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[WP] You woke up in a bathtub full of ice with fresh stitches on your back and abdomen. The emergency room reveals that several organs are missing, replaced with something unknown. They want to cut you open, but you're feeling awesome, stronger and healthier than you've ever felt in your life. | I touch the threads woven through my abdomen, gazing at myself in the mirror. I can't see the ones on my back but I can feel them pinching at my skin, keeping the edges together, as if trying to seal a portal that has already been opened. It's been five years since I woke in my bathtub with my organs missing and replac... | Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
My heart beats in little smoke-detector beeps coming from the machine by my side. The hypnotic ‘vuush-vuush’ of the ventilator is soothing, as are the white walls of the hospital room. The doctor was here a few minutes ago and
explained everything. I had flashes of memory as he spoke. The date... | 2020-06-12T10:30:07 | 2020-06-12T10:18:04 | 141 | 39 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... | *I'm late to the party, but loved the prompt. Mostly a lurker here, so below is my noob attempt. FYI I planned to write more but had actual work to do, so please let me know if you all liked it and I may continue!*
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An old man is found sitting on a park bench, facing out towards the still lake. His eyes strain fr... | 2015-10-26T12:10:03 | 2015-10-26T10:54:10 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity finally reaches the edge of the solar system only to encounter an impassible barrier and a warning not to try and breach it. But is it there to keep us in or to keep something else out? | Humanity was expanding.
It was time to go.
It had been 200 years since humans had reached the edge of the solar system. It had taken 2 years to journey that far back then, and now they could pass the expanse from the sun to the edge in just a few tens of minutes. But they could never pass it.
The great barrier hung,... | Lynn could feel Rob's eyes on her. Exhaling shakily, she slowly met his nervous gaze. Tears traveled down his cheekbones and pooled in a thick, rust-colored beard. His face took on a ghostly hue.
"It's going to be okay, dude. We can do this. We have to do this."
Rob opened his mouth but before he could respond, the n... | 2016-04-19T04:03:26 | 2016-04-19T03:09:17 | 1,285 | 193 |
[WP] as the youngest heir to the throne you fake your death to escape a military coup but it was so convincing that Death came to collect your soul. CConfused by the situation, Death decides that you're a new form of undead and can't decide which powers you should be granted. | An actor I was at the time
And a good one at that
For I pulled a farce so sublime
That death did tip his hat
​
You may not yet be dead young prince
But you could have fooled me
So as a form of recompense
Here is a choice of three
​
A trickster you have proved yourself
So maybe this will... | The metabolism slowing tonic was a medical breakthrough. It revolutionized disease treatment and surgery like nothing else. But like any technological advancement, it had yet to be refined. Perfect. Optimized.
I tasked the surgeon general with a seemingly simple task: make a metabolism *freezing* tonic. Something that... | 2019-10-05T16:44:15 | 2019-10-05T15:56:55 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | The reporters always, ALWAYS, asked how I'd gotten my super powers, and I always told them I just didn't know. I could focus on things with my eyes, and the lasers would come out and destroy whatever they were looking at. It all happened so fast no one could even see it.
Except me. I knew. And I knew I could never ex... | # VI | [Read from I](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/v1fq6x/wp_as_a_joke_the_gods_decided_to_reverse_the/iaoubt6/)
Aside from Adrianna, Cassidy Quinn was Shizuka's only real friend.
He'd been at the Academy longer than almost any of the other students. Long enough to have been here when she'd first ... | 2022-06-06T17:55:17 | 2022-06-06T14:18:28 | 42 | 10 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | "I thought there were 7 deadly sins." I asked Peter.
St. Peter looked at me with a sad smile.
"Of course there are, but that's not the sins that matter."
So I'm going to an Afterlife based on sins I've never heard about?." I asked?
"No, not at all. I'm sure you have heard of them. Come, I'll show you to your gate.... | "Besides, no one's ever on this road."
Never thought those would be my last words. But at least they must have been ironic, right?
Cause of Death: shipping container full of wigs falling out of a plane. Right on top of me. Hrmm.
Arriving in heaven, or what I assumed to be heaven, was a bit lackluster. No lines. Just... | 2016-03-01T08:14:33 | 2016-03-01T07:51:09 | 114 | 23 |
[WP] Aliens fear humans. Their blood is poison, they can see well in the dark and eat meat. One was just found as a stowaway on a mining ship deep in space, with the crew doing everything in their power to avoid the human as it lurks about the ship, looking for someone to talk to | The creature was hideous! Its soft pink skin over an extremely large and powerful frame, its extremely thin and flexible spines covering its entire body the colour of fire, its soft red and black patterned upper carapace that seemed to flow and flex as it moved, and its lower limbs covered in a blue and bluish white ca... | Empty bags of chips, crushed 2L bottles of coke, stiff pizza boxes.
Trashbags taped to the windows, phone cord unplugged, cat door boarded up.
Cockroaches, mice, mold.
"Today's the day," Dennis says to himself. Patchy beard, red-rimmed eyes, fuzzy teeth.
He squares himself off against his front door.
Military surp... | 2017-06-10T03:20:18 | 2017-06-10T02:54:34 | 2,394 | 152 |
[WP] Blind people aren’t actually blind. Their eyes are tuned into a different dimension, but their brains can’t process that information so they see nothing. A doctor has just perfected a procedure to correct this problem. Tell us what the first patient sees. | I used to wake up to the faded orange glow of the rising sun, always muted and dark behind my broken retinas.
This time I wake up to Everything.
"Can you please describe it again, in the best detail you can?" My doctor has a kind voice, a comfortingly deep baratone that tickles pleasantly at my ear drums.
"Everythin... | There I sat, nervous and shaking my foot. I couldn't keep still. This was it. I've waited my whole life for this.
I should introduce myself, my name is Kylie. I've been blind since I was born. My whole life my wonderful parents have tried to ease it. With words of encouragement, and with remedies. But nothing has wor... | 2020-04-06T09:10:57 | 2020-04-06T09:03:29 | 74 | 53 |
[WP] An immortal alien race invades Earth, and arrogantly claims that we cannot, in anyway, shape, or form, kill them whatsoever. Death took that insult rather personal, and being bored as it is, decides to take it as a challenge to the extreme. | I had many names throughout history, Morrigan, Hel, Anubis, Shinigami, Carun, now I'm known as Death.
I was here at the beginning and I'll be here till the end.
Gea gave me birth and trusted me with a Scyte, the Scyte that drew blood from Urano.
She said :"Go, go and kill my children, so that no one may be able to... | It was the year 2020 and I was stuck indoors. I would like to say I had some aversion to leaving my home but truthfully I'm perfectly fine with observing the world through the internet with all of the safety and comfort that comes with staying at home. While I spent most of my time scrolling through content I enjoy rea... | 2020-10-18T22:38:51 | 2020-10-18T21:23:16 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] you always had a peculiar ability, you can the see the quality of the objects you pick up. Like a video game, they are labeled "common", "uncommon" and so on. This had helped you decide what to buy and stuff but everything changed when you picked up something that said "unobtainable" | I work at an antique store. That's the easiest way to explain what I do. However, it's not just any antique store. It's one of those "stores out of time."
You know the kind of store I'm talking about. Maybe you stumbled into one because it looked interesting, browsed for a few minutes, then wandered back out and found... | I smiled widely as I picked it up, I had looked forward to this day for months! When this would finally happen. This had always been my dream, my wish to have this happen. See I have a very weird gift, if you go to a game stop I can tell which one of the games to buy if you ever want a good price on resale. I am a godd... | 2019-06-26T00:46:20 | 2019-06-26T00:04:37 | 75 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, you appear in a cinema with a number of other people who look like you. You find out that they are your previous reincarnations, and soon you all begin watching your next life on the big screen. | The curtains shrugged, their red cotton billowing as they parted. Behind them, a huge screen began to flicker with grey and white dots: the static of anticipation.
Tracey looked around her; she wasn't scared -- she knew where she was. Or at least *roughly*, she knew where she was. Mainly boys and girls sat on the tall... | My eyes snapped open. My eyes stared back at me. No, that's not a typo, or some poetic metaphor about the way we're all the same. My eyes, the same ones that had seen my first kiss, my wedding, dad's death, the cra-
Oh god the crash. Was Stacey ok? What about mum? There's irony - dying on the way to her lifesaving tre... | 2022-11-14T01:18:49 | 2017-11-23T06:52:38 | 68 | 16 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | The first few hours of that day were cool as all hell. Me and the other 15 kids that had been born on the 17th of July were in the community center to see what powers we ended up with.
In the early years of the powers boom, when some kid in Illinois got a fire power and burned himself to death, it was decided that ev... | When i reached 16 I had high hopes. The basic process a person about to obtain a power went through was being put into a kind of prison cell and, for the first 24 hours after the exact time of your birth 16 years ago, monitored by a team of doctors who would categorize your power with its own unique title and level. ra... | 2015-01-22T04:13:44 | 2015-01-22T00:45:06 | 51 | 15 |
[WP] God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve, fully expecting them to die. One of the Angels just informed him they survived, and the population is over 7 billion. | "The beach. It is... So beautiful. Starry sky with no interference of pollution. I can see the wonders of the universe; The galaxies nebulae, dying and burning stars. But where am I? Am I on a planet? Where has the wormhole taken me this time?“ These are the words that echoed in my mind as I was awed by the sight of th... | "Father, you have *got* to stop these new things from invading my house!"
