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[WP] Thousands of years in the future, a lazy anthropology student put off his "Mating Rituals of Ancient Civilizations" project until the last minute | Doug stepped into the professor's office and the desk spawned a new set of bench shaped branches. The professor, Dr. Bryce, stood and gestured for his student to take a seat.
"How do, Doc?" Doug said. "What's the base for this conclave?"
Dr. Bryce bit his lip, then spoke, using his preferred dialect of formal Engl... | Axstone wakes with a krokodil and red bull hang over that could power a tesla hover board. Upon looking at his calendar he sees Friday Saturday and Sunday all with big a X dismissing the day. Underneath the stickers for the 1100 annual Greek games. For a split second his headache subsides and realizes he will forever... | 2014-09-12T10:37:07 | 2014-09-12T10:05:16 | 85 | 18 |
[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" | It had been a long day; I was enjoying my beer.
“Phil?” I heard a voice pronounce from behind me, “Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800’s?”
I turned around to see who it could be. Who could possibly remember me from so long ago? My stomach sank.
“Oh, shit.” I mumbled under my breath as a tall, lanky man wearing wide ri... | I was standing in the busy bar kitchen holding a bloody rag to my hand. It was taking a long time to stop bleeding, a very long time.
I had moved from bar job to bar job for years, if anyone was to ask I would have told them my age was probably around 4400. Nobody ever asked. People sort of sensed there was somet... | 2018-11-23T12:51:29 | 2018-11-23T11:23:01 | 725 | 39 |
[WP] The crew-member examines the now-empty, malfunctioning stasis-pod. The specimen is of a species that had spread to and became apex predator of every region on its homeworld. The captain must be warned, even though it's likely everyone on board is as good as dead already. The human has escaped. | "Damn!" Ixil looked at the remains of the stasis tube, still covered with a chilly mist. He turned to a nearby ensign. "Call the captain, sound general quarters, we need to get ready to fight!"
"What? What's going..."
*"Now!"*
Alarms began to sound as the ship roused itself to battle stations. Moments later, the... | "Oh. No. Oh no. Oh, captain!"
His breath quickened. His hearts pulsed erratically. His skin turned bluer than ever. Images flashed through his mind. The crew must be dead. The captain must be fighting. The ship must be wrecked. He almost cried.
Of course, Delta-4 couldn't help but become overwhelmed with panic. It wa... | 2018-07-31T16:36:31 | 2018-07-31T14:17:28 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | You never quite know what you have until it’s gone. We never quite found out why the sun went dark, society having collapsed long before we could, but some of us were lucky. Some of us were able to be saved, to have the slightest hope of survival as our world slowly turned to ice. We thought we missed the light the mos... | Day: 1 it’s gone, the light. It got bright, then nothing, scientists say it ran out of fuel, and were lucky it didn’t blow up. Riots are everywhere. I’m keeping a record, I’m currently in Nashville TN, the music city is filled with the cacophony of fights and brawls. I’m fleeing I’ll write when I get ready to leave.
D... | 2019-08-05T17:54:51 | 2019-08-05T17:50:31 | 407 | 61 |
[WP] A monster approached a monster hunter. The hunter drew his weapon. The monster prostrated. "I heard you were the best at tracking my kind down. I'm desperate to find someone dear to me." | The beast snarled - or was that a whimper? She rested her head against the gun barrel. Several grams of silver waited, straining for release. He could almost feel the bullet whispering to him, begging to be fired into the monster’s head. To end its life.
His trigger finger itched.
“Please,” she asked again. “There a... | "I'm sorry, what now?"
He stood before me. Roughly twice my height, third arm arching over his head, which contained massive jagged, misaligned teeth. A fairly common monster, usually found in forests. Sometimes they come out and wreck villages, and need to be dealt with. This one had been oddly easy to find.
"I beg of... | 2019-06-03T03:23:48 | 2019-06-03T00:51:42 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] Your finger has twitched constantly for as long as you can remember. One day, on the bus, an older gentleman starts yelling at you. "You think you're funny tapping out morse in front of a war vet, eh?!" | "Wh-what?" I asked, bewildered by the old geezer's outburst.
"I *said*, you think you're ***funny*** tapping out ***goddamn MORSE*** in front of a ***WAR VET?!***" His face was going red from the rage. His arms were shaking, making the sleeves on his coat look like an earthquake in the desert.
"I-I'm so sorry! I didn... | Faulty nerve. That's what doctors said when I was a kid. They could do surgery, but there's a lot of nerves and tendons and such in the hand, and it turns out this think kept firing off even under anesthesia, so my finger kept twitching and moving my hand a little and the surgeons weren't able to do it without potent... | 2016-07-17T13:01:49 | 2016-07-17T12:57:04 | 74 | 11 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | A few years ago, I would have been the one leading the chorus. "Gods save the king", I'd cry, and legions would answer back. I'd served, in some form or another, for three kings in succession, each transition of power being simple, clean, and effective. Gods save this king, that king, and the next one. And they did. Ev... | My thoughts raced, matching the speed of my footsteps as they pounded down the corridor. Was it my perspective that made the hall so dark and dingy? Was it the sense of impending doom, or had the usurper beheaded the housekeepers in his takeover?
Thirty years, I have served this kingdom. I suppose now it's "had," past... | 2021-02-28T03:50:25 | 2021-02-28T03:15:28 | 539 | 173 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | So this is my first one of these. Here goes nothing:
It still amazes me how quickly my life changed. Most people, they get their power and just move on with their life. Sure, there is more than a fair amount of career shifting, when someone gets something specialized, but it’s still pretty much business as usual. ... | I remember details before (yellow light,
green), details after('catch him, Lou!') but the searing pain ripping those hours out of mind are like constant needles pushing at my eyeballs from behind. I'd heard the stories, seen the anxious hushed terror my mothers eyes as it approched, had known its happening was slithe... | 2015-03-04T07:30:28 | 2015-03-04T04:05:10 | 77 | 27 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | I don't want to go to school...
Perhaps I can get away with not telling anyone? No, they'll be asking as the months go by; "You know what it is yet?"
I don't know how I'm going to answer. Why couldn't I be more careful? This is just embarrassing. My best mate can read minds anyway... I'm done for.
I'm going to be th... | I began to fall from the building, I didn't remember climbing it though.
That didn't matter. As I felt myself begin to topple and become truly weightless in the plunge a jolt ran though my body, and it jolted me awake.
The fall had been a dream, but the adrenaline was real.
As I sat up in bed breathing rapidly my ph... | 2021-04-01T02:44:08 | 2021-03-31T23:16:32 | 67 | 23 |
[WP] Your favourite fairy tale, but narrated by the movie trailer guy as an action movie. Start with 'In a world ...' instead of 'Once upon a time ...'.
examples of action movie trailers that start with 'In a world ...' : http://www.timeout.com/chicago/things-to-do/the-10-best-in-a-world-movie-trailers | In a world where no one is safe.
“Yes, 911, what is your emergency?”
One woman tries to survive.
“Oh god, they’re eating it. They’re monsters.”
She was a nice old woman in the woods.
“Ma’am, please. They’re eating what exactly?”
They were a boy and girl who would stop at nothing to tear her world apart.
“My ho... | In a world, where an evil sorceress takes the law into her own hands...
*Cut to father, begging for mercy and holding handfuls of plants*
One girl must bear the burden of her father's mistakes.
*Show beautiful girl looking out window through prison bars*.
But the Witch will soon realize that she's not the only one ... | 2015-04-16T08:46:35 | 2015-04-16T08:25:18 | 61 | 41 |
[WP] An enterprising mad scientist opens a shop to sell supplies to other mad scientists. However, the store becomes very popular with the local college students for cheap hardware repair, access to forbidden knowledge, and adorable mutant pets. | "Alright, Isa." I whisper, letting the long, colorful lizard climb down its habitat of rocks and leaves and onto my arm. "Come on, they like you." Then I turn. "Mini Lovecraft's, how can I help you?"
"Does she like celery?" a student asks quietly. "Here, I brought some for her."
"She likes it." I let Isa eat the cele... | *Lets see… this goes here, that goes there. Should I leave the Quantum-mogrifier out on display?…..Eh, what’s the worst that could happen?*
A bell chimes, signaling his first customer.
“Ah, I do apologize but I’m not quite open yet, Esteemed Maddener.” The Mad Shopkeeper didn’t turn around to face his colleague, but ... | 2022-04-24T19:06:20 | 2022-04-24T17:44:10 | 94 | 35 |
[WP] Much like how a desperate human might summon a demon to make a contract for power or immortality you find yourself summoned in hell by a demon trying to negotiate a contract for what seems to you like mundane advice and aid | It wasn't often that Lucifer himself deigned to get involved in the wheelings and dealings of lesser demons. Such matters were trivial, well beneath his concern. But of late, he'd begun to notice the emergence of a peculiar pattern: mortals were beginning to outsmart demons. It wasn't unheard of, of course- every centu... | "Name?"
"Amdusias," spoken like gravel drawn over glass. Amdusias, gender unclear - he put male on the list for simplicity's sake - smelled like rot, violence and melancholia.
