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[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | It's strange what thoughts return to you as you're dying -- what shallow-graved memories crack through their caskets and creep out into your conscious.
Around me, my fellow villagers groan and cry out and beg for help. We're a makeshift wall of the crucified. Of the defeated. Our feet and hands are nailed into wooden ... | # Soulmage
“It’s debatable whether goblins are even sapient,” Witch Aimes began, and I already knew today’s ‘history’ class would be nothing more than thinly veiled propaganda. “What is known for certain is that they are a subspecies of humanity, twisted over millennia by their over-reliance on the witchcraft of misch... | 2022-05-26T05:57:11 | 2022-05-26T05:33:42 | 531 | 155 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | *Um.. Hello?*
**Hi. :)**
*Uh. so. 10^93 about 20 minutes ago and now your at 10^5.*
**Yeah?**
*Not sure where that is.*
**I'm not sure what its called on your system. I mean, I can check.**
*No that's okay.*
**I mean, I have Googzawl Universe here. I don't mind the data usage.**
*No no I*
*Wait what*
**I mean... | Curious, Derek hit the "like" button and sent a message:
"Hey, so, this is pretty crazy but Tinder says you're in another solar system!"
After a brief pause, Derek's phone buzzed and a reply appeared:
"How tall are you?"
Derek deleted the app from his phone and lived a happy and prosperous life. | 2016-12-23T10:01:49 | 2016-12-23T08:45:31 | 54 | 31 |
[WP] Your power is that Any insect that gets within 30 feet of you is vaporized. One day on your regular walk to work a man steps in your field and is turned to dust in the middle of the street. People start fleeing in a panic, except for a few standing about 30 ft away staring at you hatefully | Blood-curdling screams interrupted my trip to the store. I dropped my bags and ducked. What had happened? Was it a robbery? Murder? I scanned the crowd, heart clenched in my teeth. Then I realised: the crowd was running from *me*.
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I occupy the ass-crack between the mundane and exceptional. Either buttc... | Mist rose from the warm waters in gentle wisps. In the quiet dawn, each vaporous swirl caught and scattered the morning light over cattails and lilypads. The soprano cries of peepers pierced the still air. Bullfrogs added their bass tones to the symphony. Swallows added electric chatter as the small birds danced and da... | 2019-06-08T12:45:12 | 2019-06-08T10:48:50 | 127 | 18 |
[WP] You’re a supervillain who really just enjoys ruining people's days. Summon rain on people sitting in the park, waking people up at 3AM using your sonic booms while flying through the air, stuff like that. You’re on holiday when a real villain decides to take your city hostage... You're furious. | Harry Jensen was a man on vacation. He'd been working hard at what he loved, but even your hobby could eventually becoming tiring. It wasn't exactly easy ruining the day of most everyone within the tri-state area.
He'd done it all. Oh, he never did anything *too* terrible, at least not enough to end up with his neck ... | I read this funny post once on reddit once, this guy made an incredibly convincing argument that "The Troll" was the most powerful supervillain known. He pointed out The Troll's ability to control weather to the same extent as that hero, Typhoon, which he of course uses to literally rain on people's parades, he can fly... | 2016-09-18T19:03:39 | 2016-09-18T16:51:37 | 184 | 65 |
[WP] Every person is born with a specific goal in mind. Until their goal is completed, they can't die. You are homo erectus in the Stone Age, nearly two million years ago, and you don't understand what "intergalactic space travel" even means. | **2.6 MILLION YEARS AGO:**
Today me found rock. Rock good. Prompt came through. "intergalactic space travel". Me no know. Friend complete his prompt. He was good friend. He make fire. Fire good. Me sleep.
Me live for many sunrises. So much change. Bow and arrow nice tool. Me have another new wife. Wife good.
**5200... | Ulu Hai remembered when she told her tribe members asked her what her goal was. a few of her members had filled their goal early and had yet to die as they were relatively young. the elders of her tribe shared a look the only word they recognized was travel. So, the tribe did the best they could and gave her what they ... | 2022-11-17T14:33:37 | 2022-11-17T14:27:12 | 112 | 22 |
[WP] As light shines through the pearly gates, you feel a hand on your shoulder. "Are you sure boy? I can offer you so much more if you stay." Looking over your shoulder, you see the horns arching from his brow. "You spent your life hunting criminals, I offer you a chance to hunt much worse." | "What do ya got?" He asked, eying the figure behind him. It was covered in red fur and stood slightly hunched, like an animal on the hunt.
It tapped it's long black claws on his shoulder, "You've always wanted to actually do some good, right? All that paperwork and politics were so bothersome, no real work actually g... | His offer rings in my ears, as I take in every beautiful detail around me. Heaven is not at all like I had imagined it. Hell, I had never been much of a religious man myself.
"C'mon, boy. Don't look so surprised. Whaddya say? An eternity of hunting the most hellish of beasts, or an eternity of naught but gold plates ... | 2018-11-08T21:38:13 | 2018-11-08T19:40:00 | 91 | 29 |
[WP] You step into the king's chambers. He stands on the balcony, the moon overlooking his imposing figure. "I want you to hire an assassin to try to kill me. Take down all the names and contacts you encounter through the process and report them to me. I want to know who my true friends are." | “You want to suss out your enemies by having me hire an assassin to kill you?”
"Exactly."
Frederick stroked his beard, nodding slowly. “So I hear what you’re saying..." he said after a moment. "It’s a clever idea, no doubt. Why don’t we sleep on it and circle back next week?"
“I've already slept on it," the King ... | "You're looking for an assassin says word around town?
​
"That I am," the royal advisor Hadrick said, gulping to still the quiver rising in his voice. He had to pretend he really wanted his king killed, to sus out any enemies. He steeled himself and stood firm. "That I am, 12,000 gold pieces."
&#x200B... | 2021-03-20T12:00:12 | 2021-03-20T11:40:04 | 1,784 | 310 |
[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... | My wedding was the event of the century.
Our people had waited for a queen for such a long time, and I was the first female born into the royal family in close to 200 years. 200 years without a woman of royal blood on the throne had meant 200 very hard years. It is well known among my people that there cannot be prosp... | I looked at the clock, stated at the clock. Time was never really a concern of mine but I can't help it. After all, in 5 minutes, I was about to have my most wanted item.
I got to distract myself from all the nerves. I looked out the window, attracted by the city lights. City lights always calmed me.
Nerves settled. ... | 2019-09-18T10:56:31 | 2019-09-18T09:39:58 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Darth Vader survives killing the Emperor, but the Rebel Alliance puts him on trial for war crimes
Edit: Jeez, this prompt really took off. Props to PSHoffman, this is some of my favorite work by him! I kinda wish this had actually happened instead of Vader just dying. PSHoffman, it'd be great if you could turn th... | The Shadow stood in the light.
Half-moon platforms rose above and below, interlocking terraces that formed a massive dome. Every single platform was angled to inward to face the Shadow's sole, floating podium.
No chains held him, no shackles clasped his wrists - instead, they had locked him in a prison of eyes. Tho... | ######[](#dropcap)
Eril Dallows took a sip of his beer, the holo-screen displaying a scrolling readout of the local sector stock markets. The Naboo-born pilot sat at the very end of the polished bartop, the bar rather empty this early in the afternoon. Most customers sat on the patio outside taking advantage of the be... | 2016-03-19T08:31:48 | 2016-03-19T07:11:53 | 1,014 | 105 |
[WP] You are the most generous mountaineer. You give food, drink, and climbing poles to exhausted climbers, and never accept anything in return. Your secret? You died on this mountain years ago, because nobody was there to help you as you are helping now. Someone has figured it out. | “Do I know you?” the woman in the blue scarf asks, shivering hands wrapped around a warm cup of hot chocolate.
The question gives me pause. *Did* I know this lady? It was certainly possible. I had only been dead for what, twenty-five years? I peer at the young woman, wrapped tightly in mountain gear, her face masked b... | Winds filled with sparkling ice crystals whipped across the glacier. Yawning crevasses threatened to swallow the odd group of climbers and their tents that rested dangerously close to the edge.
The leader of the group was a bear of a man named Bjorn -- a climbing veteran of many years. I could see it in the way he mov... | 2018-08-18T08:32:31 | 2018-08-18T07:52:46 | 4,956 | 160 |
[WP] As you die, the simulation ends. It turns out that "life" as you knew it was a rite of passage for youth, and determines what type of job you will do for the rest of your days. The simulation overseer walks in and hands you your results. | There was a dull pounding behind my eyes. Opening them relieved this, a little, but it was certainly a bad choice. In the red emergency lights around me stood six men, pistols leveled at my chest.
"Mr. Laires, you have failed your test." I squinted to see the man who spoke. Standing behind the six with guns was a neat... | “Why did you do that?”
I fought for my thoughts in the haze. It feels like I just woke up here, but I'm not sure I've ever been asleep.
“Why did you do that?”
I struggled to find words. Eventually, I found some words that were passable: “Do...what?”
“Why did you kill yourself?”
My gut turned. I can't imagine any t... | 2016-09-10T22:44:46 | 2016-09-10T20:46:06 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] As a small child, you walked in on Death taking your great grandmother. You unexpectedly became friends and Death began to visit you often for tea and conversation. You're now very, very old and Death has become quite evasive on subject of your ultimate demise. | “It’s gonna be okay, little dude.” A surfer came over and sat next to me and my grandmother. I was sitting in the sand crying, holding tight to my grandmother’s remaining hand as her life drained away, turning the sea water red. “Everyone’s gotta go sometime, I’m just sorry you had to see her like this.”
