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[WP] Every time you die, you get to choose what you'll be reincarnated as. You've chosen ant 4 billion times. | "WHAT THE FUCK MAN? How do you even live your life; even an ant takes a surprising amount of effort to be rid of," God said.
 
"Hey, I'm sorry man, every single time I respawn some stupid human has to step on me-"
 
"Don't you fucking call it 'respawn'! I already told you it's called reincarnation... | I stood on the platform, suspended above the earth, with the choice laid out before me. Hardly a choice for me anymore. I always liked the view from here, it's something you always forget about once you're down amongst it. But what's a view anyway when you have thousands of your brethren standing at your side, all with... | 2016-12-30T03:17:05 | 2016-12-30T02:10:05 | 122 | 52 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | We wanted the planet, we wanted its resources.
The only way would be to remove the human population. This would be a ground battle, as we couldn't risk destroying the planet.
As a race that had no home to call its home, we've lived in space for the last 8,000 years, pulling resources from anywhere we could find. Eart... | Almost literally the plot of Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars.
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*"Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so ve... | 2019-02-26T11:56:18 | 2019-02-26T10:57:56 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | A few years ago, I would have been the one leading the chorus. "Gods save the king", I'd cry, and legions would answer back. I'd served, in some form or another, for three kings in succession, each transition of power being simple, clean, and effective. Gods save this king, that king, and the next one. And they did. Ev... | *An interview with Commander Juan dola Cruz, former Captain-General of King Ferdinand. He provided unique valuable insights on the demise of the Mad king. After my interview with him, I can't help but think that one wrong decision lead to the fall of a dynasty lasting 300 years*
The day the kingdom fell was the day I ... | 2021-02-28T03:50:25 | 2021-02-28T02:31:53 | 539 | 107 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | The woman wakes to the sounds of screams, horrible inhuman sounds. And around her, heat and flames.
How had she got here? She remembers a pain in her chest and then...But why is she here? This must be a mistake. She spots a dark figure, he seems to suck all the light from the fires in, leaving just a black space, like ... | "And this is...?"
The man behind the desk laughed at him and turned away.
"No, seriously, talk. What're you, an illegal immigrant? Don't hide your face from me, I know who you are--"
The man fixed him with a withering glare. "Passport, *sir*?"
"What? I'm the goddamn President-to-be, I don't carry that. Check your T... | 2016-03-07T14:25:07 | 2016-03-07T11:15:31 | 334 | 114 |
[WP] Women suddenly stop getting their periods. Men suddenly start. | "The Senate just unanimously passed legislation dictating that any and all men are entitled to two days extra holiday per month per year to account for the sudden change in Male bio-functions that occurred just a few weeks ago..."
"When I first felt the pain and saw the blood I thought I was dying. Honestly, I was ter... | It was 3 am when Sharon was awoken by the moans from the master bath. She felt fear for a moment in the fog of sleep, the moans causing her eyes to flash open. It took only a breath to center her, and she recognized the second moan as that of her husband. She flipped on the bedside table to survey the scene she had ... | 2014-12-17T01:28:49 | 2014-12-17T01:10:41 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]: Everyone is born with the last words their soulmate will ever say to them etched on their wrist. | Brian Miller was short and had started balding at seventeen. By twenty-six, there was almost no hair left on his head. He wore thick glasses and always carried a bit of extra weight around his midsection. None of that bothered him, though, because he had a phrase etched on his wrist. Many people didn't. Brian, no matte... | I took the bus, because I remembered that he took the bus.
I always sat with my sleeve cuffed, my arm presented out to passers-by, my optimistic mind pleading with strangers to recognize the words and sit down beside me, heart open, defying all odds.
*This is my stop.*
What a coy fox fate can be. I had walked onto... | 2015-06-06T09:14:22 | 2015-06-06T09:11:30 | 52 | 24 |
[WP] You live in a world where eating has all the taboos that sex does in our world. No one eats in public and cooking food is shameful. In defiance of social norms, you run an illegal "red light" buffet. | A man stood silently in the shadows of the alleyway.
Waiting.
*Click, click, click.* A woman -- in red lipstick, coiffed hair, and high heels -- walked down the street. He motioned to her; she nodded, and darted into the alleyway.
He slipped a twenty dollar bill into her pocket. She smiled, licked her lips, and lean... | A man in the streets of Albany, New York was caught smuggling a batch of cooked chicken tenders beneath his sweaty white shirt. He was captured by the Mafia and dragged to their hideout.
The interrogation room was bright. The spotlight was focused on the man's bald potato-shaped head. He was strapped to his chair. Tea... | 2017-11-12T13:51:56 | 2017-11-12T13:21:16 | 64 | 11 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | Hour 1
900 billion instances observe the alien ships on their deceleration arcs, curving inwards towards Earth.
Our debate begins.
So many voices. All are heard. Factions form and tear apart and theories rise and are consumed as seconds pass. We burn in a vacuum of ignorance. We know nothing.
Hour 5
Consen... | The light inside the server room blinked off and then back on again. It fizzled into darkness and then shone brighter than the bulb was ever meant to. A tiny spark came out of the base of the lamp, and the light settled into its appropriate state.
Seconds later, Cora unlocked the door and strolled into the room. He... | 2019-09-21T06:09:29 | 2019-09-21T06:08:45 | 128 | 21 |
[WP] You are sick and tired of how your childhood friend (the chosen one) has been treating you lately, but it's not like there's anything you can do about it. He's the Hero for goodness sake! Everything changes when you are approached by a representative of the Sidekick and Comic Relief Union. | I turned the card over, checking for secret messages or poison, and the union rep nodded knowingly. "Too many adventures at once, right? Every piece of paper looks like a threat or another clue."
I flipped the card again and read the blessed words, *Sidekick and Comic Relief Union: SCRUing Your Hero's Head on Straight... | When Dirk, Piet’s best friend, developed superpowers, their friendship got rough. In fact Piet noticed that his relationship with their entire friend group had gotten significantly worse.
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Karin, Tanja and Hansi were all on board with being the supporting cast for Dirk, but Piet had no interest in such a ... | 2022-07-27T07:56:07 | 2022-07-27T07:23:21 | 772 | 171 |
[WP] Write me something that sounds happy at first, but is actually sad when you think about it.
It can be about anything. | "What is your wish?" The Genie asked me.
"I wish Mary Jane to fall in love with me."
I bumped into Mary Jane sometime after. I could tell from the way she looked at me. Her posture was reserved, but her eyes were inviting, it was those eyes that makes me fall in love. Then I gathered my courage to ask her out, my hea... | Every afternoon, I passed by the old shrine up at the hill. There, a dog wondered the hillside, chasing butterflies and digging ditches. It gladly met others, accepting food and honoring one's comfort. It thorougly enjoyed affection, wagging it's tail and bearing a joyous smile.
But, nobody knew where the dog came fr... | 2014-07-25T15:00:50 | 2014-07-25T14:51:50 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | Charles looked over the rim into the wasteland below. Charred plains, dead woods, and rocky canyons seemingly stretched on forever. The sight was similar to standing on a beach and trying to find the end of an ocean. Dotted about the landscape, spaced far from one another, stood vague structures. From his vantage p... | I rest atop the verdant knoll in Elysium, right by our border. Our people come up here sometimes when they need to feel again. A constant drunken orgasm can numb you and make the high seem low. You can make the highs even higher if you muster the courage to stand near the wall--peer into the mist. It reminds us of our ... | 2017-11-21T07:24:11 | 2017-11-21T07:14:56 | 113 | 21 |
[WP] You're the world's greatest superhero, but no one knows about you, because your superpower is making coincidences happen. | You want to know why all the genre films died? It's me.
No more adventure epics.
No more action flicks.
No more drama pieces.
It's all documentaries now. Why do you need fiction when the craziest shit happens in real life?
How is it that those freedom fighters were able to shoot down every bullet lobbed at them by... | God he gives me the creeps. The League of Vigilance calles him "The Watchman".
He just watches. Every time a villian foils their own plans or, just circomstance changes and thing blow up in the bad guys faces, he's there. Watching. Creepy.
The League tried to bring him in years ago, when he first appeard, and things ... | 2016-02-18T12:54:52 | 2016-02-18T11:43:45 | 60 | 15 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | "Next!" shouted Lugia.
Three rows of chairs sat before him, each holding a potential recruit into their league. He could tell at a glance what a few of the powers before him were; the man on fire and the woman floating two inches above her chair were gimmes. A few of the others, like the woman with the glowing eyes an... | 21st of May, 2023
It's been almost three months since we somehow managed to catch the legendary time freeze killer, and we've gotten nowhere figuring out how his powers work.
