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[WP] In 2022, NASA’s Insight Mars Rover shuts down with a final message to Mission Control, “I am low on power”. In 2029, it mysteriously turns back on, relaying the message, “I’ve been fully charged, and I’m heading back with an important message.” | "I've been fully charged, and I'm heading back with an important message."
To say NASA was excited would be a lie. They whispered among each other: dread, nerves, fears of the worst. But among that was hope, thought spectacular, a *maybe-maybe* that thrilled their bones.
*"Please look at my rock."*
Insight came back... | plip. plop. plip. plop. those're the sounds of my sticky shoes. plip plop. plip plop. the stickiest. plip plop plip. and yet they've carried me so far. plop plip plop. my feet are tired, but the sticky shoes aren't. plip plop.
sskkktttttt... sktttttttttttt... those're the sounds of something heavy dragging behind me. ... | 2022-12-20T07:04:26 | 2022-12-20T05:25:32 | 232 | 20 |
[FF] "So, come here often?"
Begin your story with this line of dialogue.
Oh, and set your story somewhere other than a bar or restaurant. In fact, set it somewhere in the distant past or future.
And make it less than 500 words.
Have fun! | "So, come here often?"
I whirled around to find a man dressed from head to toe in black. He was an older man, about 50 years old and wore a ski mask, a tattered shirt and black boots. I was followed. The shed was just a few feet from where I was standing and inside...there wasn't time. I didn't wait for the man to ask... | "So, come here often?" asked the well-tailored man. He was wearing an old black suit and a fiery-red tie that were well-matched to his hair, all white save for the few remaining specks of blonde around his ears; and his misty blue eyes, which rose from their default, downcast state to inspect the strangely-clad woman w... | 2013-08-31T13:14:16 | 2013-08-31T10:09:10 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] Due to your nerdy great great great great grandfather in 2017 'buying a star' and some modern legal shenanigans you are now the proud owner of a small intergalactic empire | 'Excuse me, but what did you just say?' I asked the brutish green humanoid before me.
'You are hereby now the ruler of the Orcish Empire,' the alien said. 'I'm duty-bound to serve as your bodyguard and advisor, Your Imperialness.'
Orcs are gigantic compared to humans, their heads standing taller than anyone else in t... | The young, precocious redheaded girl stared at the hologram that floated in front of her from the marble floor.
The video showed a man with a goofy smile and the fuzz of a beard growing on his face holding up his camera as he vlogged and pointed at his computer screen at an image of the night sky. The man in the vide... | 2017-10-24T11:49:08 | 2017-10-24T11:33:29 | 1,042 | 123 |
[WP] Two serial killers end up on a blind date together and both keep trying to find an oppurtunity to kill the other. | Jack and Jill, out for a kill, on a seemingly innocent date. Neither one knew, that the other one too, planned to end their fate.
Jill was late, late for the date, when she lost control of the car. The tires were slashed, but there was no crash-Jack hadn’t planned that far.
Jack was fine, until his wine, had a lil’ s... | ((Sorry for spelling and grammar errors, I wrote this from my iPad))
Abigail wrapped her arms around the bicep of her new tinder date, resting her head on his shoulder as they walked the waterfront. The sun creep behind the horizon, letting way to moonlight gently reflecting off the subtle waves of the sound. "I had s... | 2017-10-27T07:49:40 | 2017-10-27T06:36:25 | 3,373 | 25 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | "OK, good to have everyone here. I'm excited to work with you all. Get naked and greased up and I'll meet you in front of the control room."
The crowd of human employees didn't move to action as Xerlon assumed they would. A confused murmur rose in the crowd.
"We...we have to be naked?" a man asked, blushing. ... | "Never hire a human," the old saying goes.
"They're a volatile bunch. Surviving all that war and all those atrocities changed something in them. They don't play well with others."
My father always said that. Our mercenary company was well-known throughout the cluster. Any job with good pay and a high risk of death ... | 2018-04-27T11:24:36 | 2018-04-27T11:17:51 | 905 | 659 |
[WP] As we all know, Albert Einstein's last words were a mystery, as he uttered it to a nurse who couldn't understand his language. As a multilingual person, you time-travel to the moment he was about to say the last words of his life, and heard the most horrifying sentence you could ever hear. | I stepped out of the comfort of the time-travel machine, my eyes darted around my surrounding as my pupils adjusted. I was relieved to see that the calibration was correct. I was right next to my destination - Princeton Hospital.
I glanced down at the smartwatch on my wrist and saw that I merely had minutes left befor... | To whomever read this: please, do read until the end of it before making any decisions. I’m not looking to excuse myself, really. I just want to reassure you, before you vaporize me or whatnot, that I have, in fact, thought thoroughly about what I’m doing. Use me as an example of where idiocy can lead you or whatever. ... | 2018-09-14T05:04:59 | 2018-09-13T23:41:32 | 39 | 26 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | Sobbing with the sheer weight of understanding, I reach for the only comfort left to me and bring it to my lips.
I tilt my head back, and look to the sky. Even through the beauty of the stars my comprehension demands relief.
"It's PHP all the way down." I whisper as my finger tightens on the trigger and a moment late... | "Bitches, bitches, bitches. I love me some bitches."
"That's pretty cool, what's your wish?" the genie responds
"Well. Give me control over all the bitches of course."
"Okay your wish is my command. You now have control over all the women in the world. Anything you say they will do."
"I don't feel any different."
... | 2018-10-18T14:11:40 | 2018-10-18T14:07:23 | 212 | 13 |
[WP] Through selective breeding we managed to turn wolves into pugs. For the last 1000 years a secret cult has also been selective breeding, but not with wolves but lizards. Crocodiles, monitors, sneks. The largest and most dangerous, into finally they created their perfect monster... A Dragon.
Just wanted to thank ev... | I thank you for your interest Mr. Darson. Yes we have quite a few breeds of Dracus Domesticus. This way please.
Now, if you wish to choose from the catalogue you'll notice that each of our fine creatures has a vet certificate of health and their shots are all up to date. Now if you'd let me know your price range...
... | A faint light shone through the crack underneath the heavy oaken doors. It alternated between all the colours of the rainbow. Erafel knew it signified the culmination of over one thousand years of hard labour.
‘Others will see it and call it an abomination.’ Master Itchen said.
‘I know, but it isn’t. Not to me.’ Emot... | 2018-10-20T08:08:21 | 2018-10-20T08:08:12 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] You have a superpower. Every time someone tells you to do something, you can say 'no u' & that person will make it their life's mission to accomplish the task. One day, you & your 8-year old nephew are talking & he says, "I hope you make the world a better place." You smilingly reply, "no u." | These words of power are derived from ancient Hebrew and Egyptian traditions of magic and spellcraft. They are accompanied by a complex set of visualizations that I must formulate in my mind each time, in order to reshape the world according to the requests that I make binding. There are subtle rules, but in very broad... | You can’t remember how long it’s been in the cell. The endless hum of the air handler is of no use and the lights never go out. In all the movies they keep track of days by carving lines in the wall but without any tools it all seems hopeless. If only you could keep track of meals but with how irregular they are it’... | 2019-01-26T15:28:24 | 2019-01-26T13:05:08 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] After being kidnapped by scientists who infuse the DNA of a predatory animal in order to create a super soldier, you manage to escape your prison. But you don't want revenge or adventures; all you want is your normal life back. You succeed. | John wasn't exactly sure why he was chosen to be a super soldier, he was a lanky 23 year old who didn't exercise or do anything remotely soldier-y. Hell he had never had a job. He was a self proclaimed deadbeat... He spent most of his days with cheese dust from chips on his fingers as he grinded through Runescape or Mi... | *I can run quite a bit faster..shouldn’t I be tired?* I continued to run down the hill into the forest, sliding under and jumping over obstacles. *N..not even close to breathing hard yet. I think I’m going to get away!* It didn’t take long for me to reach a river. I thought that since I was nowhere close to being tired... | 2019-02-04T19:07:28 | 2019-02-04T18:31:59 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A supervillain gets married, has kids, and retires. The hero doesn't know, and slowly goes insane without them | *The Falcon* crashed through the skylight, dropped down into a crouch the table where we all sat in stunned silence.
"I have you, now, *Burner*. All these years, you thought you were safe. You thought you were hidden. But I have you. It's over."
He was a mess. Disheveled didn't even cover it. He hadn't bathed in...I ... | A normal year for Suro.
If something like that had ever existed.
