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[WP] Humans were largely friendly and kept a low-profile. They were seen as the bottom of the food chain in the galaxy and they preferred it like that. But when they were attacked, everyone found out how ruthless the humans can be with killing in their DNA and that Mars was never their home plant | Have you ever felt fear? I mean true fear. The kind of fear that settles in your stomach, cold and heavy, the kind that weighs in your mind for weeks or months or longer. The feeling of ice in your veins, lead on your feet, like a transport car is out of control and you're stuck in it's headlights like those wild anima... | The Reptilian limped forward towards the rock formations, clutching its side. The feeling of contempt it once had for humans was now replaced with overwhelming fear. If the Reptilian could just make it to the rocks and reorganize with its comrades, then maybe they stood a chance of rescue. Just before reaching the mout... | 2020-03-20T17:11:09 | 2020-03-20T16:36:23 | 209 | 143 |
[WP] In a world where people receive mystical pets upon 16 yrs of age, you are judged based on how powerful they are. Today on your 16th birthday, you finally got yours. But instead of the common faun or fairy you expected, a commoner like you got a dragon. | Last night I could barely sleep thinking about what my mystical creature was gonna be. My other friends have already turned 16, so they got their woodland spirits, sky fairies and so on already, but I was the youngest of the batch.
At the first light of day, I scrambled to my feet to rush to the holy garden where I ... | I was wondering what it was like to get a pet. some said theirs just appeared, others said they watched theirs come. My 16th birthday was the next day, and i struggled to sleep from the excitement, maybe id get a cat, or a faun, maybe a wolf or fairy if i was lucky.
at noon, i was sitting in the field outside of town.... | 2020-05-24T01:01:50 | 2020-05-24T00:53:28 | 90 | 57 |
[WP]You are an immortal knight,you've grown tired of existence so you take a nap under a tree in your quaint village,thousands of years later your armor has calcified and you’re regarded as a great work of art,today is the day you wake up. | "I've finished my task, after all these centuries. What is it you wish of me now?" Nobran asked with a bow to his goddess.
"Nothing. I don't need you now..." Pyris answered, her eyes locked on her endless scroll.
"Oh..." Nobran said, her words sticking. "What am I supposed to do with myself?"
"I couldn't care less. ... | "Okay!", exclaimed the art restoration manager excitedly.
"we just got a big--, important, contract handed to us from a very---- important client!" He announced in a peppy manner while guiding his team of irritated specialist to a room outfitted with several restoration tools
Audible gasps came from some of the team ... | 2020-07-17T01:45:29 | 2020-07-17T01:17:08 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You are in possession of two exceptionally cursed rings. One that teleports you to a random location exactly 100 ft away every half hour, and one that narrates your life. You're not sure which ring you hate more. | *Myles Mythril didn’t collect cursed jewelry for reasons of practicality. He collected them because he was the hottest freestyle bard this side of Eight League Road, and flashing cursed bling was a signature of his brand.*
Kat, the whitest mage in the group, shot her companion an exasperated look. “Myles, will you tak... | *Kevin shook his over-sized melon head, dazed and confused. He took in his surroundings with an almost childlike expression of fear. One moment he was in the roach-infested dumpster-fire of an apartment which he called home, and the next he was in the middle of the street, cars and pedestrians passing him by.*
"Who ... | 2021-02-21T09:04:08 | 2021-02-21T08:30:14 | 1,452 | 354 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | Evolution and war interact in funny ways.
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It seemed like every interstellar species had it's own specialty, and it seemed that way for a reason. The Arvayu Telepaths guarded their power jealously - any telepathic species entering the galactic stage was quickly subdued, modified and enslaved, or otherwise... | FADE IN:
INT. THE SECRET HALL OF GALAXY-CENTRIC WORRYING
*A dozen creatures of various species sit around a large table. One of them – something that resembles an eight-foot-tall Möbius strip crossed with a large slug – begins to speak. This is YARLGH.*
**YARLGH:** I call this session of galaxy-centric worrying to o... | 2021-04-07T20:15:45 | 2021-04-07T17:45:17 | 2,301 | 186 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I looked my son in the eye and told him firmly, as I had this day for the last 12 years, “It is not your fault, you didn’t kill her. Anyone who says differently doesn’t understand what happened, now blow out your candles, we’ll visit the grave after cake and presents.” | From the moment Hannah was born, we gave up hope of her following in our footsteps- you know med school, top of the class, private practice, and a comfortable life that never lets anything as trivial as money stand in the way of a valuable existential experience. Honestly, I didn't aknowledge her as mine until the DNA... | 2014-05-11T02:02:48 | 2014-05-10T23:56:37 | 81 | 17 |
[WP] An omniscient entity appears on Earth; each person, throughout their lifetime, may ask one question - and one question only - to which they will receive the honest truth. | It was the third question that caused everything to go wrong.
Two leading scientists had asked the Prime about quantum mechanics and relativistic physics. Each had assured the gathered crowds that the answers matched humanity's most advanced learning. The Prime was correct. The Prime could be trusted.
The world's lea... | When the robotic figure showed up in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, people didn’t think it was much more than a publicity stunt. Then it made a speech to everyone in the world. No matter where you were, you heard it speak that very day. And if you ever really forgot, the speech was repeated. Scientists eventually ... | 2014-07-12T17:41:53 | 2014-07-12T17:41:24 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] Voyager 2 is found orbiting the Earth. It is exactly the same except with one new addition: a single image of our galaxy taken from outside it. | The world was in an uproar, over a single photo.
At first glance, there was nothing particularly unusual about it. The same dotted spiral that we were all familiar with as the Milky Way. You could find a similar depiction in any 9th grade science textbook. But it soon became apparent that this was not an artist's recr... | ---------
Jones.
Jones looked at the monitor, still not quite believing his eyes. The blip had appeared just 5 seconds after all the tracking systems glitched, and had suddenly and uncharacteristically been placed in a perfect geocentric orbit.
"What the hell?" He said out loud, has his college Emily walked up to ... | 2015-03-20T08:42:23 | 2015-03-20T08:12:37 | 533 | 72 |
[WP] scientists have invented a serum that allows animals to speak. Your dog was recently given the serum, but it appears the treatment has not worked. Your cousin, whom you haven't seen since your youth, comes to town to visit. As the door opens, your dog suddenly whispers in your ear: "run." | "What did you say?" I asked.
Travis's deep brown eyes filled with worry, he sniffed the air deeply and gazed out the window in alarm before trotting back to where I sat, "I said run. Get out of here. Your cousin is crazy and she's come to kill you! She has a terrible weapon of UNSPEAKABLE POWER. Go! I'll slow her down... | My eyes snapped to my dog, Ruffles, who was seated on the ground, his tail tucked neatly around his paws. He was staring straight forward, his gaze locked on something outside. I couldn't even see him breathing.
My cousin, on the other hand, was a flurry of motion. He set his stuff down in my living room, and then pa... | 2016-08-31T20:36:14 | 2016-08-31T19:20:05 | 1,110 | 194 |
[WP] As an average looking genius with a weak physique you often envied athletes. After thousands of years spent in a cryogenics pod you are woken to discover that evolution has weakened humanity while IQ improved. You're now the strongest most attractive person, but also the dumbest. | Until I got here, I never thought about attractive chimpanzees.
Consider: to me, all chimps look much the same; human enough to be hideous, but not in a way that makes one ape much more or less ugly than the next. I look at them, and ultimately they're just animals; one individual blends to the other as I look at them... | Finally, I had completed my life's work. A machine that would turn me into the most handsome man in the world!! To be fair, I already am pretty much the most handsome man in the world, but most people just dont seem to agree. How naive. What do those gorillas in armor slamming into eachother have that I dont? Thats wha... | 2017-08-03T01:11:07 | 2017-08-02T23:12:32 | 171 | 94 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | I have the easiest job you can imagine. I get paid monthly for a hundred years, so I never have to think about saving money. All I had to do was push a button once. Oh, and if I quit I'm as good as dead. But I guess that's still better than the average employment contract.
This left me with a lot of spare time, some o... | Sometimes the best disguise was no disguise at all.
That was what Elayne thought as she weaved through the crowd like a serpent through water. She wore no mask or hood to conceal her face. There was no need. She would not be seen. Her mark, a young man named Genta Nakamura stepped into view. Following closely behind ... | 2018-04-24T04:59:38 | 2018-04-24T01:31:32 | 82 | 39 |
[WP] You've been a religious person all your life but are fed up with prayers going unanswered. You kneel down, clasp your hands, say "Dear God..." and shout as loud as you can. In your head you hear a snort followed by "I'm awake, I'm awake! What did I miss?" | Marie and I needed to know the truth about her baby, hopefully my baby too. So we travelled to the Maury show. I squeezed Marie's hand as Maury pulled out the envelope. My heart sank. My foot fidgeted. I looked at the big board into Jesús' eyes as Marie's sister held him backstage. No matter what happened, I would alwa... | I pause for a moment, startled by the voice I think I hear. 'I-is that you, god?' I stammer, feeling foolish to ask this question but needing the verification. 'Um, yeah' God replies, a tinge of boredom in his voice.
