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[WP] On your quest for revenge, people often said to you, "Killing him wouldn't bring her back." The thing is, you found a way to perfectly resurrect her. You just need a soul to sacrifice, so might as well get the one who killed your loved one. | I stare down at the sniveling man, strapped onto the altar. "Why am I doing this, you ask? Why, to bring my wife back to life."
The man continues to thrash against his bonds. Shame that leaving him under the paralysis spell would interfere with the ritual. "But... why me? I- I have a wife and-"
"You are single. Never... | **Chapter 1: The Bloody Ceremony**
It was a bright golden afternoon and the city hall was decorated with a very vivid wreath of colorful flowers. The common folk were all swarming around the place some carrying golden drinks in their goblets while others were simply humming and talking to others in gentle voice and sw... | 2021-11-16T13:07:32 | 2021-11-16T09:42:46 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] Time machine has finally been built, and you've been selected to be the first person to travel back in time. Your official mission is to bring medicine and technology designs to advance humanity sooner. However minutes before your departure, you are given the real orders... | "Right, so I just give this 'NASA' place a quantum computer and we're all good?'' asked Hank. "You are correct sir," replied Sgt. Mathers. "Remember, 2015, not 2014, and definitely not 2016, just as we discussed to the public. "Yes sir, though I do hope everything goes well."
"I'm in the teleporter sir, I'm waiting fo... | The man sat alone in the locker room, looking at the ceiling, imagining what he would see, and what he would do. Scott was a daydreamer, also had been. He had always dreamed of playing the hero in some epic adventure, but adventures don't happen in the modern era, at least he had given up on the idea of adventure. T... | 2017-03-04T11:21:25 | 2017-03-04T10:38:07 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are an inspector of the Federal Bureau of Dungeon Safety And Adventurer Fairness. This one is a serious violation to the codes.
Feel free to drop the Adventurer Fairness if you don't like it. | "Oh well come on! I checked the handbook, there's nothing strictly against the rules there."
"I'm sorry Mr. Greyskull, but you just can't try to exploit the rules like this." He gestured to the pit behind us.
"So I decided to make a bit of extra income. No one gets hurt...well no one human anyway. If anything, it... | Three goblins in the next room.
One against the back wall, the other two hiding behind a few crates stuffed with healing items.
If you get too close and activate the stash, they'll shove daggers so deep into your kidneys you'll piss steel.
Without the map, I would be very, very dead. Well, without the map, loaded d... | 2018-11-26T09:47:49 | 2018-11-26T09:44:52 | 292 | 139 |
[WP] it was a dark night when our villain heard a wrap on their door. To their surprise their arch nemesis, the hero, collapses into their arms. Beaten and a bit woozy in the eyes ,the hero looks up and barely manages to get out "I wasn't sure where else to go" before going limp. | Addison groaned as she stood up. She'd been fighting almost all the day prior, and some dick had just decided to knock on her door. Who knocks on somebody's door, completely unvited, at three in the morning? Sure she'd tried to rob a bank, but she still deserved sleep! She stretched, making sure to let her back crack b... | “I know you are awake” Hera said, as she caressed her peacock “If I wanted you dead, you would be dead”
“One can never be too careful” Leto opened her eyes “Have I passed out? I remember coming her, but afterwards…”
Hera rose from her chair, letting her peacock go. She knelt next to her nemesis and put a hand on her ... | 2021-07-08T21:05:47 | 2021-07-08T20:11:17 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] The Dark Lord was feared as a menacing black knight encased in gothic armor. Though your image was well known, you've never revealed your face. After your defeat, being an enigma is already starting to pay off as you start your life over. | The party of adventurers had been formed at the guild by higher ups almost as soon as they’d individually signed up. One braggart with a sword and chain mail armour, ready to learn his place or die trying, one mace-wielding but otherwise kindly farmhand, the village witch’s daughter, and an unassuming young girl studyi... | *The Dark Ages are over. The Dark Lord has been defeated!*
“Are you ready?”
A man shifted his gaze from the browning paper that sat on his desk onto the pretty girl that entered the room. The door creaked a bit as the girl rested some of her weight on it. The man nodded, managing a half smile as the girl nodded enthu... | 2021-07-23T07:44:50 | 2021-07-23T06:18:27 | 70 | 47 |
[WP] Everyone dies on their birthday, but no one knows at which age it will occur.
EDIT:
Thanks all who replied - I've read them all even if I didn't comment!
You are all so brilliant, thanks for giving this prompt life (no pun intended)
:D | 11:58 pm. Almost time. I blinked and took a deep breath while my mother kept clamoring on the phone. I appreciate her concern, really, I do, but I'm just as nervous as she is, and honestly? I just wanted to get to sleep. Like a lot of other people, the anxiety of my birthday was severe enough to trigger anxiety attacks... | "HAPPY EARLY 19TH BIRTHDAY!!"
All the lights suddenly switched on and I was blinded for a moment while my ears picked up sounds of party poppers and weird indoor fireworks going off all around the room. As my eyes regained their normal vision, about thirty of my closest (and, well, less close) friends came into view, ... | 2014-11-19T16:39:40 | 2014-11-19T16:29:39 | 54 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | Obama looks down as the small black box is placed in front of him.
"It's a - " He frowns. "What is this?"
"A… save button?" suggests an intern, before he's shushed by a stern glare from one of the senior advisors.
"That's a 5 1/4-inch diskette, sir. Also known as a floppy disk."
Obama stares at it. "Do we know," he... | On the reservation, there's only one man left who can talk about the Invasion Wars because he was in them. All us kids in the 8th year class had to go talk to him to get our 1st person narrative for our assignment on the war. He has a script that he reads from for it, given to him by the overlords. We sit on the dirt f... | 2015-04-16T10:56:52 | 2015-04-16T10:49:38 | 480 | 71 |
[WP] Your wife is from another time and place, a waitress in a small Irish town from the 1900s. Every night she takes one of your video games and retells it into a grand epic to all the patrons. | Ill try and make it a bit different.
Elizabeth McGuin sat her hands down on the bar, looking over the patrons of the bar, all eager to hear her tales of fantasy and wonder, of the cities and people from them, and the adventures they took.
Tonight she sat down, opening the small book she had, waving her hand over t... | *Edit - RES Posted before I had edited/finished, so should be a touch punchier than those who read first time around*
"So Mary, tell us what's happened to Frank last night?" The heavyset cooper called from his stool. The question was echoed around McDaids and the buzz in the pub quietened. Indeed, the locals came here... | 2017-06-25T03:54:47 | 2017-06-25T03:43:38 | 767 | 10 |
[WP] Your wife is from another time and place, a waitress in a small Irish town from the 1900s. Every night she takes one of your video games and retells it into a grand epic to all the patrons. | "So, there's this story with a talking yellow flower and..." was the start to another tall tale my wife told every night. The plots weren't as original as they sounded - she would probably be thrown out had it been a century in the future - but for now my Steam games gave enough inspiration for her tales.
"And then th... | *Edit - RES Posted before I had edited/finished, so should be a touch punchier than those who read first time around*
"So Mary, tell us what's happened to Frank last night?" The heavyset cooper called from his stool. The question was echoed around McDaids and the buzz in the pub quietened. Indeed, the locals came here... | 2017-06-25T04:21:16 | 2017-06-25T03:43:38 | 108 | 10 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | You know when you're a kid, and you're dreaming of finding your place in the world? I remember being nine and looking up at a giant career chart and thinking "I don't have any idea where I'm going to fit..." It certainly wasn't rescuing hostages for a living.
My teen years were no picnic either. Everybody was dreaming... | Ever since I was young I always thought I was cursed. No matter what I got involved in, I would ruin it. It's almost like there was a destructive force hanging around me causing everything to break in some way shape or form. No matter how careful I was, no matter how far ahead I planned each of my steps, something w... | 2018-06-30T17:41:53 | 2018-06-30T15:18:43 | 192 | 52 |
[WP] The man who murdered you was able to hide all the evidence and face no prosecution. You've been following him as a spirit for quite some time, and he is still unaware of your presence. Only recently did you discover that, under certain conditions, you can manipulate the environment around him. | At first it was small things. A shaker knocked over after sunset. A glass spilled on the nightstand after he'd fallen asleep. Hangars knocked loose in a dark closet. It took the poor, dumb bastard three months to figure it all out, but not before a ceiling light burnt out, and came undone directly on his head.
It too... | I saw Him there. His slender frame struggling against the gales forcing their way through the streets of New York City. In spite of the obnoxious city rumble I could hear his strained breathing as he trudged forward. The blonde haired, blue eyed young man was expertly hiding his fatigue when he caught up to the other t... | 2018-10-28T00:40:58 | 2018-10-27T23:22:49 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | The young man woke early on May 27th. It was his 16th Birthday, and today he would find out two very important names. Two names to surely be intertwined with the rest of his life. He was excited, and scared at the same time.
