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[WP] Humanity has been called in to teach an up and coming species how to defend themselves from the others in the galaxy. While there are much better, and more suitable, trainers- humans are the cheapest. | "This..." The drill sergeant pulled back the charging handle and released it with a loud *KLACK.* "... Is the M-16 assault rifle. One of the finest weapons America has ever made. Easy to clean, easy to make, and easy to fire... that is, if you had *traditional fingers*." He sneered at his students.
"Here in a moment,... | The Rixators scribbled notes dutifully as the human, Bob, pointed out different aspects of the galactic map. Bob was a simple man, one who was easy to understand and much appreciated by Rixators when it came to intergalactic diplomacy instructions for their species.
"Professor Bob?" one Rixator raised his blue paw to ... | 2020-07-07T05:38:38 | 2020-07-06T22:44:34 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] "We have a problem," said Commander Killmurder, "One of us isn't actually a member of the Blood-Death Squad and is a plant by the enemy." He looked around at his fellow Squad members: Private Bloodgore, Lieutenant Organsmash, General Visceral, Creamy Honeypuff, and Sergeant Bonesplosion. | Without missing a beat, Creamy Honeypuff took out a .45 Desert Eagle and shot General Visceral in the back of the head.
"That's our commanding officer! Whoa whoa whoa WHOA—" said Killmurder—earning his own messy execution for his troubles.
The other squad members looked at Creamy Honeypuff in dead silence. Sergeant ... | "I think it's BloodGore" I said, quick to start the blame game on the right foot. "He didn't even eat the heart of the last chieftain we killed."
"I told you, Honeypuff, I'm on a diet" the massive mercenary said. "Doc wants my cholesterol down before the year ends."
The 200 kilos of muscle and destruction stood from... | 2022-06-19T10:24:54 | 2022-06-19T08:05:54 | 335 | 187 |
[WP] The year is 2021. The newest fad are clone clubs, where visitors can spend up to 12 hours with a clone of any person whose DNA they provide. The clones are disposed afterwards. | The shelves were lined with vials, neatly organized and clearly labeled with name and collection date. A dim light flickered overhead in tune with the gusts of wind outside. The shopkeep sat tiredly in his stool, hunched over a tablet mindlessly scrolling through his inventory. The vials rattled slightly, glass agai... | Frustrated. At my wits end, I walked down the street, shuffling with no particular place to be. I don't get it. I just don't get how things could have gotten this bad. How could I, most likely to succeed me have screwed up so bad. And, most importantly, what do I do about it.
After wandering aimlessly, I looked... | 2014-10-27T11:29:52 | 2014-10-27T10:53:22 | 79 | 20 |
[WP] A wizard accidentally becomes immortal. He has the idea to become the antagonist so that a hero will come along and defeat him, so he can rest in peace. Sadly, the heroes are weak in comparison so the wizard creates a persona as a 'wise teacher' to train these heroes in order to defeat him. | I don't have to do much. The hero will rise to defeat me, and he will win. He is the one the legends have told of, in this universe and the next. It will be a nigh impossible task, but in the end he shall be rewarded.
I have gained permanence, you see. I may die, but I will never stay dead. In some lands, I will becom... | The raucous chatters of the dining hall faded abruptly when Raul entered. All eyes trained on him, many full of wonder and admiration, some merely curious, and still others narrowed with malice.
Raul paid his fellow acolytes no mind. He had worked too hard for this day to let petty jealousies distract him. He strode f... | 2015-07-25T07:40:02 | 2015-07-25T07:10:53 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well OK, those 5 guys over there are literally barely functional human beings whereas the 5 of us are brilliant so I guess that settles which group is which. And, ok, here's the mysterious test...yeah, it's a calculus test. OK, I know calculus on account of I'm a fucking genius so thanks for wasting my time. Lets see ... | I pace the waiting room. Up and down, up and down. Everyone is isolated from each other initially to prevent reading the others and finding out which group they came from. Well, most of the candidates knew which group they came from anyway. The room had a couch, a dresser, and a bit of refreshments on the small table i... | 2016-03-03T07:24:25 | 2016-03-03T05:47:53 | 91 | 26 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Dear Shane,
Remember at my wedding when you looked at me and said, "Don't do this. It's not too late."
I'll be married twenty six years in December. I have three kids almost all of them are adults. I tell them about you all the time. How you were the strongest kid I ever met. I tell them how you were my good sid... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-06T00:19:39 | 235 | 32 |
[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... | The motorcade rolled down the avenue. There he was, smiling and waving to the crowd like he earned it. I never knew his name. They called him John Fitzgerald Kennedy. They called him the President of the United States. The last part may have been true, but not the first. I was John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
I have no ... | 2018-03-21T08:25:25 | 2018-01-02T09:00:14 | 27 | 10 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | Coyly, I looked into the two orbital sockets that I assumed Death used for sight. "Fine. But, I need 24 hours in this realm's time, a notebook, and a pencil to make my selection." Death's black hood dipped slightly in assent. "I also need you to leave during that time. When my time's up, I'll choose."
Death seemed sti... | It was a relatively simple deal, and I had no reason to push the issue. One game, winner takes my soul. I nodded.
"Good. So then, what do you want to play? Think carefully - the stakes are high, and you don't want to have regrets."
It was almost as if she wanted to give me another decade - but it could also be a tric... | 2018-03-07T06:59:07 | 2018-03-07T06:00:47 | 1,807 | 305 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | “Mmhmm, okay lets play!” Emma squealed excitedly. Death shook his head involuntarily under his hood at her enthusiasm but caught itself before letting its reaction show on its face.
“What game shall we wager?” Death asked.
Emma being freed from the excruciating pain from the events earlier in the day was smiling and ... | It was a relatively simple deal, and I had no reason to push the issue. One game, winner takes my soul. I nodded.
"Good. So then, what do you want to play? Think carefully - the stakes are high, and you don't want to have regrets."
It was almost as if she wanted to give me another decade - but it could also be a tric... | 2018-03-07T06:50:46 | 2018-03-07T06:00:47 | 944 | 305 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” |
"So where is the backup?" the one with the blonde hair asked. He seemed nervous. I swear the only thing stopping him from fidgeting with his hair was the black USP he was holding in both hands. At least he held it competently, so the odds of him accidentally shooting someone seemed low.
"There is no backup" the old g... | 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... | 2018-07-15T08:38:32 | 2018-07-15T08:27:17 | 207 | 10 |
[WP] It's been years since the last moon landing. After several decades of silence, humans proudly set foot on it again. Up there, the astronauts found mummified human corpses inside torn open space suits. The tags were still legible, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin... the astronauts from decades ago. | "Houston, we have a problem."
At the time, it was supposed to be said in irony. A reference to an age long ago, back when we were still sending men to the moon. But the last time I heard those words said, it wasn't in a joking tone, it was said in a shaking, quavering voice, the voice of someone losing the battle to f... | “Thank you for your service”
That was the last transmission they had sent before going
silent. Leaving me, Judith and Adrian to stare at the crackling screen before
us. It’s ominous glitching seeming to be a bad omen for things to come. The
contents of the transmission had started a conversation between us, each
... | 2020-09-20T22:06:25 | 2020-09-20T21:51:40 | 286 | 181 |
[WP] Humans are so cute. They use shiny minerals to decorate, wrap themselves in soft materials when sleeping, use colourings to change their physical appearance and really like eating sugar. Lately, they just learnt how to travel through space! Let's welcome these fascinating creatures! | I've been observing these humans for close to 20 years. It's my job. As part of the Galactic Committee for the Research of Planet Earth, or GCRPE, for short, me and my team are in charge of monitoring the planet and researching the native flora and fauna.
And in my research, I've found that the humans are fascinating ... | “Welcome back to Grethiux Today” the host telepathically chirped to the audience in attendance and through the telepathic booster, to the wider audience tuned in to the program. “Today we have a real treat. Grosax the Glutton will be preparing his famous Ffmsp and Wanx with a delicate Krelm sauce reduced in the blazing... | 2021-03-02T04:51:58 | 2021-03-02T04:26:05 | 73 | 34 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | Ani reached for the bowl of cheese puffs teetering on the edge of the couch with her right hand, holding the game controller in her left. Her thumb rapidly tapped one of the controller buttons as she stretched out her fingers to grasp the bowl. One last reach and... the bowl fell over onto the floor.
