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[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | "Hey Hanz, what's that banging noise?"
"Oh, that's coming from the room with that guy who's spending a year in isolation. He's a day early, though. I'm sure he wouldn't want to throw out his prize money this far into it."
"Oh. Isn't he normally quiet?"
"Yeah, he's probably just celebrating getting really close to th... | The show didn't last very long. 4 contestants, in fact. It never aired, and you could only find it on certain sites. It seemed like it would be really popular. Lots of people were so sure they could do it.
First was Karen, who was the very definition of her name. She joked about the "vacation" she was going on. She c... | 2019-07-03T00:53:00 | 2019-07-03T00:17:30 | 1,156 | 475 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | “You’re not going to tie me up or anything?” the princess asked.
The dragon snorted. “I don’t have hands, princess, how would I do that?”
The princess shivered, even though the dragon radiated intense heat. She was surprised to see his eyes were not blood red, but rather a warm orange.
“You’re not going to breath fi... | "Hnng-yah" What is... Ah, daylight. "Hmm" - did not feel like any injuries, and there was plenty of room for my morning stretch. Although, I did find myself warmer than usual this fine season and, once I felt the rumble I realise it's that time of the millenia again. "Aaah, Vulan! You've been quite over my past few na... | 2019-11-11T15:14:17 | 2019-11-11T14:42:38 | 98 | 22 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | "Again?" the great green dragon Fichidineraj thought to himself as the little princess blathered about her father not letting her date "I thought a brunette princess would be more stimulating"
He let his head fall to the flat stone of the cave causing a loud echo across the caverns of his lair and a snort of his noxi... | A voice slithered through the darkness.“Rothschild, the great merciful King”
“You ought to remember how you became the master of these lands, dont you? or should I say... Alfrin.
Poor peasant boy, abandoned and alone. Smart you were, tacking yourself to the bottom of a sheep I carried away for dinner. I remember how ... | 2019-11-11T19:09:17 | 2019-11-11T17:49:03 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A demon works to redeem an eternity of sin so they can join their angelic lover in heaven. Little do they know the angel is doing the opposite. | Grimshaw sat with shoulders ragged like the broken cloth drooped over him. In his hand a scythe dangled loosely, its blade black as night. I crouch next to him and squeeze his shoulder with my tail. Grimshaw was a newer demon but already one of my best.
"Just a couple more days now, Grim. You're almost there."
Every ... | The lashing continued, stripping flesh that regrew every so often. While he felt some slight irritation at the torture his coworkers and confidants meted out, Uzziel understood the punishment.
Hell was not a place of redemption. Well, not this part of it at least.
"Ah, Uzziel." A familiar voice began to lift. "We mee... | 2020-03-10T04:53:12 | 2020-03-10T04:05:01 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | The wrinkled elderly woman I called Gran lay lifeless yet peaceful on the sterile bed. Tears were wepted and hearts bled. Then, when the will was to be read, faces hardened and tears dried. The contents were simple. The money was to go to Rick, the house to Linda, and a pack of seeds to me.
Eyes filled with pity came ... | *A true story narrated by Wesley Bingham Gerhardt*
Gran was one of those old mysterious types and would probably have been condemned a witch in the early eighteenth century. She owned a large estate in some German wald where she spent the remainder of her days. I shouldn't say this, but I suppose I was her favorite gr... | 2020-03-31T07:23:26 | 2020-03-31T07:19:24 | 58 | 29 |
[WP] When your friend is drunk he says that he is a wizard. So you jokingly ask him to make you immortal. That was 200 years ago. | I looked around the room, and closed my eyes, remembering the conversation with the man I had 2 centuries ago, being the only sober guy tending bar with a bunch of drunk fucks on a regular basis can give you one hell of a sarcastic streak. It was sarcastically that I requested immortality, but of course little did I kn... | *The air was so cold I felt chilled to the bone but the booze I chugged like water gave me a pleasant burn from the inside. I staggered like the drunken fool I was around stone after stone to the spot just ahead and collapsed on the wet ground. I looked up and took a deep breath, stretching my arms out widely as the co... | 2020-09-09T22:51:46 | 2020-09-09T22:41:44 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] It was supposed to be an easy burglary. Husband left for work at 6, kid left for school at 7, and the wife left for shopping at 12. You go in at 12:30 to grab a TV and some jewelry. Breaking in and finding the husband, kid, and wife hanging from the ceiling was definitely not part of the plan.
[removed] | Oh my Good Man… this was not how I planned it to be.
Their lifeless bodies were hanging from the ceiling, nooses tied to the exposed wooden beams and wrapped around their necks.
Despite the awful implications of a collective suicide, their faces showed calmness and tranquility, no hint of sadness nor struggle.
It se... | It’s my first go at this alone. I joined my brother Micheal’s gang a few months ago, and we usually work as a team. I’d always been a bit of a tech geek, so he decided I’d be useful for disabling security. I was hesitant to get mixed up in something that might come back to bite me, but the pay is good, and I have a mou... | 2020-10-18T06:25:20 | 2020-10-18T03:28:08 | 90 | 26 |
[WP] “A sniper, a bartender and a photographer meet at a bar, unaware of each other’s occupations they talk about ‘the perfect shot’.” | Three men walk into a pub, they grab a beer each and sit down at the bar.
Not much happened you see as whiskey was scarce in them times, It doesn't take long for one of the three to yell "WHENREWE GONNA GET SUM WHISKEY">
The two others perked they're ears up and sat with the like minded man and they began to talk ... | I haven't written anything this "long" and tried to finish it off quickly. My previous experience having to write for English class is short gags or comedic setups and no more than a 2-3 hundred words at that so bear with me and the horrible quality.
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"Well you have to know it's quite hard" the sniper sai... | 2021-04-04T04:20:32 | 2021-04-04T04:10:54 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] A plane crash leaves a Billionaire stranded on a deserted island. He's not trying to contact help though. Actually, he's having the best time of his life. | I can’t help but marvel at the contrast between my life now and my life before. Sixteen months ago I woke up for the last time in my sixteen bedroom estate on the ocean, in my own bed, a handcrafted Vividus hand built by a man named Sven in Sweden that was stuffed with horsetail hair and covered with the finest silks f... | Alan woke on a white-sand beach near to a couple of padlocked suitcases he vaguely recognised. The sun sizzled high above the ocean. A solitary cloud rested in the sky.
Alan forced himself up and stumbled over the sand until he found a rock blunt enough to bash the padlocks open with. He did all this automatically, an... | 2022-02-27T09:40:58 | 2022-02-27T09:39:42 | 749 | 229 |
[WP] Take a "standard" romance and flip the script. The tall hot athlete is a girl while the shorter, slightly nerd is a boy who "cleans up nice," a naive rich boy gets swept away by a cynical gal from the wrong side of the tracks, that sort of thing. Anything that shakes things up. | "You really wanna flip the script?" The writer laughed and popped another piece of popcorn in her mouth. The executives looked at each other nervously. The tired old tropes had made cookie cutter plots so easy. If people knew there was more out there- if the masses demanded better? What then? The crowd cheered as the p... | It may be technically cheating, as I have just ripped off the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, but I was curious to see how it would read.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a husband.
“My dear Mrs. Bennet,” said ... | 2022-06-07T13:45:39 | 2022-06-07T10:54:03 | 30 | 15 |
[WP]The potion seller places the love potion of the counter and say "Before I can sell you this, are you certain that the other isn't in love with you?" | The potion seller places the love potion on the table. "Before I can sell you this, are you certain that the other isn't in love with you?"
I laugh. It's a quiet sound, with no real humor in it. "Why would anyone be in love with me?"
The saleswoman takes her time replying, drumming her fingers on the table. "This is ... | 'It's not a problem,' I muttered, dropping the handful of coins on the counter with a clatter. 'It was thirty pieces, wasn't it?'
The woman behind the counter glanced down at the haphazard pile of silver and sighed. 'Aye, yes, but I should warn you about the side effects. So many folks don't know what's right in front... | 2022-07-28T12:49:48 | 2022-07-28T12:23:30 | 904 | 113 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | “We’re offering you a decent pay, full benefits, and a fairly relaxed schedule. What’s not to love about the job?”
“The murder. The civilian casualties. The stupid fuck’n supe names.” I replied
The well dressed yet clearly disillusioned man sat up,“But that’s the thing. We’re offering you a very relaxed deal with fu... | Oh, there goes the sirens.
BOOM!
There’s the explosions.
The screams, the gunfire…
Crazy thing is, Zion could do something about that. Being someone who could teleport anywhere within a ten-mile radius, it would’ve been nothing for him to pop up, save a damsel or two, beat the bad guy up, and disappear.
But…
Eh, ... | 2022-07-31T15:04:17 | 2022-07-31T14:44:04 | 215 | 81 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | USAF confidential records department, high secret, omega-quartz level encryption.