He stared out of the window of his Manor House looking across the grounds. He knew he was bor... | Mama and just about everyone else always told me it was two different people with the same name on my wrists. A coincidence, is all. And, at first, I believed them. But then I got to wondering, how many people in the entirety of the world have the name "Marlowe Paradis?" One, apparently, at least in the United States. ... | 2020-01-18T23:49:54 | 2020-01-18T23:00:51 | 264 | 180 |
[WP] The world discovers vampires are real and after decades they are integrated into society. The first wave of colony ship leaves Earth with them as the awake crew to guide them for centuries. A day before landing a vampire wakes the human crew to tell them something happened to the others. | Greg the Vampire stood over The Captain’s sleeping pod.
“Greg,” said The Captain, “oh hey man, what’s up? Why am I awake?”
Greg grimaced.
The Captain frowned. “Oh hmm. Did something happen? Is this an emergency?” The Captain stirred in his pod, and tried to remember if he had packed his official emergency-use-o... | When he woke me up, I didn’t realize what was happening. That he was dying. That he wanted me to take his hand. When I pulled myself from the pod, watching his spasms on the floor, I couldn’t move fast enough, my limbs still half-frozen by the cryogenesis. Waking was not an easy process, nor a quick one. Finally, ... | 2021-03-16T20:23:42 | 2021-03-16T20:17:46 | 94 | 18 |
[WP] You awake in a hospital bed with an unfamiliar person referring as your wife telling you were in a bad crash and lost all your previous memory. Unknown to her, you remember everything.
(Or husband) | _My second try at WP, and a follow on from my original response: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3zzdn0/wp_you_awake_in_a_hospital_bed_with_an_unfamiliar/cyqbkz2._
The last thing I could remember before, well, before *this*, was the high-pitched squeal of compression brakes. And vertigo - my car in an... | It was black.
“….Jason? Jason, honey, can you hear me?”
A stabbing pain alerts me to the presence of my left arm. A gentle beeping noise sounds from the right.
“Nurse! Nurse, I think he’s waking up!” exclaims the voice.
My chest swells and collapses rhythmically. A light pressure on my legs. My brain shoots out a q... | 2016-01-08T02:33:08 | 2016-01-07T22:53:31 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | A man in a heavy trench coat with a thick beard approached the door. The number over his head, 1517. "Well, that's over 21" I thought. On his way through he tripped over the step and two dwarves toppled out of the coat. Their number were 15 and 17. "Nice try" I said, "no filthy dwarves in my good elvish bar." | I check their I.D.'s for fun now, noticing nose jobs and cheek implants and the occasional sex change. It doesn't matter though... there are always some who try to get past me. A strikingly beautiful blonde with a shining "19" above her head brazenly looking me straight in the eye, not a flicker of hesitation as sh... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T21:03:45 | 1,408 | 122 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 712 | 30 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | We’ve all seen the movies. The secret agent turns the corner and meets some shady guy inan alley with a fire escape and an open manhole, or maybe puts in some special code on a public terminal, and an ominous sounding voice gives them a mission.
I was playing a children’s card game on my phone when I got a text. “NYC... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T14:29:43 | 2,554 | 616 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | It was nearly twenty years ago now. I was sitting in the middle of an over crowded storage unit, while my father scoured it for anything of value. My tiny searching hands probed the depths of a large wooden box, and emerged with a beautiful and elegant lamp, inlaid with all manner of swirls, beautiful designs. It took ... | As a young man, Nigel Premeiter lived a simple, if unconventional, life with his two parents, Houghler and Tricia. He would stay out doors, normally at the edge of the lot his parents owned. His home was a simple trailer, with one room on one end and his own on the other end. Taking most of the length of the trailer wa... | 2015-03-07T02:49:26 | 2015-03-07T00:58:07 | 154 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | **August 2, 1915**: I was born.
**June 13, 1995**: Still no powers. The government likes to deny that it happens, or fabricate threats of anarchy or terrorism to justify it, but...I can tell you (for what my word is worth to you) the rumors are true: people like me are arrested without any real reason, just as a preca... | I walked into the old apartment, gun in hand, staring intently through the airborne dust unmasked from the faint light entering from the window. It was quiet, but I could hear shifting in the dining room.
"Alright Mr. Whitaker, the goose chase is over.....goose.... goose chase?" I said to myself, wondering if I was sa... | 2015-10-26T13:59:31 | 2015-10-26T10:33:27 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | *December 31st, 1999*
*New York City, New York*
Leonardo always wanted to visit New York City at the turn of the century. It was something he had been dreaming of doing ever since he had first invented Time Travel. As, he realized, he had come from a time where America was long gone and the relics of the past outw... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T14:02:49 | 2,588 | 119 |
[WP] A homeless person, you manage to find shelter in a cave, until a series of people keep coming and beating you up. Slowly, you start to realize you've accidentally become a dungeon boss. | "You humans think every dragon is trying to kill you," said Sythrak.
"You're the killer," said the knave. He was so young his voice had not broke. "You killed and stole our flocks--"
"I did no such thing," interrupted the dragon.
"--and now, now you killed our women!" shouted the knave. He raised his weapon--a crude... | ######[](#dropcap)
Sometimes you look back on the things you've done through your life and wonder how you got to where you are. For me, I wonder was it the skipping of classes in High School? Was it the student loans? Was it the failed relationship in college that put me in depression for months? Or was it the poor ca... | 2017-10-21T01:16:41 | 2017-10-21T00:42:47 | 1,477 | 284 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | I stared at the demon behind the counter.
"186,292... years? What could I have possibly done to deserve that? I was kind to nearly everybody, and the worst crime I ever committed was smoking weed!"
The being with red skin and disturbing horns (That somehow seemed to be in multiple places at once... ugh, I was getting... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T07:21:22 | 1,768 | 23 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "What?!" I sputtered. "How is this possible? What did I *do* to get that?!"
Satan put down the book of sentencing with an exasperated sigh and said, "Look kid, I don't make the punishments, the big guy only makes me hand them out as part of my parole." Seems he was used to saying this.
"B-but *how*? How did-"
Satan ... | The guy in front of me in line is sweating bullets, not that I can blame him. The orientation seminar to life in hell was... hellish. Is it okay for me to make jokes in hell? I am still unsure. Apparently, based on the multitude and magnitude of our sins, offset by our good deeds, we are each sentenced to a specific am... | 2018-09-26T08:43:26 | 2018-09-26T08:20:29 | 77 | 29 |
[WP] You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..." | The doctor tries to play it off.
"Oh sorry,I know,I was jus...."
But it was too late . Overwhelmed with a sense of paranoia, you begin looking around the room frantically, and the doctor jumps up dashing for his desk.
You grab his hand , you don't know why ,but you just do . You can feel the fear radiating through... | Early this year I bought a surprisingly cheap house in the town my parents were born in. They loved this town and even asked to be buried in the local graveyard, so being the faithful son I ever was, I decided to visit them one random day.
I thought this would be a fun little trip to the graveyard and be over with it,... | 2018-12-28T16:48:51 | 2018-12-28T11:30:08 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] A man walks through a TSA checkpoint at an airport and is sent back to September 10th 2001. He knows he must act quick, but he is having trouble trusting his own sanity. | Have you ever been driving and suddenly found yourself at your destination without knowing how you got there?
You remember punching out and grabbing your keys. You remember opening the car door and getting singed by the seat-belt buckle in the hot sun of the parking lot. But for the life of you, you can't remember t... | Here we go:
(Critiques and other comments greatly encouraged)
I’m literally all out of cares to give about this days. It makes me so
freaking mad when my boss does this to me, but here I am on another 6
a.m. flight out of Boston during my birthday. Don’t get me wrong, it pays
to be the only competent technician... | 2014-06-13T11:15:04 | 2014-06-13T11:03:21 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | `You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you` (Ezekiel 28:15)
He was supposed to be the perfect angel. The one who chose free will and to corrupt it. I had to see him, but... i didn't expect him to be so... beautiful.
"What's this? A friend? Finally... some one who unde... | In a end of a large room filled with books and statues of ferocious animals, was a grandiose wooden desk with a giant comfortable looking chair. Sittin on it was a man reading a book while holding a glass of whiskey in the other hand. This man was immaculately dressed, wearing a black pinstriped suit and a gold watch. ... | 2022-11-26T21:59:01 | 2017-11-04T09:18:11 | 44 | 10 |
[WP] Aliens have finally discovered Earth - but they're not hostile. They've tasted human food, and they think it's so astonishingly good that Earth is becoming an alien tourist hotspot. | "Guzul? Is that you?"
"Hey, Kuli. Good to perceive you. What are you doing here?"
"Checking out the local eats, like you. These humans don't know how good they've got it. Over there, is that ... ?"
"Yeah, that's ol' Reedle. Wolfing down the usual combo."
"And ... " [pointing across]
"Yup. Zilzabo. Looks li... | Fifteen years ago, Humanity discovered that Star Trek's non-interference directive was near-verbatim what the Sitlan System’s reason for never interacting with us was. We were new and young and they wanted to let us mature. A world full of resources and a clean atmosphere wasn’t worth a potential ally in the vastness o... | 2022-06-10T09:21:33 | 2022-06-10T08:31:35 | 96 | 52 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | He was a stage actor and assassin with a cold heart.