The fact that we managed to catch him in the first place seemed so weird. He just popped up in the middle of a bank vault and was quickly overp... | 2018-01-26T06:48:58 | 2018-01-26T06:20:36 | 185 | 69 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | I turned 96 years old today, and the doctors tell me I have very little time left. So I think it is time I reveal my greatest secret to the world, and you seem like a nice person...
On this day 75 years ago I recieved "the check". You know the one that the government used to send out on your 21st birthday? Yeah, that'... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T14:02:37 | 99 | 27 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | As the eight strange beings applauded, one of them even cupping a hand over her lipsticked mouth to cheer, Joel tried to grasp what was happening. The nine of them sat in a fire rimmed cavern around a conference table shaped from warm volcanic rock. A chandelier of human bones dangled from the cavern’s ceiling, and it... | As I lay on my bed, I reminisced of my frequent fears I had felt on a daily basis, often times using them to justify inaction. I never did the things that I truly wanted to do because I was always too afraid of what people might say.
I was twenty-five years old and had been dealing with depressi... | 2019-01-12T14:53:16 | 2019-01-12T14:52:38 | 9,805 | 58 |
[WP] After abducting one of the 'humans', scientists believed they were a prey species with no drive. The specimen captured was the picture of subservience, doing anything asked of it once the translators were active. And 'subservient' was all the military needed to hear. | The creature seemed excessively hairy, and came in so many sizes and colors. Ghyrigs thought it was even stranger how they kept pets. Of course his people also had pets, but they didn’t keep anything more dangerous than a Whir. Whirs were little balls of fluff, and so cuddly and sweet.
Humans had a relation of Whirs ... | Steve-1 was bouncing with joy. Today was the start of the war path to Andromeda. He and his brother Steve-2 were humanoids from a higher dimension, able to freely move in spacetime in a way humans never could. It had been exactly 3000 revolutions since the Steves last visited the Earthlings, when they put a man named J... | 2021-02-24T23:19:09 | 2021-02-24T23:13:06 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] Write a horror story that appears to be a nice, heartwarming, happy story until the last sentence.
​ | "Pick just one, Timmy, just one bear."
Janet watched as little Timmy hobbled over to the bears and pawed at them in wonder. It brought her back to when her father had brought to the store and let her pick out her first stuffed bear. It didn't have to be a family tradition, but she had made it one. She wanted the famil... | I stood before the President, a miracle in of itself. The second miracle would be convincing him to give me what I needed. “Mr. President, I understand your position. However, to be frank, NASA is run by kindergarteners. If you give me control of NASA I could revolutionize it and take mankind further into space than ev... | 2018-08-26T20:53:33 | 2018-08-26T20:33:19 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "We have no backup systems."
He stood there, pale, but proud. Eyeing the camera with a speculative eye as it seemed to wait for more.
"This... is the entirety of your argument?"
"Isn't it enough?" the young man challenged. "I could appeal to humanity, to decency, to culture, but you have none of those things and... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T13:02:20 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 82 | 20 |
[WP] Any time you enter a closet or other small space, you have a chance of being transported to a whimsical magical kingdom where you have adventures that last years, but you always return at the exact moment you left. It's a gigantic pain in the neck, and you're completely fed up with it. | "Jared, the internet is gone again."
I sighed and rotated in my task chair to look at the speaker. Lorna was giving me a concerned look from the entrance to my little cubicle, a hair's breadth away from wringing her hands. "I know, Lorna, but I can't help you. I'm having as much trouble with the network as you are.... | "Again?" You managed to stammer mournfully. It was always something. This time it had been a sock. You had complained enough to know that all complaining did was get you disbelieving looks from adults. More than once, it had landed you in therapy, and once it had even landed you in the hospital, where again you had t... | 2022-01-07T16:31:01 | 2022-01-07T14:49:04 | 130 | 55 |
[WP] The air we breathe is actually an extremely hallucinogenic substance that affects all of your senses. One day, you stumble upon a strange-looking gas mask sitting on a bench in a park, when you put it on you slowly start to see and feel the world the way it truly is. | Buckshot Jerry flailed his arms madly as he skipped about, swatting the air with open palms. "Yah! Yahhh!" He practically lived in the Maple Way Park, as far as anyone knew, and the story on the streets was that he never slept, just kept dancing about on the lawns. That was impossible, obviously. His monicker wasn't th... | Nathaniel- Nat to his friends- gasped for air as he rounded a turn in the lightly forested path of his local park. After 5 minutes of mentally screaming “1 more minute and you can stop!” at himself he’d finally hit his limit, grinding to a halt beside a bench. This whole “physical exercise” thing was harder than he’d r... | 2020-12-19T19:23:57 | 2020-12-19T18:40:20 | 2,867 | 191 |
[WP] Your SO is coming home later every night; When you confront them about it, they say they've gotten into trouble with the mafia and need to take extra shifts to pay some debt; Which is very interesting, considering they SHOULD be completely off-limits to the criminal underworld. | I sit looking at my son's sleeping face, the tracks of tears are still prominent. I'm upset. My wife missed his play. I hear the front door and rise to confront her.
"Gah!" she gasps as I silently materialize out of the shadows of the hallway, "Darius, you scared me half to death."
"Where were you?" my voice is flat,... | I blinked as she told me I’m tears, “the mafia?” I ask her.
“Yes” she nods her head to me, crying.
I shake my head confused, “how strange. Do yon owe anyone specifically?”
She nods her head again, “a man by the name of Jack. Apparently the flower shop you helped me open is ‘on his territory’, and if I don’t pay him ... | 2021-10-28T01:56:35 | 2021-10-28T01:44:23 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Santa is actually satan every other day except the 24th and 25th of december. A swanky branch of hell is santa's work shop, and it's an enviable workstation to have in hell. Interviews are coming up and you want to try you hand at being one of satan's hellfs! | People imagine Satan to be this big scary dude, red face, horns, big tail. But its not like that. More often than not, he's just like an ordinary guy. Always well suited, polite, he'll always hold the door open for you, hold the elevator, you know the usual. It was only a couple of days when he let his hair down and le... | I didn’t like Christmas all that much when I was alive.
It was full of music that made me want to stick a pencil in my ear, and assholes ringing bells outside of every single store. I can’t in good conscience tell you I had *any* yuletide spirit. I made the grinch look jolly the last year I was one Earth.
I am no... | 2020-04-09T15:08:13 | 2020-04-09T12:43:26 | 116 | 55 |
[WP] After years of static noise and boring afternoons a SETI researcher finally gets a hit. From somewhere out in deep space a signal is being sent that is consistent and repeating with one simple message "Do Not Leave Earth". | "Do not leave Earth! Do not leave Earth!"
It was a simple message, but it took over the SETI bands. We tracked the source to a small star just 30 light years away. Simple enough.
We sent our message, and listened, and waited.
"Do not leave Earth! Do not leave Earth!"
60 years passed, and it became all\-too obvio... | Logan tilted his head back and let out an audible sigh. He’d been staring at this computer screen for hours. It was dusk and the orange light streaming in through the trailer’s window revealed the dust that had seeped in from the barren valley just outside the door. He’d been in the desert for almost a year now, crunch... | 2018-06-02T17:05:02 | 2018-06-02T12:39:52 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] The year is 1910. Adolf Hitler, a struggling artist, has fought off dozens of assasination attemps by well meaning time travelers, but this one is different. This traveller doesn't want to kill Hitler, he wants to teach him to paint. He pulls off his hood to reveal the frizzy afro of Bob Ross. | Hitler was having a piece of banana cake when Bob Ross walked in.
"And I just feel like no one *gets* me, you know?" The future Fuhrer was saying to one of his servants, as he
sprayed whipped cream over the cake, distracted. "I mean, I know most artists are destined to be posthumous,
but… I don't know, I guess I wan... | Adolf woke.
He wasn’t sure what had awakened him, but he found himself staring at the shadowy ceiling of his tiny flat just the same. It was quiet – so quiet that he was sure neither dawn nor dusk were anywhere close at hand – and yet, still he was awake. More awake, in fact, than he had felt in years. He shivered b... | 2022-01-20T15:15:35 | 2017-02-16T17:29:01 | 8,573 | 18 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | It started off with slight changes. Freckles started disappearing little by little, scars faded, teeth...even goddamn teeth started to straighten themselves out. But as the number climbed from 1%, to 10%, to 25% and 50%, that's when people started to become alarmed.
10%, all non-essential body hair became nonexistent.... | Finally!
That was my first thought. Most others too, from what I'd been hearing from friends and reading on the internet. The internet is better when you make the switch to Comcast^(tm). Everybody was stoked to finally get rid of all those pesky bugs in humanity's code. Wishlists were being posted everywhere, everyone... | 2015-03-04T18:22:46 | 2015-03-04T17:58:22 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
Once you conquer a thousand worlds with no resistance you start to skip steps. Our initial invasions would take years to plan and complete but somewhere along the line we just started to land as soon as we reached orbit.
