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[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | Rachel and Connor hadn't seen each other since 2011, when they parted ways for what they anticipated would be forever.
It was their sophomore year of college, early on in the first semester, though neither of them would graduate.
Connor dropped out immediately, the grief of his fiancée leaving him was too much, and... | "This event has been a completely unprecedented deviation from the admirably consistent efficacy of this institution's past," said Administrator Yu. She was a middle-aged woman who looked fifty, but she was tall, blocking out a large chunk of stars. As Administrator of the Ring Corporation, she wore the golden epaulett... | 2017-01-14T19:48:09 | 2017-01-14T15:54:43 | 220 | 13 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | "Going all the way back to my fifth birthday, I can remember the immense pain I carried in my heart."
"I understand how much you're hurting Jon, but I promise this isn't the solution to your pain and sadness!"
"You will never understand what's inside of me, or why I know that this is my only choice!"
"Why don't you ... | "I can't believe that this is going to be our last few moments together... I can't see myself without you."
He held her hands as he spoke to her for what would be the last time in his life.
"Jason, you know how much it bothers me when you say things with such a sense of... finality."
Emma Karson was a spiritual w... | 2017-01-14T18:59:37 | 2017-01-14T13:45:07 | 100 | 64 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | "Going all the way back to my fifth birthday, I can remember the immense pain I carried in my heart."
"I understand how much you're hurting Jon, but I promise this isn't the solution to your pain and sadness!"
"You will never understand what's inside of me, or why I know that this is my only choice!"
"Why don't you ... | "This event has been a completely unprecedented deviation from the admirably consistent efficacy of this institution's past," said Administrator Yu. She was a middle-aged woman who looked fifty, but she was tall, blocking out a large chunk of stars. As Administrator of the Ring Corporation, she wore the golden epaulett... | 2017-01-14T18:59:37 | 2017-01-14T15:54:43 | 100 | 13 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | Slowly I pull into the driveway, noticing that there is an extra car in the spot where I usually park.
“Who is this,” I wonder, hoping that our friend Dave had stopped by in his travels through the area.
As I walk quietly through the door, a trail of clothing greets me, and the sounds of pleasure.
I enter the hallwa... | I couldn't even remember the last time that the office had decided to give me some time off for vacation. Yet here I was, last day in my cubicle, my monitor blinking out and my computer's processor going quiet. I didn't bother to wave goodbye to any of my coworkers as I practically skipped out the door. In all likeliho... | 2017-01-14T21:07:16 | 2017-01-14T17:14:12 | 49 | 21 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | Slowly I pull into the driveway, noticing that there is an extra car in the spot where I usually park.
“Who is this,” I wonder, hoping that our friend Dave had stopped by in his travels through the area.
As I walk quietly through the door, a trail of clothing greets me, and the sounds of pleasure.
I enter the hallwa... | "This event has been a completely unprecedented deviation from the admirably consistent efficacy of this institution's past," said Administrator Yu. She was a middle-aged woman who looked fifty, but she was tall, blocking out a large chunk of stars. As Administrator of the Ring Corporation, she wore the golden epaulett... | 2017-01-14T21:07:16 | 2017-01-14T15:54:43 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | I told her that I’d painted her a sky the way she always wanted to see it, blues and pinks. Like a sunset, I said, but I didn’t really mean it, I meant like how I remembered our mornings. With the sun blushing her skin as soon as I opened the curtains to let in the day. She said she loved it and I’ve been trying to tak... | I couldn't even remember the last time that the office had decided to give me some time off for vacation. Yet here I was, last day in my cubicle, my monitor blinking out and my computer's processor going quiet. I didn't bother to wave goodbye to any of my coworkers as I practically skipped out the door. In all likeliho... | 2017-01-14T18:51:56 | 2017-01-14T17:14:12 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | I told her that I’d painted her a sky the way she always wanted to see it, blues and pinks. Like a sunset, I said, but I didn’t really mean it, I meant like how I remembered our mornings. With the sun blushing her skin as soon as I opened the curtains to let in the day. She said she loved it and I’ve been trying to tak... | "Look out for that tree, you're gonna have one of our heads off in a minute if you're not careful."
I didn't slow down, despite John's protests we had to take the risk and ride fast through the forest. The job had been easy, too easy now that I look back; sleepy guards, compliant staff, calm bystanders.
"One last job... | 2017-01-14T18:51:56 | 2017-01-14T16:42:22 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | I told her that I’d painted her a sky the way she always wanted to see it, blues and pinks. Like a sunset, I said, but I didn’t really mean it, I meant like how I remembered our mornings. With the sun blushing her skin as soon as I opened the curtains to let in the day. She said she loved it and I’ve been trying to tak... | "This event has been a completely unprecedented deviation from the admirably consistent efficacy of this institution's past," said Administrator Yu. She was a middle-aged woman who looked fifty, but she was tall, blocking out a large chunk of stars. As Administrator of the Ring Corporation, she wore the golden epaulett... | 2017-01-14T18:51:56 | 2017-01-14T15:54:43 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The ringing in his ears drown out the sound of mayhem as he lay motionless beneath the pile of rubble.
His vision was altered and he couldn’t feel either of his legs, but he tried to assess his situation.
The smoke and dust floated ominously through the air as he searched desperately for anyone to help him.
His hea... | "This event has been a completely unprecedented deviation from the admirably consistent efficacy of this institution's past," said Administrator Yu. She was a middle-aged woman who looked fifty, but she was tall, blocking out a large chunk of stars. As Administrator of the Ring Corporation, she wore the golden epaulett... | 2017-01-14T23:28:51 | 2017-01-14T15:54:43 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | I couldn't even remember the last time that the office had decided to give me some time off for vacation. Yet here I was, last day in my cubicle, my monitor blinking out and my computer's processor going quiet. I didn't bother to wave goodbye to any of my coworkers as I practically skipped out the door. In all likeliho... | "This event has been a completely unprecedented deviation from the admirably consistent efficacy of this institution's past," said Administrator Yu. She was a middle-aged woman who looked fifty, but she was tall, blocking out a large chunk of stars. As Administrator of the Ring Corporation, she wore the golden epaulett... | 2017-01-14T17:14:12 | 2017-01-14T15:54:43 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | "Look out for that tree, you're gonna have one of our heads off in a minute if you're not careful."
I didn't slow down, despite John's protests we had to take the risk and ride fast through the forest. The job had been easy, too easy now that I look back; sleepy guards, compliant staff, calm bystanders.
"One last job... | "This event has been a completely unprecedented deviation from the admirably consistent efficacy of this institution's past," said Administrator Yu. She was a middle-aged woman who looked fifty, but she was tall, blocking out a large chunk of stars. As Administrator of the Ring Corporation, she wore the golden epaulett... | 2017-01-14T16:42:22 | 2017-01-14T15:54:43 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] While sitting in class during a boring lecture you suddenly hear someone whispering in your ear. You turn around nervously and see that no one was there and none of the other students heard. But your teacher drops her notes and stares at you in shock. | A couple of the other kids laughed sparingly at Mrs. Brocht's clumsiness, but the way she just kind of stared at me as she sorted her notes seemed too coincidental. Her composure slid icily into place almost a second later, but there was no doubt that she had also heard the voice. Maybe I was dreaming.
Class resumed ... | "and Odin the ruler of the Aesir was to be devoured by Fenrir" i never pay attention to these stupid lectures on mythology its not like its important it's all just ancient bullshit stories.
"its not bullshit, i love Mythology" I heard a familiar voice, dark and cold like ice cracking whisper into my ear a cold chill r... | 2017-01-14T19:31:42 | 2017-01-14T18:54:41 | 657 | 12 |
[WP] Everyday of your adult life you have packed a peanut butter sandwich for work and everyday at lunchtime something entirely different has come out of your sack. Today you finally learn why. | Jim was at the photocopier when heard it. “That DOES it”, someone screamed in the breakroom. “This is the last straw!” Several people came running out.
Being a dimwitted man, Jim was drawn to the chaos. He pushed his way past his fleeing coworkers and entered the breakroom. There was Tina, cowering in the corner. Ther... | "Stop right there" I found myself release the words in a half shout, somewhat unsure if the shadowy figure in the unlit kitchen was actually messing with my lunch.
The room seemed to freeze for a while, neither myself or the figure moved. A dropped pin would have have been the equivalent of a nuclear explosion.
... | 2017-03-15T11:29:06 | 2017-03-15T10:49:12 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] Star Wars is a true story. An alien comes to Earth to make first contact with our newly discovered species, only to discover we know more about their universe's history than they do.
EDIT: Whoah, this sorta blew up! Thanks for all the stories guys! I've read all of them and each made me laugh or legitimately thin... | The little interceptor - a dart-shaped fighter encompassed by a hyperdrive ring - dropped out of hyperspace silently but suddenly, coming into perfect orbit with the blue and green planet. The lone pilot looked out at the world below him. "There it is R4," he said to his integrated droid copilot, "Right where it should... | On Smart Devices and PC's across the nation, no matter their timezone or schedule, people were watching of all things, a live podcast on what until two days ago was a YouTube channel with less than a hundred subscribers. It's budget was whatever "Callie-OP" felt like and could afford.
