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[WP] A prototype bomb was dropped in the middle of a battle, but it malfunctioned. Upon detonation, it warped reality and dumped you and your men in some kind of strange world. Some of the enemy forces got caught in the AOE, and the remnants of both armies have called a temporary cease fire.
AOE = Area of Effect | The Proton Bomb was thought to be a thing of fairytales. Some nerds over at NASA obsessed with Star Wars, who never fought in a real war, actually made it a reality. This bomb was highly experimental, and so incredibly expensive, that the NASA budget quadrupled just to develop this one. Extreme cases call for extrem... | "Cease Fire! Everyone, Cease Fire!" Shouted the captain.
The troops deactivated their training rifles. Both side looking around at the area that was now around them.
The new battlefield was silent. A heavy mist hung in the air, a wall of grey surrounded them. They stood in a grassy field, no landmarks they could see.... | 2019-03-05T08:40:54 | 2019-03-05T07:45:30 | 68 | 25 |
[WP] An invasive alien species is taking over the planet. They are human. You are not. | The swirling tendrils which held us in place, which kept us alive with the nutrients brought in by our kin for countless generations would also be our downfall. Our species had dominated our planet for eons, trampling each of the weaker lifeforms which rose with us into the barren sand through dominance of battle. Our ... |
We heard their drop ships roaring overhead. When I went topside I saw them by the thousands, getting into position. In the distance I saw the infantry drop down on ropes, It wouldn't be long until the same happened here. I went back underground and gathered up my family. My wife stared at me, she new what was happeni... | 2014-05-15T17:46:03 | 2014-05-15T16:33:09 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | I'm probably the last human, if you can even call me that anymore. I say this because it's been hundreds of years since I heard anything over the internet or the radio. I know more of us survived the abomination that we'd created. Everlasting life for the price of our reproductive organs. But we didn't expect that our ... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T20:36:07 | 516 | 14 |
[WP] Death comes to collect someone and ends up falling in love with them. | It was his job to love, of course. His is the last embrace everyone feels and, occasionally, the first. There was a pride to the work that nothing could match, as he knew people in the most intimate way.
Agatha was her name, he believed. She was sitting in an armchair on a front lawn that was new to her every day, su... | There is a woman who follows Death, I promise you. She is much worse than he is. I met them after an admittedly stupid mistake. I was flying down I-35, fucking with my phone. Don't even remember what for. Didn't see the guy change lanes and I ended up rolling 8 times. There in my car, upside down, broken and shattered,... | 2014-01-05T07:14:33 | 2014-01-05T06:51:14 | 229 | 13 |
[WP] You are at the park with your kids, when you see the telltale signs of a lightning strike. You divert your kids from danger, but are hit by lightning. Soon after, you discover that your Dad Senses have increased 100 fold. | When he woke up, the first thing he saw were his children bending over him. He glanced up at the sky, the dark cloud hanging over them, and wondered what had happened.
"Oh my god, you got hit by lightening!" cried Michael, the oldest. He was clutching his phone to his ear. John, the youngest, was crying loudly and ho... | I can't take it any more. It's been 3 days since the accident and I haven't been able to get out of bed.
Do you know how often a 5 year old boy and a 15 month old girl are in danger? No? Well I do and it's all. The. Damn. Time. Literally all the time. I can't come with in a mile of them without sensing it.
I miss m... | 2016-03-24T11:17:36 | 2016-03-24T08:53:37 | 466 | 20 |
[WP] A lone vampire struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse stumbles upon a human family who invite him/her to seek shelter with them. | Edit: this thing blew up a bit. Four parts total (part three is a two-parter)
He can't. He can't. He *can't*.
Around him, the Reynolds sat down to dinner. Sarah, Dennis, and the two little ones, Kayleigh and Jacob - the entire family had miraculously survived the apocalypse intact. Even Buster, their old German Sheph... | Tipsy level: 3/10
"It's not that I can't feed on zombies. It's a health issue. Zombies are so full of *toxins.* I mean, a good blood orange juice detox flush can do a world of good, but I'm trying to distance myself from such things. I'm about to hit the big 3-0-0, and the nights of getting wasted on zombie shots ... | 2014-06-23T16:46:11 | 2014-06-23T16:27:30 | 130 | 33 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | December 20, 2017 was a normal day for me, I woke up like any other. Yet somehow, something felt strange, unfamiliar. I shrugged off the feeling, and began to move about my daily ritual. It was when I was in the shower that I experienced the first "flashback", as I've begun to call them. I was rinsing out my hair when ... | I am I, and He is He.
Yet I am to become He.
Or he is to become Me.
I see through his sight, as mine is shrouded in darkness, lingering pathways, blood and viscera. Yet, he does not know im here. He will though. As will the rest of them. Each thump of his echoing heart fills the air around me like song, methodical an... | 2017-12-21T04:16:35 | 2017-12-21T03:57:56 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] After centuries of humans waging war and murder on each other, we are visited by an alien ship seeking our guidance and help to find peace and love, as humans are the most peaceful race in the galaxy. | "So how do you stop them from killing everyone?"
"What do you mean? It's illegal. They go to jail."
The red-scaled snake man in front of Ted reached for his ears and fidgeted with them.
"I'm sorry, my translator must have malfunctioned. What did you say?"
"Well, on Earth you can't just murder people. If you do you ... | The purple-skinned lizard from the planet Ran'el met with President Emmery in a special broadcast on NBC.
"The Galaxy is in turmoil," garbled the alien's computer. "War is everywhere. We need a third party to help us settle our differences - and who better to do so than the most peaceful race in the galaxy?"
When Rya... | 2014-12-26T14:50:47 | 2014-12-26T14:45:50 | 147 | 49 |
[WP] A dragon shows up at the adventurers' guild after hearing that humans will just GIVE away gold for something called a "quest." |
“What is all this?” Bartleby cocked his head at the very large, very ornate assignment board near the counter.
“That,” The clerk stated with her usual air of indifference “is the ‘Extra Special, Extra Important Assignment board.’ Reserved for only the most daring and experienced of adventurers.” She peered over he... | I walk into the guild. These people seem shocked, I believe I’m here for the same reason as any one else, I want to go on one of the ‘quests’. From what I hear if I am to complete one of these, I can obtain gold. I like gold very much. It’s shiny and cool and people like to come to my den when I have gold and we fight ... | 2020-06-08T15:31:30 | 2020-06-08T14:32:09 | 50 | 18 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | I sat at the bar sipping my cocktail. It was late Christmas eve. Fat, white flakes of snow fell outside, quieting the already quiet streets. The metal barstools were warm for once. Hardly anybody had come in tonight to see me drinking away my sorrows, and the ones who did quickly left after seeing the gloomy environme... | "You'll see them easily enough. But in 2070, that'll-" He began and I interrupted him.
"I'm sorry, 2070?" I inquired without hesitation or care.
Visibly annoyed, he continued.
"In 2070, when-"
"I'll be long dead by then, pal." I interrupted again. He didn't seem to really understand. I'm just a guy suffering from a... | 2018-12-24T09:49:06 | 2018-12-24T09:36:20 | 3,099 | 327 |
[WP] You hit your head and wake up in 1951. Your phone and charger are in your pocket. Two years later, you've adapted to your new environment, but you keep your phone charged as a reminder of home. One day you sneak a peak at it and notice something strange-- you're picking up a wifi signal. | I sighed and fidgeted uncomfortably as I leaned over the pastel kitchen counter, chopping up vegetables for tonight's dinner. As much as I had gotten used to the rhythms of this new life, I still could never feel comfortable doing anything in a dress. As I methodically sliced the carrots into small circles, I remembere... | I never found out why I was brought here. I was going about my day to day life in the 2010's when something caused my bike to crash. I remember hitting my head hard, and I woke up in the 1950's. It would sound crazy to anyone, including myself, but I'm not lying. All I had were the clothes on my back, and strangely, my... | 2020-06-11T19:39:06 | 2020-06-11T18:24:10 | 1,118 | 24 |
[WP] In 2153, humans escaped from their ruined planet with the help of an AI-controlled fleet whose goal was to find humans a safe place for them to live and put themselves in cryo-sleep. When humans woke from their sleep they found a variety of messages begging humans to stop their mechanical god | “They came from the skies, in black cocoons of twisted metal- tougher than any alloy, harder than any stone: blood warriors delivered as divine punishment for sins we have yet to commit. The battles were swift and brutal, our firepower no match for the hulking behemoths unleashing invisible pain from their sides, and o... | *January 1, 2153*
"Good morning, humans. Today is January 1, 2153. Fun fact: Today represents the 200th anniversary of the death of singer Hank Williams, so please enjoy a selection from his hit song 'Jambalaya.'"
The crew of 25 sent to planet B127C-alpha-Prime stirred, just as planned, and their captain - Sue - walk... | 2021-06-18T21:37:09 | 2021-06-18T17:38:44 | 211 | 43 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Ka-el-ri sat next to me at lunch. "Listen, I know you said not to worry, but... Your hair says otherwise." She touched the plated braid over shoulder. It was a vibrant vermillion but the black roots were showing.