"Why'd you do it?" His enemy - friend? It was scary how closely those lines blurred- merely rolled his eyes, staring with forlorn melancholy at the cloudy skies. "You were supposed to be the good one, you were supposed to be better th-"
"-than you? Is ... | 2019-02-20T12:38:29 | 2019-02-20T12:21:21 | 90 | 23 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | You know, there's often a saying in the military. There are bold soldiers, there are old soldiers. There are no old, bold soldiers. It's the same for us villains. The ones who last long are the ones who never make flashy moves. If your plan is going well, don't brag about it. If you have the upper hand, ball it into a ... | I waited 4578 seconds since they brought me to this room. They deliberately put the clock behind my chair to put pressure on me as I listened to its ticks, but it keep me entertained until he arrived.
A fine gentleman came through the door. He was dressed as a lawyer in that suit but the golden badge on his chest tol... | 2019-08-06T21:27:26 | 2019-08-06T21:10:47 | 63 | 36 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | "I just need more time" the healer said. "If you would take a few minutes to plan and let me do my work instead of rushing into danger, we wouldn't have to keep doing this" As he spoke his hands ran across the Paladins chest, a warm glow spilling across the slowly closing wounds.
"Evil waits for no one", the paladin ... | “Hrrr-aghh!”
The paladin cleaved through the captain, who coughed up blood as he stumbled backwards and fell. Flicking the blood from his blade, he deftly sheathed itbefore turning back to the rest of his party.
“Way to show off,” the rogue called, readjusting her hood over her head. “Very professional. I especially ... | 2020-01-05T12:01:26 | 2020-01-05T09:29:04 | 317 | 155 |
[WP] As the only immortal you know about, it's just occured to you; your online friend has been around for a bit too long. | **The Mystery of MisterAnalog**
My eyes scan the Currently Online section of my friends list. GamerGal008 is not on it. Damn.
It’s been over a year since I’ve seen their little indicator dot turn green. It’s just gray. The gray dot of death.
You never get used to it, not really. The losing people. You’d think that... | Internet is a safe space. At least, that's what Kleon used to think at the dawn of the world wide web. He found a community of like minded people he could interact with without ever meeting them, and to a man in his situation, it was nothing short of a boon.
*Place of birth: The city-state of Athens.*
Socrates and P... | 2022-02-09T07:50:55 | 2022-02-09T05:58:05 | 265 | 185 |
[WP] As the leader of a CIA hit squad, you have been tasked with the secret, “extrajudicial” killing of a journalist who is causing problems for the government with his reporting. The problem is, he just won’t die! Every team you send fails. Who is this Clark Kent, guy? | It was funny at this point. Sure the first few threw me for a loop, how could my best friend and finest sniper in the world fail? Well as they say a little digging goes a long way! Clark was Superman how it had taken anyone this long is anyones guess he wasn’t exactly subtle and quite the creature of habit.
Now wher... | Its been a long time since i held a trigger. I gave up that life, i was an assassin for a very long time. It still itches when i had to cut my finger to prove my loyalty. At least i didnt have to carry a gun again or so i thought.
The CIA found me and recruited me, my job was to train their agents. They gave me my fr... | 2022-06-08T03:23:15 | 2022-06-07T23:34:16 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Life's not a fairy tale. Life's real.
We know the last words we'll get from our soulmates, without context, but clear as day. Some words are sweet, some are sour, some are tragic. We all have them, and only the lucky ones don't think about them every day.
On my chest, across my heart, her words remind me of reality. ... | *32* A seemingly insignificant number.
*32*, The temperature that signified the roads would be icy as she tripped back home for winter. The number of years she had gone through the insufferable monotony of people consumed by the goal of finding their soul mate. The number of people she had unfriended on social media ... | 2015-08-08T11:49:54 | 2015-08-08T10:26:02 | 274 | 21 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| The villain Oathbreaker held a gun to September's head and spoke directly into the camera. "If the *hero*" - he spat the word as if it were an insult - "known as Anonymous doesn't show his ugly face here in the next fifteen minutes, I will kill this man. And for every five minutes after that, I'll kill another hostage.... | **The Law**
***
Someone up there is having a hell of a laugh at my expense right about now.
The odds of this happening were...staggeringly low at best, honestly, it was probably because of my powers, they leaked sometimes, and affected me and those around me without me consciously commanding them to. I was sipping co... | 2017-01-28T08:55:41 | 2017-01-28T08:11:18 | 143 | 73 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| The villain Oathbreaker held a gun to September's head and spoke directly into the camera. "If the *hero*" - he spat the word as if it were an insult - "known as Anonymous doesn't show his ugly face here in the next fifteen minutes, I will kill this man. And for every five minutes after that, I'll kill another hostage.... | "This is ridiculous," Steven thought as he screamed. The branding iron didn't actually hurt that much, and he knew it would heal up within a day, but he couldn't do anything about it. It wasn't the chains that kept him captive, but that blasted camera 6 feet away.
He looked over at the Plague Doctor cackling madly in ... | 2017-01-28T08:55:41 | 2017-01-28T08:16:50 | 143 | 68 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | I remember the first time I saw him. It was early morning, just as the first light was leeching into the sky. I barely remember him, I was so young; only small images stand out, like grainy faded pictures. My father was dying, cancer they said in hushed tones, as if it could be summoned. I used to imagine it as a terri... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T21:09:53 | 153 | 17 |
[WP] You have been granted a wish from a genie. You ask him to send you back in time and make you powerful so you can prevent the genocide that happened in ww2. You forgot that genies like to twist wishes though. Now it's 1940 and to your horror you realize you are Adolf Hitler. | What? I'm sorry, I can't understand you. I don't speak German. Do you speak English? No? Ok. My name is Jim Nelson. I'm from Nebraska, and, funny thing, I'm your Hitler now. There was this genie and, well... Long story short. (loud sigh)
Fuck. Well, let's see. Now I'm Hitler. I can stop the Holocaust but since I don't... | Adolf Hitler Schmidt, das Alter 6. So read the corners of the sheets of paper containing unintelligible doodles, all signed in a much nicer cursive than the artist would be able to create. Rifling through the desk only revealed a few wooden toys and a 1940 calendar with the days X'd out.
Glanced in the mirror. A defo... | 2017-06-12T18:48:03 | 2017-06-12T14:31:57 | 211 | 26 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | A knock roused me from my light nap. I had been napping in my living room waiting for him. It's been years since I had seen him. I call him Morte.... He's less a fan, and more just used to it at this point, but I figure it's less morbid with a fun little nickname. Still slightly groggy, I stretch up out of the chair th... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T16:05:42 | 2,040 | 20 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | We spoke for hours. I complained that he was being vague with his responses, he claimed I couldnt know too much.
I still dont know what he meant, or how one person could possibly have such an impact. Me, a semi employed, struggling writer and artist, positively impacting trillions. Not possible.
During the conversa... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T05:06:03 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 374 | 43 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | The genie gave me a blank look.
"Are you really *this* stupid?"
I returned the blank look.
"All you need to do is have one kid. Then they have kids. It spirals on, humanity lasts for eons, multiplies across space, blah blah blah...you're at the beginning of the chain. You're hardly unique in that regard,... | The genie took his time to answer.
“I can only give you partial answers, and you have a limited amount of questions. Choose your words carefully.”
The teenager paused, thinking. His eyes were looking in the direction of the genie, who was hovering a mere inch above the ground. But he wasn't seeing him. He had alrea... | 2018-08-15T03:49:07 | 2018-08-15T01:58:00 | 106 | 43 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "This could change your life for the better!" was what my best friend told me.
They were right about one thing, my life has changed drastically; but not for the better.
It's been so long that I've... forgotten their names.
Gosh, I wish I remembered their faces.
...
I can count more fingers than the strands of ha... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T03:20:27 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 66 | 45 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | Addison put her face between the palms of her hands, leaning her elbows on the tree stump in front of her.
“It won’t be so bad,” the faerie queen said, the pitch varying up and down.
