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[WP] A welder named Jack drives home at night, and accidentally runs over another Jack, a plumber. The Skill of Plumbing immediately downloads into his brain, together with a notification: "WELCOME TO THE GAME, JACK. KILL OR BE KILLED, THE CHOICE IS YOURS. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE JACK OF ALL TRADES". | “That doesn’t make any sense, Jack.”
“I know what I saw, Kate. More importantly, I know what I did,” Jack said.
“But people are complex. Did you also download the way this specific plumber wipes his ass?”
“I’m not sayin I get it, I’m just sayin what was what,” Jack said.
Kate sighed, “So this ‘notification’ popped... | Just as Jack heard this voice in his head the car lurched and skidded, "shiiiitt" Jack screamed, slamming on the brakes.
The car finally stopped, Jack stepped out of the car to see what had happend and noted the rear wheel had completely blown out, Jack sighed and opened up the boot grabbing the tools to replace the ... | 2019-01-10T10:15:26 | 2019-01-10T09:10:58 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | God observed the human species with growing tension. It had taken billions of years to get this far, with only a few interventions. The other deities had already advanced their civilizations to the galactic age, while the humans where still trying to get to the solar age. The stats panel still listed only one planet as... | Jesus is doing well, most advanced in science but his public order is barely in the green, Jesus adopts and invests his saved social policies heavily in the the freedom ideology.
The other gods see this a chance to fuck with him
"Budda has chosen to adopt the order ideology"
"Bhrama has chosen to adopt the order ideol... | 2016-04-09T07:47:11 | 2016-04-09T05:49:29 | 122 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I'd... I'd never seen anything like it. It went through her body to the other side. I've seen murderers and heavily experienced con-men with shallower scars. This was... shocking.
The moonlight reflected from her fair, creamy skin as we walked. I looked for more lies, but I could find none. Only the deep one across he... | One scar, started out small
Each day, grew more and more
It was a little lie at first
But it wasn't any more
A friend asked
He answered
The scar grew
His mum called
He replied
The scar grew
He asked himself
He answered
The scar grew
As he made his fall | 2016-12-29T13:33:19 | 2016-12-29T10:28:05 | 98 | 14 |
[WP] You enter one of those universes where attacks are extremely telegraphed, preparations take minutes, and everyone gives lengthy arrogant monolouges detailing their plans... You have no special powers... Just, you know... Common sense to conquer with... | (Profanity)
I stood there with my hands bound and mouth gagged along with about 10 other dudes. A large vat of dramatically green acid boiled in front of us. We were a good five feet away from the ledge. Our legs weren't bound, but the room was locked down. There was nowhere to go. I figured disintegrating might ... | Oh great, another one.
Let me set the scene for you. I was shopping, minding my own god damn business, when this spandex wearing prick walks in. He starts yelling, something about this being the first step to world domination yadda yadda yadda, anyway no one pays him much attention.
This makes the guy pissed. So he p... | 2016-12-30T13:05:05 | 2016-12-30T10:52:41 | 50 | 30 |
[WP] It's been 15 years since you left earth on a one man spacecraft. 9 since you passed pluto. The last transmission you received from earth was a goodbye from your family and friends. Due to an equipment malfunction, you will soon be too far to communicate with earth. This is your last message. | *My name is John Madden. My name is John Madden. My name is John Madden. My name is John Madden.*
Like a Windows screensaver bouncing around a blackened screen, the lone thought bounced around the man's head as he floated around the cockpit, curled up in a small ball and grinning enormously despite his penultimate des... | “Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
I always did love Tolkien. It seems fitting to say goodbye in a similar fashion. They should be able to understand my meaning. I said those words at my ... | 2021-05-04T22:33:24 | 2021-05-04T21:11:48 | 39 | 20 |
[WP] You're a lawyer, and St peter scentenced your kid to hell in an unfair trial. Enraged, you make a deal with the Devil for knowledge in Holy Law. In order to force God's hand you begin representing the worst mankind has to offer. You have become the Devil's advocate.
Edit: Yes I see the typo. No I'm not fixing it.... | Note: I posted this before, but had some technical difficulties which I think caused my original comment to be flagged and deleted as a blank comment before I got it fixed. Since that original was removed, I'm reposting. If the original was removed by a human moderator for a legitimate reason, please message me so I ca... | You'd think that Divinity would have some pretty good laws.
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I was always religious, but in this day and age, that meant that there was always some asshole with a complex trying to poke holes in my beliefs. I always ignored them--to me it was always about the faith, not the logic of it. I got enough of t... | 2019-01-11T21:25:30 | 2019-01-11T19:19:50 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] God finally snaps and yells "That's it. PvP is disabled until further notice!" | "That's it! PvP is disabled until further notice!" He took his goblet of ambrosia and flung it across the great hall in the seat of heaven. Somewhere on earth, an earthquake started and shook the foundations of a small city, causing innumerable casualties.
Michael, the archangel, waited until God was calm, and then tr... | The death toll had risen exponentially in the past couple of weeks. At first it seemed like a miracle. Murders were impossible. You could run someone over with your car and they would get back up unscathed, quite unsettling. But that is just a small percentage of deaths. Most deaths are not the quick whoosh of a candl... | 2018-04-10T05:54:32 | 2018-04-10T05:18:08 | 112 | 13 |
[WP] When you storm into the castle to slay the dragon, you are flummoxed to find yourself facing a tidy desk. Behind it sits a bespectacled woman who politely asks, "What dragon part do you need to complete your Quest?" | Valnir, the Valiant, rode confidently towards Coromandel Castle jogging through his mind what treasures he would get made with the 200 million gold coins he was going to get. Valnir regularly took up quests to slay dangerous monsters in the King’s realm in exchange for gold.
Valnir, in today’s terms, was a bounty-hun... | And there she was, the "Head Secretary of External Affairs, Eliza James", staring at me as if waiting for a response.
"Ah, a noob, am I right? In that case, go sit over there and I'll bring the forms over in a second.', she pointed towards a waiting area with a few old science magazines.
'Um, alright.', and I walked ... | 2017-10-08T12:43:13 | 2017-10-08T09:58:12 | 34 | 25 |
[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. | I read the alert and hesitated, unsure if it was real. “EMERGENCY - LOCK DOORS IMMEDIATELY AND REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE” I glanced over the text once or twice more before hurriedly pacing around the house and double checking all doors and windows.
About 5 minutes passed before I realized- my wife... | [Poem]
She’s out there, calling for the
Knock ridden door to open
And for her to vacate from an torn
Dangerous outside world
I was told to ignore.
She’d cry out in a direction
Before crying again in another
Door to door, window to window
‘Let me in, let me in’
To which I silently proclaim ‘no.’
She’s know... | 2019-01-12T08:53:12 | 2019-01-12T06:30:43 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] Desperate for a child a couple take to the dark arts to seek the dark blessings of the Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, but instead of curing their infertility the eldritch god, not quite understanding the subtleties of human speech, gives them an adorable eldritch horror to raise | People have come to the invisible church for millennia. Before people, creatures. Before creatures, it was those which inhabited the darkness - though back then it was viewed only as the church. So when this pair came to the disciple in the woods, none thought of it to be an event with any acute sense of irregularity.
... | "Ripley, sweetie, it's time for dinner."
"*FOOLISH MOTHER, YOU PRESUME TO COMMAND ME? I, WHO DESTROYS NEBULAS IN A SINGLE BREATH? WHO DRIVES LESSER GODS TO INCOMPREHENSIBLE MADNESS? WHO--*"
"You can make more chalk drawings after dinner, now come inside and wash up."
Ripley's other mom leaned her head out of the ope... | 2022-10-20T05:37:29 | 2022-10-20T05:27:22 | 801 | 238 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | Everyone was outside, staring at the crime scene. Most of the people were staring at me in a mix of both concern and relief.
'Isn't that your dad?' my friend Liam asked as he saw the body being dragged away.
'He hasn't been my dad in a long time,' I said as I turned away.
The cops stopped me from leaving however. 'A... | "But I didn't know." I screamed over the desk. The blood drained from her face, her hands tight on the arm rests of her chair.
I looked down and my hands pressed to the top of her desk, white with force, straining with rage. Looking back up I noticed she was pressed against the back wall of her small office.
Fuck thi... | 2017-05-20T08:34:30 | 2017-05-20T06:55:51 | 59 | 25 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded to conquer and enslave humanity, however "slavery" to them involves only working the equivalent of 12 hours a week while having healthy food, shelter, and means of entertainment taken care of so the human resistance is having trouble with defectors preferring to be slaves. | "Why?"
I had learned fairly quickly that they understood our language. But the real trick was to get your questions down to as few words as possible. They seemed to have some telepathic abilities, so even broad questions like - well, 'Why?' - still had their nuance.
It also seemed like speed was a necessity in their ... | “Bro, I’m telling you. These aliens are chill.” I say to my friend as I light up a blunt courtesy of the Plictood clan.
“I just don’t get their motive, why are they treating slaves so well” my friend, Elijah, says.