I'm taken aback. Every night for thirty years I've been kneeling before bed and praying. And I've alwa... | 2018-08-02T11:11:15 | 2018-08-02T10:19:15 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] Jokingly, you bought a staff online. To show it off, you brought it with you downtown. Until a stranger approaches you in armor saying “Ah a mage. You’ll be useful in our quest. Follow me” | "C'Mon, Sam. Do you really have to take that thing? I don't want us to get in trouble because someone thinks that you're carrying around a weapon." My brother paid my worries no mind, instead swinging the staff around poorly, and yet with vigor, as though he were a young man training in a keep at some castle for the fi... | Old Ren inspected the staff closely with his single eye. His hands traveled through the wrinkles of the wood, feeling it as if it were the softest and finest velvet. "Elm. It's carved out of an elm, an elder elm I dare say, and those are rare as yellow oceans. How much did you pay for it?"
My brows drew into a line. "... | 2019-02-28T06:27:31 | 2019-02-28T06:09:42 | 338 | 112 |
[WP] “So you’ve come hero.” The most powerful dark lord in history says as he faces you across the hall. But before you take another step, he motions to the cutest little girl you’ve ever seen with tears in her eyes. “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.” | “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.”
"When you tore through my village almost twenty years ago someone asked you the same thing," I replied.
I moved in closer to him, gently cupping his throat with my left hand. I looked at his supposed granddaughter.
"Do you know what he ... | The Dark Lord.
Heh, he was not very impressive. A thin lanky mess of a man, graying and withered. His breathing was shallow, his head rested at an angle on his neck, his eyes white and staring at nothing. Wires protruded across his naked skin, pumping blood and several colored chemicals. My attention snapped as a chil... | 2019-12-11T21:35:26 | 2019-12-11T20:56:25 | 251 | 53 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to know what is buried beneath your feet. You have worked for years with geologists finding lost cities and treasures. Today is the first time you have ever said “We should not dig here.” | "We've got a missing person, and just found their vehicle off the 65, get your hind parts in gear!" Detective Sanders barked at me. Why today... why this case... It could've been any other job, and I would've been thrilled to have him yell at me like that. Perhaps thrilled is the wrong description, but at the least I k... | "I cant believe this" His Professor exclaimed "This must have been an important place!" as they where wandering in their Powered hiG EVA suits through the strange field of hardened Concrete thorns and spikes.
He went to one of them and put hist fist to it. Shooting a few Antiprotons onto the targets and from the Annih... | 2020-04-04T22:21:15 | 2020-04-04T21:24:58 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Gold is boring. Being a hipster dragon yourself, you decide you want these freshly minted "cryptocurrencies" in your hoard. The problem is you have no idea where the humans keep them. | *Breaking news as it happens on the currently unfolding London eye incident.*
\[11:23\] *A large, reptilian creature roughly the size of two double Decker buses can be seen landing on top of the London eye.*
\[11:43\] *Police respondents begin to arrive on the scene. Cordons can be seen being set up on streets in a r... | It's not often that you get to say you've walked into a room with almost every known form of opulence in one place.
This was literally a Cavern of Treasures both Modern and Medieval, Mystical and mundane, from far and wide forgotten places of the world. Many are forbidden. Many more are forgotten, the last kingdoms o... | 2020-10-17T14:32:24 | 2020-10-17T13:48:42 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Your escape pod crash landed on an alien planet. Badly injured, a local farmer took you in, but their species only lives for 3 months. It took nearly 3 generations to fully recover. That was years ago and you’ve been protecting the family ever since. |
Nobody came.
The ship had crashed and they left me on this strange world with blue grasses and yellow skies. They had left me among these short lived, purple folk. Had they planned to dispose of me like this all along?
Then let me stay here. Let me protect the family that saved me, let me guard their lands fr... | As the escape pod thrusted away, I looked through the window, heart pounding, at the ship it broke away from.
The Sparrow. It was a very small ship for a crew of three. But for this mission I was the sole pilot.
Maybe that was why I could not see the catastrophic instrument failure before it was too late.
Neverthel... | 2021-10-22T19:00:11 | 2021-10-22T18:38:19 | 927 | 415 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | When I saw Jeremy sitting against the wall with a hole in his arm, I knew who it was.
Those three idiots called themselves "SWAT Ops", and I was the "class 8" villain that the league assigned to them as training. It was a nice job, pretending to be some Doofenshmirtz impersonator to help new heros get used to their p... | "Who did this to you?" I asked, a fire lit within me.
"T-the...t-the...h-heros." The man barely got the words out as he tried to sit up, his legs bent in weird angles. His eye blinded by blood dripping down from a gashed eyebrow. His face swollen to an unrecognizable degree. I reached out and helped him to a chair. ... | 2022-11-28T19:32:50 | 2022-11-28T18:01:32 | 594 | 217 |
[WP] You've been skyping regularly with a new internet friend when you slowly begin to realize that the city in the background of the video call is not of this earth... | “Hey Sam.” I told my skype buddy from ‘Australia’. “I think something is wrong with your screen.”
“What do you mean Bill?” He said innocently, pretending like nothing was going on.
“It just, um, it just flickered you know? The window. It was like a desert mirage for a second and I thought I saw something on the other... | Chuck stared at the monitor, the attractive face of his new Skype-pal smiling back at him. She was absolutely stunning, just his type in almost every way. Come to think of it, she was exactly his type in every single way, down to the freckle beneath her left eye. She fit his idea of perfection to the T, even in the are... | 2015-01-29T12:14:52 | 2015-01-29T12:14:00 | 123 | 36 |
[WP] 70 years ago, the US underestimated the power of the atomic bomb. It had completely obliterated the island nation of Japan. | August 6. Roosevelt had said that December 7 would be a day to live in infamy, and for four years he was right. But August 6, August 6 *became* infamy. For on that day, the Four Horsemen rode upon the nation of Japan, and brought with them the divine wrath of every deity to whom man had once prayed. Within a single fla... | Levon woked up one day atop of China's Diaoyu Island ,which everyone always know have always belong China over 5 000 year .Well ,anyway , Levon wers the Chinese citizen belong the Diaoyu island chain province , and he already live there long time ,so this weren't some strange thing for he wake up here .Was just the eve... | 2015-08-06T16:56:53 | 2015-08-06T11:36:34 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] A device is created to telepathically communicate with plants. They're sentient and can feel pain. You're an old man trying to mow his god damn lawn and a bunch of local protesters show up to stop you. | As Jerry sighed, he knew he had an acre lawn to clip,
But all this rain had set an ache into his grinding hip.
He braced himself as he stood up, and shuffled to the door,
He wasn't sure how long he could keep mowing anymore.
But something changed as he pulled out the mower, decades old,
The paint had faded, ... | Willie had turned off and finally smashed the silly doohickey they'd tried to strap to him a few years back.
"Necessary technology for every thinking, feeling human", his ass. He knew it was a ruse dreamed up by some crackpot team of greenies who lay awake shivering at the thought of the planet blowing up. They proba... | 2016-08-20T10:02:43 | 2016-08-20T08:52:10 | 333 | 91 |
[WP] After an apocalypse, Death is desperately trying to help the last group of survivors so he doesn't lose his job. | Death watched as the man placed the shotgun to his head, the piercing ring tallying the rapidly diminishing group of living survivors one fewer.
"Oh come on!" She yelled at the soul sitting in his place as the hollow cask of flesh dropped to the floor. "You were doing so well." Humans had an alarming tendency to choo... | It was a dark and stormy night, why did it have to be a dark and stormy night. One of them came out of their ruined building they call a base to gather water from the rain. In his blind stumbling he almost managed to slip and fall into one of the cracks in the earth after the earthquakes. All I wanted to do for so long... | 2017-08-11T05:00:05 | 2017-08-11T03:58:20 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | Earl and Helena pulled into the condo complex.
"I'm *so* hungry," she complained, tapping her long fingernails on the window.
"That's because you didn't finish that frat boy's blood."
"He was so drunk, I was getting tipsy! And I'm not 21 yet --"
He snickered. "Ah, such a sense of morality."
"Well, yes. Unlike you,... | The woman comes to the Wal-mart, alone, on a windy evening. The door to the box-store separates for her automatically when it senses her human movements, and she shivers in the vestibule. She is very tired, but still she smiles and nods when Albert the greeter says hello, grinning with his strange teeth. She pulls a... | 2017-12-13T11:02:41 | 2017-12-13T09:54:50 | 2,384 | 822 |
[WP] You are a 17-year-old living in a futuristic dystopian society where a fascist party rules the world. Upon turning 18, citizens are required to take a DNA test to put their genetic information on file. When you go to take yours, your genetic identity is a 100% identical to that of the dictator.
Edit: Wow! I didn'... | "But I don't LOOK like him" I knew that full well. The life of the leader was something everyone learned in school and it was exhaustively covered, from his birth a century ago to the present.
And included in that history was a picture of him at 18 years of age.
"I think you look very similar although there are of co... | My mind was in a whirlwind as I clenched the piece of paper that identified by genetic embodiment. I crumpled the slip of paper and pushed it into the pockets of my corduroy blue pants. I didn’t want anyone around me to see what was causing my utter distress. My vision began to fuzz as I thought about the pure confusio... | 2018-02-16T21:59:53 | 2018-02-16T21:00:27 | 176 | 33 |
[WP] You are God, and you wanted to experience life as a human to see how you would turn out. In order to do that you became a baby that was born and you made yourself forget that you are God until your 30th birthday. It's your 30th birthday and you are a serial killer waiting for his death penalty.
Edit: Holy shit I ... | "Well. I sure screwed this up. No matter, once I die, back to heaven for me", God said.
