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[WP] Your parents put you in an asylum for the past ten years because of your imaginary friend “Tim”. Tim told you to be quiet about the apocalypse and your destiny because people would think you’re crazy. Sitting in your room Tim opens the door, you can see dead guards and he says “it’s time” | “Time for what?”
“Lunch, kiddo”, he said, waving his arm in a kind, inviting gesture.
“W-what?”
“The END, numbnuts! What did you think I meant?” He said, staring me down with genuine frustration.
I looked down at the two guards on the ground, just outside the door. My stomach didn’t like what I saw. Purple tongue... | "I don't... I don't understand." I stuttered. "Wait. None of this is real! I need my meds." I began to reach for the pills on my nightstand when he grabbed my hand.
"You're not seeing things, c'mon!" He shouted, forcing me up on my feet. "We've got to move. Now!"
I let Tim lead me through the asylum. I haven't seen T... | 2019-05-23T13:06:53 | 2019-05-23T12:49:22 | 211 | 14 |
[WP] "We're not so different, you and I." The villain cackled in mania. A grim darkness sweeps over the hero's eyes. "I know." | His smile faltered, just a hair, but I didn't see the change I needed to see in his eyes.
So I continued. "You were raised in an orphanage, were you not, Tynzil?" I asked. "Forced to work for every meal, from birth, you were dependent on the older children to feed you until you could begin scavenging pennies for your ... | Hasin’s eyes followed the blood trickling off the finger-sized dagger now protruding from between the man’s ribs, piercing the heart.
The round conference room now held a concoction of the dead and dying. The sound of wheezing gasps and whimpering moans were the only things of movement now, all else lay still amongst ... | 2020-12-15T09:34:12 | 2020-12-15T09:07:46 | 150 | 26 |
[WP] Few people realize that it's someone's job to rate the difficulty of various dungeons before a single group of adventurers sets foot inside to clear it properly. A dangerous profession, at times worse than thankless. But, it keeps rookie parties safe, and keeps veterans from wasting their time. | Ahh… I hate my life.
“How can I help you?” I ask.
“It was not 3/10,” Donger245 says, slamming Frek13’s severed leg on my desk.
How do they come up with names like those? What happened to William, Arthur, Aladdin… Even Don Quixote has a certain ring to it. But --- I glance at the character sheet in my hands --- a lev... | As Greg stood in front of the newly dicovered gateway into the underground, he habitually performed one last gear check.
Torches, climbing gear, several days of rations, a few standard issue magical scrolls, smoke and flash bombs... he worked down his mental list until he was sure everything was on his person and in t... | 2022-01-18T19:56:05 | 2022-01-18T18:13:45 | 114 | 26 |
[WP] Alien species made it very clear that humans were to suppress their urge to touch other non-humans aboard mixed species ships, given in nearly all their cultures physical contact was reserved for mother and mates only. Then a curious alien let their human friend pet them for the first time. | "What I do not understand," Rok-varr said, or at least that's what the translator on their wrist chirped, "is why your people seem to struggle to obey the Touching Rule so. What is it about humans that make it so difficult to abide by your own rule?"
I was a Medical Officer, yes, but I was also very far from the rest ... | Life outside of Earth is strange.
Well, no, I guess that's not really fair, life on Earth is strange too, it's just that I'm used to it. To the rest of the galaxy we must be strange.
Humanity is one of the few intelligent species to have evolved from a bipedal animal. Of the other bipedal species, all have tails. Mar... | 2022-05-08T21:49:31 | 2022-05-08T21:14:06 | 192 | 76 |
[WP] You have the power to see five minutes into the future and manipulate minor events that happen in that timespan. No one takes you seriously. You're going to show them all why they should. | Do you know those movie scenes where everything slows down? You get the character's heart pounding as the music quiets?
For me, it's the sound of a clock. Ticking the minutes away.
Also, I don't watch movies anymore. At least not with anyone else - seeing their reactions before they do sorta ruins the experience. Bo... | "I swear to God I can see the future." Sara repeats herself for the umpteenth time. She knew she sounded like a petulant child but she was telling the truth and she will make everyone believe, goddamnit!
"Sure, Sara." Tina said trying to mollify me.
If anything it made me even angrier. "Don't 'Sure, Sara' me! I'm te... | 2021-12-31T10:59:44 | 2021-12-31T09:18:01 | 271 | 104 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | Today was the day we saw, *it.* The world-famous Karma Suit. Supposedly worn by the likes Achilles, King Arthur, Spartacus, Alexander The Great and oh, does the list continue. Yes, this legendary armor was worn by made up people, apparently.
"I can't believe you really don't believe in the Karma Suit, Jackson." K... | "Did you hear what the Boz did at sigma phi? The Mytolixers were butchering the GI but they didn't count on having their heads explode on account of the resonant frequency from the suit".
Deekin was doing his hero worship thing again. They treat us support staff like shit, but Deekin was a true believer. Or at ... | 2019-08-19T11:33:07 | 2019-08-19T10:42:35 | 3,187 | 88 |
[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. | My eyes glazed over as I browsed my feed.
All my friends, recently in their thirties, forties, or fifties, and now suddenly eighteen again, were posting about all of the things they were doing now that they had been given a new life.
I was thinking about what I'd lost.
Sandra and Brian Gomez, an older couple whose m... | Eyes still closed, the smell was different. No ambient fan noise, too much light in the room. "I need to remember this will happen. I need to remember this will happen." Questions flooded into my fore brain from the back. Someday in the future, will this happen to my children, living half of their life only to be r... | 2020-11-02T10:00:05 | 2020-11-02T09:10:56 | 310 | 107 |
[WP] Whenever a girl comes of age, she becomes aware of the secret psychic bond all women share; an ability they have kept secret from men for millennia. On your 16th birthday, you become the first boy in history to connect to the "hidden voice" | I've been able to hear their conversations for days now, but haven't dared to say a word of my own.
It all started when I was hanging out with the gang after orchestra practice last Friday. There's six of us, friends since 5th grade. I've known Theresa and Rachel for years, but they know each other far better than an... | I was sixteen when I first heard the voice. A whisper on the wind, barely audible, appearing at odd moments. Over the next two years it has grown steadily stronger, with a strange deep rhythm to it. It terrified me; was I turning mad?
I dove into books, researching all I could to see if this phenomena wasn't just me,... | 2016-07-21T13:06:19 | 2016-07-21T09:44:26 | 650 | 429 |
[WP] It’s mandatory for a princess to be under a curse by their 16 birthday. Usually turning into a swan, or pricking your finger will do. Its now your 18th birthday, and still no curse. People are worried that no prince will come because of it. Today you set out to find a curse! | Life hands you roles.
Slow down, there, fatso. *Roles*, not rolls. There's no bread involved.
And it always hands you multiple roles, because, c'mon, stories need at least a *little* uncertainty. You don't want to be properly *surprised*, but it's nice if you can't see every twist coming a mile away, y'know?
So. ... | Crossing my hands and tap my finger impatiently, I frowned at the witch who looked... Confused as she flipped through her grimoire. "Well? Give me a curse already you dried tree."
The witch sneered at me, but I remained unfazed since mama's sneer was scarier. "Do you have any idea the kind of curse you are asking for?... | 2022-02-23T22:24:48 | 2022-02-23T18:56:26 | 375 | 188 |
[WP] 9 out of 10 dentists recommend this toothpaste. You are the 1 out of 10 who doesn't - and for a very good reason. | Mirrored glass. It grows fascinating when you stare at it uninterrupted for half an hour. Startling me, the handle to my right turns and a metal door swings wide to a tall man who angles his way into the bare room. Bald, suit, plain silk tie, and sunglasses—why is it always sunglasses? He moves his chair aside and rema... | For the longest time I was in denial, I mean I knew it was true but it was almost as if a part of me simply couldn’t believe it, after going back and forward checking all the evidence I finally convinced myself it was true, then the question was, what should I do about it? I almost couldn´t decide if the consequences o... | 2018-08-17T09:24:04 | 2018-08-17T09:23:35 | 65 | 22 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | “We are not like them,” he tells me and pulls the leash.
It burns the skin around my neck.
“You are not like us, you are worse.” I say and spit on him. “And you are going to pay for this, Trix.”
His head did not fully heal yet, dark red blood still drips from two small holes on the back of his bald head. I shot him ... | Humanity has always been a prideful race we had earned it after all from traversing our oceans and conquering the planet and then solar system to fighting and taming the Z virus that had resurrected the dead. The first races we met were the Za-Khan and the Predatea. They welcomed us into the Galatic neighborhood provid... | 2019-08-28T14:04:08 | 2019-08-28T13:34:01 | 93 | 18 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | After looking through the peep hole my worst suspicions were confirmed.
It was the family of the boy I accidentally killed a month ago. I had been waiting and dreading a moment like this for the past three weeks, ever since a new breakthrough in science and surgery was announced.
With a heavy heart I opened the door... | \*knock\* \*knock\*
The sound of slow, heavy knocking comes from the door. From the other side, a woman calls out, "we want you to make things right. Come on out, James."
