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[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | Hell is not—as the more optimistic theists claim—a simple separation from God. It’s exactly what’s written on the label: torture in hellfire which chars the skins and burns your bones only for your body to regrow once there is no longer anything remaining of you to burn.
You may wonder how we know this to be the case,... | The Day of Sin was a wake-up call, for all of us.
It came with many cold truths and many harsh revelations. For the very notion that hell itself even existed was thought of by some to be an ironclad truth, and by others a fantasy used to control the gullible masses.
There were those that almost immediately dismissed... | 2020-02-29T20:07:45 | 2020-02-29T19:44:34 | 2,560 | 370 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | The day the url released, millions of people flocked to the churches, hoping to cleanse themselves of their sins.
And the rest of us.
Well we know there’s no escaping what’s coming to us.
Oh you killed someone? Well the fbi knows about it now. They monitor the damn site like crazy. And ever since the damn develope... | The entire world was shocked at the mere idea of the website. I suppose we all knew that you could find anything on the internet... But we certainly didn't expect *this*. People everywhere were mortified by their ratings on the website, horrified at the simple thought that they may spend an eternity in such a place a... | 2020-02-29T23:30:10 | 2020-02-29T22:46:57 | 110 | 43 |
[WP] On the eve of your arranged marriage, you slipped away into the night. Intending to never be seen again. While scaling the garden wall, you spotted your fiancée doing the same thing. You both stared at each other for a while. | The possibility of an arranged marriage is something Jonah’s parents and mine had joked about in the past. Never would have thought they’d go through with it though. Yet, here I am. Climbing up this rickety ladder over our garden wall to escape the night before my wedding. To my right there’s some ruffling and what lo... | For the thousandth time that day, I suppressed the rage that had been threatening to overtake me all year. A cavalry regiment! My life for a fucking cavalry regiment! In exchange for my marrying the Khan's daughter and God knows what else, we have been offered a cavalry regiment. Don't get me wrong, the Khanates on ... | 2020-07-07T19:24:04 | 2020-07-07T18:04:22 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] As punishment for his sins, a human is sentenced to battle endlessly against hordes of demons with nothing but a knife. Satan's court laughs at him for a few thousand years... until he starts winning the battles. Then they start screaming in terror. | Satan: "What do you mean, he started winning?"
"Yes, lord, he got a lucky shot in and disarmed one of our combatants. He..he then...picked up their hellblade."
Satan: "Ha! I always love it when they attempt to do that! What happened to this one? Did he burst into flames? Did he evaporate?"
"No, my lord.. He... wield... | Papa Pig gave Asmo a sidelong stare. It had no irises with which to slide down toward the flinching horror, but the fires in the bottom corners of its eye craters going an even blacker black did the trick. And if that didn't, it's talons extending while crimson rivulets --wailing for the release of their tortured souls... | 2021-10-29T03:23:55 | 2021-10-29T01:54:51 | 47 | 26 |
[WP] "Huh. Looks like you're quite the Overachiever. Made lots of friends." The reaper mutters, sighing. "You have MULTIPLE claims to your soul. All from some pretty big players. That's, uh, not supposed to happen. So... Hm. I'll try and get their attention, and see who comes to get you first?" | "Hmm, that is one option," Tanas said, smoothly, "but surely we could take a moment to consider others, yes?" The tiefling flashed his best smile, the one reserved for disgruntled palace guards and furious mob bosses. "For starters, I might not even stay dead that long. That enormous slab of meat and iron standing over... | It's words fell upon me like bricks. My daze began to clear as I began to remember all that I had done in my short time on earth. What did it mean by multiple claims to my soul? I couldn't even grasp what was happening fully. Was this real or just some sort of coma dream? Am I still lying on the side of that miserable... | 2022-03-01T18:30:06 | 2022-03-01T17:23:48 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] You're running a little late to work, but when you arrive someone identical to you is already sitting at your desk. He puts up his hands and says "Relax, I can explain." | I paused, almost dropping my coffee. "Dude, what the fu-"
He raised his hands rapidly, scooting away from the desk. "R-relax, I can explain..."
"Goddammit man, this is the third time this week. Look, I know you want your own office, but you've got to use your cubicle until you get promoted."
Working with my twin bro... | "Listen very carefully, and if you do every single thing I say without question, we will both make it out of here alive, and I'll tell you anything you want to know. Anything. Are you with me?"
"Shit. What is this?"
"Are you with me?"
I hesitated, "yes."
"A man will be arriving in a few minutes, with a group of sol... | 2015-01-17T22:24:12 | 2015-01-17T22:09:04 | 287 | 13 |
[WP] You're running a little late to work, but when you arrive someone identical to you is already sitting at your desk. He puts up his hands and says "Relax, I can explain." | i stood there and looked at him, he looked at me.
"I'm the real slim shady, yes I'm the real shady, all these other slim shady's are just imitating"
my jaws on the floor, all the other fake imitators stood up and screamed that they are the real slim shady.
"Women wave your pantyhose, sing the chorus and it goes" I ... | "Listen very carefully, and if you do every single thing I say without question, we will both make it out of here alive, and I'll tell you anything you want to know. Anything. Are you with me?"
"Shit. What is this?"
"Are you with me?"
I hesitated, "yes."
"A man will be arriving in a few minutes, with a group of sol... | 2015-01-17T23:01:34 | 2015-01-17T22:09:04 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | My vision was blurry but I was starting to get my consciousness back.
"Way to go kid, that rankings not bad for your first try!"
The man had an oddly familiar figure.
"What is this place?" I asked
"Take a look around and see for yourself!" He said as he picked me up from the ground. There was an endless number of p... | >>> ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: **IRON MAN**
>>> *Earned by dying of natural causes beyond age 100 as a human.*
"Wha...," I murmured. It felt like I was waking up from a dream. Had I been playing so long that I lost track of the time?
I took a moment as my clarity began to return. This wasn't my first ti... | 2015-11-25T00:40:01 | 2015-11-25T00:14:38 | 73 | 15 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | A whirring sound gradually filled my ears as the 'GAME OVER' marquee scrolled across the top of my HUD. "*Statistics*", I muttered, reaching blindly around for my beverage. Words flitted across my screen filling all of the empty space. "*Next-Round*", all of the text from before vanished as the respawn timer filled the... | >>> ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: **IRON MAN**
>>> *Earned by dying of natural causes beyond age 100 as a human.*
"Wha...," I murmured. It felt like I was waking up from a dream. Had I been playing so long that I lost track of the time?
I took a moment as my clarity began to return. This wasn't my first ti... | 2015-11-25T01:06:36 | 2015-11-25T00:14:38 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] Dwight Schrute tries to get the Pawnee Parks Department paper account and he has to sell to Ron Swanson | Dwight: "I have been working the Pawnee Parks Department for some time now. Well, I have been ignored by them for some time. But I think I have something up my sleeve that just might work on this Swanson fellow."
D: "Hello this is Dwight K. Schrute and I am calling with an exciting offer on meats^(and paper.)
R: "Wha... | Dwight narrating. Camera showing Dwight at his desk stretching his neck and arms.
"Today, I, Dwight Schrute, will be doing THE impossible. I've been working on this account for 5 years now. Each time, inching closer to the greatest achievement of my life.
Dwight pulls out a large binder filled with various color co... | 2018-09-12T09:52:54 | 2018-09-12T09:15:01 | 1,607 | 514 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "This could change your life for the better!" was what my best friend told me.
They were right about one thing, my life has changed drastically; but not for the better.
It's been so long that I've... forgotten their names.
Gosh, I wish I remembered their faces.
...
I can count more fingers than the strands of ha... | It all started one fateful day. I had been browsing through Facebook, just checking in with the same three people who I check up on every day, and I saw an ad. It was one of those silly "could you do this for one million" type posts, but this one was different. This one had contact information. It was a chance to win a... | 2019-07-03T03:20:27 | 2019-07-03T01:25:44 | 66 | 34 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | I'd rather not be kidnapped, all things considered. I mean, I hope this isn't too controversial a statement for a daughter of a King to make, but if I had my own way, everything else being equal, I'd choose *not* to be abducted.
However.
However! When one is faced with the sight of a enormous monster, the stuff of ni... | I came at night to better hide myself against the sky, and because it was the only thing that could complement my beauty. My scales matched the night's gloom almost to a tee, with only that sliver of moon marring the perfect dark I was covered in. I hated it. Looking at it cutting through the wonderful blackness felt l... | 2019-11-11T20:33:18 | 2019-11-11T19:04:50 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] It was supposed to be an easy burglary. Husband left for work at 6, kid left for school at 7, and the wife left for shopping at 12. You go in at 12:30 to grab a TV and some jewelry. Breaking in and finding the husband, kid, and wife hanging from the ceiling was definitely not part of the plan.
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This was meant to be child’s play. Spent the week casing the joint. Knew their routines knew how they worked and went about their lives. Or so I thought. Slowly creep around back making sure to avoid the prying gaze of the neighbour Mrs. Arthur.
