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[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | I had died. I was alright with that, I had lived a long and happy life after all. I'd done all that I had wanted to; seen most of what there was to be seen. It hadn't been a cakewalk, but it had been good.
Even death itself had been OK -- like falling into a deep sleep. One that you know won't end, but somehow, you do... | What a fantastic end to the night. Downtown always looked best after dark and the snow fall added just the right amount of contrast to the scene. It was my annual Christmas office party and we had just left the venue. As I opened the cab door to let my wife in she smiled at me and I thought for the hundredth time how r... | 2015-03-13T14:20:35 | 2015-03-13T14:07:56 | 82 | 15 |
[WP] "A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time. | "OH, THANK GOODNESS!"
Jeff was slammed to the ground as the massive voice rammed into the Earth, cracking buildings and sending people to the ground. Hysteria broke out around him.
"ABOUT TIME THIS STARTED BOILING!"
The sentance was longer, the impact greater. Jeff cried out, he had probably cracked a rib at this p... | #Title: See The Signs
"Do you feel that?" whispered Samantha.
"Feel what?"
The waves weren't so bad that day, outside of Ocean City. Samantha and Leonard liked to soak in the sun off the coast in their yacht when they got the time. Working full time as attorneys didn't always afford them many opportunity to enjoy ... | 2017-03-20T09:03:48 | 2017-03-20T08:56:15 | 562 | 20 |
[WP] Deep beneath the trenches of WW1, there is a hidden tavern run by soldiers, for soldiers of both sides.
I submitted something similar a few months back. Hoping for a few more responses to read :) | The earth shook and bits of ceiling crumbled onto the worn wood bar. Private Porter wiped the dirt away. Only drinks were allowed to spill on this bar. That was the rule. No blood. No dirt. Only beer.
"Where's Henry?" The words came gruff with a heavy German accent.
Porter looked up and spotted an old man, his skin l... | The space wasn't particularly large, but it served well. Almost fifty feet below the trenches of Verdun, No Man's Tavern was one of the only a handful of neutral pieces territory along the front line.
Sergent Henri Rebicheaux took off his helmet as soon as he passed the sign in the tunnel that read "PAS DE TABERNACLE... | 2017-05-22T14:43:41 | 2017-05-22T13:18:59 | 74 | 32 |
[WP] You are a vampire who likes to help humans instead of hurting them, so you became a doctor. Over the hospital's PA system one day you hear "Dr. Acula, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you." | Dr. Acula, incensed, sprints to the hospital's public address office and screams "Are you people NOT AWARE of patient privacy and confidentiality laws?!?! If you EVER reveal the name of one of my patients over the PA system again, I will have your jobs!!"
As the staff stare at him, mouths wide open, chins on the floor... | "Doctor Acula will see you now Mr. Helsing" the nurse flashed a quick smile before hurrying off to tend to the other patients.
Dr. Acula walked to the door, the familiar smell of disinfectant stinging his sharp nose, the smell mingling with the familiar smell of his long time frenemy.
"Abe! Its been so long!" The Do... | 2017-10-01T06:58:24 | 2017-10-01T05:44:26 | 94 | 41 |
[WP] Log 2543: We have landed on the planet known as Earth and have made contact with an inhabitant. They call themselves “Benjamin” and are 5 Earth cycles in age. He wished to engage in an activity known as “hide and seek”. We cannot find him now. Requesting aid. | "Obviously the humans possess stealth technology unlike any we have encountered," Dajos said, "This Benjamin is toying with us. I shall declare Dus Vas when I find him."
"Oh ho!" Norom laughed at his friend, "Dajos of the Hunter's Guild unable to track a child. You will declare the rite of ritual combat with him? B... | "Do we have visual contact?" I ask, speaking to my officers. There is a pause as several people pull up reports and then someone says, "Negative, Sir." I look up at a large digital tactic map that took up the entire one hundred feet of the north wall of my command room. It was currently zoomed in to display a large sub... | 2018-10-04T15:39:30 | 2018-10-04T13:08:48 | 2,138 | 86 |
[WP] Aliens have made first contact with earth. They sent a message, that we decoded and translated to our own languages. The message said: "Greetings, Colony #037. We are glad to see you survived. The others all ran out of resources. May we come over?" | Daisy sat on the covered patio, gazed into the blue horizon, and closed her watery eyes. Her daughter bounced in her lap, wearing a yellow sundress.
“Mama, Mama, the rockets!”
Daisy kissed her forehead. “Yes dear. The rockets.”
Twelve-hundred rockets blazed like meteors, their trajectories carefully studied and pl... | I recieved a text on my phone, the screen lit up with the time and my background image of Devon Jade. I picked up my phone while letting my plane cruise in War Thunder toward an objective, and unlocked it, and opened my Messages app. I had one message, with no phone number, and from what I could read, the message said ... | 2018-12-15T22:46:51 | 2018-12-15T22:29:49 | 206 | 51 |
[WP] Heroes and Supervillains are real. A full scale war between them breaks out and the Supervillains win and slaughter all the Heroes. 4 years later earth is invaded by an advanced species. The Supervillains are now Earths protectors. | When Earth’s mightiest heroes lie together in the mass grave that used to be Manhattan, there isn’t much anyone can do to dispute the claim of rulership given by Earth’s most infamous criminals.
It certainly wasn’t pretty. When the Hudson ran red with the blood of those pure defenders of justice, it was over. Some cal... | We had seen the projections from the third planet from the dwarf star. We all had watched them, over and over. It was required, nay, demanded, to be a part of our daily ritual as our invasion-class ships transversed the subspace between our world and theirs. It would soon be time, and the invasion would begin.
Soon. ... | 2019-03-15T10:51:05 | 2019-03-15T10:38:42 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You are an immortal searching the ends of the earth. Not for "a cure for your curse", but for a chef talented enough to make a 1,000 year old recipe like mom used to make. | The chef peered at the faded recipe. She looked so much like my mom: Exact same hair in the exact same bun, exact same never-quite-eats-enough sort of thin frame, exact same wrinkles, even. "Lessee...Sheep intestines? We don't normally have that, but hey, this is Scotland. James, run down to the butcher and ask him if ... | It was the shabbiest place I had ever seen. Which is really saying something when you think about how much I’ve seen. I lie somewhere between Smeagol and the MCU’s version of Thor on the “Beings Who Observed Much” scale. Bwom scale for short. Yet I never seem to see where I’m going on my many trains of thought...
Anyw... | 2019-11-07T17:13:59 | 2019-11-07T15:12:39 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] “Yeah we didn’t approach humanity cause we don’t like hiveminds,” the alien said on the interview. “Humans aren’t a hive mind.” The interviewer said. “What do you mean? Humans are the biggest hive mind in the universe?” | The being sitting at the bottom of the cargo ramp looked up from his tablet in confusion.
"I asked if you were the ones advertising the job opening for engineering crew. My wife and I would like to apply."
A great clatter of falling metal pipes echoed across the dock, adding its voice to the background noise of weld... | ​
Once I walked amongst the others, dreaming in the daylight. Once I played as i fought to preserve the status quo, with eyes wide open we walked the plank, the world beyond crumbling into chaos we neglected reality. We left it to our machines, the rocks we taught to think, to clean up our messes. They kept... | 2020-11-29T21:13:02 | 2020-11-29T15:47:40 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] You're an alien parasite that have implanted itself into the brain of a developing human fetus. You grew up believing that you are a normal human being until one day when you realized that something is extremely wrong with you. | It started with a pull.
A mere tug, a nod this way or that. Nearly unnoticeable without intent. It was like all of my nerves were subtly dragged, driven by an unknown and unseen force, like the gravitational attraction of a planet many light-years away. But it never felt external—that would’ve been easier to explain, ... | “I can’t have cancer; I’m pregnant.”
I remember my wife Alice saying these words, remembering them echo through me as we both tried to come to grips with the news we’d just received. Of course, the first part of the sentence had no bearing on the second. It’s just the way our minds work, on some level, rejecting somet... | 2021-04-23T11:46:13 | 2021-04-23T09:20:59 | 72 | 54 |
[WP] You're an ancient, long-forgotten trickster god, punished by your peers to spend millennia trapped under a rock bearing the inscription "KICK ME" in a dead language. During an archeological dig, someone kicks the rock. Finally free, you are delighted and horrified that all the gods are missing. | My name is Vilya. I kept the other gods safe while also embarassing them. If I hadn't embarassed them, maybe I wouldn't have spent the last several thousand years under a rock. Every so often I'd hear something, and hope they'd kick the rock, but it was always just a deer, or a wolf, or a lion of some kind. After enoug... | “Hey, keep it moving, you bum.”
