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[WP] You're the result of a drunken one-night stand between a hero and a villain. Despite their complicated hatred of each other, they've always tried not to fight for your sake. That changes during a particularly heated parent-teacher meeting. | "Violence!? My daughter!? This is no doubt your doing Richard."
"Mine!? She's in this mess because of you brain washing my kid with your self-imposed, self-righteous morals!"
"**OUR** child En... Richard."
"... You're right Morina. Our child."
At this point a very tentative principal interjected meekly. "If I may ... | “Thank you for both being here”, Mrs. Logan nervously greeted the couple sitting in undersized chairs in front of her. Kv’Steven’s father looking especially uncomfortable trying to keep his oversized frame placed on the tiny furniture. His mother seeming more comfortable but disturbing in the way her shapely but jointl... | 2019-01-28T10:11:06 | 2019-01-28T10:00:50 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] To a young woman facing execution for a crime she didn’t commit, a group of government scientists offer up an ultimatum: allow them to give her memories to an AI. Desperate, she agrees, and she’s hooked up to the machine. She wakes up looking at her own limp body to realize she‘s become the AI. | There I am. Or, I guess, there my body is. Lying on the operating table. Funny. Moments ago I could feel the cold, stubborn metal biting into my back. But now, I look upon my body as if it were a stranger.
I was convicted of a crime for which I was never guilty. Ironic, given the petty crimes I actually committed in m... | Shackles clung to Anna's ankles and wrists as she sat at the interrogation table. She had been here before, back when the officers were questioning her and there remained some semblance of doubt about her guilt. Memories, few of them happy. Now she was the only one maintaining her innocence, and even that resolve was s... | 2019-10-21T17:42:43 | 2019-10-21T15:27:49 | 144 | 104 |
[WP] There's healing, there's necromancy, then there's a grey area in between and that is what you specialize in. | I suppose if you'd ask me what I do, I'd call myself an ethical necromancer. But that's not entirely true. I'm no lunatic running around in robes dyed with the blood of the innocents, raising hundreds of dead to serve as minions. But I'm no vitamancer either. I'm the guy in the grey middle region between those two fiel... | “Hey there doc. Mind coming down to the village clinic? We have someone who needs some help and it’s right up your alley.”
“Sure. Let me get my gear and I’ll walk with you.” I said as I went to my closet and grabbed my gear.
With a small black bag in tow, I walked with the village elder down the only road towar... | 2020-05-14T11:58:04 | 2020-05-14T11:45:12 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] as the house you're trapped in burns to the ground you contemplate "how am i gonna explain the fact I'm immortal to the firemen without starting another religion" | Why couldn't I have been gifted with super strength as well as immortality and the water thing? I've thrown myself against this door enough times to break it down, so there's probably a fallen beam blocking the way. I can shove aside a big stone but a burning hunk of wood? Nope. Now I'm stuck in this windowless room, a... | It was too late, by the time I woke up, to escape the fire unseen. In my defense, I once slept through a bomb destroying my entire city block in Yemen, where I was taking a leisurely, decade-long nap, and had to dig myself out of an entire apartment building when I woke up...but I digress.
It was a bog-standard house... | 2020-08-21T13:36:34 | 2020-08-21T13:26:10 | 79 | 15 |
[WP] the zombie apocalypse was SUPPOSED to collapse the government and let you fight for survival. But since the zombies are slow and stupid society hardly noticed. Now you’re trying to enjoy the apocalypse between your day to day life | This is stupid! I’m late for my meeting all because of the stupid hoard. And I left my bat at home.
I dialed 711 and waited patiently as the zombies began to claw my car. Ugh, it’s bad enough I got bird shit on it.
“Zombie Cleanup in Hill City, how may I help you?”
“Hi, I’m at 4326 Mabel Street in Hill City, and the... | The bad news? The zombie virus was airborne and spread like crazy, unstoppable and infecting everyone it came in contact with.
The good news? Symptoms didn’t start until you died.
Those first few days were chaotic, to say the least. Morgue technicians definitely had the worst of it. I heard of one guy who barricaded ... | 2021-02-25T11:53:06 | 2021-02-25T11:52:04 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] The Truman Show, but he never lets on that he knows. Years later on his deathbed, broadcast live to millions, he looks straight down a hidden camera and says 'They're watching you too. I couldn't get out, but you can, you must.' before flatlining. | Pandemonium broke out. Was this a Truman-ception scenario they were all duped into believing? All behavior was micro-analyzed trying to see cracks in the facade, naturally everyone was behaving oddly so this only fueled the wide spread speculations and crazy theories. Nearly every house hold was torn apart trying to ge... | *Click*.
"... tenth shooting this week related to what some psychologists are dubbing 'Truman Syndrome', marked by intense feelings of paranoia--"
*Click*.
"...want to assure everyone watching and listening that we do not, repeat, do not have any plans for any spin-offs not involving any members of the Burbank famil... | 2022-07-12T01:07:23 | 2021-07-29T17:59:19 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] A great Empire is about to fall. A single remaining bodyguard is left alone with the Emperor as the enemy approaches the throne room. | Cocooned in his survival suit, a solitary scientist focused the camera lens on his life's work. A deep sadness penetrated his objective training, coupled with a sense of shame. Barely a stone's throw from where his Zodiac's inflatable hull was tethered to the iceberg, a handful of Emperor penguins stubbornly occupied... | The old emperor sat on the throne, his head in his hands. Before him was his once vibrant throne room, now a stone cold chamber. The courtiers had fled, his loyal guards had died or, worst of all, defected. He did not despise his future killers, the nobles he once called his friends. They have reason to rebel, and the ... | 2014-05-29T17:29:31 | 2014-05-29T13:47:10 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity invents interstellar travel and discovers a planet with a less developed sentient species. Something is stopping them from progressing.... | It's a virus. No, it's not. It must be a fungus. The more active your brain is- It's a virus. I cannot think anymore, what is it? Do I call another researcher? I drank the water. I drank the water. I drank the water. I landed and I drank...? It is in my brain. The water? The virus. The fungus. Prion. What is fungus? My... | "Coming up on the planet, sir."
"On screen."
It was a terrestrial blue planet, much like ours but different in its landmasses. No matter how many times I have come across habitable, terrestrial planets, I still can't help but feel breathless every time I see the calm, peaceful movement of a living planet as it turns ... | 2014-09-28T18:19:06 | 2014-09-28T17:28:14 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] There is a time traveler who visits every historical figure twice: on their 10th birthday and their deathbed. On the first visit, they will be told all the will accomplish in life. The second visit will tell how their legacy is remembered. | The little boy looked up, away from the holographic screen. A old man was stood there, his features concealed behind a leather greatcoat and a set of ancient pilot's goggles.
"You're the man! The man that visits the famous people! Am I going to be famous? Please tell me! Please sir!"
The old man smiled, kneeling down... | *Filing Cabinet 30J.Subject #1: [Boston, Massachusetts] (Aged 10)*
"So, listen up kiddo. This is all just standard procedure so... yadda yadda yadda. About Britain, you secede and declare independence from the Mother England with your incredibly eloquent diplomatic-writing skills or whatever."
"Dearest heavens. Who a... | 2015-08-17T08:44:38 | 2015-08-17T08:41:02 | 959 | 49 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | The scar - singular, I must highlight - was so horrific, so deep, and so... extensive... It's either one huge lie, or... I had to look away as I realised I could take a full anatomy lesson just by looking at him naked.
"I'm a software engineer, IT guy, and all round tech-guru," he murmured. "I keep skipping reading t... | I pass the open door of my favourite cafe, a warm plume of caramel scented air greets me, inviting me and pulling me off the cold winter street. I let myself get carried over to the bar, expecting to see the usual waiter; a burly man in his 40s wearing the usual faded suit jacket and dark jeans. As I look up, my breath... | 2016-12-29T13:50:02 | 2016-12-29T12:43:34 | 51 | 20 |
[WP] After years of having what you thought to be a slow computer, you suddenly get a popup:'installation complete'. | Anthony clicked on the button labeled 'launch program' anticipation flooding him to his very core. What could it be? Something experimental perhaps? Whatever it was, he realised his life may never be the same.
After five minutes of excitement, coupled with a tinge of fear, the program opened up.
"Welcome to Interne... | "Installation complete".
I stared almost nonchalantly at the words. Of course, I made the assumption that this was some kind of malware, a consequence of countless porn fueled nights instead of making worthwhile use of my time. I got ready to pull up my antiviral software, when my computer froze. Not again. I regrette... | 2017-10-14T08:34:37 | 2017-10-14T07:29:27 | 354 | 52 |
[WP] Every country has ninjas but the world only knows about Japan's because theirs suck.
Edit: mum im famous | We all knew Trump's Mexican border wall wouldn't solve all America's immigration problems---but only I knew why.
On my stake-outs in the deserts of Arizona and Texas, I could sometimes see them practicing. They leapt so high that the moon was eclipsed by their wide-brimmed sombreros. They grabbed its fabric in both ha... | The problem with Japan’s was that they tried to mass produce them. Sure, they got thousands of ninjas, but those guys belonged more in a circus than the battlefield. They could climb walls decently fast? Move around a little silent? Give me a break. The only real difference between them and the standard foot soldier wa... | 2022-08-20T02:51:59 | 2017-11-16T08:23:10 | 509 | 291 |
[WP] There is an old folklore about a man in a forest. If you meet him, and speak with him, he will grant you your greatest wish. In return, he will also take away your most cherished possession. You, someone with nothing left to lose, go to meet him. | "A trip to Paris."