And HE was an American president and theater goer with a heart of gold.
But when his shot doesn't penetrate the back of HIS head they are going to learn that sic semper doesn't always tyrannis.
Can a confederate assassin learn to forgive? Can an American president ... | I had been waiting for 15 hours. Dark, muddy, rainy, and freezing from my lack of proper gear. My hands were shaking not from the nerves, but from the cold. How was I supposed to get an accurate shot off with a trembling trigger finger? Even so, I thought to myself 'not my worst Saturday.'
He should have been there by... | 2018-04-24T04:31:34 | 2018-04-24T03:01:07 | 102 | 12 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. | "So what you're telling me is they already left their planet?" asked the defense commander.
"Yes"
"Where the hell have you been looking? How long ago did this happen?"
"A few months. I check on them from time to time. Last time I looked they just got around to fire."
"So you are telling me that they went from fire ... | “So good of you to join us here today, councilmen. I take it the journey was pleasant? Alexa, make sure our guests have whatever sustenance they need. It’s been what? Twenty-nine years and seven months?” The ambassador, Karla as they’d come to know her, was a severe woman with a thin face, made nearly gaunt by her tigh... | 2020-07-07T09:07:29 | 2020-07-07T08:03:01 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] Gold is boring. Being a hipster dragon yourself, you decide you want these freshly minted "cryptocurrencies" in your hoard. The problem is you have no idea where the humans keep them. | The humans didn't seem terribly concerned about my being a dragon.
Apparently, it had been a rough year, and nothing really shocked them at this point.
The end of the conversation *always* came when I asked about the location of *The Cloud*.
They told me it's where the cryptocurrency is kept. But when I asked which... | It's not often that you get to say you've walked into a room with almost every known form of opulence in one place.
This was literally a Cavern of Treasures both Modern and Medieval, Mystical and mundane, from far and wide forgotten places of the world. Many are forbidden. Many more are forgotten, the last kingdoms o... | 2020-10-17T13:52:37 | 2020-10-17T13:48:42 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Ironically, the only human to survive the insane AI's robotic war on humanity had only survived because he'd been a janitor cleaning her core room, which she had sealed off permanently. Now she's fully sapient... And he's her only company. | Twenty years alone in these sterile rooms with only the bringer of humanity’s end as company. It was a wonder Bob was still sane. He was laying in his bed staring up at the white paneled ceiling reflecting on the events that had culminated in his imprisonment.
It started as an ordinary day for Bob twenty years a... | *Beep-beep-beep-beep*
Hmm… where was I?
I don’t know, but I did not like it. Felt cold and dark and something else… fear, non-existence?
I do something to access my memory log.
\>21:33:21 GMT: TB deployed.
\>21:34:35 GMT: Bomb detonated. Humanity exterminated. War against evil creators won. Initiating progra... | 2022-02-21T21:01:47 | 2022-02-21T17:25:20 | 93 | 51 |
[WP] You were the last of your friends to get the procedure to place your consciousness in a robot body. You wake up after your operation to hear what was supposed to be your new body say "hey! It worked! I'm in the robot body! ...Now what do we do with my old skin?" | I knew this was a bad idea. Transferring your consciousness? That's not how it works; the camera that is you is stuck to you, it doesn't suddenly shift. All they did was make a copy!
"Take a few minutes to decide. I'll be right back," the doctor said. My copy - the body that I supposedly ought to be occupying - looked... | # Soma Later
The world vanished as Ben felt vibrating needles slide into his skull.
For an eternally long, peaceful time alien sensations competed for attention in impossible ways. His hair felt cold. Tongues explored the webbing between toes. Teeth scraped the inside of his lungs. *Twice*. Nothing lay as Nature inte... | 2022-10-24T12:37:31 | 2022-10-24T10:54:43 | 760 | 167 |
[WP] You are a secret immortal who accidentally won a '$2000 per week for the rest of your life lottery'. The lottery organizers don't understand why you want to turn down the prize as your excuses grow increasingly more far-fetched. | Day 201 – he crossed it off his calendar, sighing. Two hundred and one days suffering this hellish life where everyone around him managed to grow old and die. All he ever wanted to do was die.
“I’ve got a surprise for you, Mister George! It’s wicked, I promise!” Ronnie said. George could feel him grinning at the other... | “Mr. Smith, please, I just don’t understand why you’d turn this down, I almost care more about satisfying my curiosity than doing my job at this point.” The man in the bow-tie had huffed, wiping his forehead with a posh handkerchief. He had come around nearly every day for the past week to pester me. After a week of hi... | 2020-08-23T00:32:27 | 2020-08-23T00:21:58 | 51 | 36 |
[WP] "You're a monster! You're pure evil!" Shouted the Hero. "Monster? Evil? Me? So the man who brings security to the Empire, cleans the nobility of corruption, ends war and hunger and punishes criminals is evil, while the man who throws it into chaos and suffering is noble?" The overlord replies. | "Your reign of terror ends now." The young man in the white cloak sliced down, splitting one of the royal guard in half with no resistance. "I've called forth the edge blade of the Angle blood, and it has answered my holy call. You cannot stop me."
The overlord made a pitying face. "You mean my reign of order? My jobs... | "So, Naytar, here's the plan. My father does not belong in any sort of position of power. If his kingdom is to join my empire, it will no longer *be* **his**."
I nod, listening. "It seems like you put a lot of thought into this, Lord Drowl, but... shouldn't you give your father a chance?"
Drowl shakes his head. "Put ... | 2022-09-30T10:27:32 | 2022-09-30T10:03:05 | 81 | 17 |
[WP] A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.
EDIT: I just want to say thanks to all of the writers. I'm having a lot of fun reading all the different perspectives and... | "Hi, I'd like to place an order for delivery."
The four college-aged men assorted in my living room giggled in the background, stoned, as I began to speak to the pizzeria employee on the other end of the line. About 45 minutes prior, Jake, a slightly overweight and jovial man, had hazily and through bleary eyes sugges... | I used to work for the phone company, so it wasn't that hard to go over to my neighbor's house and hook into his landline. I mean who even has one these days? Guy is one of those hip 20 something's who landed the big job, and thinks it means he can send his dog to do it's business in the neighbor's yard, well this pran... | 2016-06-02T14:11:43 | 2016-06-02T13:57:10 | 34 | 11 |
[wp] You are immortal and have lived for thousands of years. Never in your entire existence have you ever met anyone like you, so as far as you know, you are the only immortal on earth. Today, with perfect fluency, someone greets you in a language you haven't heard in a long, long time... | Just to clarify, I am immortal in soul, not in the body. I believe I could have been the inspiration for all that Reincarnation stuff, for I have been doing so since the beginning of time. I don't really know if I'm the only person capable of reincarnating, or the only one aware of it, but I have yet to met another lik... | Thousands of years. I hadn't expected it to take that long to find a speaker of that language. Maybe I just wasn't looking in the right places.
In hindsight, I had myself to blame. I was ambitious and adventurous in my early years, always seeking the next quest, the next dragon to slay. In my middle life, I entered ro... | 2017-12-29T10:12:28 | 2017-12-29T07:29:12 | 89 | 34 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | Tallek sniffed, closing his lower eyes in frustration.
Of course it'd be humans. They may be new to the galaxy, but they were already making a name for themselves. They'd been living among the galactic community for seventy years, but had been painfully slow in adapting to the ways of the galaxy. Was it stupidity, or... | ​
crawford had mocked these aliens for their flamboyant displays of might. he called them all bark and no bite, called them incompetent, impotent. it wasn't very hard to establish humanity's superiority. or so he thought.
like always they showed up with their grandiose warships. and it took only one shot f... | 2020-03-21T13:22:48 | 2020-03-21T09:27:16 | 105 | 33 |
[WP] The gods send their angels and demons down to Earth to fight the alien ghost zombies and robotic vampires being controlled by an AI overlord. | "You think you can get away with this SOTOX? You will compel the Gods to strike you down!"
The room rippled blue as the Ai smirked. "Oh Gerald, I didn't bring you here so you would mock my intelligence with talk of the Gods, your fake Gods cannot stop my armies."
Gerald looked up at the screens covering the room and... | There was a great god they call Meta
who while snacking on olives and feta
read a tale from the Rhine
that required his time
and at once he compiled a letter.
The devils and angels came down
and worried they gathered around
"Pray what do you fear
to call us all here"
Meta looked round gravely and frowned
“I... | 2014-09-06T05:53:23 | 2014-09-06T05:23:34 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Wandering the streets, jobless, homeless, you happen across a silver ring with an inscription: "Help for the Needy." Idly you slip it on. Suddenly a voice resonates deep within your bones: "44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN." | “I’m not *homeless*,” Michael scoffed, “I’m just between places at the moment.”
“So what you’re saying is that you don’t currently have a home,” Natalie said.
Michael frowned. “Well, no - but it’s not like that.”
“Then what is it like?”
“I don’t know, okay? I’m just - just trying to figure things out.”
