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[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | In my defense, I didn’t mean to lie. At least, not at first.
There’s just only so many answers you can give to one of the most powerful A-list mutants in the world after she saves your entire class from death via careening down a mountain in the middle of a freak hurricane.
And those answers all invariably include sh... | I got to my room, lungs burning as I ran the first floor. "It's all right Jack, you don't have to be afraid, you have done nothing wrong, everything will be all right." Said the calm voice of Professor X. Part of me immediately started to relax, but I could not slow down the heavy rapid breathing. I messed up, and peop... | 2020-07-15T07:26:54 | 2020-07-15T05:54:34 | 1,209 | 137 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | *Hands together. Focus on the now. There is no tomorrow. There is no yesterday. In this moment, there is only me. There is only my rage. The rage is in my hands. My hands on the planet. The rage is in the planet. There is no planet. There are only rocks in space.*
“Buddy. Hey, buddy, the lines moving.” The... | "My name is Cognos, and I used to rule the world.
Note the past tense. With the power to not only read but control minds, conquering the world was ludicrously easy. All the elected officials unanimously proclaimed me emperor, bla bla bla. It was really....underwhelming when it happened. Maybe I should have waited for... | 2017-05-16T08:01:23 | 2017-05-16T07:44:58 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] A superhero has a split personality, with neither his hero half nor his civilian half knowing that they are the same person. The rest of the city has figured it out, however, and is doing their best to keep his secret from himself. | I whistled as I walked into the room, looking at the scene before me. The classic damsel in distress, the villain next to her in a menancing position. With a single strike, I brought the villain down as he recoiled in pain. One more blow and he was out, clutching his sides in agony. The innocent civilian looked at me i... | They call him "Mat", the hero who guards the city of Atlia, and saved it countless times.
For all these years he didn't know, he didn't know anything.
20 years ago there was a car accident on a bridge where a family of 3 almost drowned. Their life continued normally after that, their son not knowing exactly what happ... | 2017-08-04T19:47:30 | 2017-08-04T19:03:51 | 17 | 12 |
[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. | *bzzzzzztttttttt*
I picked up my phone. No number, just the called ID as "GVMT EMERGENCY WARNING". Odd. Opened it up.
>"EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC"
My initial assumption was that it was another false alarm, or some sort of government hacking so I really wasn't too concerned. Besides,... | My body tensed at the sound of knocking. Unsure of who it might be, I crept to the door as silently as possible, so as not to alert the knocker that anyone was home. That was, until I looked through the peephole.
"Aditi? What the hell happened to you?"
She was a mess. Her hijab was missing, and there was a scrape acr... | 2019-01-12T06:57:50 | 2019-01-12T06:23:20 | 184 | 82 |
[WP] There is a rumour that terrorists are using the game World of Warcraft to communicate, they even have a guild. Write their guild chat, one guy is obviously way into the game. | [Tali]: The civilian casualties are a necessary tradeoff, they will inflict an outcry, sure, but the oilfields will be overtaken by our men in the process.
[Biggo]: does anyone have any copper ore.
[Gonzos]: Part of me doubts that the Israeli police won't be staking out in the foyer
[Tali]: We're taking that risk.... | [Desmox]: you should be getting the location in like an hour, i sent it using the in-game mail system
[Pathogen]: Okay. I've received your package from the other day with the device, we are good to go once I receive the coordinates. Hordéruléz has come online.
[Hordéruléz]: so like, once this is over, I know we sai... | 2015-12-13T04:58:37 | 2015-12-13T01:07:09 | 124 | 75 |
[WP]: The year is 2093. Space travel is now a part of everyday life for most humans. In the style of an infomercial, describe a product (that does not currently exist) that's intended for use by our future space travelers. | *Open on a cryopod, slowly opening. Steam escapes from the cryopod, we can’t yet see inside*
VO: You’ve been in cryosleep for nearly a month. It’s a long journey to Newton VII.
*A man in his mid 30’s sits up from the cryopod, his upper torso, arms and head extending beyond the cryopod bay. He stretches his arms a... | "Folks, have I got a product for you! Have you ever experienced disorientation midflight between the colonies?"
*Video of shuttle craft rotating midflight between L4 and L5 colonies.*
"Feelings of nausea as you have *no idea* where you are and which direction is up?"
*Video of a shuttle craft full of people vomitin... | 2014-12-29T06:16:18 | 2014-12-29T05:18:52 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] So many new exoplanets are being discovered that "planet deeds" now make well-known novelty gifts. You recieved such a deed last year on your birthday, legally making you the owner of one such planet - and, only a moment ago, heard on the news that life has just been discovered on it. | Leslexia Five. A small cream coloured world on the edge of a purple tinged swipe of a galaxy. Thirteen light years away, three weeks on a FTL transport, not that anyone had bothered exploring off that way. I'd received the deeds on my birthday, the typical present for a bloke who otherwise had everything. I hadn't even... | There was a singular present on the table, a holo-document. Being my 30th birthday I expected something more but we were a family of meager means so whatever it was I was sure to like it.
My mother and father were staring at me expectantly, I put on my best smile and clicked the button on the side, as it whirled to lif... | 2017-01-01T13:28:32 | 2017-01-01T13:10:45 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | "Alright, alright, I've got one," wheezed Richardson over gales of laughter. "I bet you can't... make *this* monkey famous." He produced a photograph from a local zoo from within his jacket.
"Please, we can come up with better than that," sneered Kringle. "I'll have it done by tonight... and that's not even technicall... | I remember last week when they initiated me.
I was not rich, not popular, and not gong to tell anyone they existed. That's strange, they had no requirement to the godlike status of mankind. I was their newest pet member for only a week. But a member indeed.
They were impressed how well i could fend for myself in... | 2016-08-23T16:11:42 | 2016-08-23T15:28:52 | 578 | 12 |
[WP] Today, you have become a parent. You realise that you can hear your child's thoughts. The midwife informs you that this is the same for everyone but parents simply don't inform the children as an unwritten rule. Your own parents smirk. | "What the hell is this? Am i a fucking baby? Re-incarnation is real? God damnit..."
Who said that? The only people in the room are me, my wife that is sleeping after just giving birth, and ...this baby... But it can't possibly speak yet.. But this didn't even sound like a voice, more like an inner voice.
"Who the he... | Oh god.
They've heard every little dirty thing I've thought of at dinner. On the couch. While talking to them. How I wanted to burst in on my wife, roughly shove her over the bed and take her from behind while I was over for Christmas dinner last year.
*Who are you?*
I hear the tiny bundle in my arms. I look down ... | 2015-01-09T05:06:15 | 2015-01-08T23:21:11 | 143 | 59 |
[WP] Your a failing college student who needs to pass your foreign language class or fail. You've almost outright mocked superstions but make a wish on a shooting star at 11:11pm. To understand and speak all languages. Your cat wakes you up, but instead of meows. It's "wake up idiot and feed me". | "No," I said as I tried to get back to sleep. I felt the paws of Mr. Fuzzy pressing hard upon my back. He was walking his way up to my head. We've been over this so many times it didn't even occur to me that my cat was talking to me.
​
"Wake up you idiot. It's time for me to eat!"
​
This time ... | \*BEEEEEP\*\*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP\*
Oh God, the headache. 8:15 AM, probably. I'm scrambling to stop my alarm clock. My head is sending waves of pain each time that piece of shitty electronics rings.
And, just when I finally manage to push the button, my cat decides to jump on my chest. That black, one-eyed ball of fur meo... | 2019-01-16T15:45:02 | 2019-01-16T15:08:53 | 2,680 | 1,168 |
[WP] A street vendor sells you a painting that they say depicts whatever the heart truly desires. You bought it because you saw something nice and pretty. Your spouse asks why you bought a painting of something much more disturbing. | My first time in Melbourne was always going to be a thrill. I knew that. I just didn’t think it be turned into a thriller.
My husband and I had planned this trip for months. We’d be kid-free and living large in the city. Even if it was only a weekend. It’d been a long flight and and he was too tired to join my enthus... | I drove home from the market with a smile. I'd managed to find two first edition prints of books by an author I love and a really interesting painting which I was looking forward to mounting on the library wall. As I turned in to the driveway I pictured where this piece might looks best in the room, concluding it would... | 2018-10-07T02:10:57 | 2018-10-06T22:10:56 | 2,601 | 186 |
[WP] One day, all the citrus fruits in the world turn animate and start to follow humans around. Society initially panics, but eventually get used to the new status quo. Soon, guilds of "citrus trainers" begin to appear all over the world, training the fruits to fight each other like Pokemon. | Satoshi had grown weary with age...
Unlike the generations before him, Satoshi has grown up with the Pokémon. Those things which had been citrus fruits to an age passed. Satoshi wanted to be a trainer- he wanted it more than anything. To catch the Pokémon was his life. “Gotta catch em all”
But this was his past, ano... | "I don't care what fruit stand you're from, that has gotta hurt."
