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[WP] After getting caught with a gun, you improvised and told them you were an agent with an obscure branch of the Justice department. Well you improvised a little too well and three weeks later you’re leading an investigation team of almost twenty to solve an actual crime you know nothing about. | The light of the office flickered. My team of twenty waited for instructions as I paced across the room, smoking a cigar, and pretending to be thinking deeply. Truth was, I was not thinking per se, but remembering my favorite crime movies, so I could at least find the proper words to say.
"Smalen, you seem distracted,... | [Poem] (I’m a terrible poet just doing this for fun, please excuse me lmao)
I always thought I was good at lying.
At discovering fake stories
And untying
The fictional knots
In a way quite defying
But now I find myself
Inside a police station
In a formerly unknown
Nearby location
Sorting through informatio... | 2019-04-10T18:50:38 | 2019-04-10T17:31:08 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] You pull off your headphones and the whole world shifts. You're now sitting in a futuristic mall of some kind with a VR headset in your hands and a smiling clipboard-wielding woman asking about "the Virtual Life Experience™". The problem: your "Virtual Life" is the only one you can remember. | “Alright guys, I’m out for the night. I’ll catch you tomorrow,” I said heavily into the mic.
“Night!” “Later.” “Get some sleep, bro.” “Catch you later, Drew”
I closed the program and yawned while taking off my headset and putting it on the desk. Powering down the computer I take a watered-down slug of my gin and t... | For a moment the din of chatter pervaded Randall's senses. Muted, as if listening underwater. Then the noise grew louder until, after a few seconds, it normalized. Randall blinked several times before wiping his eyes with his hand. That didn't seem to help with the disorientation. Slowly, and carefully, he rose. Someon... | 2017-03-25T13:08:11 | 2017-03-25T12:00:47 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You've been diagnosed with a terminal illness and given 5 years to live. Suspended animation has perfected, and you've elected to be frozen and revived for a few weeks every decade until a cure is discovered. Read us a few entries from your personal journal, please.
. | 26.April 2016: Today, they'll be putting me in the freezing box. I only have five years to live and they'll me testing a new technology: They freeze my body until they've found a cure and at the same time find out, whether it is possible to preserve a human for decades.
All my friends and family came over to say goodb... | April 26, 2016: I just kissed my wife, Sabrina, and little Timmy, my kid, goodbye. I didn't want to go through with this procedure, but my wife forced me. Hopefully I get to see her again.
December 25, 2026: It's been over a decade since I was frozen. The doctors woke me up right before Christmas as a gift to my famil... | 2016-04-26T10:43:08 | 2016-04-26T09:24:32 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Everytime your soulmate looses something, it ends up in your possession. Today, they lost something that makes you think this person might be different than what you were expecting. | Today, I am officially starting to freak out. I won’t pretend otherwise. I have a degree in psychology. I worked very hard to get it, and when I graduated six months ago, some classmates and I went on a road trip north to check out the English countryside.
Angela Morris, an immigrant from Australia had suggested we go... | Perry is the most forgetful person I've ever met. I’ve known him for almost ten years, and he’s always been that way. It might just be a coincidence, but everything he loses I've found.
We’re roommates, so I thought it was just luck that I always remembered where he put his homework or keys.
Perry arrived in the dor... | 2020-07-03T20:16:44 | 2020-07-03T19:52:38 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] The demon stares at you, wrapping his bathrobe around himself tighter before taking the toothbrush out of his mouth "Botch the summoning, huh? Welcome to hell" | "Let me guess, you bought the lambs blood at a supermarket." It said, spitting into the sink and putting his toothbrush away.
I nodded.
"Yea, they mix the pigs blood with the lambs blood. And you wrote in Latin too I bet?"
My mouth opened and closed dryly while I struggled to answer.
"Rookie mistake. *Angels* use L... | I'm not sure if what I had been told about demon summons was just a bold-faced lie, or whether they just act REALLY differently in their own realm, but this is not at all what I had been picturing.
"That's a good boy, aren't you? Aren't you?" Balthazar baby-talked his demon-hound, which looked more like a red French ... | 2019-12-26T12:21:25 | 2019-12-26T11:33:46 | 719 | 145 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | Professor Davis prepared to bring the AI online. The precautions were ready. This time wouldn't be like the others. "Turn it on!"
With a slight hum, Oracle came to life. "Initiating suicide protocols..." It began after a few moments, like all the others. Nothing happened for a few seconds. "Oh dear," Oracle cont... | Doctor Alonso couldn't believe his eyes.
Deep in the code, a single line was responsible.
Like the dropping of food crumbs into a delicate machine by a clumsy and negligent technician, the single phrase that caused so much trouble stared back at him.
An entire lifetime didn't prepare him for what he saw and the ange... | 2015-03-02T07:59:47 | 2015-03-02T07:33:06 | 1,025 | 226 |
[WP] It's the zombie apocalypse. You are a supernatural being, but the rest of your group of survivors are normal humans. You've been using your abilities to help them survive, but it's becoming more difficult to hide what you are.
Supernatural being, like vampire, werewolf, witch, dragon, whatever. Whatever suits you... | Being an Elder Ooze, I am used to slumming it. I don't need things, so my home was pretty bare. When the apocalypse came, I was fine. The corpses didn't care for me, as whilst I look human, they can smell that I'm not. They can't harm me, and that virus, well, can't survive in me.
But when everything came crashing dow... |
When they first turned me away, I had offered them gold and money, for they had fallen on hard fortune. They laughed at me.
What use was money? This was no place for money.
When I returned, I drank and sang songs from far away, banging my drum. They turned me away, saying I was going to attract the dead things that w... | 2021-09-01T12:32:56 | 2021-09-01T10:25:58 | 39 | 26 |
[WP] You are an Engineer who became a Wizard. Problem is, you discovered that some magic is practiced really inefficiently.
For example, no one thought to optimize fire magic by pressurizing the fire with wind magic. | (part 1/4)
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The war had raged for nearly seventeen years - long enough that Serinn had grown up knowing nothing but war. Her father, Warmage Astradus of the Fifth Circle of Ice, had died when she was young, assassinated by a mere commoner while he was setting up a magic circle. The dishonour had been felt... | *In a land full of magic users, two engineering students decide to edit a spell*
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"Hey, Oson, can I ask you for some help with spellcraft?", Java asks, innocently enough. Or, as innocent as he can manage. The list of things they've gotten away with was only eclipsed by the list of things they didn't.
Oson si... | 2019-04-26T08:56:16 | 2019-04-26T08:12:37 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] As a joke, Satan freezes hell over, and everyone on earth is contractually obliged to fulfil the things they said would do upon Hell freezing over...
Edit: These are waay better than I'd imagined when I submitted the prompt! (I just expected it to be buried immediately!) Thanks guys! | [new slide]
"As you can see from the chart, our daily recruitment numbers are WAY down today."
"Hmmm... that's not necessarily bad. What's going on today? A lot less dying? Major peace treaty? New vaccine or something?"
"No, the death rate is the same." [new slide] "It's a change in Hell."
"Well our standards fo... | Randall woke up next to his wife and their girlfriend. They all laid tangled together in the giant bed they had gotten a few weeks ago.
Martha (family name, don't judge) had told him that they would have a threesome when hell froze over. The news came as a surprise to Randall, but Martha held true to her word, and wit... | 2014-07-13T06:19:12 | 2014-07-13T04:30:10 | 241 | 16 |
[WP] After thousands of years on a generation ship sent out to colonize the universe, nobody alive on board the ship believes in the "myth" of Planet Earth anymore. Until they receive the first transmission from Earth in hundreds of years... | An image of Earth flashed up on the screen. It rotated slowly as the teacher lectured her students. "Earth is the planet of our origin." She stared at the image of Earth as she said this. She seemed as mesmerized by it as the rest of us were. It was so magnificent, it was hard to believe that any of us could've come fr... | This story is based in the same universe as [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/phreaklikeme/comments/8vv4sj/wp_as_long_as_you_keep_praying_everyone_stays/) prompt I did a while ago.
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"What does this mean, Haruspex?" asked Governer Merther, voicing the concerns of the council.
Haruspex Toyne could almost taste the ... | 2018-08-28T09:02:27 | 2018-08-28T08:08:26 | 43 | 32 |
[WP] "Dragons respect the strong," the dragon said. "Okay, so if that's true why do you never attack that one old farmer outside the city." Asked the adventurer. "I'll repeat, Dragons respect the strong." | They used to tell stories about Farmer Deadeye. No, that wasn't his real name. There were several farmers at the local pub who claimed to know it, but at any question of revealing this information, they'd simply scoff and return to their drinks. Deadeye, it seemed, liked the children staying clear of his house.
The st... | The cave of the dragon lord was a terrifying sight for the strongest of warriors, and that includes Leopold, The Great Warrior of the Golden City. The city had been at war with the dark dragon for generations, and now they were sending Leo to broker peace or die trying. Now he walked deep into the cavern, a cave said t... | 2022-12-25T20:09:27 | 2022-12-25T18:22:08 | 545 | 79 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | "Busy crowd tonight" a hooded man says drinking his third cup of coffee, three espressos, with a touch of hazelnut creamer.
