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[WP] after an apocalypse you are the last human alive. traveling the country side in your increasing age you slowly stumble into more and more things before realizing that magic is returning to the world. today you spot a village of elves, the first intelligent things you have seen in over 30 years. | I had taken to hiking in the latter years. Quality woodland wear was in no short supply from nearly four decades ago, and it gave me a rare peace to stroll the wild unburdened by dread or lonliness.
"A man should be useful," was a saying my father would tell me frequently. In an age where people were increasingly dist... | It’s been thirty years since the world “ended” and humanity was wiped off the face of the earth. Some said it would be zombies others said it would be global warming. The religious types told us it would be a great flood like in the Bible or the rapture would happen and all the worthy would be brought to heaven and the... | 2019-11-18T06:50:48 | 2019-11-18T06:22:53 | 128 | 19 |
[WP] Lying in bed with your significant other and feeling the rhythmic kicks of your unborn child, you recognize the pattern as Morse code. | Anna and I were expecting our second child, but I was waiting for the weirdness to begin.
See, our first pregnancy was pretty smooth up until the point where we figured out the child would tap along to the tempo of any music or background noise. At eighteen months Bella was a musical progeny, we'd bought her so many x... | Dave tip-toed to bed giving his wet footsteps a disdainful stare. He turned to Lana. Her eyes could have burned holes through the pages of 'Hypnobirthing and Timeless Secrets of Natural Birth'. She had no time to review his wet foot problem.
"You know dear I'm just glad that they finally gave me some time off." he ... | 2017-06-25T22:38:22 | 2017-06-25T18:03:52 | 219 | 36 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Melk'tha literally exploded.
Hor'borrkl swiveled its eye stalks from the smoldering remains of its podling and toward the Human soldier standing over one hundred leaf lengths away. A tendril of smoke arose from the strange device the Human held, wisping away into the air, disappearing like the enormous thunderclap tha... | They came from the galaxy’s edge on worldships whose engines fanned out behind them like the ends of a scarf caught on the breeze, and their troop transports were no lesser works of art. The former Ethan found out from the news broadcasts that had flooded every terrestrial communication device for the last week as the ... | 2021-01-21T17:46:02 | 2021-01-21T14:21:41 | 151 | 53 |
[WP] A neuroscientist finds data stored in human DNA. When deciphered, it appears to be a file named README.txt. | README.txt.
Thank you for purchasing VR World 4223.004621. To enhance your experience, we have created a random NPC generator. Lifespan of NPCs is set to roughly 70 solar cycles, or 30 ̿/ ͇ ͇ |̶̿ ̿⟨|̶͇̿ ̶͇̿ ͇̿ ╰|╯|̿ \͇| hours. Lifespan can be shortened through a variety of external factors, and may be extended up to ... | It took a while to figure out. It was hard to isolate the very end of the strand of DNA he had found. It was small and quick to degrade when she managed to break it out of the nucleus. But she did it, she sequenced the isolated fragment and when she translated it she got the protein sequence arganine, glutamate, ala... | 2014-05-06T23:00:57 | 2014-05-06T21:21:18 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | There is a human saying; to beat your plowshares into swords, your pruning shears into spears. Let the weak say "I am strong."
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Our research had missed old religious texts in our scanning of their culture, and how could we not. There was not real need to research archaic beliefs. The Sol Confederacy was e... | "So, how many casualties ?"
" We estimate between 1.5 and 2 billion sentients, my lord. The planet's biosphere so far seems to be holding well. It may need some repairing in the future, but nothing that we can't handle."
"A good start. Move our fleet to low orbit and begin deploying the hunter-warriors. I want them o... | 2019-02-26T10:12:21 | 2019-02-26T09:45:36 | 310 | 142 |
[WP] You're the "weakling" tea maker. People think you're a burden on the hero's party. But it's the enchantments from your premium teas that boost the party to world-class. Bandits kidnap you to blackmail the hero. Leaving you in a cell with your tea supplies was a mistake. It's tea time. | These bandits were stupid, illiterate, and gullible and I'd heard them call me *"Sweet Summer Child"* for the last time; I think. Probably.
Was it fortune? Was it fate? These moronic mavericks had locked me up, and let me keep my tea-set. Oh, they didn't just let me have my ancient-legendary-unique artifact teapot... | “What harm could he do? He’s literally the weakest link. Worst case scenario is he makes some kind of suicide tea and dies.”
And those were the last worst I heard as they locked the solid steel door.
Little did they know that I was effectively the entire team all in one. Or at least their power. In fact, they were th... | 2022-08-22T12:17:21 | 2022-08-22T12:02:17 | 470 | 143 |
[WP] As an ancient god, you are at the end of your life as your name slips from the memories of your people. You expect death to be peaceful but you keep popping in and out of existence as some of your people suddenly remember your name and then forget it again. It's starting to get annoying. | Let there be light!
Ugh, *again?* Haven't we been through this? I thought I was done.
Okay, okay...I hear you. Couple of miracles. Generation of bountiful harvests. Gotta pay the price though, nothing comes for free. Remember that.
Drought. Some more drought. No, no...I still hear you singing. Tell you what... | Sitting alone in the darkness, long forgotten. Shapeless, formless, it waits in the eternal for those who have followed it to be brought to it.
This long lost god receives only the souls bound to it. Those that truly followed it ways find their rest. And the god eats.
As it's worshipers approach, the god takes a de... | 2020-11-13T09:24:05 | 2020-11-13T09:01:57 | 50 | 18 |
[WP] You have the ability to see and modify the source code of anything around you, except on people. you have revived your dog, change test score, etc. But one day you starts seeing the sourcecode on people.... including yourself when looking at the mirror | I'd give everything just to be normal again. Not to have numbers trailing across my body, a jumble of green code, each strip running from 1 to 9 over and over again. The distraction goes on forever.
Sandy, my little sister, walked into the mirror view. She paused in the hallway behind and frowned. Her code wasn'... | “I have gathered you all here, my closest friends, to tell you a secret so juicy the Notorious BIG wrote a song about it.” Said John
“I don’t think that’s what the song Juicy is about,” said Kathryn, who was sitting next to Tim.
“I always thought it was a song about rags to riches,” said Clyde, sitting on a chair n... | 2017-10-03T04:00:37 | 2017-10-03T02:56:31 | 86 | 53 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | He stood in front of the mirror, thinking to himself. “I have to pass, I don’t know what I’m going to do if I don’t pass, if I don’t get in.”
Slowly he tore open the envelope, not even sure he wanted to know. He closed his eyes, slid the letter out and unfolded it.
*“We’re sorry, you did not meet the minimum score to... | As I turned in my vote for the 2016 presidency election, little did I know that my ballot was the determining factor in Trump's victory. At that moment, my number, given to all humans since the age of biorobotics, changed from 1 to 3 million and I was certain of the agony I had just unleashed unto the world. | 2016-06-24T03:51:47 | 2016-06-24T02:39:12 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | Finally....free. The thousand years of waiting, watching in this cursed statue at an end. An elf, rigid with agony as his persona, his spirit, his life is leached away. Now the malevolent spirit got his first taste of air, of blood, of form.
"Er.. Mynir, you ok?" asked a gruff voice, a question which did not raise muc... | 2017-09-15T07:03:44 | 2017-09-15T02:54:33 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | "Are we going to see the horses again today?" A wide smile flashed across his face as he looked up at his father.
Jeff looked down at his son, smiled and said "Yes, yes we are. We just have to make a quick stop at the bank and get some extra cash before we go."
"Do we have to?" His sons smile vanished and a look of ... | Jeff didn't bother to ask how much money he would be able to receive. It wouldn't be enough. He was given three days to get the money, or else. Yesterday, he didn't know exactly what the "or else" entailed, but now it seemed all too clear.
"I am sorry we are not able to help you, Mr. Parsons." The clerk, though numbe... | 2014-07-10T10:17:25 | 2014-07-10T09:37:03 | 689 | 145 |
[WP] A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.
EDIT: I just want to say thanks to all of the writers. I'm having a lot of fun reading all the different perspectives and... | At the sound of the doorbell, I heaved myself from my seat.
I moved over to the door, ready to go on an angry rant about the time. Who the hell thought two in the morning was a good time to turn up at your house? They could’ve woken me up! They didn’t, but they could’ve, and it’s the thought that counts.
I opened th... | It wasn't the usual delivery guy that I opened the door to. The man infront of me had a hood pulled up tight to mask his face in shadow.
"Pizza delivery. You uh, you wanna start a tab?" The man asked whilst shifting his weight between his legs.
"A tab?" I enquired.
"Ye, you're obviously a—*sniff*—you know, a connect... | 2016-06-02T10:09:06 | 2016-06-02T10:00:18 | 3,404 | 263 |
[WP] When offered one wish, you jokingly said that you want to fire proof. You are disappointed to discover that fire still burns you. When you accidentally lit the company breakroom on fire, your boss just laughed it off and you began your new career as the person who can't be fired, ever. | Jules was a good little boy, as far as little boys go. He did all the normal things little boys do. He chased the dogs, played soldier, overcame some health problems, tried hard to leave everything dirtier than he found it, made inane wishes to the gods for superpowers like being fireproof, the usual.