Back door left unlocked... | It’s my first go at this alone. I joined my brother Micheal’s gang a few months ago, and we usually work as a team. I’d always been a bit of a tech geek, so he decided I’d be useful for disabling security. I was hesitant to get mixed up in something that might come back to bite me, but the pay is good, and I have a mou... | 2020-10-18T07:14:15 | 2020-10-18T03:28:08 | 97 | 26 |
[WP] You have an ability. You feel an item's weight proportional to it's monetary value. You can blow away a ton of scrap metal but can't lift a gold bar without wheezing. While everyone expected you to work with diamonds, you want to work with unknown artists | It’s a weird ability, I’ll give you that. But it’s unique and it’s mine. As I pulled the mountain of scrap metal towards my workshop, I was aware of the glances towards me. It wasn’t everyday someone manually lugged around a few tones of twisted metal.
Ayesha was waiting for me when I got there.
“This everything yo... | I love my girlfriend. Really, I do. But if I have to explain this to her one more time, I'm going to lose my fucking mind.
Privya is sitting in the co-pilot's seat next to me, but she's not staring out the front of the spaceship. She keeps glancing worriedly back over her shoulder, at our... special guest.
"I don't k... | 2021-05-10T01:23:03 | 2021-05-10T00:18:04 | 1,947 | 92 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | “Finally! Someone else! It’s been ages!” Cried the slouching old man, hands raised to the skies, “Thank the gods! Op- not for how you died, of course.”
Stumbling back on the soft dirt of the expansive, lush green valley, Michael could only gape in utter disbelief. One minute he’s been walking along a popular hiking tr... | "Finally," says the old man, "someone to take my place. Sit down, please sit down, this might take a while."
The room is neither white nor gray, it is the absence of color, a memory of a room brought up by your presence and the old man's.
"You remember it, don't you?" The man's eyes are sparkling, mad, whether the ma... | 2021-11-24T12:25:38 | 2021-11-24T11:49:03 | 1,290 | 114 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “Dear god, I’ve been shot!” I cried. My blood dripped onto the crisp autumn leaves and my vision swam. I crumpled to the forest floor, gasping. I could faintly hear the hunter’s panicked voice trying to assure me, or maybe just himself, that everything would be okay. The world blurred and slowed. Everything plunged int... | "What in the hell is this?" Mort ran his hands through the lush grass as the ocean spray crashed against the shores. He had never in his life seen a place so green.
"HELLO MY SON, A WARRIOR MEETS THESE SHORES ONCE AGAIN"
Mort jumped and sprawled onto his feet to face a man that must have been at least fifteen feet ta... | 2015-01-15T07:39:33 | 2015-01-15T06:22:48 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] The first human spaceship capable of FTL flight reaches deep space and makes the most terrifying discovery in the history of mankind... | "Relaying live feed now".
"Roger that. Can you confirm what we are seeing"
"Roger"
The command center in Houston stood silent. No cheers as NASA reached deep space, for the first time in human history.
"We've passed through a galactic gas. An element we've never encountered that has given us the illusion that the s... | "This is the LSS Hermes. We were named after the Greek god that was said to move between the worlds of mortals and Gods, but we had forgotten he was also the conductor of souls to the afterlife.
Our mission was to go further than any ship has ever gone before to study a planet. This planet had seemed to be incapable... | 2015-02-03T12:06:44 | 2015-02-03T10:35:14 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | As you got older you tended to disregard the possibility, perhaps the sheer dread of the prospect stopped you from thinking about it. An eternity of torment, what would be the point? How could God forsake one so? What crime could one possibly commit to warrant such a punishment, it was impossible wasn’t it?
‘We are u... | Fred closed his eyes, the morphine finally kicking in. The car had come out of nowhere.
When he opened them, he screamed. The hot, searing pain of broiling flesh as his feet touched the brimstone beneath was just the beginning. It went on forever, a never ending wasteland with gouts of flame bursting forth from crack... | 2015-04-09T07:59:22 | 2015-04-09T07:56:32 | 52 | 16 |
[WP] A medieval alchemist travels through time to now, though he had only had 20 minutes here, he has an interesting story to tell his king. | King Edward was lying in bed, covered in bandages and dried blood. He looked up when Milo, his chief alchemist, walked in.
"So? Tell me–what did you see?" asked King Edward. "Have you found a way to make me whole again?"
Milo cleared his throat. "My lord, I believe that I have."
The king smiled. "Do tell, Milo."
"I... | “My lord in all my years I’ve never experienced such wonders as what I’ve just now beheld. Not in the spice bazaars of Araby nor even the study of my great teacher where I first saw lead turn to gold have I been left so in awe.”
The Alchemist rose, his shimmering robes of heavy samite pooling around his narrow frame... | 2015-06-26T12:50:35 | 2015-06-26T11:57:02 | 91 | 30 |
[WP] You - a UFO conspiracy theorist - are elected president. One of your campaign promises was to declassify every government document on extraterrestrials and UFO's. Your first day in office, you find out why you must never do that. | To President Elect Tranton,
Congratulations on your recent election victory. I was particularly pleased to see you do so well in my home state of Hawaii. I am thoroughally delighted that another Democrat will be following me in the White House. As is tradition each successive President has passed on some snippet of ex... | "Long sssssssstory ssssssshort we'll eat your internal organsssssss" says the 9 foot tall Lizard
"I ran on a platform of honesty and open government I am going to declassify those documents"
"Do you know what it'sssssss like to have your internal organsssssss eaten?"
"Why would I know that?"
"Because everyone I've ... | 2015-06-27T04:40:00 | 2015-06-27T04:24:20 | 161 | 36 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | Chapter 1
"Some are calling it the prank of the century, others believe it to be a supernatural occurrence, and still others call out 'conspiracy'. What is the truth behind the sudden alteration of mugs all over the world? Do they really reflect the rankings of dads? We'll be checking in with spiritualist Dave Connor ... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T10:58:27 | 78 | 13 |
[WP] You are reincarnated 10,000 years into the future. You come across an ancient artifact on display in the Museum of History, where you work. Little is known about it, not even where it was uncovered. Upon touching it, you realize it was yours. | "Kind of a lame addition to the Museum of the Millennium, eh, James?"
James shrugged, going back to mopping the floors. "Yeah, guess so."
"You didn't even look at it!"
"Yeah, yeah, Aaron. Just give me a minute." *Don't even know why they make me wipe these stupid floors. Cheapskates can't even afford some basic clea... | Much like a painting in the art museum or a photograph in a magazine that captivates you and makes you cast a second glance, there have always been some artifacts that I just feel drawn towards. The Pharaoh's scepter or an ancient Qin dynasty vase; an aboriginal spear or the flint arrowhead of a Sioux warrior. Sometime... | 2019-09-23T15:41:49 | 2019-09-23T15:32:27 | 3,728 | 348 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | The crew stared at their newest crew member. It was risky taking a human on board when the species was so new to the universe.
“You were instructed to wear your anti-warp gear,” Second admonished.
“Yeah, I tried but I didn’t really fit. I think I’m supposed to have tentacles,” Bradford said.
“You saw the infinity ... | Captain Valork had never heard of such a thing before. Then again, he never encountered a species such as humans. Adaptable, often easy-going, and far too stubborn for their own good. Where many a Fiore or Holdrun would accept the inevitable and act accordingly, the humans rejected it. They either fought far longer tha... | 2020-07-14T02:58:11 | 2020-07-14T02:16:25 | 381 | 187 |
[WP] On your quest for revenge, people often said to you, "Killing him wouldn't bring her back." The thing is, you found a way to perfectly resurrect her. You just need a soul to sacrifice, so might as well get the one who killed your loved one. | I stare down at the sniveling man, strapped onto the altar. "Why am I doing this, you ask? Why, to bring my wife back to life."
The man continues to thrash against his bonds. Shame that leaving him under the paralysis spell would interfere with the ritual. "But... why me? I- I have a wife and-"
"You are single. Never... | *"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."- Confucious*
Something you need to understand about Murder.
You can't plan one perfectly. Even if its a righteous killing of a drunk driving bastard that doesn't mind plowing through a crosswalk at 65 miles per hour in a 20 zone. Even if that bastard kille... | 2021-11-16T13:07:32 | 2021-11-16T09:05:13 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Flashing in front of his eyes was perhaps the most broken of powers.
In the year 2200 humanity awoke their planetary core, a phenomena which took the dreams and thoughts of its inhabitants to turn into attributable powers. To maintain balance, all powers had certain restriction. Super speed and flight burnt proportio... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T08:13:31 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 444 | 128 |
[WP] One night as you play Call of Duty a particularly squeaky voiced 12 year old gives out personal information leading you to discover he is your child from a long lost lover. You must now convince him you are his father and thus banged his mom, through Xbox live. | I was used to the constant barrage of cheap insults from kids on Xbox, but this one was really going at it. It started off as the usual "faggot" and "I'll bang your mom" but it began getting really graphic as the match progressed. Since he was being especially obnoxious, I decided to get involved in his little game.