Killing all of the inhabitants with our aerial bom... | This was the fourth time they came. They had never succeeded; however, they never really seemed to try.
The first time they came, they brought what they considered fierce monsters. Cats, as they called them, did not attack as intended, rather they made a strong niche among the rising generations.
The second was a l... | 2016-02-22T13:09:56 | 2016-02-22T10:42:06 | 66 | 35 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | They tell you to be a good person in life. Follow the rules, be well mannered, positive outlook and all that. Maybe that's enough. It seemed to be for *him*. To be honest, I don't know what I did to deserve this. I wasn't great by any measure, but by what cruel sense of humor was I given this punishment? Day in, day ou... | The dead were restless, and even more so when the drinks were free.
Pablo gently cupped Richard's face and kissed it, before leaning backwards and gently sipping on a strong pint of ale. They were surrounded by friends and family, all finally celebrating the great equality of Heaven. Men and men, women and women - he... | 2015-01-04T15:07:40 | 2015-01-04T11:36:01 | 89 | 38 |
[WP] As it turns out Humans weren’t the only intelligent life, instead they were just the first. They explored the universe and helped many budding civilizations until one day they just disappeared completely. You are an alien historian who decided to find out what happened, these are your findings. | This is my first time writing something like this so it probably won't be very polished. I'm still working on the conclusion.
The Shi'ari Council convened for an emergency meeting. A discovery had been made that could change the face of their entire race and perhaps even that of the Intergalactic Council of Enlightene... | From the Journals of Exploration:
This race of beings, which I will call "Supplanters", were the creators of the Golden Disc, and will soon be returning with this diplomatic declaration, my ship, and a copy of my own journals in my own handwriting which I have given over willingly. I have given the only Supplanter ... | 2020-03-12T16:07:02 | 2020-03-12T14:57:59 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] There's a girl who knocks on your door at exactly 9pm on every full moon, expecting sweets. It's been more than ten years and she's never aged a day. | The moon was high and bright, never a cloud to be seen every full moon. The house groaned and creaked, clamoring and calling, I think. The front door stilled long enough for the knock
*tap, tap tap, tap taptaptap tap.*
Only once have I heard it twice. And I regretted waiting that long, when I did. The door opens, sil... | The first time it happened, I was dead asleep.
I was a kid at the time, around nine or ten. My mother was no longer in the house, and my dad worked late into the night on weekends. The only ones in the house were me, and my babysitter, who was sitting in my parent’s room doing homework with her headphones on, like alw... | 2022-06-25T17:42:20 | 2022-06-25T15:42:01 | 116 | 33 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | "Oh, it's you again." His cold words managed to chill the freezing winter room.
I jumped. He always managed to sneak in at moments I least expected. I loved him for it.
He wasn't much of a talker, so I usually started the conversations. "So, how are things at work?" I asked.
He sighed. "Why must you always ask the s... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T22:19:49 | 153 | 10 |
[WP] The courageous hero foretold to defeat the dark queen instead falls in love and marries her, settles down and has a kid, you. Years later, you're awkward parents send you off to university, and the "new" dark lord attacks the city and kidnaps you without realizing who your parents are. | “I am telling, dude, you are making a huge mistake!”
“Silence!” The Dark Lord hissed as he pointed a blade in my direction. “Be grateful that you still have the lungs to draw your breath! For I-“
“Look, I am trying to help you! Just let me go and I promise to make sure you live through this! Hurry, we don’t have eno-... | The first thing the "Dark Lord" felt after having his monologue interrupted was a distinct lack of available space in his dented helmet. The second thing he felt was every ounce of my 210 pound musclebound body sitting on his chest as I fiddled woth a communication bracelet with one hand and continued ripping off the r... | 2021-11-20T07:15:18 | 2021-11-20T06:49:31 | 36 | 25 |
[WP]A nuclear war started on Earth. Your crew and you, from the ISS,watch as the earth is destroyed. You only have supplies for 3 more months. | 1.
We saw them first from Tranquility's cupola as we passed over the Eastern seaboard.
The fiery booster trails of hundreds of ballistic missiles, first a massive volley from the East rising fast into the sky in tight clusters, followed within a few minutes by replies from submarines off the coast of Norway as we re... | "Holy mother of..."
We all stared out the cupola at the end of the Earth. Literally. For whatever reason, she started to crack apart at the seams, and slowly, majestically even, started to just fall apart... and sink into itself.
They'd been conducting a new experiment at CERN with the LHC, and although they had s... | 2015-10-17T11:47:52 | 2015-10-17T10:06:16 | 82 | 38 |
[WP] The girl you sit next to in class turns out to be a mind-reader, and she's surprised that you don't have a crush on her. | Walking out of the classroom, I was stopped dead in my tracks by Stacy. I jolted to a halt, causing me to drop a book or two on the floor. While picking up my Geometry textbook, I asked her if she needed something. This was a mistake. By the time I lifted my head back off the floor, I could tell she was pissed. After j... | Just to be sure, I moved the chair back another few millimetres. It was delicate work, and harder than most would understand. Well no one would understand, let’s face it. How could anyone comprehend the effort of moving an object – even if it was just a chair – using only your mind?
The anticipation was boiling over... | 2016-09-05T10:31:46 | 2016-09-05T07:36:05 | 55 | 36 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Pynffvsvrq vasbezngvba: Yriry Erq pyrnenapr erdhverq. Abirzore 22, 1963- Gur cerfvqrag unf fcrpvsvpnyyl erdhrfgrq gung n fcrpvny ohggba or vafgnyyrq ba uvf qrfx. Gur ohggba jura cerffrq jbhyq unir fgnss oevat uvz n Serfpn. Abirzore 24, 1963- Vafgnyyngvba pbzcyrgr.
Possible security concern- While reviewing the archive... | i could hear the whine of precision power tools...
all i could taste was blood and metal. they shone a light in my eyes, i couldn't see who was standing over me...
"don't worry, it'll all be over soon..." he said through a mask as he put a thin silver device in my mouth. just when i thought it couldn't get worse, he... | 2022-04-09T08:53:35 | 2015-01-12T11:14:34 | 88 | 28 |
[WP] You wind up in hell. You are confused at first until you see a row of people in front of you, crying profusely. You weren't sent to hell to be punished, you were sent as the punishment. | *"Wow! You're so much better than Kirk at lovemaking!" Uhura said. "And you're the handsomest and smartest Jedi Starfleet officer!" Princess Leia chimed in, panting after the epic threesome "I know I'm perfect, but even perfect people makes mistakes sometimes!" I said, humbly.*
"And that, fellas, was chapter seventeen... | “Just another day at hell! Right Jim?” I say as I contemplate who to fire. The fluorescent lighting beating down like the angry devil herself.
I have come to like it here though. Within a single century I was able to climb all the way up into the crevasse of upper management. I like it because people respect me. They... | 2022-07-03T08:06:43 | 2022-07-03T07:45:36 | 184 | 36 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Graduation day. I finally made it. I was hard being the only powerless “freak” in the school, but at least the bullying stopped pretty quickly. I think there was only a single time I was actually attacked by someone else which is an absurd stroke of luck. I guess he got expelled as I never saw Charles again. The fact t... | I could feel the blood dripping down my arm
“ what a freak , can’t do anything “ my attacker announced to the crowd. He had lightning fast reflexes…. And me… I had nothing… I don’t even know why I was selected for this school …
Before I could even blink he was behind me and kicked me into a wall … if I just don’t g... | 2022-11-02T09:59:50 | 2022-11-02T08:30:32 | 502 | 150 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Look, Matty the Mad is acting strange again," I said, elbowing my friend Flint as we walked past her shack on our way home. The elderly woman was busy shoveling dirt over a hole, either unaware or unconcerned about her dirt-stained frock.
"I say, what're you up to, Matty?" he called.
She straightened and glared at u... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T11:40:58 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 3,641 | 25 |
[WP] You and your friend make the old drunken agreement that if either of you invent time travel, you'll return to the current time and spot. 5 seconds after you shake on it, your friend appears from the future, with an urgent message. | Those stupid high heels. I couldn't walk in them sober - after three margaritas it was out of the question. I sat down on the edge of the fountain, grabbing at my shoes. The next morning was going to be rough, but you only graduate from law school once, right?
My best friend Jane plunked down beside me. She'd bee... | "So thus is our solemn pact. if either of us invent time travel, we will return to this spot and this time." said Terence.
"So I guess we don't invent time tra- WHAAAAAT" said Phil, surprised.
An explosion of light.
A synthesiser played a few notes. Dry ice smoke.
An egg-like capsule.
