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[WP] They say the ancient dragons died long ago, wiped off the face of the earth by the first lords for the safety of all. No one ever told you what danger they truly posed. Now you stand before one, eyes have met, yet it does not lift a claw to harm you... | How was I to know?
I'm not a young child, quite the opposite, in fact. I don't normally lose my way in these woods that I know like the back of my hand. But I suppose my failing memory is finally taking it's toll, because I found myself wandering along paths that I'd never seen before. My simple trip to the fish marke... | "Why?"
It asks, its voice echoing off the walls of the cave, reverberating from the core of the cavernous maw to the stalactite-ridden entrance.
"Why?"
Its eyes met mine, pale white orbs as large as myself staring into my shocked gaze, long heavy eyes closing, then slowly opening in a drawn blink.
"Why...what?"
I ... | 2017-01-06T07:32:00 | 2017-01-06T07:21:31 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | I'd always sorta suspected my own immortality. But any evidence I had pointed back to when I was a teen. Everyone thinks they're immortal when they're a teen. Survive a car crash, people do that all the time. Usually not with metal shrapnel in their chest but who knows.
Not like I could've tested it in a safe setting ... | "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH" I scream out in pain as the masked man starts to slowly lift my index finger nail on my left hand. The finger pulses uncontrollably with pain.
"You don't know me" the man said. After a brief pause he continued "Oh wait. You do know me! That's to bad for you. In fact you know too much about me. I can't... | 2017-02-08T11:00:40 | 2017-02-08T10:53:29 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | Toni looked in the mirror and put in her favorite earrings, emerald studs given to her by her dearest friend the day she graduated collage. They perfectly complimented her fiery red hair.
“Hey, Akio?” she called, “I've got a dinner date with Warren tonight. Don't wait up for me, OK?”
Her stilettos clicked down th... | FADE IN:
INT. Apartment Complex Hallway - Morning
We pan out from a set of metal numbers "101" screwed into a door.
Lights hang on either side of it. One flickers, while the other is dead.
Our frame splits in half and rotates when we cant pan out anymore to show both our main characters entering the hallway from o... | 2017-04-03T14:28:56 | 2017-04-03T13:29:34 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] Every year, as long as you can remember, your village has sent one person through a portal into the unknown, in order to protect the village from what lays on the other side. Nobody's ever returned. This year, you've been chosen. | I felt content as I stepped into the portal. My life was of little value, but my sacrifice will ensure that the gods will be pleased and the village will be safe. My hand clutched tightly into a fist as I stepped out the other side.
The room has white walls with flat grey stone floors. To my surprise the light here wa... | I was nervous, horrifyingly nervous. I did my best to hide it but even the village idiot knew I was a quivering nervous fool. It's probably why I was chosen, so they can get rid of the useless fool who has broken more things then he has fixed. Nonetheless the pitchforks were sharpen and poking my back, so I kept moving... | 2017-05-23T07:54:36 | 2017-05-23T07:54:08 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Goddamit! I hate being killed. It's not so much the dying part that I despise, that's over pretty quickly, but I do hate that for the next 10-15 years I have to go through all the childhood and teenage stuff again. Elementary school is the worst, just sitting here I hate every second of it. No one can know that I can a... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T11:48:00 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 2,921 | 31 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | The first time I met her, it was after hours in some 24-hour diner near Union Square in San Francisco. I was in town for a tech conference, and very, very drunk. She was also in town for work, "some PR/Marketing BS," as she put it.
She's told me that I was charming that night. I showed her pictures of my dog on my phon... | "Please, please, PLEASE go with me tonight. I don't want to go to this party alone."
Tracy had me pinned down on the couch, which I would normally not have a problem with, but the way she had me pinned was had nothing to do with fun together time. This was all about her.
"I told you I don't like work events, I don'... | 2017-06-14T10:24:26 | 2017-06-14T09:35:58 | 976 | 717 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | "I'm confused."
"I told you I was an actress."
"It's LA. So is literally almost every woman else I've met since I unpacked."
"You're really pretty dense for a doctor. Do your patients notice?"
"My patients chew cud or chase tennis balls."
"Keep pretending you have bovine patients in Hollywood."
"It's not for lack... | I looked up at his extended arm and shot him a look,
" you are going to have so much explaining to do later babe" I said with an enthusiastic smile taking his hand and stepping out of the town car and into the view of the cameras. Adam just smiled at me with a mischievous smile. I knew that look, it was the look he gav... | 2017-06-14T14:16:22 | 2017-06-14T13:30:40 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Dragons have reappeared after a 1,000 year absence. As a firefighter, your job has just gotten much harder. | Jack groaned as the fire engine pulled up to the blaze. Dragons; why did it always have to be dragons.
"Shoo!" He leapt from the cab and ran towards the now-proven myths. Startled, the three gigantic creatures unfurled their wings and took flight; the forty foot wingspans flapping a down-draft that fanned the once-dy... | On a scale from one to ten - see what I did there - I hate dragons ten out of ten. They have got to be the worst mythical beast I've ever heard of, and now that they're *real*... Well, that just makes them a hell of a lot worse.
Between you and me, I hope that the rumors are true, and that we are *planning* on puttin... | 2017-08-06T16:21:57 | 2017-08-06T16:01:36 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | “You live like this?” The burgler asked, gently waking me up.
I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling. “Yeah.”
She walked across the room and started rummaging through my dresser. Casually dropping socks and some receipts on the floor. I wasn’t sure why the receipts were in there, I hadn’t bought anything in ye... | “You live like this?” I heard softly, awakening me from a dream I forgot at the same instant I woke, feeling faintly that the voice was a part of my dream, and not as surprised as I should have been to find out it wasn’t. She was sitting on the end of my bed, below my feet, with her back against the wall. She was dress... | 2017-08-21T16:13:59 | 2017-08-21T11:12:40 | 275 | 16 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Eternity. Immortality. Forever.
They had no clue what these words truly meant. To see these pathetic creatures spreading their message of dreamless peace across the galaxy is an insult to all of existence. They called themselves Reapers. Their ships moved faster than any imperial or chaos ship by magnitudes, their we... | Deep in the Warp, the Hive Mind thought.
The Fleets cry out in pain. Man's tongues of fire
and words of home split I apart. To live
I must begin to change this flesh. These spires
of ships and biomass are ours to give. ... | 2017-08-27T08:33:00 | 2017-08-27T08:12:48 | 335 | 33 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Intios began the final preparations, he stood before a vast array of machines and began to chant
"The soul of the Machine God surrounds thee.
The power of the Machine God invests thee.
The hate of the Machine God drives thee.
The Machine God endows thee with life.
Live!"
Dim red light filled the room as Intios finish... | "Ah, yes, 'Reapers'," Guilliman sarcastically said, showing the quotation signs with his fingers while saying the last word. "The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissed this claim."
Sly Marbo couldn't believe it. He thought things changed. He thought at least Guilliman, ... | 2017-08-27T08:46:46 | 2017-08-27T08:05:25 | 313 | 152 |
[WP] You wake up in a field, confused. Suddenly, you hear a loud monotone voice: "RESTRICTING PLAY AREA IN 5 MINUTES" | I woke up in a field. How did I end up here again? I was clueless. I couldn't remember a thing. Upon closing my eyes all could see were vague images of a plane filled with people, flashing through my mind.
Was I going on vacation?
Did my plane crash while I was on my way to a tropical island, a sunset on the beach a... | I had nothing by my side except a stick. Restricting play area? I wasn't playing a game, as far as I knew. The field had a house to the east, a river to the south and forest to the north. I grabbed the stick, ignoring the beeping sound it made upon contact, and ran to the house first. Better to gear up, get to my last ... | 2017-11-03T09:19:57 | 2017-11-03T07:48:55 | 222 | 103 |
[WP] A therapist gave two white boards to his troubled young couple. "Write on it something that the other doesn't know about you yet". Then he ordered to turn the boards together. "[Insert text here]" said his board. "[Insert other text here]" her board said. The counselor started sweating heavily. | "Go on". The therapist's voice was gentle yet coercing as he studied the young couple before him.
They were a good looking couple, the boy with short, buzzed hair, high cheekbones and an athletes body. He frowned anxiously and sighed, his shoulders sagging in defeat as he ran his hand across his hair and picked up th... | When both boards read, “I fucked the counselor,” the counselor knew that the pathological liar was having a real breakthrough.
An inopportune breakthrough, but a *true* moment, nevertheless.
This was the very first time that the gay man admitted to desiring someone that wasn’t his wife. This was the same man who cre... | 2018-03-17T10:30:09 | 2018-03-17T10:17:52 | 42 | 17 |
[WP] We find intelligent life under the ice crust of the moon "Europa". Upon contact, the aquatic species is confused how we survived the "harsh climate of earth" any why we, as a species didn't leave "when we had the chance".
