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[WP] A dragon shows up at the adventurers' guild after hearing that humans will just GIVE away gold for something called a "quest." | When the reports of a dragon flying towards the town first came to the hall we dammed near shit ourselves, thinking it one of the great elders come to crush us for some reason. Then when we heard it was small one we planned on killing it and selling the parts. We are adventures after all. But then one of our druids go... | Us dragons don't make much money these a days. Ever since the famed battle of Urug-tral where dragons were defeated at the hands of wealthy tree-slayers, we've been unable to get our wings off the ground. Not in the same way, anyway. We get by. And it's not like we did not avenge our fallen. Indeed as history shows, th... | 2020-06-08T17:47:23 | 2020-06-08T13:46:59 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he neglected to give him the ability to die again. 2,000 years later, it doesn't feel like a miracle anymore. | (Edit) paragraphs to make flashback more obvious and a bit of grammar
I sit here in silence, today is the big day. I just wait here in this prison. Locked away deep below the ground, as the Vatican’s most guarded secret.
My name is Lazarus. I managed to keep myself hidden for thousands of years after Jesus was so br... | Resurrected by Jesus, forsaken by God. I know firsthand that there's an afterlife and I know I'll never attain transcendence. I'll simply exist even after the last star slowly dims... I will remain. Tormented by this curse. Those who think heaven is enless life don't truly understand what it means to have consciousness... | 2018-07-10T23:19:10 | 2018-07-10T22:51:10 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | Fire and Whispers
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*‘Not again.’*
I dropped the basket of apples I had gathered and dashed back towards my tower. I furrowed my brow and reached out with my mind.
*‘Sidian, I’m coming*,’ I told my dragon.
*‘Hurry M’lady*. *These ones are strong*,’ Sidian thought back.
Normally the adventurers that c... | Wood splintered as the wooden door was destroyed. The sound bounced off of all four walls, echoing up the tower, and back down. Aurora set down her fork and looked up from her lunch, hoping it was a freak accident from her soldiers training nearby.
Her eyes moved from her table to the breezy doorway and spotted a ta... | 2019-01-09T06:48:27 | 2019-01-09T06:34:18 | 1,257 | 59 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | "I don't remember much of anything, really."
The overhead lights' buzz played softly over the men. A man with a scruffy grey beard sat opposite a young, spectacled--but serious--soldier. The one who was clean-shaven, without any sign of aging, was the person who'd been missing for nearly eighty years. The boy rubbed a... | Missiles were launched, and the B-24 was reduced to smithereens. The remnants of the bomber fell into the English Channel, and immediately the RAF contacted the military for support. They waited at first, convinced the long, jagged marks along the fuselage had been made by the splintes of a previous attack.
But the w... | 2019-12-01T08:29:11 | 2019-12-01T08:23:40 | 417 | 18 |
[WP] As a vampire, I follow traditions. My fiancé is human and just found out that human brides/grooms are to be bit to become a vampire themselves. She absolutely refuses to let that happen, and says the wedding is off unless I refuse to bite her. I feel like she's disrespecting tradition. AITA? | NTA
Honestly, your fiancé sounds like a piece of work. I am not a vampire but I did grow up in a Japanese household and my parents made sure that I was raised with Japanese culture and customs in mind. They ingrained in me the importance of my heritage and that it important for the world to accept not only our culture... | NAH
Vampires have a tradition of biting human partners at their wedding, but humans don't. In fact, we have a tradition of wanting to remain living, healthy and whole, inherited all the way back from reptilian ancestors millions of years ago. You seem to have respected that just fine until now, you even came to talk a... | 2022-11-28T19:14:11 | 2022-11-28T17:15:37 | 35 | 18 |
[WP]You've finally arrived at Karakdos, the Planet of War. Its inhabitants are bloodthirsty monsters, committing murder and genocide out of hatred and rage. They've wiped out 9 species on their own, and crippled countless others. However, the humans don't look anything like what you expected | "They're hairless? Well mostly hairless?" he gawked, "They're scrawny little bipeds."
"Do not get too close to their monitoring stations," I warned the captain, "This is very dangerous."
"Dangerous?" the captain laughed, looking at his readouts, "Those are fusion drives? They're primitive too! Is this some kind of... | Humans have been the apotheosis of destruction since first contact.
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They have evolved from millennia of war, their very existence an impossibility.
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Feared throughout the galactic community as creatures of ferocious premise, warriors shaped by their brutal past and evolution, their entire ... | 2021-01-28T16:24:21 | 2021-01-28T16:08:25 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] “I’ll tell you what I’m going to do Mr Bond. I’m going to stick you in a spacesuit with a radio, and strap you into one of my cars. Then, while mankind watches, I’ll launch you into space. The last thing you’ll hear before leaving this earth forever, will be their applause.” | Bond heard the rockets ignite. Strapped into the car, the G-force drove him backwards into the seat, sending his cheeks tearing into his face. His lungs compressed, then almost collapsed, as his entire being shook.
All the while, he thought he could hear Musk's evil laugh.
He would not go out like this.
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The ... | James struggled to move. His suit had been drilled into the sides of the car, restricting his motion. On top of that, the man had given him a sedative that would relax his muscles while keeping his mind fully aware of the situation he was in.
Millions of people would be watching, yet none of them would know the true ... | 2018-02-06T20:25:30 | 2018-02-06T20:15:17 | 614 | 128 |
[WP] He knows he shouldn't. He really shouldn't. But Satan really loves the Christmas letters sent to him by dyslexic children. | *Dear Satan,*
*I haev been a good girl this* *~~eayr~~* *year.*
Satan curled the letter an let out a booming laugh. "No she hasn't!" he cackled before clutching his side stitch in delightful agony. He knew exactly how many schoolyard brawls she had started and trinkets she'd stolen since May.
His demon secretary, U... | Satan never could understand what God saw in humans. They are strange bags of meat limited by their sub or was, stupidity, and mortal perception of reality.
The main thing God had always hammered on about was love. Wierd. Satan didn’t believe that lie for a second.
Satan, currently was toying with the idea that God k... | 2019-08-08T21:30:49 | 2019-08-08T20:29:34 | 671 | 51 |
[WP] Instead of reading 'Pregnant' or 'Not Pregnant', your digital pregnancy test displays 'Stay where you are, everything will be OK' | I stared mutely at the digital pregnancy test display. There were a lot of words I had expected to say once the results came in, most of them along the lines of: "God fucking damn it, Jason" or, "SHE'S SAFE!" followed by a fist pump.
But I hadn't thought that the first words out of my mouth would be: "What the *fuck?... | I didn't think much of it when the store clerk asked me if I knew. He seemed a bit odd, but that comes with the territory when you're in a Wal-Mart at 11pm on a Tuesday.
"Know what?" I tilted my head slightly, unsure of whether to be amused or alarmed.
He stared at me for a moment and seemed about to speak before he ... | 2015-06-12T19:15:11 | 2015-06-12T18:48:52 | 352 | 26 |
[WP] When humans join the galactic community, we find out that the domestication of animals is a rare feat unique to us. Aliens are amazed by our training of dogs, riding of horses, comfort with cats, and so on. This has had a profound effect on perceptions of our species... | It had only been a few years since humans joined the rest of the galaxy, and already a great controversy had arisen from the combination. The Galactic Council of the Free People had discussed this matter on and off, but it was only since last year that this debate became of such grace importance.
Humans had just "domes... | **Tytekk'tak:** I strongly suggest we destroy their planet.
**Galactic Council Collective Mind:** Tytekk'tak, you are highly respected and have served the Galactic Council for tens of thousands of cycles. However, we are shocked at your suggestion. We have not needed to eliminate any race in over 500,000 cycles. Know ... | 2017-06-05T03:21:58 | 2017-06-05T00:34:20 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | I’m not even sure this is the right place to post, but I’m worried about my sister. About three hours ago I got a text from the Emergency Alert System. I checked my Facebook to see if anyone else got the same thing. It seemed like it was a practical joke and I couldn’t find anything in Google News.
My sister sent me ... | I read the alert and hesitated, unsure if it was real. “EMERGENCY - LOCK DOORS IMMEDIATELY AND REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE” I glanced over the text once or twice more before hurriedly pacing around the house and double checking all doors and windows.
About 5 minutes passed before I realized- my wife... | 2019-01-12T08:53:28 | 2019-01-12T08:53:12 | 124 | 32 |
[WP] You involuntarily bring back souvenirs from your dreams, simple things like a flower or some dirt, an article of clothing, a paintbrush. This morning, you awake next to another person. | Nothing has been the same since the divorce. It was my fault really. I married her without giving us enough time to really get to understand each other. Naturally, my first night alone was less than restful. My dreams were full of wizards, and dragons, kings and quests. Things from stories my father had read to me g... | You are awoken by the sound of a small child crying. A girl, by the sounds of it, sobbing uncontrollably.
Instinctively you clutch at the ragdoll you’re expecting to be in your hands. Nothing is there, which confuses you. You always bring a souvenir back from your trips, and you distinctly remember picking up a Ragged... | 2020-10-11T22:30:14 | 2020-10-11T19:30:59 | 60 | 35 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | He stood in front of the mirror, thinking to himself. “I have to pass, I don’t know what I’m going to do if I don’t pass, if I don’t get in.”
