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[WP] You're Woody and you've just been "adopted" by a new family. This person has a lot of toy collections but by far his Warhammer 40K collection is the strangest and it's making Buzz Lightyear nervous. | [disclaimer, never played 40k, but adore the setting from crossovers and 1d4chan wiki]
*In the grim briefcase of the Games Workshop, there is only War...*
Woody was, to put it bluntly, excited. Andy had held him again, an old man now, and placed him in a child's room.
Andy's... Grandchild, maybe?
"Ere boyoz, what h... | Buzz was first to pop his head over the edge of the cardboard box, peering through the murky darkness of the box and into their new room.
"Buzz?" Woody broke the silence, "Buzz, what d'you see?"
"We... shouldn't go out there." Buzz stepped off the books they'd piled up to get to the edge of the box. Even under the sh... | 2017-01-17T02:25:05 | 2017-01-17T00:54:11 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | And when I went downstairs to make my morning coffee i didn't look twice at my mug, I'm always number one so why would it be different today? My wife comes down and points out I have a new mug, "no this is the same mug I use everyday." "Then why does it say #666?" Confused and worried I look at my mug, in a panic I ... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T10:13:29 | 828 | 12 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | > #489,231,337
Robert Johnson wasn't a very good dad. He'd drink, and he'd smoke, and when he was tired he would grumble at his kids. He didn't play catch. He didn't play video games. He mostly sat around and got fat after working at the mill. His wife, Leslie, would ask him to mow the lawn and he'd yell at her. Hi... | George couldn't understand it. His mom was overjoyed about his father's father ranking, and how abruptly it jumped, and how much higher it jumped. When everyone found out about the mugs, some people bragged, others hid their mugs. His father woke up late on the day of the change, so he didn't have a chance to do anythi... | 2017-06-11T09:22:28 | 2017-06-11T09:05:21 | 228 | 77 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | It was 5:30 this morning when I woke up to the typical sound of my neighbors arguing over something. They always had some feud between them - who had the bigger truck, the greener lawn, the children with the highest grades... It was exhausting living between them, never involved in their madness yet always right in the... | She didn't understand this change in her father. She was accustomed to him focusing more on his work than on her. Frankly, she couldn't remember the last time he picked her up from school at all and now he had shown everyday this week. And to top it off, there he was, sitting in the front row of her play.
You see, Car... | 2017-06-11T09:50:25 | 2017-06-11T08:30:57 | 222 | 113 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Honestly, I always liked the idea of being like my father, he took care of me, my sis and my lil bro. The man raised us three into great people, I always wanted to be like my dad. Sadly, life wasn’t that kind to me, in the words of the doctor as I had a check up on my health…
“There is no shame in it sir, some people ... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T10:00:17 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 104 | 21 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | Ray sat at the bar drinking his fifth beer.
"Larry, I know everyone is talking about the whole mug thing, but honestly, I think it's all a bunch of shit!" he said to the bartender.
"Ray, every single dad in the world got a mug with a number and the word 'Dad' on it. Even the one's that never had a '#1 Dad' mug had o... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T12:26:18 | 78 | 12 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | And when I went downstairs to make my morning coffee i didn't look twice at my mug, I'm always number one so why would it be different today? My wife comes down and points out I have a new mug, "no this is the same mug I use everyday." "Then why does it say #666?" Confused and worried I look at my mug, in a panic I ... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T10:13:29 | 70 | 12 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | I sat in the kitchen seat, knowing that i was getting a mug this father's day. My kids seemed so excited after the phenomenon started. I felt honored as i was being given my official ranking. Although they were already 4 and 5 respectively, i knew i hadn't been a dad long and figured i wouldn't place high.
The kids sw... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T10:02:30 | 69 | 36 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 69 | 17 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | New town. Small and quiet, perfect for my situation.
The authorities are after me. They know what I am : different, a national threat. They’re aware of what I’ve done. If they catch me it’ll be prison or death, the fate of countless others like me.
Stray dogs and playing children in the streets. Nervously, avoiding e... | Adam examined himself in his bathroom mirror, thirty minutes to go before his next date with Danica. He flashed his most charming smile. His teeth were the right shade of white and the corners of his mouth were symmetrical, but he still wasn’t getting perfectly natural-looking wrinkles around his eyes. As he held the s... | 2022-10-15T09:19:19 | 2018-02-14T10:21:29 | 93 | 11 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | It was an open and shut case. There was nothing we could do, really. Just patch out the loophole for the future. Genie cases were usually so simple, the rules are so clear. No resurrection, no forced love, no wishing for more wishes. Thousands of years and genies had won every case against them, taken countless wishes ... | The sounds of grunts and footsteps penetrated your dreams.
"The wife must be having a nightmare" you thought as you drifted between the waking and dream worlds. As you slowly started deafen yourself to the noise and head back to dreamland a startling revelation throws you back into the waking world with a start.
... | 2018-07-18T11:44:10 | 2018-07-18T11:05:03 | 642 | 12 |
[WP] Aliens have realized humans advance more quickly during times of conflict, and have tried to push humanity into wars to see what happens. However, that changes when they start WW2 and humans harness the power of the atom. | "They did it. They actually did it?".
"Yes sir, almost the entirity of Hiroshima was destroyed."
"They weren't meant to do that, their reckless knows no bounds. They must never be allowed to enter the galactic stage. The risk would be catastophic, engage Operation Dome."
As the officer listened he gave what could be... | A report was sent to my implant, allowing me to view the text and video in my brain with ease.
It said: "Indoctrination of Subject A, the catalyst of the second conflict with designation A* consequences was successful. The resulting conflict was observed to rush advancements of primitive computation, biological, weapo... | 2018-11-27T12:37:44 | 2018-11-27T10:48:49 | 450 | 34 |
[WP] After a long and bitter struggle, a king lets his only daughter marry for love instead of politics. Years later, she still gets really smug about the fact that her husband ended up conquering the world anyways. | I love my wife. She's beautiful and sweet. Her royal heritage is a mere bonus.
I remember the first time we met, in the shady pub, after she had escaped for a wild night out. She was still a little unsure of the nightlife, heck she was unsure about life outside her gilded cage in general. Even in her little brown cloa... | “Let me tell you a story.” Her sneer distorts her words, flattening her vowels and sharpening her consonants. Her body’s shape, wiry even after years of living lavishly, disappears under the infamous black cloak. Backlit by the setting sun, her protruding cheekbones create shadows across skin seemingly unaffected by ag... | 2018-12-02T01:00:26 | 2018-12-02T00:52:15 | 116 | 22 |
[WP] You've observed this group of heroes as they've battled through your domain and into your castle in an attempt to kill you. Defeating them will be easy, but there is one problem. The shade and sarcasm they throw at each other is too damn funny. | Immortality is boring. That's why so many of us go mad. For those of us who, like me, stumbled upon its secrets in the course of an obsessive search for hidden lore, this seems unthinkable at first. An eternity to grow in knowledge and power. What more could we want?
But undeath has a way of warping things. The mind t... | I sat on my throne as the knocking grew louder outside my chamber.
*Crunk! Crunk! Crunk!*
I had been waiting for this day, when I would be usurped by the Glasgow Empire. It was not enough that my kingdom was infiltrated by spies from numerous realms. But that they had the audacity to knock on my door with their ince... | 2019-03-05T06:50:15 | 2019-03-05T06:44:10 | 2,151 | 169 |
[WP] In your last moments, Death approaches you with an offer: the opportunity to relive it all, and grants you the ability to change one aspect of your life. But you’re warned: using this power to avoid your own death will only bring about the early demise of another in your place. | Given the opportunity would you change one aspect of your life and rewrite your past?
That was the offer standing in front of me. And it was a hard choice. On one hand, there were so many regrets. On the other, I had lived a long and happy life.
“Will I keep my memories?” I asked.
Death only smiled.
I knew what ... | The air in my hospital room chilled. My bed frosted, the machines ceased their endless beeping and droning, putting the world to sleep.
"What's happening?" I wondered, aloud.
Or at least I thought it was. Nothing erupted from my throat, but I felt unconstricted, free. More free than I had ever been.
