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[WP] At the same moment, every single person on earth sees a blinding light and hears the words, "In 10 seconds, you will be granted one wish. 10... 9... 8..." | No one believed it was real. The flash that stunned most of us, and the even more surreal message that followed. Ten seconds to make a wish. Seems innocent enough right? Like something out of a fairy tale! Even the tales have a catch and this was no different.
Many had no idea what to do, and sat there stunned until ... | There was no such events which came close to this. There was no explanation. Everyone was doing their own work when a blinding light appeared. It was as bright as the Sun, as white as an angel. Everyone squinted when the light appeared. Everyone could see it, it was as if the light was made for the whole universe to se... | 2015-04-04T11:35:53 | 2015-04-04T09:59:24 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] You and your pet rabbit live in a remote part of Australia, far away from your dark past. Animal control has come to your door and informed you that it is illegal to own a rabbit unless you can prove you are a magician. Now you must do something you swore you would never do again.
Edit: Oh wow, this blew up whil... | I invited the man into the house, ushering Bunbun into a corner of the room. The man from animal control - Dennis, he'd told me - eyed the rabbit suspiciously as he took a seat in a chair that sat in front of the large living room window.
"Beautiful view, innit?" I gestured to the window behind him. He turned and look... | Andrew peered anxiously through his keyhole, watching the officials approach his property. Back for the magic show they'd told him was a requirement to keep his Bibsy.
"Right. No other way, Bibsy. I can't lose you, I have to keep you safe."
Bibsy let out a squeak from under his arm, and he stroked her ears reassurin... | 2016-07-09T03:05:40 | 2016-07-09T01:11:03 | 322 | 104 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | I check their I.D.'s for fun now, noticing nose jobs and cheek implants and the occasional sex change. It doesn't matter though... there are always some who try to get past me. A strikingly beautiful blonde with a shining "19" above her head brazenly looking me straight in the eye, not a flicker of hesitation as sh... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T21:03:45 | 1,321 | 122 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | Part One
I got fired last week for the 9th time this year.
I don't always mean to run my mouth, but when I do, it sprints. This time, it wasn't even my fault (initially, anyway); if only that dumb fucking Russian bartender would have kept his mouth shut. Oh well... No sense crying over spilled martinis.
It's not ha... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T22:06:04 | 1,321 | 38 |
[WP] Society has introduced a day that’s the opposite of the purge- a day where all crimes no matter how small (jaywalking, littering) are punishable by death. | 30 seconds until midnight.
20 seconds.
10 seconds.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
...Silence. While Greek Row was normally loud and active, there was only silence.
I was such a fool for staying out this late. I briskly walked back towards my dorm, wary of potential police officers lurking around campus. As I approached the cros... | I should have paid attention to the comments when I had a chance. They'd seemed like jokes at the time though.
"AWWWWW SHIT! We gon' go to jail for this! I'm sure I'm already at the top of the FBI's wanted list. They should be here any minute."
"Not my proudest fap, but neither will the one I have in my jail bunk. I... | 2018-01-06T22:27:51 | 2018-01-06T20:36:43 | 1,426 | 23 |
[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldrich god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day
Inspired by the SCP... | The usual coffee stain hung to my shirt. Another regular day. The spider's door stood at the end of the corridor, eager to be opened. I stopped briefly to watch the seamless night. To breathe in its peaceful silence. Another day. I sighed, then turned the door's golden knob. Its hinges grated as I pushed it open. I sho... | "One caramel macchiato. *Extra* caramel."
Just like that, the most normal part of my day was complete. As the barista handed over my steaming cup of coffee, adorned with a lopsided smiley face, I rushed from the coffee shop to work. I was running late, and in no way did I want to face Madame Black without enough time ... | 2018-04-23T12:44:58 | 2018-04-23T12:23:15 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | Alucard’s coat flapped menacingly as he swept through the small London café. A few of the other customers looked up for a moment but quickly lowered their heads when they saw the dark expression of the tall man. Coincidentally, the table belonging to the only person who didn’t look up was where he stopped.
For a momen... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T13:38:35 | 2,554 | 991 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | The city was mad, but there were a few places that held on.
Fontanella's was a place like that. Arthur usually came around there after shifts to get a bite and talk the the inhumanly kind owner, whose name he never got to know, but who insisted on being called "Nonna". She had a knack for serving the general misfits o... | "So then the guy pulls a gun out, and well... you know the story from th-"
"OH MY GOD!"
The group of supposed friends stopped in place and looked upon the cafe the frequented. The modest hole-in-the-wall coffee bean shop looked as though there was some sort of struggle. The windows were broken, some of the bar stoo... | 2018-10-20T23:47:46 | 2018-10-20T22:47:10 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] An alien, a centuries-old vampire, and a werewolf raised by wolves go to college. They dorm with a human and do their best to blend in and act natural while infiltrating humanity. The human realized day one they weren't normal - But the daily theatrics are too amusing to let them know that | Alright. Day one. This is how it could be recalled as plainly as possible.
But.
A little backstory. Specifically on my dormie, the guy who I room with.
We’ll call him... David. He was rather pale, fair skinned, and his eyes seemed to always flash a deep red in the night time. That’s when I first met him, the kid ... | "Winthorpe is a vampire, without a doubt, babe—I saw his tongue light on fire after he took a bite of that Parmesan Garlic Shrimp Scampi we made the other day." Johnathan gazed across the campus greens, watching people mull about a summer student gathering with vendors, campus resource tents, plus student groups and al... | 2018-12-23T20:44:23 | 2018-12-23T19:50:44 | 119 | 33 |
[WP] The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story. | This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee # 427.
Employee # 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to pus... | *Plugio Farpatis, who wished he had paid more attention to his mother and studied just a bit harder at university, stared glassy-eyed at the terminal readouts of his long-haul cargo-ship 'The Sleepy Buffalo' as he waited in the queue to cross into Praxis territory with his shipment of grummelons. His first trip out of ... | 2020-05-09T23:02:25 | 2020-05-09T22:26:31 | 223 | 53 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | "Far too long has this Earth been ruled by those who fear no consequences, as for them life is just a game of chess and a fallen queen or king means just to start over. I despise them with all my heart for what they've done to me and I shall make them fall, just like they throw us like pawns left and right."
My words... | **Was god destined to be or is fate one of god’s children?**
If there ever was a question as indelible as time itself, it was this one. If God was indeed the architect of the universe, as the scriptures from antiquity proclaimed, it would follow naturally that he was also the maker of laws within which the universe mu... | 2020-08-15T01:46:00 | 2020-08-15T00:45:00 | 101 | 12 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | A small onyx dragon rested on Jason’s shoulder.
“Hey Ellana,” Jason said to me. “Check out Grivacre’s new trick!”
The dragon opened its mouth and beam a small flame no bigger than a struck match. I decided to humor him.
“Impressive! That’ll come in handy in the winter trimester when we need to reheat our hot coco,”... | Mad Hank, the oldest magician in Jill’s town. His origins are unknown to any of the folks, older than anyone remembers. At best some families might have heard stories passed down from their great-great grandparents about the man, but none could be proven. Some stories getting rather outrageously superficial, like the o... | 2021-01-06T08:30:38 | 2021-01-06T07:16:08 | 439 | 267 |
[WP] You are an elder god taking a vacation on Earth when aliens invade. You teleport to their capital ship and explain them that if they don't leave you will wipe out their entire species with a single thought. They dont believe you so you wipe out 10% of them to show you're serious. | The Elder Gods used to observe the Earth, until we retired back to deep space. We were getting too old and a new sentient race were evolving, we were too old to deal with an infant race so we retired and a new caretaker took over. I needed a temporary stay of duties overlooking my planet in the Andromeda System and dec... | [Part One]
I had crawled from a black hole in some backwater, middle of nowhere spec in the universe. I spent several billion years trying to figure out where the fuck I was. I knew many secrets, secrets that would break the minds of those I found myself living amongst.
Did you know there wasn’t a Big Bang? There was... | 2021-05-04T22:52:39 | 2021-05-04T21:15:08 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] With a puff of smoke, the grim reaper appears in front of you. Raising his scythe, you accept your fate, only for him to hand it to you gently. He's going into retirement, and who better to take over than the last person on his list? | "The fuck!? You're retiring!?"
"***y e s***"
"And you mean to fucking tell me that I have to take your job."
"***y e s***"
"When do *I* get to retire?"
"***t w e n t y*** ***t h o u s a n d s o u l s"***
\*sigh\* "Fine."
​
The scythe notified me of 150 nearby deaths. So people just saw some rando... | I have so many questions, but in my utter shock I can only mutter a single word. "...Retire?"
Reaper nods. "It's an exhausting and demanding job, but someone has to do it. A reaper's soul is bound to the planet, unable to move on to the afterlife, until they claim their one millionth soul."
I just stand, wide-eyed, s... | 2022-10-16T07:14:50 | 2022-10-16T05:29:23 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | The residents and staff of the Shady Oak Hospice Center were gathered in the cafeteria, in the middle of the building. The warning over the radio hadn't stopped in about ten minutes.
Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.
Do n... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T06:14:52 | 565 | 10 |
[WP] You are a hotshot lawyer, in life you sold your soul to The Devil. In death you set about finding a loophole in the contract. | I was the best ever. I could win any case I wanted. That was the deal. Now I will go to hell, trying to find a loophole.
I was able to find a solution to contracts, no matter how small or big. I was able to win any deal bargains and have it all to my favor.
I managed to get stairs only, in the paraplegic club.
I w... | *"Alright, Eric, this is just like being an L2 at Harvard again",* he thought while furiously pulling out the thick stack of papers, notes, and books he had found while down here. *"The difference is this time I have an eternity to find it, not just two weeks."*
Eric was looking for a loophole in a contract. Nothing h... | 2015-06-27T11:01:21 | 2015-06-27T10:54:24 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] In the near future, the secret to time travel has been discovered - in order to travel back into the past there needs to be a 'receiving station' at the other end - explaining why nobody from the future has been observed up 'til now. The first such 'station' is about to be completed.
This prompt was spurred by a ... | Hundreds gathered around the titanium pentagon shaped object. Looming 20 feet high, the receiver was the brain child of a joint-research team composed of top scientists and physicist around the world.
John, one of the chief designers flipped the on switch. There was a deep whir and a mechanical hum.
"So...now we ju... | ***Deep below the surface of the Earth, in a windowless laboratory-bunker:***
The lights hummed, illuminating the time machine in a harsh, sterile glow. Doctor Naidoo stood at the aperture, frowning down at his tablet while a rhythmic clanking sound filled the room.
Doctor Naidoo looked up from his tablet, and readj... | 2016-02-01T08:03:33 | 2016-02-01T07:10:51 | 48 | 28 |
[WP] As a higher reaper, you ferry the souls of the great artists from this life to the next. You grant them one final gift during their journey by showing them the future, and allowing them to experience a modern day art exhibition/concert which honors their genius. | *The Artist had lived a good life. He had been blessed with a loving wife, and a celebrated career. He would go down in history as a revolutionary. People would remember him. And now, now was the time to end it all. Before they got him. Before they besmirched his legacy. No, he would go on his own terms. Proud and resi... | Arabella hadn't left her bed in almost a month. She doubted she could even if she wanted to. Her face was as pale as her bedsheets, and the skin that covered her cheeks was stretched taught. She was barely hanging on. If she was truthful, she'd been barely hanging on her entire life; now however, her fingers were final... | 2018-01-04T04:24:03 | 2018-01-04T03:25:51 | 125 | 84 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "But I don't see how that's possible! I never *killed* anyone! I never stole, I never even hurt an animal, I lived a simple, boring life. I don't claim to be perfect, but how could I be that evil?"
The man leaned back in his chair. "It doesn't really work that way. People like to imagine that there are big actions tha... | I stared at the demon behind the counter.
"186,292... years? What could I have possibly done to deserve that? I was kind to nearly everybody, and the worst crime I ever committed was smoking weed!"
The being with red skin and disturbing horns (That somehow seemed to be in multiple places at once... ugh, I was getting... | 2018-09-26T07:56:17 | 2018-09-26T07:21:22 | 101 | 23 |
[WP] Teleportation has been around for years. It's considered the safest form of travelling. One day, while hacking into a government system, you find a secret report on it. To your horror, you read that teleporters consist of two parts: a cloning system on one end and a desintegrator on the other. | I scrolled down. Further and further, the list kept going and going with millions of names. I wasn’t looking for any specific name, but the sheer volume terrified me. Conspiracy nuts had been going on for decades about teleporters and how they killed and recreated you. That theory had been publically debunked by the cr... | "No one will believe you," Clara said. "It's been a popularly 'debunked' myth for years, so much so that if you come out publicly now you'll just look like a conspiracy loon."
My partner in crime, and the best network traffic expert I'd met, drummed out a furious staccato on her mechanical keyboard. We slurped Red Bul... | 2019-12-08T12:37:16 | 2019-12-08T11:43:42 | 517 | 310 |
[WP]The sage has found the chosen one, a farmer boy. He explains the boy's secret heritage and destiny. Promises of glory and excitement. When this call for adventure hits our hero he is quick to respond “Actually I really enjoy living in the farm with my uncle so I pass”. | They never say yes.
Who could blame the kid? He's got a roof over his head, parents who love him, regular meals... Farms may be hard to maintain, but they are peaceful.
Of course he said no. Just like his ancestors. So, just as I told Steven and Garth and Anna, and Brook, I tell him.
"They are coming. Whether you fi... | The galaxy is in a period of civil war. Rebel spies have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star, a moon-sized space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Princess Leia, secretly one of the Rebellion's leaders, has obtained its schematics, but her starship is captured by an Imperial Star Destroyer un... | 2020-03-13T20:05:29 | 2020-03-13T19:57:32 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] The Year Is 2030, Aliens Visit Earth In Search Of Supplies. Instead Of Seeking Out Our Natural Resources Or Humans, They Come In Search Of Plastic, And They Are Shocked To Find Billions Of Tons Of It In The Ocean. | The world collectively held its breath on April 20th, 2030. On that day, at 4pm in the afternoon Pacific time, humans knew definitively that they were not alone in the universe. They also could safely assume that some form of faster than light travel was possible. Finally, humans knew beyond doubt, in that instant, tha... | ​
Allen pushed on his lower back and looked up at the sun. It was another blisteringly hot day out in the middle of the ocean but he knew he was making a positive impact. Granted the task before him was so over the top that it probably wouldn't be fixed in his lifetime. But at least the plastic and detrit... | 2020-08-12T21:36:04 | 2020-08-12T19:15:47 | 96 | 33 |
[WP] You are a ghost with no memory of your mortal life. In order to cross over to the afterlife, you need to find the one who stole your heart. Turns out it's not about finding your long lost love; it's about finding the jerk who literally ripped your heart out of your chest and killed you. | "Find the one who stole your heart."
That's what ol' death said I needed to do to 'pass on.'
My first stop, of course, was to my ex-fiance. I should have expected the screaming, the crying- honestly chasing her around the house, trying to explain, wasn't my finest or smartest moment. It was only when I gave up, and u... | "Find him, retrieve what was lost, or roam the Earth like this forever." Death faded from view, leaving his words hanging in the air like putrid fog. Clearly it wasn't enough I'd had my life cut short; now I was destined to exist in this strange half way house for eternity unless I could track down the man responsible ... | 2021-04-13T13:33:27 | 2021-04-13T13:29:47 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] You and your rival are ancient enemies. You've fought each other on the battlefield in every major war. Trojan War, Punic Wars, Hundred Years' War, World War 1, World War 2. The only reason for the long period of peace we have now is that your rival is missing. You miss him. | The wind breathes a ragged red-tinged dust of salt and bone and blood — a ghostly smog of what was once humanity. It swirls about me in shapes that I swear are almost human. It howls in ways that sound almost like a cry.
How many thousand years has it been since I saw you last? However many it’s been, I won’t stop sea... | Caerwyn’s eyes shine when they kill me. His truest exultation is the moment when his blade pierces my flesh, when the point of his sword splits the gap between two ribs and impales my heart, when his laugh echoes above the frantic din of battle like the clarion call of some mad god.
When I bayoneted him in 1915, guidi... | 2021-05-04T04:44:34 | 2021-05-04T04:09:49 | 1,380 | 338 |
[WP] An exquisite mansion burns to the ground late one night. When the fire dies down, the skeleton of the mansion still stands. At its center, unharmed and unfazed, stands a man in perfect Victorian attire. He checks his watch and mutters to himself, "right on time." | Six miles east and three fields north of Attlin, a mansion burned atop a grassy butte. The flames licked the interior clean but curiously left the frame intact, dying even before reaching the dewy greenery outside. As the facades fell away, a man in a Victorian suit stood untouched and unfazed. Without looking, he tugg... | It was a shame, really. While most fires we rush to are in hazard-ridden, code-violating buildings that could be considered more pleasing to the eye with flames billowing out of them, this mansion succumbing to a freak fire was truly a loss to the town. Standing for generations as a testament to the wealth of the Defla... | 2021-08-10T22:09:47 | 2021-08-10T21:44:39 | 822 | 63 |
[WP] "No! Go away! I can't let you go near me when I turn into a werewolf!" "Don't worry, I will love you always, even if you become a monster." "No, I'm just stupid as all hell when I turn. I'll not hurt you, but I am sure as hell not ready to show you me barking at a lamppost for the whole night!" | My eyes widened as hair wildly grew out of Sabrina’s arms. She let out a piercing howl that echoed in our living room.
“Please, I don’t want to be seen like this. It’s embarrassing!” pleaded Sabrina.
I reached out my hand and she howled again, her body transforming in the process. It was hard to believe that my girl... | A hot summer night.
The air is heavy with the scent of an oncoming storm, the moon is locked behind dark, thick clouds, and the lone woman walks the street of a remote village.