I paid the mortal who’d kicked me in the rear no mind. All I could think about was how sweet it was to breathe again, even if I didn’t need it. But it didn’t take long before I was coughing violently. The air was incredibly shitty. Also, I couldn’t sense any other gods! I turned to... | 2021-05-03T00:00:31 | 2021-05-02T23:42:37 | 101 | 20 |
[WP] Scientist have created a machine that allow people a window into alternate realities. It becomes mainstream and people talk about alternate versions of themselves. Finally you decide to take a look only to discover that there are no alternate versions of you. You're the only you in existence. | "Mr. Coleman," the suited man on the stairs said, still and stern as the near clone beside him. "I believe we have the answer to your problem."
Daniel set down the icing spatula and was about to open the door when something stopped him, a gut feeling something was off about these guys. "What problem?"
The man lifted ... | I had a call yesterday on my Looking Glass. Someone from another reality wanted to chat. To gossip, I guessed.
My ex-girlfriend used to gossip about me to an alternative version of herself who had a bald head, as smooth as a marble. They were all bald in that reality: something had leaked into the air twenty years pri... | 2021-06-02T05:38:51 | 2021-06-02T04:55:06 | 508 | 225 |
[WP] The remains of the human race live in a glass dome with no entrance or exit which protects them from the wasteland on the outside, one morning a dusty hand print appears on the outside | For countless centuries, the remainder of humanity has been trapped in an enormous glass dome, blackened on the outside by pollution. Essentially 10 billion or so goldfish in an aquarium painted over with black paint. The identity of whoever placed it there has been lost, as is what it protects us from. As such, it h... | "Everyone stand back! STAND BACK I SAY!" yelled the Mayor, over the cries and voices of a hundred people. The sound would echo back in a deafening tone, from the top of the glass dome. Women were covering their children's ears. Men were scrambling to the front of the crowd. The Mayor stood there, his eyes widened at th... | 2014-12-15T23:12:23 | 2014-12-15T21:18:47 | 367 | 180 |
[WP] An omnipotent being arrives on Earth, and informs humanity that it can answer almost any question. Humanity hasn't found any unanswerable questions after years of asking. | The voice from within the void boomed, "Speak, human, and I shall answer your question. Nothing is unknown to the Great Unknown."
*Finally, after many years of waiting, I shall receive an answer to mankind's greatest mystery. I opened my mouth and asked: O Great Being, why do kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Cru... | The line outside of the palace stretched for miles. Men, women, and children waited patiently for their turn to ask their question. Everyone had a small trinket or token that they would give to Him as payment for his answers. Time drug on for those waiting in line as they inched closer and closer to their destinatio... | 2016-09-09T10:32:24 | 2016-09-09T09:37:52 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | Today was my birthday, finally I was 14. I had been waiting for this my whole life. My family was a proud family of wolves, they called our family 'The Pack'.
My father was a Timber Wolf, his coat enveloped him like tar, sucking in all the light around him. My Mother became an Artic Wolf, white as snow. They were pe... | I wanted to dance, and jump, and sing, but the looks on my parents' faces stopped me cold. I had transformed, rather ungracefully, and stood before my parents, expecting them to be smiling and clapping after they saw me in all my glory, but their faces had fallen. Their smiles vanished and their hands didn't move from ... | 2017-01-21T20:40:55 | 2017-01-21T18:59:29 | 66 | 19 |
[WP] You want to be a bad guy; a real supervillain. You have powers and abilities. You've spent a fortune on making your costume. You have a clever name and origin story. You have everything you need to be a great bad guy, but you just can't seem to be a dick to people | "And now, you will be forced to watch as- oh my god, are you ok? Did I tie those too tightly?"
The Dark Terror moved over to one of the hostages that was wincing. The rope was digging into her skin in a mighty uncomfortable fashion.
"Oh my god I'm so sorry." Said The Dark Terror. "I was in a rush and oh, let me loose... | Frieda had always been a misfit. She'd always been a few pounds too heavy, a few inches too small, a tad bit too uninterested in learning in school. She got beaten for it; beaten hard. Not physically. But words hit worse than any punch; cut deeper than any blade. She was the constant target of ridicule in school. She f... | 2017-09-20T05:08:45 | 2017-09-20T01:10:22 | 305 | 44 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Dear James,
I know I've already written countless letters to you. And I know you've got to be tired of hearing it by now, but I miss you something terrible. You haven't died or anything..you're not sick. In fact, you're perfectly fine, but you're perfectly fine a few hundred miles away and that's what hurts.
I had a g... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T21:28:23 | 235 | 74 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
Its been nearly 15 years since I have seen you. While we were only kids then I think about you often. We were best friends, and even when we had so little and our families argued we still found a way to hang out. Be it play wrestling games in your room, or have grass fights...it was the highlight of my youth. I ... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-06T00:29:01 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | "We're receiving a transmission from Earth. It's about the human specimen we harvested for examination."
"Send it to the bridge. Let's see what they have to say."
*I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very part... | When will they learn?
It was the fifth time in the last decade he had be kidnapped. The lengths the entire planet have gone to in order to rescue him have been astounding, but not all together surprising.
Matt Damon was, after all, a planetary treasure. Mr Damon was targeted as a weak spot for humanity 10 years ago ... | 2018-06-06T16:07:37 | 2018-06-06T16:05:59 | 365 | 21 |
[WP] It’s a weird first date, they seem almost too into you. It’s been a while since you got some action so you go along with it, hesitant to question why they’re so eager. “Head back to mine?”, they say. When you arrive you notice that every wall is covered floor to ceiling with pictures of you. | She sat at a small wooden table, nervously twirling a finger in her hair. The table sat outside of the quaint little cafe, the sunset turning the sky to a beautiful amber.
He had stepped inside to settle up and returned to the table moments later. He extended a hand, saying, "Check's paid. Head back to mine?"
Her pul... |
These things all start the same. I’ve always romanticized those chance encounters you see on T.v. You know the ones, strangers lock eyes across the room, a shy smile here, a playful grin there, the glances are exchanged for a minute or two to spare the embarrassment of her looking at someone else and then you make y... | 2019-06-03T00:39:47 | 2019-06-02T22:10:31 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] You have the ability to see a few seconds into the future when you are in danger. You joined the army and became a captain. You are out on patrol when you notice one of your men getting a transmission you don’t receive. You then see your men shooting you in the back a few seconds later. | A planet covered entirely by city and you'd think you would find a job that kept a roof over your head, but life was tough for a street-urchin. Civil unrest and corrupt police meant survival by sheer luck every night from gangs of thugs or dystopically disenfranchised.
Sometimes it proved useful. You could *feel* ther... | (First comment here and first time writing first POV)
The crackle of a distant radio is what pulls me from my reverie. The night air is cool against my face as I blink to take in the lack of men falling into step behind me. The telltale sound of boots crunching gravel and the swishing of heavy gear is absent in this ... | 2019-06-07T21:44:55 | 2019-06-07T21:15:13 | 63 | 16 |
[WP] You wake up after experiencing a vivid, heart-pounding dream. You tell your partner, only to discover they’ve had the exact same dream. Your phone vibrates with a CNN notification-“The world is panicking: millions report experiencing the same sensational dream.” The dream identical to yours. | [Poem]
The world thinks it was some coincidence
I think it was certainly an offbeat occurence
But in keeping with what's current
Maybe this whole isolation thing has us more
Stir-crazy than a truckload of ice cream.
I mean, how can we all subconsciously dream
About a monkey playing drums with two coconuts
At ... | He stumbles through the city, steam rising from the sewer-vents melding into the clouds giving the world a smokey aura of mystery. Through the fog, the neon sign of the 'Heart O The City' hotel appears, piercing the night with its vibrant colors. He stops, lost. As he stands a flock of sheep wanders past, its shepherd ... | 2020-05-01T16:48:34 | 2020-05-01T16:34:50 | 27 | 11 |
[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." | *If it makes a human sick, it will kill you*
Ashley glanced over the survival pamphlet for the umpteenth time. Pulled off the corpse of one of the invaders that had come from the cosmos above, it was the single piece of information that had turned the tide of the war against the Lar’khii.
Initially it seemed as thou... | “Why are we doing this again?” Glarm asked.