Ani reached down ... | We all grow up hoping to be in that fraction of a fraction of a percent of people to be born with powers, or the still rarer super powered. We all dream of being the hero of the moment, saving lives, helping others, being useful.
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I dreamt of getting flight, speed, laser vision, strength, telepathy, telek... | 2021-05-26T05:40:08 | 2021-05-26T04:24:14 | 160 | 108 |
[WP] There is a procedure offered to the wealthy and powerful that allows their minds to be transferred to the brain-dead body of an anonymous individual. Except it's fake, the volunteer is actually trained in every minute detail of the person's life to assume their identity as if they were them.
This prompt was inspi... | "And this will work?"
"Indeed sir." The smile never wavered from her face.
"And he will look like me too?"
"Of course sir. He's gone through extensive facial reconstruction to look like you. No one can tell you apart. And there won't be a he. He will BE you. Your mind. Your looks. You'll be 25 years younger, but lo... | The worst part of all is being trapped between two women.
Both are dead, one to me and one to the world, and in truth they could not be more different. Isabella is darkness and light balanced. She is a favorite book open upon a bed, pages I could recite endlessly and still come back to. She is brown skin and brown hai... | 2021-07-02T07:31:48 | 2021-07-02T06:45:31 | 247 | 39 |
[WP] There is a procedure offered to the wealthy and powerful that allows their minds to be transferred to the brain-dead body of an anonymous individual. Except it's fake, the volunteer is actually trained in every minute detail of the person's life to assume their identity as if they were them.
This prompt was inspi... | It's a secret.
Analysed and unlocked with funds, science and genius.
The secret of the human brain. We delved into its deepest recess and shed light into the unknown.
But we found nothing exceptional. Quite the opposite. Its absence a sign of what we had feared the most. Humans were not a chosen species, we had no... | The worst part of all is being trapped between two women.
Both are dead, one to me and one to the world, and in truth they could not be more different. Isabella is darkness and light balanced. She is a favorite book open upon a bed, pages I could recite endlessly and still come back to. She is brown skin and brown hai... | 2021-07-02T08:41:33 | 2021-07-02T06:45:31 | 56 | 39 |
[WP] You were told your gift for light magic was a blessing. Your wit and talent could make you into a legendary healer. But you're not a gentle person. The charred corpses of your enemies can attest to that. | They say light magic is only good for healing. You could make a small light, just enough to read at night. Maybe a flash of light to blind your enemy, giving you a chance to run. Fighting with it would be foolish, stick to being on the back lines and healing.
Those fools can’t even comprehend the power of light. If th... | Once, I helped save a world, alongside my companions, but when they chose to walk into the void, I remained behind, confident that the three of them and their four companions would be okay. Edwin was a competent enough healer in his own right.
I had other plans. Plans that needed to be unfurled now that I had power. ... | 2021-08-21T10:25:27 | 2021-08-21T09:03:26 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You're a bartender at the No Way Inn. The inn doesn't appear to have an entrance, but patrons always seem to find a way inside. The best part of your day is listening to the story of how they got in.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/wpjc02/oc_finally_finished_our_dd_room_after_2_years... | I had an old man, probably my dad's age, stumble into my bar a couple months ago. He was covered in blood and kept saying something about a sinkhole at his ranch. Sinkholes were far and few between. I've had people go into the wrong door at a party or even people saying that the last thing they remembered was being asl... | “…and the last thing I remember was being thrown out of my car, through the windshield at 75 miles per hour.” Another day, another crazy story in the lives of the customers of No Way Inn. Jake was used to these kinds of patrons coming from God knows where and getting in here by God knows how. One day it’s falling thr... | 2022-08-16T16:10:15 | 2022-08-16T15:58:32 | 21 | 15 |
[WP]: "I'm not here to arrest you. I just want to know how someone heads out to build a criminal empire and ends up producing a functional democracy." | "Democracy suggests equal distribution of power. It is a dream, not a physical thing." I said, barely looking up.
"Nah, you're livin in one you mook.", the inspector said with a short laugh. I put down my glasses and looked up from my book.
"Dear god. You live in a Republic. 'And to the Republic, for which it stands... | I laughed. The Commissioner was startled and visibly paled. I am not known for my emotional outbursts but those I have had are legend, I'm told.
This man was appropriately scared and not afraid to show it. That means he's honest. I decided to confide in him, perhaps show this law man what world he serves.
I clapp... | 2015-11-24T09:05:11 | 2015-11-24T06:55:54 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] You're 80 years old and time travel is possible. You sit down for dinner with earlier versions of yourself at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Conversation ensues. | 80: Thanks for coming, the time has literally come.
70: Yeah, we've been waiting for this decades. So, what's on the menu?
10: I need to go to the bathroom.
70: Hold it, we need to order first.
60: Didn't I already decide? Mac'n'cheese was the perfect choice, home made with bacon, mushrooms and onions.
70: We... | "Oohoohoo. I was quite good looking back in the day." My eye sight may not be as sharp but I can make out my younger selves sitting around poorly made, diy coffee table. "Ah, you guys made me so much more! The culmination of all your experiences and it is me! Though, I am much more achy." A huge laugh bellows, I try to... | 2016-08-24T20:37:09 | 2016-08-24T18:27:02 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | "You...you're death? But...you're so..." I stammered, amazed by what I saw. I had never really felt an attraction to a living person before, but the woman standing before me changed that.
"So what?" She questioned, tilting her head curiously.
"Beautiful. You are incredibly beautiful." I was astonished that I was abl... | I noticed the wide space left, by people avoiding her, first.
"Man, that lady's so pretty even the girls are scared to get caught looking t her." I thought to myself as I walked towards home. A few canned ravioli and a box of crackers bounced together with each step I took.
The lady walked in a subtle glide. Each ste... | 2016-10-01T22:29:31 | 2016-10-01T21:32:07 | 4,176 | 269 |
[WP] One day you accidentally discover that you have the ability to erase everyone's memories. What you didn't know is you have used it before, but you erased your own memories to make sure you never use it again. | Once I accidently erased Emily’s memories of a date gone south, I exercised my newfound power with caution and trepidation. With a huge gap in my own memory that my parents and friends are either unwilling or unable to explain, I became suspicious that I erased my own memories. I searched through my rooms for clues and... | Barry Winslow had just finished pouring Mrs. Van der Hoek another cup of coffee, had just set the coffee pot down, when the bullet hit him in the spine. There was a faint *ting* as it punched a hole through the diner window, leaving the glass pane largely intact, but opaque with cracks, and pierced his neck. Winslow we... | 2016-10-30T07:11:24 | 2016-10-30T06:56:00 | 123 | 21 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Alright, next time this happens, just unplug the router, and plug it back in." Marcus said begrudgingly.
Obviously embarrassed, Katie replied "Thank you so much, I don't have any cash on me, but I'll pay you for the bus fare next time"
"Don't worry about it..."
He walked out the door, it was raining, of course. Th... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T16:11:28 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 65 | 21 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | As her husband finished with a barely audible grunt, and heaved himself off of her, Brittany let out a long sigh.
"Well, that was a new record! 5 thrusts, and we're done.", she thought to herself, glancing in disgust at her husband, who had miraculously already started snoring, sleep being the only thing that came qu... | A young man stands in front of a crowded board room his presentation is impeccable. He's worked his way up from intern to junior exec, and it's taken years of late nights to get him to this point. His smart blue suit only slightly lighter than the others in the room, his tie a perfect accent piece to his pocket square... | 2017-03-22T16:36:34 | 2017-03-22T15:05:15 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "I need to know about my past lives. It's important. I need to know who I was to determine who I am supposed to be..."
The medium gave me a pensive glance over, her eyes focusing first on me, then through me, then snappiung back to me.
