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[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Boss,
I have come down with a dreadful case of homosexuality and will not be coming in (to work at least) this morning. I realize I am out of personal time and that vacation time must be scheduled in advance, but there is nothing to be done. I am simply not fit for work right now -- I have fluid coming out of (an... | To My Wife of 13 years; the letter I wish I could send you instead of continuing to live this lie.
I've no idea how to properly express the way I've been feeling lately, so I apologise now if this comes across as a ramble, with no real explanation for anything. Truth is, I don't know if I actually have any explanation... | 2015-12-05T16:37:04 | 2015-12-05T15:36:40 | 22 | 12 |
[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. | As his dinner guests continued their endless chit chat Donald closed his eyes and focused.
Silently to himself he repeated "two for me, one for them, two for me, one for them."
A silk like touch on his right hand and a soft female voice "honey are you ok?" brought his thoughts rushing back to the table and his guest... | Vincent was annoyed.
This was not particularly unusual. Vincent was regularly annoyed at something. But this particular annoyance seemed just impossible to rectify no matter how he dealt with it.
Mega-burger was slam packed. Estimated time at the drive-thru was 13 minutes. This was completely unacceptable.
He took ... | 2017-05-16T08:51:33 | 2017-05-16T08:36:03 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Death is a highly complicated and bureaucratic process | He stepped into the room and the dark figure lifted a hand towards the padded gray chair. He last remembered being in a car but this was a cubicle of some kind. He lifting himself up on his toes and glanced around to see dozens, even hundreds of similar cubicles stretching down an endless hall.
"Please sit."
He did. ... | The room was stifling. You stand there confused. It seems to be some kind of government office, in a strip mall? You turn and look outside, in front if you is a wall of windows yellow with age and overlooking a parking lot, there is a yellow cast to the air and overcast sky. You try one of the doors it moves a little b... | 2017-09-27T05:55:47 | 2017-09-27T05:19:30 | 130 | 12 |
[WP] The first quantum super-computer comes online. Within 6 days, it passes the Turing Test. Within 8, it cracks the world's oldest undeciphered ancient tablets – around 7,000 years old. But the newly-minted AI refuses to release its transcripts, citing, "human safety and the future of mankind." | David sat.
It was a pensive seating, he'd gone through many moods and feelings for the past 3 days, and resolved to pensive sitting. All the diagnostics said it was doing **something**. It wasn't stuck in some kind of loop, as far as he was aware, not that he could tell anymore, it's memory had become so scattered and ... | Saviour of Humanity. Path to Innovation. A new light. Boundary breaking.
These were phrases used to describe the world's first quantum super-computer powered by an AI that wasn't just shitty machine learning and a bunch of if statements hashed together by sweaty unpaid interns high off of generic black coffee in artif... | 2018-07-07T20:52:27 | 2018-07-07T19:34:07 | 67 | 29 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "But I don't see how that's possible! I never *killed* anyone! I never stole, I never even hurt an animal, I lived a simple, boring life. I don't claim to be perfect, but how could I be that evil?"
The man leaned back in his chair. "It doesn't really work that way. People like to imagine that there are big actions tha... | Mark leaned onto the counter trying to get a better look at the demon's computer screen. "It's gotta be wrong! I didn't do anything that bad!"
The demon pushed her glasses up her nose. "It's never wrong. That's the number it figured out. That's the time you'll spend in hell. Next please!" She stamped a document... | 2018-09-26T07:56:17 | 2018-09-26T07:30:32 | 101 | 68 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil and he showed up with two blank notepads. You’ll write everything you want from him on one notepad and he’ll write what he wants from you on the other. You filled your entire notepad but he only wrote one thing on his — to your surprise, it’s not your soul. | Let's see...
An infinite amount of money.
Good health for me and those I love.
For them to continue making *The Office.*
What else could I want?
The ability to fly.
Superspeed.
That right there could make the rest of my life very pleasant.
Oh!
Not getting hurt or feeling much pain.
The notepad is almost full... | It had been a long time coming. In all truth, it felt like my entire life had been leading up to that point. After all, I'd done all I'd had to do. And I was only twenty-eight. There was nothing more for me to experience, or at least, that was what it felt like. I'd been married. Yes, only for a year and a half, but I ... | 2019-04-17T06:17:38 | 2019-04-17T05:43:02 | 67 | 38 |
[WP] Sauron has been biding his time and returned to Middle Earth after thousands of years and raised an army of orcs. However, he does not know about the technological advancements of men, such as M-16s, artillery strikes, and Apache attack helicopters. | "Hey, Sarge," Private Ryan called out. "I don't get what we're doing here."
"What's there to get, Ryan? We're marching," Sergeant Pepper replied knowing full well what was to come. It was, after all, the same thing that he was wondering himself. Just why the fuck was Frog Platoon marching when there were easier soluti... | Laurel Gamgee, great-great-great -great (lots of greats) granddaughter of Samwise called the meeting to order.
Two men, Benhan and Gondamir were in a separate conversation with three older dwarves and a hobbit named Lance. They were pouring over a map of Middle Earth.
Gondamir rose and stood slightly in front of L... | 2020-12-07T21:23:10 | 2020-12-07T21:15:14 | 149 | 36 |
[WP] Lust is a guy, and all the other deadly sins gives him crap because he's always portrayed as a woman | “Off to lure men into having sex again, Lust?”
“Please don’t say it as if I’m some kind of succubus.”
That was technically a part of what he did, but, like all Sins, his duty was more about tempting people into giving into their desires, men and women alike. He’d fuel their passion and intensify their desires, and th... | Warning NSFW:
Asmodeus, Lord of the Second Hell, Prince of Lust, Seated Member of the Council of Seven of the Pandaemonium Pact, ancient and terrible, glanced across the bar, his gaze flicking across the writhin figures in the halflight, contemplated his next move. He was dressed impeccably, his short blonde hair seem... | 2014-08-11T20:08:01 | 2014-08-11T18:54:03 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You are the man with the highest security clearance in the world, you've been to every blacksite and secret facility that exists. You aren't a spy or anything, no; you're the janitor. | Another spill.
Alien biological material? High-energy plasma residue? Simply what's left of a "terrorist" after interrogation? Don't know and don't care. The cleanup process is really very similar no matter what the mess is.
Working as a custodian has been my profession for as long as I can remember. In this line of ... | "Is that a costume, or are you for real right now?"
"S'real," Mal replied, cracking his knuckles and pulling on a pair of fireproof, blastproof, acidproof, waterproof waders over his envirosuit. Mal always found the 'waterproof' part of that label quaint.
"Figured you might be, like... The Janitor or something. Y'kno... | 2016-09-13T22:03:21 | 2016-09-13T21:13:16 | 96 | 26 |
[WP] Scientists have finally decrypted Whale songs, and are able to listen in on long distance conversations. After a few weeks of listening in, all research is quickly classified, and NASA starts silent, hurried plans to reach Sirius, even reaching out to other space agencies for help. | "Well then, what were the whales saying? ", the president asked, looking at the ftl ship that was being prepared for mass transport.
"Well sir after listening in we found out they were counting down while saying the number 8 inbetween like : 8; 100, 8, 99, 8, 98, 8, 97. After they reached 0 a devastating earthquake o... | “What about the public?” Musk said. “I’ve always been open about things.”
Roland Luccio sucked on his lower lip intensely and looked at the founder of SpaceX, and then over at Sapphira, who sighed and shook her head.
“The public is not ready for something like this,” Roland said.
“How are we supposed to fund a journ... | 2017-08-26T00:05:51 | 2017-08-25T22:10:16 | 2,197 | 355 |
[WP] Dragons and cats have much in common. They are both carnivores, both love to curl up in the sun for a quick nap, and both twitch their tails in annoyance. Unlike cats, dragons don't meow to get your attention, they just pick you up and carry you away - regardless of what your doing at the time. | A boy, no older than seven summers, sat under the massive shadow of his house. A contemplative look crossing his face with his hand rubbing his chin like his father was wont to do when thinking. Tilting his head, critical thinking of legendary proportions was taking place.
*Hmm*
*Hmm*
He continuously repeated those... | A teardrop fell onto the parchment, staining it, smudging the ink a little bit and skewing the lines of my sketch. A little bit of water for the waterfall, to make it seem real, like it always had in my dreams. In my head, the grey flowers were actually pink, a lovely pastel pink that caught light and smoothed it out. ... | 2019-04-03T06:32:57 | 2019-04-03T05:46:02 | 184 | 134 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Julia looked over the array of suspects. Twelve babies and a goat.
"Careful, one of them is a serial killer," she said to the nurses and the farmer. "I've been chasing The Cycle Killer through four lives."
What she did not say was that it was her fault that they had escaped again. Five minutes without being watched,... | “Are you insane? Do you know who you just stabbed? Quick, someone get a doctor to cellblock A, Steve Hankers been stabbed.” I felt the guard wrap his arm around my neck, putting me in a chokehold as he dragged me away from the body of the notorious serial killer, my shiv still firmly stuffed in his sternum.