The surfer pu... | "Come in, come in!" The old man wheezed, opening the door for his oldest friend to step through the threshold.
"Thank you, James." The well-dressed young man entered the house, piercing white eyes scanning the room, noting the dust that piled higher each visit. Pictures hung on the wall, the paper cracking and falling... | 2016-08-01T12:46:56 | 2016-08-01T11:57:43 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | My power is telekinesis, but they've never seen me use that power, instead, "We've defeated your measly robots Technie! It's time for you to surrender and put and end to your evil deeds!" Honestly, it was a fun hobby, but cause an explosion one too many times and all of a sudden you're a supervillain.
It didn't help t... | \[ParaSEC Target File, Threat Level: Low\]
* C-Class audiokinesis \[Looping and pitch. No evidence of volume control\]
* D-Class speedster abilities. \[Slightly faster run speed. Potential sensory acuity - further evidence required\]
* Target demonstrates propensity to use powers exclusively for show. All 'villainous'... | 2022-11-29T02:27:20 | 2022-11-28T20:44:52 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | You never realize what time sounds like until you need it to stop. You take it for granted, that *tick* of a secondhand and *tock* of a minute, carelessly and endlessly for decades until and unless you have no choice but to listen. Then you hear it all at once. It's thick, and it's overwhelming. Air settling, elect... | "Morty , we're back from the news in 5...4...3...2...1..." Jim the producer pointed towards Morty as a signal to start the show. Morty stared straight in to the camera. Then he sat down.
"Kids" Morty began "kids...for the past 23 years it has been my pleasure... no, my life, my very life's work to be with you for an ... | 2014-07-29T16:18:41 | 2014-07-29T14:13:54 | 80 | 17 |
[WP] The three rules have been passed down from generation to generation: One, when it visits, do not refuse it entry. Two, when it offers a gift, do not reject its generosity. Three, when it leaves, do not turn your back until it is no longer in sight. In this way, our family has been kept safe. | Magda's words in the market still haunted Lydia. "The Dragon comes tonight. The whispers tell me it will be your home. Remember the rules."
Lydia stirred the pot of stew. Late winter meant beans, onions, potatoes, and some pork. To make it like her mother taught her would mean black pepper, garlic and paprika' but Bo... | The curse had followed my family for centuries. An umpteenth-great grandfather had, in a fit of impatience, razed the wrong town in the old country. The town elders had called down a harsh revenge as they burned in the simple church. Details were hazy by now, twisted and distorted by time and memory. But the conditions... | 2022-01-06T11:38:02 | 2022-01-06T10:45:38 | 116 | 84 |
[WP] Earth is contacted by an intergalactic federation. Planets are welcomed to the federation if they have something to contribute. The rest of the galaxy is interested in what they see as our greatest talent; they want our music... | "And on to the next order of business. In the Sol system, there exists a single exoplanet that harbors an intelligent race of neo-primates who call themselves 'Humans'."
The crowd began to murmur.
"Bring forth the representative. We will begin the hearing immediately."
A scrawny looking human in a very sharp dress s... | More a limerick than a poem, I hope that's okay.
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The Federation wanted our music.
Said they wanted the best.
We thought it was a joke on Youtube.
So we gave them Kanye West.
They said it was terrible.
One even died of a fe... | 2014-12-22T13:53:14 | 2014-12-22T12:59:47 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] The concept of "XP" is based around the fact that killing creatures empowers you, be it slaying a dragon or a putting down a lame horse, any killing works. You just invented antibiotics. | Aston, a big guy in his forties sat hunched on his working table, fiddling with a glass tube with some green glowing liquid and a bowl filled with some viscous liquid covered in white spots.
Beads of sweat were going down the wrinkles he had gotten while spending his time eyes narrowed on his experiment.
Slowly, he p... | Dear Neville,
I'm sorry to write to you after so long, but you're really the only person I can trust right now. I haven't told anybody of my discovery, and of what it means. Not my research team. Not my wife. Nobody.
I thought it was just a harmless experiment.
Sorry, my thoughts are scattered. Let me start at ... | 2021-12-28T08:30:39 | 2021-12-28T08:25:31 | 83 | 19 |
[WP] The healer was treated horribly by the knights he was assigned. Belittled and humiliated at every turn. Until one day a monster killed his squad and spared him. And the monster looked at him and she said something he didn't think was possible to even say. "Would you please heal me?". | My world was red, in many ways.
Seeing red with fury at how the platoon's zealous bigotry had got me in this mess. Gnolls are not a threat unless you violate their spaces or raise arms against them, but some city-born fool shared a few myths of stolen children to be eaten and the group was quickly keen to descend on t... | Sir Georg watched helplessly from where he lay. Pain causing his breath to come in pained gasps.
His magic could heal grave injuries but it could not bring back the dead. Finishing his mending of his own stomach wound he surveyed the battlefield and saw that in less than a minute the remaining eleven twelve knights ha... | 2020-02-23T12:18:02 | 2020-02-23T11:50:58 | 127 | 35 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | The Secretary for Defence looked out of the flagship's bridge. Formerly from the Navy, he had seen and read about how the human defence forces had evolved quickly over a matter of centuries. Space was the ocean in which they sailed, not water. The Air Force no longer primarily flew in the air, though atmospheric operat... | When we returned to earth, we expected to see some disgusting or terrifying things.
A barren wasteland. Creatures- and by that I dont just mean aliens or animals, but actual humans- killing each other over mundane things. The last spark of humanity will be gone, but we can rebuild it- we thought. We will be able to r... | 2018-09-29T03:35:21 | 2018-09-29T02:37:30 | 51 | 33 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | (Seeing a lot of people post romanticized stories of people waking up from a coma. Figured I would tell a more realistic tale.)
It was a day just like every other day. I woke up, did my morning routine, went to work, and then came back to the hospital. I practically lived there now.
Two thousand, two hundred and twe... | White used to be her favorite color.
Vanilla ice cream and
Clouds and
Cotton now
Sheets and
Gloves and
Doctors.
There was strange inconsistency
In how her eyes still were the same
Even though all the rest had changed.
She was still my little sister.
Even with eyes trembling
Hands shaking, grasping, sear... | 2017-08-02T06:52:23 | 2017-08-02T06:45:19 | 42 | 15 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | The world exploded into brightness, with pure chaos defining the addition of my new sense. I could see... for the first time in my life, I could see. The surgery was a success, and brought with it a confusing pain, one which I could not describe. Is this what sighted people called “blinding?” It was ironic to me, in th... | 'Wow, doc... i can see! This is amazing! Whats up with this ad for new sunglasses though?'
"No worries dear patient. It will disappear in roughly 30 seconds."
'Oh, ok. Yeah it just did. But now there is another one for a deal on tires.'
"Glad to hear the surgery was a success!"
| 2018-10-29T10:15:07 | 2018-10-29T07:55:29 | 100 | 38 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | For decades, maybe even centuries, I had terrified the world. The monster under the bed, the seductress who stole men's hearts and crushed them between her fingers, notorious bank robber, crusher of men and women alike, and the woman who really did rule all.
It wasn't vindictiveness or hatred that drove me to these n... | Crimson. Crimson paints the surrounding floor. The light in his eyes begin to flicker as he struggles to regain his stance. With every breath, he shook. With every step, he trembled.
She sneers, "Is this it? The grandiose Lionheart reduced to nothing in just a few hits! Hah!"
She barrels towards the staggering knig... | 2017-09-17T03:08:23 | 2017-09-17T02:13:56 | 83 | 21 |
[WP]The entire human population are put into induced comas in underground facilities. You don't dream or age. Today is "The Awakening" and humans will walk the Earth for the first time in 25 years. The doors open and you take your first step into the world you used to call home. | "Fucking technology!" My mother's unique combination of Tennessee and Old Boston accents could cut through glass, and now people are stopping to stare.
"Mom, look. Just... No... No, stop. Here, just let me help." I hurry over to her, almost knocking my work station down in the process.
"Why do their have to be needle... | Sunlight streamed into my repository. A dull groan escaped my lips as I turned over, away from the light. *Sleep...*
A small, slimy object poked at my back. I tried to spring up to defend myself, but my legs collapsed beneath me and I struggled against a tangle of sheets within my repo. Chest heaving, I gave up on fre... | 2015-04-23T06:20:01 | 2015-04-23T05:36:26 | 133 | 20 |
[WP] Most species do not develop sophisticated military tactics until they encounter other races, as they rarely engage in warfare among their own kind. When the United Clans invade Earth, they encounter unexpectedly well-organized resistance from the natives. | I was there, during the First Terran War. We didn't know it then, but we had unleashed a beast that would bite out sides for the last 600 years.
For centuries, our United Clans had stood at the forefront of galactic politics, a superpower uncontested by the governments of a thousand races. Our feasting halls were fill... | The united clans has had its sights set on earth for a bit. Its moon has abundant helium isotopes, and it itself is resource rich. All there was were some monkeys trying to stop them.
Advanced tactics had never evolved in non-spacefaring races. Most races tend to gravitate towards sending a small amount of men, with a... | 2021-08-15T19:52:56 | 2021-08-15T19:49:31 | 161 | 56 |
[WP] In a world of magic users, you have what seems to be an incredibly useless ability: control over echoes. Others have mocked you for it. Now, on the day of the annual magic tournament, you hope to prove them wrong. | She strides across the arena floor, tatty coat trailing in her wake, sending plumes of dust into the warm afternoon air. On raised platforms all around her, thousands of throats and mouths are open and screaming. The sound fills her with a sense of courage that almost outweighs her terror.