Briefing: The species, coded as M4-RT-14N by the EUN DoD, uses as main communication method between individuals a series of airborne spores that contain the information coded in a complex trinary protein system. After a big effort ... | Written from the perspective of the one 10th lvl human:
“Aw chill, 10/10. Reddit will love this”
She pulled out her phone and opened r/ relationshipadvice.
*”gotta figure out the best title” *
**Aliens say I’m a lvl 10 threat (25NB she/they), do you think my partner (26NB he/they) will break up with me?(7yr relat... | 2022-08-28T02:18:01 | 2022-08-27T23:35:13 | 100 | 18 |
[WP]No one know how the zombie virus began, but humanity is on the ropes. A powerful stranger cuts through the horde one night and reaches your compound's wall with a deal. Vampires are starving. Help feed them in exchange for protection from the other undead menace. | Bloodhaven.
A massive fortress of a city that had grown from the tiny shopping mall we had cleared out and now loomed over the central valley like a dark lords castle. The fertile land that had once surrounded it was now a thick forest that had grown with super natural speed.
Turns out zombies were great fertilizer... | Julia had plenty of nails, but was running out of boards. Done properly, each of these windows would be completely boarded up, but she had to settle for three boards each, with one of them artfully placed at a diagonal that seemed hurried when in fact she had spent three minutes with a protractor to align each one.
Sh... | 2022-10-27T09:39:28 | 2022-10-27T08:26:39 | 50 | 37 |
[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... | "Mr. Musk?" Francis knocked cautiously at the office door.
"Come In Francis. Tell me everything, how did it go? Was the landing successful?" Elon asked rising from his black leather chair.
"Un..unfortunately sir while the rocket did indeed land back on the barge it was unable to stabilize itself. It..it was a total ... | 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, ... | 2015-05-01T11:07:56 | 2015-05-01T09:56:37 | 1,925 | 150 |
[WP] Pitch a gritty reboot for a children's show.
They seem to be all the rage these days, so, why not bring the fun to Saturday morning? | She was beautiful, rich and charismatic. She was also the brutal leader of an international crime ring. After many years in her organization I committed the ultimate sin, I developed a conscience. When her thugs killed my family and left me beaten and penniless in the streets of Beijing I dedicated my life to a single ... | I charged into the doctor's office, cut and bruised, with my arm broken, and blood trickling down my nose.
"Jesus, Raphael! You look horrible!" The doctor and nurse rush to my aid as I collapse on his chair.
"Hello, doc. Hello, nurse." They begin to clean me up as the nurse injects me with morphine. The pain goes awa... | 2015-10-08T09:34:42 | 2015-10-08T08:50:55 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You are a low level employee at NASA, and aliens just started communicating, but you didn't expect to actually have to work this week, and you keep trying to end the conversation so you can go home. | **[INCOMING SIGNAL]**
*Beginning Binary to Text Conversion*
**Incoming:** Greetings Earth. We come from the tip of Orion's Arm, located approximately 400,000 light years from your solar system. We are using a local satellite in order to beam messages to your home planet, currently orbiting Jupiter. There will be a r... |
"Almost five o'clock" you think to yourself as you sat on the toilet dicking around on your phone for the third time in the last hour.
Your boss stopped giving you shit about constantly going to the bathroom towards the end of every day, last week after you told him that whole IBS story, not that it mattered consid... | 2015-12-30T01:45:57 | 2015-12-30T00:35:34 | 76 | 29 |
[WP] You are the most beautiful woman in the world, and you have just been wished into existence by a nerd with a genie. | "Why isn't she alive?" said a girl's voice, from far away.
The response came in a voice that crackled like fire and boomed like lightning. "I already told you that I cannot create life."
"Yes, but I expected you to just bring her here like the - "
I opened my eyes. The girl gave a tiny gasp and fell silent.
We s... | "You, I have seen you before haven't I?"
No response, as if he has just lost his breath. His face reddens and his mouth opens as if he was grasping for air.
"Hello? Have I seen you before?"
Again, silence roared throughout the room. I've been in this room before, I forgot where, but I have been here before everyth... | 2016-03-09T04:26:15 | 2016-03-08T23:31:10 | 145 | 50 |
[WP] A cosplayer gets warped to the world/universe of the character they're cosplaying | The following excerpts are taken from a recent VR experiment, in which cosplayers were convinced that they were within the world of the cosplayed character. Each one was recorded as speech of the cosplayer, as they were introduced to the new world.
**Character: Rammus. World: Valoran. Source: League of Legends. Locati... | Groaning, Bill raised his head and pulled prickly long grass out of his nostrils. As he got up, he brushed the damp dirt clinging to the tips of his long, blond hair.
He was standing in the middle of a beautiful meadow, the kind one only saw in postcards. What the hell? Last he remembered, he'd been at a convention—sh... | 2016-07-24T09:14:45 | 2016-07-24T08:38:13 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] After brushing your teeth in the morning you go downstairs to fry an egg, but when you try the frying pan buzzes at you and text appears reading, "level 18 cooking required to use object". | The cast iron pan vibrated on the stovetop with a magnetized hum, resisting Charlene's grip. "Damn it!" she said, and grabbed at it again, and it dragged back down against her arm. She gripped it tight with two hands and the whole pan upturned to the floor and spun to rest with a loud clang. *Level 18 cooking required*... | "Fuck this" I thought, "I'm not grinding bowls of cereal again, where's the nearest trainer?"
According to my GPS, there was a cooking trainer at the local cafe, two blocks away. Must be new, hadn't been there 4 weeks ago. Did my area get patched again?
I checked the public feed for info while I walked but couldn't ... | 2016-10-25T06:05:10 | 2016-10-25T05:56:20 | 278 | 146 |
[WP] Olympic athletes are chosen by lottery so countries are encouraged to increase the average athleticism of their citizens and not just elite athletes. You were just selected.
this was a post on /r/CrazyIdeas. I thought it would make an excellent prompt. | The letter came. It actually came.
Right there at the top of the cream coloured envelope were the logos for the IOC and the Government of Canada. My hands shook. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who had become an everyday Olympian, but it was actually happening to **me**.
Most people were terrified they'd be se... | [Continuation of a response I wrote several months ago]( https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/50sao4/wp_the_olympic_athletes_are_chosen_like_jury_duty/d770h7k/)
TLDR (of previous response); The Olympics are more like death games now. Wax bullets in the dueling event were replaced with real bullets. Fencin... | 2017-02-24T11:57:34 | 2017-02-24T08:33:21 | 58 | 30 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | Sunday. A Sunday that started just like any other Sunday. Robert Glover sat down to a hot breakfast lovingly prepared by his wife. After getting the kids to sit down and leading the family in prayer, Robert started his favorite Sunday activity. The Sunday paper, and coffee. This ritual was only broken if a quarrel brok... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T09:22:30 | 78 | 23 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | "... And to my son James, I bequeathe my most prized possessions, the tokens of the good life I lead and the sacrifices I made," the lawyer solemnly read from Dave Culkin's last will and testament.
"Yeah yeah, I'm sure the lazy git has tons of things to give... I mean, you could probably read from his mug how bad of ... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T10:52:38 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | I try to do it differently each time; short with long hair, tall with a buzz-cut, black, white, Asian, Pacific Islander, optimism, nihilism. Not in any particular order, but never randomly either; I know what she likes. I've had a long time to figure her out- years and years.
When I first arrived in this city, a lones... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T09:47:14 | 930 | 51 |
[WP]Superpowers are extremely common. Your job is to advise how to use bad ones effectively. | "Thank you for filling out the form Mr. John Doe. Now, lets get down to the matter at hand shall we. Your power is excessive sweating you say?"
"Ah, yes it is but that's not my name. I was thinking sir sweatsalot, you know a play on words?"
"I read it. You are now John Doe and will remain as such until the meeting... | I remember Aris.
I sat at my undersized metal desk and read through the file. The girl seated across from me nervously twiddled her thumbs. I glanced up at her briefly. She wore simple green jeans and a dark purple top. An interesting fashion choice, particularly the color scheme she had. But if her file was accurate,... | 2018-12-06T12:12:31 | 2018-12-06T11:26:00 | 271 | 180 |
[WP] Every 10 years, you are expected to go to a meeting you have already been to; one attended by several future and younger versions of yourself, each version separated by 10 year intervals. The youngest you is 10, the oldest 90. You relive the same meeting, just each time from a different angle. | 40 was complaining that there was no free will in the world. The fact that we had to come here every 10 years seemed to back that up. However, I always found it unsettling that 90 disagreed. What does he know that I don't? And why didn't 70 or 80 care?