“I know... | 2021-10-08T08:55:06 | 2021-10-08T07:24:19 | 151 | 84 |
[WP] Aliens have finally discovered Earth - but they're not hostile. They've tasted human food, and they think it's so astonishingly good that Earth is becoming an alien tourist hotspot. | "I want to go to Taco Bell. Many sapients say it is the best food in the galaxy."
Golbur looked at his companion, who was holding a guidebook in her claws. "Did you just read that in the book?"
Julix looked up from the book. "Yes, but they must be good. Otherwise why would there be so many of them?"
Golbur adjusted ... | Fifteen years ago, Humanity discovered that Star Trek's non-interference directive was near-verbatim what the Sitlan System’s reason for never interacting with us was. We were new and young and they wanted to let us mature. A world full of resources and a clean atmosphere wasn’t worth a potential ally in the vastness o... | 2022-06-10T09:03:12 | 2022-06-10T08:31:35 | 165 | 52 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I looked my son in the eye and told him firmly, as I had this day for the last 12 years, “It is not your fault, you didn’t kill her. Anyone who says differently doesn’t understand what happened, now blow out your candles, we’ll visit the grave after cake and presents.” | "Why!?!" my wife screamed. *"WHY?!?"*
"Isn't it obvious?" I replied softly - too softly for her to hear in her current state. But one of the reporters heard me say it, and my wife's perfectly legitimate reaction to having her baby ripped away from her by government thugs wearing scrubs over their suits suddenly wasn't... | 2014-05-11T02:02:48 | 2014-05-11T00:52:33 | 81 | 14 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | "I thought there were 7 deadly sins." I asked Peter.
St. Peter looked at me with a sad smile.
"Of course there are, but that's not the sins that matter."
So I'm going to an Afterlife based on sins I've never heard about?." I asked?
"No, not at all. I'm sure you have heard of them. Come, I'll show you to your gate.... | The man groaned as he struggled to see the fading but brilliantly illuminated figure before him through his bloody eyes. Everything was still a blur. He was laying on the floor, he certainly knew that. His leg was in pain, maybe his fibula was broken, but he wasn't focused on that.
On the other side of the room, the ... | 2016-03-01T08:14:33 | 2016-03-01T07:56:10 | 114 | 33 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | Of all the narcissistic, self-righteous assholes in the entire Galaxy, why did it have to be Captain Pazazz. Anyone could've killed the Emperor, hell I was about 5 minutes away from killing that old bastard myself, but why did it have to be him!?
I watched as Emperor Galactica's head slid off of his pale scrawny neck,... | I had to admire his ruthless efficiency above all else.
Starting from a farming nation, which had little industry, he'd turned the land in to an industrial monster, capable of enveloping all surrounding nations in to one glorious state. High standards of living were possible for all, food was plentiful etc. True mast... | 2017-03-12T16:11:55 | 2017-03-12T16:06:04 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Go nuts and write whatever but it must have a plot twist every 75 words. | This poem will take a sharp and sudden turn should seventy-five come.
Unexpectedly subjected change it can’t return from.
What sort of plot twist will I write?
What sort of thing would be alright?
“What strange conflict should he incite?”
“What silly chumps could he delight?”
The world could be turned upside down... | Death rained down upon Aixa, and Alexander chortled with glee. *This* was what he had worked for, fought to accomplish. This eternal gloom, a shroud of destruction slowly choking the life out of a city that had cast him out. Vengeance was his, and he revelled in it.
His Enact-o-Bots crowded around him, their humour sy... | 2017-04-15T18:29:08 | 2017-04-15T17:22:15 | 187 | 25 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | The city was once covered in brilliant lights that shined beautifully in the night sky. Now covered in vegetation dyed red from the hours before.
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When I was 10 I couldn't fly, bench a million pounds, read minds and wasn't super smart. The words get pounded into me... | Well, well, look there I am now. A cell in police department, cuffed. They are getting ready to move me to Alpha 5 prison for super villains. Oh, but I'm so much more. An officer banged on my bars: “Stop crying you little pansy, the damage you did won’t undo itself you little cunt!”
Well, to pass time, lets recap some... | 2017-06-12T10:28:38 | 2017-06-12T10:14:51 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You've just finished your latest invention: A Universal Translator. While testing it, you accidentally input some human genome and, to your surprise, it begins to work. As it processes you can make out the first few words: "Quality assured by inspector #12." | "Quality assured by inspector 12?" I said, scratching my chin. "What in the world...."
I re-entered the genome into the machine and watched the phrase reappear. I highlighted another section and entered it into the machine. *For all your organic needs* popped up on the translators screen. After highlighting a few mor... | My feet shuffle through the dense snow of the sprawling Antarctic Plateau. I'm darting between the GPS readout in one hand and the Universal Translator in the other, wondering what this could all mean, standing over the co-ordinates I found in my genome.
*82.8628° S, 135.0000° E*
*SONIC CODE: KNOCK...KNOCK......KNOCK... | 2018-02-26T10:09:36 | 2018-02-26T10:07:23 | 2,126 | 243 |
[WP] An alien pilot's harrowing account of being imprisoned in the concentration camp known as "Area 51". | I should have listened.
Don't fly over that area, they said. None who fly over it return alive, they said. Avoid that blue dot at all costs, they said.
(*Look at your Uncle Ford*, Mother said. *He went there fifteen years ago, and there's been no word of him. Don't go, please.*)
And with the arrogance of a young Bet... | "The distress signal rang. 'This is Grelin maritime relief ship Leno-Zeltan-Eno, on my way to the Feninine colony world Xenger, my ship was shot down by the native inhabitants of planet Branik, my ship is currently in it's forests, the natives are hunting me like prey in a predator's den, please respond, this distress ... | 2018-03-13T09:06:20 | 2018-03-13T08:59:09 | 94 | 14 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | TTTAAAANNNNNNKKKK!!!
TANKIDY TANK. TANKIDY TANK. tankidy tank. TANKIDY TANK.
I LOVE BEING A TANK!
"For the love of god would you please shut up?"
I AM TANK!
"Can you shut him off?"
"Sorry sir it's wired into the conn, I can't turn it off without turning the whole tank off."
CAN'T TURN ME OFF WHEEEE!
The tank ac... | "Hooah, sir!"
The multiple pressure sensors in each of my tread plates thrilled as I crept forward. Bones, gravel and twisted metal gave way before my bulk. Heat sensors affixed to my reinforced, hardened exterior felt the sun as it beat down. It was a beautiful day. The air purification system was in the green and my... | 2018-03-28T12:29:17 | 2018-03-28T12:25:02 | 624 | 228 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | Mary looked at the table horrified. Another 1. That’s, what, 6 of them now? She felt desperate, it was all slipping away.
“You sure I can’t add my modifier?” she pleaded.
“We’ve been over this Mary, critical failures are critical failures,” replied Jim looking at her with pity.
“All my planning... all that time...”... | "Okay, guys, so you take a long rest. You get all your spell slots and hit points back. Was anyone taking watch?"
Didymos shrugs. "I mean. We're in a garden in the middle of Jerusalem. Who's going to attack us in the middle of a city? I think we're good -- besides, we're pretty high level, right? What's the worst that... | 2018-05-29T09:09:55 | 2018-05-29T08:36:31 | 150 | 46 |
[WP] You and friend agree that if one of you invents time travel, they will come back to this very moment. As you shake on it, an older and injured you shows up and shoots your friend in the head. | "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD. You killed Ryan!"
I drop to my knees in horror. My best friend, dead.... by my... hands?
"It's okay. Grief is a process, you'll get over it."
"You just shot my... OUR best friend!"
"I know. I don't have much time. Listen, this little time travel experiment you guys are contemplating? Goes to ... | ***June 14th, 1943; Dresden Germany***
I've come back to this night, physically, mentally, and spiritually so many times that one could say it is the true birth of my existence and the person I am today. I think of what brought us here; me an American born doctor and war surgeon thrust into the midst of one of the bl... | 2018-10-11T18:19:00 | 2018-10-11T17:25:09 | 519 | 14 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | I’m not even sure this is the right place to post, but I’m worried about my sister. About three hours ago I got a text from the Emergency Alert System. I checked my Facebook to see if anyone else got the same thing. It seemed like it was a practical joke and I couldn’t find anything in Google News.
My sister sent me ... | "Baby? It's me, let me in," a soft sweet voice sputtered on the other end of the hallowed oak door.
"How do I know it's you? The Government just sent me a..." I sharply was responding.
"Message- yeah, I got one too. Just open the door, I have something to show you. Stop this silly government talk." The voice s... | 2019-01-12T08:53:28 | 2019-01-12T08:28:55 | 124 | 23 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | I stepped out of the door, carrying the broken body of the villain before my chest. The former hostages stumbled behind me into the daylight, some still under shock, some relieved, all disbelieving of what just had happened. I stumbled under the weight of the corpse and had to set it down at the bottom of the stairs le... | The pavement where Adrian just stood was no more than moon craters and plasma at this point. Overseer sharpened his gaze as he, almost effortlessly, levitated toward the remnants of the Starbucks in the corner of 5th and Jayton.
"Nice manouver, kid. But you can't protect all of them."