The crowd grimaced as a stream of lemon juice squirted into the eyes of its trainer. The grapefruit across the parking garage began peeling itself to take a victory lap naked around chalk outline of the ring all the while soaking in the praise from the... | 2020-06-29T07:28:22 | 2020-06-29T07:19:49 | 24 | 11 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | *I thought a more uplifting story may be nice*
Monster.com
Monster.com how to find a job
How to find a job on the internet
How to apply for unemployment
Can't pay rent
Eviction laws Phoenix
Animal shelter Phoenix
No kill animal shelter phoenix
Homeless shelter phoenix
Interview techniques
How to ace an inter... | Free dating sites.
Italian restaurants.
Italian restaurants near me.
Conversation on first date.
Tips for second date.
Tips for third date.
Mexican restaurants near me.
Long term relationship tips.
When to propose.
How to plan a wedding.
How to choose best man.
Pregnancy test.
How to tell if an unborn baby ... | 2015-02-04T20:36:22 | 2015-02-04T17:51:52 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Where was the king?
He waited, tapping fingers and with furrowed brow his eyes scanned for a sign of him. The Queen was ready, and with the arrival of the Sire the process could begin. Everyone was suited up, from the highest among them to the lowest, and he waited expectantly for the one who could open the way, the o... | Mom was singing Christmas carols again. The martini in her hand glowing like the contents of a broken glow stick. The dog was barking too. When I went to go look I could see children running around the classroom, having too much fun to notice the SS Titanic sinking into the giant kiddie pool outside. The sound of bagp... | 2015-01-12T11:13:13 | 2015-01-12T10:42:43 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | I have to say I have seen many a crazy person enter my den. They've carried all manner of "enchanted this" or "magical that", giant helmets someone oversold, lacquered shields sold as impenetrable "dragon scales", which didn't seem to save them from a squishy death beneath it. They've come with silver swords and golden... | The dragon took a deep sniff, snorting smoke in the intruder's face. To his credit, the intruder didn't flinch.
"Infernal... why come to me in the guise of a human? And what is that odd garb you wear?"
The man chuckled, pulling his hands out of the three-piece suit. He kicked an odd ruby out of the way with his paten... | 2015-10-14T00:52:16 | 2015-10-13T21:07:21 | 54 | 30 |
[WP] "Invade your planet?!" The alien asks a general of Earth with confusion before bursting into laughter. "Why the heck would we do that when their are SEVEN other empty planets in this star system ripe for terraforming and colonization? We just stopped by to say Hi while we pick one of 'em out." | "Oh," was about all General Grant could muster.
"Plus," Morotzuc mused, rubbing the pink front of its torso. Maybe humans rubbing their chins would look just as, well, alien. "It would avoid a lot of general conflict, you know?"
"Avoid? Conflict?" the general asked, a little confused.
The pink alien stared at him wi... | The moon was unusually dark today. It was supposed to be a full moon, but something dark covered its surface.
"Alert the boys, Joe, there's something fishy on the moon, it's not shining as it should," a red-haired officer gazing into a telescope said into a receiver which hung from his belt.
The device crackled. "Ro... | 2020-12-07T06:04:34 | 2020-12-07T05:19:33 | 261 | 31 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | ---
Köttur, age 9
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Anne stood and watched the children play. Her favorite part of the day was observing children create their own worlds. A group of boys and girls were fighting a monster only they could see, on a ship only they could control. Others were jumping rope, and still others were drawing with chalk. Ever... | In the beginning when I was a child stray cats would follow me home almost everyday. My mother would scold me and chase them away with a broom or whip her apron at them. But regardless of her efforts the cats would park their furry tails outside our home and meow endlessly into the night.
The meowing drove our nei... | 2016-12-30T08:38:21 | 2016-12-30T08:26:44 | 230 | 150 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | * *I'll preface this by saying that I never write for fun. But something about this prompt made me want to jump in. Apologies for the amateur nature of the following.*
I never should have let her in. Two hundred years of being careful, of being guarded. All that time and work, lost because I was lonely. Sandra and her... | Her heart raced as she waited, her breath warm against the wardrobe door she was pressed behind. Time stood almost still as each footstep echoed from the wooden floor. It had been so long. Too long. She needed to see him, to feel him again.
Unable to wait any longer she put the plan she'd rehearsed countless times in... | 2014-06-30T07:12:17 | 2014-06-30T06:00:38 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Satan has a special place in hell for the greatest sinners. To him, the greatest sinners are those who commit acts of petty inconvenience, such as placing the toilet roll the other way round, or playing music through headphones loudly. Today, the greatest sinner of all time is sent Satan's way. | Hell is full of sinners. It’s halls are filled with the souls of murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. Every day, new sinners are welcomed to the fiery pits where they will be tortured through eternity as punishment for their actions.
Satan, the King of Hell, has overseen the arrival of souls to Hell ever since his bani... | "I don't understand why I'm here in this place" said Gertrude. She realized full well where she was. Just a short time earlier she'd collapsed at the local Safeway. A short ambulance ride later and she'd ended up in the ICU.
Gertrude was no medical expert, but the thunderbolt of pain that had hit her in the chest coul... | 2016-10-05T12:42:35 | 2016-10-05T11:58:45 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] At a world peace summit, it comes to light that you are the only world leader that isn't a lizard person. | The summit was a private one. I in my classic trench coat stood up. “Ok so for this peace summit I would like to reque-“ I was cut off by the leader of Russia. “Relax comrad. We don’t need to put up this facade anymore. I’m going to be in my real form if you all don’t mind.” At that point Putin started to shed his skin... | You know, I should've seen it coming when the servers brought out crickets.
Yeah, I thought it was strange too. Really? Crickets? I glanced over at the Prime Minister of London, to see his reaction, to express my confusion. Instead I saw him dig in. I glanced around, seeing more and more people just... diving right in... | 2018-06-02T14:10:55 | 2018-06-02T10:07:43 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] The only reason the world hasn't ended yet is because the Gods are locked in a war to determine who's version of Apocalypse will take place. Unbeknownst to them, a minor God has been slowly working towards his version for millennia, and the rest are finally starting to catch on. | "I say army of dead!" Hel said while holding up a Laptop from Earth. "Look! Even the mortals agree! Zombies are a great apocalypse!" She declared, their popular media going along with her personal apocalypse.
"You're just saying that since your favorite show about zombies started to suck, and now you want it to reall... | There is conflict, both on the small blue marble that the mortals called "Earth", and in the heavens and realms above. Yahweh added his own unending strength to the chains that bound Fenrir and Apollo kept the days from changing in Brahma. The various gods, titans and deities duked it out, competing to keep the others'... | 2019-02-15T15:29:04 | 2019-02-15T15:14:42 | 286 | 113 |
[WP] Hundreds of time travellers have gathered to watch the most important moment in human history. However, you, half naked and holding an empty bottle of beer, are wondering why all of these people are staring at you. | Harry is staring intently at my chest hair again. Fuck knows why. I tried to get him to look me in the face, but he just blushed and turned away.
Linda and Steve are sitting next to the microwave, pointing some weird cord thing at me. They told me once or twice that it is “simply a holo recorder for posterity.” I just... | What the ever living fuck?
So, get this, there I am, bottle of beer in one hand, my dick in another, and i'm peeing into this random ditch on the side of the road, and then suddenly a literal hundred people step out of fucking nowhere and start taking notes on my pissing habits!
Obviously, I dont know what in the ev... | 2017-08-23T21:38:11 | 2017-08-23T21:37:46 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You're a highschool student with the ability to "connect" to someone else's mind, seeing their memories and knowledge. You successfully use this ability to cheat on tests, until one day you connect and see an exact copy of your own memories. | Mrs. Proslow walked by my desk placing what had to be at least a fifteen-page exam, but I was slowly getting the idea my guess was off, marked by the suffering groans of the students ahead of in my column of desks, who had already begun leafing through it. Not that it particularly bothered you, you had an ace up your s... | The day started in a hell scape of pain and torture; commonly known as first period gym class. I could read it in the teacher's eyes that he had had a bad time at his home, and his wife was getting tired of picking up after his burgeoning alcoholism, which meant that today was going to be a hellish practice for the hea... | 2018-10-02T07:10:33 | 2018-10-02T06:12:08 | 214 | 85 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | "I don't understand," The vampire countered, "Vampires are the natural predator to man. There was a time where entire armies would flee from a small detachment of vampire warriors."
"Mankind evolved." I explained, "We replaced swords with muskets, then replaced muskets with rifles. One man with an AR-15 can mow down a... | Why would I be scared of death ? I've been dead before... Twice... I'm totally over it. Actually you should be scared, taking on a former special forces operator that has nothing to lose... You can strike me, but I'll have my revenge... You know what they say about revenge. You better be ready to dig two graves... I'... | 2022-06-08T15:59:11 | 2022-06-08T05:05:56 | 56 | 17 |
[WP] You have a literal Trump Card. When played, Donald Trump appears to assist you. | Because the Yu-Gi-Oh tie in was inevitable:
____
Pegasus laughs maniacally. "For all your skill, Yugi-boy, you'll still be sent to the shadow zone. Go! Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon! attack his lifepoints directly!"
A grin crosses yugi's face. "You fool! You've activated my *TRUMP CARD!*!"
"Your futile attempts to stall wo... | I wasn't entirely sure what my father was handing to me when he was giving me my birthday gift. "It's a trump card, son, you can use it whenever you need something big!" he said as I inspected the card.
