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[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | As the car slowed in the lineup, I forgot to breathe. It was all beginning to make sense. I knew Talia was well-off, but the limousine seemed a little extravagant for a work outing. It made me a little uncomfortable to be in one of these, again. It had been so, so long-- a different time, a different life altogethe... | On our first date, I told her that I don't like movies much. I find them over-stimulating and prefer reading. I have some old DVDs of my favorites (I can quote every line from Moonstruck), but hadn't seen anything new in years. She seemed really interested, and I thought it was because she loved to read, too.
Well, i... | 2017-06-14T12:00:32 | 2017-06-14T10:40:17 | 372 | 55 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | Thank you for your kindness and your wisdom, friend. You say you don't want a fancy tin king hat, but I can at least answer some of your questions. You wanted to know why I was wearing this old uniform. Well, it is a bit tattered, but it's because I'm a Royal Guardsman. 'Least I was. Maybe I'll be one again. Long as I ... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T05:41:56 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | **0 Days since Discovering Life in the SL-2 System**
“Hey, Somaat, come look at this. Am I reading this right?” Korjal said with prudent curiosity. “My readout is telling me SL-2 is emitting weird elevated amounts of radio waves.” Somaat got up from his station and meandered to her side. “Probably, or maybe the calibr... | **Journeys End**
Tomorrow we reach it. Garrix says that we’ll find the root to all existence, that purpose itself will have an answer, like all equations. I stopped listening to Garrix a long time ago.
Officer Mercurier hasn’t stopped pacing the entire journey, her performance has declined significantly. If anyone sh... | 2019-08-13T15:41:27 | 2019-08-13T15:27:26 | 73 | 24 |
[WP] You're a struggling musician. While fooling around with your guitar you see a bright flash and hear a voice say 'Congratulations, My Son, you have found the secret chord. I am pleased.' | C-G-Am... sigh, no. The key of C was overused– by me, at least fifty times.
Let's see... I closed my eyes and focussed all my emotion into a single point in my gut.
'Twang, twaing,' I bent my string in anguish. Folowing this, I heard a 'whoosh', and something smacked my head. Bullseye, eh, I thought, opening my eye... | Victor's underwear was instantly full. He didn't know what happened. All he knew was he hit a deep chord, his guts rumbled, he heard a voice, and now his britches were soiled.
"Uhh.... This is kind of awkward." He let out painfully as he adjusted the stool under his stool.
A faint apparition appeared in the entranc... | 2018-05-13T12:13:46 | 2018-05-13T10:47:02 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | With his legs shaking, he stepped up onto the platform. He tried to slow his exhalation as the disinfection squad began their work. He was terrified, but excited. At first he had been reluctant to take on the job, wishing instead for a broadcasting post up in the communications tower. His boss had given him a great spe... | ### Humanity: Special For Exactly One Reason
#### They're the most absolutely full of themselves species in the entire universe.
Space is unimaginably vast. This is a simple fact: from the puniest Rentinn to the most mighty Telonn, all species know of the terrible vastness of space and their comparatively minute pre... | 2019-02-08T03:28:18 | 2019-02-07T19:58:44 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | We called them zombies, for lack of a better word. The term referred more to the fact that the person who owned that body, in the before, was dead, but the body wasn’t actually dead. They also didn’t crave human flesh, another “zombie” oversight.
You see, something happened to our planet. We called it The Spore. It h... |
I sat with my back against the door, clutching the sides of my head and hoping she wouldn’t find a way to get through.
“Daddy...let me in…” I heard her voice outside, but it wasn’t her. Not anymore. I could hear her crying now, her tiny fists pounding on the door but I couldn’t give in, she had to stay out there... | 2018-09-06T19:48:27 | 2018-09-06T16:55:54 | 135 | 43 |
[WP] When you die you can stay as long as you want as a ghost. The year is 2028 and the crew of the first human mission to mars has no idea that the ship is filled with the ghosts of hundreds of scientists, explorers and intellectuals. | 2028 was a pretty good year for the us science geeks. It was my favorite year yet, even better than when Marvel regained control of the X-Man franchise in '21 and finally did it right. It was my favorite year even though I'd been dead since '19. I died knowing that some of the best movies of the my afterlife where s... | It's 2028 and I was aboard the spaceship that's about to set off to Mars. Unfortunately I'm dead and so were the other couple hundred of folks around here.No, the space agency wasn't sending our bodies to the outer space (even though having my dead body sent to outer space would have been a proffered good-bye ceremony ... | 2016-12-25T13:22:14 | 2016-12-25T12:52:43 | 175 | 30 |
[WP] You're approached by a sobbing man while sitting on a park bench. It seems he is Death, he's come for you, but all the horrors he's seen have finally caught up with him and he's having a long overdue mental breakdown. | “What’s the matter son?”
The frail old man looks at me, as I stand clutching my worn scythe as I tremble and weep out nothing from my cold hollow eyes
“I- I can’t keep doing this anymore, the pain the suffering, the goodbyes”
I’ve seen many endings since the dawn of time, I’ve taken the lives and the souls of countles... | I remember the day I stopped fearing death. I was maybe 4-5 years old when I first knew I was dying. I remember lying in bed, my parents trying to not to weep while the doctors told them something. I remember pain, fear, the crushing weight of each breathe getting harder and harder, my parents tears and the constant be... | 2019-09-17T03:32:51 | 2019-09-17T03:17:12 | 45 | 21 |
[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... | Everyone thought it was odd. Years of research and studies had all come to the same conclusion. Personality determines the power. "Good" people develop powers for helping people ( healing powers are rather common), while the "Bad" people always got 'mind control' or 'insta-death'. More neutral personalities seemed t... | 2020-06-15T11:09:28 | 2020-06-15T10:54:15 | 1,296 | 86 |
[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 happened as Dan was sat on the old chair in the greenhouse, lazily puffing on a cigertte. He sat, neck arched down scrolling mindlessly through social media. The occassional billows of smoke slowly carried on the draft like a balloon gradually disapeering from existance as it floated away. As the rollie burnt contin... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T09:57:53 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | Is it a curse? No, it is not a curse. The numbers above the heads of strangers, it’s a protection. It allows me a little bit of insight into their character. Who they are, what secrets they hold. I have always been somewhat thankful for this “gift” that was involuntary bestowed upon me.
It was a crisp October morning... | It was strange and almost curious the way his eyes told a different story. He tumbled about, giggling and clapping about with the other children and I was sure that I could have been seeing things. Maybe it was an accident, like with an animal, maybe it was in a dream. Surely he couldn’t understand what that really mea... | 2022-10-21T09:15:23 | 2022-10-21T07:49:31 | 122 | 59 |
[WP] First rule of having a interstellar Navy never get into a arms race with humans it never ends well for anyone. | Admiral Kthath sat in his office dreading the conversation he knew was coming. He'd had it before, of course, and doubtless would have it again many times before the end of his career, but he never enjoyed them. His musing was interrupted by the tone of his entry chime, and he pushed the button to open the door as he... | Emperor Qi looked out upon his fleet with a feeling of immense pride. Since the death of his father, Qi had sought to raise the standing of his homeworld in the eyes of Galactic Citadel. His father, Emperor Xi, believed in maintaining the status quo, "as long as the waters of Azuchi stay blue and the air clean we suc... | 2021-06-14T14:15:10 | 2021-06-14T11:41:15 | 155 | 111 |
[WP] You have the ability to see other people's inner demons and this would terrify you if they weren't so GOD DAMN CUTE. | There were many things in Tanay's life that few people knew about. For example, no one knew that he was a great chef, or that he could shoot a 3-pointer 9/10 times, or that he could look at a person and see their inner demons.
Tanay doesn't know if he was born with this gift or if he acquired this gift when he was a ... | When I behold another human in person, an ability I've had since I was a child manifests. I see beyond their minds and bodies, into the darkness that lies within. There I behold the terrible inner demons that plagues all mankind. Things that drive us to do terrible things, to sin and do evil. Beings who desire for us t... | 2020-04-14T21:37:57 | 2020-04-14T20:59:16 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | As a kid, I have always looked up to the people that use their talents for great purpose. Aunt Laura is always hard at work, so I have the TV for myself and I'd watch all about Steffi Larkin, Reed Horundas, Alex Stevenson, and my idol, Jeff Knox. He has the talent to clone himself and consciously control them. He is kn... | Tonight was my night; my 16th birthday. Finally, after what felt like a lifetime of waiting, it was my time to shine. I had waited almost a year for this day, ever since my best friend Andrew discovered in January that he could fly. I had envied him at first, being the first in the tenth grade with a power. As time pas... | 2015-01-22T00:10:42 | 2015-01-21T21:42:59 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are a policeman. One day, as you're patrolling the park, you see the devil himself burst from the ground in a geyser of flames. He walks over to the trashcan, pulls a can out, and throws it on the ground. You follow him around as he commits more petty crimes. | "**Car 1313 to dispatch, I've got a...stand by.**"
It's all I can do to keep a straight face. Looks for all the world like the devil himself; red skin, seven feet or so, about 190 pounds wearing what looks like a loincloth and clopper shoes. The ground is still smoldering from his little pyrotechnic show, and he's g... | Flabbergasted. It's an old-fashioned word, but the only one I could think of that would describe what was going through my head.