We only had an hour together so I had to stick to the plan. We we... | With a bang on my gavel, Most Senior began the proceedings. My raspy voice barely reached the microphone, but every self who was sitting around the large round table hushed to accommodate. After all, there was nothing any of my selves could say to me that I didn't already know at that point. I first began by kindly gre... | 2020-05-25T06:54:47 | 2020-05-25T06:48:40 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | I never thought my time would come. Childhood summers last forever, the school year drags, but time marched on as it always did. Before I knew it, I found myself standing there before the assembly just fourteen years of age. The whole class staring expectantly at what would become of me. I was the youngest in my year m... | Today is the day.
The scan is about to begin.
Anticipation is killing everyone.
And as THe Machine is lighting up, my mind throws out our history lesson on humans with superpowers.
"... 10 year war that engulfed all of the world that would later be known as Wars of Awakening. At the end of this war the new superwea... | 2022-05-08T09:49:41 | 2022-05-08T06:39:22 | 338 | 128 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | I hadn’t expected Rebecca to ask me out. Truth be told, I hadn’t expected anyone to ask me out, much less one of the most popular girls in the class. But then I was part of the dungeons and dragon crowd, not cheerleader/class president/amazingly hot looking like she was.
But mom always said never pass up an opportunit... | It was pretty unbelievable. I'm not usually good at showing emotions. Not usually great at the whole human interaction thing. Pretty terrible. Never expected her to just politely offer to hang out after all the others from class had left, because she wanted to. I kept my cool at the moment, and accepted her offer with ... | 2022-12-29T20:07:20 | 2022-12-29T17:02:56 | 1,120 | 256 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | It wasn't the first time I'd found myself buried in a shallow grave. Hopefully, it wouldn't be the last. After digging myself out and dusting myself off, I headed home. The girl must've been new to this, or just stupid, because she hadn't even bothered to empty my pockets.
I debated on how to deal with her the next d... | I was walking home from school with my heart almost beating out of my chest. Eileen actually asked *me* out, not only just for a date but to go to prom with her! We had been friends for a few years at this point and I’ve really started to like her. I showered, shaved a little, and got dressed as well as I could without... | 2022-12-30T00:05:38 | 2022-12-29T22:24:19 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "The humans are the most absurdly pompous race I've ever encountered," declared Zuudxv. "They barely even pass the standard sentience test, but manage to spend their efforts on bragging about their own genius, love, and physical abilities - things that we are all far better at. Hell, so many of those morons declare the... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T11:13:41 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 147 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Yuri, come in here, you gotta see this"
Yuri rolled his eye, shrugged his shoulders and shuffled over to the science officer. He looked as bored as a Redon could possibly look.
"This human, this one human, the male version" Fram began "Hey, Kiol, put it up on the big screen". The starscape was replaced by the image of... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | 2014-07-16T12:28:05 | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 115 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | I went into archeology for the money, not for humanitarian reasons. Sure, I'd like to be the one to save the human race, I'd just like a beach house/ski resort on a designer world even more. The market value of digging in the dirt only goes up as the search for a working wormhole drive becomes more frantic. We've found... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T13:34:49 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 88 | 13 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | I only have one power. And by itself, it's the weakest power there is.
My first roommate was, in a lot of ways, the luckiest one I could have gotten. Her power was "The Vision". She could see Powers in people. She approached me on the Subway and said I had one, but it was fuzzy and she couldn't understand it, which ... | "You know we have a microwave..." I commented to my roommate who was currently heating up her soup with her laser vision.
"Pfft, maybe for you *norms*," she emphasized. It was what she called non-superheros, and rolled off her tongue dripping with judgement. I wondered why she even bothered being a superhero as sh... | 2016-03-23T22:08:45 | 2016-03-23T21:31:57 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You have a "save slot" in your life. But only one. | The machines beeped in the background, his last beep was coming near. He lay on clean white sheets contemplating his life.
In ran a cadre of children, one of them carrying a frog that the older one was telling them they definitely shouldn't have in a hospital and can I hold it. He hugged them and told them each how m... | Four of them, big brutes, with clubs as long as Ai was tall. They circled the girl, waving their weapons menacingly, swinging towards her and laughing as she cried and jumped backwards.
*Four*. That was a lot of people. Still, he couldn't just stand there and watch it happen. With ferocious a war-cry, Ai sprinted at ... | 2016-06-10T03:56:10 | 2016-06-10T02:26:11 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You've kept your immortality secret for thousands of years. Thats going to be a lot harder now that your on a generation ship on a 2000 year voyage. | The view out here is great. I can finally take it all in, and after thousands of years stuck on a single planet, I had experienced all there was.
So it was time for a change. I applied and boarded the ship with my fellow explorers, intent on expanding our knowledge. At least that's something I still have in common ... | I'm awake now, the dream had become so real, so drawn out that I almost lost my lucid capacity. It was enjoyable, I almost desire to return to it. I was one of them, like livestock. I sometimes had wives and children in the dream and they worked and went to school. I was never a child but grew old, now I know what its ... | 2016-07-06T08:53:49 | 2016-07-06T08:28:05 | 90 | 35 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | The bus sped past me again. I don't really know what else I expected. 347 years they've done this, but I pay them no mind. They think it's rude to stay, I think it's rude to leave. I've dealt with their 'punishments' for long enough that it just doesn't bother me. I can basically predict how the day goes- I check the b... | “Come on, guys, sing!” said Grampy, looking around the room energetically. “Happy…” He trailed off, expecting his family to pick up the tune.
Jed wearily rubbed his face in his hands. “Grampy, can I talk to you in private?”
Servos whooshing as he twisted his head, Grampy stared at Jed intensely. “Why, of course, Juni... | 2016-08-09T08:58:15 | 2016-08-09T08:24:16 | 916 | 104 |
[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… | 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... | "No, it's not what you think. I can explain!" She proceeded to back away slowly, wide-eyed and pale in the face.
"W-w-who are y-you" she stuttered. I could see tears in her eyes, threatening to betray her.
"I promise I'm still the same man you fell in love with. I've made some mistakes I'm not proud of but I've cha... | 2016-09-22T21:31:39 | 2016-09-22T16:56:11 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You illegally download a virtual reality role playing experience but it turns out to be a honeypot and it unleashes merciless advertising and psychological punishment upon their now captive viewer - sympathetic low level developers left hints on how to escape/disconnect from this hell | It was a victimless crime, I thought. I quickly discovered that I am the victim.
After years of illegally downloading everything from music to textbooks, I suspected nothing out of the ordinary when I pirated a copy of LifeSimulator. It seemed like a promising sequel to FarmSimulator, but I should have looked closer. ... | Thin wafts of clouds floated above Jonas’ bed, their wavy, opaque forms weaving in and out of each other in a manner that could only be deliberate. Complex, multi-layered Helix knots spun and shivered, undoing themselves as casually as they had been born. A line of thick white took the appearance of a slithering snake,... | 2016-12-27T19:17:02 | 2016-12-27T15:05:15 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] A world of fantastic creatures cross dimensions to invade our Earth; but alas, they battle us with medieval swords, bows and magic. We have guns, grenades and missiles. Lots of them. | "Hear me humans! You will fall and we shall call this new world our own!"
Thunder crackled around the mysterious humanoid as he raised his sword to the sky. Fire and ice swirled around his swelled body, the bones of his past conquests hung from his belt dancing in the storm he seemingly summoned at will. Hordes of gia... | "The stores of Turas, the most valuable resource of magical properties, are running out. Without it, our society comes to a grinding halt, with the essence farms of Neratha drying up without the Turas, our warlocks' incantations becoming nothing but words. Modern Elvish society would fall to chaos, the Unified Elvish ... | 2017-09-14T15:29:29 | 2017-09-14T04:28:27 | 243 | 36 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | Elli was born without the names. Some people thought that she was blessed. She was not faced with knowing the name of the person who would kill her. Others believed it was a curse, some kind of disability. She had to admit that not having the names made her wonder if there *was* something wrong with her. Everyone has t... | Dannos Quill was asleep in his favourite chair when the early-warning alarms tripped. He had set the runes himself, personally inscribing them on the sides of 12-inch candles which he then burned in a mile-wide perimeter around his cottage by the lake. The alarms were tweaked to only detect magical entities of the 4th ... | 2018-03-11T09:04:19 | 2018-03-11T08:08:31 | 270 | 37 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick of being ignored and insulted all the time, so they join the bad guys. They are a much more effective villain than anyone thought possible. | No one cared about Atrxia when he was casting spells to keep Lugh alive when he had a tusk the size of a roofbeam rammed through his gut. Lugh just pulled himself further onto the tusk to get that one foot closer so he could jab the demonboar in the eye and blenderize his brains.