From the stage, high above h... | The next contestant walked onto the stage and stepped to the mark.
The head judge apprised her coolly. "What's your name, kid?"
"Alma."
"And your age?"
"I'm 17."
The judge checked his notes. "So, you have a unique ability?"
Alma drew herself up. "Yes, I have control over echoes."
"That seems incredibly useless,"... | 2020-03-28T14:30:32 | 2020-03-28T14:24:43 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You are not the last human, but you are the last human on earth | [First story here, so although criticism is welcome, please be nice.]
When our ship touches down in the New Mexico desert, a hearty cheer goes up from the crew. It’s been six months since we left, and as exciting as recon missions are, I missed Earth more than I would have imagined. Happens as you get older, I think.... | First time posting here, and first real attempt at writing. Be gentle!
Up in the sky he gazed,
And there he sits, amazed.
Wondering why he had stayed.
Sitting online as he played,
Just one more round,
As the meteors came down.
Now that they're gone,
He can no longer call upon,
Nor cause them trauma,
With C... | 2015-06-27T21:23:06 | 2015-06-27T21:08:25 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone receives a letter when they turn 18 stating how they will die. You've just received your letter, and it's blank. | Silas woke to an empty house. As was tradition in his family, he was alone for his 18th birthday. He went about his usual morning routine, trying not to let his nerves get the best of him. A too long shower, his favorite indulgence. A freshly cleaned tunic. A hearty breakfast of toast, bacon, and eggs.
Silas was just ... | My rough callused hands shook slightly as I took out an old letter. One from the day I was eighteen. It seems an eternity ago, and technically it was. I grew up an engineer, dabbling in physics and working with a team to improve space travel. We stumbled upon new methods, methods that would allow travel at light speed ... | 2017-01-17T13:35:09 | 2017-01-17T13:31:18 | 659 | 23 |
[WP] One night, you decide to put your phone under your pillow. When you wake up in the morning, your phone is replaced by cash totaling what you paid for your phone. Turns out the tooth fairy takes more than just teeth. | Not having my phone was kind of freeing, in a way. As was seeing a sizeable stack of cash hiding under my pillow.
See, I thought I had a stiff neck when I woke up today. After all, It was twisted abnormally, and I was worried until I moved and found out that the source of disruption was not, in fact, my extremely stup... | ''It was a rainy night and I was a little tipsy and I remember going to bed with the phone in my hand. I must have put the phone under my pillow for some reason before fell asleep.''
My friend Powell looks at me like I’m crazy, ''Where is your phone now?'' He asks.
I shake my head, ''I don’t know, it’s gone and I fou... | 2020-11-14T10:51:21 | 2020-11-14T08:22:21 | 108 | 36 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead. | It had become an annual December tradition for me. Snooping around the house to find where my parents had stashed our Christmas presents for the year. This year's search led me to the attic one chilly Saturday afternoon as my parents were at the movies.
I found my haul for the year. Some books, a new jacket, and a ... | I knew it was a bad idea. Of course, it was, you don't fuck with the spirts of your entire realm. They could damn you, torture you forever. But I was done with the war. I had to do something. My father, the lord, only sat on his pile of gold and ate the last of our food. I was not about to sacrifice the animals, my onl... | 2019-11-02T16:24:19 | 2019-11-02T12:55:33 | 105 | 30 |
[WP] you were betrayed by the ones you called friends. they sacrificed you in a satanic ritual during an outing. however, you were taken by things older than you thought possible. empowered by them, you return as their agent in a war that scales eons and worlds beyond. but first, your revenge. | The sharp scent of too much fresh peppermint woke Jared. He sat up in a panic; his last memory was struggling against his friends. He thought Mundo and Eric were his friends up until the moment they stabbed his heart with an obsidian dagger. As he took his last breaths, Jared felt them using the blade on his arm. He hu... | "Quite a predicament you got yourself in bud." I said, taking a puff from my cigarette. "N-no, y-you can't b-be him, h-he died. WE KILLED YOU!" There he laid, the man responsible for my current situation, well he and two others. Called themselves my friends, did things together for years. I can still feel where the kni... | 2020-04-26T06:33:55 | 2020-04-26T05:50:33 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] We were one of 5 human species put on Earth by aliens 15,000 years ago. Being the weakest physical species, we were expected to be extinct, outcompeted by the others. However, when the aliens check in, we’ve wiped out the others. | Ook didn't know as much as the high heads.
Ook wasn't as strong as the long arms.
Ook wasn't as fast as the long legs.
Ook wasn't as creative as the fair ones.
In fact, Ook, and his tribe, were equally bad in every category the five tribes measured themselves by, except the one that truly mattered.
Adaptability.
... | "Some might say it was due to our intelligence and tool making skills that we turned out on top. But in the beginning we had none of that. You saw to that, didn't you? We were nothing but food for the other 'competitors' weren't we? But I'll tell you what we did have. The unstoppable, unflinching power of will to do wh... | 2022-11-19T04:55:10 | 2022-11-19T00:01:00 | 89 | 43 |
[WP] You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand. | So, two things about supes:
One, you can never tell how, exactly, their powers are going to work.
Two, there's no minimum intelligence requirement.
The world hangs in the balance. I'm speed dialing every fucking supe I can think of; my supercomputer is running the simulations. Every combination of known powers, limi... | I had always been an outcast, even among the other superheros. Everyone else had flashy abilities like flight or super strength, while my power was to make anything into perfectly cooked soup. I was constantly mocked and ridiculed.
I heard the news that a massive meteor was headed straight for Earth. The other heroes ... | 2022-11-29T21:59:41 | 2022-11-29T19:52:13 | 415 | 59 |
[WP] The U.S. Government has declared war. They are drafting everyone who has played the game Call Of Duty. You've just been drafted. | I looked around at the others in the plane with me. We didn't look like soldiers. We looked a lot like a bunch of gamers cosplaying as soldiers.
The guy sitting on my left looked like he had a BMI of at least forty. I didn't know they made combat fatigues his size. He was sweating through his fatigues, with larg... | I was just playing a game of COD in my living room, suddenly someone knocked on the door, I told my teammates, " guys there's someone outside the door, be right back ! " I rushed to the door and opened it, It was a soldier, He told me in a deep voice, " Sir, the US has declared war on China, we are drafting everyone wh... | 2015-08-13T19:52:34 | 2015-08-13T19:36:05 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Enthralled with your magical studies, you only leave your retreat every 10 days to buy supplies from a nearby town. However, you've become something of a legend. The mystical hermit who arrives every 10 years without having aged a day. | The town was festooned with garlands and chains, stretching across the market place, giving the little town of Juniper a sprightly and merry atmosphere. Positioned between the mountain ranges of Hyphin and Alizes, in the nook of a valley, it was a place of little consequence. Nothing of note ever happened in that sleep... | They all gathered to see legendary "Leonardo The Powerful" coming into town, some hoping that this near god-like being would gift them knowledge, whilst some prepared their swords for fame and glory.
In truth, he'd wandered into the crowd about an hour earlier dressed as a beggar, right under everyones nose, and had ... | 2018-07-19T08:30:58 | 2018-07-19T03:55:50 | 92 | 14 |
[WP] You are the super villain that defeated the super hero and conquered the earth. You walk out onto your balcony to law down the law for your new subjects. You are greeted by a massive crowd and genuine cheers. | Mason's servants dawned his crimson-red cape valiantly over his shoulders while they swiftly tended to the remains of his facial wounds. His gaze averted to the marble-like balcony awaiting his presence; the echoes of chatter creeping through. He left his charred black armour on despite being able to put a new one on,... | I didn't choose to be a super-villian. I chose to be a villian, sure. I had grey morals to begin with. The sudden advancement of power, gave me temptation. The pain and mental torture warped my perspective but the final straw for my step into villianness? Villain hood? Anger. I would love to start at the beginning but ... | 2017-05-23T11:53:46 | 2017-05-23T10:33:06 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was late. Like my period, which started four years after the last girl of my class had her first. I didn't mind the same way I didn't mind four years of guaranteed dry underwear and both times because I was busy exploring the neighborhood.
"Who arrives late to their own birthday party?" said my boss as I stepped int... | I'd always done well at school. Literally a straight-A student.
Perfect grades, the whole nine yards.
I'd gone to college, completed the courses before I was 16, and was enrolled in a prestigious and very expensive university in London by the time I was 17.
And because of this, the expectations were so high. My fami... | 2017-03-16T02:44:59 | 2017-03-16T02:40:17 | 109 | 52 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | They call it Wake-Aid, a simple chemical cocktail in pill form that will give you eight more productive hours each day. Who has time for sleep anymore? There’s no reason to waste a third of your day when you could be out at a party, playing with your kids, or racing up that corporate ladder! No harmful side-effects fou... | "Hey, Dan, have you been feeling okay lately?"
"Fine, why do you ask?" He cheerfully replied with a smile on his face, knuckles a sore red.
As I looked down at my own, they were just a normal color. That was one of the first things I noticed after people stopped sleeping. I was one of the few among my friends and fam... | 2016-08-30T10:03:03 | 2016-08-30T08:24:33 | 949 | 82 |
[WP] When people die their ghosts are anchored in proximity to their bodies. When you die you're cremated and have your ashes scattered in the wind. The wind takes you on a journey. | # Summer
I’ve got pieces scattered from Boston to Bangkok, little bits of me that have come down from my spot above the Charles River to stowaway in stuffy shipboard air. I feel them like I felt my hair: only there when the wind blows.