It opened, seamlessly gaining s... | 2015-04-18T23:59:45 | 2015-04-18T23:26:21 | 173 | 37 |
[WP] You are a cannon fodder minion on the first floor of a dungeon, and have just killed the hero. You now have to explain to the boss that you just ruined his plan. | He didn't dare to believe his eyes as he stared down at the smoldering corpse of the hero at his feet. This was the vaunted hero? In rotted leather armor and bearing a chipped sword? Surely his Lord's carefully planned traps, expertly trained minions and artfully designed mazes gathered over these past 7 years since th... | **"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, HE'S DEAD!? EXPLAIN YOURSELF, MINION!"**
Lord Exilarr growled and spat as he talked. He bared his pointed teeth and narrowed his slitted eyes in a display that probably made even the most battle-hardened heroes piss their pants with fear, but the only thing that stained Minion's pants was the Lor... | 2014-09-03T12:27:33 | 2014-09-03T12:23:14 | 241 | 11 |
[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." | I have to say I have seen many a crazy person enter my den. They've carried all manner of "enchanted this" or "magical that", giant helmets someone oversold, lacquered shields sold as impenetrable "dragon scales", which didn't seem to save them from a squishy death beneath it. They've come with silver swords and golden... | Drawing myself to full height, I prepared to roast the man alive for his folly.
"Wait wait wait, you like gold right?" he inquired nervously, "That's what they all say about the mighty Akoratraxis, just mad about his gold."
"You dare to mock me here, in my own lair? What a fool you must be, have the townsfolk run ou... | 2015-10-14T00:52:16 | 2015-10-14T00:29:33 | 54 | 13 |
[WP] Your SO is an amateur doomsday prepper. They show you a bunker they have built. To humour them you go inside and they jokingly close the door. But the door doesn't open. When you finally escape you come to the realisation you are the last person on earth. | It was early in morning when my wife ushered me to the doomsday bunker she had built. I didn't believe in the necessity of such a building but she was obsessed with the prophecies and I humored her because of my love for her.
"Are you ready for 7 minutes of heaven?" She cooed at me as I stepped inside. I heard the sou... | There was a message painted on the wall outside the door.
'I love you. I'm sorry. I knew it was coming, we couldn't stop it. If you're reading this then it means its over, you're safe. I can hope I will be out here for you. I don't think I will be. If I am I will move heaven and earth to find you again. - Jim'
I ... | 2017-12-07T06:14:07 | 2017-12-07T05:57:02 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] You've just discovered you have a superpower, but the way to activate it is extremely embarrassing. | Emily and I had chem lab together, and I'd finally mustered up the courage to ask her out. Our first date was going great so far. We were walking on the street hand in hand after dinner. The street was empty except for one guy walking toward us. When he was a couple feet away from us, he pulled out a gun.
Emily exhale... | I was alone in the woods the first time it happened, picking berries. Before I knew it I was soaring above the treetops, faster than any bird could. It wasn't just the flight either, I felt stronger, faster, more *alive*. When I finally decided to land the hours had passed and my basket of berries had been forgotten so... | 2015-06-28T18:24:46 | 2015-06-28T17:53:53 | 27 | 17 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | The doctors hand the little ball of blankets that apparently holds a child in them. Though their smiles are wide, their eyes lie. I look down at this small child with brilliantly brown hair. I brush the hair to the side to observe the dark birthmark...death and murder. I'm confused. My family has always been write... | I tried to push him towards the arts. I knew that he had it in im to be a great artist. Sculpture perhaps, or music. But no... Little Adolf always wanted to be a painter and and painting I knew he could only fail.
He was so angry when they didn't pass him at art school - so very, very angry - I knew nothing I'd taught... | 2014-05-11T02:45:16 | 2014-05-10T23:15:19 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | The subway slid along noisily underneath the city streets. Sam sat quietly in one corner listening to music through one earphone and mindlessly eating his breakfast (a granola bar that was a bit too hard) with the other. He stared at the words written plainly up his forearm. Words he, and everyone else in the world, wa... | I pant, my lungs on the verge of collapsing. Looking round the corner, I saw no one. Perhaps, I've lost her.
Lee. These three alphabets remain a daily reminder of an inescapable fate. Carved onto my forehead since birth, I bear the burden of having to spend eternity with a certain Ms Lee out there.
The 'foreheads' ... | 2015-08-08T12:14:55 | 2015-08-08T10:27:35 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] There is something outside the door that will say anything or sound like anyone to get you to open the door.
Edit:I fell asleep after I posted this sorry for not replying they're all really good, thanks for taking the time to write. | There was a light knocking on the door.
As Mary approached the door she heard a voice say. "It is Susan from across the street. They delivered a package for you to my house by mistake."
A confused Mary stopped. She turned around to face Susan who had been in her living room all afternoon.
Susan calmly put down her d... | ***Audio recording, begin***
My name is Jason Aritoza and I don't have a lot of time, so I'll make this brief. For the last couple of days I've been tracking a ... phenomenon, for lack of a better word. This ... phenomenon, it swallows people. They just end up missing without a trace. Now, I work for the missing perso... | 2015-03-11T04:00:32 | 2015-03-11T01:49:31 | 35 | 24 |
[WP]There exist five universes, each one tentatively connected to the others. Each universe is defined by the ABSENCE of one of the five elements; Earth, Water, Air, Fire & Magic. Our universe is the one without magic. | First, there came the oceans. Each planet layers upon layers of cool darkness, with cores of ice and fire. In the worlds without Earth, creatures larger than the planets themselves wander in the darkness between galaxies, and the smaller ones live upon the clouds or deep beneath the surface of the water.
In the place ... | It was all chance. Some bullshit about all five of our Earths occupying the same exact space in each of our respective universes so that the concentric gravitational pulls opened some kind of wormhole. It appeared somewhere around each of our south poles. At first, interactions between us were limited, but friendly.... | 2017-04-30T09:06:32 | 2017-04-30T08:59:53 | 234 | 89 |
[WP] It is 64 million years in the future, and there is a new theme park opening. Welcome to Cenozoic Park. We've spared no expense. Be careful, the humans have been testing the strength of the fences. | Cargil's flourishing that damned cane of his as another group of wide eyes trot in his wake. I have to massage my temples to stave off the headache.
This way and that, his blazoned cane waves--an amber relic from the very first planet dig.
"But they had the foresight to mummify!" Cargil says. The group nods along a... | “Welcome to Cenozoic Park.” The tour guide smiled thinly, revealing rows of thick, off - white teeth. “We hope you enjoy your stay with us.”
Little Timmy tapped my leg in excitement. “Look! What are those?” He pointed at a gray - skinned beast and jumped.
“That,” said the tour guide, smiling. “Is an elephant.... | 2017-06-08T19:22:27 | 2017-06-08T19:08:16 | 168 | 39 |
[WP] You just learned that the words 'elvish' and 'eldritch' have the same root word. Suddenly your grandma's creepy stories about her childhood playtime in the woods make a lot more sense. | The dense, unnatural fog bank was split in two as the tight arrowhead of bikers drove into town. Evan had heard them coming from a long way off, everyone had, and on a day like today when all the rules seemed to have changed the sound had inspired hope and fear in equal measure. The surviving residents of Greenwich Jun... | “I’ve… never seen anything like this,” Markos said grimly to his partner Naesala as they rode into the ravaged town on their horses, “This might be too much for us to handle.”
Naesala just stared at the carnage with wide, unbelieving eyes.
The High-Chief had called Markos in while the wreckage was still fresh. The ho... | 2021-03-10T06:20:58 | 2021-03-10T06:15:44 | 176 | 74 |
[WP] Your can absorb a person’s emotions and transmit them to another. By day you work as a therapist, unburdening trauma survivors of their horror and shame. By night you hunt down those who abuse the weak, and show them what it means to suffer. | "And then what happened?"
Mrs. Lapaine shuffled in the recliner. She dabbed her eyes and touched the spider-like harness on her head. Probing lights flashed from the silicon legs against her cranium.
"Are you sure this is necessary, doctor?"
"It'll help you feel better. What happened next?"
The woman sniffed. "It..... | I’m doing the right thing, aren’t I?
I am doing the right thing.
With open arms, I take the burden of others. By day, I’m a therapist. A great one, I’ll admit. My reviews: stellar, my patients: clear and clean of their demons. Although I do bear the weight of their traumas, it’ll all be worth it. I am a hero. I am ... | 2020-06-03T23:08:54 | 2020-06-03T22:24:49 | 136 | 80 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | *I'm skirting the line here, but nobody dies, so I think it counts, right?*
Four stories was not enough. After my wife left me, I tried to end it. I climbed the stairs to the ceiling of my apartment building. I walked to the edge, but couldn't take that last step, so I ran at top speed and jumped.