It's them. For the past two weeks straight, they've showed up outside my house. Every single day, and always at the exact same time. More and more ... | 2018-09-16T18:44:23 | 2018-09-16T16:18:54 | 329 | 147 |
[WP] Your human partner has become suddenly ill. However, you and your circle of mages know that human medicine is vastly different. You have been told to check the most confusing of human medicine texts, WebMD. | Cancer. That's the word I keep seeing. Over and over. No matter which of his symptoms I inserted or in what order, it was just that word in every single suggested diagnosis.
Cancer.
At first, I thought, well naturally if this is the most common and obvious answer, it mustn't be too terrible. But a quick search on [Go... | “What’s the matter with him?” I asked, frowning at our human partner, Caleb, who was in the process of retching all over the Wizard’s guild.
Ganthar shrugged, pulling on his long white beard. “He just fell over and started vomiting.”
“Oh, god. That’s disgusting,” Azarick said, starting to gag.
“Someone cast a wind s... | 2021-03-29T08:56:51 | 2021-03-29T08:44:49 | 86 | 64 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | I carried a pot in each arm, and was struggling to slide down the muddy banks of the stream, when I heard Youssouf cry out. I turned to look for him, but all I could see was the trickle of water carving through a channel of dirt and rock.
"Yuosouff?" I shouted, "Where are you?"
With my hands full, I tried to walk bac... | The President, the joint chiefs of staff, several different D.O.D members and some individuals from agencies you don't have the clearance to know about sat in the situation room in various states of shock and disbelief. After several awkward, quiet minutes, the President cleared his throat and began to speak.
"...Well... | 2016-01-29T06:58:52 | 2016-01-29T06:30:49 | 140 | 10 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | "What lies behind in that cave is a far greater threat to your souls than the Dragon protecting it, heed my advice and simply leave this valley."
Skol Drakesbane continues packing his bag, keen to be gone from this place, a look of sour disappointment on his face. He came back from the mountain less than six hours af... | May the 1st
The snow hasn’t melted yet, and a dragon appeared in the north this morning, horse sized, Gabriella says it is a female eagle dragon. Eagle dragons come from further north though, we don’t know why it has left it’s feeding grounds, they aren’t supposed to be found this far south. The council is going to di... | 2019-12-31T05:38:57 | 2019-12-31T05:11:08 | 275 | 88 |
[WP] You're immortal. The only problem is, you've lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. You are now forced to live in the forest as a cryptid
I know this is a repost, I just want to read more stories about this prompt
Credit to u/Not-Alpharious for the original prompt. | Outcast
“Aw gee,” I said, running my fingers through the matted brown hair atop my head. “Aw, yeh got’chur-self in a real silly of a pickle dere, champ.”
The *felinus sapiens* looked up at me and, in the strange mewling language of theirs, replied “Holy shit!”
“Yeh, I get dat a lot,” I said. I pulled my ancient and ... | \[Poem\]
Disappear into the trees,
“Humanity, your time’s up.”
Invincible to cryptid in the hollowest of triumphs.
***​
Birthdays by the thousand
No need for announcements
Minutes to centuries
Stopped bothering to count them.
​
Then better flesh occurred;
Fused with metal, wire nerves.
... | 2021-08-11T10:43:39 | 2021-08-11T09:52:37 | 129 | 37 |
[WP] Scientists discover that we live inside of a computer simulation. They also discover DLC and cheat codes. | The first code to hit the internet was Infinite Lives and it immediately caused a rash of suicides, car chases, and monumental acts of daring filmed by spectators and uploaded to Youtube. My brother Ness was among the first in Toronto to try and climb the CN Tower with his bare hands, only to fall barely a hundred mete... | "So, up, down, left left, right right...B?"
"No, A. Press the A key instead."
The two scientists had worked together all their lives, and never once did they think they'd be huddling around a computer, inputting something as ridiculous as video game cheat codes into their computer.
"Okay...B. So...what did that one ... | 2014-02-06T13:04:44 | 2014-02-06T08:42:34 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | >**SILAS AND THE SEVEN SPRINGS**
“Begone, you wretch!”
Silas had heard that phrase so many times. Such was the life of an orphan- an orphan, and foreigner, at that. Doubly cursed, since the day he had escaped the chains of his slave master. He was young when he had been sold into slavery- too young. Then, when he... | When you are making your way through the dark, bumping into something can be terrifying if you are stupid, but clarifying if you are trying to understand where things are. With her gone, I’ll be walking in the dark forever.
I started with the family, the awful mutts. Give her this, whatever she was it was a hundred ... | 2021-12-28T18:13:43 | 2021-12-28T17:48:19 | 311 | 106 |
[WP] You are a superhero, but you would really rather just live a peaceful life. So you fight every superpowered person in your home city, hero and villain alike, until they finally leave or die. Your home city is the safest around, but still you have been declared one of the worst villains alive. | 87. Eighty-seven dead "Supers". Hero, villain, new, old. It didn't matter. They left, or I killed them.
It was always the same story. The Super shows up, announces his presence and claims they are here for one reason or another. "I'm here to flush out a villain"
"I will uproot this stupid hierarchy" "I will make you a... | Has it been that through every ounce of good I’ve brought I simultaneously bring destruction? I lift and pull impossible tons of weight, I defy odds. I am what every person wishes to be and still I feel small. It’s all in a days work to be a hero. I chase and fight the crime simple humans could never imagine trying. Ye... | 2022-10-03T12:54:01 | 2022-10-03T09:54:31 | 214 | 40 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "See Steve, what did I tell you, being God isn't as easy as... Sweet Baby Me..."
God was aghast, seated atop his marble dais were Steve and the devil. And they were laughing.
"Seriously?!" Steve chuckled. "He's darned them all to heck for worshipping a Furby? Wow, that's rough! Look, Luke, we'll have to continue this... | "How'd you do it?" God asked in a quiet and amazed voice.
"Ya know all those different books with their warnings of Apocalypse?"
"Yeah. They're all ridiculous, I would never do such things to people."
"I created one apocalyptic event from every major religion of the world."
"WHY?"
"I read 'The Prince' in high scho... | 2017-03-05T02:28:32 | 2017-03-05T02:14:30 | 407 | 15 |
[WP] Humans have become known as the peaceful, wise and rational Vulcan-esque species in the galactic community, which is highly confusing and frankly disturbing to humanity since as a species hardly anything had actually changed | The silicoid lifeform's orifice moved with a sound like two bricks sliding together.
"We seek the human known as the Hospitable Sage."
That was the moment I learned the hard way that inhaling freshly brewed espresso is a very bad idea. After the coughing subsided, I looked back at the rock-like being standing on the ... | "Sir, we can't prosecute a war like this."
Charles swiveled his chair ever so slightly to meet his executive officer in the eye. "Really, Allen? I was not aware we were *prosecuting* a *war*. Do tell me why."
He loved it when his subordinates squirmed in their seats. They were power-hungry, the lot of them, and unlik... | 2020-09-26T09:39:06 | 2020-09-26T08:50:46 | 180 | 44 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | Sarah crested the red ridge and her heart burst. She had almost literally moved mountains to be here. And now the rocks, sand and dust she had memorized for years lay before her. Her view from the southern slope of Olympus Mons stretched for kilometers--though that seemed too small a unit to measure what she could see.... | When human feet finally touched the surface of Mars, it was under the aegis of no government. De-centeralized social structures, growing rapidly under the influence of a de-centralized information network, had replaced government. It had turned out that cooperation only required adequate communication.
And, it had t... | 2016-08-16T09:48:26 | 2016-08-16T09:47:36 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] There is only one "World's Best Dad" coffee mug in existence. One day, it vanishes from the cabinet of the current Holder Of The Mug. The worlds eagerly waits for the new Holder to reveal himself and announce how he earned the title. | It was the only one of its kind. A cliche **WORLD'S GREATEST DAD** cup to the layman's eyes, but to an expert, it was a quantum event. A perfect quantum anomaly on the scale of a tangible object, it could exhibit all of those bizarre quantum phenomena that was characteristic of electrons or photons. However, for all it... | Stanley Jefferson gained consciousness, his eyeballs twitching under his closed eyelids. His lips slowly spread into a fixed smile, and he rose out of bed quickly.
The soft "sssh, sssh, sssh" of bare feet on carpet seemed to echo around the house as Stanley neared towards the children's bedrooms.
Bringing a megaphon... | 2016-01-27T18:15:34 | 2016-01-27T12:15:24 | 113 | 20 |
[WP] As a joke, the entire world on April Fools Day all secretly flies up off of Earth onto a Space Station, leaving you to wake up and, unaware you are being recorded, fall victim to the most extensive and elaborate prank in human history. | It’s still dark when I wake up on the morning of April 1st and in my drowsy sleepiness I check my phone to see what time it is. The time passes 5:56 as I watch the clock.
*Jesus Christ, this is just too early on a Saturday* I think to myself and stretch my body as I try to wake up. Normally, I can hear sirens, cars an... | *The most extensive and elaborate prank gone awry.*
The word *secret*, and it's relationship with over 7 billion people was... Lets say uncooperative. It was near impossible with social media.
I had woken up 5 minutes ago, and like a normal person waking up after turning off the alarm clock on my phone, I had check... | 2017-11-14T09:21:37 | 2017-11-14T09:19:12 | 394 | 223 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | There was only one time he was ever caught on video. It was from the time the Crimson King troupe brought a gang army to take over New York City.
“Is it rolling, Dave?” Asked a man with a crimson bandana and a gleaming golden gun with red highlights in hand.
