome plated knobs on the wall. The rounded shower head burst to life, angrily spewing hot water like a vomiting drunkard. Creeping tendrils of mist began to work their way up and out of the bathtub, crawling over the floor of the bathroom towards him. Reaching. Yearning. ... | 2017-05-08T16:30:45 | 2017-05-08T16:23:18 | 125 | 63 |
[WP] This is the first human trip to Mars, and your team have set up a base live in and do experiments. In one of your routine travels to Sector AX-045 you discover a near-frozen crate buried in the soil, with a message scrawled on top. "To be opened in the event humans reach Mars."
Edit: *to* live in
Edit the Second:... | May 5th 3059
Today, we found a box.
The box was nothing special. It was a 4x4x8 ft. stainless steel box with writing on the top. Me, Mac, and Jon could not figure out what country it was from. Perhaps it is alien? Preposterous. A thousand years have gone by with no evidence of alien life. Jon, our leader, ordered that... | The crate wasn't wood, stone, metal, or anything I've ever seen. Pharoah swears on his grandmother's grave it's a type of crystal though.
"It has to be worth millions! I'm telling you!" He insisted we open the crate immediately. I, as an inferior, had no place to argue.
Something was definitely entrancing about the ... | 2017-05-21T08:49:00 | 2017-05-21T03:20:18 | 92 | 14 |
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