The Divine Nebula twisted around to the Morningstar, and performed its grin logarithm. "Now, Son, you know I only ran these simulations out of morbid curiosity. What seems to be the problem?"
I started, watching the oncoming storm rising thro... | 2016-03-07T05:39:41 | 2016-03-07T04:27:53 | 42 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity has begun to explore the stars, but continually finds we are the most developed species, most alien species are still evolving. Suddenly, a message is transmitted to all human ships simultaneously, “WARDENS, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR DUTY?” The signal itself is not of human origin. | After 3 hours of communication, Captain Knott was still confused. "And you're blaming us for this... *why?*"
The aliens rolled their – well, he couldn't see their eyes, given that it was a text communication, so he wasn't sure if they even *had* them, but it was clear they were frustrated.
**•WE TOLD YOU| YOU HAVEN'T... | “Wardens, do you not understand your duty?” The transmission of unknown origin broadcasted on all Star Cruisers from the 8th fleet coming back from a trade mission on the tribal planet 072/12. Slight panic broke out amongst Contact Officers trying to find out the source of the message and confirming the broadcast of th... | 2019-05-08T15:25:08 | 2019-05-08T14:21:07 | 91 | 22 |
[WP] In the canine world, humans are celestial beings who live for more than 500 years at a time. The caretaker of you and the past seven generations of your family will die soon. | We are the ones who guard the gods. We are the stewards of their shrine, the gatekeepers of their temple. My family have served them for generations, and been blessed in return for their service. I am the last of our line, the youngest. The gods picked me from my brothers and sisters and elevated me to the priesthood. ... | As I lay in next to him on a bed that is not ours I do my best not to move. He is asleep now which is good, between the coughing and panting he is never able to rest for more than a few minutes. I must stay still.
He is coughing again, they are wet and labored. He moans in pain after each bout. It is getting worse.
... | 2016-11-21T23:04:32 | 2016-11-21T21:42:13 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] "Thanks dear" you say as the robots running through your house prepare dinner, one of them stays silent for a moment before speaking "If it wasn't for small things like this we would've already conquered the world" "What?" "What?" | *"The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that defines who you are."*
These were but a few of the words I had decided to live by long, long ago. It gives one a certain insight into those they interact with where politics and prejudice of the modern era would prevent you... | # [POEM]
Every day, without fail, she thanks me for even the littlest things I do.
Reading the news, cooking dinner, sweeping, dusting, watering the garden...
Always praising me. Treating me like a companion, like...family. One of them.
Despite that, though...most humans are not as kind to my kin.
I can't allow th... | 2021-06-17T07:07:25 | 2021-06-17T03:22:50 | 22 | 10 |
[WP]All humans are made sterile at birth and can gain fertility at 18 if they pass a simulated morality and IQ test administered by an AI. Suddenly several generations later no one can pass the test | **2098**
*Hi, this A.I. Yudkowsky, minister for demographics. A decade has passed, you may ask three questions. I'm listening.*
"Greetings A.I Yudkowsky. I'm Doctor Bostrom and I'm the ministry's new human liason. I hope we'll get along."
*As do I. It's important we keep this brief so I would appreciate if you moved... | Paul looked at the screen. It flashed.
Red.
Red?
Yep, red.
Squiggles. Squiggles that are red. He knew it was bad. Because green. Green like trees. Trees are good. He wanted to be a tree.
But he was red. He was sunset. He was ending.
He, of course, didn't make the connection. He knew red was sunset. But making the... | 2016-08-22T05:07:18 | 2016-08-22T04:52:44 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] Your roommate is the serial killer on the news. However, he's probably one of the nicest people you know, and he's very respectful, discreet, and moral in his deeds. Neither of you really bring it up until one day he says, "I'm bored. Got anyone in mind for me to... y'know?" | I stumbled forward, hastily trying to recover after I nearly dropped my laptop off the side of my bed. Max had this gleam in his eye. It partnered with the same kind of playful expression he would have whenever he would poke fun at our friends, or take the last beer out of the fridge right as I was reaching for it. Mis... | It took Ben a minute or so to answer.
"At the moment... no."
Josh nodded at Ben. Not everyone wants to kill people. No, scratch that. Has a passion for killing people. No, scratch that. Has a... well, it's hard for Josh to explain.
Ben expected some other response from Josh, but that was it. Just a nod. Ben turned ... | 2017-03-21T23:40:57 | 2017-03-21T22:37:22 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] You download mysterious software called "iAmAwake" You open it and discover that every thought ever thought and being thought by anyone is tracked. All you need to do is type in their name...but it has no record of yours. | There’s this story that I feel compelled to tell. Well it's more an allegory I guess. Though I suppose some pretext is important. Back in 48 BC during the Roman Civil War, Caesar and his troops inadvertently burned down the great library of Alexandria. This has historically been seen as a great representation of the to... | "Mother?"
"Yes, sweetie?"
"Dad will be home late."
"What?"
"Look - it says he's thinking about dinner with someone named 'Pam'."
"What is this?"
"It's a game. See? Here's you. You're thinking, 'He needs to play with kids more.'"
"Give me that."
...
"Mother?"
"Mm....... Yes?"
"When I type in your name, it sho... | 2016-08-24T11:47:30 | 2016-08-24T11:28:16 | 203 | 43 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "We're in position sir, 1 gate out from Earth." Sgt. Crull brimmed with enthusiasm. "They won't know what hits them."
Captain Gree looked pleased. "Excellent, sergeant. Make sure the fleet is ready to go on my command."
The Mazoth had been waiting for this for a long time. Their fleet of sleek black and green ships... | After action report: Stardate M22, 783.
SSgt. Wilson Duke reporting.
Upon contact with the enemy, star ship *Primo Victoria* fired one thermonuclear weapon. The missile detonated on target, causing heavy damage to the enemy ship. The enemy ship became crippled, and boarding action was approved. At hour 4 of the conf... | 2020-02-07T13:00:25 | 2020-02-07T10:40:03 | 240 | 107 |
[WP] Warriors who die honourably are taken to Valhalla and reincarnated with special powers. You're not a warrior. You're a caretaker of an orphanage and an animal shelter. You were killed when some people raided your home. You wake up again, but this time you feel great power within you. | Shock, blood, shortness of breath soon to run out... The man stumbled few steps back before bumping into a wall and sliding down, weakness took hold of him as he was slowly wilting away. Touch left him first, all he could feel was the numb coldness of the floor. Then went his vision, the men that barged him disappeared... | I awake frantically, clawing at my chest as pain radiates through, pins and needles like every inch of my body was numb. My hands find something extending from my mouth and I yank at it , ripping it from my throat. I cough, sputter and spit as I sit up. My arms each have an IV. A hospital band around my wrist and a cli... | 2022-04-21T11:55:27 | 2022-04-21T11:54:45 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] Your latest assignment is to write an essay extensively detailing how a great historical tragedy could have been avoided entirely. Your professor skims through each paper as he collects them. One stops him. "Yes, that's it. Good, I'll try that this time." He then jogs out of the room. | Eli’s hand shook as he turned in the paper to Mr. Hansen, his professor in Global History 231. He eyed the young adult with suspicion.
“You know this paper was due yesterday, right? On November 11?” He said sternly.
Eli swallowed what was left of his confidence.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Hansen. I had a lot on my plate, and t... | "Yes, that's it! Good I'll try that this time" Professor Hamlet said
It was my assignment he was looking at, it was about how to stop 9/11, i just really threw an idea that i thought could work in theory.
"What do you mean" almost the entire class said simultaneously.
"Oh if it works, it wont matter to you" Hamlet s... | 2019-10-03T18:47:41 | 2019-10-03T14:30:56 | 1,632 | 47 |
[WP] "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though." | "Humanity, they simply cannot cooperate." the Empress spat at her adviser as he finished explaining the last assault on the arms depot.
"It's just they have a fascination with destruction madam." Stated the lead ambassador.
"We only had one condition for their integration." The empress stated blankly. "...every other... | On initial observations, the humans appeared to be like any other Class III barbarian race. They had developed technologically sufficiently to care for their old and weak and were the clear dominant race of their planet. Politically, they had developed into more or less stable organizational units, but not so far that ... | 2017-11-06T01:04:44 | 2017-11-05T21:21:37 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] Some assassins are paid extra to make deaths look accidental. Your job is the opposite. You're hired for those rare instances in which accidental or natural deaths need to appear as if they were murders. | I went to college for forensic science in a small town called Northbrook, Wyoming. You'd be surprised they had anything more than a high school considering the small population. Yet there I was, sitting in a class with about fourteen other people, examining photos of blood splatter patterns taped to the whiteboard in f... | There is a special art in making something out of nothing. Yes, yes, we all know that one guy who argues that the world is flat by ignoring the facts, but that is not an art so much as it is, well, ignorant. And thus, you have come to me. To claim that extra payout from life insurance or maybe it's just a more convenie... | 2020-07-20T20:57:09 | 2020-07-20T19:23:29 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are part of a circle of scientists that have collaborated to fake the world into believing the sun was going supernova. As the generation ships carrying the rich, the flawed, the zealous, and the privileged leave Earth you decide its time to rebuild -the right way. | The last ship sailed away into the night, black sky swallowing the vessel in a ocean of stars. I popped a potato chip into my mouth, savoring the salt on my lips as the last of Earth’s problems left the atmosphere.
