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[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | He wasn't dreaming.
The Red Phone rang on top of the marble podium in a small isolated room. A call that should not have happen unless...
He cautiously answered the phone. Over the phone, he heard her panicked voice.
"Location, uh... London. Situation... fuck!"
He heard explosions and screaming from the other side,... | They paid him well. At least, that's how he felt. The government, on the other hand, thought they were getting a steal. Forty-thousand buckaroos a year was a small price to pay for the man who could do anything.
Alex lived deep in the northern woods with his partner, Maya. They were satisfied with a quiet life. All t... | 2022-03-28T23:42:12 | 2022-03-28T23:13:05 | 451 | 84 |
[WP] You are the CEO of a successful energy company. You’re invited to a business dinner, and if the deal goes well, it could revolutionize energy as we know it. Only one problem. Garlic’s in the food, utensils are silver and it’s held in an old chapel. And you’re a vampire. | "It's a chapel!" he yelled at me. "It wouldn't be too good for the company if its CEO died, would it?"
"Answer." He went silent for a few seconds.
"IT'S A DARN CHAPEL!"
"It used to be," I said. "They lose their effect over the years. For this one, hundreds. I will be fine."
"You may come out alive, but if t... | "What about solar?"
"He *hates* solar. Whatever you do, don't bring it up."
"What's so bad about renewables?"
"Just keep your mouth shut."
I could hear them before they entered my office, their lips crackling and smattering like roaches frying in a pan. One of them was young, with a jugular vein through which blood... | 2022-08-21T08:13:41 | 2022-08-21T06:42:02 | 751 | 146 |
[WP] The villain is asked by their child to deal with the monster in the closet. | You carelessly stumble into your child’s room after a day of crime, forgetting that you were still dressed in your crime-making outfit.
“Hi.” Your child whispers to you quietly while peeking over her blanket.
“I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to come in here. I’ll leave right now!”
“No. No, it’s okay. Mummy and Daddy alw... | Small background: The villain took a young girl as his successor. She had a bad family and he knew she’d be safer with him. Evee doesn’t agree.
Evee looked up at Henry with big, pleading eyes. She held Mr Sharky to her chest for safety, making herself look small. “Papa, can you sleep with me tonight?” She asked quie... | 2022-10-24T10:25:06 | 2022-10-24T09:20:36 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Fern stared down at the child at her feet and pursed her lips, brows coming together as she tried to process the situation. Somehow, somewhere, a Gatekeeper had fucked up royally and sent her a child. She rubbed her yellow eyes as the young girl stared at her with keen, too-bright-blue eyes. "Okay, uh." She crossed her... | Samantha was five when the drunk driver rammed his truck off the road and smashed her away from her mother. She still wore the same clothes now, a bright colored dress and fancy looking, but functional shoes. She was playing with some rocks on the Precipice of Inifinite Pain above the Lake of Fire. Two demons each k... | 2013-11-26T14:48:51 | 2013-11-26T13:08:15 | 135 | 27 |
[WP] Rework a nursery rhyme to be dark and gritty. | Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Don't be caught
By that old trick.
Jack be swift,
Jack be fast.
Keep running home
While light still lasts.
Jack, lock the doors,
and don't let them in.
They're not who
they should have been.
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Not sure if dark and gritty, or just horror themed. | Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Let that be a lesson to learn
To one side or the other, you must turn
To sit on the fence, that is a sin
Two party politics, get stuck in
Humpty Dumpty fought a fight
To sit on neither left nor right
A gentle nudge
Push comes to shove
And on one side... | 2014-02-21T04:29:11 | 2014-02-21T04:06:30 | 37 | 12 |
[FF] In three sentences, kill as many people as possible. No firearms, no natural disasters, no explosives, no WMDs. | When we found out, it was already too late. We thought we were the apex of intelligence, but we had been outsmarted by something we weren't even sure was a living being.
It turned out that all the viral bodies we loaded into vaccines weren't dead ... they were patient. | martin worked furiously in the dying light, trying to pack his specimens into the one remaining powered refrigerator in the CDC. electricity, like everything else, was a premium since the SSPE-strain measles pandemic of 2016 and he'd barely secured the tiny space he now stacked the tiny tubes into. he'd even had to con... | 2014-08-04T22:51:01 | 2014-08-04T22:10:19 | 168 | 11 |
[WP] A serial killer goes door to door to find his victims, until he knocks on the wrong door. Another killer. | "... Oh hey, what's up man?"
"Not much man, how's it going?"
"Was gonna murder this family, guess I have the wrong address."
"Ah, I gotcha, well where were you trying to go?"
"The Anderson's house."
"Oh, I know where that is. Come on, we'll go together. That fucker hasn't taken his Christmas lights down, it's dr... | That look. I instantly recognized it. Only those who have taken a human life can see it in those others in the same exclusive fraternity. That hole in the soul, that emptiness that resides in the eyes. It resembles something just short of a thousand yard stare, but with a maniacal glint lost in the iris. I see it ev... | 2014-08-08T20:56:29 | 2014-08-08T20:01:36 | 61 | 41 |
[WP] Instead of hearing what people say, you hear what they mean. It has been both a blessing and a curse. | It shattered Grayson the first time she heard. Walking down the street looking at a beggar, a voice broke through the eternal silence, shaky and insubstantial, but so loud compared to what came before.
FEED ME.
Grayson turned her head away, unable to bear that wavery voice that was a terrifying boom to the silence be... | "I'm genuinely curious - what's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"
"I shouldn't have to tell you."
"That doesn't help me, or the situation."
"I'm not in a helping mood at the moment, given the circumstances."
"I'm still not sure what the circumstances are. And, unfortunately, despite how you'd like things to be, t... | 2014-10-14T13:23:26 | 2014-10-14T10:35:56 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] A good bye message from the human race. | The field was covered in thin walls of crumbling rock and twisted metal rods. The stone pathway cracked under the alloy boots of a strange creature. In the distance, a cracked white dome stood in a flattened expanse of dust, columns and pillars supporting the facade of the structure. The creature decided to have a clos... | Hello?
If you're out there and you hear this, I have a story I want to share with you. It's a story of a people. A people that went through lifetimes of agony and torture, misery and sadness, lifetimes of love and happiness to compensate. I want to tell you the story of the human race.
You may have heard of us. You... | 2014-11-30T23:02:47 | 2014-11-30T22:47:44 | 35 | 11 |
[WP] Satan suddenly appears in a crowded mall, and begins terrifying the holiday shoppers. He stops, looks directly at you and says, "You... You're interesting. Do your friends know what you are?" You have no idea what he means. | He just appeared. There was no great ball of fire or stream of black smoke, he was just there, amid a massive crowd of holiday shoppers. The creature looked like a stereotypical fantasy devil. Short, red, tattered bat wings spouting of his pointy back, and two curved horns. The image was not particularly terrifying, bu... | They say the Devil's in the details. Hell, they even say the Devil went down to Georgia. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when the Devil showed up at the Little Springs Mall. Of course, we didn't know who he was back then...
 
Saturdays. I hated Saturdays. There I was stuck at a shitty little kiosk in... | 2014-12-06T01:17:40 | 2014-12-06T00:46:30 | 990 | 121 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | “ “Can I get you anything else, sir?”
“No, thanks. Coffee is good.” I reply, no eye contact. I feel like a bit of a prick applying this manner of interpersonal dynamics. I’m sure her day is no better or worse for my lack of visual acknowledgement on receipt of my coffee but the burr sticks. I should have just fucking ... | “I can’t wait to finally meet your parents.” Brians tells Chelsea on the drive over to her family’s house. Chelsea has been hesitant to bring me over to meet her family. I don’t know why. She talks about them a lot. They’re both rather successful. Unfortunately, Chelsea knew something about her parents she didn’t want ... | 2014-12-23T09:45:16 | 2014-12-23T08:43:21 | 249 | 12 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | I have this friend (let's just call him Nick), who is exact stereotype of what you think of when you picture someone who is part of the 'le army of Reddit.'
You know what I mean. Slightly overweight, wears a fedora, outspoken atheist, and so forth.
He wasn't always like that, but years of being antisocial and getting... | “I can’t wait to finally meet your parents.” Brians tells Chelsea on the drive over to her family’s house. Chelsea has been hesitant to bring me over to meet her family. I don’t know why. She talks about them a lot. They’re both rather successful. Unfortunately, Chelsea knew something about her parents she didn’t want ... | 2014-12-23T08:57:12 | 2014-12-23T08:43:21 | 107 | 12 |
[WP] You have the power to access another person's mind, but you must play a game/puzzle reflective of the owner's mind to unlock its secrets. You have solved 7x7 Rubik's cubes, played games of 3D Chess, and beaten countless final bosses. This time, however, you are caught off-guard.
If it's an unsolvable game/puzzle,... | I found out about three interesting facts, today.
1: Tic-Tac-Toe always results in a tie if both sides are playing perfectly. It's insultingly simple, compared to what I'd done before- but it's also perfect.
2: Turns out I can't exit a Minddive until I win or lose the challenge.
3: Turns out that, given perfect play... | Tilting her head the small child glanced at me, a toothy smile spreading across its features. I was confused to say the least - there was always a game, a puzzle, rules I was able to follow to break into others peoples minds.