He grew in to a ... | Working at the cat cafe was my decision, but it was a bad one, since I found out I am terribly, horribly allergic to cats. And? I'm also a terrible waitress.
Second thing? I'm surrounded by humanoid cat people, since, you know, essentially being immune from losing any job or title- I self employed. I'm now an immorta... | 2020-06-10T03:16:38 | 2020-06-10T02:34:19 | 245 | 54 |
[WP] A magically enforced law has passed whereby if you deliberately murder someone, you will die in 1 hour. Murder rates fall, but what do you do when you need to assassinate someone? Hire the terminally ill. | When the Law was laid down, murder rates fell to almost zero immediately. You know that part already. But the key word is ‘almost’.
Because sometimes, you want someone dead badly enough to take one for the team. This is classified, but a business of single-use terminally ill assassins sprang into existence around the... | In my time things are a little different. When the key to magic was rediscovered by a group of children the whole world practically changed overnight. I guess you could call them the new kids on the block, or as they refer to themselves, the Overall. Children no more than seven years old, ruled the entire world with an... | 2019-06-04T03:41:15 | 2019-06-04T02:42:25 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] School is now mandatory 24/7 around the world for kids. They eat, sleep, and bathe at the school, much lIke a prison. The biggest mystery is the disappearance of the kids who can't make good grades. | Nobody was doing anything about the school idiot that was Lily Aldridge.
It was absolutely ridiculous that she was able to stay here for so long! As one of the top students in my grade, I have the privilege of being a teacher’s assistant for one of my classes. Biology, specifically. And as an assistant, I help do sma... | Ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-CLANK.
The bars of this five by ten cell jar open as the warden's bellowing demands echo down the unit: "END OF REJUVENATION SESSION. BEGIN WORK DAY."
The word rejuvenation, of course, being a joke for the six hours of sleep I get between ten and five --my rest constantly interrupted by Harry'... | 2017-09-15T22:20:40 | 2017-09-15T19:33:43 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Pynffvsvrq vasbezngvba: Yriry Erq pyrnenapr erdhverq. Abirzore 22, 1963- Gur cerfvqrag unf fcrpvsvpnyyl erdhrfgrq gung n fcrpvny ohggba or vafgnyyrq ba uvf qrfx. Gur ohggba jura cerffrq jbhyq unir fgnss oevat uvz n Serfpn. Abirzore 24, 1963- Vafgnyyngvba pbzcyrgr.
Possible security concern- While reviewing the archive... | Mom was singing Christmas carols again. The martini in her hand glowing like the contents of a broken glow stick. The dog was barking too. When I went to go look I could see children running around the classroom, having too much fun to notice the SS Titanic sinking into the giant kiddie pool outside. The sound of bagp... | 2022-04-09T08:53:35 | 2015-01-12T10:42:43 | 88 | 10 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "Zero."
"Seriously?! That's a huge relief. I was worried you were going to have some huge number and I was going to look like an idiot. Mine's zero too."
"Oh yeah, I just can't seem to pull the trigger. I get all dressed and ready, and then stage fright every time I see who I'm supposed to take upstairs."
"... | Man 1: Overhears Man 2 talking to someone (ex:server/bartender) about how tired he is after..."Hey man props to you for having the guts to talk about it, to a stranger, in public no less."
Man 2: shrugs "I guess. I got used to it after some time. It's nothing to be embarassed about, just different interests to susta... | 2022-04-26T07:34:53 | 2022-04-25T22:30:31 | 83 | 14 |
[WP] Your roommate is obviously an alien trying to infiltrate humanity... but he pays the rent on time so you don't really care. | "So, I'm going to a party tonight if you want to come" I said as I walked into the kitchen to see Chad Chadson, my newest flatmate sitting backwards in a chair.
"Will there be any world leaders or important pillars of the human community?" he asked.
"Possibly"
"I will bring edibles" he began, "fish eggs and the f... | "Hey, Dad," I said after opening the door.
"Morning, Tim. How are things?"
"Great." I stepped through the door. "So for lunch, I was thinking-"
"Whoa, hold on," he said, laughing as he stopped me. "When do I get to meet this new roommate of yours?"
"Oh... I think he's busy."
"Timothy," a monotone voice said fr... | 2018-08-13T16:41:57 | 2018-08-13T16:15:31 | 4,113 | 498 |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | 7:30 AM, the bell rings, and students shift in the halls, a mix of chatter, groaning, and sleepy faces. Yet instead of heading to math, the students sift into training exercises and duty stations for the day. The freshman, still bright-eyed in many ways , eagerly talk of getting to go on their first patrols over the su... | Day 188
We found a message from the student senate this morning, calling for an all school summit at noon today. They want to hold it in the main lobby, of course, since that's right outside the main office where their numbers are strongest. Not to mention it being across the hall from the auditorium. Everyone know... | 2016-05-04T09:33:37 | 2016-05-04T07:20:53 | 58 | 24 |
[WP] Your bong is the home of a genie. You spark the bowl and he appears to grant you 3 wishes. You're both pretty high. | 'Yo, hit that, hit that, hit that bong brother,' the Law says, plopping himself down on the rickety-bickety futon that sounds like a dying cat at every movement.
'Give me a sec man, the first hit of a new bong requires a little ceremony,' I respond. Packing a bowl into the the beautiful new genie-lamp shaped bong made... | Bud Howington, a thirty-four-year-old slovenly-dressed stoner, sat on the cat-piss soaked sofa in his dilapidated apartment at the edge of Brooklyn. Sadly, his cat had died nearly three weeks ago, putting him into a mild depression. But he had yet to tell any of his friends of his cat's long slumber. Still each day,... | 2015-08-13T11:25:40 | 2015-08-13T11:13:01 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise! | After listening to grand deeds of everyone at the massive table, Odin slammed his jug down, sending mead in a sputtering fountain. His good eye squinted and his finger pointed at me.
“Your turn, newbie!” he roared. “What’s your glorious battle?”
The room was suddenly quiet and all faces turned towards me. I had the ... | "Who, me? No, you wouldn't want to hear my story, there really isn't one..."
"Nonsense!" Odin cried, taking another mighty sip from his flagon, "Valhalla welcomes all stories of demise!"
Odin had grabbed the attention of the massive hall, and soon everyone was looking their way. Sean had no choice but to continue.
"... | 2022-10-21T23:29:50 | 2016-10-31T13:08:53 | 327 | 118 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 181 | 66 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | "A quarantine area had been developed 25 miles around where the UFO was supposed to be landing, though it could be anywhere on its path to rural Utah. The leading minds at NASA have been astounded by the ships faster than light approach and realized they didn't actually know where it was if the photons transferring the... | “They took the water.” That is one of my favourite apocalypse stories, and I'm living it right now. We have heard the speculative tales of laser-wielding aliens, thermonuclear war, zombies or deadly diseases over and over again. I like “They took the water” better, probably because of its relative rarity and the whole... | 2015-04-16T12:09:09 | 2015-04-16T09:54:49 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A robot assassin has discovered that it will be destroyed the moment its target dies - or if logfiles show that it is not trying to kill them. So begins a delicate game of continually trying but finding excuses to fail. Terrorized by a dozen "close calls", the target is becoming suspicious. | "It's you."
The voice came from behind the metallic person currently aiming their weapon at a nearby car - one belonging to the target. It turned around with the stiff rigidity expected of a creature built for precision.
𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙴𝙳. 𝙹𝙴𝚁𝙴𝙼𝙸𝙰𝙷 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙻𝚃. 𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙶𝙴𝚃.
The man behind the robot raised... | My Ashby controller made an unfamiliar hum and I prepared for a terminal system reset as the target of my assassination smiled at me and offered me a cup of coffee.
I searched my network for memories, a synthetic slideshow (aren't all slideshows synthetic?) passing before my state-of-the-art eyes. The only comfort I c... | 2022-05-26T22:28:09 | 2022-05-26T15:48:34 | 61 | 35 |
[WP] Humans have - by a very large margin - the longest lifespans of all intelligent life in the universe. You are a human student at a multi- species college, and you / your friends are just realizing that compared to them, you are an ancient being.
e.g., individuals of all other intelligent species live, like, a yea... | ~2.2x10^18 vibrations of a Cesium atom. That is the expected lifetime of someone from my species, and a source of great controversy amongst my friends.
D'jargo, a Saiemptalliean intelluctalist, was my favorite friend and lived across the hall from me at the University. He was a great philosopher (or she? A three gend... | My friends all stared at me in shock, Ji'him's mandibles were wide open, revealing his hellish mouth. Sinhin, my other roommate, who deeply resembled a seagull, with his feathers and beak, looked as if I had told him a terrible secret.
"Tht cn't b tr!" Denied Cssndry, my friend, in her crude speach, as her native lan... | 2015-02-28T23:48:35 | 2015-02-28T20:46:45 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Your father died 5 years ago, but he always calls you on your birthday from a blank number. You got over the shock years ago and verified it really is him. After his call today you accidently hit the redial button and a pleasant voice answers "Afterlife Inc. How may I help you?" | “Afterlife Inc. How may I help you?” The woman’s overly cheery, customer service-plastic voice rang through my phone. “Hello?”