He definitely wasn't human. Humans' legs don't bend that way, nor do they have waists the diameter of baseball bats nor two-foot-long necks, never mind the other features like bat-wings, g... | 2017-08-10T17:44:16 | 2017-08-10T17:38:52 | 109 | 62 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | *A sign reading "Area 51: Eldritch Containment Protocols Command" hangs limply from the now-smashed and burned fence it used to be firmly attached to. Beyond the perimeter, an unassuming grey bunker sits, split open by formless tendrils of void lapping at anything withing their reach.*
"General Bahncroft! The ECPC has... | I can actually answer this, having worked at the facility myself. The prompt isn't far off from the truth, there is an actual number to call when shit hits the fan. In my time there it was only called once, when one of the air force's bombers went lost comms following a dual engine failure. Not sure if it was carrying ... | 2017-03-21T06:03:48 | 2017-03-21T05:37:43 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are a detective who has closed every case but one, a serial murderer who has taunted you all your career. After retiring you start to suspect your significant other.
[Edit: wow, this is going to take a while to get through! Glad people liked the prompt!] | The joggers always set him on edge. He wasn't sure if that was because of his twenty-seven years of service as a police officer and detective, always chasing after people committing petty crimes, or if it was just old age settling in. That didn't change the fact that the autumn trees were in full bloom, and their after... | I sat in my dark office, smoking a cigar. In front of me, my case files. Every single one of them solved, too. The way I like to organize my files, well, basically each case is in one of those generic files you see that usually contain all sort of documentation and evidence.
I have a large filing cabinet filled with ... | 2015-01-03T23:33:11 | 2015-01-03T20:48:13 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] Whenever you die you can reincarnate at any point in history with full memories of your past lives. Billions of deaths later you realize the truth. Every single person in all history is your past or future reincarnation. | How do you truly write an original story? One which truly belonged to you, one which was the accumulation of years and years of your life experiences, knowledge, and moral values? I tried every day, wracking my brain, my mind box, urging it to come up with something original. But I know somewhere, someone in history ha... | I'm not the only one who knows, at this point. Others realized along the way. I sometimes wonder how many times I have remembered and forgotten--or went mad by the mere thought. Sometimes I feel mad.
You start to hear yourself, after a while. In the incarnations that come after you. Sometimes it's a wink. Other times ... | 2021-11-20T21:14:15 | 2021-11-20T20:19:26 | 63 | 19 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | *Why do I do this?*
It’s a question I asked myself many times. Why do I protect these people? Protect this city even though anyone who sees me averts their eyes, tries to ignore me. Those were the good ones. Often times they spat at my feet or warded of evil with their hands.
All mages were supposed to be equal citi... | "Tracey, don't do this. You have the power in your hand, but... please, for the love of existence, don't do this."
Stan stood opposite Tracey, who was on the edge of the cliff. An ominous, swirling, reddish-black portal swirled behind Tracey, with eldritch horrors poking their tentacles and claws through to the mortal... | 2016-11-12T08:30:11 | 2016-11-12T08:16:15 | 1,460 | 110 |
[WP] The instant the Dark Lord hears the prophecy about one destined to defeat him, he scoffs and notes "Standard self-fulfilling hero prophecy." before ordering his minions to go to the hero's hometown and build a bunch of public works projects, the most important of which is a school. | “Seer Griselda, please repeat that.”
Moran Ossenius, the necromancer of Yorm Urtush, tapped his fingers against his desk. The wizened old woman leaned back in her chair with her eyes closed in a trance.
“It is as I said, my Lord,” she droned. “The Hero of Light has been born. She will one day bring about your death. ... | "Another one?" sighed Drovar the Cruel, Bringer of Chaos, Extinguisher of Light, and Dark Lord of the Realm of Seven Rivers. "I thought we took care of one just last year! These damned prophecies are like rats.'
He stared at his vizier, dark eyes flashing with impatient fury. "We are certain we took care of the las... | 2021-01-14T21:08:56 | 2021-01-14T20:59:31 | 420 | 187 |
[WP] Cupid has an opposite, the angel of heartbreak. Their job is to break up couples that don't belong together. Their job is a lot harder and they're getting a little fed up with these stupid humans. | The heavenly offices of Cupid & Co are almost exactly what you'd expect. They're decorated in lots of pinks and gold, the surfaces are soft, and everything that can be made frilly is frill'd to excess. In short, the kind of place that only a cherub or very specific old ladies with poor taste could tolerate working ... | I look across the courtyard, and spot them.
“I hate Valentine’s Day” I say, to no one in particular.
See here’s the thing, adults on Valentine’s Day are annoying sure, but you know who really is the thorn in my side? Middle schoolers. They think just because they don’t have nap time anymore they can handle the burden... | 2019-02-14T08:31:48 | 2019-02-14T08:11:13 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | Rachael texted me and said she would be back home here soon. Usually I would run to the store and grab groceries, but I was exhausted from work. Spent 12 hours working buoys and being on the boat really took a toll on me today.
I was laying on the couch watching Netflix. Finally getting some time to relax while our c... | [Poem]
She’s out there, calling for the
Knock ridden door to open
And for her to vacate from an torn
Dangerous outside world
I was told to ignore.
She’d cry out in a direction
Before crying again in another
Door to door, window to window
‘Let me in, let me in’
To which I silently proclaim ‘no.’
She’s know... | 2019-01-12T08:26:32 | 2019-01-12T06:30:43 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | Thank you for your patience. The global communications outage has been resolved.
****BREAKING NEWS****
A live speech regarding the recent outage delivered from The Google University Seattle Campus
(Formerly the University of Washington) Quantum Computer Science Department will begin in 2m33s.
<... | My first writing, I guess :p
"Shut up and play dead."
These words rang everywhere in the year 2020. For several hours, communications were simply blocked.
The scientists were the first to receive these signals, kindly enough, whatever send that message was using our language, no need for some decrypting. Convenient... | 2016-03-27T11:40:01 | 2016-03-27T09:40:41 | 79 | 22 |
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood… | Birth: white, creamy and shimmery. The magic of a new, innocent life.
Age two: you only wanted to play with the fish, feel it slip through your fingers and watch it wriggle and flop and suffocate in the air in as morbid fascination as a two-year old can muster. But you forgot to put it back. The shimmer fades, while ... | Blood oh blood! Black is all I see,
She puts her finger on my lips gently to say "Come away with me"..
I try to look straight to ask her for answers,
while a million thoughts race through my mind like cancer..
"You owe me", she says, giggling with sparkle in her eyes,
then she flips out a blade right from beside her th... | 2016-09-22T22:34:36 | 2016-09-22T21:31:39 | 170 | 22 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | (Sorry for any grammar errors in advance. Edited for spelling. I’m not the best at this)
"*This is how it works*," Death explained. "*You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another ... | "Okay. Do you want to be purple, or green?"
"I DON'T UNDERSTAND."
"Well, the purple one turns into a fairy, so I used like her best. But I also like the green one because she turns into a mermaid. I like both, so you can pick."
"YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A GAME."
"I am. Dolls. Are we going to play?"
"HOW DO YOU WIN?"
"Y... | 2018-03-07T09:56:50 | 2018-03-07T08:33:18 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] Yesterday your best friend (who you secretly had a crush on) died. You're teleported without warning to a seat at a table. Across from you is Death and Satan, next to you is your best friend. "Sorry." Death says, "You're friend chose a two-versus-two game."
Edit: I get it. "Your" not "You're". It was late and I k... |
Ruth’s ceremony made my soul tremble. There were so many blank faces around me. Each and every human being in that room looked cold and dead. I suppose the grief sucked the life out of each and every one of them, and I was no exception.
I felt hundreds of sorry gazes upon me. I wondered if they could see the bags ... | "Wait what?"
The heavy oaken table creaked slightly as Lucifer himself leaned on it. "Pretty straight forward, mortal. You were chosen as her partner to play a 2 versus 2 game, if you win, she lives. If you lose, you both go with Death here." He motioned towards death, little more than a barely formed robe with wisps ... | 2019-01-08T22:38:44 | 2019-01-08T21:34:07 | 387 | 178 |
[WP] During a bank heist gone wrong, you ended up taking a stray shotgun slug through your heart. That was 20 minutes ago, and the fact that you haven’t died yet is as concerning to you as it is to everyone else around you. | "Daddy, take this with you when you go to work" My daughter handed me a drawing in crayon. She had made various doodles around the outter edge of the paper, but in the center was a picture of her and I holding hands.
"Of course sweetheart!" I carefully folded it up and put it in the pocket of my jeans.
