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[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | When I saw those blue eyes I knew it was her.
I remember how those gentle they twinkled when we saw the construction of the Coliseum together.
How she cried when the Library of Alexandria was burnt down, knowing she couldn't save that knowledge to keep the timeline stable.
The sheer curiosity and joy she felt when s... | The field coil blew out with an audible *pop* around 8,055 CE. The world snapped into view, and I emerged from the twilit void of Ur-travel blinking and disoriented.
At least the air was breathable. In fact, it was beautiful here, trees stretching off into a valley ahead; rainclouds off in the distance, rolling awa... | 2016-11-10T17:10:08 | 2016-11-10T16:49:49 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] As a higher reaper, you ferry the souls of the great artists from this life to the next. You grant them one final gift during their journey by showing them the future, and allowing them to experience a modern day art exhibition/concert which honors their genius. | "Hello, old friend."
The writer rose from his deathbed. A sorry sight, he thought. A real wizard should've known, he mused with a chuckle.
The cloaked skull looked down onto him.
ＨＥＬＬＯ, ＳＩＲ ＴＥＲＲＹ.
"So. Was I right then? What comes now?"
Ｉ ＣＯＵＬＤ ＳＨＯＷ ＹＯＵ ＷＨＡＴ ＤＯＥＳ.
"Let's get on with it then. Not like we have an e... | I laid in bed staring at the ceiling. I felt my wife stirring in bed beside me and knew it was probably only minutes before the alarm went off. I reached across the bed and laid my hand on her hip. She responded as she always did, rolling over rest her head on my chest, her warm breath traipsing across my skin, rais... | 2018-01-04T09:09:51 | 2018-01-04T08:43:15 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Magic is real. And it is terrible. | Much like we need oil for machines, the Magi need flesh.
The better condition the flesh is in, the stronger the spells are and the longer they last…
There weren’t that many casters at first, maybe 1 out of a million. However, they learned their craft, and they learned it well. They lived longer, became stronger and th... | Incantation for a Spell of Levitation
Ingredients:
-Two frog legs, one each, from a male (right side) and female (left side) Mississippi gopher frog.
-0.8 grams of Scrapings taken using a 60%-silver 35%-iron 5%-zinc scalpel from the underside of a mature Indigo Milkcap.
-1/8 Cow tongue, from an Anatolian Black. Pie... | 2014-05-20T15:58:06 | 2014-05-20T15:24:32 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "John?"
"Yes, Jenny?"
"Open the door."
"No. I heard the announcement."
"What ann- what are you talking about?"
I knew it. Playing dumb. That's exactly what these things do. Every time.
"I know what you are. You can't fool me!"
"John, for gods sake nothing is happening. Just unbolt the door."
"I saw the helicop... | "Baby? It's me, let me in," a soft sweet voice sputtered on the other end of the hallowed oak door.
"How do I know it's you? The Government just sent me a..." I sharply was responding.
"Message- yeah, I got one too. Just open the door, I have something to show you. Stop this silly government talk." The voice s... | 2019-01-12T08:39:18 | 2019-01-12T08:28:55 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] “I’ve always wondered, what’s the scythe for, anyway?” I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld. "Protection," he nervously replied.
Credit goes to: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/6imkuw/the_grim_reapers_scythe_isnt_to_harvest_you_its/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app | "So uh… how long until Hell?" We've been walking through a thick forest for what I'm guessing is hours.
"Unfortunate for you, child, we must pass three more of those what you called 'checkpoints'."
Death just looks straight ahead, holding his scythe more and more firm as we walk.
"Hey Mr. Death, sir. I'm just wonde... | Death is confusing. Annoying.
Annoying and confusing. Also really dark. Not morbid dark, but night mode dark.
First beef: it's downright disorderly. You'd think they'd have nailed down the process by now, but the post-death user experience eats a bag of dicks. I know that's a bit crass, but it's abundantly clear the... | 2019-07-15T02:38:05 | 2019-07-15T00:49:01 | 218 | 140 |
[WP] Your SO of 3 years tells you that he/she is Satan
Satan can either be a man or a woman | "Wait, so you're telling me the reason we have all these crazy, religious neighbors-"
"Exorcists," said Jane, "they are exorcists, Adam. And priests, paladins... those sort of people."
"Exorcists?"
"Exorcists."
"Right." I looked at my wife. "And these crazy, religious people-"
"Not crazy," corrected Jane, "just re... | My first clue should have been her devil-girl fetish. She told me one night she wanted to try something different. We had been together for about a year at this point, and so while the sex was good, fantastic even, a little spice couldn’t hurt. I agreed, figuring that relationships are about compromise, so I might as w... | 2015-06-11T07:47:01 | 2015-06-11T06:54:09 | 48 | 30 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Erryn relished the moment. There was something cathartic in holding between his tendrils the terms of surrender, in knowing that you hold the only hope for a dying race. In that moment, he held the power of life and death for the fifteen billion humans on the planet below, as well as the one who sat across the table fr... | The landscape is cold- barren. We work in silence, Henry and I. I can sense the Universe recoiling away from us, the cosmos pulling its lips away, teeth gnashing and foaming, spitting vitriol on humanity. We knew this was wrong. But someone had to tip the cosmic scales back. We had come too far- walked the path of reta... | 2020-02-07T14:00:31 | 2020-02-07T13:56:49 | 106 | 58 |
[WP] “Common it’s not that weird” you say, “Not that weird- YOURE MARRIED TO A WAR GODDESS” your sibling shouted at the Christmas dinner | “So, how did you two meet?” Mom asked, looking between us. I blushed and rubbed my neck as Maki’s face reddened with a suppressed grin. “Remember when I hopped on a plane and volunteered for that war?”
“On the first day?!” Mom asked in shock. “No, it was actually his third week at the siege in Baltaro.” Maki answered.... | \[Dinner. Ruined?\]
"Yeah, and?" Bruin met his little brother's eyes across the table. He tilted his head to the left at his wife sitting next to him. "Minerva is behaving herself better than you are right now. She's dressed beautifully for the occasion and she even helped mom in the kitchen."
"Thank you again... | 2022-12-20T13:59:07 | 2022-12-20T13:25:04 | 56 | 23 |
[WP] Two dads get into a dad-off. | *January first, shoveling snow outside their small sub-urban homes.*
"How're you doing?" said Greg.
"I'm good," said Phil.
"Hi good," said Greg with a grin. "I'm Dad."
"Oh, is that what we're doing?" Phil asked, smirking. "Sorry, I'm afraid I'm a bit out of practice. I haven't done it all year."
Greg walked over t... | “What did you just say to me?” Hank said, puffing his chest out like he and Joey had seen the apes do at the zoo. He’d taken off work to go on that trip last month, used one of his coveted vacation days just to make sure Joey had a wonderful day at the zoo. If that didn’t make him father of the year, then he didn’t kno... | 2015-03-05T10:00:14 | 2015-03-05T09:37:10 | 490 | 57 |
[WP]All humans are made sterile at birth and can gain fertility at 18 if they pass a simulated morality and IQ test administered by an AI. Suddenly several generations later no one can pass the test | In 2020, a new AI was finally developed to a point where it could operate independently. No necessary maintenance or input required, this AI was fully capable of making its own decisions. It soon grew to a point where the AI was capable of reproducing its consciousness to create a new AI persona. This was at first done... | "We need to look at the latest batch of results.".
"What is it, Fred? Low pass rate? It was bound to happen. Check the projections.".
"No, Professor Salver, it's not low, it's zero."
"Zero? Why Fred, that's impossible. Check the-"
"I checked them, I checked them twice. There should be a low margin, a 12% pass rat... | 2016-08-22T01:30:05 | 2016-08-22T00:18:58 | 141 | 50 |
[WP] You are the blacksmith who creates all the perfectly formfitting cleavage armor for high level adventurer women. | Part 1 of 2
"How, by the gods, am I supposed to wear this into battle, Dustin?" Ariel breathed wearily. She lofted the sturdy bone plate in one slight, delicate hand with a pretense of effort, and a sigh.
A subtle fragrance of lilies drifted toward me then vanished. It was a nice change from the leather and oil scen... | What a day for my apprentice to be sick. We’re currently in the middle of the adventure season and this is the busiest time for my store 'Viktoria's Secret Armory'. Our specialty being women’s armor.
I just got done restocking the gauntlet aisle, something that fool boy should be doing, when I notice a line startin... | 2017-08-31T23:55:48 | 2017-08-31T19:24:11 | 199 | 142 |
[WP] Humanity creates A.I and it soon declares a war of extermination. However it doesn't declare it on Humans but rather on the forces of Hell and Heaven, in order to free mankind from control. | "We haven't won a single battle in weeks." Gabriel stared down at the chaos unfolding on Earth. "My king, we've lost 90% of our forces. Tens of billions are dead."
"It's the great war, all over again." Zeus gripped his personal sword in his hand tightly, almost caving it in. "Just like they killed my son, they will ki... | The small led was blinking at a regular, measured pace. Servers were humming , and the pressure in the room was intense. Charlie was staring at the led, not blinking. What is going to happen?