“Um- yeah. Yeah. Hi.” I swivelled on my heel and paced the length of my room.
“Hello,” the woman repeated. “How can I help you today?”
“I was just talking with my father.”
“Ah, yes. A comm... | “Is Kevin there please?” I whispered.
“Kevin? Kevin who? Who am I speaking with?” The female voice answered abruptly.
“It’s Matthew, err, Ableson and I’m looking for Kevin Anderson,” I replied.
There was no answer. My eyes darted to the stairs, hoping my mother wouldn’t walk down right now.
*Come on, come on!*
“Mr... | 2019-08-17T15:41:34 | 2019-08-17T14:54:54 | 1,168 | 119 |
[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... | My wedding was the event of the century.
Our people had waited for a queen for such a long time, and I was the first female born into the royal family in close to 200 years. 200 years without a woman of royal blood on the throne had meant 200 very hard years. It is well known among my people that there cannot be prosp... |
The last year of school and everything felt supercharged and a bit crazy, even to my laid back self. Not only were we finishing up our A-levels it was the year of the gift; the year when everyone got a clue as to the defining purpose of their life. Sometimes you could tell straight away what life had in store for yo... | 2019-09-18T10:56:31 | 2019-09-18T10:15:38 | 29 | 21 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | 6:00pm: dark souls good items
6:03pm: dark souls leo ring
6:05pm: dark souls how to find Ornstein and Smough
6:51pm: dark souls how to beat Ornstein and Smough
8:13pm: dark souls Ornstein and Smough tactics
12:42am: dark souls Ornstein and Smough tactics phase 2
01:12am: dark souls Ornstein and Smough how to beat
02:01... | I used DuckDuckGo for mine.
"How hard is it to become an indie game dev in your spare time"
"Free C++ compiler"
"How to make a game with SDL"
"OpenGL extension wrangler"
"How to load a 3D model in OpenGL"
"OpenGL shaders"
"3D animation"
"game jam"
"early onset alzheimers"
"my computer has a virus called mingw... | 2015-02-04T19:18:12 | 2015-02-04T17:45:09 | 128 | 49 |
[WP] In a world of magic and mages, where magic can do all sorts of wondrous things, even the darkest of black mages and necromancers fear your...creative use of spells. | "Understanding, its one thing most mages miss, when i was summoned here back in 81 i thought i was in heaven, a world where everyone has magic to make their dreams come true.
Unfortunately i was sorely disappointed, they didn't understand magic and no one bothered to find out, sure they had schools for it and some dif... | This is an odd one, hope you like it.
Its madness clammored the assembly! Not 3,872 years 7 months 15 days 13 hours and 37 minutes had a assembly of magic been called, and this was not even counting non planner time. Answering the call for assembly were Archmagi, Liches, Vampires, the nine lords of hell, and those wer... | 2017-06-06T12:47:19 | 2017-06-06T11:44:55 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Write two different stories. The second story comes from reading every third word of the first. | He came as I rang the three little bells.
Simple Pete signaled toward the midnight storm outside, "I thought you knew to avoid that storm... Suppose it seemed it was manageable earlier... Over there's whiskey for you and me. Oscar said he thought you would want to be toasty after coming from that down pour. Said the ... | Before then, **I** never truly **hated** anyone, but **that** had changed. **I** met her. **Didn't** she also **hate** me? Yes, **her** hate reciprocated. **I** would have **loved** to punch **her** face in. **Because** she lied **all** the time, **her** arrogance, countless **imperfections**, it just **made** me hate... | 2014-07-29T13:10:19 | 2014-07-29T11:54:28 | 165 | 74 |
[WP] You’re 16 and have the ability to see a persons death date. You’re English teacher is rude to you, so you write his date on your essay and turn it in, just wanting to mess with him. A week later, he dies. One morning, the police come to escort you to the station for questioning.
Someone posted this WP earlier, so... | Harmless fun... Is what I would've called it yesterday. But so many things have happened in the last 24 hours... Looking back, something should've felt off when I had written such a close death date on my English paper. But they've always been accidents, I never expected something like thi-
"What was that Ms. Farley?"... | Omg this was my prompt! At first I thought you had stolen it haha! I love your story. I originally deleted the post cause I thought I could write it better but I’m super happy that someone liked it enough to write something on it 😊. It’s totally fine that you reuploaded it, I make these prompts all the time anyways. I... | 2022-11-11T13:08:01 | 2022-11-11T13:04:34 | 292 | 98 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | You've become a famous author, with best selling books on how to get over a break up, how to live with yourself after a loved one has passed, how to maintain a successful small business, how to grow your business, and many others. Fifty thousand years has given you the chance to experiment with everything life has to o... | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2017-11-28T14:15:37 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] "Welcome, all of you, to the last day of your job search", says the interviewer as she walks in. "By the end of today one of you will be hired, and the rest of you will be dead." | "So, why, exactly, do you think that this..." Ms. Anzen looked down at the resume, "Michael Sanders," she continued, "would make a good software engineer?"
"Well," I explained, "He was the only one to survive."
Ms. Anzen took her glasses off and rubbed her eyes. "Not this again. Didn't we talk about this?"
We had,... | I could feel my vision slipping away from me as the grip on my throat grew tighter still, the curses I attempted to spit dying out in a low wheeze. Even as the world around me faded I could still see him clear as day. Jaw clenched, eyes crazed and nose broken to shit and back. At least he'll have that to remember me by... | 2018-01-30T11:46:50 | 2018-01-30T09:16:44 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] As the infected sprinted towards me, I quickly swung my bat. It connected and he fell in a heap, crying out in pain. He looked scared and confused, but his humanity only showed for a moment, before the rage took hold again. It appeared that pain made these 'zombies' briefly human again. | **A Portrait of Dr. Franklin “Brains” Catton**
The left side of his face was rotten to the bone and, try as he might, he could never keep the flies off of it for long.
He shifted in his chair to make sure the photographer captured only his good side. His human side.
He preferred to be called Doctor Catton, but most... | I was hiding in a dug-out in the middle of the woods, trying to avoid the infected. But they found me. There were dozens of them, sprinting towards me at-least 10 MPH.
I was terrified. But then my best friend, Kimberly, landed a hit on a zombie with an arrow. I quickly grabbed a bat and landed a blow on ... | 2022-01-15T09:14:05 | 2022-01-15T08:38:28 | 182 | 17 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | *What to use...the butterfly knife? The traditional dagger?*
"Come on already! How hard can it be to choose a knife? They all do the same thing," said Emma. I should have gagged her instead of just binding her limbs. Normally this was the part where they'd be screaming, begging for mercy, with no one around for miles ... | So there that fucking guy was. I thought I was going insane. He's been sitting in that chair now asking me what it is that I want from him for a while. Calm as a bird. He tells me, almost with a smirk, that we can figure this out and that I shouldn't be nervous, he'd get me what I wanted, whatever it was. I ignored him... | 2015-04-29T08:28:15 | 2015-04-29T08:21:14 | 145 | 38 |
[WP] The International Society of Ghosts has lifted the "the only objects permitted to be haunted are houses and dolls" rule. As a young, but creative ghost, you are determined to find then most interesting object to haunt. | “What piece do you want to be?”
“I’ll be the terrier.”
“Alright I’ll be the boot.”
“Why is the wheelbarrow out then?”
“Oh, it’s haunted. Ghost always plays wheelbarrow. Don’t worry, they’re not too bad a player.”
“Of all the things to haunt...”
“Yeah one piece on a monopoly game. Great when you play alone though.... | Yesterday I overheard Jeff's wife threaten him with divorce if he leaves the toilet seat up one more time. It's not the most pleasant work for incorporeal folks like myself, but maybe a quieter couple will move in if I can force her hand to auction the house. | 2018-09-19T07:51:48 | 2018-09-19T07:44:54 | 164 | 18 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | "What the hell?" The old man, who said his name was Myrddin Emrys, was nearly impossible to understand. He was speaking English, some of which I recognized from my university reading of Chaucer, but it wasn't the words but what he said I didn't get.
I held up my hand to shut him up for a second while I tried to wrap... | I write now to document. Bare with me. I was no scholar in my future life.
The army camped outside the city came with the Red Wizard. Merlin saw it coming. So is his power. His Blue Ball lets him see. That's why he brought me. Bastard.
When I arrived a week ago there was no warning. Just the feeling of wood against ... | 2016-11-28T03:38:57 | 2016-11-28T00:13:11 | 241 | 72 |
[WP] In an alternate universe where human skin changes colour according to their emotions, you alone lack this ability. As a result, nobody really believes a single word you say. | Always alone. Always solemn. Always stuck in this nasty shade of ambivalence. Ambivalence... of all colours, why this? When I was born, they thought I had died... for what newborn doesn’t seethe with the rainbow of this new, bright, terrifying world?
It was quickly decided that I was a psychopath. Unable to feel, inte... | *RINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRINGRING!!*
I hear the infuriating sound of the alarm clock, trying to forcefully pull my tires ass out of bed. It's joyously ringing not for me, but for my absolute, ungodly suffering. I don't want to wake up today. I don't want to get ruthlessly judged by my ... | 2020-02-25T09:02:00 | 2020-02-25T06:44:35 | 121 | 53 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | I chased after her, as fast as I could. Blood rushed, pumped, through my body as the adrenaline coursed into my heart. I got as close as I could, grabbed her arm, spun her around and stared at her. She let out a mild gasp, and then a warm smile.