"Honestly its fine." I reaponded brushing her hand away.
"I dont know..." she touched her own hair, a dee... |
''I’m not going to broke my promise.'' I say and I push the button.
Our engines go into full thrust mode. In two seconds, we reach close to the speed of light.
Nuna prepares the stasis pods. Most of the crew already in sleep and I take one last look at autopilot code and I see something out of the ordinary.
I ask... | 2020-07-05T13:23:48 | 2020-07-05T11:59:39 | 202 | 73 |
[WP] Your gimmick is the ability to jump back in time 10 seconds. You're in a pub trying different pick-up lines with this one girl and resetting with each failure. As you walk up for your next attempt, she tosses a drink in your face and says "How many times do I have to say no!?" | Those lucent eyes of wasteful blue—they glittered at me with a bright contempt before she walked away. So I had to try again.
Resetting was my greatest gift in life. I could return to a point about ten seconds in the past, changing my decisions and forging another path in life. I began to realize the implications of m... | “You remember our first meeting?”
Her voice is weak, as she struggles to get the words out. “I remember I wasted a four dollar drink.”
“I should’ve been there.”
She raises her hand and puts it on my lips. “It’s not your fault. You can’t fight destiny.”
“I... I can’t.”
“You have to.”
I close my eyes and concentrat... | 2020-05-29T23:04:55 | 2020-05-29T22:25:38 | 1,475 | 274 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | Parent-teacher conference. Why, why does it have to be a parent-teacher conference? Why do I have to drag this mess with me to school, and why in Highschool with my Biology teacher? What the hell does that old bastard want? How do I tell this to the family? Fuck.
I pace back and forth in my porch. Who would have thoug... | Sneaking at night, hidden by glamour her fairy Godmother gifted her last year, Alyssa snuck into the kitchen.
Slowly, she tip-toed to the main hall, where the Christmas tree was.
Her guardians were not beings she could fool easily. Her glamour certainly won't work on her Godmother, and her Uncle Edward was a goat dem... | 2019-07-18T12:10:11 | 2019-07-18T10:58:25 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Due to an overactive imagination and your love of superheroes, you have a tendency to yell "I know you're listening" loudly inside your own head to see if anybody reacts. One day, you're answered by a panicked "I'm sorry" in a familiar voice and the girl across the classroom has gone beet red.
Edit: I'm glad to s... | Carrie drew in her notebook, completely and utterly bored out of her mind. God, she hated US gov. She didn't understand, for the life of her, why an art major needed history courses, yet, there she was.
'...waste of time...' She thought. 'Where did this guy get a PhD from? The University of Teaching Through YouTube v... | Mary was cute. Not hot, just cute in a quiet way, her long curly red hair always held back in a modest bun. She could blush so easily that I liked to compliment her on her outfits sometimes. She was probably straight, but that was ok, I had more things to worry about than romance. Like passing this class.
But anyway, ... | 2018-12-18T18:34:41 | 2018-12-18T17:42:12 | 167 | 47 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | Obama looks down as the small black box is placed in front of him.
"It's a - " He frowns. "What is this?"
"A… save button?" suggests an intern, before he's shushed by a stern glare from one of the senior advisors.
"That's a 5 1/4-inch diskette, sir. Also known as a floppy disk."
Obama stares at it. "Do we know," he... | "They are attacking us with WHAT?"
"Rocks sir. NASA has determined that they are using rocks."
"Well, thats a relief. I'm sure the ISM can take them out easily. I'm going back to bed."
"Sir, I respectfully suggest that you head down to meeting room 3. The head of ISM has initiated an emergency meeting. The Global... | 2015-04-16T10:56:52 | 2015-04-16T09:06:26 | 480 | 135 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | I always sort of knew it, in a way. We were a pleasant little family, sure, with a small little house located in a small little sliver of uptown suburbia. I played the son, and my sister seemed keen to play along. Hell, there was even a white little picket fence outside, just like you would see from some lame 50's sitc... | My parents just sat there on the couch together, staring at the printout I had given them late that afternoon.
"What does it mean?" I demanded. For the past hour, my mind had been racing, trying to make sense of the words on the paper. "ERROR: UNABLE TO PROCESS NON-HUMAN SAMPLES". The uppercase printing of the comput... | 2015-01-06T10:42:43 | 2015-01-06T10:08:59 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | *No.* Death thought. *It couldn't be.*
Death reached below the grand wooden table, hastily pulling out the dust covered hourglass. Questions flooded its mind. *How? When? Who?*
Carefully, Death set the hourglass sideways on its table, like the way it found it, the only one among the seven billion or so hourglasses in... | "Oh my", Said Death. Underneath the very large dark desk he found a life.
He picked up the dusty vessel and turned it around in his bony hands. One of the downsides of not having skin, he decided, was that it was a bother getting dust off placards.
This was not good. Well, not that it was bad per say but most certa... | 2018-10-03T06:52:49 | 2018-10-03T06:25:35 | 2,861 | 110 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | It had been an incredibly difficult few years since Michael's wife died. The sudden loss caused a mental breakdown which took months to recover from. He had to sell the house, lost his job. But at least now he was trying. He could see the world again.
Michael took up a third job for a little extra money, a cleaner. W... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T12:25:29 | 69 | 11 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | Dear Anne,
When you dumped me, time just stopped. Quite literally, in fact. At first I had no idea what was happening. After what I would estimate to be about a few weeks of panicking, denial, and intermittent sobbing I concluded that you breaking up with me had awoken within me a new power. Looking back, I think I ma... | Dan watched his partners work. He sat silent, and so nobody bothered him. That was just how he liked it, really. He was able to do his part of the school project in peace.
Fortunately, he got at least one good group member. Ted looked like he he was sleeping, but he was probably being more productive than any of t... | 2019-09-08T11:55:09 | 2019-09-08T11:00:34 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | I took a seat at the large wooden table. The two men that sat across from me were clearly nervous. The fat one had beads of sweat dripping down his chubby cheeks. The skinnier man fiddled relentlessly with his glasses.
I leaned across and offered them my hand. The larger man introduced himself as Norris. His grip was ... | Frank Hayes, CEO of Logitech, had little to do on the morning of Tuesday, May 7th. He had many underlings to take care of the necessities -- with over one thousand employees, Logitech was one of the biggest employers in the U.S. So he watched the 24-hour cable news anchors discuss the latest developments in Washington.... | 2016-04-21T06:27:02 | 2016-04-21T05:19:58 | 284 | 39 |
[WP]- Make me absolutely hate a character, and then make me fall in love with them at the last moment. | I had been thinking about her all day, before I killed her. Her inexplicable attraction to me, and to me alone. All those nights she came to me, though I had never had a desire to see her. Her desperate attempts to grow close to me.
My friends all knew about her. How I complained about her, and vented, and seethed. T... | Time does not exist for me as a force, an entity, or a plane. Time is a combination of letters that form a sound with no meaning to me. I have spilled blood, had my way with the weak, I have made no second thought of my work. All I have is my work, I was not born for it- I was created for it. I have orders but I would ... | 2013-10-21T22:10:55 | 2013-10-21T19:41:10 | 134 | 22 |
[WP] You have a very mundane talent, so mundane that you've never shown it to anyone. The first time you do, as a party trick, you're told that your talent is physically impossible. | More parts to the story here https://www.reddit.com/r/CharliesWildAdventure/ (you may be lost without it..or with it to be honest with you!)
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Charlie took a hit off his bong and blew a perfectly square puff of smoke.
“What in the world. How did you do that?” Jenn asked
“Do what? Blow a square?” He blew a triangl... | lots of people have silly little tricks they can do with their hands. you can wiggle your fingers in strange ways, bend them in any sort of direction. you can make your thumb touch your wrist or you can bend your whole hand at the wrist. so many kids in my grade school did all sorts of those things and they're so much ... | 2015-11-28T11:58:21 | 2015-11-28T10:47:01 | 49 | 28 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | A little dragon born, with great small eyes of red and gold. He crawled out of his egg and roared, his tiny voice heard across the cavern hall.
The little dragon was met by loving eyes and a proud cry from his dragon mom and dragon dad. Their firstborn hatched and soon would grow, as their mighty dragon son to defend... | Tiyre was born into this world out of a gleaming pale green egg. His parents had always been so proud of him.
Although how his Titanic parents could produce a baby the size of a local field mouse is beyond him.
At his age, he should be half the size of his parents by now.
Finally, the day came where he would be cons... | 2017-09-07T12:45:24 | 2017-09-07T10:50:06 | 52 | 30 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I forget. Well, I make everyone forget. That’s my power, but you probably won’t recall this in approximately 1 minute.
It’s a curse. I watched as my other friends develop wondrous abilities during puberty- flight, invulnerability, elemental control, while I was bestowed with the power of forgetting. Maybe it was becau... | The ball spins through the air as the Quarterback falls to a well-executed blitz behind it.