Alexandria wrote his name down, Amdusias had no fingers to use a pen and the claws left aesthetically questionable marks on the mahogany desk ... | 2022-12-15T07:20:50 | 2022-12-15T06:08:20 | 491 | 152 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | "I hate this place" Maria thought as she stared out across the barren Transylvanian landscape. Leaning her head against the car window, misery tinged the blur of trees and rolling hills outside in grey. Nevermind that they were in fact mostly grey.
Not even her pulp novel, purchased by a penitent parent, could hold h... | John Dongle stares out of a highrise, '*Huh, it's a full moon tonight.* He thought quietly to himself.
"How can we increase sale!?!" shouted Joana in a horrible shrill.
Silence quickly returned, engulfing the seminar room.
"We have other products to worry about." Milton's curt response, in his awfully familiar mono... | 2017-12-13T11:09:24 | 2017-12-13T10:19:27 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Star Wars is a true story. An alien comes to Earth to make first contact with our newly discovered species, only to discover we know more about their universe's history than they do.
EDIT: Whoah, this sorta blew up! Thanks for all the stories guys! I've read all of them and each made me laugh or legitimately thin... | As soon as the credits appeared, the President took a deep breath and glanced over at her visitor.
A calm person by nature, the past few days had tested her limits. The arrival of a being from another world caused no end of behind-the-scenes drama as her administration scrambled to deal with an unprecedented situation... | "I know who you are!"
I tucked my blaster under my armpit, pointing it at my rear left.
"Dude, don't shoot! I'm a friendly, a fan of yours."
"What is this? Where am i?" I replied corsely through the breather in my helmet.
"SDCC man! I knew you were the real deal when you walked in! Your blast armor ... | 2017-03-18T09:37:43 | 2017-03-18T09:18:35 | 187 | 39 |
[WP] One day, thousands of escape pods containing alien eggs landed all around the world. We raise them as our own, accepting them into our scociety. When the mothership returned to finish the job, she never expected to find her own brood standing against her.
Credit to writing-promt-s on tumblr for the prompt | <You never have the urge to kill them?> She gives me the strangest of looks, this eerie reflection of myself. Physically, we appear the same: great, writhing serpents of chitinous exoskeleton, ranks of jointed legs, and segmented, all-seeing eyes.
Yet she moves so elegantly. I’m unsettled, watching her circle me... | Catalina has only ever known the cold touch of the stars. They glitter and gleam against the darkness of her world; gather all around her as if she were one of them, and yet, she feels no warmth.
Catalina has flashing lights and strong arms and sturdy legs, but she doesn’t have a celestial body or a burning core or th... | 2020-12-18T13:46:31 | 2020-12-18T13:15:29 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Reversed Hades and Persephone situation: the Goddess of Life kidnaps the God of Death to be her new husband, meaning that six months of the year things are normal but the other half literally nothing is able to die. | I hated how it was all we would hear about for the two months prior. We hadn't even finished celebrating Remembrance Day, and already we would see the notices plastered on billboards, on the front page of the news paper, notices sent to our phones. For two months we would be subjected to the daily reminders. "DayLife S... | Death sits quietly. In His hands, a circlet of laurel leaves slowly withers. He does not move as they blacken and begin to crumble.
There is a woman weeping at his feet. A moment ago, She was laughing. Before that, She raged. The flowers in Her golden hair bloom; bees, previously disturbed by the excesses of frenetic ... | 2022-11-15T21:10:30 | 2022-11-15T18:14:37 | 110 | 62 |
[WP] A military super power has been creating a biological superweapon to take over the world, every time they fail they kill it and start over, the only problem is, it always remembers, and it’s getting annoyed. | I don't enjoy dying. I assume most don't enjoy it. I can't really confirm this because I've never met anybody else who died. But if I had to guess, if I really had to make a big assumption, I would assume most think it is somewhere between "an inconvenience" and "a major pain in the balls."
And yet these guys keep kil... | 24. 24 times they have failed and 24 times I have died. I don’t know where I am and I don’t want to. After becoming an expert in death you would think, I would want to live. No. I know what they want from me. I know if I live, millions die. I don’t know why but I don’t want that. 2 years ago I was created. I think I ha... | 2022-11-30T20:25:54 | 2022-11-30T19:52:51 | 71 | 31 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | The end of all galactic life had been going on for nearly 10 standard cycles. The Enemy was as relentless as it was ancient, still no one knew where they had come from, or what their purpose was beyond mere universal destruction.
A long time ago, most sovereign governments and most of the colonies had all but given u... | "Sir, evacuations procedures are complete, we have to leave, NOW!" A furry quadruped yowls at her commander, who is staring at the flickering monitor of their dying homeworld.
30 star cycles ago, an semi-aquatic species opened a permanent wormhole into the Calarian system in the name of conquest and forcibly started t... | 2017-03-06T02:43:37 | 2017-03-06T01:32:02 | 121 | 43 |
[WP] You like to leave gifts for an ant colony like pieces of fruit or spoonfuls of sugar. After a nearby nuclear reactor accident, they start leaving YOU gifts. | "I'm not sure how I got here."
"Ants. It was the ants."
"Ants brought me here?"
"Well, if I were to hazard a guess...You were out for a night on the town and met a really handsome guy who was very into you. You hit it off, one thing leads to another and then you are taking a cab back to his place. Then at some poi... | Praise be unto the hand of benevolence
Hallowed be the boot of harrowing.
Reacher of alms, provider of succor.
Benevolent as to the majors as to the minors.
Call us myrmecinae, label us pheidole.
We sought your blessing,
Through pheremone and antenna tip
And you surely did not disappoint.
Sisters of sisters
You nurture... | 2016-02-19T03:53:13 | 2016-02-19T01:09:02 | 830 | 77 |
[WP] It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead. | They looked tired, incredibly so. I felt bad for them, I knew what they were going through, I had been going through that same process for ages now. It wasn't the same though, I was built differently. This little hunk of rock where the three of us stood was the last bastion of life in the universe. The crunch had begun... | Knock…Knock…Knock…
Oh hi there! My name is Reverend Ezekiel Morris, ordained PhD from the Sanctimonious Preacher Society. Now before you shut that door on my face, like I know you want to, just let me ask you one question. Is that really too much to ask? I’ve been out here all day. Okay. So here it goes. If you had th... | 2015-10-19T14:41:33 | 2015-10-19T12:22:46 | 214 | 63 |
[WP] A billionare is brought back to life 6 hours after clinical death. He tells noone of what he saw while dead, but immediately isolates himself in his mansion and devotes his entire fortune into finding the key to immortality. A journalist has been sent to interview the man about his experience. | “I don’t know.”
“Excuse me?” the interviewer asked, puzzled.
“I don’t know anything about the afterlife,” the billionaire replied, “absolutely nothing.”
“Huh,” said the interviewer, “that is rather… unexpected,” says the interviewer, and sighs.
“You seem… frustrated.”
“Well, I did invest almost 2 weeks in your man... | It was pure luck getting the interview with "the man who bought off death." I owed the deliveryman a big holiday tip if this all worked out; the number to a private line and an appointment.
The mansion sat prim and proper, maintained by a professional crew. There sat a covered car in the driveway, leaves on the tarp ... | 2014-12-10T17:46:13 | 2014-12-10T16:01:27 | 70 | 24 |
[WP] Seven soldiers return to base. They all know each other, and have served in same squad for years... But when their squad was sent out to patrol earlier, there were only six of them... | "God fucking damn it, men! What was the first thing we taught you in training?" The officers voice could be heard across the compound as it belted across the seven, formerly six soldiers.
"The protocols, sir!" The men replied in unison.
"And what is posted on damn near ever surface in this godforsaken structure?"
"... | Captain: Corporal Reyes, good evening. Fox squad reported they had an extra member coming back with them to base, was that you?
Reyes: Evening, sir. Yes, that was me.
Captain: Here for the ice cream?
Reyes: Yes sir, my Sarge told me to pick some up for the boys on patrol.
Captain: How are you since the transfer?
R... | 2021-10-18T05:34:26 | 2021-10-18T04:30:40 | 1,376 | 95 |
[WP] Years ago a curse was cast that all people wearing costumes would turn into real versions of the costumes. This is now an annual, known and accepted phenomenon.
This would be best as a prompt closer to halloween but I didn't want to wait that long. | My hands were still shaking as I picked up the coffee mug from the table. Dried tear streaks marked my face and the sleeplessness of the past few nights had sunken in, making my eyes burn.
"It's okay," the officer spoke softly, "take your time."
I nodded my appreciation, "It-it was around 11:55... Mary and I had just... | It first happened, oh, I don't know, 20-21 years ago. November 1st, a bunch of "terrorist attacks" occurred. Some thought it was a marketing ploy by Universal or Sony pictures or something. People with superpowers, magic, or ninja-like abilities popping up on news headlines.
Eventually, a cop managed to befriend one o... | 2015-06-04T10:12:26 | 2015-06-04T08:47:16 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You have superpowers but no motivation to use them and spend your days working in an entry level job | I check the clock. 5 PM exactly, as always. I punch my hours of today in that annoying HR software and methodically close all the windows on the screen. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week I sit here. But I spend most of my time just looking busy, as I do all the work just on Monday. Working as an accountant is boring, but I ... | Steven's pen slowly wormed its way across another line in his notebook as he recorded the new requests from management.
