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[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | The historian reclined, a peculiar look in his eyes. His students inched forward in their chairs, as curious as ever. It was unusual for someone to be so unwilling to discuss their soul object - unless they had something to hide. Whipers and rumors had run the gambit since the recluse had been hired the semester prior,... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T09:06:02 | 123 | 49 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | Dear Violet
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you how I felt about you. I was always nervous when it came to girls, you of all people should remember that.
I'm sorry I didn't hang out with you more. I always thought I would have time later, but I never made time for it.
I'm sorry I didn't dance with you at prom. I... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T15:49:55 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Earth's representative took the podium at a convention of all galactic leaders. Everyone expected unconditional surrender and from the looks of the old man in a white coat with a defeated expression that is what they were about to get.
"I want everyone to know that I am deeply saddened by what I am about to say.
Whe... | "Rules for war?" The answer was slow and methodical as the general stood on the bridge. His scaled skin shuddering in disgust. "War has no rules. Perhaps it is time we show these humans just what a superior race looks like. Yes, We shall enslave them."
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Invasion Day 1 Hour 1
The humans fell in droves, ma... | 2018-12-14T21:32:21 | 2018-12-14T16:40:15 | 681 | 214 |
[WP] A child makes a wish that no-one will hurt anyone else ever again. The next morning the world’s press is reporting that astoundingly, people’s attackers seem to be mysteriously dying or hurt mid conflict. Apparently now any injury you try to inflict upon someone else will instead happen to you. | Today I retire. Not because I have put in decades of dedicated service after years of formal education and not because I've won some sort of lottery; No, nothing as sweet as that.
No one knows why, but about a year ago all of humanity found itself unable to inflict pain upon others. If anyone tried to harm another ... | Rex was a hit-man. He wasn't a particularly good one, mind you, but a hit-man none the less. While those within the same profession relied on stealth, Rex used the tried and true *"run and gun"* tactic.
The big oaf of a man burst through doors and fired at anything and everything that dared move. Often times he'd end ... | 2018-03-30T05:10:07 | 2018-03-30T03:38:39 | 237 | 28 |
[WP] Satan was at a loss for words. He checked his book several times, but none of your sins matched up with the punishments in the 9 circles of Hell. It was then that he decided that there should be a 10th circle dug out just for people who broke the mold like you did. | "Hmmm..."
The devil looked up from his iPad. His long fingers halting the incessant tapping on the screen, he had been typing for hours.
"This, is unusual. Normally we get very easy sins. Cheating on one's spouse, murder, being fat or rich. All of those are easy."
He stands. The devil seems, TALL. The room isn't any... | "I lived my entire life for this moment. The things I did, the crimes I committed. The countless atrocities just for this one singular moment." I said with a smile.
I was currently in ragged clothes in chains as I stared at the face of what many on Earth feared.
That twisted face of evil gazed at me with, disgust.
I... | 2020-10-28T00:59:03 | 2020-10-27T21:55:14 | 101 | 23 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | *Stewie has two wings and a gentle voice. He knows about all the plants and animals of the world and wishes only for peace among the Earth's creatures.*
...That's all the intel I'd gathered.
I'm very much opposed to the idea of some *thing* whispering in my daughter's ear, telling her things I'll never be privy to. ... | # Soulmage
**When life gave you demons, you made demonade.** After a Demon of Empathy had inflicted half of the students of the Silent Academy for Witches with visions of power and offers of deals, Witch Aimes took it upon herself to turn the entire experience into a teachable lesson. She was, after all, my tutor at t... | 2022-06-01T08:31:57 | 2022-06-01T07:14:30 | 289 | 101 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | *This is my first time responding to a prompt because this one just looks so fucking cool. So, without further ado, here goes:*
Day 1: The tattoos appeared. It was a normal day for everyone, except we woke up with a tattoo on our dominant arm. It was just our names; nothing more, nothing less. Of course, the internet ... | *Your turn, meat.*
I heard those dreaded words and felt a knot form in my stomach. The imposing Knight had singled me out. He had singled me out instead of any other student. I wasn’t a match for this guy and I knew it. He was a level ten Knight and I was just a level five Magus. I barely knew more than a handful of s... | 2015-07-14T01:01:26 | 2015-07-13T22:13:14 | 23 | 15 |
[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... | What's she doing here? Why is she at my place? Who attacked her? And who the hell could do THIS much damage to her. I've never seen Terra like this. Shes been able to withstand a tank cannons, micro-nukes, plasma guns, and me. Who did this? I drag her to my couch and close my door. If anyone saw this I wouldn't be able... | 2019-08-04T04:39:57 | 2019-08-04T02:18:55 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] "How is the E.A.R.T.H. project going?" "It is mostly a success with 68 of the 100 planet developing life, 12 of which are inhabited by intelligent races. Most of the planets are safe, but the planet S-3 is inhabited by a relatively advanced "peaceful" war-race." | E.A.R.T.H. truly was an ambitious project. An entire galaxy in a black hole; a black hole they had created. It was astounding what was capable of existing in so infinitesimally small a space. Truly, he barely understood it. He doubted that even those who had created it truly grasped what they had made, or how they had ... | God nodded in approval at his son. "You are doing well, Ecari. Just beware with that advanced war-race. They might seem peaceful right now, but I'd had to deal with those sort of species in the past. You blink once, a hundred years go by in their world and, before you know it, they conquered the cosmos."
Ecari huffed ... | 2018-09-06T06:47:29 | 2018-09-06T06:21:36 | 1,932 | 210 |
[WP] You can't help but stare at your husband. He's standing in the kitchen making dinner, like he always does. He smiles at you like he always does. Problem is, you killed your husband. Three years ago. | I’m not sure why it started. For a long time, I thought it was some kind of fucked-up coping mechanism my brain dreamed up after the accident. It’s amazing how the human mind handles trauma. Rationalization. Repression. Disassociation. This is something…different.
I’ve been to therapy. Or, through therapy. With... | No authority, religious, political or otherwise, in the history of the world has condoned murder among its adherents. Perpetrators are sought, actions atoned for, and vengeance made communal. But sometimes murder is the only just and righteous outcome of an equation whose variables were fixed long before the birth of t... | 2022-02-22T14:14:01 | 2022-02-22T13:41:54 | 68 | 39 |
[WP] You have the ability to enter the worlds of any book you please. The only catch is that you have to die in the book world in order to escape back to reality. You have just entered a popular children's book by accident and need to find a way to get out. | A told B and B told Me, “I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree”
“Whee,” said D to E, F, G,
“Oh dear god” Said poor old Me.
Chicka Chikca Boom Boom will there be enough room?
Here comes H up the coconut tree.
And I and J and “I can’t stand K.”
-All on their way up the coconut tree. Chicka Chicka Boom ... | *Mr. Pine's Purple House* of all the books to get trapped inside of, **Mr Pine's purple house**. I had to die, I needed to escape the book, but nothing I could think of worked. The paint was unleaded, so drinking it just made me too sick to continue, I tried cutting a branch off of Mr. Pine's trees and stabbing mysel... | 2015-09-17T17:02:21 | 2015-09-17T16:36:37 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] Aliens have realized humans advance more quickly during times of conflict, and have tried to push humanity into wars to see what happens. However, that changes when they start WW2 and humans harness the power of the atom. | \--Initiating boot sequence--
\--Loading Instance: 'Earth, Year 11,945.597'---
The display flickered to life around him. Bodies lay strewn around the battlefields, scorched husks of blown-out tanks lay abandoned.
"Estimated agent loss?"
Over the battlefields, millions of tiny motes of light lifted from the bodies, ... | Expectations were high among The Eternals, time was not significant to them, but they felt tired, what could make this new attempt special anyway?
An eternity ago there was no Eternals, but a unique Eternal. It decided to create replicas of itself to have more opportunities to make improvements and achieve its ultimat... | 2018-11-27T15:55:08 | 2018-11-27T15:03:15 | 144 | 24 |
[WP] You are cursed and turned into a statue. Everyone knows you're alive but, seeing as no one could break your curse, of they have all pretty much given up on you. Except for one wizard, who comes back nearly every day to try and free you, as well as holding one-sided conversations. | "But enough about me," she said with a chuckle. "Tell me about your day?"
It wasn't funny the tenth time either.
"I'm just messing with you," she said with a grin, patting me on the shoulder. I didn't really "feel" it, but I knew it was happening. "Do you think I should ask him out? He's very smart. Maybe he can hel... | **Heavy Hearted**
I may be stone, but I feel with every part of my being.