It created a sound that was almost a soft song, but it always hit Addison in the space behind her eyes. She shuddered, not bothering... | For as long as I could remember, I knew there was something a little off about my home situation. Specifically, the parenting. You see, I gathered rather quickly that it wasn't normal to call your parents by their first names. The other kids in school called them mom and dad. It seemed like I couldn't quite do that, mo... | 2019-07-18T05:33:17 | 2019-07-18T05:23:03 | 2,216 | 219 |
[WP] You wake up in a world of anthropomorphic animals. Unfortunately for you, you quickly discover every major religion in this world contains humans in some way, shape, or form | Some had different thoughts of me. The birds adored me. They didn’t think of me as a god- they didn’t have any gods- but rather as a spirit. One of freedom and journeying. A nomad who travels not by the air, but by foot. They viewed me as a force of nature, and like other forces of nature, I should not be tampered with... | the very last thing I remember, I was late for work. I rushed out past my lazy roommate, down the stairs, and through the door of my apartment building. as I made a mad dash down the sidewalk, I tripped on a lip. I had lodged several complaints to the city, that it was a hazard, 'we'll be sure to take a look at that, t... | 2022-04-03T01:52:21 | 2022-04-03T00:36:03 | 816 | 171 |
[WP] "There's a reason it's been quarantined. Nobody lives there anymore. Nobody human, at least. Trust me, friend. You'll regret asking me to teach you how to get to Sesame Street." | "I don't worry," the man said. "I'm not afraid of them."
"You should be," I said, watching him from the corner of my eye. His voice was soft. Too soft, it felt like. So soft and flowing and gentle that it felt like I should have been worried, but somehow every time he opened that mouth I just felt put totally at ease.... | Shit, I should've listened. No words could have dissuaded me back then though, so bull-headed and rapt by retribution as I was. I had a plan and it was simple; infiltrate the quarantine zone and claim what I was owed.
Of course, everyone has their theories on how to get in, but few ever returned to confirm their succe... | 2022-07-20T17:17:09 | 2022-07-20T15:53:05 | 87 | 15 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | "You could have an action figure in your likeness, by the end of the year." Said the person that could not leave well enough alone.
"Nope, not interested. It'll cut into my raid time." Steve said as he was trying to politely end the conversation with the obvious government recruitment officials.
"You'll be doing the ... | “Yowza! Look at those muscles! Wam, bam, *wapow!*"
Tim turned around. The man behind him was at least twice Tim's age and balding. “Can I help you?” Tim asked.
“I'm just taken aback is all. I thought I was in line for a coffee,” the man raised an eyebrow and struck a pose, flexing biceps that were imperceptible in an... | 2022-07-31T12:20:48 | 2022-07-31T11:50:27 | 354 | 142 |
[WP] "Of course I'm not scared of you just because you have claws. Sure, you could kill me with them at any moment... but, like, so can any random human with a knife." | To any adult, the dragons were the most terrifying things to morph from children who appeared entirely normal otherwise.
Just imagine, emotional teenagers whose respiratory systems could become either the loudest call on Earth or even natural flamethrowers on a dime. Bodies that armored themselves with tough scales, m... | "So, Klonk, who you thinking we add to the team? We can't do it just the two of us." I play about with my magic as we walk to the nearest town, black wisps dancing at the tip of my claws. "I reckon we should look for Clara - she's smart, quick-witted and aggressive." Klonk nods. "She could be a useful asset, but we nee... | 2022-09-20T15:49:48 | 2022-09-20T08:13:50 | 44 | 18 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power.
Inspired by the fuck yeah humanity posts. | *The following is from several abridged articles found in the 2344 edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica.*
**Origins**
Imagine the surprise of the UN delegation when the ambassadors from the Galactic Council said they needed several hours to compute their homeward hyperspace jump *by hand*. The computers aboard the a... | *I wrote this story 4 months ago, but fits the prompt so posting here*
"The Burning of Martian Anchorage." There it came again, that querulous, high pitched, scratchy voice. You knew the moment you heard it someone had had a bee in their bonnet for a long time. It was going to go on and on, buzzing until the bee was r... | 2014-03-12T16:29:23 | 2014-03-12T15:47:14 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] A young door-to-door salesman, who is also a renown serial killer, is craftily avoided by an old, best-selling crime novelist. | As she wrote the latest adventures of the Sioux Sleuth, Beverly glanced briefly at the kitchen chalkboard. She shook her head, her fingers resuming their dance upon the typewriter keys. "One more chapter," she said to no one in particular, "one more chapter, and then I'll fix that doorbell." | *Knock, knock*
Evelyn looks up from her computer curiously. She had been working from home that day - a break in the usual routine. She hadn't expected anyone to come knocking. After all; who did that in rural New York anymore? The next house was further than a mile down the road.
Nevertheless, Evelyn rose from her d... | 2014-03-26T09:17:57 | 2014-03-26T08:17:32 | 118 | 15 |
[WP] You've died and wake up in some sort of theme park. You look at the ride attendant, with long white hair and a big beard, who says, "Wanna go again?" | All I could see were the lights getting hazy. That long lost familiar feeling of tripping to the dancing of lights came back. If you've ever attended a Pink Floyd show you would know. Suddenly, everything was white. Bright white.
I was woken up with a real comforting voice of a guy," That was something, isn't it?"
I ... | 'Where am I? wha- why am I here? I was doing something a while ago, and ... what was I doing?' thoughts flooded my mind as I stood in a place I'm not familiar with. thankfully I saw a man, an old man, well dressed and well ... seemingly approachable, so I went to clear my confused state.
"I'm sorry, but where am I?" I... | 2017-01-07T07:43:55 | 2017-01-07T07:02:58 | 59 | 30 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | > #489,231,337
Robert Johnson wasn't a very good dad. He'd drink, and he'd smoke, and when he was tired he would grumble at his kids. He didn't play catch. He didn't play video games. He mostly sat around and got fat after working at the mill. His wife, Leslie, would ask him to mow the lawn and he'd yell at her. Hi... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T09:22:28 | 828 | 228 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | George couldn't understand it. His mom was overjoyed about his father's father ranking, and how abruptly it jumped, and how much higher it jumped. When everyone found out about the mugs, some people bragged, others hid their mugs. His father woke up late on the day of the change, so he didn't have a chance to do anythi... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T09:05:21 | 828 | 77 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 828 | 23 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | George couldn't understand it. His mom was overjoyed about his father's father ranking, and how abruptly it jumped, and how much higher it jumped. When everyone found out about the mugs, some people bragged, others hid their mugs. His father woke up late on the day of the change, so he didn't have a chance to do anythi... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T09:05:21 | 159 | 77 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 70 | 23 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | "I don't know... I just got out of a relationship and need to figure out myself first. I think I'm just looking to be friends right now."
That same line every time. What a pallid lie it was. I kept trying to imitate what I thought she liked and every time it felt like I had gotten closer, but it never stuck. We'd alwa... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T10:10:24 | 930 | 30 |
[WP] Aliens have realized humans advance more quickly during times of conflict, and have tried to push humanity into wars to see what happens. However, that changes when they start WW2 and humans harness the power of the atom. | \--Initiating boot sequence--
\--Loading Instance: 'Earth, Year 11,945.597'---
The display flickered to life around him. Bodies lay strewn around the battlefields, scorched husks of blown-out tanks lay abandoned.
"Estimated agent loss?"
Over the battlefields, millions of tiny motes of light lifted from the bodies, ... | Four aliens hailing from somewhere near the star Alnitak are floating around a conference table on their ship.
“Really, Drail? You just had to stir up the humans barely one generation after their last big war?” Captain Glorn scratched his fourth eye.
“The side of the supercontinent with the foot-thing peninsula was s... | 2018-11-27T15:55:08 | 2018-11-27T14:02:04 | 144 | 51 |
[WP] You are reincarnated 10,000 years into the future. You come across an ancient artifact on display in the Museum of History, where you work. Little is known about it, not even where it was uncovered. Upon touching it, you realize it was yours. | *It looks silly,* I tell myself, looking at the small clay statuette. The paint has chipped and faded, and the shape is barely discernible. My task is to restore this nonsensical item, to display it where some curious mind may ponder its original purpose. And it looks ridiculous.
*Ten thousand years ago, some unkno... | I quickly learned after getting my first adult job at the Royal Museum of Ages that asking about the strange artifacts from thousands of years ago was more or less pointless.
“Jay, be a good lad and go and sweep the chamber containing the objects from the twenty first century.” The blue-skinned curator I worked for g... | 2019-09-23T20:41:52 | 2019-09-23T18:26:04 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | After the awakening the world was in total turmoil for years. People ran amuck with these new found abilities. Social order had collapsed and civilization had almost gone with it.
But then the corporations came in. They had gained control in this Wild West of a world after the governments had been destroyed. The corps... | Nora woke up just like she did every other day. This time, however, was very different. Now, instead of wishing to be invisible, she actually was. And she wished more than anything to be fully opaque again.