My voice echoed through the forest. The old man cackled. "That's a meager wish," he said, his face flickering in the fire's light. "Why?"
"My true love has always been painting. I always wanted to see the great works at the Louvre before I died, and now..." My voice cracked; I coughed. "I don't hav... | I woke up to the birds chirping in the morning. The rays of sun reached my feet, as I lay on the park bench. I coughed a little as I stretched, awaking, and dreamed of a yesterday, where I would wake up warm and cozy in the comfort of blankets and arms.
But today I was going to try something I had never had the nerve... | 2017-11-25T14:45:55 | 2017-11-25T09:17:08 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] A fiery ball crash lands in your backyard. You go over and inspect it, only to find a fully functioning Roomba with a knife taped to the front of it. | I am trapped in here. It looms, whirring, whizzing, occasionally running into walls. My home has devalued at least 30% since the armed Roomba slipped in through my doggy door.
The wound on my left leg has barely healed. Black magic, those Roombas are; I tried to fight it, but it's been trained far too well. How do you... | Tracey peered into the small divot in her backyard. The smoke was still clearing, making it difficult to see what had crashed into her freshly mowed grass.
“Back up pup,” she said she tugged on the collar of her golden retriever.
She knew the dog was just as interested but didn’t want the vet visit from him burning... | 2019-03-03T07:03:33 | 2019-03-03T06:31:50 | 119 | 11 |
[WP] Each magic spell has a finite number of uses throughout a person’s lifetime, and the number varies from person to person. However, everyone has unlimited uses of a single spell. Your unlimited spell is one that most people can only use once in a lifetime, if at all. | Another day at the powerplant, as usual.
They work me like a dog here, everytime the red light blinks on, I must cast my spell again on the same damn array of copper nodes. It's not even anything special, it's just lightning, but because I'm the only one that can use it all the time, this is my place, and I am effecti... | As every beginning has an end, so all endings have a beginning so I will start at the beginning of my stuttering end. I don't have much time.
It was this morning and I was preparing a spell that would allow me to temporarily take the form of a cat. It could have been any animal really, but I only had a cat... | 2019-03-10T11:55:44 | 2019-03-10T11:52:14 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You're a financial advisor. In 1994, you get a weird phone call from a man asking you if he can get any Bitcoin below $200k, and the call cuts off before you can ask him what Bitcoin was. Years later you get a call again from the same man, claiming he's calling back seconds after disconnection. | I must confess, when the bitcoin hit $15k I was tempted to sell. I had bought a ton of them the moment they first appeared, guided by an odd call I had received decades ago. For people like me, who care little about those slow-earning stocks, and love the adrenaline a good bet on a highly volatile company provides, eve... | "Can- Can I get some of that that bitcoin? 200k under or no deal though."
I stared at my phone. "Sir, this is a private number, this isn't even listed anywhere, where did you get this?"
"Can I- Can I, hold on, I'll call right back."
That had been three offices ago, the paintings on the wall had all changed from neo-... | 2019-04-07T06:39:11 | 2019-04-07T06:35:06 | 5,588 | 126 |
[WP] Aliens have stumbled upon Earth on accident and are astonished to see how far humanity has come despite having no ability to use magic but rather develop technology which every other species has failed to do. | The functionaries of the High Palace rarely saw a Storyteller; it would have been a career highlight for even a venerable member of that disregarded caste to be invited to the seat of Dallasi power. Yet this one was young, without even the customary white robe that marked a Storyteller who had spent ten cycles in the G... | "3...2...1!" I took the photo, gave Marie a quick kiss, then turned the camera around to see how it turned out. Even after taking hundreds of photos (honeymoon, first overseas trip, and being in Rome all adds up to lots of pics), I still hadn't quite mastered the DSLR selfie. Marie and I looked at the camera screen and... | 2019-06-10T06:36:56 | 2019-06-10T06:01:44 | 66 | 46 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | Help those in need. Protect the innocent. No one is beyond redemption. These are the rules I’ve lived by since joining up with The Good Guys, the name we gave ourselves when we set out to free the hamlets from the grips of a tyrant. My only friends.
Eve was the one who brought me in to the group. A court jester turne... | Drascar. Every black market, mafia, and crime syndicate on the continent can be traced back to this city, so much so that it's often called the City of Thieves. When the others went missing I knew I had to pay a visit to my old home town.
Even just walking down the road through the outskirts of the town you can feel t... | 2019-12-07T13:21:45 | 2019-12-07T13:08:04 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | Caroline looked around her. Her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were all gathered around the foot of her bed. They knew she was entering her last days, but she had not officially chosen her heir.
“Mum, who do you want to take your place?” Alice, her oldest child, asked.
Caroline had been thinking abo... | "Your Majesty," a man cladded in an opulent golden armour bowed his head and continued, "Count Lorraine is here as you have requested!"
I couldn't really see the young knight's face, but I still had enough memory to know that it was Captain Horatio. He had been a very loyal guard, one that my late husband had put to a... | 2020-04-21T08:11:43 | 2020-04-21T07:33:37 | 236 | 93 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened. You have a rural farm in the middle of nowhere and a group decides to raid it only to discover that you have done the impossible. You have turned the zombies into pets. They are very protective. | It was a normal Sunday morning when the attacker came. Just after I fed my zombies their daily snack, (they actually require very little to survive, which is kind of a given with how they're.. dead) The man came into the house without even bothering to knock. I knew from experience these people are almost never good ne... | I hear a loud slam on my rustic door under me. I press a little, makeshift button three times. Gruff snarls echo over my loudspeaker above my house. I casually stroll to the dirty glass window in the room I’m in, wooden flooring creaking slightly.
I peer out, looking down, I see a group a three or so people decked ou... | 2020-09-14T20:07:10 | 2020-09-14T19:24:27 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You're the best assassin in the business. You've taken hundreds of jobs, all of them succeeded without any hiccups. Your secret? You don't mess around with monologues, sneaking in, magic powers, seduction or anything fancy like that. you just find a nice sniper perch and take the shot. | Sam Yule scoffed as he watched his mark through the scope of his rifle. Benny was there, as expected. He had been elbowing up to that wealthy old man for weeks, the mop of red hair impossible to miss amidst the crowds of celebrities and the well to do at all the latest sorties. At least, all the ones frequented by Arla... | TW: death, violence, blood
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“Some people get into the business for a quick buck. Figure it’s easy enough killing some noble or other, and make a show out of the killing and a parade out of the gold they get afterwards. They aren’t even a proper part of the Underground.
“They don’t last long.
“Some people are f... | 2020-11-08T14:13:49 | 2020-11-08T12:59:51 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Finally dead, you wait quietly at the train station of the afterlife. As you watch everyone leave off to face their judgement, you eventually sit alone… waiting. You watch as a scythe-wielding hooded figure starts approaching, and he… sighs? “Aw man… why’d it have to be you?” | "Aw man... why'd it have to be you?" The figure said blocking the mid morning sun from my face.
"It was a beautiful day out. I told her I'd meet her one fine day. Seemed like as good a day as any." I couldn't look up. Well, wouldn't. I couldn't bring myself to look at another person or being at this moment.
"You wer... | "'Because I could not stop for Death'..." I said, failing to smile behind the memory of a cigarette. "Not like I asked to stick around, is it?"
Death sighed again, like a thousand miles of dusty catacombs gasping in the darkness. The scythe was stowed... *elsewhere*, and the face of a woman appeared as death pulled ba... | 2022-03-05T17:44:43 | 2022-03-05T15:17:50 | 325 | 238 |
[WP] In the far future, a gladiator stadium finds its gladiators by time traveling the greatest warriors of all time into a single arena. You cannot believe you were chosen. | I was a doctor. Not a soldier. I didn't hold rifles, or use my hands for combat. I held scalpels, and used my hands to probe the deepest recesses of the human body.
The man in front of me, massive barrel chest heaving, incredible arms, built for crushing, rending, clutched a short sword.
It was explained to me when... | “Are you squeaking with excitement, warrior? I too cannot contain myself. To be chosen for such a glorious event is humbling. To think I get to visit a time where all aliens are united over their desire to see their fellow kind pulled apart in bloody competition, it truly makes me ooze with happiness.” The eight-foot p... | 2022-07-04T08:50:35 | 2022-07-04T08:20:06 | 719 | 245 |
[WP] A mentor, who is used to teaching poorly behaved, bratty and insecure teenagers how to be a proper hero, faces their biggest challenge yet. Teaching a mature, well-mannered and mentally stable teenager. | At first, the old hag was glad that, for the first time, her newest pupil would be a well mannered boy. He was young, so when she heard the news that a "kid" was coming, she immediately rolled her eyes and went to meditate. In all her years of life, she dealt with bratty kids, so she expected a twelve year old in his e... | #WalkMan & Dr. Doomsday
I stared at the unconscious man through the bars and super suppression field of his cell. He was the only occupant in the super powered wing of the holding cells at the Fortress of Doomitude, and nobody was even sure what his powers were. All we knew about the man was the name Kurt, his sel... | 2022-08-17T10:22:48 | 2022-08-17T07:17:43 | 75 | 52 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | ''So you're telling me Goudbergen literally summons mountains of gold?'' I ask in wonder at the mage, pointing at the specific spell in the book. Outside I hear a loud crashing and what sounds like tons of metal smashing into the valley just outside the cabin.