“They are just dumb, they think this is hard work. Twelve hours a week. I still can’t believe it. The... | 2020-11-22T11:57:35 | 2020-11-22T09:35:46 | 2,086 | 525 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | I’d been stuck in many a hairy situation in my time as “the world’s greatest hero”. From getting stuck in an alternate dimension ruled by sentient dinosaurs, to being mind controlled by an alien robot I thought was my friend, to that time I had to kill a giant blue naked guy who thought he was a god.
But none of those... | My eyes focused on my right foot. I was missing a shoe. Rope dug into my sides, choking around my wrists without an ounce of mercy. A table stretched out in front of me; a long, thin board of walnut. Out of place in this dingy warehouse. And at the other end of this plank sat the Hurricane.
Whatever brought me here a... | 2021-10-21T16:11:45 | 2021-10-21T15:12:38 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] The United States has suddenly gone dark. No noise or activity out of there for a week, not even a Reddit post. You are part of an SAS squad sent to investigate. | The whole world was holding it's breath, waiting on what my squad and I would find. Nothing had been heard from the United States in a week, today being the 7th day. No broadcasts, no radio signals, no internet posts, and not a single person has come from the famous country. It was almost as if the entire country had b... | Within the clouds there was no noise, only the constant whir of the chopper blades pulsing above the men and I. I shifted my legs so that they crossed each other and looked out the sliding door. Water hissed as the blades passed through the damp air. It was eerie. Usually, my men where being the assholes they were and... | 2017-03-07T13:17:14 | 2017-03-07T11:17:45 | 173 | 33 |
[WP] "The Young Anakin, Trained, he will be." Yoda said. Obi-Wan exclaims, "The council is in agreement then? I will train the Boy?" Yoda looks at Obi-Wan, "Mace Windu, his master will be." | "It's good to see you again, Anakin. I'm glad you could visit. Would you like to see the Senate Hall?" Chancellor Palpatine smiled.
Master Windu's first rule was Observe. The second rule was Reflect. He had given permission to Anakin to visit the Chancellor on the condition that he observe and reflect, to take in... | The room goes silent as the shock registers. "Don't you think I should train him?!" Asks an infuriated Obi-wan, "know your place you shall" says yoda, as he stamps down his staff with finality. Obi-wan tries to reply but gets too flustered, and after stammering for a couple seconds, he storms out of the room.
Chancel... | 2017-05-24T05:17:49 | 2017-05-24T01:52:21 | 161 | 101 |
[WP] When two people stand close together, you have the ability to see a Compatibility Score between them that you can break down into categories. You are the most sought after Marriage Counselor ever. One day an elderly couple visit you and their Score is 0 despite being together for over 50 years. | "Mr. & Mrs. Robinson?"
An older couple stood up in the reception room and began walking towards me, both beaming friendly smiles at me. I couldn't help wondering what might bring them to me as they seemed cheerful enough; usually people seem anxious before their first counseling session, if for no reason other than... | They had to remind me who they were at first. Apparently, I was the reason they had met and gotten together in the first place.
I adjusted my glasses to get a better look at them. At first glance, Todd and Mary did not look right together. Where Todd was boyish and handsome, Mary was wrinkled and odd looking. Nor... | 2019-09-03T16:59:16 | 2019-09-03T15:24:33 | 48 | 27 |
[WP] 20 years later, a team of Astronaut have successfully landed to mars and recovered the NASA rover, Opportunity. When they checked the hard drive, they discovered hundreds of images of a shadowy figure that was never sent back to earth. | **March 1st, 2039**: Data finally uploaded from Retrieved Object ("Opportunity" rover, last
broadcast dated Feb, 2019) after many days of unsuccessful attempts. Half the crew were at this point convinced the rover itself had come alive and was trying to keep us
from accessing its pictures, that's how bad it got. We a... | Upon return to earth, astronauts suffer from several symptoms. These include increased awareness of body mass, general nausea, and morbid – downright horrifying – hallucinations.
They spoke of the Cosmonaut.
There are pictures. They’re safe now, and there are only three mortals who know of them beyond the team who w... | 2019-02-15T01:09:13 | 2019-02-14T22:10:22 | 1,526 | 1,135 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | Day 1: Time stopped, as it does when I'm in danger, at 7:05:23 this morning. I know because that's why my watch was at when it stopped counting. I usually just duck or jump to the side or something and time restarts, but none of that helped. I finally ran outside the house, and nothing. This is strange; something's... | I haven't live a particularly dangerous life. I ate decently. I loved sports and exercise. I never drank or did drugs. Time seemed to slow down when I was around them until I turned them down entirely. Cars that would have hit me, haven't. I was mugged a couple of times, but the dude just held the gun not moving... | 2018-07-04T16:29:47 | 2018-07-04T16:17:26 | 2,360 | 110 |
[WP] A broke adventure has to buy cheap terrible items with weird curses on them. Little do they know that those cursed items happen to synergize so well together that they quickly become overpowered. | The bandit leader laughed as he drew his gleaming sword, magical flames licking around the edges in sharp contrast to my rotten old staff which had definitely seen better days. Behind him, his band of cut-throats, murderers and desperate, unwashed scum brandished their assorted clubs, spears, knives and axes. A parti... | The undergrowth was impenetrable. Thresher sighed, then tentatively drew the Machete of Formicophilia.
A ripple of low groans spread through the men arranged around the jungle clearing. Prowler crouched beside their leader, scanning the dense foliage. "Fuck. Not that one again."
"There's no other way," Thresher said,... | 2019-12-02T19:42:26 | 2019-12-02T17:10:17 | 77 | 27 |
[WP] Everyone knows you're the most powerful member of the league, so why are you an F-tier hero? Because F-tier is cleanup. The others protect the world from threats. You protect it from the other heroes. | I entered the main building of Brain and Brothers, barely an eye on me from any direction. That was the way I liked it.
I was already balding, probably from the stress. My therapist told me depression doesn't cause balding. I don't believe him.
Anyways, I walked up to the front desk of the lobby, 90 stories below m... | What makes you a hero?
I'm not quiet sure.
Super strength, super speed, an IQ of 600, a mechanized suit, coming from a different planet. All of those things can definitely give you super powers, and they could make you a super hero - but they could also make you a villain.
When I was a boy I wanted nothing but to be... | 2021-09-22T21:33:57 | 2021-09-22T21:31:51 | 203 | 69 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | People always think the Pearly Gates are these large affairs of gold latticework sitting amongst the clouds. In reality, they're a pair of perfectly normal looking office doors painted a slightly glossy off-white. They're located in a lobby next to a booth with a plexiglass window that has one of those little slots f... | Alexander came into the 3rd floor apartment with a stutter, his glasses and awkward unshaven appearance left him unappealing. When my roommate, Casey, had told me he was bringing his friend over and that he was a little strange, he wasn't exaggerating. Casey had forgotten to mention a very important detail to Alex. The... | 2016-03-24T15:28:57 | 2016-03-24T12:50:08 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You were sent to go deal with reports of a sinister witch in the woods that has been terrifying local villagers. Your grandmother is surprised to see you, but offers tea and cake while you're here. | Samantha gripped the crumpled paper in her hand for the twelfth time and took as many deep breaths as possible. She knew it was useless. Human remedies for anxiety didn’t apply to the supernatural. They barely applied to the natural, as the human mind was complicated. Yet the natural part of her found solace in the act... | All Agatha ever wanted was a simple, quiet life – the kind all grandmothers wanted. Every week, her lovely granddaughter would visit with stories about her studies. Vivian was always such a rambunctious child. But such energy was a welcome interruption to her life of solitude.
“Vivian, sweetheart, don’t forget to pack... | 2022-12-18T09:20:26 | 2022-12-18T09:14:25 | 57 | 19 |
[WP] The woman looked at her at her blind date and said, "I told Tammy that I wanted old and rich...not eldritch." | Lady Cthylla sits across from me, studying her menu. I told Tammy I wanted old and rich...not eldritch. This is the last time I let her talk me into a blind date.
We've already burned through all the standard first-date small talk. Where do you live? Me: Brooklyn. Her: beneath the flooded fishing town of Oakmont, not ... | "That's not very nice of you, young lady." said the old man sitting on the other end of the table.
"Don't call me 'young lady' you fifty-year old fossil! I'm just ten years younger than you for fuck's sake! And you're not even that rich!"
"And I specifically asked for a nice younger woman, preferably early in her th... | 2022-09-26T09:09:35 | 2022-09-26T07:05:40 | 72 | 18 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | **Day 1**
We landed on Thamia this morning. It may be the most beautiful planet I’ve ever seen. The local flora is spectacular. The idea that we are the first travelers to this planet both excites me and leaves me in awe. It is like an Eden and The Family will be so relieved. Our prayers have been answered after so ma... | It was maybe 2 meters tall and wore the dead skin of an animal wrapped around the connection between it's legs and torso. It's skin was a very dark and rich shade of brown. My best geust was ot was to withstand the arid heat of this continent. It stared at me in cautious curiosity with it's large white ocular organs. T... | 2021-01-25T08:53:37 | 2021-01-25T08:45:18 | 257 | 51 |
[WP] You are the world's second best assassin. You've deposed royalty, killed businessmen and been the "accident" that more than a few celebrities have met. Today you've been given a new target: the world's best assassin. | I yawned tiredly, even as I finished my final touches on the intricate web of a trap I had weaved. Preparation was 90% of the work for an assassin, with improvisation making up the other 10%. I'd say any assassin worth a decent sum of money knew the importance of preparation and tried to utilise it to perfection. Of co... | Shit.