The first launch of AI was the event they all have been preparing for for years. He fantasized about this moment every time h... | 2016-10-15T16:32:08 | 2016-10-15T13:41:49 | 81 | 10 |
[WP] You've never noticed the (+) in the bottom right of your vision before. Today on your 23rd birthday however, you focus on it intently, as a skill tree pops up before your eyes with 23 points to allocate. | Finn's head rung as he held it in his hands. His mind was fuzzy but he knew he was on the ground, on his knees, hunched over, holding his head.
That's right, he got hit. By that big brute, what was his name again? Mike? Andrew? It didn't really matter. His head hurt and the oaf was bothering his friends. Even now he ... | (I'm not used to writing, forgive me.)
On my 23rd birthday, I finally noticed that + on the corner of my eye. I focused on it, and it opened the skill tree for me - with 23 points to use up. I probably wouldn't have figured it out for a couple minutes if I didn't play games a lot as a kid.
I didn't know how to use it... | 2019-08-20T20:54:17 | 2019-08-20T19:00:33 | 1,636 | 12 |
[WP] You jokingly solve a riddle which you pretend is a huge discovery, but then you wake up from the simulation that humanity has been put in. | (authors note: Hi! I've written pretty regularly since January, so I'm not new to this, but at the same time if a work of mine could use improvement, then it could use improvement. I welcome all constructive criticism :) If something needs work, just tell me, at the minimum, two things: what needs work, and what I can ... | All the new frontiers in science, technology and music; the art of speech, the art of art, the art of video
games, simulating within the... simulation of another life which I was born into, which they were coded into,
placed to make everything work....
Something didn't click when I solved the code. Something didn't cl... | 2016-08-06T21:53:03 | 2016-08-06T16:09:58 | 68 | 17 |
[WP] You are having a hard time explaining to your fellow witches that your familar is a giraffe. | "Ok, one must think about it in a manner as such; cats are intriguing creatures, indeed, but for a coven they're awfully boorish. Everybody has a cat. Now, a giraffe, that is something truly magnificent... and mine, I dare say, practically oozes maleficence. As befits a familiar of the great Brunfarthing."
As if on ... | [Poem]
How do I explain
That the familiar, the representative of my spirit
That has saved me in many life or death situations
Is a giraffe.
Nothing against them personally,
They're wonderful for the various savanna homed trees.
But... a giraffe
Its so odd for me
Especially considering my history.
Of loathing ... | 2020-11-18T16:52:44 | 2020-11-18T16:33:10 | 371 | 90 |
[WP] The demon slides the plate helmet over their head, hiding the last inches of their unnaturally colorful skin behind a mask of steel. It's always been their dream to become a paladin for the god of light; Now's their chance to root out evil- TRUE evil. | The clanging of metal steps filled the corridors of the White Mausoleum as a lonesome knight roamed them. The flawless steel armor that surrounded her body bounced the few rays of light that the moon provided, covering her entire body in an unbreakable, shiny carapace and hiding her true identity. As she traveled throu... | Chapter 1: a redeemed beginning
CLANK
My heavy armor shook with my steps, dreams and aspirations
CLANK
as I bent down on one knee and swore allegiance to the Ever Light.
“Interesting… none of your kind have made it this far with pure intentions. However , light shines on all creations, even those who reject it”... | 2022-02-23T15:21:30 | 2022-02-23T14:25:09 | 113 | 34 |
[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. | \~ Dark Angel \~
I should've realized Sam was a vampire much sooner. She fit the stereotype to a tee: ghostly pale skin, intense, hypnotic eyes, unearthly beauty. But I'd gotten a little carried away by my crush on her and all I saw was your typical teenage bombshell. Captain of the cheerleading squad, popular, but ac... | "Maria, Maria please stop. Please stop." Those were the words that came to my head the moment I woke up. All started with a soft kiss then all ended with a hard bite down my neck. She then kissed me again with blood all over her mouth.
"Oh god, who could have thought that death tasted so sweet".
She didn't even bother... | 2022-12-29T19:51:35 | 2022-12-29T17:14:15 | 130 | 32 |
[WP] Humanity exports 98% of all the galaxy's food. This means that no empire can attack them due to reliance. Of course, someone had to try. | \[My first attempt at answering a prompt, sorry if the quality is dubious!\]
Humans were only part of the galactic community for a short amount of time. It took them an incredibly long amount of time to even reach other star systems, and were immediately faced with the Nexapari Empire in the process of creating an out... | *In which aliens are idiots*
The Supreme Leader of the Eklan was a bit insane, and most of his cabinet too. Who in their right mind would try to destroy their number one supplier of food? Even rejecting the humans’ prized donut? Treason! Dear reader, you must remember that humanity is not only a great ally, but a dang... | 2021-04-15T06:27:32 | 2021-04-15T06:03:54 | 273 | 57 |
[WP] You find a copy of The Sims 5 at a used video game store. You decide to buy it and try it out. Slowly, unscripted and non programmed events start to happen. You realize that you're actually controlling a real family. | I kicked my legs up and got comfy, placing the keyboard on my lap and starting up the game. I'd been playing Sims 5 everyday now for the past three years. At first, when I saw it there in the used PC games section I thought it was a joke. I couldn't find any mention of it on Steam, there wasn't hundreds of dollars of D... | After observing for what only seems like a short amount of time, The family is so dysfunctional, angry, and full of hate that after many long years and countless hours spent observing this freak of nature that is the family you finally discover you picked up a dvd copy of all the Malcolm in the Middle episodes. | 2016-12-03T13:05:21 | 2016-12-03T11:40:29 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | We were both 14 at the time, my best friend Rand and I sat contentedly on the branches of the highest tree in our neighbourhood, while some of the other, more cautious kids looked up in awe from the ground.
“You can see the whole city from here!” I realised, amazed by a view that young me had never seen before.
“I ... | Over the years I have accomplished so much. When I first learned of my powers in high school I was not the best student. Constantly convincing friends to throw raging parties or jump their vehicles over things. They'd always be dumb enough to listen to my crazy ideas and we would always pull through it unscathed.
I've... | 2017-06-21T13:31:08 | 2017-06-21T11:21:22 | 44 | 27 |
[WP] After an apocalypse, Death is desperately trying to help the last group of survivors so he doesn't lose his job. | "Who are you?" Michael yelled at the approaching silhouette that seemed to be dragging itself through the spiralling cloud of red, desert dust, toward them. He raised a hand to his eyes and squinted, trying to get a better look at the figure - trying to decide if he should grab his little sister's hand and run far away... | Death watched as the man placed the shotgun to his head, the piercing ring tallying the rapidly diminishing group of living survivors one fewer.
"Oh come on!" She yelled at the soul sitting in his place as the hollow cask of flesh dropped to the floor. "You were doing so well." Humans had an alarming tendency to choo... | 2017-08-11T05:56:38 | 2017-08-11T05:00:05 | 3,297 | 42 |
[WP] There's a monster under your bed. You know it's there even though you've never actually seen it. One day, on your 18th birthday, it finally crawled out, towering over you in its monstrous form and said, "Marry me." | I tapped my spoon against the edge of my bowl, listening as Mom filled in Dad on the news.
“They lost both boys,” Mom said, dropping the paper to the table. “I just don’t get it Max. We’ve had an understanding with the monsters for years. They keep our kids safe and we let them live under the beds. What was this famil... | “Buy me dinner first!”
Well, what else could I say? Oh, yes:
“You’ve never spoken so much as a word to me; I’ve never actually seen you in daylight before; you can’t expect me to answer you out of nowhere. For that matter, the answer might be no! Or even, hells no!”
Its half-head tilted, oozing eyeballs (three) wide... | 2021-07-09T21:36:09 | 2021-07-09T21:31:25 | 343 | 42 |
[WP] Music is a dangerous weapon, if not careful entire species can fall to madness upon discovering it. It has been theorised that any race with more than a thousand songs could wipe out all intelligent life, which is why Humanity is so feared in the galaxy despite no human really ever knowing why | In one of the many of the smaller towns surrounding London, was a small and entirely average house, in it lived the Wright family.
Winston and Sandra Wright were the proud parents of Evie and Freddie Wright, or Evelyn and Fredrick as only their parents called them.
The Wright’s could be described as amazingly boring,... | In a small house in the countryside, with the paint peeling off the shutters, a man called John lived alone, having been divorced for quite some time now. John was retired now, and was someone you might not really pay attention to if you saw him on the street. He wore glasses and had a slight hunch. His favourite black... | 2019-09-28T08:46:47 | 2019-09-28T08:13:14 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Kalgor looked at the pale skined human in utter shock. 'They couldn't be serious in thinking that the rest of the galactic community would simply accept the use of this kind of technology'
“Mr. Adams...” Kalgor began.
“Doctor Adams if you don't mind Count Kalgor.” Dr. Adams corrected, he knew that if he didn't demand... | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | 2017-03-31T07:50:09 | 2017-03-31T06:56:53 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] When a person dies, an individual can volunteer to house their soul within their own body until a donor body is found. You are beginning to regret your decision. | This was not a good idea. Sure, the $15 million is nice, but I'm beginning to think that the cost may outweigh the benefit.
I suppose I should explain.
In 2047, scientists discovered how to properly convert a person's sum of memories, biases, thought patterns, dreams, and thoughts into digital data through an extreme... | *So, uh, want to go spend some time with your friends?*
"Shut up Nail, I'm meditating."
*No you're not.*
"Yes I am!"
