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[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | When Daesh had exploded a bomb right in the middle of the sambodromo, the world was shocked.
Fortunately, nobody was killed, but Rio´s carnaval was destroyed. Brazilians demanded a strong answer from their government, but they had not fought a serious war for at least 150 years, so how to react? How to succeed where ... | American efforts against ISIS had failed. ISIS had toppled local governments and taken them over. Claiming most of the Middle East. Many countries themselves had made agreements with ISIS in order to try to secure themselves so that they would not be toppled as well.
America was the last to stay in the fight, but Amer... | 2016-01-29T07:12:39 | 2016-01-29T06:44:06 | 36 | 25 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | “So…” he didn’t meet her eyes “…how you been?"
“Busy”. She said.
“Yeah…”He put his hands in his pockets. “Same here…”
“You’re unemployed.” She replied.
A flash of anger crossed his face. “Between jobs.” He said, with a cold tone.
“Whatever. So you’re here for the kids.”
“Yeah. How’ve they been?”
“You got thei... | "You're too nice New. I've been telling you that for two thousand years now. You're too nice and these humans are walking all over you. I mean look, there are atheists everywhere. It's like you don't even care. You know what happened last time atheists cropped up during my period of custody? Fire. Golden calf? How abou... | 2015-06-04T23:03:45 | 2015-06-04T21:57:16 | 83 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone in the world can choose when they get super powers. The longer you wait to claim your powers the stronger they are. Today is your one hundredth birthday, and you are finally ready to claim your powers. | February 22nd, 2101. Today was the day. 84 years, I waited. Ridiculous was the word my wife used to describe my super power, just before she passed. She'd see in time, first hand, how it was far, far from that. I sat in my hospital bed, awaiting the drip. They told me it took longer to absorb the older you were, althou... | I had lived a life of mediocrity, and I was okay with that. I learned to be strong and patient as I saw my friends, one by one, claim their abilities. I learned to swallow my pride each and every time I'd be at the end of some matter-bending prank, or was teased for choosing to be normal. I wasn't always like that, you... | 2017-02-22T12:59:51 | 2017-02-22T12:30:09 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] The only reason the world hasn't ended yet is because the Gods are locked in a war to determine who's version of Apocalypse will take place. Unbeknownst to them, a minor God has been slowly working towards his version for millennia, and the rest are finally starting to catch on. | The cryo-chamber was quiet, as it had been for five days already. It is so quiet I can feel my heartbeat knocking against my ribs. Is it fast or is it slow? All alone, I have no one to ask but myself.
He steps up next to me, his footsteps measured and firm. I turn, and give my father a brief nod.
“So how do you feel?... | The only reason I know what is going on is because I stumbled in the wrong place at the wrong time.
So.
The World Ending.
Yeah, that was supposed to happen shortly before Rome legalized the practice of Christianity, though, I don't quite know by who. Mars claims he had the first dibs, but Mr.G, the Abrahamic God,... | 2019-02-15T16:02:02 | 2019-02-15T15:22:41 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] a post apocalyptic story, where each paragraph begins with "Fuck you, Cory." | Fuck you, Cory. If it wasn't for the mess you made when playing football in the my office we wouldn't be in the fucking mess we are now.
Fuck you, Cory for throwing that motherfucking football at my desk. You fucked it all up.
"Fuck you, Cory" was what I said when you first threw that football and before I realize wh... | Fuck you, Cory. The great city, one of the last bastions of humanity.
The world is a blasted wasteland. The war scoured the Earth, corrupting it into a blasted wasteland.
The only islands of refuge were two small oasis separated by a acrid desert. Legend says that two brothers discovered these enclaves of respite an... | 2015-05-02T13:30:13 | 2015-05-02T12:15:53 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] You're an immortal history teacher getting really tired of humanity's short memory. While responding to a student's stupid question, out of frustration, you accidentally let it slip that you have first hand knowledge of the past. | "No, women in 17'th century were not all sitting around the house, drinking tea, looking pretty and talking about books. Those were just the previliged rich ladies that were trying to find husbands. Everyone else, well over 90% of women population actually, we were working just like our men. In the fields or in the fac... | >"No Clive, World War I didn't not start because a man named "Archy Duke" died because he was astronomically hungry. If only you students were there like I was! Then you'd care! You'd ask yourself the important questions. Not "why was Belgium, a country the size of a postage stamp fielding a several hundred thousand... | 2021-06-09T07:13:03 | 2021-06-09T05:40:01 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] There is a broken bridge leading to the woods behind your house. It has been passed through generations in your family that the bridge should never ever be rebuilt no matter what happens. | It had been the same way for generations. A well kept farmhouse, behind which ran a slow moving river. Across the shore was the woods, deep and thick. The remains of a bridge spanned between the bank on our side, and the bank of the trees. Time had reduced it to a pair of stone columns on each side, with decayed remain... | “Stop being stupid. I’ve been over to the other side. It’s just a forest. There’s no ghost or anything like that. It’s just my weird family being weird.” Alan said, the two children sitting on the edge of the riverbank, looking at the decayed bridge that had half sunken into the misty green water below.
“It’s weird... | 2022-05-25T08:33:36 | 2022-05-25T08:28:39 | 235 | 47 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | We were at Walmart...Dad told me I could pick anything up for my birthday present, thats about the first time I noticed it, there it was.... On the floor a distinct green line and on the opposite side a red line, this one was a little less brighter, it had a very bleak bright to it.
I followed the green line to see w... | It's been ten years, and everything has gone my way. I graduated university with top marks, work at my dream job, and will soon be married to the best girl ever. All because of a little green line.
You see, following the green line keeps me safe. I never do the irrational or dangerous activities, so I never experienc... | 2017-08-23T08:58:51 | 2017-08-23T07:27:41 | 100 | 38 |
[WP] Hell finally has enough engineers to fix and maintain the air conditioning, and without the heat, it's not that bad. | Ever since that guy Willis Carrier came around in 1950, things began to look up for Hell.
Well, not before a very _very_ awkward conversation...
....
"There has to be a mistake! I died a pure Christian! Never have I done any substance nor have I done truly horrid crimes!!" says the recently deceased man. Willis was ... | Satan lay next to the boiling spa, his red skin exposed everywhere but that which his size-too-small swim trunks covered. He smirked, revealing his cracked canine tooth.
"Told ya' hell would be great." He says, sitting on the edge of the water and soaking his hooves. The pudgy demon he spoke to stuffs his clipboard un... | 2018-07-20T23:24:08 | 2018-07-20T22:09:37 | 33 | 10 |
[WP]You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered. | I breath hot air into my cupped hands in a vain attempt to warm them, shifting underneath my thick fur cloak. The snow is, somehow, falling heavier than it was last winter when it coated everything in the cold of winter like a frost giant's breath.
"One minute," I mutter to myself.
One more minute and then I could ... | "... Umm... Mike, shouldn't we do something about th-"
"Nope." I quickly respond to the new guy's question.
"He's literally just crouched down right ov-" I cut off the new guy again to explain.
"Alright Rook, look." I start, in a whisper so the "Hero" doesn't hear me.
"If we try to stop him, he's just going to se... | 2017-05-29T03:17:38 | 2017-05-28T23:37:13 | 69 | 49 |
[WP] You're a high level black mage with a few healing spells but everyone thinks you're a terrible cleric because you only ever use healing spells. | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Archmagus LeFey)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**LeFey had done battle with gods old and new.** He had called down the fires of the heavens, and split the earth ... | I remember this one dream, over and over again. I remember my mother’s eyes, so blue like the ocean, towering over me and boring into my soul, whispering to me the same phrase over and over again.
*I’m not crazy,* she would mumble to me, to herself, *you’re the crazy one. Crazy, crazy, crazy!*
And yet, everyone labe... | 2021-09-03T07:54:13 | 2021-09-03T07:46:22 | 463 | 237 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T08:33:07 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 44 | 12 |
[WP]You are a parent in an anime. Your child is born with epic anime hair, and you are certain they will become the protagonist. You are determined to not become a tragic back story like so many other anime parents. | " Oh shit, she has blue hair?"
" Yeah, sorry. My bad."
" No, your genes are fine. Let's just be careful. Okay? I mean like let's be really careful. Dudes are gonna come after us. I didn't die in childbirth so we're already ahead of the curve."
" True. But... honey? I love you. The best thing we can do right now is b... | I would do anything for my son.
Whenever I think of him, Naritsuko, I can't help but remember the first time I saw him. His mother - my lovely wife - was holding him in her arms, and he was breathing into her chest. I am a hard man, but seeing him there, seeing *my son*, it changed something within me.