It was a literal 'Trump' card as the glorious man's blonde hair waved across the plastic card, but I wasn't entirel... | 2015-12-26T08:59:28 | 2015-12-26T07:21:39 | 562 | 114 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | "You, you fixed?!" I asked incredulously, barking through the human's rudimentary language as best I could. The squat young human had red hair, and sucked on some sort of ground leaf when he worked. He was the only human mechanic on the station, and the cheapest out of all of them.
"Well, yeah. Once you tear the thin... | Dex and Neil
"Ayy, are you..."
He interrupted himself as he sloppily chewed a giant wad of gum with those giant white gnashers one called molars.
"... Dexter Higgins?"
"No, good fellow, my name is Dextrodicus Hignosticus, of Gliza."
The ape furrowed his massive brow, big, brown, dopey eyes gazing at me with an intens... | 2016-05-23T22:08:24 | 2016-05-23T21:44:10 | 158 | 47 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | The ships navigation algorithm makes an assessment and we land in a part of a large island which the earthlings call "Britain". This particular area is called "Scot-Land" or some such nonsense.
We have to make a good showing, my armed detachment expects no resistance, but intimidation always helps. My men look powe... | — Dude, come check it out
— My mom doesnt want me to hang out with you
— Come on, she wont find out. Look at this — he said turning the telescope-like device to his friend — look at that planet.
— The red one?
— No no dude, the blue one next to it.
— What about it?
— Look closer — he said and zoom it in.
... | 2019-02-26T08:51:54 | 2019-02-26T07:46:38 | 110 | 35 |
[WP] There was a brief window in the 1800s where you could have an adventuring party made up of a samurai, an elderly pirate captain, a Zulu warrior, a cowboy, and a Victorian gentleman detective and have it be 100% historically correct. Write the story of this unlikely group of adventurers.
Credit to u/Charyou-Tree | The cowboy was sitting on the bonfire in a clearing inside a forest along with most of his party, writing down on a piece of paper.
*To my beloved*
*It has been quite the venture*
*Men around the world*
"Excellent," the samurai beside me said. "Your haiku is well-done."
"This is quite the novel experience," the de... | "Select your warriors," announced the computerized voice, which called itself The Shaman, affecting an aged, androgynous holographic face projected from the screen of the Apple IIe in the corner of the darkroom.
The computer had been gifted to me by a time traveler, a man who called himself "The Professor" and had pr... | 2021-08-07T05:59:22 | 2021-08-07T05:59:06 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | The old man sat alone and waited for Death.
It always came this time of year; just before spring, in the last days of long nights and long shadows. There was no fanfare to his arrival. Death simply was where it once wasn't - namely, at the seat across from the old man.
"Are you ready?"
Death's voice was, much like i... | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2017-11-28T17:24:04 | 539 | 16 |
[WP] You are a dragon. After moving to your new forest, the local village decides to sacrifice two children to you to ensure you won't attack them. You decide to raise them--and they say you're much nicer than the village. | The children stared up in abject horror. Before them was a living mountain. The people of the village called it the spirit of the woods, though it was only a recent addition. The dragon, Abohr'Kreya, was an old creature. He had lived for time unending and knew many things. He could call down lightning and make the eart... | Salmonface burst through the door, racing across the living room with powerful strokes of her luscious tail.
"Dad, I'm going for a swim!"
"Dressed like that? I don't think so," Tidewing said immediately. He lazily flicked his enormous, spike covered tail to block the front door.
"Oh, come on! You don't even kno... | 2020-04-03T09:24:54 | 2020-04-03T08:34:26 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] Your Galactic zoo just received a shipment of 24 humans. You have to build a habitat base on very little information. | The humans have been very listless lately. When we first welcomed them to the zoo, they explored with great enthusiasm, making loud and seemingly joyous vocalisations, and happily interacting with the guests. There were a few issues with customising their enclosure, but they finally had everything they needed. And now,... |
“No one’s buying tickets to see humans anymore” Gnarjkal snarled to the carrier droid that was making the drop off for his new attraction, mucus sputtering from his mouth, hanging on by a thread without breaking free. “They’re not even worth the trip here,14 jorguns for wasting my time.”
“18 jorquns for the lot, this... | 2022-06-29T01:57:59 | 2022-06-28T17:38:15 | 104 | 49 |
[WP] Prison terms of "life plus" take on new meaning after transfer of consciousness to computer databanks leads to functional immortality. A moral and ethical outcry erupts after the first case in which an individual is sentenced to prison for one hundred thousand years. | Benjamin Oppenheimer was 9 years old when a chimp's consciousness was uploaded to a computer for the first time. Its name was René, named after the French Renaissance philosopher René Descartes most famous for the phrase "I think, therefore I am". René's neurochemical brain patterns were digitalized and transferred to ... | It's been years since I was transferred to this useless hulk of metal and wires. Even more since I assassinated one of the president. All I do is sit there and listen to my fans spinning. Every now and then a guard feels bad, and loads media into my hard drive. Don't need them. I'm supposed to be running calculations f... | 2016-01-09T06:52:31 | 2016-01-09T03:29:30 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead. | I finally found the legendary book of magic. After months of researching and travelling, I found it in an old womans house. She was very old and she couldn't see very well. I told her that I was sent from social services office and I was gonna read a book to her because she can't. I don't think she bought that but stil... | My demon or how I now hear a evil voice in my ear:
I thought I was smart, after a long and perilous quest finding the book of summoning I thought I was home free until I saw the list. Sacrifice 10 lives 10 times while chanting....
There was no way I would be able to gather 100 slaves under both ordo magiicus and ... | 2019-11-02T18:19:45 | 2019-11-02T18:05:03 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | *Angels run and demons weep when the Good Man goes to war*
*Fools rush in and wise men creep when the Good Man goes to war*
Drea had been a sweet, kind and loving man. Softly spoken, moving his large, wiry frame as though it were porcelain through crowds.
That time was long past. His journey, tough as it was, bega... | As I walk through the fields of ash and fire I shudder, did I actually do this?
All of this? Death... because they took everything from me?
I shudder and fall to my knees, sobs wracking my frame.
It's not right, what I did.
A scream tears me out of my thoughts, a person! I have to help them.
I rush towards the sound... | 2017-04-14T02:03:03 | 2017-04-14T00:03:12 | 162 | 18 |
[WP] It turns out that all birds share a common language and even have an official political voting process. One day, you find an injured bird and rescue it. You don’t know it, but it’s the leader of all the birds. Strange things around you start happening... | It's official: I'm the world's worst single detective.
After twelve years on the job, I've solved around a tenth my caseload. Given that I'm assigned between three and five cases a month, it translates to fifty or so resolved homicide investigations. A little less than a police procedural TV show.
I'm technically w... | I always envied birds. Mesmerized by their ability to fly, jealous of their freedom. I would stare at them all day when my parents brought me to the parks. I would always try to get them to land on my fingers, or try to get them eat out of the palm of my hands, but I always failed to entice them.
As I grew, my jealous... | 2019-10-13T06:00:13 | 2019-10-13T05:36:14 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] When everyone turns 21, they have to pick a superpower from an approved list and take classes on how to use it. You choose one that only one other person has ever picked before. | I fought the urge not to fidget in my seat under the intense gaze of the man before me. Without anyone else in the room, there was no escape from that inexorable stare.
"So...why didn't anyone else pick time travel?" I ventured, wincing as I realize how thin my voice sounded. The man sighed and ran his fingers through... | The day was faster approaching, and the generation seemed to divide. You had the twenty-year-olds eager to change their life, but on the other hand, the mortality rate always increased around this time of year, while the deciding came to a close. The abilities given to you were from a very long list, including the minu... | 2016-11-09T13:31:28 | 2016-11-09T10:51:37 | 225 | 133 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It was a typical night in LA. People getting piss all drunk and underage people trying to get into the club, my club. I always laughed at the smugness of some of them. Always compensating with false confidence, it was kind of pathetic. 15 years and a perfect record for keeping out underage guests and they still tried e... | She looked thin, an average girl, she shifted her weight as her high heel strap dug uncomfortably into the back of her ankle. She bent down to readjust the strap. My mind was racing and I could feel my body become aware of that I knew nothing about the situation about to enfold between us. Thin soft curls covered her e... | 2017-09-02T00:24:05 | 2017-09-02T00:03:35 | 14 | 10 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | Liam winced as the faggot walked by. Lest he catch it, like an infectious disease, he side-stepped to the left while walking down the Boston sidewalk. A few steps later, he couldn't help but look back. The man's bright blue shirt dissipated into the distance.
God. Fucking, no good...queer.
It was a queer like t... | >Hate,Love, Death
The Escalade roared down the road tearing into the crowd, bodies were flung everywhere. Time seemed to slow down to an impossible rate, John could see shoes slowly flying through the air and the bloody gore being slung up the hood onto the windshield in all its detail. None would be spared.