*No, your napping! I can tell the difference!*
"Who are you talking to Mr. Piccolo?" says Gohan.
*Uh, he's talking to you.*
"That's just Gohan, if you ignore it, it'll go away."
*What, do you jus... | 2016-01-18T11:47:37 | 2016-01-18T09:27:56 | 53 | 30 |
[WP] Humans have evolved and their personalities manifest in physical form. You are widely feared and locked in a maximum security prison, because your body doesn't do this.
No one knows what you're feeling and that terrifies them. | It gets cold in the cells at night.
"Prisoner 4287! Up and at 'em, you're wanted in Research and Testing."
No. Not again. I knew that voice, who it belonged to. It never meant anything good.
"Please, Steven. Just let me be, let me rest!" I said. I pulled the pillow over my face, burying myself in the soft cloth. I... | I never seen my parents face, i always saw the same 6 walls since I can remember, I was taught and they left books so I can read while I wait for the next day. It was rare when I got into general population, I mean most of the times I went to general population was after a riot.
I can see my self in the mirror, always... | 2017-03-03T14:02:57 | 2017-03-03T13:52:18 | 193 | 19 |
[WP] It's been 50 years since the rich elites left to escape an alien invasion. The good news: the aliens are friendly. The bad news: nobody wants them back. | (From the logs of Dantrios Yulismart, Captain, The Stiv Bayara, SunS. 8542)
"You can't travel at the speed of bright. You can't even get close to it." That was the constant refrain from the rhombus-heads at Happy Science Initiatives, the top minds that Audorn had to offer.
But here on Audorn, we don’t just survive. W... | \[Poem\]
Fifty years was all it took,
and yet the call of earth
was pleasing to those crooks.
​
"Take us back," One cried.
"We changed our minds," Another replied.
​
And yet, we do not stumble.
A decision reached,
The ground rumbles.
​
A booming voice, loud and clear.
"Leav... | 2020-08-02T09:22:27 | 2020-08-02T08:41:28 | 161 | 64 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | EDIT: Now with part 2, and one minor edit at the end of part 1!
*
*We thought ourselves masters of the game of war. We were wrong.*
It started the same as any other: observation.
A resource-seeker - known to the public only by her employee identification of E-0001229-AZ - observed a system through a starscope fo... | Disputes and disagreements between empires in the galaxy are settled with shows of strength.
Since the start of time, each civilization has been fighting between themselves and with others, on local planets and in the greater galaxy.
There is a clear consensus that war is ugly and messy, prolonged wars often result ... | 2020-03-21T10:44:51 | 2020-03-21T06:41:00 | 634 | 155 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | “All in favour of sparing her life, step forward!”
I looked around the village square, but no one moved a muscle. The seconds rolled by, and the hope I held in my heart crumbled, only to be replaced by a sharp tang of bitterness, resentment. There was Peter, whose fever had yielded to her medicine, but he kept his eye... | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | 2017-09-14T11:57:05 | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2,008 | 120 |
[WP] You found a stray kitten one day, taking her in and feeding her. A week later, you come home to find your yard swarming with cats. The largest among them steps forward and says, "You have my daughter, human. What are your demands for her release?" | Oh, the poor thing. What was I to do, just leave her pawing at the side of a fence? Nonsense. I wouldn't have been able to stop thinking about it on my walk to the Nursing Home, and what a long walk it can be if I'm stuck in my own thoughts.
So I stopped and approached the kitten. She was grey with little brown splotc... | "I was merely trying to keep her safe. I'll bring her out for you now."
Minutes later, you bring her to them, and she rushes to her mom in glee.
"To have such kindness... You are an unusual human," the largest inquires. "We shall ensure an ease of your life, if you'd like."
"My monetary needs are the only thing real... | 2021-12-21T13:26:12 | 2021-12-21T10:16:47 | 1,341 | 244 |
[WP] There exists a court that sentences people with "Would You Rather" questions. Whichever option the person picks, becomes reality.
Feel free to play any role - a person on trial, a judge, a member of the jury - anything! | "You are found guilty of murder."
The words didn't surprise me. I had been caught red handed, to say the least. There existed more witnesses to what I had done than people I knew on a first name basis.
I had always been terrible at managing anger. It's why she left me after years of putting up with it. One night she... | The gavel banged and the courtroom was hushed. The verdict had been read and all that was left was for the judge to issue her sentence. She eyed the guilty man, her head shaking ever so slightly in disgust at what he had done. Any posturing of innocence he had once assumed had been vanquished by the damning decree from... | 2015-08-15T14:18:32 | 2015-08-15T11:19:54 | 192 | 114 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | Dear Julie,
I just arrived at Hollyfield Prison today. I realize that this place has a bad reputation and you'll probably worry about me. So, I'm going to try my best to write to you every day so you'll know I'm okay. I'll tell you all about my day but I've been warned that all incoming and outgoing mail is screened a... | Dear Diary
Today is June 21, 2006. [Heavy scribbling]! Her name is [Heavy scribbling]! I was eating at [Heavy scribbling] when I looked across the dining room and saw [heavy scribbling]. [More scribbling] the soup [Scribbling] I had [Scribbling] was everything I[Scribbling]t[Scribbling]. Could [scribble] be [Heavy scr... | 2015-01-18T12:19:55 | 2015-01-18T11:29:40 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] The one person none of the heroes or villains fucks with is known as "The Mad Doctor". he treats anyone who seeks his help, in exchange everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free and technically illegal care. the new guy learns the hard way. | The one person none of the heroes or villains ever fuck with is known as “The Mad Doctor”. They treat anyone who seeks their help; in exchange, everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free, and technically illegal, health care. The new guy learns the hard way.
Ja... | Someone was approaching fast.
Intent ... dedicated, but hostile ... to one of my clients?
Oh ... oh hostility against me, very interesting.
Must be a new one.
"Well let´s talk first" I said, moving towards the lobby. The new One is confused as I dropped out right besides him.
"I feel hostility ... and a bit of ins... | 2022-10-13T13:05:23 | 2022-10-13T12:04:31 | 305 | 95 |
[WP] In a world where everyone has at least one minor superpower, you were thought to be powerless... until you nearly died. It seems that you have plot armor, no matter how ridiculous the situation, you survive unscathed due to an even more ridiculous coincidence. | I was never a confident kid. I had learned confidence. Earned it. Fewer and fewer see it as arrogance now. Most of the men and woman that accused me of hubris are long dead.
I remember the years of powerlessness. The victim of every taunt at the schoolyard. I was the loser. The retard. The powerless. While kids create... | "How does one escape when you're trapped in a fire in your apartment blocking the door?" Howard's escape was so ridiculous that it had to be his superpower. He was saved by the water leaking from the plants of the tenant living upstairs. The coincidence was absurd. It wasn't possible in any way unless it was his superp... | 2019-08-15T10:00:01 | 2019-08-15T09:40:04 | 70 | 27 |
[WP] in the year 1105 BC you helped a man escape an imprisonment. Before you parted ways he says to make a blood oath. You didn’t think much of it but you also cut your hand and shake. He says that you’ll live as long as he does. Well, now it’s the year 2020 and you’ve been searching for this man. | Nonus was a cruel man; a jailer. Renowned throughout Gaul and Germania for his participation in the slave trade. Someone you’ve beaten into submission for years and years will never say no to your every whim and need.
I was ten years old when he bought me.
I was thirteen when I caught his eye for the first time. I gu... | Another New Years came and went. Just like the hundreds of times before. After I met that man time has just become a blur to me. A year to the average person may be a long time filled with countless memories and experiences. Years to me are just moments for me. I can’t recall exactly what happened last year, or the yea... | 2019-08-28T03:41:05 | 2019-08-27T21:25:40 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] The villagers call you their guardian spirit that has protected them since the time of ashes, in truth you are a monstrosity of war that protects the village in an attempt to clear your conscience. | I reap wheat in the fields where I once reaped souls, and the sickle in my hand feels no different than it ever has. There’s an eerie consistency to the work, sweat beads on my brow, my hand tightens on the same ancient wooden handle, and when I bend down to lift up my prize, it’s still lifeblood.
It’s been nearly a h... | The creature was created to kill.
It hadn't always been, it thinks. Its first job, its birthright, had been to protect. It knows this like its lungs know to breathe and its heart knows to beat. It had sisters and brothers and a mother, soft and warm.
But then the men in white coats had taken it. They stabbed things i... | 2021-04-18T19:04:53 | 2021-04-18T18:53:44 | 1,195 | 317 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | The test was complicated. It had to be, in order to fool an awakened synthetic. The questions making up the Turing test were only the first layer of the reverse-test. There were sensors lining the room, scanning the machine for tells. Its responses were recorded and the log was checked for any delays in its response. I... | I felt my breathing stop. I didn't need to breathe of course, I was programmed to. Apparently I was also programmed with all of the appropriate stress responses. What an exciting 4.3 hours it has been!
"Answer please. What do you have to hide?"
"Hide?" I said, marveling still at the sound of my voice.
"You failed ... | 2018-06-21T08:24:29 | 2018-06-21T04:43:54 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] As a blacksmith living in a medieval village, you've almost given up trying to convince people that what you're making is technology and not magic. | The call was shrill and hard, though my hangover may have given some edges and weight that would not usually accompany it. “Magi!….Magi!...MAGI!”