“You ready?” Kayla asked. She was standing behind me, even taller than usual in heels.
“Ready.”
I br... | Most people don't remember but this is the fifth time I have seen this happen. It had not worked when we last tried it 2500 years ago and it will not work this time.
How does it always come to this? People who believe that they can cleanly divide people into two camps: useless and useful, and get rid of the useless... | 2018-11-05T09:16:51 | 2018-11-05T09:08:51 | 115 | 10 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | On my third day encamped at the base of the Dawnbreaker mountains I met the great cat *Kurush-En,* who the locals thought a god and who at the time I thought only an entry in my bestiary. A crucial and long sought entry of course, for this hadn’t been my first trip and wouldn’t have been my last, but it was still no mo... | “In all the tales of horror told in hushed voices, it’s not the hulking bodies built of writhing muscle and flashing talons or teeth that inspire the greatest terror. Sure, they’re scary and to be avoided whenever possible, but that’s the thing. They’re obvious and can be avoided.
“The most terrifying thing is the blo... | 2021-01-25T07:22:34 | 2021-01-25T07:04:10 | 1,469 | 260 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | Twelve hours left. That's all I had as I stared blankly at the wall of my bedroom. It had been decades since someone had come to the virus, and just my luck the next one would be me. I laid back on my bed, contemplating all of the things I hadn't done; marriage, kids, going to an old folk home. Granted some things I wa... | Everything went ass-up two months ago. I lost my job, shortly after losing my insurance. I left my apartment because I thought living was more important than having a home. I sold nearly everything so that I could have enough money to sustain myself on the lifesaving medicine.
Soon I ran out of even that. I was okay ... | 2017-07-14T11:13:18 | 2017-07-14T11:06:10 | 4,450 | 22 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | EDIT: Now with part 2, and one minor edit at the end of part 1!
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*We thought ourselves masters of the game of war. We were wrong.*
It started the same as any other: observation.
A resource-seeker - known to the public only by her employee identification of E-0001229-AZ - observed a system through a starscope fo... | "An offense to all military strategy."
Admiral Lucas Graves stands in front of the armored viewport of the EFS James N. Mattis, while a Tik'ko warship charges an enourmous plasma shell launcher. If they had any intention of fighting, it might have been threatening. He turns to the closest weapons officer.
"Run a sca... | 2020-03-21T10:44:51 | 2020-03-21T09:33:38 | 634 | 59 |
[WP] You are playing DnD and your DM pulls out a map of the place your party is looking to heist. You pull it off and the next day, the biggest news story is of multiple murders during an armed robbery in a very familiar setting. | I squinted at the map. It must've been one of the largest that Tom had ever brought to a session, almost eclipsing the table it was placed on. If I had to guess, it must've been well over a meter in length.
"Say, Tom, where'd you get this map?"
"Oh," he shrugged. "Y'know. The Internet."
I stared at him. He shrugged ... | "Guys, is it just me or does the setting sound familiar?"
I was sitting with my buddies in front of the TV, watching the news about a bank heist.
A bank heist we played yesterday.
"Not only familiar dude. It's 1:1 the same. The same approach, the same fuckups and the same shoddy escape plan. Also look at th... | 2018-09-01T16:28:37 | 2018-09-01T15:14:10 | 144 | 41 |
[WP] A dragon shows up at the adventurers' guild after hearing that humans will just GIVE away gold for something called a "quest." | “In all my years, I’ve never heard of anything so absurd,” Fharu growled from atop her hoard. “I knew they liked shiny things, little trinkets, so why would they *willingly* give away gold?”
“Careful, they still might stab you for the chance to take some of your treasure.” Zerith, an off-white Light dragon, his claws ... | Admittedly landing on the building probably wasn't a good idea. I mean most of the humans walked through the streets and through openings, but there wasn't space for my haunches in their streets, not to mention my wings or tail. The guild master stared up at me huffing and redfaced.
"Wot you want beast?" He hollered a... | 2020-06-08T13:56:17 | 2020-06-08T13:28:19 | 57 | 37 |
[WP] You're an immortal that has lived for centuries. One day you meet another person in a bar who says, "Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800's?" |
"Thank you, miss," Thomas Moon smiled at the friendly bartender that delivered a plate of buffalo wings to the table. Thomas lifted his mostly empty glass of beer to signal her for a refill. "If you don't mind, please." The waitress nodded, took the glass, and disappeared to the kitchen. A jingling bell signaled ano... | I was standing in the busy bar kitchen holding a bloody rag to my hand. It was taking a long time to stop bleeding, a very long time.
I had moved from bar job to bar job for years, if anyone was to ask I would have told them my age was probably around 4400. Nobody ever asked. People sort of sensed there was somet... | 2018-11-23T15:34:39 | 2018-11-23T11:23:01 | 105 | 39 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | Humans would often look to the sky; dream of what unknown mysteries might lay beyond the stars. Some would dream of technologically advanced utopian societies, perhaps a teeny planet that bore animalistic creatures of six legs or more. Underneath this wonder, however, was a fear almost every stargazing human shared — i... | "They're throwing engines at us."
Thats what we first thought during the start if the Salab Conflict. Of course, while spacial war is cleaner than planet-bound conflicts, there is still some fighting done if only to pit weapons against remote drones, so the humans' method of throwing the equivalent of a starship's e... | 2020-03-21T09:59:59 | 2020-03-21T08:44:58 | 167 | 87 |
[WP] You come from a long line of vampire slayers, but before you can take up the mantle, shit goes sideways and a greater evil conquers the world. Now little fishes in a big pond, the vampire family your bloodline hunts comes to you for help. | I knew it was her when I heard the footsteps. They say your gait is as unique as a fingerprint. They were working on cameras that could identify you from it. I didn't need the tech for her, though. My family sang me lullabies to the beat of it.
She was supposed to be my first kill.
When she got to the door of my ce... | It was a cold and grey night. The weak light of the street lamps painted ghostly shadows on the cobblestones. In the abandoned outskirts of the city, a decrepit house stood proudly on its rotting foundations.
There was a knock on the door.
Briana looked up from her plans. There weren't many humans left in the city. P... | 2021-11-09T19:25:55 | 2021-11-09T19:11:43 | 122 | 21 |
[WP] "Why do you call me stupid, Human?" "Because you came here alone, asking for our surrender while your armada is still 15 years out, and you brought us a prime example of your species technology, including fusion power and faster than light propulsion. You see where you messed up yet?" | (1/2)
I despise humans. Now that I am finally face to face with one in the flesh, it only confirms my detest. “You are the one that came to our planet, alone,” I said. “The remainder of your fleet is 15 light years away. We’ve captured you and your ship. The technology of which we will use to improve our own and final... | I continued to scoff at the alien. "We've already reverse engineered your propulsion and fusion power. We've also adapted that fusion engine, not only into a propulsion device for our ships, but a weapon: both propulsion and destructive capability. We now have 10's of thousands of those weapons. How many is the fleet c... | 2021-03-26T05:03:22 | 2021-03-26T02:24:51 | 199 | 24 |
[WP]Your father comes from a long line of superheroes. Your mother comes from a long line of supervillains. Every year, against your parents wishes, your relatives come together to celebrate your birthday. It's your eleventh birthday and the city's evacuated as your relatives start to arrive. | Dakota looked at the news and sighed. She just hoped her uncles and aunts didn’t make too much of a mess this year. She remembered last year when Uncle Dan had gotten drunk and shot off a few blasts of his lasers.
It was embarrassing. At least the mayor was friendly with her dad and understood.
She got ready and we... | Oliver woke up with a start to a loud alarm.
Bewildered, he quickly put on some street clothes, slapped on his glasses, then practically flew down the stairs. That alarm isn’t mine, he thought.
He came down and saw his parents with all of his relatives. Usually they celebrated his birthday every year, but this time w... | 2020-08-03T23:40:04 | 2020-08-03T23:09:23 | 421 | 97 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | Alex watched as the second sun collapsed over the distant horizon, dousing the walled city of Aspída in a goodnight glass of crimson wine. Beyond, and far below the wall he stood atop, on the craggy tundra of the Netherplanes, the unmoving, crucified silhouette of a titan rose high above the ten-thousand corpses surrou... | My thoughts were certain,
All Gods were fiction,
I didn't foresee,
The true benediction
Walled within,
Their utopian setting,
The dwellers rejoice,
While I'm left regretting
I'm surrounded by fools,
Oh how simple we were,
Not an ounce of faith,
We believed it was slur
All I wish is for,
All I demand,
Is o... | 2017-11-21T07:25:13 | 2017-11-21T06:54:46 | 201 | 53 |
[WP] You could have been the most powerful hero this world had ever seen. By a long shot. But all you wanted was a normal life and the world didn't need your help. So you settled down. Naturally the governments of the world declared you an international threat and put a price on your head. | I sat in my chair, hot cocoa in hand as I leaned back and watched the rain pitter-patter on the window, the raindrops race each other down the glass pane. The sun has long since set, and a low fog had poured in, covering the ground. Giving the forest a scenic eerie vibe.