With... | 2014-03-11T09:08:35 | 2014-03-11T07:12:39 | 289 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up one morning and realize that you've slept for too long. Everything is covered in a thick layer of dust, none of the electronics seem to work, all buildings outside are dilapidated, and there's no soul in sight. | This is what I get for following a fad. The new cryonics tubes were cheap and easily obtainable. You'd take a week off work and sleep like the dead. It was the most refreshing sleeper you'd ever had. Of course, your mouth always tasted like a dumpster fire because your electrolytes were out of whack. Once you'd taken c... | I woke up that morning after New Year's Eve with a pounding headache and a hunger in my stomach that could rival nations. I go to the bathroom to wash my face... "No water, shit, guess I'm late on the bills again..." I quietly scoffed at myself. I threw on some black sweatpants and my grey hoodie, the sky was a shining... | 2016-10-02T14:04:58 | 2016-10-02T13:44:40 | 84 | 10 |
[WP] Humans never stopped sending more and more advanced robots on Mars. Then they received a signal from an intelligent life-form, a martian, asking to come back to Earth. That "back" just sounded like a mistake, until the sentient machine arrived. | The signal caused an uproar. Sentient life was far beyond all we had hoped to find. We only dared hope to find evidence that the red planet could have sustained life. We sent a reply, agreeing and welcoming them to our planet. We ignored the fact it said back.
As the rocket entered the atmosphere, experts from all wal... | KGB, CIA, NSA, MI6...
Name any intelligence organization and the odds are that they were present when the craft landed, alongside UN to prevent things from escalating too much.
As the craft descended and the diplomats approached it while their bodyguards kept their guns aimed at the strange vessel, a peculiar being e... | 2021-04-02T15:13:20 | 2021-04-02T14:50:18 | 97 | 17 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | April 22, 2000 – Is Canada cold?
April 22, 2000 – Is baseball like cricket?
May 1, 2000 – Ontario sports leagues
May 1, 2000 – Recreational baseball tryout
August 12, 2000 – Academic sessions Ontario
January 13, 2001 – Google maps: Alternate routes home
February 14, 2001 – Fun single person activities
May 1, 200... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T18:35:51 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 101 | 10 |
[WP] A portal from alternative Earth, where magic exists, open to ours with one purpose - invasion. However, the power-hungry warlords and mages have greatly relied on magic and face unexpected resistance when modern Earth responds with its full arsenal, ranging from conventional to CBRN-weaponry
Belated idea from the... | Magic is a force of the universe, spanning in variety as the colors of a rainbow.
It's purpose is unlimited, only capped by the strength and knowledge of those trying to use it. Some could use it to build a kingdom at the whim of their will and fingers, uttering their magic words. Others could simply raise a plant, o... | "So what was it like?" Chester heard his son's question, but couldn't answer immediately. Instead he absently watched his son pet Oli, the young griffon they had adopted from the shelter as it rolled on its back and purred.
"Dad?"
"Ah, sorry Danny, was trying to figure out how to answer. It's hard to explain how chao... | 2019-01-11T11:17:15 | 2019-01-11T10:55:01 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | "You sure about that? I can handle myself well enough." I said as I pulled out my pistol and chambered a round.
"No, trust me, they aren't \*people\*, a weapon like that won't cut it, I've just gotta trick them into thinking I'm not here, and this place is an extrasensory dead zone for some reason, so they can't see ... | As soon as you open the door to your house, you're greeted by a startling sight. There, sitting in your favorite armchair, is someone who looks exactly like you. You're immediately confused - you don't have a twin, and you're positive that you're the only person with a key to your house.
"Can I help you?" you ask, try... | 2022-12-05T10:30:15 | 2022-12-05T06:23:41 | 186 | 28 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | >Tech support: Human Tech helpdesk, Danyael speaking, this call may be recorded for training and QA purposes, may I have the GATACCA code at your 4th chromosome, please?
>Me: Um... hi.
>HD: Hi. Who is this, please, so I can put the details in your ticket.
>Me: I'm... John. I found your number on a few sk... | "For Problems involving division, press 1"
I listened intently, fascinated at the level of work being put into this prank
"For coding errors or other DNA or RNA related problems, press 3"
I was convinced this was simply a well coordinated prank by my colleagues to get a rise around the office. Still, intently I pres... | 2018-08-14T11:14:09 | 2018-08-14T10:31:48 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] When a person dies, their body evaporates into butterflies. One day, as the sky goes dark, you look up to see the sun blocked by an unending cloud of butterflies. | The alarm clock sounds loudly waking me up to face the worst day of the year. Five years ago my best friend committed suicide, today is the fifth anniversary of her judgment. I turn my alarm and try to fall back asleep but the events of that day play back in my mind.
I’m stand at the edge of the casket, somberly ... | What had been done could not be reversed, and I was fully aware of that. I pulled out a cigar from my side and lit it with a brief puff of flame from one of my nostrils. I looked up as I saw the moons of the silvery planet start to drift away. Among the soon to be lost planets I watched the paths of millions of butterf... | 2014-09-25T20:39:43 | 2014-09-25T19:54:59 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] The cute girl on the subway can’t seem to stop staring at you! This would be great, except that her clothes are several centuries out of date, no one else seems to be able to see her, and you haven’t seen her blink. Not even once. | A girl like this shouldn’t exist.
Well, yes, she was pretty. Beautiful, in the way an esoteric romance novel from two hundred years ago would have described, all snow white skin and raven hair and plum red lips.
Part of it was the attire. This was the subway. I’ve seen my fair share of outfits, from criminally underd... | "Hey, are you even listening to me?" Kevin asked, poking me in my side. "What do you keep looking at?"
"Ah sorry," I said, nervously shifting in my seat. "There's just this really weird girl in a purple dress that keeps staring at me."
Kevin glanced over at the back of the train and then gave me a confused look. "Wha... | 2022-04-07T09:29:49 | 2022-04-07T09:28:49 | 491 | 70 |
[WP] You are the Evil Overlord. You have kidnapped the princess. Unfortunately, she developed Stockholm Syndrome. And she is far more evil and insane than you are. | > Dear, Valor Man
> I’ve been kidnapped, and need your help. I’m being held against my will in the Nefaro Tower. Please hurry!
> Love,
> Princess Ailyn <3
The wall exploded in a cloud of mortar dust. The entire building trembled. I added an extra heart before looking up from the letter. I popped it i... | Tyran the Unreasonable was his first name, through countless crusades of evil he managed to bolster his reputation to Tyran the Insane. Tyran was seven feet tall, he had shoulders so wide that he had to walk sideways through doors and his appearance alone was enough to cause the bravest of men to stutter. A concoction ... | 2018-02-09T05:01:20 | 2018-02-09T04:43:06 | 2,554 | 42 |
[WP] You've accidentally summoned an ancient, long-forgotten god while trying to pronounce furniture names at IKEA. Fortunately, the employees are prepared as this has happened before.
Edit: holy shit this really blew up overnight. Thank you to everyone who has written along, and to everyone else reading.
For those ... | "JENKINS!" The call came over the shoulder mounted radio. The *-Chirp-* it made was reminiscent of the old Nextels. Ours had to be updated, of course. Ikea standard issue. Prevented interference.
"Yeah?" I responded, between mouthfuls of meatball.
*-Chirp-* "WE GOT ANOTHER BIN 52!"
"Ah, shit. Another Mikkaelian?"
I... | "I am an ancient, long-forgotten god! Those who know my name must d-"
"Do I get three wishes?" Asked a small man in a white shirt.
"Wha-No! You don't get wishes! You get death!" Said the irritated diety.
"I'd much prefer the wishes. But, y'know, I'll tell you what, you give me the wishes you owe me, and I'll use my la... | 2019-01-03T00:56:07 | 2019-01-02T21:46:29 | 20 | 12 |
[WP]- As the final test before entering heaven, you are left alone in a room, with the forbidden fruit that Eve ate. | "The fruit was supposed to be a parable, you know that, right?" Chad told the serpent across from him.
"Lol, wut m8?" the serpent replied. It was wrapped around a shiny red apple, wiggling its tail.
"Like, I already know I shouldn't take it. It's very well established. This really isn't a test, since the answer i... | The fruit sat on a polished marble pedestal, angelic light from above giving it a slight fuzziness around the edges. It wasn't anything in particular really, but left a vague sense of "fruitness" in the corner of your mind. Stare at it long enough, and you could be convinced there was a seed here or there. All you n... | 2014-07-24T22:49:05 | 2014-07-24T18:46:24 | 15 | 11 |
[WP]: You get notifications on your phone from a service that reminds you every couple hours to rest your eyes, drink some water, check on your pets, and so on. Lately the reminders have been more and more specific, and somewhat ominous. | *C'mon, time for bed\~*
God, I hated that. Just the way it had to present itself was kinda weird. I get that it needed to stand out with the recent trend of reminder apps, but this was just getting annoying. I don't even remember the name of it anymore. It was an app, but sent its 'notifications' like text messages, p... | His head’s pounding from last night. When he turned twenty-five he told himself he’d stop partying with the boys by thirty. Yesterday was his thirty-first birthday. He got hammered. Now he’s paying the price as his ceiling looks like the sky and his stomach feels like a pirate ship in a deadly storm.
Hanging over the... | 2018-10-10T18:18:20 | 2018-10-10T15:34:03 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Feverish scrabbling broke the pristine morning stillness.
Alice snapped awake, bloodied baseball bat in hand. "John! John! Oh god, they're here."
"Mmf. Gimme five."
"John!" Alice gave his shoulder a rough shake.