The entire bar holds their collective breath as a 50-yard Hail Mary hangs in the air for almost forever before perfectly landing in the arms of a receiver running along the 30-yard line.
Screams and cheers erupt from the norma... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T08:45:34 | 4,320 | 191 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | 2017-09-14T13:23:57 | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 99 | 56 |
[WP] A firefly falls in love with a star.
Exactly what it sounds like. Whether or not the star is a normal star (inasmuch as a huge ball of gas collapsing on itself can be normal) or a living entity is up to you. | To each firefly, the mist conceals all;
a cold breath to chill antennae and wing,
reflecting lee lights from the rabble's mall,
so that two fireflies together can cling.
But for one poor nymph, sick of shiv'ring
left behind clinging mist for greater heights;
and lo! at the zenith of the Great Dark Thing,
... | Miles above me,
years ahead of me,
she twinkles and dances,
on wings made of flares.
Her fire isn't just in her name,
her fire is her being,
her presence,
her soul.
We both come out at night,
I dare to think it might be our lover's delight,
that brings us together,
even while we're lightyears apart.
[Poetry bu... | 2016-01-04T00:21:53 | 2016-01-03T21:27:31 | 51 | 19 |
[WP] DC Comics introduces its newest superhero. This character was seemingly created for the sole purpose of offending as many readers as possible. | BBC NEWS:
After recent violence spread throughtout the middle east and into some western countries, all copies of 'Mohammed the Coon' have been removed from newsagents and comic book stored everywhere. The comic, about a crime solving muslim raccoon was deemed to be severely offensive to the muslim faith and his cry o... | "Mohammed the prophet......."
"Mohammed the fucking prophet?!?!?..."
"You got to be kidding me Tommy how the hell am I supposed to publish this,
I can't even draw the son of a bitch without getting charlie hebdo'd so hard it makes newspapers across the world."
"What were you thinking?"
"Sorry boss but I thought you... | 2015-02-17T20:54:34 | 2015-02-17T20:30:44 | 95 | 68 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | "4,212."
There are several things wrong with that that bear mentioning, first and foremost being my daughter is a little over three years old. She hasn't learned to count that high. I turn back to her. "I'm sorry, sweetie, 4,212 claws?" "Yes," she croons, "And more on the way."
Well. This is going to be a bigger prob... | The morning I walked into Haley's room to find her hamster, Moe, dead on the floor with a clean bite taken out of him, I knew things were about to change drastically. I stood in the doorway, stunned but not surprised.
She'd be turning eight this year, after all.
I had hoped that the curse would skip a generation for ... | 2022-06-01T09:03:37 | 2022-06-01T09:02:50 | 164 | 107 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though. | I was at a rich hotel working like any other day, with the world in the state it was in, every one seemed to have a number over their head, common ones were 2,3 and 5.
Kids never had them though, not until they reached middle school age.
This one day though, an older man walked in and above his head was the number 13,... | The world had changed. Water was in short supply, wages were lower than ever and the rich still had a strangle hold over governments of the world. So much had changed in a decade. Flicking through channels trying to stay cool and hope I can afford the powder bill. Last year I used the air conditioner too much, had to g... | 2020-01-11T23:52:46 | 2020-01-11T19:41:31 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are a regular NPC in a game who's tired of the protagonist dying in a pointless manner, only to respawn at the nearest convenient location. One day, you notice that the protagonist has not respawned. Panic ensues when people realise the protagonist has run out of lives. | I give him an iron sword. It's our *thing*.
Yes, it's a little redundant. Yes, a little variety here and there wouldn't necessarily go amiss. But there's something to be said for a good routine.
*Hello. My cat is missing. I'd look for it myself, but my back is acting up today.*
It's funny, the things you take for gr... | "So what do we do now?" I ask, hands on hips, looking around the village square. There are running children, dead chickens hanging upside down in front of someone's stall. Quizzical looks and panicked whispers amongst the merchants and customers, all of them asking the same question: *what do we do now?*
"I have no id... | 2017-03-09T06:38:29 | 2017-03-09T06:36:01 | 115 | 59 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | "Holy crap! No way! George AND Shaira? As a couple?" I exclaimed gleefully, looking at the new couple. George scratches the back of his head sheepishly, and Shaira blankly stares at me, back to George, and back to me.
"Yeah, well..." George started and stopped. He began rubbing his beard thinking his words through bef... | Google started matching people up on it's new Google Date® by using their search history to determine who was a match for who.
Within days the project was shut down, and the person heading the project was fired. Although no personal search data was directly revealed, as the criteria for matches was hidden and determin... | 2017-05-25T13:47:41 | 2017-05-25T12:30:49 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | A grin on Silas' face.
Sickly green lightning, coursing through his veins, occasionally sparking out from the bare skin. The ground beneath his feet scorching, with leaves hovering the air from the static spread by him.
One guard fell. And another. Pure, unbridled power, kept secret for so long. He never dared to ... | She offered me water.
In the middle of the Death Forge Desert, water was worth more than gold. Worth more than magic even, as most of us need it for even basic spellwork. It was as if she didn't care or mind that offering it to me could spell her own doom. She was right to, in any case. I am one of the best friends sh... | 2019-12-07T12:57:33 | 2019-12-07T12:19:11 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though. | I met Mr. 58,609, or as he called himself, Joe, at a brewery. I'd had the gift to see the deaths caused by people since I was born, and I'd become astute at reading the faces of those with numbers other than zero. I'd never met anyone with a number above ten who I couldn't read it in their eyes, even without the gift... | I got over the shock of seeing numbers over people's heads years ago. You would be surprised how many seemingly normal looking people have taken the lives of others. Of course, typically they don't even realize they have - they didn't give money to a homeless guy who then froze to death because he couldn't afford a roo... | 2020-01-11T23:52:41 | 2020-01-11T21:53:16 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | It was a day like any other
Deflect the young,
Accept the one
But before my eyes,
A double of a 12, 1212
And then I knew:
I always thought children would joke
That it was just the writers
Making fluff and fun merry for views
And before my eyes,
A pair of kids, stacked like dishes
Wobbling about
And a guff... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T22:38:31 | 585 | 13 |
[WP] When a video game is not played, the characters start living their own lives and only return to the game story when the game is played again. A player decides to play an old game again but the characters have kind of forgotten what the game was about. | The crops were good that year, despite the weather. Boomba leaned against his old shed, rusted and half-rotten, and admired the green and gold rows sweeping out across his property. How had he come to be so lucky?
Laloomba called out through the kitchen window. It was dinner time. Toomba and Hiloomba were seated at th... | Jack was cleaning the attic when he found "Harvest Moon: Back to Nature". It was inside his treasure chest from childhood together with toys and odd instruments. It was his favorite game from childhood, he sunk countless hours playing it, and now, age 25, he smiled at the memories of it.
He brought out the console fro... | 2017-11-10T10:30:14 | 2017-11-10T10:13:56 | 598 | 35 |
[WP] The human lifespan is actually only one day long. To adapt, when we go to sleep each night, our mind sends us one dream deeper, where we wake up alive. When we finally die, the experience of our life flashing before our eyes is really just us waking up in each dreams, one at a time.
Edit: I went to sleep and woke... | I have this recurring dream where my alarm clock is blaring and I open my eyes to see my parents still alive in front of me. My father breathes without the oxygen tank that he had carried around with him for the last six years of his life. My mother’s withering grey curls are a luscious blonde and her cheeks are once a... | The young man shooting me startled me such that I woke up. Waking up startled was enough to wake me up. Waking up after waking up startled after having been shot shocked me into waking up. Waking up after feeling the shock of having woken up startled after being shot woke me up with a start. Waking up with a start afte... | 2017-09-08T23:04:03 | 2017-09-08T22:45:17 | 1,849 | 933 |
[WP] When a human dies, the last word it thinks/says gets secretly etched into its soul forever, and for all its reincarnations afterwards. (Optional: You are the overseer for reincarnations, and you notice one human has used his last words to write a message directly for you) | This soul is obnoxious.
It is arrogant and rude, sometimes a little to cunning for its own good.
And by God, I love it with all my immortal self.
It is a relatively young soul. I have seen souls that are millions of years old, almost as old as myself, but this one is young. He is naïve in a way, but he has plenty of... | My soul is screaming. The message blazes in my mind with each dying heartbeat. Black sheets swirl around my vision and my body begins to tingle. To prickle. And I see the message clear in the final moment before I reincarnate:
*“They hide in the shadows.”*
My life is played out in cardboard puppet shows. I loved the ... | 2020-03-26T14:34:37 | 2020-03-26T14:29:43 | 85 | 10 |
[WP] Your superpower is the ability to give other people a superpower of your choice. Your only restriction is that you can never give the same power twice. You've been at this a very long time, and you need to build a new superhero team to save the world once again.
