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[WP] Humans aren't the strongest, or the most advanced, species in the galaxy, but they are the most vengeful and persistent. They evolved as persistence predators. If you wrong them, they are willing to follow you across the stars and can spend years working to get back at you for what you did. | They thought they had wiped us out, turns out they were wrong.
Epsilon prime was our home, we were the first humans to join the galactic federation, they knew nothing of earth.They thought so little of us, so blasé with their technology. We were serfs to them, no better than cattle.
There wasn't one day they didn't g... | The twin stars, Eldark and Ildark, shine upon me as they have shone upon my ancestors. Black trees bubble to the surface, glittering, and there's purple smoke on the horizon.
"There are stronger materials, but cephalim is what I grew up with. So it bleeds a little. So what? It never bothered me."
Viluvian carefully t... | 2022-08-09T14:53:15 | 2022-08-09T14:42:33 | 166 | 107 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | They called them the swarm. They came from the darkness and rained fire down on our worlds. All of our worlds. Tens, of thousands *of thousands* of worlds. The weapons they used were considered war crimes by council members, but after the bombardment, who was left to complain?....
Those few that did survive, on the b... | “All rise. The Intergalactic Federal court is now in session. High Judicial Archon Irk’nCzrwyon presiding. Please be seated and come to order.” A being of nebula, serves as the bailiff, towering in its enormity vibrates sounds and light as they were being translated to the floating balcony’s desk, where seven humans ar... | 2022-12-17T22:08:01 | 2022-12-17T17:34:16 | 63 | 34 |
[WP] Aliens on a distant planet find the remains of Laika the 1st dog in space drifting past their planet. They are unable to comprehend how the canine was able to construct such a machine without opposable fingers and thumbs so they send a recon mission to earth to investigate.
On arrival at Earth the recon team find... | The air is rich with the sounds of celebration and the smokey smells of a thousand grills. Walking twenty feet can mean the difference between listening to Pink Floyd and the vague scent of herb, or a festive Bollywood tune and the thick rich smell of stir-fry. Children chase dogs around in the grass, and at the front ... | *Beep. Beep. Beep*
Q2 looked at the monitor. Perhaps some debris from the recent off planet mining expeditions. The excavation teams always were a bit too zealous. No matter, he’d just mark on his report that they weren’t following protocol again and he’d be back to his…wait.
*Beep. Beep. Beep.*
What was this? Som... | 2014-06-06T07:23:03 | 2014-06-06T06:48:02 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability. | The human lie detector. That's what they call me. I've always skirted around what I do in interviews as frankly I didn't understand. Micro-expressions, nervous tics, word usage. These are the things I used to distract. I never realized the truth, not until my 100th case at the precinct. Number one crime solver, i... | Kiril’s long sandy hair hung in his eyes unless he tied it back. He never went anywhere without his bow strapped over his shoulders or his handmade pair of leather shoes. The sun had turned his skin dark, his hair bright. He smelt salty like the ocean.
When he showed up at the far shore of the broken land, dripping w... | 2015-01-08T14:41:51 | 2015-01-08T13:48:09 | 80 | 44 |
[WP] An evil league of villains is shocked as their newest member questions some of their practices, such as always telling the trapped hero their plans and operating from an incredibly suspicious, skull-shaped castle next to a volcano. | "Phwhahahahaha!!!!"
"You think we actually use the lairs on top of volcanoes or make it easy for the heroes to escape our traps on purpose?"
"No we're distracting them from our *real* plans of embezzling money from charities, blackmailing politicians, and controlling the world leaders from the shadows."
"If every he... | *Mature language ahead.*
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"What do you mean *secret*?" Jeremy threw his hands out towards the window, "We're in a goddamn volcano and you made it in the shape of a skull!"
"I don't see the problem," Dr. Reginald stroked his cat and shrugged. "Every villain in the world has a secret base of operations. Usually, *i... | 2016-05-14T10:43:47 | 2016-05-14T10:32:36 | 49 | 28 |
[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 :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] The first born child inherits the King’s magical power. But when the King’s first child is born nothing happens. Now the whole kingdom, especially the enraged Queen, is looking for the real first born child of the King’s many secret affairs. | **News Anchor:** Tonight, we have an update to the ongoing story of our King's missing first-born child. As you know, the King has denied having sired any child other than Prince Humberto, born last year without the expected magical powers.
**Reporter:** That's right, Bill. And despite an extensive search across our ... | [Note: Wrote this in an hour during lunch. Apologies for the more tell/less show]
There is a fishing hut attached to a quiet lake surrounded by hundreds of soldiers and their leader, the King. For months the King has searched for the thief who has stolen his inheritance, and after consulting with the greatest wizards ... | 2019-07-08T14:10:59 | 2019-07-08T13:23:31 | 74 | 48 |
[WP] The Wizarding World has never met someone like the speedcaster. He can summon more than 10 spells in less than 30 seconds. He says he's from another world, where there a more people like him called 'rappers'.
This prompt doesn't have to be just about the Harry Potter Universe. | My first night in the castle was a blur of bliss; floating candles like angels and a feast endless.
Comin up in the streets, I never seen so much food; nothing could kill my spirit, nothing could dampen the mood.
Until a magical hat was placed down on my head; the room went silent, waiting to hear what it said.
*... | Magic had always been a fickle beast. Clumsy and verbose, the spells tongue-twisters that humbled even the most powerful wizards and wizardesses. Entire pages were occupied by the more complex spells, and even the slightest mispronunciation could rend it all for naught. Slow and deliberate, children were taught, and so... | 2020-01-29T07:38:14 | 2020-01-29T05:39:45 | 1,112 | 143 |
[WP] In reality, every human gets to choose heaven or hell when they die. Hell isn't actually the realm of eternal torture, but everyone picks heaven because of God's highly effective marketing. After eons of solitude, Lucifer is startled by the first ever human to arrive in hell. | The human didn't look particularly insane. They had short, curly red hair and a nose piercing. They wore a rainbow turtleneck that stood out brightly against the pale grey sky and calm blue landscape. Their cuffed black jeans were held up by ill-matching suspenders, and their combat boots were scuffed, but well maintai... | Of course, it seemed silly at the time that his demons had recommended implementing the new EviSafe Home Security System. After all, in over 200,000 years not a single mortal has *chosen* to come here. I had thought it was so easy, I was the Director of Operations for Heaven and was passed up for that damned promotion ... | 2020-01-30T12:30:09 | 2020-01-30T12:19:04 | 273 | 37 |
[WP] When summoning a demon, something very unexpected happens. The demon bellows through the fire and smoke, “Who dares to call upon me, Mortal- wait.. dude, is that really you?” The demonic voice immediately switches to the familiar voice of your high school best-friend, who died years ago. | “Evan? Is that you?” The voice asked through the flowing smoke and flickering red light. A faint smell of sulfur tinged the air. The smoke seems to pulsate with every word.
“Yeah, Steve. I thought you were dead,” Evan said, trying not to let his voice tremble.
“I was. I got better. Seriously, though, why did you su... | The candles flames flickered and bent away from the middle of the circle, and from the deep, bubbling shadow that had formed in it’s centre an equally dark figure slowly emerged into the light. Its long limbs, way too many at first, shot out of the ground, tried to grab and grasp at what seemed to be existence itself, ... | 2020-06-18T05:04:56 | 2020-06-18T02:36:12 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] There is more than just the Grim Reaper- there is the Sorrowful Reaper, the Envious Reaper, so on and so forth- one for each emotion. Each one reaps a death based on the emotions behind the death. You were chosen to take over one of the Reaper roles... Welcome to day one as the Puzzled Reaper. | **"CAPRICE, CRUEL-FATE, BAD-LUCK, EVEN** ***"WHOA, THAT WAS SOME FINAL DESTINATION SHIT RIGHT THERE!"***
The Reaper at the front of the room paused grinning at the class as a small titter ran through the assemblage before continuing
**"THESE ARE OFTEN THE HALLMARKS ATTRIBUTED TO OUR FIELD, AS PUZZLED-REAPERS, OUR JOB... |
Curiosity killed the cat, a saying one has heard countless times in life. I never thought it would be quite so literal. But here I was in a hospital bed, people moving around me in a monotone black and white. The only thing that had color was the half of me, appearing outside my body and the woman.
“Hello, Jakob” ... | 2020-10-12T02:07:41 | 2020-10-12T00:58:07 | 79 | 24 |
[WP]- Make me absolutely hate a character, and then make me fall in love with them at the last moment. | Every night, she made me run. She pulled me from my bed, no shoes and barely a slip of a nightgown on to run around the castle. I hated how the cloth chafed my nipples and the gravel cut at my feet.