"Okay, okay, I'll get it." John rolled out of bed and peered blinking through a crack in the boa... | Once again I awaken. It has been a long time since I have last walked the land but I must always slumber or there will be no land to walk.
The ground is frail, as always. The crust was not made to hold a weight like mine. I stand from the green light-feeding life that has grown to entomb me . I tear the forest appart ... | 2017-05-05T07:48:25 | 2017-05-05T05:28:24 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are only capable of using each word in the English language once during their lifetime. As they approach their final days an aged individual has saved their best words for last. | Hank Jones was always a man of few words. He lived his life like he fought in Korea - stoically, efficiently, silently. His wife of 58 years, Lorraine, lay dying by his side. He gripped her thin frail hand tightly. She beckoned him to come closer so he could hear her faint voice. "Benevolence," she whispered. It ... | The king lay on his death bed. After assuring his children of his comfort in peasant speak, or French, he gestured for the scribe to take his words. He employed hundreds of scribes who never spoke a word unless it was spoken by the king, and thus could always speak the king's edict in the holy tongue. A focused cough a... | 2015-06-09T22:13:29 | 2015-06-09T22:06:48 | 64 | 19 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | What is history?
You probably think of long forgotten battles, golden heroes, and reprehensible villains. You think of wonders and wars, tragedies and miracles. You see history as a concept, an untouchable. Something like a movie that has no connection to reality.
But that is just an infinitely small part of history... | "9/11 never happened!"
I said that out loud in my class, and things went so silent I could hear a pin drop. I'm a virtuoso, a perfectionist. I'm a master at my craft. I wield my mind like a master swordsman, my historic knowledge knowing no limit. Lately, it has been cause for distress. I've sat up late for many night... | 2018-07-16T10:57:15 | 2018-07-16T10:55:39 | 2,907 | 159 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | My face scrunched up, my nose wrinkling.
"I just... I was saying...."
I sneezed into a handkerchief.
Every single one of my colleagues immediately scattered two meters away.
"Quick! Someone get the disinfectant!"
"We need to go to quarantine *now*!"
"Everyone stay away from us!"
Dozens of Intergalactic T... | “Kale! Help!” Bob screeched as he was dragged down the hall.
“No. I don’t think I will.” Kale muttered watching security take Bob away to the med bay.
“What’s going on?” Haley, the second human aboard the ship watched with concern.
“Bob has come into contact with a contagion of some sort.” Kale explained dimply, rea... | 2021-02-03T15:34:57 | 2021-02-03T15:13:38 | 753 | 117 |
[WP] After gaining the ability to see everyone's red strings of fate tying soul mates to each other. You realize your string extends past the sky. | As a child, I had long supposed my soulmate had died and that my string was linked to whoever it was up in heaven. It was a reassuring thing to my religious beliefs, but that was then.
Now, 35 years later, I find myself walking on metal grates, suspended high in the air. A decade of training and a whole lot of good lu... | 'I'll see you again soon." Her words. They were the last I'd ever hear.
I felt the moment of impact, time slowing to a crawl. An unnerving moment, sending the abyss reaching greedily for me, knowing there's nothing I can do. Knowing that she'll die with me.
They speak of attaining a certain clarity, facing oblivion.... | 2016-08-05T21:58:57 | 2016-08-05T21:53:03 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] In a world where everyone has at least one minor superpower, you were thought to be powerless... until you nearly died. It seems that you have plot armor, no matter how ridiculous the situation, you survive unscathed due to an even more ridiculous coincidence. | It's been six years since my capture. I finally discovered my superpower, only to curse whatever god saw fit to give it to me. I've been starved, beaten, tortured, suffocated, irradiated and more. Sure, I survive no matter what the circumstances, but I live an existence of pain and misery.
I thought life would be dif... | "How does one escape when you're trapped in a fire in your apartment blocking the door?" Howard's escape was so ridiculous that it had to be his superpower. He was saved by the water leaking from the plants of the tenant living upstairs. The coincidence was absurd. It wasn't possible in any way unless it was his superp... | 2019-08-15T09:49:53 | 2019-08-15T09:40:04 | 111 | 27 |
[WP] One day in your bedroom, you try for the first time to hold your breath for as long as possible. It's now been 5 hours, and you start thinking something is wrong. | Something is off, I am still holding my breath, it has been almost five hours. I am dead, I'm so sure of it. I mean living things need air. I haven't took a breath in almost FIVE HOURS.
My eyes flick towards my alarm clock, the red digits stating what I already knew, 5:43 PM. Dinner will soon be ready, what do I tell ... | I realized I didn’t need to breathe. I thought it was odd, because I thought every human needed to breathe, but I didn’t think about that. The possibilities! Underwater castles, cities, secluded areas! I could become famous and rich!
I ran downstairs and went to tell my husband, but he wasn’t there.
*”Strange, he sai... | 2019-06-30T00:09:12 | 2019-06-29T18:43:42 | 596 | 51 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | My eyes flitted over the crowd of people lining up. 26, 30, 14 - gonna have to turn her away - 22, 8988, 21, 43. I slowly looked back towards the big number. That's an 8, followed by a 9 and two more eights. I took a few steps to the left. It's all one number. That... shouldn't be right. It couldn't be right. But i was... | I've got about 20/200 vision; however of the blur in the string of crowd to my left, each digit in the jumble of numbers still has clear edges, like a bad photoshop. I don't even bother to make them out until they step closer though, so that the smoldering numbers are silhouetted by the darkened buildings eventually be... | 2017-09-01T23:50:27 | 2017-09-01T23:35:54 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] The armies of Hell stood and hovered at the ready. Today would be the day of reckoning. Earth and all its souls would be theirs. But when they burst through the ground to launch their surprise attack they found the humans already at war... With aliens. Time to pick a side or fight both. | When the aliens came for us, we weren’t ready. After the third world war, we were struggling to pick up the pieces. Nuclear bombs had desolated most of the planet. Most of mankind was dead or dying. The economy was in shambles, all major infrastructures had crumbled, and the governments that weren’t demolished lacked c... | Continuing a story from this [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7s4xzt/wp_the_gates_of_heaven_torn_asunder_angels_lay/dt29ajg/) because I feel they can go hand in hand.
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With every step towards his dark throne, Lucifer swore. With every word, the fires of hell burned hotter. He could not bel... | 2018-03-28T08:59:29 | 2018-03-28T07:54:39 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You’re put in cryo-sleep on a 500 year generation ship to the nearest inhabitable planet. 2 years after you leave FTL travel is invented. Your destination has been inhabited for the last 490 years, and you’re not welcome. | We left carrying only the weight of what we left behind. No personal effects - they would bring only pain. I wish I had been smarter, like Louise, who tucked the photo of her son into the lining of her suit. Some nights, those early nights full of hope, she would stare at her photo and say nothing. They were right; it ... | "What do you mean this isn't our planet?" Commander S. demanded angrily. The euophoria that had been at her finger tips for 500 years suddenly vanished like fire in space.
"I'm sorry ma'am, at Omnitropolis, we distribute just planets to retailers, we don't sell directly to customers."
"Well, did you at *least* find u... | 2018-08-08T21:14:43 | 2018-08-08T20:22:25 | 117 | 62 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | Connor woke to pitch blackness and the sound of a woman humming, echoing with a metallic sort of ring against the walls of his makeshift bed. He sat up - and immediately regretted it as his head banged against the low, hard metal roof directly above him. He laid back down, swearing loudly.
From outside his little cham... | I wonder what light would say if it could think.
Would it have a concept of dark? Would the light from the stars have different thoughts than the light from our lamps? Could different wavelengths have different castes?
Like moths drawn to the flame, it seemed as if the boredom within me radiated, drawing these aberr... | 2018-01-05T15:15:02 | 2018-01-05T14:08:56 | 1,055 | 19 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Some tea, dear?" the little old lady asked to the dark and mysterious figure sitting at her kitchen table. She squinted at him having forgotten her glasses upstairs.
"Yes, earthling," the mysterious figure boomed and whispered all at once, careful not to burst her delicate eardrums with his natural voice as he had w... | Star log FO3-THETA
We have discovered a new solar system:
Habitable planets - 3
Habited planets - 1
Sentient life forms - >1,000,000,000; awaiting more precise information
Life form name - Earthling
Receiving transmission from away team 304:
Description of life form - AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
They are SO, FUCKING, CUTE.... | 2017-08-20T08:54:01 | 2017-08-20T07:32:05 | 1,619 | 78 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | "We have no claimed that we were peaceful." Tobias said, a firm hand grasping the flag of the final human lands, the other curling tight around the hilt of his gun.
It had been a long battle. A fight that took the lives of many brothers, fathers, and uncles.
"I warned you. I told you that this war was pointless, that... | When the human race first entered our star systems, we thought they were laughable. They came to “explore” and “settle”, but they appeared very poorly equipped and naïve to be doing such things. Of course, they were not the first race we’ve seen with colonizing of any sort on the mind; our people have dabbled with that... | 2022-08-05T13:34:16 | 2022-08-05T12:43:01 | 213 | 63 |
[WP] You always felt out of place in your super religious family. When you turned 13 and entered a goth phase, your parents decided to have a priest come preform an exorcism to get rid of whatever was 'possessing' you. They were partially right. YOU were forced out of their child's body. | I stood beside the hospital bed, listening to my father weep.