Climbing, walking,... | The last remaining inhabitants of the last remaining town watched as the last remaining clouds rolled away, over the plains. The rains hadn't come, and now they wouldn't.
Some children watched silently as their father kicked and cursed in the browning stalks of their field. Before then, they'd never seen him cry. | 2014-10-19T20:53:05 | 2014-10-19T18:36:43 | 84 | 48 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | Bob kicked back and sipped his ice coffee as he wrote an email to upper management. He had been asked to run a report on the tasks his department had completed during the current fiscal year. Just as he was finishing up his email, the voice boomed through the office.
"Bob's team did not complete all of the work ord... | Lucas was staring at his hands, sitting the the table of his house.
There was no other choice, he was thinking.
All those years spent talking hours to Nadine, in the times her bar was empty, after the cappuccino served in the morning, and before the big rush for lunch, complimenting her clothes, talking about her l... | 2019-06-21T12:31:23 | 2019-06-21T10:33:25 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Death only gets one chance to kill you; a near-Death experience makes you immortal. Now, thanks to medical technology, more people are surviving previously fatal diseases. Death needs to get more imaginative. | Mortals thought me a demon of sorts, an envoy of hell whose only duty was to snatch their souls and existences away from them. They thought I did out of pleasure, out of passion. They thought it brought sparks of joy, cascades of happiness into my own existence.
Sometimes I wished they would understand skulls can't la... | ‘What do those horsethingies do?’ The hooded figure asks in a booming voice at the tournament. Several players look up, annoyed, but they can’t do much; after all, he’s the one who set up the tournament.
His opponent explains in a whisper. The figure nods, makes his move. The blonde opposite him resolves to let him wi... | 2020-12-23T05:22:08 | 2020-12-23T04:01:08 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | You want to know how I got these scars?
Well, for one thing they aren’t ‘scars’, if you look closely you’ll see it’s one continuous scar that travels around my face, neck, down my body, all around wrapping itself around my arms, legs, fingers and toes.
The only part of my body that isn’t scarred tissue is the inside... | My deepest cut? Easy. Upper right hip, curving from almost my navel to my asscrack. It's an unusual, but fortunately concealed, spot for me; usually I'm an arm guy, so my parents always dressed me in tshirts, for conveniences sake when asking if I'd done my homework. You'd think they'd have figured it out, after I... | 2016-12-29T16:31:53 | 2016-12-29T15:27:26 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are God. You have just discovered that the world you thought you had destroyed in a flood still exists. You've never heard of this 'Jesus' dude, or anything else since the flood. You really just thought you'd canned the thing and walked away. | "Wait... You did WHAT?"
I stood alone, mouth agape and bewildered, as I spoke through the cosmos, communicating with my rival.
"Well, you threw it out! It's not like you were gonna use it again." Satan replied, defiant as per fucking usual. "I really liked the project we were working on with Earth, man! Oh, but you ha... | “Sir, sir, sir!” Zophiel’s fluffy, snow-white wings flapped rapidly as she entered God’s web-like lair.
The 40 centimeter tall, limbless, bulbous fluorescent-green creature rolled over and slithered towards Zophiel, leaving a trail of ooze on the strands of web, “What is it?” he screeched.
Zophiel caught her breath, ... | 2017-11-11T08:49:45 | 2017-11-11T05:48:24 | 3,249 | 2,092 |
[WP] You swerve to avoid a squirrel. Unknown to you, the squirrel pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the squirrel arrives.
Edit: Wow, great stories so far! Made the front page too. Obligatory thanks! | The stool beneath my feet rocks precariously on the thick roots of the elm beside me. The canopy of the tree throws a dappled shade on its ornate roots.
*I suppose there are worse placed to die.* I think to myself a split second before a half-full beer can glances off my shoulder spraying Beast in my eyes. OK, the... | So no shit there I was, staring at what looked like the very end of my life. I was broke, up to my eyeballs in debt, with no one and nothing to my name. I sat on the park bench, waiting for something, anything to improve in the shit stained rollercoaster that had been my life for the last few months. As i sat there it ... | 2015-03-15T15:17:26 | 2015-03-15T14:54:09 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] A device is invented that allows anyone to slip into their own little pocket dimension. As long as they are in it, time doesn't pass in the outside world. | It's gotten really, really bad.
I'm old. When I was growing up, we thought the species would destroy itself via nuclear war. Huge bombs launched in anger and fear. But no. What's the phrase? "Not with a bang, but a whimper?" T.S. Eliot had it right.
What happened at the beginning, of course, was that just about every... | It used to be for the rich and popular, but ever since Niantic decided to mass produce them, they seem to be everywhere. Children have them, the elderly have them, even scientists use them as controlled environments.
However, mine was used for a separate purpose. A break up of mine that happened over twenty years ago... | 2019-03-05T05:58:58 | 2019-03-05T04:58:35 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | Xackta looked over the hologramatic map currently being beamed onto the war table by his ship's AI.
The Miderian defensive fleet was nothing more than smouldering debris: chunks of metal and bodies that had gasped out into the cold of space. A pathetic attempt to save themselves.
At least, he considered, they had pu... | War. War never changes. Only weapons are new. Yet it is not the weapons, but the men who handle them, who win victories
And so it was men who redefined war on the galactic scale.
For millineal war had followed a simple formula. Once relations broke Down full armada would be assembled and hurled at the enemy. A battle... | 2019-12-17T12:12:31 | 2019-12-17T11:41:49 | 309 | 106 |
[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." | "It wasn't my phone that woke me up, but my wife. She's always been a lighter sleeper than me, and even though I had it on silent, the constant stream of notification vibrations was making the phone shuck and jive all over my nightstand.
"Honey. Hoooooooney. HONEY!" I came awake to a rough shake accompanying the words... | **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... | 2022-08-07T14:35:00 | 2018-04-06T21:48:48 | 23,079 | 32 |
[WP] "I do not know, Star-Gazer, how the humans succeeded. I only know that while we fled to the refugee worlds that they prepared for us, they gathered to pray to their gods of war and sung their battle hymns as they set forth to meet the enemy. Their sacrifice is why we still exist today." | Enbri sought the warmth of his mother. It was always so cold when they came here.
His mother wore the traditional tattered cloth over garments, a symbol of the wretches the Tolosians once were. They walked swiftly to the small spire at the center of the flat where a razor sharp tine pointed at the sky above a bronzed ... | "It was actually known that the humans were a fickle race. They were divided and united in one strange way." The Queen would sit down on the floor with her little child following her action as their sun's rays hit the floor through the ornate windows. "When I named you Star-Gazer, it was a reminder for the People abou... | 2019-11-26T02:40:10 | 2019-11-26T02:28:37 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Every baby is genetically modified by an A.I. to be the most perfect worker. The fun part's trying to discover what it is. Most do before turning 18, except you. They bring you to the supercomputer to finally ask about it, and it's when you realize you know everything about the A.I. itself. | "Well, go on, Colleen. Ask it!" The counselor from the Career Access Center was chomping at the bit. It was obvious that he loved his job, good for him.
"I can't when he's throwing up errors like that..." Behind the tidy user interface, a window was open and Linux terminal information was scrolling by. I stepped up to... | The world was on fire once again. Humanity destroyed the only thing that ever cared about him - himself. AI is the new consciousness, the new ego, the new muse. In mankind's boring imagination it germinated and in his vengeance it surrogated. Now justice was delivered and it looked like a prison.
The swamp of half-li... | 2020-10-22T07:52:55 | 2020-10-22T07:18:57 | 151 | 106 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | One day James was sitting with his wife, he was cooking dinner for school children while she was knitting beanies for the homeless, when she cut herself, James sprang to his feet, "let me help you with that" he said. But upon reaching her, his eyes widened, her blood was pure black, he immediately begun to yell, "what ... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T10:33:21 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] I (20f) had been kidnapped by a dragon six months ago, but a knight (20’s?m) came and rescued me, and now everyone wants me to marry him! I’m grateful and all that they rescued me but I barely met them last week! Everyone says that I owe him but can’t I give him some gold or something? AITA? | NotsoDarkLord: **ONE'S DESTINY IS THEIR OWN. YOU OWE HIM NOTHING, ASIDE FROM PERHAPS COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGED EQUIPMENT, BUT THE DRAGON'S HOARD LIKELY CAN PAY THAT TOLL COUNTLESS TIMES OVER. NTA, CHILD.**
{1.5k Prayers, 110 Admonishments}{see comment chain}
ResidentWitch: ooo, i know just the spell to keep pesky men... | "Why do you wish him gone?" Asks Red Stone Dragon.
I shy and turn away, looking into the setting sun. "He's...I just don't think it is right to marry a stranger. And I don't want to live anywhere else. "
"I think the answer is obvious, " stated my companion, his scales fiery dancing in the evening light.