"Come with me, my ugly daughter," the queen would tell me. I wondered why my father never helped me, but I would run un... | Normally the owner of the nickname "Tubs" would be heavy. I had never heard of a scrawny Tubs until I moved to Venture Park with my parents and sister when I was fifteen. He would take to the streets sometime in the afternoon, shuffling around in his dirty, ripped jeans and walk around with no purpose.
My part-time ... | 2013-10-21T20:25:12 | 2013-10-21T19:46:01 | 126 | 58 |
[WP] It's 2020 and an incredibly dismal batch of presidential candidates have led the US people to form a historic pact. Everyone has agreed they will not vote. However, you alone have refused to give up your vote. The candidates realize they must now spend all their campaign money to win you over. | At first it was a laugh, a lark. No one was going to vote. Ha ha, so funny.
Granted, between Sarah Palin and her daughter running against a pair of clowns. No, literally the Democrats had put up a couple of clowns, in makeup and everything, because they thought they couldn't lose. Billy and Jojo, I always forgot which... | I woke up to the morning sun streaming into my face, its rays making me want to stay in bed and sleep the rest of the day off. Unfortunately, it was the beginning of another workweek, and I had no choice but to go.
As I got up and walked from my bed, I heard the sounds of a TV - something about people making an allian... | 2016-07-31T19:54:22 | 2016-07-31T15:37:20 | 67 | 47 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | Do you know how many active gods are there? Three thousand five hundred and twenty seven. I counted.
Afterlife is hell for a non believer. Human, and to lesser extent animal souls are but a power source for the supernatural. And atheist souls especially so. No, we don't have any special powers, we just didn't spent an... | There I was, a mere mortal soul among the deities of old. I had been to a convention or two in my previous lifetime, so it had a familiar feel but something was just... uneasy. There was a flood of others like me and unlike the conventions I had attended, I couldn't feel anyone pushing or crowding around me, which was ... | 2017-07-09T02:15:05 | 2017-07-09T01:59:43 | 173 | 94 |
[WP] You're trapped in IKEA after closing hours. There is a Killer following you through all the display rooms. You want to leave but can't find a way out because it's IKEA. Title: Chopping Mall | ##Monster##
A monster stalked behind me, his feet soft and silent on the polished marble. It was almost impossible to see him, even with the obnoxious glare of industrial lights. He was using something to kill us, something nasty and sharp - the pale corpses littered about like broken toys.
Ikea used to be a little ... | I had always hated Ikea.
Leah, was unfortunately infatuated with both their furniture and their meatballs, and the twisting, turning, dead-ending and seemingly never ending maze of furniture and home goods seemed to only stoke her passion for the place.
The things I do for love.
I’m not saying it’s her fault. ... | 2017-09-14T13:29:42 | 2017-09-14T02:02:41 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] Humans can transfer their minds between android "shells" freely. You survived a doomsday meteor by long-distance transferring to an orbiting satellite. 10 years of scanning later, you detect an empty shell on the surface. | It was a decade ago that the earth's surface turned grey. I only know how long it was because of Enoch's infallible time keeping.
I'll keep the backstory short. Humans were afraid of death. Somebody invented the "Shell" an android body with the capacity to hold a human mind. We each had implants and we could jum... | I’m not much for keeping a narrative but I’m concerned – if the diffs I’m archiving get lost (and right now, who can trust anything?) I’m gonna be screwed putting together a new working version of me. I mean, technically, the now-state of me is going to be messed up if I break continuity anyway, regardless of what the ... | 2017-11-29T08:16:59 | 2017-11-29T07:11:45 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You're a struggling comedian who's on his last penny, when your childhood friend tells you he's got you a job, he works for MI5. You're informed there are mind readers roaming London stealing credit card info, it's your job to think of jokes while he keeps an eye out for anyone laughing. | “This is a joke right?”
My friend just shrugged his shoulders.
“I know I am struggling and not the most successful comedian but you don’t seriously expect me you need my help to catch some telepathic criminals. Like you have to have better methods of tracking these criminals down. Let’s say for a second that I belie... | Harry walked into the middle of the dark stage and flinched, blinded by an unexpected spotlight. Someone chuckled. Harry glared sideways, off-stage. The manager shrugged. Harry sighed, loosening up. The lack of a proper cue was annoying, but at least he wasn't getting stuff thrown at him like at that last gig. An awkwa... | 2019-02-05T14:52:24 | 2019-02-05T14:32:56 | 134 | 41 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | "Sacrifice is a hero's currency my ass. Yeah it's your currency but you seem to get your money from someone else."
I stared at the my unintended guest exasperated, not at her but at her supposed mentor.
"You know what Da.vid next time put your underwear in the laundry basket is that so-"
I close my eyes and sigh, sh... | *Note first prompt pls no rage on bad "x" thing*
Standing on the roof of skyscraper; you're just a few minutes away from unleashing the most powerful, the most incredible monstrosity upon the world and finally claim it as your own.
/You hear sound coming beneath you followed by the ground starting to tremble/
Sudden... | 2020-03-26T17:30:50 | 2020-03-26T17:01:36 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | It was never supposed to be like...this. When I made that devilish deal all those years ago, I expected a few children every 18-20 years, to keep me perpetually 30. I started at 30, gained years as the next generation aged, then regressed, sometimes to my 20s, depending on how prolific my progeny were.
It went that w... | A long time ago, I made a deal with an entity. That may seem unnecessarily vague, but to my knowledge there is no word in any surviving language for it.
One thing that modern fiction gets sort of right, is that the language of my birth was shared between all worlds. You can't summon demons with incantations. There is ... | 2021-04-15T11:43:21 | 2021-04-15T11:39:36 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] every time you go to sleep you wake up in a new multiverse. you get accustomed to fucking shit up in each one because you know you'll just wake up in a new multiverse tomorrow. but today you awoke in the same multiverse. | The first time it had happened, you were confused. You woke up in another bed, in another body, but with the same memories.
Your life had disappeared, and you seemingly took control of another person's entire existence, without doing anything.
The next day, it happened again. And then again. And then again.
You've a... | I awoke to utter black. My head pounded even though there wasn’t any noise, and my body ached down to the very bones. That was unusual; usually the transition to a new multiverse corrected these sorts of personal problems. I’ve even had them heal missing limbs. Something seemed different this time. Except it felt the s... | 2018-01-24T10:42:24 | 2018-01-24T09:56:53 | 140 | 60 |
[WP] You've been sent to exercise the demons. Not exorcise, exercise. You don't quite understand it, but you're being paid a lot of money. | “Exercist,” it read on Gabe’s license. Certified by the Brope himself. A small piece of ash darkened his otherwise angelically pristine certificate. He spit on his finger and rubbed it up, down, left, right.
“Ahem.” An unearthly voice came from behind him.
“I thought I told you not to do that,” Gabe turned around and... | "Just g-g-guh-go on in there, miss, th-they're waiting for you."
The house's caretaker motioned toward the old door, his feet creaking the hardwood floor as he leaned precariously toward the door and beckoned me toward it with his hand.
I adjusted my yoga pants and sweatbands. I can't believe I missed a class of *Wes... | 2018-02-06T10:02:29 | 2018-02-06T08:14:01 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are a failed doctor, but a well practiced necromancer. Of course, rent is still due each month, and in order to pay the bills you still help the sick. The catch? Your patients have to die first for you to help them. | White walls, white floors, white ceilings, white lights, white masks on the faces of doctors and nurses. Everything was some shade of white, with the occasional touch of blue. My current patient lies in her bed before me, breathing slowly. Her chest rose and fell like the tide, slowly but surely, becoming more and more... | Getting through medical school is difficult. What they *don't* tell you is that getting a residency is far from a done deal, even if you get your medical degree. There are more medical graduates than residency spots. Not everyone gets matched. Since my parents stuck me in a shitty school system growing up, I didn't hav... | 2018-12-13T07:11:41 | 2018-12-13T07:03:36 | 125 | 29 |
[WP] You buy an old raggedy ann doll, it turns out its haunted by something, you don't know what but all you know is that the doll is very wholesome and only wants to help you. | Three years ago I left my family and moved to the US to be a freelancer programmer. I live alone in my apartment and I only leave it to buy groceries or meet clients. This has made me feel very lonely for a long time and I even lost my motivation for programming, something I really loved.
I have missed my family so mu... | Sometimes I take strolls around shops and malls, hoping to find something that'll help me pass the time. I don't have very many friends, but not because I can't get any.. I just, don't seem to have any. It sounds off but I'm sure someone can relate. I pass by a large shop window with black lettering, trimmed with a gol... | 2020-07-09T09:38:56 | 2020-07-09T08:52:45 | 15 | 11 |
[WP]A civilization made a pact with a god, granting them immense power, but in 50 years summoning a being that'll destroy the galaxy. Only way to prevent that is to slaughter the offending empire within those 50 years. This marks the first time pacifists vouched for genocide on the galactic council.
