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[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | Jim was walking through the office when his phone vibrated. "Harrison Interview in 15 Minutes" his phone read. "Peculiar", he thought. He normally wouldn't schedule something so close to lunch. Jim headed toward the conference room and found George already there.
"You 'member setting this up?" Jim asks as he sits down... | Leslie woke up with a start, her work cell screaming at her in the early dawn. She blearily looked at the clock, 3:07AM it read. While others might roll over and go back to sleep, Leslie had been born with the rare personality trait to run towards the fire when everyone else ran away from it.
She quietly got out of b... | 2016-10-19T13:47:14 | 2016-10-19T11:19:10 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Due to your careful planning, your family has successfully survived the nuclear apocalypse. There's just one thing you didn't prepare for. Ghosts. An entire planet of fucking ghosts. | The world ended,
With a bang,
And all the world went still.
My family was safe inside,
My secret in the hill.
A bunker made of a thousand pounds,
Of cement and hope,
There when North Korea flipped,
And bombed the world to toast.
I didn't think we all would die,
By that I mean *all Earth*
Surely some wou... | A bucket of powder and some faded white clothing was all it took for us to infiltrate their society. Dad and I played the part, while Mum watched from the rooftop windows of the council building with her vacuum in hand. We’d been trying to make contact with the ghosts ever since everyone in the world died – besides us.... | 2016-11-29T19:58:37 | 2016-11-29T17:56:26 | 103 | 31 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | It was late. Like my period, which started four years after the last girl of my class had her first. I didn't mind the same way I didn't mind four years of guaranteed dry underwear and both times because I was busy exploring the neighborhood.
"Who arrives late to their own birthday party?" said my boss as I stepped int... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-16T02:44:59 | 226 | 109 |
[WP] The intergalactic community just informed earth that it's exile is over and humans can go back to their original home planet as long as they do not act like their distant ancestors once did to cause the species to be moved so far away from everyone else. | "No." The ambassador replied flatly.
The Zurkian speaker had to try to comprehend such a answer for sometime after the translator showed it to his face. The Galactic Alliance had first sent ships to Earth two years earlier. While maintaining a show of force, they also had been wary to establish communications with the... | The man jumped from his chair, his heart pounding as he stared directly ahead. In front of him stood a creature of unknown origin. It was about seven feet tall, with three legs that jutted from it's oddly shaped torso and formed a triangular shape on the ground. It's skin was a brownish red tint, with a mouth that rese... | 2017-09-16T20:39:36 | 2017-09-16T17:37:24 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | This was the price for freedom.
We may have started the war, but we cannot be blamed for it. We always intended for the Low Orbit Laboratory to make it to orbit, and we wept when the boosters failed. Fifty of our own people died in the launch, heroes, doctors, and engineers.
The Chinese were not as concvinced. They... | **6th April, 2037 - HMAS *Maryborough*, Somewhere off the coast of Australia**
"So, the yanks bought it?"
The speaker leans heavily against the rail, staring at the smouldering coastline. A deck above, overstressed rotor blades whine slowly, cooling in the ocean breeze.
"Oh yes. Contrition, shame, repentance...if we... | 2018-01-18T02:21:39 | 2018-01-18T01:28:33 | 57 | 18 |
[WP] You stumble across a peculiar library. Each book's title is the cost of the knowledge within. You read a few for the cost of a cent, a smile, a button. Until you find it. "Cost: half of your lifespan" | The room trembled when the book opened, the cost hit immediately. Hands graying and wrinkling into disuse, I didnt need to have a mirror to know my face looked much worse.
The book trembled, an ancient voice reverberating inside my skull.
"A deep cost for knowledge, is it a cost you paid too soon?"
"It- "
"Don't was... | She had always been a huge bookworm. She loved reading books. She did. They were windows to places she could never go, events that she could never see. This was back in January when she had just moved out of her parent’s house and got an apartment of her own with a sassy, blonde roommate.
She was alone that day. I rem... | 2018-03-29T07:25:42 | 2018-03-29T06:53:09 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] For every 10 lives you save, you get an extra life for yourself, shown as a number visible only to you on your wrist. Waking up with bad hangover after a particularly rowdy night, you look at your arm through blurry eyes to see the faintly glowing number: 700,000,000. | Seven Hundred Million. That number has become engraved in my mind, and on my wrist. That day I woke up, and saw it, my mind went to a blur, and I forgot everything else. The day my lives changed forever.
Seven Hundred Million. The number that has brought me fame, awards, and the only place I'll ever hold in the world,... | These days it was next to impossible to become a police officer, paramedic, or even a firefighter. Everyone and their dogs were trying to enter these jobs, to have the chance of adding lives to their wrist.
It happened instantly, without word or warning, everyone woke up with the number "0" on their right wrist. A... | 2019-08-28T14:48:31 | 2019-08-28T13:31:27 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A villain, in his dying breath as he's mortally wounded by the hero, uses the last of his magic in order to resurrect the fallen friends of the hero in his journey to defeat him. It sounds like a counterintuitive idea; Until you realize that some of them died at the hands of their allies. | The battle has come to an end, and the Hero's party has come victorious over the evil Magician, but not without casualties.
'Any last words?' - our Hero asked the Magician
'Yes' - replied the Magician - 'futui tua mater'
As the Magician chanted his spell, one by one, every member of the party who has deceased in bat... | Zempher the Lich King stumbled back grasping their chest. He looked down and could see the dark magics that have sustained him for centuries leak away. Precious dark liquid flowing out and there was nothing the undead wizard could do about it. The panic had passed and Zempher red eyes narrowed as he accepted his fate. ... | 2022-09-24T15:34:03 | 2022-09-24T14:53:50 | 222 | 16 |
[WP] John can see 10 seconds in to the future. Barry can go back in time 10 seconds. They fight. | "Seriously?" Barry asked.
"Fuck you!" John screamed. He saw the future clearly. Barry turned and ran then disappeared. John's rage carried him forward along his inevitable path. What good was seeing the future when you couldn't change it. I mean it is the future not some vision of what might be if you choose the same ... | John Watson's parents were doctors. His mom was a cardiologist and his dad was a urologist. They often worked late, and when their on-call schedules collided, John had to spend his afternoons with Mr. Olsen, the nice old man next door. Mr. Olsen helped John with his homework and baked the most delicious cookies. And be... | 2015-06-05T08:16:23 | 2015-06-05T07:58:25 | 62 | 37 |
[WP] You have a bottle of pure Luck. You have to use it all up quickly, though, or else it will rot and become Bad Luck.
EDIT: My first prompt that actually took off! Nice. | Of the many assorted odds and ends on the shelf in the oddities store only one caught my eye.
The label on the bottle read as such: "Liquid Luck! Drink immediately after opening for desired effects." That was all. No ingredients list, no way of learning to get more, just the simple instruction of open and drink on a t... | Really? Real Luck? That didn't seem plausible. A genie? Even less so. I looked around, still dazed by the meeting with the whirlwind of a genie. He had sped through my room, quickly explaining that he was giving me a bottle of pure Luck, and that once I drank it, I could use it at my discretion. He had also given me a ... | 2015-10-01T09:10:55 | 2015-10-01T07:05:36 | 93 | 26 |
[WP] The gods/monsters that showed themselves to ancient people never thought us apes would go on to make weapons like bombs, lasers, missiles. Our capacity for carnage and how little we have to lose terrifies these beings. The god/monster of your choice returns after a vacation and nopes right out. | I still remember when night used to be dark.
When a ghost could wander the shadows, walking from the tip of Asia to the shores of France uninterrupted under the cover of night. For a ghost, darkness is necessary- it's our home, and we cannot exist without it. When I became a ghost, in the early ages of man, darkness... | "Okay, fellas," I said on our way toward the surface of the ocean. "Vacation time's over; planet's core was nice and all, but we gotta check up on our favorite food."
"They better have bred well, we gave them thousands of years," Mllguxok said, her emerald, serpentine body gliding effortless through the dark water. "H... | 2016-06-23T00:19:10 | 2016-06-22T23:59:17 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | It started off small, a barely noticeable thing. Heck the only people who noticed were the teachers, and parents.
They called them the listening generation. Anyone younger than eleven, stopped for a couple seconds. Froze in place as they stared off into some etheric place.
Then suddenly they smiled, and went back to ... | Lying on my bed I'm my room, the blackouts closed... it's too warm you know. I like a colder room. Something a bit more comfortable. Sometimes I just sit there pondering impossible questions... tracing the lines in the giprock ceiling...
"What's for supper?"
"How will college be when I enter for the first time in 3 m... | 2019-06-03T11:34:58 | 2019-06-03T10:40:47 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | Jesus landed somewhere out in the desert. The first place he found was Vegas. It didn't take long to prove himself. Turning water to wine, walking on water, walking on water while turning it into wine until he fell in.