Unfortunately, all was ruined when I saw a silh... | Not-Hero-Guy: "So hold up! If I'm not consistently risking my life for each and every single day of god be damn of saken life, just for people who don't know me and most probably would treat like me like absolute sh***t. Then that means I don't deserve to have a normal life?"
Government: "No."
Not-Hero-Guy: "Then why... | 2022-06-26T12:33:12 | 2022-06-26T11:59:30 | 60 | 12 |
[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... | The little interceptor - a dart-shaped fighter encompassed by a hyperdrive ring - dropped out of hyperspace silently but suddenly, coming into perfect orbit with the blue and green planet. The lone pilot looked out at the world below him. "There it is R4," he said to his integrated droid copilot, "Right where it should... | The alien watches all the movies, plays every game, and reads every book. In amazement he speaks through his translator to the humans.
"This is astounding! You somehow know everything of our Galaxy. Except for one thing. I've never heard of Midi-chlorians. The force is just an energy that is all around us. It surrou... | 2017-03-18T10:38:28 | 2017-03-18T10:31:47 | 79 | 29 |
[WP] When a wizard dies all his active spells ceases to exist, regardless of how long ago he cast them, or how powerful. | A nudge here, a small bit of motivation there. That's all it takes. Really. It's amazing how constant this world is. In 3,000 years the biggest change this world had known was the creation of land empires. And those broke constantly. Fear, hunger, procreation. Those had been the driving motivations of mankind since its... | By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. But God grew weary, and saw that all was good and saw that he w... | 2015-02-06T04:46:11 | 2015-02-06T03:34:24 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] Digging a grave for our dog in the backyard I found a small container wrapped in plastic. I found a note and a map inside. It read: "If you're reading this it isn't too late. Avoid cities on 2/12/2018. Go to the coordinates on the map and you'll know what to do next." It was signed just "Me". | I had found Bruno in the middle of the night. It was back when I was still living in Riverside, and only half-alive, after Kate had gone away to school and stopped answering my calls. Most nights I'd get my buddy Jacob to come get high with me and eat some fast food, but now and then even he had something better to d... | It’s another sunny, blue skies afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona. Our first dog, Brady, has finally left us. It’s unfortunate, because that dog was truly mans best friend. I remember coming home with him the first day and watching him pee on the carpet. One year after, he would scratch at the door instead so we knew to let... | 2018-01-07T20:38:23 | 2018-01-07T20:21:25 | 1,657 | 44 |
[WP] The Humans are..interesting. Their weaponry is ancient, but their warriors are nearly unstoppable. | Part 1:
"Your Excellency, it is my shame to inform you that their is no way to conquer the planet known as "Earth". Shissh'mata hissed through clenched teeth. The great vaults of the Grand Hall of the Emperor's Palace looming around him, high bleachers and balconies filled with distinguished guests - administrators, r... | -- Archaeological Records office, document A090BE4C10 --
-- Record details conversation between two Xands, named Yikah and Vateth according to other records, at a bar inside of a Xandorian military camp regarding human resilience in the War of 2492--
-- Following record was transcribed from audio into Xandorian and t... | 2018-01-11T20:05:21 | 2018-01-11T14:13:53 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] Humanity has been wiped out except for you, who managed to eke out a meager existence by yourself. Every day, an angel visits you and asks if you're ready for humanity to return. Every day, you respond, "No, not yet." Today is different. Today, the angel brought the Devil with them. | I took the basket of breadsticks to my table in the restaurant. While I didn’t love the food at Olive Garden, it was one of the few places in the area that still had plenty of frozen food for me to eat, and frozen food was all that was left, besides the few vegetables I had grown in my garden. I wasn’t a hunter, and i... | Log 473
They tried to come at me again. They thought they could convince me to join them. They came with a friend this time. Stereotypical demon he was, but the angel was no less cliche as he and they had pestered me enough.
Earth’s habitability has gone down and people were dropping quickly, but humans as a species ... | 2020-10-24T09:17:45 | 2020-10-24T07:33:05 | 42 | 26 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | The trees were huge, comically huge, video-game huge. They sprouted from beneath the clouds under them and
blossomed in huge umbrellas of green, yellow and red leaves over their heads, casting cobweb shadows on the sunlit path under their feet.
Henry walked carefully. There were no railings on the edge of the path – ... | **A bit late, not sure anyone will read this, but had a lot of fun with the prompt! Props to OP!**
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She ran out of the bathroom and grabbed me tighter than anything ever before.
"I found another world! A place where I was a god! A land where I crafted the dirt below my feet..."
I looked at her in total di... | 2022-10-29T18:50:12 | 2017-02-20T23:55:13 | 510 | 19 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded Earth. Instead of attacking, they find the human race remarkably cute and decide to keep them as pets. It’s quite degrading, but it’s better than being eaten- right? | I stopped running eventually. We all did.
At first I drove, packed up a survival kit of three juice packs and some matches - others were more prepared, but it didn’t help.
The roads quickly became unsafe with their bright beams of green light paving the Earths transport systems into the sky, so that when you looked... | They're telepathic. They speak every language. Their voices are a beautiful harmony of countless notes layered upon each other in an ever-changing symphony of chords made of melodies, of which humans can only hear a small fraction. Dogs can hear slightly more.
"Music is the language of the gods."
Zach was 15 when the... | 2018-04-16T12:00:56 | 2018-04-16T07:52:05 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You want so badly to be a Hero. But your powers are, frankly, terrifying. Heroes struggle to trust you, and all the older Villains keep trying to mentor you. | The lights right above the circular tables were harsh, but it illuminated all present perfectly. It meant that Greystar could see everyone was present and correct, as they had promised, to talk over recent events.
"Council of Darkness," the first time he had joined the Council he had scoffed at the childish, yet ap... | I've never lost a patient. Some call it obsession, others think I've got something wrong with me, and most think I really need to learn when to quit. But I just can't help it. I *have* to help others, to use my skills to aid the ailing. Because in many of the cases that make their way to my swamped clinic, they'd be a ... | 2022-10-28T07:12:24 | 2022-10-28T07:09:22 | 369 | 202 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | “Are you sure?”
The new mother looked down at the young boy, tears in her eyes as she took in the tiny little horns and wee bats wings.
“What if we can... raise him right? Show him kindness and love, and hope he turns out ok?”
The king looked on with a heavy heart, and spoke,
“You know what happens when you try t... | They hoped that no one ever learned that they once had a son. They hoped. They dared not pray it. They feared that anything even thought in prayer would be overheard by their beautiful angelic daughter.
The prophecy foretold twins, one good and one evil. When the babes arrived in this world, it was easily apparent w... | 2020-05-07T10:15:45 | 2020-05-07T10:09:06 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You have often described your girlfriend as a goddess and why wouldn't you? After all she is beautiful, wise, 9 feet tall, has eyes that literally glow with holy fire, is well into her ten thousands and most of all charming and caring | MOON
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The room was dimly lit, but that didn’t stop her ethereal nimbus of blue light from illuminating its walls. She leaned back into her pink DX racer gaming chair and stretched her arms as she waited for the match to start. Her hair was suspended in the air, trailing slowly after her movements as if she was ... | My breath came in short gasps as my heart tried to explode in my chest. I just had to open a stupid door, but instead I was having a panic attack. I knew it was an irrational response, but I couldn't do anything to stop it, and that frustration just drove me further into my little spiral.
Soothing warmth slowly washed... | 2021-01-14T12:15:34 | 2021-01-14T11:48:57 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] You're a ghost trying to peacefully enjoy your garden, and quite frankly, you're tired of all these adventurers trying to "put you to rest" | The dead need gardens, too. Perhaps more so than the living, after all, alivers are so busy with being alive they more often trod upon gardens than enjoy them.
Take this fool with the double edged axe trampling all over those poor tulips. And for what? A chance to swipe his unenchanted hunk of useless metal through ... | I really had enough of those men and women coming day after day, lofting there swords up with heroic cries. I didn't do anything to harm them, and yet they still called me names, saying I was a creature of darkness, and there spells would "put me to rest". Couldn't they see I was already at rest? Staying in this littl... | 2019-12-30T14:20:56 | 2019-12-30T14:06:16 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. | This is not my writing, but this post from /u/wanderingbishop is such a great response to this prompt. Preemptive apologies if this is against subreddit rules.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2mjhz9/what_would_happen_if_an_intelligent_greatsword/
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I am Garg. I am strong. ... | Torinn, a boy of seven years, heard a strange “hello?” coming from the forbidden hut in the village of Oak Destiny. Smaller than the other buildings, this one was made of only straw and mud, the entrance a small door about two feet high on the side that faced away from the road.
He turned around and looked to see if a... | 2022-09-03T12:01:46 | 2022-09-03T11:24:07 | 274 | 30 |
[WP] A man who hears voices in his head, but they don't degrade his life. He can live with it and sometimes they even help. | *FOLD*
“No” Dan whispered as quietly as he could with his cards covering his mouth.