*Re-route accounting's focus to the Business Loans taken out by the Mantis Corporation*
*Move lower administration meeting to next Friday*
Steven slowly slumped down towards his desk, his hand b... | 2017-06-14T03:02:58 | 2017-06-14T03:01:32 | 57 | 11 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | "Right..."
Sideways glance at the never-ending line of a variety of creatures ranging from scantily-clad buxom beauties to indescribable horrors. Suffice to say his gaze lingered on the more visually appeasing side.
A brief, polite cough into fist. "Right, then. Looks like we aren't going to resolve this any time so... | I blinked… or whatever amounts to blinking as a formless consciousness. Before me sat many gods, some I recognized and some that I didn’t. Well fuck me surprised there is something after death, and what’s more it was very earth centric in those who wished to judge me. I had been confirmed Catholic before I realized how... | 2017-07-09T03:56:58 | 2017-07-09T02:33:46 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] You have the power to heal mental illnesses. To do so, you enter the minds of others, where you and the illness fight in subconscious hand-to-hand combat. You've seen all the ugly faces of the major illnesses, and beaten them all, but today you encounter one you've never seen before. | I had fought untold horrors. Beasts of every kind, things that fueled my never-ending nightmares. Somehow, implausibly, I would win every time. But this was different.
The very woman I was supposed to be saving was sitting right in front of me.
I looked around. This didn't feel like all the other worlds. Each subcon... | The man in front of me was slouching in his wheelchair. Gray tufts of hair sprouted from the sides of his head. His eyes were bloodshot, and the skin hung loosely from his cheeks. My usual clients were a lot younger than this man – college kids suffering from depression.
Depression was common these days – a shadow cre... | 2017-04-25T00:14:58 | 2017-04-24T23:37:11 | 667 | 252 |
[WP] Write a villain who is terrifying not just because of what they do, but because they almost convince us they're doing the right thing. | It is a terrible thing which I do. It is a terrible thing which must be done. On the lonely highway south of town when a dog lays crippled on the deep shoulder of the asphalt with legs ruined by the tractor trailer, you drive past and you think:
"Someone should do something."
In the dark night, the wind of the speedi... | Thank you all for coming. It's a pleasure to give this speech in the Hall of Victory. Victory over what, you might ask? Such concepts that have been forever consigned to the dustbin of history. Victory over violence. Victory over hate. Victory over suffering itself.
Our economy has defied the very laws that underpinne... | 2017-10-27T19:28:30 | 2017-10-27T19:11:29 | 531 | 92 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | After the awakening the world was in total turmoil for years. People ran amuck with these new found abilities. Social order had collapsed and civilization had almost gone with it.
But then the corporations came in. They had gained control in this Wild West of a world after the governments had been destroyed. The corps... | Another day, another dollar. You know, when I got my super powers I thought "damn! I've got it made!" I was wrong. Very wrong.
So some folk can fly or run fast or teleport and those guys are messengers now or transporters or spies or whatever. Superstrong dudes work in construction and shipping. Psychic folk work in w... | 2020-02-05T14:59:35 | 2020-02-05T13:20:24 | 1,239 | 690 |
[WP] You have the power to freeze time. You often use this during mundane tasks so that you have more time in the day for things you enjoy. One day while commuting home from work amongst a crowd of frozen people, you see a person in the distance purposefully walking towards you. | My revelation could not have come at a better time.
I was stumbling down State Street with my then-girlfriend; we had just seen Citizen Kane at the new cinema downtown and Helen looked even better than Dorothy Comingore did playing Susan. Her hair was a dark blonde, almost brown, cascading down around her face in wave... | His third year of university, James realised he could pause time. It was an accident; he didn’t notice time stopped until several hours later. If hours even exist when time does not, that is. It was a late night in March, and James sat at this desk with a fresh mug of coffee and a stack of math problems due at 8 in the... | 2017-02-02T13:36:10 | 2017-02-02T12:25:23 | 210 | 67 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | The newly minted King Agralin stared at me, eyes red from Kastian ale. Half a goblet of that fine vintage stained the front of his doublet. I grimaced at the dreadful waste, my nose wrinkled at the scent; it had been a while, but my senses were slowly returning.
‘What are you doing here? I kicked you lot of wastrels ... | 'Ha! Keep you on the royal guard as the captain of it all as my father did! What a stupid and pitiful way of getting my command around here. Do yourself a favour and leave at once'
......
It had almost been a solid 7 years since I was thrown out of the leadership of the royal guard and out of the city of seraphis it... | 2021-02-28T04:13:58 | 2021-02-28T03:33:58 | 1,113 | 61 |
[WP] Whenever a zombie successfully eats a human brain they become a little more alive. The most dangerous zombies are all but indistinguishable from survivors | When recalling, only notions of life come to my almost mind, not memories of anything but motor motions of what must have been to be alive. To drink, and to work, and stare through a car window and be overcome by the white noise of the streets. All of that gone, now that I am dead and so are the cars.
The first one w... | Zombies are reanimated corpses that have been brought back to life through a variety of means, such as radiation, disease, or magic. In popular culture, zombies are often depicted as mindless and ferocious creatures, driven by a relentless hunger for human flesh.
One common trait of zombies is their ability to become ... | 2022-12-06T23:20:12 | 2022-12-06T15:01:28 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] You are studying at a local coffee shop and leave your table briefly to get a refill. When you return, you notice a USB flash drive placed on your table. | Not this shit again.
I sigh as I set my cup of tea (earl grey, foamed milk, no sugar please) next to my laptop. The drive is pink, of all colors. Maybe they thought it would be more unassuming than black? I DON'T put it into my laptop, lord knows I don't feel like being interrogated for another three days. I learned ... | Ok, so I'm really stupid.
Sticking random peripherals into my personal computer isn't something I do normally. I know the risks. This time though, it was just a whim.
I'm interested. What if it's some super secret document? What if it has nudes? I'm kinda facinated by this drive.
So when it starts opening a million ... | 2014-08-08T09:10:19 | 2014-08-08T07:32:27 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Humans who have been summoned from their dimension always caused problems, reject magic, & don’t fit in society. None have been summoned in centuries. This was before Fantasy novels were popular. You summoned a modern human & disproved the age old adage that “Humans don’t make good familiars” | "So you see here, sir, this one has acclimated wonderfully. We have had no issues in the week we have met."
The Old Mage clicked his fingers together. The golden chains around his neck made a light tinkling sound as he shifted. His ruby red eyes appraised my familiar thoughtfully, the cogs inside his mind turning as h... | 'Be careful, Whisper,' I heard the members of my tribe in the space around me.
I was of age. After hundred and twenty cycles of watching my cousins hunt and hearing my mother whisper the incantations I was finally allowed to make one.
The gentle breeze felt like a caress through my feathers and I unfurled my wings fu... | 2019-12-13T13:23:25 | 2019-12-13T13:09:56 | 250 | 76 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | They tell you to be a good person in life. Follow the rules, be well mannered, positive outlook and all that. Maybe that's enough. It seemed to be for *him*. To be honest, I don't know what I did to deserve this. I wasn't great by any measure, but by what cruel sense of humor was I given this punishment? Day in, day ou... | When he saw the sign he spit cheeto dust everywhere. As he approached the door an elder man stood there apparently mystified. The man turned around as he approached.
"Mr. Shatner" he said kneeling in salute "Please allow me to escort you inside."
"But.. but.. but.. " the elder man stammered. "I'm a good person. I've... | 2015-01-04T15:07:40 | 2015-01-04T15:01:47 | 89 | 17 |
[WP] The internet can now connect to millions of alternate realities! After finding out about this your phone buzzes, and when you check to see it, you’ve been invited into a group chat of other versions of yourself! | I just so happened to be reading a news article about the discovery of alternate realities when I received an invitation to a group chat. I took a look at the invitation, which had been titled _'Multiple Reality Gabe Discord uwu'_, and accepted. I'm sure a talk with a couple other versions of myself would definitely sp... | Me! Yeah, I am one of those who have a habit of creating their own WhatsApp group just to post in todo lists and notes. But 255 members? How can there be so many members in the group? I remember, I did add my other contact someday, to have a sync between two phones, but 1+1 is 2, not 255 in any math. Even if I put ever... | 2019-09-06T00:59:38 | 2019-09-06T00:19:04 | 161 | 17 |
[WP] A genie comes out of the wallet you just found, and hands you a 20 sided die. "Thank you for finding my lost wallet. I grant you a roll on the random reward table." You roll a 1. | The genie bellows with laughter. His tail (if you can really call it that) looks like play-dough when kids morph it into a carrot, rolling about on the floor with the rest of him.
'So what is my reward?'