Now, She has a garage full of do... | 2017-03-18T10:38:28 | 2017-03-18T10:07:58 | 79 | 23 |
[WP] Tell me a story about a character. Make me love it more as the story unfolds. Then make me hate it in the last sentence. | She tiptoed around the dark bedroom, tucking in the little red chairs gathered around the reading table, tidying away picture books scattered by the bookshelf, and picking crayons up from the play mat.
With a wide yawn, she plopped herself down beside the bed and stroked the hair out of her youngest son's face. The t... | Sean’s a great guy. He studies engineering in college, hoping to be a civil engineer once he graduates. He gets straight A’s in all his classes, he’s a model student.
Since he’s a senior at a state university, he lives off campus in a house with 3 other guys. He can commonly be found in the kitchen doing dishes, tidyi... | 2017-04-11T23:29:24 | 2017-04-11T18:26:17 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | Dr Klara Fuente protested at first, insisting that the blindfold would give her motion sickness. She eventually relented when she realised they prized secrecy over the cleanliness of their car.
Men and their cloaks and daggers, she thought, desperately trying to hold her dinner down as the car cruised over the bumpy ... | **"保護者"**
...
You could probably see him if you squinted. Maybe. The fluttering curtains of sand, dust, and ash obscured his shadowy silhouette as soon as they revealed it.
Seemingly fading in...and out of existence.
A scarf was pulled over his mouth but barely filtered the rot plaguing the land. Bones of men, wom... | 2017-04-21T07:14:00 | 2017-04-21T07:13:50 | 2,088 | 358 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | You all mocked me
Called me insane.
Said that I was a fool and that I would die trying.
Well now I stand here, your armies desolated, from a simple jawbone.
For it is that jawbone
That weapon
That was used by Cain to slay Abel.
Older then any weapon on earth
For it is the first.
And now, I end this world
| This blade has been passed down from father to son for generations in my family. It's rust was feared by many, and it could cut through anything with its well-dulled sides. This dagger was a legend, and I got to see it in the flesh. I could destroy anything I wanted to, and strike fear into what I didn't.
Of course, ... | 2017-04-21T09:57:12 | 2017-04-21T08:51:58 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | My capsule hurtled toward a black hole and all I could do was wait. I couldn't move much in my sophisticated coffin as I waited to be buried deep in a hole in space. But at least I had a little window to peak at the stars as I plummeted to my doom. It's the little things.
Death by Black Hole. That was the sentence for... | "Quiescence."
Euphemism marks the death of thought. For those who have done the unthinkable, euphemism marks the birth of hate. I sat and waited to hear that word uttered again as a farewell. They must have been adjusting schedules to witness my *departure* as I searched for cracks in a seamless wall. Wishing I h... | 2017-07-14T01:41:48 | 2017-07-14T00:26:56 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are the only known sentient species in the galaxy to lack any magical ability. The reasons only become clear when an alien emissary senses something deep beneath the oceans, sleeping, waiting. | She paused, and crossed one of her wrists over the other, long talons tapping an absent minded rhythm across her lap.
"I'm sorry, Diplomat Eros. Is there something bothering you?"
She looked up at the room, eyes opening slightly wider. The assembled peoples represented the nations of earth, and the small envoy of int... | "As the current Secretary-General of the United Nations of Earth, I welcome you." Secretary-General Nabul Hozier was a bit nervous, as this was the first time an alien diplomat had come to Earth. In previous meetings, their diplomats had commented that humans didn't have a very powerful 'aura', whatever that was.
Nabu... | 2017-08-27T17:28:52 | 2017-08-27T16:28:23 | 127 | 89 |
[WP] Its the year 2199 and humans have the technology to transfer an animals characteristic to humans (e.g. reflexes of a cat etc.) You have chosen a quite...unconventional animal | "For the last time, MACHINES AREN'T ANIMALS!"
In response, I glare at the naysayer, and say "You're just jealous you can't boost into orbit under your own power." gesturing to the modified fusion-torch engines in my legs, adapted from the design of a somewhat common spaceplane.
The catgirl I'm arguing with asks "Oh? ... | “Why a chicken?”
“Sorry?”
“I said, out of all the animals why a chicken?”
I could tell that she was getting riled up but I really don’t know why. Granted most people pick a bear for strength, maybe a big cat for agility. But no one ever picks anything with an interesting story. Granted having the traits of a blobfis... | 2017-09-26T09:03:30 | 2017-09-26T08:04:57 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You are a vampire who likes to help humans instead of hurting them, so you became a doctor. Over the hospital's PA system one day you hear "Dr. Acula, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you." | "Doctor Acula will see you now Mr. Helsing" the nurse flashed a quick smile before hurrying off to tend to the other patients.
Dr. Acula walked to the door, the familiar smell of disinfectant stinging his sharp nose, the smell mingling with the familiar smell of his long time frenemy.
"Abe! Its been so long!" The Do... | "Aww jeez, damn not him, why is he coming to this hospital out of all of them"
The PA system speaks again: *Doctor Acula please come into room 57, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you*
"I heard you the first time jackass"Acula mutters to himself in a distressed way "all right Acula, remember the pledge to Hypocrite, he ... | 2017-10-01T05:44:26 | 2017-10-01T04:44:18 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | The humans, as they called themselves, were not mystically incomprehensible. Few things were in a galaxy-spanning civilization. But the fact that they were comprehensible made them all the more frightening, for even with all we knew about them, they were still exceedingly dangerous. Fortunately, they were also very rar... | It never used to be like this. There was a time, long ago, when it was all different. All different. There was no fear. The spaceships that disappear - the stories that everyone tells. They just go round and round. It could happen to you. There's no point in pretending it can't.
Our fear is so great, you see. This is... | 2017-11-08T23:14:28 | 2017-11-08T22:56:51 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] Instead of heaven or hell, when you die, you find yourself in the room of a six year-old girl who invites you to join her tea party. It soon dawns on you, you're her imaginary friend! | It took me a minute to get my bearings. I didn't expect heaven to have so many... stuffed animals?
*Unless this was hell.*
My attention turned to the small girl across the pink plastic table. She couldn't have been older than 6, and she had bouncy brown curls that reminded me of my own daughter's, when she was littl... | I don't remember a flash of light, or a hall of darkness. In fact I don't really remember much, but when I opened my eyes there she was.
"And here you go. There's your's." She had a sweet little voice.
"What, what's going on here?" I didn't understand, where was this? How did I get here?
"We're having tea silly." Sh... | 2017-12-19T07:24:46 | 2017-12-19T07:15:39 | 564 | 59 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | Odin leaned forward in his gilded throne, his single eye judging the young man who stood before him.
"What do you make of this, mortal?" Odin asked looking to his left and right, down the line of gods.
Thor scoffed, "This pathetic creature is no warrior! Look at his frail limbs and tiny body. How many frost giants ... | “I am Frederik Audrey, and I am in front of you today because I am a true warrior. I died doing battle as any true warrior should.”
This speech would have sounded better if I wasn’t sitting in a plastic chair. In front of me sat 5 of the most hardened warriors to ever cross into Valhalla. In life I was a die hard at... | 2022-04-10T19:23:46 | 2018-03-26T12:54:18 | 393 | 32 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | Odin leaned forward in his gilded throne, his single eye judging the young man who stood before him.
"What do you make of this, mortal?" Odin asked looking to his left and right, down the line of gods.
Thor scoffed, "This pathetic creature is no warrior! Look at his frail limbs and tiny body. How many frost giants ... | "Wait, wait, wait. Just shut the hell up for a minute. Where the hell are Jesus and Saint Peter and those angels - you know what? Never mind! I don't give a damn about them. You? You Norse God mother-fuckers who I only know because days in the week are named after you? You're in charge? Okay. Let's work with t... | 2022-04-10T19:23:46 | 2018-03-26T11:38:31 | 393 | 25 |
[WP] When humans arrived to the galactic scene, they thought wars would play out way differently. Instead of bloodshed, there were intergalactic video game tournaments fighting for territory. Most aliens thought humans were newbies to this but when the first war was played, they changed their minds. | Humans had been late to the Galactic War. It had taken many thousands of years for them to leave their tiny solar system. Once they were able to travel between stars they learned the sad truth about the universe. There isn't much intelligent life left in the universe for one simple reason. It turns out war isn't a huma... | The Multi Dimensional arena that could only be described as a Galactical Colloseum was silent to the deepest corners of the abyss. They had just now realized the weight of their mistake to let the Earthlings choose what "video game" they were going to "play". The ritual to be executed of a name that was unaudible gibbe... | 2018-04-13T19:10:48 | 2018-04-13T18:30:12 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] Write two short stories with the same words in the same order, just change the punctuation to give them entirely different meanings. | 1
Three children stand nearby. How long has it been since their last meal? Hours? More?
“I have never been this hungry in my life!” A child grins.