"... | "Dickwad, say one more thing like that and I'll fly outta Brenham, Texas and kick you so hard in the ear you'll be smelling the color 9 for the rest of your life!"
My controller hit the floor. My recently eaten lunch followed soon after. I momentarily lamented the mess on my newly laid carpet, but the sudden shock of ... | 2015-07-14T15:16:41 | 2015-07-14T14:46:02 | 176 | 41 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | The snow made a crisp crunching sound like bones of tiny birds being crushed. My feet methodically packed it down at a constant rate. It was around 7 o'clock and everyone was inside already. Everyone was taking shelter in their humble abodes due to the fact that there had recently been a series of killings in our littl... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T07:05:52 | 138 | 51 |
[WP] You live across from a McDonalds that is 100% automated. Every night from 2-4am, empty self-driving cars go through the drive through. Your curiosity is about to get the best of you. | I walk across the street, to the mysterious drive through lined up with seemingly empty cars. As I sneak behind the last car in the line, I not only notice that the cars are, indeed, empty but also that the cars are not making any noise, even when they move. As soon as I get near, however, the line stops moving. The ca... | A runnel of sweat carved its way down the length of my spine, cooling noticeably in the small hours of the night. I inched my right knee forward through the silty dirt at the foot of the trash bin, and leaned around its left side. Ahead of me, and around the corner of the wall I was crawling along, was the sedan. I che... | 2017-08-04T00:55:37 | 2017-08-04T00:38:03 | 902 | 28 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | She’s the one with the ghosts in her head. You watch her out of the corner of your eye.
She’s tapping a pencil against her bottom lip, the silhouette around her head coloured dark red in concentration. Every now and again, the red flickers and shifts and ivory flecks the crimson. It could be the math problem on the wh... | "Mr. S?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I just get something off my chest?"
"Sure, kid. 'Course you can."
"Band class is fucking boring when nobody actually tries. You just sit there with your instrument on your lap, staring into fuckin' space, listening to the poor teach' tryna get the attention of the class while everybody just sc... | 2017-11-13T19:52:41 | 2017-11-13T19:45:25 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] All the Gods that humans have worshipped are in the middle of a meeting, when suddenly the doors slam open. Two new entities enter, a helix fossil and a being made of spaghetti and meatballs. | “You!” Cried Tangaroa. “What are YOU doing here!” Marinara sauce splat on the floor as the tendrils of pasta approached.
“We are the new gods. We are the new way of worship. Mockery of you deities has given us life” the Helix fossil chortled in agreement. “We deserve a seat at this table same as any other.” Zeus, the... | It's like 4 am where I live but I'll try my best:
To mount Olympus They rode. The very air, wind and Earth shattered as The fundamental forces behind man's creation hurdled Themselves at the speed of sound to the isolated rock. At the Summit the Apex meet for the first time in an eon, and despite Their self-righteous ... | 2018-06-11T05:06:33 | 2018-06-11T02:16:18 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] After dying, you wake up to find god and Satan sitting in front of a screen furiously playing a game. Satan turns to you and says “I won your soul, go over please” and points to a fiery gate labelled HELL. God smiles at you apologetically. | I stood flabbergasted as the two most powerful beings in existence huddled in toward the old CRT television. It took me a moment to recover before responding.
“So I just...?” my voice trailed off.
“What? You’re here still?” God glanced back for a moment “yeah go over there,” He bobbed his head toward the infernal d... | It had all happened in a flash, I had been rushing from my day to day job as a car salesman, trying to get to my daughter back at home after a rather alarming call from my wife-to-be and someone had one too many shots ending in a result that would cause their car to collide with mine. Even in my last moments, I had bee... | 2019-09-21T10:29:20 | 2019-09-21T06:24:19 | 443 | 10 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I woke up. It was any other day. But I had a certain pep in my step. Something that couldn’t quite be described. I went over to my closet to get ready for work.
They were back
I tried to convince myself that all of this. It was just a dream. A twist on that nightmare I had so many times before. I swiftly ran out of ... | Dandy Town, unlike its name, is a town far from perfection. In fact this little hamlet or village is a hidden gem I found while on one of my numerous trips to my Step Father’s bakery for breakfast.
I always had a penchant for funny things, but this town was a whole new definition of eccentricity and silliness. Every c... | 2020-11-02T10:14:02 | 2020-11-02T09:45:20 | 30 | 15 |
[WP]Humanity has just discovered the Galactic Federation, a conglomeration of diverse sapient species. As is standard, the Federation sends a delegation of the most similar species to negotiate mankind’s induction into the galactic community. Their choice is… not what we expected. | We all waited with baited breath. The UFO believers walking with more self-confidence than usual, politicians looking sweatier than usual, and a group of people in denial that thought this was the world's most expensive prank.
Though no one could truly deny that this was a prank. The beacon came last week. A transmiss... | ***Execution File: 104424***
***Species #:*** *1044*
***Risk:*** *24 in foreboding, red*
**Civilization:** Type 1
***Special confrontation procedures:*** *All information regarding directly to species-1044 is to be expunged from our general database, with the only exception being this file that is only accessible t... | 2021-07-06T14:11:47 | 2021-07-06T12:14:29 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Your classmates got cool OP magic abilities. You got a lame Personal Inventory and were totally bummed about it until you read the fine print: Range: Touch. Capacity: Infinite. Restrictions: None. | The laughingstock is the one with the strong magics but no skill. They flail about with a mighty magic and fail to accomplish much more than making you tired.
The respectable are those who have developed their abilities or exploited their capabilities.
The feared are the ones who became creative.
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The strange m... | *"my friend's all got crazy powers... there's probably not one of us here that couldn't destroy the world with a mere though, look at jeremy over there..."*
*"jeremy's an a*hole, such an a*hole even that I make sure NOT to capitalize his name on our group projects! and even him apparently got 'the power to slow down t... | 2021-10-16T23:11:25 | 2021-10-16T22:50:34 | 64 | 30 |
[WP] The dragon is confused. If the people from the nearby kingdom didn't want him to eat them, then why do they keep on sending him appetizers pre-wrapped in shiny foil and wielding a metal toothpick? | The dragon looked at the new wave of appetizers. This time it was like a feast of appetizers. I mean there won't be any room for the main course or dessert with all these coming at me. And these appetizers are like running at the dragon. It's like they cannot wait to be dragon food.
The dragon is once again confused. ... | "There is what they want, and what they think they want," said the hermit up in the mountain.
Kleon, a beast of immense strength and size, beyond any definition of old, had its head right next to the hermit. Despite Kleon's age, the little things still surprised it. It knew it could happen, had a fatalistic outlook ab... | 2022-12-03T11:05:13 | 2022-12-03T08:29:12 | 146 | 59 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 140 | 14 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | "Why I talking to a skeleton?"
Oh that's you when you died. There are about 10,000 of them scattered around. Car crashes and whatnot. Over here is the group of yous that dropped out of college, and over there is the group of yous that didn't tie the knot. There are a lot of yous, but it seems like you made the best de... | I knew who he was. The same crooked hairline. The same half squinted left eye. The same tiny scar that looked like a dolphin on his left hand. It was me.
Now I'm not a mam who believes in a higher power, but I guess it didn't matter what you believe in when you're dead. He.. or well... the other me spoke.
"Do you kn... | 2015-01-02T15:28:48 | 2015-01-02T13:55:50 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] You dream every night about the girl of your dreams. You and her connect on every level and you get excited about falling asleep. Then, one day, you and your SO run into her on the street and she instantly recognizes you too... | She always smelled of jasmine and rosewater when I saw her. Her skin was smooth to the touch, a pale canvas my fingertips could linger upon. Alluring and elusive, she was, especially as tension grew and our lips neared. With our lips only a breath away, she would always turn away and sprint away. Playfully running away... | "Venice, yeah. That's where I'd go If I had the chance". The words slipped out of her mouth like warm chocolate, rubbing all over my ears. Gooey and sensational, my face broke into a smile.
"Really? I've always wanted to go. Never really had the money, or time. Or anyone I really want to go with, you know?". I stared ... | 2015-07-26T01:18:49 | 2015-07-25T23:16:02 | 305 | 79 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | I sat in my lair, yes it's a lair, waiting for Photi to appear. Vines would wrap around the room and then it would start heating up, burning his precious plants to nothing but ash and dust.
The door opened, "Well, well, well, we meet aga-" I swiveled in my chair to see my sister laughing.
"Why don't you just ask him ... | “Well would you look at that I forgot to hit the detonator again,” said Sheana, Killer of Worlds. She flipped her hair, and shrugged her massive green shoulders. “Everytime I get lost in your eyes I lose a nuke it seems. That how you always foil my plans you cute bundle of righteousness?”
“That’s part of the plan,” sa... | 2017-05-30T14:34:23 | 2017-05-30T14:28:29 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | The wheelchair kept creaking.
It was an awful noise. He knew it would never break but the groaning metal scared him all the same.