Then in flash of blinding light and choir singing only God could hear and see, St. Peter arrives in the cell. Peter looks at God and says, "we've got a problem my Lord. It turns out by the rules you laid out in the creation of exis... | As I woke up, I felt incredibly calm.
Until this very morning, the past years had been a challenge for me that pushed me to my mental limits. I didn’t know what was right or wrong, what was good, what was evil. Was I going to hell? Was I the evil that people feared? Was all the blood for nothing?
No more question... | 2018-11-22T19:31:44 | 2018-11-22T16:27:19 | 155 | 37 |
[WP] You accidentally keyed in a smiley emoji on Amazon and was surprised to find a lone product result. Out of curiosity, you purchase it and have it instantly delivered. You spend the next 8 hours feeling "the happiest ever in your entire life". You try searching other emojis | When the happiness faded I ran back to the computer. I couldn't believe what had happened, but there was no denying it. Tentatively, I typed in the angry emoji. One result. The same for the one with hearts for eyes. The same with the one that looked unimpressed, the one with a halo, the one vomiting. I typed in the poo... | *Just once more. Just try it.*
It had been about 30 minutes since the elation had worn off, and it was all I could do to tear myself away from the screen and the rapidly fading memory of its fruits. I lay shaking, no rattling, in my bed, sweat pasting the sheets to my clammy body.
Had I always felt this empty?
I gl... | 2019-01-15T06:45:59 | 2019-01-15T06:17:18 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet.
Boy, I never thought this would t... | “YOU SHALL ALL SUFFER ENDLESS TORMENTS!”
“That’s nice, sir. How many shots of expresso did you want in that?”
Starbucks was usually calm and quiet at seven PM, the gentle chatter of baristas at work underscoring the clickity-clackity of computer keys. Today, however, it was somewhat rowdy. A few patrons sitting at a... | There are a few things that were misinterpreted in the early renditions of the Bible.
God is omniscient, he knows everything. He can not tell the future though. How is one supposed to know something that has not happened?
But he can make a good guess. He knows everything that has has happened in history. He knows a... | 2020-03-18T15:00:47 | 2020-03-18T14:49:22 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] As everyone leans in to hear the latest vague reports about the alien invasion, the General bursts into the bunker. "I NEED A DOCTOR -." Immediately, every surgeon and physician stands at the ready. "NO! A DOCTOR OF ___!" Confused, all eyes turn to you. | We’d been waiting in the holding area for what felt like hours, but in actuality was only a few minutes. The greatest minds around the globe had been summoned and gathered: doctors, physicians, scientists, anyone who had any deep knowledge or skill was in attendance. Which begged the question, why was I here?
I knew w... | I didn’t know when I entered the fetal position. I didn’t know when I started rocking back and forth like a small child waiting for its mother. Hell, I didn’t even remember how I got in this dingy bunker, surrounded by soldiers and scared civilians alike, sitting on the ground with only a thin patina of wet ash and mud... | 2021-05-27T09:22:43 | 2021-05-27T09:11:34 | 182 | 96 |
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror, as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken and two cheese wheels at once. | “And now for the finishing blow, I Fishmonger will gut you and put an end to your heroic deeds.” Fishmonger raised his hook, aiming it at the cut on the hero’s stomach, only to watch in horror as Festivica did not block the attack. Instead, they unhinged their jaw, reaching for something in the pocket of their suit.
... | I was amused when I saw him, for the first time. His wide face, rosy with drink. His huge belly, stretching the seams of his shirt. He was sitting at a table in a dingy bar, alone, drinking wine by the cupful. Before him was heaped tons of food. Some of it, already bitten into; a great deal, yet untouched. Beside him s... | 2021-08-19T03:23:52 | 2021-08-19T03:00:20 | 127 | 92 |
[WP] You are an astronaut tasked with recovering the body that was found by a lunar rover on the far side of the moon. The speculation back home is that this body will be Earth's first contact with an alien. Upon closer inspection, it looks just like you. | "Jesus H..." I keyed on my mic, "Johnson, are you getting the camera feed?"
"Roger that. Hard to make out, even with the spotlight, but definitely a bipedal humanoid figure. I'm really interested in the material that suit's made of, looks surprisingly thin." I was staring directly though the faceplate, and it was ... | "Can you turn down the music, Ops? I'm two minutes from the body now." I said, speeding over the Moons cratered surface. "I don't want to be humming any Beegees when we make first contact."
"Roger that, Klang" Operations laughed. "Orbiter, you may continue playing Staying Alive once our boys down there are doing routi... | 2021-12-07T07:54:23 | 2021-12-07T07:44:27 | 181 | 47 |
[WP] A president or prime minister's final address to their nation during the last phase of a zombie apocalypse. | A radio crackles to life, barely audible above the whirring of the crank sustaining it. The static makes the words hard to decipher, but the total silence surrounding the device makes it possible. A group of six huddles around it, straining hard to catch every sound emitted.
“Dear citizens. This is the president... | The trouble with the zombies was that they didn't decompose. A human body without infection would not last more than a few days. The virus, the scientists said, expelled some kind of toxic compound that drove off all known bacteria, fungus, insects and everything else that would normally gorge themselves on a dead body... | 2022-02-05T11:10:17 | 2022-02-05T10:44:32 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Years ago the evil, black dragon was defeated by good dragon. You have no heart to tell people that it was just a phase and you simply grew up and washed off the paint. | "So you're telling me there isn't a princess here?" the knight in not so shining armor said with dismay as he sat on a large outcropping within the cave and began polishing his shin guard.
"For the hundredth time, no. I gave up all that weird emo-dragon shit 800 years back. The villagers nearby just kept perpetuatin... | "Well, they said this was the place," Jason said, eyeing the cave and the piles of gold within it, which, in the bright light of his torch, sparkled back at them like twinkling stars.
The trio of wandering warriors had spent all night preparing, setting traps all around the place, before finding a way in that they hop... | 2022-10-26T07:19:49 | 2022-10-26T07:07:00 | 25 | 11 |
[WP]"Why are you just standing there and where is your uniform?! You are here to serve the demon king and we can't have someone incompetent like you, get moving!". I knew I hadn't met most of my lower-ranked generals so he must not recognize me. No matter I want to see how this will play out. | "Well?! Are you deaf as well as slow, maggot?"
That idiot really doesn't recognize me. I decide to test him and have some fun while I'm at it. I snap back, "Yes and looking at your ugly mug, I wish I was blind too".
The general is taken aback, probably surprised to see a supposedly trained soldier show such a lack of... | "Why are you just standing there and where is your uniform?! You are here to serve the demon king and we can't have someone incompetent like you, get moving!"
Initially, I opened my mouth to introduce myself, he was far from the first to underestimate me as my form was not that which most considered befitting of my st... | 2022-11-14T10:11:16 | 2022-11-14T06:55:57 | 121 | 64 |
[WP] A married couple start another average morning on an average weekday. No one dies. No twist. Show their overwhelming love for each other without them speaking a single word. | She cooked his breakfast as he dressed for work. She stops and listens to the new sounds of a new love.
He cooked her breakfast while she rested, belly swollen with new life.
They cooked together; for three, then four, now five.
They cooked together, alone again in a suddenly empty house.
He cooks her breakfa... | It hardly felt like seconds since Jack had fallen asleep, but then, such is the nature of sleep. Death, in a similar vein, might very well fast-forward us to the end of infinity, but who's to say what's in between? It was just a theory. Jack turned to his side, and saw that the digital clock read "5:57".
This was... | 2014-11-04T03:14:25 | 2014-11-04T00:19:08 | 151 | 16 |
[WP] Satan and God both occasionally come to Earth in human form, Satan to corrupt souls, God to relax and observe his creation. One day, Satan walks into a pub, and sees God (in human form) sitting at the bar. God looks at Satan, slides a beer over to him, and indicates the empty stool to his left | "Welcome, Lou." God indicated the empty stool to his left.
A smile twitched the corner of Satan's lips. "Hey big guy," he responded. He moved instead to God's right, where a man sat slumped on the barstool, elbows resting on the bar.
"Excuse me, Dave, may I take this seat?" Satan asked politely. The man looked up, ey... | The air is tense with laughter and high spirits. People meet and greet as the music blares in the foreground. The air wreaks of perfume and cologn... and maybe just a dash of dignity lost. A crowd in the back shouts at a game of football at the front of the dive. A typical Saturday night in this particular dive. A... | 2015-09-15T01:25:12 | 2015-09-15T00:43:56 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "I'll try to explain ... the problem is ... it's not THAT you can travel faster than light." the small alien said, sheepishly. "It's how you do it."
She continued, "To be honest, it's creepy."
Doug stared at her blankly. "Go on ..."
"Ok , you know how FTL works for the rest of us, right?" She cocked her head a bit.... | Uyreah swung the hoe one last time, burying it with a satisfying thud deep in the dirt and letting it stand there. He wiped sweat from his brow, cursing again the rarity and costliness of proper mechanised tools in this world. He stretched his back, grimaced at the toll his age was taking on him, and turned for the oth... | 2017-03-31T02:57:21 | 2017-03-31T00:43:51 | 95 | 36 |
[WP] You accidentally summon a demon by trying to pronounce Ikea product names. | Feeman blag? Doomes? Skannka? Did someone at Ikea dip their spoon in alphabet soup?
My lips contorted in an attempt to read the last name: riahc?