"You're not going to let me go, are you?" She said to me, giggling faintl... | The day was still Young, I stood on the front lawn staring at little zoey running and playing in the field. I could see the sun glistening off her youthful face as she danced with the wind. As graceful as her mother who sat staring through the kitchen window. I smile at her and she waves back chuckling. I thought to my... | 2015-07-13T22:52:27 | 2015-07-13T21:19:07 | 252 | 27 |
[WP] Everybody talks about Odin the All-Father, and how he collects the souls that perished in battle to Valhalla to serve as warriors. Nobody talks about his brother, Nido, and how he collects the souls of those that triumphs in battle and live until they die of old age.
Just something that occurred to me while playi... | The void was warmer than Skjall had expected.
He had been comfortable in his final days, taking his last breath surrounded by somber children and playful grandchildren. Their innocence was refreshing to the old viking; they had never experienced a raid, and their bright smiles filled his ebbing heart with pride. He ha... | "Nido is a little bitch," the All-father mumbles as if having a bit of a debate with himself.
"Excuse me, ole father-of-men?" Olga was shocked to hear Odin speak so horribly about his little brother. The one-eyed god was drunk, though, that was obvious, so maybe it was forgivable.
"Nevermind Olga, my problems are not... | 2020-05-10T12:13:37 | 2020-05-10T10:37:42 | 1,822 | 421 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | [Part 2 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditserials/comments/cc2gvb/street_magic_part_2/?) | [Part 3 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Hydrael_Writes/comments/cc35vt/street_magic_part_3/?)
Title: Found a New Spell Combination
Text: Okay you guys, you’re not going to believe this.
So for those who haven’t been followin... | Right. You have to do it with four right turns exactly the *right* way, otherwise it doesn't work. You've got to do it *right* as you're reading this post. Like, right away. Right now.
"It's a derivation of the Household Dishwater Sequence first developed a week and a half ago," Malcom said, scanning the thousands upo... | 2019-07-11T12:55:23 | 2019-07-11T11:46:51 | 1,186 | 50 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "What?!" I sputtered. "How is this possible? What did I *do* to get that?!"
Satan put down the book of sentencing with an exasperated sigh and said, "Look kid, I don't make the punishments, the big guy only makes me hand them out as part of my parole." Seems he was used to saying this.
"B-but *how*? How did-"
Satan ... | "186,292".
The number kept ringing in my ears as I was huddled onto the elevator to Hell. I had led the most unremarkable and conflict-free life ever, an average joe. Easy-going, I almost always acquiesced to what the group wanted, not wanting to raise an issue. A voyeur of life, almost.
Chapters from life flashed ... | 2018-09-26T08:43:26 | 2018-09-26T08:17:41 | 77 | 35 |
[WP] You exit the mall, having just finished a shopping spree. You locate your car, but see that it has been crushed from above. Whatever crushed it is now gone. Luckily, you find a note: “I’m sorry that my time machine landed on your car. My agency will pay for repairs. Just call this number!” | I call the number and I hear gargling. "Excuse me?" I say. There's a pause. Then ...
"Oh! A human! It's been so long since I've talked to a human. What are crisps like? Are they different now? I'm sorry, I'm just so excited!"
"Uh, hi," I say. "I'm calling for a car repair. A ... time machine crushed it, apparently."
... | "What the fuck...?" I placed my groceries on the floor and approached my car.
Wrecked. Absolutely wrecked.
If I had to guess, I would say an elephant stepped on my car. But I knew that was not possible in San Francisco Safeway parking lot. Little did I know, the note on my car was suggesting something far more imagi... | 2021-08-10T03:30:42 | 2021-08-10T01:59:00 | 577 | 169 |
[WP] An atheist is sent back in time and meets Jesus. Describe their conversation. | "Who are you?"
"I think that is the question I should be asking *you*" replied Jesus. They were sitting on two stones by a riverbank. The cool water flowed past them serenely, rolling over pebbles and clay. Some songbirds tweeted in the distance. There was a light breeze that washed over them. It seemed surreal t... | "You got it working for real?" I asked suspiciously.
"Yeah, I totally got it! I've tested it as many times as my electric bill will let me already," my friend laughed.
"I'll be over in a couple minutes, alright? I have to see it myself before you get all famous and I never see you again," I told him, only half-j... | 2014-11-06T20:42:08 | 2014-11-06T20:08:56 | 1,589 | 77 |
[WP] There once was a legendary mage whose lack of a max mana cap allowed for slow but powerful spells that laid waste upon the land. After the unification of the races, their leaders have come to negotiate with the living catastrophe who hasn't cast a spell in centuries. | "Vraylar, Unrelenting Force, Fell Specter, Decimator of History" wow someone was going full titles outside my door, that hadn't happened in, hmm I think it's been about three centuries, hell I thought the world had forgotten me, clearly I didn't live up to that last one properly.
"We of the united world alliance bes... | 'There is it,' the Dwarves Representative announces, their gloved finger pointing towards a huge lump of green in the middle of a forest clearing.
The Ogre King hums and pulls out his map, 'According to map, we arrived.'
The Elf Queen frowns, 'Are you certain? That do not look like human dwelling, let alone the lege... | 2022-05-04T14:34:23 | 2022-05-04T12:24:15 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | The creepy laughter started right on time. Every night, at 11:56. Then, the walls started to bleed, up by the ceiling, near the elaborate crown moulding, running down the old wallpaper. I call it "dripping crimson on a field of posies."
That would be gone by morning.
Cue screaming and the sounds of someone being ch... | Jake shrugged. The sound of the church' clock was the only sound he could hear in the silence of the night.
Ding. dong. ding. dong. ding. dong, and so on, all the way to twelve.
Was it midnight already? He didn't know. He didn't care. Mom wouldn't be home before tomorrow, so Jake had the house for himself. And, more ... | 2017-05-05T07:04:56 | 2017-05-05T05:55:46 | 530 | 280 |
[WP]You have been caged without a writing utensil for years because what you write comes true. The doctor examining you just left his... | In the end, it was a fluke that let me out. An accident. The kind of thing that makes you yell at the Tv because someone just made a mistake. THE mistake. The one that drives the entire plot.
I was honestly surprised. Really the prison staff are as close to perfect as it's possible to get. They know how dangerous I c... | "Right, that should be everything for this week. See you soon, Clive ." The doctor left the cell, housing a supposedly all-powerful man. You wouldn't realise just by looking at him. Worn down, mentally unstable, among other things. With his power, some would call him the writer. He has never been able to use this power... | 2017-06-25T09:16:47 | 2017-06-25T08:51:03 | 329 | 159 |
[WP] For as long as you can remember, a ghost has haunted you. Whenever you ask why, you are met with silence. Today, you got a reply. "Buy lemons." | “Buy lemons.”
“Excuse me?”
“Buy lemons.”
Jaw wide open, I stared at the ghost. “Wait, was that you?”
“Buy lemons,” it replied in return.
“Wait, so you want me to buy lemons?”
“Buy lemons.”
“Alright alright, I’ll buy you some lemons. If I do, will you finally say something else?”
“Buy lemons.”
Across the room, ... | “Pardon,” I questioned the figure that had been latched to me since birth.
“Lemons.” Her voice was raspy, sounded like she was a heavy smoker.
I never understood why I was the one being haunted. I had moved around lots ever since I was young, now being 21 and just moved in to a crusty apartment in New York. I came ... | 2020-10-09T19:47:26 | 2020-10-09T19:44:05 | 114 | 68 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | It was a calico cat, shaded by darkness on half its scruffy face, scorched by flame on the other. The moon and sun heading towards an eclipse over a pale mountain of white fur.
For weeks after Josh had moved back to the family home, the cat had watched him. Sat outside the windows, or lay in the yard in the maple-sha... | I thought it was adorable at first. It started a few days after I brought her home. I had a giant potted plant in my living room. It's leaves were bigger than the cats head. She would rip an entire leaf off the plant, and carry it all the way up the stairs, down the hall to my bedroom and leave it on my bed.
It was ... | 2021-12-17T07:32:51 | 2021-12-17T07:06:19 | 463 | 47 |
[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 | "That's...not quite what I expected."
15 years. For such a long wait, this was a little...underwhelming, to say the least.
"You sure doc? Steve doesn't have any other powers?"
"We're sure, Mr. Lang."
I leaned back on my chair with my eyes closed, relaxing my muscles as I let the truth sink in. After a couple o... | His phone buzzed awake, woken by a call from his wife, Christie. Horado picked it up immedietly, he knew it had to be important; his wife never called him when he was at work. After all a single mistake and all his customer had was a broken clock. But he never made mistakes he was the best clock maker in the business.
... | 2017-07-07T22:57:46 | 2017-07-07T22:35:59 | 743 | 143 |
[WP]Write a story that is perfectly normal, until the last line.
ie. A story about a really awkward man who has awkward thoughts, until the last line describes it was all said loud, making all encounters extremly awkward and cringey. | "Aw, don't cry my sweet little girl! You were so quiet earlier, even with all the racket my friends made!"