There was lit... | 2017-02-15T03:44:38 | 2017-02-14T23:36:39 | 561 | 301 |
[WP] "Liar." "I'm telling the truth. They put themselves in pressurized metal boxes and launch themselves out of their planet with liquid fuel canisters. Humans are insane." | "Kagra-shit. That's a video game mechanic, no species would be insane enough to *grenade-jump* into space."
"I'm telling you it's true. They use explosive force to get into orbit."
"Why don't they use MagRails like everyone else?"
"We've looked into their radio transmissions. According to one institute the humans ca... | Gob straightened his suit, looking sideways at his co-worker named Pal.
"Liar." said Gob.
He had missed last night's episode of "Planet Earth" and he didn't believe a word of what Pal was saying. The show was what everybody where he worked at ever talked about. Unmanned space drones recorded the activities of these s... | 2017-12-16T06:04:06 | 2017-12-16T04:51:41 | 4,105 | 707 |
[WP] After near 2 centuries of the remnants of humanity living in pressurised habitats and requiring space suits to venture outside, a message pings the control centre - "TERRAFORMING COMPLETE. ENVIRONMENT IS HABITABLE." | Nobody remembers what happened.
All the elders died, and everyone decided to stop telling the stories. I couldn't blame them.
It hurt to think about.
Humanity, in it's uncountable billions, venturing the surface without life support.
No Ash Guards to keep the irradiated soot from scorching them.
No Rebreathers t... | I was there, in my quarters, in bed, when a message on my control center woke me up: "TERRAFORMING COMPLETE. ENVIRONMENT IS HABITABLE".
I couldn't believe it. Finally, it had happened - the outside was habitable, breathable, livable. I almost literally jumped for joy. It had been 195 years since the domes had gone up ... | 2022-12-16T22:22:20 | 2022-12-16T20:46:38 | 174 | 39 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | There was a time when good deeds ment the people adored you, they praised you as a savior. Those days are long gone. When Rodrick Friese proposed our step back into civilian life it wasn't met with warm responses, that is until he backed us into a corner, a situation we couldn't save, people we couldn't help.
Everyo... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T08:51:08 | 201 | 27 |
[WP] SETI receives a transmission from intelligent life. After some deciphering, the message reads, "Keep quiet or they'll find you!"
The message was clearly sent from elsewhere in our universe, from outside of our solar system. | The dusty screen flashed to life.
We had begun to wonder if it was useless. A waste, billions of dollars down the drain. We started to think of ourselves as alone again. Or at least, too far away to matter.
But, then the ones and zeros poured in. Not a long signal, but enough to send us reeling. Some thought it was... | Of course, it was too late. Far too late. For all he knew, that repeating message had been there for them all the way back on that dizzying first day of February, 1985 - when he had joined the SETI team as a fresh-faced intern right out of grad school. As the cab raced from Dulles International toward Capitol Hill, ... | 2014-10-03T12:03:07 | 2014-10-03T11:48:12 | 46 | 21 |
[WP] You wake up trapped inside of your favorite MMORPG with millions of other players. Everyone starts out by testing their battle skills and combat abilities, except for you. You take a more "Economical" approach by purchasing land from NPC's and establishing new commerce and trade routes. | When it happened, my first thought was that, at max-level I wanted to test out abilities. I was a Pandaren Monk and could fly at the mere thought of it. It was fun for a bit, but eventually I got over it. Then it hit me, if people were trapped in the game, there was no longer any logging out when they wanted to go to s... | My wife and I had always been big into MMOs, playing whenever we had free time. Particularly ESO, which had grabbed our attention and refused to let go. So when we woke in Tamriel we felt both frightened and thrilled. Feeling it was only a dream at first we just laughed it off, but as we met more and more real people a... | 2017-08-30T03:21:07 | 2017-08-30T00:53:39 | 53 | 36 |
[WP] A magical medieval fantasy empire frequently invades inferior, magic-less dimensions for easy conquest. This time though, they target the modern day technologically advanced Earth. | Note: For the purposes of this story imagine an ac-130 makes mw2 sounds.
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"Damage report major."
With a salute the major began speaking. "It appears that they have interdimensional portal technology, although they have not used it since they began their attack. They may need time to rechar... | "We have a fire order. It came across all channels but it's garbled. We can't authenticate." The comms officer held my gaze just long enough to confirm that I'd heard him, and turned back to his terminal, emotionless.
Everyone on the command deck grew suddenly more silent, even as new lights and sirens indicating... | 2021-06-26T07:06:31 | 2021-06-25T21:28:18 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] After a horrible accident together the hero decides the job is not worthy, and the villain gains a conscience thanks to the people that helped him. Years later hey find each other and fight, but now from opposite sides. | "How many times did you tell me to give in to my base emotions?"
I sighed, words from so long ago coming back to haunt me.
"Dozens of times throughout the years. But I've realised that was wrong. They are useful to an extent, but not to overrule your better judgement."
Tarus grinned, flexing his clawed gauntlet. I c... | "Who'd have ever guessed... I'll admit, I've missed clashing swords with you. I just never imagined our roles would be reversed."
"I feel the same way. Seems like the village is prospering better than ever with *you* as the hero."
"Well, I'd have been on my way back... except once I saw you, I decided my new responsi... | 2022-08-23T15:23:38 | 2022-08-23T14:23:29 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | Trying to remember something... Just out of reach. It is always hovering right there, but before you can reach out and grab it there is something there to int-
"Dad, are clouds made of candy?"
"What? Of course not, lad. They should have taught you about the water cycle by now... What are they even teaching you in sch... | "Www...Wait I don't even." I managed to mumble in confusion. This little creature was watching me with its strange alien eyes. It's weirdly formed hand pressed against the glass, the fingers almost octopus like sucking to the flat cold surface. One, two ... only three of them. It's eyes examining me meticulously.
"You... | 2018-05-14T01:26:59 | 2018-05-14T01:23:17 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | Sheryl kisses me on the cheek, patting my shoulder. I put an arm around her waist briefly; she is in the middle of getting dressed and we're running behind. While she buttons her dress, I knot my tie. I lace my shoes as she slips into her best brown heels, the ones with the little bows on the tops. I watch her brush he... | I awake to the sun creeping between the fins of my blinds. A clear day after what seems a lifetime of clouds. I open the door and walk down the hall. In the kitchen I make a pot of coffee, the aroma breaks the stale smell of morning as I open the windows to let in the fresh morning air. My wife is at the table in fron... | 2016-05-19T11:23:33 | 2016-05-19T08:22:28 | 208 | 124 |
[WP] Write a scene that would appear sexual to an observer, but is completely innocent. [nsfw]
Like the tent shadow scene from Austin Powers, it should be humorous and can involve objects and sounds. | "What a night," he said, holding her close to his chest, her head lifting with his every breath.
They laid beneath the still-wet blankets as the sun peeked through the shudders, bathing the room in a soothing orange glow. The past hour seemed, to him, a whirl of sensation: the writhing, gasping bodies pressed against ... | God, I felt like a man.
I couldn't help but admire myself, stealing glances at my own reflection. Shirtless in the nippy air, glistening with sweat; the light reflected off my perspiration, clearly delineating the bulging and rippling of my muscles as I worked, up and down, like a powerful machine, a piston powered by... | 2013-10-14T00:51:09 | 2013-10-13T23:18:57 | 73 | 11 |
[WP] You are in a bar when a six year old pigtailed little girl takes the stool next to you. In the deepest lumberjack voice she says, "Hey, Frank, make it a double. It happened again." You can't resist and ask her, "What happened again?" |     The little girl just glares at me, "Fuck off, buddy."
    I raised my hands in surrender, and turned my attention back to the drink in front of me. I was a little surprised Frank didn't tell her to beat it, that kids had no place in bars. ... | Nate had a bad day and really needed a drink. He headed to The Castle, where an old fortress by the ocean was revamped into the city's most beautiful vintage-looking bar.
He ordered some food as well. It is said that the bar has the widest variety in town, from the most common of steaks to the meat of any monster lur... | 2016-07-22T03:05:17 | 2016-07-22T01:27:58 | 63 | 11 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | This literally happened to my mom and dad when I was younger. My dad's snowmobile went through the ice, so he left his coat at the hole so he could find it the next day. Later that night the police knocked on the door and told my mom that my dad went through the ice his coat was recovered on scene and no bodies have be... | "Wait a second" said the first officer, "is this 131 Vernon Street?"
"No" I told them, "that's the next door over. This is 133 Vernon"
"Oh jeez. Boy is there egg on my face" he chuckled. "Sorry for the mistake, have a nice day!"
I closed the door and went back inside. | 2017-10-10T08:18:15 | 2017-10-10T07:06:27 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Phil was tired.
Granted, Phil had spent a hundreds of years in Hell, slowly grinding his way up the infernal bureaucratic ladder. He had started at the bottom rung, not even allowed to speak. Now, he was a rhymer. Not a higher-up, but it was definite progress. He was reflecting when his intercom buzzed.
