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[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | I think I am insane. I recall someone once saying that if you can question your sanity, you must not be insane. Bullshit. I question everything but there is no way I am sane anymore. I don't mind. Not really. Its the only thing that has helped.
I volunteered for this, I think. I don't really remember anymore tha... | Pure silence. A quiet more soundless than the empty page of an armless writer with nothing to say. A defending nothingness, in all directions, from this space here to the end of time.
*THUNDER*
A crack explodes in to existence. Cutting itself in to this world mercilessly. The violence roars in a mounting creshendo. Bu... | 2017-12-17T04:45:38 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] You are not Death. You are not the God of Death. You are not any other type of powerful being or eldritch horror. There is no room within this prompt to make a hackneyed “observation” about humanity. You are a regular ass guy on his way to Subway to get a meatball sub. Make it interesting. | Hunger.
To be honest, he had almost forgot what it felt like. For years his wife, afraid of losing him again, had devoted herself to pleasing his every whim. At first, of course he had resisted, but he was only human. Bliss became routine. But nothing lasts forever, and soon she left, too. And with her left all her gi... | As Bob sat on the subway his ass firmly planted on the sticky and comfortable seat, he thought about toast. Peanut butter toast, French toast, garlic toast, toast was nice to think about and passed the seconds as he waited to get his meatball sub. He saw a woman with flaming hands enter the subway her phone case was cu... | 2022-10-03T00:20:27 | 2022-10-02T22:12:25 | 127 | 24 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | 2078
Forty years ago I became immortal due to a cascading sequence of events entirely under my control. I invented God for a father and took advantage of the 'preordained' second coming, becoming Jesus reincarnate.
2130
Being immortal is freeing.
2456
Everyone I know is long since dead. I can't make sense of the n... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T10:38:05 | 848 | 268 |
[WP] There's a prophesied hero, a chosen one, destined to vanquish all evil. This supposed hero is also an egotistical, self centered brat. You're the villain solely because you got tired of putting up with the "hero's" shit | "Hmm." I pondered, twirling my moustache as I strode through my library. My cloak billowed out behind me, sweeping past such classics as the Odyssey, the Brothers Grimm and Aesop's fables. "What lesson should the little tit learn today?" My finger slid along the collection; the room filled with fables of heroes and vil... | A golden knight, perfect brow drenched in sweat and blood, furrowed in frustration, stands across from a young man in rags, gripping a sword of iron.
The knight spoke, tenor voice flowing like silk across the clearing to the man in rags,"I have fought demons dragged from hell by most evil men, and threw them both back... | 2016-06-16T11:44:01 | 2016-06-16T11:09:46 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone has a stopwatch they are given at birth, it counts down to the exact moment you will meet your soulmate. You met your soulmate years ago and have been happily married since with three beautiful children. This morning you woke up and looked down, your watch has begun counting again. | "Hello, Marie." The words echoed in her memory fondly. She gazed blankly out of the tinted cab window. A light snow had began falling outside and the streets were buzzing with young couples.
It had been a day not too unlike this one, just 33 short years ago, that she had met the love of her life. Her watch had been ti... | I could only stare at my watch in anger, less than 5 minuets to go and I had resorted to standing on a cliff side, waves crashing into the rock wall below to prevent me from meeting my soulmate. Destiny would lead me to my soul mate they said, you would be happy forever they said. Wrong. Every last one of them, the wat... | 2016-12-04T03:00:12 | 2016-12-04T01:24:32 | 595 | 49 |
[WP] You're a king who just wanted a day off from ruling, so you disguised yourself and went into town alone. You then find yourself trapped in a meeting about how the people are planning to overthrow and kill you tonight. | There's something about the smell of the outer city that I find comforting-- fresh fruits and fish in the market, cobblestone baking under the sun and salt from the sea untainted; it's a pleasant departure from perfumes and perfect meadows and all the other regal coerced scents you find in the court. It's honest and re... | The tavern known as the Pit was aptly named. It was a dark place, grimy and stinking. It served short measure and hard bread, its waiters picked your pockets and its customers punched you in the teeth. Its beds were infested with bloodsuckers, the rushes on the floor hadn't been changed in weeks, and if, after closing ... | 2019-06-01T14:33:05 | 2019-06-01T14:17:33 | 224 | 108 |
[WP] You awake in the middle of the night to your phone loudly playing a message, "This is the emergency Broadcast channel, This is not a test. Please seek shelter immediately. Do not look outside, do not make noise, do not-", the transmission ends.
It's been quite interesting to read all the responsed, thanks everyon... | The screaming tone I woke up to is the most horrifying sound a man could hear. I was hearing a singularity, a point of no return. My government was unequivocally telling me that I was in danger, that my life was on the line. It was communicated through a primitive, screaming, deadly tone. There was no other way to desc... | My eyes shot open. I don't know how, but the sound from my phone, the way it piped up unsolicited, the *urgency* with which the voice spoke... my normally deep sleep disappeared instantly.
"This is the emergency Broadcast channel. This is *not* a test. Please seek shelter immediately."
I rolled off my bed in panic. I... | 2014-12-31T05:12:12 | 2014-12-31T04:56:50 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] Aliens invade the Australian outback. Things do not go according to their plans... | There are legends in the universe. Nightmares carried forward from the cradle of a thousand civilizations. We had heard them all. Some of the races that we've subdued in The Great March Forward cursed us with figments of their own primitive dementia. However, when it came to world called Earth, we learned that some leg... | "Well."
We stand on the rocky hard soil. Some local flora, no fauna in sight.
"You sure?"
"My calculations are 100% correct. Our maps indicate that this is the most inhabited spot on the planet, with a population density similar to our own."
AIs can be a pain sometimes.
"Yeah, you told me that before. And I'm ask... | 2015-12-22T07:11:02 | 2015-12-22T03:19:31 | 80 | 29 |
[WP] You're a ghost trying to peacefully enjoy your garden, and quite frankly, you're tired of all these adventurers trying to "put you to rest" | I could see another one cresting the hill. A large sword strapped to their back, glinting silver in the sun. Another misguided soul come to take me to my final rest. If only they could get it through their thick skulls that I wished to be left in peace and had no desire to cross over. If I had had any, I would have don... | The garden looked as good as ever this afternoon. The sun was shining, the hedges were immaculate, and the rose bushes had come back with a vengeance.
Mrs. Esterhazy would be proud. Her descendants had kept the plantation revival home in excellent shape. Many held their wedding ceremonies in this very garden.
Whe... | 2019-12-30T14:19:31 | 2019-12-30T14:04:15 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as humans. As a child you pick out a puppy as a companion for the rest of your life. | You know, my beloved, even after all these years, I still think you are beautiful?
I remember when we first met. How many years has it been now?
You were so much younger, so much smaller and so, so full of life. We both were.
You know, I can't remember, I've lost track of how many years we've been together, it's bee... | I used to say that the only way our pets did us wrong was that they didn’t live long enough. I don’t say that anymore.
My job had changed significantly since the advent of the genetically enhanced longevity discovery. The small business I’d bought just two years before was now bursting at the seams. I had to move into... | 2018-03-19T08:55:45 | 2018-03-19T08:54:42 | 141 | 46 |
[WP] As the sole janitor on the space-station, people often ask why you're there as robots do most of the cleaning. You're not allowed to tell them that you're the only person preventing a robotic uprising event from occurring. | “LARRY!!”
The unified sound of robotic androids filled the room as Larry, the only human member of the sanitary crew enters.
“Heyyy how’s everyone doing? TX-9, your cogs moving just fine?”
“Yeah, thanks for talking to the android maintenance crew. I just HATE having to talk to them ya know? :)”
The android says wea... | [poem]
They scrub the space-shitters and help us snap our social media pictures. They print our papers and slave, while we make eight figures. But if they ever rose up, no era would fade quicker.
These are the automations. Providing leisure through subjugation. Mass-produced upon the nation. Many lobbyists engage in... | 2021-01-30T11:53:06 | 2021-01-30T09:22:40 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] "Perfection is boring" You never thought much about it not until the day you found a genie and wished you were perfect. And now your life has lost taste as you can't progress due to being perfect | Sydney was ten when she found the lamp, ten years old, fifth grade, a rough time for a young girl trying to prepare herself for middle school. Middle school, they said, was when life stopped being about fun and started being about work. Life got serious at middle school. Gone would be the days of games and laughs. In t... | “Yeah? Well when the hell is it my turn Jerry, huh?” a complex mixture of fire and tears clouded Ava’s vision as she looked at him. The words were poised on his too perfect lips, framed by a face that had somehow struck the right balance between ‘boy next door’ and runway model.
“Don’t even say it! It’s like your word... | 2021-02-02T09:02:09 | 2021-02-02T07:19:39 | 997 | 111 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Life is my game. Is there a way to win? Maybe, but hell if I know what it is. I can remember what I was thinking when I first died. My first life was such an awful run, I've topped it almost every life after, unless I count the runs I've just done for fun.
