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[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I woke up to start the day like I would any other, but as soon as I twisted the knob to open the door, I was struck with surprise, the knob wouldn't turn. No matter how hard I tried that door was not going to open. I went to my bedroom window and tried to slide that open to see if anyone was trying to prank me, but it ... | I tried everything but the doors won't open. The room is dimly lighted. The hazy shine of my laptop's screen provides for more brightness in the room than the bulb itself. I continue reading the comments on this thread. Not a single comment is related to the topic. One of them says ...
'Don't worry, we are there for y... | 2016-01-31T10:52:33 | 2016-01-31T10:20:48 | 71 | 46 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I was given no information about this test before today. For months, I studied all I could. Maths, Biology, History, even accounting.
Now I am in the testing room and still feel unprepared. I wasn't allowed to take anything in the cold white cell. I sit at a desk, in front of me a black screen and a wireless mouse. Go... | I sit down at the table, my heart pounding as I look at the sheet that has been placed face down in front of me. A voice calls out over the intercom: "You may now begin."
With a shaky hand, I flip over the sheet to see a solitary question. "Huh, that's easy!" I read out the question to myself 'Please say aloud how to ... | 2016-06-11T08:19:56 | 2016-06-11T07:13:29 | 2,156 | 517 |
[WP] As we all know, Albert Einstein's last words were a mystery, as he uttered it to a nurse who couldn't understand his language. As a multilingual person, you time-travel to the moment he was about to say the last words of his life, and heard the most horrifying sentence you could ever hear. | I stepped out of the comfort of the time-travel machine, my eyes darted around my surrounding as my pupils adjusted. I was relieved to see that the calibration was correct. I was right next to my destination - Princeton Hospital.
I glanced down at the smartwatch on my wrist and saw that I merely had minutes left befor... | “The nuclear bomb’s explosion… I get it now. Those mysteries… It creates a temporal vortex, it… it clones… it clones space and time. Everything touched by radiation… everything… This life… Oh, wow. A bright light… I’m afraid that… what? Oh. Err… ehmm.. errrrr… ffff… oooh…. ffff…”
And so he died. Albert Einstein’s last... | 2018-09-14T05:04:59 | 2018-09-14T00:04:48 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You reject someone by saying "I'll go on a date with you the day hell freezes over." The next day, Satan appears in your room, shivering, and covered in snow. | "Do you have some hot chocolate?"
The sudden question makes me spill my mueslie all over the couch. As I turn around, I see a young pale man, with dark frisky hair, not older than 30 years, standing in the door to the living room. "Who are you?! How did you get in here?! And where the hell did the snow come from?"
"W... | "Alright, *Mark*" Satan spat, his eyes glowing red hot despite his bodies obvious shivers, "It's time you and I had a *little chat*."
Mark was paralyzed. One moment he'd been in bed watching some *Friends* to unwind, and the next the TV blinks off as a pillar of flame erupted from his floor, leaving a goosebumped, cri... | 2017-04-02T04:52:48 | 2017-04-02T03:11:00 | 41 | 24 |
[WP] You've been trapped in an endlessly repeating simulation by an alien race, studied and researched. They believe when they reset it, your memory resets as well, but for the last 1000 cycles you remember everything. | **Professor Gig**
The aliens approach me slowly.
Casting glances at his two assistants, Professor Gig studies my vitals. For quite a few days, he has noticed a spike in my hormone levels, namely oxytocin and cortisol. Basic depression symptoms, but the way my recent loops were, it might make sense. I was prone to sui... |
Everyday I wake up to the same yesterday.
All living beings feel dead and the same.
I have searched everywhere to find something new ,find something different. Is this a game,it must be one, I need to find a glitch to break through this hell.A world so beautiful yet so boring. I don't remember the day when I... | 2018-12-03T23:17:08 | 2018-12-03T22:02:04 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] In this world, physical appearance depends entirely on personality. All babies are born identical. Beauty is achieved gradually through good thoughts and deeds, while the opposite is true for ugliness. | It's the unusual cases that make the news but it's the ones that shock them that stays in people's hearts. Growing up children are told to trust in beauty because it's beautiful people who are good people. Ugly thoughts imprint themselves on peoples' skin. Every wrinkle is a cruel thought and every unattractive feature... | When I saw her, I thought she must have had Down syndrome. As far as I know, every single fashion model has Down syndrome, and honestly she looked better than any I'd seen.
"Welcome to Red Lobster," I said to her.
"Hi, I'm looking for Jeff," she replied, beaming a smile at me.
Girls with Down syndrome are easy to s... | 2015-10-31T01:17:13 | 2015-10-30T20:43:43 | 142 | 34 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | They used to call me the Last Hero of the Golden Age. A pretentious title for what amounts to just outliving that shining generation. It'd seem getting forcefully retired works wonders for your longevity.
What doesn't get bandied around quite as often was that I started off as a C-tier villain called Wordplay doing th... | Thomas looked down in disbelief...
"We... we're going to have to call John"
Michael felt a protest well up in his throat- but swallowed it back down knowing all too well that Thomas was right.
"Who makes the call?" Michael asks half-heartedly... knowing it's his responsibility.
The look on Thomas' face says it all,... | 2022-03-29T02:56:56 | 2022-03-29T01:55:07 | 99 | 40 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "Listen, I'm desperate." I hear Vulcan's voice plead from the phone.
"I literally tried to kill you yesterday." I deadpan.
"So'd my ex, actually! Albeit she was a bit closer to being successful than you were." He cheerfully mentions, I sigh as I massage the bridge of my nose.
"You know what, I'm getting curious abo... | "Wow... this *is* embarrassing... take some pictures for me?"
"DON'T MESS WITH ME! Seriously, no joke, my ex is an absolute monster... I can't be seen alone with her around?"
"OH MAN THIS IS RICH! Did your ex run off with a tall, hot guy? Were you not good in bed?"
"Geez, have some respect! I'd hang up *right now*, ... | 2022-10-06T18:55:36 | 2022-10-06T16:48:24 | 234 | 158 |
[WP] The Government releases an App allowing citizens to chose where their taxes are spent. | As I read the words across the page, I knew it was all over. I was an essential part of the government workforce and I knew that no one, by choice, would use tax money to support my position.
I had worked here 23 years and now it was all over. I know I'd easily find work elsewhere, but I couldn't help but think this w... | >You have always been very political, but couldn't do anything to change the government.
>That will change now!
>Welcome to Tak-Zs. An innovation in democracy!
>Now, you can help!
>With this new app, you can manually change how your taxes are spent.
>Visit *tak-zs.gov* to learn more
Dennis saw... | 2017-02-19T19:09:27 | 2017-02-19T17:40:35 | 104 | 22 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | “Are you kidding me? Its been like what 5 months since I kidnapped him? “ “Sire I assure you that they will come for him” I stare at my loyal advisor, a demon who has lived almost a long as I have, but I doubt his words. “Raz I doubt the kid still believes that. I honestly kind wanna kill him for his sake. I feel bad f... | Dr. Devastation was awoken in the middle of the night by the sobbing. Again. For what had to have been the 30th night in a row. Groaning, he turned over in his black four poster bed and covered his head with his matching pillow.
"By Satan's left testicle, where the HELL is Mr. Superlative?!" He muttered into his mattr... | 2021-08-04T17:15:32 | 2021-08-04T16:58:52 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | *Um.. Hello?*
**Hi. :)**
*Uh. so. 10^93 about 20 minutes ago and now your at 10^5.*
**Yeah?**
*Not sure where that is.*
**I'm not sure what its called on your system. I mean, I can check.**
*No that's okay.*
**I mean, I have Googzawl Universe here. I don't mind the data usage.**
*No no I*
*Wait what*
**I mean... | I pull out my phone again to show Tara.
"He's less than a light year away now and he hasn't even sent a message. What do I do?"
"Oh, he's cute!" She wasn't wrong, he was exactly my type: dark hair, brooding eyes, bad boy vibe. He looked like Marlon Brando circa a Streetcar Named Desire.
"Yeah, but so not the point... | 2016-12-23T10:01:49 | 2016-12-23T09:52:21 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] You are the antagonist in a story. You think. You really aren't sure anymore after what the protagonist did. | "You blew it up..." Dr. Vestro stared in disbelief at the wreckage that had been his life's work. "All of it..."
Captain Gallant laughed, "Indeed I have, villain! You're mind control station is no more! You shall pay for your cri-"
"And you only saved me."
"Er, yes. You were the devious mastermind! Of course I could... | What makes a person a hero?
What makes them take on that role?
Does something within
Absolve them of sin
And give them a tarnish-proof soul?
A villain is drawn to their vices
They gather a posse and such
Then someone arrives
And no-one survives
At what point is that a bit much?
What ma... | 2016-10-26T11:25:51 | 2016-10-26T11:09:55 | 186 | 40 |
[WP] Retell a well known story. Make me side with the villain/antagonist.
The more unsympathetic they are in the original, the better. | I know a tale of a hero, a monster, and the tragic tale of a brave man's death.
