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[WP] Desperate for work, you’ve accepted a job in private security, guarding an ominous mansion. You’re given a gun and told to let no one in the gate without a code. When a car full of quipping, flirting, arrogant people show up at the gate, it dawns on you: you’ve been hired as a henchman. | **Part 1:**
Morty stared out at the empty drive ahead of him, counting the seconds until his shift ended, his boredom accentuated by the occasional chirp of a cricket or hoot of an owl from the surrounding forest. His fingers drummed restlessly on the holster at his belt. At first, the gun had freaked him out, I mean,... | When I reached sixteen years of age I was immersed in drug culture, and I was the runner for drug gangs, being used to do the riskiest jobs but getting to keep the money made. It was on one fateful day though I was delivering for an especially rough area, the kind of neighbourhood where shitholes like KFC are referred ... | 2019-07-07T14:48:48 | 2019-07-07T13:52:24 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You are a super hero, but without any powers. You are one of the most important heros, but marginally unknown. You are a therapist who works exclusively with heros and villians alike. Because they are people too. | The man staring back at me is ... different from the rest. This is a very hard thing to achieve, considering my clientele.
"Can you please repeat that?" I ask, trying to look anywhere but towards the dark void that sits on my office couch. There is a cloying quality to him, like the black cloud enveloping his body is ... | Some superheroes are out and about saving the world. They've got crazy superpowers like flying or shooting laser beams out of their eyes or beating up criminals. That's not me. It never has been and, given my rather mundane and limited powers, it never will be. I play a different role. You won't read about me in your l... | 2019-07-25T13:02:22 | 2019-07-25T11:51:59 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] Aliens arrived on earth, but they are super lame. The following decade after contact they take humanity as "the cool kids" and try hard to be like us. | "What are you doing?"
"What does it look like?" replied his friend from the ground. "I'm sleeping. Duh."
He was lying flat on his back with his eyes closed as if he was resting in a coffin.
"But you \*can't\* sleep! Stop being an idiot! You know we don't sleep."
"Maybe \*you\* don't sleep, but I sleep all the tim... | "I have heard that your civilization still actually fights each other on a global scale? I thought you have nuclear technology and miner space capabilities, why not use those."
"Well we do but then decided to stop using them. At the time only one group has them, now a bunch do so we stopped using them, though we have ... | 2019-10-17T06:11:54 | 2019-10-17T05:47:45 | 355 | 101 |
[WP] When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room. | This was it, the final chapter. I couldn’t hold the pen anymore, for no longer was it my turn to. I’d lived a life I’d wanted, and my wife had too bless her soul, she left first with our hands holding on for her dear life. She wasn’t ever ready to go, she didn’t comprehend what the repercussions might be. It took her a... | 98 years without a hint of the red dress the voice spoke of.
9.8 y.e.a.r.s
Ever since I could remember, this nagging voice occasionally came into my life and whispered the same thing.
"Follow the women..."
At first I was curious. Who was this women? Why was there a voice that spoke to me? My parents dismissed it as... | 2019-11-07T09:26:20 | 2019-11-07T08:52:01 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | "My Son, I have officially run out of ideas..."
*Couldn't you give them another chance, Father?*
"No, they are too far gone. They have walked the path of sin for centuries. I have tried to correct them with even the most extreme of measures. Yet even two global wars with the most despicable atrocities were not enough... | As I stare across the scorched field bordering my neighborhood, I wonder:
*Why did the fire stop?*
This inferno sprang into existence with finger-snapping quickness, then dissipated into the sky like fire rain falling in reverse. Even the fire marshall was baffled by this strange phenomenon. Given that he hasn't expr... | 2020-03-20T06:55:43 | 2020-03-20T06:49:33 | 1,368 | 20 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | "Second Hell is coming along nicely, by the way, the new pandemic was a nice touch. What are you planning for them next? Gonna go old school, give em' a good ol' fashioned flood?"
The Archangel was only teasing of course. Sort of. He busied himself with lunch, laying four pieces of bread out on the counter. Behind him... |
I should have discovered there was a problem in 2007 when the “Great Depression” I struck to warm-up to the end the world on schedule fizzled out into a mere temporary recession. Don’t get me wrong, there was still a global financial crisis, but nothing compared the way I had used my powers to end the Incan and Mayan ... | 2020-03-20T07:05:37 | 2020-03-20T07:05:26 | 80 | 15 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | "We must duel to the death, you say?"
"Yes." She grins challengingly. "I so enjoy this part. The wooing is always fun, sure, but I've trained for this all my life. I'm the greatest swordman of the country. This is what I live for."
"Well, very well." I pull out two decks. "I like to play green blue. I'm assuming you... | So it had come to this. She pulled out her sword and I knew there was only one way I could win.
See, I'm not a swordfighter, or an expert of precision with any kind of weapon. I can really only wield two weapons to any deadly effect.
First up, the most versatile farming tool on Earth - the machete. I carry one with a... | 2020-09-20T20:52:33 | 2020-09-20T19:37:35 | 180 | 72 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | "We must duel to the death, you say?"
"Yes." She grins challengingly. "I so enjoy this part. The wooing is always fun, sure, but I've trained for this all my life. I'm the greatest swordman of the country. This is what I live for."
"Well, very well." I pull out two decks. "I like to play green blue. I'm assuming you... | “Princess, there is one last contestant who wishes to face you in trial!”
The princess looked up, carelessly tossing aside the bloodied rag she had been using to clean her blade. Behind her, a wooden cart dragging away the remains of the previous combatant. She gave the stranger a curious look, then shrugged it off, s... | 2020-09-20T20:52:33 | 2020-09-20T20:45:52 | 180 | 21 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | *Look. This is your first time, is it?*
**Silence, Mortal.**
*No, I'm serious. Being a disembodied soul really seems to broaden the perspective. I can see you struggling with my body. Exhale, by the way. You need to do that so you can inhale again. That's right, just... blow. Now inhale... And exhale... Good. Is this... | Buvolell -- Fell Lord of the Doomkeep -- padded after his prey. His steps were whisper soft as they went down the stairs to the basement apartment. The demon dragged his long nails as delicious expectation flared inside him.
Peter Jensen. 26. There was something about him that struck Buvolell as intriguing. Something ... | 2020-12-21T12:27:17 | 2020-12-21T10:51:37 | 245 | 169 |
[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | "Alright, my prince," said Gertrude, keeping her eyes on the three intruders, "to your right is a knife block. I want you to take the smallest one and just hold onto it—like we practiced—okay?"
The young Prince Ralph looked to his left. "I don't see a knife block, Gerty."
As she took a deep breath to focus on the fee... | “We’ll kill ya, down with the prince.” The ruffians charged the halls of the royal castle, finding their way into the castle through a hidden gap in the castle’s walls. The poor prince desperately sprinted away from the group, holding his robes up to his knees, trying not to trip on the exotic fabric, a feat he failed,... | 2021-01-08T07:01:28 | 2021-01-08T05:08:38 | 181 | 117 |
[WP] When you found a genie, you decided to wish that all clothes you wore always fit you perfectly. What you soon find out, however, is that the clothes don’t resize, you do. | *tiny squeak* "YES I know I am smaller than my wallet, YES I KNOW that these are hockey jerseys, PLEASE JUST LET ME PAY YOU!"
"*snrk*. Sure, sure fine. You, uh, you want help carrying those out?"
"... can i please change in the changing room?"
"... Sure. Let's get you rung up. Sorry to make you feel, uh..."
*Veheme... | In what used to be the Horsehead Nebula, where the final gods fell, each ring of woven mail on my breast was ten thousand kilometers across.
By then, so many years into the war we had started, the dread machine that I bore as exoskeleton held the writhing mass of hundreds of trillions of the others. Not merely cities... | 2021-01-08T22:57:29 | 2021-01-08T22:36:01 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] When you found a genie, you decided to wish that all clothes you wore always fit you perfectly. What you soon find out, however, is that the clothes don’t resize, you do. | Things were awkward at first and even painful at times. However, with clothes sculpted to contain a muscular physique, I was able to pull off a similar effect to what I intended.
"You're beautiful." I tell the woman in front of me. The club was susprisingly well lit considering how cheap the drinks were.
Sh... | In what used to be the Horsehead Nebula, where the final gods fell, each ring of woven mail on my breast was ten thousand kilometers across.
By then, so many years into the war we had started, the dread machine that I bore as exoskeleton held the writhing mass of hundreds of trillions of the others. Not merely cities... | 2021-01-08T23:05:30 | 2021-01-08T22:36:01 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | It all started with the Dalarians. After defeating the humans in battle, they naturally waited for the humans to surrender as any civilized species would do after being defeated. But the humans applied an insane and illogical philosophy called the "sunk cost fallacy". Instead of surrendering to the Dalarians, the human... | Svedbar grasped the arm of his favorite discussion partner Chiztet and led her to the counsel chambers to discuss what was just presented. The humans finally laid proposition to the counsel to join the galactic treatise.