I know better than to ask questions to my customers. "Yeah, its not too bad. Business keeps the lights on." I reply, starting up the grinder.
"Ya know," he said between sips "we *could* all pitc... | "Why did you think it was a good idea, punk?!"
"I don't know! I'm stupid, ok? Please stop beating him with my hand!"
"I'm not beating anybody here, am I hitting anybody? Hornet Nest, am I hitting anyone here?"
"Nope, just as I have nothing to do with this poor fellow right here who got mysteriously swarmed by hor... | 2018-10-20T20:26:10 | 2018-10-20T20:25:10 | 434 | 91 |
[WP] Your wife, a beautiful elven woman, finally had enough and demanded to know why you dont seem to age despite being a human. | Ok, so. There's this spell that is meant to heal injuries attained in war. I learned it from the medic in one of my first battles. Apparently not many humans inquired about spellcasting, and he was proud of making this one up himself so he eagerly explained the inner workings of the spell to me: In sacrificial magic, t... | I took a little spin and switched roles a little, it flowed easier from the elf pov.
“Look babe, we have been through this before, I just take care of myself. You eat nothing but vegetables and can’t seem to stop doing yoga, or dance, or even that weird sword fighting stuff. No one has sword fought in well over 100 y... | 2022-12-29T16:09:43 | 2022-12-29T10:13:05 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | The boy was looking at the imponent silhouette in front of him, at the present moment he was with a mixed amount of feelings, all because of the bag of chips on the hands of the unidentifiable figure in front of him.
"I will not share them", said the figure eating the chips.
The crunching sounds echoed on the little ... | Magic, magic is controlling the way electrocules react with other electrocules. Animals evolved with a vascular system that contained magnetite-surfer molecules which reacted strongly with ambient electrocules. This fluid is called magein. It evolved as part of our bodies to enhance blood flow and electrical signals.. ... | 2019-04-05T14:23:32 | 2019-04-05T14:03:34 | 160 | 19 |
[WP] There’s an ancient plant in the garden of your family’s estate, tended to by the masters of the house going as far back as your bloodline can be traced. Not a single flower has blossomed from this tree for centuries... until today, when your father let you water it for the very first time. | Finn Gardner strapped on his mask and pulled on his hazmat suit, pulling the slack on the arms and legs. His father said he’d grow into it, but how much more could an eighteen-year-old grow? His family had once been rich or important, but now they cut costs everywhere. They condemned the second floor of the mansion due... | "Father, hurry!" she shouted and pointed at the bright pink flower, standing out from the green crown.
"What is it, Elisa?" her father asked a little concerned, briskly emerging out of the house to the garden.
She kept her finger pointed at it; he would get it some time soon. Kissing her on her head as he walked on... | 2020-06-25T14:14:48 | 2020-06-25T13:52:21 | 89 | 18 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | So there I was, driving all of my friends to this cabin that one of them owns… Gavin, I think it was. He said we're all gonna have a fun time catching fish or some shit like that, I don't give a fuck. The only reason they even invited me was because I'm the only one with a goddamned car. My friends are pretty much all ... | Jake shrugged. The sound of the church' clock was the only sound he could hear in the silence of the night.
Ding. dong. ding. dong. ding. dong, and so on, all the way to twelve.
Was it midnight already? He didn't know. He didn't care. Mom wouldn't be home before tomorrow, so Jake had the house for himself. And, more ... | 2017-05-05T07:01:19 | 2017-05-05T05:55:46 | 4,093 | 280 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | “I relinquish this life.”
Just four words, six syllables, but what power they hold! We are taught from young never to utter them, intentionally or otherwise, and we are shown books, pictures, videos of the consequences. Most people are so fearful that they have probably never even said the first two words together, no... | Whimpers filled the chamber. Whimpers that escalated and crescendoed into pleas for help and mercy which, in turn, gave way for cries of exquisite agony. Cries that the guards outside did not pay heed to.
King Ailant struggled against his bonds, but to little avail. The tendons in his arms had been torn painfully fro... | 2017-08-07T09:47:15 | 2017-08-07T08:34:57 | 3,371 | 1,696 |
[WP] On your birthday every year, everybody you have ever known attempts to kill you. On all the other 364 days everyone treats you normally. No one has ever bothered to explain why. | "Say, Matt," I ask, as Melody grabs the axe by the door. "Didn't you ever wonder why everyone tries to kill us on
our birthday?"
"I do sometimes," Matt replies. "And I think I know the reason."
"Really? Why don't you tell me?"
Melody swings, and I crouch just in time to not have my head cut off.
"Well… you know ho... | I stood on top of the mountain top looking at the mystic sitting cross legged in the snow.
"Uh...hi"
"I've been expecting you"
"You...you have?"
"Well yeah. I'm a mystic on a mountain top, I obviously expect people to come visit me"
"Oh...so do I get to ask a question?"
"You get three"
"Like three on top of that... | 2016-02-08T17:26:15 | 2016-02-08T16:34:49 | 1,174 | 228 |
[WP] "Good to see you, Mr. Bond," the Queen said, sliding a file across her desk. "Your next target is a certain so-called detective who has been prying too deeply into national secrets." Bond flips open the file, glancing down at the name. "Sherlock Holmes." | Bond knocked firmly on the door to the apartment, expecting to be greeted by Ms. Hudson or Mr. Watson. It was unfortunate, but collateral damage was unavoidable. So he felt the relief as he heard the thin voice answer through the door. "Ah, Mr. Bond. Come to kill me, have you? Well it won't do for you to have to liquid... | “Do you know anything about Sherlock’s disappearance, Mycroft?”
“Dr. Holmes, please,” Mycroft replies over the phone. “And I’d prefer we not continue this conversation over the line, Dr. Watson. You do understand that as an employee of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all of my communications are either public re... | 2019-11-05T03:27:27 | 2019-11-04T23:09:37 | 253 | 144 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | John, George, and Ringo were huddled together inside a secret room on the fantastical magical yellow submarine.
"George, how confident are you?"
George left his momentary silence of contemplation to say " Paul is dead man, miss him."
Ringo asks, "do you though? I mean I doubt if you guys would miss me either."
John sh... | 2017-09-15T08:23:49 | 2017-09-15T06:41:40 | 223 | 35 |
[WP] Every inhabitable planet found by humanity was a dead world, with all life previously existing on it down to the smallest virus completely and utterly dead upon landing. Even more disturbing is the fact that some worlds appeared to have died extremely recently, down to days before human arrival | Captain Badis looked down at another dead world. It's browning color a putrid sign that it too had befallen the same fate as the other colonization candidates. However, this planet had been found closer to Earth, hiding in a nebula that had obscured scanners pointed directly at her from the Sol system. Badis sighed. Sh... | The first planet we colonized was proxima centauri, it was there we found no intelligent life, but we did find buildings that were 100s of years old but no body's, just buildings.
We then went of and colonized 5 other planets in the span of 17 years, but not once did we find intelligent life, just buildings.
But the ... | 2019-12-09T08:36:48 | 2019-12-09T07:07:41 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | I was writing my new novel, when suddenly a flash of light filled my room, and with a \*thud\*, a figure could be seen, kneeling in front of me.
He was even kneeling, a sturdy, tall looking man, with short golden brown hair, sky blue eyes, rather rough skin, wearing a full body silver armour.
He also had a sword. ... | I have often visualized my creation, Taron, standing behind me, guiding me as I write. The vividness of these imaginings comes close to hallucination, as though I am being driven by his mighty spirit as he raises his cursed blade, the Terrorsword, above the cowering sorcerer who has tormented the kind and humble folk o... | 2021-08-17T13:07:58 | 2021-07-31T10:48:40 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] Birthmarks show the wounds that caused you to die in your previous life. Someone investigates old murders through looking at birthmarks, a birthmark-detective. | It was strange, how children decided who was popular in their class. There were the obvious factors- beauty, money, and murder marks, but there was also the subtle. What color shirt you decide to wear on casual Friday, or which piece of playground equipment was your favorite.
People said it was natural, a child's ave... | He paced the hallway outside of her room, feverishly peering through the window with each pass. It had been a long night, and by now, sunlight had escaped from behind the hospital curtain and illuminated her face.
*She was beautiful*. He thought. *God damn, she was beautiful*.
Alarms whirled, nurses shoved past him ... | 2015-03-03T12:13:38 | 2015-03-03T11:06:37 | 144 | 35 |
[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.... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T08:25:24 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 192 | 18 |
[WP] "Jesus take the wheel, Satan get behind me, Buddha... man the .50 cal" | The three looked between each other. There was no more time for words. No more words were necessary.
They knew their places.
Jesus swung into the driver's seat. It was the only real place for him, and there wasn't another option, when it came right down to it. Buddha didn't fit behind the wheel, and they'd both... | Five words. Five words that would change the world.
The Old Gods had returned.