The door creaked.... | 2019-05-02T09:08:50 | 2019-05-02T05:14:00 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | May the 1st
The snow hasn’t melted yet, and a dragon appeared in the north this morning, horse sized, Gabriella says it is a female eagle dragon. Eagle dragons come from further north though, we don’t know why it has left it’s feeding grounds, they aren’t supposed to be found this far south. The council is going to di... | It had been six weeks since the dragon had taken up residence in the small village of Glendore. Many brave warriors were sent to attempt to fight it, but each attempt was met in vain. No matter how many times they attempted to stab the dragon, shove it, or even scream at it in frustration, the dragon never so much as b... | 2019-12-31T05:11:08 | 2019-12-31T00:01:30 | 88 | 31 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | The cave was not dark or dank like I’d expected. A Dragon’s nest is normally decrepit and horrid, filled with either the bones or corpses of the unfortunate or the foolish. This cave was not, and instead was lit by metal torches that adorned sections of brick wall. The light of the fires reached high into the cavernous... |
Noam slid his broadsword into his scabbard and stiffened his back, causing his heavy armor to creak and moan. His knight’s helm hid a rapidly escaping hairline, but the village elder Ton could see the wear of decades of battle in his eyes.
“Where’s this dragon, then? Point him out on the map and I’ll be on with i... | 2019-12-31T05:54:04 | 2019-12-31T05:43:25 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | It started simply.
People started getting super powers, more or less overnight. Some people got very grand, incredible powers, and some got very ordinary powers. Some had immense power and a very high capability, some could barely use their power at all. Case in point, there was a guy in Brazil who got control over f... | Another night, another dollar as they say, right? I take a deep breath in and exhale before I walk in the doors. It’s a busy night tonight. There’s already people lined up outside and we haven’t even been opened for an hour yet. “Good luck tonight champ, it’s the trifecta.” The bouncer warned me before I walked in. “Gr... | 2020-02-05T20:48:25 | 2020-02-05T20:46:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] In a dystopian theocracy, criminals get injected with diseases and locked up until they either survive the disease or die. The worse the crime, the worse the disease. If a criminal survives the disease, the system determines that the person is innocent and God has interfered to show this.
Edit: thank you kind str... | I'm not an experienced writer so please forgive my skills, but I thought this prompt was cool so fuck it, I'll give it a shot.
Cold. Damp. The cell was filled with the smells of those who lived in it before. It was small. Unbearably small. Short enough that you couldn't stand in it, narrow enough that you couldn't ... | Universe ID 4
Universe Chunk #23/59/101
Galaxy 2359101/16
Planet: Earth-like, Moon-like satellite
State: Dystopian, Religion based
Ecological State: Thriving, non-existing near/in arcologies
Writer: [The Owner] Techniker
Note: We try to keep everything in our archive objective, so if something is written down, take i... | 2020-03-25T08:17:49 | 2020-03-25T08:08:58 | 59 | 40 |
[WP] Your family is cursed; for hundreds of years, the father is destined to die the moment the son is born. As you rush to the hospital for your first baby, you discover why. | I spent my life trying to avoid this moment.
For as long as our family records exist, when a son is born, the father dies. My birth meant the death of my father.
I avoided women. I refused to allow myself to fall in love. I ... then I met her and it was all for naught.
I told her I did not want children. We too... | As soon as I received the phone call that my child was born my heart sank. I was certain that I would die at any moment. Sweat perspired all over and my limbs began to quake. One last final breath, before a lightning strike of destruction takes me away.
Okay, maybe a second last breath...
How about a third last breat... | 2020-05-12T12:41:09 | 2020-05-12T10:44:06 | 1,715 | 230 |
[WP] Your family is cursed; for hundreds of years, the father is destined to die the moment the son is born. As you rush to the hospital for your first baby, you discover why. | I spent my life trying to avoid this moment.
For as long as our family records exist, when a son is born, the father dies. My birth meant the death of my father.
I avoided women. I refused to allow myself to fall in love. I ... then I met her and it was all for naught.
I told her I did not want children. We too... | I never knew my father. He died the day I was born. What I do know about him came not from my mother, who died soon afterwards, but from the letters he left me. Ever since I was a child, I have known of the family curse I carry. Whenever a man in the Sato family has a son, he is destined to die the very same day the c... | 2020-05-12T12:41:09 | 2020-05-12T12:09:06 | 1,715 | 48 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Humans. Always humans.
In truth there was nothing much remarkable about them. Like any other species they had strengths and weaknesses imparted by their unique physiology.
And yet...
Somehow it was always humans who ended up in impossible situations.
The first ones to successfully negotiate with a Kabra-Alhar? Hum... | The captain heard the news, but couldn’t believe his ears, a human surviving a warp jump? I guess it happened, the captain isn’t one for pondering over things.
“Bring me the human, I’d like to speak to it.” The captain said staying into the void from his quarters. The doctor left and came back with him, “sir” the doc... | 2020-07-14T00:07:06 | 2020-07-13T23:54:18 | 5,729 | 186 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | They glanced at each other; the emotions of their kind were harder to read, granted, but I could tell there was a certain anxiousness to it. Perhaps there was a shiftiness about their eyes.
And while their words, harsh and guttural, were harder to decipher- I didn’t have much of a knack for language- the blatancy of ... | Captain Requier marched down to the human Tech Officer Ceasar’s quarters. Ceasar had been ordered to his room until they had reached their destination, after which Requier would assess the human’s sanity for himself. “It shouldn’t be possible,” Requier thought, “that anyone can witness warp without the anti-warp gear... | 2020-07-14T01:07:26 | 2020-07-14T00:28:01 | 688 | 465 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | *The galbana's crew was buzzing with chatter at news. The captain walked into the medical bay where the human sat being examined, the seemed to be slightly more... incandescent then the captain remembered.*
"Derrick, report" The captain said turning his head towards the crew's doctor with an astonished need for answer... | The captain stared at the bosun, tentacles quivering slightly. "The human... is ok?"
"Yes sir," she replied. Her stance was stiff, too stiff, and he had known her long enough to know when she was rattled. The captain stared through her. If a human had witnessed infinity and survived...
"Acknowledged. Return to your p... | 2020-07-14T03:46:07 | 2020-07-14T03:04:48 | 51 | 23 |
[WP] You have the ability to see possible futures. You’ve used this ability to prevent countless catastrophes from ever occurring. The world thinks you are an infamous serial killer. In reality, you are maintaining the best possible reality. | I cradled a small child in my hands, it's soft, innocent face looking up at me, half awake.
This is never something I wanted to do, killing evil adults who can fight back are one thing, but a baby, a fucking baby! But I've seen the future, the sleeping potential this boy will unleash when he is older. It may take a pa... | "You wouldn't understand," I said.
A wistful smile played on my lips. The red flush of alcohol just slightly peeking through at the top of my cheeks. My eyelids batted frequently, quickly. My legs were crossed, but they slowly, surely, slightly, moved apart, nudging my posterior to make myself more comfortable in thi... | 2020-10-15T09:20:34 | 2020-10-15T09:12:23 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You’ve kept your superpowers a secret your whole life. Consequently, your captors have no idea they’ve made a grave mistake in attempting to traffic you.
[deleted] | I was hungry when I woke up.
I was in a dark, damp room. Bars covered the windows while others cried in the background. The floors were covered in grime and I saw a rat in the corner, probably wondering why I had come into it's house.
I let out a large sigh as a man entered my cell. He held a gun in his hand and poi... | "I was under attack by people trying to take me I didn't mean to do it to anyone again, not after John, if you're wondering what I'm talking about it started a minute ago"
The Interrogator questions "What happened we need both sides of the story, and we may need to know the John story."
You continue "The Captor looke... | 2020-10-22T16:56:13 | 2020-10-22T13:29:13 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] When you entered cryogenic sleep, you expected to wake up in a futuristic world. Instead, you wake up in a dusty cave, a man wearing dark robes staring at you in horror. | The pod opened, Dimitri woke up gasping for breath. He got down on the ground from the pod, he looked at his feet and wiggled his toes, it quickly caught the dust that was on the surface. He realized he's in a dusty cave, he put his hands on his head and sat there disappointed.
He heard a crackle near him, "Who is it?... | This was certainly not what I had in mind when I had frozen myself in time for 80 years.
It was a dark cave. Strange, seeing how the place I had been frozen in wasnt a cave.
The cryo container had some sort of automatic releasing mechanism. Probably a timer of some sort.
This had to be a nightmare.