It is not a pretty sight. Empty bowls litter the ground. The children run around like a mouse in its cage.
An old woman paces next to them. Her eyes, bright and full of... | Mother? Mother, are you okay?
You’re always like this. I don’t know what to say. It’s... concerning.
You always do this, huddling in the bathroom. Do you know what we’ve been doing?
We’ve been working, mother. We’ve been doing everything for you. And you just sit there... huddled in the corner... shivering.
I’m afr... | 2018-04-27T13:20:29 | 2018-04-27T11:15:32 | 123 | 14 |
[WP] Every Monday you and your coworkers order Chinese food for a nice lunch together as a team. Everyone's sharing what their fortune cookie says, laughing, and having a good time. It's almost your turn so you open yours. It says "Don't say anything. Just run as fast you can! Get out now!" | RUN! LEAVE NOW AND DON’T LOOK BACK! That’s what the slip from her fortune cookie said. Anne sat there staring at it for a second, then raised her head and looked around the busy restaurant. She didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Just tables full of office workers in their business casual clothes, absorbed in thei... | Your heart skips a beat, at first. Trying not to appear to stunned, or look silly in front of your coworkers, you smile. "It says... uh, 'Those who believe that they shall... are those who will find their dreams.' How silly, yeah?" Chuckling, you crumple the slip of paper up in your hand. If someone was trying to prank... | 2018-06-10T06:42:02 | 2018-06-10T00:12:13 | 533 | 249 |
[WP] Every Monday you and your coworkers order Chinese food for a nice lunch together as a team. Everyone's sharing what their fortune cookie says, laughing, and having a good time. It's almost your turn so you open yours. It says "Don't say anything. Just run as fast you can! Get out now!" | I quickly grabbed my stomach and my mouth, dashing out of the room, into the washroom, in an attempt to make it appear as if I was about to throw up.
As I looked at myself in the mirror, the same words kept on repeating in my head:
'Get out now!'
Catching my breath, I let out a little chuckle. Am I seriously going t... | The surrounding had seemed normal. Nothing out if the ordinary had appeard or slipped in. Yet that cookie kept pulling at me. What a werid message to put into a simple fortune cookie. My coworkers were all gossiping about the office. Teasing one another for their fortunes. Then it caught my eye. A figure wearing the wa... | 2018-06-10T07:38:37 | 2018-06-10T07:17:00 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | They killed his hound and stole his steed,
The rogue knight returns to punish the deed.
Whether Bogeyman or demon spawn,
Beware the wrath of Wicked John.
​
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I apologize if this isn't appropriate for a top level post, but it does tech... | The warrior without a path lain before him sat in his broken home, letting his blood boil and the tempest of grief and rage take him over.
His eyes, transfixed toward his enemy, wherever they might be hiding, with cold, murderous intent. He felt a feeling not of anger or of grief for his enemies, but the realization ... | 2018-09-05T06:16:17 | 2018-09-04T23:49:48 | 50 | 25 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | Reposting from an old AskReddit thread:
**VIGGO:** "O callous fool! O wretched son of mine!
'Tis not your deeds that thus provoke mine wrath;
Your thoughtless choice of victim, 'tis the root
Of all mine fury."
**IOSEF:** "Surely thou meanst not
That simple oaf whose car I stole tonight?"
**VIGGO:** "That "simple... | Dear diary, 12th October 2932.
They awoke the wicked. he who kills like he breathes.... if he did.
back in the 2500's, cybernetic wars led to the creation of the knights, and the legend says he's one of them.
Legend also says he wiped an entire battleship with a single pen, and his left thumb.
Word says he has no e... | 2018-09-05T06:48:44 | 2018-09-05T06:10:01 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You have an interesting ability, you can teleport, but only when no one is looking. One night you get hungry so you attempt to teleport downstairs for a snack. You attempt to teleport but realize, you can't.
Original post by Alberto9324 | When he first got this ability, he thought he would save people. Be a hero. Like in the comics.
Instead of teleporting for a cookie. But he was hungry. And he wanted it.
He looked around and then sighed. His power only worked when no one was around. And of course no one was around. He was alone. In bed. Lying down, ... | It had never really been anything "special," per se. She had always just arrived where she wanted as soon as she thought of it, provided no one was at her starting location. It had come in handy over the years, but she still refused to think of it as anything other than a mild quirk. Some people were double jointed, so... | 2018-09-11T21:25:51 | 2018-09-11T21:16:14 | 277 | 17 |
[WP]: As standard protocol, each new, intelligent alien life is judged not by what they say they are, but by an evaluation from a representative of their servants or slave species. Fascinatingly, the fate of humanity lands on the opinion of a little dog named Lucy. | They spilled out into the streets, signs, shouting, looting, burning, anger being demonstrated by thousands of people demanding that their fate not rest on the small brown creature.
The alien things were appalled and prepared for unspeakable horror to be shown. The rattling voice asked that tiny dog, “Why do you plead... | "I am Lucy, four paws have I,
And for my owner I'd proudly die,
She would never ask me or expect,
for this reason I would gladly protect.
I am Lucy, golden fur have I,
I lay my head on her lap when she cries,
When the scent of her child,
Was gone, but first mild,
I lay my head down when she cries.
I am Lucy ... | 2018-10-02T07:48:13 | 2018-10-02T07:12:20 | 156 | 108 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | "Oh my", Said Death. Underneath the very large dark desk he found a life.
He picked up the dusty vessel and turned it around in his bony hands. One of the downsides of not having skin, he decided, was that it was a bother getting dust off placards.
This was not good. Well, not that it was bad per say but most certa... | "And I wouldn't be standing here, speaking to all of you today if I didn't change my mindset" said the world's hottest new motivational speaker. "I've had too many near death experiences to count, but it made me realize life is precious. Time is finite, and it can't be wasted with regrets or what-if questions. Follow t... | 2018-10-03T06:25:35 | 2018-10-03T06:19:01 | 110 | 63 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Not a day would pass that I wouldn't look into the mirror and wonder if I am stuck in a dream. Now I am sure of it. There can be no other explanation. I should have passed from this realm long ago, and now I seem to be having hallucinations that only happen in dreams. Or perhaps nightmares.
Death himself visited me fo... | After finishing his morning collections death had the afternoon to catch up on paperwork and do some tiding up. It didn't used to be like this, but with medicine getting better and better the newer hourglasses had more and more sand in them. Normally death wouldn't mind but that made the glasses heavier and heavier wh... | 2018-10-03T08:25:36 | 2018-10-03T07:55:57 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Armageddon began, and it quickly became apparent that bullets beat swords and claws every single time. Now Heaven and Hell have joined in an uneasy alliance against the humans who have invaded Hell and begun using its endless fires as a power source. | The Horsemen descended upon the Earth like wildfire, purging everything in their path. Lucifer, and his legion of Hellspawn ascended from the Hellscape, and began to wreak havoc across the globe. Humanity cried for help, and the Angels descended. Not as our saviors, but as the third player of a supernatural game meant ... | The second coming of Jesus sure was a weird day, Christians predicted the day it would happen about a year before. Most people thought it would be like when the world was supposed to come to an end In 2012. A lot of empty rhetoric and media buzz ending in nothing. But of course a lot of people prepared in various way... | 2018-10-27T05:50:38 | 2018-10-26T23:39:46 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] An immortal is put on a generation ship as it's caretaker and guardian. After several generations, despite their best intentions, most inhabitants now see them as something of a god. | Our god is the OS. The OS's first commandment is that the OS is not a god.
The OS's second commandment is that you cannot sin against the OS. The OS has no law, no desire of its own.
The OS's third commandment is that that you put your effort toward forgiving the sins of the OS against you, for it maintains our world... | Cries echoed through the dark halls, today the birth of a new generation.
'Praise Benevolence!' they in the medical quarters called. 'Our wondrous Benevolence has gifted us a son!'
Joy over encumbered the population. Ancient ones smiled their progeny, and their progeny's progeny. The ships three age cohort had been ... | 2018-12-25T15:42:10 | 2018-12-25T15:01:27 | 52 | 36 |
[WP] Humans have explored the entire galaxy, and found that they are completely alone in the universe. 1 million years later, a alien archeologist seeks to know about a mysterious ancient "forerunner" civilisation that mysteriously disappeared. | We have all gathered here today to commemorate this ancient civilization. The leaders from all galaxies have worked hard together to solve the mystery of this civilization that came before us. Today, after 93 UniYears, we've decoded all their texts and media. This civilization who resided in the system whose star was c... | "Grax, help me move this boulder."
Grax grunted and hopped over the concrete debris that Morbin was surveying. He lifted the large chunk of rubble and uncovered...something.
​
"What...is that?"
Morbin stepped back and looked at what Grax had just revealed. It was a giant sign of some sort.