"I see who you have been. Judas. Ghenghis Khan. Hitler. You have been the most evi... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T11:46:40 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 166 | 14 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | The Princess noticed the knight's glistening armor long before he reached the keep. She walked down the stairs and into the courtyard to greet him, as she had done with so many before.
"Sir knight," she exclaimed, "present yourself."
The knight dismounted, drew his blade and knelt before The Princess, offering his ... | "Maybe... you should put a bell on him."
"Maybe you could knit him a giant sweater."
"All the wool in the kingdom wouldn't be enough, and he'd probably just set it on fire."
"I feel like we're blaming the victim here."
It was a lazy sunny evening. The smell of burning wood and ash filled the air with a faint appeal... | 2019-01-09T13:25:46 | 2019-01-09T13:17:55 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "My brothers, I hope this message reaches you. We never should have come to this place. This...jewel of a planet, with simple creatures living simple lives. None of them followed the Ardok's Logic, 'the strong take through combat, and by taking they get stronger.' Our empire's founding principle, that has guided us thr... | K- 1210 had long ago been logged under observation by the deep range scouts of Zel ‘Ot expeditionary forces. This tiny blue planet near the far edge of known space had been written off of strategic plans for longer than an intelligent species had existed on it in a meaningful way, due mainly to the remarkably harsh con... | 2019-02-26T13:01:01 | 2019-02-26T11:10:09 | 75 | 45 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | SCP-9432 (Temporary ID/Awaiting Permanent Clasification)
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: A single copy of SCP-9432 is to be kept in a system of twenty four (24) computers isolated from any other devices capable of displaying a digital image. Each computer must automatically delete any file sent fr... | PART ONE
Maybe this makes me an asshole, but I never read Amber Alerts. It was 3am - aka my lunch break. As I swept it away, I caught the word "walrus" and it made me curious.
I had a ton of texts waiting, and a few emails, which was unusual. I decided to check them.
I pulled up my app, and deleted the ones from unn... | 2021-01-11T19:42:35 | 2021-01-11T19:22:36 | 53 | 30 |
[WP] After you die, you reach purgatory to be seated in an audience of all human souls. God and Satan announce their retirement and are individually interviewing all humans present to choose their replacement. Most people want to replace God, you want to replace Satan. | I’m sitting in a hall surrounded by thousands of other souls. Well I say sitting, when really I don’t have a body anymore so sitting is just what my consciousness is telling me I’m doing. And I say a hall but to be honest I have no idea for sure where this place is, it’s probably not heaven, not warm enough to be hell ... | # The Cracks In Their Souls
(Part 3: That's How They Fall Apart)
(Note: The Cracks In Their Souls is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Jamie walked through the Golden Gates, not quite sure what to expect.** If this was heaven, would he be able ... | 2021-03-31T09:44:15 | 2021-03-31T07:55:35 | 375 | 36 |
[WP] A party of adventurers has hired you to "raise their spirits". You're wondering when to break the news that you're not a bard. You're a necromancer that plays the harp as a hobby.
EDIT: Great submissions everyone! If I missed giving you an updoot for it, the fault is with me and not your story. | "One question, Deadrot." Asperion asked. She was the mage of the party. She was tired and weary, as they were all.
"Yes," Deadrot said, trying to sound as casual as possible. Which wasn't very easy.
"Why are we in a graveyard?" Asperion said. The others in their party chimed in agreement, the elvish rogue Threemin,... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 3, Part 2: Skullduggery v.s. Over The Table)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"When I said we needed allies,"** I grumbled, "I meant *political* allies. News stations. Governors.... | 2021-04-10T09:14:06 | 2021-04-10T09:11:02 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | "The trappings of fame," thought the Dark Lord as he rode into town. "Wenda's ale is worth the trouble."
He placed a simple glamour over his face. He could handle any would be heroes, but he didn't care for the annoyance. Tonight he was again Todd, the traveling merchant.
Todd entered the tavern and was greeted w... | "--that bastard only knows how to negotiate at the end of the sword! He could've stopped the killing long ago!"
Hagur was a complicated man.
To most of his empire, he was The Dark Lord. He had started as a priest in his tribe of orcs. But wars and disease had decimated them. Hagur knew that he could lead them better.... | 2022-01-14T17:41:26 | 2022-01-14T17:35:28 | 186 | 85 |
[WP] Nonfiction - Tell Us About Your First kiss.
Or, if you must, tell us about *a* first kiss. Either way, it has to have actually happened.
Edit: You guys are wonderful, keep 'em coming! | The smell of her shampoo. That's what brings it all back. Someone passes me on the street and I'm flung back to her room, and I'm thirteen and we're both awkward. We're talking about music and gigs and listening to 'Different Class' by Pulp, and her lamp is on low so the room is dark, and we're sitting on her bed an... | My best friend had gotten her first kiss in eight grade and I was SO conflicted. Half of me thought she had wasted it on this stupid guy in our class who wouldn't matter in a few weeks, half of me wondered just what it was like. When we started freshman year of high school, it didn't take me long to zero in on the cute... | 2014-04-01T06:35:11 | 2014-04-01T06:27:05 | 79 | 29 |
[WP]You inherit the abilities and skill set of whatever video game character you last played. Tell the story of your discovery of this from the perspective of someone around you. Parents, roomates, etc. | One day we went to the shooting range. That was the day it all changed for Jim.
When we got to the range, Jim shot near perfectly, better than he ever had before. A military veteran told him the marines could use a man like him. So he joined.
I heard tales of his exploits. The man withought the head. People had shot at... | Jason chased Lucas, their feet thundering down the narrow alleyway. He huffed, his breaths getting shorter with each step. No matter how long he ran, his friend didn't seem to ever tire. But when he caught his friendship around the shoulder, he turned him around with a jolt.
“Dude,” he barked. “What the fuck are you d... | 2015-06-18T06:00:24 | 2015-06-18T05:50:49 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness. | "You boys are going to be pretty deep behind enemy lines," I shouted to the crowd of fresh-faced recruits in front of me. "It can get hairy out there, and I know what you're all thinking right about now: 'Sure, I'll just get captured *for a little bit*! What *harm* could do it?'"
I was greeted by a few dozen sheepish ... | **The drip of water echoed like gunshots.**
Blindfolded and bruised, Luce tried squash the fear that threatened to grab hold of her stomach, and fling it out of her throat.
Her wrists and her legs were bound tight enough to make her limbs numb. To her left and right, she could make out the sounds of at least two oth... | 2016-04-13T06:41:37 | 2016-04-13T06:29:55 | 169 | 68 |
[WP] All your life, you've had a small empty bar on your hand that reads "XP." Today you hit and killed a man with your car, and the bar began to fill. | I’ve always wondered what it meant.
XP? Like the video games? It just didn’t really make sense. I’d always thought that everyone had it, and I was just another face in the crowd.
Of course, I’d only thought that until I was thirteen, when social awareness hit my little undeveloped brain. No one else had it! I was ‘w... | I stared at the bar for what felt like an eternity, and the bar stared right back. All my life I'd been a decent person, or at least I'd like to describe it that way. Everyone has the fleeting thoughts of doing something crazy, but nobody actually goes through with it, right? Well today I was reborn in my own way. I ... | 2018-07-02T04:29:22 | 2018-07-02T02:31:21 | 2,668 | 72 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | I opened the ordinary door with its ordinary handle. Behind it was a hellish portal, blackened by the fires of lusty wickedness, set with precious stones that turned out to be eyes glancing desperately about, and covered in many other infernal whatsits and doodahs.
When I had pushed the hellish portal open, and been... | 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... | 2018-08-13T07:02:49 | 2018-08-13T06:23:07 | 143 | 53 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | I felt the painful glare of the computer screen attacking my eyes as I stared at it for a second too long. Trying to not breathe a single whiff of Mr. Taggart-call-me-Tag's cheap musky cologne, while the sticky heat from his sweaty, stubby fingers made their way across my shoulder blades in what I'm sure was supposed t... | *This place sucks.*
That was all Yuki thought when she walked through the doors of the office building. The work was mundane and easy, so long as she refrained herself from throat-punching her co-workers. Most all of them were annoying as hell, though Yuki didn't blame them.