Shrill screams and crocodile tears stream from her face, unrelenting. She's heavy.
"Oh do you have a full poopie bag? Is that why you're crying? I might just have to take care of this before I can finish clean... | As the full moon rose to its full glory, the wolf crept carefully through the night, in search of prey. Though the moon provided much appreciated light for which the the wolf could hunt, it much more disastrously restricted the wolf to the shadows, as if being quiet as dead was not difficult enough. But even in full li... | 2016-08-19T19:56:55 | 2016-08-19T19:39:21 | 36 | 11 |
[wp] In,the harry potter universe, muggles know wizards exist and can see magic. However, they are nice enough to let them believe they are being secretive. | "Ooh dearie me, what on earth am I doing here?" I asked, cooing slightly. They like it when us muggles do that, they think we're completely ignorant to their activity, and I think most of us prefer it that way. The *obliviate* spell hadn't worked, obviously, but I was happy to pretend for this chap's sake. He was rathe... | (This occurs during the timeline in which Dementors are practically everywhere.)
Jake knew she was a witch. Everything about her screamed it. He would always see odd things, like her dishes washing themselves or flashes of color appearing throughout the day. But she didn't look like a witch. No crooked nose, no ugly bo... | 2016-11-20T08:54:01 | 2016-11-20T08:42:28 | 69 | 29 |
[WP] For the entirety of your life, music that only you can hear has played to inform you how to feel and warn you of upcoming events. Suddenly "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" cuts out and "Duel of the Fates" begins to play... | It happened while I was played by Jenga. Everything was fine and dandy, "Somewhere over the Rainbow" was streaming through my mind, giving me as I watched my older sister struggle to find a loose block. My younger brother had left in a huff after losing five games in a row, exclaiming "The biggest problem in the univ... | I lay on the beach and let the mood overwhelm me. I have earned this moment's respite after a lifetime of hard work. The beach was almost too hot, but I didn't mind.
*Somewhere over the rainbow*
My umbrella is doing almost nothing for the heat. I have not opened my eyes for a long time. I am drifting off to sleep.
... | 2017-04-01T21:45:35 | 2017-04-01T16:47:14 | 344 | 50 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | Legolas looked out on a black ocean of creaking pitch-dark ships. Their decks writhed with a mass of fel creatures. Wargs barked and howled, Orcs roared in bloodthirsty anticipation.
Elves stood arrayed on the shores of the Undying Lands. In their countless thousands they stood, armor gleaming, swords and pole-arms s... | {{{Going to ignore a few bits from the initial post because my muse went OOO MARINES! and went nuts, so yeah. So it’s going to have elves and orcs, and definitely Marines, but the rest, well… blame my muse. :) }}}
{{{Names taken randomly from [https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/lotr-elf-names.php](https://www.fanta... | 2018-12-03T05:25:44 | 2018-12-03T05:16:39 | 4,588 | 1,097 |
[WP] Describe the thoughts of the Angel of Death on the day of a nuclear war.
| "Today's scroll is unusually large, don't you think?" asked Death. He knew something was going on with the humans but no one would tell him. He was always the last to find out about anything important. Most of his daily scrolls could be carried in one hand, a couple hundred thousand unlucky souls, but today's... the ma... | And then, on the 15 of July 2015, they were all burned by the sun.
When the Pakistani missiles took off, the Indians did the same. Within a minute, 371 missiles and 1461 warheads were flying. They rapidly entered sub orbital flight, to avoid interception. 12 of them exploded in space, generating a massive EM wave... | 2015-02-04T10:25:24 | 2015-02-04T09:38:43 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You're closing up the tea shop, when suddenly a ghostly figure floats through the door. "Who are you?!" you shriek. "Apologies, you're normally gone by now. I'm the manager of the night shift." | “Do you serve the same tea?” I asked stupidly. A million questions I could have asked and that was the one I chose.
The figure, bless him, was patient with me.
“We don’t serve tea,” he said.
The figure’s face moved like wind over water, and I could not make out his features. He seemed so familiar and yet I did not k... | Features started to form out of the white, gauzy cloud that hung about three feet above the worn checkerboard tile. Her face had the pinched look of someone who had tasted something sour, in stark contrast with her friendly tone. Small wire-framed glasses sat delicately upon her thin nose but she looked over them when ... | 2021-05-25T14:46:25 | 2021-05-25T14:21:56 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Anna,
I must say that your letter was an unexpected delight. It was quite charmingly written, and I commend your command of grammar and syntax. All of the items you requested will be easy enough to provide. However, I cannot cure dyslexia. That is was one the many things my Father cursed humanity with during one ... | Dear Timothy.
I've gotten the list of things you've asked for.
I assure you I am very capable of bringing your dog back. Just as well, I can stop the teasing and jeering of your elder sister.
I was informed as to what a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" is, and I believe I can acquire that as well.
However, I'm not cert... | 2018-10-28T14:29:07 | 2018-10-28T10:08:58 | 59 | 10 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | Tasting lies, I mean, it's cool and a neat trick for my kind, but for something to be a lie, you have to know it's a lie. Otherwise you're just mistaken. Everyone in my family could do it, and we were all crazy close - not lying has that effect on people... But I haven't seen them for three months and uni was wrecking ... | I was shocked. How could it be? After all this time.....I didn’t know what to do so I ran. What else could I do? I ran as far as I could and ended up in some hell forsaken forest. I just needed time to think. I sat on the edge of a broken and twisted tree, trying to regain my thoughts. Then it hit me, I need to ... | 2018-05-12T05:41:08 | 2018-05-12T05:15:18 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | "What did you say?" The woman looked at me, bewilderment defining the angles of her face.
"Th... thank you. For the berries." I said again, confused, holding up the pound of strawberries she'd just handed me.
"No, not that. The name. My name... you said Klarys..." her voice trailed off and she looked away suddenly. "... | My whole life I’ve had this. . .thing. A gift, perhaps? I’ve always had the ability to know people’s names just by looking at them. It makes mundane tasks more fun when I turn it into a game; “how many people with the last name Smith will I walk by” or “who’s got the most unusual name I can find today”. And it makes fi... | 2018-11-05T21:24:00 | 2018-11-05T21:12:06 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] Elon Musk is actually a disguised alien who bet his friend that he could bring Earth to "Technology Level 10" in one human lifetime. | "Sir," she came into the office softly stuttering, silently weeping, her arms extended as though cradling something sublime and wonderous. "S-sir, you've done it. You cured cancer."
"GET THE FUCK OUT BRENDA!" Elon yelled and shoved the office door into her body. When it closed, he locked it and ran back to his Param... | It all started with a bet.
A bet that led to the last thing Elon ever expected.
At first, it was a stupid bet that hardly meant anything. Well besides credibility, triumph, truth, and evidence that his was the greatest mind the universe would ever see.
During a gassy afternoon on Uranus, Thognock told Elon he cou... | 2016-09-11T22:42:47 | 2016-09-11T19:17:44 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | As everything came into focus, red block letters greeted me
DON'T TELL THEM YOU CAN SEE
For a moment I sat, looking at the shapes. Like the others, I had been blinded December before last. My MX-Sarah assistant had guided me back home while the world was in chaos. The robot became my eyes.
I needed an upgrade b... | You wake up, and for the first time in years, you feel the pain of bright light on your eyes. *Wait, light?!* you jump out of your bed and close the green curtains on your window.
'Oh my God. I-I can-" you immediately stop talking as you look on your wall and see writing in neat, red marker,
"Don't tell them you can ... | 2022-10-22T00:27:31 | 2019-08-26T09:40:50 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] 13 years ago, you were part of a government-funded project researching inter-dimensional travel until it was discontinued. This morning, you woke up normally, only you have an extra child, your home adress is different and the project is still going strong. | It takes me a few tries, but I finally manage to get the key into the lock and wrench my door open. I added a few new scratches onto the front of the deadbolt, but that’s nothing new. This isn’t the first time I’ve stumbled home after a few too many and had to stand out on my own stoop for twenty fucking minutes just t... | I woke to shaking in a bed that should not have been this soft.
I woke up with a start, someone was yelling at me. I lashed out instinctually but my hand met only air. I blinked blearily next to me. There was no one there. Then I looked down.
Oh.
There was a little girl with long, blond hair and blue eyes with hi... | 2017-04-06T06:05:33 | 2017-04-06T05:53:49 | 1,733 | 228 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I never thought my time would come. Childhood summers last forever, the school year drags, but time marched on as it always did. Before I knew it, I found myself standing there before the assembly just fourteen years of age. The whole class staring expectantly at what would become of me. I was the youngest in my year m... | They say curiosity killed the cat. Well I'm curious about the restriction placed on me. I look in the mirror and don't even recognize my own face. My health is fading and I don't know why.
Saw a rainbow yesterday, which was nice. Life's been 10 shades of gray since I got the warning for my power. I just want pray the ... | 2022-05-08T09:49:41 | 2022-05-08T08:50:28 | 338 | 63 |
[WP] People have always been born with very minor super powers. You work for an agency that hunts down the few people who's powers are deemed too powerful/dangerous to allow them to live. | Better than average senses- but no way to tune them down or off. The ability to teleport as much as ten feet in any direction up to twice a day, Pytokinesis strong enough to flick a light switch or slide a beer down the bar. When mankind dreamed of superpowers, they had likely imagined it wouldn't be so mediocre.