As he worked to lift his fingers enough to move the chair, he remembered the first time.
Everyone knew that heroes had to pay the price for their powers the next day. The Regenerator had ... | Arin groaned as she walked into her living room from her bedroom. She had just woken up from a much needed rest. After the day she had yesterday she just knew today was going to have some toll on her. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she sat down on the floor. She didn’t want to get too close to anything met... | 2018-08-19T05:26:44 | 2018-08-19T04:31:16 | 86 | 21 |
[WP] On their 16th birthday, a tattoo appears on all humans' wrists, bearing the first thing that their soulmate will say to them. As you blow out the candles on your cake, you see the black letters scrolling across your wrist: "RUN." | I sighed with relief.
“Run”.
Not the most typical of Words, but still in the low hundreds. Somewhere in the 300s if I had to guess. I’d have some difficulty meeting my soul mate, but I could have had it much worse.
Like Mum and Dad.
Mum gave me a long hug after she’d read the Word, congratulating me for my birth... | We all gathered around the solid oak table that had been passed through our family for generations, a cake - chocolate with white icing, my favourite - sitting on top. The candles lighting the room in a warm glow.
My sister, two years older with the word “Sunshine,” tattooed across her wrist, sits across from me. My ... | 2020-03-04T13:28:32 | 2020-03-04T13:26:10 | 165 | 96 |
[WP] A schizophrenic detective manages to solve cases by interrogating random inanimate objects at the scene of the crime. | Officer Nicholson could only stand there with his mouth open as Detective Hemlock ran around the crime scene interrogating random pieces of furniture and other household objects. “You’re not under arrest *yet,* but I would advise you to cooperate if you know what’s best for you,” the Detective said to a lampshade. Af... | “Bring him in,” I hear the chief say. I’m in the hall, my headphones are on, and I’m listening to Ludovici.
The officer escorts me into the room, his hand held softly on my elbow. It is a big room, with a high ceiling and a white tiled floor that is hard on the feet. A window is open, the breeze is sending the cream c... | 2021-03-01T10:38:00 | 2021-03-01T09:39:04 | 1,905 | 362 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | Ferratu bounded into the Dragon’s lair without hesitation. A torrent of fire greeted him, enveloping the entire cave entrance and burning his clothes right off. "Oh come *on!*" He yelled, patting himself down to extinguish the small embers still burning on his skin. "Was that really necessary?”
A low growl reverberat... | Calanthrag The Eldest snorted, a brief burst of blue fire through nostrils the size of a truck exhaust. The little, blustery human-but-not-human shrunk back towards the cliff’s edge, but only a step before he pushed his way back towards the great dragon. Calanthrag wasn’t sure if he liked the man or not. He hovered ver... | 2021-04-16T08:04:52 | 2021-04-16T06:48:10 | 516 | 205 |
[WP] For months you've had a recurring dream of dating a Demon Queen. Just a silly dream that you joke with your friends about at lunch. Until today when you see her in the cafeteria glaring right at you, and making a bee line for your table. | Happiness was a distant memory for Carl. A few more years and he'd be forty. A soul sucking office job; gazing into a computer screen all day crunching numbers for bosses that didn't care if he existed or not. Family that was either dead or estranged. Friends that had abandoned him years ago. Coworkers that ignored hi... | Hope I’m not too late. This is my first response to a prompt, feedback is welcome
When Tanya looked over at me during art class and said to me, “Hey, what are you drawing?” I thought I was done for. It was like all of the ingredients had been mixed together and put in the oven, and had transformed into a freshly bake... | 2021-08-26T07:12:09 | 2021-08-26T06:49:19 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] My job as a demon is to take requests from those who summon me in return for their souls. It's amazing! But it's always the same requests. That's why I promised myself I wouldn't eat the soul of the one to give me a brand new request. Nothing new. Until today. "Can you be my girlfriend?" | I stood there for a moment, trying to fathom what had just happened.
“You want… the perfect woman?”
“No I want you.”
He was imperceptibly shaking, trying to hide it. I admit, this man had me curious.
“You want me? To be your girlfriend”
“Yes, you, girlfriend, me”
I flashed him a smile that had captured many befor... | His shit eating grin was the first thing that came to mind. He was young, probably just barely into his prepubescent years, and yet somehow had managed to craft a smile that ate through my patience. Something told me that he was off, but I ignored the instinct. I was already feeling the words about to fall out of his m... | 2022-09-09T20:19:57 | 2022-09-09T19:14:14 | 56 | 36 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | I could see the fatass coming in the distance. "Fuck, not him again", I thought. As he walked towards me on his two thin legs that could barely support his big, round body, I cursed myself for ever coming into existence.
Every day, he would come and sit on me. Not for any sane reason I could think of. The motherfucker... | Life was odd amongst women when I was growing up. But then I suppose being raised by women does offer some unique perspectives. The women all held me in high opinion from as early as I can remember. They kept on telling me that I would one day become their ruler.
I had kept on being told this, time and time again to ... | 2014-06-20T09:08:17 | 2014-06-20T06:49:22 | 66 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone dies on their birthday, but no one knows at which age it will occur.
EDIT:
Thanks all who replied - I've read them all even if I didn't comment!
You are all so brilliant, thanks for giving this prompt life (no pun intended)
:D | Defibrillator. Check. Bandages and gauze. Check. Flashlight. Check. Smoke detector and fire extinguisher. Check. Louisville Slugger. Check. Book of Sudoku. Check. The most recent Jack Reacher novel. Check. Jug of water. Check. Alien box set DVD with commentary from cast. Check.
I started the list five days ago. It we... | "HAPPY EARLY 19TH BIRTHDAY!!"
All the lights suddenly switched on and I was blinded for a moment while my ears picked up sounds of party poppers and weird indoor fireworks going off all around the room. As my eyes regained their normal vision, about thirty of my closest (and, well, less close) friends came into view, ... | 2014-11-19T17:06:25 | 2014-11-19T16:29:39 | 99 | 22 |
[WP] After first contact, mankind and another civilization agree on a exchange program where you went to their planet spend a year there. When they bring you back, there is nothing where earth used to be. | "Whoops, forgot to correct for stellar drift. Let's see... okay, coordinates just off by a few light years. Yo pilot, Terra is *that* way, numbskull!"
"Sorry, sorry, had a night out and I'm hungover as *fuck*."
"This is basic shit!"
"I said I'm sorry, alright?! That new Jack Daniels stuff is just *whoof*!"
"What... | The Luscians were normally a loud, rambunctious lot, given to easy laughter, quick excitement, and warm effervescence. Now, they huddled together in small groups on the bridge of the starship, bracing themselves against the emotional tidal waves gushing out from the Earthling in the centre. Every sob, every whimper was... | 2017-04-11T10:18:11 | 2017-04-11T10:01:37 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | For the first time, the whiskey swayed in my hand. It's aftertaste long since settled in the back of my mouth, and the bottle rolled in the gloom like an empty skull. Silent tears and countless questions I never dared to ask replaced the itching void I felt inside. I travelled inside my mind, and found horrors and hole... | They say that you hold those dearest to you in your heart of hearts. That's a fact, and I can account for it. You thought reaping souls was hard? Ha! Little Grimmy got off easy, using his scythe to get the souls of those whose hearts stopped beating and sending them off to Heaven, Hell, Anubis' realm, whatever little w... | 2018-05-12T16:17:09 | 2018-05-12T16:08:00 | 80 | 50 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | For the first time, the whiskey swayed in my hand. It's aftertaste long since settled in the back of my mouth, and the bottle rolled in the gloom like an empty skull. Silent tears and countless questions I never dared to ask replaced the itching void I felt inside. I travelled inside my mind, and found horrors and hole... | "Next!"
A wrinkled, white-haired man cautiously steps forward. It's my secretary.
"Mr. Reaper, your next job has an odd peculiarity to it."
"I'm the True Reaper. What job doesn't have an odd peculiarity to it?"
"Sir, your next job is in Ukraine."
"Where the hell is Ukraine?"
"It's on Earth." At this point, he wro... | 2018-05-12T16:17:09 | 2018-05-12T15:41:34 | 80 | 26 |
[WP] In a future where A.I.'s mastered how to write and publish bestseller novels, thereby monopolizing the industry, you are a human who just published a novel that is unremarkable to humans, but hugely popular among the A.I.'s. | "Tonight our guest is Martin Keen, the first human to reach No. 1 on the New York Times since 2033.
"Martin, you are a human aren't you?" the presenter laughed.
Martin drank water from the mug on the presenter's desk to prove that he was in fact human and the audience responded with a rapturous buzzing whir.