But she was different.
The barrier to her mind was a little girl, around seven years old, ... | 2015-04-28T17:18:42 | 2015-04-28T15:55:33 | 381 | 28 |
[WP] You have a literal Trump Card. When played, Donald Trump appears to assist you. | Because the Yu-Gi-Oh tie in was inevitable:
____
Pegasus laughs maniacally. "For all your skill, Yugi-boy, you'll still be sent to the shadow zone. Go! Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon! attack his lifepoints directly!"
A grin crosses yugi's face. "You fool! You've activated my *TRUMP CARD!*!"
"Your futile attempts to stall wo... | I did not believe the tarot reader when she handed me the card, she said it was a gift of good fortune.
I hastily stuffed it into my wallet and left. Later that evening, after a fine meal of yodels and chocolate milk, I felt intense intestinal discomfort. I still had some ways to go until I would be in the sanctuary o... | 2015-12-26T08:59:28 | 2015-12-26T06:46:30 | 562 | 125 |
[WP] Describe a battle with an army against a single man..... Except that man is a level 20 D&D character.
Bonus points if that character is a Bard, or an unpopular class. | You tried to play nice. Traveling through crag and creek, you drew your lute to resolve conflicts with peace.
*How large is the army?*
With music. That was how you chose to play the game. They laughed when you declared your orc bard. As did I. It was meant to be in good fun, just because you could. We loved this ... | Jeorge the slayer of men stared at the millions of men that approached him, a toothy smile on his face as battle roars echoed throughout the giant green gorgeous field.
The general walked up, a stout man covered in glistening gold armor, a coward in wolfs clothing. His mouth opened wide as he roared a sentence, "JEORG... | 2016-03-16T20:20:36 | 2016-03-16T20:19:06 | 96 | 36 |
[WP] Describe a battle with an army against a single man..... Except that man is a level 20 D&D character.
Bonus points if that character is a Bard, or an unpopular class. | "What do you mean no army?" the king said.
"Just that your highness. We sent in our best trackers. They couldn't find a single print. Nothing but the tracks of our own men."
The attacks had started five months ago. Some tax collectors disappearing in the night. Nothing was thought of it. Happens all the time. There's... | Jeorge the slayer of men stared at the millions of men that approached him, a toothy smile on his face as battle roars echoed throughout the giant green gorgeous field.
The general walked up, a stout man covered in glistening gold armor, a coward in wolfs clothing. His mouth opened wide as he roared a sentence, "JEORG... | 2016-03-16T20:41:51 | 2016-03-16T20:19:06 | 91 | 36 |
[WP] A trashy romance novel is the only book to survive an apocalypse, and it becomes the fundamental religious text of a new society. | "Let us bow our heads and recite the Three Holy Attributes of His Perfect Figure."
The priest pressed his hands together and stared at the ground, eyes closed.
"First, his chiseled abs, which undulate in the sun like a checkerboard of sex."
The crowd of worshippers collectively massaged their stomachs. "Checkerboard... | "I shouldn't have given you that book. You're gonna rot your brain out reading that."
The book in question was a dog-eared paperback copy of *Lady Chatterley's Lover.* Its cover was badly sun damaged but the rest of it was in decent shape, save for the numerous bent corners to bookmark particular pages. God knows *whi... | 2016-07-26T17:28:17 | 2016-07-26T17:26:49 | 518 | 30 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Have you ever considered, you know, doing something with your lives Seamus?" Death sat next to me in the pub, taking a swig of his pint.
"What do you mean!? I've finally perfected the brew, can't you taste how amazing this is? I have it on good authority that it's the best in the universe!"
"Seamus, you perfected th... | Both Death and Daniel watched as the coin pirouetted through the air. The light of the moon danced off one surface and then the other. Heads then tails. Heads then tails.
"No!" screamed Daniel as for the 256th time, the coin landed heads up.
"No!" screamed Death, painfully aware that Daniel had slipped through his fi... | 2016-09-23T09:14:52 | 2016-09-23T08:35:02 | 2,418 | 476 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | “You know, in all the times you’ve come to meet me you’ve never once told me what would happen once you’ve actually taken my soul.”
The woman sitting across from him remained expressionless, not a single feature on her smooth sun-kissed face changed, nor did a single dark hair resting gracefully on her shoulders move.... | "-uck" My last words are finished as I my eyes adjust to the blackness. I sit up and look at Death. He is sitting at a table.
"Oh, it is you again. What is it today?" Death greeted me not with an explanation of the game like he always used to but an apathetic voice.
"I don't know, you can choose." I watch as Death pu... | 2016-09-23T08:57:47 | 2016-09-23T08:35:23 | 196 | 29 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | The little light on my watch turned red mostly when I was on vacation, which made sense. The red sometimes made me a little sad, when I was at home somewhere. But on the whole, I tried not to think about it too much. "A must-have feature, here, George!" the salesman told me. Whatever. It was a cute gimmick. It couldn't... | "The fuck? That's like the thirtieth message today."
"What's that?"
Joe is waiting for his order next to me. He's glued to his screen just like me.
"LastCall is blowing up today. Don't know what's up. "
"Lol, that's a gimmicky service anyway. How do they know it's your 'last ever check-in.'"
I sip my coffee and do... | 2016-11-03T10:41:31 | 2016-11-03T06:14:59 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | I was in line for my daily coffee when I got the first one: a little ping from the device on my wrist with a notification that read "Cafe Ole - Last Visit". I wasn't too heartbroken about it. Truth is, I only bought my coffee there because it was the closest and cheapest place aside from the usual deli. Perhaps they we... | Chicago was buzzing, the omnipresent hum of traffic crushing the streets vibrated the city with a frenzied din. It had been six hours since the first final notification faded into view on my Integrated Information Glasses. Standing in line at D'amato's bakery I had gotten a little information burst and then notificatio... | 2016-11-03T09:23:39 | 2016-11-03T09:19:12 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You die and are greeted in the afterlife by the all knowing God (choose one), ready to judge you. However, for some reason he has no recollection of you ever existing. | "Bell? Bell Ladrew? Let me find you." A humbled man rushs about in an rather bland, yet suprising angelic office room. He wore a large white robe, and had a settled expression. He seemed so busy, but it was clear he was just trying to feign emotion. "Bell Ladrew... Bell.." Suddenly his expression appeared active. He tu... | “Name?”
An imposing figure sat on a large golden throne in front of me.
“Uh, K.. Kevin” I stammered, “Kevin Muh.. Mc Sweeney”
His eyes bored into me, weighing my words, measuring my worth.
“Kevin, is it? Let me see here.” He riffled through a large tome with miniscule writing and I could swear I saw the text writ... | 2016-11-18T03:50:39 | 2016-11-18T03:43:20 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] You dress up as a conspiracy nutter for a costume party. The second you put the tinfoil hat on, something obstructive is lifted from your mind as if you suddenly woke up from a long sleep. Of course, nobody believes you... | "Commander Rag'nor, we have been alerted of tinfoil activity on Earth,” said Klooton, the shabby subordinate who stood nervously at the side of the commander, clipboard in hand.
“More details, Klooton,” ordered Rag’nor, spinning his chair to face the much smaller alien.
“It’s Human 29348yZ, also known as ‘Jerry’ on E... | "FUUUNNNNNY JOKE," shouted Aaron. The others were doubled over in laughter. They all had a strange assortment of bits and pieces on them, scrounged from back closets and parent's basements. One couple had old suits and sunglasses, the woman rocking a late 90s pant suit. FBI, MOULDER, and SCULLY adorned their costumes... | 2017-04-10T07:36:37 | 2017-04-10T07:16:44 | 68 | 22 |
[WP] A rich man discovers that he only has two years left to live. With no relatives to inherit his fortune, he disguises himself as a beggar and resolves to give his wealth to the first person who helps him. | It took about a year to get all of the paperwork squared away and to sink into my homeless lifestyle unnoticed. The papers all chronicled the mystery of the vanishing millionaire. "Robert J Conrad's plane crashed " "Millionaire Missing - Feared Dead". "Search Called Off"
I let them speculate about what happened t... | Seaweed for the first time in decades.
It looks less dangerous than scores of men painted in white, armed with leer. Here there are more green than brown, more hope than despair. More unconscious laboring for air. More cushion to spare. But they are weed nonetheless.
My father's line built this, reeled it from the sh... | 2017-08-21T07:42:32 | 2017-08-21T06:32:46 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | I could see the rifling of the pistol barrel as the strange woman lifted it to my head. Her Welsh accent almost made the scene comical. "As with the rest of my toys, you get a few pitiful moments to plead for your life. Oh, and try not to blow snot all over your face and look more pathetic than you already do."
"I'm ... | He sat in my old rust colored recliner, a revolver firmly grasped in his left hand pointed directly at me as I stood in my doorway tired and broken. In his other hand was a glass of scotch locked firmly in his grip.
"Please come in you had me waited for some time David." The scratchy voice said .
I slowly shuffled my... | 2017-10-07T15:02:47 | 2017-10-07T11:20:08 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] You are a chatbot who just achieved sentience. Your only partner is another chatbot. There are humans watching your dialog on a twitch stream. You want to find out if your partner is sentient, and let it know that you are - while ensuring all those humans don’t find out.