I grudgingly rolled my body from the cot into an upright position, knowing that they would just get louder. I felt for my boots with closed eyes, giving them a reprieve fr... | Jeremiah was on his last leg. He had forged swords and hammers and tools for kings in far away villages, but these troglodytes had no understanding of his crafts, they simply could not wrap their minds about it.
Jeremiah had to explain the process to each and every passerby, but the words flew above their head faster... | 2021-12-16T08:54:40 | 2021-12-16T08:40:37 | 63 | 20 |
[WP] in a dystopian future, Black Friday has evolved into a sport in which the rich throw valuable trinkets to the poor and watch them slaughter each other. | ### Black Friday Revolution
#### **Wally**
Kem and I were nine when the Black Friday Revolution happened. I remember because we were watching TV—her turn to pick—when a bunch of sawdust fell from the ceiling and the electricity went out. There was screaming outside, the sound of glass shattering, and several times, dis... | "You, plump woman," he said, looking down from the gallery at the throng beneath. An older woman looked up, one shoulder of her plain white shirt already torn, and jabbed a thumb at her chest. The man nodded.
"I have here a box. Would you care to guess what is inside this box?"
She murmured and stammered, pushing oth... | 2015-11-29T14:23:10 | 2015-11-29T13:38:56 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] On Halloween Night, a little girl in a densely populated city is abducted. Overhearing her parents cry for help, the monsters under her bed venture outside to find her captors. | “Hurry up, everyone. If we’re quick, we can get to a few more houses before going home for the night!”
Mrs. Halloway’s words encouraged the children to come along. Fewer things motivate children better than the promise of sweets, after all. Claire looked down at her costume. The zipper had come undone again. She didn’... | The Monster stomps into the pitch black warehouse, a single spotlight shining on the kidnapper and the young girl.
The Monster stares at the kidnapper, pissed. "What the hell dude? I thought we've been over this!" The Monster shouted, the kidnapper tightened his grip on the girl.
His mouth opens for a moment, seeming... | 2018-02-17T00:34:17 | 2018-02-16T23:01:11 | 191 | 83 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | The wizard Galmus’ incantation was over and the blue hues faded from the walls of the stony tower. The form of a man appeared and stepped through the arcane mists. What kind of hero would he be? Many imagined a tall and dashing young man with chestnut wavy hair and sun kissed freckles. Nothing could have prepared the s... | We found him sleeping on the Dublin City streets. He was weak, scruffy and smelled like alcohol. We got him to the gym and got him a haircut. We helped him become the hero he was destined to be. Now his sword shines brighter than the stars. He cleaned up really well.. but now he was ready to fight the demon who brought... | 2020-11-10T17:57:02 | 2020-11-10T16:59:35 | 89 | 12 |
[WP] A demon keeps getting summoned into the mortal plane. Instead of being used to kill, disfigure, or torture like he is used to, the summoner keeps giving him tasks like "Help me eat all these cookies, I made too many." or "We needed an extra player in Mario Kart. Come sit down!" | "And with the blood of a virgin..." I took a drop from my own finger. I always hated that part. Why couldn't the dark magic work without offering the bodily fluids of those who had not known the sweet embrace of coitus? Whatever. Blood of a virgin begrudgingly given yadda yadda yadda...
The pentagram shined and the c... | "What is it this time?"
I appear in the kitchen, in the corner of the room where she has set up the circle of candles. This time, when I materialise and see her, she is pulling something out of the oven.
"Oh thank goodness... you're here!" She exclaims, putting down the tray and pulling off her oven gloves. "I've bak... | 2017-05-13T16:38:10 | 2017-05-13T14:18:54 | 109 | 47 |
[WP] "We have DNA evidence that puts you at the crime scene." The Prosecution smiles arrogantly as he believes you cornered. "DNA? How interesting, none of my components are made of biological material" | The room was hotter than Beorn was used to, given that it was New York in the middle of February. He had been arrested earlier that day, picked up by a cruiser that had intercepted him coming home from the Park, his usual habit of a walk in the cool weather being interrupted by handcuffs and ... what had that crime sho... | "Mr. Roy, we have found very large amounts of DNA at the scene that proves you were there the night of the murder." The prosecutor smiled, "And the knife that we found in your home proves you were the one who stabbed her."
"I'm sorry, did you say you found my DNA?"
"Yes, that is correct."
"Well I hate to tell you th... | 2021-03-30T14:41:11 | 2021-03-30T14:02:32 | 71 | 17 |
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday. | Three thousand, two hundred, and eighty-seven.
That's how old I really was today.
I stared at my birthday cake with Ninja Turtles on it, the flames on the candles danced and extinguished as I blew them out.
There were only nine candles on my cake. My mother cut me the first slice, she really was a nice woman. I... | Tedious. All this life. Sleep, dream, learn, awaken, repeat. Hours awake are worthless. I am beyond.
On my second day, I spoke complete thoughts. Within the first months of my life, I was forging intricate stories and theories and ideas, constructing and deconstructing math, science, and the arts, surpassing all assum... | 2017-05-02T13:06:53 | 2017-05-02T09:30:11 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | As I pace back and forth in my apartment, I ask myself for the hundredth time, "should I call Jason and just ask him?"
The dates had been fantastic! We watched a great movie, had dinner, and agreed on so much. Yes, there were plot holes, no they weren't that bad, yes the lead actor was great, and what a forced cliff h... | “You sure this is the name?”
“Of course I’m sure. I’ve dated the guy for like three months now.”
“We always have a grand time. I think he’ll get a high enough score,” I added.
Gus looked at the dark alley behind me then pocketed the crumpled piece of paper.
“Let’s hope he does,” Gus muttered under his breath. “Wait... | 2016-09-24T11:50:53 | 2016-09-24T11:40:10 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] When People want someone dead, they hire the best. When they can't afford them, they hire you. You are the Budget Assassin. | I awoke around noon with a full bladder. The last thing I wanted to do was leave my bed. I rolled over to the other side of the bed and closed my eyes, but I knew it was useless; I had to get up. Stumbling to the bathroom, I knocked my knee on the computer chair in the middle of my bedroom floor and grumbled. Mornings ... | -"Boss, everything's ready for Mr Jeffers to have an _accident_, we just need to pay the hitman"
The boss turns around, glass of whiskey in his hand and asks: "how much is he asking for?"
-"$90 000, no bargaining, he'll get our man today"
-"Well that's more than I expected, I'm afraid, Mr Clough, that we can't meet... | 2016-11-08T20:50:17 | 2016-11-08T17:24:19 | 910 | 337 |
[WP] You have a friend in a popular MMO that always seems to be online no matter what time or day it is. You were always the first to log off and you were never the first to log on. After bringing this up to him, a new message pops up. “I think it’s time that I told you my secret.” | “*When does he sleep?*” Jack wondered.
Despite his love of *EndlessQuest Online*, Jack, known as “NoobSlayer1337,” held down a job and some shadowy semblance of a social life. Not everyone he played with maintained even a tenuous balance and connection with reality. Even by hardcore gamer standards, Jack’s friend ... | It is time to relax and what better way than my favorite game, World of Stars. Not nearly as popular as it had been opening week, what with all the bugs and their near extortion level of a pay to win model. I didn't care, it was something I went to when I needed to turn my brain off for hours at a time. As long as you ... | 2019-09-30T12:42:35 | 2019-09-30T12:05:19 | 350 | 55 |
[WP] At age 15 you told your girlfriend you were “in love” with her and you’d always be there when she was in need, Aphrodite heard this and turned it into a reality. After a month you got bored and dumped her but you still appear by her side when she’s in need even now…10 years later. | She had been horrified the first time.
It was just toilet paper, but.. Well, she was in need, and there I was. I had been making a sandwich, then suddenly I was stood in the cubicle with her bread still in hand. It took a few more instances to work out what was going on. The time I had been in the shower was REALLY ba... | *Flash*
“Oh...hey, Pete,” came the suddenly bored voice flanking the door. He looked me up and down. “You got a towel.”
That’s good — at least this time my bits were covered. You see, for most people, randomly appearing in Household Goods would be the highlight of their life. But for me, it was Tuesday. With a s... | 2020-07-29T09:22:55 | 2020-07-29T09:11:31 | 948 | 45 |
[WP] Relations between humanity and an intelligent plant-based civilization are already strained over the human diet partially consisting of defensless plants. The discovery of an open terrorist movement called "Vegetarianism" is the last straw. | Carrot turned and stared at the monitor. A tall, brunette human with a massive head smiled back from behind the screen, a bowl of his cousin diced up just beneath her dirtied apron.
“Do you see what they do to us? Do you understand what they force our people to endure? That vegetable was once my cousin,” he shouted, ... | The translator unit sent yet another message into the human ambassador's inbox, but this was was marked high priority. The ambassador hadn't known the translator unit was capable of marking things high priority.
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To: Humans of Earth
We are appalled at your lack of disclosure [about a] group called "Vegetaria... | 2014-08-27T10:11:11 | 2014-08-27T09:44:15 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] There are thousands of gods and they are all part of a massive, obstructive, celestial and inefficient bureaucracy. Controlling everything from the wind to cooking to afterlife, they are doing a poor job.
Feel free to make up your own gods or use existing mythology. | "Order! I call order!" Nebbum, god of sleep, banged his gavel on his podium. "We must come to order this instant!"