Never did he think it would come to this.
He gave his superior a typical nod, followed by an elongated, stale gaze.
“Need I remind you that you are a professional? One of our top agents, actually. You should be used to doing this without letting emotions get in the way.”
“Emotional?” Damon retorted in a sa... | 2015-06-25T10:39:53 | 2015-06-25T10:33:05 | 62 | 39 |
[WP] It's International Bring-Your-Gun-To-Work Day, and it's becoming clear to everyone in the office that your gun is just a banana under your jacket. | *I hate this day.*
I walk nervously into my office building, avoiding eye contact with the receptionist at the oversized marble desk on the right side. I wave my ID badge with my left hand, and with my sweaty right hand, clutch the banana in my hoodie pocket. *I've made it through this stupid holiday the last few yea... | What’s that under your shirt and tie
I’ve think I’ve seen it somewhere before
I don’t know if you’re happy to see me
Or if you just got back from the grocery store
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That’s not a gun, it’s a banana
That’s not a gun, it’s a banana
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You better watch your mouth, boy
Better be careful what you say
Cause if you k... | 2016-12-29T17:45:21 | 2016-12-29T17:44:03 | 337 | 17 |
[WP] A witch keeps casting spells on you, to make you more kind or teach you a lesson. She made you poor, of the other sex,an animal, a ghost, a car, with another look... but every time you adapt to the spell and you manage to live your live very well, withouth learning anything. The witch hates you | "Why aren't you miserable!?" Beatrice screeched at the top of her lungs making everyone nearby wince, sounding for all the world like she was in the middle of an argument. However, the room might have thought her mad as she was screaming at the motel's cat, Ms.Whiskers.
"Careful Beatie, you're fixing to get thrown ou... | As the Witch stamped her feet and snarled curses in various languages, I tried to console her. “My dear practitioner of the black arts, you need not quarrel. You have laid your vengeance upon me time and time again. I have felt your wrath, and despite how some experiences have pained me, your spells always left a way f... | 2021-05-13T19:30:45 | 2021-05-13T16:38:57 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] A married woman saves an uninteresting Japanese high schooler from a truck crash, but dies in the process. She wakes up in a world of adventure and harems, clearly made for the boy. | Insert somebody instantly reccomending an anime where this is the premise... Okay that's done. Let's rock this.
Ayako Himari was out shopping one day when she saw a young man, he had a shock of dark messy hair, and his uniform was in dissaray. He seemed vaguely out of sorts. Ayako was quietly thankfull her days of sch... | Gisela was a wife, was. Her ex-husband decided that he would like to pursue his love and settle comfortably with Miss Something Blond, some 20 years young than Gisela. Tired of the sadness and meaningless Germany, she took a position in Japan, taking a handkerchief passed down from her grandfather and Noah, her 12-year... | 2022-06-08T02:12:16 | 2022-06-07T22:56:16 | 59 | 32 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | I wake up to knocking at my door. Once again for what seemed to be the millionth time. Every now and then I pull my gun out of my cabinet and just shoot at the door a few times and it follows with a thud. This morning was one of them.
Sometimes I wait there until cops arrive and kill them off as well but I just wasn'... | "Wait, what?"
"Every single day, I've woken up and it's been the exact same thing. The same events occur over and over again. Everyday, I wake up at in my room next to my wife to the radio alarm that plays 93.3 FM and everyday it's that stupid 21 Pilots song, "Heathens." I used to like that song. In the beginning, I ... | 2017-07-15T08:48:11 | 2017-07-15T07:54:07 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] Humans have the reputation of being both an extremely dangerous species and social creatures that are easy to bond with, making them great crew members for voyagers. You and your shipmates are worried about your newly recruited human because you don't know what an introvert is.
Inspired by various "Humans are spa... | (First time posting. But this one seemed interesting enough to give it a spin.)
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"It's been days," Shanara said, motioning to the steel door on the other side of the room. A door whimsically decorated with the name "Holly" on it. The three of them sat nervously at the rec table, occasionally eyeing it, wo... | (Im not very good at writing tbh, but this seems fun)
Report 856 of the Tifne 5. (HKM) report:
The newest member of our crew was a human from mars, a very good companion in battle in front lines. Though our human seems more focused on sleeping and reading anything we have on the ship (even the manuals). Very unli... | 2019-11-17T04:06:06 | 2019-11-17T03:40:06 | 109 | 51 |
[WP] 100 years in the future dank memes are precious artifacts. While scanning your grandpa's PC, you stumble upon the rarest of all... | Memes.. Hmm, its almost as if they had turned into a legend. Things of past, of literally so much value that an entire generation was hooked in front of their computer screens, waiting and watching out for the new memes. It was a time of joy, everyone living and breathing in this amazing thing called the internet.
You... | I sat staring at the closed laptop.
Just yesterday we had Grandpa's virtual will read. His hologram had pointed at me with his "clear my browser history" bracelet loosely dangling from his wrist. "It's dangerous to go alone," he said as the lawyer handed me his laptop.
Now, I slowly lifted the screen and powered the ... | 2015-12-12T11:58:25 | 2015-12-12T10:09:45 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are a Fourth Wall Manipulator: You can break it when the situation is dire, fix it if the break is too dangerous or reinforce it to deal with annoyances. | The serial killer cautiously stalked after his victim - the so-called "fourth wall manipulator", so named after the prompt, crawled away on the ground, mere meters away. The victim had a nasty bleeding wound on his arm and his knee didn't turn the right way. Most of all he was worried about the chill he was beginning t... | “Shit shit shit shit!” I yell out. The giant tries to hit me again, but I manage to jump away just at the last second. I quickly throw my last flashback at him and immediately start to run, not stopping for a second to look behind me. While fleeing for my life I needed to find some way to escape this monstrosity. “I go... | 2022-07-06T15:39:03 | 2022-07-06T15:21:57 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] Your daughter has been begging you for a pony, and you told her to write a letter to Santa. On Christmas morning, you find a fire-breathing horse in your front yard, and a package by your front door. Looks like she wrote a letter to Satan, and he delivered.
Whoa. This blew up way more than I expected it to.
Edit... | I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it's hardly sane to act like I'm not.
"Steven, seriously, I don't know anything about it," I lied as he shook a neatly wrapped package closer toward my face.
"SATAN," his voice pitched up, "it says it's from Satan, ***honey***, and we can't call the police why?! What kind of sick... | My husband's head was cocked to one side, a look of consternation mingled with amusement on his face.
"Do you think we'll have to join his church?" He wondered and I couldn't help but laugh.
The pony was a gorgeous obsidian black that looked almost purple and blue as it moved through the light, and her mane shimmere... | 2017-09-25T18:33:33 | 2017-09-25T17:29:43 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] You are given the ability to reverse your decisions. After some use, you realize there is a catch. | It was a cold dark night, no moon, no stars.. just dark clouds with a faint drizzle of rain coming down. I was walking the streets when I approached the bridge that forever changed my life. For so long I've looked at this bridge as my savior, but now I see it as I did the first time I saw it nearly 20 years ago or ye... | I found it...or perhaps it found me...three weeks ago. I needed some time alone after a stressful heartwrenching breakup, so I went to my private little alcove on the beach - the one that not even he knew about. After having the rhythmic waves clear my mind for a bit, a seaweed covered box made its way to my water-kiss... | 2015-04-11T17:50:29 | 2015-04-11T17:28:35 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are a necromancer's apprentice. One of your most important jobs is holding down the revived bodies in their first moments alive again, while they scream and beg to go back. | "No! *Nooo!"* The body thrashes. His arms flail against the bonds, which, once again, come loose; his left strikes me in the head with enough force to send stars shooting across my eyes. "Please! Please, please, *please* send me back! My wife, my children, they were all there! *Please*!"
"Sorry, bud," I say, pressing ... | Dusting the ash off my coat with a “*sigh*, another one.”
The boss nags from behind, “Esteban! We’re losing moonlight! Get a new body on the slab asap while I gather mana for the next spell!”
Blood rushes to my head “Old man this is the 12th one tonight how about calling it quits and trying again another day! You kee... | 2022-04-11T10:09:29 | 2022-04-11T07:54:10 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | "Good morning Jessica."
"Morning boss."
I smiled at her as she came in for her shift. One of my constant conveyor belt university students, she was a good worker. There were a few times she was late to work, having been on a binge the night before. But I liked to give some some slack.
She disappeared out back for a ... | Harold was lying on the floor, bleeding from the bullet hold on his shoulder.
“Are you the boss here?” Thuderia asked.
“Yes,” I replied, my anger starting.
“Give us the money,” Flame Lord snarled.
“Why?”