Suddenly, I sa... | 2020-11-05T02:17:05 | 2020-11-04T23:23:15 | 182 | 73 |
[WP] Your mother gives birth to a boy. However, he is revealed to be one of Zeus's bastard sons. You instantly understand what will happen, and take up your sword. You will protect your brother from Hera's wrath, or die trying. | You'd read Percy Jackson, on top of every Greek Myth you could get your hand on as a kid. So you thought maybe, just maybe you were prepared for what was to come next.
Your "sword" was a replica you'd picked up at a street fair, but hey...if gods are real then so is magic, and a bit of belief might be able to make thi... | Iasonas sat on a stone in the backyard when his mother was in labour. She was inside, with the midwives, straining and crying out for relief as his sibling grew restless inside her body. A few minutes later, Iasonas heard cries, the cries of a baby from inside the house. And out of the blue, with a clear blue sky overh... | 2020-12-08T08:43:16 | 2020-12-08T07:34:34 | 142 | 76 |
[WP] Since the age of 14, you’ve noticed a monster stalking you. A few years later, you’ve noticed that it seems very protective over you and will even go through extreme lengths to protect you. It’s usually friendly, but it seems threatening when your childhood friend is around. | You never meant no harm, did you?
If only you could have convinced the creature. I never saw it, just its shadow. Sometimes in the dead of night, with the glow of nothing but the moon and the burning end of my cigarette, I'd see its shadow. Sometimes in the curtains when the windows were closed and house was empty, I... | On my 14th birthday, I had my friends over. Carter and his mom had moved away by that point, but he still sent me a message saying that since he was wishing me a happy birthday ("because friends never forget birthdays"). Me and some of the girls from school stayed up watching horror movies.
That's all I thought it was... | 2020-12-18T07:31:31 | 2020-12-18T07:18:10 | 321 | 132 |
[WP] You can detect lies easily, but no one knows about your ability. Today, your best friend lied about being human | Ida and I had both worked at Target for about two years now, with her starting just a month or so after I had, and we just clicked as friends. Working in soft lines, there were a lot of chill moments rehanging clothes or organizing a mess of a pile back into its proper, orderly state (only to have it go back to a mess ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 2, Part 3: Tupperman v.s. Connor Elman)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Empathy is a strange power.** Almost all people have it, in one way or another; I simply have a little mo... | 2021-04-08T09:32:43 | 2021-04-08T08:12:00 | 312 | 69 |
[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | “I never intended to die, especially not how it happened the first time. Fire and smoke are especially painful, even if you get *reset* afterwards.
The first time, I thought time had been rewound; it had but only partially. My 14 year old body was suddenly that of a 5 year old. My mind still intact. I rushed home to ... | Five.
There's a nice, normal number. Nobody overuses *five* to an extent which makes anyone cringe.
So it's nice to be five again. Quite old enough to be aware (even without the accumulated knowledge from all my past lives) of the existence of the number 37, and of many greater, much more significant numbers.
But... | 2021-05-30T10:56:34 | 2021-05-30T09:19:22 | 96 | 59 |
[WP] You're an immortal vampire who looks like a 20 year old. When someone learns that you're a vampire they always assume that you're hundreds of years old and want to hear about all your adventures, though you're actually 53 and you're always too embarassed to correct them. | "The war?"
"The war."
"Ah, who could ever forget the war? It was a frenzied time, certainly. Who knew that one man could make such a difference to the world? Nobody knew what was going to happen--and that was what made everything so much more interesting. A battle between good and evil, morphing into an intergalactic... | \[Poem\]
Born in the dark
but I did not know
what made me different
than the rest of you folk.
It hurt in the beginning
to sacrifice my friends
but you adapt
to the hunting trends.
I play with my victims
by playing along,
the play is delicious
till I turn playfully strong.
I tak... | 2021-06-05T03:42:38 | 2021-06-05T03:11:31 | 263 | 56 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | I open the door.
Anna is the first to speak, as I expected. “This isn’t what it looks like!” she cries out. “Arius, please, I can explain –“
I let her continue to speak, though the words do no not register. I hear her screams. I hear his bones crack beneath my fists. I still hear the pounding of silence in my ears. T... | *I don't want to play hero anymore*
I would have never imagined something like this: I believed to be a good husband, friend, confident, partner or whatever she needed at that moment, every single moment of joy and pleasure of my last months came from spending time with her at home, my work is my façade and not me... | 2022-03-23T12:40:36 | 2022-03-23T11:32:15 | 551 | 60 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | And there was Stormstrike. My sidekick. We had saved each others' lives dozens of times. We were brothers. Closer than brothers.
And now, he was in bed with my wife.
I stalked forward, fists clenched. He heard me, of course, he has senses and reflexes far beyond a normal human. In a second, he'd rolled to his feet, a... | Everyone has their day, you know? The day that makes or breaks them. Where it's all put in focus and you got to decide what really matters.
Today was my day, I suppose.
It was going completely normal: I got up, cooked breakfast for the kids, got them on their way to school, did breakfast for myself and... her. She...... | 2022-03-23T12:54:40 | 2022-03-23T09:44:16 | 362 | 232 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | At the age of 14, all children are lined up and sent into the "Eternity Chamber" built by one of the founders and pioneers of the Power Attainment Information of the Nation (or P.A.I.N) for short. They have built this chamber to assess and safely test all powers plausible and insert the perfect job for said powers to ... | Don’t look behind you.
People have an amazing capacity for self-delusion. I suppose it’s a requirement to function in the world that we made. I don’t just mean the big abstract self-delusion to live your life without noticing all the suffering and exploitation required half a world away so that you can have your mor... | 2022-05-08T09:53:03 | 2022-05-08T09:49:20 | 197 | 64 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | I feel like this should be put down to paper so that the story is not lost to time. I will start by saying that, by the time I was born, the goblins were a running joke.
They settled near the village during my great-grandfather's time so the stories go. Small, stupid, barely clinging to life as they huddled beneath ... | # Soulmage
“It’s debatable whether goblins are even sapient,” Witch Aimes began, and I already knew today’s ‘history’ class would be nothing more than thinly veiled propaganda. “What is known for certain is that they are a subspecies of humanity, twisted over millennia by their over-reliance on the witchcraft of misch... | 2022-05-26T08:17:36 | 2022-05-26T05:33:42 | 382 | 155 |
[WP] You woke up in an entirely fake world. It’s an endless doll-house plastic facsimile powered by miles of clockwork gears and levers that go straight down into darkness. You did not get here yourself, and you have no idea how to leave. | Alex finds his mother in the kitchen, complete with a large copper key sticking out the nape of her back. The key protrudes through a hole in her olive-green sweater; it looks like a rust-red butterfly and it's about the size of Alex's arms outstretched.
Why the hell is there a key in his mother's back?
His Mom's ben... | It's all plastic.
Artificial.
This is the world in which I live, though who's to say the world I lived in previously was any better? There's bubblegum pink walls, a baby blue floor, the furniture is lime green... Bright, bright colors with a sheen as though brand new, as though reflecting light but there is no light.... | 2022-06-03T05:44:34 | 2022-06-03T05:30:49 | 576 | 102 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I've seen a lot of criminals head to their deaths before my. My first celly was a serial killer, felt a bit brooding, but maybe that was because when I first got in, it was less than a week to his execution. Second celly was much more upbeat. Also a murderer, and a child cannibal to boot, but if you could stand his sen... | \[English is not my first language, sorry if it's written unperfectly\]
The trick was so easy you're surprised no one has thought of it before.
If the rule is that they can't kill you BEFORE you get your last meal, the solution is not to ask for alien fetus or whatever. It is to ask for something they can only give y... | 2022-07-17T18:36:24 | 2022-07-17T17:30:24 | 904 | 616 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | It was so simple. When the idea came to me, sitting there on the cold metal slab that was my bed, I'd nearly dismissed it. Surely one of the previous prisoners would have asked for it before? It was, after all, a perfect 'fuck you!' to the system that was going to end their life. And certainly there had been people in ... | Sumerians invented the cuneiform writing system way, way back in time in the fourth century BCE. The British library has 130,000 of the clay tablets where most are still unread by a modern person. Irvine Finkel, himself, has and will teach anyone to read cuneiform in the hopes someone will bring him another story lik... | 2022-07-17T17:40:16 | 2022-07-17T17:32:54 | 365 | 47 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | The dark, cold cell is lighting up as the guard opens the small window.
-So what would you like to have as your last meal?
-I would like to have my mother's chicken soup, made from the chicken I raised myself since it was only an egg.