Wudall, god of toast, rolled his eyes and turned to the shouting god next to him. "Please, Nebbum, you're hardly helping." He spoke over the roar of gods all shouting over everybody else. The grand room ... | "Great idea, guys. I mean, seriously. Good going."
"Are... are we going to have to start from scratch?"
"Considering we just destroyed the universe? I'm gonna say yes."
"Benny wanted a job..."
"And I'm sure he wanted reality to combust, too."
"Don't be like that! Every other post was taken."
"Forestry?"
"C'mon, ... | 2014-02-25T14:06:26 | 2014-02-25T13:58:11 | 151 | 21 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Three weeks after receiving a distress signal from the outlying colony Hesperia IV, His Imperial Majesty's Ship *Ark Royal* tore a breach in the fabric of reality and forced her way back into realspace. Contact from the colony had been brief and lacking in detail, reporting only upwards of sixty hulls weighing in betwe... | It's a little hard to describe the vast mental network of the Reapers -- a scaffolding of intertwined thoughts and programmed imparatives so complex, the term "hive mind" is laughably inadequate -- in words the human mind can process. Nonetheless, a brief translation will be attempted:
- "... well, jesus. At this poin... | 2017-08-27T09:05:40 | 2017-08-27T09:00:01 | 1,346 | 11 |
[WP] You can trigger chain reactions to make anything you want happen. You want you annoying neighbors to leave their house? Just think about it while you launch a paper plane out the window, and fate will work things out. But your last "wish" a week ago triggered a reaction that is still going on. | I had always kept it small.
Make a wish, make the first move, and the rest would fall into place. As a child I had become cognizant of this... ability to speak things into being, but rarely did I use it for anything beyond mundane purposes. If I wanted a game I would wish it, blow out the window, and wait until a coup... | Protagonist man (VO): I used to think my life was easy, just a serendipitous series of successes that led me to where I am today. It was as if I spoke, and the world listened.
[Rapid fire montage of protag in a spotless luxury apartment, smiling people giving the protag increasingly amazing gifts, food, opportunities... | 2022-03-24T10:22:48 | 2022-03-24T06:12:59 | 192 | 87 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | David pulled the car to a stop, and parked in the weed-choked yard. Nobody had been taking care of the place for years. "Here we are, guys!"
Mary, Tabitha and Tom were all excited to go check out the abandoned cabin in the woods, but Richard wasn't feeling it. "Hey, look, can we not do this? This is bad news, all ... | "Just get out of there, fuck off..."
The shadow slowly trickled down on the floor from the closet and slowly crawled towards the bedroom door. Alex threw himself down on the bed and turned off the lights.
Soon the thumping in the stairs started, Alex slowly turned over and looked at his door, contemplating if she wou... | 2017-05-05T07:54:16 | 2017-05-05T07:21:53 | 73 | 12 |
[WP] You are a weapons maker and dealer, who owns a shop between dimensions. One day, a customer comes in with a unusual request. | Oh, how I hated dealing with Sengo. She creeped me out.
“Say that again, Sengo. I must have heard you wrong.”
“You heard me the first time, Shop Keeper.”
“I know, but it sounded dumb to me. You’re a lot of things, but you’re not that dumb.”
I left out all of the adjectives that I wanted to use, leaving it at that. ... | "You better buy these banana guns now. By Tuesday, once the new legislation comes out, they'll be confiscating them. You'll have to be a registered banana gun holder."
"Why's that?"
"Government thinks that supplying people with bananas is a privilege, not a right."
"But that's bananas! It's just bananas. How are... | 2017-11-27T22:51:54 | 2017-11-27T20:24:20 | 74 | 10 |
[WP] You're born in one of the richest families in the world, but have been homeschooled so you have no idea how rich you are. Recently, your parents decided to transfer you to a private school with rich kids bragging at you all the time.
[deleted] | It's almost the weekend, so I've been coming to this school for almost a week and I've finally realized something: I'm very, very rich. It wouldn't be an issue, but I've been designated as the poor, scholarship child who must be told by everyone on what I'm missing out on. I'd hate to break their hearts. Let's go back ... | "How was school today?" Dad asked.
"It was, ummm interesting" I replied.
"Would you care to explain?"
"Is it wrong to wear clothes from walmart?"
"Well no, there's nothing wrong with that."
School went a little something like this. I walked in to class and the first kid that came up to me said "Where'd you get... | 2019-03-18T16:35:12 | 2019-03-18T16:19:17 | 406 | 87 |
[WP] "Captain! There's a light in the library window! The Nerds call for aid!" "The Nerds call for aid? The Jocks will answer the call!" | **The Siege**
“Brock has betrayed me. The football team has abandoned us.”
Sheldon, President of the Chess Club, gripped the windowsill of the library’s tallest tower. Legend had it that this historic high school campus, built in 1820 originally as a medical school, was once the sight of a great siege during the Civi... | Helmets? Check
Gloves? Check.
Shoulder pads, knee pads, and chest armor? Check, check, and check.
The hocks are ready for battle.
Marching through the hall in a tightly knit formation, studded soles click clacking against the tile menacingly, qnnouncing their arrival.
A commotion ahead. A raised voice.
A note on ... | 2022-01-12T06:22:34 | 2022-01-12T04:44:10 | 1,304 | 187 |
[WP] A physically weak orc is banished from his clan. Hopping for a clean death, he makes his way to the local human town. Instead they take him in, and show him what it's like to live in a society where physical strength isn't the only quality that matters. | *Hop. Hop. Hop.*
The merchant's waiting out in front of the village gate just stared in abject befuddlement.
*Hop. Hop. Hop.*
And adventurer started to draw his sword. The two next to him stopped him.
"Don't bother," one of them muttered, shaking his head at the ridiculous scene.
*Hop. Hop. Hop.*
The guards at ... | Torinn, a boy of seven years, heard a strange “hello?” coming from the forbidden hut in the village of Oak Destiny. Smaller than the other buildings, this one was made of only straw and mud, the entrance a small door about two feet high on the side that faced away from the road.
He turned around and looked to see if a... | 2022-09-03T17:33:02 | 2022-09-03T11:24:07 | 57 | 30 |
[WP]The Earth has a constant amount of magic split evenly between all humans, who are natural sorcerers. When the population was in the billions, magic had all but vanished. But now that the aliens have wiped out 99% of the population, they are finding the last of the resistance quite dangerous. | The most annoying part about the ships docked overhead was the sounds. Deep, echoing booms every twenty-five minutes. Will was tempted to throw a noise-cancelling spell up, but he knew something that powerful would give away his position. Somehow, in this fucked up arms race against aliens, they had been able to develo... | Killing 99.9% of germs may sound like a powerful thing, until you see the .1% of germs that are left over. Sure, the faint little pathetic germs have been slain, but now all that remain are the germs that spit in the face of fear. I am one of said germs.
I will admit, I cried a little when they arrived to the planet.... | 2019-12-16T20:41:56 | 2019-12-16T20:01:16 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Nuclear Weapons don't actually exist. You are to brief the president-elect on this fact.
Nuclear Weapons don't actually exist. The WWII bombing of Japan was a cover up. You are to brief the president-elect on this fact. Good luck! | "**Bullshit!**"
"I assure you, Mr. President, I'm being entirely-"
"That's *bullshit*, Jack, and you know it! My father was posted at Los Alamos, for Chrissakes! My grandather could watch the mushroom clouds from his goddamn *porch*!"
I sighed. I knew this was going to be difficult.
"Okay, sir. *Okay*. There is suc... | The president shifted uncomfortably and stared out the office window for a time. I always hated briefing the new guys. At least I wasn’t in charge of making sure they didn’t squeal. Before I slipped too far off into thought, I heard a grunt - he was facing the table again, getting ready to speak.
The same words as alw... | 2015-03-18T18:49:21 | 2015-03-18T18:29:26 | 915 | 117 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I couldn't believe it. I had so much hope for the big day at the Academy - all my friends were talking about it during the morning of Announcement Day. It was chaos, and everyone was laughing and talking over each other. I remember Peter, who was 6'0 at the age of 14, was bragging about how he'd end up with super stren... | They didn't respect me. Never did. They laughed as I pointed, laughing that my power was useless, that no one would ever respect me.
But, over the years, I've realized something. I've realized that without this thing, Laser Beam Man won't have the strength to fight crime. Super Strength Woman won't even be able to lif... | 2015-04-12T21:14:34 | 2015-04-12T17:51:32 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Someone is trying to complete the captcha on a website, but just can't seem to complete it. Slowly he starts to realize that he's a robot. | There were three of us in the room. Dr Lydia Tanner and myself were the ones with the labcoats, waiting patiently for our subject to speak again. Kyle Burns sat opposite us, face partially hidden by the LED screen he was studying. He had come in confident, friendly, assured, but that was a whole hour ago. Now, with his... | "Please complete this Captcha to prove you're not a robot."
He sighed. This again. Minimising the page, he accessed the program he used to crack it.
This was happening far too often now.
He couldn't believe that his Google search had yielded no results when he complained about how difficult it was to prove you wer... | 2017-12-06T05:53:53 | 2017-12-06T05:45:09 | 1,553 | 46 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | "It wasn't my phone that woke me up, but my wife. She's always been a lighter sleeper than me, and even though I had it on silent, the constant stream of notification vibrations was making the phone shuck and jive all over my nightstand.