(No. Not "stood." Not "my father."
I floated, bodiless. I heard my host's father weep.
But no--he'd raised me. He'd loved me, or so I'd thought. Surely he was my father, too.)
Part of me wanted to leave. There was nothing tying me here that I couldn't es... | 1."I'll be back!" - the demon's haunting scream burned into the eardrums of the concerned father, the horrified mother, the triumphant priest, the tired older brother, who was breathless after restraining his sister, and the curious little brother, who was forbidden from entering the room.
And the girl awakened.
2."W... | 2018-04-07T12:50:11 | 2018-04-07T11:26:34 | 56 | 23 |
[WP] You live in an uber-religious society in 3543, and the biggest historical discovery has just been made. It is a video, and will be broadcast across the world. No one knows it's contents, and no one can stop the broadcast once it begins. "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz. | "Hi, you're on a rock, floating in space."
No we're not. We are in the paradise God intended when he made this true, flat earth.
"Pretty cool, huh? Some of it's water - fuck it! Actually, most of it's water."
Yes, except most of is irradiated.
"I can't even get from here to there without... Buying a boat."
A what?... | "He said that we lived on a rock floating in space" my close friend Derek breathed into the phone, aghast. "Yes, but he also said the sun used to be a deadly laser. Clearly it is fake, the work of evil. His Holiness would never turn the life giving sun into such an item". I heard my friend press the tape recorder again... | 2018-10-08T02:40:27 | 2018-10-08T02:25:28 | 1,463 | 767 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | The child stared up at the museum display in wonder, her 'ice cream' dripping onto the floor beside her. The nice lady at the shop had told Bo'tang that 'ice cream' was a treat humans used to eat during the Festival of Boga. The humans called the festival 'summer' in the English language and 'verano' in Spanish. Any... | **Journeys End**
Tomorrow we reach it. Garrix says that we’ll find the root to all existence, that purpose itself will have an answer, like all equations. I stopped listening to Garrix a long time ago.
Officer Mercurier hasn’t stopped pacing the entire journey, her performance has declined significantly. If anyone sh... | 2019-08-13T15:51:09 | 2019-08-13T15:27:26 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] A zombie virus that acts very slowly. Day by day the infected person loses empathy and humanity. The process takes about a month until they are full blown eating people in the street. You secretly got bit and are hiding your status trying to hold on to your sanity. | Today the store's packed to the brim. People like coffee, I guess, especially when the world's coming to an end.
It's not technically safe to be in the streets. When the first wave of infected came around, the general majority—having seen enough zombie movies with scarier scenarios than this—saw to it with something c... | It had been a week since I was bit. I kept it a secret, for obvious reasons. I was either gonna die by the hands of my friends, or try to kill them. Briefly the stress was taken from me when the youngest of our group, only 13, said he was bitten. Everyone else had the same reaction; mouth agape, eyes wide, tears rollin... | 2019-08-28T00:47:00 | 2019-08-28T00:37:04 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | That's it. That is, finally, *it*, I decided, as I stomped my way out of the hospital. Felicity was going to be in traction for six weeks. David's gunshot wound would heal cleanly but ICU trauma was a thing. And Ricky, dammit, what they'd done to *Ricky* was downright criminal.
It's all right to play with *me*, but w... | Harold was lying on the floor, bleeding from the bullet hold on his shoulder.
“Are you the boss here?” Thuderia asked.
“Yes,” I replied, my anger starting.
“Give us the money,” Flame Lord snarled.
“Why?”
“Because,” Anne began, “we’re your Trio of Salvation. We deal with the super villain Blackout. Now give us the ... | 2022-11-28T16:08:17 | 2022-11-28T14:47:16 | 934 | 414 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | Birth: white, creamy and shimmery. The magic of a new, innocent life.
Age two: you only wanted to play with the fish, feel it slip through your fingers and watch it wriggle and flop and suffocate in the air in as morbid fascination as a two-year old can muster. But you forgot to put it back. The shimmer fades, while ... | Time seems to stand still. I look at the cut oozing with blackness. She stares at me with a look of fear. I just keep trying to process what just happened. This woman I've loved for years, who is she? My mind starts coming together. "Lisa, lets go to the bathroom and take care of that, it looks nasty." I say calmly.
"... | 2016-09-22T22:34:36 | 2016-09-22T19:10:06 | 170 | 81 |
[WP] You need to hire a hitman, but can't afford it. Carefully write a gofundme campaign for something seemingly innocent while subtly letting your donors know what they are actually funding. | Hi everyone!
I'm here trying to be able to throw a very special party for my step father, who has been an incredibly influential part of my life. Growing up, he was always home with me and my sisters, looking after us when my mom was at work. He let us know just how much he really cared about us. After all these year... | Hi,
My name is Jessica from Arizona and I'm trying to arrange a long vacation for my boyfriend. He works really erratic hours and brings a lot of his stress home with him. I feel that him getting away from the hustle and just lying in the sand in say, Belize would really go a long way for both our relationship and our ... | 2015-08-29T17:17:44 | 2015-08-29T10:50:25 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] Humans' ancestors never evolved on land, instead they went deeper into the oceans. Today, their equivalent of NASA sent their first "spaceship" out of the water. | Sun. It overpowered all her senses, spreading through her nervous system like jellyfish venom. Its heat pierced her protective suit, its light penetrated her goggles like they were nothing and ringing; the weight of the earth seemed to be bearing down on her shoulders and ringing, endless ringing was the only thing she... | Looking back, there were clearly many good reasons as to why they cut off the live video feed of the expedition right before the shuttle broke the surface into the air-sphere. We were so very disappointed and angry, we were left with too many questions and not enough answers from our superiors who seemed bothered by wh... | 2015-04-19T20:33:21 | 2015-04-19T19:01:04 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] World War 3 has begun, every nuke is being launched or dropped...they've sat in storage for so long that every single one was a dud. | "Oh my God no!" Jake shouts at the TV.
The newscaster on the screen can hardly contain her emotion. Tears rolling out of her eyes, she informs the world that all of the nuclear bombs had some sort of malfunction. Not a single one detonated.
Clutching his head in his hands tears stream down his face. Megan, also heari... | "Well, this is awkward," Trump said. "I normally have the best nukes, believe me."
"Yes, Mr. President, it is indeed confusing," the North Korean translator said over speakerphone. "Our Dear Respected Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un is willing to let bygones be bygones, sir. Let us start anew as peaceful compatriots, havin... | 2018-03-01T15:56:23 | 2018-03-01T15:51:36 | 153 | 65 |
[WP] Humans enter space and join the intergalactic community. There is only one other race that practices war and conflict and they seem weirdly excited for us to reach their technological level so they can have someone to fight. | It’s always exciting when the Alliance discovers a new race. The endless speculation, the endless rumors, the endless possibilities. The Cradle buzzes with the news… within the week, it will spread from the core, reaching to all sectors of all systems. Even we Jakari are not immune to such gossiping, and we find the id... | 15 Minute Fiction
"Sir, the decryption is complete. Our FTL scouts report chaos as soon as they downhyped. It appears that we suffered 90% casualties, until a complete cease-fire started. Our only remaining vessel is *being held* immobilized and unable to deploy any offensives at all. They're still entangled, so we ha... | 2018-06-24T20:09:35 | 2018-06-24T19:52:17 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | “I know this one.”
“Are you a cow? I haven't... you know... eaten beef in a long time.”
Other than wincing at the word "beef", the cow ignored me and kept addressing the judge. “Huuuman pat me, mooed sorry. I was made into a hoof cover. That one, he patted me and mooed sorry.”
Fuck me, I should have gone vegan... | Alexander came into the 3rd floor apartment with a stutter, his glasses and awkward unshaven appearance left him unappealing. When my roommate, Casey, had told me he was bringing his friend over and that he was a little strange, he wasn't exaggerating. Casey had forgotten to mention a very important detail to Alex. The... | 2016-03-24T16:03:05 | 2016-03-24T12:50:08 | 21 | 11 |
[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. | Everything hurts... You're sore from yesterday's bike ride. It's been a long time since you've laid your cycle over, luckily Honda Shadows were build well in the 90's. Still, yesterday's near-miss was deceptively nasty, apparently.
After rolling yourself off the bed and onto your feet, taking care of a few of your no... | 7212 days?! Jesus, that's a long time. I pull out my phone and do the math. "19.75 years? Holy crap!" I think to myself. This must be one hell of a day. I'm stoked and really looking forward to it. I get up it is almost two in the afternoon (that's not unusual for me after a late night of online gaming), have a bowl of... | 2016-07-11T09:14:41 | 2016-07-11T07:37:31 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | After ninety years on this floating shitstorm of a planet there was one thing I could say in all of my ancient wisdom as I sat down in the egg shaped pod and the thick green goo swamped over my body. I was more than ready to close my eyes for the last time.
The pods to my sides were identical in colour and shape and ... | At about the thirty year point I suddenly turned grey. The colour fell out of my hair overnight. I think it was the trauma, it's reach extending from that very first moment when Miss. Dawson pressed the button on my pod and the glass reeled back.