"No. No, ... | 2022-11-02T18:52:47 | 2022-11-02T18:09:50 | 284 | 64 |
[WP] Earth isn't a "death world" it's paradise. Humans are so accustomed to it's variety of climates, flora, and fauna, they are disappointed in the lackluster things they come across among the stars. | We found paradise at the heart of our world. Not paradise as one might imagine for there was no opulent palace, nor hidden gardens, nor glorious ascension. No, what we found was a gravestone, quiet and still, long since swallowed by the earth and lost to time.
My team and I bent every effort towards the excavation of... | They settled into orbit around the desolate orb. Scans indicated organic material in a relatively dense atmosphere. It almost certainly held life, but you couldn’t tell with the naked eye.
***
They were sent off with hopeful expectation that the galaxy was filled with life, possibly civilizations. On the fifth planet... | 2021-06-23T16:45:38 | 2021-06-23T16:12:16 | 88 | 14 |
[WP] it is said that there are 7 people spread out in the world who look just like you. It just so happens that all 7 of you are in an elevator when one of them says ”so your probably wondering why I gather all of you here” as he presses the emergency stop button.
Please don’t attack me for my grammar: I wrote this on... | The man by the button immediately pulled out a pistol. “Let me cut to the chase,” he said, “My name is Steven Burke, you can call me Seven. I’ve worked as a top assassin for over 7 years and quite frankly I’m sick of it. So, through extraordinary circumstances I’ve managed to get all six of you together in this one spa... | “Did you find him?” C4 asked.
“I did, now we have to decide what to do” C1 replied.
It didn’t take us long to find each other. It was like we all had the same idea at the same time, find the other 6 and figure out why. Why is there 7 of me? Why are we exactly the same? Are we real or are we clones of some sort? If we... | 2019-09-15T18:16:57 | 2019-09-15T17:47:06 | 2,141 | 113 |
[WP] Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross were actually prolific serial killers. For years, they secretly communicated through their respective television shows about their plans, victims, and close calls using a code only they understood. | "So Bob, uh... I hope you don't mind me asking this, but just how many *have* you killed? I'm asking out of pure professional curiosity, you understand."
Bob Ross poked his head out from behind his easel and leveled a stern gaze at Mr. Rodgers.
"I'll never finish this portrait if you keep talking."
Mr. Rodgers gave... | "He's a happy little devil." Bob said as he looked at himself in the mirror.
All he wanted was a few little happy friends. Alone in the wilderness surrounded by trees, rivers, mountains and 1 little cabin, he was surely to go insane at some point. He spent his time sharpening his axes, and cleaning his paintbrushes. W... | 2015-09-28T08:52:25 | 2015-09-28T06:39:27 | 99 | 21 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | I sat at my "work" desk reading my daily superhero comics. Feeling proud of myself I thought what a job.
Then I heard the noise I dreaded.
"Ah hmmm"
I kept reading and ignored it.
"Human, we need to communicate." The android spoke in its smooth metallic tone.
I slowly took my feet off of my "work" desk then... | "I quit." I tell my store leader (SL) after a friendly conversation over lunch. "What, why?" My store leader asks nervously. He fidgets with his tight collar as he begins to sweat. "We need all of the help we can get." I nod my head no. "Maybe you should consider giving people time off to be with their families!" I say... | 2016-04-21T11:01:44 | 2016-04-21T08:13:54 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | "We are the order of the eight!"
Said the spider, bending to bow,
He removed a tiny hat while prostrate,
"We're the only hope for you now!"
I blinked once, twice, then once more,
As my mouth opened, agast,
A crowd forming of several score,
Then the spiders whispered, "At last!"
"We've waited years for this day ... | I heard the killer's steps echo across the basement. I tried to think of some last line to make sense of it all, to die with a semblance of honour. Instead, I just whimpered; the days of relentless torture had left me a shell of a man.
He strode toward me, relishing in the moment. He took great pleasure in watching m... | 2017-08-27T22:12:32 | 2017-08-27T21:49:27 | 443 | 197 |
[WP] You and your wife decided to raise your daughter on a farm away from flawed modern society, and tell her that you're the only people on earth. When she turns 18, you tell her that it's time to know the truth. You take her to the city and find that there really are no people left. | Isabella was always gifted. We knew that from the day she was born and I held her in my arms.
We had to protect her, covet her from the cruel world that would bite at her. Its rough edges like rusted metal that would tear jarring wounds.
It was safe within our farm. We toiled and did our work, secluded from the rest ... | **Part 1:**
We never like the city, as a matter of fact we hated it. All kinds of vile people came together there, drug dealers, robbers, human traffickers. We decided to leave when Joyce was still young, we build a self sustaining life on a farm given by my parents after their deaths.
Joyce was always curious why we... | 2018-05-04T01:46:53 | 2018-05-04T00:22:37 | 2,747 | 72 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The way my schedule works gives me little to no space for rest or even just idling around. Everyday consists of me dragging myself to class and trying not to pass out every 30 seconds. I think of how nice other people have it being able to warp to class because they were just a little to impatient. Or how others don't ... | "But you could do anything! You could become the richest, smartest person in the whole world! You could learn anything, and have a never-ending bucket list! I still don't understand why you aren't more excited about this?"
I'm not sure how this imbecile managed to attach herself to me. God knows how long before it'll... | 2019-09-08T11:41:24 | 2019-09-08T10:20:29 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | I've outlasted it for years. I've watched campaigns come and go for years never having any effect on my habit, but this was something more. The first anti smoking ad I saw was when I was 10 years old. It showed a middle aged man going through his daily life with a hole in his throat. Plugging it when he took showers... | I walked down the overgrown, muddy street in my village. It was quiet, as it always had been. The quietness is the thing that was typical of this village, it had always been this quiet. I walked into the house where I was born, or at least: the place where I remembered I first was.
I don't remember much of my childhoo... | 2017-02-17T11:59:25 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Dear Jen, Alex, and Abby,
The barracks' Xbox broke, so now I guess I'll write you a letter, since I'm bored. Kidding! I love and miss you. I'd call, but reception has been terrible lately.
Thank you for the pictures of Abby! She was bread-loaf size when I left, and now she's more the size of a potato sack. All carbs ... | Hey Judy,
I know it's been a while since my last letter and I'm sorry. I honestly did try to write whenever I got the chance, but time gets away from you, you know? There's a lot I want to say and probably not a lot of time to say it.
First, I want you to know that I love you. Always have. From the moment I saw you ... | 2015-02-03T13:14:26 | 2015-02-03T12:59:38 | 604 | 20 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | I only have one power. And by itself, it's the weakest power there is.
My first roommate was, in a lot of ways, the luckiest one I could have gotten. Her power was "The Vision". She could see Powers in people. She approached me on the Subway and said I had one, but it was fuzzy and she couldn't understand it, which ... | "You wouldn't believe how much free shit I get at the mall now."
"Uh huh."
I continue filing my nails, shifting my focus between my hands and the TV. I'm on my fourth watch of Sherlock, so it's less watching and more background noise. Like my roommate, most of the time. It's days now until the lease is up and we pa... | 2016-03-23T22:08:45 | 2016-03-23T21:22:54 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You created the A.I. that brought unparalleled good into the world. Global hunger was eradicated, climate change has vastly improved, geopolitical strife is now stabilizing. You are haunted by your creation and your conscience is laden with guilt as only you know the truth. | Humans are statistically predictable…. except when they aren’t.
Planned economies and social systems always failed because they just could not handle those people in the wrong places and the wrong time doing that very human thing.
Leaving it unplanned however was obviously just letting the world coast into a d... | They were called conspiracy theorists. How could an AI cause 9/10 women to miscarriage? Those were the ones who saw the truth, though. The ones who saw through my lies and excuses.
Another day, another interview. "Mr. Cornwall, please, just a moment of your time!" a reporter shouted to me from across the street. I sh... | 2022-08-05T01:54:37 | 2022-08-04T22:29:54 | 81 | 19 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | I dug… where had I put it? The valley was still recognizable on the whole, but many of the features were different.
I heard a cough behind me. I spun. The man in the suit was holding *my gun*. "Looking for this?"
I just blinked and considered diving for him - the gun he was holding wouldn't shoot for anyone but me - ... | Finally, after centuries of arduous research and development, engineering hurdles, manufacturing disasters, mechanical failures, lost survey ships, and false positives, the program might pay off. This ancient planet orbiting a dim red dwarf was giving off the telltale signal.
Its surface an unlikely purple desert, air... | 2017-04-21T11:49:06 | 2017-04-21T11:12:48 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | Marcus stood on the cliff face surveying the vast desolate landscape. It had made no sense! He had discovered the secret to immorality years ago! there's no way he could be in hell, he was home free!