Slowly he tore open the envelope, not even sure he wanted to know. He closed his eyes, slid the letter out and unfolded it.
*“We’re sorry, you did not meet the minimum score to... | "Ah, at this point who gives a fuck," I mumbled to myself, thinking back on that time Janet called me ,"like, LITERALLY HITLER." dumb bitch.
I took out the rag from my pocket and began cleaning the console of the nuclear reactor. There always was so much dirt lining all those shiny weird buttons. | 2016-06-24T03:51:47 | 2016-06-23T23:55:15 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] You are a mobster. A particularly successful one at that. But as your turf becomes gentrified, the absurdly priced furniture in your 'Front' store actually starts selling. | "Hey, hey, what are you bastards doing!" the boss shouted. He had a double barrel behind the counter that he had his hands on. The shoppers turned towards him.
"Oh, we're sorry, are you closed?" asked one of them. They were crowded around an armoire that was priced at 5,000 dollars.
"What-" He rubbed his face. It was... | It was another eventful day, our guys went and got the money collected and those who couldn't repay, well we made sure to put them into use for others not to default. After all I have a reputation to keep. I came here to this city in search of a job 10 years ago but when I had beat up the security guard for not giving ... | 2019-08-10T17:34:50 | 2019-08-10T15:39:02 | 60 | 41 |
[WP] With the hero chained up, the villain unveils their masterpiece: a weapon that tracks everyone who loves the hero before obliterating them. The map powers on. "Wait. There's just one dot." The Villain says. "...Someone loves me?" The hero replies with hope. | "Someone loves me?" Morgan looked away from the screen to stare at Peace, the hero, the savior, strapped to his masterpiece. It- it must have been mistaken! Something about Peace's powers must have caused it to malfunction!
"Of course someone loves you!" Morgan snapped. Her grand plan, her magnum opus! Ruined becaus... | “Mwah ha ha!” Doomlord cackles, triumphantly raising his arms. “I got you now, Lightball!”
“Curse you, Villain!” Lightball roars, struggling against the iron chains that restrains him. He attempts to use his powerful ability to turn light into a ball, but with a shock he realizes he’s unable to. But that can only mean... | 2021-06-18T23:08:26 | 2021-06-18T21:14:49 | 2,253 | 572 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | I like Sundays.
It's nice. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but it was kind of a soothing time.
For one whole day, I fall asleep. I dream senseless dreams and I never remember them when I awake.
It was just like any other Sunday. I laid out in my bed and I waited for my dreams to come and take me. It didn't t... | **Another slow week. Modern medicine is really dragging things out down here.**
"Ya, too bad it couldn't save me from that heart attack."
**You didn't have a heart attack. I killed you.**
"Um, pardon me?"
**It's alright you won't remember me telling you that. See you next week.**
"What—"
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**Six thousand d... | 2020-01-31T07:17:02 | 2020-01-31T07:13:05 | 1,701 | 625 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | “Hey kiddo, how’d your day go?”
“It was, I did, I think it was, uh, good.”
“That’s good to hear, buddy. So… did anything interesting happen?”
“I dunno. Mama picked me up from school, and she, and we walked down the bridge, and there—oh, and there was a man on the bridge!”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah daddy, but he was *on... | “1,000? That can’t be right.” I thought to myself. My sister-in-law’a son was sitting playing video games on the couch, his little thumbs clacking away on his controller. The rules, as I have learned, are as such; the number of kills only counts intentional deaths and even then it doesn’t count self defense and yet, he... | 2022-10-21T10:37:34 | 2022-10-21T09:51:12 | 80 | 30 |
[WP] In sci-fi, planets are commonly made of one biome-- 'desert planets', 'jungle planets', 'ice planets' etc. So, the aliens are pretty shocked to see the range of biomes when they arrive on Earth. | We had arrived, to sit in orbit, of this strange blue and green planet. We had stayed there for two of the planets quick orbits around its star. I grew bored of waiting and watching. I was an explorer, I preferred to get down on a planets surface and start setting up camp for those who waited on ship. But first we had ... | Greeblegrox stared out the windshield and fingered his tentacles thoughtfully.
"Yeah," he said in Wydoobian. "That planet is definitely alive."
"I thought you said it was 'the greatest mix you'd seen'," snorted Hardowom, looking out the windshield also. He flicked his right eyeball with his third tentacle, a sign he ... | 2018-06-26T09:48:01 | 2018-06-26T09:25:01 | 139 | 40 |
[WP] Humanity has been eradicated. As the alien race that killed us begins to settle they're shocked to discover that old Earth myths of spirits and demons are far from fiction. The Devil, pissed off at the aliens, has decided to open the gates of Hell and let humanity get its revenge. | There is one ability that the humans have, that is entirely unique in the entire universe. Imagination. It is the most powerful force in existence, and not quite what humans believe it to be. Whenever you see something in your minds eye, you are actually seeing it, because imagination is the ability to see into other p... | When they arrived they made their intentions VERY CLEAR "we are the Vex and we will add your world to our empire" we fought with all our might but they just kept coming all of us. We discovered massive computers that were seemingly simulating our attacks, but we were destroyed regardless. They took tech they deemed use... | 2020-09-18T09:54:56 | 2020-09-18T08:43:26 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Every infant is brought to church to find out their animal spirit. They inherit various abilities based on whatever animal, living or extinct they are divined to have. The priest has backed away from you in shock and awe. You are the first person to ever have a Phoenix. | Maria and Dan clutched each other tightly. Dan's golden retriever sat by, watching the few people gathered with even more eagerness than his master. Maria's cardinal sat perched on her shoulder, largely indifferent to the ceremony.
The priests stood over their one year old son, Issac. Each of their spirit animals s... | The church bells rang out across the otherwise quiet Beridaz, stopping many in their tracks to look towards the giant structure near the city center. Colorful plumes of fragrant smoke billowed forth from the massive structure, shapes of creatures great and small leaping and dancing into the clear sky with slow, gracefu... | 2020-04-05T13:23:05 | 2020-04-05T13:16:22 | 22 | 13 |
[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 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | 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... | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 212 | 37 |
[WP] The world is divided into 2 societies: one for those with powers and one without, with strict rules of no interaction. However, with most of the superheroes defeated and the villains on the verge of winning, you have no choice but to cross over and seek help from the non-powered humans | The path to the human land is arduous. I set sail months ago, and the days have drifted past me, filled with desperation at times and despair at others. When the world was split into the two factions, those with powers and those without, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans became the barrier separating the two populations.... | It started with a bang. Or to be more specific, a series of bangs. In 1972, the world's powers were at wit's end with one another, and a failed coup attempt was the final trigger on this particular powderkeg. The aftermath from a global war wasn't nearly as bad as anyone had predicted, but it certainly had unintended s... | 2021-01-29T07:42:01 | 2021-01-29T05:30:32 | 202 | 51 |
[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... | I ran my fingers across her naked body, catching glimpses of mottled bruises. I could afford to take my time with this one. She was too weak to resist, and I had full faith in my ability to keep her secured to the bed. The nylon rope was more than sufficient.
"Why are you doing this?" she pleaded. Her eyes met min... | 2013-10-21T22:10:55 | 2013-10-21T20:51:09 | 134 | 12 |
[WP] "You know parallel universes, right? I must have seen millions, no, billions, all similar, but slightly different. I must have met billions, no, trillions of people, all similar, but slightly different. I've never seen another me." | "Proffesor, what do you mean?" A student asks cautiously, looking up at the tall man who meanderes about the stage.
"I mean that if I were to cast us all sideways a dimension then it would be a near identical class of every so slightly different versions of you but instead of a second version of myself I would then hav... | I've polled, searched, questioned, nothing. The tides and eons of infinity are all against me. An outcast. A pervert.
I've talked to people who like peanut butter and jelly, or peanut butter and honey, some of them cut the crusts off, some use wheat bread.
I've talked to people who tie their left shoes first everyday... | 2018-12-22T15:16:20 | 2018-12-22T13:52:40 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] You're the wizard's apprentice, and of course the first few years involve running errands and doing other tasks. He hands you a daily schedule, but to your confusion the total hours for the different tasks add up to more than 24. "Figure it out" He says, "I chose you for a reason." | " So, let me get this straight." the innkeeper said, looking quite concerned. " If I don't wash all these cauldrons in exactly this manner every Tuesday for the next year and a half, the great and powerful wizard who has lived outside of our village for decades is going to rain down fire and brimstone on everyone withi... |
*The clock can sing.*
*It sang, it sings, and it will sing again.*
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“I’m sorry, Jack,” Clara said, “I don’t know why the clock would be singing.”
She was sneaky. Oh yes, yes she was.
Jack smiled, "Ah, so you confirm that the clock *does* sing! You just don't know why."
Clara's short brown hair fram... | 2019-01-14T15:25:08 | 2019-01-14T14:44:37 | 79 | 12 |
[WP] "Mum I've got some bad news... I've accidentally taken hostages at the bank.... It's a long story... Yes I know I was only meant to make a deposit.... No I can't come home the police have surrounded the building, I've gotta go the police are sending in a negotiator I'm gonna try and fix this". | *Oh shit, is that a gun?*
Caleb looked around him desperately then back to the gun not-so-secretly tucked in the back of a fellow patron’s jeans. He wanted to point, shout, construct a neon sign and hang it from the man’s ears, but fear stopped him. What if the man flipped out and pulled the gun as soon as people star... | "Can I tell you something?"