“I want to do a ‘human in a wormhole.’ You know, like a modern version of a ‘canary in a coal mine.’” Gleek said.
“But the whole point of the canary is that it would die easily and be a warning to surrounding life forms.” Glarm said. “And these humans are crazy resistant.... | 2021-02-03T19:32:17 | 2021-02-03T16:54:38 | 102 | 28 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "this is bullshit." satan said from his throne. "utter and complete bullshit." he said gesturing to the portal showing the earth. countless dead from wars, plague and simple poverty. "Fuck this." he said as he stomped off to his desk and picked up the white phone.
"This is the great satan, Heir..." he stopped speakin... | The war had entered the third year. Thousands of lives lost on both sides. The devil sat there, watching as humans kept destroying terra.
“Fuck it. I’ll do it myself.”
A sinner being boiled nearby in oil gave him the finger guns and in between his screams of agony pointed out that he got that reference. That act ad... | 2021-04-29T20:53:00 | 2021-04-29T19:52:47 | 279 | 119 |
[WP] "Come and sit. Drink some tea. Watch the end of the world with me." | “Ok. Ok. Ok. We need supplies. Check the pantry. I’m getting the cooler from downstairs.”
She sprints downstairs toward the laundry room. She’s freaking out. Understandable given the circumstances. I walk over to the pantry and grab the camomile teabags. I put a few in the teapot, which I already had half full, and tu... | I stared at the woman with bloodshot eyes; my lips were cracked from weeks of exposure to the harsh, wasteland elements, my skin coarse and sand-blasted, my clothing was ragged and filled with holes. I thought I was the last one alive. I've not seen another living soul in... I don't even know anymore. The nukes killed ... | 2022-02-19T12:27:31 | 2022-02-19T08:00:48 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] "Any last words before I eternally claim your soul?" snarled the demon. Terrified, you stood there silently. You haven't said anything in 20 years, yet you still see the demon constantly hovering in the shadows, waiting. | The demon hovered ominously as I poured milk into the cereal bowl. I pushed it out of the way to get to the freezer and pulled out the ice cube tray.
The demon snarled in frustration as I went about getting my breakfast, thoroughly angered by my stubbornness.
Years had passed since it had uttered that once terrifyi... | The human mind has an incredible ability to adapt to almost any circumstance. It may strain under the pressure, but if it doesn’t break it will bend and adjust. Eventually, the new will become more familiar than the old to the point you could never imagine returning to the way things were. To that point - I can’t reall... | 2022-07-11T12:36:14 | 2022-07-11T11:12:58 | 212 | 43 |
[WP] two Isekai trucks both miss the chosen one and hit each other instead | "Behold, your majesty! The hero of legends!" The thick smoke slowly cleared.
The nearby guards waited on bated breath, holding their spears tightly but seemingly leisurely. They certainly didn't want to startle the hero, but they also didn't want to be massacred by an unknown being of unimaginable power.
The king sat... | Sagmaradon the Wise sighed. Everything had gone from bad to worse over the last few years - droughts, famines, wars. It had seemed like a bout of bad luck, until at last the true malevolence behind such catastrophes was revealed - the sorcerer Archduke Baradoon The Benighted, thought dead centuries ago.
The ancient ev... | 2022-07-27T12:19:04 | 2022-07-27T11:57:07 | 172 | 24 |
[WP] You're a bartender at the No Way Inn. The inn doesn't appear to have an entrance, but patrons always seem to find a way inside. The best part of your day is listening to the story of how they got in.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/wpjc02/oc_finally_finished_our_dd_room_after_2_years... | I had an old man, probably my dad's age, stumble into my bar a couple months ago. He was covered in blood and kept saying something about a sinkhole at his ranch. Sinkholes were far and few between. I've had people go into the wrong door at a party or even people saying that the last thing they remembered was being asl... | “And then suddenly the boy was gone and when I turned around,” the large Lumberjack said, turning to the man beside him at the bar. “I was here!” The other man nodded, a look of comprehension on his old wisened face. The bar, unusually quiet for a Friday night, sat only the two men at the bar and Peter.
“Something si... | 2022-08-16T16:10:15 | 2022-08-16T12:19:12 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | 16 years, 16 years of waiting and dreaming of the power I would get. In a million years I could never have imagined this. My class from high school has powers like flight, invisibility, ability to cure illness. What do I get? What is the pay off of all that dreaming and waiting? When I make a gun with my fingers the... | Dear Journal:
I turn sixteen in 2 minutes and 27 seconds. I know because I've been awake all night counting the seconds to midnight. Tonight is special and you know why? At midnight I finally Change! I've waited forever but now I finally get a power like everyone else. What do you think it will be, Journal? Will I get... | 2015-01-21T23:50:44 | 2015-01-21T22:26:31 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] As a joke/Tic, an atheist always thanks the Dark Lord when good things happen. When they die, they are shocked to find out that The Dark Lord is real, and they are his favorite follower, as they never, ever asked for anything.
The Dark Lord's favor could be pleasant, or ironic, or mundane. Or maybe it's a Dark La... | I will always start my day with my Daily Praise and Thanksgiving..
"Praise the Dark Lord"
Even though Im no man of God, i would never falter to Smile and appreciate this make-believe God i knew, for myself..
"Praise the Dark Lord"
Til the day came that i would be put to an eternal slumber, I will worship..
"Praise... | Wait, what? Am I dead?
I looked around, blinking into the bright light. My eyes adjusted and I glanced around. A huge limestone sepulcher stood in front of me (a monument to something or someone, though the details and carvings were indecipherable to me), with steps crudely hewn into either side leading upward no dou... | 2015-08-17T07:06:15 | 2015-08-16T22:52:23 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Nothing stopped Ernest Miller from arriving at work, at 7:00 every morning. Not weather, not the commute, not illness, not death. | When most people tell you stories about a genie in a lamp or bottle, the tales are always so grand and fun. You get 3 wishes to abuse and the genie obliges politely, like a servant or butler, and then goes right back into the lamp and you live happily ever after.
Well, that's a load of bullshit. I found one, and first... | It was Tuesday, the 8th, and Ernest made it to work in record time.
Well, almost record time. He stopped in for a donut, but was surprised to find that while the door to the donut shop was indeed unlocked, there was no hint of fried batter or fresh icing in the air. Instead, he found the shop *empty*.
It was rare fo... | 2016-02-06T10:52:13 | 2016-02-06T09:23:31 | 45 | 26 |
[WP] The plane took off with 81 passengers, and landed with 82. | "You did it!" the fifteen year old son tugged at his mom's sleeves, "Twins!"
The passengers in their seats cheered as father looked down at his wife's face.
At her unblinking eyes.
Her motionless expression.
"Mom?" the son tugged at his mom's lifeless arms once again.
_______________________________________________... | It was 1962, January, and I was on board a plane from London to Warsaw.The Flight started as a usual one. We left the airport in the morning, 20 minutes late, due to sudden bad weather. I sat in my seat, next to an old man, a young couple, and an obnoxiously loud middle-aged woman. As the plane took off I could not hel... | 2016-02-29T09:06:50 | 2016-02-29T09:02:03 | 88 | 14 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | *Wouldn't it be cool if we could control time?*
We've all asked ourselves this question before, some of us spending more time thinking about it than others. Billy had certainly entertained this idea for a while. And after much careless deliberation, his answer was YES!
It is certainly a good thing then, at least for... | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T21:01:01 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone receives a letter when they turn 18 stating how they will die. You've just received your letter, and it's blank. | I dropped the piece of paper. "This is awesome" I thought, "I'm immortal! I can do anything!" and ran out the door laughing at all the things I would try. As the letter drifted to the floor it turned and landed face side up, where two words were printed clearly; "Severe stupidity". | To be 18 an immortal. It really wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
Eve considered not opening the damned envelope at all. The matte black bringer of doom lay on the kitchen table, a retinal scanner blinking incessantly on the front.
There was a certain sick irony to it that she thought represented to state of humani... | 2017-01-17T15:58:50 | 2017-01-17T15:47:45 | 46 | 31 |
[WP]People have powers based on their strongest emotion, and become stronger as they embrace it. Healers might draw power from love or empathy, warriors; anger or self preservation, etc. You draw power from being incredibly sassy.
Or other emotions, like being passive aggressive, or overly dramatic. | People who knew Jaques had a few choice words to describe him. Among them were forward, bold, audacious, and most importantly, full of spirit. It took him a bit of time to hone his powers but once he had it down to a science he would use them indiscriminately.