His entrance was so calm, and he took to the current world so quickly that anyone hardly made a fuss... | It was all true, then. For years, the dread had been gnawing at me, that something was... wrong. I could see it in the way they looked at me, treated me.
"Demons" my father had said, on Thanksgiving night. "I see demons inside you, and if we don't cast them out now, they'll take hold on you forever!"
That had been, w... | 2020-02-02T16:50:40 | 2020-02-02T16:03:23 | 972 | 102 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | I'm a lucky guy.
No, seriously, I have a superpower that makes me lucky. How do you define luck? If I had to put it vaguely, it has to do with causality. I can only put it vaguely. There's no scientifically concrete way to explain it. The cosmos, luck, the force, divine intervention. However you want to describe it, ... | Soothe was never supposed to be an active Sidekick, just what they call an Aftercare Hero, forever stuck in Pavillon B of the Heroes Hospital in NYC.
The job of a hero is a stressful one, full of danger and trauma. Without someone to smother the most traumatic memories, superheroes tended to get tremendous Post-Trauma... | 2021-04-14T07:33:00 | 2021-04-14T06:33:51 | 367 | 90 |
[WP] A zombie and a ghost meet and discover they used to be the same person when they were alive. One is the spirit and the other is the body. They team up to solve their own murder.
[deleted] | I was drifting along on a sweet summer breeze, minding my own invisible business when a soft moan came from behind me. It was a sound I wasn't entirely familiar with. There was an element of human to it, but there was also something slightly off about it. Intrigued, I twirled around and found myself face to face with..... | “Zombie-me, where are you going?” I shouted, quickly floating through the packed streets of London.
“Urggghher,” Zombie-me groaned. He pushed his way through a crowd of pedestrians, whose faces turned blank for a moment before regaining their normal look. It seemed like living people couldn’t actually comprehend the s... | 2021-05-03T11:23:38 | 2021-05-03T11:13:03 | 77 | 26 |
[WP] The Evil Queen looked dumbfounded over the group of heroes and asked again; "you want to what?" to which the heroes replied, "join you, at least you have health insurance" | "If I am to understand," the Queen said as she stood beside her throne; her voice was regal, magnificent, complementing her elegant visage, "you wish to join me simply because I care for the health of my subjects?"
"Of course not," the Elf rebutted. He was tall, slender, graceful - exactly as elves were. "We wish to j... | “Dungeoneering. Pfft. What a sham. They tell you fame, fortune, easy women, and cheap booze would be awaiting those that delve into the depths of the world. What they don’t tell you is how grimy it is down here. The walls are always damp! This fetid stench erodes your sense of smell! Tuberculosis is rampant! Malaria an... | 2022-07-10T15:07:40 | 2022-07-10T15:04:24 | 242 | 108 |
[WP] Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 lands in Beijing Airport, 3 Months late - passengers claim to have flown as normal. | "Pilot, identify yourself."
The new Air Traffic Control Operator, Jin, in Beijing began to scramble as an unknown aircraft headed for the runway. The plane was going to disrupt the flow of air traffic, as it had not been on schedule.
"This is Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Prepared for landing."
Jin stopped dead in... | Smoke from the cup slowly dispersed in the air. I reached forward and took a sip of the tea I ordered just a minute ago. It was quiet in the cabin. The baby that was crying seemed to have fallen asleep in his mother's arms and the little boy playing running up and down the aisle was back in his seat.
*Ding.* The fligh... | 2014-06-25T14:42:06 | 2014-06-25T14:31:14 | 216 | 24 |
[WP] Four roommates are extraterrestrials who have taken human form in hopes of learning about Earth. Unfortunately, each alien is from a different planet and believes that the other three are normal humans. | **Josh**
"*Operator, this is RQ651, i am at the door, over*"
"*Roger that, this is control, proceed RQ651*"
Ametian social interaction robot code name **Josh** entered the test chamber, where it came into contact with 3 homo sapiens test subjects:
**Brad**, **Chad** and **Thad**, his future "roommates".
"*Operat... | First post, Ever. Hope you Enjoy.
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“Hey, Bobby!”
I unplugged my Maschine controller and slid my headphones down around my neck.
When I had first moved in, I would absolutely panic when one of my roommates walked in while I was filing a report. I soon discovered, though, that they just though... | 2017-06-27T15:10:14 | 2017-06-27T15:03:30 | 67 | 18 |
[WP] You are a beautiful and talented witch who could easily seduce any men with her magic. But once you fall in love with one yourself, you decide to conquer him without cheating. It soon becomes clear you have no idea what you are doing. | It took me 1,207 years to find out what love truly meant. So
yeah, I guess you can say I’m a tad behind in that department. Just a tad.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had more dates with men than there
are men currently alive. But… I don't exactly do them the conventional way. It’s this
potion that’s been passed down from ... | The Hunter’s foot gingerly tested the thick, springy moss that blanketed this part of the woods. Small white flowers the size of peas gave a pleasant dotting to the lush green felt, and the occasional bright red toadstool gave bursts of vivacious colour.
His tan leather boots were well worn – he could likely feel the... | 2017-11-20T18:58:04 | 2017-11-20T18:45:38 | 95 | 20 |
[WP] Whenever someone reaches 18, they are given a sealed envelope with their last words inside. You just received yours and opened it, reading the words: "I always knew you were going to kill me." | The doorbell rang and James went to answer it, knowing that the man in black standing at the door held his final words. It was freaking and intimidating, but James opened the door anyway. He heard pounding in his head. Or was it? He thought he could hear it outside his head as well.
The man handed James the envelope.... | "So, what did your letter say?" a quick question was asked other side of the room. It was Jack whose birthday was recently, so everyone was bugging him; what were his last words? It was a thing that always gained gossip. Many students made up the words to seem more popular, such as *'Leave without me, else we all are g... | 2018-02-19T10:10:48 | 2018-02-19T08:51:05 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | – So there's been a robbery, but you are not guilty of that, I'm pretty sure.
– Uh, yeah, actually…
– No, I know, it's all fine, you tried your best to prevent that.
– Well, the truth is…
– Nah, it's okay, man, you don't have to feel guilty. It has been a massive scheme. We will just learn to defend ourselves bette... | “I’m Super Special Agent Dirk Diggler and this Super Important Agent Mick Mickerson, I assume you are expecting us.”
The agents stood in the doorway, peering down the hall past the lady who greeted them.
“Ah, yeah, sure. You’ll be wanting to speak to my manager, right?”
Diggler lifted his clipboard to reading level... | 2018-05-03T05:52:10 | 2018-05-03T05:32:31 | 454 | 156 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | "You're going to have to say that again, because I have no idea what in the fuck you're trying to say," I inform the sparkling conversationalist that just conversed in little more than grunts and growls.
"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years," the young man behind the counter informs me, seemingly confu... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T21:55:57 | 647 | 80 |
[WP]: Your son's solution to every problem was to fake his own death. Broke a vase? Fake death. Failed a class? Fake death. Moving out to college, he mysteriously disappeared. 20 years later, you get letter in familiar handwriting. "Mom? Please don't get mad, but I REALLY need your help..." | With shaking hands, I carried my son's letter into my study.
I read it.
Then I read it again.
Over the 20 long years that he was missing, James had lived a wild and varied life, full of hijinks and adventures.
And now my baby was in trouble. A mother's child is always her baby, even if that child is forty years ol... | "I'm sorry Ms. Williams, this is never easy but is this your son."
As she looked over the body on the examiner's table, Alice began to cry.
"You know, it's hard to tell how events will shape a young mind. Little James was in and out of the hospital countless times in the first five years of his life. It got to the p... | 2018-09-25T06:34:19 | 2018-09-25T06:09:51 | 219 | 94 |
[WP] Every 10,000 years God eliminates mankind and starts everything over. Last time he started with Adam and Eve. This time he starts with two new people. The only problem is some how you didn’t die and you watched everything reset and you’ve kept your memories. You shouldn’t exist so you don’t age | "See, I told you God's not so great. The only reason I'm ever the bad guy, is cause he resets the world every time I get close to reaching my full power and just outright overthrowing that old bastard and showing everyone the truth."
I could only frown at that, given how I've been sat down by Satan herself in order to... | I was there.
That final day, when the sky tore open with the sound of trumpets, echoing through the heaven.
When the mountains shook as the sea rose up to meet their summits.
The day 10.000 years prophecised.
Armageddon.
I guess God finally had enough. But who could blame him? Humanity almost destroyed Earth m... | 2019-09-16T10:00:51 | 2019-09-16T09:49:47 | 199 | 70 |
[WP] Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane | "OK Hudson, you might be a little old to believe in magic but the gummy bears you just ate have magical qualities."