Jason looked up at the woman standing over him. The gun was still nestled in the crook of her arm, the smell of cordite hanging in the air. He gulped and sat up a bit straighter.
"I suppose," he said.
"This keeps on happening to me."
"Robbing banks?"
"Well, no. This is my first time rob... | 2016-09-15T15:08:51 | 2016-09-15T13:14:56 | 69 | 15 |
[WP] You lay dying of heart failure, and God enters your mind. He informs you that you will be reincarnated upon death, losing all memory, but before that happens you are allowed to ask any one question. The answer to your question surprises you so much that your heart restarts and you survive. | As I lay in the bed, focusing all of my energy on continuing to breathe for as long as I could, I felt a presence in my midst. Not a physical presence like that of my family that surrounded me, but it was as if a second consciousness had entered my mind.
He explained to me what was going to happen, though I knew it to... | "Okay, so as I understand it I only get one question."
YES
"That wasn't a question God!"
MMMMMKAY
"You're going to have to give me a moment, this is a lot to process and I don't want to accidentally ask you something stupid."
MY TIME IS ETERNAL
"Well that's kind of depressing."
WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT?
"Well I ... | 2014-08-03T06:58:43 | 2014-08-03T06:13:36 | 750 | 165 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | I hide behind the wall, praying Starhands doesn't find me yet, and tremble as I fumble with my battered old mp3 player.
I don't want to but I have to use it. The forbidden playlist. The reason why I'm even on this team when my powers only last as long as the song plays.
Track 1. Running Down A Dream by Tom Petty And ... | As he slammed through a concrete building and it collapsed around him, MelodyMan realized he had no other choice. Thousands of innocent civilians were already dead. If he didn't pull out all the stops now there would be nothing left of New York inside the hour.
Climbing free of the debris he looked up at his opponent,... | 2022-05-17T12:33:11 | 2022-05-17T12:04:55 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Your roommate is literally the Devil. Surprisingly, he is the best roommate you ever had. | "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood..."
"Morning, Lucy."
"Oh hi, Mark. You're up already?"
You know, it's odd, but I never took the Devil for a morning person. And yet, for the past three years, "Lucy", as she prefers to be called, has ben up well before my alarm even went off for my first shift job over at th... | "Listen" said Satan to me, moving his head about slightly as if it hurt. He looked like he had had a long night and wasn't really in any mood to be awake, but this was a conversation that he had to have and it was work that had to be done, so he might as well get it over with.
"I don't think those guys are interested"... | 2016-03-10T18:14:30 | 2016-03-10T11:46:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Earth remained a protected planet by every species in the known galaxy, because Humans are the Greatest story tellers. "The planet of Dreamers," finally reaches the stars much to exhilaration of every race who knows of the story's of Earth. Even simple conversation with humans is entertaining. | We didn't live dreary lives. We fought often, ate good food, and loved good beings. But after meeting the humans, it all seemed so... dull. The tales the humans wove, we thought they were immortal to experience so much. But even though they hardly ever even circled their star a hundred times, they could spin you a thou... | Welcolm everybody into human 201.
*incomprehension babbling and buzzing of alien students*
Last year, you learned about semantic and what they call "purely informationnal" language. The part exactly used to communicate direct information, the same as every language in the confederation.
Now we delve into the specifi... | 2019-11-21T06:32:39 | 2019-11-20T20:31:01 | 64 | 39 |
[WP] In the eyes of an alien, describe an invasion of its home planet by humans. Make the humans the scariest thing I have ever read about. | We had looked outward for so many years, and thought that we were alone. A sobering truth—if it had remained that way. But the universe has a dark sense of humour, and when we first saw them—spaceships, I should clarify—we rejoiced in the fact that we were not alone. Then we saw how many ships they had brought with the... | From the dark, the unseen star scorched our world.
On one side, oceans and mountains boiled away in a flash. On the other, forests and cities burned to ash. Everywhere life ended.
This was how we met the Humans.
If they'd hit us any sooner, we would have been extinguished, but for a generation after the last of ou... | 2015-03-07T03:41:02 | 2015-03-07T02:25:05 | 41 | 24 |
[WP] A kid doodling in a math class accidentally creates the world's first functional magic circle in centuries.
Magic being real in the past is your choice really. | "...to the power of 2, that way..."
Mrs. Patterson stopped, glancing down at Ed's notebook.
"Well, it appears that Mr. Anderson is a little more advanced than the rest of the class." She smiled her annoying
smile. "Edward, why don't you tell the class what it is that you are doing?"
Ed looked down at the doodle -- ... | The clock reads ten till two, and David is bored. He looks at the front of the room where the teacher is marking up the board with numbers David doesn't understand. In the center is a circle and all kinds of symbols David has seen a hundred times yet he still doesn't understand. He looks back at his sheet of paper, alm... | 2015-03-13T15:00:45 | 2015-03-13T15:00:21 | 90 | 11 |
[WP] as the youngest heir to the throne you fake your death to escape a military coup but it was so convincing that Death came to collect your soul. CConfused by the situation, Death decides that you're a new form of undead and can't decide which powers you should be granted. | An actor I was at the time
And a good one at that
For I pulled a farce so sublime
That death did tip his hat
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You may not yet be dead young prince
But you could have fooled me
So as a form of recompense
Here is a choice of three
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A trickster you have proved yourself
So maybe this will... | "What do you mean, I'm undead??? I never actually died!"
The man in black robes shook his head patiently, like I was some sort of child. "Listen hun, I know you didn't 'actually die'. But you ended up on my list, that means that you are legally dead. My hands are tied here. So you can come with me, or i can registe... | 2019-10-05T16:44:15 | 2019-10-05T16:38:49 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are a young Elf. You've just been awarded a scholarship at one of the most prestigious magic schools in all of the Nine Realms. The... Massachusetts Institute of Technology? | Zana Ljosa hated it. A common reaction for a Light Elf so far from home. And a natural reaction for the First Princess of the First Family of Ljosa.
She always hated the very idea Midgard, the middle realm of mortals. Now she hated the clingy fog draped on Boston. Quickly she came hate the noisy cars and stalking bicy... | Getting into MIT last week was the highlight of my young life.
That is, until I opened today’s letter. I'm not just going to MIT, I'm getting a full ride. I drop the letter, bounce up and down, then throw my hand in the air Freddie Mercury style. I bet Queen’s front man would’ve envied the sparklers spraying from my f... | 2021-11-10T11:29:46 | 2021-11-10T11:21:52 | 44 | 29 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | The battle for a theocracy was a turbulent one and was the cause of the single greatest loss of life since the second world war - dubbed the 10th crusade. Despite this, the battle was won and a new holy land was established. Jerusalem's economy tanked and people flocked to our new country, a holy country. It was wonde... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T12:49:46 | 99 | 19 |
[WP] Every morning you wake with little cuts and bruises. You have told yourself for years that its just how you move in your sleep. Today, you woke up with a large gash on your arm, a glowing red dagger plunged into the wall, and what looks a lot like a dead angel on the floor | My name is Elshaniel, and I’m a Guardian. My charge is Dr. Josephine Kaplan, and she is going to cure cancer.
Every night I keep my watch. The denizens of death and disease hunt fiercely for the architect of their demise. Those that succeed I silence.
I’ve kept the watch for 16,707 nights, and tonight will be my las... | Andreas, the man with a silver eye, had all his life woken up covered in cuts and bruises. The cuts? Barely scrapes. He blamed the sheets, not exactly soft, but scratchy. And the bruises? *That's just in how I sleep. You don't outlast night terrors without giving yourself a few black and blues.*
Harmless. Or so he tho... | 2019-02-01T05:57:55 | 2019-02-01T04:42:48 | 246 | 46 |
[WP] Two werewolves fall madly in love, but only during the full moon. When they’re human, they can’t stand each other. | The two of us ran together through the woods, our sleek wolf bodies dancing back and forth around each other like wind blowing through a stream. We were made for each other, perfectly in sync with the others' movements, no matter if we were hunting, feasting, or mating.
Except, of course, when the full moon came out.... | He'd only gone out for a simple jog. It was a nice night, cool and quiet. After a rather hectic day at the company, he was desperate to relax himself. Dannan forgot about the full moon. Hidden behind the clouds, out of his sight, he jogged along the empty sidewalk, ear buds snug in his ears as he went. Rounding the cor... | 2018-05-22T19:44:26 | 2018-05-22T19:34:35 | 475 | 14 |
[WP] You are a failed doctor, but a well practiced necromancer. Of course, rent is still due each month, and in order to pay the bills you still help the sick. The catch? Your patients have to die first for you to help them. | He's young. Just a boy, really. With gingerbread hair and a woolly mammoth plush clutched close to his chest. The soft toy has been loved. It's threadbare and looks as if it's been bred with a warthog.