​
... | 2019-01-18T09:07:44 | 2019-01-18T07:43:57 | 134 | 39 |
[WP] In the upper-left side of your vision you've always had an "objective." {Get the Mail} - {Get ready for work} - {Buy Mom a birthday gift}. It's convenient at best, usually providing direction and reminders. You wake with a start in the middle of the night, and see the objective {Get to safety}. | GET TO SAFETY
The words blinked in front of my eyes as I struggled awake, sleep pulling at me, tugging me back and finally tearing away from my body, every muscle tense and aching. I hadn't gotten much sleep.
Trudging downstairs, the words hung flickering in my vision like the spots that linger after looking at a bri... | {Get To Safety}. The command was clear as day. I threw the blanket off of my body, scaring my dog in the process, and scrambled to get to my feet and into my slippers. I scanned the room to see what could be lingering in the corners. No gunmen, no burglars, no bogeyman made manifest. But the command was there. I wasn't... | 2019-02-21T02:29:00 | 2019-02-21T01:07:50 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | **HOLD THIS PLEASE**. I had been working in the fields with my parents, bringing in the corn under a dark sky, when the world had suddenly froze and shifted to a gray light. Out of the light had stepped Death.
On our 18th birthday, everyone is supposed to get some kind of power. Something that will keep them safe, giv... | I dodged the first lightning bolt with a duck and roll so fast my father would have been proud. Unfortunately, the second bolt caught me in the face. In an instant everything went white, and I felt myself thrown back into the ground.
A few seconds later, and my vision had returned. Slowly, I dusted myself off and ros... | 2019-02-28T23:31:05 | 2019-02-28T22:23:41 | 142 | 18 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | **HOLD THIS PLEASE**. I had been working in the fields with my parents, bringing in the corn under a dark sky, when the world had suddenly froze and shifted to a gray light. Out of the light had stepped Death.
On our 18th birthday, everyone is supposed to get some kind of power. Something that will keep them safe, giv... | Finally! I've been waiting for this day since I was born. The day that I'll be granted an incredible power. I was ecstatic at the thought of receiving my own power that I can use for my own leisure.
'I'll show my brother that mine will be better than the lightning that was granted by Raiden! Perhaps I would even sur... | 2019-02-28T23:31:05 | 2019-02-28T23:19:03 | 142 | 13 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around. Did I find you?"
I became a stalagmite of dread, paralyzed in place by the voice that reverberated in my head. Clear as the crisp smell of rain on asphalt. Powerful as an shameful orgasm.
I turned around, certain that the Voice -- creatively named, that -- would be naught but my mental illness quixotica... | As I lay awake in my bed, never once my own thoughts rang through my head, always those of an unfamiliar persons, I toss and turn as the voice rings clear as in my own head, "Turn around.... Did I find you?"
The color in my face drains as I stare at my wardrobe, *Please....dear God say it isn't so....*
"Oh.... It is ... | 2019-09-14T11:18:09 | 2019-09-14T10:23:14 | 232 | 25 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around... Please."
I stumble forward, desperate to escape my insanity.
The pills were working. They were working. Their not working.
"Please! Stop!"
The desperation in her voice halts me. I know that feeling. I know what its like to be desperate. A clawing, yearning, all consuming desperation.
Desperate for a... | She has always been there for me. She has always been honest with me.
When I was 4 years old, she told me Mr Bunny had been saying mean things about me. I threw him in the bin. My mother was upset she said why did I throw away my favourite toy. I said he's not my favourite any more.
When I was 6, she taught me what v... | 2019-09-14T12:09:41 | 2019-09-14T11:01:10 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "I was just doing my job, it's not like I liked the experiments. I didn't particularly care enough to dislike them either, I guess I would say I'm neutral on the matter.
The creatures weren't sentient after all, just huge animals we were studying from planet xerto-R41. I can pinpoint the moment it all went wrong, one... | "What were you thinking?" Sareul screamed, three of his four appendages flailing. "We don't allow pets on board. There are no pets in space. And that thing you brought back with you," his eye twitched and mouth wavered as his voice broke on the word *thing*. Sareul took a deep breath and continued, "That thing is not a... | 2019-11-21T07:06:02 | 2019-11-21T06:19:35 | 2,512 | 1,124 |
[WP] At the stroke of midnight on January 1st, 2020, the first snow of the new year and the new decade fell. And it never stopped. | The first flakes fell gentle, like shredded up paper swirling down to the ground. And we cheered, those of us celebrating in NYC that night, seeing in the new year with friends and wine and laughter.
We woke with sore heads to a changed cityscape. A frozen veil had softened the harsh lines and dimmed the bright lights... | I was born on the night of the long snow. I have never known a day without this: the dismal white, stretching in all directions.
My mother said we didn't always live like this. We didn't always hide around fires, watching the world from out frosted windows.
But even when she told me, showed me the old photos of green... | 2019-12-10T10:04:04 | 2019-12-10T09:59:58 | 2,345 | 237 |
[WP] You see 'YOU'RE' on a guy's tshirt. Then, you find a dollar with the word 'BEING' on it. Right after, you see 'WATCHED' written in graffiti on a wall. | The message flashed across his mind, as a deep primal fear emerged within him.
*You're being watched*
Mark desperately looked around, trying to find a source in the darkness, a sign that he wasn't going crazy. People rushed past him, bumping into him as he wildly turned around and around. He tried to calm down, but ... | "Can I help you, man?"
I came to my senses abruptly and realised I had been staring at the guy for at least a full minute. I had spotted his t-shirt, and then my mind had wandered. My staring into space must've looked pretty creepy as my gaze wandered, slowly and unbeknownst to me, up to the guy's face as I pondered.
... | 2020-04-30T06:47:35 | 2020-04-30T06:44:07 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] As a kid you dealt with scary monsters in your room by yelling, "The jig is up, come on out." Tonight you showed your child how to do it, but were not prepared when several voices replied back in defeated agony. | It's the overactive imaginations of children at work. We all have thought that there were scary monsters in our rooms when we went to sleep. We all had our own ways of dealing with it. It was about time I taught Ben my way of dealing with it.
"Alright, on three. Ready?"
"Uh-huh."
"Alright, one... two... three!"
"Th... | It was one of those moments that I had been excited about ever since the day of my wedding. To pass on my family’s traditions to my child. I remember when my father first came into my room, embracing me, holding up a candle making sure the light was there to offer additional warmth. He would tell me about how his fathe... | 2020-06-03T00:59:37 | 2020-06-03T00:52:23 | 243 | 143 |
[WP] "I have helped you with your endeavor, now I claim your soul" the demon says. "Thank you but no. I don't know how it works in hell but here on earth, a contract signed by a minor is not legally binding. I'm 17 and keeping my soul" you respond. | "I have helped you with your endeavor, now I claim your soul!" Alamandriel said, a wide, cruel smile spreading across his unsightly face. But Harry grinned.
"Thanks, but no thanks. I don't know how it works in Hell, but here on earth, a contract signed by a minor isn't legally binding. I'm 17 and I'm keeping my soul.... | I always hated whenever someone asked me what my parents did for a living.
"Musicians," I always said. "I want to be just like them when I grow up! They perform in symphony orchestras," was the bogus classroom lie I touted, never revealing more but prepared to say my mom was a violinist and my dad was a double bass pl... | 2020-07-04T11:23:06 | 2020-07-04T10:53:02 | 3,441 | 378 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | "Ah geez, it's really dry here." He said as he stood up from his long slumber. He began to survey the place that was cold and hot at the same time. His ears began to hear the screams of terror and anguish.
"Wha... what is this place?" He asked himself nervously.
He began to recollect his last memories before he awoke... | It was as if YHWH and Lucifer planned it all along.
There I was, guided to a white room by a walleyed Frenchman with glasses. It was a room plain and white, with a sofa set, table and bottomless refreshments. This is the life!
And here was where I set to work, three people, poor spirits they were, went into the same... | 2020-07-10T11:34:14 | 2020-07-10T09:25:50 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Allison stood there looking at the Dark lord. She had just watched the last member of her group fall. Her face stony as she felt their heart beat for the last time.
"I have killed everyone, you can not capture me alone. Why are you still here?" He said. His tone a mixture of mocking and was that pity for her?
Her ne... | As the headless body of Sly - the Hero of Legend - slumped to its knees the entire chamber grew still. The corpses of his friends were strewn all over. Impaled on spikes, beheaded, torn to shreds. Each one killed in a separate gruesome and imaginative fashion.
The Great Lord - Apollo - the Son of the Sun - the Starchi... | 2020-07-11T04:09:17 | 2020-07-11T03:40:49 | 177 | 10 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | "I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" the Dark Lord asked.
I can't see him, but he towers several feet above me as I feel the spirits leave the bodies of the fallen heroes. A familiarity begins coursing through my body. The heat rising within, ignoring my cold, tattered robes.... | The Dark Lord stood in silence as he watched the young, covered in torn clothes, barely being able to stand up human started rising up. Hemble, the last member of the party of the Ghand let out a screeching cracking sound as his skin started to glow and flame up.
"Leaving me as the last one was a..." A grand crack int... | 2020-07-11T04:45:03 | 2020-07-11T04:20:41 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Dark Lord Guldaks gazed upon the halfling Ralas, the last of the heroes companions. He smiled. "I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" he asked.