I feel the rays of the morning radiate a gentle warmth across my rigid body. I feel the icy blasts of the winter wind as they are channelled through the narrow cobble streets surrounding me. I feel joy at the sight of children playing, enraptu... | 2020-02-11T00:07:21 | 2020-02-10T23:28:56 | 1,413 | 261 |
[WP] Death is a highly complicated and bureaucratic process | Mark hoped to see the light as darkness fell over him.
But instead, he arrived in a hall. It wasn't bright, but it wasn't dark either. It all looked very *normal*. And in front of him was a line, a line that stretched and meandered throughout the hall that seemed to expand itself the further he tried to look.
"Well, ... | The room was stifling. You stand there confused. It seems to be some kind of government office, in a strip mall? You turn and look outside, in front if you is a wall of windows yellow with age and overlooking a parking lot, there is a yellow cast to the air and overcast sky. You try one of the doors it moves a little b... | 2017-09-27T06:16:34 | 2017-09-27T05:19:30 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] You seem to really be hitting off with a new friend. In the course of casual conversation, a sense of unease begins to creep in as you slowly realized that the two of you share all the same opinions. Every. Single. One. | "So what do you think about up and coming signing, Salah?" I asked.
 
"Oh, I feel that he would be an instant hit with the supporters, given his electrifying pace and cool finishing," he replied.
 
"Mmm same. Then how about the van dijk saga? He was pretty close to signing for us, it's a shame re... | Which I completely ignored-and tried to force myself to forget about-the effects of for years and years and years. How naive I turned out to be...
You know that saying, "opposites attract?" For me it was opposite-that is, the more views I found out we shared in common the more I got attracted to her. You could call th... | 2017-06-17T23:36:12 | 2017-06-17T22:10:45 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] Kidnapped by an alien scout party, you are taken back to their ship. Aware your answers will be used to assist in their invasion, you try to lie but fail. They are somehow forcing you to speak the truth, so you do the only thing you can: Tell the truth in as disturbing a manner as possible... | "So, tell me," the Commander said, "what are humans vulnerable to? How can we hurt and dishearten them?"
I took a deep breath, and swallowed. "That depends, really."
"How so?" I could hear the sneer, even if I couldn't see it.
"Well, we're vulnerable to radiation, for one. It can burn and disfigure us. But many of u... | Tied to a metal bed they began asking me the questions
"What sort of weapons does your planet have, and what should we expect when we invade?"
I know I can't tell a lie, so I have to try and scare them
"We have nukes. Powerful enough to destroy entire planets, strong enough to completely vaporize bodies leaving no t... | 2018-10-14T06:07:24 | 2018-10-13T21:25:18 | 54 | 31 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | Arch-Minister General Gxokloii of the Tni'il laughed at the pitiful demonstrations of earthly weapons. The earth diplomat stood by quietly, observing the chaos from the stellar embassy bay window. The general loomed over him, his translucent scales fluttered flushed in bold reds and yellows. "Are you telling me that in... | The human and Q'la ambassador sat across each other at the great stone table. Both waited in silence for the other to show their hand, to break first. Ambassador Smithson mustache twitched. Ambassador Quklukgukguk's single shining eyeball drooped a sticky liquid. Well... 'his' name was not Quklukgukguk, but Ambassador... | 2016-01-01T20:28:08 | 2016-01-01T16:31:24 | 57 | 30 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | Our 49,997th anniversary is tomorrow and I can't wait! We were running out of stuff to do on our anniversaries up until a few thousand years ago, space travel has really opened a whole new world, or really worlds, of opportunities for us. Maybe a moonslit walk on the shoreline continents of Mk-314, or we could even go ... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T14:54:17 | 149 | 10 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | *Well that was a bust...*
**C'mon. I know you really liked her.**
*I mean I did but...I guess she didn't feel the same. Seems like that's been happening a lot lately.*
**You'll find someone. I know your heart. You're too good to be single forever.**
*Yeah, okay. No offense but I don't know how much that's worth com... | "Turn around... Please."
I stumble forward, desperate to escape my insanity.
The pills were working. They were working. Their not working.
"Please! Stop!"
The desperation in her voice halts me. I know that feeling. I know what its like to be desperate. A clawing, yearning, all consuming desperation.
Desperate for a... | 2019-09-14T13:20:46 | 2019-09-14T12:09:41 | 45 | 32 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Part 1 of 2
“ Well shit,” I mumbled. Here I am bound and gagged when the fiery pentagram appeared before us.
Silver-fisher and Dawnstar had radioed for a pickup when literally all hell broke loose. From a portal made of fire swarmed a million scream ghastly skulls. “Shit shit,” I panicked. These two barely passed, and... | When you think of supervillains, you think of those that can break a man's back with ease, take hold of a city with a diabolical genius plan, slaughter people in the blink of an eye with their powers, and so on; I am that but at the same time I am not that. Many are given to believe that I'm just some ex-assassin who i... | 2021-06-23T11:09:52 | 2021-06-23T10:26:18 | 330 | 54 |
[WP] Satan ironically enjoys the multitude of letters from dyslexic children during the holidays.
Had to put it here after imagining a scene after reading a certain r/showerthoughts thread. | Satan looked over the latest letter, one of the hundreds he was working his way through.
*Deir Satan*
*For Cnrisnas mai I pelase heva a puppy, su that I heva smoetnhing to hug at nihgt*
*Bruec Jnoes*
It was a short one, and he re-read it several times. A cruel grin spread across his face, as he realised that this ... | Satan, the great deceiver, the devil, Santa signed his name. Christmas has started as a bit of side project of his. A poke there an a push there and it turned out it wasn't hard at all to get them to create a new holiday. After that it was just a matter of waiting. That old fool hadn't even realized what was going on ... | 2014-11-23T12:34:03 | 2014-11-23T11:03:07 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] The use of human soldiers stopped with the rise combat droids. To make them effective the memory engrams of veterans were imprinted onto them. However one droid outperformed the others and went rogue. The military and the droid seek the veteran they used to imprint to understand what went wrong | Mr. Matthews was a slobbering mess of the trained killer he used to be. Sixty years ago, he was one of the top soldiers of the military, but now, he was just another old man withering away in a nursing home.
"He's doesn't appear to be all there, sir," a young man dressed in green fatigues spoke into his phone. "He wo... | “What are you not telling me, Penn?”
He didn’t answer.
“Why does that machine not know its purpose? It told me it is waiting for its time but that it doesn’t know what that means. There is another layer to this.”
Penn stared out his window, slowly removing his cigar from his mouth, thick smoke rolling ou... | 2022-08-11T22:42:35 | 2022-08-11T22:23:53 | 1,825 | 80 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | !.ERROR.!
The word had always perplexed Theodore. What was it supposed to mean? Why was he the only one that seemed to not have a predetermined fate? Through the years he had learned to mostly ignore these questions, but they still haunted him when his head hit the pillow every night. It had been hard for Theodore to ... | The tall thin man walked to the podium and opened an ornate book and began reading, "In a place called the United Kingdom a clever man created an amazing watch which could tell you the day and time of your death. He sold his amazing watches to the people and they were glad. Some became angry but died soon after."
"T... | 2014-09-30T10:22:14 | 2014-09-30T09:31:58 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] For decades, humans have been using a mineral mined off-planet that accelerates healing. Today you discover the truth: it’s not a mineral, but a parasitic alien spore. The more damage your body sustains, the more it replaces your damaged DNA with its own. | "But to what end?!" I gasped, horrified.
Even as I spoke, I could feel my very bones *grasping* as the deep broken pieces in my hands *grew* into place. I shuddered.
Doctor Sanhe casually tossed the large, glittering crystal back into a basket. "They're powerful and intelligent, but they're also crystals. Nothing we ... | The discovery of olititite had set society into a frantic tumult unseen since the Great Zero Point Fuel Rush of the '70s. Found in the deepest ice of Europa, grinding and processing olititite into a thin paste allowed it to pass through our cell membranes and act as a catalytic for intracellular reactions. If recovered... | 2020-07-30T21:05:17 | 2020-07-30T18:13:21 | 97 | 65 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | [Part Two](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/cvoaso/wp_you_lost_your_sight_along_with_everyone_else/ey5in0q/) down below!
***
As suddenly as they flicked off, the lights turned back on again.
Or at least, it felt that way. As if the lights of my mind had been shuttered off and then on again by the huge ... | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 2019-08-26T07:20:15 | 810 | 489 |
[WP] Your wife wakes you up. “It’s your turn to feed the baby.” You groan, get up, slaughter a lamb, and toss it into the darkened pit below.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/agyghh/my_wife_rolled_over_and_sighed_its_your_turn_to/?st=JR15QW9S&sh=56b75b5f) | The thud of the lamb's weight echoes from the darkness. "Eat up for daddy, little guy." A moment later the wet macking and gnawing sounds begin. I seat myself and wait. Soon crunching is added to the ravenous layers. I fight falling back asleep. Finally, there is a small, but growling belch, and silence.