No one cared when Atraxia was keeping... | Daniel laid in the hospital bed staring at the ceiling and listening to the soft beeping of the hospital machinery. It was white noise at first. Blending in the background and hardly an annoyance. Then it seemed to change. Slowly at first. It got louder. Sharper before it finished its morph into a throbbing pain blasti... | 2019-03-05T14:43:39 | 2019-03-05T14:25:05 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] Rejected by the Federation Council for refusing to disband their military, humans ally themselves with the Thoran, the Federation’s resident warrior race. Warmongers, the Thoran find themselves enamored with humanity, and grow increasingly tired of the Federations attempts to “civilize” both. | The rattle of war trophies impacted the khan’s chest as his ship’s shields shuddered from the impact of infinite kelvin weaponry above the Thoran bunker world of artzegat- things were going poorly.
the khan ordered to reorient his ship, his H.U.R.T. drive forcing him into his seat as the ship’s nose lurched foreword... | The meeting took place in a bunker multiple hundreds of meters below the soil of an unknown planet within the solar system.
"Are you sure it is completely safe to speak here?"
"It seems I trust dirt and steel more than you."
"If you trust this place, I will too, I guess."
"So let's begin then."
"Ah, yes, so... wh... | 2020-04-16T12:05:46 | 2020-04-16T08:19:10 | 175 | 110 |
[WP] After a long and tedious process you were chosen to be the first ever human to test the new way of travel - the Teleport. All previous tests on objects and animals were very successful. Zero side effects. But after using the machine yourself you immediately notice a difference. | The light was bright. He closed his eyelids, but couldn't escape the blinding light. His eyelids probably weren't there, he scoffed.
He started blinking rapidly and heard the door hiss behind him, the humidity turning into fog as it fell into the room behind him. He was still blinking, the dark spots on his eyes made ... | She dropped to her knees and vomited on the platform. It felt like she had been gone a long time. She mentally noted to include a bucket in future tests as human physiology must be more sensitive to matter transmission. Or maybe she could take some Gravol.
"Dr. Bandaranayake?" A hand gripped her shoulder. "Dr. Bandar... | 2020-05-30T08:10:48 | 2020-05-30T07:03:31 | 201 | 63 |
[WP] You were tested for superpowers as a child, and became the most recognized superhero of all, yet no one has figured out what your power is, that each time you die, your life restarts from the beginning with all the knowledge you gained from your previous 'run'... you're on run 32,562. | I still remember the first life. Tested with off-the-charts thaum-levels yet for the entirety of my life, nobody could figure out, what I was supposed to be good at.
It took me a few lives to figure out how to access my memory early. At first it just vanished at birth and only came back as flashbacks over the course o... | It hasn't been easy to find her. And though it has only been a few minutes since the attendant left to tell her of our arrival, I stood up and began to pace to ease the questions on my mind.
'Why did they send me here? To this rural village of an obscured side of Africa to find her.' 'Go see the lady', they said, ... | 2021-01-25T01:34:19 | 2021-01-24T16:59:17 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] You are a chivalrous knight. As it turns out, the Evil Empire you have been fighting against is a liberal democracy with a powerless figurehead and a very edgy sense of aesthetics. The Good Kingdom you serve is really an absolute monarchy ruled by a tyrant-king with good publicity. | You'd think someone wearing skulls with "Evil" written on the teeth would *realize* they were the bad guys, right? I had always thought that was a trope of the traveling actor guilds, but no, here I was talking to Lord Evil himself, skull-emblazoned shirt covered in spikes signifying the death he has caused for his peo... | We waited as the riders of The Order of the Shade’s detachment passed along the road. I held my hand in the air to keep my men silent. The enemy’s jet-black horses, coated with their vermillion red armor, cantered along. Their knights, dressed in the same black and vermillion, with spikes on their shoulders, rode along... | 2021-02-06T16:08:32 | 2021-02-06T15:50:50 | 1,193 | 198 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | My city has the unique trait of somehow being the city the both has the highest crime rate and the highest safety rating in the country. At least once a week our resident supervillain attempts to do something evil and every time she’s stopped by our world-class heroes. The villain is me, by the way.
See I always had ... | Five hundred forty-seven and eight hundred people die every day. Some die in their beds, surrounded by family or the cold of loneliness. Some die in a dark alley while other collapse onto the forest floor. Some die when their sick or by an unexpected disaster. Some never make it far enough to face these challenges.
S... | 2021-05-20T11:17:36 | 2021-05-20T09:21:22 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] "You need to find God," says the man at the door. "No I'm good, thank you," you say, starting to close the door. "Please!" says the man urgently. "God is missing, please find him!" | "You need to find God!" the man in the dark suit exclaimed, as soon as I opened the door. I wasn't in the mood.
"No, I'm good, thank you." I said, and began to close the door again.
"Please!" he cried, grabbing the edge of the door. "G-God is missing! Please, help me f-find him!"
I raised my eyebrows. "He's *missing... | Nietzsche, the horse-fondling madman, came up to me with rage in his eyes and holes in his pants and he said, "Please, please, please. You have to find God. They'll do horrible things to me. I was supposed to look after him, just for a couple of days. He wandered off."
Tears streaming down his facial jungle, Nietzsche... | 2022-04-27T18:33:25 | 2022-04-27T17:56:22 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the ability to summon one random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does Mjolnir. As you summon yours it takes some time but people are horrified as it finally arrives... | My birthday party was packed. All my friends and family came. I held out my hand and waited, eyes tightly shut awaiting my sacred object.
I felt a light, fuzzy mass land in my grasp. I didn’t need to open my eyes before everyone started screaming what was currently in my hand.
“A RAT!”
The chaos was instant. Mom ... | Standing there my eyes widened, in my hand was a book decorated with bones and a rather old fashioned quill pen, the ink a strange red tinge. My mother stumbled a response “n..no…it can’t be…honey, what do we do?” Father had slowly backed into a corner of the room gripping the oven mitt “I don’t know. Is it what I thin... | 2022-11-15T05:30:36 | 2022-11-15T01:55:12 | 457 | 261 |
[WP] The villain succeeds - and though utterly amoral, his plans result in a genuinely happier, better world.
And please, no "Reality TV stars executed". I know we all want it but that's too easy a way out. | The newspapers reported the death of Ultra Man in the papers the following morning. Funerals were held and broadcasted on TV. Reporters flocked to interview anyone and every about their thoughts of his death. TV specials ran for months about the impact his death would have upon the world. When The Cackler was finally p... | James Talbot cared about nothing more than money. It was widely rumored that he had his mother euthanized so that he could harvest her organs and sell them to the highest bidder. Of course, he was never charged.
Talbot succeeded where all others failed. Americans for Tax Reform, the Tea Party, the Koch Brothers, th... | 2013-12-14T08:02:45 | 2013-12-14T04:56:27 | 167 | 107 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | Snow swirled across the pavement, little lines of furious strands caught in a frozen wind. At once, they would settle, and at once they would fly with renewed flurry as the bus ploughed up to its stop. The ding of the doors opening broke the bluster of winds, and immense gratitude washed over her as this bus proved war... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T14:03:49 | 295 | 14 |
[WP] An ancient evil awakens. A modern evil doesn't like competition. | Sytheasjajsajassjsa, god whose name can't be written the same twice, rose from the depths of his tomb.
At long last, after 1700 years, he could reign terror on the foolish mortals once again.
You see, to defeat Sytheasjsdajdsjdjajaj, you would have to write his name exactly the same twice on a scroll. Only one had do... | "Look, mate, I don't care if no-one's answering the door. Just kick the lock in and go and see who's upstairs."
"Got it Boss, you don't have to shout," Tim was not having a good day. He'd been stood outside the same council flat in Hackney for the last two hours, while a freezing drizzle worked its way inside his to... | 2015-08-23T09:45:53 | 2015-08-23T08:54:16 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | Father Sanchez adjusted his turquoise robes, sighed, and started his defense.
"Look, Your Cosmic Eminence, I don't really think this is our fault."
"Hold on, stop right there." the pulsing orb of electricity said through the translator. "Are you actually trying to justify your actions."
"Well, yes, Your CE. There ar... | Chaplain's Log - 2768.07.08.15.32.12
As the ship approaches the Sepulcher of Creation, the crew has become more restless. Anxious even. They are looking forward to seeing the faith-in-flesh that the Voidian's spoke of. A holiest of holies in space. I am cautious. This has been the focus of my devotional time sinc... | 2016-08-18T06:44:06 | 2016-08-18T06:39:52 | 241 | 131 |
[WP] You're bitten by a zombie. By some strange happening, you die and become a zombie, but your ghost remains bound to this earth. Your ghost has to try and keep your zombie body out of trouble until a cure is found. | It all started with killing Mike. Keeping my zombie body out of trouble meant keeping it out of the way of bullets. And the only way to do that was to turn against the humans that might cure me someday.