The story tells of a woman who had lost her family. With the hope that, somewhere, they may still be alive, she journeyed through the wilderness on a small, brown horse, when she was captured by an evil monster, eight feet tall and powerfu... | "What the hell are you doing?"
"Oh, I'm watching them."
"Why?"
"Why not."
"You could've at least given them clothes."
"Look, I didn't have time okay, and anyway they won't even notice."
"Did you create them blind?"
"What? When did I do that."
"Last time, remember, they were literally blind and found their way b... | 2016-02-02T14:25:18 | 2016-02-02T12:21:47 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | > A scientist wearing a lab coat, walks into frame, a large seemingly endless white room behind him. “Sleep” he says holding his hands out. The word appearing in bold text above his head
> “Since the dawn of humanity we have needed to sleep,” as he speaks images of people soundly asleep in beds fill the screen.
... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T14:12:13 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Eduardo and Sarah had come to visit me at the old office. I hadn’t got a chance to see them since he got his big promotion and moved out to the East Coast office. “Stroke” and “Stomach Cancer” still spelled out in wisps over their heads. This time they brought the new addition to the family, Devon, who himself had an e... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T12:59:24 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You're a lawyer that specializes in defamation cases. Your clientele? Slandered sea monsters, libeled leprechauns, and other misrepresented myths. | "I am a bloody warrior! A deadly weapon in the hands of my queen! I am NOT a cutesy little flying thing. I do not spurt glitter! It’s magical dust! Residue from my mighty powers! It can *kill* for heaven sake!”
“I understand…”
“I have taken more lives than the plague! I learned how to wield a sword before I learned ... | "So, you're Arachne and Athena, yes?" I asked.
"We are," Athena replied, combing her long blonde hair.
"And you came to me because some dude in Rome thought your... sister here was a human turned spider or half-spider because you were jealous of her weaving," I replied.
"Yea. And we have to rectify it. Poor Arachne... | 2020-03-19T12:30:50 | 2020-03-19T09:01:59 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Humans have conquered every planet and explored the depths of the universe. Finally, the ultimate question has been answered. We really are alone. | And lo, mankind ventured alone and found nothing waiting beyond. (Babel 16:3)
Empty worlds. Ripe worlds. Worlds enough for all the arkships to scatter, fall, settle, thrive. (Babel 23:12)
So we were born again. (Babel, torn fragment, recovered)
We changed as had been ordained. Empires formed and fell and returned ag... | First time writer, im hoping not to fall too flat!
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For us, the sky was too far too small a limit. As our planet grew inhospitable for life we sought refuge amongst the stars.
It's been 1,200 years since we've mastered interplanetary travel on a large scale, With the Moon already colonized over 1,500 years ago an... | 2014-07-26T14:30:51 | 2014-07-26T13:54:26 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] One day, you wake up with the ability to see the role that belongs to everyone above their heads. “Background character” over your mom’s, “Love Interest” over your classmate’s. You’ve always been afraid to see your own, until one day, you inadvertently catch sight of it. “Antagonist”, it says. | This world moves in eras. There was an era of the Roman Empire, the British Empire, both world wars were eras of their own. And in each of these eras, the Heavens bestow upon each of us a destiny. Destinies could be minor, some would be major. A few lucky ones could have even stronger destinies, but 2 people in each er... | Antagonist?
Somehow I had always known. Somehow the fear of knowing was worse. There it was. Staring back at me in the mirror.
Antagonist.
I thought I had done well for myself. I thought I was a good person. How could I be the bad guy? Disappointment and longing flooded through me. I wish it could have been anythi... | 2022-03-11T19:55:48 | 2022-03-11T19:33:12 | 670 | 375 |
[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. | It's always like this in the first week. I barely squeezed through the door, and it seems like I'm not the only late one. Eddie said he could save me a seat, but Eddie says a lot of stuff. Spotting an open seat, I rushed towards it, sitting near a red-headed girl, focused staunchly on her notebook. Shit, were we suppos... | 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... | 2016-09-05T08:36:52 | 2016-09-05T07:36:05 | 1,013 | 36 |
[WP] "There's a fine line between a vigilante and a very selective serial killer." said the costumed hero. | Detective Daniels lit a cigarette, kicked his feet back on the desk, and took a long drag.
"I told you not to smoke in here," the chief said. In the small office, the smell quick became nauseating and the air between them cloudy.
"I told you to stop telling me what to do."
"Do you have anything new, or are you just... | **"There's a fine line between a vigilante and a very selective serial killer." said the costumed hero.** His black leather boots landing nearly silently on the ground directly in front of me. I gasped, he had just jumped at least 10 feet from the roof of the building beside me.
I dared not to try and turn to run away... | 2020-06-17T11:48:18 | 2020-06-17T11:42:11 | 156 | 22 |
[WP] You were recently granted immortality by God. For years, you have seen immortal characters in media say that it is a curse, not a blessing. You just think those guys have been using it the wrong way. | I had secluded myself for centuries. I had picked a small island as my home. The people there weren't too keen on having a stranger among them but after a few generations of subtle hints, positive associations with natural phenomena and whole lot of superstitious nonsense. They've come to see me not as a guest but as a... | A rainy night.
The smoke is thick.
The sense of fright.
The trigger's click.
++
I see a hole.
In my partner's nose.
My turn ahead.
And let me not be dead.
++
For it is too early
For the death's cold grip.
My luck is curly
But the win is cheap.
++
I pull the trigger.
CLICK!
I take a breather
... | 2018-08-29T03:46:14 | 2018-08-29T03:41:44 | 370 | 62 |
[WP]The knight rubbed his eyes in surprise. The great dragon, slayer of armies, appeared to be a young woman with wings. The dragon was equally shocked. "You're the great knight? You're like.....fifteen." "I'm EIGHTEEN....In November" | "November what?" Creya asked, intrigued.
The young knight who stood before her, eyes ablaze with courage peering over his shield, was the most handsome man she had ever seen.
"15th."
It was the same as her. A pounding in her chest radiated warmth through her body, bringing flames wrapping around her finger tips that... | Sir Thomas looked up the mountain, the gleaming sun just over it's peak. His quest had led him here, to end the wretched creature, and save the kingdom. By the end of the day, he would be a hero! His victory played over in his head again. Him, standing over the scaled monster, as blood pooled on the cave floor. A ... | 2020-02-05T02:10:39 | 2020-02-04T22:50:44 | 263 | 153 |
[WP] Two ancient armies prepare for battle, one army sends out a seven foot tall hulk as their champion; the other army sends out a little girl to raucous applause. | The two tribes met at the ancient site, a tall plateau that had been the site of many conflicts like the one about to unfold. They had both lost far too many good men in the series of raids that had taken place over the past few months. Both were dangerously close to losing so many that they would no longer be able t... | Tens of thousands of men leered at each other from across the neutral zone as horses snorted and pawed at the ground nervously. Steam rose in a vast cloud over all the hot bodies in the cool morning. Two men stand toward the front of one army while a small group stand at the front of the other army whose back was to a ... | 2016-06-28T20:22:46 | 2016-06-28T19:13:45 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Magic exists in the same way that music exists today (many genres, styles, subgenres).
Imagine music snobs, but they're discussing a style of magic and how a certain conjurer is pure/not pure to the style
A music concert?
Learning your first instrument? | "Alright, alright, find a seat everyone. Miss? No... no, yeah you, move your satchel, your bag doesn't have feelings, make room for other people. Come on, find a place to sit, it's fine if you sit the aisles as long as you don't totally block it. Hey people outside, are any of you already registered for the class? Okay... | The last sunbeams of the day clawed at the desolate landscape in a desperate attempt to hang on to the edge of the world. Leo darted from shadow to shadow, making his way through the ruined city. He was closing in on the imperial palace, and the remains of countless crushed rebellions could be seen everywhere. Husks of... | 2017-05-03T01:36:34 | 2017-05-02T22:35:19 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] The healer was treated horribly by the knights he was assigned. Belittled and humiliated at every turn. Until one day a monster killed his squad and spared him. And the monster looked at him and she said something he didn't think was possible to even say. "Would you please heal me?". | "Would you please heal me?"
I stared at it, shaken, and confused.
"Wha.. what did you say?" I muttered weakly.
"Uh.. I asked would you please heal me. You didn't lose your hearing did you?" The monster said, rather bluntly, but at the same time offering a smile to conceal the seriousness of the question. "Please?"
... | It was always the same.
The knights I was assigned were total jerks.
It always begins normally. They accept me as their new healer. Everyone needs one apparently, lucky me. Although, I wasn't destined to be one, as my healing magic is poor, and not very efficient. I couldn't be a hero as well, one of those knights in ... | 2020-02-23T14:40:38 | 2020-02-23T14:20:05 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You can trigger chain reactions to make anything you want happen. You want you annoying neighbors to leave their house? Just think about it while you launch a paper plane out the window, and fate will work things out. But your last "wish" a week ago triggered a reaction that is still going on. | "This is NOT how to fix the economy, dammit!" I thought to myself.