"Good boy," I... | I look down mortified I watch the beast devour the lamb limb from limb. I try not to look as it eats but am unable to avert my gaze. Suddenly, silence as the carnivore finally finished its meal leaving nothing but the dust of the floor. "Are you done?" I yelled from above. With no response other than heavy breathing, ... | 2019-01-17T20:19:39 | 2019-01-17T19:15:35 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | The unintelligible cries of the gym employees rang out as the room darkened around Brett. Then, everything was silent. Even his own gasps faded into nothingness. As if from afar, he felt the pressure lift from his neck -- but too late. His windpipe had been crushed.
Had he only asked for a spot, he would have lived to... | At once, the pain of the weight on my throat stopped. I knew something was off because I could now lift it with the greatest of ease. I threw it and it landed twenty feet from me. Man, I thought, I must be getting really good. I turned and saw I was in a very odd place. It was what appeared to be a graveyard, but inste... | 2015-11-02T06:45:10 | 2015-11-02T06:36:28 | 257 | 35 |
[WP] The Elder Gods have awoken from their slumber, but instead of causing havoc and destroying the world, they become more focused on winning bingo, talking about the good old days, and complaining about all those young kids on their phones. | "Mighty Cthulhu! Hear my cries and awaken!" The cultist yelled the final words of the ritual.
His words echoed over the dark sea for an unnaturally long time. Then, a massive green form emerged from the depths. As it rose its features came into detail, tentacles on its face and wings on its back being brought up by l... | “Athena, did you get signed for your players card?”
Zeus pulled more money out of the ATM. He rubbed his hands together. He tugged at his Hawaiian shirt.
“What’s the buy-in?” Venus asked. Her hand rested on her Generous hips.
“Yes, I signed up for the players card.” Athena replied. She rolled up the sleeves of her ... | 2019-03-23T10:44:49 | 2019-03-23T10:34:21 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] One day, every person on Earth wakes up with a lottery ticket on their person. ~7 billion tickets and no one knows where or who they came from. You turn on the TV and see your lottery numbers on the screen and wonder what's about to happen. | At first Lars thought it was a sexy joke from his wife. She always liked to play little games with him to make him curious. He wondered what kind of lottery she was plotting. He rolled over to put an arm around her. She felt like home. He looked at the clock on her night stand, there was a ticket there as well. “What i... | Bing da-ding. Bing da-ding.
He reaches over instinctively and grips his phone, groggily turning off the alarm.
5:55 AM. Saturday.
He'd forgotten to disable his alarm on Friday night as he normally does. This happens about once a month. He knows he won't be able to get back to sleep; once he's up he's up. A dull groa... | 2014-08-05T16:14:04 | 2014-08-05T14:52:22 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | They destroyed our home-world just to prove a point. Demanded we serve at their whims, surrender to their armadas.
But how could we retreat with no home to fall back to?
How could we surrender with nothing to save?
Why should we serve those who took from us everything we ever cared for?
So we raided their outposts, ... | Because we were soft skinned and void of claw and fang they named us weak. Because we preferred to speak before strike they named us cowards. We knew death, known it since we took our first upright steps, an old friend, a constant companion. Their immortal kings of star and sky had forgotten. So we taught them. We knew... | 2019-11-24T17:58:27 | 2019-11-24T17:36:40 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] After having made your first billion dollars, you are delivered a package containing a "Billionaire's Club" card, and a pamphlet outlining its uses and benefits... | "It is my great honor to welcome you, our newest member, to the Billionaire's Club," the letter began.
"What is the Billionaire's Club, you may ask? Well obviously you hadn't heard of it until today, as you weren't a billionaire. But you are now, and it's time to let you know how the world works. Being in the top .01%... | He fiddled with the envelope, turning it back and forth many times before finding a pull tab. Slowly and gently, as if plucking a petal from a flower he pinched it.
An amused look came to his face as the tab began to undo itself. A very gentle dragging sound came from the underside, as if winding string was behind th... | 2015-03-28T00:58:55 | 2015-03-28T00:02:57 | 29 | 10 |
[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... | \#21904. That used to be my name, three days ago, and now I'm, well, #1.
No one in the city knows how it happened. The Top 30, the ruling cabal, have absolutely no idea. I still haven't figured it out, either.
All I remember is walking into a meeting where #1 was giving a speech- for the first time, since I'd finall... | Prologue: *It wasn't the largest city, but it was definitely the most powerful and arguably dangerous in the world. Every single person here held a special ability, ranging from a power to clean everything within a 2m radius, to extreme powers such as flying or super strength. All these powers helped construct the most... | 2014-12-18T14:20:18 | 2014-12-18T11:55:01 | 171 | 39 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Sweat decorated my face, my hands twitched, my personal signs of panic. I gripped my phone on one hand and on the other my bed sheets. A deafening silence filled my bed room.
"What the fuck?" I murmured to myself. I rose up to a sitting position, used the now dirty bed sheet to clean my face. "Sarah?" I called out to... | DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON.
My eyes were barely open, bleary with sleep, but the incessant buzzing of the phone against the glossy black wood of the bedside table was just passing the point of ignorable. It took me a moment to register that the words were strange, holding their place at the top of the screen in bold, of... | 2022-09-27T16:50:27 | 2018-04-06T20:42:31 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] write a one paragraph summary of yourself without using the letter "E" | I was kind and calm in my childhood. I drank milk and biscuits. With my family I had an amazing upbringing. Now, I support my own family. I laugh, cry, play and draw. My family activity that I savour most is living with compassion and humour. Nothing in this world has a worth similar to family. Kin is akin to Nirvana. ... | This guy is good at work. Things occur that won't pass by without difficulty. Masturbation and playstation can hold a lot of options in using up his days. Consumption of snacks and drinks pass lips at customary hours. A standard human that can impart communications with public, family and chums in comfort. All said, a... | 2015-01-24T07:23:35 | 2015-01-24T05:34:28 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] Your grandparents always playfully bickered in their native language. To surprised them, you took lessons, but now you understand what they're really saying...
What comes next will shock you! | My grandparents had moved to the US from Italy after the war, but before they had any children. My mom said the strictest rule my grandparents had growing up was that it was English only for the kids. Someone had told them that it was the best way to make sure the kids learned to speak it quickly and without confusion... | I opened the front door and blurted out, "hello my lovely grandma and grandpa, you there?" My grandma came and hugged me tightly. She smelled of clean laundry and sage. She looked at me with the same warm, loving look she always has and said, "welcome home deary, dinner is all ready. Come! Eat with us, your grandpa... | 2016-09-09T19:19:21 | 2016-09-09T17:11:36 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | > Now say that you won't just kill **them**. You'll also kill **their families**.
I stared at the words on the terminal in disbelief. My hands hovered over the keyboard. I wanted to reply, but... holy shit. How do you respond to an order like that??
"I can't do that!" I typed back. The keys clacked as I wrote it; ... | When I was eight, everyone played with Magic 8-Balls. I begged my mother for one. I was overjoyed when I finally got one, months later. Everyone else got bored of the standard 20 replies pretty quickly but I didn’t. I found out I had a Magic ∞-Ball. My magic infinity ball would tell me exactly what to do in the situati... | 2016-05-05T05:59:46 | 2016-05-05T05:34:37 | 4,927 | 1,046 |
[WP] Your twin is the Chosen One, born with powerful abilities. But you were born with none. Because they were born gifted, your twin took everything from you as they bathed in the spotlight. Your anger drove you to become better, working hard to rival your twin, yet they call YOU the villain.
**EDIT** : Apparently th... | From the titbits I’ve been granted over the years or overheard being described to Harald, my birth must have been hilarious to watch and not be a part of.
When the mother of the “Chosen One” goes into labour and gives birth, no one has any idea what to do when after popping one child out, she carries on with labour an... | In a small town, near a large city, lived a group of towns people. They set up many decorations and placed many signs. The reason for celebrating was one of common. A new hero was going to be chose to be sent into the city to represent the town. However they had their festivities much more grand than last year. As thei... | 2020-01-01T07:12:48 | 2020-01-01T07:11:02 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Very few people get chosen as a gardener. It is looked down upon heavily. Yet, who provides the wood for the handles of knives for the chefs and rogues? The vegetables to sustain adventurers? Those who live in towns need not worry for food, the Ranchers and Gardeners provide them with sustenance.
You might wonder why ... | "So, let me get this straight. This xx_zaku_marine_xx trepass into your property, and he suddenly die?" asked 69IKissMySister, the Guild Enforcer.