It wasn't a surprise that he used his "gift" for his own p... | And so it was, that when Meister P finally burst into the throne room, he feared he was too late, for a scene of utter carnage lay before him. At the far end, the Grand Vizier, bursting with foul and bestial magic, stood atop the throne, cackling with unrestrained glee.
“No!” Meister P yelled, running to the fallen bo... | 2017-01-19T07:40:32 | 2017-01-19T06:05:01 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Damnit Susan..."
"I don't wanna see you either Jeff..."
"At least tell me it's something important unlike last time"
Susan blushed, remembering how Jeff had randomly appeared because her (now ex) boyfriend couldn't bring her to climax. Quickly she shook her head.
"No, nothing like last time. Follow me."
She led ... | Garrett had a love-hate relationship with Kelly.
“Are you kidding me? I was in the middle of a job interview, Kelly. Do you have any idea how much you are ruining my life?”
After all this time, he only saw her in her moments of need. That sort of vulnerability can be endearing, even intimate. It is also horribly drai... | 2017-03-22T13:49:02 | 2017-03-22T13:01:32 | 735 | 276 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Damnit Susan..."
"I don't wanna see you either Jeff..."
"At least tell me it's something important unlike last time"
Susan blushed, remembering how Jeff had randomly appeared because her (now ex) boyfriend couldn't bring her to climax. Quickly she shook her head.
"No, nothing like last time. Follow me."
She led ... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T13:49:02 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 735 | 21 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Oh. My. God. Rebecca. What?"
"Steve! Thank goodness you're here. I need help."
"Yeah... I know... What is it this time? Homework? Dishes? Need something heavy moved?"
"No."
"Well, what is it then?"
"I... I can't open this jar."
"What?!? Seriou..."
"Steve! That's not the only thing. I. I'm. I'm also out of toile... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T14:45:31 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 116 | 21 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Alright, next time this happens, just unplug the router, and plug it back in." Marcus said begrudgingly.
Obviously embarrassed, Katie replied "Thank you so much, I don't have any cash on me, but I'll pay you for the bus fare next time"
"Don't worry about it..."
He walked out the door, it was raining, of course. Th... | “You know, have you ever tried being responsible for your own shit, instead of relying on some witches curse to have me do your laundry?”, Shane snarked at Sandra.
“You’re just too convenient.”, she smirked, looking Shane up and down.”Besides, it’s more important than my laundry.” Sandra had gotten into some trouble w... | 2017-03-22T16:11:28 | 2017-03-22T14:43:57 | 65 | 47 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Alright, next time this happens, just unplug the router, and plug it back in." Marcus said begrudgingly.
Obviously embarrassed, Katie replied "Thank you so much, I don't have any cash on me, but I'll pay you for the bus fare next time"
"Don't worry about it..."
He walked out the door, it was raining, of course. Th... | A young man stands in front of a crowded board room his presentation is impeccable. He's worked his way up from intern to junior exec, and it's taken years of late nights to get him to this point. His smart blue suit only slightly lighter than the others in the room, his tie a perfect accent piece to his pocket square... | 2017-03-22T16:11:28 | 2017-03-22T15:05:15 | 65 | 19 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Aphrodite sat with tented fingers, leaning over her magic Pool of Viewing. She cast her gaze into the mortal realm, chuckling as her focus settled on a hapless subject. It was time for the show to begin, time for her blessings to once again fall on the lucky, lucky couple known as Craig and Lindsey. Once, when they ha... | Theme Music: to U by Jack U
The phone clicked dead; Amy’s final words echoed in Sebastian’s mind like the ripples from a water drop. She had every right to want to end things – his disappearances, while random were a constant sore spot between them. What was he up to? Why couldn’t he talk about it? And why did it alw... | 2017-03-22T17:59:57 | 2017-03-22T17:17:28 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Aphrodite sat with tented fingers, leaning over her magic Pool of Viewing. She cast her gaze into the mortal realm, chuckling as her focus settled on a hapless subject. It was time for the show to begin, time for her blessings to once again fall on the lucky, lucky couple known as Craig and Lindsey. Once, when they ha... | There were coke packets on shelves. I'd materialized again. The coke warehouse was filled with Colombian guards. The warehouse was in a rain forest, and the sound of tropical insects was deafening.
I saw Anna, and wondered how the hell she got here. She was trapped right at the back of the warehouse, and was about to ... | 2017-03-22T17:59:57 | 2017-03-22T16:16:19 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | “So, what do you want to try this time?”
I got the distinct idea that St Peter was bored of having to ask me this question. This was the… 27th time, or the 28th. I can’t quite keep track anymore. “Any recommendations?” I asked, exasperated.
“Like I said before, uniting the human race is still at the top of the big man’... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T06:42:01 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 460 | 14 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "What am I doing wrong?"
I said it out loud, but I knew he wouldn't answer. He just sat there and asked again,
"Give up? Or try again?".
His question echoed as if we were in a cave, but the room was about the size of a elevator. It would have terrified me if this was my first time. Tha... | "Patience. Restraint."
This man looks at me from under his glasses. I see the slight nodding of his head. He thinks he understands me. What I need, what I want. How he can fix me.
"So those are the qualities you feel you can improve on?" he asks me. The tone of his voice is condescending, egregiously self-secure. He ... | 2017-03-31T12:40:36 | 2017-03-31T05:57:51 | 71 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone is allowed to recall a specific memory 10 times before it gets wiped from their mind. | Was it eight or nine? He tried to remember how many times he'd recalled his first kiss before it disappeared. The touch of their lips--neither of them knew what they were doing. A sunrise over the beach and an innocent summer romance, about to end amid the bustle of returning to school.
Her hair was long and dark and ... | Atlas clicked the memory chips between his fingers, thinking hard. He kept his anxiety pinned firmly behind his eyes, where no one at the table could see them.
He was one of three left at the poker table, and he seemed to be racing them to third place. With one finger he itched under his T-shirt collar, casually, as i... | 2017-08-04T07:37:17 | 2017-08-04T06:30:33 | 72 | 10 |
[WP] You have just used Pink hair dye without reading the fine print, "May cause Main Character Syndrome." Your day is becoming... interesting. |
###**Diagnostic Criteria for Protagonist Dysphoria with Manic Episodes**^1
DSM-IV Criteria for Protagonist Dysphoria
· Hallucinations prototypically of grandiose nature^2
· Schizotypal responses highlighted by delusional thinking^3
· Periodic states of mania often leading to injury or arrest^4
· Specific sympto... | You would think people would notice a 40 year old guy with pink fucking hair.
As I sit here in bed, ready to write in my journal, I don't know how to describe my day. It just doesn't make sense. I woke up just like any other day, walked the dog, took a shower, died my hair pink... Well, maybe the dying my hair pink... | 2017-12-09T09:07:22 | 2017-10-18T12:11:20 | 377 | 155 |
[WP] Your wife wakes you up. “It’s your turn to feed the baby.” You groan, get up, slaughter a lamb, and toss it into the darkened pit below.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/agyghh/my_wife_rolled_over_and_sighed_its_your_turn_to/?st=JR15QW9S&sh=56b75b5f) | The concern has gradually turned to, not when the child will eat, but if it will choose to feed at all. This was the third lamb in a week's time put to slaughter. The child would crawl on all fours to see what had been tossed down but it barely showed interest in the meat. Inevitably it would start crying again. Yes, t... | Shepherd awoke to the gentle ruffles of his wife shoving a tired hand in his hand. Irritated and red touched, he grabbed her wrist and nodded groggily. He knew what needed to be done.
He went to the kitchen first. If it’d been morning he may have started a cup of coffee, but for now, water would have to do. He drank h... | 2019-01-17T19:13:42 | 2019-01-17T18:09:55 | 83 | 28 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | We wanted the planet, we wanted its resources.
The only way would be to remove the human population. This would be a ground battle, as we couldn't risk destroying the planet.
As a race that had no home to call its home, we've lived in space for the last 8,000 years, pulling resources from anywhere we could find. Eart... | I should have known. They had it all there, available to view on their version of the Hypernet. So much information, the sum of all of their human knowledge all sitting their in that database they called Wikipedia. Their science, their religions, their philosophies, but most importantly their history.