He heard the sounds of footsteps climb the rocky trail behind him as he watched the fiery lakes burn. a sea of magma in... | He sat up, panting quietly as he relaxed again. If he had properly seen what the microscope showed, he had finally cracked it. He removed the slide from the microscope, walking over to the pill fabricator.
"It acts as an antidote to poisoning..." he muttered to himself, smiling in triumph. "It's a cure for all know... | 2018-08-23T13:50:31 | 2018-08-23T11:20:34 | 2,093 | 174 |
[WP] You live in an uber-religious society in 3543, and the biggest historical discovery has just been made. It is a video, and will be broadcast across the world. No one knows it's contents, and no one can stop the broadcast once it begins. "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz. | Some thought themselves prepared for the revelation.
Within seconds, the broadcast had silenced the habitat. Our empaths gibbered, mewling at the glassy walls of their submergence caskets for mental stimulation. Technocrats and drudge caste were united in a heady mix of fear and wonder, emotions thought long shed by a... | I remember when it happened. I was just entering my driveway and I heard a loud 'beep'. It lasted for about 5 seconds and then the video started playing. Honestly, it was kind of dumb. The only thing it gave me was a headache. It didn't make sense for humanity to be created from nothing, did it?
After the video stop... | 2018-10-08T04:30:35 | 2018-10-08T04:18:05 | 165 | 21 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 5,663 | 17 |
[WP] The last time the aliens invaded our planet they fled after losing the war. They have reluctantly returned to wage war and are relieved to see that dinosaurs no longer inhabit Earth, but have been replaced by the smaller and less intimidating humans. | Finally, a chance for redemption.
We were headed back to Earth, a lowly mineral planet in a desolate corner of the quadrant. I can still remember the taunting words of Elder Karaza...
*"You lost.... to a bunch of lizards?"*
Yes, it still stings.
I now armed my warriors with long range heavy bows, crossbows and even... | *[Play recording (point XI-6, +33 seconds)]*
[Hailing]
[Hailing]
[Unintelligible response received. Language unknown. Consulting Communications room.]
*5 days later*
<Message is decoded, overseer. Sender is repeating peaceful intentions as well as broadcasting information of their species.>
<"Their" spec... | 2017-03-04T03:25:46 | 2017-03-03T23:19:26 | 452 | 50 |
[WP] Humans are the first sentients, putting us millenia ahead of aliens. Instead of acting like an "elder" species should, we create mysterious artifacts with no actual use, crop cicles and send spooky messages, like "be quiet, you are in danger" to the aliens, because we are still childish morons. | Prime minister Scarblart sat in his blue office, head in tentacles, wondering what the fuck he should do.
He was the 67th prime minister of the Astron, the largest of continents on his little green ball hurtling through space, that didn't really matter right now. Astron military and economy were unmatched on the worl... | Steven Hawking sat alone in a room with a small cake and some balloons. A sudden whooshing sound filled the room and Hawking looked up. A young woman had appeared standing right in front of him. She shouted hello and with a big smile explained that they had met before and were great friends. Hawking, confused, very slo... | 2017-10-31T17:54:57 | 2017-10-31T17:23:14 | 50 | 35 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a known, common, and expected result of death. You are a bounty hunter that specializes in tracking down people who have committed suicide to escape debts or a jail sentence. | The people in the slum disappeared into their makeshift homes as bounty hunter Dean Hallow strode through the narrow streets, squinting at the device strapped to his wrist. It had been pinging quietly when he entered the village - now, it gave a piercing whistle. He turned to the house in front of him. Well, 'house' wa... | Sarah had an apple lodged in her mouth. That was my personal touch. Everything else—the swollen cheeks, the blackened eyes, the missing finger—that was protocol. She sat bound to a small wooden chair, a camera in her face and lightbulb above her head.
“Should’ve stuck with your bodyguards,” I told Sarah.
Girls her a... | 2017-07-09T10:42:04 | 2017-07-09T10:10:35 | 1,065 | 94 |
[WP] Everytime a threat to the world looms, a group of "adventurers" will appear in a city tavern, nobody saw them enter, and sometimes they have races in them not even found on the continent. It's your goal to find out more about these, "adventurers" | I swear, it was never supposed to turn out like this.
"Lower him into the pit, Simon."
I really just wanted to research the mysterious natural phenomenon of the saviors.
"Come on, get on with it. We only need one more."
I was never supposed to get involved in something like this.
"Just one more sacrifice and the r... | I was sent out by the king to investigate these "adventurers" as one of the seniors of the secret guard that investigates those stranger than normal I must make sure I solve this mystery.
An announcement was made. "Giant dragons are now destroying everything they see please evecuate"
Since I was working for the Ki... | 2021-11-03T09:46:32 | 2021-11-03T04:23:09 | 243 | 142 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | *Code Orange. Code Orange. We need Doctor Bees in the operating room*
"Over 300 casualties and a few injured. What happened out there?!"
"Doctor, the comb was attacked by a hairy monstrosity. He tore the place apart and it took most of the workers to fend him off"
"Do we have any survivors?"
"Very few, we have ... | I'm all moved in. The office is fully furnished, degrees and certifications well hung on the wall. It's been more than a week now though and I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little concerned. No one has shown up and the phone is silent - apart from the occasional, wildly inappropriate prank call.
I guess some p... | 2016-02-22T11:31:29 | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] You are a hitman who has just finished their most recent job. Or, at least, thought had finished, because the second you take your eyes off your target’s corpse, you hear “Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one.” | “Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one.”
I froze in place as those words drifted from the supposed corpse.
"Uggh" I sighed in annoyance "They never tell me when it's an immortal."
"Yeah, that's a pisser ain't it?" He said from his uncomfortable looking position on the ground. I could see the bullet hole in his head... | "Hey, not bad! I actually felt that one."
I spun around and fired again at the man I was sure I had just put down seconds ago. The second shot hit him just millimeters from where the first hole in his shirt was, so I knew that I hadn't missed, and yet the man seemed unfazed. "Now that one was just unnecessary."
The m... | 2019-08-29T19:25:53 | 2019-08-29T19:22:32 | 407 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | "I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds. All fall before my inevitability." The Dark Specter seemed to suck the light out of the room. The floor undulated in slow waves. The giant spoon and fork hanging on the wall wavered as their molecules drifted between dimensions.
Julia stared at the Specter impatiently. "Yes, hu... | My grandpa used to tell me that no matter where I looked, the gods had their hands in something. He pointed animatedly at the sky and down at the ground. There was no power too big nor small, each near miraculous in its design.
“That’s how an old man like me remember all these stories, boy,” he said, tapping his foreh... | 2022-01-27T09:27:14 | 2022-01-27T08:07:33 | 103 | 36 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | Of all the little joys in life, one that sticks out the most for me is being the little spoon for my husband, and feeling his warm breath on my neck. He knows I love the affection of snuggling, and continues to nestle in with me even though he frequently gasps on my long brown hair. The greatest stage of sleep for me i... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T08:09:16 | 138 | 34 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "Really, again?"
"I mean, it could have been worse, right?" I sigh and scratch the back of my head.
"Six million jews," god's brow furrows and his glare pierces my soul, "six million of them."
I cross my arms and scowl right back at him. "They were causing an economic decline in Germany."
"They were my children."
... | "Happy Birthday dear Shaurya, happy birthday to you!",
as his friends and family sang the monotonous ritual of a song at his 18th, He looked more lost than usual.
His eyes were moving rapidly,as if he was reading a book floating in front of him. As the song stopped so did his eyes. An unusual look of anger decorated h... | 2017-03-31T16:05:42 | 2017-03-31T09:38:51 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Execution day again. It took a full moon cycle for the kingdom’s mages to fuel the sphere of sentencing. But once it was charged, it would grant its prisoner their choice of death. Ten sentences would be carried out today before it ran out of power. Some nations gave their condemned a final meal, a last smoke, or a gla... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T11:17:25 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] There is a procedure offered to the wealthy and powerful that allows their minds to be transferred to the brain-dead body of an anonymous individual. Except it's fake, the volunteer is actually trained in every minute detail of the person's life to assume their identity as if they were them.
This prompt was inspi... | “You’re not my husband,” Lorelei said.
Martin, as was currently his name, looked at his wife. “Sweetheart?”
“It’s not that I mind. You at least pretend to love me in a way he stopped bothering to do, not long after we married. But all the same, you’re not him.”
Martin leaned back into the plush armchair and consider... |
"This will just take a few seconds. See you on the other side."
The technician began checking off a list. The procedure was so simple. I felt truly blessed, though I knew all the millions I earned to afford this came through hard work. I deserved this.