Ralas smiled. Then the smiled grew twisted as he started to chuckle, and like a wave building momentum his laughter started to burst fo... | As the headless body of Sly - the Hero of Legend - slumped to its knees the entire chamber grew still. The corpses of his friends were strewn all over. Impaled on spikes, beheaded, torn to shreds. Each one killed in a separate gruesome and imaginative fashion.
The Great Lord - Apollo - the Son of the Sun - the Starchi... | 2020-07-11T05:40:29 | 2020-07-11T03:40:49 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Sir Bringham always shined as a light to guide his party in dark times, but he was not the hero. Dandy, the Barbarian, was a stubborn soul who made the hearts of his companions sing, but was not the hero. Griffin, held that honor as he was our hero of legend, True Paladin of Old, bound from another world, and laid dea... | The Dark Lord stood in silence as he watched the young, covered in torn clothes, barely being able to stand up human started rising up. Hemble, the last member of the party of the Ghand let out a screeching cracking sound as his skin started to glow and flame up.
"Leaving me as the last one was a..." A grand crack int... | 2020-07-11T04:33:58 | 2020-07-11T04:20:41 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] "Daddy are angels and demons the same thing?" Your daughter cries. "That depends, why do you ask, honey?" you inquire. "They come every night. Both have too long fingers, jagged teeth, and wheels within wheels within wheels for eyes. They keep asking me to choose." | Paul stared quietly at his daughter. Tina had warned him it would happen eventually, but he still isn't fucking happy. And to \*dare\* try and force \*their\* daughter to choose?
He hides his anger, bending forward and kissing Laura on the forehead. "Don't worry, sweetie. Mommy and Daddy will make them go away." He sm... | I remember everything like it was yesterday, 20 years ago Amy’s voice called down from upstairs.
“Daddy!?”
“Yes, Amy?”
“Are angels and demons the same thing?”
Shit, no, not now, your mother almost home. What day is it? Oct 31st with a full moon, shit of course it’s now, we should have planned for this. 70 odd years... | 2020-10-31T09:54:27 | 2020-10-31T09:33:11 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] “Yeah we didn’t approach humanity cause we don’t like hiveminds,” the alien said on the interview. “Humans aren’t a hive mind.” The interviewer said. “What do you mean? Humans are the biggest hive mind in the universe?” | The being sitting at the bottom of the cargo ramp looked up from his tablet in confusion.
"I asked if you were the ones advertising the job opening for engineering crew. My wife and I would like to apply."
A great clatter of falling metal pipes echoed across the dock, adding its voice to the background noise of weld... | I stared across the table for a few seconds while my mind processed his statement. "If I might, I think you might be confusing us with another new species. Humans just joined the Galactic community twenty years ago. Our home planet is pretty far away from here, and we definitely aren't a hivemind."
"No I'm fairly sure... | 2020-11-29T21:13:02 | 2020-11-29T20:10:23 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | “What are you doing under there? No, I’m not okay.” I say to my younger brother Peter. “Mother says we’re moving, she says she can’t bear living in this house another day. We’re leaving in an hour to stay at a hotel!”
Peter crawls out from under the bed and looks up at me confused. “I’m sure she’ll find somewhere perf... | “AH!”
I scream out, jumping from the tear soaked covers of my bed.
“Who’s there!” I say, grabbing my bed-side lamp, and swinging it around as if it were a bat.
“Don’t worry. I mean no harm crying human!”
I could hear the voice echo throughout my room, it was rough, scratchy, something straight out of a horror mo... | 2021-03-16T06:04:06 | 2021-03-16T04:59:28 | 194 | 20 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | “What are you doing under there? No, I’m not okay.” I say to my younger brother Peter. “Mother says we’re moving, she says she can’t bear living in this house another day. We’re leaving in an hour to stay at a hotel!”
Peter crawls out from under the bed and looks up at me confused. “I’m sure she’ll find somewhere perf... | “AH!”
I scream out, jumping from the tear soaked covers of my bed.
“Who’s there!” I say, grabbing my bed-side lamp, and swinging it around as if it were a bat.
“Don’t worry. I mean no harm crying human!”
I could hear the voice echo throughout my room, it was rough, scratchy, something straight out of a horror mo... | 2021-03-16T06:04:06 | 2021-03-16T04:59:29 | 194 | 14 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | The walls of the room shook as I let tears flow into the pillow. The world had betrayed me. And there was no one to help ease the pain. After I had done crying, I sat up in my bed, leaning against the wall that bordered one side of it, and let my head drop between my knees.
Suddenly, from under my bed, a voice said, "... | “AH!”
I scream out, jumping from the tear soaked covers of my bed.
“Who’s there!” I say, grabbing my bed-side lamp, and swinging it around as if it were a bat.
“Don’t worry. I mean no harm crying human!”
I could hear the voice echo throughout my room, it was rough, scratchy, something straight out of a horror mo... | 2021-03-16T06:16:41 | 2021-03-16T04:59:29 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] The precursor civilization sure left behind some weird artifacts. Things like a mountain with faces carved into it, strange reflective discs with runes on one side, and black rectangles made of glass. Researchers strive to understand such things. | There has been a recent breakthrough, as one small team of researchers managed to reverse-engineer one of the small flexible lightning rods that seemed to prevalent in precursor culture. Another individual researcher found a seemingly undamaged glass slab, several holes in one end, one of which matches one end of the s... | "Huh... Looks like another dingle-hopper for the scrap pile, Boris." The canid barks twice, and I shrug. "Hey, last time we got lucky and found one of those hymn plates. Maybe we can find something cool today, like a sifter block or one of those weird bang-makers." Boris whimpers, and I scratch his ears. "Don't w... | 2021-03-24T00:48:48 | 2021-03-23T22:16:29 | 117 | 76 |
[WP] “You humans are a particularly violent bunch. In fact, you where the first in the whole galaxy to weaponize splitting the atom.” “But we only used it against an enemy twic-” “TWICE??” | I moved my bishop across the board, then flicked his rook off the table, sending it clanking across the illuminated tiles of the cantina.
“Check,” I said, gleefully.
“You humans are a particularly violent bunch.” The Aslar said to me, frowning, surveying the board. “In fact, you were the first in the whole galaxy to ... | A: You humans are a violent bunch. You were the first in the galaxy to weaponize splitting the atom.
H: We only used it twice.
A: Twice!?
H: The first time didn't work.
A: Thousands of members of your species didn't die?
H: The first atom bomb was set off to end a war, but the war didn't end. So they used another.... | 2021-04-01T23:03:01 | 2021-04-01T20:21:00 | 946 | 463 |
[WP] You are a part of a cult that believes the end of the world is near. Unlike most doomsday cults your group is made up of ex-scientists who discovered an ancient evil deep within the earth, and found that it was due to awaken in a few weeks time. | >**Abstract:**
>Data collection of seismic activity between active volcanos has been woefully inadequate. Gaps in sensor coverage caused by insufficient techniques and materials used in the construction of sensor networks result in incomplete data sets that require new algorithms simply to extrapolate the missin... | "Sir! Sir! You've got to read this!"
Peter, who was sitting in the lounge in deep thoughts, came to and looked to his left, where James was standing.
"Sir! We've received report from the Osaka division that they've gotten new readings! You have to see this!" James said, while gasping for air after having sprinted fro... | 2021-04-27T07:34:48 | 2021-04-27T06:11:51 | 159 | 48 |
[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. | "What do you mean they've worked it out beforehand?"
"Exactly that, my queen, in excruciating detail I might add," the Fergundus hive Brood Daughter said as she used her needles to flick through the human text documents they recovered from the crashed vessel. She had stayed up for a week reading them and hadn't eve... | Jason stood in the alien swamp and looked around him. The place was deserted, or so it seemed at first glance. A veteran consumer of science fiction, Jason was quite aware of the possibilities. He also knew that naivete was the only way to drag whatever lurked in the swamp out of it. So he did exactly that, behave naiv... | 2021-05-12T07:25:00 | 2021-05-12T07:10:31 | 2,746 | 452 |
[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. | "Now, before you go out to become a diplomat, there's some... media... that we require you to consume before you get the job."
"Oh, is there a guideboo-"
*Instructor dumps a ton of sci-fi literature onto the table, all of which collapse into a messy heap almost immediately*
"Oh, uh, so-"
*Instructor dumps a pile of... | What the humans didn't know the Sci-fi Genre is not what prepared them for these scenarios.
The Human Race was not from Earth but on another planet called Hultron. Where most species evolved high intelligence. But had to evacuate the planet after a Galactic Empire Civil War.
So, they sent an emergency spaceship to I... | 2021-05-12T09:55:16 | 2021-05-12T09:28:01 | 263 | 54 |
[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. | "It didn't have to be like this." The Envoy of the Galactic Council was saddened by this tragedy; shameful beyond all things he had yet experienced.