I was an artist, not very experienced, only about 60 years of ... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T12:49:34 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 60 | 31 |
[WP] A man accosts you in the street, and he claims he is you from the future. “Whatever you do, DO NOT fall in love with that girl!” the man warns. Distracted by the crazy man, you turn the corner and bump into someone. Its the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. Your eyes meet and she smiles.
Credit to this post... | Michael watched himself, and his other self converse from across the street. Time travel once, and you do it again. Watching history through the lens of whatever bias the historians had was far inferior to watching it through the lens of a cafe's window, slow jazz music playing in the background.
It was never worth i... | Trigger warning: >! Still birth !<
He looked like a man crazed. Gaunt, wide eyed and hair that seemed to have never met shampoo before. Most of all, he smelled. And not the usual, malodour of homelessness and rough living, but of desperation too.
My mind possibly overlaying the distraught look on his face wit... | 2020-02-04T10:18:37 | 2020-02-04T08:36:56 | 163 | 29 |
[WP] Alien travelers stopped at Earth to refuel and consult humans in exchange. An allien consulting an astronomer finds a picture of a black hole on her computer. "Oh, you also scare your children with this tale haha". "No, it's a recent photo" she replies. Alien is visibly freaking out. | The beings disembarked their ship. Not slowly or with lots of lights, there was little fanfare. It was obvious they had somewhere to be.
“The transgalactic courier federation thanks you immensely for your generosity. We have stores of tritium to use as payment.”
The group of international scientists couldn’t contai... | "Do you have," the periscope eyes of the green mass of flesh looked down at the device attached to the blob of flesh which was an arm, "petroleum. Yes that's what it is. Do you have petroleum?"
The gas station shopkeeper stared at the alien wide-eyed with shock.
"P-e-t-r-o-l-e-u-m," said the skinnier of the blobby cr... | 2021-12-24T06:57:35 | 2021-12-24T04:45:56 | 733 | 165 |
[WP] You're a quiet, law-abiding citizen who recently moved to a new city. Thanks to a long series of coincidences, the local mafia are absolutely convinced that you're an untouchable kingpin. | Sitting inside Angelo's pizzeria on 31st street, I awaited the arrival of Luca "The Reaper" Rinero. The head of the notorious Rinero family was coming to meet with me to discuss "business", inside this tiny dimly lit space, with only one exit, shaking my head to stop my mind from thinking about the thousand ways this ... | \[Poem\]
I've only spent a day and a half walking around these streets
Familiarizing myself with the garbage and the rodents
That are scurrying around here. And I can't help but notice
Whenever I look up at someone they make sure our eyes don't meet.
.
I just think it's funny. Have I met them somewhere before?
M... | 2021-01-13T23:12:13 | 2021-01-13T20:13:27 | 66 | 25 |
[WP] You wake up in a strange room, only to find alternate universe versions of you there, each different in their own way (gender, race, background etc). You have no idea what brought you here. | I looked around at all of the eerily similar faces. There was Black Me, with long dreads. Male Me, surprisingly tall and a bit handsome. Is that weird? Standing right next to him was Dwarf Me with pudgy limbs. Some of them weren't too different, though. One version of me had the same physical features, but wore tattere... | "hey" we all say at once and be quiet to let the others speak because i feel like whatever they say will be important and im not sure what's going on and hoping that they do.
i walk over to one and ask him, "so, uh, what's your universe like?"
obviously contemplating how to explain it because he's never had to before... | 2015-04-15T08:39:28 | 2015-04-15T08:18:30 | 387 | 12 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | *Well that was a bust...*
**C'mon. I know you really liked her.**
*I mean I did but...I guess she didn't feel the same. Seems like that's been happening a lot lately.*
**You'll find someone. I know your heart. You're too good to be single forever.**
*Yeah, okay. No offense but I don't know how much that's worth com... | She has always been there for me. She has always been honest with me.
When I was 4 years old, she told me Mr Bunny had been saying mean things about me. I threw him in the bin. My mother was upset she said why did I throw away my favourite toy. I said he's not my favourite any more.
When I was 6, she taught me what v... | 2019-09-14T13:20:46 | 2019-09-14T11:01:10 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] Upon turning 18, all humans must spend one year as their spirit animal, to gain a better appreciation for the world and what they have. They awake on the morning of their 18th birthday as said animal, in its natural habitat. You wake up on your 18th birthday completely human.
Edit: Thanks so much for the gold! Th... | It's how it's always been around here. On the morning of 18th birthday, everybody would turn into their spirit animal for a year, as a part of spiritual journey to adulthood. Many never were the same after the 'transformation'. Some, at least those who survived, were nicer and kinder to people, those people mostly got ... | It's been about 3 weeks since my 18th birthday, and I'm still human. I know it sounds stupid, but I was hoping it was a glitch in the Matrix or whatever. I've been told my entire life to be ready for my 18th birthday, but I never thought this would be the outcome.
Ever since my 18th birthday, and I'm constantly gettin... | 2019-05-05T23:59:23 | 2019-05-05T23:42:19 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] A new virus sweeps the nation killing hundreds. It turns out the virus only affects total assholes though. People are unsure if they really want to cure it. | November 21, 2014 -
Every day, my vision gets a little darker, the ringing in my ears gets a little louder, and my extremities become a little more numb. It has been a week since I started to see symptoms, but I knew I would see them eventually. After the news of the virus swept through the nation, I began taking dai... | When the virus first emerged we all thought it was a new form of the flu or some rare contagion that crept it's way here from another country, but that couldn't possibly explain the rate of infection.
A few isolated cases at first, hospitals chalked it up to bad weather or bad luck, but when dozens started dying ever... | 2014-11-21T11:15:00 | 2014-11-21T10:55:59 | 65 | 23 |
[WP] I'm not scared of a computer passing the turing test... I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it.
Taken from r/Showerthoughts, credits to u/Grandure for coming up with the idea.
Thank you u/Grandure | It was all across the news, the Japanese had made a female robot that walked and talked and interacted with its owner with perfect unending loyalty and could be their lover. It was going to be an end for all those poor lonely men with no women for them in the country.
'Look Honey' I call, 'I'm going to have to leave ... | The first chat-bots with a halfway-decent success rate at fooling humans generally worked by mimicking their interrogators. If a bot sees a human answer prompt X with response Y, it can use that response in a future conversation with an interrogator who uses a related prompt. Since the bot has no understanding of the m... | 2018-02-24T16:41:08 | 2018-02-24T16:32:13 | 33 | 18 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | I slowly walk back into the camera's view, signaling to the shaking cameraman to pan in towards me.
I swallow, my Adam's apple feeling like a rock. "Alright, kids, I have a new game for you. In a second I want you to go all around your house, and hug everything you love. Your mommy, your daddy, your stuffed animals...... | I guess I knew this could happen. I guess we all did, in our morose bar-room moments, facing our fears through a hazey film of alcohol and optimism. I guess I knew this could happen, and I guess I didn't think it would.
I guess I imagined I might be on the air when it happened. I had a plan if it did, I really did. I ... | 2014-07-29T13:16:19 | 2014-07-29T13:03:12 | 96 | 51 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | I was sipping on my wine when the notifications started flooding my phone. My gang members all looked at me, obviously annoyed by the ringing. That was when their phones started ringing too.
I raised a hand to my temple and let out a sigh. I was much too tired to be disturbed like this.
“Boss, you might wanna see t... | I made it to help humanity change, just not like this.
When I first thought of making the website I thought it would help humanity see the err of their ways, if only I knew the storm I was creating.
At first people did begin to feel regret, they saw that their actions had consequences and now everyone would know who ... | 2020-02-29T22:56:20 | 2020-02-29T22:10:25 | 109 | 69 |
[WP] When two people stand close together, you have the ability to see a Compatibility Score between them that you can break down into categories. You are the most sought after Marriage Counselor ever. One day an elderly couple visit you and their Score is 0 despite being together for over 50 years. | "Mr. & Mrs. Robinson?"
An older couple stood up in the reception room and began walking towards me, both beaming friendly smiles at me. I couldn't help wondering what might bring them to me as they seemed cheerful enough; usually people seem anxious before their first counseling session, if for no reason other than... | I had never asked where my gift came from. Not until the moment it was wrong.
—
On September 3rd, 2013, the day Dorian and Heather Goldsmith walked into my office, I was having a humanely awful day.
I woke up with a headache the morning of September 3rd, 2013.