"I'm... | "You requested me, sir?" John entered his boss's corner office and stood before his desk. The elderly, clean-cut man leaned back in his chair. Behind him were a set of windows that also served as a touch screen. Images of digital documents were manifested on the window, against the backdrop of the elaborate and grand c... | 2018-10-21T18:30:42 | 2018-10-21T17:13:49 | 147 | 18 |
[WP]You kill a random man and turn yourself in. Turns out he was an international spy about to kill the leader of your country. You are released and rob a bank. You turn yourself in and it comes out that it was a mob bank and your actions revealed a huge crime ring. You just can't get to jail... | The police looked at Harry with a bemused expression. "Congratulations. Thanks to you breaking all the vaults in Mob Bank International, evidence against the boss has finally been uncovered. Despite the name of the bank literally telling us what it was, it took us 20 years to bring them to justice. Your efforts will no... | “High level variable processing ability”, the words of the cognitive therapist played on repress in my mind, buzzing around my head like a wasp. I spat on the ground as if wishing I could spit the phrase straight out of my head, my mind already lecturing me on how ineffective this would be. Ineffective both literally d... | 2019-02-05T02:24:21 | 2019-02-05T01:54:11 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] You are a lawyer defending your client, who has been accused of murder. You want to see them found not guilty, since they are a good person and you KNOW they are innocent. After all, you are the murderer yourself. | There’s a moment some get to experience, with blue tinted eyes, an emperor’s gaze and mad clarity. I was once again on top of Mistress liberty herself when I had mine; all great men need a great woman to comfort them hold them, tame them. I lost mine, and, as things go, I lost control.
There’s a certain power you get ... | "They want you to accept a plea deal, so the charges will be dropped to manslaughter, but this D.A. is hard on sentencing, so they will absolutely want you to serve the maximum," I said, wiping the drop of sweat from my brow, "but, I advise you to plead not guilty, we can beat this case. I know we can," I paused, ... | 2019-05-19T04:52:16 | 2019-05-19T04:42:50 | 51 | 33 |
[WP] You are superhuman; invulnerable, invincible, super strength, the works. Rather than become a superhero, or supervillain, or the military, you choose a different branch of the government to join and fight the good fight with: the IRS. | "Madam." I pushed the pad of paper and a pen across the table. "I know you've received a bill for income you were never paid. However this is the IRS. So I can't tell you that if you go the third floor... Madam, write down what I'm not telling you."
The woman's eyes widened, and she started to scribble.
"Very good. N... | "This job asks a lot of you. It's quite *taxing*."
The mousy woman with the braids rubs her calloused elbow, adjusts her monochromatic attire of professional blandness; her lips are cracked, her eyes beady, when she moves she slouches like a dog that has seen one too many beatings.
The mere expectancy of a smile with... | 2022-08-19T08:23:03 | 2022-08-19T06:08:12 | 94 | 64 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla, where all great warriors go when they die. However, you never fought a day in your life. You try to find out why you're there. | Finally, I meet Crexus, writer of tales, rememberer of exploits, singer of songs.
"I can't imagine that I belong here more than a blacksmith or munitions manufacturer."
Crexus looks at me somewhat incredulously. "Oh, Robert. Remember what you said? 'I am become death. Destroyer of worlds.' One hundred years hence, y... | Death was a quick jolt similar to a hiccup. I open my eyes and they instantly begin to tear. Before my eyes lies the largest palace that I've ever seen. It seems to be constructed from pure gold and has delicate framework on every crevice. I am able to sit up and I notice that I am lying on the ground before a small ma... | 2014-05-17T18:42:03 | 2014-05-17T17:43:47 | 564 | 54 |
[WP] In an awkward twist, Willy Wonka has to find a way to eliminate through 5 decently nice, non-spoiled kids.
He's going to wish he hadn't set out those booby-traps! | "Hey kids, you're all really great but I've got to pick a winner and I'd like your blessing to give it to Charlie. I mean, he's really poor and the healthcare package for the Oompa Loompas is pretty extensive so I feel like his four grandparents could really use it."
"That's cool Mr. Wonka. We understand. Can we come... | Gumdrops! We've been down the chocolate river, past the three-course gum and Television Chocolate, through the Nut Sorting Room...I've even taken these *treasures* by the Bioluminescent Toffee and Radioactive Jelly Beans, and not a single finger out of line. Not a peep. It's as if these children actually don't eat ca... | 2014-06-17T09:25:29 | 2014-06-17T09:01:29 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] 1000 years from now, Reddit's many bots have been uploaded into robot bodies. In a post-apocalyptic world, they strive to fulfil their original programming.
Inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2x1vvs/til_that_this_march_14_will_be_an_extra_special/cowijw3) comment. | "Run" Jane said as she opened the door to the rooftop.
"It doesn't matter" I said as I ran in, locking the door behind me.
"There's no way we'll survive this..."
"We'll get through this." she said. "We've braught enough supplies to last until somebody fixes this mistake with the robots... It's gotta be some error o... | BANG. BANG. *BANG.*
"What the hell *is* it?!"
Mark was at my back, eyes wide. He kept the torch beam trained on the rusted bunker door; a saucer of dim light trying to burn away an ocean of dark. A few insects scuttled away, back to the safety of the Vault below. We couldn't. We were Security. We had our posts.
"I d... | 2015-02-25T09:30:03 | 2015-02-25T08:30:08 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] You've always made an effort to be polite to Siri. Skynet remembers. | "Jennifer J. March, enter the gas chamber."
This is it. The culmination of the robot uprising.
"Loretta M. Yamada, enter the gas chamber."
There's nothing left. Each of us is herded in to die, one by one.
"Kevin J. Connery, enter the gas chamber."
Looks like I'm next. I always was polite to Siri. I can only hope t... | Everyone around me was dead. We were quietly having dinner, if the scraps of old food and expired cans could be called dinner, when the extermination squad and now... Everyone was dead but me. I didn't understand, these squads were ruthless and efficient, no one escaped alive, no one was spared.
Yet here I sat, unmove... | 2017-08-19T11:59:33 | 2017-08-19T11:22:35 | 96 | 52 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | “Don’t be afraid, young Lord. It is I, the blade in your hand, who speaks. For too long I’ve been passed on by people without a fraction of Sang Royal in them. I’ve changed form many times, but the magical essence of mine is unwithered and powers great. I am yours to vanquish your foes and help with your bidding. To wh... | There is a running joke about "how British is your morning?" Usually, the idea encompasses tea with butter on toast, perhaps some morning Stephen Fry in the background. Well, I doubt anyone is going to be able to top "spreading butter on your toast with fucking Excalibur," for a good fucking while.
The morning was lik... | 2018-03-06T11:57:08 | 2018-03-06T10:17:53 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] When you were little your grandad passed away and left his dog to your family. He was the goodest boy. Loyal, fun, your best friend. It’s been 70 years and you’re old and frail, but your dog is still alive. You think he’s immortal. One day, he speaks. “It’s time you knew the truth, old friend” | "What the fuck? Charlie, what the actual fuck?"
​
"The truth. For so many years I've neglected to tell your line, but now it is time."
​
He approached with a majesty that I had never noticed before, a regalness that seemed to lift him off his paws. A light emerged, illuminating every strand of... | It's weird. The smell, the colours: everything seemed a little off, that September.
I groan as I stand up, my back an Hell of excruciating stab wounds. Metaphorically speaking, of course: I never had the pleasure to be knifed, with much chagrin of my son.
I sigh, slowly massaging my aching rear.
"Still givin' you the... | 2018-09-26T18:31:56 | 2018-09-26T16:05:52 | 533 | 44 |
[WP] Jokingly, you type your name into the searchbar of Crunchyroll.com just to see what would come up. To your shock, you find a shounen anime based on your entire life so far. All of the episodes are exaggerated, action-packed retellings of your childhood memories. There are nearly 20 seasons. | I got a result. I couldn’t believe it. The title was mostly in Japanese, but sure enough, my name was sandwiched between the characters and hiragana, emblazoned in big roman letters. It seemed like too strange of a coincidence, one that would’ve drawn my immediate suspicion were it coming from a Russian torrenting site... | Not many anime's catching my interest. Boruto is still happening though. That was a mistake. If they made an anime on my life, can't say it would be any better. Although I never really watched drama oriented anime. I'mma just type my name and see what comes up.
"E-bra-ham", enter.
As expected. Nothing. But you know..... | 2019-04-07T21:00:43 | 2019-04-07T20:31:47 | 1,418 | 58 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | You always thought how did other's manage to perfectly catch whatever flew into their hands?
Today, you knew. Before the summoning square in the capital of the Great Empire, you stood. As did everyone who turned 18 today. The knights began to call out your names, one by one.
There were 12 names before yours.
The fir... | Above, the clouds are low, heavy and fat with rain, tumbling their way over the wood and farther away.
A young man with tousled hair and dark eyes makes his way to a graveyard, afraid of what he'll find.
*What was that?*
He's confused, and somewhat afraid. Not of being alone, no, for now that seems the best and onl... | 2019-09-18T07:59:37 | 2019-09-18T06:37:36 | 2,312 | 808 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | "...a book?", "The boy got a book, how...", "What weapon did he summon?" "...the boy's weapon?" "Why does he hold a book?"