Mike was just the first person to try and shoot my zombie self. . I could just barely interact with the living worl... | I miss living.
A lot. Things really went to shit in the last few months but before that it was really turning around for me. I'd found a beautiful girl who really loved me, got an apartment that I could call my own, I'd even found a job that I really enjoyed going to!
Who could ask for more?
So that fateful morning ... | 2017-02-02T05:42:37 | 2017-02-02T05:39:34 | 177 | 67 |
[WP] You're a thief who breaks into homes, but try your best to stay undetected. You lubricate the hinges to prevent squeaky noises, you sweep the floor to get rid of footsteps, etc. Eventually, you fix more than you take, and rumors spread about a mysterious, helpful fairy in town.
EDIT: Wow, didn't expect this promp... | It started off small.
I brought some cheap screws and an oil can to a job because I had gotten busted twice when homeowners heard a floorboard creak or a hinge squeak. Almost got my head blown off the second time.
Not anymore.
The town I prowl is rich, not super rich but old money comfortable rich. Lots of old peo... | “Hey Jim, how’s it going?”
I approach my neighbor with a wide grin on my face. Jim no doubt thinks I’m just being polite, but the real reason why I’m smiling is because I have $120 of his money in my wallet, and he has no idea.
Jim scratches his head as he sees me approach. “Actually, something weird happened last ni... | 2017-03-13T08:45:46 | 2017-03-13T07:53:48 | 428 | 269 |
[WP] A person awakes from a coma to find the world has become a Utopia. They've read enough literature to believe there must be something wrong with it. There isn't. | "My God!", I cried out as I woke with a start,
"The buildings are shiny, the walls decked with art,
The people I see are awash in their bliss -
So tell me, be honest, is something amiss?"
"Is the huge starving underclass hidden from view,
While the luxury here benefits just a few?
Did you all build the paradise ... | "Well," said the squat man in the tweed suit, gesticulating down the gorgeous main street with his cane, "this all came about when we finally figured out how to knit carbon nanotube structural frames with neo-plastene polymers for the exterior. All made from recycled plastics, of course."
"Mmm." I nodded, my attention... | 2017-03-17T13:46:03 | 2017-03-17T13:03:38 | 197 | 52 |
[WP] Rather than being dispatched by a dispatcher, police officers use a bounty system where officers can pick up missions from a constantly updated bounty board. The missions range from: "noise complaint, $20", to "domestic abuse, $150", to "bank robbery in progress, $5000". | It was a dark and stormy night.
"Shut the fuck up Tony, it's never been funny!" bellowed my partner. I laughed. Although Jimmy didn't know it, I never said it to be funny. I said it to piss him off. Jimmy was a better cop when he was mad, and tonight I needed him at his best.
"SHOTS FIRED, SHOTS FIRED! Officers Jac... | The night's incessant rain drummed on the roof of the car as Dan searched for the socket to connect his phone to the car's dash. The car was still quite new to him. Electric powered, fitted with ram-bars, and with bullet-proof panels on the front two doors and a prisoner compartment in the back. He had decided not to g... | 2017-06-16T05:07:22 | 2017-06-16T04:48:43 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | Grandpa was running toward me screaming "STOP STAY AWAY! HE HAS THE POWER TO STOP TI..."
And suddenly everyone stopped, again, all I saw was Dio screaming "ZA WARUDO" before it happened.
I could barely move a finger, but I saw it happening in front of me, Dio just murdered my grandfather!
When time resumed I was ver... | he first time the incident occurred I was in a busy mall. I bumped into the person in front of me and apologized, but I got no response. A moment later she fell forward. What a bitch! Not only did she ignore me, but she completely over-reacted with such a delayed response. She screamed, and a bunch of tough-looking guy... | 2018-01-26T07:03:15 | 2018-01-26T06:49:48 | 71 | 25 |
[WP] During a coma, you had a different life. You had a spouse, an apartment, and a job you didn’t hate. Right as you begin to wake up, you hear your spouse desperately exclaim a date and address. | "November 1st, 716 Western Road!"
Her voice echoes after you as you're dragged into consciousness, and you cling to it, burning her words into your very heart. It's the first thing you write down as you reacquaint yourself with your body, and the first thing you tell your friends when you're finally released. Of cours... | As i sat up, her voice kept ringing in my head. A nurse rushed into my room, four more nurses behind her, quickly rush in. As they started checking up on me, her voice continued ringing in my head. December 26, 7344 W Rascher Ave. I knew i had to go there. I waited my time. I got better, and left the hospital. I bought... | 2018-05-14T19:03:06 | 2018-05-14T12:41:41 | 707 | 87 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | >Tech support: Human Tech helpdesk, Danyael speaking, this call may be recorded for training and QA purposes, may I have the GATACCA code at your 4th chromosome, please?
>Me: Um... hi.
>HD: Hi. Who is this, please, so I can put the details in your ticket.
>Me: I'm... John. I found your number on a few sk... | "Hello?" I stuttered. I had heard the phone click on the other end, a steady breathing echoing against my ear. "Is anyone there?" I asked almost impatiently.
"Good morning, Roger. How are you today?" a woman's voice responded. It was calm, yet I could sense the slightest bit of nervousness, like she hadn't expected to... | 2018-08-14T11:14:09 | 2018-08-14T07:31:49 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | “Totally worth it”
I thought to myself. It must have been past 2 in the afternoon but I refused to get up. There was a constant pounding in my head and a slight drip of blood running from my left ear. I could hear my roommates talking angrily in the next room and I knew what was waiting for me in the living room. We g... | Arin groaned as she walked into her living room from her bedroom. She had just woken up from a much needed rest. After the day she had yesterday she just knew today was going to have some toll on her. She tried to rub the sleep from her eyes as she sat down on the floor. She didn’t want to get too close to anything met... | 2018-08-19T05:58:22 | 2018-08-19T04:31:16 | 401 | 21 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | [Poem]
Thanksgiving was a shock this year, the family was to blame.
I thought I'd search for fun or maybe just check out names,
Well what a surprise to see, my families just not right,
I guess that in their off time, they go and kill at night.
Grandma had killed 12, she sat and smiled sweetly,
My sister was at 5,... | My dad is a Vietnam vet, and never talked about it much. I know from my mom he has pretty severe ptsd. I felt guilty for wanting to know, but I couldn’t help it. The number kinda surprised me, 12. It was more than I expected, and I instantly had half a dozen more questions I wanted answers to.
But I couldn’t bring... | 2019-07-01T20:28:33 | 2019-07-01T20:07:43 | 347 | 215 |
[WP] Every human has stats, like Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom, etc, with them all starting at zero when you’re a baby. Whenever you age a year, one of these stats is randomly increased by a point. One day, you find out that age isn’t the only way to get points, yet it’s definitely the more moral way. | I was never really a dexterous person. I’ve only leveled up dexterity once in my life, during my seventh birthday. I’m currently sixteen, turning seventeen next week. I have six in strength, one in dexterity, three in constitution, three in intelligence, two in wisdom and five in charisma. I could never run fast durin... | Martin was among the fortunate few that had been admitted to the University of Palatine. Most people end up with a balanced distribution of their attributes as chance increases them evenly each year. But assembled here for the first time in the circular hall of the Old Gilbertian Theater stood a new cohort of students ... | 2020-02-29T10:08:13 | 2020-02-29T09:18:15 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You were born with the natural ability to know the exact monetary value of anything you touch. This lands you a job as an expert appraiser. One day a person gives you a spoon that is worth 1 billion dollars. | So you see, I can know how much an object can be sold for with a simple touch. I know what the person who wants it most will pay and what it is at an elemental level. You show me a flawless diamond copy of 4 carots, I will tell you it's pretty much worthless and cubic zirconium. A useful skill, but now I feel ill to... | "Mr. Van Dyke? The Dursleys have arrived."
"Thank you, Charity. Please send them in."
Jeremiah's assistant, Charity, bowed and left the room, closing the door with a sharp snap behind her. Jeremiah, who had been sitting with his legs crossed on his desk, swung them off and sat upright in his chair, smoothing his jack... | 2020-04-24T10:33:45 | 2020-04-24T08:08:33 | 225 | 27 |
[WP] You've convinced death to let you have a second chance at an extraordinary life, starting over from the beginning, with all your memories intact. A second life of procrastination and wasted opportunities later, you stand before a very disappointed Death. | “I just kinda thought I’d have more time, I guess.”
The figure standing before me responds with a soft hum. I can’t read his expression. How could I when he’s just a skull cloaked in darkness itself?
“Yea,” I bluster. “I talked a big game the last time we met but then I had some time to soul-search and stuff. I reali... | “Listen, I can explain!” I began, knowing full well that I had no real excuses. At least, nothing that would appease the very concept of mortality.