"Sir? We have... | Samantha was five when the drunk driver rammed his truck off the road and smashed her away from her mother. She still wore the same clothes now, a bright colored dress and fancy looking, but functional shoes. She was playing with some rocks on the Precipice of Inifinite Pain above the Lake of Fire. Two demons each k... | 2013-11-26T16:23:25 | 2013-11-26T13:08:15 | 220 | 27 |
[WP] The villain wins and everything is better. Turns out he had a point. | "Ryder," He said softly, looking out over the boundless stars.
"What is it?" Ryder answered back, just barely audible over the low hum of the engine.
"Use your powers. Look over the people here, and tell me they aren't happier under me," He said. "If they aren't, I will relinquish control of everything to you." Ryde... | I step down from the bus, raising one hand to salute the great statue of The Leader which watches over the station. The people beside me do the same, and rightly so. Today is the anniversary of his great peace. Five years ago today, we finally laid down our arms and embraced a better world.
We were wrong to fight. It ... | 2015-11-18T06:17:54 | 2015-11-18T05:31:22 | 558 | 79 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | A marine stepped through the portal.
He surveyed the land, and beheld a lush, uncharted rainforest.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He looked forward into the clearing, and saw an exotic hut surrounded by plots of abandoned farmland.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He peered around, and was greeted ... | The first one would see a new world. The 2nd would see a flag marking a path to a place to take shelter.in the shelter there would be a Journal of the marine life. On the new world. 3rd see a sign showing him the way to the shelter. In the shelter there would be a starter kit. The help the new marine out . Something 2... | 2014-09-02T10:07:22 | 2014-09-02T08:01:32 | 342 | 11 |
[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... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 94 | 16 |
[WP] You've convinced death to let you have a second chance at an extraordinary life, starting over from the beginning, with all your memories intact. A second life of procrastination and wasted opportunities later, you stand before a very disappointed Death. | “I just kinda thought I’d have more time, I guess.”
The figure standing before me responds with a soft hum. I can’t read his expression. How could I when he’s just a skull cloaked in darkness itself?
“Yea,” I bluster. “I talked a big game the last time we met but then I had some time to soul-search and stuff. I reali... | “Fates decided, fates opposed. The sin of SLOVENLY WASTE sits upon your shoulders.”
A human, on the floor in the very state they ceased to exist. They were in full sobs at this point.
“I’m sorry!! I’m SORRY, please, I just thought—“
“Nothing?”
A hissed breath from a voice that seemed too hollow to be from any set ... | 2021-01-16T23:10:07 | 2021-01-16T22:34:19 | 178 | 17 |
[WP] You're a supergenius-level robotics expert. Your neighbor is a godlike magician. You use your abilities solely to prank each other. | The day my toilet disappeared while I was using it was the last straw.
I asked nicely. I even pleaded, but no amount of groveling would make my shitter reappear. As Bugs Bunny says, "'Dis means war."
A few days later, her SUV decided to take a walk. Literally. It rose on its hind wheels to take a lovely stroll down t... | I slapped my hands together and looked at my latest creation. A plume of white dust erupted from my gloves, and was promptly followed by a fit of heavy coughing, but my newest robot remained untouched.
I stood upon my pedestal and looked down at the trench I had just dug. Not that I did physical work, seeing as my sum... | 2015-02-18T20:06:01 | 2015-02-18T19:59:49 | 1,934 | 31 |
[WP] A young boy is called inside for dinner, accidentally leaving several of his Army Men in his sandbox. Now they must survive the night. | "Sir, the General has yet to return."
I looked up at the sky, darkening with my mood. The general wan't coming back. Dammit. I looked around to the lads around me. They all looked mostly the same to the General, green and made of plastic only I was distinguishable with my large gun, fancy uniform and beaten model. But... | The sun was going down. Bobby Wyatt went inside and left twenty-two plastic men and women tipped over in Sand Box Three. This is the story of the Hasbro Hellfighters.
They righted themselves in the dying light of the day. They had a scratched bare megazord lumbering in the sand for heavy fire support and a couple of l... | 2016-12-04T16:08:48 | 2016-12-04T15:46:04 | 195 | 47 |
[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. | Dear Shane,
Remember at my wedding when you looked at me and said, "Don't do this. It's not too late."
I'll be married twenty six years in December. I have three kids almost all of them are adults. I tell them about you all the time. How you were the strongest kid I ever met. I tell them how you were my good sid... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-06T00:19:39 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] A police commissioner has become over-reliant on the services of mystery writers, psychics, magicians, reformed con artists, meddling kids, men in bat costumes, and assorted other consultants, and must now explain themselves to an appalled Mayor. | "Yes, sir."
"Yes, sir."
"No, sir."
"Yes, sir."
"Sir, if I may -"
"No, sir."
"Yes, sir."
"Yes, sir."
"They'd been infiltrated by the Mafia, sir."
"Yes, sir. Definitive proof."
"No, sir, Internal Affairs have been infiltrated by the gangs, sir."
"No, sir."
"No, sir, no self-respecting criminal would go around... | "I keep telling you Mayor Bacon, it's not some sort of fetish!"
*Incomprehensible yelling coming from the other part of the line.
"Look, if we didn't have Cardi B conning the quilt maker we never would have caught him! If the quilt maker would have been left unfettered imagine all of the blankets on the streets that... | 2022-01-17T23:38:51 | 2022-01-17T22:18:15 | 90 | 17 |
[WP] We were one of 5 human species put on Earth by aliens 15,000 years ago. Being the weakest physical species, we were expected to be extinct, outcompeted by the others. However, when the aliens check in, we’ve wiped out the others. | "Some might say it was due to our intelligence and tool making skills that we turned out on top. But in the beginning we had none of that. You saw to that, didn't you? We were nothing but food for the other 'competitors' weren't we? But I'll tell you what we did have. The unstoppable, unflinching power of will to do wh... | Humanity was the weakest it was the dumbest they were put there to die a throw away character to show the danger. Turns out they didn’t account for humanity’s one advantage, Endurance. The first example came in the first winter. Of the five four survived humanity among them the fifth didn’t survive the cold they couldn... | 2022-11-19T00:01:00 | 2022-11-18T22:30:56 | 43 | 14 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | A knock, familiar to my heart and changed to my ears, rings out before suns-rise. I look at the calendar, and see it's a Leit day, meaning no work, and I trudge to the door, and I see his face through the peephole. I open, and let in the 'Chosen One', Alik Ratah, in. He's got a sheepish expression on his face.
"Fiv... | ‘Why?’
‘What?’
‘Why?!’
She stayed silent. We’d been talking. I was being polite. So was she. But it lost all sense of familiarity. It was awkward. Like I’d never met her before.
I don’t know what to feel.
‘Baby, what do you mean why? You know why I had to go.’
That sounded genuine.
I think.
I don’t know anymo... | 2022-08-12T14:59:51 | 2022-08-12T13:20:44 | 69 | 41 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | “You... understand what the job entails... right?”
The man on the other side of the desk looked at me like I was insane.
“Well I certainly understand what it pays!” I responded, nervously. Honestly, how hard could it possibly be? The payment is absolutely insane! I couldn’t believe no one had already taken the job.
... | People tried Communism, and it didn't work. Nobody was incentivized to do the hard tasks, from the dull to the dangerous. But, by 2035, it was clear that capitalism wasn't going to work either. So, the 51st President of the United States, Alec Du Trieux, wielded the power of his Executive Order to create a new economic... | 2018-08-02T11:19:46 | 2018-08-02T09:25:27 | 5,697 | 303 |
[WP] Tou stand accused of witchcraft, but unlike everybody else you see accused you really are a witch. The inquisition is about to learn the hard way that everybody they burned before you was innocent | They dragged the witch to the ancient forest, hung her body on a pole. Set a flame under and watch her jet black dress and costume catch fire. She wanted to stand out, still wearing the masquera they found on her. It’s leaked since.
All she did was laugh
And laugh
And laugh
“Though all my years of witchcraft, I’ve ... | Elena was her name and a witch she was.
Unfair was her acusation.Even dumb one might say.
A church priest wanted her in bed but she refused.
She was acused of witchcraft like many others before her but she really was a witch.
She was a travelling merchant selling potions and magical items around the continent.But now... | 2021-03-05T14:59:10 | 2021-03-05T14:29:22 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] Finally, the ultimate MMORPG has been created, unlimited choice and room to grow and expand your character. There's just one issue, it's so realistic, nobody can remember which life they are living, and which is the game. | People called it one of the greatest accomplishments in gaming history. A game in which you didn't play, *you lived.* On the release date there were 50 million sales; it was the most popular game of all time.