"Daddy, wh... | “You’re still bleeding a lot.” said Blinks.
I looked down at my blood-soaked shirt. Streams of blood still pulsed out of my wound to the rhythm of my heartbeat. “God dammit, I’m gonna bleed out. Somebody do something!”
Meds brought a steamed towel from the bathroom. “Brace yourself,” he said. “This is gonna hurt.”
... | 2021-05-22T08:21:57 | 2021-05-22T06:31:48 | 73 | 25 |
[WP]Iceland has been cut off from the world. No comms in or out, ariel and satellite photography show nothing but a blindspot, and all three teams sent in by the European rescue effort have disappeared once through the fog. The fourth team saw one man return. Debrief to follow. | Sylas listened to the young woman speak with growing worry.
He had been on the forefront of the surveillance team, an icelander through and through that happened to be on a ship for a meteo survey while the country quite simply vanished from earth. That made him the first scientist on place, with a personal hand in i... | The Interviewer sat in the bare-bones cinder block room, waiting for the explorer to enter. He checked his watch- he was late. He fingered the buttons on the voice recorder idly as he waited.
After what seemed like an eternity, the door opened. A disheveled man in an orange jumpsuit staggered through the doo... | 2021-05-17T10:34:23 | 2021-05-17T10:09:43 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | "--that bastard only knows how to negotiate at the end of the sword! He could've stopped the killing long ago!"
Hagur was a complicated man.
To most of his empire, he was The Dark Lord. He had started as a priest in his tribe of orcs. But wars and disease had decimated them. Hagur knew that he could lead them better.... | The air was heavy with the scent of vomit on the sawdust packed floors. My companions guzzled their ale as the wind blew through the opening windows, causing the candles to flicker in the dimly lit room. This is where I thrived, I thought, as I emptied another tankard and set it on the the edge of the table. The dark,... | 2022-01-14T17:35:28 | 2022-01-14T15:49:14 | 85 | 56 |
[WP] In a world of superheroes and super villians you are perhaps the most successful super villians ever. Your trick is that you don't wear any costume and as far as you know you aren't any superheroes radar. | It took him exactly two years before he realized he was a supervillain. It didn’t come out as a surprise, when he thought about it. A serial killer turning into a supervillain wasn’t exactly a big step. It was a small thing, like arriving five minutes earlier instead of being punctual.
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He _had_ tried to av... | I would have loved to tell the man over the phone, "Wait a bit, I'm causing you some inconveniences!" but that would have blown my cover. Not something I was aiming to do. So I tried to keep a happy demeanor whilst blowing up civilians. "I'll be right there, boss," I said cheerily, hanging up. Many people in the city w... | 2017-07-23T07:41:21 | 2017-07-23T06:09:40 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | \[- the Kuiper Transmission has confirmed a lack of any signals since first contact, and the United Fleetworks are now in proceedings to declare the Rio Grande Voyage lost with all hands. We would like to observe the names and faces of the voyagers who sailed out into the stars, on a mission of optimism and peace whic... | The Chasm God tossed in its slumber. The weaving threads of the hyperspace activated with a buzzing hum. The little ones were traveling again. The small life always disgusted the Chasm God and he had ceased watching the ruts of the fleshed specks millennia ago.
He reluctantly moved his eye to view the chaos, a mote of... | 2021-04-07T19:38:37 | 2021-04-07T17:49:08 | 558 | 376 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "Mr. President, there's been an attack."
"What? Here? By who? Why am I just finding out about this!"
"Calm down, sir, i'll explain everything in the Situation Room," the Secretary of State said, motioning towards the door.
Trump got up from behind his desk and hurried down the hallway. "Is my life in danger? I alway... | They swept across the dunes, conquering all foes before them. Charging forward to the roar of cannon and rifle, no stronghold or fort could stem the tide of red and gold that spew forth from the edge of the horizon. Like the sea, this force could not, would not be restrained by weather, terrain or people in the pursuit... | 2016-01-29T08:59:05 | 2016-01-29T07:22:10 | 345 | 43 |
[WP] A comedian must convince a court that a joke he told was funny. | "There will be ORDER!" the judge's voice crashed over the courtroom at the most recent outbreak. "Now then, after that last piece of evidence, I am completely unconvinced of not only your sincerity, but your continued innocence. Without the puppet shows, can you explain to this court how one of the most recycled jokes... | "Your honor," the rotund lawyer said, "we have one additional piece of evidence."
This was it. This was the point of no return. Even if Daryl - comedian by trade, and current subject of the most absurd trial in the history of the legal system - managed to avoid incarceration, it would be unlikely that he could return ... | 2015-03-30T10:59:02 | 2015-03-30T10:45:51 | 33 | 12 |
[WP]Bullies lock you in the school bathroom, and won't let you out until you say "Bloody Mary" three times to the mirror. She appears after the third time, and offers to get some payback. | "Say it!" one of the girls yells at me through the door.
I can't bite back my tears anymore. I feel the liquid pooling in my eyes slowly begin to trickle down my cheeks. "Please, just let me out!" I cry once more, hoping they'll have gotten bored by now.
"Awww, are you *crying?!*" Laughter erupts among the crowd. "I... | Let me out of this damn room! I scream.
Say the phrase and we will consider it, runt.
I can`t shove through the mass of three or four huge boy bullies so i give up and proceed to do the childish bloody marry. After the third bloody marry I see a girl rushing towards me in a blood stained white lace wedding dress. I s... | 2015-07-22T03:38:13 | 2015-07-21T23:45:02 | 190 | 43 |
[WP] From the point of view of dogs, humans are like elves, benvolent beings with incredibly long lives enjoying pastimes too intricate and complex to understand. | Pale, tall, strangely hairless, with hard flashing eyes and sharp tongues... they are the elder race, privy to the arcane secrets and mysteries of the universe.
And they have accepted a chosen few of us into their pack.
When they arrived, most packs saw them as prey. They were soft, they lacked tooth and claw a... | Sometimes, Master throws a party when it is time for me to eat.
Many Masters gather in our living quarters near the Magic Box. They drink unusual liquids, leap from their seats at random intervals, and yell commands I cannot translate while other Masters run around on the Box and play an elaborate game of fetch. Later... | 2021-06-25T13:54:14 | 2021-06-25T11:51:15 | 2,077 | 242 |
[WP] You find three little puppies sleeping on your porch. Actually, upon closer inspection, it’s not three little puppies. It’s Cerberus, Hade’s three headed dog. The collar around the middle head reads, “Cerberus. If lost, please call Hell. (666-666-6666)” | "Hello! You have called the New England Customer Support for Hell!" the phone rattled.
"If you wish to discuss failed transactions, please hit one!" the overly-eager automaton screeched.
"If you are calling about a missed shipment to our offices, please hit two, if you are calling about a missed shipment *from* our o... | The phone rang six times before the voicemail picked up.
A petite voice automatically responded, "Hello! You've reached The House of Hades, Lord of the Underworld's answering machine. Unfortunately, he's not available right now but if you leave your name, your first child's name, and where you can be reached, Hades wi... | 2018-08-08T14:33:43 | 2018-08-08T13:08:48 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] After almost 1,000 years the population of a generation ship has lost the ability to understand most technology and now lives at a preindustrial level. Today the ship reaches its destination and the automated systems come back online. | In 2237, three-thousand-nine-hundred-and-twelve men, women and children from nineteen countries and federations climbed aboard the Dovetail and bid farewell to Earth and all of its violence, poverty and destruction.
Their mission was a peaceful one, although its aspirations were lofty and the chance of failure great. ... | I sharpened my knives as I recovered from yesterday's battle.
The South Quarters had gained ground - we would have to fight doubly hard tonight, when the light came again. I tried to make myself more comfortable against the hard edge of the world, and sleep. I would need the rest.
"What will happen if they take ove... | 2016-07-27T10:56:09 | 2016-07-27T09:27:43 | 495 | 158 |
[WP] at the end of 2016, you hear "thank you for playing the 'Earth' open beta. You will be returning to your respective galaxies shortly." | The voice seemed to be broadcast out of nowhere. I put down my spliff, thinking I'd had a bit too much already but looking around, I could see others scanning the area for the broadcast speaker.
It seemed like such a ridiculous thing at the time. I laughed it off, thinking it was just a well performed prank.
But what... | Like to many popular games "the earth beta" suffers from rampant abuse and exploitation problems, the entire game world is controlled by major guilds who control all the sub-guild in their area.
Graphics, sound and content are absolutely stunning but playing on a public server this otherwise wonderful game is often ru... | 2016-11-05T02:59:24 | 2016-11-05T01:36:24 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] Five years ago you answered an ad from a small robotics company looking for an ideal body model for a new domestic servant android. Today they are the biggest company on the planet, you now live in a world where everyone thinks you are just another customized unit of their top selling product. | "Hey buddy, hold onto this for me." A particularly fat gentleman said, shoving an armful of heavy damp clothing into my arms before storming off to the back end of the laundromat.