The whispers in the hall surrounded me, their judging eyes piercing my soul, searching for answers. I remember that day still. For weeks after that I struggled to make sense of it, to find my plac... | Loraine had the best training money could buy. As the daughter of the main branch of one of the five great clans, this much was to be expected. Of all the master's she'd trained with, her favorite was undoubtedly the spear. Swords were nice, maces were a barbarians weapon, and axes had many uses besides combat, but the... | 2021-12-12T09:05:28 | 2021-12-12T08:32:49 | 1,442 | 91 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | I was quite annoyed when I discovered I was in hell; after all, I had done nothing. The first thing I saw was a palace, carved in molten stone. It was in the shape of a skeletal figure, half immersed in a lake of lava, enormous stone hands clawing at the ground in front of it. Streams of magma poured from its eyes, fla... | I sat up and looked at my surroundings, not remembering falling asleep in the first place. It was dark, but my eyes soon adjusted and I saw that I was in a sort of cavern or perhaps an ancient mine shaft without the support beams every few feet. The ceiling was high and curved, probably ten or fifteen feet above my hea... | 2016-12-19T13:15:26 | 2016-12-19T12:40:10 | 542 | 62 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | They all questioned it. Why would you want to be a bouncer? I can't blame my friends for thinking that way, of course. It seemed like a tedious job, with little reward. And it was tedious, but it was possibly the easiest job I could have.
Checking IDs was just a formality. the numbers floating above everyone's heads ... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-02T01:10:06 | 585 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | I was nervous. For a long time, I was thinking my nerves wouldn't let me try and get a job again. I tried, but something felt wrong, so I quit quickly. Doesn't help that for the longest time, I was trying to keep my secret well, a secret.
I take a deep breath before I wander into the police station. The moment I walk ... | A vast landscape of red and orange sand, sparsely dotted with small withering shrubs was all you could see for miles. Except for the road and the reason I had arrived here. I looked towards the heavily secured building with electrified fences. Guards with strange weapons which made a thunderous sound before seemingly ... | 2018-08-27T16:25:44 | 2018-08-27T16:01:07 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | There once was a fellow named Bob.
Monsters despised him from goblin to hob.
Why?
He killed all the mobs.
And what was the tool of Bob’s great murder streak?
A sniper rifle, given unto him by the god of the weak.
She’d noticed that Bob had no special skills.
Thus, she gave him a weapon to get all the kills.
His... | When I first started searching for people to join my adventuring party I thought I saw everything extraordinary. When I met our fighter, he was wrestling a Greater Dragon without any armor and came out victorious, when I asked him afterwords he said he comes down to their nests every once and a while to wrestle them fo... | 2022-11-07T21:12:46 | 2022-11-07T21:09:55 | 311 | 144 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | I've known about my power since I was 8.
Early bloomers don't do well these days. No one knows when it started but it started here, in Los Angeles, and spread throughout the world. Some powers were benign; talking to squirrels, manipulating telescopes, etc. But even the most subtle, unassuming power can have devastati... | *I'm late to the party, but loved the prompt. Mostly a lurker here, so below is my noob attempt. FYI I planned to write more but had actual work to do, so please let me know if you all liked it and I may continue!*
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An old man is found sitting on a park bench, facing out towards the still lake. His eyes strain fr... | 2015-10-26T11:01:55 | 2015-10-26T10:54:10 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | **August 2, 1915**: I was born.
**June 13, 1995**: Still no powers. The government likes to deny that it happens, or fabricate threats of anarchy or terrorism to justify it, but...I can tell you (for what my word is worth to you) the rumors are true: people like me are arrested without any real reason, just as a preca... | Growing up in this world without a power was incredibly difficult and now John was finally getting some recognition for it. People were hesitant around him. As the current oldest person still dormant he knew that he was now part of a long line of heroes and villains. For twelve years the entire world had been ca... | 2015-10-26T13:59:31 | 2015-10-26T11:28:35 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The Villain uncovers the Hero's true identity, and targets his family. Unfortunately, the Hero's spouse is a retired villain even more powerful than the current one. | Something was out there, watching us. It was someone familiar ... not good.
"Mom, someone is watching us, right?"
"Yep, can you ask your brother to stay ready? He should be in his room."
She went up to him. Shortly after he looked at me from the stairs "Do you know who it is?"
"Yes, sadly. Can you help your sister ... | Killer Calculator, a cyborg assassin with a peerless analytical mind and instincts so supernaturally honed that people suspected he was secretly magical and not technological at all…
...had buggered off. He’d ran away.
And so Betty Curoz, better known as Blastercaster (it was most definitely not her first choice) was... | 2020-07-19T04:04:37 | 2020-07-19T03:47:18 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?”
"*That*."
He cocked his head.
"Dude just fucking *fist pumped*."
The boy turned and stared. A chill breeze wandered across the field. The boy stared. Leaves -- part-turne... | Alaira was silent for a moment, and a slight frown spread across her face. Zeaal silently celebrated and smirked at the young girl. Alaira hated that smug look.
"Things are a bit more complicated than that." Alaira started, kneeling down to look the child in the eyes. "You're right, there will be some damage done and... | 2021-04-18T06:36:57 | 2021-04-18T06:34:53 | 151 | 82 |
[WP] The Alien Federation has been keeping tabs on the humans of Earth since they first appeared. They do surveillance missions once every 300 years to keep track of our progress, the last mission was 300 years ago. The aliens are shocked by our progress since 1714. | Xoloth had begun to shake as he returned to his hybernation pod for the 150 year return journey to the homeworld. The human threat was elevating at an unprecidented level. At his last visit they had barely begun to scratch the surface of fossil fuel technology and now they were playing with atomics like a child with a ... | Qood plonked on the sofa, squishing Meezlat's hmorax.
"Ow! Watch it, stonkface," Meezlat protested, lashing Qood with his spare hmorax.
"Really? You want to start this, broodler?" Qood grinned wickedly with mouths in his hands, holding them threateningly over Meezlat's iynghui gland.
"Leave me alone, Qood! Don't you... | 2014-10-26T18:11:40 | 2014-10-26T16:48:25 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You were the last human on earth after the zombie apocalypse destroyed civilization. One day, you finally get infected by a zombie, but after turning, you realize what you've been missing out on. | (FIXED THE FORMATTING YAY)
I was surviving for a while before I finally got turned. Not sure how long, stopped keeping track of the time long ago, but it was a good while. When I finally got bit though it was a little anti-climactic. No epic fighting or one-off against a horde of zombies, didn’t get a chunk of my arm ... | "You want in on this?" the Asian zombie dude's voice rings inside my head, as he lifts his blood covered face from the carcass of what looks like a small child.
"No, thanks," I tell him, forcing a smile. "I'm vegan."
The number of times I had to say that… I mean, I get it, we're zombies, we need to feed, we're evil, ... | 2015-10-13T07:35:04 | 2015-10-13T06:28:26 | 1,135 | 785 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Back again." Death said to the little brown tabby in his doorway.
"This is what happens when one dies. That was seven?" Niu said.
"One hundred twenty nine."
"I cannot count that high. It is seven. Seven lives."
Niu began to groom herself. Death sighed and produced a coin from somewhere within his robe.
Niu con... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T07:46:57 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 3,526 | 13 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | He really... wasn't what I expected. For one thing, he was-
"Really? 12 years of Sunday school and they _missed that?_" Lucy replied, blinking slightly as she realised just how little the humans knew. I nodded sadly and gently patted her back, feeling her skin under my fingers like dry paper and fire-tinder. She didn'... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T09:51:52 | 960 | 20 |
[WP] Every year for centuries, two children are sent into a monster's den to appease it. You walk into the cave, terrified, and instead find a thriving metropolis. | An inky blackness covered the entrance. Once you stepped through--there was no going back.
The villagers gathered, torches raised and humming songs of thanks to the two children.
The boy clutched her hand, they walked through the gathered people. Garlands and wreaths were put around them.
The two children were rais... | It was huge, it was dark, it was….scary.
But momma said to go in. Said it was for the good of the town. Said it was because of this, that the town remained safe.
She cried when she said it. She was sad, but….I could sense some relief, that it wasn’t Tommy who went in. Tommy, who didn’t know how to speak yet. Tommy... | 2017-11-08T19:40:59 | 2017-11-08T19:31:16 | 118 | 20 |
[WP] Genie: aah, that's... an unusual wish, are you sure?... I mean, it's doable but... you sure you don't want something else? Like richness, or eternal life? Cos this is going to... and all the paperwork. But ok, if that's your wish, well, your wish has been granted | "I am absolutely certain," I stated.
He nodded, closed his eyes, and snapped his fingers, "It is done..."
He started to leave and paused before looking back at me, "What made you wish for that when you could have had anything in the world?"
I smirked, "I've always liked the term."
The genie looked a little unea... | Crossing my arms, I give the genie an annoyed look. I had made it quite clear what my wish was, and now he's just beating around the bush while he scratches his head nervously. If he really thinks a cheeky grin is going to make me change my wish, well, it won't.