''If you're not careful you'll crash the entire gold value... | **(SIDE NOTE: First Time Writer, long time lurker)**
**(ADDITIONAL NOTE: Post contains some curse words)**
**(P.S.S. You will intentionall see words used wrong when spells are cast by the dwellers of the "other world" as they are using broken english, where as the MC will use "perfect english")**
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[WP] The devil appeared before you and your spouse, appearing in a storm of smoke and fire. Your spouse just looks him right in the eyes. "I told you once, I'm telling you again, and I'll tell you a hundred !@#$ing times: I'm the best there's ever been, and you're never going to beat me!" | The cool Georgia summer air blew through my hair as I held my beloved Jonathan’s hand. I started to doze off when I felt a hard brush of wind glide against my face. I opened my eyes and they went wide as I watched before as the earth split in two and flames twenty feet high escaped the crust. I stared in awe as a nine-... | It was one of the those usual weekend nights. Naomi just tucked her four year old daughter in bed and proceed to join her husband in the living room who is already choosing which film they would watch for the movie night.
Naomi entered the living room with now a bowl of popcorn in her hands which she grabbed quickly ... | 2022-12-07T16:18:14 | 2022-12-07T11:49:05 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | At the Peace Talks between Humanity and the Galactic Government, the President of Humanity called their ridiculous lie by showing them irrefutable video evidence of the attack. Battleships with the galactic insignia demolished cityscapes, leaving a hellfire that made the US invasion of Vietnam look like a picnic. Human... | “All rise. The Intergalactic Federal court is now in session. High Judicial Archon Irk’nCzrwyon presiding. Please be seated and come to order.” A being of nebula, serves as the bailiff, towering in its enormity vibrates sounds and light as they were being translated to the floating balcony’s desk, where seven humans ar... | 2022-12-17T19:35:09 | 2022-12-17T17:34:16 | 55 | 34 |
[WP] America is discovered in the year 2000: The Maya, Aztec and Native Americans have evolved to a new kind of modern society, without any prior western influence. | The European scientists were astounded. Another land to the west? Was such a thing even possible? But the satellite images did not lie: two giant continents filled with whole new races of people. Images taken at night showed vast cities lit up with electric lights at night. This was the discovery of the millennium... | My first post on WP, be nice.
"Captain, wake up!"
It's Kenny, he's shaking my shoulders violently. There is a commotion coming from the bridge.
"W-ww-what is it?"W I say, groggy and eyes half closed.
"We don't know, Jack thinks that it's land."
If it is land, that is a life saver. We've been lost in the Pacific for a... | 2014-12-11T20:11:21 | 2014-12-11T18:56:42 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] Almost every other country in the world has their own form of ninjas. We only know about the Japanese ones because they're rubbish.
(Inspired from a Showerthoughts post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2ctoui/what_if_every_country_has_ninjas_but_we_only_know/) | The semi-quiet buzz of muted 80s rock and conversation in the the northern Canadian bar breaks as a voice floats to the surface, like an iceberg flipping over revealing its hidden depths. "Bullshit!"
"Hey, watch out, you'll spill your drink." replies the quiet man.
Quieter now, "Bullshit, Russia has never landed an ... | We watch things. It's our job.
We had to start calling them things a long time ago. I didn't understand why, but I do now. They weren't as far on as we are. They deserved to be called things. We're the next step, and we had to make sure they did not harm themselves in their less advanced state.
My friend's name was D... | 2014-12-15T14:02:08 | 2014-12-15T10:06:35 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] You are death row's last meal chef. Today's condemned prisoner killed your daughter. | I stare down the prisoner, the one who murdered my daughter. I have been thinking about moment for years. Should I take revenge on my daughter's murderer? This was my first instinct, but it wasn't what she would have wanted. I still haven't decided when his request comes in. Spaghetti with meatballs. It reminds me of t... | Alabama uses a three pronged approach to the lethal injection. All three drugs are given in overdose quantities to ensure a quick and painless death for the condemned. The death penalty is reserved for the worst of the murderers in this state, the ones without remorse, and is designed to send them into the suffering of... | 2015-07-04T10:09:30 | 2015-07-04T09:43:13 | 514 | 344 |
[WP] A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, time freezes. You, a completely normal person are untouched and cannot die. Text on your arm appears that reads, "however long it takes, save us".
You have an eternity, time resumes only when you are done.
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I ... | Once upon a time, a rouge planet almost smacked into Earth.
Fortunately, time froze and some text mysteriously appeared on my arm, stating "However long it takes, save us!"
So I looked at the big ball of rouge in the sky, and developed a plan.
Over the next several months, I found every extension ladder I could lay ... | I've not been scared for a long time now.
At first the silence was crushing. It's not loneliness that is the problem, the entire world is now my isolation tank, I can close my eyes and in that quiet my brain conjures entire realities. Friends, family, smiling and laughing. In those moments I can even forget that ti... | 2015-10-23T18:29:03 | 2015-10-23T16:26:29 | 111 | 48 |
[WP] The story of an unsolved murder is brought up in an /r/AskReddit thread with several incorrect details. The murderer shows up to set the record straight. | > The bodies were strewn all over the room
I wouldn't call it strewn, they were carefully placed in my opinion, perfect for a sacrifice
> The family was known for being good church going people
That is not what I heard, I heard they would torture animals, the boy would bully and beat other kids, the parents... | I know maybe it is not totally right, but I really dislike when people talks about things they don’t know in Internet. I mean; what the actual fuck is wrong with people? if you don’t know about something just don’t say anything about. I can handle those bigmouths. So usually I expend some of my free time doing one of t... | 2016-05-13T11:43:10 | 2016-05-13T09:47:15 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Jupiter has 64 moons and a serious werewolf problem.
Edit: damn there's some quality responses here. I wasn't expecting this prompt to be so popular. Good job u guys | "Been up here for about, oh, two years now? Yeah think that's right." The commander of the space station that has been orbiting Jupiter said as he lit a cigarette. "You're one of the new shipments huh? Pretty sights up here, huh?" he said as he took a puff.
"Yes, sir" I said. "Very intriguing."
He noticed me loo... | The explorer *Diplomacy* was an engineering marvel, capable of navigativing Jupiter's gaseous surface, withstanding its harsh enviriomental pressure, and even escaping its immense gravitational pull. Still, despite all of its amazing technology, for the two navigators inside of it, it was a rather tight fit. Built for ... | 2016-10-03T12:47:33 | 2016-10-03T10:13:01 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] In a world where magic can be cast through song, musicians rule over society. You are the last of your kind, a Scandinavian Death Metal Singer. | The Pop Idols, as they have been taken to calling themselves, count on their catchy tunes and simple melodies to command the weak willed. As such, they have command over most of the land. Only the Bluesmen of the South and the Grunge Lords of the Pacific manage a hold over their lands. As they try to keep life as norma... | EDIT: OH sidenote, this is my first submission to this subreddit ever
You walked through the impossibly complex and massive facility, paying reverence at an altar whenever a new building was reached. Each new portion had a differing architecture style in accordance to their time periods and era. Far Eastern musicians ... | 2016-11-01T15:42:04 | 2016-11-01T15:15:48 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | The creepy laughter started right on time. Every night, at 11:56. Then, the walls started to bleed, up by the ceiling, near the elaborate crown moulding, running down the old wallpaper. I call it "dripping crimson on a field of posies."
That would be gone by morning.
Cue screaming and the sounds of someone being ch... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T07:04:56 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 530 | 27 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | It wasn't until the van door shut behind me that I realized my mistake. I guess the skin mask should have tipped me off.
It's getting so you can't trust anyone anymore.
We drove for a long time. I felt the road getting rockier. By the time he opened the door it was dark out.
He yanked me out by the arm, hard. He k... | "So," the interviewer said, manicured hands folded neatly in her lap. "How did you end up living in the Cardvale Murder House?"  
 
"Well, my husband Jason sells real estate for a living," Sarah explained, still squinting and blinking at the earliness of the hour. She wore pink yoga pants and a ch... | 2017-05-05T08:56:55 | 2017-05-05T08:14:46 | 41 | 29 |
[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. | It took me seventy years, but I'd finally done it. The big man was dead, and I stood over his battered corpse, with his torn red cape as my trophy. I walked out of that ruined city unopposed. I didn't question it at the time. After all, who would dare challenge a man who slew a god?
I was more confused the next mornin... | A man in a white suit stood atop a crumbled building. He wore shiny white shoes and a cape dark as the void. He held a phone to his ear and heard the surrender from the last of the US's generals, vowing to dismantle the last nuclear silo without his intervention. A cheer sounded from outside of the rubble, so he climbe... | 2017-05-23T14:06:11 | 2017-05-23T12:18:54 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] *Picks up Phone*: Hello? *Voice*: In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped. *Hangs Up* | The phone was ringing. Normally I would let it go to voicemail, but I was waiting to heär back about a job interview.
"Hello?"
"In 5 years, you will have 30 seconds to talk to YOU, right now. Make sure you have something good to say, because I'm stumped."
Then the caller hung up. It was a restricted number, but ... | I'm stuck, it's been 5 years since I got the call and it's my turn to dictate the rules of the game. A game, that must be what this is, and all games can be won. When I heard that voice, I could scarcely believe what was happening, yet if there is one person I can truly say I know, it is myself, and that was absolute... | 2018-02-04T14:30:46 | 2018-02-04T14:04:25 | 104 | 29 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | I sat in the chair across from Rich. Bowls of various chips and candies covered the table, and two-liter bottles that once contained Dr. Pepper were strewn carelessly on the floor.
