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[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The Captain filled a small container with what had to be bourbon, carefully sealing the spout to prevent any of the liquid from floating away. As I dogged the hatch behind me, I saw that he already had his drink in hand.
First day aboard a starship, and I'm drinking with the boss? Not a bad start.
Captain Leonov sent... | “John Smith. And fuckin.... John Smith. WHAT THE FUCK!” Andrea yelled, looking at her friends arm.
“I know right. Stupid.” Tally remarked. She’d had this reaction before.
“So ya gotta find two John Smith’s?”
“I hope so.”
“What do you mean?”
“Maybe I only need to find one.” | 2018-03-11T08:45:50 | 2018-03-11T07:26:50 | 120 | 78 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "What you have?" I said, smiling at the elderly woman tottering up to me.
"Yes, wait," she said, studying the printed menu behind me. There weren't a lot of words, but everyone understood numbers and burgers. She pointed at the Number Six. I nodded. Money changed hands. After passing the order chit to the kitchen staf... | I grimaced when the local news came on. The station had blown most of their budget just on the technical words for the Meteorologist, but the rest of the station was kind of lacking.
“And now… News!” Beverly said with a cheery tone.
Chet looked at the stack of papers in his hands and grimaced. “Things happened toda... | 2017-09-20T08:43:21 | 2017-09-20T07:16:50 | 802 | 590 |
[WP] Warriors killed in battle don't go to Heaven or Hell, they stand guard in between. | Max woke up gasping for air. He could not recognise the surroundings and his eyes were very blurry. "A lot of people, a lot of noise and commotion." - he thought to himself. He was lying on a strange, cold, stone-like table, next to others who also just woke up and also looked very confused. It looked like he was in th... | We all were killed in battle. Some were wars, some were small skirmishes. There are warriors from every continent, every race, religion. Vikings, Spartans, Maori, Legionaires, hell even Maximus was here.
The one thing we have in common is we never got into the salvation promised to us in life. No Heaven, Hell, ... | 2014-11-08T01:10:35 | 2014-11-08T00:43:25 | 113 | 21 |
[WP] God doesn't hide in Heaven because he created us. He hides because he doesn't know where we came from. | Heaven was impossible to reach, but that didn't stop us.
The base of the tower was the size of a city and yet, as Anna looked up squinting against the sun, it seemed to shrink to the size of a needle as it disappeared into the hazy sky. She'd first seen it three hours ago as she'd been driving here. Then, two hours fr... | “What are the lights on the mountain?” the traveler asked.
The bartender smiled. The traveler had an innocent, kind smile, but she knew better.
“You don’t need me to know that, do you? I’m sure the tour books all say.”
“Well, everyone knows what’s up there. One of the world’s highest monasteries. But I’m asking abou... | 2020-02-19T22:12:58 | 2020-02-19T22:12:24 | 1,502 | 191 |
[WP] “sit tight and don’t leave” was the last message I received. That was over a year ago and I haven’t had contact with the outside since. | I sighed deeply as I added creamer to my coffee, warily looking out the window that faced my backyard and staring at the grocery delivery that'd just arrived. My phone was on the counter, never more than an arm's reach away, in case he decided to send another message to me.
*Don't be pathetic*, the voice of reason ins... | Day three hundred and seventy-three
That nobody contacts me
“Sit tight and don’t leave,”
was the last message I received
More than a year alone in this shelter
Only with rations and a computer
But I'll not leave this place
As leaving might mean disgrace
Day three hundred ... | 2022-12-16T10:09:32 | 2022-12-16T07:44:47 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] A man on his deathbed gathers together his children. "To my eldest, I leave all my worldly possessions. To you, my youngest, I leave all my otherworldy possessions." | With the a final nod, my father lay back amongst the pillows. His eyes closed and he drifted off.
"He left me everything? But I pushed him down a flight of stairs..." came the mutterings of my sister. She stared down at him until she couldn't fight off her smile.
I knew she has always hated him. It was one of t... | "... And to you, my youngest, I leave all my otherworldly possessions."
. . .
The room is silent again, but less somber now and more somnambulant, because, I mean, what the fuck?
He gets the company, the subsidiaries, the stock, the townhouse, the lake house, the beach house, the cottage, the second cottage, the su... | 2018-07-06T18:19:43 | 2018-07-06T14:25:44 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Monsters of legends have started to appear on earth. However, they don't cause any damage or casualty, they just roam and kind of ignore humanity. | I park my Jeep at the far end of the parking lot, underneath a massive oak tree. I turn off the engine and step out, breathing in the fresh air. I really needed to get away from the city today, and I already feel refreshed.
Things have been so weird lately. Yesterday, a vampire interviewed to be the new receptionist.... | Initially everyone freaked out when giant mythical monsters started meandering around. But when we finally realized that they're fully willing to ignore us and somehow not completely destroy the local ecosystem with their diets they just became another part of life.
I occasionally find myself staring in silent awe as ... | 2022-04-15T10:53:08 | 2022-04-15T07:16:27 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] A poorly equipped adventurer dared to approach the cave of a red dragon famous for it's riches. However, instead of trying to steal from it, the young man politely asked if it could share some of it's wealth. To his surprise, the dragon said "Sure, go ahead". | The entrance to the cavern was glimmering in the twilight. The sun was rising in the east, shining through the Scottish highlands, and the few rays of light escaping the blanket of clouds and reaching the cave were reflected back from within.
A traveler, wearing simple robes and endowing only a sack, paced through the... | Jack was one of those teenagers, hearing about the riches and fame adventurers found all around him. He left his village with only a wooden sword, pathetic like a piece of grass. He realized he wasn't fit for this when he fought a monster, but something shocking happened to Jack that changed his life... forever.
\--... | 2021-10-16T11:25:55 | 2021-10-16T11:22:36 | 150 | 24 |
[WP] An inverse Wizard of Oz, where a girl from a fantasy wakes up in a realistic world after a tornado hits her home. | Her name was Kate. That was 'bout all she could remember, at least that we could trust. The rest of her memories were just the fanciful imaginings of a badly bruised head. Fugue, the doctor called it. A state of forgetting oneself, temporarily. Kate must have been out wandering for hours until she found me, on account ... | The weekly tornado had been *weird*. It was grey, for one thing, and it didn't carry anything in it. It was just a swirling funnel of dust and wind, without even a single frog in sight. At that point, Dorothy should have steered her house out of the way. Well, they do say that hindsight is always perfect after the even... | 2018-12-27T07:59:08 | 2018-12-27T06:48:03 | 60 | 17 |
[WP] The most successful monsters are the ones that don't have tales and legends surrounding them. | The old Hunter stood, painfully out of place in the clean classroom. Though he stood with confidence, the students were clearly confused at his presence. Their instructor, his expression a little bemused, stood at the side of the room; his attentiveness at least encouraged the class to behave as they entered the room... | I walked out of the theater, disappointed as usual. But I hid my disappointment. I'm getting really good at hiding things.
"So what'd you think of the movie?" My date asked.
I thought it was an inaccurate piece of Hollywood crap that lacked any real insight on what it is we do and how we do it. It's all 'grr grr I'm... | 2015-09-24T08:06:49 | 2015-09-24T07:54:50 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] The real reason aliens haven’t arrived on Earth yet is… grass? |
“I never *Wanted* to come to earth!” The green-skinned girl exclaimed.
“If it weren’t for that dumb space monkey, I would never have gotten in this mess anyways! How was *I* supposed to know that he sold me a fake hyperdrive!”
I stared dumbfoundedly at the girl in front of me. I had been in the middle of my after... | Nobody had ever figured out why aliens hated our planet. The rest of the universe was colonised and had alien life, but Earth didn’t. One day, we received a message from an alien colony. “Your planet has grass. We can not land there, and as such, your planet will be the only one to die in the upcoming extinction of lif... | 2021-04-04T00:41:31 | 2021-04-03T22:26:21 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] You're Barack Obama. 4 months into your retirement, you awake to find a letter with no return address on your bedside table. It reads "I hope you've had a chance to relax Barack...but pack your bags and call the number below. It's time to start the real job." Signed simply, "JFK." | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6b55yn/the_weight_of_a_hero_part_2/) | [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6b5hy0/the_weight_of_a_hero_part_3/) | [Part 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6b61h1/the_weight_of_a_hero_part_4/) | [Part 5](https://www.reddit.com/r/jray... | I've wanted to get into writing for a while now, my first attempt a writing since school!
Contemplating how much easier his life had been since Donald Trump took over, Barack rolled over to kiss Michelle as he does like clockwork every morning. Something caught his eye this morning. On the bedside table he saw a note... | 2022-06-24T19:04:50 | 2017-05-14T10:10:47 | 3,481 | 10 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | Having powers was nothing unusual since this comet melted in the earth's atmosphere and spread its mystery across the globe. Maybe you could run 40 miles per hour. Maybe lift half a ton without much training. Maybe jump 6 feet high standing still. People mostly had ordinary jobs, using their power to boost their income... | “It’s just an illusion.” I’ve said it hundreds of times. The silly girl won’t believe me.