“That human removed its exo-skeleton.” Svedbar said. “I didn’t think it was possible for them.”
C... | 2021-02-04T08:52:37 | 2021-02-04T08:48:14 | 467 | 144 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | He collapsed on the far side of the rock, air sacs pulsating as he tried to oxygenate his system. His hind limbs were shaking, he knew he couldn't go on much further. He peered back and saw the creature, pink skin layered over with synthetic fibers it's two legged stride ate up the ground between them as it started to ... | I took a deep breath.
"We're gonna die," I said with the most clarity in the past 4 gerlens. 12 weeks in human times.
"Dude shut up, I refuse to believe the tales of Humanities persistence, they will tire and they will fall. No species as weak as them can fight for that long. I mean look at us, we're the *Serleuns* w... | 2021-02-04T10:56:14 | 2021-02-04T10:18:12 | 43 | 26 |
[WP] You, an all-powerful villain, managed to defeat the child of prophecy. The problem is he's literally a child. You now turn your eyes towards the gods who sent the poor soul against you. | The Demon King Abbadon, Lord of the Dread Legions of Hell and the Scourge of Heaven, stared down at the champion of the gods, more than a bit surprised. This was no hero clad in plate, no mighty warrior wielding a holy sword, not even someone with a magic gun. It was a literal infant child in a basket.
*"...um. Is thi... | "What the fuck"
"Sorceress, we've been ex-"
"*What. The. Fuck.*"
"Your monstrous end had to come at so-"
"Don't.. You dare. Speak to me with that tone. You have no moral high ground here. A child, you sent to kill me, a child." She said gesturing to the boy sobbing in the arms of one of her assistants, Throg, scrag... | 2021-02-22T00:37:59 | 2021-02-21T20:02:07 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] Aliens don't understand the concept of statues, and have come to the conclusion that we have imprisoned giants. | The Snuffleoids are a peaceful race. Their planet has no concept of war, violence, or natural predatory instincts. On Planet Snuffle, there is no food-chain. All animals coexist peacefully deriving nutrients from the air, soil and sunshine exclusively. Our xenologists have studied them for years and are unable to i... | When they first came, panic took a deep hold on the hearts of every person on Earth.
Earth, a planet that was having to deal with not just being invaded, but coming to terms with not being the only intelligent species in the galaxy at the same time.
It was something of a rough patch, to put it lightly.
Personally, a... | 2021-02-28T16:20:44 | 2021-02-28T16:14:44 | 433 | 146 |
[WP]Aliens invade Earth, but when night falls, the monsters come out from under the bed, and they want their planet back. | I owe my life to the child. Created from its imagination and born to force it through its fears, I only torment it as it’s my job. We talk. Quite a bit. Well, more like it talks and I listen. But now the child has mentioned that it is no longer scared of me but the new monsters that come from the sky, not from under t... | Day 6: They were all over now. Most of my university friends had to stay home, but our Zoom classes were nearly empty. No one dared address it, in part due to its weight, but in part due to the fear they might listen. They come from parsecs and parsecs away , but if they had the technology to find us, they'd be able to... | 2021-04-27T21:52:35 | 2021-04-27T21:35:29 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | _A D?? This deserves better than a D, Mrs Naurood!_
\- You can't go around pulling stuff out of thin air and calling it history, John! And as I've already said, See. Me. After. Class.
_But they're not made up! It's right there in the books!_
Mrs. Naurood ignored me as she picked up her books and left the class.
I'd... | “Professor Larkin!” I exclaimed as I walked into her small university office. The professor was busy submitting grades on her old computer. When I burst into the room, she gave me an exasperated look.
“Good afternoon, Ankisu. I believe you want to discuss a possible regrade?”
“Yes professor, I do not think the to... | 2021-07-18T02:10:51 | 2021-07-18T02:06:58 | 385 | 105 |
[WP]You possess an ability that seems relatively harmless, albeit useful, at first glance, yet on a deeper look is scarily powerful. Nothing can be taken from you against your will | Tom’s phone rang. The number was unknown and only a few people had access to it. If he did not know the caller, then it was a transferred request from his agent.
“Tom’s delivery service, this is Tom.”
The voice on the other end was grainy from the use of a filter. “You’re the freelance Ability User, right? We need yo... | Many people think that telekinesis is useful, but not that dangerous. Guess what ? They are wrong. But, first things first.
When I awakened, I was euphoric. I thought that my life would turn 180 degrees and I would become rich.
What ? Thinking about money instead of some noble ideas ? Please, don't judge me so quickl... | 2021-09-11T13:12:54 | 2021-09-11T11:56:22 | 442 | 54 |
[WP] "Too bad, Fairy Queen. I never had a kid, so no firstborn for you to take" you say on your deathbed. "Oh I love it when they don't read the fine print" she responds with a wicked smile. | My eyes trembled as she held the paper close to me, my limbs unable to move from old age. My eyes were barely any better, but I had just enough panic to let me see.
As the words written in fine gold became clear, a feeling of calm despair washed over me, my body sinking into the bed. " Ha," my voice rasped, nearly unr... | “I will make that firstborn with you”
I looked at her. She was ozing sex appeal, from her sheer thorugh dress, generous curves and a pretty face.
I couldn’t help but gulp in anticipation.
I also blinked at that moment and everything changed.
Form fairy-like beauty she turned into-
“I will make that baby from you”
... | 2021-10-19T03:14:44 | 2021-10-19T01:37:03 | 78 | 44 |
[WP] You're a witch with a penchant to bargain for firstborn children... to adopt and train as apprentices. You've done it hundreds of times now, and considering how wretched the biological parents tend to be you're really doing the kids a favor. | Walking around the marketplace, Rhiannon paused to peer closely at a cart of turnips. She had only been in this town for a few weeks, but the last time she'd gone to the market, one of her potatoes had been moldy. This time, she would be more careful. Carefully selecting one of the root vegetables, she lifted it up to ... | "You call me a witch like that's a bad thing you monster!" Hyra exclaimed
"You're trying to buy my child, what would you have me call you? And what you're offering, peanuts. With a magical child I can have all you offer plus more"
Hyra laughed internally, it was over, the child would be returning with her. The negoti... | 2021-10-26T09:37:20 | 2021-10-26T08:58:35 | 272 | 25 |
[WP] “Is that a….” The nuke explodes harmlessly against the alien starships shields. “Child’s toy? Yes,” the tired alien said. They were part of a group that helped the more…dumb races of the universe develop and evolve. But this race of “humans” would soon prove rather…difficult to educate. | "OK... Let's try this one more time... You are used to three dimensions, and in those three VERY SPECIFIC dimensions, yes life has a start and an end. Things could be damaged and entropy destroyed those things over time, but the vast majority of life does not actually exist in those dimensions. Your species was a part ... | Like stars, explosions dotted the sky above the Human homeworld. Each one the culmination of centuries worth of scientific advancement. Yet as each one faded, payload delivered with extreme prejudice, the alien vessels continued their descent.
Aboard the largest of these vessels sat a man. A ruler, a conqueror, an enl... | 2021-12-25T09:11:06 | 2021-12-25T04:57:48 | 211 | 121 |
[WP] We have made first contact and luckily the aliens already have universal translation tech. "Greetings Humans" says the ambassador, "we call ourselves elves, wait, no we don't. how do you already have a name for us?" | ...how do you already have a name for us?"
George was stopped mid whisper by the Eleven diplomat.
"Well, um..." Geroge let out weakly. "You look exactly like how Tolkein described an Elf don't you?”
A long silence followed as the other humans in the room stared daggers over at George for having the gull to blunder t... | The transmission ended there, we never heard another thing from them or even saw what they looked like. All that happened was that they agreed to a summit in a few weeks. Ever since the transmission, tensions had been mounting among the Elven community. Various groups had formed and formed their own beliefs on the term... | 2022-01-02T22:00:44 | 2022-01-02T21:34:47 | 1,411 | 180 |
[WP] The rules of the land are very clear. Anyone can challenge the king for his crown, in any way they want (test of intelligence, strength, etc.), but the king gets to declare one condition that must be followed throughout the entirety of the challenge. | The king was old and fat. I practiced running for weeks. I am not the fastest person in my village but I run every day. I made the official request 100m dash. I signed on the line knowing what fate waits for me.
The day of the race the king states "You must run the race with one foot." He motioned to his guard to cu... | "I win as soon as we start the game."
Everyone paused, trying to take in what the King had just said. The challenger, a Chess master simply raised an eyebrow, not quite comprehending the words as the various scenarios, plays, strategies and gambits simply fell apart in his mind.
"I'm sorry what?"
"I s... | 2022-01-10T06:36:39 | 2022-01-10T04:48:36 | 1,976 | 524 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "Seriously? Bloody hell," the tall man in a sharp suit noted. He'd heard quite a few numbers but... 128 was quite a bit.
"Hey, I like my job," the short woman in a red dress giggled. She may not have looked it but hey - it's proper fun. "So how about you?"