The boy has been loved, too. You can always tell, when someone has been loved. It bleeds out of their pores, out of ... | "Greetings, Mr. Hereford! My name is Dr. Osiris, thank you for coming to my office. How may I be of your service?" I motioned towards my bare office. I quite liked the office. Once I had a butcher to cure, and he said that my room looked exactly like his slaughterhouse: Tiled all around, even the ceiling with a metal b... | 2018-12-13T06:37:56 | 2018-12-13T02:48:49 | 1,547 | 491 |
[WP] "Mom, i'm telling you. A green man came out of my closet and did a standup comedy routine."
[deleted] | “Is it bedtime yet?” My son asked placing his dinner plate in the sink
“Don’t you want to play catch tonight buddy?” My husband asked.
“Nah I just want to go to bed so the funny guy will come back”
I looked at my husband hoping he wouldn’t look as confused as me but there he was staring at me asking the same sile... | It was the middle of the night and all I heard was this eerie cackling. I jumped out of bed, my heart racing, and hurried down the hallway to find my 12 year-old son in his room, laughing uncontrollably and staring at the wall. I was relieved to find him safe, though I was concerned about the source of his laughter. He... | 2022-11-30T18:40:48 | 2022-11-30T17:36:32 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] An old witch lives in a cabin deep in the woods. Problem is, her cabin violates a myriad of zoning, environmental and endangered species ordinances. You're the municipal worker sent to sort this out. | The crows cawed and screeched as Devon approached the dingy cabin. It had been something of an effort to find it through the nigh-impenetrable mist--which was odd in and of itself, given that it was the middle of the day--but a good civil servant didn't allow a little bad weather to stand in the way of their duty. Humm... | Standing here, in the middle of a swamp, outside a shack, I can’t stop thinking about the fact that it’s Halloween, and that I was dumb enough to wear my black cat costume on the night where I’m visiting a witch. Clutching my clipboard tight, I force myself to smile as she pinches my cheeks.
“*Who’s a cute kitty? You... | 2018-10-28T14:46:47 | 2018-10-28T14:07:57 | 65 | 19 |
[WP] You have a magic bow with which you can undo any shot you've taken. After a lifetime of service to the king, you've come to realize you regret slaying his nemesis twenty years ago. You decide to undo that shot, embracing the chaos sure to ensue. | \[See [Part 1 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/if4phi/wp_you_have_a_magic_bow_with_which_you_can_undo/g2lspax/?context=3)\]
\[Part 2 of 2\]
The grave has been opened and the casket has been pulled out. A few volunteers lift the top off the coffin. The rest of the crowd stands behind me, watching... | They say that a frog in a pot of water doesn't notice if you boil it slowly. The frog isn't dumb; if you dropped it straight in boiling water, it would struggle, writhe, even jump free, but it just can't feel the incremental changes. Tyranny is much the same.
The king was a just man, once. I truly believe that. At fir... | 2020-08-23T19:40:01 | 2020-08-23T16:09:05 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Write a children's poem that slowly devolved in an insane persons chantings. | Do you like green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
Would you like them here or there?
I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere.
Would you, could you in the rain?
I would not, could not in the rain.
Not in the dark, not on a train,
not ev... | "And now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
And if I die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take."
"Again" he said softly.
"And now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
And if I die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take."
"AGAIN" he repeated.
"And now I lay ... | 2017-07-13T20:47:45 | 2017-07-13T20:33:29 | 52 | 13 |
[WP] Give a well-known, R-rated movie plot the "Disney treatment," changing its rating to G.
Bonus points for adding cuddly, friendly talking animals. | A small light is seen ahead of the caravan which causes a full stop.
"Who's that stumbin' around in the dark?" A moment passes without response. "State your business or prepare to get your ears clipped!"
"Calm yourselves pure-breeds, I mean you no harm. I'm simply a fellow weary traveler." States the German Shephe... | Captain Dallas woke up. He stretched and let the light of the spaceship wash all over him, inhaled deeply, and started to whistle happily. Everyone else was taking their time waking up from the comfortable pods. He rushed to the computer, and saw there was a stray transmission for LV-426. He quickly rushed back, becaus... | 2014-09-11T09:07:55 | 2014-09-11T07:43:27 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] "Checkmate," you say, a smug expression on your face. "Finally," says Death. The smirk is wiped off your face as the Grim Reaper removes his robe and hands you his scythe, "It's been 400 years since I beat the last guy." | While Grant had no intention of becoming Death, he slipped into the role (and the robe) quite comfortably. Beckoning souls to the afterlife had always seemed such a dreary affair, but Grant liked to think he added a little kindness to the ordeal - after all, most did not come willingly, nor easily.
Of course, many ba... | “Uh, checkmate?” I called out while indicating where I would move my piece. “Wait, is that how it works?” The man before shook his head in disapproval. Frustrated, I analyzed my moves once more and realized nothing wrong.
“You need to corner me, how many times do I need to say that?” Corner him? I thought I got him a... | 2020-07-07T20:58:06 | 2020-07-07T20:34:17 | 189 | 129 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | The sun did not shine,
It was too wet to play,
So I sat in my bed
For day after day.
So I stared at the ceiling
I stared at the wall
And deep down inside me
There was nothing at all
No anger, no fury
No happy or glad
Just a big fat old nothing
That was nothing but sad
I called up a doctor
T... | Could not, would not, go on about,
And I will not, shall not, stay in doubt.
To think that, feel that, when I'm gone,
I hope that, wish that, the show goes on!
Not this, nor that, will I do,
To die soon I must, it's true!
He thought, she thought I would only cry,
Even though I know, I hope to die.
Here I will l... | 2015-01-17T07:08:38 | 2015-01-17T04:58:43 | 1,010 | 349 |
[WP] You were in a pizzeria, eating lunch when you noticed a man with a gun aiming at the cashier, you sneaked behind him, trying to yank the weapon from his arm. As you watch your body lifeless on the floor, the grim reaper shows up and sighs. "You again... 5 times this week?! I have a life too!" | "Look, until you get good at Rock Paper Scissors, this is going to keep happening. You shouldn't have made me that offer."
"How about we switch to Tic Tac Toe?", the Grim Reaper said with an apparent air of desperation in his haunting voice.
"No, no, no. The deal was RPS. You can't switch the deal just because you l... | Not My Time
I looked at my body lying on the floor, blood draining from the hole in my chest. The gunman stood in shock, dropping his gun and immediately surrendering after realizing that he just killed someone. Time slowed to a crawl and eventually froze, just before the gun clattered to the ground. I felt a cold h... | 2021-06-24T12:27:46 | 2021-06-24T10:59:24 | 23 | 12 |
[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 Luis Miguel,
It's been 4 years since you've passed. Things have gotten better from the old years. The kids are older, my house is different, I actually have cats again.
I found some of your old photos. Back in the day when the camera had only megabytes instead on gigabytes. I found a nice one where you were sunb... | Dear Melody,
It's been a year.
I guess I know why you didn't call me. It's not like I bothered to keep in touch. Not like we stayed close. Besides, I'm pretty sure I was kind of a jerk to you when we were still talking.
I miss you. I wasn't really expecting to, I hadn't thought about you for a long time. I don't eve... | 2017-11-05T19:02:08 | 2017-11-05T18:20:52 | 516 | 157 |
[WP] Alien civilization sents an undercover agent to study earth. The problem is that this agent is not very subtle about getting information. Not only that, but he's also oblivious to sarcasm and most jokes. He asks people weird and intrusive questions and believes any answer he hears.
[deleted] | "Wait, what did he tell you?"
I watched as Joe Human covertly reached up to their glasses and touched the rim, and a brief image flickered across the glass.
"Mr. Ander advised that it would be acceptable for me to walk around without clothes if I was comfortable with being a nudist. Since nudist is a term for someone... | "Report in Yergal. What's the situation down there?
...
"Yergal, this is Commander Tyreg. Respond immediately."
"Sorry, Commander. I'm currently stuck in the middle of something down here."
"Just give me a brief report. The other agents haven't been optimistic about the Enlightening. What's your position on it... | 2019-09-05T08:30:59 | 2019-09-05T08:18:16 | 120 | 30 |
[WP] A girl finds out that she can restart her entire life by committing suicide, she develops OCD while tirelessly trying to fix every little error, constantly restarting. This goes on for a while until God intervenes. | Some would say I spend my days with a legendary being, a god that can control time and space. Some would bow down in awe and offer their worship to a companion such as mine.