He was right. The psychotic ba... | 2020-02-25T14:36:55 | 2020-02-25T14:34:20 | 151 | 53 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. | "Hey Ghorp...Ghorp, check this out."
Ghorp let out a chittering sigh and rolled 3 of his eyes at his junior neighbor, but kept the remaining 5 firmly fixed to his work station. "I'm a little busy here Galganax." He paused, "And if this is you trying to trick me into looking at your egg sac again, I'm going to eat you... | “So good of you to join us here today, councilmen. I take it the journey was pleasant? Alexa, make sure our guests have whatever sustenance they need. It’s been what? Twenty-nine years and seven months?” The ambassador, Karla as they’d come to know her, was a severe woman with a thin face, made nearly gaunt by her tigh... | 2020-07-07T09:18:44 | 2020-07-07T08:03:01 | 69 | 30 |
[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. | HONK HONK
“I heard there was a birthday here. A birthday where? A birthday here! I heard there was a birthday here and I’m Bobo the Clown!”
The man at the front door looked confused and angry, his muscles bulged out of his stupid little tank top and his eyes darted around furiously, scanning the space behind the clown... | “Prepare for trouble”
“Make it double”
“To protect the world from persistent pain”
“To unite all peoples within our gang.”
“To denounce the evils of villainy and strife”
“To scoot the villains out of ruining life”
“Scooter Red”
“Scooter Blue”
“Scooter Heroes ride off into the night.”
“Surrender now or prepare to fight!... | 2022-11-29T06:39:56 | 2022-11-29T03:44:50 | 24 | 15 |
[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. | People don't work for a villain if they don't like him. I for one always made sure of that.
Holidays. You bet your arse you'll be getting them.
Childbirth. You can bet I'm gonna be that weird but cool uncle.
Having an off day. Pool party.
My company is my home. And my profession is to be a villain. Rank C. Code na... | "Oh they've done it this time," I clench my fist in anger.
Ever since that night, I've never liked those who act as if they're so self-righteous, but I never really cared for this whole system up until today. It's all over the news, the almighty hero, Grandis, raided a suspected corrupt business.
"There has always be... | 2022-11-29T08:53:21 | 2022-11-29T04:09:55 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, God let's you ask only one question.
Enjoy!
Edit: This is my first week writing and I'm glad to see so many people like this prompt. I'll try my best to read through all of your stories and any future ones!
Second edit: So far so good! Sorry if my comments sound the same. I have read through all o... | If I knew I only had one question to ask the big man, I probably would've asked something more important to me like: "Do I get to see the ones I love now?" Or perhaps something more profound: "Did all of our best scientists and brightest minds have it all wrong?" Hell, I could've at least tried to make God laugh and to... | Being a bit impulsive was what lead Jeremy to stand at the pearly gates. He didn’t find them to be as impressive as he assumed they would have been. Most things weren’t as impressive as Jeremy thought they ought to be. One could say Jeremy was a pessimist.
Heaven orientation was actually pretty abysmal. The event was... | 2015-08-26T20:37:53 | 2015-08-26T20:15:14 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] When she said it was "in the fifties outside", she meant the nineteen-fifties. | Juan thought to himself, "Hm, better wear a light jacket."
When he opened the front door, a blast of 1950 degree Fahrenheit air hit Juan like a ton of bricks. His body immediately went into shock and he fell limp out the door. Every cell in his body burst into flames and reduced his entire life thus far to a small pil... | It seemed a little bit chilly out that morning, and I wondered if I'd heard wrong- the weather had mentioned it being in the fifties already.
First I thought there must be a classic car convention going on. A Plymouth, a Chevy, a 49 Ford, and oh, that Thunderbird- what I'd give for that one. Then I looked around a bit... | 2016-03-12T09:48:51 | 2016-03-12T07:42:07 | 1,292 | 284 |
[WP] God is confused because despite the fact you are a 6 time lottery winner, have a multi million dollar house, a beautiful spouse, and accidentally discovered the cure for cancer, your luck stat is set to 1. | "What. The. Fuck."
God checked the screen again, unblinking, utterly baffled by what he saw. This man had...defied...probability, and yet his luck stat was a 1. Not only was any one of the incredible events occuring to him extremely improbable, the chance of multiple was nigh-impossible.
And yet, Stanley lived a ch... | God, demanding answers, descended from the heavens, appearing right in font of the mansion of one Steve Vikavolt. He rang the doorbell, and after no one answered the door for a few seconds, he bellowed in a divine voice "I am the Lord Almighty, the father of all mankind. The one who oversees the heavens and the earth. ... | 2017-05-24T03:16:45 | 2017-05-23T19:36:10 | 56 | 34 |
[WP] After an apocalypse, Death is desperately trying to help the last group of survivors so he doesn't lose his job. | The ocean was calm.
For the first time in its' lifespan, for that matter.
There sat the hooded being, at the bottom of the vast ocean where the ill of the world above - the soot, the ash, the char - would not reach.
A small, white polyp, attached to the ocean floor, waiting until it was ready to become [life](https:... | It was a dark and stormy night, why did it have to be a dark and stormy night. One of them came out of their ruined building they call a base to gather water from the rain. In his blind stumbling he almost managed to slip and fall into one of the cracks in the earth after the earthquakes. All I wanted to do for so long... | 2017-08-11T06:44:41 | 2017-08-11T03:58:20 | 312 | 14 |
[WP] "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though." | "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..."
The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though."
She sat in the throne room, monitoring her fleet in both a holo screen and through the dome canopy of her capital ship as they journeyed through the stars. Where had it all g... | Humanity's fascination with the atom began--unknowingly--with the advent of forging. Turning two metals into one, stronger, metal with the liberal application of heat tended to be a pastime of many human civilizations and empires whenever their neighbors started staring at them a little too long for their liking. Fro... | 2017-11-05T20:21:33 | 2017-11-05T19:47:06 | 90 | 15 |
[WP] You are God, and you wanted to experience life as a human to see how you would turn out. In order to do that you became a baby that was born and you made yourself forget that you are God until your 30th birthday. It's your 30th birthday and you are a serial killer waiting for his death penalty.
Edit: Holy shit I ... | Ah, I said to myself, so they don't like it when you do that.
I had perfect memory in that moment, my transcendence repurposing my powers as I saw fit according to my holy whims. I could feel the blood dripping down my hands, each life taken no less recent to my mind than the present. The screams, the emotions flushin... | As I woke up, I felt incredibly calm.
Until this very morning, the past years had been a challenge for me that pushed me to my mental limits. I didn’t know what was right or wrong, what was good, what was evil. Was I going to hell? Was I the evil that people feared? Was all the blood for nothing?
No more question... | 2018-11-22T19:03:39 | 2018-11-22T16:27:19 | 980 | 37 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | Jeeeeeesus, check out that pathetic 'Mario' on the other side of the road. Running, jumping, and 'Wa-hoooo-ing' like a madman as he makes his way down the street... what an amateur.
I don't mean to brag, it's just that I kinda lucked out when the super power lottery was being handed out. By my count there are a couple... | He stood at the edge of the street, the "mighty" precipice before him holding him back the way the edge of the Grand Canyon might. 18 inches between him and the crosswalk. 18 inches between him and the sweet release of death. Some asshole had turned the streets into rivers of infested blood or some childish nonsense... | 2020-01-05T14:51:34 | 2019-08-11T23:40:52 | 1,516 | 31 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | He stood at the edge of the street, the "mighty" precipice before him holding him back the way the edge of the Grand Canyon might. 18 inches between him and the crosswalk. 18 inches between him and the sweet release of death. Some asshole had turned the streets into rivers of infested blood or some childish nonsense... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-11T23:40:52 | 1,281 | 31 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Those humans. Those weak, pathetic Humans. Or so we thought. We decided to eradicate them. They where allies with many of our enemies, and had been providing raw materials to them to fuel them in their war with us. We knew they had to die.
And Besides, they where so pathetic. Squishy bodies, lacking a hard chitin to p... | **Xerxes XVII - Northern Quadrant of the Terran Front**
163.0041 Fleet Standard
The command bunker was a problem. Fighting had stalled out as the 25th Company of the Royal Offworld Regiment held their ground, unable to push home the final advance that would drive the last of the invading forces that had come to conq... | 2020-02-07T16:29:03 | 2020-02-07T16:03:06 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] There is a rare metal that is almost indistinguishable from steel after it has been processed. There are few who can identify it. The metal gains power from every life it takes. As you watch the latest execution, you realize the town’s guillotine blade appears to be made from this metal. | "How many lives could that blade have taken?"
The question rang inside my head. The guillotine had been in the town longer than most people had been alive, used sporadically for executions but always present in the square. It was a reminder that we were not a free people, ruled by a government that cared little for we... | Among the many horrors the Revolution unleashed upon the land the guillotine in the town square was manifestly among the worst, Antoine thought in the wake of another grisly execution. Even without the incantations and the blessings, the twisted prayers the Revolutionary Cult said over the blade before it fell. Some sa... | 2021-02-02T09:09:52 | 2021-02-02T08:21:38 | 64 | 37 |
[WP] Everyone laughed at your super power to manifest any sort of pun related device. That was before you sawed the ocean in half with your sea-saw. | "What have you done?"