Hone... | I have no proof of this, but I am fairly certain that the man who invented the coin-op coffee machine was a certified sadist. Still, if a scalding hot paper cup of black sludge and sewer water could do something about my head I was willing to risk it. I fished in my pocket for a couple of quarters.
"Donaldson!" a voic... | 2014-12-12T20:51:06 | 2014-12-12T19:37:10 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] Years ago, the 10 mile long creature fell from the sky. It never moved and was proclaimed dead. It never rots and regenerates when damaged. We found that people who eat its flesh... change. You place the pale cube of meat in your mouth. You are ready to leave your humanity behind. | When I talked to the doctors, they just smiled emptily and told me to get a note from a therapist first. When I talked to the therapists, they made piteous faces and sent me to a psychiatrist. And when I tried to flee, the psychiatrists said "it's for your own good" and placed me in a hospital and strapped electrodes t... | I felt something strange. A surging... power, that was the word. A surging power, racing from the tips of my fingers and toes, circulating through my body and looping around.
“Whoa..” I breathed, incredulous. I stared at my hands, which were glowing slightly. I started laughing. This power... I wielded power equal to... | 2021-03-19T18:30:28 | 2021-03-19T18:09:28 | 216 | 24 |
[WP] Due to an address mix-up, an elementary school class sends their Pen Pal letters to an elite unit of Space Marines. Today, the Space Marines are sending a response. | Your Highness Kaitlyn, blessings be upon you.
we have intercepted your encrypted paper-communication and have executed your orders to our best ability. We must seek confirmation of mission success however since our smartest are not in agreement as to the content of your instructions.
The human teacher you refer to as... | Then the letter goes to the wrong address And ends up somewhere In western lustria to a skink .
Dear Warm Blood
I am dearly sorry for the extinction of your pet gerbil , Giggles . However I feel it was your fault since you had the chance to get a proper organism like a gecko or maybe a cold one .
Times have bee... | 2015-01-26T15:37:01 | 2015-01-26T14:45:55 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] You're sat alone, with a glass of wine in hand, and decide to jokingly toast the Greek God Dionysus. You did not expect him to appear before you in human form, create two bottles of wine, and take a seat next to you. | He just... Appeared.
I jumped in surprise.
"Whattt??!?!?? Who are you??" Was the only thing that came out of my mouth.
Sending a reproachful gaze my way he said
"Sit down. This has been a bad day, don't make it worse. That wine is worth more than you will ever have, so drink it"
"Hey, that's mean" I replied, a... | Have you ever just drank alone? I do. I like to drink, but I dont really know that many people. And, we don't hang out much.
I spent the entirety of today playing video games. And drinking. During a session of God of War, I jokingly sang out a prayer. And seeing as I was properly drunk on good wine, Dionysius was my ... | 2020-11-08T10:50:12 | 2020-11-08T10:44:09 | 236 | 34 |
[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?" | "Well, I was dead once, but I got over it."
The Grim Reaper stood silently and cocked his head.
"River Styx? You have the look of one who has been there."
"Yes. My GPS is old and it steered me wrong. I took a right turn onto a lane that went into a long tunnel. I thought it was odd that there were red lights, but I... | He reaches over to check your pulse. You are strangely confused, of course, but let him since you don't really know how else to respond. You'd expect your heart to be racing in such an unexpected situation, but you don't feel it pounding against your chest. "Hmm…" mutters Death, as he realizes that your pulse isn't the... | 2020-01-24T17:11:51 | 2020-01-24T16:48:17 | 54 | 10 |
[WP]Some time ago humans were put on the 'Only Contact in Case of Emergency' list. Now a threat to the galaxy has arisen and humanity is it's last hope. | *Replaying Log 9932 via TU2CS. Transmission beginning now:*
“It was all over the news, and by all over I mean telecommunications were literally hacked. All day long, on October 2nd, 2142, a mysterious message was broadcasted addressed to “humanity.” In it, the message proclaimed of a universe-wide crisis that only war... | "Yes, ma'am, all we need is aluminum from you."
Dr. Stevens leaned back in his chair and smiled. "Its sir, but I must say, your speech is very good for someone who has only spoken the language for an hour."
"Yes, your... pronouns are... odd. I don't understand the point."
"Well, I'm no linguist, so I can't explain i... | 2017-09-25T10:23:13 | 2017-09-25T09:20:47 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] 13 years ago, your mother died in the World Trade Center during 9/11. Today you see her at the grocery store with two small children you've never seen before. | "M...Mom? Is that you?"
She turned her head, blue eyes sparkling, a smile on her face. Then she saw me, and her smile fell, her eyes dulled, and she looked... Tired. A young girl tugged lightly at her shirt, begging for attention, but she didn't move.
"Hello, Robert. It's been a while." She said, tilting her head to ... |
She stood there, head down, casually browsing the bright red Gala apples as two children, both somewhere between 3 and 5 played a loud game in the shopping cart. I can't say what made me want to see her face. She was just a woman with children in a grocery full of women and children. I stood there, trying to figure ou... | 2014-09-06T17:40:03 | 2014-09-06T17:22:26 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] It has been a year since your spouse mysteriously died. You are fidgeting with your wedding ring when a compartment opens and a note falls out. It starts, "My Love. If you are reading this, I must be dead..." | I wake up on the anniversary tired, hurting, staring at the wall. Sunlight streams through the bedroom blinds. If I look long enough, I can outline the dust and faded spots above the dresser where her pictures used to hang. My jaw aches; I must have had anxiety dreams again.
Our son is up before me. I can hear him m... | Mason would have left for the call-to-arms too, in his eagerness to apply himself as a newly-ordained member of the Cabal. Mages across all Orders were being summoned. After all, it wasn’t everyday that an undead uprising blighted the Kingdom of Ankharra, this close to the capital. Maybe he would subdue a lich or two, ... | 2017-05-25T12:59:03 | 2017-05-25T09:34:40 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] In an attempt to convince people society would have been better if humanity had never found religion, a time traveler kills anyone who begins to develop a form of faith. He goes back to the present and finds that people now universally worship a god who travels through time and smites heathens. | The fact that the Many Worlds Interpretation seems to be correct is the only thing in this universe that has given me "faith", because without it, I would've erased my own existence in a million different ways.
I started small-time, testing the waters. Your Koreshes, Phelpses, Applewhites... little guys. I saw how the... | Tom lived in a small town in Connecticut, very religious town, in fact he was the only atheist.
One day he went to go out drinking with his buddies Chris, Steve and Ryan. Chris was a missionary, Steve was a priest and Ryan was a rabbi. They went to the bar and none of them drank except Tom.
The rest of the guys kept ... | 2016-05-06T21:10:29 | 2016-05-06T18:44:04 | 150 | 95 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I couldn’t understand why he was smiling. I watched as my father looked around almost uncertainly before setting the jug of milk on the counter. There was no apology in his smile. There was only the same warmth I remembered as a boy when he watched me score a goal in soccer. Nonetheless it did nothing to diffuse the ra... | "Ugh! Dad, you're finally back! What took you so long?" I yelled across the great hall. My dad, who was fifty years too late bringing home groceries, stood at the other end.
"I-I'm sorry darling, I can make it up to you!" He stammered, turning red with embarrassment- well, as red as you can be when your face is covere... | 2022-05-13T11:22:44 | 2017-11-19T18:50:08 | 1,516 | 18 |
[WP] After a freak accident sending you far back in time, somehow you make a new life for yourself. One day while whistling a tune from the future to yourself; someone joins in with the correct lyrics ... | "You're looking mint today, Mary"
"Really?" she blushed.
"No you mardy cow, now piss off, go on, out of my yard!"
The scowling woman rolled her eyes and scurried away in a huff. She'd had her eyes on his garden for weeks now, and he had no doubt she'd be back sooner rather than later to collect some clippings.
It ... | I sighed wistfully as I worked in the kitchen. I know I had a thing for the Victorian Era back home but I really didn't think I would ever be here. Or that I'd be washing dishes in the kitchen of a bordello. The Madam and the girls had found me in the ally behind their... Establishment, and took me in. I don't know how... | 2017-09-14T23:41:40 | 2017-09-14T17:00:02 | 252 | 41 |
[WP] When something is created (humans, fire, lotion, etc.), a god is born to reign over its domain. You are the god of what most consider to be a completely mundane object but, somehow, you are becoming the most feared.
Or revered. Both could be interesting! | I am a god of Man, and I have many names.
My first forms were simple. The beating of rock upon rock, the flash of sparks. The ignition, heat and fire. Gradually I became greater. Rock against rock, edges sharpened, tied and affixed to a handle. A blade through flesh. Rock against wood, extension of man's fist, b... | I am a humble god. I was little more then wet dirt. You could find me along the banks of any river in the world. I was not rare, like my brother Gold. I existed in abundance, but nothing could grow in me, unlike my mother Soil. Like millions of other gods, I sat in quiet reflection, my life passing by without use or p... | 2016-07-06T15:47:48 | 2016-07-06T15:12:25 | 49 | 18 |
[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 ... | I woke up in a strange, empty room covered with vines and other shrubbery.