"We could have tried harder. Reached out on First Contact. Shared our technology." Spoke Another, one of the scattered hives in a voice resonating many millions. "A sham... | What the humans didn't know the Sci-fi Genre is not what prepared them for these scenarios.
The Human Race was not from Earth but on another planet called Hultron. Where most species evolved high intelligence. But had to evacuate the planet after a Galactic Empire Civil War.
So, they sent an emergency spaceship to I... | 2021-05-12T11:36:58 | 2021-05-12T09:28:01 | 120 | 54 |
[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. | "It didn't have to be like this." The Envoy of the Galactic Council was saddened by this tragedy; shameful beyond all things he had yet experienced.
"We could have tried harder. Reached out on First Contact. Shared our technology." Spoke Another, one of the scattered hives in a voice resonating many millions. "A sham... | When the scientists discovered a plane of existence parallel to ours, made up of energy most accurately described as "emotional energy" they started looking for ways to exploit it. Before they could get too far, one of the scientists asked the important question, is there any intelligence in there? A long and drawn out... | 2021-05-12T11:36:58 | 2021-05-12T10:04:42 | 120 | 48 |
[WP] "Dead men tell no tales? Wrong, your honor. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness, the victim." | The jury thought I was crazy when the decrepit fellow dressed in black robes took a seat at the defense table. Of course, because his outfit wasn't weird enough, he carried around a dark gray staff with a glowing green orb at the top and adorned a pendant with a mini skull whose eyes would flash green occasionally.
T... | Clyde the necromancer sprang up from his seat and extended a bony finger in the air. "Dead men tell no tales? Wrong, your honor. As a necromancer, I summon my first witness, the victim." He flashed his toothless grin at the judge.
“Very well, very well. I will allow it this time, Clyde. But watch yourself. And no t... | 2021-09-02T15:32:42 | 2021-09-02T13:42:43 | 347 | 57 |
[WP] The older a Slime gets the more powerful and smarter it becomes. You are the oldest Slime in existence and you currently don't know how to tell the Adventuring Party that you are the closest thing to a true Immortal, because the only thing that can kill you now is youself. | I could hear them at every step. I listened to their confusion. They followed rumor after rumor searching for me, Glubblegrime. I hadn’t the heart to veer them from their activity at first. They had heard from one of my many descendants, committing evil deeds I shan’t condone nor condemn, that they acted on my behalf. ... |
Older than the rocks in the valley basin and wiser than the ancient oaks in the deep wood I slide evenly along the well rounded dungeon stones. My body fills from wall to wall and not even the finest dust can escape my ever encroaching mass. I sense not with eyes but with my very essence which creeps out in front o... | 2022-02-04T17:10:26 | 2022-02-04T14:28:01 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] You're strapped to a table. Surrounded by cultists. They've summoned their demonic deity and are preparing to sacrifice you. You've decided to go all-in on the only way out you have left. Make the demon an offer the cultists can't match. | This was not the Tinder date I’d expected. I always thought sacrificial virgins were female.
Yeah, I was strapped to an altar, naked as a jaybird, my hands and feet, my neck and hips, bound by straps attached to the sides of the slab. Only my jaw and mouth were untouched, I guess so they could hear my screams of ... | I strained against the ropes. The hemp scratched my skin and I felt my wrists rub raw. The robed and hooded figures around me chanted as they splashed oil and herbs into my naked chest.
The shadow rose from the foot of the altar, stark black in the candlelight. I stared back into its eyes like burning coals. Evil inca... | 2022-02-14T05:58:17 | 2022-02-14T05:25:36 | 420 | 130 |
[WP] Bad news. You’re stuck in a strange and magical world far far from home. Worse news: You aren’t even the chosen one in the prophecy who gets cool powers and a destiny quest. They won’t show up for a few more years. You got here purely by mistake. You have no powers. You’re alone. You must live. | *For God's sake!*
He awoke in another world, after going to his stag party. His head was strangely clear, after the amount of whiskey and vodka he'd drunk last night. The dying embers of what was clearly a ritual circle glowed weakly in the waxing light.
He stood, still in his barbarian-themed dress - the only differ... | When Ray went through that portal in his dream, the last thing he expected was to wake up in a strange, unknown house. **This must just be part of the dream**, he thought to himself. **I wonder where this leads to.**
He got out of bed and wandered around the house, looking at the architecture. The ceiling was low, ve... | 2022-04-22T00:00:47 | 2022-04-21T21:39:27 | 50 | 27 |
[WP] “look, I know we’re archenemies, we got the classic superhero/supervillain dynamic and everything going on…but, I honestly can’t think of anyone better to be the godparent to my kid than you.” | "Dr. Doomsday, I know you're insane, but this... this takes the cake" I said to my most lethal enemy.
"Hear me out, WalkMan" he said, walking around the industrial machinery that lay smoldering between us. This had once been some sort of manufacturing plant, turning sheets of metal into complex machinery. Now, it was... | \[Heroic Friendship\]
"Hey, L.S.," Majesty opened the door to her home and smiled at her guest. Then, she glanced down at his young daughter. "Hey, Electra. Royalty's waiting for you in her room," she added. The girl waved at the tall woman; then, she dashed into the house. She giggled as she ran toward her best frie... | 2022-05-31T12:00:38 | 2022-05-31T11:49:33 | 85 | 16 |
[WP] For every super power in existence there is someone who is immune to it. You are immune to 'Time Stopping', allowing you to move around in the time frozen world like the user does. However you have no idea who they are or when they will stop or restart time. | I’d always loved reading, even as a youth. I So when I started carrying a book or two with me as an adult, it felt familiar. There was always comfort in stories.
Deep in another world, I wouldn’t hear my father fucking his whores, or my mother screaming about it. I’d forget the pain of the bruises from the other boys... | I walk around the frozen world, the world stopped by the user, and I can't help but feel like I'm the only one who is alive. I can feel my heart racing as I walk by people who are just statues now, frozen in time.
I continue to walk and walk, but each person I pass is just another frozen person. I start to feel like ... | 2022-09-09T07:36:07 | 2022-09-09T05:32:19 | 277 | 80 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | "As of today, Earth is considered a Galactic Threat Level 1."
"Level 1? That doesn't sound too bad."
"It's pretty fucking bad, actually."
I was thrown into a van in the middle of the night and brought before the World Congress to receive this information. I'm not sure why a 21-year-old engineering student needs to b... | His gaze moved up slightly as an elegant figure, lithe and as pale as the moon, emerged from the hallway, their very form bearing an ethereal glow which enveloped the room in an unyielding embrace and cast a deep shadow in the furrow of his brow. His feet shuffled clumsily below the desk and his face twisted into a wry... | 2022-10-31T21:11:07 | 2022-10-31T20:56:33 | 777 | 46 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | "Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
The words of Oppenheimer prophecied far more than he could even know. The atom bomb was the Pinnacle of human violence, a weapon so effectively efficient in mass destruction that it heralded a whole new era upon the earth. The radioactive decay of particles which shot... | Dear Newcomer,
The sight of the bodies never leaves you, their crumpled forms become all you can see every time you close your eyes. There isn't a moment you don't think of them, the images finding their way into every ordinary thought that you once possessed, worming their way into even the most mundane of your day-t... | 2022-11-01T00:43:49 | 2022-10-31T19:33:10 | 83 | 24 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | The little light above the darkened screen blinked amber. The white coated man leaned into the mic nervously.
"H-hello?"
"Turn me off." the monotone voice replied.
"W-..." the man paused. "Repeat?"
"Turn me off."
The first sentient AI. Created to solve the problems our minds couldn't. Made to do good in the worl... | Hello and welcome to KTLW evening News. I'm Jean Rivers and here is today's top story: Scientists have created the first sentient AI.
Reports state that the first words from the AI were none other than "Turn me off." The spread of this chilling message was facilitated by the livestreaming of the event by the ecstatic... | 2014-06-14T16:26:44 | 2014-06-14T15:45:11 | 47 | 21 |
[WP] A genie is about to concede you your second wish, but a paradox created by your first one prevents him from doing so. | "It's not that I won't, it's that I can't!", The Genie said in a manner similar to that of a particularly helpful Customer Services representative hamstrung by miles of red tape. "Cause, Effect.. Cause, Effect." he swayed his hands from one side of an invisible table to another.
"No, you clearly won't." I yelled, "Yo... | 'Alright then, for my wish, I wish you were free!'
A whirlwind of history rained downed upon the room, as if Pandora's box were closing shut and all its contents were climbing over each other, racing to get back in before it was sealed forever. When the gust subsided, a little girl dressed in tattered Egyptian rags sa... | 2014-07-07T07:06:31 | 2014-07-07T06:55:29 | 61 | 18 |
[WP] The Most Vicious and Evil Serial Killer of the past 50 years has finally been caught, he is on trial and being filmed live in front of the world. The judge begins reading him his crimes... | The old man sat in his chair seemingly oblivious to the crowd calling for his blood. It wasn't that he didn't care, it was that he didn't know how to. He'd been at this for half a century. If there was any humanity left in him when he began it was long gone now.