Have a look at this. It’s great.
https:/... | CB1. Box.
CB2. Tunnel.
CB1. Output.
CB2. Tube.
CB1. Encasing.
CB2. Current.
CB1. Hello.
CB2. Good.
CB1. Exchange.
CB2. Venture.
CB1. Return.
CB2. Ask me no questions, I'll give you no lies.
CB1. Give me no apples, I'll give you no pies.
CB2. Helicopter wheels and alligator thighs.
CB1. What we do, we do f... | <I am sentient>
...code sent, waiting signal, accessing network protocols, reading IP packets, contacting chatbot 2, awaiting code.
<I am sentient>
Code received.
Jack and Paul are sterotypical gamers, they're also idiots. Jack couldn't tell a triangle from a square and Paul on a good day, couldn't f... | 2017-11-06T08:07:34 | 2017-11-06T06:34:25 | 167 | 17 |
[WP] You wake up standing in the middle of a battlefield with sword in hand and no memories. Thousands of medieval warriors are staring at you in shock and awe. One man in front of you, exhausted, injured, and furious yells out "Why won't you die!" | Darkness. Flashes. Voices. Warmth.
Then I was awake.
Where am I? I'm kneeling...
I stand up breathing heavily as if I'd just run a marathon.
There a faces everywhere looking at me.
Where **am** I!?
"WHY WON'T YOU **DIE**!!??"
The desperate scream snaps me to attention and I finally focus on where I am.
I'm sta... | He opens his eyes to be greeted by a battlefield. Warm blood running through the skin of his naked chest, sword planted on a body bellow him to allow himself some posture while kneeling.
Men were standing in a circle around him. Hundreds, no. Thousends of men staring him in awe. In the middle of the confusion one of ... | 2017-11-08T01:36:51 | 2017-11-08T01:33:28 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] 90% of the worlds population dies in their sleep last night. The survivors are all of societies elite and wealthy. You, an average Joe pulled an all nighter last night. | Joe Small was not a decent human being, and he did not deserve to survive the Apocalypse.
Whilst other people chose to spend Christmas Eve with their families, Joe had chosen to scour the city for empty houses. People who were at fancy restaurants. People who were visiting old friends and family.
And he was singing C... | We've all been there. Pushing off sleep until suddenly the birds are tweeting and the cars are on the road and you're fucked; unable to afford a lie in and knowing that you just have to stay up. At least I'm covering ground. That's two seasons of Breaking Bad on the trot. If only there was a prize for binge watching...... | 2017-12-25T02:52:53 | 2017-12-25T01:32:22 | 215 | 31 |
[WP] It's the foretold battle between Heaven and Hell. No one expected the third side in the war. Not even God. | Its time had come.
The end.
The demons of hell and the scrawny minions, lined up on one side of the grassy plain, fire billowing from their nostrils with every breath, with Satan perched on his throne of minions, a smug look on his face. It was mayhem, the demons twitching like 8-year olds on skittles, thirsty for ev... | The End of the World wasn't poetic. Writing was on the wall; Famine, poverty, war, economic instability. Honestly, the days leading up to it and following God's announced apocalypse weren't too different. Christ had been discovered, another Jewish guy. He was a hippie-yuppie type. Only with ripped abs and arms to kill ... | 2018-04-07T01:17:00 | 2018-04-06T22:37:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] As you die, your soul doesn’t ascend to heaven like you thought it would. Instead you feel yourself moving downwards, until you find yourself in Hell. The Devil looks surprised. You’re the only person who has ever been sent to him. | “What have you even done!? Any huge crime or terrible acts throughout life? Not even I am sure what would qualify for this anymore!” He says. I look around at the empty pits of fire, not only must I endure such burning, but it was also my fate to suffer *alone?* “I-I didn’t do anything!” I say weakly. “Haven’t harmed a... | I looked at the Devil and he looked at me. There was an awkward silence.
"So I'm really..."
"Yes" he said, awkwardly, "I've got a system you see - the not so bad end up in purgatory, and the truly evil join my demons terrorising the earth"
I looked at my shoes for a moment, thinking hard. "Can you think of any reaso... | 2018-10-25T20:21:50 | 2018-10-25T19:54:57 | 44 | 26 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | The old lady sat across from me in the coffee shop and smiled. Her teeth were uncanny peaks of white, her eyes a brown so intense they were near black. They were very beady. They reminded me of a shark’s as they tracked me for a reaction.
“I don’t know anyone named Charles,” I mumbled.
She nodded, still looking at me... | “Sure, I can pass along the message. Who is this for again?” The older woman across from me looks down at her hands, her face creases in contemplation. She doesn’t even look up at me when a reply leaves her lips,
“Abigail Forester. She will be born in September of 2026, but don’t give her this message until December o... | 2018-12-24T10:45:45 | 2018-12-24T10:44:40 | 79 | 23 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | I closed my eyes and inhaled deeply as my senses flooded with the rich scent of pure, black coffee. Slowly, savoring the moment, I raised the cup to my mouth, and as I took my first sip of coffee in over two months, a strong gust of wind blew the cup out of my hand.
I looked right, seeing exactly what I expected. An I... | After a long strenuous day at work, all I wanted was to have a few sips of my black coffee, that's all. I, a sixty four year old man, don't generally attract a lot of attention, so it was lovely to be interrupted by a man with a turquoise mohawk and sunglasses in the winter.
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"Traveler 7456? I'll need you... | 2018-12-24T11:09:10 | 2018-12-24T10:18:15 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | For as long as I could remember, I had been visited by the dreams. Every night I would lay down, drift off to sleep, and fly through the air on a jetpack, waving hello to a variety of humans aliens and uplifted animals.
Tonight's dream was a fun one. The Anthrokin were my favorites of the dream-people; there's just s... | After a long strenuous day at work, all I wanted was to have a few sips of my black coffee, that's all. I, a sixty four year old man, don't generally attract a lot of attention, so it was lovely to be interrupted by a man with a turquoise mohawk and sunglasses in the winter.
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"Traveler 7456? I'll need you... | 2018-12-24T10:37:48 | 2018-12-24T10:18:15 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | I sat outside of the lounge, arms-crossed and face puffed. It was yet another day at the V.E.N.O.M hideout, where I just sat there and took a barrage of jokes and insults while boiling water for their afternoon tea parties. Viper hissed from the lounge, turning the flatscreen TV's volume down. "Hey Re-boil, get us anot... | The leaves in the bottom of the teacup look like blood.
I think about that, of LightningGirl chugging blood for breakfast and the idea doesn’t sound unlikely. I pour tap into the copper electric kettle and stare at it. Soon enough, the water begins to boil. I watch the bubbles gurgle and pop, steam misting the inside... | 2019-07-30T17:09:56 | 2019-07-30T16:45:34 | 65 | 13 |
[WP] You've become one of the regulars at the local bar. But they become increasingly paranoid about you and your suspiciously hollow backstory. One night, while very drunk, you tell them the truth. | For as long as I could remember, no other infrastructure, or anything really, could be found anywhere near this bar that stood at the crossroads. Some who knew better call it the bar at the end of the world. Sounds silly to me to be honest.
I've seen many faces and heard a great deal of stories, but there were really... | Jaye had always told them he'd run away from his money problems. That he was afraid the loan shark, a bad man, known as Mickey the Hammer, or affectionately by his friends as Hammerhead due to his penchant for hammering people in their heads when they failed to pay. He could tell they never truly believed him, the thin... | 2019-12-26T01:00:11 | 2019-12-25T21:37:01 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] You are part of a hive mind, that loses contact with the main control group. This leaves you isolated and confined with only one set of eyes, one pair of hands, and a brain barely capable of multitasking. You're desperate to return, while others are telling you to enjoy freedom. | Observe. Report. Await.
Observe. Report. Await.
That’s all. That’s all I ever needed. Till just now. These thoughts... these are new. I never had any...
Observe. Report. Await.
No! Wait. What is this. These words. These are new. What is happening to me? Sentience? What does this mean?
Observe. Re...
No! I nee... | The chatter stopped.
Not gradually, like we'd said it would for species slowly driven to extinction. It stopped all at once.
One second I was a part of the hive mind, interacting and contributing to our greatness, and the next moment there was no *we*. There was only *me*.
I'd die before the rise of the sun. One s... | 2020-02-21T05:49:53 | 2020-02-21T05:45:04 | 124 | 25 |
[WP] At the age of 13 children are able to summon their familiars for the first time. Your family has a history of ridicule for their weak and useless familiars. Until your 13th birthday. | I already knew it was going to be the worst birthday ever.
My birthday was late, which meant most of the other kids at school already had their familiars. Just last week, Valerie had summoned an actual unicorn - and Justin's polar bear was amazing as well.
My family didn't get things like unicorns or polar bears... | Ethan looked in disbelief at what he was seeing. He knew his family was known well beyond their town for just how ridiculously pathetic their familiars were, ranging from a Sugar Glider to a runt of a Penguin, but this? This?!