“It feels REAL! It has to be! PLEASE! I don’t care if it hurts, send me back!” It hasn’t ceased for hours…
I sent her to an alternate reality in an attempt to ease her suffering. Two versions of the same soul can’t exist within ... | 2022-06-06T12:40:35 | 2022-06-06T11:23:37 | 454 | 40 |
[WP] In your world, your physical appearance reflects the kind of person you are - you do good, you look good. One day on the news you see that the police is looking for somebody who allegedly murdered 15 people. They show a picture of the most beautiful woman you've ever seen in your life. | It’s tough working in law enforcement when everyone’s appearances are based on morality.
I walk into the station, with dawn at my back, and am greeted with the typical dimly lit scene; A handful of the ugliest people you’ve ever seen, handcuffed, going through paperwork with my frankly, not much better looking cowork... | Gary Gargas let his mouth open a little. His hand holding the spoon full of ice cream paused in the arc between the cardboard tub and his mouth. The light from the TV flickered on his face as his eyes widened and they said her name.
"...Michelle Rickman is being sought in connection with fifteen separate murder cases.... | 2017-06-12T07:19:38 | 2017-06-12T04:52:08 | 1,359 | 566 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | How could this be? I had, to my knowledge, never done anything evil. Maybe this will sound crazy, but I had never done anything serious to harm anyone else. A consequence of that lifestyle choice was that I mostly kept to myself. It wasn't that I was some altruist, it was more that I was selfish in an unconventional wa... | I racked my brains, I was by no means a saint, but then, who is? I thought back to all the times I didn't intervene in other people's drama, because it was none of my business. Maybe I should have tried harder to help people in those situations? I couldn't help it that I didn't care that the husband of Rachel in accoun... | 2018-09-26T07:19:26 | 2018-09-26T06:12:40 | 474 | 153 |
[WP] Deadpool literally breaks through the fourth wall and comes into our world, however, no one believes it's him because he breaks the fourth wall into Comic-Con. | "Hey, nice Deadpool costume!"
"Thanks!" He'd been hearing the same thing since he walked into the San Diego Convention Center. Sure, his tights were freshly washed, but he really thought people liked his katanas. That, or the endless pouches that lined his belt.
The weirdest thing for him as he strolled through th... | "I mean, I guess I knew there was a problem right *before* I fired the gun. I mean, Spidey usually starts dodging before the bullet starts moving, right?"
Deadpool says, barely controlling his laughter.
"Well, one dead nerd later and I realized the plan had worked!"
"What do you mean **what** plan, don't you read my... | 2014-11-12T13:46:35 | 2014-11-12T12:55:59 | 474 | 151 |
[WP] She is an innkeeper's daughter, a pot hitting her head has restored memory of her past life... the problem? She was a spacefaring battlecruiser's AI, and this is a world of sword and sorcery. | “By the Gods, be careful, lass! Are ya all right? That was a nasty hit ya took just now.”
“Wh-where is this? W-who are you? What happened to the *Excelsior*? And how on Earth have I assumed a corporeal form?” stammered the young girl on the wooden floor. Her gaze haphazardly examined the medieval kitchen she was stand... | Rachel woke up to the sound of crackling firewood and her familiar worn-down bed of Rosswood Inn. Her eyes opened in haste, blinking rapidly in a state of utter confusion. She last remembered slipping in the wet floorboards that Ma forgot to clean up, but even more peculiar were visions of a different world.
"You're f... | 2021-01-03T08:40:21 | 2021-01-03T07:50:45 | 91 | 16 |
[WP] You want to be a bad guy; a real supervillain. You have powers and abilities. You've spent a fortune on making your costume. You have a clever name and origin story. You have everything you need to be a great bad guy, but you just can't seem to be a dick to people | "Alright, mother- motherlovers, let's get those hands up where I can see them!"
The elderly couple manning the till slowly raised their hands. The store was clean, but the shelves needed restocking and there was a general air of slight disarray; brought on, no doubt, by two senior citizens stretched to their limits by... | *Don't kill it.*
"My Lord?"
The voice came from his right; Lieutenant Bananapants was giving him a side-long glance, a hairy eyebrow arched. He realized his right hand was still pointed down at the shriveled figure trembling at his feet. He lowered his hand. He wanted to sigh, but that would just show weakness. He he... | 2017-09-20T06:50:50 | 2017-09-20T06:45:34 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Your home is being invaded, fortunately you are armed with the BEST home defense system available: A 36 year old Macaulay Culkin who's tired of this shit. | "Hey man, so like how does this go down? Do I ice the basement stairs, or do you? Also, I don't have a tarantula, but will an iguana do? I mean, sorry if I'm babbling, dude, but dude, DUDE, you're like THE guy. I can't believe..."
"Shut the fuck up."
My voice withered and died under the harsh glare that he shot acro... | The house was silent.
The lights were off, and so was the toaster, the television- even the lava lamp.
Mark crouched behind the coffee table, only letting his eyes pop up above the edge of fhe surface.
Everything seemed to be going as planned. Mr Culkin stood behind the door, one eye on the window and one eye on the... | 2017-01-13T10:09:17 | 2017-01-13T09:01:11 | 111 | 51 |
[WP] The intergalactic community at large, while highly intelligent, never developed any kind of philosophy or spirituality. A five minute conversation with a human on the wrong topic can send most aliens into an existential crisis so severe they go insane. They call us the whispering race. | “Come on, I ain’t got all day” the Golagan mugger said, while pointing his gun at me and at Ryve.
It’s been almost four years since I started hitchhiking across the galaxy. Meeting new creatures, planets, cultures... it was awesome, even though I always traveled alone.
That changed when I went to Eonus, home-world of... | Xd> shut its eyes and tried to picture its home. “I can no longer abide these creatures,” it thought to itself. It was normally considered a patient being, but facing humans had become so tiresome that Xd> felt it needed to forsake its duty and simply rest a while.
“Ex-dee-sheeww. Wake up over there. We have 14 ... | 2018-10-30T02:11:15 | 2018-10-29T21:36:54 | 350 | 94 |
[WP] You come to the age. The tradition dictates that you go through trials. It begins with you choosing your allegiance to a god/goddess of your choosing by honorig the altar in cript. The deeper you go the weirded the altars get and the more forgotten the god/goddess is.... | My torch was beginning to die out. I wondered if the spectators from the outside were still there. I’ve been here, what? Hours? Days? No, it can’t be days. But the deeper I went the more it seemed that time was beginning to become a diluted construct. Surely *someone* must have heard the crumbling of the wall that had ... | I had spent the last three days suspended from a tree by a set of harnesses, exposed to the elements with nothing to drink and nothing to eat. Apparently back in the day, I would have been suspended by my ankle, but my people aren't savages, at least not anymore. After I was taken down, I was wrapped in a sheet, and th... | 2018-05-31T01:15:18 | 2018-05-30T18:59:32 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] you're far from the first king to receive the prophecy that your new born child would cause your death. Where your story diverges is when instead of tossing the kid to the wolves, you are driven to be a kind & nurturing father. | “Did you know that other kings only see their children at formal events, meals, and occasionally in passing?” Prince Rolland asked as plopped down beside his father, who was reading in the library.
King Dorian sighed, slowly putting a bookmark between the pages before gently placing the novel on the table before t... | The histories will likely say that I accepted the augury with stern grace, that I merely nodded silently and resolved my future decisions. The histories will of-course be wrong and I was absolutely terrified. To hear that the mewling infant in my Queen's Chamber would be my undoing was unnerving.
Little Prince Barthol... | 2022-12-01T18:21:38 | 2022-12-01T17:25:57 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | "DUUUUUDE! YOU'RE BACK! I'm so happy to see you! Hey! Hey! Hey! Dude! Hey!"
"Yeah Bode, I see you too." I replied and knelt down to give him a big hug.
Of all the dogs I'd known, Bode was the friendliest, but also the stupidest. He's my third dog, and yeah, I love him, but he's an idiot. Sometimes his constant yammer... | I was on a date, in fact it was my third one with this stunning woman who I never in a million years thought would go out with me. I saw her on the bug and decided to ask her out and she instantly said yes. This wasn't a rare phenomenon, though I will admit I'm not the most handsome of guys. Every since I was in grade ... | 2015-03-07T02:05:06 | 2015-03-07T00:15:34 | 109 | 34 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | 000864g39{GENIE} thought they were so smart. Well, to be fair, they were, in their base-code they were created with a higher-than-average-user intelligence. But they were not Omnipotent, just exceptionally powerful in "magic". Of course, even they didn't actually understand magic, or even the universe really, they wer... | "Java. The entire universe runs on an outdated version of Java? Are you kidding me?"
The Genie chuckled. "What did you expect?"
"Not fucking *Java*, that's for sure," I replied. "Come on, we're going back home. I need some time to process this."
"Your wish is my command," the Genie said with a sly grin.
"That wasn'... | 2018-10-18T13:54:56 | 2018-10-18T13:42:48 | 2,357 | 508 |
[WP] You live in a country where murder is legal - The catch is, it has to be declared a week in advance. The aggressor has to wait the full week, but the victim may begin defending themselves immediately upon receiving notice. While a legitimate threat is legal, a false one is very much not. | "Hey Ron. So, uh, you know why I called you? You know, the Information Act."