At one point, Yuki was sure, that these pe... | 2019-03-04T09:27:11 | 2019-03-04T09:23:43 | 182 | 121 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | I felt the painful glare of the computer screen attacking my eyes as I stared at it for a second too long. Trying to not breathe a single whiff of Mr. Taggart-call-me-Tag's cheap musky cologne, while the sticky heat from his sweaty, stubby fingers made their way across my shoulder blades in what I'm sure was supposed t... | Being a time traveler can suck sometimes.
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These days I find myself bored, but not in the have nothing to do sense. Quite the opposite, there’s plenty to do, but I lust for enjoying the same thing over and over. Kinda like watching a rerun of your favorite episode of some trashy TV show. Currently, my vi... | 2019-03-04T09:27:11 | 2019-03-04T08:52:50 | 182 | 19 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | I used to have a name.
A name that does not evoke fear into people's minds.
It has been so long since I thought about the days before my wool-braided clothes that have now dilapidated and unwoven into what more resembles a cloak.
So long since I felt physical touch with my *skin* which has now completely atrophied a... | It was a normal Autumn day: overcast sky, a chill in the air and leaves of various colors strewn about on the ground. The weather was fitting as a few dozen people gathered in the local graveyard to pay their respects and say their final goodbye. The casket was lowered into the ground as the family of the deceased no... | 2019-07-10T12:15:09 | 2019-07-10T12:11:36 | 71 | 13 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | When you die, it as if you are waking from a beautiful, restful sleep. The light is gentle, the shadows are long and there is an easy silence hanging in the air. Many stretch, like they did on those lazy Sunday mornings – reaching out to feel the pulling of muscle, the breath filling their lungs – signs that they exist... | It was a normal Autumn day: overcast sky, a chill in the air and leaves of various colors strewn about on the ground. The weather was fitting as a few dozen people gathered in the local graveyard to pay their respects and say their final goodbye. The casket was lowered into the ground as the family of the deceased no... | 2019-07-10T12:19:29 | 2019-07-10T12:11:36 | 21 | 13 |
[WP]The heroes confront you with the legendary mystical weapon that can defeat you. Unbeknownst to them, it's actually the one thing you needed to conquer the world. You were having trouble finding it, so you started the legend of the weapon yourself, to get some poor schmuck to find it for you. | Picture this, you are a great evil magician, well not really evil since my last evil deed was 278 years ago bailing the tab in some seedy establishment for something they call "food", but you get the picture. Ironically this was also the last time I have seen my Magic Wand. Now after I got tired of searching for it I j... | “Come on! The mystic’s cave is just this way! We’ve come so far on this quest, and nothing is stopping us from the treasure he promised!”
Dao, Thespin and Rin had gone through most of the Mystics map he’d given them to find it, The Mace of Enigma, coated in a metallic Titanium and Copper alloy. Inscribed in the mace ... | 2020-07-25T14:18:03 | 2020-07-25T13:38:25 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Humans finally broke physics by travelling faster than light in an experimental spaceship. 8 alien civilizations visited earth to issue a speeding ticket and 3 more sent strongly worded letters about safety in their school zones. | "Scusi?"
"I SAID DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FAST YOU WERE GOING?" Space Deputy P-ion shouted at the bearded old man standing in front of him... in what seemed to be eccentric pajamas, *perhaps we should give this planet a breathalyzer too*
"Mi scusi." The man repeated.
This was going nowhere, P-ion still leaned in to ... | The only thing worse than regular traffic court is intergalactic traffic court. All the same bastards and weirdos, but with more... evolutionary creativity.
Lucky for me, the planet's judicial court fitted me with a universal translator that hooked into my brain stem with the tiniest sting. So I understand everything... | 2021-04-27T23:23:48 | 2021-04-27T23:20:30 | 191 | 102 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | "Unjustly" I said, as loudly and clearly as I could.
The presiding justice was an elderly man - probably in his late 80s, maybe even older. He blinked at me with steel grey eyes that despite his advanced age were as sharp and penetrating as any I had encountered.
"Unjustly." he replied, curtly. "Yes. You heard me co... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T07:50:17 | 1,590 | 457 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 1,590 | 23 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I had originally been banking on using old age as a loophole, but watching that other guy wither into an old man has proven it to be very much not viable. So here I am, I need an escape plan. Scratch that, it's impossible, what I need is a loophole.
"HOW DO YOU WISH TO DIE?"
I could try usi... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T07:19:48 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 236 | 23 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “How would you like to die?”
What kind of question is that? I wouldn’t like to die at all! But still I must give an answer.
I am sentenced for crimes against magic. I tried to poison the Well of Magic. But truly magic is the root of all evil and corruption. It is just a way to cheat the laws of nature.
People with... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T07:46:07 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 68 | 23 |
[WP] When you were trying to recruit the best healer healer around for your adventuring party, you were expecting a gentle, pretty healer girl. Not a grizzled middle aged woman who looks like she can wrestle a bear and has an attitude to match. | The old woman leaning on her odd staff with one hand and her claws on her other hand. Wait are those sharpened rib bones? Caleb shuddered. "Ahm well have a seat. Miss?"
"You may call me Zevanna. Expecting some naive things sculpted by her god to look a right tempting bit? Those young 'clerics' ain't real healers."
"W... | "Ma'am" came the voice that seemed to grip his earlobe and twist upwards. He looked up from the stack of paperwork to see a looming shape hanging over him, not really blocking the light inside the pub, more like eclipsing it. Finding his senses after what seemed liked far too long, he realized his mouth was open.
... | 2021-12-22T08:23:56 | 2021-12-22T07:13:06 | 96 | 48 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 164 | 47 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | Pacing back and forth in front of me, David paused, one foot half-hovering over the blood-stained carpet. "Tell me, Kat, what happened?"
The body was sprawled out before us on the black tile floor of the penthouse. Streams of slimy, congealed blood wove intricate rivers in the cracks between the slate pieces, and tiny... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T13:32:26 | 63 | 16 |
[WP] Your job is to open and close a door all day. Anything can appear on the other side. Your partner documents the results.
Hell, I have replies?? Why wasn't I notified?? | "Door 34-972 is ready to be opened." The loudspeaker droned on. I yawned and scratched my shoulder while waiting for the observational team to get into place. Four figures in yellow rubber suits approached, two of them carrying clipboards.
"You may proceed." The lead droned on with what could only be the most annoyin... | I had been told mine was the most demanding job in the university, what a joke.
"You mean to tell me my job is to *open this door!?*" I spluttered.
"And to close it. It's very important that you close it." Erin said, moving over to her desk next to the Door itself. She'd been doing this for many years now. Some of th... | 2015-06-07T06:57:28 | 2015-06-07T05:50:06 | 75 | 35 |
[WP] "If you can evade me until sunrise, you live". You are trapped in a McDonald's PlayPlace with a serial killer. | A strange man sat down next to me on the bench at the McPlayplayce.
“If you can evade me until sunrise, you live,” rasped the strange man over the 90’s jamz ‘NOW that’s what I call music’ playing in the background.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” I said to the strange man. I thought about adding ‘I didn’t hear you,’ but that would... | Stacey hears her phone ringing again for what seems like the tenth time as she's driving down the highway. She was starving and in a hurry. Her mom was going to kill her if she was late to her sister's wedding. She should've left yesterday, but of course, got caught up with work. She thought using that excuse again pro... | 2015-09-04T17:34:47 | 2015-09-04T16:07:34 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] When a child is abducted by aliens, the child's guardian angel joins forces with the monster under the bed to save them. | It shouldn't have gone so wrong. The plan was perfect. The execution flawless. In and out before anyone was the wiser.
The hallway was filled with remnants. Shattered shells and empty corpses lined the halls. The screams of the dying were still echoing through the corridors, winding their way through the barely breath... | "Smoke?" The creature asked, large clawed hand holding out a packet of cigarettes.
"No! Of Course not!" The angel replied in a scoff. "And Harold, I wish you would stop smoking those things, they're terrible for you! And what about second hand smoke..."