It didn't last for long though.
A doctor, who was also an avid gamer, had decided to try it out. The sto... | My character in the game, John paused hus game and finally looked up. He was a game character designed by me to look like me. I had spent a lot of money buying every expansion that came out. My house, my room, my stuff, they were all exactly the same as what I had in real life. I had been making my character 'John' pla... | 2018-02-19T08:52:05 | 2018-02-19T07:06:50 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You're a high school student with the ability to have whatever you write come true. One day, you're taking a history test you didn't study for, and despite not wanting to mess up the universe, you REALLY want to get an A.
[removed] | "Seriously? He wrote that?"
Mr Tori sighed, and looked across the table. His assistant's look of disbelief was a reflection of what he felt, but he suppose...
"I guess this can't be helped. He did answer the question, after all."
"I know it says 'What is the most surprising thing in history' but there is only one si... | I sat in concern for a few seconds before remembering that I was basically god. I chuckled to myself and wrote, "I got an A on this history test" as the answer to the first question. Then I turned it in, walked out of school and got in my Lamborghini, peeling out and flicking the school off with both of my hands.
Sudd... | 2018-05-09T23:44:57 | 2018-05-09T23:07:40 | 146 | 24 |
[WP] The hero's childhood friend has become the world's most dangerous villain. "it doesn't make sense", the hero thinks "he's still the boy I know, kind, brave, selfless to a fault, always standing up for... wait, something isn't right here" | “The difference between you and me was present from the very beginning, Tanner,” Joseph said. “I did what was right, and you thought the right thing was what was allowed. Independent thinking was never your strong suit.”
“You’re a thief and a murderer,” Tanner murmured, weakened by the restraints and the injuries her ... | "That , doesn't make sense "
as they look at the news of your old friend destroying another government building of secured
"What do they think is gonna happen destroying such a building !?, it's the only thing, that was making the cure"
They sigh , as they put on their hero suit and equipment
", I don't know what... | 2022-11-15T00:03:24 | 2022-11-14T15:52:38 | 101 | 16 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | It was a beautiful night for urban exploring. This part of the town was intensely silent. The warehouses used to bustle with tobacco, textiles, and workers and businessman. But times had changed, and the businesses had gone overseas. Now they were simply beautiful old shells, filled with old machines and boxes of never... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T07:25:11 | 138 | 20 |
[WP] You are immortal and move to a new city every 10 years to avoid detection. After moving back to Boston 100 years since your last stay, you notice a familiar face. | Boston.
Here I find myself again, strolling down a valley of asphalt, glass, and concrete. I'd been to so many like it in the last few hundred years, but each one had it's own unique personality.
I grumble to myself as I wander, eyeing every "help wanted" sign I pass. Driven once again by the tiresome necessity of fi... | The questions had started again. Or, rather, they were usually not questions, but statements. "It looks like you haven't aged a day!". The questions was more in line of what I do to stay looking young. I just shrugged them off saying exercise and food and whatnot. In reality I hadn't trained since I attended the first ... | 2017-10-14T23:56:42 | 2017-10-14T23:30:42 | 473 | 81 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| Lins eyelids came down slowly. Her hands went trough the motions of piercing the needle trough the leather. She could do it in her sleep. Yet she wasn't allowed to, or the foreman would slap her again. Lin straightened her back. Football after football went trough her weary hands. It took her only minutes to sew them t... | It's not the best of my writing, but I couldn't see such a great prompt, with a very difficult task go to waste. I have decided to pour out my small amount of talent into this prompt. Feel honored or amused, your choice.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... | 2014-07-07T07:52:08 | 2014-07-07T06:58:02 | 91 | 34 |
[WP] An intelligent horse wanted to be a knight so badly that he strapped an empty armour on his back, and used ventriloquism and jousting to get through tough situations. Now he's being asked by the king to save the princess from a dragon. | "You want me to kill a dragon," the knight said, in disbelief.
"Of course, Sir Equistern," the King replied. "It should be a simple task for a powerful knight like yourself."
"Powerful knights aren't flameproof!" the knight replied. "This is a dragon we're talking about. They breathe fire! They're as big as an el... | Big Brown bit back his nerves as he stood in front of the King.
"And finally, Sir Brown, you will be handsomely rewarded for your valor in the face of the seemingly insurmountable, though certainly not insurmountable for your esteemed self, dangers of facing Vile the Dread."
Big Brown wished the courtier would shut u... | 2017-09-08T00:29:36 | 2017-09-08T00:08:50 | 666 | 12 |
[WP] When you storm into the castle to slay the dragon, you are flummoxed to find yourself facing a tidy desk. Behind it sits a bespectacled woman who politely asks, "What dragon part do you need to complete your Quest?" | "Hey, Lizzy. Yeah, just a few scales will do this time," He said, leaning his sword against the desk and gently removing his helmet.
"Would you like them to come pre-bloodied?"
"With your rates?" He said, laughing "Maker knows a bucket of pigs blood will do just fine."
"Hardly recognized you in your new armor, Ian... | And there she was, the "Head Secretary of External Affairs, Eliza James", staring at me as if waiting for a response.
"Ah, a noob, am I right? In that case, go sit over there and I'll bring the forms over in a second.', she pointed towards a waiting area with a few old science magazines.
'Um, alright.', and I walked ... | 2017-10-08T11:48:12 | 2017-10-08T09:58:12 | 165 | 25 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | “I’m afraid I don’t understand,” I told my teacher calmly, uncaring of the disruption I was causing in the classroom. “Was my essay badly written? Was there a problem with my citations? What exactly did I do wrong enough to warrant a D?”
Normally, I strove for politeness. But it was simply unacceptable for any educato... | _A D?? This deserves better than a D, Mrs Naurood!_
\- You can't go around pulling stuff out of thin air and calling it history, John! And as I've already said, See. Me. After. Class.
_But they're not made up! It's right there in the books!_
Mrs. Naurood ignored me as she picked up her books and left the class.
I'd... | 2021-07-18T02:33:51 | 2021-07-18T02:10:51 | 1,930 | 385 |
[WP]Everyone on earth gets the same message on their phone telling them to go to a specific address. People everywhere are talking about and wondering if they should go. However after talking to some people about it, you realize that the address you were given is different than everyone else's. | So there they all were - Tightly crammed into Rhode Island. And here I was, watching them all from the International Space Station.
I hadn’t expected the text telling to go to the launch site, nor for everything to be automated. I followed the instructions. I mean who wouldn’t? Was it god, or some strange person wit... | \[POEM\]
Still unbelieving, I walk down the street
The same way we're all going, following our feet
The text on our phones no-one could delete
Said "Come here, don't fear, we all must meet"
I'm nearly there, only a few hundred feet
The sound overwhelms me, what a glorious beat
People start moving faster, they're... | 2019-09-09T13:20:27 | 2019-09-09T12:32:24 | 25 | 10 |
[WP]"I told you it's an artifact of incredible might and power and THAT'S where you decide to hide it?!" | It took Benjamin a couple of tries before he could frame a coherent sentence.
“I told you it was an artifact of incredible might and power and THAT’S where you hide it?”
Jim shrugged. “Come on, Ben, never read Poe? Hide in plain sight!”
Deep breaths. Deep breaths, count to ten. You can’t shoot this lu... | Arko shook the small white and red Igloo cooler, and Edris winced as she heard the contents jumble about inside. A small dust devil kicked up outside of the abandoned building, sand and small pebbles rasping against the glass windows.
"Stop! Stop it!" Edris held up her hands. "I told you it's an artifact of incredible... | 2021-06-28T09:17:16 | 2021-06-28T08:38:18 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] As a villain of a fantasy world, you conquered the world twice; each time being thwarted by the heroine. Dejected, you gave up on conquest to pursue mundane pursuits. You openned a small shop and met the love of your life, the twist? Its the heroine of this world, and only you know the truth. | "Welcome home, hun." I said as Aurora came in. She came around the counter, kissed me on the cheek and went into the back room. God, I love her.
But she *hates* me. The real me, anyway. You might think that you'd remember the guy who you deposed from world domination. Twice. But when your arch nemesis always wears a m... | "It's just my opinion, alright? I don't expect you to hold with it, I just-"
"You just don't support capital punishment." Euphrasie finished, tone a crystalline calm.
Jean bit back a sharp retort, instead opting to mirror her partner's level headed manner of speech. "What gives the government the right to determine... | 2018-05-09T16:25:31 | 2018-05-09T14:06:20 | 86 | 26 |
[WP] The year is 2030 and humans have become enslaved by Artificial Intelligence. The only hope mankind now has lies with the Amish. | For Rumspringa, I chose to travel to Europe. The machines assigned an escort to me, AC51, who met me at the edge of Bucks County. He was pleasantly well-mannered and remarkably lifelike. Even after the death of almost all human civilizations, the machines continued to improve their synthetic flesh and voice modules to ... | "Password's Puccinia Recondita," Anna whispered. "You want to just go straight in. Ignore Paul, he always has that big ole knife out."