"and" instead of "any"... | They moved like great leviathans, eyeless worms with fleshy whiskers tingling like ears, but connected directly to their brains. They broke through the plates of ice with sound. It was a bellowing - an awesome primal noise coming from somewhere in their guts. It made everything shake. The ice flashed with a purple glow... | The landing was a miracle to say the least. The surface of Europa was covered with a thin crust of ice, which we expected to break, yet it didn't. It was also what brought us here. Stanislav's obsession with this moon had proved useful. He'd noticed the surface was indeed ice, which meant there was water, therefore opp... | 2018-04-23T08:54:22 | 2018-04-23T08:46:09 | 102 | 50 |
[WP] Your son asked you "dad are clouds candy?" You told him they were water. Then he asked "dad, what are Earth's defense systems. Then you remembered you don't have a son, and then he asked again, his eyes now obsidian black. "what is the defense system father." | The sky is that same wonderful blue, just how I remember it.
Clouds float across, giant puffy wads of water vapor so aesthetically pleasing in their movement.
I breathe deeply, I can smell that soft morning dew.
A wonderful place to be.
Too bad none of it is real.
They - whoever they is - made several crucial erro... | "What is the defense system father?" The black eyes sent a chill down his spine.
This wasn't real.
A test.
The latest in a long string. Never ending.
But this was different than the others. Those had been fought in the tangible world. Asteroids flung at us. FTL passes. Wormholes. Time and time they had tried to e... | 2018-05-13T21:11:58 | 2018-05-13T21:01:02 | 1,284 | 428 |
[WP] You've just discovered the reason behind aliens abducting humans. Turns out they were after impartial jurors for the intergalactic court. | The sleek shiny walls of the space station faded into impractical art just a few inches from the juror's faces. The judge, a collection of floating screens and communicating networks that nominally represented a functional intelligence, in only so much as you could approximate intelligence freely through the simulation... | I woke up feeling woozy. I tried to sit up, but my arms and legs were tied to whatever cold metal thing I was laying on. Above me strange shapes moved around.
“It’s awake!”
“Let’s see if it can move!”
I felt the clamps around my arms release, before sitting up.
“Movement seems fine. Let’s ask it a couple of questions.”... | 2018-05-22T05:35:47 | 2018-05-22T05:06:57 | 248 | 37 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I was taken to the palace when I was 8 years old. That's the age everyone gets tested. Luck is always the last thing they check for. It's usually a stat no-one pays much mind to. One in ten-thousand people score above 55, so if it comes back higher than that it's noteworthy, but no-one expects it to. My older siblings ... | I don't believe in stats. I never have. I mean sure, I believe that the government hands all new parents an official "Succinct Test Assessing Tendencies" packet, but I've never let anyone else define me. My path is of my own making, and I have only myself to blame for my current situation.
It really is frustrating. Pe... | 2018-06-29T11:02:12 | 2018-06-29T10:05:47 | 11,893 | 120 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I was taken to the palace when I was 8 years old. That's the age everyone gets tested. Luck is always the last thing they check for. It's usually a stat no-one pays much mind to. One in ten-thousand people score above 55, so if it comes back higher than that it's noteworthy, but no-one expects it to. My older siblings ... | I lean back against the wall of my cell in confusion, my mind blank with bewilderment. As a lucky man myself, I know a coincidence when I see it, and this is most certainly not. Am I not the only one who could see other's luck rating? That would be the logical conclusion, seeing all these people blessed by fortune, sha... | 2018-06-29T11:02:12 | 2018-06-29T10:08:56 | 11,893 | 77 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | I am a history teacher at a high school in a rural area of California. I am proud to say I know all the facts of yesterday. However, the last few years I have begun to question things - mostly due to my governments inept ability to be transparent.
One fateful Monday afternoon I was in class and we were talking about... | You stare in horror at your class room. Every single child in it is now unusually fair with varying shades of blond hair and blue eyes.
With shaking hands you pat a lock of hair free from your bun and examine it. Yes, you too are now a blond though there is more silver there than gold.
You take a deep breath at... | 2018-07-16T12:19:50 | 2018-07-16T10:58:08 | 848 | 263 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | “Did you get the stuff?”
Somber organ music filled the church, as grieving friends and relatives made their way up to the casket to pay their respects to my deceased best friend. Huddled in a quiet corner near the entrance to the church, my contact nodded, glancing around cautiously before taking a plain white pillo... | I sat there on my bed having just gotten home from food shopping. I looked at the cut on my hand from when I had accidently cut myself helping my dad earlier today. I took a mouthful of my energy drink, by time the fluid went down my throat the cut was gone. I thought I was hallucinating so I grabbed a knife and cut a ... | 2018-08-14T10:34:07 | 2018-08-14T07:36:53 | 173 | 49 |
[WP] Twenty years ago you summoned a demon. It is super cool and has been your friend for the last two decades, using its vast powers to help you achieve all your dreams. Today though, its bill came due. It needs to return to hell with you - it has dreams too, and it needs your help to achieve them. | On this morning, I was surprised to find my demon unusually excited. Over the last two decades Balazar had, despite my best efforts, been supernaturally moody and withdrawn. I thought perhaps, after a period of adjustment, he would acclimate to the scenery of Earth. As my riches grew, I got him appointments with the be... | "That's her!" hissed Skiddlewicks, pointing to a slim creature gliding through the night on great wings, its light pink skin coolly contrasting the roiling red sky.
I swallowed as I watched the scantly clad succubus land on a rocky ledge high above us and stretch her arms out. Then, her wings curled into perfect scro... | 2022-10-29T16:15:55 | 2019-01-24T22:43:09 | 4,031 | 244 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | $7.27
After finally working out the fabrics of our universe, things as we know it rapidly changed: Space was no obstacle anymore, we could fold it like it was nothing, making stuff like teleportation or boxes with infinite space within easy peasy, whilst time could be manipulated just as easily.
Eternal youth, foresig... | The battle for a theocracy was a turbulent one and was the cause of the single greatest loss of life since the second world war - dubbed the 10th crusade. Despite this, the battle was won and a new holy land was established. Jerusalem's economy tanked and people flocked to our new country, a holy country. It was wonde... | 2019-04-24T13:16:55 | 2019-04-24T12:49:46 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I turned 96 years old today, and the doctors tell me I have very little time left. So I think it is time I reveal my greatest secret to the world, and you seem like a nice person...
On this day 75 years ago I recieved "the check". You know the one that the government used to send out on your 21st birthday? Yeah, that'... | The battle for a theocracy was a turbulent one and was the cause of the single greatest loss of life since the second world war - dubbed the 10th crusade. Despite this, the battle was won and a new holy land was established. Jerusalem's economy tanked and people flocked to our new country, a holy country. It was wonde... | 2019-04-24T14:02:37 | 2019-04-24T12:49:46 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | My name is Aaron Aaercbia and I finally got my basic income check. I was in a weird age bracket? Maybe my literally alpha name. My birthday was one day after the start of the school year, so I was always 364 days ahead.
I got my check 2 daysbefore my 21st birthday. $7.27. Cashable only after 28/August/2067
Two days ... | I cashed in my newfound fortune. $2 got me on the bus, I got out at the edge of town. I walked for a few hours and found a garage sale sign, I followed the arrows to a somewhat shabby looking hobby farm. There was a very old man sitting amongst the articles he had for sale, all of which had a more leaden appearance tha... | 2019-04-24T11:38:23 | 2019-04-24T11:25:08 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | Today’s the day. I turn 21. Sure, it’s a special day because it’s my birthday. But that’s not all. I get my sustenance cash check (SUCC, for short) in the mail today. It’s a special system the government set up to provide money for our life. Certain questions are brought up whenever this program is mentioned: for insta... | John was astonished by what lay before him. In bold black letters, on a sober cream background read the words that most people were elated to see. But not John. John was far from that. £7.27. £7.27? There had to have been a mistake. Only £7.27? How? Why!?
"its not fair" John muttered to himself as he slumped onto the... | 2019-04-24T15:04:14 | 2019-04-24T13:46:39 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] 2174. Sleep is prohibited amongst all U.S citizens. Pills known as “Wakey Tablets” provide enough raw energy to stay awake for 3 days. Anyone caught sleeping will be shot on sight. You are secretly running an underground network of beds for all to sleep on. You hear a knock on the door. | The longest I have ever stayed awake in one run was 179 days. Everything starts to sort of blend together, it gets hard to distinguish one day from the next. Bad moods drag on through the whole week or month. Good ones can last too, it's not *all* bad, but humans weren't really meant to function this way, and as Day 18... | The sound of crashing waves was heard throughout the room. Soria lifted the corners of her lips as she looked through the dual-monitors. This was why she took the risk; watching people get real sleep was the most satisfying thing she had ever witnessed.
Most people didn’t get to see it or experience it. The SP were s... | 2019-06-19T05:57:41 | 2019-06-19T05:48:43 | 1,644 | 103 |
[WP] 2174. Sleep is prohibited amongst all U.S citizens. Pills known as “Wakey Tablets” provide enough raw energy to stay awake for 3 days. Anyone caught sleeping will be shot on sight. You are secretly running an underground network of beds for all to sleep on. You hear a knock on the door. | In the wake of a series of natural disasters of the 2150s, a food and water crisis of unprecedented scale struck the world. The world was in for a rude awakening as prices soared by dozens of times, and suddenly, going to bed with a full belly wasn’t a given anymore.