There’s not enough of me in those places. Death spread me too thin, the only part ... | I slowly realize I'm being jostled. My memories are delayed in returning, so it takes a few minutes to remember the familiar feeling of riding in a car. It doesn't help that I don't have a body anymore. I'm only getting little nudges that I suppose are linked to this urn sitting in front of me. Crazy how my body and al... | 2021-12-07T19:35:21 | 2021-12-07T19:22:39 | 96 | 32 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | My journey started over a decade ago when I came across an online forum called Dreamviews. It was a place dedicated to teaching people the art and science of lucid dreaming, which can best be described as *knowing* you are dreaming *while* you are dreaming. Needless to say, I found myself intrigued by the concept of lu... | ######[](/dropcap)
When I first realized I was having the same enjoyable dream frequently, I thought it was my subconscious crying out for more adventure in life. Leaping from rooftop to rooftop feeling the wind rush through my hair and hearing the roaring in my ears as I jumped a hundred yards at a time. It became exp... | 2018-06-19T14:30:32 | 2018-06-19T13:21:05 | 241 | 99 |
[WP] Since childhood, a superhero has trained you as his sidekick. As you near completion of your training you realise your mentor is actually a supervillain. | "Come with me, I can help you. I know it hurts, but it will get easier."
Those were the first words Gethsemane ever spoke to me, when I was just a frightened child. He could see me, despite my inability to control my powers. I fluctuated between time, space and matter; every nerve ending, every fibre of my being scree... | Yes, this job is dangerous.
Yes, I'm not as good as my mentor but still pretty good.
I'm Shadow-Blades side kick, Little-Knife. I always wanted to be a super hero since I was a child but never had the courage to apply as one or go into an apprenticeship until he saved my life.
I did my best to train alongside him... | 2017-12-20T08:49:29 | 2017-12-20T08:25:29 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] You are a police officer who has just arrested a scam artist for selling "elixirs of immortality". However, you discovered that his criminal records states that he was also arrested for the same crime in 1862. | “Officer…Callahan, was it? Before we begin our little discussion, I believe I am entitled to one phone call to an…individual of my choosing.”
Mark stifled a yawn as he opened the manila folder labelled “Arslan, M.” laying before him. A quick scan of its sparse contents revealed the dark-skinned gentleman sitting befor... | ''So, what do we have on Mr.Allen?'' Sergeant Aaron asks me.
''Not much so far. He isn’t talking much.'' I reply.
He takes a glance at Mr.Allen from the interrogation window, ''Do we have the location of the money?''
''That’s the thing...People who made contact the Mr.Allen said he never asked for real money.''
''W... | 2020-06-02T12:04:33 | 2020-06-02T10:34:56 | 62 | 40 |
[WP]A masked vigilante has made an appearance in your city. As the the wealthiest man in town, you're having trouble convincing people it's not you. | "Oh, come on." The beautiful, silk-clad woman across the table from me tittered, waving a hand in front of her face. "There's *no way* that you're not involved!"
I sighed internally. Dating was hard enough when you were a young, attractive millionaire. My family had built up an empire, creating long-lasting networ... | Wayne Anthony watched the people of New Goth City as the Escalade limo drove along the downtown streets. Everyone had a story; Wayne liked to assume most were normal. Working, playing, loving, just living life. But, a part of him knew many hid another side of themselves. Those who were desperate to make ends meet. ... | 2017-06-26T08:04:08 | 2017-06-26T07:51:16 | 402 | 52 |
[WP] 100 years in the future dank memes are precious artifacts. While scanning your grandpa's PC, you stumble upon the rarest of all... | All day long I wondered what could be on grandpa's old PC.
Never had I ever encountered something as old as this primitive technology.
Delirious, he had asked me to retrieve old photos from his computer of him and grandma. He then proceeded to twitch in his chair, and let out a loud groan.
Nobody around us seemed to ... | My grand parents didn't really have a great understand of technology in their old age, like most people's. So when he asked me to have a look at his computer because it was a big sluggish I told him it wasn't a problem.
I did notice when I was checking or any bloat ware I noticed that he had a folder dedicated to meme... | 2015-12-12T11:41:18 | 2015-12-12T10:01:54 | 472 | 21 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a special facility for violent criminals. Today the latest prisoner arrived - a little girl. "That's cruel," you tell the guard. "I agree," he says. "Guess no one cares what happens to the rest of you." | Her eyes were totally devoid of all life. She stared ahead of her seeing nothing at all… just kept walking to the cell with about 50 high powered rifles pointed at her. This was by far the weirdest thing I had ever seen in this place. The Frozen Lake maximum security prison has seen its fair share of weird and horrible... | As the time passes night falls the ringing of a bell and the usual shouting orders you to return to your cells.
Today is quieter than usual. Lights got out and you find yourself laying in bed wondering who she might be and what atrocities she had committed, a voice reaches out with similar questions. The man next cell... | 2018-02-12T05:55:43 | 2018-02-11T19:51:10 | 41 | 20 |
[WP]Both of your parents made deals with fae about giving them their firstborn. Different fae... Now you live under the joint custody of two faeries who don't like this situation one bit. | It's Wednesday. Transfer day. I curse my human parents for this arrangement because Wednesdays and Sunday's never go well.
I often wonder, as I pack my suitcase and knapsack, what drove my parents to make deals with both Alesia, the Dryad Queen, AND Deverick, ruling Grand Duke of the local elven community. It must ha... | “You live past the place no one goes, getting the child to you on your visitation days is going to be a nightmare...a literal goblin infested nightmare journey!”, said Hilea the maiden fairy of the Anderall Forrest.
Tilea, the peculiar fairy maiden of Bak’Tulgurr, the land of brimstone and ash, floated about with a p... | 2021-05-14T06:25:04 | 2021-05-14T06:03:17 | 1,308 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up in a strange room with an unknown person. In the middle of the room there is a table with a gun and a note that says: "One of you is immortal. Find out who within the next hour." | We look at each other. Terror is coursing through my veins. I know I am not immortal.
I look at the gun again, first one I’ve seen this close. He is also looking at the gun, I pick up the letter and reading it again, this time out loud,
“One of you is immortal. Find out who. You have one hour.”
There is a timer cou... | The man with the harsh eyes reads over the note, frowning.
"What does it say?" asks the woman with the silver hair, an uncertain expression on her face. "Wh... What's going on? What took us here?"
"Hm, I see, so it's like that," he says, reading it a second time. "By the way, you're immortal, right?"
"Ye—Ah, I mean,... | 2018-05-19T13:53:29 | 2018-05-19T13:51:05 | 197 | 61 |
[WP] You’ve spent decades in a Chinese sweatshop assembling fortune cookies. After remarkable ambition for your duties, you’ve finally been promoted. Now you’re writing the fortunes, and it’s time to awaken the sleepers. | “Mr. Wang, you have bestowed a great honor upon me,” Ming said humbly. He had worked for years to reach this moment, to have this very conversation. His voice was highly trained, his every word practiced a hundred times over. Neither would give any hint of his true intentions. “I will not fail you. I will make this gre... | 7851 days is all it took. There wasn't a single thing I didn't know about those "prophetic" snacks after over 20 years of expertly threading their insides with thin white strips of lies.
That's the thing about fortune cookies, you see: they don't actually tell your fortune. Maybe you'd see a proverb if you were lucky,... | 2019-04-19T16:42:27 | 2019-04-19T16:16:23 | 163 | 15 |
[WP] On everyones 18th birthday they receive a letter showing them what percentage of their life has gone by. You just received yours today and it says 0.00% | It was technically the day after Laura's two-hundred-and-eighteenth birthday. The previous day she'd gone through her regular birthday ritual, placing up birthday cards written by her parents, grandparents, sisters - most of her family had sent her a sweet, memorable cards to celebrate her big day.
She'd walked to th... | The sun was shining at its highest point as I woke up from a decent night's sleep. I thought to myself "Oh well, guess I'm not making it to any of my classes today"; something I've told myself way too many times now. Guess that's what depression does to a socially awkward freshman.
I decide to grab food and check for... | 2018-04-26T07:24:47 | 2018-04-26T01:50:34 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] There is a species famous for shutting themselves in Virtual Reality, living their lives in fake worlds, this planet should be easy to invade, your masters said, turns out, a lot of members of that species have been spending their entire time in realistic combat simulations. | The world had been relatively at peace the last hundred years. Warfare had evolved to the point that it was no longer a viable option for conflict resolution. After the fall of the European coalition and the devastation left behind, the burned out rubble that used to be cities, humanity experienced a huge evolutionar... | When true full simulation VR came out, many thought it would ruin us. Yet decades later most if not all of the population were in their own world. It made life easier. No wars, no poverty. A.I. took care of us, making sure we were always healthy.
Some of us still liked to meet up in the real world, but most of the ti... | 2020-12-25T11:10:58 | 2020-12-25T11:01:57 | 176 | 58 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | Two years ago, I and everyone else on Earth lost their sight in an event that came to be known as The Great Blinding. It was a day much like any other, but I've suddenly realized that my sight has returned to me. Overcome with surprise that I could once again see, I looked around, and upon taking in my immediate surrou... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2019-08-26T10:49:52 | 4,287 | 11 |
[WP] Any time you enter a closet or other small space, you have a chance of being transported to a whimsical magical kingdom where you have adventures that last years, but you always return at the exact moment you left. It's a gigantic pain in the neck, and you're completely fed up with it. | “It’s on the top shelf, Sophie, and please be careful! It’s grandma’s favorite piece.”