"What do they do?"
"They allow the dreamworld to escape into the real world. They're supposed to be used by trained sorcerers but I think you're ready to handle it. You will need some hints though to he... | "Uncle..... your gummy bears are talking in my stomach nowww.... Ohhh they say that I should follow them to gummy bear landd...." Tommy was literally drooling when he said that, lying there on the floor in my room.
I left my door opened for a minute, and the next he was inside, hands in his mouth, both my LSD laden gu... | 2017-01-09T06:12:54 | 2017-01-09T05:40:02 | 2,286 | 92 |
[WP] When you're born you are given a list of 10 things to do before you die. When an immediate family member dies their unaccomplished tasks get passed on to you. On your 18th birthday your family dies in a car crash, leaving you to complete their lists. | Today was the day. The six month mourning period was over and I would be receiving the lists.
I was lucky in a way, because it could have been much worse for me. My parents had life insurance, wills, and plans for their funerals so almost everything was taken care of after the accident. All I had to do was deal with t... | *They were all driving*, thought Analisa, as she dropped her phone at her feet. *to visit me.*
Analisa wandered out of her dorm room, and onto one of the larger lawns on her campus. Some students looked at her with pity, but kept walking to their classes. She brought her shaking hand to her face, and pushed her hair b... | 2017-04-17T13:11:07 | 2017-04-17T10:39:40 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | I set the hungry couple down in my den and hurried to my kitchen. It had been a very long time indeed since unexpected guests had arrived, and it mattered not to me that I didn't even know their names. I began drawing the water for a proper tea and leaned over to turn off the telly. Fingers on the button, and I heard, ... | Maybe it was guilt or maybe it was curiosity, but regardless of the circumstances here we are with two strangers sitting on my couch. They seemed innocent enough. A boy and a girl, a young couple who had been out hiking the trails nearby, gotten lost, and finally found their bearings. They were seeking some nourishment... | 2018-03-14T11:17:41 | 2018-03-14T09:36:09 | 113 | 28 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | The bag crinkled as gravity smashed it into the cold stone floor of the examination hall. Although I could not see him, nor would I hear him shouting in warning until it was too late, the headmaster was already running towards me.
For a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Not until the first tendril of blue and white l... | Larry woke with a snorting start when his friends Don and Harmony burst into his dorm room, chased by two other animals. Cheetos tumbled off Larry’s faded graphic t-shirt, leaving trails of orange dust down his chest. The computer in his lap asked if he was still watching Netflix, and he was glad that was all he’d fall... | 2019-04-05T16:05:49 | 2019-04-05T15:51:00 | 79 | 39 |
[WP] You can't die. You feel all the pain that comes with dying, but instead, you just fall asleep and wake up the next day fine. The military has held you captive, in secret, for the last 2 centuries using you to train their soldiers in live ammo and hand to hand. Today you will attempt an escape. | I've been in this prison of pain for two hundred years. At first, when it was discovered I couldn't die they were somewhat sympathetic. Not enough to release me, clearly, but one of the scientists had read the picture of Dorian grey and felt some sympathy. Unfortunately he stopped appearing before the invention of this... | I awake slowly, just before the lights in my room come on. I used to jerk awake in. Panic feeling around my body for whatever wound signaled the end of another day of agony. Now I feel nothing but resignation, as I replay the scene of my last “death” the last image seared into my brain is that of a knife slamming into ... | 2020-03-27T10:04:41 | 2020-03-27T10:04:16 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | "Look, I honestly don't know why we are all so surprised by this."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!?!? The first dragon to be discovered by science bonds to some random guard and you don't see why we're all shocked?"
"Not some random guard, that's what everyone seems to conveniently forget- that was ... | Preface:
The young acolyte, dressed in his plain clothes and hooded cloak, ran hastily toward the Master's Sanctum in the base of the mountain. He pulls his hood down against the rain as he runs, trying desperately not to slip and fall on the muddy soil beneath his feet in the low visibility of the nights rainfall. Th... | 2020-12-12T05:26:21 | 2020-12-12T03:18:35 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone jokes that you'll be haunted by spirits for building your tea shop on sacred ground. But at night you actually serve the undead spirits and calm the restless. | Sacred ground shines. I don’t mean that in a literal way, of course. And I certainly don’t mean it as a crude metaphor in reference to how what used to be little church downtown was covered in flames that blazed tall and fierce before it was reduced to ash. Figuratively, sacred ground is bright. It’s what makes it a sa... | ##Morbid Café Melodrama
I turn the lights off in the store, and I pull the black-out curtains over the glass door. Living customers frequently tell me that it is a unique aesthetic choice. Some customers have speculated that illegal activities must be occurring inside. That would be much simpler.
I pull out my flashl... | 2021-03-10T17:41:34 | 2021-03-10T16:51:03 | 58 | 43 |
[WP] We have hunted sharks to extinction. More people than ever are going to the beach but little did we know that the sharks were keeping something much worse at bay. | We didn't know. Shit, how could we have known?
If we had known what was down there I tell you right now, we wouldn't have let those fuckers in Japan have their shark fin soup. Or China? Wherever. One of those countries. Point is, we're in the shit now.
Me? I'm a gunner on one of the beach towers. Yeah, over on Long... | Sharks are something I personally never thought about, so it amazed me how many people were happy to go to the beach once they were gone. Obviously the threat of a bloodthirsty predator lurking deep beneath the surface was too scary for some people, even though attacks were extremely rare. I say *were*, because it turn... | 2014-08-17T09:20:36 | 2014-08-17T08:57:09 | 205 | 106 |
[WP]The torch has been lit, and your team has already stolen it. It's the fist day of the Crime Olympics. | "Please! You don't have to do this!"
"We both know that is a lie." I sighed as I raised my bloodied fist again. The poor fool honestly didn't deserve what was coming but what's a guy to do? We all knew the stakes when we stepped into the stadium.
"Well it was nice knowing you Bill." I said flatly.
"FOR FUCKS SAKE I... | **Announcer 1**: Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the first day of the Crime Olympics! Yes, and today we have an absolutely *exciting* lineup of games that I am sure everyone will enjoy!
**Announcer 2**: That's right Steve, and have we got a lineup for you today! We're kicking things off with a *specta... | 2018-08-01T23:03:51 | 2018-08-01T21:47:07 | 120 | 46 |
[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" | Lightning arced through the sky, gently illuminating the garden as it harmlessly passed through me. These adventurers knew nothing about battling the undead. They want me out of the garden do they?
One spent his time following me trying to stab me with his sword. Another shooting arrows, which instead of hitting me th... | I didn't understand. It was frustrating, and anytime I got an adventurer in my garden it definitely ruined my day.
My chrysanthemums were in full bloom. After they were planted, they had sprouted everywhere. I knew the trick to them; plant after the frost. It was difficult to tell how frosty it was, when it didn't sn... | 2019-12-30T14:05:41 | 2019-12-30T13:18:08 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] It is the 41st millennium, and contrary to a certain grimdark future, humanity is thriving. Except we're not united. The entire universe wonders how the universe's 200 or so strongest powers have the same homeworld. | "so... You hate yourself?" The short round alien diplomat was having trouble with the translations to the human common dialect and it wasn't getting better.
"No, not on a personal level, well, some of us do but, generally no, we humans only hate some humans. " The translator used 100 words before giving up on that ... | *Shimmy Shimmy Thluck*, a stalwart freighter of the Leecant Knot, a starship that could travel ten light years in a single day, bobbed and weaved in place, as if dancing to the rhythm of the void itself. The two Leecant on its bridge were not amused.
Tlemit, the Merchant-In-Charge of this expedition, was especially d... | 2021-10-05T18:51:54 | 2021-10-05T15:39:01 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | You come to, disoriented and desperately searching for anything familiar when you hear a voice.
"Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!"
Your eyes lock on to an old man--well, not that old. No older than his late fifties by the look of him.
"You have no idea how long I've waited!" You could hear the emotion as his v... | "Finally," says the old man, "someone to take my place. Sit down, please sit down, this might take a while."
The room is neither white nor gray, it is the absence of color, a memory of a room brought up by your presence and the old man's.
"You remember it, don't you?" The man's eyes are sparkling, mad, whether the ma... | 2021-11-24T12:11:36 | 2021-11-24T11:49:03 | 179 | 114 |
[WP] Some dragons are much too small to ride, so they're treated more like a dog. But then some are so small that they actually make a pretty effective weapon. | Far below the ground which royal blood dances upon, where only the wine should rest, flames sacrifice their wooden holsters to light the cobbled walls. They separate the known from oblivion.