-You guys are awesome. Never cease to amaze me. I will get back to you on that... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T19:59:11 | 129 | 15 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | *They're actually really nice once it comes time to kill you here.*
This was my fleeting thought as I combed my hair in the giant floor length mirror I was finally permitted. They bent over backwards for the last day. Even let a professional make up team come to paint my face. The man who collected my requests didn't ... | “A peanut butter and jelly sandwich please, the way my sister used to make it. I’m honestly pretty screwed regardless so… might as well have a slice of home, y’know?”
The guard looked at me and he looked… understanding. I can’t believe I got a genuine reaction from the guy other than “SHUT UP INMATE!” but honestly I’l... | 2022-07-17T22:09:37 | 2022-07-17T20:36:22 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | "Year?" I ask, stupidly. I am still trying to process the strangeness of the metal man moving, wondering if he somehow ignited the eerie lights or if he is possessed of some form of magicka. Having assumed that he was some sort of golem acting at another's command, the idea that he would (a) speak and (b) use that spee... | Somewhere between the moss-covered slate that hid the entrance to this place and the slightly sulphury scent coming from within, Maxim decided that he had found his treasure. No map with an x had led him here, nor was there a winding story of it from times long past. It spoke to him. Torchbugs at night appeared to call... | 2022-12-19T13:30:41 | 2022-12-19T13:10:11 | 63 | 25 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | It wasn't the first time I'd found myself buried in a shallow grave. Hopefully, it wouldn't be the last. After digging myself out and dusting myself off, I headed home. The girl must've been new to this, or just stupid, because she hadn't even bothered to empty my pockets.
I debated on how to deal with her the next d... | The look on Kate's face when I walked into class was priceless. Apart of me had wanted to confront her in front of everyone, but I knew better after all how could she have killed me when I just walked in. So I just took my seat and focused on today's lessons, this continued for the rest of the day until lunch where my ... | 2022-12-30T00:05:38 | 2022-12-29T20:26:29 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] Suddenly, every person in the world can visibly see a thread that connects them with their significant other. On hearing this, you realize that you don't have a thread connecting to anyone. | "You remember the red string myth we used to talk about as kids?"
"...No?"
"Well, um, it's a Chinese myth. It connects one..." She daintily lifted her finger, and with the light of the sunset, her hand danced with the waning day-- all in an ethereal waltz. The twilight sang the final count as her hand reached min... | Kevin's mother looked on anxiously as he examined the frayed thread end in his hands. He had always been a little introverted, but she didn't know anyone else who found themselves without a connected thread that day. Could it be a mistake? Had his soulmate passed on already? Then her selfish emotions got the better of ... | 2014-06-18T22:55:33 | 2014-06-18T22:48:01 | 201 | 61 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "The 847th Galactic Federation Conference on Higher-than-Light-Speed Travel is about to begin!" exclaimed the herald. Everyone was excited. Higher-than-Light-Speed-Travel or HTLST or Hot List has existed for over 500 years, being announced at the 159th conference. However, this year it was declared that a new innovatio... | **To**: Grand Overlord Y'wso
**CC**: Research-DL
**Subject**: Re: Destruction of Planetary Body 294-00Z "Earth" - Comment Phase
You tasked me to see if there is any reason to keep 294-00Z functioning. Based on our research, we have come to our conclusion: The humans must be spared.
There are many other species out ... | 2014-07-16T10:43:37 | 2014-07-16T10:37:28 | 318 | 48 |
[WP] A man is granted his wish for unlimited knowledge. As he goes about his day he realizes his wish is actually a curse. | One cold winter night, a well-off man is walking home through the city streets when he spies a beggar shivering in the cold. Feeling pity for the man, he goes up to him and gives him his coat. "I have another coat at home," he says "And so you need this more than I do."
The old beggar takes the coat, smiles at hims, ... | John ran into his apartment, slamming the door behind him and sinking to his knees. His eyes were closed as tight as he could force them and his breathing was ragged. It was only noon, but it felt like the longest day of his life.
He remembered every moment of it in vivid clarity, no matter how much he wished to forge... | 2014-10-24T09:37:17 | 2014-10-24T07:33:35 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are Placebo Man. Your superpowers are whatever the people nearby you believe you have.
Bonus prompt: Your nemesis knows your secret. | You know how these things go. I was exposed to radioactive sugar-pills at a pharmacy and now I’m Placebo Man.
The power I possess is wholly infinite. It goes beyond anything these other heroes could dream of doing. With the right audience I could break the man of steel. I could wash the spider straight out of New ... | James opened his wardrobe to inspect the 40-odd superhero suits he had accumulated. The trick was to draw on pop culture. People's ingrained beliefs. If you want to fly, wear a cape or wings. Better still dress as a known flying hero. If you want super speed wear a red and yellow jumpsuit. James was tired but knew he w... | 2015-04-05T17:42:28 | 2015-04-05T17:41:23 | 222 | 79 |
[WP] You always hated your superpower. Recently, however, you discovered that it requires a secondary power that is far greater. | All my life I saw on the news people with strength or the ability to shoot without a gun. Some could heal from any wound, and others were impervious to injury at all. However, what did I get? I could phase through walls. The most useless power.
All it meant was I didn't have to turn a doorknob in my house. It d... | James has always despised his power. While the other kids were setting their houses on fire with their eyes, James was playing with his detached fingers. They always grows back, but he couldn't peel off too many fingers without his mother complaining about the smell and the detached fingers littering the house. When J... | 2015-04-20T12:03:22 | 2015-04-20T11:14:11 | 38 | 17 |
[WP]Your friends finally convince you to join their favorite MMORPG, you notice though that the questions on the "Create a character" screen are getting really personal. | **Username**
FireAxe. Taken. FireAxe73. Eh, fine. I should have joined sooner.
**Password**
Erm, bigherosix? No? BigHero6. Great, I loved that film.
**Email Address**
FireAxeOfJustice@gmail.com
**Sex**
Male.
**Home address**
Chromes auto-fill completed the form for me but I was still annoyed. Why do they even... | "What the hell, I don't even play games", I grumbled to myself as the progress bar inched toward 100%. My friends have been raving about this stupid MMO for weeks now; not wanting to be left out, I caved in and decided to get it on Vapor.
>Install complete. Run application?
>"OK".
"Agree to your Terms and Co... | 2015-07-23T18:12:40 | 2015-07-23T17:29:31 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You have a near-death experience that reveals you have a Guardian Angel protecting you... And you have the hots for her. You continue putting your life in danger in order to spend more time with her. | The crowd starts cheering as I climb the tower. Most people in my profession live for the crowds, feeding off the energy filling the air. Head doctors call us ‘adrenaline junkies’ because of the crazy stuff that goes on in our brains while we perform. Pop culture picked up the term, and it sounds cooler than anythin... | “Jesus fucking Christ,” Angel said as she beat the bear away with a stick. It roared before running off into the bramble.
I didn’t know her true name – or if she even had one – but I felt like Angel fit her best. Few words could capture her beauty, if any. She was my soulmate, the one I wanted to spend the rest of my ... | 2015-08-12T22:03:26 | 2015-08-12T19:37:48 | 299 | 120 |
[WP] Your bong is the home of a genie. You spark the bowl and he appears to grant you 3 wishes. You're both pretty high. | "Okay, so for my first... for my first wish-"
"No, dude! That's not right."
"Oh, yeah, I already made a wish. I was just saying that because it sounds all official. I mean, it's probably not necessary. I'm sure it wouldn't matter how polite you were about making your wish. There are evil genies and good genies, but n... | After a grueling 12-hour shift, an unbelievably eternal traffic jam, and the usual round of bitching from the landlord about rent, I was finally relaxed enough to try out my new bong. It was an antique, at least 500 years old with ties to a now-deceased but formerly powerful royal Hindu family, if the overly excited b... | 2015-08-13T14:06:47 | 2015-08-13T11:56:03 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You are a unknown god forgotten by all - even other gods. One day, while sitting in your private realm, you hear a voice. It's the voice of a socially awkward teenage girl - who believes she just prayed to a random name she made up for comfort (an imaginary friend).
First Prompt.
an* - in first sentence | I never had a flair for the dramatic. Never have I required my followers to commit the atrocities that other deities amused themselves with. What reason does one have to bleed out a perfectly suitable lamb?
The modern world was rather confusing. I took my place upon a small wooden stool. White ceramic squares ado... | *It couldn't be.*
"Hello?" I answered back.