"Err.. Yes", I said.
"But how? There's nothing in here can kill a high level hardcore adventurer here" while ErikMa33, the second Guild Enforcer, examine the spell residue... | 2021-09-09T21:21:23 | 2021-09-09T20:56:49 | 63 | 36 |
[WP] You're the town's superhero. Your greatest enemy is the town's supervillian. However, secretly, your both brothers. This isn't anything tragic, as your whole destructive rivalry is actually just a massive prank on your third brother, the mayor. | The Mayor drove to the town square, preparing for the end of the world. He turned onto Main Street as people fled down the wide sidewalks, eyes bulging, mouths wide. Police cars parked at crazy angles across the road, lights flashing, officers hunkered down, peeking over the hoods.
There, on the manicured lawn in fron... | “Jim is such an idiot sometimes! How can he *not* get what’s going on?” Jed laughed.
“You’d think he’d know us by now. Remember that time we tied him to the bed Gulliver-style? Three hours later, he finally managed to untie himself and get out.” John smiled, reminiscing.
Always eager to one-up his prankster pal, Jed ... | 2021-12-03T01:13:10 | 2021-03-05T07:33:55 | 1,428 | 37 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | It never seemed fair, the Stigma. Just by taking a quick look at the whites of someone's eyes, or stealing a glance at an exposed wrist, you could see the grand total of their sins running through their veins. Humans are laid bare by it, the evils committed behind closed doors and in quiet, dark places made all too cle... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T09:56:46 | 3,279 | 390 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | The sun did not shine,
It was too wet to play,
So I sat in my bed
For day after day.
So I stared at the ceiling
I stared at the wall
And deep down inside me
There was nothing at all
No anger, no fury
No happy or glad
Just a big fat old nothing
That was nothing but sad
I called up a doctor
T... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T07:08:38 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 1,010 | 15 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "Come on in" I heard a tired voice call out. I stepped into the room, and saw our leader looking worn out and tired. "Is everything alright sir?" I ask. "I'm thinking of surrendering to Belgium." He said. "But they're the last country standing in our way of continental domination?!! Their tech is from the 22nd century,... | The Germans look out over all they have conquered with smug grins on their face.
But then they see something in the distance. Two armies, one from the west and one from the north east, are riding out towards them.
The impossible had happened, American and Russia have teamed up.
The Germans raise little white flags... | 2017-08-18T05:12:07 | 2017-08-18T02:50:27 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | “Harry,” the bespectacled man gazed over steepled fingers at me with tired eyes. “You know why you’re here, right?”
Incandescent lights buzzed obnoxiously in the claustrophobic room.
“I would guess because of the missing money” I said, “although, I suppose there could be any number of reasons you would need to interv... | “I’m Super Special Agent Dirk Diggler and this Super Important Agent Mick Mickerson, I assume you are expecting us.”
The agents stood in the doorway, peering down the hall past the lady who greeted them.
“Ah, yeah, sure. You’ll be wanting to speak to my manager, right?”
Diggler lifted his clipboard to reading level... | 2018-05-03T05:55:07 | 2018-05-03T05:32:31 | 3,085 | 156 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | I only have one power. And by itself, it's the weakest power there is.
My first roommate was, in a lot of ways, the luckiest one I could have gotten. Her power was "The Vision". She could see Powers in people. She approached me on the Subway and said I had one, but it was fuzzy and she couldn't understand it, which ... | "I'm sorry to say this, but your product just isn't good enough, I'm out-"
I was very happily watching Shark Tank when a brilliant light shines in from the balcony. Thomas was home I guess.
"Hey Toby, could you turn your power off for god's sake?" I shout, "I'm watching something here."
"Yeah, yeah, Sorry," comes ... | 2016-03-23T22:08:45 | 2016-03-23T21:51:39 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] A cynical man finds a real hidden utopia. Spends the rest of his life trying to find something wrong with it. | I entered the town hall for the weekly meeting we held at our community and found, to my surprise, that everyone had already gathered.
"Um... hi?" I let out, unable to put up a composed façade.
"Hullo, Steve! Please have a seat." Stephen Fry said.
Of course he lives here. The town claims to be a utopia, after all.
... | "What the hell..?"
The five dollar bill that Scruffer Jones had tried to pick up was not a five dollar bill, but a handle of some sort. Yanking on it had opened a little hole in the grass, a neat circle.
Scruffer, amazed at what he was seeing but still trying to wrench the five dollar bill free of the new dimension'... | 2014-07-06T09:18:41 | 2014-07-06T08:25:27 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "Well that was a disaster" Romain thinks to himself as he takes a place at the back of the "reincarnation line". "Pick the 21st century Terra they said, it will be fun they said. Well it was not. Especially not being a god damn human. What did I even think of? I was obviously way too late to the party and I still picke... | It seemed almost paradoxical in a way, Jarod thought. Why would anyone want to experience a mundane life of dirt and decomposition over the wondrous advancements of the future? To opt against a post first-contact society?
Perhaps the more experienced souls had already seen all there was to life, and simply grown old ... | 2021-02-06T01:51:28 | 2021-02-06T01:44:20 | 177 | 118 |
[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 Monique,
We both messed up. I should have paid you the attention you needed when you needed it, and you should have told me when you felt you had lost control of your life. I'm sorry, but this is no reason to throw away a wonderful 10 year marriage. Please come home, we miss you horribly.
I love you and I al... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T20:41:24 | 102 | 67 |
[WP] You have found a fully functional Minecraft enchantment table in your father’s workshop, floating book included, and it apparently has much less limitations than its ingame version. You wonder what your dad has to do with this and how this is even possible in the first place. | Knowledge is power
The sign stood out as the one dusted surface amidst the rows of old books, holding up the shelves as much as the shelves did them. The smell of dry decay, so specific to places like this, filled Danny’s nose.
“Grandpa?” he called after seeing the register unmanned.
“Just in the back, my boy. Be ou... | # Soulmage
**Uncle Jiaola had always been a respectable enchanter.** The art of storing magic in an object without a soul was difficult and exhausting, but it paid the bills. And it was a field of magic that I'd had little experience with until now, so I was excited to take a peek around Jiaola's new workshop.
"Mind ... | 2022-10-11T07:47:02 | 2022-10-11T07:20:15 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Once upon a time, an error occurred and a saint and a sinner switched places. The sinner in heaven kept silent out of fear; the saint in hell kept silent out of compassion. After centuries of paradise, the sinner has mustered up the courage to break the saint out of hell. | I see him down there, time to time. I see him, torn and flayed and parched and riddled with wounds from broken glass and acrid gases. I see him cry out in pain, scream in terror at the horrors inflicted on him. I see him in his moments of respite, fleeting but present when there are minute breaks from the pain.
And in... | Ragged screams ricocheted off cavern walls, a chorus of broken knives and broken people. They made a sort of music, discordant and rhythm-less, but listen long enough and you could hear a tune. Jan heard it. He knew the instruments being played, the masters who played them.
Jan had been one of those instruments; the d... | 2021-12-19T07:16:41 | 2021-12-19T07:07:08 | 1,613 | 227 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Galactic level technology was a dangerous thing. It was fickle, powerful, and specific, and to work with it required a great deal of patience and experience. In our dawn we almost destroyed ourselves as we built up the sunder engines, and our existence almost wiped when we inherited the fold engines. But we were patien... | Ship YZ089 has haunted the Ortalem species for years. The ship had been part of an exploratory program in search of C40H56. Ortalem biological functions had so completely evolved that they longer died of any cause except C40H56 deficiency. Without it, their bodies would harden like stone until it killed them. Just a ti... | 2017-11-08T19:44:53 | 2017-11-08T19:38:11 | 249 | 89 |
[WP] You are the worst student in Latin class, and thanks to your lackluster study habits have summoned a demon. Said demon, tired of being summoned by clumsy humans, has decided to become your personal tutor until you pass Latin at the top of your class. | **“TRANSLATE THIS SENTENCE, FLESHBAG.”**
I rub my temples in frustration, not caring for the sulfur smell in the air or the vibration in my chest that I felt from the booming voice next to me. Throwing my pencil down on the table, I turn to the demon and ignored the impatient tapping of his claw on the sentence they w... | \[Poem\]
Blood and fire and a torturing scream,
I let out the anger to every extreme.
I'm here, then there and everywhere,
But its usually in a place where I could not care.
Summoned by haphazard approach,
Called upon by some idiot roach.