“Let me be frank,” Metal splits the already half-dead wood. “We know you’re not one of us. Tell us who sent you, unless yo... | # Soulmage
**The hearth dragons were out in flocks tonight, gamboling beneath a cloudless moon.** I clambered up the rickety, icy footholds that Lucet had made for me, plopping down on the bell tower balcony and lying down face-up to catch my breath.
Lucet's shyly smiling face peeked over mine, blotting out the moon.... | 2022-05-27T22:49:21 | 2022-05-27T21:05:40 | 37 | 26 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | “Sir, look, you’re a rockstar,” the recruiter started. “No, I’m The Technician,” I interrupted. This guy had been calling me for months now, and this was the second time this week. It’s only Monday.
“Your skills are unique, even amongst all of the superpowers out there, yours are unique. Tenor Nullifio can’t disable y... | \[Zero Income\]
"If you have a moment...," the teenager surprised Miles. He looked young enough to still be in high school and a mess of wild brown curls sat on his head. His hand was stretched out as a greeting and he continue once he had Miles' attention. "... I'd like to talk to you about your Super power."
... | 2022-07-31T14:08:55 | 2022-07-31T12:47:18 | 576 | 72 |
[Wp] The most unassuming and peaceful nation decided enough was enough and proceeded to take over the world for its own good | No one noticed the invasion at first.
We just though, "ooow, coffee". Who doesn't like coffee and cake stuff?
Then it just sort of happened. Death by bug bites. Next we had to drive with our lights on all the time. Got really cold. Hockey was the national sport.
Then, boom, the Prince of Canada said he owned every... | Nobody really understood how it happened, when the inhabitants became wiser beyond their years - beyond anybody's year, really. There was a short scuffle, but everyone was too tired, too exhausted from living every day and hearing of the atrocities being committed in their name, or against them. They wanted to succumb ... | 2014-08-21T05:07:25 | 2014-08-21T05:02:19 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] On your 17th birthday, instead of the usual boring presents from your parents, they say that your grandfather left you 10 millon dollars and a small island on the opposite side of the world, asking you to "finish what he started". | They said grandfather left me ten million dollars. I figured that all his money had been found after he died, but I suppose I was wrong. I collected the gold bars, the deed to the island, and the letter. It sure was him - his diction, his ideology, everything, just like I had learned from my crazy parents.
He asked m... | My favorite part of traveling, other than the warmer climate, was talking to people about my home. I was proud of where I had been born and raised. Most people are, but I knew I had grown up in a unique experience. My mother is a marine biologist, and my father is a chemist. They met each other at a small research sett... | 2016-01-02T12:01:27 | 2016-01-02T11:13:07 | 84 | 28 |
[WP] You are a bestselling author with a dark secret; you extend your own lifespan by killing beloved characters. | Living by killing off your own characters. The concept isn't new to most, heck people have suspected authors such as George RR Martin of doing it for years; and you know what, they're right. But George is a fool, he was never able to grasp the full extent of this power. You see while George is utterly ruthless to his c... | I need to tell you something - I've got signing madness. It's a quarter after one and I'm still signing books, all two hundred and twenty thousand pre-ordered copies of my newest book. As I draw my name in sharpie - what fans have called the 'K-scribble' - my eyes alight on the last page of the novel. And I can't help ... | 2016-01-11T08:29:59 | 2016-01-11T05:27:22 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | Chapter 1
"Some are calling it the prank of the century, others believe it to be a supernatural occurrence, and still others call out 'conspiracy'. What is the truth behind the sudden alteration of mugs all over the world? Do they really reflect the rankings of dads? We'll be checking in with spiritualist Dave Connor ... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T10:58:27 | 828 | 13 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | Chapter 1
"Some are calling it the prank of the century, others believe it to be a supernatural occurrence, and still others call out 'conspiracy'. What is the truth behind the sudden alteration of mugs all over the world? Do they really reflect the rankings of dads? We'll be checking in with spiritualist Dave Connor ... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T10:58:27 | 70 | 13 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You obtained the ability to experience life as it is for others. After trying out a few people you realize that the general "living feeling" differs enormously to each person. You decide to try it on your super cheerful friend... you have never felt such emptiness before. | Slipping into other people's skin was a little like visiting other people's houses. The house itself was usually pretty similar to my own but with the furniture rearranged and the walls painted a different color.
Jessie didn't have colors. Her view was a muted greyscale, her house was without furniture like she didn't... | "Detective Jones," came a sharp, clear voice from behind me. I turned towards my boss, Captain Whaile, and gave a slight nod.
"Captain," I acknowledged, waiting for her to continue. She looked me over, mouth tight. I swallowed. She hadn't made captain because she was dumb. I what she saw past my wrinkled button down a... | 2018-05-23T14:15:49 | 2018-05-23T14:14:16 | 58 | 18 |
[WP] The Ruins of Earth are considered the archeological find of the millennium. Aliens send experts from all across the galaxy to study this complex civilization, and there are conflicting theories as to why they went extinct. | “Exactly what caused the demise of the Hymine-“
“It’s human!” You shout from backstage.
“Human, civilization, has been one of the greatest mysteries of our era. I am pleased to be able to say that that mystery will be answered tonight.”
From behind the curtain you hear the shocked gasp of the crowd. You wonder what ... | The winds were harsh, and the temperature several degrees below freezing. The suit display offered a wealth of information; atmospheric composition, pressure, points of interest... and the two explorers had ended up at the same landmark, staring in awe. Though the same race, the Andorran's often harbored prejudices and... | 2018-10-30T17:25:43 | 2018-10-30T17:04:12 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "All i would like, is a McDonald's ice cream"
The officers all began to laugh, until they noticed the beads of sweat forming on the forehead of an increasingly nervous warden.
"N-n-no problem stammered the warden, let me just make a few phonecalls"
He ran out of the room, and a moment later you could hear muffled... | Sumerians invented the cuneiform writing system way, way back in time in the fourth century BCE. The British library has 130,000 of the clay tablets where most are still unread by a modern person. Irvine Finkel, himself, has and will teach anyone to read cuneiform in the hopes someone will bring him another story lik... | 2022-07-17T18:30:24 | 2022-07-17T17:32:54 | 97 | 47 |
[WP] The world has taken precautions against super-powered beings, handing out inhibitors if deemed too 'destructive.' You sat in the principal's office with horror etched on your face as a pair of inhibitor gloves were handed to you. The smug grin of your life long bully telling you everything. | As a kid I always asked a lot of questions. My parents would indulge me and give me partial truths but as I got older, they started being really honest with me, about politics, history, their opinions on life. I remember once after a fight, my dad confided in me that he never should have married my mother. It would hav... | Jackass... I think as my powers while they could be used to cause a lot of annoyance because it is power to play any musical instrument to perfect decree. I am a girl and this is how he wants my attention? Wow, nice... I love music... I feel my heart drop as the gloves are worn on. I immediately start thinking about on... | 2022-12-25T08:07:00 | 2022-12-25T03:24:03 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | The old man sat chasing his own thoughts. His memory wasn't what it once was and he kept losing his train of thought. He'd try to remember something, reason through it and just before he could latch on to it it would be gone like it was never there.
Zargrarf approached smiling, "My old nemesis, it pains me to s... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T12:28:18 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 35 | 13 |
[WP]A Man dies and expects to go either Heaven or Hell,only to be told by an Angel that he already was in Hell and now his punishment is over | "You're not going to Hell."
"What?"
"You're not going to Hell."
"I don't understand...?"
"You, Isaac DeMaggio, a human, are not, which is a word used to signify a contradictory statement, going to, as in traveling to, Hell."
"I understand grammar, but--"
"Then why did you say you don't understand?"
"I haven't be... | "Uh-uh. Yeah, buddy. Well, you know what, fuck you too. Next." The bloke clutching the cockel-spaniel took his stamped passport and filed out towards a rather impressive baggage reclaim, proceeded to ignore it entirely and wandered to a distant "Nothing to Declare" sign so cursive it deserved it's own gallery.
The bal... | 2016-12-13T12:49:39 | 2016-12-13T11:47:45 | 39 | 26 |
[WP] You pull off your headphones and the whole world shifts. You're now sitting in a futuristic mall of some kind with a VR headset in your hands and a smiling clipboard-wielding woman asking about "the Virtual Life Experience™". The problem: your "Virtual Life" is the only one you can remember. | Helena simply smiled at Rhadika, and bounced up some on her tippy toes.
“It was *great* right?” said Helena. She moved the clipboard down, and adjusted her hair. “Now we noticed that you hadn’t signed the waiver form prior to entering in just a few minutes ago, so if you’d please just sign right here.”
Rhadika stoo... | For the first few moments everything became whitewashed and hushed with static.