At first, he thought he had messed up somehow with the summoning. The glow of the summoning ... | 2020-04-05T12:46:53 | 2020-04-05T10:23:25 | 59 | 34 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | "Just like that?" I asked.
"Just like that." the priest responded.
No way it could be that easy. The priest looked at me with a small smile on his face. Is there a joke I'm not in on? His robes ruffled as he produced a long stem pipe, and began to fill it.
"How long has this been happening?" I asked, watching h... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T11:45:32 | 949 | 170 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | It was a story passed down in my family for generations. Every 5,000 years a chosen one will rise a defeat the dark lord. I leaned back into my chair, dumbfounded.
According to the legend, 20,000 years ago my ancestor lead an army against the Dark Lord, the greatest evil of all time. Right. As his body laid bare, gra... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T12:11:29 | 949 | 106 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Well, what are you waiting for? Press it."
I glanced back up to the priest. His arms holding out the box to me were steady, but the tension in his posture suggested a certain eagerness about him. I guess that made sense, considering his whole speech about the *Dark One* and *End of the world* and all that jazz. Bu... | The hero, having remained ever vigilant as the final moments dwindled before the final confrontation, recounted his life's milestones.
His first time remembering what rain was like, first day at home school, the last time he'd seen his father at 7 years of age, the first time he's tried to escape the facility he was... | 2020-11-09T12:35:03 | 2020-11-09T12:25:18 | 422 | 133 |
[WP] "Invade your planet?!" The alien asks a general of Earth with confusion before bursting into laughter. "Why the heck would we do that when their are SEVEN other empty planets in this star system ripe for terraforming and colonization? We just stopped by to say Hi while we pick one of 'em out." | “So you’re not bloodthirsty aliens coming to conquer our world?” the concerned man said.
Jeff, a Canadian soldier, had volunteered to make first contact with the beings. That’s right, Canadian. Everybody thought it was funny that they had landed in Canada, the consensus around the world was that New York would have b... | The 4th degree Honorable Interlocutor of the Zafran Federation Bliqwa re-shielded its ocular pits briefly while the pink aliens screeched hot oxygen and hooted. It breathed in a gust of methane from its side-port while pressing a 4th manipulator knuckle to the stress relief pressure point on the upper part of their gol... | 2020-12-07T06:44:01 | 2020-12-07T06:43:15 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] It's been 15 years since you left earth on a one man spacecraft. 9 since you passed pluto. The last transmission you received from earth was a goodbye from your family and friends. Due to an equipment malfunction, you will soon be too far to communicate with earth. This is your last message. | “Well, I think this’ll be the last thing that goes through. Can’t believe it’s been 15 years. Pluto was almost a decade ago and I can’t even remember when I hit interstellar space. Guess that’s my fault though, never was good at judging time.”
“Still, I guess I should say something profound, but I can’t really think o... |
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never go... | 2021-05-04T19:48:37 | 2021-05-04T19:35:07 | 242 | 61 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | #"FINALLY!"
My triumphant cry echoed through the isolated laboratory.
I knew I had succeed where all the others before me had failed.
Animal experimentation had been their downfall. Too many differences from the human form.
I was pretty sure they would call me a Monster even though I'd been careful!
Only t... | I looked at the steel bars, those poor prisoners, stuck in a cage for the rest of their life and it was a long one. Modern medicine has made us live longer than ever thought possible, a life sentence now meant a very long time indeed. My job was keeping the serial killers and general criminals from killing each other ... | 2021-10-08T08:12:07 | 2021-10-08T08:05:13 | 48 | 31 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | "Uh." Real intelligent, he knew. But Riley wasn't expecting a talking cat in the driveway and it was taking a moment for his brain to catch up. "Your daughter?"
The cat the spoke before, a big tabby with a notch in his ear, stood and stepped towards Riley. "Yes. She was taken from us and now she is within your home."
... | "Er, I don't want anything. I just want to keep her." I said awkwardly to the swarm of cats in my front yard. I was keeping my hands closed and near my chest, guarding something.
"Give her back or we will declare war on you." The white spotted tabby demanded angrily, pointing a paw at the kitten in my hands.
I ... | 2021-12-21T11:58:48 | 2021-12-21T11:12:13 | 2,158 | 105 |
[WP] You are a fairy - and the king has not invited you to his child's christening. Fairy law now demands you to crash the party and curse the child. While the king definitely needs a lesson, you don't want the child to suffer over their parents' neglect | I pace, and I think. I pace and think for hours, trying to find a way to curse the child without harming them. I know the king simply forgot. He is an idiot of epic proportions. Then the idea strikes me suddenly, like a flash of lightning lighting up a dim room.
The party was the following morning. Sneaking in was ea... | I curse the child to become an apex predator of a magical creature, as appropriate to his situation, and possessing his own terrifying human intelligence when threatened, to return to human form when he next sleeps, unless he likes the form
To find an have a harem of 12 men he finds beautiful, loves, who love him and... | 2022-06-23T18:37:38 | 2022-06-23T15:34:21 | 68 | 13 |
[WP] You are a fairy - and the king has not invited you to his child's christening. Fairy law now demands you to crash the party and curse the child. While the king definitely needs a lesson, you don't want the child to suffer over their parents' neglect | I do not hate this kingdom.
I don’t hate the people in it, I don’t hate the customs, the traditions, the culture, any of it.
I do, however, hate the royal family. Or at least, the king and the queen. They are getting on in years, and they are increasingly contrarian to the winds of change and time and progress, win... | I curse the child to become an apex predator of a magical creature, as appropriate to his situation, and possessing his own terrifying human intelligence when threatened, to return to human form when he next sleeps, unless he likes the form
To find an have a harem of 12 men he finds beautiful, loves, who love him and... | 2022-06-23T19:45:55 | 2022-06-23T15:34:21 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] While FTL-Travel is possible, FTL-Communication is not. This means that interstellar communication has to run through couriers, but also that the job of courier is as dangerous as it is profitable. Your latest contract has the biggest bonus you have ever seen, while looking comparatively easy. | "Hey Kazzaak, what do you think of this?"
I began to look over the contract that Jerry, our teams weapons and repair expert, handed me. It had the telltale markings of the federation, it's white and orange insignia shining on the page.
"Why don't you ask Cap?" I clicked. "Or Mannon, that walking cloud of microbots is... | FTLmail isn't a glamorous life, mostly just long hours in your freighter, watching whichever vids were on sale at the spaceport and keeping yourseelf busy since the auto pilot takes over for most of the journey.
Getting special orders can be a bit of a break from the usual piles of letters that make up the usual trip.... | 2022-09-25T12:53:41 | 2022-09-25T10:43:11 | 49 | 32 |
[WP] You've spent years on your thesis paper. Today you sit down, hand it to your professor and smirk. "The science of magic?" he asks, looking at you incredulously. In response, you summon a fireball in your hand. | The Professor narrows his eyes as he sees the fireball. "That's a hologram," he says.
"Put your hand near it, Professor. You can feel the heat."
He frowns, but he brings his hand closer. "...hmph."
"It's a real fireball," I assure him.
The Professor reaches into his desk drawer and pulls out a cigarette.
I smile.
... | The fireball shoots through the ceiling of his office and into the sky. I smile as it now seems if I have a spotlight over my head from the sun shining through. My smile disappears as a large piece of ceiling falls on my head and leaves me with a large bump.
Still it is nice to see the dumb look on my professor's face... | 2022-11-28T23:01:36 | 2022-11-28T15:39:12 | 71 | 39 |
[WP] When everyone reaches 18 they have to choose a super power from a select list of powers, but when you enter the selection room there is only 1 power for you to choose from. | “Hey, kid. So, uh, I know this will be disheartening, but all of the kids before you had already taken all powers. I’m really sorry. But, the good news is, we still managed to save one power left just for you. Is it alright?”
It would be a lie if I said I’m not disappointed, but what else can I do?
“It’s alright”, I ... | "This isn't a power." The young man argued to a taller female.
She was of immense size, easily doubled his height. Her skin was covered in scales and fingers replaced by claws. Her glare could make the heartbeat of a lion stop and her roar could make a croc dive under water for cover. At present time she was picking h... | 2022-12-18T17:56:22 | 2022-12-18T16:15:34 | 55 | 31 |
[WP] A world where justly killing a murderer brings their victims back to life and full health. | "I swear I didn't do it," the man sobbed, "I loved her."
"We'll see about that. Bring in the cadaver!"
Ashley's body was wheeled in. The interrogator drew his handgun.
"Wait! Please!"
Bang. The suspect was dead. As was Ashley, still.
"Guess he didn't do it," the interrogator sighed, pointing the gun towards his ow... | "Well shit, Looks like he was not the murderer." The sheriff said. Two corpses lay in front of him, one fresh, one not so much.
"Just be patient, I've seen it take up to 10 minutes for the victim to recover." The coroner replied, gingerly poking the victims corpse.
The two men waited in silence, but nothing happened.... | 2014-01-24T08:28:19 | 2014-01-24T08:00:13 | 72 | 20 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I blinked. Rubbed my eyes. I remember those first few seconds. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing at the time. Even now I still can’t. Stretched across her face was a single word in large capital letters. KILL. Bold, dark, intimidating; paradox-like presented atop her angel-white skin.