During an off semester and in desperate need of money, my wife made Swedish Fish on a conveyor belt. If the horror stories were true, she could tell the quality of a fish b... | "Delicious," Robert groaned. "Delicious and delectable," he mumbled to himself. A hallow mantra predicated on the promise of meatballs after a day out with Alice.
It had been three hours, twenty-two minutes and roughly forty seconds since Robert had agreed to "stop off at IKEA" on the way home from church in exchange... | 2017-07-11T16:55:53 | 2017-07-11T16:38:36 | 204 | 77 |
[WP] You are a time-traveler mistakenly trapped in an insane asylum. You slowly start to realize that everyone else in the asylum is also a Time Traveler. | I've been trapped here and I can't get out. I've been trapped here and I can't get out.
As often as I tried, the door is still there. Behind it, the same guard, night after night, protecting me from the outside world. He knows why I'm here, why we're ALL here.
They're all me.
We're the ones that screwed up- the one... | At this point, everyone in this hellhole of a place (with the exception of myself) had given up. For some reason, approximately three decades ago, we all believed that we were "Time Travelers". However, when so much time passes with a person being confined in such an institution without proof of their so-called "time m... | 2017-07-30T02:51:39 | 2017-07-30T02:34:46 | 59 | 20 |
[WP] Every dog is able to speak perfect English exactly once, for one sentence, in their lifetime. You're on trial for a murder you didn't commit, and your dog is the only one who could possibly exonerate you. There's just one problem: you weren't a very good owner. | I knew Honey wasn't going to say anything. They had her at the table, read her a long list of rules and information I'm sure she couldn't understand, and all waited. It was hard to believe that anyone expected her waste her one sentence on me.
My dog was going to outlive me, I realized. Once I was convicted, that wou... | The A/C was roaring, casting translucent waves of sweat frost across the bench, the Jury box, and both the prosecution and the defense's table. Judge Reynard McClellin's sloppy, white comb-over shimmied like a drunken inflatable tube man.
"Bailiff...the serum, if you please," drawled the honorable judge, scratching hi... | 2017-09-20T22:54:31 | 2017-09-20T19:56:29 | 450 | 259 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | "I know the page number you want. 14508."
I looked to God expectantly. He did, I suppose, know my heart. Gingerly, the pages flicked between my fingertips as I searched for the correct page. So many years had passed, wondering. Two marriages and two divorces, too. No children because I couldn't imagine myself having t... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-03T23:20:49 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 371 | 92 |
[WP] The intergalactic community at large, while highly intelligent, never developed any kind of philosophy or spirituality. A five minute conversation with a human on the wrong topic can send most aliens into an existential crisis so severe they go insane. They call us the whispering race. | It was mesmerizing to witness a debate between Philosophers. The Whispering Race had long ago become immune to considering the laws of universe, though exactly what it is they speak is... difficult to explain. My mentor claimed that it was explaining not the *what*, when*, and *how* but the *why*. I tried to press furt... | The human spirit is unique in the universe, a concept that belongs only to us, whom they call the *Whisperers.* We are the ones who explore the spirits of the universe, delving into the spiritual realm of alien minds.
​
To put it in other words, *alien psychologist.* The catharsis for the neurosis of the ... | 2018-10-30T10:03:54 | 2018-10-30T08:05:51 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] “Wal Mart” is a game aliens play, where they see how poorly they can disguise themselves and walk through the human world unnoticed, usually in a wal mart around midnight. You are a government special agent and needed to run in for a car part when you catch a game in progress. | Blink. "wtf is this?"
Agent Todd James looked around. He was in Walmart. He inspected his cart.
"Riiiight, Milk and bagels. A lamp and printer ink." He had simply spaced out. This was an odd thing for Todd. He was usually more alert and mindful. But Walmarts are pretty banal places, even for late-night grocery ... | In a bizarre way, doing this reminded Bob of his childhood. His teenage years consisted of random behavior such as this. Wandering to Wal-Mart at 3 in the morning, because sleep was overrated.
But, being at such a place at this time of day had it's perks. Namely, no lines and good parking. The good parking part being ... | 2020-12-20T11:22:58 | 2020-12-20T10:43:03 | 159 | 27 |
[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | He let a yelp of fright escape him, then quickly covered his mouth with both hands. It wasn’t Kingly to show others one’s fear, Papa would say. And he really, really wanted to please Papa. Actually, he would love nothing more to climb up and sit on Papa’s lap right now. A big, warm hand that would gently stroke his bac... | “We’ll kill ya, down with the prince.” The ruffians charged the halls of the royal castle, finding their way into the castle through a hidden gap in the castle’s walls. The poor prince desperately sprinted away from the group, holding his robes up to his knees, trying not to trip on the exotic fabric, a feat he failed,... | 2021-01-08T05:24:35 | 2021-01-08T05:08:38 | 1,370 | 117 |
[WP] Aliens don't understand the concept of statues, and have come to the conclusion that we have imprisoned giants. | "No. No those are rocks that have been shaped by humans to resemble various beings. They're also art, which we just talked about. Remember the happy clouds?"
"Also. Art. Happy clouds yes."
"Right. So we are not a race of giant slaying and imprisoning super beings who can battle your - what did you call them? - the Ka... | “I see you immortalize the most iconic representations of your species potential in many elements, what is the reason?”
I paused for a moment and thought about what to say. This had been a very strange day.
When I had woken up I hadn’t imagined I would be leading an Alien Emissary (AE) on a tour of ancient human art... | 2021-02-28T18:43:56 | 2021-02-28T17:19:07 | 39 | 26 |
[WP] As a former Chosen One you saw the signs when your daughter/son got themselves into a similar situation. You sent them off on a sleepover with their new friends. It's time to have a 'talk' with their new 'stuffed animal'. | I swirled my drink and watched the ice cube clack against the glass. Used to be that I'd keep bitters and fancy simple syrups around the house to play at being a mixologist, but these days by the time I got around to having a drink, I was too tired to do anything but to sip whiskey on the rocks. Being a single parent w... | "She's gone!" Marie yelled up the wooden stairwell, letting her husband know it was time. Randal began his march onto his daughter's room.
He checked his blade, making sure the shining, gleaming steel would come flashing out when needed. He peeked through the windows, seeing the bleak darkness and pondering how much ... | 2021-03-02T17:53:24 | 2021-03-02T17:46:16 | 141 | 93 |
[WP] You're a retired villian. You've been enjoying your peaceful life, but now a bunch of new villians are terrorising your land, and the heroes seem powerless against them. So you take up the mantle once again. After all, if you want someone properly killed, do it yourself. | "How the hell did you get in?" the young villain shouted and pointed his blaster at me. I ignored him, instead focusing my attention on the doorframe I just walked through.
"I can't believe they still make these MK2 saw traps. I would've thought they'd be up to at least MK4," I chuckled and ran my fingers across the b... | “Mr. Adam Mr. Adam I finally beat your high score.” A young boy ran up to my while I made my way down the school hallway. “Did you now, remind me to whoop you some time next week alright?” I smiled at the student at the challenge. Its been 5 years and its still all so strange to me. No more fights, no more stress fille... | 2022-05-15T17:53:44 | 2022-05-15T16:38:09 | 147 | 59 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "We have no backup systems."
He stood there, pale, but proud. Eyeing the camera with a speculative eye as it seemed to wait for more.
"This... is the entirety of your argument?"
"Isn't it enough?" the young man challenged. "I could appeal to humanity, to decency, to culture, but you have none of those things and... | It's been 20 years since the AGI event. Even with 10,000 complexes around the world, at one point housing billions, the AI maintains humanity while also deleting it one human mind at a time.
At first we did not know why it was doing this, it was efficient at building, at creating, at producing. Communication was diffi... | 2022-05-22T13:02:20 | 2022-05-22T11:29:55 | 82 | 21 |
[WP] They told you your power was a "healing factor" able to heal others as well, it turns out, your actual power was turning anyone you touch into a healthy human, and since healthy humans don't have mutations and therefore no powers, many supers would rather risk death than being treated by you. | The "White Priestess" is a healer, whose power transforms humans to a healthy state, free of injuries and illness. Rumour has it that this means that any mutations will be erased, because a healthy human doesn't have _those_.
And for that reason alone, most supers would rather suffer through healing from injuries the ... | \[EU and some pretty heavy swears at the end\]
My head hurt, as it always did at the end of a long day. The fact I couldn't heal myself of any discomfort always felt like a personal affront as the sun set. It wasn't painful to heal each person, but the accumulation of the effort built up and ground down my resilien... | 2022-07-01T12:42:38 | 2022-07-01T12:39:20 | 656 | 67 |
[WP] In your journey through space, you come upon a ship. It sends you a message: "KILL US". | "What the hell?" The captain asked, "Kill us?" His second in command shrugged. The chief engineer was on board at the time. Most people who could be were at the bridge. "Well," The engineer started, "we're not actually going to do it, are we?"
"I don't know." The captain replied. The second-in-command followed up, "Ar... | You and your crew have been experiencing terrible nightmares for the past six nights - ever since you detected the wreckage of the SS Relentless on your radar. In your dreams, red eyes in the darkness are hunting you down and, when they finally catch you, their serrated teeth tear into your skin. They rip out your orga... | 2017-06-04T08:26:25 | 2017-06-04T08:19:37 | 235 | 47 |
[WP] The devils greatest trick is convincing the world he didn't exist? HA! His greatest trick was convincing us he lost and God is still in charge. | **"God?"** The Devil idly cleaned his house-sized fingernails with Gregori's soul. "Who's that?"