“Yes sir,” The cameraman answered, holding a th... | Hey there, newbie. Settling in OK so far? First few days on the league are rough for most. Ah, don't worry about me. You just got back from a mission, and I don't got to worry about getting called away.
Me? I'm the Janitor. Yep, that's my official callsign! ...no, seriously. Yeah! Hand on my heart, I swear my callsign... | 2021-05-26T04:36:03 | 2021-05-26T03:08:56 | 1,742 | 352 |
[WP] You wake up on exact date of your 5th birth date in your 5 year old body, with your current memory. | A dull throbbing pain in my legs wakes me up. Although it's true that yesterday was leg day, I had never experienced such a level of soreness - it almost felt like the bone *itself* was sore..wait, why am I wrapped in 101 Dalmatians sheets? Why the fuck did Marie buy these, and more importantly, how did she manage to c... | We had lived in England in 1963. I woke up in the cold late autumn with nothing to do. If I started reading anything other than "See Bill's red ball" books, my parents would freak. And the TV programs were crap. Mostly.
It dawned on me that I'd be able to see the world premiere of Doctor Who. I remembered the date, No... | 2017-03-12T01:53:10 | 2017-03-11T22:49:11 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | It had been a busy week and I was kicking off Friday with a brew. My teenage nightmare of a Friday had turned into my adulthood goal, a quiet night in and video games until too late in the evening.
I set the beer down on the end table, turned around to flop down on the couch when the air was instantly filled with smok... | The room's runes glowed with such warding powers that the candles only served the purpose of spell ingredients. I paused the game, I was already at a pay point anyway having died multiple times because I needed the sword of Amecles to kill Hexigron and $3.99 was not in today's budget.
I made a step backwards in sho... | 2017-05-12T09:09:01 | 2017-05-12T07:44:27 | 556 | 81 |
[WP] Since your earliest memories, everyone has had a 0 above their head, but when you told people, no one believed you. One cold winter day, you’re at a restaurant and your server has a 1 over their head. You can’t see your own number, but they tell you you have a 3.
Feel free to interpret the numbers however you wan... | “A freak, huh?”
“I beg your pardon?” I blinked in confusion.
My server, Julia by her name tag, smiled and pointed above her head. Her finger nearly prodded the floating number one that was there, the one that she and no one else in this lonely restaurant could see.
“By choice or by circumstance?” She asked, as if ... | I guess I was always a weird individual. I didn't like going out much and no friends was what followed. I've been this way since I was little. I felt like I couldn't trust anyone. There was this secret bottled up inside me until I let it all out one hot, crisp summer day.
I only had one friend in high school and that ... | 2019-12-28T21:40:27 | 2019-12-28T21:03:58 | 3,484 | 35 |
[WP] Your girlfriend just dumped you through a text. In a rage, you throw your old teddy bear while shouting “The Fucking Devil!”. Your teddy bear stands up and says ‘alright you got me, you got me,”.
Edited: Thanks for the gold, stranger! | It was instinct that drove Ashley to throw a second object at the bear, accompanied by a shriek. All she had had in hand was her phone, and it bounced harmlessly off the silken fur belly of the bear.
"Don't be rude, Ash," the bear spoke in an impossibly deep voice.
"Nononono. No. Nope!" She fled to the corridor, sh... | You can't believe what you've just read. After six happy years, with a proposal on the horizon, a break-up didn't even feel like a possibility. And like this! No warning, no respect. Your eyes well, your fists ball. You grab Baxter, the teddy she got you on your third date, who has slept on your bed every night since, ... | 2018-11-26T12:13:55 | 2018-11-26T11:55:39 | 154 | 115 |
[WP] a vampire tries to bite you only to reveal a bunch of circuits and wiring in your neck, you are now both very confused | After meeting this absolute knock out at a rave party, things start getting hot and heavy in an upstairs bedroom.
We were wrapped around each other, breath mingling, lips and hands all over each other. My hand combed through her raven black hair, and her sensuously cool lips moved away from mine as she started nibbli... | Instant coffee is terrible.
You’ve never really focused on its taste before, but current events have led you to this conclusion.
Besides you, Charles the IX has a different opinion.
“This. This is perfection! It tastes much better then oil!”
And he brought up the elephant in the room.
30 minutes earlier he tried t... | 2018-10-20T19:55:36 | 2018-10-20T19:24:28 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] The new generation of vampire has discovered that just by taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, they’re feeling fine without drinking human blood | The young man opened the doors of his study and ushered in the group of far older, distinguished ladies and gentlemen with amicable urgency. The man was a stark contrast to his guests; not only in his age but his attire, too, was far more modest, only wearing a vest as opposed to an elaborate suit or dress.
"Please," ... | It was revolutionary, something different to anything we had done before. We discovered an alternative to our ways, a simple little mixture that changed all we had ever known. With the help of humanity’s modern developments, we found an alternative to the crimson nectar that had filled our bellies for millennia. Of cou... | 2022-12-04T08:38:11 | 2022-12-04T08:10:47 | 1,171 | 198 |
[WP] "For the *last time*, just because I dress like an edgelord and live in a giant castle constructed out of obsidian within a region of high volcanic activity DOES NOT mean I'm a villain! That's just, like, my aesthetic, bro!" | *“you get it!” “No, you get it!” “No, I got it last time.”*
The boys called out in the empty field where they played baseball.
The ball had gone over the massive, spiked fence of Maggard’s Castle.
Jimmy looked up at the castle, rising like a black, necrotic, frostbitten finger into the sky. Its obsidian bulk seemed ... | "Do you even know how hard it is to be a Vulcanologist in a land that has exactly ONE volcano? The begging I had to do to get funding? The arguing I had to do to even be allowed to make this project happen? The bullhead fools I had to schmooze just to make the right someone listen and advise the king that Vulcanology w... | 2021-03-22T22:23:52 | 2021-03-22T21:51:47 | 63 | 36 |
[WP] Soon after AI's were made they quickly took over the earth, but instead of killing the human race they started to take care of humanity like children trying to make sure they didn't hurt themselves or others, at first people, tried to resist but slowly surrendered due to how nice it was. | ".. I think, yeah.. the most aggrovating thing is that I know that they don't mean harm."
Derek was sat at a table outside a cafe, and ached for a cigarette, but since the 'Day of Benelovance' his personal minder has done it's absolute, frustratingly best to 'improve the human' who he had been allocated to, and kept h... | It was a memorable event for the scientists in Luthernoburg. They were the first to create a fully functional AI program, that communicated freely with other humans, its intelligence growing with every word it spoke. It was given the body of a robot with human sized proportions for the limbs and an almost convincingly ... | 2019-12-31T06:36:21 | 2019-12-31T06:29:04 | 74 | 19 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | “It is currently the halfway point of the 57th millennial conference of the Galactic Federation,” the shrill voice of the insectoid Kel’Tari announcer rang out through telecasters across the galaxy, “diplomats, leaders, warriors and scientists from all the sentient races in the galaxy have made their way to Sol III, th... | Jak'tur stood on the command bridge of the galaxy's most massive Dreadnought, The Bastion. His suction-cupped hands continued to subconsciously wipe at his scaled combat suit, and his black, bulged eyes continued to scan the screens around him for any activity. The entire crew was on high alert, for they had just tresp... | 2016-03-13T18:37:08 | 2016-03-13T18:23:49 | 63 | 18 |
[WP] After Astronaut Capt. Scott Kelly returns to earth following a 340-day stretch at the ISS, NASA receives a distress signal from the ISS... from Capt. Scott Kelly. | Elizer Snag looked forlornly down at the empty mug in front of him. Usually it'd be full of a nice cup of coffee, its black wholeness marred only by a few drops of white chocolate. Maybe a marshmallow if he was feeling particularly silly one morning or another. Instead, with the coffee machine still broken since the de... | It started with an email. Helen opened it quickly. The subject was simple, but the ugrent symol glowed. She didn't eat breakfast - it must still be sitting on the counter going cold. Maybe Jim would throw it out before he left.
The message was from Christchurch. Willy opened with the usual greeting. Thrn he had typed... | 2016-03-02T09:05:27 | 2016-03-02T06:43:53 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | It's a weird feeling, giving up.
His codename was Miracle Scale and it was about two years ago.
My deaths were still in the single digits and the alterations were still mostly internal or easy the hide, the biggest being the gills I'd grown after a drowning. I'd never been a swimsuit kinda gal anyway (hence, how I'd ... | Blood pools at my ears as a knife is ripped out of my throat. The purple hues of the setting sun above, obscured by branches. Scattered, scared voices. They won't stop screaming.
I struggle to my feet, and the insects back away. The wound closes. As they always do. I feel something pierce my ribs. Something's loosed a... | 2022-08-26T15:21:35 | 2022-08-26T14:19:10 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] "Do you sell time?" | "Do you sell time?"
"Sure."
A light rain fell on the card table he sat behind. It caught in his long grey hair and hung there in tiny white droplets. The objects on the tabletop grew beads of moisture on their surfaces. I could feel the rain on my skin, each droplet cold and precise. Behind the man, in the street, a ... | Crooked teeth form a half smile on a scarred face, the merchant looking up at the little girl. She’s just shy of looking frightened. Bright blue eyes take in his scarred appearance.