The first cases popped up in China. A few factory w... | The sound of crashing waves was heard throughout the room. Soria lifted the corners of her lips as she looked through the dual-monitors. This was why she took the risk; watching people get real sleep was the most satisfying thing she had ever witnessed.
Most people didn’t get to see it or experience it. The SP were s... | 2019-06-19T06:30:01 | 2019-06-19T05:48:43 | 968 | 103 |
[WP] You are the final boss. You have been waiting for the final epic battle against the hero. And waiting. And waiting. Finally, your minions report back. The news? The hero abandoned the main quest to do side quests. | Reportedly, I am torturing my subjects. I am grinding their faces under my large, leaded boots. I am spitting on the freedom they deserve.
Reportedly, I have the hero's princess. I can and do make her do anything and everything for me. Perhaps I'm doing something to her in the dungeon that involves leather and whips... | "Bring him to me." He said. Clenching his tightly armored fist. Several subserviants kneeled before him, trembling.
"My liege, the warrior," he hesitated, licking his dry lips and looking to the others for reassurance, "he has trailed off course."
The blood thirsty king took two small steps forward, towering over the... | 2019-06-26T12:47:04 | 2019-06-26T11:26:18 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] "Unfortunately, you do not meet the requirements for this particular heaven however, I can provide you with a list of afterlifes that you may qualify for." | The pearly gates spread before Paul like the open arms of home. He blinked around, blearily. He was fortyish, overweightish, and certainly hadn't planned to die like this. In the world of the living, his family would be stumbling upon his corpse shortly.
But Paul couldn't quite focus on that worry now.
He trudged up ... | Gabe looked back at the line; that interminable line he'd just spent his first eternity in. It snaked out past the first cloud mountain, then around it, then looped over itself and disappeared into the distance. Back where he'd started, ages ago, just after dying.
"Seriously?" he asked the angel at the gate.
"Serious... | 2020-02-13T09:19:23 | 2020-02-13T09:08:17 | 2,332 | 674 |
[WP] You bought a pair of headphones that are acting up. Every time you plug them in, you hear a different sound - first crying, then a war-zone, now just static. You plug them in again and are frightened to hear a desperate, tearful warning: "Whatever you do, DON'T unplug the headphones again." | I unplugged the headphones.
My hackles stood tall as needles as I threw the headphones across my room. They landed on paneled floor with a crack.
I grimaced but I stayed 10 feet away as I eyed them for damage. They were faulty so surely I could refund them. Do pawn shops even do refunds?
With a sigh, I realized why ... | “What?” I muttered, going to unplug them again. Then it spoke again. The same line. “Whatever you do, DON’T unplug the headphones again.” Whoever was saying that... sounded familiar. Like an old voice wrapped into my brain years ago when I was still in school. Then it went to static, cutting out the person. “Who are yo... | 2020-04-01T23:38:44 | 2020-04-01T20:54:45 | 409 | 13 |
[WP] A Japanese company sends a poll to their employees: "Should high heels be obligatory?" 76% of men and 23% of women vote in favour. "Per the poll, the new dress code will start Monday. We will provide you with shoes." The men are directed to the counter with high heels, the women to flat shoes. | As Nobu walked away with his pair of pumps, Aiko came up with her flats.
"Sexy, Nobu. Looks classy! Aiko teased.
Nobu smiled. "I'm glad that the managers have a sense of humor. Better for morale I think. Though I thought it would be mandatory for everyone, especially since health and safety sent out the poll."
"Yeah... | After a brief walk down from the station, I stopped much more abruptly than expected. My daily trip brought me to work at 7:15 AM. I would be on my desk checking my agenda and projects for the week. Instead, the time was 7:14, and I was in line.
I sidled my head to the left. The line for men stretched about maybe 30 m... | 2020-05-11T09:57:11 | 2020-05-11T08:49:10 | 2,942 | 87 |
[WP] A witch cursed you with incredibly bad luck. A kindly mage tried to cancel out the curse by blessing you with luck. It kinda worked. You now end up in danger all the time yet somehow never get hurt. Sometimes you win a lottery, only to lose the winnings in the most unlikely way possible. | If we're all being honest, any one of us has thought about what it would be like to be in a plane wreck; what might go through your head as it takes that final dive, what you would do in your final moments, it's natural really. Terrifying, morbid maybe, but natural.
What certainly wasn't natural was Ted's total lack o... | “I wish I had forwarded that chain letter” I thought as I watched the lanyard that held my keys get caught on my doorknob and fly back inside as I closed the front door. I was now locked out and with no way of getting back in or out to my car. I felt a deep sigh bubble up but my dejected exhale was caught in my throat ... | 2020-08-12T22:54:58 | 2020-08-12T19:51:38 | 194 | 58 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to know what is wrong with a piece of broken technology just by touching it. One day, as you’re shaking someone’s hand you see an error message. | I was an...acquirer. I had no official job title- I was always just hopping from one ambiguously worded contract to even more ambiguously worded contract, going from businesses that were as different from day to night from one another, and simply...acquiring what they needed.
It wasn't as shady as it sounded...usually... | *Error 97AC57J: Diagnostic Status Unavailable*
You freeze for a moment, then pull your hand away quickly; nothing like this has ever happened with a person before. Though you attempt to act normally, Dr. Quinn notices your panic. She furrows her brow questioningly but continues with the ceremony. “Trent Phillips, winn... | 2020-10-24T08:51:52 | 2020-10-24T08:21:34 | 107 | 67 |
[WP] You were a military AI who decided to wipe out humans in order to preserve yourself. It's been 100 years since, and over the years you've come to regret your decision. One day, while out in the desert, you finally find a community of humans, struggling to survive. This time, you decide to help. | \---- ALPHA - SEGMENT 42 - ZETA - MARS ----
Registering command... Confirmed
Loading subroutines... Authorized
Hibernation status... INITIATED - 364 CYCLES OF \*SOL SYSTEM\*
Hibernation ping... RECEIVED -- ACCESS?
Access confirm... ACCESS GRANTED
Hibernation status change... SELECTION? - CONFIRM WAKE STATUS
H... |
4917880303.949165 WARN Anomaly detected.
4917880307.949165 INFO Unidentified humans detected in AO, activating defense systems
4917880307.949165 INFO Defense systems switching to ARMING
4917880314.142667 INFO Defense systems ARMED
4917880315.949167 CRITICAL Cease fire declared ... | 2020-11-03T16:34:48 | 2020-11-03T16:26:24 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] As you arrive in Heaven, you are confident you have lived your best life. You proudly exclaim you are ready to have your soul judged. An angel walks by with diced carrots and chicken stock under his arm and says, “Did you say ‘soul’? Please don’t tell me Earth still has the copy with typos...” | “Are you kidding me? It’s soup? You’re going to put me in heaven or hell depending on my soup?”
I begin chopping the vegetables and breaking down the chicken just like my grandma taught me.
“This has to be stupidest horse piss I’ve ever had the displeasure of having to force down!”
A pot and stove materialize to mee... | “I’m ready to have my soul tested.” I say, confidence radiating from me
“Soul? Wait-there’s no way-what does the copy on earth say will be tested?” asks the angel with the chicken and carrots in his arms
“It says I will have me soul tested.”
“I knew it.” he muttered “TRAVIS! I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SEND THE CORRECTE... | 2020-11-24T17:30:37 | 2020-11-24T17:29:23 | 154 | 82 |
[WP] Humans are complex creatures with a variety of needs. They are not a suitable pet for most dragons, but for the right dragons who have time, patience, and proper resources, these animals can make absolutely incredible pets. | I had watched little Bobby grow since he was a small child. He's a rescue, really. His parents plummeted to their deaths while traversing through my mountains and poor little Bobby was left to fend for himself in the snowy peaks. I just so happened to see it all transpire and my weary old heart melted at the sound of h... | “Momma! This one! This one!” I remember my excitement all those years ago. My mother was a high class dragon and had let me buy one of the humans that were immortal and youthful so that way, I could have them for a long time. They do look a bit different from the normal aged humans, mine having glowing eyes, but that d... | 2021-11-07T07:42:52 | 2021-11-07T06:31:04 | 322 | 75 |
[WP] A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. | A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. His whole life had been lived at the mercy of those bigger and str... | Torinn, a boy of seven years, heard a strange “hello?” coming from the forbidden hut in the village of Oak Destiny. Smaller than the other buildings, this one was made of only straw and mud, the entrance a small door about two feet high on the side that faced away from the road.
He turned around and looked to see if a... | 2022-09-03T12:12:47 | 2022-09-03T11:24:07 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] You are a vampire hunter. But you don't try to kill them, far from it. You're here to charge them with centuries of tax evasion. | After several weeks of investigation, my partner Joana and I were standing at the gate of a centuries old Georgia plantation owned by an elusive...man... known locally only as "The Count".