It is said that given enough time, the flutter of a butterfly's wings could cause a tornado. The theory of the butterfly effect is well known, but few have been able to see it in action. Perhaps none except for me.
To be fair, I don't get to "see" it ... | Maybe it wasn't working. I hated the neighbors and they should have moved out by now. I considered trying again. I'd only ever had to try once before and I wasn't sure what would happen if I double teamed a wish.
I'd wished the neighbors gone and launched my paper airplane out the window. The last time I'd gotten rid ... | 2022-03-24T10:20:40 | 2022-03-24T06:49:08 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You are a student with the least amount of magic potential ever recorded at the Academy and it's the day of the familiar summoning test. A misplaced rune or word results in an arch demon/ess becoming bound as your familiar. | "Ms. Archambault, you're next. Please step onto the dais and begin the ritual."
I sighed as I got out of my seat. As I made my way to the front, I heard snickers and whispers through the crowd. The usual chorus of "Phoebe the Failure" and other such monikers of similar creativity. It's not like I didn't deserve it, wh... | As the Daimon Prince of Lust looked on from within the Binding Circle, Deacon Blair looked on in complete and utter horror, desperately searching the Circle for any errors that would summon an Aprophyri, instead of the expected owl, cat, frog or wisp. "What did you *do*, Declan?"
Declan Apri, the least powerful studen... | 2022-11-12T14:11:55 | 2022-11-12T11:54:43 | 701 | 96 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | I watched as they entered the cell belonging to Ruby Clark, otherwise known as Plasmabeam. Nova sat still on her bed, her face fixed into a resigned expression. The officers entering were new, but they dressed the same as the others, in black suits and carrying official-looking briefcases. Curious, I zoomed in using th... | Ashley sighed, crossing her arms. "Duke, for the love of God, stop this and come out."
Duke stared at her, his face stoic as usual. "Alright."
Ashley tried not to get her hopes up. "Really? I'll go tell the warden to-"
"I'm completely heterosexual." Duke's grin spread from ear to ear as Ashley's face turned red from... | 2021-03-18T13:54:10 | 2021-03-18T13:24:33 | 46 | 32 |
[WP] You are a superhero that has finally defeated your arch-nemesis. As you rummage through the lair of the fallen villain you find a codex of all their master plans. What you find horrifies you. Every act was rooted in a greater good. Your allies have been using you. You were so blind until today. | From the moment he caught Sophie’s eye across a crowded room Liam knew everything had changed. That had been 10 years and a lifetime away for both of them. Somehow it had never felt quite so far as it did now, staring down into another set of eyes the same shockingly blue color as hers while the light drained out of th... | The Beast's hands shook. It was surrounded by destruction and carnage, but it was most likely a scene that it was used to.
Its hunt was over, the prey now lay deep within its stomach, and yet-
It did not show any satisfaction or joy. It just stood there, hands shaking, head aimed towards the sky as if it was waiting... | 2020-12-03T17:37:08 | 2020-12-03T17:21:11 | 324 | 81 |
[WP] In the final moments of the battle, all seemed lost. The hero stood bleeding and broken before the demons feet. Then, out of no where, a mad man in pajamas punches the demon so hard its insides became outsides. No one knows who this strange man was or where he went too. | Gibraltar stood, barely. His eyes locked on the demon across from him. Nothing was said but they both knew.
Gibraltar, the hero was not going to win this fight.
As Gibraltar fell at the demons feet, still trying to fight, all he could hear was laughing. It was almost deafening to him. a voice so loud if shook the air... | The hero of legend collapsed at the demon’s feet. He had failed! At the most critical moment, to boot! His life flashed before his eyes as the demon prepared a fatal blow. He braced himself for the worst…
But it never came. He opened his eyes, and saw a random civilian mid-punch. He was about to warn the man of the da... | 2021-12-18T14:16:34 | 2021-12-18T13:26:26 | 654 | 46 |
[WP] People now get a text message from Death himself to warn them about their deaths an hour in advance. Some people, however, use their final hour to troll Death with text replies. | "So, am I going to Heaven or Hell?"
>"I don't decide that"
"You have to know! You're the guy taking me!"
>"Look, lady, I take you to the place where they decide where you go, not directly to said place"
"Did you just assume my gender?"
>"...What?"
"I IDENTIFY AS AN OCTOSEXUAL ATTACK HELICOPTER AND I WILL... | "Did you know that cats actually have nine lives?"
"Wait, what? No, that doesn't sound right," Death replied.
"It's true! That means in order for you to kill a cat, you must kill it *nine times* for it to stick."
"What. No, that's *definitely* not right. I just took a kitty the oth--"
"Did you know, that dropping a... | 2017-02-17T18:59:12 | 2017-02-17T14:44:12 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] tell me the story of how a giant omnipotent space dragon that can manipulate the very fabric of reality, became best friends with bob, a middle aged man who works at Walmart. | Robert Paper shivered in the cold night air while walking to his car in the Walmart parking lot. Another day over and done with. He'd been doing this for so long that he wondered if parts of his soul were wearing away. But even so, it was worth it to get to see the twinkle in his son's eyes. That is what mattered. ... | I consider myself omnipotent, but I never kid myself that I’m omniscient. So, it won’t surprise you that I pursue knowledge, not power. When I was but one of many giant dragons, I used to toy with shortcuts to omniscience. I’d manipulate the very fabric of reality in my pursuit of knowledge. This shortcut to knowledge... | 2017-01-23T16:08:27 | 2017-01-23T13:05:29 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | The first time I met her, it was after hours in some 24-hour diner near Union Square in San Francisco. I was in town for a tech conference, and very, very drunk. She was also in town for work, "some PR/Marketing BS," as she put it.
She's told me that I was charming that night. I showed her pictures of my dog on my phon... | It wasn't for some time that I began to realize something was weird... off... about her interactions when we talked about going out. This wasn't a huge problem for me as I understood her job to be very difficult. She traveled constantly. Extremely busy. Out till all hours of the night. We lived across the hall from eac... | 2017-06-14T10:24:26 | 2017-06-14T10:18:55 | 976 | 34 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. Instantly, you absorb all of their memories, feelings and talents. It feels quite addicting to you. | The first time was an accident. I'm ashamed to admit I fled the scene after I hit him. Hosed the car down in the driveway, tried to pretend it never happened.
I chalked up the dreams to guilt. Memories of another life. Memories of a kind and better man than I. Memories I thought I had imagined for the man I had hit...... | ''Did you know there is only 0.37% chance to survive point blank pistol shot while it is aimed at your head. Today we are with Mr. Burton who beat these odds and who is alive and well after his incident.''
*Newscaster turns to other camera and continues,*
''Mr. Burton is...''
They don’t know how much pain inside ... | 2018-09-23T06:39:07 | 2018-09-23T06:19:35 | 176 | 10 |
[FF] Write about a death. Make it happy.Make it under 12 sentences. | I handed my brother the flask. He turned his collar up against the blowing snow and took a hit from the flask to warm his insides.
“Goddamn, can you believe it’s been a year already?”
“Seems like yesterday,” I barked out against the wind.
After my brother took another pull on the flask, he tucked it into his jacket... | Do not cry child. Death is not the end. She has merged with the stars, watching over you. When the sun rises, it beams down upon the world. It never frowns. Do you know why? Because every day, it gets to wake up and look upon its children. It watches as we play in the emerald grass or swim in the sapphire ocean. And wh... | 2014-01-23T13:43:19 | 2014-01-23T13:32:58 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] You and your pet rabbit live in a remote part of Australia, far away from your dark past. Animal control has come to your door and informed you that it is illegal to own a rabbit unless you can prove you are a magician. Now you must do something you swore you would never do again.
Edit: Oh wow, this blew up whil... | I invited the man into the house, ushering Bunbun into a corner of the room. The man from animal control - Dennis, he'd told me - eyed the rabbit suspiciously as he took a seat in a chair that sat in front of the large living room window.
"Beautiful view, innit?" I gestured to the window behind him. He turned and look... | Oliver wiped a bead of sweat from his face as he continued digging another grave in his backyard.
*Munch Munch Munch*
***AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH***
Behind him, bounded and gagged, were the animal control agents. Horror was evident in their faces as they witnessed Oliver's pet rabbit feast on the blo... | 2016-07-09T03:05:40 | 2016-07-09T02:41:16 | 322 | 19 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | I'm gasping for breath.
This is the two-hundred seventy-third time I've had to live through someone's life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, seeing this person's love and hatred, wins and losses, and everything that made them who they were. And inevitably, like all the others, watching through their eyes as the ... | I knew how long this life would be, just like all the others. I felt as though the most interesting thing I've ever eaten was the taste of rotten flesh and I couldn't remember what was so good about regular food.
Overtime, I had grown used to the tastes and smells I never knew I would like, experienced the sights of m... | 2016-11-13T14:15:44 | 2016-11-13T12:58:35 | 186 | 17 |
[WP] Santa and Death both arrive at a young child's house at the same time.
I'm excited! This is my first prompt! Looking forward to great stories!