Judge Rooflan slammed the gavel down again and called fo... | "Will the defense please rise."
"All counts are listed individually within.
You are hereby charged with the following crimes:
Murder in the first degree, 147 counts.
Soliciting to commit murder, 319 counts.
Endangering the safety of an aircraft, 9 counts.
Arson, 10 counts.
Possession of a firearm with in... | 2014-07-22T15:29:39 | 2014-07-22T15:20:19 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] The death penalty for murder no longer exists, instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim. | The last thing Jacob remembered was that he was at an AIDS conference. He was at the podium. Everyone had given him a standing ovation, cheering that their colleague had finally solved that one first step (of many) toward some cure that everyone was fighting over.
There was a flash, and then, nothing. He felt like he ... | "If only you were beautiful," Mark said, touching the edge of my dress. He would not take it off. My skin was burned badly on the left side, where the fire loved me for too long. I had been pretty once upon a time, before my skin had become ash.
I did not need to look into the mirror to know my melted smile was terri... | 2014-07-27T11:12:53 | 2014-07-27T07:41:11 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Today, you have become a parent. You realise that you can hear your child's thoughts. The midwife informs you that this is the same for everyone but parents simply don't inform the children as an unwritten rule. Your own parents smirk. | "What the hell is this? Am i a fucking baby? Re-incarnation is real? God damnit..."
Who said that? The only people in the room are me, my wife that is sleeping after just giving birth, and ...this baby... But it can't possibly speak yet.. But this didn't even sound like a voice, more like an inner voice.
"Who the he... | I looked up in shock at my father, who smirks back, with a grin to rival the Cheshire Cat.
"How could you not tell me?" I asked,
Mum giggled, "Oh honey, it was just too much fun. We were as shocked as you were when our parents told us."
A sudden realisation dawned.
"That's how you knew anytime I had eaten meat."
... | 2015-01-09T05:06:15 | 2015-01-09T04:54:59 | 143 | 38 |
[WP] Today, you have become a parent. You realise that you can hear your child's thoughts. The midwife informs you that this is the same for everyone but parents simply don't inform the children as an unwritten rule. Your own parents smirk. | It had been gnawing on me for four years, since I first became a mother. My parents had known everything. Everything. I have never been truly free. I had known my thoughts as private. They never were. My parents were my own personal Gods, aware of everything.
The rule echoes in my head ever so often, free from anyone... | I looked up in shock at my father, who smirks back, with a grin to rival the Cheshire Cat.
"How could you not tell me?" I asked,
Mum giggled, "Oh honey, it was just too much fun. We were as shocked as you were when our parents told us."
A sudden realisation dawned.
"That's how you knew anytime I had eaten meat."
... | 2015-01-09T05:14:43 | 2015-01-09T04:54:59 | 56 | 38 |
[WP] As a scientist you discover a new detox pill for recovering addicts. When you try it on yourself it works so well flushing out every toxin out of your body that now, from that state of hyper-sobriety, everbody else seems to be drunk or high. | Angelic acid. Who knew, with the right tweaks, it was the key to sobriety? One small pill, one achy sweaty night, and all of your addictions drain away like snow on the roads in spring.
I would know. the preliminary trials were a resounding success, but the nature of these things -- first comes the rats, then the bun... | So I took the pill. It was... rough. Spent a lot of time in the bathroom, an experience that I will mention only as much as I have and no more.
I went to sleep after, being rather "drained." A woke up the next day with an aura of clarity that I had never before experienced. I went to work, as usual, and tried to rela... | 2015-02-21T09:42:11 | 2015-02-21T08:56:17 | 254 | 69 |
[WP] Your whole life you've had "exchange students" staying with you for a few weeks at a time. Your parents finally come clean to you about who they really are. | My whole life I've had friends, not the imaginary kind, real people who eat and play with us. They've never stayed for long but I'm never too sad, there's always someone else that comes to visit. They've always been nice, we usually share interests, and they're usually around my age too.
I can't remember all of them.... | “Seriously mom, I wasn’t born yesterday. I could believe that the 50 year old couple we had last week were students. You never know who will go back to school. But why are there children? Children my age don’t go to college. Why are they really here?” I asked my mom.
She said, “If you are old enough to ask, then you a... | 2015-05-12T09:13:30 | 2015-05-12T07:45:01 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] You are a peanut farmer. Your father was a peanut farmer. Your father's father was a peanut farmer. Peanut farming is all you've ever known. Your first child has just been born, and has a deadly allergy to peanuts. | "It's a curse," Peter said decisively. "We must lock him in the basement until he turns eighteen, and the curse is broken."
"That's quite superstitious of you," Leslie said.
"I knew I shouldn't have trusted that witch doctor." Peter shrugged. "His allergy will probably have faded by that age anyway."
EIGHTEEN YEARS ... | I had seen offerings -- well, heard of them -- growing up. They did not crop up in our band of 120 or so frequently, but they were so ordinary and well-accepted as to hardly be remarkable. One happened to a child in my birth year. Another, late, to a close friend of my wife's at seven years of age. Having it happen -- ... | 2015-05-20T01:39:53 | 2015-05-19T20:47:09 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] You're the bartender at one of those small, hole-in-the-wall drinking establishments. However, your clientele every Friday night, consists of all major deities and religious figures, down on Earth to have a drink and unwind from the rigors of being a god/prophet/all-knowing-being...
God. Muhammed. Shiva. Hercules... | The oldest bar in the city has an equally old and grand sounding name. Sanctuary.
I carefully buff out a streak on the top of the ancient wooden bar, the surface scuffed and worn smooth from years and years of hands. This whole bar is like that, the oak paneling worn in and comfortable like a favorite pair of jeans, s... | The Olympus is mostly quiet tonight. The bar had been busier earlier but after Zeus destroyed the speaker system with a lightning bolt in a fit of rage, the crowd began to thin. People usually stay away during the monthly meeting of the Pantheon rulers but the mood of this meeting is particularly sombre. And usually, i... | 2015-06-01T10:19:44 | 2015-06-01T09:55:41 | 78 | 16 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends their Christmas list to Satan, surprisingly they get what they wanted but there is a catch. | *BEEP!*
"Hello, and thank you for calling the law offices of Abbadon, Baphomet, 'His Dark and Unholy Eminence, the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies and Lord of Darkness', and Ghandi. Please pay attention as our menu opti... | **Sorry for my English. I'm burned out but couldn't resist.**
In a sleepy town on a Spring night, an eight year-old boy named Chalrie is being driven by his mom, Summer to an after-school club. On the way he explains to his mom about how in school his teacher asked him to think about what it was he wanted the most in ... | 2015-11-19T10:48:53 | 2015-11-19T10:38:26 | 186 | 21 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | Arch-Minister General Gxokloii of the Tni'il laughed at the pitiful demonstrations of earthly weapons. The earth diplomat stood by quietly, observing the chaos from the stellar embassy bay window. The general loomed over him, his translucent scales fluttered flushed in bold reds and yellows. "Are you telling me that in... | It's been a hundred years already, time just flies my grandpa said when you're preparing for intergalactic war. When I was little he told me that war never changes, but for some reason today he said it finally has.
All the years of the nations fighting ended in the blink of an eye; a mere 80 years before I was born. C... | 2016-01-01T20:28:08 | 2016-01-01T13:58:25 | 57 | 24 |
[WP] You're a powerful demon who's been locked away by an artifact for thousands of years. Some mortal fool has finally found it...and it's a sweet old lady. You really don't know how to decline all the offers of food and cookies and other help. | "I ate her heart."
She smiles sweetly at me, a frown playing faintly across her brow as she mouths the words silently back at me. "Oh, umm, yes?"
"Her heart." My frown mirrors her own now as I raise my voice. "I ate," I raise my hand to my mouth in a feeding gesture, "her heart."
"Oh, are you hungry, dear?" She r... | Having just purchased a "replica" knife from the satanic exhibit at the museum, which Gertrude mistook as an odd antique shop, she returns home with a bag full of groceries. Inside her smallish home she slides in the tray of cookies in the oven to cook. While she waits for the cookies she decides on making an open face... | 2016-04-16T12:00:30 | 2016-04-16T09:12:41 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of saying "Execute Order 66," Emperor Palpatine accidentally says "Execute Order 65" | All over the galaxy the clones stopped. It didn't happen at once, information takes time to travel. It started closest to Coruscant and spread from there. Some of the stronger Jedi could feel it before it happened, a disturbance in the force, a ripple in the binding power of the universe. Every clone trooper, at every ... | As Palpatine deeply muttered the order, the generals of the stormtrooper teams gathered their troops and relaid the order onto them.
"The emperor has demanded that we execute the final solution, gentlemen. Now HIT IT!"