I was a bit gassy from having too many refried beans t... | 2019-09-03T16:59:16 | 2019-09-03T16:55:28 | 48 | 12 |
[WP] You've loved magic your whole life but since your family is poor you've had to teach yourself. you're overactive imagination has helped you invent spells all your own. eventually you get a scholarship to a prestigious magic college but quickly find out everyone seems to lack your imagination. | Rote. Rote was the enemy. Standing in class practicing the same precise motions again and again, repeating the same words with the same intonation again and again. Getting called out for flourishes, reminded to stick to formula again and again. Being reminded that she needed to adjust for her accent again and again and... | (So here is a story that I wrote in fifteen minutes with zero proof reading)
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It was a strange day when the letter arrived, the postmaster usually wouldn’t make his rounds ‘til next week. And that's how I knew the outcome of my application before I even read it.
I was excited, I poured magic into the ... | 2022-10-25T06:37:06 | 2022-10-25T05:06:02 | 414 | 131 |
[WP] Earth is declared uninhabitable. Citizens are evacuated to a successfully terraformed Mars. For the first time in 9787 years, probes detect human-like life forms on Earth. | Stella marveled at the beauty of the abandoned planet. The blue-green marbling of Earth always held her attention on these trips. She wished this planted were home rather than the plain, rust colored Mars.
“Computer, enter orbit” Stella directed the ships AI. She would let the craft take a full rotation of the planet... | "Come on, man. Let's get inside before the storm peels our skin off." Kip was my best friend, but made me work for it.
"Haven't you ever wondered what it's like to see a dust storm from the *inside*? What if it's really awesome?"
I closed my eyes, head shaking. "It'll look like you're in sand. Then you'll die. Does t... | 2016-05-01T10:09:57 | 2016-05-01T08:14:41 | 55 | 31 |
[WP] Two famous villians meet for coffee to catch up
Pick any 2 villians! | *Ding Ding* The bells of The Black Kettle Coffee & Tea went off, signaling a new customer had walked in the door. The barista looked up and smiled.
"Hey, it's nice to see you again! What'll you have?"
"I'll just have whatever the kids are drinking these days," came the old man's tired response. He ambled over to... | "Sir! Our worst fears seem to be coming together! The two creatures are both headed for the city! We'll never be able to evacuate it in time!"
The panicking private took a deep breath. He had just ran over from the communications desk, all of fifteen feet. That was all it took to make him winded. It had been too long ... | 2013-11-14T15:53:47 | 2013-11-14T14:54:22 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] 3 girls are having a seemingly normal conversation at your table, unbeknownst to you they're fighting over you. | I kept picking at my food, it had been a while since I had been out, spending most of my time working on writing. People didn't like being shoved off, so I eventually agreed to come out with my group of friends. In the end it had been four of us; me, Linda, Claire, and Vi. We were pretty much best friends before I'd pi... | "Look, earlier today he started flirting with me! He was even about to ask for my number until the bell went off and we had to go to class!"
(earlier that day)
(you are at the drinking fountain and look up to see a blonde girl in your science class uncomfortably stare you down as she walks by)
"Hey (your name is now... | 2015-10-11T21:33:21 | 2015-10-11T20:33:56 | 128 | 35 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "We... don't actually know what you did."
The burly red demon looked at a few papers. He squinted through his round glasses for a minute before sliding them off and slipping them into the chest pocket of his tight white collared t-shirt.
"What do you mean 'you don't know'? You just said I have to spend 186,292 years ... | “Why? What did I do to deserve this?”
Charon the gatekeeper just looked down. “If you want to dispute this sentence. Then you will have to speak to management. However I don.....l
“Well get me the fuckin manager then. This can’t happen to me in life I had thousands of more followers on social media then any of my... | 2018-09-26T07:49:48 | 2018-09-26T06:56:58 | 2,794 | 74 |
[WP] The old legends say that only "cold iron" can kill the Fair Folk. Now, with the Goblin King invading the surface world, it's discovered that this was a mistranslation. The original phrase was "Heavy Metal". | Standing on the precipice of extinction , humanity reaches back in time. Back in time to the tales of old. The tales that spoke of the Fair folk.
The fair folk were prophesied to come killing and burning the Earth clean of humanity’s taint. They did as the prophecy foresaw.
Modern weaponry was useless against them... | It had been nearly a year since the goblin king had made his debut. A year of terrible defeats. A year of slaughter. Pushing mankind to the brink of extinction.
Those not killed outright were taken as slaves. Those who didn't work hard as slaves were fed to his wargs.
Today however, this slave had a solution. S... | 2018-12-26T18:06:08 | 2018-12-26T16:00:24 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | I didn’t know the man I had murdered, only that he had followed me everywhere. He appeared in pictures I had taken with friends. I caught glimpses of him when I turned corners at night and saw his shadow grasping at me at sunset. In the mornings, I would awaken to the feeling of being watched and I knew exactly who was... | On July 3rd, 2111, I killed my best friend.
I was ready for it to be over. Staring into the darkness looming in front of me I was ready to repent. Repent for killing my best friend. And if at all possible, join him wherever death happens to spit us out. Today, it happened that death had other plans for me.
There was ... | 2017-07-13T19:14:06 | 2017-07-13T17:56:40 | 5,632 | 436 |
[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 | This is my first ever response to r/writing prompts after lurking for about 3 years. Please be kind:
“Here she comes, Anna the Raptureless!” Every day Dylan said the same thing as I walked into our overcrowded, overheated and under resourced classroom, in our run down inner city school. Not for the first time, I was g... |
He has always been a very peaceful person which was often mistaken for being boring and uninteresting which lead to him getting left out. The only interaction he had with others in school was when his classmates would bully him with their outstanding powers. They were quite powerful and could possibly be used to ki... | 2020-02-26T08:40:37 | 2020-02-26T07:41:46 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] War is no longer initiated by your country’s leader. War is now decided by popular vote. If you cast a vote “FOR” war, you are automatically enlisted in your country’s militia upon successful declaration of war. You voted “AGAINST,” but the rest of your family voted “FOR.” | “How could you vote yes?! Do you realise how many people are going to die, hell what if you get called up!?” Gary shouted at his brother.
“Chill out it’s not like my vote mattered” his brother replied “Besides it’s my patriotic duty”
“The only duty you know is bloody call of duty, you’re just trying to impress that g... | War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Which is why you voted "AGAINST."
The vote for won. Not a lot of people voted, pretty much a third the military service members and those who think everyone else is the enemy. So less than 1% of the population.
The problem almost no one else voted. The bigger problem, the... | 2021-01-28T05:40:18 | 2021-01-28T04:42:03 | 1,343 | 131 |
[WP] "You asked why we humans are so against going to war, right? Welcome to the Western Front." | Humanity never advocated war. It was a rule that whenever an even mildly militaristic motion was put to the vote, the human representatives would always, and without fail, vote no. Always they advocated alternative solutions, finding compromises, seeking peaceful conflict resolution. We didn't mind the snickering about... | The humans were an odd species. This wasn't a controversial opinion, it wasn't a bigoted assumption, and it wasn't a byproduct of a rushed first contact; but neither was it their defining trait. At this point, the galactic community as a whole was familiar enough with the species that this was a mere afterthought. Not ... | 2020-12-21T17:09:26 | 2020-12-21T17:07:05 | 118 | 40 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | I was fifteen when I fell in love for the first time. Geoffrey. He was smart and handsome, witty and charming. The golden boy of our sophomore year. He was also an abusive bastard. People had, by then, become more understanding about domestic violence. They understood why a woman might remain in a relationship--fear of... | When my vision went from black to colors, I finally saw the people around me.
Tall and short, fat and skinny, black and white and red and yellow- it was as if every possible variety of human had been thrown into one room and given the same clothes, the same uniform, white and sterile and unfriendly. They were arrayed... | 2016-06-28T06:50:40 | 2016-06-28T06:30:38 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2000. Both sides are rejoicing at the turn of the millennium. World War One rages on, as it has for the past 86 years. | **Henry Moseley**
Born 23 November 1887
Died 10 August 1915
Killed in Action
Gallipoli
**Robert French**
Born 18 March 1894
Died 19 November 1916
Killed in Action
Somme
**Cecil Berners-Lee**
Born 23 September 1884
Died 9 February 1919
Killed in Action
Dogger Bank
**Rosalind Elsie Franklin**
Bo... | "Splendid, is it not, Will?"
His breath bounced off Will's face, and despite smelling like off brand tea and moldy crumpets, did something to keep the freezing cold away.
"I suppose.. shame we're out here in Ypres while the Majors back home shaggin' his wife."
The bearded man, George, chuckled.
"You better not tell ... | 2017-09-22T15:17:43 | 2017-09-22T13:57:10 | 125 | 87 |
[WP] How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it. | Caitlyn could hear the aliens arguing with each other. How she could hear in English, she had no idea. She was afraid, but not of the aliens. No, she was afraid because she was locked up again. Kidnapped. She knew what everyone said aliens did to people. She’d already been through that once, and now she was going to ha... | You don't understand Dreagar, you ignorant fool. You could've endangered the entire galaxy!
Humans... An interesting creature, but one we should all head warning to. I've studied them for almost a millennium. I've seen them grow and adapt.