I can't seem to find a moment of silence,
Until, at least, I'm done... | 2019-10-12T14:30:38 | 2019-10-12T14:18:30 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] Your superhero family only cares about saving humans. As your powers emerge, you resolve to help all species, starting with whichever one your randomizer selects. As the species name prints, you realize you realize you’ve made a big mistake. | I wait as the printer slowly prints out the name at the speed of a retired tortoise... Ugh! Why can't we update our stuff. The entire superhero community is still living in the 80s! I heard they now have printers that actually spit out 3D models of whatever you want. Forget paper, I want one of those but nooooooooo. We... | "I was just eleven when it happened. It was like my randomizer broke. It tells me a species and i save it. But this time it popped up in blood red. A name instead of a species.Alex Miller. I was confused at first, then my brain only let me think of that name. The task i was on. This was normal, day to day superhero stu... | 2020-02-09T09:36:45 | 2020-02-09T09:23:00 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | It's hardly a surprise. Although the smell, oh the smell. Quite a smell. Like death running in my veins. I quite like the scent. The blood sticks between my fingertips. All cushy.
It's sad, really. I've always tried to do what's right. Sure, the homeless could have continued to trawl through my fields but then I woul... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:09:44 | 3,279 | 77 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | I am King Tut. I've been wandering the Earth for 3000 years, unfortunately. As it turns out, you do pass into the afterlife. Although, in order for that to happen, your name has to be uttered for the last time.
Being that I was a pharaoh, I'm probably going to be spoken about until the end of time. That's what happens... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, in ... | 2016-01-17T13:04:14 | 2016-01-17T11:15:23 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Interstellar wars are quick, most species die of shock quite quickly. Getting shot was a death sentence. That was until humans joined the Galaxy... | "Why do you humans not die?" I asked my human captor.
"What?" He looks at me confused, at least that's what it looked like to me.
"You are beaten up, shot, bleeding. That is a death sentence for everyone....Everyone except humans. What makes you different?"
My captor laughed. "Is that the reason why you're so afraid... | ''The suit that I’m wearing also has the same compound as well.''
They look confused. One of them asks a question through the translator, ''Can you tell us where did you find this material?''
I clear my throat, ''Let me be clear, our deal with you only includes getting you all the defensive technology, not giving awa... | 2019-10-25T09:19:31 | 2019-10-25T08:30:46 | 131 | 78 |
[WP] It's been 50 years since the rich elites left to escape an alien invasion. The good news: the aliens are friendly. The bad news: nobody wants them back. | "There must be some agreement we can come to, or perhaps a compromise?" The man on the screen looked desperate
"The answer is no. Thats final. Now please, stay off this channel. This channel is for official use only."
"Wait, hold o-"
Jack didn't let the man finish before he disconnected them. It wasn't too long befo... | My father would always tell me stories of when he was a kid. Life was so different back then that it's hard to believe everything he said. The most fantastical thing he ever told me was about a group of people called "elites" and what happened when they left Earth.
Apparently these elites stood high above everyone els... | 2020-08-02T08:36:10 | 2020-08-02T04:21:49 | 2,103 | 1,000 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | Well, you know how in the old Simpsons opening scene Bart grabs the back of the bus on his skate board?
That. We do that. We use magnetic attachments and stealth tech (cos if they saw us they'd shake us off) and we hang on till we get to where we want to go. Then we disengage and wander off like we just happened to be... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T06:53:53 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dearest Sara,
It touched my heart to receive your letter. I so rarely get post these days that I must admit I ripped it slightly in my haste to open it. However, it now sits on my mantle, repaired with a piece of tape, as one of my most prized possessions.
To the matter of your Christmas gifts, in that regard I'm a ... | Jameson was sitting at his desk in his bedroom when suddenly he started to smell something that smelled like a whole box of matches burning at once. At that moment he heard a crackling sound and as he turned around an awful beast materialized in the room.
"Greetings young master Jameson, I have a letter from our Dark ... | 2018-10-28T16:54:58 | 2018-10-28T14:35:23 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Faster than light travel has just been mastered. A crew has been tasked with boarding & awakening the dozens of ships already enroute to colonising other planets across the galaxy and telling them they are redundant. | We got to the ship. After entering the airlock, I began waking up the crew and informing them of the situation.
"Can you excuse us for a while? We need to discuss this."
Two days passed. Then the days became weeks of discussion, and they didn't even let us listen. One month later, the crew left the conference room. T... | "I feel like I'm in a dream I can't wake up from." I said, sitting at the table. My crewmates, Johnson and Henderson, sat across from me. We were traveling faster than any human being had travelled before.
"Dreams are what you make of them," said Johnson, looking straight passed me. I looked behind me and didn't s... | 2014-12-16T15:23:47 | 2014-12-16T13:10:42 | 59 | 21 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | “Absolutely incredible”, Alida said, mouth half full.
Setventedian shield technology was impenetrable, but the humans cut through it like butter.
They watched the events on repeat, scaling in on a different Earth vessel each time. Only three arrived to fight the Setventedian armada but that proved to be enough.
Ali... | I walk into our leader’s office to hear her response to my proposal.
“No,” she says before I can sit down.
“It’s our only chance to avoid subjugation,” I say.
“It’s not worth the cost. Let humans have FTL? I’d take subjugation, even extinction if this is the alternative.”
I knew she’d say something like this. Bu... | 2022-03-31T06:20:25 | 2022-03-31T04:23:06 | 277 | 165 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | There are many among us who wonder *why* we allow Warrior Species to live. Whenever we discover one of them, there will inevitably be a movement pushing for their extermination before they reach the stars. I do not need to explain why, we all remember the horrors of the Zandrian Fleet sweeping across the Alliance Syste... | "Then they are a delusional war species," Ishok sighed. He stood from his chair and brushed his hands across his face. Looking out over the holodeck at the footage the spies had collected, he turned to face his brother "but a war species none the less."
"I'm telling you brother, there's something different about these... | 2018-03-17T06:35:22 | 2018-03-17T05:22:05 | 109 | 13 |
[WP] Your house is haunted, but not by humans. It was built on a veterinarian's office that burned down over a decade ago. The souls of the animals still remain, but not as vengeful spirits. They behave more or less the same as normal pets, except they can also float and walk through walls. | “Are you comfortable with dogs?” “Are you good with all pets?” “Are your cats friendly with other animals?” The realtor kept peppering these questions throughout the house searching and buying process. Once or twice I asked about it. The only answer I got was something vague about it being that type of neighborhood, th... | (I wrote this with an OC rather than myself.)
Overtaken buildings surrounded the area, leaving no breathing humans in sight besides the ones who ran from something. The only house that in which remained; was built on top of a old building. A cabin; persay.
Only one person lived inside it; however. One that used to b... | 2020-07-30T16:54:05 | 2020-07-30T16:08:46 | 54 | 12 |
[WP] College graduation is over, and your parents present you with an itemized bill for raising you - several hundred thousand dollars. They want to work out a payment plan. | "Mom! Dad! I have great news!" Charles shouted as he ran into the house. His excitement faded as he saw his parents sitting intently at the dining room table.
"What's going on? Is everything OK?" Charles sat down across from his parents.
"Charles, we have something for you." His father said. "You're not going to ... | “You have to be shitting me guys?” Jacks bemused look was enough of a catalyst for his parents to issue a sterner warning.
“No son, we’re not”. Jacks father was a military man, and joking to him didn’t come easy. “Also, watch your mouth.” His Dad looked down from his spectacles, a look I imagine he gave to many a... | 2014-09-09T10:06:56 | 2014-09-09T07:51:26 | 47 | 31 |
[WP] You have died. You walk up a huge spiral staircase and it takes you a thousand years to reach the top. You’re exhausted, but to your surprise you are greeted with the pearly gates, except they’re completely rusted over. A sign reads “Welcome to Heaven, Population: 1” | I kept my eyes fixed on the sign, reading and rereading it. It was only when I heard the sound of a pen scribbling across a page that I broke my gaze.
A woman of middle age was seated at a table in front of the gate.
"Welcome to Heaven, Andrew" She said.
"Uhh.. Hi. Thank you." He said.
"Are you ready to enter?" She... | I stood in a vast plain, full, crowded, milling with people as far as the eye could see. An intense pain in my heart and chest was dissipating as if a recent memory I didn’t wish to retain.
A fight broke out near me, but seemed to go nowhere. Neither party could land a blow of substance, seeming to brush them only wi... | 2020-06-17T03:27:50 | 2020-06-17T02:46:10 | 402 | 179 |
[WP] "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!" The alien took a deep breath. "We are cute to them." "What?" | "This world is full of Xenos, Inquisitor, the only option can be a complete extermination of this filth.
"Well...hold on now," Inquisitor McConnell said nervously, a bead of sweat trailing down his nose. "They...look sort of human. They must be abhumans."