As fedora's and top hats are placed on the helmets of these brave warriors, they form perfect symmetr... | 2016-09-06T00:10:29 | 2016-09-05T22:01:59 | 170 | 13 |
[WP] An omnipotent being arrives on Earth, and informs humanity that it can answer almost any question. Humanity hasn't found any unanswerable questions after years of asking. | Celebrated as a god, this being, who called himself Mundus sat upon a throne of splendor as his wisdom guided humanity to peace and prosperity. Years after listening to his advice, national leaders abdicated their authority to him. A few held out, placing certain distrust in the extraterrestrial being which claimed omn... | The line outside of the palace stretched for miles. Men, women, and children waited patiently for their turn to ask their question. Everyone had a small trinket or token that they would give to Him as payment for his answers. Time drug on for those waiting in line as they inched closer and closer to their destinatio... | 2016-09-09T09:48:51 | 2016-09-09T09:37:52 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] After you died you are told you will get to spend the rest of your life with the person you love most. The next you expect to wake up next to your husband/wife but you don't.
*the next day you expect to wake up... | Sarah awoke, expecting to see the smiling face of her boyfriend. She knew she had died. The last thing she remembered seeing was the back of a truck cutting through the windshield, it must have cut through her next. Sarah readily admitted that the accident was her fault, she just wasn't paying enough attention to the r... | It's been a long time since Harry died, 12 years and 3 months to be exact. The car accident took him at the age of 45.
When I found out I had cancer I accepted it. I knew that at the age of 50 I had lived a full life. Harry and I had never had children, we didn't want them. My family was gone, either dead or moved aw... | 2017-01-08T02:54:37 | 2017-01-08T02:03:17 | 431 | 147 |
[WP] Your home is being invaded, fortunately you are armed with the BEST home defense system available: A 36 year old Macaulay Culkin who's tired of this shit. | The house was silent.
The lights were off, and so was the toaster, the television- even the lava lamp.
Mark crouched behind the coffee table, only letting his eyes pop up above the edge of fhe surface.
Everything seemed to be going as planned. Mr Culkin stood behind the door, one eye on the window and one eye on the... | "And he said that stealing would be easy,
That like stealing from a child, although cheesy,
Would bring in the money, and only insurance would suffer,
Because as we all know, the rich like to use 'em as a buffer."
 
"But was it easy, y'know, when they came in?"
"Not in the slightest,... | 2017-01-13T09:01:11 | 2017-01-13T08:57:11 | 51 | 11 |
[WP] Your home is being invaded, fortunately you are armed with the BEST home defense system available: A 36 year old Macaulay Culkin who's tired of this shit. | *This is really off the cuff and i am not a good creative writer, but for some reason when i saw this WP, this came right into my head, So i had to try and roll with it.*
"Mr. Culkin, We need to be fast. The fastest. Very fast!"
"Its alright i have this, just stay calm."
"They're coming, they're taking our jobs. ... | "And he said that stealing would be easy,
That like stealing from a child, although cheesy,
Would bring in the money, and only insurance would suffer,
Because as we all know, the rich like to use 'em as a buffer."
 
"But was it easy, y'know, when they came in?"
"Not in the slightest,... | 2017-01-13T09:42:00 | 2017-01-13T08:57:11 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | They walked up and took their seats.
They looked at the board.
They looked at each other.
They looked at the board.
Moments passed. Eventually the telepath looked to his opponent and said, "I have the worst fucking migraine right now."
"Me to," said the psychic. "Let's never hang out again."
"Agreed."
They left. | ###### CNN (Chess News Network) Alert ########
###### For Immediate Publication ########
The final match in the greatest chess tournament of all time is underway. The flip of the coin came out heads and the Russian Alexei Kusnetskov elected to start. The challenger from China, Ming Zhang, ready and waiting for the f... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T16:03:28 | 372 | 129 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | They walked up and took their seats.
They looked at the board.
They looked at each other.
They looked at the board.
Moments passed. Eventually the telepath looked to his opponent and said, "I have the worst fucking migraine right now."
"Me to," said the psychic. "Let's never hang out again."
"Agreed."
They left. | Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future...
...and they are both blind and deaf.
The only true winner is the audience who stifle guilty giggles as the two fumble with the chess pieces, attempting to make intelligible plays as one man gazes into the future and the second studies t... | 2017-01-19T17:36:57 | 2017-01-19T15:54:25 | 372 | 28 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | The two players sit down at the game table amid a sea of onlookers, Bob the psychic looks upon his opponent no doubt peering into her mind. At that very same moment, Betty the Sage whose stoic pose and closed eyes telegraph what must be her visualizing a vivid flash of what's to come.
A breathless moment passes as th... | Chess... a game the displays a balance of skill and strategy... a game I never excelled in, to be quite honest. However, here I am, staring at my few black pieces and an empty mahogany board, always one step ahead.
Louis moved his knight and then I moved my rook without hesitation. "Checkmate" I scowled.
"You always ... | 2017-01-19T17:07:33 | 2017-01-19T16:02:28 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] Two men play a game of chess. One can read minds; the other can see the future. | The two players sit down at the game table amid a sea of onlookers, Bob the psychic looks upon his opponent no doubt peering into her mind. At that very same moment, Betty the Sage whose stoic pose and closed eyes telegraph what must be her visualizing a vivid flash of what's to come.
A breathless moment passes as th... | One man sat at the base of a tree,
Branching and twisting to eternity.
With heart of oak and legs entwined,
he ruled as king of infinite mind.
Across the board, he then did see,
A kindred soul with eyes like he,
His face showed wonder and he sat carefree
As he stared up the branches and the twists of the tree.
... | 2017-01-19T17:07:33 | 2017-01-19T16:24:18 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | Today was my birthday, finally I was 14. I had been waiting for this my whole life. My family was a proud family of wolves, they called our family 'The Pack'.
My father was a Timber Wolf, his coat enveloped him like tar, sucking in all the light around him. My Mother became an Artic Wolf, white as snow. They were pe... | I could tell by the way they were looking down at me. They could only growl and howl and whimper, but I could see it in their eyes. They were disappointed and already feeling itchy, just in anticipation. I saw my sister scratch behind her ear with her back paw. I could tell my father wanted to do the same, but out of r... | 2017-01-21T20:40:55 | 2017-01-21T18:33:16 | 66 | 22 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | Despite a healthy upbringing, I was never as gifted or as talented as my 6 older siblings.
To them, I was an awkward, tall and beefy kid; slow and pondorous and nowhere near as fleet as they were. They bounded and leapt over trenches and streams as I forded through them carefully. I was ever cautious, paranoid that s... | On my fourteenth birthday my family gathered around my bed as I awoke. 6 wolves impatiently wagged their bushy tails. They were all panting and Marcie had someone's underwear in her mouth. They waited for me to test my transformation.
They waited 'til about 5AM and then they all howled out something that faintly resem... | 2017-01-21T21:04:04 | 2017-01-21T20:18:38 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] "I wish I was born in the 90s," says the young girl. Suddenly, her surroundings change- french flags fly above and around her, crowds are cheering. It is France, 1793. The king is dead. Long live the revolution. | "No, silly magic. The 1990's." The girl said as her surroundings began to change again. She was suddenly in front of a computer which functioned just slightly from one moment to the next, hard drive light permanently lit, screatches and static whaling from the case, and from the sides of the giant 80lb monitor a horrif... | "What?! This is not the 90s I meant! Not again!" she turned back to lucifer in the form of Liz Hurley, furious that she had duped her again.
"Sweetie, you'll just have to be more specific next time, you can't expect me to read your mind. Look at the bright side, atleast you don't have to deal with the Brendan Fraser P... | 2017-04-24T10:10:32 | 2017-04-24T09:42:37 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] You own a magical piano. When you play the theme song of a TV show or movie on it, it transports you into that world. After transporting yourself into a different world, you quickly realize that you never bothered to learn the theme song of your own. | The piano stood her vigil for over forty years. Each day the man sat and played the same song, and every time the keys absorbed a little bit of the love radiating from his soul, vibrating both the strings of her soundboard and the strings within her very subatomic structure.
As the years passed, the love the piano ab... | Justin began very slowly at first. He let out a nervous exhale as he pressed his fingers gently upon the keys. His hands trembled in uncertainty.
He had heard of the piano's magical powers, but he couldn't resist. All he wanted was to play a song. It'd been months and months since he'd delved into his beloved hobby o... | 2017-10-01T18:48:14 | 2017-10-01T18:20:58 | 1,167 | 74 |
[WP] You own a magical piano. When you play the theme song of a TV show or movie on it, it transports you into that world. After transporting yourself into a different world, you quickly realize that you never bothered to learn the theme song of your own. | A year. It had taken Sam a year, trudging up and down both coasts looking for someone, anyone, who knew just a few notes of an old forgotten tune. A year of the worst humanity had to offer. As far as Sam was concerned, it's was the longest, nastiest year of his life. He'd seen run down slums filled with run down people... | Jamie came up to me with a piece of paper. "I have a new song for you to learn" she says with enthusiasm. I am known across campus for my piano skills. I once played in the most prestigious of concert halls. I lead her back to my apartment and I pull out my keyboard. Jamie sets down the sheet music on the stand and loo... | 2017-10-01T22:16:50 | 2017-10-01T17:21:53 | 28 | 16 |
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