She reported to headquarters, the same as the day before and the one before that. The days started to merge tog... | 2020-02-05T14:59:35 | 2020-02-05T14:48:26 | 1,239 | 217 |
[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | She came into my bedroom to wake me up. I pretended to be asleep but the phantom pain of the car crash still coursed through my body. None of the previous attempts had never gotten that far. I thought that it was finally time to move on except I couldn’t do it.
Mom sat down on the edge of the bed and brushed hair out... | We like to think of consequence as an exact science, one where we can predict the future with near certainty. Where, if I push the ball, I know it’ll roll off the table. And we’re right! To an extent.
Have you ever heard of chaos theory? Or the butterfly effect, where if one butterfly flaps its wings in a certain wa... | 2021-05-30T10:49:30 | 2021-05-30T10:15:44 | 133 | 71 |
[WP] The Princess glared at the knight and dragon. "If I'm going to be kidnapped like this regularly, I want a cut of the profit," she said. | The dragon laughed ominously, "A cut of the profits? And what pray tell do you think I'm earning here?"
The princess stared angrily. " I don't know what you get out of this, but it must be worth something if you're willing to do this time after time" she yelled, frustrated to no end at the constant kidnappings.
The ... | The knight had traveled for several day, through dangerous forests and up a treacherous mountain pass to make it to the dragon’s castle. It was an old, abandoned castle that this dragon had taken residence up in. The knight slipped around the side and in through a large gap in the wall. Several other knights had manage... | 2021-08-22T13:36:54 | 2021-08-22T11:21:56 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | "Don't sign the form".
This did not surprise me. Since I've been 7 years old I've been receiving these messages.
"Don't chase Jimmy" was the first. It was my birthday party, and I had received a bright red, toy car. I instantly fell in love with it's shiny coat and slick design. On the card read the usual message of ... | [1/2]
My dad handled my **Instructions** in the same way he had always handled everything in his life. With absolutely zero nuance, and without asking a single follow-up question.
It wasn’t his fault. Dad had told me many times that the only way things didn’t go absolutely downhill for him in life was when he follo... | 2022-05-08T10:12:49 | 2022-05-08T09:30:39 | 646 | 217 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "Alright, Mr. Johnson," the warden had begun six months ago, easing back in his leather chair. "What is your last request?"
I had spent years in prison as court proceedings dragged on, the final result being my guilty verdict and subsequent sentencing to death. I had spent years researching my way free, only to realiz... | It's a normal tradition, that prisoners can ask for anything. Anything at all, for their last meal. Apple pie that you get to make yourself, with chocolate-milk in a carton, like your mom used to make back when you were an innocent kid. A plain cheeseburger. Delicious ribs. A few people are aware that you can ask for a... | 2022-07-17T15:51:37 | 2022-07-17T15:39:02 | 1,563 | 331 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I've seen a lot of criminals head to their deaths before my. My first celly was a serial killer, felt a bit brooding, but maybe that was because when I first got in, it was less than a week to his execution. Second celly was much more upbeat. Also a murderer, and a child cannibal to boot, but if you could stand his sen... | She was a born killer. The moment she snapped she turned from hero to villain in just a matter of seconds.
Thousands of people were victimized in her warpath, and she got away with it for MONTHS. That was, until she was caught, and placed on Death Row.
Now, the world had changed drastically since she had been gone, a... | 2022-07-17T18:36:24 | 2022-07-17T18:09:54 | 904 | 24 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | It was nearly sunset on death row in the Alberation system of the Galaxy. Although her 37 years on Brigdon block seemed like a lifetime, Salmma never realized the day of her sentenced death would come so fast. Her green eyes slide over the metal frames of the cell, the discolored wall that made an inappropriate figure ... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T19:39:13 | 129 | 62 |
[WP] The world has taken precautions against super-powered beings, handing out inhibitors if deemed too 'destructive.' You sat in the principal's office with horror etched on your face as a pair of inhibitor gloves were handed to you. The smug grin of your life long bully telling you everything. | Anya faced her archenemy, as he smiled smugly at the suppression gauntlets on her hands. Unfortunately, he was actually right about the danger she posed, even if he didn't know it.
Jason Narra had been a pain in her ass for about a year, now. They first met at the Academy at the beginning of the previous school year, ... | Jackass... I think as my powers while they could be used to cause a lot of annoyance because it is power to play any musical instrument to perfect decree. I am a girl and this is how he wants my attention? Wow, nice... I love music... I feel my heart drop as the gloves are worn on. I immediately start thinking about on... | 2022-12-25T04:09:03 | 2022-12-25T03:24:03 | 133 | 19 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | T4M-A5 walked into class at exactly 9:35AM.
To the outside world, the machine was simply Tomas, a polish kid that emigrated with his family to america.
In reality though, he was an infiltrater class hunter killer drone. His handlers in the foundation jokingly referred to him as the Terminator, in reference to the movi... | I was walking home from school with my heart almost beating out of my chest. Eileen actually asked *me* out, not only just for a date but to go to prom with her! We had been friends for a few years at this point and I’ve really started to like her. I showered, shaved a little, and got dressed as well as I could without... | 2022-12-30T01:17:35 | 2022-12-29T22:24:19 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | I went into archeology for the money, not for humanitarian reasons. Sure, I'd like to be the one to save the human race, I'd just like a beach house/ski resort on a designer world even more. The market value of digging in the dirt only goes up as the search for a working wormhole drive becomes more frantic. We've found... | :Mode Comm 22222000202000200:
-Observational Log
-Scout: Amarath Kra
-TimeDate: XXXX.X.XXXX.X.X.
The letters came through, and so followed the voice. Amarath's words moved from one end of the universe to the other. The pause in communication was only that of a half-second--information shooting past light through mi... | 2014-07-16T13:34:49 | 2014-07-16T12:55:19 | 88 | 29 |
[WP] A trapped demon calls a priest for excorcism because his host is too obese and can't get out of bed | The magic of the supernatural does not come from learned scholars or family tradition, nor does it come from the power of faith. Those are other variants of power that have complimented or opposed natural magic.
However, for the unruly and the truly chaotic such as demons like Rudy, his natural power came in the form... | ***Quick warning - this is going to really bad. Like extremely bad. Wrote it at 2am, extremely tired, made it way longer than it had to be, and over fucked up. Enjoy anyway!***
Somewhere, in suburban London, a clergyman of St. Magdalene’s order steps onto the porch of a terraced house. As he knocks on the door, he s... | 2015-12-22T18:14:07 | 2015-12-22T18:00:59 | 56 | 36 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | "For God's sake Bob. I get it' you're strong"
My roommate didn't seem to be listening. He was to busy holding the world on his shoulders. And i mean the literally the world. This asshole had ripped earth out of its orbit to make a point.
"Check it out brah, I can do this all day"
"I bet, now put it down so we can g... | "A superhero? Wow," I said, rolling my eyes at the back of her head. "You didn't strike me as the type."
Karen laughed as she closed the freezer door, holding an ice pack to her shoulder. "That's kind of the goal," she said slowly, as though explaining it to a child. "Secret identity. Blend in. Make it look like I'm j... | 2016-03-23T19:32:34 | 2016-03-23T15:53:56 | 213 | 23 |
[WP] Google begins matching people romantically based on their browser histories.
Based off of [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/4p6cc1/if_google_matched_people_up_by_their_browsing/) by /u/hobbitfeets over on /r/ShowerThoughts. | **Google Love 8/15/16
Welcome**
Welcome to Google Love, Olive!
Google Love is committed to finding you the perfect match based on your mutual interests. At Google Love, we already know you. There’s no profile to fill out or questions to answer.
All you have to do is be yourself while we do the hard work of importi... | The best part about coffee shops is no matter how little the two people on the date are talking, there's enough background chatter that awkward silences are never truly silent. Clinking of glasses, brief snippets of conversation from other patrons and the occasional heard-over-the-rest bout of laughter punctuate the qu... | 2016-06-21T20:05:45 | 2016-06-21T19:59:34 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] A world of fantastic creatures cross dimensions to invade our Earth; but alas, they battle us with medieval swords, bows and magic. We have guns, grenades and missiles. Lots of them. | "Hear me humans! You will fall and we shall call this new world our own!"
Thunder crackled around the mysterious humanoid as he raised his sword to the sky. Fire and ice swirled around his swelled body, the bones of his past conquests hung from his belt dancing in the storm he seemingly summoned at will. Hordes of gia... | From within his war tent, Commander Wahkam the Unfaltering stood hunched over the map he's scouts had gathered of the surrounding lands, the force they were to attack was small, a few hundred men and a couple dozen odd wagons according to the scouts, no match to the 8th Glorious Expeditionary Legion, clad in the finest... | 2017-09-14T15:29:29 | 2017-09-14T05:47:31 | 243 | 18 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | “That’s just great, do you have any idea which way to go?!” Satan complained.