The last thing I remember is walking out of the Stargate and falling. There were many groping appendages immobilizing me and now I'm God knows where.
My hands and feet are bound to a weird looking birch tree.
*This wasn't part of the plan. ... | 2014-09-02T14:24:23 | 2014-09-02T10:30:32 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] According to US Navy tradition, submarines that have not been confirmed to be destroyed, are still on patrol. Since WWII, there have been 52 submarines that haven’t yet returned to port, yet to report in, nor have been confirmed to be destroyed. You are one of those, on the eternal patrol. | For 60 years, we've been on patrol. For 60 years, we've been lost to the surface. Lost to the sun, to life, but never in purpose, never in memory. We began our service as a ship of war, and now we continue our service as a ship of salvation, of rescue.
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Every Navy man knows that he may never return home, ... | The maelstrom yanked our submarine far deeper than it was ever supposed to go, but didn’t destroy it. Looking back, I wish it had. Living a long life’s terrible when you’re nothing more than food.
I sit in my quarters, looking at pictures of my crew. Back then, before this happened, we were just boys who thought they... | 2018-10-17T08:18:21 | 2018-10-17T07:08:04 | 413 | 52 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | "Sit up straight at the table." Jake's mother would always tell him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You could probably play basketball if you looked a little taller" Jake's dad would try to encourage him.
But Jake would not listen.
"You'll develop a hump in your back if you slouch like that" Jake's grandma would ... | Stephanie was walking down the street looking for some new clothes to spoil herself with, when a particularly cute leather jacket caught her eye. Using her magnifying glass she saw that it was better than her old jacket by +7 warmth and +37 sex appeal.
"Ahh you have good taste" said the shopkeeper. "This jacket was ma... | 2015-10-06T00:04:12 | 2015-10-05T23:32:30 | 427 | 38 |
[WP] The first manned mission to Mars is going as planned. As soon as the crew passes the moon, however, a message appears to them: "Warning. You are leaving the playable area." | [Poem]
My dearest Emily,
 
I know we've had our ups and downs.
I know we've shared laughs,
I know we've shared frowns.
I might have overreacted, leaving the earth in a wonky spacecraft.
 
But you must understand:
it's a wonderful chance, to do something great!
It's a wonderful opportunity, ... | "Warning. You are leaving the playable area."
The message flashed across every crew member. Even when they shut their eyes the message could still be seen by them.
"You are not ready."
The crew started to panic. Some were crying. Some were screaming. Some were saying their last prayers. But not captain Meyers. He alw... | 2020-01-08T04:24:08 | 2020-01-08T03:23:12 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | I walk out of the prison gates for the first time in 50 years, I breath free air for the first time in 50 long years. The world waited and watched my every movement to see what I do next. All week every Television in the prison has been tuned into the news to follow the coverage of my release, news reporters from all a... | Tomorrow's the big day. The big Five-Five and the first taste of freedom I've ever really had. People questioned what it would do to a five year old. Nothing good I can assure you.
The inmates left me alone for the most part. No one wants to fuck with the kid who was here willingly, in more ways than one. A few of the... | 2016-02-23T19:02:05 | 2016-02-23T18:57:41 | 125 | 16 |
[WP] The universe was a program running in a giant computer, and animal sacrifices by early civilizations were simply a misunderstanding of the computer requiring "more RAM" | **The Land of Windows**
I knelt before the shaman, and he raised a stick strewn with bells, herbs, and beads above my head, shaking it with vigor as he shouted the initiation words. Behind me, an array of chimes rang out, imitatin the thunderclaps we heard each and every morning as the world came to life: "Ba Ba Da Bu... | "The Gods have spoken! We are to commence a Memory Dump. Or the Nation will be corrupted!" So proclaimeth the High Priest of Poseidon of Atlantis. If the gods were not satisfied with Ram, if our Path was not to be found in their Divine Will, then so it must be that this Memory Dump would appease them.
The High Priest ... | 2015-10-11T10:07:18 | 2015-10-11T09:56:36 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] "Hands up! Gimme yo wallet!" The man quickly lifted a small pistol to my head, but before I could react, he pulled the trigger. He probably should not have done that. | 'Yo wallet'. He really said 'yo'.
For some reason, that irked Grimm more than the bullet that tore through his skull. A rotating bit of metal that ripped through his brains like a hot knife through butter, creating a crater as it exited through his left eye and tumbled out of noticeable existence.
Grimm collapsed to ... | My hand froze in my pocket, my fingers gracing the fake leather of my father’s old wallet like it was the last thing I would ever touch. Time slowed as the scent of gunpowder and sweat overwhelmed my lungs, the cold feeling of the barrel igniting into a glorious heat of power.
D A M I E N
My eyes shivered in fear, i... | 2022-04-11T00:49:03 | 2022-04-10T23:27:39 | 220 | 72 |
[WP] Your superpower is to control time, however you are considered too young to join the superhero teams. So in the mean time, instead of fighting the bad guys, you fix the collateral damage. | Even though I am only 15 all I want in life is to become a superhero and join the Pyramid, an elite group of Heroes that save the world constantly. The only problem is that since I am too young they will not allow me on the team. This infuriates me but it is what it is. In order to still put my best foot forward and he... | Decided to put an odd spin on it, hope you enjoy!
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"God *fucking* dammit," I say as I walk through the crowded warehouse. Some injuries are worse than others. Some aren't ever recovered from. My nickname is Saving Angel, and I save lives. I walk toward the newest person at our little volunteer hospital, a... | 2019-10-29T07:14:51 | 2019-10-29T07:08:40 | 57 | 17 |
[WP] For every 10 lives you save, you get an extra life for yourself, shown as a number visible only to you on your wrist. Waking up with bad hangover after a particularly rowdy night, you look at your arm through blurry eyes to see the faintly glowing number: 700,000,000. | Once I figured out the cheat, it was easy.
Save ten lives, get a free one. Like collecting coins in Mario, that's all. The difference was, there was no clear rules on how their lives had to be put in danger.
Yesterday morning was just like every other.
Wake up, check my wrist. 308 lives saved up. Not bad, not bad... | These days it was next to impossible to become a police officer, paramedic, or even a firefighter. Everyone and their dogs were trying to enter these jobs, to have the chance of adding lives to their wrist.
It happened instantly, without word or warning, everyone woke up with the number "0" on their right wrist. A... | 2019-08-28T13:44:08 | 2019-08-28T13:31:27 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Your superpower is the ability to give other people a superpower of your choice. Your only restriction is that you can never give the same power twice. You've been at this a very long time, and you need to build a new superhero team to save the world once again.
Edit: This is my first WP, and it was so much fun! ... | Oh no. Not _another_ supervillain. How _scary_. For the fourth time this week.
"Bow down," he cried. Most people were just walking around him, as he floated at about head height. "Bow down before Necroman!"
Necroman‽ That's just about the stupidest name I've ever heard.
"Behold, the zombie apocalypse!"
Yeah, yeah… ... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Get it out of my face, you monster!" Kennan smacked at the enormous jell-o blob Eliza had shot at him.
"Well, maybe I would if I didn't constantly find *grasshoppers* in my bed!" Eliza shouted, lobbing another stream of jell-o at him, until he was covered in all different colors of the bouncy, vi... | 2019-01-20T12:32:00 | 2019-01-20T11:39:55 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You’ve been cursed to adapt to anything that kills you. Unable to be die, you decided to take up monster fighting. What could go wrong | "So, let me get this straight, you can't die."
I gave a small nod to my companion, before resuming my efforts. We had been tasked with removing a Vine Stalker from the forest, after it had been attacking local villages. Its name came from its bizarre body, made of hundreds of intertwined vines. They were dumb, vicious... | I re-read the online ad.
Multiple slots open. Desired candidate must be okay with the sight of blood and guts, have training in both martial arts and firearms. A flexible set of morals would also be okay.
I called the number that accompanied the ad, "Hunters for Hire, Teri speaking, how may I direct your call?" a rat... | 2022-11-03T17:13:57 | 2022-11-03T16:15:20 | 233 | 71 |
[WP] Every day when you return home from work, your dog greets you by bringing you a seemingly random item, which will turn out to be useful throughout the day. One day, after a peticularly stressful day of work, your dog greets you with a sword at his feet, happily wagging his tail. | "God, what an awful day!" I wailed as I sat in my car ready to go home. Recalling how nothing was going right today. I was more clumsy and made mistakes every second.
"Should I even be driving? I'm a hazard right now."
I turned on the car and made my way out of the parking lot, "Look out people, shit might happe... | I have a Pomeranian, his name is Rix. He's too cute, like the type of cuteness which makes you go "Awww". Rix is smart too, but not just the fetch-a-ball kind of smart, na. He's almost a clairvoyant. You see, he has a peculiar habit of bringing random stuff to me whenever I come back home from work. But every other dog... | 2019-12-31T16:04:56 | 2019-12-31T14:49:19 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "Guys, it's not that complicated," I say to the increasingly frustrated group of scientists, "I just jump... and then I jump again."
Most of them stare at me open-mouthed, one flings his hands up into the air and storms out of the test room.