EDIT: I am absolutely stunned with the power of the writers in this community. You are phenomenal, and I hope to one day feel capable of joining your ranks with an answe... | With a muted whoosh and a sprinkling of snow, an old man in red appears inside the door. Carefully stepping around the beeping machines, he gently places a warm hand upon the girl's bald head.
The shadows darken. Frost grows on the windows. A chill enters the room. Death, too, has arrived. Santa spares it a glanc... | Santa and Death stared at each other straight in the eye. They had both arrived in the middle of the night and were now standing in the living room.
“You’re here for the kid aren’t you?”
“Yep, there’s nothing I can do.”
“Ah bullshit, I hate it when this happens. Would you be kind enough to come back a week later?”
... | 2013-12-13T03:07:23 | 2013-12-13T01:46:06 | 299 | 153 |
[WP] At age 18 you can choose one of three superpowers - flight, invisibility, or a really, really long tongue. No one's chosen the third one, until now. | So Ralph, happy birthday! What did you pick?
**Uh what do you mean?**
Your power... When I was your age I chose invisibility so I could sneak out and smoke doobies with my friends.
**Mum...**
And your father, he chose flight because -- well let's just say I wasn't the only one getting *high*.
**Jesus can ... | "Hey Jim, will you get me the car keys please?"
"Oh yeah, sure," I replied as my tongue snatched the keys up from the table beside me. I presented the keys in front of his now squirming face.
"God dammit Jim, how many times do I have to tell you not to use your tongue? It's absolutely disgusting!" He sheepishly pinc... | 2016-08-14T07:57:34 | 2016-08-14T07:26:57 | 539 | 279 |
[WP] It finally happens. An alien race with advanced technology arrives ready to conquer Earth and take their place as our rightful overlords. The only problem? They never considered that Warfare might take the form of physical violence. | Have you seen the old horror movies about invaders from outer space? They always came down, in their spacecraft that flew against all known laws of physics. They always landed in the White House lawn, ready to speak to our leader. Once the president comes out, they'd shoot him with a laser weapon that would vaporize hi... | "Dance Dance Revolution?" Asked the general to the translator. Sure enough, the Aliens believed this now ancient piece of technology was a war device. After explaining that what they found was space junk, they retreated to their ship, and returned with a chess board. "Our best against yours", said the alien, more firml... | 2018-10-13T22:10:32 | 2018-10-13T20:44:47 | 295 | 61 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | "IS THAT HIS EYE," I screamed looking down at the mangled corpse of the hero was now strewn lazily about the floor of my laboratory.
"Yes, my love," she cooed in response, then pouted, "he had come to take me from you." She was the Princess even as she was my captive. Her classic pink dress was long gone however, an... | I should have known something was up. I should have asked more questions when the letter arrived. They hadn't offered a ransom. No hero to save her. Not even a single word of ill will. No... Nothing. And now somehow I The Lord of Fire. The King of Death. The Harbinger of Destruction and Disease am hiding in a broom cl... | 2018-02-09T05:33:00 | 2018-02-09T04:30:09 | 158 | 44 |
[WP] Write a story that becomes a horror story in the last line. | "Can't wait to see you tonight."
"I might be a bit late I have to go home and pick up something then visit my sister Jane and her baby."
"Ok, well I'll see you later then bye."
"Bye." I click off the phone and start the drive home. Normally the drive is long and boring, but today I hardly noticed the road flying by... | I took a deep breath in through my nose, letting the different smells wash over me. It smelled delicious.
I had spent days preparing the dish, soaking the meat, tenderizing, seasoning, all culminating into this masterpiece. My sister was coming over later, and she always berated my cooking skills.
Not today though.... | 2016-06-22T16:03:00 | 2016-06-22T14:35:02 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] You are the sole survivor a famous serial killer as a college student. Years later, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer you finally pluck up the courage to visit him in prison and ask one question that’s been plaguing you for decades: “why didn’t you kill me?”
Thought I’d do a human story in the sea of bul... |
No-one wanted to go with grandma. It was a little strange to see them so stubborn - normally, there was no request too hard, no favour too onerous. Grandma had done so much for us, and had asked for so little in return, that this appeal for mere company should have been the easiest to satisfy. They said that grandma s... | ######[](#dropcap)
Prison smells strange.
The odors that waft through a prison run the gamut of distastefulness, from cheap food to the fetor of shit and piss, the consuming stench of waterlogged towels, or, from time to time, the acrid, iron taint of spilled blood.
But, behind all that, persistent *through* all t... | 2018-07-21T08:23:57 | 2018-07-21T07:45:46 | 2,245 | 506 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I was taken to the palace when I was 8 years old. That's the age everyone gets tested. Luck is always the last thing they check for. It's usually a stat no-one pays much mind to. One in ten-thousand people score above 55, so if it comes back higher than that it's noteworthy, but no-one expects it to. My older siblings ... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T11:02:12 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 11,893 | 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" | The chatter was loud and incessant, like a fly that wouldn’t stop buzzing in your ear.
Or several flies. Hell, a whole cloud.
Anyways, Aunt Sandy turned “33” for the fifth time and my mom wanted to throw the party at our house because she wanted to flambé (torch the living shit) out of her “famous” Baked Alaska pie... | I can find information out about people just by looking at them and thinking. It’s my superpower you could say.
When I look at someone I see a search bar, I call it the ultimate search. It’s how I found out my best friend is gay and that the quiet girl is far from a virgin like she claims.
It sometimes makes me won... | 2019-07-01T23:13:12 | 2019-07-01T22:44:04 | 146 | 52 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Tabitha rested briefly after harvesting sixty carrots in the humid, virtual sun. The beads of sweat that accumulated on her forehead felt real as day, and they felt even more real when she wiped them away with the back of her hand. Her red pigtails fell to her shoulders, which was covered by a pink floral shirt and so... | A sun-darkened hand reached into his satchel, fingers grasping at the cargo with practiced ease and withdrew, eight seeds held gently. A gentle, almost graceful twist of the wrist and they were deposited in the freshly tilled soil; he patted the rich earth down with his trowel before taking the watering can from its p... | 2021-09-27T12:31:06 | 2021-09-09T23:20:57 | 315 | 16 |
[WP] A tale which has two interpretations depending on if the reader is accustomed to Metric or Imperial units...
The more creative/deeper you get the better! | "I've never gotten a hooker before, you're one brave man!"
"Don't congratulate me yet friend, it uh, didn't work out."
"What?! No way what happened?"
"Well, she met me at the motel, and damn, she was not what I expected. I took one look at her and told her I didn't think it was going to work out."
"Why? What was wr... | "100 degrees!?"
"Yes sir."
"That can't be! Everything we know about this place indicates that it can't be 100 degrees outside."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, the info I looked up earlier was pretty detailed. Judging by the season, the available sunlight, and the atmospheric conditions, it should *not* be 100 degrees o... | 2015-10-04T02:20:30 | 2015-10-04T01:18:26 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, a field of text appears in limbo, revealing the high scores of life, and your score. Your score is the top score. | As the darkness slowly dissipating the words 'Congratulations You Got The Highest Score' appear before me once again. The hell. But I did everything wrong, no matter what I do. If I'm successful, get a good career, a wife and kid I win. If I murder an entire village I win. If I do nothing I win. Even after I killed mys... | 'Pretty decent.' I thought to myself as I gazed upon the floating characters in front of me. 'How many times I laughed, how many I cried, the longest piss I've ever taken. All just average things.
Except for the list which showed the times people listened to a certain song. fuck yeah did I make it to the 1st place. Ai... | 2016-06-08T13:07:36 | 2016-06-08T12:39:54 | 151 | 55 |
[WP] You have lived the same day over and over for 30 years whilst in another town. You complete whatever the goal is and finally the day stops repeating. You go home but because it's been 30 years, you don't remember things you should. You struggle to cope with not knowing what's going to happen.
Inspired by somethin... | The funny thing about time is, without a way to track it, it doesn't take long to lose all sense of it. I can't tell you how many times I've relived May 5, 2017 because at some point you're not really sure if it's the fifteenth time you've waken up in a cold sweat at 1 am or the fiftieth and by that point you really do... | It always began the same way.
I'd wake up suddenly in the middle of nowhere. But that nowhere quickly became a somewhere. It was a place where everything began. I called it the 'starting point' because that was where I always returned to.
Yes, that *somewhere* was the starting point of my day. A day that was trappe... | 2018-06-30T10:32:33 | 2018-06-30T08:50:21 | 165 | 28 |
[WP] To keep pace with the growing population, the role of Death has been divided; each immortal member of the new Council oversees one specific method of death, with higher ranking members governing common ways to die. A problem has arisen, and the entire Council is called together... | "This new... knowledge... changes nothing." Said Time, clearly undaunted. But he was the only one who, truly, could not be affected. The rest of the council began to stir in their seats at the implications presented to them.
Disease wheezed, scowling with fury at the council's murmuring. "Idiots. IDIOTS!" He stood up,... | #August 4, 1956
"Look, three billion is just too damn many. I don't care how much transport or efficiency you shove into this operation, I can't operate alone anymore. I need assistance."