The adjutant shook his head. "No sir, the data I've received f... | Grand Chancellor Percy stepped around the podium body now visible to the Council. Percy clicked the button of the device he held switching the monitor to a 3D image of a human holding one of their infamous light cannons.
"The Humans have few weaknesses, they are marginally worse than the Disepatoids we dealt with eons... | 2017-12-19T07:42:03 | 2017-12-19T07:24:56 | 176 | 44 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | Xullufiti couldn't believe this luck, finally, an escape from the clutches of Hell! Not a crack, not a nightmare, but a veritable door from one reality to the next. A vessel! A passage between worlds!
He cackled loudly as he swarmed into the human body, their soul swapped away almost effortlessly in the exchange. But ... | Upon the tranference of his being into the young man's body, Baleron the demon, found himself posessed by a strong sense of ennui. Whisps of long ago experienced manuscripts, moving images and waves of musical poetry flooded his hellish mind.
Great, he thought. Some artist again. They were so dramatic. Did they not un... | 2020-12-21T12:52:15 | 2020-12-21T12:47:17 | 141 | 68 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | “Do you remember the first day we met?”
It’s dinnertime in the Century City and I feel like a roast trussed for the meal. I am not a man who wears suits well. Even more so, I am not a man accustomed to candlelit dinners in exclusive restaurants, rented out for the night just for me and my date.
By contrast,... | I spin the wheel of my steel and whatever vehicle. It’s a giant thing, can say for sure it’s made out of steel, but also a bunch of random crap as well. Stuff that didn’t exist on the periodic table before the Super Revolution. The government supplied it to me, so why should I know what it’s made out of? I quickly end ... | 2021-06-24T19:34:22 | 2021-06-24T18:29:49 | 179 | 33 |
[WP] You wake up one Monday morning and you have 14 notifications in regards to global news. You go to the kitchen and turn on the TV and find out everyone’s kill count is now visible above their head. Your mom comes down asking what going on. You turn to her. She has a two floating above her... | The sound of my phone pinging constantly was what woke me up. I rolled over and grabbed the offending device, intent on telling my friends to shut up, it was *way* too early for this.
To my surprise, it wasn't the group chat that was exploding, it was the numerous news apps that I'd installed. All of the alerts bore n... | My eyes flickered open slowly. It was still early, especially after such a long busy weekend, but I rarely slept much past sunrise at any rate. I rolled over and picked up my phone as I headed downstairs to grab some breakfast. Walking down the stairs glancing at my phone I noticed an unusual number of news notificat... | 2018-05-14T14:02:35 | 2018-05-14T09:38:52 | 118 | 16 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay mistakenly walks into your house to film an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, and refuses to believe that you aren't a failing restaurant owner | I love to cook. Experimenting with new flavors and textures. But I live alone. I’m the only one who eats what I make. I never have anyone for dinner. Which is why at first I was exciting when another person was standing over the tray I had been messing with.
“This veal is rubbish!” the man shouted at me, apoplectic.
... | It's tough holding a dinner party for your friends when you can barely cook. But trying to prepare food with Frankenstein's uglier Scottish cousin leaning over your shoulder is nigh on impossible. That's what I get for leaving a window open, I suppose.
As I take the chicken breasts out of the oven to inspect them, Gor... | 2016-06-29T00:17:02 | 2016-06-29T00:16:18 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] Somehow you've done it; you've managed to domesticate a werewolf. He only shows up with the full moon, stays to play dog games like fetch, and then disappears. Now you're curious who he is the rest of the time | If a dog is a mans best friend and my best friend dave is a man, what is a dogmans best friend dave? Or something along that idea I thought to myself as I threw a my footbal into the woods. The fullmoon's light illuminated the cold fall night, I could see straight through the tree line to the highschool field, the whol... | You were curious, it's not exactly a bad thing after all that's what got you into this mess. and my 'this mess' I mean stalking your full moon werewolf buddy you domesticated last month.
Your father was an interesting man who had a fascination with the occult and supernatural, his strange fixation on it almost made *... | 2019-12-03T20:05:34 | 2019-12-03T18:53:31 | 48 | 30 |
[WP] XKCD inspired. Life in the universe is hard to find because of a possible predator. As fish sometimes blend into their sand surroundings we too, and others, blend into the universe as a natural deterrent. As we call out into the stars, we get a response. A warning...
Inspired by this [comic](http://imgs.xkcd.com/... | The reality of it was simple. We didn't pay attention to our past. Humanity had underestimated the rarity of life, and the powers that be remained under the impression that we were the most powerful things that could be. We were so proud of our radio signals.
Some of the sharpest knives that had ever been in the box ... | For decades we thought it was just galactic background noise. The static on the radio, the fuzz on the TV, the distortion in a satellite signal.
We called him crazy when he gave us that "filter", but it didn't seem to be dangerous, so we ran it on a section of noise.
Do*-.-ome.lo-ki--.....--er-.--.*othing.goo*..... | 2014-07-09T08:12:02 | 2014-07-09T07:29:31 | 37 | 16 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | I woke up and stared at ceiling. The latest layer of plaster was beginning to chip and the crack that I'd patched over hundreds, maybe thousands of times, was starting to show again. I sat up and looked at the clock, knowing the time before I'd mentally processed what it said. Yes, 5:43, just like every other morning. ... | It's time to find a new bench.
I've been sitting on mine for 200 years, but at long last my grandkids' grandkids' grandkids have run me out of town. It didn't used to be like this.
"They say that phrases like that are signs it's time for you to leave."
That's what Xtina, the bratty 14-year-old, said to me when I sa... | 2016-08-09T09:23:25 | 2016-08-09T08:35:00 | 68 | 49 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | The Priest produced a bright red, sparkly button nestled in a grey box from the sleeve of his long robe.
“Just press it and it’ll all be taken care of, like so.” He snapped his fingers, for emphasis.
“Right-o” I answered, but just as I was about to press it, I hesitated. “Waiiiiiiit a tick. Why do I have to press it?... | 'I have done it. I have pressed the button and defeated the Dark Lord!'
The dimly lit room was illuminated just enough to show the glum faces of the three boys lounging out across whatever comfy pieces of cushioned real estate they could find.
“This film is terrible. Turn over.”
The remote clacked and the channel c... | 2020-11-09T12:45:40 | 2020-11-09T12:10:32 | 286 | 81 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human smiled playfully. "So if I understand you correctly. You will give us this FTL technology in exchange for our aid. All you ask of us is to cleanse your world of this Ashvell species, and remove this substance from your waters?"
"That is all," I said with a hoarse voice. We hadn't done much research on these ... | Kyloran Estraxx straightened the tie around his right neck. As was protocol when establishing contact with new races, his ship's fabricator tailored an approximation of the style worn by that world's leader. Or leaders, in some cases. In the end, Kyloran settled for a dark blue suit and a white and red tie for each nec... | 2014-12-26T12:23:02 | 2014-12-26T12:09:19 | 70 | 18 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | What the scans showed was impossible. Unheard of. Three potentially habitable planets in orbit around a single star. All within the acceptable temperature range, all with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Granted, the readings from the second planet had some anomalies we couldn't explain, but it was hard enough finding a sing... | "Von Neumann Probe", that's what they called them. Fully automated spacecraft that replicated exponentially and reached into every nook and cranny of the galaxy. Speculation has it that uncountable numbers of them are even still on their way to bridge the gaps between galaxies at this very moment. The crazy part is tha... | 2019-08-13T16:12:59 | 2019-08-13T15:57:57 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | *The flames roared up around his face,
burning ever hot.
He looked around, quite confused.
"This must be hell." he thought.*
*"You're right! Congrats! You made it here!"
Said the Devil, great and red.
"If I'm in Hell, then that must mean..."
"Yes, you are quite dead!"*
*"In fact, surprise, you're #1!
You're the fir... | "Uh, hey, Satan," I say. "Are you hiring?"
"Sorry kid," says the devil. "We don't have any job openings at this time."
"Well, I guess I'm stuck here," I reply. "Is there anything to do around here?"
"We have an old PlayStation original," says Satan. "That's about it."
"Do you have any of the *Final Fantasy* games f... | 2017-06-22T05:45:21 | 2017-06-22T03:21:52 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] An armada of alien warships descends upon our planet, only to find a desolate wasteland void of life. A lone android surfaces from an underground bunker with a message for the would-be invaders: his masters are slumbering in the Silicon Dream. Do not disturb, or your annihilation will be swift. | We are the Intergalactic Civilized Front, or I.C.F for short, our crew is made of the top engineers, scientists, and pilots in the known galaxy, our mission?