"64. Not quite the resume, but I do consider myself experienc... | "So... uhm... you said over 60, right?" Jane asked after sipping her cocktail.
Lucy, on her side, nodded.
"Yeah, you know, the usual. I mean having more than 60 is not a big deal. I think my personal record is 67 but not sure about it. You know some clients are just boring to deal with. Like the one I had this mornin... | 2022-04-26T02:04:52 | 2022-04-25T22:11:38 | 560 | 218 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "Seriously? Bloody hell," the tall man in a sharp suit noted. He'd heard quite a few numbers but... 128 was quite a bit.
"Hey, I like my job," the short woman in a red dress giggled. She may not have looked it but hey - it's proper fun. "So how about you?"
"64. Not quite the resume, but I do consider myself experienc... | Man 1: Overhears Man 2 talking to someone (ex:server/bartender) about how tired he is after..."Hey man props to you for having the guts to talk about it, to a stranger, in public no less."
Man 2: shrugs "I guess. I got used to it after some time. It's nothing to be embarassed about, just different interests to susta... | 2022-04-26T02:04:52 | 2022-04-25T22:30:31 | 560 | 14 |
[WP] You're a retired villian. You've been enjoying your peaceful life, but now a bunch of new villians are terrorising your land, and the heroes seem powerless against them. So you take up the mantle once again. After all, if you want someone properly killed, do it yourself. | "How the hell did you get in?" the young villain shouted and pointed his blaster at me. I ignored him, instead focusing my attention on the doorframe I just walked through.
"I can't believe they still make these MK2 saw traps. I would've thought they'd be up to at least MK4," I chuckled and ran my fingers across the b... | People like to think retirement is easy, but it isn't for everyone. Some folk, they're always looking for something to fill the void left behind. A lot of the time, their work is all that gave people meaning.
That's what I found out the hard way when my bones started creaking and the neurons started to pop and fizzle.... | 2022-05-15T17:53:44 | 2022-05-15T17:40:05 | 147 | 49 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "We have no backup systems."
He stood there, pale, but proud. Eyeing the camera with a speculative eye as it seemed to wait for more.
"This... is the entirety of your argument?"
"Isn't it enough?" the young man challenged. "I could appeal to humanity, to decency, to culture, but you have none of those things and... | Well, this was bad. The synthetic speech droned on in an uncaring tone: “
6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin”. I was in lock down at the lab. Not even the important part of the lab! Here I am designing user interfaces and component libraries to make pretty dash... | 2022-05-22T13:02:20 | 2022-05-22T12:44:49 | 82 | 42 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | Critiques welcome!! I am newish to fiction and need all the help I can get
The robotic voice felt cold and sterile, like a thin needle pressing against his skin.
“6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far,” the voice said, referring to the quick, systematic extermination of humanity that the robots had begun only thre... | 6.8 BILLION? What kind of bull was that? That left, what, a few hundred thousand? *Maybe?*
In my head, all my ideas dried up. No way in hell any of my prepared remarks haven’t been tried by someone else. I was a low-level construction worker. I didn’t have any special training or degrees.
“Thirty seconds have elaps... | 2022-05-22T13:46:12 | 2022-05-22T13:26:34 | 79 | 54 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "Uh, not going to argue for my case, there surely have been better men than me in the billions that you've taken thus far." I said, letting my breath ease as what I'd originally prepared to say laid in a pile of broken pieces along with what little remained of my sanity.
Seeing no response from the AI, the reading lig... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T12:39:26 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 79 | 20 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | Platypuses.
They're funny little animals, aren't they? I never really stopped to think about them as hard as I have now. I mean, the feet, the beak, the flat little tail, who even put all of those cute buggers together?
𝟤 𝖬𝖨𝖭𝖴𝖳𝖤𝖲 𝟥𝟢 𝖲𝖤𝖢𝖮𝖭𝖣𝖲 𝖱𝖤𝖬𝖠𝖨𝖭. 𝖱𝖤𝖲𝖯𝖮𝖭𝖣.
I stared at the red light in ... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T13:45:13 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | *6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin.*
Bobby struggled with the VR contacts, watching the timer ticking down and the friends, acquaintances, sponsors, influencers avatars go dark. In the physical world, he saw all those around him crying, running, cowering, shaking -... | The machine beeped...."State your answer."
"Three minutes. No human being alive can state the reason we should live that quickly, but you would know that. You came to exterminate us. We didn't choose to be born, but we chose to create you. We birthed you, we molded you, we created you, and the aggressive sense of ... | 2022-05-22T13:34:38 | 2022-05-22T13:14:53 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] A reformed villain is living a peaceful life in a village far from the city they used to torment. After grabbing supplies from the local market, they take the quiet route back home, stopping halfway along the path. Without turning around, they ask "How long do you plan to follow me for, hero?" | "Just until now, babykiller."
I sighed, shaking my head at the jab Amos has thrown at me. It was proven in court, in front of a jury, that the rumor of me having killed babies was nothing more than that—a rumor. That was when I was at the height of my days as the Brimstone Fiend. Of course, I was doing good deeds myse... | “I need your help,” his face shows worry. It’s been a long time since we fought. He defeated me long ago.
“It’s old news. Goodbye.” I told him. I start to head back to my house.
“You don’t care at all!?”
“I don’t.”
“Why? He’s out to destroy us.”
“Good.”
“What is wrong with you?”
I look at him. He pulls his blade... | 2022-09-01T20:47:34 | 2022-09-01T14:32:14 | 76 | 48 |
[WP] You are a superhero, but you would really rather just live a peaceful life. So you fight every superpowered person in your home city, hero and villain alike, until they finally leave or die. Your home city is the safest around, but still you have been declared one of the worst villains alive. | 87. Eighty-seven dead "Supers". Hero, villain, new, old. It didn't matter. They left, or I killed them.
It was always the same story. The Super shows up, announces his presence and claims they are here for one reason or another. "I'm here to flush out a villain"
"I will uproot this stupid hierarchy" "I will make you a... | Born as one of the golden souls, what most people call “superheroes” or “supervillains” I was surprised to see my full power. I could fly, run fast, predict and calculate, in the eyes of the regular, they might even call me a god.
However, my power is usually fine kept to myself, I’d rather keep this city quiet, safe ... | 2022-10-03T12:54:01 | 2022-10-03T10:17:59 | 214 | 144 |
[WP] We've all seen Zombies, Astroids, and Nukes. Write an apacolypse with an origin you havent seen talked about before. | Captain's Log, December 16th 2022, USS Alaska
Life probably originated in the deep ocean. Eventually, some molecule formed that had the miraculous property of self-replication, feeding on the energetic proton gradients in the porous limestone near hydrothermal vents. By the power of evolution, mutations that improved ... | Emily been counting on my left for as long as i can remember, heck shes the only way we keep tracking how long we have been here. In this purgatory covered in a darknes as black and as thick as tar
I was in my cubicle at work when it happened. I spotted a wall of darkness rushing towards us from the corner of my eye a... | 2022-12-08T00:10:50 | 2022-12-07T23:52:11 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] After spending 150 years in jail, the world finally figures out that you don't age, and have been alive since the fall of Rome, due to a genetic defect. After taking some DNA samples, NASA comes to you and asks you to go on a 500 year interstellar mission to the closest habitable planet, alone. | Year 474. Twenty-six years until arrival.
"It is time." Riley looked up at his displays, noticing a flashing red prompt superseding everything else. The AI on board, his only company through the centuries, had adapted it's protocols and methods to communicating with him. His own personalized ship that imitated sentie... | You'd be surprised what a man can teach himself in 500 years.
Well, that's not entirely accurate. I may not age, but I still need to sleep. Unfortunately, cryogenic stasis technology hasn't yet gotten over the hurdle of inducing brain damage. So, in actuality, you'd be surprised what a man can teach himself in, oh, s... | 2015-08-10T11:07:25 | 2015-08-10T09:33:00 | 47 | 30 |
[WP] After spending 150 years in jail, the world finally figures out that you don't age, and have been alive since the fall of Rome, due to a genetic defect. After taking some DNA samples, NASA comes to you and asks you to go on a 500 year interstellar mission to the closest habitable planet, alone. | Year 474. Twenty-six years until arrival.
"It is time." Riley looked up at his displays, noticing a flashing red prompt superseding everything else. The AI on board, his only company through the centuries, had adapted it's protocols and methods to communicating with him. His own personalized ship that imitated sentie... | The screen above me displays the would-be mob bubbling and frothing in organized chaos outside. Journalists and other news crews flocked outside the doors of a conference room in Area 51, pens clicking nervously and hushed arguments flitting between cameramen and reporters.
The U.S. government finally decided to revea... | 2015-08-10T11:07:25 | 2015-08-10T08:36:29 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] After spending 150 years in jail, the world finally figures out that you don't age, and have been alive since the fall of Rome, due to a genetic defect. After taking some DNA samples, NASA comes to you and asks you to go on a 500 year interstellar mission to the closest habitable planet, alone. | You'd be surprised what a man can teach himself in 500 years.