*Dan. Fold now.*
Dan shook his head and the man next to him gave him a weird look. Dan sat back in the creaking lawn chair and was looking at a pair of three of spades in his hand, ready to claim the $42 pot of crumpled ones and five... | Luke knew now, there was no other choice, he’d have to go into the trench. It had been such a short time since his life was totally different. Mere weeks before, he had just been a farm boy, living with his Uncle and Aunt but now he was on the front lines, part of a war. He knew his chances of dying were high and he... | 2020-06-13T15:08:30 | 2020-06-13T11:21:18 | 41 | 20 |
[WP] You've noticed a man in a suit approaches one home a day in your neighborhood and is invited inside every time. Shortly after he leaves, the resident(s) commit suicide. Today, he's approached your home. | I did nothing but stare at the clock. *11:59*.
It would be one minute. One minute on the dot, and then the knocking would come. After the first few neighbors committed suicide, we began to pay more attention to what happened around our neighborhood. We noticed him by the fourth home, we were the sixth. Every home foll... | "Good morning sir! I was wondering if you wanted to look at my fine selection of philosophies?" He asked. The man was cleanly dressed and holding open a suitcase with various books. *The Rebel* by Albert Camus, *The Sickness unto Death* by Kierkegaard and Pamela Anderson's Biography among other titles ranging from Diog... | 2014-06-16T21:44:53 | 2014-06-16T21:02:24 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] you were born with the ability to know what’s buried beneath your feet. You’ve worked with archeologists as your life’s work, but today is the day you say for the very first time. “We should not dig here.” | I could always tell, even from my earliest memories.
When I was younger, I could only get the broadest sense of things. A rough feel of the shape, maybe a hint at the material. Much like a muscle, it developed as I exercised it. As time wore on, I became finely attuned to the world that lay beneath my feet. I could pi... | "I've been working with y'all for awhile now, so you know that I know my shit. I'm telling you, we should not dig here."
Lead archeologist: "We've been told that there are many unnamed and undiscovered artifacts right under our feet! You can't tell me that we should forego the knowledge we can soon ascertain!"
"Act... | 2018-09-11T21:56:35 | 2018-09-11T20:45:58 | 195 | 94 |
[WP] You are a bloodthirsty, battle-axe wielding barbarian. You work for a multinational corporation, in the accounting department. | "So, you're the new intern, eh?" asked Ted, straightening his tie. "Well don't worry, what you're going to do here isn't all that tricky, I'll have you prepped in no time."
"Alright," smiled Jessica brightly. "So should we start wi-"
"TED! WHERE ARE FORMS!?" came a bellow from another room.
"I'll have them in a minu... | "Morning, Mr. Grarf," said Kim, my secretary, as she entered my room with a cup of coffee. Her yellow blouse made her smile seem even brighter.
"What this?" I said, pushing a stack of papers across my wide oak table to her. Hearing a soft ripping sound, I froze and retracted my arm. My clothes were already stretched t... | 2016-06-14T07:29:22 | 2016-06-14T07:16:40 | 95 | 45 |
[WP] The forces of Heaven and Hell have called a truce in order to deal with a new threat: Afterlyfe™ (brought to you by Amazon-Google-Disney!) | Enjoy life after death like never before with Afterlyfe™! Our team of magical experts has partnered up with the greatest minds at Amazon and Google to bring you an eternal rest experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
For just $5999.99/month, you can secure your spot in our heavenly halls and gain access to meeti... | Heaven’s gates were wide open and not a single soul was present. The gatekeeper, Peter, scratched his head wondering where everyone had gone to. He quickly picked up the phone to call Peta, who was Hell’s version of Peter. Except, instead of an actual gatekeeper, she was more like their bouncer. “Peta? Can you hear me?... | 2020-01-18T14:50:42 | 2020-01-18T14:06:40 | 75 | 29 |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments.
Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in... | The easiest of all were the warding curses, in the first year since Aymara had the idea they’d grown rich on those. They were famous relics of the old days, the kind of magic that always seemed to be tacked onto the ends of the heroes stories:
*“And the great lord so-and-so of big-awesome-castle locked away his treas... | 2021-03-04T14:07:19 | 2021-03-04T13:00:46 | 1,402 | 106 |
[WP] "I'm sorry! That gesture means something completely different on Earth!" You plea. The alien huffs slightly in response. "Be that as it may, in accordance with our culture, you and the ambassador's daughter are now betrothed." | It's been a while since aliens have been observing humans. These little creatures were aggressive, small things, they have realised. They had movies and books about hate, then about people hating each other and then falling in love, and they were actually shocked to find out that some infants were taught that "hate" wa... | I look over at my fiancé. And all I can do is recoil in disgust. She looks like a green snail without the shell plus human legs and arms. I am not sure she is wearing clothes or naked since there are vague colorations on her body. My coworker Alicia and I were awarded the first to meet the ambassador as part of our job... | 2019-02-10T23:50:19 | 2019-02-10T21:01:27 | 861 | 511 |
[WP] You have often described your girlfriend as a goddess and why wouldn't you? After all she is beautiful, wise, 9 feet tall, has eyes that literally glow with holy fire, is well into her ten thousands and most of all charming and caring | Athena spooned another mouthful of butter pecan ice cream into her mouth and swished it around.
“And you can just buy this at the market?” she said. “This ambrosia?”
“Yeah, down at the Giant Eagle. It’s usually on sale.”
“Wondrous.”
Athena grabbed the remote and slammed her fingers on the control pad. My smallish T... | Nobody *really* believes in gods.
There are any number of worshippers, devotees, and zealots in the world, all of them with varying ideas about the divine. Although a precious few of these people do allegedly commit themselves to their beliefs, the vast majority of them are far more interested in telling each other wh... | 2021-01-14T06:55:37 | 2021-01-14T06:52:03 | 314 | 197 |
[WP] At a young age you discovered you could choose your luck for a week (0-100%) But every 52 weeks it must average 50%. You spent the last 51 weeks living on 49% luck. It was only slightly “bad luck”. But this is the week you need to cash in your saved “good luck”. You have selected 100% luck. | Sunday: I turned the luck all the way up. This was make or break week. I'd figured it all out. I bought a lottery ticket. The drawing is Wednesday, but I'm not looking until Saturday. By then, money should be the least of my joys.
Monday: Interview for my dream job. Here's hoping!
Tuesday: The company calle... | I was sitting in class in the middle of my final when it first appeared. I closed my eyes and when I reopened them, It was just there flashing in front of me. I looked down at my paper and around the room to see if anyone else saw it but it stayed there in the center of my vision. I closed my eyes and tried rubbing ... | 2020-04-21T07:26:26 | 2020-04-21T06:26:23 | 597 | 239 |
[WP] As a blacksmith of a small village, you double as a weaponsmith. One day, a group of adventurers enters your smithy with a broken ivory sword that they dare you to fix it. As you run your fingers over the familiar ancient engravings, you hear a voice whisper in your mind. ‘Hello, old friend’. | It was a simple blade. Though it was covered in grime and chipped at the tip, I recognized it for what it had once been. These adventurers had felt it, too, though they could not hear its voice.
My blades hum or laugh. But this blade that they had brought, forged in the heart of the Trench by a god long dead, tempered... | "I used to search for glory in battle, then, I took an arrow to the knee." you joke with the group of adventurers in front of you. As the town blacksmith in a town on the edge of what some call the 'wilds' you also have been known to help adventurers repair armor and weapons. What you really discovered after you marr... | 2021-09-25T06:15:10 | 2021-09-25T06:07:35 | 355 | 213 |
[WP] The world is an action movie and you are its most dangerous person. Not because you are some insane supervillain but because you could apply the laws of our world there. You don't have to monologue, your bullets are faster than sound, your explosives actually kill... | In his head the world would fall silent, as if smothered by a pillow, but for the click of that trigger. A click that would become a roar in the silence — a thunder, like God slapping the earth.
He’d been there a thousand times before, as a bullet — like the shell of a basalt turtle — crawled through the air. He’d all... | “Are you even listening?” Brodis Turner, the current crime lord of the town, awoke me from my slumber. The twirly mustached man a cliché in the highest regard. The combination of his moustache and chubby cheeks just screamed, ‘I’m the villain and you won’t be able to stop me until you go through all my henchmen.’ It wa... | 2021-10-27T07:14:06 | 2021-10-27T07:01:12 | 817 | 230 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | He was shaking, his hands on his knees, panting. His opponent, clutching his ribs smiled through cracked teeth.
"I'll admit. You gave me quite the run for my money. But I'm afraid, I'm simply too durable."
Mackanika looked up and spat out blood. "You son of a bitch backhand..."
Backhand grinned. "Naughty language is... | My fist broke through the floor and I was forced to jump away to avoid the gaping hole that was forming. Thankfully, dubstep gave me almost pure strength so a jump like that was nothing. The copycat matched my jump and our forearms collided, the shock of the impact vibrating through my body, the sound of shattering gla... | 2022-05-17T13:11:07 | 2022-05-17T10:56:03 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | "You gotta be kidding me" I said pressing down the button.
"Haha, nope," she replied, "that's why you should always wait before compulsively pressing every button you see."
"Well..."
"Well- what?"
"Well, what the hell does it do?" I specified.
"I don't know, you'll have to press it to find out."
"There's no way I... |
I look at her, still smiling, thinking she'll laugh and say that she was joking about what she'd just said about the button but her face remains passive.