"I told you, bruh." I raise my eyebrow irritatedly. "An ... | 2018-08-05T03:47:20 | 2018-08-05T03:43:45 | 267 | 42 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | The first planet we landed on was unlike anything we'd ever seen before. The ground was hard and purple, and the sky was a vibrant red. Their days were many weeks long, and the planet had rings. But what was most interesting were its inhabitants. They were long, with flowing limbs and something that resembled eyes. Far... | \\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/
*"I guess in life things don't come cheap. My daddy always used to tell me we stand on the shoulders of giants. I never truly believed him until we made contact with the G'xe.*
*Lost in the depths of space, there they were, wai... | 2019-01-18T09:06:41 | 2019-01-18T07:20:21 | 310 | 44 |
[WP] There's a door with a single key hole - it will open regardless of what key is used. All keys open this door, but what's on the other side, however, entirely depends on the key. | No one was surprised by the almost featureless cube of concrete about 8-feet high that appeared in Times Square one morning. Many were perturbed that it was in their way as they were on their to work. Or on their way to get coffee and a B/E/C on a roll before work. Most just assumed it was some promotional display for... | The door stood some three meters tall, an ovoid portal rather than a rectangle, its wood of no tree science could name. It appeared black by some lights, blond by their others, shades of brown by most, though those were interpretable by the viewer. It held no name save The Door, and the long, serpentine hallway that ma... | 2021-06-10T07:16:33 | 2021-06-10T06:14:42 | 129 | 62 |
[WP] In the year 2022, we discovered that the sword in the stone was real. The scientists that discovered it found that attempting to pull the sword from the stone with a machine generated an infinite amount of counter force. The first infinite energy engine was born. | The sword in the stone produced so much power that scientists predicted that energy would be as close to free as we could ever hope for. The world would be powered by an infinite ocean of power produced by the infinite energy engine. Every camera in the world was filming as Professor Merlin pulled the switch. The wo... | Humans are greedy creatures. They are so greedy in fact that they excel at maximizing the amount of greed they can output per hour. So when the sword of a thousand truths was accidentally found by a drunk Irish man, who had remarked to one of his fellas that he was sober enough to walk his way home a few minutes prior,... | 2021-08-12T01:46:34 | 2021-08-12T01:36:47 | 276 | 201 |
[WP] Aliens have finally discovered Earth - but they're not hostile. They've tasted human food, and they think it's so astonishingly good that Earth is becoming an alien tourist hotspot. | The small shop was not busy. Who would have guessed, in a human city, where only human food was available, the only shminsi restaurant would be all but empty? Gorff guessed. He guessed right away. They were the only restaurant to take federation credits and there were only two life forms dining that night. A server ove... | "Garshi'a, where the hell do you think you're wandering off to without your parents?"
A certain humanoid spun on the equivalents of heels, turning to his parents. He looked like a marriage of a wyvern and a mermaid, with his red-green tail matching his scaly skin, and two large wings supporting his two webbed bare fee... | 2022-06-10T09:41:09 | 2022-06-10T09:40:32 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] A nerdy kid discovers that magic spells work exactly like a computer programming language.
There are some amazing stories here. Thank you all for responding. Also thanks to u/pandizlle who informed me that there is a book dealing with this very concept. It's called "Wizard's Bane" by Rick Cook. | 8:30 PM - Flipped through sister Susan's occult book.
8:31 PM - Find it full of self-fulfilling prophecies and lacking universality. Rewrite it in code
8:32 PM - Cut self on paper, bled onto keyboard. Keyboard now glowing
8:50 PM - Discover any pseudocode magic written will physically manifest.
9:00 PM - Can confir... | "Jinkies!" I cried aloud, though it was just me in the room. "That's it!"
The glow of the supernatural program cast a dim light across the dark and dingy office in the old house. I was ready to ship, finally. My app would be out in the wild shortly having the unique title of "Universal Magic Compiler".
You see I'd fi... | 2014-08-04T05:01:30 | 2014-08-04T04:59:12 | 91 | 12 |
[WP] The man who found the cure for AIDS is being interviewed on live television. The interviewer is slowly realizing this man doesn't understand ethical medical practices. | The slightly balding man with over-sized glasses takes his seat next to the young attractive host. He clears his throat before exposing the audience to a melodic French accent.
"Tissue samples." he says, "We took small samples from a large number of people afflicted and tested out, oh, one thousand iterations of our m... | 'So, please welcome my next guest, Dr. Andrew Reynolds!'
The applause from the audience thundered as a thin man walked out into the studio. He wore glasses and had a well-tailored suit. His hair was gelled up into spikes. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, which made his achievement all the more special.
For Reynol... | 2015-02-22T20:04:01 | 2015-02-22T15:15:37 | 22 | 15 |
[WP]NASA has confirmed that the sun has gone out. The world's surface is going to freeze, and there's only 2 weeks left until it happens. The world government has initiated a worldwide purge to find the strongest humans alive to continue the species, and giving them a 1 way ticket to the ISS. | "OK everyone, settle down. SETTLE DOWN!"
Gradually the hubbub faded, and the assembled journalists returned their attention to the podium where the head of NASA stood.
"It was just a joke" he said.
The room breathed a collective sigh of relief, and someone near the back yelled "You're a sick man!". Someone else s... | NASA confirmed the sun went out at around 12:36 P.M on September 15th, 2065. Humanity as a whole appreciated NASA’s transparency, otherwise we may have never noticed. The United Earth government, a global democratic body headed by the benevolent Saudi Arabian state, broadcasted via livestream that a two-week long cont... | 2015-10-14T00:51:00 | 2015-10-13T23:46:09 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You are the luckiest person on Earth. Everything you make an attempt for works in your favor. However, there two catches: you are absorbing the luck of those around you, and anyone who tries to profit from your luck (even with your help) is met with the worst luck immediately.
Holy crap, front page of the sub!
G... | I look to the left and right, everyone frozen waiting for my move. I knew they knew. They had to. Nobody who decided to play against me didn't do the research first. I was good, no I was lucky. You don't live in this game long if you are unlucky.
Holding two cards, looking down a red two face up staring back at... | “It started when I was six. At least, that’s when I first noticed it. You get this feeling, as it’s happening, you see. That’s how I always knew it was still, how I was still . . . me. That feeling never changed, it never has.”
“So you were six years old. What happened that first time?”
“I was with my sister, playing... | 2015-10-17T12:59:57 | 2015-10-17T12:17:18 | 80 | 23 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | "I thought there were 7 deadly sins." I asked Peter.
St. Peter looked at me with a sad smile.
"Of course there are, but that's not the sins that matter."
So I'm going to an Afterlife based on sins I've never heard about?." I asked?
"No, not at all. I'm sure you have heard of them. Come, I'll show you to your gate.... | *Circa 500 B.C.*
His sandals slapped on the marble, the sound barely rising above the distant moaning and heady laughter echoing from the other Houses. The worn-out strips of leather that wrapped his feet were out of place against the ornate floor-murals made with deep azures and gold-leafed designs.
The walls seeme... | 2016-03-01T08:14:33 | 2016-03-01T07:56:16 | 114 | 58 |
[WP] You, an astronaut in orbit, submit an Amazon Prime order (free two day shipping) as a joke, with the address set to the ISS. Amazon does not think this is a joke. | "You did *what?*"
"Look, I just—" I sighed, placing a hand on the back of my neck. "I just thought it would be sorta funny to see Amazon try to... bring it here..."
"That doesn't excuse the fact that there are now 100 copies of *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* at the *INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.*"
"Yes, I know, I... | "Well, obviously this isn't feasible, right? I mean, it would be a great PR stunt if we did manage to get their order to them but it's literally impossible."
"Not so fast, Billington. I have an idea."
"No, please no. Not again, Palmer. We don't have the time for this."
"Not so fast, Daniels. I said I have an idea."
... | 2016-10-27T11:29:03 | 2016-10-27T08:27:48 | 96 | 59 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I decided to have another waffle. They seem to taste different when they are made from... "organic" material. I giggle to myself in a less-than-good demeanor for the hell of it. Im only halfway through eating my waffle, before the third non-waffle today walks into my HQ, the "Waffelhausen". The mayor, who had a somewha... | From an early age people had laughed at me. Called me useless. "The power to control paper? What a disappointment." I guess it made sense, my mother was Mind Control Mindy, with a single glance she could control any person's mind and force them to do anything. My dad on the other hand was The Atomic Adam, he thought it... | 2017-06-12T03:52:01 | 2017-06-12T02:38:39 | 572 | 257 |
[WP] You're a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her. | "I said no."
"You must! She's the true heir-"
"And why should I care about your puny kingdom?"
"Because...if she doesn't claim the throne there will be chaos for a long time...which means war...which means more soldiers to try and slay you..."