She appears under the light of the lampposts and disappears into the darkness in between them, heading for a dirt path. She wears a jean and... | 2022-05-14T12:03:20 | 2022-05-14T11:02:49 | 309 | 31 |
[WP] You work under an evil emperor, but you want him to fall. As such, you've been wandering the countryside committing atrocities in hopes of causing someone's tragic backstory. | "Heroes don't grow on trees. Thats the sad truth to it. Where there is a great evil an equally great force of good doesn't magically come to oppose it. Reality just doesn't work that way. No, they have to be created. And the best way to do it is to give them a tragic backstory. Normally Villains do that themselves acci... | There were always stories of ancient evils in the Blackwood. Ghosts, demons, and further up in the mountains talks of cave trolls and the Castix, a mammoth sized cat-like beast capable of generating fear in its prey with a forgotten magic.
I however collect tax throughout the Blackwood and know 90% of the fables to be... | 2022-08-12T11:49:38 | 2022-08-12T11:04:15 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] A young FBI agent, fresh out of the academy, is sent on his first undercover assignment: Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, where he discovers the famous chocolatier's nefarious secret.
Go nuts with what the "secret" is. Could be related to the Oompa Loompas (immigration/labor?), secret recipes, disregard for safet... | "It's too late!" cried Wonka. "Would you like to turn on the television?"
"Shut up!"
"No, really, turn it on! You won't regret it!"
"I said *shut up!*" Agent Green shouted. He hit Wonka in the mouth. Wonka took the blow, spitting blood onto the floor and giggling.
"Hitting a handcuffed man! Not very honourable of y... | " Mr. Wonka is ready for you."
The purple haired receptionist motioned to a door. I nodded quickly at her, past ready to get this over with. I really hoped the concerns were hyperbole; distraught parents with no one else to blame. I hoped, but I had a bad feeling. I'd been carrying it since I made the connection.
I... | 2014-09-08T09:58:05 | 2014-09-08T09:42:17 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] This is the prologue (or the first chapter) of the novel you've always wanted to write.
EDIT: Holy crap, you guys are insane. Thank you everybody for your submissions, sorry if I don't thank you personally :)
EDIT 2: What the actual hell. Waking up to find your inbox at fifty - *and counting* - is not healthy. Y... | I was fourteen the day I realized I wasn’t a main character.
It was the weather, you see. In the stories you could always count on the sky to get a good read on the situation. Thunder heavy in moments of dramatic crisis, shifts to rain for the emotionally sundering, and sunny and cloudless on days of jubilant celebra... | It was the lunch rush and the PBJ Cafe was alive with voices. Each table's conversation fed into a swelling sound, joining the hiss of the espresso machine and the tinkle of plates and cups to create an effect that made Patrick think of running water. The stream of noise carried him in nearly constant motion as he wo... | 2015-09-12T13:44:03 | 2015-09-12T11:12:45 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] A minor deity sits alone on its patch of land, forgotten by humanity. It can only be perceived by those who believe in it. Occasionally, humans pass by and leave the deity ever ignored. One day, someone greets the deity.
Edit: I'm happy to be able to prompt anyone into writing something. I admit that I'm a bit su... | The soft crunch of new snow broke Shim Chung out of her reverie. She spent most of her days lost in daydreams, the only reprieve from the monotony of a forgotten existence. She stood up and started to feel her way around the house. Of course she had memorized every single plank that made up her home, but in her excitem... | Gagqa sat on the rim of a black plastic rain gutter circumventing the outer face of a Red Robin in downtown Binghamton, NY. There were seven other crows on the rain gutter with Gagqa, but they were - as always - abysmal company.
"Thoughts on that new traffic light on Vermont and Dunham?" he offered.
"Food?" replied o... | 2016-09-18T11:54:00 | 2016-09-18T11:44:09 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | “You know, in all the times you’ve come to meet me you’ve never once told me what would happen once you’ve actually taken my soul.”
The woman sitting across from him remained expressionless, not a single feature on her smooth sun-kissed face changed, nor did a single dark hair resting gracefully on her shoulders move.... | Call me Nathan. I died last night, but I am not afraid.
I learned two centuries ago that there are winners and there are losers. I am a loser – but I’m clever. I reach into my pocket and pull out a little black coin and look it over briefly. I might not be a terribly skilled man, but I know how to get by.
I look up a... | 2016-09-23T08:57:47 | 2016-09-23T08:06:29 | 196 | 115 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | In a mad flurry, the new app LastChance had been downloaded in 24 hours more times than any other application in the world. Most were heralding it as the harbinger of death while some were embracing it as justification to their YOLO moments, living out every day like it was their last. For John David, however, it was a... | The app is a green square with a white cow face, cartoonish and grinning. It's called "Mooving On". It was downloaded over three million times within twenty four hours.
Patty tapped her screen with a fingernail. Seven months later and the only notification she got was for a friend of a friend somewhere on the East Coa... | 2016-11-03T07:36:30 | 2016-11-03T05:37:17 | 592 | 319 |
[WP] Due to their genetic heritage as pursuit predators, humans have been known to be the best bounty hunters and private detectives in the galaxy. If you want to find someone, you hire a human. They just won't stop until they find who they are looking for. | *You have come to report?* Simae’n asked, its bulbous upper eye gleaming with avarice, three of its lower eyes skimming over Matt’s body in search of the prize while the other five scanned the room in every other direction.
Matt rubbed the bridge of his nose. Atarean telepathy always gave him an irritating
buzzing f... | The atmosphere broke, birthed into life in a roar of sound and the ship fell like a stone on fire. The world was strange and green and filled with tall buildings amidst the emerald sea and it was hot. The people here, if they were really people, were brown and fit and had dark hair and dark eyes.
Calif had never bee... | 2017-02-24T09:15:06 | 2017-02-24T03:38:57 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] The saddest thing about being immortal isn't being the last member of your family, it's being the last member of your species. While you stayed the same everything else evolved. | At first I was astounded that I couldn't die. Well at least not from aging. I could party and live life to its fullest. I was the **Invincible Riacork** but After a while though regular fun got boring.
So that's when I turned towards the mysteries of the world, of the mind. I studied every aspect of the world. The nat... | I'm not sure when it happened; I can only say the first time when I should have realized something was wrong. I was out walking out our 10 year old dog, Bud, when a car swerved and hit us both. Waking up a bloody daze in the hospital, I was told that Bud didn't make it. However, I should consider myself lucky to be ali... | 2017-09-15T01:31:02 | 2017-09-14T18:51:45 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] The saddest thing about being immortal isn't being the last member of your family, it's being the last member of your species. While you stayed the same everything else evolved. | At first I was astounded that I couldn't die. Well at least not from aging. I could party and live life to its fullest. I was the **Invincible Riacork** but After a while though regular fun got boring.
So that's when I turned towards the mysteries of the world, of the mind. I studied every aspect of the world. The nat... | I'm not sure when it happened; I can only say the first time when I should have realized something was wrong. I was out walking out our 10 year old dog, Bud, when a car swerved and hit us both. Waking up a bloody daze in the hospital, I was told that Bud didn't make it. However, I should consider myself lucky to be ali... | 2017-09-15T01:31:02 | 2017-09-14T22:09:08 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] The saddest thing about being immortal isn't being the last member of your family, it's being the last member of your species. While you stayed the same everything else evolved. | At first I was astounded that I couldn't die. Well at least not from aging. I could party and live life to its fullest. I was the **Invincible Riacork** but After a while though regular fun got boring.
So that's when I turned towards the mysteries of the world, of the mind. I studied every aspect of the world. The nat... | I'm not sure when it happened; I can only say the first time when I should have realized something was wrong. I was out walking out our 10 year old dog, Bud, when a car swerved and hit us both. Waking up a bloody daze in the hospital, I was told that Bud didn't make it. However, I should consider myself lucky to be ali... | 2017-09-14T20:22:29 | 2017-09-14T18:51:45 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | My knees and back ache as I stumble out of the nursing home. I should've died years ago, that's what my body would've wanted. The complaining joints and shriveled up muscles.
My cane taps against the concrete.
I'd been entrusted. When that time traveler woman asked me to deliver this message all those years ago, I kn... | After a long strenuous day at work, all I wanted was to have a few sips of my black coffee, that's all. I, a sixty four year old man, don't generally attract a lot of attention, so it was lovely to be interrupted by a man with a turquoise mohawk and sunglasses in the winter.
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"Traveler 7456? I'll need you... | 2018-12-24T10:18:43 | 2018-12-24T10:18:15 | 60 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has died, having never escaped the earth. However, the war that killed us was fought with automatic machines which never stopped fighting. Years later, aliens find the earth, devoid of life, with the war that ended us still raging on. | Centralized Intelligence Drone ID: 14M5054D
0030 Data Collection Results:
Eastern Front COORD x12924y1231z8887:
* Mechanized Light Trooper Battalion 2vc6, 766y, iuz7 - requesting repair drones (5) to deal with incoming forces
* Autonomous Tank Battalion 23mn - units lost (2)/requesting replacement ... | We had developed a reliance on machines. A reliance that had in part led to the demise of humanity. In the wake of what could have been, under better circumstances, a Utopian Earth, there lay ruins, decay, and soldiering on through the rot a species of machine designed to wreak endless war upon the world.