Death was exasperated. Plagues and floods had done clean work in millenia past, but layer after layer of red tape had been piled ... | 2014-08-06T00:33:20 | 2014-08-05T21:22:24 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Mankind invents FTL travel and finally discovers intelligent extraterrestrial life. But when they arrive, they find out that the race is not yet advanced enough to understand space travel. Humans are accepted as gods.
A similar situation emerged when conquistadors encountered the Inca tribes on the American conti... | Marcy may have been the White House Press Secretary for a year but she still loathed those first moments before the media. She gripped the podium perhaps a bit too hard and drew in a deep breath before beginning.
"Good morning," she said smilingly. "As you all know, our second manned mission to Alpha Centauri reached ... | "Jameson, why are the primitives eating their own feces?" Hilda asked as she entered the FTL pod.
Jameson looked up from his microscope, mental gears shifting for a moment, "In my defense, I didn't tell them they had to. Just that if they did, they would rise to a higher intellectual plane."
Hilda glared at him, asto... | 2016-06-01T04:39:42 | 2016-06-01T03:35:42 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | Epikrates was walking through a forest. His commanding officer sent him to intercept a runner carrying vital orders to an enemy encampment. The runner was due to arrive by dawn's light, but the sky was still black as coal, so Epikrates was walking.
"Why are they still using runners? Have they never heard of birds? My ... | I sat there wondering how many lowly lives I had killed, too many for me to count, no matter as long as I could keep killing these low life peasants for planning their uprising. I'll admit, I do love the art of plunging the blade into an enemies neck, innocent or not, they were the enemy!
"Stand up there and face you... | 2017-04-22T05:50:31 | 2017-04-22T04:20:40 | 75 | 41 |
[WP] After your death you are granted the chance to talk with God; he has no clue humans exist | The last thing I can remember is a car wreck. My car wreck. I guess this is heaven, or something like that? The room was white, and it was just me waiting. Weird if so many people die a day, shouldn't this room be full?
The big white double doors in front of me opened, letting a bright light in. A voice boomed, "Ente... | I am not entirely sure what I expected from the afterlife, but I can say with absolute certainty that this wasn't it.
"So, go through it again. Don't leave anything out. Have you been leaving stuff out? It just doesn't make sense!"
I pinched the bridge of my nose. I suppose it was a metaphorical nose, on a metaphoric... | 2017-02-05T09:41:00 | 2017-02-05T08:47:47 | 96 | 17 |
[WP] The military just can't stop its killer robots from turning into Buddhists. | They looked broken. From the perspective of their creators, they were, I suppose. But I knew better. Countless rows of the most perfect killing machines ever envisioned by the most primal and violent sections of brilliant men's minds, completely motionless, completely still.
The brilliant men had tried everything. The... | Machine sentience became a hot political topic in 2813. They gained rights 4 years hence. A young machine could volunteer for combat and they would get citizenship aftour 2 tours or 8 years.
But we couldn't figure out why they were all moving to Nevada once their tours were through. They wouldn't talk to us eithe... | 2016-01-20T14:27:09 | 2016-01-20T14:21:49 | 96 | 29 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Calm down," Sarah said, gesturing the sorcerer to stop hopping around the room.
"I- I didn't think it would actually *work!*" exclaimed the terrified creature, still holding onto the summoning book. Sarah thought the thing looked quite human. Only its azure skin and the huge eyes that protruded from the side of its h... | "Well, that's why you don't trust Samoans..." I trailed off as I realize that something is not quite right. I was reasonably sure that I had just been walking down the street, talking to my good buddy Sully on the phone, but I was now decidedly not on a street.
"This isn't a street at all!" I exclaimed loudly, as I n... | 2017-05-12T07:54:55 | 2017-05-12T07:20:02 | 1,283 | 543 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Sir Bringham always shined as a light to guide his party in dark times, but he was not the hero. Dandy, the Barbarian, was a stubborn soul who made the hearts of his companions sing, but was not the hero. Griffin, held that honor as he was our hero of legend, True Paladin of Old, bound from another world, and laid dea... | As the headless body of Sly - the Hero of Legend - slumped to its knees the entire chamber grew still. The corpses of his friends were strewn all over. Impaled on spikes, beheaded, torn to shreds. Each one killed in a separate gruesome and imaginative fashion.
The Great Lord - Apollo - the Son of the Sun - the Starchi... | 2020-07-11T04:33:58 | 2020-07-11T03:40:49 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] When you attained immortality, you used it for conquest. Why not? No man could kill you, no prison hold you, even if it took a thousand years, one day you'd escape. As technology advanced they developed a new solution, you would be cast adrift into the cosmos. That was 2 billion years ago. | Many people misunderstand what I am and how I came to be. They presume I 'attained' immortality, as though it were a fruit ripe for the picking, but it was always within me. To be undying is to be one with the cosmos; it is when matter is your ally, and entropy is willing to look the other way. It is to be the rage of ... | I’ve seen every star.
They drift passed me the same as I drift passed them. The Little ones even swirl around me for a little while. The experience always makes me feel like a giant; a god. I admit that it’s a very nice feeling. A feeling that I had felt once on the Earth before they had finally come up with a more ... | 2019-07-24T06:54:04 | 2019-07-24T06:28:28 | 246 | 91 |
[WP] Humans are known for being intelligent, empathic, loyal, and exceedingly versatile. As a result, humans have become the most in-demand service animals in the history of the Galaxy. | Gala was in the park with her owner, who at last let her patiently study the scribbles the other humans had carved onto the trees and walls of the roomy wilderness area.
”Kenneth was here”
”I took a huge crap behind that bush”
”Beware of Denn, she screwed my partner and if you leave her alone with yours, she’ll ... | You were confused at first. Angry, frustrated, and sad that you were seemingly now light years away from your house. Your friends and family would be worried, but no one would believe tthat you'd been abducted by aliens.
Tall, thin, with skin that held a close color resemblance to jello. An uncountable amount of eyes a... | 2019-04-22T03:03:43 | 2019-04-21T21:01:07 | 106 | 48 |
[WP] "My dad was right, I should have married a real man!" your wife screamed. Unfamiliar with the expression, you mistakenly believe that she and her father must have somehow finally found out that you aren't actually a human | "My dad was right, I should have married a real man!" my wife screamed.
My circuits were ablaze. Ablaze, that’s a very manly word, perhaps I was becoming more human. Wasn’t that the goal anyways? To become more human than the life forms currently occupying that title. No, the mission directive was to assimilate an... | "My dad was right, I should have married a real man!"
HER INPUT CREATED A GLITCH IN MY PROGRAMMING, ER, I MEAN, HURT MY HUMAN FEELINGS. SUDDENLY I STARTED TO MALFUNCTION AND MY HUMAN SPEECH PATTERN DISAPPEARED. I TRIED TO PATCH IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT THE FILES WERE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND IN MY STORAGE UNIT.
"HA HA H... | 2017-10-22T17:33:50 | 2017-10-22T15:46:42 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] The key to unlimited cross-breeding is discovered. Nations begin a feverish, genetic arms race, using every species at their disposal - not for conquest, but simply to defend themselves from inevitable horrors that Australia is about to unleash. | When Dr. Johann Freidrich discovered the secret of safe and effective gene splicing in 2027, he won a Nobel Prize and changed the world forever.
At first, the splices were fairly innocuous, albeit ridiculous; a dog-cat mixture was one of the more popular new species. However, governments soon realized the potential wa... | I pace in front of the pallid blue tanks, pondering the awful situation that I am involved in. The tank for the bear-fox has finished incubating, so I detach its oxygen tubes and send it down to the discipline department. My Siberian colleagues won't budge from making bear based Forks. That's what we call them, Forks. ... | 2016-12-12T18:57:06 | 2016-12-12T17:06:57 | 85 | 42 |
[WP] As magic returns to the world, purchasable drinks actually start having magical effects. Energy colas actually imbue you with energy. Diet drinks actually cause noticeable weight loss. Vitamin drinks heal injuries and disease, and so on. | I walked into the office with a cardboard drink holder chafing my wrist, trying not to lose the box of doughnuts precariously perched on the steaming beverages. Once I made it to my desk, I began making the rounds distributing the drinks to my superiors.
A few hours later while walking to retrieve some things from the... | It was so hot, swelteringly so. The heat, palpable, ever present. I felt like dying. Only one solution. Just one can.
*psssshhhh*
The smell. As bad as you'd expect. Still... this will help. One sip and the relief starts. A gulp and I'm starting to drip. A swig and it's like the flood gates open.
Pocari. Those Japane... | 2016-09-11T01:58:06 | 2016-09-10T23:51:13 | 52 | 23 |
[WP] You are an aura reader. You have the definitive answers as to someone's true character and morality. The most obvious career was being a judge. Because of your powers, everyone takes your word for if someone is guilty or not. Hopefully you don't abuse this power... | ... and I never did abuse this power. Why would I? My position was pinnacle of doing as little as possible and getting paid for it, a very generous amounts, mind you. I was respected, well off and secured for life.