Sophie dragged the stepstool into the far corner of the closet, pulling her sweater over her mouth and nose to avoid inhaling any more dust.
Grandma Gloria was quite a successful sculptor back in her day, which meant that in Sophie... | I have lived a forgotten number of lifetimes.
But, now... after all these countless adventures, I have found mortal paradise. I have been kings, beggars, dolphins, lizards, a volcano ,and more.
Any small, almost claustrophobic area, where I can touch 2 opposing walls, can start a new journey. I had many in my parent... | 2022-01-07T10:32:14 | 2022-01-07T10:30:45 | 215 | 143 |
[WP] Murder is rare; killing someone means their remaining years are 'subtracted' from yours. Likewise, saving a life (or lives) adds time to your own. Nobody knows why. Centuries ago you killed a young man by accident (usually resulting in instant death). You haven't aged since. | over three hundred years its been since i'd stopped aging. I'd had to leave everything behind my parent's, who were surely long dead by now, my children, my friend's, my fiance and of course, her little secret. She had been cheating on me.
When i found them together i flew into a rage. Normally i was very calm but su... | It never occurred to me that I might live this long. I figured maybe a year or two after that, but here I am.
Off course I know his name. He was my friend, it was really stupid and I haven’t owned a gun ever in this long life. I have refused to ever touch a gun.
At first I figured he didn’t have much time left anyway... | 2020-11-02T01:14:57 | 2020-11-02T00:43:48 | 34 | 17 |
[WP] You've just been abducted by aliens, and they've offered you a chance to join their galaxy-spanning organization. Just you, nobody else. Apparently, that's why people get abducted: to be offered an invitation. You ask them why they don't just invite the entire planet. | *What? Where am I?*
Three unattractive aliens enter the room. I looked in horror at them. They looked like “octopus goblins.” I don’t know what else you would call them. They were humanoid in body shape, but they had tentacles for arms. They were wearing silver track pants that looked like they were bought at Goodwill... | *Recently recovered transcript from satellite re-entry*
*Identity is hard to tell
He asked why we only abducted him.
What?
The human asked us why we didn't abduct everyone on the planet.
The closure of this place is making me parched. Excuse me, do you have any carbonated water in here because my throat is parche... | 2018-03-26T05:36:29 | 2018-03-26T03:56:28 | 131 | 16 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Mother always told us that if we were bad children, the Humans would come in the night and steal us away. It helped to bring us back in line, since the seven of us were always screaming and fighting with each other.
We'd see her delicate purple face turn an angry shade of green as the rage built, until she could take... | Willyneg slouched at the captain's console, a tendril entwined with his co-captain and hatch mate Bob. A shared sleep cycle wasn't best but it'd been the only way to manage the last 3 galactic weeks. One in the dream the other trying to evade thier hunters.
Rare as they were never had they been seen on a heavily ... | 2017-11-08T20:37:57 | 2017-11-08T20:13:16 | 105 | 22 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditserials/comments/hotysq/let_the_little_children_come_to_me_chapter_2_for/)
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The little girl walked through the flames but they didn't hurt her. They danced around her toes in a playful way and felt refreshing, like bathwater. She shivered in pleasure at the sensation and close... | It’s dark. Why is it so dark?
I try to open my eyes, try to move. Nothing happens. Something warm licks at my toes and I try to pull away; the heat just grows more intense.
A dull orange light glows in the distance. It draws nearer, growing larger. Suddenly I can feel myself again, my arms, my legs—and the *heat*.
... | 2020-07-10T08:27:46 | 2020-07-10T08:08:50 | 4,261 | 752 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're the most powerful member of the league, so why are you an F-tier hero? Because F-tier is cleanup. The others protect the world from threats. You protect it from the other heroes. | Edit: thanks for the rewards kind stranger's! There is an end to this story and it's coming soon!
"What do you get when you pancake the color potato? Eh? No answer to that, you cruffmuffin finger banging fork?!" she yelled at me, followed by unintelligible noises. Third one this month, another supe that lost their d... | Honestly, I like this job.
The villains are pretty nice, in fact. All the villains do is tie citizens to bombs with extraordinarily long timers, it's like asking for it to be defused. Villains know that if you step too far past the line, you will gain a lot more, super-powerful enemies.
But heroes-turned-evil? Those ... | 2021-09-22T22:51:33 | 2021-09-22T20:19:41 | 145 | 37 |
[WP] A cowardly child picked on in school, wishes for the heart of a warrior. He gets more than he bargained for when the soul of Genghis Khan possesses his body. | After making the wish, I had a moment of panic. I opened my eyes, terrified that there would be a bloody organ on a platter in front of me, and I would yet another victim of the semantic games of wish-granting entities.
But there was no warrior's heart before me. A second, slightly less intense surge of fear hit me -... | "Something's off with Billy" I whispered to Dave.
"no shit, Tom, what gave it away? The mustache or the hair?"
Three days ago Billy was a pudgy kid we played chess with every lunch, people picked on him a lot and last friday, Stu, a guy two grades out senior flipped the chessboard when he was two moves away from winn... | 2018-01-29T15:29:47 | 2018-01-29T14:11:30 | 107 | 18 |
[WP] You are a museum curator with a dark secret. You have entered into a pact with a living painting that devours its viewers. You setup a "private viewing room" and specifically target wealthy and corrupt patrons to be its meals. | ‘Girl in Yellow Flowers’ is not an especially interesting or technically advanced oil painting, even you can admit that. It sits prettily enough, framed in bronze, among its peers along the walls, created by geniuses. It was placed initially as a foil to its friends, to give the viewer the uncomplicated pleasure of a s... | "Et, Monsieur LePatomy, comment-ca va?"
"I'm not French you nincompoop, I'm English. Just because I have a French sounding last name you think I'm French? It's pronounced Lee-pay-tommy. Lepatomy."
"Alright, Mr. Lee-pay-tommy-"
"Lepatomy, pronounce it right!"
"Lepatomy, as I was saying-"
"Lepatomy! Lepatomy! How ha... | 2018-07-30T18:12:53 | 2018-07-30T17:12:03 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Stereotypical 'chosen one' story but the chosen one is a 46 yr old mother of three who ran out of fucks to give five years ago |
“THAT IS THE ONE! THAT is the ONE WHO CAN SAVE US!” said the man holding his iPhone. And a Wand.
I guess he was a wizard. Yeah, I could see the glow off of him. I always can. Thankfully, most people couldn’t. They just lived their lives. And I’m not sure how the fuck he found me. Tech or magic, it didn’t matter.
Sh... | "Crysthast Jeriesiel, run faster, she's gaining on us!" Yelled Carlylian to his gnome brother Bogsworthis as he took a moment to look back.
"I'm going as fast as I can, it'd be a lot easier if you carried me" Bogsworthis shouted as he continued to pump his short stubby legs as fast as he could.
"You're too heavy, you... | 2022-04-13T03:05:06 | 2022-04-12T22:46:58 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] A man is banished to the wilderness for 20 years. Write his diary entries for his first and last days of exile. | This is a forbidding planet, full of hostile wildlife, a scorching climate, and uncertain vegetation. I have already scanned through my gifted supplies, boons from my family and friends to aid in my survival through my trial. Though meager, as is customary, I believe they will be enough to get me started here. Hunting ... | Day 1 John Kryznick
The day is finally upon us. The trial took a lot longer than expected and the appeals really looked like they were going to pan out. "If you're alive in twenty years, we'll find you". That was the last words of the helicopter crewman who pushed me out here nothing but a knife and a lighter. Whereve... | 2015-05-16T15:55:51 | 2015-05-16T15:43:08 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You have the supernatural ability to never break a promise. You swore to hold this bridge until the reinforcements arrived. But your side lost the war, and reinforcements never came. A promise is a promise, though, even if it's been 300 years. | He had been young, when the war started. He had been a boy in a man’s body, believing he’d reached his peak when he was still at the base of his mountain. He had friends; a family, although he had moved out by the time the war began. He had been finding a new family, one of his own creation.
He had found it.
She was... | The creature sat upon a stone, in a giant crack by the sheer cliff. The moon was full, and he knew that meant something, but he couldn't remember what. He stared at the book in his giant hand, at the skull, at the sword, at the heaps of bags spilling gold and silks and spices, that were bathed in the light of the moon,... | 2019-12-08T01:29:16 | 2019-12-07T23:46:19 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Aliens landed on earth, and they're surprised all humans possess what they think of as a superpower... an ability we always took for granted and consider normal. | Voice on communication screen: General Zuulhtraar, we await your progress report, there is word in the ranks that you have retreated.
General Zuulhtraar: Governor, I am composing it as we speak.
Governor: I will await the formal document, but provide me with your progress so far.
General Zuulhtraar: We breached the ... | Glar oozed backwards, his adrenal sacks oscillating in surprise. The incredible beings flew towards him at a prodigious speed, propelled by some means Glar couldn't even see. They skittered around in a dance of colors, emitting high-pitched chirping sounds. With hast, he slid back through the bio-lock, down the corrido... | 2014-11-09T10:10:35 | 2014-11-09T09:14:49 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] You are sentenced to death. After entering the execution room, instead of being executed, you were instead given a new passport and a new identity. Turns out the death sentence had been abolished years ago, and now exists only as a deterrent to violent crime and not actually implemented. | I tried to control my breathing, relax my body, change what I could physically to still my racing mind. The trial and jail sentence had robbed me of ten years of my life, one day the police barged into my apartment, cuffed me in front of my wife and children and took me to jail, that had been my life ever since. I late... | "Wait. The lethal injections where the family and the lawyers view, what is that?"