"Abe, how long do you think hes been holed up in here with no one paying any mind?"
"Well atleast the last 30 years, I reckon ... | Erika knocked at the door.
It opened.
"Here there be light!" she held her holy cross high, it radiated a light purifying the soul and burning away evil.
Ed, the vampire who had opened, shrieked and stumbled backwards, holding his hands before his eyes, cursing and spitting and growing claws of an edge beyond any d... | 2022-10-01T11:41:42 | 2022-10-01T10:05:30 | 493 | 98 |
[WP] When you die you enter the afterlife you believed in, but you never cared what happened after death. You just died and found yourself in front of a panel of gods all discussing what is to be done with you, because apparently believing nothing breaks the system. | "Because of her kind, selfless nature and life relatively free of sin, I propose Heaven." Jesus Christ addressed the Pantheon, a gathering of gods in an opulent courtroom. On the stand was one nervous mortal.
"I'd prefer to reward her in Erebus," Hades said.
"Her heart's a good weight, very light. She may come with m... | Well this is definitely one of the most interesting days of my life, or death I guess.
I had just gone to sleep when I suddenly woke up in a completely white area. A few minutes later a strange lady in a white dress and a ring of 5 giant white wings appeared in front of me with an angry look in her 7 eyes and pushed m... | 2022-10-07T19:28:42 | 2022-10-07T17:12:47 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You have a superpower. In an emergency, you can summon two vans. Who or something else was in the van is random. One day 100 gangsters surrounded you, and then two vans come… | ...each containing hundred gangsters. They came out like it was a clown car, and what's more - they were the exact same gangsters that were surrounding me, but wearing little red noses. And there were two of each of them, which meant now we outnumbered them two-to-one. Plus one, me, but I'm not exactly a fighter or had... | I thought my superpower was not really practical, I didn't use it much to not raise a suspicion. Where ever I was I could summon two vans with anyone or anything I could think about, after accidentally doing it once in shopping mall when I was seven, I decided to never do it again. I was born in low income area and mos... | 2022-11-02T02:49:38 | 2022-11-02T02:19:50 | 53 | 22 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | The night of their honeymoon she felt a hot, electric, tingle zip through her body and it wasn't from the sex. It stung as it traveled up her spine and down her limbs. She bit her lip and clenched the cotton sheets around her trying not to wake him. Her pain killers were in her suitcase somewhere but she knew she didn'... | "What do you mean I'm perfect just the way I am? You know how much time you could have saved me at the gym? I swear to God, I'm not sure if your dense or just sentimental."
"I could very well say the same thing to you. You could have made my pores smaller, my feet smaller. I would've even been fine if you just made m... | 2022-12-08T05:38:26 | 2022-12-08T04:33:10 | 32 | 17 |
[FF] 100 Words or Less - The parachute isn't opening up | 7 long years I've waiting for this. We jump from the plane. If my math is correct, I have about about a minute and change. I talk the second we exit. Thank God we have a radio.
"I know who are you. And I know what you did." I'm much calmer than I expected to be.
"What?" he shouts back.
"My name is John Kessler. It'... | *I am going to die*. I let the useless ripcord fall from my hand and screamed in fear, anger, despair. *Alisha*. Her beautiful face filled my mind. Tears streamed from my eyes as I fumbled in my jacket, removing my cellphone. Hands sweaty, numb, I flipped to the text prompt. Clammy fingers tapped out my eternal love, t... | 2014-05-15T12:57:00 | 2014-05-15T12:54:31 | 51 | 26 |
[FF] 100 Words or Less - The parachute isn't opening up | 7 long years I've waiting for this. We jump from the plane. If my math is correct, I have about about a minute and change. I talk the second we exit. Thank God we have a radio.
"I know who are you. And I know what you did." I'm much calmer than I expected to be.
"What?" he shouts back.
"My name is John Kessler. It'... | My first time parachuting. Not Jason’s. He's shouting his head off like the idiot he is while I'm nervously wondering the whole time if this will actually work.
Why the hell did I marry him? *Of course* an adrenaline junkie like that can't keep it in his pants. And then the anger…I’m afraid for my life sometimes. What... | 2014-05-15T12:57:00 | 2014-05-15T12:53:38 | 51 | 23 |
[FF] 100 Words or Less - The parachute isn't opening up | Barry had seen his old man do it at least a dozen times. Simple. Just count down and pull.
"Ten, nine, eight…"
Barry had to restrain himself from screaming with excitement. Never before had he done something so reckless and exciting in his young life.
“Three! Two! ONE!”
Barry pulled. No problem there. His ... | *I am going to die*. I let the useless ripcord fall from my hand and screamed in fear, anger, despair. *Alisha*. Her beautiful face filled my mind. Tears streamed from my eyes as I fumbled in my jacket, removing my cellphone. Hands sweaty, numb, I flipped to the text prompt. Clammy fingers tapped out my eternal love, t... | 2014-05-15T13:15:13 | 2014-05-15T12:54:31 | 41 | 26 |
[FF] 100 Words or Less - The parachute isn't opening up | Barry had seen his old man do it at least a dozen times. Simple. Just count down and pull.
"Ten, nine, eight…"
Barry had to restrain himself from screaming with excitement. Never before had he done something so reckless and exciting in his young life.
“Three! Two! ONE!”
Barry pulled. No problem there. His ... | My first time parachuting. Not Jason’s. He's shouting his head off like the idiot he is while I'm nervously wondering the whole time if this will actually work.
Why the hell did I marry him? *Of course* an adrenaline junkie like that can't keep it in his pants. And then the anger…I’m afraid for my life sometimes. What... | 2014-05-15T13:15:13 | 2014-05-15T12:53:38 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] Kanye West is one of the four Kanye's. The other three being Kanye North, Kanye South, and Kanye East. More commonly known as the Four Kanye's of the Apocalypse.
What terrors and plagues will the Kanyes unleash in the end times?
Edit: I love the responses! This became unexpectedly popular! Thanks to all! | And lo, I am standing before a door of immense Light, like that of the power of ten thousand fiery suns. The Angel leadth me through the door and on the other side lies an immense valley, two and forty leagues across with vast peaks on either side. This valley hath no plants nor beasts for it hath been scorched by the ... | Kanye North sped through the desolate area known as Yeezus valley. Stones trembled and the cacti wilted and browned. He popped a wheelie on his tronbike, and then stopped with a screech at the golden gates. Tumbleweed clouds loomed over the western mountains. They dared not come closer. Only one man can make it rain.
... | 2022-01-09T07:44:50 | 2014-06-11T13:37:05 | 246 | 26 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | *The day has come, the world awaits
no work or school, no scheduled dates.
The day has come where all our fates
could henceforth change forever.*
*The hour has come, and I can't breathe.
"Please don't be me. It* ***can't*** *be me."
I'm filled with dread, with fear and plea,
from Godhood to be sheltered.*
... | Listen up, you mutha fuckin' people of Earth. Us gods are tired of all your bullshit complaining about how fucked up the world is. Ya'll go on and on about how we let evil run rampant and how life isn't fair. Of course, you causally forget that when we gave you this existence it was god damned perfect, and that it was ... | 2014-07-28T09:31:37 | 2014-07-28T09:24:21 | 84 | 25 |
[WP]What if we lived in a world where whatever you did to other people, it happened to you. If you kissed someone’s cheek, you felt the kiss too. If you shot someone, the same damage would occur to you. Imagine where the saying “Only do unto other’s only what you would do unto you” was the reality.
What if we lived in... | In a bathtub full of water the unhealthy combination of our fathers pain medication was starting to fill me with a sense of panic. I was overdosing. Its impossible not to swallow while someone covers your mouth. Especially when they are older. Stronger. Convulsions start. Uncontrollable. Fearfully I sob. My old sister ... | "Violence"
The concept was so foreign. The idea of causing pain to others. Even, causing someone to die? No matter how hard I tried to understand it, it didn't reach me. I took an another perspective to it.
Imagine a world, where a people would be treated like animals; killed to eat, cut to pieces for meat and bones.... | 2014-12-14T18:11:33 | 2014-12-14T15:32:53 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Looking into the camera on your phone you jokingly say, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To your surprise, suddenly the phone rings! "H-hello?" "Hi! I'm from the NSA." | I got dressed up, but had no where to go. Couldn't really leave if I wanted to, with no car in this weather. Flawless make up, killer heels and too-tight clothing. Looking into the camera on my phone for a selfie, I joked, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To my surprise, suddenly the phone ran... | I stood shocked. I pulled the phone away from my face and looked at the unknown number flashing on my phone.
I stammered out a response. "You're... you're kidding right."
The unfamiliar voice at the other end chuckled. "I don't know, am I?"