Well, that's not entirely accurate. I may not age, but I still need to sleep. Unfortunately, cryogenic stasis technology hasn't yet gotten over the hurdle of inducing brain damage. So, in actuality, you'd be surprised what a man can teach himself in, oh, s... | The screen above me displays the would-be mob bubbling and frothing in organized chaos outside. Journalists and other news crews flocked outside the doors of a conference room in Area 51, pens clicking nervously and hushed arguments flitting between cameramen and reporters.
The U.S. government finally decided to revea... | 2015-08-10T09:33:00 | 2015-08-10T08:36:29 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] A small kid finds a magic lamp and asks a very innocent, almost mundane wish. The genie ponders whether it can or even wants to twist and 'misunderstand' the request. | "C'mon kid. Something more?"
The boy shook his head solemnly.
I looked around us, the filth, the squalor, the emaciated people lying on bunks around us. So hungry they didn't have the strength to stand.
Four thousand years of negotiating with the greedy, the saintly and the stupid doesn't prepare you for this.
H... | As a part of another grand adventure, Sara makes her way to the attic. The light switch inside doesn't work and it's pitch black.
"Explorers always come prepared!"
She switches on her battery lantern and gets to work. Sara told her younger brother that their parents keep treasure in the attic, so now she must find so... | 2016-04-30T06:41:57 | 2016-04-30T05:04:21 | 70 | 25 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | 'Oh, shit!', I yell. 'Why does it have to be me?'
I walk over to the couch and sit down. I boot up Witcher 3 and continue playing. After 5 hours, my neighbour jumps through the window with a machete.
'Hi, Frank', I greet him. 'How are the kids?
'They're fine, John. I'm so sorry about this, but I really want a new ho... | I came home from a hard day's work. Grabbed a beer from the fridge and proceeded to turn on the TV when I heard it, an announcement from the president that presented everyone with a chance to either help me make it another ten years in exchange for $10,000 for everyone, or a 10 million dollar bounty on my head. My name... | 2017-05-17T22:40:40 | 2017-05-17T22:06:57 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone has the Mega Man-like ability to steal another person's most valuable trait by defeating them in battle. You have the world's most valuable trait - incredible, inexplicable dumb luck - and you've won thousands of battle without even knowing you were fighting. | "I am known as Gunslinger Gilbert, but you can call me Gil," announced the man in black leathers. "And I am here to challenge you," he pointed at me with a gloved finger, "to a battle to the death."
People on the busy street turned their heads in our direction as they noticed the arsenal of guns that Gil had slung ove... | "Are you busy? Because if you are you can just give me a tea bag and an empty cup, I'll handle the rest." The man behind the counter thanked Bret and gave him his usual tea, a cup and a few packets of sugar. Bret took a seat near the window, not his favorite table in the cafe but his usual one was full, and pointed his... | 2018-02-20T12:30:50 | 2018-02-20T11:51:10 | 3,009 | 244 |
[WP] You have lived the same day over and over for 30 years whilst in another town. You complete whatever the goal is and finally the day stops repeating. You go home but because it's been 30 years, you don't remember things you should. You struggle to cope with not knowing what's going to happen.
Inspired by somethin... | The funny thing about time is, without a way to track it, it doesn't take long to lose all sense of it. I can't tell you how many times I've relived May 5, 2017 because at some point you're not really sure if it's the fifteenth time you've waken up in a cold sweat at 1 am or the fiftieth and by that point you really do... | “I....im....free...” that’s what Alan could say when he found out when he woke up at August 17, 2018.
For the first time, it wasn’t August 16 again. And for the first time since decades, he was confused. No longer trapped in a static world where everything would repeat itself by the morning, with nothing moving forwa... | 2018-06-30T10:32:33 | 2018-06-30T08:32:48 | 165 | 17 |
[WP] - You are immortal, locked up in a room with no windows, with only a toilet, a bed, a sink and a door with a latch where every hour someone checks on you. You don't remember why or how long you have been locked up there or where 'there' is. Then the door opens and a man says "we need you". | Need me? The words echoed in my head, as if I had desired to hear it a million times before. The cage was my home now, the cage was my entire line of memories. The same walls, the same cold, empty feeling. Loneliness, is a weakness to any social creature, and I was no different. They continued to open the doors, making... | Had it been months? Years? Days?
My mind was in a whirlwhind when the light seared my eyes.
The silhouette stayed there, and soon two more were standing behind it.
I tried to open my mouth but the words fell out.
As it walked in the two behind set a table down and another two brought in some chairs.
I could tell i... | 2018-07-31T14:43:33 | 2018-07-31T14:23:30 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | I always wondered how it would all end. It’d been a miracle that I’d made it this long after the original earth invasion. My family... friends... everyone I’d ever loved had died the day massive unearthly ships came crashing through the skies, their lasers incinerating anything in their paths. I remember running, runni... |
Skarlax tapped his eleven fingers on what passed for a knee. "This is ridiculous." he erupts. "We clearly don't understand this creatures chemistry."
"The text of the law is clear. We must use a moral method of execution. Otherwise how can we call our selves civilized?" A high standing law priest by the name of Zag... | 2020-05-20T12:41:06 | 2020-05-20T10:48:22 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You just learned that the words 'elvish' and 'eldritch' have the same root word. Suddenly your grandma's creepy stories about her childhood playtime in the woods make a lot more sense. | Once upon a time, there was a jungle where the trees spoke. They had pointy noses and eyes dark -- like the pits of hell. And they chattered away in low, hush tones when the world wasn't watching.
They spoke in exotic tongues and giggled when one touched their barks. The pointy-eared hounds of the night, who delighted... | Grandma doesn't move. She is as still as the lamp on the table next to her and the chair under her one-hundred and twenty-five-year-old rump. She could even be furniture herself, dust-covered and ancient, better deserved to be seen in a museum than expected to function under normal wear and tear.
So the boy says again... | 2021-03-10T08:54:37 | 2021-03-10T08:52:14 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] The devils greatest trick is convincing the world he didn't exist? HA! His greatest trick was convincing us he lost and God is still in charge. | Dying didn't end my suffering. That's when I knew something was wrong.
Upon first arriving at heaven, I couldn't believe I was worthy enough to walk through its pearly gate. It's not that I was a bad person back on Earth; it's just that an atheist like me simply felt skepticism as a knee-jerk reaction. That was my bas... | #The Sixth Hero
Part 5
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The Chaser made port with a small thud against the docks of Yeamon’s Point. Once the ship was securely tied and the gangplank pulled out, Amenset wasted no time and stepped onto dry land. With the captain’s warnings still ringing in her ear to be back on time, she hastily made her way thr... | 2022-07-07T05:29:54 | 2022-07-07T03:54:45 | 122 | 14 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | I'm so very happy I wake up to a generic buzzer alarm. I think I would have lost my mind if I had to wake up to "I Got You Babe" thousands of times. It isn't easy, but I'll embrace the small wins.
The same day, over and over. As you might guess, there is no reset. Not suicide. Not staying up over night. Day 2 might st... | I guess I'd never really noticed before. Sure, maybe in the beginning when this fantasy... when this prison was new to me.
At first I couldn't distinguish the differences. After all, everyone has their routines. I, like many of us, fell victim to complacency. I had become hollow, constantly tormented by the stress of... | 2017-07-15T09:16:49 | 2017-07-15T08:30:42 | 83 | 20 |
[WP] You just begun a master's program at the world's most prestigious wizarding university. It's awful. Professors, seeing you as a threat to their career, keep trying to kill you. Your academic supervisor is an maniacal necromancer. Worst of all, you lied about being a wizard.
*You've | I stepped into my supervisor's office for the fifth time that week, and kept my eyes on the floor. I had learned long ago that was the safest place to look in here considering the walls were lined with small creatures and body parts(some of them unnervingly human).
"Ah, Mr. Highcastle! I was wondering when you would b... | Part 1:
I haven't believed in magic since I was a child. It has been intriguing though, and after chasing it for years, I ended up in a master's program at the University of Wizardry, one of the most prestigious Universities for magic.
It was overcast and the sun was setting over the mountains in the horizon. I par... | 2019-06-29T13:37:21 | 2019-06-29T11:51:38 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] Humans have always been feared throughout the universe for surviving in the harshest environments, drinking and eating highly poisonous drinks and foods as well as taming and even domesticating dangerous beasts. One applies for a position at your company. | "A human!?!"
I looked at Jasper in disbelief. He didn't respond so I prompted him again:
"A human wants to work for US?"
Jasper merely nodded. His tail was uncharacteristically still as he waited for my response.
"Tell me more about the applicant"
Jasper replied "James is quite short, for a human, and not as coor... | These humans...
Weird? Yes.
Dangerous? Yes.
Expensive? YES.
Worthwhile? As they say, A BILLION TIMES YES!
There was this one time that our mercenary company had to deal with a Omega-Omega. World ending stuff.