"What the f-
"Don't freak out," I did my best to reassure the girl's voice, "Take a deep breath."
"Okay."
I heard a sharp intake followed by a deep sigh.
"Who are you?"
"I guess I'm... I'm the god you prayed to," I shrugged, "To be honest, I thought you prayed to me by... | 2016-03-01T13:28:59 | 2016-03-01T11:46:39 | 303 | 41 |
[WP] When you die, a field of text appears in limbo, revealing the high scores of life, and your score. Your score is the top score. | 'Pretty decent.' I thought to myself as I gazed upon the floating characters in front of me. 'How many times I laughed, how many I cried, the longest piss I've ever taken. All just average things.
Except for the list which showed the times people listened to a certain song. fuck yeah did I make it to the 1st place. Ai... | What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Does getting a good job, having a wife and maybe a couple of children, only to eventually die of old age count as a meaningful life? It might to some.
Maybe for you modelling diapers by the time you're one years old, to then kickstart your acting career and publishing an a... | 2016-06-08T12:39:54 | 2016-06-08T12:16:59 | 55 | 13 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Is it true, you're going to let me die?" Daisy says as she lets out a whimper
"What the fuck did you just say?" Shouts Jeremy at the old family dog he was left to care for after his parents were T-Boned by a drunk driver a fortnight ago.
"They just inject a needle and I go to sleep? Will I feel any pain?" a sadness ... | I absent mindedly chewed on a carrot stick, occasionally taking a swig from a bottle of cheap vodka from the corner shop. Classic Friday night. What I hadn't realised is that I was pouring from my vodka bottle instead of my water bottle while getting Lee something to drink.
'Oi!' I heard a voice from behind, making n... | 2016-08-02T19:04:22 | 2016-08-02T18:42:48 | 437 | 47 |
[WP]A Man dies and expects to go either Heaven or Hell,only to be told by an Angel that he already was in Hell and now his punishment is over | "But... that can't have been *Hell?*" Christopher said slowly. He moved his arm to tug at his shirt collar as he always did when he was nervous. Only this time, there was no shirt. There was no body at all; there was only his *belief* that he still possessed a corporeal form.
The angel smiled at him. It was a soft, ge... | I remember my life on Earth as though it were yesterday, despite all my attempts to forget it.
I was the first born to a family of junkies. I was obviously an accident, and as such was considered one. My father spent all available money on drugs and alcohol. This included any of my money. I remember with clarity my fi... | 2016-12-13T12:38:18 | 2016-12-13T12:34:08 | 3,129 | 295 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | Cats. They're absolutely everywhere. The stupid things breed so fast that even game shows tell you to neuter them. Calicos and ragdolls, Siamese and otherwise can be found all over the world. It's ridiculous that such a common creature be intertwined with my one true purpose in life. Do you know what it's like to be a ... | He stroked the massive feline's head, smirking at the pleased chuff the tiger made before leveraging to its feet. The both of them were getting on in years. Still smirking at the beast, he drew his cape on, fastening it a moment before 30lbs of serval seemingly gravitated to his shoulders, draping herself across the ba... | 2016-12-30T12:19:12 | 2016-12-30T10:07:02 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Your kidnapper is bored, so he makes an offer: if you can beat him 1 on 1 at a game of your choice, you go free. If you lose, you die.
EDIT: 15 submissions! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed, you've all done an incredible job! I love the diversity of endings, from extremely dark to hilarious. Keep writin... | The man with the gun pointed at my head is grinning and likely telling a lie. He seems like the kind of person to fib during a serious situation, and I can tell he’s loving the angst on my face as I mull over his horrible proposal.
*One win equals freedom.*
*One loss equals death.*
*Game of my choosing.*
But why... | "You're kidding right?"
"You mean the one that kids play right?"
A complete change of composure, a once stern ruling captor now childlike in his complexion, does a game of tic-tac-toe bring one who kills to a vulnerable position of confusion.
Apparently so.
I draw the lines out on his notepad, each stroke wafting t... | 2017-01-03T09:51:06 | 2017-01-03T07:21:24 | 107 | 53 |
[WP] A person invents a time machine for the sole purpose of traveling back in time to get the autographs of every historical figure (Washington, Napoléon, Hitler, Marline Monroe, JFK) before they die. After making hundreds of trips he becomes known throughout time as the grim reaper.
A person invents a time machine f... | Adolf Hitler sat there, staring at the painting. It was late at night, and he was the only one in the room. The portrait was of a tall man, with jet black hair pulled back into a ponytail, like from colonial times. The most noticeable feature was a long scar running down the right side of his face, passing through his ... | January 20th, 2017 will be a day forever remembered. The first time a president has died the same day as his inauguration ceremony.
I was walking up 18th Street towards Pennsylvania Avenue when someone slammed into my back, effectively knocking me over. Instinctively, I threw my arms out, attempting to cushion my fa... | 2017-01-08T12:13:20 | 2017-01-08T11:11:41 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] You discover a grand hall filled with legendary weapons like Mjonir and Excalibur. Each generation or so, warriors come to the hall to inherit a weapon that they are worthy enough to wield. Across the hall you see a forgotten weapon that's been collecting dust. You hear it call to you. | "Are you trying to tell me that this legendary weapon had been in my world, not once, not twice, but three times?" I asked the old man in disbelief.
With a heavy sigh he replied, "Yes, but when this Hall was created to only examine a warrior's prowess in battle, not their overall competence. That being said, you've on... | Waking with a start, my blankets strewn wildly about my floor, thrown from my bed as I slept.
It was just a dream... It had to be; there's no other explanation for it. But, I've never had such a vivid dream before; not just seeing, but tasting the cold mustiness of the air, feeling the chill of the marble on the sol... | 2017-02-07T12:46:10 | 2017-02-07T12:20:10 | 124 | 35 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | GongSkar, a green man with long dorsal fins, touched his temple and made a few quick comments. There seemed to be an immediate response and he turned back to the humans and nodded sagely.
"Young friends..." he began. Then a child cut him off.
"What was that thing you just talked to?" She said.
Put off balance for ... | Zorniffous was unsure. Zorniffous was also 100% certain.
That is to say that Zorn, as his friends knew him, was feeling very uncertain about his very accurate understanding of the situation.
The fact was, this world was puttering along just nicely in some key respects. In others, they were magnificently failing.
Th... | 2017-03-09T21:09:12 | 2017-03-09T16:38:02 | 772 | 29 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | It sat there in the middle of the interrogation room, looking around, well what appeared to be looking around.
Private Daniels was staring at through the one way mirror and looked both fascinated and appalled at the same time. The bases chief medical examiner was also here, "So I understand Major that Private Daniels ... | Zorniffous was unsure. Zorniffous was also 100% certain.
That is to say that Zorn, as his friends knew him, was feeling very uncertain about his very accurate understanding of the situation.
The fact was, this world was puttering along just nicely in some key respects. In others, they were magnificently failing.
Th... | 2017-03-10T01:57:10 | 2017-03-09T16:38:02 | 41 | 29 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I wiped a tear from my eye as she walked down the aisle. My beautiful baby girl, all grown up!! I watched her step up next to the man she loved. He took her hand and they turned towards the adoring crowd.
He gave his speech. Everything my little girl had done! It seemed like a fairytale, coming out of his mouth. I wat... | You ever get lost in thought? So much so that you lose all track of time? Well I do, thinking about my life and what I regret. Wondering if that girl at the coffee shop likes me or am I delusional. The bills that are due and what I would like for dinner.
I get so wrapped up in it I can forget to even move. Like I'm s... | 2017-05-31T07:11:19 | 2017-05-31T02:05:57 | 1,143 | 646 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | I’ll never forget that Christmas.
How could I?
The splendid tree draped in tinsel and baubles and winking fairy lights; the colourful gifts spread beneath, still wrapped and tied in silken bows though morning had long since passed.
Father always made us wait until after Christmas lunch to open our presents.
I can s... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:36:43 | 272 | 25 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | “Why would you help me?!” The man sobbed, “I’m your enemy!”
The man who was carrying through the charred battlefield paused, “because you and I are the only ones who survived.”
“Oh gods, did you see that thing?” he broke down in tears.