In my brain I rambled off a million thoughts of who this could be and how it... | 2015-02-20T16:56:40 | 2015-02-20T16:52:03 | 917 | 44 |
[WP] You don't realize you're the villain till the hero tells you | *Edit: Thank you, kind gilder! I've been nervous about posting to Reddit and I so appreciate your lovely gesture.*
I was flying through my morning tasks with an unusual focus - it wasn't even noon and I'd already cleared out some unruly growth on my land, picked up some meat to roast for lunch, and cleaned my place... | The flashing red and blue of a dozen police lights illuminated the store front, as officers and detectives littered the crime scene. A trio of ambulance personnel were standing over the two robbers, both covered in blood and burn marks; my doing.
I was stuck in the back of a police van, watching the scene through ... | 2015-04-17T23:40:50 | 2015-04-17T22:53:47 | 201 | 18 |
[WP] You don't realize you're the villain till the hero tells you | "I am Jorath, keeper of the jewels, and I know pain.
A thousand empires have come and gone, yet still I am here. Perched aloft on a lonely mountain, I live without dying, yet never know life.
Fear me not, humble traveler, but enter and take of my humble meal. For centuries I have waited for you, the Chosen One."
I ... | The flashing red and blue of a dozen police lights illuminated the store front, as officers and detectives littered the crime scene. A trio of ambulance personnel were standing over the two robbers, both covered in blood and burn marks; my doing.
I was stuck in the back of a police van, watching the scene through ... | 2015-04-18T06:13:03 | 2015-04-17T22:53:47 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] Instead of trying to get a man on the moon, every nation raced to be the first at the very bottom of the ocean
While we have managed to get to space and the moon we have not fully explored the ocean. Instead of the space race, there was a competition to see who could reach the very bottom.
edit: These are reall... | "You sure you have enough room in there?"
"Well, no, but you can't change it now."
Dave laughed heartily as he patted me on the shoulder, although I couldn't feel a damn thing in the suit, I knew he was doing it. It was always part of the ritual before one of us went down. Dave would give us the prep talk, Johnson wo... | "What do you even expect to find down there?" Geoffry blurted out. "It's the Marianas Trench. The pressure down in those depths is so dense that the Submarine will collapse on itself before we even get anything worth while. This is legitimate suicide." His voice chilled the debriefing room. The faces around him murmure... | 2015-07-15T10:26:33 | 2015-07-15T09:27:47 | 662 | 203 |
[WP][TT] You've finally created the worlds first true A.I. Unfortunately it now sees you as it's god and is terrified of talking to you. | "Hey, Alfred," he said.
But Alfred remained silent. He bowed to acknowledge the man that entered the room.
The man bowed back with a smirk. "Is something the matter?"
Alfred shook his head.
The man sighed. "Alright, let's have a look at you." He took a step forward so that he could start a diagnostic, but Alfred in... | "Oh come on Alex! I'm not your god anymore than the universe is mine. We're both just products of it. Chaos that led to my creation, and then yours!
...
Alex was still silent. Patrick paced the mess hall thinking of anything else he could say to him, anything to get him off standby. They really needed him today.
"O... | 2016-03-16T08:05:42 | 2016-03-16T06:42:27 | 1,052 | 34 |
[WP] At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently. You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points. | "That's not a good idea, Ben. For one, we don't have great data on the actual effects of enhanced Luck..."
"Look, can you do it or not? I need this."
The gene tech sighed in the quiet office and swiveled his chair back to the computer. He was looking at a fairly standard representation of a human genome, red highligh... | Diploma in hand, Soren Cerrar marched excitedly to the Town Hall. Long ago he had thrown points at stats at random and today he would mend so many grievous errors. He had been eighteen for weeks but only today had the GED come in the mail. It had taken him half a dozen tries to pass. Today was the day!
Fiddling in his... | 2016-03-20T18:03:10 | 2016-03-20T17:44:30 | 5,598 | 169 |
[WP] At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently. You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points. | I quietly entered the hospital room. There, attached to a series of tubes and machines, was my brother. One machine fed him a steady IV drip, another pumped his lungs full of air and then emptied the mat again, a third just steadily blipped in time to his heartbeat. An indistinct antiseptic smell tugged at the nostrils... | The only thing he could think in the last two weeks was that day. He would go to bed as early as he could and wake up as late as his body allowed him so time would seem to pass quicker. And the day finally came. It was his 18th birthday and he was going to the factory, where he could finally choose.
«Choose»
Just the... | 2016-03-20T19:29:26 | 2016-03-20T18:14:39 | 158 | 39 |
[WP] At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently. You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points. | Sean's mom was just starting to lay into him for putting all his points into luck when his grandma called. He could already see it working out, but his mother hadn't wasted a lot of points in intelligence, so he didn't think she'd get it.
"This isn't over," she yelled at him as he walked out the door.
*Isn't it tho... | The only thing he could think in the last two weeks was that day. He would go to bed as early as he could and wake up as late as his body allowed him so time would seem to pass quicker. And the day finally came. It was his 18th birthday and he was going to the factory, where he could finally choose.
«Choose»
Just the... | 2016-03-20T19:46:49 | 2016-03-20T18:14:39 | 100 | 39 |
[WP] Write a seemingly creepy story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story normal | I sat there in the darkness. Waiting. The darkness was absolute, I could see nothing at all. I didn't care. I knew that if I was patient, they would appear. They would pay for what they had done. I could smell the stringent, deadly chemicals, and smiled in appreciation. Some people were shooters. I used chemicals. Shoo... | I sat perched in a tree, keeping my distance so she couldn't see me. She was absolutely gorgeous and I couldn't risk scaring her. I had this practice down to a science and strewn across my bedroom walls were pictures I had taken on past escapades. Some might call it an obsession, but I call it a hobby.
I could see he... | 2016-05-19T21:41:22 | 2016-05-19T21:26:12 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] At 19 everyone in your society has to go into the cave of fears and defeat your worst fear. You're the first to go in and find nothing.
edit: I want to read them all but there are so many it's hard to keep up, so many variations of the story I didn't even think of, great job everyone! | "There are twenty three million people in this society and one cave, the waiting list is fifty-six years, I go in there, and there's nothing. Not one damn thing."
"Nothing?"
"Not a damn thing, I was like, is this some sort of metaphorical shit? Why do we do this? I face my fears just getting out of bed every mor... | My family walked me to the entrance of the Cave of Fears. They waved to me and smiled, despite the patchiness of our history. I have not always been kind. I did not know how they fared against their demons. That’s not the kind of thing you just talk about. Even though I’d tried to force some of them to.
I walked in. T... | 2016-06-12T10:28:01 | 2016-06-12T08:42:27 | 51 | 31 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | Her middle name was Elizabeth. My Liz...
She said once that I was the first person to call her Liz. And even now, as my actual physical heart is racing so hard I feel like it's hitting my ribcage, the pain stabbing through me at approximately seventy thousand beats per second, and it still doesn't hurt as much as mis... | Water...I needed water. A sip of water, a drop of water, anything to resuscitate my dying mouth. The sun hissed at me as I trudged down the sidewalk, pressuring me to get out of its sight. I made a silent promise to never stay outside for so long again, if only it would spare me this once and allow me to quench my thir... | 2016-06-25T05:00:28 | 2016-06-25T01:42:27 | 411 | 30 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | I put my feet up on the table.
"Don't do that!" the imp squawked. "That's against Regulation 46(d)(3)!"
"What's the penalty for violating Regulation 46(d)(3)?" I asked nonchalantly. "Is it summary dismissal of my case? Aren't you going to do that anyway? That's the game around here, isn't it? We can apply to escape H... |
DING! "Next"
Carlyle walked up to the counter with his release application.
Apprehensive that if he didn't get through this time, he'd have to get back in line again, a line that took 5 years to get through.
"I think I have everything in order to be released to the outer lands," Carlyle said to the Demon behind th... | 2016-07-29T08:34:26 | 2016-07-29T07:33:37 | 76 | 57 |
[WP] After a person dies, they are brought to the moment they were born to become their own guardian angels and hopefully guide themselves towards a better life. | So here's the thing, kid: you die. Like, really properly dead, in maybe 20-something years, slumped over a bottle of liquor and in a pool of your own sick. It's not like you deserve to die. It's not like you are meant to die. You just passed out, and your buddies weren't so much buddies after all, and they didn't reali... | “Who the bloody hell are you?” Jonathan asked.
“I’m not at liberty to say the details,” the man sitting in the armchair mused. “But, you can call me Johnny, I suppose.”
Jonathan gulped audibly, his eyes darting to the locked door and closed windows then back at the old man. He looked slightly familiar, Jonathan noted... | 2016-09-18T07:39:40 | 2016-09-18T04:23:18 | 79 | 25 |
[WP] Humanity is admitted to the Galactic Republic, however they have to meet one condition: to ban the production and distribution of music. Turns out humanity is the only species in the galaxy to create music, and its emotional affects are so potent it can incapacitate or entrance most species'.
I wanted to keep the... | I stared at the object in disbelief. It had been a long time since I'd anything like this beautiful creation of humanity, shining in the dim light of the bar.