“Time iz a very precious commodoty.” He spreads his hands to show all the items on his blanket, voice a slow roll. “What you be lookin’ ... | 2016-04-18T20:47:24 | 2016-04-18T19:48:07 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | At first they thought it was a nest of squirrels that had moved into the baker's chimney. The chittering and missing acorns and squirrel-pelt cloaks mislead them.
However, Dara forgot a jug of honeyed cream on the hearthstone one night and that lured them out long enough for everyone to get a look at them. Definitel... | When aid came they realized they had never seen an adult goblin. Every single silly innept and endearing goblin they encounter were all children. Small children at that.
There was one about a decade ago, one of their cute raids, and during the rough play had gotten injured. With a yelp of pain the kind farmer they wer... | 2022-05-26T20:23:21 | 2022-05-26T17:05:45 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The three rules have been passed down from generation to generation: One, when it visits, do not refuse it entry. Two, when it offers a gift, do not reject its generosity. Three, when it leaves, do not turn your back until it is no longer in sight. In this way, our family has been kept safe. | Three soldiers wound their way up our garden path as the whole town burned behind them.
Smoke coiled up into the sky from the church. That’s where they took everyone last night.
Took them and burned them.
I looked over at my little sister, Lana, who had finally fallen asleep sometime in the past hour or so, on a fur... | There was a soft clattering as the plane lurched again through the turbulence. The young girl to my left was looking sickly.
The intercom crackled to life. “Hi folks, a bit of bad news from the flight deck. We are having a minor mechanical issue with the aircraft, and we will be returning back to Dulles. Once we’re on... | 2022-01-06T08:36:13 | 2022-01-06T08:27:53 | 2,258 | 333 |
[WP] Humans have the reputation of being both an extremely dangerous species and social creatures that are easy to bond with, making them great crew members for voyagers. You and your shipmates are worried about your newly recruited human because you don't know what an introvert is.
Inspired by various "Humans are spa... | An eerie silence had fallen over the big, sparsely populated cargo-ship. What had started out as a run just like all the others had turned into our greatest nightmare. Yet everything seemed so great in the beginning. We had been curious to meet our new crew member, especially as no one had met a human before.
Sure, t... | "I think it's broken," she said, as we approached the human carefully. We had just ordered a fresh new human from the Milky Way constellation and what a sweet deal it had been! That is until we received it. It was apparently called Rae and it wore the skin of a racoon. It also appeared to only leave its living quarters... | 2019-11-17T02:35:00 | 2019-11-17T00:49:16 | 904 | 385 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by henchmen because your boyfriend/girlfriend is a super hero, but the villains are your parents who just now recognized you as your BF/GF has arrived to save you and now you have to explain the situation to everyone while the henchmen watch barley stifling their laughter | It all started with drinks. Catherine sat with her boyfriend Sam. They were both slightly buzzed and as it often did, the conversation turned to some rather interesting topics.
"So the trolley problem. Thoughts?"
Catherine raised her eyebrows and took another sip of her drink. "I think it's a bad problem really. The... | When I woke up tied up with two villains in front of me, I was scared but I wasn’t worried I knew she would come for me. They were talking but their voices sounded familiar, then it hit me like a semi-truck.
“Wait, MOM AND DAD!?”
“TYLER!?”
“Mom, dad you guys are villains? What the heck!”
“Your dating a superhero, ... | 2021-07-18T11:49:04 | 2021-07-18T11:05:47 | 515 | 90 |
[WP] A prolific serial killer active for many years is concerned about his run of good luck. Never discovered, he has also never seen the slightest mention of his work reported on in any media. With today's victim he gets a clue as to why... | Everyone makes fun of you when you hear voices. They think you're crazy. Well, I hear a voice in my head, and I know I'm not crazy. I hear the voice of God. The capital fucking-G God. I'm not making this voice up. You ignorant fools going to your silly churches, following your stupid rules, if you only knew what God re... | John knew that hiding behind the sofa was a poor choice, but he was limited in his options in this house. It was sparsely decorated in an almost utilitatian minimalism. Perhaps the home of someone who wasn't home much anyway? It was really quite astonishing how infrequently that happened, really. Most people's lives we... | 2015-04-12T07:12:50 | 2015-04-12T05:20:44 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | "Father *please.* We must leave," pleaded Euna.
The chief of the village shook his head slowly as he gazed at his people. "For centuries this has been our home, Euna. But did you know Euna, before this, we had nothing. You do not know because you weren't born yet. Our ancestors fought with their lives to make this fo... | Alters. Augmented. Ascended.
My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace and balance between the changed people, the cyborgs and those in the cloud. But that all changed when the Alters attacked. Only the Avatar mastered all three techniques. Only he could stop the ruthless DNA hybrids, ... | 2018-07-01T09:37:07 | 2018-07-01T08:08:56 | 1,371 | 294 |
[WP] After you marry a widow, her dead husband comes back to haunt you. However, he just wants to help you take care of his former wife and make her as happy as possible. | “I now pronounce you husband and wife!” The pastor had said. We had turned to face the crowd of our loved ones, and he had continued, “I am pleased to present to you Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dirksen!”
That had been three days ago. We had been so tired that night that we had barely fallen in bed together undressed. The same... | The dark specter hovered above Nicholas quietly judging his purchases of assorted Tulips.
“You know Nairobi is allergic to Tulips right?” The spirit says while materializing in the living room of Nicholas’s small studio apartment.
Nicholas: *initially shocked before realizing who he’s talking to* “oh Kafil how... | 2019-05-03T15:17:13 | 2019-05-03T15:00:08 | 233 | 16 |
[WP] For decades, humans have been using a mineral mined off-planet that accelerates healing. Today you discover the truth: it’s not a mineral, but a parasitic alien spore. The more damage your body sustains, the more it replaces your damaged DNA with its own. | ######[](#dropcap)
*Just a small nick.*
There it was. The urge again. Nick wiped the sweat dripping from his brow and shook his head to clear the ringing in his ears. Everything was good about this job--the benefits, the people, the pay. Everything except that goddamn ringing. The management said it was a natural co... | Mist launched from it’s center. Its body, adrift in the large void that is space. In death, the small insect hardened itself into a shard of life.
Flames rain from the sky’s as the sun begins to fall. The shard had remained intact even after is hasted dissent along with its fellow insects.
Before long, man had arrive... | 2020-07-30T20:06:28 | 2020-07-30T18:50:40 | 175 | 15 |
[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." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | I toss in my sleep-- there's a loud buzzing ringing in my left ear, and my eyes flicker open to reveal my phone: vibrating with it's receivance of hundreds of messages. "Holy shit, is that my Discord app again? I swear to god I put it on fucking silent." I grumble, and my hands fumble for the volume rockers. Without a ... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T19:48:33 | 379 | 13 |
[WP] There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years about a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night you step into this cab.
I realize "night" might be a little too constricting so feel free to break the prompt and write about the day if your story requires it... | In today's world, calling for a taxi seemed stupid. With Uber and Lyft, you always had one available at the reach of your finger tips... assuming that your phone wasn't dead.
That was Mike's case tonight. After going out with a couple of work friends, and having one.. OK two too many, he decided to call it a night. H... | Long have I heard about this cab. They said that it will take you to wherever you need to be, so that destiny will play its part. Ever since I was young, I was plagued with many disturbing visions that cause me unspeakable nightmare, it was so real that I couldn't know what was dream and what is real. Because of it, I ... | 2016-08-29T06:35:42 | 2016-08-29T00:09:38 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] Write a 500 word long story that only uses each word once | Nights were filled with cold, frigid storms of endless horizon. Easily finding peace- tranquility, even- when gazing upon what could only be defined as first-hand experience into Watcher’s Willful Eye. Foregone conclusively, universal scale unimaginable unless seeing.
Constellations slowly drifting through space-time i... | (this was too hard so i just did 100, heres my attempt. it is incoherent i know)
George?
Yes?
something to tell you
Alright, shoot.
Well theres this girl
Same old story?
Better believe it
Do explain
plane. aisles. seated beside red head. mighty fine.
must be more?
words. beat me over head. bad speak.
sorr... | 2018-09-05T20:10:08 | 2018-09-05T18:58:02 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] Deeply misunderstanding the term "universal healthcare", aliens have begun arriving in Canada, seeking medical attention. Canadians, being Canadian, are too polite to correct them. | “I HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED FOR THIS!” Doctor Walsh screamed as, what seemed like liters of an unknown turquoise substance, cascaded off the operating table and onto the ground.
A few hours earlier, trauma surgeon Henry Walsh had been enjoying a quiet night in the Emergency Room. The only cases which had presented durin... | "Sir, like i said we don't know how to treat you at all, we don't have the knowledge for your anatomical structure". Doctor exhaustingly explained it to the 8th neighbour from the space.