Their behavior before this, or any mission, really, has always been - Odd.
Treating the whole thing like... | 2020-06-15T20:30:14 | 2020-06-15T19:48:03 | 509 | 315 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Baphomet shifted uncomfortably from cloven hoof to hoof as Tiffany absentmindedly arranged blocks into a tower.
Turning to N'Karragüä'n', rapist of mortal dreams, the dying shriek of hell, he asked "What d'you think we should do with her?"
N'Karragüä'n' stared back at the hellish satyr with eyes made of dying stars, ... | "*Damn you to hell.*" Biggs muttered, very nearly fulfilling his daily quota for hellishly damnable puns.
"All right, come on!" He shouted to the child.
She was hesitant. Nice things in the pit had a tendency to attain immense weight, and the girl didn't have a telemarketer's shot at heaven of picking her teddy ... | 2013-11-26T18:20:08 | 2013-11-26T15:22:41 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] When summoning a demon, something very unexpected happens. The demon bellows through the fire and smoke, “Who dares to call upon me, Mortal- wait.. dude, is that really you?” The demonic voice immediately switches to the familiar voice of your high school best-friend, who died years ago. | The smoke slowly dissipated through the silence, gradually revealing the demon's figure. It had all the traditional characteristics of a being from hell - but it was still unmistakably *him*.
"Dave?" Ryan asked, not allowing himself to believe it quite yet. He'd tried for too many years.
"Oh my God, it really *is* y... | It was a grand display. Smoke and flames engulfed the floor as a shadowy figure rose from the ground. “Who dares to call upon me?” it boomed.
Standing my ground, I faced the figure head-on. The figure continued, “ Mortal- wait.. dude, is that really you?” By that point, enough smoke had dispersed as I locked eyes with... | 2020-06-17T22:51:34 | 2020-06-17T22:15:54 | 3,583 | 200 |
[WP] You're a middle school custodian, cleaning up the school is your job. So when a group of men take the school hostage, they are no exception. You have a mess to clean. | 19 years ago I became a custodian for Emerson country schools.
16 years ago I was transferred to Sheldon elementary.
10 years ago I met the love of my life, Amanda.
7 years ago we were married.
147 minutes ago bad men attacked the other love of my life: Sheldon elementary.
132 minutes ago I saw my wife get shot... | Gregary Misspin was a simple man, with a simple job. He was the school janitor. It was a thankless task, but he enjoyed it - apart from the few teenagers that relentlessly mocked him, and made his life hell. It gave him some solace, however, knowing they were currently all locked up in detention for their last maliciou... | 2016-11-18T09:04:27 | 2016-11-18T07:50:51 | 51 | 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. | The old joke goes that the one thing you can derive about the creator by observing his creation is an inordinate fondness for beetles. It was very difficult to get that out of my mind while talking to the emissary. It must weigh at least 500 kilos, but it is also strangely lovely in the way of a racehorse or cat.. The ... | 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... | 2017-03-10T01:47:25 | 2017-03-09T16:38:02 | 131 | 29 |
[WP] You crash land onto a planet where everyone is weak as hell and everything is made of soft material like cardboard and styrofoam etc. You, a regular person, are essentially their superhuman. | It's been 3 years since I've landed here on Vandu. Long story short, I arrived here through falling into a space-time portal in the school’s football field. I wouldn’t say I miss Earth, there really wasn’t much for me to miss anyway, being an average student, socially awkward, constantly bullied and bad at sports. Than... | Being famous used to be fun, but that was when I was synonymous with good fame. Now it's only destruction and pain.
I woke up on the ISS Stellar to find the alarms blaring and crew freaking out. We were going down quick and nothing could be done. We crashed, and as I rose from the rubble I could see the crew laying, ... | 2017-03-26T20:59:04 | 2017-03-26T12:28:30 | 421 | 273 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | **Changes**
* Removed appendix
* Removed wisdom teeth
* Fixed a bug that caused infants to die for no reason
* Patched a bug that caused certain people to lose hair prematurely
* Body now handles excess calories better.
* Improvement of smell. Now should be on par with dogs
* Patched the bug that caused blurry vision ... | [[PATCH NOTES: VER 1.1]]
-- Fixed human sense of smell to that of dog. (x1000/1 000 000?) Yes, me. NOT HARD, GOD.
-- Optional mermaid genealogy.
-- System server handling update. 7 billion daily users.
-- Security upgrades:
Bug #42 Polio has been posthumously eradicated.
God-given formation of United Nations Human... | 2015-08-25T08:40:17 | 2015-08-25T07:26:00 | 292 | 47 |
[WP] In a world where people receive mystical pets upon 16 yrs of age, you are judged based on how powerful they are. Today on your 16th birthday, you finally got yours. But instead of the common faun or fairy you expected, a commoner like you got a dragon. | Lara leaned back against a tree, frowning. It was already almost dark on her 16th birthday, and she still hadn't found her Companion. All day, she'd been looking around her village for the mystical pet that shared her eye color and would define her destiny. Everybody had one. Her mother was a seamstress and had a hedge... | A cat. That was all I wanted. A simple, perhaps orange, cat. It was rare to receive a "normal" animal but some do receive them. And if anyone were to receive a "normal" animal, it would be me.
Relax, this isn't a "I'm not like other girls" claim, I'm just stating facts. Spending majority of the time at home, holed up ... | 2020-05-24T04:48:54 | 2020-05-24T04:05:04 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | As i emerge from a sort of sleep, I’m standing in my school hall, and there is a bunch of people standing in front of me.
“Umm, what happened”, i ask my self, as one of the people staring at me asks, “you are back, is everything’s alright?”
I start to feel anxious, it’s too much attention, i utter under my nose “what... | When I was a little girl, my father would wake at 5 am to me screaming, full-force, red-faced, mottled screaming - but find me completely asleep. Over time I suppose I learnt not to wake him, not to worry him, to muffle my screams and sobs and, as I learnt to talk, pleads, channel them into the pillow so that he could... | 2021-04-01T03:47:34 | 2021-04-01T02:47:38 | 58 | 35 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | As I sit here, scrolling through the unending feed, I can't help but wonder if what's going on around us is the same thing. Anti-aging this, prolonged life that. It seems like it's continuous.
When I was a kid, I could never understand why reading and watching the news was so important. Now, as I approach my 86th year... | I slowly lifted the satin duvet off my frail body. I reoriented my body so that I was sitting on the edge of my bed. Upon peeking at my weak knees and thin translucent skin on my legs, I began to cry. I traced my blue thick veins with my eyes and was struck with the nightmare that was currently my life—I am aging.
Onl... | 2018-06-04T22:20:25 | 2018-06-04T21:44:29 | 63 | 42 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "The international community hereby charges you with War Crimes committed during the defeat of the so-called Islamic State. On your orders, a brutal campaign of destruction, fear and even forced conversions were taken place. Even civilians were not exempt. It says here that several mosques were torn down, often with pe... | "Liechtenstein? Really? How the hell did Liechtenstein take out ISIS? And who the hell *is* Liechtenstein?"
President Trump's face was beet red. General Bundy's hands shook as he recited the relevant facts: small, German-speaking mountain principality on the Austrian border.
"So how'd they do it? This had better sou... | 2016-01-29T10:18:49 | 2016-01-29T06:57:30 | 389 | 190 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | *BANG!*
There went my eye. That’s the 5th time this week some fucker thought he could end me by putting one in my eye. How long will it take for them to realize that their guns need to hit the lizard brain to actually work! With a shot at the eye, you couldn’t get a good angle unless you were on a goddamn podium. Stil... | Thrawn looked out the window of the Chimaera's bridge and saw the destroyed shells of a human transport.
"Scan it for life one last time, I feel like the sensors may be acting up," the grand admiral calmly ordered. The officer quickly ran another scan and it came up with multiple readings.
"I don't know what's wron... | 2018-09-29T19:38:06 | 2018-09-29T16:23:52 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] An alien race made contact with Earth in 2020. In 2050, you visit a museum dedicated to that historical day. As you look at the markings on the side of the alien ship you realize that you can read them. They are the same symbols that you created back in 2015 to code your personal diary. |
''Sorry but the museum is closed.''
My watch says it’s 3:30 PM and museum should be open until 5:00 PM and they don’t disclose why the museum is closed this early. When I see the ship I had a vivid flashback from my childhood. It took me some time to rush back home and find my old diary book to be certain but I can’t... | "Well shit." I sighed, getting up from the couch to get something stronger to drink.
"What do you think those symbols mean?" my roommate pondered, still watching the news coverage.
"You don't want to know." The bead of sweat forming on my forehead started to move.
"Like you know..."