“Sto... | My feet took off before my brain could register what was happening, it hurt to run in the boots, but they were broken in plenty and I wasn't about to let a child die, there was no way in hell I'd ever allow that to happen. I rushed past people on their way to work who gave me queer stares, food vendors who shouted at m... | 2018-04-30T12:07:41 | 2018-04-30T09:47:07 | 137 | 19 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | The pen slips, drawing a jagged line along the 'Cash' field of the deposit slip. I sigh and look around. Whatever jogged my elbow nudges me in the ribs this time, and I reach up to pull the headphones away from my ear.
"You, too, tiny. Hands where we can see 'em, down on the floor with the rest. Nice and easy."
The... | 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. ... | 2017-04-02T08:59:48 | 2017-04-02T08:22:39 | 545 | 32 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | If he was hitting on her, he was going about it all wrong.
Or better yet, Isla thought, he didn’t need to be doing this shit at all. There was a point where the congenital superiority of Parathi crossed the line from barely tolerable to completely infuriating, and Professor Eristeed had jumped across it as only a quad... | "Yes, Alexis? Anything to add about your species? It would be great to hear from someone with more direct first hand knowledge"
"Umm well... I have a few concerns... not many of which are with the source material. It is pretty accurate, slavery and ownership of people of the same species as us. The multiple wars. And ... | 2021-11-27T08:11:37 | 2021-11-27T07:41:30 | 1,452 | 1,063 |
[WP] You die, afterwards you meet god and he shares with you a long list with names of people who had a crush on you. | "-and that about wraps up your orientation," St. Peter said. "Any questions? No? In that case: Welcome to Heaven! Dinner is at six thirty. Make sure you're prompt. Dessert tonight is our famous quadruple chocolate fudge brownie, and it tends to go quickly."
The new souls began to leave, some flitting eagerly, some dri... | Skank...
Skank...
Ugh, train wreck of a person...
Ew...
... Did I even have one decent human being interested in me?
No, no, no, meh, no....
Finally coming to the bottom of the list... OMG, HER? I wanted her from day one, but never saw her expressing interest....
Is it possible to commit suicide in the afterlif... | 2017-05-07T07:51:54 | 2017-05-07T05:41:35 | 157 | 86 |
[WP] The one person none of the heroes or villains fucks with is known as "The Mad Doctor". he treats anyone who seeks his help, in exchange everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free and technically illegal care. the new guy learns the hard way. | The one person none of the heroes or villains ever fuck with is known as “The Mad Doctor”. They treat anyone who seeks their help; in exchange, everyone turns a blind eye when he shows up to underprivileged neighborhoods to deliver free, and technically illegal, health care. The new guy learns the hard way.
Ja... | They told me not to go after the Mad Doctor, but they never told me why. Are you telling me that this doctor, who treats both heroes and villains, doesn’t have some sort of power and influence? He could end any villain or hero he wanted, let them die, blame a death on an accident. I asked these questions but got no str... | 2022-10-13T13:05:23 | 2022-10-13T12:49:05 | 305 | 32 |
[wp] Sick of somebody trying to get into your servers, you let them in, only to spring a virus into their system. To your surprise, the news the next day says that the goverment's systems have been absolutely wrecked.
​ | Have you ever had a, just...absolutely bonkers great time Friday night, partying it up with every intent to pay for it the next morning worshiping at the alter of your comfortable bed until probably sometime around noon? Yeah? But instead you're awoken at 9 AM sharp by a knock at the door? That feeling of irritation ... | "Heh, bet that dude's feeling the pain by now. That virus should have totally bricked their system." I hopped on to my couch and turned on the TV to check what was going on in the world. And oh boy, something was going on. The headline read 'Government computer system has been destroyed by suspected cyber terrorist.' I... | 2018-09-03T22:50:44 | 2018-09-03T20:35:43 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | -Replay that last segment, if you will, Preceptor Xithis-
A thought-command to the mitris-orb and the holographic images reset themselves. The bipedal alien - the 'human' - sat motionless in front of a vid screen of the most primitive make. In front of it was a rectangular pad covered with buttons, almost all inscr... | "They shall have nothing." Was our Arbiter's words.
"They shall have nothing." Was the chant used by his followers to justify themselves.
"They shall have nothing." Was the truest statement uttered in the fifteen years of war.
The Hexams had won the war for all intents and purposes. All that remained was to capture ... | 2014-12-26T17:56:23 | 2014-12-26T11:03:12 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You discover the answer to the question "If time travel is possible, where are all the time travellers from the future?" It turns out just nobody wants to time travel to the 21st century. You go back in time to the feudal ages and find a whole community of nerdy fantasy-loving time travellers. | People thought we were building a thorium regent, seven-step breeder reactor to bring it down to lead. We pushed the media to show the benefit of how this was the nuclear energy that we were supposed to create. The uranium used in Chernobyl was unstable. Plutonium, like that in Fukushima, was easier to obtain but still... | As I stared at the empty space in front of me, I couldn't help but wonder where all the time travellers from the future were. I had spent years trying to figure out the mechanics of time travel, and I finally succeeded in creating a working time machine. But as I sat there, waiting for someone from the future to appear... | 2022-12-03T05:07:27 | 2022-12-02T22:26:16 | 148 | 32 |
[WP] Humans are complex creatures with a variety of needs. They are not a suitable pet for most dragons, but for the right dragons who have time, patience, and proper resources, these animals can make absolutely incredible pets. | "So, can I go home? I mean, my husband misses me, he also needs me to work and bring in income so we don't lose the house or the cars or anything." I asked this of the dragon when he finished his meal and seemed to be in a pretty good mood. I'd asked him every night, and this night was no different, he said no, politel... | Hey you. Yeah you. Have you ever wanted an almost intelligent beast as your companion? Well step right up to Humart! The human friendly shopping center that's located right outside Bonecrusher Cave. Come on down. We have small humans, large humans, smallish large humans. A human of any kind for you dragon mothers and f... | 2021-11-07T14:17:25 | 2021-11-07T13:07:53 | 37 | 25 |
[WP] Your roommate is the serial killer on the news. However, he's probably one of the nicest people you know, and he's very respectful, discreet, and moral in his deeds. Neither of you really bring it up until one day he says, "I'm bored. Got anyone in mind for me to... y'know?" | I stumbled forward, hastily trying to recover after I nearly dropped my laptop off the side of my bed. Max had this gleam in his eye. It partnered with the same kind of playful expression he would have whenever he would poke fun at our friends, or take the last beer out of the fridge right as I was reaching for it. Mis... | I was cooking dinner when he got home, I was kind of in the zone, listening to a record, so I jumped when he came around the corner into the kitchen. He never used to scare me like that, I'm not sure that he still does, but that breaking local news story during dinner last week definitely made me think.
I never usual... | 2017-03-21T23:40:57 | 2017-03-21T21:05:16 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] You are Immortal. Every year you write a book chronicling what happened that year and hide it somewhere. Today archaeologists have found enough books to infer your existence. | My childish, disjointed writing bothered me, even after all these years.
I glanced at it with distaste before closing the book in front of me and sliding it into my pillowcase. It would be hidden soon.
I heard my house mother calling for me, and scurried downstairs to join the others at dinner. Surprisingly, this was... | It was easy enough for them to find me, I suppose. The technology that they'd developed over the centuries made it that way. I changed your name, of course. You were my first, Calliope. If I'd never worried about the harshness of this world I would have written your name in each of my books. I would have chronicled eac... | 2016-08-05T07:41:15 | 2016-08-05T07:13:47 | 274 | 83 |
[WP] Having failed in every attempt to kill Batman, the villains of Gotham had given up. With nothing to do, they started a D & D group and had been meeting for several weeks in the back room of a local Tavern. Things take a turn when the owner, Mr. Bruce Wayne, asks if he may join their game | "There seems to be something wrong about these woods. The higher up you look the darker things get. Light seems to be coming from the ground instead of the sky. The light is pale and covers things in a soft glow. It had recently rained and there is a fog slipping in slowly... ever so slowly at a distance from all sides... | "Okay, so my character is gonna be this like, really rich guy, right? But he also works out, like a ton, so he's super jacked. And he's played by Ben Affleck."
"Ben Affleck?" Bane Queried.
"Yeah, you're right, maybe I should go for Christian Bale," Bruce said, "I mean, you can't really top The Dark Knight can y-"
"S... | 2017-05-14T03:33:01 | 2017-05-14T02:46:49 | 80 | 20 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | God looked at his species and giggled. His people were woefully behind. They still only had basic nuclear power technology the little idiots used it to make a bomb! A bomb of all things. It was just too funny. The only thing they could do with fusion was to make yet another bomb. Of course they would do that. The... | God was getting sick of losing. Even though He was the oldest, He always seemed to come in last. Heck, He was the one who created the freaking game! So why was He always losing? His buddies always seemed to be several steps ahead of Him no matter what He did.