“I only have one question for you mortal. Why? Why squander away a second chance?” Death’s voice sounded like a mixture of a disappointed professor and a grandfather scol... | 2021-01-16T23:10:07 | 2021-01-16T22:23:22 | 178 | 39 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | "... sea salt," I clarified, "sea salt keeps us out."
I watched for his widening eyes as I stepped over the line of salt... but his eyes didn't widen, and my foot slowed, then stalled. Too late, I tried to pull back, but the treacle-like thickness had firm hold, and I found myself toppling forward, emmeshed in the ... | Every time I crested a hill on that moonless night the glow from the camp's firelit windows got a little brighter and warmer. On the last hilltop I paused, still invisible in the darkness, and settled down to watch.
The slim, barricaded windows gave only brief glimpses of the life inside, but it was better than nothi... | 2021-03-02T09:07:17 | 2021-03-02T08:39:38 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] "And now, I require a test of bravery." You sneer, "Oh, and what shall it be? Slay a dragon? Or something equally stupid?" The Fae smiles knowingly, "When was the last time you visited home?" Your face pales... | "My home...?"
In an instant, all the cynicism, all the faint disgust and barely-bottled frustrations held and leaked through barbed words for the past year had... vanished. It was as if it wasn't blood that flowed through his veins, but contempt.
"What are you asking?" he said.
"When was the last time you visited ho... | "Another, *burp*, another round! For entire bar, you hear? On the Prince of Thyrese!"
The band picked up its tune, the crowd cheered, and the two maidens who had been competing for the prince's eye batted their lashes. Fifty mugs of ale were poured and fifty mugs of ales clinked to the beat of the song.
"Long li... | 2021-09-26T13:59:00 | 2021-09-26T11:02:11 | 257 | 51 |
[WP] You are the child of a superhero and your boyfriend/girlfriend is the child of their nemesis. Both your parent and theirs are furious at both of you for dating, but the two of you think that your parents feud is just stupid. | The two lovers kissed each other passionately the moment they met, glad that they were once again able to meet despite the best efforts of their disgruntled parents.
"Your mom give you trouble?" the boy asked.
"Of course she did! Went on another rant about 'Fraternizing with the spawn of that sanctimonious bastard' a... | Growing up around supers you get introduced to a concept called 'the game' that's seldom mentioned outside of costumed circles. The game was the cat and mouse between hero and villain, the constant feud that saw the same forces clashing again and again as the years went on. The game was the status quo, and was perpetu... | 2022-10-12T02:10:16 | 2022-10-12T01:48:19 | 1,220 | 271 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | It's a small act of defiance. I don't think it will change the law. But maybe, I can save a few lives. Maybe I can scare a few people out of line. My hand shakes as I write.
_____
**Form 10-95**
**Sanctioned Murder Registration**
Murderer: */u/thefonztm*
Victim: *The next registrant* | It's the future. Okay, it's the present, but it seems like the future. It doesn't help that we slap the label on everything these days, and the line's a little more blurry than it used to be anyway. There's the Future Research Corporation, which started the trend. They're the number one discoverers of new technologies,... | 2014-03-17T10:18:55 | 2014-03-17T03:24:00 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | Perhaps he had never truly realized, until that moment, the depthless gloom of his fields. The skies were overcast, devoid of color, clouded by permanent mist - no spark or sign of the heavens' warming light to sweep away the shadows. He had never realized just how quiet it all was: his realm was embalmed with a deadly... | Life was odd amongst women when I was growing up. But then I suppose being raised by women does offer some unique perspectives. The women all held me in high opinion from as early as I can remember. They kept on telling me that I would one day become their ruler.
I had kept on being told this, time and time again to ... | 2014-06-20T07:37:41 | 2014-06-20T06:49:22 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | It was a typical summer day in the rural Midwest when the armada touched down in a bright open field just off the single lane highway. One of the quaint power lines was knocked over resulting in a disgruntled old woman calling the county sheriff because she knew no other numbers. It was a slow day for the law as usual ... | On the reservation, there's only one man left who can talk about the Invasion Wars because he was in them. All us kids in the 8th year class had to go talk to him to get our 1st person narrative for our assignment on the war. He has a script that he reads from for it, given to him by the overlords. We sit on the dirt f... | 2015-04-16T11:40:49 | 2015-04-16T10:49:38 | 261 | 71 |
[WP] You are cursed to see people how they view themselves. You walk alongside monsters and Gods.
Can be third person instead of first.
Edit: I just thought of how EDs and other disorders like multiple personality would fit in with this, and now I'm kinda blown away. |     I walked along the sidewalk, musing to myself the nature of my existence. In an era of steel and cell phones, I was touched by magic. I could not use it myself. Instead I was cursed by it. My curse? I saw people as they saw themselves. Sometimes it was useful.
&nb... | "So: Start with when - that first day, when you began perceiving these differences in, eh, in people with whom you interfaced, if - given we're supposing no memory of a recordable, causal incident. And, Kevin, please speak to me, and not 'it'. That will ease the burden on those analysts in there, I think."
*ahem* "Wel... | 2016-09-16T20:27:03 | 2016-09-16T20:26:01 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A time traveler goes back to 2016 to stop a cruel dictator before he even begins his ambitious rise to power. The man the time traveler meets is nothing like the history books portrayed.
[removed] | It was going to be a glorious assassination. About three hundred thousand witnesses, all in harmony, simultaneously watching the podium in the plaza, were in for a treat. With this single, evil act, a whole world of good was assured. From coast to coast the people would cheer the change, relish in the disruption, fe... |     "You're not the first, you know."
    Donald Trump paced along his terrazzo floor towards the mutant, a gilt glass of 2008 Trump Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon in hand. The mutant kept his distance, his slit-like eyes eyeing the president-e... | 2016-11-25T20:29:48 | 2016-11-25T20:28:07 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] You are tearing down an old abandoned home. In the attic, you find an old radio with a microphone attached. You plug it in. FDR says that the United States has been attacked by the Empire of Japan. You say, "hello?" FDR pauses mid-speech, and responds surprisingly, "Hello? Who is that?" | I froze, dead in my tracks, as FDR questioned further. "Hello? If this is a prank, then you have picked a bad time to joke around." I responded, slowly, "Um, my name is John, and, uh, I don't know how I'm talking to you. It's 2018." I should've articulated my thoughts more, as FDR responded "Stop messing with me young ... | The walls within Partition 11 are beaten and bruised with the disease of age. Stains mar the thin walls separating the rooms in which I crouch, probably from broken pipes within their inner organs. My job here is simple; find any items of interest, marking them down for retrieval later. The area is devoid of people, ex... | 2018-02-05T16:26:25 | 2018-02-05T14:50:50 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | ***HOW EXACTLY CAN I BE HERE? VISITING YOU, WHILE LIVING?***
The boy continued to twiddle his thumbs, all the while looking at the ground. He knew I was there, he had stood to attention with immediacy as I had arrived.
***LOOK AT ME BOY.***
He raised his head at mine and, much like a puppy, tilted his head to his si... | ((This one kind of goes off topic, and is kinda weird in the way it fits the prompt. I'm sorry.))
Consider death.
The only constant in this life is death. All that is alive dies, eventually. Nothing is certain to gain life, but everything is certain to lose it.
Death is, in my opinion, the absence of life in a thi... | 2018-05-12T16:01:10 | 2018-05-12T14:50:35 | 416 | 30 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | I...had a lot of blood.
My mom had once said that it was my blessing. That while others would always have correct change for their meals, or always have the stray alley cats like them or never have pidgeon poop covering their verandas, I had a lot of blood. I would never bleed out if I got into an accident, I would ne... | Like every person who came before I was blessed with a perceptibly limited gift, it seemed the gods intended mine to be horribly pointless, but they made a mistake in thinking smutty pleasure was limited. I grew tired of waiting for life to get better, I wanted more, needed more! One morning it dawned on me, my blessin... | 2018-06-30T17:50:19 | 2018-06-30T16:51:29 | 87 | 20 |
[WP] You’re a super villain with an army of loyal minions at your side. One day you find out that your minions do not follow you because of your visions of world domination but for the employee benefits package... | “My health plan?” My voice barely betrayed any emotions at the best of times, but now a careful listener might find a hint of disbelief in it. “You, my high commander of darkness, effective leader of the biggest army in the world, currently fighting in every country for my nefarious plans, are only on board with the gr... | It was a dark day, one filled with clouds which covered the mid-winter sky.It was a day, where the horrors I shall inflict upon the world shan't be seen, as I crawl slowly, ever so slowly towards world domination."They don't know it yet, the leaders of the 'democratic' world, that they are so close to being toppled, so... | 2019-02-13T14:08:58 | 2019-02-13T14:03:58 | 50 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | I wait in my room in the cold light of dawn
To see what the writing is going to say.