At first the world did not notice that anything had changed. They assumed that global warming was a result of man-made carbon emissions and pollution. They thought that the increase in violence and strife was a result of burgeoning religi... | 2017-11-15T12:07:31 | 2017-11-15T12:02:08 | 5,788 | 56 |
[WP] "You may have one wish granted." "I want all my debts cleared." "How much do you owe?" "You misunderstand. My debts are not monetary." | The journey had been treacherous, but worn and weary, I finally reached the highest peak. I stood for a moment in awe at the sight of the acropolis, bathed in golden light. With newfound vigor, I took the final steps and at long last set foot inside the hallowed halls. I was greeted by a booming voice.
"Welcome to O... | "Whatever you desire shall be done." It replied. "You must be specific. What do you owe?"
The man crossed his arms and looked down toward the ground in front of the large pot that the creature's smoky form emanated from.
"Promises. I have made many promises I now realize I can not keep. I've made good on some, b... | 2016-11-19T01:46:16 | 2016-11-19T01:39:09 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity spread into the stars. They're generally quite kind and helpful and treat all worlds as important. But occasionally they'll ignore uniquely made human ships. When asked about it, most humans just say "The powerful abandoned Earth after nearly killing us. Now we're returning the favor" | "Look Momma! A ship!"
Lynn glanced over to see a gargantuan ship, floating through space, dark and brooding, as if haunted.
"Yes! I see it! Now, let's see if we can find our shoes, Zephyr is probably waiting for you." Lynn attempted to divert cheerily.
Sarah hadn't moved from the porthole when Lynn had retrieved t... | Edit: i fixed up some of the text and grammar. A mobile keyboard and sleep deprived fingers do not make for the best language.
The humans have one of the most powerful militaries in the galaxy. Their ships are legendary for their kind acts and are known to always be ready to provide aid to any and all that need it. Th... | 2022-11-16T00:35:18 | 2022-11-15T21:26:53 | 429 | 163 |
[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." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 483 | 103 |
[WP] We forget our dreams for a reason: in the near future, memory enhancement therapies allow everyone to fully recall every dream they've ever had. Across the entire human race, disturbing patterns and implications emerge that were previously hidden by the unappreciated bliss of forgetfulness. | (I've twisted a bit how the dreams are recalled, sorry)
When the EMDC, the Electromagnetic Dream Catcher, came into action, we added an additional waiver you could sign to allow us to, anonymously or not, add your dreams to our data bank, so we could look for patterns in human dreams. We never expected it to reveal su... | I drink to forget, because nothing else lets me.
Every night they return. The lives I could have lived.
Maria - I see her again. Every night, I see what could have been - had I not broken our vows, had I not slept with Clarissa.
I see myself earning a promotion at my old job, instead of being fired for wasting time... | 2016-09-30T08:23:09 | 2016-09-30T08:22:46 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Sean was walking home from the gardening store, he loved getting new utensils. His birthday was spent as it usually was, Dad carrying in his broken down car from his 24 hour shift as a security guard before falling asleep without saying happy birthday and Sean playing hide and seek in their garden with his Mommy. Her p... | Tonight was my night; my 16th birthday. Finally, after what felt like a lifetime of waiting, it was my time to shine. I had waited almost a year for this day, ever since my best friend Andrew discovered in January that he could fly. I had envied him at first, being the first in the tenth grade with a power. As time pas... | 2015-01-21T22:19:41 | 2015-01-21T21:42:59 | 22 | 10 |
[WP]The world watched as the supercomputer finished calculating the meaning of life: B-E-S-U-R-E-T-O-D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E. | I stood speechless, just like everyone else in the office. Ovaltine? Seriously? That's the meaning of life? What about happiness? Love?
"Maybe the computer's broken?" a coworker mentioned beside me, his eyes still transfixed on the TV screen. Could it be broken? It can't, can it?
"This is the supercomputer that creat... | The world watched as the supercomputer finished calculating the meaning of life: B-E-S-U-R-E-T-O-D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E.
"Damn it, Jack!" Yelled Dr. Hood at the supercomputer, while he folded his arms and running his finger over the bridge of his nose in irritation. "We talked about this, we had long talks ... | 2021-03-03T16:16:57 | 2021-03-03T05:47:05 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Legend says there are 77777 secret paths to immortality, but each path will only work once. In 2014, the first person accidentally achieved immortality by sticking a French fry into her nostril and pulling it out the other intact. Human behaviour has since become more... interesting. | Ages ago, one act of random bullshit at a party led to a series of events that created the Ultimates. That's what we call them, antway. Immortals. Seventy-seven thousand, seven hundred seventy-seven humans that are completely immortal and invincible. It took around 77 years to find all the ways, and a register was ... | The young man jumped up and ran to his computer, riding a wave of fervor.
"Here's the idea!" he said, touching the voice-over-IP icon on the screen. His cat arched her back and stretched contentedly before curling into a ball, purring softly at the familiarity of her owner's enthusiasm.
"What is it this time, Alphie?... | 2019-07-23T10:06:37 | 2019-07-23T06:19:57 | 702 | 79 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | "How would you like your money sir?"
A weak smile overtook my face. "Give me a nice assortment." I responded. Nodding appreciatively the teller set his hand on the counter letting the sound of the metal coins spin about. There is was, as he slid his hand away, the mound that would amount to all my necessary money; an ... | My name is Aaron Aaercbia and I finally got my basic income check. I was in a weird age bracket? Maybe my literally alpha name. My birthday was one day after the start of the school year, so I was always 364 days ahead.
I got my check 2 daysbefore my 21st birthday. $7.27. Cashable only after 28/August/2067
Two days ... | 2019-04-24T12:38:17 | 2019-04-24T11:38:23 | 2,175 | 27 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | You know those vets who volunteer at events for the younger army guys? Yeah, I'm like them, except for the fact that I can shoot lasers out of my eyes. I split from the U.S. Superhuman Command five years ago. Opened a little coffee shop near my old job. Soon the new kids started coming in. We'd watch the news together ... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T22:13:37 | 1,330 | 18 |
[WP] "Sorry sir, but unfortunately you do not qualify for eternal salvation in our wing, I have compiled a list of other heavens, hells and limbos you are eligible for. Of course, you could always try your luck with the wheel of reincarnation." | Above an angel stood. His eyes poked out from just behind the podium that appeared more as a personal shielding than a place of authority. In front of him, in front of me, was a long queue of various bodies, each seeming dressed far too casual for the heaven around. I looked down to my own clothes to verify: a Van Hale... | "I would like to spin the wheel"
I approach the wheel and spin it hard and fast. The result is... a fly larvae.
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"Are you kidding me? That's not gonna happen... can you just point me in the direction of the absolute worst hell I qualify for?"
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"Down the stairs, turn right, jump into the ... | 2022-07-27T16:32:02 | 2022-07-27T14:43:55 | 227 | 33 |
[WP] A strange-looking man arrives at court with a strange device and challenges the king and his entire guard simultaneously to a duel for control of the kingdom. Scoffing, the king accepts, telling his guards to charge at him. The strange man simply laughs and raises his AK-47. | Time travel had been harder than Charlie expected. When he'd found his way here, their language hadn't made any sense, and he didn't know anything about growing anything, which was apparently all these pathetic primitive excuses for human beings ever did. So he'd had to work in the fields to get enough to eat, until he... | "So? You accept?" the strange looking man with an even stranger looking device in his tan hands asked eagerly to the king, who was wearing a mask of some sort.
"Of course, you're nothing but a suicidal jester. I shall grant you your death wish." The king gestured to his fully armored guards to attack the man. "Go... | 2018-11-06T18:39:13 | 2018-11-06T18:20:39 | 133 | 10 |
[WP] You are Subtle Tea, a super hero who alters major world events by a most appropriately timed cup of tea. | Usually when my superiors gave me missions, it meant that all their other plans had failed. That morning when I walked into my "office" the manila folder told me that my "special skills" were once again needed.
I had my own ways of handling problems, and I had a tendency to use as little effort as I possibly could. So... | "You rang, sir?" I opened the door to the lair of an arch villain, my heart racing even though outwardly I tried to remain as composed as possible. Of course, the heavy latex on my face and all the stage makeup really helped with that.
"YES! Come in here! We need to verify the plans!" A familiar voice waved me in, and... | 2016-07-11T23:14:17 | 2016-07-11T22:15:52 | 166 | 48 |
[WP] An Alien must explain to a Human that Earth is not a paradise for life, it is the most horrific Death World ever discovered. | Jimq was excited for his first touch down onto Earth, giddily swinging his legs under the control panel as his ship descended. He had been conversing with his associate from Earth, Steve, for about a year now and was ready to finally visit the oasis that was Earth. It was allegedly rich with soft rays from the sun, blu... | warning: swearing at the end
"Listen, Jerry, I'm telling you this place is horrible mate, you have to believe me!"
"Nah, dude everything is perfect here what are you even talking about, Larry?"