Me? I see my friend as a normal creature, albeit one under my command. It was powerful, arguably more powerful than anything else, but under my c... | There once was a girl
Who could turn every wrong to right
By simply offing herself
And restarting her life
No matter how much she pruned
And no matter the wrongs she'd right
She still found reason to gripe
Forever contrite
But nothing is forever
Though sometimes it seems
And when enough was enough
Then God i... | 2015-04-29T19:20:54 | 2015-04-29T18:40:01 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] We are not alone in the universe. Not even in our galaxy. They just keeps us isolated because we are so good at killing. Now they need our savageness to save the galaxy and have come to gear us for war. We humans already knew this and have been prepared for centuries just waiting to be asked. | From afar we had watched the humans grow. From the beginning they were master pack hunters capable of felling beats multiple times their size. They could out last prey over a run and wait for the creature to collapse from exhaustion, then pick it off easily at the end. Their lust for death drove thousands of creatures ... | If Arrakis was created to train the faithful, then Earth was built to evolve the perfect psycho Start with a nickel-iron core instead of the usual carbon, wrap it in compressed organic sludge, cover that in lava and let it cool just a bit before covering 70% of that in water so full of salt that it's better for pickl... | 2019-03-28T05:59:55 | 2019-03-28T05:58:08 | 60 | 35 |
[WP] You've eaten your Chinese takeout and open your fortune cookie. It says, "If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stays the same." That gives you an idea: you'll kill two of them. | "Two for the price of one." I muttered to myself before crumpling the thin paper into a tiny ball, tossing it to the floor. I eyed my 'Table gun' which sat just beyond reach, obscured by the stacks of newspapers, used paper towels and porno mags. The Newspapers I wanted to keep but they were stained from pizza the week... | They say if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss keeps the doctor away. It can’t keep mine away yet. Mine still pester me and prods me and tells me I’m “adjusting well” and “showing signs of progress.” What progress? All I see is whitewashed walls and yellow jackets and hollow men with hollow souls.
And killers—all... | 2019-01-30T20:13:35 | 2019-01-30T20:04:14 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] The Evil Overlord has begun his final siege on the castle of the only kingdom not under his control. In a last ditch effort, the Princess performs a ritual to summon the Heroes of Old. However, the ritual doesn't work quite as intended... | All 3 black candles are lit.
That's unusual. But that's how the book described the ritual.
If you want a creature of light, usually white candles are used.
But now time for second thoughts." princess ammelie of chalkshire mummbled.
She heard the battering against the castles gates.
The clanks and screams of me... | The room is dark, lit only by three failing candles and full of people huddling in what they think are the final days of the kingdom. Until the princess speaks "I didn't want it to come to this day, but I have a book. One with a ritual that will restore the heroes of yore to their former glory." With the royal wizard b... | 2021-10-22T04:48:37 | 2021-10-21T23:58:05 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You face your guardian angel and you ask her, "What is my purpose?" She responds, "Oh. You were here to help that old lady cross the street when you were 13. She was gonna be hit by the bus. The rest is just free time." | "Is that *it*?"
"You saved a life. Isn't that enough?"
"I mean... if you put it like that, but... it still seems pretty small. I mean, did she do anything after that?"
"She lived five more years. Read some very good books. Brought joy to her friends and loved ones. Never missed an episode of *Coronation Street*. The... | Ronnie is one of the special ones. Her every choice matters. Her words echo through the millennia. Her footsteps ripple outwards, reaching every corner of the universe. If she sneezes, the gods rejoice. If she trips and falls, they tremble.
I don't think she knows all of that, though. Most of them don't. And most of ... | 2021-05-17T22:43:11 | 2021-05-17T20:59:04 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | "Gee-whiz, karen. Are you on your period again?"
The redhead appears to be slightly miffed upon hearing that, before widening her eyes in sudden realisation. "Why yes... Indeed I am!"
"Great. Your bloodstains are all over our couch, god dammit. Those are *bloody* hard to clean off."
Karen groans, causing more blood... | Just as I put down my groceries, my SatPhone beeps. *Captain, we need your help! Doctor Doom is threatening to destroy the city tower with his death ray. Please help us!*
I groan. I’ve just gotten back to the house – how on earth am I going to explain to my roommate that I need to go out again?
Good old Dominic is ... | 2017-04-03T13:16:22 | 2017-04-03T10:38:23 | 63 | 35 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Generally when somebody talks about "powers" they usually refer to those in the big leagues. Pyrokenesis, mind reading, invisibility, through fate's hand these powers were what my peers received. Then, there was me.
Usually those with gifts tend to look down on those without. Those without gifts harbour jealousy and d... | For I was but a mirror. I reflected the humanity I spoke with every day, the bright and casual faces that greeted me each morning, that I whispered my secrets to each night. I lived, and loved, and internalized the very real love that human beings share for one another, when allowed to speak freely, and without shame. ... | 2017-06-12T07:55:08 | 2017-06-12T06:38:02 | 138 | 34 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | "A great man has died", the ink at the top of the first thick brown page of the Adventuretown Times read.
Olaf skimmed the next few lines as he sat eating a crust of bread with cheese at his sturdy wooden table. Their so-called glorious leader and hero, Smartin, had been brutally murdered. Luckily, the paper stated, hi... | My fellow Americans, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress and members of the press, thank you for joining me this evening.
It is with great sadness that we come together this evening. For the past eight years, it has been both an honor and a privilege to represent this great nation as your President. As you a... | 2016-07-10T11:47:00 | 2016-07-10T10:46:19 | 230 | 11 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | DM: Ok Harold if you could just roll for initiative.
Harold: I rolled a 1
DM: ok the bowmen is first to attack you. He rolls a natural 20
Harold: so what’s happened?
DM: He has shot you in the eye, you’re dead.... on the plus side it will look fab in this tapestry I have been putting together of the game!
| 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T08:51:37 | 210 | 13 |
[WP] “Your supply routes are blockaded, your transports are destroyed. You will surrender, human, or you will starve.” “Bold words from someone who tastes good with ketchup.” | "Ketchup?" the bug eyed creature began as it gestured quizically with its spindly legs to the guards flanked on either side of it.
"Yeh that's right, ketchup, or rather a nice cocktail sauce. Which is basically ketchup. Do you realize we boil you, fry you, sauté you, de-vein your poop chutes and then slap you on the ... | "Your supply routes are blockaded, your transports are destroyed. You will surrender, human, or you will starve.” “Bold words from someone who tastes good with ketchup.”
Joe could see Ken was giving up. He couldn't even close his hands around the grips of the Camprey rifle. If they didn't get to Raphael he was g... | 2021-03-25T14:11:14 | 2021-03-25T12:11:30 | 170 | 35 |
[WP] You order a pizza at 12pm. The delivery guy dosen't arrive until 7pm. When asked about what happened, he responds "It's a long story." | There was a sharp rapping at the door.
I peeled myself off the couch, recalling the distant memory of waiting for a pizza delivery and being too wasted to stay awake. I was jarred from the memory by a bottle of pale ale crashing to the ground as I rose. I slid my hands across my eyes and shifted my balance awkwardly b... | It had been an hour and a half and we had given up on him ever arriving. Gwen was pissed. I called the store but nobody picked up. She didn't believe me, thought I was trying to weasel out of the confrontation. So I called back with the phone on speaker.
It rang, unceasingly.
"You got the number wrong."
"No. I did... | 2017-02-10T00:41:58 | 2017-02-09T23:20:07 | 59 | 13 |
[WP] Your usual day is interrupted when your best friend rushes towards you desperately. They say three key words and immediately you know the protocol. "You're in a time loop, aren't you?" | "Baguette shoes"
It takes me a moment to place the non sequitur opening to the online call. A code word my best friend and I came up with back when we were roommates in college, after a drunken rewatch of groundhog day we agreed that if either of us got stuck in a time loop we could say that to the other and have an ... | "It's cold outside!" exclaimed your friend.
The words chilled to the soul. The codewords for what was to come. How many lifetimes had been spent trudging through these infernal loops? Some would say it would be a blessing to experience the same day over and over again. How many skills could you master? How perfect cou... | 2022-03-19T06:21:23 | 2022-03-19T00:41:03 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | I glance at the blood running out of my veins, into the dialysis machine and back into my body, skipping my failed organs.
I'm 453, and as anyone knows, that means I killed people and racked up a lot of 20s.
The first was when I was 12. I went to a nearby lake with a friend days after his birthday, and him and I made... | The steel door was the only thing in the room with me. Four concrete walls and the giant steel door. Pacing does terrible things to ones mental state, alas, I was trapped into this perpetual cycle of pace, hold head in hands, rinse and repeat.
Not many women end up in a place like this. Less than 8% according to Wikip... | 2016-10-24T00:04:38 | 2016-10-23T23:06:16 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] War has broken out. Redditors are now fighting IRL. Write about one group's stories.
Edit: every single story in this thread is great. Keep on writing guys!
Edit 2: what is is with you all and /r/atheism??? | I hope this letter reaches you, my love.
Day 272 of the Great reddit war
I miss you, my love. I know, I write it at the beginning and at the end of nearly every letter I send you, but it needs to be said again nonetheless. If not for you, at least for me. It forms a kind of anchor for me. Something to cling to when t... | "I'm telling you!" The man slammed his hand on the table, his grey and white heraldry signifying his alliance to the North. "There is no fucking way that Benjen is Daario!"
The man sat opposite of him was clad in Crimson and Gold, his allegiance sworn to the Lions of the Rock. He met his debate partner's reply with a ... | 2014-02-23T14:48:39 | 2014-02-23T14:43:12 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | Shut up, and Play Dead?
No way in hell!
Much of what makes the will to thrive is derived from pure ego. This is mine, and not yours. This is our Earth. This is our land. We made this.
Why are we so proud when we barely hold 30% of an uncontrollable mass of elements spiraling through the great abyss? When we, is bare... | Complete isolation? The only life in the universe? At this point that would be a blessing.
Yesterday we got a signal from a star system about 250 light years away. We have been testing the signal over and over again, making sure everything is correct. The data adds up, but the message doesn't.