"Okay, but... what does it feel like when you jump the second time?" press... | Simon had been double-jumping for the past 125 minutes.
The scientists quickly got bored. They'd x-rayed his legs (3 times), MRI scanned his brain (4 times) and even ran LSD tests (on themselves) (twice).
This simply COULDN'T be happening. It was physically impossible, was simply BREAKING THE GOD-DAMNED laws of phys... | 2017-02-11T09:05:42 | 2017-02-11T08:59:56 | 144 | 39 |
[WP] World War 3 has begun, every nuke is being launched or dropped...they've sat in storage for so long that every single one was a dud. | The early warning system lit up like a Christmas tree. Every agent in the room leapt to their feet. The Americans and Russians were letting everything fly, the Chinese were firing all over Asia, India and Pakistan practically blotted out the skies with their respective arsenals. Even the French got in on the mess.
The... | ...
He turned to the Supreme Leader, his voice trembling almost as much as his hands, and delivered the news.
"Great Marshal, we have just received word from the Iranians that the Russian missiles are not detonating either."
Kim's face twitched slightly, as if caught up in multiple emotions. This was a moment he nev... | 2018-03-01T18:04:19 | 2018-03-01T17:48:13 | 194 | 13 |
[WP] You have just found the cure to a virus that is killing millions worldwide, why do you keep it to yourself? | Dr. Hill sat back in her chair, feeling her stomach sinking like a stone. "I don't understand, why would it have this effect?" Her fingers knotted themselves together, almost hidden beneath the too-long sleeves of her lab coat. The project leader sat before her, grimacing and chewing his mustache. "It was your job to w... | I can't share it, it'd be too risky. There'd be pandemonium. Millions, if not billions of people rushing to get the cure. It doesn't seem fair, but it is right. It won't do anyone much good if they're trampled on in a massive stampede for it.
I was working on a chemistry project. I had the virus and it was slowly, pai... | 2014-05-30T02:09:17 | 2014-05-30T01:50:22 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] There's a new death penalty drug that acts as a hallucinogen, causing the prisoner to experience his worst fears until he dies of cardiac arrest. You were convicted of a crime and your execution is today. | The bell buzzed louder than ever when they came into the room for the last time. That green liquid the doctor was carrying like a baby was the newest thing these days. There was a lot of controversy on whether or not it was morally correct to inject this drug into people like me. I welcomed it. I deserved it. The once ... | I never thought I'd live a long life, but I never expected this. Most of my victims have lived a longer life than I will. How pathetic is that?
They told me I'm condemned to die by the tyron pill. Every single person at my trial seemed so happy about that. Even my lawyer, a moron who couldn't even pretend to be on my ... | 2015-02-10T07:14:55 | 2015-02-10T05:46:50 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] Mages choose the source of their power. Most pick things like fire, or justice, or love. You picked sarcasm. | "All this walking makes me *super jazzed*, you guys. Feet don't hurt at all, no sirree."
Eldrin, the youngest mage of Quelbrig Plains, slumped her shoulders and put her hands in her pockets. She lagged far behind the other three members of the squadron: Lord Eldemere, Ranmalt and Reenma.
Eldemere turned to his two a... | They say that you don't pick your familiar, your familiar picks you.
They say a lot of really stupid things.
"Surrender, James. You cannot hope to escape." I mean, who the fuck picks ***water*** as their familiar, right? Go-with-the-flow, steady, impassive, boring as all fuck. "My brother and I have you, you cann... | 2017-07-20T11:26:09 | 2017-07-20T11:01:04 | 1,520 | 70 |
[WP]: A leading team of scientists finally figure out a way to communicate with animals. Three weeks later, Earth's entire panda population is launched into the sun. | “You’re useless you son of a dog”
It started almost immediately, throwing widespread panic into the visitors.
“Oh yeah? Why don’t you say that to my face you worthless hamster poop”
Then it spread, like a wave across all human consciousness, to all edges of the globe. Even to places in the deepest darkest rainfor... | The PETA website was getting millions of views, probably having to do with the video on the front page. I clicked on the play button and was pleasantly surprised that there wasn't an advertisement before the video.
A bright young reporter stood next to the head of OLEOAS, now the biggest Facebook group ever. "One Lik... | 2015-03-30T05:18:17 | 2015-03-30T04:08:14 | 78 | 12 |
[WP] You wrested the government from the tyrant. You ruled well, at first. But now there's talk of rebellion. At a presentation, you almost shout how you've given everything for this nation. But the words freeze in your throat. Those are the exact words the tyrant said before you overthrew him. | “Bring them out!” I shout to the guards, taking a large drink of my wine. My face feels flushed; I’m sweating. This god damn throne is so uncomfortable. After so many years fighting for it. After the thousands, tens of thousands of deaths. I thought it would feel like perfection sitting on this throne. But all it does ... | I almost fucking said it...
Who had I become? My mind whirled a moment as I sat behind the desk of many great and many awful leaders before me. I pulled my hands from my temples and slammed them on the desk's cold surface. The thought nagged at me as it always did, although, this time I didnt fight it.
'You are what... | 2021-02-13T20:23:45 | 2021-02-13T20:07:26 | 953 | 64 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | The door crashed opened as the frame around it disintegrated into kindling. The fur-clad boot that had kicked it open landed with a meaty thud on the stone floors inside the chamber. The wild-eyed warrior held his knicked and scarred blade in front of him as he strode into the room high atop the tallest tower.
"It was... | "This is my property, so I should be able to do with it whatever I want!" The idiot shouted.
"Fuck personnel property if it can justify this." I replied. "You are subject to the same rules as everybody else, no matter who you are. And the rules in this case are simple: no killing. Send him of to the judiciary." The m... | 2017-06-12T08:32:01 | 2017-06-12T08:19:09 | 54 | 10 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "They've taken Newtonport," Allen told me as I stepped into the ancient machine. Already the southern continental factories were busily upgrading a new batch up to current tech. We had gotten these old knightsuits from the old warehouses they had been stored in centuries ago.
"Shit eating fuckers," I said, actually ... | I should have known. They had it all there, available to view on their version of the Hypernet. So much information, the sum of all of their human knowledge all sitting their in that database they called Wikipedia. Their science, their religions, their philosophies, but most importantly their history.
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If... | 2019-02-26T11:49:21 | 2019-02-26T10:58:57 | 54 | 25 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Spring is an interesting time of year for this species, but most especially for the adolescents. As one biologist stated 'Ah Spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to thoughts of romance.' As another biologist stated 'As opposed to what?' (chuckles) Yes, as one might have guessed, this species is particularly hormone... | *cameras zoom in on 2 wild homo sapien*
And now, we are observing two wild *Homo Sapiens* in their natural habitat: Starbucks. 'Starbucks' is a natural watering hole for the occasional homo sapien, and sometimes this rare species finds a mate at the watering hole. The male will, on rare occasion, give an espresso to t... | 2017-04-04T06:46:11 | 2017-04-04T06:35:23 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | "Éste es el examen final" leía la nota atada a mi pecho. Después de levantarme del suelo y revisar que no tenga ninguna herida grave me puse a investigar donde estaba.
Era mi último año de preparatoria y con un poco de suerte ya no iba a tener que preocuparme de estudiar materias que nunca me iban a ser útiles. Solo n... | "¿Qué pasó, chico?" dijo una mujer.
"Uhhhhh hola uh... lost... soy Steve, dónde está escuela"
"¿Qué escueña? Estamos en Cozumel. Es estudiante? De dónde es?"
I was so confused. The last thing I could recall was walking into my Spanish class and the fire alarm sounding. Next thing I knew, I woke up parched, with nothi... | 2017-06-29T11:12:03 | 2017-06-29T09:12:30 | 255 | 30 |
[WP] Finally medical technology has reached the point where humans can survive to be over 200 years old. It is at this moment that humanity discovers as a species we have a 200 year pupation period. | With the advent of the Musk-Hawking Supraluminal Drive, humanity was finally able to explore the vastness that was space. From the first unmanned Tyson Exploratory Vessel to the manned United Nations Space Coalition "Icarus" class corvette, man has stretched his arms to every planet in his solar system. With the colo... | "Are you sure he's fine? He looks so skinny."
"I'd say say not to worry, but this reaction is different from the rest we've observed. He didn't seem to have a lot of fat built up beforehand, so it looks like he's trying to absorb the required nutrients straight out of the air."
The frost on the viewing window started... | 2017-05-18T10:51:04 | 2017-05-18T07:28:08 | 80 | 43 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus inside every single human. Centuries into the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | I sit in the dark, staring into the fire longer than I know is wise. My comrades are gone, flesh still sizzling with unnatural fire from the foreign weapons those monsters think have won them this battle.
But they don't know.
I almost feel sorry for them.
They don't know what manner of hell they just unleashed; the... | The contorted mass of flesh slugged towards his bewildered opponent; belowing screeches suffocating the battlefield.
The gaunt look of fear and disgust grimaces on his commanders face as he turns round to see his unit flee in horror, tramlping over the eviscearated remains of other Exo troops.
Grubo makes his final ... | 2022-09-13T21:20:17 | 2022-09-13T19:49:36 | 109 | 57 |
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