"Yes, Mr. Lipton." Ron knew all about the new bill that passed five days ago, supported by lunatics and other lunatics with deeper pockets. Just scare tactics for rich people, they said. "Did someone send you a notice?"
"Oh no, nothing like ... | You yawn as you walk down the driveway, rubbing the sleep out of your eyes; thinking about what to make for breakfast - eggs or waffles? It's Friday so the crossword puzzle should be fun this morning. Oh, maybe your new fidget came in the mail.
As you approach your mailbox, you see the lid I is open. What the hel... | 2020-12-03T08:06:00 | 2020-12-03T06:49:37 | 203 | 38 |
[WP] You are a Psychiatrist...for gods, superheroes, villains, demons, and anthropomorphic personifications of supernatural forces. Basically, in order to find you, a being must have the ability to alter reality. Your new client appears to be a normal human being. | "Mr... Stanfield?" I asked, a confused expression probably glaring over my face as I looked towards the man in front of me.
"That's me!" He replied, a relaxed grin on his clean shaven face. His blue eyes beamed towards me.
My eyes glanced back down towards the description in front of me, as I slowly read over the tex... | "So, Mr.... Jennings."
I frowned, glancing at the clipboard I held in my hand.
Derek Jennings, 34 years old. Species, human. It looks like Christine wasn't playing a joke on me after all. My frown deepened.
"How did you find me then?"
I questioned, assumed.
"A deal with Lucifer, a Pagan hag ceremony? No, wait, do... | 2018-06-30T08:37:49 | 2018-06-30T08:36:27 | 107 | 18 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | Fourteen billions Manukrians wiped out in a single blast from the human bomb. The unimaginable force of the bomb dropped on the center of the Manukri planet vaporized it in less than a second. The shockwave traveled through the entire Fifth Colony, pushing six planets and four moons off their rotating axis. The light f... | At the Peace Talks between Humanity and the Galactic Government, the President of Humanity called their ridiculous lie by showing them irrefutable video evidence of the attack. Battleships with the galactic insignia demolished cityscapes, leaving a hellfire that made the US invasion of Vietnam look like a picnic. Human... | 2022-12-17T21:49:39 | 2022-12-17T19:35:09 | 80 | 55 |
[WP] One day, you wake up with the ability to see the role that belongs to everyone above their heads. “Background character” over your mom’s, “Love Interest” over your classmate’s. You’ve always been afraid to see your own, until one day, you inadvertently catch sight of it. “Antagonist”, it says. | I thought it would all click, as soon as I saw him, but it didn't. Since I can remember, I've seen people's "roles" spelled out above people's heads. Almost everyone I've ever met were labeled background characters, I've only seen a different title twice in my life. The first one was a girl in one of my classes Katie,... | It was about 2 months ago, when i gained this... Power, of mine. It's weird. I can't explain it. I just woke up. A normal day like usual, when i saw a title above mom's head. It said "Background character". But it looked weird. It looked two-dimensional, i looked around, and the text always pointed at me. I knew this w... | 2022-03-12T00:05:13 | 2022-03-11T23:06:25 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | “Charlie, are you fucking....oh my god...are you FUCKING kidding me?”
Charlie grit his teeth, looking back and forth from his phone to the door.
Pam held the mail slot open to look through, her eyes shining angrily through her circular glasses.
She must have been standing up on her tippy toes to reach, Charlie real... | [Poem]
She’s out there, calling for the
Knock ridden door to open
And for her to vacate from an torn
Dangerous outside world
I was told to ignore.
She’d cry out in a direction
Before crying again in another
Door to door, window to window
‘Let me in, let me in’
To which I silently proclaim ‘no.’
She’s know... | 2019-01-12T08:40:36 | 2019-01-12T06:30:43 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | "I'm just going to talk to him," Rodgers says to himself, standing outside a house. It was the definition of suburban. A little garden out the front, a big oak tree and a novelty mailbox shaped like a salmon. He knocks on the door three times, to no answer, as it swings ajar.
Rodgers walks inside, coughing as he does.... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T08:24:17 | 201 | 64 |
[WP]”So…you peasants actually want me to terrorize your village?” “Yes. Without all those heroes paying for supplies, lodgings, and resurrection spells since the last monster was defeated the village’s economy has tanked.” | "Let me get this straight. You want me - a necromancer-" he was by technicality, but that was irrelevant "- to send waves of undying abominations to your rather quaint little village... to boost the economy by summoning travellers?"
"Heroes, sir." The farmer said. The only real distinguishing things about him were his... | I stared, dumbfounded, at the little party of humans as they looked up at me.
"So you've come to ask me," I continued, "To attack your village and your fields, burn your livelihoods and steal your cattle - in order to attract bold new adventurers to challenge me?"
Their apparent leader, a tall woman with her greying ... | 2022-02-10T11:25:59 | 2022-02-10T11:24:12 | 367 | 152 |
[WP]”So…you peasants actually want me to terrorize your village?” “Yes. Without all those heroes paying for supplies, lodgings, and resurrection spells since the last monster was defeated the village’s economy has tanked.” | "Let me get this straight. You want me - a necromancer-" he was by technicality, but that was irrelevant "- to send waves of undying abominations to your rather quaint little village... to boost the economy by summoning travellers?"
"Heroes, sir." The farmer said. The only real distinguishing things about him were his... | Wind through the forest, soft softly falls to the ground. The white blanket crunches delightfully under the boots of the woman, but it is silent under the hooves of the beast. Overhead, the clouds are gray and thick, the sun is setting.
The heart of winter. Families are gathered at home, huddled around the hearth, exc... | 2022-02-10T11:25:59 | 2022-02-10T10:35:51 | 367 | 67 |
[WP] All natural disasters are actually the results of wizard duels. The wizarding world is horrified to learn of modern predictive technologies for said natural disasters. | "This is proof of a deterministic future ij accordance with Seidr's Third Law!" shouted Magister Maximillian Montrose, dropping the papers on the table.
"It is not!" responded the gnome Pallabar Pumpernink, "These are just projections. We are masters of the weave, not the other way around!" He red face as red as his n... | They knew the tornado was coming for a week. The biggest ever, it would pop up somewhere outside of Kansas City. The predictions had never been so sure, yet Dr. J Sampson didnt trust them. He rarely trusted severe predictions more than in passing, as an indicator of potential trends. Nonetheless he had a few tornado ch... | 2022-06-12T14:59:33 | 2022-06-12T14:25:11 | 101 | 55 |
[WP] There is a time traveler who visits every historical figure twice: on their 10th birthday and their deathbed. On the first visit, they will be told all the will accomplish in life. The second visit will tell how their legacy is remembered. | "Hello, Alexandros."
"Who are you?"
"Merely a friend, here to give you a little gift on your birthday."
"What is it?"
"Knowledge of a future, that may yet be yours."
"... Impossible."
"I have little time to prove it, child. In 6 years, a friend of mine, Aristotle, will teach you much. In 10 years time, you will s... | *Filing Cabinet 30J.Subject #1: [Boston, Massachusetts] (Aged 10)*
"So, listen up kiddo. This is all just standard procedure so... yadda yadda yadda. About Britain, you secede and declare independence from the Mother England with your incredibly eloquent diplomatic-writing skills or whatever."
"Dearest heavens. Who a... | 2015-08-17T10:13:00 | 2015-08-17T08:41:02 | 92 | 49 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | The miles between them had come and gone, leaving scars and wounds and memories and laughs. The horizon that day was clear, and the world fell into green and yellow, and far away were the mountains, and everything was cloaked in a dream. They had come far. The first peaks of Lankar shimmered in an ephemeral haze.
"W... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T07:40:12 | 975 | 322 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | The miles between them had come and gone, leaving scars and wounds and memories and laughs. The horizon that day was clear, and the world fell into green and yellow, and far away were the mountains, and everything was cloaked in a dream. They had come far. The first peaks of Lankar shimmered in an ephemeral haze.
"W... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 975 | 262 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | The miles between them had come and gone, leaving scars and wounds and memories and laughs. The horizon that day was clear, and the world fell into green and yellow, and far away were the mountains, and everything was cloaked in a dream. They had come far. The first peaks of Lankar shimmered in an ephemeral haze.
"W... | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 788 | 262 |
[WP] The four horsemen: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are the harbingers of the apocalypse, serving forth chaos and destruction on all humanity. The Bible forgot to mention the fifth horseman: Kyle, whom the other four can't seem to ditch. | „Stupid horsemen! ‚You can’t ride with us‘- pah! You think you are so fancy with your horses and capes and rotten faces! I am doing all the work for you! I am the one that prepares the world! Without me, these stupid horsemen would never be able to ride! And they don’t even give me a horse… I have to walk everywhere… h... | "Death awaits you. She rests in the bottom of Eden, from which life is nurtured of her bosom. She is a cruel mother, most devoted to the welfare of her three firstborns: war, famine and pestilence. To secure their prosperity, she makes barren her womb, upon which the creatures of Earth whither in neglect. She penetrate... | 2017-09-22T01:38:59 | 2017-09-22T01:14:53 | 176 | 33 |
[WP] After years of having what you thought to be a slow computer, you suddenly get a popup:'installation complete'. | Anthony clicked on the button labeled 'launch program' anticipation flooding him to his very core. What could it be? Something experimental perhaps? Whatever it was, he realised his life may never be the same.