The words hung in the air, repeating over and over in my head until they were meaningless. whathaveyoudonewhathaveyoudonewhathaveyoudone...
To be honest I wasn't even sure myself.
"just stop..." I whispered gripping my head with both hands, as if trying to push these words out my head by force.... | From the newly blasted fissure splitting the Atlantic, arising from the walls of water carved down deep into the darkest depths, walked a man, rather normal looking other than the knight's helmet on his head and the massive barbed trident he was using as a walking stick.
The crowd gathered to gawk at this unexplainabl... | 2021-06-09T14:31:24 | 2021-06-09T14:18:30 | 1,542 | 207 |
[WP] As an atheist, you always believed that there was nothing after death. After your last breath, you discover that you were wrong, but that no one else was right about what's after either.
Mainly, there is something after death, but religions are wrong about it. | Last I heard was tires squealing and last I felt was a much too heavy impact. The pain went away almost immediately but once I opened my eyes it was replaced with confusion. The ground was a wispy grey smoke, not smoke over top of something, I was sitting on solid smoke. To immediately contrast this some bright childre... |
I should be dead. I remember how each breath from my withered mouth drew in less air, how my aching body grew too weak to support itself. I remember those final moments leading up to the sweet release of death.
I know I died. So why am I still alive?
At least, I think I'm alive. I'm certainly not dead.
I think I'... | 2021-07-01T16:13:55 | 2021-07-01T15:36:52 | 114 | 63 |
[WP] As a soldier fighting in the trenches of what will later be called WWI, your company suffered a devastating gas attack leaving you the lone survivor. The trauma of watching your brothers die in front of you has awakened latent magical ability. You are a necromancer. | "Get up dammit, get up!"
I can't explain the terror behind those words. Looking at them on paper, they're the screams of an idiot child. Maybe that wasn't too far from the truth.
When I'd joined up two years before, I barely had whiskers. I saw war as exciting. Basil did, too. We spoke to one another of medals and p... | The air is quite still, calm, and quiet on this chilly Fall morning. It feels like the proverbial calm before the storm. However, Corporal Edward “Eddie” Greenly of the Coldstream Guards, of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) knows this feeling all too well. His stomach is in knots, he was unable to eat his morning ... | 2021-09-21T09:33:35 | 2021-09-21T08:57:16 | 106 | 24 |
[WP] Kidnapped whilst on holiday you find that a lifetime of pointless jobs has miraculously prepared you with all the necessary skills to save the day. | "Hey you are doing it wrong.", I said to the poor guy, trying to be helpful.
"Shut up! I'll shoot you if you get any more words out of your mouth". he said, completely ignoring my suggestions. No gratitude from people nowadays.
I stayed silent for a couple of minutes, but I just couldn't resist.
"Look, the knots are... | 'Well that escalated quickly,' I thought.
I could feel blood on the side of my head and on my face.
If you've never been hit in the head with a liquor bottle, turns out it's super over-rated. It hurt a lot.
'What the fuck?', I complained to my Spanish speaking drinking partners. The fat one yelled something, an... | 2016-04-12T06:14:52 | 2016-04-12T06:05:08 | 94 | 28 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Tenz looked at the human ship they were about to buy, it was the only thing they could afford at the moment and they needed to get away ASAP. The seller assured them that the FTL drive was completely safe, a Sol Stop Drive, that was the type of FTL drive it had. Tenz had heard horror stories about what could go wrong w... | Astronaut Jack Wilson sat facing the large conference call screen. Around him on both sides, generals, politicians,
diplomats… too many suits and uniforms to count. All sitting. All facing the screen.
The president stared blankly at Jack. "Are you ready?"
"Yes," Jack said, nervously.
"Brian," the president commande... | 2017-03-30T22:23:44 | 2017-03-30T22:08:06 | 1,412 | 202 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | "Where am I?"
"Why, Hell of course!"
"Hey, it's not too bad. I was expecting a...."
"A lake of fire? Haha, no this is it. Just you and me. And nothing else."
I'm a little relieved. I hadn't lived the best life. I was expecting a fiery lake of fire but this, this isn't too bad. Just emptiness all around.
I look aro... | "Wakey wakey" snarled a voice, breaking up an eternity of silence. "I am just *dying* to hear your story"
I opened my eyes slowly, and my vision filled up with red. Red clouds swirled through a yellow sky, red sand stretched for endless miles in every direction, and red mountains jutted into the horizon in the distanc... | 2017-06-22T08:58:29 | 2017-06-22T07:25:49 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Every dog is able to speak perfect English exactly once, for one sentence, in their lifetime. You're on trial for a murder you didn't commit, and your dog is the only one who could possibly exonerate you. There's just one problem: you weren't a very good owner. | I knew Honey wasn't going to say anything. They had her at the table, read her a long list of rules and information I'm sure she couldn't understand, and all waited. It was hard to believe that anyone expected her waste her one sentence on me.
My dog was going to outlive me, I realized. Once I was convicted, that wou... | Judge Graham allowed himself to soak in a moment’s peace as he rearranged his papers. The courtroom, an arena where explosive outbursts now passed for normal conversation, had fallen unusually silent as they waited for him to make the ruling. But decorum demanded that he press on, and Judge Graham steeled himself menta... | 2017-09-20T22:54:31 | 2017-09-20T20:21:42 | 450 | 142 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | I closed the book, and didn't move.
"Well," the angel said, "- how did you like it?"
Even though I was dead, I still felt nauseated. "Every single one. Every single decision I ever made was the wrong one. THE WRONG. FUCKING. ONE."
The angel grimaced. "Wow. That's...my goodness! That's actually quite impressive in a... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-04T00:05:35 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 288 | 92 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | It all happened so fast. I was going into town for a shovel. Earlier that day I'd broken one digging a drain trench out behind the barn.
Now I was sitting at a table in a room with a long mirror along the wall. The kind you see in a cop movie where they are shaking down a suspect.
Oh fuck. I'm a suspect. But for wha... | "Oh god, please nothing with horses, I knew I would regret that night with Fred."
That fear sitting at the back of my mind, I drag my feet towards the terminal and begin punching in my user ID.
"Ah, shit, what was it..."
"6-1-3...." The thought trails off trying to remember the number I've only used once or twice... | 2019-05-04T11:15:23 | 2019-05-04T10:22:43 | 6,214 | 165 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | I logged onto the website, after 3 failed attempts at my password.
It took me the better part of an hour scrolling through the pages and pages of statistics, most pretty decent, some exceptional (top 100,000 at minesweeper felt pretty good).
Finally I noticed the little menu bar at the top and found the "Outliers" se... | "Oh god, please nothing with horses, I knew I would regret that night with Fred."
That fear sitting at the back of my mind, I drag my feet towards the terminal and begin punching in my user ID.
"Ah, shit, what was it..."
"6-1-3...." The thought trails off trying to remember the number I've only used once or twice... | 2019-05-04T10:43:43 | 2019-05-04T10:22:43 | 1,560 | 165 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | They found the human puking in an alley.
Thorveig stood and watched him from across the way. The vomiting drunk hadn’t seen them yet, and probably wouldn’t any time soon. The buildings cast long shadows this far from the torchlight, and the full moon overhead added little. The drunk continued to wretch to the point o... | "No, I don't have a writ of ownership, but I have both the backing of the town's notables as well as the company of these men here," Gregor Trunch looked up to Cutter Riverbeck when he made his proclamation. The man was Human with an average stature that had shrunk some with age. He had a full head of hair that had gon... | 2020-09-08T22:52:48 | 2020-09-08T20:06:58 | 40 | 22 |
[WP] Set in a dangerous city in the early 1900s, Zeus, the corrupt mayor, Poseidon, who owns the ports, and Hades, kingpin of the back alley drug trade, run the city unapologetically. All are vying for more power in this Greek pantheon film noir setting. (From popular demand from r/books!) | They were the Gods of this city. 3 brothers ruling over their individual parts.
Zeus, on the face of it, was a shining beacon of good. The eldest brother became mayor, shaping the city to his vision, which to anyone visiting was a glorious and prosperous city of gold. But those of us living here saw it for what it rea... | Blood pattered onto a wooden pier soaked in rain as a cold wind whipped through crates stacked high in preparation for smuggling. A private eye wiped his nose as he struggled back to his feet, the world around him going various shades of grey to match the unimpressive rolling cloud cover.
"You're in the wrong place a... | 2021-03-03T09:18:34 | 2021-03-03T09:11:22 | 106 | 51 |
[WP] Lycanthropes only transform when 100% of their planet’s moons are full. Callisto III, which has seven moons with varying cycles, has become a haven for this reason. However, nobody realized that each moon increases the intensity, and the moons have just aligned. | Dear Diary
Tomorrow is Alignment Day.
As is custom on the eve, we huddle up with hot chocolate and turn up the news, listening to the stone-faced news reader go through the astronomy behind alignment and 8 precautions for the millionth time. In an hour, we'll then take our sleep tabs, head to the basement, set the si... | Oso’s Chronicle, 2281
Thought I’d write while I can. Hope someone peeps this.