The other man sighed and set him down. He brushed some blood and dirt off his ... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T07:28:26 | 138 | 37 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | I watch my beautiful child running around the park, chasing after the ducks. It’s one of those rare sunny days I try and make the most out of, so I was up early and out of the house as soon as possible. My daughter picks up a rock and stares at it inquisitively, I can see the by the look on her face she wants to place ... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 138 | 17 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | I was always jealous of my twin sister. She was the outgoing one, hanging out with friends, while I stayed home. And when we were home together, it seemed that no matter what I did it just seemed to be the same as her. Our parents paid more attention to her than me. Praised her grades, her friends, her laughter and smi... | "I see the moon and the moon sees me...", the voice sang smoothly and sweetly.
Like so many other nights in my life the words of that lullaby cascade through the room and into my fading consciousness.
"Down through the leaves of the old oak tree...", the voice and the song remind me of my mother and it washes me with... | 2017-05-31T08:06:41 | 2017-05-31T07:48:23 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] You suddenly realize you left Earth.exe open over night. What was supposed to be a simple simulation has instead generated a "Humans" folder that is rapidly increasing in size. | I watch them for a while - these tiny, pixelated people, in their perplexing, simulated world. Cloud like thought bubbles pop up over their heads: hearts, money, houses, cars, and, for a single moment, I think I see a bubble with the name "*Dan,*" inside it. But I look again and it's gone.
There are more of them, too... | I’m tired. I’m so, so tired. My neck is sore, as is my back, I’ve got a splitting headache, my bed isn’t normally this uncomfortable… Oh. I slept at my desk. No wonder I feel like shit. I sit up slowly and look at my computer monitor. It’s off, but my computer fan is making a little noise. I turn the monitor on with a ... | 2017-06-14T04:28:22 | 2017-06-14T02:49:41 | 1,979 | 126 |
[WP] Theorising that so-called "life-force" or "souls" is actually just the electricity coursing through the nerves of living things, you try to sacrifice a battery to a demon. | "Speak, mortal. Else this moment shall be your last."
I swallowed. While some had success, there were just as many who failed.
"Servant of the Devil King. We have... *ahem* We have made a discovery concerning the human soul."
The demon leaned close.
"I smell your deceit."
I reached back and scratched my head, a ne... | Obviously I've made mistakes in long life, I'll grant you that. But for the life of me, I never imagined that these humans are this fucking stupid!
There I stood, middle of a damn summoning circle, some goofy haired human stood there with a single D battery in his outstretched hand.
This little bitch of a goatsee ba... | 2017-07-02T01:08:26 | 2017-07-01T20:06:58 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | "In Act 1, scene 3 of Macbeth, we are finally introduced to our main character. This is shown through various supernatural elements..."
Professor Yates continued with his lecture as I doodled chibi dinosaurs and Harry Potter stick figures in the margins of my notebook. Stifling a yawn, I jotted down a quick synopsis o... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T20:08:12 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 401 | 10 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | Ugh, I fucking hate school. Most people hate school, but I really hate school. Most people get bored, stop paying attention, fall asleep, daydream, or text their friends. There are also those weirdos that focus way too much on each individual aspect of what the teacher says and go into information overload. I guess you... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T21:54:53 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | "Welcome to the afterlife."
Martin looked around, from the overcast and grey clouds to the flat and slightly beige ground. He couldn't see anyone except the elderly lady who had greeted him. She seemed bored.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"Since you ended out here, with us non-believers, you're in the atheist afterlife."
... | I rest atop the verdant knoll in Elysium, right by our border. Our people come up here sometimes when they need to feel again. A constant drunken orgasm can numb you and make the high seem low. You can make the highs even higher if you muster the courage to stand near the wall--peer into the mist. It reminds us of our ... | 2017-11-21T07:28:42 | 2017-11-21T07:14:56 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] It finally happened. The day Santa dreaded. He has to deliver presents to the first kid to be born on mars. | “Frank! Get in here now!” shouted Santa from his office.
In scurried a small elf. He traveled as fast as his tiny legs could take him without tripping over his giant shoes. Bells jingling with every step.
“Yes sir, what do you need” Frank mustered.
“What is this shit?” Santa said as he tossed an ornate scroll acr... | All right you little fucking assholes! Who hid my bourbon stash again?"
Santa was drunk again. He always loved the bottle, sometimes more than his wife. But his drinking problem became more severe with every year. Every year he had to deliver more presents to more children. And this stress paired with alcohol turned h... | 2017-11-24T19:30:03 | 2017-11-24T16:57:54 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A voice in your head has been giving you life-changing advice for many years, but today they accidentally left the mic on. | Schizophrenia, they said. Auditory hallucinations. Not real. Not. Bloody. Real. Well, what do they know. They’re just doctors. They can’t hear the voice.
“You’re right, you’re not schizophrenic. But cut them some slack, it’s got to be difficult for them to understand. It’s pretty unique, man.”
Yeah, he’s right. As al... | Ive known Steve since as long as i can remember. He was there when I asked my first date out, when I won the tennis league, when I passed the entrance exam to university. A voice in my head giving me advice, helping me out on tough times and teaching me everything I needed to know. Sometimes I like to think Steve was t... | 2017-12-20T13:14:42 | 2017-12-20T12:19:43 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The year is 2134. The human race, now almost entirely atheist, makes first contact with alien life and are greeted as the creatures created in God's image. |
Humanity has always been lonely. Looking, reaching, dreaming, striving for stars we might never reach. We never knew why. Perhaps it was simply some strange, unexplained compulsion pulling our eyes upward. Perhaps it was mere stubbornness which put the fire in our veins, and strength in weary arms. Perhaps all of it, ... | “Unidentified craft approaching sir” Jefferson rapped away on his keyboard as he addressed the captain.
“Hail them.” Captain Barbas ordered.
We hailed them on all frequencies, only one response.
Static.
The vessel continued its current vector, we primed our shields and readied our weapons.
“Should we fire sir?”
... | 2018-01-31T19:23:08 | 2018-01-31T17:24:17 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The doctor held up the new born baby.
"It's a girl!" exclamed the doctor.
"Well, What are the names doc?" the father said with joy.
The doctor looked at the baby's back, and only one name on it. James Webber. Chills shot down the doctors spine.
"Well Dr. Webber, who are they?
| “John Smith. And fuckin.... John Smith. WHAT THE FUCK!” Andrea yelled, looking at her friends arm.
“I know right. Stupid.” Tally remarked. She’d had this reaction before.
“So ya gotta find two John Smith’s?”
“I hope so.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe I only need to find one.” | 2018-03-11T07:49:38 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 4,830 | 78 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their heads up to the sky. Had they heard correctly, God was leaving and left some man named Bob in charge? People in the cities looked out their windows, and stepped out of their cars looking upward for more answers. Meanwhile, in the Vatican, Pope Francis and his ca... | "And so as I was saying you have to keep the water warm or the eggs won't hatch."
"Got it. So I'm just supposed to keep swinging it around for the next 7 billion years?"
"Yes well, Gravity does most of the work; you just have to make sure the sun stays on. Also, just my advice, but throw a meteor or two every once ... | 2018-03-12T17:05:40 | 2018-03-12T16:53:52 | 3,717 | 882 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | (Written on mobile. Sorry for bad formatting)
They told us. Whispers in the night, the morbid stories of the cosmos deemed it forbidden. Humanity, in our self-destructive search for knowledge, chose to pursue the one thing we should have never dared to attempt.
Jakob Lattimer sat at his desk, pouring over his formul... | “There’s a reason why you never use faster than light travel.” The creature calling itself Kcbzrzx says to me in a voice that’s equal parts nails on a chalkboard and nails on a wet chunk of glass.
“And why is that?” I put my hands on my side and tap my foot impatiently. If Kcbzrzx doesn’t understand the universal sig... | 2018-11-04T06:17:21 | 2018-11-04T06:08:13 | 104 | 28 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | I hope this isn't too technical to be fun.
Faster than light
He was sitting in his cockpit, alone. Besides the components being built by subcontractors, to his specs, all of this had been a one man run. He was unwilling to share even an iota of glory for this achievement, and wealth hath its privileges. It wasn't rea... | When the universe gives you a limit, it’s probably there for a reason. It’d be best to follow it.
I wish we had.
It’s too late to change that now though. It’s just us and our mistake. I’ve had more than enough time to think about it - about what I’d do differently next time - but I can’t change that now. No one can... | 2018-11-04T08:42:02 | 2018-11-04T06:51:56 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | The building began to shake. The produce the man shelved fell onto the floor and he stepped on it as he began to walk towards me.