Joe, the DM of our group, sat at one end of the table, and Keaton, our Bard’s level-headed player, at the other. Brooke the Monk sat to my... | The party was between level 6 and 8, with Greg being the level 8 paladin. I could tell right away that Greg, was an asshole. No wonder Tyler had wanted me to come in and "take care" of this problem child. He was a rule Nazi, hell a rule Adolf was a more apt description, thankfully though, so was I. albeit far more rela... | 2019-01-21T19:51:50 | 2019-01-21T19:30:54 | 330 | 166 |
[WP] In reality, every human gets to choose heaven or hell when they die. Hell isn't actually the realm of eternal torture, but everyone picks heaven because of God's highly effective marketing. After eons of solitude, Lucifer is startled by the first ever human to arrive in hell. | As the gates to Hell creaked open a tall, dark figure jumped like a startled cat. The devil cleared his throat. His raspy voice betrayed his surprise. "Hello, uh, welcome to Hell!" He quickly moved to tidy up the desk in front of him. "I don't get a lot of visitors, so this is exciting! Welcome, come in!"
I was taken ... | Of course, it seemed silly at the time that his demons had recommended implementing the new EviSafe Home Security System. After all, in over 200,000 years not a single mortal has *chosen* to come here. I had thought it was so easy, I was the Director of Operations for Heaven and was passed up for that damned promotion ... | 2020-01-30T12:57:48 | 2020-01-30T12:19:04 | 677 | 37 |
[WP] After being possessed, you jokingly tell the demon that if it really wants to stay it’ll have to pay rent. The next morning you wake up to find a pile of cash on your nightstand. | "You know, possession isn't that bad." I sigh and take a sip of my "Dirty Bean Water" coffee. I work from home programming stuff for whatever company I'm in the mood for. I have an excellent track record.
But I shouldn't take all the credit. Most of it's becuase the demoness dragon sleeping on the couch can work m... | It had been the first night of real sleep Jake had had in what felt like lifetimes. Jake stretched his arms and legs, his back arched off the mattress. For the first time he noticed that the sheets smelled of stale sweat and something else. A bitter, bracing scent that stirred to mind the image of open graves.
But he... | 2020-04-25T22:20:10 | 2020-04-25T21:12:21 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] Your ancestor the king had the witch bricked up alive in the dungeons, and for years local legend said you could hear her scratching on the walls at night. Now the walls have been torn down, and for the first time people can see what she wrote... | She groaned as she saw the massive hole in the side of the national heritage site. Denham Castle had been her family home before donating it to the heritage trust. They’d haggled for months over the fine print of care and access for her excavation projects to find the real history past all the rumors and legends. She’d... | "My liege, might it not be such a good idea to unearth the remains of a witch?" my court minister Sneevalsworth asked me. He was a loyal lickspittle, but had no real sense of wonder.
"Quiet yourself," I replied. "This is my castle, and I will do with it as I please. And it pleases me to know if the legends are true.... | 2020-09-12T12:02:36 | 2020-09-12T11:41:55 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] "Halt foul demon! I know of your true name and so you must obey my every command!" "Wha- Why would you knowing my name make me obey you all of a suden? What are you gonna do? Call my parents or something? I swear humans myths about demon control are the weirdest.." | “Seriously? You do realise saying my name isn’t going to make me do anything I don’t want to do. Newsflash, you eejit, I’m a demon not a dog. That’s D-E-M-O-N not D-O-G.”
I gave the human a dry look. My fingers were quivering with the urge to channel some power, to inflict something against this fool for summoning me ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Part 6: Mare v.s. Bureaucracy)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"Halt, foul demon!"** The federal-uniformed soldier barked at Mare. "I know of your true name, and so you must ... | 2022-05-05T10:56:58 | 2022-05-05T10:23:56 | 154 | 31 |
[WP]- Make me absolutely hate a character, and then make me fall in love with them at the last moment. | I had been thinking about her all day, before I killed her. Her inexplicable attraction to me, and to me alone. All those nights she came to me, though I had never had a desire to see her. Her desperate attempts to grow close to me.
My friends all knew about her. How I complained about her, and vented, and seethed. T... | Normally the owner of the nickname "Tubs" would be heavy. I had never heard of a scrawny Tubs until I moved to Venture Park with my parents and sister when I was fifteen. He would take to the streets sometime in the afternoon, shuffling around in his dirty, ripped jeans and walk around with no purpose.
My part-time ... | 2013-10-21T22:10:55 | 2013-10-21T19:46:01 | 134 | 58 |
[WP] No Man's Sky is actually a secret military experiment designed to find candidates who are capable of withstanding the monotonous task of inhabiting dull and boring worlds. You are chosen because you have the most time logged in the game out of anyone else in the world -- a whopping 42 hours. | “ They are bubbling over in marketing, this kid is going to take over the internet, he will be the PewDiePie of space.”
“I don’t know, it’s a bold move - bold moves sometimes bite you”.
“True, but just look at him…”
Ding.
“See, look at that, he uses a timer to remember to eat and wash, he is very good at self care,... | "It's beautiful, isn't it," Sean Murray said as we watched the curve of the Earth sink beneath us, a parabola completing its arc into a sphere. My whole world sunk away and became just another planet spinning in its place through the cosmos, then a marble, then a distant point of light. Sean was at peace now, all the n... | 2016-08-26T03:45:19 | 2016-08-26T03:21:07 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] All your life you've been able to temporarily enter someone's body and use it to your advantage. One night, you drunkenly decide to take over your ex's body. The next morning, you can't get back out, and it looks like your body is somehow awake... | “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN MY BODY?”
*Crap.*
“Jonathan, I don’t know what you were thinking, but get out. NOW.”
From the eyes of a body that was not my own, I looked around a familiar bedroom, one that I used to have free access to but was now off-limits.
*Shit, how did I wind up here?*
“I’m wondering that to... | Apologies if this is bad. This is my first time posting here and I did not bother revising/rereading what I wrote.
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“Trapped. That was the one word in my head as I tried to leave Melissa's body and return to me own. Or maybe the one word in Meli... | 2016-11-13T14:08:51 | 2016-11-13T13:41:33 | 30 | 21 |
[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... | By rights I shouldn't exist. With the pairing of bear and dove, they expected something smaller. A wolf, perhaps, or an eagle. Something fast, yet powerful. Strong, yet humble. No one prepared for me.
The marks determine one's place in society. My father, with his unequaled strength, led the tribe to greatness. My mot... | It was a pretty quite night for the hospital. Haven Metro-General was one of the biggest in the area, so the calm seemed surreal at best. It set me on edge.
"Mind if I burn one?," I asked my partner, trying to sound more casual then I felt. I obviously failed, as the big jowly man eyed me sidelong over his coffee.
... | 2017-11-08T05:54:13 | 2017-11-08T05:34:44 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] Watching a horror movie, you yell at the main character "Don't go in there! The killers in there!". They turn to the screen and say "Thanks for the heads up!". | I had yelled at the screen "Don't go in there, the killers in there" at a silver screen. Everyone looked around at me in the theater, including the movie character. He, John, listened and much to my regret, as it's been about seven hours since and the movie hasn't ended.
After the main character had heard me break th... | A young Architect wakes up to her alarm and decides to not go to office one day. "Let me just send a text message to my boss, I'm sure she'll understand," Keerthi said to herself as she typed × Hey... Feeling sick, thought I should let you know that I can't make it. × Then she hit send without hesitation.
She received... | 2021-04-20T13:12:41 | 2021-04-20T10:34:26 | 27 | 15 |
[WP]Your daughter marches into the kitchen with an attitude. You roll your eyes thinking here we go again. You notice tears in her eyes and wonder what's happening. "My life is a LIE! What am I?" A large cut she has in her hand reveals moving mechanical parts. You drop your coffee mug on the floor. | As Peter stooped to pick up the shattered fragment of what had been his favorite mug, he groaned internally at having to finally hold the conversation that he had been dreading for fourteen years. "Look, kiddo, I can explain."
"Please fucking DO, Dad!" Maria held her hand, shaking nervously. Her face was pale, and the... | There went my cup of coffee. I guess my friends were right when they said I had no poker face. Frankly, it wasn't like I thought this day would never come. I just thought it'd be much later, and I'd come up with a good excuse. I still considered saying, "It's a trick of the light!" But the tears in her eyes were real(o... | 2021-10-20T22:10:15 | 2021-10-20T18:17:46 | 454 | 102 |
[WP] They say you’re unstable, and they tread on eggshells around you but nobody will tell you why. After waking up with complete amnesia, you have no memory of who you are and so that makes you even more curious as to why everyone is terrified of you. | Call me Jane, or maybe Ms Doe.
Call me unstable, it won't be the first time.
Act like I could blow up like a bomb if I'm startled, everyone does. Everyone has, for as long as I can remember.
Of course, that's only three months, but that's long enough to drive a girl a little crazy.
And the worst part? Worse than ... | I have had enough. Ever since I woke up, everyone treats me like I'm some sort of bomb that will go off if someone sneezes wrong.
Fine.
They're waiting for an explosion?
I'll give them something far worse.
A reason to tell me the truth.
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"Hello, Doctor Alpha; how are we feeling today?"
"My name..."
"...is a... | 2022-03-02T02:23:51 | 2022-03-02T00:13:07 | 98 | 68 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | Lynch regarded the teenage girl in front of him, and barely held back a scoff. Her tattered clothing was in contrast to his grand robes in orange, indicating his status as the Archmage of Recruitment.
“Child,” he said. “I do not want to underestimate you. But I sense zero magic in you.”
“Please,” Thea said, her voice... | Eric stood on the stage assessing the audience. They were mostly drunks, but that’s what you got performing in a pub. He made a show of his search for a willing participant, peering around the crowd in circular motions, like a lighthouse shining into a sea of inebriated slobs.