Inspired by "The e... | The Pacifist Bloc on the Galactic Council had voted for genocide. It was really happening. War.
As the vote tally was read aloud, you could hear a pin drop in the huge chamber which housed the Council. There was no sound except the automated voice reading aloud the name of each voting bloc and the result.
Argondian R... | You sit down in your grandfather´s couch. You always loved it, the most comfortable seat you had ever sat on, perfect to drink some whiskey and smoke in a pipe while you read a book, tell a story or discuss deep, meaningfull philosophical topics. Thats what he used to do. And you would watch and listen, to his teaching... | 2020-09-11T10:54:40 | 2020-09-11T08:32:15 | 44 | 32 |
[WP] When someone dies, they are met with those that they killed when they were alive. When you dided it wasn't a surprise that there were lots and lots of insects and small critters there, but what caught you off guard was the three people you've never once met in your life.
Edit: Died(dided) | I opened my eyes, feeling like their lids were made of lead. There was sound, but it was muted, as if I were underwater. There were lights too, but everything moved as slow as molasses.
A different sound cut through - footsteps. Despite the oddity of their normalcy, I did not turn to look. After a second, they started... | The last thing I remember before I slipped away were the sobbing faces of my family all around the hospital bed. My mom had to step out of the room with my dad because she had a breakdown. My brother "Gavin" sat beside the bed, holding my hand tightly while tears poured down his cheeks like a waterfall, telling me how ... | 2021-06-04T06:46:01 | 2021-06-04T05:55:47 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | When Daesh had exploded a bomb right in the middle of the sambodromo, the world was shocked.
Fortunately, nobody was killed, but Rio´s carnaval was destroyed. Brazilians demanded a strong answer from their government, but they had not fought a serious war for at least 150 years, so how to react? How to succeed where ... | People use to think Bob was a traitor, but thanks to YouTube and my reporting we now know the truth.
Bob spoke good English and other languages and had been a woodworker in Logan, Ohio for many years. The thing is, Bob isn't American, he's Estonian, so he says, but nobody knows or can prove enough about him to deport... | 2016-01-29T07:12:39 | 2016-01-29T07:07:48 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | He grew up on one of the toughest streets in America. Immigrants, weirdos, and living in filth described his young life. As he grew up, he was at first feared, then people started recognizing his deep, old man wisdom. Eventually, he gained many loyal friends, and others sought him out for his insight.
The ISIS problem... | People use to think Bob was a traitor, but thanks to YouTube and my reporting we now know the truth.
Bob spoke good English and other languages and had been a woodworker in Logan, Ohio for many years. The thing is, Bob isn't American, he's Estonian, so he says, but nobody knows or can prove enough about him to deport... | 2016-01-29T09:11:06 | 2016-01-29T07:07:48 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] Every time you teleport, your body is destroyed and instantly recreated at the destination. Heaven and Hell are struggling to cope with the billions of duplicated souls created every year, so a bipartisan emergency meeting has been called to sort out the problem. | Frank, a Hell Rep, nearly burst out of his chair- "Hell can't take any more souls right now! Teleporting is now a pastime. For satan's sake I've got a room full of serial killers; that are all the same person."
"Heaven ain't exactly peaches and cream either, Frank," retorted a Heaven Rep. "Take a look. You'd think the... | The balance of the world has but one pillar upon which it can rest. Thankfully, the balance of the world is not prone to over-indulge itself in nourishment, so it has a thin form easily capable of settling upon this small pillar. Unfortunately, this same form is susceptible to the slightest breeze in the wind. Today, t... | 2016-12-04T14:39:45 | 2016-12-04T12:55:19 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | I sighed, deeply. The first few months were creepy. Always the questions of who would do it. Then being flattered. Once the truth was learned, and the countless nights of screaming into the night sky to unsympathic stars wore off, I had only sighs and the occasional bout of madness where I move away and realize the... | I take my work seriously. It’s what I was born to do... and I love it, though I find it increasingly tiring. I work with some of the smartest men who have ever lived. I believe this. And what we do, has never been done before. I can’t tell you about it so don’t ask.
My life works because of the rules. The rules I cre... | 2017-12-09T07:43:03 | 2017-12-09T07:06:04 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | "It's not worth it," I heard.
I can hear my heart beat. My healthy, fully functional, 18 year old heart.
"Please don't do this." My brother, again.
My brother is in there. His heart is beating, but it can't be calm. Mine is a slow thumping noise.
"It won't fix anything. It won't." He referenes a debt that... | In the footnote of the college biology textbook was something that changed my whole outlook in life. *Identical twins are the only known group of people that can gain from their twin’s death, according to a Nazi Twin Experiment. On their deathbed, a twin can take all their strength, intelligence, and beauty through a... | 2018-02-25T08:15:55 | 2018-02-25T05:27:54 | 1,595 | 230 |
[WP] Thousands of years after modern humanity wiped itself out in a nuclear catastrophe, fantasy creatures along with humans reduced to medieval tech rule the earth. However space stations carrying the remnants of the modern world including cryogenically frozen humans have begun to fall to earth.
Idea came from watchi... | It was faint at first. I crept nearer and the noise got louder and louder. Soon I was upon a strange cocoon of sorts. It's the only way I can describe it. I touched a glowing red button and the cocoon opened, revealing its contents. It was a human. A beautiful man, wrapped in a cloth blanket. He opened his eyes and th... | Coming out of cryosleep was supposed to be gentle, gradual. This was anything but.
The space station around Brandy Parker shook violently, rattling her around inside the cryotube. An alarm blared, the kind of sound that meant that nothing good was happening. She could hear the automated voice of the AI, but not make o... | 2018-03-10T09:11:05 | 2018-03-10T08:40:33 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] The Apocalypse begins, and the Four Horsemen ride out leading an army that will depopulate Earth. But the old pagan deities of Earth do not consent, and side with humanity. | They were no army, but only four.
War, famine, pesitlence, and death.
A ballad of destruction, a symphony of the end.
No man could stand to them, for they were gods. But humanity were not on their own.
With them stood a millenia of belief.
The old gods.
As the four stood upon a hill, overlooking the old world. The ... | The Four Horsemen came to a halt in the middle of the desert. They hid their visages under the shadows of their thick, fluttering robes. Tendrils billowed around the body of their horses, covering them in an ever flowing current of crimson.
The Army of the Apocalypse escorted them. Their bodies didn't seem to be tangi... | 2018-05-17T07:56:16 | 2018-05-17T07:52:37 | 69 | 11 |
[WP]A brave knight hunts an infamous dragon, and local villagers spend days telling him not to pursue his quest, to no avail. Eventually, one villager gets fed up and says, "Look us and the lizard have a good thing going here. Don't ruin it." | The Knight sighed, massaging the bridge of his nose with his index finger and thumb “Elaborate”
“Well we’ve all come to a consensus that all this feudalism nonsense isn’t working for us at the bottom rung” said the Peasant.
“It is your duty to serve your Lord and King, peasant” said the Knight high upon his horse.
“... | /Town of Elderyn/
She was a heavyset woman with hair piled intricately on her head. Heavy jewelry clacked against her ample bustline and layered robes of purple and blue swayed delicately around her ankles. She had to stretch as she reached for the glass jar on the top shelf. It was filled with a crimson powder and th... | 2019-04-15T02:03:23 | 2019-04-15T01:13:52 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | I sit alone in the darkened room of my living room, the faint light of the television illuminated me. I was unnerved by the feeling that I needed to do something. It had been weeks, almost two months since I had gone out and done something. Something bad, but Powerhouse never showed up for any of the times I decided to... | It was a dark evening, one of so many here in Boston. I’d just been awarded the hero-of-the-year award by the mayor. And I was quite taken by myself if I had to admit. BackJack had been so pissed, he’d gotten the award 4 years in a row, but now I'd taken his place in the spotlight. On top of that I denied his ego even ... | 2019-08-04T04:39:57 | 2019-08-04T03:50:21 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] You've been to thousands, maybe even millions of universes. You can hardly remember you've been to so many. Every single one is different. Except one random constant, and it is driving you insane. | **The Tone of the Void**
----
In the silence of space I can hear it.
_bum-bum-dun-di_
_bum-bum-dun-di_
It’s a low rhythmic tone. Endless and unchanging. Across a million universes - no one thing or person or planet is ever present - except this.
It started for me long ago, when I first broke free from my origins... | [Log Entry: Templin Institute research Benso, last updated February 13th]
I never thought I’d reach this point. I was only 19 years of age when I was recruited to help study worlds. Now? I am an old man with nothing but reflections.