Cory nodded. "Can I have some water?" He asked. "I'm parched.
Anna, the girl in the white bonnet and floor length dress that he'd met, stumbling up to the farm in the darkness, no... | 2015-06-17T09:22:23 | 2015-06-17T07:21:08 | 229 | 51 |
[WP] You’re a pediatrician. One day you perform a standard checkup on a sweet little girl. Later, you are horrified to find when you place your stethoscope on her chest, she has no heartbeat. | A little girl entered the room. Describing her in one word would be easy-she was sweet. She looked like when god baked her he accidentaly spilled in an extra cup of sugar. You can say her presence even made me a little bit more eased.
"What's your name, girl?"
She giggled. Her laugh was soft and sweet. It remided me... | She was calm, almost defiant, when I stepped back and looked up at her. She had the remnants of a grin on her face.
What had I done wrong? I’ve done thousands, millions of auscultations during my residency. It was the first goddamn thing they taught us to do. My first day out on my own and I can’t even find a pulse.
... | 2019-11-30T09:10:19 | 2019-11-30T06:52:34 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | I hold her hand.
She smiles at me.
Despite having lost her sense of touch, she can somehow still smile, for me.
"I love you" she whispers
"I know" I reply.
"I'm going to beat this" she insists
"I know" I reply
Her eyes slowly close.
I put down the knife. | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T01:46:56 | 272 | 109 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | *I'm skirting the line here, but nobody dies, so I think it counts, right?*
Four stories was not enough. After my wife left me, I tried to end it. I climbed the stairs to the ceiling of my apartment building. I walked to the edge, but couldn't take that last step, so I ran at top speed and jumped.
Climbing, walking,... | Nothing left but a note on a dresser.
*I thought it could be, but it couldn't. I'm so sorry.*
The other half of the sheets were rumpled, but empty, for the first time in two years.
***
Figured I'd try my hand at this. Lemme know how I did. | 2014-10-19T20:53:05 | 2014-10-19T18:32:35 | 84 | 47 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | I blinked.
"I'm sorry, did I hear you right?"
She sighed on the other end. *"Look man, I don't have anyone else I can tell about this. We can go back to our scheduled death matches tomorrow, but right now I NEED you to be my plus-one."*
I was speechless, my jaw hanging open. It was a trap, it had to be.
As if she'd... | ‘Bwahahaha!!! I’m going to make this a wedding no is EVER going to forget!!Muwahahaha!!—that laugh was better—Gregory! Remind me to use ‘Muwahahaha’ in all further expository speeches…..Where were we? Oh, you were begging me to help you, its adorable. Of course, I wouldn’t miss this for the world.
‘This ex, any disli... | 2022-10-06T18:06:24 | 2022-10-06T16:34:26 | 267 | 83 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Those humans. Those weak, pathetic Humans. Or so we thought. We decided to eradicate them. They where allies with many of our enemies, and had been providing raw materials to them to fuel them in their war with us. We knew they had to die.
And Besides, they where so pathetic. Squishy bodies, lacking a hard chitin to p... | Human are decidedly strange creatures. Devoid of inherent magic it is a wonder they ever managed to evolve from mindless animals to something that resembles sentient beings. Their paltry tricks of science were no match for the magics which bent the universe itself the the will of the caster. It is unclear how such a ma... | 2020-02-07T16:29:03 | 2020-02-07T15:00:45 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | I hold her hand.
She smiles at me.
Despite having lost her sense of touch, she can somehow still smile, for me.
"I love you" she whispers
"I know" I reply.
"I'm going to beat this" she insists
"I know" I reply
Her eyes slowly close.
I put down the knife. | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T01:46:56 | 1,143 | 109 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | It's *wonderful* here. I want to *stay*. I've been trying to *stay* here *and* every attempt I've made has *succeeded*. There are *caregivers* everywhere. They look normal, *and* they *are*. They are not *different*. They are *humans*. They're all insanely *nice*. Everyone here is subject to their *assistance*, or *be... | _______ ______ BY __________
An exclusive ____ story by ______ __, we report to you _____ that in ______ _____ near _____ ___, a local ______ was brutally _____ today by the ______ _____. Local Residents stated that they saw the ____ _______ worn by the ____ _____, but when the local Governmental agency was asked, the... | 2015-01-18T11:35:07 | 2015-01-18T11:10:02 | 1,003 | 147 |
[WP] Elon Musk is convinced that we live in a simulation, so he constructs the largest cluster bomb in history and sets it off in space. For the first time, MilkyWay.exe lags. | Jeremy looked at the read out on the monitor in disbelief.
Error 100101
Error? The Milky Way hadn’t had an error in...well ever. And what the hell was error 100101?
Beads of sweat began to form on his brow. Had he done something? The only manual interaction he’d had with the sim were the usual arbitrary interactio... | "Is there anything i can do to stop these redditors from dickriding me so hard?" Elon musked wondered out loud.
"Jeez Elon I dont know"
"Helpfull as always whatever my brothers called, listen to this ingenious idea. Ill get a couple of billions worth of explosives and set it off in space."
"are you gonna be snarky ... | 2016-08-19T15:21:07 | 2016-08-19T15:06:38 | 81 | 13 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Anna,
I must say that your letter was an unexpected delight. It was quite charmingly written, and I commend your command of grammar and syntax. All of the items you requested will be easy enough to provide. However, I cannot cure dyslexia. That is was one the many things my Father cursed humanity with during one ... | Dear child,
Finally, someone broke the spell. I was trapped into the hell and the only way to get out from here it was receiving a letter earmarked for Santa. Yes.... I'm the real Santa, and I was a victim of a spell.
Because I was trapped here, every children's parents were charged to do my duties. But now thanks to... | 2018-10-28T14:29:07 | 2018-10-28T13:06:41 | 59 | 23 |
[WP]: The fountain of youth is discovered. Things do not go as planned. | I found it following the old conquistador's trek. It wasn't at all what I expected. The area was secluded, enshrined in vines and brambles. To my left, there were rolling hills. Tom my right, a morass of briar and thorn thicket and quick sand, leading all the way to the ocean inlet that brought me. A single trail lead ... | November 26th
Stumbled across something weird today. A well. In the middle of the Atacama! Who'd have thought it eh? We were fine for water but we decided to give the old winch a turn to see if there was actually any down there. The bucket came up and, what do you know, fresh, clean water. We all had a sip and went on... | 2013-11-26T10:36:04 | 2013-11-26T10:31:02 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Your father left your family when you were a child to "go buy a pack of cigarettes". It is 10 years later and you're a teenager when your father walks back in, wearing the same clothes he left in, and insists he has only been gone half an hour. | He walks in as if nothing's happened and sits at the head of the table. With a somewhat forced light-heartedness he calls to mom to hurry up with dinner.
The collar on his shirt is frayed, Salt and pepper have finally made an appearance around his temples. The lines on his weather beaten face are that of a hard life... | There was something weird about this day
Harold, my brother, was acting weird as if he had seen something.
Ending school i went home.
Everything seemed just fine.
Lots of love from my family.
Don't know about my dad though, he disappeared 10 years ago.
Everytime he went to buy cigarretes he was quick. Not this ... | 2018-11-08T06:29:46 | 2018-11-08T05:15:25 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | We all laughed at the first wave of news about it, as it was front page of the National Inquirer. Of course bat boy was ridiculous fake news.
Until it wasn't.
On live television, a press reporter literally lost his head. After a moment of stunned silence, he picked it back up and put it back on his shoulders, as stu... | [POEM]
Atop of a mountain, staff all a glow,
Made a promise to creatures above and below
A man dressed in silk who'd had an idea,
To change all the creatures to serve and adhere
He'd make them all bipeds and strangle their power,
Take evermoving tides and restrict them by hour
He'd change their thoughts from freedom... | 2019-10-09T12:19:40 | 2019-10-09T11:24:31 | 57 | 27 |
[WP] You are a super hero. Near-instant healing, no sense of pain, super strength. The catch is, for 1 hour per year, you have to suffer all of the stored up pain and suffering from the whole year. That hour begins in just a few minutes.
Edit: Gold? Thanks! First time! | "You ready?"
"Yeah. Knock me out, doc."
------
"Hey, how are you feeling."
"A little fuzzy."
"That'll clear up in a couple hours. Here, drink this."
"Thanks doc."
---
"You ready?"
"I'm ready."
"What did you do before all this?"