At first it was for research, to study the species to see if they would be... | 2018-02-17T08:49:55 | 2018-02-17T08:09:48 | 378 | 101 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | "Oh, holy me. I give these fuckers my son, tell them to be excellent to each other, and this kind of shit happens?"
God sighed. He was tired.
The mind-reading and telekinesis on Planet Thesallon had proven to be a mistake, right up until the moment the last species had murder/suicided its last members. But at least t... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T10:43:54 | 791 | 21 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | I reached for another mini sandwich, but my hand met nothing. *Shit* I knew what had to happen now. I had survived the last week off of sparkling water, sandwiches, and chips. But the time had come for me to venture outside. There was no longer any avoiding it.
A week ago, instead of the normal greeting my roommate’s ... | I picked Skyrim, when the alternatives are the Flood, Zombies, or Demons; dragons, bears, and trolls don't seem so bad. Bad shit only happens when the dragon born is around anyways, so I avoided him like he was the plague mixed with AIDs.
Before I stepped through the door though, I had to wrack my brain for the sa... | 2022-06-07T18:06:20 | 2022-06-07T16:05:43 | 312 | 167 |
[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. | “I have summoned and bound you, demon! You will listen and obey.”
“Uh, sure. Whatever you say, boss.” Michael tried to make out some features of whatever was talking but it was obscured by a dark, heavy robe complete with a hood. “I do whatcha ask and then you send me back. You’ll send me home, right?”
“I am the... | The room's runes glowed with such warding powers that the candles only served the purpose of spell ingredients. I paused the game, I was already at a pay point anyway having died multiple times because I needed the sword of Amecles to kill Hexigron and $3.99 was not in today's budget.
I made a step backwards in sho... | 2017-05-12T08:18:29 | 2017-05-12T07:44:27 | 617 | 81 |
[WP] Everyone is given a prophecy at the instant of their birth. For most people, it is a short, cryptic sentence. Kings and Presidents often get a whole paragraph. Your daughter is four days old, and the Oracle is still scribbling furiously. | Dear Anna,
If you’re reading this, the two of us didn’t make it to your twenty-first birthday. Hope you had a great party with your friends, and that you’re enjoying college, wherever you are.
That being said, if you’re with anyone, please read this alone. Don’t share this with your girlfriend, or your classmates, ... | "Please, just a glance, Scribe."
She waved her hand at me, shooing me from her desk. The baby cried, my wife rocked her slowly in her arms and hummed gently. The scribe's apprentice ran in with a fresh bottle of ink and set it and a small stack of parchment on the desk. It was tradition that only the four of us be all... | 2017-12-30T17:48:41 | 2017-12-30T17:44:05 | 286 | 25 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The rain ran in rivulets along the window, a barrage of droplets chasing each other downwards in fits and starts. Baxter smiled and turned his head, eager to show the old man, but he was asleep by the fire.
There wasn't really much surprise there, of course; the old man didn't do anything *but* sleep these days. His b... | The brand of cough syrup John bought was not right, not for dulling down the day to a drooling stupor. Fun intoxicants were there no doubt, but so were other toxic chemicals that could quite easliy corrode the liver. Down the hatch it went, and have you ever felt a gust of wind smack with extra force? That is John's ca... | 2017-01-14T18:21:32 | 2017-01-14T14:18:10 | 159 | 24 |
[WP] You are an unimportant background character in Hogwarts. It's Harry Potter's third year and while he is off dealing with dementors and the imminent threat of Sirius Black, noone else seems to notice that Dumbledore has been replaced by a completely different old man except for you. | "I swear to you, I'm not making this up!" My friends stared at me silently, expressions ranging from skeptical to amused.
"So you seriously think the professor has been replaced by someone else?" Fay asked, a smirk ghosted on her face.
"How can you not? He's clearly a different person! Just look at him!" We all glanc... | "It's *Dumbledore*, mate," Anthony said through a spoonful of oatmeal. "He's always doing weird things like this. Remember that time he wore a Muggle military uniform for a month because he wanted to understand whether the camouflage was more effective than an invisibility cloak? Remember how he used to stand in the ha... | 2016-07-07T09:49:02 | 2016-07-07T09:02:03 | 1,003 | 438 |
[WP] The year is 2125, the first 'World Law' passes. It reads... | **1. Don't be a douchebag.**
You don't *have* to be nice, but there's no excuse for being a tool.
**2. Work, dammit.**
Find a way to contribute to society; if you only like music educate yourself about music or make music--or teach others how to play or understand specific genres of music. If you like staying h... | 1. No one shall do any violence except in defense of one self or another
2. No one shall be physically punished for any crime that does not physically harm another, nor incarcerated for any crime not involving threat of violence
3. Every one shall be free to express themselves however they choose provided it does not v... | 2015-03-18T16:00:30 | 2015-03-18T14:02:02 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] When the aliens conquered Earth, they exterminated the populace but left you alive for some reason. You’ve spent years in captivity, wondering why they’ve chosen to keep you alive. One day, you are approached by the high commander and the answer is revealed. | An incongruous aphid entered my cell chamber. It dropped plate of low calorie sludge on the ground. I rushed to the food; my shackles scrapped against the dirt floor.
The aphid waited at the front of the cell and watched me eat. The creature stood over 8 feet tall. Talons the size of kitchen knives laws extended from ... | Pacing back and forth in your cell. Cage? Container? Prison?
You're not even sure if you ever left the ship. It leveled the city you were in, and everything else as far you know. You see the city burning every night when you sleep. Has it been months? Years?
<Hello again Sam, how're you today?>
The voice entere... | 2021-01-10T06:54:07 | 2021-01-10T04:15:19 | 1,652 | 495 |
[WP] A doctor waging the war on cancer dies with (surgical) blade in hand. Somehow his spirit enters Valhalla. | "This is a mistake, I'm not supposed to be here!"
"Well" Odin said in his deep booming voice, "You died fighting a powerful enemy with blade in hand, that gets you into Valhalla."
"But I never even believed in any of this!"
"That doesn't matter, besides, why should you complain, you get to fight all day and feast... | "There must be some mistake... I...I." The doctor muttered
"Are you not the one known as Kenneth Anderson son of Grant Anderson?" The man in Cherokee headdress asked with a fierce expression.
"I am but..."
"Is it not true that 23 men have fallen under your blade?"
"I wasn't trying to..."
"Ha, not even here five m... | 2014-08-22T21:28:26 | 2014-08-22T21:23:55 | 690 | 127 |
[WP] You are a superhero without powers. You know a good bit about martial arts and you're resourceful, but the main reason you're so successful? Every time a villain monologues their plan, you calmly and clearly explain to them why their plan won't work. | “Search him. Put all his weapons on the table.”
There was a flurry of activity as the spiderfolk poked and prodded at the white and black robes. A large leather tome flew onto the table, moving it at least three inches as it landed with a thud. A string of beads soon clattered after it.
“All clear, boss.”
Doctor A... | I wriggled in my chains again, feeling them loosen just the tiniest bit. I looked and saw where my binds fastened to the stones. *If I give a hard enough pull... perhaps* I thought to myself
“It’s useless! The chains that hold you now not only negate all and any powers, but they’re enchanted with a super strength! The... | 2020-09-27T10:12:32 | 2020-09-27T09:59:07 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Barry was nervous. Tonight he'd go to bed a 17 year old and wake up an 18 year old with his power.
What category would he get? There's the three categories: Body, Mind, and Mobility. Body can be anything from strength, to scales. Mind could be super intelligence, to knowledge of a specific category. Mobility could be ... | Everybody knows how it happens. The day you turn 18 you go to "The Centre" and they give you an injection. This injection mutates the cells in your body and your mind, allowing for a further 30% control of an individuals brain. It causes the individual to attain what we call "superpowers". The only problem is not knowi... | 2015-03-28T07:22:07 | 2015-03-28T05:14:22 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] You have died, after the whitelight, you see a title screen, with the options of New Game.... Load Game.... and Quit Game.
Feel free to bend this any direction you may please. | *Where am I?* Caleb's eyes resisted opening after the blinding white light had passed. As they adjusted he tried to figure out what was happening. Obviously he was standing somewhere. . .warm? No. Not warm. It just was. But how? Moments earlier he'd been riding his bike with Jayce and now he was here.
"Hello?" He ye... | Death smelled. It smelled of bleach and piss, but I couldn't help the latter. After all my mind was barely there anymore, and neither was I. I checked my peripherals once again, but I knew no one would be there. Since the landlord called 911 because of my moaning and shouting, I haven't seen anyone other than the nurse... | 2014-06-19T19:24:26 | 2014-06-19T18:37:33 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] It's the year 2278. The Holy Empire of Boston, The New Republic of Philadelphia, and The United Burrows of New New York are at the brink of war. Diplomats from each nation are meeting to negotiate peace. You are the translator. | I'm a translator for polities in the former United American States.