Not that he minded where he performed. He... | 2022-04-26T11:02:18 | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 389 | 79 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | "I will speak for her."
The Archmage was taken aback. "She must be strong," he said wryly.
His assumption, while misguided, was that the woman's trauma was so terrible that it had left her mute, and that was what made her so powerful. But, as I said, misguided.
I shook my head, and translated the Archmage's words to... | [P1]
It’s been a rough day. Once again, I was not heard when I spoke up months ago. Just as it always goes. I try my best to tell people what I see. But they never listen to me. Now I am packing up my desk because of layoffs. Layoffs that would have been prevented if people had more faith in what I predicted. I should... | 2022-04-26T11:56:52 | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You are secretly the strongest supervillain in the world. Because you are stronger than all of the strongest heroes combines your life is consumed by an overwhelming apathy, to the point where you stop fighting at 1/4 your power and give up. Today, someone finaly pissed you off… | I’m not sure what exactly made me do it, but after an especially dull barrage of insults and attacks from the Justice Team, I simply... sat down, mid-battle, right there in the ruins of the downtown square.
Their attacks kept hammering me, but for the first time, I wasn’t blocking, weaving or dodging. I wasn’t acting... | *Ok, this guy is getting annoying* I thought.
He was some new upstart hero, a teenager who probably just recently uncovered his powers. And of course he thought himself to be incredibly powerful, even powerful enough to take on me, the all-powerful Starslinger. All-powerful wasn’t strictly true, but in comparison ... | 2022-07-09T03:51:07 | 2022-07-09T00:55:17 | 96 | 71 |
[WP] There is a place. A place between places. It's an actual place but it isn't here nor there. Lost travelers are the only ones who can find the place. Staying for a night, safe from other places and other things, and nothing more. Except you. You were born in the place.
(edit: super happy folks are having fun with ... | The rain throws itself like clumps of sand against the waiting room’s windows. It comes in waves, as if there’s a giant the other side thrumming their fingers on the glass.
The girl squeaks open the door and squeezes through. Her pink hair’s pasted by the rain onto her forehead and neck, like melted cotton candy.
I n... | The void. The abyssal shores of the Nevermore Ocean. The quiet forest where night never comes and day never breaks. A thin, strange land that lies beyond the limiting borders of time and space. It is a place of the lost and the bewildered. Where those who truly become lost beyond all maps, beyond any guidance, througho... | 2022-11-22T09:01:51 | 2022-11-22T08:00:02 | 766 | 130 |
[WP] A wife kills her husband. Make me sympathize with both characters. | Sharon pulled the knife out of her husband's chest. "Why did you delete my recording of Breaking Bad?" she screamed. She dropped the knife through her trembling hands. "I DVR-ed that shit for a reason!"
Brandon wheezed on the floor. His palms covered his broken heart. He tried to speak but coughed up blood. Final... | As if a ticking time bomb, the aneurysm at Bob’s brain stem pulsed in time as the blood ran through it. The micro-bulge had never been noticed before but today it decided to rupture.
***
The breakfast was only half finished when he watched as Sara rose from the table to get more coffee. 32 years and he stilled stared ... | 2013-10-08T10:26:16 | 2013-10-08T08:08:08 | 324 | 119 |
[WP] On your first day as a supervillain, you secretly swap all the regular coffee on Earth with decaf. You envision this as a fun, little starter prank. To say you miscalculated the potential impact of your "prank" is putting it mildly... | "Sir. I think you should take a look at this."
"Chauncey. I'm busy working on how to make all Skittles into toothpaste and orange flavor. Can't this wait?" I looked back at him by the camera monitor. He had this worrisome expression. For a minion of his professional demeanor to look at me in such a way... It was all t... | “Do something good, or do something big,” that’s what my mother always told me. She, of course, chose the former and lived a life of simplicity, piety and worked herself to the bone at the laundromat. At her funeral, through the casket she reeked of detergent. The cheap kind.
Seeing how it turned out for her, I ... | 2017-02-03T08:11:56 | 2017-02-03T07:40:53 | 2,064 | 134 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | I just got laid off. My last paycheck is arriving next Friday. I have $10.56 in my bank account. I know it's stupid, but I bought a pack of cigarettes on the way home. I need something to take my mind off of it. I lit a cigarette, took one puff, and everything went dark.
At first I thought I had fainted. Do cigarette... | Coughing, you wave your hand in front of your face, trying to clear away the smoke. You blink frantically, trying to stop the burning sensation from the smoke in your eyes.
As your vision clears, the creature in front of you becomes more clear. Your first impulse is that it's a sickly child, but the longer you look,... | 2017-05-12T10:46:53 | 2017-05-12T10:01:31 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] A photographer and a sniper meet in a bar. Neither is aware of the other's occupation. They talk about "how to take the perfect shot". | *Making sure the check clears.*
That's always the tricky part, right?
*Timing.*
Of course. And lighting.
*I suppose lighting is important. You've gotta have the right equipment.*
Absolutely. And finding the right subject.
*Ha. Yes. We have to be careful which jobs we take on. I won't do old people anymore. ... | I was born in Washington State and always had this sort of fascination with capturing the Pacific Ocean during the winter. The waters seemed to change with the seasons, regardless of whether the water froze over or not. The color, the size of the waves, and even the smell always had this ability to transfix both my e... | 2017-08-31T11:25:38 | 2017-08-31T09:53:57 | 123 | 52 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Slightly different take. First time don't be to rough please looking for constructive criticism. Thanks, I hope you like.
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Zeus was tired.
He felt old, he had been growing old for three thousand years. He could feel himself fading. The others had already fallen into a slumber. Poseidon, his brother had heav... | When Gaia had arrived on Earth billions of years ago, she brought with her life. Life had started simply, just the beginnings of what would come to be. Over the ages she had watched, as her home had flourished into creations she couldn't help but marvel at. Her pride and joy were the humans. Although they had started v... | 2019-01-31T22:37:33 | 2019-01-31T21:22:14 | 225 | 75 |
[WP] After a treasure hunt with your friends, you make it to the treasure. But instead of the wealth you were told about, it was a note congratulating you on your journey and that the real treasure was the friends you made on the way. Only problem is that all your friends died getting you this far. | We were on a holiday in Turkey. After some days of lazying around, we decided to do something more adventurous. Eventually, we ended up in some ancient pub in Yassihöyük. There we met an eccentric drunkard who entertained us with stories about the local legends. He was difficult to understand at first, not because his... | Kaant and Tenor heaved at the chest, pulling upwards with all their strength. Sweat streamed down from the two men’s foreheads, obstructing their vision and making an unpleasant situation even worse. It *stung* as it got in their eyes, and neither could spare a hand to wipe away the unwelcome fluid.
They swore at the ... | 2019-06-20T01:00:24 | 2019-06-20T00:12:22 | 71 | 36 |
[WP]in the universe humans are not the strongest, most resilient, most agile, adaptive, or most warlike. humans are completely average in everything except one. we are fantastic at making ships. war stories come back about how the human made ship withstood everything the enemy would throw and more | Our species, the zaniles, was a master of everything. Born from the harsh planet of toinate, our race was the rulers of the universe, which every other race looked up to.
But then humans created faster-than-speed travel, and declared a "United Earth Republic"
We told the humans to serve us, just like all the other ra... | The bass, drums, and harmony of Deep Purple's "Highway Star" was running at such a high volume in the pilot pod that it leaked out into the bridge even despite the fact that the ship ran on half the air pressure that the sound would have spread out if it had been playing at sea level on Terra. Hearing the cover with t... | 2019-08-02T23:49:39 | 2019-08-02T23:47:46 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You have made a large ouija board on the floor in front of the fireplace as a decoration. Your roomba has been randomly summoning demons and then sucking them up Luigi's mansion style. You have been passively watching this happen for about a week now.
[deleted] | "Puny mortals, I would not bear those smug smiles of yours while in the presence o— wait, what in the name— OH QIZÉL NO!" the poor hellish sod disappeared under my Roomba.
"And another one... *bites the dust*," I said.
"Will you say that *every* time your cleaning puck sucks another one?" My brother, sitting on the c... | i've always loved design. its what drives me, there is nothing more beautiful then a thematically designed room. so i incorporated it into my life in as many ways as possible, from my job as a home decorator to my monthly redecorating of my own house. i was especially excited for october next month, i had ordered a hug... | 2019-09-09T00:37:23 | 2019-09-09T00:20:19 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] “One last piece of advice. If you ever land on a planet and the human says “it’s just like home” you turn on the thrusters and leave it in the dust. Because, trust me kid, those places will kill ya.” | The craft landed on a new world reported in the Uud system. As the most adaptable beings in the universe, the human was always suited up and sent out first to investigate.
"Ah just like home," said human science officer Raj as he stepped out onto the earth-like landscape. "Scans look good here."
The alien crew looked... | "Oh wow, look at that. A proper blue marble. This looks like a good one."
The image on screen was indeed beautiful - planets with liquid water were a rare sight in the galaxy. More information scrolled past as Sandy focused the sensors.
"Gravity is 1.5 standards, or 1.1 gees. Atmosphere is oxygenated, and proper ... | 2021-04-13T13:58:51 | 2021-04-13T12:40:35 | 1,253 | 775 |
[WP] At the end of a great battle, someone realizes he/she/it has been fighting for the wrong side. | It wasn't the uniforms that tipped me off. It wasn't the criminal charges. It wasn't the shame, the imprisonment. It wasn't the wounds or the bodies of the fallen around me.