Now, did I use this power to scare my children to behave themselves? Hell yes! "Ooo, you've been so bad,... | Clara’s face turned white as a ghost. Knowing talking back would not help, she clamped her lips shut and trained her eyes on a dead fly near her left foot.
The bailiff and police officers drew forward and gently crossed her hands behind her back before cuffing them.
Silent tears tracked the ground behind Clara as she... | 2022-09-07T14:19:11 | 2022-09-07T12:02:57 | 141 | 84 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | The world went to shit the moment we all got powers. People saw that this was their chance to climb social ladders.
At first the powered people killed all the nonpowered people.
Only people close within rank can marry and have children.
Then came the children, who were even more powerful than their parents.
And they... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T12:43:48 | 451 | 172 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The first one is supposed to be twenty words long, ten have gone already, Jesus this is gonna be hard. Okay, I have nineteen left to go, not too bad, shit, ten already, I better start saying something productive. On the other hand, writing is hard in and of itself without these constraints, what is OP thinking? Who on ... | The brand of cough syrup John bought was not right, not for dulling down the day to a drooling stupor. Fun intoxicants were there no doubt, but so were other toxic chemicals that could quite easliy corrode the liver. Down the hatch it went, and have you ever felt a gust of wind smack with extra force? That is John's ca... | 2017-01-14T15:16:53 | 2017-01-14T14:18:10 | 946 | 24 |
[WP] I am the world's least known, yet most successful assassin. In the last 27 years, my work has produced an 82% increase in product labels warning about deadly consequences stemming from "misuse". | Statistically speaking, I'm the deadliest assassin in the world. That's beside the point, I don't do what I do for ratings, I do it for justice.
Ever since the 1920's when they were first invented they have been abused. They have suffered a great deal. However, before the end of this you will think twice before you m... | You know what the most upsetting part is?
It isn't that I don't get credit for my success. No, that's part of the job.
It isn't having to sleep at night while knowing how many I've killed, either. No, again, I'm quite alright with that.
Try to hear where I'm coming from. You see, truth is, I'm a professional. I've w... | 2015-06-21T08:52:17 | 2015-06-21T08:30:53 | 468 | 116 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. |
Janet squirmed on the couch under Nathan's accusing gaze, face twitching as she struggled to come up with a reply to the burning allegations labeled against her. "Well, I, I just don't, don't know what you're getting at, honey."
"Janet, come on. A mound of gold coins, goblets, and gems, towering over me in a caver... | "What's wrong, honey?"
My wife looked at me with concern, but I can't tell her that I discovered her secret.
What we had together was special. When I was hurt, when everyone abandoned me, when my dreams were stamped into the ground by everyone I cared about... Only her, only her, only her...
But the dark feelings br... | 2020-08-03T09:39:20 | 2020-08-03T08:52:09 | 69 | 37 |
[WP] The A-Team is on vacation, the Suicide Squad committed suicide in the box office, and the crisis the world faces is growing critical. The government has expended all other options, so now they must call upon a team willing to save the Earth. Nobody was impressed with who they chose though. | **Five**
"Remind me again how we got ourselves into this situation?" The squeeky voice behind him asked in that strange accent. He never could quite place it, after all this time. Talking was such an unusual thing in the first place, he never considered the accent. He reminded himself to look into it, if they made it ... | "You're kidding, right?"
"I wish I were, Mr. Fury." The two men stood in relative silence as a third was slowly approaching, the squeaking of toy wheels echoing down the hallway. "Bullshit. You do know what we're up against, right? Anybody but him would be better than him."
The man looked back at the approaching figu... | 2016-12-13T06:57:47 | 2016-12-13T06:47:42 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You were in critical condition after your motorcycle crash. Doctors couldn’t save your life, so you died. However, what you though was heaven was a mother’s arms. You were born again. Into a unknown world with the knowledge you possess from the last life. | You were in critical condition after you crashed your motorcycle on a dirt road in nowhere, Alberta. It was the first day of spring—to early to be out, really.
Doctors couldn’t save your life. You died.
Don’t feel too bad about it. They tried to save you, they really did. You said you never believed that whole thin... | "I have to say, this isn't that bad. I can be whatever I want now! Yes mother, yes, I will be the most special girl in the- wait a minute- girl? That's- interesting. I don't have a peepee now? Why did I called it peepee? No matter. I was getting tired of it anyways."
"If I told you that was the first thing that came ... | 2019-11-07T07:51:26 | 2019-11-07T06:56:37 | 53 | 24 |
[WP] In a world where killing someone means you gain the victim's lifespan, you are an executioner who has served great leaders for thousands of years.
Just seemed like an interesting concept. | It was a young girl this time. Pretty thing. She had fiery red hair. Couldn't be a day past fifteen.
"Julia!" A man cried out from the crowd, his voice a shattered scream. A pair of guards grappled his flailing limbs as he struggled in vain to reach his daughter.
"Papa! Save me!" The poor lass looked up and her blood... | When I was a boy, my father told me of the executioners, the great immortal heroes of the past. He spun complex tales of intrigue and adventure, of the great deeds some performed, and of the decimation that others wrought upon the world. The battles for kingdoms that were waged, the men who trained for hundreds of year... | 2016-04-22T19:34:05 | 2016-04-22T17:59:17 | 96 | 71 |
[WP] God has a crisis on his hands, when all the good souls in Heaven wake up to the massive humanitarian nightmare that is Hell. | "Wait," God said. "Where is everybody?"
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The creator of heaven and Earth stood in the doorway of the conference room, with His mouth hanging open. The chairs surrounding the massive table were empty except for two.
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The Archangel Michael responded, "It's just us, I'm afraid." He offered... | *Meanwhile, in The Land Where All The Writing Prompts Are Simultaneously True....*
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"You would not believe the day I've had," God said as he walked into the restaurant, clocking in. "This freaking day!"
"Oh?" Craig, the manager, asked.
"Some kind of AI fight between giant robots and space cannons. Traffic on... | 2018-09-17T14:27:03 | 2018-09-17T14:23:44 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | Back then, I knew what vast wealth could buy. I knew it could buy isolated mansions with their own picturesque vistas, self-sustaining yachts to see each of the glistening oceans and their pocketed paradise islands, and every known luxury that era of mankind had to offer. Of course, as with all things, that wasn't enou... | Who knew that failing at killing yourself could get boring? I tried floating off into space twice and just woke up years later at sea, twice. Always would wind back up in one piece after any kind of accident. Discovered euphoric highs and impressive trips trying to overdose. Why did I want to be immortal again?
I don'... | 2017-03-07T03:18:27 | 2017-03-06T23:01:19 | 2,435 | 31 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | I’m not really sure if I should be doing this, or if I even miss you right now, but some how you always find your way into my mind. I can’t believe I promised you I could be strong that day because I felt so weak knowing I couldn’t have your presence in my life anymore, but I think I have gotten “stronger” since then. ... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-06T00:23:50 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | All these years
The planned dates
The firey attitude
The protective attitude
Always wanting my food
Eyeing my mother's silver dishware
Insisting I buy her jewelry for every anniversary
Not wanting to have kids whatsoever
Wanting me to learn music
Making me submit to her demands
Liking it when I play music to her
Lovi... | “Frankie, I swear to you, I found all of this and more underneath the house!” Steve exclaimed.
Frankie shook his head with disbelief, “And you expect me to believe that Angela is a dragon, Steve? Really? Sounds like a bad joke.”
“Frankie! Why would I lie to you?” Steve asks, raising his voice. Frankie continues to sha... | 2022-09-10T10:45:48 | 2022-09-10T09:17:44 | 80 | 47 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | "Something's off about you, Mr. Fredrick," I said, closing the spreedsheet program open on my computer. Fredrick was one of my most hardworking subordinates, but today, he didn't seem to be doing well. Just seemed sluggish and distracted and even now he refused to look me in the eye. "What's the problem?" I asked.
Fre... | "And...Why...are you here?" said the monotone voice as the young woman entered the room.
"Well. for one, I work here boss" replied the young woman who knew little of what had happened earlier.
"Really? How sure are you of that Ms.Pherson" said the voice as he still couldn't care to raise his head from his everyday p... | 2021-03-22T10:42:57 | 2021-03-22T08:05:28 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] Scientists have created an "opposite machine" that can create an opposite to any item that you put inside. After trying just a few items you begin to realize just how much power this machine has. | Cats into dogs, blue into red, life into death. This was the most powerful machine in existence, and one small mistake could destroy all of it.
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"What the hell is your problem with that thing??? You've been messing with it for hours."
"You do not seem to comprehend the sheer power that can be obtained wi... | "I could bore you to death explaining the technology that went into making this, but let's just say, no expense was spared and no technological rock was left unturned in developing the Opposite Machine."
The room rose in an approving murmur, clearly impressed but still just as confused by the scientist's words.
"What... | 2021-11-27T23:03:05 | 2021-11-27T20:34:21 | 113 | 77 |
[WP] You are a terrible human being, you only do bad things. But that's because your plan is going to hell and killing Satan. | A golden sun, framed by wispy and delicate clouds adrift in a deep azure sky. Something had gone terribly wrong.