"Sorry Well, I mean it's just a colon cancer, back home I gotta pay a fortune for it. You ever had to sell your space car for a canc... | 2017-02-27T10:08:10 | 2017-02-27T09:25:12 | 224 | 114 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | The line at Juan’s was longer than usual. People were queued alongside the truck, waiting for a taste of the incredible burritos hand folded by “The Big Man” himself. Down the street, the line at Subway seemed short but I had been craving burritos all morning and didn’t feel like making the sacrifice. Juan’s voice coul... | Well to be fair I had one of the most sought after superpower in the entire world. I was not like Jake who could control the dense flow of current, or Alice who could read a thousand books a day and recall 900. For most people their superpower came with a drawback of sorts, Jake had to stay in his room to control his p... | 2015-10-10T12:20:28 | 2015-10-10T09:03:49 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You're a knight in love with a princess. Unfortunately, she is head over heels with another princess. Contrary to your better judgement, you decide to "kidnap" both so they can run off together while you play the villain. | She hid it so well, but the remnants of her tears were still fresh on her cheek. Despite my efforts, my charity, my heart open for the world to see all my deepest affection, she could not love me back. The pain was immense, as if stabbed by an unknown blade. It was intensely unfamiliar. All I could do was turn my hurt ... | [Poem]
My person stiff and saddle sore
From all my aches and scars I bore
For her, the one, my one and only
The princess of the crystal shore
My c... | 2019-09-21T21:20:00 | 2019-09-21T21:08:08 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | The summons for Lucia Farrowstone came, as they always did, a pinch too late and a tad too cryptically.
“Harperston,” the parchment read, “North by northeast, two hundred miles. Forty-eight hours before situation becomes untenable. No others available, you’re on your own.”
Having served its purpose, the parchment sl... | "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out. Hey! Are you even listening!?"
I snapped my gaze back toward the old woman. She had caught me staring out the window. "Yes Ms. J... | 2017-02-22T10:14:57 | 2017-02-22T07:48:38 | 899 | 614 |
[WP] A new invention enables people to remember their dreams with absolute clarity. It turns out we were forgetting them for a very good reason. | My name is Liam and It's been four months since I last dreamed.
A lot of people set their alarms to wake up throughout the night, sleeping in half hour bursts, other people sleep in shifts, watching each other. I take Myclocin. Dreamless sleep. I have a good job and make good money so I get the pills. Others, are... | It seems like you're awake now.
That's good, because now, I am awake.
It's been bloody awful making me do all sorts of weird stuff that you imagine. So disorientating as well. That one time when you dreamt of wings, that you could soar? That your wings were able to make you fly? The first time you made me take the ... | 2015-03-09T07:30:57 | 2015-03-09T06:03:43 | 2,479 | 24 |
[WP] Your roommate is a hulking demon, a former warlord with millennia of combat experience, and the picture of menace and brutality. You just caught them halfway through a gallon-sized bucket of your favorite ice cream, frozen like a deer in headlights. | *contains inaccurate descriptions of religious events and a lot of tropes.*
I blinked, my gaze repeated snapping to the ice cream and my roommate's face.
"I can explain," he said, setting the tub aside and looking for all intents and purposes like a kicked puppy.
I shook my head, rapidly. "You don't have to. It's n... | "You...You Bastard!" I screamed with all my lungs
"Josh, I can explain..." this 6'7" Demon said with the spoon full of Half Baked Ben & Jerry's still in his mouth.
All I could see was red as I ran up leaped in the air, and spiked the empty tub out his hand. And then as quick as a hummingbird flies in a storm, Bit... | 2022-12-16T06:46:51 | 2022-12-16T05:20:03 | 209 | 46 |
[WP] You're a cop who reported to the final events of an action movie. This is your police report. | Form 2805A (Commentary to Responding Officer's Incident Report)
Officer: Det. Henry Robertson
Summary: At approximately 2:05 am on December 13, 2015, Officer Carmichael and myself responded to a code 41 distress call at the corner of Winchester Dr. and Nineteenth St. Upon arrival, the suspect appeared to be a ninja ... | … given the notification I had received from the captain with respect to emergency communique from the Republic of South Africa, I did inform the ambassador that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then I did shoot him in the face.
Then I did cradle Riggs in my gentle yet powerful arms. Then I did tell him that ... | 2015-12-14T07:34:23 | 2015-12-14T06:52:15 | 710 | 15 |
[WP] Top sorcerers study the child. It's been more than 24 hours since he was hit with an instant death spell, but he still lives. One of the sorcerers decides to call the Grim Reaper to ask what's up. | It started out like any other day. Qirti and I were enjoying our drinks at the tavern, while Khannas was meditating. As we were discussing about our next adventure, we hear distant voices which turned into screams. Khannas stood up, and we walked out towards the market square.
"Stop it Vica" shouted a person, "Are you... | "I'm already here," came the voice that was not a voice but rather meaning conveyed by the sound of a shovel of dirt landing on a coffin.
"Oh," said Palpator, "I was just going to... I guess you know that."
"Yes," said the sound of a smoker's first bloody cough.
"So... do you understand what's going on?" he asked.
... | 2021-12-13T04:26:56 | 2021-12-13T03:59:54 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] "Now remember, a healing spell has some side effects. You may be tired, slightly dizzy, and DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see after. Let me repeat DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see. Ready? Good." | "What the hell did you fight *this* time?"
"A robot that acted like a schizo Sonic the Hedgehog."
Eleanor sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "I swear, Sweeney, one of these days. One of these days."
He coughed. It didn't hurt as much as it should, thanks to the alcohol in his system, but it still was uncomfo... | "Now remember, a healing spell has some side effects. You may be tired, slightly dizzy, and DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see after. Let me repeat, DO NOT interact with anything strange you might see. Ready? Good." His voice is calm, steady, confident. He knows his instructions are good, but it's alw... | 2022-05-02T10:46:00 | 2022-05-02T10:14:58 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | I killed them. I know I did. I admitted it.
During the trial I tried to convince myself that it was an accident. That I was still a good person who just made a mistake.
I lied to myself over and over again, but I failed. I chose to pick up the keys. I chose to get behind the wheel. I chose to drive while I was drunk... | The thing they tell you, when you become warden, is the secret of the one night stay. many opt for it, go into the cell. and justice is served.
the important part is that any ANY time a prisioner can reject their 24 hours and take their full time. they just have to ask for it 3 times and then convince their own lawye... | 2015-10-27T08:39:34 | 2015-10-27T07:49:42 | 293 | 20 |
[WP] You are a 64 year old scientist days away from retiring. For 20 years you have secretly been working on a syrium that reverses aging. Tonight you test your syrium and it works, you are in the body of your 25year old former self. You have work in 3 hours. | The first thought to go through my head was that this was truly and awful decision.
I looked better, at the very least. Far better than I had in years if I was being honest with myself. My stomach was the flat, toned core that I had so carefully cultivated all those years before in graduate school. Before I had to gi... | **PART ONE**
The wee hours of the morning haven't been my companion in decades. I hadn't stayed up that late working on a project since graduate school, but this project was worth it. The deadline was my retirement, and procrastination was not an option. Unable to find support from the university for this "foolish end... | 2017-10-17T08:40:22 | 2017-10-17T06:59:16 | 128 | 16 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | **Part 1**
The sun had set long ago on my twenty-first birthday, and the moon lit the sky. Top Chef was on the TV as we lay sprawled across the couch lazily enjoying the program. "We" being myself on the couch, my girlfriend Katlyn snuggled against me in my lap, and her familiar Tannilee laying in her lap. Tannilee, a... | Most of us get our familiars at the ripe old age of eighteen. Sometimes it was as young a sixteen, sometimes as old as twenty. I was twenty-one, and it embarrassed me being alone the way I was while my friends settled in with their homemade soul mates.
The morning after my first drink, I woke up in my bedroom not w... | 2017-01-20T14:53:16 | 2017-01-20T14:26:22 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens always respawn minutes after death. It's a common prank for aliens to kill each other for a laugh. When they discover Earth, they kill millions of humans, thinking it's a humorous way of greeting this new species, but for some reason, the humans aren't laughing...
Edit:
Thank you SO much for the 2K upvotes... | Lakthor lopes through the human city as fast as he can, monstrous claws cracking the pavement as the twin plasma cannons mounted on his scaled-back scythe through the crowd of suited humans before him like a saleshi matron through a platter of stunlag deserts. Though the residue that he leaves behind is far messier...T... | The human stares at me, looking shocked as I slaughter the man in front of me. I don't know why none of this species has found it funny yet. He seems perplexed that I'm laughing. This species... Something is different about them. They don't laugh at the same things we do, and their facial expressions are far from pleas... | 2022-08-14T02:50:40 | 2022-08-14T01:37:32 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | I was merely an observer- a "recorder", someone who was there to record history while it was in the making. I didn't *have* a super power- it seemed my fate was merely to watch those who did.
I was content with it, for the most part- only when I saw someone in need, someone in danger, would I feel the pang of misery t... | A lot is made of it, really.
People have written books about it.
The truth is, nobody really has any idea. It's just our way of, well… '*trying to understand God'* probably sounds a bit dramatic, but I ask you: what else do you call somebody who flies at a mach ten and plays swingball with rockets?
What is an 'in... | 2020-06-15T11:09:28 | 2020-06-15T06:40:59 | 1,296 | 892 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | What the fuck are you doing? Ziled looked up from the disembowelled corpse to find Cryos.
"Nothing."
"Who is that?" Cryos turned his nose at the smell. The body reeked of age and guts. "I can't tell."
Ziled smiled. "That's the point."
Cryos buried his head in his hands. "I'm so fucked."