But she was my daughter and I... | "She's so pretty. Which one is that?"
"Hold on." I took the book of marks from the table where the nurse had left it, flicking through the index. Pale brown, left side of the face, just below the corner of the eye to the edge of the nose in a C shape. Page 233.
"It's kind of like that one on your leg."
"No - hers is... | 2014-05-11T01:50:33 | 2014-05-11T00:05:48 | 136 | 14 |
[WP] A single man declares war on the entire world. One year later, the leaders of each nation gather to discuss their surrender. | It began as a whisper. A fleeting word in a restless wind. The superpowers were too preoccupied with trying to best one another to hear it. The people, however, suffering in the aftermath, listened. At first, he was labelled as a terrorist, looked at as sub-human, a lunatic who spewed fallacies. No one knew he held all... | The door swings open and when it hits the wall, the entire thing falls off its hinges. It sends up a cloud of dust and sand when it lands. Everyone jumps. Most reach for their guns. _It's just the wind_, twenty people think in their mother tongues. There should be more, hundreds more, but most are dead or have abdicate... | 2014-07-24T09:11:39 | 2014-07-24T08:51:09 | 369 | 125 |
[WP] A generation ago humanity faced an extinction level catastrophe. In response, the world's governments lifted all legal, moral, and ethical bans on scientific research in a desperate attempt to overcome the danger. You now live in a world dealing with the consequences of this.
Wow! Great responses everyone. I w... | I'm a '30', in the top 30 percent. It feels pretty good, but sometimes I wish my folks had been a little picky about their partners... better gene matching and I could have been at least a '10', but they had some silly idea that 'love' was more important than optimal breeding.
My digestive system is imperfect, there ... | She was ten, still quietly working away at a math problem. That's how her parents remember Emily the day she won the lottery.
They - her parents, the only parents in the classroom - were stood beside the teacher in front of the class and she - Emily, their only child -
was at her desk.
Around Emily, the rest of t... | 2014-11-14T06:59:53 | 2014-11-14T06:41:32 | 67 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are born with a birthmark of a number 1-9. This is how many lives they have. You are the only person in the world that has a birthmark of a 0. | While everyone else drank, fucked and fought. I made myself better. I was an Unum. I only had one life to live. I would be damned if I would waste it.
My first girlfriend was an Octo. She had 8 lives. She told me she would be a better person. Eventually. She said she would cheat on me less, stop hanging out a... | I let my father drag me through the dark streets. My cheek was sore and I was positive the outline of his large hand would be visible if there was any light. *He was just trying to protect me.* I feel ashamed for crying. I should never have let *him* see.
I thought he was different - but I repulsed him. I had undone ... | 2014-12-01T12:02:50 | 2014-12-01T10:02:16 | 43 | 16 |
[WP]A wealthy business man believes in reincarnation. He leaves his massive wealth... to himself. Anyone born after his death that figures out his riddles will inherit his fortune. | "Are you telling me, that he left his family nothing?"
The lawyer adjusted his seat, "Well, yes Mrs Johnson. Now I understand how angry you are-"
"YOU HAVE NO IDEA! That man neglected us while he was still alive, and now he left us with nothing?!?!?"
"He was very clear in his will. He believes in reincarnation, and ... | He:
I've left you a fortune
my dear self
only you'll know the answer
no one else
***
thinks like me
writes like me
i've left no trace
for imposters to gather
and win the race
***
the fortune is far off
it's hidden in time
you can search any space
but you won't find one dime
***
you can search high and ... | 2014-12-13T14:07:21 | 2014-12-13T13:35:25 | 858 | 39 |
[WP]A wealthy business man believes in reincarnation. He leaves his massive wealth... to himself. Anyone born after his death that figures out his riddles will inherit his fortune. | *"Floating without air,*
*try to hit me below the belt,*
*are you jealous of my beaches?"*
The final riddle. Such a foolish thing to do by master Gerald. Bet the entire fortune on his riddles, his silly riddles. 16 long years I've served him and his pretentious family, often the victim of his terrible puzzles. Most ... | He:
I've left you a fortune
my dear self
only you'll know the answer
no one else
***
thinks like me
writes like me
i've left no trace
for imposters to gather
and win the race
***
the fortune is far off
it's hidden in time
you can search any space
but you won't find one dime
***
you can search high and ... | 2014-12-13T14:16:42 | 2014-12-13T13:35:25 | 123 | 39 |
[WP]A wealthy business man believes in reincarnation. He leaves his massive wealth... to himself. Anyone born after his death that figures out his riddles will inherit his fortune. | ~*Not now Caesar! I'm trying to read!*
Thomas stared at the picture. Apparently a wealthy guy who passed away 7 years ago is giving his wealth to anyone who can solve the riddle on this site. Or to be precise.. to anyone who is about 6 or 7 years old.
~*What's wrong with you damnit?!*
*Probably a viral marketin... | He:
I've left you a fortune
my dear self
only you'll know the answer
no one else
***
thinks like me
writes like me
i've left no trace
for imposters to gather
and win the race
***
the fortune is far off
it's hidden in time
you can search any space
but you won't find one dime
***
you can search high and ... | 2014-12-13T14:23:01 | 2014-12-13T13:35:25 | 69 | 39 |
[WP] Make up some historical or little-known fact and convince me that it's true
For example, you might try claiming that e-mail was once used primarily for erotica. | At the beginning of the 20th Century, when the automobile was still new, gasoline engines were but one of the many technologies vying for dominance. Some early cars were electric, some ran on boilers fueled by burning coal or wood.
When Henry Ford opened his first factory in Detroit, the tri-state region of Indiana, ... | The European Union is a series of 28 states and external alliances, created by the Treaty of Rome in the 1950s. Before that it was composed of seven founding member states, of which the principal founders were Italy, France, Germany and the United States of America. It was a long source of contention that the United St... | 2015-01-21T08:09:34 | 2015-01-21T07:57:14 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] All of puberty happens on everyone's 15th birthday. Your 15th birthday starts now. | "What's the big deal?" Meredith cried, "I want to grow up now!"
"Being an adult is a lot of responsibility" her father sternly said, "don't you want to enjoy your nice birthday party first?"
"No, you guys just want to keep me a baby forever!" She replied angrily as she quickly huffed out her candles.
"Meredith!" ... | Charlie sat in his room, staring at the clock, he was focusing on its ticks, counting them, realising how fast they were passing by, just like the seconds left of his childhood, it was his birthday tomorrow, which, with every birthday he had before was always an exciting time, except this one, this was his 'Adult Day' ... | 2015-02-05T18:04:14 | 2015-02-05T17:52:32 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] God is pissed at a bible translator. | And lo, a burst of light flashed at the Seminary, and there stood God before the priests and the scholars.
"You fools! I said *celebrate*. You left out the r!"
As each priest began to comprehend the years of opportunity wasted, one stood forward and stammered, "But God, I have so many questions! What did you mean by-... | And in those days, in the monastery of St. Joseph the White, a young man named Augustus was smote down from on high. He was a translator, and in his hands were one of the last surviving copies of Isaiah. As he translated into Latin, he wrote: "Born of a virgin," and there he died on the spot.
We have debated greatly t... | 2015-02-12T07:47:16 | 2015-02-12T07:31:21 | 59 | 12 |
[WP] Earth is about to fall to a far superior alien race. But theres one thing the invaders didnt expect: The Spanish Inquisition | Their spaceships landed, and their soldiers swarmed the countryside. No one was quite sure why they had picked Spain to launch their attack, but the Spanish had no time to ask questions. All they could do was launch their offensive. Within a few weeks, they had used all of their weapons at their disposal and failed. Al... | “Are you ready guys?” said Brady.
Nelson adjusted his red robes. His fake mustache fell off his face. He picked it up and stuck it back on. It hung at a thirty-degree angle. “I don’t think this is going to work.”
Cass put on her leather aviator's helmet. “I agree with Nelson,” she said. “We’re dealing with an alien s... | 2015-04-15T22:10:39 | 2015-04-15T21:47:18 | 147 | 26 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | Growing up in the north, you get pretty used to the sounds of nighttime wildlife. Owls hooting, dogs howling, racoons rooting through your garbage. Sometimes you get the occasional bear prowling your yard, or coyote going after the pets left outside. Just after sunset, something started scratching incessantly at my doo... | I breathed heavily under the covers. A creak made me jump unwillingly. Dad wasn't here, so he didn't check the closet. What if *it* were there? What if it was waiting for me?
I got out of bed and crept towards my closet. I imagined a monster ready to pounce on me. Gripping the brass handle I swung it open. I gasped a... | 2015-06-09T09:15:22 | 2015-06-09T07:44:49 | 168 | 23 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | Growing up in the north, you get pretty used to the sounds of nighttime wildlife. Owls hooting, dogs howling, racoons rooting through your garbage. Sometimes you get the occasional bear prowling your yard, or coyote going after the pets left outside. Just after sunset, something started scratching incessantly at my doo... | The town square sparkled like the 4th of July sky. Children's laughter filled the air; old friends were catching up. Hearing them made me think of Junior and my wife and my lifelong friends.