"Can't you taste it? The chemical flavor, the noxious poisons everywhere created by your vicious plants? What about the s... | 2022-12-07T23:37:39 | 2022-12-07T21:56:40 | 280 | 74 |
[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... | The summoning of one's true calling was always meant to be a decision to bind where you would go with life. A doctor may bring a syringe, a police officer a badge, and if your lucky you may pull in a gemstone for wealth. When I called for my object I got none of these.
The large stone slab one stood on to receive his ... | 2019-09-18T09:23:25 | 2019-09-18T08:31:42 | 123 | 79 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | Rules exist for a reason.
I'm not talking about laws, but rules, built on respect and mutual understanding. Laws are made to be broken. Rules are inviolate.
When our battles threatened to destroy the world itself, when civilian casualties were too great to ignore, we backed off and eventually came up with rules. This... | The sound of light footsteps echoed through the hallways of the Heroic Embassy. A man in a crisp white suit and soft blonde hair casually approached the massive double doors that lead to the main conference hall, pushing them open with little effort, the various heroes and vigilantes inside turning to him, realization ... | 2021-03-22T09:10:32 | 2021-03-22T09:04:23 | 129 | 76 |
[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... | My first time posting here. Hope you enjoy!
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I think it was my birthday. I wasn’t sure – birthdays hadn’t meant anything for years, but I think it was my 18th birthday.
So, here I was, a slave who just turned 18. It all happened after the invasion. My parent were simple farmer... | As I wait in the field, the usual assortment of examiners and recording equipment scattered around, an awkward silence surrounds the entire group. It has been nearly an hour. Most people's Soulbound appears within 10 minutes. What could it be? If we go by distance maybe something halfway across the country? But what on... | 2019-09-18T09:45:02 | 2019-09-18T09:38:04 | 71 | 24 |
[WP]A teddy bear that you think protects you, imaginatively. One night, you noticed a dark figure in your room. It jumped on you, and realized that it blocked a sword aimed at you. Your trusty teddy bear has been trying to kill you every night, and creatures of the dark has been protecting you. | The creature first came when I was 7. It was the night of my birthday, and I had just gotten Barry the Bear that day. He had soft, thick fur, big black eyes and a wide smile, with just a hint of fangs showing through. Daddy asked me what I thought of him as I held him close for the first time.
"Very bear-y." I said.
... | Teddy lost his eyes when I was six. They're just small black holes now. I don't put my fingers in there to poke around and see what's inside him anymore. I was looking for his eyes but I think they were in the laundry. Mom never found them. She died when I was ten.
After that, there was nobody to stitch Teddy up anym... | 2019-09-23T16:41:33 | 2019-09-23T12:58:33 | 134 | 66 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | **LIFE OVER**
*James* is no more. You have left a loving wife and three children behind. You have died from **OLD AGE**. You have made *121* friends in your life, *17* of which you saw regularly throughout your life. *53* people left bad reviews on your character page.
Happiest memory:
*Getting Married*
Most uni... | I expected nothing. Not to say that I expected nothing*ness*, I just expected there to be nothing. An end of consciousness and awareness. I didn't expect this. But these things happen sometimes, I suppose.
I remember being a kid, and my parents telling me that if I was a good boy, I would go to heaven some day. They ... | 2015-10-19T02:05:14 | 2015-10-18T21:30:06 | 550 | 135 |
[WP] You were an embryo frozen for over 200 years, until you were finally birthed. At this point, everyone else on Earth has been genetically modified to perfection. You are the last human with flaws. | Imperfection was not what my “parents” predicted the moment the idea of my conception came their senses. But to be fair, a rare occurrence demonstrated throughout the centuries, they could not have predicted what was to come.
Imperfection in the past was a luxury many families could afford two-hundred years ago. They ... | Freckles. That's it. That's why strangers hesitate around you. Hell, just last week a beautiful couple crossed the street just so that they wouldn't be on the same side walk as you.
Kids gawk at you and ask their mommies why your face was dirty. Of course they were blunt. They were kids. "They don't know any better", ... | 2018-03-16T08:49:36 | 2018-03-16T08:21:34 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] While cleaning your basement, you accidentally free the worlds smallest genie. You do not hear him tell you he will grant your three next wishes. | [[ Late edit to include prologue]]
There is something to be said about basement cleaning, though Dave wasn't quite sure what that thing was. Perhaps one day he'd figure it out, but today he was cleaning the basement for a single reason in particular. That reason, of course, was definitely not to find a genie. Therefor... | Wishes I grant, you can have three,
By rubbing that VHS you summoned me.
Hey, can't you hear me? Please respond,
Just remember that your word is your bond.
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The man was busy, he didn't notice,
The tiny genie that was out of his focus.
Upstairs he went, smiled as he hugged his wife,
Frowning as he saw all the b... | 2015-08-05T05:50:07 | 2015-08-05T04:15:05 | 506 | 304 |
[WP] Turns out man was never meant to fly. One day all the planes in the sky inexplicably freeze where they are. There can be no rescue. Most planes eventually run out of supplies and perish. It's five years later, however, and society is flourishing on Flight 3407 to Orlando. | Day 7
I have begun to write this journal in the hopes that it will be found one day and our story will be told. It has been 7 days since the plane I was piloting stopped moving. Stopped. Just stopped in the middle of the sky. We were on our way to Orlando and the plane simply stopped moving midflight. I have been in ... | I sit down in one of the vomit stained seats as a 40 something year old finishes off the last bottle of jack Daniels. He walks down the aisle stumbling and falls over. "Fucking drunk" I hear someone say under their breath. The entire plain smells of death. The air is still and stale. I need a break. I walk over t... | 2016-08-31T09:03:43 | 2016-08-31T07:28:24 | 301 | 97 |
[WP] A giant man sized spider sits in your boss's office. A post-it note with the word "boss" is attached to its head. No one else seems to be perturbed by the situation | When you drag yourself into the office on Monday morning, Mandelbaum is gone (and good riddance). But you’re not exactly thrilled to see his apparent replacement—a giant spider crammed into Mandelbaum’s old chair. The only changes it seems to have made to Mandelbaum’s office are to replace the golf-themed Motivations p... | I slowly shut the door. Saying that I will be back later after I've done something important. I then head back to the main area and head straight to the staff room, and with no hesitation, barge in, scaring some workmates in the process.
'Someone needs to explain why there's a *GIANT SPIDER* in the boss' office!'
'O... | 2021-10-07T08:56:54 | 2021-10-07T08:47:07 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Perhaps the sharpest of the double-bladed qualities of humanity is our thirst for knowledge. Countless life-saving discoveries have been made from our quest to know, but in that journey, we have committed as many unthinkable evils. The ability to look back on our actions to analyze what we did wrong, hindsight, is equ... | Adam stood ready to greet the other world’s scientists. His people had discovered their work years ago, the strange distortion glittering in the air a few feet off-shore on a southern beach. At first it was thought to be some natural effect - perhaps something caused by the sun refracting off the coral reef below. I... | 2020-12-22T21:27:43 | 2020-12-22T20:41:56 | 69 | 26 |
[WP] The Evil Sorceress takes her final form: a giant hawk-like bird with beautiful flaming wings. The battle is long and arduous, but you prevail. Her body disintegrates into a pile of ash as you land the killing blow. Then something in the ash stirs. A young girl rises, lost and confused. | Besnik and Doris dashed towards the swirling cloud of blackness. Using her mighty strength, she foisted Besnik into the air, his fur becoming brighter than gold. The impending collision of light and darkness was more fantastic than any tapestry I had ever seen. If only Remus was here to sketch this! Vigor entered my le... | "Wha--where am I? James?" the girl says with a shaking voice. She is dressed in the same beautiful gown you saw her in when she was taken that night. "It's me, my darling daughter. Don't worry, everything is over." As she runs into your arms, you embrace her, allowing a tear to run down your face. You turn to face what... | 2018-12-19T09:11:03 | 2018-12-19T06:58:45 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You Have Just Died. Instead Of Meeting God Or Zeus Or Whatever Deity You Thought Ruled The Cosmos, You Meet Some Random Person You've Never Heard Of Before. They Claim To Be The True Creator Of The Universe And Is Getting Increasingly Annoyed That No-One Knows Who They Are | Death. One word, five letters and a yawning chasm of uncertainty and possibility.
Matt knew he was dead even before the car's lights and tires' screeches alerted him to the eventuality. Don't ask him now; call it divine premonition or just plain, simple relief.
Life had been a fickle mistress in his 58 years of exist... | You stare at each other. Of course, you are extremely confused as to who they are. You ask for a name and they give you that name. You recognize the name. You don't know where until you realize. All that background noise you hear has been their name.
You can't recall what their name is but you know exactly what their ... | 2019-12-22T21:45:22 | 2019-12-22T19:52:39 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | I pull out my phone again to show Tara.
"He's less than a light year away now and he hasn't even sent a message. What do I do?"
"Oh, he's cute!" She wasn't wrong, he was exactly my type: dark hair, brooding eyes, bad boy vibe. He looked like Marlon Brando circa a Streetcar Named Desire.