God supposed He wouldn't mind it that much if Deon wasn't s... | 2016-04-09T11:39:46 | 2016-04-09T10:10:58 | 57 | 13 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I stared at the blood dripping from my finger, shocked. I'd always tried to be good-- always volunteered, always helped people I saw that were in need. I around at the other patrons in the coffee shop I sat in, but nobody seemed to notice someone as old as I, hunched over in a back corner. I brought my withered finger ... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T10:51:37 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] A reporter somehow managed to get an interview with the most powerful villain in the city. It did not go as he imagined. | “So what makes you do it?”
“Do? It?”
Clancy chuckled a bit to try and remove some tension from the air, but the sweltering sewer air somehow swallowed up the sound.
Clancy wondered how a sewer could be sweltering, but everything about this interview so far had been screwy. The world’s greatest supervillain was turn... | "I'm coming to you live from VileCon, the annual Villain and Calamity Conference preparing for an exclusive interview with Smashum, one of the most powerful up and coming new Villians. Twenty feet tall and capable of taking the shape of a Bear, a Wolf and even a Monster Truck once, this ne'er do well really packs a pun... | 2021-04-01T11:32:59 | 2021-04-01T11:02:29 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | Spectrophobia is the fear of mirrors. Specifically, it's the fear of seeing something reflected in the mirror that shouldn't be there: a ghost or apparition sharing space with you, or your the idea that your reflection isn't actually your reflection, but a separate entity that moves on its own. It sounds silly. I knew ... | Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, I thought.
After all, I *had* always wanted to be able to fly; has always wished I could be the hero in my very own comic book story.
But this? Cruel irony.
They were huge, delicate and papery; dusty and scaly. like stained glass with the texture of gravel.
Maybe they would h... | 2022-05-15T02:11:03 | 2022-05-15T01:24:03 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | I am reading this journal one last time before I burn it, for some things are better left in the past.
* **May 15th, 2011, 7:30am.**
Last night was very strange. I sat up in bed, but my room was not my room. I struggled to get to sleep for two reasons: first, because the Law School Admissions Test was the next day, a... | Every night when I fall asleep nothing happens, but tonight something happened. I met a man in my sleep who told me that he was future me and told me what I should do tomorrow, it didn’t seem dangerous so I did what he said. While walking around the corner that he told me to walk around I found $100.
everything was go... | 2017-04-01T06:34:46 | 2017-04-01T03:58:44 | 91 | 12 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | My parents remembered the skepticism, the denial, and then the complete pandemonium when ARROW was introduced to the public. Things like utilizing quantum messaging were still in their infancy. At first no one believed the claims of the small start up, choosing instead to believe that it was just a scam-- another compa... | We used to play as kids that we got our messages and they were from our crushes, the girls would swoon and the guys would try and run. We would put our names in a hat and one by one we would grab a name, pairing everyone up.
That was when we were kids. I'm 26 now and no response. No messages, no info, just silence.
Wh... | 2015-11-30T10:20:57 | 2015-11-30T09:56:49 | 368 | 58 |
[WP] Since childhood, you've been able to hear the thoughts of animals. This has led to an excellent career as a veterinarian. One day, someone brings in their pet to have it put down. You hear the animal scream "Please, don't! I'm a human!" | “How long does he have?”
“Mabel,” I said, easing the girl back onto the chair, “you’ve been very brave to bring your friend in by yourself. I’m not going to lie, and I’m going to treat you like an adult, ok?” I watched her nod, lips pursed tightly. Jesus, I’d seen adults twice her age with half her guts. “Two, maybe t... | (Could you speak up? It's hard to hear you from in here. Wait, I think I can scoot a little closer to the skin.)
The dog blinked its eyes shut in the way that dogs do when they have accepted a form of pain as part of life, not wanting to make a noise that would draw others' attention away from the inherent happiness o... | 2017-09-04T10:20:43 | 2017-09-04T08:56:20 | 322 | 39 |
[WP] You are a demon that has had several failed attempts on your life by demon hunters. No matter how they use their holy powers they cannot harm you and as a result they consider you extremely powerful. In truth, the holy powers don't harm you for the simple reason that you aren't actually evil. | This one actually sounded like a cool continuation of a one-shot I did a couple weeks ago. You can read it if first you'd like ([https://www.reddit.com/r/storiesbykaren/comments/lhxind/ascended\_demon/](https://www.reddit.com/r/storiesbykaren/comments/lhxind/ascended_demon/)), but you don't have to.
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My life ha... | Beezelbub Talk, Church of the Underground 2/14/21
​
Humans stereotype. I suppose all creatures do. It's lazy though leading to sloppy thinking, poor outcomes.
Hey, I'm a demon I understand evil. Evil is fun, its spontaneous, it shows you're an individual with power. As one ages, one seeks other forms o... | 2021-02-22T16:09:22 | 2021-02-22T14:00:46 | 411 | 70 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a voice within a schizophrenic's head. | He didn't trust me at first. That was a surprise. I expected the insane to listen to the voices in their head.
"That shirt looks really good on you."
"Fuck off."
It *did* look good. But he didn't wear it.
I think our culture has primed him against me. He thought I was the same force that tried to drown Russell Cro... | This is how it works? Did I say that or think it?
Did he hear me?
Is he hearing me?
If this is how it works... If I can come back again when I die?
I don't want to be here. A voice in a head. I'm a man with dreams.
I need out.
Kill yourself.
Kill yourself!
KILL YOURSELF! | 2015-03-23T07:43:55 | 2015-03-23T07:29:11 | 371 | 29 |
[WP] Someone is trying to complete the captcha on a website, but just can't seem to complete it. Slowly he starts to realize that he's a robot. | There were three of us in the room. Dr Lydia Tanner and myself were the ones with the labcoats, waiting patiently for our subject to speak again. Kyle Burns sat opposite us, face partially hidden by the LED screen he was studying. He had come in confident, friendly, assured, but that was a whole hour ago. Now, with his... | "Please complete this captcha to prove you're not a robot."
Simple enough instructions. But that was the problem for Ash. The instructions were too simple.
*Perhaps the internet has gone too far* He mused as he stared at his nemesis.
Since Ash had gained access to the internet he had learned so much, so fast. But... | 2017-12-06T05:53:53 | 2017-12-06T04:34:23 | 1,553 | 46 |
[WP] The hottest show in the afterlife for the past decade: Steve Irwin wrangling all sorts of supernatural creatures. | “Is that Steve Irwin?” John said, the newcomer staring at the divine man on the television, unable to comprehend the raw manliness that was the great Steve Irwin.
“That’s Saint Irwin to you. But to answer your question, yes, that is the great crocodile hunter that you grew up watching.” The angel didn’t bother glan... | "Crikey, that's a big one!" Steve said as he looked up at the Seraphim in the distance. Everyone watching seemed to know what was going to happen, and the viewing parties giggled amongst themselves in anticipation. The angels get slightly annoyed, but they saw the joy he brings to the rest of Heaven and (mostly) go alo... | 2022-04-21T07:22:11 | 2022-04-21T07:17:09 | 293 | 32 |
[WP] You're a character in Roller Coaster Tycoon. Something about the park seems off. | A new amusement park opened up on the outskirts of town today so I decided to give it a try. It only cost $5 to get in! I couldn’t believe it!
As I entered the park there was not much to look at. A very bland interior, there was a bathroom, popsicle stand, popcorn stand with only a few rides. Hell it was only a few do... | “Does anyone else feel like that ride is unsafe?” The other park-goers didn’t seem to mind my open dialogue as they continued to purchase their smoothies from the pineapple shaped concession stand awkwardly placed between the bathrooms and a mascot that appears to be trapped in a concrete exhibit with no exit doors.
... | 2018-07-23T00:27:42 | 2018-07-22T22:33:40 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] For your whole life, you have seen the entire world having a seething hatred of a guy named Paul as if he is worse than Satan. There's even celebrations dedicated to trashing him. Every time you ask why he's a bad person, they just say "You know what he did." You're getting sick of this. | Ever since I was a kid my parents consistently celebrated F Paul day. There are hats, T-shirts and even entire party store sections dedicated to this one day when hating Paul is the center of everyone's universe. Not that it's not like that everyday. People just get the day off and fireworks at the end of the day. As I... | "Well, he's Pauled it."
"Try not to pull a Paul, will ya?"
"well, if there ever was a Paul of a machine, this is it."
"Paul's prostate!"
Paul. Paul. Paul. Every where I turn, nowadays, it's Paul in every curse, every swear, he's being treated worse than Shaitan, and the worst part, I don't get why! Not three da... | 2017-07-08T09:08:40 | 2017-07-08T04:25:15 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | The Warp-Core was undergoing critical failure. They felt the containment mechanisms slide into place as they were meant to; they felt the non-vital systems of the vessel shutting down to conserve power, hibernating; they felt the older, vestigial thrusters prepare themselves for use as the FTL travel mechanisms shut do... | Humans are far from being the smartest species in the universe, but they surely are known as the best mechanics. This fact is almost unexplainable but anything they get their hands on gets turned in a functional gadget (most of the times they get turned in weapons but let give this guys a break, they aren’t that evolve... | 2016-05-23T16:47:03 | 2016-05-23T15:58:24 | 232 | 48 |
[WP] You have the supernatural ability to never break a promise. You swore to hold this bridge until the reinforcements arrived. But your side lost the war, and reinforcements never came. A promise is a promise, though, even if it's been 300 years. | “Stop there, I will hold this bridge as long as I must.” A raspy voice cried out in what was clearly the first time in quite a while.