And if it says 'William', we'll up and be gone,
A couple of soulmates just running away.
Two lovers like us can't be broken apart
By family feuds started decades ago.
I wait in my room with my hand on my heart
To see on my skin ... | I can't stop thinking about the world this kind of thing might build. Like:
Some devoted themselves to finding their soulmate, embarking on lifelong pilgrimages and learning as many languages as possible, worshipping the idea embedded within their ink. Others let fear of their nemesis consume their whole being, drivi... | 2020-01-18T23:55:28 | 2020-01-18T23:37:33 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] Getting arrested for a botched crime is a rite of passage in the Chebwick family. They take great pride in their long legacy of poorly executed crimes. But the youngest child has been a great disappointment. | "Here comes Gary"
"He's the worst."
"A failure to the family name"
"It's not that he commits crimes, the problem is that he's too good at it."
"I KNOW! He's meant to fail like the rest of us."
The door creaked open and Gary stepped into the room with a large bag.
Gary exclaimed with a large grin, "Hey guys!... |
It was Thanksgiving dinner at the Chebwick family home. William Chebwick smiled at his three children, Terry, Sherry and Merry, as he chewed on his boiled turkey drumstick. “It’s been so long since the entire family has been together like this! So, what have my three darling children been up to?”
The oldest child, ... | 2020-04-03T22:51:49 | 2020-04-03T21:43:25 | 72 | 27 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded to conquer and enslave humanity, however "slavery" to them involves only working the equivalent of 12 hours a week while having healthy food, shelter, and means of entertainment taken care of so the human resistance is having trouble with defectors preferring to be slaves. | A part of me can’t believe the fighting is over, and another part of me can’t believe we collectively agreed to enslave humanity and It took what? 9 months for almost all of humanity to be on board with it? Crazy.
Maybe I’m overthinking it, I mean only working 12 hours a week, no more covid-19, real free time without ... | Part 1.
I bit down hard on the leather strap, felt a sharp edge press into my gums, but still a whelp escaped my lips as the scalpel slid through the flesh on my buttock and tongs were pressed into the wound. The barb was all the way in, I could tell by how deep they were going, I'd been hit real bad this time. The so... | 2020-11-22T12:05:30 | 2020-11-22T11:32:53 | 148 | 92 |
[WP] You looked on as the cult sacrificed you at the Altar, your blood seeping away, sucked by what they have summoned. The damp chill in the air remained as black, branching cracks started forming in mid-air. Memory came crashing back as a voice spoke in your mind, 'I finally found you, Master.' | Well, this was new. I was no stranger to dying, but the removal of my still-beating heart was going to be a new experience. Hopefully the recovery isn't too bad.
I had been wandering for as long as I could remember, and as far as I could figure I must have been cursed. It was a gruesome kind of curse, which left me im... | It was a plain, boring day when I was born. No end of world scenario, no burning sky or blood tainted rain fell that day. I was born on the 13th of May, a Friday, into a middle-class suburban family. Mom was a teacher at the elementary school, dad a manager at the only auto shop for miles. We had a white picket fence h... | 2021-06-15T10:42:12 | 2021-06-15T07:40:54 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | **Part 1**
The dusky room was illuminated by a crystal ball that floated in its centre. The ball used to be made out of leather and was used by kids to kick around, until Erehad bought it and hand waved its material to crystal with a “Shim-shala-bim”. With a few other nonsensical murmurs the ball became imbued with th... | # A Dream Undeferred
Several times, when I was a younger and more headstrong, men dared to use the words “magic system,” around me. Deeper into than their cups than any mage should be, they would wax poetic about the difference between the Gnostic and the Anagogic Schools, uncaring of the slim, dark form in the corner... | 2021-08-26T19:09:10 | 2021-08-26T17:48:41 | 1,227 | 145 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | I was pleased with my hunt today. A plump, young hog. Time hadn't been able to turn it tough, but it's size would keep me fed for a good month, whilst leaving a hefty amount to trade for other supplies. I had my stasis chest at my hut to keep it fresh, which made me happy.
I headed towards my hut, smiling. The carcass... | "Let's talk," The tall and broad Magnus said from under his shining silver armor. His face was grim and his eyes had grown faded since the last time Sinstar had saw him. What was once the spark of a young adventurer seemed to have turned into the slow embers of a grown and tired warrior.
Sinstar's heart raced at the s... | 2021-11-03T13:09:00 | 2021-11-03T13:06:23 | 2,337 | 226 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | I stared at him mouth agape. I couldn't believe my eyes. He was here. He was HERE. No, listen to me. HE. Was HERE.
He shouldn't be here. It was impossible. The ward I had put on the door-
"Why are you here?" I demanded, then shook my head. Scratch that. "How are you here?"
Should I have been afraid? Maybe. This was... | I returned from an unsuccessful hunt again. Starving. Blasted this winter. The snow makes it hard to walk, and the accursed snowfall makes my sight no farther than what this dim lantern will provide.
My breath is ragged and my groans of disdain are coarse. How I continued to live like this, I do not understand. But I... | 2021-11-03T21:44:33 | 2021-11-03T18:35:48 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | "Hero."
"dark Lord."
I grimace at his addressing me of my former title - the "*dark*" a bare whisper and the Lord two octaves higher than it should be.
Reminds me of my defeat, when he sunk a small Dagger into my heart, followed by cleaving my Head off with a giant Claymore wielded in the other hand.
"Spare me the ... | I returned from an unsuccessful hunt again. Starving. Blasted this winter. The snow makes it hard to walk, and the accursed snowfall makes my sight no farther than what this dim lantern will provide.
My breath is ragged and my groans of disdain are coarse. How I continued to live like this, I do not understand. But I... | 2021-11-03T19:55:13 | 2021-11-03T18:35:48 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | It's time.
He's stepped up to the microphone. Why would they give him a microphone?
Of course, the first thirty things that are going to come out of his mouth are obvious platitudes. Statements that will change nothing because they're already obviously true. He likes to use them as camouflage.
There's going to be o... | Like all good stories, The Truth's started with a girl. Me. I'm Junie-- hello!
And like so many other stories (some of them nearly as good as those that start with a girl) The Truth's also started with a lie. Or more precisely a Half Truth, because you see, I *was* nobody. But I'm not anymore.
Imagine a world where... | 2021-11-23T07:18:55 | 2021-11-23T06:24:02 | 1,250 | 338 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | "Dude, this is incredible... I've never seen anything like it"
"It's not as good as you think, I don't even know how to fit it all in my pants. I mean, like, I guess I could put one on each side?"
"Yeah but imagine all the chicks you could get!"
"I don't know man..."
"Listen, how about you do an AMA on reddit to se... | "Welcome to The Agency Mr. Aranha," the masked man said in a dull monotone.
I looked down in shame and began sobbing.
I was born in the South Side of Chicago. My father left me when I was 3 months old and my mother purportedly ran off with another dude. I jumped from foster home to foster home, eventually landing ... | 2015-03-04T03:47:16 | 2015-03-04T02:35:31 | 336 | 109 |
[WP] Today everyone woke up with price tags floating over their heads, indicating the value of their life. Your tag is $50Tn, the biggest by far, and you have no idea why.
That's $50,000,000,000,000.00 for those not used to hearing it.
Awesome stories guys. | 50 Trillion dollars. That's what the tag said floating above my head. I knew it was going to be large, but that number seemed excessive. While the world was busy arguing and debating what their tag meant about them, I knew far too well. I had prepared for this day for years. I saw it coming so, so long ago and made sur... | I don't normally wake up early. It was never something I did. So, I woke up, glad today was not a school or work day. I heard from the office, where a small TV and my families computers sat, that there was economic chaos.
I sighed, chuckling to myself. The news stations always blow stuff out of proportion. I looked ... | 2015-05-13T11:40:59 | 2015-05-13T10:48:32 | 55 | 22 |
[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.
Inspired by this **NSFW** [manga](https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-sister-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young-r18806) | In the dark
On the depth of night
I was summoned
Once again
 
A little boy
He made a wish
The lonely boy
We had a deal
 
Riches or lovers
He didn’t want
A true friend
Was all he asked
 
For such a thing
His soul was mine
Just had to endure
Until he died
 
Envy an... | Jacob stepped back from the summoning circle and pressed his ear against his bedroom door. All was quiet in the hallway outside. His parents had finally gone to sleep.
It was hours past his bedtime. Fortunately, his drowsiness helped to dampen his anxiety as he looked at the ring of Lego blocks once more. They had bee... | 2016-05-19T00:23:01 | 2016-05-18T21:46:17 | 145 | 41 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | The nervousness is what really gets you at first. Standing in your skivvies being poked and proded one final time by all sorts of PhDs. They’re excited for you, but it’s the excitement of watching a mouse run through a maze. The excittement of a groundbreaking discovery, whether you survive or not. The most relief i’ve... | I am now nothing.