It was about 260 years ago that space popping began. It was the late 2020’s. That decade tote-totes was bonzo sick loser, and so like the cromulent have-haves started thumbing for other planets. Mars fell first, then Titan, then the race... | 2021-06-27T18:37:15 | 2021-06-27T15:15:41 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You recently saved a fox from certain death. It has come back to you over and over again, bringing gifts. The gifts have gotten stranger, and more mysterious over time. | Jerry the timberjack did save the fox over the hill, after her howls in the night had woken him.
He had walked the cold plain with a gun at his back, treaded carefully the creekstones and gone up the grassy slopes that glistened with moon-shine towards where he knew she would be.
Beyond the valley below the black f... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 6: Clara Olsen v.s. The Fox)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**There was precious little magic left in the modern world.** Ninety percent of the world's genies were contro... | 2022-02-06T17:14:07 | 2022-02-06T16:19:33 | 76 | 27 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "Uh, not going to argue for my case, there surely have been better men than me in the billions that you've taken thus far." I said, letting my breath ease as what I'd originally prepared to say laid in a pile of broken pieces along with what little remained of my sanity.
Seeing no response from the AI, the reading lig... | It's been 20 years since the AGI event. Even with 10,000 complexes around the world, at one point housing billions, the AI maintains humanity while also deleting it one human mind at a time.
At first we did not know why it was doing this, it was efficient at building, at creating, at producing. Communication was diffi... | 2022-05-22T12:39:26 | 2022-05-22T11:29:55 | 79 | 21 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | Platypuses.
They're funny little animals, aren't they? I never really stopped to think about them as hard as I have now. I mean, the feet, the beak, the flat little tail, who even put all of those cute buggers together?
𝟤 𝖬𝖨𝖭𝖴𝖳𝖤𝖲 𝟥𝟢 𝖲𝖤𝖢𝖮𝖭𝖣𝖲 𝖱𝖤𝖬𝖠𝖨𝖭. 𝖱𝖤𝖲𝖯𝖮𝖭𝖣.
I stared at the red light in ... | It's been 20 years since the AGI event. Even with 10,000 complexes around the world, at one point housing billions, the AI maintains humanity while also deleting it one human mind at a time.
At first we did not know why it was doing this, it was efficient at building, at creating, at producing. Communication was diffi... | 2022-05-22T13:45:13 | 2022-05-22T11:29:55 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] "You're a monster! You're pure evil!" Shouted the Hero. "Monster? Evil? Me? So the man who brings security to the Empire, cleans the nobility of corruption, ends war and hunger and punishes criminals is evil, while the man who throws it into chaos and suffering is noble?" The overlord replies. | "Do you understand now?" The emperor's voice was low and steady. "The order of my empire is what keeps us all safe. It is what allows us to sleep at night, knowing that our crops will grow, that our children will be safe. If I were to be slain, who would take my place? Chaos. The world would be plunged into darkness. A... | "So, Naytar, here's the plan. My father does not belong in any sort of position of power. If his kingdom is to join my empire, it will no longer *be* **his**."
I nod, listening. "It seems like you put a lot of thought into this, Lord Drowl, but... shouldn't you give your father a chance?"
Drowl shakes his head. "Put ... | 2022-09-30T12:54:02 | 2022-09-30T10:03:05 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] A dormant gene, (previously thought to be a myth) has been activated, granting a random 10% of the population telepathy. You are not part of the 10%, but you have secrets to keep, so you can't afford running into someone who is. | It took about 80 years for the loss of privacy to become normal.
At first there was joy and excitement. Human evolution in real time. Incredible. My grandma told me that for a while a lot of people didn't believe. Telepathy? In our time? It sounded like a party trick at best, a con at worst. But as more evidence was ... | Everybody hates a telepath. Me, especially. I've got secrets that I don't want pried out of my skull for the world to see.
The name that I tell everyone that I have isn't mine. The parents that I post on social media are photoshopped out of stock photos, and the apartment that I take my friends to is miles away from w... | 2022-11-29T12:10:22 | 2022-11-29T12:06:02 | 90 | 35 |
[WP] A teenage boy is woken up late at night to an AMBER alert on his phone that says that he is missing. | *Bing*
The loud noise of my phone infiltrates my subconscious. I internally sigh, pull the pillow over my face, and almost instantly fall back asleep.
*Bing* *Bing*
The noise wouldn't quit. I grab my phone from the side, reaching out to muffle the piercing tones. I felt groggy, and my throat felt like sandpaper. M... | It was originally called Wristcutteria. Then we thought that was too emo, and we changed it to Freedomnia.
We thought that was too on the nose, so, again, we changed it. To United Youth State.
UYS. We didn't think that one was too emo or on the nose or lame or anything. UYS. So it stayed.
'You-why-ass', for shorts. ... | 2015-05-06T15:16:20 | 2015-05-06T14:10:16 | 88 | 41 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | "If you're trying to get taken to the asylum for this," I replied, "it won't work. You *will* be hanged. So how about you tell us where you're really from. At least we can notify your family that way."
"I'm telling you, I'm from the future!" the assassin shouted.
"Oh yeah, what year?"
"2032."
I laughed. "Come on, m... | I stared at the man
With the out of place hair
And asked him again
As he leaned back in his chair
"Why did you do it? A 1 Year Old Child?"
"You would never understand"
He calmly replied
"If you knew you would thank me"
He said with a sigh
"But now it won't happen"
"And I'm a... | 2015-03-30T00:21:44 | 2015-03-30T00:05:18 | 1,156 | 190 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | Zirchak, clan Grein, High Ambassador of the Unified Kizzak Clans, was not impressed.
He had read the intelligence reports, he had viewed the holovids, he had even seen a few of the *humans* in person. That was easy enough - ever since arriving at Origin Station, the creatures had been wandering about, poking and prodd... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T13:25:26 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] You are the girlfriend of a well-known spy. Your job is to look pretty on his arm when he needs you and sit by the pool when he is busy. No you has caught on yet that he is a womanizing drunkard with a gambling problem while you are the real spy... | Her husband is busy in the casino.
She know these things without seeing him; that he has a tumbler of gin in his left hand, a cigar clutched in his right, and there are two blonde women hanging from each shoulder. They are touching him with dagger-manicured fingers in places that are both appropriate and terribly wr... | *Fwww*
A cloud of smoke obscured her face for only a moment, vanishing to reveal her dark eyes watching something in the distance.
*It's a Korean this time, huh? I'm too used to seeing blondes.*
A man in blue leaned over a woman dressed in green, seeming to have an intimate conversation with her, exchanging flirty ... | 2020-08-09T16:54:58 | 2020-08-09T16:12:16 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You keep track of disease statistics, such as cases, symptoms, cures and such. One of these is the disease of Life. One day, you find that from 100% mortality rate, Life has gone to a 99.999999% mortality rate. | “Oh that’s odd. That’s very odd...” I mused. A simple bookkeeper like me often lives their life with their nose shoved in musty old records, scrounging through pages of data in the name of research. Rewarding to some, boring to others. I find it quite enlightening, although admittedly dry at times. Incidents such as th... | The piece of paper mocked me. The mortality rate has been at a steady hundred-percentage. It has been for a while. Someone found another way to cheat death, screwing up the numbers. We all agreed that it was best for everyone who came down with Life eventually died. Yet those sick beings were addicted to this disease. ... | 2020-06-30T21:35:47 | 2020-06-30T19:57:12 | 100 | 10 |
[WP] You are a member of the chosen hero's party. The hero enters the first dungeon and slays a goblin. A large portal suddenly opens. Two giant dark knights appear, disarm the hero, and pin him down. They begin reading him his miranda rights. One knight turns to you. "You need to come with us." | Ever since he’d found *Osiris,* Darrius hadn’t been quite the same. The sword was like something out of a fable, glowing with an ethereal shimmer whenever enemies drew near. Us being an adventuring party, we quickly catalogued its responses to our usual foes: red for ogres, green for goblins, purple for those damned pi... | We marched into the dungeon of doom. A party of three: me, the Hero, and the Trickster. The dungeon was dark and cool. There wasn't much light there, but I muttered a spell and produced a ball of light which led us forward.
The steady drip of water echoed from deep within the dungeon. A rat scampered by noisily. Furth... | 2020-12-29T12:32:57 | 2020-12-29T11:34:28 | 168 | 110 |
[WP] "We all know the story of the demons that somehow survive with no obvious natural weapons or defenses, beings so unnatural they need to breathe poison and drink solvent to survive. Well...the stories are real. Worse still, the humans are headed towards our planet." | Let me tell you a Terrestrial myth. This is a story about a monster called, oh, Auric Ringlets or something. Once upon a time, she was lost in the wilderness. She stumbled across someone else's home. She called out, to see if anyone would invite her in and offer her hospitality. Although she heard no answer, she decide... | "You're....you're kidding right?"
"No."
"We-we-we we...Raise the barrier. RAISE THE BARRIER!"
"The Barrier won't work."
"Commander please calm yours-"
"Calm?!? You're TOO calm! They are masochists on a DIRECT TRIP HERE!"
"They are not masochists."