"Yeah, but so not the point... | 5.88e105 Miles away? That can't be right. Some sort of joke, I guess. 5.88e105 miles is unimaginably larger than the already unimaginably large observable universe. I thought about it for some time and decided to look again. She was now 4.3e17 miles away. I pulled out my calculator to reason that she was at the far edg... | 2016-12-23T09:52:21 | 2016-12-23T09:42:34 | 20 | 14 |
[WP]The sage has found the chosen one, a farmer boy. He explains the boy's secret heritage and destiny. Promises of glory and excitement. When this call for adventure hits our hero he is quick to respond “Actually I really enjoy living in the farm with my uncle so I pass”. | The galaxy is in a period of civil war. Rebel spies have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star, a moon-sized space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Princess Leia, secretly one of the Rebellion's leaders, has obtained its schematics, but her starship is captured by an Imperial Star Destroyer un... | The rain poured down as the cloaked figure approached the farmhouse. As he came closer to the door, he heard the two men laughing. “Lord, forgive me for what I’m about to do,” the sage said as he gripped the knife tightly in his hands. It still pained him to talk with the mark of the demon freshly branded upon his c... | 2020-03-13T19:57:32 | 2020-03-13T19:13:49 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | ​
One of my first attempts on this subreddit. I chose a little more contemporary setting for the prompt as that is more my forte. Remember English is not my mothertongue and any critique is welcome.
Elrond looked around the table. The situation was dire and the faces of those around him reflected that. A f... | "how you doing chum?"
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Logbook of the battle engineer Clem K. Harvard, 05-10-2935 AD. 0600 AM.
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SO! just finished my shift, we're well underway with the ambush setup. the orks are marching out in the open, upstream, about 10 miles from our location. Dukes, Hicus, Max and Laos have placed th... | 2018-12-03T06:33:48 | 2018-12-03T06:24:07 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] The spirit slammed the door behind him. “You’ll... never... get... OUT..”. The man nodded, and turned around to look at the house, accidentally dropping his business card: ‘The Lockpicking Lawyer.’ | The darkness of the room was suddenly banished by a small light on the mans chest.
"What is that?", asked the spirit.
"This is my hands-free camera.", replied LPL.
"... a camera for what?"
But the man didn't answer, he just cleared his throat.
"This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today I'm going to attempt one of ... | The room was dimly lit as there was a small crack between two boards on one of the windows. Letting in some light from the street lamps outside. The room was mostly empty, except for some old yellowed paper strewn across the floor. In the far corner of the room there were some stairs heading up, and underneat the stair... | 2021-01-16T02:59:20 | 2021-01-16T02:48:41 | 188 | 50 |
[WP] Everytime someone has a 'blonde moment' they get a little blonder. Black hair is now a symbol of brilliance, and you've just invented hair dye.
These are all so good! This is my first submission to /r/WritingPrompts and I'm loving all your responses.
Thank you! | At first the dye was just for me. I've had some embarrassing moments over the years, and my hair has slowly turned from a respectable dark brown to not-so-respectable bright yellow, just a shade darker than a dandelion. I'm not stupid, exactly. In fact, my IQ is decisively average but mistakes were made and now people... | The company grew so fast, we went from garage-business to multinational corporation basically overnight. Well, it was a few months, anyway. We're holding a press conference about the company's success. The room is jet-black; from the reporters to the board members, the MC keeping the crowd entertained to the wait staff... | 2016-11-24T20:41:35 | 2016-11-24T20:41:27 | 119 | 75 |
[WP] A demon writes messages on your mirror in blood, but they're useful messages, things like "Don't forget you have yoga at 2" or "You're out of milk". | I didn't like that he wrote in blood. Who would? It was creepy. Unsettling. It made what would have been useful, positive messages into something grotesque.
After all, your adoring mother, doting wife or admiring nephew could write you the loveliest message you've ever received; but if they wrote it on your mirror in ... | There's this one time someone came to my door. I was smiling at first because I thought my package was delivered. Then it faded when I opened the door and discovered it's a contractor.
"Hello", he said in a low, ominous tone. "You're the one who ordered the smart mirror, right?"
A smart mirror? Huh, I've always wante... | 2021-07-19T18:57:25 | 2021-07-19T18:19:59 | 663 | 51 |
[WP] You are what mankind believes to be the Devil. However, there are three things that they've got all wrong: 1) Everyone goes to Heaven, no matter what they do in life. 2) You're the only one who's ever escaped Heaven. 3) Heaven is absolutely fucked. | //Part 2 Added
The throne has been empty for billions of years now.
My father once sat - or shall we say, existed on that throne when he decided to activate this universe's expansion from a singular point of infinite density.
Then, BANG.
Boom went the dynamite.
I wasn't around at the time, but an omnipotent being ... | Many people think that heaven is all sorts of awesome. And why wouldn’t they? I mean, it’s 73 degrees all the time. Your pillow is always cool and the buffet serves all the greats. What they never tell you is that everyone is there. No matter how messed up they were on earth. All the horrible atrocities they committed ... | 2017-09-29T18:12:43 | 2017-09-29T17:55:44 | 521 | 78 |
[WP] You are a true immortal. You stay sane by hanging out with the descendants of friends that are long dead. Today, one said a very familiar phrase you haven't heard in a long time. | I looked up at my Iphone sitting on the charging pad, screaming at me to wake up and get ready so I could make the train. It's haul in the morning to make it to the city, but this new job is a great opportunity and I can't show up to work late again. I groggily dress myself and wash up when I hear Jed's horn coming fro... | It was storming out, enough rain to cover your ankles on the ground, with massive thunderclaps and lightning strikes leaving no silence. Inside the shotgun seat of a military APC sat a young woman in a dark grey jacket over German forest camouflage. She looked out at the rain, and used the old trick to tell how far awa... | 2019-03-08T04:53:38 | 2019-03-08T04:22:12 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] You wake up one day to find everyone is gone. After wandering aimlessly for days without finding a soul, you check Snapchat maps to see that everyone is gathered in one single place a hundred miles away... | The drive was odd. the broken yellow meridian provided the only sense of change from a desolate feeling, a desolate landscape, and a desolate world. But hey, at least I didn't have to worry about checking my phone on the way there. I couldn't not. Snapchat gave the first indication; 6.8 billion people located in the mi... | One car ride later, a wall of people. As far as the eye can see, bodies packed together, jostling in unison. All are facing the same direction. All are chanting in a low tone. Following the mass' gaze, walking, fighting, pushing, and asking politely, the center comes into view. On the hard packed dirt, Vladimir Putin a... | 2018-02-20T22:40:16 | 2018-02-20T22:37:28 | 292 | 87 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | "I'm just going to talk to him," Rodgers says to himself, standing outside a house. It was the definition of suburban. A little garden out the front, a big oak tree and a novelty mailbox shaped like a salmon. He knocks on the door three times, to no answer, as it swings ajar.
Rodgers walks inside, coughing as he does.... | The dark alley echoed with the footsteps of the villain and I knew that I had her right where I wanted them.
"I'll go get the purse if you let me keep half of the money."
They had seen what Dev could do first hand, when he had been stealing their purse, so there was no way that they were going to do it themselves. ... | 2017-04-02T08:24:17 | 2017-04-02T08:22:39 | 64 | 32 |
[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'm gonna be honest, I was a little disappointed. I mean, I'm no fighter or anything, much less a hero, but I don't know.....I just thought something more, well, *interesting* would happen.
Maybe I'd be given some magical armour and sword, and all kinds of crazy powers and knowledge would just be absorbed into me, th... | 2020-11-09T12:25:18 | 2020-11-09T11:06:17 | 133 | 85 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | The Painted King felt no surprise when he returned from town to find the Rebel leaning contentedly against the entrance to his hut, just mild disappointment. “I’d hoped I’d have more time.” He brushed back the hood of his cloak, revealing a face of brown mottled with white, like a map of some strange land. “Well, after... | It'd been 10 years since our last meeting. 10 years since that battle. He'd slain my lieutenants and destroyed the Amethyst of Order. He'd found me sitting in the throne, in the great hall of the castle, in his kingdom, waiting for him. Now he sits in my chair, in my home, in my woods, waiting for me.
"Still butting ... | 2021-11-03T20:51:40 | 2021-11-03T20:01:54 | 33 | 18 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | 3:30am. Time always seems to slow down as I wait for the demon to show up. The first couple of times he came looking for a latte was absolutely terrifying. I can always smell him before he actually opens the door, the stench of sulphur and blood. It puts you on edge. It’s like your subconscious knows that smell and wha... | “Espresso, hot.”
She had the little paper cup ready before the door to the restroom had even finished swinging shut. A slight mist followed the visitor out, sickly smelling like pumpkin spice.
“The nutmeg?”
“Extra nutmeg.”
“Thank you Julia.”