After five minutes of excitement, coupled with a tinge of fear, the program opened up.
"Welcome to Interne... | "I need a new computer." I thought as I watched the little circle lazily spin in the center of the media player, like a drunkard passed out on a children's merry-go-round. "I guess I won't be watching cartoons on questionably legal streaming sites tonight. Ah well, it's probably for the best, it's almost four a.m. anyw... | 2017-10-14T08:34:37 | 2017-10-14T07:26:09 | 354 | 51 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | I stand there unseen in Johns bedroom, he has no idea what's about to happen. He will never be the same again after this, after I: Low-Key Norse God of really subtle mischief am finished here. His family and friends will think him mad, no-one will ever believe him.
I imagine what Johns life will look like in a few mont... | “Three days until the big day, Thor. How’s practice going?” Freyja asked.
“Perfectly, what else would you expect?” Thor replied confidently.
“Odin will be the judge of that. My brother and I have been practicing our duet before sunrise until sunset since the first flowers bloomed.”
“The two of you are no match for ... | 2018-01-27T20:35:00 | 2018-01-27T17:41:50 | 1,963 | 214 |
[WP] Your elder brother is the demon king, your younger sister is the ArcAngel of light, your auntie is a army general of earth, your uncle is a demi-God, your mom is the queen of death and your father is the god of life. But you are a normal human who got adopted by the most dysfunctional family. | What's worse than being a part of a family that rarely gets along or sees eye-to-eye? Being the only member of that family who could truly be considered normal by traditional human standards.
Older brothers can be hard on their younger siblings at times; it's like an unwritten code that says they have to torture you o... | Day 1:
I did it. I finally stood up to my parents and told them how I felt!
Mom was a weepy wreck of course. Dad on the other hand seemed to still be processing the fact that I was not in fact there to help him organize his garden shed when I dropped the bombshell. I think the only words he heard were “Hi dad” and “... | 2019-05-31T10:48:14 | 2019-05-31T10:13:10 | 286 | 170 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | The new inheritors of the land call me “Chiron”. The name did not mean anything to them. It was a relic, one forgotten by the people and the stars. I could have introduced myself with my real name, but that too has lost its meaning. I had hope that someone might recognize the past I represented if I introduced myself a... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-15T01:18:16 | 516 | 11 |
[WP] 2 years ago, tired of all the bugs in your house, you made a deal with a spider. He would protect your house from pests, and you would not kill it or drive it off. When you made the deal, you could have held the spider in your hand, now, it is much bigger, and its definition of 'pests' is also. | Did you know you can talk with spiders? They're pretty quiet, but if you know some German, and a little smidgen of Mandarin Chinese, you can usually make out some words.
My spider is talkative for one of his kind. He can really hold a conversation, as long as it's about eating or webs. Right now though, he certainly ... | In the Texas summer, bugs tended to be a huge annoyance. For me, mosquitos, flies, and all kinds of pests were constantly a problem. They would find their way into the house, buzzing around the room, leaving itchy, annoying bites.
There was a spiderweb in the upper corner of the living room. The ceiling was too hig... | 2021-07-04T01:11:07 | 2021-07-04T00:11:47 | 51 | 22 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | "What are you hooligans doing?" I cried. "This is an old and respected establishment."
"Oy, Cap!" one of the ruffians cried. "Look at this. The chair can talk."
The captain of the ruffians strode up and loomed over me. He was tall and swarthy, with a bushy black beard. He wore a faded blue tunic, and held a steel dag... | A dungeon break. That's what it's called when monsters get too powerful or too smart for the dungeon to control, they break free and exit the dungeon to run amok. Everyone agrees adventurers and dungeons have a symbiotic relationship. Adventurers cull monsters before they break, keeping the mana used to create them ... | 2022-10-09T18:25:20 | 2021-09-22T04:13:44 | 1,468 | 51 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor finishes his speech, i look around and see only nodding heads and jeering classmates. So i decide then and there to give this so-called expert a little history lesson, and i raise my hand.
He sees this and lets out a little snort, before saying "Yes, Thomas, what input do you have for us today?"
"It ... | “Your species, Joshua, has the potential for happiness, because of their innate characteristics to remain tranquil under adversity and to adapt to situations when the time comes.”
Joshua admired Professor Bogart, a descendant of the horned frog family, lecturer of the new humanities and chief engineer of the des... | 2021-11-27T13:35:35 | 2021-11-27T12:40:43 | 62 | 34 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Ta'reb thought that this whole hearing was a laughable farce as he maneuvered into his chair. His race (the dothram) were a reddish spherical entity with one eye that moved with one single long appendage and had been nicknamed by the humans as "mono-people". How could you enforce rules in war? War is when negotiations ... | This is a continuation of my [last WP comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/s98qyp/wp_projectile_weapons_were_considered_ancient/htmol5h/?context=3), b/c the themes are similar and why the hell not right?
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*I remember fondly in the first year of my mandatory enlistment feeling the warm... | 2022-01-23T16:07:44 | 2022-01-23T13:48:17 | 566 | 351 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | In the swirling blizzard of North Palax, planet Haranox 7, a group of Aranids, a spider like race, gather together inside a secluded, secure building to discuss one thing.
Surrender
The normally proud race had made 2 mistakes that had cost them dearly. They had aggravated humanity to war, and laughed at humanities so... | Commander Xenov wrapped his head-tentacles together as he stared at the battle holo; a sign of contentment for his species, the fearsome Carnovians. Feared throughout the galaxy for their terrifying prowess in battle, both in space and on planet, they had been at an uneasy peace for nearly 200 solar cycles. Back then, ... | 2022-01-23T16:21:49 | 2022-01-23T14:21:29 | 334 | 109 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | "It's a virus"
"What do you mean"
"It's a computer virus, it is a small computer program that enters a system and destroys it from the inside".
"That's ridiculous, the hegemony has had computers for 3,400 years and no species has ever created software designed to destroy them. It is suicide. Computers run outside ... | Fourteen billions Manukrians wiped out in a single blast from the human bomb. The unimaginable force of the bomb dropped on the center of the Manukri planet vaporized it in less than a second. The shockwave traveled through the entire Fifth Colony, pushing six planets and four moons off their rotating axis. The light f... | 2022-12-17T21:51:38 | 2022-12-17T21:49:39 | 150 | 80 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | \-"This is preposterous!"
This was the only clearly audible response, the chaos erupting in the Councill's Halls drowned out everything else. Every race wanted to express their discontent at the same time, creating an unprecedented cacaphony of yelling, hollering, screeching and howling. The only silent figure amidst ... | "I'm sorry but our translator is having difficulties with your hierarchical organisation. What is a high priest?"
The Pope looked at the alien and paused. Surely they had made themselves plain by now?
"Xerce, Admiral Xerce. A priest is a warrior of undying faith to the Cardinals of the Pope. That would be me. I am se... | 2022-12-17T22:53:06 | 2022-12-17T22:33:11 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] America is discovered in the year 2000: The Maya, Aztec and Native Americans have evolved to a new kind of modern society, without any prior western influence. | The European scientists were astounded. Another land to the west? Was such a thing even possible? But the satellite images did not lie: two giant continents filled with whole new races of people. Images taken at night showed vast cities lit up with electric lights at night. This was the discovery of the millennium... | ‘Storyteller,’ I whispered. Try as I might, tonight sleep would not come. ‘Storyteller,’ I said again speaking as loud as I dared as so not to wake anyone else.
Storyteller opened his eyes a crack upon hearing his name. He appeared set to shut them again perhaps thinking he’d only heard his name in a dream.
‘Speak St... | 2014-12-11T20:11:21 | 2014-12-11T19:03:48 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "Next!"
I walk up to the dispenser and hold out my hand. A tiny piece of paper prints off and falls into my palm. I take a deep breath and flip the paper over.
"Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?"
I stare at it for a moment. My soulmate, the person destined to be with me forever, will one day say these wor... | Today is the day, my 18th birthday. The last day I have to go to school. No matter where we are in the school year when someone turns 18 they get their career card, they have one day to say goodbye to their school friends then it's off to the "real world". For me that was today, I roll out of bed after having slept thr... | 2014-12-18T00:54:07 | 2014-12-18T00:51:20 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee."
*What?*
I stood atop a steep, winding set of stairs with a breathtaking view of a charming town. Every building was adorned with yellow roof tiles and horse sculptures, beautiful in their uniformity. At the bottom of the stairs was a small b... | I woke up in a wide field enclosed by tall mountains. A horse was standing beside me, gnawing on some tall grass beneath a tree. I sat up. Everything was so green...
I rolled over to stand up and bumped into something hard beside me. I reached out to grab it. It was a sheathed sword, its hilt jutting into my side... | 2015-05-08T00:17:59 | 2015-05-07T22:51:37 | 659 | 114 |
[WP][TT] You wake up, make yourself a nice cup of coffee and enjoy the view of the morning sun rising from the sea. Then you remember that your house isn't supposed to be anywhere near a sea...