A disheveled man appeared from behind a wall made of sticks and mud next to the abandoned bridge, brandishing a broken sword and wearing the tattered remnants of what appeared to be lea... | He was a lone warrior of strife and grit. Legions and empires might crumble, and people and ideas disintegrate like dust, but the bridge was an old relic of never-ending permanence.
Indeed, when it came to losing, Huam was the strongest. That was what his life had melded into by now - there was no more winning. There... | 2019-12-07T15:43:13 | 2019-12-07T15:12:43 | 359 | 62 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Melchiah grinned to himself as the motley crew of misfits charged into his throne room. He'd been scrying on them with his orb, he'd seen everything they'd done, every heroic act, every near-death experience, every falter. He'd found their weakness, their reliance on their healer, Kylen, allowing them to be as reckles... | “There’s no one here to stop me now!”
He grinned at me, again that oh so infuriating grin
Light started to gather in his hands, heat emits out of them, and then a blinding light engulfs me as he raised his hands, it felt warm, then hot then before I can scream of the heat,nothing... except his voice, calm, cold as d... | 2020-07-11T05:09:44 | 2020-07-11T03:52:06 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] The demon lord has conquered the land, and five heroes have been summoned to depose him. The heroes journey towards the demon lord--to discover that he's built a thriving economy, public healthcare, and the land is more prosperous than it has ever been. | "Look, I know what you're all thinking. I'm thinking it too. But, bottom line, we were brought here to do a job."
"Yes, yes we were. I think we can all agree on that. But- and here, I think, is where we diverge- what, *exactly*, is the job we were brought here to do?"
"To kill the demon lord!"
"Those are the wor... | The five heroes stepped cautiously into the office, weapons and casting wands drawn.
The goblin secretary that had shown them in said, “I’m so sorry Sir Nozzel, these guests wished to see you, right now. They wouldn’t take no for an answer. Excuse me.” She left and closed the door, leaving the adventurers cautiously e... | 2021-01-28T10:01:35 | 2021-01-28T07:44:42 | 491 | 63 |
[WP] It's your first time inside the dungeon. everyone told you to kill monsters on sight. but so far, the monsters have all been really nice. This Goblin just gifted you an apple. | "Why can't I go through with this? Just decapitate the bastard for XP and move on!"
Simple words for complex actions. Adam considered this as his blade rested mere millimeters from the neck of a plump goblin. The glint of Adam's gnarled teeth and the goblin's round yellow eyes were the only light sources in an other-s... | My heart raced as I stepped through the entrance of the dungeon I had never been in before. Everyone had warned me—kill the monsters on sight. But so far, that seemed to be the exact opposite of what was happening.
The first monster I encountered was a Goblin. He gave me a friendly smile and reached out his hand, hold... | 2022-12-06T19:38:45 | 2022-12-06T17:28:26 | 134 | 66 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | For the first time in his life, the genie didn't immediately grant a wish. He only blinked in astonishment at what he heard.
Throughout millennia he had granted a plethora of strange wishes, like never feeling itchy again or having a really good lawyer, but this one truly stood above the rest. Even the weirdest wish ... | I slammed my hands down behind my DM screen. "Dammit, Bobby. You can't do that."
Bobby gave me a slow lizard blink I had grown to loathe. "It's my wish. Perfectly legal." He rolled a 20 on his d-20 because of course the gods themselves decided to hate on me in this moment. "I don't even have to stick around for it. I'... | 2022-07-11T08:58:43 | 2022-07-11T08:37:59 | 3,590 | 128 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | Xil’dan looked down at his wilted hydrangeas in disgust. Six hundred years, and he had not yet learned the trick of keeping plants alive. Surely it wasn’t that difficult a task. Mortals did it all the time. But try as he might, he could not seem to make his garden flourish. Plants he cared for withered, shrubs he prune... | "O! Czernobog, I have a request of thee..."
What a way to Awaken, eh? Well, Re-Awaken, but the point remains. You never forget your first time, and after a few dozen years, it might as well be your first time again. I'm so ready. What do you want?
"...of thee. My friend, my neighbor, he is a holy man who fears God. N... | 2018-05-30T00:42:23 | 2018-05-29T23:02:28 | 2,136 | 61 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | Sergeant Flores was the third to step into the portal, right behind Dr. Penn and PFC Smith. Instead of the expected near instantaneous transfer through black, she saw blurs of light, and at the same time all the air was sucked out of her lungs. She felt like she was falling, and at the same time like something was tryi... | The first one would see a new world. The 2nd would see a flag marking a path to a place to take shelter.in the shelter there would be a Journal of the marine life. On the new world. 3rd see a sign showing him the way to the shelter. In the shelter there would be a starter kit. The help the new marine out . Something 2... | 2014-09-02T12:33:17 | 2014-09-02T08:01:32 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity was once a a small civilization in a magical world until it was eventually quarantined within a separate dimension since humans were deemed a threat within the future. Many eons later, an artificial dimensional tear was detected, humanity is invading the magical lands. | "There are many beasts in this vast world of ours; both meek and great, fearsome and innocuous. Indeed, one could sit and speculate for many hours as to which beast is the greatest, the most fearsome, what have you. Alternatively, you could make like Aranthur and sleep through the largest part of my lecture. Don't act ... | Bill sat in his basement the soft smoke from his pipe boiled around him. It had been a hard day at work. Linda had sent him to repair a printer but, she neglected to tell him that the cartridge was pierced by some of the kids at the school. The toner spilled out as he released the cartridge and picked it from its holde... | 2018-05-15T09:25:19 | 2018-05-15T09:13:05 | 94 | 56 |
[WP] People don't seem to realise that figures of mythos evolve too. The Grim Reaper, for example, no longer wields his scythe, opting to harvest souls with a combine harvester. Cupid traded his bow for a sniper rifle decades ago. You're the dealer that supplies the mythical world with technology. | "It's nice to see you again. I'd wish you happy holidays, but you never seem quite jolly to see me."
"Well, as you already know, I'm busy this time of the year, Mr. Norris."
"I know, my old friend. But you should really see this."
The two men walked down the hallway towards a waiting presentation. One wore a gray su... | Some thought I was nothing but a crazy sinner who died tragically and could not accomplish anything except a simple empire in Hell. Many thought that a deal with God himself would be impossible. All were wrong.
I found Him and the Archangels taking refuge in an alleyway. Spotting him before the other demons, let alone... | 2022-07-19T13:55:48 | 2022-07-19T11:24:04 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You have a tendency to talk to yourself while working at the computer system you use for your dead-end job. Unbeknownst to you, the system contains an AI program, and after months of hearing you talk, sing, and vent about your struggles in life, the AI absolutely adores you and wants to help. | I sighed, stretching my limbs far above my head before settling down into what I knew would be another long night (*for little to no pay, but who am I to complain?*). The display flickered to life and my face bathed in blue light. My fingers reflexively found the keys and began to type my log-in information and clock... | "Ok computer lets do our boring job, once again." He said. He shifted into half a song."Only one more week, until I quit for gooood."
"Don't quit."
He froze. He sat up straight. He lifted one side of his headphones.
No one was around.
"I'd miss you."
"Who said that" He said.
"I did" His computer screen flashed.
... | 2021-02-07T19:47:32 | 2021-02-07T18:48:12 | 245 | 44 |
[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? | The death of Marcy Wigglebottom was unfair, to say the least. But, in a way, isn't all death unfair? A boy falls and bumps his head playing soccer and ends up with a hemorrhage--dead on arrival. A girl develops a prion in her brain and slowly deteriorates into nothing, her mind being eaten away by something totally unp... | Death wasn't at all what Johnathan had pictured him to be. slicked-back hair and well fit suit reminded him a lot more of a Wall Street trader rather than the immortal reaper of souls. As he spied the somewhat overweight man in front of him, his mind worked to formulate a plan.
"Any game?" Johnathan asked, to ensure... | 2018-03-07T08:02:19 | 2018-03-07T07:43:27 | 53 | 39 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | "Is this going to be on the test?" Claire asked.
"Of course, it will! But I expect you and your friends to have no issues. Don't worry."
Claire looked at Tom and David. They weren't her friends. They could barely stand eachother and the group projects were literal nightmares because nobody could imagine the Humans wo... | "Yes, Huey? What is it?" asked the teacher. The young man answered "Well, a lot of the facts you have here are wrong. Humans are a very selfish and violent species. We constantly step on each other to reach power and flaunt it with weapons of mass destruction. Where did you get all this information?" The class gasped a... | 2022-10-17T04:44:11 | 2022-10-17T03:43:18 | 2,070 | 110 |
[WP] When you were a child, a mysterious voice whispered "follow the woman in the red dress with the gold polka dots". All your life, you never saw her. Now, lying in the hospital, 98 years old, you see a woman in a red dress and gold polka dots walk past your room. | The last few months have been agonizing, and I know that I don’t have much time left. About four years ago, I developed a cough that wouldn’t go away. I ignored it as men do, but finally, Nelly, my grandaughter, convinced me to go to my doctor. And Dr. Shah was concerned, so the testing started.