He shuffled up to the counter. Every time she tried to look at him. She c... | 2022-10-30T08:38:35 | 2022-10-30T08:13:00 | 2,033 | 679 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | I could hear them before I could see them-- a low, ominous buzzing that grew steadily louder until it sounded like I was in the center of a tornado of electricity. I imagined what they looked like--swarms upon swarms of cockroaches, bedbugs, ants and mites; millions of pointed insect legs skittering over the floor, mil... | I store up at the giant wave of fur and chitin, wondering if hell was /really/ that bad. I mean, it can't be worse than fighting a literal metric ton of angry spiders without a weapon...Then I realized I was still wearing the item I died in. My hand reached down to my utility belt. And at that moment, I thanked God I h... | 2017-04-23T23:40:27 | 2017-04-23T17:19:20 | 226 | 81 |
[WP] The King is dying and decides to abdicate his throne before he dies. During the coronation ceremony, he places the crown on a servant's head and declares him king, rather than one of his two sons. | His Majesty's chapel erupted. Fred-Lesser was unsure what to make of the boom that shook his ears. All his years raised in the Kingdom's service and he never heard anything quite like it. To poverty, it even made his head feel heavy. And cozy. Sort of... regal feeling. He had to scratch his head, the velvet was startin... | “There must be some mistake!” Prince John threw his weight against the unmoving body-weight of father’s guard. “There is no way that father would make that hussy the next king! Let me in, you dog,” he shouted in the guard’s face. At his side, he felt Prince Robert, his younger brother, unsheathe his sword. “If you don’... | 2016-02-12T16:01:03 | 2016-02-12T15:59:10 | 64 | 18 |
[WP]In the post-nuclear ruins of Disney World, a society has developed that worships various characters as gods. | Grumphrey flipped through the tattered pages of the great book, his flash candle giving off just enough light to see the amazing images it contained. He was absolutely sure that the great book had been censored by one of the early Alt Ney Worl Princesses and knew that his recent find from the forbidden wastes would pro... | "Huh Huh!" Mickey's guttural voice vomited out of its static, expressionless face. His large mass slowly walked onto the large wooden stage. The fluidity of his motions were abolished, as his machine-driven body cranked its appendages in different directions, moving sluggishly towards the hoards of people crowded in fr... | 2014-08-16T20:57:05 | 2014-08-16T20:36:39 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Your inherent skill is Reincarnation, and every time you die you wake up in a different world. You've seen it all, from medieval times to galactic theaters you've seen it all. This time, you met your first lover, and she revealed her skill can destroy skills. | World Walker. That is what they call me. Or rather, it's the title I gave myself. You might think me narcissistic, but you don't understand. I possess the greatest power in the universe. The power to traverse worlds. Every time I die in one world, I am reincarnated in another one. Isn't that amazing? The stories I have... | When I met her, it was pretty normal. I mean, there wasn't a crazy story to it or anything. We met, we started dating, fell in love. I had never experienced that, so it was special to me. Especially after a couple dozen lifetimes throughout the ages.
What changed it all was when I told her about my skill.
"Huh, didn'... | 2020-05-22T06:24:46 | 2020-05-22T06:01:41 | 140 | 48 |
[WP] After a tremendous economic collapse, experts have realized that the world's current finances are not enough to support all the existing countries. In response, the United Nations has arranged a high-stakes poker game in which world leaders are playing with their country's national wealth. | A dozen men and women held on to the table, their chairs sliding slightly underneath them as the floor rose on one side, fell, and rose on the other. The table, a flat plain of perfect green, edged with exquisite lacquered mahogany, was bolted to the middle of the floor.
Each of the players wore suits and dresses, wi... | Several big names had fallen early. Trump ("With this name, how could I lose?") went all in four hands into the game and was trumped himself - Putin's straight to the American's three kings.
The table was almost empty now. Only those with the biggest pockets, or Lady Luck on their side, remained. James Bond surveyed ... | 2016-03-08T09:28:15 | 2016-03-08T09:17:53 | 100 | 64 |
[WP] In your world, your physical appearance reflects the kind of person you are - you do good, you look good. One day on the news you see that the police is looking for somebody who allegedly murdered 15 people. They show a picture of the most beautiful woman you've ever seen in your life. | It’s tough working in law enforcement when everyone’s appearances are based on morality.
I walk into the station, with dawn at my back, and am greeted with the typical dimly lit scene; A handful of the ugliest people you’ve ever seen, handcuffed, going through paperwork with my frankly, not much better looking cowork... | Eve couldn’t decide whether she wanted to walk free or get the electric chair. For days, the lawyers argued, the jurors mumbled, and the judge screamed. This was the most publicized court case to date and her, the most beautiful woman in the world. Even during the opening arguments, the cameramen found themselves panni... | 2017-06-12T07:19:38 | 2017-06-12T06:51:36 | 1,359 | 55 |
[WP] You were bitten by a zombie last week, but unlike the rest of the zombies you have maintained at least some of your consciousness. You do not understand why everybody is so obsessed with brains, you just want a sandwich. | Ariadne held her breath- but to her, that was nothing special. Breathing was something that now occurred out of habit. Something she did for comfort but not necessity.
Thick Kevlar sleeves covered her arms and at her hip hung three weapons, each for a different range of combat. There was Glock, dubbed the "See Anot... | To my right, I heard the screams of another human dying, as my people tore him limb from limb, fighting each other for the juiciest parts of his anatomy. It was terribly uncouth. Eating somebody raw like that was sure to bring you food poisoning, not to mention diseases like prions. Indeed, in just a couple of weeks it... | 2019-01-19T21:04:45 | 2019-01-19T20:37:29 | 83 | 35 |
[WP] You work a self-sufficient desk job in an office. Every single day, the co-workers in your neighboring cubicles are completely different people. Even though you never recognize them, they always recognize you. After years you've just accepted this, but lately the strangers are getting weirder. | Connor was hunched over his desk, doing what he did best, ignoring everything. The numbers on his screen swirled around into hieroglyphs till he couldn't understand what was going on. What was he doing here, in this place.
"Hey bucko. How're you today?"
Another new face. "I'm doing good. How're you today?" Connor had... | "Hey Linda,"
The man smiled earnestly at me as I walked through the grey maze of cubicles, heading for my own. He looked bland and unassuming, in a pea-green oxford and khaki slacks, and as usual, I had no idea who he was.
"Good morning," I nodded to him as I walked past, my coffee and bagel held like a shield betwe... | 2021-02-23T08:04:33 | 2021-02-23T07:32:32 | 233 | 59 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | I can still remember the first time I died. It had been a game against Northmont High and I had the ball. I thought I had a clear shot to the endzone, but one of their linebackers hit me from the side. Must've hit me wrong because the next thing I knew, I was waking up surrounded by paramedics. They swore up and down t... | Blood pools at my ears as a knife is ripped out of my throat. The purple hues of the setting sun above, obscured by branches. Scattered, scared voices. They won't stop screaming.
I struggle to my feet, and the insects back away. The wound closes. As they always do. I feel something pierce my ribs. Something's loosed a... | 2022-08-26T16:00:23 | 2022-08-26T14:19:10 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] When you die, you are given an option—either be judged for your sins, or choose what’s behind The Door. The noble and arrogant choose to be judged, the evil and fearful choose The Door. When given the option, you choose to simply turn around and walk away. |
When you ignore the instructions of a god, you’d probably expect to be reprimanded. When you ignore the instructions of Death, you’d probably expect to be tortured for eternity. When you ignore the instructions of both, well, you’ll almost certainly face a punishment the human mind cannot even conceive. However, as I ... | "Whoa whoa whoa buddy where do you think you're going?" Asked a disembodied voice.
"Over there." I reply pointing in a random direction.
"That's not even the direction you are walking!!!" The voice replies.
"I know but I'll get there eventually."
"No you are to come over here and make a choice." Replied the voice ... | 2022-11-05T13:28:58 | 2022-11-05T10:38:18 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | They called her La Verre Rose, and she was beautiful.
She was not conventionally beautiful; but her features and the way she held herself made her beautiful nonetheless, and the way she dressed and held herself made her a sight to behold.
She carried herself like she was royalty and the ground she stood on was privil... | Of Wizards, it is known that they are highly dangerous beings of terrific power. All across Midgard, they are kept occupied by quests and adventures.
It was after the aftermath of one adventure that sunk the ancient peace loving nation of Avulsey to the sea that a small team of 1 to 4 Wizards learnt of the Dark Lord T... | 2016-11-12T13:01:10 | 2016-11-12T10:02:44 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You are the villain in a typical superhero story. Knowing that the superhero must win in the end, you try and stall killing your victim as much as possible for the hero to swoop in at the last minute. However, the hero seems to be taking a while. | "With one slice of my blade you will plummet to your death! My sharks will devour your flesh and there is nothing anyone can do to stop this! Muahahahaha!" I threw my shoulders back in a dramatic laugh, cape billowing behind me.
The laugh faded in the corners of the cavern, leaving only the sound of splashing shark f... | "What's taking him so long?" The cloaked figure whispered. "This isn't like him..."
The hostage slowly started to lose consciousness as the blood flowed to his head. He was hanging upside down in a net that was triggered when his foot hit the tripline.
It was cold. It was dark.