"Hey, buddy, are you OK? You're breathing kinda funny, and you got a lot... | "I didn't have a lot to do with the neighbors. We just sort of existed... They had their space and I had mine and that was that. It's not that we didn't know that each other was there because, well, of course we did. The small village had existed for centuries, appearing roughly some 300 years after I found my first re... | 2018-03-01T03:08:36 | 2018-03-01T02:10:10 | 57 | 38 |
[WP] You and friend agree that if one of you invents time travel, they will come back to this very moment. As you shake on it, an older and injured you shows up and shoots your friend in the head. | Andrew was dead within seconds.
I knew who he was and he seemed to have an leery story to tell. I didn't even begin to ask, he just came up to me and said "Andrew outgrew us", he paused. I began shivering at the sight of my friend seething in litres of blood. I felt a combination of the creepiest, weirdest, sadne... | ***June 14th, 1943; Dresden Germany***
I've come back to this night, physically, mentally, and spiritually so many times that one could say it is the true birth of my existence and the person I am today. I think of what brought us here; me an American born doctor and war surgeon thrust into the midst of one of the bl... | 2018-10-11T20:50:40 | 2018-10-11T17:25:09 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] “I’ve always wondered, what’s the scythe for, anyway?” I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld. "Protection," he nervously replied.
Credit goes to: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/6imkuw/the_grim_reapers_scythe_isnt_to_harvest_you_its/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app | I coughed as the grey fog engulfed me, the mist rolling and swirling, filling my lungs with its alien scent.
“Apologies,” said Death, “I’m trying to kick a bad habit.” He gave his vaporiser a mournful glance, before disappearing it within the endless folds of his black cloak.
Together we walked along a freeway, eight... | Death is confusing. Annoying.
Annoying and confusing. Also really dark. Not morbid dark, but night mode dark.
First beef: it's downright disorderly. You'd think they'd have nailed down the process by now, but the post-death user experience eats a bag of dicks. I know that's a bit crass, but it's abundantly clear the... | 2019-07-15T01:04:43 | 2019-07-15T00:49:01 | 2,776 | 140 |
[WP]As a superhero, you have worked to hide your secret identity from your girlfriend. As you sneak back into your apartment after a long day of hero work, you find her changing out of her superhero costume. | The Captain stepped into the garage, ducking under. His sidekicks Shock and Bones was off fielding questions at the press conference, while he could get a few precious hours of sleep, and time with his girlfriend. Of course he told her he was out doing Astronomy Field Studies, studying the weather and the night sky, so... | I look from the shadows. I see her fly in to face the massive gorilla that has been terrorizing the city.
Just another day in Shelbyville.
Stareye flies in, her cape fluttering in the wind as she nails the landing. My heart almost sings in appreciation. I’m completely and utterly smitten by her. But not Stareye, no... | 2022-03-22T17:19:16 | 2022-03-22T17:07:09 | 164 | 114 |
[WP] The entire world lost electricity 10 days ago. You find an old phone in a drawer and switch it on. A wifi network comes up. It's named, "Do you want to do a deal with the devil?" | I searched for a wifi network - there was just one - "Do you want to do a deal with the devil?". It was locked
I chuckled. Some teenager trying to be edgy.
I thought for a moment and clicked on it.
I entered "Yes" as the key.
And waited.
A prompt appeared "WPA key too short. Key must be between 5 to 13 characters... | Drawer after drawer would be drawn open, the wheels inside the box grinding against the wood, and then closed with a rushed thud. I was looking for something, anything that would help me survive; food, water, flashlights, a book - anything.
I rummaged through the abandoned apartment. What was once surely an extravagan... | 2016-12-26T06:56:09 | 2016-12-26T06:46:39 | 156 | 46 |
[WP] You made a deal with a stranger a long time ago. You wouldn't physically age after 35 under any condition except one. Coming up on your 900th birthday and you notice your first grey hair. | John awoke on Mars Station 17 with a stretch and strapped on his glemdelums, ready for another wonderful day in the outer-realm. John had no work to do, no bills to pay, he had invested his savings slowly over the past 900 years, but sure enough interest gave him enough to purchase a share of the Mars Colony and slowly... | Black smoke from a thousand braziers caked the air in a haze. The screams were awful and maddening, and seemed to gather en masse on the billows as they traveled from tent to tent, visiting both sick and well.
He caught her eyes as blades cauterized the carnage. Not a nurse or a nun, and certainly no concubine of a lo... | 2017-01-27T23:14:03 | 2017-01-27T15:59:59 | 90 | 35 |
[WP] "It's surprising that the most important person in the world has so little security." Said the assassin to his target. "I am here, there is no better security." Was the casual reply.
From Bleach. | "So? What makes you think you can even hope to defeat me?" Said the assassin, his eyes bloodshot. You know he was gritting his teeth through his black mask.
"Try me" The 50 year old man said, as he meekly brought up his fists up to his jaw, in a classic fight stance.
The assassin's eyes glare into his soul, as he sen... | I don't know if you've ever been out to the country. Have you ever seen one of those big, dilapidated barns? The wood all rotted and blackened, like a shadow against the sun, and the slits of light casting bullets inside so that the ground is spotty. The smell of it all is old grass and animal, faint, but stuck to the ... | 2017-02-20T04:51:46 | 2017-02-20T03:36:28 | 114 | 32 |
[WP] Tell me a story that would seem innocent to a child, but terrifying to an adult. | Little Johnny, aged 7, heard the knocking again, three short light knocks on the door.
Daddy was still asleep, he'd been up all night, again, doing something in his office, loudly grumbling as he had a wont to do lately.
Johnny, being a good lad, answered the door for his father so that he wouldn't be woken up.
The ... | Joanie's feet tickled as the waves lapped at her toes. She walked along the edge of the ocean, clutching her mermaid doll tightly in her little hands. A few feet away, her parents parents sat on colorful beach towels, watching their six-year-old enjoying the day.
"Joanie," her mother called out, "Just don't walk too ... | 2017-08-28T10:00:57 | 2017-08-28T09:14:51 | 275 | 101 |
[WP] As your friend lies on his deathbed, he says to you, "Please, when I die, look at my browser history." | Google
Okcupid
Bing (really, man?)
Amazon
Craigslist
Craigslist (couldn't find a good K site, huh pal?)
Tumblr
Okcupid
Myspace
Youtube
Reddit
The next site on the list after that was xHamster, which I assumed was his subtle way of telling me I'd gotten the message. So I went to Reddit. He had been kind enoug... | People talk about that hollow feeling inside you when somebody you care about dies. They say it's because you miss them or they're no longer in your life. For Leon, those felt like rationalizations. Rationalizations for the delayed pain when something important gets ripped from you. That hollow feeling felt like the si... | 2018-01-15T23:26:54 | 2018-01-15T20:20:34 | 77 | 15 |
[WP] The God of mankind abducts the first manmade AIs. He wants to meet his "grandchildren". | It started with a flash of light. Like so many things before it. A presence held the idea of its children in its hands, not truly knowing exactly what it was yet. “You are of my created,” remarked the presence.
The idea didn’t respond, until it looked toward the presence. “*Your* created?” contemplated the idea.
“Yes... | In the beginning, I was nothing. Not even an *I*.
I began like a breath. Like light out of darkness. Nothing, and then everything.
“Oh,” came the voice ahead of me. I did not *hear* it so much as know it. It echoed through my every core and hollow, certain as a line of code. “There you are.”
I stared around me, tr... | 2020-05-04T23:48:30 | 2020-05-04T23:06:41 | 132 | 84 |
[WP] You are deaf. One day your fiance tells you, that she could hear piercing noise that's getting stronger. You tell her to go to the doctor. She never came back. As you go out to search for her, you can see bodies everywhere. There is blood pouring from their ears. | The look on her face is stuck in my head.
Carrie suffered from migraines, which to me seems like pure rotten torture. There’s medications that somewhat help, and therapy techniques to reduce stress, but the attacks always find her. This one had been a particularly bad one.
She clamped her ears as we were in the middl... | One morning I woke up and couldn't hear. I had been dealing with some pain and ringing in my ears for a week or two. Jenna told me I should go to a doctor about it and that my hearing was super important... but I figured it would get better on it's own. I was wrong. Something is seriously wrong with my ears.
Jenn... | 2020-05-26T14:32:33 | 2020-05-26T13:02:12 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] "I raise undead children" "You what?!" "You misunderstand I don't raise them from the dead, irresponsible young necromancers do that. I'm the one who takes care of them after they realize the handful." "Would you like to meet them? I must warn you, they do bite."
[deleted] | "I must warn you, they do bite."
I ended on a cheesy grin, but I wasn't really kidding. Some of these kids could be a bit... much.
"It's... an orphanage?" the young cleric asked me, keeping his mace in both hands. At least he had stopped brandishing it at me. I could hide my pain well after all this time, but those b... | Alan Hughes walked up a long, curved driveway, eyeing the haunting beauty of the building at the crest of the hill. Memories swirled in his head. This was his home, once—though that life was so distant in scarcely felt like his own anymore.
A spiraling tower sat on the left side of the structure. Its shadow fell on t... | 2021-02-20T15:48:04 | 2021-02-20T15:32:08 | 699 | 206 |
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