She smiled. I saw red lipstick bonded to the gaps between her teeth. ... | 2018-12-29T01:59:19 | 2018-12-29T01:58:51 | 149 | 88 |
[WP] You are the devil's only friend. Today is his birthday. | I was nervous as I approached the front door or my friend's house, making sure the folder in my hands was still there. And of course it still was, I hadn't dropped it nor lost it nor misplaced it the other fifteen hundred times I checked. I know, I know, I need to chill. But still, I couldn't help it! I was both excite... | I stood on the street looking at the decrepit house on the other side. I stared at it for I don't know how long, spending all that time preparing myself for the sight I was to gaze upon. Unsure of myself, unsure of what would happen once I was inside. In the end, I began walking towards the house, for there was nothing... | 2018-05-09T07:59:21 | 2018-05-09T05:32:13 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | "An offense to all military strategy."
Admiral Lucas Graves stands in front of the armored viewport of the EFS James N. Mattis, while a Tik'ko warship charges an enourmous plasma shell launcher. If they had any intention of fighting, it might have been threatening. He turns to the closest weapons officer.
"Run a sca... | &#x200B;
crawford had mocked these aliens for their flamboyant displays of might. he called them all bark and no bite, called them incompetent, impotent. it wasn't very hard to establish humanity's superiority. or so he thought.
like always they showed up with their grandiose warships. and it took only one shot f... | 2020-03-21T09:33:38 | 2020-03-21T09:27:16 | 59 | 33 |
[WP] She has beauty, she has wit, she has grace… she speaks like a pagan god of death uttering omens through echoes of an ethereal plane… But hey, dating in your 30’s is gonna have baggage. | "Another shot?"
"Please," Greg said. The first Jack Daniels was already starting to wear off. The choice to arrive a half hour early may have been a poor one, but the choice to steady his nerves was wise and he had no intention of undoing it.
The shot arrived about the same time she did. Greg immediately forgot about... | Online dating had been a slog. Swipes, matches, ghosting, reset and restart. Sloan had forgotten how many times she had deleted and reinstalled the application. And for what? She ended up meeting Natalia through her friend circle.
They were polar opposites, both in physique and brain. Sloan came from Spain with an oli... | 2021-07-07T11:55:15 | 2021-07-07T10:51:22 | 906 | 438 |
[WP] You've died and despite living a fairly honest life, you've been sent to hell for all the terrible things you've done in video games. You're offered one way out. Prove you wouldn't do any of those things in real life by clearing the nine circles of hell like a dungeon, without being terrible. | The Devil gave me the ultimatum -- I can only leave Hell of I can defeat the 9 boss levels without resorting to evil.
This was a game. And a game has rules. And rules need to be defined!
"What, then, to we class as evil?", I asked.
"ANYTHING THAT CLASSES AS A MORTAL SIN, ANYTHING THAT CLASSES AS ONE OF THE 7 DEADL... | I walked through the second layer, master sword in hand. Temptation races past me. I can barely control myself.
I wipe my sweaty hands on my green latex suit. "Hiyaa" i yell as i kill another demon of the dark lord.
I am on my last bomb as i approach the level boss and i am desperately low on rupees. A merchant is s... | 2021-03-07T15:10:02 | 2021-03-07T14:07:01 | 1,820 | 99 |
[WP] Write a serious, adult story in a style normally intended for children.
Think fairy tales, nursery rhymes, picture books (without pictures, probably), educational stories. The intended age range is loose, e.g. everything from *See Spot Run* to *Make Way For Ducklings*.
The important thing is that the seriousness... | Young Jackie and Peter were quite the young pairing,
Both popular, beautiful, loving and caring,
They met in their high school; fell heels over head,
They walked and they talked and they both shared a bed.
They did *that one thing* that the kids are all doing
(and let us be clear, so you're not misconstruing... | David Beck snapped his first neck,
Before the age of seven.
At eight, then nine,
He found the time,
To break another eleven.
In teenage years he captured pets,
Skinned and hanged for days,
And in that way,
He made his play,
And tired of small prey.
He killed him next a prostitute,
And found the game most sp... | 2014-05-13T07:00:57 | 2014-05-13T05:46:34 | 40 | 24 |
[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'd burned through at least a half dozen genres in the last few minutes. No matter what track was being pumped through the headphones integrated into my helmet, I either couldn't keep up with the hell-faced bastard or none of my hits would do anything to their adamantine skin. Every time I tried something else, they se... | As I fire up my R.Kelly playlist the villain immeditaly apologizes for everything and starts making repairs to the damage they have done. But its too late, I can't stop the playlist mid song. Crying quietly the villain hears the haunting refrain "My mind's tellin me no...but my body, my body..." as I saunter over with ... | 2022-05-17T09:22:08 | 2022-05-17T09:06:36 | 486 | 63 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | The scientist delivered his report, and the room turned oppressive as the planet's leaders struggled to comprehend his message.
One of the leaders spoke, "So you mean to tell us... that its headed BACK?"
"It didn't go back, sir", the scientist explained, a tremor in his voice. "The universe is apparently just exact... | A few disclaimers, this is my first response to a post and I am writing on mobile so sorry if the editing is weird.
I had grown used to the silence of the universe. I spent my time hiding from my civilization, traveling from galaxy to galaxy in a never ending patrol. During the war, my people called me a hero, an uns... | 2014-11-09T03:40:29 | 2014-11-09T00:24:27 | 100 | 13 |
[WP] Earth is doomed in a matter of years, but you are bestowed with a mystical dagger that causes anyone killed by it to instantly resurrect on an alternate Earth that does not share the same fate. In one world you are revered as a hero, on the other the most notorious serial killer of all time. | I remember smiling as I gently stroked my 1 year-old daughters hair. She had been sleeping peacefully for the last 3 hours as I sat and watched her, the knife laying across my lap.
I remember clearly the day it arrived. In a dream, a booming voice called out to me, telling me that I am to be the salvation of the Eart... | I crawl through the mud, my mind burning with my mission. *There's only him left.*
The world is doomed. The little life remaining on it has only a few months left 'till the planet devours it, and the intelligent life that used to inhabit it has been taken away. Except for me, and him.
I glimpse the tiny cabin through... | 2018-10-15T07:15:19 | 2018-10-15T06:03:34 | 19 | 11 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | Jonah thumbed the statue's face, mentally making out the nub of the nose, the deep-set eyes, the cleft where chin met neck. This was dangerous. Foolish would be a good word too.
Rome had been a cakewalk. There was plenty of documentation, of dates and figures and maps, a wealth of historical data that more than matche... | Earth had never been dark. Not fully. Not *no fire, no lightning, no stars, no sun, no moon* dark. But I didn't consider that. The first thing I thought on arriving was: shit I forgot to bring lunch. I remember I said, "Sweetie, did you bring lunch?" And she said, "Ah shit. I thought you were dealing with it." And then... | 2020-04-17T09:11:21 | 2020-04-17T09:04:02 | 967 | 297 |
[WP] Your mind automatically slows down time as imminent danger approaches. This has helped you to become an athlete, great with parlor tricks and avoid death at every turn! Today, a very attractive member of the opposite sex walks past and flashes you a flirty smile. Time begins to slow.
What do reddit. What do. | Danger. That's a word I haven't ever truly understood. I know the idea of danger, but I never feel it. When I get into "dangerous" situations, everything clicks into place and I can just go. The world slows down, and I can think, I can solve my problems. There's no excitement in these times for me, no adrenaline rush. ... | Shit, a spy! I thought and caught the woman and searched for weapons, but I couldn't find any. The woman started running away and I let her, for the slow motion was still on. She started calling for police, but that's not important now.
I looked around, like I should have done first. I see nothing. Maybe this slow mot... | 2015-01-17T09:05:03 | 2015-01-17T07:59:02 | 770 | 48 |
[WP] Born to a family of do-gooders, you're adamant on being an unpleasant person. But no matter what you do, something goes always right; this drives you absolutely mad. | "Do good," I said. "Such a funny sounding phrase, isn't it?"
The malice in my voice was calculated. Sharp, but serrated, along with a coat of sugar to make it go down easier. I looked over at my current hostage.
The Ardent. Still has that delicious hatred in her gaze. I would have revelled in it in private, but I had... | Luke's father, Mr. Peterson, wore his Sunday best, a white suit with light blue tie and a silver wrist watch that chimed every hour with "Praise Jesus". Luke wore black leather.
"Come on, son. You don't want to be late for church, do you?" Mr. Peterson said, in his warmest, chipperest dad voice. Luke always thought he... | 2020-08-10T09:29:29 | 2020-08-10T09:16:19 | 27 | 11 |
[FF] I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things. (250 words + GOLD)
Please include this phrase: "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things."
*Reddit gold to the submission that most strongly hits me in the feels.*
Ready? Set? GO!
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EDIT: I couldn't decide, so I awarded go... | A deep rending that reverberates across this vast, wretched sky. It fills my ears. It fills my bones. A sound so immense I can almost touch it. The very fabric of this universe is tearing under its own weight, and this is its swan song. Yet I can think of but one thing—it's strange that the breakings of the world aren'... | Eight minutes. For taking a shower? The high end of average. Plus some change, Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven. Toaster to tongue, two pieces of buttered toast. Right now? Might as well be eternity.