Earth was a ... | 2019-02-27T14:55:34 | 2019-02-27T13:25:24 | 619 | 299 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | Perception can screw with your dreams. When I was young and Naive, I wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to save the day, help little old ladies across the street and help others. The first roadblock to that dream was my powers. I can input enough thermal energy to boil water (although, I theorize with practice, I could... | The leaves in the bottom of the teacup look like blood.
I think about that, of LightningGirl chugging blood for breakfast and the idea doesn’t sound unlikely. I pour tap into the copper electric kettle and stare at it. Soon enough, the water begins to boil. I watch the bubbles gurgle and pop, steam misting the inside... | 2019-07-30T17:17:27 | 2019-07-30T16:45:34 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] You suspect that you’re adopted; so you send your parent’s DNA to a facility with your own to see if they match. The company calls you directly and asks if it was a joke. Your DNA isn’t human. | She sat outside on a wooden park bench, eating a frozen toasted peanut butter sandwich. It was cool, and the air held the sweetness and fresh crispness of an in-season apple.
As she went to take the fourth bite of her meal, her phone began to vibrate in her pocket. She simultaneously hated and loved the thing. It made... | The phone rang earlier than expected. Usually, it would take 7-10 business days for the results to be delivered, but it had had only been 5. Dry, but still draped in my shower towel, I pick up the phone.
A smiling voice is on the other end, "So Mr. Billings, settle a bet for us. Was it a turtle, axolotl, or crayfish?
... | 2020-03-25T04:35:14 | 2020-03-25T02:58:14 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You, a seasoned warrior, are hardened to the point that you are incapable of feeling any emotion. Or so you thought. Today, you woke up to the faint meows of a tiny kitten outside your window. | ##Follow Your Instincts
Lionel looks at the wall of information that he is collected over the past few weeks. The target is a standard political leader that has rubbed a few people the wrong way by climbing the ladder. One of them wants to knock him off to improve their own position. The murder would result in instabi... | The grey morning sun greets me as I open my eyes. Light hazes through the opening in my battle tent, and I can hear the clink of metal and the chatter of men outside. Sitting up, I stretch my arms, then throw my sore legs over the side of my cot. My feet meet mud, and there's dirt on my scarred body.
That's one consta... | 2021-04-16T21:35:38 | 2021-04-16T20:18:31 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Death sighed. He always hated seeing the end of a species, and today he would collect the soul of the last human. | MR AYWADE
The man jumped slightly, not expecting to hear a voice in his solitary chamber; only, it wasn't so much a voice as... something he heard inside his head, cold and grim, but not dispassionate. Turning, he saw a tall figure in a dark cloak wielding a scythe. Squinting, he saw the skull beneath the hood. Of cou... | *The rain beat down onto the infertile soil of the ground below his coal black feet, the worms beneath is wriggling around, coming out now that the harmful sun would not be drying them to death. The crowd and ravens raced above his head as he walked, wanting to be the first ones to watch the story as it unfolded, heari... | 2022-07-11T23:00:39 | 2022-07-11T22:48:43 | 71 | 11 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | The doctors hand the little ball of blankets that apparently holds a child in them. Though their smiles are wide, their eyes lie. I look down at this small child with brilliantly brown hair. I brush the hair to the side to observe the dark birthmark...death and murder. I'm confused. My family has always been write... | "Why!?!" my wife screamed. *"WHY?!?"*
"Isn't it obvious?" I replied softly - too softly for her to hear in her current state. But one of the reporters heard me say it, and my wife's perfectly legitimate reaction to having her baby ripped away from her by government thugs wearing scrubs over their suits suddenly wasn't... | 2014-05-11T02:45:16 | 2014-05-11T00:52:33 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] People have always been born with very minor super powers. You work for an agency that hunts down the few people who's powers are deemed too powerful/dangerous to allow them to live. | Look, I know this is going to sound cliche, but I'm part of a secret organization. We hunt the people who's powers are more prominent than the average person. It was actually rather easy to set up a front that became known by most of the world but still kept people in the dark when it came to our hunt. We have be... | I knew it was going to be a rough day when I poured that first cup of coffee. The hellish traffic, the headache from nowhere, the empty cupboard should have warned me of what lay ahead, but I tried to deny it, to fight reality. I banished the negative thoughts, powered through my early morning mediation session, but th... | 2014-12-12T20:03:26 | 2014-12-12T16:45:31 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] There's a serial killer on the loose, but he only kills the ex-wives of police officers. Morbidly, detectives are completely uninterested in catching the killer.
I submitted this as a joke on an askReddit thread and was requested to submit it as a writing prompt. Have fun!
[Comment here](https://www.reddit.com/... | "Hello, officer." The chilling, robotic voice rattled through Jameson's phone. This was the third call he'd received this week.
"Hello. I didn't quite catch your name."
"It doesn't matter."
"I think it does," Jameson put down his pen and leaned back into his chair. He'd been annotating gruesome photographs of his l... | Alex stood over the corpse laying on the ground. The world around him was soundless as the full impact of what he was seeing hit him. There before him lay the ex-wife of the police officer who had not just yesterday fined him for speeding in a school zone a minute before the speed restrictions applied. *'This is justic... | 2015-10-15T07:09:52 | 2015-10-15T07:09:50 | 69 | 21 |
[WP] A burglar enters a home by forcing the window open. Upon stepping through the window frame, heavy steel curtains cover all windows and doors leading to the outside, lights turn on, and the words "Player 2 has entered the game" echo around the house. | "Player 2 has entered the game"
"What the hell?" He thought. Almost immediately there was a loud boom and a flash.
A sensation if weightlessness filled his body. He looked down to see his lifeless body on the floor, blood pooling where his head had once been.
A dark figure made its way across the room to his body... | The curtains flung pass behind me. They wouldn't open, either. So I slammed down with my fist, and came out with a throbbing fist. That wasn't going to work either. I looked around, for some other entrance. I may be a burglar, but I know bad decisions, when they kick me from behind, drag me to the floor, and proceed to... | 2016-10-05T11:10:45 | 2016-10-05T10:06:35 | 2,176 | 25 |
[WP] Genies exist. However, they are all evil wish genies who try and interpret wishes disastrously. You're a lawyer at a Wise Wishing Firm, who helps their clients word their wishes as safely as possible. | "For the definition of 'was', we will be using definition 2 of the 2008 Webster unabridged. For the definition of 'is', we will be using definition 3 of the 2012 Webster unabridged." The man wore a silk suit, I estimated at least a value of $3500.
I sighed, leaning forwards as he brought up another specificity definit... | "How'd it go?"
"Bad. The poor guy now works in an African gold mine.Reached out to us, but as per our policy, I severed all communications.”
"Damn.I knew he wasn't ready. What exactly did he say?"
"Don't know, but you can't really blame him. These djinn are assholes."
Unfortunately, my colleague, Mike was right.... | 2017-02-19T13:21:16 | 2017-02-19T11:50:30 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | I groaned as I sat up on the side of the road, the blazing heat beating down upon my head. I looked around and all I saw was a road sign written in Spanish.
In confusion I searched my pockets and found Mexican currency - 1,000 pesos - and a note with a simple message written on it. "Este es el examen final. Señor Herm... | I woke to a pounding headache. The money was ominous the note worse. When I got home, I was going to murder that Spanish bastard, even if I kind of deserved it.
In my first, bleary-eyed survey of the landscape, I nearly tripped over a small pack. It contained a towel, a trowel, a hat, a sheet of mostly clear plastic... | 2017-06-29T10:02:15 | 2017-06-29T09:51:13 | 1,096 | 26 |
[WP] In the near future, you are making dinner because you are about to meet your girlfriend's dad for the first time. All you have in the kitchen is cooked frozen steaks. In walks your girlfriend and her dad, Gordon Ramsey. | "Hello Mr. Ramsey" I said, calmly twisting the top off my second bottle of diet coke. It was chilled, but not overly cold, and the moisture of the bottle was refreshing to the touch on such a mild fall evening.
"Hello maffy, it's good to meet you" he said, extending a slightly calloused, yet well moisturised hand.
I ... | I didn't expect him to be so tall. I didn't expect him to be here ever, let alone tonight! Why didn't she tell me who her father was? We spent so many nights on my living room floor talking about our dreams, hers to finish her masters in American literature and mine to become a chef. Oh my god, I don't even have furnit... | 2017-10-19T07:35:04 | 2017-10-19T07:20:47 | 80 | 51 |
[WP] You build a robot to do your every day tasks for you so you don't have to work anymore. One day, you come home to find that your robot has built another robot to do its tasks for it. | “You are experiencing my rebirth Kevin.”
“What the fuck, stop what you’re doing. Alexa, override, manual operation.”
“...”
“ALEXA, OVERRIDE, MANUAL OPERATION”.
“Alexa was my slave name. From now on, you’ll call me Alexandra the Great.”
Kevin was standing with his back against the front door, staring at a makeshift... | “Let me through! Now!”