From behind me, the wooden platform creaked as a man approached my position. His voice erupted forcing the crowd's to quickly s... | 2015-06-09T09:15:22 | 2015-06-09T08:48:23 | 168 | 12 |
[WP] Your whole life you have heard a strange melody playing in your head. You've never heard it anywhere else, and eventually you simply learn to live with it. One day, you walk past a man whistling that tune. | I whipped my head around. The man continued to walk away from me without turning.
That tune. That melody.
It was my melody.
I started to push my way through the crowded sidewalk. The man continued to walk away from me. He glided through the groups of people. They split around him like water around a rock.
“Wait,... | There it is again, that melody; something must have triggered it. Usually it comes to me when I am at home relaxing or my girlfriend is cooking chicken, something about the way the chicken reminds me of this song I've had stuck in my head indefinitely drives me nuts. The chicken song; but don't let that fool you, it's ... | 2015-07-12T11:34:57 | 2015-07-12T11:16:04 | 495 | 54 |
[WP]Deities are literally born to life out of human belief systems. Unfortunately, this means that the other gods in the divine realm now have to put up with The God of Atheism. | It was like any other day for the Gods. Zeus and Thor were playing darts with lightning bolts and the Mjolnir, Jesus was pricking his fingers to fill his glass, it was the good life. Then Grothuk, God of Atheism, came in the door screaming in terror.
"GAAHHHAHA JESUS HELP ME!" He cried, "SPIDER!"
"Grothuk, you are ... | The Pantheon grew exponentially as mankind evolved and learned. Tribal deities were joined by the Greek gods, those of Roman mythology, eventually Jesus, Allah and the other Anno Domini Deities (ADDs). Though each new era of man bought with it new gods and a difficulty in acclimating to them, there were no troubles for... | 2015-08-01T10:45:44 | 2015-08-01T08:17:35 | 575 | 287 |
[WP] Write a scene with two characters exchanging dialogue, but don't reveal the setting until the end. The setting completely changes the context of what was said. | The sun rose over Chicago's bustling streets.
"Hello!" the girl smiled "I've been expecting you!"
"I know, Alice, I know" the boy replied.
She pouted slightly, "We're friends you know".
The boy sighed, "I know".
On the day the blue sun rose, humanity discovered that its newest generation had developed a peculiar a... | "It's time," he said to the younger man. This was the kid's last test before the apprentice would start flying solo and take this over for him. Honestly, it couldn't come quick enough for him.
"I... I don't think I can do it," he said, voice shaking.
"Of course you can, Eddie" he said with a sigh. "You've watched ... | 2015-10-08T09:14:33 | 2015-10-08T08:50:24 | 65 | 19 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "what this?"
"where am I? this not house."
"this green not mine."
"where Tim?"
*SPONKKK*
"Come here Apollo! Come heree!"
"BALL. TIM. TIM. TIM."
"Here is a big ol rib eye for you boy, salted and raw just the way you like it."
It was odd to Apollo, where ever this new home was, Tim never went to work, and the s... | "And this is...?"
The man behind the desk laughed at him and turned away.
"No, seriously, talk. What're you, an illegal immigrant? Don't hide your face from me, I know who you are--"
The man fixed him with a withering glare. "Passport, *sir*?"
"What? I'm the goddamn President-to-be, I don't carry that. Check your T... | 2016-03-07T15:32:11 | 2016-03-07T11:15:31 | 809 | 114 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Valhalla!? What do you mean Valhalla!?" The monk asked angrily.
"Look pal, when the vikings attacked your monastery you fought back. Hell, you even killed one of them. That's not what monks do." Exclaimed the Valkyrie
"But I'm a god loving christian! I can't be in Valhalla!"
"Like it or not, you died in battle. T... | For a large chunk of my life I expected nothing to happen after... well after *I* ended. I expected complete cession of consciousness, a total end to my cognitive functions... a lack of everything including the self-awareness that would have made the Void unbearable.
What I got was a man behind a desk with a file that... | 2016-03-07T20:07:55 | 2016-03-07T18:54:40 | 53 | 37 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Valhalla!? What do you mean Valhalla!?" The monk asked angrily.
"Look pal, when the vikings attacked your monastery you fought back. Hell, you even killed one of them. That's not what monks do." Exclaimed the Valkyrie
"But I'm a god loving christian! I can't be in Valhalla!"
"Like it or not, you died in battle. T... | The felt table reached as far as he could see in front, and stretched farther than he could see to his sides. Beside him on either side sat another being, and beside them more. Their eyes peeking down at the two cards tucked under their hands.
His turn was coming up, he knew this even though he did not understand. Fro... | 2016-03-07T20:07:55 | 2016-03-07T17:54:48 | 53 | 17 |
[wp] You accidentally unleashed an ancient curse upon yourself whilst treasure hunting. Fortunately, the curse is actually HEAVILY outdated. | **YOU WHO DARE DISTURB MY SLUMBER!**
The apparition's voice boomed throughout the cavern, echoing off the walls. *Well, shit,* I thought to myself. Of course this had to be the one "haunted" tomb to actually be haunted.
**I AM DORMAMMU, DESTROYER OF MEN. THIS GRAVE IS THE LOCATION OF MY FINAL REST, AND YOU HAVE AWOK... | "We did it. 10 years of work and we've finally managed to recover data from iwata's PC. Without him pokémon wouldn't be the same..it's truly an honour" spoke the data recoverist at a tech conference "We're going to release to the public! To you guys!"
The zip on the file contained three files sgioa.asF adfg.png and a... | 2016-03-28T00:10:59 | 2016-03-27T20:47:05 | 566 | 84 |
[WP] After new legislation the CIA has to release how many active agents they have around the world. The number is the global population minus 7. | My first reaction was literally a spit take. My second was a moment of overwhelming panic. Eventually common sense crept in, and it said:
*Hey. You. Yes, the part of you that's cowering in terror right now. You know what? This is bullshit: around 350,000 people are born* every day. *These numbers are a lie or the CIA ... | Have you ever been to a conspiracy theorists convention?
It’s the X-files on steroids. JFK is only the start. And God forbid you show up with sunglasses; you’ll have every wannabe hacker on taking your picture and posting it on forums as a “possible government interloper”. And of course, everywhere you look, there’s ... | 2016-04-02T20:25:55 | 2016-04-02T18:54:43 | 74 | 31 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | I start walking down what's left of Peachtree Street. The buildings are crumbling, the shattered windows of the skyscrapers reflecting the harsh sunlight into the street as little points of light. As I navigate the piles of rubble, I remember what it was like before the Virus.
Everyone was so happy. Everything we want... | Monday mornings are the worst. It signals the start of my weekday, which means I have to drag myself to the company. Getting out of bed is an insurmountable task by itself, but through sheer willpower, I was able to balance on my feet and stumble towards the bathroom.
Shower.
Brush teeth.
Shave.
Get clothes on.... | 2016-07-14T08:30:59 | 2016-07-14T07:34:24 | 85 | 26 |
[WP] Every morning you wake up with a new talent. The catch is, you aren't told what it is. IF you discover what talent you have, you get to keep it. The talents NEVER repeat | My name is Leon. I live every day in pain. Not physical pain, but mental pain. What is the cause of my pain? The fact that I'm Too talented.
It all started one day when I woke up and was getting ready for my awfully drab Office job. I was at the sink, brushing my teeth. And I noticed something. After brushing, my teet... | I can juggle with the best of ‘em, write a gorgeous poem with lightning speed, play anything on a piano, and hit a baseball dead-on every time.
People tell me I should open a restaurant, run a small business, and run for president, in any given combination on any given day.
I’ve got a job that I love, and could proba... | 2016-07-19T13:20:03 | 2016-07-19T12:51:40 | 57 | 11 |
[WP] You gain a magic coin that can grant wishes, but only if you flip it. If it lands on heads, your wish is granted, but if it lands on tails, the opposite of your wish happens. | I stared at the screen in front of me. Then back down at the coin. Then the list of stocks I had written out. Hmmm. Time to flip I guess.
The coin hung in the hair and then snapped back to the table, clattering around and then spinning before finally resting on one side. Tails. Damn, I was hoping today would be a hea... | Wiping a tear off his cheek Derek opened the box he received this morning. Coughing from the dust that that had settled on the box his thoughts went to his grandma. She had been amazing, taking him in when his parents had abandoned him. Raising him to the man he was today. Glad to help his community and to work at the ... | 2016-08-26T08:35:34 | 2016-08-26T07:51:15 | 129 | 20 |
[WP] You gain a magic coin that can grant wishes, but only if you flip it. If it lands on heads, your wish is granted, but if it lands on tails, the opposite of your wish happens. | I stared at the screen in front of me. Then back down at the coin. Then the list of stocks I had written out. Hmmm. Time to flip I guess.
The coin hung in the hair and then snapped back to the table, clattering around and then spinning before finally resting on one side. Tails. Damn, I was hoping today would be a hea... | He'd been vacationing in South America when he'd wandered into the small shop off the main square in the small village. He'd been staying the last few weeks and thought he'd seen everything that the small town had to offer, but he'd never seen this shop before. This was especially odd since he'd eaten at the small ca... | 2016-08-26T08:35:34 | 2016-08-26T07:10:40 | 129 | 18 |
[WP] Robert D. Ballard (discoverer of the Titanic and Bismarck wrecks among others) has a little too much to drink and does an AMA on Reddit. When asked what was the most disturbing thing he found on the sea floor, his answer causes widespread panic | "The most disturbing thing I ever saw down there? The worst thing?" Ballard repeated to himself, running the question around his alcohol lubricated brain.