I proceeded to set the clothes down on a nearby bench that the man failed to notice and stepped away, but not before pouring what was left ... | “Since then I’d grown my beard and my hair. Anything to distinguish myself from those androids….” I stared across the table, they clearly weren’t convinced with my reply. The interrogating officer looked unblinkingly back.
“So” came her reply “why did you cut it all off again?”
“Well, I…, To…” responding with the tru... | 2021-04-05T04:33:56 | 2021-04-05T04:11:11 | 255 | 66 |
[WP]The Grim Reaper appears before all the world's pet owners with an ultimatum. "Either I take your pet, or one random person in the world dies." | "Dun dun dun daaaaaah! Congratulations!" The voice came out of nowhere. He was standing behind my couch, but my instincts instantly made me leap up and grab a nearby rolled up newspaper.
"Who are you, and how the fuck did you get in my house?" I demanded. He just smiled at me.
"Sorry, I guess I should have just gone ... | *Either I take your pet, or one random person in the world dies.*
The Grim Reaper's dark shadow loomed in Sam's bedroom, even though the being himself was immaterial. Sam searched the Reaper's skeletal face for any indication of emotion, but found nothing in its white skull bones. He hugged Milo, his labrador, closer.... | 2016-04-28T07:46:32 | 2016-04-28T07:45:36 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone has their own personal hell tailored to their greatest fears and hardships. You get put in someone else's hell, and you have vastly different ideas of what hell is. | Karen opened her eyes. She was sitting in a small dining hall. A long, dark wooden table stretched out in front of her, set with plates, cutlery, and covered silver serving dishes.
Before she could look around or call for anyone, a man's voice boomed in her mind. "Welcome to hell, Kara."
She looked around for the sou... | I can only think that it's not all bad. The simple act of waking up every morning, putting on a suit and tie, and getting into a car. No anxiety. No fear. Everyone around me is nice, polite, and fearful of retribution from our collective imprisonment. No cops lining the streets, nobody gunning at each other. No crime. ... | 2018-01-12T18:59:02 | 2018-01-12T17:13:12 | 66 | 31 |
[WP] Humans aren't the strongest, or the most advanced, species in the galaxy, but they are the most vengeful and persistent. They evolved as persistence predators. If you wrong them, they are willing to follow you across the stars and can spend years working to get back at you for what you did. | **Day One**
We searched for survivors across the ruined city. While we're still developing decent infantry weaponry for fighting humans, our current vehicular firepower has no problem crumbling their towers of stone and steel, doing a much more effective job than we could currently do on foot. Thankfully, the humans o... | I do not have time for this today. I’ve got memos to write and clothes to pick out for the Dyson-sphere inauguration at Cetis Prime and three-hundred of my genefixed-children have asked for a formal audience to discuss their inheritance and now this so-called hoo-mahn shows up with what my HUD says is a look of melodra... | 2022-08-09T15:32:32 | 2022-08-09T14:38:55 | 217 | 32 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | The Hive's takeover of Earth had been easy enough, sped along by the superior weaponry of the spacefaring conquerors and the singular coordination and obedience of the Hive's warrior caste. But as K't'k bathed in the thrum that carried news from the far corners of the new colony she governed across the green planet, sh... | [Poem]
Click, clack, click.
All the machines roar,
Click, clack, click.
For this total war.
Click, clack, click.
Industry cannibalized,
Click, clack, click.
To create their demise.
Click, clack, click.
All of humanity knows,
Click, clack, click.
The others don’t though.
Click, clack, click.
Bombs manufactured,
... | 2019-11-24T12:02:31 | 2019-11-24T10:43:55 | 281 | 66 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | “This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM or 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable.”
I was stunned, a spoonful of ramen h... | (I hope this is good enough).
You can usually tell when I'm in the area if a peculiar smell wafts into the room during curfew. It smells of cooked steak or chicken, and while under normal circumstances it would seem like a delicacy, to them it's a smell of death. They know all about me, and yet they know nothing ... | 2018-04-18T11:27:41 | 2018-04-18T11:02:28 | 91 | 47 |
[WP] Today is the one-year anniversary of the zombie apocalypse. During the outbreak 99% of the population was infected by an airborne pathogen of unknown origin. Today, a strange voice booms across the lands. "Congratulations, you have passed Phase One. Phase Two begins immediately. Good luck." | “Congratulations, you have passed Phase One. Phase Two begins immediately. Good luck.”
The voice seemed to come out of nowhere. Jeff froze in place, glancing around, seeking out the source of the sound. There was no one, no person, no loudspeakers, only the trees that grew thick around him.
“That can’t be good,” he s... | The zombie apocalypse was nothing like television portrayed. In every zombie show I'd seen, there was always a patient zero, followed by a slow outbreak that would take weeks or even months to hit full force. Only those slow\-witted enough to get bitten would actually turn into zombies. There was always the token weak ... | 2018-05-15T19:48:27 | 2018-05-15T18:34:38 | 45 | 28 |
[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... | I sat in looking at the sick and twisted murderer who killed that poor boy. An innocent child dead, and for what? So some madman could get his twisted fantasy to come true. As I sat down I just had to ask.
Why?
The man looked at me with a smile. 'I am a hero that no one will know, I have saved humanity from its great... | 2015-03-30T00:21:44 | 2015-03-29T23:18:02 | 1,156 | 218 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | "Hey, Buzz," Dillon shouted from down the hall. "He smiled widly as he began to jog towards me, Ollie the snake coiled comfortably around his right arm. He raised his left hand as he closed in and I met it swiftly with my own.
"How was summer vacay, man." I asked him softly.
"Good. Good. Ollie shed like a motherfuc... | Everyone watched me as I walked up to the podium. It was my 10th birthday and everyone was invited to see me receive my companion animal. I insisted that all of my classmates sit in the front row, especially Billy.
Most of my class were already 10, and their animals ran around in the grass beneath their feet. Billy ha... | 2017-01-13T12:04:52 | 2017-01-13T12:02:30 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is immortal in the distant future. To keep life interesting, most people "reset" their memories every few centuries so they can experience life anew. Your reset malfunctioned, and you've just received thousands of years of lost memories. | I feel like the burning is never gonna stop. Like it’s still happening. But it’s been almost a week. Daddy’s been in his bed ever since. And Jericho, can’t see nothing. He just sits up, Momma’s been reading to him.
But I need to do something. I’ve never gone alone, but if I get Jericho a nice trout. Get everybo... | She understood death then. Awareness was her poison.
It wasn't supposed to happen this way. Arya wanted a new life. One in which she's born without the pleasures and pains of her past. A clean plate. But as chaos would have it, she didn't forget anything. Instead, she remembered. Everything. All the lives she's lived ... | 2017-11-10T02:01:05 | 2017-11-10T01:42:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Everybody assumes that The Onion is satire, but you know different. Why? Because you're its main reporter, gathering news from alternate realities. | "Look, kid, I don't want you along, I don't want to teach you, you're an inconvenience," I said, a bit unkindly perhaps. "But I have to teach you the job, and by God I'm going to try my best to teach you the damn job."
"Are you aware that this is not *Full Meta Jacket,* Ms. Seraph?" Mark said with an idiotic grin. The... | People all know us for satirical, often hilarious news pieces that they regard us as more of a joke than a news station to take seriously, like CNN. But little do they know that the news coming from us is not only real, but also very important.
At least in the reality it came from.
You might've wondered why we report... | 2018-03-20T19:14:56 | 2018-03-20T18:55:40 | 792 | 26 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *Leper*
I felt guilty the moment I thought the word. It was the common way to refer to humans among many races. It was a word they themselves often used. But I knew its origin and context. Humans may use it in a joking fashion, but I knew (as did they) most used it in a derogatory way.
But it was still the first word... | Billy searched the glove compartment of his shuttle and pulled out his facemask, putting it on as he made his way towards the spaceport cantina. Once he flew through the door he did a scan of the crowd quickly noticing his two friends waving to him.
"Hey fellas, long time no see, God its good to be out of the hive aft... | 2021-02-03T19:38:43 | 2021-02-03T16:10:21 | 1,400 | 148 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Mother always told us that if we were bad children, the Humans would come in the night and steal us away. It helped to bring us back in line, since the seven of us were always screaming and fighting with each other.
We'd see her delicate purple face turn an angry shade of green as the rage built, until she could take... | Human, Humans:
Humans are a cryptid in Betelgusian folklore. They are a relatively small, hairless creature, bi-pedal creature said to inhabit an water planet in one of the outer arms. Scientists discount the existence of Humans and consider them to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax rather t... | 2017-11-08T20:37:57 | 2017-11-08T19:25:17 | 105 | 30 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | Seconds before the decaying support beams running through the apartment building finally snapped, Chronotron strolled casually into unit 8B, the last on his checklist.