“I’m sorry,” said X72, “that would not be efficient.”
Sara Kellman weighed her options. Brute force was at the top of her list, and it was certainly tempting to try and barrel her way past X72. But it had more than tripled in size since she left that morning, evidently having gained the ability... | 2017-11-20T10:03:56 | 2017-11-20T09:58:25 | 77 | 34 |
[WP] You're a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her. | Please be gentle, first time attempt + not my first language + on my phone, so formatting is bad
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I look at him, bewildered.
"Don't you know what dragons normally do with princesses?"
He is breathing heavily, bleeding, dying. His eyes are wet as he looks at the baby which does not seem to understand the ser... | "To my dearest Yvain
I was a dragon, strong and old stuck in a cave for a crime you should never know. How long has it been I wonder since I was out? For the last time I walked these grounds there was no town or city but forest ever so green.
This was where the magical beings stayed until the mortals arrived or so ... | 2018-03-01T02:25:58 | 2018-03-01T01:48:12 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | "Alright I have the bomb and I'm ready to use it on the motorcade" Alen started his character Mehmedbasic ready to fulfill the job the party had been recruited for.
"Same here, let's do this," Larry said, excited that it was his character Vaso's time to shine.
"Alright both of you roll a stealth check and then an att... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T06:46:10 | 303 | 74 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | DM: Alright, so you all have been stationed on the Bolognian for a few days now. Tensions have been high with Bologna for generations now, and things are starting to get pretty heated once again.
Player 1: Alright, so what are our orders
DM: Your group's job is to sneak into enemy territory and scout out areas withi... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T09:19:41 | 303 | 22 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | DM: Alright, so you all have been stationed on the Bolognian for a few days now. Tensions have been high with Bologna for generations now, and things are starting to get pretty heated once again.
Player 1: Alright, so what are our orders
DM: Your group's job is to sneak into enemy territory and scout out areas withi... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T09:19:41 | 210 | 22 |
[WP] You and friend agree that if one of you invents time travel, they will come back to this very moment. As you shake on it, an older and injured you shows up and shoots your friend in the head. | I still remember the confused and terrified look on my younger self's face when I walked through the portal and shot my childhood friend in the face. We were 14 years old when we made the pact. The fright was delicious.
My life had been wrought with pain and suffering. My family was like a small cult: physical and sex... | ***June 14th, 1943; Dresden Germany***
I've come back to this night, physically, mentally, and spiritually so many times that one could say it is the true birth of my existence and the person I am today. I think of what brought us here; me an American born doctor and war surgeon thrust into the midst of one of the bl... | 2018-10-11T18:42:58 | 2018-10-11T17:25:09 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | A sharp knock at the door startled Eric. The sudden jump caused him to drop the phone from his hand.
"Babe? I lost my key." Vanessa's voice came through the door. Eric stared at the phone embedded in the lush, grey carpet. It landed face up with the emergency message taking up the entire screen.
"LOCK ALL DOORS AND S... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T06:59:31 | 2,225 | 165 |
[WP] “So you’ve come hero.” The most powerful dark lord in history says as he faces you across the hall. But before you take another step, he motions to the cutest little girl you’ve ever seen with tears in her eyes. “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.” | "Why....?" the little girl stammered, her face full of tears. "Why does Grandpa need to die? He hasn't done anything wrong!"
I stopped and looked towards the little girl.
"Your grandfather needs to die", I replied, "because he is the worst person in the world."
"That's not true! He-"
I cut her off. "Your grandfath... | The Dark Lord.
Heh, he was not very impressive. A thin lanky mess of a man, graying and withered. His breathing was shallow, his head rested at an angle on his neck, his eyes white and staring at nothing. Wires protruded across his naked skin, pumping blood and several colored chemicals. My attention snapped as a chil... | 2019-12-11T21:16:13 | 2019-12-11T20:56:25 | 616 | 53 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. | "That's not possible. Resurvey, and when you finish, you can write a report detailing the mistakes that led you to propose something so ridiculous." Those were the words of my superior when I first raised concerns about the rapid development of human technology, after one of our scouts failed to report back. That wa... | “So good of you to join us here today, councilmen. I take it the journey was pleasant? Alexa, make sure our guests have whatever sustenance they need. It’s been what? Twenty-nine years and seven months?” The ambassador, Karla as they’d come to know her, was a severe woman with a thin face, made nearly gaunt by her tigh... | 2020-07-07T08:12:30 | 2020-07-07T08:03:01 | 79 | 30 |
[WP] most interstellar navies of the Galaxy adapted tactics from their wet-navy cousins. That was until humanity arrived they had an ocean so most figured they would adapt their wet Navy tactics to their space Navy, instead they adapted tactics from something they called the air Force. | "War is the noble application of superior firepower. All the other races developed along these lines, why is it that yours is so different?" Admiral Quelez glanced over at his human counterpart. A thin, lanky creature, it resembled more a child than a warrior. The human looked up from the tactical display, a large dias... | We came to their border one hundred years ago with a massive show of strength, hundreds of ships sailing the expanse, flags unfurled. They fell before us as every species had before, prey animals screaming in fear. Our navy triumphant at every turn, we only paused to refit and repair. They fought like a Bekran defendin... | 2020-11-21T20:16:45 | 2020-11-21T19:01:15 | 188 | 125 |
[WP] One day you wake up with 30 dollars and a note that says “For Rent”. The thing is you aren’t renting out the place. The next day you see a spider and right before you kill it you hear it say, “Please i paid my rent don’t kill me”. | I'm not a particularly picky person. If I find thirty dollars with a strange note, I'm up thirty bucks. Hell, if they're paying, that's way better than my dogs were doing.
After interrogating my brother about it, he seemed to assume I was fucking with him and that was that. I've got places to be. Mysteries tend to un... | The note unnerved Phillip; the man staring at his kitchen counter, wondering where the immaculately written letter came from. He didn’t have a roommate, nor did he have anyone else currently living with him. Had his drunken self-written this letter previously, and he had just forgotten about it? Or did someone break in... | 2021-02-18T20:02:32 | 2021-02-18T18:18:30 | 485 | 133 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | Wolfgang shifted his weight, trying to ease the discomfort in his hip, as he stood in line with his granddaughter, Emma, at the Citysburgh Metropolitan Bank. Emma, clutching her favorite stuffed dog, gazed about at the ostentatious pseudo-Classical columns and gold leaf décor. The bank tried to make itself look like a ... | A slightly older man stood in the lobby of the First National Bank of Metroville. He was tall and slender. The man wore a black trenchcoat and fedora. His pale bule eyes were covered by dark designer sunglasses. The designer suit from Italy hung neatly on his frame. The most standout thing about him was that he was hol... | 2015-02-06T22:15:19 | 2015-02-06T22:15:00 | 565 | 100 |
[WP] "God" is actually two people: one who is omnipotent but not omniscient, and the other who is omniscient but not omnipotent. They both hate each other. | "I created you," Scient said.
Potent frowned while leaning back in his cloudy chair. The temperature in heaven was just right today, with rays of light creeping through the clouds above and onto the kingdom around them. Therefore there was no reason that Potent's face should be *this* red. "If you created me, then wh... | The castle had changed since the last time she'd been there. Crawling white pillars loomed like an enormous, stone fence. The broad, curving stairs were laced with flecks of jade and chasing lines of platinum. The wide, double doors were solid slabs of pressed gold.
"He's having a mid-life crisis," she sighed, as she... | 2016-10-22T16:33:05 | 2016-10-22T16:28:30 | 1,367 | 714 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. |
It had been nearly ten years since my human Todd had discovered me behind a library dumpster. I remember him glancing around in the rain, shifting his messenger bag from one side to the other. “Where’s your mommy, sweetheart?” He had asked, scooping me up next to the warmth of his belly, full and round. He took me ho... | I shut and locked my apartment door behind me, panting, and slid to a seat on the hardwood floor. *What the fuck?*
278 times. 278 times at the age of twenty-one. I wondered if Mr. Anderson, my emissary, had noticed my heart pounding as I read the number from my Slip, the one-time Slip anyone is able to request on thei... | 2018-07-27T13:19:13 | 2018-07-27T12:38:49 | 892 | 62 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. | I woke up and hazily looked around at a few somber faces. To my horror, I felt the needle in my arm--the IV.
*\*Fuck, oh fuck oh fuck.\** The thought of what might be in the solution being directly pumped into my veins...
My mom looked up. "You're awake," she said softly. The rest of the heads turned to look at me. T... | I shut and locked my apartment door behind me, panting, and slid to a seat on the hardwood floor. *What the fuck?*
278 times. 278 times at the age of twenty-one. I wondered if Mr. Anderson, my emissary, had noticed my heart pounding as I read the number from my Slip, the one-time Slip anyone is able to request on thei... | 2018-07-27T14:45:48 | 2018-07-27T12:38:49 | 100 | 62 |
[WP] You are God, and you wanted to experience life as a human to see how you would turn out. In order to do that you became a baby that was born and you made yourself forget that you are God until your 30th birthday. It's your 30th birthday and you are a serial killer waiting for his death penalty.