"Oh that? we just get one of the staff that has the approximate height, weight, and skin tone, put a hood on them, and inject them with some harmless saline. No one is wiser."
"I see. So, um, I'm free to go?"
"Anywhere but the Unit... | 2014-11-20T07:50:48 | 2014-11-20T07:05:48 | 114 | 22 |
[WP] Suddenly, you hear alarms go off in the bank as a group of masked men start shouting at everyone to get on the ground. You grip your backpack filled with money tighter and hope they don't learn you already robbed this place blind with no one noticing. | Brandon Filch clutched his backpack to his chest. Only a little farther and he would be free. It had worked. His plan had worked. Months spent pouring over every single detail. Countless hours of research and preparation. And he had done it, well, not quite. All he had to do now was walk out of the bank.
Act natural... | Am I worried? I'm not worried. I'm the best bank robber there is.
You see those guys over there? They're a bunch of really bad guys. They come in here with guns and masks. Way to announce your intentions guys. Can you say jail time?
They probably knew that I was coming here and tried to beat me to it. That happens ... | 2017-06-28T15:37:28 | 2017-06-28T14:06:34 | 32 | 23 |
[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. | The Council of Casters was in an uproar.
The Head Caster, seated at the head of the star-shaped desk had his brows furrowed, three wisps to his left and right holding up the records of the student, neatly arranged in a folder, and an iPhone, showing a video of the caster's prowess.
The student, an 18-year old, geeky ... | "Alan, what is it?"
"It's a tape - an infinite tape. It was the only thing I didn't have!"
"For your machine? The Universal Thingammabob."
"Yes. I have now effectively captured the essence of algorithms."
Alan smiled, waving his hands up and down.
"This is going to change everything."
The others looked at h... | 2014-08-04T05:03:48 | 2014-08-04T04:38:12 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | "In Act 1, scene 3 of Macbeth, we are finally introduced to our main character. This is shown through various supernatural elements..."
Professor Yates continued with his lecture as I doodled chibi dinosaurs and Harry Potter stick figures in the margins of my notebook. Stifling a yawn, I jotted down a quick synopsis o... | 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... | 2017-11-13T20:08:12 | 2017-11-13T19:52:41 | 401 | 18 |
[WP] For decades, humans have been using a mineral mined off-planet that accelerates healing. Today you discover the truth: it’s not a mineral, but a parasitic alien spore. The more damage your body sustains, the more it replaces your damaged DNA with its own. | The first time I ever used my ration of Undoxicone was when I was 6 years old. I had fallen between the mag-rails as I was getting on the Icarus line to the state school. To get my leg out without delaying the train, mechanics broke my fibula in 3 places after tranquilizing me. The doctors said it was use my ration- al... | "Oh, no" I said as alarms blared and top researchers hurried to find a cure. News channels all over the world urge people to stop using the now illegal 'mineral'. The United World Government is sending out hundreds of teams to destroy any trace of the it, using everything at their disposal.
As the world was shutting d... | 2020-07-30T22:22:11 | 2020-07-30T22:01:24 | 52 | 14 |
[WP] Mynans (aliens) think humans are cute. But they're not simple pets and you are sick of hearing about some poor little human dying because their owner didn't care for them properly. You are going to write a book about the care and maintenance of humans. Maybe then owners will know what to do. | Ok,I'm doing it. I am SICK of mynan always killing their pet humans, sick of it. For goodness sake it's not that hard to keep a human alive. But apparently, for some mynan it is, so here's my book, Human care for Dummies.
1) They breathe air. Oxygen. Hydrogen. Gases. *Not* water, not slime and definately not coconut ... | The Human Handbook - By Zeek Erhlrk
So you've chosen your Non Pet Human (NPH) family, and they're expecting. Any day now, your pet will be born, and you're ready to embark on the journey of pet ownership. Many Mynans choose to self insert into the pets life by assuming the identity of a family member, loved one, or fr... | 2021-05-23T07:28:13 | 2021-05-23T07:23:30 | 163 | 69 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | I’ve lived a thousand, long years. Give or take a few.
There was a famine at one point, and I lost track of exactly how much time passed during all of the commotion. That, and having a couple different calendar systems traded in and out of fashion makes it impossible for me to be absolutely sure.
“Excuse me, Mr. Harr... | On his first day at a regional public school, Mr. Thompson sets down his class plans on his new desk. Since his birth in 23 B.C., he had had numerous name changes and relocations globally. Some of the more famous places he has lived include Soviet Russia, Irish tenements in New York City, the Ottoman Empire, medieval I... | 2015-04-14T15:25:04 | 2015-04-14T14:27:11 | 589 | 43 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I thought I would be prepared, the same way an electrician would know to change his own lightbulbs. After all, I had turned this from a hobby into... a profession of sorts. And that's not even counting the space of 50 years, that yawning gap of time since Dad left. That's a long time for memories to dull, for emotions ... | I was all like, where've you been? And he said that as he was leaving the grocery a time portal opened up, and deposited him at this exact moment.
"Well at least you brought the milk." I said.
"Of course son, I'd never forget the milk."
Then, as if in a moment frozen in time, we both looked down at the carton and rea... | 2017-11-19T16:19:42 | 2017-11-19T15:56:41 | 2,866 | 662 |
[WP] You wake one morning and find your reflection in the mirror is gone. A few seconds later it rushes in mouthing the words "Sorry! Sorry I'm late. Let's get started. You ready?" | The first thought that came into my mind was: *Have I been turned into a vampire?*
Maybe not a reasonable reaction. Vampires, of course, are *fictional*. Not to mention that I'd had garlic with dinner last night, and that that dinner wasn't human blood. Maybe I'd been reading too many vampire romance novels. Don't jud... | I stared blankly, my expression sitting between shock and horror as my reflection gave the same look back. "I'm sorry, what the fuck?" I say aloud. my double copy's it perfectly. I touch the mirror, he does the same. I wink each eye, again he follows. "There's no way that happened," I mutter.
"Oh forget the charade, y... | 2015-11-16T09:17:46 | 2015-11-16T08:41:43 | 1,598 | 153 |
[WP] It’s been over an hour since you were bit, and you still haven’t turned into a zombie. You’ve also been oddly nonchalant about the whole thing. Your group is starting to suspect you werent human to begin with. | \[Waking to Whispers\]
"You know, if it were up to me I'd be happy to let you take a walk," the Sheriff said. He leaned against the bars with his potbelly trying to squeeze into the cell and smiled at Andre. Andre glanced around the empty station; they were the only two present.
"Who's it up to, if not the Sh... | Connor was glaring at me. He was by far the most suspicious. "You should've turned by now. It takes one hour, tops, and its been what, five?".
Seth nodded. "Connor has a point, Desmond. Why haven't you turned? It's making me think".
I stared back. What if they kicked me out? Then I'd be zombie food, and easy pickings... | 2021-06-06T08:37:38 | 2021-06-06T07:00:35 | 58 | 14 |
[WP] All your life, your best friend has had your back. This is why their unexpected death hits you so hard. Two days before the funeral, you receive a couriered letter. “If you’re getting this, I’m dead. Don’t come to my funeral. They will find you.” | I miss Jason. I can’t tell what’s worse, the loneliness from his irreversible absence, or the guilt from killing him.
This morning, I made toast. When it popped out of the oven, the toastier part in the middle looked vaguely like a flaccid penis. I almost smiled. It was the closest I’d come to smiling since his de... | Jessie Chamberlin had a lot of practice mourning. At seven years old her parents and siblings had all been killed in a house fire and though she had little memory of the event, she'd managed to escape and was found outside by the fire fighters. Five years later and having been adopted by them, her Aunt and Uncle were ... | 2021-04-24T20:25:57 | 2021-04-24T20:09:51 | 60 | 30 |
[WP] "If you fools would use magic so, then the world is better off without it." And so Merlin raised his hands to the heavens and cast the Final Spell, sending all the mana of the world into the void and permanently reshaping the leylines into unusability. | The woman lifted her hand from the boy's face. His sweat dripped from her fingers. He was shivering, though the dry season heat had almost reached its apex. No incense, no burning herbs, as the grass was pale and dry as bone and the embers had to be shepherded closely. No water wasted cooling his little brow or cleanin... | I was the first to ask why. Why, teacher? Why give us something to good and take it away from us? Why punish the many for the sins of the few? What will we do without the magic to protect our homes from the invaders across the sea? What of our sacred places? Were they even sacred anymore? Is it the presence of the gods... | 2022-02-08T16:48:05 | 2022-02-08T16:36:31 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] "May your skin rot when you heal others," the witch cursed, "and may your name be forgotten when you save others." You are a healer for a party. Your party does not know about the curse, and it has been your job to support them before they finally complete their quest. Today is the final day. | In the corner of the cavern, dimly lit by the nearby campfire, Reeda tended to a tear in her tunic. Sixteen days on the road, battling trolls, goblins and wisps left their marks but none as permeant as those on her skins. Once smooth and resilient, her skin now fissured and cracked, sprinkled with age spots as if her t... | It wouldn’t be far now, just concentrate on the sound of your footsteps. The burgundy corridor of the demon king’s palace stretched spotless into the distance flanked by portraits, tapestry battles in freeze-frame, drapes, wood panels, clocks, all of it topped by the hanging Sternian-bronze chandeliers intricate in the... | 2021-02-13T10:36:29 | 2021-02-13T10:20:38 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] Humanity is the only species that treat "unrealistic" stories like sci-fi and fantasy as a legitimate genre, instead of just something to amuse children that adults no longer need. Because of this, humanity cracks FTL while species much older than us are still stuck in their home system. | “You’re hiding something from me,” Jesanth declared.