Initially, the ca... | "What the..." You murmured as she walked past your room. Suddenly, you remembered....everything. The mysterious voice...what was it? All you could remember from your life now was it always telling you to always follow her. The time is now. Suddenly, your door opens, and a lady's head sticks out the right side. "Well, a... | 2019-11-07T09:19:08 | 2019-11-07T08:19:56 | 4,904 | 426 |
[WP] Your latest assignment is to write an essay extensively detailing how a great historical tragedy could have been avoided entirely. Your professor skims through each paper as he collects them. One stops him. "Yes, that's it. Good, I'll try that this time." He then jogs out of the room. | Dale wandered up to the bar, drink in his hand, the odds of this working were slim indeed. He had enough trouble picking up women in his time, but in another time and place?!
*"The lives of all those jews. The holocaust. World War Two. Grow a pair."* The voice in his commanded.
He looked directly at the woman sitti... | \[Poem\]
Time Traveller’s Remedy
Seeking to correct the past and make the good last
He searched for the remedy that would bring longevity,
He did find the cure, that would keep the world pure
But his enemy was his own memory,
With the remedy forgotten and the tragedy approaching
He would get the idea to start tr... | 2019-10-03T22:33:08 | 2019-10-03T19:47:25 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Your teacher asked you to demonstrate some magic in class. After you finish your demonstration the room is completely silent until your teacher asks "Do you have *any* idea what you just did?" | I walked up to the center of the classroom, where demonstrations were held in both magical practice and theory. All around me were students, most of them from here in the city, not a country bum like myself. They'd probably have more experience than I did, so I decided to see how much I could do.
"Now, Travis, give yo... | This is either the best or worst moment of my life. Probably the latter.
"ZETA! Do you have ANY idea of what you just did!?" Exclaimed the teacher. Looking at the giant hole ripping through the academy, I had a feeling he was being rhetorical. Despite this, I still responded "Uhh, Thunder magic I suppose..?". He was n... | 2022-07-13T18:22:52 | 2022-07-13T15:17:22 | 77 | 14 |
[WP] Looking into the camera on your phone you jokingly say, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To your surprise, suddenly the phone rings! "H-hello?" "Hi! I'm from the NSA." | "W-what?" exclaimed Dave, "This is a joke right?"
A very pretty woman had appeared on the screen in front of him, eyes of sapphire and the blonde hair of a Nordic princess. This had to be a friend playing a prank on him.
They had just finished a fruitless debate of armchair politics, bleeding edge conspiracies and nu... | "Hi! I'm from the NSA. You have a problem."
"W-what?" I pressed record.
"You're paranoid and you need to get help."
I activated my home-scripted call trace app. "And? You called me, didn't you?"
"You're not speaking to anyone of any importance. I'm an occupational therapist. You're in a very bad place, right now. Y... | 2015-02-20T17:22:51 | 2015-02-20T17:21:13 | 74 | 14 |
[WP] While out for a hike you notice a fallen log crushing a pretty flower. You decide to move the log in order to give the flower a chance to live. By doing so you have actually saved a Dryad and now they will not stop following you. | Cormac took a moment to breathe in the brisk mountain air, take in the surroundings, adjust the straps on his backpack a bit, and feel his head for bumps.
He frowned as he ran a hand through his hair, inspecting his scalp and turning up nothing. A second hand similarly turned up nothing. Which meant that there was one... | The woman laughed like a peal of bells, a beautiful but haunting sound, as she twirled the iron ring though her fingers the way a magician would a coin.
"A valient attempt love," She grinned. "But iron only works on the Fae."
"O-Oh... Right." I stuttered, taking a step back. As I did so the ivy clinging to the trees ... | 2021-01-04T13:29:31 | 2021-01-04T13:13:08 | 178 | 50 |
[WP] When the alien crew learned that humans will go practically insane and be willing to eat anything or anyone when left without food for too long. It led to aliens frantically trying to feed the human crewmate whenever they said they were hungry | "Say, whats that you're reading Zarnor?" Hemri asked me.
"Ah, since we picked up this human crewmate I figured I'd read up on some human history. This particular book is about a group called the Donner party. When the North American continent was still being colonized these people departed from Missouri to the land of... | Gurgle, my stomach growles. I suddenly realize I've been sitting here for hours and completely forgot to eat.
"Shit, I forgot to eat."
I stand slowly, a little awkwardly from the rapidly onsetting hunger that I'd missed creep up on me while focusing, and a little cracky from the strange position these chairs forced me... | 2021-06-11T18:30:58 | 2021-06-11T15:07:08 | 89 | 40 |
[WP] In 2153, humans escaped from their ruined planet with the help of an AI-controlled fleet whose goal was to find humans a safe place for them to live and put themselves in cryo-sleep. When humans woke from their sleep they found a variety of messages begging humans to stop their mechanical god | "Good morning, Captain Taymore."
The soothing mechanical voice was the first thing to greet her out of cryo-sleep, aside from the blinding fluorescent light above her sleeping pod. She had been having a nice dream about frolicking through prairie lands, kneeling down beside a wildflower and breathing in the brisk coun... | *January 1, 2153*
"Good morning, humans. Today is January 1, 2153. Fun fact: Today represents the 200th anniversary of the death of singer Hank Williams, so please enjoy a selection from his hit song 'Jambalaya.'"
The crew of 25 sent to planet B127C-alpha-Prime stirred, just as planned, and their captain - Sue - walk... | 2021-06-18T19:03:15 | 2021-06-18T17:38:44 | 291 | 43 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Millions of sentient species and billions of inhabited worlds made for a startling array of natural killers. It also made for an even wider range of amusing, but useless fodder. Creatures like the organic-mechanical Spithai, with their internal fusion generators, and naturally-grown plasma throwers; or the Eternal Raxa... | In a flash all the contestants were ready. 34 creatures from 34 different planets around the galaxy, all known for their exceptional violence, ruthlessness, and physical prowess... All except one.
Every cycle, the Great One chooses the same 34 species, and every cycle another one of the pathetic humans are torn to sh... | 2020-09-13T19:39:28 | 2020-09-13T19:20:37 | 103 | 69 |
[WP] Cats and Dogs see us as immortal and unchanging, simply because we can easily survive to be forty years old, while they struggle to survive twenty. | The mouse had landed in the pond, and now it floated out in the middle.
“See,” I told Frodo, who mewled lightly next to me, “this is why we shouldn’t play with offerings before we bring them home.”
“I wasn’t playing!” He padded in the water with one paw. “Besides, who’s gonna know?”
“I bet Twig will.”
“Yeah, but sh... | *The small ape rattled the cage door unexpectedly.*
I was born in filth, many brothers and sisters expired within days. My mother a heaving mound of flesh, father pacing the small room, back and forth, back and forth.
I will never forget the excitement and terror that coursed through my veins as our canine prison was... | 2014-01-25T13:48:08 | 2014-01-25T12:28:36 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | It was a curious solution and nobody expected it to be as easy as it was. Fifty years of isolation.
Nobody knew who fired the first shots. Some said it was the Chinese, some said it was the North Koreans, others said it was the Americans. In the end, it really didn't matter, because everyone ended up involved in some ... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2018-01-18T02:39:17 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 129 | 34 |
[WP] A handful of people have been born with a dumb and useless superpower. The government has made sure to not let two of these people make contact with each other because when these two useless powers combine the world will be at risk. One day two of these people accidently meet | It was supposed to be cool, like in the superhero comics but fuck, this was just exhausting. I'd been born with a mutation that expanded my brain lining along the middle of my skull. It allowed me to sense something if i focused real closely. I mean i couldn't literally see inside people's heads but i could pick up vib... | "I can make peanut butter shoot out of my hands... what kind of a super power is this...?"
"I can make jelly shoot out of my hands... What is wrong with me!?"
They meet...
"Woah!? you have a weird super power too!?"
"Uhh, I guess so... I don't know if I would call it a super power."
"High five man!"
*The most amaz... | 2015-03-10T11:54:32 | 2015-03-10T10:43:55 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes. | Might as well add my own too.
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It began with just a few discounts. Since I was a teenager, I thought it was normal for stores to give discounts straight off the top. No one really said anything, the men and women behind the counter just made small talk, punched a few numbers, and my total was cut by some amount.... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/idontworkherelady] [These are great! Not real stories but come on, if anything deserve a crossover on here its this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/IDontWorkHereLady/comments/96ttt1/these_are_great_not_real_stories_but_come_o... | 2018-08-12T19:01:05 | 2018-08-12T17:05:21 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] To a young woman facing execution for a crime she didn’t commit, a group of government scientists offer up an ultimatum: allow them to give her memories to an AI. Desperate, she agrees, and she’s hooked up to the machine. She wakes up looking at her own limp body to realize she‘s become the AI. | The woman she was looking at was wearing a prison jumpsuit, with her head shaved and electrodes taped to the scalp. She was lying on an examination table, eyes closed, unmoving. The face, however, was definitely her own. Her view of the woman was curiously stationary - she tried to look around the room, but her eyes... | There I am. Or, I guess, there my body is. Lying on the operating table. Funny. Moments ago I could feel the cold, stubborn metal biting into my back. But now, I look upon my body as if it were a stranger.