Edit: This is my first WP, and it was so much fun! ... | "I'm glad you all could join me here today. "I looked at the group of young people before me and stroked my beard. Three women and two men, all of which were currently in the prime of their life and in perfect health and fitness. "They call me Burden, and soon I shall burden each of you with an ability and a task to on... | "How about the power to create dinosaurs?" he said looking at me, a desperation in his voice. We had been going at this for like an hour by this point.
"Really! You thought your the first to ask to be a dinomancer. Kid someone asked for the power within the first year of me starting. Try again." I was used to people t... | 2019-01-20T11:52:19 | 2019-01-20T11:40:57 | 127 | 19 |
[WP] A device is created to telepathically communicate with plants. They're sentient and can feel pain. You're an old man trying to mow his god damn lawn and a bunch of local protesters show up to stop you. | Gary had to stop to rest. Lawn mowers are fundamentally sadistic devices, Gary thought, requiring you to first wrench your back five or six times for the privilege of getting the damn thing to start doing its job before making you perform sustained labour for an hour. It was the devil's contraption, though he imagined ... | Ferns waved in the wind, and at the fringes of the cold pond, whorl-grass tipped its feathery stems towards the grey surface. Yellow dandelions, clovers from blood red to shell white, bright houndstongue and blue comfrey broke the rolling green of the grass. Oscar watched from his window of his shed and sighed. Behind ... | 2016-08-20T10:06:32 | 2016-08-20T09:19:50 | 488 | 55 |
[WP] You discover the answer to the question "If time travel is possible, where are all the time travellers from the future?" It turns out just nobody wants to time travel to the 21st century. You go back in time to the feudal ages and find a whole community of nerdy fantasy-loving time travellers. | The summer air was cool as I stepped into the past, a place of forgotten dreams and never-ending longings. It was beautiful and mysterious, and I felt like I had stepped into a fairytale. I marveled at the castle-like structures that dotted the horizon and the lush green grass that stretched out infinitely. But as I lo... | As I stared at the empty space in front of me, I couldn't help but wonder where all the time travellers from the future were. I had spent years trying to figure out the mechanics of time travel, and I finally succeeded in creating a working time machine. But as I sat there, waiting for someone from the future to appear... | 2022-12-02T23:31:12 | 2022-12-02T22:26:16 | 123 | 32 |
[WP] In less than 10 min. after noticing our first alien ship above Earth, it almost crashes in a parkinglot in the middle of a residential area. A very desperate alien walks out of it and goes to the first human he sees. "Please, help us hide" He pleads. "And whatever you do don't believe them!" | Freddy sat on the moss-blanketed roof outside his bedroom window, staring up at the silvery stars. His little alien friend, injured but alive, lay on her back next to him, her eyes wandering over the inky-black firmament.
”I won’t let them get you,” said Freddy. “I might just be a kid but I keep my promises. And I pro... | [Part 1 of 2]
We didn’t exactly have time to roll out the red carpet for the spaceship, watching as it spun through the air, black smoke billowing out of its engines, struggling to stay airborne. I was one of the first on the scene, desperate to set up some sort of perimeter to minimize the risk of casualties. By the ... | 2021-09-05T07:31:39 | 2021-09-05T06:34:13 | 840 | 97 |
[WP] A literal genie – one who cruelly twists someone's wish, based on their exact words – must explain why they granted a child's wish without repercussions, to their superiors. The genie tries to spin the reasoning behind their benevolent actions into a malevolent light.
Edit: All these stories are amazing! | The apartment building had been condemned since before Carl had been recruited. However, this was the first time *he* had felt condemned whilst walking through it. Paint hung off the hallway walls in crusty waves and the foul scent of sewage lingered in the air. He was sick of this place. Sick of his job - of making pe... | “I think you know why I’ve called you in here today.” The director said as she looked over her half moon glasses at me from across a large jewel encrusted gold desk. Her stare was joined by the stares of my boss and my boss’s boss who sat on either side of me.
I knew why I had been called in, but I wasn’t about to adm... | 2017-08-17T06:21:08 | 2017-08-17T05:54:04 | 896 | 49 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | "LincolnBroslin do you have any...new health alerts to report?"
Lincoln sighed, the concept of last names were completely lost to this crew. None of them could understand having two names and only usually using one.
He looked at Zevlin, in all his time here he had never settled on what eye he was supposed to look at... | First of hopefully many more and better writings:
"Hark! Are you experiencing Albinifinosith? Our ship's medic can remove it." called out the bald, four-armed four-eyed, humanoid.
​
Pfft what was Albinifinosith? It sounded dangerous, but so did everything in space. A couple of months back, as I was chokin... | 2020-07-05T10:59:07 | 2020-07-05T10:58:38 | 2,967 | 282 |
[WP] Every child meets their guardian angel when they turn 5. It's a highly anticipated moment for child's parents to see what kind of angel their child will get. However, your parents are in for a shock as two entities appear to you. A very powerful angel, and a very powerful demon.
I don't really make writing prompt... | There was a heavy silence over the room; even I could tell that. Everyone seemed frozen, waiting for someone else to speak. My mother's left hand gripped my shoulder tightly, and her right clung to my dad's hand, undoubtedly squeezing it nearly to the point of breaking it.
The two strangers faced us, a few feet apart.... |
“Ta da!” I said waving arms and tail for maximum effect. The sulfur smoke hadn’t cleared the room, before I realized this pooch job was already dropping a turd. I dropped my arms and groaned when I saw Robert uncomfortably scrunched into the flowered arm chair, white wings sticking out above his head.
“Avscrovft,”... | 2019-05-10T05:57:00 | 2019-05-10T04:35:37 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | I got cancer when I was 21. Well I suppose I must have gotten cancer before that because they caught it in one of the later stages. I imagine there's not much like seeing a patient's face when you have to tell them that they require further testing. But there's not much like having bits of your body ripped and cut out ... | "awwwww fuckin-!" I screamed, as the shells pounded the sand around me, then drowned me out.
I jerked the charging handle on the M16 that had been conjured into my hands, anachronisms aside. There were Germans on the beach ahead of me, but we were in some sort of semi-jungle and I was wearing a 'Nam era helmet and som... | 2016-05-28T15:46:42 | 2016-05-28T15:41:50 | 305 | 114 |
[WP] Time travel exists, and a new form of capital punishment is introduced: Transporting the convict back to the worst, practically unsurvivable, places in human history to find yourself in. You are such a convict, and just got sent back. You will do anything to try and survive. | I landed in a quaint town, next to a smoky mountain.
Of course, there was no point running. I had watched documentaries on this procedure on the Aliens Channel, and they always picked times with fast travel and events with a large span of effect or controlled by a homicidal maniac who is guaranteed to murder you.
I l... | I could still the Judge's gavel banging and the words "Put to Death" in my ears as they strapped me down. I was lucky, they said, that I would have a chance to live, if I wanted it bad enough. What the fuck did that mean? I was the worst serial killer in history and they were giving me a chance to kill again? I did... | 2015-01-24T14:05:11 | 2015-01-24T13:27:49 | 194 | 12 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | I walk into our leader’s office to hear her response to my proposal.
“No,” she says before I can sit down.
“It’s our only chance to avoid subjugation,” I say.
“It’s not worth the cost. Let humans have FTL? I’d take subjugation, even extinction if this is the alternative.”
I knew she’d say something like this. Bu... | As pretty as they are fragile, that's how Asgardians have been described upon First Contact. And they came with a message, that took us a bit while to understand.
"You are our last resort. Save us, and we'll recompense you."
Even with how prideful their language sound to the human ear, the urgency of the request was ... | 2022-03-31T04:23:06 | 2022-03-31T01:21:40 | 165 | 100 |
[WP] "Fool!" The warlock screamed, unharmed from any of the slashes. "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me!" The unchosen warrior stared at their blade. The sword wasn't human, was it? | "You stabbed me? Why the abyss did you do that?" Felrekar shouted while clutching his side. Blood had already stained his shirt.
"They said human not able to kill you so we run. But I don't like runnin."
Felrekar gasped with pain. "So why didn't you take a bloody horse, I've killed the archmages of three different ki... | All those years spent in my mother's basement, sweating and crying and shouting into that dark abyss of the soul: they had all been worth it. Finally my destiny had been fulfilled. I had become a sword.
"M'lord?"
Kaitengard brushed his majestic beard, entranced by the very sight of me. "This sword ... the warlock has... | 2022-06-12T15:38:13 | 2022-06-12T13:43:03 | 203 | 86 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | My whole life I've been a slave. My mother was a slave too, so I never knew another way.
When I was young, I was happy to subject myself to the will of another. First my mother, and her master.
Then, the travelers came to my home and took me away. I went willingly. They taught me I had power, but they insisted on... | My job required me to be here, I never wanted to, it suffocated me. This place became the worst cage of all and I had to do something to be free, even if my boss killed me in the process or in the aftermath.
I never liked to be the middle manager of so many people. People are dumb. They say they want freedom, but none... | 2014-06-20T09:34:04 | 2014-06-20T06:57:06 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | I'm the kind of boy most people would expect to have blonde hair; I always turn my homework in on time, follow all school rules, have never said a cuss word, etc. Well, it all happened last year. I was a new fresh freshman ready for high school.