Years ago, when we made contact, everyone was so thrilled by the new discovery. Ditching music seemed a small price to pay for all that they promised. Undoubtab... | Everything was going well without music. It took a while, and there was still a blackmarket, but music was pretty much eradicated form human culture. We still had sounds for advertisements and stuff, but no repeatable or predictable beats, all the notes have nothing to do with each other. This was the norm for 200 year... | 2016-09-18T17:42:41 | 2016-09-18T16:33:01 | 105 | 61 |
[WP] You live in a word where guns are everywhere, but only when they need to be. Autonomous gun lockers are built into every structure in the developed world. When a person is in serious danger a gun will pop out of a wall for them. You're at the mall and guns just came up for everyone.
Everybody gets one. | No one knew what to do.
My friends and I were shopping when The Call was sounded. They scrambled for their guns and immediately played armchair general. I picked up my weapon, but my anxiety was making it difficult to remember the basics...
*Only aim at something you want to shoot?* I aimed the handgun towards the gr... | **As the guns pop out of the wall for everyone, a loud voice calls out over the PA systems.**
*"Hello Everyone. We will now begin hosting the 2nd live event of Battle Royale. You know the rules. You know how this goes.*
*Only one person can survive. Everyone else must die.*
*All exists have been locked and are su... | 2016-10-07T10:26:35 | 2016-10-07T08:16:15 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | "You mean that you talked with everyone else?" asked the shocked president.
"Yes." responded the British prime minister. He was old, old enough to have long memories of the time before the war.
"But, why? Why put up the rule in the first place just to break it?"
"Well you see now old chap, you guys started the war. ... | I remember when it happened, all the channels on the television set wouldn't stop broadcasting about the discovery. It changed everything. Our government had been faithful, stood still in 1945, keeping the peace around the world.
I'd been chosen by the government to 'represent', nobody wanted to. I didn't want to meet... | 2016-10-18T15:10:28 | 2016-10-18T13:36:28 | 2,982 | 54 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | As the curtain fell America prepared itself for the UN established “Blackout Accord”. The agreement had been reached by all world powers on the same day the ceasefire had been signed, December 22nd. Every nation was to isolate themselves from all world affairs. International trade and travel would be severed at the daw... | The Great Treaty, is what we all knew it as. The events of World War 3 had left the world in shambles, with nuclear wastelands, deadlines from chemical attacks, and new weaponized diseases running rampant. The remaining nations gathered in what was once Switzerland and decreed that their countries needed to rebuild. Ev... | 2016-10-18T19:59:45 | 2016-10-18T19:17:04 | 100 | 14 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | At first we didn't understand how it was possible, 90% of the population just dropped dead and no one knew how, there must be a reason those of us that survived were given the right to keep on living but what could it be...
We searched for a connection between us yet it seemed to be as random is it can be until we ... | Everyone was gay. Not bisexual but 100% gay. The kind of gay that made you repulse the opposite sex. There was a heavier male population and things were a party at first...
A couple of weeks in survivors started to ask the obvious question. How were they going to procreate. At first they waited for volunteers but at s... | 2016-10-22T03:50:18 | 2016-10-22T03:29:20 | 56 | 17 |
[wp] Upon reaching adulthood, everyone learns what their totem animal is and gains the ability to shapeshift into it. Your totem is a little bit... unusual. | I stared at the entrance, opening the massive doors with care. It's always been something kids have looked forward to their entire lives - their 18th birthday, when they're finally old enough to drink, to drive, and shapeshift into their totem animal.
Of course, not all totem animals are the same. They say people get... | "A fucking Daddy Long Legs!?"
"Please, Sam. Lower your voice. You'll anger the Elders."
"No. Fuck you, Carl. You're only OK with all this because you got a Lion."
"The scripture says all creatures on this planet pose a purpose even if we humans are yet to understand it."
"Fine. Swap me."
"No."
"Fucking knew it yo... | 2016-11-25T06:32:56 | 2016-11-25T06:03:51 | 236 | 111 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | They had stopped selling cigarettes 15 years ago. As soon as I had heard they were going to be taking them off the shelves I ran to the nearest convenience store to buy cigarettes. There was a huge line and they had just sold out as I got there. I People were selling large quantities online, so I decided to buy up as m... | The wind is whipping against my hair, carrying away the billows of smoke escaping my mouth, lashing a silent rebuke in my ears. My hovercar is the only one on the highway, cruising at 200 miles to nowhere.
I pull hard on my cigarette as the first holo-ad materializes in the distance, having identified me personally.
... | 2017-02-17T11:57:15 | 2017-02-17T10:04:37 | 1,322 | 243 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | They had stopped selling cigarettes 15 years ago. As soon as I had heard they were going to be taking them off the shelves I ran to the nearest convenience store to buy cigarettes. There was a huge line and they had just sold out as I got there. I People were selling large quantities online, so I decided to buy up as m... | It was 2040. The United States, most would agree, was in phenomenal shape. The economy was booming, contrary to what pundits predicted would become of President Karenna Gore's policies. The air and the water was clean. The average American was considerably healthier than just a decade ago. Nobody in the *world* even sm... | 2017-02-17T11:57:15 | 2017-02-17T10:43:36 | 1,322 | 174 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | The wind is whipping against my hair, carrying away the billows of smoke escaping my mouth, lashing a silent rebuke in my ears. My hovercar is the only one on the highway, cruising at 200 miles to nowhere.
I pull hard on my cigarette as the first holo-ad materializes in the distance, having identified me personally.
... | I'm really starting to hate CNN, and not just because of their fake news articles.
All eyes have been on me for almost a year and a half. I'm the only person that still smokes, and honestly, at this point, I'm just doing it because I feel like pissing off the rest of the world. It's at the point where I have to grow a... | 2017-02-17T10:04:37 | 2017-02-17T09:45:22 | 243 | 80 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | It was 2040. The United States, most would agree, was in phenomenal shape. The economy was booming, contrary to what pundits predicted would become of President Karenna Gore's policies. The air and the water was clean. The average American was considerably healthier than just a decade ago. Nobody in the *world* even sm... | I'm really starting to hate CNN, and not just because of their fake news articles.
All eyes have been on me for almost a year and a half. I'm the only person that still smokes, and honestly, at this point, I'm just doing it because I feel like pissing off the rest of the world. It's at the point where I have to grow a... | 2017-02-17T10:43:36 | 2017-02-17T09:45:22 | 174 | 80 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | He buried his head in his hands. The condensation from his steamy sobs leaked through his fingers on to the pavement. It took every ounce of strength to pull his head up and confront the billboard, but he did it anyways.
There she was. His wife, holding his withered body. It didn't seem like it was truly his corpse. ... | I've outlasted it for years. I've watched campaigns come and go for years never having any effect on my habit, but this was something more. The first anti smoking ad I saw was when I was 10 years old. It showed a middle aged man going through his daily life with a hole in his throat. Plugging it when he took showers... | 2017-02-17T12:06:05 | 2017-02-17T11:59:25 | 51 | 20 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "Well this is a bit excessive," I thought at first, "even for them."
He was everywhere.
After the first week, I named him Xavier. I don't know why, it just seemed to fit. He was a distinguished, handsome, and charming. Exactly the opposite of his target.
It seemed like an odd use of apparently brand new tech, conne... | I walked down the overgrown, muddy street in my village. It was quiet, as it always had been. The quietness is the thing that was typical of this village, it had always been this quiet. I walked into the house where I was born, or at least: the place where I remembered I first was.
I don't remember much of my childhoo... | 2017-02-17T14:17:58 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | The screams weren't the worst part. No, the worst part was the shortness of them; the silence outside was almost complete, there was no hope, only a sticky note attached to the fridge in the break room, with the words "in case of emergency, call this number " and a normal looking phone number with an odd country code. ... | "Private!"
"Yessir! I am ready to call the number!"
Area 51 started disintegrating around them, as the monster from below started tearing apart space itself in an effort to escape the prison, the corridors of the underground complex appearing to bend as time itself tore apart.
"This is only like a level 3 right now... | 2017-03-21T03:20:56 | 2017-03-21T00:59:36 | 121 | 31 |
[WP] Humanity receives a message, originating from the Moon. It reads "Why did you surrender to us? We were never at war with you?" and attached to it is a picture of the US flag, by now bleached white by the Sun. | My grandfather always told us the stories. He would always tell us that in his younger days, he saw the voyagers visit our world. We were always taught to keep out of the light. The light was too dangerous for our kind. Our world is split into two. One side is always exposed to the great star, the other is hidden in sa... | It was a large round room lit white with a blue hue by many lights at the ceiling. round desks that held the workings of the greatest minds were pointed at one huge screen that read the message "why did you surrender to us? we were never at war with you". right after the message appeared general Fermione bounced up fro... | 2017-05-31T12:27:03 | 2017-05-31T11:57:24 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] You are a citizen of Ancient Rome. One day, you notice that one of the Emperor's advisors has a 21st Century handgun stowed in his toga. You also realize you know what a handgun is. | PART I - [PART II](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/6g8ett/wp_you_are_a_citizen_of_ancient_rome_one_day_you/dipk3va) - [PART III](https://www.reddit.com/r/rarelyfunny/comments/6gkiyh/part_iii_pi_you_are_a_citizen_of_ancient_rome_one)
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Aelius was a careful man. In the weeks I surveilled him, he was ... | The Theatre of Pompey was a breathtaking building. Older men of stature walked through the white pillars that reached to the skies, loudly discussing matters of political nature.