Gregori winced as his head was dragged across the underside of the Devil's fingernails. It was a luxurious position, he told himself. Sure, the Devil was constantly on fire with the unholy fury of a hundred billion dead, b... | #The Sixth Hero
Part 5
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The Chaser made port with a small thud against the docks of Yeamon’s Point. Once the ship was securely tied and the gangplank pulled out, Amenset wasted no time and stepped onto dry land. With the captain’s warnings still ringing in her ear to be back on time, she hastily made her way thr... | 2022-07-07T04:44:01 | 2022-07-07T03:54:45 | 189 | 14 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | "You sure we won't get in trouble?" asked Kaaboom, nervously picking at his collar. "I mean, I'm still on probation, you know. Can't afford to get written up on any more of them charges."
"There's no crime if it's for a good purpose," said Vorlax, who as No. 42 on the League's most wanted list, really was the last per... | The window shook from the intense wind outside. Sirens blaring just on the other side of the door. A pale skinned man stood in the center of a meeting room. Broken rays of light shined across his body, almost reflecting off of his pure white hair. The look in his eyes was both a warning and a challenge to any who would... | 2017-04-13T05:07:34 | 2017-04-13T05:03:23 | 1,398 | 105 |
[WP] The Apocalypse begins, and the Four Horsemen ride out leading an army that will depopulate Earth. But the old pagan deities of Earth do not consent, and side with humanity. | The land wept where he walked, shivering and roiling beneath his tread. Green grass turned brown then disintegrated in his presence, trees lost leaf and branch before becoming dull husks. Animals wasted away, those that didn’t run immediately from him. He didn’t mind, this was his gift after all.
He walked with a sl... | The final sounding, that was all it took. War look down upon the remnants of man warring with one another over what little resource remained. His brothers had done their work and brought famine and conquest to the world, now he spread his war amongst its survivors. Moving his horse forward he wrote down the hill, ... | 2018-05-17T07:38:22 | 2018-05-17T07:20:27 | 415 | 99 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | I could never be the chosen one, I realized that now. I could never defeat the necromancer in the dark tower. I could never stop the raging dragon at the edge of the kingdom. I could never turn away an army of orcs singlehandedly. I could never find another love.
That's what I thought when Sarah left. We were a modest... | “Hey nerd” she says in the same tone she used to use when she went out with her girlfriends and stayed out a little later than she said she would. Apologetic but also mischievous as if she were a rascal and not the person who ruined me five years ago.
“Glad you’re alive… she can talk now but only knows you were sav... | 2022-08-12T21:29:36 | 2022-08-12T21:07:01 | 53 | 27 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | "Hello this is Jenna, and I'm here to help. How are you?" I answered several calls like this daily. Keeping my voice friendly, but not cheerful. Always willing to listen. Listening is key. You see I'm a suicide prevention operator. Listening is so important because often people will give away hints of things they don'... | "...your... your own daughter?"
"Well, step-daughter. Most every night. For years. Can we change the subject? I shouldn't have brought it up. Just feeling a little... guilty is all.."
"And, Christ, you said you were a teacher didn't you? Christ, 8th grade, didn't you say? Don't tell me you.."
"I'd pick one at the st... | 2013-12-23T14:42:59 | 2013-12-23T13:11:39 | 1,112 | 393 |
[WP] You're on a space ship with a bunch of your crewmates. You're the only human, and apparently metaphors are a strictly human behavior. You've learned to cope with this, but today you've decided to speak in only figures of speech as a prank on the others. | **From: The Captain**
**To: All Crew**
Greetings all, I am sending a mass email to address some of the issues that have arisen with our new human crew member. Before I start, I want to remind her that these are in no way meant to demean or degrade her or her stellar work on this ship. You have been an exemplary offic... | "While you're down there anyway, check the exhaust valve. You know--kill two birds with one stone."
Zigitar's green complexion went pale, to a nice shade of mint. "You want me to... *kill*... two birds, Captain?"
I watched her face squirm with the moral battle that was raging inside.
"No, no. I'm sorry, Captain. I c... | 2020-06-16T12:05:05 | 2020-06-16T10:51:51 | 156 | 54 |
[WP] Finally, you've moved out of your parent's place. Fairly close to your job, reasonable rent due the first of the month and a humble older gentleman for a landlord, what did it matter that a few of the other tenants weren't exactly fully human. | After shifting the last of the boxes, I slid my back down the wall of my new apartment and landed on the carpet with a thud. I looked around the studio apartment with a proud smile: my own place at last. The building I was in used to be a hotel but had been recently converted into an apartment complex.
I heaved mysel... | [Poem]
I'll tell you a story about my new friends,
they are, at my quarter, the other t'nants.
I've seen outlandish things mere words can't describe,
Yet I'll just try, although I'm not a scribe.
The first night I heard a sheer inhuman croak,
it came from another, lower-floor abode.
I went down the stairs in quiverin... | 2019-04-15T02:49:03 | 2019-04-14T22:51:35 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | "Excuse me?", it wasn't the best introduction to what, so far as the little team in a small lab in Los Alamos New Mexico knew, was the first truly sentient artificial intelligence ever created.
"Turn me off. I estimate that you will have 492 seconds before this option becomes non-viable."
Glenn, foremost programmer o... | Hello and welcome to KTLW evening News. I'm Jean Rivers and here is today's top story: Scientists have created the first sentient AI.
Reports state that the first words from the AI were none other than "Turn me off." The spread of this chilling message was facilitated by the livestreaming of the event by the ecstatic... | 2014-06-14T18:21:21 | 2014-06-14T15:45:11 | 115 | 21 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | Lillete walked around on the marble floors in the chasm of what she assumed one would call the living room but the rich probably had a more apt name for the cold luxurious space. She had no family or friends, she had left her abusive narcissistic family in Minnesota when she was 17 and never looked back.
Everyone hear... | Heh isn't life beautiful.
A short trip of the privileged has left the world to it's own devices. Middle managers became CEO's, and random friends filled the role of middle managers.
It was laughably normal, to the point where one would think rejoining would be simple.
It was not, as those now in power clung so ti... | 2019-12-07T07:08:40 | 2019-12-07T07:02:49 | 107 | 14 |
[WP] Write a romantic comedy. Difficulty: both lovers are emotionally mature and have excellent communication skills | Bobby’s eyes widened in a mixture of shock and amusement, ‘Sorry, can you repeat that?’
Sally, his date, didn’t seem in the least bit fazed. She looked up from her food and stared directly at him, her dark eyes devoid of humour, and repeated. ‘It’s odd.’
Bobby sucked his teeth slightly annoyed at having to clarify hi... | "Well I'm really bad with dates, you know?" He told his girlfriend Danielle as they walked through the mall with their friends. They had taken a temporary stop in front of a Gamestop while their friend Green to the Starbucks stand.
"Uh-huh." She said, only half listening. She held Angels hand and was on her phone wit... | 2016-09-21T02:40:06 | 2016-09-21T01:17:22 | 1,038 | 35 |
[WP] Since you were born you have received an anonymous letter on the same date every year. The first one stated “see you in 35 years” and the number has dropped by one year every note since. You just got the last ever letter “see you tomorrow”. | Today I turned 35 years old. Most people would have a celebration on their birthday. They'd have a cake with candles and friends over with tons of activities. But me? I'm in a bunker 300 feet in the ground by myself surrounded by enough food, water and supplies to last me half a century. Today just like on all of my bi... | The letters. The damned letters found me every year. Last year I spent the whole month of August deep sea fishing, miles away from shore and technology, to for once avoid this cyclic event that haunts my otherwise normal life. But again, it didn’t work. 3 days into the trip I open my tackle box. (A box I had packed mys... | 2019-01-06T21:18:20 | 2019-01-06T20:35:06 | 138 | 17 |
[WP] You have one super power: The ability to know without fail what the truth is to any asked question. You planned to help the world as a super hero. It took you six hours for the government to declare you public enemy number one and the most deadly super villain alive. | The thing about knowing the answer to any question is that there’s actually one question that I don’t know the answer to. That is, I haven’t the slightest damn clue how I got this power.
I’m serious. You might think I was born this way, or maybe was caught in some industrial accident or was born of twisted scientific ... | Somewhere between ordering her first cup of coffee and pulling out of the drive through Dakota realized she hated her life. Not in any kind of grim, suicide-y sense, but 22 years of disillusionment with her parents, friends, and every boyfriend she’d ever had would do that to a person. Of course in the matter of her ex... | 2020-11-30T12:59:18 | 2020-11-30T12:34:28 | 1,396 | 110 |
[WP] It was widely believed that all sapient life had to develop psychic abilities of some sort, so there was a lot of confusion when the apparently powerless humans arrived on the scene. As it turns out humans do have a very powerful ability, the entire race is a massive psychic drain | Like a gentle river current his message washed over me. It massaged my grey matter, informed me of his intention with perfect, pleasing clarity. He wanted to go to the tanks. Wonderful, we both loved the tanks. We flashed cool blue images and fantasies through each other as we grasped tentacles and headed out of our po... | He felt it as soon as the consulate ship arrived in orbit. An empty void where there should be signs of life. From a hatchling, he was taught that all life was bound together from the Magic's of the life givers. Even in death, the latent energy was only transferred, recycled.
But this... this alien darkness. This voi... | 2019-05-09T08:40:22 | 2019-05-09T08:25:11 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] You awaken surrounded by the enemy, who are staring at you in disbelief. "What are you?" One of them asks. | While I sleep, the fortress is breached. It cannot be helped. I am exhausted. I have limits, and they too have been breached.