​
If... | 2019-02-26T11:56:18 | 2019-02-26T10:58:57 | 36 | 25 |
[WP] You’re an OSHA inspector and you’ve been recently assigned to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. | "Sir, your factory is a death-trap to workers and visitors a like. You allow employees and non-employees to touch factory goods like unwrapped candies and sweet oozes of all kinds with their barehands then you directly wrap and sell them with no sanitation, there was hair and boat motor oil, other human traces in your ... | “Welcome!” The eccentric man outstretched his hand.
“You must be Mr. Wonka, correct?”
“Certainly so, come on in.”
Standing off to the side, I watched Mr. Wonka greet the other five lucky children blessed to be given a tour of the amazing Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory.
The last bits of normalcy were left at that en... | 2020-11-20T21:58:59 | 2020-11-20T21:36:42 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | "So you're a demon."
"Uh, yeah," came the voice, no longer high and etheric, "apparently there was a mix-up."
"So the fight-club in second grade?"
"Yeah, that was-"
"The minor addiction to glue in the eighth?"
"So-"
"The breakup over the water-mattress?"
"That one may've hurt, but you've *no* idea the bullet you... | Avery entered adulthood with a knife in her hand, slicing through icing and layers of chocolate cake, surrounded by banners and balloon and boxes of presents, and all the people who loved her most. She hadn’t expected her angel to be holding one too.
Ariel hung, translucent, on the edges of her sight, her body not yet... | 2021-05-23T15:12:30 | 2021-05-23T15:05:16 | 1,052 | 201 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | “Okay, you’re going to have to back up.” Hemitilda said while trying to keep her brain from melting. “First off, I have no idea what Pokémon are. Secondly,”
“P-Pokémon are -“ a little boy named Russel says as he shoots up his hand.
“Russel,” the goddess interjects “we talked about this. You raise your hand AND THEN ... | "Wh- huh? Where am I? Am I... awake?" I whisper, suddenly finding myself standing at the foot of my shrine. I look around, so much has changed since I was last here. There is forest where there was once sprawling metropolis. All the buildings made of wood and stone and clay have decayed, leaving only mossy pebbles in t... | 2021-09-02T11:05:56 | 2021-09-02T10:26:34 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You used to be stuck in a 3 year time loop, but you escaped it by building a time machine. However, as you land the machine in the past, you realize that you landed on the exact day you became stuck in it. You realize what you have to do. | I checked my watch nervously. 20:58 and 46 seconds. The hand flicked to 47 seconds. I had 15 seconds left. It was now or never. I pulled the lever and... nothing happened.
'Damn it!'.
If this didn't work, it would never work. I had spent what felt like several lifetimes putting this together. Each time I got closer... | The first few loops were enjoyable enough, even a bit therapeutic. I looked at it as a forced vacation, A nice rest bit, on a beautiful and mostly uninhabited planet surrounded by nature and scenery, from the typical hustle, bustle, and danger that seems to have a death grip on my life.
And the great thing abou... | 2022-04-19T12:39:15 | 2022-04-19T09:05:02 | 108 | 18 |
[WP] You're a retired villain who now runs a 24-7 grocery store. One day a new hero decides to ambush you in your own store. | (I’ve split this story into four parts through four different writing prompts! They are technically standalone, but they tell a more complete story together. This is part four of four, and you can find the previous (third) part here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/zqs5dl/comment/j10vtqo/?utm\_source=... | “Sir, this is totally inappropriate.” I point to the smoking door now impaled in my produce section. “And I hope you know you’re buying me a new door.”
Poor Tom is still staring at the piece of 7 foot metal quivering near his head and the dent my fist made in it when I had to punch it aside to make it miss him.
Th... | 2022-12-20T10:47:30 | 2022-12-20T06:55:50 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] You are the god of dice. Steve plays a lot of dice games. You hate Steve. | Another wisp of papyrus floated in front of Fortuna Iulia's face. He batted it away, irritated. This was the fifth time within the last ten minutes. After the first two came in within a minute of each other, both signed *Steve,* the god of dice decided to ignore the requests.
These humans, now, played their trivial d... | I let out a sharp expiratory breath.
"I need to get loose, feel it." I shook out my fingers and hands spastically, sitting on the edge of my splendiferous throne. Sliding back into my perch, I closed my eyes inhaled and exhaled rhythmically as I had done countless times throughout the millennia. My tension relaxed ... | 2015-07-27T11:54:59 | 2015-07-27T10:38:38 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] A supervillain takes over the world. Inexplicably, the quality of life improves. | "...thanks to you. We can all be grateful our world is now a better place. You've helped us make it a better place."
I knew better.
Hunger is a thing of the past. War is all but eradicated. People have jobs if they want them. That happens when you mobilize multiple countries and put armies to work rebuilding villages... | Six months. That's how long it took Jeremy to get the world back on it's feet. Six months and the homeless disappeared. Six months and poverty was gone. Six months and war and disease and famine and everything that made Earth so *bad* was gone.
I never took him seriously when he first started, when we lived together ... | 2015-12-14T07:56:07 | 2015-12-14T07:00:50 | 20 | 15 |
[WP]When you die you find out heaven is real. Well actually all versions of heaven are real and you apply for them like colleges, you get denial letters and can transfer. You may not get into Catholic heaven, Mormon heaven, or Muslim heaven, but you may be a shoe in for Valhalla.
Friends and I were talking about this ... | “Heavens gates won’t up for me.”
He chuckled mirthlessly. Of all the things to linger in his head at a time like this, a line from Nickelback was what stuck. He didn’t even like them. But the line fit. He looked down at the letter in his hands with disgust and despair. He’d been rejected by Heaven. Not just rejected, ... | Molly scratched her head in confusion as she looked around. The last thing she remembered was screaming in horror as her car lost control on the slick rainy road. How the hell had she ended up in this place? And perhaps more importantly, where the hell was she?
There seemed to be an endless number of desks lined up in... | 2016-07-22T17:14:49 | 2016-07-22T17:13:37 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | I'm gasping for breath.
This is the two-hundred seventy-third time I've had to live through someone's life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, seeing this person's love and hatred, wins and losses, and everything that made them who they were. And inevitably, like all the others, watching through their eyes as the ... | By the time the knife made its final plunge into my heart, I was weak from the struggle and had embraced my inevitable death. It was a traumatic experience, despite my expecting it to occur in precisely the manner I remembered it—albeit, my memory was from the other side of the stabbing. But, I did not anticipate exper... | 2016-11-13T14:15:44 | 2016-11-13T12:24:14 | 186 | 131 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | I'm gasping for breath.
This is the two-hundred seventy-third time I've had to live through someone's life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, seeing this person's love and hatred, wins and losses, and everything that made them who they were. And inevitably, like all the others, watching through their eyes as the ... | Memory transference was the “new humane” form of punishment. It allowed you to force someone to experience memories, an entire lifetime, that wasn’t their own. Some professors even pushed the idea that it could lead to developing a higher level of empathy in these killers.
The man across from me wasn’t going to dev... | 2016-11-13T14:15:44 | 2016-11-13T13:07:18 | 186 | 11 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | He knew what was happening. Of course he did. It was the universe either attempting to punish him for what he did to these girls, or a just and merciful devil who fucking finally got him and was presenting the ultimate reward. He didn't know or care which, because all that mattered was that, in the end, it would end up... | Thwap. Thwap. Thwap.
Something was broken inside Rand's train car this morning. A small piece of metal had broken off near the heavy doors. Every :02 seconds it made contact, caroming off it's former home as far as the separation allowed.
Separation was something Rand knew all about. In his first life. Now. Always. ... | 2016-11-13T14:42:36 | 2016-11-13T12:12:03 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Thousands of years from now when humans are extinct and dolphins are the dominant species they discover a mosquito in amber with perfectly preserved human DNA. Dolphin scientists are able to recreate humans and decide to make a giant theme park where dolphins come to see real live humans. | A few miles down, near the Galapagos, just past one of my favorite kelp forests if you take the South Equatorial Current, is where they are building the land-sea-monkey exhibits. Air-carriers (my buddy Lorenzo is one; he's a whale) have been contracted from all around to supply the caves there with enough air - at just... |
Keglo dashed over the reef and soared through the water towards the entrance of his favorite theme park; Meltdown Park. It was there that an entire zoo full of creatures from the meltdown period had been resurrected and displayed in artificial captivities of what was once their natural atmosphere.
'Whoa, slow down y... | 2017-06-27T06:25:37 | 2017-06-27T04:28:32 | 63 | 13 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "Care for a drink?"
He is grinning at me with a cocky smile, one hand leaning on my table, one pointing towards the bar in the back of the cafe.