"It's a shame, I have found enjoyment being among you humans for the past 500 years. I guess that I must relocate again."
"Wait, what? I didn't mean to say Dracula, why would I say Dracula... | "What have you been doing all these years?" You try to go along with it, you are desperate to know more about this lady.
"Well, I'm on my third life and recently, I've just trying to be normal. Do the everyday average person activities: go to work, hang out with the kids, go to the supermarket."
"And the first two?"... | 2018-11-05T20:03:44 | 2018-11-05T19:52:58 | 794 | 136 |
[WP] Theoretically, you can not surpass the speed of light. Humans find out why when we manage to break this rule, as our ships begin to outpace the rendering speed of the universe, and the illusion of all reality is broken as everything around us vanishes the faster we go. | We heard it all around us as our ship leapt out and into the bright purple. It sounded like a vinyl album screeching to a halt. Below, Wilson saw a silver disc projecting light into the darkness of the space we had left. The disc was hovering above a gray soil punctuated by craters skittering across its endless surface... | But what is reality? As the universe falters and spits away, I am still here. I do not need air, or love or sunshine, but I am something.
I am threads of atoms and quarks and molecules broken and dangling. I can touch the history of each. I know their point of origin. The origin of everything when the on was pressed.... | 2019-03-06T08:27:06 | 2019-03-06T08:19:53 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You're a Homeless veteran, who's been sold as an exotic pet to Aliens by the CIA in exchange for technology. You climb the dark Galatic ladder from the Fighting pits to becoming a Warlord controlling hundreds of systems. One day you decide to return home and exact your revenge with your fleet. | "You abandoned me. Not once, but twice. You wouldn't help me when I came back. I fought for you, I bled for you, and God help me, I killed for you. You wouldn't even tell me WHY I had to kill people."
"Yeah, sure. You told me what you told everyone in the country. We were protecting freedom. Protecting it from what? N... | My name is James Kaur, Corporal of the 15th Modern Dragoons. We were disbanded when the League requested disarmament as a term of our vassalisation. I was traded to Em'shay a Starsun and ambassador to our Cluster.
Life with MC was pleasant, I taught human language and games so he could appear 'cultured' and 'tolerant'... | 2019-03-21T08:02:28 | 2019-03-21T07:13:39 | 50 | 33 |
[WP] You have been cursed to always tell the truth. Not because you're unable to say something you know is false, but because once you say it, the universe will rearrange itself to make what you said true. | There was a woman crying in the park on my walk home. I asked her what was wrong. She said her husband had died the day before, dropped dead of a heart attack, right in this very park.
"How do I go in living?" she asked me. "Everyone tells me I'll move on, but I'd rather die than forget him."
"You won't forget him,... | I lost everyone I loved that day...
June 18, 2009. I was playing outside when it started to rain. The rain got very strong... I still refused to go inside our house because I was enjoying playing with the water, splashing around.
Then suddenly, while I was splashing on a puddle...
A loud, thunderous noise started ri... | 2019-05-29T02:52:03 | 2019-05-29T01:10:28 | 46 | 21 |
[WP] A genie gives you two options. One is to get your three wishes now, or to get one wish a day for five days. He tells you that no one before has survived and gotten all five wishes. You choose the latter. | The genie nodded down at me. "You heard me, no one has chosen the five wishes and survived to make all of them."
"Cool, I'm gonna go for the five."
"Are you absolutely certain? Five days is a long time to make it, and a 0% survival rate is pretty low..."
"I say yeah, five. It's like the lottery gimmick, trick you in... | “Five wishes, I’ve got a good feeling about this.”
“Are you sure?” The Genie has a concerned expression on his face.
“Well, let’s see how the first wish goes.”
And I winked.
—-
“ I wish for the wisest teacher in my universe to guide the rest of my four wishes each day.”
“So shall it be.” The Genie intoned.... | 2019-06-04T12:13:24 | 2019-06-04T10:12:37 | 51 | 20 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | I opened the fridge door for some water. God, I was thirsty. Why do I always forget to carry water with me when I come back home from work? I gulped down half a bottle of water and closed the fridge.
As I walked towards my room, I felt a sharp tug and my stomach felt weird. It was as though I was on a roller coaster.... | I was going about my day just like any other day. I awoke the kids with a glass of cold water to the face, pulled the covers off of my wife and was getting ready to drive to work with the windows down and my music blaring when all of a sudden I found myself in Hell. Not Hell like the steamy confines of a bathroom stall... | 2019-09-17T08:35:21 | 2019-09-17T07:58:29 | 1,724 | 111 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | "Um... can you help me with my homework?"
The symbols beneath my feet were unfamiliar. Presumably, considering the context, some sort of summoning ritual for a math teacher.
"Well, sure, I guess. What's the homework about?"
"Calc III, we inherited the American system down here, because guess where all of your school... | I quickly slapped the little boy’s claw away from me. I may be in hell, but that’s probably because I never did my homework.
The bottom eyelids of the horned child began to brim with blood.
“You seriously about to cry?” I asked, annoyed.
The boy’s bottom lip trembled as he composed himself enough to speak. “I’m te... | 2019-09-17T14:12:35 | 2019-09-17T13:32:05 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Over time, you realize that all the spare change in your house disappears to who knows where. When you decide to investigate, you empty a cupboard and find a bunny size dragon sitting on a pile of coins... | Well that's different.
I spent at least twenty minutes this morning looking for my spare change. Which made less sense to me, because the jar was on top of the fridge.
I know it didn't grow legs and walk off. That'd be another problem entirely.
Of course, when I found it in the cabinet moving slowly across the back,... | The tiny dragon let out a puff of smoke. I backed away, shocked beyond belief. The coins in my pockets jingled, and I shoved my hand inside to pull out a quarter and a dime. I held them in my palm and crouched down to the dragon's level. The change disappeared from my hand without warning, and I looked at the dragon. S... | 2019-10-10T08:54:54 | 2019-10-10T08:38:40 | 71 | 52 |
[WP] “I am Lucifer, The Morning Star, The Firstborn, The Second Light, The Prince of Lies, The Adversary, The Dragon, The Serpent, Lord Of Evil, The First of The Fallen and I came here for one thing and one thing only” As he said this he summoned forth a Switch. “I came here to Brawl” | "Brawl was on the Wii."
Satan looked at me with a look of contempt.
"Yes, but aren't the Ice Climbers in this one?"
"Yeah but you can't chain grab with them."
"How did you know I was going to chain grab?"
"You're literally Satan."
"I'd think that's kind of judging a book by its cover isn't it? Anyway, what about ... | *I kneel down onto the dirt, slicing my hand ever so slightly with the silver knife.*
"Great Lord of the Dark, I bring to you but a simple request..."
*I let blood drip into the ceramic bowl at the center of the red spray-painted pentagram. The symbol surrounding me begins to glow red.*
"I wish to test my worthiness... | 2020-02-22T18:24:18 | 2020-02-22T18:00:54 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] An alien species finds an ancient human probe transmitting coordinates and a single question: Is anyone there? Eager to find a new species the aliens instead discover Earth devoid of all life except a vault filled with advanced knowledge and the minds of humans Uploaded into the vault. | "Hey Alpeh, What is it?"
A delicate tentacle slid across a smooth transparency. "It looks like a still-life. A scene from their cultural practices."
"There's a lot of equipment here. Seem's like it ought to be more than just an image."
Alpeh gripped the surface a little with tactile extrusions and found the surface ... | "If you're reading this now, today is a grim day. We can't offer anything but our deepest condolences."
"You don't think that's a little wordy, Proma? It's a message to the Minder, they will obviously be reading it."
"Shut up, Jaeth, just keep writing and we'll get to it at the end. The next sentence! Write - 'The pl... | 2020-02-24T10:52:00 | 2020-02-24T09:41:36 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] "Come on, aren't you a little old to have an imaginary friend?" He was right, but it seemed so real. "I guess..." "So maybe make some real friends, ones who don't have scaly skin and forked tongues." I stopped in my tracks. "I never told you what it looked like." | “Come *on*, Jeffrey! Aren’t you a little old to have imaginary friends?” Steph asked. She reclined in a blue beach chair, flipping through a magazine, floppy hat shading her face.