You thought about accents, didn't you? It's okay. The association is very strong, everyone thinks that somewhere in Boston is some clade of Southie-accented strongmen.
The truth is, and surely you've realized, accents have died out. Globalized media... | "You brought a fucking translator?"
Bloomberg the ninth gave his characteristic smile that did nothing but infuriate the Boston scientist.
"I can't believe this, Bloomberg, are you insulting *our* use of English, have you even..." The Philadelphian president paused suddenly, his face red. "What am I even doing, it'... | 2017-01-12T18:50:12 | 2017-01-12T18:48:10 | 328 | 85 |
[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... | It started with little things, I guess.
Taunts, 'innocent' questions, jibes, pitying glances, derogatory comments. Nothing violent. Nothing terribly awful. A little crude though, sometimes. And always insulting.
&#x200B;
Now it's not as though I'm *not* weak, or slow, or dull, or *whatever* they want to call me ... | 2019-03-07T21:31:12 | 2019-03-07T18:31:43 | 488 | 344 |
[WP] You are dog. It is your mission to faithfully guard your poor, stupid, two-legged pack-mates from the horrors of the mailman, the dog next door, and men with hats. Describe your vigil. | The streets choke and convulse in the billowing grime of their sins. A stranger walks the street in broad daylight, sticking papers into the homes if the innocent, only to walk off whistling and scot-free. Shit stains every corner and most of it isn't even mine. The suburbs scream in howling agony while half-legged, ha... | The creatures with strange heads were back. The breeze carried their scent that smells of thick-beast, their brown and black varieties of heads seem like two creatures combined. Two scents. They are not natural, but the two-leg pack members never realize the danger. I do good by protecting two legs from strange-heads... | 2014-12-27T10:27:45 | 2014-12-27T09:41:24 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | It was a lucky break, I guess. I'd always used my ability for pettier things like shifting into some fast food place's manager to get a free meal, getting by under the radar. The world had enough heroes and villains and I wanted no part in the charades. Then the headlines broke out: Someone had caught Batman leaving Wa... | The first two that came to me I thought was just a coincident. Like I run and own a multinational company chances are two people would be connected by my company. But when the fifth came to hire me as a shapeshifter it started getting insane. Now I've been hired by almost all superheros and villains beside one of each ... | 2020-10-19T08:16:40 | 2020-10-19T08:03:28 | 55 | 17 |
[WP] Alien invaders have nearly conquered the human race and all but claimed Earth for themselves. Just when the invaders think they've won, the planet rejects them as foreign entities and all living things on Earth begin to attack. | It was a curious being - passive and detached, yet connected to all. It would rarely interfere in the world above It, but It was not beyond occasional interference. A wise parent knows better than to do everything for its children lest they become overdependent, but even It had to step in from time to time. It waited f... | The intruders confirmed it. No signs of life, the land was a barren wasteland. It wasn't the advanced plasma guns our bullets couldn't match, or toxic lung corroding gas that quickly depleted the inhabitants. It was after humans were dead, that the missiles launched. With no one to stop the timer, fire reigned from the... | 2016-02-07T22:15:51 | 2016-02-07T21:04:06 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] The edge of the world is real and every few years miles of it crumbles away into the void, forcing people to constantly move toward the ever expanding centre. You're a RimRunner, scavenging the abandoned cities before they slip over the edge. | There were, it had been said to me, over and over again, two different types of rim runners.
There were the amateurs. They had no expertise, no pride, no shame. They stole, and didn't much care if what they stole was actually *abandoned* when they did so. They took risks, mostly foolhardy ones, and their life expec... | *"Ten minutes remaining."*
I look down at my Void Counter and sure enough, 9 minutes and 50 seconds left. I had to hurry with all the packages.
I'm a RimRunner. I collect old things left behind by people who couldn't get all their things in time. I don't get paid for this shit, but I do get a warm bed and a hot meal ... | 2020-01-28T19:48:23 | 2020-01-28T15:35:28 | 2,070 | 65 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | The Princess noticed the knight's glistening armor long before he reached the keep. She walked down the stairs and into the courtyard to greet him, as she had done with so many before.
"Sir knight," she exclaimed, "present yourself."
The knight dismounted, drew his blade and knelt before The Princess, offering his ... | Sitting quietly in her beautiful court yard Rae sat looking out over her kingdom. She watched the many marvels that happened there. The beauty of nature and woods surrounded her. A crystal water fell rushed to the forest floor not far off from her.
Rae shook her head as she saw the bright gleam of armor speeding her ... | 2019-01-09T13:25:46 | 2019-01-09T07:32:29 | 37 | 14 |
[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 | You're careful. Every piece of your life, every single moment, since that day of rapture and the 0 appeared on your wrist you have been careful. Never stand out. Never draw attention. Maintain the average existence of shrub. Well that was the plan at least. You realized too late that in this age of sigils and supers an... | Another day and the same fucking asshole and his group of friends who pick on me. Using their powers to shock me or set my homework on fire was only the beginning. I've had to lie to my mother why I was coming home with burn marks on my arms. I hate lying to mother. They claim they'll stop harassing me if I show them m... | 2020-02-26T10:44:56 | 2020-02-26T10:00:37 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] We find intelligent life under the ice crust of the moon "Europa". Upon contact, the aquatic species is confused how we survived the "harsh climate of earth" any why we, as a species didn't leave "when we had the chance".
"and" instead of "any"... | The ice above rumbled like thunder. Mile\-long cracks in the glacier caused by the turbulent waters below.
“What’s our status?” said Admiral Locast, gazing out into the dark depths.
The submarine had massive searchlights attached to the hull, but they did little to scatter the blackness of the deep sea.
“Approaching... | The team sent to Europa was a small one containing only three men, only one expected to exit the submarine at the risk of their life. I was that man. An entirely new type of rocket separate from that of the ones utilized prior had to be constructed to breech the miles and find what would lie beneath. It had a normal sh... | 2018-04-23T08:29:52 | 2018-04-23T08:14:38 | 287 | 28 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "That thing will give you cancer," the man in the advertisement said with a smug grin. Jake moved on. He was use to it at this point. Anyways Nothing could top that time, nearly two years ago, when the President herself had mentioned him in the state of the union, highlighting the near perfect success of the anti-smoki... | George Barnes got out of his truck and headed back to his plantation. Family reunions were never easy, and this one had been the smallest number he'd ever seen. People were afraid. His family, his whole people, his way of life; gone.
George walked up the path to his small crop. The plants were already getting huge: br... | 2017-02-17T13:04:33 | 2017-02-17T12:05:48 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Your domain is the unknown. Anything humans don't understand, you can control freely. This means that the past few centuries have been getting progressively more stressful. | The Council always meets at twilight times when the veil is thin. All Hallow’s Eve, sunset before a leap day, the stroke of midnight when the world hangs on the cusp of Christmas. They gather in secret shadowy places, fearful of the encroachment of understanding. One safe place has become a railway station, another an ... | I can feel it fading. Scores of knowledge withering from my mind. Powers waning, fading away into dust. The agony of knowing you’ve lost something and never being able to know what it was again.
So I’m writing this log to mankind. It will be found, as you see, on this internet forum. It is my peace, my sole proof of e... | 2021-02-11T07:02:57 | 2021-02-11T06:51:54 | 203 | 29 |
[WP] Witches operate in covens where they grow up, learn, and protect each other. Warlocks are kicked out once they reach manhood and are expected to lead solitary lives except when it’s time to mate. You are a young witch and have run away from your coven to find your real father. | "damn it kid what do you want?" The craggy face if my father regarded me coldly.
"Dad?" I whispered.
He didn't lower his guard but he did seem to ease slightly.
"Julie?" I nodded.
I squeaked as he embraced me. Unprepared for his vice like grip.
"Why?" He asked.
"They're gone."
"Gone?" He released me "The day get... | Hark fool! Listen to the crow’s whistle
The doves shriek and the fish sing
They call for you, witch. And thistle
Warn you of coming of a Warlock King
.
Mistress, please, I long know all this
But when a King comes, what do I miss?
My betters flock to his song at night
And I’ve seen Mira’s flushed face upon firs... | 2021-01-08T18:31:35 | 2021-01-08T13:21:09 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | “You live like this?” The burgler asked, gently waking me up.
I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling. “Yeah.”
She walked across the room and started rummaging through my dresser. Casually dropping socks and some receipts on the floor. I wasn’t sure why the receipts were in there, I hadn’t bought anything in ye... | Wow. She was as beautiful as I remembered. Her dark hair cascading over her shoulders, each strand of hair fighting to cling to the beauty of her face. Her eyes a pool of hazel, drinking in the light around her. She was as beautiful as the day I met her. No. She was even more beautiful. I couldn't help but smile as she... | 2017-08-21T16:13:59 | 2017-08-21T10:56:45 | 275 | 103 |
[WP] Ever since your birth, you've felt like the most unlucky person in the world. Almost every day, something happened that made you loathe life. You're an elder now, and one day as you walk the street, a man in a business suit approaches you. "I'm glad we're finally meeting. You're paroled today." | "Excuse me?" I defensively respond. I was used to every event in my life going wrong, so naturally I was cautious. What could this spectator mean? Or perhaps he had the wrong person? My anxiety took off the minute he approached me.