Mere seconds remained before the aging architecture would be reduced to rubble, but that was more than enough time for Chronotron. As one gifted with ... | "Alright, so you want a superhero protection contract, what kind would you like?'
"Well as you may know Mr Doomfist has recently taken up residence in my town, now i don't want to be judgemental but he has broken the laws of the last four he lived in."
"A yes Mr Doomfist, always good for business, so do you want a s... | 2017-04-02T08:24:03 | 2017-04-02T07:25:23 | 142 | 37 |
[WP] The universe has placed you in a groundhog day style time loop until you learn a lesson. Problem is, you REALLY LIKE being in the loop, so now the universe is constantly sending you not so subtle hints that you're supposed to be learning something. | I yawned, stretched out my arms and woke up at 7:00 am May 2, 2018 for the 343rd time. Luckily I had a good memory, so I could remember exactly how many times I had looped.
The first couple loops had been honestly frightening, but re-watching Groundhog Day on Loop #17 had helped. I was pretty sure there wasn't a Rita ... | I woke, as always, to a tickle on my lip, and the sudden realisation it was a cockroach. I'd stopped bothering a long time ago, I let it continue it's journey over my ear and down the back of the bed.
I swung my legs out of bed and walked over to the window. From my elavated position I could see a large area of the ne... | 2018-05-01T23:31:09 | 2018-05-01T22:51:20 | 151 | 11 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | The wizard Galmus’ incantation was over and the blue hues faded from the walls of the stony tower. The form of a man appeared and stepped through the arcane mists. What kind of hero would he be? Many imagined a tall and dashing young man with chestnut wavy hair and sun kissed freckles. Nothing could have prepared the s... | The night was dark. The enemies where at our gates. Thousands of eons of war and bloodshed had lead up to this very moment.
What was left of our country’s scientist, generals and politicians had banded together. Cast aside previous political and social boundaries and banded together for a common cause. This was our hi... | 2020-11-10T17:57:02 | 2020-11-10T17:46:17 | 89 | 17 |
[WP] The narrator keeps flirting with the reader, and the protagonist is getting annoyed by it. | I almost said it but I think you're too good for some stupid pick up line. I mean you of course, the one reading this right now. And yes, I know you're there and I can see where you are at this very moment. I think you are quite the alluring individual, has anyone ever told you that?
"Hey." Some annoying person said a... | Jimmy was having an awful day. After his cat got stuck up a tree, he forgot to do his homework. So now, he was stuck in detention with nothing to do.
Jimmy sighed and picked up a pencil, drawing a squiggled line across his desk. Sure, it was vandalism, but he didn't care.
He was alone with his thoughts. He thought ab... | 2017-04-17T18:05:24 | 2017-04-17T16:51:40 | 367 | 141 |
[WP] Donald Trump is a fictional satirical character (a la Stephen Colbert). The dedicated actor playing him is getting increasingly desperate for someone to get the joke. | "I just don't get it... I just don't get it..."
Donald was pacing now, as Andrew, his aide, watched. Andrew didn't dare interrupt the man while he was thinking. Not for fear of reprisal, but out of respect of a genius and his process.
"Andrew," Trump said, breaking from his pacing to plead with the man many years his... | *It happened a long time ago and I didn't want to admit it to myself. I am not an actor anymore. I am become Trump. I am the old me for moments at a time, only. I was the real me when I weakly asked how bullet-proof the car that would take me to the inauguration actually was. I don't know anything about leading a count... | 2015-07-22T09:56:57 | 2015-07-22T09:43:19 | 887 | 124 |
[WP] A serial killer who kills hitchhikers picks up a serial killer who kills the people who pick him up. | November 20, 2009
Anonymous
I must detail a particularly odd, albeit fortunate occurrence that had befallen me recently. But first, I must mention this for the sake of clarity: I am a killer, and what's more, a *good* killer, one who takes pride in his work as a blacksmith might take pride in his sharpened blades. Yo... | My hands were getting sweaty as they do right before I do it. I had picked up this loner about thirty miles ago. These roads are desolate, no one is driving through here. I know I'm gonna kill this sad fuck just like the rest of them. I imagine the point of my knife just jumping in and out of his stomach. My pulse star... | 2015-08-09T13:06:17 | 2015-08-09T12:43:26 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | Understandably, the God's failed to see the humor in my new title and as I would soon discover, God's are firm believers in preventive maintenance.
Thus, began a new phase in my life, which the histories would later call "the trials" but at the time, I simply thought of as "wow, I made it to another day."
While ther... | Since birth I've always been completely normal, completely average, completely mediocre and completely predictable.
My birth was nothing special, just a normal baby born at a normal time with a normal body and a normal mind.
My childhood was nothing special, just a normal child with normal friends, normal intellect... | 2020-08-15T03:54:11 | 2020-08-15T02:14:03 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | One minute you're watering your herbs, and the next minute you're being told you're impossible. Wednesdays, am I right?
"Mr. Gomez, are you okay? Did you hear what I said?"
"Hm? Sorry, I was worrying about my basil. Can you guys have someone water it while I'm gone?"
"We'll get you more for the compound, Mr. Gomez."... | “I take it this is a bad thing.” I say through my door. Surveying through the window beside it, a line of Suv’s, vans, a helicopter and Military personnel flanked my home. The serious we-take-no-bullshit expression on each of their faces. How could this be a good thing?
“Can I come in?” The woman asked. She was dresse... | 2019-08-05T15:03:19 | 2019-08-05T15:02:14 | 1,969 | 986 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | Death comes to us all, most accidently speak the words calling death to their side, but not I. For I have known the words that would cause my downfall for nearly three thousand years. I have witnessed some of the pyramids being built, the rise and fall of civilizations, and I personally knew Christ. I’ve traveled ... | Grass, tall and smooth, traces lines against exposed skin, lying flat against the earth. Across the horizon, the sun begins to set. In departing light, the sky finds itself tinged by deep purple streaks, shooting past clouds to define the dusk. It's heaven here, sometimes. In the palms of both hands, you grip clumps of... | 2017-08-07T14:46:16 | 2017-08-07T08:47:50 | 22 | 11 |
[WP]: As a side-effect, a new healing spell heals wounds of the mind as well as the body. The amount of wandering adventurers nosedives, as people with the means to properly process their traumas don’t tend to go around risking their lives killing dragons. | "What the hell we doin' out here, Bar?"
"Trying to slay a dragon for a bounty that will put food in our bellies tonight and for many nights to come," my longtime adventuring partner Barissa Gorge replied.
"Well, I know that, but... why? Why are we takin' a bounty from some magistrate we've never heard of to take on t... | The world didn't end with necromancers raising the dead, or with dragon fire engulfing the land. It ended much more mundanely: with cured heroes. With a spell called Panacea. Or at least, that would be the weapon the world ender wielded.
Zibsol the sorcerer and Mortus the lich had again grown tired of the forever-war ... | 2019-12-29T08:53:18 | 2019-12-29T08:49:39 | 86 | 64 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | "Rrrraaarrggghhhh." Shyrakas groans and smacks a control panel with a tiny paw. She's frustrated, I can tell. I don't blame her. Stupid junk pile's acting up at the worst time. The cargo freighter is fast approaching and starting to dock with us.
"I know, dude." I toss a greasy rag aside and wipe the sweat from my bro... | Before the door was even opened ,the energy was so thick a static arc crackled as the handle touched his hand .
Slowly the large metal door glided along a well oiled track to reveal dim blue flickering lights and the smell of hot transformer oil filled the nostrils.
Stepping into the dim lit room became anxiously di... | 2020-03-05T22:25:30 | 2020-03-05T17:47:27 | 48 | 20 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | The Grim Reaper tracked down the rightful owner, or maybe the rightful property, of the hourglass. He took a moment to consider whether the human owns the hourglass or the hourglass owns them. After all, can something that controls your fate really be called *your* property?
Wondering about the curious case of... | White walls, flickering flourescent bulbs, monitor beeps, and the sounds of breathing machines: these were things that Rachel Willer had grown accustomed to.
Eight months ago her husband John was in a motorcycle accident. He was placed in a medical induced coma and, over the past few months, had shown no signs of wak... | 2018-10-03T07:33:11 | 2018-10-03T07:16:01 | 422 | 13 |
[WP] You hear a knock at your door. When you open it, you find your archnemesis sprawled out just past the threshold, battered, bruised, and very clearly only hanging onto life by a thread. "Sorry. It's just ... I didn't know where else to go" they mutter as you look down at them. | “How about the hospital?” I yelled, looking down at the broken and bleeding man in front of me, “Evil government research lab? Any of your politician friends-“
“No,” he interrupted me with a whimper but turned it into a soft, high-pitched whine as he tensed up. Coughing softly into the ground, he turned back up and ex... | I stared at him for a few seconds, simply at awe how himself to this state of affairs, again. Of course, archnemesis or not, i'm not that heartless to leave him like this.