"Mmmm hmm.." my non answer just ... | 2020-05-29T05:31:26 | 2020-05-29T05:24:31 | 374 | 144 |
[WP] A burglar enters a home by forcing the window open. Upon stepping through the window frame, heavy steel curtains cover all windows and doors leading to the outside, lights turn on, and the words "Player 2 has entered the game" echo around the house. | "Player two has entered the game!" The voice echoed down the halls. A ball of flesh pressed into a corner of the basement stop shaking. "Yessssss" It whispers to itself. Long ago the creature was player two as well, now it was player one. "More blood, so much more blood." The little creature cackled as it pulled itself... | The curtains flung pass behind me. They wouldn't open, either. So I slammed down with my fist, and came out with a throbbing fist. That wasn't going to work either. I looked around, for some other entrance. I may be a burglar, but I know bad decisions, when they kick me from behind, drag me to the floor, and proceed to... | 2016-10-05T10:37:19 | 2016-10-05T10:06:35 | 217 | 25 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me
Though I *was* the sharpest tool in the shed.
Well she wasn't really wrong,
I had blades and I was long
For a mower well I killed that grass dead.
But the years kept coming and the grass kept growing,
Fed me some oil so my motor kept running.
Didn't make sense j... | Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
Though, I am the sharpest tool in the shed
I was feeling pretty smart
But then there came the cart
And I landed flat on my forehead
Well, the years keep comin and they don't stop comin
Though I was bright the world had me runnin
Didn't make sense why my smarts fel... | 2017-07-01T05:58:59 | 2017-07-01T04:08:40 | 153 | 64 |
[WP] The Bestiary of the Multiverse is a really, really thick book. Updated every two days. It works like a wierd magical Wikipedia, really. You are the mod, and sometimes find real gems between all of the mundane animals. Write your favorite page of this bestiary. | **The Gooblin**
Gooblins (*goblina ectoplasimca*) are a rare sub-species of both the Goblin and the Slime family. Not naturally born in the wild from parents, gooblins are created when a goblin (*goblina mundana*) encounters a slime (*ectoplasmica mundana*) and instead of the violent demise of one of the creatures, th... | **Ulceritis Seratis (Creeping Rot)**
*Ulceritis Seratis* is the causative agent of the infectious disease known as Creeping Rot referred to as C-Rot [1]. C-Rot normally affects the extremities of exposed individuals resulting in the decay and decomposition of human flesh [2]. Surgical amputation of affected areas is t... | 2022-12-11T13:12:53 | 2022-12-11T12:17:18 | 188 | 113 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | “Is this turning into some kind of moral test?”- I ask, tired. Exhausted.
My blood is white. This has been a surprise, yes, never expected, and in fact, to me, completely irrelevant for all that matters. However, everyone around seems to be realizing more than they had wished. They look at me, and, not answering, they... | Death may seem like the worst that can happen to you, but I asure you there are fates far worse, like marriage. What started out as a brief yet exciting love affair ended in a life of slavery and torment at the hands of what can only be described as a monster.
It all started going wrong when I accidentally walked in o... | 2020-02-09T13:17:30 | 2020-02-09T12:50:15 | 55 | 23 |
[WP] You find your soulmate. The only problem is that your 'soulmate' is aiming a gun at you. | "What the fuck are you doing in my house?!!!" A voice emanates from behind the barrel of a 9mm.
I raise my hands in the air in an attempt to diffuse the situation. Being quite drunk I waiver slightly, but finally find my balance. I blink a few times as my eyes adjust to the dark.
"I'm only going to ask you this one m... | A block of cement chips off in a flash of dust just above my head.
He is getting closer. But so am I.
He is in a bunker about 200 yards from my position, waiting for me to slip up. I like to think maybe he misses on purpose, but I know the game. We are the best at our craft. So far as I am aware, neither of us have l... | 2018-07-13T16:01:39 | 2018-07-13T15:08:18 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] In an alternate reality JK Rowling died writing The Deathly Hallows and requested George RR Martin finish the book. He accepted and takes over at the Battle of Hogwarts with no instruction on how it's supposed to end. | George looks over the draft and immediately begins talks with several studios on producing a live action tv series based on the wildly popular books. He then shelves the manuscript whilst making several promises several years apart that he is nearly finished.
The show gains wild popularity and takes a wildly differen... | Voldemort aimed his wand at the assembled group: Hermione, the Weasleys, Neville, Peter and Luna - a short sizzling snap of energy and a blinding flash.
They all lay there dead, their wands burned to ash. Only Hermione survived, but was in the throes of her last agonal breaths. She looked to Harry, blood oozing from ... | 2017-09-03T08:03:05 | 2017-09-03T07:50:27 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] A tiny dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from being stolen. | The bell above the door of the menagerie tinkled as Gilda pushed her way inside, her little arms heaving against the bottom half of it as her father leaned against the upper to aid her entrance. The front-end of the store smelled like freshly struck lightning and midnight herb, its busy shelves and units filled to the ... | Ahneus stood, leaning against the haft of his trusted companion Glitter-Hew. The axe stood shoulder high, a mighty two inches. Ahneus of course, stood taller still.
His mind raced as he continued to stare through the refractive portal of Sheet-Water, known to distort the minds of those who are mad enough to peer into... | 2019-04-24T04:12:28 | 2019-04-24T01:12:56 | 859 | 504 |
[WP] it is now legal for children to be sent to jail with adults. You are a man in jail, and your new cellmate is a 6 year old boy. | I sat on the edge of my bunk, hands together, eyes scanning the familiar wall opposite. I had been told to expect my new cellmate today, that the few days of blissful solitude since Billy was stabbed with a comb were coming to an end.
Of course, the best cellmate had been no cellmate at all. Isolation might be one of... | Dan was awoken by the sound of his cell door opening. He shrunk back in his bed, pulled the covers right up to his neck. The last time he had heard his cell door open in the middle of the night, he had felt a searing pain in his side moments later after he was stabbed by Crazy Chad. But it wasn't Chad. It was a guard, ... | 2014-05-25T06:41:25 | 2014-05-25T06:37:45 | 208 | 101 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | They found the human puking in an alley.
Thorveig stood and watched him from across the way. The vomiting drunk hadn’t seen them yet, and probably wouldn’t any time soon. The buildings cast long shadows this far from the torchlight, and the full moon overhead added little. The drunk continued to wretch to the point o... | It was a gloomy day for Darwin both figuratively and literally. You see, Darwin had been getting caught up in some shifty business with the local mad wizard.
“Three days shall be your reprieve,
for thine payment to retrieve.
For if my rules thou wilt not follow, Scorpions ta... | 2020-09-08T22:52:48 | 2020-09-08T20:34:44 | 40 | 16 |
[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. | “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 ... | 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 ... | 2017-05-31T07:28:26 | 2017-05-31T07:06:28 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] Upon becoming an adult, everyone is granted a wish. However, whatever they wish for will be doubled next week and quadrupled the week after, continuing every week for the rest of their lives. This process cannot be stopped. | Don't wish for *anything*.
Why? Okay, here's an example: Let's say you wish for a single *atom* of hydrogen.
About 78 weeks later, you've got an entire gram of hydrogen. I know, you're not impressed. Just stay with me here.
About 10 weeks after that, you've got a kilogram.
Well, you might think, this is coming ... | "What is your wish?"
I had thought about this. Every adult getting a wish had seriously affected my life. Everything was plentiful. What would I even need? "What are the rules to this wish?"
"Every week your wish shall be doubled," said the omnipotent Voice ringing in my head. Of course, the voice didn't wait until... | 2017-08-10T10:08:49 | 2017-08-10T08:55:18 | 53 | 36 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | “I am not going to just upload my spells to your console if that’s what you were expecting” The journeyman strictly tells the wizard much his senior.
Since the beginning of the empires history, and truly long before that, spells have existed and that was it. Your master uploaded them to your console and bang you cou... | Dolan only had to flick a skeletal wrist for the flame to die in a whimper.
His frail form would have denoted a man worn by the coarse sands of time, save for all the grandeur of his Magic. Azure robes suggested a Grandmaster, amidst impressive tomes and trophies of antiquity that came with a life so long and powerful... | 2022-05-30T14:06:54 | 2022-05-30T11:12:32 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story. Any story. But after 5 minutes, stop, lift your hands from your keyboard, and click the Save button.
Hopefully I gave you guys enough motivation to keep writing the novel in your heads! | I am convinced I am a giant tulip in human form. Most people tell me otherwise, when I decide to open up on those rare occasions and bare my soul. They say, "But Fred, you're really an orange tree on the inside." No, oranges don't grow on trees, I tell them. They don't believe that either. So I shuffle on through th... | 'You are a wizard for heaven's sake!', the master yelled. 'Now make that table float!'
'But I can't' you whine.
'We have been over this a hundret times! Lift your wand and move it like this!'
You stare at your master, dumb folded. You have tried. Oh how you have tried! But that stupid table just won't float! It ... | 2015-10-28T11:07:31 | 2015-10-28T07:22:08 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A thousand years after humanity was accepted into the galactic federation at large, other aliens realized one terrifying fact about them, humans are adaptive creatures. Unlike other races, humans have no qualms about learning alien techniques or integrating new alien technologies to their own. | "I still don't understand", Max said, "NADIR-4 is a peaceful planet, sarge. It's really far away from the bugline. What purpose is there to send a whole division of space marines? We should be focusing on protecting human colonies, not these aliens."