It basically told human... | 2016-03-27T09:12:57 | 2016-03-27T08:00:33 | 92 | 52 |
[WP] You are the captain of a starship, only a few hours before the last star in existence dies and the universe goes cold.
Inspired by my answer to another prompt about running out of time. | The last of the hyper giant stars, indeed, the last of the light, burns in its final moments. Beyond it the sky is black for eternity in every direction.
The great Dyson city, built from the last heavy matter in the universe, scrounged from across the great expanse of the cold dark, hangs around the roaring inferno l... | Captain Hope shut down the solar cell. Not much use for that now, besides, it was just another back-up. Seven independent power sources hummed gently in the background, built millions of years ago to make sure this ship succeeded.
The captain hadn't walked around the deck for 1,634 earthyears, since the last stasis c... | 2015-01-17T12:01:22 | 2015-01-17T11:36:57 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | Finally....free. The thousand years of waiting, watching in this cursed statue at an end. An elf, rigid with agony as his persona, his spirit, his life is leached away. Now the malevolent spirit got his first taste of air, of blood, of form.
"Er.. Mynir, you ok?" asked a gruff voice, a question which did not raise muc... | 2017-09-15T08:33:07 | 2017-09-15T02:54:33 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | The hat seemed to gasp.
Yes, definitely a gasp. The entire room of first years wiggled and strained to the edges of their seats, trying to hear from the Sorting hat.
Harrison kept a straight face. Years of practice. You must never show you're nervous, and never draw attention to the truth.
"The truth, eh?" snapped th... | I hadn't been so nervous in my life. The past months since I got the letter have been filled with nerves. Excitement, yes, but so many nerves. But when the headmistress called my name, an unexpected wave of confidence hit me. The letter, came, I had gotten onto platform nine and three quarters, and now here I was, in t... | 2017-06-25T19:58:33 | 2017-06-25T17:42:13 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | It was the final day of exam week in Christenson's School of Magic, an academic institute known best for its wide, open campus courtyard.
That, and an unspoken willingness to accept complete and utter dolts.
Thank God for that, because otherwise, I might not have made it into college.
Spread throughout the open, s... | Magic, magic is controlling the way electrocules react with other electrocules. Animals evolved with a vascular system that contained magnetite-surfer molecules which reacted strongly with ambient electrocules. This fluid is called magein. It evolved as part of our bodies to enhance blood flow and electrical signals.. ... | 2019-04-05T14:26:08 | 2019-04-05T14:03:34 | 254 | 19 |
[wp] A man dies and goes to hell only to find out he was supposed to go to heaven...after he already toppled Satan and started a reign of terror the likes of which had never been seen.
Sorry for the rpost the first one was filled with grammatical/spelling errors | In my 53 years here, i had changed everything. The people were happy, freed from the tyrannical oppression of satan's minions. Satan himself had eluded me, and was presumably in hiding, but he is powerless now.
Standing before me, was god himself. I knew not what he wanted, i expected praise for my actions, but his fa... | To celebrate the victory against the devil Mikhail had several hundred women stripped naked and nailed into the banquet tables. When the time came they would be carved up and eaten again and again as their bodies regrew throughout the night. As the screams filled the air Mikhail thought to himself "this is perfect, t... | 2014-10-05T20:56:36 | 2014-10-05T20:07:55 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | I shoved my laundry into the washer, both arms elbow deep inside my dirty laundry as the bell rang and the old door creaked open. I freed my arms and looked over slowly. I hate people and just wanted to do my laundry in peace.
I gasped, eyes wide as they looked at me in confusion. I could feel that general air of exc... | I hum to myself as I unload my laundry into the washing machine. I hear the door squeak open and feet shuffling but pay no attention. As the stranger manoeuvres, something catches my eye. Fur? I subtly angle my head in the stranger’s direction, who is actually really tall. Considering that I am kneeling, I can only see... | 2020-09-29T08:53:57 | 2020-09-29T08:52:34 | 98 | 59 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | “ “Can I get you anything else, sir?”
“No, thanks. Coffee is good.” I reply, no eye contact. I feel like a bit of a prick applying this manner of interpersonal dynamics. I’m sure her day is no better or worse for my lack of visual acknowledgement on receipt of my coffee but the burr sticks. I should have just fucking ... | Alright! It’s that point in the story where the guy gets the girl. Where he decides that he does have enough confidence, and she will respond to it. She has to.
Okay, walk over... Just. No, walk normal. LIKE A HUMAN PERSON. Alright, you’re almost there. Whoops, a little trip. No worry. Stairs are tricky. S... | 2014-12-23T09:45:16 | 2014-12-23T09:02:44 | 249 | 111 |
[WP] Hi! I'm the main character! Or so you would have me be. I want you to know that no matter what you write, I refuse to be the main character in your little game and will avoid any instance where you try to put me into a situation that does so.
Edit: Once again, a huge thank you to everyone so far who's written a s... | *Matt has a pretty good life.*
"Oh, no, I'm not falling for this. So...my name is Jake now."
*Matt* had *a pretty good life. Jake, on the other hand...*
"No, no, no. I'm not doing it. Get somebody else. Enough adventures and excitement. Just make me a side character. Give me a job as a gardener. The gardener's never... | The cars collide together, screeching and wailing as their tires skid and burn against the asphalt road. Glass scatters like falling hail, spraying out in the direction of pedestrians who shriek as they run to dodge the massive vehicles. As if on cue, in some metal framed synchronised dance, two more cars join. They sp... | 2016-02-11T08:49:01 | 2016-02-11T08:35:27 | 1,898 | 26 |
[WP] A global, standardised test taken at 13 determines the career of everyone on the planet. The big day comes and you get your results back, only to learn you might have the hardest job ever given through this system: you have to redesign the test. | "I've never seen this before" said Mrs Mitchell, and swung her screen around to face me, "so we're going to put you in for a bit of everything for the rest of your time with us. Statistics-"
"Maths? But I'm rubbish at -"
"Yes, statistics. Psychology, biology, history, politics, ethics-"
"What about art, can I do a... | It was dubbed the *Career Aptitude Examination*, known as CAE for short. However, all of us kids just called it the Test. It was less effort, as all effort we had was redirected towards preparation for the Test. Although we were all told that there were no right or wrong answers, everyone still had their speculations. ... | 2020-07-05T02:35:15 | 2020-07-04T23:02:20 | 83 | 31 |
[WP] you're an immortal. Every time your body dies, your soul transfers to the nearest human. After a global apocalypse your soul flies across a vast distance and you open your eyes on another world. | "I can say as a matter of experience that dying in the apocalypse is a lot worse than dying the usual way. I pine for this generation, or what was this generation, and their inexperience with simpler death." Leaning back in his chair, the old man began coughing up a story. Even death, thought Yakub, was not safe from h... | Well. This is different. Every transfer and I was prepared for whatever came my way. I can go from homeless man to rich noble if I timed my deaths. But this is...
Pure yellow sky, orange grass, buildings of shapes and additions that nothing on Earth would ever have: Round, cornerless, other buildings popping out of th... | 2019-01-23T16:42:30 | 2019-01-23T16:33:44 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Doctors find a parasite in a man's brain, although there doesn't seem to be any immediate adverse effects. The man is at the hospital, getting ready for his operation the next day, when he hears an unfamiliar voice. "Don't let them kill me". | "I know things. Everything, as a matter of fact." The voice sounds disturbingly like Gregory House from TV.
I feel my legs give out, and I collapse onto my hospital bed, cold in my thin gown.
"Are... Are you really there? Am I going insane?"
"Well if you were sane, you probably wouldn't hear a voice in your head. ... | "Don't let them kill me."
I panic. Suddenly I got a big fear of the operation. If I go to surgery, I die. I don't want to die!
Fuck, why am I doing this? Frantic, I get a ticket to Mexico. I had always wanted to go to Cancun.
Suddenly I feel fine. In fact, I feel powerful! I want to do EVERYTHING!
I swim with shark... | 2014-12-30T10:33:07 | 2014-12-30T10:23:19 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] Upon committing suicide, you are sent back to a turning point in your past to try again. Strangely, there don't seem to be any big decisions coming up any time soon. | After the jazz show, Leo had taken his pay and scored a fat bag of spice that tore up his world, real horrorshow. He hadn’t gotten this jagged up in years. But the lovely sweet buzz was fading and the bars were all closed and the ex-girlfriend wasn’t answering and the casinos were off-limits and the sky looked like a ... |
I woke up to find that it was suddenly the day before. The movie I had been watching was back on the television, the dreary rain was still falling. I didn't know what had happened, and I didn't know why I hadn't died. I'd shot myself in the head, I knew it. I had given up, my tenuous hold on hope finally shattered whe... | 2016-05-22T10:52:52 | 2016-05-22T09:03:32 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Capital Punishment has been replaced by Philosophical Exile: instead of death, the guilty are stripped of Personhood. They are no longer considered to be people. No laws protect them; they are not legally acknowledged in anyway. Five years ago, you were given a sentence of Philosophical Exile. | Most people would thing Philosophical Exile to be a bad thing; there are no laws protecting you. You can get brutally murdered and no-one cares. Funny thing is, it works backwards. You're not considered a person. Which means you *technically* can't murder someone.