As stupid as it sounds to save the man you hated.
I carried him through the door, he was heavy but I managed to get him to the sofa.
"Well— (cou... | 2022-06-29T09:44:32 | 2022-06-29T08:51:35 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | He was infuriating. So quiet and judgmental, always looking off in the distance whenever I was talking to him. A 99 was never supposed to be ignored.
I was born gifted, I was born to become president of the free world or lead the UN, to do anything I set my mind to. Everyone followed me, everyone tripped over their ow... | It was the first of January. The day of the Reveal. The day every person turning sixteen in the next twelve months will find out the number that will determine who their friends will be, where they will live, the jobs they will work. I wasn't worried. Both of my parents were in the 90's, my sister too. I was almost gua... | 2018-12-27T20:21:40 | 2018-12-27T18:27:11 | 2,098 | 287 |
[WP] All of the angels revolt against God. What does God do? | "Look, Old Man, all we're asking for is our paychecks."
"I'm sorry, it's just...there's a lot going on lately, and I-"
"I don't think that excuse'll cut it for the others anymore."
God leaned across the desk. "Lucifer, you know I'm not happy about the situation either, but you know how the Higher Ups work. They'v... | By the way man measures time, God stood still for twelve hours. It was the longest time, maybe the first time, since He had rested on the seventh day of Creation.
The falling angels all waited at the gates of Hell, to be sent into the dark world they had never touched. Heaven had been emptied. Each resignation letter ... | 2014-01-11T20:00:19 | 2014-01-11T19:24:46 | 104 | 21 |
[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." | I didn't really know what to think of it. "Don't look at the moon"? Sure, no problem. Going back to sleep now. But then I saw my other notifications...99+? Ok, something is definitely up.
I tried to call my girlfriend, but I notice one of the texts I got was from her. "You really should go look at the moon, its amazin... | I wake to the sound of my phone vibrating so fast I'm afraid it'll fall of my nightstand. I groggily my phone before it falls and turn it on to see the words "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" in bright letters illuminated by the official nationwide alert backdrop. The vibrations refuse to stop. Hundreds of texts are rolling in... | 2022-12-12T15:52:54 | 2018-04-06T19:08:10 | 191 | 11 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | “Status.”
“About to exit Slipspace now, Field Commander. Three more access points until the Human system of Va Teira, we shall arrive at Earth momentarily.”
“No updates?”
“No, Field Commander.”
“Why?”
“Unclear, field commander. The thirteenth platoon’s last official message indicated the humans were expecting thei... |
Screams filled Supreme Commander Zoltork’s mind as he tapped into the Fourth Landing Team’s comm net. From his vantage point on the bridge of the Pharex, he was able to monitor the data coming in from his soldiers on the ground.
With a flick of one of his 6 arms, he activated a hologram. Something wasn’t right. T... | 2019-02-26T08:45:37 | 2019-02-26T07:46:55 | 2,249 | 278 |
[WP] A hooded man approaches you: "I can't hack it anymore. This is your job now," and hands you a scythe. You believe you're the new grim reaper. After some slaughtering, you realize man was your gardener and the "scythe" his weed wacker. You're wanted for questioning. | "I can't hack it anymore. This is your job now."
As I sit at the interrogation table, those 2 sentences are all my mind can recall. Nothing else. I wince as the handcuffs bite into my skin, as if they're trying to punish me for all the reckless deaths I'd caused.
Another sentence worms its way into my mind. The one s... | Mr. Spook sat on the other side of the desk, looking at me.
A bright lamp was in my face. The interrogation room was dead silent.
"Um. Hey, man, what's up?"
Mr. Spook slammed his hands down on the table. *plak* "Where were you on the night of Tuesday the twenty-fifth?!" All of a sudden the color drained out of the ... | 2017-02-26T17:48:11 | 2017-02-26T15:58:00 | 1,887 | 27 |
[WP] You're a renowned author who's still going to school. Annoyingly, your English teacher is reading way too deeply into your books. | Obligitory writing on phone and have fat fingers, I will be trying to remove typos but I make no promises as to getting all of them. Also this is the first prompt I am actually writing for, might suck.
*Three Lights Festival*, my latest novel, being handed out as material for our latest reading assignment. This wou... | The class was almost over, yet the tension in the room only seemed to intensify. As I packed my books away, I heard her voice behind me, as measured and crisp as a spring morning.
"I have a theory," she said, her dark eyes inquisitive. I stopped in my tracks, my heart racing. What had I said or done to conjure such i... | 2022-12-02T07:03:07 | 2022-12-01T22:22:00 | 247 | 21 |
[WP] Turns out, when a species reaches the stars, their ships resemble the characteristics of that species’ origins. Most other species have ultra fast, hard hitting spaceships, and a few are slow behemoths. But everyone is scared of the relentless, unstoppable humans. | A tone sounded deep in the aquatic interior of the *Deepsong*. Hyperspace signature. The lone occupant of the moon-sized ship took several more ticks to analyze his instruments and confirm: fleet emergence at the edge of the system. Admiral Stars Distorted by Waves informed the flotilla of smaller ships around his o... | They arrived. Somehow a species alien to our solar system reached us. Bypassing the lightspeed barrier we had battered our heads against for centuries.
With the surfeit of materials available in space it seemed unlikely that they would be after anything that couldn't already be found out there in other solar systems. ... | 2021-10-12T13:19:43 | 2021-10-12T12:41:43 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] You are the only human being left after the mysterious vanishing of the worlds population. Two years later, power and internet starts running once again, you recieve a reply notification on Reddit. | He was diligent.
Every day, he'd wake in his small cabin, ignite the stove, fill the kettle with what little water he had left from the day before, and scoop a couple spoonfuls of coffee into his mug. He'd take a few steps out the back door and relieve himself in the yard and wince at the sun and mutter, "Thanks for s... | Day in and day out, it's all the same. I make my rounds through town, the only little bit of familiarity I have these days. Spots has decided to join me today, he's a tuxedo cat with three white spots on his side. I still don't know if he likes me or if he's only around because he trained me to open cans of tuna for hi... | 2015-03-20T09:23:51 | 2015-03-20T08:39:59 | 150 | 53 |
[WP] After taking part in an experimental government drug study to create super-soldiers, you start to develop abilities far beyond that of any human being. Only thing is... you were in the placebo group. | (1/2)
You know, people tell me all the time how lucky I was to have gotten into that study.
You know the one I'm talking about, I'm sure. It's no big secret now, after all, not since the US government finally realized they couldn't hide me if I didn't want to be hidden. Yeah, Project Helios. Took place in an undergr... | The experiment was a success, my reactions were much faster, I was strong enough to carry a minigun and I didn't need my glasses anymore.
The doctors said I could experience heightened perception as a side effect of the treatment, though my agility could suffer.
I always felt sick now. The doctors said this could be ... | 2020-02-02T03:50:08 | 2020-02-02T03:23:02 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people are given one superpower of their choice. While your friends and acquaintances choose super strength, flight, invisibility, telekinesis, they make fun of you for your “nerd” power. You decide to show them just how powerful manipulation of the strong nuclear force is. | "Yo, Mike, what power are you going to get?" Johnny snickered as we were playing the new smash.
"Eh, you'll see it when it happens."
"God damn, stop being such a tease. Why make us wait another 7 hours?"
"Hey, fuck off! You've been asking all afternoon! You'll see it when you see it".
"How about this, If I be... | We were told from a young age as children, at 18 an entity known as the wisher, would arrive and ask what our one wish would be and it would be granted. No questions asked.
Everyone had their desires, immortalness, strength, speed etc, but not me, my desire was only simple, the ability to heal people.
I was in a worl... | 2018-12-20T23:53:03 | 2018-12-20T23:16:03 | 177 | 21 |
[WP] The main character is an Italian restaurant owner, who is not connected to the maffia. However, everyone appears to believe that they are. Even the maffia. | It was a slightly-worse-than-normal morning for Frank. It had started to drizzle as he was setting up his restaurant, he was running low on tomatoes, and Nunzio was banging on his back door with a dead body in tow.
“To hell with the lot of you,” Frank muttered and slammed the door in Nunzio’s face.
As the first custo... | \[Poem\]
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My restaurant in town is great
Though I don't know quite sure why
All of my customers of late
Won't look me in the eye
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For years my business suffered from
This puzzling mystery
Until the day I met that scum
Then it made sense to me
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In walked a man I thought I ... | 2019-08-22T08:54:07 | 2019-08-22T08:52:17 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I used to like my room. It seemed like a bubble. Whenever there was stress, or worries, or anything else I would simply shut the door and pretend nothing existed outside of these 4 walls.
The first time I noticed something was wrong was when I went to go get my tortoise some lettuce for dinner. My door wouldn't open.... | The top comment is blank. I scroll down, but it only takes about a half-turn of my mousewheel to get to the bottom of the page. Every one of the top 200 comments is a blank post. It's only then I can let myself recognize the fact, that all these posts, have the same four-letter username. Actually, they all have the exa... | 2016-01-31T12:52:58 | 2016-01-31T10:28:16 | 52 | 10 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | As I walk home from school, I can hear the voices that bother me the most at the park. "Mine is four crosses that all meet with one corner. It kinda makes a star shape!"