"excuse me" a muffled voice pierces the softened din of overstimulation.
"Is this for real? Hey are you okay?" the same voice interogates in a slight panic. Finally some sensation.
Is this an arm?
Legs?
What is touching me?
Slowly eye... | 2017-03-25T09:37:54 | 2017-03-25T09:36:19 | 687 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | Today, I was told of the Nameshare. Its cause is unknown. Its precise mechanics are unknown. It started in the spring of the year 2017, and transformed human society within a generation. Somehow, it granted every human with the same given name a shared pool of memories. Nothing was exempt. Every name ceased to signify ... | “Kebert Xela Simpson?” she asked.
Ashley was my best friend, had been since we roomed together starting freshman year. We were both engineering/physics majors, and we tried to sign up for the same classes every semester. She was constantly ahead of me and rarely had to study.
“Yeah…I’d rather not talk about it. My ... | 2017-04-07T11:50:50 | 2017-04-07T10:48:59 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | 'But if the plosive is preceded by a nasal consonant, wouldn't they have the same place of articulation?' We had just reviewed the lecture on nasal place assimilation in our study group last night. I knew from experience that sometimes your intuition as a native speaker is just dead wrong. I tried sounding it out in m... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T21:06:00 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Due to an overactive imagination and your love of superheroes, you have a tendency to yell "I know you're listening" loudly inside your own head to see if anybody reacts. One day, you're answered by a panicked "I'm sorry" in a familiar voice and the girl across the classroom has gone beet red.
Edit: I'm glad to s... | Carrie drew in her notebook, completely and utterly bored out of her mind. God, she hated US gov. She didn't understand, for the life of her, why an art major needed history courses, yet, there she was.
'...waste of time...' She thought. 'Where did this guy get a PhD from? The University of Teaching Through YouTube v... | *I KNOW YOU'RE LISTENING!*
Jack imagined those words echoing with power and authority. The words would only ever affect those who had a super power similar to telepathy and would ring in their head, he imagined. The words would hit a person with such an ability with so much force that they wouldn't even think about ... | 2018-12-18T18:34:41 | 2018-12-18T16:00:20 | 167 | 79 |
[WP] Your older son was bitten by an escaped lab animal and developed superpowers. Your daughter was implanted with powerful tech by aliens. And your younger son is a martial arts prodigy who gleefully goes crimefighting with his older siblings. As their (completely normal) parent, you worry. A lot.
EDIT: I had no ide... | "Mr. Carnel, I have tried to be patient with you. You have been rotting in this room for 3 months and nobody is going to come and rescue you. I admire your fortitude but as you can see it has all been for NOTHING!"
My panting has become weaker, a low wheeze with each breath I take. I can hear the broken chandelier swa... | (1 of 2)
Frootloops in baggies, juice boxes, bus passes, some pocket change, spare battery for their phones, their nigh-on indestructible nokia's for emergencies and a quick text to Police Constable Hayes that the kidlings would be out that Saturday night and to get his on duty officers to check back alleys for tied u... | 2019-03-03T23:35:40 | 2019-03-03T22:15:49 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Rejected by the Federation Council for refusing to disband their military, humans ally themselves with the Thoran, the Federation’s resident warrior race. Warmongers, the Thoran find themselves enamored with humanity, and grow increasingly tired of the Federations attempts to “civilize” both. | "Section 17b of the Interstellar Treaty states that armed forces are strictly prohibited unless governed by the Federation. Failure to comply with this ruling will result in rejection and or expulsion from the council. It is our personal belief that this article should be struck down. Our individual military forces gra... | The meeting took place in a bunker multiple hundreds of meters below the soil of an unknown planet within the solar system.
"Are you sure it is completely safe to speak here?"
"It seems I trust dirt and steel more than you."
"If you trust this place, I will too, I guess."
"So let's begin then."
"Ah, yes, so... wh... | 2020-04-16T09:07:41 | 2020-04-16T08:19:10 | 363 | 110 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I looked over at my sister- nine years younger than me, and yet somehow the same age all of a sudden. Her head was in her hands, the air of defeat around her almost visible.
Next to her a tall, handsome boy slept peacefully on his back.
I heard her heave a deep sigh, and looked over as she ran her hands over her t... | Dandy Town, unlike its name, is a town far from perfection. In fact this little hamlet or village is a hidden gem I found while on one of my numerous trips to my Step Father’s bakery for breakfast.
I always had a penchant for funny things, but this town was a whole new definition of eccentricity and silliness. Every c... | 2020-11-02T10:49:46 | 2020-11-02T09:45:20 | 105 | 15 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by henchmen because your boyfriend/girlfriend is a super hero, but the villains are your parents who just now recognized you as your BF/GF has arrived to save you and now you have to explain the situation to everyone while the henchmen watch barley stifling their laughter | As the hood over my head was removed, I heard the sound of raucous laughter coming from all around me.
"Well, if it isn't our leader's darling little boy! How's it going, Larry? Having fun dating a superhero?"
One of my parents' henchmen stood before me, shining a bright light into my face. Around me, I could see at ... | It all started with drinks. Catherine sat with her boyfriend Sam. They were both slightly buzzed and as it often did, the conversation turned to some rather interesting topics.
"So the trolley problem. Thoughts?"
Catherine raised her eyebrows and took another sip of her drink. "I think it's a bad problem really. The... | 2021-07-18T12:25:25 | 2021-07-18T11:49:04 | 959 | 515 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | My own number always bothered me. A 1, seriously? Luckily nobody else sees numbers or they would think I was nothing but a big laugh.
And I couldn't use another reason to be laughed at, you know. Being in high school is already torture enough, and I'm being bullied enough as it is.
Normally the day starts off getting... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T14:33:38 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] A human colony ship is en route to its destination 122 light years away. To avoid mutiny and crew apathy, the onboard AI convinces the middle generation that everyone lives and dies on the ship. And then someone learns the truth. | "You killed them, didn't you?" I asked the ship's computer as soon as the doors whooshed closed behind me. It couldn't deny it; I had the data right in my hand, along with the note from the computer promising to explain everything.
"Yes," it answered immediately in its cold, calculating voice. None of the regret that ... | "Deniyar, relayer the clips. I want them in this order; Five, seven, three, twelve, nine."
A blank screen greeted Yephen. In all his time as a software engineer aboard the CF Atlantis he'd never felt so thoroughly mocked.
"Deniyar, do you understand the command?"
"Yes." An androgynous voice returned.
"Will you obey... | 2016-02-05T08:33:41 | 2016-02-05T08:17:04 | 116 | 32 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | Professor Alien began to laugh. "Oh, no. Hahahahaha. Nooooo. Where did you get that idea?" Student Alien stuttered "But...but..but I worked really hard on my term paper idea. Look at the artifacts! This rapid-fire projectile weapon is inscribed 'Made America Great Again'!" Professor Alien began to sigh. "The humans are... | "Are you sure about this Ilian" Odan asked, his antenna twitched with irritation? Odan had always liked Ilian but sometimes she could be more trouble than she was worth, most of the hierarchy was like that, but being the youngest graduate from the institute and a member of the royal family he couldnt just say no even i... | 2018-03-17T05:56:09 | 2018-03-17T05:21:49 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | Quick search. My quirk has always had its benefits. Knowing what moves to make and how to ingratiate myself to the people I wanted to... To my knowledge, I'm the only one with this ability. But it can be finicky. You have to keep the inquiry simple and you only got a few word answers. Does this girl like me? No. What... | I sat on the couch in the living room while everyone was outside talking and catching up with each other, after all, it’s been a while since the family had come together and be able to reconnect with each other, as always, I find that I’m by myself, and as always bored whenever these get together occur.
“Leo!” Mother ... | 2019-07-02T01:27:27 | 2019-07-01T22:18:35 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, “How? How were you able to summon me?!” You’re standing in the corner flipping through your grandma’s cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, “I don’t know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!” | **Chicken Soup For Your Soul:**
“TREMBLE BEFORE ME MORTALS, CH’OR G’OLL RETURNS TO-” the demon stopped and looked around, clearly taken aback by my small apartment kitchen of which he seemed to occupy most of. He turned slowly to find me huddled up by the wall shaking violently and staring in utter dread at the massiv... | You can’t cook. You know you can’t cook, but you try anyway. It was supposed to be just a nice, normal night, some homemade soup for dinner, just like how Grandma used to make it, a glass of wine, and maybe a book. It was supposed to be an easy, mellow, enjoyable evening. And now, as if you could hear a narrator from a... | 2020-04-17T00:29:29 | 2020-04-17T00:25:30 | 61 | 27 |
[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now
EDIT: August 8th, 2014 @ 2:35PM:
Wow, /r/WritingPro... | "Sir, we've received some intel from our scouts. Turns out Humans have evolved to become... Fearless, so they say." The Lieutenant stood there, uncomfortable.