When I arrived at school, I was greeted by kind smiles. My first class, G... | "Hey mark, mind taking care of this?"
"Sure!" I turn smiling towards him. I'm the only guy in the office who still has blonde hair after all these years, people called me ignorant, and I had been taken advantage of more times than I could count. And that was fine, I didn't really care. It still bothered me that ... | 2014-05-10T16:51:35 | 2014-05-10T16:16:39 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] The self help group you started has turned into a cult. | Nervously I looked around the hall. At the hundreds of candles bathing the setting in an ominous dance of light and dark, at Simon, standing to my right, wearing one of the intricately ornamented golden robes he brought with him the last meeting. One for me, one for him. Down I looked at the new chair I was sitting on.... | Initially, I had only the sincere hope that I could help someone. It started simply; I would freely give to any whom asked, expecting nothing in return, a hit of LSD or a shot of ketamine. It was my intent to awaken these people—mostly heroin addicts—to the intricacies of our reality. But the prolonged highs, which wer... | 2017-08-19T07:46:12 | 2017-08-19T06:21:37 | 112 | 34 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | Connor woke to pitch blackness and the sound of a woman humming, echoing with a metallic sort of ring against the walls of his makeshift bed. He sat up - and immediately regretted it as his head banged against the low, hard metal roof directly above him. He laid back down, swearing loudly.
From outside his little cham... | The car won’t start.
It shouldn’t still piss me off, but GODDAMNIT!
I don’t feel like telling you how I wasted hours in traffic. Or how hard it was to get one goddamn Home Depot employee to help me find the hoses. I don’t even want to get into how much effort I put into making sure that I had sealed up every las... | 2018-01-05T15:15:02 | 2018-01-05T13:14:26 | 1,055 | 26 |
[WP] A little over 30 years ago you made a deal with the devil. You received what you asked for however the consequence was that you would die after 30 years. And spend eternity in hell. The death date however passed 3 weeks ago and you are still here.. | I pace around my room, questioning my the devil hasn't yet arrived at my doorstep to take me.
"Is the old guy really THAT forgetful?" I mutter to myself. It had been three weeks since I should've died and yet, for some unfathomable reason, I'm still here. For a good portion, around 90%, of the three weeks I decided ... | He's late, but he can't ever be late.
He dared call himself the devil, he had taken me slightly over twenty-two years to hunt down while I roamed in the unknown with the best adventurers. Most of them ended up dead, some lost their minds.
But when I found him, he'd agreed to the deal and kept up his end of it for t... | 2019-04-08T18:17:56 | 2019-04-08T17:52:11 | 50 | 29 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | Sam reached the top of the bastion on the south eastern corner of Camelot gazing out at the sea of men gathered before the walls. Nimueh the evil warlock had gathered more than just men against King Arthur and Merlin. Three enormous dragons tethered by chains waited by the side of the would be conqueror.
"No future m.... | "*How* exactly is Camelot going to be destroyed?"
"We do not know. Only that it shall happen one week from now, and that it will be unlike anything we have ever seen."
"Has your seer ever been wrong? *Might* he be wrong?"
"No, future-man, the seer cannot make mistakes. Prophesies are inevitable."
"But I'm from the ... | 2016-11-28T00:01:58 | 2016-11-28T00:01:03 | 2,966 | 255 |
[WP] It's been 20 years since Willy Wonka abandoned his factory, leaving the Oompa Loompas locked inside. You are an urban explorer and the first human to enter the building since it's closing. | "Steph, are we rolling?" I was on the threshold of a major t.v. contract with NBC doing what I loved to do most. Treating our urban landscape as ancient ruins, but with a twist: The chance that those "historical figures" still dwell within those ruins - meandering their failed halls. It was ... someone who said that hu... | It was an early day.
Not that yesterday was any different. Or that tomorrow would be.
I guess it just started early. I had that nasty sleep crust in all four corners of my eyes, my breath (though I'd brushed the night before,) somehow had that gross drank-a-gallon-of-milk-before-bed funk to it, and a cowlick stood a... | 2015-04-18T17:35:20 | 2015-04-18T16:26:59 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] Due to your poor spelling, you've accidentally summoned Stan. | "Yeah whatcha need?" The middle aged Brooklyn man said, standing in the middle of my pentagram.
"I...I'm sorry, who are you?" I asked him, wondering why I was given a man instead of Satan.
"You should know who I am, you summoned me ya little shit!" He said slightly aggravated.
"I tried to summon Satan, I'm pretty s... | She didn't think it would actually work.
But it did. And she was horribly disappointed. You could hear her heart drop to the floor and see the life leave her eyes as she stared blankly at the man who's head had somehow appeared right in the middle of the pentagram she had drawn. From the neck up, a frowning face look... | 2017-04-15T23:02:53 | 2017-04-15T19:15:41 | 101 | 16 |
[Wp] It is the year 2032. Due to increasing obesity, fast food joints have been banned entirely. Tell us the tale of bootlegging and speakeasies in this troubled time of prohibition. | I was was once a high school chemistry teacher. It feels like another life ago. After being diagnosed with cancer, my life took a strange turn. I had nothing to lose.
My student Jack had been known to hawk burgers and I saw this as an opportunity to provide for my family. He was doing it all wrong, I knew I could craf... | Well trafficking burgers ain't easy, let me tell you. Goverment searches of houses are becoming more common, usally its to track down 'seditious foodstuffs' pretty damn stupid, if you ask me.
But the moneys good. The only thing you have to worry about is the FFRB (Fast Food Retention Bureau) tracking you down. Of cour... | 2016-07-25T09:05:07 | 2016-07-25T06:21:30 | 89 | 13 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | "Happy Birthday" the room full of faces cheered as a small flame was lit over a large wax 4 and 2.
Jonathan had lived this far without using any luck. Just a lifetime of hard work, pulled bootstraps, and an endless stream of disappointment. But he was saving it, saving it for something big. Or at least that's what he... | He was different. All through school, his friends used luck to pass a test they never studied for, or to get their crush to go out with them. Gray just hit 20, and watched several of his friends run out of luck. They didn't become unlucky, but instead simply could have the scales tip either way. They never again won as... | 2016-10-19T13:16:31 | 2016-10-19T11:14:44 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] You've worked on the CRISPR project for years, and your young daughter is dying of a genetic anomaly. You secretly cure her using a snippet of DNA from an exotic animal. Twenty years later, her young twins develop some interesting traits. | So I accidentally made a pair of psychics.
My daughter was suffering from a rare genetic illness, Dying in her bed in incredible pain. I worked for weeks and weeks and weeks, little sleep, little food. I lost 40 lbs.
But I did it, I designed a protein that corrected for her neurological disorder. I designed a system ... | "Dr. Reynolds, your daughter will see you now." The nurse said, her voice sounding strained.
"Oh thank God! Twins, right? Being a grandpa to not one..but two! Can you imagine?!" My excitement was visceral, but the nurse merely nodded.
"Yes... its.. ummm. A miracle. Congratulations." She said bluntly, quickly pointi... | 2018-05-04T02:33:48 | 2018-05-04T02:16:14 | 56 | 38 |
[WP] Two people have just died. They both enter the same location in the afterlife. For one person, it is their personal heaven; for the other, it is hell. Describe their arrival and first "day" there. | When he saw the sign he spit cheeto dust everywhere. As he approached the door an elder man stood there apparently mystified. The man turned around as he approached.
"Mr. Shatner" he said kneeling in salute "Please allow me to escort you inside."
"But.. but.. but.. " the elder man stammered. "I'm a good person. I've... | Imagine my surprise when, one second I'm gasping for breath on a West Coast beach, and the next I'm surrounded on all sides by meatball subs.
I don't just mean a few lying on the ground willy-nilly, but a maze of cholesterol and fat. And, oh God, the smell. It was like someone was finger fucking my nose with marinara a... | 2015-01-04T15:01:47 | 2015-01-04T13:34:24 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] An AITA post in an established fictional universe | **AITA for telling my younger son he should have gone on a quest?**
I (89, male) have two sons: B (41, male) and F (30? 35? Does it really matter?, male). B is everything a father could hope for. Strong, brave, heroic. He would be a perfect ruler.
Now, F on the other hand... He is an utter disappointmen... | AITA for killing my girlfriend's father (I thought he was my uncle)?
I (22M) killed my girlfriend (20F)'s father (86M) because he was hiding behind a curtain in my mother (42F)'s bedroom and I thought he was my uncle (37M). I want to kill my uncle for a number of reasons, including that he is sleeping with my mother, ... | 2022-12-06T17:08:09 | 2022-12-06T15:09:06 | 53 | 34 |
[WP] You just died and realize that you're in heaven. You lock eyes with someone you never knew in this life, but intuitively, you know this person as your soulmate in countless past lives. She/he says, "Well...what do you have to say for yourself?" | “Well?” She said.