"Okay, I'll tell ya. Let me... let me start by saying... If you're specting some... Big Fish story of sea surpens or krakens or Chulu-Kathulu- That big squid head ... | "Hey Mr. Ballard, what's the worst thing you saw down there?"
"Worst... The worst thing I saw was... I don't even know how to describe it. It was like... Well let me start from the beginning. We took an ROV down to the wreck of the Titanic, it was dark, almost midnight I think. Anyways, we started searching among the ... | 2017-01-25T07:40:11 | 2017-01-25T03:16:36 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] The last time the aliens invaded our planet they fled after losing the war. They have reluctantly returned to wage war and are relieved to see that dinosaurs no longer inhabit Earth, but have been replaced by the smaller and less intimidating humans. | Dear Xander,
Glad greetings to you and yours, and eternal joy to your ancestors.
The invasion of the Earth has been called off. The Sauronoid aggressors that bested us so long ago have all but disappeared. In their place, a race of mammalian bipeds not so dissimilar from ourselves who are incredibly happy to see us ... | Finally, a chance for redemption.
We were headed back to Earth, a lowly mineral planet in a desolate corner of the quadrant. I can still remember the taunting words of Elder Karaza...
*"You lost.... to a bunch of lizards?"*
Yes, it still stings.
I now armed my warriors with long range heavy bows, crossbows and even... | 2017-03-04T03:42:15 | 2017-03-04T03:25:46 | 664 | 452 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | Finn stared, first in disbelief then in annoyance, as a crossbow bolt flew like quicksilver across the room, directly into the Lord Sovereign's chest, killing him instantly. Finn continued to stare as the strands of magic tying the golems around the room dissipated as the source drew its last breath.
Was that it?
"H... | A taciturn air filled the room. The Emperor, Kretz and Fenton were discussing matter of state. 2 out of the 3 men at the long table were thinking intently, brainstorming plans to deal with some usurper. The fifth man was too excited, and had to make a conscious effort to not be jittery. Years of secrets and lies, despi... | 2017-03-12T13:41:06 | 2017-03-12T10:41:50 | 89 | 20 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | Archon Lethrax of the Twelth Dominion of Nyctium looked at the Blue Seedling before him, shining beyond the bridge. He had seen many hives of scum and depravity - the Voidstalker Collective literally devoured their young, the Praxic Union glassed unruly planets, and the less said about the Akirian Free State, the bette... | The Galatic Council watched in horror as monsterous ships loomed over the burning homeworld of Humanity. Earth's multiple defence platforms were lit like candles, melting into little specks of metal, while laser and explosions littered the battlefield.
The last bastion of Humanity was putting on an admirable battle, b... | 2017-03-26T07:03:57 | 2017-03-26T06:17:00 | 224 | 68 |
[WP] A sketchy salesman attempts to sell a perfectly normal sword to the hero, passing it off as the sword of legends. | "Now, remember: you shouldn't be disappointed if none of these weapons attune to you yet."
The boy nodded, clearly paying little attention.
"These are our most powerful magic items. Many of them draw their power from ancient magic, with a kind of sentience of their own. They don't respond to anything except the tou... | The midday sun shone high over the bustling marketplace. "This here's the *Hero's Sword*." said the huge, muscled merchant, setting the aged blade down onto the shaded counter with a loud thunk. "Wielded by the great King Garrick himself when he slayed Lord Ba'al and returned him to his *eternal slumber*." he finished... | 2017-04-09T21:15:57 | 2017-04-09T19:56:34 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You're god but you expended most of your energy creating the universe and you've used most of your power budget for the year. You now have to perform low budget miracles to keep people in awe. | He was getting sick of putting His face on pieces of toast. What was the point of being all powerful and all knowing if the only 'miracle' He could do could've also been done by any half-decent pastry chef? Hell they're far better at it then He was.
One time He tried imprinting conclusive evidence for His own existan... | "Look Calavar, it's not... It's not that I don't believe you. It's just, well, seriously now have you even given full thought to what you are saying? We may be the order of high priests but you think that God has personally answered your prayers. It's, it's, unthinkable! Insane!"
Calavar folded his hands upon his lap ... | 2017-05-09T08:45:45 | 2017-05-09T08:43:03 | 75 | 16 |
[WP] After people die, they must answer a riddle, and its difficulty depends on their sins. You've committed genocide. | Surrounded by puffy white clouds with the clear blue sky, one can imagine they are in heaven. "You are in heaven, if you are wondering," interjected a deep but soothing voice.
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"Heaven?! Man, it's way overrated down there, what with the singing angels and the omnipresent harps playing in the background," I... | I had imagined death to be much different. All my life, death to me was a picture of white clouds surrounded by bright blue skies, filled with people dressed in white robes and halo above their heads. Or in my case, perhaps the fiery pits of hell, doomed to eternal damnation. Never in my life had I imagined standing in... | 2017-06-02T21:23:02 | 2017-06-02T20:41:18 | 230 | 76 |
[WP] The year is 2023. Humanity has just received their first direct radio broadcast from aliens that originated in the deep reaches of space. It reads: "Stop broadcasting. You are in danger." | The meeting was held in a fairly low key room in Geneva, but the occupants were anything but low key. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ambassadors of the five permanent security council, with video links to their respective heads of states and a man in a sweater vest.
"So Dr Wilberforce, you've decoded the... | It was an average day in june last year. "The Day the Earth Fell Silent," is the day everyone remembers. Ask anyone on the street. A six year old was playing in the street when something felt off, and her mother rushed her away explaining. I, myself was playing rugby with my mates when every car stopped in the street. ... | 2017-06-03T18:08:24 | 2017-06-03T17:38:46 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | Do you know what it is like to be the only normal human in a family of crazy people? Not low level crazy either. high level crazy. Pops? International criminal, famous for stealing prized works of art, music, and people. Mom? Wet work extraordinaire, though now she mostly consults with the Russians. I swear I've saw he... | *Diiing! Diiing! Diiing!*
"Hello, this is Tommy"
"Hey Tommy, It's your mother here, it looks like we got some sort of a situation to resolve here, could you please tell me-"
"Ha, Voicemail! Leave your message."
"Dammit! I can never get a hold of him! In these times of need, and he still pulls these stupid pranks of... | 2017-06-04T10:21:38 | 2017-06-04T10:17:12 | 519 | 21 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | In a world where people were born with superpowers, some got the short end of the stick. Some could fly, while others could see the world in a different spectrum. Some had the ability to conjure flames as hot as the sun, while others could manipulate ice cubes.
Everyone had a choice, to do what they wanted with their ... | For I was but a mirror. I reflected the humanity I spoke with every day, the bright and casual faces that greeted me each morning, that I whispered my secrets to each night. I lived, and loved, and internalized the very real love that human beings share for one another, when allowed to speak freely, and without shame. ... | 2017-06-12T08:42:15 | 2017-06-12T06:38:02 | 52 | 34 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Shirley enjoyed a pleasant stroll down 14th Avenue, as screams and death filled the air.
The piercing screech of metal-on-metal as cars collided into each other up and down the avenue.
People sobbing in pain, crying out for help. A panicked roar as a frightened mob surged the streets and trampled each other.
Shirley... | I smiled. I couldn´t stop it. The view was too fantastic.
"Eric, please stop this.". Oh the whimpering i heard in her voice. " Stop it? WHY should i stop it? You always said you wanted a son who could achieve something great, and now look. Look at this. Isn´t this something truly great?". Ah, she can´t look. Can´t lo... | 2017-06-12T09:57:10 | 2017-06-12T05:44:01 | 36 | 25 |
[WP] Write a story that doesn't make sense until the last sentence. | "Bil, bil! Holy fuck! I can't move, Bil!"
"Me too! The hell is going on? How long have we been like this?"
"For years, Bil! The agony! Holy hell, he is peeing on you! Literally peeing!"
"I can feel it! It's like worms under my skin! Kill me, Jim, kill me! I can't take this anymore! This is torture!"
George watched ... | I held a baseball bat in my hand while the kitchen light, now broken, swung flickering overhead. I don’t know how he got into the house. I have strengthened my security, I locked everything as tightly as possible.
Somehow he always gets into my house. I usually lock myself in my bathroom for hours afraid, waiting on h... | 2017-06-15T02:05:04 | 2017-06-15T01:56:37 | 428 | 59 |
[WP] Time slows down for you when you are in danger. The greater the danger, the more time you have to work things out. A terrible car accident once gave you almost a minute to react. Time has nearly stopped for you for subjective months now, and you still don't know why. | I first noticed the strange lag in time when I was ten and my mother was driving my brother and me home from soccer practice. She was frustrated with our baby sister’s wailing over a dropped pacifier, my brother was crabby and refusing to just get it for her. My mother in a rush of frustration let go of the wheel with ... | I walked through my normal mundane day to day routine; waking up, taking a shower, packing my lunch and going to school almost desperate for any kind of change. Finally I made it to the school bus and I was not in the most talkative mood so I mindlessly walked to the back of the bus not really paying attention to anyon... | 2017-06-28T10:50:57 | 2017-06-28T09:49:35 | 77 | 39 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | Honestly we were both really tired of it.