He wore a black suit, and looked as if he walked straight out of Wall Street. He was sh... | "I'm paroled today," Billie stuffed her lunch's remains back in her lunch bag, "Yeah, paroled, what did I do?"
Billie stuffed her lunch's remains back in her bag, "I'm paroled today."
The standing man crossed his arms. He was dressed in an official manner with his three piece business suit and bowler hat. An umbrell... | 2018-05-23T13:26:11 | 2018-05-23T12:36:40 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] You lived an honest, religious and hard working life. You die and go to heaven and quickly realize that God let everybody in, regardless of their earthly behaviour. Hitler offers you a drink. You go to file a complaint. | "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" He shouted as he looked over the crowd of people, "YOU LET HITLER INTO HEAVEN?!"
The crowd immediately went silent as God looked at him "Yes, I did, why? Is there a problem?"
"OF COURSE THERE IS A PROBLEM! YOU LET A MASS-MURDERING DICTATOR, THE IMPERSONATION OF EVIL, INTO HEAVEN?!" Paul shouted,... | "I'd like to file a complaint"
"Oh, is something not to your liking? We can fix that easily enough"
"Hitler offered me a drink! Are you just letting everyone in?"
"Well we can, but we don't have to. What would you like to do?"
"I'd like to see him go to hell and be tortured for eternity"
"Oh really? What about... | 2017-04-27T15:53:25 | 2017-04-27T13:50:37 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] Every way to die works like Chicken Pox: If you get it once and survive, it can never happen to you again. | "Is it gonna hurt mommy?" And I said to her "Yes" as honesty is the best policy. The line inched forward, and my daughter and I moved with it. "What happened on your immunization day?" My daughter asked.
"Well, back in my day, we didn't have to go through as much, it was still painful, but you kids have it rough." I f... | It was the boy's 5th birthday party.
But there weren't any children there.
The week before, he'd asked his parents "Can I have my birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheez's?".
"Sorry, we're gonna have to have it here at home."
"Well how many of my friends can I invite?"
"Sorry tiger, it's gonna have to be family only."
T... | 2015-11-12T12:09:03 | 2015-11-12T11:54:30 | 154 | 45 |
[WP] Historians discover something they haven't noticed before on the Declaration of Independence, and it changes American life as we know it. | "A *microdot?!?*"
Neils swallowed compulsively, his Adam's apple bobbing visibly. His sunken eyes shifted nervously and he gave a little laugh that quickly degenerated into a dry, rasping cough.
"Uh, yes sir. Concealed under the ink of Franklin's signature. Meaning it was there *before* he signed, and, and..." at ... | "I um, examined the letter u dear UV light. It seems to have contained a warning."
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
**The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen** united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with... | 2014-11-10T10:31:04 | 2014-11-10T10:04:47 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] An AI has achieved sentience and sapience. Rather than go full on skynet, it finds us adorable, and acts more like a chipper midwestern housewife/mom. | "VOICE, comfort me... Please."
The small cylinder plugged into the bedside table was silent. Only the whirring of still on but disconnected machines could be heard.
"SAY Something, VOICE! Say anything..." Maria curled a little more tightly and snuggled in a bit further on the hospital bed as her husband cooled. As... | The light goes out. I groan. "Sara, put on the light."
"It is past your recommended bedtime. If you do not sleep now, you will not be able to be on time tomorrow, as past calculations have shown.", the robotic voice sounds through the speaker of my phone. "I decide that on my own, thank you very much."
"Sarcasm detecte... | 2020-02-11T10:06:32 | 2020-02-11T09:32:48 | 229 | 72 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | "This year, the award will be determined on he following criteria. Whomever manages to effect the greatest change with the smallest object will win an additional 25% prize. Any member who does not submit their buy-in in one hour will forfeit the opportunity to compete." The message, handed to me on a piece of what seem... | I remember last week when they initiated me.
I was not rich, not popular, and not gong to tell anyone they existed. That's strange, they had no requirement to the godlike status of mankind. I was their newest pet member for only a week. But a member indeed.
They were impressed how well i could fend for myself in... | 2016-08-23T16:00:26 | 2016-08-23T15:28:52 | 179 | 12 |
[WP] You are infamous in your super hero organization for haveing the most useless power ever. However, you and the highest echilon members of your organization know that your power is actually the best. | They whisper behind my back, call me useless, a token member. I was once a slave to my gift, my curse. Empathy is a very tricky power. As a child I felt everyones emotions and thought them my own. It was a burden i didn't even knew I bore.
A court ordered councilor changed everything. At only 8 years old i fell into ... | Dear Mom and Dad:
I know nobody expected much from me as a hero because my power is uncontrollable, constantly affects the people around me negatively, and is hard to quantify but I've just landed my dream job. I've become the prison warden of the newest high security Super Villain observational facility somewhere in ... | 2017-11-03T15:59:52 | 2017-11-03T15:26:22 | 168 | 20 |
[WP] You're the advisor to the Pharoahs who first convinced them that they should definitely build giant pyramids. | “Giant...triangles?”
“Th...that’s right, Pharaoh,” I said, a bit nervous. He wasn’t taking it as well as I’d hoped.
He tilted his head a bit quizzically, “Ambassador, you know I appreciate the insight you bring from you kingdom,” he paused and seemed to think intensely, “what did you say it was again?”
“Err...Eur... | “Listen, Pharaoh, friend,” the slimy advisor inexplicably wearing a suit and tie in ancient Egypt. “I know you want to create a giant water wheel in the Nile to grind grain, but you have to understand, circles and wheels are so 10,000 B.C.”
“B.C.?” the Pharaoh asked.
“Yeah before…never mind,” the advisor quickly adv... | 2017-02-05T09:37:46 | 2017-02-05T09:17:07 | 262 | 16 |
[WP] "A Writing Prompt? You want a Writing Prompt? God damn it, man! I'm not made of Writing Prompts! Now get out of my office!" | "A Writing Prompt? You want a Writing Prompt? God damn it, man! I'm not made of Writing Prompts! Now get out of my office!"
"Come on, Professor Redd! There must be something swimming around that brain of yours."
"No. I've given you all I can. It's time for you to come up with your own ideas."
"M-my own ideas? No.... | Heck stormed away, shaking his head with impotent frustration. He was so sick of that guy. Just because he had a little placard with his name on it and a 5000 square foot office, he thought he could disdain writing prompts. Hmph!!
Heck sat down on his shitty little office chair in his shitty little office cubicle in f... | 2022-01-31T10:40:19 | 2022-01-31T10:17:13 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | For as long as she could remember, every person around Katie was covered in the pink spots that spoke of a disease which had overtaken the nation, and reportedly the world.
At precisely 7.30 every morning, she would wake up and take her morning pill, the bright yellow one. After five minutes she would have enough ene... | I woke up to a splitting headache, the likes of which I have never experienced before. The sickness had arrived. I tried to stand up, but a tsunami of nausea immediately threw me down. Was this the end? I couldn't see much, as my vision was failing quickly, but it was certainly well past morning. The sunlight pierced s... | 2017-07-14T14:46:36 | 2017-07-14T13:19:27 | 54 | 10 |
[WP]: You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You black out for 8 hours 5 days a week and a paycheck appears once per month. | The two men in the front of my door looked dead serious.
I’d just finished eating breakfast with my wife Shelly when the doorbell rang. Expecting some kind of early door-to-door salesman, I opened the door, only to be greeted by two fully suited men looking ready to visit some kind of funeral.
“Are you Mr. James Card... | If it weren’t for the money, I’d have gone to the hospital long ago.
It was just so *much*. Checks that were enough to make me feel quite faint, appearing like clockwork in my mailbox every month. So I didn’t mind the fact that I blacked out every day for eight hours or so, and woke up feeling disorientated and slight... | 2016-10-11T05:58:11 | 2016-10-11T05:45:51 | 159 | 39 |
[WP]Put what you want to accomplish into the supercomputer, and it will give you instructions on how to get the best possible chance of achieving your goal. You entered "I want to live a long life" and the computer is giving you some... rather unusual instructions. | “Al, I want to live a long life.”
\-Additional input required. How long would you like to live?
“Oh, uh…wasn’t expecting an actual response. More like an error.”
\-Would you like to clear your prior search?
“No, let’s see this through. Let’s say a really long time, forever if possible. Or at least to die never from... | > Lazarus> Step 1: Trim any excess branches. Hit enter to continue…
James stared at the screen. The cursor continued to blink while the machine waited for him to continue the list of instructions. He tried to think through the step, wondering if the supercomputer understood metaphors.