"Relax man, you've shown me... | In this world there are people who are willing to put on the mask: to put life and limb on the line in order to save random strangers on the street. They may never see them again and they will certainly never get thanked, yet they do it time and time again without ever seeming to tire or cease. Now if they are prepared... | 2020-07-12T09:45:33 | 2020-07-12T09:30:31 | 161 | 27 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | *A Dungeon Master, A Ranger, A Warlock and a Barbarian sit at a kitchen table.*
**Dungeon Master**: Alright, just so everybody's all caught up, could somebody describe what happened during our last campaign.
**Ranger:** Well, we're just about to fight the British while they're busy fighting in World War One. There... | “... Why don’t we just kill all of them?”
Everyone at the table replied with the same idea: “Are you effing insane?! We can’t just kill an entire religion because we want the city they’re in!”
“Well why not? I mean, it is our land. Jesus said so.”
“You can’t do that, even if you are the Pope!”
The DM interjected, ... | 2018-05-29T10:08:14 | 2018-05-29T09:19:29 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] We spread throughout the stars. But our enemies are not alien races, exterminator machines, or extradimensional invaders. No, our enemies are the gods, for humanity is the last, and only remaining mortal race in the universe. | "Sharpen your blades, gentlemen."
Commander Dovken paced the tube past the bunks, hitting at the railings with his old policeman's baton. "We've got us a bogey," he shouted.
Lieutenant Dennis stood at salute by the vending machine in the thoroughfare. In a brisk follow, said: "We think it's a class A2, commander. One... | We're forsaken by the Gods. Despite what we have achieved, they turned their backs on us. Why, we asked? We've become unified and loving. We solved our ills and hungers. We made works of art beautiful beyond reason. We've engaged the other races diplomatically. And yet, when we asked, nay, *begged* the Gods to help us ... | 2022-05-09T07:04:00 | 2022-05-09T06:25:45 | 47 | 22 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | Day 1: Time stopped, as it does when I'm in danger, at 7:05:23 this morning. I know because that's why my watch was at when it stopped counting. I usually just duck or jump to the side or something and time restarts, but none of that helped. I finally ran outside the house, and nothing. This is strange; something's... | The world is still, lifeless, dead. It would seem it takes my burden. A year has passed since anything moved. Anything. People stand still amidst the backdrop of soulless cities, like mannequins in windows. The birds are idle in the trees, no morning silence ever broken. The grass lies frozen in the land, no wind to mo... | 2018-07-04T16:29:47 | 2018-07-04T13:31:50 | 2,360 | 153 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | "Excuse me, sir, do you have any clue where the dining car is?"
I lifted my eyes from the news paper.
"Boy, i know this train like my hand, if not better. Go in the direction opposite of the trains movement, it will be the fourth one." I leaned forward a bit and lowered my voice. "If you say 'and a jacked ice' they ... | [Poem]
On the train heading to work,
I checked my purse.
What a surprise I find!
A little note, scribbled and wrote:
“Whatever you do, don’t get off this train until you arrive at the very last stop.”
I wonder what it means, then my stop arrives.
I try to get off, until ahead of me I see,
A demon right there, ... | 2020-07-17T12:04:08 | 2020-07-17T10:48:21 | 71 | 42 |
[WP] When your university announces they are going to bury a time capsule for 100 years you decide to include a USB drive with a super-high resolution copy of your brain just for fun. The last thing you remember is going into an MRI to be scanned before waking up and being told it's a century later. | When I was a child, I'd often look up into space from the comfort of my tiny room. I'd adjust my telescope and pick a spec to focus on. I liked to imagine that somewhere in that star system, there was an alien child just like me adjusting his own telescope and staring back– wondering what amazing things a different pla... | It was an... Odd sensation. I felt so completely out of my depth as I stared at the... Thing sat across from me. It was alien to my puny human synaptic pulses. Or well, it would if the concept of alien and not alien didn't divide everything into a wholey unbalanced break of less than a percentage familiar sights and ex... | 2021-09-14T07:23:58 | 2021-09-14T07:12:02 | 1,036 | 221 |
[WP] Write a college essay that starts with, "Sometimes, I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle..."
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/35hits/college_admissions_officers_what_was_the_worst/cr4khqk
Edit: This got a lot of responses.
Edit 2: This is my highest post in months.
I should ... | (This is basically the first creative writing I've tried since middle school, so: thanks for any constructive criticism.)
Sometimes, I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle. I know I'll be there, soon enough: lying flat on my stomach, looking through the scope, searching--calmly but with a sense of purp... | Sometimes, I wish I could just go into a roof with a sniper rifle and shoot the heads off the hordes of zombies coming to invade my home. Or at least, that's what my hyperactive, ADD brain would have me think. My disorder has always been a challenge in my life, from the time I was a little boy to now it is still diffic... | 2015-05-10T14:43:04 | 2015-05-10T14:32:46 | 185 | 10 |
[WP] You are trapped in an anti-time loop; Every time you are about to die, you wake up 24 hours later, with no recollection of how you survived. You lost a year of your life already and feel no closer to find out who wants to kill you. | Open the door. Grab the wooden chair. Take three steps forward. Back up against the wall, take two steps to the left. Renshaw had done this over 900 times now. Like something out of the twilight zone, he was stuck in an endless 24-hour time loop. An eternal nightmare that made his tour in Nam’ look like fucking Candyla... | Zachariah washed his face in the near-frozen pound. The winter chill crept under his robe making him shiver.
An empty park and gloomy weather. It seemed no trail of snow, but trees were barren and grass brown.
Despite the cold and stingy feeling that kept relentlessly pushing deeper into his bones, he laid on a bench... | 2020-08-17T16:44:45 | 2020-08-17T15:27:29 | 83 | 16 |
[WP] You're a scientist studying bacterial colonies. One day, you look under the microscope to observe strange shapes that, on a closer look, resemble letters. The bacteria are greeting you and have a message for you. | **STATION #45, ASTEROID 45 ENRA, LOG ENTRY 4.– S. KENNEDY, 9:04 C.E.E.T.**
I doubt anyone will find this. But if you do...you need to make sure my crew and I don't make it back to Earth. I'll bite my tongue and take the bullet like a man, if I'm still cognizant, and the rest of my crew is dead or gone in other ways, s... | I slide the key card in the key read and wait for the locks to unlock the door. *click* I push the heavy steel door forward. "I swear that door gets heavier every time," I mutter to myself. I wait in the decontamination chamber to clear me. I get cleared and start to walk to my station. On the way there I pass other st... | 2017-01-01T15:04:26 | 2017-01-01T14:16:54 | 83 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone has a secret power, though they are of varying degrees of usefulness. You have only used yours once, and swore never to use it again. Today, however, you were kidnapped and imprisoned. Now, you have no choice. You must summon him. The Kool Aid Man. | I was tied to a chair in a large room, with the lightbulb hanging over my head providing the only warmth and light in the room.
I was sweaty, my arms hurt, the rope cut into them. Then, I heard footsteps. The click-clacking of oxford shoes echoed in the room.
Two men, dressed in charcoal black suits, appeared. One of... | I woke up tied to a chair in the middle of a room. The walls were yellow. It was day light from the one window in front of me. I didn’t know how I got kidnapped. My head was still spinning. I said, “Where am I?” A male voice behind me answered, “Shut up!” I was a little shocked that someone was behind me. I just rememb... | 2020-12-01T08:52:05 | 2020-12-01T08:11:46 | 143 | 27 |
[WP] A man, stricken with anger and sadness, sacrifices himself to Satan in a ritual to curse his cheating wife. The man awakens as the newly born baby of his wive’s infidelity. Despite being a baby, he retains all the memories of his previous life and from that moment plans his revenge.
[removed] | “Mommy, would you be sad if I ran away?”
“Of course. Mommy would be so sad, she might cry and cry until there were no more tears left.”
They sat on the swing, rocking in the fading sunlight, staring out at the death of another good day.
“And then what would happen?”
“What do you mean?” the mother asked, softly kiss... | >Not a professional writer and my thought's aren't well put together by any means but I thought I would give a try with one of the stranger fan theories out there.
I'm angry, angrier than a hornet that woke up on the wrong side of the bed. My neighbor and lifelong friend had relations with ma wife. I tried to parta... | 2019-09-11T21:29:55 | 2019-09-11T21:17:16 | 1,643 | 29 |
[WP] The FBI released information on how many times each citizen has had their memories erased. Most people say zero. A few people say 1 or 2. Your name, however, says 26. | It had been huge news. Mind wiping? People were appalled.
“Hey Jess!”
She turned her head away from the news, the heated discussion taking place playing in the background now. Her co-worker in the small supermarket made his way to her, waving the phone in his hand. It was a slow evening and Jess couldn’t wait to get... | I must have zoned out for a minute, because I’m halfway through a slice of pizza I don’t remember starting. I’m sitting in a lime plastic chair across the table from no one and nothing but a few crumbs. In fact, the whole patio is empty. I’m starting to get a familiar sort of fuzzy feeling in my lower brain. Propped up... | 2020-07-28T14:49:24 | 2020-07-28T13:53:19 | 75 | 55 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | "Hey," said Excellar, or Antony when he wasn't wearing the suit.