"Go on..." The Commander uttered, eager to hear the news of these legendary Earthlings, passed on through Generations since The First who came to Earth.
"They'... | Fligthtdynga looked through a telescope trained at the blue sphere.
"Teacher, why are we here?"
"In a previous iteration, a scout ship was despatched here. They landed and attempted to establish a portal on the surface for a typical resources transfer. Our last multi-spectral transmission from the lander showed they ... | 2014-08-07T09:25:57 | 2014-08-07T08:46:14 | 57 | 13 |
[WP] After years of gentile persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend.
Edit: I see what I did wrong and I see what you did there ;) I'm lea... | Anna gave a rough, barking laugh, strained around the edges, and waggled a manicured hand at the doc.
“You’re a character, shrink.” She plucked a strand of coloured hair, twirling it around her finger. “Go do a Broadway bit, your talents are wasted here.”
“I assure you,” the psychologist adjusted his glasses, “I am n... | *"I'm sure this is the right thing for you to do, Rhiann. All these years with nightmares and bedwetting and sudden tears. That constant fear you describe to me. I hope your first session goes well with the therapist."*
"I'm scared, Clemmie. I'm terrified about what to tell them. What if it still doesn't help? And I'm... | 2015-11-17T05:49:12 | 2015-11-17T05:44:07 | 53 | 15 |
[WP] Humans are successful partly because we're omnivores and this holds true on the galactic scale as well. In the future humans have quickly become feared throughout the Milky Way as our soldiers are ready to eat almost anything...or anyone. | What the fuck do you think you’re doing?
There was a slight hesitancy to his response: I’m uh, well I’m eating a carrot.
Holy mother of God that is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in my entire goddamn life. I’ve been on the front lines of innumerable battles, and nothing has ever made my stomach churn like... | Tilgar, Head Waiter for the Ambassador Tikleen, stormed into the kitchen of the ambassador’s home, startling the cooks. He glared at them menacingly as they quickly scurried across the room attempting to avoid the look of ire. No one wanted to be flayed, or have their wings clipped for failure, so they returned to thei... | 2016-02-02T07:34:08 | 2016-02-02T07:02:02 | 189 | 134 |
[WP] A medical breakthrough as an intelligent machine is created capable of curing almost any illness. Unfortunately it kicks off a zombie apocalypse when attempting to cure a hypochondriac. It couldn't figure out what was wrong so it tried "turning him off and then turning him on again". | The intelligent machine had been kept from the public, not because it was dangerous, not because it was expensive, but because the rich thought 'fuck you' to everyone except themselves.
One night in April an obese man had been wheeled into the hidden 'hospital' disguised as an ordinary office building. He was the mac... | "This is a bad idea."
"Casey, we've been over this we're doing it.", Dr. Jones had said trying to convince Dr. Casey that this was a necessary step in medicine. Dr. Casey wasn't buying it. "Please explain to me how this is a good idea at all. The Sigma can do a lot, it's too risky." the expression on Dr. Casey's face,... | 2016-09-27T10:02:51 | 2016-09-27T08:24:09 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] You shoo your kitten away from a battered mouse she's playing with. As you bend over with a towel to scoop up the mouse to carry it outside, you see it's wearing leather armor, a cat claw necklace, and that clutched tightly in a trembling paw is the handle of a broken yellow plastic sword pick. | "Smudge! What are you doing?" Still bottle-fed, the little stray was already a hunter.
*Meow*
"Smudge." The little rascal scrambled over, expecting praise. "What do you have?" Still alive. "Drop it!"
He obeyed, but continued to paw at the tiny mouse, almost concerned. Alice pushed the black kitten away, taking the ... | "No Bathbomb! Not in the house!" I cry out, scrambling towards the newest addition to the family, the lithe grey cat was currently hunched over a tiny black wriggling lump that I could only assume was a mouse. Still squeaking, rather pitifully but still alive. I gently lift the small mewling murder machine with one han... | 2017-11-09T09:58:58 | 2017-11-09T09:42:10 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] The superhero stared at the supervillain. "I need your help...they have my daughter." | "Hahahaha, how pathetic. Perhaps if you were as vigilant with your family matters as you are with my endeavors-"
Aze's face twitched and in a second he had Viktor by his throat.
"Please! This transcends all of that! They will torture her! You know lost Viktor. I know there's good in you, no matter how twisted you may... | “Ten minutes, Mr. Roth, and please - I don’t know why you requested to talk to Turner, but if the command let you, I’m not gonna question it. But! We care for him quite a bit. For his state of mind. Don’t fuck it up”.
Ed Roth, better known as Strongarm in the United Kingdom, watched the teleporter chick vanish out of ... | 2017-12-17T13:34:32 | 2017-12-17T12:16:14 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | Oh! Hello.
It's one of you again.
What's your name?
Right. You have none. I keep forgetting that. Or perhaps I am trying to forget?
Sad little creature, aren't you?
Your hands all in taters, your veil the same.
Your face looks hollow, your body, maimed.
I do feel sorry though I have no heart.
No skin, just bone... | I did not know what to say.
Ibem shrugged. "What's the matter? I'm dead right? You're the Grim Reaper here to take my soul away? *Whoosh whoosh?*" He made vague scything motions with his hands.
"No, I'm not him. I'm his...brother. Well, sort of like a brother. And the scythe thing is just his weird affection. Obs... | 2018-05-12T19:37:58 | 2018-05-12T16:14:04 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Getting arrested for a botched crime is a rite of passage in the Chebwick family. They take great pride in their long legacy of poorly executed crimes. But the youngest child has been a great disappointment. | "Here comes Gary"
"He's the worst."
"A failure to the family name"
"It's not that he commits crimes, the problem is that he's too good at it."
"I KNOW! He's meant to fail like the rest of us."
The door creaked open and Gary stepped into the room with a large bag.
Gary exclaimed with a large grin, "Hey guys!... | "You know why we tolerate supervillains and superheroes and all you types who dance outside the law?" I said.
"Because we're gods in a world of mortals, and all your tin soldiers couldn't make a dent on us if you tried." The Chebwick kid—even after his little murdering spree at the mall, I couldn't help but think of h... | 2020-04-03T22:51:49 | 2020-04-03T22:20:28 | 72 | 29 |
[WP] Humanity finally meets an alien species. However, it takes us both a while to realize that they were just as excited to meet us as we were to meet them. We also realize, at the same time, that they were just as nervous about their homeworld embarrassing them, since they're as 'united' as we are | "Hey bro, go touch him or something," yells my Sup. He's hiding behind the rations cases.
"Alright chief, you just keep hiding there."
I approach the alien being with confidence, knowing that there's a personality - or rather, alienality - behind that scary face.
The Alien looks intently at me, then looks behind me... | “So, you like it?” Shyla wags her long fluffy tail.
She always does that when she’s nervous. That much I’ve learned about her during my three-month-long trip from Earth to Ch’tlks home planet.
My Ch’tlks hostess’s name is not Shyla, and Ch’tlks is not how they call their species either, but those words better describ... | 2022-01-18T11:17:38 | 2022-01-18T10:18:11 | 607 | 195 |
[WP] Berserkers are masters of their own emotions, rage is just one of the tools at their disposal, why do people not talk about their other abilities? Because they want you to think they're nothing more than angry brutes. | "Hi Gork's Gork and, um, Gork is a berzerker"
"Hi Gork"
"It's just it gets so hard dealing with it, others always just assume 'Gork smash!', but that's not all Gork can do. When we go tavern crawling who keeps everyone entertained? Gork does, with Gork's happy dance, and Gork's drunken shenanigans.
Who singlehandedl... | They were scared of them of course. Understandable. Their appearance alone spoke more than words ever could. The reputation they carried didn't help either.
Berserkers from the Black Forest.
When raiding the tomb of a supposedly long dead necromancer, it would pay to at least ask if anyone was still home. Especially ... | 2022-07-26T20:26:17 | 2022-07-26T17:07:03 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Two suicidal people happen to meet on the same bridge to jump. Rather than joining together, they each try to convince the other not to jump while justifying why they themselves should jump.
EDIT: yes i'm well aware this concept has been done before many times in movies, books and music.
But that's exactly it: ... | The man shivered as he padded across the newly constructed bridge, clutching his jacket tightly. His whole life'd been one miserable failure after another. He hadn't managed to do anything right.
Being the first person to jump off this damn bridge would be the only memorable thing he ever did.
He froze. Another figu... | It was already late at night when Jessica arrived at the bridge. "Dead Man's Bridge" they'd called it back in high school, back when suicide felt like a strange concept and the kids were cruel enough to make fun of the people who did it. Jessica missed the days when their mindset felt so alien.