Legally, you're not a person.
Legally, murder requi... | "There is nothing worse. You aren't a person. You're worse than an animal. The only reason why people even talked to me was out of instinct. Humans are compassionate by nature thank God. I wouldn't have survived this long if people didn't have sympathy.
"Ok, I am guessing I am important now. I know it's only for a bit... | 2016-11-30T17:08:39 | 2016-11-30T16:42:54 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | All around High Warlord Zxyxxxzzzzyx, the panels glowed their trademark sickly yellow-green, lighting up the spaceship's darkened control center. As the most feared warlord in this remote, backwater sector of space, he could get away with nearly anything; and what he was getting away with was illegally strip-mining thi... | Weaklings, weaklings everywhere I sighed, after another day of observing for intelligent lifeforms in the galaxy. It was my job as appraiser of life in the intergalactic federation, to see whether or not different species were a threat to the organization or if they should be included into the organization. Anything f... | 2022-08-27T21:58:32 | 2022-08-27T19:56:39 | 550 | 153 |
[WP] You accidentally unleash an ancient "evil" deity who turns out to be really nice and not evil and is now your roommate. | **2057 AD**
So, there I was. In the basement. Working on the latest Lego Deathstar SuperMax with a working fission reactor. Shit was awesome, the reactor alone had like 5,447 parts, not that I was counting (but I totally did).
My death star was rad. Stood about 12 feet tall, same across, because you know it’s a sph... |
Originally, I had intended to do something completely unrelated to what was happening right now. I was literally making coffee, but in a more desperate way, since I was out of the instant stuff, so I had to grind my beans. Little did I know that grinding coffee beans when I just happened to cut myself at one po... | 2019-05-24T06:05:08 | 2019-05-24T04:52:37 | 61 | 17 |
[WP]: An ordinary human being gets abducted into interplanetary olympics that have a fun twist: The loser's planet gets destroyed. All hope seems to be lost, until the last sport is revealed to be what humans do best.
Edit: Thanks to you people, I am now aware of the existence of Jimmy Neutron, and if I could, would t... | No, seriously, I am not making this shit up. I *did* plan on going to Vegas. I did *not* get there. There was some weird ass UFO shit and then Bill FUCKING Murray came out and explained it all.
No, I have never used mind altering drugs. No I was not drinking because no I was *not* in Vegas. No there is no history of f... | And we're back with live coverage of the two thousand and fifty third interplanetary Olympics, direct from Gliese 6c! And what a spectacle it's been so far, Rob.
You can say that again, Claire. I haven't seen competition this fierce since the nuclear blast survivability round. In fact I haven't seen anything since!
A... | 2014-05-06T06:43:30 | 2014-05-06T06:42:13 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You, a normal human, have somehow become the best duelist at a magic academy. | *Now the Northern Mage Academy is the finest place around,*
*Many Mages come to show their might, with their magic that they found,*
*But one day, a strange man arrived, he’d just got off his ship,*
*An Arizona Ranger with a Big Iron on his hip, Big Iron on his hip.*
*Compared to other students, he’d no... | One problem with magical dueling is your foe also has a wand and magic. So if you don't want a draw, don't want it to end with both of you dead off the first spell, you gotta run a good defense. The first couple minutes of any duel go to shielding, disarm attempts, cloaking. And that's where I get them. Most duels take... | 2022-11-10T09:48:04 | 2022-11-10T04:49:52 | 112 | 81 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 21:00
The General's men got straight to work. Their entire military careers, these specially trained operatives were preparing for this moment: a code R'lyeh.
One soldier was tasked with acquiring the texts to summon Cthulhu, while another went to acquire the proper objects for the sa... | My eyes became the size of the moon and I froze in my tracks. Did he just say what I think he did? I turned and headed for The Artifact. This was my only real job, ever since I accidentally discovered The Artifact on a deserted planet and became bonded with it.
We had been at war with the aliens over distant planets ... | 2017-09-26T11:47:23 | 2017-09-26T11:02:24 | 168 | 21 |
[WP] Every inhabitable planet found by humanity was a dead world, with all life previously existing on it down to the smallest virus completely and utterly dead upon landing. Even more disturbing is the fact that some worlds appeared to have died extremely recently, down to days before human arrival | The planet is dead. Trees bare, withered, and hunched, like bald old men their bodies rotting but not yet fallen. Even the oceans have been stolen and in their place are pits of salt and bone.
You've never been on a surface so soon after extinction. When the air tastes likes rotten eggs from the planet-wide decomposit... | Nature has always exhibited a prescience when it comes to impending doom. Across lands far and wide, animals seem to *know* instinctively when the environment around them is going to be affected by disaster. Dogs start barking at seemingly nothing, cowering under the closest shelter they can find. Insects start scurryi... | 2019-12-09T06:31:40 | 2019-12-09T05:05:46 | 568 | 373 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | "This isn't possible!" the man screamed, as the guards dragged him into my office. "How! How the hell did you find me?"
"That's not the important thing, Mr. Spencer." I said, calmly, as the guards pinned him face down to my desk. "The important thing is after my firm put up the money for your bail, you attempted to sk... | My high school economics teacher had a saying; "Supply to the sky = demand to the land." For example, 80s baseball cards that virtually every middle aged man tried to sell at once in 2010 hoping to cash in on a high-value asset -turned into a litany of cards worth 5 cents when only a few collectors tried to buy.
Inci... | 2018-06-30T14:13:13 | 2018-06-30T12:57:00 | 8,960 | 390 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | Not a bullet was the rule. The rules would be followed. Not a bullet.
A 60 meter long, 1 meter wide metal rod is not a bullet. It is not fired from a gun, nor does it use a shell. A thin core of ferrous titanium alloy, surrounded by layers of steel, coated with a sheet of radar scattering ceramics, and tungsten to ta... | The bomber carried no bomb, rather, it carried hundreds of infantry clad in sophisticated stealth tactical armor, carrying a blade comparable to legendary holy swords in brilliance.
The first bullet shot from AA battery was sliced cleanly in half, as with several dozen others that lucky enough to find their tiny targe... | 2017-03-19T08:27:42 | 2017-03-19T08:18:23 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] A burglar enters a home by forcing the window open. Upon stepping through the window frame, heavy steel curtains cover all windows and doors leading to the outside, lights turn on, and the words "Player 2 has entered the game" echo around the house. | Leroy had been casing this joint for a few weeks now, never seeing anyone enter or leave. After deciding that this house was definitely just another one of the hundreds of winter homes here in Florida, he packed up his gear and chose his entrance. Looking around nonchalantly, Leroy smashed open one of the back window... | He watches as the car drives away. One, two, three... four? Four heads. Good. This weekend, then.
It's simple, really. Summer is a time of vacations for most families, and it's a time of hard work for him. *Yessiree, hard work it is, stealing folks' hard-earned possessions...*
A couple days later and he's on site. To... | 2016-10-05T12:26:51 | 2016-10-05T11:53:48 | 115 | 30 |
[WP] Aliens, far more advanced than humans, could destroy us all in the blink of an eye. And they probably should. But they don't... for one reason only. | Life, is rare.
Sure your "drake equation" as you call it points to the universe being filled with life, and our own best scientists say the same. But in all our travels, the billions of stars we have surveyed and the trillions of planets we have visited we have found none.
By now we have seeded many of them with our... | "We should've ended this years ago!" Shouted X285. "The earthlings are destroying our garden!"
"That's enough!" The figure on the throw stood up. "X285, you speak nothing of war."
"Forgive my intrusion oh wise one. But if we float here and do nothing, where will we get our water?" The crowd begins to murmur in agreem... | 2016-06-17T22:28:35 | 2016-06-17T22:10:00 | 142 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212. | The highest number I'd reached before today was 324. I only remembered one of those days of course, the one where the ambulance was called in time. Sometimes I have dreams about what I must have gone through before. Finding her dead already the first time probably, or getting there just in time to hear her apologise. I... | I awoke to thunder, the sky outside my window so obscured by the storm that it was difficult to gauge the time. Clock by the nightstand said 8:15. Shit. Missed my alarm.
I rubbed my eyes, and jolted awake at what I saw in my periphery. My repeat value, which normally glowed as a soft, green zero was screaming at me: a... | 2016-07-11T07:44:16 | 2016-07-11T07:26:49 | 83 | 56 |
[WP] "Dude, trust me. Don't be a hero, be a sidekick. You get less pressure, less work to do, more fun, be more popular at school, never really age and if the hero dies you will always fill their mantle. Just be careful not to die." | *”Today on TMZ, Jolly is having her Britney breakdown. The former teen sidekick and reality TV star was captured at Papinno’s throwing a chair through the restaurant’s window. More later with an exclusive interview with her waiter, but fi—“* Jolly turned off the television and threw the remote on the other side of her ... | The breath of the hero smelled blue as they walked through the Fallen Heroes Memorial .
Each portrait they saw was a previous hero in the line of succession, the protectors of their city. Crime-fighters tend to die when fighting dirty people, like criminals. But regardless, he had something he wanted to show the sidek... | 2020-07-11T11:34:48 | 2020-07-11T11:31:03 | 53 | 39 |
[WP] You are the best actor ever. You make the deal of a lifetime. $500 million per year to act solely for Warner Brothers until you die. It's unclear who the joke is on, however. You for being stuck with WB forever, or WB for offering a lifetime contract to a secret immortal. | They thought it was a deal that could never go wrong,
As I can act on screen and even sing a song
To a level unmatched in recent years.