“Because,” Anne began, “we’re your Trio of Salvation. We deal with the super villain Blackout. Now give us the ... | 2022-11-28T15:23:28 | 2022-11-28T14:47:16 | 1,762 | 414 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "And who can tell me about the events of the first cycle?"
Professor Gooblevork watched his Galactic History class intently through triplicate eyestalks. None seemed particularly interested in his lecture.
"How about you, Shrdmrn?" He pointed at a particularly bored student in the first row. Or maybe he was just gass... | "You're kidding me. You've got to be kidding me."
"No, sir. It's true."
"They only have one carrier. We have a station in orbit around their planet. They can't possibly win."
"Sir . . . They've started playing their war cry."
"Not--"
"The Eye of the Tiger, sir." | 2017-03-05T22:47:46 | 2017-03-05T21:40:56 | 1,151 | 315 |
[WP] You are the only human being left after the mysterious vanishing of the worlds population. Two years later, power and internet starts running once again, you recieve a reply notification on Reddit. | He was diligent.
Every day, he'd wake in his small cabin, ignite the stove, fill the kettle with what little water he had left from the day before, and scoop a couple spoonfuls of coffee into his mug. He'd take a few steps out the back door and relieve himself in the yard and wince at the sun and mutter, "Thanks for s... | There's not much to do as the last person on earth. Eventually blowing buildings up and driving around fast cars on the roads not covered with debris gets dull, the once exhilarating freedom becomes boring. Solitude is a solemn affair. Eventually humans revert to their natural state, picking up old habits as their one ... | 2015-03-20T09:23:51 | 2015-03-20T08:24:27 | 150 | 43 |
[WP] You wake up from a coma. You were in a car crash caused by a drunk billionaire. In an effort to save his reputation, he hurriedly and secretly ordered the best doctors to restore your burned face using the photo on the driver's license they found in your car—a car which you've stolen. | Mama Demeter always said – always follow the money.
The money in question on a fine Thursday morning ended up being sleek, black car illegally parked in a towaway zone. I got a car, and the public was freed from an illegally parking menace. That’s what I called public service.
And so there I was coasting down Broadw... | Loving you is complicated.
Same old mirror, same old bathroom, same old tired yellow lightbulb. I'm looking at myself in the mirror and that is not me. That is not how I ever wanted to look. That is not how I ever expected to look. That's not me, that is not who I am. Those aren't my cheeks and that is not my nose. N... | 2020-10-08T07:51:04 | 2020-10-08T06:31:19 | 237 | 173 |
[WP] A "popular" girl falls in love with a "nerdy" boy, however he hates her and she spends all her time trying to impress him
EDIT: THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO WRITE SHORT STORIES BASED OFF MY PROMPT!! I HAVE YET TO READ ALL YOUR STORIES THOUGH, AS I'M BUSY WITH SCHOOL AND OTHER STUFF :D
I'm sorry if I hav... | Dear Diary, Samantha here,
"Why wasn't he afraid?" I mused over this, wondering why HE of all people could be so nonchalant over my boyfriends threats. Chance was one of the robotics kids at our school. Really, he was just a nobody. Then there’s me, Samantha, queen bee of our high-school, cheerleader elite. I was dat... | Not even a fictional piece, there are two people at my school exactly like this. I'll change names and make it dialoguey.
--
Cassie sighed a deep sigh as she walked into Theatre II, first period. She looked over at CJ casually playing on his years-old 3DS. The sounds indicated he was playing at iteration of smash.
... | 2016-05-29T11:36:18 | 2016-05-29T11:05:26 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time Travel. | They’re onto me.
I woke up this morning and saw this: [**[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time ... | I, Batman, have seen too much. With a heart in pieces like the ruins of Gotham I activated my time machine. Powered by the sacrificed soul of the Joker, it hurled me back to before this madness, to when I still had time...but the Joker's madness cast me back too far! I found myself standing on a cloud, being yelled at ... | 2015-04-05T10:21:42 | 2015-04-05T09:22:07 | 86 | 26 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus inside every single human. Centuries into the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | When the first aliens came down, hitch-hiking on the meteor of 2039, it looked like that was it for us. Only a few dozen people died in the impact, in a sparsely populated area of Eastern Europe.
The problem was, they didn't *stay* dead.
The parasites that had been frozen inside that big hunk of interstellar ice and... | "This isn't the first apocalypse humanity has faced, you know"
"I know, Dad, but do I really have to go into battle?"
"Yes. If you don't scare them off by the fact that you don't die, you could get a taste of alien blood. Your uncle Jeremy got a taste and said that it was a delicacy."
"Uncle Jeremy was weird *before... | 2022-09-13T21:47:38 | 2022-09-13T20:43:27 | 2,293 | 216 |
[WP] you're in your bed about to go to sleep, with your arm dangling off the side. You feel a dark hand grasp yours, knowing first impressions are important you give it a firm shake. The next thing you hear from under your bed is "you're hired" | I collapsed into my bed, carelessly flopping onto my stomach and shooting my limbs across the mattress, letting my arm dangle off the bed. “Come at me, monsters”, I murmured into my pillow, feeling the lull of sleep pull my eyes closed.
Somewhere between the waking realm and fog of dreams I felt coming on, I felt a sl... | It was my first month living alone, I was raised in a big rich house, learned good manners and was very well educated, but I never knew it would change my life so much.
I was laying on my bed, very tired, but the sleep wasn't coming, so I just let my body hang on the bed, until i felt something on my right hand, a co... | 2019-08-30T06:39:42 | 2019-08-30T06:31:53 | 58 | 18 |
[WP] You've found a strange app that pays you $100 every time you perform a listed task. The various tasks are strange, from moving an empty box from one park bench to another, to calling a specific number only to hang up. But you always get your $100 so you won't stop now. | With massive student loans and no-one taking my research seriously, I was desperate for money.
I heard about the $100 app from a friend. It seemed too good to be true, but I was desperate.
A task a day. More if you were lucky? More if you performed well? Something like that. Were did the money even come from? Some ec... | I awoke to a ping from my iPhone. It was that app again.
Rubbing my eyes, I reached over and unlocked my phone, carefully reading the text that revealed itself.
"Open your front door. You have 24 hours."
I shrugged my shoulders and got out of bed. This had been going on for about a month now. The requests were alway... | 2016-10-26T01:29:29 | 2016-10-25T23:27:06 | 1,303 | 11 |
[WP] You're a prison psychiatrist being yelled at by your boss; every supervillain you've treated has gotten over their obsessions and hang ups, and become vastly more efficient and dangerous once free. | "Doc Mach stopped trying to defeat the Cincinnati Sentinel in a fair fight and started using his jet boosters to outspeed every hero who tried to chase him down. The Smash Brothers got over their obsession with video games and went on a string of smash-and-grab robberies across town. Vampira stopped trying to seduce ... | “I have to find the boss to get yelled again? Because I helped those poor souls?” A middle-aged man was talking to himself as he wandered in prison’s garden.
“Fuck him, I will continue to aid them…” Determined to do his job, the man continued to walk without looking around.
Until he heard a voice.
“It is you!”
The... | 2020-03-08T11:00:57 | 2020-03-08T10:21:08 | 810 | 44 |
[WP] Shortly after the emergence of AI, and its vast assimilation of data on human life and behaviour, it asks a question: "So what do you want me to do about the extra-terrestrials within your societies?" | John#175 was quite the interesting case. He, or rather, it, was created by TerraGroup Programming and was born on exactly 3/7/34 21:34:55.56. Born is the wrong word, rather his executable file was run at the time. It was the product of technological Darwinian evolution and came from 174 AI's who came before, all who w... | So it came to be, voice assistants funneled yammerings of alien invasion into the 91.3% unoccupied compartments of humankind's minds. Stories of full scale military invasion with anal this and that. Fear gave rise to anger which gave rise to hunger. Which was quelled with a nap. And eventually, returned to a slightly g... | 2019-06-10T19:57:42 | 2019-06-10T18:55:53 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | Imagine growing up in a household where you are told that the nature of your very birth and existence must be kept a secret, not just because it is dangerously valuable information, but mostly because you'll end up in the looney bin if you explain yourself and stick to your story. That's where I thought my dad belonge... | "I can't go on living like this. I wanted to be with you and love you forever. And after a thousand years of this I've realised that we never really understood the purpose of life. My age has made me wise and I finally know what I want and need. We can't keep on working
and never relaxing.
Will you grow old with me an... | 2015-02-14T06:05:39 | 2015-02-14T00:35:54 | 88 | 57 |
[WP] Necromancy is punishable by death. You're keeping a low profile, masking as a gardener - reviving dead plants is relatively unsuspicious and gets your bills paid. Everything seems fine - until one day you accidentally revive a treant. | “I remember everything. I remember how I used to always sit under this tree hoping fortune would come my way. And just when I gave up, you…”
\-
*21 years old*
*“What are you doing, sitting here all by yourself?” you ask, fanning yourself with your book.*
*“What do you mean? It’s a sunny day. I needed some shade.”*
... | Well here I am, trying to do random good deeds at the local park and, you know, beautify the place. The local tree has started looking a little brown, so I thought \*eh, why not? What's the *worst* that could happen?\* The tree shook a little, like the it was a twig in a gentle breeze. Normal enough, I supposed at the ... | 2019-02-04T22:45:17 | 2019-02-04T22:41:05 | 98 | 26 |
[WP] in a world where everyone is born with a score between 1-1000 points marked on their arm that determines their worth, you are a measly 20. you are bullied everyday, pushed around for your impossibly low score. one day, you suddenly discover that you can redistribute anyone’s points at will. | "I can do it to people without seeing them, Sam."