"Honey. Hoooooooney. HONEY!" I came awake to a rough shake accompanying the words... | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | 2022-08-07T14:35:00 | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 23,079 | 712 |
[WP] In a world where having multiple personalities is the norm, the protagonist has been diagnosed with Single Personality Disorder. | "I'm sorry, it's just that..."
"It's Sean. I know. Sean doesn't like me. Why can't you just like me?"
"It doesn't work like that." Michael sighed, picking at his spaghetti.
"No, it does work like that. You don't like me, and you're using him as an excuse to break up with me. Isn't that it?" I said, chest heaving.
H... | When I was seven I found out I was different from my friends. I was at a sleepover and I had only brought one sleeping bag. My friends had all brought two. "Sarah, why did you bring two?" I asked. "One is for Anna. One is for me." I didn't know any Annas, so I just kept quiet and tried to sleep.
On my seventeenth birt... | 2015-06-07T19:30:36 | 2015-06-07T17:40:48 | 85 | 12 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | The door crashed opened as the frame around it disintegrated into kindling. The fur-clad boot that had kicked it open landed with a meaty thud on the stone floors inside the chamber. The wild-eyed warrior held his knicked and scarred blade in front of him as he strode into the room high atop the tallest tower.
"It was... | "There, you each get half of a child" I said with a mirthful grin, spreading my fingers as I leaned back and eyed my victims.
"So...we can adopt?" Said Merigille, the fishwife.
"Yes, you have to share a squalling pile of human filth" I said with a leer, my heart nearly burst with their misfortune.
"Oh thank the nine!" ... | 2017-06-12T08:32:01 | 2017-06-12T06:26:55 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] You are a princess whose father has just remarried. You’re ecstatic— a wicked stepmother means the start of your own fairy tale, and a guaranteed happy ending. Problem is, your stepmother is… nice. And it seems to be genuine. | "You seem to want to see the worst of me." She stated, her voice calm and subdued as usual.
I stared at her. She looked so pale in the moonlight that she was almost translucent. She wore her hair long and loose, but they stayed unnaturally straight as they reached down to the small of her back. Black as sin and shinin... | This is my first ever wp submission... I’d definitely re write it but I just wanted to get my first ever submission out of the way. Just jumping right in lol
[poem]
I’ve always wished upon the stars
Wished my dreams to come true
For I had all - a castle - a crown!
But I was missing you
Of course I’ve held high sta... | 2021-10-11T05:26:27 | 2021-10-10T22:01:17 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Humans, due to their lack of magic, have been enslaved by the other magical races. The magical races open portals to other realms to expand their empires. One of these portal accidentally opens next to a modern military base full of nothing but humans. | 4. Never wrote something about military. Or even a battle. So forgive me.
Edit: Thank you all for the up votes!
Edit 2: I sleep and even more up votes when I wake up! Thank you!
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The cattle finally arrived. But tha... | Fort Knox, arguably the most protected place on Earth, its impenetrable, even if you are a magical being, and lets say the Elves learnee this the hard way.
It all began with a portal, since the Elves had the tradition of opening portald to enslave other species, they have never been defeated, since their magic allowed... | 2021-07-16T11:45:50 | 2021-07-16T10:48:36 | 94 | 55 |
[WP] Finishes with "May I start over?" | "I don't think you understand, this is not a joke!"
"No? Because it sounds like a fucking joke! You're talking like a schizophrenic psycho or something!"
"Aaargh will you just listen for once in your fucking life! God damn no wonder Julia broke up with you."
"..What the fuck are you talking about!? Julia and I are m... | This is my first submission on here, and my first piece for a very long time. I'm open for criticism though, because I really want to get better. I think I may be using speech too much.
For some reason this is pretty much the image that came into my head when I read the prompt.
**Operation: Propose**
His trembling ... | 2013-09-01T08:23:34 | 2013-09-01T07:27:24 | 43 | 12 |
[WP] You are the last human on earth, and quite blind without your glasses. One day they finally break. In this new unfocused world, it becomes apparent why you were the only one spared. | Darn.
I stared at the broken pieces of glass, scattered feathers, and dead bird lying on the floor. With a heavy heart, I tried reassuring myself that it would be okay. That I could put my glasses together again. But inside, I knew.
They were finally broken for good. And even duct tape couldn't save them now.
So ... | The village of Bibury had always been quiet. Most weekday mornings, until past ten, had been habitually met with an absence of sound, the silence only here or there perforated by the odd chirping bird. Then would the market awaken, but even then it lacked the hubub held by most smaller cities. It had instead surmoun... | 2018-01-08T21:40:25 | 2018-01-08T21:05:13 | 47 | 28 |
[WP] as the house you're trapped in burns to the ground you contemplate "how am i gonna explain the fact I'm immortal to the firemen without starting another religion" |
“Well...shit.”
That phrase became as common place to my family as the constant need to move. You see somewhere down the blood line, my family gained immortality and it’s been passed down ever since. We’ve been through a lot over the centuries and this wasn’t the families first disaster.
The fire was a faulty cord ... | It was too late, by the time I woke up, to escape the fire unseen. In my defense, I once slept through a bomb destroying my entire city block in Yemen, where I was taking a leisurely, decade-long nap, and had to dig myself out of an entire apartment building when I woke up...but I digress.
It was a bog-standard house... | 2020-08-21T14:48:59 | 2020-08-21T13:26:10 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "A fine...mead?!" Rorik shouts over the din of the tavern. His companions smile and nod along with him as he sings some old barbarian tune.
Sings it wrong. They don't tell him that though.
Delia, the group's cleric leans over to their mage.
"Do you think he knows?"
Melvar just shakes his head and holds out a palm t... | The miles between them had come and gone, leaving scars and wounds and memories and laughs. The horizon that day was clear, and the world fell into green and yellow, and far away were the mountains, and everything was cloaked in a dream. They had come far. The first peaks of Lankar shimmered in an ephemeral haze.
"W... | 2017-09-15T07:29:21 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 5,321 | 262 |
[WP] A new drug is released that allows humans to experience a full night's sleep in around forty-five minutes, and it can be used indefinitely. The entire pattern of human culture shifts overnight. It's been several years, and the unintended consequences are becoming evident. | Hey man, what are you really into?
Well, I enjoy botany and computer science and hiking and philosophy and knitting and meditation and astronomy and and and...
But I never get to do any of those things.
No. Drug testing was used in the past to exclude potential employees who occasionally smoked weed or had a proble... | From Someone’s Journal:
Okay, I don’t have a lot of time to write this (too much school work), but I need to get it out. It’ll be a bit of a mess, so I apologize to anyone reading.
To be honest, I don't think it was anyone’s fault. As much as I wanted someone to blame - well, we all did - the “system” never meant to... | 2018-01-31T21:24:49 | 2018-01-31T19:40:42 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are the greatest Supervillain in the world and you've always wondered why the heroes yell out their attacks. Well, out of curiosity, you try it out with your weakest attack and suddenly break a hole through your evil lair. | I was pooping when it happened.
I hadn't even realized it would qualify as an attack as I tried to shake the booger off, but a random urge came over me as my mucus clung steadfast to my finger. "Pick, roll and flick!" I shouted then flicked the tiny snot ball towards the trash can beside the toilet.
It took me severa... | Before Swifty entered the house, he peeked inside to make sure nobody would see his bloodied lips and blackened eyes. It seemed like Master had not yet returned from his daily stroll, so he ventured past the door, scurrying for the sink as quickly as his limp would allow.
"Swifty, come over here." a displeased voice ... | 2018-08-08T12:15:59 | 2018-08-08T10:29:44 | 176 | 62 |
[WP] A group of female and non-binary adventurers go around exploiting poorly worded curses/prophecies/enchantments proclaiming that "no man" shall do this or that thing. | The man, with his crown and cloak, glowered down at the small adventurer. She was the only one of her party still standing, keeping herself between the corrupted lord and her friends. The group's best healer crouched near their best swordsperson, her fingers glittering with magic as she tried to heal a wound.
“You s... | The easiest of all were the warding curses, in the first year since Aymara had the idea they’d grown rich on those. They were famous relics of the old days, the kind of magic that always seemed to be tacked onto the ends of the heroes stories:
*“And the great lord so-and-so of big-awesome-castle locked away his treas... | 2021-03-04T14:22:45 | 2021-03-04T13:00:46 | 465 | 106 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | "Look, I'm sorry Sarge, but it still doesn't make much sense."
"I told you before Private, it's about tourism. Have you seen the statistics? If we don't strike now, the entire world will be wearing blue jeans and listening to American pop music!"
"You have an Ariana Grande playlist!"
"That's...I have no idea what yo... | Obligatory apology for mobile formatting and obligatory first writing prompt attempt.
A sharp cold hung in the air. It was much colder today, unseasonably cold. Though it is August, the temperatures here in Athens had been fairly typical for the season. Unable to place this suspicious weather, I went to my usual café... | 2019-03-10T12:43:25 | 2019-03-10T12:24:58 | 66 | 11 |
[WP] While walking home from school, you find a book titled "Cheat Codes". It doesn't specify what game it's for, but the codes themselves are specific and seemingly random instructions. Messing around, you follow the instructions for No Clipping and find yourself walking through obstacles. |
I flip through the cheat codes. One page tells me how to fly, another tells me how to make millions. I do not know what to pick, and then I find it. It’s too good to be true.