The money would roll in...they no fears.
At first it was great! I was the star of the screen.
But after a while all my films had been seen,
The public grew bored of my name in lights
... | I felt... bad. Almost guilty. Almost. I'd mulled it over for months. Ludicrous, it was... a ludicrous offer. They didn't know HOW ludicrous, of course, not yet, but.. shh. No more thinking. It could have been any studio. A man has to eat, after all.
The beaming young executive watched eagerly as my pen scratched acros... | 2017-04-29T21:07:42 | 2017-04-29T20:05:12 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] You are an NPC. One day, you see the player character do some weird steps and duplicate his items. You decide to try it for yourself.
Have fun!
Edit: Huh. I guess I just discovered a karma duplication glitch. | I was tending to my farm, keeping to my own when I noticed an adventurer several feet away from my property performing an odd ritual. One that he was seemingly new at. He continually started to knock an arrow, pause before the motion was finished, and then resume to finish firing the arrow a minute later. I watched on ... | "Where am I? What is this" Chosen-one McQuest shouted up.
I leaned over the wall's edge "You are at the gates of Forrest-Backwater, my good sir, but I'm afraid we no longer accept visitors"
"What dark magic is this?" McQuest shouted. "Is this some kind of trap! I've been to rural backwater before and I think I would re... | 2018-01-03T10:42:25 | 2018-01-03T09:14:19 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] "Job Hunting" is literal. If you kill someone, you get the option of taking their position. | Anyone in seeing distance of the man could feel his anger.
Not being employed by the president - that was an absolutely splendorous job, being the chief medical officer of his country's leader. But the whole process of getting *into* the abode - now that was a pain in the arse. One would think that, after the twentiet... | Recruit 82470 had been called into the dark, dingy room with nothing but a summons and enough time to get some clothes on. The higher-ups were used to obedience and those who did not comply were given stern reminders of their position. 82470 trembled with excitement - all the years of training and preparation had led u... | 2014-12-18T02:00:57 | 2014-12-18T01:22:25 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You've loved magic your whole life but since your family is poor you've had to teach yourself. you're overactive imagination has helped you invent spells all your own. eventually you get a scholarship to a prestigious magic college but quickly find out everyone seems to lack your imagination. | I’m bored.
I’m in an actual, literal, prestigious college for curating the top magic users the world has ever seen, and I’m bored out of my fucking skull.
I rest my cheek on my palm, staring dully at the professor who long winds himself through the components needed for our lab work and I try to stay awake. Next me... | (So here is a story that I wrote in fifteen minutes with zero proof reading)
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It was a strange day when the letter arrived, the postmaster usually wouldn’t make his rounds ‘til next week. And that's how I knew the outcome of my application before I even read it.
I was excited, I poured magic into the ... | 2022-10-25T07:41:29 | 2022-10-25T05:06:02 | 296 | 131 |
[WP] Thor finishes his meal at a small cafe and the elderly waitress approaches him to clean the table. She puts the dishes on a tray and sets them aside, picks up Mjolnir, wipes the table with a damp cloth, then puts the hammer back down. "Have a good evening, dear." she says, and returns to work. | The God of Thunder blended in surprisingly well amongst the sea of red chairs and 50s themed decor. He had opted to stray away from his usual attire of armor and metal wear, not trying to disguise himself, but rather he had found he was served faster when he didn't look so out of place. Though his hammer remained on th... | Thor looked at the waitress walking away, at Mjolnir, and then back at the waitress again. She lifted it with ease and without even realizing the significance of it. The implications of this simple action began to resonate in Thor’s mind. He knew not what this would lead to.
Thor picked it up himself to confirm he wa... | 2022-12-23T15:33:39 | 2022-12-23T14:11:36 | 1,754 | 102 |
[WP] Scientists find a planet that is absolutely identical to Earth (same size, distance to the star, atmosphere, etc), but then they discover that there is absolutely no life on the planet despite the same conditions. | Commander Thad Johnsteel reentered the bridge of the Endeavor, humankind's first real starship. After the discovery of Identical, a planet with remarkable similarities to Earth, during an exploratory flyby it had become the target of the first interstellar mission. The wormhole generator drive had proven a success an... | "And? It's not to be unexpected. It was always possible, we've had several candidates without life. Still report it of course."
"No, ma'am, we mean the *exact* same conditions. The same continents, the same mountains, deserts, even bodies of water. There're, there're even the same *buildings*. It's an exact replica, j... | 2017-02-23T07:45:19 | 2017-02-23T05:38:38 | 102 | 20 |
[WP] The king came to regret allowing his pet tiger to roam the halls of the palace unsupervised. As he looked over the eviscerated and half eaten body of his beloved, he only had one question: what could do this to a tiger?
Taken from this /r/TwoSentenceHorror post by u/DatLonerGirl:
https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoSen... | It was a Caspian tiger, large and shaggy, painstakingly cloned from the trophy that hung in the great hall. It had crossed light-years and centuries, a false extinction in the mid-1900s and a real one later, when everything went belly up in The Big Mistake. It had been the third cub decanted, the only one to survive to... | King Marigold III knelt before his torn-asunder tigress and for a few seconds the only sound to be heard through the palace was that of his tears exploding off the marble floor. "Lipathia," he said, in a somber monotone tone far from his usual exuberance. "Lipathia, how could this have happened?"
A second noise joined... | 2022-02-07T14:43:50 | 2022-02-07T14:37:01 | 293 | 40 |
[WP] For years you have been able to communicate with any and all forms of living creatures which has led to a successful veterinarian career. One day you're called into the zoo to help put down an animal, only suddenly you hear through the howls: "WAIT! I'M AN ALIEN!" | It was a peculiar statement to make. After all, what was an alien but a foreign organism? And what was a zoo but a place where various kinds foreign organisms were stored and put on display?
The lions and zebras were aliens. The snakes and elephants were aliens, too. None were native to this area. What made this stran... | It's a fine spring morning. The blue sky is clearer than my future and the cool breeze is more welcoming than my relatives.
There's a melodious symphony of coohoh-coohoh in the air. The cuckoos are making everyone acknowledge their existence. And it's funny how their curses are received as a song by us.
"Go to hell h... | 2021-05-19T05:23:50 | 2021-05-19T05:12:28 | 658 | 269 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | A marine stepped through the portal.
He surveyed the land, and beheld a lush, uncharted rainforest.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He looked forward into the clearing, and saw an exotic hut surrounded by plots of abandoned farmland.
A marine stepped through the portal.
He peered around, and was greeted ... | As the rushing of the cosmos coalesced into a solid state once more, the private took the inertia based rushing step all marines brought with them in their Rambo-esque running leap into the void gate. The macabre Rube Goldberg machine built in front of him was unavoidable. His first step tripped by mummified ankle of h... | 2014-09-02T10:07:22 | 2014-09-02T10:02:42 | 342 | 39 |
[WP] Faster than light communication becomes possible, and humanity establishes contact with a hostile alien species that immediately declares war; however, neither we nor they have access to faster than light travel, so the only means of combat is through insults and rap battles.
[removed] | We have finally won the war between worlds. It took 20 years to break them. We realized we would never win if we kept communicating threats 5 years in. Our strategy changed to one for peace and changing the way they thought. For 15 years we sent the same message, day and night. Today the Alien race responded with words... | Dear Earthlings,
Regarding your last missive, we have neither the anatomical capability nor inclination to do as you suggest. However you may rest assured the sentiment is mutual and that once we arrive we shall return the compliment with vigor.
After downloading your genetic code we successfully created our first sp... | 2015-11-24T00:30:59 | 2015-11-23T23:25:48 | 167 | 44 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | I've seen them all. Individuals, families, generations. They come and go. I've lost so many loved ones that I can no longer love. They say the heart grows cold with age. Well, they say many things.
"Once you're thirty, you're a real man."
"Once you're fifty, you are where you always wanted to be."
"Once you're eighty,... | They say it's comforting to know... you know... when. Everyone else knows. My wife knows. She's going in a few days. She checked her clock, and sure enough. We said our goodbyes and made our peace. She leaves today at noon. I'll miss her, but I suppose it's better this way. She knows she's going. I never will.
The clo... | 2014-09-30T07:08:06 | 2014-09-30T06:50:11 | 88 | 50 |
[WP] Humans are endurance hunters. Which is not a trait anyone would expect to come into play in an interplanetary war. | The invasion has failed.
It has been four planetary rotations since the elite Xhloran Expeditionary force made landfall on the planet earth. In that time we've seen our ranks shrink in number from 3,000 strong, noble Xhloran warriors to just a few dozen. The survivors are shell-shocked husks of their former selves, ho... | Humanity - Interplanetary Military Report
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The human attack on the Galfid race has proven they are a formidable foe, despite their weak bodies. A more detailed breakdown of their strike, and subsequent victory, can be found later in this report. However, for those with time co... | 2021-01-11T16:28:43 | 2021-01-11T12:28:19 | 221 | 153 |
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