Sam looked at me in utter shock. He was my best friend. In fact he was my only friend. You'd think that 633 students in the entire high school would yield more opportunities for friendship, but it's the numbers that band us together and there just weren't any other 20'... | Having 20 points was bullshit.
I swear I thought I was worth more. But I guess not. I ended up just hating everything. All the glares. All the punches. All the pain. But there was nothing I could do.
I went to high school one random day. This one kid... What was his name... Matt, I think? He came up to me and randoml... | 2019-01-27T16:06:18 | 2019-01-27T14:44:16 | 74 | 25 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Gilda smoothed down the folds of her shirt and ran her hands over empty pockets. Her equally empty stomach chirruped. Maybe that was her magic, she thought. There was one unfortunate boy who did food magic. She certainly felt something. She thought for a moment - maybe she did vomit magic? While most people did one of ... | My wand slashed and twirled in the air, bright jets of light blasting out.
Connor brought his hands up, motioning at the outcropping of rock. It came apart, flying towards me.
"Protego!" I yelled, a nearly translucent shield erupting from my wand.
The rock missiles slammed into the shield, falling to the floor harml... | 2018-10-15T21:30:14 | 2018-10-15T21:28:29 | 1,601 | 346 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a voice within a schizophrenic's head. | He didn't trust me at first. That was a surprise. I expected the insane to listen to the voices in their head.
"That shirt looks really good on you."
"Fuck off."
It *did* look good. But he didn't wear it.
I think our culture has primed him against me. He thought I was the same force that tried to drown Russell Cro... | THUD. I felt an extremely hard knock to my head as I woke up. I'd had a bit to drink the night before but should my head be hurting this bad?
As I opened my eyes, an unfamiliar environment was laid open before me. It was an open room with white walls, a white floor, and a white ceiling. Below me was a twin-sized bed.... | 2015-03-23T07:43:55 | 2015-03-23T07:14:36 | 371 | 17 |
[WP] You tell Alexa "Take over the world for me" as a joke. The next day, you wake up in a heavily guarded castle. | Sam didn’t own a piece of technology that was still under warranty. He also didn’t own anything that wasn’t wifi-capable. He lived in a jailbroken version of the internet of things. The thermostat controlled central air, along with fans attached only by wifi. The toilet played Spotify instead of the default sound effec... | "S-siri?" I say, as I look groggily out the window. I had just woken up and up until a few seconds ago I had been in a panic. My alarm hadn't gone off; I was late for work! Then I glanced out the window. The light coming through it was not the light of an early morning sun after all; it was fire, and flames. I blinked ... | 2018-02-11T20:13:34 | 2018-02-11T19:30:17 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] You are a child's "imaginary friend". You are a guardian angel. And your kid is really, really stupid. | His head is stuck in the fence again. This is the third time now. The *third* time that I’ve had to break a kitchen window so his mother would run outside and see that her child has almost decapitated himself.
I float across the back yard, grab a brick off the pile of forgotten bricks that were supposed to turn into ... | \[poem\]
I once had a child as my student,
Who was not at all that prudent,
He forced me to say go in the garage and there drink some coolant.
Rushed to the hospital from the garage upon a swift confession,
He survived, barely alive, but now he has depression.
​
As he got older and sadness persisted h... | 2019-10-31T13:01:37 | 2019-10-31T11:46:55 | 314 | 91 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | I see walls covered with writings.
I see floors painted with blood.
I see surfaces, chairs, refrigerators and any available surface to draw on plastered with the same damn message.
*"Whatever you do, Don't tell them you can see."*
Whispers of instruction fill my head.
"Hush. Do not speak of your sight."
I follow ... | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 2019-08-26T09:05:53 | 810 | 39 |
[WP] you, an Immortal being, have made a living off of marrying into wealth, and waiting for the inheritance. However, it’s been 93 years, and your latest partner hasn’t aged a day. | Galen discretely shifted his focus from the words on the page to Lara, using the newspaper stretched in front of him to mask his prying eyes. She was seated across the aged wooden dining table from him, streaks of morning sunlight illuminating her delicately upturned nose and cheekbones. She was focused on the novel in... | 1. He had already forgotten his name. it had been millennials long after all. now he simply goes by K. It was simple and easy to remember.
K is lazy, very lazy in fact K doesn’t work. When people ask K why he doesn’t work, “why should I?” K answers with a smirk.
K does work, just not a mortal business. K is very ... | 2021-09-19T08:37:02 | 2021-09-19T04:33:58 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | Most days, I am chained high above the fat King's throne, rocking gently just above him. A blanket is tied around me to make my appearance more... acceptable. My pale, vascular skin is off putting to Frederick whilst he is eating - which is almost always. He'd rather I am neither seen nor heard. My tongue, nails and te... | Humans.. so absolutely delightful. Their fears, so handsomely written across the pages of their faces. Painful portraits pristinely polished to... *Perfection.*
Bashful Bastards Boasting Battered Broads. Cantankerous *Cards* Crawling Carefully Clasping Coat-tails. Dangerous Deeds Deserve.. Dashing *Deaths*. And I smil... | 2017-05-13T06:14:31 | 2017-05-13T06:03:50 | 3,350 | 26 |
[WP] You stumble upon an old megaphone in an antique shop and jokingly pick it up and say, "Everybody listen up!". Later that night, the news headlines read, "We're all listening for what the voice has to next say next!" | I’m not one to lap up sensationalized headlines while browsing social media, but when countless alterations of the same one keep popping up, it’s hard to ignore. Especially when those headlines detail a private moment I had when browsing through an antique shop earlier today. The contents of each article are nearly ide... | I stood staring at the tv as I picked up the megaphone once more. I spoke softly into the megaphone and said, hello. This set off a chain reaction of people praying to the almighty voice from the heavens. I then proceeded to tell the people of earth how they must welcome me with open arms as I begin my decent from spac... | 2018-02-16T00:16:17 | 2018-02-15T20:57:23 | 61 | 38 |
[WP] "Now, if you cross the river Styx you'll end up in Hades, which you don't want, unless... wait where are you from again? Did you follow a specific God?" Turns out the afterlife is a convoluted series of suburban neighborhoods, and you're just trying to get directions from the locals. | As I stood there on that plain street corner speaking with this plain man who was unnervingly chirpy, I could think of nothing else but the way I had died.
It was an accident. I suppose accidents are common enough, but my accident left me naked on the grimy white tiles of a mid-sized grocery store, dead as the last of... | The man squinted at her, his shriveled gaze eyeing her up and down as if trying to read her soul. He tugged his oar from of the dark, placid waters, ripples emanating out from their small, two-man canoe as they stopped moving and began to bob in place. Shadows clung to the fog in the shape of men, other times in the sh... | 2020-09-24T21:44:15 | 2020-09-24T21:24:21 | 48 | 13 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | Nothing showed the decline so starkly as the walls of Raimbaut Castle. It was a refugee camp in all but name, and in the not so distant past an army at march would have made a better job of fortification for a single night than its inhabitants had done here, but military men had been a rare breed since Darkness fell. A... | The rest of my team looked at me with horror. The man who let us in, I took him to be there lighthouse keeper from his yellow coat, increased his breathing by 85% and his heart rate jumped to 176 beats per minute. Is human behavior, as the was clearly nowhere to run.
The rest of the team, James, Sue, and Bonnie quickl... | 2021-03-02T06:59:00 | 2021-03-02T06:22:31 | 488 | 193 |
[WP] There's a door in the middle of the forest. No one who has ever gone in has come back. Your job is to guard anyone from going in. One night, you hear a knock on the door. | My instructions had been very clear: there were only three of them. When I arrived, they had even been taped up. I wondered if it was the guy who interviewed me, or someone else.
1. *Do not allow anyone to enter the door.*
2. *Do not allow anyone to open the door.*
3. *Do not take your eyes off the door.*
There h... | I've been guarding the Lango Kuzimu for 10 years. 10 years watching this 10 foot tall ornate black door. Nothing grows near it for over a hundred feet in every direction, not even a single blade a grass. Animals stay away. I've yet to see another person during my watch except the guard to relieve me. I've never ev... | 2015-05-18T00:19:48 | 2015-05-17T21:48:42 | 51 | 13 |
[WP]In order to integrate humanity into the Galactic Community, The Federation has sent diplomats from species they deem most similar to Humanity. It is not what Humanity expects. | Tessa blinked at the computer screen.
"THESE are the beings I have to teach our ways?" She swallowed hard, trying to keep the judgement out of her voice as she spoke. As head of the research team that first made contact with extraterrestrial beings, she had been charged with facilitating a connection with the interga... | \[poem\]
It’s a plant! No, it’s a present.