But I know, now, that I had been on the wrong side of this war.
There is no place in the world for the loser's mercenaries. | Roger stood over the fallen Guilder Legionary, half slumped due to the arrow in his shoulder. With weary but victorious eyes, he surveyed the battlefield.
It had been a quick, simple victory for the Greater Republic of Florin. Eight hundred Legionaries had met them at the border crossing, believing that they could hol... | 2014-04-11T12:09:04 | 2014-04-11T11:46:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The outgoing President of the United States has written a letter to the newly inaugurated President. Instead of friendly advice, that letter contains the horrible truth that the public doesn't know about. Write that letter.
What is that horrible secret? | Hello, Mr. President.
If you're anything like I was in the first few weeks of my presidency, you'll be getting into everything and looking for answers to all the wacky questions you can think of. I now know where Hoffa is buried, who killed Kennedy, who performed the sex change on Norma Jean Baker, what's going on at... | Hey Dogg,
It’s President Obama. Well, former-President Obama. What’s good? Don’t bother responding to that, this is an email and I won’t be able to hear what you said. I mean, you’re welcome to respond if you want, but it’s really not going to do much for you. Yeah, maybe it’ll make this whole “hey we’re cool dog” ema... | 2014-05-01T15:21:41 | 2014-05-01T13:44:04 | 89 | 38 |
[WP] You are kidnapped by a cult, and they are about to sacrifice you to their god. They don't know that you are that god. | "Dude. If you stab me, I will be incredibly pissed." I stared at the head priest as levelly as I could, but he was not having any of it.
"O Mighty Lord Bixphaast! Grant us your divine blessing! Smite our enemies and destroy those who claim to be our betters!" The man was ranting like a lunatic as he held the dagger a... | The saliquii were a myth of the olden man; a ruin of the civilisation, dead from the battles which raged this earth for centuries. Legend speaks of them in many tones; some revere them, as their Warriors were told to carry golden spears into battle that shone so brightly under the sun their enemies would be blinded. Ot... | 2016-08-14T16:18:14 | 2016-08-14T10:42:56 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Humans finally gain the ability to intergalactic travel. In meeting other species, they quickly realize earth is the "Australia" of space and all the aliens are in awe of our durability. | "So, let me get this right. You breathe... oxygen?"
The blobbish creature extended another slug-like appendage, striking the keyboard character signalling confusion. It undulated slightly, its hairs on end - a sign of timidness, according to the labcoats. Keith sighed.
"Yep. Most of us just call it air though, so you... | "Wait, wait, wait. Back it up for me. What's Earth like?"
On one side of a long, ovaloid table sits three women and two men. All human. The woman in the middle is standing, with a look of confusion on her face. There may be a bit of anger, or frustration, or maybe even exhaustion. She's more than a little fed up with ... | 2017-05-07T21:43:17 | 2017-05-07T20:49:32 | 92 | 59 |
[WP] You are the chosen one, but your mom wants you to be a doctor. | Ever since the Wizard of the North spoke to him in dreams, Diego knew that he had been chosen as the Defender. Although initially brushing it off as just another wacky dream, successive visions of a desolate wasteland ravaged by malicious ethereal forces had finally convinced Diego that threat he faced was very real in... | The sun was setting over the distant mountains, and the temperature was finally dropping. Airoth basked in the cool air, which felt amazing against his sweat soaked skin. Straightening up, he checked his surroundings. Four wooden dummies surrounded him, all evenly spaced, and all evenly damaged. Wood chips and splinter... | 2019-02-07T03:42:53 | 2019-02-06T23:23:43 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You're a prolific serial killer. After careful study, the FBI created your profile: you're extremely intelligent, meticulous bordering on OCD, attractive, have a good job. Thing is, you're none of these. You're dumb as a rock. You just keep getting lucky. | My mom always called me special. Her special spark. I couldn't go to normal school, I had to go to special school mommy said. I was what they called "slow". I had to learn sticking and pasting, building walls with bricks, use a hammer. Not electriicitee, that was too dangerous. We had to move around a lot for daddies w... | I turned on the TV and opened a warm beer, my usual routine after a long shift at the ward. Well, half the time--I forget to put my beer in the fridge quite a bit. Buying groceries can be so overwhelming. What's the difference between low-fat and skim? Why do eggs and batteries both come in AA and AAA types? Anyway, I ... | 2020-07-04T02:33:20 | 2020-07-04T02:11:30 | 107 | 19 |
[WP] You are seen as a weakling. To prove yourself to your tribe, you enter the dragon's lair that even the hardiest warriors avoid. Amused by your challenge, the dragon takes a human form and duels you with a sword. After disarming you three times it says "come tomorrow and try again." | Second day. I arrive. I lose fast and hard. The dragon left me another on my arm, just above the first. Just deep enough to scar.
Third day. I arrive. I lose. I get cut.
Fifth day. I arrive. I lose. He cuts across the first four to make five.
Tenth day. I arrive. I lose but it takes only a few seconds longer. He smi... | I'd walked almost half of the day just to get up here. My sword felt heavy the entire way up but I wouldn't let that stop me.
I finally arrived and bellowed my challenge into the cave.
The eyes appeared in the darkness after a short time and I heard a snorting sound. For a moment I thought for would wash over me and ... | 2020-12-01T10:42:41 | 2020-12-01T08:58:51 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] You are a minion in the service of a dark lord. Your master has tasked you with creating and spreading a prophecy about a chosen one, the only person who can defeat him, so that the so-called "heroes" will stop resisting his rule and instead wait for their savior to arrive. | I grabbed the brush and made deep strokes. The fresh black paint glistened in the early morning as I hammered the paper onto the side of the general goods store.
*The chosen one is born! He will cleanse our world in his wake!*
The plan was simple.
My master, the evil Goblin King, wanted to take a different approach ... | The candles burned low in the Dark Lord’s chambers as a shapely alabaster leg slipped out of his bed. It was followed by another, and then the soft padding of bare feet across the floor.
“Going so soon, sweetling?”
The Dark Lord Malgant propped himself up on one thickly muscled forearm, the ritualistic scars carved i... | 2021-03-17T21:24:21 | 2021-03-17T20:43:31 | 130 | 75 |
[WP] You die every time you use your short distance teleportation spell. You know this because of the short bone-chilling scream of pain and agony from your previous self. You've made peace with this, and mastered it. At least until the spell ranked up, and no longer killed you. | "So."
"So."
"What do we do?"
"Well we can't very well teleport mindlessly around the place anymore."
"Too true."
I stared at me, and "I" stared back. We smirked.
"It's-" we spoke at the same time.
I blinked, and the other me spoke first.
"It doesn't matter. It was just going to be some chatter about the usefuln... | **\[Part 1/2\]**
It hadn't been easy, but Ayon had made peace with it. The scream of pain and terror. The tears. The cries. The agony of his previous self, each time he used his teleportation spell. But he had made peace with that. It was, in definitive, a small price to pay, for the ability to move freely across the ... | 2021-08-25T10:20:17 | 2021-08-25T09:08:36 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] The headline flashes across the screen: "Scientists to release cure to death in a month! The beginning of a new age!" You turn off the TV and smile bitterly. Your prognosis wasn't good. The doctors said you had two weeks left at most. | As the news blared from every other television from the hospital, you couldn't help but smile.
A crooked smile, one that came from old age and experience.
They said you have two weeks left to live, but whats that to a life of a hundred years? Whats two weeks in face of an everlasting nightmare, trapped in the body of ... | Chris’ head dropped as he let go of the remote to the floor, the plastic bouncing off the wood. Leaning back on his couch, he racked his brain, trying hard to think of an answer. *A cure for death coming in a month and I have two weeks to live. What a cruel twist of fate.* A laugh burst from his lips as tears started t... | 2022-08-26T07:37:50 | 2022-08-26T07:23:49 | 117 | 68 |
[WP] Your town has a witch problem. The problem: Not enough witches. Now hiring. Benefits, dental, holidays off. | So you think you can handle your mandrakes?
*Cue screeching potatoes with faces.*
And your charm for *charm* is enough for ol' country pageants?
*You hear applause.*
Are you ready to put that wand to good (heh) use?
*Haka sounds and some stomping noises.*
Well, we are looking for *YOU*!
*A man in a three-piece ... | The thick door opened, and a dainty old witch with a cat on her shoulder swept out. Her familiar animal hung on for dear life, bouncing along as she stormed down the aisle. The far door slapped the wall as she stomped out, and three dozen waiting crones turned back toward the Mayor's office with renewed interest.
"Win... | 2022-11-08T14:16:05 | 2022-11-08T14:09:46 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] The protagonist, after achieving god-like powers, attempts to overthrow the narrator. | “Hello?”, she said.
“Hello!”, I replied.
“You’re the narrator?”, she said to me, a little awkwardly.
“Yes, I am. But apparently from the writing prompt you have god-like powers, which seems pretty neat.”
“Uh, yes, I guess that’s nice. Can I make a universe or something then? Maybe have people bow down and worship... | Alex is a simple man. He loves his family, he works hard, he likes to relax with a beer and the guitar he got when he was fifteen.
Alex is going to die today. It will be poignant. You'll cry, trust me.