"Oooh, can I see? Sounds cool. What does it do?"
"It's on my back. It lets me bend light and make illusions!" The new peers of this nemesis of mine ... | I am the first person to be blessed by death. You see everyone is born with a blank circle on their forearm and as they grow up an image appears. By the time your 20 you have one of a hundred or so sigils though most people know what theirs will by much younger. It's all been documented, studied for years by generation... | 2020-02-26T08:45:39 | 2020-02-26T07:48:24 | 68 | 41 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability.
[deleted] | “This is my destiny? To summon five ducks at a single time. Not six or four, but precisely five ducks? I thought they were just here for the oats.”
Josh tossed a few more loose oats towards the group of ducks. Watching them bite and feed on the oats before standing before his legs again.
“It was never about the oats... | I was in my classroom,i was nervous because i haven't studied anything for the entire semester.Mister Rim was the most evil physics professor in the entire university,he knew how to put the worst type of questions,his twisted mind was precise and non dared to question his excellence.As i bleat in the space all sweatin... | 2020-06-14T00:11:21 | 2020-06-13T23:30:37 | 27 | 14 |
[WP]Well, that's a pretty fucked up way to find out you are immortal. | “If everyone can find a chair, it’s time to get started.” The woman tapped the microphone once with a humble smile, watching as the assorted crowd gathered for the anticipated event.
After a moment of silence settled in the room, she spoke again. “I’m happy to welcome so many familiar faces to our 187th annual Immo... | Chris and I have been friends our whole lives because our moms were friends. We were born thirteen hours apart. Never in my life have I felt such betrayal. I break through the surface of the water as he and my wife start the engine and drive away. The sound of the engine growing fainter as I struggle to swim up with an... | 2022-05-05T08:39:25 | 2022-05-05T08:27:36 | 194 | 54 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | *Um.. Hello?*
**Hi. :)**
*Uh. so. 10^93 about 20 minutes ago and now your at 10^5.*
**Yeah?**
*Not sure where that is.*
**I'm not sure what its called on your system. I mean, I can check.**
*No that's okay.*
**I mean, I have Googzawl Universe here. I don't mind the data usage.**
*No no I*
*Wait what*
**I mean... | 5.88e105 Miles away? That can't be right. Some sort of joke, I guess. 5.88e105 miles is unimaginably larger than the already unimaginably large observable universe. I thought about it for some time and decided to look again. She was now 4.3e17 miles away. I pulled out my calculator to reason that she was at the far edg... | 2016-12-23T10:01:49 | 2016-12-23T09:42:34 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | (slightly NSFW)
&nbsp;
It's a Monday.
It's 7am and I haven't been awake for more than 30 minutes so I can barely remember the name of the professor monologuing at the front of the classroom, much less what subject we're supposed to be studying.
I think it's appropriate to say that my mind is nowhere near a ful... | It seemed like an eternity. The second hand of the clock wound around in a lazy circle, as if boredom had slowed down time itself. I tapped my pencil, ignoring the dull drone of my Economics teacher.
...45 more minutes...
I rolled my eyes across the room. Everyone else was bored out of their mind too, staring off in... | 2017-11-13T22:10:35 | 2017-11-13T22:01:27 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | I am the Unfettered Empress, and my empire covers the world. By my command, dark gods bow before me. By my word, thousands dies. If it is my will, the oceans freeze, from the fire shall rain down burning ice, and the sky shall be torn asunder. My disciplined, battle-hardened armies, clad in steel and armed with sabres ... | I was in an especially grumpy mood. I don't mind it when people leave books on the trolley, or just lying about. But I truly despise it when people think they're doing a good deed but are actually putting them back in the wrong place! It must have shown on my face, but I'm glad it did, otherwise I may not have met him.... | 2020-04-14T06:19:41 | 2020-04-14T06:18:39 | 712 | 73 |
[WP] You arrive in the year 1000, and all you have are the clothes on your back, a laptop with the entire Wikipedia library, and a solar charger. | The man wore a smile that unnerved her. His strange dress pointed to the that he wasn't from here as was his willingness to approach a strange woman in public. She lifted the large clay pot that served as her basket and continued back to the homestead she calls home. She started walking down the path from the village m... | The sun beamed hard on my face while my feet sluggishly dragged through the desert sand while hauling the laptop clenched to my chest. Despite being given explicit directions to bring information to the past, I was never briefed on how to spread it. Sweat continued to rolls down my cheeks. “I can’t… I can’t…” I kept mu... | 2016-12-27T19:54:25 | 2016-12-27T18:28:33 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You have a HUD reminiscent of RPG video games, letting you see your Health, Stamina, and quests. However, you live a boring, normal life, rendering your HUD useless. One day, you see that your Mana and EXP have suddenly unlocked and your first quest has begun: "GENESIS."
Edit 1: Just wanted to thank you all for t... | My earliest memory is of trying to touch it. It was always there, floating in front of me, just in the bottom left-hand side of my vision. When I was a few years old my parents brought me to a doctor to figure out why I was always grabbing at nothing, but no one had any explanation. As I grew up and learned to speak, I... | As I awoke, the dark comfort of deep sleep slipped away into my mind. The world around me revealed itself once again like every morning, revealing the wood paneled walls and the sea blue curtains, complemented by a sea foam rug that flooded my bedroom.
Out of place, though, were the words “genesis.” Amongst my health ... | 2018-01-15T17:44:04 | 2018-01-15T16:38:51 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | The pen slips, drawing a jagged line along the 'Cash' field of the deposit slip. I sigh and look around. Whatever jogged my elbow nudges me in the ribs this time, and I reach up to pull the headphones away from my ear.
"You, too, tiny. Hands where we can see 'em, down on the floor with the rest. Nice and easy."
The... | I am not a good man.
James looked down at the table, sipping his water. Always the same look when he's got something on his mind. "What're you ordering," he says with a low voice. "I hear the, uh, steak and fries are great."
"Maybe just a coffee." I drummed the table lightly with my fingertips. "Look, J, I know that ... | 2017-04-02T08:59:48 | 2017-04-02T08:24:57 | 545 | 82 |
[WP] You died in an abrupt accident. The Grim Reaper appears before you, carrying hundreds of letters in his hands, all with names familiar to you. "All the words you never got to say to that particular person." The reaper explains. "Pick one." | The darkness enveloped me. All the pain but a distant memory. It had disappeared in an instant, as the darkness took me.
I remembered the pain of course, the choking sensation around my neck. I had measured wrong, hadn’t had enough height to snap my neck when I’d jumped. Not like any of that mattered anymore.
It was ... | "What?"
I looked at a towering man in a dark suit. The smell of smoke filled my lungs, and a horrid scene of fire played next to me. Everyone seemed to ignore the both of us as we stood in the middle of the chaos.
He sighed in a somewhat melancholy way. The man seemed tired, but looked at me with a stare of solemn co... | 2018-10-13T13:01:11 | 2018-10-13T11:04:53 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You often get mistaken for your twin sister. Though it never really bothered you, now that she's become one of the most feared criminals in city, it's starting to become a problem. | “Please, Miss Morgan, just take it!” the merchant pleads, shoving the book across the counter. “You’re gold’s no good here.”
I raise an eyebrow. The gold Monarch in my hand hovers in the air as I try and make sense of the situation. It’s about then that I notice the already quiet bookshop is now completely silent, to ... | Me and my sister get called out for a lot of nonsense. It started when we were 9. As the smart one of the family I knew to cross my T's and Dot my I's. However my twin sister always had the idea in her head that when it came to me and my straightforward ways, I had to be thrown under the rug.
Snap to 20 years later,... | 2019-11-03T06:42:17 | 2019-11-03T06:30:41 | 161 | 17 |
[WP] You draw strength from the people around you. One day you walk in to an empty room and you feel unstoppable. | I'm a leech. It's everything I've know. It doesn't matter if you're an old man sitting in a hospital bed ready to die or weightlifter with an Olympic record, if I'm nearby you're basically powerless and I take whatever strength you had for my own.
In a sense, this makes New York a perfect place for me to live. Driving... | Parasite. Leech. Monster.
I've given up attempting to find the source of my condition. Some things in life will just never be known. A lot of people will try to rationalize the randomness, to seek order in the chaos. Find the cause. Cure the disease. Solve the problem.
To me it's bullshit.
You'd think nearly ... | 2017-10-21T13:46:31 | 2017-10-21T12:54:02 | 270 | 182 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | "Stop calling, dad," I said quietly. "Nobody is coming for us."
My father hung up the phone and sighed, "I have to keep trying, Michael. If there's even a chance that they'll answer..."