"Yah well.. I wish you'd call me Harry, geeze Reg. Fine." The de... | 2016-07-09T23:50:58 | 2016-07-09T23:17:03 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | "Does the item have to consist of one piece, or can it consist of multiple parts to build one entity?", I asked Merlin. He looked at me, puzzled, and responded, "As long as it's solid, has real form to it, you should be successful in summoning it." he replied.
"Okay, Merlin. Hope you like bricks. This next item I su... | Lying on my back I begrudgingly realize it's morning. I really can't be bothered waking up. Stretching my arms over my head I yawn deeply, quickly interrupted by a mouthful of smoke... my incense must still be smoldering still from last night. Extending my finger tips I notice I can't feel the wall at end of my bed. Fe... | 2016-11-28T02:15:50 | 2016-11-28T01:40:06 | 82 | 58 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | We had a pretty decent society, everyone thought. At 12pm on your 18th birthday you would receive your Calling. One word. It appeared on your forearm. Either "Creator" or "User". So engineers, artists, programmers, architects, chefs etc were Creators. They created stuff for Users to use. Users used their creations a... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:08:33 | 427 | 188 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | It was 11am and the party was in full swing, cousins and uncles, aunties and nephews had arrived from all around to take part in my Naming Day.
In big cities it would be a purely family affair, San Fran York was not one of those places and it seemed like the whole village had turned out at the town hall to celebrate th... | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 2017-03-16T00:05:48 | 212 | 91 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | It was 11am and the party was in full swing, cousins and uncles, aunties and nephews had arrived from all around to take part in my Naming Day.
In big cities it would be a purely family affair, San Fran York was not one of those places and it seemed like the whole village had turned out at the town hall to celebrate th... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-16T00:05:48 | 129 | 91 |
[WP] 13 years ago, you were part of a government-funded project researching inter-dimensional travel until it was discontinued. This morning, you woke up normally, only you have an extra child, your home adress is different and the project is still going strong. | Hear me out. I know that what I’m about to tell you is going to sound ludicrous, and at the end of it all, I don’t expect you to believe a word I’m saying, but belief is not what I’m after. I’m just looking to share my story in the hope that those who understand will be able to make the change before it’s too late.
... | Mother fell asleep just after midnight, exhausted from all the grieving, tears still drying on her cheeks. She was never one for goodbyes, and it didn’t help that the last few weeks had been going so well. After Sara and I made sure she was comfortable in the guest room downstairs, we retreated to the kitchen, where th... | 2017-04-06T06:24:12 | 2017-04-06T06:24:01 | 103 | 35 |
[WP] You can see the coolest stats of things that you touch, and today when you lean against the wall of your house instead of the usual “Contains 4 dogs” you see “People killed here: 327” | "Ah, shit." Dave muttered as he caught sight of the wall and dropped his laundry basket. Frantically scrambling down the stairs, he called out: "Rachel?! Rachel?"
"What's up?" Came the urgent reply from the couch.
"You leave the door open?" he asked, halting at the bottom of the stairs with his heart racing.
"No..."... | Huh, what?!, as i rubbed my eyes and made sure i wasnt just seeing things. No. I wasn't seeing things. It said "people killed here : 327"
Now im panicking. Why? I didnt do anything wrong. Did i?. No. I didnt. Why am i questioning myself?
As i walked into my house, everything seemed normal. Although, few items were mi... | 2017-12-17T19:49:01 | 2017-12-17T15:53:02 | 322 | 53 |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, years later, the dragon has returned to you with some of its young. It wants you to raise its weakest hatchling. | She glanced up at the face that looked oddly familiar. The dragon’s golden eye was fixated on her, little puffs of smoke coming from its snout from the exertion of flying.
It had landed at her doorstep, fire red wings creating small dust tornadoes in its wake, inadvertently dirtying the welcome mat she had just laid ... | 7:57 AM - Step into office.
7:59 AM - Get fresh copy of Motion for Summary Judgment in Aaerinshalia vs Duersing Mining off copier.
8:01 AM - Get a cup of coffee (Novelty "Lawyers Do It with Jurisprudence" Mug, 2 French Vanilla Creamers, 3 Splenda) from machine.
8:05 AM - Open Office Door.
8:06 AM - Notice naked wom... | 2018-04-04T19:08:23 | 2018-04-04T16:36:21 | 234 | 158 |
[WP] After dying, you are faced with a coin slot. It says, "Pay 1$ to live for another day". You tried it out, and lived for another day. The next day, it showed up again, this time it asks you for 2$. | "Shit, I don't have any change. Wait, what the fuck? Where am I?"
James is very confused, it just occurred to him that just a second ago he was not at an arcade, or whatever the hell this place is supposed to be. There's this huge screen in front him, telling him to stick a dollar into the slot right beside it to live... | A voice rich and sonorous filled the air like rumbling thunder, echoing through my mind like a whisper down a deep well.
“Would you like another day?” it asks. There is an undertone of mirth in the voice, a mocking tone of one who has all the knowledge and power.
My eyes focus through the haze and I see a body lying ... | 2018-07-29T04:28:21 | 2018-07-29T03:59:43 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Every year, the Mars Curiosoty Rover sings itself happy birthday. You are a NASA technician that typically monitors its system. Today, you heard a small, quiet voice singing along with it. | It was always fun to tune in to curiosity singing itself happy birthday, the whole thing made the often very serious part of space exploration a little more lighthearted. It gave a lifeless robot some humanity. This time though, there was another sound apart from the rover's. It was a rather surreal sound, mimicing tha... | I sipped my coffee. On the monitor I could see and hear what 'Rover' was up to. Right now it was stationary while I waited for one of its operators to return from lunch.
I checked my watch: it was only 11.59pm. I took a long pull of my cheap fuel station 'cappuccino'. It was caffeine and sugar, that was what mattered.... | 2018-08-05T13:45:46 | 2018-08-05T13:01:05 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | "So... What is it that you do for a living?" The inevitable question that came all the time, as the petite woman looks up at me with questioning eyes, the risotto on her plate steaming still, truly a delicate chef's hand worked into the morsels of sustenance that I, in my grandiose position as leader of a nation of one... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T08:17:09 | 1,144 | 13 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | I used to be a super villain, but facing off against hero’s wasn’t something indirectly did. With my power I did best with quiet operations. I can manipulate my own body. I usually use this for changing my appearance, but I can manipulate my muscles for combat. However, recently I haven’t been doing that as much. Recen... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T07:15:35 | 129 | 25 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "Can I see that book?" I asked. The genie handed the book to me, which was very light for its size. Each page contained a single rule in a large bold font, with an example printed beneath in smaller letters. Each rule, along with its example, took up about a third of the page. The rest looked hastily scrawled by hand, ... | - That too is also against the rules.- Throughout millennia he had seen hundreds of people try to bypass the rules, none of them were ever successful, and he did not expect her to be any different.
- What are those rules preventing, exactly? Why is there a need for them?- She had already failed three times to make a ... | 2022-01-04T06:00:40 | 2022-01-04T05:07:23 | 138 | 29 |
[WP] For Halloween, you decide to dress up as a crazy person wearing a tinfoil hat. However, once you place the hat on your head you hear a strange voice: “Finally, the gamma waves are gone! Now listen up, we don’t have much time!” | 'In about twenty minutes you can expect a SWAT team. Start moving to a cafe. Listen to me and you will live. Pack a bag and take your wallet, leave your phone behind.'
I look around the room. Nothing seems off. My vision is normal. Just the same crappy apartment at usual.
'I can't hear you, so don't try talking to... | “Oh yeah, the Halloween party. Don’t worry, I didn’t forget this time. Yeah, I’m sure you will love my costume this year. I put a lot of work into it. Ok, see ya, Brittany.” Brian hung up the phone, dropping onto his bed with a loud sigh. “I had all week to plan a costume, but what did I do? Rather than putting togethe... | 2022-08-01T07:02:22 | 2022-08-01T04:46:15 | 350 | 114 |
[WP] "Please don't leave." | I stood in front of the cashier. My items were on the black conveyor belt, quietly chugging towards her. She was beautiful. She had a short black pageboy haircut. Glossy black lipstick and fingernail polish. A tattoo of a rose on her neck. A stud piercing above her lip. Pale skin that looked so soft. As I looke... | She was the best I'd ever had. A brunette with hair that smelled like cinammon and a body you could trace your eyes over again and again without getting tired.