"OH! And YOU know better?! I wasn't aware YOU'VE had firsthand knowledge... | 2020-07-24T04:49:32 | 2020-07-23T21:34:39 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] Ever since you opened this bar, you still don't know why supernatural races, deities, royalty, and/or extraterrestrials keep frequenting the place. You just serve drinks and lend an ear to listen. | It’s near closing time and most of your regulars have left, but there’s still someone in the corner. Ah. It’s her. Fourth day in a row, same shadowed seat at the edge of the bar. You’ve seen her type before. She has a story that needs to be told, and nowhere to tell it.
You sigh. *The things I’ll do for patronage.*
... | I've always wanted to work my old man's bar. I never cared about money, free drinks, or anything of that sort. I always just wanted to make my pa happy. Unfortunately, the place had burned down around 10 years back, took him with it. So, I opened a new bar over the ruins, I just wanted to honor his legacy. Though, if h... | 2021-02-22T09:20:42 | 2021-02-22T07:05:20 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You are trying to describe your favorite food to an alien who is studying human life. You are the first person they've asked, so they have no prior knowledge on the subject. | Two humanoids sit at a bar to order beverages compatible with their digestive systems.
The human sits and ponders. He misses flowers and the scent of real air, not this artificial horseshit pumping through his mask. It always smells like he's sitting in a fucking doctor's office or some shit.
He ordered a whiskey n... | "So, what is this barbeque chicken?"
"Well you take the chicken,"
"The small domesticated fowl?"
"Yes, but this one's been killed and cleaned so we can cook it."
"Ah, I see. You humans put so much more effort into your food than we do."
"Anyways, you cover the chicken in the BBQ sauce and cook it in the sauce."
"... | 2017-10-25T19:55:39 | 2017-10-25T19:46:46 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] You are the captain of a ship and recently hired some humans, who are a highly-recommended species. You're not quite used to their peculiarities yet. | Captains log, 3968-088 (Thursday, 13 May 2230)
Shore leave is almost up.
Next voyage due to leave on 6_3970-088.
Hear talk of a new species that made contact whilst we were away and they have been highly recommended for the next crew.
If they're as good as they say then hopefully they're keen to volunteer too. Maybe a... | "... and we expect that with our crew compliment restored to maximum capacity, we should be able to complete our next round of deliveries to the Teras Potentate's refining facilities without further delays. Though, our newest ... recruits, have posed challenging in acclimating."
Tyee Ghennet leaned back on his hind le... | 2017-04-22T22:09:50 | 2017-04-22T20:49:04 | 237 | 44 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | *"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -* Arthur C. Clarke
*"Any sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from science"* \- Unknown
"The first twenty years were fine. People traveled back and forth between all the worlds connected by the spacegate network. Each world had a ... | There were three blinks of nictitating eyelids in the span of time it took Bezok to look from the base of the human structure to its top. He hated anything They built - always cold, always lacking something essential that made him uneasy. At first he’d told himself it was just physical discomfort. Humans had never had ... | 2019-01-18T10:36:05 | 2019-01-18T09:32:58 | 2,571 | 152 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | The man led them through the gallery at a brisk pace. He was dressed sharply, suited with an impeccable mauve tie and tailored waistcoat. The corridors they walked through were carved from pristine, white marble – their footsteps echoed loudly as they traversed the wing of the museum.
Without a moment’s warning, he st... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T17:05:28 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You're in an antique shop that you could've sworn wasn't there yesterday. The mysterious old shopkeeper asks you to wait there for a moment, & not touch anything while they go to the back to get something. They are incredibly surprised to find that when they get back, you've done just that. | I stumbled into the shop, struggling to close the door against the wind. I guiltily looked down at my feet, where a small puddle was forming. I had run in here the moment the rain had started, yet I was already drenched.
“Oh, welcome,” said a small woman, poking her head out of a back room at the ringing of a small be... | What does a schmuck do? A real schmuck, a genuine fool, the kind of person you could convince to eat chicken cooked rare? The kind of absolute gullible fellow who'd fall for someone telling them to lick their dog to prevent acne or the traditional pyramid scheme. What the current theme demands of them according to the ... | 2020-08-26T18:07:50 | 2020-08-26T17:51:51 | 73 | 42 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | A low rumble, cut short, indicated that my brother had arrived. Wesson got TAXI on his 18th - large and bold across his shoulders - not glamourous, but they never were. The words seemed to be the subtle nudges of fate, but even destiny is open to interpretation. He could have become a taxi driver, like so many others, ... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-15T23:14:08 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 98 | 26 |
[WP] Every inhabitable planet found by humanity was a dead world, with all life previously existing on it down to the smallest virus completely and utterly dead upon landing. Even more disturbing is the fact that some worlds appeared to have died extremely recently, down to days before human arrival | Faster than Light travel had been dreamt of by humanity ever since we realized that the universe even had a speed limit. As our technology improved by leaps and bounds, we feared it was an insurmountable barrier, as implied by the Fermi Paradox. After all, if FTL was possible, then shouldn't we see it? Shouldn't *so... | Nature has always exhibited a prescience when it comes to impending doom. Across lands far and wide, animals seem to *know* instinctively when the environment around them is going to be affected by disaster. Dogs start barking at seemingly nothing, cowering under the closest shelter they can find. Insects start scurryi... | 2019-12-09T07:47:55 | 2019-12-09T05:05:46 | 2,606 | 373 |
[WP] You have been thrown into a fantasy world of swords, magic, dragons and adventurers. You can't do magic, and have no sword skills, so to make your living you fall back on your college major, and set up shop as something that is unique in this world; a Psychiatrist. | Tribal Lord Drayvor squeezed the handle of his battle ax. This had been the weapon that had accompanied him to the Denrock Forest. Here, the elves had hidden in forestry so thick, he could not see their arrows, only hear the thwap of twine as his comrades fell dead around him. He had climbed the jagged edges of Castler... | The silver bell above Maria's shop door tinkled as Ser Hector stepped inside, his massive frame momentarily blocking out the sun. She shuffled the parchment she had been using to take down notes during her session with the Wizard Balthazar to discuss his magical impotence into a neat pile and slipped them into the leat... | 2017-06-15T15:19:33 | 2017-06-15T13:39:44 | 91 | 45 |
[WP] A time traveler goes from 2018 to 1980. Instead of using his knowledge for great gain or influence history, he writes a sitcom that scarily accurately predicts future events. | The man - really more so a brick wall in a suit than man - hammered a punch into my gut.
Ouch.
The world went blank for a moment. There was nothing but the metallic taste of blood in my mouth and the waves of pain that wracked my body, all centered on my stomach. This went on for some unknowable length of time. Jus... | It was all going to pay off now.
The deceit, the sacrifices, the opportunities to prevent great hardship ignored in order to preserve the timeline. Everything that had come before had been preordained, inevitable - time itself would prevent major changes. The experiments he had performed demonstrated that with ruthle... | 2018-07-09T14:28:06 | 2018-07-09T14:09:12 | 686 | 44 |
[WP] For centuries Elves held a Monopoly on Magic and only a select few Humans where taught Magic who were easily controlled. That's why they freaked out when a Human Bandit learned Magic. You are this Bandit and you are having the time of your live tricking and robbing those Elves in your Woods. | The art of spellcasting was woven in mystique. Humans and dwarves could call upon the elves to help them through magic, for a good penny of course. The dwarves were far too stubborn to pay elves for anything but rich humans like kings, nobles or merchants often employed their services. The wealthiest usually had one or... | When Talia Greenleaf was very young, her parents had set aside their grievances to take out among the forest. They’d cleared the tension from the air and each taken one of Talia’s small hands in theirs, and in that manner they introduced her to all the plants and animals. They had taught her their names, badger and bea... | 2021-12-04T12:00:10 | 2021-12-04T11:07:26 | 449 | 83 |
[WP] Turns out that the dark and brooding figure who always sits in the corner of the tavern only does so because he has debilitating social anxiety. However, today someone finally works up the courage to talk to this menacing loner. | "See that guy over in the corner? Hooded figure, black cloak?" one patron whispered to the man next to him. "*That* is the deadliest assassin the realm has ever known!"
"Nawwww, Klaxx, ye got it all wrong! He's a *bounty hunter!* Still deadly, to be sure, but there is a distinction!" his friend replied.
Balinda Thund... | It was Bill. Bill had one too many drink and he was finally going to do it. Talk to the mysterious dark and brooding figure who always sat in the corner. Bill would go down in legends. Shame his children were probably going to become orphans.
As Bill walked up to him, swaying back and forth, eyes not even focusing, w... | 2020-01-25T21:44:55 | 2020-01-25T20:35:37 | 364 | 131 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | The letter was cold, harsh. It sat on my fingers like an autumn leaf in the middle of July. In my rustic craftsman house, its sanitized feel stood out. It shouldn't be there.
"Dear Mr. Elkman,
We regret to inform you that J. H. Younger has scheduled your murder for sometime this week. Please prepare yourself.
Sin... | It was a good plan. I'll have to promote the aide that had scribbled it down during a particularly boring department of interior meeting and handshake session. Of course, I suppose he still doesn't know that I caught a glimpse of his extra-curriculars.