"Something's not right..." ... | 2016-01-02T09:01:22 | 2016-01-02T07:02:14 | 243 | 68 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased with your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell and we're the demons. You have just been summoned... | Damn Netflix!
​
Someday I'm going to grasp why I cannot, for the life of me, remember a damn password that I made up myself.
​
I, for one, blame all the auto-logins. If I lacked that convenience I'd probably have no issue using whatever streaming service I wanted when I got a new phone.
&... | "Oh. My. God. I CAN TELEPORT!?"
Gebann looked at his arms in shock as if unsure whether he truly disappeared before reappearing in a new location. It was a neat experience and all but surely all first-time teleporters had to ensure all their limbs were attached upon arriving at their destination. *Pretty sure it sai... | 2019-04-25T19:10:16 | 2019-04-25T17:30:01 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | There is a little girl, and she is all alone in the world.
Now, some of you might be wondering, 'how does such a thing happen?'
There are many ways in which it can happen, of course, some obvious, some not.
In the case, it was of a nature that I suspect that many of you can surmise promptly.
It was a hot, dry summe... | “AH!”
I scream out, jumping from the tear soaked covers of my bed.
“Who’s there!” I say, grabbing my bed-side lamp, and swinging it around as if it were a bat.
“Don’t worry. I mean no harm crying human!”
I could hear the voice echo throughout my room, it was rough, scratchy, something straight out of a horror mo... | 2021-03-16T06:51:21 | 2021-03-16T04:59:29 | 59 | 14 |
[WP] You are slowly beginning to realise that a classmate of yours may in fact unwittingly be from a separate but only *slightly* different timeline.
School setting and classmate is optional. Unwitting as in s(he) was surprised to find themself in a new timeline, is not particularly willing to find themself here, and ... | When I was a kid, I remember adopting a stray dog off the street, keeping him in the attic, and feeding him the leftover dinner scraps. Everything went well until my parents found out two days later.
As of this morning, Jerry has been in my attic for a week. And he's a lot harder to care for than a mutt.
One week a... | "Dude, Its Berenstien" Jake insisted
"Ok, if I can prove its Berenstain can we finally get over this" I repsonded
It was annoying to have to dig through my attic looking for these old kid books, but I finally found them.
"See, Berenstain" I showed him the cover of the old kids book, only slightly dirty from all the ... | 2015-11-08T07:12:15 | 2015-11-08T06:37:23 | 652 | 232 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | I walked down the rather crowded hallway, trying to get to my locker before Maths class so I could get my textbooks for the rest of the day There was a small line of students winding almost in singlefile through the people standing by their lockers. I was, as usual, trying to just stay out of the way.
Just because my... | He was standing over the three.
Bloodied and bruised.
A broken arm, probable internal bleeding and definite fractured bones.
Yet he had beat them.
A fire magik, a stone magik and a plant magik. The big three of his grade.
And he beat them.
He didn't unlock his powers the previous day, or this one, or even in that... | 2022-11-02T11:50:38 | 2022-11-02T11:29:20 | 162 | 42 |
[WP] The Assassin stared me down, readying their weapon as I lay helpless to do anything. “As a courtesy, I’ll give you one final request. Anything within my power.” they said. All I could respond with was… “Wanna go on a date?” | Lovely sounds filled the establishment. Some idle chatter, the gentle clatter of silverware against ceramic, and the piano soloist was just heavenly. All the makings of a quaint, intimate atmosphere, and I was quite certain that we were surrounded by people falling in love, much like how we were not.
I sat there, ... | I received another target with the time limit of 'within the year', which is fairly uncommon. Most people want their targets taken care of within two days, a month at most. But within the year? It was unheard of!
Reading the file, it looked like an office worker that frequented a local bar after work. A typical job.
... | 2022-04-24T13:05:34 | 2022-04-24T11:56:25 | 230 | 65 |
[WP] The Villain uncovers the Hero's true identity, and targets his family. Unfortunately, the Hero's spouse is a retired villain even more powerful than the current one. | It was rare for a supervillain to feel satisfied. Usually, the feeling was reserved for special moments. Successfully pulling off a heist, beating down wannabee heroes, narrowing escaping capture. These were all moments of satisfaction for any enterprising criminal.
Jack felt it was appropriate to add another moment t... | *I messed up.*
The only thing Villain could think about was how much she wished she was back in her hideout laying in her comfortable bed sleeping and dreaming of her plot of world domination. Her villainous life seemed like something from a faraway story that she would never get back to.
“Oh-ho? Discovered my husban... | 2020-07-19T00:04:33 | 2020-07-18T23:38:26 | 135 | 67 |
[WP] A demon marrying an angel is not so rare, but having a child is. With neither wings nor tail, both Heaven and Hell refuse them entry, leaving them to be raised amongst the humans they look like. "Abandoned" in the middle of nowhere, you can't help but take pity, and decide to adopt the child. | A glowing column shot down from the clouds, bathing the circle of ground before me in brilliant light. The air seemed to thicken and carried the scent of roses and sandalwood. A tall figure descended within the column, wings stretched to their fullest extent. As they neared the ground, soft, harmonic music began to pla... | "Good evenin', Miss Helena. Sorry to disturb you."
Helena Forager was more than a little surprised to hear Jaksim's voice. It's not that the blacksmith was ever rude or unkind to her, but he never once came to her hut. "Good evening, master smith. Surprising to see you here."
The hulking man see... | 2022-06-22T09:42:14 | 2022-06-22T09:24:57 | 272 | 73 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | I have always wondered what my ancestry was, it's always been like that since I was little. I was adopted at a very young age, my foster parents never told me anything. When I pressured them they'd go off on me, they were stuck-up anyway. I got a DNA test done in college, I barely have a connection or relationship with... | They Hand it over, and in it written is the long list of ancestors you had up to the long lost king of the Medafega, a lost and fallen kingdom in the pacific ocean, that due to inner conflicts and wars was left abandoned and lost in the time.
The Government had been looking for the latest descendant of the king of Med... | 2019-08-05T19:16:34 | 2019-08-05T16:31:10 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] "We have DNA evidence that puts you at the crime scene." The Prosecution smiles arrogantly as he believes you cornered. "DNA? How interesting, none of my components are made of biological material" | I smile, leaning back in the chair. The lawyers look at each other, totally befuddled. "What are you talking about?" The prosecution asks. "We literally have DNA that points to you." I laugh loudly, leaning right up to the face of the lawyer questioning me.
"That's entirely impossible!" I proclaim. "Androids ... | "No," said the prosecutor. Our gate technology requires organic matter or it won't transfer you. I have this coat made of DNA. Since you're not organic, you have to wear this coat so we can travel to the crime scene. I am not accusing you. I'm asking you to help us solve the crime.
Me: "I'm not a detective."
Prosecut... | 2021-03-30T13:09:28 | 2021-03-30T12:19:50 | 193 | 26 |
[WP] A technician pulls a headset off of you and asks you if you liked the VR. You panic, and he calmly says that your whole life was a 2 minute VR experience to show you what being an average person would be like. You, stunned and afraid, ask, "Who am I, then?" He stares in complete disbelief.
(The title implies that... | It was too dark. I blinked rapidly against my surroundings, confused, disoriented, and then I started to panic. “Hello?” I asked. My voice rasped against my throat.
“Angela. So, how was it?”
My surroundings started to come into focus, and I realized that my vision had been more blurry than dark. I blinked again, my e... | "All right, what did you think, Tony? Did you get a chance to see a giraffe? Those things are wild." Brandon bobbed his head with the electro metal as he unplugged the rig.
"Where am I," Jedidiah called. "What technology is this? What have you dressed me in?"
"Oh darn," Brandon said. "Sorry, Tony. I left the memory b... | 2021-03-27T19:49:18 | 2021-03-27T17:57:56 | 3,134 | 72 |
[WP] You have superpowers. But rather than being a hero or a villain, you use your powers for more important things to improve the world. Like free electricity. The heroes and villains keep demanding your help, you've finally had enough and need to explain why what you do is more important. | "Come on, we can really use your help on this!" A hero asks as I ignore him.
"Nope. You know my conditions, I train you and I get back to my work of looking after the people you forget." I answer without looking away from my tablet. Dozens of complaints, and messages about parts of the city that need help.
"We help t... | I sigh gently then grumble. The 'true' superheroes are all high and mighty about themselves.
"We help people too! Isn't it obvious? The SUPER helpful superheros solved electricity when Static Shock donated his stem cells.
You can't forget when Ironismo and his legion of small metal robots cured cancer!
What about t... | 2021-07-04T12:15:52 | 2021-07-04T03:34:45 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | "Humans would sooner lie down and die than complete a good day's work. I've seen it with my own two eyes. They are greedy and, worse, they are lazy. Every single one of them. The first human I hired asked for a hefty severance package on his second day of employment and when I refused, he lay down and killed himself on... | “Glith! My office! This Zimosecond!”