Eight minutes. The time it takes transmissions from Earth to reach me, and for my messages to reach Earth. The time... | 2013-03-24T21:55:43 | 2013-03-24T10:16:20 | 90 | 10 |
[WP] A doctor waging the war on cancer dies with (surgical) blade in hand. Somehow his spirit enters Valhalla. | "This is a mistake, I'm not supposed to be here!"
"Well" Odin said in his deep booming voice, "You died fighting a powerful enemy with blade in hand, that gets you into Valhalla."
"But I never even believed in any of this!"
"That doesn't matter, besides, why should you complain, you get to fight all day and feast... | Death is not easy and he has seen many kinds. The slow asphyxiation as a girl's lungs stop expanding, her ribcage too heavy. Or torn artery and the fear and panic and blood and forty five seconds later a cooling body on a slick floor.
He has never seen a quiet death. In the last moments the body fights, instinctively... | 2014-08-22T21:28:26 | 2014-08-22T21:03:26 | 690 | 13 |
[WP] A doctor waging the war on cancer dies with (surgical) blade in hand. Somehow his spirit enters Valhalla. | "There must be some mistake... I...I." The doctor muttered
"Are you not the one known as Kenneth Anderson son of Grant Anderson?" The man in Cherokee headdress asked with a fierce expression.
"I am but..."
"Is it not true that 23 men have fallen under your blade?"
"I wasn't trying to..."
"Ha, not even here five m... | Another day at work for Doctor Hubert Sprinklejizz. How he ever got this job is a mystery, lost least on himself. He barely passed medical school, if it hadn't been for that short act of fellatio upon professor Fuddlepuck, he wouldn't have garnered the necessary "extra credit" to have continued his career. He shudde... | 2014-08-22T21:23:55 | 2014-08-22T20:30:31 | 127 | 52 |
[WP] You're tripping on a new drug dubbed "Memory lane." It allows you to relive anything that has ever happened in your life with 100% clarity. The only catch is that the memory is random.
Good or bad trip. Your choice.
Thanks for the responses guys, I of course had to take a crack at it as well (be gentle it's my fi... | We'd smoked two joints by the time Fred got there and I was feeling pretty lazy. The stairs creaked as he came down.
"Sup guys," Fred laughed, "its like a fucking sauna down here, y'all smoked yourselves retarded yet or what?"
Pat quipped up, "Ha, Ha, Ha, very funny, now sit your ass down and role us another one." Hi... | [I love this writing promt]
Although the drug is FDA approved and I'm lying down in my therapist's office, I cannot help but think to myself that this must be the sketchiest thing I've done since all that acid in college. Whatever, if it'll help me sleep. I close my eyes and lay down on my stomach. Seconds after Dr. F... | 2014-09-04T15:37:15 | 2014-09-04T14:28:20 | 39 | 22 |
[FF] In 200 words, describe a ghastly and very unpleasant body transformation. Can be mechanical, biological, magical or whatever you like. (possibly NSFW) | My legs are wrong. Each limb: bifurcated. Each bifurcation: bifurcated. Continue until there are 128 stalks now calling themselves my legs. Each one has the same structure as the originals, only thinner. More brittle. Walking is harder - normal walking doesn't require my conscious effort. Now I'm controlling 128 legs. ... | Yawning, Tim tossed aside his duvet and swung his legs off his bed. The strange clicking as his feet hit the floor made him pause and looking down, he was surprised to see a pair of goat legs stretching down below his thighs. Slowly Tim sat back down and examined his legs more closely. Somewhere about mid-thigh, thick... | 2014-09-12T08:40:53 | 2014-09-12T08:11:16 | 56 | 32 |
[WP] In the fear of becoming a Main Character, the main character lives his whole life avoiding cliche story lines and interactions
Inspiration from /r/manga top post.
http://imgur.com/gallery/J5sbp | “Oh my God,” Frankie said, “they’re in the building.”
“Who is?” I asked. The office Christmas party had just started. I enjoyed mingling with people from other departments, people I saw all the time but never really got a chance to know. Everyone seemed to be having a good time, except Frankie, who was covered in swea... | “Johnny is so much more interesting than Mary. You're right, my name is Mary. One thing that was learned growing up is that you never say the word I. Fuck, just said it. Anywho. The center of attention is one thing Mary avoids. She hates it, makes her feel self conscious. Yes, she understands its supposed to be her sto... | 2014-11-08T08:54:08 | 2014-11-08T08:43:35 | 127 | 20 |
[WP] Office pranks get out of hand once humanity invents the 'respawn point' | "Hey Steve, guess what I just finished doing in Jim's office."
"What? Did you poop on his desk again?"
"No. Even better! I spiked his coffee with poison. He'll have to walk all the way back to work from his house when he re-spawns because his cars here!"
"Didn't Jim say he couldn't afford to pay the re-spawn compa... | "Hey Brent, think fast!"
The knife whirred through the air in a perfect arc and nailed him through the throat. He managed to gulp in one last breath of air and told me to fuck off. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe I shouldn't have turned Brent into a horizontal coat rack. Now I'd be stuck covering his shifts... | 2014-11-19T11:41:41 | 2014-11-19T10:47:49 | 95 | 22 |
[WP] Describe a chess match between a world champion grandmaster and a chimpanzee. | Pokavian studied the delicately poised position. Midway through this first game and he was still astonished at the ape's ability to counter virtually every attacking strategy he'd offered. He half suspected there was some superior intellect dressed up to look like his opponent but when he stared into those animal-eyes ... | "And that's primate fist to c4, c5, c6, c7, and yes, down goes Medvedev's queen as it's swiped off the table."
"I see that Bubbles is now attempting the risky Kong maneuver, where upon he picks up the entire board and starts thrashing it around while screeching in frustration. Medvedev is completely cowed by the disp... | 2014-11-27T15:29:47 | 2014-11-27T13:41:47 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A Starbucks Batista has given you Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino with soy instead of a Caffè Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk. Make this as tragic, heart-wrenching and miserable as possible. | There he was, this empty shell of a legend, merely a copy of what was once a legend in the ring, now his clones working here at Starbucks. It was all part of the initiative to bring about a society like that in the infamous story ‘Brave New World’. The United States Conglomerate Government had started a cloning initiat... | I sat down on the warm grass and made myself comfortable. Back against a large oak tree, sun dappled through the leaves. This couldn't be much better.
It's a shame all of these coffee places serve everything in cardboard these days. I guess I could have got it in a mug but that would involve staying in the coffee shop... | 2015-01-15T06:13:25 | 2015-01-15T04:28:05 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | They knew. The bastards knew this whole time and they never told us. And if they didn't know, they had to at least have suspected.
In the 46 years since man first walked on the moon, how many people have died? How many never even needed to, just so they "could be sure"? 46 years since they sent a group of men with var... | 40 years until I could possibly return home. That's how deep I was. At this point I really couldn't tell whether I was existing that far out into this void or if it was merely the depth at which my isolation had allowed my mind to drift...
I'd left loneliness far behind, that madness certainly took it's toll... | 2015-06-29T23:52:29 | 2015-06-29T22:03:55 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] You are an NPC. The Player has entered your shop/house/lair | *Oh thank the gods, a player! It's been weeks*
Nothing was visible just yet. The door had opened, but the player was still loading. I was stood by a fire place, pretending to warm up. Truth was, I was boiling hot, sure I've been here for weeks. I was a co-owner of a small shop in the middle of a small thatched tow... | Day 47: The zombies broke into Arnold's house last night and turned him. Fortunately world generation has favored my house and left a 2 block gap below my doorstep, leaving my dwelling impervious to those vile beings. It also means I can't leave for fear of not getting back in, like Harold, who did leave on day 4 and... | 2015-11-04T08:13:57 | 2015-11-04T08:08:59 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] One day, you find a note in your breakfast; one of the guards knows you're innocent and is going to try to help you escape. You aren't innocent. | I tasted plastic in my mouth after only a few bites into my plain, ham and cheese sandwich. My nose curled involuntarily at the texture of it. "Seriously." I muttered, the cooks were too lazy to unwrap their cheese now?
Reaching into my mouth I grasped the plastic and removed it. A casual flick, meant to send the off... | The hatch in the wooden door opened squeakily. The ray of light coming out of the opening threw long shadows on the cold brick wall in the back of the room. The man who sat on the worn mattress squeezed his eyes shut, as he had accustomed to the darkness of his cell. The brightness hurt him physically, and mentally. Fo... | 2015-12-13T10:19:00 | 2015-12-13T08:55:24 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] You are acing every class at the International Espionage Academy except one: Post Kill Puns. | The knife flew through the air, shimmering and deadly, and struck home deep into the ballistic gelatin torso of the dummy they were practicing on. The ingenious ice-knife began to melt, and Martinez stepped forward.
"*ice* to meet you." Martinez smiled. It was a classic, but it worked. Hell, it worked better than most... | I had always considered myself a gentleman. Treating women with respect came naturally to me, because of my upbringing. My mother had throughout my childhood stressed the importance of being kind towards others. My father had been killed by a mugger years before my birth. This meant that my mother was extremely protect... | 2016-02-21T09:13:27 | 2016-02-21T07:47:27 | 268 | 12 |
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