She had these bright green eyes that shone in the dark, despite the emptiness that resided behind them. They fixed on me and she ran a hand through her hair a... | 2014-09-02T06:55:47 | 2014-09-02T06:25:33 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] The seven deadly sins hold auditions for an eighth. | "Jesus Christ," Lust groaned, turning her head away from the auditorium's stage in front of her. "I mean...this is just pitiful."
"It's not all that bad," mumbled Gluttony.
"What?!" Envy shouted. "If you weren't stuffing your face with Ring-Dongs or Ding-Rings or whatever the hell those fat cakes are called, you'd b... |
None were totally convinced of any of the candidates. Vanity, Pride's younger sister, was basically the same as she. Used the same modus operandi and caught the same people. Gluttony, Lust, and Greed (the children of "Excess") were loath to allow another sibling pair into the group. Pride already had a lot of influen... | 2014-12-28T02:40:39 | 2014-12-28T02:07:33 | 69 | 10 |
[WP] you have just found out that your daughter is one of world's greatest supervillains. | "You're telling me that you're the greatest evil to ever come to earth?" I asked, sitting across from my 18 year old daughter.
She nodded. Lucille had just proven that she was Lady Darkness, the scourge of the Justice League.
"Yet, you can't manage to actually keep your room clean?" I sighed.
"Well, something has t... | “You’re who?” I asked, my face quickly flushing with anger. I couldn’t believe the words that had just left her mouth.
“I am the Empress, Ruler of All Humanity,” my daughter repeated in a deep, echoing voice. “Bow to me measly human!”
“You will not talk to your father that way Jennifer!” I shouted back. My little gir... | 2015-03-25T14:56:02 | 2015-03-25T14:52:11 | 47 | 21 |
[WP] It turns out everyone's playing Life on Normal Mode. You find the main menu and start playing on an entirely new difficulty setting.
It could be anything: extremely easy, legendary, impossible, whatever! Just don't forget to save your progress as you go. | I press Start
I wake up in my room with the lights off. My mouth dry, my body slow. A glass of water is the only thing on my mind. I roll out of bed and take the usual path to my kitchen sink. I turn the kitchen light switch on. Nothing happens. Damn, I walk over to my bedside table and grab my phone where I know... | It can be said, knowing few experts would deny the veracity of this assertion, that human history is riddled with very, poor, decisions. Some mild. Others, aeon-defining.
July 19th, 1969, a John Fairfax completed the first solo row across *any* ocean. A monumental achievement of the human spirit, shadowed only by two... | 2016-02-02T22:50:50 | 2016-02-02T21:50:55 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You wake up in a remote island after a plane crash as the only survivor, but you find 9 others who were also the lone survivors of 9 plane crashes already settled there. You realise that the planes were of the same airliners and next day an airdrop delivers the message "Now it starts". | A letter was dropped inside my toolbox. It contained three pieces of information: the identifying code of an aircraft, a date, and a volumetric value. As an aircraft mechanic, I quickly identified this volumetric value as fuel quantity.
Half the flights leaving this airport would end up crashing if they only had that ... | Somewhere above the Pacific Ocean
“Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm. It’s all a dream nothing more. Don’t open your eyes. Happy thoughts, happy thoughts. Ohh god please forgive me for all my sins, I know I was never religious, but please forgive me, please look after Jon and Noah, please look after jasmine. I spent some... | 2018-12-26T05:24:44 | 2018-12-26T04:18:59 | 202 | 34 |
[WP] In a world where super powers are bought and sold like everyday items, you decide it’s time to be the hero this world needs. With $20 and a couple coupons, you find yourself in the discount section of the super powers store. That’s all you need. | The power to make someone else flatulate uncontrollably. The flapping sound would ring out for as long as the owner of this power could exhale.
Make everything that your enemies eat or drink taste like moldy bread, so long as you keep sticking your tongue out at them.
The advertisements listed in the back of the stor... | Heroism? What about it? In a world when all kind of powers are common merchandise, being a hero is not about strength, might, speed, or any kind of super talent. Leave those to Hercules and all his crazy greek pals of old legends. Back then, being ordinary -or extraordinary- was a matter of fate, way beyond your influe... | 2019-08-14T17:15:15 | 2019-08-14T14:22:37 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You are a forgotten god just days from fading into the void, when all of a sudden you hear a whisper the first prayer you’ve had in years. With this in mind you stumble out of your death bed and investigate this. | It started as a casual discussion between friends, more of a joke than a serious discourse. A small group of us had gathered to watch the newest big Netflix release, a flashy action spectacle that focused on a handful of ancient deities covertly hunting demons that were preying upon mankind. “How many Gods are there in... | Like birds fly to the warmer climate in the winter times out of instinct, us gods are guided here to the void when our beliefs and prayers cease to exist out of instinct. This is certainly the worst fate for anyone to experience, let alone for a god to face. We are brought into existence when one speaks of us, we didn'... | 2020-10-18T14:20:19 | 2020-10-18T12:45:24 | 198 | 42 |
[WP] You're immortal. The only problem is, you've lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. You are now forced to live in the forest as a cryptid
I know this is a repost, I just want to read more stories about this prompt
Credit to u/Not-Alpharious for the original prompt. | I had a name. The Nakedskin. A creature that roams what used to be the Malaysian rainforests with soft, flexible skin. A strange bipedal creature, like some deviation of this era's apes, but with less hair and fewer eyes.
The carcinised remnant of what used to be humanity had grown, expanded, and took over. They remin... | The creature that found Hector washing in the stream had scaled skin that shone a deep blue, visible even in darkness. Four small eyes were pressed into the side of its head like glistening jewels pushed into putty. Its fingers ended claw-sharp and twisted.
Hector had seen its kind before. Been attacked by them long a... | 2021-08-11T09:06:30 | 2021-08-11T08:59:10 | 1,353 | 563 |
[WP] Instead of a marriage to unite the two kingdoms, the rulers decide that their children should just be like, best buds. Tell the story of the grand adventure that formalizes their BFF status. | "No, you can't," laughed Taylor.
"I can!" shouted Anita back.
They locked eyes, rivalry flaring in their spirits, the desire to be better, to vanquish the foe and go down in history as the winner. An iron will, wrapped in agile muscles.
Anita, 6 years old, stood at the bottom of the mighty tree that Taylor, 7, had c... | “Dad, I’m into girls.”
“Huh? Really?”
It wasn’t the most royal of conversations, but for Princess Yvette Constantia, newly engaged, it had gotten the job done.
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The royal ballroom was a massive toroid of exotic, extinct wood and ornate carvings overhanging tables festooned in the scarlet and gold of House Con... | 2021-08-20T09:46:34 | 2021-08-20T08:48:21 | 145 | 98 |
[WP] Everybody on earth has a doppelganger whose single objective is to kill their lookalike and assume their life. After your wife successfully kills hers, you throw her a party in celebration, but notice she seems slightly different now | In these past 4 years, the thought of marrying the wrong person grew stronger and stronger. We fought, slept in different beds, and even tried counseling. Nothing. I even started noticing her spending time with some guy at work. But to everyone else, we were the perfect couple. It was exhausting keeping up the act on f... | It had been four years since doppelgangers had been recognized as group of people, and not just violent demons only birthed by whores. Ever since, cases of human on doppelganger crime rose as it became the spotlight of every media outlet around the globe and every justice departments nightmare. It was a witch hunt just... | 2015-01-12T04:15:26 | 2015-01-12T04:05:50 | 43 | 26 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor." | The first conversation I had with the devil was almost two hundred years ago. *You should know I'm the Prince of Lies,* he'd said. *But if we have a contract, I'll hold up my end of the deal. If I've signed it, I'm stuck to it.* He shrugged. *Rules.*
*Sounds too easy. And it's my soul,* I'd said.