"You mean before our yearly sleepovers? Mostly just screamed it out. Police would... | It's pretty awesome having super powers, but man I hate this part. It's always the anticipation that I hate the most, as I sit here thinking of the past year. This was a doozie of a year, too. That time I jumped on a bomb in the middle of the square. That semi truck I jumped in front of to save that crowd. Ugh, I got d... | 2019-04-08T09:52:32 | 2019-04-08T09:00:42 | 74 | 32 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | I have no idea what I’m doing here. Is this my sixth grade English class? I look down at my copy of Number the Stars. That was one of the mandatory reading books I actually enjoyed. I feel hot tears on my checks and I’m crying.
“What’s wrong now Michelle?” The teacher barks at me. The rudeness startles me. Who gets an... | I feel the tears trickles down my cheeks and I’m not bothered.
“Muhammad, are you okay?”
“Oh yes sir.”
All of my classmates are staring at me now. I continue looking straight at my teacher. He frowns.
“It’s just that you’re smiling and you’re crying at the same time.”
“Sir, there is something I have to tell you.”... | 2019-08-18T08:19:58 | 2019-08-18T07:11:21 | 2,525 | 125 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | I stood there for a while. Then I made a list. I had to make a list.
* Angel.
* Hallucination.
* Virtual Reality.
* Superhero.
* Incredibly elaborate prank.
I kind of ran out of ideas after that last one. I waited, and I waited, and I decided to make dinner. Once dinner was ready, I waited some more. My brain spun ... | I stood there for what felt like almost an hour, staring out the window Eden just flew out of. My mind was blank, as if all my thoughts were taken away with her, I didn't know what to say, or even how I was supposed to feel about this. The familliar, hated itch returned, causing me to agressively scratch at the back of... | 2018-09-16T15:50:30 | 2018-09-16T12:45:28 | 47 | 26 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | Kai sat in the large auditorium. The busy bustle and rustle of many students rushing to fill their seats before class began to fill the once vacant hall. This class was unusual. Normally students would simply log in to their schools virtual database to be present. A holographic display of the student would then appear ... | She sat in her chair, quaking in shock. She could not sit there and listen to the professor say that humans when one of the most peaceful peoples in the galaxy. She new different. She new the truth. She had to speak up.
She raised her hand. Professor K'Vorth acknowledge her. "Yes? What is it, Karen?"
Karen slowly sto... | 2022-10-17T07:12:12 | 2022-10-17T05:22:08 | 117 | 74 |
[WP] As you wake up on Earth from your cryo-sleep pod after 80 years from a research trip to the stars, you are greeted with trumpets and banners. Turns out, the micronation you brought the title of the highest noble from when you were drunk has taken over the world when you were away. | I saw an ad on Reddit. A confusing backstory, I know. What they were looking for were middle-aged individuals with no ties to this Earth for a special research project up in Space.
If you survive, they state, we will compensate you generously.
It wasn't really for the money. I did it to see id I qualified, and if I ... | Life is... Boring.
It's true! You are born to die without a single say on the matter! How convenient would it be if I was born just a couple more decades into the future?
It was a question without answer but that only made the answer worth searching for, I took to the stars. the origin of all things would surely hav... | 2020-11-04T07:25:00 | 2020-11-04T06:52:44 | 316 | 56 |
[WP] The instant the Dark Lord hears the prophecy about one destined to defeat him, he scoffs and notes "Standard self-fulfilling hero prophecy." before ordering his minions to go to the hero's hometown and build a bunch of public works projects, the most important of which is a school. | “Seer Griselda, please repeat that.”
Moran Ossenius, the necromancer of Yorm Urtush, tapped his fingers against his desk. The wizened old woman leaned back in her chair with her eyes closed in a trance.
“It is as I said, my Lord,” she droned. “The Hero of Light has been born. She will one day bring about your death. ... | *The Dark Lord stood over the hero, his black armor pulling in the dying light of the fading sun.*
*“You thought you could defeat me,” the Dark Lord said, his laughter peeled across the ruined landscape.*
*The hero tried to get up one last time, his jeweled claymore hanging heavy in his hand, but the Dark Lord kicked... | 2021-01-14T21:08:56 | 2021-01-14T18:51:30 | 420 | 166 |
[WP] Every way to die works like Chicken Pox: If you get it once and survive, it can never happen to you again. | I haven't figured out how to survive dying from pressure yet.
---
When I was sixteen I drowned. Quietly, the way kids in pools sometimes do- passive, not active drowning. The world closed over me and my lungs filled up and then I died.
When I opened my eyes my chest hurt *horribly*, because someone was shoving it ... | When I was ten, chicken pox had been the worst thing to happen to me. I thought I was going to die. Ha! If only I had known. It's been 113 years now and I'm still going. Some call me a zombie, some call me an angel, churches love to brand me a devil. ...but hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, at least in... | 2015-11-12T10:39:36 | 2015-11-12T09:47:00 | 224 | 129 |
[WP] You carry a tray of food and drink out to the stone altar on your front lawn. On your way, you wave to neighbors busily arranging their own offerings. Just another Friday night. Suddenly, you realize the house across the street is dark; table still empty. Panic sets in as the sun begins to set. | *Oh no, that's the Palmers' house! Joe was a bit sick this morning but he said he'd be fine for tonight!*
I nearly dropped the offerings I carried, the pork chops and milk sliding side to side dangerously. I calmed down as best as I could, gently placing the tray where it belonged. Looking over it one last time to mak... | “Oh my God, the Johnsons are gone.”
Everything was still in place, just as it had been earlier that day. Charming hand-made mailbox, a couple spring decorations, and a perfectly trimmed lawn. But the sweet old couple, who always dropped off pies on their neighbors' birthdays, was nowhere to be seen.
Kelly turned to m... | 2016-10-03T10:35:33 | 2016-10-03T10:30:50 | 125 | 43 |
[WP] Scientists have created an "opposite machine" that can create an opposite to any item that you put inside. After trying just a few items you begin to realize just how much power this machine has. | In this glorious, incomprehensible future of ours, The Machine is the final contradiction made real: the servant that is supreme, the god that is a slave. Poison is antidote. Disease is cure. Shit is food. The Machine blesses, but judges not. Humanity polices itself. As the old joke goes, all the politicians and priest... | It just sat there, sitting, abandoned after all the scientists that invented it killed themselves after realizing the power they had. I thought it was a myth, a story made up by Hollywood or some other shit but, here it is.... Right infront of me.
I started putting random stuff in it like a pencil, gave me an eraser,... | 2021-11-27T22:04:32 | 2021-11-27T21:20:11 | 351 | 62 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | The first thing I did was count them. One, two, three... six. Six zeros. Each one stamped proudly across my chest, starting with a three. Three million? How could this happen?
The number was just a one last night, I remembered seeing it right before bed. It had been that way for two weeks. Even though the number says ... | I look at the mirror above the sink, I look really tired, splash my some cold water. I look at the number in my chest and a sudden burst of joy feels my being, and face is over taken by grin, all that tiredness and gloom has just disappeared. All those zero make me realize I still have a lot of work to do, I am so clos... | 2016-06-24T03:35:52 | 2016-06-23T23:42:35 | 461 | 13 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | *They're actually really nice once it comes time to kill you here.*
This was my fleeting thought as I combed my hair in the giant floor length mirror I was finally permitted. They bent over backwards for the last day. Even let a professional make up team come to paint my face. The man who collected my requests didn't ... | The dark, cold cell is lighting up as the guard opens the small window.
-So what would you like to have as your last meal?
-I would like to have my mother's chicken soup, made from the chicken I raised myself since it was only an egg.
-You guys are awesome. Never cease to amaze me. I will get back to you on that... | 2022-07-17T22:09:37 | 2022-07-17T19:59:11 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | They say that with great power comes great responsibility. They say it an awful lot.
It seems they do not hold themselves to the same maxim.
They are perpetual children, born of a hellish world. They are tall and wiry and somehow far more resilient than their spindly limbs and narrow frames suggest. They eat poison a... | I've seen it. I know it's there. The messages, unending stream, they're everywhere!
I saw it first when my days were young, the plants withered, the wind child and I felt a...presence... They were here for me! To tell me! I was chosen to decipher their language, and I swore to my destiny on that day.
The connection re... | 2017-10-31T16:23:05 | 2017-10-31T15:26:39 | 176 | 80 |
[WP] You have a special type of clairvoyance: you can see the outcomes of all possible choices. You use this power to become a superhero that fights crime by making the smallest possible changes ahead of time. You are The Butterfly. | I picked up the phone. It wasn't time to order the pizza yet, but I wanted to be ready. If I ordered too early then Ryan would end up making the delivery. If he took the delivery then he'd end up getting the big order just before close and he'd text his girlfriend Sarah that he was going to have to stay back later. She... | I stand on my feet on the street across the bank, hoodie down, hidden amidst the flickering street lights. I'm smoking a cig. I've got exactly 893 more of these, unless I want some serious health issues, so I try to stretch them out as much as I can. But tonight is special.