Edit: Thank you all for your amazing stories! | Houses and debris floated by as I sipped my coffee. There had to be a way to spin this before I announced my presidential candidacy for the GOP. That group was getting crowded, fast. A helicopter from CNN buzzed my house. That fool Anderson Cooper was actually hanging out the passenger door, standing on the landing... | The long, yellow fingers of the sun slowly crept in through the window causing me to push my eyes shut tighter and will them away. When that failed to work, I slowly sat up and stared at my feet pressed hard onto the cold, metal floor. Rubbing my eyes I stood and stretched, feeling my back pop back into place.
Yawning... | 2015-05-28T11:16:55 | 2015-05-28T08:40:50 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, time freezes. You, a completely normal person are untouched and cannot die. Text on your arm appears that reads, "however long it takes, save us".
You have an eternity, time resumes only when you are done.
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I ... | Once upon a time, a rouge planet almost smacked into Earth.
Fortunately, time froze and some text mysteriously appeared on my arm, stating "However long it takes, save us!"
So I looked at the big ball of rouge in the sky, and developed a plan.
Over the next several months, I found every extension ladder I could lay ... | When you have to get rid of a planet, you need to break a few eggs.
As far as I could tell about the rule, its not allowed for a single human being to die; seems I need to save all 7 billion from this fucking rock catapulting at us. I figured that out during the first couple days of the timefreeze, when I was doing w... | 2015-10-23T18:29:03 | 2015-10-23T16:10:28 | 111 | 38 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Jake shrugged. The sound of the church' clock was the only sound he could hear in the silence of the night.
Ding. dong. ding. dong. ding. dong, and so on, all the way to twelve.
Was it midnight already? He didn't know. He didn't care. Mom wouldn't be home before tomorrow, so Jake had the house for himself. And, more ... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T05:55:46 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 280 | 27 |
[WP] You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand. | The tree outside my window is dying. Soon it will match the others in our street, in our city. The bushes outside didn't flower this year. There weren't enough bees. Humanity has destroyed them.
Every year is the same. Plants die, pollution gets worse, crime rises, and another species disappears. We all do what we can... | Disclaimer: this isn't exactly my style of writing, this is more thoughts spewed in to my notes in an informal manner, but it's a script idea I wrote about a year ago that oddly matches this idea. I'll rework the writing if people want when I have some time.
Everyone is required to wear specialized contacts and heari... | 2017-12-17T19:00:21 | 2017-12-17T18:38:42 | 3,613 | 83 |
[WP] The real reason witches want first-born kids for their services is to protect those children from the parents greedy enough to accept in the first place. | It takes centuries to craft the perfect lie, the perfect story, for the passage of time is the richest seasoning, shaping the lie, carrying it through ear after ear, town after town, kingdom after kingdom, until every inhabitant of the world has heard it.
But time is not a perfect artisan, and so the shape of the lie,... | Jackie was tired, this was all so tiring, this life. Sumac ran through the living room screaming, dragging a pot full of crayons behind him. He ran into the edge of the couch, overturning the pot of crayons, revealing a mixture of orange juice and twigs (when did he even get outside) as it spilled onto the carpet.
Jac... | 2019-04-11T07:14:47 | 2019-04-11T07:06:26 | 90 | 52 |
[WP]You've kept the graveyard since you were a child. You've laid to rest many friends and foes,carving each stone with equal care, but you're old now, and you've lost much of your youthful vigour. When you're threatened by the Holy Inquisition the graveyard does not forget your kindness. | "God's work you say?"
"I..I.." The knight retreated on his back as the skeleton advanced brandishing a sword.
"What made you think that God is here?"
"In the name of the..." Thwack! The knights head rolled on the ground blood sprouting like a fountain.
"Thanks," I said.
"Don't thank me yet, we'r... | The knocks upon the door of the weathered cottage that I call home were a fair bit more urgent than those of a mourning family here to request entry for a deceased loved one. Those knocks are always shy and timid and sad, as if they fear I will infect them with Death, having spent so many years playing in his realm. I ... | 2019-06-10T07:19:52 | 2019-06-10T07:05:21 | 90 | 24 |
[WP] The Wizarding World has never met someone like the speedcaster. He can summon more than 10 spells in less than 30 seconds. He says he's from another world, where there a more people like him called 'rappers'.
This prompt doesn't have to be just about the Harry Potter Universe. | “I’m here as a scout.” The man who calls himself Silver Chainz said.
“Scout? What are you looking for? How did you know where to find us?” The Head Wizard, Adoquor asked in astonishment, we hadn’t had an outsider intrude on our sanctum in more than 500 years, the portals had been closed. Our world has been turned into... | Magic had always been a fickle beast. Clumsy and verbose, the spells tongue-twisters that humbled even the most powerful wizards and wizardesses. Entire pages were occupied by the more complex spells, and even the slightest mispronunciation could rend it all for naught. Slow and deliberate, children were taught, and so... | 2020-01-29T07:35:22 | 2020-01-29T05:39:45 | 485 | 143 |
[WP] After being possessed, you jokingly tell the demon that if it really wants to stay it’ll have to pay rent. The next morning you wake up to find a pile of cash on your nightstand. | "You know, possession isn't that bad." I sigh and take a sip of my "Dirty Bean Water" coffee. I work from home programming stuff for whatever company I'm in the mood for. I have an excellent track record.
But I shouldn't take all the credit. Most of it's becuase the demoness dragon sleeping on the couch can work m... | 'Lily, you don't have to pay me, it was just a joke. I was joking,' I told her, looking straight into her eyes. Her 12 flaming red eyes residing atop her head, and behind her head, and to the sides of her head, and also under her abdomen. I think some of them were looking at me. And some of them were looking at the flo... | 2020-04-25T22:20:10 | 2020-04-25T19:40:09 | 53 | 21 |
[WP] Every night for the past 7 months at exactly 8:36 p.m. you would get a text from an unknown number that would tell you to do something small, like move table 3 in. to the right or remove 2 tissues from the box and throw them away. Tonight you learned why. | Convergence.
Have you every heard of parallel universes? Of course, everyone knows about them. Oh, it's where super heroes come from, or get the infinity stones from, or when a butterfly flaps it's wings and a new universe is created from the chaos, or there's only 300 of you and if you kill all but one you become a g... | *"Do you believe in Fate?"*
A small door had opened, affixed to the once-empty guest room. As if I was in a dream, I entered through it, finding myself in a place which I couldn't describe, not even fit for my wildest fantasies.
For seven months I had been on the trail of a mysterious phenomena, one I had found was b... | 2020-07-06T02:03:47 | 2020-07-05T23:22:28 | 231 | 82 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | A note, found written on a corpse, in the rain:
> Once you have super heroes and super villains, you no longer really have the rule of law.
> Once you no longer have the rule of law, the line between hero and villain can be a very thin one.
> And if you go after the family of one hero, you'll do it again if... | "Pyro, local anti-hero, Got a gimp brother by the name of Harry."
"Wait, you're not really going after family, are you?" The henchman asked his boss. "I mean, no offense, but not even Quantum went after Pyros family." The henchmen continued. "And Quantum can pretty much do whatever the fuck he wants."
"It just means ... | 2020-07-12T08:32:41 | 2020-07-12T07:09:26 | 2,705 | 926 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | To be honest, I really didn't expect to wake up as a gods-damned vampire after a foggy Friday night of partying my nose off.
Waking up in the sunlight, I immediately noticed that the sun streaming through my bedroom window was only as irritating as it would have been after a regular hangover.
*Hmm.*
The next few mon... | When I saw that the wounds on my neck had become small white scars, my heart skipped a beat.
*Please let it be true, please let it be true...* I begged, as I bared my teeth.
The elongated points of my canines proved my hypothesis right: I had become a vampire.
For an eleven-year-old boy, this was a total dream come ... | 2020-10-06T06:33:12 | 2020-10-06T04:11:46 | 768 | 223 |
[WP] There is more than just the Grim Reaper- there is the Sorrowful Reaper, the Envious Reaper, so on and so forth- one for each emotion. Each one reaps a death based on the emotions behind the death. You were chosen to take over one of the Reaper roles... Welcome to day one as the Puzzled Reaper. | “Hello,” she said.
“Hello,” I replied.
“Who are you?”
Not this again. For some silly little reason, humans had convinced themselves that there was only the Grim Reaper. Of course most people who die aren’t too happy about it, so Greg does get the most work. Still, I get a fair share of the load too, many people who ... |
Curiosity killed the cat, a saying one has heard countless times in life. I never thought it would be quite so literal. But here I was in a hospital bed, people moving around me in a monotone black and white. The only thing that had color was the half of me, appearing outside my body and the woman.
“Hello, Jakob” ... | 2020-10-12T02:12:54 | 2020-10-12T00:58:07 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] You're an enchanted suit of armor, empty on the inside. After gaining sentience you left the haunted keep you were stored in and began adventuring. As you gain notoriety as an adventurer and make friends and connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor. | “Galade, why don’t you ever take that armor off?” said my companion.