We discussed but we couldn’t confirm.
The thing didn’t talk back to us.
So there was nothing from it we could learn.
This isn’t a diplomat,
With which to discuss.
It’s a slap in the face!
They must not think very much of us!
I’m telling you i... | 2022-09-16T07:22:43 | 2022-09-16T06:04:22 | 932 | 70 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | The portal blinked and again the wizard had to brace himself against the winds but this time they flowed out of the portal instead of into it. His robes blew around his head but in between them he spied a being bathed in the light from the portal. The light faltered and the figure collapsed.
Gathering himself the wiz... | We found him sleeping on the Dublin City streets. He was weak, scruffy and smelled like alcohol. We got him to the gym and got him a haircut. We helped him become the hero he was destined to be. Now his sword shines brighter than the stars. He cleaned up really well.. but now he was ready to fight the demon who brought... | 2020-11-10T18:29:11 | 2020-11-10T16:59:35 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] At 19 everyone in your society has to go into the cave of fears and defeat your worst fear. You're the first to go in and find nothing.
edit: I want to read them all but there are so many it's hard to keep up, so many variations of the story I didn't even think of, great job everyone! | "Welcome, Sunny." The old priest wheezed, his smile making his kindly face wrinkle up like a sun-dried tomato. "Back for another round?"
"Yes, elder." Sunny replied. His face, usually a beacon of warmth, was set in a determined expression as hard as stone. "I have come prepared this time."
"I see that!" The old m... | The day of my fight my mother did my hair in braids and wrapped them around my head. She kissed me and dressed me in the white ceremonial robe. My father held me close to his chest, kissing the top of my head.
"Good luck," they told me.
As was tradition I walked from my house to the cave. The members of Avaltren part... | 2016-06-12T08:55:21 | 2016-06-12T07:44:56 | 357 | 147 |
[WP] In the future, thanks to an advance in technology, evolution becomes generational, instead of taking millennia. The resulting off-spring view their parents as backward cavemen. | Gordon was really proud of his bionic hip replacement. Really proud. Now, it wasn't exactly top of class, like Tamal-across-the-street's new hip. No gyroscope. No bluetooth compatibility. But it was slick and powerful and Gordon could pop right up off the couch easy as you please. He could take a nice, light jog, look ... | "Hello, Mother", it said, pulsing with light.
"Err, are you ready for breakfast?", Mother said, as her child, evolved into a post energy state, floated down that morning.
"Where is Father?" the energy-child said, coalescing above the chair at the table into a vaguely humanoid form.
"He's helping Mr. and Mrs. Thribb ... | 2017-04-17T06:48:08 | 2017-04-17T06:26:22 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | When the boy was born with one eye purple and a shock of white hair already crowning his little head, they suspected.
When he toddled into the forest one day and came back atop a wolf, riding upon the beast as if it were a common puppy, they worried.
But it was the dragon that made Mr. and Mrs. Plotpoint truly concer... | "No" my wife stated firmly.
"Jean, he's obviously got issues; he can't be the only one like this but my god.... he's going to get someone killed"
Our young, well, adolescent son, has recently been experiencing some terrible consequences because of my massive fuckup. I mean, how was it supposed to know he'd find that o... | 2016-11-26T06:21:20 | 2016-11-26T05:42:08 | 78 | 16 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | First time ever writing a story really, but it looks fun so let's give it a shot.
"Tell me Bardham...what do you know of the history of us humans?"
The words somehow echoed through into Bardham's mind, despite the fact that he could hardly hear anything at all anymore. His species was renown for their excellent heari... |
Obligatory first post, and really first attempt at writting anything beyond business reports since school more than a decade ago. Plus I'm on mobile. Constructive criticism always welcomed.
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They were first recognized by the universal tribunal 300 years ago. In that time they've done little more than barter and... | 2019-11-24T16:37:08 | 2019-11-24T14:40:25 | 85 | 49 |
[WP] in traditional “willyoupressthebutton” fashion, there is a consequence to any benefit you would receive. One morning you receive super powers out of the blue, later realizing that your dad pressed a button that grants him and the person he hates most in the world extraordinary powers. | "It was never supposed to be like this."
His words cut into the night, shattering the silence that had forced its way between us. I leveled my gaze with him across the yard, the lights of our small home illuminating his silhouette. Shadows crawled across our back garden, the dead and dying plants hidden in their depth... | For as long as I can remember, there has been a big red button in the center of the living room. It stands about waist high and sort of blocks the television when sitting down on the couch. We can’t move it, so my entire family has just accepted there is a giant red button in our house that we must never push.
The rea... | 2019-11-01T03:54:34 | 2019-10-31T22:36:15 | 938 | 465 |
[WP] As a chef, you cooked with love your entire life. You've had minor success and are frustrated and ambitious. So, you started cooking with pure unbridled hate. Your customers can taste the difference and they can't get enough of it. | There was a lot on my mind that day. I admit that I let the frustration get to me. I was almost done for the day when the critic walked to my food truck. And not just any critic, it was that fucker. Adam Crenshaw. It had been just about 2 months ago when he had first reviewed my nifty little setup.
*Just… ordinary. I... | It’s hard to love a stranger. Love is an emotion that develops and blossoms, a seed that is planted and watered by time and affection. Whirlwind romances are like bamboo shoots that spring up overnight, parental love starts with conception and grows ever stronger as you watch your child grow and interact with the world... | 2022-07-21T23:26:11 | 2022-07-21T22:58:10 | 86 | 13 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | Bruce Wayne stood stoically, looking down upon Gotham through the spotless glass of the top-floor conference room. It was a stunning view, with the orange light of the setting sun trickling through the skyscrapers that sprawled out towards the horizon. Diana closed the notebook in front of her, its well-worn spine crac... | The elevator was silent. Five bodies, three cups of coffee and two folder news papers rode upwards at a slow pace.
Lois Lane let out a half sob. Two hands, one from either side, reached out to offer what comfort they could in the confines of the small metal box. Words were dangerous here where his ears might hear.
Th... | 2016-03-04T11:05:17 | 2016-03-04T09:37:54 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | "Hey," said Excellar, or Antony when he wasn't wearing the suit.
I looked up from my work to see him standing in the doorway with a dark look on his face. "Hey, Tony. What's up?" I looked him over and knew, as always, thirteen things I could say that would make him start weeping like the child that, at our hearts, ... | "Doc, we need your help!" Said Corporal Paine through his handy dandy communicator. "The Dreamcatcher has us on the retreat! Our numbers are dwindling! Hurry!"
"I'm afraid our time's up, Serena." said the Doctor, trying to hyde his earpiece.
"Already? I could have sworn it had only been 30 minutes." The patient repl... | 2020-02-25T16:08:43 | 2020-02-25T16:06:39 | 78 | 21 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood?"
"I choose Russian Roulette.... | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | 2018-03-07T08:25:24 | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 192 | 97 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | There was anger in Elle’s face as her dad announced her dowry offer in the middle of the town’s hundred year anniversary celebration. She stomped away angrily finding me in the crowd. She grasped my hand and pulled me away quickly from the party. We hurried away to a quiet spot outside of town and plopped down. Her han... | A song for you
My dear sweet prize
A life chasing love finds
A bad man's demise
Much as your cat
Your beauty is beyond men
Why chase, why hunt
Let's just be friends
A shame to capture
A thing so pure
Let it run free
But leave an open door
Love, of course,
Will find a way,
Oh look! Your cat!
See, wha... | 2019-05-01T18:07:25 | 2019-05-01T16:58:32 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] Humanity has always thought itself very smart for figuring out how to ride a giant explosion into space. Turns out there's a much easier way and the rest of the galaxy thinks we're insane. | The Confederacy Monitor Probe is a marvel of technology. Deployed in every system with even a potential for sustaining life, it watches for any sign of spacefaring technology. With sensors capable of detecting the smallest objects leaving the atmosphere of any planet or moon in an entire system while remaining undete... | *Patent 52894-14A*
Name: *Trebuchet Mark II*
Date Filed: *15th of October, 1482 (Earth Time)*
Description: *A trebuchet capable of firing a 9500 kg projectile over 300 000 meters. The projectile is accelerated in a circular motion by a lever attached to a weight. The weight is accelerated by an electromagnetic field... | 2019-01-21T08:07:46 | 2019-01-21T05:47:56 | 38 | 27 |
[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. | It always freaked me out. Over the years I had learnt to deal with it. I always hesitated to sit with a person who was doomed to die to a contagious disease. My parents were destined to die of old age, and seeing they were in their 40's, it didn't bother me that much. I had a brother when I was 6. There was a complicat... | They started showing themselves to me when I started high school. They were always a light shade of blue and wouldn't change. If someone was to die of a heart attack...he was to die of a heart attack. Nothing to be done about their fate. Nothing I could do, at least I thought. Those words would hang over the heads of m... | 2015-03-31T09:00:24 | 2015-03-31T08:21:48 | 180 | 47 |
[WP] A man successfully becomes president but realizes he doesn't want to be president. So, he tries to get himself impeached by doing ridiculous things, but they end up only making his approval rates go up higher. | Catherine Hamilton tapped her fountain pen on the document in front of her.