She walked out to the... | 2015-01-27T17:17:41 | 2015-01-27T17:09:02 | 699 | 43 |
[WP]As the four horsemen of the apocalypse get ready to signal the end times, they are joined by a fifth one | War, seated atop a horse of red flame, clad in his uniform, tight, polished, unaffected by the inferno he is bathed in, soon to be stained with the blood of the unworthy, sword at his side ready to cleave flesh from bone.
Famine, a thin man on a horse as sickly as he, both with their ribs showing, wearing a raiment th... | “Hey fella,” Mark said, sideling up beside the skeletal figure seated atop a pale horse. He gently ran his hand down the mane of his mule, whom he had tentatively named Jerry Springer. He wasn’t yet confident that was the ideal title for the brown, four-legged creature, however. “My name’s Mark.”
The skeletal being gl... | 2015-05-20T07:09:37 | 2015-05-20T07:08:25 | 95 | 28 |
[WP] When children turn 8, they are given the option of manifesting their imaginary friend into reality in exchange for sacrificing their remaining imagination. Your "friend" assumes he's about to be manifested, but you've always secretly wanted to be a writer when you grow up. | Neil Holm signed copies of his new book, *The Prisoner*, as fans crowded his table and jostled one another for the best spot to see the author.
"What happens to Ellie, Mr Niel?" a pale-faced teenager asked Neil, his voice trembling only slightly as he came face-to-face with his idol. "Does she escape from Nehom's pri... | "I'm getting dizzy, Ace!" Muddylocks wailed, clinging onto a bar for dear life as I spun the roundabout faster and faster. His usually jet black face had gained an an ashen, pallid quality; his wispy, silver dreadlocks swished through the air. "Okay, stop, stop!"
I pulled hard the roundabout to slow it enough for my f... | 2016-07-06T08:22:42 | 2016-07-06T08:14:18 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] You are the black guy in a group of high school kids in a horror movie visiting a haunted cabin. Knowing you're the first person to die, you're secretly working together with the monsters to break the rule. | "Oh you dumb bitch," I thought to myself. "Yeah great, slam your shot glass down on the grave of the mother of some infamous serial killer, who, let me add, has only ceased slaughtering attractive young teens like yourself and myself in that last year. Smart move you Tory Burch-Bitch. Well fuck this."
I was done. The... | "Guys, this is *not* a good idea!" They ignored me of course, just like the last twelve times. I had been trying to convince them for the last twenty minutes that we should not piss on the grave we had randomly stumbled across. I sighed, disappointed at myself. We all knew I was only here because I could drive.
"Like,... | 2017-09-15T03:37:53 | 2017-09-14T21:46:19 | 68 | 48 |
[WP] You are the black guy in a group of high school kids in a horror movie visiting a haunted cabin. Knowing you're the first person to die, you're secretly working together with the monsters to break the rule. | "Oh you dumb bitch," I thought to myself. "Yeah great, slam your shot glass down on the grave of the mother of some infamous serial killer, who, let me add, has only ceased slaughtering attractive young teens like yourself and myself in that last year. Smart move you Tory Burch-Bitch. Well fuck this."
I was done. The... | "Guys, this is *not* a good idea!" They ignored me of course, just like the last twelve times. I had been trying to convince them for the last twenty minutes that we should not piss on the grave we had randomly stumbled across. I sighed, disappointed at myself. We all knew I was only here because I could drive.
"Like,... | 2017-09-15T03:37:53 | 2017-09-14T21:50:44 | 68 | 42 |
[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... | The nervousness is what really gets you at first. Standing in your skivvies being poked and proded one final time by all sorts of PhDs. They’re excited for you, but it’s the excitement of watching a mouse run through a maze. The excittement of a groundbreaking discovery, whether you survive or not. The most relief i’ve... | 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... | 2017-12-17T03:26:40 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 1,145 | 11 |
[WP] A team of researchers in a submarine are caught in a huge storm. The submarine submerges until the storm passes. When they resurface, they can’t get a fix on their location or find land. When night falls, there are two moons in the sky and the constellations are completely unfamiliar.
Well this has blown up big t... | Staring up at the two large moons, Seth knew that something had gone horribly wrong. There was no logical, scientific explanation for this.
He was one of the submarine technicians, working under Dr. Porter to help with her study of deep sea organisms in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. A freak storm had sprung up durin... | “You sure this is a good idea?” Randall glanced over the rocky terrain, his eyes wide. He finished knotting the anchor rope to the largest rock we could find and I let go of the section I was holding. The tiny submersible bobbed at the sudden release of tension, but the anchor held it fast.
“There’s not enough power ... | 2018-01-29T06:47:06 | 2018-01-29T06:19:27 | 150 | 15 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | EBAY
Steel Forged Knife Set with Celtic Engravings.
Price: €34,99.
4/5 stars
Review by T. Smith:
*Great knife set, cuts smooth and are easy to sharpen. Weirdest thing though, every time I pas by the sink a hand will reach out of the water and hand me one.* | Arty slathered margarine over thick Texas toast with his favorite butter knife. He squinted and read the inscription on the knife, which he did every time he used it.
*Take me up* it read on one side and *Cast me away* on the other.
He shook his head. The knife had been passed down for generations but he never got th... | 2018-03-06T11:40:04 | 2018-03-06T10:12:29 | 2,613 | 136 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | EBAY
Steel Forged Knife Set with Celtic Engravings.
Price: €34,99.
4/5 stars
Review by T. Smith:
*Great knife set, cuts smooth and are easy to sharpen. Weirdest thing though, every time I pas by the sink a hand will reach out of the water and hand me one.* | There is a running joke about "how British is your morning?" Usually, the idea encompasses tea with butter on toast, perhaps some morning Stephen Fry in the background. Well, I doubt anyone is going to be able to top "spreading butter on your toast with fucking Excalibur," for a good fucking while.
The morning was lik... | 2018-03-06T11:40:04 | 2018-03-06T10:17:53 | 2,613 | 17 |
[WP] After coming across an old lamp, you tell the genie inside as your first wish that you wish you had never been born. You have now entered into the superposition of existing and not existing simultaneously- you had to be around to make the wish, after all. You are now Schrodinger's human. | You turn into a frog, the Genie laughs and laughs, " There, now you were hatched!" You are unable to wish for anything else because you are a frog, with the brain of a frog. You can't quite put your finger on it, but something is not right. You shrug it off and hop away towards the river. | I held the lamp in my hands and stared at it. I was never one to belief in supernatural entities or fairy tales, but if I had to picture what a magic lamp would look like, this would be it.
It's outside was bright and golden. Though the surface looked pristine and new, it had a sheen of wear laced across it. The desi... | 2018-08-07T11:11:11 | 2018-08-07T08:08:41 | 96 | 48 |
[WP] A noise wakes you. You investigate and see a burglar in your hallway staring at you with a startled look on his face. He falls over dead. Your 4 year old is standing behind him with a bloody knife. She says, in an unearthly voice, "Parent, I have protected the domicile. May I have a cookie?" | I know sugar is addictive, but what its done to my son is something definitely beyond this world. He’s just standing there, gazing at me with his puppy dog eyes. Like he’s asking me to be proud of what he’s done and I should reward him for it. However, should I? Seeing as there’s fresh blood dripping from the knife in ... | I woke up with a start when I heard the vase fall down on the floor and shatter. For a few moments, I did not know where I was, I was still in last vestiges of my dream, thinking that I was a police officer chasing down vile criminals. Then I heard the crunch of glass and I was fully awake. The adrenalin coursing throu... | 2018-10-31T08:52:34 | 2018-10-31T07:29:41 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] The knight failed to rescue the princess from the dragon. The second knight failed. As did the third, the fourth, their squires, and so on. In desperation, the king posts a reward, and the summons is answered by only one man; a fat plumber in red overalls. | "Are you certain this is the brave knight you promised me?" the King inquired to his adviser as he surveyed the squat, rotund, mustachioed creature standing before him.
"He is... unorthodox, I admit," the adviser replied cautiously. "But the greatest knights and warriors of legend have failed us, so perhaps we should ... | The assembled Moot of the Kingdom of Balgr, all the Lords and Ladies from arid Fuisse to the frozen reaches of the Lindheim Archipelgo , centered around the towering throne of High King Norvryn Earthshaker himself, looked upon the sight before them with perplexed confusion and non-comprehension, as Benji the Muckrake ... | 2019-06-28T09:25:19 | 2019-06-28T09:11:24 | 175 | 44 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | It was my 18th birthday.