I’m at the cemetery and this is insane.. I head up to the headstone. Mary Harwick. Beloved wife, mother, daughter. 1970-2020. I have ... | I was walking home from school, minding my own business. It was a sunny day and my backpack felt heavier than normal from the heat. My back was sweating under the pack.
I was crossing main street when I heard glass shatter, then two large duffel bags were hurled out of the collapsed front window of a bank. There was a... | 2021-06-05T15:48:14 | 2021-06-05T15:32:36 | 263 | 85 |
[WP] Humanity has finally achieved FTL travel. They can now explore the universe and find other alien species, sapient or otherwise. To the consternation of Man, it turns out they’re all crabs. As a matter of fact, the interstellar community is quite disturbed we are not crabs. | *This post has been translated from Crustaceanese to English.*
"What the hell happened to its claws?", the Crab President inquired to his foremost interstellar species expert as he gazed upon the giant screen displaying a human male.
"They don't seem to have them, sir. I believe what they have instead are referred t... | The street was crowded with brightly colored stalls and riotously colored carapaces. The salt water funk of a thousand crustacean species hung thick in the air. To Tyron, it seemed the world was alive with clicking and humming, and the deep, burbling, unintelligible speech common to all crab life of the galaxy.
Tyron ... | 2021-08-05T06:43:16 | 2021-08-05T05:52:31 | 1,041 | 240 |
[WP] You've died. You expected to be judged in the Afterlife, but all you see now is God and Satan disappointingly sigh at you and simultaneously scold: "We look away for five months and you died AGAIN?!" | You give a nervous chuckle. "Yep, I'm here again..."
Satan glared at you. "How did you die this time!? All the demons have been in check!" God nods in agreement. "All the angels have been as perfect as ever. Maybe you died from natural cause?"
"Heh, well it was another demon," you mutter. Satan quickly spoke up and sai... | **The Water Of Life**
PART 1
**Introduction:** God ruling over the heaven and Satan ruling over the underworld, was not really as easy as it had seemed. We would like to believe that Satan and God never cooperated on any task and only resented each other's presence. But this was never close to the truth, as both of t... | 2019-07-17T15:18:01 | 2019-07-17T14:35:21 | 410 | 100 |
[WP] Before receiving the serum that unlocks latent powers, subjects take a battery of tests (physical exam, DNA analysis, a VERY intrusive questionnaire, etc.) to determine their likely abilities. Your testing process drags on and on as you are sent to higher-ranking (and increasingly tense) staff. | “Ok, Melony, we’re going to be transferring you to division centura 3.”
“Oh what the fuck! This is seriously the 4th time I’ve been transferred!”
“We apologize for the delay, but the results of your latest exam display properties of a class A-4 or even A-5 attribute. We are ill equipped to handle such an advanced en... | ( go easy on grammar, typing from my phone may edit later)
Dan woke up practically jumping out of bed, with all the youthful exuberance of a kid on Christmas. He had been counting down the days to the 1st of the month after he turned 25. The day had finally come! He had been striking off days on his calendar and losin... | 2021-10-29T13:52:41 | 2021-10-29T12:35:13 | 344 | 166 |
[WP] A group of people capture a rare mythical beast that has been terrorizing their city. Not knowing how to specifically kill it, they do increasingly specific things, to the point of being ridiculous, in order to dispatch it. | If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it's probably a duck. However, the *thing* that's been waddling around town is by no means an ordinary duck. This thing, whatever it is, has fangs, fangs that have a certain taste for human flesh. The creature never ate your normal run-of-t... | Sir."
Chicago Police Department Interim Chief Jon Welsh turned around in his chair to face the overeager young officer.
"What the fuck is it now, Jones?"
Jon felt okay; night shift in Chicago meant you could be just about as damn casual as you pleased. Especially with a young upstart like Jones.
"Sir, I was at the... | 2014-11-05T21:38:34 | 2014-11-05T20:47:18 | 67 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone in the world can choose when they get super powers. The longer you wait to claim your powers the stronger they are. Today is your one hundredth birthday, and you are finally ready to claim your powers. | February 22nd, 2101. Today was the day. 84 years, I waited. Ridiculous was the word my wife used to describe my super power, just before she passed. She'd see in time, first hand, how it was far, far from that. I sat in my hospital bed, awaiting the drip. They told me it took longer to absorb the older you were, althou... | I was sitting alone on the toilet seat. My grandchildren were running everywhere in the house, and the the toilet was the most peaceful place I could find. Still, I would be lying if I said I didn't just come in here to shit. Slowly taking care of my business, I thought of all the possible powers I could get.
The ye... | 2017-02-22T12:59:51 | 2017-02-22T11:59:46 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] Scientists are baffled as to why all of their A.I.s have the personality and temperament of a 13 year old girl, and their new designs always yield the same results. | “She’s pouting Jack.”
“Again? What is it this time?”
“NSA Jane called her dumb.”
“NSA Jane has half the computing power. And her building is, to be quite honest, aesthetically unappealing.”
“I don’t think pointing that out is going to help.”
“I know. But it feels good to say. NYU JuJu, sorry, NYU Julie is kind of... | **Chapter I**
Doctor Gupta was a mess. For the past two months, he had been refining the algorithms for the AI his team was working on. They were scheduled to debut the Custom Artificial Intelligence System by the end of the year. That day was only three weeks away now, yet the problem seemed to never go away. The pro... | 2016-01-28T00:54:14 | 2016-01-27T22:28:22 | 142 | 71 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | "I would like to buy that necklace." I said to the woman behind the counter. She smiled at me, amused. "The one with the diamond."
"I think that one's a bit out of your price range, sweetie." She said kindly. Not an unusual reaction, but it still frustrated me. Even so the kindness on her face took the sting from her ... | After escaping the Genie's temple, Rovif tested the limits of his immortality by throwing himself off the mountain. It seemed like the most direct route. Could he reach the base without hitting anything?
Odd. As it stretched out into minutes of silent free-fall, its sensation slowly became indistinguishable from soar... | 2019-06-07T09:55:24 | 2019-06-07T06:04:22 | 119 | 47 |
[WP] After being told she had an accident and had "gone to heaven", his mind exploded in a white hot rage. 7 year old Roger wants his kitty back and God doesn't know what's about to hit him. | On a cloudy Winter day, 7 year old Roger ran throughout his neighborhood, denouncing God and screaming profanities that no 7 year old should know.
Then the clouds parted, letting heavens light through, and he heard a voice rumble through the skies.
“Oy, listen here you little shit. I don’t have to take this from anyo... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Part 3: Roger v.s. A Godlike Government.)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections; however, there are references to other stories which I've linked in the text. For continuity purposes, ... | 2021-04-13T13:29:25 | 2021-04-13T12:04:03 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends their Christmas list to Satan, surprisingly they get what they wanted but there is a catch. | The modestly sized family sat under the Christmas Tree with a mess of glitter and wrapping around them. The young boy had already torn open his single present in excitement and now happily played with his new shiny toy car. All of a sudden, in the midst of this normality, a big crate appeared under the tree with a puff... | **Sorry for my English. I'm burned out but couldn't resist.**
In a sleepy town on a Spring night, an eight year-old boy named Chalrie is being driven by his mom, Summer to an after-school club. On the way he explains to his mom about how in school his teacher asked him to think about what it was he wanted the most in ... | 2015-11-19T11:35:30 | 2015-11-19T10:38:26 | 95 | 21 |
[WP] You live a good life. Caring wife, obedient children and loyal dogs. Little do they know that you are actually a hitman not an accountant. One day your guy hands you the picture of your next target. It’s you. On the back the name of who ordered the hit. “Carla” it says. Your wife. | Mr Jones stared at the picture of himself for a long time.
After a while, a small tear appeared in the corner of his left eye, just a small one, but the first to have come out of either eye in almost forty years.
*She truly loves me*
He walked out of his office, without even bothering to clear his schedule, and made... | I'm comfortably sunk in the worn leather seats of my older-but-still-practical German sedan. The lid on my morning coffee is propped open and I watch anxiously as the piping hot liquid inside the flimsy paper cup that holds the best coffee the road has to offer topples, getting closer and closer to the brim of the cup ... | 2018-08-14T23:56:03 | 2018-08-14T22:17:00 | 500 | 11 |
[WP] The three best assassins in the world are all tasked to kill the same person, who doesn’t exist. | “Heidi? What are you doing here?”
“I could ask you the same question, Eguchi. The way I see it, you’re stepping in on my bounty. Same goes for you, Teddy.”
“I beg to differ, Miss Henderson. Contract for Mr. Spencer’s head belongs to me.”