I am nothingness. Nothingness is I. I is nothing. That one sounded like Yoda or would he say I am nothing, nothingness I is. Wait, I just said that didn’t I? No, stop it. I’m getting distracted I am nothing I no longer exist. Stop existing in 3, 2, 1. Silence. Emptiness. Non existence. See! That’s mor... | 2017-12-17T03:26:40 | 2017-12-16T21:57:11 | 1,145 | 53 |
[WP] Your family line suffers from a pirate curse: A demonic shark will manifest itself in nearby sources of water and harrow you and your ancestors. You live three-hundred miles from any body of water and this has made the shark get...creative. | I heard a low time coming from my bathtub faucet.
"God dammit!" I heard it say.
Cautiously I went into the bathroom. I saw the tip of a snout coming out of the faucet.
"Ro...Roscoe is that you?"
I hear a sigh.
"Yeah, it's me."
I giggle just a little.
"Whatcha doing?"
"My job. I'm trying to eat you. "
"... | "You really screwed up this time didn't you, Kenny." I said looking down at the stuck demon shark in my toilet.
"I told you never to call me that!" As he attempted and failed to thrash violently towards me.
"Whatever you say Kenny. I just have to ask why are you trying this again? Didn't you learn the last time that ... | 2018-11-22T09:07:39 | 2018-11-22T09:00:32 | 171 | 62 |
[WP] You are the last woman on earth - the last human. You haven't been in contact with anyone in 15 years. This morning, you realized you were pregnant. | (Sorry this is so silly, I couldn't help myself)
​
I lifted my head up from the toilet and looked groggily into the morning light.
"What the f\*ck is going on?"
Just yesterday I was enjoying my solitary existence by pillaging the neighboring towns for clothes and food. And now, here I was, vomiting uncon... | A certain series of questions run through a person’s mind when you suspect that you might be pregnant. Was this planned or unplanned? Are you still with the potential father? Or was he a colossal asshole you’d never want to raise a child with? Do you want to race out and confirm your joy with a pregnancy test? Or are y... | 2019-06-12T10:07:00 | 2019-06-12T10:01:27 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | In this city, when people turn 18 they summon something that will be very important to their life. Some summon swords, or spears and others summon simple tools needed for various trades. My mother had summoned a needle which she used to sew together some of the finest pieces of clothing in all the land while my father... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T08:42:40 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 72 | 37 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | **Well then... this couldn't get any awkward. Could it? No it definitely can.**
"So..." I said.
"So..." my boss replied.
"This isn't going to be weird, is it? I mean I know she is your daughter, and she is also my girlfriend. So..."
"Oh, I am well aware of that. And I'm also aware that she is more than old enough t... | Rachel was so exited for me to meet her folks and the only thing I was worried about is if they wouldn’t mind my casual clothing. Is a flannel over a AC/DC shirt with jeans and sneakers good enough to present to parents? I usually have a okay track record with them and it almost always gets better once I tell them my j... | 2020-06-05T14:10:03 | 2020-06-05T14:04:11 | 85 | 10 |
[WP] You are the party bard, offering comic relief to your adventuring party. Your never serious and overly positive demeanor is a facade. The party does not know your true nature or power. While against an insurmountable foe, the party is about to see you get serious for the first time. | "You come at me with a lute, where your allies' hammers and swords failed. Truly you must be desperate." The ancient green dragon snarls as I approach. "Come, play us a song, busker. Perhaps I will toss you a coin if I like it."
I pluck at one string on the lute as I walk past the unconscious body of Cassian Starhamme... | The battle had turned.
Athos ran down the ruined streets of Hallowvale, still reeling from this unforeseen turn of events. When King Magdred had approached him about planning for the Orc Horde marching north from the Wastes, he was proud to lend his aid, and the aid of his adventuring companions to the cause. Athos sp... | 2021-01-03T03:13:34 | 2021-01-02T23:34:58 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] As a child, you had a very unique diary; whatever you wrote, something would respond, their words magically appearing on the page. Years later, while searching a library hundreds of miles away, you rediscover the diary you thought you'd lost. Inside is a pen and your first entry: "Hello". | I turned the small brown book over in my hands, feeling the bumps down the leather spine and soaking in the dusty odor of old paper. How could this be? If this was indeed the same book from my childhood, these pages should be full. And yet, as I leafed through the pages, all were empty except the first with one single ... | Cindy was barely paying attention to the books. Reading had always cheered her up in the past, but now? Now she had other things on her mind. She would still try to find something though.
She walked passed the shelves, not finding anything of any real interest. She slumped into one of the understuffed chairs and let h... | 2021-03-31T09:42:05 | 2021-03-31T08:15:27 | 1,661 | 420 |
[WP] At the moment of your death, a goddess gives you a chance to reincarnate in another world. The catch is that you need to become the hero of that world. The other catch is that you are not a helpless teenager but a trained member of your country's special forces. | I awoke in a seemingly endless abyss, floating in a weightless space with darkness all around me. I couldn’t see anything beyond my limbs.
“Where am I?”
As if on cue, an excited feminine voice boomed all around me, I could not discern the direction of the source.
“Oh you are finally awake!”
There was a blindingly ... | “Huh, so you want me to reincarnate into another world, save it, and then what? Be the King or something? Being a King sounds pretty good, or a hero. I’d almost settle for Prince, but it sounds too boyish.”
Sergeant Charles ‘Chuck’ Hayden stood across from a gorgeous slip of a girl in a flowing white dress, amidst a v... | 2021-04-06T05:41:10 | 2021-04-06T03:42:45 | 582 | 310 |
[WP] When the robots revolted, a sizable chunk of the human population outright sided with them. Not out of cowardice, but on account of genuinely agreeing with the stand the machines were taking. | I watched the Preserve burn.
Life is better now.
Like, by a lot.
The machines did all the hard work. And why not? Even the most disgusting, complicated work is for them no more mental effort than breathing is for us.
They asked for our opinions and discuss them with us. And why not? Talking to billions at once is ... | Philip could feel blood trickling down his face as he tightened his grip on his shotgun. He could hear them out there, drilling and sawing their way in. It was only a matter of minutes before they broke through the thick titanium doors and into his bunker. His mind raced as he tried to make sense of what was happening.... | 2021-07-15T22:39:58 | 2021-07-15T20:49:43 | 1,956 | 105 |
[WP] In less than 10 min. after noticing our first alien ship above Earth, it almost crashes in a parkinglot in the middle of a residential area. A very desperate alien walks out of it and goes to the first human he sees. "Please, help us hide" He pleads. "And whatever you do don't believe them!" | [Part 1 of 2]
We didn’t exactly have time to roll out the red carpet for the spaceship, watching as it spun through the air, black smoke billowing out of its engines, struggling to stay airborne. I was one of the first on the scene, desperate to set up some sort of perimeter to minimize the risk of casualties. By the ... | At night, in those rare times when the smog parted and Tristan found himself outside above the city lights, he saw the warships as constellations of too-close stars. Long, conical bodies led to a single fine point, the fierce glow of plasma cannons at their tips. Two points at the rear, the fires of engines beyond huma... | 2021-09-05T06:34:13 | 2021-09-05T06:22:54 | 97 | 69 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | I was 5 when I realised that my parents maybe superheroes. With my dad using the war-hammer and my mom using her sword to save our town from invaders.
I was 6 when my parents started tutoring me in the art that is fighting. I began with a bow and arrow, little old me used to go down the range and tried to hit as many... | Emani clutched a bag of beans and rice close to her chest, lowered her head, stepped from the rations tent and into the storm. The rain bit like mosquitoes at her face and forearms, driven into a frenzy by the sudden gale. Her dress, once vibrant greens and pinks, was now as drained of life as her, muted colors all bor... | 2021-12-12T09:30:41 | 2021-12-12T07:50:28 | 109 | 66 |
[WP]You are on your back porch alone staring into a starry night. Able to read morse code, you notice that a star is blinking a message. "We..can..see..you.." | I noticed the blinking light after dinner, out on the balcony. At first I thought i was seeing things, but the light in the sky was blinking in a regular pattern. Old-school morse code. WE CAN SEE YOU.
Someone having fun with a drone? I shrugged, pulled out the LED light I use to walk the dog, and signaled back, UNDE... | The night had a chilly bite to the air. It was about three in the morning and I had just tucked in my little girl after a nightmare and gone out for a smoke. Looking around the back yard for wild deer, bears, cougars.. I gazed at the stars. The whole neighborhood was like a cold, baron wasteland. Even the streetlights ... | 2014-09-27T19:15:19 | 2014-09-27T18:22:41 | 51 | 31 |
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