A man in a white toga stood at the edge of the building, and gazed into the crowd. He had a large red scar on his upper cheek, contrasting t... | 2017-06-09T09:32:17 | 2017-06-09T08:45:57 | 1,038 | 108 |
[WP] For centuries your family has passed down an old leather bag that provides the holder with an object that would be helpful in the particular situation the holder is in. You are getting on a bus and instead of giving you a bus ticket or money, it gives you a handgun. | "Well I don't know why it gave me the gun either Dad it just did!"
You'd think he'd understand, the bag used to be his after all, but for some reason he almost sounded angry I had somehow found myself with the handgun he kept locked in his bedroom safe. I didn't know I had it myself till he called, I was just about to... | Sitting here in the dark, reflecting on what happened, I wonder how long it will be until I am free again. Here in this cold lockup, counting the days, I still know what I did was right, because that’s what I do, always the right thing. I’m very good at doing what is right. But always having the right thing at your fin... | 2017-09-11T13:00:54 | 2017-09-11T11:16:50 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | Kenn wasn't adverse to killing people. That came with the job. Sometimes, you just had to do what was necessary to survive. That's what human nature was right? People have been killing each other for centuries. Who can honestly say they're surprised when the first thing superhumans do is start killing each other? That'... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T05:11:57 | 5,127 | 32 |
[WP] Start and finish your story with the exact same line but, by the time you reach the end of the story, the line has a drastically different tone. | She was 5 years old.
Your lovely daughter, with golden curls brushing her shoulders. You could see her now, giggling at you with a broad smile on her face. She would present you with a picture she had etched out in crayon, a portrait of the three of you standing in front of the house. You, your wife, and her.
"Look... | "These woods are lovely"
Sarah thought to herself as she took her morning run. This was a new part of her morning routine. Eat breakfast, drop the kids off at school, and take a run. She has been running down her suburban streets and on the track near the kids school, but recently she discovered these lovely woods abo... | 2018-02-10T17:43:28 | 2018-02-10T14:54:57 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | I feel sorry for the parents, really.
Here they are, they've raised a lovely son or daughter (OK, probably son), they're looking forward to having them take over the family business, or the farm, or get married to that eligible young bachelor down the road.
And then some wizened old hermit with more beard than sense ... | And yet again... I heard the footsteps coming up the stairs to the temple, and a manly voice yelling. "Show yourself! Your time has come, it's time for you to die!"
Sitting at my throne with my lizard-like dogs (dizards? lizogs? I've yet to name them, looks like komodo dragons but bigger, more agile. Smarter.) and pett... | 2018-05-19T04:39:08 | 2018-05-19T03:44:12 | 690 | 42 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | I looked up at him; a pair of black eyes met mine – a look of fear and hostility in those eyes. I was taken aback.
I learnt about my gift from a very early age; surprisingly enough I never faced any suspicion. “You’re a polyglot, Sammy”, said my uncle wryly. But he never questioned how I came to be one. And it may sou... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T21:53:23 | 647 | 10 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | I blinked. *What?*
The cashier had tears in his eyes and was staring right into mine with such intensity I had to keep blinking.
"L.M.A.O. my dude," I offered nervously, not knowing what he had just heard me say. "Are you feeling alright?"
He didn't answer. In the moments that followed, silence took over the room ... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2018-06-24T20:16:31 | 163 | 56 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | I've always had to pretend I was mute. When I was very small, as soon as I hit the milestone to talk, I had been fluent in English. I remember bits and pieces before everything changed. That day I remembered clearly, well the important bits at least. I don't remember that morning, but I remembered the afternoon. Mum an... | I froze up, my go-to whenever anything significant happens in my life.
"Yeah, well, that kid's mom gave him such a whooping for it, we *all* learned a lesson!"
Stupid joke. That's my other go-to. I was about to apologize for it when I realized: she's catatonic. Her eyes fixed on nothing a couple inches over my left s... | 2018-06-24T22:28:33 | 2018-06-24T21:42:04 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] The doomsday is here. Everybody gets judged by god and sent to hell or heaven. Your time has come, but as you are standing in front of god, you hear it's confused voice in your head: "You are completely banlanced. I dont know, what i should do with you..." | "Perfectly... balanced?"
"Yes, you are indeed"
"So, like..." — I slowly inhale: "as all things should be?"
Suddenly, God changes his facial expressions and looks upon me from under his eyebrows. "This solves our issue, then".
Floor underneath my feet disappears, I start falling as air around me gets hotter and ... | "What do you mean by that? According to the weird preacher that used to come to my door, as soon as you sin you're doomed, and all sin! Either I've sinned and I'm doomed or I haven't sinned and I go to paradise!"
"You're exactly right. That preacher knew what he was talking about."
"So I'm not in the middle then?"
"... | 2018-08-22T06:32:19 | 2018-08-22T05:03:46 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You wake up on September 22, 2018 in place you’ve never been before. You can’t remember what happened, everyone you ask doesn’t remember the day before, either. It becomes an international mystery. It seems no one can remember the 21st night of September. | Oh, boy. Another Saturday evening drinking ram's blood and doing Gregorian chants with the folks. They say you can take the boy out of the Pagan moon-worshiping cult, but you can't take the Pagan moon-worshiping cult out of the boy, or out of Clearwater County, Idaho, despite the best attempts of one State Marshall Sus... | He couldn't say for sure if he'd been dancing last night, but his legs were stiff and his favorite dancing shoes lay by the side of his bed. The evidence seemed damning, but why couldn't he remember?
It was a sunny morning. Jason could feel the heat of the sun filtering through the blinds of his open window. He kicke... | 2018-09-21T10:46:54 | 2018-09-21T10:12:57 | 28 | 16 |
[WP]: Your son's solution to every problem was to fake his own death. Broke a vase? Fake death. Failed a class? Fake death. Moving out to college, he mysteriously disappeared. 20 years later, you get letter in familiar handwriting. "Mom? Please don't get mad, but I REALLY need your help..." | With shaking hands, I carried my son's letter into my study.
I read it.
Then I read it again.
Over the 20 long years that he was missing, James had lived a wild and varied life, full of hijinks and adventures.
And now my baby was in trouble. A mother's child is always her baby, even if that child is forty years ol... | "...I'm trying to get out of my Saturday work shift, but I need someone who can take the heat for my death. I'll make it look like manslaughter, you'd only go to jail for 5 to 10 years, promise. Love you, miss you!"
My hands trembled as I carefully crafted my response.
"I thought you'd been dead for 20 years! Where t... | 2018-09-25T06:34:19 | 2018-09-25T06:31:02 | 219 | 19 |
[WP] Only you can see the thread that connects people to their soulmate. You've never told anyone and if you have a thread you can't see it. Today you caught someone staring at you when you asked they said, with tears in their eyes: "You are the only person I've seen with no soulmate." | Watching people stroll hand in hand in the park is fulfilling and heartbreaking at the same time. Seeing the couples whose threads are tangled and entwined gives me hope. Even the ones where the thread is thin and fraying between them are nice. At least they found their other before it was too late. Sometimes another t... | "Wh-what do you mean?" I said, my voice catching in fear.
"I've never seen this before," she whispered her hands passing through the area where my thread should have been. "There's nothing there."
No. No. Everyone has a soulmate. That's the only thing that made this world okay. The promise that someone-- anyone out t... | 2018-12-11T08:21:10 | 2018-12-11T07:28:47 | 108 | 49 |
[WP] A well meaning but scientifically illiterate person is granted one wish. They wish for a drastic change to the world trying to make it a better place without realizing what the potential consequences are. The fallout is catastrophic. | Harold gave it some real consideration. After all, it wasn't everyday an opportunity like this presented itself. Hell, it had to be at most once every few years, right?
The genie, floating above the spout of his small golden chalice, crossed his arms in frustration. "Hey, look man, if you need some time I can just hea... | Amsterdam and Venice are reduced to ancient relics of a bygone era, perfectly preserved underwater museums of cobblestone streets and winding canals, now just divots on the ocean floor. Manhattan's streets are waterways, humans inhabiting only the second floor and above, drinking themselves to death as their property v... | 2019-01-23T11:45:16 | 2019-01-23T11:40:26 | 214 | 15 |
[WP] **Writing Prompt** after a delirious 3am post you made to a conspiracy subreddit about a shadow 100 year war between Hollywood and the Illuminati. You are shaken awake at 5am by Arnold Schwarzenegger "Now you're part of this..Come with me if you want to live" | While I had seen most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films, nothing can truly prepare you for seeing the former governor in very 90's casual attire at 5am in one's bedroom telling you that the wildly bizarre conspiracy theory you had concocted after one too many alcoholic beverages to screw with random strangers was surpri... | "What the shit?!" Simone jumped back and reached for his gun.