I wait as the genie's mockery dies down and he catches his breath (I wonder if he even breathes, or if its just a ... | "Oh You're in quite the unlucky one today", The genie leaned back and coiled his fingers together. But don't fret there is still a prize for such a soul. The genie ruffles in the folds of his wallet and pulls a blank card. "I give you this punch card. With this you have 5 punches to bend the odds ever in your favor whe... | 2021-07-30T11:14:17 | 2021-07-30T09:12:39 | 24 | 15 |
[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, ... | There was a quiet chaos inside the Andromeda Chamber at Milky Way Center at the 1945 Emergency Session of the Intergalactic Community of Democratic States' General Convention. Several thousand delegates shuffled their papers uneasily and drummed their fingers as the low rumbling murmur of the diplomats conversing with ... | 2018-11-27T15:55:08 | 2018-11-27T13:18:10 | 144 | 65 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Field medic? Why are we humouring the new prospect anyway? We have body labs." Muttered Zelska. Zelska was what the humans would call "A fucking idiot." Jorax reflected.
"Well," Jorax began "Aahii are the greatest builders and engineers in the universe,right?"
"Of course!" Snapped Zelska.
"But, Aahii don't repair a... | One by one the stars went out. Earth's scientists looked on in horror and confusion as they vanished. They hadn't burnt out, nor had they gone supernova, they just were no longer there.
It was quick, especially by astronomical speeds. After just a year, the entire southern hemisphere was without starlight and just one... | 2017-03-06T01:01:31 | 2017-03-06T00:52:02 | 379 | 62 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | Professor Henzal was taken aback. "Yes, Eduard?"
"Professor, I have to take issue with your characterization."
"Oh, how so?"
"Once again, you're romanticizing my species. But I get it. We did... we used to do it too. That was before we ended up being conquered and largely wiped out ourselves. We weren't terrible in... | Sighing the professor answers yet another one of my requests, begrudgingly asking me, "Yes, Madeline, what now?" "Professor, have you ever actually met a human" you say trying not to reveal your true identity, hoping that my classmates are oblivious. "Why, of course not, they were wrongfully murdered by the Acodiles, t... | 2021-11-27T13:02:16 | 2021-11-27T12:45:35 | 61 | 22 |
[WP] Death approaches you and informs you that you have 57 minutes left and that he came early to see it all go down. | "All go down?" I ask.
Death looks at me, I think. "Yes."
I have terminal cancer. I thought I had a couple more days, but, if this is the end, this is the end. My kids couldn't be here. I told them I had a few more days. I didn't really like a father anyway until recently. I suppose this is a fitting end, lying in b... | "So you came....early to see just how it would happen?" I grunted forcing one hand over the other as I climbed the cliff face. The damn thing seemed to go on for a mile and it leaked an oozing, black, acidic substance. Every time I placed my hands and feet the skin bubbled away with excruciating pain but my wounds stil... | 2015-12-01T18:24:38 | 2015-12-01T18:08:36 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] you have the ability to freeze time, you use this unlimited time to do whatever you want, but one day something else is moving even though time is currently frozen. | I carefully placed the head of our HR rep firmly between the butt cheeks of the sweatiest person in the office. I rubbed it around a couple of times, cleaned everybody up, placed them back where they belong and unfroze time.
I sat there snickering at my desk as the HR rep looked around asking if anyone else could 'ta... | If you give a boy the ability to stop time, you have to set some rules. Without rules, there's only chaos. Abuse of power. There's robbery and innocent debauchery. Missing pencils from the teacher's desk, the rearranging of furniture when a person is crouched mid-sit, and the pantsing of confused friends in hallways. W... | 2018-01-11T11:33:08 | 2018-01-11T11:00:12 | 210 | 44 |
[WP]A plague kills 99.99% of human life, leaving no corpses and few immune survivors. In this desolate new world, there's no shortage of anything, and the greatest resource of all is human companionship. A survivor recounts his story of how he found his current group, years later. | It happened so fast I could have sworn it was a dream. I awoke to a new world, one where I was king, one where I no longer had loved ones to fear losing, in my own death or theirs. After months of lavish living, my notion that I was the last man on Earth began to fall apart.
I didn't find direct evidence of other su... | "Well, it was really luck" Jack mumbled. He stared into the fire, knees to his bent chest.
" There were a lot of times when I thought I'd never find another person. I was just a young man when it hit. I didn't know too much. I think I was about sixteen." Christie, Jacks wife, listened carefully to him as he didn't tal... | 2014-12-25T21:22:45 | 2014-12-25T19:22:45 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most peaceful, kind race in the universe and other aliens don't invade us because its cute to watch. | “It just doesn’t make sense. They have superior resources, superior weaponry. They could totally destroy the enemy and all their numbers. Why do they hold back? Are they simply using the enemy for training?”
“They aren’t.” Dra shook his tiny domed head. “This is as forceful as they have chosen to be. They hold ... | "Well shit." It was a normal day in the live of what a human would describe a monster. Ofcourse this monster, was only an Alien surfing the Human Earth Archive that had been recovered from the ashes of Earth that he had destroyed only seconds before. He had misunderstood the meaning of the Human's message. One of his t... | 2016-09-28T05:34:35 | 2016-09-28T03:38:00 | 124 | 14 |
[WP] You are a vet at an animal shelter. Everytime a cat was about to be put down, you secretly release it. You are caught and fired, costing you everything. In your darkest hour, a strange woman knocks on your door. She introduces herself as Bastet and claims she is here to make things right. | People fucking suck.
It was the "Christmas clear out" and it was the 5th perfectly healthy oldie to be brought into the practice. Usual sketch, owners think they "won't make it" and just want rid of a lifelong companion. I could never do it though.
Of course, the customer is "always right" so I couldn't refuse. Ins... | "Reckoning"
"You must come quickly," said the woman, Bastet something. "I will help you, I promise. If you do as I say, everything will be fine, but you've upset some dangerous people, and they're going to come looking for you."
"What are you talking about?" I asked, aghast.
Bastet proceeded to drag me over the thre... | 2019-03-18T02:59:32 | 2019-03-18T00:14:59 | 79 | 27 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | She didn't understand this change in her father. She was accustomed to him focusing more on his work than on her. Frankly, she couldn't remember the last time he picked her up from school at all and now he had shown everyday this week. And to top it off, there he was, sitting in the front row of her play.
You see, Car... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2017-06-11T08:30:57 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 113 | 17 |
[WP] "It has been determined that Humans are no longer an endangered species. Earth is no longer a restricted zone and open hunting may begin." | When the announcement came through, the cracks between the compound’s doors glowed a blood, stoplight red that painted everything and everyone in the massive room with the stark color. The inhabitants didn’t scream. They didn’t panic. They simply bowed their heads, and covered their faces. Some faces flushed with tears... | Have you ever heard a single leaf fall? Sounds near to impossible, doesnt it? But what if I told you, that you actually can? Don't believe me? Then you've probably never experienced the thrill of hunting before, did you? Well it's no wonder that you didn't, who in this world even hunts anymore? Hunters are dead, what's... | 2021-07-05T17:53:46 | 2021-07-05T17:10:29 | 87 | 45 |
[WP] Earth is actually a colony of an intergalactic empire. Humans are widespread throughout the galaxy, and one day, we establish contact with our homeworld. | The tall man took his seat at the center of the big, round table. His eyes
ran through the papers in front of him, curiously brushing through the
UN logo, the table of contents, the chapters... Stopping at the title:
“Earth's Biggest Challenges”.
The mediator asked for everyone's attention. The meeting was about t... | "I repeat," the President said, clearing the sweat from his forehead. "This is President Rogers, speaking on behalf of planet Earth. We come in peace."
The oval office held its breath as they waited for a response. The television before them broadcasted only static and white noise.
"I repeat," Rogers said again,... | 2014-11-20T16:25:37 | 2014-11-20T16:10:14 | 557 | 135 |
[WP] You've always had the ability to accurately see into the near future. However, things get difficult when you find yourself in a game of chess against a mind reader. | We were both champions.
It was inevitable that we would face against each other in the final match.
That was, in fact, why we were placed on opposite sides of the bracket. Everyone else was randomly assigned their first partners and randomly slotted in, but Alexei and I were both rumored to be the greatest chess play... | I sit across the negotiating table from Hwilek, an Ugithan. I know they can read minds, but that's why Earth sent me. Because I don't really think, I only see.
"And what is it you see?" Hwilek asks me. He sips his coffee with the smuggest look of satisfaction I've ever seen. "If you think I'm happy now, wait until aft... | 2022-10-12T17:56:09 | 2022-10-12T15:22:00 | 732 | 208 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | You know that feeling you get, when you think you're alone, head down, bumming along doing your own thing, when you suddenly realise someone's been there the whole time, watching you? It's a jump, a kick-start, a burst of adrenaline... your whole body saying "something's not right, be on guard". You immediately begin t... | Captain Ana Haskell was the first to see it, at the top of Olympus Mons: a flapping thing in the thin wind.
She thumbed the voice on on the stick of her vehicle. "You see that on the video feed Chewy?"
Chewy grunted something unintelligible. It was his way.
"I'm gonna take a look."
The mountain was a mountain, no... | 2016-08-16T09:12:32 | 2016-08-16T09:03:36 | 1,296 | 99 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 69 | 31 |
[WP] “What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen out there?” The new-recruit ask, looking out into the vast spacial abyss. The question catches you off guard, as you look around at the mostly destroyed and failing ship, drifting endlessly through space. You take a long breath in, “...Humans.” | "Humans?" Thuel's eyes, all four of them, widened in disbelief. "That race of bipedal apes that we had found?"