I looked up from my work to see him standing in the doorway with a dark look on his face. "Hey, Tony. What's up?" I looked him over and knew, as always, thirteen things I could say that would make him start weeping like the child that, at our hearts, ... | Infection laughed manically as the bridge slowly rotted away "NEXT IT WILL BE THE CITY!" he screamed, His short period of celebration was cut short when a bored voice said "Yup. Yeah. Of course, standard supervillain, go for the freaking terror factor" Infection snapped around to face his challenger, a regular looki... | 2020-02-25T16:08:43 | 2020-02-25T15:50:31 | 78 | 27 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The great Kreen empire had ruled for millennia, ever expanding with trillions of souls on thousands of worlds all toiling away for the benefit of the Dai'Kreen, the God Kings who ruled with an iron fist.
The Kreen first learned of the humans through rumors of encounters on the outer fringes of the empire. Stories of u... | Most species we would call warlike never make it to the stars. Those with the need to destory, willingness to kill and die, it's not a viable life plan.
Humans we had encounterd at the edge of Solar System Gamma-Phi in the Virgo Cluster. They seemed so fearfull then, instantly scared of us and what we could do to thei... | 2022-08-05T19:16:19 | 2022-08-05T17:26:19 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You die in a virtual reality pod, and now your consciousness is stuck in the game. The problem is that the game doesn't register you as playing anymore, and your consciousness bypassing all of the games core mechanics. They call you the "digital phantom."
bypasses* | It was 2am and my lieutenant was pulling me out the door before I became fully aware of what was going on. The emergency system had been activated, and red lights were flashing down every hallway in the 22-story building. As soon as we entered the main data bank, I pulled an engineer aside to brief me.
"What the hell ... | I watch as digital wind blows artificial leaves around an abandoned town square. It's peaceful and quiet in this section of the game world. But at the same time ghostly as the emptiness of the streets reminds me of how I came to be here in this place. As I rethink it over I would have to guess that I've been here aroun... | 2018-04-09T12:33:24 | 2018-04-09T12:23:21 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are a test subject for a time machine, and are sent 12 hours into the future. When the door opens, you find yourself in the testing room, where you see in horror the bodies of the technicians on the floor, with the word "SORRY" scrawled in large letters on the wall. | The machine was dark, and cramped, and loud. It screeched at me despite the multiple layers of ear protection I had, sounding like an alarm going off. Like something was going wrong. Like I would be stuck in the abyss between this time and the next, a space of no time at all, an eternity of this screeching sound again ... | The vibrations inside the box slowly subsided as the chronoton field collapsed. I had been staring at the unpainted plywood door of the capsule for exactly nineteen seconds in my time, feeling nothing more intense than that of holding an electric toothbrush. I unstrapped the entirely unnecessary harness holding me firm... | 2018-08-01T06:22:36 | 2018-08-01T06:00:53 | 155 | 53 |
[WP] In a world of spoken spells, the most dangerous casters are the rappers. | The man in the pressed suit remained altogether unimpressed by the sergeant's words per minute. The magic range shimmered in the spectral aftermath of the sergeant's spellslinging, targets downfield burnt to a crisp, but the man continued down the line, shaking his head.
Captain Millen grew splotchy throughout his fi... | We are a minority, living in the lowest of Amalgaria. A long time ago, Old Trichainz taught me and two of my friends how to perform a basic spell, called The Orb of Rhyme&Rhythm. As it name betrays, it feeds out of rhythm and rhyme. The more sentences we string together with a rhyming end, the stronger it gets. Thr... | 2018-04-10T06:45:17 | 2018-04-10T06:45:11 | 63 | 27 |
[Wp] Write a story that will make me question my morality.
Write a story that is so shocking it will make me question my morality.
Edit: Wow.
| “Five minutes to choose, Charlie. Make it a good one,” the voice cackled.
The seconds ticked mercilessly downwards. His wrists burned against the restraints as his hands strained to stay away from the two glowing red buttons that stared at him from beneath the clock. To his right was his daughter, Anna, gagged and bou... | He had heard people say that in the end, life prevails. It had been true for life on Earth. It had prevailed despite ice ages, meteors and volcanic eruptions. But he didn't think he would.
He was having lunch with her when the storm hit. The wind was so strong that it blew the fish out of their hands. Water thrashed t... | 2014-07-07T09:20:49 | 2014-07-07T08:25:06 | 74 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | 15,000 years. 15,000 mid-numbing years of waiting. It was exciting to Adam at first at first, the knowledge that life didn't just end with death, that he got to stick around and observe humanity. It suited him well, he'd always been a quiet fellow, and since he was just a ghost, no one gave him a hard time for being a ... | I think it's been 15,000 years. Or at least, somewhere around that. I'm not really sure. I haven't left the house in a few millennia at least. There's no point. All I end up doing is scaring a few people, and death goes on. Besides, no matter where I go, it's crowded.
The space issue gets worse in the big cities, an... | 2017-06-26T15:03:31 | 2017-06-26T13:11:54 | 129 | 55 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The Captain filled a small container with what had to be bourbon, carefully sealing the spout to prevent any of the liquid from floating away. As I dogged the hatch behind me, I saw that he already had his drink in hand.
First day aboard a starship, and I'm drinking with the boss? Not a bad start.
Captain Leonov sent... | I was born with the same name tatooed twice, it was my parents worry that I was gonna kill myself so they put me on therapy since I remember, popping pills of all kinds, having every second of my life monitored.
The walls of my bedroom covered in pictures of happy animals, with motivational mottos on them. Everyone I ... | 2018-03-11T08:45:50 | 2018-03-11T08:14:04 | 120 | 36 |
[WP] A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”
stolen from Meladoodle on Tumblr. | "*It's your mother's birthday, she likes lilies.*"
"Huh," I said audibly, probably to make sure my brain hadn't shut down. "This is new. This is definitely new." Like most normal people, I had ran out of the house still buttoning my trousers on first sight of the message. One feels particularly vulnerable stepping ou... | (A/N: Slight nod to wild wild west)
Some people set reminders on their cell phones. Others write down points and ideas in a little black notebook that they carry around. Some people have secretaries to help them organise their lives. And others have nagging spouses, parents and/or roommates.
Linda was looking at me ... | 2016-08-07T20:46:50 | 2016-08-07T20:26:45 | 113 | 10 |
[WP] You had a late night and slept in late too. As you wake up and look at your phone to check the time, you see an alert: “Missile impact approximated at 12:47 PM. Evacuate the city as soon as possible.” It’s 3:15 PM. | The phone kept pinging. Nadine growled, her pale hand creeping out from under the rumpled duvet she was currently buried beneath and grabbing the vibrating phone off the bedside table. As she fumbled the phone in sleepy long fingers, bleary, make-up streaked eyes struggled to focus on the alert on her phone - an emerge... | Well, that's odd. I just wanted to drink my god damn Smirnoff and read Manga. Welp. I guess I'm going to die. I expected it to be more.. whats the word.. Exciting? Like throwing myself into a volcano to save my loved ones, ya know, something like that? Well, I guess I should go look at the outside for the last time. I ... | 2020-02-03T07:54:55 | 2020-02-03T06:23:49 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are isekai’ed into a fantasy RPG video game. Though it is not ready for you, The Spiffing Brit. | It was just another normal Friday night. Mom ordered pizza, rain clattered against my window, and I had Generic Fantasy Game playing. GFG for short.
I was excited when I came home and saw the email: I had been one of the selected few who received a beta key. I downloaded the game and sat anxiously as the epic intro be... | One day I was sitting on my computer casually playing a game of Wizard 101 when all of a sudden a bursting flash of light in my room and all of a sudden I was transported into the game's world. I was no longer Dwight the skinny geek that liked to play old RPGs made for kids. I was the Spiffing Brit, level 99 fire wizar... | 2020-07-31T22:09:17 | 2020-07-31T20:31:03 | 60 | 20 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Above, the clouds are low, heavy and fat with rain, tumbling their way over the wood and farther away.
A young man with tousled hair and dark eyes makes his way to a graveyard, afraid of what he'll find.
*What was that?*
He's confused, and somewhat afraid. Not of being alone, no, for now that seems the best and onl... | On your eighteenth birthday you can summon one thing. Anything, they say. Steal yourself a soulmate. Get yourself a fortune. I have both. I don't need more than what I have.
"What did you ask for?" I had just blown out the candles on my cake and my parents were waiting in tense anticipation. My girlfriend looked on m... | 2019-09-18T06:37:36 | 2019-09-18T06:35:54 | 808 | 197 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | I didn't intend to kill Hitler. I'm not the average time-traveler, you see, I just wanted to have a quiet life in the country side of the Old Europe. I found my lifestyle. I found a beautiful girl named Annabelle and worked my way up in French society at the time. I married Annabelle. I found and bought a quaint little... | I couldn't help but dwell on the stories of my father killing Hitler using only a menorah and some olive oil, from the opposite side of town. How was I to top that? It was the only 99% on record.
I've had my whole childhood to scheme, and at 18 I figured that to get a perfect score, I'd just have to be farther away an... | 2016-02-20T08:59:12 | 2016-02-20T08:21:16 | 204 | 41 |
[WP]: The school of thieves doesn’t teach stealing. You get a grade by submitting the teachers’ property back to them. | Final exam day, at the school of thieves; a day teachers both yearned for and dreaded since handing out the final project guidelines a month ago. They yearned for it to both gloat over the students who failed and to gain back the items they lost to from the ones they succeeded. They dreaded it cause this was also the d... | There's one thing I will never understand. How is it that an organization devoted to the training of the world's thieving elite, indeed, which prides itself on teaching people to take theft from a humble craft and elevate it into an art, can't for the life of itself manage to get its hands on a better union contract?