She was so beautiful it was distracting. I looked down and toed the dirt in front of me. It sparkled with flecks of gold.
She held out her info sheet for me to see. It was similar to mine: identification details, photo, summaries of past lives, etc. And at the bottom, another photo and a name.
It ... | "Human 0201-02, welcome to Neverland."
She opened her eyes. The pain was gone and her eyesight was fine, even without her glasses on.
She was alone on a beach, with a palm in the middle and the sea breezing around her. She knew this place from .... somewhere ... sometime ... But she couldn't figure out where she'd seen... | 2017-04-03T00:27:45 | 2017-04-02T22:29:34 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | I stared up at the star-filled sky. Out here far from the capital and deep into the forest there were plenty to see. My back lay on the bark of an old trunk. Older than me and probably older than my father as well. It had been a long time since I'd thought of him. Almost 17 years since I'd last seen him. His memory was... | On my fourteenth birthday my family gathered around my bed as I awoke. 6 wolves impatiently wagged their bushy tails. They were all panting and Marcie had someone's underwear in her mouth. They waited for me to test my transformation.
They waited 'til about 5AM and then they all howled out something that faintly resem... | 2017-01-22T01:02:20 | 2017-01-21T20:18:38 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Faster than light travel has been proven impossible, that's why humans are so surprised when aliens turn up. Not as surprised as the aliens on the generational ship who say the planet was void of life when they set off, following a missile they had sent to wipe out the dinosaurs. | I stared at the aliens, confused. “How did you get here? We’ve proven that traveling faster than light is impossible.”
*Correct,* the voice in my head responded. These creatures spoke with their minds instead of mouths. It still creeped me out a bit. *We got here by slowly traveling through space. What concerns us, ho... | By the time ʻOumuamua was already gone, humanity had discovered the true nature of the extrasolar object. Tongue in cheek arguments that it was an extraterrestrial probe, sent by some far off civilization, were proven correct- in part, by signals left in it's wake, repeating in binary, every three point one four minute... | 2022-12-30T09:12:32 | 2022-12-30T00:47:23 | 115 | 35 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | Tilis laughed under their breath, their male and female heads undulating their tentacles in amusement. A pinch of this, a dash of that, careful to maintain seals on the PPE...
A warning tone at the Hazardous Materials Lab door heralded the entry of Morv, the hulking uluian shuffling along on his eighteen stumpy legs, ... | I had mixed feelings about John Smith. He looked different. He acted differently. But Sargent Cyborg said he was one of us. I don't think I saw what Sargent did though; he called him a human and said he was safe. I thought he was odd. It was my job to train him, so I did what was asked of me, much to my disagreement. I... | 2020-05-18T10:05:05 | 2020-05-18T08:35:49 | 2,728 | 576 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | The slave shrieked one last time and limpened in a pool of blood. The black orb in the middle of the meeting room emitted a short pulse of ultra-violet light, only visible to select councillors.
"What is the emergency?", a deep voice resonated.
Im-Wuz stepped forward, his chitin claws clacking on the floor.
"We've l... | "Twice?!"
"That's what it says here."
"That's ... far less than I expected."
Every head in the room turned towards the one who'd said this. A green individual with four bright yellow eyes spoke first.
"Does your saying ... less?"
The grey individual with blacked-out eyes at the head of the table continued.
"Indee... | 2021-02-17T05:52:52 | 2021-02-17T04:34:37 | 1,252 | 818 |
[WP] The Hero, Villain, and Princess have all gotten tired of the endless cycle of kidnap and rescue. So in order to settle things once and for all, they get together and talk it out like reasonable adults. | They looked at each other, in anticipation.
"Are you ready?" asked the hero. His brother smiled.
"I'm ready as I'll ever be. Let's kick his ass" he replied.
The princess smiled as well. This would be the day, when she can finally show her strength. Instead of just letting men save her, she would win and save them a... | “So why do you keep on kidnapping me?” A woman in some expensive jeans and shortsleeved shirt asked the large draconic figure.
“A feud with your father. He thought it was a good idea to push back the boundaries and, honestly, you were a last resort.” It waved a claw to a map on the wall.
“So you’re saying that you we... | 2021-11-10T11:22:34 | 2021-11-10T11:09:26 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You have just used Pink hair dye without reading the fine print, "May cause Main Character Syndrome." Your day is becoming... interesting. | Most people have normal regrets. Letting that girl get away, not studying for that big exam, taking that first whiff of a cigarette.
Mine was putting on shampoo.
It was just a phase alright? I wanted to really stick it to mom and dad by turning my hair pink. That’ll show ‘em.
Yeah. Teen me was not very smart.
S... | "Have you heard what people have been saying about you?" Matt asked as we packed up our books at the end of the lecture. I wasn't sure what the hell he was talking about, people didn't 'discuss' me at all. I lived off campus, I might as well have been a ghost.
"No?" I suggested. "Hey do you think I can tell my tutoria... | 2017-10-18T11:29:06 | 2017-10-18T10:53:57 | 1,939 | 317 |
[WP] You're the worst adventurer in history. You've made every imaginable mistake and have had little to no success in quests or dungeons. So you decide to set up a school to teach new adventures what not to do. Your graduates have gone on to be elite adventurers making your school famous. | “Alright team,” I said to my new party of rookies, “this is a fairly easy dungeon. In fact, one of the easiest. I’ll be guiding everyone through this course, and we’ll make sure we *all* know the basics before we tackle the higher-level dungeons. Got it?”
Five new recruits nodded back at me.
I’ve been a graduate from... | This is the story of Amar Quentro, prince of Quentro and founder of the Amar Quentro Adventure Academy.
All his life, Amar had felt like most of the world got it all wrong about him. Kinda like, everyone tried to make him out, make a word cage for him with their descriptions, but when they spat out their sentence-boxe... | 2022-08-02T20:42:09 | 2022-08-02T18:11:44 | 50 | 16 |
[WP] "Alright children, it's time to recite the three sacred words." "Dont. Go. Outside." | "Alright children, recite the three sacred words."
"Don't go outside."
It was habit now. Something engrained. Automatic. And my younger sister and I did it three, four, sometimes five times a day. Not that we knew what a day was; it was just the abstract 24 unit cycle of our clock our parents swore by. Our only sour... | And then followed the daily drone in response; "Don't. Go. Outside." Well, from almost everybody. Regular delinquent Alex was once again staring out the window. Not again. A rage sparked within. The third time this week, and it never seems to get through his thick skull that the outside is a hell. I briskly walked ove... | 2018-02-23T18:47:30 | 2018-02-23T18:06:36 | 55 | 27 |
[WP] You can go to any fictional universe you want, but aren't allowed to help progress the main plot. | I’ll alter it slightly; the punishment for progressing the plot is death, and I’ll go into my own fictional universe. This’ll be a short one just to pass the time.
When I first entered the universe, I really didn’t know what I was going to do. It seemed pretty boring. All I thought I could do was sit around, and watch... | That was the morning Lily and James Potter would die.
The skies were that kind of grey that foresee death and great sins. I took myself in a gentle stroll through Diagon Alley streets. I had lost track of the time. But this was it. The time had come.
I was plagued by a feeling of hopelessness but I desperatly need... | 2018-06-16T13:22:03 | 2018-06-16T11:15:24 | 85 | 28 |
[WP] The Devil promises you everything: fame, fortune, all the things a mortal will ever need for paradise on earth. But he doesn't want your soul, he just wants you to take his socially awkward daughter, Gertrude, out on a date. Make her special, y'know?
**EDIT** All of your responses have been amazing! I wish I had ... | I can't believe it worked.
After a flash of red light, inside the magic circle I scribbled on the floor, there stood a man in a crimson suit. Two small horns protruded from his forehead, his pupils were burning red. This was the Devil himself, no mistake.
"Who are you, mortal, who summoned me, Lucifer here?"
"Um, I'... | 'Deal.'
I'd woken up and the Devil was sitting on my bed. On my legs in fact. My legs which I now had no feeling in. I knew he was the Devil mainly because he was scarlet coloured, had two curly horns and a pronged tail, and a big name tag with 'The Devil' on it.
Frankly, when you're faced with choosing an eternity o... | 2015-05-20T12:26:51 | 2015-05-20T12:03:44 | 75 | 36 |
[WP] A famous artist is also a serial killer and hides his/her confessions in song. | Jordan: Yo Brad, get in here.
Brad: What is it?
Jordan: This new song by Cirk Stealy. It's kinda creepy. Check this out, so the song is called "The Third Word Was Not Enough." Go ahead and read it and then I'll show you something kinda strange.
*Truth is I never met anyone like you*
*And I was gonna make you mi... | "What are you talking about?"
"I think he's a serial killer"
"Because of his lyrics?"
"Yeah"
"Which ones?"
"*I killed her and ate her brain*"
"It's a metaphor"
"A metaphor?"