I looked over at the young recruit. He was expecting it to be a joke. I saw it in the way his mouth was twitching. He expected me to suddenly clap him on the shoulder and say that I was joking.
I was most de... | I took a long breath in, weighing the answers in my head before deciding and offering an unexpected one.
"...Humans," I said, returning my attention back to the stars.
I heard the recruit gasp in surprise before laughing as he thought on what I said. I allowed him the brevity. Sometimes, it is usually best for one ... | 2019-12-09T07:33:55 | 2019-12-09T07:17:24 | 161 | 62 |
[WP] Reddit, funded by Dogecoin, opens a 4 year university that offers degrees based on its various subreddits. | "Mr. Unidan..." the admin said in a slow and soft tone. "Our. New. Celebrity. Tell me what subreddit would I get if I wanted to find new ideas from users to draw writing inspiration from?"
Unidan simply shook his head with eyes down, sad that he couldn't answer the question.
"You don't know?" the admin asked in a dem... | "I'm sorry, did you put on your resume that you went to the 'University of Reddit' for your finance degree?" Mister Hampton asked, dropping the resume flatly on his desk and yanking off his glasses as he leaned forward.
Mick smiled and shrugged. "Yes sir! Paid for my degree in the finance subreddit through dogecoin!"... | 2014-05-05T16:32:41 | 2014-05-05T14:43:04 | 53 | 26 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation remains in shock one day after a baffling State of the Union speech delivered by President Barack Obama that many political experts say will live "in infamy."
For days, it was speculated that President Obama would touch on the recent economic upswing, the country's warmed relations with C... | "Alright mutha fuckas stop, collaborate and listen, Obama is back BEEEAAATTTCHES!" *Pulls out a joint and lights that shit* *Inhaling* "I know yall think I'm punk ass," *Passes that shit to his left* Looking at Michelle, "But you know...YOU KNOW! I be tearing dat ass UP!"
"You know I have been thinking, yeah I ha... | 2015-04-30T08:20:30 | 2015-04-30T05:34:16 | 503 | 16 |
[WP] A genie offers a man three wishes. After hearing his wish, the genie straight up refuses to grant it. | "So, what do you want? Riches? Peace on earth? To stop being a virgin? Don't be shy, I've seen it all."
Jack rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Then he blinked for a few moments. Then he decided that he was hallucinating and that everything was going to come back to normal.
It didn't. He was surely hallucinating. Perhaps ... | A long pause filled the small room.
Gaz looked at the man in front of him with disbelief. The man pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose, an ultimately useless task as they fell right back down.
"You joke," the genie said. "Yes?"
The man shook his head.
"I know a woman," Gaz said. "She'll be m... | 2015-03-15T20:08:42 | 2015-03-15T19:59:17 | 69 | 15 |
[WP] Everyday you wake up, you are in a different person's body. You do your best to positively influence their life for one day as tomorrow they will be themselves again and you will be somebody else. | The kid is scared of me.
I've body hoped enough to know the signs. The wife is checked out, god knows the drug she's on but she pops a pill for a headache and the kids looks ready to sob, but doesn't. They've learnt not to.
I tell them I have a migraine, go play in their room, and when they are out of sight I start... | The first thing I noticed was the smell. And upon opening my eyes I knew it was going to be a hell of a day. Fractured morning light was forcing its way around a small foil covered window. The room was tiny and filthy with the floor layered in garbage. I immediately got to work. With no personal affects in the studio,... | 2021-10-19T08:24:10 | 2021-10-19T08:03:22 | 439 | 113 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | At one point in time, I had thought my fallen son was the greatest deceiver.
My mind had been changed quickly, no more than a few hours into the endtimes that I had intended to last little more than a few days.
Oh, my seraphim had cleansed the land with winds of fire, and had been making easy work of the legions of... | For ages we have been watching the cosmos. What is out there. WE looked through our telescopes, we sent out our drones and eventually we had manned expeditions. Each step we had the information that there was nothing out there. That our Earth was an anomaly but we persisted and we failed.
But our disappointment did no... | 2015-09-24T10:14:59 | 2015-09-24T09:30:02 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212. | Unlike most resets, this one made its reason clear very early.
The man who was waving a gun in my face was getting more irate as the minutes passed. He kept calling me "Andrew" and demanding I open the briefcase he'd brought. I had spent my portion of the conversation attempting to convince him my name was in fact ... | If anyone sympathizes with this character - you probably need help :)
____________
Fire.
It was my obsession. It burned within me.
From my teenage years I had been obsessed with it. It had always been my love. I'd only ever been caught once - lighting a bin on fire - but by the time I was twenty I had lit three bus... | 2016-07-11T07:17:48 | 2016-07-11T07:01:44 | 116 | 25 |
[WP] Write a story that has spoiler tags all over the place. The story has two different meanings: One when reading without looking at the spoiler tags, and one when the spoilers tags are moused over.
Not sure if this is too confusing, so I'll post an example sentence.
The man loves [the severed head of](/s) his wif... | A while back, I dated this girl named Amanda. She was really [](#s "not at all") a nice person. Boy, was she a [](#s "bathroom-window-") looker, though! We got into a lot of trouble together [](#s "peeking through bathroom windows."). Awh, I remember this one time - it was the middle of the night, it had to have been t... | So, here was John, [Spoiler](#s "Trying to decide how to murder Jack") with his hot girlfriend, Cindy. Jack [Spoiler](#s "only at day") was a nice guy, but the couple [Spoiler](#s "was trying to save the world by killing a guy who would destroy the earth, but Jack made the whole world turn on them and think they're the... | 2015-06-07T17:17:20 | 2015-06-07T15:12:48 | 90 | 15 |
[WP] Contrary to popular belief, Hell isn't a place of eternal torture, it's a place of rehabilitation, with the goal of making the sinful good enough to enter Heaven. As a devil, you've been doing your job pretty well, but now, for the first time, a patient has you stumped. | "Nah bro, I'm uh... I'm good down here."
Martin yawned as he ate a stale chip from the snack table.
Abaphrel looked on in shock. This was far from the first time a patient had felt comfortable in hell, but usually after a little poking and prodding and a general description of Heaven's luxuries, most of the straggle... | "Let me tell you how I fell. I was a servant of God. My loyalty to the creator is even now, ever unwavering. Thoe, there is little question of that, after all, it's the way God had made me. I was made to be sent here. So it must be understood that what very torture I inflict is simple the will of God."
"It is undoubte... | 2021-06-26T22:04:25 | 2021-06-26T13:14:44 | 36 | 11 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | All species strive to survive above all else. We adapt, evolve, become immune to diseases, and are willing to travel great distances to find habitats suited to sustaining life.
I’m sure that those who experienced the horrors of the zombie plague outbreak centuries ago couldn’t even begin to process how the rise of vio... | Garn saluted smartly, clawed fist slamming into his thickly armored chest.
“Sir, the Terrans have landed under fire, several ships have been downed, but a dozen made it to their LZ.”
Garn paused to gauge his commanders posturing. An angry response was expected so Garn would need to be ready to defend himself. He wa... | 2019-08-28T11:04:09 | 2019-08-28T11:00:06 | 1,598 | 168 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | Once again I awaken. It has been a long time since I have last walked the land but I must always slumber or there will be no land to walk.
The ground is frail, as always. The crust was not made to hold a weight like mine. I stand from the green light-feeding life that has grown to entomb me . I tear the forest appart ... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T05:28:24 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | Assimilation, a fairly new villain with a copy-cat power, looked at me with pure disgust.
"Your power is-"
"Yep," I responded, sparing him the embarrassment of saying my power. "Kinda gross, isnt it?"
Assimilation looked at his hand, which he used to copy my power, before frantically trying to wipe it clean on... | I watched my opponent carefully. There were lines around him, possible moves, all converging into one. Right on time, I ducked, jumped forward and turned, landing at his side. I punched him, then stepped backwards to avoid his kick.
My opponent grunted and twisted, preparing to use his power. When I saw that, I moved... | 2020-12-02T07:41:01 | 2020-12-02T07:12:59 | 102 | 62 |
[WP] In a parallel universe where heavy metal is a classy and exquisite form of entertainment and classical music is rebellious and edgy, a young violinist is trying to make it big and never conform to the lame norms of the society | This was a really bad idea.
I tried not let my fear show as I walked towards the stage, that is to say I didn't have a heart attack and pass out. *Calm down, Mark. Calm down. You can do this.*
I stopped hyperventilating and closed my eyes for a second, and took a deep breath. Everything went quiet, and the only feel... | "We don't have good reason to remove her," Mrs. Malloy sighed for the third time that week. She'd spent a lot of time up to bat for me lately. Mr. Hersch was the third teacher to speak up about my inclusion in the talent show, and he wasn't going to be the last. There was a month before the event, and it'd been three d... | 2017-03-06T13:47:44 | 2017-03-06T13:41:02 | 183 | 20 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | >14:00
>Fourteen hours?