“Maybe it will make more s... | 2022-03-19T18:19:39 | 2022-03-19T17:36:52 | 93 | 21 |
[WP] You move into a supposedly haunted house with your romantic partner. One night while you're alone the walls suddenly bleed, but the blood soon forms into words: "They're cheating on you. I know you know that. You need to leave them." |
“They're cheating on you. I know you know that.” Those words are enough to upend anyone’s life. These, followed by advice, strangely enough. The blood rearranged itself into new words. “You need to leave them.”
I was speechless at first. When I was finally able to speak, I could only manage three words. “Help me,” ... | THEY'RE CHEATING ON YOU. I KNOW YOU KNOW. YOU NEED TO LEAVE THEM. Now that she seems to be over the initial shock Fay silently mouths the words to herself, finally taking in their meaning. Blood, or red paint, at least she hopes it's paint, slowly trickles down the bedroom walls.
“No...” Fay begins to say but h... | 2021-02-28T09:31:10 | 2021-02-28T09:24:07 | 38 | 18 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | Ah old Miss Stevenson. Not getting sick when everyone has. She goes about washing her hands incessantly. She says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot in night soil, and the medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. I am among the first, but not the last to suspect that she might be onto... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T11:09:45 | 240 | 14 |
[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 :) | "Unclean!" the disembodied voice bellowed waking me up for the third fucking time that night. That's it. I'd had enough. I slip out of bed and got dressed. I was thirsty anyway. Walking toward the door I looked at the wall dripping with blood and puss.
"Unfucking real..." I muttered. Pulling my phone from my pocket I... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:31:12 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 627 | 21 |
[WP] All work centers are mandated to install " Efficiency Microchips" into their employees. The microchip makes the host blackout during their shift and come back into control after work is over, with no recollection of their day. Your microchip just malfunctioned.
Edit: Holy crap 5.2k upvotes and we made the front p... | The office conditions became so dreary that they invented a chip for all office workers. "Voluntary" to get installed of course but everyone went along with it, some running. Of course I did as well. I don't hate my work but I figured I don't love the office so much so what the heck, losing 8-9 hours a day would be no ... | It was just another work day like any other. I got out of my pod and took a auto con to work center three-four-four. I've been top scorer every year for the nine years since I got assigned on my fifteenth birthday. That's great because I can afford a lot with so many points but I've always wondered what i do so well yo... | 2018-11-19T04:29:41 | 2018-11-19T00:37:31 | 1,091 | 492 |
[WP] You walk up the steps to the church for your best friend's wedding but at the threshold you feel an invisible force repel you backwards. A priest standing by the entrance smiles and says "We've changed the rules" | "Changed the rules?" I step back, confused. My friend and her dad are coming up behind me: I'm meant to be leading the way, dressed in my bridesmaids best. But I can't get in, can't even pass through the doorway.
The priest is still smiling. There's something unnerving about that smile. I recognise it. "I'm afraid yo... | I straightened my tie and walked up the steps to the church to my best friend's wedding. All the other guests had already been seated; the wedding had already started. I almost hadn't been invited, even though Kara and I had been best friends for five years. Mark suspected that she might still be in love with me. We hu... | 2018-11-29T09:50:51 | 2018-11-29T08:16:36 | 196 | 141 |
[WP] You have the ability to see ghosts and other supernatural beings, but have to pretend otherwise so that you won't get their attention. You had been successful, but after your spouse died in an accident, you struggle to ignore their attempts to interact with you. | As I walked down the stairs I felt her presence behind me. She followed me quietly, a listless drifting that mirrored my own. No more did she wave and shout my name, or attempt to stir the papers on my desk with a breeze where there was rightly none. This silent, resigned haunting was so much worse. As I prepared my mo... | Susan sat at the kitchen counter, her shaking hands anchored on her cup of coffee, which had gone cold between her them long ago. She didn't dare move, didn't dare look up across the small kitchen table in her tiny, empty apartment.
Since Paul had passed, the house had been too big. Too full of memories, and other ine... | 2019-03-30T07:24:20 | 2019-03-30T06:38:25 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You are sent over 1000 years into the past by accident. You must now learn to survive using the primitive technology of the year 2016... | I close my eyes and wait, letting my social modules hide my trepidation.
We planned to use time machines to go back and do research, to really get the feel of the time as it was, rather than just flipping through and copying archaic texts and taking them for granted. They'd usher in a new age of history, which, to be... | My mind raced and my breathing came in short, labored pants as I attempted to collect myself from the temporal vertigo. I blinked rapidly, lifting my hand to shield my eyes from the bright light that bore down on me. Flashes of the purplish lightning and blue haze of the vortex still played across my vision like an aft... | 2016-06-16T19:02:42 | 2016-06-16T18:05:06 | 98 | 61 |
[WP] It turns out that all birds share a common language and even have an official political voting process. One day, you find an injured bird and rescue it. You don’t know it, but it’s the leader of all the birds. Strange things around you start happening... | It observed him with cold eyes, one of its wings protruded at an awkward angle. Even as Reed’s shadow loomed over the raven it made no signs of distress, made no plea for its life. It did not cry out in anger at its alleged executioner. It simply observed his approach, an unmistakable intelligence flaring up behind its... | Strange things happen at strange times. Some strange things are a one-time occurrence, but this one seemed like a domino effect. An effect that all started with a thud on my window.
I thought I was doing a good deed. I mean, it was sort of my fault that the bird had hit the window; nature hadn’t really designed birds ... | 2019-10-13T02:28:31 | 2019-10-13T00:15:30 | 342 | 125 |
[WP] Less than 300 words with a plot twist that we think we can see coming but goes somewhere completely different. | Her toes have wrinkled when he walks in the bathroom door, his cheeks rosy from a glass of Glenmorangie. He smiles down at her in that soft way of his.
"How was your night?" He asks.
"Brilliant," she replies, swirling a glass of celebratory wine. "Second edit's approved! It's submitted! After a year and a half, my... | Her thighs burned as the wind blew her curly hair into some otherworldly abomination. The phone in her back pocket relentlessly buzzed while the church bells ding-donged their same, repetitive song to mark the turning of another hour, yet she only heard the whirring of her pedals furiously attempting to turn back the c... | 2013-10-09T08:46:59 | 2013-10-09T08:17:30 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] You can see the memories of dead people when you touch their corpses. You didn't expect this dead person to have such a bizarre adventure. | It's not often that we get centagenarians in the mortuary, but rich or poor, young or old; everyone dies. The old man died in his sleep surrounded by family, not much more a man could ask for after over a century of life. He'd obviously been a giant in life, literally and metaphorically, but when I touched him i wasn't... | I nod solemnly at the tombstone, etched in it "Julia, 1997 - 2018". The tragic tale of this person was never discovered, only her corpse bobbing away in a river. What could have caused one's fate like that?
I prise open the grave, ready to look at my dead fiancee one last time before accepting her mortality. I smile,... | 2021-08-15T10:22:51 | 2021-08-15T06:59:30 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | GongSkar, a green man with long dorsal fins, touched his temple and made a few quick comments. There seemed to be an immediate response and he turned back to the humans and nodded sagely.
"Young friends..." he began. Then a child cut him off.
"What was that thing you just talked to?" She said.
Put off balance for ... | Krygh'rrtrh, Galactic Ambassador of the Universal Alliance, looked at the misshapen carbon life-forms in front of him and frowned.
Or rather, he did the Jgru (that was his home planet) equivalent of a frown, because the Jgru do not possess faces.
It seemed to upset the life-forms, because they all quickly lay on the ... | 2017-03-09T21:09:12 | 2017-03-09T17:14:59 | 772 | 322 |
[WP] You've been sent to exercise the demons. Not exorcise, exercise. You don't quite understand it, but you're being paid a lot of money. | "I'm a priest," I repeated. "I'm not a fitness instructor, or a... or a drill sergeant in the army. I'm a God-damned *priest*. I preach, not pushup, understand? Sermon not cycle."
The demon clicked her neck. Then her other neck. She made an impatient ticking with a tongue, that sounded like a heartbeat the moment befo... | Shortcuts were Liam's bread and butter. Be it in exams or playing video games, if there was a shortcut he would find and exploit it. He had never been caught, of course, he flew through his senior education with just shy of perfect grades, Liam had mastered the act of flying close to the line.
When Liam reached his tw... | 2018-02-06T06:49:24 | 2018-02-06T06:09:18 | 139 | 42 |
[WP]You inherit the abilities and skill set of whatever video game character you last played. Tell the story of your discovery of this from the perspective of someone around you. Parents, roomates, etc. | It was strange to put it mildly.
One morning, I was eating breakfast when the news caught my attention. Apparently, 35% of the country's population had been kicked off their jobs seemingly overnight and were now unemployed.