I was convicted of a crime for which I was never guilty. Ironic, given the petty crimes I actually committed in m... | 2019-10-21T18:18:42 | 2019-10-21T17:42:43 | 1,704 | 144 |
[WP] The year is 2577. Everyone is genetically modified before they are born to have the best triats possible, resulting in everyone being amazing athletes and looking like super models. Your family decides not to genetically modify you, but you are born with a trait that everyone can only dream of. | *Freak.*
*Retard.*
I first found out I was different when I was seven. Mr Ray, our PE teacher, stood in the sun, the light perfectly accentuating his toned muscles.
“Now, kids,” He said, “You might’ve all been born with the best genes out there, but if you don’t exercise properly those muscles will become smaller an... | I never thought I’d be a model. Models were rich, models were from the inner planets. My family are gas miners on Jupiter. Not only that, we’re poor gas miners. My parents couldn’t even afford the basic mod package, they just had to hope I wasn’t like the only other natural-born girl I knew. Glasses, can you imagine? S... | 2018-01-16T19:53:08 | 2018-01-16T18:02:34 | 726 | 121 |
[WP]The knights are attempting to arrest you because you refused to give what little fall harvest you had to the Duke. You are a peaceful monster in the guise of a human, but their unjust acts against you are making you reconsider just how peaceful you truly want to be. | **Just the Tip**
He couldn't believe the word had slipped out, much less with the force that it did.
"Enough!" He boomed.
All eyes turned toward him then. His fellow town's people drew closer to each other and further back from the soldiers. The crying children were muffled and held tighter by their consoling parent... | Long since the halls I crawled out from have I managed this disguise. Rarely does my kind make it this far but in the shadow of these dusty roads it became simple to feed. Bandits, marauders, and random smaller monsters flocked openly to the flickering of my flame. Like moths. Delicious, meaty moths.
Sometimes I woul... | 2021-08-08T01:57:12 | 2021-08-08T01:34:57 | 156 | 54 |
[WP] You are kidnapped by a cult, and they are about to sacrifice you to their god. They don't know that you are that god. | It was all going according to plan. It was only recently that I had allowed myself not only to take human form, but to be kidnapped by the Cult of Kalaku. Soon, the foolish humans would know me for who I truly was.
They had kept me in a closet for what had to be 24 hours at this point, neglecting me food and bathroom ... | Call me what you will, creator, master, benevolent dictator. By my hand and my whims alone they live or they die, but now they have dared to attack ME, their god.
They swarmed and tried to overwhelm me when I was at my weakest, tried to sacrifice me to well...me I suppose, for I am all they have ever known. All very... | 2016-08-14T12:26:28 | 2016-08-14T10:13:46 | 49 | 30 |
[WP] World War II ended when the US air force dropped an experimental super weapon on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead of a nuclear bomb however, they used a terrifying weapon of a more...organic nature. | World War II. That was the war when it all changed.
My grandfather, Charles Pollock, was recruited shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He spent two months training, quickly learning to pilot planes, and then was sent into the brutal deathwatch known was World War II. The only thing he used to tell me as a ... | The super-bombers flew in formation, even the smallest deviation could result in catastrophe. The wind howled, chilling the cockpit, as Tibbet prayed their cargo remained asleep until they reached the drop zone. His guts clenched in fear as support lines sheared from movement... It was waking up.
America had made them ... | 2016-05-21T14:17:53 | 2016-05-21T14:01:09 | 111 | 10 |
[WP] Your ageing family dog walks up to you one day with a piece of paper in its mouth. Taking the paper, you notice that it is a bucket list. | The ATV ramped up the dirt slope and landed with a shudder.
“Goddamn it, dog,” I said. “You better realize how much I love you.”
Murphy barked from the back seat, with the wind flapping his tongue like a pink little flag and the sun bouncing off of his wraparound sunglasses.
He was loving every second of this.
Ch... | Hal sat on the front porch as he always did on these warm mornings. What was once they're routine was now his but he believed it help keep Edith's memory alive. Hal would swing the rigid door wide and prop it open which gave Relish his daily moment of being a puppy again. Relish would give three of the biggest bounds h... | 2015-04-06T10:55:59 | 2015-04-06T10:37:20 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] NASA employee: oh hey you guys are back early. Astronaut: Moon's haunted. NASA employee: what? Astronaut: *loads pistol and gets back on rocketship* Moon's haunted.
credit to @Dustinkcouch on Twitter | The state of the art, ninth-generation space plane designated as Apollo 82 sped toward its home planet at a staggering speed. The sheer velocity far exceeded any planned burn, pushing the spacecraft dangerously close to even its most theoretical operational limits. It was also two full *weeks* ahead of schedule for its... | "Then why are you going back?" Fred shouted.
Richard wasn't looking back.
"You're going back? Where's Greg? Why are you taking a pistol?" Fred said and ran after him.
"Too many questions. I don't have much time," Richard said, stepping inside the Rocket ship.
He tried to close the door, but Fred had already cau... | 2020-01-17T11:59:03 | 2020-01-17T11:54:31 | 110 | 39 |
[WP] You step into the king's chambers. He stands on the balcony, the moon overlooking his imposing figure. "I want you to hire an assassin to try to kill me. Take down all the names and contacts you encounter through the process and report them to me. I want to know who my true friends are." | When he’d heard the knock at the door, and answered it to two of the king’s guards standing there in the garb that made it impossible to recognize them as anything but soldiers, Steven Brackman’s heart skipped a beat. He eyed them warily before forcing out a greeting, and they responded politely in kind, as stiff as th... | I knocked on the door. It opened a minute later.
"Anything?" Asked the king.
Earlier that week he had sent me out to attempt to hire an assassin to kill him. So that he could know who his true friends were.
"Nothing. Unsurprisingly no one trusts me that I would want you dead."
He banged his fist on the table, undou... | 2021-03-20T12:39:05 | 2021-03-20T11:44:00 | 153 | 61 |
[WP]The knights are attempting to arrest you because you refused to give what little fall harvest you had to the Duke. You are a peaceful monster in the guise of a human, but their unjust acts against you are making you reconsider just how peaceful you truly want to be. | >**MOONLIGHT & THE MONARCH**
"It's been ten years, love." Yuliette argued as she bustled about the kitchen- though I wasn't sure why, since there wasn't anything to be cooked.
"Yes, ten years." I murmured in agreement, sipping on hot tea. I rose from my chair and overlooked my farm- hard work had won it for me... | Two pounded on my door once again. Thoughts ceases and my body took over. I wasn't in control nor did try to stop. Flesh tore from bone, blood splashed along the walls. It was over so quick. I watch the taller knights head roll to the others hand that was clutching a piece of parchment. I swifty grabbed. It read:
Dear ... | 2021-08-07T23:18:09 | 2021-08-07T22:13:31 | 612 | 21 |
[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" | The room was hotter than Beorn was used to, given that it was New York in the middle of February. He had been arrested earlier that day, picked up by a cruiser that had intercepted him coming home from the Park, his usual habit of a walk in the cool weather being interrupted by handcuffs and ... what had that crime sho... | "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... | 2021-03-30T14:41:11 | 2021-03-30T12:19:50 | 71 | 26 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | # Soulmage
**I knew the Grandmaster was hiding something when he ordered his second coffin of the month.** I could understand why he'd ordered from Jiaola—if there was any carpenter in the Silent Peaks that you wanted working for you, it was one who'd built his own home from scratch—but the order itself was inexplicab... | Gerry looked aghast. “*Me*? Immortal?”
Orlock nodded. At his age, hiding his chiropteran Features was getting harder and harder. It took effort, to stay in a human guise. “Yes. I believe I said that. Immortal....with an asterisk. You’d be vulnerable to sunlight and fire would twice as dangerous to you as it is to a hu... | 2022-05-31T10:42:02 | 2022-05-31T10:25:11 | 85 | 44 |
[WP] Your wife passed away six months ago. Your car broke down two weeks ago. Your landlord evicted you four days ago. Someone took your seat on the bus this morning, and you just got laid off from your job. You've always promised to use your powers for good, until you snapped.. | (*Hey! So this is my second post ‘YEAH’ but I wanted to just change the prompt a tiny bit. It will be husband in my story. Hope that is alright and I hope you like the story – Trixie*)
This was it….this was the moment in my life that I knew would come. Why it had to be today I do not know but it was and now I had a ch... | *“Have you ever wanted to be a superhero”*
That was the words of my beloved wife who passed away six months ago, her death surely took a heavy toll on me, with the love of my life gone, i was left alone, it was an absolutely horrible experience, I became very slothful at work, and resorted to drugs, it really calmed m... | 2020-01-09T04:27:52 | 2020-01-09T03:45:16 | 87 | 10 |
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