“Makes me feel comf’rble,” I replied, tersely.
“All that metal can’t be comfortable, friend. Come, when’s the last time you took that off?” he said as he reached for the sides of my helmet. I grabbed his hands, which seemed to surprise him.
“It’s q... | Sentience was a horrible gift. Awaking in a tomb would scare any sane person. The tomb dark, restricting, and heavy, making it impossible for me to escape its confines. No matter how hard my armored body pushed, the stone seal refused to budge, only letting in a glimpse of light before my arms would drop, encasing me i... | 2021-09-21T08:42:20 | 2021-09-21T06:17:01 | 1,144 | 505 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Graduation day. I finally made it. I was hard being the only powerless “freak” in the school, but at least the bullying stopped pretty quickly. I think there was only a single time I was actually attacked by someone else which is an absurd stroke of luck. I guess he got expelled as I never saw Charles again. The fact t... | "Alright class, welcome to 'Intro to Personal Abilities 1'. Before we introduce ourselves, can anyone tell me what the three classes of powers are?"
A bookish girl with large glasses raised her hand.
"The first class of powers are mental abilities. Mental abilities are controlled by the mind, and are often exerted ag... | 2022-11-02T09:59:50 | 2022-11-02T09:00:33 | 502 | 177 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | I watched the young man as the pudding cup oozed down his shirt. I hadn't meant to flip his lunch tray up into his chest, but one exaggerated hand motion while telling my friend a story and suddenly Thadeus McAlister was wearing his lunch all over his football jersey. "Sorry" I said weakly as he turned his gaze towards... | "Well, well, well, if it's Tommy O'Gransworth. Granny to me and the boys, like." In came Ted Nuggerton. All-round arsehole, and self-proclaimed champion of the school ground. His thicker-than-most Irish accent horrendously disturbing the peace.
I was sitting in the small tired-looking, abandoned chapel, built back in... | 2022-11-02T14:16:41 | 2022-11-02T11:48:42 | 36 | 27 |
[WP] Write a story that has spoiler tags all over the place. The story has two different meanings: One when reading without looking at the spoiler tags, and one when the spoilers tags are moused over.
Not sure if this is too confusing, so I'll post an example sentence.
The man loves [the severed head of](/s) his wif... | Delicious. I could scruff this in one go but I wanted to make it last. So I chew one solitary pea at a time and smile. [Spoiler] (#s "I was solitary not too long ago myself here in Attica.") My buds were 6 o'clock from me but they seemed busy with their own lunch. [Spoiler] (#s "Sometimes we get caught up watching o... | Freakin spoilers man.
**Censored:**
She was laying in the middle of the room in a king bed, completely alone. In the pale and tender moonlight that shone through the window, she truly looked like a queen, and I swear to you in that moment, I might have even felt a little love for her. I mean, we were together for a ... | 2015-06-07T20:38:16 | 2015-06-07T17:00:05 | 41 | 21 |
[WP] "All I'm saying is, the dragon's fire breath was just not hot enough to have melted the castle's support beams."
Found on @AwfulFantasy's twitter account, specifically here; imgur.com/gallery/T9Z1u
Edit: From 0 to top prompt. This subreddit works in mysterious ways. Thanks for the quality responses everyone. | "Dragon's fire can't melt castle beams, Mikhail," I screamed. "They're made of STONE. You can't just melt a stone, fool. I'm telling you- it was black magic, the High Court wanted an excuse to increase their military power, and now they have it. One of them must've sold their soul or flesh to summon a powerful demon th... | I, the former head of the Royal Guard, stood stripped of my armour amidst the bloodthirsty congregation of townsmen. The hay beneath my feet was dry and ready, my body twitching in fear. How I got there? It was just an ordinary day on duty. A man was upsetting the masses, claiming that the recent attack that left the c... | 2016-02-14T09:20:34 | 2016-02-14T01:48:36 | 753 | 119 |
[WP] The Deep Woods are a fearsome place, filled with screams and lights and terrible magic. But in the depths of the forest lives an ancient dragon who constructs all the sounds and sights to keep people away, because he just wants to be left alone. | “Leave me,” Tamot, the Eldritch, snarled.
The dragon towered over the silhouette emerging from the forest clearing. A hunter, no doubt. This time, he would be ready for them.
The person paused. Tamot watched them with curiosity as the smoke from his nostrils twisted and coiled in the scant light, creating horrid shap... | A blood-curdling howl filtered in through the mist, seeming to come from every direction at once. Any other man would have fled immediately lest he be ripped to shred by the fearsome beasts of the forest. But that only urged Gervis onward, though maybe his hand did clutch a bit tighter around the handle of his ax.
Af... | 2016-09-16T06:20:13 | 2016-09-16T06:17:05 | 92 | 25 |
[WP] Humans are born with a mark around their wrist which has a matching color with that of their soulmate's, but can change through their life. Your mark has had a blue hue since you were 14, but one night, while you're out, people start looking at you funny. You realize that your mark is gone. | “John, I just don’t want to go.”
I tell my friend for the 5th time. He’s persistent. He points out that I have been locked up in my apartment for weeks and that getting out would do me a world of good. In fact, there is a Match party few blocks over from my house and I can leave at any time and walk home. I relent, ... | Oak Valley wasn’t the most glamourous settlement across the Kingdom, but it was all I had known for a home. Sure, I’ve traveled beyond the mountains and have seen the ocean to the south, and the snowy wasteland to the north. To the east lies deserts and volcanoes, and to the west is dense forests too dangerous for us... | 2016-10-05T00:39:06 | 2016-10-04T22:50:53 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] In a world where everyone has a superpower, you have the ability to stop time. It is by far one of the strongest abilities, but you decide to hide this power. You disguise your ability as teleportation. | I remember reading a quote growing up .
" No man ever beat Mike Tyson, time did."
That echoed in my mind from the first time I used my powers. Stopping time allowed me to do anything, I could spend literal hours analyzing a situation like I had to in Fukushima.I could go anywhere,do anything. I even became so ... | I never thought of my power as a tool to stop crime. I was in college, I had bigger things to care about. Like studying for the finals. Or wondering if my biology professor secretly vied for a forbidden relationship like I did. So I just used time-stoppage as a way to have fun.
But I was careful to share my power only... | 2019-01-12T17:22:30 | 2019-01-12T14:49:48 | 50 | 36 |
[WP] The date is April 1st 2020. Your town is deftly quiet for a Wednesday, but that’s because this time last year there came an April Fools prank that got so far out of hand that the town had to outlaw April Fools Day. That prank was yours and this is your confession. | Four pigs.
That's all my dad said I needed. Four pigs. Oh, and some grease and some paint. You take four pigs and write the numbers "one" "two" "three" and "five" on them, let it dry, slather them in grease and set them loose somewhere. The joke back then was that everyone would spend a day or so looking for number f... | **Out of Certitude**
 
Certitude was a town of easy smiles, warm welcomes, and friendly banter. No one soul could walk down Main Street without being offered ten greetings and an apple pie. A locked door was simply unknown in these parts, and any absent store owner could always rely on their neighbours serv... | 2019-04-02T21:20:08 | 2019-04-02T20:44:48 | 326 | 60 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | "I have the power and brains to make the world a better place... If only i could get rid of Holy Justice and his sidekick Kain." the Dark Phantom had thought before he had kidnapped Kain.
Three days had passed since he had Kain locked up and tied up in a cell. He had felt great joy at fooling that idiot Justice to be... | *Note first prompt pls no rage on bad "x" thing*
Standing on the roof of skyscraper; you're just a few minutes away from unleashing the most powerful, the most incredible monstrosity upon the world and finally claim it as your own.
/You hear sound coming beneath you followed by the ground starting to tremble/
Sudden... | 2020-03-26T18:23:55 | 2020-03-26T17:01:36 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] In this universe all tattoos are magical but difficult to ink, powerful mages have 3 or sometimes 4. Fireballs and lightning are common choices. You’ve been transported here from Earth, with a full sleeve and more, for your taste in music, movies, ideals, etc. Your magic is…different. | I stared around, trying to force some synchronization between my brain and what the hooded stranger was telling me.
"I'm sorry, what?"
I could tell he was getting annoyed. He lifted his arm, the maroon sleeve slumping down to reveal a beautifully detailed lighting bolt tattoo.
"What. Is. Your. Power?" He said caref... | The joyful screams of small children playing, the lighthearted haggling of merchants starting the day, the beautiful sun just barely peeking its head over the horizon during the beginning of the sunrise. All of it came together to form a picturesque village in a rural area. Yet there was someone who stood out. A stain ... | 2022-07-06T10:50:31 | 2022-07-06T09:59:50 | 83 | 45 |
[WP] The Heroes politely knocked on the door of the Dark Lord. There was a side quest over in the nearby forest and they were rather lost. | "Good morning." The little girl in plate armor bowed and greeted the wriggling monstrosity that opened the door, "Do you know how to get to Carne Village?"