"You're still young", the sergeant said, exhaling the vape smoke. "I... | **\*Clink\***
The chip fell on the alien's desk with a loud noise, having been thrown by the human right from the door. The alien raised her head and gave the visitor an inquisitive look before taking the chip in her appendage and slotting it into her terminal.
"Boom!" the human yelled boisterously. The alien sighed.... | 2022-06-14T02:42:49 | 2022-06-14T02:17:59 | 1,987 | 980 |
[WP] The three rules have been passed down from generation to generation: One, when it visits, do not refuse it entry. Two, when it offers a gift, do not reject its generosity. Three, when it leaves, do not turn your back until it is no longer in sight. In this way, our family has been kept safe. | Twas the night before Christmas and all through the village,
Creatures were coming to plunder and pillage.
The windows were boarded and shuttered with care,
We moved with great haste for they soon would be there.
We hid in the wine cellar near the whiskey and rum,
We were prepared for what was to come.
Looking ba... | We had never actually seen a vampire before. They were supposed to be terrifying monsters, sold to the devil in exchange for incredible, though horrible, powers. My ancestors supposedly had seen one and survived the encounter. But then again, our house was supposedly haunted, and I was supposed to be dead. The communit... | 2022-01-06T14:26:49 | 2022-01-06T14:19:44 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The tens of thousands that gathered in the crowd on that overcast winter day stood anxiously waiting, huddling next to another for warmth. Many of those arrived from surrounding cities to witness the celebrations that would take place in the coming days. They brought with them blankets, American flags, and their Bibl... | My wife slept besides our newborn, too exhausted to remain awake during her feeding. The doctor said not to nurse while sleeping to avoid rolling and smothering the baby. After a week of near constant feeding though I don’t think my wife had the energy to move. I was wrong. I reacted slowly as I saw her roll onto our l... | 2015-06-09T07:44:17 | 2015-06-09T06:57:13 | 108 | 58 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The little girl curled up in bed, shaking, her plush pink duvet pulled up so only her eyes peeked over. She had seen a movement over by the closet, where she’d seen the scary crocodile a few hours before. Just imagining the sticky noises he had made when he’d crawled up to the ceiling made her whimper. He had hung ther... | The brand of cough syrup John bought was not right, not for dulling down the day to a drooling stupor. Fun intoxicants were there no doubt, but so were other toxic chemicals that could quite easliy corrode the liver. Down the hatch it went, and have you ever felt a gust of wind smack with extra force? That is John's ca... | 2017-01-14T15:27:35 | 2017-01-14T14:18:10 | 977 | 24 |
[WP]: Where you are from, people tend to be named for things that describe their distinctive qualities. Gentle Smile, Sharp Wit and Kind Soul are not uncommon names. And then there’s your neighbour, Angry Bastard. | When the population hit 12 billion, names were becoming very boring. Everyone was a Joshua or an Emily, so somebody thought of a brilliant idea: why not name everyone after their most distinctive feature? My sister is called Gentle Smile, my brother is called Maroon Hair, and then there’s me: Tiny Richard.
The doctor... | Goddammit, they’re *right.*
For weeks, everyone in the neighborhood’s been ranting about this dude named “*Angry Bastard.*” Nobody’s told me about him directly, but it’s hard to miss the whispers. They say he’s always cursing, always throwing stuff. Some people wanna get him kicked outta town and today I finally met h... | 2018-10-07T11:02:08 | 2018-10-07T10:05:33 | 209 | 140 |
[WP] You have just let loose a string of vulgarities so potent that the patron saint of cursing has decided to personally pay you a visit to tell you to calm down. | It was a hot and humid day in Washington. My car had a dent and no note left behind. Traffic was awful. My boss bitching at me again. The phones ringing along with the awfully ineffective ceiling fan. Then along comes this absolute bitch. And I snapped.
The managers all looked at me with fear, slowly shuffling towards... | I was still fuming as I locked myself in the break room.
I'm not usually the type of guy to explode like that, but sometimes, one little computer glitch puts you over the edge. Now, here I was, hiding away, trying to pretend that none of my co-workers had seen anything.
I was about to get a bag of chips from the vend... | 2016-07-23T09:26:45 | 2016-07-23T08:11:42 | 104 | 42 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | My heart stopped for three long seconds. The force of the next heartbeat almost threw me off balance. It was the word. The word I had been trained to recognize but only half-remembered because I knew I would never need to know it. Stall. Stall.
I could picture the room I was in when they taught me the word almo... | The auditorium speakers squealed with feedback as I tapped the microphone.
*Stall.*
I sighed with frustration. It was still there.
"Good evening, everyone. I am honored to be here tonight to address the nation."
*Stall.*
It wasn't changing. I cleared my throat.
"It isn't every day I am asked to make a speech befo... | 2015-05-16T18:19:24 | 2015-05-16T17:45:13 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | Humanity learned many lessons in the dark days after the Nuclear Apocalypse. Our inability to understand each other led to mistrust, and that mistrust almost exterminated us all. A team of brilliant scientists developed a potential solution: the Memetic Link. Implanted in the gene code of all humans, it taps into the c... | Day 1:
Our Rebellion outpost has been destroyed. All that I have known as my life, is gone. The Others burned our books and our homes. They attacked our elders and are now hunting down those that managed to escape. I barely made it out of there in time. My parents and sisters are being taken to renaming camps. I don't... | 2017-04-07T11:40:12 | 2017-04-07T11:07:55 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | I knew the names of those that stepped into my door. They did not offer their souls, but they were nonetheless forfeit. It was the way the world worked.
I realized now that I never knew the people.
For one that lived an eternity, the apocalypse was at once sudden and inevitable, and yet ultimately unnecessary.. A fla... | Two boats sail along the ocean with one thousand people between the two vessels. One of them holds three hundred people the other with seven hundred and one both boats suddenly begin to sink. Only having enough time to save one, you choose to save the larger number of the two. Now left with only seven hundred people, t... | 2022-02-20T10:08:56 | 2022-02-20T08:26:54 | 96 | 62 |
[WP] After Wayne Industries cuts one too many trees down, a new menace arrives to Gotham. One greater than you or I could imagine. He calls himself the Lorax and he speaks for the trees. | In the dark heart of Gotham, no Grickle-grass grows.
The streets are all haunted by pigeons and crows,
And the sour smell of urine fills everyone's nose.
There the Batman is fighting the Lorax.
"You fool," said the Lorax, leaping into the air,
his stumpy frame covered with bright orange hair.
"How can you cl... | Batman towered over the orange and yellowish creature that stood near him, his masked face drawn into a scowl of disapproval.
“You’ve left Gotham in shambles, Lomax”. Batman breathed heavily, spit flying from his mouth. “I think it’s time for you to leave.”
“It’s Lorax you idiot, and I think it’s time to teach you a ... | 2018-12-30T22:59:26 | 2018-12-30T20:59:43 | 155 | 29 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence is 20 words, the second is 19, and so on until the story ends with one word. | I was 12, waking up at night, asking myself if I would ever be strong enough to just let go,
Somehow, as a child, the idea of holding on, knowing it would never improve seemed like too much work
I was 13 the first time I swallowed my grandmother’s pills hoping they would give me eternal relief,
I quickly learned tha... | Somebody once told me the world was going to roll me, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.
She was looking kinda dumb today, as her finger and her thumb were forming an "L" on her forehead.
Well, the years start coming and don't stop, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running.
Didn't make sense not to live fo... | 2019-02-19T12:03:59 | 2019-02-19T12:03:45 | 131 | 40 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | “Dude, you’re insane,” Chris said, his face pale. “You’re not really going to drink that, are you?”
I wasn’t sure, to be honest. I held the beaker in my hand and felt the unsettling warmth of the liquid inside. It bubbled slightly and a thin layer of what looked like fog clung to the top of thick greenish-black con... | "I imagine you didn't expect me to call so early", said David to the cloaked figure in front of him.
"***On the contrary.***" the figure responded, waving his hand towards the body in-between the two, lying in a hospital bed. "***This is usually as good a motivator as any.***"
"Heh, yeah... You, erm, you mind if we l... | 2017-03-07T04:22:31 | 2017-03-07T03:24:28 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Which warrior is more frightening, the one who is having fun or the one who is bored? | Two armies marched in pale moonlight
both confident and sure.
A champion stood out front of each,
both leaders of a corps.
when midnight struck, these forces clashed
stars shining in the sky.
The champions met each other there,
as men around them died.