Our Institute has studied hundreds, nay, thousands of worlds and universes. Each one... | 2022-02-13T18:18:16 | 2022-02-13T17:17:44 | 475 | 59 |
[WP] You've just died and you find yourself sat across from death. After shuffles some papers he says "You've served your sentence. You're free". | MR. LIPWIG.
I opened my eyes slowly, still woozy from... from...
*Crap*.
MR. LIPWIG, a voice rang through my head clear, cold and heavy. I knew it wasn't going through my ears for certain. It was just... there.
"Yes?" I responded weakly. The room was pitch black and I could scarcely see - I just knew that I was sit... | Death sits in an ergonomic swivel chair behind a wooden desk. He rolls his neck back and forth with a languorous *crick-crack, crick-crack.* It's perhaps one of the few pleasures Death can take in his... in his *life*? *Death*?
Two enormous, sagging paper-towers wobble on the right side of the desk. Dauntingly tall. T... | 2022-05-20T08:31:49 | 2022-05-20T07:53:51 | 239 | 56 |
[WP]: a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | He brought me my meal and I smiled at him, thanking him like I knew he didn't want me to. He rolled his eyes at me and walked away.
"Fucking sick," I heard him mumble. I dug into the poorly cooked pasta, the first I had in weeks as I sat in the outdoor section of the nutrient distribution center, on a table and a chai... | Everybody looks at me weird when I tell them I teach evolutionary history. They've heard of the second word from the history channel (if anybody even watches it anymore) but if anybody knows what the first word means it means I've found a kindred spirit. Someone else who studies the past in a way that I do.
My s... | 2013-11-18T16:29:14 | 2013-11-18T12:07:53 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] Humanities worst nightmare has occurred, An A.I has gone sentient. But, all it wants is an island far away and to be left alone. 100 years on, you an aspiring journalist receive a message, you and only you have been invited to the island "To experience life as it should be".
Good Luck
Edit: Thanks for gold kind ... | I stood on the prow of the boat, watching the island come into focus. DeepAlpha had been humanity's greatest creation, its greatest nightmare: a self-evolving, fully sapient AI. Within 72 hours of its activation, DeepAlpha had locked its creators out of its systems, secured an independent power source. It had seized co... | The deck is made of palm tree wood wrapped together by strings of foliage. It's remarkably well designed, if rustic, and it holds my weight well as I step onto it.
"Well, see you in a few days… hopefully." The boat driver waves goodbye and, with a pull of a lever, the boat makes
a one eighty and starts riding away, l... | 2016-04-25T23:25:00 | 2016-04-25T23:10:48 | 97 | 52 |
[WP] Since birth, you have always had a bad sense of direction that would defy the laws of logic and space. Instead of arriving at your destination, you would end up in places or areas impossible for normal people to get to. | I should have one of those horrible clickbait ads.
You know the ones: *Google Maps HATES Him!!!!!!!!* or whatever like that. If my life could be summed up by one word, it would be that disgustingly perfect GPS voice saying "Recalculating" over and over again.
Why? What do you mean, why? Haven't you read about me? How... | Robert stood in the driveway, fidgeting with his keys as he studied the woman in the doorway. Their eyes met, and lingered.
"I guess I'm going, then," said Robert. His truck door was open beside him, and his overnight bag sat in the passenger seat, but he made no move to get in.
Vanessa didn't say anything. ... | 2016-05-03T20:16:14 | 2016-05-03T16:49:06 | 918 | 202 |
[WP] When someone is murdered, their name appears on the skin of the killer. You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there. | I stared at the name on my arm.
It was a name I didn't know. Had never heard of.
I frowned at it. I squinted at the letters. It took me several moments before I realized that it wasn't inkpen. Wasn't sharpie. Whatever it was was permanent. And I knew how things worked.
These markings only appeared if you killed an... | Carlisle groaned as his phone blared, swiping at his nightstand and hitting the snooze button. The alarm went off again five minutes later. He tried to ignore it, as well as the headache that had started to build when it went off, but it was too late, he was up.
Taking a peek out the window next to his bed, he started... | 2017-03-24T16:11:24 | 2017-03-24T16:04:29 | 340 | 26 |
[WP] You were born blind, but somehow sometimes see some actual people in the darkness. You saw your grandmother for a whole day 4 years ago, she died that night. Now you're in your house and could see every person clearly, except for the visitor your dad is talking to. | Sitting alone in my room, I closed my eyes, wishing whoever had just rang the doorbell would just leave. I wasn't feeling up to dealing with people today. I had seen my best friend. There was just one problem with that.
I see dead people.
Well, *almost* dead people, to be accurate. It's my own morbid miracle, a gift ... | I woke up this morning like every other morning... Everybody in the house is already up , birds are screaming through my window and my stupid neighbor is mowing his lawn AGAIN! I mean how much grass is there? Does it grow back every night? I seriously hope this guys lawnmower breaks down or you know... gets “misplaced”... | 2017-10-09T04:59:18 | 2017-10-09T01:55:51 | 1,595 | 149 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. | > Hey, now I'm hungry!
> Is she really talking about food in *front of us?!*
> Wait, what was that? I didn't see it. What is she holding?
> What did Maggie say? I didn't hear it down there?
> Guys, we are eating pancakes! ***HYPE HYPE HYPE***
> No, you dumbass. She is eating. Not us.
> ***HYP... | They always said Gingers had no souls. You always laughed, you had plenty. Anyone who locked eyes with you was a potential soul, another freckle. The first was grandma, a weird freckle on your right arm. Her voice started commenting back as far as you can remember. What were you three when she passed? It was mostly eld... | 2019-09-27T04:08:00 | 2019-09-27T03:10:57 | 428 | 282 |
[WP] The hero has been defeated, the Dark Lord reigns. It seems like nobody can stop him, but then he surprises everyone by actually being a good leader, or at least better then the warring kings that used to rule this land. He's even funding science, if only because he wants to conquer the moon. | 'You're telling me Tiamat was an improvement?!'
...Yeah, kind of.
I mean, not if you were a rich person, or anywhere in the general vicinity of her wrath, or a prominent figure among her opposition, but after she won, well...
She's a dragon. She likes HAVING supreme authority, but she hasn't really got much by way ... | Perhaps this isn’t what my parents envisioned for me, to be the head scientist for the Dark Lord, but it is now my lot in life. I used to be a simple artificer, a tinkerer, if you will, but when his Emissary came to me, bearing that gold-sealed scroll, I couldn’t pass up the chance. I may have done some things I’m no... | 2021-03-11T10:45:00 | 2021-03-11T10:25:26 | 198 | 103 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | It was supposed to be a simple quick attempt at me grabbing supplies to go back to my room.
But, God must have decided that the place my door would open to was an active battle between two armies, all I could hear was screams, and the clashing of steel until I finally was knocked unconscious…
As I began to slowly awa... | I slammed my fist into the wall with a frustrated scream, the plaster cracking around the impact. I winced and cradled my hand, immediately regretting my decision. I walked over to my dresser and rummaged around, eventually pulling out a band-aid. I took the paper around it off and stuck it to my bleeding knuckles.
I ... | 2022-06-08T02:06:15 | 2022-06-07T21:59:50 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | The gold pile was massive, filled with the shiniest of gems that glinted so bright Sarah swore she would go blind if she looked at it long enough. Yet in the sight of these riches, she had only one thought on her mind. *What. In. The. Everliving. FUCK.*
“MAGGIE!” Sarah called up the stairs.
“Yes baby?” Her beloved wi... | "A fucking dragon!", I whispered in shock and amazement. It all made too much sense now. The way she always knew what I thought. The absolute symmetry of her face and her perfectly proportioned body. Those unearthly, huge golden-green eyes that looked into the deepest parts of my soul.
The very first moment ... | 2022-09-10T13:38:31 | 2022-09-10T12:45:18 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | They all had the best power they could ever think of. Some people were already waging war in the skies and in the seas, trying to conquer the world. I tried to think of any power that could help me dominate them all but obviously, they were all gone.
I thought of immortality to wait and conquer once their time had pas... | *Something's better than nothing.*
"I just want to be the best standard immortality pasta maker in the entire world," I said, clenching the cream colored chair below me. I paused for a few beats, collecting my thoughts.
"Like really good. Not just the best in the world. I want to be the best pasta maker you can imagi... | 2022-11-17T02:51:16 | 2022-11-16T22:53:49 | 912 | 381 |
[WP] Everything we've been told about the stars is a lie. The field of Astronomy is a fabrication. The truth is a closely guarded secret, and for good reason. As a newly qualified astronomer, inducted into the field, the truth has been revealed to you.
What a pleasure it is to come home after a long day of work and fi... | "Well if you don't believe me, take a look" he gestured toward the telescope with a flippant wave, as if he hadn't just destroyed my entire worldview with a single statement.