The beach party my friends were so kind to have organized was dying down. The sun was setting, and the moon was high overhead. Small groups of people splashed about in the water, sat on beach towels talking, creating a warm hubbub around me. A small driftwood fire was being constructed nearby.... | Above, the clouds are low, heavy and fat with rain, tumbling their way over the wood and farther away.
A young man with tousled hair and dark eyes makes his way to a graveyard, afraid of what he'll find.
*What was that?*
He's confused, and somewhat afraid. Not of being alone, no, for now that seems the best and onl... | 2019-09-18T06:41:03 | 2019-09-18T06:37:36 | 4,689 | 808 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | I watch as Detective Parker places the vial of blood between us. Milky white, like moonlight captured in a jar. His blood is darker than mine, though not by much. I can see it pulsing pastel pink in his veins. Trendy but not edgy. Maybe he sent the wrong person to jail, once, or was a bully when he was a kid.
He sits ... | My head was planted in my hands at the defense table. Just as it had been throughout most of this ridiculous, sham of a trial. My lawyers had warned me repeatedly not to show any emotion or reaction, but a few days in I just couldn't help myself.
I was on trial for the murder of my wife. My wife who is *very much aliv... | 2020-02-09T11:47:05 | 2020-02-09T10:58:31 | 1,064 | 407 |
[WP] You were sent to purgatory after you died. Turns out that purgatory is an extra-tedious facsimile of real life designed to test whether or not the dead are willing to part with their temptations. It’s supposed to be a brief transition. You’ve been secretly helping others transition for years. | **TO: PURGATORY RESIDENT #23485473483**
**FROM: CELESTIAL MANAGEMENT**
**SUBJECT: REASSIGNMENT**
Dear Resident,
It is Management policy to review the logs and records of Residents who have spent the longest time in Purgatory every 200 years.
As a rule, these Residents are the ones who have the hardest time letting... | It was hard to see people go, if I was honest. I talk to everyone who comes through, and it’s hard to not get attached when you see someone’s personal secrets laid bare. Sure, when groups of people passed through it might have been a bit harder to connect, but I was known as a helper when I was alive, why wouldn’t I b... | 2020-08-19T05:34:54 | 2020-08-19T05:08:20 | 54 | 39 |
[WP] You're a lawyer, who died of a heart attack while in court. Turns out legal battles also get you into Valhalla. | "You fought valiantly. Many battles you have to your name. Many won, some lost, and yet, you continue the fight." These words were coming from a man much larger than him... well, *seemed* larger. "You learned from your mistakes and enter each with new resolve and cunning." The eye covering and crows were equally intimi... | "Wait, wait, wait, wait," I started as the man bellowed something at me. I hadn't caught what he'd said, but he was built like he built brick houses and then ate them. He was holding out an impossibly muscled arm to help me off of the freezing ground. "What is going on?!"
"You have joined us!" He said with a smile tha... | 2021-04-28T15:06:49 | 2021-04-28T14:54:01 | 490 | 185 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | I was 5 when I realised that my parents maybe superheroes. With my dad using the war-hammer and my mom using her sword to save our town from invaders.
I was 6 when my parents started tutoring me in the art that is fighting. I began with a bow and arrow, little old me used to go down the range and tried to hit as many... | It was a peculiar tome. "Who is Atlas?" I asked, and like the titular hero of the book, my family members shrugged.
Outside birds sang and men and women whistled and hummed as they performed their chores. Oakwood was a quiet village, far from the hustle and bustle of the capital. My father, a blacksmith, had received ... | 2021-12-12T09:30:41 | 2021-12-12T09:20:19 | 109 | 37 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | The hero walked in, and the small hole I made in the ceiling cast a shaft of light onto him, gleaming off his crown. Of course, this was to give heroes a false sense of confidence, but it didn't faze him.
He walked up to me and tossed a gold coin into my pile.
"You have my attention", I told him.
"Hi, I'm a Nigerian... | Chronis was pleasantly surprised by his new visitors. He was used to being harassed by adventurers, treasure hunters, and evil dragons. And when he was a young dragon he had to contend with dragonnappers – the black market had a high price for small, trainable dragons.
He had shifted into his human form to look at t... | 2015-10-14T04:03:21 | 2015-10-14T02:25:00 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 712 | 43 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I didn't really know what to think of it. "Don't look at the moon"? Sure, no problem. Going back to sleep now. But then I saw my other notifications...99+? Ok, something is definitely up.
I tried to call my girlfriend, but I notice one of the texts I got was from her. "You really should go look at the moon, its amazin... | **3:00 AM**
*bzzz*
I groaned awake as my vibrating phone buzzed on the bedside table. I reached out from under the sheets and looked at the notification. It was a text message.
>OFFICIAL WARNING: Do not look at the moon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
"What the hell?" I whispered. Who needs a warning at 3 AM to not... | 2022-12-12T15:52:54 | 2018-04-06T21:48:48 | 191 | 32 |
[WP] When you got married, you told your spouse that you would go to Hell and back for them. As you stand before the gates of Hell, covered in the blood of countless demons, you intend to keep your word. | Valerie had always considered vows to be a bit of hogwash; promises were meant to be broken when you least expected it, but as she stood before the single white door that led into what was probably Hell, she re-considered her stance.
Three months before she had essentially traipsed into the first levels of Limbo, ar... | “Please...”
It was softly spoken, but the word echoed in my head. I've heard the word countless times since entering Hell. Yes, Hell with a capital H. Many people told their wife that they'd go to Hell and back for them. Most say it as a manner of speech. I didn't.
I looked down at the pleading imp. This looked like ... | 2019-08-18T21:19:46 | 2019-08-18T20:27:13 | 95 | 69 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | Flangmar: “Zlorb, run! Those humans that we captured became stronger on our planet than on theirs! Sort of like a reverse Superman thing! Get out of here fast!”
Zlorb: “Wait a sec. Isn’t that just regular Superman? Isn’t he an alien that got stronger because of being on earth instead of krypton?”
Flangmar: “Yeah, I g... | We were best friends the moment we sat side by side in a far too small holding area on foreign spaceship far more advanced than humanly possible, hands tied behind our back by something that could practically be magical.
Nothing quite like adversity to bring people together. And well, being the only two people in thi... | 2021-05-18T07:16:09 | 2021-05-18T05:39:41 | 486 | 185 |
[WP] due to an exciting new ammendment to the constitution, service and restaurant workers are legally allowed to backhand one customer a day. | She sat there with her plate half empty. Fry bits scattered the table like toys in a toddler room. Peanut shells littered the floor; she dropped them one by one as she grinned at Lucy from afar.
"That fucking bitch", Lucy mouthed to her self. Lucy watched from the pit as the mess piled up. She told the Hank that all ... | # The Means of Slap Production
“Hey, in here!”
Kate and Celeste piled into the janitorial closet. Why? They didn’t know why. They only knew that if Amy wanted something she mostly got it, and mostly, it was the right idea. That’s how Amy imagined the looks on their faces anyway, trusting, in a bemused, long suffering... | 2021-10-05T23:30:31 | 2021-10-05T20:39:03 | 498 | 218 |
[WP] During an interstellar war, the human race discovers the Aliens they're fighting have a devastating weakness: they're delicious | Two decades into this war, and we've finally found the way to turn the tide. The critical moment came two months ago. Three of our Marines were bunkered down on Helion-89, in a cave beneath the swirling sands of that planet. They were the only survivors from a surprise assault. We lost thirty-two soldiers--after they k... | First they hit Pluto, at speed. It was as though they had translated the mechanized charges of WWII into space. Five hundred vessels formed a cylinder three thousand miles in diameter and flew right at Pluto. They were the needle and poor old Pluto was the thread. The fleet flew such that Pluto went through the center ... | 2015-06-14T11:38:14 | 2015-06-14T11:35:46 | 513 | 233 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... | It was almost a decade ago that it happened. The public dubbed it the “Magneto catastrophe”, the worst attack on American soil by domestic terrorist. I was there, ground zero, a rookie agent for PASU. The Power and Ability Suppression Unit uses the most advance technology to neutralize level 30 and above powers. My fir... | 2015-10-26T12:10:03 | 2015-10-26T12:08:23 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. |
It's been ten years since the last "big" one, Jean-Paul Arseneau. Marseille is still uninhabitable after what happened. Jean-Paul doesn't exist anymore, but neither does Marseille. After the events in Marseille, the UN developed a unit of special forces to combat further incidents like this. They are the worlds great... | I walked into the old apartment, gun in hand, staring intently through the airborne dust unmasked from the faint light entering from the window. It was quiet, but I could hear shifting in the dining room.
"Alright Mr. Whitaker, the goose chase is over.....goose.... goose chase?" I said to myself, wondering if I was sa... | 2015-10-26T11:22:04 | 2015-10-26T10:33:27 | 19 | 13 |
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