“Hiding?” I asked, faux-offended. “Me? Never. I am in a profession where truth matters more than anything else.”
Jesanth snorted. “Sure. Whatever.” She took a sip of her beer, then looked at it appreciatively. “Good stuff.”
“What, you’re not going to complain abou... | Throughout the galaxy we have found two types of sapience - The Evolutionary and The Extinct.
The Evolutionary represent a branch from humanity's path somewhere around the invention of agriculture. Rather than an ever-accelerating series of new inventions - making tools that allowed the creation of new tools - the var... | 2022-09-30T09:35:08 | 2022-09-30T08:48:26 | 412 | 208 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | The students filed into the room slowly, some clearly uncomfortable in the more modern clothing that had, for the moment, replaced the tradition student robes. The front of the room was dominated by a stack of crates, each containing a small chicken, in varying levels of calm.
"Silence," the professor began, gesturing... | The spell wasn’t supposed to be anything special, it’s ability was to lock an object from moving at all for roughly 30 seconds. You didn’t even have to be looking at the object as long as you were near it and were thinking of it in your head. The main usage you thought of was for mountain climbing, you could create a s... | 2021-04-02T01:22:24 | 2021-04-01T22:33:04 | 302 | 139 |
[WP] The Seven Deadly Sins all sit down to decide which one of them should no longer be considered a sin. | "I vote Lust."
Lust recoiled, disgusted. "Me? If anyone here deserves to step down, it should be you, Envy!"
Envy rolled his eyes. "Please. Look at humans these days. All they do now is fuck like bunnies on speed. What have they got to worry about? They have condoms, Lust. CONDOMS. Everyone commits you. And when ev... | Wrath cried down down the stairs: **"SLOTH GET YOUR ASS UP HERE!"**
Sloth cried up the stairs, "Don't tell me what to do maaaann"
**"WHY YOU LITTLE-"**
"Calm down Rat, I'll go get him," said Gluts, "anyone else want any snacks while I'm down there?"
"I would have liked some popcorn. But you already ate all of it," ... | 2014-08-30T15:15:42 | 2014-08-30T15:12:15 | 751 | 32 |
[WP] Legends tell of the Elder race who utilized strange "technologies" instead of magic. As hordes of brutal killers invade from the north, a young elf heads off to search for ancient ruins, looking for humans... | The Elders were always venerated and spoken of with respect, at least in the annals of history. Their genius was said to have been unmatched by any other sentient race; historians even claimed that any non-scientist Elder youth held a deeper understanding of the universe than ten of our High Sages combined. Even today,... | "Jamarr," I called back, stepping carefully onto the stones that slept in the river, "you have to keep up."
Jamarr grumbled a reply, his Orcish armor clunking loudly behind me. Sometimes, I wondered how he became one of the best thieves in his stronghold. I waited safely on the other side of the stream and watched as ... | 2017-01-06T20:11:45 | 2017-01-06T16:24:54 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up as per normal this morning. You find out that it's 2016 and you try to piece together 2015 using pictures from your phone or Facebook. | *Happy New Year,* I thought as I woke up. *I wonder what kind of year it will be.*
I rolled out of bed, instinctively grabbing my phone as I did. The screen read "Jan. 1, 2016." I had a message from my mom. That was nice.
I weaved my way to the bathroom, and started brushing my teeth, still in a fog from last nig... | (First off, this is my first time trying to write one of these writing prompts, so if you could give me some constructive criticism that would be cool.)
"Woah. Man I got a headache." I said as I got out of bed. "What happened last night?" I checked my phone to see if I had any pictures from last night. I found multip... | 2014-12-31T14:59:35 | 2014-12-31T12:12:24 | 50 | 25 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | I’m awoken by Dan fidgeting next me in bed. His eyes meet meet mine, and instantly I know this is a Kelly Day.
She sighs loudly in exasperation through Dan’s mouth and throws his head back into the pillow. “Fucking fuck-balls fuck-face fuck-head-“
Hearing the stream of profanity in Dan’s soft, slightly nasal voice i... | I still remember the curve of her spine as my fingers traced her body. They'd run up and down her shoulders and back as I softly kissed her neck. I loved her. A part of me still loves her, and I don't think that'll ever change.
I know all of these feelings break my fiancé's heart. The woman I am to marry is beautiful ... | 2019-12-15T12:32:47 | 2019-12-15T11:58:16 | 38 | 12 |
[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? | **Part 1**
The door creaked open, shooting candlelight into the unswept bedroom. Drawn in the rectangle of light was the motionless shadow of a hunchbacked man. He put a hesitant foot inside of the room and sneezed as motes of dust entered his nostrils. Someone stirred on the canopied bed.
“What year is it?” croaked ... | I was floating, as Tardigrades do, when I became unsure if I was floating in a planet, space, fission, fusion, or, some chaotic vibration of the universe. Then I saw the question. Dragons...vampires... immortal?! Really you poor fool goth child that are but a passing whim. I but squirt my ocular capacity and they are ... | 2021-04-16T08:20:55 | 2021-04-16T07:15:14 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | I was at the bar, like I was every night, when I met her. I knew everyone there, but she was a new face. She was tucked away in the corner, quietly drinking. With how loud everyone was, it was easy to miss her. She smiled when I offered her a drink. I sat down next to her and started talking. She mentioned that she was... | She’s insane.
I swear it.
A grade-A loony who belongs in a straight-jacket.
Somehow we’ve dated for six months, and somehow she managed to hide that side of herself for the first three. She was so friendly back then. Her laugh was graceful yet cute, and she seemed to have an answer for all the world’s problems. I... | 2017-06-14T13:03:39 | 2017-06-14T11:04:30 | 54 | 39 |
[WP] Medieval Fantasy Setting. The farther you go away from the towns and citys the bigger the monsters become. No one knows if there is an End to the world. | Balthazar Held his gun tight as the convoy roared over the plain. Below the shaking metal halftrack grumbled past stuffy brush and fern.
“How tall do you think it is?” He asked Artannan, who briefly lowered the binoculars to give a stare.
“Miles and miles.” He breathed in near awe. Ahead was a creature taller than an... | I have been travelling for several days now. The towns and castles are far behind, carcasses of wolves and dogs littering the countryside, marking my wake. I, the mightiest knight of the land, tasked by my King to find the biggest monster whose lair is said to be the cave under the edge of the world; I, the slayer of a... | 2015-12-01T15:34:59 | 2015-12-01T14:45:11 | 95 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is blind. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have sight. As you try to go about your day pretending to be normal, you find that someone you've known for a long time is staring back at you.
To clarify, sight hasn't been around for an extremely long time, and society has adapted... | I didn’t realize right away.
I wandered down the hall, fingers tracing over the texture of the wall, not to guide me, for I’d not needed that in my own home for many years, but simply to remind myself that the world existed. I stood in my kitchen before my kettle, listening to the water bubble and feeling the ste... | I awoke to a blinding light, my eyes burning. I stood up and realized what I saw wasn't what I saw yesterday or the day before, I saw colors. Not really knowing what I was seeing for once I walked into the bathroom and stared into my mirror. I saw a calm warming blue color in my eyes, like the sound of the ocean, but c... | 2013-11-01T00:39:06 | 2013-10-31T19:59:21 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] When a mage is awakened, they acquire one spell and must master all its forms before they acquire another. While every spell starts trivial and grows in power over time, yours appears especially useless: The ability to create a black spot on the wall. | I point at the wall.
*Boop. There it is, the black spot.*
I look at another wall.
*Easy peasy. Black spot.*
Ceiling.
*Black spot.*
Hallway.
*Black. Spot.*
Countertop.
*Black. Fucking. Spot.*
*Haven't I mastered this spell yet? I can make this stupid black spot appear anywhere. Any time. I even had my best fri... | The Riftkeeper
It started out…terrible! All i could do was create a black spot on the wall! As i improved the magic, i learned to make it bigger and…deeper? The spot seemed to be getting deeper day by day. Until yesterday, when something changed, i could see an unfamiliar area, like i was looking through glass. The ho... | 2022-08-26T21:12:26 | 2022-08-26T19:36:13 | 482 | 33 |
[WP] "It has been determined that Humans are no longer an endangered species. Earth is no longer a restricted zone and open hunting may begin." | Jarkop takes a deep breath through both of his mouths. He lets the air rush out of him in a little cry of despair. He realizes in this moment that he has been duped, and duped bad.
If he hadn’t agreed to cover Globzell’s shift at the Ministry of Intergalactic Hunting and Fishing, this mess would be on someone else. Bu... | Have you ever heard a single leaf fall? Sounds near to impossible, doesnt it? But what if I told you, that you actually can? Don't believe me? Then you've probably never experienced the thrill of hunting before, did you? Well it's no wonder that you didn't, who in this world even hunts anymore? Hunters are dead, what's... | 2021-07-05T17:23:17 | 2021-07-05T17:10:29 | 1,282 | 45 |
[WP] Elon Musk is convinced that we live in a simulation, so he constructs the largest cluster bomb in history and sets it off in space. For the first time, MilkyWay.exe lags. | "Really? So this is going to be a shot of space for like an hour?"
"Well, it's random - that's kind of the point." Neal's eyes are still glued to the screen.