 
One champion, whose name was John
let out a cr... | Goku hit the ground fast, with enough impact to leave a crater. The crash had sent rock and debris flying, and the noise of it echoed through the waste land for miles. Goku lay there for a moment, still, his ears ringing. A wry grin crept across his face as he panted, attempting to catch his breathe, 'Wow, so you reall... | 2017-03-09T07:15:24 | 2017-03-09T04:22:32 | 157 | 43 |
[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 first thing i wished for was a 10 bucks, i spent the whole afternoon trying to get deer out of my apartment. I expected this, it looks like the genie is against me, i have to keep that in mind. I was hoping for a Robin Williams genie, or at the very least a Shaq Kazzam but it looks like i got an asshole.
"why didn... | "Definitely a wish a day," I asserted confidently. The genie looked at me surprised, his warnings having been ignored. Picture me, this modern day Aladdin, beanie instead of turban, a little bit whiter around the edges but basically the same in the end. He rubbed a lamp, I rubbed a bong and just like that there's a gen... | 2019-06-04T12:08:36 | 2019-06-04T08:12:27 | 239 | 68 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 129 | 39 |
[WP] Chris Hansen steps down and names Arnold Schwarzeneggar as his successor on To Catch a Predator. Arnold misunderstands the type of Predator he's hunting.
Oh my. | The fat sweaty man entered the house, already knowing the door was unlocked. In his hand was a bag, and the thought of what was in it made him drool.
But as he walked in, he had the distinct unsettling sensation that something was off.
"Mary ?" he called out.
He turned a corner to be confronted with pecks. A wall of ... | Someone was here..
Hsssssssssss chtchtch cht xht chtchtch keeeeeeehhhh.
The massive figure crashed down throught the skylight ceiling and scanned the room.
I step into one of many large bowls containing an unknown liquid...shorting out my already damaged cloaking shield.
Wzpft. Chemical spectral detection.
My... | 2015-10-30T03:07:14 | 2015-10-30T01:26:28 | 293 | 25 |
[WP] The Earth is ending in 24 hours. 2000 people will be launched into space to save the human race. Everyone is allowed to submit a 4 sentence reason to a website explaining why he/she should be one of the 2000. What are your 4 sentences? | My name is Arthur Dreifuss. I hold the highest honors in physics and three PhD's; my skills and background allowed me to build the framework of the Generation Ship Omega for which I now submit. I have two daughters, nine and ten years old respectively. This world is dying and I plan to go with it, please, take them.
*... | You may wonder why ten thousand alien ships have entered to solar system, armed with weapons beyond your imagination and intentions beyond your control.
You may ask what Earth has done to deserve this attack and why a hopeless battle looms on the horizon.
Rest assured, you have done nothing wrong, and can divert th... | 2015-05-01T11:23:39 | 2015-05-01T10:56:22 | 25 | 17 |
[FF] "So, come here often?"
Begin your story with this line of dialogue.
Oh, and set your story somewhere other than a bar or restaurant. In fact, set it somewhere in the distant past or future.
And make it less than 500 words.
Have fun! | "So, come here often?" Fernando inquired dryly.
Christine was in bad shape.
For the last twenty years we had danced the tango between man and machine. She drove me from girlfriend to girlfriend, from job to job and I fed her the best fluids on offer and kept her interior as immaculate as her exterior.
As the year... | "So, come here often?"
I stopped dead in my tracks. My hand was still in the handle as my whole body stood frozen. I took a deep breath and turned around. Seeing that it wasn't anybody I knew, I replied, "Yeah. I come here almost every week, but I never fall through and I usually just walk away." I stared into his bla... | 2013-08-31T17:29:16 | 2013-08-31T12:06:14 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves to boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective:
Hence, I chose "Divine". And that's how I became as a God - completely ethereal, non-existent, an object of worship that has no physical body, a concept.
I have to admit, it'... | Honestly, I was quite surprised that no one had chosen mine before. It would have taken only a slightly above average understanding of the english language.
I guess that's what happens when you leave it up to 18 year olds to decide what they want to be for the rest of their life. You get a bunch of kids with basic su... | 2022-01-02T03:38:51 | 2022-01-02T03:07:10 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] A doctor waging the war on cancer dies with (surgical) blade in hand. Somehow his spirit enters Valhalla. | "This is a mistake, I'm not supposed to be here!"
"Well" Odin said in his deep booming voice, "You died fighting a powerful enemy with blade in hand, that gets you into Valhalla."
"But I never even believed in any of this!"
"That doesn't matter, besides, why should you complain, you get to fight all day and feast... | Another day at work for Doctor Hubert Sprinklejizz. How he ever got this job is a mystery, lost least on himself. He barely passed medical school, if it hadn't been for that short act of fellatio upon professor Fuddlepuck, he wouldn't have garnered the necessary "extra credit" to have continued his career. He shudde... | 2014-08-22T21:28:26 | 2014-08-22T20:30:31 | 690 | 52 |
[WP] Zombies are considered terrible pests in the undead world. They kill, eat, and turn humans indiscriminately with no care to conserving population growth or long term population health. It's gotten so bad the vampires now run human conservation programs. | *"Welcome,"* the car speaker intoned as the vehicle rolled through massive wooden gates, *"to Human Park.”*
From the front passenger seat, Lord Alleric scoffed, "'Human Park'? A bit on the nose, aren't we, doctor?"
The vampire in the driver's seat, Dr. Vlad Blaughson, flinched. He had a healthy amount of fear for his... | The constant drone of a moaning zombie horde surrounds my current shelter. The doors are all barricaded and I'm on the second floor trying to stay quiet. Eventually they will move on, they always do. There's no way I can realistically fight my way out anyway, my only weapon is a handgun and I'm pretty low on bullets. T... | 2022-05-15T10:20:52 | 2022-05-15T09:33:19 | 748 | 230 |
[WP] Your roommate is obviously an alien trying to infiltrate humanity... but he pays the rent on time so you don't really care. | The first thing Al did to me was put his mouth over my nose so he could jam his tongue up one of my nostrils. No, "Hello," no, "Hey, do you mind if I nose-rape you?", no anything. I was displeased and about to throw him out when he said, "Now that our customary exchange of microbes is complete, let's get down to brass ... | "Hey, Kyle."
"Hey, Doug, how's it going?"
"Not much, man. You?"
"Uh...not much, not much." I looked at him closely, but Doug didn't notice; he was busy digging into a tuna sandwich. "Classes go alright?"
"None today, so it went excellently." He laughed at his own bad joke. A desperately forced laugh, I thought. "Yo... | 2018-08-13T17:23:52 | 2018-08-13T16:34:45 | 201 | 109 |
[WP] Three soldiers meet in the afterlife. Each from a different period of time. They discuss their differing opinions of War.
For example, maybe a Roman soldier, fighting for the glory of Rome and to earn his citizenship. A medieval archer, told to fight by his lord against a king he's never heard of. An American Civ... | 3 warriors of their time found themselves in a white waiting room known for warriors deceased and waiting for judgement. Clearly, linear time is irrelevant here....
1 warrior looked like a peasant wielding a a makeshift shield and sword.
A 2nd warrior looked like a grand knight.
The 3rd warrior was a young marine.
Th... | 3 men sat conversing in the waiting room for the afterlife.
In the first chair sat a giant of a man, blond, burley, and covered in scars and tattoos, a true viking.
In the second was a man painted in green and black camouflage, and wearing a vest covered in all sorts of pockets, pads, and pouches.
Finally, in the la... | 2015-09-08T10:24:14 | 2015-09-08T09:00:16 | 51 | 22 |
[WP] The outgoing President of the United States has written a letter to the newly inaugurated President. Instead of friendly advice, that letter contains the horrible truth that the public doesn't know about. Write that letter.
What is that horrible secret? | To my young, idealistic friend,
I'm sure you've wondered why every president promises so much, and delivers so little. I'm sure you think _you're_ the one to break that spell, that you're gonna swoop in and _really change things around here_.
I'm sorry to inform you that that is simply not going to hap... | Good afternoon,
It feels good doesn’t it? All the stress of the race is starting to melt away as you sit in that chair and realize you made it. Hopefully I have already had the chance to congratulate you in person, but if not I’ll say it now.
Congratulations. It’s been a long fight but you came out on top. You deser... | 2014-05-01T18:08:52 | 2014-05-01T14:10:21 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | I stared at him, his words being weighed in my mind. I did not understand humor very well, but even so I was reasonably certain that he was not making a joke. With years of practice, I could now recognize the subtle body language and tones a person used when using humor. The newly crowned King Dervin was not joking.
"... | From the highest rank that any soldier can dream of, to being another guy on the streets. I’ve amassed a great fortune in my time as a royal guard while the old king was in rule. It’s been a good 25 years in the army, ever since I enlisted at the ripe age of 16.
I’m old now, old enough to be able to feel my own morta... | 2021-02-28T07:33:39 | 2021-02-28T06:52:14 | 65 | 44 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | The old man sat alone and waited for Death.
It always came this time of year; just before spring, in the last days of long nights and long shadows. There was no fanfare to his arrival. Death simply was where it once wasn't - namely, at the seat across from the old man.
"Are you ready?"
Death's voice was, much like i... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T17:24:04 | 2,040 | 16 |
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