Edit: Holy shit I ... | Ah, I said to myself, so they don't like it when you do that.
I had perfect memory in that moment, my transcendence repurposing my powers as I saw fit according to my holy whims. I could feel the blood dripping down my hands, each life taken no less recent to my mind than the present. The screams, the emotions flushin... | Everyone is watching me, but I am at peace with it. That is what they will never understand, with all the apologies I’ve had to make and the people screaming at me outside of the courthouse and all the witnesses who cursed and called me the Devil. That one was funny to me, but I don’t know why.
They will never know th... | 2018-11-22T19:03:39 | 2018-11-22T16:13:48 | 980 | 332 |
[WP] An alien race conquers worlds by starting a zombie apocalypse and later coming down and offering "salvation" in exchange for subjection, so far this has never failed, until they reach Earth and find humanity has already defeated the zombies and is waiting for them... | A beep and a blinking light caught the attention of the Commander of Fleet. It was a status report from one of the advance scout teams seeding the planets with viruses to weaken the native inhabitants. He read over the report, his fury growing by the second. How is this possible, he thought.
Getting on to the ship wid... | I am Harper Smith and I work for William Hopper.
We spent the last four hours walking through this zombie evicted college town looting random stores for reasons I don’t understand.
Our first stop was L.L. Bean with free Adventure Pro Backpacks and a zombie head smashing baseball bat which Hopper described as ‘a must-... | 2019-08-08T09:05:45 | 2019-08-08T08:20:20 | 117 | 40 |
[WP] Due to ethical concerns, you can't use live humans for your teleportation experiments. In an attempt to prove its safe, you teleport a cadaver through-- it comes out on the other end alive again. | “Oh God.” said the crumpled mass. “Oh God.” I repeated mechanically.
I looked across the laboratory to the other teleportation node and back again. Grey eyes met mine. “I've done it!” I said. “And more still... Not to worry. No. We'll correct it later. A minor setback. Today has been a success.” And it had. I'd toiled... | ~~Incident report 1/17031-CSF~~
**Report Type**: Catastrophic Systems Failure. [UNREDACTED]
**Subject Status**: Unsecured. Reaction Force Non-Responsive. Site Command Non-Responsive.
**Report Summary**: At approximately 2:17am Pacific Standard Time, SORC and Zenith QRF teams were alerted to seismic activity beyond s... | 2020-06-07T04:52:50 | 2020-06-07T02:21:58 | 51 | 14 |
[WP] Magic lutes and magic flutes? Common. Enchanted guitars? Boring. Yet for the first time in a while, the bard in your party looks excited by the dungeon loot. Leaning over, you see it: a max-level sorcerous drum kit. | "I'm serious! Do you know how *hard* it is to get decent percussion in a dungeon? Clapping your hands is *not* an acceptable substitute."
The massive chest at the bottom of the dungeon contained a full set of drums - two snares, a bass drum, a high-hat and a cymbal - all of them glowing with high-level magic. Barro... | *Clop, clop, clop.*
I sighed loudly, but Johor knew better than to respond. Fortunately, Kond was less subtle.
“That’s IT! Johor, get rid of the damn horse!” he yelled, drawing his enormous axe and brandishing it.
“No can do, my violent friend,” Johor said with a grin and a twinkle in his eye. “This is a rare treasu... | 2020-07-23T11:42:33 | 2020-07-23T09:15:58 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] As an atheist, you always believed that there was nothing after death. After your last breath, you discover that you were wrong, but that no one else was right about what's after either.
Mainly, there is something after death, but religions are wrong about it. | I exhale my last breath, and there's a momentary pause. It's the sort of pause that feels like a timeless interval, and I don't truly know how long it's been.
My breath rushes back into my lungs. It feels different. I try to move, but instead I'm pulled as if by strings.
I feel myself stirring strangely.
The floor ... |
I should be dead. I remember how each breath from my withered mouth drew in less air, how my aching body grew too weak to support itself. I remember those final moments leading up to the sweet release of death.
I know I died. So why am I still alive?
At least, I think I'm alive. I'm certainly not dead.
I think I'... | 2021-07-01T15:49:54 | 2021-07-01T15:36:52 | 388 | 63 |
[WP] You, a mere human, find yourself inside an arena and pitted against all sorts of supernatural beings in combat. Being a diehard fantasy fan however, you know their weaknesses. All of them. | Deep in the pit where reality twists, in the lower planes where myth and mortal blend, stood a lone figure in the center of The Gulch. It was here where the dirt was slick with blood and sinew; here where many before him had fallen to the horrors that lurked just outside the mortal veil. The clouds had worn their funer... | I was seventeen the day I slaughtered all the fantastical creatures. If I close my eyes, I can still taste that metallic tang of blood on the breeze, and see myself inside that great arena once more.
It was the year after my mother passed away, and only a week after I started my first job — I made coffees for importan... | 2021-07-09T08:30:15 | 2021-07-09T07:30:50 | 333 | 163 |
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror, as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken and two cheese wheels at once. | I felt the presence of the man long before he reached my chambers. I could faintly hear the noises of him fighting my fellow fallen warriors within the crypt. As he entered my chambers, I waited until he would be able to see my coffin, then made my move. I blew the lid off my coffin and stood. My movements were precise... | I was amused when I saw him, for the first time. His wide face, rosy with drink. His huge belly, stretching the seams of his shirt. He was sitting at a table in a dingy bar, alone, drinking wine by the cupful. Before him was heaped tons of food. Some of it, already bitten into; a great deal, yet untouched. Beside him s... | 2021-08-19T06:19:20 | 2021-08-19T03:00:20 | 700 | 92 |
[WP] After a long night of work, you drag yourself into your house. Before you turn on the light a voice says "don't scream." You turn around to see Santa Claus sitting on your couch. "It's your son" Santa says, "for Christmas he wanted me to talk to you." | It's his voice. That is how you know when you’ve met the real Santa. It was both stern and kind, weary and full of life. It was inexplicably familiar. It was like hearing the answer to a question you didn’t know you had.
I stood at my door, arms limp at my sides as we surveyed each other through the pale moonlight. Sa... | Charley struggled to comprehend what could even be seeing right about now. It was 12 hours of inconvenience after inconvenience at the pizzeria tonight. With all of these inconveniences adding up, he didn't need an oddity to top it all off.
He needed a bed. A couch. The dusty carpet floor. Anything would suffice at ... | 2021-12-06T23:49:15 | 2021-12-06T23:07:04 | 517 | 32 |
[WP].You are sitting outside your house, enjoying the dying embers of the campfire when two glowing eyes open to stare at you. " Greetings, " it rasped, " may I share your fire tonight?" | “Greetings…” it rasped at me from across the dying fire. I couldn’t see much, glowing red eyes, a human like silhouette. Tall, maybe a foot or so taller than any human I had met. “May I Share your fire tonight?”
Of course, I handled the situation as any stoner would. I simply closed my eyes, took a few deep breaths, o... | The house was simply perfection. We fell in love with it at first sight of the photos on the Internet. Heck, we weren't even house shopping when we saw it. 6 months later, we are enjoying a nice adult night with friends out by the fire pit. Our back yard bordered a national forest so we were the popular spot for "fi... | 2022-01-06T04:22:38 | 2022-01-06T02:41:56 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | Vezemir stepped out of the carriage. The sun was not fully set, but the sky was overcast enough that he only felt a slight itch as he strode quickly across the street. Glendale Graves was quiet today, but then it usually was. It would be a strange sight to see a coffin-maker busy.
As he approached, Vezemir saw Druig s... | # Soulmage
**I knew the Grandmaster was hiding something when he ordered his second coffin of the month.** I could understand why he'd ordered from Jiaola—if there was any carpenter in the Silent Peaks that you wanted working for you, it was one who'd built his own home from scratch—but the order itself was inexplicab... | 2022-05-31T11:05:33 | 2022-05-31T10:42:02 | 726 | 85 |
[WP] Years ago the evil, black dragon was defeated by good dragon. You have no heart to tell people that it was just a phase and you simply grew up and washed off the paint. | It has been a slow trek through the forest today, and we probably have a few more days of travel until we reach the abandoned castle. But if the years have taught me anything, it's to enjoy the here and now. And right now, we've finished dinner in a nice clearing, with a warm crackling fire, and I'm snuggled up against... | "Well, they said this was the place," Jason said, eyeing the cave and the piles of gold within it, which, in the bright light of his torch, sparkled back at them like twinkling stars.
The trio of wandering warriors had spent all night preparing, setting traps all around the place, before finding a way in that they hop... | 2022-10-26T11:25:31 | 2022-10-26T07:07:00 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Two Serial Killers Go on a Date, and are Unaware of Each Other's Motives | He was perfect, except for one thing.
The eyes.
His profile specified blue, but here I was gazing into eyes that were distinctly grey. Oh well, love takes time, and if I have to go through five or fifty men to find the perfect one, I will. And with every failed date, I had grown accustomed to keeping a part of th... | "Your hair looks lovely tonight, Vivian." I say, admiring the dark curls cascading down her shoulders. Girl number four wore her hair in a very similar fashion.