"Well they could be a little more specific." Melissa continued the mundane task of doing the dishes tonight. She knew this black screen meant a lot to Neal.... | When the big day arrived, it was like none other. Everyone had waited 30 years since humanity reached the consensus that our entire universe was only a simulation, it had taken 30 years for the neutrino cluster bomb to reach a safe enough distance from Earth to be detonated.
Over a billion people were born during tha... | 2016-08-19T15:30:37 | 2016-08-19T15:12:58 | 64 | 45 |
[WP] You're the 'most deadly supervillain the country has ever seen'. Thing is, your super-evil ability? You deal the same amount of harm the 'heroes' you face have caused. Your power is Karma. Nobody's picked up on that yet. | I never set out to be a villain.
I know, I know. That's crazy, isn't it? I'm the most deadly supervillain the country has ever seen, and that wasn't a personal choice? How ridiculous!
It's the truth, though.
I actually started my journey wanting to be a hero, despite my family insisting otherwise.
My mother will al... | Everyone in this country calls me a villain, they think of me as a deadly foe, a King Cobra about to strike, a merciless killer prowling the streets in the dead of night! But they couldn’t be more wrong…I simply dole out karma. After all, it’s all I can do. They don’t blame heroes for accidentally using their powers, (... | 2022-12-31T08:04:46 | 2022-12-31T00:12:09 | 117 | 44 |
[WP] You're bored in class, closing one eye and squishing peoples heads with your fingers. You do it a few times, but then with that last squish, Becky Quinnsman's head explodes as if it was smashed by a rock. You have developed Forced Perspective powers. This is your tragic origin story. | 19th January 2014, the day everything changed.  
“A child head exploded”  
“Death a of teenager- due to infection??”  
“Beck Quinnsman’s death- cause: unknown”  
In an otherwise peaceful suburb in Chicago pandemonium had struck. A teenager had died while attending classes. Ma... | I stared ahead at the carnage spattered around the desk in front of me. The blood, the gore, the… Eyeballs. Again. I had to test it again. To make sure it was real, that I had actually caused Becky's head to explode.
Everyone else in the classroom was silent, stunned speechless. They couldn't process it, this seeming... | 2015-07-25T14:00:08 | 2015-07-25T13:21:07 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | No one is born a villain. At least I don’t think people are born destined to be one. My parents certainly had an interesting debate on the side of a road during winter about that to say the least. Some people are born with lions, often groomed to be great leaders, while others are born with dogs, with a passion for peo... | I did not want it. I did not want it to happen when I felt the eldritch powers flowing through my blood as soon as 12, but I knew that the next few years were going to be crucial in my journey. I did not know, that I was to be the vessel for the movement of power from light to evil. I did not know that the shadows slow... | 2017-11-08T05:27:56 | 2017-11-08T05:26:16 | 989 | 34 |
[WP] You accidentally manifested your superpowers in public. Now you're afraid of what your coworkers will say the next day. However, you go to work normally and no one pointed it out, even though you are on the news. Turns out, nobody recognises you without your glasses.
Obviously inspired by Superman/Clark Kent. | First one please be kind.
I’m an artificer. I can do some pretty whacky things when I need to but I can do some pretty amazing things when I have one of the many trinkets I have made over the years.
On Thursday, I slipped up. As a weak wizard I’m able to do some small stuff; light cigarettes, open beer bottles with... | Oh no it happend. Just as I was walking past someone nearly got shot, except I stopped the bullet in midair. Then I flew up to the sniper and subdued him to sleep. I interrogated the shiper later on and wrote down what he told me. It was a personal matter so I let it go.I was foolish. I didn't stop time nor was I weari... | 2020-11-18T01:15:25 | 2020-11-17T23:03:33 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane. | Well sure, looking back I suppose the house was a bit strange. My keys were never where I left them, and were sometimes slimy. I'd find carcasses of strange creatures in the kitchen, and there would be strange howling noises at night. But I've lived with dogs and cats, and it's not too dissimilar.
Of course when I ope... | I let out a very long sigh as I addressed the voice's observations.
"Listen, buddy. Living in a house that behaves like a Rubik's Cube on LSD pales in comparison to the insanity of the outside world. Have you seen the housing market these days!? All of these god damn rich bastards are buying up all the houses to rent ... | 2022-05-29T07:53:35 | 2022-05-29T06:47:49 | 896 | 313 |
[WP] Amelia Earhart did not die. Instead, after she crashes, she discovers the lost City of Atlantis, where she spends the remainder of her time because she is unable to leave. | As the early morning sun dyed the sands gold, Amelia paced the shores yet again, kicking over any mounds of sand that seemed too tall and inspecting the various bits of garbage the ocean had washed in.
"At it again?" Asked a tall, dark skinned man, walking up beside her, in a language that has long been forgotten. H... | Year..I don't know anymore. I'm tired of the experiments. Who would have thought that the City of Atlantis was filled with fishsticks? I call them fishsticks; they are thin, scaly and smell terrible. Reminds me of boiling cabbage soup from my youth.
Day after day, I am a spectacle to crowds of gawkers. Not for my h... | 2014-02-28T00:30:27 | 2014-02-27T21:08:14 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | The gunsmoke lingers lazily about a foot in front of me, sharp smell of sulfurous anger assaults my nostrils, foreign yet familiar. The smoke gently obscures the writhing psychopath on my floor, bleeding out all over my goddamn berber carpet that I just had cleaned not even a week ago. As the blood soaks in a widening ... | I leaned forward in my recliner, imploring the volume to rise from the TK implant. It wasn't real telekinesis but marketing teams thought it was cool to call it that. The retirement home seemed quieter than normal.
Everyone was tuning in.
The news cycle for the past few weeks had grown worse. People going missing the... | 2018-06-04T21:25:21 | 2018-06-04T21:18:49 | 201 | 135 |
[WP] You live on a world full of immortal beings. For the first time in the history of the world's existence, somebody has died.
This could mean figuratively or physically. | "Larry died."
"What?"
"Like an house cat dies, you know, dead. Not alive."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"Well that's a bummer. When are we getting a new one?"
"What?"
"A new Larry, when can we get a new Larry?"
"Mac, you can't get a new Larry, Larry is dead."
"Yeah, but you said it was like a pet, and when a pet dies, you g... | **Potential entry for Chapterfy Contest, thank you for the prompt OP**
*Title*: **GENESIS**
*Static initiating the start of the video*
*.A woman in red, seems like a news reporter, appeared in the screen*
December 19 2034.
Alevfonso Incorporated, leading company in science and cosmetics, has recently discovered a ne... | 2014-04-28T10:10:43 | 2014-04-28T09:41:55 | 140 | 45 |
[WP] It's 1916. You're a French soldier fighting in the battle of Verdun. One night, you're confronted by a single unarmed German soldier. He says something to you that chills you to the bone. | **author's note : First time commenting. Taking some liberties. Don't know a lot of WWI weaponry**
*Damn Rain won't stop.* I look to my side. Auguste, just a boy of 17, sat there, eyes focused on the horizon. still red from a night of tear filled misery. His brother, just a kid himself, tried to desert the mission -- ... | **[Taking some liberties with the prompt here by changing it to WWII but the main concept will remain the same]**
Four men sit in a dark room staring through the glass of a one-way mirror at a what used to be a man, but is now only a paranoid cowardly wretch. The only light comes through that glass and if it wasn't fo... | 2015-05-24T17:50:06 | 2015-05-24T15:18:08 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | "You're never going to believe what happened."
"You killed your brother in a bar fight and stowed away on one of Salar's ships and ended up enslaved I bet."
"Okay, then you will believe what happened."
"Dad, mom isn't so easy to fool."
"What do you mean?"
"She found your brother and beat him within an inch of his ... | "Oh my goodness... Mom, look out the window!" i yell in disbelief as I peek through the side windows next to our front door.
My mother scampers over, moving her little feet as fast as possible. She begins to weep uncontrollably, a moan of relief bursts out of her. I was not certain who that stranger was walking to m... | 2016-07-20T09:03:36 | 2016-07-20T07:20:27 | 65 | 42 |
[WP] Elon Musk is convinced that we live in a simulation, so he constructs the largest cluster bomb in history and sets it off in space. For the first time, MilkyWay.exe lags. | "Thing is, if the universe is simulated space and time are also simulated. As a result the increased processing causing the lag also causes a lag in the simulation of time. Therefore there is no perceived lag for those simulated, only for an outside observer." said Hedelberger to Musk with a thick German accent. "That ... | The champagne glasses clinked at the center of the table. Between them, on a TV just over the bar, Elon Musk was making an announcement about bombs or the end of the world or whatever.
Jim wasn't listening. The end of the world could go screw itself. He smiled at the blue eyes in front of him.
"I love you, Jim."
"I... | 2016-08-19T14:45:09 | 2016-08-19T13:24:25 | 2,362 | 711 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | Dreadnaught was the last of the Old Guard. The early heroes who had fought for the good of the world, for honor and justice and other long-dead ideals. they toppled dictatorships, brought aid to disaster-stricken regions and never accepted a penny. Dreadnaught himself had seen the greats of the age, had only been a you... | Henry had been waiting for three hours now to be allowed in. Standing in line next to people who jumped every time the 'hero' called out the next name to see him.
There was a heavy, oppressive silence in the hallway as they all avoided eye contact. Ashamed to be here, of course, to ask for help from one of them. Henr... | 2017-04-02T09:11:57 | 2017-04-02T08:14:02 | 154 | 25 |
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