He chuckled. ... | William was strolling along the main boulevard in Hell admiring the recent skull lantern additions when he felt a gentle tap on his shoulder. Turning, he saw Satan standing there smiling at him. During the initial parts of his tenure this smile had worried William, but after many long years he had realized that this sm... | 2015-05-12T13:43:25 | 2015-05-12T13:32:11 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] When the Statue of Liberty was sent to America from France, the box was labeled "some assembly required." In well over a century, no one ever noticed the other label that said "batteries not included." Until today, that is. | They were huge, the things, each at least a ton
The battery designs from nineteen oh one
And as they were placed the crowd gathered near
To discuss every rumor, to stare and to leer
But nothing lit up or moved or exploded
For after these years, the wires had corroded
| My dad liked to tell me the story about how his father came over from Germany in 1941 to escape persecution at the hands of the Nazis during the onset of World War II. My dad is no longer here since he passed away when I was just 11 years old. To this day, I will never forget what my ancestors went through in order to... | 2017-02-23T17:55:18 | 2017-02-23T15:47:24 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | *OP's aside:* Wellp, this exploded. Maybe I'll try Addi g my own reply to my own prompt. What's the worst that an happen?
Pan's heart jumped with joy as she watched Glory girl somersault out of the way of yet another attack. Pan admired everythibg about Glory girl. Her figure, her smile, how she fought, how she alway... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T05:37:21 | 58 | 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. | Ampere was strapped to the rocket with copper wiring, as the Warlord stood at a console.
"You-"
"I, what, Ampere? I won't get away with this? I'll get what's coming to me? Please. You're better than these clichés. I'm not going to reveal my plan, I'm not going to engage in some cat-and-mouse game, I'm not going to gi... | You are either born with powers or not. That just how it is. Don't ask me why you did not get powers while I did, okay? Because I don't know, but what I do know is that I used mine to perfection! Nobody had a chance against me in my time, and to be frank, I don’t think anyone will ever surpass the accomplishment writte... | 2017-09-17T05:05:49 | 2017-09-17T02:32:46 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | – So there's been a robbery, but you are not guilty of that, I'm pretty sure.
– Uh, yeah, actually…
– No, I know, it's all fine, you tried your best to prevent that.
– Well, the truth is…
– Nah, it's okay, man, you don't have to feel guilty. It has been a massive scheme. We will just learn to defend ourselves bette... | The door to the interrogation room opened. The person inside looked up from her table to see the detective walk in.
"Good evening Miss Johnson, I hope you haven't been treated too badly by the boys?" he asked.
"As badly as they would someone who allowed over a hundred million dollars to vanish in the blink of an eye,... | 2018-05-03T05:52:10 | 2018-05-03T04:58:40 | 454 | 135 |
[WP] You've died and are now spectating the last human on Earth. Everyone is anxiously awaiting the Great Respawn, but this jackass just won't die! | You’re tougher than me.
I could never find happiness or a will to live without the love and compassion from other people.
I watch you every day, every hour. You make every minute count.
It’s incredible how you find happiness in the smallest of moments.
It’s like isolation won’t kill you.
It’d kill me.
It al... | "Imagine, if you will, that everything you've ever done in your life was completely *pointless*. Love, dreams, history itself- all *pointless*. Yeah, that's right. **Pointless**. *None* of us know why we're in this simulation, who made it, or how long this hallway goes for. I've walked for literally a week straight dow... | 2018-06-09T01:15:25 | 2018-06-09T00:37:09 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | I've always had to pretend I was mute. When I was very small, as soon as I hit the milestone to talk, I had been fluent in English. I remember bits and pieces before everything changed. That day I remembered clearly, well the important bits at least. I don't remember that morning, but I remembered the afternoon. Mum an... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T22:28:33 | 647 | 22 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.” Whispered the cashier, dropping my McNuggets. “I thought I was the last one! I can’t believe there’s more survivors! I mean, you skin is a little more pale than I would expect but who cares? Follow me, we need to talk!”
“But my McNuggets” I said
“Don’t worry, I’l... | I froze up, my go-to whenever anything significant happens in my life.
"Yeah, well, that kid's mom gave him such a whooping for it, we *all* learned a lesson!"
Stupid joke. That's my other go-to. I was about to apologize for it when I realized: she's catatonic. Her eyes fixed on nothing a couple inches over my left s... | 2022-06-29T16:29:01 | 2018-06-24T21:42:04 | 647 | 10 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | William watched as the archaeological team ever so carefully placed the small stone statue on the pedestal and close off the glass chamber. Funny thing that. He had handled the ancient statue previously, and while it wasn't light, it certainly wasn't heavy. A single person could have taken care of the placement, but th... | The screen twitched when I placed the statue in.
A garbled mess of numbers and shapes took the place that before said 900 CE and 300 CE when I last used it. The machine, a contraband “anchor chronoteleporter,” took up half my basement floor and had a gateway arch which began to hum with electromagnetism. Ozone filled... | 2020-04-17T13:58:03 | 2020-04-17T13:22:48 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You are one of the most powerful wizards in the continent, but because style points make up half of the Wizard License examination, you’ve never passed. | Leonard stood outside the door for a solid 5 minutes, but it felt like an eternity. On the other side of this door sat a panel of his peers. Some of them were new, but many of them he had seen far too many times before.
He drew a deep breath and pushed through the double doors into a dimly-lit circle. The door he just... | I looked around the curtain of the emergency room bed where Gill was being seen, he locked eyes with me and scowled; the parts of his face which hadn't been covered by safety glasses were a mess of torn flesh, bloody raw chunks and visible bone. He couldn't talk while the medics attended to him but his short-range tele... | 2021-02-22T12:14:07 | 2021-02-22T11:06:09 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Just enough was all I had to use. Enough to knock the hubris out of this fresh batch of heroes, but not enough to kill them. In the end they would win because I allowed them to, but first they needed to learn the seriousness of their job.
So, when the first one, a boy no more than 19 who called himself Werewol... | When you think of supervillains, you think of those that can break a man's back with ease, take hold of a city with a diabolical genius plan, slaughter people in the blink of an eye with their powers, and so on; I am that but at the same time I am not that. Many are given to believe that I'm just some ex-assassin who i... | 2021-06-23T11:06:45 | 2021-06-23T10:26:18 | 2,087 | 54 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Its all about perspective. If the small folk knew about my true power, then even in a world filled with superheroes and supervillains I'd be called a god. Should the bean counters in World Hero Association Membership uncover the scope and scale of my design, undoubtedly they'd spend all of the budget on unnecessary co... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T13:55:53 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up in a strange room, only to find alternate universe versions of you there, each different in their own way (gender, race, background etc). You have no idea what brought you here. | I looked around at all of the eerily similar faces. There was Black Me, with long dreads. Male Me, surprisingly tall and a bit handsome. Is that weird? Standing right next to him was Dwarf Me with pudgy limbs. Some of them weren't too different, though. One version of me had the same physical features, but wore tattere... | The first thing I noticed about the two men standing in my apartment should have been that they had entered my living room through a rip in the fabric of spacetime but I can be slow on the uptake. The fact that there was a gaping hole of impossible size and infinite darkness glowing chaotically a few feet from my couc... | 2015-04-15T08:39:28 | 2015-04-15T08:30:38 | 387 | 80 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | ^(Shameless plug for my sub where you can find a collection of prompt responses I've written, /r/AbnormalTales )
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The body laying on... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T09:35:17 | 791 | 366 |
[WP] God is a game dev and he just released a patch for his game "Earth". Write the changelog describing patches, balances, tweaks, etc. | # Earth
v0.2016.3.8rc5
**Game Balance**
- Reduced resiliency of mosquitoes.
- Increased resiliency of honey bees.
**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed error in `Model.Animal.Feline` where `HouseCat` functions overrode all `Feline` models. All models will now behave appropriately according to size.