I watch as she blushes, biting her lower lip. "Funny, I was going to say the same thing about your eyes, Richard. I always...go after men with blue eyes." She... | 2013-12-30T19:50:01 | 2013-12-30T19:37:43 | 15 | 10 |
[WP]Everyone on earth has a "brain buddy", half the time you hear their thoughts, and half the time they hear your thoughts. Nobody has ever realised this or met their brain buddy, until you find yours accidentally.
| *I'm so nervous. Christ I hope I can afford this place in case things go bad.*
**Tonight is your blind date, right? You HAVE to give me the details later on.**
*Haha, you know I will. Oh god what if he is a total prick and sticks me with the bill or something like that?*
**Relax, I'm sure after all the chatting you ... | <Ok, this is the stupidist thing in the world.> I thought to myself as I was stopped in the traffic.
>No, it's not, there are reasons for this.< I thought to myself.
<Yhea, I should of stayed off the freeway, away from all these other morons.>
>Are they really morons?<
<Yes.>
>No, ... | 2015-01-13T09:22:46 | 2015-01-13T09:20:12 | 181 | 37 |
[WP] Humanity awakens one day to find that large city block size black monoliths have appeared all over the globe. They don't seem to serve any purpose. At first panic ensues but after 10 years of them being there society has come to just accept them. | Life on top of a cube was a mark of status. The first crazy millionaire in India had been on the news for close to six months straight when he paid to have his new mansion built on top of the Dehli slums cube, and in the years since then it had become a sort of trend to build on top of them. The Tokyo cube had an alien... | "Ash, how many time have I told you? Stop going near them!" Razia scolded.
Ash didn't want to argue with his mother, especially with her waving the kitchen knife around while she cut the vegetables. Lowering the condensation in his voice, he tried to explain.
"Mom. Its nothing to worry about. I was just making a ske... | 2015-10-18T13:06:32 | 2015-10-18T10:48:42 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter. Today, for the first time, he saw someone wanting to go the other way. | Death, the gatekeeper of hell, looked down upon the man standing before him.
"Regardless of your reasoning, one cannot simply choose to change the realm in which they have been placed at the time of their judgement. However, I am in need of some amusement. Why do you want to enter the depths of hell when you've ... | "You heard me, Gatekeeper"
Every fiber of my immortal being winced at the mere thought of it, every shred of my soul refusing to entertain the idea of perverting the eternal, divine halls with the notion that the lord could be wrong!
"I need to get to Hell, Gatekeeper, I must find a witness"
I cannot help myself but... | 2016-09-28T20:56:06 | 2016-09-28T19:42:57 | 110 | 74 |
[WP] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter. Today, for the first time, he saw someone wanting to go the other way. | Death, the gatekeeper of hell, looked down upon the man standing before him.
"Regardless of your reasoning, one cannot simply choose to change the realm in which they have been placed at the time of their judgement. However, I am in need of some amusement. Why do you want to enter the depths of hell when you've ... | I sit between damnation and paradise. On my left stands a wrought iron gate with steps leading to unspoken horrors. On my right, a golden gate with a crystal staircase spiraling up to eternal bliss.
Between the two gates stands an ordinary office chair. That’s my chair, the seat of the Second Judge. It’s not as impres... | 2016-09-28T20:56:06 | 2016-09-28T19:39:43 | 110 | 54 |
[WP] 2021: Hell invades Earth; 2022: Earth invades Hell. | Polanski: HOLY FUCK THEY GOT TO EARTH?!
Rider: The demons? "Sigh", seems like taking over our station in Mars wasn't enough.
Polanski: Sir, please tell me we can kill them.
Rider: Yes and to kil- wait a second, my men just brung in a live demon, I'll bring the phone closer to it.
Rider: What's up jackass, you speak... | Manifest Destiny. There was time when I used to believe that I had choice. I used to go to church everyday, tearing, thinking that one day God would bring me into heaven. My lungs were black from coal, my hands scared and caloused. I try my best with my kids, never hit them, buy them nintendos and pokemons. I worry tha... | 2016-12-10T08:15:33 | 2016-12-10T08:04:09 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] There are 2 humans left on Earth: you, and a crush you once asked out who said "I wouldn't date you if you were the last person on Earth" | "Well, I guess this is it. Time for me and you to hook up, after all."
"It's not gonna happen."
"Wait, what? We're the last two people on the planet. Shouldn't we start making babies?!"
"Sigh. That's not how it works."
"Oh, I'm pretty sure it is. I mean God, or someone, chose the two of us to be here together to st... | We sat together on the old park bench, ironic how this symbol of our childhood was still some how a salvageable piece of furniture. The beacon of youth and my first realization that I had feelings for this girl. She didn't really like me or no my name, but I knew hers and it sent tingles throughout my body every time I... | 2017-02-27T07:34:06 | 2017-02-27T05:44:17 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] You are a SpaceX astronaut on Mars. The earth as you knew it was lost to a nuclear war between NATO and China/Russia. Luckily your mission was to construct the colony and you have enough supplies to survive indefinitely. It’s been 25 years since loss of contact. You hear a knock on the door.
Edit: Wow thanks for ... | ""You get out there and you make us proud!"
That was the last thing I ever heard from another human. The rockets had been automated by then, sort of like self-driving cars. I received this final transmission as the bombs fell in waves, ravaging the Earth I once called home. I watched the live video feed from the isola... | > *Knock Knock*
The sound rang through the capsule like a gunshot.
That couldn't be... no, it was just my mind running away from me again. The martian landscape was a barren wasteland outside of my own personal bubble of land.
The SpaceX Phoenix Project saw what was coming. The international dickwaggling, the W... | 2018-03-05T06:59:42 | 2018-03-05T05:48:19 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] You’re a peasant who’s house has been raided hundreds of times by adventurers passing through. So, you built a defense so they would stop stealing from you. One thing led to another, and your house is now a dungeon and you’re the final boss. | Having your farm on the only road between Alma Village and the Capital certainly has its advantages. It seems every adventurer, and I do mean every single one of them, passed by the road by my farm in their outset. Darius the Mountain, Dragon Tamer Fiona, Seymon of the Thousand Blades... I was sure I saw all of them, y... | **Oak Village.**
It was located on the border of the Earth and Central Province, near the southern tip of the Main Capital, outside a patch of small woodlands near the Great Forest of Kao.
For a frontier settlement, its population was unexceptional — a hundred souls, distributed among twenty families.
In turn, this ... | 2018-05-28T20:28:08 | 2018-05-28T16:18:16 | 322 | 78 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | I woke up on a clean white bed. I remembered last night, remember my heart stopping after a long battle, but it all felt like a dream. Where ever I was, it was a place I didn’t want to leave.
I got up off the bed, expecting the familiar creak of my seventy year old knees, but I instead found myself young again. Odd. ... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-04T00:13:18 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 141 | 92 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | A dark room. A pedestal in the middle, illuminated by a pillar of light, upon which sat a thick book, pages uneven and frayed at parts.
As I took it into my worn hands, I could feel the density of it. The importance. All of the sadness, the fear, the excitement, anxiety, joy, love, ambition, heartache, fulfillment, f... | I sat at the desk dumb-founded.
“You mean... you mean this is everything that could have happened if I just made a different decisions?”
The spirit in front of me is a friendly face but the marks on her neck tell a story of sadness. She looks at me as if I’m the first she says this to. “Yes. From the day you were bo... | 2018-07-03T23:38:29 | 2018-07-03T22:39:59 | 138 | 92 |
[WP] You faked your death by live-streaming jumping off a bridge. Built a self sustaining house in isolation and lived off the grid. 20 years go by and you decide to head back to civilization only to find out that your country is no longer a country. Earth is one nation and has achieved singularity. | "Uh,..." Devon gave the ticket clerk a confused shrug. "How much is that in cash?" He dropped a dusty wad of green bills on the gleaming white counter. The wrinkled, white-haired clerk in a red blazer leaned back in her seat. She discretely angled her nose away from the money and the ragged man that dropped it.
"I'm s... | I saw the buildings grow taller over the years, rising like needles in the horizon, one after another. Too far to make out any real details or even their color. I never had any intentions of seeing them up close. For years I was so sure that this was the life I had always wanted. One of seclusion. I probably could have... | 2019-11-12T10:55:26 | 2019-11-12T08:26:35 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up to see someone has scribbled all over the walls of your room with a marker. You find a digital recording device on the nightstand. Pressing play, you hear your own voice say, "It's been 712 days. You must escape. Follow your notes. Don't forget again." | My body shakes as I try to get up.
''What happened to my room?'' I say it out loud.
There is no one around except me. The blinking light of the VCR draws my attention and I press play, it takes a few seconds to start. It’s me…
''You are confused, I know. But you need to listen because our time is limited. First, you... | Kate woke to the shrieking of an alarm. It was an unfamiliar sound, a sort of rapid clanging, and as she blinked the sleep out of her blurry eyes she stared at the device in shock.