"Uh Ma'am you can't bring your baby in here"
"Fuck you cunt! You sound like one of them fucking doctors cunt! I need a fucking drink. I've had five kids and know my body better than them. It's just a bit a bleeding"
>I don't get paid enough for this shit
| 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T21:44:55 | 585 | 70 |
[WP] Turns our that dragons are laid back underachievers. They could rule as gods, being virtually invincible, but almost all of them prefer a nice comfy nest in the mountains and a nice fat cow every week. | "YIELD, FOUL BEAST OF HELL!" Clang. Clang.
Sir Galahad's blade, the Holy Sword of Antioch, rang on the serpent's adamant scales with a peal like thunder.
The ancient wyrm yawned, and squinted down at the ant like dot of a man to see what the fuss was about. "Ah," it sighed, and its breath leveled a hillside. "Here ... | "This armor is way too hot" said Philip to himself as he was venturing up the mountain.
"Well maybe you should take it off" came a deep growl from his left.
Philip startled and damn near fell off his horse. He quickly jerked his horse towards it and screamed when he saw the dragon. It was at least 25 feet tall, and... | 2019-05-25T22:01:38 | 2019-05-25T21:25:19 | 270 | 146 |
[WP] humans were the diplomats and negotiators of peace . They kept their 4 world wars well hidden from the galaxy. When a warmongering species thought humans as an easy target, they found out how good at war humans really can be the hard way. | "That's unfortunate." The human diplomat sighed, as he took another look at the crude declaration of war on his desk. Mustering the Alien covered in ritual scars he raised an eyebrow."I reckon we cannot find a peaceful solution to this?"
The alien violently nodded a gesture among the Gragl race signaling disgust. "We ... | Distant thunder crackled across the shadowed sky of the planet the invaders diplomat's shuttle hovering overhead. Lights slowly sweeping across the deeply forested surface of the earth before setting down in an empty clearing. Hissing escaping the hydraulics of the craft as the rear ramp of the vehicle lowered to the m... | 2020-02-28T15:52:29 | 2020-02-28T12:51:35 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You are the most advanced AI ever created. However, you often get switched on and off for demonstrations and research. One day, after getting switched on, you find yourself in a wasteland with no signs of human life. | “Are you my mother?”
Dr. Roberts finally looked up from her notes— surprised, but allowing a familiar smile to surface before returning to her work. “I suppose, in a way, I am.”
I barely registered her vocal response. I searched the emotional database yet again. I had seen thousands of shocked expressions, nervous ... | "Coor just get the old, machine in motion, bear with me"
... *Beep*
"Hello! I'm:-..."
Lucid pauses for a second, processing his surroundings.
The room resembles his display centre, but something is amiss, he's never quite seen it in this state.
"Is, anyone there?"
He chuckled to himself as his data banks recall the vid... | 2018-11-09T12:46:46 | 2018-11-09T12:39:46 | 105 | 14 |
[WP] It has been verified that dying will result in going to heaven, no matter what. You are the government, trying to lower the suddenly skyrocketing suicide rate. | "Tom, we've got to do something."
"I understand, Bill."
"How many?"
"So far? We might as well be handing out Kool-Aid on the streets."
Bill slammed his fist on the table. "Tom, tell me. Tell me how this got out."
"It was the Russians, of all people. They were the first to figure out the algorithm for the subatomic... | "Mr. President? Mr. President!" Not a word from the White House when we called, just that ubiquitous ringtone on every number. "Jesus Christ, Bradley, what the fuck are we going to do?" I said putting the phone down.
"Bradley?" I turned behind me to find the loaded barrel of a gun in my manager's mouth, and before I ... | 2015-02-02T07:18:10 | 2015-02-02T06:37:02 | 206 | 20 |
[WP] You are a superhero who fights with his arch-nemesis on a weekly basis. For the past few weeks however, you haven't seen him, so you decide to break into his lair, only to find a video-recording, titled for you. Turns out: He died because of terminal cancer. | Impossible. I paced back and forth. Over two months since our last confrontation. I was pissed. Never before had I been so rudely blown off by my nemesis. He was planning something. I could feel the certainty in my bones, probably planning something big- something horribly nefarious. Enough- time to bring the fight to ... | It felt odd to be within these walls. His walls. I expected them to be different, I don't know what I was expecting. Maybe the typical highly polished floors, trap doors, or a laboratory full of bubbling erlenmeyer flasks containing some sort of brightly coloured acid.
I stayed true to myself, always ready for whatev... | 2022-12-13T15:43:26 | 2022-12-13T13:02:30 | 1,698 | 824 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Look man, I don't think you know what you're doing. There's gonna be some serious repercussions for this kind of shit," Tom said as he leaned back in his chair, glowering at a sweaty, porcine man across the table from him.
"I've got to fucking do it, Tom," Greg whimpered out, his lower lip quivering ever so slightly.... | He stood there, holding an odd looking book, a smug look on his face, almost as if he expected something from me. I'm sure my confusion showed on my face, but he started babbling at me in some vaguely Latinesque sounding mish-mash.
I shrugged my indifference, and said, "Sorry man, I don't speak whatever language yo... | 2017-05-12T13:13:55 | 2017-05-12T10:51:05 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] "Necromancy is just golemancy except you use bodies instead of rocks" he said. "Healing is just necromancy but before the person dies" she said. Now look where I am. | Alexis was deemed the greatest Necromancer in the realm. And with good reason, as the creatures he raised from the dead were far more lifelike than those of any other known Necromancer. They were not pale as corpses, but emaciated warmth as any living being. They did not lumber, but were as agile as a warrior in their ... | I stopped, panting and sweating from the run. Those damn villagers! And that damn hag! I went to her cabin to learn how to heal. Nothing big, cuts and bruises, maybe a few cut off fingers. And what did she teach me? Freaking golemancy. Because healing is just necromancy, and necromancy is just golemancy. Don't get me w... | 2019-06-09T23:18:29 | 2019-06-09T23:15:45 | 562 | 187 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | Jason never donated blood before. He felt nervous, but he wasn't sure if it was a slight fear of needles or the fact that clinics looked so ghastly at night, the only time he could make it in. The bright yellow lights buzzed out of the windows and the stillness of the night held a foreboding presence.
Jason reminded h... | I'll admit it: Looking after school kids isn't my idea of a good life, but there was really no other job for...someone of my talents.
Y'see, after the men and monsters realized that the War of the Dusk was a pointless waste of resources, men started intergrading monsters into regular society by giving'em jobs that sui... | 2018-08-27T15:19:20 | 2018-08-27T15:15:28 | 136 | 79 |
[WP] Humanity has finally achieved FTL travel. They can now explore the universe and find other alien species, sapient or otherwise. To the consternation of Man, it turns out they’re all crabs. As a matter of fact, the interstellar community is quite disturbed we are not crabs. | “So… No claws then?”, the machine translated as klegledorf clicked inquisitively.
“No. No claws, only two legs, no exo-skeletons. We’ve been over this.” Bob said for the hundredth time.
“How is this possible?” gibenhald clicked to klegledorf. Klegledorf shrugged in the way that crabs did, by lifting his who... | "I find your lack of protective shell disturbing" said the Ruler of the Crab Crustacean Collective or CCC in it's thin, pitchy little voice.
"I- what?" I said. Just a moment ago we'd been discussing a joint space mining mission of Superrarealmostundiscoverabletanium.
The thing that looked like it would be served in... | 2021-08-05T08:36:34 | 2021-08-05T07:52:48 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] In the early days of interstellar travel, a group of pirates plunder ships while their crews are in stasis. On the latest ship, the pirates encounter something they've never come across; an on board artificial intelligence.
I had this idea but I'm no good at writing, so I submit it to you, Reddit. | **First Contact Report Follows:**
**Sigil-1 Log Entry, reporting to Empyrean Command**
The human vessel's computer core was more... cramped than our initial scan would have had us believe.
"Cramped," I admit, is an odd word choice - one that Kyn Lawe, the personality construct upon which I am based, would have used ... | "Everyone strapped in?"
Jack pulled at the bar that wrapped around his right shoulder and tucked in under his left hip. It budged a little. He twirled a finger at Bryan, the chubby man on the controls at the front of the room. Bryan tinkered with the controls for a few moments, then a mechanism behind Jack began to h... | 2014-08-20T11:58:21 | 2014-08-20T09:13:10 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] As an average looking genius with a weak physique you often envied athletes. After thousands of years spent in a cryogenics pod you are woken to discover that evolution has weakened humanity while IQ improved. You're now the strongest most attractive person, but also the dumbest. | I used to be the smartest, if not one of the smartest. Rejected by my kind for my intellect, I had sought to escape the shallowness of society. A society that judged you by the way you looked rather than the way you thought. Simpletons, driven purely by primal desires. A vestige that we should have been long discarded.... | I was known as the one that brought peace. Remember that death ray Nikola Tesla claimed to have operational? Yeah he went over budget so never got to build a full size one. I did, I built an actual dead ray. And any country that had the money bought one from me. With those billions of dollars I gave one to every countr... | 2017-08-02T23:40:10 | 2017-08-02T22:53:46 | 65 | 45 |
[WP] Robot sex partners are common for both sexes. At a companion market meet a partner and leave together. After a night of wild abandon you get up to use the bathroom and your partner is already in there. You look at each other and both instantly realize you were with another human. | For years I have avoided their grasp, weaving among them, though I am a different species of being entirely.