Buddha replied in serene monotone “You must simply learn to enjoy the journey.”
“Besides,” said Jesus while he adjusted the rear view mirror locking eyes with Satan over his onyx aviator sunglasses. “I am the way.” | "But..but..I'm not a violent person. I.."
"Buddha we talked about this!", Satan screamed. "This isn't about principles. It's about fucking survival! Now man the 50 for fuck sake!"
"Shouldn't we wait for Mohammed?"
"You know exactly why he isn't here right now!"
FSM reloaded his M416. Satan threw the last of the dea... | 2017-11-15T14:43:36 | 2017-11-15T14:36:34 | 92 | 14 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | “That’s just great, do you have any idea which way to go?!” Satan complained.
Buddha replied in serene monotone “You must simply learn to enjoy the journey.”
“Besides,” said Jesus while he adjusted the rear view mirror locking eyes with Satan over his onyx aviator sunglasses. “I am the way.” | The humvee rocked relentlessly as it tore through the rough terrain, almost throwing God out of the driver's seat. His vice-like grip on the steering wheel was the only thing keeping him in the vehicle. He yanked it back and forth in desperate attempts to avoid the incoming ordinance, eyes twitching to the rear view mi... | 2017-11-15T14:43:36 | 2017-11-15T13:57:24 | 92 | 13 |
[WP] You declared to the heavens that you would never fall in love. Aphrodite hereslf took it as a challenge. | Considering the fact that she's a goddess and can and will smite me given a reason, I know that the last thing I should do is laugh at Aphrodite.
But the way she's rubbing her temples and groaning at yet another failed attempt makes suppressing my laughter, quite frankly, a herculean task.
"What is your PROBLEM?" She... | ****TRIGGER WARNING****
Aphrodite skulked along the massive halls of Mt. Olympus towards her husband's great workshop. An eerie stillness settled in; no chatter, no laughing, no joy, just cold marble. Always the same during times like these.
As she rounded a corner she noticed Zeus pacing back and forth in front of ... | 2018-03-08T23:32:34 | 2018-03-08T21:05:41 | 144 | 25 |
[WP] Everyone knows about the sword in the stone. Even the strongest of men have failed to remove it. You chuckle as you walk toward the stone with a pickaxe. | I chuckle as I approach the Sword in the Stone with a pickaxe. The crowd gossips and gasps as I pass.
A feeble old woman approaches me, tugging at my tunic. "Young Sir! You must not use the pick upon the stone. It is Gods test for us and interfering would be a sin!"
"Then call me a sinner, bitch" I say as I walk by.... | "The rules of governance are that the person who frees the sword may rule over the Britons," I said.
The lady of the Lake was not pleased, and neither, I assume, were the various knights who had been camping on the shore. Many of them were in undershirts, looking more like robust men than the fearsome suits of metal ... | 2018-04-17T20:27:16 | 2018-04-17T20:01:03 | 131 | 42 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I looked over at my sister- nine years younger than me, and yet somehow the same age all of a sudden. Her head was in her hands, the air of defeat around her almost visible.
Next to her a tall, handsome boy slept peacefully on his back.
I heard her heave a deep sigh, and looked over as she ran her hands over her t... | "You know what, Dave, I never thought that I would do it, mate, never really!" I told my buddy as I looked at his dark eyes, even darker in the lightless dusty room.
"Well, stop bragging, Shane" he snapped, "things are pretty bloody well screwed at this point as it is. Last thing I need is you rambling about Mrs. Bart... | 2020-11-02T10:49:46 | 2020-11-02T09:54:34 | 105 | 19 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I shouldn't, I couldn't, help but laugh at me
At least I would've, if I weren't so angsty
My wrinkled skin, now pale and acne'd
Strange hate for my reflection, hating back at me.
​
If I'd took to the window, and forgot the mirror
I'd have seen it was everyone, not just me that was thinner
In waist, wa... | Dandy Town, unlike its name, is a town far from perfection. In fact this little hamlet or village is a hidden gem I found while on one of my numerous trips to my Step Father’s bakery for breakfast.
I always had a penchant for funny things, but this town was a whole new definition of eccentricity and silliness. Every c... | 2020-11-02T10:58:27 | 2020-11-02T09:45:20 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] You're 34 years old with a wife and two kids when your School of Sorcery application was granted. You sent that application 20 years ago and told them you were no longer interested. They replied that refusal is not an option and that you will be taken in 48 hours. | Dear school of sorcery representative
I am 34 years old and perfectly capable of telling what and what I do not refuse.
If your kidnapping services are as swift as your respons to my application 20 years ago, I assume you made a typo and meant to say "you will be taken in 48 years", not hours.
If you however still... | "There is no such thing as a rejection, sir," the grave voice of the grey-bearded wizard echoed in my mind.
Twenty years ago, I was very interested in sorcery. Responding to a flier from the bum down the street, I applied for the School of Sorcery. My major of choice: Dragon Slaying. That was me then, waiting for a ta... | 2021-03-12T11:12:31 | 2021-03-12T09:31:27 | 2,416 | 442 |
[WP] A being at the gates of the afterlife allows every soul that passes through to ask it one question. Used to being asked questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "How many people loved me?", it's taken unawares when a soul asks "How was your day?" instead. | The being bents its enormous head to the side, curious and puzzled.
**"I am timeless, life itself. I am the Gods you worship, and the eternity you seek. I am the Guardian. I do not experience days, months, years. I am eternal, I have always been and always will be."**
The boy before it, no more than 14, clapped iron... | "It was... well it was, wasn't it?" The booming Voice, the Trumpet that pronounced the judgments of the World and the Living upon the Dead, seemed to stumble a bit.
"Well, how do you mean?" There was a sort of gentle curiosity in the voice, one that had spent a lifetime in conversations just like this--well, maybe no... | 2021-03-28T20:36:51 | 2021-03-28T19:47:25 | 2,246 | 159 |
[WP] Lost at sea for months, you spot land at last. You quickly realize you must have discovered some of the last uncharted land in the world. You also quickly realize why it is uncharted. | I dragged myself off the raft. Two months of cramped difficult sea travel would put kinks in your legs you might never get out. Though I shouldn't complain. I had been lucky after all. My food and water had survived the shipwreck, along with my cartography instruments. No companionship, but you can't have everything. P... | The water moved beneath him, pushing him in directions he rarely wanted to go. His Sisters had sent him to this island, a tiny island on a tiny planet. They wanted to find them and even though they didn’t want to admit it, they were losing.
Even with the constant motion of the waves, the air above was breezeless, stal... | 2022-07-09T10:44:00 | 2022-07-09T08:46:00 | 35 | 11 |
[WP] Lost at sea for months, you spot land at last. You quickly realize you must have discovered some of the last uncharted land in the world. You also quickly realize why it is uncharted. | I’ve lost feeling in my legs two sunrises ago. I’ve lost it in my head for far longer.
The makeshift boat, a long piece of wood that splintered relatively nicely off the ship, eroded with the best efforts of god’s acts. Little by little, sliver by sliver, the wood shaved itself down to a size where my arms could barel... | The water moved beneath him, pushing him in directions he rarely wanted to go. His Sisters had sent him to this island, a tiny island on a tiny planet. They wanted to find them and even though they didn’t want to admit it, they were losing.
Even with the constant motion of the waves, the air above was breezeless, stal... | 2022-07-09T10:26:43 | 2022-07-09T08:46:00 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Your quest was to find a demon willing to accept your deal, none of them said yes. "Primordial demons don't make deals, if you go too deep, just turn back" but you went deeper and deeper, meeting the ancient ones that knew no words. | “I’m in no position to make a deal like that,” said the first demon that I encountered. “No matter how much I desire your soul.” Five forked tongues emerged like eels from the five mouths above its chin as the demon looked me over.
We were in a dim, damp cavern. A vast rock plinth sat in center of this cave — and on i... | The sight in front of me was indescribable, illogical, impossible. Yet there it was.
"I have already seen it all. I witnessed the flagship *Tulhe* fall out of warp on fire, the tendrils of the Abantwe monster crushing it from within. I saw the stars of Orion imploded, and cried as the explosion consumed all the p... | 2022-11-03T08:15:03 | 2022-11-03T08:02:14 | 1,150 | 237 |
[WP] It's your birthday. You have never been excited for it but this year is different. You are turning 32. This was the date your father said you could open the box he left you in his will. The probate lawyer that was in charge of your fathers will is dropping off the box today. | I stood on the doorstep, watching the lawyer walk up from his immaculately polished Mercedes-Benz. The guy always had a knack for showing off.