I smile at him but shake my head, motioning to the engagement ring on my finger. It's a cheap one- all me and John could afford after we had splurged on the 'Marriage' packa... | "What you have?" I said, smiling at the elderly woman tottering up to me.
"Yes, wait," she said, studying the printed menu behind me. There weren't a lot of words, but everyone understood numbers and burgers. She pointed at the Number Six. I nodded. Money changed hands. After passing the order chit to the kitchen staf... | 2017-09-20T09:38:24 | 2017-09-20T08:43:21 | 1,501 | 802 |
[WP] The first generation of wizards inherits from their parents’ professions. For example, a child of a chef and a swimmer wields fire and water spells. You possess something interesting. | Looking back, I wonder if it had been my powers causing me to be such a problem child. I could never sit still. I always had to be pushing forward.
School was a nightmare because of that. They had us sitting in the same class over and over everyday, retreading the knowledge of those who came before us, but always at s... | I lit my last cigarette, took a drag, then chucked both the box and lighter back over the fence. Lit now, it would stay lit as I held it under the table as a teacher passed by. They were upwind of me and couldn't smell the smoke. I gave them a forced smile as they passed the tables and disappeared back into the buildin... | 2018-04-15T14:08:59 | 2018-04-15T11:14:03 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] All your life, you've had a small empty bar on your hand that reads "XP." Today you hit and killed a man with your car, and the bar began to fill. | I’ve always wondered what it meant.
XP? Like the video games? It just didn’t really make sense. I’d always thought that everyone had it, and I was just another face in the crowd.
Of course, I’d only thought that until I was thirteen, when social awareness hit my little undeveloped brain. No one else had it! I was ‘w... | *Pt. 1 of 3*
Everything was white. The first thing I noticed when I awoke was how bright the ceiling was. Then the pain set in. Gasping in shock, I jolted up. Only, my body didn’t move because I was in a full body cast. The reflexive response only served to cause a tsunami of pain roll through my body, emanating from ... | 2018-07-02T04:29:22 | 2018-07-02T03:09:13 | 2,668 | 35 |
[WP] The world is an MMORPG, and high leveled players can hide their true level and make it a lower one. A bunch of Level 80 people bully your Level 39 persona, but you’re actually a level 325 in disguise. | These three level 80s were really getting on my nerves.
They had come into my shop, companions equipped with real-money skins in tow. All three barely looked at me, the humble level 39 cashier, just trying to scrape by. I was disguised well- basic clothes, no armor, just an iron dagger to deter thieves. As if perfect... | With the introduction of the Oculus Rift into the gaming world, the next big thing was clear from the start: fully immersive virtual reality. With the reveal of the long waited Oculus Agent in 2062 the world of gaming changed forever. I met a beggar on Life With Dragons the other day. This is an... interesting game. I ... | 2018-07-29T12:17:42 | 2018-07-29T11:02:24 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | I look around at each of their faces. How is this happening? I see Mike pass Trae something under the desk and lean over to take a peek. Holographic Charizard. Nice. I laugh audibly, and Trae elbows me in the ribs, nodding towards Mrs. Ratcliff with a “shut up” face.
I look up at my teacher, and my eyes drift behind h... | This was the last time I ever saw them -- will ever see them I suppose. I can't remember what stupid reason I had to be crying before I woke up, but now the tears are real. I didn't necessarily like all of them, but it's hard to care about petty school squabbles... Even the worst of them don't deserve what I know is co... | 2019-08-18T07:49:15 | 2019-08-18T07:28:26 | 133 | 54 |
[WP] Spirit animals are real, but extremely secretive-- they are said to only appear in the most joyous times or in the darkest of hours. Except for geese. Geese do what they like. | I lift my head from the bush I am resting in, and I honk. My human is currently in bed right now, and I can tell she's pissed, though I can't imagine why, it's 7:30 in the morning, if anything I let her sleep in, she should be grateful! As she groans I fly off to the nearby park, her suffering isn't my problem, even if... | **HONK!!!**
"Whoa what was that?" Cathy said as her loud laughter was interrupted by an odd sound.
**HONK!!!**
"Sounds like an old car horn or something, I don't know" Tim said whilst peeking through the blinders from Cathy's room.
He scanned through what little opening the blinders offered. A car, a bike, maybe ev... | 2020-04-03T01:34:35 | 2020-04-02T20:26:44 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] You’re considered the stealthiest person in your spy school because no one has ever caught you during stealth class; therefore, you are chosen to carry out a very urgent and dangerous mission alone. However, the reason no one could find you during class is because you skipped every one of them. | “How does he do it?”
The words floated over to me in my bunk. My eyes were on a book and I hadn’t said a word in an hour.
The discussion continued. It was about me and my ability to go unnoticed. My ability to hide. My considerable talent: invisibility.
That was the assumption. Half joked, half believed.
The truth ... | "The Hawk's on his way," I grimaced into the two-way, rearranging my smile into the most confident one I could muster. "Tell him not to worry too much."
Throwing the contraption down, I attempted to distract myself by imagining that the dull sound of the submarine's motors had some discernible rhythm. The music of the... | 2020-04-17T20:08:30 | 2020-04-17T20:03:13 | 1,434 | 106 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 451 | 47 |
[WP] Governments all over the world cease every space program. Ten years later, a rebellious group is about to launch into space and they finds out why space programs ceased. | "3......2.......1......we have a liftoff repeat we have a liftoff"
That's what they used to say, some guy at Houston or whatever would say it every damn launch. It always seemed a bit weird to me, not sure why, but then again the whole concept of space travel is pretty weird. Weird and cool, that's why I decided to s... | (Part 1)
Everything had worked out so far. Six and a half years of planning, hiding, in secret, risking arrest (or worse) every time we made that long drive through the dust to town to pick up a new package or a new recruit.
At first, it was only Leanne and I - both enthusiasts, educated, but never eligible f... | 2014-12-28T08:45:41 | 2014-12-28T07:45:33 | 323 | 15 |
[WP] "What do you mean the robbers ADDED $4,000,000 to the vault?" | "Wait, what do you mean we're going to ADD $4,000,000 to the vault?"
"That was the boss's orders."
"That makes no sense. Why would someone risk jail to *lose* money?"
"Don't know, don't care. That's what he's paying us for, so I'm doing what I'm told and getting the fuck out of here. Now get to work."
"All right...... | "Well. Guess we've met the worst bank robbers in the world," Mr Charles Lang, the bank manager, said in a hoarse whisper as he stared at the money. He giggled softly.
He had flown in from Malibu when he'd heard the news - how could he not? He had done a good job keeping the staff who had realised what had happened qui... | 2016-02-24T12:57:45 | 2016-02-24T12:16:09 | 221 | 138 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "This..this can't be what I think it is, can it?"
Jenkins voice was breathy and a little scared through my comm. There was also a low buzzing noise, probably some kind of static. I looked down at the three bodies and the red and yellow flag on the cave floor.
"I don't know what else it could be." I responded.
The S... | "Neil Armstrong once said 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm not one to argue with him. However, if landing on the moon was a leap, my stepping here on Mars would be like a plane ride."
Mayers laughed. "Don't knock on what Neil Armstrong did. It was important, and is what brought us her... | 2016-08-16T09:32:53 | 2016-08-16T08:15:09 | 312 | 147 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | Who knew heaven had a business card? Or maybe it was hell... either way I wasn't about to call it. Before inventing the serum that gave me immortality I was a man of science, however the last 1,000 years or so taught me nothing is impossible. Despite seeming uninterested when we met, I was actually already quite don... | "I imagine you didn't expect me to call so early", said David to the cloaked figure in front of him.
"***On the contrary.***" the figure responded, waving his hand towards the body in-between the two, lying in a hospital bed. "***This is usually as good a motivator as any.***"
"Heh, yeah... You, erm, you mind if we l... | 2017-03-07T03:41:55 | 2017-03-07T03:24:28 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 427 | 80 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | A low rumble, cut short, indicated that my brother had arrived. Wesson got TAXI on his 18th - large and bold across his shoulders - not glamourous, but they never were. The words seemed to be the subtle nudges of fate, but even destiny is open to interpretation. He could have become a taxi driver, like so many others, ... | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 2017-03-15T23:14:08 | 212 | 98 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | It began with a first strike nuclear attack on North Korea and their immediately retaliation. Guam and Hawaii were obliterated but Alaska was spared as the missile sent towards it simply failed and dropped into the North Pacific. Fortunately, for the United States at least, none of North Korea’s missiles had the range... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T02:43:58 | 579 | 19 |
[WP] No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes. | “Mr.President... Mr.President!?”