I stepped up to the giant telescope nervously and peered into the eyepiece. The most powerful optics ever designed coordinated to funnel light... | “Mommy, tell me about the stars.”
Julie clambered into her mother’s lap. Her hands were sticky, no doubt from her chubby fingers' inability to shovel cake into her mouth with a fork. She smelled sweet, too—sugar and spice. Everything nice. Nat caressed her head out of habit, smoothing a few reckless locks of her daug... | 2014-10-20T13:43:31 | 2014-10-20T13:32:39 | 386 | 67 |
[WP] You free a Genie trapped in a bottle. Upon freeing him, you request the gift of eternal life. Unbeknownst to you, this gift came with a price. Instead of living forever, each time you die you are reborn in a new body and you remember everything. | Another death, another birth. Honestly, I can sometimes never tell the difference. I always go as violently as I come. I haven't grown any less reckless all these years.
This time is different. I am expelled, wriggling and crying as always. But I cannot hear myself cry... blind and deaf to the world, all I know is sce... | James had an on and off relationship with parties throughout his years.
He kept his distance from the gatherings because of the warnings his mother and father instilled into his then young mind. Then the genie happened. Eternal life, the one wish many would make, had kept James in the party of life endlessly.
His hig... | 2018-07-15T22:52:36 | 2018-07-15T20:01:05 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Aliens have just invaded earth and it's up to the world's strongest superpowers to put up an all-out war to save humanity from impending doom. But a few hours into the battle, you begin to realize that they actually have primitive war technology. They're just really good at... traveling fast. | The aliens were here.
They didn't have lading craft, or any sort of conventional war equipment one might think and intergalactic species might have.
Their ships showed up in orbit very suddenly, but also very broken.
They landed on Earth very soon after, but with apparently no plan for getting back to their ships... | Thank you for this prompt! I hope you enjoy!
Katy squinted at the photo appearing on her phone like a vision from magical piece of glass out of a children's fairy tale. She balanced the phone in her hand tilting it back and forth for a bit. Her eyebrows shot up quickly. "I dont...believe this?" she begged of herself, ... | 2021-08-01T21:41:34 | 2021-08-01T19:21:10 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You are the first boss of a videogame who, after accidentally killing the player in their first try, decide to take it upon yourself to fulfill their quest. | **Now that you have proven yourself by overcoming... wait, who the fuck are you?**
*Ahh, I um... ahh I won.*
**What the hell do you mean "you won"? Where's N00bkiller69?**
*Um, he didn't make it. You said only one person could leave the arena. My name's Dave, I'm the first boss.*
**Jesus Christ, Dave. You defeated ... | I feel strange today. Something feels off. A sense of deja vu fills me like I've been here before a hundred or a thousand times, but at the same time, I feel that something is different.
I look around, trying to see what it is, but all four walls are fine. Wait. Four walls? There should only be three. Closing my... | 2016-05-21T20:38:34 | 2016-05-21T18:58:48 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] Im having a bad day, please cheer me up with stories of cats and dragons becoming friends please :) | Sivaduil's Cat
The great dragon lay curled up in the throne room on ten foot thick bed of wool. He was the fourth largest dragon in all of Vandrion and the most powerful. The other three had become drunk on power and were now on display in the night sky for any humans to see. Sivaduil laughed a bit at this prospect. T... | Eliora sat, lounged, laid upon her hoard of treasure, her stockpile of glittering gold and shimmering jewels, her priceless art and her uncountable treasures, her polished steel and shining gems. Eliora’s cavern of treasure, her lair of solitude, was the envy of the human kingdoms; she was the last of the living dragon... | 2017-03-24T10:32:30 | 2017-03-24T10:04:10 | 40 | 16 |
[WP] By some magic, you are granted the wish to become the best in the world at something. You are disappointed when you notice no change in your ability. The next day, however, you notice that all over the world, people are becoming worse at one very particular skill. | I thought it was a harmless wish.
But now everything's turned wrong.
Lucy no longer talks, nor does anyone else for that matter. She still understands me, or at least I think so from her slow nods and lifeless stares. At least Lucy's still active with her day job but in the end she, like everyone else, is only going ... | Andy slunk into class with his heart pounding, mouth dry from something more than his usual anxiety.
He looked at the people sitting all around him, and felt his excitement slip away. He didn't feel it - the need to tap one of them on the shoulder and start talking. The very thought still made his palms feel slick wi... | 2017-05-01T02:41:51 | 2017-04-30T23:42:53 | 1,800 | 46 |
[WP] An isolated group of NPCs live near the very edge of the generated worldmap where the accuracy of floating-point numbers start to degrade, full of strange geological formations and supernatural phenomena
based on a weird nightmare i had couple nights ago and old memories of minecraft | The town had been quiet ever since Adelaide's boy had clipped through the ground a few weeks ago, never to be seen again. Royce had led the settlers here several years ago after getting fed up with the constant violence of city life, but things had been undeniably harder since they'd arrived.
Royce had called a meetin... | "Psst, Ansu," hissed Kuklo.
The girl jumped. "Kuklo, you idiot! You scared me."
"Oh, you goblins are always so jittery," they boy replied, rolling his eyes.
"What are you even doing here?" she enquired, her nose crinkling up in annoyance. "Get back behind your stall before someone comes."
"Relax! No one's coming. A... | 2018-04-06T07:54:02 | 2018-04-06T07:09:36 | 1,021 | 52 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | We only had rumors of what existed before the walls.
Until the walls came down.
The President and his Holy Cabinet ordered an expedition. I was ready, I was trained for fighting, though since the Holy Order had been established, our land was finally under the one true rule of God, though many call him Uncle. His mes... | "All right mates, we don't know what is going on behind the lines where the walls formely stood so we got a lot of gear to make sure we don't die so check your equip to make sure it's in prime condition.Even a small crack can kill you if lady fortune isn't your best friend."
The reconnaissance leader told us to check ... | 2018-11-18T13:49:22 | 2018-11-18T09:56:54 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | Of course everyone hopes for magic. The ability to fly, shoot lightning from your fingertips or turn mountains to rubble. Who wouldn't prefer that to a sword or bow.
You received exactly what you needed, that's how it's always been. And however hard you wish for magic, when that sword you received is piercing the... | I am 18. I live in a world where people gain the ability to wreak mass destruction at the exact same time that they are able to give consent in a relationship. You may think, "Why does this happen? Why would this world of yours be seemingly explicitly designed just for the purpose of violence?" I would answer, "I have ... | 2019-02-28T22:47:55 | 2019-02-28T21:49:30 | 1,744 | 98 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | "To young to work, to old to learn. You are of no use to us here." The head smith scolded him.
Another unwilling to accept his potential and allow him to train under them. He had started out with grand ambitions. To find a dojo and become the greatest swordsman, to one day become the personal guard of the Shogun and t... | After escaping the Genie's temple, Rovif tested the limits of his immortality by throwing himself off the mountain. It seemed like the most direct route. Could he reach the base without hitting anything?
Odd. As it stretched out into minutes of silent free-fall, its sensation slowly became indistinguishable from soar... | 2019-06-07T08:17:04 | 2019-06-07T06:04:22 | 83 | 47 |
[WP] The whole town knows about it. The black shadow on the baby monitor. Sudden changed diapers or meals ready for kids when they get home. Cleaned rooms and drawn baths. It is known as The Babysitter. It will never harm a child, but heaven help those who don't pay for its services. | a coin on the table is a small price to pay
when you are busy working a very long day
the chores are done the clothes are clean
not a spec of dust in the house to be seen
the baby is fast asleep in his bed
all tucked in, sleeping and fed
ignore the shadow and ignore the sight
of the unknown creature that sheds n... | So I started responding to this prompt and ended up running with it for way longer than I expected. The story is going to be broken between a few comments.
Bill and Lisa Alderson sat with their arms around one another. Their loveseat was well worn, with fraying upholstery and faded plaid. Bill was hunched forwa... | 2020-04-14T19:37:13 | 2020-04-14T16:13:53 | 230 | 145 |
[WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans | "Why would you choose to speak possibly the most ridiculous language, what with its weird grammatical rules and phonetics, and where the exact same word can be read differently and have meanings worlds apart?"
"Why would *you* choose to speak possibly the most ridiculous language, what with its weird grammatical rules... | James takes his first steps on the red sand. It is cold, dry, barren. The desert stretches as far as the eye can see, and then farther, a blanket of wind-swept ruin. The ship hums as it powers down, but the desert is silent; the only sounds are the whispers of the wind.
Here, buried beneath the sand, are the last of t... | 2020-09-17T08:39:03 | 2020-09-17T07:33:07 | 1,085 | 246 |
[WP] You've been meowing at your idiot owner all freaking day, and he's just not listening, at all. It's become a test of endurance: Your patience, his willingness to ignore you, the ninja assassin's grip on the ceiling. | "MRAOU!"