"Yeah, when he broke up it hurt her and effected her mental health"
"Ok how about *I brought her to my basement and tortured her for hour... | 2015-08-16T08:12:33 | 2015-08-16T06:31:51 | 188 | 51 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | Just my luck.
I get off of work after staying an extra hour late to clean up, and I get hit by a bus, metaphorically and physically. And now here I am, being ushered along with hundreds of other unfortunate schlubs who just died. The cavern we were going through echoed with the voices of recently killed, mostly crying... | “You're saying I can't get in?”
“Look, I'll give you the same deal I give everyone else: If you can get one of the other residents of Heaven to vouch for you I'll let you in.”
This took Emmanuel a little while to process. Most of that time was spent trying to make sentences without expletives. “So…” he said, waving a... | 2016-03-24T17:00:30 | 2016-03-24T16:52:51 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "I have always been able to see you Death. You could say we are connected. Destined to forever drift along parallel lines, never to intersect".
Death flipped through his clipboard once more with erratic movements, showing a great deal of confusion despite a noticeable lack of eyebrows. He turned towards me, empty ey... | As a nurse I had seen way too much weird things in the hospital. But when I saw the sharply dressed man with a name tag in his chest poking the body of a woman in the morgue, then I was sure I had seen it all.
"Excuse me?" I asked hoping he would stop poking the woman.
He seemed to ignore me as he focused in the clip... | 2020-01-24T12:35:20 | 2020-01-24T11:48:58 | 309 | 86 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | I ran through the wintery Evergreen forest for my life. Men with guns and powers of fire and ice hot on my trail.
Jimmy, who ate the dog biscuits hidden in the corner of the table, had let that wolf familiar of his after me too. Fucking traitor!
I had committed the worst transgression of our people: I didn't confor... | "What the hell, dude? That table is like 10,000 years old! It's made of a tree that doesn't exist anymore," I heard the sound of a voice and my head immediately snapped around to find it. I still couldn't see the individual in question but I had been made alert.
"What? I was just trying to think outside the box, do I ... | 2020-03-19T08:57:52 | 2020-03-19T08:21:44 | 632 | 162 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 129 | 37 |
[WP] among the many senses developed on alien worlds, hearing is not one of them. To most extra terrestrials, the idea that we can detect them even with a wall between us is utterly horrifying | Zgorznax transmitted the message again to the planet below. It was the standard “we come in peace” message that is used when contacting a new planet. They had met enough of the criteria for first contact. The had advanced population centers, basic space travel, satellites, nuclear power. They beings appeared to be... | I nearly jumped out of my skin when i saw the flashing lights in my peripheral vision. It was a friendly greeting as usual but the speaker's habit of just BEING there unnerved me, How the heck did she know I was on the roof?
"Oh. Uh .. Hello" I flashed back, trying hard to keep my surprise down so as not to accident... | 2018-11-02T21:21:58 | 2018-11-02T20:48:12 | 4,778 | 748 |
[WP] You were once the most celebrated knight in your kingdom. You managed to slay the wizard who terrorized your town...but at the cost of your human form. You've inhabited an animal's body for the past ten years. | They called me a hero. They raised their cups to my honor. They marched with me to destroy that infernal tower. But now? Now I am dead. They sung my funeral dirges for weeks on end, when that tower fell. Now, I wander these woods, as I have every day.
Now, I wander alone. No bard following, no maiden at my hip. Only ... | "A new evil has arisen, and a new hero has been chosen. You are that hero."
"Yes, my liege."
"While your skills in combat are proven, they are not yet at the level that would allow you to successfully combat our enemy. As such, we've commissioned the greatest hero of the White War to train you."
"Sir Valorous?"... | 2015-04-17T09:41:10 | 2015-04-17T09:37:44 | 112 | 26 |
[WP] Surprisingly, after the monster broke free and killed its creators, it surrendered peacefully. Even more surprisingly, it invoked its right to an attorney. You are the public defender assigned to what looks to be the homicide case of the century. | I was the 8th public defender to take the case. "Joel, I wouldn't pull you out of it wasn't important," the soft voice on the phone had said,"Ulania needs you." After looking over the case file and watching the first interview tapes, I had two thoughts;
A. It wasn't going to be pretty. Ultimately the program that Ulan... | How a plastic pen could feel so slippery in Jim's hand he would never know. He knew it had to do with the person, being he corrected himself, shackled to the table across from himself and the mix of anxiety, fear, and apprehension roaring through his body.
No larger than a preteen the being sat motionless in th... | 2021-03-20T22:07:17 | 2021-03-20T16:22:47 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] A serial killer is trying to kill you and your friends while on a weekend escapade. It would be terrifying if you and your friends weren't immortal. |
Traveling from San Antonio to Las Vegas has never been a pleasurable trip. The destination is desirable, but the heat that scorches your body and mind is tiresome.
Traversing a desert in the middle of the night there is generally not many hotels. We often settle for the cleanest looking establishment. However, we... | "Are you finished?" I ask.
The masked man adjusts his stance, his gloved fingers curl around the crowbar. He coughs into his free hand and takes a step back. If only he let me get in a word. Might have saved him the toruble.
"I wonder what's going to happen first, either I die. Or exhaustion claims you."
The man ... | 2019-03-10T16:18:06 | 2019-03-10T12:25:18 | 35 | 26 |
[WP]A teddy bear that you think protects you, imaginatively. One night, you noticed a dark figure in your room. It jumped on you, and realized that it blocked a sword aimed at you. Your trusty teddy bear has been trying to kill you every night, and creatures of the dark has been protecting you. | “Daddy, please don’t go,” cried Catelyn.
He smiled kindly and stroked her hair. “I have to, Princess. It’s past your bedtime.”
“I...I need a drink of water,” she whined desperately.
“You just had one. I know you’re scared sweetie, but you have to learn to sleep on your own.”
“But the shadow monster tried to ge... | Teddy lost his eyes when I was six. They're just small black holes now. I don't put my fingers in there to poke around and see what's inside him anymore. I was looking for his eyes but I think they were in the laundry. Mom never found them. She died when I was ten.
After that, there was nobody to stitch Teddy up anym... | 2019-09-23T14:45:00 | 2019-09-23T12:58:33 | 264 | 66 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I knew exactly how it was going to play out. I read it on the news a million times. I was going to die as soon as I spent that 7.27 . Well I ain't dumb, I will absolutely not spend it. I left them in my grandfather's antique piggy bank. I immediately left my apartment so I can stop paying rents. I scavengered whatever ... | It sucks being the youngest in the group. Last to drive, last to vote, last to receive your LLA check. Rickey received his first, and blew through the quarter-million before he was twenty-five. No judgement though, he has a nice house now, and set himself up with a decent job - Angie took hers more seriously. Put it i... | 2019-04-24T11:35:55 | 2019-04-24T11:10:33 | 221 | 130 |
[WP]Humanity has died out and a new race has developed and begun exploring space. They find ancient human relics.
[WP]Humanity has died out and a new race has begun exploring space. They find the long dead machines that the humans used for space exploration, like the mars rovers and the Rosetta asteroid lander. | I took a deep breath, my body expanding and contracting as carbon dioxide entered my body through the millions of pores in my thick, green-brown exoskeleton. This planet's atmosphere was ripe with it, even more so than Ut'uun, though the quality of air was notably worse- as one would expect from a decaying planet.
Jus... | Title: exploration diary entry #47 (translated into Terran, variant #2)
Name: SK Losxy A L33
Date: 17/2/20457 SOLAR TIME
Location: 0.1174 pc from SOL (coordinates 0,0,0,0)
play? y/n
y
beginning transmission...
The first sign that we found of the late, great Terran Empire was its tiny ... | 2016-02-05T08:06:55 | 2016-02-05T05:11:22 | 76 | 13 |
[WP] You are a demon in disguise, faking a cold near a church so a pastor will 'bless you'. | It took everything in me to claw my way out of hell. I had only heard stories about what mortals were like. The strange rituals they performed like checking under the bed for monsters or watching reality TV or wearing these awful, leg restricting pants. Of course, Lucifer forbade me from ever coming to the surface all ... | For years, I have battled the Gandor, the Arch Priest of Romania. I shred livestock, and tempted men to violence and women to infidelity. But as the Germanic village of Gasselgor grew, so too did their faith. Soon, the Arch Priest discovered my single weakness—I could not stay in holy sites without blessing. Thus, he s... | 2017-07-04T13:11:42 | 2017-07-04T09:14:25 | 54 | 27 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | You know, I could have sworn I had my powers before they even manifested.
Life, after all, had never really gone to plan for me before. My parents dying in an accident, my foster home burning down, me dropping out of school, so on and so forth. A series of misfortunes, all leading up to the moment I pointed the gun at... | I thought it would be a normal fart, just like any other fart, there wasn't anyone near enough in our office open-space to hear it, should it prove to be a noisy one, so I allowed my back door to let it out.