Jeff sighed. He *knew* he shouldn’t have told her about the monster that had been in his backyard. He hadn’t really known Steph for all tha... | "Come on, aren't you a little old to have an imaginary friend?" He was right, but it seemed so real. "I guess..." "So maybe make some real friends, ones who don't have scaly skin and forked tongues." I stopped in my tracks. "I never told you what it looked like."
Dad sighed. “I forgot you never mentioned what Roger lo... | 2020-05-06T12:27:52 | 2020-05-06T12:25:35 | 274 | 56 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | Tilis laughed under their breath, their male and female heads undulating their tentacles in amusement. A pinch of this, a dash of that, careful to maintain seals on the PPE...
A warning tone at the Hazardous Materials Lab door heralded the entry of Morv, the hulking uluian shuffling along on his eighteen stumpy legs, ... | We all shun them, these ugly creatures from the planet R453, also known in their language as Earth. They are a plague to their environments and feed by extracting resources from their surroundings. They are viruses surviving on the hardships of other creatures around them, creatures they call lesser than them.
The st... | 2020-05-18T10:05:05 | 2020-05-18T08:18:21 | 2,728 | 384 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | I was preparing the final checks of the bio-sphere module attachment procedures as I read the documents of it's content, as my hesitancy grew. A module filled with 78% nitrogen, a not completely unexpected chemical, after all it is present on many homeworlds of the Noxium Union, albeit in much lower amounts, but the ox... | "That's poison."
"Poison? No way! It's Dihydrogen Monoxide. H2O. Water!"
"And also poison."
"Ah, you must be fucking with me. I'm positively parched, pass me a cup!"
My limbs hardening in fear as I passed the container to the human, I wondered, what in the name of Blorgon I did to deserve meeting this... creature? ... | 2020-05-18T13:50:10 | 2020-05-18T11:33:08 | 144 | 103 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | Our newest crew member, one of the most bizarre life forms we've ever encountered, is proving to be both an asset, and amazement, and a pain in the waste discharge orifice. But at least it doesn't pollinate.
For one thing, this thing regularly consumes copious quantities of one of the strongest solvents in the univer... | *he takes a sip* "what is everyone at the carbon based lifeform for" Jeffreys said to his two crewmates and captain all three silicone based. They stare and blink for a few moments but Jorn the first officer spoke first breaking the silence, "Ape, please tell me that's not what I think it is you just consumed" his smoo... | 2020-05-18T13:07:35 | 2020-05-18T11:20:25 | 84 | 51 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | "Bro! What the fuck?!!? We've been collecting that shit for 50 centuries! My father died in a war over 4 ml of it on Archon 9, that was enough to wipe out the entire Andalin sector of this galaxy, how are you still alive???"
"What? You mean that glass of water? What else was I supposed to drink? That green ooze with t... | *he takes a sip* "what is everyone at the carbon based lifeform for" Jeffreys said to his two crewmates and captain all three silicone based. They stare and blink for a few moments but Jorn the first officer spoke first breaking the silence, "Ape, please tell me that's not what I think it is you just consumed" his smoo... | 2020-05-18T12:24:02 | 2020-05-18T11:20:25 | 70 | 51 |
[WP] After countless hours of research and testing, your dog translator was ready. As you hook it up to your loyal canine, he utters his first words : "FUCKIN FINALLY!" | "FUCKIN' FINALLY!" announced Admiral, my lazy-headed Golden Retriever and steadfast companion. "TOOK YOU WHAT, A MONTH?!"
"Quiet," I hissed. Then the joy of the moment struck me and I locked Admiral in a hard embrace.
"SO," he continued, ignoring me, "WHAT'S FOR DINNER TONIGHT?!"
"Listen," I replied, "why do you alw... | The speaker crackled to life as i flicked the switch to ”on”.
”FUCKING FINALLY” burst out echoing through the garage, followed by a suspicious look from the dog and silence.
”Was that me?”- came cautiously through the speaker, the dog looked insecure, almost afraid.
She was a lovely german shepherd, and she’d been h... | 2020-06-22T06:19:30 | 2020-06-22T04:08:28 | 485 | 170 |
[WP] After countless hours of research and testing, your dog translator was ready. As you hook it up to your loyal canine, he utters his first words : "FUCKIN FINALLY!" | "FUCKIN' FINALLY!" announced Admiral, my lazy-headed Golden Retriever and steadfast companion. "TOOK YOU WHAT, A MONTH?!"
"Quiet," I hissed. Then the joy of the moment struck me and I locked Admiral in a hard embrace.
"SO," he continued, ignoring me, "WHAT'S FOR DINNER TONIGHT?!"
"Listen," I replied, "why do you alw... | I have always been a dog and technology enthusiast, so why not combine both passion and make a technology for dogs. To finally let them speak! Not the dog trick “speak” where they just bark back once to you. Like actually speak human understandable language!
Now, I had to approach this idea differently. Animals, speci... | 2020-06-22T06:19:30 | 2020-06-22T04:50:21 | 485 | 141 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | I have been dating Myne for three years, she was fairly secretive about her past, but she was cute so it was ok. She made sure to not give me too much information as to tip me off as to her secret, she was a Dragon. In the plains where we live, dragons are scarce and feared greatly. So much so that people have started ... | "I'l look for a good spot for our treasure," Nina says.
I nod.
I head downstairs, mentally letting go of the house. It's not so special, I tell myself. It's only the house I've had for about five years, three years before I met the love of my life... It's odd how you forget these things as time goes on... Relationsh... | 2020-08-03T10:13:07 | 2020-08-03T09:42:08 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] You’re a blacksmith and a woman you’ve never seen before walks into your shop, asking for a blade. She stops by daily to check on it’s progress, and you form a bond over time, until one day she disappears. You’re afraid you’ll never see her again, until you're summoned to the castle. | "Halt! State your business!" A scar-marked soldier blocked Chloe's path by wielding a mighty halberd and an even mightier scowl.
"Erm...well... I was invited, I have an invite..." She quickly produced the crumpled note she had found stuffed under her door, and attempted to read the hastily written-script to her curren... | I've often dreamed of the inside of the castle. It's parapets, and swooping buttresses all aglow in the moonlight. Though business is usually attended to before nightfall'; it's not uncommon to be summoned after dark. It's not usually a good thing though.
I'm nervous and not a little tired after working the forge all ... | 2020-08-05T06:20:46 | 2020-08-05T05:58:28 | 320 | 159 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | A madman they called me,
a man with no brain.
Even dumber than those,
who had rotten in twain.
I took what was old,
from year long gone past.
I wore a plate armor,
for long it may last.
Instead of motors,
i sought out a steed.
Instead of guns,
i got a blade to my need.
The undead may rise,
it may... | Everyone knows the basic skills needed for the zombie apocalypse. Foraging, fighting, and fleeing. The last of the three f’s of survival was the most important. So armor was considered to be impractical as it would only slow you down. I chose to add more defense when it started. The history museum had a set of full ... | 2020-09-14T07:59:32 | 2020-09-14T07:46:50 | 117 | 70 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | Cricket bats are made out of willow which gives a wonderful, resonant sound when connecting with a skull. An undead skull, naturally and I love a bit of skull-basing in the morning followed by a nice, relaxing cup of Earl Gray. No milk to be found anywhere these days unfortunately, so naturally, my chosen breakfast b... | \-=-=-
Day 3, My friends and I managed to get some supplies from the supermarket without attracting too much attention from other survivors or the undead, When planning our next move I made the suggestion of raiding the old history museum, They just laughed and called me a madman, I kept insisting that the old armor t... | 2020-09-14T09:46:15 | 2020-09-14T09:10:39 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] you are the first immortal. While it is true that you cannot die, your flesh and body can. After so many millennia you are reduced to a sentient skeleton sitting at the bottom of a peaceful pond to avoid contact with other people. Some bastards are trying to drain it | *They never learn*
If I could've sighed I'm sure I would have, but the muscles controlling my ribs had rotted away long ago. Attempting to breathe was more a habit at this point.
The little light that penetrated the murky water reflected off my bleached white fingers as I began blindly searching for the large bundle ... | I am Hayat Tawila of Arabia. I lived many many lifetimes ago, back in the First Crusade. Then The Second, and The Third. I lived until the Siege of Acre, when a Templar Arrow pierced my side. Or so I thought. I then lived for the next 8 centuries, with my body remaining the same. I served alongside the British in the G... | 2020-11-20T12:55:52 | 2020-11-20T12:06:53 | 248 | 175 |
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