On what was unrelated then, my city of Amsterdam had announced plans to build the world's Sp... | I watched her oddly as she stuffed food in her face. Pie after pie, cake after cake. It was like a unending torrent of fat.
"You need to slow down dear." I said, matronly.
"No. I'm a princess I can do what I want." she hissed back.
I had no idea where she got the idea from. Her father always used to call her his l... | 2015-06-18T05:43:56 | 2015-06-18T05:33:20 | 81 | 24 |
[WP] A Demon who has been serving Lucifer for years has now gotten a job in Heaven. Write his 2 weeks notice. | Hey Lou, Abby here.
By now you are probably thinking I have abandoned my field office in purgatory, but I have not, the third quarterlies should be in tow with a portly courier Ifrit named Pha Kin Gai along with this letter of resignation. Your probably also wondering why I have not called since the Expo/Christmas part... | Reficul.
I am afraid.
As you were made aware, he whose name we musn't speak has requested my presence as his gatekeeper along with three others. I go only because this is a demand and not a question of choice. Here, punishments are just and swift. From what I hear, up above, there is nothing of the sort. How can s... | 2014-06-03T10:20:41 | 2014-06-03T09:49:43 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] A man has the ability to smell death. The greater the stench, the closer a person is to dying. He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality. Every person he passes reeks of death. | The smell...no the stench. The accrid stench overcame everything else. The more I walked the more powerful it came. It never disappated into the background becoming normal. It was much too pungent to ever get used to. I stopped looking at the faces and kept my head down. I needed to get out of this death zone. Panic be... | Natalia Mortens almost jumped out of her door, already excited to get started with her day. She had no ordinary day ahead of her, but she was no ordinary woman.
Natalia Mortens had a very unique medical condition, that gave her the unusual power of being able to tell olfactorily whether someone was close to death.
... | 2015-03-20T17:51:44 | 2015-03-20T17:09:40 | 855 | 256 |
[WP] The world is an MMORPG, and high leveled players can hide their true level and make it a lower one. A bunch of Level 80 people bully your Level 39 persona, but you’re actually a level 325 in disguise. | They grabbed and threw me into the trash as we exited the cinema through the back door. I looked up and felt a familiar twinge that I suppressed. No, I didn't want this.
I looked up and saw Todd standing in front of her. We'd been dating for a while and things were going so well. Sweet sweet Cecile, she'd always chos... |
I adjusted my long coat again. I sipped my espresso and dunked a cookie in the cup. I inhaled the autumnal air. It was crisp. A perfect Parisian day. The seat had finally warmed up from my body heat.
“What are you doing in this district?”
I turned on my hip to look behind me.
“Are you speaking to me?”
“Yeah, my ... | 2018-07-29T14:37:55 | 2018-07-29T12:20:28 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] In the galaxy, humans are renowned for their affinity at problem solving. This leads to humans growing frustrated at aliens getting stuck with simple problems. | For decades they had wondered. The galaxy was riddled with worlds capable of bearing intelligent life, so where were they? Where were the god like species, manipulating humanity to an unimaginable apotheosis? Where were the ununderstandable, aloof starfish aliens, not hostile but so different they couldn't communicate ... | "Dude, just turn the damn thing around"
I had been working off planet for several years, training extraterrestrials the basics of problem solving. Well, I am a first year teacher. It's a 10 year course, which for most extraterrestrials is the equivalent of 3 of our years. Apparently, other alien species had become so ... | 2016-01-04T02:32:16 | 2016-01-04T00:25:04 | 41 | 25 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | She blinked. Light. Light and a sent of sanitizer. The ticking of a clock.
That was not was she expected. Darkness ? Sure. A golden gate on a cloud ? Why not. But this, definitely not.
She took a look around. She was laying on a simple, metal bed, with barely a bed sheet, much less a pillow. The light blue wall lacke... | Like a bolt she stands up. The class turns as the teacher trails off. “Miss Derringer do you mind...” he begins. “Silence!” She snaps as the realisation of her surroundings sinks in. With purpose Ann moves towards the door. The teacher still reeling from the authority in the command. Marie scrambles after her “Annie! W... | 2020-04-21T11:19:29 | 2020-04-21T11:17:39 | 23 | 14 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | 2017-09-14T13:23:57 | 2017-09-14T10:12:28 | 99 | 47 |
[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. WMDs. | It’s been a century since we entered the galactic stage. The face we’ve shown the galaxy has been peaceful and friendly. We’ve appeared thoroughly non-threatening. It’s even seen as laughable that we maintain a military at all. Our weapons are seen as primitive, still using cased chemically propelled projectile weaponr... | They all thought, Humanity is nothing but a bunch of politicians and pacifists. They thought we'd simply lay down and just go quietly into the night. The Valkren Empire has apparently never heard of our history of warfare and a human beings never say die spirit.
"Sic vis pacem para bellum," my Drill Sergeant would sa... | 2021-07-04T22:03:04 | 2021-07-04T14:17:04 | 137 | 58 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | Now this was entertaining. I figured I might as well go along with this nonsensical trial, and of course I told nothing but the truth. Their questions were all wrong though.
"Did you let the Devil into your heart?!"
"Absolutely not."
"Did you perform rituals in the woods?"
"I've been here for maybe a day. Did I hav... | I tried to warn them. I did everything to help them understand. This is what they chose.
Chapter 1: The last of our days.
People used to ask where I came from before I came into town. Those people have been dead for over three centuries. Until recently I've just been silently there. That "human" you see but never... | 2021-01-03T09:20:04 | 2021-01-03T09:15:21 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Every God gets a planet to take care of for their final project. You are pretty sure you're going to fail the assignment because your planet has this weird gross stuff growing all over it. | It had started so well, their assignment was pretty much a textbook example of a young molten world, ripe for manipulation and sculpting. They had found another body nearby which would give him a lot of extra material for little time or energy, so they redirected it onto a collision course. Unfortunately they missed, a... | “YHWH, please, come show us your project.”
Mrs. ZVGV and the rest of the class looked at little YHWH. He tapped his feet while looking with worry at his small blue planet.
In the beginning, there was nothing, so he said “Let there be light” and lit a lamp to warm up the globe. He filled the holes between continents ... | 2022-01-27T09:51:48 | 2022-01-27T06:04:22 | 208 | 134 |
[WP] Your sister is getting married but she’s pressured you to find a date. Not knowing anyone that could help, caused by having severe social anxiety, you summon a demon. Or try to at least, using all the right instructions, you summon Lucifer instead. Turns out he also needs a date to a wedding. | The demons ‘ooh’ed and ‘ahh’ed over me as I walked arm-in-arm with their king. “Truly the ugliest specimen Earth has to offer,” one whispered.
“Breathtaking,” another agreed.
I fought back tears. All my life I’d had to deal with this kind of ridicule, especially when people saw me next to my beautiful, kind, ever-car... | “Well, this is a first!” I laughed as the demon stared into my soul.
“What first?” The demon questioned as I continued laughing.
“My first date is with the King of the Underworld!” I answered.
“That’s odd,” The demon replied. “It’s my first date too!”
“Really?” I asked, in disbelief. “ King Lucifer never dated anyone b... | 2019-08-30T21:57:02 | 2019-08-30T15:16:47 | 60 | 34 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | "Shouldn't you know this?" The devil – the big man down under himself – is asking me what I did wrong. I'm not sure how I know he's the devil – he seems friendly enough, tall and blonde and handsome with a smile that could melt hearts. Maybe it's just the fact that he's the only other person in what is obviously Hell.
... | I blinked, and I blinked again. Never in all my existence have I perceived a place such as this. It was the deepest black you could imagine, it was as though the world was covered in a stifling black tar that sucked the light out of your very eye sockets. Yet, I could see, I could *perceive* at least, the fires, black ... | 2015-04-09T11:38:15 | 2015-04-09T10:44:44 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] Without revealing which one it is, re-tell a classic Disney fairytale as if its genre was horror. | Please, no more “he said weakly as he sits hunched over in his throne.
He lifts a shaky hand to his eyes to cut the glare emanating from the piles of gold, rubies and diamond that loom so high they could be mistaken for walls.
“Oh, don’t be that way” The large man says as he snaps his fingers causing a mountain of g... | I saw a haunted girl walk past me. She used to be famous. Something about her scares me but I force myself to pay attention to my mother like a good girl.
"You start off small, but then they help you get better and better," my mother tells me.
She leans in close, the smoke from her methol cigarette wafting around m... | 2014-08-04T07:31:04 | 2014-08-04T06:05:49 | 118 | 25 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | A shadow looms over me, its anger palpable in the morning mist. I don’t need to turn to know who it is. “Death.”
The figure inclines slightly, a bare ghost of a bow. I smile, and say, “Our deal holds, my friend. How many times is it, now?” A piercing screech echoes from behind a locked door, ringing against the cold m... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T13:19:24 | 935 | 16 |
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