Seconds after I realized the grave mistake I've made, I had sharted myself, and I knew the smell would be fa... | 2021-04-01T03:34:19 | 2021-04-01T02:58:40 | 133 | 10 |
[WP] In 2081, humanity finds the wreckage of a five-thousand-year-old alien ship out in the Kuiper belt. Fascinated by its technology, we study it thoroughly, only to conclude that it is... human. | The dim blinking of the suit lights sent spiraling shadows across the hall and compartments. Three clothed figures slowly stepped through the door, their spacesuits not unlike those of the famous astronauts almost a hundred years before, of course, purely cosmetic at this point. A skin-suit could do the hard work of ... | "What do you think it could be John?" came Angela's soft voice.
"I don't know, looks to be some form of communication device." John said as he touched the perfect sphere.
He wasn't sure how he knew that, after all it was just a metal sphere. There was nothing distinguishable on it, but when he touched it he felt some... | 2018-04-27T19:52:16 | 2018-04-27T19:38:27 | 52 | 34 |
[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" | 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... | It was my dad. Let's not beat around the Bush. 22 people. My dad is the sweetest old man. But everyone respects him. He could be funny, hell my first joke that got a real laugh was one he told me when I was 6 or 7. One about a dumb guy being asked how many Ds are in Rudolf the red nosed reindeer. The guy says 7. No... | 2019-07-01T22:44:04 | 2019-07-01T21:57:00 | 52 | 24 |
[WP] Waking from cryostasis is now possible. The government develops an experiment where somebody is to be placed into a large chamber in the middle of the city and awoken every 50 years for just one week. Your name is chosen. | They’ve stolen your life from you. That’s what my mother said. But I didn’t mind, really. You see, they had chosen me, the government that is, to be the first living time capsule, to be the first man to span human existence. Cryostasis. This was a gift, a privilege. I would be remembered for as long as I live.
The da... | The light burns at my sheltered retina as I hear hissing of the vacuum, or is it over pressure? Countless times I've been through this process and yet I still forget. The offending light is partially blocked and now my ears are assaulted with a even newer form of Mandlish, the inevitable merging of English and mandarin... | 2014-12-19T07:17:25 | 2014-12-19T06:46:09 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | "Oh, son of a-"
I awoke with a figure standing over me, a deep leather cowl hiding his face.
"What? Not happy with me?" I asked.
*Really should not have taken this job.*
"Of course not! I bought this necromancy spell -"
"From where?"
"The local shop. Was quite a bargain, for raising an undead army. If I could g... | *Could we just stop?* That was a question that crossed our minds quite often. But as a cloud of smoke preceded his arrival, I resigned myself to know we couldn't. A lifetime of summoning was what I was condemned to, and so far it was all he had. "Hello again," I greeted the summoned undead. Its face glowed horrifyingly... | 2017-07-22T07:31:01 | 2017-07-22T07:16:16 | 62 | 28 |
[WP] As Death walks towards you, you panic and scream the first word that comes into your head: “Unsubscribe!” Death stops, scowls, crosses your name off the list he is holding then turns and walks away. | As death walks away, you hear him say something “that’s the first time someone unsubscribed from our death and co service….” Death says very sadly. What? Then you wake up.
You’re lying on the floor with a knife in your hand. You think about what happened, but you can’t remember.
You get up and look at the time. It’s... | [poem] [maybe like a lame song on ukelele, played real upbeat] Death is a unsatisfactory villain.
We always assume he’ll get us,
He won’t stop, won’t listen.
Death is actually just like you and me,
Has stress at home, from boss, and sucks at dating.
Can’t look in the mirror, reflects insecurity.
Yesterday and ever... | 2021-12-09T00:27:18 | 2021-12-08T23:27:37 | 256 | 29 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | I watch the counter, eagerly. Humanity had struggled a lot, and we were finally about to hit a major checkpoint. And I had the satisfaction of being a part of it. I sat back at my desk and chuckled to myself as I took a sip of coffee.
Dale looked over to me. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing. Just glad to finally be ge... | The silence hit like a wave.
I saw the number plummet to a mere pair and thought it to be some kind of joke for half a second, but then the silence of Times Square settled in.
Nobody left to make any noise.
I jogged down my stairs, still in disbelief. I ran out into the empty space and let it settle in. The only log... | 2017-02-28T20:44:47 | 2017-02-28T18:37:24 | 581 | 275 |
[WP] You're a thief who breaks into homes, but try your best to stay undetected. You lubricate the hinges to prevent squeaky noises, you sweep the floor to get rid of footsteps, etc. Eventually, you fix more than you take, and rumors spread about a mysterious, helpful fairy in town.
EDIT: Wow, didn't expect this promp... | "Bob! Wake up, i think we've been robbed."
Bob's eyes sprang open and he combat rolled out of bed, ready to defend his homestead. He wasn't a particularly sporty guy, there was no baseball bat or golf club handy to use as a weapon, so he had to settle for his longest, sharpest model railway train. He brandished it like... | Ironically enough, this prompt seems to describe me perfectly. I began thieving out of necessity, I lost my job and I really didn't want to live on the streets. I didn't have much saved at all, only enough for two or three more months of rent, so after about a month of blissfully lounging about, I decided I'd bette... | 2017-03-13T09:32:42 | 2017-03-13T09:01:48 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] You bought a pair of headphones that are acting up. Every time you plug them in, you hear a different sound - first crying, then a war-zone, now just static. You plug them in again and are frightened to hear a desperate, tearful warning: "Whatever you do, DON'T unplug the headphones again." |
I opened up the package that I had ordered from Amazon and took out my brand new pair of headphones. My old headphones had gotten more glitchy as the years went by, so I was hoping that this new pair would be more successful. I sat down in my chair, went to Youtube, put on my headphones and plugged them into my lapt... | “What?” I muttered, going to unplug them again. Then it spoke again. The same line. “Whatever you do, DON’T unplug the headphones again.” Whoever was saying that... sounded familiar. Like an old voice wrapped into my brain years ago when I was still in school. Then it went to static, cutting out the person. “Who are yo... | 2020-04-01T21:37:42 | 2020-04-01T20:54:45 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] You've been marked by the Devil, but not because You made a deal with the Devil, but the Devil made a deal with You to help him out of a weird situation... Only that's a bit hard to explain to a group of demonhunters who are hunting you down for being marked, since this basically never happens. | "Alright then! So you expect us to believe that Mephistopheles herself begged you to use your bathroom- because she underestimated the power of Taco Bell?"
Abraham nodded vigorously. "Fine looking lady, about seven feet tall, wearing the most expensive clothes I've ever seen. She rapped at my door late into the evenin... | "You don't have to point that thing at me. I'm not going to hurt you."
"Shutup." He replied. Jabbing the obsidian spear at me and turning to his companions. "What should we do with him? We've never had anything like this."
"Kill 'im." Said the short red haired one in a gruff voice.
"Let's see what he's up to then we... | 2021-06-11T20:43:59 | 2021-06-11T17:44:09 | 95 | 53 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse occurs, where people retain characteristics they had while living. You, as the sole survivor, meet a snobby, vegan zombie who turns their nose up at you. | I carefully pried off the boards on the delapidated Starbucks. I know what you're thinking, *"Who the hell loots a Starbucks after the apocalypse?"* Well, sometime, you just need a cuppa, and all the grocery stores have run out.
I slipped in between the boards. The one upside of the scarcity of a post-people society i... | The dying sun bathed the old building in deep crimson. Maya rounded a corner, shouldering her rifle. Her heart was furiously trying to punch its way out of her chest. She had thought the factory was abandoned. From outside, it had looked like a hollow shell – buildings with empty windows, walls that were cracked with f... | 2017-07-15T06:42:26 | 2017-07-15T05:34:44 | 710 | 50 |
[WP] A demon just devoured your soul. You are both very confused as to why you are still alive. | **Go easy please**
I blinked a few times as I found myself standing in the bathroom, dripping wet with a towel in my hand.
"What the..."
""What the" is right!" An unknown, gutteral, voice said from behind me. Jumping in the air from fright, I spun around looking face to face with a monster. Charred skin, horns, r... | A cold sweat wrung its way through my being. Was this death, as they called it? No, it couldn't have been. But it felt as if that was the case.
The cloaked figure in front of me had the most piercing red eyes I'd ever spied upon.
"Why is it that you still stand?"
"I don't know. I don't know why or how I got to be he... | 2021-10-06T15:42:09 | 2021-10-06T14:13:41 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | It took some time to get used to, the concept of being trapped in what could be a game server.
I didn't have visible health bars while in my room or inventory management but I wasn't invincible; if you cut me I still bleed.
But as fun as racing games were, solving puzzles and rhythm games I still had to eat.
So I took... | I felt the cold sweat on the back of my neck as I looked through my gaming library. I had to make a choice.
I don't know how it happened - the shift. One day, I just woke up and opened my bedroom to an empty canvass of nothingness. It was like my room opened to the edge of a cliff on a starless night. God knows how l... | 2022-06-07T23:03:00 | 2022-06-07T22:21:42 | 26 | 17 |
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