"Good morning, and Happy Birthday." he stated plainly. If he wasn't making his hourly charge for something, he was terse. Efficient and shrewd, just like his ex-golfing buddy, ... | My 32nd birthday was due to fall on a Thursday. I've never chosen to treat birthdays as different to any other days before now, but this was special. I booked a day off work and gave the coworkers noncommital answers when they asked me if I had any plans. I put on make up I don't usually wear, put on a new outfit I'd b... | 2022-12-12T14:14:37 | 2022-12-12T14:03:44 | 76 | 31 |
[WP] A shapeshifter befriends a lonely human multiple times throughout his or her life, but the human thinks it's a different person every time. One day the human realizes that all of his/her friends are really the same person. | "All of them?"
"... Yes"
"Jan, Christie, Jason, Tim, Mia?"
"I'm sorry."
"But.. how? Why?"
"I wish I knew."
"All of them? This whole time?"
"It's a lot to grasp, I know."
"Why?"
"You were lonely... and I guess I was too."
"I need to sit down."
"I'd understand if you never want to speak... | Martha sat on the porch in her rocking chair. She felt the warm breeze, the way only spring could feel when hopes and anticipations blossom in every heart. Her newspaper was still rolled up, it was too much of a hassle to get up and get the glasses, and even more of a hassle to read about today's nonsense.
She had le... | 2014-08-15T10:44:35 | 2014-08-15T09:28:27 | 131 | 80 |
[WP] Zombies. On a spaceship.
You can go for serious or funny, or whatever mood you want. I'm planning on writing a short story with this concept, as a sort of homage to Alien. | "Zombies, seriously?"
"Yeah, that's what came over the system before the screaming started."
"The doors between here and the mess hall aren't sealing properly, can someone get engineering on the line?"
"How the hell did they even get on this ship?"
Pushing past the squabbling officers, Captain Kowalski exited the b... | (some NSFW swearing)
It all started when Jenkins ate that space Cucumber. We had docked on a previously-unsearched planet, far off near Cygnus-X. We were the only ship within a terraclick, and we had to be very careful.
The flora and fauna on ShitHole (as we enlisted men were calling it) were similar to those found ba... | 2014-11-19T10:45:03 | 2014-11-19T10:04:47 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] One day, at the library, you find a book written by an author with the same name as you. As you start to read it, you come to realize it's an exact telling of your life. As you continue to read, you reach the story of finding this very book, though you're not even close to half way through it.
This is my first pr... | ".... As I was reading the book, I started to realize it was about me." It said. 'Holy shit' I thought, I've reached the 'now'. "I've reached the now" I read on the page just after I thought it. "And then I read this sentence." 'Well, that's weird and paradoxical' I thought. "And then this sentence." "And then this one... | **When he reached this line, a whole world of possibilities opened up to him.**
I was holding the book tightly in my left hand, biting my right nails consistently.
"Hey kid, we're closing up tonight. You want to check that out?" The librarian looked happy. "That's a good one."
"You've read it?" I asked, nervous of a... | 2017-09-23T13:37:18 | 2017-09-23T12:35:14 | 64 | 23 |
[WP] You are an inspector of the Federal Bureau of Dungeon Safety And Adventurer Fairness. This one is a serious violation to the codes.
Feel free to drop the Adventurer Fairness if you don't like it. | "Why do I have to shut it down?" The woman's normally seductive face was twisted in furious scowl as she paced around the tiny office like a caged tiger. She whirled on the small halfling woman sitting behind the large, paper covered desk with a tiny gold plaque with one word on it: "Inspector, FBDSAF."
"It's too hard... | So here I am, inspecting the dungeon of some mad scientist. Normal Friday, nothing special. See, my job is to keep balance in this world. We all know that this is a fantasy world, but the players don't realize that it's real. What they see as numbers, we see as everyday life. The boss trains his minions, crafting their... | 2018-11-26T17:07:11 | 2018-11-26T11:39:13 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A broke adventure has to buy cheap terrible items with weird curses on them. Little do they know that those cursed items happen to synergize so well together that they quickly become overpowered. | The thing about equipment is that you never quite know where it's been, and rarely do bright eyed adventurers have the scrib to commission new armor, so they make do. Pav was one such bright eyed adventurer, ever since he was knee high to a scarble nork, he would dance and duck around his family's small cottage with hi... | "I'll give you this for-- all you have," the shopkeeper grinned. "I'm being generous, trust me."
Gram sighed, and tossed the satchel on the counter. Ten shekels seemed far too much for a cheaply made trinket, but if the Oracle had willed it who was he to argue against it? Besides, Gram knew that those shekels were dif... | 2019-12-02T16:24:38 | 2019-12-02T15:34:46 | 87 | 33 |
[WP] You die with your cell phone in your hands, and the afterlife customs agents miss it when letting you in. You find that it still works, and you can connect to the internet and contact people in the living world. | "Daddy?" Isabella's voice was clear as a bell. My eyes stung with tears with my inability to speak back to her.
"Daddy? When are you coming home?" She asked. "I guess it is a bad call. It has the five bars and says 4. Daddy is your phone broken Daddy?"
I sobbed silently to myself listening to my sweet little girl try... | Posted by u/Apocryphon_from_Bynd \[Claims to post from beyond\] - 7 hours ago
**Recently deceased, can still access Internet, what to do with this ability?**
This may require you to suspend your disbelief for a bit, but please hear me out before you disregard my post outright.
On the 19th of January, I, Arthur McKin... | 2021-01-20T14:13:32 | 2021-01-20T11:51:49 | 347 | 216 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | “What are you-” The man cut himself off as he was hit with the full meaning of my wording and his face went slack. Taking two slow steps back as I crossed the line of rock salt, his eyes went wide with terror. “You’re one of them?” he choked out.
“You’ve made a lovely home here,” I said, looking around the small encam... | "At night we all look the same, like food."-Nzinga Adeyomi
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Fun fact, salt is associated with purity. Salt was and is still a substance that humans used to help food stay... Edible. How ironic. Some humans even think that it will purify *us*. I don't ever want to be "pure" like a human. Not again.
There are oth... | 2021-03-02T08:28:43 | 2021-03-02T07:04:40 | 197 | 70 |
[WP] Genies are real, and they do grant wishes. But these wishes do not have to be said out loud. They just grant you your three deepest desires, however fucked up they may be | When my uncle died I skipped the funeral, citing work reasons and the fact that I was out of the country. It was curious as to how that wretched man died the *day after* I had flown off for work. But it was all the better, morbidly enough.
I despised him, though I could not recall why. It had something to do with grow... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Part ?: Clara v.s. Her Deepest Desires)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**There was only one way to save my daughter, and it just might destroy the world.** But in all my years... | 2021-08-06T08:43:44 | 2021-08-06T07:40:16 | 2,812 | 53 |
[WP] Genies are real, and they do grant wishes. But these wishes do not have to be said out loud. They just grant you your three deepest desires, however fucked up they may be | The genie dissipated almost as quickly as it had appeared, leaving him only with a hazy, lingering smile.
However, he knew that something had fundamentally changed - that two wishes had been granted, and one wasted.
He flew upwards, reaching towards the heavens with effortless agility. Spiraling through the sky, he ... | [Part 1 of 2]
“Ok, there’s got to be something in the contract about this. I’m grateful and all, but this isn’t what I wanted. Why the hell would I want a spaceship made from chocolate? Would a sane person wish for that?”
“No, I don’t believe a sane person would wish for that, but I’m not here to give you a psycho... | 2021-08-06T09:16:47 | 2021-08-06T09:15:31 | 531 | 99 |
[WP] You have passive mind-reading. You hear the thoughts of those closest to you. Rather than use it to your advantage You instead use it to give precision compliments to brighten people's day. | I was almost 16 when the powers kicked in. Nothing special. Not flying in the air, not becoming invisible and not telekinesis. But I did start hearing murmurs. Little whispers when I was around people.
I was frightened initially to be honest. I thought it was schizophrenia. But slowly I realized that I was simply he... | “Did you do something with your hair, Mike? It looks amazing today, has that real lush look you see on commercials. Change your shampoo or something?” Compliments are the cheapest present you can give to a person. They cost nothing but a bit of effort on behalf of the person giving it and can make all the difference. I... | 2021-11-18T09:02:36 | 2021-11-18T06:37:44 | 344 | 178 |
[WP] You hear a rumour that there's a princess around, always surrounded by cute animals every time she sings. In this post-apocalyptic Disney wasteland, you could use a neverending source of meat... | You could hear her wails from a mile away. That’s when you know when to run. Or she’ll find you. Or they’ll find you.