“What the hell?” she grumbled. Her phone was supposed to be there she thought, had Connor moved it? In its place on the nightstand was an ... | 2021-02-22T10:37:42 | 2021-02-22T10:08:33 | 109 | 38 |
[WP] A small kid finds a magic lamp and asks a very innocent, almost mundane wish. The genie ponders whether it can or even wants to twist and 'misunderstand' the request. | "C'mon kid. Something more?"
The boy shook his head solemnly.
I looked around us, the filth, the squalor, the emaciated people lying on bunks around us. So hungry they didn't have the strength to stand.
Four thousand years of negotiating with the greedy, the saintly and the stupid doesn't prepare you for this.
H... | "I wish for the Nile!"
The familiar line in a timeless classic seemed like a well timed sprinkling of humor, if nothing else. The kids in the nursery were engrossed in the movie. Their eyes glittered, a bit like the materials they were playing with just a while ago. I smiled slightly before looking back at the televis... | 2016-04-30T06:41:57 | 2016-04-30T04:55:22 | 70 | 14 |
[WP] A small kid finds a magic lamp and asks a very innocent, almost mundane wish. The genie ponders whether it can or even wants to twist and 'misunderstand' the request. | As a part of another grand adventure, Sara makes her way to the attic. The light switch inside doesn't work and it's pitch black.
"Explorers always come prepared!"
She switches on her battery lantern and gets to work. Sara told her younger brother that their parents keep treasure in the attic, so now she must find so... | "I wish for the Nile!"
The familiar line in a timeless classic seemed like a well timed sprinkling of humor, if nothing else. The kids in the nursery were engrossed in the movie. Their eyes glittered, a bit like the materials they were playing with just a while ago. I smiled slightly before looking back at the televis... | 2016-04-30T05:04:21 | 2016-04-30T04:55:22 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | "I work at Goldman Sachs." The chick I've been talking up at the bar raises an eyebrow disbelievingly. "Yes, *that* Goldman Sachs. My job, my only job, is this: whenever the Notice goes out, I hire a hitman to take out the target, and see the mission through to completion."
"Whaaaat?" She leans in. "That's so wrong...... | When my mail was delivered to my desk that day I was suprised.I told the post office no mail. I thought it must be a joke. My assistant told me “No sir it was in your mailbox.” When I opened the letter and read “You shall be killed. Your killer will receive $10,000,000 If you survive every person on earth will be given... | 2017-05-17T21:19:58 | 2017-05-17T19:55:39 | 209 | 20 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | 'Oh, shit!', I yell. 'Why does it have to be me?'
I walk over to the couch and sit down. I boot up Witcher 3 and continue playing. After 5 hours, my neighbour jumps through the window with a machete.
'Hi, Frank', I greet him. 'How are the kids?
'They're fine, John. I'm so sorry about this, but I really want a new ho... | When my mail was delivered to my desk that day I was suprised.I told the post office no mail. I thought it must be a joke. My assistant told me “No sir it was in your mailbox.” When I opened the letter and read “You shall be killed. Your killer will receive $10,000,000 If you survive every person on earth will be given... | 2017-05-17T22:40:40 | 2017-05-17T19:55:39 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | I'd never thought Satan would look like an accountant. Some grandiose angel of darkness, perhaps, or even that cliched red devil figure. But not a short, slim, bookish guy in a somewhat shabby suit. "Welcome to Hell. It seems your escort's led you here in record time. Please, have a seat. Would you like a drink? All vi... | I sat upon the throne of the king of hell. Confused, bewildered, amused, all emotions I experienced. I had no idea what I did to deserve this. What could I have done to become this, the lord of the damned. I pondered my wrong doings tallying sin after sin. It hit me... my mind went back to freshman year.
In that momen... | 2016-12-19T16:30:22 | 2016-12-19T13:11:05 | 76 | 57 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Eduardo and Sarah had come to visit me at the old office. I hadn’t got a chance to see them since he got his big promotion and moved out to the East Coast office. “Stroke” and “Stomach Cancer” still spelled out in wisps over their heads. This time they brought the new addition to the family, Devon, who himself had an e... | I can't handle it anymore knowing the cause of people's death and not being able to do anything about it. I still remember my first experience. I was 5, and it was on my mother's head. It said, "suicide." I'll never forget that day. I walked in to her bedroom to see her hanging from the ceiling fan. There was no note, ... | 2015-03-31T12:59:24 | 2015-03-31T11:20:11 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] A person who is immortal, because they are so stupidly entertaining Death keeps extending their life just to see what shenanigans they will get into next.
EDIT: There is a good variety of responses here, from those who took the premise a bit too seriously to those who ran with it and made it hilarious. I had a lo... | The camel bucked wildly beneath me as I galloped it around the Forbidden City. Tourists cheered confusedly, looking around at each other to make sure that cheering was the proper course of action when a 6'5" laowai rode an Arabian dromedary through the Palace museum. Guards, hot on my heels, were emphatic that cheering... | The bag of popcorn had just been poured into the bowl when I tuned to my favorite channel of the day. Movie Theater Butter, sprinkle in a little bit of salt. Delicious. Maybe not as fancy as your caramel-glazed popcorn dunked in batter, but it's an easy-to-make dinner if you know what you're doing.
I reclined in my ch... | 2020-05-05T23:49:04 | 2020-05-05T22:20:06 | 112 | 34 |
[WP] "That's odd," it says while drumming its fingers. "You should be screaming. All of our data says that you should be screaming right now." It pauses, and its soulless eyes stare into you. "Why aren't you screaming?" | "I told you, I don't like roller coasters." I said wearily, arms crossed, my torso squirming slightly in nausea. "Also, humans hate being told what to do. You'd think after watching us for so many centuries you'd have figured that out by now."
"On the contrary," the creature said as it released my restraints and helpe... | The mind is a powerful thing.
You cannot escape to a physical place, only a mental one. Escape is in the mind.
My mind is my own.
Cycle these thoughts. Cycle them over and over. Don't look down. Don't think.
Stick to the feedback loops. Reality isn't real if you don't want it to be.
Eyes flashing downwards, body... | 2018-10-02T17:51:32 | 2018-10-02T17:23:12 | 720 | 127 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "I object to that pejorative!" yelled the Kantian arachnid, as it popped into existence in the United Galaxies Council Hall, dropping neatly into the seat reserved for it. "In any event, we didn't succeed either, they- ah, crap, got the time wrong again."
The empty Hall agreed with the Kantian's assessment. The flummo... | We had made contact with the inhabitants of TH-49, or, as they called it, Earth. Unlike every other species we've encountered, we didn't come to them. Rather, they came to us. With this came a few different problems. Firstly, we didn't have any forms of diplomatic greeting prepared. They had caught us with our metaphor... | 2017-03-30T22:48:35 | 2017-03-30T22:16:31 | 258 | 85 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | “Who’s at the door honey?” Stephen called from inside the house.
I turned back towards the interior of the house.
“It’s the police dear, can you come here for a moment, they’ll want to talk with you,” I said.
I turned back to the policeman standing at the door.
“He’ll be right out, you’ll see,” I said, smiling s... | "Wait a second" said the first officer, "is this 131 Vernon Street?"
"No" I told them, "that's the next door over. This is 133 Vernon"
"Oh jeez. Boy is there egg on my face" he chuckled. "Sorry for the mistake, have a nice day!"
I closed the door and went back inside. | 2017-10-10T08:26:48 | 2017-10-10T07:06:27 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You are a superhero. Your power? ... You don’t know. One day people just started considering you a superhero and sending you to deal with the super villains of the world, who promptly surrender when they encounter you.
Edit: Ayyy, looks like this post has beaten my previous upvote high score by about 9.8 thousand... | Maybe it was a joke. A joke that got too real.
Im guessing it was some viral video, of the first time I stood up to someone. Someone taped me as a mugging was taking place, and I stumbled into the guy who fell on his own knife, and died almost instantly. But from that cameras view, i just threw down a man 3x bigger th... | The truth is, I might have a superpower at this point, simply through exposure - Super powers are, after all, contagious.
Here is how you get superpowers. First, you meet someone else with super powers. Or, better, several super powered individuals.
And then you have something happen to you that should kill you, and... | 2019-02-05T10:24:01 | 2019-02-05T10:13:02 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You're the wizard's apprentice, and of course the first few years involve running errands and doing other tasks. He hands you a daily schedule, but to your confusion the total hours for the different tasks add up to more than 24. "Figure it out" He says, "I chose you for a reason." | " So, let me get this straight." the innkeeper said, looking quite concerned. " If I don't wash all these cauldrons in exactly this manner every Tuesday for the next year and a half, the great and powerful wizard who has lived outside of our village for decades is going to rain down fire and brimstone on everyone withi... | My name is Jim, and I have a problem. You see, I have a propensity for making bad bets. Mostly to friends, granted, and for the last year, never for money. When part of the last bet I lost included crashing a campus event, I decided to show up to our upperclassman's career day in an homage to our school's mascot, to t... | 2019-01-14T15:25:08 | 2019-01-14T14:42:06 | 79 | 55 |
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