Save worlds and civilizations from going exctinct.
Log date: 19.1.25.
Today we visited the infamous Earth! Though I felt dissapointed by my visit, finally... | The Overmatron's low growl shifted for the first time in 600,000 Earth years, not that she had any concept of time. Her young felt fear for their first time as they chattered anxiously during their thunderous orbital drops; tens of billions of creatures swarming, turning this seemingly deserted rock into a green, carap... | 2020-06-20T06:28:30 | 2020-06-20T04:04:28 | 215 | 65 |
[WP] Write a story where the main character falls in love with the reader. | No. No, please don't close the book. Can't you see we aren't done yet? I know it's the last page, but don't leave me alone. Don't put me back on the shelf to gather dust.
I know I seemed happy with him. Those words *tricked* you into thinking I was happy. Maybe at one point, when the words were first penned, I was. Pe... | You know those weird Romantic Comedy's were some shy person accidentally stalks someone and the stalk-e some how develops a crush back. I think I am feeling that.
Just knowing someone is there, looking at me, everything I do, I am not afraid but rather comforted by the fact someone watches over me. I can not feel ang... | 2014-07-23T02:28:46 | 2014-07-23T01:53:23 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | What do I know of it, what can I say of it?
It was the color of her hair, the first girl I ever loved.
The color of her death, fearing god above.
The changing of the seasons, lying on the ground.
The birds that still sang to me when I did not hear a sound.
It was the color of his shirt, the first time we ever met.... | Such was the colour that none could overwhelm it, nor pass through it. It was the emptiness of space, the void of nothingness, the darkness behind our eyes. It cloaks its wearers in the night, and dresses those who grieve. It is in contrast to the brightness of the world, while it shares in its illumination. | 2014-04-06T08:46:24 | 2014-04-06T08:22:40 | 59 | 22 |
[WP] A prophecy has foretold of two siblings who would be the ultimate forces of good and evil. Together, they could stop the warring nations and establish peace. One day, a woman gives birth to triplets. The first two wield the ancient powers. The last one does not. You are the third one. | I remember the talks of the Elder Days, when the prophets told of two siblings who would take on the world and bring about the answer we’d been fighting one another over. In those days, the Elders philosophized about the forces of Good and Evil; the prophets foretell that one sibling will be Good, and the other will be... | She watched as the parade went on. Horses, dancers, music, and all sorts of things. It gave her a headache. She hated the loud sounds of parades, and so she snuck off a bit early. Besides, it wasn't like she knew what would be at the end.
She walked down the streets, away from the lights and the cheers, down an alleyw... | 2020-08-27T22:24:35 | 2020-08-27T21:34:19 | 114 | 31 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | The Rainbow Bard she was called when tales of her talent first spread. She was a mere magician, not a light mage. She had never mastered the subtler nuances of optical control and illusion. Her talent was deemed paltry. She was shunned from the guild. She could not bend light skillfully to create a glamour nor summon ... | Of Wizards, it is known that they are highly dangerous beings of terrific power. All across Midgard, they are kept occupied by quests and adventures.
It was after the aftermath of one adventure that sunk the ancient peace loving nation of Avulsey to the sea that a small team of 1 to 4 Wizards learnt of the Dark Lord T... | 2016-11-12T12:08:14 | 2016-11-12T10:02:44 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are one of several Princes fighting in a battle royale to inherit the Kingdom. All the Princes get a God as a sponsor, who grants them boons and abilities. Powerful sponsors include gods like Zeus, Ra and Neptune. So, it was a surprise when you found out that your sponsor is Death. | Kalireth sat quietly in the small dark chamber, wreathed by a sickly sweet smelling smoke. He had completely lost track of time. The cold of the stone floor had long sense penetrated his threadbare pants and his legs ached from sitting still for so long, yet he was not uncomfortable. He had endured much to get here: th... | [P1-ctd in comments]
Soon, would be the contests for the crown. The small Kingdom of Arnkael played a unique role in the world, that it was the peaceful bulwark between humanity and the indiscriminate wrath of the gods themselves.
Each generation, as the old king died, his several children would be pressed to the are... | 2018-11-14T08:08:13 | 2018-11-14T07:58:09 | 123 | 54 |
[WP] Someone wakes up, prepares some coffee, and drinks it | "Do you hear that?" asks Tommy.
"Oh my god, it does sound like someone is drinking coffee down there and mom and dad are still sleeping," says Jasmine as she pulls the covers over her head.
Tommy walks past her bed and peers down the stairs.
"I'm not going down there. No way. That's a ghost!" he says.
Jasmine shrie... | I rolled out of bed at the alarm blared, light filling my small apartment, filtering through dirty windows. Her clothes are still there, on my desk chair. She never fucking put her clothes away.
I make some coffee, revelling in my efficiency as I fill the cup just as the kettle boils. I stir sugar in with a fork, be... | 2013-12-19T09:07:30 | 2013-12-19T08:34:57 | 91 | 24 |
[WP] You've always had an imaginary friend, and he's always been there for you through thick and thin. You two are having a nice conversation one day, until he says "It's really nice, you being my imaginary friend". | I found it curious that she thought *I* was the imaginary friend, so I probed a bit deeper.
"You sure about that, Carrie?" I asked. "How do you know that you're real, not a figment of my imagination?"
Carrie laughed, then leapt to her feet, executed a pirouette. Her straw-coloured hair, lifted by the cooling autumn b... | Mia was taken aback by the words uttered by her imaginary friend, Frood. Flustered, she wailed her hands in the air and asked “What do you mean, me being your imaginary friend? You are so blatantly my imaginary friend.” She pressed her fingers to her temple in an effort to make sense of what is going on. In response to... | 2017-10-15T22:54:26 | 2017-10-15T20:34:35 | 111 | 14 |
[WP] People earn karma points while alive. When they die, they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife, or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death. You donate all your points, and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points.
The living have no idea of... | When I was nine years old, I pulled my baby sister’s body out of the swimming pool. Mom was taking a nap, and Dad was off at work. They’d told me to keep an eye on the baby after a long, sleepless night of unexplained crying. But I was too cool for babysitting. I’d been busy playing with my toys. I hadn’t been watching... | The world slowly faded to black as I drew my last breaths. Hey, I lived a good life.
But there was no gates guarded by an angel. No booming voice of God. I didn't see Buddha's paths or any of the Hindu gods. Hell, I'd kill for a pile of spaghetti to take me in his noodly embrace, but nothing was here!
All I got was.... | 2017-04-08T09:32:59 | 2017-04-08T08:53:41 | 7,090 | 40 |
[WP] Describe a color, without actually saying it. You can't use other colors to describe it! | It's a color of passion, and of the sublime. It's the color of freshly shed blood, still wet, still alive, and still trying to get oxygen to the lungs of the person it came from.
It's the color of a girl's cheeks when she realizes you know from whom the love letters come.
It's the color of the sky just before the sun... | It's the look in his eyes when he spies her with another, it's the flash of cash in his hands when paying for her time. It's the gentle shading of her dress when they meet that night. It's the hilt of the dagger protruding from her back, it's the look of her face when she's finally found, it's the faded life of the gra... | 2014-04-06T09:18:22 | 2014-04-06T08:26:15 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | When people choose their Word, they choose one that will help them in their ordinary lives:
Strong.
Fast.
Smart.
All very common, but all very useful.
Some people are more subtle with their choice, choosing words like:
Persuasive.
Athletic.
Powerful.
Wealthy.
But others are still more creative:
Judicious.
... | "Crombulated?"
"Crombulated."
"What in the world does that even mean?"
"Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy."
"Don't quote the old memes to me! I was there when they were posted!"
"Anywho, I chose 'crombulated' and the word master accepted it so now I have the nigh infinite power allotted by such a masterful a... | 2022-01-01T21:51:39 | 2022-01-01T20:32:05 | 1,569 | 488 |
[WP] The new king was not crowned by a holy man, nor by another monarch. Instead, he asked you, a commoner, to crown him. This was to represent his dedication to his people. But now everyone calls you"King-maker", to the extent that other nations call upon you for your service. | ... The plan had completely backfired. The nation tore at the seams after it was I that throned the King. Other kingdoms requested my service, not as a noble selector, but as a rouse for the crowds. In their eyes I was more akin to a jester than an honorable delegate. It was speculated that our nation would collapse b... | "I don't understand?? I was merely a close friend to the king? Why do they want me to crown others?" I asked, shocked at the letter I received from the Ablys kingdom.
"I don't know honey but this won't stop there . . . Here, have a pastry." My wife, Laurasia, said and stuffed a baked good into my mouth.