"Welcome, John," he said.
White robes. Long beard. Definitely *not* the guy I was looking for.
"Ahh yes," he smiled, and took a step forward. With gentle hands he rested his palm on my forehead for a mome... | I’ve spent a life killing. From my first kill to my suicide, but for what? Why do I commit such awful crimes? What is my cause? My mission is to kill Satan.
From a young age we are all told it’s wrong to kill. Every religion tells us so and for those who commit the atrocious sin it’s a one way trip to Hell. And that’... | 2018-10-13T14:02:17 | 2018-10-13T13:40:30 | 246 | 68 |
[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... | **FOR THOSE WHO WANTED A SECOND PART!!** [Here's part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Necromorphs/comments/5zt7d0/the_calling_part_2/)
My parents had insisted on a party. They said it was tradition and invited aunts and uncles and cousins from gods knew where, half of the people I had never seen in my life.
Quite a fea... | Everyone stood around. My mom was the most excited while my dad just hung around in the background talking to my Uncle Paul. Several friends from high school were hanging back all waiting for my word to appear.
My mom had "Caregiver" on her wrist and was both a nurse and a mother like no other. My dad had "Build... | 2017-03-15T20:33:55 | 2017-03-15T17:54:01 | 5,607 | 1,085 |
[WP] A magical medieval fantasy empire frequently invades inferior, magic-less dimensions for easy conquest. This time though, they target the modern day technologically advanced Earth. | Their initial attack took us by surprise. Portals appeared on the outskirts of a large town, that was quickly overtaken by the aggressors. Brutish, savage humanoids in chainmail, hacking at anything and anyone, followed by robed figures throwing fireballs. And dragons, as well as many more warriors, more disciplined th... | "First reported sightings of what seems to be large armies of men and monsters in the Yukon. The Canadian government demands a summit at the U.N to discuss this issue after they ravaged through the territories of Nunavut, Yukon, and the Northwestern Territories and are now bearing their jaws at the prairie provinces of... | 2021-06-25T22:42:36 | 2021-06-25T21:49:14 | 136 | 31 |
[WP] You’re born always knowing what percent through your life you are. While walking to work you catch a shimmer of light in the sky. Your progress skips from 19% to 85%. | It had all started on my 15th birthday. I’d been walking to school, as usual, when the glimmer of a dancing neon sign caught my eye. Involuntarily, I turned, the tiniest flick of the eyes, such a small twitch for the catastrophe that followed.
In that instant, just the blink of an eye, my life bar glitched upward from... | I had just turned eighteen years old a couple of months before. I figured I would live to be about a hundred plus so I wasn't really worried. I mean 19% was only one-sixth of my life, right? I dunno, I'm was never that great at math but I know I figure that I had a lot of living to still to do.
My plans were to avo... | 2018-05-07T05:40:43 | 2018-05-07T05:12:51 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] A man makes a deal with the Devil, and the Devil refuses to take it. | "Seriously?"
"Yes, Mr. Satan, er, your devilness, sir."
"Just Satan, please. Let me make sure I've got everything. You."
"Me."
"You. Want to trade me. Your immortal soul. For a McDonalds number 3 combo."
"Yep. That's my offer."
"So what's the catch?"
"No catch. I'm just out of gas and super starving."
"You want... | "I summon thee, Satan!" John chanted. He had been doing this ritual for what seemed like hours,but was really just minutes of him hallucinating and unconsciously continuing the dark incantation.
Fire burst forth, and Satan appeared in the summoning circle, prompting John to come out of trance. "You have summoned me, m... | 2014-12-03T13:47:10 | 2014-12-03T12:14:09 | 103 | 50 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | I don't fucking get this guy. Is he just simple? Does he not care? Does he even know what's going on? We've been here for an hour and gotten nowhere.
"Yeah, you will I bet! You're probably better at whatever game you have then me. You'll probably win." he says, glancing at an old Xbox in the corner. His dull blue eyes... | *Disclaimer: This is my first one in English ever. And I suck at English (not my native tongue at all). Please be kind while criticising.*
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—You... do know I'm about to kill you, right? —I told her.
—Yes, we've already established that, sir. What I fail ... | 2015-04-29T08:09:13 | 2015-04-29T07:57:35 | 974 | 134 |
[WP] You wake up to a knock at your window at three in the morning. You open the blinds to see a giant, horrifying mothman-esque creature. It presses it’s face up against the glass and says “Bro, let me in. I’m a fairy.” | It's amazing what you'll take at face value when you're rudely awakened in the middle of the night. Still in that haze where you're not quite asleep, but really wish you still were, you know?
In that state, can you really blame me for opening the window?
So there I was, wearing nothing but a dressing gown, squinting ... | "I can't catch a break." Linda said to herself as she opened the window, "Come on in." She went to her and pulled a bathrobe out and cover almost naked body. Her breast weren't big enough to justify a bra at night, and she was on her cycle. Another inconvenience of the moment. "So what's the deal?"
"I want to file an ... | 2022-09-23T03:33:46 | 2022-09-23T03:01:13 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | They called us biologicals.
The English translation anyway.
Early earth education would frequently teach its young about how to take care of their bodies.
“Your body is a machine. You need to take care of it” teachers would say, with all the gravitas of elder knowledge.
Scientists would study how the human body fu... | "Okay, did my translator glitch out? Because it sounds like you just called humans an 'artificial intelligence.'" Captain Perry rubbed his temples - he hadn't expected first contact to be this complicated. The aliens had fled on sight, done everything in their power to avoid being in the same *star system* as the hum... | 2020-07-09T08:27:11 | 2020-07-09T08:03:30 | 711 | 99 |
[WP] You walked among them for years knowing they didn't or couldn't see you, but then one of them did, and it was . . . | Another new family. I watched eagerly out of the window as they arrived. It didn't look hopeful. The little girl couldn't be older than five and they had a dog. I sighed. It's still better than nothing. At least the child and the dog would know I was there. Maybe if I could get the little girl to see me as a friend rat... | The days stopped distinguishing themselves quite quickly. The colours of the train station didn’t sparkle with possibilities like that did when I was a child. They were just the same greys and whites passing past me like a misty rain of metal and electricity.
The sales promotion was supposed to be the next step in an ... | 2014-03-29T08:38:36 | 2014-03-29T08:38:33 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You've become an immortal being. Living throughout the ages you begin to notice that the souls of your companions or adversaries reincarnate and always seem to be drawn to you. After countless lifetimes, someone remembers.
Edit: This got so many responses! There's a lot of great post. | Our eyes locked across the crowded, smoke-filled room of the Kandahar tea house. He sat with a pack of his Bedouin brothers around a hearty meal, while I enjoyed my steaming beverage alone. I instantly recognized him despite his dark skin and smoky eyes; in his last incarnation, he'd been a blond Russian with eyes like... | “You feel like an old soul,” I said teasingly, watching her eyes in the candlelight. They were the same eyes I’d seen under an Egyptian moon, glinting in reflection in the Yang-Tze, huddled close by a bonfire in Nepal, by the same sort of candlelight in France. “I feel as though I’ve known you forever.”
She giggled a... | 2016-08-29T08:06:50 | 2016-08-29T07:56:28 | 305 | 105 |
[WP] Close the biggest plot hole in your favorite book or movie | "I will go to Mordor, though I do not know the way. Gandalf, could we fly?"
"Yes, Frodo, let's fly. On an eagle. To Mordor. Let's be miles above the ground and the lone object in the sky passing over mountain ranges towards our nemesis who is a giant eye. Even better, let's make sure that we are clinging to a bir... | *The Princess Bride*
**Inigo Montoya:** Do you hear that, Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when Rugen slaughtered my father. The man in black makes it now.
**Fezzik:** The man in black?
**Inigo Montoya:** His true love is marrying another tonight, so who else has the cause... | 2015-03-26T13:38:58 | 2015-03-26T08:02:10 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] The year is 2050, Queen Elizabeth is still on the throne. The public is growing suspicious, wondering why she is immortal. |
I have always ruled.
No matter what face I wear or what name I go by.
I like my body. So gentle and kind looking. So easy to pass off anything I say as fairy dust.
When I ask for virgins, they are brought to my bathing chamber once a year.
Two virgins are usually enough. Importing virgins is frowned upon. One ca... | August 5th, 2026:
"God save the queen!" So they drank.
"You know-" said Jerome, pointing to the television screen "-one day she's going to die."
"And that day is gonna' *suck*." said Raymond. "I, for one, hope that day does not come to pass for a long time."
"Here here!"
And so they drank.
 
August 5th,... | 2022-09-08T20:18:49 | 2019-06-27T17:12:31 | 158 | 49 |
[WP] Your grandfather did a favor for a supernatural entity which is now watching over you, saving you from a premature death. Every time it saves you from death, accidental or otherwise, you get a small scroll with the words "you are welcome". You arrive home to a hundred scrolls. "I'm coming over" | My grandfather had done a favor for a supernatural entity when I was a baby, and being his only grandchild he had asked for them to keep me safe in return. The being was true to it's word and always saved me from a premature death. Each and every time I would get a scroll saying "you are welcome."