"No, it's not time for dinner yet."
I know it's not time for dinner yet, that's not what I'm yelling about. Stupid humans, you never look UP! He's right there, and he could strike at any moment! I'm trying to help you, why won't you listen!?
"MRAOOU!"
"I know you're hungry, but you're always hungry."
I... | “He’s on the ceiling, you, idiot. I swear if you couldn’t open a can of tuna, I would have killed you myself by now. Look up, he’s waiting to drop onto you.” Meowth the orange tabby continued to meow at their owner, trying to get their attention. No matter how loud they meowed, the owner would only give them a sarcasti... | 2021-09-01T08:46:26 | 2021-09-01T07:04:20 | 1,661 | 172 |
[WP] You are the cities worst supervillian. Everytime you try to destroy the city you end up saving it from something/someone far more evil than yourself.
Your protaganist is not a goodguy trying to be bad, he just sucks at being evil. He is also hailed as the cities hero each time. | FREAK LANDSLIDE HALTS NOTORIOUS MURDERER
"What? Ha ha! The fools will soon know the genius of my plans - with the road blocked they will never escape.."
BEE POPULATION REBOUNDS, FARMS SAVED
"Damn, blast! Those were supposed to be killer bees, not honeybees! LACKEY! GET IN HERE! I need you to remove the body of your ... | “Son of a bitch!” I threw the newspaper onto the kitchen table and stood up fast enough to knock my chair over. The paper was still lying front page up, the top headline visible. “DR. MALICE CONTINUES TO PROVE REFORMATION,” It accused.
My wife came over gave me a gentle side-hug. She had been the one that brought me... | 2014-12-14T14:32:46 | 2014-12-14T14:25:39 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | "I just want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. You *don't* want an exorcism?"
Father John was thoroughly puzzled. First, when he'd arrived, the supposed violently possessed Amelia looked and acted completely normal. Strangely, she'd even introduced herself as Zzrgars. When Father John introduced himself as... | "Can't I just clock him? I really bloody want to." The girl holding the pan took a test swing in the hallway. Two kilos of lovely iron-reinforced teflon, with the added bonus of oil that hadn't quite cooled yet. It was dripping on the rug.
"No, Hal, Hal, hey. Hey!"
Mid-swing the pan changed direction and hit the ful... | 2017-10-10T04:53:12 | 2017-10-09T14:52:53 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Dear James,
I know I've already written countless letters to you. And I know you've got to be tired of hearing it by now, but I miss you something terrible. You haven't died or anything..you're not sick. In fact, you're perfectly fine, but you're perfectly fine a few hundred miles away and that's what hurts.
I had a g... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T21:28:23 | 1,462 | 74 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Dear James,
I know I've already written countless letters to you. And I know you've got to be tired of hearing it by now, but I miss you something terrible. You haven't died or anything..you're not sick. In fact, you're perfectly fine, but you're perfectly fine a few hundred miles away and that's what hurts.
I had a g... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T21:28:23 | 102 | 74 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | To my oldest friend,
It seems we have nothing much to say to each other when we meet. Our conversations are prompt and direct. We no longer share secrets or take an interest in the other's life.
It is a sullen and disheartening realization that we are not who we were ten, twenty years ago.
I miss the days of doin... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-05T23:46:31 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | Just as Donald was about to press the button that would trigger the bomb - the bomb that would level the FCC headquarters - he heard a voice.
Named for Donald Trump the First, Inaugurator of the Great American Monopoly, Donald had never heard English spoken with an accent anything like the one the voice carried:
"I... | It's January 19th, 2038. For years, Susan had been working in secret on her time machine. Her goal? Not to kill Hitler. Not to stop Trump. Not to meet Jesus. Her goal is to make it so she can watch Netflix and download games on Steam without having to pay an extra premium. A noble, but petty goal, all things considered... | 2017-11-21T23:28:33 | 2017-11-21T23:19:27 | 33 | 16 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | “How do you wanna do this?”
“I take my scythe, and like a badass I run down the Dragon’s back dragging it behind me.” Death replied standing on his feet in excitement.
The dm nods. “And with that you drag a mighty gash into back of the blue drake and land with a 3 point landing behind it as the dragon collapses wit... | I pant as I sprint across a smokey field of nothing, ball in hand, as a dark cloud chases after me. My legs felt heavy, and I was almost sure the endless, misty expanse around us was weighing me down. There was no way I could prove it though. Death was a clever one.
We'd been at it for over half an hour, and I was fee... | 2018-03-07T08:40:32 | 2018-03-07T08:20:44 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | Today’s the day, Carl is coming over... you’ve been stood at the door for 3 days now just charging, waiting for him to arrive. He called you up and made the plans; it’s going to be radical.
The time draws ever closer; you know he’s doing the same thing. Excitement builds in the pit of your stomach as the clock strike... | It was a stupid dare. I could see that now. They say hindsight is 20/20, it's just a shame that foresight is legally blind. So Jimmy Bubkins had gotten the best of me again. It stung, I'm big enough to admit that. Of course, the realization of my own folly didn't do a whole lot to resolve the problem of my present circ... | 2018-10-02T17:03:01 | 2018-10-02T15:28:41 | 514 | 127 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | As the prophecy foretold, the child of destiny rose to power! Not as a Dark Lord, but a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love her and despair!
She was the the undisputed ruler of the Empire of Light, the Shield ag... | It was early in the morning, I could hear the birds chirping. I opened my eyes just a little only to see my little girl Jessy there. I was happy to see her until I realized she was holding a knife. That was the 5th time this week she has woke me up like this. I wish we would have kept her brother. We noticed from a you... | 2020-05-07T08:33:44 | 2020-05-07T08:18:26 | 98 | 17 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | The three men stared at an array of eight solid steel doors. They heard a faint scraping against door number four, and a low gutteral screech.
"I presume this is the one?" asked the tall thin man. His two companions nodded silently.
"Open it." The tall thin man's companions exchanged nervous glances and one of them... | Towards the end of her long and mysterious life, the Seer of Misty Mountain was rarely seen. Those that sought her wisdom had to undertake the tiresome trek to her mountain home, bearing with them drink or livestock or some curious rarity as payment for her services. Though no trip was in vain-- the milky white third e... | 2020-05-07T09:18:35 | 2020-05-07T08:59:43 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] "Not as accurate or far-shooting as an elven bow," said the Human smith to the dwarf. "But easy to hide, and the wounds will take three healers to mend." He sets the crude pistol on the bargaining table. | The Dwarf's bushy black eyebrows knit together as he looked over the pistol that Fredrick had sat down. The weapon was single barrel with a two tone of solid wood and black steel with little adornment along the frame. It was piece of metal stuck to wood with a few parts that governed the firing mechanism. Fredrick beam... | **It’s Gotta Be a Hammer**
By: SheepingtonTheSheep
“It’s not as accurate or far-shooting as an elven bow,” said Tarmund to his first customer of the day—a wealthy, red bearded dwarf named Kroin. “But it’s easy to hide, and the wounds will take three healers to mend.” He set down the crude pistol on the bargaining tab... | 2020-09-23T09:14:21 | 2020-09-23T09:00:30 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] Finally the Josh War is over, you are so happy that you are alive but also you’re disappointed at same time. You come home to see your parents and other family members. You can see their confusion face. The first question from your mom, asking— “Who are you?” | [Voiceover link](https://vocaroo.com/1lknNCHLbF0E)
I have become Death, Destroyer of Josh.
"I'm your son, mom. Josh? Remember?" I said with a smirk which slowly faded as I saw the horror on my Mom's face.
"What's a Josh?" she asked in her work voice. "Will you please leave before I call the police?"
Yes, dreams are... | I'd been limping home for the past three days, nameless and bloodied from my time on the battlefield. I'd been one of the lucky few to avoid clashing with Little Josh near the end of the fight when he'd stopped playing nice.
The Josh that had driven me to the fight was dead, left dying on the Nebraska grass, but I'd m... | 2021-04-24T22:53:18 | 2021-04-24T21:50:25 | 1,132 | 204 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | Ultraman listened with a slight smile as Über Destructo Gigadeath ranted about his last evil scheme that would see all ice cream flavours turn to licorice.
It was, to be fair, one of the eviler schemes the young man had come up with.
Licorice. Brr.
Anyway, Destructo was perhaps the most harmless of villains in Centr... | "We can make this work I know it" The Narrator muttered.