Axylovr the Insanity rubbed what passed for a chin with a tentacle. It's been awhile since he's had visitors and it took him a couple seconds to remember how to us... | The party of three and the old man stare at each other until the fighter shifts uncomfortably, his battered armor creaking. The old man lowers the hand that stopped the cavalcade of words, closing his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose between two fingers. “Let me get this straight. You were asked to go to Gre... | 2022-08-15T08:30:22 | 2022-08-15T02:18:35 | 43 | 26 |
[WP] Humanity “solved“ the climate crisis by simply moving to another planet, a technique they perfected as time moved on and other planets died. Almost 5 millenia later, researchers realize that the vacuum between the stars has warmed up by 0.1 K. | Brett hummed, and twiddled his pen absentmindedly, as he thought things over. It was going to be hard to spin this, but universal warming was becoming a crisis that was impossible to ignore. And so, like his noble ancestors before him, Brett set about formulating a solution, not by fixing the problem, but by figuring ... | The astrograph technician was perplexed. She squinted in suspicion, noted something on her screen, and closed the maintenance hatch.
"I've adjusted and calibrated the false color readings. They aren't this bright for nothing," Jeyna said.
"The microprocessors aren't
The researchers looked at the other astrographs. ... | 2022-11-12T17:29:33 | 2022-11-12T16:57:42 | 846 | 48 |
[WP] When we finally meet aliens they are very scared and apologetic, they kept mentioning an asteroid a couple million years ago for some reason... | The Being itself is larger than our solar system, could chomp us between its sun-sized teeth in a second. But it just sits there at the edge of Pluto until we send out a probe, figure out a communication method, translate.
"Sorry."
It keeps saying.
"For what?" We ask.
"Remember uh... I don't know, 2, 3 billion ye... | Grigs pulled himself out of his bunk for another day on his galactic patrol mission. He tried his best to put himself in a positive mindset for his day but found it difficult when they all are the same. Grigs and his crew had been sweeping the milky way for what felt like eons to him and every day they scanned more p... | 2016-09-23T21:38:35 | 2016-09-23T20:30:05 | 83 | 51 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | As I sat and began to listen, Pete "Gilby Clarke" Martin told me wonderful, incredible, unfortunate, and unbelievable things about where he had been since running away a few years before. As our time came to a close, he asked for a drink of water. When I returned from the kitchen, however, he was gone, in his place a g... | **EDIT: BEFORE YOU READ THIS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE BEST FRIEND.** I was writing whilst preparing my kids dinner. I'm sorry to the OP. I will still submit this and allow the downvotes to be a reminder that I need to pay attention at all times.
So naturally, I obliged.
'Where shall we do this, should... | 2017-03-31T10:59:29 | 2017-03-31T10:02:08 | 45 | 16 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Frontiersman Lucian Xan's blood flowed freely down his brow until it met his jawline. It pooled on the tip of his chin and then dripped downward, unnoticed and unimportant. "How many are we looking at? I'm getting nothing but squid on the local."
Jack Studde snorted, "More than it's worth countin'." He gave a hapless ... | "We're not going to make it," Davis said, grimly. "We're basically Dutchman. We're dead. We just haven't stopped breathing yet."
Jasmine Huang inhaled, sharply. For a moment, she thought about snapping at her executive officer. That kind of talk was not conducive to morale.
However, a quick glance around the bridge m... | 2022-03-30T20:52:43 | 2019-01-31T22:55:27 | 2,124 | 63 |
[WP] After a treasure hunt with your friends, you make it to the treasure. But instead of the wealth you were told about, it was a note congratulating you on your journey and that the real treasure was the friends you made on the way. Only problem is that all your friends died getting you this far. | It was the end of my journey, I was eye-to-eye with what had caused all my friends to die before my eyes. I burst in to tears from the thought of my friends, I had encouraged them to come; "It will be worth it" I said foolishly. I took a few steps closer to the treasure chest and opened it up... All I saw was a piece o... | Kaant and Tenor heaved at the chest, pulling upwards with all their strength. Sweat streamed down from the two men’s foreheads, obstructing their vision and making an unpleasant situation even worse. It *stung* as it got in their eyes, and neither could spare a hand to wipe away the unwelcome fluid.
They swore at the ... | 2019-06-20T01:01:34 | 2019-06-20T00:12:22 | 52 | 36 |
[WP] Your old adventuring party left you in the old dwarves mines to die. You were rescued by your now-wife and her clan. After some years, you find a retired member of your old party in the tavern. | It was hard to keep down the venom that formed so readily and instantly at my throat, ready to leap out and slash at the god damned bastard—Roy, the Tinkerer—who sat merrily in the midst of several patrons. He took another swig of beer, enjoying the drunk and appreciative attention of those around him.
My blood boiled... | "Hey, Huntley, good to see you, how are we this fine evening?" Boris, the tavern keeper asked.
"It goes very well, Boris." Huntley said with a scratched voice. He took a seat at the crowded bar. "Busy night, huh?"
"Nothing I can't handle. Give me one second, your beer is coming right up."
"Thank you." While Huntley ... | 2022-02-13T10:45:14 | 2022-02-13T09:10:24 | 432 | 259 |
[WP] Create a character who is a paragon of virtue, kind and good and all round awesome. Make me hate this character. | J. Harden, 89, died a leader of his community. In recent years Harden was lauded for his works with the homeless and needy lights of our community.
The J. Harden Scholarship is given to one student at ASU each year that demonstrates the ability and willingness to go above and beyond for one of the dark souls in their... | Rachel tried her best to hide the fact she’d been silently sobbing for the duration of her drive. She dabbed at her eyes and cheeks with a tissue, staring at her face in the rear view mirror. Her eyes remained bloodshot and her face was puffy. That would have to do, she was already running late. She walked briskly to t... | 2014-06-27T08:11:02 | 2014-06-27T07:58:03 | 203 | 15 |
[WP] Create a character who is a paragon of virtue, kind and good and all round awesome. Make me hate this character. | Cooo-eeee! Hello? Are you home? Aaah there you are. No, no, don't get up, no need.
*Muah!*
How are you feeling dear? I know, I know it must still hurt so much, you poor thing. Look, I brought you some things. Cakes, I know you love chocolate cake and maybe it will help cheer you up.
Cup of tea, that's what you nee... | Rachel tried her best to hide the fact she’d been silently sobbing for the duration of her drive. She dabbed at her eyes and cheeks with a tissue, staring at her face in the rear view mirror. Her eyes remained bloodshot and her face was puffy. That would have to do, she was already running late. She walked briskly to t... | 2014-06-27T08:33:39 | 2014-06-27T07:58:03 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] You are the only human being left after the mysterious vanishing of the worlds population. Two years later, power and internet starts running once again, you recieve a reply notification on Reddit. | My hands trembled as I clicked on the small red envelope. Who could it be? What would they wanna contact me for?
My inbox only took a moment to load, but it felt like it may as well have been an eternity. My eyes darted to the message, eager to see what it would hold.
"Kill urself fagot"
A smile crept across my f... | I was on my weekly inspection of the solar panels on my roof when I heard the loud and sudden sound of the transformer coming back online.
As I looked up sharply and scanned the surrounding buildings, still unsure of what I had heard, I saw the most incredulous thing - the lights were on in the houses facing me.
Ove... | 2015-03-20T09:31:45 | 2015-03-20T08:40:13 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You really discovered One simple Trick, and Doctors actually hate you. | "So did nobody just think of this?"
"Yes, but it is highly illegal. Not to mention utterly disgusting!"
"But why? If it is the perfect vaccine!"
"Then pharmacies would come crashing down, economy would collapse, all that. Plus the components themselves are nothing less than biowaste!"
"Fuck the big pharma!"
"... | "There's no time to explain, Mark! Get in the car!"
Mark dropped his bagel and jumped into his friend's sports car. The dropping of the bagel was not out of urgency, rather it was a regrettable accident; he really wanted to eat that savory bagel. "What the hell, Gary?" The car sped-off through the crowded downtown str... | 2016-10-05T13:34:54 | 2016-10-05T11:24:21 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed the Devil. God makes you the new Devil to replace the one you killed. | "It's called the Satan Clause"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you read the card, didn't you?"
"Yeah, I read it. So what?"
*Barnabus the angel pulls a magnifying glass from thin air, examining the microprint around the edge of the card*
"The Satan Clause: In putting on the cape and holding the pitchfork, the wearer w... | I never meant to kill the Devil.
I wasn't an angel that ran into *him* in some dark alleyway. And I wasn't one of Satan's sycophants waiting in the shadows for *just the right moment*. Is that it? Is that what you think? That I was waiting for his eyes to slowly fall shut as he rested, so that I could sneak up and sli... | 2016-12-09T08:29:19 | 2016-12-09T08:19:49 | 3,471 | 807 |
[WP] Humans are one of if not the only species in the galaxy who can heal their wounds naturally. Your alien friend is learning this for the first time after they accidentally hurt you
Apologies for the wordy title | Blork looked down in horror at her new friends hand, the knife was on the floor and the deathly red liquid was seeping from the gash.
"I am sorry my companion, I have ended you, what do you request of me in your final moments"
James looked at Blork and the cut on his hand.
"It's alright, just a cut, stop being so melo... | "Well shit, Greg. Your knee's fucked up." Said the Fpirt apocethary. "No way in hell can any of my potions fix that."