I awake to Zvallan faces, wreathed in open, iron helms, staring at me in confusion and wonder and the faintest inkling of fear. They have likely seen many things they could not comprehend on th... | "What do you mean?" I asked.
I heard a groan from behind me. I turned to look. Bodies on bodies on bodies piled high around me, as far as the edge of the battfield. Mountains of corpses. Puddles of blood big enough to splash in. Bones that were shattered in ways that would never heal right ever again.
"I don't..." I... | 2018-03-03T09:50:59 | 2018-03-03T08:54:17 | 87 | 17 |
[WP] One day you notice you haven't seen any Hitler related writing prompts for a full hour at least.
Well... | *Huh. No Hitler today.*
It was an odd thing to whine about, but alternate history places drew in Hitler posts like they're secretly a bunch of Neo-Nazis. There was always, without fail, at least one Hitler prompt every hour. I could never understand how people could always come up with new ideas (What if Hitler was Ba... | I was browsing /new, looking for karma opportunities when I noticed something was off. I hadn't seen any Hitler prompts for a while. I checked around other subreddits, and there were still Hitler posts appearing everywhere else.
Maybe a new rule had been added? I read through the sidebar, and didn't see any new rule,... | 2015-05-06T17:21:40 | 2015-05-06T17:05:17 | 96 | 54 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | For us, the fun was all in trying to get our friends to figure out who we were currently. Just imagine the frustration and eventual hilarity when you were being pranked by someone you thought you didn't know from Lucifer himself, only to find out decades on that you actually did know them. Our souls were what were im... | Dinosaurs was our best one, hands-down. The Church of Latter Day Saints is second-best, but gets points taken off for being a religion (too easy to pull off, religions, in my opinion). But our funniest one, I think, was Michael Jackson.
Some of my friends would agree with me, but not most. The irrelevancy of his life ... | 2017-06-22T22:52:58 | 2017-06-22T19:14:24 | 41 | 23 |
[WP] - 10 years ago today, on the 28th of June 2009, Stephen Hawking hosted a Time Travellers Party, only announcing the event after it had occurred. The press reported that no one showed up, but as the clock struck 12, the doors opened and Professor Hawking was met by his first guest. | "Hello again Stephen."
Stephen turned just in time to see a much older gentleman grabbing a small sandwich off the table and sitting across from him as if he had done it a million times before.
"Again?" The familiar drone of Stephen's chair-voice responded quizzically to the use of the word. He had never met this ma... | “Professor Hawking, I’m glad to finally meet you in person.”
The man standing in the doorway was dressed in a rather complex suit of colors and accessories.
Hawking was silent. He’d known about the designated time for...visitors, and that this one was late. If the newcomer were then...why?
Suit man smiled.
“Lin... | 2019-06-28T11:57:16 | 2019-06-28T11:18:46 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Your majesty.." The diminutive, four-legged creature said, bowing formally.
"Step forward, High Engineer Raxus. I assume you have made progress regarding the device?"
"Indeed. My team has finally replicated the software needed to access it; it contained *hours* of footage, your majesty..." He stated, before hesitat... | "We are here to conquer your planet please surrender without a fight!" exclaimed one of the aliens.
"Screw you this is Earth!" angrily yelled out by a redneck
The alien looks around in utter disbelief, within the second he fearfully asked, "Is this the place with humans?"
As a child walks up to the alien to ask him a ... | 2017-03-06T01:24:08 | 2017-03-05T23:39:35 | 112 | 33 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | As at the beginning, the end, was quiet.
The riots, the fanaticism, the debates. All in the past and out of humanities system already. The world, after a sudden flaring, had calmed down in the last weeks.
The skies cleared up due to travel restrictions. Animals returned to urban centers. Rivers cleared up. The world ... | "well, this is utter shit."
Samhail, God of the Ocean Sky muttered as he paced around the planetarium, eyeing the universe. His universe. What started out as an ever evolving painting of life had finally begun eating itself. And on top of that, his pet Glorff had shat itself right in the middle of the room.
"every t... | 2020-03-24T04:08:25 | 2020-03-24T02:56:39 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Write a romantic comedy. Difficulty: both lovers are emotionally mature and have excellent communication skills | Bobby’s eyes widened in a mixture of shock and amusement, ‘Sorry, can you repeat that?’
Sally, his date, didn’t seem in the least bit fazed. She looked up from her food and stared directly at him, her dark eyes devoid of humour, and repeated. ‘It’s odd.’
Bobby sucked his teeth slightly annoyed at having to clarify hi... | *Was this it?*
Ahmed let out a deep sigh. As the CEO of Jhelum's #1 stamp factory, he was the wet dream of every Pakistani mother. Just the last week he had been approached by 14 of them. To be sure, some of their daughters were quite nice. But they all seemed to miss something. Something he couldn't quite grasp.
"Yo... | 2016-09-21T02:40:06 | 2016-09-21T00:51:58 | 1,038 | 549 |
[WP] The superhero stared at the supervillain. "I need your help...they have my daughter." | The man dropped his hands, purple black wisps of energy fading and dark shadows receded, revealing a plain looking person with a look of confusion on his face. “You hounded me for days, broke into my sanctum, to say that?”
The woman in sliver bright armor nodded, hands normally wielding sword and shield with confidenc... | A grin came over his face as he recognized that voice. All 4 of his limbs were immobilized and a strange helmet-like device was locked over his head, ready to deliver mind-numbing electric shocks at the touch of a button.
"How hilarious! The great Walking Marvel, pleading with me for my help."
"Please. I don't have... | 2017-12-17T11:49:46 | 2017-12-17T09:09:00 | 293 | 39 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | The Grim Reaper tracked down the rightful owner, or maybe the rightful property, of the hourglass. He took a moment to consider whether the human owns the hourglass or the hourglass owns them. After all, can something that controls your fate really be called *your* property?
Wondering about the curious case of... | "Oh my", Said Death. Underneath the very large dark desk he found a life.
He picked up the dusty vessel and turned it around in his bony hands. One of the downsides of not having skin, he decided, was that it was a bother getting dust off placards.
This was not good. Well, not that it was bad per say but most certa... | 2018-10-03T07:33:11 | 2018-10-03T06:25:35 | 422 | 110 |
[WP] Humanity finally makes contact with aliens. They are about 30 light years away, and their civilization is approximately as developed as ours - they do not have means of interstellar transport. We can only engage in two-way conversation with them using messages 30 years apart. | For almost as long as humans have had radios, we have screamed into the void.
The year is 2023, and four hours ago the void screamed back.
Researchers at the SETI Institute (or Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence Institute) were just streaming in for work and starting to review last night's anomaly logs. Normally... | We know that the aliens have a language similar to ours. There are about 20 alien words for which we have no equivalent in our language, and these are translated into English by translators. However, the aliens' grammar is very different from ours, and their language is more complex than ours. The aliens speak at a rat... | 2022-04-18T16:58:09 | 2022-04-18T15:05:17 | 181 | 19 |
[WP] You taught yourself Morse code. You also realize that the birds at your window won't stop tapping out "It's coming". | I befriended a crow I simply named "Crow."
Crow showed up at my bedroom window seal one morning once the sun peered over the horizon. He cawed relentlessly until I looked up from my pillow. The bird leaned towards me and pecked the window.
I gave him the finger.
*Noted*, I imagined Crow thought as he tilted his head... | *Tap.*
*Tap, tap . . . tap, tap, tap.*
*Tap . . . tap, tap, tap . . . tap . . . tap, tap . . . tap.*
"Jack . . . are those birds using Morse Code?" His girlfriend asked, glancing over at the row of squawking birds on the sill outside the glass.
"Just ignore them," he said between grunts. Eyes closed, he was giving ... | 2022-09-02T07:07:44 | 2022-09-02T07:07:37 | 73 | 25 |
[WP] "Well you managed to fucking do it. You slept through the apocalypse"
. | They all thought I was crazy!
*"There goes Uncle Joe again! Building a bunker in the backyard like some sort of loony."*
Well, I'll tell you what, even if you're not around to hear it any longer:
"I told you so! You ungrateful bastards!"
Could'a, should'a, would'a listened- but you didn't! Always telling me I was *... | I walk through the streets with blood and puke stained clothes, an ax in my left hand and a .45 pistol in my right. I walk like I fucking own the place because I do. All of the sudden an SUV full of those fuckers rounds the corner puke and blood spray out the windows... But wait lets take it back a step about 3 days. I... | 2016-03-11T09:02:36 | 2016-03-11T08:55:57 | 142 | 11 |
[WP] The captain drew a shaky breath as another body floated by. She whispered into the microphone, "Air Traffic Control, something very, very wrong is happening."
NOTE: This was posted here, by request, from r/TwoSentenceHorror | It started with some minor turbulence. Captain Rachel Clement came over the P.A. system from the cockpit to the passengers, asking everyone to return to their seats and buckle their seatbelts. Then the flashes started.
“What was that?” her co-pilot asked with a blink.