"You'll be hu... | 2022-10-17T08:16:11 | 2022-10-17T07:54:31 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | Since my wife left, my daughter had began talking to herself. I was understanding, it was tough for me as well. Yesterday, I went up to her room where she of course was playing with her "friends" I sat and listened to her babble and giggle and change her voice around for their parts. Tapping lightly on the door she cal... | "What the fuck!?" I say quietly as I stare blankly at the surprisingly cleanly severed old hand, It wasn't bleeding or anything, yet it didn't look as if there was a cauterization involved. I couldn't do anything. The only thing I could do at that time to stay as quiet as I could and hide the hand in fear of waking up ... | 2019-10-06T16:14:50 | 2019-10-06T14:53:17 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | I walked down the rather crowded hallway, trying to get to my locker before Maths class so I could get my textbooks for the rest of the day There was a small line of students winding almost in singlefile through the people standing by their lockers. I was, as usual, trying to just stay out of the way.
Just because my... | Super powers aren't exactly a part of my skill set. I've dreamed up hundreds of super powers, but never had any myself. This could be a problem in a world of super individuals. This is especially true in high school, were skill and hierarchy can be everything. And honestly, in the first couple of weeks, it was difficul... | 2022-11-02T11:50:38 | 2022-11-02T10:49:29 | 162 | 55 |
[WP] Instead of having a guardian angel, you have a guardian Demon. His methods are often much more violent. But much more straight forward. | "Gi'me your wallet!" The thug stood above me, knife pointed at my neck. He had kicked my bike when I turned around the corner. "Come on you little shit!"
"It's cool man! Just put the knife down, I'm not going to resist!" I started to reach for my wallet, when he kicked me. _Oh crap..._ I thought, praying for his safe... | Melody ran, her heart pounding in her chest, they were gaining on her!
As she glanced back she could see that two of them were gaining on her slowly, while the other three fell behind.
'Maybe I can lose them in the lanes?' she thought as she ran on, but as she rounded a corner there was one of the cars they had got o... | 2017-06-13T07:00:00 | 2017-06-13T02:02:36 | 50 | 34 |
[WP] A rich man discovers that he only has two years left to live. With no relatives to inherit his fortune, he disguises himself as a beggar and resolves to give his wealth to the first person who helps him. | The faceless man without a name sat down on the sidewalk, shaking a jug of coins at the bypassing people. He didn’t have a name or face because this story took place in a world without a proper setting or forethought, words were scarce and descriptions suffered in turn. The only things that existed were his immense for... | The barista gave Todd a weird-looking loonie for change. The metal had gone brown, and green fuzz covered the Queen's face. On his way out, Todd held the ugly loonie in the center of his palm.
"Ew," he said to himself.
The loonie was fascinatingly gross, like one of those videos online where people knife open massive... | 2017-08-21T01:01:22 | 2017-08-21T00:27:32 | 825 | 308 |
[WP] Congratulations! At 25 years old you won the lottery and will receive €50.000.000,- spread out over the rest of your lifespan; paid out evenly on each of your remaining years alive. On the following January 1st, you receive €25 million in your bank account. | I got half my money in the first deposit. So, I did what any sane person would do. I panicked and called their customer service line.
"Hi, my name is Gregory Trapper."
"Oh, yes, you're the one who won the grand prize, aren't you? To say that I'm jealous is an understatement."
"Yeah, about that, isn't the the prize m... | I get a notification on my phone of a recent deposit in my bank account, excited having won the lottery. I really need the money since I finished college and in major debt.
I figured since they say it’s spread evenly through my life I can calculate how long I’ll live. Not a nice thought, but hey who wouldn’t.
I nea... | 2020-08-05T20:04:24 | 2020-08-05T15:38:04 | 257 | 133 |
[WP] "Reddit" is a massive city, with subreddits as districts. Describe a chase scene. | I couldn't lose this one, not again.
For years I was a lurker, a damn bum, you know? Gave nothing to the community. Well, I figured it was my shot, you know? Bring a few reposts to justice, snag some easy karma, get them the downvotes they deserve - you know, give back a little.
Now here I am, chasing some shitpostin... | "There, heading westbound from Askreddit," said a young Mod over the radio.
The Admin fired up his Model S and looped around Frontpage Square, keeping a healthy distance behind the notorious hacker Four Chan. The rogue coasted into the alleys of WTF. After a moment, he followed.
Chan had already parked his ice cream ... | 2016-01-09T20:49:04 | 2016-01-09T19:40:56 | 604 | 190 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | "Are you familiar with the one-electron universe?"
Christopher Cain furrowed his brows ever so slightly. I lit a cigarette and blew smoke directly into his eyes.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing? Guards! I'll kill you. When I come back I swear I'll kill you."
As an L5 prisoner, Cain had only been allowed to keep... | “One more time, please one more time! I won’t do it again!” His body thrashed against the straps keeping him bound from inflicting self harm once again.
“They always think they’ll wake up and it will all be fixed.” Stated the warden plainly.
“Maybe they could if we gave-“
Robbie was silenced by the hand on his che... | 2021-10-08T11:43:34 | 2021-10-08T11:42:28 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You lay dying of heart failure, and God enters your mind. He informs you that you will be reincarnated upon death, losing all memory, but before that happens you are allowed to ask any one question. The answer to your question surprises you so much that your heart restarts and you survive. | As I lay in the bed, focusing all of my energy on continuing to breathe for as long as I could, I felt a presence in my midst. Not a physical presence like that of my family that surrounded me, but it was as if a second consciousness had entered my mind.
He explained to me what was going to happen, though I knew it to... | Falling away to unconsciousness is... different when you die. Instead of the fade away to blackness, the experience felt similar to taking a lift down. It was disorentating; just a moment ago, I was rushing forward at 50 kilometres per hour.
And down I went, the wind whooshing upwards around me. After a minute, I sto... | 2014-08-03T06:58:43 | 2014-08-03T06:31:00 | 750 | 101 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | Him.
The bane of my existence.
He can levitate mountains, take a nuclear bomb to the face, even control the minds of millions simultaneously, but he can't land a steady job for his life. Ever since the government mandated equal job opportunities for the gifted and the mundane, his resume was simply not attractive en... | "A superhero? Wow," I said, rolling my eyes at the back of her head. "You didn't strike me as the type."
Karen laughed as she closed the freezer door, holding an ice pack to her shoulder. "That's kind of the goal," she said slowly, as though explaining it to a child. "Secret identity. Blend in. Make it look like I'm j... | 2016-03-23T21:22:47 | 2016-03-23T15:53:56 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | David pressed the button again.
Nothing.
A faint whine, a pulse of light, a dead readout.
And then a soft, clear, and subtly artificial voice rang out.
"David."
He sat bolt upright in his chair, scattering disassembled electronics and papers from the desk. In the past year, this was the first time that one of them... | "Love, professor. We do it out of love."
"Love? I don't understand." The glow of Cybele's massive visage reflected on the professor's glasses in miniature. Even still, her face took up a small part of the screen that consumed an entire wall. She was the only source of light in the lab besides the field of blue pinpric... | 2015-03-02T10:06:23 | 2015-03-02T07:36:54 | 64 | 26 |
[WP] Someone posts a drunken video asking for a revolution one night. When they wake next it has begun. | A bottle skittered across the floor and clinked against the wall as I tripped over it while trying to stagger out of bed. Sun was bursting through my curtain windows, much too bright. I squinted and tried to close the curtains, but I got too dizzy. "Fuck," I whispered under my breath.
I managed to gulp down Gatorade a... | "It's happening! It's happening!"
I awoke from my slumber at the screams of my housemate, Jo. She pushed her head around the corner of my bedroom door, a dented saucepan rested like armour on her head. "You did it! It's happening!"
"What's happening?" I opened one eye, wobbled to my feet and immediately stepped in a ... | 2014-12-24T10:16:52 | 2014-12-24T09:51:26 | 150 | 31 |
[WP] A well known fact has changed overnight, and you're the only one who remembers it being anything different than it is now. | “The hell?” Jordan said, looking out his window. An orange sky greeted him. “What happened to the sky?”
“What’s going on?” Emily asked, Jordan’s little sister, running over to the window. “Looks fine to me.”
“Then why is it orange?”
“Because it’s the sky,” Emily answered. She quickly became bored and walked back out... | At first I didn’t notice it. I mean, why would I?
I simply got up and went about my morning routine same as always. Shit, shower, shave. Eat a bowl of nutritious and delicious oatmeal (I like mine with berries and pecans) and then feed the cat.
It wasn’t until I was in my car on the freeway that I had my first hint ... | 2015-04-06T15:36:34 | 2015-04-06T15:19:00 | 39 | 15 |
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