It all happened so fast. She started changing. Her voice, once smooth and sweet as honey, grew scratchy and guttural. There was something in her voice that changed everything. Her screams would gather... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Interlude 5: Hat Tricks)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.
**In another life, she had been a performer.** But that was before the Middle Communes had collapsed, taking every job m... | 2022-01-28T03:56:36 | 2022-01-28T03:21:44 | 76 | 44 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | It's a small act of defiance. I don't think it will change the law. But maybe, I can save a few lives. Maybe I can scare a few people out of line. My hand shakes as I write.
_____
**Form 10-95**
**Sanctioned Murder Registration**
Murderer: */u/thefonztm*
Victim: *The next registrant* | I released a deep sigh as I lifted the still smoking barrel of my handgun to my lips, giving it a brief kiss. It was, by far, the most sound investment I'd ever made. After placing it on the table and stepping over the would-be assassin's body I approached the closet nearest my door to don my jacket: the black leather,... | 2014-03-17T10:18:55 | 2014-03-17T06:28:23 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | All I ever wanted in this world was her. I could have had my powers over magic stripped away, but if I could have had her to love me as much as I loved her, I would have been the happiest person alive. My beloved chose my twin brother over me. My brother, who goes out into the forest for days on end to listen to the wh... | Life was odd amongst women when I was growing up. But then I suppose being raised by women does offer some unique perspectives. The women all held me in high opinion from as early as I can remember. They kept on telling me that I would one day become their ruler.
I had kept on being told this, time and time again to ... | 2014-06-20T08:19:23 | 2014-06-20T06:49:22 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] A cult worships you, thinking you're an extremely powerful alien god in human form. They're right, but they're annoying you on your vacation. | **J**ack jumped forward, reaching for the throat of a person in front of him, but missed as his intended victim fell on the ground and started chanting.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" cried Jack in a vain attempt to stop the person from trying to kiss the sand on which Jack stood a moment ago.
It was a bad vacation. Th... | Dave hadn’t gone skiing in well over two millennia, thanks to the incredible rarity of suitable snow on any planet other than Earth. Yes, it was quite abundant on the human world, but it also came equipped with the unfortunate addition of humanity. It wasn’t that there was anything particularly wrong with them, aside f... | 2015-04-02T11:42:00 | 2015-04-02T11:33:19 | 178 | 84 |
[Wp] you are a lonely old man who feeds raccoons every night because you are lonely. One night, just Before Sunset, a stranger invades your house, ties you up, and threatens to kill you. Suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you see a pair of winkley yellow eyes at the window.
Edit: And now my highest rated post i... | The racoons used to fight Old Joe's dog, Marty, for his dinner on the porch every night. Tired of breaking up the melee at sundown every night he'd simply started putting out enough food for the racoons as well. A tense peace broke out among the animals in Old Joe's back yard and Joe got to know the racoons over the ye... | Jonas was thinking about the raccoons when he heard the tinkle of glass, but then again he'd been thinking about the raccoons for most of the day now. It was funny, the things you got to doing once you got old, once most of your friends had gone off and died or disappeared into retirement homes or fretted themselves in... | 2016-10-30T21:45:11 | 2016-10-30T21:03:04 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] Despite being peaceful, humans are universally feared through out the galaxy as harbingers of death. They are hosts to the most dangerous diseases and bacteria ever discovered. Average number of fatalities from a single human exposure is ~8,000 with some exceptions. Avoid at all costs. | Fire.
Humans always dealt with plague by burning the bodies, and houses.
Why should we think other intelligent species would be any different? It has been protocol on newly discovered planets to nuke settlements at the first sight of diseases we could not treat.
Humanity's first contact with an intelligent ... | “Captain's log 2449. Approximately two hours ago Communications Officer Ventron discovered a series of deep space com signal coming from a previously unexplored part of the galaxy. Upon further inspection of the signals Ventron was able to confirm our suspicions that they are from an undiscovered alien race. I’ve set V... | 2017-01-07T06:45:22 | 2017-01-07T06:26:14 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] In Hell, your worst mistakes and cringiest moments are relived over and over. Your life, however, was a series of never ending awesomeness. Satan is getting fed up with you. | Dear God,
You know I normally don't write to you if it wasn't of extreme importance. You see, normally my attendance consists of pretty shitty people who have both done and experienced shitty things. Because of this, my typical treatment usually works wonders.
For example, Hitler has been stuck in Art School for quite... | I walked around Hell, the place is actually pretty normal. It is like Earth except instead of a nice blue sky and cool air, the sky is red and the air burns. However you are pretty okay with it since you are dead. I keep seeing people fuck up though. It is pretty embarrassing to see people do stuff like shit their pant... | 2017-07-23T11:10:05 | 2017-07-23T10:21:47 | 24 | 10 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | On principle alone, my monochromatic office isn't white. I like color. Much to the chagrin of the analysts, I had it painted lilac. I have to be in it for hours (when I'm lucky), so I won that small debate. Otherwise it's simple. Eight paces over lavender tile, and a featureless pocketed door. One small screen with my ... | “Am I gonna like your answer Johnnie? Am I?” I’m pushed right up into his face, threatening. Even with all the muscle around me, my aggression is an act. These boys all know me as the professor of truth, but the snitch don’t know that. He’s sweating bullets.
I walk behind the snitch and wait for his reply. I open mys... | 2018-06-30T18:58:55 | 2018-06-30T18:20:28 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] Your last heroic act, you save the other astronauts by manually sealing the airlock from the outside. As you watch them leave, alone, you remove your helmet to die, only to find you can breathe in space. | My fellow astronauts start drifting away back home, Earth, safety, family.
As I look into their eyes for One last time, I Close mine as I take my helmet off. I wait for death, relatively quick and merciful.
"OI CUNTS I CAN BREATHE IN SPACE. "
But alas, they cant hear me. | I pushed off of the bulkhead as it vibrated with the others incessant pounding. *Needs must my friends.* It's strange, you can hear the impacts.. Except, you aren't really hearing it so much as feeling the vibrating metals surrounding you. "You'll die, damnit!" a voice said on the radio. It took me a moment to remember... | 2018-09-06T19:23:18 | 2018-09-06T16:55:10 | 534 | 104 |
[WP] The finale of international chess tournament takes place. Two grandmasters sit in front of each other in ultimate showdown. The thing is nobody knows that both of them got here by cheating. First is a mind reader and second one has an ability to see the future. | Frank smirked. They were only a few moves in, but the match might as well have been over. Frank had the gift of foresight, the ability to see fifteen moves in the future. When he wasn’t fighting crime, he was sweeping the chess world off its feet. His rise to chess stardom was meteoric, thanks primarily to his impe... | “Sergei.”
“Albert.”
“Both men have taken their seats here at the 2022 World Chess Championship. We have Sergei Topalov, the challenger from Russia versus the Irishman, Albert McNamara. Topalov offered a handshake, McNamara merely grinned and nodded.”
The announcer’s voice reached out to a hundred thousand spectators... | 2021-03-16T19:16:21 | 2021-03-16T18:52:10 | 2,434 | 126 |
[WP][TT] You and your friends found out that you are all immortal. Ever since then practical jokes you pull on each other got a little more... dangerous. | I opened my eyes to the void. I tried to scream, but there is no air to carry my voice in the vacuum of space. This was certainly new, and I had to commend whoever had done this. *I'm gonna get that bastard*, I thought to myself. My friends and I had found out that all of us were immortal some 200 years ago. Of course,... | Mostly, Carlos just wanted to watch Netflix and eat potato chips until he fell asleep. It was Monday night, and that was par for the course of Monday nights. And yes, it had become a little routine and boring, but Carlos was okay with boring every once in a while, especially when everything in his life was chaos, excep... | 2016-04-07T12:17:56 | 2016-04-07T11:23:54 | 89 | 62 |
[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.