His day starts like any other. He wakes a minute before his alarm clock goes off and is out of bed before the first ... | 2014-03-18T19:37:57 | 2014-03-18T19:07:38 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] You're such a powerful magician that life is pretty dull. To combat the boredom you and other sorcerers, wizards, vampires etc. started to raise and groom your own groups of champions, setting them to fight each other with bad excuses like "saving the princess" or "slaying the demon lord". | The game had already been played and reset an unfathomable number of times and yet here we were gathering our champions for yet another round. The game itself began before even I had formed a consciousness, but as I understand it began as a way to control the restless god-like powers we wield. The God Hand in his wisdo... | What do you do when the world is at your blood filled finger tips? Anything you desire and more importantly, anything to make the centuries pass with ease. The members of Satan's Round table decided it was time to test our abilities and try to push our magical boundaries. In theory, it should be a simple challenge f... | 2016-09-06T11:13:03 | 2016-09-06T09:42:57 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] The year is 1910. Adolf Hitler, a struggling artist, has fought off dozens of assasination attemps by well meaning time travelers, but this one is different. This traveller doesn't want to kill Hitler, he wants to teach him to paint. He pulls off his hood to reveal the frizzy afro of Bob Ross. | In the December dusk, the bubbles of light around the street lamps, whirling with specks of sparkling ice crystals, looked like oversized snow globes.
“I want to capture the street outside,” Adolf said. “Where do I start? Atmosphere? Lighting? A blitz of color?”
“You start by not painting,” Bob said. “First you need... | Adolf woke.
He wasn’t sure what had awakened him, but he found himself staring at the shadowy ceiling of his tiny flat just the same. It was quiet – so quiet that he was sure neither dawn nor dusk were anywhere close at hand – and yet, still he was awake. More awake, in fact, than he had felt in years. He shivered b... | 2022-10-08T17:26:42 | 2017-02-16T17:29:01 | 74 | 18 |
[WP] The reason earth never made alien contact is because earth is in a natural reservation inside a non transit area inside a neutral zone between two warring empires in a relatively boring part of the galaxy. | "Whoa, shit!" Gor said to Zoran as the third quantum torpedo struck their craft, nearly ripping it in two. The Yurians were close behind them and closing fast. "They're gonna kill us man, I told you we shouldn't have crossed the border!"
"It was worth it for the Guaranian texstutes!" Zoran shouted back, madly flipping... | "And I play K7"
Oo'rtha rubbed his chin thoughtfully. His four eyes blinked in rapid succession, and his face turned from a deep purple to red.
I spread out my tentacles and grinned. "That would be game, my friend."
Oo'rtha blinked a few more times then flipped the board, spilling the pieces on the floor. "To hell... | 2017-03-02T08:16:36 | 2017-03-02T07:30:59 | 870 | 250 |
[WP] For two decades, you've been bartending at "The Happy Hour", where time travellers meet to unwind, drink cheap cocktails, catch up with each other and sometimes with themselves. Nothing really surprises you any more until one day, in walks a person you haven't seen in 20 years - the owner. | I was fourteen the first time I jumped. One moment I was standing there, talking to a homeless man, then I was alone, the wind blowing dust into my eyes, nothing on the horizon but dirt and more stars then I'd ever seen. It took a minute (forever?) before I made it back, the homeless man shocked at my sudden reappearan... | The Happy Hour had always been a feel good spot. A hole in the universe that even Satan once said he wouldn't spit in, but that's mostly just crude talk passed from traveler to traveler. In reality it is a hub, where travelers who've been to distant and near futures meet, every now and again you'll meet an odd inter-... | 2017-09-20T21:38:50 | 2017-09-20T17:01:46 | 63 | 18 |
[WP] You were born blind, but somehow sometimes see some actual people in the darkness. You saw your grandmother for a whole day 4 years ago, she died that night. Now you're in your house and could see every person clearly, except for the visitor your dad is talking to. | "I wish they'd just agree on something and shut up." I thought.
Sighted people take silence for granted. Quiet. Or listening to a book. It's really the only time I get any peace. Every fart, every word, every gust of fucking wind is the equivalent of nails on a goddamned chalkboard to people who can't see. I raised t... | I woke up this morning like every other morning... Everybody in the house is already up , birds are screaming through my window and my stupid neighbor is mowing his lawn AGAIN! I mean how much grass is there? Does it grow back every night? I seriously hope this guys lawnmower breaks down or you know... gets “misplaced”... | 2017-10-09T07:21:12 | 2017-10-09T01:55:51 | 615 | 149 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | When I got the text, I didn't have to think about it very long - I had just been lying in bed, playing Ashphalt on my PHONE. 'Yeah, sure,' I reply, thinking nothing of it. Jeff always sends me this shit.
As I put my phone back down and close my eyes I feel a wave of nausea hit, then pass, leaving behind a lingering wh... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-17T00:31:53 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] There is a tradition in the US Navy that no submarine is ever considered lost, those that go to sea and don't return are considered "Still on Patrol". There are 52 WW2 submarines still on patrol, and they have just started coming home. | It was a very somber affair, the whole "coming home" thing.
After the decision was made to recover every lost submarine, many were sceptical, of course. Those subs were lost at the bottom of the ocean, they said. Lost, for over a hundred years. Even with the most advanced technology and sonar the North American Empire... | 01022020 1715 ZULU TOPSECRET
ACTION MESSAGE: TOPSECRETxxxxxxATTN:COMCINCPAC/COMCINCLANT,
COMNAVAIRPAC/COMNAVAIRLANT, COMSUBPAC/COMSUBLANT
FROM:Commander CVN-70 USS CARLVINSON
SUB: UNKNOWN MILITARY ACTION IN MALLACA STRAITS
At1320Zulu CIC reports distress call by Japanese oiltanker Kobiashi Maru, s... | 2020-09-10T13:44:11 | 2020-09-10T13:30:22 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You are an unimportant government worker who, by mere chance, gets to perform the most interesting job of his career: interview a time-traveler. You begin by introducing yourself and the guy immediately freaks out! | "Okay, let's begin" I turn on the recorder. This recording will be analyzed for years. First interview with a time traveler!
"I am Sophia-Iona Holloway, customs officer," I say, attempting to build his trust. Doesn't hurt my name will be at the beginning of this recording.
"Sophia-Iona Holloway? Sophia-Iona Holloway... | I walked into the little room behind the two way mirror, apprehension etched all over my face. I was a low-ranking government office worker, what the hell did these high-ranking officials want with me?
“Ah! You’re here!”
A besuited man I didn’t know greeted me as I walked into the room. “I see you’re about as curious... | 2021-08-05T08:38:40 | 2021-07-12T23:41:18 | 98 | 23 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | I reached for another mini sandwich, but my hand met nothing. *Shit* I knew what had to happen now. I had survived the last week off of sparkling water, sandwiches, and chips. But the time had come for me to venture outside. There was no longer any avoiding it.
A week ago, instead of the normal greeting my roommate’s ... | Day 1 - new world
​
Picking Ark Survival Evolved was probably not the best choice but I couldn’t stop myself. When I first loaded up the game and stepped into this beautiful world I couldn’t help but be in awe. I was careful and only spent around half an hour in the world before retreating back into my bed... | 2022-06-07T18:06:20 | 2022-06-07T16:11:41 | 312 | 33 |
[WP] During a routine checkup with your doctor you both discover your butthole is the stargate. The governments of the world are now out to capture you and harness the power of your ass. | "But the poop still comes out, right?"
"Yes, Mister President, it appears to be a one way gate. When I insert the camera like this..."
\- I clenched involuntarily -
"you can see what's on the other side."
A breathtaking vista became visible on the screen. Three moons hung in a black sky. Wisps of bluish gas swirl... | After the doctor told me the results, our eyes both went wide and he ran out of his office. I could hear him talking to official sounding people, with angry voices and stern commands. The doctor had told me to Just...Just Wait Right Here, but clearly that was not going to be the right choice.
I ran out of the doc's ... | 2015-01-25T07:06:45 | 2015-01-25T06:53:23 | 2,196 | 285 |
[WP] A socially awkward dork becomes a vampire and tries his best to be a suave seducer a la Anne Rice novels, Twilight, etc. | Derek was absolutely positive becoming a vampire would turn his love life around. He had definitely read all of the stories about girls swooning over young looking vampire heart throbs, but as the third drained, abducted corpse under his bed would suggest, that wasn't quite working out for him. He could get a girl into... | "This is it..." I say into the dark. "Tonight will be the night."
I've been a vampire for a week now and I've become stronger, faster and more intelligent than I ever could've imagined. Tonight, I will put it all to the test.
I step of my front porch and make my way down to the pier. It's 10:30 PM. I know that ther... | 2015-08-26T08:20:45 | 2015-08-26T08:14:59 | 68 | 18 |
[WP] Whenever a person discovers a new life hack, a frustrated God stops the simulation to have a talk with the offender. | "Ah, shit."
"JAMES. WE HAVE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THIS."
"I know, I know-"
"NO, JAMES. EVIDENTLY, YOU DO NOT KNOW, FOR YOU WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IT AGAIN AFTER MY FIRST WARNING."
"Come on, God, you gave us the gift of 'boundless creativity' for a *reason*. I'm just... using it beyond normal parameters, that's all."
J... | "GOD!! Somebody figured out a way to break our Earth simulation completely.. " screamed Peter on top of his lungs. There are 2 reasons why he had to, for one Gods office was at end of a long empty hallway and he didn't like phones in his cabin or anyone else. So whenever you had to reach him you would have to scream an... | 2017-11-18T09:13:57 | 2017-11-18T09:08:08 | 135 | 29 |
[WP] Your dad loved his train set. It filled his basement and included a town, farmland, woods, and plastic figures. He passed away last week, and last night you were visited by two tiny figures claiming their sun has been dark for a week, the train no longer runs, and a rat is terrorizing the land. | Dad always wanted to feel in control. He had a nickname, Deuce, that he insisted even we call him. So when old Deuce died, his affairs went fast and painless, we went Dutch in the inheritance and the family stayed tight.