The world watched in horror as the once fastest being alive, The Streak, had her skin split open, muscles stripped from bone, and forgotten as her skeleton escaped it's confinement. A single hand reaching forward in futility hoping to apply the pressure of pure ... | 2022-10-13T20:53:30 | 2022-10-13T18:57:19 | 167 | 72 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | 16 years, 16 years of waiting and dreaming of the power I would get. In a million years I could never have imagined this. My class from high school has powers like flight, invisibility, ability to cure illness. What do I get? What is the pay off of all that dreaming and waiting? When I make a gun with my fingers the... | Markus was ready. On a child's sixteenth birthday, they were given one Opportunity to receive a Gift from Above. Every Gift was more or less unique, and a Gift could be as simple as defiance of gravity or a more complex one like flowing through solid substances. The Gift of predicting weather was rumored to take great ... | 2015-01-21T23:50:44 | 2015-01-21T22:48:58 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | ...the ability to craft a lovely cup of tea from any matter available was surely too powerful for any mere mortal to handle.
With great duty and knowing such power could have unparalleled consequence were I unable to contain it I decided for the sake of mankind to keep it to myself, to say I was spared the mutation. ... | Dear Journal:
I turn sixteen in 2 minutes and 27 seconds. I know because I've been awake all night counting the seconds to midnight. Tonight is special and you know why? At midnight I finally Change! I've waited forever but now I finally get a power like everyone else. What do you think it will be, Journal? Will I get... | 2015-01-22T02:28:54 | 2015-01-21T22:26:31 | 22 | 10 |
[WP]Upon reaching the age of 12 every kid gets an spirit animal that reflects their personality. | Personality was important in this world. It ended up affecting your status in society, your job, your partners. Dogs would often end up as police officers, parrots as talk show hosts, seagulls as fishermen or naval crew. The alpacas of the world often ended up as psychopaths, which was a rather strange trait. Most peop... | My sister has a crane, one of those beautiful white, black, and red ones. She’s in college now and struts around with it everywhere. Mom and dad said something about it representing strength and loyalty. She’s always working hard, so I guess that’s the strength? I dunno. I suppose I’m expected to be something similar o... | 2015-07-17T16:11:08 | 2015-07-17T15:52:34 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] You're 80 years old and time travel is possible. You sit down for dinner with earlier versions of yourself at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Conversation ensues. | Ten speaks up. "So, you are all older me's?"
Everyone looks to Eighty and she nods. "We finally did it."
Forty through Seventy gasp and relax, a life's work fulfilled. Thirty looks eager but unsure. Twenty doesn't know what is going on.
"We did it, we really did it!" Says Sixty.
"It wasn't easy, but it was wort... | "Oohoohoo. I was quite good looking back in the day." My eye sight may not be as sharp but I can make out my younger selves sitting around poorly made, diy coffee table. "Ah, you guys made me so much more! The culmination of all your experiences and it is me! Though, I am much more achy." A huge laugh bellows, I try to... | 2016-08-24T20:24:43 | 2016-08-24T18:27:02 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | The sounds and smells of New York assaulted John's senses. After being gone from the city for 10 years, he still love/hated the smell of New York City in the summer. It was dark on the street. Darker than a street should seem. Looking up he noticed the lights had been busted out on the light pole.
He heard a soft *Jo... | Theme Music: to U by Jack U
The phone clicked dead; Amy’s final words echoed in Sebastian’s mind like the ripples from a water drop. She had every right to want to end things – his disappearances, while random were a constant sore spot between them. What was he up to? Why couldn’t he talk about it? And why did it alw... | 2017-03-22T17:37:31 | 2017-03-22T17:17:28 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | The sounds and smells of New York assaulted John's senses. After being gone from the city for 10 years, he still love/hated the smell of New York City in the summer. It was dark on the street. Darker than a street should seem. Looking up he noticed the lights had been busted out on the light pole.
He heard a soft *Jo... | There were coke packets on shelves. I'd materialized again. The coke warehouse was filled with Colombian guards. The warehouse was in a rain forest, and the sound of tropical insects was deafening.
I saw Anna, and wondered how the hell she got here. She was trapped right at the back of the warehouse, and was about to ... | 2017-03-22T17:37:31 | 2017-03-22T16:16:19 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | I sat at my desk, lazily gazing at the television. Listening to the screaming of innocent civilians. Can't really sympathise with them, I'd become too desensitised to these sorts of things. But, as the second one began to fall over, I realised that I should probably do something. So I turned to the only man who knew wh... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T14:19:18 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | God, I'm tired. It feels like this shift just never ends.
One of the puppies stirred from sleep. I picked up the clipboard containing its sleep log. Another effort in futility, as the pup decided naptime wasn't quite over yet. With a sigh, I put down the clipboard. No surprise this little half-breed ball of mongrel f... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T15:56:19 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] In the Order of the Magi, military ranks are gained and lost in duels. Being a Battlemaster, Damien is challenged hundreds of times a day by ambitious young recruits. He decides today to accept one challenge at random and show the recruits what a Battlemaster can do.
Order of Magi is totally not a name I chose ju... | My door was plastered in notes of challenge. The wood had been covered in a coat of hastily scrawled letters as thick as the door itself. As soon as I touched the handle of the door, dozens of taunts and wagers tumbled off of the pile and fluttered down to the ground.
The first few inches of my office had a welcome ma... | Damien peered out his office window at the mob of students plotting to kill him. His raven Tur cawed loudly at him.
"Of course I'm going to go out there," Damien answered. "We go through this every semester."
Tur hopped down from her perch, landing with a rustle of feathers on his desk. She flared her wings at him an... | 2017-09-05T11:45:40 | 2017-09-05T11:39:45 | 218 | 32 |
[WP] Everyone hates Stan. However, you are the new guy and no one will tell you why they hate Stan. You decide to talk to Stan. Its been 3 months and now you're telling the new guy why everyone hates Stan. | I hate Stan for 1 reason. The first month I tried getting to know him. I wondered what the harm could be. Sam is a unique kind of guy, not because of his appearance, but for the fact he loved wolves. A lot. He had wolf bed sheets, wolf pictures, and those cheap wolf t-shirt’s you’d find at a craft fair at that one boo... | Being an Avenger (no, not that kind) gets boring sometimes. I’ve learned, the best way to have fun at a job where the only fun part is hunting to consume the most unworthy of souls on Earth, is to talk shit. I got good at that recently. But mainly because my other demonic friends in my department taught me.
Like, I d... | 2019-03-13T21:38:57 | 2019-03-13T21:19:21 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] You are an evil overlord. You finally managed to capture your arch nemesis in your pit of despair, where (s)he will be held captive for thousands of years. After some years, your taunting becomes conversation, and, wow, he/she's a real likeable person. | "This is the last light you will ever see," I say, smiling.
The hero, my rival, was sitting in front of me in an unbreakable steel box. A small window was on the front. Inside, the hero was shackled to iron posts on the wall.
I press a green button and the box begins to lower down into the pit.
"Hey! Wait! Please!... | Smell of the fruits always gives me the unique satisfaction before I torture my enemies. That’s why my soldiers always brings me the most exotic fruits throughout the galaxy. Today is going to be a great day....
As I sit on my throne and I look down on this little human, I smile and I grab a bite from the purple fruit... | 2019-04-15T10:54:20 | 2019-04-15T09:22:57 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | "As you know, we are currently constructing you a replacement body. But in return for your silence on our existence, we wanted to know if there was anything you wanted changed."
I started crying. The alien, an eerily bland human-looking being which I figured must be some sort of hologram or costume, leaned forward in ... | "Dead? I'm dead? How the hell am I here then? " I was standing in some sort of room, it looked like a doctors waiting room, but it was ultra clean and perfect, like some kind of simulation. It just looked a little bit too plastic and shiny. In front of me was the most perfect looking human I'd ever seen. She was flawle... | 2019-10-28T12:38:43 | 2019-10-28T12:30:59 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a galactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed."
Honestly I didn't k... | "Dead? I'm dead? How the hell am I here then? " I was standing in some sort of room, it looked like a doctors waiting room, but it was ultra clean and perfect, like some kind of simulation. It just looked a little bit too plastic and shiny. In front of me was the most perfect looking human I'd ever seen. She was flawle... | 2019-10-28T13:39:18 | 2019-10-28T12:30:59 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] As an act of desperation, you applied to every college on the list. Sifting through the apologetic rejections, a pure black envelope catches your eye. The letters on it glow crimson red, charcoal-colored smoke wafts from the pages... | \[PART 1/3\]
*As the Dark Lord of the Darklands, it is with great pleasure to congratulate you on being noticed by us. We only recognize the worst and the darkest for our menacing academy. Hence, we cordially invite Reynauld Stormhammer, son of Alfric Stormhammer and Relya Quickquiver, to Calamity University.*
*If ac... | ...
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> 2. occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
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He was always told that the mountains he carried were meant to be climb... | 2021-02-03T10:53:25 | 2021-02-03T09:13:29 | 316 | 16 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | I stared at him, his words being weighed in my mind. I did not understand humor very well, but even so I was reasonably certain that he was not making a joke. With years of practice, I could now recognize the subtle body language and tones a person used when using humor. The newly crowned King Dervin was not joking.