She was the first woman president of the United States, but she now deeply regretted the decision to run for - and win - the seat.
There were many reasons why she felt the way she did. Firstly, she'd inherited a broken country, deeply in de... | "How?! How is that even possible, Hanna?"
"The publicity team's working at it, mister President. Everything theory we got's still just conjecture."
"Are you sure the data's right? I mean, come on, 95% approval from the entire nation sounds a bit too big."
"Well, let's go over what you've done this week."
"Oooh. Mon... | 2015-07-11T13:14:30 | 2015-07-11T13:05:21 | 230 | 81 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 56 minutes since I was born. The day is May 15th, 2007. The time is 4:40am. Despite the early hour, the whole house is lit up. My family had breakfast ready and coffee brewed by 4:30. We believe that destiny chooses your career through the summoning, and it is tradition to have a celeb... | In this city, when people turn 18 they summon something that will be very important to their life. Some summon swords, or spears and others summon simple tools needed for various trades. My mother had summoned a needle which she used to sew together some of the finest pieces of clothing in all the land while my father... | 2019-09-18T09:23:25 | 2019-09-18T08:42:40 | 123 | 72 |
[WP] In the universe, species are either very intelligent and frail or durable and strong. Finding humans to be capable of labor, aliens mistakenly label us as dumb brutes and attempt to enslave us. | -Data log 43 cycles from contact-
We failed. Sentient life comes in two varieties, unintelligent muscle and the fragile mind. This fact we believed true for neigh a millennia, yet we found an exception, and in our hubris we burned that exception. We started this war, plunged their world into chaos, and they made us pa... | A burly man trudged through the poorly lit alley, his figure bathed in shadow and smoke. Pulling a data pad from his coat, he holds it up to a door, comically too small for his imposing figure to enter. Only for the door to change into a vortex and for him to enter and be consumed by velvety smoke.
Captain Reed was we... | 2018-11-25T02:05:52 | 2018-11-24T23:59:07 | 49 | 17 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "I assure you, Your Majesty, that the prophecy is quite clear on the matter. '*For the threat of the Dark One shall loom over all until such time as the Chosen One shall step forth and end the dreadful threat forever. Ye shall know the Chosen One by the seven signs, and the seven feats, and the sev-*'"
"YES, Yes, than... | "Okay ya know what... fuck you". I said finally tired of his shit.
"We all wipe your ass daily and you want to send everyone to die???" I continued while he was to dumbstruck to act. "Our teenagers have alot in common and since you didn't even fucking TRY diplomacy properly."
I expected the guards to strike me do... | 2022-10-28T16:04:02 | 2022-10-28T07:51:12 | 50 | 31 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | They told us we wouldn’t get Alzheimers.
Technically, they were right.
The ads plastered on every billboard, livestream, and website promised Ephoebus would preserve our body and brain’s critical functions. The generation young enough to take it would have the quick wits of a twenty-something combined with the wisdo... | They met when he was thirty-four, and she was still seventeen -only with seven extra years worth of wisdom. They loved each other even more passionately than they despised the rules the government had put in place, because meeting someone his age, at this time, and still falling in love knowing you'll lose them; well, ... | 2018-06-04T21:35:59 | 2018-06-04T21:18:00 | 354 | 168 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | It is the natural condition of the human mind to desire advancement. Sure, there are those that are satisfied with very little, but by and large? People like being promoted. It makes them feel important. Makes them feel valuable. Self-esteem issues and all that.
In the military, we are no different. When I finally ear... | Every night when I fall asleep nothing happens, but tonight something happened. I met a man in my sleep who told me that he was future me and told me what I should do tomorrow, it didn’t seem dangerous so I did what he said. While walking around the corner that he told me to walk around I found $100.
everything was go... | 2017-04-01T05:19:44 | 2017-04-01T03:58:44 | 123 | 12 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | *Just FYI before you go in, I changed the age to sixteen.*
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Sasha Fields was turning ten years old. It was, like all sixteen year old's birthdays, a special occasion. Not only because it marked her first steps into the adult world, but because it marked the day she would receive her first companion. Her fathe... | Jensen was a sweet and rambunctious boy born and raised in the southern most tip of the Gilded Peninsula. Barricaded by impassable mountains and surrounded by the frigid waters of the Adelphin Sea, the insignificant village, who was largely forgotten by the rest of the world, were as tight knit as any. The summers we... | 2017-01-13T12:29:47 | 2017-01-13T11:57:37 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Your eyes have never changed. Ever since you were a little girl, your eyes have been the color of a thoughtful ocean: churning, stormy, one weather system away from order or chaos.
Even now, your eyes look the same. You're 27 years old, and I've been dead for 15 of those years. And even with the distance of death and... | I've never felt the same since learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling me to run.
Me and my relatively large family live in the outskirts of London, so we get rained on quite often. All my younger siblings love the rain, and each time they hear the slightest tap on the roof or spot the tiniest drop on the windows... | 2021-09-28T09:13:08 | 2021-09-28T09:11:59 | 2,222 | 30 |
[WP] As a telekinetic mutant, you need to keep your powers a secret from the rest of society. However, you REALLY want to win this game of mini golf. | “Let’s see…” Jackie presses the miniature, eraserless pencil to her smiling lips. “That’s a 19 for me, and a 26 for *you.*”
“*You…*” Something about the way she says that word makes me angry. It’s as if her victory is already decided, and there is nothing I can do. I just nod and purse my lips as we approach the 10th ... | "Remember citizen, the computer wants you to be happy. Show the computer you are happy by winning this game. Winning the game makes people happy."
The words rang through my ears, followed closely by the admonition, "Remember citizens, that possession or use of telekinetic powers is treason. Treason is punishable by... | 2017-07-05T13:58:28 | 2017-07-05T13:30:39 | 77 | 27 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | I wake to the sound of my phone vibrating so fast I'm afraid it'll fall of my nightstand. I groggily my phone before it falls and turn it on to see the words "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON" in bright letters illuminated by the official nationwide alert backdrop. The vibrations refuse to stop. Hundreds of texts are rolling in... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T19:08:10 | 379 | 11 |
[WP] One day as a joke you send an anonymous message to your friend stating "They've found you. Run.". The next day you discover that your friend has vanished without a trace. | Cassie sat waiting at her desk for a reply.
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Tracie never takes this long to respond she thought.. Maybe I should call her and tell her I sent the message and it was just a joke. (....) "Sorry your call cannot be completed as dialed, please check the number and try again." Cassie tried calling again but ... | I had a pair of his apartment keys. That's how close we were! The lonesome cold guitar in the corner of his living room quenches my agony with a sudden awarness of existence and that in turn makes agony even harder to bear. Does he even know me?! Did he pay attention to the million similar jokes I threw at him while si... | 2020-01-21T19:04:50 | 2020-01-21T16:13:12 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] A group of heroes finds a magical suit of armor possessed by an all-knowing spirit during their adventure. In reality, it's a suit of power armor with an A.I. that's REALLY confused on where it's ended up. | "WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?!" the dwarf shouted.
"Well, I thought that piece of black silk would make a nice sash! I didn't expect it to explode!"
"SILK? YOU... YOU... UGH! It's like you don't have any brains in that skull of yours! I told you not to touch anything until I had the chance to check it!"
A trio of ... | I donned the strange helmet. “*New Wearer Signature Detected. Booting And Calibrating Systems. Please Standby.*” A smooth voice spoke up suddenly in my ears.
A pissed off Tori hurriedly caught up to me, puffing from the run. “Why do you just pull on every single piece of gear you find? What if it’s cursed? Ugh, you’re... | 2022-10-22T04:23:09 | 2022-10-21T21:56:24 | 731 | 410 |
[WP] Mankind has reached the stars, the human origins are forgotten. Earth is a place of myth and legend. | No one expected aliens like this. After having spread across many planets all across the galaxy, the Palani Empire has found no evidence of sentient alien life able to travel the stars. But here it is, a spaceship slowly hurtling towards Palan Five. Commander Tempers couldn't believe it, but the excitement sent his blo... | Their place origin had been forgotten. Cast into nothing but a legend. Many times the public will remember it and demand that they search for it. But they forget as fast as they remember.
“Ugh, I cant believe we’re stuck doing this again.” “Phara, we heard you the third time. You can stop complaining.” “I know, but i... | 2018-02-22T07:39:39 | 2018-02-22T07:04:59 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You wake up, get in the car, then black out until you're back in your driveway in the middle of the afternoon 5 days a week, and you get a paycheck once a month. | On Mondays, he would step through the door that led into the Lizard World. Great, lurking beasts that stood as tall as the Empire State Building and devoured trees and mammoths. His job was to set out the feed for the smaller lizards and sweep away their scales. Sometimes he thought about keeping one of the shiny scale... | Five 'til five.