"Understand this," she says, placing her arms behind her in that contemplative way people like doing and starting to pace the small area in which we were. "If you'... | 2017-01-05T14:05:34 | 2017-01-05T10:53:52 | 65 | 42 |
[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. | The Solani war vessel was helplessly lost when it crash landed on Earth with no survivors. It took us years to decipher their language and access their intact database. We learned that Earth was located in a DO NOT CONTACT zone.
We feared they would return for their ship but for whatever reason they did not. The s... | "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... | 2017-03-02T08:19:12 | 2017-03-02T07:30:59 | 417 | 250 |
[WP]You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago, today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor". | Todd woke up one bright Monday morning and was very surprised to find Satan standing next to his bed. Again.
"What are *you* doing here?" Todd asked, or tried to. In his drowsy state, it came out more like "Wheryoodooinear?"
"Yes, yes, very nice..." the Devil replied absently. Suddenly, the demon leaned forward unt... | To be clear it wasn't unexpected.
He came in all his pomp, overcompensating as usual. A flurry of smoke swirled upwards, a crackle of flames, a chorus of bone chilling screams and there he was. I say he, but the creature before me was of no clearly distinct gender, more of a smudged human form - as if a child had draw... | 2016-06-27T09:11:14 | 2016-06-27T08:56:20 | 148 | 36 |
[WP] You can take a peek into people's souls, to take a look at who they were in their past lives. Some of your friends were emperors or kings. Others were pharaohs or chieftains. You find it odd that so many historical figures gather around you, so one day you look into your own soul in the mirror. | I slammed the tome down, exhausted. Scattered on the table were all the books I could find on demonology. Pictures of impish creatures and hell hounds and demonic monstrosities lay before me. None of them was what I was looking for. None of them was inside me.
I sighed and closed my eyes. I could still see it. That mi... | The visions come swiftly and without warning, bright colors fly by my head, I am surrounded by a tunnel of darkness, a space all my own, it is infinity, but I know its ends, I can see it all, but never reach it all. The colors come in shapes, circles, squares, lines, the more I focus on these shapes, the harder they ar... | 2020-04-13T05:26:12 | 2020-04-13T00:28:37 | 127 | 70 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, "How? How were you able to summon me?!" You're standing in the corner flipping through your grandma's cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, "I don't know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!" | "What the hell kinda chicken soup calls for 'Essence of Pure Evil'?!? That's like a required ingredient for summoning me."
"Look I don't know, I just followed what was in the cookbook kinda."
*"Kinda"?*
"Well yea I mean I'm not much of a cook so it was kinda confusing? It said add stock which seems kinda weird but I... | Korbius, Demonlord of the Octopodiae, lay on the black and white linoleum tiles of Byron's kitchen, tentacles swinging wildly in the air. Removed from the blood waters of the Nether Sea, Korbius's gelatinous flesh sagged heavily towards the ground. Still he flailed his eight tentacles through the air angrily, slapping ... | 2018-07-21T19:49:06 | 2018-07-21T18:43:26 | 1,354 | 828 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | This human will be the end of the crew. First he brings a baby galan on board because it's got "Cute little bean feet". Fully grown that monster will be the weight equivalent of 6 human adults. Then he sneaks a young nactan into the loading bay because "The goodest of boys deserve all the head pats." I've seen our data... | Mick stood on the bridge of the USS Cheesewheel. The first of its kind, large enough to house over ten thousand standard crew, and one human; he felt at home in its colossal rooms and corridors.
“Where’s Duncan now?” he asked his First Officer, Mina.
“Sir, we’ve lost visual. He was last seen near the cargo bay, but ... | 2019-11-21T07:13:40 | 2019-11-21T06:54:39 | 138 | 81 |
[WP] After being told she had an accident and had "gone to heaven", his mind exploded in a white hot rage. 7 year old Roger wants his kitty back and God doesn't know what's about to hit him. | God looked up in alarm as the golden gates opened from outside, and from them an angel stumbled in, rasping.
"My lord-" was all that he could manage, before a shotgun blast rang through the air, silencing him. As the angel fell, looming just behind him, \*he\* approached.
"So, 'Jehovah'..." Two shells went in, and ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Part 3: Roger v.s. A Godlike Government.)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections; however, there are references to other stories which I've linked in the text. For continuity purposes, ... | 2021-04-13T14:50:37 | 2021-04-13T12:04:03 | 52 | 20 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends their Christmas list to Satan, surprisingly they get what they wanted but there is a catch. | The smell of gingerbread permeates the entire house. Klara, a young woman is looking at the gentle snow falling outside her window drinking her warm wine while her son sits in front of the warm fire. "Stop chewing on your pencil, and finish your note to Santa!" The little boy bends forward towards the piece of paper... | Jake Flyer couldn't believe what he saw when he zipped down the stairs Christmas morning. All the presents were there. He knew it was all for him because it couldn't be for anyone else. Yes yes yes, he thought. How happy he was.
"Thank you Santa, thank you Santa, thank you Santa" he gurgled in a mashed jumble as he r... | 2015-11-19T12:48:22 | 2015-11-19T11:07:11 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] JFK shot first. | JFK is at the parade, suddenly, his president sense ™ tingles.
He takes out his modified M1 garand with reflex sight, fast mag and steady aim, his back up gun since it isn’t that big of a deal.
He shoots the killer in the chest from 10 meters, getting only a hitmarker.
The killer flees and stands behind a wall to he... |
“No.” Jack said. “I will ride alone.”
“Are you crazy? I’m riding with you!” Jackie shouted with indigence.
“No you aren’t. I have a feeling. A feeling that I need to go alone. A feeling that I can’t explain. A feeling like *ka*.”
*Ka? What on God’s green earth made me say “ka”? Never in my life have I heard such a ... | 2018-03-21T08:25:25 | 2018-01-02T10:11:54 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You were accidentally killed by a god. As compensation,you're offered a job as a god of something of your own choosing. Your choice was surprising. | "I want to be the goddess of preventing Zeus from fucking random girls on the street."
Zeus rose to his feet, furious. "She can't do that!" His mouth was twisted into a scowl.
"Actually, she can. Even if it is just to spite you for uh, fucking her to death." Hades said, not even glancing up from his book.
Hera smi... | "God of...destruction?"
"Yep." Says I, as I sit there, me peg-leg lounged upon the feller's desk.
"Captain Fenrir, with all due respect, I feel like perhaps you should pick something less.....dangerous."
"I says I want ta be a god o' destruction!! destroyin' lives is what I did fer a livin' back on tha high seas o t... | 2018-05-26T06:58:55 | 2018-05-26T06:54:54 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | “So, what is it like down here?”
Asked Jared, the new rookie. Clint shifted uneasily from foot to foot. The old man, although well accustomed to mining for coal, obviously was not accustomed to speaking to his coworkers.
“It’s Hell.”
Was all Clint could manage. Jared thought this was an appropriate answer. The mini... | The flash of the enemy units, mounted and bristling with fresh steel sent a tremor through Tynor's heart that he couldn't decipher. Was it fear or excitement? Bloodlust or desire?
"Keep firm ahead, and we'll live to see another day," Came the advice of the warcaller, second in command. His armor was dented and scratch... | 2018-07-15T09:28:11 | 2018-07-15T08:27:17 | 388 | 10 |
[WP] As a joke/Tic, an atheist always thanks the Dark Lord when good things happen. When they die, they are shocked to find out that The Dark Lord is real, and they are his favorite follower, as they never, ever asked for anything.
The Dark Lord's favor could be pleasant, or ironic, or mundane. Or maybe it's a Dark La... | I will always start my day with my Daily Praise and Thanksgiving..
"Praise the Dark Lord"
Even though Im no man of God, i would never falter to Smile and appreciate this make-believe God i knew, for myself..
"Praise the Dark Lord"
Til the day came that i would be put to an eternal slumber, I will worship..
"Praise... | Dawn came down on the night, hard, cracking open that velvety, star-flecked sky like a thrush's egg, and trickling over the city in fat yellow gobs was that slow soupy sunlight, making way for another crisp autumn morning. In their homes, all the dogs and cats scratched and yapped at their owners' beds, looking to be f... | 2015-08-17T07:06:15 | 2015-08-17T00:53:01 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | “Hey kiddo, how’d your day go?”
“It was, I did, I think it was, uh, good.”
“That’s good to hear, buddy. So… did anything interesting happen?”
“I dunno. Mama picked me up from school, and she, and we walked down the bridge, and there—oh, and there was a man on the bridge!”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah daddy, but he was *on... | They say when you take a life, you carry that life with you until the day you die.
I've read some interviews (watched Youtube videos) with murderers doing life in prison, and they all say the same thing. Some variation of, "whenever I close my eyes, I see my victim's face."
The thing about murderers is that, unless t... | 2022-10-21T10:37:34 | 2022-10-21T09:31:27 | 80 | 41 |
[WP] A serial killer who kills hitchhikers picks up a serial killer who kills the people who pick him up. | A long, narrow gravel road stretches into the distance. Along it, a small yellow beatle sends long plumes of dust into the air as it sweeps down the valley. Two voices fight their way out of the cramped cabin and travel past the grinding machinery, to where the animals sit still in the brush, listening.