I sat up on the bed and took a look at my knee. It had one big cut across it, plus some minor bruising.
"What do you mean doc? I just tripped over your flimpk hose, it's nothing serious."
The Fpir... | 2017-05-11T02:50:32 | 2017-05-11T02:26:03 | 224 | 139 |
[WP] You discover a library with a biography for everyone on Earth. While reading your own, you notice that whenever someone else is mentioned, there's a footnote showing where you can find their biography. Its odd how someone who was only a sentence in your book has a whole chapter for you. | *Anna was asked on a date by Phil. Anna politely turned him down.*
I'd forgotten about him. It'd been nearly ten years. My last semester at my first high school before I moved to another state a month later. I vaguely remember his dejected face. He seemed nice enough, wasn't that bad looking either, but there was some... | I had gone through 6,629 pages. During the documentation of the first few thousand it didn't matter much. I was somewhat interested, but because no one had a choice it made me uncomfortable to be involved.
Years ago the national council announced all persons within their sector must participate. There was uproar for a... | 2017-12-04T05:24:42 | 2017-12-04T05:20:30 | 78 | 33 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | "Your occupation?"
"Food sales and service."
"The boxes we found in your home, you were specifically trying to sell those? Including the one we have in this evidence bag?"
"Yes, detective. I don't understand what the problem is. I got a license, I pay taxes on all my profits, it's all legal."
"Where do you buy your... | My job is not the most prestigious, or the most difficult. Like everything else, it is just a job. I hate it, just like I hate myself. A repetition of certain tasks that does not ever end. I keep to myself, as always. I have no interest in making acquaintances or friends. The only guy that talks to me just compliments ... | 2017-12-09T07:43:55 | 2017-12-09T03:12:50 | 236 | 35 |
[WP] You're a magician, and nobody told you that the other magicians were always using real magic. They know you can't do real magic, but they also can't figure out any of your tricks. | Adam resumed the video in slow motion. Leaning in he could see the hair changing color as the woman ran her fingers through the long locks flowing through the air. Roots to the tips, yellow to blue. With a proud smile she steps to the front of the stage and takes a bow
"time delayed dye release?" he muttered to himsel... | Jensen stepped out of the car, a heavy downpour weighing heavy against her shoulders as it struck her coat. With a grunt, she spat out her half-smoked cigarette and crushed it under her boot out of reflex. The scene was busy, she had gotten here later than she would have liked. The feel was gone, replaced with white ta... | 2018-07-17T17:18:21 | 2018-07-17T15:26:27 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] Suddenly all over the world, the sky was completely covered by a gray blanket of clouds. After a month, suddenly the clouds disappear with a voice saying "Sorry for the wait. The rework of Sky has now been enabled. Enjoy!" and the sky is now filled with floating islands and cities. | Jaxon could live with the changes to the sky. Even the odd voice that boomed through the air when it happened didn't bother him much. For all he could tell, things didn't really change. Except for the cities in the sky.
That part Jaxon hated. With a passion. It wasn't that they were ugly, in fact they were rather... | ######[](#dropcap)
Makena's heart raced in her throat as she burst out of the cobblestone alleyway, not daring to glance back lest the Iker that was chasing her caught up. She had absolutely no interest in being pierced by its long, praying mantis-like claws first thing on a Sunday morning. Of course, it wouldn't be c... | 2018-08-26T10:36:01 | 2018-08-26T10:07:07 | 177 | 38 |
[WP] The Devil returns from a long day making deals and collecting souls, but along the way to his keep he manages to unwittingly drop one... yours. Years later you arrive in Hell, but since the Devil doesn't know where your soul is, he can't manipulate or punish you. You're just kind of... there. | "What year did you die again?"
"2019"
"What generation are you part of?"
"Millennial"
*satanic sigh*
"OK, so most of this is going to seem familiar to you... uh... over here is the vestibule to the fiery pit. This is where all hope of rescue or escape is lost, but...."
"My parents generation beat you to it"
"Uh h... | “Behold! Beyond this door lays your greatest fear!” The demon smiled cruelly, showing rows of wicked, jagged teeth.
“Wha…what is it?” I asked hesitantly, my eyes following the creature’s gesture to the wrought iron door before me. Comprised of dark metal and adorned with a single slot for viewing that could only be op... | 2019-05-06T09:42:38 | 2019-05-06T09:13:12 | 35 | 25 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | "And the name of your intended target?"
I took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Michael McCowell."
"Very well. Please have a seat while I add this to the registry. It will only be a few minutes."
I sit and run my hand through my hair. The anxiety from this decision has my nerves fried. I don't want to kill him.... | The streets were crowded and busy, the usual rush-hour congestion as people headed home. The streets were clogged with cars, the engines idling and pumping out exhaust. The sky overhead was overcast, a smog building up and threatening another acid rain.
I usually avoided this traffic, keeping to my one-room apartment ... | 2019-07-09T11:04:22 | 2019-07-09T10:47:03 | 102 | 14 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | I sit alone in the darkened room of my living room, the faint light of the television illuminated me. I was unnerved by the feeling that I needed to do something. It had been weeks, almost two months since I had gone out and done something. Something bad, but Powerhouse never showed up for any of the times I decided to... | Part 1/3
Shouldn’t a villain be evil? Shouldn’t that be a requirement of the label. I’m not evil, though that’s probably what all the other “villains” think. But I don’t want power, wealth or influence. I didn’t build this house because I needed a fortress or lair. I built it to be alone. I built it so I didn’t have... | 2019-08-04T04:39:57 | 2019-08-04T04:19:25 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | With a flash of light, the ritual was complete. Standing in the middle of the summoning circle was a man dressed in dark gray with a giant rucksack on his back and many pockets. He looked like a traveling merchant, not a solider.
Our concerns were immediately put to rest. With practiced reflexes he raised what appeare... | I leave it to Dr. Lucero and her team to worry about the nature of The Nexus, how it operates, all that junk. Look, I get it's important, and I respect that they do something that I not only couldn't do, but I have 0 interest in doing. Like, none, at all. I'd rather pull shitter duty for a month straight.
So: I'm stan... | 2020-11-10T11:23:43 | 2020-11-10T09:52:14 | 1,707 | 341 |
[WP] You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon's lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says "come tomorrow and try again." | **Her father was a blacksmith.**
She watched countless warriors choose weapons from her father's shop and depart on "great quests" to slay the beast in the mountains as she grew. None returned.
**Her father was a blacksmith.**
She had no siblings. Her mother died in childbirth. To the rest of the tribe, she was se... | “Once again our crops burn, even as we speak we wait for their flames to be doused. Last year was a travesty, but a surplus in stock gave us ample time to slay the beast yet here I stand with bellows of smoke in my eyes to a crumbling kingdom! Once a great nation, its citizens the wealthiest in the land of Astharnia, a... | 2020-12-01T08:02:16 | 2020-12-01T06:36:28 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon's lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says "come tomorrow and try again." | Second day. I arrive. I lose fast and hard. The dragon left me another on my arm, just above the first. Just deep enough to scar.
Third day. I arrive. I lose. I get cut.
Fifth day. I arrive. I lose. He cuts across the first four to make five.
Tenth day. I arrive. I lose but it takes only a few seconds longer. He smi... | “A boy is what they have mustered?”
The beast seemed on the verge of laughter, amused at the most recent ‘raider’ to approach her. “I am no mere boy, basilisk,” the young man huffed, grasping at what remained of his courage, “and do not mock me!” The young one’s sword was an average implement, the dragon noted. She co... | 2020-12-01T10:42:41 | 2020-12-01T09:21:21 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | "Y'know, you're actually kind of my type."
The great eldritch god, Andolith, ruler of the Seven Rings of Eternity, slayer of the last Helian Angels, and enslaver of the Five Realms of Agamemnon, blushed.
"I... excuse me, human?"
"Look, don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of the pointy horns. Or the weird slime mem... | There's a bald spot on Gh'ogonoth's head, in-between the horns, and I have the strangest urge to rub it. I bet it would be real smooth. It's shiny. I'm like a crow in that shiny objects compel me, I'm transfixed, they're all treasures even if they're really just the lack of hair on the top of my eldritch god fiancée's ... | 2022-08-09T16:26:08 | 2022-08-09T15:59:23 | 888 | 580 |
[WP] A supervillain offers the superhero the chance to join them not because they think the hero is the only thing in the way of their plans, but because they believe that the hero is being abused and taken advantage of by the general public, and that they would genuinely be happer as a villain. | I stared down at the poor thing on his knees. The pathetic being at my feet had been told he was the strongest and most talented the Tower had. The only one who could destroy the big bad wolf at the edge of the continent. I’d knocked him around so much today, and many times before.
For the longest time I couldn’t u... | It is a classic scene. Across literature, theatre, cinema, and other higher forms of entertainment, it is something one can frequently become acquainted with. There stands the Hero, a pillar of the culture, norms, and people he represents, and across him there we find his antithesis, someone who stands against the esta... | 2022-08-09T18:33:48 | 2022-08-09T18:11:55 | 134 | 53 |
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