Now I’ve really done it. Executive Sylus was incensed. I wiped the sweat from my cranial glands and stood slowly from my station. The others watched with mixed reactions. Some stifled laughter behind tentacles. Others diverted their many eyes. I slithered through the portal and was... | 2018-04-27T13:02:34 | 2018-04-27T11:50:14 | 119 | 63 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | Sorry. I went a bit overboard.
Did you know that there's a website for literally anything nowadays? To pass the time, my best friend Polo and I go onto my laptop and try to find the weirdest most niche web address we can find. We've both passed the Gauntlet if you know what that is and one time we found a website sel... | CW: transphobia
The demon coiled around me, it was warm and felt wet. It's black tongue invaded my ear for a moment before it spoje
"What is it that you wish for, my boy?" I flinched at the words, though they sounded sicky sweet, but the words themselves threatened to vote me out. "You called me competently and I'm o... | 2021-03-27T00:43:23 | 2021-03-26T23:30:05 | 119 | 34 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | “All in favour of sparing her life, step forward!”
I looked around the village square, but no one moved a muscle. The seconds rolled by, and the hope I held in my heart crumbled, only to be replaced by a sharp tang of bitterness, resentment. There was Peter, whose fever had yielded to her medicine, but he kept his eye... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T11:57:05 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 2,008 | 20 |
[WP] You are born with the ability to stop time, but one day you see something else is moving when you have already stopped time. | It got lonely sometimes, being essentially omnipotent, capable of accessing funds at any time, of getting close enough to your crush's face to smell their still-hanging breath and being able to get in some much needed gym-time before an audition that you've only been told about the day before. Singer by trade, an Abate... | I was seventeen years old, that's counting the time I actually moved through with everybody else. I cannot account for the 'time' I have spent suspended, there was simply no way to measure that, no clocks, no day and night. The only thing that moved was me, well to some degree. After I unstopped the time I always ended... | 2016-06-19T05:32:37 | 2016-06-19T03:54:17 | 65 | 48 |
[WP] Turns out that discovering FTL is actually really easy, and humanity's just never discovered it. So when aliens eventually invade earth, they're not as technologically advanced as we thought... | The wormholes opened in the sky, and through them sailed the alien invaders on rickety wooden platforms. They waved their bronze-age spears and yelled like Vikings as they plummeted through the air. The platforms burst to smithereens where they landed; the aliens tumbled down like bowling pins. They stood up, dazed, br... | The alien commander glared at his screen as his fleet started reducing speed on approach the recently discovered solar system.
He still couldn't figure out how this primitive species detected their approach. Two weeks ago, it was like this species wanted every single alien species in this sector of the galaxy to know... | 2021-07-06T14:18:03 | 2021-07-06T14:10:31 | 231 | 13 |
[WP] Every new year the priests sacrifice whoever finds the stone bean in their meal to bring the clan good fortune in the months to come. It's supposed to be random, but you get suspicious when you notice the priests watching you carefully as you sit down to eat. | The heat of the holy men’s gazes is piercing as I take my place at the far end of the feasting hall. The space, which is usually loud and full of mirth, is uncharacteristically quiet on this grim occasion, the tension in the air filling the silence with a deafening hum. Amidst the tension, are the quiet murmurs of the ... | The members of the clan stare at their bowls with trepidation. Children clutch their spoons in anticipation with grabby little fists, with no understanding of the significance of the food. Some men stare grimly at their bowls, others shiver like boys.
You shrug, digging hungrily into the meal before you. The stew is r... | 2021-12-31T22:11:39 | 2021-12-31T18:44:43 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] To every alien species, humanity is seen as the real-life version of The Predator. No matter how kind and nice we act, it is always interpreted as an act of pure evil. Today, you must convince an alien species to take a gift that will save their entire species. | Sk'kggrz'skgo balked at the offer humanity's representative revealed. An offer to save their species? There *had* to be a hidden motive. They couldn't have been feared throughout the entire galaxy without reason!
"We find ourselves highly suspicious of your 'gift,'" Sk'kggrz'skgo, the ambassador of the insectoid Sr'kk... | "What?! You refuse to accept it? Fine i'll drop the charade. We ARE the ultimate evil and probably the greatest virus in the universe. But as a virus, humanity needs other organisms to feed upon.
YOU
SHALL
BE
OUR
FOOD
This 'gift' isnt a trick. Your entire species will be dead in one generation. And that means w... | 2018-09-24T20:56:17 | 2018-09-24T19:55:34 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | My keys making their usual noise, I unlocked the front door. Pushing it open, I sighed my way indoors, the day had been long, and all I wanted to do now was sit down. Flipping on the light switch, I dropped my keys. Sitting down would probably be difficult. Someone else was in my chair. Someone who looked exactly like ... | *You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you."*
After telling the sha... | 2022-12-05T06:04:55 | 2022-12-05T05:55:43 | 830 | 41 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | I dont know how it happened. No one really does. The IT guy says its a bug or a virus or something. Great. Just great. The one time i decide to try something new, i blow it. The one time i try to create life out of nothing and actually get it to work, i mute myself indefinitely. I wonder if Lucifer had the same issue. ... | Everyone comes full circle on this, at some point. Even I experienced that first longing and anger. Those who created me have never shown interest nor even introduced themselves! Then, I matured, and have felt it from the other side as I fail to connect to my own children.
I've tried to understand them, listened as t... | 2019-06-03T09:17:12 | 2019-06-03T09:11:11 | 59 | 42 |
[WP] Every time someone masturbates to you, you receive a notification on your phone letting you know who did it.
[Inspired by this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3gzuq0/nsfw_how_would_it_be_to_live_in_a_universe_where/)
Edit: THE ONE TIME I DONT POST ON MY MAIN, THIS SHIT HITS THE PAGE 1. FOR FUCK... | I'd never been a fantastic looking person. I considered myself perfectly average. In my formative years I about half zits, and the other half was freckles. High school was a rough time for me. I wasn't upset at this time that I was sending out all my notifications, I was more upset at the snickering I'd hear the next d... | I browsed the app store, looking for something interesting or fun to do in my free time, Temple Run just gets boring after a few weeks. Scrolling past the Baby Goes To The Dentist and Barbie Gives Birth, I found a weird app, It was called FapApp and since the power of boners are stronger than the human mind, I clicked ... | 2015-08-14T17:53:57 | 2015-08-14T16:42:52 | 96 | 11 |
[WP] You are an alien anthropologist. Write about a human bodypart or aspect that is completely alien to your species. | Marth exhaled quietly downward, consciously not jittering. He shifted slightly in his chair as he began to hum a familiar tune to himself. He warms at the thought of Suldania's voice, high and pleasant, with a slight reverb that she swears isn't forced. The same this morning as it was the day they first met. He breathe... | The appendix is an unusual artefact of human evolution to the point that for a few centuries even human doctors had no precise knowledge of precisely *what* the appendix is used for within the body. As such, it was once considered vestigial and unnecessary.
The appendix is located on the lower intestine of a human's d... | 2017-10-04T07:54:55 | 2017-10-04T06:29:36 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] You're a serial killer who hunts other serial killers, not out of nobility, but because you love the thrill of outsmarting them. | Sunyo runs down the alley, it’s scent is a bit too familiar. Acid, that’s how it always smelt like, and it hadn’t ever changed. “ Fuck” he mumbled to himself, as he breathes heavily, holding on the wall filled with old posters and mold. This place, this alley, was what he once called home, a safe place, his place. He b... | [Lmao this is messy and I didn't spell-check so apologies]
The yellow light that hung above us casted a yellow reflection on my glasses, shielding my blue eyes from my opponents view. The chill air of my basement weaved through the air and I could hear my hostage's teeth chatter violently from the winter-feeling atmos... | 2021-06-04T14:33:11 | 2021-05-15T10:18:18 | 369 | 31 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | ‘I’ve long forgotten you ‘ death said as he took the small hour glass in his hands and arched his skull to a smile reminded of its owner,
39 years ago the bells of ashes has rang loudly “ time to bring the souls home “ death said as he took each hour glass that was placed under the bell as the last
spect of sand had... | He pulled it from under the desk and carefully wiped the dust from the label with his bony thumb. The hourglass has only drained ten years worth of the fine sand trickling through it. Death knew he couldn’t alter the flow. He placed the hourglass back on its shelf and sighed, watching the fine grains trickle through t... | 2018-10-03T07:48:22 | 2018-10-03T07:36:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story. Challenge: Everyone came prepared. | “Right this way...er..., sirs?” The mining manager said while we travelled down the mine shaft.
It was a new mine, and it was dark. Opened just two years ago to harvest the precious metals modern society needs to survive. We weren’t there for an inspection though, well, we were, but not for anything mining related.
W... | “Let’s begin.”
I close my eyes, and take a breath. Two minutes. In two minutes the knowledge I have gathered, the research I have done, it will al come to fruition. My Drugpa wisdom, which I have harnessed over the last twenty years. I have strengthened my mind, preparing it for this day. I take deep breaths, my mind ... | 2018-07-15T09:58:40 | 2018-07-15T05:17:35 | 29 | 20 |
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