“Oh yeah forgot that was me”
“We’ve received word of a large unidentified object hovering over the pentagon.”
“The pentagon... the pentagon... oh yeah that big stop sign shaped building where they keep aliens and shit.”
“Not exactly Mr.President but besides that we need to decide we... | "Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me!" The lady persisted.
I had tried to ignore her. That worked about half the time. "Yes?"
"One of your employees was very rude to me. He should be fired." She was red in the face and pointed an Shakey finger towards a young woman. The employee had a massive bun hairdo and blue eyesh... | 2018-08-12T17:37:01 | 2018-08-12T17:07:02 | 415 | 215 |
[WP] To be immortal, you must be the last living member of the race you belong to. | "Last living member" doesn't include the basic privileges afforded to a fellow human being. It surely doesn't include the common courtesies of, perhaps, feeding or watering the individual, letting him rest, among other requirements.
I remember the day they started the purge. They rode into the town on their metal hors... | I curse the bastard who started this war for the umpteenth time today. May he or she perish in the deepest, darkest, harshest part of Satan’s butt hole. I spit a combination of phlegm and blood to the ground as I drag myself back up to my feet. I am surrounded by the dead shells of what was my squadron. I hear my voice... | 2018-09-14T07:54:03 | 2018-09-14T07:46:11 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] After months of finding small knickknacks placed on your back porch, you've found the culprit. It's a small mouse living under your house. You go into the crawlspace and find a shrine made of several of your socks and pictures of you. Out of a dark corner a mouse approaches you, trembling. | I crouched down, slowly onto the cold, wet floor. It was nearing the end of Autumn and the ground had been slick with dew these last few cold mornings. Carefully I knelt and looked into the hole where I knew it was hiding.
The mouse stepped forward into the dim light that pierced through the boards and into the crawl ... | Finally, at four in the morning, I am able to set Sophie down in her crib without any wails of defiance.
My nine week old daughter has been rather fussy lately, keeping me up at night the past couple of weeks with diaper changes, feeding requests, and all kinds of infant needs. Unfortunately, as a single mother, I ha... | 2019-06-15T15:28:45 | 2019-06-15T13:02:39 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] One day, every city that shares a name has a portal open up, connecting them all with each other. Paris, Texas has a great time with it, and many cities celebrate their new neighbors. You, however, live in Hell, Michigan, and things are starting to get strange. | Part 1 of 3 (see my reply)
The day the portals opened, everything changed. No one knew where they came from, who made them, or how they worked. (I have a theory, but I'll get to that later.) All anyone knew was, people were suddenly appearing in the middle of towns and cities across the world, many of whom didn't spea... | "Hell is here. Hell is here." An old man shouts from the corner of the road holding a sign. The cars bustle past him ignoring his cries. One car pulls over to the animosity of the following cars. Several people get out, and the car drives off presumably looking for a parking place.
The people have on various anime and... | 2020-09-25T16:50:22 | 2020-09-25T16:41:37 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] The hellish trenches of the Great War were dug rapidly and with very little regard of what came before. So, when the bones of the old gods buried deep were exposed to mankind once again they rose from their slumber. At first the gods were confused, angry. Then, they picked sides. | (569 words, and not a WW1 interpretation. I'd love receiving any/all kinds of feedback. Thank you for your time, in advance!)
"How am I supposed to save them from the apocalypse if I'm constantly interrupted from my eternal sleep?" grumbled old Sia, coughing up dust from her bones. The earth rumbled as the ancient ... | EXHIBIT X059N01E00: LETTER FROM PFC JAMES COCKBURN TO FIANCEE, FIRSTHAND DESCRIPTION OF APPEARENCE OF GODHEAD, MENTION OF OVERSEER
15th May, 1916.
Dearest Mabel,
I have written before of the horrors here, but no day has been as queer as today.
As we expanded our lines digging westward, we happened upon the most eno... | 2020-10-07T02:21:58 | 2020-10-07T02:03:51 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are a scientist, whose research and inventions will help save the world. The only problem is that, on a weekly basis: a group of teenage superheroes break into your laboratory, destory your inventions and research, and then beat you senseless. | I wheels of my wheel chair squeak and I wonder if the right one is going to fall off again as I work to maneuver to the detached garage I am using as a lab now. I grit my teeth lifting my arm to turn on the lights. Between the casts and neck brace everything hurts.
And that is as far as I get when the garage door is t... | A mist lined the walls, every drop of innocence frozen over. Liquids ran across the floor like melting ice. Smoke filled ash had sent down upon years of research. Glass lined the unsafe floor as it began to crackle. The room itself was coated in silver light, the flickering bulb now flashing the dullest of greys. Each ... | 2021-04-28T03:58:13 | 2021-04-28T01:46:00 | 33 | 22 |
[WP]Despite all warnings, you've gazed into the abyss. It gazed back at you. It was love at first sight. | Once, our ancestors looked up to the sky in wonder
They looked up in awe
They looked up with sheer determination to reach out and touch the stars
The reality was far from it
As the humans ventured into the stars, they were met with horrors beyond their understanding. Terrifying creatures and phenomenon that seemin... | I walked down the hall with purpose a manila folder under my left arm and what remained of my coffee in the other. The heel of my shoes sent a reverberating echo around the empty precinct with each footfall– it was early. I rounded the corner and moved into the large office space, stopping briefly at my desk to grab my... | 2022-03-11T09:55:56 | 2022-03-11T09:50:50 | 179 | 50 |
[WP] The clown down the hall laughed manically, brandishing his chainsaw. "You can run, but you can't hide!" "Took the words right out of my mouth," you say as you slowly walk towards him, cracking your knuckles. | The Maniac laughs like he’s in an asylum. Probably was. The fact that he thinks he’s intimidating is funny enough, but he has the gall to say, “YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE!”
“TOOK THE WORDS OUT OF MY MOUTH!”, I reply.
Now, he’s concerned. Didn’t expect to be chasing a 6’5” Tae-kwon Do and Judo Master, did he? He ... | He swung the chainsaw down at me, expecting violence and gore. Expecting death. I did my best to frustrate him. I grabbed the chainsaw by the blade with my bare hands. It started smoking as the belt stopped. He looked shocked. He quickly dropped the chainsaw and began to run away. I chased him, in the way running into ... | 2022-08-02T21:25:58 | 2022-08-02T19:53:07 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | "Sir, their technology... It's, well, quite frankly, it's terrifying."
"Explain yourself."
"All of their technology," he stammered. "It's powered by explosions."
"Explosions? All of it?"
"Yes sir. Their vehicles, their warships, even their weapons are all powered by explosions."
"How did they ever achieve space tr... | Humanity banded together nearly a decade ago, the aliens ship was after all easily detected. The massive nuclear engines they utilized poured out radiation and energy easily visible for light years even before they entered the heliosphere of the solar system.
At first some scientists feared we were about to witness a... | 2016-02-22T13:30:29 | 2016-02-22T13:17:54 | 79 | 44 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | I run for the door, tonight is the night. I'm afraid but I know I have no option, if I don't go now things will be dire. I go to turn the door when Adam appears from behind me. He has a bead of sweat on his head. Why does he look so guilty?
"Where are you going, Sam?" he stands close to me, his breath hot on my forehe... | FADE IN:
INT. Apartment Complex Hallway - Morning
We pan out from a set of metal numbers "101" screwed into a door.
Lights hang on either side of it. One flickers, while the other is dead.
Our frame splits in half and rotates when we cant pan out anymore to show both our main characters entering the hallway from o... | 2017-04-03T14:15:06 | 2017-04-03T13:29:34 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | "You're not allowed to die okay. Promise me that you'll never die." It was over 200 years ago that she said these words to me. I kept my promise and I will keep my promise.
I wasn't meant to last this long, not much is. I knew I made her happy for a time but I just wasn't smart enough for her. She was impressed by me ... | Ben rose from the grave. He felt pain, but the tears stopped flowing years ago. They stopped after he lost everyone he loved and knew. And it all stemmed from his daughter's last day on earth.
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"You're not allowed to die, okay daddy? You can't. You have to take care of Laura. I know she's married and all, ... | 2018-01-05T12:51:54 | 2018-01-05T12:14:21 | 2,571 | 49 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | I remember the end of my life. I lay in my bed, surrounded by family and friends, rattled my last breath, and closed my eyes. After that... blackness.