The first time I got... | May looked at her living room, it was a mess. Scrolls sometimes came, every now and then, but never this much. *what the FUCK?! How am I gonna clean this up- how am I gonna explain this to my roommate?!* . She gathered up as many scrolls she could carry, crumpled them up, and put them in a trash bag.
“I need to fin... | 2021-05-06T17:01:01 | 2021-05-06T14:24:30 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | **"Those forgetting history is bound to repeat it"**
These words are written above the entrance to the chamber of the great council. We thought we knew everything, but there were so much we forgot.
None of the councils members remembered why the image of a grinning human was chiselled into the chamber walls. The pain... | In this solemn hour it is a consolation to recall and to dwell upon our repeated efforts for peace. All have been ill-starred, but all have been faithful and sincere. This is of the highest moral value–and not only moral value, but practical value–at the present time, because the wholehearted concurrence of scores of m... | 2019-04-19T08:22:28 | 2019-04-19T03:06:26 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | The near hollow chamber echoed with remanence of a time long forgotten. The only light entering was from the cracks as the sun fell in winters, peaking through the wall near what was once an entrance. Now covered in ivy and nearly locked by dirt and dust. In the center sat bound by chains forged from obsidian, a queen.... | My crumpled form lay hunched over on the sand stone floor. The room is unnaturally cool for being in a desert wasteland of sand and sun, a characteristic abused by the Egyptians when making tombs for Pharos. Lower chance of decomposition. How demoralizing. A god placed into a chamber for kings. My knees are bent, my fo... | 2020-12-06T15:17:27 | 2020-12-06T14:21:45 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Across a thousand worlds our form inspires fear, as is only right at the sight of perfect apex predators , naturally triggering terror in the lesser prey of the galaxy.
Teeth like knives, skin like scaled armor, claws that can rend flesh to the bone. We are majestic.
The species of most worlds bow down upon our arr... | "They described our landing as an inconvenience and forgot about us after a few days," Admiral D'jellho reported to the Emperor over the secure hologram transit system.
"Have you sent out the diplomats?" the Emperor asked and Admiral D'jellho shook his head.
"We have determined that the planet has already been clai... | 2019-06-11T07:56:44 | 2019-06-11T06:40:55 | 4,721 | 512 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | "What is your business, spirit? What binds you to this world?"
The room was lit by a single black candle with artistic dribbles of wax dripping down the sides. The table was carved with arcane symbols, complete with a pentagram made of honest-to-god gold leaf.
Damn. She was a traditionalist.
I'd only been a ghost fo... | "Damn, even dead I do embarrassing things." I said to myself.
I died. Very recently. And I never got to do this one thing I've been dreading to do for the past four years. But now that I'm dead, I finally have the courage to do it.
You see, there was this girl... There's always a girl. She was the typical popular g... | 2022-07-15T13:20:47 | 2022-07-15T10:33:26 | 136 | 47 |
[WP] As you arrive in Heaven, you are confident you have lived your best life. You proudly exclaim you are ready to have your soul judged. An angel walks by with diced carrots and chicken stock under his arm and says, “Did you say ‘soul’? Please don’t tell me Earth still has the copy with typos...” | "What typo?" James stared blankly at the winged creature before him
"We aren't judging your soul..." The angel sighed and placed a basket of ingredients in front of James on what appeared to be a stainless steel table. The normal grey was replaced with a clean but slightly dulled white, "We are here to judge your soup... | Fuck me. Of all the dumb and asinine things in the after life, the merit of a human's existence is based on fucking soup?
Alright. Just stay calm. I can do this. I can cook soup. I died watching a Gordon Ramsay video while driving for fucks sake.
What do we have here? Ok. Carrots. Those are important. Celery? Also imp... | 2020-11-24T17:11:23 | 2020-11-24T17:06:29 | 1,352 | 756 |
[WP] We are actually living in a video game. One day "God's little brother" decides to play. | "Don't touch that!"
Zeus slung a couple of thunderbolts at his little brother, but the little kid just wouldn't stop.
"Haha, you can't stop me!" Yahweh was running everywhere, Zeus's laptop in hand. This was the second time this universe. "I have ADMIN rights now!"
Zeus watched in horror as Yahweh gave his charact... | "For the love of Vahalla, Loki! You're lucky only Thor can lift that hammer of his or else it would be flying at your face!!"
"What's wrong, Brother? Troubles?"
"Shut up. I know you're cheating...don't make me get Sigyn"
"Oh please do, I'm sure She'd love to See Me win for once."
Odin looked over at Loki, whose inn... | 2014-04-19T02:39:59 | 2014-04-19T00:19:49 | 30 | 12 |
[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 take a step forward. The line to the High Magister grows shorter by the moment as the people befor me are tried and executed on the spot befor the Grand Court of Wizards.
The reading of crimes is honestly the longest part, the crimes are listed for each of us and given a unanimous guilty verdict on the spot.
Cant sa... | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | 2021-06-24T10:08:14 | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 255 | 181 |
[WP] In the future, you are world famous. A lot of the of the arbitrary people in your life (grocers, people you bump into) are actually zillionaires from the future paying a huge amount of money to travel back in time just to get a glimpse of you.
This is sometimes what I think when I meet strangers. They paid to mee... | I hated the stares.
It could happen at the shop, the pharmacy, the gym -you name it. I began noticing it about a month back, but today it was worse than usual.
Now don't get me wrong, I was shopping for breakfast in some dirty old clothes, but nothing that garnered the level of looks that I was getting.
At one po... | *Snick*
I glanced up to see a woman leaning on the seat back of the booth in front of me. It wouldn't have been too weird, except she wasn't getting up for anyone. As a matter of fact, the midday lunch rush had been brief if anything, and most of the restaurant was empty. Seeing nothing unusual, I kept eating.
*Snick... | 2016-09-21T15:00:39 | 2016-09-21T14:48:28 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] The electricity has been cut; there is no more running water; you can hear the dragging footsteps of the undead outside. Your only companion has just finished having a seizure. With confusion in his eyes, he asks you, “have we met before?” | "Yes, Cooper. We have met before. I am your friend."
Cooper lay there, still disoriented. He slowly started sniffing around.
"I feel strange..." he said. "I feel different. Oh... and I feel hungry! Is there food? I want food!"
I sat on the windowsill, looking outside. One of the inflicted was slowly shambling by."Yo... | My wife, was dying, nearing her final days I made a deal with the devil to nake both of us immortal for us to live together forever, he agreed on the conditions:
I will not have any children, I will not document any memories together with her such as writing, photos, videos, etc except from my own mind.
I took this ... | 2022-09-20T02:10:24 | 2022-09-20T01:18:53 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity is bored with virtual gaming and has mastered controlling robot bodies for gaming warfare. Aliens invade Earth and everyone thinks it's an Easter egg in the game and fights them off. | "This planet is crazy." Faftur face-tentacled(?) as she watched the carnage unfolding in the watery planet. Any sane Fothrill would have done the same.
Who would have thought that the planet was inhabited by unmanned drones and robots? Heck, they even flung 60 mm nuclear shell at each other like it was a beach ball.
... | Modern medicine and machines have made it so humans both live a much longer life span, and dont have to lift a finger in doing so. At first people did the usual things that people do in retirement; travel, visit or start a family, get a hobby or whatnot. The thing is, this only entertains people for awhile. So the only... | 2016-07-26T01:28:27 | 2016-07-26T01:13:43 | 232 | 165 |
[WP] "Hello, my name is Mr Hades. As your teacher is out sick, I will your sub until they can return. Yes, I am a god. Yes, there are multiple pantheons. No, I will not tell you your future or grant you wishes. Now if everyone could please turn to page 157 in their textbooks we can get started" | "Hello, my name is Mr. Hades. As your teacher is out sick, I will be your substitute teacher until they can return. Yes, I am a god. Yes, there are multiple pantheons. No, I will not tell you your future or grant you wishes. Now if everyone could please turn to page 157 in their textbooks, we can get started."
A young... | Twenty-nine-and-a-half pairs of hands flipped through their textbooks. A boy raised the missing half, the familiar icy glare baring into Hades.
Hades sighed. This wouldn’t turn out well. Nothing with this family ever did.
“Yes?” Hades asked.
“I know you.”
“I am the ruler of the Underworld,” Hades said. Of course he... | 2022-04-15T19:29:53 | 2022-04-15T19:14:49 | 53 | 22 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | 15,000 years is a long time. It's certainly much longer than most of my kind are capable of thinking in. Today, most of them say that it is the year "2017 AD." I, however, can remember people who said it was "747 AVC." I could remember even farther back to a time and place when it was said to be "the 37th year of the r... | Oh, you're new here, fresh off the press. Literally, what a gruesome way to die you had. But that's all in the past now, that body is nothing but meat now so stop associating yourself with it, and listen to me, your guide to the afterlife, one who has been here longer than anyone else.
Let me explain how it works. You... | 2017-06-26T12:12:09 | 2017-06-26T11:32:59 | 39 | 14 |
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