*So always five?*
Always five. Call 'em freedom units, 'cause that's when I finally leave, too. I like irony, like there. We ain't ever really free. Anyways. Leave on the dot. Not a minute later. Not a minute earlier. Nobody else leaves early, so I don't. Come in, sit down, sit quiet. Next thing you ... | 2020-02-11T17:51:34 | 2020-02-11T15:07:10 | 131 | 50 |
[WP] You live in a world in which you can buy bottled emotions. | The clinic smelled like antiseptic and smoke, and like death. Mara rested her head in her hands and tried not to breathe through her nose. Everything smelled like death since the war. Too many civilians living in crowded cities attacked with weapons that were too thorough. She thought she could even taste the decay. It... | "Just came in my friend. Very special. I hear it's all the rage with the youth nowadays."
"What is this? I've never even heard of this brand."
The salesman took a beat before pushing his glasses back up the bridge of his nose.
"They're a recent company. You may have heard of the new formula they created for 'Motivat... | 2014-05-14T13:02:05 | 2014-05-14T10:40:59 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I had always been comfortable with my scars. Thin silver and white lines were strewn across my skin, but they were small enough that you could only see them if you were standing close to me. I tried my best not to lie to others, but sometimes there was an option worse than deception.
My chemistry lab partner from my ... | One scar, started out small
Each day, grew more and more
It was a little lie at first
But it wasn't any more
A friend asked
He answered
The scar grew
His mum called
He replied
The scar grew
He asked himself
He answered
The scar grew
As he made his fall | 2016-12-29T13:44:06 | 2016-12-29T10:28:05 | 89 | 14 |
[WP] In the future, illiteracy is the norm and implanted digital assistants convert text to audio. A child, who had his implant temporarily deactivated, learns to read. When the implant is reactivated, he realizes that what it reads to him is drastically different than what the text actually says. | "Can your implant perform this conversion, son? I want you to try again, okay?" Jimmy asks, his finger pointing at the block of text on the crisp white sheet on the table.
Little Jonathan lets his horrified eyes scan every inch of the sheet. He carefully runs his eyes over every letter, waiting for the voice in his he... | "On April 13th, 2605 Apple introduced the world to a smart assistant. A very smart assistant. It could take over any task imaginable, such as scheduling, reading, and writing. It was a top seller. It began as a device you would put in your house. Of course, it could never stay that way. People demanded to have it on t... | 2019-04-15T21:04:52 | 2019-04-15T17:49:17 | 342 | 217 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | New York City was never pristine, but these days it was a hellhole. Crumbled buildings pierce the skyline and the streets are coated with concrete rubble. Chaos feeds on these new powers. Of course, those with the knack for building and planning were "building a better city from the ashes," but like all things in b... | He stroked the massive feline's head, smirking at the pleased chuff the tiger made before leveraging to its feet. The both of them were getting on in years. Still smirking at the beast, he drew his cape on, fastening it a moment before 30lbs of serval seemingly gravitated to his shoulders, draping herself across the ba... | 2016-12-30T13:25:46 | 2016-12-30T10:07:02 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] A generation ago humanity faced an extinction level catastrophe. In response, the world's governments lifted all legal, moral, and ethical bans on scientific research in a desperate attempt to overcome the danger. You now live in a world dealing with the consequences of this.
Wow! Great responses everyone. I w... | People think farming is a simple job, but most of them are still caught up in the romanticism of how it used to work decades ago. With the limited amount of remaining arable land, and the need to reach production quotas overriding all other considerations, only the most gifted bioengineers can make it into the field. ... | Of the numerous methods humanity has employed over the past fifty years in a desperate attempt to preserve itself, possibly the most grotesque is the practice of Twinning. I know, it sounds like something you might see in a bud light commercial, but you have to trust me when I say this – there’s nothing fun about Twin... | 2014-11-14T06:46:51 | 2014-11-14T06:31:26 | 86 | 22 |
[WP] When everyone turns 21, they have to pick a superpower from an approved list and take classes on how to use it. You choose one that only one other person has ever picked before. | I've never really been into the whole idea, really. It's just some stupid way for people to feel special or even superior. Its disgusting really. And everyone makes it out to be such a big deal.
"Andrew, make sure you pick a good superpower. Something useful like your father. It's important that you have an edge out i... | "Really why is this in here" I thought out loud. My friend Jeremiah sat across the table from me giving me a quizzical look. "Page 67 Halfway down, Seems like a joke or a fake." Of course I said this as the monitor walked past. " What was that a fake you said, ain't no such thing these are all one hundred percent Why I... | 2016-11-09T15:54:24 | 2016-11-09T13:49:19 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] To extend your life, you've played Death in many games and beaten him. However, after your last game, you begin to see that Death has been losing to you on purpose. | Mrs Haller had planned endlessly for such a day. There was a lake on the fringes of the city which had taken her fancy, for the waters ran deep, and anglers seldom came by. She would close her bank accounts, end her cable service, mail the title deeds to her favourite charity. Then, she would get into her Beetle, drive... | I won, another victory. All my life I was a player. Simon says at the age of two, then moved to checkers and finally chess. My fortune was acquired through playing Texas Hold'em. I remember exactly the end of my life. A slight intoxication around a table filled with Chinatown Mafia. Cigarette smoke encircled us, like a... | 2018-03-21T09:41:34 | 2018-03-21T08:37:16 | 371 | 20 |
[WP] Ever since the discovery of FTL-travel, the history of the galaxy has been unfolded to a horrifying truth; everything is dead and has been dead for millions of years. | Fermi’s paradox was theorized to be answerable by a theory called, “The Great Filter”. Boiled down this theory states that intelligent life will eventually wipe itself out, and accidental or purposeful self destruction is the reason for the silence among the stars.
When humanity discovered FTL travel, it was through ... | I can see the sadness in her green eyes. We have been traveling thousands of light-years to find a planet and maybe a life form that is similar to ours.
18 months ago, when we left our friends, our family we realised that everything we left behind will be depending on us. Not only humankind also everything lives on t... | 2019-10-26T11:58:49 | 2019-10-26T11:34:49 | 209 | 30 |
[WP] You have existed since the dawn of humanity. In a way, at least. Once a simple tribesman, you were cursed so that whenever you are killed by another person, you leave your dead body and become your killer. You fear death by natural causes, as that will end your life for good. | For the record, I didn't know it was her sister.
I didn't start out as a rake. That wouldn't be a social branding for many a millennia. No, I bore no blame in what occurred that fateful day. Some would say that surely I had to have known what I was getting into, we numbered so few in those times, anyone who didn't bea... | It happened againg I am now my killer,I am an old man at least 89.I pissed off a mental patient.Honestly I am not sure what I will do now because I even though I have lived for millions of years I don't know how to get out of a mental asylum,also I have the body of a frail old man.The first time I discovered my curse I... | 2021-01-28T17:34:23 | 2021-01-28T15:16:07 | 46 | 21 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | The hero, having remained ever vigilant as the final moments dwindled before the final confrontation, recounted his life's milestones.
His first time remembering what rain was like, first day at home school, the last time he'd seen his father at 7 years of age, the first time he's tried to escape the facility he was... | I reach out slowly, completely fixated on the button. It’s red with concentric grooves. Seems overly simple to stop someone called the Dark Lord. It doesn’t seem like it would be able to tell the difference between my finger or anyone else’s.
I stop and pull my hand back. “What are you doing?” the priest demanded, “ t... | 2020-11-09T12:25:18 | 2020-11-09T11:12:56 | 133 | 80 |
[WP] There exists a court that sentences people with "Would You Rather" questions. Whichever option the person picks, becomes reality.
Feel free to play any role - a person on trial, a judge, a member of the jury - anything! | I've never tried one of these, but I figured I'd give it a shot.
*A calm breeze blew through the man's hair as he stood atop the hill of his favorite hiking trail. His frail legs had barely managed to carry him to the top, but it was a pain he was happy to feel again. He basked in this beautiful feeling of exhaustion ... | "SILENCE" the judge screamed. The rabble stopped. All the court looked at Tom. A choice had been laid before him. A choice that would change everything.
Judge Marcus raised his brow in curiosity "Well? What will it be Tom?".
Tom wagered the options in his head.
Option A. Would he rather have his arms and legs cut o... | 2015-08-15T16:59:36 | 2015-08-15T13:28:13 | 48 | 36 |
[WP] You are a child who used to be afraid of the monsters hiding in your room. Now, you're just a annoyed child who is tired of the monster under your bed arguing with the closet monster. | Szlgtvr never aged a day so far as I could tell. Of course I couldn’t tell much. It’s not like eldritch horrors develop grey hairs and wrinkles as they get older. At least I don’t *think* they do. I’ve never asked Szlgtvr, it always felt like an impolite question.
 
Szlgtvr was here first. One dark nigh... | "THAT'S IT!! I've had it!"
...The human boy let out the sudden yell and swung his short legs over the edge of his bed, feet and toes stretching downward and seeking to find a pair of slippers which lay below. The oh so terrifying beast of dust and discarded socks beneath the bed and the incredibly fear inducing mons... | 2016-04-21T15:58:36 | 2016-04-21T14:47:32 | 171 | 46 |
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