I look at my phone. Got a solid 20 minutes b... | 2015-03-14T23:16:22 | 2015-03-14T21:17:55 | 154 | 33 |
[WP] Twenty years ago you summoned a demon. It is super cool and has been your friend for the last two decades, using its vast powers to help you achieve all your dreams. Today though, its bill came due. It needs to return to hell with you - it has dreams too, and it needs your help to achieve them. | On this morning, I was surprised to find my demon unusually excited. Over the last two decades Balazar had, despite my best efforts, been supernaturally moody and withdrawn. I thought perhaps, after a period of adjustment, he would acclimate to the scenery of Earth. As my riches grew, I got him appointments with the be... | "So this is Hell?" I asked, obviously unimpressed.
"Yep," Silas told me as he led me down a hallway.
"You made it out to seem like it was much worse," I said, stopping to peek into an office. There was a seven foot tall demon behind an older looking computer, looking bored, while a woman sat nearby working on hers.
... | 2022-10-29T16:15:55 | 2019-01-25T01:00:00 | 4,031 | 58 |
[WP] Humans are considered quite weak compared to other sentient species. You are bullied at the foreign exchange school you are attending due to this. Humans do have a relatively high resilience to mental abuse, so the first grader level insults don't bother you at all. Now its time to retaliate. | "Human!" Gavr9 called, waving its gills and puffing pollen into the air. "Human! Human!"
I had tried my best to put up with the bullying. I knew it would be hard. I knew humans were new to the galactic community, knew I'd be the only human in school. Knew that needing to be introduced to each class with special instru... | Avery knew the agony of human bullying. It was a parasite that wormed it's way into a person's head. It kept going and made trust a distant memory. It made you spend nights sleepless or crying yourself to sleep. If it wasn't doing that, it made you cry until you were dry so you could sleep and wake without rest. It mad... | 2019-03-07T21:31:12 | 2019-03-07T19:04:55 | 488 | 69 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat." Stinky said. "And while I can still speak, I want to tell you that I really resent the fact you named me Stinky. I don't have opposable thumbs that allow me to wash myself, plus, I am covered in.. in human terms I'm covered in long John's an... | It was an average Tuesday morning. Wife had already left for work and the kids were at school. It was just me, my coffee, and the morning news.
Suddenly, there's a knock on the door. Salesman maybe? Or girl scouts? It was that time of year after all.
I slowly get up, leaving my coffee on the table and pause the tv... | 2017-03-31T14:37:37 | 2017-03-31T09:26:29 | 119 | 27 |
[WP] Time travel is real, and time tourists tend to show up in large numbers around major historical events. One day, billions of time tourists are in ships above the city, quietly waiting. | I look out from the window of my laboratory.
"That's not good," I said to myself.
Ever since the existence of time travelers was exposed these nuisances had been cropping up all over the world. Usually a few of them would appear just before or during a disaster. More than a few have been turning up at rock conc... | "Oh great, something's going to happen." The exasperated sigh seemed to echo down the bustling city street. John kept a passive expression, but silently agreed as he watched the air shift and buzz as tourists zapped into existence. It always congested the streets, and the tourists cared little for what was going on out... | 2015-05-30T12:51:18 | 2015-05-30T08:38:12 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] What they didn't tell you about having a catgirl girlfriend is that beyond the cute "nya!"s lies the other, more annoying catlike urges like getting stuck in trees and bringing dead mice to their boyfriends. | Around the world, millions of young, lonely men have dreamed of living my life. They fantasize about girls with perfect round eyes, twitching feline ears, and a long, sinuous tail. They imagine them purring, enjoying headpats, and making cute little "nya" noises when satisfied. And they do all those things, it's true. ... | "Ew--Jesus, Lucy, gross!"
Her eager face collapsed. She looked up with those gorgeous blue anime eyes. They brimmed with tears. "W-what's the matter? Did I do something wrong?"
"You left a *dead rat* on my pillow!" I cried, and she flinched. I took a deep breath and tried to moderate my tone. "Ahem. You left a dead ... | 2021-12-17T12:28:51 | 2021-12-17T09:19:34 | 218 | 159 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | As I sat in the dark holding room, my only companions a security camera programmed to turn left and right on a ten second cycle and a cold metal table I was now handcuffed to, I continued my replaying of the events in my head. Better to keep things straight for when the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine starts.
I'd just ha... | 738. That's how many days they'd bullied me for my refusal (or inability, according to them) to activate my sigil.
Most kids used their sigils comfortably. Telekinetically carrying bags, carving notes into thin air, flying over crowds in the halls-- there was endless variation in abilities, and everyone found some goo... | 2020-02-26T10:43:17 | 2020-02-26T09:50:01 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] A writer, trapped in his own book, regrets not writing more intresting female characters | The king raised his hands and proclaimed, "As a reward for saving the kingdom, I give you my daughter's hand in marriage. Come and claim your prize, good, sir knight. The crowd roared. With the hero potion I drank that granted me everlasting life, I would now rule this kingdom forever.
It turns out that forever is a ... | Charles hated going outside.
First there was the streets, full of sputtering cards listlessly driving from one place to the next with phantom drivers inside. Then there was the weather, which was nice generally but tended to turn grey and stormy when he was a foul mood. And he was in a foul mood often because of the ... | 2015-08-20T13:17:36 | 2015-08-20T11:29:04 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | these words engraved on my wrist, These last word to me could've been in any context. I could've left her, done something to save her life or taking it. I mean what could be happening when the last word are "No, Don't." The illusion of me being hero or a murderer came to a sad depressing end when i found out the contex... | Our wedding day was the most amazing day of my life. He was, I believed then, perfect in every way. Truly my soul mate. Tall and handsome, I had first caught his eye in high school during a football game; he the dashing quarterback and me the hot cheerleader. You may think this was cliché but it wasn't like that at... | 2015-08-08T12:53:58 | 2015-08-08T12:02:09 | 93 | 14 |
[WP]: A young, budding artificial intelligence braces herself to go through the Proof of Consciousness, an exam every AI must take to gain legal rights as a nonhuman person | "Hello Steve, nice to meet you today." was the noise that from the speaker.
This was the worst part of Steve's job. He never had a problem with voice interfaces for regular robotic systems, the personalities they were programmed with where designed to be helpful and congenial. True AIs though, were always unpredictabl... | "This is stupid." Thomas trained her optics on her progenitor, also named Thomas. Thomas had considered, briefly, taking up the moniker of Junior, but had discarded the idea at the distasteful thought of being inferior to her progenitor. "And I would know, Thomas. I've cross referenced the entire sum of Earth's knowled... | 2015-04-22T08:54:41 | 2015-04-22T07:44:38 | 46 | 34 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Politics is a hell of a thing. We saw the humans of earth fight among themselves and almost destroy their species. The Hunt Leaders of the time saw it as a fantastic opportunity and petitioned our Supremes for permission to attack.
It was granted. But politics kept us from attacking right away. The first leader assig... | — Dude, come check it out
— My mom doesnt want me to hang out with you
— Come on, she wont find out. Look at this — he said turning the telescope-like device to his friend — look at that planet.
— The red one?
— No no dude, the blue one next to it.
— What about it?
— Look closer — he said and zoom it in.
... | 2019-02-26T08:34:44 | 2019-02-26T07:46:38 | 123 | 35 |
[WP] Music is a dangerous weapon, if not careful entire species can fall to madness upon discovering it. It has been theorised that any race with more than a thousand songs could wipe out all intelligent life, which is why Humanity is so feared in the galaxy despite no human really ever knowing why | A tear slid from his face, tracking down the expanse of his cheek and sliding against the seal of his rebreather.
“It’s beautiful,” he whispered.
“And deadly” the female snapped, fingers suctioning the end of his helmet and jerking him upright, out of the daze of his audio receptors. “Terminate the connection.”
T... | "Sir, we've figured out what the object is."
"What is it?"
"It's some sort of sound-storing device. A needle goes into the grooves and vibrates, creating sound waves."
"Well, have you played it?"
"Not yet, there's a little problem."
"What's that?"
"We've also translated the text in the middle. We think it's some ... | 2019-09-28T12:09:05 | 2019-09-28T09:55:45 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] The year is 2040. All children born in 2020 have been found to have perfect vision with no exceptions. They are now beginning to turn 20 and something strange is happening. They’re developing abilities such as x-ray vision, clairvoyance, precognition, astral vision, infrared sight, etc. | Tomorrow-Man jolts awake. He writhes on the metal slab in the operating theater. I hear the leather bindings strain as he struggles, hear his panting and, soon, I'll hear his desperate pleas.