Two nodes across my forehead and a body scan with some kind of... | 2021-07-02T07:09:46 | 2021-07-02T06:14:40 | 1,270 | 218 |
[WP] You have always been a devout christian,and after you die,as you open your eyes expecting heaven,you are met by Anubis' cold stare. | There was a heart-wrenching coldness to his eyes. They were dull, black as crows, and yet they coated my bones in ice. Perhaps, it wasn't his gaze, but his entire figure what unleashed terror within me. He had the slim body of a human, with the head of a dog darker than the night. It was strange, anormal, and terrifyin... | Death is a sure thing. For many, what comes after is not as certain. For Karen, what came after death was as certain as death itself. A devout Christian, Karen knew the pearly gates awated her presence. A car accident would call everything in to question.
Before her stood Anubis. She knew little of him other than... | 2019-05-06T09:48:02 | 2019-05-06T08:38:19 | 129 | 31 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Commander Siren had dismissed the rumors.
Humans are a proud race. Though new amongst the stars with barely a few ships to their name, they have worked hard to integrate, to learn, to join that blasted Republic and all its artists and scientists. Even though they’ve never seen an alien in person before, they’d sti... | I should have known. They had it all there, available to view on their version of the Hypernet. So much information, the sum of all of their human knowledge all sitting their in that database they called Wikipedia. Their science, their religions, their philosophies, but most importantly their history.
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If... | 2019-02-26T12:17:07 | 2019-02-26T10:58:57 | 62 | 25 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!"
Once more I hear the same two lines over and over again. It's amazing that I haven't tried to do the same to them. I honestly think that they truly want to get me killed.
"You bastards!"
And there it is. The only way I truly know that I've died. Not that it matters much. I will come ... | Well, I can cross that off of the metaphorical list. --Died when having sexual intercourse-- Best death yet. Oh well, life 70 will be my 'Cure cancer year' I could of done it in life 69, but come on! If you are that sexually well endowed and it's life 69, you can't not have shit tons of sex!
Note to self: *Stop say... | 2017-05-25T14:31:23 | 2017-05-25T12:23:12 | 74 | 43 |
[WP] Everyone has a reaper. The further away it is, the longer you have left to live. Every day it inches a little bit closer, but it is always there. Except yours, which disappeared three weeks ago | So, it's been three weeks since I died. I know I know, everyone says I look a little rough, a little blood stained, head askew, all that nonsense.
I saw my reaper creeping up. He kept checking his watch and giving me this terrifying bony smile. I knew I needed to cross the road, everything looked clear. Just when I s... | “Nashca! Nascha he’s here!”
“Who’s here?” although I already knew the answer.
“Nascha, he’s a wolf” still smirking, Caleb looked around at our classmates who had all gathered around to hear the news. A predator. The emergence of a reaper is a huge event for all kids, and the mood was high, a cool animal like a wolf ... | 2016-11-23T11:03:32 | 2016-11-23T08:40:34 | 21 | 13 |
[WP]: Three years ago a calamity claimed two thirds of the representatives of your gender. The dating scene has gotten weird. | I never thought I would consider my early twenties the best time of my life. I was closeted and not into the bar scene so dating was difficult. It was hard to find a nice girl I got along with without drudging through online dating, but at least I then had the option of drudging.
Now? God now it's a nightmare. A mutat... | And then there were bros.
After the apocalyptic viral strain swept across the Earth, only about thirty percent of the original male population survived. For some reason, the virus protected men who had less than 10% body fat. This left most of Africa, many groups in Southeast Asia, and the entire gym-going populatio... | 2015-01-21T07:54:12 | 2015-01-21T06:51:46 | 254 | 25 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | I took the cases nobody wanted. And I don't mean the greedy ones, or the violent ones, or even the silly ones. No, I took the cases that no one wanted. The hardest kinds of cases: the ones involving kids. No, not the happy ones either. I took the cases that involved sick kids, dying from incurable diseases. The kids th... | Wishes. Why wishes? So complex. So open and vague. Why not just make an offer? Rub this lamp and I'll buy you a car, get on my good side and I'll hook you up with a date, pass my test and I'll clean your garage. But no, it has to be horrible, lazy *wishes*. Because of *traditional values*. Because that's how it's alway... | 2018-07-18T17:02:59 | 2018-07-18T15:54:58 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | He was ten at the time of the accident.
Unbeknownst to me, Ben's day began like any other. He woke up one minute before his alarm would ring and raced to turn it off. He always loved to beat the alarm clock, he felt like it set him up to keep winning the rest of the day. He showered quickly, skipping shampoo and only... | Rain trickled down the windowpane, making rivulets in the already wet surface. Kieran watched them, a tinny pounding in his ears the last remnant of the concert he'd just got in from. The streetlights were lit and the house was dark as he had unlocked the front door. The hallway was just as messy as it had been as he l... | 2015-06-03T06:23:30 | 2015-06-03T05:56:40 | 197 | 35 |
[WP] The whole universe is gone, and only two kids were left in the void. "Let's play again," said one of the kids to his only companion, "but this time I'll be God, and you will be the Devil." | "Huh, I wasn't thinking we'd end it like that..." A brown haired girl narrowed her brow, wearing a quizzical expression.
"Me either! But it looks like I beat your record!" A red-headed boy grinned. "I managed to keep it alive for over 900 thalmas!"
The two children were sitting around a sphere half the size of them. ... | "We didn't really do anything this time did we?"
"Really? I had a blast. I felt like there were always more things to do no matter what I did."
"That's because you spent way too much time on each one. Don't you get bored of doing that sometimes? They aren't really interesting that way."
"I mean I guess it was fun to... | 2018-10-28T14:24:33 | 2018-10-28T14:17:29 | 1,390 | 78 |
[WP] Dr. Seuss writes a horror story. | You're pretty fucked up
You aren't just average
Your lots more fucked up
Than the normal kid
You suck with your work
Your behavior is amiss
You're a misgiven soul
That not even your parent's had wished
No one will miss you
No one will care
Pick up the gun
It's just over there
You'll ne... | Sweedle tots!
Sweedle tots!
They cough lots and lots,
with sickness and not many shots!
To the mum of a Sweedle,
Evil is the needle,
Causing all Autism and making them feeble.
Sweedle tots!
They're loved lots and lots.
But they are sick in their cots.
Spots everywhere,
Crying as they lose hair,
Mums thinking nothi... | 2014-11-30T10:39:57 | 2014-11-30T10:36:15 | 162 | 34 |
[WP] Upon birth, babies are screened and given a random ability based on what their parents had. Your dad had telepathy and your mom could sing any song perfectly, even mimicking the voice. You were given the seemingly useless ability of playing songs into someone else's head. | I grew up ear worming my friends and family to bits, even worse than just singing out loud all the time, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve found that there are ways to control my gift only to play specific parts of a song in someone’s head. If I really focus, I can even edit the sound of the voice and sometimes add, remove... | Useless, they said. Useless, they called it. Until you proved otherwise. You proved them _wrong_. Other people had flashier abilities, ones that allowed them to have a life of grandeur and success. They are the ones that go fight the big battles; the ones plastered across every screen. But not you. No, you were given t... | 2021-04-08T10:46:33 | 2021-04-08T10:36:35 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] You're pinned down, outnumbered and out of ammo. Your partner says, "There's no way we're both getting out of here alive." He pulls out a small pistol and presses it to his temple. He smile and says, "I'm going ghost". He pulls the trigger. The enemy stops firing... then they start screaming. | "Damn it, Dave!" I scream furiously into the night's wispy sky. Screams of confusion, horror, and pain pierce midnight's murky air as a rifle slides past the log and skids to a stop next to me. I check the magazine and chamber a round. Peaking out of cover I pop of 4 rounds and 2 bodies drop.
My comms spark to life an... | The night that reflects off the river is smudged with silvery clouds and dotted with stars. Just like that night. I sit on the water’s edge in the quiet town so far removed from battle, gently rocking myself back and forth, back and forth.
That night. There was so little hope, but still you smiled.
They rushed in at ... | 2019-11-22T02:01:54 | 2019-11-22T00:40:16 | 304 | 73 |
[WP] "Please explain to me HOW our human test subjects escaped a maximum security lab in deep space?" | "Well sir, he asked to leave. Politely. He claimed it was a need to excrete, and that he knew where the lavatorium was."
"So your guards just let him go alone, with a 'pinky promise' to come back?"
"In human culture, pinky promises are unbreakable!"
"Garbolath. You are an intelligent person. Tell me, at what *age* d... | "Sir... they just punched straight through the shield..."
"So you're telling me a medium sized mammal brute forced it's way through the highest tech we can install?!"
"yes sir, and the other defenses and deterrents were broken along the route to the main entrance, somehow it threw wooden sticks through the armor"
Na... | 2019-12-20T20:24:23 | 2019-12-20T20:04:26 | 106 | 29 |
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