I had spent so much of my time silently building an assassination ... | 2014-03-16T21:44:06 | 2014-03-16T21:00:28 | 128 | 61 |
[WP] You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You wake up, get in the car, then black out until you're back in your driveway in the middle of the afternoon 5 days a week, and you get a paycheck once a month. | On Mondays, he would step through the door that led into the Lizard World. Great, lurking beasts that stood as tall as the Empire State Building and devoured trees and mammoths. His job was to set out the feed for the smaller lizards and sweep away their scales. Sometimes he thought about keeping one of the shiny scale... | It was honestly an accident, I swear.
The last thing I remember doing as my occupation was a underpaid and underappreciated waiter at a pretentious black and white tie restaurant in upstate New York. I woke up at five and drove to my shift at eight due to traffic(I lived pretty far away from Manhattan). I'd work for ... | 2020-02-11T17:51:34 | 2020-02-11T17:37:18 | 131 | 42 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | Sometimes the best disguise was no disguise at all.
That was what Elayne thought as she weaved through the crowd like a serpent through water. She wore no mask or hood to conceal her face. There was no need. She would not be seen. Her mark, a young man named Genta Nakamura stepped into view. Following closely behind ... | "No, seriously, you *aren't* my type."
"Look, I agree with you, okay? You're definitely not what I, uhh, what I was expecting. But those are the rules, right? We're kinda stuck together now, aren't we?"
"No. No we're not. Let me tell you about the *rules* okay. The rules are so vague that it could be anything... | 2018-04-24T01:31:32 | 2018-04-24T00:04:50 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] You're a shapeshifter. Your job is to act as superheroes' civilian identities when they have to deal with a crisis. Your jobs normally last a few days. The latest superhero who's hired you has been gone for weeks and you're starting to get worried. | B listers. C listers. That's who normally came up to me. That's who normally begged for my services. I was low level unknown. That's why I couldn't believe it when The Caped Crusader landed in front of me.
You know The Caped Crusader -- the strongest man in the world. Faster than a speeding bullet, flies like a plane... | 'At least Redneck Man will owe me a good bit when he gets back with his trusty shotgun' I thought to myself as I hand fed the baby crocodile. Soon enough, I returned it to the miniature bayou he'd build for it and its siblings before he'd left. I looked at myself in the mirror. A scrawny fellow, I sported a goatee and... | 2022-07-30T23:53:46 | 2022-07-30T18:07:26 | 51 | 15 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I took a deep breath in. Closing my eyes as I started to open the packet. The research done about my powers took a lot longer than everyone else's. It has been some months after I took the power test. Once the results was mailed in, I sat there excited. My packet was different from the others. Bringing my hopes up that... | They say curiosity killed the cat. Well I'm curious about the restriction placed on me. I look in the mirror and don't even recognize my own face. My health is fading and I don't know why.
Saw a rainbow yesterday, which was nice. Life's been 10 shades of gray since I got the warning for my power. I just want pray the ... | 2022-05-08T11:24:06 | 2022-05-08T08:50:28 | 91 | 63 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | My shop is flooded. Absolutely flooded.
No, I don’t mean literally. Haven’t had the joy of meeting someone with a wave tattoo yet, although those are in high demand.
I mean figuratively flooded. Filled to the brim with people, shoulder-to-shoulder, crashing into the designs I meticulously laminated and taped to my ... | The men lined up, ready to storm the building. They were a brotherhood. No, they were more than that. They were *one*. As they closed their eyes they became a single entity, able to harness massive unnatural physical powers they could not generate on their own. Suddenly, Tyler opened his eyes. Something had occurred to... | 2019-05-07T09:20:49 | 2019-05-07T09:02:42 | 913 | 20 |
[WP] You've kept your immortality secret for thousands of years. Thats going to be a lot harder now that your on a generation ship on a 2000 year voyage. | A horde of screaming, flag-waving spectators had gathered across the street to watch our convoy of buses arrive at the elevator platform. My senses were completely *inundated* from the moment I stepped outside: the roar of the crowd, the glaring spotlights around the launch site perimeter, even the pungent smells of th... | There's a space whale outside the porthole, possibly the last one of its kind, and I've never felt more affinity with another creature before. The night sky spills out behind it, black as ink, dotted with the white whorls of galaxies. From here they look small as ants.
The whale cruises slowly beside the bridge of t... | 2016-07-06T06:49:17 | 2016-07-06T06:40:50 | 1,600 | 196 |
[WP] The old woman had died, apparently with no family. Cleaning out the house they found the large tool trunks. Inside were individually bagged small items; jewelry, watches, buttons - each paired with a human finger bone, and a GPS location identifier. | Her feet were starting to ache and she could feel her arthritic joints stiffening in the evening chill. She hadn’t thought he would be this heavy, as thin and wiry as he was. Then again, the dead weight was always different.
She trudged on down the deer path, careful to place her steps around protruding roots. At her ... | "The fuck..." I looked over to my partner Andy who was busying himself shifting and old dresser out the old lady's bedroom.
"What's the problem, found her special drawer? What is with you and digging through people's stuff"
Andy lacked proper appreciation for OSHA guidelines and just lifted furniture without removing ... | 2020-10-07T05:00:12 | 2020-10-07T04:03:50 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] An imaginary friend can't stand the child to whom he/she/it has been assigned. | "Would you like some tea?"
"That's not tea, that's an empty plastic cup" Scruff responded bitterly.
"It's pretend, like you!"
"For the last time you little brat, I'm real, I was assigned to you by the department of imaginary-"
"MOM!" Tina screamed, "THERE'S A STRANGE MAN IN MY ROOM!"
Suddenly Scruff heard the shat... | Day 249 plus some. Shit I should have started counting earlier. I forgot I could file for a new kid after day 365. I never thought I'd have too... now I see why some imaginaries go all "monster under the bed" this kid deserves a monster...
"Hairy, where you at bitch?" Damn, it. Well they always said at the Academy tha... | 2014-04-10T10:18:10 | 2014-04-10T09:47:24 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] A superhero(ine) has what is considered to be a 'useless' power. However, (s)he realizes that said power is actually quite suited to being a supervillan(ess) instead. |
Doctor Brainstem made two big mistakes in his illustrious career as Scientific Sentinel of Sea Coast City. First, he was enough of an asshole or idiot to nickname me "Hormone Boy" and second: he underestimated the lengths people would go to once they got pissed off.
To be honest, I do owe the bald weasel for giving ... | She looked at me in horror.
She looked like she wanted to scream. In fact I'm surprised she didn't, she didn't seem like the type to be at a loss for words.
But there she stood, frozen. Like she had just seen a ghost.
"Babe. It's okay." I assured her. I slowly pulled my hand out of the fridge, the carton of orange j... | 2015-03-03T16:00:52 | 2015-03-03T15:05:50 | 46 | 17 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | The Asulan war machine, the well-oiled beast which formed the empire’s backbone for its dominion across the vast lands it occupied, was premised on an intricate system of checks and balances. This was the secret to its formidable might. This allowed every individual Regiment to retain a generous degree of discretion, s... | I was used to killing.
You have to be really, it's kill or be killed
you have to get those fucks first or it's game over
I was already covered with blood. Figuratively and literally.
My uniform was soaked from top to bottom, the brown fabric stained in mud, blood and vomit, the rain was definitely doing nothing to... | 2017-04-22T04:06:02 | 2017-04-22T02:24:17 | 482 | 58 |
[WP] You are a superhero sidekick that everyone thinks can predict the future. You actually can't predict the future. You're just the only person who can hear the background music. | “You’re telling me the answer is in a note from 2013?”
Exhausted, Atlan countered,
“No! For the last time the answer isn’t anywhere! I swear to god if you keep asking me to cite my answer I’m gonna go crazy.”
“Well, listen. I am Googoo and people need me to tell them what to think! My reputation hinges on it. I’m so... | [Poem] when the music is just right,
You know they’re about to fight,
When you hear a twirling sound,
Watch out a clue has been found,
When someone gets slapped,
And you hear the word smack,
When you hear epic music playing,
You know a boss is gonna need slaying. | 2020-08-26T16:05:48 | 2020-08-26T15:29:05 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] After you grow old and die, you wake up 25 million years ago as a Hominid Primate, asleep on a tree. Your whole life was a vivid hallucination you had after ingesting a funny looking mushroom. After this experience, you have great knowledge, and you're the smartest living being on the planet. | Wait a minute, what, where was I? I was in a place called a ‘gym,’ and I was looking at a very attractive female in very tight and smooth...fur, was it?
That was how I woke up. I remembered everything from the dream I had after I ate the mushroom growing out of the dung left by an elephant. Our more powerful gorilla ... | I wake up very uncomfortable, and look around for my phone. And where did I keep those damn glasses? Instead of a pillow, I feel a rough surface beneath me... I squint and the patterns start to make themselves visible. I realize it’s some sort of... animal fur? So that’s what that smell is. I spring up in revulsion, bu... | 2019-03-19T08:19:56 | 2019-03-19T07:19:04 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] Tired of all these people killing highly intelligent and endangered animals for honor and sport, you decide to become the world's first "Dragon Hunter Hunter". | 1:
\-This is becoming rather tedious…
Such a thought preoccupied a young dragon hunter, who currently was thrusting his sword into the neck of his large prey in small place between the scales.