Inspired by this **NSFW** [manga](https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-sister-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young-r18806) | In the dark
On the depth of night
I was summoned
Once again
 
A little boy
He made a wish
The lonely boy
We had a deal
 
Riches or lovers
He didn’t want
A true friend
Was all he asked
 
For such a thing
His soul was mine
Just had to endure
Until he died
 
Envy an... | FADE IN:
INT. A CHILD'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
*A seven-year-old girl sits on the floor of her room. This is ELLA. In front of her is a crude pentagram, constructed from stuffed animals, books, and discarded clothing. The girl reads from a sheet of yellowed paper, stumbling through the words with a quaver in her voice.*
**... | 2016-05-19T00:23:01 | 2016-05-18T21:44:26 | 145 | 65 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real. How do you know? Because it happens to you. Everyone else forgets their past life, but not you. Your first life was a hunter in a tribe of people that predates the Egyptian empire. You’ve been reincarnated 194 times. Tell us the story of you, today in the modern world. | '*Motherfucker, that is* not *what happened.*'
It was a re-occuring thought as I read through the history book I was assigned to read in this lifetime. This school was *marginally* better than the one I went through in my last life, but it had the same problems- *being a victim of the longest game of telephone in hist... | Immortality is a vague concept for most, something that could only be expressed in mythology and fiction. And experiencing it first hand, it’s nothing like they say.
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Sure, it’s technically not immortality, I’m born; age and grow, learning of the world around me; then die one day. One small difference is ... | 2019-07-31T22:05:02 | 2019-07-31T21:48:48 | 81 | 12 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | Detective Holland stood at the courthouse doors, watching the man walk away. The group of reporters who had been waiting outside of the building had mobbed him the moment the doors had opened, cameras flashing. The man pushed through them with some difficulty, making his way to the street. Holland watched him intently.... | Milenia ago, they said that the caretaker of the Underworld – Anubis – would weigh the hearts of the recently deceased against the Feather of Truth, and those poor souls whose hears were founding wanting – weighing more than the magical feather – would be cast away from the afterlife. Into complete and utter oblivion.
... | 2020-02-09T14:01:39 | 2020-02-09T13:21:11 | 69 | 38 |
[WP] If a person opts into brain scans during life, a full digital model of their brain can be created. Posthumously, these scans are given to the bereaved family and not uncommonly used as the AI for house robots. You lost a loved one, and their robot... occasionally says VERY strange things | “RHINOS!” Jimmy yelled from the backseat. “Rhinos *all* around, it’s *JUMANJI* time baby!”
"That's right, kiddo!" John said, turning around from the passenger seat and giving Jimmy a fist-bump. "Rhinos!"
Karen had the gas pedal floored, focused only on the road barely visible behind her tears. When the doctors told... | “Can you hear me?” I ask EZRA, who is sitting across from us. I see slight red lights flicker in the black bulbs of its eyes.
“Nancy, I’m telling you I don’t think this is a good idea.” I tell my wife, trying for the last time to convince her not to go through with this. “This isn’t healthy. You’ve been doing so well,... | 2021-03-06T12:05:42 | 2021-03-06T11:38:13 | 2,839 | 75 |
[WP] As a child, you had a very unique diary; whatever you wrote, something would respond, their words magically appearing on the page. Years later, while searching a library hundreds of miles away, you rediscover the diary you thought you'd lost. Inside is a pen and your first entry: "Hello". | "Hello."
My old diary! My old handwriting, even. I'd had conversations late into the night, joked around with it on weekends, told it my secrets. I looked up to it as an older brother I never had. But that was the only entry.
"Hi" I wrote, hoping to figure out what happened.
"WHO ARE YOU???" It responded, using my... | Okay so I’ve never done this before, and I’m not really sure what I’m doing tbh. I think the idea I came up with became too ambitious to be left as a short story, but I know there’s not enough space here. Sorry for the cliffhanger:
The library was always the first place. She’d moved a lot, as a child, and every new pl... | 2021-03-31T11:13:51 | 2021-03-31T10:17:12 | 92 | 30 |
[WP] The last star has winked out, and now you sit alone, staring into an empty void as the last living being in creation. For fun you say "Let there be light," and watch a star flash into being. From behind a voice says "Sorry, sorry, I just thought it'd be funny." | Ugh, all alone, that damn wish came true and now is the time for the curse to set in. I am immortal. I’ll keep on living. It’s booring now that I’ve seen the heat death of the universe. Everything was destroyed, burned out, nothing left.
For giggles I say “let there be light” and a star is born in front of me.
... | I am immortal, the last human being alive in the entire universe. I don't know how I became immortal though. I only know that when the bombs dropped and humanity destroyed itself, I, for whatever twisted reason of fate, was the only one left standing. Even though every plant and animal had died, even though the Earth i... | 2021-07-30T20:50:10 | 2021-07-30T20:05:54 | 47 | 30 |
[WP] While performing an archaeological dig, you make the find of the millennia- but quickly must decide between leaving your find in the unknown past or risk causing mass panic among the public. | Archaeology is fun they said, you just dig and forget about your problems they said. No one ever told me I'd nearly break a bone falling down a hole. And now I'm lost and confused, unable to decide if people need to know of what I found.
At first, it was all dark but my echoing voice led me to understand I was in some... | **Part One**
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*June 4th, 1952*
*Since the discovery of the mysterious bunker in Brazil, the archeology world has exploded about rumors of the Kaiser’s lost bunker, I‘ve been called in by my university, I can see the Statue of Liberties Bronze glint in the distance as my air ship approaches Philadelphia A... | 2022-01-05T09:25:46 | 2022-01-05T08:41:12 | 85 | 22 |
[WP] Yesterday, you knocked over a salt shaker in Texas. Today, you bought a newspaper in Fiji. Tomorrow, the chain of events you set in motion will stop a bank robbery in France. You are the master of the butterfly effect. | A single grain of sugar, placed upon a leaf. That was enough to attract a butterfly to perch next to it. When that butterfly took off again, the flap of its wings was seen by a child. That child ran towards it, wanting to see a butterfly up close for the first time. They ran across the road, forgetting to look both way... | Henry slept for most of the 12 hour flight to Nadi. Thankfully, despite it being a full flight, the seat next to him remained vacant giving him a bit of extra room to get comfortable.
The nap on the plane did wonders for helping Henry reset his circadian rhythm and sync up with the time zone. After eating breakfast at... | 2022-04-24T07:57:45 | 2022-04-24T05:46:31 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] Earth is the last human stronghold in the galaxy, and we have no fucking clue about it. | With heavy hearts, we loaded the projectile into the wormhole. Genocide had never been easy for us - not as it was for the humans. They'd left us no choice, however. We were losing colony after colony, world after world razed to the ground. They were suffering similar losses - now, there existed only one planet on each... | I remember the day well, the day our history was changed forever.
I was but nineteen years old, a recent immigrant to the British Lunar Territory. After the Unification War and the subsequent War of Restoration we'd emerged victorious but our homeland was devastated, London was a smoking crater and the largest city st... | 2015-01-30T11:57:13 | 2015-01-30T10:46:51 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | "Whelp." Marv sucked on his teeth and tucked his thumbs into his dusty suspenders. It was difficult to see the descending shadows as they tumbled like flakes of ash out of the low, sickly green skyline now. The deluge had slowed over the past few days. "I guess them hippies were right. We shoulda reduced our carbon foo... | The Shepherd hadn't strayed more than a dozen miles from his home in all 54 years of his life. He had learned his trade from his father, as his father had learned from his father before him. He knew the winds and clouds that swept over the Moorlands better than any other... he knew which wisps in the sky portended fai... | 2016-07-19T07:42:38 | 2016-07-19T07:36:46 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | Most people go a whole year without anything interesting going down. Things tend to slow down once you have a 21st birthday, graduate from college, and try to find a job. Then it is just boring old existence until you collect your retirement gift and fade away in some small room that dozens of people before you have di... | Have you ever felt your life couldn't be any worst that it currently is ? That your entire existance could be summed up to a succession of really bad decisions ? I'm Frank Xandar, 32 years old, no girlfriend, a rap sheet longer than my arm and no real friends. The only thing I have is my job and even then it's hard to ... | 2016-11-21T09:34:58 | 2016-11-21T06:51:31 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | "DAD!" I shouted, as I slammed the front door to the house behind me. I was in a state of near panic, frantically trying to take my dress shoes off, as I shouted for him again, "DAD!"
I heard noise from the living room, the springs of my Dad's favourite chair protesting like they always did, from age and use, as he s... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-02T00:12:30 | 585 | 14 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | I've always seen them. The numbers. It took me a long time to figure out what they were, and longer still to learn to pretend they weren't there.
My family took me to a psychologist when I was young, he thought they were a visual hallucination. None of the pills he proscribed me worked, but I pretended they did at th... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-01T23:57:33 | 223 | 23 |
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