- Resolved memory leak in AI `f... | #Earth 0.9.1 Live across all servers
We here at Milky Way Games have been hard at work on the newest update for Earth, the Simulation. It's taken us quite a while just to get here, but we are rapidly approaching the final edition of the game and cannot wait to get it into the hands of everyone in the Galaxy! We expect... | 2016-03-08T12:40:41 | 2016-03-08T11:01:39 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] In the year 1984, your father said he was popping out to buy some milk and never came back. Eighty years later, you lie on your deathbed as your father walks in, confused and a jug of milk in his hand. | "Mr. Halbeck! You can't leave, sir. Come back to your room, please." The young nurse trotted after the elderly dementia patient, urging him to get back into his bed. Ignoring her calls, Mr. Halbeck trudged stoically down the hall, a man on a mission. As he reached the locked double-doors that led outside, the other nig... | Birch Tree Drive, 1984
"Mom, why's Daddy taking so long to get milk?" 6 year old Joey asked his mother. A tear rolled down her cheek as she answered "He's not coming back." "What do you mean?" Jody asked. His mother sniffed and and said "He's a lousy dirtbag and he doesn't care about you or me." Joey cried, drowning o... | 2016-09-25T18:49:56 | 2016-09-25T16:04:09 | 84 | 61 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | "KILL!"
I sprang up in my bed. My heart, racing.
"What?! Who–"
"Kill! You have to. It's the only way to survive!" said a sweet deep voice desperately.
"You must kill it. Destroy it!" said a harried shrill voice with an edge of glee.
I'd had these two opposing voices in my head for as long as I can remember. They... | 'The book says 'forgive the one's who wronged you'. I solemnly believe that officer but...'
'All i need is a confession Tom'
'You listen to me and listen good officer, i am not confessing to anything, it was not me... I could never do this...'
Tom suffered a great loss an year ago and was slowly recovering, losing a... | 2017-05-18T07:58:39 | 2017-05-18T06:31:43 | 470 | 13 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | "How about you grab that lady's purse?"
"You should tell that lady she's left her purse there."
I continue to chomp on my fries and glance up at the lady that has gone and then at the purse she has left on the table. I get up swiftly, grab the purse and walk out of the building. She is walking away from the restauran... | 'The book says 'forgive the one's who wronged you'. I solemnly believe that officer but...'
'All i need is a confession Tom'
'You listen to me and listen good officer, i am not confessing to anything, it was not me... I could never do this...'
Tom suffered a great loss an year ago and was slowly recovering, losing a... | 2017-05-18T07:25:50 | 2017-05-18T06:31:43 | 69 | 13 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | "What is dark?" Johnathan asked innocently trying to finish his home work.
This innocent question sent a shiver through the spine of Karen. Scar on her shoulder started throbbing.
She put her hand on her opposite shoulder and rubbed her scar in attempt to calm herself. She sat across him and said smilingly "Dark is w... | The stars that night were alive in a scattered glow, pulsing with light, but cold, and far behind the grey clouds. She saw them looking down at her. Her arm trembled from gooseflesh. She had never seen the stars before. The dark had never been so black.
Something was wrong. She closed the door. The shadows fell long ... | 2018-02-02T02:13:19 | 2018-02-01T22:34:56 | 114 | 22 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | Never hire a human. I know. I mean, we all know. We just don't know why.
It's not like I had a choice though. Business was running slow and the plethora of intergalactic wars had depleted most of our resources. Money was scarce and humans... weren't. Humans are cheap.
So I figured, to hell with it. If I want to keep ... | "Humans would sooner lie down and die than complete a good day's work. I've seen it with my own two eyes. They are greedy and, worse, they are lazy. Every single one of them. The first human I hired asked for a hefty severance package on his second day of employment and when I refused, he lay down and killed himself on... | 2018-04-27T13:39:05 | 2018-04-27T13:02:34 | 535 | 119 |
[WP] After mastering lucid dreaming you find you have complete control over other people’s dreams too. You can choose what they dream of down to the tiniest detail and even join them without them realising you’re actually real. Their subconscious is your playground. Hope they were nice to you. | I've been doing this for years, now... and I've never really "Freddy Kruger"d anybody. It's crossed my mind, of course. I've even put the fear into some people, but I always end on a sunny note. I guess I'm just not a mean guy.
Initially, I visited the dreams of people I knew. Handed out fun stuff, had some good t... | My journey started over a decade ago when I came across an online forum called Dreamviews. It was a place dedicated to teaching people the art and science of lucid dreaming, which can best be described as *knowing* you are dreaming *while* you are dreaming. Needless to say, I found myself intrigued by the concept of lu... | 2018-06-19T15:04:02 | 2018-06-19T14:30:32 | 1,738 | 241 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased with your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell and we're the demons. You have just been summoned... | "Oh. My. God. I CAN TELEPORT!?"
Gebann looked at his arms in shock as if unsure whether he truly disappeared before reappearing in a new location. It was a neat experience and all but surely all first-time teleporters had to ensure all their limbs were attached upon arriving at their destination. *Pretty sure it sai... | "Who the hell are you?" I asked.
"Where in hell are you from?", the neckbeard responded.
I took a look at him: scrawny, pasty, frail. I bet in one punch I could blast this ole buzzard into next Tuesday, but something told me I wouldn't make it past the 10 thick friends, and the regal looking bro in the back right cor... | 2019-04-25T17:30:01 | 2019-04-25T16:47:11 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] A medieval European knight somehow ends up in feudal Japan. With nowhere to go in the foreign land he decides to settle down in a forest. Outside this forest sits a village; and as years go by rumours start to spread of a tall metal spirit that roams this forest. | On mobile, this is my first post, *yada yada yada* constructive criticism is welcomed. *(I’ll probably be making format edits)*
*two strangers sitting around a dying campfire, faces lit by the smoldering flames, the moon, and the stars*
“I was I child when our village first saw him. The ‘Metal Spirit.” ... | Her hair had been as bright as his own, a bright orange-red that put the small campfire nearby to shame. Her green eyes caught the light as she smiled at him. The wine she poured into his goblet was just as dark and deep as those eyes, though a far darker crimson than blood.
She had come to him in the small hours o... | 2019-11-15T09:56:19 | 2019-11-15T08:10:26 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You’re an assassin for Powerball, an agency designed to discover and eliminate incredibly lucky people. Each encounter is a battle of their ridiculous luck versus your extreme skill. | The well dressed man at the front of the classroom clicked his remote, the projector flashed to a black and white photo of a man sprawled out on a concrete at the bottom of a staircase. The man got up, walked around the front of the room, then planted his right foot at the top of a chair. He gestured towards the photo... | (Warning: gun fight, blood, one person dies.)
It had taken days of tailing my target to find the best possible intersection of circumstance and terrain in which to strike. The elevator had been broken, so the man took the stairs. Stairwells are good. Confined. Far lower odds of outside influences.
I watched on the s... | 2020-08-04T13:56:02 | 2020-08-04T13:19:44 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | “And how has the subject progressed since our last meeting?”
“Bob.”
“Pardon me?”
“His name is Bob. Well Robert actually. He got baptized Robert Grayson the third.”
“I... see.”
Robert Grayson the second, former security guard, was sitting on a plastic chair in his backyard, across from one of a dozen science type... | Preface:
The young acolyte, dressed in his plain clothes and hooded cloak, ran hastily toward the Master's Sanctum in the base of the mountain. He pulls his hood down against the rain as he runs, trying desperately not to slip and fall on the muddy soil beneath his feet in the low visibility of the nights rainfall. Th... | 2020-12-12T05:52:58 | 2020-12-12T03:18:35 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] everyone knows about the grim reaper, personification of death, but he is not alone. Together he rides with his partner in inevitability. Taxes. | I woke up in my bed.
A man, holding a clipboard, stood in front of me. He was wearing thin-framed glasses, a polo shirt, and Dad Shoes. You know the type.
”Am I dead?” I asked.
He nodded. “Right you are. My partner will be coming along soon, he’s got a big appointment around North-east Asia right now. He doesn’t do ... | Everyone knows Death. Big guy, skeleton face, billowing robes, scythe, it's iconic. As in there are tens of thousands of examples of death iconography. But Death isn’t alone. He is a pair part of a matched set.
From the very first moment of life in the universe, there was God, Death, and Taxes
Unknowable, Fatho... | 2022-05-12T00:22:54 | 2022-05-11T20:53:18 | 76 | 31 |
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