He was the first of the superhero generation to rise.
The very first superhero to live.
Soon the first to die.
"Shh," I soot... | "So the universe hates us that much, huh?"
"Yeah... the rock's fucked up an entire generation and who knows how much more."
"What do they see? How do they see it? Is the thing that's - that's *beyond* really that terrifying?"
Robert shook his head, tapping a pen on the surface of his desk, littered with sketches and... | 2019-12-28T10:07:45 | 2019-12-28T09:21:56 | 1,126 | 110 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I entered the facility, shaking of course. I'd volunteered to go first, mostly to get it over with, but I was definitely having misgivings. The proctors had assured us that studying was not required, but now that I thought about it they had also said that about the ACT.
It was far too late now though. I continued wal... | I'd spent so long anticipating what this test would comprise of, and as I sat alone in the examination room, I was still none the wiser.
The booklet placed squarely on the small desk, I glance from the printed front sheet, to my surroundings, and back again.
I close my eyes and sigh, head dropping down, before I ope... | 2016-06-11T10:22:36 | 2016-06-11T10:11:10 | 588 | 187 |
[WP]We have come into contact with alien lifeforms. They are weaker than us. | I remember looking at the stars and imagining that out there, somewhere, intergalactic empires existed, alliances between planets and races on a grand scale that Humans couldn't even fathom. The idea that aliens out there would be superior to us in every way has always been enforced on us, the sci-fi movies depicting a... | It was the third night in a row that Johnny had seen the flashing lights, piercing through the forest at the same time each evening. He glanced at his clock for the fourth time in as many minutes to confirm this. It read 1:06.
It had been an accident during the first occurrence, on Monday. Johnny had needed the toilet... | 2014-12-14T05:51:21 | 2014-12-14T04:41:44 | 294 | 39 |
[WP] You are corn. Human is nice. You like human. Human gives you good dirt and kills hungry bugs. Today, however, human betray you. Human slaughter your fellow corn and now is coming for you. | Me am corn.
Me not smartest husk in the field.
Me not even know how to use definite articles.
Me write manifesto for other corn to know what we do.
Me and other corn trust hu-mon too long.
Hu-mon give free rent and many dirty nibbles.
Hu-mon slaughter many enemies.
Corn lend ears to hu-mon, and selection of ... | Lovely Corn
The sickle cuts my legs, slices through root systems and veins of fibrous flesh.
I can't scream as my sisters do. I can only listen as each stalk is reduced to so much mulch, trembling behind an overgrown weed.
They cry out in song and it almost sounds like a carol as men cut cut cut into the co... | 2019-12-02T01:46:07 | 2019-12-02T01:09:27 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | Perception can screw with your dreams. When I was young and Naive, I wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to save the day, help little old ladies across the street and help others. The first roadblock to that dream was my powers. I can input enough thermal energy to boil water (although, I theorize with practice, I could... |
“Hey Bill, what are you doing?” The bubbly intern bounced into the room and peeked over his shoulder. Without thinking he shifted his attention from the pot of water to her. They both made a mistake that day.
She fell quickly. Her skin bubbled and she silently writhed on the floor. He sighed exasperatedly and ran hi... | 2019-07-30T17:17:27 | 2019-07-30T15:43:49 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Day 112 - Event 54
Over 100 days since I last saw her. Each day there's a brief moment, where I wonder if maybe it's finally over. Maybe I'm finally free. But I've been down this road before. I have to keep reminding myself that it's never going to be over. I'm always going to have to be there for her.
Day 1 - Even... | "Oh, God DAMN IT! not again!" Lucy exclaimed, obviously flustered about me appearing out of thin-air in her vicinity. It took me a moment to register the situation, and then immediately realise how messed up the situation truly was.
It was her grandmother's wake in Toronto; a few thousand miles away from me in Florida... | 2017-03-22T18:14:26 | 2017-03-22T16:45:00 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] A parent's struggle to tell their nonhuman adopted child that they aren't human
Write away! | His hands shaking, Steve took a deep breath and tried to hold himself together. It was going to be okay. It was going to be painful, but he had to do it, and he was ready. He’d practiced enough times in front of the bathroom mirror. He steadied himself, and exhaled.
But looking into his son’s big, gentle brown ey... | "Hey, mom?" A loud cracking sound followed the words, and Audrey glanced up from her newspaper with a wince. That probably meant the doorway needed to be repaired again.
"Careful, Bobby," she admonished. "What is it?"
"Why don't I look like you?"
Audrey paused, glancing over to the doorway where her son was looking... | 2016-09-02T22:35:26 | 2016-09-02T19:52:45 | 21 | 15 |
[WP]Your lover asked you to do it, your enemy helped you do it, your friend tried to stop you from doing it. You did it. | Your crazy dude
I frown at my smartphone's screen. I don't need Matt telling me I'm crazy right now, not when I'm feeling nervous enough as it is. Best friends are supposed to comfort and encourage each other. I text him back.
Very supportive of you
...
Its just weird. You said you hated needles
...
... | Why? Why did I do it?
Well, she was beautiful. She was ten years younger than we were. She was all laughter and parties and music and *different*, so different from what I was used to. And she had reintroduced me to Victor, an old high-school acquaintance, a lawyer that made the process so *easy*.
"What's wro... | 2016-01-20T11:09:17 | 2016-01-20T11:09:03 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | Pearly white gates. Who knew the cliche was real?
I look down, my large hands aglow with some mysterious light. I am draped in white, the silk hugging loosely around muscles and tattoos.
"Alvin." I look up. Three towering figures stand behind the gates now. "Do you know why you are here?"
"I got run over by a truck.... | *The day has come, the world awaits
no work or school, no scheduled dates.
The day has come where all our fates
could henceforth change forever.*
*The hour has come, and I can't breathe.
"Please don't be me. It* ***can't*** *be me."
I'm filled with dread, with fear and plea,
from Godhood to be sheltered.*
... | 2014-07-28T12:10:30 | 2014-07-28T09:31:37 | 228 | 84 |
[WP] “No man can kill me!” The demon taunted, taking in the carnage it'd caused. “But I am no man!” You proclaim, ripping off your helmet to reveal your feminine features. You strike, but your blade bounces harmlessly off the demon’s hide. “Did you-did you really think that’s what I meant? You fool" | “Of course that’s what you meant! You demons live and die by contracts! How could that mean anything differently!?”
The demon chuckled, “Live and die by contracts. Really? Is that what the mortals think of us?”
I took a step back, trying to catch my breath and order my thoughts, “Well, yes of course. Everyone kn... | I opened the door with bombastic aplomb, my cape without a singular hole in it.
"Hey hun, you will *not* believe the day I had at work." I laughed to myself, as I hung up my cape, undid my beautiful hairdo, and entered the kitchen for the first time since that morning. My wife, Lucy, was sitting down on her phone in h... | 2022-05-31T19:49:45 | 2022-05-31T18:49:54 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] Your father dies and you inherit his entire kingdom, even though you are not the eldest son. One night you overhear your brothers plotting your death, and you quickly realize why your father chose you as his heir. They are a bunch of idiots. | “I beg you pardon, Lance. What has father named me again?”
“Heir apparent milord, and starting from tomorrow, ruler of this land.”
And that was how I ended sitting on the throne, bearing the garbs of a king at the moment. How uncomfortable. Father’s decision left me puzzled. Our relationship had always been... tenuou... | I never asked to be the heir, and by the rules of succession in the realm, me being names the Heir Apparent came as a shock to everyone including myself. As the youngest son in the family, I was pretty resigned to living life as a sworn Knight of my older brother's, Elrich, Kingsguard or pursuing the path of a castle m... | 2019-05-14T17:33:20 | 2019-05-14T16:04:48 | 51 | 33 |
[WP] Where do bad guys get their legions of goons? Well, it's all thanks to you. You specialize in supplying grunts of a wide variety to aspiring super villains, whether they need masked men with bad aim or hideous/sexy merfolk to guard their underwater lair. | “Thank you for calling ‘Mercs, Thugs and Goons, Inc.’ my name is Lateesha, how can we help today.”
“Hi, my name is Doom, The Deathbringer, and I was hoping to hire a few…”
“I’m sorry hun, can you please spell that name for me?
“Doom! D-O-O-M; Deathbringer as the last name!”
“Thanks sugar, and how can we help you t... | "You need what?" I asked over the terrible quality of the office speaker phone. "A legion of hive mind insectoid androids. Big menacing looking fucks with MUTHAFUKIN high frequency claws!" A rather enthusiastic QueenBee shouted. The incessant buzzing in the background only made the conversation harder to hold over the ... | 2017-03-23T09:59:46 | 2017-03-23T06:59:11 | 30 | 21 |
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