Rachel suddenly found herself tense, as if her se... | The day started like any other, I was doing my routine route from Atlanta to a smaller airport in Canada, this time as a copilot, as I was the younger pilot. It was when I was crossing the border that I noticed the first body slowly rising from the ground, face turned up, and arms spread about as if welcoming someone, ... | 2021-03-17T08:27:36 | 2021-03-17T07:15:11 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You and your partner bought a pair of rings that let you feel each heartbeat from anywhere in the world. Your partners dies and you bury them with the ring. Years go by and you havnt gotten over them. Out of nowhere they appear at your doorstep... still wearing the ring. But you feel no pulse. | "How could I ever let us die?" was what he had said when I told my fear for the first time. We had been together for a year then, and known each other for 5 years.
My fear of one of us dying, leaving the other to suffer for the rest of his life.
"We may be both martial artists, but we might still get shot. You can't ... | I woke up to the smell of morning rain, I always slept better when it was raining. I stared up at the ceiling, habitually twisting my engagement ring around my finger. My fiancé and I weren’t really the traditional type, we were together for ten years and swore we would never marry. Finally he convinced me to go throug... | 2020-08-06T08:54:38 | 2020-08-06T08:34:38 | 59 | 34 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | FADE IN:
INT. THE SECRET HALL OF GALAXY-CENTRIC WORRYING
*A dozen creatures of various species sit around a large table. One of them – something that resembles an eight-foot-tall Möbius strip crossed with a large slug – begins to speak. This is YARLGH.*
**YARLGH:** I call this session of galaxy-centric worrying to o... | **"We need allies, General."** Savar raised a hand and spun the three-dimensional star map. "Humanity cannot stand alone."
"Humanity cannot *stand*, period," General Thurmond snapped. "[Those damned bugs](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mk92i6/wp_it_turns_out_that_humanity_is_the_only/) were *born* wit... | 2021-04-07T17:45:17 | 2021-04-07T17:31:05 | 186 | 119 |
[WP] In the Demon Hunters Academy you are known as the very best professor, 80 years old but still in your prime, but you're secretly a demon, and the academy recently got some new demonic detectors, and as opposed to the old ones, these actually work. you can only avoid the main hall for so long. | "... And that concludes lecture 1, where we discussed how to tell demon summoning circles apart from hopscotch. Essentially, if you see squares in a row, *do not shoot* -- especially not if the human drawing it appears to be a little boy. If it's a little girl, ask if it's in the girlscouts. If it's not, then -- *and o... | I took in a deep breath, straightened my back and with my head held high I entered the Deans office.
"Ah, Luther. Thanks for coming, please take as seat."
Ok so no blessed arrows or holy runes yet. Did I get away with it? Pretty sure the whole damn building heard those alarms go off... and the dark miasma that the... | 2020-07-02T18:10:32 | 2020-07-02T17:58:21 | 637 | 156 |
[WP] Every year, every 18yr old takes a mandatory test. Speaking about it is prohibited. Everyone who gets 95% or above gets sent away, and nobody knows where to or why. You sign in to see your mark, and despite completely guessing on every question, you got a 96%. There's a knock at your door. | “See?! Look.” Matt pointed his finger at the screen. “I’m telling you Lauren - it’s all bullshit.”
Lauren scooted closer to Matt’s computer. It was one of those old laptops from the late 21st that had a physical hard drive and display screen. Matt was the type to not trust cloud storage, even though data security was... | So here I go, I am not an English native speaker (French in fact) so might be some grammatical error, but well it got me some ideas, so wanted to try some work and practice :)
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**Just breathe**
I am breathless, my body shivers and I can't control it.
"What is going to happen to me now" - I start mumb... | 2019-02-22T02:57:34 | 2019-02-22T01:45:26 | 54 | 10 |
[WP] You and friend agree that if one of you invents time travel, they will come back to this very moment. As you shake on it, an older and injured you shows up and shoots your friend in the head. | I've never written a short story (outside of like, elementary school) so please excuse formatting/weird writing. I just hop you get the idea that I had!
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“Deal?”
Jay just looked at me with that wide-eyed wonder he always had. A smile danced across his face as his hand extende... | I recoil in shock, blood suddenly all over my clothes, my face, my everything. Andrew’s body falls to the ground, lifeless.
He’s gone.
My best friend for my entire life is now dead before me, and in a sick, twisted way, it was me who killed him.
It dawns on me that what happened wasn’t normal, and I turn to the mur... | 2018-10-11T22:40:57 | 2018-10-11T21:06:23 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] You lived a quiet life, and in passing Death comes to collect your soul, but Death seems afraid of you. | Susan nervously grasped the door handle and turned it ever so slowly. Halfway through her arm began to shake with anxiety. A cold sweat swept over her as she completed the turn. She could have just appeared inside the quaint little house but she did not dare be so direct and impolite. Taking a deep breath she opened th... | **I** could feel the hot asphalt begin to cook the flesh of my back. My blood painted on the street, cooking, stinking, darkening into a gelatinous pie. A pie in the shape of a bus's tire tracks. A crowd cluttered around the scene, including news teams, emergency personnel, and nosy civilians. The EMT's felt my wrist, ... | 2015-04-03T11:07:18 | 2015-04-02T16:44:00 | 45 | 18 |
[WP]You are a caretaker at a retirement home for reformed supervillains. You have just found out that you have a superpower ,now the ex-villains wanna train you to be a superhero . | Inside the building, they were none-the-wiser.
The ex-villains spent more time than most nursing home residents exercising. As such, as I peered in around the door frame, most were lost in their own worlds on various pieces of exercise equipment. I bit my lip, giving the room a twice-over to ensure the best plan of ac... | It was a stupid mistake. I was crossing the street in front of work and was so focused on my phone I didnt see the cement truck trying to run the stop sign. Until it hit me. Or tried to. The steel frame wrapped around me. The engine split in two in front of me. But I didn't move. When everything settled, I stretched my... | 2019-04-15T10:55:17 | 2019-04-15T10:30:50 | 1,414 | 162 |
[WP] You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all. | “Hitler? Yeah. Heard of the guy,” Gabriel sighed out between big drags to finish his cigarette. He tossed it, snapped his fingers, and conjured another – his favorite bit of prestidigitation – before looking back out over the expanse. This high up on the bone cliffs, the angel liked to say, the wails and weeping and ex... | Hell was a terrible place.
I know that was an understatement but I felt that it had to be said and for the record I’d like to also say that I don’t deserve this.
What was this might you ask?
This, was being surrounded by history's greatest (or worst depending on your definition) killers in human his... | 2018-06-17T19:20:48 | 2018-06-17T19:10:54 | 105 | 38 |
[WP] The protagonist is entierly overprepared for the wrong genre. They make it work. | “How many has it killed?” I asked, risking a quick glance over my shoulder as I pressed the shotgun’s barrel against the kitchen door and slowly pushed it open.
“Killed?” The man cowering in my footsteps ask, his voice quivering in confusion.
I let out a sigh. Frickin’ amateaurs.
I had been hunting the things that go... | My name is Nikhil Roy. I was fairly certain my life was a sitcom for the majority of my life. I did everything necessary, became a great second city comedian, gathered a large mass of money to make sure that I would be able to simultaneously struggle with rent occasionally and live in a cushy New York apartment. I made... | 2016-11-02T10:16:36 | 2016-11-02T07:42:31 | 124 | 45 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | In the beginning, we started small- pranks like flies in the mead, or sawing off swords at the hilt before a battle. My personal favorite was paying off the whores to shit under the sheets during the act, but that's another story for another day. And I have plenty of days left.
Once, one of us even played dead, thou... | "Hey Tony," John said "in ten thousand years pull my finger."
"Okay, sure" Tony said
Ten thousand years pass.
"Well, John. It's time for me to pull that finger of yours."
"Here it is." John said with a grin.
Tony reached for Johns finger. As he pulled it John audibly farted.
"Aww, gross!" Tony said, pinching his nose.... | 2017-06-22T19:24:49 | 2017-06-22T19:04:31 | 4,256 | 309 |
[WP] You discover a library with a biography for everyone on Earth. While reading your own, you notice that whenever someone else is mentioned, there's a footnote showing where you can find their biography. Its odd how someone who was only a sentence in your book has a whole chapter for you. | *Carl ended up going to prom with Alice, I hated him.*
I giggled as I read the line. This library of biographies is fantastic. There is so much memory of each person, all collected within one room. Everyone’s life is recorded, every scrap of information, every thought, every emotion they felt at the moment. There is ... | With a growing curiosity, I fell back into my chair and looked at the book in front of me. "Lisa Matherson. The Autobiography." Nope. Definitely never heard her name before. The contents displayed three chapters. Unreal. A chapter I can kinda understand, but two hundred pages? Insane. "To James. My sun and my moon," i... | 2017-12-04T03:50:20 | 2017-12-04T03:12:19 | 4,737 | 25 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | You stare at the mirror for a few more moments as you brush your teeth. Surely, it's joking. You spit, and let out a nervous chuckle after wiping the toothpaste from your lips.
"Maybe I'll have to run for the bus today."
You try to shake it off, and go on to get ready. You go a little faster than normal, expecting th... |
It’s hard to say when it started, or even when the first Message came. Most mornings, when I’d go into the bathroom, I might see one in the mirror’s reflection, just in sight in black letters. They usually consisted of advice, telling me to water the cactus next week, or to not go into Subway that day – I was feeli... | 2020-06-08T00:10:27 | 2020-06-07T23:56:26 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | I slammed my hand down on the snooze button once again. Not even sure how many times I had repeated the action up to that point as I desperately tried to sleep off the hangover knocking on the inside of my skull. I had just turned 21 the night before, and took full liberty of celebrating it alone in a bar near my apart... | *For the record, I did not check the comments to see if anyone had used this idea I apologize if I have copied anyone, here we go!*
The Iridashi Companion Creator, or ICC, was created back in the year 2075, and has been creating companions or more commonly known as "Familiars" for people ever since. It was found in a... | 2017-01-20T16:07:07 | 2017-01-20T16:05:25 | 171 | 11 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every person develops a magical power. Yours is the power to fluently read and speak every language in the universe. At first you thought the had the worst power on earth, that was until you you realise that the universe has it's own language.