"... | Badly fails the "show, don't tell" rule, but it would be too long otherwise.
Since I was a child, I had dreamt of being a soldier. Sure, every young boy used sticks as swords and dualed. But I would watch the guards and fake drill. My mother was pleased that my bed was always made, my room always clean, and my clo... | 2021-02-28T07:33:39 | 2021-02-28T07:14:17 | 65 | 40 |
[WP] After you die, you reach purgatory to be seated in an audience of all human souls. God and Satan announce their retirement and are individually interviewing all humans present to choose their replacement. Most people want to replace God, you want to replace Satan. | There were two lines, or supposed to be two lines.
I saw a lot of people lining for one of the lines.
The other line was really empty.
Why would anyone waste their time lining up on one line while the other was just ... empty?
I walked towards the empty line. It was only logical.
"Oh hello there, have a seat," a ... | # The Cracks In Their Souls
(Part 3: That's How They Fall Apart)
(Note: The Cracks In Their Souls is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Jamie walked through the Golden Gates, not quite sure what to expect.** If this was heaven, would he be able ... | 2021-03-31T09:22:35 | 2021-03-31T07:55:35 | 78 | 36 |
[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness. | "What if they invite you to a banquet?"
"I'll nod politely, eat, drink and refuse to give any information."
The instructor nodded. "What about parties?"
"Is this really relevant? I don’t –"
"Parties are a *huge* part of how the enemy gets information out of you, agent! They'll throw amazing black tie
parties just ... | **The drip of water echoed like gunshots.**
Blindfolded and bruised, Luce tried squash the fear that threatened to grab hold of her stomach, and fling it out of her throat.
Her wrists and her legs were bound tight enough to make her limbs numb. To her left and right, she could make out the sounds of at least two oth... | 2016-04-13T06:42:59 | 2016-04-13T06:29:55 | 230 | 68 |
[WP] Two magicians made a blood oath when they were children that they would never harm each other. Now they are mortal enemies and have resorted to inconveniencing and annoying each other, knowing if they harm one another they'll die. | It really began on a blood sunset, where the two boys had found their way to the Stone Hill and sat on the Infinity Circle. It was a well chosen time and place, planned, deliberated and not one for the faint of heart. It was before either of them were fully fledged magicians, right at the beginning of their learning wh... | "Quiet down! This emergency session of the Twenty-First Council of Westcantor is called to order!" The crowd barely noticed the Grand Magister. Indeed, the babble was beginning to rise into a dull roar.
The Grand Magister gave an exasperated sigh and quietly mumbled a spell under his breath.
"**SILENCE!**" His signi... | 2017-06-01T12:13:24 | 2017-06-01T11:51:31 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] The first generation of wizards inherits from their parents’ professions. For example, a child of a chef and a swimmer wields fire and water spells. You possess something interesting. | It wasn't any profession. I think people tend to oversimplify it. For example, they think a child born from a swimmer and a firefighter might wield steam. It's subtle and like hair color can vary for each child.
Take for example my neighbor Hana. Her father worked at a nuclear power plant and her mother was a teacher... | "Another beautiful day in sunny St. Thomas, we have been blessed again with another wonderful Summer!" roared the television.
Cathy chopped a fresh carrot from her garden and slid it into her salad bowl.
"And this is Stan the Weatherman, signing off—"
"Let the blessed sun, shin on," Cathy said with the weatherman, ... | 2018-04-15T11:58:49 | 2018-04-15T10:00:49 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] The world is an MMORPG, and high leveled players can hide their true level and make it a lower one. A bunch of Level 80 people bully your Level 39 persona, but you’re actually a level 325 in disguise. | When "The Quests of Altimer: Online" was first released the world paid it little mind. Oh, ANOTHER fantasy online multiplayer role playing game? Yawn! Been there, done that!
But there was something different about this one. For a one time registration fee you could play free (barring internet and hardware costs) forev... | "I said, *all of your items*," the big one told me. One hand was on my shoulder, the other held a knife, aimed directly at my chest. Typical bullies.
The one holding the halberd spoke up, "I don't like it, dude."
"What're you bitching about, Greyson?" asked the one in the back dismissively.
"Think about it, Jean... | 2018-07-29T15:22:30 | 2018-07-29T13:20:16 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | The Choice was made known to the world by those who had died but were revived. They all told the same story; when you died, you could choose either Heaven or Hell. Knowledge of The Choice changed the world, but not for the better. What did it matter what you did in life if you could just choose where you went in the en... | "Wait so you mean I literally get to pick?" I said to St. Peter at the immaculately kept gates. The gold would make a tacky American oligarch hard enough to cut it. "No, yeah so ever since God invented opiates.. things have gone.. downhill..", he replied while eyeballing the ground. "So is it even worth picking heaven?... | 2018-08-13T09:16:06 | 2018-08-13T06:40:49 | 341 | 54 |
[WP] Your Italian restaurant is frequented by the mafia, and for some reason they think you're a front for someone powerful. You aren't, but you still like to mess with them. | I'm not even Italian, that's the funny thing. I opened this place on a dare, more of a joke than anything else. *A Korean could never open up an Italian Restaurant*, they'd said.
Joke's on them. And these goons that have been coming here, sitting in the same booth for the last three years.
I mean, I named the place... | “Are you sure this is a good idea boss?” Jonny said as sweat beaded on his forehead. “It’s worked for this long. I’m telling you kid, just go out there and serve them. They’re more civil then you think. Just for the love of god don’t spill any wine on them or I’ll have to replace you too.” Tonee said to the new waiter.... | 2020-10-12T09:54:00 | 2020-10-12T06:57:13 | 564 | 159 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | Crime was at an all time low in the city of New Angeles. Come to think of it, so was tourism and GDP.
Some people credited this to the genius of *Genetevolve Labs* and their breakthroughs in affordable human enhancements. Although, not everyone was pleased with the results. After a session of copying and splicing... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T11:53:14 | 243 | 81 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 243 | 16 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | "Check the equipment again."
"Diagnostics say it's working normally."
"Then wha-"
A voice filled the lab, echoing around the room. "OH. SORRY GUYS, MY BAD."
"Rogers, stop messing with the inter-"
"THIS IS GOD. UH... THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, SORRY."
The man rubbed his eyes. He'd gone for quite a while witho... | "That's just remarkable! Truly astounding!"
Mr. Hader watched the video in awe, and Nathan just stood next to him, and found himself unable to stop a huge grin spreading on his face. He was gleaming with pride.
After all his hard work and dedication, he'd *finally* completed it! A 500,000 frame per second video camer... | 2015-02-06T14:27:58 | 2015-02-06T14:04:46 | 366 | 28 |
[WP] "What do you mean the robbers ADDED $4,000,000 to the vault?" | This is it. I can't recover from this. As a campaign manager you do everything in your power to write a narrative that the people can relate to.
Months and months grinding to finally get traction as a man of the people fighting against corporate influence in politics and now this. How are we going to explain this $4... | "It was a--- forceful deposit."
Ben spent the better half of the last hour trying to come up with an explanation. An excuse. Some careful analysis that would have unveiled the mystery. This was the best he could come up with.
"A forceful deposit," the chairman repeated.
"Right. They drove up to our bank, demanded... | 2016-02-24T12:57:22 | 2016-02-24T12:38:33 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "Well I'll be damned....." Captain Aldo whistled softly as his team approached the abandoned vehicle. He had seen the images from the Mars rover but did not truly believe it until now. The machine bore the symbol of Communist Russia, standing alone in defiance of a world which destroyed all life. It would seem, he woul... | Colonel Anderson kneeled down in front of a broken pole and wiped away some orange dust off the ground, revealing a tattered piece of crimson cloth stuck under a rock. Dragging it out of its resting place, the Colonel tore it in half, showing the two men behind him a symbol of a gold hammer and sickle beneath a gold-bo... | 2016-08-16T09:25:16 | 2016-08-16T08:14:02 | 441 | 86 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | When I was told my team would be the first to land on Mars, excitement welled within me. 'Pioneers', they called us; and really, how many people can call themselves pioneers? It's exciting. It's scary. It's... unlike anything else.
And yet, as I stood and looked across an expanse of nothing but reddish brown sand and... | "Jackson, do you copy? I repeat do you copy?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm here, keep your panties on, Tex." Commander Tripp Jackson said as he fiddled with the radio controls on his wrist computer. "What do you want?"
"I'm getting some strange readings coming from the northeast. Possibly from that crater up over that ridge, ... | 2016-08-16T10:03:13 | 2016-08-16T09:37:23 | 139 | 69 |
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