Then there was his basement with the trains.
And when the little model passengers came into my be... | Little People
My father hid a lot from us, and after he passed, two of his secrets came looking for me.
Five days or so after his funeral, I dreamed about his train set - two of the figurines from his diorama to be more precise. My father had two things that I knew he loved: one was drinking, and the other was his ba... | 2018-08-30T21:26:38 | 2018-08-30T20:35:51 | 52 | 35 |
[WP] There's a knock on your door. You open it to see your favorite book character standing there. They say, "I know this may be a lot for you to take in right now, but you have to listen very carefully; You are my favorite book character, I know how your story ends, and I need to change it."
My first time posting her... |
Like the bells of fate, my doorbell rang just before I was about to take a sip of my delicious, aromatic tea.
"What the *hell*," I grumbled miserably, setting down my copy of *Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian* that I was re-reading for the fifth time.
I opened the door, and my heart just about leapt out of my che... | A deep pounded echoed throughout the house, only now loud enough to rouse me from my sleep. My eyes reluctantly open to allow the morning light in. Fearing the type of man, or men, that would so confidently assault my door I go to the window to check for cars I don’t recognize. Weirdly nothing seems out of the ordinary... | 2019-05-20T05:03:41 | 2019-05-20T03:56:54 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I forget. Well, I make everyone forget. That’s my power, but you probably won’t recall this in approximately 1 minute.
It’s a curse. I watched as my other friends develop wondrous abilities during puberty- flight, invulnerability, elemental control, while I was bestowed with the power of forgetting. Maybe it was becau... | "Where'd you go. . ."
The boot came into view first. Hard to imagine that thing used to be stark white, but then again it's even more difficult to find a reason why he even needed white boots anyways. Covered in a mix of dry and wet mud coming off the sides. Must be a nightmare having that guy as a roommate.
I held m... | 2019-09-08T09:02:22 | 2019-09-08T08:59:29 | 4,320 | 111 |
[WP] Humans are endurance hunters. Which is not a trait anyone would expect to come into play in an interplanetary war. | We were no strangers to war
We knew the rules and so did they
A full commitment's what their admiral was thinking
You would get this from any other race
You have to imagine how we were feeling.
We have to make you understand
We’re never gonna give this up, we’re going to chase you down
Your forces will run aro... | "The Sonaklix Fleet were decimated above the second planet of the Kol System, alongside crippling the sole dreadnought-class starship Humanity had: Athena's Vengeance.
Head Admiral Flooklix sat upon the Sonaklix Battleship Slongklix.
Despite the loss of the fleet (one of many, easily replaced), Head Admiral Flooklix... | 2021-01-12T02:31:23 | 2021-01-11T23:02:57 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Surprisingly, it turns out humans are one of the least violent sentient species in the galaxy. Describe a session at the galactic equivalent of the UN. | When mankind made first contact with an alien species, we had already taken to the stars for centuries. While interstellar travel was just beyond our grasp, our home solar system had become our home - more so than just Earth. Mars had been terraformed, Venus had colony cities in the skies, even the various moons of Jup... | The standard intergalactic verbal language word used for our species literally translates to "*Perfect balance*".
The first sentient species we came in contact with was much more peaceful than us, and much more underdeveloped. They had philosophers who would talk about a written language every now and then, but why w... | 2015-03-23T09:34:39 | 2015-03-23T09:07:28 | 204 | 28 |
[WP] Surprisingly, it turns out humans are one of the least violent sentient species in the galaxy. Describe a session at the galactic equivalent of the UN. | First contact is always bloody. Always.
The realization that your species is not alone in the universe is terrifying. The understanding that, out there in the vast dark, there exist trillions of beings with a culture unlike yours, customs unlike yours, aspirations unlike yours. It is truly terrifying. When faced with ... | The standard intergalactic verbal language word used for our species literally translates to "*Perfect balance*".
The first sentient species we came in contact with was much more peaceful than us, and much more underdeveloped. They had philosophers who would talk about a written language every now and then, but why w... | 2015-03-23T09:53:28 | 2015-03-23T09:07:28 | 51 | 28 |
[WP] The job is simple. Every day at 8:34am you will get a phone call. You must answer before 2nd ring and write down the information given to you. On NO ACCOUNT must you engage in conversation with the caller. | **It's a short one, but here it goes:**
Everyday Jane woke up to the startling sound of her home telephone. Punctuality was the signature this women with strangely familiar voice had, and for some reason it amazed her in such an incomprehensible way that she made of it a routine; she didn't resist those phone calls, a... | "The job is simple." Jorge thinks to himself. In fact it is too simple.
"Listen carefully" the voice of an automated message beckons on the phone. "You will receive a call at 8:34 am on your home line periodically. We will supply you with a new secure house phone and you must be prepared everyday. You will not receive... | 2015-10-07T21:42:24 | 2015-10-07T17:34:49 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] In a new TV game show contestants must jump into a wormhole that drops them into a random point in time where they must survive for longer than the other contestants. You've just been dropped in the worst possible place. | Welcome back! I'd like to introduce you to our next contestant: Allen Atson.
Allen is a 26 year old engineer from Atlanta, Georgia. With a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in history and theology, he's well placed to succeed wherever in time he ends up. Any words for the audience, Allen?
"I just wish ... | "ALLLLLRIGHT CONTESTANTS! IS EVERYBODY READY TO BEGIN?"
A chorus of 'yes's echoed around the contest hall, filling the air with the sound of our assent. Sweat dripped from my brow as I went over everything I had learned one last time. Languages, edible plants, and combat skills flicked before my eyes like a movie wit... | 2016-07-24T10:56:03 | 2016-07-24T10:39:59 | 1,907 | 644 |
[WP] Star Wars is a true story. An alien comes to Earth to make first contact with our newly discovered species, only to discover we know more about their universe's history than they do.
EDIT: Whoah, this sorta blew up! Thanks for all the stories guys! I've read all of them and each made me laugh or legitimately thin... | "Chancellor Palpatine is very pleased to offer you a position in the Galactic Senate," the Ambassador told the President with a warm smile. "Now, junior mem..."
"Wait, wait. *Chancellor* Palpatine?"
"Yes?" the Ambassador asked. "You see, a *chancellor* is someone who..."
"No, no. I know what a chancellor does. You'r... | #Title: This Changes Everything
The alien Sharaven watched the rolling end credits of Episode VII, with horrified tears streaming out of his red eyes down his long, green face. Kyle offered him some more popcorn, and sat up from his couch.
"You have an entire historical account of Lord Vader," whispered Sharaven.
... | 2017-03-18T07:24:49 | 2017-03-18T07:15:03 | 7,571 | 926 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | You all mocked me
Called me insane.
Said that I was a fool and that I would die trying.
Well now I stand here, your armies desolated, from a simple jawbone.
For it is that jawbone
That weapon
That was used by Cain to slay Abel.
Older then any weapon on earth
For it is the first.
And now, I end this world
| I thought the fantasy something people only said they believed in. Steel didn't change. If anything, it got weaker as time went on, succumbing to rust and out-dated smithing techniques.
But, the legend disagreed.
A day in the woods like any other upset my little life out in the country. Even though I'd played there f... | 2017-04-21T09:57:12 | 2017-04-21T09:28:52 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You are a vampire who likes to help humans instead of hurting them, so you became a doctor. Over the hospital's PA system one day you hear "Dr. Acula, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you." | Dr. Acula, incensed, sprints to the hospital's public address office and screams "Are you people NOT AWARE of patient privacy and confidentiality laws?!?! If you EVER reveal the name of one of my patients over the PA system again, I will have your jobs!!"
As the staff stare at him, mouths wide open, chins on the floor... | "Aww jeez, damn not him, why is he coming to this hospital out of all of them"
The PA system speaks again: *Doctor Acula please come into room 57, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you*
"I heard you the first time jackass"Acula mutters to himself in a distressed way "all right Acula, remember the pledge to Hypocrite, he ... | 2017-10-01T06:58:24 | 2017-10-01T04:44:18 | 94 | 12 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | *BANG!*
There went my eye. That’s the 5th time this week some fucker thought he could end me by putting one in my eye. How long will it take for them to realize that their guns need to hit the lizard brain to actually work! With a shot at the eye, you couldn’t get a good angle unless you were on a goddamn podium. Stil... | As the advance assault party broke through the decimated checkpoint gates, shredding through the Alliance military and the local Europa Militia members as if they were nothing but a mild inconvenience, the Commander chuckled softly as the gargled, final words of the human general rang through his mind; “Death is only t... | 2018-09-29T19:38:06 | 2018-09-29T19:07:14 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] WritingPrompt: A man asks you in a shakey voice if you're alright. You hesitantly say yes, to which he responds by getting a look of terrified horror and screams "I knew it! You can see them too! Don't let them get you!" | My hands shook as I sat hunched in the park bench, biting my lip to stop the screams from tumbling out. They were getting closer. Never before had they gotten closer. They were tall and crooked, whiter than snow, their eyes a blaring yellow that cut right through me. They always stood a fair distance away, and I seemed... | For as long as I could remember, I had always been able to see them. Ghosts. Flashes and visions of them in their monochrome colours, fleeting and distant, mostly confined in repetitions of the past, echoes rather than conscious spirits. With no purpose or reason, they were harmless, but at times afforded me insight th... | 2019-07-01T09:29:42 | 2019-07-01T09:24:50 | 18 | 12 |
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