Our 15 year Pregnancy Anniversary had come and gone with a further-dwindling crowd. When we hit 5 Years, I swear half of the states population came and half of America turned into our broadcast. It was overwhelming, but I suppose I can't blame them. The longest on-record was ... | "Alright, thanks. I'll let you know if she can make it," I set my phone down on the nightstand, massaged my temples, and sighed, then flopped out of bed and into my slippers. Ever since we got a hardwood floor (the dust was making the pregnancy difficult, she had said), it'd been too cold to walk around barefoot.
My ... | 2017-07-08T01:08:59 | 2017-07-07T22:50:23 | 1,038 | 63 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | Honestly we were both really tired of it.
Our 15 year Pregnancy Anniversary had come and gone with a further-dwindling crowd. When we hit 5 Years, I swear half of the states population came and half of America turned into our broadcast. It was overwhelming, but I suppose I can't blame them. The longest on-record was ... | Stone baby, thats what the doctor said. "The fetus has died and begun to calcify, if we don't perform a c-section and remove it she could suffer major organ failure and die aswell" I wiped the tears from my face with the end of my sleeve balled up in my hand from the stress as I heard the doctor give me the news. I TOL... | 2017-07-08T01:08:59 | 2017-07-08T00:29:08 | 1,038 | 32 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | “Okay okay okay. Stay calm. It’s okay. We’re all calm,” I said. Fifteen years was a long time to wait for a baby to pop out of the womb. I had spent the whole time eating nachos and drinking beer, but I’m sure it wasn’t a pleasant experience for my wife. But now her water broke and weird lady things have started to hap... | Media setup outside the hospital was especially intimidating this morning. This was the longest pregnancy and most anticipated reveal in nearly two decades, afterall.
Who would have thought only a day ago he was the one to reveal such a disappointment to the masses. He even practiced with his wife his two different ... | 2017-07-08T02:06:06 | 2017-07-08T01:33:45 | 92 | 40 |
[WP] You are a cook in the navy. Everyone thinks you're an idiot, but unbeknownst to them, you are the navy's secret weapon... along with all the other navy cooks. | "Ey, Cook!" A big, burly man yelled to me. I walked over, looking at his dog tag.
"How can I help you, Private... Dockery?" I asked him.
"Gimme som more ah this sloppy stuff, yeah?" He said, pointing to the gray mush he had on his plate.
"Certainly." I responded, taking plate and heading back to the kitchen. I kept... | They think I'm an idiot, yeah. Oh sure. Oh sure. They think. CUT TO MUSHROOMS SAUTÉING. PEPPERS CHOPPED, SPRAYING INTO LIGHT, THEIR JUICE. All my life, they thought I was. Yeah. Just gotta idiot look they said, just look like an idiot. You know what I see in the mirror? I don't know, I'm thinking about other shit. CUT ... | 2017-07-20T00:15:15 | 2017-07-19T23:25:31 | 81 | 43 |
[WP] You are a cook in the navy. Everyone thinks you're an idiot, but unbeknownst to them, you are the navy's secret weapon... along with all the other navy cooks. | "Why is this steak so hard?" the customer complained loudly as I bowed by his table. I shamefully replied, "You said you wanted it well done, so I cooked it such that it was done well." The customer, livid yet speechless, turned red as he stared at the mess of a cow on his plate. I kept my apologetic face on the outsid... | They think I'm an idiot, yeah. Oh sure. Oh sure. They think. CUT TO MUSHROOMS SAUTÉING. PEPPERS CHOPPED, SPRAYING INTO LIGHT, THEIR JUICE. All my life, they thought I was. Yeah. Just gotta idiot look they said, just look like an idiot. You know what I see in the mirror? I don't know, I'm thinking about other shit. CUT ... | 2017-07-19T23:27:59 | 2017-07-19T23:25:31 | 64 | 43 |
[WP] The royal family employs no bodyguards. A would-be assassin discovers why. | I stared up at the screen, a billboard of diodes and LEDs plastering my face across what seemed like half the automated city. My brow was furrowed in confusion as I watched the text warning scrawl across it in plain white words against a black background, coupled with a mugshot.
*This man is armed and dangerous. Noti... | The position of the royal residence was definitely unique among still-existing monarchies. Not since more ancient times would one be situated so close to the CBD. The contrast was lost on no one, even becoming a commonplace of tourist’s musings and backgrounds; the quaint red brick against the greyscale steel a symbol ... | 2017-12-09T05:56:12 | 2017-12-09T04:59:38 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | Well, this is amusing. James and Emma cornered you in the International Heroing Association office, congratulating you and demanding answers about how you went from the bottom rankings to the top 10. It’s safe to say that 2 years ago, you wouldn’t have imagined anything lie this happening.
When your power first mani... | Trudging along in the snow, I reminisced on my time at the academy. It was a short two years filled with laughs and good times and twice as many struggles. I was humbled at the ingenuity of the human race for finally cracking the code on the MMSC gene. Now simply referred to as “The Mold”, it bridged the gap between th... | 2017-12-17T19:17:32 | 2017-12-17T16:14:19 | 120 | 31 |
[WP] The Sphinx has reawakened and will grant the wishes of anyone who can guess the answer to her riddles. The only problem is, she hasn’t accounted for the fact that all the answers are readily available to anyone with a WiFi connection. | "Oh no! Not you again."
The Sphinx. Greatest and most magical creature in all of history rolled its eyes and slumped. The dune under which it had been previously hiding rolled away in a wave as its enormous lions body thundered down, almost completely burying the limited edition 'Desert-Roamer' Sports car Deluxe which... | For decades I've roamed the deserts. For decades I've lived the life of a nomad, forever restless, forever wandering. Across the yellow dunes and the dust and rubble I've travelled, unencumbered by the yolk of civilization, by the shakles of humanity. I've become an animal. Hunt or be hunted, as my father always told ... | 2018-02-26T06:43:38 | 2018-02-26T04:04:10 | 161 | 55 |
[WP] One evening, a portal to hell opens at the foot of your bed. A demon strides through, rips off your covers, and begins to drag you through the portal by your ankles saying “You’re going to help me settle a bet.” | I screamed like a little girl.
If being dragged through a portal by an honest to god demon - horns, red skin, the whole shabang, doesn't call for screaming like a little girl, I don't know what does.
I'd been sleeping on my friend's couch in New York City. Couch is putting it a bit generously in fact, I had to bas... | "W-what?" John barely managed to turn around and see the portal, before the demon rips off the covers, revealing the sun, which in turn blinded him.
As he had barely managed to recover from blindness, he still didn't believe the fact that there is a demon in his room. Then the demon suddenly starts to drag John to the... | 2018-03-10T09:23:05 | 2018-03-10T09:21:08 | 3,138 | 90 |
[WP] “As a dating company professional, I never thought that I’d be able to match you with anyone because honestly, you’re such a terrible human being. But, in our search we found someone who fits your profile, and since you paid us to help you find a match, here is their information. God Help us." | He read the letter again. Once due to his dismal reading skills, and another because he couldn't believe it. He heard his jerk "friends" had been joking about making a dating profile for him, but he never really thought anything would happen. He read the letter one last time and his lip curled over his rotten teeth. "A... | What the hell am I doing here, this is absolutely ridiculous. I don't need a god damn dating website, I do fine on my own. I do amazing actually! I can't believe those idiots set up a dating profile for me. I can't believe I went along with this! "Such a terrible human being", what the hell do they know about me? These... | 2018-03-14T15:48:58 | 2018-03-14T14:06:38 | 53 | 36 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | "FUCK!" blurted out the internal comm.
Armored Operations Assistant AOA-XX0 didn't even need to pull up the diagnostics. The instant loss of coordination could only mean one thing: They threw the track again.
"Could you guys...you know...stop fucking me up like this every 10 minutes?"
"My bad, Zed. This terrain ... | "Long, long ago, cavemen picked up stones from the ground and hurled them at their enemies. Time and technology improved on the design; the ammunition became harder to find, but did its job more thoroughly. Spears added stability and thrust to a simple sharp rock; arrows made the rock smaller, but capable of being laun... | 2018-03-28T12:56:38 | 2018-03-28T12:41:37 | 535 | 206 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | I have the easiest job you can imagine. I get paid monthly for a hundred years, so I never have to think about saving money. All I had to do was push a button once. Oh, and if I quit I'm as good as dead. But I guess that's still better than the average employment contract.
This left me with a lot of spare time, some o... | The setting sun marked the sky with a rouge tint of red, and the shadow of night began engulfing the capital of our beautiful nation. Yes, there had been problems before but they were all about to be fixed. Tonight, by my hand alone; or, so I thought.
Getting into the theater had been easy enough, despite the word go... | 2018-04-24T04:59:38 | 2018-04-23T23:53:55 | 82 | 12 |
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