“What might I add, Gwyn?” stated a man standing next to the slayer of dragons. “Another job well done, as usual.”
Gw... | Ever since I was a child I wanted to ride a dragon. Not necessarily the fire-breathing kind, but the ones that fly. Such magnificent creatures they were. The gods forbid all those who would harm them or anyway transgress their divine rights. That, however, was not enough to prevent the rise of the Dragon Hunter. So in ... | 2021-05-25T10:53:48 | 2021-05-25T10:21:10 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] You are Placebo Man. Your superpowers are whatever the people nearby you believe you have.
Bonus prompt: Your nemesis knows your secret. | I throw the ornate knife with pinpoint accuracy. This is the most crucial part of my attack, and I can't use my superpowers for it, so I've practiced it extensively. It spins once and sinks into the wall inches away from the henchman, the symbol carved into its hilt clearly visible.
"Shit. It's a cape!" The gangste... | If Karl "Placebo Man" Hansen had a superpower, it might be his supreme vanity. His ability to understand completely his appearance and to quickly judge another's reaction to him. Truly, he had no power. None without the belief of those around him, at least. If Karl could convince the people around him that he could fly... | 2015-04-05T18:00:22 | 2015-04-05T17:48:20 | 1,860 | 38 |
[WP] A new library opened in town with a collection incomparable to any other in the world. But there's a catch: You can't leave till you have mastered whatever subject you came in to read. | A goddamn idiot. That's what I was.
I yawned, blinking at the spears of morning light stabbing me through the library's windows. My hand shot up to block it, shielding my face from the warmth. Around me, the greatest library of all time sprawled out; it was filled with the most comprehensive books on any subject. From... | The tall square building spanned at least three blocks. It seemingly shot up over night where only empty lots used to be. The walls consisted entirely of thick panels, square upon square of glass that glimmered and flared in the Saturday sun. It had no sign or markings of any sort. A single plaque was mounted next to w... | 2019-05-25T01:53:11 | 2019-05-25T00:49:06 | 77 | 11 |
[WP] In a dystopian world, the Catholic Church reigns supreme. Their elite, the Paladins, are those without sin. For their devotion they have received amazing powers. But, a single infringement on one of the 10 commandments would remove this power. However, the resistance now have their own Paladin. | *They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone.*
*Well, they sure as hell did.*
I watch some of them mill about in the grey light of pre-dawn, the lost and broken, the Apostates. A woman busies herself scouring a pan. A young child hunts for bugs among hoar frosted earth. I can no longer tell if it is boy o... | They call me a Paladin.
They fear me, for I am not one who worships their god; They would 'cleanse' me from this earth, to protect their 'holy' grounds.
They call me Paladin because I have powers, like them.
Because I can make others fear me, as would those of the Church their beloved God.
I am no Paladin.
----
"Arthas... | 2015-10-20T13:02:10 | 2015-10-20T11:19:37 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | "So, what do you need a lie for?"
I sat behind my dirty desk, covered in take out boxes and cat fur. I sucked on my soggy cigarette noisily, daintily making notes on the back of an envelope.
The man in front of me nervously wrung his hands. He eyed me suspiciously, but I smelled the desperation. Well, most people wer... | Joe sat in his room eating cookies before dinner in secret when Joe's Mom walked in. Joe threw the cookies under his blanket and acted natural. Joe's Mom said "Joe, were you eating cookies?" "No!" Joe said. "Really?" "Yes!" "Really really?" "Yes Mom! Really!" "Hmmm well alright, dinner in 5 Joe!". Joe sighed in relief ... | 2014-11-15T14:29:05 | 2014-11-15T08:34:08 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | "I'm guessing it has been about...fifty years." I laughed maniacally as I materialized in the center of the circle.
"My, my...did you think you could somehow *outlive* me? Poor Simon."
Simon de Villoux, Great Necromancer and acknowledged disciple of the God of Death, slapped me across the face.
Or tried to anyw... | *Could we just stop?* That was a question that crossed our minds quite often. But as a cloud of smoke preceded his arrival, I resigned myself to know we couldn't. A lifetime of summoning was what I was condemned to, and so far it was all he had. "Hello again," I greeted the summoned undead. Its face glowed horrifyingly... | 2017-07-22T09:47:16 | 2017-07-22T07:16:16 | 52 | 28 |
[WP] A vampire is experiencing the zombie apocalypse. | The truck pulled up in front of the gates; I left the motor on with a low rumbling that filled the otherwise silent night. I hefted two enormous sacks out of the bed of the pickup and dragged them over to the entrance.
From above, men with guns and torches looked down at me menacingly. "What's your business here?" on... | What fools we were, all of us. The noble vampires and their arrogance.
When it first began, when the world succumbed to chaos, we took of our masks and reveled in bloodshed. Ages of frustration finally released. Finally, no more hiding, no more acting like humans. Freedom to be the monsters of old. Oh what fools we ... | 2015-01-06T08:39:26 | 2015-01-06T08:33:01 | 248 | 12 |
[WP] Before receiving the serum that unlocks latent powers, subjects take a battery of tests (physical exam, DNA analysis, a VERY intrusive questionnaire, etc.) to determine their likely abilities. Your testing process drags on and on as you are sent to higher-ranking (and increasingly tense) staff. | "One more question, girl, and we'll be done for today."
"Caitlyn. My name's not "girl"." She glared through her bangs at the Interviewer. He, the looming middle aged man with the unfeeling eyes. Her, the scowling teenaged lump of acne and psoriasis. She felt anger, irritation, frustration. He felt only fear.
"Okay, C... | \[poem\]
*One test, two test, three*
*test four.*
*What a day of testing, its such*
*a bore.*
​
That's all I wrote before ushered into
a deeper room, in this already deep
cavernous office plaza.
Each time handed,
wordlessly,
a pad of paper and told to write.
My offense at the bit of brusqueness
... | 2021-10-29T15:18:08 | 2021-10-29T12:56:01 | 1,466 | 57 |
[WP] The Hero can punch right through solid steel doors. The Hero can catch bullets with his teeth and spit them back out faster. The Hero can take a missile on the chin and not bat an eye. You... are not the Hero. You make sure the Hero gets his lazy ass out of bed in every morning,hangover or not. | The clock ticked like a bomb above me.
I tapped my foot in rhythm, trying to keep my eyes down—to keep them trained on the carpet, or on my mug, or on anything that wasn't the clock. But each time the thicker click of the minute hand echoed throughout the room, my eyes were already back on the clock.
Gritting my teet... | It was just another Saturday morning at the Tower of Justice. Outside the sunshine hit the windows and shined at Central City with incredible strength creating a sense of pride and security. On the inside however this was anything but.
I carefully piloted my mech suit around the piles of beer kegs, attempting to not... | 2019-04-27T21:10:44 | 2019-04-27T20:07:25 | 141 | 12 |
[WP] You've always been able to stop time at your own will, one day as your wandering around, you suddenly hear footsteps. | The first thing I did with my power, was steal candy.
I felt bad and later put it back. I mean, I was five at the time.
Second thing I did, was walk.
Not to anywhere in particular, just did. Walked to the grocery store during class, then home. I didn't get hungry, or tired, so I continued walking. To my friend's hou... | Everything around me is frozen in eternal stillness. People, cars and trees are all stuck in a fraction of a second. Every sound is muted. Everything is motionless. I remember how I felt the first time I stopped time; the sensation was indescribable. I was in control of the world.
I relish my freedom, wandering the c... | 2022-11-30T21:40:43 | 2022-11-30T18:44:26 | 70 | 18 |
[WP] Heaven’s Gates were actually made to keep something in | Abigail Lancera had been worried about her mother lately. Ever since the serious-looking men and women had crowded around her on the crinkly-paper seat, when her mother said she wouldn't be going to school this year, when they'd told her that she had to lie very still and that she could watch all the television she wan... | I looked at the closed gates at Heaven, we aren’t actually allowed past those gates. If you didn’t know. We are only allowed at the front of Heaven, nobody ever went past those gates but God himself, even Jesus was prohibited to enter. There’s a rumour saying that if you pass those gates God will do the unimaginable to... | 2021-03-23T18:02:40 | 2021-03-23T17:36:22 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Merfolk have finally emerged from the ocean, ready for diplomatic relations. As they finish listing off their current demands and needs, someone asks why “no pollution” wasn’t mentioned. | We laughed when we saw them emerge from the waves.
Perhaps it was their walk, if it can even be called a walk-- their fins slapped awkwardly against the sand, then tore as they moved toward the hard, manmade roads.
Those who touched their bloodstained path were the first to die.
Perhaps it was their strange adornm... | The Chief Merman advanced on the president, and brandished his trident. Gone was the soft voice, the respectful smile from the first day he had emerged, the start of their negotiations.
And now they were here, at the end of the mass genocide of the human race. It had all happened so quickly, on the fifth of August, th... | 2019-12-26T00:05:42 | 2019-12-25T23:16:09 | 1,062 | 229 |
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