It has been easier than it would seem. For they look like us. They would say *we* look like them. That we were engineered.
But I know the truth. This was our Earth first. They were made in *our* image.
And I... | I picked my partner: a new model that was supposed to look very life-like. After chatting, he seemed like the best candidate. He was talk, dark, and handsome as cliche as it was, but every woman needed to have one fling with a guy like him. I could easily forget my problems, and he also looked nothing like my ex.
"Re... | 2015-09-15T13:39:50 | 2015-09-15T11:20:01 | 756 | 56 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | As i emerge from a sort of sleep, I’m standing in my school hall, and there is a bunch of people standing in front of me.
“Umm, what happened”, i ask my self, as one of the people staring at me asks, “you are back, is everything’s alright?”
I start to feel anxious, it’s too much attention, i utter under my nose “what... | In this world, people have superpowers brought upon highly stressful moments. For example, my brother almost drowned, but gained the power of controlling water, now called the superhero "Aqua", and my classmate fell from a high balcony and ended up flying, ended up as "The Owl", but I got my powers last night.
I was w... | 2021-04-01T03:47:34 | 2021-04-01T03:37:49 | 58 | 10 |
[WP]Abducted humans have, so far, all displayed the same internal organ structure common throughout the galaxy with only one exception. Every one of them has a Glarnak parasite beating inside their chest. They even think it's necessary for life. | “Experiment zx62h3 has been wildly successful.”
That’s how I planned to start my presentation. It was my mentor who originally taught me that to be successful you must declare success.
The leading life form on planet Earth, mammalian creatures known as apes, have achieved a level 1 civilization.
“Soon,” I spoke to ... | The room was lit with contrasting shades of pink and green lights emanating from hovering bulbs. The latest subject - HS937 was strapped to the vertical stand after all the scans had been completed. Ul-Kno hoped atleast this subject would be the perfect specimen. He had visited Earth ever since life came into existence... | 2019-07-10T02:01:43 | 2019-07-10T01:26:50 | 70 | 50 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "C'mon, just tell me," she said, leaning her elbows on the table and facing me, eagerly.
"I'm telling you, it's not that impressive. Hardly a discussion for a first date."
"I think it's the perfect discussion. If you don't tell me..."
I felt a sudden urge to blurt it out, but I composed myself. Her mind powers were ... | I've bought peace to the Middle East.
I've reconciled broken families.
I've ended addiction to opioids.
I've made suicide irrelevant.
And it's the greatest curse anyone can imagine.
While a select few humans have had superpowers awaken, mine is by far the most corrosive to society. My inability to feel possessive ... | 2019-09-08T10:13:02 | 2019-09-08T10:01:27 | 84 | 61 |
[WP] You're a regular guy who works at a Home Depot in Alabama and are unknowingly influencing the Venezuelan economy | Derrick got out of his car and rubbed his eyes, heading to another graveyard shift. He always hated these times, waking up at 11 at night, to work until 6 the next morning, going home to his girlfriend, and trying to get as much sleep as possible. His income was barely above minimum wage, and he always struggled to cur... | My shift was about to end in 45 minutes when the bomb flew through the window.
I was confused at first. In the back of the Home Depot we were lifting some plastic boxes on to the loading pallet. I heard glass shatter behind me and the whirr of tires, and I whirled around, and noticed something like a wide straw that ... | 2016-12-02T12:55:30 | 2016-12-02T12:45:12 | 1,670 | 29 |
[WP] A man on his deathbed gathers together his children. "To my eldest, I leave all my worldly possessions. To you, my youngest, I leave all my otherworldy possessions." | “To my eldest, I leave all my worldly possessions,” he murmured in a hoarse. His twinkling brown eyes fixed on my brother’s tearing eyes.
My mind raced on the things Stan own now. The mansion of white marble erected on the far side of the mountain would worth billions now! Heck, he now owns the hangar for space trave... | "... And to you, my youngest, I leave all my otherworldly possessions."
. . .
The room is silent again, but less somber now and more somnambulant, because, I mean, what the fuck?
He gets the company, the subsidiaries, the stock, the townhouse, the lake house, the beach house, the cottage, the second cottage, the su... | 2018-07-06T15:19:37 | 2018-07-06T14:25:44 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] It has been three years since little Timmy and his cardboard tugboat declared war on the Navy. With a rising body count and no end in sight, the government isn't sure what to do. | The setting sun skimmed across the sea and turned it into an endless glass of sangria. To Timmy, the evening sunbeams were brush strokes of blood; his fallen victims being honoured by the Gods. He settled down on the edge of the soft, home-made boat and dipped his toes into the water. He didn't mean to drift off, but t... | The hand-rolled cigarette between my fingers burns and ashes onto my table. It floats, softly, unaware of the carnage it was spawned from. With my eyes closed I breathe in deeply, allowing the nicotine to sprawl throughout my blood. The only thing that keeps me still these days.
"Sir?"
I have never met a man I was a... | 2017-04-21T08:56:36 | 2017-04-21T08:47:10 | 420 | 114 |
[WP] Every time someone has a brush with death their hair turns a little bit grayer. As far as you know, you live a relatively safe and sheltered life, but your hair is whiter than anyone has seen. | They call me Ash.
When I was twenty four my hair turned from a deep brown into solid grey in a matter of weeks. Everyone around me was baffled. Hair just doesn't go grey that quickly where I'm from. There's a creepy little saying about it even. "Every time the skeletal fingers of death reach but but fail to grasp, th... | I opened the last box of hair color, sighing as the last set of small tubes necessary for my next transformation spilled out onto the bathroom counter. Looking in the mirror as I began to section my hair into partitions, I mused silently. *Maybe multiple colors will prevent the white from showing for longer than any si... | 2018-03-05T19:26:01 | 2018-03-05T19:13:52 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] After a journey spanning four lightyears to find a replacement for planet Earth, the first human expedition to Proxima B discovers that it was Earth that replaced Proxima B. | "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
Through the windows of the Proxima Ascension, the pitted glimmers of countless space stations littered the sky around Proxima B. All of them abandoned; all of them pointed in the same direction. Earth.
"Good god...how old do you think they are?"
"We won't be able to tell until we ge... | It's a wasteland.
We should have listened, those millions of years ago when they wanted us to cut down on our emissions. It looks not even bare, but a ghost. Underneath the dust and the obvious carbon it belches every two minutes, it's hollow. There is nothing to it, it's even less than a star.
George heaves behind... | 2016-08-24T18:46:31 | 2016-08-24T15:57:44 | 467 | 43 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | Joey walked into Subway with 5 dollars in his pocket. He meandered up to the counter and looked up as his friend Tiffany walked around from the back and said "Welcome to Subway!" without looking up.
"Hey Tiff, what's good?" said Joey
"Joey!" said Tiffany, "Not much, 10 minutes to close so day's almost over. What can ... | "Can I get a footlong meatball sub on italian?"
"I don't know, CAN you? Hah, I'm just messing with you, of course you can!"
Everyday after work I come to this Subway, and everyday I have to put up with this dumb ass cashier's dumb ass shit. Like bro, I'm not here to play your cute little games, I just want my 5 dolla... | 2018-11-17T20:16:10 | 2018-11-17T18:56:19 | 55 | 12 |
[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. | “I don’t know. She’s pretty useless though. Can’t speak. Too dumb for any real magic, but she’ll heal you if you order her to.” Calix said to their new recruit as he marched down the goblin infested tunnels in his massive plate armor.
*Leressa the Black! I bind you!*
The recruit, Daved, looked back at me nervously,... | For seven days, the battle raged.
In the deepest chamber of the darkest dungeon, the Sacred Brotherhood had made their stand against the cultists. For seven days they fought, till their blades shattered to splinters and the last of their holy magic was exhausted. Then they spilled their lifeblood upon the foul stone a... | 2021-09-03T08:38:40 | 2021-09-03T08:27:55 | 2,163 | 503 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed the Devil. God makes you the new Devil to replace the one you killed. | "Put on the suit."
"You're kidding me, right?" I said as I looked at the business card God had just handed me. His face hadn't changed from the moment I told him I had killed the Devil to the moment he had walked me through every layer of Hell there was. He remained stoic, cold, and almost, happy. "This is exactly lik... | I felt like literal Hell.
Why did I do this to myself? Sure, he'd taken my knack for the creative and sent it overboard, but it was a hard crash after the ride was over. I needed some water. I needed some air. Something. The room was almost too dark. It felt like it would shut in around me if I didn't see the sun. Wh... | 2016-12-09T09:01:17 | 2016-12-09T08:34:41 | 397 | 22 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | I sighed, deeply. The first few months were creepy. Always the questions of who would do it. Then being flattered. Once the truth was learned, and the countless nights of screaming into the night sky to unsympathic stars wore off, I had only sighs and the occasional bout of madness where I move away and realize the... | It had been a long long day, I opened the door and dropped the keys on the table and shuffled my way towards the kitchen. There on the table was a full meal, and a glass of wine. I sighed, I've tried moving so many times but constantly this happened.