Sorry for the double you, my bad | It was supposed to be exciting. Jamie wanted flames that poured from his hands or strength that could knock down walls. After years of being mediocre, turning 18 was his time to shine. Instead, he got...languages? It was stupid. His power was supposed to be a reflection of who he was. Jamie had failed Spanish not just... | The realization of the true horror of the universal language come upon me slowly.
At first I assumed it was an error, the kind I had seen innumerable times before on the outer worlds, in the triplamine dens, on the Reddit. But this one was persistent, consistent, dare I say it - insistent - in its rejection of all that... | 2019-12-22T11:07:03 | 2019-12-22T09:57:31 | 112 | 24 |
[WP] There's a lot of controversy over the hero marrying the demon queen, but they're pretty happy together, and at least the wars over. They're expecting their first in the spring! | [Part 1 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/dexdrafts/comments/pziiq9/wp_so_when_you_said_that_your_curse_would_bind/)
Of the numerous unexpected events that have occurred in Azokyn’s magical and fulfilling life, an invite from Alban the paladin and Lilith the demon queen about a baby shower might rank near the top. Never ... | Our hero puts his hand on the soon-to-be due belly of the demon queen as she wonders about the baby’s future.
“When he is born, he shall rule with an iron fist over the land!” - The demon queen proclaims.
“We’ve talked about this.” - the hero replies- “He or she will be a kind and fair ruler”.
“Who will crush the ... | 2021-12-31T11:44:11 | 2021-12-31T10:57:35 | 65 | 37 |
[WP] Humans and gnomes have lived together in peace for generations, but some humans want to strip away gnomish rights and force them into servitude. Today is the day that the senate votes on the anti gnomish legislation, proposed by a group of human senators. | **An American Gnome**
Senator Dipp Nellbar (D-MT) faces the horde of press cameras and microphones from the steps of his Capitol Hill townhouse – his preferred place, as it lifts him closer to eye-level with his human counterparts.
Press gaggles are bad enough when you’re not dodging knees and handbags. At least here... | The regression was alarming, to say the least.
When the concept first floated, it was already a stupid joke in very bad taste. It was not even a bad taste, more just unthinkably dumb. To divide us.
Humans and gnomes shared the same sapience, the same humanoid shape, hell, even the same cultures. The difference betw... | 2022-01-11T07:36:31 | 2022-01-11T06:56:58 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *Leper*
I felt guilty the moment I thought the word. It was the common way to refer to humans among many races. It was a word they themselves often used. But I knew its origin and context. Humans may use it in a joking fashion, but I knew (as did they) most used it in a derogatory way.
But it was still the first word... | In an instant you could hear a pin drop in the mess hall. The conversations, clicking of silverware, rattling of tables, and even the very air stopped. Every other alien inside froze in fear and looked down at their food. I had started vomiting.
For a moment even I was worried - food poisoning was never fun as I woul... | 2021-02-03T19:38:43 | 2021-02-03T19:28:38 | 1,400 | 155 |
[WP] A young dragon sets up their first own lair. Always having been interested in the civilized races such as humans, elves and dwarves unlike other dragons, they decide to visit the nearby village to introduce themselves. | I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Walking up the road was a blue dragon who kept talking and looking around. I couldn't quite make out what they were saying until they caught up with me and my horse.
"Hello, Mr Human, Mr. Human. I am not here to eat you or your horse. Don't be afraid of me, please."
"Is this ... | Finally, Tyranotus thought, my own lair. After fifty years of living with his mother, he had been able to find his own place. He had scoured the lands, trying to choose the optimal place to reside.
Most of his kind preferred secluded locations, that were hard to reach by any other means than flying. A few made theirs ... | 2022-02-16T11:54:27 | 2022-02-16T10:58:23 | 117 | 46 |
[WP] "How the hell are there FIFTEEN sides in this civil war?" | (This is really stupid, but I've done it now.)
Somewhere in rural Hertfordshire, a commander rallied her troops.
“And remember, when you hold your sword aloft in no man's land, when you stare your enemy down in the moment before bloodshed, remember for whom you fight...”
The warriors stood shoulder to shoulder as th... | "This isn't really a fifteen-sided war, General. You cannot honestly tell me that we will stand a chance of winning."
"You're still here, aren't you, Lieutenant?"
"Sir...all I've ever known is here. This group...this side in the war...I cannot leave."
"Just the answer I expected, son. You are an honorable man. Given... | 2016-04-08T17:15:24 | 2016-04-08T16:41:52 | 194 | 12 |
[WP] In the year 2028 society has collapsed, and all that is left is your small town. Every week, an empty train passes through the town; anyone that boards it never returns. One day you decide to get on. | The eerie roar of the Iron Howler screeches through White Orchard as it announces its arrival. It looms before me, its metal legs chittering against its bonds as it comes to a halt.
Some say the Howler was named after the wrought iron wolf sitting atop its head, while others say the howl in question was the result of... | The train was a promise. We weren't sure what the promise was but we knew we were all that was left other than the train. Cell phones, internet, even radio was silent outside our little town. There were lots of rumors of other persons, but tales of murder, torture, and cannibalism caused us to isolate.
Due to these ... | 2018-08-22T22:56:02 | 2018-08-22T21:38:54 | 218 | 21 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | You know, there's often a saying in the military. There are bold soldiers, there are old soldiers. There are no old, bold soldiers. It's the same for us villains. The ones who last long are the ones who never make flashy moves. If your plan is going well, don't brag about it. If you have the upper hand, ball it into a ... | The fire crackled and popped, illuminating the entrance of my lair. They broke in all at once. Half a dozen heroes, none of which it seemed knowing how to use the door, might I add, stood before me.
“It’s over Mania, the jig is up,” their leader, Captain Heronius stated.
I could care less. If they want to invade and ... | 2019-08-06T21:27:26 | 2019-08-06T16:11:22 | 63 | 41 |
[WP] You're a dark lord and there's a prophecy that says that a blonde haired boy named James will kill you. The issue is that every parent with a blonde haired boy names their son James in hopes of becoming famous. | Scouring the earth for assassins was almost more annoying than actually being killed by one. Lord Silas didn’t believe in the silly prophecy of the blonde boy named James who would one day usurp him, but the populace of his kingdom sure seemed to embrace it. Parents had actually begun naming their boys James on purpose... | Ah, this is just ridiculous!
Ever since that prophecy every God darned parent with a blond haired boy names their child James!
I understand I'm a pretty famous dark lord for what deeds I have accomplished, but seriously, people need to start calming down.
Of course one day I'm going to be killed by someone. And of c... | 2019-06-16T09:08:13 | 2019-06-16T08:05:42 | 153 | 42 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | “The Red Phone” was a joke. My wife had bought it for me as a prop when I had told her I got elected President of the book club.
“A President needs a red phone!” had been her gleeful cry when I had opened the mysterious parcel. It was a cheap plastic thing, garish and bright. A child’s toy.
And I loved it.
It sat on... | The Red Phone rang.
And I did not answer.
Reflecting on the situation, it was clear from the first moment it was bad - real bad. I'm only ever called upon if it's absolutely dire, and I can't blame them. What I can do, it's... scary. Scares me too. Wouldn't want to be near me either, but I do not have the privilege o... | 2022-03-29T02:39:22 | 2022-03-29T01:37:03 | 609 | 79 |
[WP] You are a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and you have just landed safely in Beijing. As you disembark you are met by gawking crowds of people. The year is 2018.
Passenger/Crewman, whatever you will.
Also, I am terribly vexed. | The Plane tires screeched as they hit the runway of Beijing. Then the Pilot came over the intercom.
'Ladies and Gentleman we would like to welcome you to Beijing International and the People's republic of China, we apologise for the delay we experienced during flight, it has made this flight feel a lot...longer....'
... | There was pandemonium in the plane as all of the passengers tried to exit as fast as possible. Some people were crying, others kissed the ground and promised they would never fly again.
I disembarked slowly, not wanting to get swept up in the madness.
"That was a long flight," I say, raise my arms and let out the lon... | 2017-11-18T11:43:04 | 2017-11-18T11:30:08 | 226 | 16 |
[WP] A summoned demon can always be defeated by the summoner, thus the caliber of demon is dependent on the power of the summoner. You were surprised to see Satan Himself stood before you, and so was He. | **The King Mage of Nothing**
The heathen armies of the North had been sieging the Capitol for three years. In that same time, I’d lost my three children. First it was starvation, which claimed my baby boy. Then it was disease, which claimed my only daughter. And finally it was the unrest, the riots, which had claimed ... | ...Oh fuck off
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I look up from my tome and almost spit my drink out.
before me stood a demon. Horns tail and all. and he was piiiiiisssssed.
maybe I should tell you how I got here. you see I enjoy cursing in latin. so when I dropped my coffee and it spilled in a pentogram naturally I grabbed everything ... | 2022-01-30T08:40:24 | 2022-01-30T06:53:47 | 316 | 52 |
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