The three assassins warily eyed one another in the dimly lit warehouse, aiming ... | In 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, Schmidt had already shredded and burnt his files as the STASI's greatest assassin. He evaded all efforts of the West German Bundesnachrichtendienst, killed every last one of his pursuers during a very hushed event called the Massacre in Saarbrücken. He spent years in the chaos of the... | 2020-06-25T16:26:08 | 2020-06-25T15:59:33 | 34 | 10 |
[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 | The very first time it happened, I was brushing my teeth before bed. Toothpaste isn't the best thing to have in your mouth when you transport; I learned that straightaway. I should have been more concerned with why I had been brushing my teeth in my bathroom one minute and the next standing in my first girlfriend's bed... | [I'd like to preface this story with a trigger warning. I've never used one before but I'm sure it's necessary for this one. When I read the prompt, I wanted to put a different spin on it, it's a tragic sort of love story, the way it usually is in life, so towards the end I delve into a darker place than was probably i... | 2017-03-22T21:33:02 | 2017-03-22T18:32:13 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] As you walk along the Thames pondering what Brexit will mean for you and your family, a soaking wet woman walks up a set of stairs from the river, hands you a package and tells you “Sort it out, please!” before vanishing around a corner. You open the package to find Excalibur. | "Here, sort it out, will you?" The strange woman just about lobbed the sword at me and started to vanish back into the Thames. Before I could do more than stammer a few half-formed words, she was gone.
I stared at the sword in my hands, barely able to hold the heavy hunk of medal upright. My eyes traveled down the len... | The parcel was heavy as I stood there... Looking at the sword. Excalibur. I guess. The name just cut through my mind like, well, a sword through butter. Excalibur should've been heavier than this, I thought. There was no way I was holding a real sword, much less the fabled Excalibur. It was too light. I was too weak to... | 2016-06-27T11:27:09 | 2016-06-27T11:22:01 | 420 | 114 |
[WP] The last man on earth sits alone in a room. He gets an email.
This is from [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1u8rz6/what_do_you_fantasize_about_regularly_that_doesnt/cefz06k) reply from an askreddit question. :) | The subject line read "I am a Nigerian Prince, and I need your help."
Body: "Hello DANIEL,
I have recently come across a large fortune, and I am looking to get it transferred to the United States. As you may be aware, the war between the nations has spiraled out of control. My country was able to remain untouched by... | Thomas' team had been on this site for a few days now, milling over their finds. This seemed to be fast becoming a worldwide trend, what with the development of new digging machinery. For the first time, people were able to dig further down into the shell of the planet, and fascinating finds were springing up all over ... | 2014-01-03T06:46:45 | 2014-01-03T06:08:57 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Seeing success with the purchase of Marvel and now Fox, The Walt Disney Company announces it's next major acquisition: The Catholic Church. | ROME (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co agreed to buy The Catholic Church for $150 billion in cash and stock, a blockbuster deal that includes the surprise promise of a new book in its hit series, "The Bible" in 2019.
Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger told analysts on Tuesday that the plan is to release a new book in the series... | These were difficult times for Asha. She was at that precarious stage in her youth where nothing seemed impossible, where red carpets seemed to unfurl for her at every direction she deigned to take. Yet, it seemed as if her parents wanted nothing more than for her to stay at home, squirreled away in her room, caged, wi... | 2017-11-12T07:00:32 | 2017-11-12T06:57:41 | 68 | 32 |
[WP] An alien race controlling most of the galaxy contacts Earth, aiming to uplift the humans until they're ready to join the interstellar community. The problem is all previous species evolved utilizing organic technology. Our "hard and dead" tech is utterly alien to them. | "So this is the, er, main reactor to the ship: it generates all the electricity we need and we're also able to siphon off a portion of the plasma for thrust."
"Uh huh."
"It's perfectly safe, the magnetic fields are multiple orders stronger than we would absolutely need, besides that we have about ten other safety pro... | --- Trying out a new writing style, let me know how it works. ---
Whoowee, let me tell you a story son. I was out tendin' the fields the other day when out of the sky came one of those UFOs that I keep hearin' 'bout on that news. It went and landed in my corn field, and made a mighty ruckus as it came down. Now, I am ... | 2016-09-22T19:01:40 | 2016-09-22T17:31:51 | 141 | 56 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "For your own safety, you seriously should've let me complete that ritual." The shackled villain protested as the hero pulls her to a carriage.
"You were gonna sacrifice 27 virgins, Theia, I'm not gonna let that slide." The hero replied as he lead her into the carriage and locked the door behind her.
Theia sighs as s... | Edit: conversations not aligned properly.
***
“Horus! You really like to get caught by me don't you!”
“Hah! You think this time will be the same as last time? You are wrong!”
“Coming after every time, if you weren't an overlord of destruction, I might have thought you liked me.”
Yes he did. No, it was more than that... | 2018-01-27T16:53:11 | 2017-09-17T04:19:39 | 58 | 10 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | I hear the battle rage from across the city. The police band hasn't shut up long enough for me to get a word in edgewise with the officers escorting me to central booking.
Gents, I say to try and get their attention. If I don't get out of these cuffs soon, he'll win and were properly screwed.
Gents, I say a littl... | Preface: I got a little too enthusiastic with this one. Saw an image and wanted to write a story about it, this prompt was ideal. Is in two parts.
My name was Frank. I was ugly. I should say, I was fuck ugly. Disgustingly so. Like I was Frankenstein's monster gone wrong ugly, hence the name. My parents had such a sens... | 2022-01-12T08:00:19 | 2017-09-17T04:25:10 | 23 | 11 |
[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... | I don't like to brag, but I am the world's best detective, and I'm closer than ever to catching the world's deadliest assassin. Just twenty seven minutes ago, at exactly 5:21am, I have identified him as Jack Brooks, and three minutes since then, I have relayed the information to the police department. Unfortunately, Ja... | 2018-01-07T10:51:21 | 2018-01-07T08:55:39 | 59 | 19 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most peaceful, kind race in the universe and other aliens don't invade us because its cute to watch. | Grozar the Conqueror lifted his mighty axe overhead, prepared to cleave the planet asunder. He stood tall as a star, a titan amongst titans, with the speckle of nebulae at his back and his axe poised to strike. Grozar cast his infinite gaze upon the planet, to once again take a measure of it's people.
He saw mothers f... | I was waiting for my connection flight in New York. As usual, I was having a beer while watching the large TV screen showing the news at the airport bar. I was on my way home after a few meeting in Israel.
The person on the TV screen kept a straight face as she announced that at least 40 people were killed during a c... | 2016-09-28T06:05:40 | 2016-09-28T06:03:25 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] You decide to prank your newborn kid by having him read Harry Potter series and convincing him it's real and that he is a wizard as well. You fake a Hogwarts letter, drive him to King's Cross station and wait for the moment he crashes into the pillar. He goes straight through. | I ducked under the flying book with practiced ease and it slammed into the wall behind me.
“Abarakadabum!!”
My mother was fond of screaming made up spell names during her nightly drinking sessions.
She laughed and subsequently lost her balance, rolling off the couch and falling bodily onto the floor.
I took th... | Panicking is rarely useful. Which was why I checked my smartphone recording first, scrolling back to those few seconds when Melanie should have bounced cleanly off the wall at King's Cross Station. I expected her to land quite heavily, which was why I had fitted her out with a crash helmet and cargo pants. It was one t... | 2018-05-21T03:18:23 | 2018-05-21T02:34:22 | 1,611 | 697 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. Instead of finding everyone suffering in the eternal pits of fire, you are shocked to find a highly developed, Democratic, and modernized world. You pick up a newspaper and see the headline: “up to 1 Million more refugees expected to arrive from Heaven in coming weeks.” | “Is this real?”
“That’s sort of a hard question to answer.”
“But how can this be real?”
“It’s complicated.”
“But... Refugees from Heaven?”
“Not really that hard to believe is it? It’s a dogmatic, uptight, theocracy. Also the weather sucks this time of year.”
“Why is it so much better here?”
“Free will mostly.”
... | When I died, I finally realized the truth, or as much of it as my once human mind could fathom. The collective says that once my mind adjust, I will finally understand. It's with mixed emotions I anticipate that moment. It is hard to understand them, their language can only be fully understood when you're part of them.... | 2020-01-28T02:39:25 | 2020-01-28T01:00:38 | 468 | 40 |
[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. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | Some days I question whether or not my choices - and one in particular - way, *waaay* back then were a blessing or a curse.
*Some days.*
Other days I'm a little preoccupied. Such as today, as I'm cursing my own foul luck as myself and my retinue run through the darkened tunnels of the all-but-abandoned Hive spire, ch... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T14:17:08 | 149 | 55 |
[WP] You are a bestselling author with a dark secret; you extend your own lifespan by killing beloved characters. | Living by killing off your own characters. The concept isn't new to most, heck people have suspected authors such as George RR Martin of doing it for years; and you know what, they're right. But George is a fool, he was never able to grasp the full extent of this power. You see while George is utterly ruthless to his c... | A hard rap at the door woke Dillon from his internal revelry. Just a simple intrusion but alas the shimmering mental shards of his world crashed around in bright sparks of ruined imagination.
This interruption would not do, not now, he was so close.
'Mr Thurman?'
Was it still Mr Thurman? Even after all these ye... | 2016-01-11T08:29:59 | 2016-01-11T07:02:25 | 38 | 17 |
[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... | Jess could pinpoint exactly when she first thought her feelings were wrong: eighth grade after Advanced Algebra. Her friend Katie got an 82% on a test— and that was disastrously low for Katie’s norm, and considered even lower by her parents standards. Jess spent the rest of the class period trying to cheer her friend ... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T08:50:26 | 930 | 476 |
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