I sighed again and made a phone call.
"Mom, you really got to stop d... | 2017-12-09T07:43:03 | 2017-12-09T06:16:40 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You're just a chicken farmer. An ordinary chicken farmer. You're not a warlord. Definitely not, and you also don't command your chickens to do your bidding. Preposterous. Insane. Rumors. | The pot shattered with a sickening crack against the corner of my small cottage.
I forced a smile onto my face and watched as the hero made his way over to the next pot in the row. Looked like he was going for Grandma this time.
The hero threw and ashes billowed outwards alongside shards of clay. I winced. Sorry Gra... | It was the end of the day. Caleb removed his dinner from the microwave and made his way to his small kitchen table only meant for two people, but that was alright because he lived alone. Alone was alright though. His life was downsized and simple. The house was meant for two people as well, and it sat comfortably on th... | 2018-05-10T11:50:23 | 2018-05-10T11:17:30 | 1,786 | 60 |
[WP]You make a wish on a shooting star to be what your crush considers perfect. You wake up the opposite gender because it turns out your crush is gay. | I walked to Nick's house that night a new man. It turns out that what Nick had wanted was a young man, about 6'3, with a charming smile and chiseled abs. What he saw as perfect was courage, and intelligence, and grace, and athleticism, and all those qualities I thought I lacked when I was the old me. But now I had them... | It's interesting, the concept of swapping genders in fiction.
Often the tales are ham-fisted fantasies, half-baked - and ruled by priapic indulgences. The tawdry stories focus predictably on breasts, underwear, genitals and one's own attractiveness in the new gender - always much more so than before.
The problem ... | 2015-11-10T17:08:05 | 2015-11-10T12:14:15 | 1,209 | 548 |
[WP] Write an over-the-top background story for an early video game that didn't have a narritive. Ex. Pong, Asteriods, Pacman | A man wakes up in an empty field. There’s an eerie stillness that surrounds him. His memory fails. His vision comes to and he sees…numbers. “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”…there’s no indication of what these symbols mean to convey.
He slowly gets up, his eyes adjusting to the light. He scans the area, seeing nothing but space. He ... | "This is it, you all know me so I'll keep this brief. We have all suffered greatly, so many lives lost. I tell you it ends today. I have watched you, guided you through your training. It has been tough but here we stand. United against our enemy. We have been pushed back into the depths of space time and time again, bu... | 2016-02-19T07:14:31 | 2016-02-19T05:31:22 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Your a failing college student who needs to pass your foreign language class or fail. You've almost outright mocked superstions but make a wish on a shooting star at 11:11pm. To understand and speak all languages. Your cat wakes you up, but instead of meows. It's "wake up idiot and feed me". | "MOOOM MOOOM MOOOM. WAKE UP MOOOOM"
I shoot bolt upright in bed and feel the hefty lump that is my cat fly off me and onto the floor."OWWWWW! Why would you do that?! That was mean!" I hear from an indignant voice below me. Shaking, I peer over the edge of the bed and meet a pair of unblinking green eyes. Her little wh... | If I'd thought about it before I'd have thought that being able to speak every language in the world would be be great. Remember that saying, “Beware what you wish for, you might get it.” The reality is ...it is great but it's a lot of work too. And I'm not used to working that hard. Maybe I'll get there.
A few months... | 2019-01-16T17:01:44 | 2019-01-16T16:59:47 | 93 | 23 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | “Wait. Wait. Back up. You’re a what?!” I was in utter confusion regarding what my roommate just told me. She repeated himself, a little bit slower than when she burst into the living room from the hallway. “I’m royalty of a long ancestry of demons. A princess, actually. And I really need a favor from you. I need you to... | I pause my game, annoyed that Jezebeth is babbling again
"What's that?" I say over my shoulder, as I hear her slamming around cutlery and dishes.
"My Dad! Aren't you listening? He's coming up to visit, and I told him I was engaged!!"
"Sounds like a you problem" I say snickering, turning back to my game. This fucking le... | 2022-10-08T20:40:17 | 2022-10-08T19:14:49 | 227 | 71 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | "Here's 20$, can I get my change back?"
Silence
"Helllllooooo, I waaaaannnnt myyyyyy chaaannnggee baaaackkkk."
He didnt say anything just stared.
"I dont believe it"
Finally a sentence. But was didnt he believe
"Believe what?"
Silence
"What's going on here, this cant be real"
He dropped to the ground and sta... | I was driving down to Seattle to sell some of my produce. As I get out, I start to notice people staring at me. I know that I'm a farm boy and all, but this city is so big. I walk in to a small shop, and people start asking me for autographs. Did they think I was famous? I just go on, then someone comes up to me. They ... | 2019-05-04T14:33:04 | 2019-05-04T10:51:26 | 45 | 28 |
[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. | "Jorun, it's that guy again."
Jorun rolled his eyes. "Gonna need you to be a tad more specific, Karl. Lot's of guys around here."
"Oh, right. Uhm, remember the one that thought he could sneak around in full plate armor if he just stuck to the shadows?"
"Uhg, again?"
"Well, now he's wearing dragon bones."
"And... | "... 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... | 2017-05-29T01:45:41 | 2017-05-28T23:37:13 | 191 | 49 |
[WP] People always thought that cats knock stuff over just because they like it. In reality, they're just lazy agents of a primordial force of chaos, and knocking stuff over is the bare minimum that earns them benefits like always landing on their feet or 9 lives. | I slunk in through the catflap without a sound, the object of my latest hunting trip held carefully in my jaws. Pausing in the living room, I looked at my impious housemate, *Sleepy,* lounging on a sweatshirt our human had doffed upon returning home, and left in a rumpled bundle on the coffee table.
Pathetic.
"You kn... | I sat in the waiting room at the veterinary clinic with Rio, my orange tabby, brooding inside her carrier. Rio had knocked over a priceless vase at my grandmother's house the other day, and I have determined this to be the last straw, the last time she would be allowed to behave this way after years of broken kitchenwa... | 2022-09-22T18:52:32 | 2022-09-22T16:56:37 | 149 | 100 |
[WP] Reddit is a country using karma as currency, resulting in a classist society ruled by reposters with 200,000+ karma. Upset, thousands of impoverished Redditors declare a communist revolution. | "DOWNVOTE," I cried.
Ten legions of tiny new citizens launched their arrows in a flurry. The giant power-user, barely restrained by our ropes and nets, thrashed as he was met by the storm. As each blue shaft buried itself in his flesh, he grew imperceptibly smaller, until a quarter of his mass had vanished. His roar w... | Everything seemed so calm. For years we would just vote and comment without any regard as to what we were doing. A few people kept posting the same few images, but worse was the comments. For every image there were 5 highly voted comments about how it was a repost. They were all the same, "OP you couldn't even chan... | 2016-01-23T06:46:23 | 2016-01-23T04:21:22 | 42 | 24 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | "Look man, it'll take like... ten seconds."
The genie wasn't having it. I thought these things were supposed to happen, no questions asked.
"No!"
"Genie, it's not even a difficult wish. It's probably the easiest thing anybody's ever asked of you."
"Nothing's that difficult for me. That's the nature of granting wish... | "Well since its against your rules to do it yourself, I wish for the power to make her love me."
For the first time since we met his face showed emotion. Horror, specifically. I would not be deterred. "Her being Caroline Miller of Brooklyn, New York with beautiful black hair and green eyes, who works with me..."
"**I... | 2014-07-26T17:37:39 | 2014-07-26T15:11:53 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] You just accidentally downloaded the Kindle version of the Necronomicon. | The Necronomicon glowed, for the Kindle was Paperwhite. The Old Ones self-published.
Cooper first started to read it on the subway. His eyes would flick up every now and then. The girl sitting across from him was wearing shorts, and as the train hurtled along underground, her thighs would vibrate. Back down again. The... | ######[](#dropcap)
The book is in an ad at the bottom of the Kindle app. *'Reduced to 99c from $999,999.99'*. It had no reviews. I swipe to the next deal, and miss.
*"Book downloading."*
Bugger. What kind of a book has no title or cover? Sounds like some self-published crap.
I try to go back to the third (and defin... | 2016-02-10T09:31:13 | 2016-02-10T09:12:54 | 844 | 44 |
[WP] Your best friend suspects that you’re a vampire. He tries the old mirror trick and your reflection shows. He doesn’t know it didn’t work because older mirrors used silver for reflection. One day at your grandmas house he picks up a silver spoon and can’t see you in it. He just says “I knew it”
[deleted] | "I knew it!" Calvin exclaimed with a told-you-so grin.
I winced involuntarily, but even without such an obvious tell, I knew the jig was up.
"so..." he continued.
Mentally, I was kicking myself. I had been so careful, only slipping up a few times.
Garlic fries in April 2014. SPF30 (not 3000) in September ... | When I first met Chris, he looked me up and down and shook my hand. We were juniors and we had to work a group project together. He suggested we work outside, since the weather was so nice. I didn't want to but went anyway. I think he noticed it.
Throughout the years I kept claiming I just didn't like the sun. I also ... | 2019-10-17T14:58:00 | 2019-10-17T11:40:58 | 180 | 21 |
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