I awoke in a cold sweat, in a bed in what I knew to be my bedroom. I was in a house I recognized from my memories, but recalled I hadn't been in this room since I was 8... | Okay so being a lesbian is hard. Being a mildly unattractive, chubby gay girl who very infrequently emerges from her apartment to see the outside world is easier with video games. I can be a sexy martial artist who devours the men who try to sleep with me. I can be a strong, boisterous dwarf who drinks ale with the boy... | 2018-08-14T13:16:04 | 2018-08-14T12:53:24 | 54 | 12 |
[WP] "I like adventurous guys," she says with stars in her eyes. Your date is the most beautiful woman you've ever met. In a panic, you buy last-minute plane tickets to a small Balkan country. Your plan - a short tour visit, overthrow the local government, and win her heart. | “Hey… you wanna go start a revolution?”
I don’t know why I said that. There was a small lull in the conversation and my brain started racing to fill the empty air. Oh God, that was weird wasn’t it? That’s not a thing normal people say on a first date. I know! Play it off as a joke. Yeah, it was just a joke. Hopefully... | "Success is the ultimate driver," I say as I stare out the window of the plane, the sun's bright rays refracting off the clouds far below, creating heaven in my mind's eye. "Success gives us a chance at procreation, to allow men like me to reproduce with a female of the highest quality."
The man beside me nods knowing... | 2018-12-10T08:35:04 | 2018-12-10T08:30:42 | 170 | 15 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | "They fired me. I can't believe they fired me! I started this company....er, existence!", I mewled.
"I know, sir. Sucks. If I'm being candid...which you didn't say I could be, so...sorry, my Lord?"
"Peter...you know I don't like all the 'sir, thou, his-holiness' stuff. I made all of this, but you know as well as I do... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T08:23:29 | 294 | 114 |
[WP] When you were young, you sold your soul to the Devil. Now you are old, and the Devil has come to collect. | "Hi"
"Hi"
"Well, here I am."
"Yeah, I guess I'm ready to go."
"Alright then. How was the bubblegum?"
"It was nice to have, I guess. A lifetime supply, just like you promised. To tell you the truth though, I don't our deal was the smartest decision I ever made."
"Well, kindergardeners do some pretty rash things... | I looked out the window of my bedroom and grinned, there were about fifteen scantily clad girls frolicking about the pool in my backyard. Most of them couldn't have been much older than 25, a good 60 years younger then I. I downed the rest of my scotch and resolved myself to go and join them. As I turned on my heel to ... | 2014-05-21T14:18:48 | 2014-05-21T14:08:10 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | Pearly white gates. Who knew the cliche was real?
I look down, my large hands aglow with some mysterious light. I am draped in white, the silk hugging loosely around muscles and tattoos.
"Alvin." I look up. Three towering figures stand behind the gates now. "Do you know why you are here?"
"I got run over by a truck.... | I stood in a glass room, looking down on the earth. A man in a dark blue suit stood next to me, filling out paperwork on a clipboard. Behind us, a man in long white robes and a beard to match stood brooding in the corner. The man in the suit turns to me. "So, Steve, can I call you Steve? Excellent. Now as you've probab... | 2014-07-28T12:10:30 | 2014-07-28T11:23:14 | 228 | 20 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | Meet the Benjamins:
The first few levels are easy, that's where they get you. Deliver a package to some address in the middle of nowhere, some arduous monotonous task computers can't do, stuff like that. Not long after you start, shit starts getting *hard*. I've circumnavigated the globe both ways, had conversations i... | The small loading bar on my iPhone loaded quickly as I had just found an app that looked interesting.
It had a bright icon with small white text under it reading '$100' I honestly had no idea what to expect. I just hoped that the app would end this boredom engulfing me. It was Thursday and everyone else had homework u... | 2016-10-25T22:52:48 | 2016-10-25T21:31:00 | 651 | 247 |
[WP] In a world where people can only see in black and white, you are a drug dealer that sells drugs that allow people to see color. | The man had a scraggly, unkempt beard. He wore a dirty t-shirt and ripped jeans. A typical poor kid, looking to escape his dreary, painful reality. And the only way to do that was to come to me.
"Hey, man," he stammered, his eyes nervously darting back and forth. "Can you hook me up with- you know- those pills?"
"Don... | "You don't know what's wrong with world until you've tried this."
The man looked skeptical. We were in a very large room with a single glass table and two chairs in the center. The image of austerity I guess this guy was trying to project was kind of ruined by the bright green walls and the neon pink floor. I was on C... | 2016-11-22T07:29:33 | 2016-11-22T06:37:22 | 212 | 18 |
[WP] You wake up in a universe where everyone is ALWAYS super strong except you. You're saught after as a hero for delicate missions where precision and minimal structural damage is ideal. | It was with an absent-minded air that I jerked the fridge open and grabbed the peanut butter jar. Hefting it with a grunt over my shoulder, I grabbed a laughably large knife and dumped them next to the substantial box that contained the bread. The actions were familiar now, if bothersome.
The reinforced milk jug was ... | Today marks four years since I've been in this universe, four years away from home. I remember my first day here, how utterly alone I felt in a world so similar yet so different from mine. Same blue skies, same oxygen, same cars.
Different people.
Everyone is so powerful here and I stand out like a sore thumb. Main... | 2017-04-11T05:53:50 | 2017-04-11T04:34:58 | 241 | 161 |
[WP] The world's deadliest assassin. His target: The world's luckiest man. Hilarity ensues. | Young Timmy played the Lottery;
whenever it was due.
The jackpots paid for all the fees
his lifestyle had accrued.
This angered soon the Mafia
who thought a Fix was in
So Timmy ran to Austria
to hide from assassins
They chased him 'round to Bangladesh
"Their luck must run out soon-
At Hide a... | Tyche he was called. Didn't understand why anyone would give their kid such a stupid name. Foreigners probably. Maybe some kind of family name or something. Who knows. What I knew, was that this man in particular had fucked with the wrong people. A Columbian drug cartel trying to traffick cocaine across the border ran ... | 2018-01-07T10:51:21 | 2018-01-07T10:38:19 | 59 | 10 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | "You're going to have to say that again, because I have no idea what in the fuck you're trying to say," I inform the sparkling conversationalist that just conversed in little more than grunts and growls.
"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years," the young man behind the counter informs me, seemingly confu... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2018-06-24T21:55:57 | 163 | 80 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | "Master, we are running out of time!” the young boy said.
He had been appointed as The Man’s newest apprentice. Even though the boy was the youngest apprentice The Man had ever appointed, he showed promise from the age of three – already showing signs of *the craft*. By age six, he had somehow mastered more of the a... | Man was born at the base of a vast mountain. It is in his nature to eternally reach for the top, to eternally quest after the summit, never understanding he was born at the base for a reason.
I was starting to understand now, far up into the lands where the night would last for months on end, why the ancient men of th... | 2020-04-19T08:21:50 | 2020-04-19T08:00:40 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] You are one of the most powerful wizards in the continent, but because style points make up half of the Wizard License examination, you’ve never passed. | “Enough!” I heard as I gently put my blade against the opponent's throat, as he was curling up on the ground. "That's enough!"
“So? Did I pass?” I asked.
“No, you didn’t.” Said the man in the middle with a skull mask on his face.
“The way you fought was way beneath what we consider a passable level”. A witch with a ... | I looked around the curtain of the emergency room bed where Gill was being seen, he locked eyes with me and scowled; the parts of his face which hadn't been covered by safety glasses were a mess of torn flesh, bloody raw chunks and visible bone. He couldn't talk while the medics attended to him but his short-range tele... | 2021-02-22T12:30:03 | 2021-02-22T11:06:09 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] "You're the villain in someone's story", but how did you manage to become the villain in EVERYONE'S story? | The library was ghost quiet in the afternoon. Jake, the librarian, yawned behind his desk and flipped another page of the hardcover he was reading. A man in a tuxedo walked in. His face was obscured by the black fedora that covered his left eye.
"Medieval history. The period of the witch burnings," he said.
Jake look... | This is a misanthrope's tale.
The bag that had been placed upon Jack's face was removed, and he found himself in a lonely cell. A bucket, a moldy bed, rusted iron bars and gray brick walls. Beyond the bars, darkness.
Jack's memory came back.
He had taken drug during an evening, and passed out. When he came to, he wa... | 2021-09-11T12:48:14 | 2021-09-11T12:13:53 | 14 | 10 |
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