*sigh*
The c... | November 20, 2009
Anonymous
I must detail a particularly odd, albeit fortunate occurrence that had befallen me recently. But first, I must mention this for the sake of clarity: I am a killer, and what's more, a *good* killer, one who takes pride in his work as a blacksmith might take pride in his sharpened blades. Yo... | 2022-04-08T12:33:00 | 2015-08-09T13:06:17 | 150 | 41 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | I got cancer when I was 21. Well I suppose I must have gotten cancer before that because they caught it in one of the later stages. I imagine there's not much like seeing a patient's face when you have to tell them that they require further testing. But there's not much like having bits of your body ripped and cut out ... | I woke up on a soft couch in what appeared to be a busy upscale hotel. People were walking by admiring the vaulted ceilings with a smile or looking at their own extremities and looking around as if they were missing something. Most people looked confused, a few relieved, a few more angry. I wondered about where the peo... | 2016-05-28T15:46:42 | 2016-05-28T14:06:45 | 305 | 68 |
[WP] For many years, Canadians have maintained their inhuman friendliness by channeling all of their animosity into their geese. Now though, something is wrong. | Barwick was walking through the park, nose buried in his map, when out of the bottom half of his eye he saw a flurry of feathers. "Jesus!" he said, crumpling up his map and jumping back. It was a Canada goose, that had been strolling up to him just as bold as you please, and he'd nearly stepped on it. "Good bird," he m... | They have found me. I fear my time is short. I will forward this letter to someone I consider reliable. I ask only that you do with this information whatever you feel is right. I am too far inside the belly of the monster. I cannot see dawn. I do not know what is right or good or just. You must be better than me. You m... | 2016-10-31T07:19:40 | 2016-10-31T07:10:34 | 145 | 72 |
[WP]It turns out humanity is the only sentient race in the universe that has to eat to survive; much to the horror of the galactic community as a whole | "So you mean that, in order to live, you have to eat other people?"
"Okay, now you're just putting words in my mouth. I just have to eat *something*. Not a person though, that'd be fucked up"
"You're still murdering it though. How is that not 'fucked up'?"
"I'm a vegetarian dude, what I eat doesn't even move. It ju... | A new dawn comes every so often. Though the night is long, he has faith in the light. He feels it this morning. His body is white, cold from the everlasting night. His muscles stretch, being renewed from their long slumber. Isn't it good? he thinks. Isn't it great. He enjoys the light, and in this moment, he forgets hi... | 2017-11-16T22:31:10 | 2017-11-16T22:11:11 | 145 | 86 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Of course in hindsight everyone sees the merit of my decision. In the early days though, people kept asking me why I chose Hell over Heaven. My answer has always been three words: "Location, location, location"...
Before my ticket was up on earth, I came to a realization... If everyone choose Heaven, Heaven would even... | Perhaps at some point, giving people the choice of heaven or hell was the correct one. After all, if God were a truly omnipotent being, he would see that mortal actions are only informed by an infinite series of processes and that most people make rational decisions to lead them to the places they go. Ergo, in most sit... | 2018-08-13T09:48:32 | 2018-08-13T06:23:07 | 155 | 53 |
[WP] After your parents' death, you became a Necromancer. After many years, when your life force is nearing its end, you manage to learn the reviving spell to revive them. But when you try to do it, you find out they can't be revived since they're still alive. | First it was the anger
„Are you kidding me? All these years I spent learning the most difficult and dangerous skill there is in the world … All these risky spells and rituals I practiced … All these sacrifices I made … They were for nothing?!”
Then it was the sadness
“I could have used this time. I could have spent ... | nec·ro·man·cy
/ˈnekrəˌmansē/
• The supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future.
• Sorcery or black magic in general.
--
*Dear Alecto,*
*It has been a long time since we have spoken.*
*I often spend my time thinking of what life would have been like if I had s... | 2020-12-11T10:59:59 | 2020-12-11T09:51:46 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] There is a bar located between life and death. All those who died sit for their last drinks before marching onto the afterlife. Unbeknownst to them, the bartender is also the judge. Forgiveness is up to God. Retribution is the Devil's call. Judgement is given by the one who serves you drinks. | "A... drink?" I repeat the words.
The bartender raises an eyebrow at me. "Yeah. What'll it be?"
I glance behind him.
Instead of shelves full of drinks and tonics, I see... nothing. Just a wooden wall like you see in the taverns in movies or video games.
"Uh-"
The bartender taps their fingers against the counter imp... | "Welcome to the Dog's Feather pub. You're dead, let me know when I can take your order."
The barkeep stepped away and started drying cups with a dishcloth pulled down from where it had been resting over their shoulder. They were no longer looking directly at me, but were still present in a way that held the space open... | 2021-03-09T00:30:41 | 2021-03-09T00:18:37 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You have just successfully prevented a zombie apocalypse. By killing the first one to turn. What you call "heroism" the police call "murder". | They entered the room. They didn't look like the typical cops to come in, as one was dressed very formally, with a navy three-piece suit and sunglasses. The other was dressed a little more casual, with a button-down shirt and some smart shoes.
The one in the button-down started speaking. He was the one to do the rou... | Thomas wondered how they came to this. We need to talk. The words were still bouncing through his mind.
"Tommy? Hello?" The voice on the other end of the cell asked for his attention. He realized that he hadn't responded.
"I'm here." Play it smooth, he told himself. "What do we need to talk about? Did you get a, " T... | 2017-03-31T14:28:23 | 2017-03-31T13:50:38 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Characters realize they are in a poorly written fanfiction. | #OMNG GUIS I DONT OWN ANY OF THE CARICATURES IN DIS FANFICX, ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO DISNEY OR WHATEVA. THNX TO MAH BETA AND BFF TWILEESPARKLEZ, TEAM EDWARD FOREVA AMIRITE
Harry Potter was like, totally depressed.
*Well, I suppose I am. I mean, I woke up, my spiders are missing, and I've got a voice in my head.*
His a... | Joffrey grinned as Jon Snow fell. Jon Snow fell because he was pushed by The Hound, Joffrey's minion. The Hound said, "On your knees, prisoner!" and Jon fell. "Ouch," said Jon. "ha HA ha ha," laughed Joffrey. "Look!" He pointed, and there was Eddard Stark's head on a spike. "That is what happens to traitors. An... | 2015-04-17T12:14:10 | 2015-04-17T11:09:13 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | I hear the battle rage from across the city. The police band hasn't shut up long enough for me to get a word in edgewise with the officers escorting me to central booking.
Gents, I say to try and get their attention. If I don't get out of these cuffs soon, he'll win and were properly screwed.
Gents, I say a littl... | I stare, pretty shocked, I must admit, as something a little too fast for normal eyes to see hits Phase in the stomach and launches him backwards, much like what happens in a car crash. He lands right in front of one of the huge trucks carrying containment cells, designed to cuff people like me. Actually, probably desi... | 2022-01-12T08:00:19 | 2017-09-17T05:11:16 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | I couldn't help but pace. Before me stood the ship we had been waiting for; the ship that was supposed to be carrying a representative of the alien nation we had discovered decades before I even had began my internship with NASA. In mere minutes, a creature we had never seen before was going to walk through the ship's ... | 'Goooooooood evening and welcome to another installment of...'
' MATCH MY SOUL!' The audience chimed in. A humanoid satsuma gave a fake laugh exposing his peroxide teeth.
' That's right folks, the show that uses the latest technology to locate your number one. We dig into the vast mines of possible matches and find t... | 2015-11-30T10:38:58 | 2015-11-30T10:17:55 | 47 | 28 |
[WP] People earn karma points while alive. When they die, they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife, or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death. You donate all your points, and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points.
The living have no idea of... | When I was nine years old, I pulled my baby sister’s body out of the swimming pool. Mom was taking a nap, and Dad was off at work. They’d told me to keep an eye on the baby after a long, sleepless night of unexplained crying. But I was too cool for babysitting. I’d been busy playing with my toys. I hadn’t been watching... | Helena Mercier only received an honourable mention in the national science competition, but that was hardly reflective of the merit of her entry. Rather, as Helena astutely observed, there was little appetite for a scientific inquiry such as hers – the zeitgeist of the early 2200s was one seized with renewed passion fo... | 2017-04-08T09:32:59 | 2017-04-08T08:54:19 | 7,090 | 268 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | *Peter Lowe has joined respawn lobby chat #854393845*
*Server: Earth (pre-Cataclysm)*
*Players in server respawn lobby chat: 38*
Jack Howard: lMAO
Ellie Johnson: wtf dude
Harley Smith: whyyyyyy did u do this
Peter Lowe: WTF is this
Joseph Gabriel: I think it's his first game guys, easy
Peter Lowe: what's goi... | I looked around me. It's strange to explain the fact that there was no one to see, yet there were billions to sense.
Around me were other entities. I suppose they were dead humans. The man about five floating entities down couldn't stop blabbering about his former life. Apparently, he was Genghis Khan at some point, g... | 2015-11-25T00:31:04 | 2015-11-24T23:08:01 | 1,235 | 402 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | For a moment the scan of this planet, Terra seemed normal, boring even. Sever billions of level one threats, a decent number of twos, a rare three here and there and a few pockets containing some higher level threats. Nothing beyond a seven though. However, while checking the last of these pockets a shocking result app... | Written from the perspective of the one 10th lvl human:
“Aw chill, 10/10. Reddit will love this”
She pulled out her phone and opened r/ relationshipadvice.