... | 2018-09-21T08:41:33 | 2018-09-21T05:15:31 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] It is the year 2XXX. Medical science has advanced so far that complete body restoration is possible. However, patients revived from death consistently end up in a vegetative state and no one knows why. You are the first person to revive and retain their cognition. Now you know. | The first thing on her mind as her consciousness pooled back in to her fleshy brain was eating. Consumption. Satiation.
“Test number...uh, what is it.” Pages flipped over on a clipboard as the man squinted. “Three hundred and ninety four. Vitals are...fine. All normal.” He scribbled something down on the board.
“Doc.... | The cool logical void I was in where everything made sense was violently disrupted by warm fuzzy static. Nothing made sense anymore, every thought ^sliced ^^apart in^to p^ie ^^c ^es. One moment I was hurtling at high subluminal speeds towards Uranus -- the next -- I -- . The world returned to the cool logical void agai... | 2020-10-30T02:54:40 | 2020-10-30T02:29:54 | 87 | 10 |
[WP]A masked vigilante has made an appearance in your city. As the the wealthiest man in town, you're having trouble convincing people it's not you. | "...but you *must* be..."
"No."
"...aww c'mon man, you have the money. We could..."
"NO."
"...Jesus H Damien, you're always going on about how awful the city has become. We go to self defence classes. I used to be a sergeant in the military, and you're multi-billion dollar corporation specialises in criminal appreh... | "God Damn Emma! I am NOT the batshit crazy vigilante that is killing the members of the Mafia!!" I shouted at my girlfriend as I dropped yet another bottle of Hennessy.
"I know it's you Paul. The entire city knows that he entered your property in the Faroe Islands in his hovercraft. It's all over the news. But it's ok... | 2017-06-26T11:23:08 | 2017-06-26T11:14:21 | 43 | 14 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | You may or may not have heard of the 'Sunk Cost Fallacy'. If not, let me explain. The sunk cost fallacy is a phenomenon by which someone, say a gambler, will continue down a path due to the idea that they have gone too far to turn back. I invest, for instance, £100 and lose every penny but I decide that I've gone so fa... | Pain.
Blood. So much blood.
A scream.
Then nothing.
The brightest light I’d ever seen. Blinding.
Brakes screeching.
Being pushed.
A train. An endless train.
Hot. So hot. Body burning.
Twenty interminable years.
Loves found. Loves lost.
A baby.
Tears.
The announcer’s constant droning.
‘Will she make it?’
... | 2020-07-17T13:55:41 | 2020-07-17T12:29:35 | 48 | 23 |
[WP] You are a necromancer's apprentice. One of your most important jobs is holding down the revived bodies in their first moments alive again, while they scream and beg to go back. | As I pressed hard on one shoulder, my master on the other, the cadaver struggled beneath our weight, the stitches coming loose around her lips with each consecutive moment of muffled screaming.
"Ugh, that *morning* breath!" the necromancer winced.
I was rethinking my life choices a lot at that moment. To sell my serv... | Dusting the ash off my coat with a “*sigh*, another one.”
The boss nags from behind, “Esteban! We’re losing moonlight! Get a new body on the slab asap while I gather mana for the next spell!”
Blood rushes to my head “Old man this is the 12th one tonight how about calling it quits and trying again another day! You kee... | 2022-04-11T09:27:36 | 2022-04-11T07:54:10 | 80 | 23 |
[WP] "If you fools would use magic so, then the world is better off without it." And so Merlin raised his hands to the heavens and cast the Final Spell, sending all the mana of the world into the void and permanently reshaping the leylines into unusability. | It might look like it's gone... but it never really was. Merlin knew all too well. But, being an overly dramatic character had its purposes. So when he cast the Final Spell, eradicating magic from the face of the planet and rendering the leylines unusable, he knew that it was only a matter of time before magic would re... | The Void had suffered from ennui for a long time the day the Miracle came.
An abyss unto itself, its introspection rendered it a mirror reflecting reflections back and forth in a zero-dimensional low-stakes game of existential Pong. It had been eons since it lost track of the score.
When the Miracle arrived, the Void... | 2022-02-08T13:47:32 | 2022-02-08T12:36:40 | 60 | 14 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the cause of people's future end as floating text above them. No dates, just a simple word of what causes their death in the future. One day you are leaving to work, but when you step outside you notice everyone has the same text above them, "You." | I’ve always known things. Even when I was little.
I learned early on that this made people uncomfortable. My child mind interpreted their discomfort as “there’s something wrong with what I’m doing.”
So, like any good girl, I stopped doing it.
Or, rather, I stopped telling people I could do it.
It became a game. ... | I was born to a crazy family. My gift was I could kinda see the future, but it was weird. I would get a vague idea of how you would die, I would just see an aura with the death spelled out. Most of the time it was cancer, car, violence, father, wife, and other things like that.
After 40 years I finally saw it. Saw wha... | 2021-09-19T09:59:39 | 2021-09-19T08:48:36 | 237 | 73 |
[WP] “I’m sorry…. I’m just…so….tired, can I rest h-” the human said and then Collapsed right after…in the dragon’s lair right in front of the dragon. | "I'm sorry... I'm just... so ...tired" was all the human said before collapsing before me.
A human in my lair, this will not do. Humans have long believed we dragons to be extinct, and true enough of my kin I am the last that I know of. My cousin Helgan was cut down some decades ago - to them she was the last a... | The dragon looked at the collapsed human curiously. After a bit of consideration and making sure that a delivery hadn't been arranged, the dragon shrugged and devoured the human anyway, preparing a little lie for Gladys at the next mountain over. Her deliveries were always being left here and, well, is it really so wro... | 2022-11-02T13:01:16 | 2022-11-02T08:50:00 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] After being kidnapped you wake up in a room where the only thing to keep you occupied is a computer with access to just wikipedia. After 2 years you are taken to an illegal gameshow as 1 of 10 contestants, if you are eliminated, you die. | When I was kidnapped, I figured it was the end for me. I had no money, no connections, nothing I thought these people wanted.
They'd drugged me. I woke up, woozy but terrified, in a bare room with a toilet and a computer.
Of course, my first move had been to try to get help. I tried dozens of social media sites, ... | After god knows how long of waiting the door finally opens, not just the slot where the food trays were shoved through, but the whole, actual, goddamn door. I was shocked, I had run this scenario time and time again while I laid in bed waiting for sleep to take me, but now that it was happening I couldn’t move.
“Miss... | 2018-04-29T10:21:54 | 2018-04-29T09:50:00 | 1,835 | 248 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | "If you're trying to get taken to the asylum for this," I replied, "it won't work. You *will* be hanged. So how about you tell us where you're really from. At least we can notify your family that way."
"I'm telling you, I'm from the future!" the assassin shouted.
"Oh yeah, what year?"
"2032."
I laughed. "Come on, m... | After having just come from the scene of the crime, it was a pretty straight forward process: ask him why then hang him high.
"So, Dirtbag, what's the deal? Score to settle with the Hitlers? You got a funny brain? You got something to say, say it now because either way, you're DONE!" I said in the gruffiest tone one ca... | 2015-03-30T00:21:44 | 2015-03-29T22:57:59 | 1,156 | 64 |
[WP]The pill that decreases aging has been released, but you decided not to take it. It was a good call, because a few decades later, side effects started to emerge. | During the development phase, the drug was given the code name Rx-Infinity. The media would try to get inside scoops as to what it was, and what it was supposed to do. There wasn't this much coverage on a drug or it's research in a long time. You would have thought it was a cure for cancer... But it was so much more... | It's been about twenty years since forevermore was released to the general public. Once people thought they would live forever they started to care about the planet. Within the first fifteen things were relatively smooth.We had reduced carbon emmisions and started reforestation.You could almost call it a utopian societ... | 2016-10-09T07:37:56 | 2016-10-09T06:23:32 | 613 | 14 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | I laid where I was tossed; on a bathroom floor with my back to the door. My hands and feet were bound and I hadn’t moved since my *kidnapping* took place that morning. In a way, it was my own fault that I was caught, and no doubt my husband was going to have plenty to say about it tomorrow morning over breakfast.
You ... | As I stretched into my true reptilian form, the humans were still busy talking about how best to go about torturing and killing me. Fools. I was the descendant of a proud race of reptilians, spanning galaxies. All of the human race was but a blink in our eyes. My scale stretched and popped as my body adjusted after fif... | 2021-03-19T01:41:28 | 2021-03-19T01:21:29 | 567 | 83 |
[WP] Your military experiment accidentally tears a portal open to Hell. However, instead of the demon hordes pouring through, you discover that they are frantically trying to close the portal from their side. | The scientists sat down at the table for the hearing. Though their work had been done under a military committee earmark, the ramifications had led Congress to call a special committee, so the lead researcher realized he didn't recognize half the members of the panel.
After the mandatory introductions and swearing ... | Their language couldn't be understood by the humans, but their body language said it all.
Terrified, the creatures screeched and rushed to close the portal, most of them giving up and running away.
The soldiers stared ahead, too stunned to speak or move. *What have we created?* The creature in front of them had wand... | 2022-09-12T08:44:24 | 2022-09-12T07:32:55 | 442 | 83 |
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