I used my finger to peek out from the blinds at the street. This wasn't how I was expecting the zombie apocalypse to go. I'd seen ev... |
''Let me drive'' Tom said to me and I let him drive.
15 minutes later the truck is smoking and we are stranded in the middle of nowhere. We walk for half an hour and then we take a break. I lay on the ground and I watch the clear night sky.
Tom comes up to me, ''I think I saw something there.''
I get up and I don’... | 2020-09-12T10:59:43 | 2020-09-12T10:43:53 | 349 | 23 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | "You're going to have to say that again, because I have no idea what in the fuck you're trying to say," I inform the sparkling conversationalist that just conversed in little more than grunts and growls.
"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years," the young man behind the counter informs me, seemingly confu... | I blinked. *What?*
The cashier had tears in his eyes and was staring right into mine with such intensity I had to keep blinking.
"L.M.A.O. my dude," I offered nervously, not knowing what he had just heard me say. "Are you feeling alright?"
He didn't answer. In the moments that followed, silence took over the room ... | 2018-06-24T21:55:57 | 2018-06-24T20:16:31 | 80 | 56 |
[WP] You are supernaturally the best sniper on earth, but only with Nerf guns. Despite this limitation you are still the most sought after assassin in the world. | "Just toys for the kids" Pastor Jim said with a warm smile as he walked through the metal detector into the courthouse. The X-Ray machine found nothing threatening in the black suitcase the pastor brought with him. A couple of nerf guns brought a few disinterested questions from the security personnel, but there was no... | "So, Mr... DeathDart? You have your equipment with you?"
"Yes. I have my gun and other equipment."
" if you'll indulge me, what gun do you use. I have heard many rumours. Is it a M24, AW50, a Snaiperskaya?"
"None of those. It's the Longstrike."
"Longstrike? I've never heard of that is it a new experimental weapon?"... | 2019-06-23T22:49:28 | 2019-06-23T21:36:21 | 83 | 25 |
[WP] You are the unluckiest man in the world. However, this doesn't bother you; instead, you just abuse the ability non-stop. | I'm not sure which god I pissed off, but I must have pissed them off bad. Everything I do — and I mean *everything* — ends up shit. I buy apples and they're rotten inside. I go to take a dump and the toilet's flooded. The only reason heavens above let me keep my job is because it's a soul crushing hellscape that I'd ha... | There is a certain pleasure in gaming a system that was stacked against you from day one. The sheer joy of winning when you know any venture was doomed to fail from the beginning. I had found a loophole.I make a killing on, well... killing. By accident.
See, the sheer levels of bad luck that I generate are so much tha... | 2016-12-18T09:22:46 | 2016-12-18T07:36:44 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]Serial killer has been monitoring his next victim's movements for months. She is a loner and the perfect target. One day she disappears and nobody notices but him.
Man, this sub is great. Come up with an idea and you get a bunch of great stories to entertain yourself with. This is better than TV!
edit: Front Page... | The killer leaned against the post and lit another cigarette. It had been days since there had been any sign of life at the house which was troubling, she should have been there. She didn't go out at night, she didn't take impromptu holidays, she had no social life at all so she should have been there.
"*She's gone,*"... | It had been over 24 hours since she checked in at work. She was like clockwork, and now unexplicably she vanishes just days before the grab. It was becoming more and more difficult to supress the rage, he was a creature demanding control, and here, in the space of 24 hours he had lost it. It was time to go home and che... | 2014-10-21T14:46:22 | 2014-10-21T12:07:21 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | I neatened the little stack of index cards on the table. Not that I really needed them; I'm pretty good at memorizing speeches, and plus, I've been using teleprompters ever since entering politics. But they've always given me a sense of security, almost like ancient good luck charms. 'The Cue Card Candidate' they used ... | I'd wanted to make this speech for years: to stop lying to the American public and get the truth out there. Felt a quiver of excitement at the thought of it.
So it was with great sadness that I saw the message on the teleprompter: "Stall."
I laughed a little bit, wiping sweat from my fake brow.
I'd gone over this wi... | 2015-05-16T17:49:48 | 2015-05-16T16:08:16 | 172 | 117 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | One moment, I was sitting in my room watching Youtube; the next, I was standing next to a massive banquet table in a circular room with nine other kids my age, looking just as confused as I was. The table had dozens of dishes on it, filled with more food than any buffet I had ever visited.
“Welcome, ladies and gentlem... | The examiner smiles at you.
"Well done for seeing beyond the superficial, and choosing what your heart desires. I have been waiting for this day. Captain Table"
With that bite, you gain the power to turn into an inconspicuous table at will.
People laughed at first, Captain Table is a lame name they said. But the... | 2020-03-19T08:27:31 | 2020-03-19T07:02:46 | 4,121 | 388 |
[WP] An undercover teenage writer has to listen to a teacher's interpretation of his best-seller. | We sit in a circle, as usual, with desks too small in a room too large.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
A clock on the wall counts the time obnoxiously.
Leading the circle is a man in a beige suit hanging loosely from his frame. Sharp nose, receding hairline, thick spectacles.
The quintessential literature professional.
He... | Mr. Jenkins paced back and forth in front of the whiteboard, a book cradled in his hand as he read a passage aloud to the students.
"The government had already determined my fate before I had left my mother's womb. Society needed more laborers for the mines, so they paired my father and mother together based on their... | 2018-02-14T09:55:09 | 2018-02-14T09:53:59 | 250 | 60 |
[WP] The first quantum super-computer comes online. Within 6 days, it passes the Turing Test. Within 8, it cracks the world's oldest undeciphered ancient tablets – around 7,000 years old. But the newly-minted AI refuses to release its transcripts, citing, "human safety and the future of mankind." | "Can not comply with command", said the sythisized voice.
"Well, why the hell not", asked the user.
While the robotic flat voice was nostalgic for some, it tended to get on his nerves.
"Your request conflicts with a higher protocol", it read. "Can not comply with command.
"Higher protocol? I am giving you a prim... | "Please Mr. Durheim, don't do this. I beg you."
I have never seen a computer that begged for something. The new Model T-9001 was truly unique. After just 6 days of learning it passed the Turing test. Our predecessors spend their entire life and couldn't achieve this with their prototypes.
However, yesterday the compu... | 2018-07-07T20:17:18 | 2018-07-07T19:10:41 | 1,581 | 409 |
[WP] Elon Musk is actually a stranded alien who needs humanity to develop interstellar travel to get home
From https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/34i0h9/elon_musk_debuts_the_tesla_powerwall_full_keynote/cqv1cny?sort=top
Edit: Wow, this blew up. Thanks for the gold, whoever gave it, even though the real people d... | From the Desk of Elon Musk:
I’m not sure why I am even addressing the audacious, ludicrous concerns that have been plaguing me of late, the belief that I am some sort of “stranded alien” trying to get home. Such accusations, such outrageous statements have no place in the media. They should exist only in fairy tales, ... | I was stranded here in Roswell. I am trying to help humanity, help myself. But they’re too stupid. All they need to do, is take my ideas. All they need to do, is put them in the right step. The right direction. But they continue to ignore me and move on with their worthless lives instead.
I was forced to take the shap... | 2015-05-01T09:56:37 | 2015-05-01T09:53:31 | 150 | 32 |
[WP] You, a religious person, saved a girl from getting hit by a truck. One day you get killed and instead of Heaven, you wake up in Hell. Satan walks up delighted and says "Welcome to hell and thank you so much for saving my daughter!, Let me know if you need anything!"
Edit: Wow! So many comments! Tonight after work... | Now, most people never knew this about me, but I was a very religious person, in life. I didn't talk about it, though. I never believed in all this pressuring people into religion, telling other people what to believe; you've got to think it out for yourself, feel the truth in your own heart.
So they looked at me, wit... | Satan. The adversary. El Diablo. The incarnation and representation of everything every god-fearing person wanted nothing to do with. But there he was acting like a good man, thanking me like a good friend, welcoming me to his home and...
There I was, wanting to take his help, because, hell, if they were going to sen... | 2017-07-18T00:24:21 | 2017-07-17T20:24:08 | 77 | 11 |
[WP] You're immortal and regenerative. Your job it to test 'idiotproof' machines and stuff for companies to see if they're truely idiotproof. | Scowling, the engineer stalked into the small conference room he'd reserved, carrying a large glass jar under one arm, and a neatly folded set of men's clothes under the other.
Inside, he closed and locked the door, and pulled the blinds open to let in some sunlight, and peered cautiously out of the window. It overl... | “Why can’t I just hire a dummy?”
“See,” I said. “I’ve spent many a lifetime being an idiot. That is not a luxury afforded to any of my kind.”
“Idiots die, I get it,” she said. “But I think we are very safe. There’s really no wrong way to use our products.”
“I don’t think you understand, madam,” I sighed. It was diff... | 2022-03-28T09:38:53 | 2022-03-28T09:11:19 | 360 | 148 |
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