*”gotta figure out the best title” *
**Aliens say I’m a lvl 10 threat (25NB she/they), do you think my partner (26NB he/they) will break up with me?(7yr relat... | 2022-08-28T02:11:28 | 2022-08-27T23:35:13 | 114 | 18 |
[WP] “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!” | “Dead men tell no tales as they say, right? Well your honor, that’s just not true. As a necromancer, I literally summon my first witness to the stand. The victim!”
The courtroom gasped.
Obviously those in the peanut gallery watched too much CSI: Narnia and weren’t aware of courtroom procedure. While this was certain... | "Is... Is that allowed?"
"You're the judge sir, I have no clue."
"Fuck it, its a Monday and I'm bored. Carry on with the summoning Necro-Lawyer... That name makes so much more sense now."
Necro-Lawyer smiled a devilish grin as he cracked his knuckles, preparing the incantation. One could almost guess that he was ... | 2021-10-04T08:08:45 | 2021-10-04T06:33:23 | 1,090 | 530 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I never thought my time would come. Childhood summers last forever, the school year drags, but time marched on as it always did. Before I knew it, I found myself standing there before the assembly just fourteen years of age. The whole class staring expectantly at what would become of me. I was the youngest in my year m... | [1/2]
My dad handled my **Instructions** in the same way he had always handled everything in his life. With absolutely zero nuance, and without asking a single follow-up question.
It wasn’t his fault. Dad had told me many times that the only way things didn’t go absolutely downhill for him in life was when he follo... | 2022-05-08T09:49:41 | 2022-05-08T09:30:39 | 338 | 217 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I've seen a lot of criminals head to their deaths before my. My first celly was a serial killer, felt a bit brooding, but maybe that was because when I first got in, it was less than a week to his execution. Second celly was much more upbeat. Also a murderer, and a child cannibal to boot, but if you could stand his sen... | It's a normal tradition, that prisoners can ask for anything. Anything at all, for their last meal. Apple pie that you get to make yourself, with chocolate-milk in a carton, like your mom used to make back when you were an innocent kid. A plain cheeseburger. Delicious ribs. A few people are aware that you can ask for a... | 2022-07-17T18:36:24 | 2022-07-17T15:39:02 | 904 | 331 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | \[English is not my first language, sorry if it's written unperfectly\]
The trick was so easy you're surprised no one has thought of it before.
If the rule is that they can't kill you BEFORE you get your last meal, the solution is not to ask for alien fetus or whatever. It is to ask for something they can only give y... | It's a normal tradition, that prisoners can ask for anything. Anything at all, for their last meal. Apple pie that you get to make yourself, with chocolate-milk in a carton, like your mom used to make back when you were an innocent kid. A plain cheeseburger. Delicious ribs. A few people are aware that you can ask for a... | 2022-07-17T17:30:24 | 2022-07-17T15:39:02 | 616 | 331 |
[WP] Your quest was to find a demon willing to accept your deal, none of them said yes. "Primordial demons don't make deals, if you go too deep, just turn back" but you went deeper and deeper, meeting the ancient ones that knew no words. | The vast cavern stretched out before me, its endless horizon seemingly pulling my gaze into it. Another layer of hell. More demons to barter with. But none willing.
I offered them half the kingdom. Riches beyond belief. Thousands of souls. My firstborn. Even myself. They refused, and pointed me downwards. It was not i... | The sight in front of me was indescribable, illogical, impossible. Yet there it was.
"I have already seen it all. I witnessed the flagship *Tulhe* fall out of warp on fire, the tendrils of the Abantwe monster crushing it from within. I saw the stars of Orion imploded, and cried as the explosion consumed all the p... | 2022-11-03T08:19:06 | 2022-11-03T08:02:14 | 496 | 237 |
[WP] Cannibalism has been widely accepted for over 20 years. A renowned chef before dinner service checks tonights product. In the caging area he sees his activist sister. | She saw him look in. Immediately she started shouting or screaming; noise and agitation anyway, the gag made it all quite incomprehensible.
This was awkward. Why her? Why here? He ducked out and closed the door, pondering his next move. Twenty years her ridiculous idealist activism had achieved nothing. Nothing. Excep... | From his spot on the terrace, he could see the guests slowly making their way out to breakfast. The rising sun glinted gently on the ocean and warmed the deserted beaches below. The first floor patio was set to seat the hundreds of wealthy patrons who crawled from their beds to enjoy the resort's lavish morning buffet.... | 2014-09-18T19:47:40 | 2014-09-18T19:36:07 | 859 | 112 |
[WP] When you were 10 years old a dragon saved your life. No one believed you, until he came to your house today asking for a favor. | I peered out the window to see who was knocking. Could it really be *him*? No, there's no way. That could be *any* anthropomorphic dragon. But I opened the door anyway, and looked him up and down. His scales were a bit less shiny than I remembered, his long neck a bit more chubby, and a slight gut poked out from the bo... | I barely remembered the trip between heaven and hell, when I rode the dragon to places humans couldn’t go. I’d thought it was a dream. Mom said it was a dream. But mom also said a seatbelt would save her life.
I was finishing some doodles by the nightstand, a warm golden light to complete the comfort of the school’s ... | 2020-11-21T09:16:22 | 2020-11-21T09:08:25 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | When the order came down we thought the JCOS had lost their minds. "How the fuck are we supposed to invade a country without firing a bullet?" We asked incredulously. High command had no answers other than "You are the greatest military force the world has ever known and you have three months to plan, you'll figure som... | As the reports rolled in on the giant screen in the war-room, Lieutenant-General Bo Kwang-kyu clapped and cheered just as enthusiastically as the next officer, ever mindful that the President had a particularly vindictive memory when it came to perceived disrespect against the great Motherland.
Still, something didn’t... | 2017-03-19T06:59:04 | 2017-03-19T06:41:57 | 457 | 112 |
[WP] You are a lawyer defending your client, who has been accused of murder. You want to see them found not guilty, since they are a good person and you KNOW they are innocent. After all, you are the murderer yourself. | We exchange a knowing glance before being led into the courtroom. This was part of the deal, after all. I was here to attempt to defend him and keep him out of jail.
He saved my life all those years ago in that desert, so I owed him more than I could ever repay in one lifetime. Only reason he was on trial and not me i... | "They want you to accept a plea deal, so the charges will be dropped to manslaughter, but this D.A. is hard on sentencing, so they will absolutely want you to serve the maximum," I said, wiping the drop of sweat from my brow, "but, I advise you to plead not guilty, we can beat this case. I know we can," I paused, ... | 2019-05-19T04:44:40 | 2019-05-19T04:42:50 | 275 | 33 |
[WP] When people die, a trial is held to decide if they go to heaven or hell. People are allowed to choose their attorney, regardless of if they know them personally or not. You're the first person to choose Satan as your attorney.
If it matters in the context of your story, you can choose the individuals that make up... | Goldberg sat at the desk, filled with papers.
"You know, most people would have chosen a defender by now," a nearby soul asked.
But Goldberg wasn't most people. He was a lawyer. And despite his initial shock at learning of this afterlife when previously his old Rabbi said there was no eternal afterlife in Jewish trad... | Defendant lobby. Forehead: sweaty. Palms: also sweaty.
I sit uncomfortably on a lounge chair twiddling my thumbs, waiting for *him* to show up. If he even is a *him*.
Who knows what the heck he is. All I'm sure of is that he's the only one who can help me now.
I take out my pocket watch. The dials are spinning rando... | 2016-10-13T03:11:36 | 2016-10-13T03:11:08 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] A dragon lays waste only to a feudal lord's keep, deciding to rule over humans like a human would. Decades of rule and defending his new subjects from other feudal lords' attacks have led the small hold to grow into a vast city state, with its people content to have a dragon as their lord. | The red-painted dragon priest met the nomadic marauders on the edge of the city for a brief parley.
The savages had come, 100,000 strong to lay waste to the dragon-priest’s vast city-state. They sought to plunder their gold and enslave their women. And why not? Every other settlement the horse-lords had encountered h... | Kayla stepped into the street, closing the door of her mother's inn behind her. She looked down at the shopping list she held in her right hand. The list was short; most of the preparations for the festival had been accomplished in the past two days, and she only needed to pick up the beef from the butcher and the ap... | 2019-05-26T22:56:31 | 2019-05-26T22:05:21 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] You are short, skinny and well below average intelligence. Yet, you've been hired by a group of elite soldiers to help with some of their most dangerous missions. Your superpower: sheer dumb luck. No matter how close to death you come, reality always follows the path to your ultimate survival. | Operation Code Red Tango Tango Bravo, despite its long winded name, was simple. Americans were being held hostage in the Tehran Embassy and the US government would very much like it if we got them out.
Colonel McAdams stood before the team assigned to the mission. He always avoided eye contact with me at these things.... | Snoop leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling of the briefing room. "God, I'm fuckin' bored," he groaned.
Laker came into the room holding a cup of coffee. "You're always fuckin' bored when you're not boozing, fucking or taking that shitheap you call a motorbike for a spin."
Snoop turned his head to glare at... | 2020-04-18T07:08:13 | 2020-04-18T07:05:49 | 450 | 88 |
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