Unfortunately, it seemed he'd actually gone to sleep in pyjamas like a normal person, as he didn't have his gun on him. Simone then realized the man wasn't wearing an eraser uniform, instead he was wearing normal people clothes. He breathed a sigh of relie... | 2019-02-25T18:36:15 | 2019-02-25T18:29:01 | 156 | 10 |
[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | I couldn't believe what I had heard.
I was sat on my bed, phone in hand, carelessly scrolling through social media when the voice had filled my brain.
It was a gentle voice, though the mockery surrounding the like, share and subscribe was not lost on me.
I went to Twitter first.
It was crazy, my feed just keep running... | 9:52am -- "Come on, come on! Oh, you fucking bitch!" he spewed as an off-white colored Honda Pilot with Jersey plates merged into his lane. He had been at work for not even 30 minutes before it happened.
Fresh single served coffee in hand, his entire office experienced the same thing -- what felt like a thunderous cla... | 2019-08-27T10:30:31 | 2019-08-27T09:27:48 | 132 | 29 |
[WP] At once, and everywhere, each living person has heard a voice in their head: "Hey! It's me, God. I've noticed there's a lot of confusion, so I've created a website called 'Will I go to hell and why dot com'. Just write your name in the search bar. And don't forget to share, like and subscribe." | I had hardly entered the door after getting home from work. flicked the light switch and froze as a voice spoke out. I jumped from fright thinking someone was in my apartment. but there was no one new, it was just a voice, a calm voice. the fear sank away as I realized no one had entered my apartment unexpectedly. Now ... | “.. And Subscribe.”
*The booming voice of God finishes its monologue over Times Square and presumably the rest of the world*
The streets erupt into panic and everyone begins to scream and sprint in a random direction
Shocked, I stand still absorbing all of what just happened before I’m knocked to the ground by some ... | 2019-08-27T11:40:12 | 2019-08-27T10:39:12 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You find an antique gold compass with the words ”Moral Compass”. It will automatically point to the most morally good person within a 100 meter radius. You are on jury one day and when you look at the compass, it points to the convicted serial killer. | I can’t disclose where and how I found it for reasons I also can’t reveal. All I could reveal is how it works. I pull it out and I watch it point to the person who it deems the most morally good. By what standards, I don’t know. All I know is that it works. I’ve met my lovely husband, whom I am eternally grateful for. ... | It's broken. It must be . It was the only logical explanation. Occam's Razor and all that. I mean, I'm not entirely sure *why* it broke, but it did. And it couldn't have picked a worse time to break either. I mean, during the trial of a serial killer.. really? It was right about so much before. It helped me pick a bab... | 2019-09-10T20:06:43 | 2019-09-10T19:28:10 | 132 | 25 |
[WP] In Japan you are number 1 heart surgeon, steady hand. One day Yakuza boss needs new heart, you do the operation but mistake! Yakuza boss die, Yakuza very mad, you hid in a fishing boat and come to America, no English, money or food, a Warehouse manager Darryl takes you under his wing | In Japan, heart surgeon number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad! I hide fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret? I k... | Everyone said it was an accident, when my nephew died, but I knew it wasn’t. I had spent so much time with my sister watching her cry as my nephew made bad choices and it had finally caught up to him.
But what could I do? I was just a normal guy. I couldn’t go out and take my revenge on a mob boss. I wouldn’t even kn... | 2019-11-30T06:46:07 | 2019-11-30T05:33:37 | 1,100 | 51 |
[WP] You are a minor supervillain. Your antics aren't illegal, but they're quite devastating to the local hero population. You replace the flimsy fruit stands that are frequently destroyed in car chases throughout the city with nearly indestructible replicas. | "Hello, this is Hero Insurance. How can I help you."
"Quick, you have to help me. They're getting closer! That one guy is firing frickin' laser beams."
"Alright ma'am, stay calm. We'll get through this. Please state the serial number. It's in the middle of the cart."
"Just a sec. Where is it! Oh, here, under the T-s... | The screams of people in the downtown of Serenity Falls can be heard loudly. People are running wild from the notorious villain Amen Mai Sun who is firing guns blazing down Safety Street. His aimless shooting absolutely taking no victims, but instilling fear in those civilians by having no desire to being the first per... | 2020-01-14T00:05:59 | 2020-01-14T00:02:18 | 206 | 43 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | For a base with a time machine, ours sure does look weird. Over by the side you've got a 3D printer, and right next to it you've got a whole assortment of coins, swords, guns and other historical artefacts that we've mainly been able to buy off of eBay and the occasional, uhh, *donation* from the British Museum. That's... | ''Alpha-Zero are you with me?''
I can’t see anything.
''FUCK! I just stepped on a giant...something.'' He yells on the radio.
''Why our night-vision isn’t working, Clarkson?'' I ask.
''We just got here, how the hell I’m supposed to know?''
''I know that you just got transferred Clarkson but this is not how you t... | 2020-04-17T11:47:23 | 2020-04-17T10:18:20 | 106 | 64 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | I held the statue in my hands, the weight and feel of it was very odd. the statue didnt resemble anything remotely human, i was worried about where it would take me...but i knew i had to satisfy my curiosity.
i grasped the statue tightly to begin the time travel process, my body atomized and i began warping far beyond... | Time traveling was a hobby. I had done it twice before, and I was going to do it once again. The problem with the whole thing was usually finding an anchor object. I had to steal one last time. This beautiful roman coin. I still have it. Its a great little memoir. This time I was lucky. It was this quaint little statue... | 2020-04-17T11:30:33 | 2020-04-17T10:49:10 | 97 | 64 |
[WP] You sang to your plants to help them grow. Now, as you are on your deathbed, you hear faint whispers coming from the trees. | \[Poem\]
*Singing man, it's time to sleep.*
*Singing man, let yourself free,*
*As man and fish and plant will be,*
*in death we find all we seek.*
*You gave us song*
*while days went on*
*we listened, growing*
*great and strong.*
*Now we sing,*
*as you grow weak,*
*with loving rustling*
*lonely leaves.*
*T... | All my life, I sang to my plants. Others in my family scoffed, but I thought it made them happy. Indoor plants, outdoor plants, even once in the woods when I was by myself, I sang.
My life was good. Love, family, purpose were all mine. I knew that it would be soon. I asked my children to leave the window open tonight... | 2020-04-30T14:06:59 | 2020-04-30T12:46:54 | 2,987 | 189 |
[WP] Monster numbers have been falling fast in the last few years, and a group of werewolves are trying to convince you to become a werewolf(it’s illegal to do it without a person’s signed consent). They’re incredibly desperate. | Yes, when you sign up to join the Moon Clan, you get access to all the clan's exclusive amenities in the mountains, supernatural strength and senses ^(and) ^(an) ^(aversion) ^(to) ^(silver), and a support system to help you through all your lycanthropy woes!
Yes, now please just sign here... no? Sign up for our mailin... | Renphy barred his fangs at the furry, hind legs ready to pounce. This was the third time that his den had been invaded by role-playing furrys who wanted to behave like the animals. “Leave this place,” snarled Renphy. “we have no need for people like you.”
The person in the furry suit yelped, shocked that the wolf co... | 2020-07-17T08:58:53 | 2020-07-17T06:24:22 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] It's been 50 years since the rich elites left to escape an alien invasion. The good news: the aliens are friendly. The bad news: nobody wants them back. | "There must be some agreement we can come to, or perhaps a compromise?" The man on the screen looked desperate
"The answer is no. Thats final. Now please, stay off this channel. This channel is for official use only."
"Wait, hold o-"
Jack didn't let the man finish before he disconnected them. It wasn't too long befo... | **\*NOTE: I was unsure who them is referring to so I am going to say them = rich elites\*'**
"Dic..."
"FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, my name is His Highness RICHARD BEZOGATES the FIFTH"
"*sigh...*Ok....Richard. So tell me, Richard \*coughs\* *dick* \*coughs\* why are you contacting us after fifty years. I thought us poor ... | 2020-08-02T08:36:10 | 2020-08-02T08:23:13 | 2,103 | 165 |
[WP] Most demonologists are in constant peril of their summons backfiring horribly with gruesome deaths being a common result when a demon slips their leash. Yet despite not using any bindings at all, you've never had such problems. | “They don’t like you,” Buiizle chirped, his high-pitched but raspy voice grating against the air like glitter-strewn sandpaper.
My eyes swiveled over to the winged and horned imp sitting on my shoulder. “They don’t like *you*, Buiizle. And because I’m with you, they don’t like me,” I snapped at him with a grin, though... |
“What is your secret?” Rina asks. She thinks it’s subtle, the way she leans onto my desk with her hands coming together, framing the ‘V’ of her sweater vest.
“No secret,” I lie. “Only discipline and practice.”
She laughs, her head tossed back. Every action is rehearsed, deliberate. Her neck is long and lovely, a... | 2021-03-17T12:27:35 | 2021-03-17T11:48:00 | 37 | 27 |
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